I went through the RC bug list, and stripped out all bugs which satisfied any of these conditions: 1. On a package not in 'testing'. 2. Applies only to 'potato' and/or 'woody'. 3. 'sarge-ignore'. 4. 'unreproducible' 5. Scheduled for removal from 'testing' and/or 'unstable'. 6. Bug has number >200000 (was reported after July 4). (This is just a lazy way of trying to find the older, festering bugs.) 7. 'pending' 8. Upgraded to RC in August or later (where I noticed them). 9. 'moreinfo'
I found the following bugs. I believe that these bugs generally indicate that one (or both) of the following should be done: A. Package removed from testing B. Package orphaned (and hopefully adopted or QA-uploaded). Additionally, some maintainers might need to be marked MIA. There are, no doubt, exceptions, and I've tried to note some of them. Some packages should probably be NMUed since the maintainers are busy working on higher-priority RC bugs. aqsis: #176790 -- configure generated from broken libtool.m4 Maintainer: Will Newton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> autoinstall-i386: #169249, 174559 -- FTBFS, broken dependencies Maintainer: Jeff Licqua <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This and the related autoinstall (#206652) are seriously broken and should on no account be released! I have already suggested this. blas: #199436 -- FTBFS on sparc Maintainer: Camm Maguire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> c2hs: #182548 -- FTBFS There's been some argument about whose responsibility this bug is relatively recently, so this isn't really as neglected as it might look. celestia: #174456 -- licensing Actively being worked on. cl-ftp: #192007 -- FTBFS Maintainer: Matthew Danish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This bug might have been fixed by fixes in dependencies -- unclear. crash: #196710 -- FTBTS Maintainer: Ryan Murray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> NMU planned. Ryan is presumably just busy with other packages. cwwm: #196133 -- segmentation fault, 192987 -- FTBFS Maintainer: Sebastian J Gross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Steve Langasek has already asked (Aug. 30) if the maintainer is still interested in maintaining it. Apparently he got no response. Accordingly, this should almost certainly be orphaned and the maintainer marked MIA. Steve suggested that it also be removed from sarge. discover: #169264 -- postinst failure Maintainer: [EMAIL PROTECTED] But lots of co-maintainers. ;-) No fix forthcoming. This has to hang around (for debian-installer) until discover2 is ready (for debian-installer). emacs21: #175658 Only became reproducible fairly recently. Looks like people are working on it. endeavour: #192063 Maintainer: Chris G. Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hey -- this bug appears to be fixed (by NMU) in unstable and testing. It was marked not-fixed for unknown reasons... However, the maintainer hasn't been doing much with it. ethereal: #194310 This bug appears to be unreproducible with current sources. The additional bug mentioned by Steve Langasek can be fixed by rebuilding with the newest GCC, which turns on -miee by default. gjdoc: #199673 -- licensing means this belongs in contrib Maintainers: Debian Java Maintainers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and co-maintainer Mark Howard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> People *were* working on this, but it doesn't seem to be going anywhere at the moment. This should be moved into contrib for sarge. gnokii: #197597, #197598 Likely fixed. Bug submitter isn't replying, so after a while these should just be closed. graphviz (non-free): #179559 -- FTBFS on m68k Maintainer: Stephen Moraco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Supposedly the maintainer was going to see if this was still true, but the bug shows no comment since September 18. gtkglareamm: #197593 -- missing build-depends Maintainer: Marcelo E. Magallon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Perhaps Marcelo is busy with other packages (he has 25)? In any case, this looks unloved, as nobody even bothered to NMU it. (Or is Marcelo on the don't-NMU-my-packages list? Yes, he is.) gwave: #187829 -- uninstallable Maintainer: Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Marked 'upstream'! Marked 'sid' and not 'sarge', but the same version is in sarge! There's also a 'normal' bug (#176920) that it fails to start! This is evidently not suitable for release. hostname: #188924 -- problems without internet connection Maintainer: Adam Heath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> There's a patch. Bug untouched since July 18th. Presumably he's busy. jukebox-mercury: #196470 -- FTBFS (needs debhelper in build-depends) Maintainer: Brian White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Maintainer is almost certainly MIA; he hasn't been taking care of any of his packages. They should all be orphaned. kernel-patch-lpp: #185641 -- kernel panic Maintainer: Gordon Fraser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Was being worked on in April, but no bug activity since then. kstars: #198499 -- licensing Being worked on. l2tpd: #198815 -- sparc bus error Maintainer: Jean-Francois Dive <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> There's also another RC bug (#206804). I'd say he was MIA, except for the upload of ccrypt in September, iaskmpd in July and the upload of libnet-ping-perl in May. Still *not* good maintenance. libdbmusic: #186433 -- configure built with broken libtool.m4 Maintainer: Martin Loschwitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I'm sure he's just been busy, what with maintaining qt and all. libgd-perl: #197998 -- FTBFS on m68k Maintainer: Jonas Smedegaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ??? libggi2-dev: #102675 -- no static archive Maintainer: Martin Albert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Maintainer almost certainly MIA; no packages updated since January. libgstreamer0.6-0: #199302 -- failed upgrade Maintainer: David Lehn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Apparently not enough information to reproduce or fix; should likely be closed. libgtop2: #194108 -- improperly linked Maintainer wants help. libpam-openafs-kaserver: #194818 -- undefined symbol Maintainer is planning to find a new maintainer or remove package. libxml-filter-xslt-perl: #197760 -- FTBFS Maintainer: Ardo can Rangelrooij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Bug's been bounced around between packages by the maintainer, but not fixed. lincvs: #198538 -- FTBFS Being adopted and fixed by Frank Lichtenheld, waiting for sponsor logtrend-storageserver: #195291 -- setup failure Maintainer: Jean-Francois Dive <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I'd say he was MIA, except for the upload of ccrypt in September, iaskmpd in July and the upload of libnet-ping-perl in May. Still *not* good maintenance. m68k-vmw-tftplilo: #190483 -- FTBFS (missing build-depends) Orphaned. Richard Hirts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> is adopting. modutils: #171949 Maitnainer wants help. mondo: #198390 Maintainer: Hector Garcia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Two other RC bugs as well. Repeatedly NMUed. The maintainer seems to be maintaining some of his other packages. mueller: #19126 -- FTBFS Maintainer: Yven Johannes Leist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Maintainer seems to be maintaining some of his other packages.... netsaint: #191800 -- upgrade fails Maintainer: Turbo Fredriksson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Only a bug in sid, supposedly. openmash: #191939 -- FTBFS Maintainer: David Martinez Moreno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Has patch. Maintainer said he'd apply it in the 'next few days' on September 19. pfaedit: #195978 -- undefined non-weak symbols Fix suggestion made on September 14th. Also has another RC bug. Orphaned, Peter Hawkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> offered to adopt php4-apc: #186565 -- doesn't work ;-) Maintainer: Jacobo Tarrio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Maintainer appears to maintain his *other* package, but this one is in bad shape. php4-interbase: #167377, #181316 Supposedly fixed in sid? postnuke: #197636 -- cross site scripting vulnerability! Maintainer: Hugo Espuny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Also lots of outstanding NMUs. His other package has *also* been NMUed because he's been absent. I believe he's probably MIA. pptpd: #179808 -- "completely fails to work" Complex solution, appears to be in progress. request-tracker: #191165 -- command line utilities don't work Already orphaned and maintained by QA. Not in 'stable'. I suggest total removal unless some other package depends on it. (I can't seem to figure out whether any do....) That's it, I'll get r-z later. -- Nathanael Nerode <neroden at gcc.gnu.org> http://home.twcny.rr.com/nerode/neroden/fdl.html
