Bug#479711: eval require Foo with binary-incompatible XS modules

2008-05-30 Thread Brendan O'Dea
On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 10:31 PM, Andy Dougherty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 15 May 2008, Niko Tyni wrote: we're currently doing the 5.8.8 - 5.10.0 transition in Debian, and the binary incompatibility in the XS module interface is biting us in an unexpected way. In a nutshell, it's

Bug#466874: marked as done (perl: file overlap with libarchive-tar-perl)

2008-03-09 Thread Brendan O'Dea
clone 466874 -1 reassign -1 libarchive-tar-perl retitle -1 Add diversion for /usr/bin/ptar{,diff} thanks On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 02:35:39PM +0200, Niko Tyni wrote: Sorry to be such a bother, but this still doesn't fix it. With 5.10.0-5 from incoming: dpkg: error processing

Bug#221790: perl: please kick out that annoying locale warning

2008-03-08 Thread Brendan O'Dea
On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 10:54:55PM +0200, era eriksson wrote: How about adding something like this to /etc/skel/.bash_profile instead of fixing a warning in Perl which is, per se, correct and warranted? case `perl -e 1 21` in *'perl: warning: Setting locale failed'*) echo .bash_profile:

Bug#466874: perl: file overlap with libarchive-tar-perl

2008-03-01 Thread Brendan O'Dea
On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 08:53:32AM +0200, Niko Tyni wrote: Umph, it doesn't in 5.10.0-4. The perl-modules conflict version number update doesn't fix this, as the libarchive-tar-perl package in sid has the same version as Perl 5.10.0. Bugger. Will fix. You probably want to get the dep changed

Bug#466983: perl-modules: Term::Cap does not work due to missing termcap

2008-02-22 Thread Brendan O'Dea
On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 10:44:45AM +0100, Slaven Rezic wrote: The oneliner below does not work. It surely worked some weeks ago: $ perl -MTerm::Cap -e 'my $terminal = Tgetent Term::Cap { TERM = undef, OSPEED = 9600 };' Can't find a valid termcap file at -e line 1 Obviously /etc/termcap or a

Bug#466874: perl: Please provide libarchive-tar-perl

2008-02-22 Thread Brendan O'Dea
On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 08:45:06PM +0200, Niko Tyni wrote: Oops, sorry for my hastiness. I see perl-modules 5.10.0-3 already provides libarchive-tar-perl. Yup, although it appears that there is a newer version in 5.10.0 than was in the RCs. I've bumped to version for the next upload. So the

Bug#465783: perl: ExtUtils::Install upgrade in Perl 5.10 breaks too many packages

2008-02-22 Thread Brendan O'Dea
On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 09:39:42AM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: On Thu, 14 Feb 2008, Niko Tyni wrote: I run a few greps on debian/rules of the source packages of all the binary packages matching '-perl' in unstable. Results: at least 398 arch:all and 38 arch:any packages apparently do an

Bug#466983: perl-modules: Term::Cap does not work due to missing termcap

2008-02-22 Thread Brendan O'Dea
reassign 466983 ncurses-bin close 466983 thanks On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 02:44:23PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since Debian doesn't ship /etc/termcap, the Term::Cap module kludges one up with 'infocmp -C'. [...] $ infocmp -C infocmp: symbol lookup error: infocmp: undefined symbol:

Bug#461553: libapt-pkg-perl: incorrect documentation for AptPkg::Cache::Version-{DependsList}

2008-01-28 Thread Brendan O'Dea
On Sat, Jan 19, 2008 at 03:39:53PM +0200, Niko Tyni wrote: According to the documentation, AptPkg::Cache::Version-{DependsList} provides the reverse dependencies. This seems to be incorrect. Oops, looks like a cut and paste error. Thanks. --bod -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#49669: pos($a)-information lost after { local($a) }

2008-01-26 Thread Brendan O'Dea
tags 49669 pending thanks On Thu, Jan 10, 2008 at 11:05:53PM +0100, Moritz Lenz wrote: It seems this bug is fixed in upstream version 5.10.0: Thanks, The Perl 5.10 package is currently in experimental, and will be uploaded to unstable once some issues with packaged modules are resolved. I'll

Bug#460915: perl-modules: Please Provides/Replaces/Conflicts libversion-perl

2008-01-26 Thread Brendan O'Dea
On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 05:08:30PM +0100, gregor herrmann wrote: AFAICS version.pm is in perl-modules 5.10 (perl-modules: /usr/share/perl/5.10.0/version.pm); please add a Provides/Replaces/Conflicts like it's there for some other modules. Thanks, done. --bod -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#461876: perl_5.10.0-2(experimental/mipsel/mimir): FTBFS: Testsuite failure in ext/IO/t/io_sock.t

2008-01-26 Thread Brendan O'Dea
On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 11:52:21AM +0100, Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt wrote: | ext/IO/t/io_sock..FAILED--expected test 11, saw test 12 That's puzzling. Is the build tree still around? If so, does the test fail consistently? Run: cd t; ./perl

