Bug#340788: vips: unnoticed soname change

2005-11-25 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
Package: vips Version: 7.10.16-1 Severity: serious Justification: Policy 8.1, 8.6 Hi, Jay. At least on amd64, VIPS's shared libraries appear to have changed names from libvips(CC).so.10.8.0 to libvips(CC).so.9.9.1, which not only breaks anything built against the previous release but also

Bug#330626: crystalcursors: please register x-cursor-theme alternatives

2005-11-26 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
-alternatives --remove x-cursor-theme $x done ;; esac #DEBHELPER# Thanks! -- Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC (amu at alum.mit.edu, ucko at debian.org) Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] (NOT a valid e-mail address) for more info. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Bug#330626: crystalcursors: please register x-cursor-theme alternatives

2005-11-27 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
the components without trouble. Do you have any idea how to fix the problem? As I said, I believe you need to create wrappers. Thanks. -- Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC (amu at alum.mit.edu, ucko at debian.org) Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] (NOT a valid e-mail address) for more info. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Bug#330626: crystalcursors: please register x-cursor-theme alternatives

2005-11-28 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
a line, so I can ask my sponsor to upload the package. Your proposed new release works great; feel free to pass it along to your sponsor. Thanks! -- Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC (amu at alum.mit.edu, ucko at debian.org) Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] (NOT a valid e-mail address) for more info

Bug#341503: gnunet-gtk: uninstallable thanks to inconsistent hardcoded dependencies

2005-11-30 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
Package: gnunet-gtk Version: 0.7.0a-1 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable For some reason, gnunet-gtk's control file specifies a hard-coded list of (binary) dependencies; although this is technically legal, it's prone to get out of date when transitions (such as libextractor's

Bug#341747: fltk1.1-doc: typo in manual

2005-12-02 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
contain a few tidbits of information that can be of interest to users. -- Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC (amu at alum.mit.edu, ucko at debian.org) Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] (NOT a valid e-mail address) for more info. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Bug#308335: dictionary-el: Prevents Emacs from installing

2005-05-09 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
just forgot about that, and I didn't consider the issue worth bugging him about.) Anyway, thanks for the report, which I'll try to address before too long. -- Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC (amu at alum.mit.edu, ucko at debian.org) Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] (NOT a valid e-mail address) for more info

Bug#308335: dictionary-el: Prevents Emacs from installing

2005-05-09 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
didn't know it took all those arguments. :-) Never underestimate the flexibility of (e)lisp. ;-) Thanks for the quick reply! You're welcome. -- Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC (amu at alum.mit.edu, ucko at debian.org) Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] (NOT a valid e-mail address) for more info. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Bug#309161: /usr/bin/svndumpfilter: crashes on 64-bit platforms

2005-05-14 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
Package: subversion Version: 1.1.4-2.1 Severity: normal File: /usr/bin/svndumpfilter Tags: patch upstream On amd64, and AFAICT any 64-bit platform, svndumpfilter dies fairly quickly with the message svn: Can't write to stream: Invalid argument. I tracked this down to the program's non-portable

Bug#347457: ocamlagrep: binary packages lack dependencies

2006-01-10 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
Package: ocamlagrep Version: 1.0-6 Severity: serious Justification: Policy 3.5 When you reworked your packaging to stop hardcoding ocaml's ever-changing ABI, you appear to have twice made an unfortunate typo, neglecting to precede either occurrence of {F:OCamlABI} with a dollar sign ($). As a

Bug#347583: cinepaint: Bracketing to HBR plugin FTBFS on 64-bit systems

2006-01-11 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
--- cinepaint-0.20-1/debian/changelog +++ cinepaint-0.20-1/debian/changelog @@ -1,3 +1,10 @@ +cinepaint (0.20-1-1.0) unstable; urgency=low + + * Quasi-NMU. + * Fix Bracketing to HDR plugin to compile on 64-bit systems. + + -- Aaron M. Ucko [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed, 11 Jan 2006 11:05:10 -0500 + cinepaint

Bug#347587: dmake: FTBFS due to ancient config.{guess,sub}

2006-01-11 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
Package: dmake Version: 4.3+cvs20060104-3 Severity: serious Justification: no longer builds from source For whatever reason, dmake ships ancient versions of config.guess and config.sub, dating from 2002 and 2001 respectively, resulting in some Debian architectures being reported as [i]nvalid

Bug#342965: Package explicitely build-depends on g++-3.4

2005-12-11 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
, that should no longer be a concern, so I'll try to remember to revert that change for my next upload. (Given that 4.0.2-4 also enabled the c2a transition, I assume I won't need any GCC-related build-dependencies; please correct me if I'm mistaken.) Thanks for the report. -- Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC

