Bug#1071430: dkms modules compile twice when installing new linux-image and linux-headers packages

2024-05-18 Thread Craig Sanders
Package: linux-headers-6.8.9-amd64 Version: 6.8.9-1 When installing a new kernel (images & headers) packages, dkms modules for that kernel version are compiled twice - once for the linux image package, and again (almost immediately afterwards) for the linux headers package. I'm not entirely

Bug#1059828: colourised crontab -l output is unreadable

2024-01-01 Thread Craig Sanders
Package: cron Version: 3.0pl1-182 Please don't force colourised tty output by default. It makes the output unreadable. Forcing one person's colour preferences on everyone is a vision impairment / accessibility problem for everyone who doesn't have the same visual capability as that one

Bug#1020290: apt incorrectly prefer usr-is-merged

2022-09-23 Thread Craig Sanders
On Fri, Sep 23, 2022 at 01:17:52PM +0200, Christoph Berg wrote: > I think that was well beyond what could be acceptable for a Debian member to > behave like. Have you considering finding other venues? Have you considered minding your own fucking business? You've all been fucking dog-piling me

Bug#1020290: apt incorrectly prefer usr-is-merged

2022-09-23 Thread Craig Sanders
On Fri, Sep 23, 2022 at 06:27:51PM +1000, Stuart Prescott wrote: > Nope. If it were that easy to reproduce and the package were that buggy, it > would never have been uploaded. (Please offer a tiny bit of respect to your > fellow developers!) The bug is closed, you lot have dog-piled enough, and

Bug#1020290: init-system-helpers depends on usrmerge | usr-is-merged

2022-09-21 Thread Craig Sanders
On Wed, Sep 21, 2022 at 03:27:04PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: > Unfortunately it is not possible to address the issue you are seeing without > further information or having a way to reproduce the issue. Finally, a response that isn't just 1. smug dismissal by quibbling about what "mandatory"

Bug#1020290: init-system-helpers depends on usrmerge | usr-is-merged

2022-09-21 Thread Craig Sanders
reopen 1020290 severity 1020290 critical stop There's no need to repeat (again!) what i've already said. fix the bug before closing this report.

Bug#1020290: closed by Ansgar (Re: Bug#1020290: init-system-helpers depends on usrmerge | usr-is-merged)

2022-09-21 Thread Craig Sanders
t my responsibility to figure out what broken interactions your broken package has with usrmerge, usr-is-merged, and apt itself. IT'S YOUR PACKAGE, YOUR RESPONSIBILTY. craig -- craig sanders

Bug#1020290: init-system-helpers depends on usrmerge | usr-is-merged

2022-09-21 Thread Craig Sanders
On Wed, Sep 21, 2022 at 08:32:53AM +0200, Helmut Grohne wrote: > On Wed, Sep 21, 2022 at 10:41:18AM +1000, Craig Sanders wrote: > > Stop closing this bug without fixing it. > > The change you are objecting to was planned and presented to various > teams in Debian including the t

Bug#1020290: init-system-helpers depends on usrmerge | usr-is-merged

2022-09-20 Thread Craig Sanders
reopen 1020290 severity 1020290 critical stop > Given you have made usrmerge uninstallable in your system as you > admitted (probably running one of dpkg's unsupported scripts that > installs a local blocking package, I'd imagine) then it is entirely on > you to fix that, it cannot be done

Bug#1020290: closed by Luca Boccassi (Re: init-system-helpers depends on usrmerge | usr-is-merged)

2022-09-20 Thread Craig Sanders
reopen 1020290 severity 1020290 critical stop In case you didn't notice, there's a real bug here. Your broken init-system-helpers package breaks apt upgrade and dist-upgrade, and since this is an Essential package, that makes it a critical bug. It doesn't matter at all whether you like my tone

Bug#1020290: closed by Luca Boccassi (Re: init-system-helpers depends on usrmerge | usr-is-merged)

2022-09-19 Thread Craig Sanders
reopen 1020290 stop > > This effectively makes these packages Essential by stealth.  Debian's > usrmerge > > FAQ says: > > > > * Is it mandatory to install this package? > > No. > > That is correct - new installations are already merged-usr so there's no > need for that package, hence the

Bug#1020290: init-system-helpers depends on usrmerge | usr-is-merged

2022-09-19 Thread Craig Sanders
Package: init-system-helpers Version: 1.65.2 dist-upgrade was broken on four systems tonight due to: Depends: usrmerge | usr-is-merged This effectively makes these packages Essential by stealth. Debian's usrmerge FAQ says: * Is it mandatory to install this package? No. All four

