Bug#1038903: initscripts: orphan-sysvinit-scripts needs to be a prerequisite, not optional.

2023-06-22 Thread Mason Loring Bliss
speaks to Debian's suitability as a platform for services. Frankly it makes Devuan seem more appealing, for folks with any sort of mental investment in Debian. This is all fairly disappointing. -- Mason Loring Bliss ma...@blisses.orgEwige Blumenkraft! (if awake 'sleep (aref #

Bug#1038903: initscripts: orphan-sysvinit-scripts needs to be a prerequisite, not optional.

2023-06-22 Thread Mason Loring Bliss
what people expect from Debian. -- Mason Loring Bliss ma...@blisses.org Ewige Blumenkraft! awake ? sleep : random() & 2 ? dream : sleep; -- Hamlet, Act III, Scene I signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#1029093: solaar doesn't enable plugdev when plugdev requested

2023-01-17 Thread Mason Loring Bliss
he configuration dialog, as it'd be reasonable for users wanting this to work with plugdev to understand that an additional manual step is required. Observed on Debian Bookworm with Solaar 1.1.8+dfsg-1. Observed on Debian Bullseye with Solaar 1.0.4+dfsg-1. -- Mason Loring Bliss ma.

Bug#1028922: solaar doesn't enable plugdev when plugdev requested

2023-01-14 Thread Mason Loring Bliss
cess. If this line is manually uncommented Solaar works as intended with plugdev users. The easiest fix might be to simply be to note this in the configuration dialog, as it'd be reasonable for users wanting this to work with plugdev to understand that an additional manual step is required. Obser

Bug#1026213: [Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#1026213: login: $HOME created as 0755 by default

2022-12-16 Thread Mason Loring Bliss
are no different and easily tailored away from the expected defaults. -- Mason Loring Bliss (( If I have not seen as far as others, it is because ma...@blisses.org )) giants were standing on my shoulders. - Hal Abelson

Bug#915576: zfsutils-linux: zfs-share.service references /usr/bin/rm, should be /bin/rm

2018-12-04 Thread Mason Loring Bliss
Package: zfsutils-linux Version: 0.6.5.9-5 Severity: normal Tags: patch Dear Maintainer, * What led up to the situation? Booted, noted error. Patch: $ diff -c /lib/systemd/system/zfs-share.service /tmp/fixed *** /lib/systemd/system/zfs-share.service 2017-03-19 06:14:57.0

Bug#906087: fail2ban: postfix-sasl jail crashes on trying to ban ip address

2018-08-13 Thread Mason Loring Bliss
and as it's a trivially easy fix, it should really be backported. Thanks in advance! -- Mason Loring Bliss ma...@blisses.org Ewige Blumenkraft! awake ? sleep : random() & 2 ? dream : sleep; -- Hamlet, Act III, Scene I signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#848041: this still exists as of 2018-08-08

2018-08-08 Thread Mason Loring Bliss
To confirm the original poster's observations, this still exists as of August 2018. Removing libjson-xs-perl causes libcpanel-json-xs-perl to be installed instead, and per https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=94784 and discussion in

Bug#731255: synergy: Jessie synergyc (1.4.12-3) cannot connect to Wheezy synergys (1.3.8-2)

2014-04-01 Thread Mason Loring Bliss
On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 10:41:07AM -0400, Jeff Licquia wrote: My plan to fix this bug is to make a version of synergy 1.4 available in wheezy-backports. That seems reasonable. Upstream has a broken policy in my opinion, and providing a backport seems more sensible than putting in engineering

Bug#733761: plymouth errors out during start-up

2014-01-01 Thread Mason Loring Bliss
? -- Mason Loring Bliss (( In the drowsy dark cave of the mind dreams ma...@blisses.org )) build their nest with fragments dropped http://blisses.org/ (( from day's caravan. - Rabindranath Tagore -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Bug#733754: plymouth errors out during start-up

2013-12-31 Thread Mason Loring Bliss
Package: plymouth Version: 0.8.5.1-5 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, Plymouth in Wheezy errors out. I'm having difficulty capturing output of the error and might have to resort to some camerawork if I can't find something logged. I observe two errors. First, something Plymouth is doing

Bug#733761: plymouth errors out during start-up

2013-12-31 Thread Mason Loring Bliss
Package: plymouth Version: 0.8.5.1-5 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, I apologize for my previous bug report having evidently confused you. I'm reporting a bug in Debian Wheezy (Stable), not Jessie or Sid. As such, the bug certainly isn't fixed in Stable. It's inappropriate to close it until

