Bug#340761: apache2 debian/rules missing many set -e

2005-11-25 Thread Ian Jackson
Package: apache2 Version: 2.0.55-3 The rules file has many many `for' loops in it, none of which have `set -e'. This means that if any error occurs, the build doesn't notice and just blunders on. Attached is a diff to correct this. The diff was made against 2.0.54-5ubuntu2 but it should be

Bug#346056: sauce: Oldest Standards-Version of any package in Debian

2006-01-09 Thread Ian Jackson
Nathanael Nerode writes (Bug#346056: sauce: Oldest Standards-Version of any package in Debian): Perhaps you could see fit to read through the summary of changes in policy since then ( /usr/share/doc/debian-policy/upgrading-checklist.txt.gz in the debian-policy package ) and update the

Bug#341901: Processed: reassign

2005-12-07 Thread Ian Jackson
reassign 341901 tech-ctte reassign 341901 devmapper I'm afraid I don't understand why you have reassigned these bugs to tech-ctte and then back to devmapper. From the discussion in 329409 it seems clear that the TC has been asked to take up this issue. And it does seem that this is a

Bug#236243: adns: last problem hcommon.c.m4

2005-12-09 Thread Ian Jackson
Bernd Eckenfels writes (adns: last problem hcommon.c.m4): Hello Ian, me again :) Thanks for all your work :-). there is a last problem, hcommon.c.m4 is missing ENOTSOCK, which will cause a false regression failure. However since it is shipping hcommon.c, it depends on the file timestamps on

Bug#320036: I have agreed to write a patch.

2005-12-12 Thread Ian Jackson
Matthias reminds me that I promised to write a patch to fix this behaviour. This email is to record this fact in the BTS and my own email and to renew my promise to do so (since I seem to have forgotten). Regards, Ian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Bug#342455: tech-ctte: Ownership and permissions of device mapper block devices

2005-12-13 Thread Ian Jackson
Raul Miller writes (Bug#342455: tech-ctte: Ownership and permissions of device mapper block devices): I've been looking at these bugs, and I can see no good reason for the 600 permissions, nor the reason to avoid using the disk group. I basically agree, but I'm going to try to play devil's

Bug#342455: tech-ctte: Ownership and permissions of device mapper block devices

2005-12-13 Thread Ian Jackson
Guy Maor writes (Bug#342455: tech-ctte: Ownership and permissions of device mapper block devices): I agree with your technical assessment, Ian. Do you have an opinion about 660 vs 640 ? And the question of equivalence to root ? On 12/13/05, Ian Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think

Bug#342455: tech-ctte: Ownership and permissions of device mapper block devices

2005-12-14 Thread Ian Jackson
Bastian Blank writes (Re: Bug#342455: tech-ctte: Ownership and permissions of device mapper block devices): On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 03:55:01PM +, Ian Jackson wrote: [Raul Miller:] 1) change devmapper defaults -- patch rejected, no reason given Certainly I agree that the defaults

Bug#345619: debian-policy: 4.8. binary-{arch, indep} should fail with error code 2 - must

2006-01-03 Thread Ian Jackson
Kari Pahula writes (Bug#345619: debian-policy: 4.8. binary-{arch, indep} should fail with error code 2 - must): Debian policy 4.8. states: If one or both of the targets `build-arch' and `build-indep' are not provided, then invoking `debian/rules' with one of the not-provided targets as

Bug#342455: tech-ctte: Ownership and permissions of device mapper block devices

2006-01-03 Thread Ian Jackson
Bastian Blank writes (Bug#342455: tech-ctte: Ownership and permissions of device mapper block devices): 4) the two attached patches: - devmapper: export functions to set permissions - lvm2: add a config entry to overwrite the permissions for new devices I just try to get it acked

Bug#194556: acknowledged by developer (Re: new dd verbosity can be harmful)

2006-01-03 Thread Ian Jackson
Debian Bug Tracking System writes (Bug#194556 acknowledged by developer (Re: new dd verbosity can be harmful)): Ues the status=noxfer argument to turn off performance stats. This should be the default so that older programs which depend on filtering the traditional dd output are remain

Bug#331532: [PROPOSAL] change §10.4 set -e OR check return status to AND or be rewritten

2005-10-04 Thread Ian Jackson
Ben Finney writes (Bug#331532: [PROPOSAL] change §10.4 set -e OR check return status to AND or be rewritten): The final question is: Why is this necessary in policy? If this were not implemented, would any of these programming errors *not* warrant an important bug? If it's already grounds for

Bug#331532: [PROPOSAL] change §10.4 set -e OR check return status to AND or be rewritten

