On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 12:50:19PM +0100, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > Previously Richard Braakman wrote: > > Package: autofs (debian/main). > > Maintainer: Justin Maurer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > 52132 autofs: Race condition when expiring autofs submounts leaves daemon > > crippled > > [STRATEGY] Patch available, waiting for reply from upstream > > We should probably go with the patch in the bugreport, it seems to work > nicely and I haven't seen any objections to it on linux-autofs.
I agree. > > Package: cvs (debian/main). > > Maintainer: Tom Lees <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > 59543 cvs: cvs-makerepos does not exist > > Isn't this just "cvs init"? This probably refers to this comment in the template file: If you have not yet created these repositories, you can create them after cvs has been installed. Use the command 'cvs-makerepos' to create them with fairly standard permissions, or create them yourself using 'cvs init'. I don't think this is release-critical. Someone who discovers that cvs-makerepos isn't there will just try cvs init. > > Package: dpkg (debian/main). > > Maintainer: Wichert Akkerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > 58091 package name "Eterm" --> "eterm" > > This is a residue of a bug in another package which violated policy by > using a capital in the packagename. I wonder if I could get away with > simply lowercasing the package-names when reading the available-file.. Hmm, I don't understand the problem. dpkg is documented to be partially case-sensitive, with uppercase names being deprecated. Perhaps the problem is in apt? The reporter mentioned that "dselect/apt" wouldn't upgrade eterm, but dpkg did. > > Package: mh (debian/main). > > Maintainer: Edward Brocklesby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > 59227 htdig: Apparent infinite recursion > > 59891 Security problem in MIME-handling code > > Can we drop this package and tell people to use nmh instead? I've been > thinking of releasing a security advisory to that effect.. Apparently Edward is working on an upload as I type this. > > Package: netbase (debian/main). > > Maintainer: Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > 59282 netbase: portmap is killed too early on shutdown > > Hasn't this one been fixed by now? Something is up with netbase; it has loads of RC bugs now. This happens to be the only one older than the snapshot date. > > Package: smail (debian/main). > > Maintainer: Soenke Lange <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > [HELP] Mail to Soenke bounced. > > 59135 smail: Smail doesn't work with the latest libraries > > We seem to have a history of release-critical bugs for smail until just > before the release... is Soenke reading this, or has anyone contacted > him? The last smail upload was an NMU. The last maintainer upload was October 1998. I sent mail to Soenke today, but I do not have much hope of reaching him. I think no-one cares about smail anymore; we've all switched to sexier mailers, and new users get exim. It may be time to drop smail. Richard Braakman