Bug#761600: Still using deprecated pam_env.so user_readenv option

2024-05-05 Thread Max Bowsher
I just found my way to this bug nearly 10 years later whilst wanting to report the same issue still persists. PAM upstream changed the default of user_readenv from 1 to 0 in https://github.com/linux-pam/linux-pam/commit/f83fb5f25263356391d71da595def409e8dd90f7 and subsequently added explicit

Bug#620927: We could fix this by upstreaming the Ubuntu diff to include pam_env.so in sudo's PAM config

2024-05-05 Thread Max Bowsher
I found this bug when in the same circumstance of /etc/environment proxy settings not applying to sudo sessions. I understand the rationale for "wontfix"-ing the previously suggested fix of changing /etc/sudoers. However, Ubuntu have been carrying a patch for the past 12 years which addresses

Bug#895232: Please do not force --ignore-installed behaviour for non-root users

2018-04-08 Thread Max Bowsher
Package: src:python-pip Version: 9.0.1-2 Currently, there is a Debian-specific patch "set_user_default.patch" which changes various behaviour if the invoker is not root. Whilst I understand the sense in defaulting to --user in this case, I would like to request that you not force

Bug#750871: Bug 750871 - patch

2014-06-17 Thread Max Bowsher
On 17/06/14 23:40, Javi Merino wrote: Control: tags -1 - pending + wontfix On Sat, Jun 07, 2014 at 09:35:43PM +0100, Max Bowsher wrote: The problem here is that some manual sed hackery munging the /usr/bin/hg shebang was removed in PAPT SVN r10748, with the justification that dh_python2

Bug#750871: Bug 750871 - patch

2014-06-07 Thread Max Bowsher
hooks to call only the upstream Makefile targets which handle non-distutils parts of the build. Patch attached. Regards, Max Bowsher. diff -ru mercurial-3.0/debian/rules mercurial-3.0.fixed/debian/rules --- mercurial-3.0/debian/rules 2014-04-07 22:58:25.0 +0100 +++ mercurial-3.0.fixed

Bug#743830: rtmpdump: orig.tar.gz significantly different from actual upstream version

2014-04-06 Thread Max Bowsher
Package: rtmpdump Version: 2.4+20121230.gitdf6c518-1 Severity: normal The contents of rtmpdump_2.4+20121230.gitdf6c518.orig.tar.gz is significantly different from actual upstream commit df6c518. It looks to me as if assorted upstream changes have been reverted or were never merged, in a rather

Bug#743830: rtmpdump: orig.tar.gz significantly different from actual upstream version

2014-04-06 Thread Max Bowsher
On 07/04/14 02:51, Max Bowsher wrote: Package: rtmpdump Version: 2.4+20121230.gitdf6c518-1 Severity: normal The contents of rtmpdump_2.4+20121230.gitdf6c518.orig.tar.gz is significantly different from actual upstream commit df6c518. It looks to me as if assorted upstream changes have

Bug#690963: passwd: allocates UIDs for system users top-down, in conflict with adduser's bottom-up policy

2012-10-19 Thread Max Bowsher
Package: passwd Version: 1:4.1.4.2+svn3283-2+squeeze1 Severity: normal The 'useradd -r' command (-r meaning 'system user') allocates UID values top-down within the range reserved in login.defs. In contrast, adduser allocates UID values bottom-up. Whilst most user creation on a Debian system

Bug#680125: subversion: sometimes FTBFS in parallel build: race condition between binary-arch and binary-indep

2012-07-03 Thread Max Bowsher
Package: subversion Version: 1.7.5-1 Severity: normal I'll start by admitting that I've only actually reproduced this in backport PPA builds for Ubuntu hardy, *but* on analysis I can't see why this shouldn't happen in Debian sid too, so I'll report it nonetheless... If the package is built with

Bug#471112: Please consider fixing this trivial bug

2012-04-10 Thread Max Bowsher
My use case is using tsocks to allow tunnelling into restricted corporate IP space, whilst the vast majority of my IP connectivity is direct. Please consider accommodating this use case by allowing for fallback to direct connections without unwanted notifications that this is happening. Max.

