Hello again world,
I posted this list around the start of this month, so I guess it's about
time for an update.
For those who didn't see it last time, it's a list of non-wishlist,
unfixed bugs that are 24 months old or more. Obviously, these aren't as
high a priority as the release-critical bugs, but they're still worth
fixing, so if you're feeling bored with packaging the latest and greatest
versions of anything and everything, you might like to try your hand at
fixing some of these.
The theory is basically:
* check to see if you can reproduce the bug. If you can't,
and you think you should be able to, check through the changelog
and/or mail the submitter/maintainer to see if the bug really
does still exist.
* if you can reproduce the bug, see if there's an obvious
cause. If there's a patch in the report, try applying that,
and see if it solves it. Search the web to see if it's been
discussed somewhere else. Check RedHat's version of the package
to see if they've got a fix. Check the source yourself to
see if anything's obviously wrong. If you have any success,
mail a summary to the bug number.
* if you can find the cause, see if you can fix it. If you can,
mail a patch, with an explanation to the maintainer, and, if
you're a developer, offer to do an NMU.
An up-to-the-minute copy of this list is available at
http://master.debian.org/~ajt/oldbugs.html
This even has spiffy links to the bug pages themselves, now, and should be
nicely formatted for your browser. It gets updated automatically a couple
of times a day, so closed/fixed bugs should disappear automatically. If
there's some more info on the status of the bug that would be nice to have
on the oldbugs page, please mail me about it.
This list excludes dpkg and X related bugs -- please join the debian-dpkg
list and work with those guys for dpkg bugs, or the X Strike Force at
http://master.debian.org/~branden/xsf.html
for X related bugs.
Changes since last time:
* The man-db bugs seem to be mostly fixed, if not all closed.
* Torsten Landschoff has submitted a patch for bug 4293
* Michael Dorman's packages that were affected, namely mailtools,
xpm4.7 and mhonarc no longer have *any* open bugs!
* Bug#5583 against boot-floppies has been addressed, and boot-floppies
doesn't have any other bugs older than two-years.
* Julian Gibley has adopted fvwm, and fixed all the really old bugs,
as well as most of the recent ones.
* Bug#6087 against strace has been addressed, and strace doesn't have
any other bugs older than two-years.
* Bug#7148 against libdb2-dev has been addressed, leaving no bugs
older than two years, and only one bug younger than two years left!
* Bug#7541 against dupload has been reclassified as wishlist.
All of which is, of course, very cool.
On the downside, a whole month full of bugs have suddenly hit the "older
than two years mark", we've gone from 66 bugs older than two years, to
around 75.
So, without further ado, the list itself...
Bugs Over Two Years Old
Report date: Tue Mar 30 07:34:00 CST 1999
Number of bugs: 75
Package: tkman
Maintainer: Debian QA Group <debian-qa@lists.debian.org>
[ADOPT] Adopted by Torsten Landschoff <t.landschoff@gmx.net>
2884 tkman doesn't use /var/catman
Package: mandelspawn
Maintainer: Andrew Howell <andrew@it.com.au>
3176 mandelspawn slave problems
Package: deliver
Maintainer: scott@debian.org (Scott K. Ellis)
3319 deliver does not set exit codes as expected by sendmail
Package: login
Maintainer: Guy Maor <maor@debian.org>
3439 Login reconfigures serial port
[HELP] Can anyone confirm this bug still exists?
Package: man-db
Maintainer: Fabrizio Polacco <fpolacco@debian.org>
3739 `man -l -' for stdin doesn't work
[DONE] fixed in man-db 2.3.10
3788 `apropos' matches only word-substrings even in page names
[DONE] fixed by Vincent
Package: lynx
Maintainer: Christian Hudon <chrish@debian.org>
3846 lynx misdisplays multiple <dt> in <dl>
[HELP] Is this really a bug?