Bug#343347: rus-ispell: aspell-ru built in wrong debian/rules target

2005-12-14 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
Package: rus-ispell Severity: serious Justification: Policy 4.8 Although your control file properly lists aspell-ru as architecture any, your rules inappropriately build it from the binary-indep target, blocking it from being autobuilt. Could you please correct this? Thanks. -- System

Bug#343360: cameleon: missing build-dep on imagemagick

2005-12-14 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
Package: cameleon Version: 1.9.9.cvs20051129-1 Severity: serious Justification: fails to build from source The latest cameleon package FTBFS on most architectures (except for arm, where it evidently got lucky) because it tries to run convert without a build dependency on imagemagick. Could you

Bug#343375: exim4-doc-info: no actual content!

2005-12-14 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
Package: exim4-doc-info Version: 4.60-1 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable exim4-doc-info seems to have wound up empty aside from some metadata under /usr/share/doc; could you please restore the actual info files? Thanks! -- System Information: Debian Release:

Bug#343396: oleo: please rebuild against libxdb1

2005-12-14 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
Package: oleo Version: 1.99.16-8 Severity: important oleo still depends on the old libxdb1c102 package, which is likely to disappear from the archive soon; could you please rebuild against libxdb-dev (= 1.2.0-6) to pick up the new libxdb1 package? Thanks! BTW, I investigated what was up with

Bug#343555: alsa-source: fails to configure with bash 3.1 as /bin/sh

2005-12-15 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
Package: alsa-source Version: 1.0.10-2 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable alsa-source's config script fails on my system (which has bash 3.1-1 installed as /bin/sh); AFAICT, the problem is constructs such as ALSA_NOPNP=$(. /etc/alsa/alsa-source.conf /dev/null 21 ;

Bug#343550: fltk1.1-doc: documentation of foreground() is incorrect

2005-12-15 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
are now honored properly, per #332489). Thanks for pointing out the discrepancy; I'll report it to upstream, and expect they'll fix it for 1.1.7. -- Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC (amu at alum.mit.edu, ucko at debian.org) Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] (NOT a valid e-mail address) for more info

Bug#343129: xemacs / libX11 / NVIDIA crashes on opteron under kernel 2.6.14-2

2005-12-16 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
a file or directory is being referenced. I've added the maintainer of that file I'm pretty sure the message just means that gdb can't find ChkIfEv.c to show you the actual contents of its line 57 -- Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC (amu at alum.mit.edu, ucko at debian.org) Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED

Bug#254089: FTBFS: test for res_mkquery is broken

2005-12-16 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
Package: mtr Version: 0.58-1.0.0.1.pure64 Followup-For: Bug #254089 I just noticed (thanks to debsecan) that because of this bug, I still have an old, patched version of mtr that's vulnerable to CVE-2004-1224. Anyway, if you don't want to hardcode -lresolv, my suggestion would be to adjust the

Bug#336463: g++-4.0: FPE ICE on mipsen also affects fltk1.1

2005-11-05 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
Package: g++-4.0 Version: 4.0.2-3 Followup-For: Bug #336463 My latest upload of fltk1.1 (1.1.6-9) runs into identical lossage on mips and mipsel, on sources that did not change since before my previous upload (which built fine), so G++ definitely appears to be the culprit. Logs:

Bug#338490: debianutils: mktemp and tempfile should validate TMPDIR

2005-11-10 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
Package: debianutils Version: 2.15.1 Severity: normal Hi, Clint. The utilities mktemp and tempfile both assume that if TMPDIR is set, it points to a writable directory; although that's normally true, it's not actually guaranteed to hold. (For example, I have a system with libpam-tmpdir enabled

Bug#340777: libfile-mimeinfo-perl: typo in new dependency

2005-12-22 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
Package: libfile-mimeinfo-perl Version: 0.12-3 Followup-For: Bug #340777 reopen 340777 thanks You appear to have made a typo when introducing the new dependency: The following packages have unmet dependencies: libfile-mimeinfo-perl: Depends: libefile-desktopentry-perl but it is not

Bug#345381: rlpr: upgrade fails in preinst when /usr/doc symlink absent

2005-12-30 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
Package: rlpr Version: 2.05-2 Severity: important rlpr's new preinst script contains the line [ -L /usr/doc/rlpr ] rm -f /usr/doc/rlpr which causes the script to abort when there isn't already such a symlink (because it's running in -e mode, per Policy 6.1). To avoid this problem,