Bug#731805: xfce4-weather-plugin: package fails

2013-12-09 Thread Mason Loring Bliss
Package: xfce4-weather-plugin Version: 0.7.4-3+b1 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable Dear Maintainer, The version of the plug-in shipped by Debian no longer works. According to the project's web site: Attention: Please update to 0.8.3. Versions older than 0.8.0 no

Bug#731805: closed by Yves-Alexis Perez cor...@debian.org (Re: [Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#731805: xfce4-weather-plugin: package fails)

2013-12-09 Thread Mason Loring Bliss
/body/html ^ Entity: line 10: parser error : Premature end of data in tag html line 2 ^ Perhaps you can tell me where to get the exclusive non-broken version of the package you referenced... It's not on the public mirrors. -- Mason Loring Bliss ma...@blisses.orghttp

Bug#731805: closed by Yves-Alexis Perez cor...@debian.org (Re: [Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#731805: xfce4-weather-plugin: package fails)

2013-12-09 Thread Mason Loring Bliss
yet in stable. I tested the package from wheezy-proposed-updates, and it does, indeed, work. Hopefully it makes it into Stable soon. Thanks. -- Mason Loring Bliss (( If I have not seen as far as others, it is because ma...@blisses.org )) giants were standing on my shoulders. - Hal Abelson

Bug#731255: synergy: Jessie synergyc (1.4.12-3) cannot connect to Wheezy synergys (1.3.8-2)

2013-12-03 Thread Mason Loring Bliss
Package: synergy Version: 1.4.12-3 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable Dear Maintainer, In trying to establish a synergy connection that worked prior to one of the involved systems upgrading to Jessie this weekend, I see this error, and am not able to connect:

Bug#680469: What's required for non-maintainer fix?

2013-11-15 Thread Mason Loring Bliss
If the package maintainer doesn't have any interest in fixing his package, is there an avenue we could pursue to have a fix committed for Wheezy, given that people wishing to deploy services with Debian are very likely to want to do it on Debian Stable? -- Mason Loring Bliss ma

Bug#729608: rhythmbox: some user interface graphics missing

2013-11-14 Thread Mason Loring Bliss
Package: rhythmbox Version: 2.97-2.1 Severity: minor Dear Maintainer, I've recently installed Rhythmbox on my system. I don't run a desktop environment, and evidently Rhythmbox wants to use an image file from a package I don't have installed in its user interface, because in the track list pane,

Bug#680469: Any updates?

2013-10-24 Thread Mason Loring Bliss
I'd very much like for the LXC included in Wheezy to work out of the box. Is there any news on when it might be fixed? -- Mason Loring Bliss (( If I have not seen as far as others, it is because ma...@blisses.org )) giants were standing on my shoulders. - Hal Abelson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Bug#716884: mediawiki: /usr/share/mediawiki/images points to /var/lib/mediawiki/images without security in mediawiki.conf

2013-07-13 Thread Mason Loring Bliss
Package: mediawiki Version: 1:1.19.5-1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, MediaWiki config reports a vulnerability for /usr/share/mediawiki/images, the default upload directory. The file /etc/mediawiki/apache.conf has settings for /var/lib/mediawiki/upload, which doesn't exist, but does not have

Bug#715058: knockd: knock does something wrong...

2013-07-05 Thread Mason Loring Bliss
Package: knockd Version: 0.5-3 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, *** Please consider answering these questions, where appropriate *** * What led up to the situation? * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or ineffective)? * What was the outcome of this action?

Bug#703901: debian-installer: GRUB should allow detailed configure for MD RAID

2013-03-25 Thread Mason Loring Bliss
Package: debian-installer Version: Wheezy RC1 AMD64 Severity: normal Tags: d-i Dear Maintainer, When I install a software RAID 1 system, there is no option, even with an expert install, to install GRUB to multiple MBRs. I have return after the install and dpkg-reconfigure grub-pc, where

Bug#702016: typos in /etc/cron.daily/apt

2013-03-01 Thread Mason Loring Bliss
Package: apt Version: 0.8.10.3+squeeze1 Severity: minor The following will correct spelling errors in /etc/cron.daily/apt: s/Usefull/Useful/ s/intervall/interval/ s/eg /e.g. / -- Package-specific info: -- (no /etc/apt/preferences present) -- -- (/etc/apt/sources.list present, but not

Bug#701940: libdvdread4: libdvdread doesn't search /usr/local for libdvdcss

2013-02-28 Thread Mason Loring Bliss
Package: libdvdread4 Version: 4.2.0+20120521-2 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, The libdvdread-provided README.css file says: libdvdread probes for libdvdcss at runtime and if found, will use it to decrypt sections of the DVD as necessary. However, /usr/local is not evidently checked.

