Release-critical Bug Report for November 7
Bug stamp-out list for Nov 7 12:05 (CST)
Changes since Oct 29 00:08 (CST)
20 release-critical bugs were closed and 18 were opened.
Total number of release-critical bugs: 85
For detailed information see http://master.debian.org/~wakkerma/report.html,
which is updated twice a day.
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Package: amaya
Maintainer: Steve Dunham <dunham@debian.org>
28390 Pages not displayed
Package: apache-common
Maintainer: Johnie Ingram <johnie@debian.org>
25990 apache-common: apache expects passwd.db but not dbmmanage
Package: base-passwd
Maintainer: Galen Hazelwood <galenh@micron.net>
25882 various system users inherited my personal gid (100) !
Package: boot-floppies
Maintainer: Enrique Zanardi <sr1-boot-floppies@debian.org>
26584 lomem install doesn't activate swap
27061 boot-floppies' .bash_profile for root prompt for pkgsel is confusing
27970 newt dependencies
28201 boot floppies for 2.0 do not make system bootable
28472 boot-floppies: needs package in contrib to build
Package: bsdmainutils
Maintainer: Austin Donnelly <and1000@debian.org>
27321 wordlists moving to /usr/share/dict
Package: cvs-pcl
Maintainer: Tom Lees <tom@lpsg.demon.co.uk>
20625 cvs-pcl: Compilation of elc files fails
Package: dbf2mysql
Maintainer: Heiko Schlittermann <heiko@lotte.sax.de>
28892 dbf2mysql: wrong dependencies, program won't run
Package: dhcp-client-beta
Maintainer: Rich Sahlender <rsahlen@debian.org>
18322 dhclient-script problem with "EXPIRE"
19767 dhcp-client-beta has no /usr/doc directory
Package: dpkg
Maintainer: Ian Jackson and others <dpkg-maint@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
17624 dpkg: installs regular dir when .deb contains symlink !
1797 upgrade/downgrade dependency calculation problem
20401 Problems updating bo -> hamm
21182 dpkg: dpkg can go into an infinite loop with --force-configure-any
28519 dpkg: dpkg creates circular symlinks
28817 dpkg takes no care over libdpkg
Package: emacs20
Maintainer: Rob Browning <rlb@cs.utexas.edu>
28807 Emacs 20
Package: ethiop
Maintainer: Paul Seelig <pseelig@goofy.zdv.uni-mainz.de>
24573 ethiop is in main but is not DFSG-free
Package: ftp.debian.org
Maintainer: Guy Maor <ftpmaster@debian.org>
26920 ftp.debian.org: package installation procedure problem
27381 libg++272-dev and libstdc++2.8-dev conflict, being both standard!!
27642 exim needs to be made standard, smail needs to be made optional
Package: g++
Maintainer: Galen Hazelwood <galenh-egcs@debian.org>
28626 Slink g++ ver 2.91 has a possable memory leak
Package: gimp
Maintainer: Ben Gertzfield <che@debian.org>
28801 gimp: Needs to be recompiled for slang1
Package: gnome-core
Maintainer: Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>
28678 gnome-core: gnome-help-browser crashes
Package: kbackup
Maintainer: Jens Ritter <grimaldi@debian.org>
26903 kbackup: kbackup splits exclude dir/files on vfat partitions with spaces at the space
Package: libc6
Maintainer: Dale Scheetz <dwarf@polaris.net>
26147 dlopen() corrupts heap, dlclose() reads free()'d memory
27334 libc6: breaks sendmail, probably problem in resolver
Package: libc6-dev
Maintainer: Dale Scheetz <dwarf@polaris.net>
28788 libc6-dev: incorrect path for rwho
Package: libgtop0
Maintainer: Ian Lynagh <igloo@debian.org>
28910 libgtop0: soname
Package: libguile3
Maintainer: David N. Welton <davidw@efn.org>
28943 libguile3: soname gratuitously changed
Package: libmagick4-dev
Maintainer: Scott K. Ellis <scott@debian.org>
19332 libmagick: ldconfig-symlink-before-shlib-in-deb LI#67
Package: libncurses4
Maintainer: Galen Hazelwood <galenh@debian.org>
29014 libncurses4: colours messed up
Package: lists-archives
Maintainer: Johnie Ingram <johnie@debian.org>
26384 lists-archives: Missing conffiles
Package: lockfile-progs
Maintainer: Rob Browning <rlb@cs.utexas.edu>
28773 lockfile-progs: mail-lock will lock any user's mailbox
Package: login.app
Maintainer: Marcelo E. Magallon <mmagallo@debian.org>
28069 Login.app breaks *all* Motif/lesstif apps upon restart
Package: lyx
