Bug#1068479: cynically closed by Rene Engelhard (Re: Bug#1068479: libreoffice-writer: space between paragraphs missing in spacing and indentation)

* José Luis González [240407 15:00]: > reopen 1068479 > thanks > > Hi all, > > Rene Engelhard seems to be a worse case even than Ricardo Mones. Take a > look at my recent bug reports to libreoffice-writer and his replies. > > In this one: > > > Am 06.04.24 um 11:03 schrieb Rene Engelhard: > >

Bug#1054883: recognize .m3u8 as playlist (use mp3 icon like .m3u)

Package: xfe Version: 1.43.2-3 Severity: wishlist [also seen in 1.45-2] Files with extension .m3u8 are UTF-8 encoded .m3u files. It would be nice if these files used the same icon as .m3u files. ...Marvin

Bug#1052562: ITP: eza -- Modern replacement for ls

* Sylvestre Ledru [230924 15:57]: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Sylvestre Ledru > X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-de...@lists.debian.org > > * Package name: eza > * URL : https://github.com/eza-community/eza > * License : MIT > > it is a replacement of exa (dead

Bug#1051250: ITP: hyfetch -- A system info script...

Your short description is way too long and only three words in it are useful: "system info script". Those three words by themselves do not really give a good idea what the package does. The neofetch package description (short and long) is much better; you should model yours from it, adding the

Bug#1050005: ITP: pdftopng -- Convert PDF to PNG

* Elena Grandi [230818 05:27]: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Elena Grandi > > * Package name: pdftopng > Description : Convert PDF to PNG > > A command line tool and python library to convert PDFs to PNGs, based on > pdftoppm from poppler. > > This is a dependency of

Bug#801065: Documenting how to not fail postinst on service fails to start

* Steve Langasek [230214 13:09]: > On Mon, Feb 13, 2023 at 09:03:34AM -0500, Marvin Renich wrote: > > * Steve Langasek [230212 00:03]: > > > FWIW I think that it's the wrong thing to do if the "circumstances" > > > include > > > reverse-depend

Bug#801065: Documenting how to not fail postinst on service fails to start

* Steve Langasek [230212 00:03]: > FWIW I think that it's the wrong thing to do if the "circumstances" include > reverse-dependencies on the package which expect to interact with the > service the package provides, as these packages may themselves do such > interaction in the maintainer script,

Bug#801065: consent unclear

* Holger Levsen [230208 08:15]: > control: tags -1 +moreinfo > thanks > > hi, > > I don't think there has been consent on the issue, thus I'm tagging it > moreinfo. > > I'm also wondering whether to mark this bug as wontfix (until there is > consent) or to reassign to debian-policy or simply

Bug#1023460: in debian/nslcd.config, guess_ldap_uri returns the IP address instead of the name of the server

* Arthur de Jong [221204 09:42]: > On Fri, 2022-11-04 at 11:00 -0400, Marvin Renich wrote: > > When nslcd is installed [...] guess_ldap_uri tries to find an > > appropriate ldap server using some heuristics.  If it finds a host > > [...] it returns the IP address of the host

Bug#1023778: TMPDIR behaviour in maintainer scripts [was: Re: Bug#1023778: mysql-server-8.0: fails to restart on upgrade with libpam-tmpdir]

* Marvin Renich [221115 12:57]: > TEMPDIR, on the other hand, is for _specific_ cases, and can have ^ et al Of course, that should be TMPDIR, not TEMPDIR. Apologies. ...Marvin

Bug#1023778: TMPDIR behaviour in maintainer scripts [was: Re: Bug#1023778: mysql-server-8.0: fails to restart on upgrade with libpam-tmpdir]

* Robie Basak [221113 14:15]: > On Sun, Nov 13, 2022 at 05:46:00PM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: > > On Nov 13, Robie Basak wrote: > > > > > This seems inconsistent to me. Where is the expectation that TMPDIR must > > > be unset if dropping privileges coming from? Obviously for users of > > Where

Bug#1023460: in debian/nslcd.config, guess_ldap_uri returns the IP address instead of the name of the server

Package: nslcd Version: 0.9.12-3 Severity: normal When nslcd is installed with noninteractive debconf frontend (perhaps also interactively, I didn't check), guess_ldap_uri tries to find an appropriate ldap server using some heuristics. If it finds a host named ldap, ldap.$domain, dirhost, or