Bug#1015015: unable to upgrade due to elogind vs systemd conflict

2022-07-16 Thread Craig Sanders
On Sun, Jul 17, 2022 at 04:01:38AM +0200, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > On Sun, 17 Jul 2022, Craig Sanders wrote: > > > and, of course: > > > > apt-mark hold sysvinit-core > > > > To prevent systemd from being auto-installed in some future upgrade. > > You

Bug#1015015: unable to upgrade due to elogind vs systemd conflict

2022-07-16 Thread Craig Sanders
On Sat, Jul 16, 2022 at 02:35:33PM +0100, Mark Hindley wrote: > On Sat, Jul 16, 2022 at 11:07:47PM +1000, Craig Sanders wrote: > > A little more investigation reveals that it's udev. > > > > udev 2.51.3-1 (Wed, 13 Jul 2022 23:05:40 +0200) now depends on 'systemd | > > s

Bug#1015015: unable to upgrade due to elogind vs systemd conflict

2022-07-16 Thread Craig Sanders
Jul 16, 2022 at 06:34:35PM +1000, Craig Sanders wrote: > > I can't immediately see the package that might be causing the conflict here. A little more investigation reveals that it's udev. udev 2.51.3-1 (Wed, 13 Jul 2022 23:05:40 +0200) now depends on 'systemd | systemd-tmpfiles'. The prev

Bug#1015015: unable to upgrade due to elogind vs systemd conflict

2022-07-16 Thread Craig Sanders
Package: elogind Version: 246.9.1-1+debian1 I don't know if a newer version of elogind would help here, but it probably wouldn't hurt. elogind in debian hasn't been updated since Dec 23. # apt -u dist-upgade [...] The following packages will be REMOVED: alsa-firmware-loaders bluez brasero

Bug#1013462: libnvidia-allocator1 has worthless description

2022-06-25 Thread Craig Sanders
ut didn't find anything. > ("Nvidia probably knows a reason for the existence of this library." > wouldn't be helpful either.) Maybe something like "Nvidia hasn't bothered documenting what this library is for" might encourage them to volunteer some details :) craig -- craig sanders

Bug#1013462: libnvidia-allocator1 has worthless description

2022-06-23 Thread Craig Sanders
Package: libnvidia-allocator1 Version: 510.73.08-2 This package has the following description: Description-en: NVIDIA allocator runtime library The NVIDIA binary driver provides optimized hardware acceleration of OpenGL/GLX/EGL/GLES applications via a direct-rendering X Server for graphics

Bug#1012043: dkms "deprecated feature" warnings makes output unreadable & useless

2022-05-29 Thread Craig Sanders
Package: dkms Version: 3.0.3-2 Recently, dkms has started printing useless warning messages like the following: # dkms status nvidia-current/510.60.02, 5.16.0-6-amd64, x86_64: installed nvidia-current/510.60.02, 5.17.0-1-amd64, x86_64: installedDeprecated feature: REMAKE_INITRD Deprecated

Bug#1011146: (fwd) dlocate is marked for autoremoval from testing

2022-05-26 Thread Craig Sanders
or anything similar, or to anything even related to nvidia. Here's it's debian/control file: $ cat debian/control Source: dlocate Section: utils Priority: optional Maintainer: Craig Sanders Standards-Version: 3.7.2.1 Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 13) Package: dlocate Architecture: all Depends: dctrl-to

Bug#1009179: dkms: Upstream has removed mkdeb|mkdsc|mkbmdeb

2022-05-08 Thread Craig Sanders
The commit message for https://github.com/dell/dkms/commit/68b083eaa3f71c166adfece8e4f760e0cdf96185 says: "Distributions know much better than us, what is the proper way to package a DKMS module. Remove in-tree, semi-constantly out-of-date code." and a comment on

Bug#994278: Chromium freezes (rarely) and partially locks up my WM (xfce4)

2022-01-15 Thread Craig Sanders
On Tue, Jan 11, 2022 at 03:33:21PM -0500, Andres Salomon wrote: > On Wed, 15 Sep 2021 11:29:48 +1000 Craig Sanders wrote: > > Package: chromium > > Version: 90.0.4430.212-1 > Can you please tell me if you see this with chromium 97 or above? This > sounds like a bug related

Bug#1003631: dlocate: update-dpkg-list can deadlock

2022-01-14 Thread Craig Sanders
On Thu, Jan 13, 2022 at 09:45:31PM -0500, Aaron M. Ucko wrote: > I am comfortable with Perl, and having taken another look at the code, was > able to resolve the deadlock by arranging to feed xargs from a dedicated > subprocess, per the attached patch. > > Could you please consider applying it?

