Bug#340563: cppunit: [m68k] FTBFS: Illegal instruction ${dir}$tst

2005-11-24 Thread Steve M. Robbins
Hello Christian, The main change between this upload and the previous one is that I enabled unit tests at build time. Chances are that the unit tests would have failed before too, or perhaps there's a toolchain regression. On Thu, Nov 24, 2005 at 09:08:25AM +0100, Christian T. Steigies wrote:

Bug#341675: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: cppunit: FTBFS on hppa]

2005-12-03 Thread Steve M. Robbins
Hello HPPA and Qt folks, Could someone help me out with BTS 341675? Suddenly the uic program from Qt fails to run on the hppa build daemon. There is no relevant source change in cppunit between revision -4 (which built on September 7) and revision -5. The build log shows that it runs into an

Bug#341675: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: cppunit: FTBFS on hppa]

2005-12-03 Thread Steve M. Robbins
On Sat, Dec 03, 2005 at 01:10:59PM -0500, Kyle McMartin wrote: On Sat, Dec 03, 2005 at 12:45:21PM -0500, Steve M. Robbins wrote: 0x4200f534 in __umoddi3 () from /lib/libgcc_s.so.2 Could you tell us what the specific illegal instruction was? You should be able to disassemble that address

Bug#308291: please prevent compiler warning about unused variable

2005-05-10 Thread Steve M. Robbins
On Mon, May 09, 2005 at 09:59:43AM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: Some of us like to use -Werror. Some of boost does not. That's a little cryptic. ;-) I assume you're saying that some boost code generates a warning. What warning? Please consider the following, non-intrusive and tested

Bug#274600: acknowledged by developer (WNPP bug closing)

2006-01-08 Thread Steve M. Robbins
For future reference: mainline GAIM 2.x is supposed to be including the gaim-vv code, so the gaim-vv package is no longer necessary. News from http://gaim-vv.sourceforge.net/ Oct 07, 2005 - Forward potr of gaim-vv 1.2.0 to gaim cvs head is working. I would like to clarify that gaim-vv

Bug#340563: Optimizer bug, presumably.

2006-01-08 Thread Steve M. Robbins
Wouter, Thanks very much for your help on this bug! On Sat, Dec 31, 2005 at 05:58:10PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: My previous attempt wasn't of much help, I presume ;-) No. :-) But you did say there that the failure is there even compiling with -O0. Is that correct? Thanks, -Steve

Bug#314988: Starting geomview ends up with InstCreate: undefined option: 7042768

2005-12-11 Thread Steve M. Robbins
On Sun, Dec 11, 2005 at 03:52:25AM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: reopen 314988 thanks geomview (1.8.1-10) unstable; urgency=low . * debian/control: Add texinfo to build-deps so that command makeinfo is available. Closes: #338773. . * debian/control: Restrict

Bug#342959: Package explicitely build-depends on g++-3.4

2005-12-11 Thread Steve M. Robbins
Howdy, On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 02:18:29AM +0100, Matthias Klose wrote: We will get rid of g++-3.3 for the etch release and remove the g++-3.3 package. On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 12:54:22AM +0100, Matthias Klose wrote: We would like to get rid of g++-3.4 for the etch release, although

Bug#341174: [pkg-boost-devel] Bug#341174: boost FTBFS on hppa

2005-12-20 Thread Steve M. Robbins
On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 12:18:00AM +0100, Domenico Andreoli wrote: On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 05:48:17PM +0800, Randolph Chung wrote: i just finished to re-check the build with this option. unfortunately it still fails. the log is at

Bug#179729: less: fails to read all data from pipe

2005-12-27 Thread Steve M. Robbins
reassign 179729 cvs merge 179729 228458 thanks On Wed, Dec 28, 2005 at 01:06:49AM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: On 2003-02-04 01:25:13 -0500, Steve M. Robbins wrote: I use cvs diff 21 | less a lot. It turns out that if the diff is large, part of the text is not displayed. I verified

Bug#341675: qt-x11-free build fails

2005-12-27 Thread Steve M. Robbins
Dear Grant, On Sun, Dec 25, 2005 at 12:27:59AM -0700, Grant Grundler wrote: Can you provide more context around the offending insn? 10 lines of asm before and after the SIGILL instruction? And possibly a register dump just before the SIGILL is issued? It would be interesting to know what %SP

Bug#321888: Processed: Re: less: fails to read all data from pipe

2005-12-27 Thread Steve M. Robbins
Here's another example of merge being super-picky: why on earth does the forwarded addr matter?? -Steve On Tue, Dec 27, 2005 at 11:18:04PM -0800, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: reassign 179729 cvs Bug#179729: less: fails to read all data from

Bug#289790: remove imlib+png2

2005-10-08 Thread Steve M. Robbins
On Sat, Oct 08, 2005 at 08:22:24PM +0200, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: Dozens of packages still depend on it though, they need to be rebuilt first. That's a good point. I'll send all maintainers an email. Please file bugs on those packages, so that the maintainers are aware of this, and

Bug#314988: Still a problem?