2005-10-12 Thread Ian Jackson
Ben Finney writes (Re: Bug#331532: [PROPOSAL ] change §10. 4 set -e OR check return status to AND or be rewritten): Not in policy, IMO. I'd like to keep that camel's nose out of the tent. It's already there and has been for years. The important thing is to have only the nose and not the

Bug#333765: xterm -e no longer works with relative paths

2005-10-13 Thread Ian Jackson
Package: xterm Version: 6.8.2.dfsg.1-7 Part of my session arrangements include running this command: xterm -e .configs/rxprofile from in my home directory (/u/ian in this case). /u/ian/.configs/rxprofile exists and is an executable shell script. This no longer works (!) In strace -Ffot xterm

Bug#333929: `Backup is running, pid is 1234'

2005-10-14 Thread Ian Jackson
Package: sbackup Version: 0.8-1 sbackup should the usual kind of progress indication if possible, or at least a `making progress' indication if not. The dialogue box saying `I've started it and here is the pid' is rather silly. (FYI: my tests have all been on Ubuntu Breezy. Adam Conrad said I

Bug#333933: Needs ability to write to actual backup media

2005-10-14 Thread Ian Jackson
Package: sbackup Version: 0.8-1 sbackup should be able to write to removeable media and this should be the default. The purpose of a backup program is, after all, to put the data somewhere separate from the machine. sbackup should look through the available hardware on the machine and make its

Bug#333942: Unclear how to invoke sbackup

2005-10-14 Thread Ian Jackson
Package: sbackup Version: 0.8-1 It's not clear how a user is supposed to invoke sbackup to make a backup. There's a `Simple Backup Configuration' option under System / Administration but nothing that looks like invoking a backup now. As it turns out you can do this from the configuration

Bug#333945: Plan backup cycle and manage storage media

2005-10-14 Thread Ian Jackson
Package: sbackup Version: 0.8-1 Severity: wishlist First of course, sbackup should gain the ability to write to removeable media at all (see my earlier bug). But, when this is done, it ought to be capable of planning its own schedule so that all the user has to do is physically label the media

Bug#333950: Perform test restores

2005-10-14 Thread Ian Jackson
Package: sbackup Version: 0.8-1 Severity: wishlist It's well known amongst sysadmins that you don't have backups unless you've _tested_ them. To ensure that the backup arrangements are working correctly, the system should periodically guide the user through a test restore, in which the original

Bug#338204: 12.3: define small for compression of documentation

2005-11-17 Thread Ian Jackson
Adam Heath writes (Bug#338204: 12.3: define small for compression of documentation): Section 12.3 says extra documentation should be compressed if it is small. However, small is not defined. It would be useful if it was; Nonsese. This should be interpreted in context. A document which is

Bug#340312: mkimage not stat every file in -f (MD5) list

2005-11-22 Thread Ian Jackson
-2.0iwj1) unstable; urgency=low + + * mkimage: Do not stat all files in MD5 file - instead, just +stat them when we need them. + + -- Ian Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue, 22 Nov 2005 16:29:09 + + jigit (1.15-2) unstable; urgency=low * Fixes for GCC4 compilation. Thanks to Andreas Jochens

Bug#402132: lvm2 racey symlink creation

2006-12-08 Thread Ian Jackson
Package: lvm2 Version: 2.02.06-2 Tags: patch When the lvm2 utilities vgchange, vgmknodes, et al, create the /dev/vg/lv symlinks, they do it like this lstat unlink symlink This means that even if the vg is and remains active throughout, there is a moment when the symlink is missing.

Bug#387684: make incompatibly breaks my makefile and provides no way to fix

2006-09-15 Thread Ian Jackson
Package: make Version: 3.81 If I do: define variable line1 line2 line3 ... endef target: $(shell $(variable)) then make 3.80 does this sh -c line1 line2 line3 ... which while not exactly ideal is at least useable. make 3.81 does this sh -c line1line2line3 ... which

Bug#387684: make incompatibly breaks my makefile and provides no way to fix

2006-09-16 Thread Ian Jackson
Manoj Srivastava writes (Re: Bug#387684: make incompatibly breaks my makefile and provides no way to fix): There is a way to fix it; just forget the $(shell ...) wrapper. No, that results in the variable value being split into several commands, each of which gets executed separately.