Bug#1023454: debconf-show: add --selections option to format output for debconf-set-selections

Package: debconf Version: 1.5.79 Severity: wishlist Please add an option --selections that will output "seen" questions in the format used as input to debconf-set-selection, and an option --all that, when used with --selections, will output all questions in that format. I.e. debconf-show

Bug#1012525: gensquashfs: double free detected in tcache 2

Package: squashfs-tools-ng Version: 1.1.4-1 Severity: minor In mknode.c:fstree_mknode, if the parent directory link count is too large, the tree_node_t that was just calloc'ed is free'd before returning. However, it has already been linked to the parent's children list. This causes a double

Bug#1012522: gensquashfs: "creating tree node: Too many links" error message is confusing and uninformative

Package: squashfs-tools-ng Version: 1.1.4-1 Severity: minor The error text "Too many links" from EMLINK is intended to refer to the number of hard links to an inode, but is misused in fstree_mknode (mknode.c) to mean "directory has too many entries" (perhaps a squashfs limit?). This is confusing

Bug#943903: samba 2:4.11.1+dfsg-1 server breaks mount.cifs from cifs-utils 2:6.9-1

* Michael Tokarev [220510 15:54]: > Control: tag -1 + moreinfo > > On Thu, 31 Oct 2019 11:53:52 -0400 Marvin Renich wrote: > > Package: samba > > Version: 2:4.11.1+dfsg-1 > > Severity: normal > > > > I plan to clone this bug to cifs-utils, as it is

Bug#1006464: Please use "mdadm monitoring " as default MAILFROM

Package: mdadm Version: 4.2-1 Severity: wishlist Currently, the default for MAILFROM is "mdadm monitoring ". If /etc/mailname exists and is not empty, please use it to create a default >From address that is useful when root's mail is being forwarded off the current system (e.g. to a sysadmin

Bug#1002527: postinst ignores USER from /etc/default/milter-greylist when invoking chown ... /var/lib/milter-greylist

retitle 1002527 milter-greylist -u user does not correctly ensure user can update greylist.db quit * Adrian Bunk [220120 21:43]: > On Thu, Dec 23, 2021 at 02:12:04PM -0500, Marvin Renich wrote: > >... > > With an existing installation of milter-greylist set up to work with >

Bug#1002529: removing /etc/init.d/rsyslog on upgrade breaks systems still using sysvinit

Package: rsyslog Version: 8.2110.0-4 Severity: critical On systems still running sysvinit, the removal of /etc/init.d/rsyslog during upgrade of rsyslog causes complete data loss of critical system information that was intended to be logged after the next reboot. I understand that many

Bug#1002527: postinst ignores USER from /etc/default/milter-greylist when invoking chown ... /var/lib/milter-greylist

Package: milter-greylist Version: 4.6.4-1 Severity: critical With an existing installation of milter-greylist set up to work with chrooted postfix (i.e. USER="postfix" in /etc/default/milter-greylist), every upgrade sets the owner of the directory /var/lib/milter-greylist to "greylist" regardless

Bug#766194: debhelper: dh_installinit should gain option to ignore start failures

* Niels Thykier [180521 05:29]: > As I understood your original mail, it sounded like we expect the > service to fail because the user has not configured it yet. I think I > am missing the point of having it start automatically if it will not > work out of the box. > Can you elaborate on what

Bug#995772: please use alternatives instead of conflicting with exfat-utils

* Sven Hoexter [211005 11:02]: > I already coordinated with myself that exfat-utils and exfat-fuse will be > removed. Thanks! I didn't look at the exfat-utils maintainer. And thanks for maintaining these packages. ...Marvin

Bug#995772: please use alternatives instead of conflicting with exfat-utils

Package: exfatprogs Version: 1.1.2-2 Severity: normal Please coordinate with exfat-utils maintainer and use the alternative system to allow both packages to be installed at the same time, with both of them Providing a virtual package so that reverse dependencies like exfat-fuse and udisks2 can

Bug#989568: Please allow kgames and xmille to be co-installable

Package: kgames Version: 1.0-2.1 Severity: normal kgames Breaks, Replaces, and Provides xmille, but the user interface is different enough between the two that it is reasonable to want the xmille package and the other games in kgames at the same time. I see three obvious solutions, listed in