Bug#345383: python-codespeak-lib: unsatisfiable dependency on python (= 2.4)

2005-12-30 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
Package: python-codespeak-lib Version: 0.7-svn20050721-2 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable python-codespeak-lib has a dependency on python (= 2.4); however, Debian's python metapackage is still versioned 2.3.5-3, rendering the python-codespeak-lib metapackage uninstallable

Bug#345393: x-window-system-core: missing alternate dependency on libgl1-mesa-dri

2005-12-30 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
Package: x-window-system-core Version: 6.9.0.dfsg.1-1 Severity: normal Happy holidays, and congratulations on getting 6.9.0 out the door! That said, I'm afraid I have a bug to report: As noted in #334721, which I believe it's too late to reopen :-/, the libgl1-mesa-dri should be an alternative

Bug#345402: reportbug: confused by dependency packages with alternative dependencies

2005-12-30 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
text realname Aaron M. Ucko email [EMAIL PROTECTED] no-cc header X-Debbugs-CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux

Bug#332274: muine: uninstallable on non-i386 arches

2005-10-05 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
Package: muine Version: 0.8.3-7 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable When muine jumped the gun on gtk-sharp2 2.3.91, it did so only for i386; on other architectures, the autobuilders naturally continued to use 1.9.5. As such, could you please reupload the package, preferably

Bug#324025: aqsis: FTBFS on 64 bit arches: error: cast from 'void*' to 'int'

2005-10-05 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
Package: aqsis Followup-For: Bug #324025 Please don't forget to upload a new revision with Andreas's fixes applied. (Alternatively, may I NMU for this?) -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable') Architecture:

Bug#332298: yacas: FTBFS on 64-bit systems with GCC 4

2005-10-05 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
Package: yacas Version: 1.0.57-2 Severity: serious Tags: patch Justification: no longer builds from source As you may have heard, Debian is undertaking an ongoing transition to G++ 4. This affects yacas, particularly given that yacas-proteus could really stand to be rebuilt against current

Bug#332317: vdslib: please rebuild for C++/FLTK transition

2005-10-05 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
Package: vdslib Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable (uninstallable binaries) libvds-dev still depends on the old libfltk1.1c102 package; please rebuild it with GCC 4.0 and a recent version of libfltk1.1-dev (1.1.6-6) or newer for the current C++ ABI transition. AFAICT, this

Bug#332317: vdslib: please rebuild for C++/FLTK transition

2005-10-09 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
concern. Thanks; apologies for neglecting to check on an official architecture. Rebuilding it for sarge doesn't make any sense here. *nod* -- Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC (amu at alum.mit.edu, ucko at debian.org) Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] (NOT a valid e-mail address) for more info. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Bug#335781: microcode.ctl: x86_64 is amd64, not ia64!

2005-10-25 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
Package: microcode.ctl Version: 1.12-1 Severity: normal Somewhat confusingly, Debian's designation for Intel's new line of 64-bit x86-compatible processors is amd64 (after that architecture's original designer), *not* ia64. (The latter is a radically different architecture developed in

Bug#333760: rpm: please suppress lib64 (MARK64) nonsense

2005-10-13 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
Package: rpm Version: 4.4.1-2 Severity: important On architectures such as amd64 with 32-bit cousins, rpm thinks it should use /usr/lib64 for some things; while this may be true on Red Hat systems, it misfires on Debian. (In particular, librpm4 is effectively empty, and rpm lacks proper

Bug#333981: ace: please consider dropping to gcc-3.4 across the board

2005-10-14 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
Package: ace Version: 5.4.7-4 Severity: serious Justification: no longer builds from source Given that the platforms on which ace still tries to build with gcc 4 are by and large still running into link problems such as #324271, I would suggest dropping back to g++-3.4 on *all* platforms for the

Bug#334021: libcurl3-*-dev: architecture-specific dependencies misspecified

2005-10-14 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
Package: libcurl3-gnutls-dev, libcurl3-openssl-dev Version: 7.15.0-1 Severity: serious Justification: Policy 3.5 Your fix for #333609 appears to have backfired dramatically: because bracketed architecture lists are legal only in *build*-depends, dpkg-dev kindly swallowed the entire Depends:

Bug#314868: privoxy: log rotation still noisy when invoke-rc.d available

2005-10-16 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
Package: privoxy Version: 3.0.3-5 Followup-For: Bug #314868 reopen 314868 thanks Your fix for this bug only covered the case of invoking the init script directly; please also suppress output when invoke-rc.d is available (generally true nowadays). Thanks. -- System Information: Debian Release:

Bug#333401: Translation of fluid

2005-10-19 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
everywhere to ensure compatibility across systems? Thanks! -- Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC (amu at alum.mit.edu, ucko at debian.org) Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] (NOT a valid e-mail address) for more info. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Bug#333401: Translation of fluid

2005-10-20 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
produces and parses. -- Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC (amu at alum.mit.edu, ucko at debian.org) Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] (NOT a valid e-mail address) for more info. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#333401: Translation of fluid

2005-10-20 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
Miriam Ruiz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You're right. I've modified the patch and i guess it's OK now :) Yes, much better. Thanks! -- Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC (amu at alum.mit.edu, ucko at debian.org) Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] (NOT a valid e-mail address) for more info. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Bug#335031: ecj-bootstrap-gcj: typo in postinst script breaks installation

2005-10-21 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
Package: ecj-bootstrap-gcj Version: 3.1.1-2 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable } Setting up ecj-bootstrap-gcj (3.1.1-2) ... } /var/lib/dpkg/info/ecj-bootstrap-gcj.postinst: line 4: --slave: command not found } dpkg: error processing ecj-bootstrap-gcj (--configure): }

Bug#335207: lilypond-data: ships architecture-dependent file under /usr/share

2005-10-22 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
Package: lilypond-data Version: 2.6.3-4 Severity: serious Justification: Policy 5.6.8, 9.1.1 Hi, Thomas. lilypond-data appears to have gained an architecture-dependent file, which is inappropriate both because the package is architecture-all and because the file is under /usr/share: $ dpkg -L

Bug#340125: [fwd: Bug#340125: octave-mode rebinds M-BS]

2005-11-21 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
and not overriden in octave-mode AFAICT) and M-C-h (bound to mark-defun by default, and overriden to octave-mark-defun in octave-mode). If backspace is generating C-h rather than DEL, then that's a misconfiguration on the user's part that will generally play badly with Emacs. -- Aaron M. Ucko

Bug#340376: libcommandline-ruby1.8: incomplete doc-base files break installation

2005-11-22 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
Package: libcommandline-ruby1.8 Version: 0.7.10-1 Severity: serious Justification: Policy 9.10 (doc-base section 2.3) The two files libcommandline-ruby1.8 installs in /usr/share/doc-base lack Files fields, breaking installation on at least some systems (those with doc-base installed?): } Setting

Bug#340376: libcommandline-ruby1.8: incomplete doc-base files break installation

2005-11-23 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
sense, it should be okay to leave it as it is and just rename the doc-base files as I suggested. Alternatively, you could split it out into a new -common or -doc package, but the ftpmasters might consider that to be overkill. -- Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC (amu at alum.mit.edu, ucko at debian.org

Bug#402213: neon26: FTBFS on 64-bit platforms: libneon26.pc patch rejected

2006-12-08 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
Package: neon26 Version: 0.26.2-2 Severity: serious Justification: no longer builds from source Your latest neon26 upload, while otherwise laudable, breaks on 64-bit platforms because the library-renaming patch does not (fully) apply; see, for instance,

Bug#403278: gtk-recordmydesktop: uses python-central but fails to specify Python-Version:

2006-12-15 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
Package: gtk-recordmydesktop Version: 0.3.0r2-1 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable Although gtk-recordmydesktop uses python-central, it lacks a proper Python-Version: field, and consequently gets stuck in a half-installed state from which one cannot even back it out without

Bug#403278: gtk-recordmydesktop: uses python-central but fails to specify Python-Version:

2006-12-15 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
Incidentally, why is the package architecture: any rather than all? Its actual contents appear to be entirely architecture-independent. I'm tempted to wonder whether its sponsor reviewed it at all. -- Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC (amu at alum.mit.edu, ucko at debian.org) Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED

Bug#386829: quinn-diff: mishandles tildes in version numbers

2006-09-10 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
Package: quinn-diff Version: 0.65 Severity: important [Resending, as the first copy I sent Friday afternoon seems to have vanished without a trace.] AFAICT, quinn-diff's version-comparison code originates from an ancient version of dpkg that didn't support tildes in version numbers; as a result,

Bug#387063: binNMU-unsafe dependency on xchat-common

2006-09-11 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
Package: xchat Version: 2.6.4-2 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable xchat depends on having an identical version of xchat-common, which is fine for regular uploads but breaks on binary-only NMUs, such as the one that just happened for the libdbus-1-3 transition. To correct