Bug#24357: Namespace pollution in pilot-link (bug closed in experimental and now also closed in unstable)

2006-09-18 Thread Ian Jackson
found 24357 0.12.1-3 thanks I'm afraid I disagree that this bug is now fixed. In pilot-link's /usr/bin are the following commands which are IMO namespace polluting: install-expenses install-memo install-todo install-todos install-user read-expenses read-ical read-notepad

Bug#384508: tar -l option should be restored to previous behaviour

2006-09-18 Thread Ian Jackson
I got bitten by this as well. The manpage even still describese the old behaviour. IMO tar's behaviour should be reverted and -l changed to issue a warning on stderr saying sorry we fucked this up please check you meant --one-file-system. I wonder if this is related to #377124 ? Ian. -- To

Bug#361419: Will NMU adns for new upstream version

2006-10-16 Thread Ian Jackson
Tomorrow I intend to make an upstream release of adns 1.4, containing some trivial fixes to 1.3. I think this code is very stable. I intend to immediately afterwards upload to Debian an NMU of this new upstream version, using the version number 1.4-0.1 consisting of adns 1.4 upstream combined

Bug#361419: Will NMU adns for new upstream version

2006-10-17 Thread Ian Jackson
Bernd Eckenfels writes (Re: Bug#361419: Will NMU adns for new upstream version): On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 02:41:09PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: I intend to make the upload _not_ to a delayed queue. Feel free to notify me before then if you want me not to do this. I hope that this all meets

Bug#393556: authbind: wrong name for Debian changelog

2006-10-17 Thread Ian Jackson
Steve Langasek writes (Bug#393556: authbind: wrong name for Debian changelog): severity 393556 important thanks On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 10:53:50PM +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote: The Debian changelog is named changelog.gz instead of changelog.Debian.gz. This violates policy 12.7. While

Bug#393704: interactive client dies on ill-timed SIGWINCH

2006-10-17 Thread Ian Jackson
Package: openssh-client Version: 1:4.3p2-3 I often ask my window manager to bring up `xterm -e ssh somehost'. I have the wm configured to allow me to interactively place resize the window. Sometimes, when I do this, the xterm and ssh vanish. Process accounting shows ssh dying with exit status

Bug#393556: authbind: wrong name for Debian changelog

2006-10-17 Thread Ian Jackson
severity 393556 minor thanks This is not by any stretch of the imagination anything but a minor bug. Ian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#361419: Will NMU adns for new upstream version

2006-10-17 Thread Ian Jackson
Ian Jackson writes (Re: Bug#361419: Will NMU adns for new upstream version): I think there were no unfixed issues but I will review the .diff.gz again to check. It's possible that I failed to reply to you about one of the changes. I have double-checked and for all of the changes in adns_1.1-4

Bug#349797: bug gardening

2006-10-18 Thread Ian Jackson
retitle 349797 rename libadns1-bin to adns-tools reassign 349797 adns merge 91298 349797 thanks Policy 11.3 from 2001 was something quite different :-). Modern practice seems to be documented in 8.3 (from policy 3.7.2.2). I think adns-tools or adns-utils would be the right package name.

Bug#394870: pilot-xfer -b no longer works with m100

2006-10-23 Thread Ian Jackson
Package: pilot-link Version: 0.12.1-5 Severity: important I have a Palm m100. When I attempt a direct serial hotsync, it fails. The Palm displays this message: HotSync Problem The connection between your handheld computer and the desktop was lost. Some of your data was NOT backedc up.

Bug#391246: general: Buildds should consider changing $HOME

2006-10-10 Thread Ian Jackson
On Wed, OcFt 04, 2006 at 09:32:16AM +0200, Frank Küster wrote: However, I'd like to point out that this problem is not special to TeX. Many programs create ~/.progname directories when run for the first time - and these directories contain configuration options which might cause trouble, since

Bug#390754: O: piuparts -- .deb package installation, upgrading, and removal testing tool

2006-10-10 Thread Ian Jackson
John Wright writes (Re: Bug#390754: O: piuparts -- .deb package installation, upgrading, and removal testing tool): I would be interested in co-maintaining this package. I don't think I have the time to give it the full attention it would need (e.g. filing bugs on packages that fail), but I

Bug#391240: debian-policy: Please elaborate on cleaning up files outside the build dir

2006-10-11 Thread Ian Jackson
Frank Küster writes (Bug#391240: debian-policy: Please elaborate on cleaning up files outside the build dir): writing to the home directory also includes creation of dotfiles, which some programs do when used the first time (and they keep copies of the site-wide conffiles there, which are not

Bug#390914: Missing newline in a warning message

2006-10-03 Thread Ian Jackson
Package: dpkg Version: 1.13.22 Tags: patch Severity: minor An ubuntu user reported here https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/dpkg/+bug/29729 that a message wasn't quite ideally formed. Since that report the missing parenthesis has evidently been added; however, the newline is still

Bug#390915: Correct permissions when using dpkg-source -x

2006-10-03 Thread Ian Jackson
Package: dpkg Version: 1.13.22 Tags: patch An ubuntu user reported here https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/dpkg/+bug/51468 that dpkg-source can get the permissions wrong when extracting an archive. I believe the patch below corrects the behaviour. Here is the changelog bullet point:

Bug#390916: describedepcon() l10n friendliness

2006-10-03 Thread Ian Jackson
Package: dpkg Version: 1.13.22 Tags: patch Severity: minor An ubuntu user reported here https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/dpkg/+bug/63744 that dependency descriptions are constructed in a way that makes problems for translators. I believe the patch below improves the situation and

Bug#390916: describedepcon() l10n friendliness

2006-10-04 Thread Ian Jackson
Christian Perrier writes (Re: Bug#390916: describedepcon() l10n friendliness): Quoting Ian Jackson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): An ubuntu user reported here https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/dpkg/+bug/63744 that dependency descriptions are constructed in a way that makes problems

Bug#391051: mawk crash fix on overlong re's

2006-10-04 Thread Ian Jackson
if regexp is too long for our buffer. (LP 23494.) + + -- Ian Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed, 4 Oct 2006 16:07:11 +0100 + mawk (1.3.3-11ubuntu1) dapper; urgency=low * autopkgtest/autodebtest now supported - upstream tests wired in. only in patch2: unchanged: --- mawk-1.3.3.orig/scan.c +++ mawk

Bug#377124: tar -l option should be restored to previous behaviour

2006-09-21 Thread Ian Jackson
Geert Uytterhoeven writes (Re: tar -l option should be restored to previous behaviour): 384508 and 377124 are not the same: - 384508 is about -l no longer meaning --one-file-system - 377124 is about --one-file-system breaking when combined with --listed-incremental (Amanda does pass

Bug#400767: `MgOpen Moderna'

2006-11-28 Thread Ian Jackson
Package: fontconfig Version: 2.4.1 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch This diff addes `MgOpen Moderna' to the list of MgOpen sans fonts for which we fall back to a generic sans. MgOpen seem to have two proportional sans fonts. Ian. diff --exclude='*~' --exclude='*.po' --exclude='*.pot' -ruN

Bug#382079: firefox.desktop Polish translation

2006-08-08 Thread Ian Jackson
Package: firefox Version: 1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.4-1 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch The diff below supplies Polish translations for the strings in firefox.desktop. (Originally from an Ubuntu user; Malone #45447). Regards, Ian. diff -ruN --exclude='*~' --exclude='*.rej' --exclude='*.orig'

Bug#382080: firefox should not claim dav:// URLs

2006-08-08 Thread Ian Jackson
Package: firefox Version: 1.99+2.0b1+dfsg-1 Tags: patch The patch below is this change: * Remove x-directory/webdav x-directory/webdav-prefer-directory from MimeType list in desktop file. (Malone 35928.) I'm not 100% sure that this is still correct for the 2.0 betas but I think it

Bug#382204: script race when underlying program exits quickly

2006-08-09 Thread Ian Jackson
Package: bsdutils Version: 1:2.12r-8 -anarres:d script -c true Script started, file is typescript [ hangs, uninterruptible by ^C or ^D, until child `script' process is killed from another terminal ] Script done, file is typescript -anarres:d strace -ou script -c true Script started, file is

Bug#382798: bash echo builtin fails on EINTR (I think)

2006-08-13 Thread Ian Jackson
Package: bash Version: 2.05b-26 The script below should always exit with status 4. However, sometimes one of the invocations of echo returns a nonzero status. My strace suggests that this is due to improper handling of EINTR. Ian. -davenant:d cat ~/junk/t.sh #!/bin/sh set -xe exitstatus=0

Bug#341282: Similar to #382798 ?

2006-08-13 Thread Ian Jackson
Looking through existing bug reports for something similar to my freshly reported problem #382798 (bash builtin echo fails to cope with signals arriving at the wrong moment), #341282 seems like a related problem. It may even have the same root cause. Ian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Bug#382798: Related to #382798 ?

2006-08-13 Thread Ian Jackson
Looking through existing bug reports for something similar to my freshly reported problem #382798 (bash builtin echo fails to cope with signals arriving at the wrong moment) I suspect that #332881 has the same root cause: * Note that the the (useless) use of (cat ...), twice, causes two

Bug#348375: Obsolete patch for case NS_USER_DEFINED_EVENT (mouse scroll)

2006-01-16 Thread Ian Jackson
Package: firefox Version: 1.5.dfsg-4 The Debian diff -4 seems to contain an early version of the mouse backwards/forwards button support, as well as the later version that was subsequently included in upstream. The history of the patch is in upstream bugzilla at

Bug#327251: mozilla-firefox textarea segfault fix

2006-01-16 Thread Ian Jackson
Eric Dorland writes (Re: mozilla-firefox textarea segfault fix): Was this fixed in 1.5? Any idea why bugzilla bug #307537 (the one you reported for this issue) is locked down? Yes, if I remember correctly 1.5 seems to include the fix for this. At least, it's not in our diff any more which

Bug#257060: Any news?

