Okay, as a bit more incentive to actually do something rather than just talk about it, here's a list of the bugs older than two years, with a few comments.
A lot of these old bugs are dpkg related. I've trimmed those out --
if you'd like to coordinate with Ian to fix more of these, that might
be worthwhile.
A lot are X related. Joining Branden's X Strike Force and helping to
fix these would also be good. But they're also not listed here.
ftp.debian.org bugs (a whole two of them) aren't listed either. A
bug against lists.debian.org also isn't listed. Nor is a bug against
bugs.debian.org.
This is from the weekly post to debian-bugs-reports, as you can probably
tell. It's been resorted so that all the bugs against a package are
clumped together, but it's still primarily in order of age.
So, here are the bugs that are two years old or more.
It'd be nice to have an old-bugs webpage (with "[STRATEGY]" tags and
such), but I don't really have the time to do that at the moment. So if
someone else does, and would like to...
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To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Unanswered problem reports by date
The following problem reports have not yet been marked as `taken up' by a
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Ref Package Keywords/Subject Package maintainer
988 bsdutils `script' is insecure, and gene Charles Briscoe-Smith
2556 lpr lpf stops on special character Adam Klein
5165 lpr lpr removal problem Adam Klein
(Vincent has already sent patches or some such for some
bugs in lpr)
2884 tkman tkman doesn't use /var/catman Yann Dirson
(Ditto for tkman)
3036 base-passw qmail violates uid policy (2.2 Galen Hazelwood
3176 mandelspaw mandelspawn slave problems Andrew Howell
3319 deliver deliver does not set exit code [EMAIL PROTECTED]
3439 login Login reconfigures serial port Guy Maor
3539 mkisofs mkisofs stops if an error occu Dale Scheetz
3540 mkisofs mkisofs stops if a problem occ Dale Scheetz
3703 mkisofs mkisofs stops if a permission Dale Scheetz
5901 mkisofs mkisofs: corrupted image w/ -f Dale Scheetz
3739 man-db `man -l -' for stdin doesn't w Fabrizio Polacco
3766 man-db "man" acting too smart. Fabrizio Polacco
3788 man-db `apropos' matches only word-su Fabrizio Polacco
5360 man-db Whatis (mandb) cannot follow . Fabrizio Polacco
3761 lilo LILO installation problem Bernd Eckenfels
3773 xless xless default window too thin Erick Kinnee
(Vincent's also done something about xless)
3830 ncurses-bi captoinfo confused by /etc/ter Galen Hazelwood
3973 ncurses-bi Home/End keys don't work right Galen Hazelwood
6710 ncurses-ba ncurses-base insufficient Galen Hazelwood
3846 lynx lynx misdisplays multiple <dt> Christian Hudon
3857 xaw3dg listres dumps core joost witteveen
7355 xaw3d xaw3d: linking statically with joost witteveen
3905 boot-flopp base disks still install part Enrique Zanardi
5583 boot-flopp Shortcomings of install.txt an Enrique Zanardi
4107 emacs19 emacs leaves stale lockfiles a [EMAIL PROTECTED]
4388 emacs19 emacs mail-mode fails RFC822 s [EMAIL PROTECTED]
4483 emacs19 emacs gnus-setup.el has bad ha [EMAIL PROTECTED]
4890 emacs19 emacs has bad path for jka-com [EMAIL PROTECTED]
4997 emacs19 mh-e will fail inc askes for P [EMAIL PROTECTED]
7074 emacs19 feature request (Was: Carsten [EMAIL PROTECTED]
4154 shellutils `echo' provides no way to unpa Galen Hazelwood
4160 mosaic, xs Mosaic caused X to become unre Gene McCulley