2005-10-27 Thread Steve M. Robbins
On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 12:24:13AM -0400, Adam C Powell IV wrote: Greetings, I'm wondering whether the last four months have provided enough time to confirm this is still a bug deserving of the grave status. Because of this bug, geomview has been removed from testing, which nearly derailed

Bug#314988: Still a problem?

2005-10-28 Thread Steve M. Robbins
Hello, On Fri, Oct 28, 2005 at 06:16:24PM +0200, Leopold Palomo Avellaneda wrote: I have updated and upgrade today, and I have installed geomview: ii geomview 1.8.1-9 interactive geometry viewing program I'm using Nvidia driver well configured and no graphics problem I have by now.

Bug#314988: Still a problem?

2005-10-28 Thread Steve M. Robbins
On Fri, Oct 28, 2005 at 12:39:07PM -0700, Ted Kisner wrote: after installing nvidia-glx-dev, I can successfully build the package and install. Build log is attached. I can run the program and use the menus, etc. Not sure what to do with the program, so I can't really test anything ;-)

Bug#323944: libgmp does not need executable stack

2005-10-13 Thread Steve M. Robbins
Hello, On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 07:44:12PM +0400, Sheplyakov Alexei wrote: Hello! A bunch of shared libraries (libcln, libgmp, libqthreads, and others) from Debian archive get marked as PT_GNU_STACK RWE, because they have assembly source files without proper .note.GNU-stack markers.

Bug#338773: geomview: FTBFS: makeinfo not found

2005-11-12 Thread Steve M. Robbins
tags 338773 pending thanks On Sat, Nov 12, 2005 at 06:04:07PM +0100, Roland Stigge wrote: Adding texinfo to Build-Depends fixes this. Done. Thanks for the note. -Steve -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#337336: ipe: Ipe can not find pdflatex

2005-11-23 Thread Steve M. Robbins
Hello, I just tested my system by drawing a box and a text label, then saving it. No error was reported. I need more information on your problem. On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 06:48:15PM -0500, David Pal wrote: When I draw a simple picture in IPE with a text label and I try to save it, IPE

Bug#340549: remove binaries of iozone3

2005-11-23 Thread Steve M. Robbins
Package: ftp.debian.org Severity: normal Hello, Could you please remove all the version 221 iozone3 packages? [So that the newer version can migrate into testing] Thanks, -Steve -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#340558: Preview 25 available

2005-11-23 Thread Steve M. Robbins
Package: ipe Severity: wishlist New version available upstream. - Forwarded message from Otfried Cheong [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2005 14:32:06 +0900 From: Otfried Cheong [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Ipe-announce] Preview 25 available To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Organization:

Bug#357445: geomview: must it have dot-files in /usr/lib/geomview?

2006-12-06 Thread Steve M. Robbins
On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 06:11:07PM +0100, Francesco Poli wrote: found 357445 1.8.1-8 thanks On Sat, 25 Mar 2006 14:14:22 -0500 Steve M. Robbins wrote: On Fri, Mar 17, 2006 at 12:40:03PM +, Julian Gilbey wrote: [...] geomview puts a number of files in /usr/lib/geomview with names

Bug#357445: dot-files in /usr/lib/geomview trigger root-kit warnings

2006-12-06 Thread Steve M. Robbins
Hello, A Debian user filed the following request: geomview puts a number of files in /usr/lib/geomview with names such as .geomview-sweep. chkrootkit flags these up as being suspicious, and indeed it is unusual to have dot-files installed by a package. Any chance of

Bug#402040: geomview: no images are displayed in the HTML version of the manual

2006-12-07 Thread Steve M. Robbins
On Thu, Dec 07, 2006 at 06:42:05PM +0100, Francesco Poli wrote: Package: geomview Version: 1.8.1-8 Severity: normal Hi! The HTML version of the TeXinfo manual fails to display figures: HTML tags are shown instead (rather than interpreted). The fact is that the tags that should be

Bug#398643: sconsign fails: AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'ninfo'

2006-11-14 Thread Steve M. Robbins
Package: scons Version: 0.96.93-1 Severity: normal Hi, I created a simple SConstruct file, ran scons, then tried using 'sconsign', which failed. [EMAIL PROTECTED] .sconsign.dblite [EMAIL PROTECTED] scons: Reading SConscript files ... scons: done reading SConscript files. scons: Building

Bug#392902: qmake-qt4 no longer escapes quotes for -Dfoo=value on gcc command line

