Bug#267066: 267066 still a problem?

2005-12-02 Thread Max Bowsher
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 All the reports of this that I can remember seeing were with 1.0.x versions. I don't remember it being debugged, but the problem seems to have vanished. Has the problem been observed with current versions of Subversion? Max. -BEGIN PGP

Bug#339841: 339841 course of action

2005-12-02 Thread Max Bowsher
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The only possibility for debugging I can see would be to reproduce the problem with a debug build of svn, running under gdb, accessing the problem repository. If this can be done, great! If not, I think this is going to remain an unsolved mystery.

Bug#341438: subversion: please add svnserve option to only give read-only access

2005-12-03 Thread Max Bowsher
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Marc Haber wrote: Package: subversion Version: 1.2.3dfsg1-2 Severity: wishlist for some automatic processes invoked via ssh authentication (with an ssh key restricted to svnserve -t in authorized_keys, for example, it would be desireable to

Bug#341438: subversion: please add svnserve option to only give read-only access

2005-12-03 Thread Max Bowsher
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 tags 341438 + upstream fixed-upstream thanks Marc Haber wrote: On Sat, Dec 03, 2005 at 01:46:19PM +, Max Bowsher wrote: Uh... an -R (--read-only) option *ALREADY* exists. In fact, it has been deprecated in favour of a repository's

Bug#347302: 347302: Can you give more reproduction detail?

2006-01-12 Thread Max Bowsher
Can you give more detail about how to reproduce the error? It certainly isn't a common error, so it must be being triggered by something unique to your system. It would be useful to know what access method you are using (file:///, svn://, http://), as well as anything else you think might be

Bug#343142: 343142: -r {DATE} option could support more date formats

2006-01-12 Thread Max Bowsher
retitle 343142 -r {DATE} option could support more date formats thanks Early versions of Subversion used a yacc-based date parser which supported a range of date formats similar to CVS. The yacc-based parser was abandoned and replaced with a handwritten C parser supporting only a few date formats

Bug#343142: subversion: svn diff won't work with a date

2005-12-13 Thread Max Bowsher
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andrew Vaughan wrote: The subversion book says subversion accepts --revision {2002-02-17} --revision {2002-02-17 15:30} etc. (see http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.1/svn-book.html#svn-ch-3-sect-3.3 ) This is correct. The problem is simply not

Bug#282541: Bug can be closed

2005-11-09 Thread Max Bowsher
The problems encountered here were due to an unusual once-off need to add new APIs to an old branch in order to fix a security bug. This wasn't handled perfectly by the Subversion project - with hindsight, we should have ensured that the emergency-fixed 1.0 API was a subset of the 1.1 API, and

Bug#344824: --firstuid should be usable with --system, but it is silently ignored

2005-12-26 Thread Max Bowsher
Package: adduser Version: 3.80 Currently, --firstuid (and --lastuid) are silently ignored when used with the --system option: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo adduser --system --firstuid 200 test1 Adding system user `test1'... Adding new user `test1' (102) with group `nogroup'. ^^ UID 102 was

Bug#344824: --firstuid should be usable with --system, but it is silently ignored

2005-12-26 Thread Max Bowsher
Marc Haber wrote: On Mon, Dec 26, 2005 at 04:53:04PM +, Max Bowsher wrote: The help doesn't mention any use of --firstuid with --system, but this would be useful to allow local non-human users, to be created in a separate uid range to the system users created by Debian packages

Bug#307184: Forked bash_completion

2005-12-26 Thread Max Bowsher
It seems that the linked-to files are an unmaintained fork of the official Subversion bash_completion files. Perhaps this bug should be disposed of, in favour of packaging the actively maintained bash_completion file shipped with Subversion. Max. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#200550: (no subject)

2005-12-26 Thread Max Bowsher
This bug is very over-anticipatory, given that a working svn-config has not been written yet, and no-one has shown any particular inclination to write one, a situation which has been in existence for years. If this was a Bugzilla installation, I'd classify this bug as RESOLVED INVALID. I'm not

Bug#252974:

2005-10-03 Thread Max Bowsher
Hi, I'm an upstream Subversion developer, adding a few comments to this discussion. I agree that converting to FSFS is a workaround, not a fix. However, there is not enough information in this bug report as-is for anyone to do anything useful with it. High volume of activity alone is

Bug#269635:

2005-10-03 Thread Max Bowsher
retitle 269635 Doxygen API documentation not built and installed severity 269635 normal stop There is not a complete lack of API documentation - the doxygen docs are generated from the comments in the header files themselves - thus, the documentation exists, albeit without the hyperlinking and

Bug#302031:

2005-10-04 Thread Max Bowsher
I have followed the procedure outlined by the submitter as closely as possible, and coded a reproduction script. No data loss occurs for me - at the point where the sumitter writes all of dir c, including the local modifications got erased, what happens to me is: any files within dir c which

Bug#304462:

2005-10-04 Thread Max Bowsher
Since 1.2.x versions have entered Debian, this bug ought to be closable now. There is a reproduction script earlier in the bug to verify this. Max. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#231685:

2005-10-04 Thread Max Bowsher
Now that Subversion has reached 1.x, the compatibility rules we work too are much stricter - all 1.x versions of Subversion must and will be able to work with the database of any earlier 1.x version. Therefore, I think this bug can be closed with no further action. Max. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Bug#241196:

2005-10-04 Thread Max Bowsher
In 1.2.3a-1, the file avoids all controversy by simply saying svnadmin create /path/to/repos. I think this bug can now be closed. Max. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#288868:

2005-10-04 Thread Max Bowsher
Current python2.3-subversion packages seem to depend on a libsvn0 at least as new as themselves, thus, I believe this bug is fixed now, and should be closed. Max. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#339298: (no subject)

2005-11-20 Thread Max Bowsher
tags 339298 + upstream fixed-upstream stop Fixed in Subversion 1.3.0. Max. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Bug#396003: Exim paniclog handling

2006-11-13 Thread Max Bowsher
To me, it is very unintuitive for a sysadmin to be expected to move away a file which is normally under logrotate control. At a minimum, I would suggest that the alert email contain a reference to README.Debian.html section 2.5.1, so that sysadmins seeing this can more quickly understand what's

Bug#395499: Support for wct4xxp module dropped

2006-10-30 Thread Max Bowsher
Mark Purcell wrote: On Friday 27 October 2006 13:03, Max Bowsher wrote: Dropping support for wct4xxp represents a critical regression to people using that hardware. Max, I would suggest you have a read of: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=388756 wct4xxp was removed

Bug#389780: setuptools 0.6c3 is needed to fix bug, so increasing severity

2006-10-02 Thread Max Bowsher
severity 389780 normal thanks setuptools earlier than 0.6c3 do not support Subversion 1.4, which is currently in unstable. Specifically, attempting to install a setuptools-using python package from a Subversion 1.4 working copy fails. An update to 0.6c3 is needed to fix this loss of

Bug#391596: Conflicts: python2.4-semanage has incorrect version

2006-10-07 Thread Max Bowsher
Package: python-semanage Version: 1.6.16-3 Severity: normal python-semanage has a Conflicts against python2.4-semanage so that the old package is removed upon upgrade. However, this does not work, because the version range is (= 1.6), but 1.6-1 is a version of the old package, which does not

Bug#246285: acknowledged by developer (246285: svn merge operation that adds file with svn:executable property set doesn't make file executable)

2006-01-20 Thread Max Bowsher
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Branden Robinson wrote: reopen 246285 found 246285 1.0.2-2 close 246285 1.2.3dfsg1-3 thanks On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 12:48:41PM -0800, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: I tested 1.1.4-2 (current sarge) and confirmed the presence of the bug. I

Bug#349275: mountall.sh: Mounting local filesystems... failed when system has only a single partition

2006-01-21 Thread Max Bowsher
Package: initscripts Version: 2.86.ds1-4 Severity: minor On a simple single partition system, /proc is the only non-root non-swap non-noauto filesystem in fstab - i.e. it is the only filesystem that is a candidate for 'mount -a'. When mountall.sh runs, /proc is often already mounted. If this is

