Bug#704280: Fails to import photos from Galaxy Nexus

2013-03-30 Thread Daniel Burrows
Package: gphoto2 Version: 2.4.14-1 Severity: normal Tags: upstream shotwell, importing pictures from a Galaxy Nexus via gphoto2, is super slow and fails to import some pictures properly with messages like this: (tracker-miner-fs:4042): Tracker-WARNING **: Got extraction DBus error on

Bug#631676: Incompatible with libgtest-dev = 1.6.0; fixed in new upstream

2011-06-25 Thread Daniel Burrows
Package: google-mock Version: 1.5.0-2 Severity: serious Tags: unstable google-mock version 1.5 is incompatible with libgtest-dev version 1.6 (currently in Debian): attempting to compile the attached program (which does nothing but include mock.h) results in screenfuls of errors along the lines

Bug#622715: aptitude does not give any idea which package is responsible for a library removal

2011-05-14 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 11:40:22AM +0530, shirish शिरीष shirisha...@gmail.com was heard to say: *** Please type your report below this line *** I have seen this many a time and more so now when I am trying to upgrade from stable to testing. What happens is many a time there is a library which

Bug#622719: aptitude forgets automatically installed state on package upgrade selection

2011-05-14 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 08:18:49AM +0100, Gabor Nagy linu...@freemail.hu was heard to say: When in the list of upgradable packages I select a package or a package group for upgrade, aptitude forgets that the package (or all automatically installed packages in the group) was automatically

Bug#623609: aptitude: Aptitude crashes with SIGSEGV on start

2011-05-14 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 02:22:11PM -0500, Nik Johnson nikjohnso...@gmail.com was heard to say: After installing lbzip2 aptitude crashed with SIGSEGV when returning to the menu. SIGSEGV's at start now. GDB reports it at: pkgDepCache::Update(OpProgress*) () from

Bug#622719: aptitude forgets automatically installed state on package upgrade selection

2011-05-14 Thread Daniel Burrows
This changed in revision 2085.1.1 of apt. rantFer crying out loud, if I had the time I'd just ditch their handling of the auto flag and do it myself/rant. What's especially frustrating is that they tried to accommodate aptitude, but they didn't understand what they were doing. Guess it's

Bug#588089: Workaround

2011-04-05 Thread Daniel Burrows
So, there are two bugs here: (1) aptitude crashes if you input a ?term pattern and apt-xapian-index isn't installed. (2) aptitude treats the string ~ as ?term(~), even though all other bare strings are treated as ?name patterns. The first one is a little subtle to fix,

Bug#620556: fo output is incorrect for segmented lists with more than one segtitle

2011-04-02 Thread Daniel Burrows
Package: docbook-xsl Version: 1.75.2+dfsg-5 Severity: normal Tags: patch Docbook segmented lists are lists in which each element has one or more segments. For instance, a synopsis of commands might look like this: Name: ls Usage: ls [options] PATH ... Description: List directory contents or

Bug#612034: vulnerability: rewrite arbitrary user file

2011-03-29 Thread Daniel Burrows
The immediate problem should be fixed with 4a021fb5d4963d4e0756fcc182223b05939062d6. Unfortunately, I'm not sure that I can cut a security release before the weekend (it'll take some time and I'm still decobwebbing my dev box). Anyone who wants to cut a security NMU that cherry-picks the

Bug#612034: vulnerability: rewrite arbitrary user file

2011-03-29 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Fri, Feb 04, 2011 at 04:53:54PM -0800, Kees Cook k...@debian.org was heard to say: Package: aptitude Version: 0.6.3-3.2ubuntu1 Severity: grave Tags: security Justification: user security hole User: ubuntu-de...@lists.ubuntu.com Usertags: origin-ubuntu natty This bug report was also

Bug#588691: aptitude: Aptitude has shortened output in recent versions

2010-07-15 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 10:56:34AM +0200, Nico Haase deb...@nicohaase.de was heard to say: In Version 0.6.1.5-3 (which was the latest I ran from unstable before 0.6.3-2), all of the progress aptitude did was shown. Now, this output is shown for little time and disappears. I will provide

Bug#407524: aptitude: Unmanaged exception while proceeding for install or upgrade

2010-07-10 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 12:56:06AM +0200, Daniele Giglio gigli...@gmail.com was heard to say: When proceeding in the install/upgrade procedure (press the 'G' key) aptitude crashes whit the following message: Uncaught exception: ui.cc:1389: void auto_fix_broken(): Assertion