2006-10-13 Thread Steve M. Robbins
Package: libqt4-dev Version: 4.2.0-1 Severity: grave Hello, Ipe uses qmake to build, with a config.pri file that contains the following: IPEDOCDIR = $${IPEPREFIX}/share/doc/ipe/doc Back in July, the generated Makefile resulted in -DIPEDOCDIR=\/usr/share/doc/ipe/doc\ passed to the g++

Bug#401211: swig 1.3.31 is released

2006-12-01 Thread Steve M. Robbins
Package: swig Version: 1.3.29-2.1 Severity: wishlist Hello, A new version has recently been released: 2006/11/20 SWIG-1.3.31 has been released. This fixes a Python regression in the last version. -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (990,

Bug#345925: Bug #345925: libcppunit-dev: please add a pkg-config file for cppunit

2006-01-15 Thread Steve M. Robbins
Dear CppUnit developers, Two debian users have recently requested that cppunit provide a pkg-config file. Roger Leigh provided a patch to CppUnit 1.10.2 to do just that (attached). See http://bugs.debian.org/345925 for full details. Regards, -Steve P.S. I've applied the patch to Debian's

Bug#348727: cppunit: enable non-standalone XML output

2006-01-18 Thread Steve M. Robbins
On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 06:09:08PM +0100, Sebastian Goebel wrote: (Patch is available at sourceforge site.) Specifically: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detailaid=997006group_id=11795atid=311795 -Steve -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Bug#189927: gcc-xml package

2006-01-20 Thread Steve M. Robbins
Dear LI, I notice that you reopened the bug requesting a gcc-xml package, retitled it to ITP, and provided a pointer to your package on mentors.debian.net. It doesn't appear that any upload of gccxml has yet happened. Since you put the package on mentors.debian.net, I presume that you are not

Bug#189927: gcc-xml package

2006-01-21 Thread Steve M. Robbins
Hello Li, Maciej, On Sat, Jan 21, 2006 at 12:27:34PM +0800, LI Daobing wrote: So, with your permission, I could either: (a) pull the CVS tree, migrate your debian patch file, and upload it; or (b) have you do the work and I'll sponsor an upload. Hello, cc to Maciej Dems [EMAIL

Bug#501808: mixing static and dynamic objects?

2008-10-10 Thread Steve M. Robbins
Hi, I think you're misinterpreting what the linker is telling you. In your log http://pastebin.com/m1ee58afd, line 2, we see c++ -fPIC -o libgame_library.so ... -Wl,-Bstatic -lboost_regex ... which means you are creating a shared object (libgame_library.so) using static libraries

Bug#502136: [pkg-boost-devel] Bug#498035: luxrender: FTBFS: vector.hpp:126: error: redefinition of 'struct ...

2008-10-13 Thread Steve M. Robbins
On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 10:21:40PM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: Hi Boosty people! The above problem might be fixable on my side, but it looks like this was a problem that got ACK'd by boost upstream, and fixed in 1.36. Maybe it would be possible/interesting to ask for a minimal patch for

Bug#496434: The possibility of attack with the help of symlinks in some Debian packages

2008-08-24 Thread Steve M. Robbins
severity 496434 normal thanks On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 10:05:28PM +0400, Dmitry E. Oboukhov wrote: In some packages I've discovered scripts with errors which may be used by a user for damaging important system files or user's files. Binary-package: mgt (2.31-5) file: /usr/games/mailgo

Bug#496391: The possibility of attack with the help of symlinks in some Debian packages

2008-08-24 Thread Steve M. Robbins
severity 496391 normal thanks On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 10:05:30PM +0400, Dmitry E. Oboukhov wrote: In some packages I've discovered scripts with errors which may be used by a user for damaging important system files or user's files. Binary-package: gccxml (0.9.0+cvs20080525-1) file:

Bug#496434: please fix this for lenny

2008-08-25 Thread Steve M. Robbins
Hi Thijs, On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 01:38:20PM +0200, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: Hi Steve, While the program is not run as a privileged user, can you still please ensure that this issue is fixed in lenny? You patch is very persuasive. :-) I'm preparing the upload now. Smaller-scale

Bug#492786: [pkg-boost-devel] Bug#492786: boost1.35: FTBFS on GNU/kFreeBSD

2008-07-28 Thread Steve M. Robbins
Hi Petr, Thanks for the note and the patch. I'm forwarding it on to upstream. On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 10:45:04PM +0200, Petr Salinger wrote: The FreeBSD kernel uses the same value for POLL_ERR and POLL_HUP, see http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/sys/signal.h I have to say, my

Bug#492842: aeskulap: LP bug 229681: Aeskulap images not seen

2008-07-29 Thread Steve M. Robbins
On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 10:27:21PM +0200, Juergen Salk wrote: * Charles Plessy [EMAIL PROTECTED] [080729 18:37]: I tried to use aeskulap with the following DICOM files: - http://www.barre.nom.fr/medical/samples/files/MR-MONO2-8-16x-heart.gz -

