Re: 5 days till Bug Horizon [zsh]

[Clint Adams]

> > Package: zsh (debian/main).
> > Maintainer: Clint Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >   58941 core dump with function mycd() {builtin cd "$@" && echo $PWD}
> > [STRATEGY] Fixed in the next .deb.  Already fixed upstream. (Mar15MH)
> 
> That is a week ago, has it been fixed since then?

My apologies.  I've been extremely overworked.  I'll upload a new
.deb ASAP.

Re: 5 days till Bug Horizon

[Miros/law `Jubal' Baran]

25.03.2000 pisze Ethan Benson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):

> i don't know what it has to do with inetd, IIRC all it did was manage
> /etc/rc?.d/* symlinks.

It means I should never write any e-mails on Saturday morning [and/or
_read_ the e-mails I answer].

regards,
Jubal

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Re: 5 days till Bug Horizon

[Ethan Benson]

On Sat, Mar 25, 2000 at 08:14:21PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 25, 2000 at 09:37:38AM +0100, Miros/law `Jubal' Baran wrote:
> > 25.03.2000 pisze Anthony Towns (aj@azure.humbug.org.au):
> > > [0] update-inetd needs a rewrite. It also needs to remain more or less
> > > compatible. It also needs to end up being very tidy and flexible.
> > > I'll end up working on this eventually, if no one else does, but if
> > > someone else it first...
> > Do you plan to implement a functionality similar to RH's chkconfig?
> 
> What's RH's chkconfig do?

its basically equivilent to update-rc.d except it lets you twiddle
stuff on and off by runlevel without having to -f remove the whole
batch of symlinks and then reinstall them again the way you wanted.

i don't know what it has to do with inetd, IIRC all it did was manage
/etc/rc?.d/* symlinks.

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Re: 5 days till Bug Horizon

[Anthony Towns]

On Sat, Mar 25, 2000 at 09:37:38AM +0100, Miros/law `Jubal' Baran wrote:
> 25.03.2000 pisze Anthony Towns (aj@azure.humbug.org.au):
> > [0] update-inetd needs a rewrite. It also needs to remain more or less
> > compatible. It also needs to end up being very tidy and flexible.
> > I'll end up working on this eventually, if no one else does, but if
> > someone else it first...
> Do you plan to implement a functionality similar to RH's chkconfig?

What's RH's chkconfig do?

Cheers,
aj

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Re: 5 days till Bug Horizon

[Raphael Hertzog]

Le Fri, Mar 24, 2000 at 11:24:23PM +, Alan Clucas écrivait:
> Ok then... I won't do anything.
> 
> Better subscribe to debian-qa as well then. One day I'll find something
> useful to do :(

Don't be so sad. :) There's plenty of useful things to do :
- work on the other RCB (send patches whereever a patch is needed)
- check if they are still reproducable
- look for badly maintained packages (that you are interested in) 
  and try to resolve as much bugs as you can (first send patch to the BTS,
  then if the maintainer doesn't integrate the changes, ask on debian-qa
  for a NMU), if you're strongly interested by the package you may even
  ask to adopt it (and you may be sponsored since you're not yet a
  developer)
- work on boot-floppies

Cheers,
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Re: 5 days till Bug Horizon

[Miros/law `Jubal' Baran]

25.03.2000 pisze Anthony Towns (aj@azure.humbug.org.au):

> [0] update-inetd needs a rewrite. It also needs to remain more or less
> compatible. It also needs to end up being very tidy and flexible.
> I'll end up working on this eventually, if no one else does, but if
> someone else it first...

Do you plan to implement a functionality similar to RH's chkconfig?

regards,
Jubal

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Re: 5 days till Bug Horizon

[Anthony Towns]

On Fri, Mar 24, 2000 at 11:24:23PM +, Alan Clucas wrote:
> Ok then... I won't do anything.
> 
> Better subscribe to debian-qa as well then. One day I'll find something
> useful to do :(

You're quite welcome to go through the netbase bugs, and send in patches.
I've got a major redesign of a fundamental interface that needs doing [0],
some obscure bugs that need fixing, and some manpages that need writing
and/or fixing...