Bug#460428: approx fallback urls would also be useful for continuing to support old debian releases

2011-06-29 Thread Max Bowsher
The feature requested in this bug would be useful to me to enable nicer support of old releases which have moved to archive.debian.org. For example, I currently have approx instances which need to supply etch lenny and squeeze. I have resorted to configuring them like this: debian

Bug#628323: (no subject)

2011-05-28 Thread Max Bowsher
This FTBFS is the result of the python-subunit package not being properly built for all current Python versions. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Bug#624218: apt: No option to completely disable TranslationIndex downloads

2011-04-26 Thread Max Bowsher
Package: apt Version: 0.8.13.1 Severity: normal I have explicitly set: Acquire::Languages:: none; However APT still attempts to download TranslationIndex files. Looking at the code in debReleaseIndex::ComputeIndexTargets(), there does not seem to be any way to turn this off. Suppressing

Bug#620214: override: qbzr:vcs/optional

2011-03-31 Thread Max Bowsher
is a plugin for the Bazaar Version Control System which provides a variety of GUI dialogs for many version control operations. As such, it is most accurately described as a 'vcs' tool rather than a general 'devel'opment tool. Thanks, Max Bowsher. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist

Bug#620215: override: wikkid:web/optional

2011-03-31 Thread Max Bowsher
: wikkid is a wiki, which happens to store its data in the Bazaar VCS for history management. Although it does make use of a vcs, its primary defining characteristic is that it is software for running a wiki, i.e. section 'web'. Thanks, Max Bowsher. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ

Bug#619361: No longer capable of mirroring debian-installer section for Ubuntu *-updates

2011-03-23 Thread Max Bowsher
Package: debmirror Version: 1:2.8 Hi, The fix for #619146 Should not attempt to mirror debian-installer for squeeze-updates has accidentally widened the regexp of dists that omit a debian-installer section a little too far. Whilst squeeze-updates and successors do not have a debian-installer

Bug#619363: --ignore-missing-release needs to register Release[.gpg] as a needed file

2011-03-23 Thread Max Bowsher
Package: debmirror Version: 1:2.8 Tags: patch Hi, I am trying to use --ignore-missing-release to support the use-case of mirroring lenny/updates and squeeze/updates from security.debian.org into a mirror which still contains the final state of etch/updates (which I want to keep). It works, but

Bug#560092: --trash would be useful for situations where --snapshot is less so

2011-03-23 Thread Max Bowsher
I would like to use a --trash feature too, and --snapshot would not really serve my purposes. My reason for wanting --trash is as a low-maintenance safety-net - I don't have a need to preserve histories of the index file, I just need to not delete many gigabytes if something goes awry. I need

Bug#619365: Feature: --local-only-dist= option?

2011-03-23 Thread Max Bowsher
Package: debmirror Version: 1:2.8 Severity: wishlist Hi, I'd like to get some initial feedback on a feature idea before I have a go at implementing it. The --ignore-missing-release option is useful, but even better would be an option that took a list of dists, like --dist does, and instead of

Bug#603232: python-fastimport: Please drop the version constraint on the python-support Build-Depends

2010-11-11 Thread Max Bowsher
Package: python-fastimport Version: 0.9.0~bzr293-1 Severity: wishlist Please drop the version constraint on the python-support Build-Depends. In fact the source package builds just fine, producing working binary packages, with python-support versions as old as Debian oldstable and Ubuntu hardy.

Bug#601496: Please remove version constraint from python-support build-depends

2010-10-26 Thread Max Bowsher
Source: subvertpy Version: 0.7.4-2 Severity: wishlist Hi, I have validated that the current subvertpy source package builds and functions correctly even as far back as etch, if the version constraint is removed from the python-support build-depenency. Therefore, please remove the version

Bug#587853: subversion: Suggest using XS-Python-Version: = 2.4

2010-07-02 Thread Max Bowsher
Package: subversion Version: 1.6.12dfsg-1 Severity: minor Tags: patch User: ubuntu-de...@lists.ubuntu.com Usertags: origin-ubuntu maverick ubuntu-patch *** /tmp/tmpIEOYZv In Ubuntu, we've applied the attached patch amending the XS-Python-Version line to = 2.4 rather than a list of explicit

Bug#568665: (no subject)

2010-03-18 Thread Max Bowsher
I independently filed this bug upstream and then found this report when about to report it in Debian. Upstream bug: http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?29253 I used bcopy rather than memmove in the patch I submitted to upstream because that fitted with prevailing conventions in the function I

Bug#574417: ghc6: Causes debsums failure - /var/lib/ghc-6.12.1/package.conf.d/package.cache

2010-03-17 Thread Max Bowsher
Package: ghc6 Version: 6.12.1-12 Severity: normal I installed ghc6, and the next day was confronted with an error from the daily debsums standard cronjob. It appears that ghc6 ships the file /var/lib/ghc-6.12.1/package.conf.d/package.cache in the .deb, but then proceeds to modify it as part of

