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Date: Fri, 3 Dec 1999 03:15:02 -0600
From: BugScan reporter <bugscan@debian.org>
To: debian-devel-announce@lists.debian.org
Subject: Release-critical Bugreport for December 3, 1999
Bug stamp-out list for Dec 3 03:08 (CST)
Total number of release-critical bugs: 316
Number that will disappear after removing packages marked [REMOVE]: 75
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Package: acroread (non-free)
Maintainer: Klee Dienes <klee@debian.org>
51593 acroread: netscape crashes hard when acroread activated
Package: apache (main)
Maintainer: Johnie Ingram <johnie@debian.org>
49887 apache: typo in config prevents startup
50423 browsing the whole / directory
Package: apache-common (main)
Maintainer: Johnie Ingram <johnie@debian.org>
[STRATEGY] Maintainer will have this fixed by Oct. 30.
45428 apache-common: mod_mime.so depends on /etc/apache/mime.types
Package: apple2 (contrib)
Maintainer: Tom Lear <tom@trap.mountain-view.ca.us>
[REMOVE] This package can be removed if it is not fixed.
49597 apple2 breaks debconf breaks apt
Package: apt (main)
Maintainer: APT Development Team <deity@lists.debian.org>
51554 MD5 sums fail on PowerPC
Package: autofs (main)
Maintainer: Justin Maurer <justin@debian.org>
46638 autofs: /etc/init.d/autofs syntax error
Package: autoproject (main)
Maintainer: James R. Van Zandt <jrv@vanzandt.mv.com>
51630 autoproject: autoproject should depend on automake
Package: base-passwd (main)
Maintainer: Wichert Akkerman <wakkerma@debian.org>
51688 update-passwd segfaults
51704 base-passwd destroys /etc/group
51827 base-passwd: Segmentation fault update-passwd --verbose
51834 base-passwd: update-passwd segfaults
Package: bash (main)
Maintainer: Guy Maor <maor@debian.org>
[STRATEGY] Matthias Klose has bash 2.03 almost ready.
34717 bash: contains /bin/sh link
45656 bash: need better way to handle /bin/sh symlink
48911 bash: please remove sparc from libc5 compat list
50769 experimental bash-2.03 and readline-4.0 packages for potato
51188 bash: fails miserably on sparc
Package: bigloo (main)
Maintainer: Craig Brozefsky <craig@red-bean.com>
[REMOVE] This package can be removed if it is not fixed.
46040 [PATCH] compilation on sparc, cleanup, etc
[STRATEGY] It appears that a new .diff.gz was uploaded, but it was never
recompiled on the original arch.
46586 depends on libgc4-dev, which is not installable
51583 bigloo: build failure on sparc
Package: boot-floppies (main)
Maintainer: Debian Install System Team <debian-boot@lists.debian.org>
43057 bootdisk: rawrite uses 8.3 names
Package: bug (main)
Maintainer: Nicolás Lichtmaier <nick@debian.org>
51343 Bug does not work under Sparc
Package: calctool (non-free)
Maintainer: Peter Crystal <darke@debian.org>
[REMOVE] This package can be removed if it is not fixed.
50033 calctool: does not build from source on sparc
Package: cecilia (non-free)
Maintainer: Marco Budde <Budde@tu-harburg.de>
[REMOVE] No source available, so we can't fix this. Also hasn't been updated
upstream in over a year it seems.
44747 cecilia: `Error: couldn't execute "/usr/lib/cecilia/files/csound_linux2.0.x"'
Package: cern-httpd (main)
Maintainer: Steve Greenland <stevegr@debian.org>
[REMOVE] This package can be removed if it is not fixed.
49383 netstd is now a dummy package, please replace depends with a depends on the parts you need
Package: chimera2 (main)
Maintainer: Mark Baker <mbaker@iee.org>
[REMOVE] This package can be removed if it is not fixed.
50558 chimera2: sig sevs; libpng problems
Package: clisp (main)
Maintainer: Kevin Dalley <kevind@rahul.net>
46059 package fails to build on sparc
Package: cln (main)
Maintainer: John Lapeyre <lapeyre@physics.arizona.edu>
51524 new upstream version available for a long time
51564 current old version causes loop on well-defined input
Package: communicator (contrib)
Maintainer: Adam Heath <doogie@debian.org>
[REMOVE] This package can be removed if it is not fixed.
45873 communicator: Bus error when getting mail
Package: communicator-dmotif-408 (non-free)
Maintainer: Adam Heath <adam.heath@usa.net>
48163 Cannot coexist with current LessTif package.
Package: communicator-smotif-461 (non-free)
Maintainer: Adam Heath <doogie@debian.org>
[REMOVE] This package can be removed if it is not fixed.
42259 [TBF] If you open a menu and a cookie pops up, the browser hangs
43849 communicator-smotif: Floating point exception error
45154 communicator-smotif-461: dead keys no longer work with libc5 version
Package: communicator-smotif-47 (non-free)
Maintainer: Adam Heath <doogie@debian.org>
[REMOVE] This package can be removed if it is not fixed.
47658 communicator-smotif-47: we need libc6 version
50068 communicator-smotif-47: 8-bit characters cannot be entered when using Xkb.
Package: console-tools (main)
Maintainer: Yann Dirson <dirson@debian.org>
49158 console-tools; error while upgrading
50175 console-tools: Keyboard layout is overwrited during package configuration.
