Bug#1071407: lintian: please highlight tags which result in automatic FTP master rejects

2024-05-18 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: lintian Version: 2.117.0 Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-Cc: invernom...@paranoici.org Hello! Lintian has the very useful option -F (--ftp-master-rejects) for running only the checks that issue tags that result in automatic rejects from the Debian upload queue. This is great, but requires

Bug#1071000: sbuild-qemu: runs lintian on .changes file with Distribution != changelog target and lintian complains

2024-05-12 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: sbuild-qemu Version: 0.85.8 Severity: normal X-Debbugs-Cc: invernom...@paranoici.org Hello! I am still trying to set up sbuild-qemu to build (and check/test) Debian packages. After creating the virtual machine image: $ mkdir -p ~/.cache/sbuild/build $ cd /dev/shm $

Bug#1070344: gmsh: please enable CGNS support

2024-05-03 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: gmsh Version: 4.12.2+ds1-1 Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-Cc: invernom...@paranoici.org Hello and thanks for maintaining this package in Debian! I noticed that, if I start it with: $ gmsh -format cgns in order to select CGNS as output mesh format, and then I try to click on 'save',

Bug#1070343: openfortivpn: stopped working after today's upgrade in Debian testing

2024-05-03 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: openfortivpn Version: 1.22.0-1 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable X-Debbugs-Cc: invernom...@paranoici.org Hello! Thanks a lot for maintaining this useful package in Debian. I use it often to connect to a Fortinet VPN. Unfortunately, after today's (many) upgrades in

Bug#1070008: xfce4-panel: fails to reserve space (in fluxbox)

2024-04-28 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: xfce4-panel Version: 4.18.4-1 Severity: normal X-Debbugs-Cc: invernom...@paranoici.org Hello there! Thanks for maintaining this package in Debian. I am trying xfce4-panel as a panel for my fluxbox based desktop: I start it with the following command $ xfce4-panel --disable-wm-check

Bug#1069746: connman: cannot configure a wifi network to forget credentials

2024-04-24 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: connman Version: 1.42-5 Severity: normal X-Debbugs-Cc: invernom...@paranoici.org Hello and thanks for maintaining this package in Debian! It works pretty well for most cases (except for the case described in bug report [#1066128]). I have now found another case where connman should work

Bug#1068775: sbuild-qemu: fails to work, if piuparts is requested, but not installed on the host

2024-04-10 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: sbuild-qemu Version: 0.85.6 Severity: normal X-Debbugs-Cc: invernom...@paranoici.org Hi! I am trying to set up sbuild-qemu to build (and test) Debian packages. After creating the virtual machine image: $ mkdir -p ~/.cache/sbuild/build $ cd /dev/shm $ TMPDIR=/dev/shm

Bug#1067034: dhcpcd-gtk: fails to see wireless networks and to let me enter passphrases

2024-03-17 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: dhcpcd-gtk Version: 0.7.9-5 Severity: important X-Debbugs-Cc: invernom...@paranoici.org Hello! Thanks for maintaining this Debian package. I gave it a try on a laptop, in order to manage dhcpcd, but I cannot seem to make it work for wireless networks. I did the following: # echo

Bug#1066128: connman: fails to take multiple search domains into account

2024-03-12 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: connman Version: 1.42-5 Severity: normal X-Debbugs-Cc: invernom...@paranoici.org Hello and thanks for maintaining this package in Debian! I have used it for quite some time, and I can say that it works pretty well for most cases. However, I have recently encountered a case where connman

Bug#1062831: guitarix: segfaults, when creating a preset bank

2024-02-03 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: guitarix Version: 0.44.1+dfsg1-3+b1 Severity: normal X-Debbugs-Cc: invernom...@paranoici.org Hello and thanks for maintaining Guitarix in Debian! I would like to save some presets. I click on the "Preset:" button and then on "New Bank": a new field appears, where I should enter the name

Bug#1061636: mmdebstrap-autopkgtest-build-qemu VM image cannot be updated with sbuild-qemu-update

2024-01-27 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: mmdebstrap Version: 1.4.1-1 Severity: normal Hello again Johannes! As I said in bug report [#1061634], I've been able to create a QEMU/KVM virtual machine image for autopkgtests: $ mkdir -p ~/var/cache/sbuild/ $ cd /dev/shm $ TMPDIR=/dev/shm mmdebstrap-autopkgtest-build-qemu \

Bug#1061634: mmdebstrap: possible mmdebstrap-autopkgtest-build-qemu improvements

2024-01-27 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: mmdebstrap Version: 1.4.1-1 Severity: normal Hello Johannes! I've been able to create a QEMU/KVM virtual machine image for autopkgtests: $ mkdir -p ~/var/cache/sbuild/ $ cd /dev/shm $ TMPDIR=/dev/shm mmdebstrap-autopkgtest-build-qemu \ --size=25G --boot=efi

Bug#1061091: syntax/fortran.vim: incorrectly highlights identifiers, when they contain some keyword

2024-01-17 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: vim-runtime Version: 2:9.1.0-1 Severity: normal Hello! I have recently noticed a regression. Since one of the latest package upgrades (in Debian testing), vim began to highlight some Fortran keywords, even when they appear as part of identifiers. This is incorrect, since a keyword

Bug#1060416: mmdebstrap-autopkgtest-build-qemu fails on mkfs.ext4; does it require a 25 GiB TMPDIR?