Bug#568232: python-dispatch: Not compatible with Python 2.6

2010-02-03 Thread Max Bowsher
Package: python-dispatch Version: 0.5a.svn20080510-4+b1 Severity: normal Package is not compatible with Python 2.6, and causes errors to be emitted when it is installed: Compiling /usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/dispatch/predicates.py ... SyntaxError: ('invalid syntax',

Bug#556422: reprepro: Missing #include of stdint.h in database.c

2009-11-15 Thread Max Bowsher
Package: reprepro Version: 4.0.2-1 Severity: minor I use reprepro on a non-Debian system. The build fails because database.c uses the type uint32_t but fails to include stdint.h. Whilst the current toolchain on Debian seems to tolerate this omission, it would be more correct and portable to

Bug#363389: Bug #363389: Duplicate, merge with #363358

2009-10-19 Thread Max Bowsher
forcemerge 363358 363389 thanks Gosh, I can't even remember reporting this bug, but I certainly agree that it appears to be an exact duplicate of 363358. Merging thusly. Max. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Bug#551031: mercurial: some files under python 2.4 directory, some under 2.5 -- Not a bug

2009-10-14 Thread Max Bowsher
Faheem, Look closer at the file list. The *exact same* set of files is present for Python 2.4 and 2.5 - i.e. the package is compiled providing the Mercurial modules for both of those Python versions - no bug here. Max. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Bug#540115: reprepro: morguedir is relative to cwd, not basedir

2009-08-05 Thread Max Bowsher
Package: reprepro Version: 3.11.1-1 Severity: normal I would expect, and the language of the manpage implies, that morguedir would be relative to basedir, as all of reprepro's other directories are. In 3.11.1 is is however relative to the cwd. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#539509: keepunreferencedfiles in conf/options renders reprepro deleteunreferenced unusable

2009-08-01 Thread Max Bowsher
Package: reprepro Version: 3.11.1-1 Severity: minor The --keepunreferencedfiles option is most useful in the conf/options file to set policy for a repository to not remove files at time of obsoletion. However, if you put it in conf/options, you then cannot use reprepro deleteunreferenced at all,

Bug#539509: keepunreferencedfiles in conf/options renders reprepro deleteunreferenced unusable

2009-08-01 Thread Max Bowsher
Bernhard R. Link wrote: * Max Bowsher m...@f2s.com [090801 17:32]: The --keepunreferencedfiles option is most useful in the conf/options file to set policy for a repository to not remove files at time of obsoletion. However, if you put it in conf/options, you then cannot use reprepro

Bug#538913: libjaudiotagger-java: Please switch Build-Depends from default-jdk-builddep to default-jdk

2009-07-28 Thread Max Bowsher
Damien Raude-Morvan wrote: Le lundi 27 juillet 2009 23:59:25, Max Bowsher a écrit : Hi, Hi Max, Thanks for your bug report. As your package does not build GCJ native code, please amend your Build-Depends from default-jdk-builddep to default-jdk. This will allow GCJ to not be pulled

Bug#538913: libjaudiotagger-java: Please switch Build-Depends from default-jdk-builddep to default-jdk

2009-07-27 Thread Max Bowsher
Package: libjaudiotagger-java Version: 1.0.9-2 Severity: wishlist Hi, As your package does not build GCJ native code, please amend your Build-Depends from default-jdk-builddep to default-jdk. This will allow GCJ to not be pulled in at build-time on architectures or distros where GCJ is not the

Bug#536533: mercurial-common: alias extension is gone

2009-07-10 Thread Max Bowsher
Jakub Wilk wrote: Package: mercurial-common Version: 1.3-2 Severity: normal $ zgrep -B1 'alias -' /usr/share/doc/mercurial-common/changelog.Debian.gz New extensions: * alias - allow user-defined command aliases $ python -c 'import hgext.alias' Traceback (most recent call

Bug#533775: libjaudiotagger-java: org.jaudiotagger.tag.reference.ISOCountry$Country miscompiled due to charset issues

2009-06-20 Thread Max Bowsher
Package: libjaudiotagger-java Version: 1.0.9-1 Severity: normal Tags: patch The class org.jaudiotagger.tag.reference.ISOCountry$Country contains several enum values whose name contains non-ASCII characters. In the current .deb in the archive, these have been miscompiled - for example:

Bug#527504: #527504: Patch fixing FTBFS

2009-05-13 Thread Max Bowsher
FTBFS is due to incompatible changes in cdbs Attached is a patch I am successfully using to build PPA packages in Ubuntu Karmic. Max. --- a/debian/rules Fri Apr 17 00:33:15 2009 +0100 +++ b/debian/rules Mon May 11 00:15:27 2009 +0100 @@ -66,3 +66,13 @@ @echo Restore it from

