Bug#1007555: ufiformat: please consider upgrading to 3.0 source format

2024-05-31 Thread David Given
Thank you --- I actually completely failed to spot this email when it came through... On Sat, 1 Jun 2024 at 00:02, Bastian Germann wrote: > I am uplaoding a NMU to DELAYED/10 in order to fix this. > Please find the debdiff attached.

Bug#965846: ufiformat: diff for NMU version 0.9.9-1.1

2021-12-20 Thread David Given
Thank you for fixing these; I completely missed both of these bugs when they got filed. On Mon, 20 Dec 2021 at 15:33, Stephen Kitt wrote: > Package: ufiformat > Version: 0.9.9-1 > Severity: normal > Tags: patch pending > > Dear maintainer, > > I've prepared an NMU for ufiformat (versioned as

Bug#999883: wordgrinder FTCBFS: multiple issues

2021-11-18 Thread David Given
Thanks --- yes, that needs fixing. Unfortunately, while wearing my upstream hat, I've rewritten the build system, but I've applied some changes to make it honour variables like CC and PKG_CONFIG. The diff is here, if you're interested: https://github.com/davidgiven/wordgrinder/pull/181/files The

Bug#998365: libstdc++-arm-none-eabi-newlib: Version of libstdc++-arm-none-eabi-newlib and gcc-arm-none-eabi must match or the C++ libraries can't be found

2021-11-02 Thread David Given
Ah, I've just spotted (via the automatically reported bug data...) that there is such a constraint but it's only at a Recommends level. I think this should be upgraded to a Depends. On Tue, 2 Nov 2021 at 23:57, David Given wrote: > Package: libstdc++-arm-none-eabi-newlib > Version: 15:8-2

Bug#998365: libstdc++-arm-none-eabi-newlib: Version of libstdc++-arm-none-eabi-newlib and gcc-arm-none-eabi must match or the C++ libraries can't be found

2021-11-02 Thread David Given
Package: libstdc++-arm-none-eabi-newlib Version: 15:8-2019-q3-1+13 Severity: important X-Debbugs-Cc: d...@cowlark.com Dear Maintainer, Currently the testing/unstable version of gcc-arm-none-eabi is 15:10.3-2021.07-2 (a.k.a. 10.3.1) and the version of libstdc++-arm-none-eabi- newlib is

Bug#976239: qemu-user: emulator crash with minimal test program

2020-12-01 Thread David Given
Package: qemu-user Version: 1:5.1+dfsg-4+b2 Severity: normal Tags: upstream X-Debbugs-Cc: d...@cowlark.com I have a test program for the PowerPC which reliably causes qemu-ppc to crash, apparently on startup. I haven't been able to get it to tell me what it's doing during the crash. The minimal

Bug#971114: wordgrinder: FTBFS: src/c/arch/unix/cursesw/dpy.c:219:8: error: ‘KEY_EVENT’ undeclared (first use in this function); did you mean ‘KEY_SLEFT’?

2020-09-27 Thread David Given
It looks like ncurses has dropped KEY_EVENT: https://invisible-island.net/ncurses/NEWS.html#index-t20200817 I'll fix this upstream and produce a new package --- it's about time anyway. On Sun, 27 Sep 2020 at 20:51, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > Source: wordgrinder > Version: 0.7.2-1 > Severity:

Bug#619757: Bug #619757 breaks DVD reading by default now

2019-05-25 Thread David Given
I've just run into this myself with a Bluray drive: $ uname -a Linux hilfy 4.19.0-5-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.19.37-3 (2019-05-15) x86_64 GNU/Linux $ smartctl -i /dev/cdrom smartctl 6.6 2017-11-05 r4594 [x86_64-linux-4.19.0-5-amd64] (local build) Copyright (C) 2002-17, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke,

Bug#880414: RFS: wordgrinder 0.7-1 -- word processor which runs in a terminal

2017-11-02 Thread David Given
.pl> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 31, 2017 at 11:33:13AM +0100, David Given wrote: > > * Package name: wordgrinder > > Version: 0.7-1 > > > WordGrinder's not a new package --- it's been in Debian since wheezy. > > Unfortunately my existing sponsor has retired and is unab

Bug#880414: RFS: wordgrinder 0.7-1 -- word processor which runs in a terminal

2017-10-31 Thread David Given
Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: normal Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "wordgrinder": * Package name: wordgrinder Version: 0.7-1 Upstream Author: David Given <d...@cowlark.com> * URL: http://cowlark.com/wordgrinder * License: MIT Section: ed