Bug#1003631: dlocate: update-dpkg-list can deadlock

2022-01-13 Thread Craig Sanders
On Wed, Jan 12, 2022 at 06:06:45PM -0500, Aaron M. Ucko wrote: > Long story short, update-dpkg-list's batched bidirectional pipe usage wound > up deadlocking on a system with 20,000+ provided virtual packages, mostly > from installed librust-*-dev packages. what do you mean by "deadlocking"? some

Bug#1000842: Weird resizing of dialog window

2021-11-29 Thread Craig Sanders
Package: libreoffice Version: 1:7.2.3-2 Seen in the "Tools > AutoCorrect Options..." dialog box in localc, and in "Tools > AutoCorrect > AutoCorrect Options..." dialog box in lowriter. When I use the scrollbar for the boxes in the Replace or Exceptions tabs, the dialog window grows horizontally

Bug#994278: Chromium freezes (rarely) and partially locks up my WM (xfce4)

2021-09-14 Thread Craig Sanders
would "fix" it. -- craig sanders

Bug#984629: grc added colourify aliases

2021-03-05 Thread Craig Sanders
Package: grc Version: 1.12-1 The grc package has suddenly added aliases to colourify several commands. Worse, it creates some truly awful (e.g. white on green) and completely useless and unreadable colour combinations (e.g. blue on black for several commands, and black on black for docker

Bug#978423: xfce 4.16 settings/accessories ignore theme

2020-12-27 Thread Craig Sanders
Package: xfce4-settings Version: 4.16.0-1 Most Xfce Settings windows (including Settings Manager, Accessibility, Appearance, Desktop, Display, Keyboard, Window Manager, Power Manager, etc etc) ignore my chosen theme and have retarded giant ~2.5x height title bars, similar to the hideous Gnome 3

Bug#970998: okular forgets bookmarks when switching tabs

2020-09-25 Thread Craig Sanders
Package: okular Version: 4:20.08.1-1 Bookmarks disappear from the Bookmarks menu for the current file whenever you open another file or switch to another tab. The bookmarks return if you reload the PDF, but disappear again as soon as you switch to another tab. How to reproduce/verify: 1. open

Bug#954234: /etc/init.d/munin has two broken function definitions

2020-03-20 Thread Craig Sanders
next packaging update. Thank you! thanks. The "foo() {true;}" version works for bash and dash. craig -- craig sanders

Bug#954234: /etc/init.d/munin has two broken function definitions

2020-03-18 Thread Craig Sanders
Package: munin Version: 2.0.57-1 At the bottom of the /etc/init.d/munin script are two lines: do_stop_cmd_override() true do_start_cmd_override() true This is **NOT** how you define a shell function. The function code needs to be inside curly braces, and (because they're defined with a

Bug#940539: pdsh has obsolete home page URL

2019-09-16 Thread Craig Sanders
github.com/chaos/pdsh It would be nice to have a link to the old documentation pages that used to be on the LLNL site, but I wasn't able to find a replacement for them. BTW, the version of pdsh on github is 2.33 craig -- craig sanders

Bug#940126: Window Buttons aka tasklist no longer works with dual monitors

2019-09-12 Thread Craig Sanders
Package: xfce4-panel Version: 4.14.0-1 WindowButtoms aka tasklist is no longer able to group windows by title and monitor. I have a dual monitor setup, with a panel containing an instance of tasklist on each monitor. In all previous versions of tasklist, if I moved a window (say Firefox) from

Bug#939133: Window Buttons numbering of windows is now tiny and unreadable

2019-09-01 Thread Craig Sanders
Package: xfce4 Version: 4.14 I upgraded to this version just now and when the panel restarted, the Window Buttons applet started displaying the number of windows for grouped windows in a tiny white font in a tiny black circle overlaid on the bottom-right corner of the button's icon. This is just

Bug#934282: zfs-dkms: fails to install for 5.2.0-2-amd64 due to GPL-only symbol 'alternatives_patched'

2019-08-09 Thread Craig Sanders
-0006 ONLINE 0 0 0 errors: No known data errors craig -- craig sanders