Bug#461626: debsums: /var/games/bastet.scores checked, shouldn't be

2008-01-24 Thread Brendan O'Dea
reassign 461626 bastet thanks On Sun, Jan 20, 2008 at 12:26:53AM +, phil wrote: debsums detects that /var/games/bastet.scores has changed. I would have thought that all files in /var/ would be skipped. Certainly scores files should be! Is this a debsums or bastet issue? A problem with

Bug#458135: libperl-dev from experimental depends on wrong package name

2007-12-29 Thread Brendan O'Dea
On Fri, Dec 28, 2007 at 10:12:01PM +, peter green wrote: The name of the libperl package has been changed to libperl5.10 in experimental but the dependency in the libperl-dev package has not been changed to match. This renders experimentals version of libperl-dev uninstallable. Drats,

Bug#458199: CGI(3perl): relative-0 -- relative=0

2007-12-29 Thread Brendan O'Dea
tags 458199 + unreproducible close 458199 thanks On Sat, Dec 29, 2007 at 02:02:46PM +, Reuben Thomas wrote: Package: perl-doc Version: 5.8.8-12 Severity: minor Typo as per subject in man page. Looks correct to me: $ man CGI | fgrep relative | fgrep \ $relative_url =

Bug#458143: libpod-simple-perl FTBFS with perl from experimental

2007-12-29 Thread Brendan O'Dea
On Fri, Dec 28, 2007 at 07:21:49PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: gregor herrmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ... as you said this affects a few hundred [0] of our packages. Uh. (How does Makefile.PL have to be invoked differently?) $(PERL) Makefile.PL INSTALLDIRS=vendor \

Bug#458143: libpod-simple-perl FTBFS with perl from experimental

2007-12-29 Thread Brendan O'Dea
On Sat, Dec 29, 2007 at 03:50:14PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: Even if we decide to reintroduce this bug into Perl 5.10 to keep existing Debian build scripts working, we should still fix the Makefile.PL invocations in all of our packages so that the directory isn't created with either 5.8 or 5.10

Bug#457760: perl_5.10.0-1(experimental/i386/demosthenes): test suite failure in ext/Sys/Syslog/t/syslog

2007-12-27 Thread Brendan O'Dea
On Tue, Dec 25, 2007 at 01:26:11PM +0100, Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt wrote: Package: perl Version: 5.10.0-1 Severity: serious Tags: experimental Heya, Building perl 5.10 failed on all my buildds due to the same test suite failure: | ext/Sys/Syslog/t/syslog...#

Bug#457176: perl: new upstream version available

2007-12-20 Thread Brendan O'Dea
severity 457176 wishlist tags 457176 + pending thanks On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 11:03:22AM +0100, Klaus Ita wrote: Well, perl 5.10.0 has been released. Debian might want do bounce to that? It is being worked on. --bod -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Bug#453988: Mass bug filing: debian/changelog must be utf8

2007-12-10 Thread Brendan O'Dea
On Sun, Dec 02, 2007 at 05:18:16PM +0100, Bas Zoetekouw wrote: According to the lintian checks at [2] and [3], your package does not comply with this goal yet, and uses a different encoding for debian/changelog To fix this, simply filter the file through iconv -f original_encoding -t utf8. E:

Bug#421782: marked as done (icedove doesn't notice remotely created IMAP folders)

2007-11-29 Thread Brendan O'Dea
On 29/11/2007, Debian Bug Tracking System [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Set umask to ensure created .md5sums are readable (closes: #421782). Whups, typo in changelog: this closes #421792. Sorry for the spam. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Bug#443530: Compliment debsums/apt-autogen for missing md5sums

2007-11-28 Thread Brendan O'Dea
On Sat, Sep 22, 2007 at 03:20:43PM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: Please consider to include attached patch to address this issue. Thanks! Applied. --bod -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#376329: still reproduces

2007-11-27 Thread Brendan O'Dea
Version: 5.10.0~rc1-1 On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 04:20:34PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: I can still reproduce using the test case with ii perl 5.8.8-12 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction and Report Also a problem with 5.10.0-RC1. --bod -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#343831: perl: warn causes segmentation fault due to infinite recursion

2007-11-26 Thread Brendan O'Dea
On Mon, Nov 26, 2007 at 05:09:35PM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: found 343831 5.8.8-12 This appears to have been fixed in 5.10.0 which should be released before too long. --bod -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#451317: perl: corrupted double-linked list error

2007-11-15 Thread Brendan O'Dea
On Thu, Nov 15, 2007 at 12:13:53PM +1300, srdjan wrote: *** glibc detected *** perl: corrupted double-linked list: 0xaae91d28 Can you provide a small sample perl program which causes this behaviour? --bod -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Bug#450794: CVE-2007-5116 buffer overflow in the polymorphic opcode regcomp.c

