Aren't there any checks in place to prevent a package from becoming uninstallable?

2011-02-26 Thread jidanni
Aren't there any checks in place to prevent a package from becoming uninstallable? E.g., bug #615530, #615528. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/8762s5j

Re: maintainer ignores bug

2011-02-26 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sat, 26 Feb 2011 21:05:19 -0500 (EST), Osamu Aoki wrote: > On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 07:41:18PM +0100, Jakub Wilk wrote: >> Yes, ideally one should also be omniscient... > > I am not sure what is "omniscient". > ... I hope this does not sound too patronizing, Osamu; but since English is not your

Re: maintainer ignores bug

2011-02-26 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 07:41:18PM +0100, Jakub Wilk wrote: > * Osamu Aoki , 2011-02-27, 02:50: > >>>I've filed a bug on reportbug, but its maintainer ignores it, > > > >No maintainer did not ignore it. He responded reasonably. > > He did not. Declaring "it's not a bug in my package" withou

Re: enable/disable flags in /etc/default

2011-02-26 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Feb 26, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > Personally, I'd rather we didn't have them, as this is supposed to be > controlled by the rcN.d links and if that interface is too hard for > people we should fix that rather than invent multiple ways of disabling > daemons, but the current mess is, well, a mes

Bug#615502: ITP: libtest-cpan-meta-yaml-perl -- validate a META.yaml file from CPAN

2011-02-26 Thread Nicholas Bamber
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nicholas Bamber * Package name: libtest-cpan-meta-yaml-perl Version : 0.17 Upstream Author : Barbie * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Test-CPAN-Meta-YAML/ * License : Perl Programming Lang: Perl Description :

Re: enable/disable flags in /etc/default

2011-02-26 Thread Sean Finney
On Sat, 2011-02-26 at 21:44 +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > I'd like us to decide on a policy about enable/disable flags in > /etc/default in general. Either all daemons should have them or no > daemons should have them, and if we have them, I think we should have > the value in the default file s

Re: enable/disable flags in /etc/default

2011-02-26 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 09:44:07PM +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > ]] Harald Dunkel > > (This is from bug #602490, but it's more of a generic problem) > > | Would it be possible to add an "enable" flag to > | /etc/default/nagios3 to control if the daemon is > | started at boot time? > > I'd lik

Bug#615484: ITP: simgrid -- Toolkit for scalable simulation of distributed applications

2011-02-26 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Lucas Nussbaum * Package name: simgrid Version : 3.5 Upstream Author : Simgrid core team * URL : http://simgrid.gforge.inria.fr/ * License : LGPL Programming Lang: C Description : Toolkit for scalable simulation o

enable/disable flags in /etc/default

2011-02-26 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Harald Dunkel (This is from bug #602490, but it's more of a generic problem) | Would it be possible to add an "enable" flag to | /etc/default/nagios3 to control if the daemon is | started at boot time? I'd like us to decide on a policy about enable/disable flags in /etc/default in general.

Bug#615476: general: many binaries are linked with non-existent libtiff.so.3 library

2011-02-26 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Sat, 2011-02-26 at 13:08 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Sat, 2011-02-26 at 21:25 +0300, sergey wrote: > >> Some programs can not start because of missing libtiff.so.3 file. > > > > I suspect this is a local problem, as none of the packages in question > > depends on libtiff at all; I'm therefo

Notification of major perl upgrades with triggers

2011-02-26 Thread Dominic Hargreaves
perl has had a long-outstanding bug, #230308, concerning packages, particularly long-running daemons, breaking on a major perl upgrade. This is a similar situation to libc6, which currently has a debconf prompt asking the local administrator for permission to restart related daemons. The preferred

Bug#615476: general: many binaries are linked with non-existent libtiff.so.3 library

2011-02-26 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/26/2011 12:43 PM, Adam D. Barratt wrote: severity 615476 important tag 615476 + unreproducible thanks On Sat, 2011-02-26 at 21:25 +0300, sergey wrote: Some programs can not start because of missing libtiff.so.3 file. I suspect this is a local problem, as none of the packages in question

Re: maintainer ignores bug

2011-02-26 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Osamu Aoki , 2011-02-27, 02:50: I've filed a bug on reportbug, but its maintainer ignores it, No maintainer did not ignore it. He responded reasonably. He did not. Declaring "it's not a bug in my package" without even trying to diagnose the problem is not only unreasonable but also rude.

Re: maintainer ignores bug

2011-02-26 Thread Hendrik Sattler
Am Samstag 26 Februar 2011, 18:50:41 schrieb Osamu Aoki: > > It looks like its an issue with your choice of .gtkrc files. I really do not recommend the setting in KDE to influence the themes of GTK programs. For me, it makes iceweasel using 100% _after_ closing it. It drove me almost nuts on my

Bug#615476: general: many binaries are linked with non-existent libtiff.so.3 library

2011-02-26 Thread Adam D. Barratt
severity 615476 important tag 615476 + unreproducible thanks On Sat, 2011-02-26 at 21:25 +0300, sergey wrote: > Some programs can not start because of missing libtiff.so.3 file. I suspect this is a local problem, as none of the packages in question depends on libtiff at all; I'm therefore lowerin

Processed: Re: Bug#615476: general: many binaries are linked with non-existent libtiff.so.3 library