Package: coolman (main)
Maintainer: Tom Lear <tom@trap.mtview.ca.us>
[REMOVE] This package can be removed if it is not fixed.
51201 coolman: Broken sysstem
Package: cron (main)
Maintainer: Steve Greenland <stevegr@debian.org>
50240 cron_3.0pl1-54 (dist=unstable)]: compile errors with strn*
51480 crontab -e for root won't work with the following data
51482 cron shows wrong info line on crontab -e
Package: cruft (main)
Maintainer: Anthony Towns <ajt@debian.org>
[REMOVE] This package can be removed if it is not fixed.
51448 cruft: missing files from package?
51617 cruft_0.9.6(unstable): freshly unpacked source cannot be cleaned
Package: cvs (main)
Maintainer: Tom Lees <tom@debian.org>
51234 cvs: pserver does not work
51463 cvs: commit_prep has a security hole
51464 cvs: another security hole
Package: darxite (main)
Maintainer: Ben C. Hendrickson <bhendrickson@usa.net>
[REMOVE] This package can be removed if it is not fixed.
48846 Downloading multiple files via html causes data corruption
Package: ddd-smotif (contrib)
Maintainer: Alexander Yukhimets <alexy@debian.org>
[REMOVE] This package is no longer needed and can be removed.
34802 ddd-smotif: Generate core-dumps after start
Package: dhelp (main)
Maintainer: Marco Budde <budde@debian.org>
49793 dhelp erase files during install and removal
Package: diald (main)
Maintainer: Philippe Troin <phil@fifi.org>
49324 diald depends on netstd which now is a fake package
Package: doc-base (main)
Maintainer: Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>
48908 comerr-dev: package broken on sparc
Package: docbk-xml2x (main)
Maintainer: Ardo van Rangelrooij <ardo@debian.org>
49307 docbk-xml2x: docbook2texi should output @setfilename
Package: dpkg-dev (main)
Maintainer: Ian Jackson and others <dpkg-maint@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
51440 dpkg-dev: /usr/doc/dpkg-dev and /usr/share/doc/dpkg-dev are empty
Package: dwww (main)
Maintainer: Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>
49664 dwww unable to access docs in /usr/share/doc
51206 dwww: update-menus doesn't work correctly with dwww
Package: dx (main)
Maintainer: Konstantinos Margaritis <markos@debian.org>
[REMOVE] This package can be removed if it is not fixed.
48164 Cannot coexist with current LessTif package.
[HELP] Problems with source during nmu attempt(see bug report)
Package: e2fsprogs (main)
Maintainer: Yann Dirson <dirson@debian.org>
51056 mke2fs / e2fsck produce errors on large HD's
Package: elm-me+ (main)
Maintainer: John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org>
51535 elm-me+: pgp support is broken
Package: emacs19 (main)
Maintainer: Mark W. Eichin <eichin@thok.org>
51566 debian is not hall of lost fame
Package: emacs20 (main)
Maintainer: Rob Browning <rlb@cs.utexas.edu>
33237 /etc/alternatives/emacs not managed properly - /usr/bin/emacs doesn't run emacs20
[STRATEGY] Maintainer promised to fix this.
43249 Y2K problem in timezone.el
48997 emacs20_20.4-1(unstable): hardcoded i386 in debian/rules
50142 emacs20: wont install correctly.....
51112 emacs20: emacs20 cannot compile on powerpc
Package: emacsen-common (main)
Maintainer: Rob Browning <rlb@cs.utexas.edu>
48681 gettext: can not install gettext on a new potato system
Package: erlang (main)
Maintainer: Samuel Tardieu <sam@debian.org>
51383 erlang: requires jdk to build, should be contrib
Package: esound (main)
Maintainer: Brian M. Almeida <bma@debian.org>
51699 esound_0.2.15-8(unstable): alsa dependency
Package: esound-common (main)
Maintainer: Brian M. Almeida <bma@debian.org>
51759 esound-common: debconf template missing causes sound breakage in E
Package: eudc (main)
Maintainer: James R. Van Zandt <jrv@vanzandt.mv.com>
51452 Cannot open load file "bbdb"
Package: exim (main)
Maintainer: Mark Baker <mbaker@iee.org>
50435 exim_3.03-4(unstable): build problem with HAVE_IPV6 under glibc2.0
51496 exim: bad configuration when rewriting the From line
Package: expect5.24 (main)
Maintainer: David Engel <david@debian.org>
51445 expect requires /dev/ptmx
Package: express (main)
Maintainer: Frederic Peters <fpeters@debian.org>
[REMOVE] This package can be removed if it is not fixed.
49378 express: Can't build from source
Package: fdutils (main)
Maintainer: Vaidhyanathan G Mayilrangam <vaidhy@debian.org>
51400 [PATCH] buffer overflows (local root exploit/DoS)
Package: fetchmail (main)
Maintainer: Paul Haggart <phaggart@debian.org>
43139 fetchmail flushed after failed delivery
49203 fetchmail: endless loop on SIGPIPE
50990 fetchmail: mail was fetched and deleted from server but never sent to local MTA
Package: fte-xwindow (main)
Maintainer: Zdenek Kabelac <kabi@debian.org>
[REMOVE] This package can be removed if it is not fixed.