2024-01-10 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: mmdebstrap Version: 1.4.0-1 Severity: normal Hello, I am giving mmdebstrap-autopkgtest-build-qemu a try. The following command fails: $ mmdebstrap-autopkgtest-build-qemu --boot=efi sid sid_amd64.img during some package installation with "no space left on device" error, since I have

Bug#1056565: dhcpcd-base: fails to write multiple search domains to /etc/resolv.conf

2023-11-23 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: dhcpcd-base Version: 1:10.0.5-2 Severity: normal Hello and thanks for maintaining this package in Debian! I am giving it a try (inside a virtual machine), as a drop-in replacement for isc-dhcp-client (with the ifupdown package). It seems to work pretty well, just like isc-dhcp-client,

Bug#1054229: libcgns-dev: please also ship src/cgns_f.F90 to support Fortran compilers beyond gfortran

2023-10-19 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: libcgns-dev Version: 3.4.0-3 Severity: wishlist Hello and thanks for maintaining this useful library in Debian! The CGNS library may be used from C/C++ programs/libraries and also from Fortran programs/libraries. In order to use the library from Fortran code, the use cgns statement

Bug#1052376: lxpanel: no longer obeys its geometry settings

2023-09-21 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: lxpanel Version: 0.10.1-4 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable Hello! I have just upgraded lxpanel: [UPGRADE] lxpanel:amd64 0.10.1-2 -> 0.10.1-4 [UPGRADE] lxpanel-data:amd64 0.10.1-2 -> 0.10.1-4 and not it behaves insanely. My settings are as follows: in the

Bug#1042714: libmount1: fails to mount vfat filesystem on USB mass storage device with pmount

2023-07-30 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: libmount1 Version: 2.39.1-3 Severity: important Hello, thanks for maintaining util-linux in Debian! After upgrading to version 2.39.1-3, I experienced the following issue. When I try to use 'pmount' to mount a vfat filesystem on a USB mass storage device (a digital photocamera, in the

Bug#1035308: jackd2: missing man page for alsa_in/alsa_out (alsa_io)

2023-04-30 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: jackd2 Version: 1.9.21~dfsg-2 Severity: minor Hello! I've recently found out about alsa_in and alsa_out, which seem to be useful tools to support additional sound cards. But where's the man page for these two tools? There seems to be [one] in Debian/bullseye (jackd2/1.9.17~dfsg-1)

Bug#1033595: mpv: fails to play YouTube videos after yt-dlp upgrade to version 2023.03.04-1

2023-03-27 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: mpv Version: 0.35.1-1 Severity: important Hi and thanks for maintaining mpv in Debian! After upgrading from yt-dlp/2023.02.17-1 to yt-dlp/2023.03.04-1, mpv is no longer able to use yt-dlp to play YouTube videos. This seems to be due to a change in yt-dlp to solve widespread, severe

Bug#1033517: yt-dlp: mpv fails to work with yt-dlp, after yt-dlp upgrade (uncoordinated API change?)

2023-03-26 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: yt-dlp Version: 2023.03.04-1 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable Hello and thanks for maintaining this useful package! After upgrading from yt-dlp/2023.02.17-1 to yt-dlp/2023.03.04-1, mpv is no longer able to use yt-dlp to play YouTube videos: $ mpv

Bug#1030056: qa.debian.org: The most recent lintian version known by UDD is 2.115.3

2023-01-30 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: qa.debian.org Severity: normal User: qa.debian@packages.debian.org Usertags: udd Hi! In the [UDD Lintian report] for my package, I read: [...] | The most recent lintian version known by UDD is 2.115.3 [...] [UDD Lintian report]:

Bug#1029570: sc-im: debian/copyright file seems to be inaccurate

2023-01-24 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: sc-im Version: 0.8.3+ds-1 Severity: serious Justification: Policy 4.5 Hello! Thanks for packaging this interesting program. I noticed that the [debian/copyright] file seems to be inaccurate with respect to the [upstream license]. The [debian/copyright] file states: [...] Files: *

Bug#1028962: isc-dhcp-client: -x option no longer works (looks like apparmor configuration prevents it from having any effect)

2023-01-15 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: isc-dhcp-client Version: 4.4.3-P1-1.1 Severity: important Hello and thanks for maintaining ISC DHCP in Debian! After upgrading packages ('isc-dhcp-client' itself or other libraries), it may happen that # checkrestart (from the 'debian-goodies' package) tells me that an instance of

Bug#1027441: cups-client: prints on one side, even when the default is two-sided-long-edge or an explicit option is passed to lpr

2022-12-31 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: cups-client Version: 2.4.2-1+b2 Severity: important Hello Debian Printing Team (and Season's Greetings!). I am experiencing a bug with CUPS: at some point in time in the past (unfortunately I do not remember exactly with which version, sorry, I do not print stuff on a daily basis...)