2007-11-10 Thread Brendan O'Dea
On Sat, Nov 10, 2007 at 07:00:17PM +0100, Nico Golde wrote: the following CVE (Common Vulnerabilities Exposures) id was published for perl. Upload is waiting for ftp-master to come back. --bod -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Bug#450456: perl: DSA 1400-1: heap overflow

2007-11-07 Thread Brendan O'Dea
On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 12:09:30AM +1100, Steffen Joeris wrote: Package: perl The patch used for this update is below. The CVE number is CVE-2007-5116. Please mention it in your changelog, when you fix this bug. Thanks, will apply and build tonight. --bod -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Bug#448965: perl: Time::HiRes ualarm with arg greater than 1 sec gives EINVAL

2007-11-06 Thread Brendan O'Dea
found 448965 5.8.8-9 thanks On 06/11/2007, Matthijs Melchior [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Brendan O'Dea wrote: [drivel about usleep] Oops, sorry... Yes, indeed, there is no problem with usleep. The problem I noticed is with ualarm: setitimer(ITIMER_REAL, {it_interval={0, 0}, it_value={0

Bug#449296: pod2man: .3pm manpages get wrong section 3

2007-11-05 Thread Brendan O'Dea
On Sun, Nov 04, 2007 at 09:23:29PM +0100, Jan Beyer wrote: Package: perl Version: 5.8.8-11.1 Severity: normal Manpages with the extension 3pm will get section 3 assigned, which makes lintian complain. Please add something to the script to assign it the correct 3pm section. Some more detail

Bug#448965: perl: Time::HiRes ualarm with arg greater than 1 sec gives EINVAL

2007-11-05 Thread Brendan O'Dea
On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 11:00:21PM +0100, Matthijs Melchior wrote: Time::HiRes ualarm does not work anymore. The following command will demonstrate the error from the 'setitimer' system call: strace perl -e 'use Time::HiRes qw(ualarm); ualarm 200; sleep 4; ualarm 20; sleep 4' Works for

Bug#421792: /var/lib/dpkg/info/*.md5sums inherits from package

2007-10-31 Thread Brendan O'Dea
reassign 421792 debsums thanks On 31/10/2007, Sven Joachim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are you sure? For the binutils package this does not seem to be the case; the version in my apt cache does not have an md5sums file. Probably the submitter's binutils.md5sums file was created by debsums.

Bug#138752: please at least document this limitation

2007-09-27 Thread Brendan O'Dea
On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 01:50:30PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just spent a little while understanding why help2man -h '-h' foo was returning help2man: can't get `-h' info from foo In order to save the next person the trouble, I have a suggestion. If you plan to not handle output on

Bug#435126: dpkg-source please ignore vcs dirs for native packages too

2007-09-26 Thread Brendan O'Dea
On 9/22/07, Frank Lichtenheld [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 08:33:05PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: A good opportunity to change the default behaviour of dpkg-source would be the addition of wigpen build support, BTW ;) The problem with generating WP format is that you need

Bug#435126: dpkg-source please ignore vcs dirs for native packages too

2007-09-26 Thread Brendan O'Dea
On 9/26/07, Raphael Hertzog [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: BTW, do you have pointers summing up everything what's already defined concerning WP ? The canonical documentation was the dpkg.org wiki, which I have a tarball of, but no good place to host right now. Scott gave a good, concise description

Bug#319615: Why not for (EXPR; EXPR; EXPR) BLOCK continue BLOCK ?

2007-09-20 Thread Brendan O'Dea
On Sat, Jul 23, 2005 at 10:25:20AM -0400, Anthony DeRobertis wrote: perlsyn says you can't have for (EXPR; EXPR; EXPR) BLOCK continue BLOCK (or at least doesn't list it as allowed). Unfortunately, perl seems to agree: $ perl -e 'for ($i = 0; $i 10; ++$i) { } continue { }' syntax error at

Bug#443236: missing dependency on libfcgi-perl

2007-09-20 Thread Brendan O'Dea
On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 11:16:50PM +0300, Niko Tyni wrote: The libcgi-fast-perl package used to depend on libfcgi-perl, but the dependency was lost with the switch to perl-modules. Yes, because I wasn't prepared to add a dependency on libfcgi-perl to perl-modules. This was the reason I split the

Bug#443353: incorrect -march for armel port

2007-09-20 Thread Brendan O'Dea
On Thu, Sep 20, 2007 at 10:28:24PM +0300, Riku Voipio wrote: Armel arch needs atleast -march=armv4t to work, which is the default for gcc on it. However, since -9 - -10, perl started applying -march=armv3 for armel. This appears to be due to a fix to actually apply -march=armv3 for the old arm

Bug#361140: perl-doc: error messages with perlop(1): a space character is not allowed in an escape name

2007-09-19 Thread Brendan O'Dea
Version: 5.8.8-8 On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 10:36:36PM +0100, Julian Gilbey wrote: man perlop gives the following error message: tmpfilename:1112: a space character is not allowed in an escape name tmpfilename:1165: a space character is not allowed in an escape name Fixed. --bod -- To

Bug#377385: perl-modules should depend on perl-base (= 5.8.8-8)

2007-09-18 Thread Brendan O'Dea
On Mon, Sep 17, 2007 at 05:41:07PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: there is now another instance of bug #377385: Some modules have been moved to perl-base, but perl-modules does not depend on that newer version. This causes interesting problems like #442866 and #442869, so please fix the dependencies.