50082 fte-xwindow: 8-bit symbols cannot be entered
Package: ftp.debian.org (pseudo)
Maintainer: Guy Maor <ftpmaster@debian.org>
38599 packages which should be moved to the base section
Package: g++ (main)
Maintainer: Debian GCC maintainers <gcc@packages.debian.org>
48530 g++ [alpha]: internal compiler error building open-amulet
Package: gcc (main)
Maintainer: Debian GCC maintainers <gcc@packages.debian.org>
48338 [known problem with gcc-2.95.x on alpha] lapack (complex) does not build
48527 gcc [alpha]: error compiling fweb
Package: gconv-modules (main)
Maintainer: Joel Klecker <debian-glibc@lists.debian.org>
48120 gconv-modules would not be loaded properly when setgid
Package: gedit (main)
Maintainer: Robert S. Edmonds <stu@novare.net>
51419 gedit: crashes when given a filename as command argument
Package: gensig (main)
Maintainer: Andrew Feinberg <agf@debian.org>
[REMOVE] This package can be removed if it is not fixed.
48071 gensig: binary name conflict
Package: glade (main)
Maintainer: Marcus Brinkmann <brinkmd@debian.org>
50050 glade: does not build on sparc
Package: gltt2 (main)
Maintainer: Marcelo E. Magallon <mmagallo@debian.org>
50596 gltt2: current version needs recompile.
Package: gnomba (main)
Maintainer: Timshel Knoll <timshel@pobox.com>
50399 XFree eat all the memory when i launch gnomba
Package: gnome-control-center (main)
Maintainer: Steve Haslam <araqnid@debian.org>
51514 selecting worm screen saver causes system hang
51568 unexpected window-manager death
Package: gnome-help (main)
Maintainer: James LewisMoss <dres@debian.org>
49734 gnome-help-browser displays html forms incorrectly, crashes
Package: gnomehack (main)
Maintainer: Erik Andersen <andersee@debian.org>
[REMOVE] This package can be removed if it is not fixed.
49269 gnomehack: segmentation fault
Package: gnotes (main)
Maintainer: James LewisMoss <dres@debian.org>
50088 Looses text
Package: gnu-smalltalk (main)
Maintainer: Alexander Shinn <foof@debian.org>
[REMOVE] This package can be removed if it is not fixed.
45180 gnu-smalltalk: entry blox in window manager menu does not work
Package: gnucash (main)
Maintainer: Tyson Dowd <trd@cs.mu.oz.au>
[REMOVE] This package can be removed if it is not fixed.
51545 gnucash: src/engine/Makefile.in needs to use -fPIC and not -fpic
51555 gnucash: Cannot start up
Package: gpasman (non-US)
Maintainer: Michael Meskes <meskes@debian.org>
[REMOVE] This package can be removed if it is not fixed.
43061 gpasman segfaults when opening database
51270 gpasman: scrambles database when a bad password used
Package: gpm (main)
Maintainer: Zephaniah E. Hull <warp@whitestar.soark.net>
51322 gpm upgrade from slink to potato breaks X's mouse
Package: grip (main)
Maintainer: Dima Barsky <dima@debian.org>
51460 grip: Grip crashes on CDDB lookup.
Package: guile1.3 (main)
Maintainer: Craig Brozefsky <craig@red-bean.com>
51363 gnucash: ERROR: Unbound variable: gnc:*config-dir*
Package: hanterm (main)
Maintainer: Chu-yeon Park <kokids@debian.org>
[REMOVE] This package can be removed if it is not fixed.
50316 hanterm_1:3.3.1p17-5(unstable): targets in debian/rules have wrong names
Package: horde (main)
Maintainer: Ivan E. Moore II <rkrusty@debian.org>
[REMOVE] This package can be removed if it is not fixed.
51309 horde: postinst error
51414 horde: does not install
Package: iceconf (main)
Maintainer: Jules Bean <jules@debian.org>
[REMOVE] This package can be removed if it is not fixed.
39251 iceconf: iceconf uses old workspace commands
[HELP] Could be fixed now...?
Package: imagemagick (main)
Maintainer: Scott K. Ellis <scott@debian.org>
49786 convert has bad references
Package: imp (main)
Maintainer: Ivan E. Moore II <rkrusty@debian.org>
[REMOVE] This package can be removed if it is not fixed.
50057 Upon logging into a mailbox: Warning: Unable to find stream pointer in /usr/share/horde/imp/status.php3 on line 57
51320 imp: postinst broken
Package: iptraf (main)
Maintainer: Frederic Peters <fpeters@debian.org>
51712 iptraf: Problems with upgrading
51801 iptraf: build tries to create /var/state/iptraf in live system
Package: isapnptools (main)
Maintainer: Frederic Lepied <Lepied@debian.org>
50202 isapnptools: IRQ2/9 mess still highly confusing
[STRATEGY] There is a patch in the report.
Package: ivtools-dev (main)
Maintainer: Guenter Geiger <geiger@debian.org>
50998 ivtools-dev: recompile for libace5.0
Package: jdk1.1 (non-free)
Maintainer: Stephen Zander <gibreel@debian.org>
[REMOVE] This package must be removed if its license is not fixed.
50282 jdk1.1: correct FHS problems in update-alternatives invocation
51490 jdk1.1 requires a dependancy on xbase-clients
Package: jed (main)
Maintainer: "Christian Hammers" <ch@debian.org>
51213 [PATCH] 3 (tmp) races in jed
Package: jwhois (main)
Maintainer: Per Lundberg <plundis@debian.org>
51644 jwhois_2.2-1(unstable): build error (gai_strerror)
Package: kbd (main)
Maintainer: Yann Dirson <dirson@debian.org>
50431 kbd: Bug in /sbin/kbdconfig?