Bug#349196: sudo 1.6.8p7-1.3 significantly changes package behaviour (IN STABLE!) without any configurability to the old behaviour and without documentation

2006-01-21 Thread Max Bowsher
I too would like to register a complaint about broken working methods with sudo 1.6.8p7-1.3. The preservation of all environment variables is not necessarily a security flaw when done by a user with ALL commands sudoers rights. When such a user is using 'sudo -s', it can be highly desirable not

Bug#343142: 343142: tagging upstream wontfix

2006-01-21 Thread Max Bowsher
tags 343142 + upstream wontfix thanks The issues raised have easy alternate solutions: (1) Whilst Subversion doesn't understand -r {`date`}, it does understand -r {`date -Is`}. (2) Whilst Subversion doesn't understand -r {3 days ago}, date can help out there too: -r {`date -Is -d '3 days

Bug#268105: 268105: Closable, I think.

2006-01-21 Thread Max Bowsher
libsvn0 1.2.3.dfsg1-3 has no indirect library dependencies, which would make this bug fixed, I think? Max. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Bug#269365: 269365 - patch to add doxygen docs

2006-01-22 Thread Max Bowsher
tags 269365 + patch thanks From 1.3.0 onwards, adequate Makefile support is in place to make this fairly easy. Attached is a patch which adds a new libsvn0-doc subpackage containing doxygen docs. Max. Index: debian/control === ---

Bug#269365: (no subject)

2006-01-22 Thread Max Bowsher
tags 269365 - patch thanks Oops, transposition error in bug number, sorry. Max. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Bug#269635: 269635 - patch to add doxygen docs

2006-01-22 Thread Max Bowsher
tags 269635 + patch thanks From 1.3.0 onwards, adequate Makefile support is in place to make this fairly easy. Attached is a patch which adds a new libsvn0-doc subpackage containing doxygen docs. Max. Index: debian/control === ---

Bug#440507: Probably fixed upstream

2007-12-30 Thread Max Bowsher
According to http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=27694 this was fixed upstream as of 5.0.50, so the current unstable package is probably no longer affected. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#298888: [Swig-dev] [PATCH] Python bindings bug showing with SWIG 1.3.24

2005-03-18 Thread Max Bowsher
Torsten Landschoff wrote: From this information I created the following quick hack to fix or at least work around the problem. It would surely be more elegant to get the type once. OTOH the interaction with the svn server will most probably be much slower than the swig type lookups. Index:

Bug#427804: Lack of bash.info - suggest warrants severity=important

2007-11-04 Thread Max Bowsher
warrants severity=important. Max Bowsher. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Bug#403363: python-moinmoin: Password Reminder emails are confusingly mis-encoded

2006-12-16 Thread Max Bowsher
Package: python-moinmoin Version: 1.5.3-1.1 Severity: important Password reminder emails send by moinmoin display incorrect passwords, since the reminder passwords sent by moinmoin always end with an '=', which gets eaten by incorrect quoted-printable encoding. See

Bug#413102: (no subject)

2007-03-02 Thread Max Bowsher
This sounds quite likely to be the same as http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=2580 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#295860:

2005-09-27 Thread Max Bowsher
Fixed upstream in 1.3.0. Max. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#282480:

2005-09-10 Thread Max Bowsher
Feature is present on development trunk, and will be in 1.3.0. Max. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#291390:

2005-09-10 Thread Max Bowsher
reassign 291390 subversion-tools merge 291390 324511 quit #324511 links to a later version of svn2cl.xsl than is attached to #291390. Max. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#323376:

2005-08-23 Thread Max Bowsher
It is a bug in the pl.po message catalog. Fixed in trunk r15880. Fixed in 1.2.x branch ready for 1.2.4. Not fixed in about-to-be-released 1.2.3, tarballs were already rolled and in final QA. Patch: svn diff -r15879:15880 http://svn.collab.net/repos/svn/trunk/subversion/po/pl.po Max. --

Bug#319321:

2005-08-23 Thread Max Bowsher
This is not a bug. The URL with the trailing colon is not valid, and as already mentioned svn switch --relocate is the way to fix this. This bug can be closed. Max. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#296157:

2005-08-23 Thread Max Bowsher
This is fixed in Subversion 1.2.0 and later. Max. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#298477:

2005-08-23 Thread Max Bowsher
This feature is implemented in Subversion 1.2.x. Max. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#295860:

2005-08-28 Thread Max Bowsher
The language does say *If* the directory db contains a Berkeley DB environment, but I agree that's a bit pathetic. Taken upstream. Ought to be fixed for 1.3.0. Max. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#259134:

2005-08-28 Thread Max Bowsher
As Wesley J. Landaker says above, this is NOT a bug. It would conceivably be possibly to relax a few restrictions to allow this to work in additional - but not all - cases. Anyway, either this bug should be closed, or it needs to be taken upstream, because fixing it would be more complex

Bug#481181: 4096-RSA blacklist?

2008-05-14 Thread Max Bowsher
4096 bit RSA keys seem particularly common in my experience, could that variant be considered for the the package, soon? Max. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#481181: 481181: exploit details already revealed by 3rd party, so there doesn't seem to be any benefit in keeping generation method secret any more

2008-05-15 Thread Max Bowsher
Details, including tarballs of pregenerated keysets and painfully detailed information on how to be a script kiddie, are now published by the metasploit project (which is linked from wiki.debian.org/SSLkeys, even) so I think the benefits of secrecy have been eroded by now. The only missing piece

Bug#481181: 481181: Blacklists

2008-05-15 Thread Max Bowsher
I'm not sure whether Debian will ship blacklists generated by others, since there's no way to verify a blacklist other than regenerating it yourself, but I have generated RSA 1023, 1024 and 4096 bit blacklists for my own use - available here: http://www.red-bean.com/~maxb/ . These are i386+amd64

Bug#485881: apt-get --no-install-recommends does not override APT::Install-Recommends-Sections

2008-06-11 Thread Max Bowsher
Package: apt Version: 0.7.14 Severity: normal apt-get --no-install-recommends disables the behaviour of APT::Install-Recommends, but does not disable any configured APT::Install-Recommends-Sections. This is rather perplexing to users who don't understand the details of how APT manages its

Bug#485883: apt: Impossible to override a list-valued configuration item from the command line

2008-06-11 Thread Max Bowsher
Package: apt Version: 0.7.14 Severity: wishlist The -o command line option allows arbitrary overriding on scalar-valued configuration items, and appending extra entries to list-valued configuration items. However, the ability to completely override the contents of a list-valued configuration item

Bug#487089: ucf registration is wrong (/etc/hgrc.d/ vs /etc/mercurial/hgrc.d/)

2008-06-19 Thread Max Bowsher
Package: mercurial Version: 1.0.1-1 Severity: minor Quoting from postinst: ucf --sum-file /usr/share/mercurial/$conffile.md5sums --three-way \ $TMPFILE /etc/mercurial/hgrc.d/$conffile ucfr mercurial /etc/hgrc.d/$conffile The 'ucfr' line incorrectly mentions

Bug#479637: python-clearsilver: #479637 is essentially a duplicate of #452612, I think

2008-05-05 Thread Max Bowsher
Package: python-clearsilver Followup-For: Bug #479637 #479637 is essentially a duplicate of #452612, I think - the missing Py_InitModule4 symbol is a manifestation of trying to reuse the python2.4 module with python2.5 - so the bug is fixed in 0.10.4-1.2. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Bug#283992: commit-email.pl committer address lookup table

2006-04-13 Thread Max Bowsher
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 tags 283992 upstream thanks I'd be happy to commit such a patch to the upstream Subversion project, if you still feel like writing it. Max. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (Cygwin)

Bug#217133: (no subject)

2006-04-13 Thread Max Bowsher
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 tags 217133 fixed-upstream upstream thanks Done for upstream 1.4.0. Max. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (Cygwin) iD8DBQFEPnsjfFNSmcDyxYARArAAAJ4nFvBhXWNlICmCwdpKBkGicYXnNACgy2OY UaSMK0NkLlKphHj5VTFvP9o= =BnOq -END PGP

Bug#362624: sqlite = 3.3.3 exposes bug in pysqlite 2.0.7 - add versioned Conflicts ?