2006-01-17 Thread Ian Jackson
Luigi Gangitano writes (Bug#257060: Any news?): I'm still waiting for more information on this bug. If you agree I'm going to close it in 3 months. Sorry about the delay. I have checked again and my earlier removal the errant leftover files seems to have stuck, so that they didn't come back.

Bug#348375: Acknowledgement (Obsolete patch for case NS_USER_DEFINED_EVENT (mouse scroll))

2006-01-18 Thread Ian Jackson
I reviewed the .diff.gz by hand and compared it with the relevant patches in the upstream bugzilla and I think I've concluded that only two files are still affected in the Debian package. A diff to revert this old patch is attached. I will be uploading a version of firefox with this patch to

Bug#348902: run-mozilla.sh should use mktemp -t to honour TMPDIR

2006-01-19 Thread Ian Jackson
Package: firefox Version: 1.5.dfsg The patch below causes the /usr/bin/firefox script to honour TMPDIR when setting up for debugging. (This patch is part of the Ubuntu package firefox 1.5.dfsg-4ubuntu2 and is one of several that I think should be included in Debian and/or upstream. More mails

Bug#349029: du dumped core when I mv'd things under its feet

2006-01-20 Thread Ian Jackson
Package: coreutils Version: 5.2.1-2.1 -anarres:work du -sk * 2468AutomatedTesting 29588 download 48 dpkg-tests 140 firefox-10 140 firefox-11 1052firefox-4u1 du: fts_read failed: No such file or directory *** glibc detected *** double free or corruption (!prev): 0x08056f78

Bug#349029: Acknowledgement (du dumped core when I mv'd things under its feet)

2006-01-20 Thread Ian Jackson
Incidentally, I have found the corefile and it was in one of the directories that I mv'd about. I'll keep it for a bit in case it's useful. The backtrace is below, FWIW. Thanks, Ian. -anarres:work gdb /usr/bin/du Du-coredump/core GNU gdb 6.3-debian Copyright 2004 Free Software Foundation,

Bug#496548: xmodmap in xdm Xsetup, empty modifier map, broken Shift

2008-08-25 Thread Ian Jackson
Package: xserver-xorg-core Version: 2:1.4.2-3 I'm suffering a problem with xmodmap. Since at least July 1997 I have swapped control and capslock on my displays, and made certain other changes to the keymap, by using xmodmap in the xdm Xsetup script. This no longer works properly. (I do it like

Bug#496553: FTBFS if TMPDIR set

2008-08-25 Thread Ian Jackson
will be immediatley eligible for retesting. If you have any questions about this service please contact me at: Ian Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [ I have verified that this bug really exists. The problem is that it fails if TMPDIR is set: -anarres:~ cd junk/d/build/aolserver4-4.5.0

Bug#496548: xmodmap in xdm Xsetup, empty modifier map, broken Shift

2008-08-26 Thread Ian Jackson
Julien Cristau writes (Re: Bug#496548: xmodmap in xdm Xsetup, empty modifier map, broken Shift): On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 17:00:08 +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: * When xmodmap -pm is run in Xsetup, it prints an empty modifier map. That is, there are no modifiers set. 14:08 daniels

Bug#496548: xmodmap in xdm Xsetup, empty modifier map, broken Shift

2008-08-26 Thread Ian Jackson
Julien Cristau writes (Re: Bug#496548: xmodmap in xdm Xsetup, empty modifier map, broken Shift): Hrm. Why is dpkg unpacking xkb-data before removing -legacy? Looks like some Conflicts/Replaces are missing there. Because that's what an in-place replacement looks like. That's precisely

Bug#496548: xmodmap in xdm Xsetup, empty modifier map, broken Shift

2008-08-26 Thread Ian Jackson
Ian Jackson writes (Re: Bug#496548: xmodmap in xdm Xsetup, empty modifier map, broken Shift): Julien Cristau writes (Re: Bug#496548: xmodmap in xdm Xsetup, empty modifier map, broken Shift): Hrm. Why is dpkg unpacking xkb-data before removing -legacy? Looks like some Conflicts

Bug#496700: xkb-data vs. xkb-data-legacy, overwrite conflict

2008-08-26 Thread Ian Jackson
Package: xkb-data, xkb-data-legacy Version: 1.3-2, 1.0.1-4 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ dpkg -i /export/mirror/debian-ftp/pool/main/x/xkeyboard-config/xkb-data_1.3-2_all.deb dpkg: considering removing xkb-data-legacy in favour of xkb-data ... dpkg: yes, will remove xkb-data-legacy in favour of xkb-data.