Bug#490380: [pkg-boost-devel] Bug#490380: libboost1.35-dev: Missing jamfiles of official boost package

2008-08-02 Thread Steve M. Robbins
On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 01:01:40AM +0200, Florian Goujeon wrote: Steve M. Robbins a écrit : What it requires is a motivated, jam-using person to guide the non-jam using boost maintainers. I would like to write something if it can be helpful. What could be the right location for the root

Bug#487343: fixing in boost1.35

2008-08-02 Thread Steve M. Robbins
tags 487343 + pending thanks Hi, I'm applying this patch to boost1.35 only. Boost 1.36 is nearly upon us after which boost (version 1.34) will be removed from Debian. Regards, -Steve signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#452410: Related to lack of system Jamfiles?

2008-08-02 Thread Steve M. Robbins
With Boost 1.35, the error message is slightly different: Unable to load Boost.Build: could not find build system. - /usr/share/doc/libboost1.35-doc/examples/libs/python/example/boost-build.jam attempted to load the build system by

Bug#485069: good idea

2008-08-03 Thread Steve M. Robbins
I support the idea of a generic cdbs/simple-patchsys README.source. Just wanted to point out one I found on the web [1] that is arguably superior to that posted here, since (a) it doesn't assume tarball-in-tarball, and (b) it describes use of cdbs-edit-patch (which is news to me). -Steve [1]

Bug#491225: [pkg-boost-devel] Bug#491225: When will the fix for #491225 hit unstable?

2008-08-10 Thread Steve M. Robbins
Hi Jeremy, On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 12:44:46PM +0200, Jeremy Lainé wrote: Any idea when there will be a new upload of libboost1.35-dev to unstable? At the moment bug #491225 is blocking packaging of kdevplatform and kdevelop4. I uploaded to experimental to avoid problems with stabilizing the

Bug#491225: [pkg-boost-devel] Bug#491225: When will the fix for #491225 hit unstable?

2008-08-10 Thread Steve M. Robbins
Hello Jeremy et al., On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 07:07:23PM +0200, Jeremy Lainé wrote: Hi Steve, Any idea when there will be a new upload of libboost1.35-dev to unstable? At the moment bug #491225 is blocking packaging of kdevplatform and kdevelop4. I uploaded to experimental to avoid problems

Bug#495322: [pkg-boost-devel] Bug#495322: strange error :-) please edit subject

2008-08-16 Thread Steve M. Robbins
On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 10:29:47AM +0200, Erik Thiele wrote: Package: libboost-date-time-dev Version: 1.34.1-11 cat foo.cpp EOF #include boost/date_time/posix_time/ptime.hpp void foo(boost::posix_time::ptime x) { x.date(); } Note that Boost 1.34.1 is the old version of Boost.

Bug#495322: [pkg-boost-devel] Bug#495322: Bug#495322: strange error :-) please edit subject

2008-08-19 Thread Steve M. Robbins
On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 10:36:57AM +0200, Erik Thiele wrote: Am Samstag, 16. August 2008 16:08:15 schrieb Steve M. Robbins: On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 10:29:47AM +0200, Erik Thiele wrote: Note that Boost 1.34.1 is the old version of Boost. Version 1.35 is packaged for Debian, and Boost 1.36

Bug#499362: fails to purge

2008-09-18 Thread Steve M. Robbins
Package: javascript-common Version: 4 Severity: serious I had previously installed, then removed javascript-common. Now I tried to purge it: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --purge javascript-common (Reading database ... 162449 files and directories currently installed.) Removing javascript-common ...

Bug#499632: New upstream version

2008-09-20 Thread Steve M. Robbins
Package: gmp Severity: wishlist Version 4.2.4 of the GNU Multiple Precision Arithmetic Library (GMP) is now available at: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gmp/gmp-4.2.4.tar.bz2 ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gmp/gmp-4.2.4.tar.gz These files can also be found on a GNU mirror near you. The web site for GMP is

Bug#495179: [pkg-boost-devel] Bug#495179: Experimental

2008-09-22 Thread Steve M. Robbins
On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 12:11:46PM +0200, Samuel Tardieu wrote: Couldn't you upload the new libraries (1.36) in experimental for the time being? (while Lenny is frozen) Yes, that is possible. I have done some work on 1.36, but not completed it. It hasn't been a priority for me. I'll see if I

Bug#395423: uploaded to delayed/1

2008-07-22 Thread Steve M. Robbins
-0500 +++ oss-compat-0.0.4/debian/changelog 2008-07-22 02:43:41.0 -0500 @@ -1,3 +1,11 @@ +oss-compat (0.0.4+nmu1) unstable; urgency=low + + * Non-maintainer upload. + + * debian/dirs: add etc/modprobe.d. (Closes: #395423) + + -- Steve M. Robbins [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue, 22 Jul 2008 02