2006-04-14 Thread Max Bowsher
Package: sqlite3 Version: 3.3.5-0.1 Severity: normal sqlite = 3.3.3 exposes a bug in some pysqlite versions. Specifically, the bug is present in: The 2.0.x series, 2.0.7 (package: python-pysqlite2) The 1.1.x series, 1.1.7 (package: python-pysqlite) The 2.1.x series, 2.1.3 (not in

Bug#363385: mailman: Explicit zero epoch causes apt-get to endlessly treat as needing upgrade

2006-04-18 Thread Max Bowsher
Package: mailman Version: 2.1.7-2.1.8rc1-1 Severity: important The explicit zero epoch in this version of the Mailman package exposes a bug in apt-get: the package is perpetually considered in need of upgrade, and apt-get reinstalls it every time an upgrade or dist-upgrade is done. The current

Bug#363389: apt: Explicit zero epoch in package version causes endless upgrading

2006-04-18 Thread Max Bowsher
Package: apt Version: 0.6.43.3 Severity: normal Usually, an epoch value is either absent, and so zero implicitly, or explicitly present and greater than zero. If a package version number includes an explicit epoch value of zero, apt-get misbehaves, considering the version present in the available

Bug#233099: 233099 fixed for 1.4

2006-02-18 Thread Max Bowsher
tags 233099 upstream fixed-upstream thanks Subversion trunk (1.4.x-dev) now (r18522) has support for per-subcommand varying of option descriptions, and uses it to avoid the overgeneral description for the --file option. Fixed. Max. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Bug#359679: libsvn-core-perl: status(., ...) gives an assert() error

2006-03-29 Thread Max Bowsher
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Peter Samuelson wrote: [Julian Gilbey] burnside:~/debian/tex/tetex-bin $ perl -MSVN::Client -e \ 'sub print_names { print $_[0]\n; } $ctx=new SVN::Client; $ctx-status(, BASE, \print_names, 1, 1, 0, 1);' | head -5 .pc .pc/.version

Bug#351529: amd64 libreadline5 package contains weird file ownership

2006-02-05 Thread Max Bowsher
Package: libreadline5 Version: 5.1-5 Severity: minor libreadline5_5.1-5_amd64.deb has the file /usr/share/doc/libreadline5/examples/Inputrc owned by uid 286. The sparc and i386 packages have correct (root) ownership. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Bug#347725: (no subject)

2006-02-13 Thread Max Bowsher
tags 347725 - patch merge 347725 343113 thanks It is true that the config/postinst script is causing an invalid password to be stored in the directory, but not because of not using slappasswd. The perl snippet generates the same crypted password as slappasswd would, but then bug #343113

Bug#343113: 343113 is serious

2006-02-13 Thread Max Bowsher
retitle 343113 admin password set via debconf is not correctly set in the ldap directory severity 343113 serious thanks I've increased the severity of this bug, because it affects every fresh installation of the current etch/sid version, and creates a hard-to-debug problem for someone new to

Bug#364766: dovecot-common: postinst tampers with permissions on SSL cert/key

2006-04-25 Thread Max Bowsher
Package: dovecot-common Version: 1.0.beta7-1 Severity: important I have edited dovecot.conf to use a non-default SSL certificate and key, instead of /etc/ssl/{private,certs}/dovecot.pem. My cert+key is shared between multiple services, not only Dovecot. The Dovecot postinst gets the cert/key

Bug#362624: sqlite vs python-pysqlite

2006-05-01 Thread Max Bowsher
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Laszlo Boszormenyi wrote: Hi Max! On Fri, 14 Apr 2006 11:34:56 -0500 Max Bowsher wrote: sqlite = 3.3.3 exposes a bug in some pysqlite versions. Specifically, the bug is present in: The 2.0.x series, 2.0.7 (package: python-pysqlite2

Bug#362624: sqlite vs python-pysqlite

2006-05-01 Thread Max Bowsher
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Laszlo Boszormenyi wrote: On Mon, 2006-05-01 at 13:25 +0100, Max Bowsher wrote: $ apt-cache show python2.3-pysqlite2 Package: python2.3-pysqlite2 ... Depends: libc6 (= 2.3.5-1), libsqlite3-0 (= 3.3.5), python2.3 ... As you can see

Bug#352496: adduser: deluser breakage: more info

2006-03-05 Thread Max Bowsher
Package: adduser Version: 3.80 Followup-For: Bug #352496 Cause of the bug appears to be a missing backslash reference operator inside the call to GetOptions(). Making this one-character fix appears to solve the problem. -conf=s = $configfile, +conf=s = \$configfile, Max.

