Re: Bug#33210: So-called "remote exploit in pine" (fwd)

2001-01-13 Thread Brian White
reassign 33210 metamail -- Sorry, but unless pine is calling the "run-mailcap" program, there is no bug in the "mime-support" package. Instead, the problem is with the package the specified said mailcap line under /usr/lib/mime/packages, presumably "metamail" judging by the discussion. All the

Bug#79693: tunnelv: does not retry if network not reachable

2000-12-15 Thread Brian White
Package: tunnelv Version: 1.00-4 If the site tunnelv is trying to connect to is unreachable, it does not continue to retry. When used with something like a dial-up modem, this means it will try to start once, fail because the connection is established, and never try again. I'm using the init scr

Bug#74969: tunnelv: possible init.d script

2000-10-17 Thread Brian White
/init.d/tunnelv: --- #! /bin/sh ### # # Tunnel Vision: start script # # Written by Brian White &l

Re: Bug#58174: metamail is unable to launch any file

2000-02-17 Thread Brian White
> > Since /etc/mailcap was not included, there is no way I can determine > > what the problem may be. I'd guess that metamail is the source of > > the problem, or possibly the mailcap line created by the zgv file. > > > > Please find attached my mailcap file. > > I have also tested the following

Re: Bug#58174: metamail is unable to launch any file

2000-02-16 Thread Brian White
reassign 58174 metamail -- > Package: mime-support > Version: 3.9-1 > Severity: important Since /etc/mailcap was not included, there is no way I can determine what the problem may be. I'd guess that metamail is the source of the problem, or possibly the mailcap line created by the zgv file. >

List of bugs that *must* be fixed before releasing Slink

1999-02-26 Thread Brian White
The following bug reports *must* be fixed before the current frozen Debian distribution can progress further in its development cycle. Reminders have been sent to the maintainers of these packages but some of the packages with older bugs could probably use some assistance. Package Name Bug #

Re: List of bugs that *must* be fixed before releasing Slink

1999-02-19 Thread Brian White
> > defrag32731 defrag: e2dump quits with > > check_block_location:6678674146834 [16] (Adam Heath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) > > I thought that the bug submitter and the package maintainer have > agreed to remove this package from slink and potato and place it > into experimental. Perhap

List of bugs that *must* be fixed before releasing Slink

1999-02-19 Thread Brian White
The following bug reports *must* be fixed before the current frozen Debian distribution can progress further in its development cycle. Reminders have been sent to the maintainers of these packages but some of the packages with older bugs could probably use some assistance. Package Name Bug #

List of bugs that *must* be fixed before releasing Slink

1999-02-12 Thread Brian White
The following bug reports *must* be fixed before the current frozen Debian distribution can progress further in its development cycle. Reminders have been sent to the maintainers of these packages but some of the packages with older bugs could probably use some assistance. Package Name Bug #

List of bugs that *must* be fixed before releasing Slink

1999-02-05 Thread Brian White
The following bug reports *must* be fixed before the current frozen Debian distribution can progress further in its development cycle. Reminders have been sent to the maintainers of these packages but some of the packages with older bugs could probably use some assistance. Package Name Bug #

Re: List of bugs that *must* be fixed before releasing Slink

1999-02-01 Thread Brian White
> > Hmmm... If things were installed by hand ("dpkg --install dpkglib...") > > or if install were to fail between the two packages, then you could have > > a problem where the install tool doesn't function, right? > > Right. But since libdpkg is still a part of the dpkg package we > shouldn't nee

Re: List of bugs that *must* be fixed before releasing Slink

1999-02-01 Thread Brian White
> > > Previously Brian White wrote: > > > > apache32204 user directories allow symlinks to other files > > > > [0] (Johnie Ingram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) > > > > > > We should just force SymLinksIfOwnerMatch for /home to solve

Re: List of bugs that *must* be fixed before releasing Slink

1999-02-01 Thread Brian White
> > You know, I don't see this as "grave". It means that a user can > > effectively "export to the world" any file readable by www-data. In > > general, this means only things that can be read by public. So, > > the user can't intentionally export anything that he/she couldn't already > > do by