4223 mosaic Mosaic looks bad on mono displ Gene McCulley
4224 mosaic Mosaic produces poor rendering Gene McCulley
4826 mosaic, em Mosaic/Emacs cut-and-paste inc Gene McCulley
4206 perl Perl `pod' documentation shoul Darren Stalder
6746 perl perl package should be named " Darren Stalder
4243 9term 9term leaves mouse droppings Joel Klecker
4293 mawk mawk doesn't report an error o James Troup
4309 net-acct no manpage in net-acct Bernd Eckenfels
4335 textutils cat -vET is lossy - there shou Galen Hazelwood
4769 modutils modules not matching the runni Wichert Akkerman
4926 xcontrib Error: Widget dash has zero wi [EMAIL PROTECTED]
4937 mailtools Mailtools does not work with s Michael Alan Dorman
5132 libpam0g libpam contains unstripped sha Debian QA Group
5166 lprng lprng incompatible with netata Sven Rudolph
5256 e2fsprogs bug in badblocks(8) or in kern Yann Dirson
5379 ispell munchlist ignores -w Debian QA Group
5409 9wm odd behavior from 9wm Debian QA
6439 9wm 9wm died Debian QA
6772 9wm 9wm sloppy about state Debian QA
5511 freefont freefont should check if xfs i Christoph Lameter
5587 man2html man2html gets options(n) wrong Nicolás Lichtmaier
5590 zgv zgv renders unreadable text Andy Mortimer
5632 manpages-d manpages-dev: setbuf(3) should Nicolás Lichtmaier
5643 bind bind config omits some importa Bdale Garbee
6972 bind named.conf should be in /etc Bdale Garbee
(ummm, this latter already *is* the case, isn't it?)
5666 libc4 libc5-dev_5.4.13-1 fails in po (unknown -- `libc4')
5688 libc4-dev libc4-dev overwrites many file (unknown -- `libc4-dev')
5703 libreadlin echo off in ftp after it was b Guy Maor
5712 pine pine does not use liblockfile Santiago Vila
5736 fvwm2 fvwm2: spaces in Restart comma Debian QA Group
(Vincent's made an upload for this, I believe)
5940 psutils pstops does something strange Rob Browning
5946 nvi nvi +cmd has changed behavior Steve Greenland
5989 sysutils unix2dos broken for mounted ms Michael Alan Dorman
6074 xpm4.7 auto bugreport Michael Alan Dorman
6337 xpm4.7 deb-check 0.2 report on /var/p Michael Alan Dorman
6384 xpm4.7 Bug in xpm4.7 Version: 3.4g-6 Michael Alan Dorman
6663 xpm4.7 xpm4.7_3.4g-8 should have shli Michael Alan Dorman
6857 xpm4.7 xpm-4.7-dev_3.4g-7 N/A : Michael Alan Dorman
7217 xpm4.7 xpm4.7 docs are not in /usr/do Michael Alan Dorman
(Up for adoption, check -devel)
6087 strace strace fails to trace run-amok Wichert Akkerman
6118 dosemu dosemu docs out of sync with c Herbert Xu
6125 ucblogo logo man page is lame Dale Scheetz
6193 xview-clie no manual page for props Martin Buck
6206 packaging- dpkg documentation needs sligh Debian Policy
6302 cgiemail deb-check 0.2 report on /var/p Michael Alan Dorman
6345 dome deb-check 0.2 report on /var/p Chris Fearnley
6539 most Most has bug while searching m Chris Fearnley
6548 fvwm95 fvwm95 2.0.42a-10 : Taskbar ge Daniel Martin
6956 ipx IPX: Network number collision [EMAIL PROTECTED]
6974 wu-ftpd-ac wu-ftpd doesn't kill idle clie Heiko Schlittermann
(Vincent *might* have done something about wu-ftpd too, but
that might not have been the -academic package)
7042 mhonarc There is no changelog.Debian.g Michael Alan Dorman
7124 calctool calctool icon is mangled Vincent Renardias
(Vincent! Shame! :)
7148 libdb2-dev libdb-dev puts include file in Fabrizio Polacco
7189 ncftp ncftp can't do recursive get Martin Mitchell
7346 kaffe kaffe has divert problem (unknown -- `kaffe')
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