Bug#867973: jessie-pu: package wordgrinder/0.5.1-1

2017-07-11 Thread David Given
bian.net/package/wordgrinder What's the user value in keeping 0.5.1 in oldstable rather than just upgrading to the stable version? On Tue, 11 Jul 2017 at 00:22 Cyril Brulebois <k...@debian.org> wrote: > David Given <d...@cowlark.com> (2017-07-10): > > Well, I actually approached ba

Bug#867973: jessie-pu: package wordgrinder/0.5.1-1

2017-07-10 Thread David Given
<a...@adam-barratt.org.uk> wrote: > On Mon, 2017-07-10 at 22:21 +0200, Alexander Wirt wrote: > > On Mon, 10 Jul 2017, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > > > > > Control: tags -1 + moreinfo > > > > > > On Mon, 2017-07-10 at 19:44 +, David Given wr

Bug#867973: jessie-pu: package wordgrinder/0.5.1-1

2017-07-10 Thread David Given
Package: release.debian.org Severity: normal Tags: jessie User: release.debian@packages.debian.org Usertags: pu The version in jessie of my package WordGrinder is painfully old and has a number of showstopping bugs (document corruption and loss of data). The next available version in Debian

Bug#801909: wordgrinder-ncurses: wordgrinder should depend on lua-ldoc

2015-10-17 Thread David Given
On 16/10/15 01:12, Jean Charles Delépine wrote: [...] > Installing lua-ldoc makes wordgrinder happy. lua-filesystem, actually, but yes, there's an embarrassingly missing dependency there. Thanks; will fix. -- ┌─── dg@cowlark.com ─ http://www.cowlark.com ─ │ "There is nothing in the

Bug#801697: wordgrinder: FTBFS: tries to install into home

2015-10-13 Thread David Given
On 13/10/15 20:12, Aaron M. Ucko wrote: [...] > Good question. You could probably achieve the desired effect by running > > cowbuilder --login --save-after-login I had a play and couldn't make it do anything useful --- I've asked on debian-mentors@ and will try to figure it out. Ta. [...] > No

Bug#801697: wordgrinder: FTBFS: tries to install into home

2015-10-13 Thread David Given
On 13/10/15 16:39, Aaron M. Ucko wrote: [...] > Automatic builds of wordgrinder failed due to trying to install > something into the builder's home directory, which is deliberately > absent on the autobuilders because builds should leave it alone. Bah. I'm both upstream and maintainer, so... (I

Bug#801697: wordgrinder: FTBFS: tries to install into home

2015-10-13 Thread David Given
For reference, the $HOME-not-being-read-only-issue in pbuilder is known about: https://bugs.debian.org/441052 -- ┌─── dg@cowlark.com ─ http://www.cowlark.com ─ │ "There is nothing in the world so dangerous --- and I mean *nothing* │ --- as a children's story that happens to be true." ---

Bug#785483: python2.7: distutils uses the wrong compiler version

2015-05-16 Thread David Given
Package: python2.7 Version: 2.7.9-1 Severity: normal I am unable to build programs using Python's distutils, because it's invoking the wrong compiler. It's trying to use a gcc 4.9 flag, but is invoking gcc 4.7, which aborts due to an unrecognised flag. I think what's happened here is that it's

Bug#732696: os-prober: Fails to detect new package-management Haiku builds

2014-07-15 Thread David Given
On 7/15/14, 12:09 PM, Jeroen Oortwijn wrote: [...] Current nightly builds have different package names, so the patch doesn't work anymore. Oh, well... [...] Because David's patch doesn't work anymore, I have created a new patch. See attached file. This patch can also be found at my bazaar

Bug#732696: os-prober: Fails to detect new package-management Haiku builds

2014-03-17 Thread David Given
On 3/11/14, 1:22 AM, Cyril Brulebois wrote: Hi David, Sorry for the delay --- very busy with other things. David Given d...@cowlark.com (2013-12-20): [...] Currently package management builds are only available in nightly releases but there should be an official release Real Soon Now

Bug#732696: os-prober: Fails to detect new package-management Haiku builds

2013-12-20 Thread David Given
Package: os-prober Version: 1.63 Severity: important Tags: patch Haiku's new package management builds have changed the way the kernel and boot sector is laid out, and os-prober's detection routines no longer detect such Haiku partitions. Currently package management builds are only available in

Bug#725555: ufiformat: FTBFS: configure.in:11: error: required file './compile' not found