Bug#522426: Note upstream fix in changelog

2009-05-13 Thread Max Bowsher
Please note that the new upstream releases fixes #525403, not currently noted in the unreleased changelog entry. Also, whilst you're there, there's currently a typo in the unreleased changelog entry: s/Dump/Bump/ . signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Bug#525403: See other bugs

2009-05-13 Thread Max Bowsher
http://bugs.debian.org/522426 - wishlist new upstream version http://bugs.debian.org/527504 - FTBFS that has been blocking new uploads, *with patch* signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Bug#522426: #522426: Patch available in #527504

2009-05-13 Thread Max Bowsher
I've attached what I believe to be a better patch in http://bugs.debian.org/527504. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Bug#522426: Info received ([Python-apps-team] Bug#522426: Bug#522426: Status on debian bug #522426 (Mercurial 1.2.1)?)

2009-04-28 Thread Max Bowsher
Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote: --- debian/rules (revision 2804) +++ debian/rules (working copy) @@ -10,17 +10,15 @@ include /usr/share/cdbs/1/rules/debhelper.mk include /usr/share/cdbs/1/rules/patchsys-quilt.mk DEB_INSTALL_DOCS_ALL= +DEB_PYTHON_DESTDIR =

Bug#525941: VerifyRelease: 16-digit-keyid is broken

2009-04-27 Thread Max Bowsher
Package: reprepro Version: 3.9.2-1 Severity: normal Tags: patch I was trying to set up an 'update', and provided a 'VerifyRelease:' with 16-digit keyid as specified in the manpage. It appeared to be ignored. After a bit of debugging, I found an off-by-one error in signature.c line 129:

Bug#517777: 517777

2009-04-14 Thread Max Bowsher
Another case that this affects is packages like the 'linux-latest-2.6' source (which has simple integer version numbers), building binaries like 'linux-image-2.6-amd64' which has a version number modelled on the version of the kernel it pulls in. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital

Bug#517777: Bug 517777: proposed patch

2009-04-12 Thread Max Bowsher
suffix found on the binary # version too. A package which illustrates both binNMU and overridden-version simultaneously is 'ure' in lenny. Max. From 1a57125501f87d11fd59fb5eddf9627a88f1ad26 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Max Bowsher m...@f2s.com Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2009 12:13:46 +0100 Subject

Bug#523554: Migration to not shipping /var/lock/mailman breaks mailman/bin/update call in postinst

2009-04-10 Thread Max Bowsher
Package: mailman Version: 1:2.1.12-1 Severity: mailman Upgrading to mailman 2.1.12-1 (the first version to stop shipping an actual /var/lock/mailman directory in the package), the postinst emits the following error: Upgrading from version 0x2010bf0 to 0x2010cf0 getting rid of old source files

Bug#517777: apt-listchanges does not cope with binary packages built with a different version to their source

2009-03-01 Thread Max Bowsher
Package: apt-listchanges Version: 2.83 Severity: normal A rare but possible construct in debian packages is for a source to build binaries with a different version to the source. Examples may be located by grepping for packages containing parentheses in their Source control field:

Bug#516841: ghc6: debsums failure - probably should not ship package.conf.old

2009-02-23 Thread Max Bowsher
Package: ghc6 Version: 6.8.2dfsg1-1 Severity: normal debsums says, on my system: debsums: checksum mismatch ghc6 file /usr/lib/ghc-6.8.2/package.conf.old Should ghc6 be shipping a '.old' file in the package at all? If it does, it shouldn't be modifying it. Max. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#516840: psgml modifies packaged files during postinst, leading to debsums mismatches

2009-02-23 Thread Max Bowsher
Package: psgml Version: 1.3.2-8 Severity: normal After a fresh clean installation of psgml: m...@sanpietro:~$ debsums -s psgml debsums: checksum mismatch psgml file /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/psgml/Makefile debsums: checksum mismatch psgml file /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/psgml/config.status

Bug#516843: broken use of ucf results in 50psgml-init.el not being installed after purge/install cycle

2009-02-23 Thread Max Bowsher
Package: psgml Version: 1.3.2-8 Severity: normal The psgml package registers the 50psgml-init.el file with ucf, but never unregisters it from ucf when the package is purged. However it does delete the file from disk. This results, after an install/purge, with ucf remembering that the file has

Bug#508834: grub-common: grub-probe is painfully slow to execute due to excessive ioctl(BLKFLSBUF)

2008-12-15 Thread Max Bowsher
Package: grub-common Version: 1.96+20080724-12 Severity: important Hi, For me, update-grub is _painfully_ slow to execute, taking 10-30minutes! I've tracked this to its use of grub-probe. An example grub-probe command, such as: grub-probe --device-map=/boot/grub/device.map --device /dev/sda3