Bug#975557: Please improve package descriptions

Source: xrootd Version: 5.0.3-1 All binary packages built from xrootd except xrootd-server have descriptions that rely on the reader already having knowledge of what xrootd is. Each package's description should include a brief description of the overall xrootd project. An example for

Bug#946900: latest neomutt no longer uses account-hook for initial login [regression]

* Antonio Radici [200624 08:00]: > Control: tag -1 +moreinfo > > Can you provide an example configuration that allow us to reproduce this bug > against the version that is currently on sid? The only things necessary are "set spoolfile=...", "mailboxes ...", and an account-hook that sets

Bug#958120: apt-secure man page does not give promised information

Package: apt Version: 2.0.2 Severity: normal When an InRelease file changes, apt-get update gives the following error: E: Repository 'http://approx.local:/debian buster InRelease' changed its 'Suite' value from 'testing' to 'stable' N: This must be accepted explicitly before updates for

Bug#956049: clone for second bug

Control: clone -1 -2 Control: retitle -2 Unable to read top-level mounted directory with idmap=file

Bug#956049: No error message from failed mount with idmap=file and incomplete gidfile

Package: sshfs Version: 3.7.0+repack-1 Severity: normal (I will clone this for two related bugs with the same setup.) On remote host: $ id uid=1000(user1) gid=1000(user1) groups=1000(user1),…,50(staff),… $ cd /srv/www/site1 $ ls -lAd drwxrwsr-x 8 user1 staff 4096 Oct 30 16:44 . $ ls -lA total

Bug#945442: Possible to backspace past beginning of string, which appears to be identical to having pressed Enter immediately, without any backspace

* Joerg Dorchain [200303 05:15]: > On Tue, Mar 03, 2020 at 10:57:41AM +0100, Andras Korn wrote: > > I filed https://github.com/neomutt/neomutt/issues/2161. > > Thanks for the effort, but: > > Duplicate #2002 and there's already pull request for it #2160. > @gahr gahr closed this 6 minutes ago

Bug#945442: Possible to backspace past beginning of string, which appears to be identical to having pressed Enter immediately, without any backspace

[P.S. I'm subscribed to the bug; you may drop me from explicit To or CC.] * Joerg Dorchain [200302 12:18]: > Then please include > https://github.com/neomutt/neomutt/commit/f197ab93c8436a39fc511f396acde24f90389f20?diff=unified > > in a new package, maybe with a Debian-specific change of the

Bug#945442: Possible to backspace past beginning of string, which appears to be identical to having pressed Enter immediately, without any backspace

* Andreas Henriksson [200302 08:27]: > On Fri, Feb 14, 2020 at 11:31:53AM -0500, Marvin Renich wrote: > > Control: -1 severity grave > > > > I'm increasing the severity of this bug, as it can cause unintended > [...] > > I just NMUed a new upstream version of neomu

Bug#945442: Re Bug#945442: Possible to backspace past beginning of string...

Control: -1 severity grave I'm increasing the severity of this bug, as it can cause unintended behavior of which the user is unaware, in a manner that is close enough to data loss that it should be considered grave. One example is when saving a bunch of tagged messages, and backspacing too far

Bug#951263: please do not change "=" to "+" on command line (regression)

Package: neomutt Version: 2019+dfsg.1-1 Severity: minor When typing a folder on the command line, certain keys cause the folder name to be canonicalized, and if the user is accustomed to using "=", it now changes that to "+". This is new behavior; it used to leave "=" alone. I don't know if

Bug#951261: indication that command is operating on tagged messages disappears (regression)

Package: neomutt Version: 2019+dfsg.1-1 Severity: normal If you only have one message tagged, and type ;s to save tagged messages, the command line used to say "Save tagged to...", but now the word "tagged" is no longer there. This is truely bad, as the message that is highlighted is usually

Bug#946900: latest neomutt no longer uses account-hood for initial login [regression]

Package: neomutt Version: 2019+dfsg.1-1 Severity: normal When starting neomutt version 20180716+dfsg.1-1, my login credentials from an account-hook setting sourced by ~/.mutt/muttrc are used for the initial connection to my imap server. With verion 2019+dfsg.1-1, I am prompted for my

Bug#943903: [Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#943903: samba 2:4.11.1+dfsg-1 server breaks mount.cifs from cifs-utils 2:6.9-1