Bug#496548: xmodmap in xdm Xsetup, empty modifier map, broken Shift

2008-08-27 Thread Ian Jackson
Ian Jackson writes (Re: Bug#496548: xmodmap in xdm Xsetup, empty modifier map, broken Shift): Julien Cristau writes (Re: Bug#496548: xmodmap in xdm Xsetup, empty modifier map, broken Shift): 14:08 daniels jcristau: getting an empty modmap is a symptom of running

Bug#493352: Not RC, works if you run it as root

2008-08-27 Thread Ian Jackson
severity 493352 important tags 493352 - patch thanks I have reproduced this bug. However, * It is not IMO release critical since the program works perfectly well when run as root. * The patch should not be applied. The purpose of the password prompt is to make it harder to trick a user

Bug#493352: gdebi command line still works

2008-08-27 Thread Ian Jackson
retitle 493352 gdebi-gtk cannot install packages thanks I have reproduced this problem. The symptoms are that gdebi says on screen `failed to install [package].deb'. There is no further explanation and the terminal window remains blank. (In my first run, gdebi had correctly installed anki's

Bug#437118: reassign + close ;-) (not fully sure if this is right)

2008-08-27 Thread Ian Jackson
Holger Levsen writes (Bug#437118: reassign + close ;-) (not fully sure if this is right)): I'm reassigning this to dpkg, even though I'm not sure if this is right. Apologies for that. I don't think it is, probably. This is based on popcon data. How does popcon read the dpkg database ? Does

Bug#497419: git-format-patch --in-reply-to always adds ...

2008-09-01 Thread Ian Jackson
Package: git-core Version: 1:1.4.4.4-2 The manpage git-format-patch says --in-reply-to=Message-Id So I ran this command in a git tree: git-format-patch -s --thread -n -o d --in-reply-to='[EMAIL PROTECTED]' upstream The resulting messages in the d/ directory said things like this:

Bug#500521: fminimizer nmsimplex unnecessary size calculation

2008-09-28 Thread Ian Jackson
Package: gsl Version: 1.8-2 Tags: patch Severity: wishlist The minimiser gsl_multimin_fminimizer_nmsimplex always computes the simplex size for each step. This is done using gsl_blas_dnrm2 which is quite careful. This computation involves around n^2 divisions (where n is the problem

Bug#500521: Acknowledgement (fminimizer nmsimplex unnecessary size calculation)

2008-09-29 Thread Ian Jackson
I forgot to attach the patch. diff -u orig/gsl-1.8/multimin/fminimizer.c gsl-1.8/multimin/fminimizer.c --- orig/gsl-1.8/multimin/fminimizer.c 2005-06-26 14:25:35.0 +0100 +++ gsl-1.8/multimin/fminimizer.c 2008-09-29 02:07:29.0 +0100 @@ -90,7 +90,9 @@ gsl_vector_memcpy

Bug#501069: fsh fails to start on etch because cannot import FCNTL

2008-10-03 Thread Ian Jackson
Package: fsh Version: 1.2-7 $ fsh Traceback (most recent call last): File /usr/bin/fsh, line 6, in ? import fsh File /usr/share/fsh/fsh.py, line 28, in ? import fshlib File /usr/share/fsh/fshlib.py, line 24, in ? import fshcompat File /usr/share/fsh/fshcompat.py, line 67, in ?

Bug#489901: chiark-tcl: Missing include of limits.h when build with gcc-4.3

2008-07-29 Thread Ian Jackson
tags 489901 + pending thanks Michael Bienia writes (Bug#489901: chiark-tcl: Missing include of limits.h when build with gcc-4.3): As INT_MAX is used in several files but none includes limits.h, I found it best to add the missing include of limits.h to base/chiark-tcl.h to keep the changes

Bug#490763: Not RC now

2008-07-29 Thread Ian Jackson
severity 490763 normal severity 490764 normal thanks These bugs are no longer RC as new the adns 1.4-1.1 (which should propagate shortly) provides a Provides:. Ian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#487201: MPL-license

2008-07-29 Thread Ian Jackson
Russ Allbery writes (Bug#487201: MPL-license): By pure numbers, that's not a sufficient number of packages to warrant inclusion in common-licenses according to the criteria previously discussed here. (I think it falls short by hundreds.) I don't think pure numbers is the only thing we should

Bug#492698: appears to be vulnerable to cache poisoning attack CVE-2008-1447

2008-07-29 Thread Ian Jackson
Robert Edmonds writes (Re: Bug#492698: appears to be vulnerable to cache poisoning attack CVE-2008-1447): [ CC'ing Ian. ] Ian, are you planning a fix for this? The short answer is no, not in any reasonable timescale. It's not even clear whether a fix is possible for a stub resolver, which