Bug#531315: aptitude seems to use hidden processes, rendering HIDS systems like unhide nearly useless

2010-07-10 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Thu, Jul 01, 2010 at 12:07:41AM +0200, Christoph Anton Mitterer christoph.anton.mitte...@physik.uni-muenchen.de was heard to say: Years later ^^ (forgot that issue sorry). Me too. I'll reassign this to unhide -- I think it's agreed that it belongs over there and not in aptitude? Daniel

Bug#588608: aptitude (priority important) depends on libboost-iostreams (priority optional)

2010-07-10 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 05:06:54PM +0930, Ron r...@debian.org was heard to say: Serious as per policy 2.5 Guess we'd better increase the priority of iostreams, then. Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Bug#587339: Add -2 option to copy usernames and/or passwords to the clipboard twice.

2010-06-28 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 07:29:50PM -0400, Benj. Mako Hill m...@atdot.cc was heard to say: quote who=Daniel Burrows date=Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 08:52:16AM -0700 The Chrome browser appears to read the X clipboard twice when you paste a value, throwing away the first value it read. This makes

Bug#587339: Add -2 option to copy usernames and/or passwords to the clipboard twice.

2010-06-27 Thread Daniel Burrows
Package: pwsafe Version: 0.2.0-3.0~dburrows Severity: wishlist The Chrome browser appears to read the X clipboard twice when you paste a value, throwing away the first value it read. This makes it difficult to use pwsafe with it. Obviously a fix in the browser is ideal, but it would be nice

Bug#587087: aptitude: Internal error: found 2 (choice - promotion) mappings for a single choice.

2010-06-27 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 11:35:15PM -0700, Josh Triplett j...@joshtriplett.org was heard to say: I ran aptitude, and saw a handful of packages to upgrade, including glibc packages. I hit + on libc-bin, and several copies of the message Internal error: found 2 (choice - promotion) mappings for

Bug#586622: E: Opening configuration file /usr/share/aptitude/aptitude-defaults.pt_BR

2010-06-21 Thread Daniel Burrows
Version: 0.6.3-2 On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 12:35:37AM -0300, Nelson A. de Oliveira nao...@debian.org was heard to say: With the last version of aptitude and using pt_BR.UTF-8 as my locale, I see this for everything that I do with aptitude: # aptitude update E: Abrindo arquivo de configuração

Bug#576635: Acknowledgement (Unable to access an encrypted root partition after a failed resume)

2010-06-20 Thread Daniel Burrows
I finally got around to looking at the image I took. The encryption seems to be perfectly fine: there's a LUKS header in the block device, and I can open it up using cryptsetup. The trouble seems to be that it's not recognized as a physical LVM volume. Comparing it to a working physical

Bug#586511: Bug#586508: Error on startup: missing /usr/share/aptitude/aptitude-defaults.?? files

2010-06-20 Thread Daniel Burrows
It looks like the problem is that I switched to using separated build directories in the Debian packaging (so that parallel builds work), but some of the Makefiles pick up their data relative to . instead of $(srcdir). Easy to fix. Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#581706: boost/lambda/construct.hpp is missing a #include of boost/type_traits.hpp

2010-05-14 Thread Daniel Burrows
Package: libboost1.42-dev Version: 1.42.0-3 Severity: normal This file doesn't compile with g++ -c: --- cut here --- #include boost/lambda/construct.hpp --- cut here --- I get these errors: /usr/include/boost/lambda/construct.hpp: In static member function ‘static void

Bug#578930: aptitude: Aptitude looks awful if LANG=en_US.UTF-8

2010-05-05 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 01:55:21PM -0400, Nathanael Nerode nero...@gcc.gnu.org was heard to say: Aptitude appears to have some hardcoded dependencies on the locale. Given this, it really needs to force the locale before starting. I have to start it up with LANG=C aptitude in order to keep

Bug#580085: aptitude: FTBFS on s390 (test failures)

2010-05-04 Thread Daniel Burrows
I looked into this a bit today and I don't see how it can be happening. The code in question is basically doing this, if you rip out some STL and de-factor it: int where = idx; try { if(isspace(s[idx])) ++idx; else throw ParseException(); } catch(ParseException )

Bug#579756: In the resolver command-line help, warn the user that installing and upgrading will toast their resolver session.