Package: kerberos4kth (non-US)
Maintainer: Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu>
40025 kerberos4kth: won't compile on glibc2.1
Package: lapack (main)
Maintainer: James A. Treacy <treacy@debian.org>
[REMOVE] This package can be removed if it is not fixed.
48661 lapack: doesn't build from source
Package: latex2html (main)
Maintainer: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
50653 latex2html: eats all the memory if \usepackage{amsmath} and \title are used simultaneously
Package: ldso (main)
Maintainer: David Engel <david@debian.org>
49279 ldd/ldconfig/ldso: patches for sparc
Package: libapache-mod-perl (main)
Maintainer: Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org>
45753 libapache-mod-perl: Doesn't build on Alpha
47273 Debian/Sparc libapache-mod-perl Package Problems...
Package: libapache-mod-python (main)
Maintainer: Gregor Hoffleit <flight@debian.org>
48804 mod-python crashes apache
50418 libapache-mod-python explodes now and then
Package: libc6 (main)
Maintainer: Joel Klecker <debian-glibc@lists.debian.org>
21810 libc6: rexec call dumps core with user="string" and password=NULL
36584 nss' compat does not work with shadow nis
50167 libc6: Include ldd nad ldd man page, which are part of ldso.
50311 libc6: libc6 ships binary programs: please split.
Package: libc6-dev (main)
Maintainer: Joel Klecker <debian-glibc@lists.debian.org>
50083 libc6-dev: broken headers for sparc
Package: libc6.1 (main)
Maintainer: Joel Klecker <debian-glibc@lists.debian.org>
47584 libc6.1: localtime() hangs on alpha
48455 libc6.1: libc6 fails to install and leaves installation broken
Package: libcgi-perl (main)
Maintainer: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
49189 cannot purge libcgi-perl
Package: libdb2.6-util (main)
Maintainer: Fabrizio Polacco <fpolacco@debian.org>
50647 libdb2.6-util: trying to overwrite db_archive from libc6
Package: libg++2.8.2-dev (main)
Maintainer: Debian EGCS maintainers <egcs@packages.debian.org>
50048 libg++2.8.2-dev: empty package on sparc
Package: libg++272 (main)
Maintainer: Debian GCC maintainers <gcc@packages.debian.org>
47212 [m68k] libg++272_2.7.2.8-1 build failure
Package: libgc5 (main)
Maintainer: Mike Goldman <whig@by.net>
51208 fix for sparc build
Package: libgcj0 (main)
Maintainer: Debian GCC maintainers <gcc@packages.debian.org>
46062 [sparc] build fails in all-target-boehm-gc
Package: libgcj0-dev (main)
Maintainer: Debian GCC maintainers <gcc@packages.debian.org>
48741 depends on a non-free package
Package: libgimp-perl (main)
Maintainer: Anthony Fok <foka@debian.org>
45124 libgimp-perl: perlcc eats all the memory
Package: libgtkmm (main)
Maintainer: Marcus Brinkmann <brinkmd@debian.org>
51313 /usr/bin/gensig is also in gensig
Package: liblockfile1 (main)
Maintainer: Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl>
43491 liblockfile1: lockfile_create is _not_ NFS safe (fcntl() missing)
Package: libmagick4g-lzw (non-free)
Maintainer: Scott K. Ellis <scott@debian.org>
38649 libmagick4g-lzw: is version 4.0.4-3, while libmagick4g 4.2.2-0.0
48090 libmagick4g-lzw: libmagick4g-lzw depends on non-existed library libjpegg6a
Package: libnss-ldap (main)
Maintainer: Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>
48953 libnss-ldap: Doesn't search for groups correctly
Package: libpgsql2 (main)
Maintainer: Oliver Elphick <Oliver.Elphick@lfix.co.uk>
46690 pgl seg faults
49141 PHP3 postgres causes apache segfault
Package: libqt1g (non-free)
Maintainer: Heiko Schlittermann <heiko@lotte.sax.de>
51718 libqt1g: provides qt1g, conflicts with libqt2
Package: libreadlineg2 (main)
Maintainer: Guy Maor <maor@debian.org>
39907 lftp dumps core
Package: lilo (main)
Maintainer: Vincent Renardias <vincent@debian.org>
49948 liloconfig makes bad lilo.conf when from scratch
Package: lilypond (main)
Maintainer: Anthony Fok <foka@debian.org>
49314 lilypond: Can't build from source
Package: listarchives (pseudo)
Maintainer: Guy Maor <maor@debian.org>
49888 listarchives: Links of glimpse search results not found (even older ones)
Package: lletters (main)
Maintainer: Lalo Martins <lalo@webcom.com>
37660 lletters need to be recompiled with new libglib/libgtk
Package: lockvc (main)
Maintainer: Wichert Akkerman <wakkerma@debian.org>
51619 lockvc: Segmentation Fault
Package: logcheck (main)
Maintainer: Rene Mayrhofer <rmayr@vianova.at>
50994 logcheck: "["s in /etc/logcheck/logcheck.violations.ignore kill logcheck.
51342 logcheck: Completly borken after upgrade.