Bug#1027431: RFP: vim-nim -- Nim language support for Vim

2022-12-31 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: vim-nim Version : 1.1.2+git2021.a15714f (or persuade upstream to tag releases more often...) Upstream Contact: Zahary Karadjov * URL :

Bug#1027002: vim-runtime: please add syntax highlighting and indentation support for the Nim language

2022-12-25 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: vim-runtime Version: 2:9.0.0813-1 Severity: wishlist Hello! Do I understand correctly that there's no syntax highlighting or indentation support for the [Nim] programming language in package vim-runtime? [Nim]: I think it would be a useful addition, perhaps

Bug#1026961: openconnect: fails to restore previous network configuration

2022-12-24 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: openconnect Version: 9.01-2 Severity: normal Hello and thanks for maintaining this package in Debian! I tried it to connect to a Fortinet SSL VPN. I used the following command: # openconnect --prot=fortinet -u $VPNUSER $VPNSERVER It worked, in the sense that I was able to connect to

Bug#1025375: hydrogen-doc: documentation binary package is almost empty, should it be dropped entirely?

2022-12-03 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: hydrogen-doc Version: 1.2.0~beta1+dfsg-1 Severity: important Hello and thanks for maintaining Hydrogen in Debian! I noticed that the hydrogen-doc binary package is now almost empty: $ dpkg -L hydrogen-doc /. /usr /usr/share /usr/share/doc /usr/share/doc/hydrogen-doc

Bug#1021502: lintian: incorrectly complains about debian-news-entry-has-unknown-version

2022-10-09 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: lintian Version: 2.115.3 Severity: important Hi! I have: $ grep -n '(0\.1\.14)' debian/NEWS 1:apt-listbugs (0.1.14) unstable; urgency=medium $ grep -n '(0\.1\.14)' debian/changelog 391:apt-listbugs (0.1.14) unstable; urgency=medium in my package ('apt-listbugs'). Running

Bug#1020577: RFP: warewulf4 -- operating system provisioning platform for Linux

2022-09-23 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: warewulf4 Version : 4.3.0 Upstream Author : Gregory Kurtzer and others from HPCng community * URL : https://warewulf.org/ * License : BSD-3-clause Programming Lang: Go Description : operating system

Bug#1006548: xfce4-power-manager: the icon in the systray is blank!

2022-02-27 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: xfce4-power-manager Version: 4.16.0-1 Severity: important Hello! I am not sure what's going on, but xfce4-power-manager stopped showing its icon in the systray (of my fbpanel). The icon takes space in the systray and may be clicked (the context menu pops up, with the display brightness

Bug#994969: jackd2: segfaults after today's upgrade of other Debian testing packages

2021-09-24 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: jackd2 Version: 1.9.19~dfsg-2 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable Hello! After today's upgrade, jackd stopped working on my Debian testing box. $ jackd --realtime -d alsa --device hw:PCH --softmode --hwmeter --rate 44100 & jackdmp 1.9.19 Copyright 2001-2005

Bug#993172: gcc-11-base: i386 (Geode LX): latest testing migration produces sig ILL (due to #993162 ?)

2021-08-28 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: gcc-11-base Version: 11.2.0-3 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable Hello! During today's upgrade, apt-listbugs[^NOTE] warned me that upgrading libc6 (2.31-13 -> 2.31-17) would produce sig ILL on Geode LX i386 CPUs. See bug [#993162]. Since I have a Geode LX based box

Bug#992159: security-tracker: DSA-4957-1 vs. tracker

2021-08-14 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: security-tracker Severity: normal Hi everyone! In [DSA-4957-1], a number of CVEs are listed as fixed in trafficserver for buster: CVE-2021-27577 CVE-2021-32566 CVE-2021-32567 CVE-2021-35474 CVE-2021-32565 . However, the last one [CVE-2021-32565] is not present in the corresponding [DSA

Bug#988823: security-tracker: DSA-4917-1 vs. tracker

2021-05-19 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: security-tracker Severity: normal Hello everyone! According to [DSA-4917-1], a number of CVEs are fixed in chromium for buster: CVE-2021-30506 รท CVE-2021-30520. The tracker [DSA page] agrees on that, but also refers to [CVE-2021-3051], which is not mentioned in the DSA. [DSA-4917-1]:

Bug#984469: guitarix: debian/copyright is inaccurate

2021-03-03 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: guitarix Version: 0.42.1+dfsg1-1 Severity: serious Tags: patch Justification: Policy 12.5 Dear Debian Multimedia Maintainers, I noticed that the [debian/copyright] file for guitarix states that two images ('data/Layout.svg' and 'data/stereo.svg') are under CC-BY-1.0, which does not meet

Bug#982099: lxpanel: randomly fails to display one of the configured launchers

2021-02-06 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: lxpanel Version: 0.10.0-3 Severity: important Hello! First of all thanks for maintaining this nice panel in Debian. I am giving it a try, in order to check whether I can switch to it from fbpanel, which [risks] being removed from Debian. [risks]:

Bug#979541: sylpheed: [regression] spell check no longer recognizes some correct Italian words

2021-01-07 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: sylpheed Version: 3.7.0-8 Severity: normal Hello! A few days ago, I began experiencing a strange regression in Italian spell check within Sylpheed. Some correct Italian words are no longer recognized as valid. Especially words with accented vowels (which include non-ASCII UTF-8

Bug#977780: connman: wifi stopped working with net.connman.Error.NoCarrier

2020-12-20 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: connman Version: 1.36-2+b1 Severity: important Hello and thanks for maintaining this package in Debian! I've just installed it, in order to give it a try. It seemed to work like a charm, with connman-gtk GUI: I was able to connect with the Ethernet LAN, disconnect from it, connect with

Bug#977419: lintian: Use of uninitialized value in string eq at package-relations.pm

2020-12-14 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: lintian Version: 2.104.0 Severity: important Hello! While checking the apt-listbugs package (which I maintain), I experienced an awkward lintian behavior: $ lintian -viF apt-listbugs_0.1.35~rc3_amd64.changes N: Using profile debian/ftp-master-auto-reject. N: Starting on group

Bug#974949: systray-mdstat: fails to start with org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown

2020-11-16 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: systray-mdstat Version: 1.2.0-1 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable Hello, I've just given the new version from unstable a try. It seems to completely fail to start: $ systray-mdstat & [1] 64881 $ org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name

Bug#965031: python3-numpy: please clarify the license for some files in debian/copyright

2020-07-14 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: python3-numpy Version: 1:1.19.0-1 Severity: important Hello and thanks for maintaining NumPy in Debian! While reviewing the package debian/copyright file, I noticed some files for which only the copyright holder seems to be documented, but not the license. These files are:

Bug#963840: libsoqt520-dev: debian/copyright reports the wrong license short name

2020-06-28 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: libsoqt520-dev Version: 1.6.0+ds1-1 Severity: important Tags: patch Hello! I've just noticed that the [debian/copyright] file for this package reports "BSD-4-clause" as license short name. But the license text is actually the text of the [BSD-3-clause]. And this seems to be the license

Bug#963475: libefivar1: "efibootmgr -v" fails with "Could not parse device path: Invalid argument"

2020-06-22 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: libefivar1 Version: 37-2.1 Severity: important Hello! One week ago I had no issues in running: $ efibootmgr -v but today, I get: $ efibootmgr -v BootCurrent: 0001 Timeout: 1 seconds BootOrder: 0001, Boot* debianCould not parse device path: Invalid argument Please

Bug#962236: normalize-audio: "normalize-ogg -b -n -v" shows less info than "normalize-audio -b -n -v"

2020-06-04 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: normalize-audio Version: 0.7.7-15 Severity: normal Hello and thanks for maintaining this nice program in Debian! I wanted to run normalize (in batch mode) on a group of audio files with the --no-adjust option, in order to analyze the files, without altering them in any way. I can do

Bug#961684: lintian: exits with error: Can't use an undefined value as a HASH reference

2020-05-27 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: lintian Version: 2.77.0 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable Hello, while attempting to check a just built package within my sid pbuilder-managed chroot enviroment, I see that lintian is no longer working. Please note that lintian/2.76.0 was working fine in the same

Bug#960301: firefox-esr: [regression] cannot find the microphone

2020-05-11 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: firefox-esr Version: 68.8.0esr-1 Severity: important Hello! This morning I upgraded my Debian testing box, and firefox-esr had the following upgrade: [UPGRADE] firefox-esr:amd64 68.7.0esr-1 -> 68.8.0esr-1 After the upgrade, I noticed that firefox-esr was no longer able to find my

Bug#959231: security-tracker: Proxy Error on CVE-2020-11565 tracker page

2020-05-01 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: security-tracker Severity: normal Hi all! I noticed that the tracker page for [CVE-2020-11565] fails to display and returns the following error: | Proxy Error | | The proxy server received an invalid response from an upstream server. | The proxy server could not handle the request |

Bug#956602: jami-daemon: any possibility to drop the dependency on librestbed?