2010-04-30 Thread Daniel Burrows
Package: aptitude Version: 0.6.2-1 Severity: minor For technical reasons, installing or removing packages while solving dependencies will reset the resolver, returning to its first solution and discarding the user's carefully chosen rejects and approvals. aptitude offers the ability to do this

Bug#579384: Acknowledgement (How to trick my Debian in thinking that a package is not installed)

2010-04-30 Thread Daniel Burrows
So, it turns out this is surprisingly tricky. The problem is that the aptitude initialization process runs a mark-and-sweep before the whole package system is ready. That seems very dicey to me, but the comments seem to indicate that it's necessary to force apt to behave properly with auto

Bug#574956: same problem on another machine

2010-04-29 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 11:34:49PM -0400, Celejar cele...@gmail.com was heard to say: FWIW, I just installed the package on another Sid machine, and the problem appears there, too. OK, I looked through the logs for this bug, and it sounds like an apt problem (since apt-get does the same

Bug#579603: aptitude: ?archive(now) matches all installed or removed (not purged) packages

2010-04-28 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 12:49:03AM +0100, Stuart Prescott stuart+deb...@nanonanonano.net was heard to say: aptitude search '?archive(now)' matches all packages that are in installed or removed (not purged) states. Naturally, aptitude search '?archive(foobar)' matches 0 packages and

Bug#525508: closed by Eckhart Wörner ewoer...@kde.org ()

2010-04-28 Thread Daniel Burrows
Sorry, I lost a few emails four weeks ago. Anyway, I'm assuming you wanted me to check if this still happens? I don't see it in konsole any more. I do actually see the bug with my test program in gnome-terminal...go figure. Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#579384: How to trick my Debian in thinking that a package is not installed

2010-04-27 Thread Daniel Burrows
Package: aptitude Version: 0.6.2.1-2 aptitude's resolver will *still* upgrade held packages, due to an interaction between the dependency solver and unused package removal. Unused packages are removed before dependencies get solved, and sometimes the dependency solver has to put a package back

Bug#579073: add an option that tells aptitude to never _clear_ the A (automatically installed) flag

2010-04-27 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 02:53:06AM +0200, Christoph Anton Mitterer cales...@scientia.net was heard to say: It would be really nice to have a config option which tells aptitude to never _clear_ the A flag of packages. I mean even if there are no packages which depend/recommend/suggest/etc. the

Bug#579071: aptitude: Recommends-Important and Suggests-Important do not work

2010-04-27 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 02:45:52AM +0200, Christoph Anton Mitterer cales...@scientia.net was heard to say: It seems that Apt::AutoRemove::Recommends-Important and Apt::AutoRemove::Suggests-Important do not work. I've observed many many different cases, where aptitude _clears_ the A flag

Bug#579337: Please expand the documentation of custom Deciders.

2010-04-26 Thread Daniel Burrows
Package: scons Version: 1.2.0.d20100117-1 Severity: wishlist Tags: upstream The documentation of Custom deciders gives as an example a situation where you want to check only part of a file (e.g., to ignore a date stamp). Unfortunately, *how* to do this is not documented anywhere. The example

Bug#578930: aptitude: Aptitude looks awful if LANG=en_US.UTF-8

2010-04-23 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 01:55:21PM -0400, Nathanael Nerode nero...@gcc.gnu.org was heard to say: Aptitude appears to have some hardcoded dependencies on the locale. Given this, it really needs to force the locale before starting. I have to start it up with LANG=C aptitude in order to keep

Bug#576278: Not as silly as it looks

2010-04-21 Thread Daniel Burrows
moo should never crash; it just prints a bunch of stuff and exits. It really shouldn't crash sporadically. And in fact it doesn't. Based on core dumps, the crash is clearly happening due to something in log4cxx. Here thread 2 is the one that actually crashed. Thread 2 (Thread 13246): #0

Bug#578412: aptitude: [Display customization] %t escape not complying with the formatting rule

2010-04-20 Thread Daniel Burrows
I think the problem is that while there's a syntax to turn autoexpansion of a column *on*, there isn't a syntax to turn it *off*. %t is autoexpanded by default, so no matter what you do, it will eat all the available space. You can see that aptitude is at least reading the width information by

Bug#578504: aptitude update mentions rred in its progess information. Shouldn't that be read?

