1 = SIPB Bug-Squashing Hackathon for Lenny =
3 SIPB is running a '''bug-squashing hackathon''' for release-critical bugs in Debian Lenny.
5 Place: '''W20-557''', the SIPB office[[BR]]
6 Date: '''Saturday''', 2008-12-13, between end-of-classes and finals week[[BR]]
7 Time: starting '''2 PM''', running to about 10 PM; come for any portion
11 '''Q''': What's Lenny?[[BR]]
12 '''A''': Lenny is the '''upcoming next stable release''' of Debian GNU/Linux. It was scheduled for September 2008 but has slipped to spring 2009. The last release was Etch in spring 2007, so Debian users are eagerly awaiting a new release.
14 '''Q''': What's a release-critical bug?[[BR]]
15 '''A''': A '''release-critical (RC) bug''' is a Debian bug of any of the highest levels of severity. RC bugs break a program completely, break some users' systems, or do similarly bad things. At last count there were 109 bugs (below) affecting Lenny. Every one of those bugs has to be dealt with one way or another before Lenny will release.
17 '''Q''': I use '''Ubuntu'''. Why do I care about Debian releases?[[BR]]
18 '''A''': Because Lenny is in the final, "freeze", stage of the cycle, many Debian contributors are holding off new versions of the software they maintain in order to focus on stabilizing and bugfixing Lenny. Since Ubuntu depends on Debian for >90% of its packaging work, that means less new software for Ubuntu until Lenny releases.
20 '''Q''': I have '''no experience hacking on Debian'''.[[BR]]
21 '''A''': No problem, we have three Debian Developers pledged to attend, plus Debian-packaging experts from SIPB's Debathena and XVM projects. They'll all be focussed on helping newer people find a good bug, make progress and stay unstuck on solving it, and get the fixes applied in Debian. Just come ready to help with the skills you have; you'll be sure to learn something.
23 '''Q''': I don't have a lot of programming experience.[[BR]]
24 '''A''': No problem, '''not every bug requires programming''' to fix. Some bugs concern copyright or documentation issues, and anyone willing to track stuff down and write in English precisely can help. You'll still get experience with the issues software in the real world has to deal with, and probably read some code along the way.
26 '''Q''': I have another question.[[BR]]
27 '''A''': The SIPB Chair, Greg Price (`price@mit.edu`) or Vice-Chair, Nelson Elhage (`nelhage@mit.edu`) would be happy to hear from you.
31 Coming soon: this list formatted better and with links to the bug pages.
34 507927 acpi-support Fix suspend-resume in Thinkpad R50e (intel 855gm card)
35 507242 amule-daemon amule-daemon: causes OOM's by leaking lots of memory
36 507883 asterisk asterisk: Very frequent segfaults on startup
37 506961 auctex auctex: reuses old logfile on emacsen upgrades, enabling symlink attack
38 496954 bind9 bind9: Fails to start due to SIGSEGV
39 501800 bind9 bind9: bind crashes with a list for allow-update
40 497471 cdimage.debian.org sarge images have syslinux binaries without source
41 507706 cdimage.debian.org Missing sources for d-i components/kernel of etch-n-half images
42 502751 clamav-getfiles clamav-getfiles: piuparts test fails: eicar.com md5sum mismatch, file needs downloading
43 507721 cryptsetup cryptsetup: Sometimes initrd ends up missing conf/conf.d/cryptroot file in it
44 503532 dbus send_requested_reply="true" allows all non-reply messages
45 504340 djvulibre-plugin djvulibre-plugin: Iceweasel crashes when loading DjVu documents