2020-04-13 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: jami-daemon Version: 20190215.1.f152c98~ds1-1 Severity: wishlist Dear Alexandre, first of all, thanks a lot for developing Jami and for maintaining it in Debian! I noticed that jami-daemon depends on librestbed0, which is facing some OpenSSL linking licensing issues, as described in bug

Bug#954410: weechat: Please package the slack plugin

2020-03-21 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: weechat Version: 2.7.1-1 Severity: wishlist Hello and thanks for maintaining this Debian package! Does it include support for accessing slack channels? I've read that there exists a plugin named [wee-slack], but I cannot find the corresponding Debian package. [wee-slack]:

Bug#951366: rkhunter: libkeyutils1/1.6.1-2 triggers a false positive

2020-02-15 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: rkhunter Version: 1.4.6-7 Severity: important Hello and thanks for maintaining rkhunter in Debian! After upgrading [UPGRADE] libkeyutils1:amd64 1.6-6 -> 1.6.1-2 I get the following warning with # rkhunter --sk -c in /var/log/rkhunter.log: Info: Starting test name

Bug#951338: libkeyutils1: rkhunter warns that libkeyutils.so.1.9 may contain a possible rootkit

2020-02-14 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: libkeyutils1 Version: 1.6.1-2 Severity: grave Tags: security Justification: user security hole Hello! After upgrading [UPGRADE] libkeyutils1:amd64 1.6-6 -> 1.6.1-2 I get the following warning with # rkhunter --sk -c in /var/log/rkhunter.log: Info: Starting test name

Bug#947686: security-tracker: DSA-4595-1 vs. tracker

2019-12-29 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: security-tracker Severity: normal Hello everyone! According to [DSA-4595-1], CVE-2019-3467 is fixed in debian-lan-config for stretch and buster. However, the tracker [CVE page] does not seem to be linked to the [DSA page], thus failing to show the correct fixed versions for

Bug#945118: asymptote: FTBFS because of grffile

2019-11-19 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: asymptote Version: 2.60-2 Severity: serious Tags: ftbfs Justification: fails to build from source (but built successfully in the past) Hello! The fix for bug [#944916] seems to be somehow incomplete and prevents the package from [building]. [#944916]:

Bug#944978: pandoc: fails to convert horizontal rules from markdown to PDF (through LaTeX)

2019-11-17 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: pandoc Version: 2.5-2+b1 Severity: important Hello! I've just encountered a new issue with pandoc. Since the last upgrade of texlive-* packages (2019.20190930-1 -> 2019.20191112-1), pandoc is no longer able to produce a PDF file (through LaTeX) from a markdown file including horizontal

Bug#944693: mailavenger: license incompatibility between 4-clause BSD and GPL

2019-11-13 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: mailavenger Version: 0.8.5-2 Severity: serious Justification: Policy 2.2.1 Hello, I [noticed] that package mailavenger includes some files which are derived from code originally released under the terms of the 4-clause BSD license, but their modifications are released under the terms of

Bug#944571: mmdebstrap: the license is not the actual Expat license

2019-11-11 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: mmdebstrap Version: 0.5.1-2 Severity: normal Hello! I've just noticed that the mmdebstrap package [claims] to be released under the terms of the Expat license, but this is not really the case, since the license text (in both the debian/copyright file and the upstream source code) lacks

Bug#944485: mmdebstrap: please implement the creation of QEMU/KVM images for autopkgtest-virt-qemu

2019-11-10 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: mmdebstrap Version: 0.5.1-2 Severity: wishlist Hello and thanks for developing/packaging this tool! I wonder whether it can be used to create (without superuser privileges!) a QEMU/KVM image. I am especially interested in QEMU/KVM images suitable as autopkgtest testbeds

Bug#944467: virt-manager: should the debian/copyright file be updated?

2019-11-10 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: virt-manager Version: 1:2.2.1-2 Severity: important Hello and thanks for maintaining this package in Debian. While looking at its debian/copyright file, I noticed that it states, in part: [...] | help/: | | Copyright 2007 Red Hat Inc., and Hugh Brock | | Permission is granted

Bug#944386: autopkgtest: can autopkgtest-build-qemu create a QEMU/KVM image without requiring superuser privileges?

2019-11-08 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: autopkgtest Version: 5.11 Severity: wishlist Hello and thanks for maintaining autopkgtest! I wanted to give the QEMU/KVM testbed a try. Hence I tried to create a VM image by using autopkgtest-build-qemu. Its man page states: [...] | Note that you need to call this as root. [...]