Thanks for looking into this. * Mathieu Parent [191116 16:12]: > Le jeu. 31 oct. 2019 à 17:03, Marvin Renich a écrit : > > > > Package: samba > > Version: 2:4.11.1+dfsg-1 > > Severity: normal > > > > After upgrading from samba 2:4.9.13+dfsg-1 to 2:

Bug#943903: samba 2:4.11.1+dfsg-1 server breaks mount.cifs from cifs-utils 2:6.9-1

Package: samba Version: 2:4.11.1+dfsg-1 Severity: normal I plan to clone this bug to cifs-utils, as it is unclear which package has the bug. After upgrading from samba 2:4.9.13+dfsg-1 to 2:4.11.0+dfsg-10 on a server machine, mount.cifs from cifs-utils 2:6.9-1 on a different machine fails to

Bug#929270: description uses "Golang" instead of "Go"

Package: termshark Version: 1.0.0-1 Severity: normal The package description says "Written in Golang". The correct name of that computer language is "Go". golang.org is the domain name where the official website is hosted, but that is not the name of the language. ...Marvin

Bug#865975: #865975 docker.io breaks (bridged) network for VMs

hen it is enabled. I.e. when --iptables=true, the modification is done is wrong (in a way that breaks networking configuration for non-docker software). > On Tuesday, 27 November 2018 9:00:20 AM AEDT Marvin Renich wrote: > > The current behavior appears to break other software 100%

Bug#865975: #865975 docker.io breaks (bridged) network for VMs

Control: severity -1 critical * Alban Browaeys [171022 00:01]: > The FORWARD chain policy is set to DROP by docker since 1.13. HUH??? Since when is it okay for software that is not advertised as firewall software to modify the sysadmin's implicit or explicit iptables setup for IP packets

Bug#911539: tinysshd: Use Recommends: systemd rather than Depends

* Jan Mojzis [181021 13:45]: > fixed here: > https://salsa.debian.org/debian/tinyssh/commit/64ab1d6729ecf5e0a7115bffa634beb8dbb5b3e6 > > Wow! Thanks very much for the extremely rapid fix. ...Marvin

Bug#911539: tinysshd: Use Recommends: systemd rather than Depends

Package: tinysshd Version: 20180201-1 [Jan Mojžíš: this is a reply to a thread on debian-devel; some of the statements below are directed toward that thread, not to you personally.] * Vincent Bernat [181021 11:29]: > ❦ 21 octobre 2018 13:15 GMT, Ivan Shmakov : > > > >>> tinysshd only ships a

Bug#909324: geeqie: please document locations of config and state files in the man page

* Andreas Ronnquist [180924 11:54]: > As you might have seen, I have forwarded this upstream, and my > suggested patch has been accepted in the upstream Git repository, so > this will be in the next upstream release. My patch is simply based on > the info on > >

Bug#909324: geeqie: please document locations of config and state files in the man page

Package: geeqie Version: 1:1.4+git20180820-1 Severity: minor Please document in the man page the locations of the config files (e.g. /etc/geeqie/geeqierc.xml and ~/.config/geeqie/geeqierc.xml) and state files (e.g. ~/.local/share/geeqie/*) in a FILES section (man ssh is a good example). This is

Bug#762231: warning on startup: Option image.dither_quality ignored

* Andreas Ronnquist [180916 10:41]: > Hi - replying to a really old bug here - > > Do you have a /etc/geeqie folder and a /etc/geeqie/geeqierc.xml file? > > If not, check in $HOME/.config/geeqie/geeqierc.xml - > > If you have a line containing your mentioned option > (image.dither_quality) in

Bug#908046: add option to hide pseudo filesystems

* Andreas Schwarz [180918 13:00]: > This possibility already exists. > > The -s switch is basically for skipping certain devices, but since > pseudo file systems use their identifiers as devices, you can also use > this. > > See lsmount.rc.example > > skip = >

Bug#908046: add option to hide pseudo filesystems

Package: lsmount Version: 0.2.2-1 Severity: wishlist Please add an option to skip display of pseudo filesystems, such as sysfs, proc, udev, cgroup, etc. I would like a way to show only disk-backed filesystems and tmpfs (i.e. those on which a normal program might be able to write).

