Bug#1063470: debsums: man page documents removed "--generate=keep" option

2024-02-08 Thread Ben Harris
Package: debsums Version: 3.0.2.1 Severity: minor Dear Maintainer, The man debsums(1) man page says: -g, --generate=[missing|all][,keep[,nocheck]] ... keep Write the extracted/generated sums to /var/lib/dpkg/info/package.md5sums.

Bug#1062204: Acknowledgement (Newly-created clusters have restrictive postgresql.conf permissions)

2024-01-31 Thread Ben Harris
Control: found -1 patroni/3.1.1-1 I've just tested a couple of other versions of the Debian patroni package from snapshot.debian.org: 3.0.4-1 does not have the problem: postgresql.conf is world-readable. 3.1.1-1 has the problem: postgresql.conf is not world-readable. -- Ben Harris

Bug#1062204: Newly-created clusters have restrictive postgresql.conf permissions

2024-01-31 Thread Ben Harris
Package: patroni Version: 3.2.2-1 When Patroni creates a new PostgreSQL cluster, the postgresql.conf file in /etc/patroni// ends up without world read permission. This means that tools that use pg_wrapper (such as /usr/bin/psql) can't find the cluster's port number and don't work by default.

Bug#1037202: libunity9: Multi-Arch: same, but not co-installable

2023-06-07 Thread Ben Harris
/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled -- Ben Harris, University of Cambridge Information Services.

Bug#905852: Solo no longer crashes when resized very small

2023-02-16 Thread Ben Harris
. -- Ben Harris

Bug#729250: Pattern 1xn generation bug fixed in 2017

2023-02-16 Thread Ben Harris
that is for version 20191231.79a5378-1. To demonstrate the fix, run "sgt-pattern --generate 1000 1x1". Pattern will generate 1000 rather uninteresting puzzles in a fraction of a second. -- Ben Harris

Bug#550311: slant: shading of filled squares has always been configurable

2023-02-16 Thread Ben Harris
ise colour value changed to match the default background. -- Ben Harris

Bug#642207: Probably fixed upstream

2023-02-15 Thread Ben Harris
Control: tags -1 fixed-upstream I've just committed what I hope is an adequate fix for this upstream, adding "in order" to the description of each set of clues. https://git.tartarus.org/?p=simon/puzzles.git;a=commitdiff;h=232cbaf5a8affcb0c61f1355f0569efaae534ad9 -- Ben Harris

Bug#1025269: ITP dotnet in debian archive

2022-12-01 Thread Ben Harris
Package: dotnet-sdk-6.0 Version: 6.0.403-1 Severity: normal ITP for dotnet in debian -- System Information: Debian Release: 11.5 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux

Bug#835439: gdb --write segfaults on quit in _bfd_elf_strtab_finalize

2022-06-14 Thread Ben Harris
rgv) { printf("hello, world\n"); return 0; } wraith:/tmp/hello$ gcc -o hello hello.c wraith:/tmp/hello$ gdb --quiet --write hello Reading symbols from hello... (No debugging symbols found in hello) (gdb) quit wraith:/tmp/hello$ -- Ben Harris, University of Cambridge Information Services.

Bug#1012807: curl: "unexpected eof" from Patroni API endpoint after client upgrade to OpenSSL 3

2022-06-14 Thread Ben Harris
Package: curl Version: 7.83.1-1+b1 Severity: normal Control: fixed -1 7.83.0-1 Dear Maintainer, Patroni (Debian package "patroni") is a piece of cluster management software for PostgreSQL that provides an HTTPS endpoint for managing it. When connecting to a Patroni instance from curl 7.83.0-1

Bug#1003292: Unpassworded superuser account now causes errors in log

2022-03-28 Thread Ben Harris
confirm that having upgraded to 2.1.3-1.pgdg20.04+1 and removed the superuser password, I'm no longer seeing errors in the system log. Thank you! -- Ben Harris, University of Cambridge Information Services.

Bug#868568: [Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#868568: Possible cause of deluser problem: subordinate user IDs

2022-03-08 Thread Ben Harris
. -- Ben Harris, University of Cambridge Information Services.

Bug#868568: Possible cause of deluser problem: subordinate user IDs

2022-03-08 Thread Ben Harris
isable subordinate user-IDs entirely). -- Ben Harris, University of Cambridge Information Services.