Bug#942224: asymptote: VIM addon cannot be managed with vim-addons and fails to enable syntax highlighting

2019-10-12 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: asymptote Version: 2.53-1 Severity: normal Tags: patch Hello, thanks for maintaining Asymptote in Debian! I am giving it a try, but I wanted to see syntax highlighting in VIM. It seems to me that a VIM addon is shipped in the package: $ dpkg -L asymptote | grep vim /usr/share/vim

Bug#942203: postbooks: fails to comply with the DFSG

2019-10-12 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: postbooks Version: 4.11.3-2 Severity: serious Justification: Policy 2.2.1 Dear xTuple Maintainers, I noticed that this package is in Debian main and is [released] under the terms of the Common Public Attribution License (CPAL). [released]:

Bug#941842: RFP: vimoutliner -- script for building an outline editor on top of Vim

2019-10-06 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: vimoutliner Version : 0.4.0 (or some more recent git commit...) Upstream Author : Steve Litt , Noel Henson * URL : https://github.com/vimoutliner/vimoutliner * License : mostly GPL-2 with

Bug#935913: gle-graphics: qgle segfaults when modifying text strings

2019-08-27 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: gle-graphics Version: 4.2.5-7+b1 Severity: normal Hello again! I found a reproducible segfault in gle-graphics: 0) start the GUI $ qgle 1) click on "New" in the toolbar 2) accept the default size by clicking on "OK" in the dialog window 3) click on "Edit Mode" in the

Bug#935720: gle-graphics: needs manual search for libgs.so

2019-08-25 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: gle-graphics Version: 4.2.5-7+b1 Severity: normal Hello, I am giving gle-graphics a try. As soon as I start the GUI $ qgle the program says it cannot find libgs.so: I have to manually tell it to look at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgs.so.9 I think this should fixed, so that the

Bug#933791: gnupg: please document the consequences of not accepting third-party certifications from keyservers

2019-08-03 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: gnupg Version: 2.2.17-3 Severity: important Hello! After upgrading gnupg to version 2.2.17-3, I noticed that its NEWS.Debian.gz file announces a default behavior change: | Upstream GnuPG now defaults to not accepting third-party certifications | from the keyserver network. Given that

Bug#932246: printer-driver-hpcups: no more printing to a HP LaserJet 1320: stack smashing detected and hpcups crashed on signal 6

2019-07-16 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: printer-driver-hpcups Version: 3.18.12+dfsg0-2 Severity: important Dear Debian Printing Team, I have a small i386 box (Soekris net5501) running testing (buster before July the 6th, 2019, now bullseye) and connected to a HP LaserJet 1320 printer via USB cable. The printer is configured

Bug#931951: lintian: False positive: command-in-sbin-has-manpage-in-incorrect-section for symlinks in sbin

2019-07-12 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: lintian Version: 2.16.0 Severity: normal Hello, I have been bitten by a Lintian check false positive on my package (apt-listbugs): command-in-sbin-has-manpage-in-incorrect-section My package indeed ships "/usr/sbin/apt-listbugs" and the man page is indeed in section 1

Bug#931580: pbuilder: SOURCE_ONLY_CHANGES=yes fails to work with pdebuild-internal

2019-07-07 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: pbuilder Version: 0.230.4 Severity: normal Tags: patch Hi! I read in the [documentation] that [source only uploads] are recommended. No, it's more than that: since the release of buster, they seem to be [mandatory] for bullseye. [documentation]:

Bug#931536: aptitude update fails to cope with changed release info

2019-07-07 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: aptitude Version: 0.8.11-7 Severity: normal Hello! As you know, Debian buster has been released yesterday and the current Debian testing has just been renamed from 'buster' to 'bullseye'. Good, but... today I tried to update the repository lists and upgrade my Debian testing boxes with

Bug#928041: systemd: please document the recommended way to add a systemd timer to a package

2019-04-26 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: systemd Version: 241-3 Severity: normal Hello, the other day I noticed that lintian pointed out a new missing piece in my package (apt-listbugs): missing-systemd-timer-for-cron-script Basically, it alerts me that my package ships a cron.daily script, without shipping a corresponding

Bug#927970: lintian: false positives for missing-systemd-timer-for-cron-script?

2019-04-25 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: lintian Version: 2.12.0 Severity: normal Hello, on last Monday (April, the 22nd) I rebuilt my package (apt-listbugs) inside a pbuilder-managed sid chroot environment and checked the result with lintian/2.12.0 (that was the version available from sid on that day: however, it seems to me

Bug#924852: pangzero: please implement a way to increase/decrease audio volume inside the game

2019-03-17 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: pangzero Version: 1.4.1+git20121103-4 Severity: wishlist Hello, thanks for maintaining this nice shooter game in Debian! There seems to be no way to increase or decrease the audio (sound and music) volume from inside the game. This means that, before playing, I have to start

