> On Fri, 26 Jan 2018 12:07:37 + (UTC), Jens Sadowski
> said:
> 698 if ((unsigned char )*ch < NT_NUM_KEYS)
> 699 cmd = CurrentKeyMap[(unsigned char )*ch];
> With this, the problem goes completely away (no complaint in
> On Wed, 31 Jan 2018 10:41:38 + (UTC), Jens Sadowski
> said:
> Here is the complete contents of $version:
> tcsh 6.20.00 (Astron) 2016-11-24 (x86_64-unknown-linux) options
wide,nls,dl,al,kan,sm,rh,nd,color,filec
> Isn't ubuntu built on debian?
> On Sat, 10 Feb 2018 10:18:15 +0530, Ritesh Raj Sarraf
> said:
> I don't have much experience with dracut. Is dracut a drop-in
> replacement for initramfs-tools ?
No, it's not a drop-in replacement, we may have to adjust the
multipath hooks. But dracut already
The new version 047 now supports early microcode. Please check if this
also work in Debian or if we still need some changes.
>From the NEWS file:
- enable 'early_microcode' by default
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> On Sun, 25 Feb 2018 18:37:22 +0100, Maximilian Stein
> said:
> I am wondering if there is a possibility to configure mount binds with
> fai-setup-storage. Right now, I am adding the lines to /etc/fstab
> using hooks as they are required for the rest of the
I'm not sure when you really need the bind mounts during
installation. If they are only needed when the customization scripts
are executed, you could use ainsl(1) in one of your scripts and then
add the admin user.
If you really need the bind mounts before, go and use a hook. This is
really easy
I wonder if we can achieve the same by using apt pinning (man
apt_preferences), for e.g. writing a file to /etc/apt/preferences.d/.
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Package: www.debian.org
Severity: wishlist
Dear webmasters,
I like to add a section "Why Debian" on the home page where we
describe why the beginners should use Debian. We should describe what Debian
distinguishes from other distributions. Here's an example of items, but
there are just copied
Package: www.debian.org
Severity: normal
Dear webmasters,
in distrib/index.wml we have the text
You can download all of it from any of our
mirrors.
But ftplist.wml does not list the mirrors at all, instead it repeats
a lot of other information and includes a link to the page which lists
the
My proposal for a better home page also includes a slighty increased
font size of the download button. This is not perfect, but is IMO a
simple change that helps a lot.
diff -u debhome.css /scratch/debian-homepage
--- debhome.css 2018-07-26 17:36:02.496582177 +0200
+++
I repeated my tests with debootstrap 1.0.106 on buster and everything
went OK. The directory that is generated using the original functions
file and the patched one are the same. Here are the debootstrap calls
I've tested so far:
debootstrap stretch
debootstrap --variant=minbase stretch
Package: www.debian.org
In the footer of every page we list the date the page was last
modified. Currently this information is completly useless, because it
does not show a correct date. e.g.
https://www.debian.org/women/
Last Modified: Fri, Jun 1 18:42:17 UTC 2018
Let's look into the git
> On Sun, 5 Aug 2018 06:40:23 +0100, Steve McIntyre said:
> Definitely it should stay - a major part of the usefulness of many
> pages is "can I trust this to be up to date?". If desired, I'm happy
That's excatly what I tried to accomplish. Either remove it or have
the correct
> On Sat, 04 Aug 2018 19:32:17 +0200, Laura Arjona Reina
> said:
> The content is current.
That's good.
> The date shown is the date of last build. This can be the date when
something changed in the page (content or layout), in the templates used to
build that page (e.g. a
Package: www.debian.org
Severity: whishlist
On the page https://www.debian.org/support mostly all links to the
newsgroups are needless, because except for
comp.os.linux.networking
comp.os.linux.misc
those newsgroups are stalled.
Please remove whole part about newsgroups or remove at least
OK, we have ONE person that still likes newsgroups. But nevertheless
most newsgroups (except two) are outdated and do not have useful
information any more. Can we remove the outdated newsgroups?
I would like to focus on less information which are up to date,
instead of collecting a lot of
ypbind is started by /etc/init.d/nis which includes this:
# Required-Start: $network $portmap $remote_fs
There's not ypbind.service or any other .service file inside the nis
package. Maybe this is a problem?
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I've tested nis nis_3.17.1-1 and nis_3.17.1-2 on a nis client running
buster.
nis_3.17.1-1 works without problems. After a reboot, nis is running.