Bug#507672: devscripts: [dget] Contains misspelt wget option --no-chache

2008-12-03 Thread Max Bowsher
Package: devscripts Version: 2.10.41 Severity: minor dget contains the misspelt wget option --no-chache, i.e. a typo for --no-cache. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#507749: Mangled (CR without LF) dpkg output when tee-ing apt's output

2008-12-03 Thread Max Bowsher
Package: apt Version: 0.7.18 Severity: minor apt-pkg/deb/dpkgpm.cc uses cfmakeraw(3) to put the terminal into raw mode whilst running dpkg subprocesses. This has the undesirable effect of mangling the output if you are piping it through tee: apt-get -y install iotop | tee /tmp/apt.log Reading

Bug#506674: reprepro: sha256 implementation is buggy

2008-11-23 Thread Max Bowsher
Package: reprepro Version: 3.6.2-1 I've discovered that for a particular file, the sha256 implementation in reprepro gets the wrong answer (at least, GNU coreutils, openssl, and the implementation on aarongifford.com all agree on one value, whilst reprepro gets something else.) Unfortunately the

Bug#506674: 506674: Cause isolated

2008-11-23 Thread Max Bowsher
I observed that the code in reprepro appears to share common ancestry with that in glibc (I later also discovered http://people.redhat.com/drepper/SHA-crypt.txt), and furthermore that the code in glibc calculated the correct hash. Comparing the two, I isolated a minimal fix as follows: ---

Bug#487089: ucf registration is wrong (/etc/hgrc.d/ vs /etc/mercurial/hgrc.d/)

2008-06-19 Thread Max Bowsher
Package: mercurial Version: 1.0.1-1 Severity: minor Quoting from postinst: ucf --sum-file /usr/share/mercurial/$conffile.md5sums --three-way \ $TMPFILE /etc/mercurial/hgrc.d/$conffile ucfr mercurial /etc/hgrc.d/$conffile The 'ucfr' line incorrectly mentions

Bug#485881: apt-get --no-install-recommends does not override APT::Install-Recommends-Sections

2008-06-11 Thread Max Bowsher
Package: apt Version: 0.7.14 Severity: normal apt-get --no-install-recommends disables the behaviour of APT::Install-Recommends, but does not disable any configured APT::Install-Recommends-Sections. This is rather perplexing to users who don't understand the details of how APT manages its

Bug#485883: apt: Impossible to override a list-valued configuration item from the command line

2008-06-11 Thread Max Bowsher
Package: apt Version: 0.7.14 Severity: wishlist The -o command line option allows arbitrary overriding on scalar-valued configuration items, and appending extra entries to list-valued configuration items. However, the ability to completely override the contents of a list-valued configuration item

Bug#481181: 481181: exploit details already revealed by 3rd party, so there doesn't seem to be any benefit in keeping generation method secret any more

2008-05-15 Thread Max Bowsher
Details, including tarballs of pregenerated keysets and painfully detailed information on how to be a script kiddie, are now published by the metasploit project (which is linked from wiki.debian.org/SSLkeys, even) so I think the benefits of secrecy have been eroded by now. The only missing piece

Bug#481181: 481181: Blacklists

2008-05-15 Thread Max Bowsher
I'm not sure whether Debian will ship blacklists generated by others, since there's no way to verify a blacklist other than regenerating it yourself, but I have generated RSA 1023, 1024 and 4096 bit blacklists for my own use - available here: http://www.red-bean.com/~maxb/ . These are i386+amd64

Bug#481181: 4096-RSA blacklist?

2008-05-14 Thread Max Bowsher
4096 bit RSA keys seem particularly common in my experience, could that variant be considered for the the package, soon? Max. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#479637: python-clearsilver: #479637 is essentially a duplicate of #452612, I think

2008-05-05 Thread Max Bowsher
Package: python-clearsilver Followup-For: Bug #479637 #479637 is essentially a duplicate of #452612, I think - the missing Py_InitModule4 symbol is a manifestation of trying to reuse the python2.4 module with python2.5 - so the bug is fixed in 0.10.4-1.2. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Bug#427804: severity 427804 important

2008-02-23 Thread Max Bowsher
severity 427804 important thanks Based on my own and the other users comments above, I think it's reasonable to say that this bug has a major effect on the usability of the package. Max. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Bug#440507: Probably fixed upstream

2007-12-30 Thread Max Bowsher
According to http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=27694 this was fixed upstream as of 5.0.50, so the current unstable package is probably no longer affected. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#427804: Lack of bash.info - suggest warrants severity=important