Bug#698788: rsyslog: $UDPServerBindRuleset fails

2013-01-23 Thread Mason Loring Bliss
Package: rsyslog Version: 4.6.4-2 Severity: important $UDPServerBindRuleset is unable to bind UDP rules. As a workaround I'm able to set default rules and run the UDP listener, and it will obey the defaults, but this isn't quite what I want. Note that $InputTCPServerBindRuleset *does* work,

Bug#695172: postfix: myhostname cannot be set to /etc/mailname

2012-12-04 Thread Mason Loring Bliss
Package: postfix Version: 2.7.1-1+squeeze1 Severity: normal myhostname cannot be set to /etc/mailname, and with Debian's preference for short names in /etc/hostname, Postfix doesn't default to using the correct FQDN for my typical case. It would be preferable to have /etc/mailname be a viable

Bug#692770: dictionaries-common: The expected /usr/share/dict/words is a dangling symlink.

2012-11-08 Thread Mason Loring Bliss
Package: dictionaries-common Version: 1.12.10 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, I expect /usr/share/dict/words to exist and be usable everywhere, and a great many shell scripts written over the last couple decades do too. I noted to my horror that it is non-functional now. It appears to be

Bug#692770: additional information

2012-11-08 Thread Mason Loring Bliss
, but this will result in scripts depending on the presence of /usr/share/dict/words being able to run without error. -- Mason Loring Bliss (( In the drowsy dark cave of the mind dreams ma...@blisses.org )) build their nest with fragments dropped http://blisses.org/ (( from day's

Bug#692770: closed by Agustin Martin agmar...@debian.org (Re: Bug#692770: additional information)

2012-11-08 Thread Mason Loring Bliss
it seems now fixed we cannot check how this became evident, so I am closing this bug report. Is there a history of package versions maintained anywhere by default on my system? Noting what version was in Wheezy the day I upgraded might be useful. -- Mason Loring Bliss ma...@blisses.org

Bug#675051: synergy: keyboard autorepeat is turned off sporadically

2012-05-29 Thread Mason Loring Bliss
Package: synergy Version: 1.3.1-5 Severity: important With the synergy client running, keyboard autorepeat is sporadically and unpredictably disabled. It can be re-enabled with 'xset r', but this is at best a band-aid. -- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0.5 APT prefers stable-updates

Bug#615020: xdm: ConsoleKit support

2012-03-02 Thread Mason Loring Bliss
Package: xdm Version: 1:1.1.11-1 Followup-For: Bug #615020 Dear Maintainer, As XDM doesn't support consolekit directly, users must take a couple potentially non-obvious steps to get NetworkManager and XFCE4 Power Manager (and likely similar systems) to run. Specifically, someone using XDM must

Bug#660902: linux-image-2.6-amd64: netatalk/afpd glitch with Linux 2.6.32

2012-03-02 Thread Mason Loring Bliss
of the entry. */ da.s_node = sa.s_node; - da.s_net = da.s_net; + da.s_net = sa.s_net; ma = da; } -- 1.7.9.1 -- Mason Loring Bliss((IF I HAD KNOWN

Bug#660902: linux-image-2.6-amd64: netatalk/afpd glitch with Linux 2.6.32

2012-02-22 Thread Mason Loring Bliss
Package: linux-image-2.6-amd64 Version: 2.6.32+29 Severity: critical Justification: breaks unrelated software With Linux 2.6.32 as supplied with Debian Squeeze, Netatalk is unable to thrive. Connections made to afpd will open, but attempting to transfer files will take a very long time and/or

Bug#649139: gnome-terminal: Widget theme not honored when run in LXDE/Openbox - new since Squeeze

2011-11-17 Thread Mason Loring Bliss
Package: gnome-terminal Version: 3.0.1-1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, I run Gnome Terminal inside LXDE in Squeeze, and it works beautifully. However, in Wheezy, the widget theme is not correctly applied. The impact of this is that tabs are not correctly themed, meaning that it's very

Bug#647981: gnome-terminal: System default font is not used regardless of preference.

2011-11-07 Thread Mason Loring Bliss
Package: gnome-terminal Version: 3.0.1-1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, The system default font is not used when Gnome Terminal has been told to use it. -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)