Package: lpr (main)
Maintainer: Adam Klein <aklein@debian.org>
48642 lpr; lpr does not print on a remote printer
[HELP] Should be fixed by now, someone should doublecheck
Package: lprng (main)
Maintainer: Craig Small <csmall@debian.org>
45857 lprng: Fails to configure
50709 lprng won't configure: error exit status 127
51824 lprng: Can't remove
Package: lynx (main)
Maintainer: Christian Hudon <chrish@debian.org>
46021 lynx on alpha exits immediately with interrupt 15, is useless
Package: magicfilter (main)
Maintainer: David Frey <dfrey@debian.org>
51645 magicfilter: magicfilter conflicts with optional package apsfiler
Package: makepasswd (main)
Maintainer: Johnie Ingram <johnie@debian.org>
50885 no longer allows specification of cleartext from command line
Package: manpages-dev (main)
Maintainer: Nicolás Lichtmaier <nick@debian.org>
46792 setreuid(2) contains invalid security information
Package: mc (main)
Maintainer: Michael Bramer & Martin Bialasinski <mc-debian@internet-treff.uni-koeln.de>
50891 destruction of file system integrity
Package: mdate (main)
Maintainer: Peter Crystal <darke@debian.org>
[REMOVE] This package can be removed if it is not fixed.
50325 mdate_1.0.1-1(unstable): cannot build freshly unpacked source
Package: mercury (main)
Maintainer: Tyson Dowd <trd@cs.mu.oz.au>
48664 mercury: can't build from source
49160 Patch for Sparc compilation
Package: mico-2.2.7 (main)
Maintainer: Stephan Kulow <coolo@kde.org>
44446 [m68k] mico compile fails because exception support appears broken
Package: midentd (main)
Maintainer: Turbo Fredriksson <turbo@debian.org>
49574 pidentd: dependencies not in sync with midentd
Package: modconf (main)
Maintainer: Enrique Zanardi <ezanard@debian.org>
51015 package is absurdly out of date for 2.2
51019 truncation in 'select net modules' screen
Package: modutils (main)
Maintainer: Wichert Akkerman <wakkerma@debian.org>
50251 modutils: depmod -a is broken
50898 MOdutils for sparc is missing files
51137 boot errors!!!
Package: moonlight (main)
Maintainer: Marcelo Magallon <mmagallo@debian.org>
43324 moonlight: Moonlight segfaults on startup (PLEASE NMU!)
44392 package moonlight depends on two different stdc++ libraries (PLEASE NMU!)
Package: navigator-smotif-461 (non-free)
Maintainer: Adam Heath <doogie@debian.org>
[REMOVE] This package can be removed if it is not fixed.
43976 netscape 4.6 says 'bus error'
44094 Dynamically linked plugins don't load
Package: navigator-smotif-47 (non-free)
Maintainer: Adam Heath <doogie@debian.org>
[REMOVE] This package can be removed if it is not fixed.
50887 navigator-smotif-47: Navigator dies (bus error)
51534 navigator-smotif-47: Distributed binary is different from the original
Package: netbase (main)
Maintainer: Anthony Towns <ajt@debian.org>
46642 [jim@jimpick.com: netbase (ping6) and kernel bitops]
Package: nfs-common (main)
Maintainer: Anders Hammarquist <iko@debian.org>
50872 nfs-common: NFS file locking broken with LinUX 2.2.x
Package: nis (main)
Maintainer: Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl>
49923 yp tries to start before portmapper is ready
51829 nis: Version 3.6-2 of package nis is missing vital files
Package: ntp (main)
Maintainer: Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com>
50433 ntp_4.0.98d-1(unstable): undefined ntptimeval
Package: oskit (main)
Maintainer: Ed Boraas <ed@debian.org>
[REMOVE] This package can be removed if it is not fixed.
43872 oskit: i586-oskit-gcc forks endlessly
Package: perl (main)
Maintainer: Darren Stalder <torin@daft.com>
44033 Perl exits with "Illegal instruction" when executing
Package: perl-5.004 (main)
Maintainer: Darren Stalder <torin@daft.com>
49669 perl-5.004: pos($a)-information lost after { local($a) }
Package: perl-5.005 (main)
Maintainer: Darren Stalder <torin@daft.com>
49907 In installing Horde it reports, "Use of uninitialized value at /usr/lib/perl5/5.005/IPC/Open3.pm line 188".
50151 perl-5.005: suidperl doesn't check permissions on modules
Package: perl-5.005-base (main)
Maintainer: Darren Stalder <torin@daft.com>
41436 New Perl should get rid of old Perl if the corresponding package isn't installed
48544 libc6: search path for shared libraries includes current directory
50242 perl-5.005-base missing autosplit module
50552 perl-5.005-base: Parts of Data::Dumper are missing
50937 perl-5.005-base: Important modules to add for debconf
51289 Need link: /usr/bin/perl5.005
Package: perl-base (main)
Maintainer: Darren Stalder <torin@daft.com>
50773 Should have Pre-Depends: perl5-base
Package: php3 (main)
Maintainer: Gergely Madarasz <gorgo@sztaki.hu>
50618 php3_1:3.0.12-8(unstable): build error (freetype.h not found)
Package: php4 (main)
Maintainer: Gergely Madarasz <gorgo@sztaki.hu>
51623 php4_4.0b3-1(unstable): rm misses -f
Package: pingus (main)
Maintainer: Daniel Patterson <danpat@debian.org>
51726 pingus: pingus fails to load
Package: pkglist (main)
Maintainer: Atsushi KAMOSHIDA <kamop@debian.org>
43201 pkglist: correct_packages.pl does not care pre-depends packages.