Bug#442805: please do not recommend perl-doc

2007-09-18 Thread Brendan O'Dea
On Sun, Sep 16, 2007 at 10:30:27PM -0400, Philippe Cloutier wrote: On September 16, 2007 09:57:24 pm Brendan O'Dea wrote: There is a bit of history with the perl-doc package... The perl community has been at times very critical of the fact that the docs are split out *at all*. The argument

Bug#442805: please do not recommend perl-doc

2007-09-16 Thread Brendan O'Dea
tags 442805 + wontfix thanks On Sun, Sep 16, 2007 at 07:44:52PM -0400, Philippe Cloutier wrote: perl is found on almost all systems, but perl-doc is only found in 13.41% of installs, despite it being currently recommended by perl. This speaks for itself; systems with perl and without perl-doc

Bug#441835: debsums: UTF-8 encoded man pages

2007-09-12 Thread Brendan O'Dea
reassign 441835 po4a thanks On Tue, Sep 11, 2007 at 12:41:58PM +0100, Reuben Thomas wrote: The following manpages in your package appear to be UTF-8 encoded: /usr/share/man/sv/man1/debsums.1.gz /usr/share/man/sv/man8/debsums_gen.8.gz According to Colin Watson, With some exceptions for Far

Bug#441835: debsums: UTF-8 encoded man pages

2007-09-12 Thread Brendan O'Dea
On Wed, Sep 12, 2007 at 08:59:22PM +1000, Brendan O'Dea wrote: I'm not very familiar with the po4a code, but have attached a simple proof of concept script which could perhaps be of help in adding this feature to po4a. Bugger. Really attaching this script this time... --bod #!/usr/bin/perl

Bug#430524: Workaround for timezone bug

2007-08-05 Thread Brendan O'Dea
On Sun, Aug 05, 2007 at 07:05:10PM +0200, Martin Pitt wrote: Oh, weird; thanks for pointing this out. As I recall, the rationale was so that symlinks created by the administrator were not clobbered on upgrade--consider the case where an admin running low on space moves /usr/lib/some-huge-package

Bug#430524: Workaround for timezone bug

2007-08-04 Thread Brendan O'Dea
On Sat, Aug 04, 2007 at 01:00:00PM +0200, Martin Pitt wrote: Aah, I got it now. This is evidently a dpkg bug. The previous version ships /usr/share/postgresql/8.2/timezone/ with content, the next version ships a symlink /usr/share/postgresql/8.2/timezone - ../../timezone. When purging the old

Bug#434433: apt-show-versions fails to install

2007-07-24 Thread Brendan O'Dea
On Tue, Jul 24, 2007 at 09:01:51PM +0100, Marcos Marado wrote: OK, the working machine outputs nothing, but the non-working says: $ perl -e use Scalar::Util 'weaken' Weak references are not implemented in the version of perl at -e line 1 BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at -e line 1. The bad

Bug#428445: [PATCH] rcsdiff must accept -U

2007-07-18 Thread Brendan O'Dea
The usage -N to specify lines of context is no longer supported by diff: $ rcsdiff -u10 foo [...] /usr/bin/diff: `-10' option is obsolete; use `-U 10' $ rcsdiff -U 10 foo rcsdiff: unknown option: -U Trivial patch attached. --bod diff -Naur rcs-5.7.orig/src/rcsdiff.c

Bug#432261: perl-modules: /etc/Net is way too generic a configuration file name for this package

2007-07-09 Thread Brendan O'Dea
merge 432261 425850 thanks On Sun, Jul 08, 2007 at 09:28:56PM +0200, sean finney wrote: while smacking my tab key around in /etc, i noticed the file /etc/Net. It's a screw-up. The file libnet.cfg was meant to be installed under /etc/perl/Net, not as /etc/Net . Will be fixed in the next

Bug#243125: Implementation of #243125 (libapt-pkg-perl) would help solving #363104 (apt-show-versions)

2007-06-17 Thread Brendan O'Dea
On Sun, Apr 15, 2007 at 08:57:35AM +0200, Andreas Hoenen wrote: may I kindly ask for your plans on creating something like AptPkg::Policy as a wrapper around the APT class pkgPolicy. I've added AptPkg::Policy to 0.1.21 --bod -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Bug#429017: libapt-pkg-perl 0.1.20 can't be installed

2007-06-15 Thread Brendan O'Dea
merge 334958 429017 thanks On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 03:08:40PM +0200, Andrea Cavaglieri wrote: I can't install the package in subject because the virtual package libapt-pkg-libc6.3-6-3.11 isn't installable (or better, package apt provides libapt-pkg-libc6.5-6-4.4 but not