2007-11-04 Thread Max Bowsher
warrants severity=important. Max Bowsher. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Bug#413102: (no subject)

2007-03-02 Thread Max Bowsher
This sounds quite likely to be the same as http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=2580 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#403363: python-moinmoin: Password Reminder emails are confusingly mis-encoded

2006-12-16 Thread Max Bowsher
Package: python-moinmoin Version: 1.5.3-1.1 Severity: important Password reminder emails send by moinmoin display incorrect passwords, since the reminder passwords sent by moinmoin always end with an '=', which gets eaten by incorrect quoted-printable encoding. See

Bug#396003: Exim paniclog handling

2006-11-13 Thread Max Bowsher
To me, it is very unintuitive for a sysadmin to be expected to move away a file which is normally under logrotate control. At a minimum, I would suggest that the alert email contain a reference to README.Debian.html section 2.5.1, so that sysadmins seeing this can more quickly understand what's

Bug#395499: Support for wct4xxp module dropped

2006-10-30 Thread Max Bowsher
Mark Purcell wrote: On Friday 27 October 2006 13:03, Max Bowsher wrote: Dropping support for wct4xxp represents a critical regression to people using that hardware. Max, I would suggest you have a read of: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=388756 wct4xxp was removed

Bug#395499: Support for wct4xxp module dropped

2006-10-27 Thread Max Bowsher
Package: zaptel Version: 1:1.2.7.dfsg-1 Severity: important Justification: Renders package unusable to users of specific hardware Dropping support for wct4xxp represents a critical regression to people using that hardware. Ideally, a non-free package would have been created to avoid

Bug#391596: Conflicts: python2.4-semanage has incorrect version

2006-10-07 Thread Max Bowsher
Package: python-semanage Version: 1.6.16-3 Severity: normal python-semanage has a Conflicts against python2.4-semanage so that the old package is removed upon upgrade. However, this does not work, because the version range is (= 1.6), but 1.6-1 is a version of the old package, which does not

Bug#389780: setuptools 0.6c3 is needed to fix bug, so increasing severity

2006-10-02 Thread Max Bowsher
severity 389780 normal thanks setuptools earlier than 0.6c3 do not support Subversion 1.4, which is currently in unstable. Specifically, attempting to install a setuptools-using python package from a Subversion 1.4 working copy fails. An update to 0.6c3 is needed to fix this loss of

Bug#386318: python-setuptools: /usr/bin/easy_install-2.3 contains #!/usr/bin/python2.4

2006-09-06 Thread Max Bowsher
Package: python-setuptools Version: 0.6b3-3 Severity: normal /usr/bin/easy_install-2.3 contains a clearly invalid shebang of: #!/usr/bin/python2.4 This makes it rather difficult to perform easy_install maintenance on Python 2.3 packages. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Bug#380233: Increase 380233 severity to serious

2006-07-30 Thread Max Bowsher
to be sure that this issue receives human attention before testing migration, which the abnormal shortening of the 10-day delay due to the sticky high urgency persisting from two months ago might otherwise circumvent. Thanks, Max Bowsher. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Bug#380233: [pkg-ntp-maintainers] Bug#380233: package transition leaves a mess of old ntp-server and ntp-simple stuff, including dangerous purge possibilities

2006-07-30 Thread Max Bowsher
Peter Eisentraut wrote: Max Bowsher wrote: Upgrading to the 4.2.2 ntp packages, which merge the ntp-server and ntp-simple packages into the ntp package leaves the old packages in the 'config-files' state. In particular, this leaves active cron scripts under the name 'ntp-server', which

Bug#380233: package transition leaves a mess of old ntp-server and ntp-simple stuff, including dangerous purge possibilities

2006-07-28 Thread Max Bowsher
Package: ntp Version: 1:4.2.2+dfsg-1 Severity: important Setting severity to important for now, since I cannot actually point to a specific policy directive, but this should quite possibly be elevated to serious. Upgrading to the 4.2.2 ntp packages, which merge the ntp-server and ntp-simple

Bug#379007: update-grub updates default index incorrectly when one kernel version is a prefix of another

2006-07-20 Thread Max Bowsher
Package: grub Version: 0.97-12 Severity: normal Suppose you have kernel 2.6.15-1-somearch installed, and also have 2.6.15-1-somearch-somesuffix. If you set the default kernel to 2.6.15-1-somearch, and run update-grub with grub's 'update the default setting to continue pointing to the same

Bug#376834: bidentd: Please package new upstream version 1.1.1, which has fixed the NONFREE-DOC issue