2010-04-20 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 02:13:44PM +0200, Regid Ichira gl2n30y06a...@hotmail.com was heard to say:   aptitude update prints progress information to the screen. Within that information, it mention rred.  Shouldn't that meant to be read? I *think* you're saying that you think that it should

Bug#578344: Segmentation fault with aptitude full-upgrade

2010-04-19 Thread Daniel Burrows
I'm preparing an upload for this now. Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#576318: aptitude segfaults on invoking changelog under certain circumstanses

2010-04-18 Thread Daniel Burrows
Version: 0.6.2-1 This should have been closed by 0.6.2-1, but I typed the wrong bug number. :( Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#576634: live-helper: Try to guess the user's preferred mirror from sources.list.

2010-04-05 Thread Daniel Burrows
Package: live-helper Version: 2.0~a9-1 Severity: normal Tags: patch I noticed that live-helper defaults to using a mirror in Germany. It seems like it would be better to use the same mirror that the user's system is taking its packages from. Obviously we can't know that in general (well,

Bug#576635: Unable to access an encrypted root partition after a failed resume

2010-04-05 Thread Daniel Burrows
Package: linux-image-2.6.32-3-amd64 Version: 2.6.32-9 Severity: important I set up unstable on a new laptop last week, using the same configuration that I had on my last laptop: a single LVM physical volume, encrypted (with the configuration created by the installer), divided into two logical

Bug#575137: /usr/bin/aptitude missing

2010-04-03 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Sat, Apr 03, 2010 at 04:52:56PM +0200, Benjamin Cama ben...@free.fr was heard to say: Le samedi 03 avril 2010 à 08:54 +0200, Sven Joachim a écrit : - The submitter of #575137 uses btrfs which reportedly may cause severe corruption of dpkg's database and other data:

Bug#575137: /usr/bin/aptitude missing

2010-04-03 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Sat, Apr 03, 2010 at 06:02:40PM +0200, Sven Joachim svenj...@gmx.de was heard to say: On 2010-04-03 17:53 +0200, Benjamin Cama wrote: Le samedi 03 avril 2010 à 08:13 -0700, Daniel Burrows a écrit : I can't find it anywhere on the Web. But since it's just a bin-NMU of the lenny

Bug#575137: /usr/bin/aptitude missing

2010-04-02 Thread Daniel Burrows
So, I haven't had time to do actual work on this bug yet, but I've mulled it over a bit. Here's what I think we know for sure: 1) On some people's systems, /usr/bin/aptitude isn't being restored after the upgrade. 2) On other people's systems, it is. 3) I don't know why. 4) Even

Bug#575137: /usr/bin/aptitude missing

2010-03-25 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 07:33:53PM +0100, Benjamin Cama ben...@free.fr was heard to say: I just updated from aptitude 0.4.11.11-1+b2 to version 0.6.1.5-3 and lost the 'aptitude' command. It is no more listed in 'dpkg -L aptitude' too. Have you ever had aptitude version 0.5+ installed on

Bug#573626: Terrible Interactive Search Performance

2010-03-22 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 04:33:39PM -0800, Elliott Mitchell e...@m5p.com was heard to say: Updating the display of packages behind the search box while typing characters is nice, it is also rather sluggish. Worse, it appears that aptitude updates its display after each character pressed, not

Bug#574593: Please don't make a device without playback capability the default.

2010-03-19 Thread Daniel Burrows
Package: alsa-base Version: 1.0.21+dfsg-2 Severity: normal I have a USB webcam plugged into my computer that I use occasionally. It's a USB audio device, but as alsaconf succinctly puts it: This sound device does not have any playback controls. Sometimes (presumably depending on the

Bug#574670: libboost-doc: Please document that the MPL - Fusion adapter also works the other way.

2010-03-19 Thread Daniel Burrows
Package: libboost-doc Version: 1.40.0.1 Severity: minor In the section mpl sequence, the Fusion documentation states that: Including the module header makes all MPL sequences fully conforming fusion sequences. In fact, it works the other way around as well, turning Fusion sequences

Bug#501832: Still a bug?