Bug#387232: binNMU-unsafe dependency on gnucash-common

2006-09-12 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
Package: gnucash Version: 2.0.1-2 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable Hi, Thomas! gnucash depends on having an identical version of gnucash-common, which is fine for regular uploads but breaks on binary-only NMUs, such as the one that just happened for the libdbus-1-3 and

Bug#387220: quinn-diff: mishandles tildes in version numbers

2006-09-12 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
Package: quinn-diff Version: 0.65 Severity: important AFAICT, quinn-diff's version-comparison code originates from an ancient version of dpkg that didn't support tildes in version numbers; as a result, it incorrectly treats foo~bar as NEWER than foo. One practical effect of this is that the

Bug#387378: ggz-gtk-games: still depends on ggz-gtk-game-data (not g-g-games-d)

2006-09-13 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
Package: ggz-gtk-games Version: 0.0.13-2 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable (uninstallable) ggz-gtk-games continues to depend on ggz-gtk-game-data (= ${Source-Version}), although the data package is now called ggz-gtk-games-data. Please correct this discrepancy. Thanks! --

Bug#350409: lush: binary-arch and binary-indep are defined backwards

2006-09-15 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
Package: lush Version: 1.2-1 Followup-For: Bug #350409 Not only does binary-arch continue to build lush-library, it fails to build lush. Please swap the rules, such that binary-*arch* invokes dh_xxx with -a and binary-*indep* invokes dh_xxx with -i. Thanks! -- System Information: Debian

Bug#387672: lush: please fix relationships between binary packages

2006-09-15 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
Package: lush Version: 1.2-1 Severity: important lush's dependency on lush-library (= ${Source-Version}) will be impossible to fulfill if lush undergoes a binary-only NMU for whatever reason; please add a versioned build dependency on dpkg-dev (= 1.13.19) and change the dependency on lush-library

Bug#368972: libgl1-mesa-directfb-dev should not provide libgl-dev: ITNMU

2006-09-15 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
at it? The fix is a one-liner, and upstream applied it three months ago: http://webcvs.freedesktop.org/mesa/Mesa/src/mesa/tnl/t_vb_render.c?r1=1.49r2=1.50view=patch Thanks! -- Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC (amu at alum.mit.edu, ucko at debian.org) Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] (NOT a valid e-mail address) for more info

Bug#398072: bitcollider-plugins: hardcoded dependency on bitcollider breaks NMUs

2006-11-11 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
Package: bitcollider-plugins Version: 0.4.0-3.2 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable For whatever reason, bitcollider-plugins has a hard-coded dependency on bitcollider (= 0.4.0-3), which is no longer in unstable; even if you remember to keep the dependency current in your

Bug#398407: bmpx: ships extraneous locale.alias due to ancient configure test

2006-11-13 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
Package: bmpx Version: 0.32.0-1 Severity: important On 64-bit platforms, bmpx fails to detect that libc includes gettext; as such, it unnecessarily builds its own version, and proceeds to ship a copy of locale.alias that conflicts with the standard system one (in locales or belocs-locales-data).

Bug#398483: nethack-x11: font misinstalled as /usr/share/fonts/misc

2006-11-13 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
Package: nethack-x11 Version: 3.4.3-9 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable Greetings. I'm sorry to say your fix for #362331 was somewhat off -- nh10.pcf.gz is now getting installed *as* rather than *in* /usr/share/fonts/misc, presumably because you forgot to ensure that the

Bug#394379: erlang-base(-hipe): searching for affected services can be very slow

2006-10-20 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
Package: erlang-base-hipe Version: 1:11.b.1.dfsg-1 Severity: normal erlang-base(-hipe)'s post-installation and pre-removal scripts search for services that depend on erlang by running dpkg -S individually on each file in /etc/init.d. While this is technically valid, it can take a *very* long

Bug#395034: python-4suite-rdf: file conflict with python-4suite-xml

2006-10-24 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
Package: python-4suite-rdf Version: 1.0~rc4cvs20061016-1 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable (uninstallable) dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/python-4suite-rdf_1.0~rc4cvs20061016-1_amd64.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite

Bug#396119: guile-1.8: FTBFS on 64-bit platforms even with libltdl3-dev installed

2006-10-30 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
Aaron M. Ucko [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Adding --disable-error-on-warning to configure_args in debian/rules lets the warnings remain warnings and the build get further; however, the test suite still encounters a few failures at runtime. :-/ To wit: FAIL: numbers.test: max: big / real: (= big

