Re: PowerPC potato bugs page
Adam,
Okay! After spending quite a while writing a Perl script to
manipulate the complete contents of the bug tracking system
(hopefully that will be useful in the future, as well), here are
two lists of bugs.
List 1 is a list of bugs that I've filed or sent additional
information to the BTS about that are or may be PowerPC-specific.
There are 19 bugs in this list. (Since I have an idea of what
these are about, I've included a comments line with some more
information.)
List 2 is a list of bugs that mention PowerPC, powerpc, PPC, or
ppc in their descriptions (not including the ones in List 1).
There are 28 bugs in this list.
List 1
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Bug 54248
Package: gmc
Description: gmc: X crashes when gmc icons are clicked on
Severity: normal
Reporter: "C.M. Connelly" <c@eskimo.com>
Comments: not sure if this is still relevant; I quit running gmc ages ago.
Bug 56472
Package: freeamp
Description: freeamp won't run on PowerPC
Severity: important
Reporter: "C.M. Connelly" <c@eskimo.com>
Comments: freeamp is seriously broken
Bug 56531
Package: xbase-clients
Description: xbase-clients: xset dpms force functions fail [UPSTREAM]
Severity: normal
Reporter: "C.M. Connelly" <c@eskimo.com>
Comments: xserver doesn't support DPMS :-\
Bug 56601
Package: esound
Description: esound: xmms plays scractchy audio through esd
Severity: normal
Reporter: "C.M. Connelly" <c@eskimo.com>
Comments: probably really an xmms bug; mpg123 seems to do fine now
Bug 57141
Package: xbase-clients
Description: xbase-clients: xmodmap doesn't swap pointer buttons when run from gdm
Severity: normal
Reporter: "C.M. Connelly" <c@eskimo.com>
Comments: I'm not sure if this one is PPC-specific -- no one else said
they had this problem when I asked on debian-powerpc
Bug 57421
Package: esound
Description: esound: xmms plays scractchy audio through esd
Severity: normal
Reporter: "C.M. Connelly" <c@eskimo.com>
Comments: probably really an xmms bug; mpg123 seems to do fine now
Bug 57600
Package: tkstep8.0
Description: PowerPC port of tkstep8.0 has broken dependencies, and breaks many tk applications
Severity: critical
Reporter: Renaud Dreyer <rdreyer@math.berkeley.edu>
Comment: tkstep is now uninstallable -- I've filed a separate bug report
Bug 58450
Package: gdb
Description: gdb: Won't compile on PowerPC
Severity: grave
Reporter: "C.M. Connelly" <c@eskimo.com>
Comment: gdb 5.0 works fine; I packaged it myself. The current
version in Debian is totally broken, though, and the maintainer
doesn't seem to be able to fix it.
Bug 60145
Package: xserver-fbdev
Description: xserver-fbdev: Segfaults when calling chunk_free on PowerPC [UPSTREAM]
Severity: normal
Reporter: "C.M. Connelly" <c@eskimo.com>
Comments: segfault triggered by xmms; forwarded upstream, but still
not fixed.
Bug 61794
Package: communicator-smotif-472
Description: communicator-smotif-472: Not available for PowerPC
Severity: normal
Reporter: "C.M. Connelly" <c@eskimo.com>
Bug 61795
Package: navigator-smotif-472
Description: navigator-smotif-472: Not available for PowerPC
Severity: normal
Reporter: "C.M. Connelly" <c@eskimo.com>
Bug 61890
Package: typespeed
Description: program segfaults on loadhiscores.
Severity: done
Reporter: Konstantinos Margaritis <markos@debian.org>
Comments: We fixed the segfault (endianness issues with the high score
files), also fixed char signedness errors, but the game's
unplayable because the words zap across the screen too fast to
read, let alone type. See #66316.
Bug 62053
Package: a2ps
Description: a2ps: segfaults when run with --list=defaults
Severity: normal
Reporter: "C.M. Connelly" <c@eskimo.com>
Comments: Still crashes. Forwarded upsteam.
Bug 63853
Package: communicator-smotif-47
Description: communicator-smotif-47: Generates BadDrawable X Errors
Severity: normal
Reporter: "C.M. Connelly" <c@eskimo.com>
Comment: Weird problem, probably not PPC-specific, went away when I
trashed my Debian Netscape packages and installed an aliened
Communicator 4.73. (Which has plenty of problems itself.)
Bug 65776
Package: emacs20
Description: emacs20: Version 20.7 finally provides support for PowerMac PowerPC architecture
Severity: wishlist
Reporter: "C.M. Connelly" <c@eskimo.com>
Comment: No, it doesn't. But the Debian packages (which still have
patches that haven't made it into the upstream source) compile and
work fine.
Bug 66316
Package: typespeed
Description: typespeed: Words whizz by on powerpc (and perhaps other bigendian archs)
Severity: normal
Reporter: "C.M. Connelly" <c@eskimo.com>
Comment: Maybe not PPC-specific.
Bug 66547
Package: kaffe
Description: kaffe: Does not build on PowerPC
Severity: grave
Reporter: "C.M. Connelly" <c@eskimo.com>
Comment: Kaffe is pretty seriously broken on PPC.