Re: List of bugs that *must* be fixed before releasing Slink

1999-01-31 Thread Brian White
> Previously Brian White wrote: > > apache32204 user directories allow symlinks to other files [0] > > (Johnie Ingram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) > > We should just force SymLinksIfOwnerMatch for /home to solve this. You know, I don't see this as &q

List of bugs that *must* be fixed before releasing Slink

1999-01-29 Thread Brian White
The following bug reports *must* be fixed before the current frozen Debian distribution can progress further in its development cycle. Reminders have been sent to the maintainers of these packages but some of the packages with older bugs could probably use some assistance. Package Name Bug #

List of bugs that *must* be fixed before releasing Slink

1999-01-22 Thread Brian White
The following bug reports *must* be fixed before the current frozen Debian distribution can progress further in its development cycle. Reminders have been sent to the maintainers of these packages but some of the packages with older bugs could probably use some assistance. Package Name Bug #

List of bugs that *must* be fixed before releasing Slink

1999-01-15 Thread Brian White
rl regexp code hangs [0] (Michael Alan Dorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) makepasswd31059 makepasswd: --clear=PASS can be seen with ps [20] (Johnie Ingram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) netscape-base-40 30878 netscape-base-407: Security vulnerabilities in 4.07 [26] (Adam Heath <[EMAIL PROT

Removal of Packages in Slink

1998-10-14 Thread Brian White
htdig 25412 htdig: htdig ignores config file stuff/absolute pathnames compiled in [70] (Gergely Madarasz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) infocom 21478 infocom: Integrating infocom interpreters [175] (Brian White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) jdk1.127097 jdk1.1: error in insta

List of bugs that *must* be fixed before releasing Hamm

1998-07-24 Thread Brian White
The following bug reports *must* be fixed before the current frozen Debian distribution can progress further in its development cycle. Reminders have been sent to the maintainers of these packages but some of the packages with older bugs could probably use some assistance. Package Name Bug #

List of bugs that *must* be fixed before releasing Hamm

1998-07-17 Thread Brian White
The following bug reports *must* be fixed before the current frozen Debian distribution can progress further in its development cycle. Reminders have been sent to the maintainers of these packages but some of the packages with older bugs could probably use some assistance. Package Name Bug #

List of bugs that *must* be fixed before releasing Hamm

1998-07-10 Thread Brian White
y Maor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) ftp.debian.org24355 ftp.debian.org: please remove libatalk-dev [0] (Guy Maor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) ilu-javadev 24351 ilu-javadev: depends on stuff outside of main [0] (Klee Dienes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) infocom 23563 infocom: /usr

List of bugs that *must* be fixed before releasing Hamm

1998-07-03 Thread Brian White
rmissions bug on /lib and /tmp [8] (debian-devel@lists.debian.org) infocom 23563 infocom: /usr/doc/infocom/copyright doesn't include a licence [17] (Brian White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) ircd 23951 ircd: postisnt does not check for errors [0] (Johnie Ingram <

List of bugs that *must* be fixed before releasing Hamm

1998-06-26 Thread Brian White
23809 Emacsen add-on packages must depend on emacsen, not emacsen-common. [0] (Matthias Klose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) infocom 23563 infocom: /usr/doc/infocom/copyright doesn't include a licence [10] (Brian White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) libc6 20714 Current l

List of bugs that *must* be fixed before releasing Hamm

1998-06-19 Thread Brian White
sniffit from main to non-free [16] (Guy Maor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) ftp.debian.org23327 Please remove javalex from hamm [9] (Guy Maor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) ftp.debian.org23668 kernel-image-2.0.34: crc error [0] (Guy Maor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) ftp.debian.org23684

Re: List of bugs that *must* be fixed before releasing Hamm

1998-06-15 Thread Brian White
> > The following bug reports *must* be fixed before the current frozen Debian > > distribution can progress further in its development cycle. Reminders have > > been sent to the maintainers of these packages yet nothing has been done to > ^

List of bugs that *must* be fixed before releasing Hamm

1998-06-15 Thread Brian White
The following bug reports *must* be fixed before the current frozen Debian distribution can progress further in its development cycle. Reminders have been sent to the maintainers of these packages yet nothing has been done to remedy these bugs. Package Name Bug # Bug Description [days old]