With nis_3.17.1-2, after a reboot nis is not working. If I log in via
the console and do a systemctl restart nis, ypbind is not
started. But when I
> On Tue, 21 Aug 2018 15:50:33 +0100, Nuno Oliveira said:
> host:~> diff /etc/default/nis /etc/default/nis.orig
> 28,29c28
> < #YPBINDARGS=-no-dbus
> < YPBINDARGS=
> ---
>> YPBINDARGS=-no-dbus
>
I can confirm that this fix also works for me.
Thanks for
The Perl script shown in this post sets the mtime (and atime) to
the last commit time. Works very well and needs only 7 sec for the
whole webwml repository on my notebook.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2458042/restore-a-files-modification-time-in-git#
I think we only need this run once,
I can confirm this bug. I use a Debian NIS master (still on stretch)
but on a buster client, the nis service is not started during booting
# systemctl|grep nis says:
nis.service loaded active exited LSB: Start NIS client and server daemons
# journalctl
buster nis[702]: Starting NIS
IMO the bug is not in dracut, but only in sicherboot.
>From the control file:
This package diverts the /etc/kernel/postinst.d/dracut file and replace it
with its own file that calls the diverted one before running sicherboot,
as dracut does not support any form of hooks. dpkg is not entirely
The problem is not that is needs qemu-debootstrap, but that an empty
EXCLUDE_BUSTER variable causes this error. This is fixed in this commit
https://github.com/faiproject/fai-config/commit/cdf891bef0eb1cd154427113dc0427185d916d7c
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> On Thu, 21 Jun 2018 22:50:05 -0400, Stefan Monnier
> said:
> specifies the root partition via "root=/dev/mapper/VG-root" so there's
> no need for any UUID to find the root partition. And since dracut
> is not configured in "hostonly" mode, I did not expect any problem.
Package: multipath-tools-boot
Version: 0.6.4-5
multipath-tools-boot depends on initramfs-tools instead of
linux-initramfs-tool. This prevents using multipath with dracut, a
initramfs-tools replacement. linux-initramfs-tool is provided by
dracut and initramfs-tools.
regards Thomas
> On Fri, 6 Apr 2018 20:44:48 +0200, Bastian Blank said:
>> If the variable is not set at all, the default will be to check the
>> variable names.
> Parse error.
The default behaviour will be to check the package names, also if the
new variable is not set.
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Version: 5.5.3
Severity: wishlist
I will tag this bug as a wishlist bug, since it's more about a better
error message.
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I've optimized the regexp to
targetarch=$(echo "$(expr "$FAI_DEBOOTSTRAP_OPTS" :
'.*--arch[=[:space:]]\([^[:space:]]*\)' || true)" | tail -n 1)
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> On Mon, 9 Apr 2018 19:15:40 +0200, Martin Krämer
> said:
> PACKAGES install-norec ARMHF
> grub-efi-arm
> #grub-uboot
> linux-image-armmp
This is now also included.
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This is my first idea for a fix.
Adding a new variable, which can be defined in class/*.var or defined
before calling fai-diskimage. This will then disable then ckeck inside
install_packages for unknown package names. I have two proposals for
variable names:
FAI_PACKAGE_NAME_CHECK=0
or
> On Mon, 19 Mar 2018 23:05:26 +, "Alexander M. Wirtz"
> said:
> Happy to support the hunt, please advise.
Please add you locales setting, by sending the output of the command
locale
Then start a new tcsh with
strace -o /tmp/log tcsh
and check if you can
I can now reproduce this bug. The combination of the locale with an
umlaut causes the segfault.
The tcsh home page is down since some time, so we may not get help
from upstream. I have to check the Ubuntu sources, to see which patch
I can include into the Debian version. I'm not sure, when I will
> On Wed, 28 Feb 2018 10:14:24 +0100, Markus Hennebach
> said:
> Some services (e.g. 389-ds -> setup-ds) require running Systemd services
for
> their configuration.
The problem is not that FAI is not running systemd, but that inside
the chroot FAI
> On Tue, 02 Oct 2018 15:56:14 +0200, Reiner Schulz
> said:
> Please use ${parameter:-word} to export romountopt in /usr/sbin/fai
> for ex:
> export romountopt=${romountopt:-"-o
async,noatime,nolock,ro,actimeo=1800"}
Thanks for this patch. It's now included. See
I did a test with a hook that exits with an error. This is what
appears in fai.log:
mountdisks.DEFAULT FAILED with exit code 77.
Hooks are not affected by this bug report.