Bug#908045: add option to select and specify order of columns

Package: lsmount Version: 0.2.2-1 Severity: wishlist I would love to have the mount point column first by default, but I'm sure others have different tastes. This leads me to suggest an option to select which columns, in which order, are displayed. To be really useful, it would be nice to have

Bug#902672: If you win but do not make the high score list, you cannot see your time

Package: gnome-mines Version: 1:3.28.0-1 Severity: normal If you win but do not make the high score list, the game goes immediately back to the new game selection window without letting you see what your time was. -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers testing APT

Bug#900511: libcurl4 Conflicts: libcurl3

Package: libcurl4 Version: 7.60.0-2 Severity: serious libcurl4 conflicts with libcurl3, which violates the stated purpose of the "must" clause at Policy 8.1 (to allow multiple versions of a shared library to be co-installable), even though it doesn't violate the letter of the must (binary package

Bug#896183: Please add debian_releases to base-files (was Re: Bits from the release team: full steam ahead towards buster)

Package: base-files Version: 10.1 Severity: wishlist * Stephan Seitz [180420 07:38]: > On Do, Apr 19, 2018 at 11:00:37 +0200, Christoph Biedl wrote: > > But being human I prefer names over numbers, even if it's just for > > aesthetic reason - "buster" is just

Bug#752467: python-virtualenv: no command "virtualenv"

is and intended to fix it, but forgot. > On Thu, 22 Mar 2018 at 12:41:33 -0400, Marvin Renich wrote: > > I just ran into this issue. I am installing OctoPrint from source on a > > BeagleBone Black, and OctoPrint uses python2, and I would rather not > > install pyth

Bug#752467: (no subject)

Control: tags -1 patch [I'm now subscribed to this bug; no need to CC me.] On Tue, 18 Nov 2014 01:59:18 +0200 Stefano Rivera wrote: > Hi Barry (2014.11.17_22:53:01_+0200) > > The question still remains: how best to upgrade people who have > > /usr/bin/virtualenv provided by

Bug#885436: /var/log/aptitude shows wrong architecture for architecture:all packages

clone 885436 -1 reassign -1 apt 1.6~alpha5 retitle -1 /var/log/apt shows wrong architecture for arch:all packages thanks * David Kalnischkies <da...@kalnischkies.de> [180102 06:03]: > On Mon, Jan 01, 2018 at 05:09:21PM -0500, Marvin Renich wrote: > > IOW, using pkg-name:amd64 i

Bug#885436: /var/log/aptitude shows wrong architecture for architecture:all packages

* David Kalnischkies [180101 15:48]: > On Thu, Dec 28, 2017 at 12:45:14AM +0100, Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo wrote: > > > In the extremely rare (I think) case where an upgrade (or downgrade) > > > replaces a specific architecture package with an architecture all > > >

Bug#885443: debsnap: should allow writing output to existing directory without -f

Package: devscripts Version: 2.17.11 Severity: wishlist File: /usr/bin/debsnap It is clear that it was a conscious decision to give an error when downloading a source or binary package to an existing directory (without -f), but I don't understand what real problem this solves. On the other hand,

Bug#885437: debsnap: fails when an old version uses a now-invalid version number

Package: devscripts Version: 2.17.11 Severity: normal If a package has in the past used a version number that is no longer valid, debsnap cannot download any version of that package. $ debsnap --binary -d . -a amd64 libnspr4 2:4.16-1 debsnap: error: M18-3 is not a valid version According to

Bug#885436: /var/log/aptitude shows wrong architecture for architecture:all packages

Package: aptitude Version: 0.8.10-1 Severity: normal /var/log/aptitude shows the default architecture (e.g. amd64) when logging actions pertaining to an architecture:all package, e.g. [UPGRADE] console-setup:amd64 1.171 -> 1.172 should be [UPGRADE] console-setup:all 1.171 -> 1.172 This is

Bug#883713: packages.debian.org: search contents of packages will not find full path

Package: www.debian.org Severity: normal Go to https://packages.debian.org/index and enter /etc/bluetooth/main.conf under "Search the contents of packages". Ensure default "packages that contain files named like this" is selected, distribution stretch, architecture any, and press search. The

Bug#880051: less: please bump priority to important

I strongly agree. Whenever I build a chroot with debootstrap or cdebootstrap, I am surprised to find less missing. ...Marvin

Bug#755434: pmount: please support exfat filesystem (via fuse)

* Vincent Fourmond [170908 16:18]: > Oops, looks like I completely missed the patch. > > I'll review/apply ASAP, but I need to wait until my updated key is > back in the keyring. > > Thanks for your patience, No problem. I had prepared an almost identical patch