Bug#355475: spamassassin: spamd --auth-ident incompatible with pidentd and gidentd: should be documented

2006-03-05 Thread Max Bowsher
Package: spamassassin Version: 3.1.0a-2 Severity: important As mentioned in bug 278030, spamd --auth-ident is incompatible with pidentd and gidentd. Since the cause of this is very obscure, and liable to cause the person attempting to configure --auth-ident some fruitless struggles, this should

Bug#307184: tagging wontfix

2006-04-09 Thread Max Bowsher
tags 307184 wontfix thanks The indicated script is unmaintained, and includes hardcoded assumptions about repo naming. Therefore, tagging wontfix, with a recommendation to close. There is a bash_completion script maintained within the Subversion distribution, which is kept up-to-date with

Bug#287756: tagging wontfix

2006-04-09 Thread Max Bowsher
tags 287756 wontfix upstream thanks Tagging wontfix, with a recommendation to close, because the reason 'svn log' defaults to -rBASE:1 when run in a WC is actually dictated by the underlying structure of the Subversion database: Whilst the Subversion database makes it very easy to trace history

Bug#359315: (no subject)

2006-04-10 Thread Max Bowsher
retitle 359315 Differing versions of libsvn0 vs. subversion packages is opportunity for confusion thanks Perhaps subversion should Depends: libsvn0 (= ${Source-Version}) ? This would avoid potential for confusion. Are there any situations where having differing subversion and libsvn0 versions

Bug#359315: (no subject)

2006-04-11 Thread Max Bowsher
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Peter Samuelson wrote: [Max Bowsher] Perhaps subversion should Depends: libsvn0 (= ${Source-Version}) ? This would avoid potential for confusion. Hmmm. On the one hand, in Debian we try to keep our dependencies only as tight as they need

Bug#269635: 269635 - patch to add doxygen docs

2006-01-22 Thread Max Bowsher
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Peter Samuelson wrote: [Max Bowsher] From 1.3.0 onwards, adequate Makefile support is in place to make this fairly easy. Attached is a patch which adds a new libsvn0-doc subpackage containing doxygen docs. Thanks! Looks pretty

Bug#349825: (no subject)

2006-01-26 Thread Max Bowsher
tags 349825 upstream fixed-upstream thanks Fixed in trunk, nominated for 1.3.1. Max. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Bug#294650: 294650 looks closeable

2006-01-26 Thread Max Bowsher
The current dav_svn.conf is self-consistent, in that it specifies no uncommented Auth* directives at all. Therefore, I think whatever trouble this bug report referred to is long gone, and no further action is required here. The bug looks closeable as-is to me. Max. signature.asc Description:

Bug#282480: (no subject)

2006-01-26 Thread Max Bowsher
tags 282480 upstream fixed-upstream thanks mailer.py distributed with 1.3.0 has the ability to include custom diff urls in the messages. Max. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Bug#207635: Script is flawed - recommend wontfix/closing

2006-01-31 Thread Max Bowsher
The script has the fairly serious flaw that on any repository of large activity, there will be many revisions in which a particular file undergoes no changes. Thus, very many diff calls will be made, which discover no difference. The script could be improved to an acceptable level of efficiency

Bug#249683: Recommendation for wontfix/close

2006-01-31 Thread Max Bowsher
tags 249683 upstream wontfix thanks I have to disagree that this is a common operation - most people use an editor to compose their log messages, rather than composing them on the command line. A full implementation of this feature encounters complexities such as how to handle commits and log

Bug#375975: python-setuptools: easy_install-2.3 broken: Entry point ('console_scripts', 'easy_install-2.3') not found

2006-06-29 Thread Max Bowsher
Package: python-setuptools Version: 0.6b3-1 Severity: normal $ easy_install-2.3 ... ImportError: Entry point ('console_scripts', 'easy_install-2.3') not found The problem is due to the use of python-central to install egg-info built for Python 2.4 into the python2.3/site-packages dir.