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It's easy to extend the savelog.LAST.sh with a few lines, so all error
lines also appear on the screen and in fai.log
--- savelog.LAST.sh 2018-07-26 13:59:33.678976391 +0200
+++ /home//savelog.LAST.sh 2018-10-11 02:28:31.947821982 +0200
@@ -203,6 +203,9 @@
if [ -s $errfile ]; then
Here's a patch for this:
https://github.com/faiproject/fai/commit/f5bfc186e796f68823a36ca04a97f17e01ca233d
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Are all cloud providers need this special partitioning scheme?
We may use gdisk (export mode, transpose) to fix the partition number
in FAI.
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This bug was filed because growpart wants to grow only the first
partition.
On IRC you've said: re-ordering the partition table in the first place is an
easier task
It's not easier with FAI, since the partition numbers cannot be
defined. Adding such a feature into FAI (setup-storage) would be a
It's possible to ignore the volume groups of the host system by
setting the variable SS_IGNORE_VG. See man setup-storage for details.
This may help, but I'm not sure if it fixes this completly.
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In fai-diskimage we use this line to set the variable
export SS_IGNORE_VG=$(vgs --unbuffered --noheadings -o name --rows)
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> On Mon, 24 Sep 2018 16:10:56 +0200, Michael Schaller
> said:
> Could the error message be improved in this case so that it is more
> obvious what is going wrong here?
I have no LVM setup here ATM. I like to see the content of the Perl
hash %vg_info in sub get_current_lvm in
> On Wed, 26 Sep 2018 12:43:44 +0200, Michael Schaller
> said:
> %vg_info = {
> 'cur_lv' => '2',
> 'cur_pv' => '1',
> 'pe_size_unit' => 'MiB',
> 'vg_size' => '<476.22',
> 'uuid' =>
Package: fai-server
Severity: minor
When using a variable in package_config/* then fai-mirror will fail to
download these packages, because is does not execute the scripts in
class/*.var which sets the variables. Example in which $release is used:
Downloading packages for classes: AMD64 ARM64
Did you get any info, if the stable release team is willing to accept
this new version in stable?
IMO we should raise the severity of this bug to critical, because it
"makes unrelated software on the system break". Here the https
websites will be broken.
I really would like to see the new
> On Fri, 21 Dec 2018 01:27:09 +1300, Andrew Ruthven
> said:
> Using the default of cryptsetup sounds sane, however I'd still like the
> option of over riding this.
OK, then I can just remove this code, and it's still possible to set
your own parameters. Here's the diff
diff
I was also thinking about the choice of removing this option and using
the default of crytpsetup.
@Andrew: What's you oppinion on this, since you've added the code for
lukscreateopts?
> On Thu, 20 Dec 2018 12:53:03 +0100, Michael Schaller
> said:
> Thanks. Is there a particular
> On Thu, 20 Dec 2018 13:15:01 +0100, Michael Schaller
> said:
> I think this is a bit overkill. I would just duplicated the code that
> you currently have for /boot:
>
This is now the fix, which I tested using a loop device.
Also works with a /boot/efi partition.
https://github.com/faiproject/fai/commit/d120c26c788b13b83f60f3bd1f3f5feb65cc7a55
Example:
disk_config disk1 disklabel:gpt fstabkey:uuid align-at:1M
primary /boot 64M vfat rw
primary
Yes a proper diff or patch file would be great.
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Sorry my fault. Sure it's possible and I've already downloaded the
patch. But I'm not sure when I will upload a new Debian version.
Thanks for reporting this bug and fix to me.
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I guess my idea was that you set the default using the file-modes
file and then can override it in a script using the cmdline option if
you need different modes for the same file in different scripts.
But it seems also reasonable to change this.
So you like to change the precedence so that the
> On Fri, 04 Jan 2019 06:07:38 +0100, Bastian Blank said:
> Severity: grave
Hi Bastian,
since you did not justified why this bug is grave, I will downgrade
it to normal.
Did you tried to set STOP_ON_ERROR to a lower value?
You are right the exit code of a hook can only be less than
Hmm, not easy to fix. In the meantime I would use a simple sed -e
s/luks/luks,discard/ command.
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The commit
https://github.com/faiproject/fai/commit/87fc89720f4084957d1a4109c03ec2cedb31bb9c
now includes a fix for it.
You can use lukscreateopts in the disk_config file in the same way as
createopts or tuneopts. There are examples for those in the
setup-storage man page.
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It seems that setup-storage does not handle /boot/efi in any special
way.
So the easiest way to get the ESP partition into the yml file is to
add a hook (or to add it later into FAI) which does something like this:
esppart=$(df --output=source /boot/efi|grep -v Filesystem)
echo $esppart >> .
These are the remaining files I see after doing a complete build
IMO we can remove all remaining .cvsignore files and put these items
into .gitignore
$ git st
On branch master
Your branch is up-to-date with 'origin/master'.