Bug#755434: pmount: please support exfat filesystem (via fuse)

tags 755434 patch thanks Vincent Danjean added a patch in his msg on 25 Dec 2016. I'm setting the appropriate tag, and adding my "please apply this patch" to the bug report. Many thanks for maintaining this package, as well as (hopefully) adding this patch! ...Marvin

Bug#835377: godoc requires explicit GOROOT

Package: golang-golang-x-tools Version: 1:0.0~git20160315.0.f42ec61-2 Severity: normal The general recommendation is to not set GOROOT, because the go tools know what it should be with a default install (see [1] and [2] and numerous discussions on golang-nuts mailing list). However, godoc does

Bug#834941: closed by Roland Rosenfeld (Bug#834941: fixed in privoxy 3.0.25-2)

* Debian Bug Tracking System [160823 06:39]: > This is an automatic notification regarding your Bug report > which was filed against the privoxy package: > > #834941: privoxy segfaults with listen-address :8118 > > It has been closed by Roland Rosenfeld

Bug#834941: privoxy segfaults with listen-address :8118

Package: privoxy Version: 3.0.25-1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, If the config file contains listen-address :8118 privoxy starts, correctly listens on all interfaces (as shown by lsof -i -n), but terminates with a segfault when a connection is attempted from other than localhost. Changing

Bug#832109: add postfix config and command line option

Package: milter-greylist Version: 4.5.11-1 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch Please add a runtime option to select behavior appropriate for Postfix. I believe this should replace the USE_POSTFIX macro, but the attached patches do not remove this macro (or associated configure option). My rational

Bug#825793: Installing the lilo bootloader on a qemu/kvm VM fails

Package: installation-reports Severity: important Tags: d-i Installing lilo bootloader on qemu/kvm virtual machine fails. -- Package-specific info: Boot method: CD Image version: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/stretch_di_alpha6/amd64/iso-cd/debian-stretch-DI-alpha6-amd64-netinst.iso Date:

Bug#741654: Please provide tcl-tls for non-default tcl8.6

Control: severity -1 normal This bug just bit me in testing (stretch). I'm raising the severity to normal based on the following rationale: The different versions of tcl are intended to be co-installable, and in fact at least the last two stable releases (I didn't look back farther) have

Bug#804544: please document the --no-dereference option in the man page

Package: diffutils Version: 1:3.3-2 Severity: minor The --no-dereference option is documented in the info docn and in the --help output, but not in the man page. Perhaps help2man was not run recently enough? Thanks...Marvin -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers

Bug#801065: Section 6.4 - discourage failing install or upgrade when service fails to start

* Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <h...@debian.org> [151007 09:42]: > On Mon, Oct 5, 2015, at 22:13, Marvin Renich wrote: > > The discussion started on d-devel; should it be moved back there? The > > overwhelming majority of opinion seems to be in favor of the change. >

Bug#801065: Section 6.4 - discourage failing install or upgrade when service fails to start

Package: developers-reference Version: 3.4.16 Severity: wishlist As discussed on debian-devel starting at [1], I would like a comment added to Section 6.4 "Best practices for maintainer scripts" that recommends preventing the postinst script from returning failure when a service fails to start.

Bug#801065: Section 6.4 - discourage failing install or upgrade when service fails to start

* Russ Allbery [151005 18:24]: > I'm also in favor. However, this is a very substantial change to Debian > practice, and I'm not sure what process should be used for making this > kind of decision. This wasn't a gap in our specification; rather, the > previous standard was

Bug#801065: digest of debian-devel discussion leading to this bug

that is not the previous message in this digest. When in doubt, refer to the original message. [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2015/09/msg00496.html * Marvin Renich <m...@renich.org> [150923 13:53]: > > > From the first time I had dpkg mark a package as half-configured when > ever

Bug#800969: hangs during upgrade

Package: ntopng Version: 2.0+dfsg1-1 Severity: normal When upgrading from version 1.2.1+dfsg1-2 to 2.0+dfsg1-1, the postinst script hung. Note that this machine is still using sysvinit, not systemd. The relevant pstree output: root@basil:~# pstree -ap 7441 aptitude,7441 -u ├─dpkg,19994

Bug#775318: Bug#796529: ITP: local-apt-repository -- Ready to use local apt repository