Bug#1003292: Unpassworded superuser account now causes errors in log

2022-01-07 Thread Ben Harris
n the comment in config.yml.in rather than a bug in Patroni itself. -- Ben Harris, University of Cambridge Information Services.

Bug#994000: undertime: missing dependency ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'ephem'

2021-09-09 Thread Ben Harris
Package: undertime Version: 2.4.0 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, import ephem fails when running moonphases. installing python3-ephem resolves this issue; please add it as a dep. -- System Information: Debian Release: 11.0 APT prefers stable-security APT policy: (500,

Bug#990041: dehydrated: Incorrect filename for example domains.txt in README.Debian

2021-06-18 Thread Ben Harris
Package: dehydrated Version: 0.7.0-2 Severity: minor Dear Maintainer, In /usr/share/dehydrated/README.Debian, there is the following sentence about domains.txt: An example for a domain.txt can be found at /usr/share/doc/dehydrated/examples/domains.txt.example. This has two errors. A

Bug#989048: userv: client doesn't accept numeric UID on command line (probable doc bug)

2021-05-24 Thread Ben Harris
libc6 2.31-12 userv recommends no packages. userv suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- Ben Harris, University of Cambridge Information Services.

Bug#985845: pgbouncer: Obsolete URL in README.Debian

2021-03-24 Thread Ben Harris
python3 3.9.2-2 ii python3-psycopg2 2.8.6-2 -- Configuration Files: /etc/pgbouncer/pgbouncer.ini [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/etc/pgbouncer/pgbouncer.ini' /etc/pgbouncer/userlist.txt [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/etc/pgbouncer/userlist.txt' -- no debconf information -- Ben

Bug#983675: wev: Emits "invalid version" error at startup and consumes 100% CPU

2021-02-28 Thread Ben Harris
Package: wev Version: 1.0.0-2 Severity: important X-Debbugs-Cc: bj...@bjh21.me.uk Dear Maintainer, When run with no arguments, "wev" emits an error message and then hangs. "top" shows its CPU usage as 100.0% and on my laptop the fan starts up suggesting a lot of CPU usage. The precise error

Bug#959891: postgresql-client-12: pgbench is in the wrong package

2020-05-06 Thread Ben Harris
ql-12 12.2-4 pn postgresql-doc-12 -- no debconf information -- Ben Harris, University of Cambridge Information Services.

Bug#931637: Slight inaccuracy in explanation of "apt upgrade"

2019-07-08 Thread Ben Harris
rds "or installed" should be omitted from the end of the sentence. -- Ben Harris, University of Cambridge Information Services.

Bug#924926: libgpiod2 should not conflict with libgpiod1

2019-04-06 Thread Ben Harris
nstalled. I can't see any reason why they should interact badly. -- Ben Harris

Bug#924926: libgpiod2 should not conflict with libgpiod1

2019-03-18 Thread Ben Harris
Package: libgpiod2 Version: 1.2-3 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, The libgpiod2 package currently conflicts with libgpiod1. As far as I can tell, this is unnecessary. The two packages share no files and provide different SONAMEs, and seem to be co-installable. I have tried installing

Bug#916516: systemd: timedatectl mangles IPv6 address of NTP server

2018-12-15 Thread Ben Harris
/systemd/issues/11169 -- Ben Harris

Bug#916516: systemd: timedatectl mangles IPv6 address of NTP server

2018-12-15 Thread Ben Harris
On Sat, 15 Dec 2018, Michael Biebl wrote: Am 15.12.18 um 11:24 schrieb Ben Harris: Package: systemd Version: 239-13 Severity: minor Tags: ipv6 Dear Maintainer, I have configured timesyncd to use sntp.cam.ac.uk as an NTP server (see configuration below). That name resolves to 2001:630:212:8

Bug#916516: systemd: timedatectl mangles IPv6 address of NTP server

2018-12-15 Thread Ben Harris
Package: systemd Version: 239-13 Severity: minor Tags: ipv6 Dear Maintainer, I have configured timesyncd to use sntp.cam.ac.uk as an NTP server (see configuration below). That name resolves to 2001:630:212:8::123:20. However, if I run "timedatectl timesync-status" I get a different address:

Bug#912256: tigervnc-viewer: xtigervncviewer does not use the system X.509 root certificates by default

2018-10-29 Thread Ben Harris
ommends no packages. Versions of packages tigervnc-viewer suggests: ii tigervnc-common 1.9.0+dfsg-1 -- no debconf information -- Ben Harris, University of Cambridge Information Services.