Bug#236567: closed by [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas Bushnell, BSG) (Bug#236567: fixed in ifhp 3.5.20-6)

2007-06-05 Thread Brendan O'Dea
reopen 236567 found 3.5.20-10 thanks On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 11:39:40PM +, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: This is an automatic notification regarding your Bug report #236567: HP LaserJet 6L doesn't do postscript, which was filed against the ifhp package. The change to ifhp.conf as

Bug#421656: perl-doc: extra comma

2007-05-02 Thread Brendan O'Dea
On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 08:09:14PM -0500, Steve Peters wrote: On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 03:49:51AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote: $ perldoc -f push push ARRAY,LIST ,---extra comma I'm not sure where you are seeing the comma because that line of pod/perlfunc.pod has been unchanged in over

Bug#419846: 32-bit/64-bit difference with tell on scalar I/O handle

2007-04-19 Thread Brendan O'Dea
On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 10:12:37AM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: This NV/IV difference causes problems for some test harnesses. Why? --bod -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#419137: help2man: Fails to recognise correct application name when using with KDE applications

2007-04-16 Thread Brendan O'Dea
On Fri, Apr 13, 2007 at 08:38:04PM -0500, Raphael wrote: But it could be modified so either the program name can be specified from CLI or by checking if the program name is Qt: then check for the last line to retrieve the real application name. Sorry, I won't be special-casing the program for

Bug#416274: copyright doesnt specify the source location

2007-03-30 Thread Brendan O'Dea
On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 03:18:42PM +0200, Holger Levsen wrote: quoting debian policy, 12.5 Copyright information: ..In addition, the copyright file must say where the upstream sources (if any) were obtained. Note if any. There are no upstream sources as such. This is a native debian package,

Bug#412490: [INTL:gl] Galician debconf templates translation for debsums

2007-03-14 Thread Brendan O'Dea
On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 12:55:27PM +0100, Jacobo Tarrio wrote: Package: debsums Severity: wishlist Tags: l10n patch # Galician translation of debsums's debconf templates Applied, thanks. --bod -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Bug#413093: use udev to update disk leds

2007-03-02 Thread Brendan O'Dea
Package: nslu2-utils Version: 0.10+r71-9 The attached udev config will set the appropriate NSLU2 disk leds to indicate which ports have a device connected. Requires removing the leds disk-1 on change to /etc/init.d/zleds. --bod SUBSYSTEM==usb, DEVPATH==*/usb3/3-[12], ACTION==add,

Bug#411038: powerpc arch problems with 2.4 kernel

2007-02-25 Thread Brendan O'Dea
On Sun, Feb 25, 2007 at 12:48:26AM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: So, $(DEBDIR)/ruleset/misc/version_vars.mk is called before $(DEBDIR)/ruleset/architecture.mk; and the former should define $(VERSION) and friends. It looks like the problem is related to $(KERNEL_VERSION. If I add

Bug#411038: powerpc arch problems with 2.4 kernel

2007-02-15 Thread Brendan O'Dea
Package: kernel-package Version: 10.066 Trying to build a 2.4 kernel with make-kpkg on powerpc fails as follows: [vir:/usr/src/linux] fakeroot make-kpkg --revision=vir.0 kernel-image exec debian/rules DEBIAN_REVISION=vir.0 kernel-image /bin/sh: line 0: [: -lt: unary operator expected

Bug#406570: perl -w: add tip: $ perhaps should be @

2007-02-09 Thread Brendan O'Dea
On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 08:15:31AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote: It is much more likely the user (er, current user, er, me) was trying to do a slice than a multidimensional array, so both diagnostics and the basic messages should be enhanced to consider this! Error messages are not meant to teach

Bug#406266: debsums: blocking open is a problem

2007-01-27 Thread Brendan O'Dea
On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 06:18:04PM -0500, Alan Curry wrote: fsck had fixed several files, and one of them got fixed real good - it went from being a normal boring man page to being a named pipe (prwS--S-wT or some such nonsense). debsums was blocked trying to open it because, as you might expect,

Bug#405470: perl-doc: sort says see sort

2007-01-04 Thread Brendan O'Dea
On Thu, Jan 04, 2007 at 03:48:41AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote: Package: perl-doc Version: 5.8.8-6.1 Severity: wishlist $ perldoc -f sort|grep See\ sort ways quite probably will. See sort. While this perhaps could be clearer, read it in context: [...] 5.8 has a sort pragma for

Bug#401984: perl-doc: perlfunc(1) does not mention Regexp built-in reference type

2006-12-07 Thread Brendan O'Dea
On Thu, Dec 07, 2006 at 02:08:59AM -0500, Frederic Briere wrote: The description of ref() in perlfunc(1) features a list of built-in reference types. Although the wording makes it sound non-exhaustive (Builtin types include), it seems rather complete to me, with the exception of the Regexp type:

Bug#398331: Integrate libnet-perl in perl-modules

2006-11-18 Thread Brendan O'Dea
tags 398331 + pending thanks On Tue, Nov 07, 2006 at 09:45:50PM +0100, Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt wrote: Here is the patch we talked about in IRC. This includes all patches applied on libnet-perl that were not yet in perl-modules, a control file conflict with the last libnet-perl version and a new

Bug#397237: libperl5.8: package is empty

2006-11-06 Thread Brendan O'Dea
My mail or the BTS must be lagging somewhat. Forgive me if I repeat myself. On Sun, Nov 05, 2006 at 03:05:46PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: On Sun, Nov 05, 2006 at 11:57:19PM +0100, Nicolas Boullis wrote: On Sun, Nov 05, 2006 at 02:47:15PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: But clearly if you're

Bug#396583: libgcj-common: Link to gcj-4.1-base makes checksums mismatch

2006-11-02 Thread Brendan O'Dea
On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 06:10:57PM +0100, Marc-Jano Knopp wrote: libgcj-common installs a symlink from /usr/share/doc/libgcj-common to /usr/share/doc/gcj-4.1-base, which makes checksums mismatch: Looking at the current packages, it doesn't appear that either libgcj-common or gcj-4.1-base includes

Bug#389528: debsums: Trivial update for French, Russian and Swedish po manpages

2006-10-31 Thread Brendan O'Dea
On Tue, Sep 26, 2006 at 10:13:15AM +0200, Frédéric Bothamy wrote: Please find attached a trivial patch to fix manpage translations for French, Russian and Swedish. You may want to manually unfuzzyfy such translation strings for simple english corrections. Thanks Fred. (this bug is similar to

Bug#389035: debsums: [INTL:pt_BR] Brazilian Portuguese debconf templates translation

2006-10-31 Thread Brendan O'Dea
On Sat, Sep 23, 2006 at 10:36:53AM -0300, Herbert P Fortes Neto wrote: Please consider Brazilian Portuguese translation for debsums debconf templates. I'm sending attached debsums_pt_BR.po.gz. Thanks, applied. --bod -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Bug#390442: Debian Bug#390442: segfault (double free?) after deleting from hash during adding a new element

2006-10-19 Thread Brendan O'Dea
forwarded 390442 perl5-porters@perl.org thanks On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 03:06:01PM +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote: The test case can be reduced somewhat: #!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; my %H; my $v = meh; $H{A} ||= do { foreach my $k (keys %H) { delete $H{$k}; } $v;

Bug#393810: prename: man page examples need different quotes

2006-10-19 Thread Brendan O'Dea
On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 12:29:31PM +0100, Jon Dowland wrote: Very minor problem with examples with quotes in the manpage: To translate uppercase names to lower, you???d use rename ???y/A-Z/a-z/??? * This cannot be copied directly into a terminal, because man (or nroff or

Bug#393066: a2p: translated print must have \n

2006-10-15 Thread Brendan O'Dea
severity 393066 normal close 393066 thanks On Sat, Oct 14, 2006 at 09:01:32PM +0200, Bernd Warken wrote: The `print' command in `awk' adds automatically a `\n' at the end. `a2p' translates it just in a Perl `print' without adding a `\n'. awk print output is followed by the value of ORS (newline

Bug#390636: Undefined subroutine main::WIFEXITED called at /usr/lib/dpkg/controllib.pl line 433

2006-10-03 Thread Brendan O'Dea
tag 390636 + pending thanks On Tue, Oct 03, 2006 at 12:17:57AM +0200, Per Olofsson wrote: More specifically, controllib.pl is missing a use POSIX; or so. Right. Added. --bod -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#390282: please interpret _all_ gpg non-zero exit status as a security problem

2006-10-01 Thread Brendan O'Dea
On Sat, Sep 30, 2006 at 10:24:47AM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: I'm not sure what the subset of non-zero exit status that result after this bitshifting means (FWIW, the gpg manpage only makes distinction between zero and non-zero status), but it's clearly something we don't want. If gpg returns

Bug#389497: typo in /lib/lsb/init-functions

2006-09-25 Thread Brendan O'Dea
Package: lsb-base Version: 3.1-15 Severity: minor There is a small typo in the log_use_fancy_output() function: --- init-functions.orig 2006-08-25 10:06:01.0 +1000 +++ init-functions 2006-09-26 10:18:33.0 +1000 @@ -133,7 +133,7 @@ log_use_fancy_output () {

Bug#383435: HilightFore Style option no longer works

2006-08-23 Thread Brendan O'Dea
On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 07:23:26PM +0200, Michelle Konzack wrote: Am 2006-08-17 19:33:28, schrieb Brendan O'Dea: Package: fvwm Version: 1:2.5.17-1 My configuration contains the following options: Style * HilightFore white, HilightBack slategrey Style * Color black/slategrey I am

Bug#351963: Processed: reassign

2006-08-23 Thread Brendan O'Dea
On Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 10:03:33AM -0700, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: reassign 351963 debsums Bug#351963: reportbug: Checking package integrity seems to loop on mzscheme Bug reassigned from package `reportbug' to `debsums'. The original report stated that reportbug, not debsums was pegging

Bug#383435: HilightFore Style option no longer works

2006-08-17 Thread Brendan O'Dea
Package: fvwm Version: 1:2.5.17-1 My configuration contains the following options: Style * HilightFore white, HilightBack slategrey Style * Color black/slategrey Prior to upgrading to 1:2.5.17-1 this title bars had white text for the currently focused window, black text for all others.