Bug#392474: texlive-lang-spanish: needs cathyph.tex from texlive-base

2006-10-11 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
Package: texlive-lang-spanish Version: 2005.dfsg.1-1 Severity: important texlive-lang-spanish fails to install on systems that still have teTeX as a base (for instance, because a number of its reverse dependencies have not yet declared support for TeXLive) because eshyph.tex tries to \input

Bug#392474: texlive-lang-spanish: needs cathyph.tex from texlive-base

2006-10-11 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
packages; having maintained a large public TeX installation in the past, I truly appreciate the Debian team's work. (I'm afraid I don't have time to help aside from sending occasional bug reports, though.) -- Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC (amu at alum.mit.edu, ucko at debian.org) Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED

Bug#392567: libx11-data: Dead keys breakage

2006-10-12 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
I see this too; Ubuntu's 017_en_US_UTF-8_XI18N_OBJS.diff (attached, and only partially applied upstream AFAICT) corrects the references to nonexistent shared objects, which look like an accidental regression on upstream's part incurred when switching to git. -- Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC (amu

Bug#390758: 01_exim4-config_listmacrosdefs: MAIN_LOG_SELECTOR defined unconditionally

2006-10-02 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
Package: exim4-config Version: 4.63-4 Severity: wishlist File: /etc/exim4/conf.d/main/01_exim4-config_listmacrosdefs /etc/exim4/conf.d/main/01_exim4-config_listmacrosdefs currently defines MAIN_LOG_SELECTOR unconditionally; could you please conditionalize it on .ifndef MAIN_LOG_SELECTOR so that

Bug#389342: qc-usb-source: patch for 2.6.18 compatibility

2006-10-04 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
Package: qc-usb-source Version: 0.6.4-4 Followup-For: Bug #389342 tags 389342 + patch thanks Getting qc-usb-source to build under 2.6.18 just requires adding two #include directives, one conditional, per the below patch; please apply it when you get a chance. Thanks! diff -u

Bug#390653: openafs-modules-source: openafs module causes kernel Oops upon load

2006-10-04 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
] sys_init_module+0x18a6/0x1a85 [80160752] system_call+0x7e/0x83 [2ab8f3af8a0c] Code: 48 39 06 76 1d 83 c1 01 81 f9 de 00 00 00 75 07 b9 ff ff ff RIP [883e22a7] :openafs:check_table+0x27/0x4c RSP 81002554bd90 CR2: fffd -- Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC (amu

Bug#389342: qc-usb-source: patch for 2.6.18 compatibility

2006-10-05 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
Aaron M. Ucko [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Getting qc-usb-source to build under 2.6.18 just requires adding two #include directives, one conditional, per the below patch; please apply it when you get a chance. Minor correction: *both* headers appear to be new to 2.6.18, so please conditionalize

Bug#381477: acl2: amd64 build succeeds with current gcl (2.6.7-22)

2006-10-05 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
Package: acl2 Version: 3.0.1-1 Followup-For: Bug #381477 AFAICT, the prior FTBFS was due to a gcl bug which has since been fixed; as such, requeuing acl2 should resolve this bug. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500,

Bug#381477: acl2: amd64 build succeeds with current gcl (2.6.7-22)

2006-10-06 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
team (or else upload a build yourself if you have access to a suitable machine). Anyway, I believe I arranged for the amd64 buildd admins to get a copy of my previous message, but I'm explicitly copying them now just in case. -- Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC (amu at alum.mit.edu, ucko at debian.org

Bug#385519: [Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#385519: octaviz: please migrate to VTK 5

2006-09-21 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
an internet connection to look up CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR in their wiki[2]? My condolences. ;-) -- Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC (amu at alum.mit.edu, ucko at debian.org) Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] (NOT a valid e-mail address) for more info. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Bug#396119: closed by Rob Browning [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bug#396119: fixed in guile-1.8 1.8.1+1-2)

2006-12-01 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
please address them as well, or at least apply the suggested workaround (--disable-error-on-warning)? Thanks! -- Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC (amu at alum.mit.edu, ucko at debian.org) Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] (NOT a valid e-mail address) for more info. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Bug#401372: iceape-browser: crashes on startup

2006-12-02 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
Package: iceape-browser Version: 1.0.6-1 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable iceape-browser crashes immediately on startup, even with my old Mozilla profile moved aside. Here's what I got out of gdb: (gdb) info registers rax0x0 0 rbx0x905378