Bug#876770: ssl: Connecting to TLS 1.0 server is complex and fragile

2017-09-25 Thread Ben Harris
a /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages libpython3.5-minimal depends on: ii libc6 2.24-17 ii libssl1.1 1.1.0f-5 Versions of packages libpython3.5-minimal recommends: ii libpython3.5-stdlib 3.5.4-2 libpython3.5-minimal suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- Ben Harris, University of Cambridge Information Services.

Bug#862935: installation-reports: vmlinuz missing from armhf netboot SD image

2017-06-18 Thread Ben Harris
://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/stretch/main/installer-armhf/current/images/netboot/SD-card-images/ today, and it works correctly (at least as far as the installer menu -- I don't currently want to overwrite my existing installation). Thank you. -- Ben Harris

Bug#864876: uservd leaks a file descriptor into service process

2017-06-16 Thread Ben Harris
fter the service is executed. I've also found the same behaviour in userv 1.1.1 on Debian GNU/Linux 8 (jessie). -- Ben Harris, University of Cambridge Information Services. -- System Information: Debian Release: 9.0 APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) K

Bug#862935: installation-reports: vmlinuz missing from armhf netboot SD image

2017-05-18 Thread Ben Harris
Package: installation-reports Severity: important -- Package-specific info: Boot method: netboot SD-card image Image version: http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/dists/testing/main/installer-armhf/current/images/netboot/SD-card-images/partition.img.gz [20170407] Date: 2017-05-18T22:00+01:00

Bug#862597: clang-3.9-doc: -doc package contains (almost) no documentation

2017-05-14 Thread Ben Harris
Package: clang-3.9-doc Version: 1:3.9.1-8 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable Dear Maintainer, According to its description, this package should contain documentation for Clang. It is, however, almost empty: wraith:~$ dpkg -L clang-3.9-doc /. /usr /usr/share

Bug#855414: python-pyvmomi-doc: include sample code

2017-02-17 Thread Ben Harris
yvmomi-doc/examples? That would make it rather easier for a beginner like me to know where to start. -- Ben Harris, University of Cambridge Information Services.

Bug#835439: gdb --write segfaults on quit in _bfd_elf_strtab_finalize

2016-12-13 Thread Ben Harris
. It looks like it's already been reported upstream: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=20948 -- Ben Harris, University of Cambridge Information Services.

Bug#848067: xorg: Xorg segfault in RRSetChanged at startup with MGA G550

2016-12-13 Thread Ben Harris
-xorg.alioth.debian.org/howto/use-gdb.html Note that the xorg.conf incantation to disable "mga" doesn't seem to have any effect, but I forgot to remove it. -- Ben Harris, University of Cambridge Information Services. Tel: (01223) 748438 GDB backtrace: #0 0x7fcbcf0c1067 in __GI_raise (sig=s

Bug#234107: Status of @ sign in Morse code

2016-10-16 Thread Ben Harris
, which would leave M.1677-1 as the best official definition of International Morse Code. M.1677-1 includes a code for '@', which I hope is definitive enough for the maintainer to add it to morse(6). Of course the manual page will need to be updated to refer to the new standard. -- Ben Harris

Bug#835439: gdb --write segfaults on quit in _bfd_elf_strtab_finalize

2016-08-25 Thread Ben Harris
ends: ii gdbserver 7.11.1-2 ii libc6-dbg [libc-dbg] 2.23-4 Versions of packages gdb suggests: pn gdb-doc -- no debconf information -- Ben Harris, University of Cambridge Information Services.

Bug#830777: nfs-common: rpc.idmapd does not start under systemd on a pure client system

2016-07-11 Thread Ben Harris
.ssh total 609 -rw-r--r-- 1 bjh21 bjh21616 Aug 14 2015 authorized_keys I think that nfs-common should arrange that rpc.idmapd is started even on systems without nfs-kernel-server installed, or at least that there is a note in NEWS.Debian telling users how to turn it back on. -- Be

Bug#797768: systemd: os-release(5) has outdated reference to CPE

2015-09-02 Thread Ben Harris
the reference to MITRE should probably be replaced by a reference to NIST, and the Web reference changed to point to <http://scap.nist.gov/specifications/cpe/>. -- Ben Harris, University of Cambridge Information Services. -- Package-specific info: -- System Information: Debian Release:

Bug#797768: systemd: os-release(5) has outdated reference to CPE

2015-09-02 Thread Ben Harris
bug number is 1121, and I've marked this one as forwarded to it (see above). -- Ben Harris, University of Cambridge Information Services.