Package: plugger (contrib)
Maintainer: Adam Heath <doogie@debian.org>
[REMOVE] This package can be removed if it is not fixed.
47397 plugger: Plugger don't work
49409 plugger: plugger uses xloadimage for png
Package: postgresql (main)
Maintainer: Oliver Elphick <Oliver.Elphick@lfix.co.uk>
48340 postgresql: Doesn't build on Alpha
49580 postgresql: upgrade broken
50388 Backend close client-server channel unexpectedly
Package: powertweak (main)
Maintainer: Sudhakar Chandrasekharan <thaths@netscape.com>
[REMOVE] This package can be removed if it is not fixed.
43243 my SCSI system locks up whenever I run powertweak
Package: ppp (main)
Maintainer: Philip Hands <phil@hands.com>
43885 ppp: Dial-out now fails
Package: premail (contrib)
Maintainer: Brent Fulgham <bfulgham@pacbell.net>
[REMOVE] This package can be removed if it is not fixed.
44518 premail doesn't work on potato
Package: proftpd (main)
Maintainer: Johnie Ingram <johnie@debian.org>
[STRATEGY] Maintainer will have this fixed by Oct. 30.
46695 proftpd: Still configured anonymous access when I answered "no" to the debconf dialog.
49170 proftpd_1.2.0pre9-1(unstable): compile error with have_sendfile
Package: qmail-src (non-free)
Maintainer: Jon Marler <jmarler@debian.org>
[REMOVE] This package can be removed if it is not fixed.
48720 qmail-src: Generated qmail package's preinst script deletes aliases
Package: qps (contrib)
Maintainer: Hanno Wagner <wagner@linux.de>
51672 qps: recompile for libqt2
Package: quota (main)
Maintainer: Heiko Schlittermann <heiko@lotte.sax.de>
41753 quota: repquota and quotacheck segfault
47222 quota: edquota - confusing
47718 edquota will not allow soft or hard limits above 4194303 blocks
51551 powerpc needs -fsigned-char to build
Package: qvwm (main)
Maintainer: Shuichi OONO <jr5pdx@debian.or.jp>
[REMOVE] This package can be removed if it is not fixed.
49145 segfaults like crazy (even when everything else is fixed)
Package: revtex (non-free)
Maintainer: Michael A. Miller <mmiller@debian.org>
[REMOVE] This package can be removed if it is not fixed.
48691 revtex: /usr/share/texmf/doc in revtex conflicts with tetex-base_1.0-5_all
Package: rio (main)
Maintainer: Vince Mulhollon <vlm@execpc.com>
[REMOVE] This package can be removed if it is not fixed.
50938 rio_1.07-1(unstable): build error on archs other than i386 or alpha
Package: roxen (main)
Maintainer: Turbo Fredriksson <turbo@debian.org>
46063 roxen is not stopped correctly by /etc/cron.weekly/roxen
50313 start script starts continously spawning new pikes to restart roxen
Package: rrdtool (main)
Maintainer: Matt Zimmerman <mdz@csh.rit.edu>
[REMOVE] This package can be removed if it is not fixed.
50728 rrdtool: needs to run "perl Makefile.PL" in perl-shared and perl-pipe
Package: rscheme (main)
Maintainer: Rob Browning <rlb@cs.utexas.edu>
[REMOVE] This package can be removed if it is not fixed.
48341 rscheme: Doesn't build on Alpha
51728 rscheme_0.7.2-3(unstable): Syntax errors in m68k code
Package: rsync (main)
Maintainer: Philip Hands <phil@hands.com>
50248 rsync -z / rsync --compress does not work
51705 Rsync segfaults
Package: sabre (main)
Maintainer: Milan Zamazal <pdm@debian.org>
51615 sabre_0.2.4-6(unstable): svgalib usage
Package: sane (main)
Maintainer: Kevin Dalley <kevind@rahul.net>
50927 sane: no dependancies to libsane?
Package: sawmill (main)
Maintainer: Mikolaj J. Habryn <dichro-debian@rcpt.to>
[REMOVE] This package can be removed if it is not fixed.
49654 missing sawmill sawmill-client sawmill-ui binary files (PowerPC only?)
Package: sciplot (main)
Maintainer: John Lapeyre <lapeyre@physics.arizona.edu>
[REMOVE] This package can be removed if it is not fixed.
49490 sciplot: can't build from source
Package: screen (main)
Maintainer: Juan Cespedes <cespedes@debian.org>
51088 screen doesn't work if home dirs are nfs-mounted
Package: sdr (main)
Maintainer: Chu-yeon Park <kokids@debian.org>
[REMOVE] This package can be removed if it is not fixed.
43755 sdr wont compile, still requires files not present on a Debian system
50089 sdr: does not compile from source
Package: sgml-base (main)
Maintainer: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
28704 sgml-base: sgml entity handling should conform to Cees de Groot's proposed std
[HELP] Maintainer is away; NMU's shall be appreciated.