Bug#924366: natural sort output on cpuspeed plugin

2019-03-12 Thread Craig Sanders
On Wed, Mar 13, 2019 at 01:14:15AM +0100, Lars Kruse wrote: > I applied this upstream: > > https://github.com/munin-monitoring/munin/commit/b892b14a2c2da9b32a380847ecbf16233019ad32 wow, thanks for the quick response. craig -- craig sanders

Bug#924366: natural sort output on cpuspeed plugin

2019-03-11 Thread Craig Sanders
u31.value 286219946000 thanks, craig -- craig sanders

Bug#913794: qpdfview document "focus"

2018-11-15 Thread Craig Sanders
On Thu, Nov 15, 2018 at 10:10:56PM +1100, Craig Sanders wrote: > On a few occasions, I've even Alt-Tabbed into qpdfview and had the window's > Maximise/Minimise/Move/Resize/etc window pop up (I don't remember which > keystrokes I typed to achieve this so I can't reproduce this

Bug#913794: qpdfview document "focus"

2018-11-15 Thread Craig Sanders
etter to get rid of the Synchronize option and use PgUp/PgDn/etc to move the current document, and Shift-PgUp/Shift-PgDn/etc to move both. or vice-versa. -- craig sanders

Bug#909754: dpkg -l now always pipes to less and ignores $COLUMNS

2018-10-04 Thread Craig Sanders
exceptions like "program X does this weird thing" and "program Y does that weird thing". Predictable, consistent behaviour is one of the things that make using the shell pleasant and efficient. craig PS: Fortunately, I still had dpkg 1.19.0.5+b1 installed in one of my VMs, so I used dpkg-repack to repackage it and have installed that on all my systems, and then used "apt-mark hold" to prevent it from being auto-upgraded. I'll leave it like that until this problem is fixed. -- craig sanders

Bug#909754: dpkg -l now always pipes to less and ignores $COLUMNS

2018-09-27 Thread Craig Sanders
80 columns for email, or 132 columns just so it's not so damn wide. -- craig sanders

Bug#900656: [Pkg-zfsonlinux-devel] Bug#900656: Make ZFS upgrades in backports more reliable

2018-06-02 Thread Craig Sanders
tl;dr version: DON'T UPGRADE YOUR KERNEL until you know for sure that the ZFS packages are compatible with the kernel you're about to install. On Sat, Jun 02, 2018 at 10:38:09PM +0200, Michael Wyraz wrote: > I do run zfs-dkms on several servers and on my desktop (currently on >

Bug#899226: zfsnap manpage is missing

2018-05-21 Thread Craig Sanders
Package: zfsnap Version: 1.11.1-5.1 The upstream github repo https://github.com/zfsnap/zfsnap/tree/legacy has a man page for zfsnap, but it's missing from the package. The markdown & html docs and examples are great to have, but a man page is essential. craig -- craig sanders <c...@taz.net.au>

Bug#888521: Acknowledgement (Firefox 58 regression: pulse audio troubles)

2018-05-02 Thread Craig Sanders
BOTH sessions - I was expecting to have to create a second symlink for the second session. Maybe the symlink only has to be created once per login session, not every time firefox is restarted - I'd have to look at the ffox code to find out. craig -- craig sanders <c...@taz.net.au>

Bug#884149: LO Calc crashes when you click in the Input Line of a protected cell.

2017-12-15 Thread Craig Sanders
. thanks, craig -- craig sanders <c...@taz.net.au>

Bug#884149: LO Calc crashes when you click in the Input Line of a protected cell.

2017-12-12 Thread Craig Sanders
On Tue, Dec 12, 2017 at 08:12:23AM +0100, Rene Engelhard wrote: > If you want to try; uploaded to people.debian.org: > deb http://people.debian.org/~rene/libreoffice/5.4 ./ in your > sources.list. thanks. i'll give that a go tomorrow. craig -- craig sanders <c...@taz.net.au>

Bug#884149: LO Calc crashes when you click in the Input Line of a protected cell.