List of bugs that *must* be fixed before releasing Hamm

1998-06-05 Thread Brian White
The following bug reports *must* be fixed before the current frozen Debian distribution can progress further in its development cycle. Reminders have been sent to the maintainers of these packages yet nothing has been done to remedy these bugs. Package Name Bug # Bug Description [days old]

Re: List of bugs that *must* be fixed before releasing Hamm

1998-05-29 Thread Brian White
> > > > egcc 17768 libc6 bug in mathematical functions [114] > > > > (Galen Hazelwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) > > > > > > Fixing this bug exceeds my capabilities. I have send a message to the > > > egcs-bugs list asking them to look into the current reports, but have > > > received no

Re: List of bugs that *must* be fixed before releasing Hamm

1998-05-29 Thread Brian White
> > egcc 17768 libc6 bug in mathematical functions [114] (Galen > > Hazelwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) > > Fixing this bug exceeds my capabilities. I have send a message to the > egcs-bugs list asking them to look into the current reports, but have > received no responses. Would it be

List of bugs that *must* be fixed before releasing Hamm

1998-05-29 Thread Brian White
The following bug reports *must* be fixed before the current frozen Debian distribution can progress further in its development cycle. Reminders have been sent to the maintainers of these packages yet nothing has been done to remedy these bugs. Package Name Bug # Bug Description [days old]

List of bugs that *must* be fixed before releasing Hamm

1998-05-22 Thread Brian White
rbee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) makepatch 21563 makepatch: use of /tmp/*$$* in an insecure fashion [28] (Roderick Schertler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) mgetty-fax 9273 mgetty-fax: faxspool can't create lock file for several users! [384] (Philip Hands <[EMAIL PROTECTED

List of bugs that *must* be fixed before releasing Hamm

1998-05-15 Thread Brian White
The following bug reports *must* be fixed before the current frozen Debian distribution can progress further in its development cycle. Reminders have been sent to the maintainers of these packages yet nothing has been done to remedy these bugs. Package Name Bug # Bug Description [days old]

List of bugs that *must* be fixed before releasing Hamm

1998-05-08 Thread Brian White
main [11] (Guy Maor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) g++ 21122 g++: eg++ doesn't compile programs accepted by g++ [0] (Galen Hazelwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) gcc 19453 altgcc still vulnerable to /tmp symlink attack. [58] (Galen Hazelwood <[EMAIL PROT

List of bugs that *must* be fixed before releasing Hamm

1998-05-01 Thread Brian White
(Guy Maor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) 21041: ftp.debian.org - ftp.debian.org: please orphan libnatali properly [18] (Guy Maor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) 21046: boot-floppies- bootfloppies: arch all package with arch specific dependencies [18] (Enrique Zanardi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) 21089: emacse

List of bugs that *must* be fixed before releasing Hamm

1998-04-24 Thread Brian White
1: ftp.debian.org - ftp.debian.org: please orphan libnatali properly [11] (Guy Maor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) 21046: boot-floppies- bootfloppies: arch all package with arch specific dependencies [11] (Enrique Zanardi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) 21089: emacsen-common - emacs-package-{in

Re: List of bugs that *must* be fixed before releasing Hamm

1998-04-17 Thread Brian White
> >The following bug reports *must* be fixed before the current frozen Debian > >distribution can progress further in its development cycle. Reminders have > >been sent to the maintainers of these packages yet nothing has been done to > >remedy these bugs. > > >21106: postgresql -

List of bugs that *must* be fixed before releasing Hamm

1998-04-17 Thread Brian White
27;t be in frozen [0] (Guy Maor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) 21040: ftp.debian.org - ftp.debian.org: please orphan fcgi-devel-kit properly [0] (Guy Maor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) 21041: ftp.debian.org - ftp.debian.org: please orphan libnatali properly [0] (Guy Maor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: List of bugs that *must* be fixed before releasing Hamm

1998-04-16 Thread Brian White
> Elvis is indeed no longer in hamm. How do I get elvis completely > removed from the bug tracking system (which has my email address from > a couple of years ago per the old stable version of elvis), and listed > as orphined, redundant, with an upstream maintainer that ignores us > completely? I