Bug#924766: RFP: webext-uppity -- toolbar button to "go up" on the web

2019-03-17 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: webext-uppity Version : 2.1 Upstream Author : arantius https://arantius.com/ * URL : https://github.com/arantius/uppity * License : Expat Programming Lang: JavaScript Description : toolbar button to "go

Bug#923673: fbpanel: documentation seems to be incorrect or out of date (margin vs. xmargin)

2019-03-03 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: fbpanel Version: 7.0-4 Severity: normal Hello! I finally managed to convince fbpanel to have a width computed as the screen width minus a fixed length (275 pixels). The relevant options in ~/.config/fbpanel/default are: Global { edge = bottom allign = right xmargin

Bug#923137: chrony: system call filter (now enabled by default) conflicts not only with mailonchange, but also with log

2019-02-24 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: chrony Version: 3.4-2 Severity: important Hello there! Thanks for maintaining this useful package. I've just upgraded to version 3.4-2 and noticed that the daemon failed to restart, due to the mailonchange directive: $ grep -B 1 ^mailonchange /etc/chrony/chrony.conf # Warn root.

Bug#921228: RFS: apt-listbugs/0.1.28

2019-02-03 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: normal Hello! Since I have received one late translation update, I thought I could prepare a new version of the apt-listbugs package (0.1.28): it is ready to be uploaded to Debian sid. Could someone please build the package from commit

Bug#919131: RFS: apt-listbugs/0.1.27

2019-01-12 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: normal Hi! I have just finished preparing a new version of the apt-listbugs package (0.1.27): it is ready to be uploaded to Debian sid. Could someone please build the package from commit [eb4d507254f84432405d36a8f563226a4f145522], and sponsor its upload to

Bug#917623: anacron: command logname fails in a cron.daily job run by anacron

2018-12-29 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: anacron Version: 2.3-27 Severity: normal Hello, I noticed that anacron sets an environment (for running cron.daily jobs, but probably even weekly and monthly jobs...) where the "logname" command fails. I mean: if a cron.daily job invokes the "logname" command, then this command fails,

Bug#917569: linux-image-4.19.0-1-686: fails to boot on i386 (Soekris net5501) BUG at arch/x86/mm/pat.c:549

2018-12-28 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: src:linux Version: 4.19.12-1 Severity: important Hi! After upgrading an i386 box (Soekris net5501) running testing (buster), I found out that the newly migrated Linux kernel fails to boot. Looking at the boot through the serial console reveals the attached output, in which I spotted

Bug#916658: RFS: apt-listbugs/0.1.26

2018-12-16 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: normal Hello everybody! I prepared a new version of the apt-listbugs package (0.1.26): it is ready to be uploaded to Debian unstable. Could someone please build the package from commit [c04fcb88ed8ba0f87c62d5711f394dd455231754], and sponsor its upload to

Bug#912736: RFS: apt-listbugs/0.1.25

2018-11-03 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: normal Hello everybody, my usual sponsor has some blocking issues and is currently unable to upload packages on my behalf. I prepared a new version of apt-listbugs (0.1.25): it is ready to be uploaded. Could someone please build the package from commit

Bug#909693: gpgsm: seems to be dead slow when verifying pkcs7-signatures from within Sylpheed

2018-09-26 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: gpgsm Version: 2.2.10-1 Severity: important Hello! I installed the gpgsm package, in order to verify pkcs7-signatures in e-mail messages from within Sylpheed. The combination seems to work, as it is actually able to verify a signature, as in: [application/pkcs7-signature (Valid

Bug#909428: systray-mdstat: [regression] fails to correctly handle alpha channel in its own PNG images

2018-09-23 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: systray-mdstat Version: 1.1.0-1 Severity: normal Hello! Since some recent upgrade of my Debian testing boxes (I think it happened when I upgraded libgtk3-perl 0.034-1 -> 0.034-2), I have been experiencing a new bug in systray-mdstat: it seems to be unable to correctly repaint the

Bug#908170: texlive-latex-extra: \documentclass[italian]{europecv} causes "File ended while scanning definition of \ecv@cvofkey"

2018-09-06 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: texlive-latex-extra Version: 2018.20180824-1 Severity: normal Tags: patch Hello! With \documentclass[helvetica,narrow,italian, noflag,logo,totpages,booktabs]{europecv} I get the following error: ! File ended while scanning definition of \ecv@cvofkey. l.3

Bug#907740: webext-debianbuttons: significantly less convenient than the old xul-ext-debianbuttons

2018-09-01 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: webext-debianbuttons Version: 2.1-2 Severity: important Hello! Thanks for maintaining this firefox extension in Debian (along with other useful ones)! I've just upgraded package xul-ext-debianbuttons on my Debian testing box. It became a transitional package, pulling in package

Bug#905865: armagetronad: sometimes fails to start, often fails to actually quit

2018-08-10 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: armagetronad Version: 0.2.8.3.4-2 Severity: normal Hello! I've just installed armagetronad: thanks for maintaining it in Debian! I am experiencing a weird behavior, though. The first time I started the game from an xterm, I obtained the following output: A$ armagetronad Trying to

Bug#905774: jackd2: jackd no longer starts, since device is already in use; but who's using it?