2017-12-11 Thread Craig Sanders
Package: libreoffice-calc Version: 1:5.4.3-4+b1 LO Calc crashes when you click in the Input Line of a protected cell. It pops up a dialog box saying "Protected cells can not be modified." and then crasheѕ when you click OK. Sometimes it pops up the dialog box a second time, and crashes after

Bug#880902: [Pkg-zfsonlinux-devel] Bug#880902: RC bug on zfs-linux that has to be fixed

2017-11-16 Thread Craig Sanders
example of why testing is actually worse than sid for real-world (non-testing) usage. This bug report, while necessary, actually delayed the migration of the updated zfs packages that would have resolved it. That's an unavoidable side-effect of bug reports against packages in sid. IIRC, packages only

Bug#880647: [Pkg-zfsonlinux-devel] Bug#880647: Suggest symlinks to binaries from /usr/bin

2017-11-04 Thread Craig Sanders
it's easy to do - I've been doing exactly that on linux systems for over 35 years. craig -- craig sanders <c...@taz.net.au>

Bug#875444: choose-window crashes tmux 2.6~rc2-1

2017-09-11 Thread Craig Sanders
On Mon, Sep 11, 2017 at 03:24:06PM +0200, Romain Francoise wrote: > On Mon, Sep 11, 2017 at 10:57:26PM +1000, Craig Sanders wrote: > > prefix+w (or 'tmux choose-window') causes this version of tmux to > > crash. It does show the window list first. > > Yes, sorry, this is ca

Bug#875444: choose-windowcrashestmux2.6~rc...@taz.net.au

2017-09-11 Thread Craig Sanders
Package: tmux Version: 2.6~rc2-1 prefix+w (or 'tmux choose-window') causes this version of tmux to crash. It does show the window list first. Reverting to 2.5-3+b1 fixes the problem. craig -- craig sanders <c...@taz.net.au>

Bug#870247: deluge-gtk won't display Preferences dialog

2017-07-31 Thread Craig Sanders
and, just after I posted, I found the bug in the deluge tracker: http://dev.deluge-torrent.org/ticket/3039 it seems that there's a patch and it is or will be fixed in 1.3.16 craig -- craig sanders <c...@taz.net.au>

Bug#870247: deluge-gtk won't display Preferences dialog

2017-07-31 Thread Craig Sanders
in problem), but that makes no difference. thanks, craig -- craig sanders <c...@taz.net.au>

Bug#867299: [Pkg-zfsonlinux-devel] Bug#867299: Bug#867299: zfs-dkms: Unable to expand a pool when underlying vdev has grown.

2017-07-05 Thread Craig Sanders
pool, use 'zfs send' to transfer the contents of the old pool, and then retire the old one. craig -- craig sanders <c...@taz.net.au>

Bug#867015: lxqt dependancy on cmst (and thus connman) broke my network

2017-07-03 Thread Craig Sanders
ot;False";};' in /etc/apt/apt.conf - that allows convenience for novices without removing choice from those who want it. Using Depends rather than Recommends undermines that. -- craig sanders <c...@taz.net.au>

Bug#861224: docker.io doesn't restart after upgrade

2017-04-26 Thread Craig Sanders
in the postinst...but that's a lousy alternative if there are any containers running (which there probably will be) because it maximises the downtime for docker - down for the entire duration of the upgrade rather than a few seconds when docker.io is being configured. thanks, craig -- craig sanders <c...@taz.net.au>

Bug#858249: init.d script needs update for docker.io 1.13.0~ds1-1

2017-03-20 Thread Craig Sanders
CKERD=/usr/bin/dockerd + DOCKERD=/usr/sbin/dockerd thanks, craig -- craig sanders <c...@taz.net.au>

Bug#850583: csvkit is missing documentation

2017-01-07 Thread Craig Sanders
, html pages, pdf, epub, and several other formats. This conversion should be done during the package build, in the debian/rules makefile, with the output placed in the correct location. This would require a build-depends on the tool used (pandoc, docutils, etc). craig -- craig sanders &l

Bug#824252: -t and -d don't work as expected

2017-01-07 Thread Craig Sanders
just missing from the debian packages. rst files can easily be converted to manpages, html, epub, pdf, and other formats with, e.g., pandoc or python-docutils. craig -- craig sanders <c...@taz.net.au>

Bug#842011: [debian-mysql] Bug#842011: Bug#842011: Bug#842011: default-mysql-client forces removal of mysql-server* and mysql-client*

2016-10-26 Thread Craig Sanders
d luck getting help. it's not I that needs help. craig -- craig sanders <c...@taz.net.au>

Bug#842011: [debian-mysql] Bug#842011: Bug#842011: default-mysql-client forces removal of mysql-server* and mysql-client*

2016-10-25 Thread Craig Sanders
ariadb transition should be handled at least as well as that. it's not impossible, it's not even "too hard". craig -- craig sanders <c...@taz.net.au>