2010-03-18 Thread Daniel Burrows
If I run aptitude search as nobody, I get an error about not being able to create .aptitude, but the search goes ahead anyway. Does that fix this bug for you? I don't know if I want to suppress that error, since it indicates a real problem most of the time. Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Bug#571939: Acknowledgement ([sparc] segfault when quitting aptitude)

2010-03-15 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 10:40:40PM +0100, Frans Pop elen...@planet.nl was heard to say: On Friday 12 March 2010, Daniel Burrows wrote: I think a backtrace with -dbg packages would be useful. So would a backtrace of all threads (thread apply all backtrace); I'd like to see what the main

Bug#571939: aptitude: Same problem on squeeze

2010-03-12 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Tue, Mar 09, 2010 at 02:14:54PM +0800, Paolo Scarabelli pa...@msw.it was heard to say: Aptitude always segfaults everytime I quit, with one exception: if I open it and close it without updating (or doing anything else) it exits just fine. I wonder if valgrind would show anything useful.

Bug#571939: [sparc] segfault when quitting aptitude

2010-03-12 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 01:54:31PM +0100, Frans Pop f...@debian.org was heard to say: aptitude runs fine on my sparc64 box for upgrading and installing packages, but segfaults always when I quit the application. Does this happen just with the 0.6 series of aptitude, or did you see this in

Bug#568733: aptitude: New full-upgrade behavior breaks pkgsync

2010-03-12 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Sun, Feb 07, 2010 at 12:43:23PM +0100, Steinar H. Gunderson sgunder...@bigfoot.com was heard to say: It seems that recently, aptitude changed behavior such that a command-line such as aptitude full-upgrade ed+ will only upgrade ed -- earlier, it would install ed and then full a

Bug#571939: Acknowledgement ([sparc] segfault when quitting aptitude)

2010-03-12 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 02:09:09PM +0100, Frans Pop elen...@planet.nl was heard to say: The problem is only reproducible after e.g. installing a package; just starting aptitude and quitting straight away does not reproduce it. A backtrace for this issue looks as follows: Just from

Bug#568302: prompt [Y/n/q/1/2/3/4/5/6...] if necessary

2010-02-03 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Thu, Feb 04, 2010 at 02:40:25AM +0800, jida...@jidanni.org was heard to say: 1) gimp 2) gnome-user-guide 3) libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-0 4) libwebkit-1.0-2 5) midori 6) yelp Tier: Safe actions, Remove packages (1) Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?] 3

Bug#567662: error.h includes a non-existant system.h, breaking builds

2010-01-30 Thread Daniel Burrows
Package: libapt-pkg-dev Version: 0.7.25.2 Severity: serious Since the latest apt upload, no source file that includes apt-pkg/error.h will compile: In file included from temp.cc:30: /usr/include/apt-pkg/error.h:56:20: error: system.h: No such file or directory In file included from temp.cc:30:

Bug#567662: Acknowledgement (error.h includes a non-existant system.h, breaking builds)

2010-01-30 Thread Daniel Burrows
The attached patch should fix this problem. In addition to installing system.h in apt-pkg, it's necessary to update all the #includes to refer to it as apt-pkg/system.h instead of just system.h. Daniel diff -Nru --exclude configure --exclude changelog --exclude '*.pot' --exclude '*.po'

Bug#567242: Upload is pending on an apt upload.

2010-01-30 Thread Daniel Burrows
I have an upload prepared to fix these bugs, but I can't upload it because the apt includes are broken (just filed a bug about it). Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#567242: aptitude full-upgrade segfaults on PowerPC when rejecting removal of gnome

2010-01-28 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 12:08:14AM -0500, Rick Thomas rbtho...@dillserver.rcthomas.org was heard to say: Remove the following packages: 1) fast-user-switch-applet 2) gedit

Bug#566343: aptitude constantly switches between console-setup and console-setup-mini

2010-01-28 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 01:11:19PM -0800, Russ Allbery r...@debian.org was heard to say: The mechanism exists to do a non-mutative upgrade calculation, I just hadn't hooked it up to the command-line. That could solve half the problem. I'd also like to see why the resolver isn't just

Bug#566343: aptitude constantly switches between console-setup and console-setup-mini

2010-01-26 Thread Daniel Burrows
Hi there. I figured the cause out a few days ago, then had an attack of family... Anyway, this is a side-effect of aptitude calculating upgrades mutatively -- that is, it sets its internal state to where the upgrade would go (which causes unused packages to be removed, including the old

Bug#566171: dist-upgrade: conflict between udev and linux kernel - upgrade crash

2010-01-22 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 07:22:35PM +0100, Martin martin.m...@desineo.com was heard to say: I wanted tu upgrade Debian Lenny stable to Squeeze testing. The system was fairly new, there were packages almost from stable (without hplip and virtualbox (VB was from another repository)). So, I