2018-08-09 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: jackd2 Version: 1.9.12~dfsg-2 Severity: important Hello, a couple of weeks ago I began experiencing an awkward behavior of jackd on one of my Debian testing machines (I run jackd with almost identical configuration on two other boxes, without issues). Basically, jackd no longer wants to

Bug#905304: security-tracker: DSA-4259-1 vs. tracker

2018-08-02 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: security-tracker Severity: normal Hello! According to [DSA-4259-1], ruby2.3/2.3.3-1+deb9u3 fixes a number of vulnerabilities, among which CVE-2017-17405, CVE-2017-17742, CVE-2017-17790, and CVE-2018-6914. However, the tracker pages for [CVE-2017-17405], [CVE-2017-17742],

Bug#903816: security-tracker: CVE-2017-17689 vs. tracker

2018-07-15 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: security-tracker Severity: normal Hello everyone! According to [DSA-4244-1] thunderbird/1:52.9.1-1~deb9u1 fixes CVE-2017-17689 in stretch (security), among other vulnerabilities. However the tracker page for [CVE-2017-17689] seems to disagree, while, on the other hand, referencing bug

Bug#902026: systemd: "systemctl start systemd-timesyncd.service" kills chrony

2018-06-21 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: systemd Version: 238-5 Severity: normal Dear systemd Debian package maintainers, it seems I found out a regression of systemd-timesyncd. It used to refuse to start, whenever other NTP clients (such as chrony) were used. If I read bug #805927 correctly, now this is accomplished with

Bug#899336: pdf-presenter-console: [regression] movies are no longer recognized!

2018-05-22 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: pdf-presenter-console Version: 4.1.2-1 Severity: important Hello, I've just tested pdf-presenter-console/4.1.2-1 from Debian unstable. It seems to fix bug #888677, as intended. However, it appears to have a major regression (maybe caused by collateral damage of the fix for bug #888677

Bug#899259: cups-daemon: with IdleExitTimeout 60, fails to exit after 60 s of inactivity

2018-05-21 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: cups-daemon Version: 2.2.7-5 Severity: normal Dear Debian Printing Team, this bug report is a sort of "sequel" of #894762... After some preliminary tests, I concluded that socket activation was working again. Well, I was wrong! :-( After some further testing, I found out the

Bug#898379: pitivi: no longer responds as soon as I try to import an Ogg Vorbis audio file

2018-05-10 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: pitivi Version: 0.99-3 Severity: important Hello! Thanks for maintaining pitivi in Debian. I am trying to learn how to use it, but I am experiencing an important bug. Steps to reproduce the issue: 0) start pitivi $ pitivi 1) click on the New button in the welcome dialog

Bug#898075: jack: segfaults at start

2018-05-06 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: jack Version: 3.1.1+cvs20050801-29.2+b1 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable Hello! I have just found out that jack stopped working in Debian testing. Last time I used it (around last December, on an up-to-date Debian testing box), it worked without any glitch. Now,

Bug#897220: openshot-qt: preview does not run real-time

2018-04-30 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: openshot-qt Version: 2.4.1+dfsg1-1 Severity: important Hello Debian Multimedia Maintainers! I am experiencing a really troublesome issue with OpenShot. I am following the [tutorial](https://www.openshot.org/static/files/user-guide/quick_tutorial.html) at the beginning of the official

Bug#897219: openshot-qt: [Ctrl+Q] makes the program hang

2018-04-30 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: openshot-qt Version: 2.4.1+dfsg1-1 Severity: important Hello and thanks for maintaining OpenShot in Debian! I am trying to learn using it, but I am experiencing a big issue: whenever I want to exit from the program (by choosing Quit from the File menu, by hitting [Ctrl+Q], by clicking

Bug#896130: RFP: vim-julia -- Vim plugin for Julia support

2018-04-19 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: vim-julia Version : N/A Upstream Author : Carlo Baldassi and others * URL : https://github.com/JuliaEditorSupport/julia-vim * License : Expat Programming Lang: Vim script Description

Bug#895224: pdf-presenter-console: [regression] after upgrading to GStreamer 1.14.0, fails to play movies

2018-04-08 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: pdf-presenter-console Version: 4.1-2 Severity: important Hello. While testing pdfpc again for bug #855525, I found out that the upgrade [INSTALL, DEPENDENCIES] gstreamer1.0-gl:amd64 1.14.0-2 [INSTALL, DEPENDENCIES] libgstreamer-gl1.0-0:amd64 1.14.0-2 [UPGRADE]

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