Bug#372577: python-json: py2.3.egg-info directory is installed into /var/lib/python-support/python2.4

2006-06-10 Thread Max Bowsher
Package: python-json Version: 3.4-1 Severity: normal Installing python-json causes the directory /var/lib/python-support/python2.4/json_py-3.4-py2.3.egg-info to be created. Note the mismatch between python versions in the containing directory, and the egg-info name. This creates issues for the

Bug#372616: python-formencode: Please package new upstream version 0.5.1

2006-06-10 Thread Max Bowsher
Package: python-formencode Version: 0.4-5 Severity: wishlist Please package new upstream version 0.5.1 - thanks! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#372619: debian/copyright content is not about simplejson, but a completely unrelated package

2006-06-10 Thread Max Bowsher
Package: simplejson Version: 1.1-1 Severity: normal The content of the debian/copyright file appears to be intended for a different package entirely. It refers to a piece of software called 'Pyflakes', and makes no reference to simplejson. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Bug#372617: simplejson: Please package new upstream version 1.3

2006-06-10 Thread Max Bowsher
Package: simplejson Severity: wishlist Please package new upstream version 1.3 - thanks! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#372577: python-json: py2.3.egg-info directory is installed into /var/lib/python-support/python2.4

2006-06-13 Thread Max Bowsher
Gustavo Noronha Silva wrote: Hey Max! Em Sáb, 2006-06-10 às 06:23 -0500, Max Bowsher escreveu: Whilst pkg_resources.require() tolerates this, and still finds the json-py egg, setuptools' easy_install does *not* find it, because it performs filtering based on Python version declared in egg

Bug#373935: python-configobj: Installs python-version-specific .egg-info directory, breaking egg-iful usage on python2.4

2006-06-16 Thread Max Bowsher
Package: python-configobj Version: 4.3.1-1 Severity: normal The .egg-info directory installed by python-configobj includes the -py2.3 substring identifying it as version specific. Since the package tries to be handled through python-support, it should remove the version-specific specifier from

Bug#373387: [PATCH] New python policy for Subversion

2006-06-16 Thread Max Bowsher
tags 373387 patch done Here's an attempt at upgrading the package to the new Python policy. Max. Index: debian/control === --- debian/control (revision 588) +++ debian/control (working copy) @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ Priority:

Bug#376834: bidentd: Please package new upstream version 1.1.1, which has fixed the NONFREE-DOC issue

2006-07-05 Thread Max Bowsher
Package: bidentd Severity: important Justification for severity(important): An update to latest upstream would solve the bug which is currently keeping bidentd out of testing. Getting bidentd back into testing soon would be very nice, as it is not just yet another identd - it's an identd with a

Bug#376835: apt-show-versions: Misbehaves for mailman, probably due to explicit zero epoch

2006-07-05 Thread Max Bowsher
Package: apt-show-versions Version: 0.09 Severity: normal apt-show-versions is misbehaving for mailman. It says... # apt-show-versions mailman mailman 2.1.8-1 installed: No available version in archive ...but it is wrong, there is an available version... # apt-cache policy mailman mailman:

Bug#369394: mysqlhotcopy emits warning after upgrade to libdbd-mysql-perl 3.0004-1

2006-05-29 Thread Max Bowsher
is still active at the time of disconnect. Either calling $sth_vars-finish;, or moving the 5 lines concerning $sth_vars into an enclosing block to cause $sth_vars to go out of scope as soon as it is no longer required successfully avoid the warning. Max Bowsher. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Bug#370093: Installation aborts due to versioned conlicts being too loose on AMD64