* Joachim Breitner nome...@debian.org [150823 07:24]: With pow-priority, you mean one that does not get shown by default? But is that much better than allowing the interested admin to change the configuration afterwards? Actually, I was thinking it should be similar to postfix, which looks

Bug#764132: fails to compile with linux-image-3.16-2-amd64

Package: blktap-dkms Version: 2.0.91-1 Severity: normal With both linux-image-3.2.0-4-amd64 and linux-image-3.16-2-amd64 installed, blktap fails to compile for the 3.16-2 kernel, but succeeds for the 3.2.0-4 kernel. (Contrary to the dependency listing below, I do have the headers for 3.16-2

Bug#764135: fails to compile with linux-image-3.2.0-4-amd64

Package: blktap-dkms Version: 2.0.93-0.3 Severity: normal With both linux-image-3.2.0-4-amd64 and linux-image-3.16-2-amd64 installed, blktap fails to compile for the 3.2.0-4 kernel, but succeeds for the 3.16-2 kernel. (Headers for both kernel versions are installed.) I am attaching the build

Bug#761062: Upgrading from 304.117-1 to 340.32-1 with older graphics card leaves system without X Windows

* Andreas Beckmann a...@debian.org [140923 03:46]: We already have a NEWS entry about the legacy stuff - but nobody reads that or uses apt-listchanges. Having a NEWS entry is important, but not sufficient. I filed this bug because the problem happened on my father's machine (which does have

Bug#762231: warning on startup: Option image.dither_quality ignored

Package: geeqie Version: 1:1.2-1 Severity: minor Geeqie prints the following warning message on startup: Option image.dither_quality ignored: deprecated since 2012-08-13 -- System Information: Debian Release: jessie/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500,

Bug#761062: Upgrading from 304.117-1 to 340.32-1 with older graphics card leaves system without X Windows

* Vincent Cheng vch...@debian.org [140912 04:37]: I'd like to point out that the various nvidia packages are (supposed to be) co-installable, letting you pick what driver series to use at runtime rather than during package installation (and the kernel modules are patched so that they're

Bug#761063: changes to /etc/inittab are not respected on upgrade from sysvinit

Package: systemd-sysv Version: 208-8 Severity: normal On a system with dbndns, daemontools, and daemontools-run installed, when upgrading from sysvinit to systemd, the changes to /etc/inittab are not respected, so dnscache and tinydns did not start. In my case, this left an entire local network

Bug#761062: Upgrading from 304.117-1 to 340.32-1 with older graphics card leaves system without X Windows

Source: nvidia-graphics-drivers Version: 340.32-1 Severity: important On a machine with a graphics card supported by version 304, but relegated to the legacy packages for version 340, upgrading the nvidia-kernel-dkms and nvidia-driver packages leaves the system with an unusable X Windows system.

Bug#743895: transaction report crashes

Package: gnucash Version: 1:2.6.2-1 Severity: normal When configuring a transaction report, gnucash crashes with the python traceback below. When starting gnucash, the lines in the traceback up to and including Found Finance::Quote version 1.18 occur immediately, but gnucash seems to start

Bug#697407: xen-utils-4.1: pygrub doesn't find extlinux.conf in default Debian location

Package: xen-utils-4.1 Version: 4.1.3-7 Severity: normal pygrub looks for extlinux config files /boot/isolinux/isolinux.cfg and /boot/extlinux.conf, but the default Debian installation uses the config file /boot/extlinux/extlinux.conf. (See /usr/lib/xen-4.1/bin/pygrub lines 405-407.) ...Marvin

Bug#697409: xen-utils-4.1: pygrub does not correctly distinguish between disk with partitions and partition

Package: xen-utils-4.1 Version: 4.1.3-7 Severity: normal The function is_disk_image in /usr/lib/xen-4.1/bin/pygrub at line 45 distinguishes a partitioned disk from a partition by looking for 0xaa55 at offset 0x1fe in the image, but this is the bootsector signature, not the partition table

Bug#697412: xen-utils-4.1: pygrub does not recognize the include statement in extlinux.conf

Package: xen-utils-4.1 Version: 4.1.3-7 Severity: normal pygrub does not recognize the include statement in extlinux.conf. The default Debian installation of extlinux creates a stub extlinux.conf which includes linux.cfg, where all the linux image entries are. This means that even if bugs