Bug#474848: patch

2008-07-22 Thread Steve M. Robbins
@@ -1,3 +1,14 @@ +showimg (0.9.5-1.3) unstable; urgency=low + + * Non-maintainer upload. +- Full patch attached to #474848. + + * Add required includes to sqlparser.cpp. (Closes: #474848). + + * debian/control: Change build-dep libkipi-dev to libkipi0-dev. + + -- Steve M. Robbins [EMAIL

Bug#498556: fails to clean up on purge; renders apache2 unusable

2008-09-10 Thread Steve M. Robbins
Package: citadel-webcit Version: 7.37-dfsg-3 Severity: important Hi, After installing then purging webcit, I find a symlink left over: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -l /etc/apache2/conf.d/webcit.conf lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 2008-09-07 11:08 /etc/apache2/conf.d/webcit.conf - /etc/citadel/webcit.conf

Bug#465187: FTBFS using GCC 4.3: missing #includes

2008-02-10 Thread Steve M. Robbins
Package: twinkle Severity: normal Tags: patch Hi, Martin Michlmayr tried to build twinkle with GCC 4.3 and failed. The first errors were caused by boost, so he filed the bug there (#454815). While investigatng that bug, I have been using twinkle as a test case. After fixing the bugs in boost

Bug#367041: Building Boost with STLPort

2008-02-16 Thread Steve M. Robbins
Hi Dirk, I'm triaging the Boost bugs. Is this still an issue for you? We stopped building Boost using STLPort 5 years ago. If you still need an answer, I can dig through whatever notes I might have here and try some experiments. But I'd prefer to just close this. Thanks, -Steve

Bug#466456: wnpp-alert: false positives

2008-02-18 Thread Steve M. Robbins
Package: devscripts Version: 2.10.16 Severity: normal File: /usr/bin/wnpp-alert The wnpp-alert script continually reports false positives; e.g. orphaned packages that are NOT installed on my system. For example: $wnpp-alert RFA 419334 cdtool -- text-based audio CD player and CD-ROM control

Bug#466456: wnpp-alert: false positives

2008-02-18 Thread Steve M. Robbins
On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 10:12:34PM +, Adam D. Barratt wrote: Hi, On Mon, 2008-02-18 at 15:59 -0600, Steve M. Robbins wrote: The wnpp-alert script continually reports false positives; e.g. orphaned packages that are NOT installed on my system. [...] O 320075 falconseye -- A port

Bug#466481: RFA: dirdiff -- Display and merge changes between two directory trees.

2008-02-18 Thread Steve M. Robbins
Package: wnpp Severity: normal The package is very stable: last upstream release was 2 years ago. But there are a couple of bugs that could be addressed by someone with interest and proficiency in tcl. I lack both, so I hereby request an adopter for the dirdiff package. The package description

Bug#153404: closed by Vanessa Gutierrez [EMAIL PROTECTED] (reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED]) (closing bug)

2008-01-12 Thread Steve M. Robbins
reopen 153404 thanks Hi, I don't fully understand your response. On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 03:18:04PM +, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: Subject: closing bug From: Vanessa Gutierrez [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2008 10:41:32

Bug#460498: Doc-base needs to augment Menu Policy (e.g. missing Debian section)

2008-01-13 Thread Steve M. Robbins
Package: doc-base Version: 0.8.8 Severity: normal Hi, In doc-base.html, section 2.3.2.1, we read: Section Section where the document belongs; this should follow the sections outlined in chapter 3.5 of Debian Menu Policy, which can be found in the /usr/share/doc/menu/html

Bug#459511: Consider adding Perl License to common-licenses

2008-01-13 Thread Steve M. Robbins
On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 10:28:27AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: Steve M. Robbins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 11:18:24PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: I don't think it makes sense to include in common-licenses something that's just a reference to other common licenses

Bug#460726: [pkg-boost-devel] Bug#460726: libboost-dev: trying to overwrite so file

2008-01-15 Thread Steve M. Robbins
] Accepted 1.34.1-2 in unstable (low) (Steve M. Robbins) Yes. However, that upload contained a package named libboost-date-time1.34.1 not libboost-date-time1.34.1-2 c.f. http://packages.qa.debian.org/b/boost/news/20070816T064711Z.html The mystery to me is: where did you get the packages

Bug#450636: incompatible licence

2008-01-20 Thread Steve M. Robbins
tags 450636 + moreinfo thanks On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 06:18:15PM +, Jonathan Riddell wrote: The new version of GMP is licenced under GNU LGPL 3. This is incompatible with a number of the packages which use this library, notably those using Qt. I'd like to obtain more information on why

