Re: Will woody ever become stable?
On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 11:00:38AM +0000, Jules Bean wrote:
> I really don't feel in-touch with how the freeze is going, and I
> imagine that I'm not alone in that. For example, I think I thought
> that Adrian is incorrect above, that certain packages are frozen. I
> thought I'd seen notes suggesting that some packages were frozen, in
> fact. Base?
I'd like to second that. I think I pay reasonably close attention to
what's going on, but the single most helpful thing from where I'm
sitting would be an occasional statement of what the blocking issues
are.
To try to contribute something myself, looking at base, we have:
apt 127648 critical
Maintainer: APT Development Team
Transient status file corruption?
base-passwd 123345 critical patch
Maintainer: Wichert Akkerman
Patch available since yesterday, offering a workaround for
putpwent() not understanding compat entries.
exim 126124 critical
Maintainer: Mark Baker
Open relay. Patch available, maintainer acknowledged it 9 January.
fdutils 96845 106576 111089 121713 serious patch
Maintainer: Vaidhyanathan G Mayilrangam
Somebody with a devfs system should NMU this. There's been no
maintainer upload since 1999, and five NMUs since then.
libc6 126441 critical
Maintainer: Ben Collins
Buffer overflow, see other threads on -devel.
libnewt-utf8-0 122978 serious
Maintainer: Enrique Zanardi
Causing whiptail problems, see #124083. My entirely uneducated guess
is that slang1 and slang1-utf8 aren't binary-compatible so
libnewt0 and libnewt-utf8-0 can't be either.
modutils 128862 serious patch
Maintainer: Wichert Akkerman
SPARC-specific, patch from BenC in the report.
nano 126689 serious sid
Maintainer: Jordi Mallach
Dummy bug to keep 1.1 out of woody.
perl 128999 critical
Maintainer: Brendan O'Dea
Looks like a potato-only security problem. Should be tagged
appropriately?
slapd 112499 grave
slapd 126898 grave
Maintainer: Wichert Akkerman
I don't pretend to understand LDAP, so ...
sysvinit 127635 critical
Maintainer: Miquel van Smoorenburg
Conflict between laptop support and RAID support.
texinfo 111563 115229 serious patch sid
Maintainer: Josip Rodin
Problem with texi2pdf, patch in the second report. The sid tag is
probably bogus.
And in standard:
abiword 129314 serious patch
Maintainer: Aaron Lehmann
hppa build problem, maintainer was talking to the submitter about it
on IRC.
apache 126706 127323 127605 grave patch
Maintainer: Matthew Wilcox
suexec permission problems.
apache 126743 126827 grave
Maintainer: Matthew Wilcox
Disappearing passphrase prompt.
apmd 112678 123163 serious
Maintainer: Avery Pennarun
Patch from an alpha porter available since September. NMU?
armagetron 123131 serious
Maintainer: Marcelo E. Magallon
The maintainer said the problem was "obvious", but the last
communication was on 10 December.
binutils 128529 serious
Maintainer: Christopher C. Chimelis
binutils-multiarch 126162 grave
Maintainer: Christopher C. Chimelis
As usual I imagine the toolchain folks will deal with these.
boot-floppies 107591 serious
boot-floppies 120386 serious
boot-floppies 122142 122750 serious
boot-floppies 123948 serious
boot-floppies 128941 serious
Maintainer: Debian Install System Team
The -boot people should know more ... the other boot-floppies RC
bugs are pending a new release.
dlint 123637 serious
Maintainer: Florian Hinzmann
Needs to be moved to non-US, unless crypto-in-main happens and
dnsutils moves to main instead.
gdb 127301 serious patch
Maintainer: Daniel Jacobowitz
hppa support. The maintainer should be sorting it out soon.
gdb 129311 serious
Maintainer: Daniel Jacobowitz
Non-free manuals. New upstream point release available fixing it.
gimp1.2 128979 grave
Maintainer: Ben Gertzfield
Crashes enlightenment on exit. Anyone?
gmc 103102 serious
Maintainer: Michael Bramer & Martin Bialasinski
Metadata upgrade problems. Maintainers haven't had time to work on
gmc recently, so patches would help.
gnuplot 100612 grave
Maintainer: Thimo Neubauer
Licence problems. We can't do anything until a new upstream release
is available, as far as I can tell.
junkbuster 121069 serious
Maintainer: Paul Haggart
Random process deaths. A workaround is available to make it restart
better. NMU probably needed.
lyx 126265 serious
Maintainer: Jules Bean
Support for s390, apparently a matter of changing the Architecture:
line.
mutt 129283 serious
Maintainer: Marco d'Itri
gnutls changes, I think.
pydb 127408 grave
Maintainer: Gregor Hoffleit
Looks like pydb is python1.5 only, so it probably should be removed
from the python task. Furthermore, it depends on a module which was
removed in 1.5.2. Some Python person needs to port it.
python-pam 123258 grave
Maintainer: Gregor Hoffleit
"Doesn't work at all."
ssh 127575 grave
Maintainer: Matthew Vernon
ssh-keygen stuff. Patches probably wouldn't do any harm.
tetex-base 129165 129168 grave
Maintainer: teTeX maintainers
File conflict between tetex-base and tetex-bin.
tetex-bin 69600 serious
Maintainer: teTeX maintainers
Postinst modifies a conffile.
tk8.3-dev 113162 grave
Maintainer: Mike Markley
Problems affecting r-base, although they seem to have been worked
around. In light of that, would downgrading be appropriate?
I hope that helps.
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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