Bug#379463: perl-base: setlocale() does not work as documented

2006-08-10 Thread Brendan O'Dea
On Sun, Jul 23, 2006 at 09:05:43PM +0200, Helge Kreutzmann wrote: I am trying to write a locale aware program. As I understand the perl documentation (mainly the man page perllocale) perl is currently dealing only with output (I will discuss this man page in a different wishlist bug later). So I

Bug#374396: perl: FTBFS on MIPS/hppa

2006-07-24 Thread Brendan O'Dea
On Mon, Jul 24, 2006 at 05:44:22PM +0200, Sven Mueller wrote: Is there any chance to get this fixed within the next week or two? It's already blocking something like 60 packages from entering testing. Not a whole lot that I can do about it. Ryan believes that the problem with MIPS is a kernel

Bug#378340: dpkg-dev: no support for XB-Python-Version yet?

2006-07-16 Thread Brendan O'Dea
On Sat, Jul 15, 2006 at 03:19:45PM +0200, Toni Mueller wrote: dpkg-genchanges: warning: unknown information field `Xb-Python-Version' in input data in package's section of control info file It's just a warning. Check the generated package; if you run 'dpkg --info whatever.deb' you should see a

Bug#378399: g++-4.1 workaround can be removed

2006-07-16 Thread Brendan O'Dea
On Sun, Jul 16, 2006 at 05:20:07AM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote: The g++-4.1 workaround introduced in 5.8.8-6 can be removed; fixed in 4.1.1-7 and up. Thanks Matthias. Currently perl has a build-depend on a specific version of gcc, do I need to change that to gcc (= 4:4.1.1-7) | gcc-4.1 (=

Bug#369199: [Pkg-awstats-devel] Bug#369199: Error: Plugin load for plugin 'hashfiles' failed

2006-07-11 Thread Brendan O'Dea
On Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 09:36:16AM +0200, Mohammed Adnène Trojette wrote: On Tue, Jul 11, 2006, Brendan O'Dea wrote: Was that installed by a package? Check: $ dpkg -S /usr/lib/perl5/auto/Storable/Storable.so % LANG=C dpkg -S /usr/lib/perl5/auto/Storable/Storable.so dpkg: /usr/lib/perl5

Bug#369199: [Pkg-awstats-devel] Bug#369199: Error: Plugin load for plugin 'hashfiles' failed

2006-07-10 Thread Brendan O'Dea
On Mon, Jul 10, 2006 at 02:34:56PM +0200, Mohammed Adnène Trojette wrote: | Can't load '/usr/lib/perl5/auto/Storable/Storable.so' for module Storable: /usr/lib/perl5/auto/Storable/Storable.so: undefined symbol: PL_sv_undef at /usr/lib/perl/5.8/DynaLoader.pm line 225. | at /tmp/test.pl

Bug#377758: provide service symlink to invoke-rc.d

2006-07-10 Thread Brendan O'Dea
Package: initscripts Version: 2.86.ds1-14.1 Severity: wishlist RedHat has a script installed as /sbin/service which has similar usage to invoke-rc.d, but is a little easier for the administrator to type: # service apache restart Any chance of adding a symlink in the initscripts package from

Bug#377296: Debian Bug Tracking System

2006-07-07 Thread Brendan O'Dea
Package: debbugs Version: 2.4.1 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch On Sat, Jul 08, 2006 at 01:02:44AM +0530, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: If I need to subscribe to a bug I can't use the web interface. The answer you might give is, Oh! Send am email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] This may be a simple way to add

Bug#377296: Debian Bug Tracking System

2006-07-07 Thread Brendan O'Dea
On Fri, Jul 07, 2006 at 08:19:12PM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: On Fri, 07 Jul 2006, Matthew R. Dempsky wrote: What about something like ``To subscribe to this bug, send an empty email to a href=$email$email/a.'' to make more explicit that they don't need to fill anything out? There are a

Bug#375506: dpkg --search needs more escaping

2006-07-05 Thread Brendan O'Dea
On Sat, Jul 01, 2006 at 07:07:11PM +0200, Nicolas François wrote: tags 375506 patch thanks On Thu, Jun 29, 2006 at 05:43:48PM +1000, Brendan O'Dea wrote: We could do something similar for --search (see patch following), although note that while this means that '-S /usr/bin/[' now works, '-S