Package: xaw3dg
Maintainer: joost witteveen <joostje@debian.org>
3857 listres dumps core
Package: ncurses-bin
Maintainer: Galen Hazelwood <galenh@debian.org>
3973 Home/End keys don't work right in nvi
[HELP] Is this really an nvi problem?
Package: emacs19
Maintainer: eichin@thok.org (Mark W. Eichin)
4107 emacs leaves stale lockfiles and publishes pathnames
4388 emacs mail-mode fails RFC822 section 3.4.7
4483 emacs gnus-setup.el has bad hardcoded pathnames
4890 emacs has bad path for jka-compr in site-start
4997 mh-e will fail inc askes for POP passwd.
7074 feature request (Was: Carsten Leonhardt: Re: ~/Maildir/ user
interface)
8467 two patches for emacs, bug in debug.el and backtab in
term/x-win.el
8468 missing call to fix_glyph on border (Evil hacking with
glyphs, faces, d-tables)
Package: mosaic, xserver-s3
Maintainer:
4160 Mosaic caused X to become unresponsive to mouse and keyboard
input
Package: mosaic
Maintainer: Gene McCulley <mcculley@debian.org>
[REMOVE] Should this package be removed?
4223 Mosaic looks bad on mono display
4224 Mosaic produces poor rendering of nested markup
Package: 9term
Maintainer: Joel Klecker <jk@espy.org>
4243 9term leaves mouse droppings
Package: mawk
Maintainer: James Troup <awkmaint@nocrew.org>
4293 mawk doesn't report an error on full filesystems
[PATCH] Torsten Landschoff <t.landschoff@gmx.net> has submitted a patch.
Package: net-acct
Maintainer: Bernd Eckenfels <ecki@debian.org>
4309 no manpage in net-acct
Package: mosaic, emacs
Maintainer:
4826 Mosaic/Emacs cut-and-paste incompatibility
Package: xcontrib
Maintainer: eichin@kitten.gen.ma.us (Mark W. Eichin)
4926 Error: Widget dash has zero width and/or height
Package: lprng
Maintainer: Sven Rudolph <sr1@inf.tu-dresden.de>
5166 lprng incompatible with netatalk
8298 LPRng doesn't print to older lpr printers
8416 lprng: should recommend removing init.d script of lpr
8607 bogus printcap entry; checkpc doesn't complain
Package: e2fsprogs
Maintainer: Yann Dirson <dirson@debian.org>
5256 bug in badblocks(8) or in kernel
Package: ispell
Maintainer: Debian QA Group <debian-qa@lists.debian.org>
5379 munchlist ignores -w
8585 ispell: ispell does not understand amslatex constructs
Package: 9wm
Maintainer: Debian QA <debian-qa@lists.debian.org>
5409 odd behavior from 9wm
6439 9wm died
6772 9wm sloppy about state
Package: freefont
Maintainer: Christoph Lameter <christoph@lameter.com>
5511 freefont should check if xfs is used
Package: man2html
Maintainer: Nicolás Lichtmaier <nick@feedback.net.ar>
5587 man2html gets options(n) wrong
Package: zgv
Maintainer: Andy Mortimer <andy.mortimer@zetnet.co.uk>
5590 zgv renders unreadable text
Package: manpages-dev
Maintainer: Nicolás Lichtmaier <nick@debian.org>
5632 manpages-dev: setbuf(3) should have more detail.
7405 manpages 1.11-8 : mmap(2) should describe the effects of
fork(2) on it
Package: bind
Maintainer: Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com>
[STRATEGY] A proper fix to these problems requires some effort. Bdale
is currently working on it.