Bug#401372: iceape-browser: crashes on startup

2006-12-03 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
Mike Hommey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Could you also attach a strace ? No problem; hope it helps. -- Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC (amu at alum.mit.edu, ucko at debian.org) Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] (NOT a valid e-mail address) for more info. strace.iceape.bz2 Description: Binary data

Bug#401372: iceape-browser: crashes on startup

2006-12-04 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
Mike Hommey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Damn, I knew that, but I thought I fixed it :( On the bright side, you shouldn't encounter any coordination-related delays. ;-) -- Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC (amu at alum.mit.edu, ucko at debian.org) Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] (NOT a valid e-mail address

Bug#401372: iceape-browser: crashes on startup

2006-12-04 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
of having previously installed (upgraded to) extension packages whose iceape support is somewhat off. As such, could you please fix diggler, livehttpheaders, and tabextensions to install their symlinks under /usr/share, and have iceape-browser conflict with prior versions? Thanks! -- Aaron M. Ucko

Bug#401372: iceape-browser: crashes on startup

2006-12-04 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
stray symlink (installed-chrome.txt), requiring a small amount of extra manual cleanup. At any rate, that seems to have been the only problem; with a proper chrome setup, iceape starts normally. -- Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC (amu at alum.mit.edu, ucko at debian.org) Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] (NOT a valid

Bug#381718: lyskom-elisp-client: wipes out /usr/share/$FLAVOR/*.el

2006-08-06 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
Package: lyskom-elisp-client Version: 0.48-6 Severity: critical Justification: breaks unrelated software /usr/lib/emacsen-common/packages/install/lyskom-elisp-client wipes out all .el files under /usr/share/$FLAVOR/site-lisp, rather than just lyskom-elisp-client.el; this hurts auctex, which

Bug#381958: svn-autoreleasedeb: depends on nonexistent svn package

2006-08-07 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
Package: svn-autoreleasedeb Version: 0.11-1 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable The package containing /usr/bin/svn is named subversion (and is already a dependency of svn-buildpackage anyway). -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable

Bug#381955: libgdal1-1.3.2: file conflicts with libgdal1-1.3.1

2006-08-07 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
Package: libgdal1-1.3.2 Version: 1.3.2-1 Severity: important Unpacking libgdal1-1.3.2 (from .../libgdal1-1.3.2_1.3.2-1_amd64.deb) ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libgdal1-1.3.2_1.3.2-1_amd64.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite `/usr/share/gdal/cubewerx_extra.wkt', which is

Bug#382783: yacas: None of the most basic examples work

2006-08-13 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
to work around the issue by explicitly adding --with-script-dir=/usr/share/yacas to configure's arguments in debian/rules. Thanks for the report. -- Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC (amu at alum.mit.edu, ucko at debian.org) Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] (NOT a valid e-mail address) for more info. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Bug#348792: libgcj6: string-to-double conversion can throw NullPointerException

2006-01-18 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
Package: libgcj6 Version: 4.0.2-7 Severity: important For some reason, attempting to convert decimal strings that correspond to numbers below a certain threshold (between 4.24374e-214 and 4.24375e-214) to doubles (which should have an appreciably wider range) ends up segfaulting within the guts

Bug#348792: libgcj6: string-to-double conversion can throw NullPointerException

2006-01-18 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
I've done a little more testing, with the following conclusions: - The bug is also present in some older libgcj versions, including in particular libgcj5 3.4.4-5 and libgcj6 4.0.2-6. - The bug appears to be absent in gcc-snapshot 20051124-1. -- Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC (amu at alum.mit.edu

Bug#348792: libgcj6: string-to-double conversion can throw NullPointerException

2006-01-19 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
=textr2=textdiff_format=u Could you please apply that patch? Thanks! -- Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC (amu at alum.mit.edu, ucko at debian.org) Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] (NOT a valid e-mail address) for more info. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Bug#501365: bind9: depends on unavailable lsb-base version (9.2.14 vs. 9.2-14)

2008-10-06 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
Package: bind9 Version: 1:9.5.0.dfsg.P2-3 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable (uninstallable) The latest bind9 upload declares a dependency on lsb-base = 9.2.14, which does not exist. Did you perhaps mean = 9.2-14, with a hyphen in place of the second dot? -- System

Bug#492364: swi-prolog-xpce: file conflict(s?) with spi-prolog

2008-07-25 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
Package: swi-prolog-xpce Version: 5.6.58-1 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable (uninstallable) Presumably as a side effect of switching to dh_install, swi-prolog-xpce now contains at least one file already present in swi-prolog: Preparing to replace swi-prolog-xpce 5.6.57-1

