Results of a trawl for old, ignored RC bugs
I went through the RC bug list, and stripped out all bugs which
satisfied any of these conditions:
1. On a package not in 'testing'.
2. Applies only to 'potato' and/or 'woody'.
3. 'sarge-ignore'.
4. 'unreproducible'
5. Scheduled for removal from 'testing' and/or 'unstable'.
6. Bug has number >200000 (was reported after July 4).
(This is just a lazy way of trying to find the older, festering bugs.)
7. 'pending'
8. Upgraded to RC in August or later (where I noticed them).
9. 'moreinfo'
I found the following bugs.
I believe that these bugs generally indicate that one (or both) of
the following should be done:
A. Package removed from testing
B. Package orphaned (and hopefully adopted or QA-uploaded).
Additionally, some maintainers might need to be marked MIA.
There are, no doubt, exceptions, and I've tried to note some of them.
Some packages should probably be NMUed since the maintainers are busy working
on higher-priority RC bugs.
aqsis: #176790 -- configure generated from broken libtool.m4
Maintainer: Will Newton <will@debian.org>
autoinstall-i386: #169249, 174559 -- FTBFS, broken dependencies
Maintainer: Jeff Licqua <jlicqua@progeny.com>
This and the related autoinstall (#206652) are seriously broken
and should on no account be released! I have already suggested this.
blas: #199436 -- FTBFS on sparc
Maintainer: Camm Maguire <camm@enhanced.com>
c2hs: #182548 -- FTBFS
There's been some argument about whose responsibility this bug is
relatively recently, so this isn't really as neglected as it might look.
celestia: #174456 -- licensing
Actively being worked on.
cl-ftp: #192007 -- FTBFS
Maintainer: Matthew Danish <mdanish@andrew.cmu.edu>
This bug might have been fixed by fixes in dependencies -- unclear.
crash: #196710 -- FTBTS
Maintainer: Ryan Murray <rmurray@debian.org>
NMU planned. Ryan is presumably just busy with other packages.
cwwm: #196133 -- segmentation fault, 192987 -- FTBFS
Maintainer: Sebastian J Gross <sjg@debian.org>
Steve Langasek has already asked (Aug. 30) if the maintainer is
still interested in maintaining it. Apparently he got no response.
Accordingly, this should almost certainly be orphaned and the maintainer
marked MIA. Steve suggested that it also be removed from sarge.
discover: #169264 -- postinst failure
Maintainer: debian-packages@progeny.com
But lots of co-maintainers. ;-)
No fix forthcoming.
This has to hang around (for debian-installer) until discover2 is
ready (for debian-installer).
emacs21: #175658
Only became reproducible fairly recently. Looks like people are
working on it.
endeavour: #192063
Maintainer: Chris G. Davis <cd@debian.org>
Hey -- this bug appears to be fixed (by NMU) in unstable and testing.
It was marked not-fixed for unknown reasons...
However, the maintainer hasn't been doing much with it.
ethereal: #194310
This bug appears to be unreproducible with current sources. The
additional bug mentioned by Steve Langasek can be fixed by rebuilding
with the newest GCC, which turns on -miee by default.
gjdoc: #199673 -- licensing means this belongs in contrib
Maintainers: Debian Java Maintainers
<pkg-java-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>
and co-maintainer Mark Howard <mh@debian.org>
People *were* working on this, but it doesn't seem to be
going anywhere at the moment. This should be moved into contrib for sarge.
gnokii: #197597, #197598
Likely fixed. Bug submitter isn't replying, so after a while these should
just be closed.
graphviz (non-free): #179559 -- FTBFS on m68k
Maintainer: Stephen Moraco <stephen@debian.org>
Supposedly the maintainer was going to see if this
was still true, but the bug shows no comment since September 18.
gtkglareamm: #197593 -- missing build-depends
Maintainer: Marcelo E. Magallon <mmagello@debian.org>
Perhaps Marcelo is busy with other packages (he has 25)? In any case,
this looks unloved, as nobody even bothered to NMU it. (Or is Marcelo on
the don't-NMU-my-packages list? Yes, he is.)
gwave: #187829 -- uninstallable
Maintainer: Hamish Moffatt <hamish@debian.org>
Marked 'upstream'!
Marked 'sid' and not 'sarge', but the same version is in sarge!
There's also a 'normal' bug (#176920) that it fails to start!