Bug#376658: File::Spec::abs2rel inefficiently runs `pwd` twice per call even if not needed

2006-07-05 Thread Brendan O'Dea
On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 11:43:42PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: It's highly annoying that it wants to get the cwd at all in this case, since I'm asking for a relative path between two relative directories and indeed the same relative path is returned no matter what the cwd is. I suspect that in this

Bug#375506: dpkg --search needs more escaping

2006-06-29 Thread Brendan O'Dea
On Tue, Jun 27, 2006 at 03:00:46PM -0400, Justin Pryzby wrote: I'd forgotten or didn't know that dpkg-query did globs. Should a pattern with '[' without a closing ']' be treated as invalid? I guess since the shell doesn't, fnmatch doesn't, so dpkg can't... Is this correct? The shell handles

Bug#375044: perl-modules: CGI.pm: new upstream version 3.20 available

2006-06-22 Thread Brendan O'Dea
reassign 375044 wnpp retitle 375044 RFP: libcgi-pm-perl -- a Perl5 CGI Library thanks On Thu, Jun 22, 2006 at 10:17:08PM +, Julian Mehnle wrote: CGI.pm 3.20 is available upstream and fixes some more or less important bugs, including http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18500:

Bug#318028: RFS: librpc-xml-perl

2006-06-12 Thread Brendan O'Dea
On Mon, Jun 12, 2006 at 11:38:35PM +0300, Damyan Ivanov wrote: lintian has no complains, but linda still insists on perl-dependency, which I've refused to put, since perl is essential and versioned perl dependency is not required (package requires 5.005 and even oldstable has 5.6). There actually

Bug#372140: x-ttcidfont-conf depends on unavailable version of xfonts-encodings

2006-06-08 Thread Brendan O'Dea
Package: x-ttcidfont-conf Version: 23 x-ttcidfont-conf depends on xfonts-encodings (= 1:1.0.0-5.1), although that version is not available; local NMU? [Cc to dato, who's key is on the upload] --bod -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Bug#370249: [gcc bug #27884] use of register in function declarations

2006-06-06 Thread Brendan O'Dea
On Sun, Jun 04, 2006 at 05:31:09PM +0200, Richard Guenther wrote: Note that I specifically did not say the code is invalid, but only questionable because of desired semantics. The storage-class for function parameters is specified by the ABI in effect, so any additional storage-class specifier

Bug#370249: [gcc bug #27884] use of register in function declarations

2006-06-04 Thread Brendan O'Dea
Re: http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=27884 Hi Richard, Could you please expand on your comment: It's certainly a questionable use of 'register'. What is the expected effect of this parameter declaration from perls point of view? My copy of an [admittedly old C9X standard]

Bug#335105: perl FTBFS in t/op/fork

2006-06-02 Thread Brendan O'Dea
reassign 335105 kernel close 335105 2.6.5 thanks On Sun, Dec 11, 2005 at 10:24:56AM +, Andrew Suffield wrote: My bet is that it's this kernel bug: I don't know if you've been following, but it was recently discoverd that on smp, if multiple processes read from /dev/urandom at the same

Bug#369481: [PATCH: installperl] Was: Bug#369481: perl-base: 5.8.4-8sarge4 seemed to trigger weak references not implemented

2006-05-31 Thread Brendan O'Dea
tags 369481 + patch pending thanks On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 06:45:12AM -0500, Steve Peters wrote: On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 04:48:01PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The problem is that Debian Perl is mispackaged. For some reason, various OS's are failing to distribute the file

Bug#334958: problem now in unstable/testing

2006-05-29 Thread Brendan O'Dea
On Mon, May 29, 2006 at 02:45:36PM +0200, Willi Mann wrote: libapt-pkg-perl needs a rebuild against new the apt. Why? The current version of libapt-pkg-perl in unstable and testing (0.1.20) is installable with the current version of apt (0.6.44.1). Please specify the actual versions of

Bug#368383: dumb manual page for... NAME section on many man pages

2006-05-23 Thread Brendan O'Dea
On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 10:29:16PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Glad that you guys will take care of this, as it is way over my head. It's not complex. The problem manual pages have been generated with a program [help2man] which interprets a program's --help output. Unfortunately, it's not

Bug#368383: dumb manual page for... NAME section on many man pages

2006-05-22 Thread Brendan O'Dea
dotlock (1) - manual page for dotlock (GNU Mailutils 0.6.93) This is the default NAME section generated by help2man. Fairly useless, but there needs to be *some* default. Suggest that you file bugs on the particular packages which need either to provide a --name=short description

Bug#368007: vile-common: Executing dG (delete all) on a file and then saving it will produce a huge file

2006-05-22 Thread Brendan O'Dea
forwarded 368007 [EMAIL PROTECTED] thanks On Fri, May 19, 2006 at 10:10:43AM +0200, Bas Kloet wrote: On certain files, if you delete all text (by using the key combo dG), and then trying to save that file, vile will write an ever growing file to disk, with no indication of it ever ending. In

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