2006-06-03 Thread Max Bowsher
Package: x11-common Version: 1:7.0.20 Severity: important x11-common contains versioned conflicts with many old xorg-x11 packages using the version specifier '= 6.9.0.dfsg.1-6'. However, there was an AMD64 binNMU into testing via testing-proposed-updates, of version 6.9.0.dfsg.1-6+b1, which

Bug#386318: python-setuptools: /usr/bin/easy_install-2.3 contains #!/usr/bin/python2.4

2006-09-06 Thread Max Bowsher
Package: python-setuptools Version: 0.6b3-3 Severity: normal /usr/bin/easy_install-2.3 contains a clearly invalid shebang of: #!/usr/bin/python2.4 This makes it rather difficult to perform easy_install maintenance on Python 2.3 packages. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Bug#380233: package transition leaves a mess of old ntp-server and ntp-simple stuff, including dangerous purge possibilities

2006-07-28 Thread Max Bowsher
Package: ntp Version: 1:4.2.2+dfsg-1 Severity: important Setting severity to important for now, since I cannot actually point to a specific policy directive, but this should quite possibly be elevated to serious. Upgrading to the 4.2.2 ntp packages, which merge the ntp-server and ntp-simple

Bug#380233: Increase 380233 severity to serious

2006-07-30 Thread Max Bowsher
to be sure that this issue receives human attention before testing migration, which the abnormal shortening of the 10-day delay due to the sticky high urgency persisting from two months ago might otherwise circumvent. Thanks, Max Bowsher. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Bug#380233: [pkg-ntp-maintainers] Bug#380233: package transition leaves a mess of old ntp-server and ntp-simple stuff, including dangerous purge possibilities

2006-07-30 Thread Max Bowsher
Peter Eisentraut wrote: Max Bowsher wrote: Upgrading to the 4.2.2 ntp packages, which merge the ntp-server and ntp-simple packages into the ntp package leaves the old packages in the 'config-files' state. In particular, this leaves active cron scripts under the name 'ntp-server', which

Bug#379007: update-grub updates default index incorrectly when one kernel version is a prefix of another

2006-07-20 Thread Max Bowsher
Package: grub Version: 0.97-12 Severity: normal Suppose you have kernel 2.6.15-1-somearch installed, and also have 2.6.15-1-somearch-somesuffix. If you set the default kernel to 2.6.15-1-somearch, and run update-grub with grub's 'update the default setting to continue pointing to the same

Bug#356877: mailman: private archive dir permissions insecure

2006-03-14 Thread Max Bowsher
Package: mailman Version: 2.1.7-1 Severity: important Mailman's postinst currently contains the following command: chmod o-r,o+x /var/lib/mailman/archives/private The effect of o+x permissions on this directory is that ANY local user has read access to ALL mailman mail archives, if they

Bug#427804: severity 427804 important

2008-02-23 Thread Max Bowsher
severity 427804 important thanks Based on my own and the other users comments above, I think it's reasonable to say that this bug has a major effect on the usability of the package. Max. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Bug#395499: Support for wct4xxp module dropped

2006-10-27 Thread Max Bowsher
Package: zaptel Version: 1:1.2.7.dfsg-1 Severity: important Justification: Renders package unusable to users of specific hardware Dropping support for wct4xxp represents a critical regression to people using that hardware. Ideally, a non-free package would have been created to avoid

Bug#525941: VerifyRelease: 16-digit-keyid is broken

2009-04-27 Thread Max Bowsher
Package: reprepro Version: 3.9.2-1 Severity: normal Tags: patch I was trying to set up an 'update', and provided a 'VerifyRelease:' with 16-digit keyid as specified in the manpage. It appeared to be ignored. After a bit of debugging, I found an off-by-one error in signature.c line 129:

Bug#522426: Info received ([Python-apps-team] Bug#522426: Bug#522426: Status on debian bug #522426 (Mercurial 1.2.1)?)

2009-04-28 Thread Max Bowsher
Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote: --- debian/rules (revision 2804) +++ debian/rules (working copy) @@ -10,17 +10,15 @@ include /usr/share/cdbs/1/rules/debhelper.mk include /usr/share/cdbs/1/rules/patchsys-quilt.mk DEB_INSTALL_DOCS_ALL= +DEB_PYTHON_DESTDIR =

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