This is evidently not suitable for release.
hostname: #188924 -- problems without internet connection
Maintainer: Adam Heath <doogie@debian.org>
There's a patch.
Bug untouched since July 18th. Presumably he's busy.
jukebox-mercury: #196470 -- FTBFS (needs debhelper in build-depends)
Maintainer: Brian White <bcwhite@pobox.com>
Maintainer is almost certainly MIA; he hasn't been taking care of
any of his packages. They should all be orphaned.
kernel-patch-lpp: #185641 -- kernel panic
Maintainer: Gordon Fraser <gordon@debian.org>
Was being worked on in April, but no bug activity since then.
kstars: #198499 -- licensing
Being worked on.
l2tpd: #198815 -- sparc bus error
Maintainer: Jean-Francois Dive <jef@debian.org>
There's also another RC bug (#206804).
I'd say he was MIA, except for the upload of ccrypt in September,
iaskmpd in July and the upload of libnet-ping-perl in May. Still *not*
good maintenance.
libdbmusic: #186433 -- configure built with broken libtool.m4
Maintainer: Martin Loschwitz <madkiss@debian.org>
I'm sure he's just been busy, what with maintaining qt and all.
libgd-perl: #197998 -- FTBFS on m68k
Maintainer: Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk>
???
libggi2-dev: #102675 -- no static archive
Maintainer: Martin Albert <ma@debian.org>
Maintainer almost certainly MIA; no packages updated since January.
libgstreamer0.6-0: #199302 -- failed upgrade
Maintainer: David Lehn <dlehn@debian.org>
Apparently not enough information to reproduce or fix; should likely be closed.
libgtop2: #194108 -- improperly linked
Maintainer wants help.
libpam-openafs-kaserver: #194818 -- undefined symbol
Maintainer is planning to find a new maintainer or remove package.
libxml-filter-xslt-perl: #197760 -- FTBFS
Maintainer: Ardo can Rangelrooij <ardo@debian.org>
Bug's been bounced around between packages by the maintainer, but not fixed.
lincvs: #198538 -- FTBFS
Being adopted and fixed by Frank Lichtenheld, waiting for sponsor
logtrend-storageserver: #195291 -- setup failure
Maintainer: Jean-Francois Dive <jef@debian.org>
I'd say he was MIA, except for the upload of ccrypt in September,
iaskmpd in July and the upload of libnet-ping-perl in May. Still *not*
good maintenance.
m68k-vmw-tftplilo: #190483 -- FTBFS (missing build-depends)
Orphaned. Richard Hirts <rhirst@linuxcare.com> is adopting.
modutils: #171949
Maitnainer wants help.
mondo: #198390
Maintainer: Hector Garcia <hector@debian.org>
Two other RC bugs as well. Repeatedly NMUed. The maintainer seems to
be maintaining some of his other packages.
mueller: #19126 -- FTBFS
Maintainer: Yven Johannes Leist <leist@beldesign.de>
Maintainer seems to be maintaining some of his other packages....
netsaint: #191800 -- upgrade fails
Maintainer: Turbo Fredriksson <turbo@debian.org>
Only a bug in sid, supposedly.
openmash: #191939 -- FTBFS
Maintainer: David Martinez Moreno <ender@debian.org>
Has patch. Maintainer said he'd apply it in the 'next few days' on
September 19.
pfaedit: #195978 -- undefined non-weak symbols
Fix suggestion made on September 14th.
Also has another RC bug.
Orphaned, Peter Hawkins <peter@hawkins.emu.id.au> offered to adopt
php4-apc: #186565 -- doesn't work ;-)
Maintainer: Jacobo Tarrio <jtarrio@trasno.net>
Maintainer appears to maintain his *other* package, but this one is in
bad shape.
php4-interbase: #167377, #181316
Supposedly fixed in sid?
postnuke: #197636 -- cross site scripting vulnerability!
Maintainer: Hugo Espuny <hec@debian.org>
Also lots of outstanding NMUs. His other package has *also* been NMUed
because he's been absent.
I believe he's probably MIA.
pptpd: #179808 -- "completely fails to work"
Complex solution, appears to be in progress.
request-tracker: #191165 -- command line utilities don't work
Already orphaned and maintained by QA. Not in 'stable'. I suggest total
removal unless some other package depends on it. (I can't seem to figure
out whether any do....)
That's it, I'll get r-z later.
--
Nathanael Nerode <neroden at gcc.gnu.org>
http://home.twcny.rr.com/nerode/neroden/fdl.html
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