Bug#492623: ttf-liberation: Trademark prevents modifications

2008-07-29 Thread Ian Jackson
Julian Andres Klode writes (Bug#492623: ttf-liberation: Trademark prevents modifications): Package: ttf-liberation Version: 1.04~beta2-2 Severity: important Quoting the license: ... If you modify the files, you must - Rename the fonts to remove any reference to Liberation - Not install

Bug#25170: mpage cannot handle its own (or psnup's) output

2008-08-12 Thread Ian Jackson
Sandro Tosi writes (Re: mpage cannot handle its own (or psnup's) output): Version: 2.5.4-2 Replicating the same man -t ls example, here both seem to work fine, hence closing. Feel free to reopen if you can reproduce with a recent version of mpage; please attach the full log of shell command

Bug#25170: mpage cannot handle its own (or psnup's) output

2008-08-12 Thread Ian Jackson
Sandro Tosi writes (Re: mpage cannot handle its own (or psnup's) output): With Replicating... I mean I've take the same example you attached to the bug report, replicated locally and verified the bug reported is no more present in the software, sorry if I didn't make clearer before. Yes,

Bug#319554: kdch1=\177 is buggy and also violation of policy 9.8.

2008-08-13 Thread Ian Jackson
I can't believe this bug is still open! This is completely wrong. Amongst the bad effects are that if you say (in a normal etch xterm on a normal etch local display): TERM=xterm-color screen the key labelled - no longer works ! (I discovered this due to debugging a friend's broken -

Bug#190387: openvt ignores its own syscall errors

2008-08-13 Thread Ian Jackson
reopen 190387 found 190387 1.14.1-4 tags 190387 + patch thanks Michael Schutte writes (Re: Bug#190387: openvt ignores its own syscall errors): I cannot reproduce this old bug with the version of kbd currently in unstable. Can you confirm that it’s gone? Sorry for the delay replying. But

Bug#114849: Mail lossage

2008-08-13 Thread Ian Jackson
This just happened to me again. Sadly I'm too busy (amongst other things, fighting fires caused by lost email!) to do as I promised in January 2004 and take it to emacs-devel. In the mean time I propose that we: * Change mail-interactive to t * Change emacs to invoke the MTA with -odb -oee

Bug#495764: BASH_COMMAND not useable as intended in a trap handler

2008-08-20 Thread Ian Jackson
Package: bash Version: 3.1dfsg-8 According to the manual: BASH_COMMAND The command currently being executed or about to be executed, unless the shell is executing a command as the result of a trap, in which case it is the command executing at

Bug#495779: hg update should write-to-tmp-then-rename for working files

2008-08-20 Thread Ian Jackson
Package: mercurial Version: 0.9.1-1+etch1 When mercurial updates files in the working tree, it should write the new version to a temporary file and rename it into place (taking care to copy permissions appropriately). This would be useful: * To ensure that if the working tree is actually a

Bug#496114: dpkg --update-avail should ignore older packages

2008-08-22 Thread Ian Jackson
Package: dpkg Version: 1.14.20 Tags: patch When I designed the way dselect [U]pdate works, I assumed that `more trustworthy' repositories, ie ones which in the ftp method's [A]ccess come later, would always have better information. So when the ftp method loads a sequence of Packages files, later

Bug#499251: gcc -MMD erroneously regards missing #includes as only warnings

2008-09-17 Thread Ian Jackson
Package: cpp-4.1 Version: 4.1.1-21 mariner:~/junk cat t.c #include nonexistent.h int x; mariner:~/junk gcc-4.1 -c -MD t.c echo hi t.c:1:25: error: nonexistent.h: No such file or directory mariner:~/junk gcc-4.1 -c -MMD t.c echo hi t.c:1:25: warning: nonexistent.h: No such file or directory hi

Bug#143307: triggers-related dependtry assertion fix

2008-07-23 Thread Ian Jackson
Raphael Hertzog writes (Re: Bug#143307: triggers-related dependtry assertion fix): Can you expand on why you decided to create a msdbrw_simulate status then as opposed to using modstatdb_note_ifwrite() in the problematic cases in the trigger code ? Various other bits of the code need to know

Bug#476899: dpkg: Leaves new conffiles as file.dpkg-new if the conffile is diverted

2008-07-23 Thread Ian Jackson
Raphael Hertzog writes (Re: Bug#476899: dpkg: Leaves new conffiles as file.dpkg-new if the conffile is diverted): But the content of the conffile gets real only after configuration and any trigger recorded during unpack might have already been processed (at the end of a dpkg --unpack run

Bug#487637: config of triggers-awaited packages

2008-07-23 Thread Ian Jackson
Raphael Hertzog writes (Re: Bug#487637: config of triggers-awaited packages): (Switching from bug 143307 to 487637) ... I tried to come up with a patch, see below. The nicest solution I found was to detect packages in triggerawaited status if we were asked to configure them, and to add to the