Bug#566343: aptitude constantly switches between console-setup and console-setup-mini

2010-01-22 Thread Daniel Burrows
Could you run aptitude -s --show-resolver-actions safe-upgrade and paste the output? Thanks, Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#566108: aptitude: changelog on the Web (http://packages.debian.org/) packages outdated

2010-01-21 Thread Daniel Burrows
Unfortunately, packages.debian.org lags behind the archive a bit, usually by a couple days or so. I can download the new changelog from the appropriate place, but it doesn't look like packages.d.o/aptitude links to it yet. The lag at the moment is at least four days now, though, which seems

Bug#565955: More details for Bug#565955: aptitude: downloading and displaying changelogs no more working

2010-01-20 Thread Daniel Burrows
Are you 100% sure that the changelog is never displayed? In my tests, it looks like the bug is actually not that the changelog isn't downloaded, but that the progress bar isn't shown (so it *looks* like nothing is happening until the changelog appears). Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#566003: [doc] aptitude search error in man page

2010-01-20 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 04:05:52PM +0100, r.ductor r.duc...@gmail.com was heard to say: search Searches for packages matching one of the patterns supplied on the command line. All packages which match any of the given patterns will be displayed; for instance, “aptitude search ´~N´

Bug#565736: aptitude: FTBFS on kfreebsd-i386: testsuite failure

2010-01-19 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 10:44:08AM +0100, Cyril Brulebois k...@debian.org was heard to say: Daniel Burrows dburr...@debian.org (18/01/2010): It looks like the build succeeded on all the release architectures, so I think I might downgrade this so that aptitude can get into testing

Bug#565867: aptitude: dist-upgrade does not replace old with new Provides package [texlive-binaries]

2010-01-19 Thread Daniel Burrows
In the 0.6 series, the aptitude resolver is a lot more conservative than it used to be, due to repeated complaints by users that it was removing too many packages in the first solution that was presented. It looks like maybe I overcompensated, though (this is not the first report along these

Bug#565760: aptitude: wants to remove packages recommended by a package marked as hold

2010-01-19 Thread Daniel Burrows
If you have a machine where aptitude is doing this, it would be helpful if you could run aptitude-create-state-bundle and send me the resulting file. Thanks, Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Bug#565736: aptitude: FTBFS on kfreebsd-i386: testsuite failure

2010-01-18 Thread Daniel Burrows
Weird thing is: I get the same failure, but it doesn't kill the build. It should. So by my count that's two bugs here :-/. Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#565736: aptitude: FTBFS on kfreebsd-i386: testsuite failure

2010-01-18 Thread Daniel Burrows
Ah, I got fooled by some garbage printed by the cppunit test. The actual problem is the double-free in the Boost tester. D'oh. Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#565736: aptitude: FTBFS on kfreebsd-i386: testsuite failure

2010-01-18 Thread Daniel Burrows
OK, I can't see any sign of a double-free in either valgrind or libefence, which are usually pretty good about catching this sort of thing. Can you run something similar on FreeBSD and see what it says? Thanks, Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#565736: aptitude: FTBFS on kfreebsd-i386: testsuite failure

2010-01-18 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 03:32:36AM +0100, Cyril Brulebois k...@debian.org was heard to say: Only keeping the #include line is sufficient, I can't reproduce this issue double free issue. Weird. It looks like the build succeeded on all the release architectures, so I think I might downgrade

Bug#565692: Please allow the package to be upgraded even when OpenOffice is running.

2010-01-17 Thread Daniel Burrows
Package: openoffice.org Version: 1:3.1.1-14 Severity: normal It's really annoying to start an upgrade of 300 packages, then discover that it failed because OpenOffice was one of the 300 and it detected a running session. This results in a dialog box telling me that I need to stop the session

Bug#561157: libcwidget3: FTBFS: error: dereferencing pointer 'anonymous' does break strict-aliasing rules

2009-12-20 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 07:56:01PM +, peter green plugw...@p10link.net was heard to say: The attatched patch resolves the FTBFS by taking the simple approach of building with -fno-strict-aliasing . That obviously avoids this, but I'd rather fix the bug directly (besides, doesn't

Bug#526674: No longer present?