Package: sgml-tools (main)
Maintainer: Sven Rudolph <sr1@inf.tu-dresden.de>
44743 sgml-tools: unable to purge configuation files
Package: shellutils (main)
Maintainer: Wichert Akkerman <wakkerma@debian.org>
51521 shellutils: After fixing the expr bug StarOffice still screws up...
Package: silo (main)
Maintainer: Davide Barbieri <paci@prosa.it>
50729 Silo does not check for available kernels
Package: slrn (main)
Maintainer: Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>
43477 slrn: Removes all subscribed groups when slrn thinks they're gone
Package: smail (main)
Maintainer: Soenke Lange <soenke@escher.north.de>
48614 smail: postinst leaves MTA broken if xinetd is in use
Package: smpeg (main)
Maintainer: Stefan Gybas <sgybas@debian.org>
51174 smpeg_0.3.0-1(unstable): configuration of sdl fails
Package: snmptraplogd (main)
Maintainer: Bernd Schumacher <Bernd_Schumacher@hp.com>
50364 snmptraplogd: missing dependency (libsnmp3.6)
Package: strace (main)
Maintainer: Wichert Akkerman <wakkerma@debian.org>
51648 strace_4.1-1(unstable): Wrong condition for IPv6
Package: sxid (main)
Maintainer: Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>
[REMOVE] This package can be removed if it is not fixed.
48193 crashes when it is running from root
Package: task-samba (main)
Maintainer: Martin Bialasinski <martinb@debian.org>
50997 task-samba: Task-samba depends on obsolete package.
Package: tcsh (main)
Maintainer: Luis Francisco Gonzalez <luisgh@debian.org>
49531 new dircolors breaks tcsh
51603 tcsh: segfaults due to bad $LS_COLORS 'do' option
Package: tela (main)
Maintainer: John Lapeyre <lapeyre@physics.arizona.edu>
[REMOVE] This package can be removed if it is not fixed.
48079 unusable because of shared library problems
Package: termcap-compat (main)
Maintainer: Christian Hudon <chrish@debian.org>
[REMOVE] It may be time to drop termcap-compat; no-one uses it anymore.
48747 termcap-compat: doesn't build from source
Package: tetex-bin (main)
Maintainer: Christoph Martin <christoph.martin@uni-mainz.de>
49834 tetex-bin: libpng2-1.0.5 breaks PNG support for pdflatex
51795 tetex-bin: tetex in slink has just expired
Package: tix41 (main)
Maintainer: Philippe Troin <phil@fifi.org>
47825 tix41: Doesn't work with Tcl/Tk 8.2
Package: tk8.0-ja (main)
Maintainer: Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org>
49491 tk8.0-ja: Can't build from source
Package: tkseti (contrib)
Maintainer: Gopal Narayanan <gopal@debian.org>
[REMOVE] This package can be removed if it is not fixed.
48676 app hangs and brings down or logs out xdm when destroyed
Package: tksmb (main)
Maintainer: Adrian Bridgett <bridgett@debian.org>
51745 tksmb: nmblookup format changed, can't parse it correctly
Package: tkstep4.2 (main)
Maintainer: Federico Di Gregorio <fog@debian.org>
[REMOVE] Obsoleted by tkstep8.0 anyway?
45798 tkdesk no longer works; can't find ``libjpeg.so.6a''
[STRATEGY] Simple recompile against libjpeg.so.62 should fix it.
Package: typist (main)
Maintainer: Ben Armstrong <synrg@sanctuary.nslug.ns.ca>
51634 typist: sparc does not define SIGCLD
Package: ultra (main)
Maintainer: Martin Soto <masoto@uniandes.edu.co>
[REMOVE] Doesn't support current modutils setup, doesn't work with 2.2 kernels
and last upload is over a year ago....
47966 ultra: ultra should use /etc/modules.conf
Package: util-linux (main)
Maintainer: Vincent Renardias <vincent@debian.org>
37657 util-linux: hwclock --systohc dangerous
41263 hwclock --adjust doesn't work (temporary fix included)
42556 util-linux: hwclock: Continually messes up my clock
51273 util-linux: uses pam_pwdb for kbdrate
51805 /etc/adjtime
Package: vrwave (non-free)
Maintainer: Javier Fernandez-Sanguino Pen~a <jfs@computer.org>
[REMOVE] This package can be removed if it is not fixed.
49095 vrwave: It doesn't even start. Java gives fatal error and exits!
Package: watchdog (main)
Maintainer: Johnie Ingram <johnie@debian.org>
[STRATEGY] Maintainer will have this fixed by Oct. 30.
46082 watchdog: watchdog - unexpected shutdowns
Package: wdg-html-reference (non-free)
Maintainer: Jaldhar H. Vyas <jaldhar@debian.org>
51447 wdg-html-reference: Style sheets not found
Package: wget (main)
Maintainer: Nicolás Lichtmaier <nick@debian.org>
50627 wget: fails in preremove
Package: wmaker (main)
Maintainer: Chris McKillop <cdm@debian.org>
41671 wmaker: WMaker segfaults when using gnome-pager to switch to other workspace and show (unminimize) window from other desktop
[HELP] Any help is welcome, preferably patches.
Package: wmmail (main)
Maintainer: Marcelo E. Magallon <mmagallo@debian.org>
44569 wmmail: wmmail: defaults domain HC!@HC!@card/GNUstep/Defaults/WMMail corrupted
Package: wn (main)
Maintainer: Jean Pierre LeJacq <jplejacq@quoininc.com>
[REMOVE] It may be time to drop termcap-compat; no-one uses it anymore.