46 481072 dk-filter dk-filter reliably crashes upon connection from postfix
47 505929 egroupware egroupware incompatible with php 5.2.6
48 504283 egroupware-core CVE-2007-3215: phpmailer issue (embedded code-copy)
49 456037 fenix fenix: not 64 bit clean
50 504977 ffmpeg-debian ffmpeg-debian: Several security issues
51 451628 ftp.debian.org Packages might enter the archive from security without source
52 497823 ftp.debian.org longstanding DFSG violations in linux-2.6 package
53 506152 ftp.debian.org libept0 should have priority important
54 507675 ftp.debian.org python2.5 should have priority standard
55 507678 ftp.debian.org libsqlite3-0 should have priority standard
56 507775 ftp.debian.org libkeyutils1 should have priority standard
57 507778 ftp.debian.org libldap-2.4-2 should have priority standard
58 507779 ftp.debian.org [Priorities] libustr-1.0-1 -> standard
59 507780 ftp.debian.org python-sepolgen should have priority standard
60 507783 ftp.debian.org libxml2 should have priority standard
61 507784 ftp.debian.org python2.5-minimal should have priority standard
62 507796 ftp.debian.org libisccfg40 should have priority standard
63 507797 ftp.debian.org libisccc40 should have priority standard
64 507798 ftp.debian.org libedit2 should have priority standard
65 507799 ftp.debian.org libgssglue1 must have priority standard
66 507800 ftp.debian.org ucf must have priority standard
67 507801 ftp.debian.org libpci3 must have priority standard
68 503712 ghostscript etch->lenny upgrade left the system in broken state
69 504747 gnu-fdisk gnu-fdisk: wipes out MBR when used on GPT partitions
70 506684 guile-1.8-dev guile-1.8: includes own definition of jmp_buf type in public header
71 507021 helpdeco Fails to work on amd64
72 507558 hibernate ignores "LockXLock yes" setting in /etc/hibernate/common.conf (e.g. does not lock the screen)
73 505563 icedove Mozilla Thunderbird Multiple Vulnerabilities
74 426465 initramfs-tools /init exports MODPROBE_OPTIONS=-qb
75 507059 initramfs-tools initramfs-tools: Wrong check for udevadm in functions
76 394963 installation-reports installation: Problems with dual booting Dell D600 with winXP pro in the first partition (hd0, 0). After installing the Dell Etch Beta 3, Windows fails to boot and I get the blue screen of death.
77 418972 installation-reports cdrom: Etch does not detect CD-ROM on Acer Aspire 7100
78 436140 installation-reports cdrom: Most of the system's files have a future timestamp causing at least update/config problems.
79 494293 installation-reports installation-reports: Grub error: not a regular file...
80 495603 installation-reports grub-installer fails on a FSC Primergy RX300 with a level 5 RAID
81 501804 installation-reports installation-reports: Lenny b2 install on ThinkPad X61 - fails to detect hard disk
82 507072 ipsec-tools libipsec0 packaged in ipsec-tools without development headers
83 499078 jfsutils jfsutils: Bus Error when running fsck.jfs on sparc
84 506853 libgnutls26 libgnutls26: 2.4.2-3 breaks OpenLDAP access
85 495178 libjs-jquery libjs-jquery: Should compile jquery.min.js and jquery.pack.js from jquery.js
86 508133 libmad0 audacity: munmap_chunk(): invalid pointer: 0x00000000026f4eb0
87 490999 libqt3-mt kicker: crashes on startup
88 504373 libtemplate-perl libtemplate-perl: Upgrade from etch breaks code using DBI plugins
89 503907 libwebkit-1.0-1 epiphany-webkit: Crashes at startup whenever I go to a site.