It's not hard to find something to do if you're willing to look, and you're
not too picky...

Cheers,
aj

[0] update-inetd needs a rewrite. It also needs to remain more or less
compatible. It also needs to end up being very tidy and flexible.
I'll end up working on this eventually, if no one else does, but if
someone else it first...

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Re: 5 days till Bug Horizon

[Alan Clucas]

On Fri, 24 Mar 2000, Raphael Hertzog wrote:

> Le Thu, Mar 23, 2000 at 05:10:13PM -0500, Ben Collins écrivait:
> > This late in the game, you need to backport the fixes to the version in
> > potato. Make a diff of the changes against the current debian source, get
> > it checked over by some knowledgable folks, and then have at it.
> 
> I think this is quite stupid. fetchmail is an independant package, it
> won't break anything to use the version in woody ... and it would 10
> times easier to do. I'am already going to upload fetchmail 5.3.3 to
> potato, check the other thread (I think it's on debian-qa).

Ok then... I won't do anything.

Better subscribe to debian-qa as well then. One day I'll find something
useful to do :(

Alan

Re: 5 days till Bug Horizon

[Raphael Hertzog]

Le Thu, Mar 23, 2000 at 05:10:13PM -0500, Ben Collins écrivait:
> This late in the game, you need to backport the fixes to the version in
> potato. Make a diff of the changes against the current debian source, get
> it checked over by some knowledgable folks, and then have at it.

I think this is quite stupid. fetchmail is an independant package, it
won't break anything to use the version in woody ... and it would 10
times easier to do. I'am already going to upload fetchmail 5.3.3 to
potato, check the other thread (I think it's on debian-qa).

Cheers,
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Re: 5 days till Bug Horizon

[Alan Clucas]

> > > Package: fetchmail (debian/main).
> > > Maintainer: Paul Haggart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > [HELP] This package needs a new maintainer.  (RB)
> > >   43139 fetchmail flushed after failed delivery
> > >   50990 fetchmail: mail was fetched and deleted from server but never 
> > > sent to local MTA
> > 
> > Is anyone looking at this one. These are both fixed in upstream 5.3.1 (and
> > 5.3.3 is in woody). What is the recommended course of action on this - I
> > would like to try and get involved - and personally know a maintainer who
> > can sponsor me. Should I go for 5.3.3, 5.3.1, 5.3.4 (latest upstream) or
> > attempting to backport the fixes in 5.2.3 (what is currently in potato)
> 
> This late in the game, you need to backport the fixes to the version in
> potato. Make a diff of the changes against the current debian source, get
> it checked over by some knowledgable folks, and then have at it.

I will have a go then :)

Alan

Re: 5 days till Bug Horizon

[Ben Collins]

On Thu, Mar 23, 2000 at 08:44:26PM +, Alan Clucas wrote:
> My first debian post :)
> 
> > The packages involved are fetchmail, g++, gpm, kernel-image-2.2.14-ide
> > (do we really need it?  I assumed it's needed for the bootfloppies),
> > and perl-5.005.
> 
> > Package: fetchmail (debian/main).
> > Maintainer: Paul Haggart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > [HELP] This package needs a new maintainer.  (RB)
> >   43139 fetchmail flushed after failed delivery
> >   50990 fetchmail: mail was fetched and deleted from server but never sent 
> > to local MTA
> 
> Is anyone looking at this one. These are both fixed in upstream 5.3.1 (and
> 5.3.3 is in woody). What is the recommended course of action on this - I
> would like to try and get involved - and personally know a maintainer who
> can sponsor me. Should I go for 5.3.3, 5.3.1, 5.3.4 (latest upstream) or
> attempting to backport the fixes in 5.2.3 (what is currently in potato)

This late in the game, you need to backport the fixes to the version in
potato. Make a diff of the changes against the current debian source, get
it checked over by some knowledgable folks, and then have at it.