Bug#842011: [debian-mysql] Bug#842011: Bug#842011: default-mysql-client forces removal of mysql-server* and mysql-client*

2016-10-25 Thread Craig Sanders
pend on the virtual package. if mariadb's client can serve in place of mysql's then of course it makes sense to use whichever one is available. did you have anything actually useful - and preferably not completely obvious - to add, or are you just mouthing off because you can? craig -- craig sanders <c...@taz.net.au>

Bug#842011: [debian-mysql] Bug#842011: default-mysql-client forces removal of mysql-server* and mysql-client*

2016-10-25 Thread Craig Sanders
g on port 3306 (or whatever's defined in my.cnf) #! /bin/bash ( exec 3<>/dev/tcp/localhost/3306 ) >& /dev/null echo $? wrapped in a subshell to avoid spamming stderr if nothing's listening. craig -- craig sanders <c...@taz.net.au>

Bug#842011: [debian-mysql] Bug#842011: default-mysql-client forces removal of mysql-server* and mysql-client*

2016-10-25 Thread Craig Sanders
On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 01:09:23PM +0100, Robie Basak wrote: > On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 10:00:32PM +1100, Craig Sanders wrote: > > it still seems very surprising to me that a package called > > default-MYSQL-client would force the removal of mysql-client* and > > mysq

Bug#842011: [debian-mysql] Bug#842011: default-mysql-client forces removal of mysql-server* and mysql-client*

2016-10-25 Thread Craig Sanders
On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 10:54:56AM +0100, Robie Basak wrote: > Hi Craig, Hi > On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 08:01:26PM +1100, Craig Sanders wrote: > > it's somewhat surprising that a package called default-mysql-client > > should force the removal of both mysql-client and mysql-s

Bug#842011: default-mysql-client forces removal of mysql-server* and mysql-client*

2016-10-25 Thread Craig Sanders
installed, 5 to remove and 3 not upgraded. Need to get 5,700 kB of archives. After this operation, 69.5 MB disk space will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n Abort. craig -- craig sanders <c...@taz.net.au>

Bug#841535: tracker.debian.org has inscrutable hieroglyphic links instead of text

2016-10-21 Thread Craig Sanders
ore that, i just got broken image іcons. a web site that obscures important and useful links unless the viewer has some obscure icons package installed is less than optimal. -- craig sanders <c...@taz.net.au>

Bug#840365: 1:45.4.0-1 broke the External Editor plugin

2016-10-10 Thread Craig Sanders
en nothing happens - no gvim as expected. craig -- craig sanders <c...@taz.net.au>

Bug#837049: [Pkg-zfsonlinux-devel] Bug#837049: Bug#837049: Please configure zfs_arc_max in postinst

2016-09-11 Thread Craig Sanders
On Sun, Sep 11, 2016 at 07:12:49AM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > [Craig Sanders] > > good idea. at the least, we should include an example in the > > package. e.g. I made the following file for my systems, which I copy > > to various machines and modify to suit. &g

Bug#837049: [Pkg-zfsonlinux-devel] Bug#837049: Please configure zfs_arc_max in postinst

2016-09-10 Thread Craig Sanders
hat they did. > Maybe it should also be registered as a conffile. definitely. craig -- craig sanders <c...@taz.net.au>

Bug#836262: libnih1 has a dependency conflict with libc6 in sid

2016-09-10 Thread Craig Sanders
m to see if it had already been reported. it had. and was almost immediately closed by someone other than the maintainer for no good reason. -- craig sanders <c...@taz.net.au>

Bug#827245: [Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#827245: Bug#827245: missing backend for pool type 11 (zfs)

2016-08-14 Thread Craig Sanders
and i'm off to get some sleep. craig -- craig sanders <c...@taz.net.au>

Bug#827245: [Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#827245: missing backend for pool type 11 (zfs)

2016-08-14 Thread Craig Sanders
ebootstrap, docker-doc, rinse, zfs-fuse | zfsutils Description-en: Linux container runtime craig -- craig sanders <c...@taz.net.au>

Bug#827245: [Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#827245: missing backend for pool type 11 (zfs)

2016-08-14 Thread Craig Sanders
. > I've pushed the changes to enable zfs pool support on kfreebsd. Why not on linux? zfs is available in debian now. craig -- craig sanders <c...@taz.net.au>

Bug#827245: missing backend for pool type 11 (zfs)