2009-12-11 Thread Daniel Burrows
I can't reproduce this with the latest cwidget and g++ versions (0.5.16 and 4.4.2 respectively). Can anyone else? Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#559195: Cannot build the source package in clean chroot, unable to pdebbuild the package.

2009-12-11 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Thu, Dec 03, 2009 at 11:15:29PM +0100, Artur R. Czechowski artu...@hell.pl was heard to say: On Wed, Dec 02, 2009 at 01:17:27PM -0800, Daniel Burrows wrote: Debian policy section 7.7 clearly states that Build-Depends must be satisfied before clean is invoked. [cut] It might be enough

Bug#555120: aptitude-gtk doesn't start (GThread-ERROR **: GThread system may only be initialized once. aborting...)

2009-12-11 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Sat, Dec 05, 2009 at 10:46:16PM +0200, George Danchev danc...@spnet.net was heard to say: Hi, the following patch fixes that crash on amd64. --- src/gtk/gui.cc.orig 2009-12-05 22:43:21.0 +0200 +++ src/gtk/gui.cc 2009-12-05 22:43:40.0 +0200 @@ -1769,7 +1769,7 @@

Bug#452589: aptitude: holding packages in curses interface still doesn't work as expected

2009-12-11 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Fri, Dec 04, 2009 at 12:27:18AM +0100, Thomas Frauendorfer fraue...@in.tum.de was heard to say: When using the curses interface, pressing + on a section still marks all packages for update, even those that are held. Hi, Thomas. When you press + on a section, aptitude treats it as

Bug#559926: Not an aptitude bug.

2009-12-11 Thread Daniel Burrows
I'm 99.99% sure this has nothing to do with aptitude. aptitude doesn't do any of the actual mechanical installation of packages; it just asks libapt to invoke dpkg with appropriate command line arguments. One thing that could cause this problem would be if that directory already existed on

Bug#559980: aptitude: Totally broken on GNU/kFreeBSD

2009-12-11 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Wed, Dec 09, 2009 at 01:36:19PM +0100, Petr Salinger petr.salin...@seznam.cz was heard to say: IMHO, yet better would be patch below, some library might use some other signal internally, you really want to only block SIGWINCH. Sounds good to me. Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#542767: apt: autoremove removes needed packages

2009-12-02 Thread Daniel Burrows
This is a bug about apt-get (and, IMO, specifically its delayed handling of autoremove -- it looks like the reporter got a lot of cruft on his system without noticing until he ran autoremove). It's true that aptitude won't let you remove a package without also removing packages that depend on

Bug#559195: Cannot build the source package in clean chroot, unable to pdebbuild the package.

2009-12-02 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Wed, Dec 02, 2009 at 06:07:33PM +0100, Artur R. Czechowski artu...@hell.pl was heard to say: clean target of debian/rules runs ./configure script, which fails if there are no development libraries installed. That means it is unable to build source package, which result with failing the

Bug#557982: Should be fixed now.

2009-12-01 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 10:58:02PM +0100, Julien Cristau jcris...@debian.org was heard to say: reopen 557982 kthxbye On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 12:28:31 -0800, Daniel Burrows wrote: With any luck, this is fixed in 0.5.16-1 in unstable. I addressed the problem by having the tests query

Bug#557982: Should be fixed now.

2009-11-30 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 10:58:02PM +0100, Julien Cristau jcris...@debian.org was heard to say: On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 12:28:31 -0800, Daniel Burrows wrote: With any luck, this is fixed in 0.5.16-1 in unstable. I addressed the problem by having the tests query for the system limit

Bug#554640: aptitude: please allow resumption of incomplete downloads

2009-11-29 Thread Daniel Burrows
OK, well, I'll reassign this to apt in any event since it's really in that package that this happens. Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#557982: FTBFS on hppa

2009-11-29 Thread Daniel Burrows
Since basically nothing changed between the last version and this one, that's (more than) a little weird, particularly since this built and passed its unit tests on every other architecture. In particular, none of the code invoked by testBox has changed at all since 0.5.13. Daniel -- To

Bug#526030: Upstream bug link

2009-11-29 Thread Daniel Burrows
Apparently an upstream bug has been created for this: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=587256 No indication on that bug when it will be fixed, but a user posted a workaround on the bug (a script that edits your Glade file so Glade can understand it). I had to add GtkVPaned to the