2011-02-26 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: > severity 615476 important Bug #615476 [general] general: many binaries are linked with non-existent libtiff.so.3 library Severity set to 'important' from 'grave' > tag 615476 + unreproducible Bug #615476 [general] general: many binaries are link

Bug#615476: general: many binaries are linked with non-existent libtiff.so.3 library

2011-02-26 Thread sergey
Package: general Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable Some programs can not start because of missing libtiff.so.3 file. I found libtiff.so.3 dependencies in this files on my system: /usr/bin/gnuplot /usr/bin/xfe /usr/bin/xfview /usr/bin/xfwrite /usr/bin/multiget /usr/bin/xfi

Re: MBF: switching away from homepage pseudo-header

2011-02-26 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
[ adding -qa for the neglected-packages-busting part ] On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 03:59:33PM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > My own reading of this thread is that we can go ahead with this MBF. > You can find attached the template and actual package list, ready for > mass-bug invocation. Barring n

Re: maintainer ignores bug

2011-02-26 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 11:45:46AM -0500, Michael Gilbert wrote: > On Sat, 26 Feb 2011 17:52:02 +0200 Dmitry Baryshev wrote: > > > Hello guys. > > > > I've filed a bug on reportbug, but its maintainer ignores it, No maintainer did not ignore it. He responded reasonably. > and continues

Re: Fun with libtool and cross-builds

2011-02-26 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Simon Josefsson schrieb: > Wookey writes: > > > At this points it calls the linker and adds -L/usr/lib on the front - > > thereby adding this path in front of the default cross-compiler path. > > Please try to debug where the -L/usr/lib comes from, I don't believe > libtool is adding this by

Re: Bug#612752: Bind fails to start if $OPENSSL_CONF is set

2011-02-26 Thread Michael Banck
On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 05:54:23PM +0100, Sean Finney wrote: > On Sat, 2011-02-26 at 14:32 +0100, Michael Banck wrote: > > > > > > The right way to do this is, IMNSHO, what systemd does and just have > > > init handle starting and stopping the job. That ensures there's no > > > inconsistency betw

Re: Bug#612752: Bind fails to start if $OPENSSL_CONF is set

2011-02-26 Thread Sean Finney
On Sat, 2011-02-26 at 14:32 +0100, Michael Banck wrote: > > > > The right way to do this is, IMNSHO, what systemd does and just have > > init handle starting and stopping the job. That ensures there's no > > inconsistency between boot-time starting and starting later by hand. > > Right, but it m

Re: maintainer ignores bug

2011-02-26 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Sat, 26 Feb 2011 17:52:02 +0200 Dmitry Baryshev wrote: > Hello guys. > > I've filed a bug on reportbug, but its maintainer ignores it, and continues > to close it without any troubleshooting or debug. I did a simple > troubleshooting by myself, but maintainer ignored it and closed the bug > ag

Re: Upcoming changes in Lintian & some bits

2011-02-26 Thread Raphael Geissert
Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: > On Wed, 2011-02-23 at 22:47 -0600, Raphael Geissert wrote: >> As a consequence of these changes, the new Lintian release will cause >> many existing overrides to no longer apply. We recognise that this will >> lead to some noise in the short term but are convinced that

maintainer ignores bug

2011-02-26 Thread Dmitry Baryshev
Hello guys. I've filed a bug on reportbug, but its maintainer ignores it, and continues to close it without any troubleshooting or debug. I did a simple troubleshooting by myself, but maintainer ignored it and closed the bug again. With whom I can talk about this strange situation? The bug itself:

Re: Bug#612752: Bind fails to start if $OPENSSL_CONF is set

2011-02-26 Thread Raphael Geissert
Timo Weingärtner wrote: >> Maybe start-stop-daemon should have an option to delete all but a >> specified set of environment variables, maybe even enabled by default. > > service (8) does that already. Exactly, and it is supposed to be the interface used by humans to start/stop/etc services sinc

Re: Bug#612752: Bind fails to start if $OPENSSL_CONF is set

2011-02-26 Thread Olaf van der Spek
On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 9:55 AM, Peter Palfrader wrote: > We should probably start a campaign in Debian to have all init scripts > sanitize the environment of daemons they start. > > I usually run initscripts using "env -i /etc/init.d/$foo start" to > achieve exactly that, but ideally the init scr

Re: Bug#612752: Bind fails to start if $OPENSSL_CONF is set

2011-02-26 Thread Michael Banck
On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 11:43:50AM +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > ]] Timo Weingärtner > > | service (8) does that already. > > The right way to do this is, IMNSHO, what systemd does and just have > init handle starting and stopping the job. That ensures there's no > inconsistency between boot-

Re: What's up with buildd logs?

2011-02-26 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 10:05:44AM +, Roger Leigh wrote: > On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 09:29:01PM -0600, Steve M. Robbins wrote: > > Hi, > > > > The buildd system is generally quite fabulous, but why does > > https://buildd.debian.org/build.cgi?pkg=insighttoolkit show version > > 3.8.0-1? This ve

Re: What's up with buildd logs?

2011-02-26 Thread Roger Leigh
On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 09:29:01PM -0600, Steve M. Robbins wrote: > Hi, > > The buildd system is generally quite fabulous, but why does > https://buildd.debian.org/build.cgi?pkg=insighttoolkit show version > 3.8.0-1? This version is neither sid, not stable, nor oldstable. I'm not involved with t