Bug#407873: retchmail: -q option has no effect

2007-01-21 Thread Joe Mason
Package: retchmail Version: 1:1.0-1 Severity: normal Tags: patch Using retchmail -qq I always see all headers printed, which makes it hard to run from crontab. The reason is that the dec_log_level callback only updates a local copy of the log level variable. Patch attached. -- System

Bug#379692: thinks I don't have linux-headers installed

2006-07-24 Thread Joe Mason
Package: module-assistant Version: 0.10.5 Severity: important Bug #319930 has the same description, but it was closed a year ago during the transtion from kernel-headers-* to linux-headers-*, so I assume it has a completely different cause. I have the following linux-image- and linux-headers-

Bug#379693: Can't build with m-a

2006-07-24 Thread Joe Mason
Package: hostap-source Version: 1:0.4.1-1 Severity: important Building under module-assistant fails with the following log (build.log.1). Apart from the fact that it performs many steps more than once, the problem seems to be with the MODVERDIR parameter to the sub-make invocation - it passes the

Bug#379693: Oops - probably kernel-related

2006-07-24 Thread Joe Mason
Package: hostap-source Version: 1:0.4.1-1 Followup-For: Bug #379693 I just noticed that hostap is now built into the kernel. Since I have 2.6.17-1-686, I shouldn't need to compile the hostap-source for this box anyway. I guess hostap hasn't been updated to track recent changes in the module

Bug#360690: [FTBFS] install scripts do not run; package seems mangled

2006-04-20 Thread Joe Mason
Stephen Gran wrote: The main problem was lost +x perms, most likely due to patch, and me not noticing that the x bit was lost before upload. I don't know that wholesale reversion of packaging decisions is a good thing to do in an NMU. No, adding the +x perms and running the script

Bug#360690: install scripts do not run; package seems mangled

2006-04-03 Thread Joe Mason
Package: webcalendar Version: 1.0.2-2 Severity: grave When I installed webcalendar, I got the option Let debconf manage settings.php? - Choosing yes led to a permissions error trying to execute /usr/share/webcalendar/tools/dbconfig_oldconf.sh (which had permissions 644) - Choosing no led to

Bug#356008: dhcp-client ignores hostname directive

2006-03-09 Thread Joe Mason
Package: dhcp-client Version: 2.0pl5-19.4 Severity: normal #272942 talks about sending the hostname to the DHCP server by default; this is a much more limited problem. If you set a hostname explicitly in /etc/network/interfaces: iface eth0 inet dhcp hostname whatever dhclient completely

Bug#338093: /var/lib/aptitude/pkgstates not created on new install

2005-11-07 Thread Joe Mason
Package: aptitude Version: 0.4.0-2 Severity: normal After managing my system with apt-get for ages, including upgrading from oldstable to unstable, I finally installed aptitutde and got this error when I first tried to install something: E: failed to rename /var/lib/aptitude/pkgstates to

Bug#337285: qt3-qtconfig: KDE plugin path should be added to default qtconfig path list

2005-11-03 Thread Joe Mason
Package: qt3-qtconfig Version: 3:3.3.5-1 Severity: wishlist The default plugin search path for qt3-qtconfig is /usr/lib/qt3/plugins;/usr/bin. To use KDE styles, /usr/lib/kde3/plugins needs to be added by hand. (A usenet message suggested that installing kdebase would add this dir, but I haven't

Bug#337287: gtk2-engines-gtk-qt: Scroll bar boundaries are wrong in themes with 3 scrollbar buttons

2005-11-03 Thread Joe Mason
Package: gtk2-engines-gtk-qt Version: 0.60-1.1 Severity: normal Several Qt themes have scrollbars that have one button on the top or left, and two on the bottom or right (examples I've tested with are Plastik and B3). To get Gtk to use a KDE theme: - install kdelibs4c2 (you may also need

Bug#315119: gtk2-engines-gtk-qt: bug #337285 may be related

2005-11-03 Thread Joe Mason
Package: gtk2-engines-gtk-qt Version: 0.60-1.1 Followup-For: Bug #315119 I'm also using the KDE Plastik theme, and I don't see the exact behaviour described. I do see something similar: when the scrollbar is dragged to the bottom, it covers one of the two bottom buttons. (However, for me, at

Bug#337305: konsole: Encoding not saved with session

2005-11-03 Thread Joe Mason
Package: konsole Version: 4:3.4.2-4 Severity: normal - Open a new konsole, and verify that the encoding is set to Default and that UTF-8 formatted documents (such as http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/examples/UTF-8-demo.txt) don't display. - Set the encoding to Unicode (UTF-8) and verify

Bug#337305: konsole: Workaround

2005-11-03 Thread Joe Mason
Package: konsole Version: 4:3.4.2-4 Followup-For: Bug #337305 A workaround for this is to use Save Sessions Profile instead of Save as Default (I named my profile UTF-8) and then open konsole with konsole --profile UTF-8. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers

Bug#329422: acknowledged by developer (The kernel-image package already warns and allows people to abort.)