Bug#464198: fails to start properly

2008-02-05 Thread Steve M. Robbins
Package: xemacs21 Version: 21.4.21-2 Severity: important Starting xemacs results in three odd things. 1.The following diagnostic is shown on the console: WARNING: Couldn't find obvious defaults for: data-directory lisp-directory Perhaps some directories don't exist, or the XEmacs executable,

Bug#460498: Doc-base needs to augment Menu Policy (e.g. missing Debian section)

2008-02-06 Thread Steve M. Robbins
Hi, Since #460498 is merged with #109431, I'm following up to the latter which contains the main discussion. On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 11:30:30PM +0100, Robert Luberda wrote: Yes, I'm aware of this issue. The doc-base hierarchy doesn't really suit documentation needs. Please see new hierarchy

Bug#459511: Consider adding Perl License to common-licenses

2008-01-06 Thread Steve M. Robbins
Package: base-files Version: 4.0.2 Severity: wishlist Hi, CPAN ships an enormous number of perl modules, many of which have a license similar to the following: This package is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. It would be

Bug#459492: libgmp3-dev is missing any sort of useful manpage

2008-01-06 Thread Steve M. Robbins
severity 459492 wishlist thanks Hi Jacob, On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 10:43:34PM +0100, Jacob Appelbaum wrote: It would be quite useful if this package or its corresponding 'libgmp3-doc' package included even a single simple man page. That's an interesting and not-unreasonable suggestion. What

Bug#459511: Consider adding Perl License to common-licenses

2008-01-08 Thread Steve M. Robbins
wrote: On Sun, 6 Jan 2008, Steve M. Robbins wrote: Package: base-files Version: 4.0.2 Severity: wishlist Hi, CPAN ships an enormous number of perl modules, many of which have a license similar to the following: This package is free software; you can redistribute

Bug#459511: Consider adding Perl License to common-licenses

2008-01-08 Thread Steve M. Robbins
On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 11:18:24PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: Steve M. Robbins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Debian-Policy: I suggested that the Perl license be added to common-licenses. Santiago Vila, the base-files maintainer, pointed out that the debian-policy list members make

Bug#441533: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Bug#441533: GCC 4.3 related: missing #includes]]

2007-12-12 Thread Steve M. Robbins
Another response from gmp-bugs list. - Forwarded message from Marc Glisse [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2007 08:03:03 +0100 (CET) From: Marc Glisse [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Steve M. Robbins [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [EMAIL

Bug#436267: linux-image-2.6.22-1-686: IEEE1394 modules unbuilt in packaged kernel

2007-12-12 Thread Steve M. Robbins
On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 05:32:36PM +0100, maximilian attems wrote: hello, On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 05:20:26PM +0100, Laurent Bonnaud wrote: another application stopped working after this kernel change. It is coriander. I do not know if all applications must be fixed or if a fix in

Bug#436267: linux-image-2.6.22-1-686: IEEE1394 modules unbuilt in packaged kernel

2007-12-13 Thread Steve M. Robbins
On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 10:27:40AM +0100, maximilian attems wrote: On Wed, Dec 12, 2007 at 11:17:28PM -0600, Steve M. Robbins wrote: As noted by Guus Sliepen, switching from a functioning driver to an experimental driver with no library support is not going to cause the latter

Bug#450960: ipe: Save/Open dialogs don't remember last directory

2007-12-28 Thread Steve M. Robbins
Hi, Ipe folks: I'm cc'ing you on this response to a debian user's bug report in order to float a suggestion for UI improvement. On Mon, Nov 12, 2007 at 06:58:19PM +0100, Siegfried-Angel wrote: Package: ipe Severity: wishlist User: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Usertags: origin-ubuntu gutsy The

Bug#445396: patch for 445396

2007-12-28 Thread Steve M. Robbins
On Wed, Dec 19, 2007 at 11:41:44PM +0100, Piotr O??arowski wrote: tags 445396 + patch thanks Hi Steve, I've prepared a patch for 445396 with some more changes as we (Debian Python Modules Team) seems to be a co-maintainer for your package :-) (dunno why you didn't inject it in the SVN)

Bug#458133: Details, please

2007-12-31 Thread Steve M. Robbins
Hi, I don't have any reason to doubt what you say about qt's SIGBUS on hppa. But where is this documented? Without an documented evidence trail, we can't collaborate on solving this; instead, each person using qmake will run into this independently and waste time re-doing the legwork that you

Bug#458133: Details, please

2007-12-31 Thread Steve M. Robbins
On Mon, Dec 31, 2007 at 05:05:38PM +0100, Sune Vuorela wrote: On Monday 31 December 2007, Steve M. Robbins wrote: Hi, I don't have any reason to doubt what you say about qt's SIGBUS on hppa. But where is this documented? Without an documented evidence trail, we can't collaborate