Bug#795080: sks: cron.daily invokes db_archive, but no dependency on db-util

2015-08-10 Thread Ben Harris
like db_archive is provided by the db-util package, which is not installed on my system. sks depends on db5.3-util, but not on db-util. Maybe sks should be using db5.3_archive explicitly, or maybe it should depend on db-util. -- Ben Harris, University of Cambridge Information Services

Bug#770492: linux-image-3.16.0-4-686-pae: chown removes security.capability xattr on other users' files

2014-11-21 Thread Ben Harris
none pn firmware-linux-nonfree none pn firmware-myricomnone pn firmware-netxen none pn firmware-qlogic none pn firmware-ralink none pn firmware-realteknone pn xen-hypervisor none -- debconf information excluded -- Ben Harris, University

Bug#764318: libjpeg-progs still needs conflict with libjpeg-turbo-progs

2014-10-22 Thread Ben Harris
be fixed by a change to either one of those packages. In this case, it appears that changes to both packages were required. -- Ben Harris, University of Cambridge Information Services. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Bug#764318: libjpeg-progs still needs conflict with libjpeg-turbo-progs

2014-10-22 Thread Ben Harris
On Wed, 22 Oct 2014, Bill Allombert wrote: On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 11:12:24AM +0100, Ben Harris wrote: Control: clone -1 -2 Control: reassign -2 libjpeg-turbo-progs/1:1.3.1-3 Control: fixed -2 libjpeg-turbo-progs/1:1.3.1-6 Control: reassign -1 libjpeg-progs/1:9a-2 It looks like it's necessary

Bug#766105: 486 kernel doesn't boot on net4501; CC_STACKPROTECTOR_NONE helps

2014-10-22 Thread Ben Harris
running wheezy on an old kernel on another net4501 for some months now, and it makes a perfectly adequate DNS and DHCP server. It's possible that the rest of the archive is horribly broken, but the essential parts seem to work fine. -- Ben Harris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist

Bug#766105: 486 kernel doesn't boot on net4501; CC_STACKPROTECTOR_NONE helps

2014-10-21 Thread Ben Harris
to desupport the 486 in userland as well? -- Ben Harris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#766105: 486 kernel doesn't boot on net4501; CC_STACKPROTECTOR_NONE helps

2014-10-20 Thread Ben Harris
first enabled the kernel stack protector back in 2.6.31. I've tested the versions listed in the pseudo-headers. -- Ben Harris

Bug#766107: Description refers to wrong file name

2014-10-20 Thread Ben Harris
-package/Rationale.gz gzip: /usr/share/doc/kernel-package/Rationale.gz: No such file or directory It appears that the file is no longer supplied gzipped, and hence has lost its .gz extension. The description should be updated to match. -- Ben Harris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ

Bug#765499: Policy still thinks UIDs are 32-bit

2014-10-15 Thread Ben Harris
should be updated to (a) explicitly reserve the range from 65536 to 4294967294 inclusive for end-users, (b) reserve 4294967295 as the 32-bit (uid_t)(-1), and (c) note that 65535 is still reserved for compatibility with systems with 16-bit UIDs. -- Ben Harris, University of Cambridge

Bug#730430: bdf2psf: does not cope with short bitmap rows in BDF

2013-11-24 Thread Ben Harris
bdf2psf recommends no packages. bdf2psf suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- Ben Harris--- console-setup-1.102/Fonts/bdf2psf.orig 2011-03-19 02:01:10.0 + +++ console-setup-1.102/Fonts/bdf2psf 2013-11-25 00:02:44.0 + @@ -463,7 +463,7 @@ $row = hex ($1

Bug#726760: e2fsprogs: resize2fs requires ext4 kernel module for ext3 resize

2013-11-04 Thread Ben Harris
on-line so as to avoid wild goose chases like mine. -- Ben Harris, University of Cambridge Computing Service. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#727112: mt-st: description incorrectly says mt is diverted