2006-07-05 Thread Max Bowsher
Package: bidentd Severity: important Justification for severity(important): An update to latest upstream would solve the bug which is currently keeping bidentd out of testing. Getting bidentd back into testing soon would be very nice, as it is not just yet another identd - it's an identd with a

Bug#376835: apt-show-versions: Misbehaves for mailman, probably due to explicit zero epoch

2006-07-05 Thread Max Bowsher
Package: apt-show-versions Version: 0.09 Severity: normal apt-show-versions is misbehaving for mailman. It says... # apt-show-versions mailman mailman 2.1.8-1 installed: No available version in archive ...but it is wrong, there is an available version... # apt-cache policy mailman mailman:

Bug#375975: python-setuptools: easy_install-2.3 broken: Entry point ('console_scripts', 'easy_install-2.3') not found

2006-06-29 Thread Max Bowsher
Package: python-setuptools Version: 0.6b3-1 Severity: normal $ easy_install-2.3 ... ImportError: Entry point ('console_scripts', 'easy_install-2.3') not found The problem is due to the use of python-central to install egg-info built for Python 2.4 into the python2.3/site-packages dir.

Bug#373935: python-configobj: Installs python-version-specific .egg-info directory, breaking egg-iful usage on python2.4

2006-06-16 Thread Max Bowsher
Package: python-configobj Version: 4.3.1-1 Severity: normal The .egg-info directory installed by python-configobj includes the -py2.3 substring identifying it as version specific. Since the package tries to be handled through python-support, it should remove the version-specific specifier from

Bug#373387: [PATCH] New python policy for Subversion

2006-06-16 Thread Max Bowsher
tags 373387 patch done Here's an attempt at upgrading the package to the new Python policy. Max. Index: debian/control === --- debian/control (revision 588) +++ debian/control (working copy) @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ Priority:

Bug#372577: python-json: py2.3.egg-info directory is installed into /var/lib/python-support/python2.4

2006-06-13 Thread Max Bowsher
Gustavo Noronha Silva wrote: Hey Max! Em Sáb, 2006-06-10 às 06:23 -0500, Max Bowsher escreveu: Whilst pkg_resources.require() tolerates this, and still finds the json-py egg, setuptools' easy_install does *not* find it, because it performs filtering based on Python version declared in egg

Bug#372577: python-json: py2.3.egg-info directory is installed into /var/lib/python-support/python2.4

2006-06-10 Thread Max Bowsher
Package: python-json Version: 3.4-1 Severity: normal Installing python-json causes the directory /var/lib/python-support/python2.4/json_py-3.4-py2.3.egg-info to be created. Note the mismatch between python versions in the containing directory, and the egg-info name. This creates issues for the

Bug#372616: python-formencode: Please package new upstream version 0.5.1

2006-06-10 Thread Max Bowsher
Package: python-formencode Version: 0.4-5 Severity: wishlist Please package new upstream version 0.5.1 - thanks! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#372619: debian/copyright content is not about simplejson, but a completely unrelated package

2006-06-10 Thread Max Bowsher
Package: simplejson Version: 1.1-1 Severity: normal The content of the debian/copyright file appears to be intended for a different package entirely. It refers to a piece of software called 'Pyflakes', and makes no reference to simplejson. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Bug#372617: simplejson: Please package new upstream version 1.3

2006-06-10 Thread Max Bowsher
Package: simplejson Severity: wishlist Please package new upstream version 1.3 - thanks! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#370093: Installation aborts due to versioned conlicts being too loose on AMD64

2006-06-03 Thread Max Bowsher
Package: x11-common Version: 1:7.0.20 Severity: important x11-common contains versioned conflicts with many old xorg-x11 packages using the version specifier '= 6.9.0.dfsg.1-6'. However, there was an AMD64 binNMU into testing via testing-proposed-updates, of version 6.9.0.dfsg.1-6+b1, which

Bug#369394: mysqlhotcopy emits warning after upgrade to libdbd-mysql-perl 3.0004-1

2006-05-29 Thread Max Bowsher
is still active at the time of disconnect. Either calling $sth_vars-finish;, or moving the 5 lines concerning $sth_vars into an enclosing block to cause $sth_vars to go out of scope as soon as it is no longer required successfully avoid the warning. Max Bowsher. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Bug#362624: sqlite vs python-pysqlite

2006-05-01 Thread Max Bowsher
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Laszlo Boszormenyi wrote: Hi Max! On Fri, 14 Apr 2006 11:34:56 -0500 Max Bowsher wrote: sqlite = 3.3.3 exposes a bug in some pysqlite versions. Specifically, the bug is present in: The 2.0.x series, 2.0.7 (package: python-pysqlite2