Bug#492364: swi-prolog-xpce: file conflict(s?) with spi-prolog

2008-07-25 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
Aaron M. Ucko [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: swi-prolog-xpce now contains at least one file already present in swi-prolog: FTR, further investigation reveals that to be a massive understatement. -- Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC (amu at alum.mit.edu, ucko at debian.org) http://www.mit.edu/~amu/ | http

Bug#492767: conduit: unsatisfiable dependencies (one Ubuntuism, one typo)

2008-07-28 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
Package: conduit Version: 0.3.12-2 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable (uninstallable) $ aptitude -s install conduit [...] The following packages have unmet dependencies: conduit: Depends: python-gconf which is a virtual package. Depends:

Bug#493309: rubygems1.9: file conflict with libruby1.9

2008-08-01 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
Package: rubygems1.9 Version: 1.2.0-1 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable (uninstallable) Unpacking rubygems1.9 (from .../rubygems1.9_1.2.0-1_all.deb) ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/rubygems1.9_1.2.0-1_all.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite

Bug#493312: qcad: lacks dependency on split-out -data package

2008-08-01 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
Package: qcad Version: 2.0.5.0-1-3 Severity: serious Justification: Policy 7.2 Given that qcad presumably still needs its architecture-independent data, it should depend on the new qcad-data package that now contains them. -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable

Bug#494572: /etc/init.d/ski: bashism (use of function) in /bin/sh script

2008-08-10 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
Package: ski Version: 1.3.2-2.1 Severity: serious File: /etc/init.d/ski Justification: Policy 10.4 Despite specifying /bin/sh as its interpreter, /etc/init.d/ski makes use of the bashism function when defining verify_binfmt_mnt. Could you please fix it to use portable function-definition

Bug#499469: llvm-examples: binNMU-unsafe dependency on llvm-dev

2008-09-18 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
Package: llvm-examples Version: 2.2-8 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable The architecture-independent llvm-examples package is currently uninstallable in fresh amd64 environments because it depends on an identical version of the architecture-dependent llvm-dev package, but

Bug#480563: Doesn't strip binary NMU version (+b1, +bN etc.) when reporting bugs

2008-07-18 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
extra information, which the BTS can presumably at least arrange to ignore for the time being if fully handling it is too involved. -- Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC (amu at alum.mit.edu, ucko at debian.org) http://www.mit.edu/~amu/ | http://stuff.mit.edu/cgi/finger/[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Bug#491921: user-mode-linux: FTBFS on amd64 -- no more __memcpy with gcc 4.3

2008-07-22 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
Package: user-mode-linux Version: 2.6.25-1um-1 Severity: serious Tags: patch Justification: no longer builds from source user-mode-linux fails to build on amd64 with the following error: | CC arch/um/sys-x86_64/ksyms.o | arch/um/sys-x86_64/ksyms.c:16: error: '__memcpy' undeclared here

Bug#491921: user-mode-linux: FTBFS on amd64 -- no more __memcpy with gcc 4.3

2008-07-22 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
as their definition. FWIW, that leads to warnings (which I'll trust to be harmless) about memcpy already being exported. That said, I agree that there's no sense in diverging from upstream any more than strictly necessary. Will apply, and reupload later today. Thanks. Thanks! -- Aaron M. Ucko

Bug#465607: muscle: please declare Conflicts: muscle-doc

2008-02-13 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
Package: muscle Version: 3.70+fix1-1 Severity: serious Justification: Policy 6.6(4) Could muscle please declare Conflicts: muscle-doc? As it stands, it merely declares Provides: muscle-doc, which, while harmless and even informative, serves little practical purpose given that muscle-doc's only

Bug#465609: libsvn-ruby: lost (trivial) content, confusing apt/dpkg

2008-02-13 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
Package: libsvn-ruby Version: 1.4.6dfsg1-1 Severity: serious Justification: Policy 2.3 libsvn-ruby no longer contains any content whatsoever, just an empty /usr/share/doc directory; dpkg consequently classifies it as disappeared, causing apt(itude) to consider libsvn-ruby1.8 orphaned and propose

Bug#465685: python-netcdf: broken (binNMU-unsafe) dependency on python-scientific

2008-02-13 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
Package: python-netcdf Version: 2.4.11-1+b1 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable (uninstallable) python-netcdf evidently depends on ${Source-Version} of the arch-all python-scientific package; as such, binNMUs, as just occurred for the libnetcdf transition, make it

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