Bug#450789: version 2.3 released

2007-11-10 Thread Steve M. Robbins
Package: jabref Version: 2.3~beta3-1 Severity: wishlist Hi, Just a note to say that v2.3 was just released. -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (990, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.22riemann (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale:

Bug#455247: Ipe fails to display certain latex characters

2007-12-09 Thread Steve M. Robbins
Package: ipe Version: 6.0pre30-1 Severity: normal Tags: patch Some characters in latext text fail to appear on-screen, even though they are exported correctly to PDF or EPS. For example, $v' = p' - p$ appears on screen as v = p p. This is a known upstream issue. Patch available in

Bug#454605: [pkg-boost-devel] Bug#454605: Boost gcc 4.1 (was Bug#454605: build against new icu 3.8 packages)

2007-12-09 Thread Steve M. Robbins
On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 05:55:29PM +0100, Domenico Andreoli wrote: Hi, rebuilding Boost as-is would require a new Boost transition. Could we continue to build it with gcc 4.1? At least until 1.35.0 is out, that could be a few months away. On the other hand, gcc default is version 4.2

Bug#441533: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Bug#441533: GCC 4.3 related: missing #includes]

2007-12-10 Thread Steve M. Robbins
Tim: thanks, that makes sense. On Mon, Dec 10, 2007 at 07:56:21PM +0100, Tim Van Holder wrote: Steve M. Robbins wrote: Hi, A Debian user has reported a missing #include in gmp.h. -Steve - Forwarded message from Martin Michlmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [snip] In file

Bug#272125: status of pdftoipe Debian package

2005-03-30 Thread Steve M. Robbins
On Sat, Mar 19, 2005 at 07:50:57AM +0100, Tommaso Moroni wrote: Hi! I'm tidying up the wnpp bugs on the Debian BTS by looking for inactive ITPs. I saw that some time ago you filed an ITP for pdftoipe, so I'd like to know if you still intend to package it. Thanks; I had forgotten about this.

Bug#189839: libboost-python-dev: package pyste along

2005-03-30 Thread Steve M. Robbins
On Fri, Mar 25, 2005 at 01:55:09PM +, Stephen Kennedy wrote: For which reason isn't [pyste] included and will it be included future packages ? The only reason that no packages exist is that pyste depends on other bits of software not yet in Debian. One such missing package is

Bug#302907: Need more quoting of autoconf macro files.

2005-04-03 Thread Steve M. Robbins
Package: libstroke0-dev Version: 0.5.1-4 Severity: normal Tags: patch Howdy, Three macros in the .m4 files are underquoted, and modern aclocal is complaining about it: /usr/share/aclocal/libstroke.m4:29: warning: underquoted definition of smr_ARG_WITHLIB /usr/share/aclocal/libstroke.m4:77:

Bug#302989: optimizer breaks function inlining

2005-04-03 Thread Steve M. Robbins
Package: g++-4.0 Version: 4.0-0pre5 Severity: normal Hi, The following test code (atof.cc) elicits no warning when compiled with g++-4.0 -c -Wall atof.cc but with optimization GCC complains about the standard library function atof(): [EMAIL PROTECTED] -c -Wall -O atof.cc atof.cc: In

Bug#302606: ipe: FTBFS (amd64/gcc-4.0): 'class IpeletHelper' has virtual functions but non-virtual destructor

2005-04-03 Thread Steve M. Robbins
Hi Andreas, On Fri, Apr 01, 2005 at 09:32:33PM +0200, Andreas Jochens wrote: When building 'ipe' on amd64/unstable with gcc-4.0, I get the following error: g++ -c -pipe -Wall -W -Werror -O2 -D_REENTRANT -fPIC -DIPE_MAKEDLL -I/usr/share/qt3/mkspecs/default -I. -I../include -o

Bug#286651: (no subject)

2005-04-03 Thread Steve M. Robbins
tags 286651 unreproducible thanks Sebastian, I haven't been able to reproduce this problem. Does it happen always? often? rarely? Can you experiment and give me a precise recipe for reproducing the problem? Thanks, -Steve -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Bug#297657: kseg: Locus drawn incorrectly

2005-04-03 Thread Steve M. Robbins
forwarded 297657 [EMAIL PROTECTED] thanks Ilya: see http://bugs.debian.org/297657 for the original bug report. On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 11:43:37PM -0500, Igor Khavkine wrote: See attached .seg file and .png screenshot illustrating the bug. The red point is the control point, the blue point is

Bug#279201: kseg: frequently crashes entire system

2005-04-03 Thread Steve M. Robbins
tags 279201 + unreproducible thanks On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 08:40:06AM -0500, Steve M. Robbins wrote: On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 10:50:35AM +0100, Sebastian Reichelt wrote: I suspect you are right. Does it continue to happen? If so, can you reproduce it reliably -- maybe you can send

Bug#215733: Any more info?