2013-10-15 Thread David Given
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 15/10/13 11:53, Hideki Yamane wrote: [...] Attached patch would fix this FTBFS, could you consider to apply it, please? Thank you very much --- that works fine, although I've removed the -f option to avoid changing the autoconf files that

Bug#690455: Please build android-tools-adb on more architectures

2013-01-14 Thread David Given
I have just successfully built adb on armhf by manually editing the control file. I can't test to see whether it works because this is on an Android chroot, so not all the device nodes exist and it won't run, but there weren't any problems with the build. Was there any specific reason for

Bug#691214: lua-wsapi: wsapi.cgi won't run because it has DOS file endings

2012-10-22 Thread David Given
Package: lua-wsapi Version: 1.5-2 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable Dear Maintainer, The /usr/bin/wsapi.cgi script is unrunnable as it has DOS line endings. When it is run the Lua interpreter cannot be found, as it tries to look for a file called lua5.1\r, which of course

Bug#688895: npm prefix changes depending on the user

2012-09-26 Thread David Given
Package: npm Version: 1.1.4~dfsg-2 Severity: normal Short summary: $ npm -g get prefix /usr $ sudo npm -g get prefix /usr/local I've tried to investigate what's going on, but have gotten lost in the maze of npm configuration files. I suspect that the tweak that Debian's done to split the prefix

Bug#611409: ITP: spey -- SMTP proxy with greylisting, RBL, authentication support

2011-01-28 Thread David Given
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist I am intending to package the next version of the spey SMTP proxy for Debian. It is available at: http://spey.sourceforge.net It is licensed under the GPL v2. (Disclaimer: I am upstream.) -- ┌─── dg@cowlark.com ─ http://www.cowlark.com ─ │ │ I have a

Bug#464002: Do not start

2008-02-04 Thread David Given
Juhapekka Tolvanen wrote: [...] % wordgrinder Lua error: /usr/share/wordgrinder/main.lua:16: module 'lfs' not found: Yes, indeed --- incompetence on my part, I'm afraid, I put the appropriate dependencies in Build-Depends instead of Depends. Workaround: install liblua5.1-filesystem0 and it

Bug#464007: wordgrinder: can't bind keys that have a default keybinding

2008-02-04 Thread David Given
Package: wordgrinder Version: 0.2-1 Severity: normal You can unbind the default keybinding, but then trying to assign a new keybinding doesn't work. (Known upstream.) -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686)

Bug#461515: RFP: wordgrinder -- a text mode word processor

2008-01-18 Thread David Given
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist WordGrinder is a simple word processor designed to run in a terminal (written by myself). It very lightweight, supports basic style only and is designed for text entry rather than typesetting. It is available here:

Bug#369453: makecontext/setcontext/getcontext not implemented on ARM architecture

2007-12-14 Thread David Given
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Robert Millan wrote: [...] I'm interested in these functions too. I might be able to implement them; please could you provide a minimal architecture-independent test case? Even if I can't do it, having this might be helpful to someone else.

Bug#436134: RFP: ufiformat -- USB floppy disk formatter

2007-08-05 Thread David Given
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist ufiformat is a simple command-line utility for formatting floppy disks when using external USB floppy drives. (superformat and fdformat cannot do this.) It is available here:

Bug#370060: Segmentation fault if linked with the pthread library

2006-06-02 Thread David Given
Package: libpcl1 Version: 1.6-1 I have a situation on the ARM platform where if I compile an executable to use both libpcl and libpthread, then even if I'm not actually using threads, trying to do anything to a coroutine causes an immediate segmentation fault. To replicate: $ gcc

Bug#369453: makecontext/setcontext/getcontext not implemented on ARM architecture

2006-05-29 Thread David Given
Package: libc6 Version: 2.3.6-7 Attempting to use any of the ucontext family of functions --- makecontext, setcontext, getcontext, swapcontext --- produces the following link-time error: makecontext is not implemented and will always fail It's right; it does. I realise they're a bit exotic,

Bug#339827: linuxthreads crashes when using user stacks

2005-11-19 Thread David Given
On Saturday 19 November 2005 05:10, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: [...] We could ship a fourth variant of fifth variant of glibc for i686 using LinuxThreads. I am not particularly motivated to do this considering how rarely anyone encounters this problem, and the corresponding cost in archive

Bug#339827: linuxthreads crashes when using user stacks

2005-11-18 Thread David Given
Package: glibc Version: 2.3.5-8 Severity: important When using 2.4 kernels, the linuxthreads library makes an incorrect assumption about stack usage that causes applications to crash if they use user stacks. This does not occur on 2.6 kernels (because they use a different threading library). I