Bug#557982: FTBFS on hppa

2009-11-29 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 04:28:10PM +0100, Julien Cristau jcris...@debian.org was heard to say: On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 16:21:08 +0100, Julien Cristau wrote: See e.g. bug#554218, which also corresponds to EAGAIN returned by pthread_create. So apparently hppa has trouble running thread stress

Bug#557982: FTBFS on hppa

2009-11-29 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 10:45:26AM -0800, Daniel Burrows dburr...@debian.org was heard to say: On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 04:28:10PM +0100, Julien Cristau jcris...@debian.org was heard to say: On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 16:21:08 +0100, Julien Cristau wrote: See e.g. bug#554218, which also

Bug#554640: aptitude: please allow resumption of incomplete downloads

2009-11-27 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 02:27:19PM -0500, Celejar cele...@gmail.com was heard to say: On Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:30:44 -0800 Daniel Burrows dburr...@debian.org wrote: I can look into this, but AFAIK apt has supported resumes since more or less forever, and I can't find notes about disabling

Bug#557580: aptitude accepts /etc/apt/preferences but ignores /etc/apt/preferences.d/*

2009-11-22 Thread Daniel Burrows
aptitude has its own replacement for pkgCacheFile that it uses to initialize itself. Arguably this is bad; on the other hand, it seems to be the only way to create a subclass of pkgDepCache during startup instead of creating a straight pkgDepCache. Anyway, it looks like the code to read the

Bug#557381: Crashes on exit if a changelog download is still being set up.

2009-11-21 Thread Daniel Burrows
Package: aptitude Version: 0.6.1.3-3 Severity: normal aptitude will crash on exit if the background thread that checks for changelogs on the system is still running. The problem is that this thread accesses global apt structures, which are destroyed during shutdown. That thread should be

Bug#557183: More information

2009-11-20 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 07:39:11PM +0100, Sven Joachim svenj...@gmx.de was heard to say: On 2009-11-20 06:51 +0100, brian m. carlson wrote: Okay, here's some more information that I think might be useful. I marked packages for upgrade, and libsnmp-base and libsnmp15 are marked for

Bug#557150: log4cxx: Please initialize the log4cxx system properly.

2009-11-19 Thread Daniel Burrows
Here's the patch. Daniel changeset: 3453:9e92aa37631a tag: tip user:Daniel Burrows dburr...@debian.org date:Thu Nov 19 15:33:11 2009 -0800 summary: Initialize the temporary file module *after* logging so its startup messages don't cause a spurious error (Closes

Bug#557150: log4cxx: Please initialize the log4cxx system properly.

2009-11-19 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 08:32:28PM -0200, Nelson A. de Oliveira nao...@debian.org was heard to say: With the new aptitude version, I am getting this on any action that I call (clean, full-upgrade, etc) # aptitude update log4cxx: No appender could be found for logger (aptitude.temp).

Bug#552525: broken alternatives for aptitude

2009-11-18 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 08:54:32AM +0100, Ivan Sergio Borgonovo ivan@gmail.com was heard to say: On Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:45:26 -0800 Daniel Burrows dburr...@debian.org wrote: update-alternatives runs in the postinst of aptitude 0.6.0.1-1. That package doesn't provide /usr/bin

Bug#552525: broken alternatives for aptitude

2009-11-18 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 08:54:32AM +0100, Ivan Sergio Borgonovo ivan@gmail.com was heard to say: On Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:45:26 -0800 Daniel Burrows dburr...@debian.org wrote: update-alternatives runs in the postinst of aptitude 0.6.0.1-1. That package doesn't provide /usr/bin

Bug#552525: broken alternatives for aptitude

2009-11-18 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 12:55:28PM +0100, Sven Joachim svenj...@gmx.de was heard to say: On 2009-11-18 12:25 +0100, Daniel Burrows wrote: According to packages.debian.org, ia32-apt-get doesn't exist. I guess this is some local package you built? No, ia32-apt-get had been in unstable

Bug#556879: aptitude: segfaults on a why-not call under a situation with conflicts and holds

2009-11-18 Thread Daniel Burrows
Can you reproduce this crash with aptitude 0.6.0 from unstable? Thanks, Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#556881: Is it that obvious?

2009-11-18 Thread Daniel Burrows
Personally, I think that assuming that bar should be installed without any more hints from the user is a bit of a stretch; they asked to install foo, not bar, and it can't be installed. I don't know that aptitude should be trying to second-guess its command line here. I do think that it

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