5643 bind config omits some important stuff
6972 named.conf should be in /etc
Package: libc4
Maintainer:
[REMOVE] libc4 is no longer supported
5666 libc5-dev_5.4.13-1 fails in postinstallation (but installs)
Package: libc4-dev
Maintainer:
[REMOVE] libc4 is no longer supported
5688 libc4-dev overwrites many files from libc4
Package: libreadline2
Maintainer: Guy Maor <maor@debian.org>
5703 echo off in ftp after it was backgrounded
Package: psutils
Maintainer: Rob Browning <rlb@cs.utexas.edu>
5940 pstops does something strange
Package: nvi
Maintainer: Steve Greenland <stevegr@debian.org>
5946 nvi +cmd has changed behavior
[HELP] Is this a bug?
Package: dome
Maintainer: Chris Fearnley <cjf@netaxs.com>
6345 deb-check 0.2 report on
/var/pub/debian/bo/binary-i386/math/dome_4.60-1.deb
Package: most
Maintainer: Chris Fearnley <cjf@netaxs.com>
6539 Most has bug while searching manpages
Package: fvwm95
Maintainer: Daniel Martin <fizbin@debian.org>
6548 fvwm95 2.0.42a-10 : Taskbar gets confused or killed by
GNUPlot
Package: ipx
Maintainer: peloy@debian.org (Eloy A. Paris)
6956 IPX: Network number collision ...
Package: ncftp2
Maintainer: Martin Mitchell <martin@debian.org>
7189 ncftp can't do recursive get
[DOWNGRADE] Probably should be downgraded to wishlist.
7486 QUIT not working when interface is down
8204 ncftp: urls without trailing / fail
Package: kaffe
Maintainer: ean@novare.net (Ean R. Schuessler)
7346 kaffe has divert problem
8088 need to upgrade
Package: xaw3d
Maintainer: joost witteveen <joostje@debian.org>
7355 xaw3d: linking statically with xaw3d
8168 xaw3d has shared libraries but no .shlibs file
Package: manpages
Maintainer: Nicolás Lichtmaier <nick@debian.org>
7618 manpages 1.11-8 : networks(5) missing
Package: netdiag
Maintainer: Philip Hands <phil@hands.com>
7794 netdiag: Program(s) leave port in promiscuous mode
Package: ncurses-term
Maintainer: Galen Hazelwood <galenh@debian.org>
7849 ncurses various bugs
Package: fdutils
Maintainer: Anthony Fok <foka@debian.org>
7893 fdformat causes my floppy parameters to be lost
[REMOVED?] fdformat is rumoured to have been removed from fdutils?
8352 fdutils: Major problems with fdutils
Package: cvs
Maintainer: Tom Lees <tom@lpsg.demon.co.uk>
7955 cvs 1.9-1 : "cvs init" not mentioned
Package: rsynth
Maintainer: Frank Jordan <f.jordan@uni-duisburg.de>
8017 rsynth-2.0-2
Package: itimer
Maintainer:
8049 itimer edits /etc/site-start.el
Package: debian-policy
Maintainer: Debian Policy List <debian-policy@lists.debian.org>
8221 ispell suggests non-existant package
Package: cdwrite
Maintainer: Dale Scheetz <dwarf@polaris.net>
8248 cdwrite 2.1 is out there
Package: tin
Maintainer: Paul Haggart <phaggart@debian.org>
8344 tin: tin doen't restore original color in a rxvt
Package: bug
Maintainer: Nicolás Lichtmaier <nick@feedback.net.ar>
8429 bug: ask befor including conffiles in bug reports
Package: isapnptools
Maintainer: Frederic Lepied <Lepied@debian.org>
8483 Bug in isapnptools Version: 1.9-1
Package: kernel-source-2.0.33
Maintainer: Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>
8527 kernel-source-2.0.29: Tosh Tecra 730 won't boot (Jens
Maurer's 2.0.27 fix missing)
Package: modutils
Maintainer: Wichert Akkerman <wakkerma@debian.org>
8550 kerneld start too late
Package: sliphangup
Maintainer:
8592 sliphangup: there should be an option ...
Package: locales
Maintainer: Joel Klecker and others <debian-glibc@lists.debian.org>
8615 wg15-locale: ISO-8859 locales lissing
Cheers,
aj
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