vance@mtxinu.UUCP (Vance Vaughan) (11/02/84)
Only a fragment seems to have made it any significant ways out on the
network, so this is a repeat; apologies to anyone who gets it intact
twice:
GENERAL INFORMATION ON THE 4.2 BUGLIST FROM MT XINU
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Legal difficulties which have delayed the distribution of
4.2bsd buglist summaries by MT XINU have been resolved and
three versions of the buglist are now available.
The current buglist has been derived from reports submitted
to 4bsd-bugs@BERKELEY (not from reports submitted only to
net.bugs.4bsd, for example). Reports are integrated into
the buglist as they are received, so that any distributions
are current to within a week or so.
Buglists now being distributed are essentially "raw". No
judgment has been passed as to whether the submitted bug is
real or not or whether it has been fixed. Only minimal edit-
ing has been done to produce a manageable list. Reports
which are complaints (rather than bug reports) have been
eliminated; obscenities and content-free flames have been
eliminated; and duplicates have been combined. The result-
ing collection contains over 500 bugs.
Three versions of the buglist are now ready for distribu-
tion:
2-Liners:
Two lines per bug, including a concise description, the
affected module, the submittor. Approximately 55K
bytes, it is being distributed to net.sources con-
currently with this announcement.
All-but-Source:
All material, except that all but the most inocuous of
source material has been removed to meet AT&T license
restrictions. Nearly a mega-byte, this will be
distributed to net.sources in several 50K byte pieces
later this week.
A paper listing or mag tape is also available, see
below.
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please send for a paper or tape copy.
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4.2 licensees who also have a suitable AT&T source
license can obtain a tape containing all the material,
including proposed source fixes where such were submit-
ted.
Once again, MT XINU has not evaluated, tested or passed
judgment on proposed fixes; all we have done is organ-
ize the collection and eliminate obvious irrelevancies
and duplications.
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