2013-10-22 Thread Ben Harris
(replaces) with provides an alternative to. -- Ben Harris, University of Cambridge Computing Service. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#726760: e2fsprogs: resize2fs requires ext4 kernel module for ext3 resize

2013-10-18 Thread Ben Harris
1.42.8-1 ii libuuid12.20.1-5.5 ii util-linux 2.20.1-5.5 e2fsprogs recommends no packages. Versions of packages e2fsprogs suggests: pn e2fsck-static none ii gpart 0.1h-11+b1 ii parted 2.3-16 -- no debconf information -- Ben Harris, University of Cambridge Computing

Bug#726655: [PATCH] floppy: Correct documentation of driver options when used as a module.

2013-10-18 Thread Ben Harris
From: Ben Harris bj...@cam.ac.uk The options have to be passed space-separated and prefixed by floppy=, rather than separately and unprefixed. This fixes http://bugs.debian.org/726655. Signed-off-by: Ben Harris bj...@cam.ac.uk --- This patch is against Linux 3.12-rc5. --- linux-3.12-rc5

Bug#726655: linux-doc-3.10: blockdev/floppy.txt.gz incorrectly documents module option syntax

2013-10-17 Thread Ben Harris
-- no debconf information -- Ben Harris, University of Cambridge Computing Service. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#712379: ata_id byteswaps strings: fixed upstream and a patch

2013-06-17 Thread Ben Harris
Tags: patch This bug appears to have been fixed by this upstream commit: https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/hotplug/udev.git/commit/src/extras/ata_id/ata_id.c?id=2b2823b4b5c41ec629e346cc6dc8407f1d519eb4 I think that commit appears in udev 181. I've manually made an equivalent change to udev

Bug#668828: Updating found versions and confirming workaround

2013-06-16 Thread Ben Harris
for me. -- Ben Harris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#712379: ata_id: strings byteswapped on powerpc

2013-06-15 Thread Ben Harris
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Bug#653390: This may be a duplicate

2013-06-15 Thread Ben Harris
This bug seems to be an instance of bug #650588, so it should probably be reassigned to hw-detect and merged. I'm not quite confident enough to do that myself. -- Ben Harris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Bug#688252: vipw uses vi by default; should use /usr/bin/editor

2012-09-20 Thread Ben Harris
the translated man pages for vipw(8) need to be updated. -- Ben Harris, University of Cambridge Computing Service. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#688260: vipw: Erroneous No such file or directory error when editor fails

2012-09-20 Thread Ben Harris
a little later: if ( (-1 == pid) || (WIFEXITED (status) == 0) || (WEXITSTATUS (status) != 0)) { vipwexit (editor, 1, 1); While a return value of -1 from waitpid() will set errno, a successful return of a non-zero exit status will not. -- Ben

Bug#679387: TypeError: pull() got an unexpected keyword argument 'show_base'

2012-06-28 Thread Ben Harris
0.19-4 Versions of packages bzr-svn suggests: pn bzr-rewrite none -- no debconf information -- Ben Harris, University of Cambridge Computing Service. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Bug#669012: libdpkg-perl: Memory leak: Dpkg::Control objects not garbage-collected

2012-04-16 Thread Ben Harris
debian/rules check. -- Ben Harris, University of Cambridge Computing Service. -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-2-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap

Bug#665640: fuse-emulator-sdl: fuse aborts when pressing joystick button 10

2012-03-25 Thread Ben Harris
On Sun, 25 Mar 2012, Alberto Garcia wrote: On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 08:59:56PM +, Ben Harris wrote: The first ten buttons (numbered 0-9) seem to get interpreted by Fuse correctly, but if I press the eleventh button, fuse displays an error message, and when I press a key, aborts. I've

Bug#665640: fuse-emulator-sdl: fuse aborts when pressing joystick button 10

2012-03-24 Thread Ben Harris
button, fuse displays an error message, and when I press a key, aborts. The message is: fuse: error: get_fire_button_key: which = 0, button = 4366 Aborted -- Ben Harris -- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0.4 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel

Bug#611292: insserv treats corekeeper as invalid file name, inconsistent with manual's *.core unaccepted filename.