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Re: 5 days till Bug Horizon

[Alan Clucas]

My first debian post :)

> The packages involved are fetchmail, g++, gpm, kernel-image-2.2.14-ide
> (do we really need it?  I assumed it's needed for the bootfloppies),
> and perl-5.005.

> Package: fetchmail (debian/main).
> Maintainer: Paul Haggart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> [HELP] This package needs a new maintainer.  (RB)
>   43139 fetchmail flushed after failed delivery
>   50990 fetchmail: mail was fetched and deleted from server but never sent to 
> local MTA

Is anyone looking at this one. These are both fixed in upstream 5.3.1 (and
5.3.3 is in woody). What is the recommended course of action on this - I
would like to try and get involved - and personally know a maintainer who
can sponsor me. Should I go for 5.3.3, 5.3.1, 5.3.4 (latest upstream) or
attempting to backport the fixes in 5.2.3 (what is currently in potato)

Alan

Re: 5 days till Bug Horizon

[Fabrice Gautier]

On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 11:09:01AM +0100, Igor Mozetic wrote:
> 
> Richard Braakman writes:
> 
>  > The packages involved are fetchmail, g++, gpm, kernel-image-2.2.14-ide
>  > (do we really need it?  I assumed it's needed for the bootfloppies),
> 
> Kernel 2.2.14 is severly broken (OOM problems). We had crashes and
> killings of essential processes on several machines.

And there is no PLIP in it.. But the kernel maintener doesn't seem to think
it is a RC bug.(see the BTS)

anyway 2.2.15 will close the bug.

A+

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Re: 5 days till Bug Horizon

[Anthony Towns]

On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 03:51:48PM +0100, Richard Braakman wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 12:50:19PM +0100, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> > > 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.

I've been away, so there hasn't bee a bugfix upload for a few weeks
now. That's about all that's been up with it.

Cheers,
aj

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Re: 5 days till Bug Horizon

[Tom Lees]

On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 08:43:08AM -0500, Ben Collins wrote:
> > > Package: cvs (debian/main).
> > > Maintainer: Tom Lees <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > >   59543 cvs: cvs-makerepos does not exist
> > 
> > Isn't this just "cvs init"?
> 
> I think this is supposed to be a script that creates the repos that you
> listed in the configuration (debconf). Doesn't appear to eexitist even in
> the source.

It does exist, but I forgot to include it in the package in 1.10.7-4.
I'll remove references to it from the documentation for now.

> > >   59909 cvs: cvs segfaults when commiting a dir

This seems to be unreproducable and there has been no response from the
submitter so I'm going to downgrade this to "normal".

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Re: 5 days till Bug Horizon

[Steve Greenland]

On 22-Mar-00, 05:50 (CST), Wichert Akkerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 
> Previously Richard Braakman wrote:
> > Package: cvs (debian/main).
> > Maintainer: Tom Lees <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >   59543 cvs: cvs-makerepos does not exist
> 
> Isn't this just "cvs init"?
> 
> >   59909 cvs: cvs segfaults when commiting a dir

FWIW, I e-mailed Tom on Monday offering help, and he replied that he had
the RC stuff under control.

sg


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Re: 5 days till Bug Horizon

[Miquel van Smoorenburg]

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Richard Braakman  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Package: hostname (debian/main).
>Maintainer: Adam Heath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>  59410 hostname: found how to set domainname for linux

That is not a bug at all - I've mailed an explanation to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] and set the severity to 'fixed'

Mike.
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Re: 5 days till Bug Horizon

[J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)]

On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 10:50:03 +0100, Richard Braakman wrote:
> The packages involved are fetchmail, g++, gpm, kernel-image-2.2.14-ide
> (do we really need it?  I assumed it's needed for the bootfloppies),
> and perl-5.005.