Untracked files:
(use "git add ..." to include in what will be
In the cron repository I found these files which may be obsolete after
moving to git:
log_accum.pl
commit_prep2
.cvsignore
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I wonder why bsd.license is needed in /misc, because it's not
referenced except in the makefile
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The links to the logos, banners and mirrors are not needed because we
have them also on the devel page.
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the link to mirroring Debian is also available on the /devel page
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I've cleanuped most cvsinore content in https://deb.li/D5uF.
Still some entries left, but I don't know if this is still needs to be
merged into gitignore.
I guess we can also remove those files:
cvsup.py
cvs-revisions
Perl/Local/Cvsinfo.pm
Perl/Local/VCS_CVS.pm
Any objections? I can do the
The documentation how to do sparseCheckout is included in
the using_git web page.
IMO we can now close this bug.
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Package: fai-setup-storage
Version: 5.7.3
Tags: patch
repartitionning using a lvm configuration file and the option
preserve_reinstall fails with the message : "Command had non-zero exit code"
The log also says:
Previous partitions overflow begin of preserved partition /dev/sda2
It seems that
$doit = 1;
if ($cllist) {
diff -Nru fai-5.8.3/debian/changelog fai-5.8.4/debian/changelog
--- fai-5.8.3/debian/changelog 2019-03-12 17:03:56.0 +0100
+++ fai-5.8.4/debian/changelog 2019-03-27 22:44:02.0 +0100
@@ -1,3 +1,19 @@
+fai (5.8.4) unstable; urgency=low
+
+ [ Thomas L
It seems that the "last built" date is now correct. But "last
modified" is still not correct if you compare the date from the last
git entry of a file with to the date on the corresponding page.
e.g. support.wml
commit f02dd5c5317327a28418df772a9ca267b58e45ea
Author: Thoma
Package: www.debian.org
The Debian cloud team is not listed even if it has some official
delegates.
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We can remove /misc/laptops/, because its content can be removed.
The link to the mailing lists is already reachable via support -> mailing lists
https://wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebianOn/ is not that important,
since it's in our wiki. It may fit onto the support or documentation page.
The
lchown is only needed if a symlink needs to be changed.
One option would be to add some code which does only loads this perl
module if we have a symlink.
This conditional loading of a Perl package can be done using
eval "require File::lchown"
If this fails, we cannot load the package, but the
Package: www.debian.org
All searches results on planet.debian.org are only until end of
2017. Newer entries are not shown.
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Package: www.debian.org
User: debian-...@lists.debian.org
Usertags: content
/doc lists outdated documtents in section HOWTO
These entries are old and outdated, please remove them
Hardware Compatibility HOWTO
- a version from 2007. Who wants to know if hardware from 2007 and before is
Remove the outdated /doc/docpolicy. Even the "current draft of the new
policy" is outdated and deprecated.
Instead of a whole policy manual which is outdated for a long time my
proposal is to just list a few things to consider on /doc.
Currently we have these items on /doc about the policy:
> On Mon, 8 Apr 2019 16:54:21 +0300, Andrei POPESCU
> said:
> I would suggest this should read "Every document must have at least one
> active maintainer" (regardless of what the Maintainer: field contains).
So you mean the usual Debian package maintainer? Then we do not need
to
If you access it via http, you will get code http 302 which is a
redirect. Browsers will then use https.
IMO we can close this bug now.
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I like to change the link to https://kmuto.jp/debian/hcl/
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, Thomas Lange, la...@informatik.uni-koeln.de
+# (c) 2004-2019, Thomas Lange, la...@informatik.uni-koeln.de
#
#*
# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
@@ -259,7 +259,7 @@
fi
# check
We should remove related_links.wml completely.
"Software that is DFSG compliant" just lists some projects but why
those and not others that are also DFSG compliant?
"Miscellaneous GNU/Linux links"
DebianForum.de, exDebian, Korean Debian Users should go into the
support page of the corresponding
Package: fai
Version: 5.8.1
Tags: patch
When no foreign architecture is defined and calling fai-make-nfsroot
for a foreign architecture (for e.g. using --arch i386 in nfsroot.conf)
you get a shell error.
/usr/sbin/fai-make-nfsroot: line 271: [: too many arguments
79.patch
Description:
Package: fai-client
Version: 5.8.1
Severity: normal
When installing a client using a lvm partition setting up the lvm2
package hangs for a long time.
stracing show, that it tries to acces some files in /run/udev, which
does not exist inside /target.