2016-08-14 Thread Craig Sanders
Tyler Fenby wrote: > I can confirm that the ZFS backend works as expected on Debian after > recompiling libvirt with only a couple lines added to debian/rules to > enable the configure flag. thanks for looking into this. I cloned libvirt from

Bug#833260: supercat: diff for NMU version 0.5.5-4.1

2016-08-02 Thread Craig Sanders
Package: supercat Version: 0.5.5-4 Severity: normal Tags: patch pending Dear maintainer, I've prepared an NMU for supercat (versioned as 0.5.5-4.1). The diff is attached to this message. Regards. craig -- craig sanders <c...@taz.net.au> diff -Nru supercat-0.5.5/debian/changelog supercat

Bug#833253: supercat: diff for NMU version 0.5.5-4+nmu1

2016-08-02 Thread Craig Sanders
Package: supercat Version: 0.5.5-4 Severity: normal Tags: patch pending Dear maintainer, I've prepared an NMU for supercat (versioned as 0.5.5-4+nmu1). The diff is attached to this message. Regards. craig -- craig sanders <c...@taz.net.au> diff -Nru supercat-0.5.5/debian/changelog su

Bug#832574: upgrading openssh-server kills ssh session on systemd machines

2016-07-27 Thread Craig Sanders
On Wed, Jul 27, 2016 at 12:14:47PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Wed, Jul 27, 2016 at 04:03:54PM +1000, Craig Sanders wrote: > > upgrading kills the ssh session on systemd machines. > > Yes, sorry. I have no way to fix this properly because it happens > in "prerm u

Bug#832574: upgrading openssh-server kills ssh session on systemd machines

2016-07-27 Thread Craig Sanders
n to surya closed. ganesh:~# I had to ssh back in and `pkill dpkg apt-get` before I could even run `dpkg --configure --pending`. This happened on my only systemd machine. Did not happen on any of my sysvinit machines. craig -- craig sanders <c...@taz.net.au>

Bug#832079: supercat colour rules for debian packages

2016-07-21 Thread Craig Sanders
of them. Please find attached colour rules for: spcrc-dpkg-l - package listings (e.g. from dpkg -l or dlocate -l) spcrc-package - package details (e.g. from apt-cache show or dlocate -s or grep-dctrl) craig -- craig sanders <c...@taz.net.au> # HTML COLOR NAME COL A N T STRING or R

Bug#831761: can't migrate from system with tsc_scale cpu flag to one without

2016-07-19 Thread Craig Sanders
d. For a more detailed analysis/example of the problem, see: http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/296636/100-cpu-utilisation-and-hang-after-virsh-migrate craig -- craig sanders <c...@taz.net.au>

Bug#830670: mkbmdeb lacks support for Provides:

2016-07-10 Thread Craig Sanders
xample: Depends: zfs-dkms-bin Provides: zfs-modules, zfs-dkms -- craig sanders <c...@taz.net.au>

Bug#830535: partclone.xfs is missing from package

2016-07-09 Thread Craig Sanders
nfigure.ac2016-07-09 14:27:47.477298030 +1000 @@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ ) AM_CONDITIONAL(ENABLE_ALL, test "$enable_all" = yes) if test "$enable_all" = "yes"; then -#enable_xfs="yes" +enable_xfs="yes" enable_extfs="yes" #enable_reiserfs="yes" enable_reiser4="yes" craig -- craig sanders <c...@taz.net.au>

Bug#826994: [Pkg-zfsonlinux-devel] Bug#826994: Bug#826994: Missing init-script(s)?

2016-07-04 Thread Craig Sanders
and used in production by > myself on Jessie systems without problem, though. If there is people > willing to give a hand on maintaining LSB support I'm happy to carry > it. I guess that means "patches welcome". craig -- craig sanders <c...@taz.net.au>

Bug#829418: pptpd uses incorrect method to identify systemd

2016-07-03 Thread Craig Sanders
a postinst, it's a read-only operation so isn't affected by the lock. BTW, the space in " installed$" is essential, as "not-installed" is also valid there. Also, the '\n' in the format string isn't strictly necessary, but some tools (not grep) ignore the last line of input if i

Bug#829418: pptpd uses incorrect method to identify systemd

2016-07-03 Thread Craig Sanders
Package: pptpd Version: 1.4.0-8 pptpd.postint uses the following to identify whether a system is using systemd as init: if [ -x "$(which systemctl || true)" ] ; then this doesn't work. the systemd package is an almost mandatory install on debian due to dependencies these days, almost