90 506353 mailscanner CVE-2008-5312/3: mailscanner might allow local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack
91 496334 mdadm mdadm segfault on --assemble --force with raid10
92 507889 mdadm mdadm: initramfs-tools script is broken, system with root on RAID won't boot
93 507818 mldonkey-server mldonkey-server: mlnet does not start, logs syntax error in downloads.ini
94 507947 moodle moodle: html2text.php is not DFSG-free
95 504918 network-manager Updating to lenny failed when NetworkManager got updated504626 nvidia-glx [nvidia-glx] Quietly drops support for several chipsets
96 504661 nvidia-glx-legacy-96xx-dev nvidia-glx-legacy-96xx-dev: /usr/lib/libGL.so symlink broken
97 507003 open-iscsi initiatorname.iscsi should maybe not be in /etc
98 508351 open-iscsi open-iscsi: will not install, looking for missing /sys/module/scsi_transport_iscsi/version file
99 507865 openoffice.org-writer openoffice.org-writer: OOo 2.4.x openinig OOo 3 files doesn't show text (2.x implements standard wrong)
100 500460 oss-compat oss-compat: modules are not loaded
101 475737 otrs2 otrs2 - makes files in /usr writable by non-root
102 502140 pam cannot unlock screen during etch -> lenny transition
103 508026 phppgadmin phpPgAdmin: Local File Inclusion Vulnerability
104 507915 povray Povray unusable with non-ascii filenames
105 476525 python-hid python-hid: hid module will not import since python policy transition
106 495232 quagga quagga: zebra ignores routes added via command line
107 507071 racoon racoon - Fails after upgrade: symbol lookup error: /usr/sbin/racoon: undefined symbol: libipsec_opt
108 332782 release-notes release-notes: Where's the license?
109 475958 release-notes document procedure to recover from "/dev/hda became /dev/sda" boot failure
110 506977 release.debian.org FPC: copyright infringement in pre 2.2.2 sources507239 release.debian.org RM: astrolog/stable -- RoQA; orphaned long time, non-free, contains potentially undistributable code
111 490171 rtorrent rtorrent: random crash
112 506748 rtorrent crash rtorrent by scgi-interface (function: 'fi.get_filename_last')
113 478717 ruby1.9 ruby1.9: FTBFS on hppa: make[1]: *** [all] Segmentation fault
114 507316 smarty smarty: Non-free logo included in package
115 505237 snmpd /etc/init.d/snmpd start reports error if already running
116 506057 splashy splashy: Splashy fails to install due to missing default theme
117 508194 sun-java5 sun-java5: New upstream release fixes several security issues
118 504524 sun-java6 AWT_TOOLKIT=MToolkit causes java to segfault on amd64
119 508265 sysprof-module-source sysprof-module-source: doesn't compile on AMD64 arch (wrong register names)
120 506883 tuxguitar tuxguitar: hard-codes dependencies on libraries
121 508091 tuxguitar maintainer address bounces
122 508257 twiki CVE-2008-5305: TWiki SEARCH variable allows arbitrary shell command execution
123 507996 uim-tcode mazegaki conversion cannot be used
124 503303 upgrade-reports etch -> lenny minimal chrrot upgrade fails due to Conflicts/Pre-Depends loop
125 506741 wireshark wireshark: DoS caused by sending a SMTP request with large content
126 323473 wnpp ITA: mol-drivers-linux -- The Mac-on-Linux emulator - drivers for Linux
127 508322 wodim wodim: Cannot load media. Cannot init drive.
128 504771 wordpress wordpress can be subject of delayed attacks via cookies
129 476210 xbat xbat: game elements do not display properly
130 507576 xbattbar-acpi missing dependency: libconfig
131 507165 xine-lib xine-lib: CVE-2008-5242 heap-based buffer overflow
132 507184 xine-lib xine-lib: CVE-2008-5246 heap overflow
133 508313 xine-lib xine-lib: CVE-2008-5234 heap overflow in atom parsing
134 374644 xine-ui xine-ui: ctrl/shift key press emulation implementation broken
135 506652 xml2rfc Yet another boilerplate change
136 507944 xwhois xwhois: segfaults on start in get_servers()
137 507579 yocto-reader Package installation results in license violation
138 508124 yum Yum crashes when setting-up a CentOS chroot OS
140 (list as of 2008-12-10 at 2240)