42143 wn: cron.daily/wn recurses infinitely and gives a segment violation
[STRATEGY] Maintainer promised to fix this.
50086 wn: does not build from source
Package: xaw95g (main)
Maintainer: joost witteveen <joostje@debian.org>
51451 package ruins perms on ld.so.conf
Package: xbase-clients (main)
Maintainer: Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org>
48199 xauth can't handle IP changes
Package: xcircuit (main)
Maintainer: Dale Scheetz <dwarf@polaris.net>
50573 xcircuit: tries to install outside of build tree during compilation
Package: xdm (main)
Maintainer: Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org>
50740 xdm: xdm conflicts with gdm and refuses to stay installed
Package: xemacs21 (main)
Maintainer: James LewisMoss <dres@debian.org>
49162 gnus: Refuses to start up
Package: xevil (non-free)
Maintainer: Ben C. Hendrickson <bhendrickson@usa.net>
50409 xevil: gratuitous removal from debian
Package: xfmail (non-free)
Maintainer: Florian Hinzmann <fh@debian.org>
[REMOVE] Compiles, but just doesn't work with current xforms.
Maintainer doesn't want to fix it, as it is non-free.
51290 xfmail: Crash when closing mail view, missnig view in second panel and memory/processor leak
51476 xfmail: Viewing NON Mime Messages does not work.
Package: xfmix (contrib)
Maintainer: Tom Lear <lear@debian.org>
[REMOVE] This package must be removed if its license is not fixed.
39521 GPL is incompatible with XForms
[STRATEGY] Maintainer is trying to reach upstream authors.
Package: xfs (main)
Maintainer: Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org>
50859 xfs runs as root
Package: xfs-xtt (main)
Maintainer: ISHIKAWA Mutsumi <ishikawa@linux.or.jp>
[REMOVE] This package can be removed if it is not fixed.
51084 xfs-xtt dies on reset and reload signals
Package: xfstt (main)
Maintainer: Stephen J. Carpenter <sjc@debian.org>
49526 xfstt --encoding broken!
Package: xftp (main)
Maintainer: Steve McIntyre <stevem@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
49389 netstd is now a dummy package, please depend on the individual packages you need
Package: xinetd (main)
Maintainer: Debian QA Group <debian-qa@lists.debian.org>
50441 telnetd: telnet sessions do not remove entry in /var/run/utmp after logout
Package: xlib6g-dev (main)
Maintainer: Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org>
51076 [PATCH] tmp race in imake
Package: xmbdfed (main)
Maintainer: Frederic Lepied <Lepied@debian.org>
48635 xmbdfed: crashes working with open menu
Package: xmcpustate (main)
Maintainer: Thimo Neubauer <thimo@debian.org>
[REMOVE] This package can be removed if it is not fixed.
49492 xmcpustate: Doesn't build from source
Package: xmysql (contrib)
Maintainer: Martin Bialasinski <martinb@debian.org>
[REMOVE] This package must be removed if its license is not fixed.
39522 GPL is incompatible with XForms
[STRATEGY] Maintainer is talking to upstream authors about the
license addition.
Package: xserver-common (main)
Maintainer: Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org>
50209 XF86Config moved and config is broken
51086 if a font server in the fontpath dies, xfree86 will misbehave and might crash
Package: xserver-fbdev (main)
Maintainer: Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org>
43574 xscreensaver, xscreensaver-gl don't appear to work (but do)
Package: xserver-svga (main)
Maintainer: Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org>
44995 xserver-svga: XF86_SVGA Hungs in Apm_Sync()
45744 xserver-svga: Crashes console system with trio3d
47741 xserver-svga: gmc root icons in wmaker crash the X server
50624 xserver-svga: Hangs when switching to graphic mode
Package: xshipwars (main)
Maintainer: Raphael Bossek <bossekr@debian.org>
51298 unvedit was not configured
Package: xshipwars-server (main)
Maintainer: Raphael Bossek <bossekr@debian.org>
[FIX] Patch is available in the bug report
50405 xshipwars-server: Won't uninstall
50963 xshipwars-server: Error in init.d script prevents package removal
Package: xwave (main)
Maintainer: Philippe Troin <phil@fifi.org>
48569 xwave: broken event handling
Package: xxgdb (main)
Maintainer: Helmut Geyer <Helmut.Geyer@iwr.uni-heidelberg.de>
47452 xxgdb: does not work (Cannot perform malloc)
Package: yagirc (main)
Maintainer: Ole J. Tetlie <olet@debian.org>
[REMOVE] This package can be removed if it is not fixed.
48093 yagirc depends on non-existed library libjpegg6a
Package: yiff-config (main)
Maintainer: Raphael Bossek <bossekr@debian.org>
50771 yiffconfig: attempts to use /usr/etc/
Package: zebra (main)
Maintainer: Endre Hirling and Alexander Koch <zebra@argh.org>
51170 zebra_0.81-1.1(unstable): ospf6d.conf not built on m68k
Package: zed (main)
Maintainer: Christoph Lameter <christoph@lameter.com>
50271 zed: Zedx doesn't allow to enter 8-bit chars with Xkb.
Package: zsh (main)
Maintainer: Clint Adams <schizo@debian.org>
51802 zsh goes into busy loop, chews all CPU when HUP'd
51828 zsh: zsh can't handle dieing connections
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