2005-04-03 Thread Steve M. Robbins
On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 01:32:21PM +0100, Andreas Metzler wrote: On 2004-03-18 Steve M. Robbins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I appreciate your effors in regards to the bug you reported on imlib11 (#215733). I'd like to understand what is different after rebuilding imlib. [...] I can

Bug#272094: geomview: no external modules present

2005-04-03 Thread Steve M. Robbins
On Fri, Sep 17, 2004 at 03:24:13PM +0200, Tobias Kramer wrote: Oh man! I can't believe I left this so long without a reply. My apologies. Geomview starts up normally. However the column under External Modules remains empty. In the debian/stable version, at least two, namely Animator and

Bug#303664: undeclared conflict with package twiki

2005-04-07 Thread Steve M. Robbins
Package: libtext-diff-perl Version: 0.35-2 Severity: normal Selecting previously deselected package libtext-diff-perl. Unpacking libtext-diff-perl (from .../libtext-diff-perl_0.35-2_all.deb) ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libtext-diff-perl_0.35-2_all.deb (--unpack): trying

Bug#302989: optimizer breaks function inlining

2005-04-08 Thread Steve M. Robbins
On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 11:52:15PM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote: Steve M. Robbins writes: Package: g++-4.0 Version: 4.0-0pre5 Severity: normal Hi, The following test code (atof.cc) elicits no warning when compiled with g++-4.0 -c -Wall atof.cc

Bug#303918: Patch to support IT8212 on-board RAID controller

2005-04-09 Thread Steve M. Robbins
Package: kernel-image-2.6.10-i386 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch Dear Debian Kernel Maintainers, Alan Cox has a patch against 2.6.10 that supports the IT 8212 RAID Controller, which is found on some motherboards. This patch (http://lkml.org/lkml/2004/12/28/79) applied with no problem against

Bug#303918: Patch to support IT8212 on-board RAID controller

2005-04-20 Thread Steve M. Robbins
On Sun, Apr 10, 2005 at 03:28:19PM +0200, maximilian attems wrote: On Sat, 09 Apr 2005, Steve M. Robbins wrote: Dear Debian Kernel Maintainers, Alan Cox has a patch against 2.6.10 that supports the IT 8212 RAID Controller, which is found on some motherboards. just checked it's

Bug#297425: I'll adopt iozone3

2005-05-06 Thread Steve M. Robbins
retitle 297425 ITA: iozone3 -- Filesystem and Disk Benchmarking Tool thanks I'm willing to maintain this package. What is the policy during freeze: shall I upload a version with me as maintainer or hold off until release? -Steve -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Bug#289789: RFA: imlib -- Imlib is an imaging library for X and X11

2005-01-10 Thread Steve M. Robbins
Package: wnpp Severity: normal I request an adopter for the imlib package. Ideally the same person(s) would also adopt imlib+png2. The adopter must have a strong constitution: This code is basically abandoned upstream, nearly incomprehensible, and fairly buggy. The package description is:

Bug#297026: libcppunit-1.10-0: bumped soname without bumping package name

2005-02-26 Thread Steve M. Robbins
Dear FTP-masters, I screwed up the recent upload of cppunit: I neglected to check that the SOVERSION remained the same from cppunit 1.10.0 to 1.10.2. Unfortunately, it isn't. I will upload a cppunit 1.10.2-2 that builds a new library package libcppunit-1.10-2. Can you remove the following

Bug#297026: new version awaits ftp approval

2005-03-05 Thread Steve M. Robbins
tags 297026 + pending thanks I uploaded a new version with the correct package name on 2005-02-27. It is currently awaiting FTP-master approval. -Steve -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#436261: Applying Changes dialog forgets Close this dialog ... checkbox

2007-08-06 Thread Steve M. Robbins
Package: synaptic Version: 0.60+b1 Severity: normal Hi, The Applying Changes dialog that comes up with terminal output has a checkbox at the bottom that reads Close this dialog after the changes have been successfully applied. Synaptic used to remember that I checked this box, but now it

Bug#429533: [pkg-boost-devel] new proposal: boost-config

2007-08-06 Thread Steve M. Robbins
On Sat, Aug 04, 2007 at 01:59:23AM +0200, Domenico Andreoli wrote: Hi, Suppose two systems, a Fedora based on gcc 4.1 and a Debian based on gcc 4.2, both sporting Boost 1.35.0 built with --layout=system, for simplicity. Now Joe User writes his app on the Fedora system and links

Bug#436261: Applying Changes dialog forgets Close this dialog ... checkbox

2007-08-11 Thread Steve M. Robbins
On Mon, Aug 06, 2007 at 11:41:02AM -0500, Steve M. Robbins wrote: The Applying Changes dialog that comes up with terminal output has a checkbox at the bottom that reads Close this dialog after the changes have been successfully applied. Synaptic used to remember that I checked this box

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