2012-02-27 Thread Ben Harris
@@ continue; } - if (!strncmp(d-d_name, core, strlen(core))) { + if (!strcmp(d-d_name, core)) { if (isarg) warn(script name %s is not valid, skipped!\n, d-d_name); continue; -- Ben Harris, University of Cambridge Computing Service

Bug#654714: libnfsidmap2: should replace/break old nfs-common

2012-01-05 Thread Ben Harris
to versions of nfs-common old enough to still contain that file. This would allow APT to work out that it shouldn't try to upgrade libnfsidmap2. -- Ben Harris, University of Cambridge Computing Service. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Bug#649588: Workaround

2011-12-01 Thread Ben Harris
worked. -- Ben Harris, University of Cambridge Computing Service. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#649588: apt: Could not perform immediate configuration on 'perl-modules'

2011-11-22 Thread Ben Harris
Package: apt Version: 0.8.15.9 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, When running apt-get dist-upgrade, I got a run of messages (below) ending with: E: Could not perform immediate configuration on 'perl-modules'. Please see man 5 apt.conf under APT::Immediate-Configure for details. (2) Looking

Bug#515754: acknowledged by developer (closing 515754)

2011-11-08 Thread Ben Harris
up with Oracle, or is it simply expected that non-Debian NFS servers will no longer work with Debian clients? -- Ben Harris, University of Cambridge Computing Service. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Bug#588915: postinst: /usr/sbin/update-initramfs: line 199: do_b: unbound variable

2010-08-19 Thread Ben Harris
I can confirm that, having upgraded initramfs-tools, my system now manages to configure the package correctly and build a working initrd. Thanks for fixing the problem. -- Ben Harris, University of Cambridge Computing Service. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ

Bug#588915: postinst: /usr/sbin/update-initramfs: line 199: do_b: unbound variable

2010-07-13 Thread Ben Harris
this problem, but better reporting of what it is would be nice. -- Ben Harris, University of Cambridge Computing Service. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#588915: postinst: /usr/sbin/update-initramfs: line 199: do_b: unbound variable

2010-07-13 Thread Ben Harris
conffiles for initramfs-tools appear to be unmodified as well. -- Ben Harris, University of Cambridge Computing Service. Tel: (01223) 334728# # Configuration file for update-initramfs(8) # # # update_initramfs [ yes | all | no ] # # Default is yes # If set to all update-initramfs will update all

Bug#584531: aptitude: Couldn't clean out list directories if current directory inaccessible

2010-06-04 Thread Ben Harris
Package: aptitude Version: 0.6.1.5-3 Severity: normal On my system, users' home directories are mounted by NFS and aren't accessible by root. This seems to upset aptitude if I run aptitude update when su'ed to root in my home directory: wraith:/home/bjh21# aptitude update Hit

Bug#578527: bsdmainutils: [cal] ncal -J displays wrong date for today

2010-04-20 Thread Ben Harris
Package: bsdmainutils Version: 8.0.10 Severity: normal According to cal(1), there is an option to ncal: -J Display Julian Calendar, if combined with the -e option, display date of Easter according to the Julian Calendar. When I use this, though, I get a rather odd result:

Bug#573571: insserv fails if cwd inaccessible by root

2010-03-12 Thread Ben Harris
GNU C Library: Shared lib insserv recommends no packages. Versions of packages insserv suggests: pn bootchart none (no description available) -- no debconf information -- Ben Harris, University of Cambridge Computing Service. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs

Bug#515754: nfs-common: Mounting with sec=krb5p fails with access denied by server while mounting

2010-03-01 Thread Ben Harris
found 515754 1:1.2.1-3 thanks On Sun, 28 Feb 2010, Iustin Pop wrote: On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 01:30:22PM +, Ben Harris wrote: Package: nfs-common Version: 1:1.1.4-1 Severity: important When attempting to mount an NFS filesystem using Kerberos 5 security, I get an error: wraith:/tmp

Bug#565421: rpm -i should not need --force-debian for source packages

2010-01-15 Thread Ben Harris
Subject: rpm -i should not need --force-debian for source packages Package: rpm Version: 4.7.2-1+b1 Severity: normal When I try to unpack a source package, this happens: wraith:/tmp$ rpm -i gnome-panel-2.24.1-2.27.1.src.rpm rpm: please use alien to install rpm packages on Debian, if you are