2005-09-26 Thread Joe Mason
On Sun, Sep 25, 2005 at 11:03:14PM -0700, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: Hi, Why is this message not enough? manoj You are running a kernel (version $running) and attempting to remove the same version. This is a potentially disastrous action. Not only will

Bug#329422: No warnings when uninstalling kernel package

2005-09-22 Thread Joe Mason
On Thu, Sep 22, 2005 at 03:10:47PM +0900, Horms wrote: Could you please send your reply to the bug, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Oops, didn't realize Reply-To wasn't set. Here it is: On Thu, Sep 22, 2005 at 12:34:59AM -0400, Joe Mason wrote: On Thu, Sep 22, 2005 at 12:20:52PM +0900, Horms wrote

Bug#329407: Importer should have more verbose error messages

2005-09-21 Thread Joe Mason
Package: evolution Version: 2.2.3-4 Severity: wishlist I was trying to import a badly-formatted VCard file: VCARD BEGIN:VCARD ... END:VCARD (note the extra VCARD header) The only error message it gave me was Error opening address.vcf - no further details in either the error dialog or the

Bug#329422: No warnings when uninstalling kernel package

2005-09-21 Thread Joe Mason
Package: kernel-image-2.6.8-2-686 Version: 2.6.8-16 Severity: critical Most of the time when I try to uninstall a package that's critical to system functionality, it tells me I'm about to uninstall a core component and asks me to type, Yes I know what I'm doing or similar to continue. $ sudo

Bug#321717: cannot enable executable stack as shared object requires: Error 14

2005-08-07 Thread Joe Mason
Package: libacl1 Version: 2.2.29-1.0.1 Severity: critical I just did a dist-upgrade, and every time I try to run a program linked with libacl (which includes mv, cp, and ls) I get the following error: error while loading shared libraries: libacl.so.1: cannot enable executable stack as shared

Bug#321718: Upgrade caused many libs to complain about executable stack

2005-08-07 Thread Joe Mason
Package: upgrade-reports Severity: critical I just did a dist-upgrade, and every time I try to run a program linked with libacl (which includes mv, cp, and ls) I get the following error: error while loading shared libraries: libacl.so.1: cannot enable executable stack as shared object requires:

Bug#321720: cannot enable executable stack as shared object requires: Error 14

2005-08-07 Thread Joe Mason
Package: libgcrypt11 Version: 1.2.1-4 Severity: critical I just did a dist-upgrade, and every time I try to run a program linked with libgcrypt11 I get the following error: error while loading shared libraries: libacl.so.1: cannot enable executable stack as shared object requires: Error 14

Bug#321723: cannot enable executable stack as shared object requires: Error 14

2005-08-07 Thread Joe Mason
Package: libgdbm3 Version: 1.8.3-2 Severity: critical I just did a dist-upgrade, and every time I try to run a program linked with libgdbm I get the following error: error while loading shared libraries: libgdbm.so.3: cannot enable executable stack as shared object requires: Error 14 Many

Bug#321721: cannot enable executable stack as shared object requires: Error 14

2005-08-07 Thread Joe Mason
Package: libssl0.9.7 Version: 0.9.7g-1 Severity: critical I just did a dist-upgrade, and every time I try to run a program linked with libcrypto I get the following error: error while loading shared libraries: libcrypto.so.0.9.7: cannot enable executable stack as shared object requires: Error 14

Bug#321724: cannot enable executable stack as shared object requires: Error 14

2005-08-07 Thread Joe Mason
Package: libelfg0 Version: 0.8.5-1 Severity: critical I just did a dist-upgrade, and every time I try to run a program linked with libelf I get the following error: error while loading shared libraries: libelf.so.0: cannot enable executable stack as shared object requires: Error 14 Many other

Bug#321728: Error message if gnupg is not installed gives bad advice

2005-08-07 Thread Joe Mason
Package: apt Version: 0.6.40.1 Severity: minor Running apt-get update without gnupg installed finishes with this error: W: GPG error: http://debian.teleglobe.net stable/non-US Release: Could not execute /usr/bin/gpgv to verify signature (is gnupg installed?) W: GPG error:

Bug#321718: Upgrade caused many libs to complain about executable stack

2005-08-07 Thread Joe Mason
severity 321718 important thanks On Sun, Aug 07, 2005 at 02:56:10AM -0400, Joe Mason wrote: (so far I've found libgcrypt, libcrypto, and libelf, and I'm filing bugs for all of them). I'd rather you hadn't. None of these libraries are buggy. In the future, it would be appreciated

Bug#290999: depends on wvstreams3, not wvstreams4

2005-01-17 Thread Joe Mason
Package: retchmail Severity: grave libwvstreams3 seems to have disappeared from Debian unstable, but retchmail still depends on it instead of libwvstreams4: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo apt-get install retchmail Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Some packages could not