Maintainer: Stuart Lamble <lamble@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au>
28222 LyX doesn't work on a fresh install
Package: makedev
Maintainer: Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com>
28933 makedev lack some important devices
Package: mawk
Maintainer: James Troup <awkmaint@nocrew.org>
28249 mawk doesn't check write errors
Package: mozilla
Maintainer: Debian QA group <debian-qa@lists.debian.org>
26712 mozilla: crashes on startup
Package: mutt
Maintainer: Marco d'Itri <md@linux.it>
28700 mutt: screws up trying to qualify To and From addresses
28877 mutt: compiled looking for /usr/bin/sendmail
29017 mutt: mutt uses wrong path for sendmail
Package: nasm
Maintainer: Vincent Renardias <vincent@waw.com>
21945 nasm: please update copyright file
Package: netscape4
Maintainer: Brian White <bcwhite@pobox.com>
28129 netscape4: Inappropriately requires glibc in filename
Package: nonus.debian.org
Maintainer: Sven Rudolph <sr1@inf.tu-dresden.de>
18572 nonus.debian.org: remove des-solnet_1.03-5.deb
18785 nonus.debian.org: incoming backlog
18887 des-solnet: package description
21423 Dpkg-ftp can't handle alternative distributions
22287 nonus.debian.org with incorrect layout
23642 Packages
25198 nonus.debian.org: Packages don't exist
28470 nonus.debian.org: mutt-i must be removed
Package: pcmcia-modules-2.0.34
Maintainer: Brian Mays <brian@debian.org>
27395 pcmcia-modules are totally broken out of the box
Package: prcs
Maintainer: Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>
28667 Bug in MD5 checksum computation
Package: sdr
Maintainer: Chu-yeon Park <kokids@doit.ajou.ac.kr>
28950 sdr won't start at all
Package: sed
Maintainer: Wichert Akkerman <wakkerma@debian.org>
28248 sed doesn't check write errors
Package: shellutils
Maintainer: Galen Hazelwood <galenh@micron.net>
28245 shellutils printf doesn't check write errors
Package: ssh
Maintainer: Philip Hands <phil@hands.com>
27415 ssh suddenly requires controlling tty
Package: tkstep8.0
Maintainer: Federico Di Gregorio <fog@debian.org>
19255 Tkstep8.0 doesn't mention dependencies on tiff, jpeg and Xpm.
Package: util-linux
Maintainer: Guy Maor <maor@debian.org>
28652 util-linux: new upstream release available
Package: w3-el-e19
Maintainer: Ben Pfaff <pfaffben@pilot.msu.edu>
28761 w3-el-e19 totally useless since the load path is messed up
Package: w3-el-e20
Maintainer: Ben Pfaff <pfaffben@pilot.msu.edu>
28762 w3-el useless since loadpath is not set
Package: wmaker
Maintainer: Marcelo E. Magallon <mmagallo@debian.org>
28841 (no subject)
Package: wn
Maintainer: Jean Pierre LeJacq <jplejacq@quoininc.com>
27966 wn doesn't start
Package: xbase
Maintainer: Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org>
28254 xbase: getreal problem in preinst
28329 Still cannot install xbase
28344 xbase upgrade still a horror (getinode this time)
28361 xbase_3.3.2.3a-4 missing executables
28437 xbase: xbase cleared my /etc/X11/window-managers
Package: xbase-clients
Maintainer: Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org>
28504 xbase-clients: Lots of problems
Package: xdm
Maintainer: Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org>
27967 xbase: xdm can (frequently does) render machine unusable
28345 xdm: doesn't check if in X
Package: xfonts-75dpi
Maintainer: Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org>
28388 Should Provide xfnt75
Package: xfs
Maintainer: Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org>
28398 xfs: xfs writes to /usr/..../fs-errors
Package: xlib6
Maintainer: Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org>
28242 xlib6: getreal problem in preinst
Package: xserver-common
Maintainer: Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org>
26880 dpkg: Creating XF86Config during install freezes VT
28295 xserver-common: XF86Config(5)
28436 Errors installing xserver-common
28552 xserver-common: parse-xf86config to restrictve
Package: xserver-svga
Maintainer: Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org>
28574 X broken
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