Bug#362624: sqlite vs python-pysqlite

2006-05-01 Thread Max Bowsher
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Laszlo Boszormenyi wrote: On Mon, 2006-05-01 at 13:25 +0100, Max Bowsher wrote: $ apt-cache show python2.3-pysqlite2 Package: python2.3-pysqlite2 ... Depends: libc6 (= 2.3.5-1), libsqlite3-0 (= 3.3.5), python2.3 ... As you can see

Bug#364766: dovecot-common: postinst tampers with permissions on SSL cert/key

2006-04-25 Thread Max Bowsher
Package: dovecot-common Version: 1.0.beta7-1 Severity: important I have edited dovecot.conf to use a non-default SSL certificate and key, instead of /etc/ssl/{private,certs}/dovecot.pem. My cert+key is shared between multiple services, not only Dovecot. The Dovecot postinst gets the cert/key

Bug#363385: mailman: Explicit zero epoch causes apt-get to endlessly treat as needing upgrade

2006-04-18 Thread Max Bowsher
Package: mailman Version: 2.1.7-2.1.8rc1-1 Severity: important The explicit zero epoch in this version of the Mailman package exposes a bug in apt-get: the package is perpetually considered in need of upgrade, and apt-get reinstalls it every time an upgrade or dist-upgrade is done. The current

Bug#363389: apt: Explicit zero epoch in package version causes endless upgrading

2006-04-18 Thread Max Bowsher
Package: apt Version: 0.6.43.3 Severity: normal Usually, an epoch value is either absent, and so zero implicitly, or explicitly present and greater than zero. If a package version number includes an explicit epoch value of zero, apt-get misbehaves, considering the version present in the available

Bug#362624: sqlite = 3.3.3 exposes bug in pysqlite 2.0.7 - add versioned Conflicts ?

2006-04-14 Thread Max Bowsher
Package: sqlite3 Version: 3.3.5-0.1 Severity: normal sqlite = 3.3.3 exposes a bug in some pysqlite versions. Specifically, the bug is present in: The 2.0.x series, 2.0.7 (package: python-pysqlite2) The 1.1.x series, 1.1.7 (package: python-pysqlite) The 2.1.x series, 2.1.3 (not in

Bug#283992: commit-email.pl committer address lookup table

2006-04-13 Thread Max Bowsher
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 tags 283992 upstream thanks I'd be happy to commit such a patch to the upstream Subversion project, if you still feel like writing it. Max. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (Cygwin)

Bug#217133: (no subject)

2006-04-13 Thread Max Bowsher
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 tags 217133 fixed-upstream upstream thanks Done for upstream 1.4.0. Max. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (Cygwin) iD8DBQFEPnsjfFNSmcDyxYARArAAAJ4nFvBhXWNlICmCwdpKBkGicYXnNACgy2OY UaSMK0NkLlKphHj5VTFvP9o= =BnOq -END PGP

Bug#359315: (no subject)

2006-04-11 Thread Max Bowsher
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Peter Samuelson wrote: [Max Bowsher] Perhaps subversion should Depends: libsvn0 (= ${Source-Version}) ? This would avoid potential for confusion. Hmmm. On the one hand, in Debian we try to keep our dependencies only as tight as they need

Bug#359315: (no subject)

2006-04-10 Thread Max Bowsher
retitle 359315 Differing versions of libsvn0 vs. subversion packages is opportunity for confusion thanks Perhaps subversion should Depends: libsvn0 (= ${Source-Version}) ? This would avoid potential for confusion. Are there any situations where having differing subversion and libsvn0 versions

Bug#307184: tagging wontfix

2006-04-09 Thread Max Bowsher
tags 307184 wontfix thanks The indicated script is unmaintained, and includes hardcoded assumptions about repo naming. Therefore, tagging wontfix, with a recommendation to close. There is a bash_completion script maintained within the Subversion distribution, which is kept up-to-date with

Bug#287756: tagging wontfix

2006-04-09 Thread Max Bowsher
tags 287756 wontfix upstream thanks Tagging wontfix, with a recommendation to close, because the reason 'svn log' defaults to -rBASE:1 when run in a WC is actually dictated by the underlying structure of the Subversion database: Whilst the Subversion database makes it very easy to trace history

Bug#359679: libsvn-core-perl: status(., ...) gives an assert() error

2006-03-29 Thread Max Bowsher
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Peter Samuelson wrote: [Julian Gilbey] burnside:~/debian/tex/tetex-bin $ perl -MSVN::Client -e \ 'sub print_names { print $_[0]\n; } $ctx=new SVN::Client; $ctx-status(, BASE, \print_names, 1, 1, 0, 1);' | head -5 .pc .pc/.version

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