Bug#697417: xen-utils-4.1: pygrub is unable to parse default Debian grub.cfg

Package: xen-utils-4.1 Version: 4.1.3-7 Severity: normal The grub.cfg created by a default Debian installation uses many configuration statements that pygrub does not recognize, and pygrub is unable to find any kernel to load. ...Marvin -- System Information: Debian Release: 7.0 APT prefers

Bug#403777: icedove: Trust junk mail headers set by: SpamAssassin gives wrong results

* Carsten Schoenert c.schoen...@t-online.de [12 04:07]: Hello Marvin, some years ago you opend this bug and the bug ist still active. Is this behavior allready vissible on current versions of icedove? Regards Carsten I will try to check some time this week. ...Marvin -- To

Bug#668870: RFH: golang

* Ondřej Surý ond...@debian.org [120415 04:34]: Package: wnpp Severity: normal Hi, I am looking for co-maintainers (DMs are welcome). I don't use Go myself, so the prospective co-maintaner should be a person who is involved in Go more than I am. Ondrej I am willing to help. I am

Bug#658421: golang-weekly: go build and go install fail

* Justus Winter 4win...@informatik.uni-hamburg.de [120311 14:19]: Hm, the issue is back: % make go install vgo/logic open /usr/lib/go/pkg/linux_amd64/runtime.a: permission denied make: *** [vgo] Error 1 % find /usr/lib/go/src/pkg/runtime -newer /usr/lib/go/pkg/linux_amd64/runtime.a

Bug#660899: freerdp-x11: CPU usage goes to 165% (dual core), no window is displayed

Package: freerdp-x11 Version: 1.0.1-1 Severity: important When starting freerdp-x11, its CPU usage goes to 75% and gdm's usage goes to 90% on a dual-core system, and they remain there until freerdp is killed. gdm's usage returns to 0 after killing freerdp. The window for the remote desktop

Bug#658421: golang-weekly: go build and go install fail

Package: golang-weekly Version: 2012.01.27-2 Severity: important $ echo $GOPATH /home/mrvn/golang $ cd $GOPATH $ go build tempus # tempus morestack trampoline not defined - runtime.morestack00 morestack trampoline not defined - runtime.morestack10 morestack trampoline not defined -

Bug#656412: golang-weekly: please package the most recent weekly

Package: golang-weekly Version: 2011.09.21-1 Severity: wishlist Please package the most recent weekly build, weekly.2012.01.15; significant changes have been made since 2011.09.21. I tried to create a package for the weekly.2011.12.22. The package seems to build, but after installing and trying

Bug#655117: golang-weekly-tools: debconf question refers to popularity-contest rather than golang-weekly-tools

Package: golang-weekly-tools Version: 2011.09.21-1 Severity: normal The debconf question about reporting installation of public packages to Go dashboard says the choice can be modified later by running dpkg-reconfigure popularity-contest, but it should be golang-weekly-tools. ...Marvin --

Bug#612918: Writing to /etc/ from a privileged UI

* David Paleino da...@debian.org [110509 04:19]: On Mon, 9 May 2011 11:12:53 +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: /etc may include only _static_ configuration. What you have is variable state which belongs in /var. It's no different from a database, or dpkg's status data. Static IPs, DNS

Bug#616462: debian-policy: clarify wording of parenthetical in section 2.2.1

Package: debian-policy Version: 3.9.1.0 Severity: wishlist As suggested in thread on debian-devel (starting at http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2011/03/msg00202.html), change the wording of the parenthetical in the first bullet of section 2.2.1 from ...the packages in main • must not

Bug#616462: debian-policy: clarify wording of parenthetical in section 2.2.1

* Steve Langasek vor...@debian.org [110304 11:36]: Although I agree with you that this parenthetical has been mistaken for normative language and it should be clarified with regards to intent, the clarification you've suggested is OTOH weaker than what I understand the common rule to be. If

Bug#616471: www.debian.org: Merge /intro/ and /intro/about pages

Package: www.debian.org Severity: wishlist The new web site is terrific! However, I was looking for the organization chart and had to resort to Google to find it. After that, I found the /intro/ page (from which the organization chart is an obvious link) and was going to suggest adding a link

Bug#616472: www.debian.org: the Report it! button doesn't give an opportunity to describe the problem

Package: www.debian.org Severity: wishlist When you click on the Report it! button in the common footer, there is no opportunity for the user to give any description of the problem. ...Marvin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe.

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