Bug#483655: queue.length assertion failure

2008-07-23 Thread Ian Jackson
tags 483655 + patch severity 483655 minor Raphael Hertzog writes (Re: Bug#483655: queue.length assertion failure): Ping. (Yes I believe one should always upload relevant information immediately, it's a pain to have to remember to ping people later on) Yes, sorry, but I really didn't have time

Bug#491489: sauce: depends on libadns1-bin

2008-07-23 Thread Ian Jackson
Robert Edmonds writes (Bug#491489: sauce: depends on libadns1-bin): this package is preventing adns 1.4-1 from migrating to testing since it depends on libadns1-bin. it should instead depend on adns-tools. I agree that this should be changed eventually (in the other packages too) but surely

Bug#490763: Uninstallable due to rename of libadns1-bin

2008-07-23 Thread Ian Jackson
Aníbal Monsalve Salazar writes (Bug#490763: Uninstallable due to rename of libadns1-bin): package autopkgtest-xenlvm tags 490763 + patch thanks Thanks for trying to do the right thing but I'm sorry to say that I do not agree with this NMU. This mekes the package difficult to back- and

Bug#490764: adns-tools should provide compatibility

2008-07-23 Thread Ian Jackson
clone 490764 -1 reassign -1 adns retitle -1 adns-tools should provide compatibility severity 490764 minor retitle 490764 libadns1-bin has been renamed thanks As I have just said on debian-devel, I think that the release-critical bug here is that adns-tools should Provide: libadns1-bin but does

Bug#492145: Bug#490764: adns-tools should provide compatibility

2008-07-24 Thread Ian Jackson
severity 490764 serious severity 492145 serious thanks Firstly, process: I'm adjusting these severities to preserve the status quo, which is that the new adns-tools doesn't propagate and introduce what I regard as new RC bugs into testing. I hope that's OK. I would like ideally to improve both

Bug#490764: Bug#492145: Bug#490764: adns-tools should provide compatibility

2008-07-24 Thread Ian Jackson
Robert Edmonds writes (Bug#490764: Bug#492145: Bug#490764: adns-tools should provide compatibility): please NMU if necessary. i am completely tied up with (other) dns issues right now. Right, willdo, thank you. Ian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Bug#492145: Bug#490764: adns-tools should provide compatibility

2008-07-24 Thread Ian Jackson
Luk Claes writes (Bug#490764: adns-tools should provide compatibility): I don't intend to finger-point anyone, I just disagree that it's an RC bug and you're just challenging my authority... I'm terribly sorry if trying to convince you to change your mind is a `challenge' to your `authority'.

Bug#492145: Info received (Bug#490764: adns-tools should provide compatibility)

2008-07-24 Thread Ian Jackson
. + + -- Ian Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu, 24 Jul 2008 20:32:36 +0100 + adns (1.4-1) unstable; urgency=low * New maintainer; closes: #485995. diff -u adns-1.4/debian/control adns-1.4/debian/control --- adns-1.4/debian/control +++ adns-1.4/debian/control @@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ Depends: ${shlibs:Depends

Bug#359574: pleeeease, we really want to finish the /usr/doc transition started in 1999

2008-09-07 Thread Ian Jackson
Holger Levsen writes (Bug#359574: plase, we really want to finish the /usr/doc transition started in 1999): 359574 is the last blocker for 322762 which is the /usr/doc transition bug. I will fix this. I'm sure the release team will happily unblock the package, to have this transition

Bug#497821: gdebi: In pt-BR, asks for s/N, but only accepts y

2008-09-07 Thread Ian Jackson
severity 497821 normal thanks Marco Túlio Gontijo e Silva writes (Bug#497821: gdebi: In pt-BR, asks for s/N, but only accepts y): In pt_BR, it asks: Você quer instalar o pacote? [s/N], but only accepts y as yes. This message means: Do you want to install the package? I don't know what the

Bug#497670: chiark-utils: cvs-repomove should cope with seds that require a trailing newline

2008-09-07 Thread Ian Jackson
tags 497670 + pending thanks Matthew Vernon writes (Bug#497670: chiark-utils: cvs-repomove should cope with seds that require a trailing newline): As discussed on IRC, chiark-repomove doesn't work with seds that require a trailing newline (e.g. solaris sed). The fix is: I have committed

Bug#319554: NMU ncurses via testing-proposed-updates to fix #319554 ?

2008-09-07 Thread Ian Jackson
Daniel Baumann writes (Re: NMU ncurses via testing-proposed-updates to fix #319554 ?): has been uploaded; will ask for freeze exception together with a bunch of other packages mid of next week. Fantastic, thanks. Ian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

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