List of bugs that *must* be fixed before releasing Hamm

1998-04-10 Thread Brian White
20361: emacs20 - Input of \"a, \"A, \"o and \"O doesn't work on tty [11] (Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) 20396: boot-floppies- boot-floppies: After configuring the PCMCIA section, modconf doesn't find modules [11] (Enrique Zanardi <[EMAIL

Re: Bad Maintainer Address

1998-04-02 Thread Brian White
> > If "sortmail" is still showing up, then the email address must still be > > wrong in the Maintainers file (as of 2 days ago). When did you upload the > > fixed package? > > It was just installed at about the time I received your report. It should be corrected by now, then. To be sure, a day

Re: Bad Maintainer Address

1998-04-02 Thread Brian White
> > Here is the list of failed maintainer addresses from the last "ping" I > > did. Sorry it took so long to post. > > I thought we already had a report? Did I? I don't remember sending it. Must be that acute old age setting in! > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > This was a typo for the sortmai

Re: Bad Maintainer Address

1998-04-02 Thread Brian White
> >ucbmpeg_playRaul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > I'm surprised that this is even recognized as a package. > > The name certainly isn't a valid package name any more. I don't actually process the name. It's just in the Maintainers file with that address. Was that package still

Bad Maintainer Address

1998-04-02 Thread Brian White
Here is the list of failed maintainer addresses from the last "ping" I did. Sorry it took so long to post. If one of your packages is here, then your email address bounced mail when sent to. There 3 common causes for this: (1) the package is obsolete: If the package still exists in Bo then

List of bugs that *must* be fixed before releasing Hamm

1998-03-27 Thread Brian White
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) 19268: apache-ssl - apache-ssl: no-copyright-file LI#3 [16] (Christoph Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) 19272: at - at: no-copyright-file LI#7 [16] (Thomas Koenig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) 19273: vkeybd - vkeybd: no-copyright-file LI#9 [16] (T

Failed Maintainer Addresses

1998-03-23 Thread Brian White
The following maintainer addresses failed. Unless the maintainers speak up, I think we can assume these packages to be obselete or orphaned. Found 21 failed ping addresses. (orphaned) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [E

Re: List of bugs that *must* be fixed before releasing Hamm

1998-03-20 Thread Brian White
Brian White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 11309: boot-floppies- PCMCIA drivers not installable on 6-19 > rescue/driver floppies [246] (Enrique Zanardi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) This is a problem with bo and not hamm. I tested hamm's rescue disk with the pcmcia-modules

List of bugs that *must* be fixed before releasing Hamm

1998-03-20 Thread Brian White
ng-file LI#5 [9] (Ioannis Tambouras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) 19271: asp - asp: md5sums-lists-nonexisting-file LI#6 [9] () 19272: at - at: no-copyright-file LI#7 [9] (Thomas Koenig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) 19273: vkeybd - vkeybd: no-copyright-file LI#9 [9]

About the Hamm Freeze

1998-03-16 Thread Brian White
(Please avoid "reply all" on this message -- there are too many recipients.) I've gotten much mail about this, so I thought I'd just respond to it all at once. First off, I'd like to appologize for the misunderstanding about the date. When I said "it would be frozen on Monday", I meant that the f

HAMM FREEZE (removed packages)

1998-03-15 Thread Brian White
I've removed the following packages from Hamm because they still have critical, grave, or important bugs registered against them. To get them back in the archive, simply upload a version to "frozen" that fixes _all_ of the open critical, grave, and important bugs registered against that package.

List of bugs that *must* be fixed before freezing Hamm

1998-03-14 Thread Brian White
The following bug reports *must* be fixed before the current unstable Debian distribution can progress further in its development cycle. Reminders have been sent to the maintainers of these packages yet nothing has been done to remedy these bugs. Bug # Package Name Bug Description [days ol

changes

1998-03-14 Thread Brian White
close 12230 reassign 14361 remind reassign 14541 mpg123 reassign 14842 chord reassign 14849 sniffit reassign 14851 gettyps reassign 14855 doc++ reassign 14906 xinetd reassign 14946 xsnow reassign 14947 xtet42 reassign 14952 cqcam reassign 14953 elvis reassign 14956 spim reassign 15125 picon-misc re