> Package: g++ (debian/main).
> Maintainer: Debian GCC maintainers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> [HELP] For gcc/g++ bug reports to be sent to the upstream maintainers,
> certain procedures must be followed, so help from clueful people is required
>   48530 g++ [fixed in 2.96 CVS Feb 2000] [alpha]: internal compiler error 
> building open-amulet
> [WAITING] Maintainer was contacted on Dec 12, awaiting reply.
>   55291 [alpha] g++ causes internal compiler error compiling hatman

Both of these are on Alpha only, and can be worked around by compiling the
packages involved with lower optimisation settings. We should consider
lowering these to 'normal'.

> Package: gcc (debian/main).
> Maintainer: Debian GCC maintainers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>   59819 gcc_2.95.2-7(frozen): fails to compile itself on m68k

This one is more worrying.

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Re: 5 days till Bug Horizon

[James A. Treacy]

On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 12:50:19PM +0100, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> Previously Richard Braakman wrote:
> > Maintainer: Martin Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >   59592 grmonitor needs to depends on libgl1 instead of mesag3
> 
> Is this release-critical? Not sure. It's only a recompile btw.
> 
> > Package: xmame-gl (debian/non-free).
> > Maintainer: Martin Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >   59595 xmame-gl depends on mesag3, must depend on libgl1 instead
> 
> Same as grmonitor..
> 
These are not release critical. The existing packages should work
with all the mesa* packages in frozen. If the packages need to
be compiled for the first time for one of the ports, it is
a trivial fix.

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Re: 5 days till Bug Horizon

[Richard Braakman]

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

Re: 5 days till Bug Horizon

[Richard Braakman]

On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 07:54:54AM -0500, Daniel Burrows wrote:
> > Package: rep-gtk (debian/main).
> > Maintainer: Mikolaj J. Habryn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >   58684 rep-gtk_0.8-2(unstable): build error (prototype mismatch)
> 
>   This appears to be an upstream problem specific to that version, which isn't
> in frozen (and may not even exist in unstable anymore..)

Okay, I'm excluding it from the list.  Version 0.7-1 is in potato now,
and it's been compiled for all architectures.

Richard Braakman

Re: 5 days till Bug Horizon

[Ben Collins]

> > Package: cvs (debian/main).
> > Maintainer: Tom Lees <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >   59543 cvs: cvs-makerepos does not exist
> 
> Isn't this just "cvs init"?

I think this is supposed to be a script that creates the repos that you
listed in the configuration (debconf). Doesn't appear to eexitist even in
the source.

> >   59909 cvs: cvs segfaults when commiting a dir

I never had this problem either. I emailed the submitter asking for more
details, to see if maybe it was something else that cvs was using
(ssh/rsh) or maybe even the remote system (pserver, etc..) that was
actually segfaulting, or if he was using a local repo. Never got a reply.
I think this can be closed for lack of supporting evidence, and not being
able to reproduce it.

> > Package: nscd (debian/main).
> > Maintainer: Joel Klecker 
> >   58367 nscd: 'broken pipe' error causes entire box to be unusable
> 
> Has anyone been able to reproduce this?

I've had the same problem. I had to kill nscd to get things back in order.
Note, I use nscd along with nss_ldap. It really does make things unusable.
It winds the whole system out (since just about everything does a
username/uid lookup). I've never been able to reproduce it reliably, but I
can say that it occurs when my dialup connection dies which might
attribute it to dns lookups (maybe it makes nscd block for some unknown
reason).

> > 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?

KILL SMAIL :)


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Re: 5 days till Bug Horizon

[Petr Cech]

On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 12:50:19PM +0100 , Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> Previously Richard Braakman wrote:
> > Package: debianutils (debian/main).
> > Maintainer: Guy Maor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >   59121 run-parts hangs during /etc/cron.daily runs
> 
> This is a nasty one..

Hmm. Why not go with the patch in the BTS. Should be easy
> > 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?