FAI needs to mount /run or at least /run/udev
> On Sun, 27 Jan 2019 02:27:08 +0100, Ingo Saitz
> said:
> When generating an initrd with bash 5.0-2 installed, the generated initrd
> fails to boot with the error message:
I cannot confirm this bug. I have a VM installed with buster and bash
5.0-2. After generating a new initrd
Package: www.debian.org
User: debian-...@lists.debian.org
Usertags: content
I like to remove very old and outdated content.
Links -> "Debian Linux Installation & Getting Started article in the Linux
Gazette" links to an article from 1997.
The section "Todo List" has two links which point to
It would be great if someone can check the link to DDP-BR on
/doc/ddp. For me it seems DDP-BR also is outdated. The wiki lists a
Debian release from 2015.
Looking at "Documentos" it see a lot of links not working. Also
several links under those sections reply with "Server not found":
Documentos
> On Sat, 6 Apr 2019 23:58:10 +0200, Laura Arjona Reina
> said:
> I still have no opinion about this bug, I'll try to put time on getting
> #92 fixed first
Hi Laura,
in #92 you propose excatly what I like to do with the problematic
manuals on /doc/ddp:
"remove them from
I will remove the section "Manuals for GNU/Linux in general" if there
are no opbjections.
It only contains links to tldp.org that are all outdated and really do
not give any useful information for the user.
IMO we should also focus on Debian related documentation.
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I will replace the Howto section in /doc by this if there are no objections.
HOWTOs
The https://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/HOWTO-INDEX/categories.html;>HOWTO
documents, like their name says, describe how to do something, and they
usually cover a more specific subject.
P.S.:
There's no need in
Package: www.debian.org
User: debian-...@lists.debian.org
Usertags: content
I want to remove /events/requirements.wml. Any objections?
This text was written in 2001 and I cannot see any meaning in this text.
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to workaround changes in bash-5 while fsck'ing,
+Closes: #920563
+
+ -- Thomas Lange Tue, 07 May 2019 13:11:11 +0200
+
dracut (048+80-1) unstable; urgency=low
* new upstream
diff -Nru dracut-048+80/debian/patches/bash5-fix
dracut-048+80/debian/patches/bash5-fix
--- dracut-048+80/debian
> On Wed, 17 Apr 2019 14:57:31 -0400, Felix Miata
> said:
> I have more Buster installations not yet using latest kernel. If you
could point
> to how to capture better information before I do another apt upgrade it
could be
> very helpful.
please prove the output of
dpkg
OK, this is not a dracut bug, because you are using initramfs-tools.
I will reassign the bug to the other package.
Are your installations on real hardware or in a VM?
This bug reminds me on a blog post about slow booting. Maybe this is related?
Hi Lehel, hi Ingo,
it would be nice if you could check if fix-bash-5.patch from the URL
below fixes your problems.
I sure will also apply
0001-remove-bashism-in-various-boot-scripts.patch which is now also in upstream.
> On Sat, 4 May 2019 18:30:09 +0200, Lehel Bernadt said:
> For
Package: fai-setup-storage
Version: 5.8.4
When using a GPT disk label the partition /boot/efi needs the flag boot.
This is not set.
It's also not set when using the FAI option gpt-bios.
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> On Wed, 8 May 2019 19:12:00 +, Eric Wong said:
> ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'libdnf'
I think there's a package missing which provides the libdnf module. In
F28 we had the libdnf package included. Check if this package was
installed.
Do you have more log files?
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> On Thu, 11 Jul 2019 10:16:25 +0200, Michael Prokop said:
> it's *way* faster (debootstrap takes >2mins, while mmdebstrap takes
> only ~20 seconds).
In my environment debootstrap only takes 31 sec and mmdebstrap
14 sec. So, the absolute gain is not that big. In debootstrap 1.0.112
Here's a fix for it:
https://github.com/faiproject/fai/commit/48617289787eabfc1d1437a9e261af3dd7cea120
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In commit
https://salsa.debian.org/webmaster-team/webwml/commit/00ee01a963076d499ecc72b4197a38bf69001e36
I removed some of the items in /misc
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Hi Felix,
I wonder what you mean by "Version: update-initramfs"?
> Versions of packages dracut depends on:
> pn dracut-core
Are you really using dracut?
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Package: tcsh
Version: 6.21.00-1
Fixed: 6.21.00-1
Currently I'm building the next tcsh version, which fixed this bug.
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Currently /misc only links to two more subpages,
misc/awards and misc/merchandise
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On the web sprint in 3/2019 we decided that the /devel/people page is
of no real use and that we will remove it. See also
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=251218#15
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we decided to remove /devel/people.
See also 657647 and 727738
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