List of bugs that *must* be fixed before freezing Hamm

1998-03-06 Thread Brian White
e Dienes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) 18453: ipac - ipac: error initializing [12] (Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) 18494: smail- memory leak affecting xmcd and smail [9] (Soenke Lange <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) 18572: nonus.debian.org - nonus.debian.org: remove de

List of bugs that *must* be fixed before freezing Hamm

1998-02-27 Thread Brian White
The following bug reports *must* be fixed before the current unstable Debian distribution can progress further in its development cycle. Reminders have been sent to the maintainers of these packages yet nothing has been done to remedy these bugs. Bug # Package Name Bug Description [days ol

List of bugs that *must* be fixed before freezing Hamm

1998-02-20 Thread Brian White
PROTECTED]>) 16028: ftp.debian.org - chinese-big5 is not free software [64] (Guy Maor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) 16032: ftp.debian.org - vic-cqcam is not DFSG free and has a bad copyright file [64] (Guy Maor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) 16178: xserver-svga - xserver-svga: xserver thinks

List of bugs that *must* be fixed before freezing Hamm

1998-02-13 Thread Brian White
ROTECTED]>) 16004: pgp-i- pgp-i: coredumps when adding debian keyring [58] (Lars Wirzenius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) 16028: ftp.debian.org - chinese-big5 is not free software [58] (Guy Maor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) 16032: ftp.debian.org - vic-cqcam is not DFSG free and ha

List of bugs that *must* be fixed before freezing Hamm

1998-02-06 Thread Brian White
ring [49] (Lars Wirzenius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) 16178: xserver-svga - xserver-svga: xserver thinks my monitor is 390mm x 305mm [45] ([EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark W. Eichin)) 16222: mime-support - install-mime does not work properly (?). [43] (Brian White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) 16287:

List of bugs that *must* be fixed before freezing Hamm

1998-01-30 Thread Brian White
16004: pgp-i- pgp-i: coredumps when adding debian keyring [45] (Lars Wirzenius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) 16178: xserver-svga - xserver-svga: xserver thinks my monitor is 390mm x 305mm [40] ([EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark W. Eichin)) 16222: mime-support - install-mime does not work pr

List of bugs that *must* be fixed before freezing Hamm

1998-01-23 Thread Brian White
The following bug reports *must* be fixed before the current unstable Debian distribution can progress further in its development cycle. Reminders have been sent to the maintainers of these packages yet nothing has been done to remedy these bugs. Bug # Package Name Bug Description [days ol

Critical Bug -- Bad Maintainer

1998-01-13 Thread Brian White
This nag message regarding a critical bug failed. It looks like we'll have to take care of it somehow. Brian ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) --- Mana

Critical Bug -- Bad Maintainer

1998-01-13 Thread Brian White
This nag message regarding a critical bug failed. It looks like we'll have to take care of it somehow. Brian ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) --- Tired o

Fwd: Install for 01/10/98

1998-01-12 Thread Brian White
The following package has been istalled in bo-updates. > dosfstools_1.0-11_i386.changes > Changes: dosfstools (1.0-11) stable; urgency=low, closes=16493 16494 16490 > 16491 > * Applied patches to source files from Juan Cespedes which got lost in > the last upload (Bug#16493, Bug#16494, Bug#

Re: Bad Maintainer Addresses (!)

1997-11-20 Thread Brian White
> > If one of your packages is listed here, please fix it asap. If they > > remain bad after a couple months, we'll have to assume they have been > > orphaned. > > > > Found 24 failed ping addresses. > [.. snip snip ..] > >[EMAIL PROTECTED]/org > > Cool, a slash instead of a dot. But now watc

Bad Maintainer Addresses (!)

1997-11-19 Thread Brian White
The following email addresses turned up bad or were said to be going away. The packages they affect need to be fixed in hamm. If one of your packages is listed here, please fix it asap. If they remain bad after a couple months, we'll have to assume they have been orphaned. Found 24 failed ping a

New packages in bo-updates

1997-09-24 Thread Brian White
I've installed the following into bo-updates: isdnutils_2.1.beta1-15_i386.changes Changes: isdnutils (1:2.1.beta1-15) unstable; urgency=low - the version in bo is broken : it does not work with 2.0.29/30 kernel. - the last bo version was 2.0-7 or so, all other version did never go into bo, we