Bug 67289
Package: mp3blaster
Description: mp3blaster: plays static instead of music on PowerPC
Severity: normal
Reporter: "C.M. Connelly" <c@eskimo.com>
Comment: Another broken MP3 player. *sigh*
Bug 67477
Package: tkstep8.0
Description: tkstep8.0: Not installable on PowerPC
Severity: important
Reporter: "C.M. Connelly" <c@eskimo.com>
Comment: tkstep8.0 is broken and can't be compiled (I know, I tried);
thus there's no binary available for download
List 2
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Bug 50381
Package: autoconf
Description: AC_F77_LIBRARY_LDFLAGS on PPC should omit /usr/lib/gcc-lib/powerpc-linux/2.95.2/libgcc.a
Severity: normal
Reporter: Adam C Powell IV <hazelsct@mit.edu>
Bug 63410
Package: setiathome
Description: patch for powerpc support
Severity: normal
Reporter: Konstantinos Margaritis <markos@feanor.nuclear.demokritos.gr>
Bug 62807
Package: elvis-tiny
Description: Signedness error on powerpc
Severity: normal
Reporter: Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org>
Bug 56335
Package: netscape
Description: netscape for powerpc: default-start url should be www.debian.org/ports/powerpc
Severity: normal
Reporter: Hartmut Koptein <koptein@inwestnet.de>
Bug 56409
Package: gom
Description: Can't configure gom (PowerPC)
Severity: normal
Reporter: Renaud Dreyer <rdreyer@math.berkeley.edu>
Bug 56479
Package: tkstep8.0
Description: python-tk doesn't work with tkstep8.0 (on PowerPC)
Severity: normal
Reporter: Renaud Dreyer <rdreyer@math.berkeley.edu>
Bug 64500
Package: boot-floppies
Description: subject boot-floppies don't want to install kernel & modules on ppc/apus.
Severity: normal
Reporter:
Bug 57369
Package: boot-floppies
Description: PowerPC documentation inaccurate
Severity: normal
Reporter: mporter <mporter@borg.phx.mcd.mot.com>
Bug 55932
Package: perl-5.005
Description: Can't build powerpc binary from -5.3 source package
Severity: normal
Reporter: mporter <mporter@borg.phx.mcd.mot.com>
Bug 60500
Package: util-linux
Description: util-linux: powerpc version missing /sbin/fdisk
Severity: normal
Reporter: Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
Bug 45216
Package: xserver-fbdev
Description: fix for the mach64 related build problem on powerpc
Severity: normal
Reporter:
Bug 44583
Package: www.debian.org
Description: Wrong links and info in German on PowerPC pages
Severity: normal
Reporter: Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@pasteur.fr>
Bug 66350
Package: communicator
Description: communicator: Depends on packages not available for PPC
Severity: normal
Reporter: Adam C Powell IV <hazelsct@mit.edu>
Bug 38003
Package: netdiag
Description: netdiag does not compile on powerpc or glibc 2.1 (patch included)
Severity: normal
Reporter: Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org>
Bug 67142
Package: xpdf-i
Description: xpdf-i: Included TeX fonts don't display properly on PPC
Severity: normal
Reporter: Adam C Powell IV <hazelsct@mit.edu>
Bug 62133
Package: festival
Description: package available for powerpc, simple patch.
Severity: important
Reporter: Konstantinos Margaritis <markos@debian.org>
Bug 66519
Package: gs
Description: Mising Package on debian PPC
Severity: normal
Reporter: Eric Valette <valette@crf.canon.fr>
Bug 66540
Package: kaffe
Description: kaffe does not compile on PowerPC
Severity: important
Reporter: Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@debian.org>
Bug 49806
Package: clanlib0-utils
Description: datafile_compiler aborts early on powerpc
Severity: normal
Reporter: "Michel Daenzer" <michdaen@iiic.ethz.ch>
Bug 65852
Package: makedev
Description: makedev should make hdc/hdd on powerpc
Severity: normal
Reporter: Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org>
Bug 66616
Package: emacs20-dl
Description: emacs20-dl: Still does not build on powerpc
Severity: important
Reporter: Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org>
Bug 36892
Package: guile-core
Description: guile-core-1.3: powerpc patch
Severity: normal
Reporter: Hartmut Koptein <koptein@et-inf.fho-emden.de>
Bug 31927
Package: mpg123
Description: mpg123: audio output distorted on debian/ppc (endianness problem)
Severity: normal
Reporter:
Bug 31947
Package: mpg123
Description: mpg123: audio output distorted on ppc (endianness problem)
Severity: normal
Reporter:
Bug 31948
Package: mpg123
Description: mpg123: audio output distorted on ppc (endianness problem)
Severity: normal
Reporter:
Bug 47137
Package: gnome-games
Description: gnome-games 1.0.2-9 don't build on powerpc (not arch related though i think ...)
Severity: normal
Reporter:
Bug 50132
Package: communicator-smotif-408
Description: communicator-smotif-408: failed to install on ppc
Severity: normal
Reporter: der.hans@LuftHans.com
Bug 25496
Package: dpkg-dev
Description: ldso: debian/control with altdev entry for systems without libc5 (powerpc)
Severity: normal
Reporter: Hartmut Koptein <koptein@et-inf.fho-emden.de>
Hope that helps!
CMC
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