Bug#563741: bzr explodes messily on filenames containing LF

2010-01-04 Thread Ben Harris
with python ii python-pycurl 7.18.2-1 Python bindings to libcurl pn xdg-utils none (no description available) Kernel version: Linux chiark 2.6.16.60 #1 SMP Sun Feb 10 14:48:32 GMT 2008 i686 GNU/Linux .bzr.log is attached. -- Ben Harris this is a debug log for diagnosing

Bug#559314: lldpd reports incorrect maximum frame size

2009-12-03 Thread Ben Harris
Package: lldpd Version: 0.4.0-2 Severity: normal I'm running lldpd on a machine whose main network interface looks like: eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:c0:4f:68:12:cb inet addr:131.111.11.78 Bcast:131.111.255.255 Mask:255.255.0.0 inet6 addr:

Bug#559314: lldpd reports incorrect maximum frame size

2009-12-03 Thread Ben Harris
On Thu, 3 Dec 2009, Vincent Bernat wrote: OoO En ce début d'après-midi ensoleillé du jeudi 03 décembre 2009, vers 15:51, Ben Harris bj...@cam.ac.uk disait : Thus, lldpd should set this field to 1518, 1522, or some other number depending on the network driver's support for tagged VLANs

Bug#514958: Seems fixed in 1.1.2-6lenny1

2009-05-11 Thread Ben Harris
fixed 1:1.1.2-6lenny1 thanks On my system, neither the manual page nor the --help output mentions --mounted. Both refer to --mounts instead, so it looks like the documentation was fixed between 1:1.0.10-6+etch.1 and 1:1.1.2-6lenny1. -- Ben Harris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs

Bug#515754: nfs-common: Mounting with sec=krb5p fails with access denied by server while mounting

2009-02-17 Thread Ben Harris
Package: nfs-common Version: 1:1.1.4-1 Severity: important When attempting to mount an NFS filesystem using Kerberos 5 security, I get an error: wraith:/tmp# mount -osec=krb5p ghast.csi.cam.ac.uk:/export/home/bjh21 /mnt mount.nfs: access denied by server while mounting

Bug#503971: trn editor patch

2008-11-25 Thread Ben Harris
Um, yes, when I said nano I meant editor. I clearly forgot to tweak the patch from the version in my local package. Sorry about that. -- Ben Harris, University of Cambridge Computing Service. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Bug#503968: trn replaces local KILL files unsafely

2008-10-29 Thread Ben Harris
was running trn on a system where unlinked files aren't readable at all, so all my lovely rules got eaten, but I appreciate that such systems aren't relevant to Debian. ] -- Ben Harris, University of Cambridge Computing Service.--- kfile.c.orig 1994-11-19 06:01:19.0 +

Bug#503971: trn uses /usr/bin/emacs by default

2008-10-29 Thread Ben Harris
patch fixes this. -- Ben Harris, University of Cambridge Computing Service. Tel: (01223) 334728The Debian version of Pnews uses Emacs by default. It really should be /usr/bin/editor, but openSUSE doesn't have one of those, so we'll resort to Nano, which is a little less novice-hostile than vi

Bug#420594: Add Catalyst::View::Mason?

2007-04-23 Thread Ben Harris
Package: libcatalyst-modules-perl Version: 15 Severity: wishlist Debian has Catalyst and HTML::Mason, but it doesn't have Catalyst::View::Mason, which would glue them together. Could we have it, please, either in libcatalyst-modules-perl or in its own package? TIA. -- Ben Harris, University

Bug#413873: Bit of documentation missing

2007-03-07 Thread Ben Harris
the syntax of if, elif, and else, which appear to be present in the SGML source, are missing in the HTML and PostScript. -- Ben Harris, University of Cambridge Computing Service. Tel: (01223) 334728 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Bug#392735: Bug still present

2007-01-19 Thread Ben Harris
: 1.0.65-10 -- Ben Harris, University of Cambridge Computing Service. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#306279: dup merging

2005-06-06 Thread Ben Harris
merge 306279 306385 severity 306279 serious thanks Marked as serious because: If two packages cannot be installed together, one must list the other in its Conflicts: field. http://release.debian.org/sarge_rc_policy.txt -- Ben Harris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Bug#132054: This qualifies as serious

2005-06-06 Thread Ben Harris
different functionality, and hence this bug matches the following criterion for serious: Packages must not install programs in the default PATH with different functionality with the same file name, even if they Conflict:. http://release.debian.org/sarge_rc_policy.txt -- Ben