Bug#827245: missing backend for pool type 11 (zfs)

2016-06-13 Thread Craig Sanders
nually creating ZVOLs and accessing them in libvirt VMs (with a 'dir' storage pool pointing to /dev/zvol/export/volumes) for years, but it would be useful to be able to manage them directly with virsh or virt-manager. craig -- craig sanders <c...@taz.net.au>

Bug#824252: -t and -d don't work as expected

2016-05-14 Thread Craig Sanders
delimiter or there should be extra options (perhaps -T and -D) to set it (similar to the way awk's FS and OFS variables work) Thanks, craig -- craig sanders <c...@taz.net.au>

Bug#822228: libprojectm2v5 depends on obsolete package ttf-dejavu-core

2016-04-22 Thread Craig Sanders
Package: libprojectm2v5 Version: 2.1.0+dfsg-3+b1 ttf-dejavu-core is now a transitional dummy package, depending on fonts-dejavu-core Because of this obsolete dependency, it's impossible to remove the ttf-dejavu-core without also removing libprojectm2v5 and everything that depends on it

Bug#813339: breaking an essential service is bad enough, failure to document just compounds the error.

2016-02-08 Thread Craig Sanders
to document the changes. thanks, craig -- craig sanders <c...@taz.net.au>

Bug#807015: xinit: startx freezes, mouse and keyboard don't work

2015-12-04 Thread Craig Sanders
Package: xinit Version: 1.3.4-3 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable sometime in the last ~70 days (since I last started X or rebooted), something has changed in X that prevents startx from working as an ordinary user. startx *was* working perfectly. Now when I run startx, I

Bug#807015: xinit: startx freezes, mouse and keyboard don't work

2015-12-04 Thread Craig Sanders
arly defined reason for it. craig -- craig sanders <c...@taz.net.au>

Bug#807015: xinit: startx freezes, mouse and keyboard don't work

2015-12-04 Thread Craig Sanders
t IOPL for I/O (Operation not permitted)" error message in startx.log - and so far google has been absolutely useless in revealing what that's about...several people have complained about it but no-one has come up with a definitive reason for it. craig -- craig sanders <c...@taz.net.au>

Bug#778876: linux-headers-3.19.0-trunk-amd64 is uninstallable.

2015-02-20 Thread Craig Sanders
but it is not installable craig -- craig sanders c...@taz.net.au -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#726675: gnome-settings-daemon: requires systemd

2013-10-21 Thread Craig Sanders
it is unlikely that this will ever be fixed. you are collateral damage in the commercial war between RedHat and Canonical. Redhat's weapons are Gnome and systemd. Ubuntu's weapons are Unity and upstart. RH is using gnome to force adoption of systemd as a strategy to sideline ubuntu. BTW,

Bug#721783: someone vandalised the evince user interface

2013-09-03 Thread Craig Sanders
to the far right of the window instead of on the left where it belongs. craig -- craig sanders c...@taz.net.au -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#720278: libapache2-mod-php5 disables mpm_itk

2013-08-19 Thread Craig Sanders
' ] ; then with: if [ $(a2query -M) != 'prefork' ] [ $(a2query -M) != 'itk' ] ; then craig -- craig sanders c...@taz.net.au -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#717464: VM hangs on boot if there are more than 7 virtio block devices

2013-07-20 Thread Craig Sanders
Package: seabios Version: 1.7.3-1 my zfs test VM boots without a problem if it has seven disks (1x5GB boot/OS zvol, 6 x 200M files) or less. It still works if I boot with 7 disks and then use 'virsh attach-disk' to add another virtio disk (or five. or ten). the added drives appear in the

Bug#690538: grub-common: Please make submenu creation optional or at least allow users to disable it easily

2013-05-25 Thread Craig Sanders
On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 10:36:14AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: Control: forwarded -1 https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?36850 On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 01:32:50PM +1000, Craig Sanders wrote: amongst other problems, it breaks grub-set-default and grub-reboot, because the submenu entry messes up

Bug#690538: grub-common: Please make submenu creation optional or at least allow users to disable it easily

2013-05-12 Thread Craig Sanders
] to if [ $GRUB_ENABLE_SUBMENUS != false ] i honestly don't care what the default is, as long as there's a setting to enable/disable generation of submenus. craig -- craig sanders c...@taz.net.au --- 10_linux.orig 2013-05-09 21:08:00.0 +1000 +++ 10_linux 2013-05-13 12:59:48.639018494 +1000 @@ -246,17

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