No, I don't think it is.
> > Package: zsh (debian/main).
> > Maintainer: Clint Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >   58941 core dump with function mycd() {builtin cd "$@" && echo $PWD}
> > [STRATEGY] Fixed in the next .deb.  Already fixed upstream. (Mar15MH)
> 
> That is a week ago, has it been fixed since then?

No.

Petr Čech
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Re: 5 days till Bug Horizon

[Wichert Akkerman]

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.

> Package: cvs (debian/main).
> Maintainer: Tom Lees <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>   59543 cvs: cvs-makerepos does not exist

Isn't this just "cvs init"?

>   59909 cvs: cvs segfaults when commiting a dir

> Package: debianutils (debian/main).
> Maintainer: Guy Maor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>   59121 run-parts hangs during /etc/cron.daily runs

This is a nasty one..

> Package: dpkg (debian/main).
> Maintainer: Wichert Akkerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>   33237 /etc/alternatives/emacs not managed properly - /usr/bin/emacs doesn't 
> run emacs20
> [STRATEGY] Switches to manual-mode too quickly, maintainer will look at
>it this weekend.

This has at least been improved somewhat in 1.6.10, I'll try to fix it
once and for all in 1.6.12.

>   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..

> Package: epic4 (debian/main).
> Maintainer: Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>   58508 Epic pre2.503 has bugs which 2.505 has not

And this is release-critical because?

> Package: gnomeicu (debian/main).
> Maintainer: Edward C. Lang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>   58919 gnomeicu causes XServer to grab all the memory.

I can't reproduce this.

> Package: gnudip (debian/main).
> Maintainer: Randolph Chung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>   59248 gnudip: Gnudip prerm script fails with error `groupdel: group gnudip 
> does not exist'

Sounds like a trivial fix..

> Maintainer: Martin Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>   59592 grmonitor needs to depends on libgl1 instead of mesag3

Is this release-critical? Not sure. It's only a recompile btw.

> Package: libc6-dev (debian/main).
> Maintainer: Joel Klecker 
>   59962 sys/ucontext.h shouldn't define ERR

This *really* should be fixed, 
 
> 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..

> 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?

> Package: nscd (debian/main).
> Maintainer: Joel Klecker 
>   58367 nscd: 'broken pipe' error causes entire box to be unusable

Has anyone been able to reproduce this?

> 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?

> Package: xmame-gl (debian/non-free).
> Maintainer: Martin Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>   59595 xmame-gl depends on mesag3, must depend on libgl1 instead

Same as grmonitor..

> Package: zsh (debian/main).
> Maintainer: Clint Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>   58941 core dump with function mycd() {builtin cd "$@" && echo $PWD}
> [STRATEGY] Fixed in the next .deb.  Already fixed upstream. (Mar15MH)

That is a week ago, has it been fixed since then?

Wichert.

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Re: 5 days till Bug Horizon

[Daniel Burrows]

On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 10:50:03AM +0100, Richard Braakman was heard to say:
[snip]
>   59909 cvs: cvs segfaults when commiting a dir

  FWIW, I've never seen this bug.

> Package: rep-gtk (debian/main).
> Maintainer: Mikolaj J. Habryn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>   58684 rep-gtk_0.8-2(unstable): build error (prototype mismatch)

  This appears to be an upstream problem specific to that version, which isn't
in frozen (and may not even exist in unstable anymore..)

  Daniel

-- 
Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual
way.  This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of
complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin

5 days till Bug Horizon

[Igor Mozetic]

Richard Braakman writes:

 > The packages involved are fetchmail, g++, gpm, kernel-image-2.2.14-ide
 > (do we really need it?  I assumed it's needed for the bootfloppies),

Kernel 2.2.14 is severly broken (OOM problems). We had crashes and
killings of essential processes on several machines.
I advise to take at least 2.2.15pre13 (we had no problems after running
it for 17 days on 5 machines), or better to wait for 2.2.15 
(which should be out in a week or two).

-Igor Mozetic