Bug#625257: Strict dependencies due to __abort_msg

2011-05-02 Thread Scott James Remnant
If upstart crashes, a crash dump is most definitely saved. Upstart handles SIGSEGV by catching it and forking a child and unmasking that signal in the handler - this means it's an Upstart child process that actually crashes and dumps core while the parent waits for it to exit and reaps it. This is

Bug#625257: libnih1: uninstallable in sid

2011-05-02 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 1:07 PM, brian m. carlson < sand...@crustytoothpaste.net> wrote: > libnih1 depends on libc6 (< 2.12). libc6 2.13 is now in unstable, > rendering libnih1 uninstallable. I'm not sure why such a strict > dependency would be needed, but perhaps a mention in the documentation >

Bug#518412: linux-2.6 install errors due to incompatible depmod files [was Re: Bug#518412: initramfs-tools: must support relative paths in modules.dep ]

2009-03-20 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Fri, 2009-03-20 at 12:05 +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Mar 20, Scott James Remnant wrote: > > > Doesn't Debian run depmod in the postinst of the kernel package - and > > iirc, again on boot anyway? > Not anymore on boot, but I can't see why depmod shoul

Bug#518412: linux-2.6 install errors due to incompatible depmod files [was Re: Bug#518412: initramfs-tools: must support relative paths in modules.dep ]

2009-03-20 Thread Scott James Remnant
e > exists and fix things locally for my own use case. > Doesn't Debian run depmod in the postinst of the kernel package - and iirc, again on boot anyway? In which case, you'd always have module files that match the version of depmod in the host environment not the build environment

Bug#398488: libgecode7-dev should be libgecode8-dev to match SONAME

2006-11-13 Thread Scott James Remnant
Package: gecode Severity: serious The source package as exists in Debian generates a libgecode8 binary package that contains, as one would expect, a libgecode.so.8 library. Yet the matching development binary package is named libgecode7-dev, while it contains a libgecode.so that links to libgecod

Bug#368969: rounding error causes generation of invalid filesystems

2006-05-26 Thread Scott James Remnant
ndeed a bug here. Note that although the patch is against 2.2r2, the difference is small enough that it will apply successfully to 3.0 Scott -- Scott James Remnant [EMAIL PROTECTED] diff -ruNp squashfs-2.2r2~/squashfs-tools/mksquashfs.c squashfs-2.2r2/squashfs-tools/mksquashfs.c --- squashfs-

Bug#329468: Bug#322309: Debian woody dpkg no longer works with recent linux kernel.

2005-10-09 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Mon, 2005-10-10 at 00:16 +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote: > dpkg in Debian woody (3.0) is broken by recent linux kernels; > due to the following command changing behavior (mmap of > zero-byte length): > > addr=mmap(NULL, 0, PROT_READ, MAP_SHARED, fd, 0); > > These bugs are caused by mmap chang

Bug#317082: Not just a dpkg bug

2005-08-17 Thread Scott James Remnant
reassign 317082 libc6-dev,dpkg-dev thanks I managed to grab Matthias Klose and he helped me get a working demo of the problem on my lowly i386, and I understand the bug now -- there's some missing context in the above mails. For those following, the problem is that people are building 64-bit libr

Bug#317082: Uh, help!

2005-08-16 Thread Scott James Remnant
tags 317082 moreinfo thanks Unfortunately I don't have either a 64-bit platform, or any real knowledge of them. I've read this bug a dozen times, and I have absolutely no idea what I'm supposed to do about it. Could someone please supply a guide for idiots/dpkg maintainers or better yet, a patch

Bug#320925: leaks dpkg.log filedescriptor to child processes

2005-08-16 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Fri, 2005-08-05 at 18:38 +0300, Török Edvin wrote: > I have made a patch that sets close-on-exec. Tell me if this is what > you expected, and if my patch really fixes what you meant. > Also please test if dpkg still works correctly > That kinda patches gettext Already fixed this one, yet ano

Bug#313605:

2005-07-15 Thread Scott James Remnant
severity 313605 minor thanks This bug should not be "serious", it is not a severe violation of Debian policy, and does not, in my opinion make the package unsuitable for release. Neither is it "grave" (it does not make dpkg unusuable, or mostly so, or introduce a security hole) or "critical" (in

Bug#313605: Resolving these bugs ...

2005-06-15 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Tue, 2005-06-14 at 17:24 -0400, Michael Stone wrote: > On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 09:29:22PM +0100, Scott James Remnant wrote: > >Until your package is ready to provide md5sum itself, we need something > >to make sure it's there -- we can't have a system without it.

Bug#313605: Resolving these bugs ...

2005-06-14 Thread Scott James Remnant
Clearly we're not getting anywhere by filing bugs on each other's packages and trading well-judged insults ... Something has to provide /usr/bin/md5sum, your package (coreutils) has the best implementation of that. If you also want to provide /usr/bin/md5sum.textutils, that's your call. Until yo

Bug#313605: dpkg removes a file from another package using a local diversion

2005-06-14 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Tue, 2005-06-14 at 15:28 -0400, Michael Stone wrote: > On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 04:19:20PM +0100, Scott James Remnant wrote: > >On Tue, 2005-06-14 at 10:57 -0400, Michael Stone wrote: > >> dpkg has made the md5sum.textutils binary from the coreutils binary > >> unava

Bug#302995: gettext: ftbfs on sparc

2005-04-04 Thread Scott James Remnant
severity 302995 normal tags 302995 - sid thanks On Mon, 2005-04-04 at 02:13 +0200, Santiago Vila wrote: > On Sun, 3 Apr 2005, Blars Blarson wrote: > > > gettext failed to build from source on the sparc buildd, however it > > built fine on my sparc pbuilder. The buildd log lacks some things > >

Bug#294895: Patch for a2ps

2005-03-12 Thread Scott James Remnant
severity 294895 normal reassign 294895 apt thanks On Fri, 2005-03-11 at 12:20 +0100, Frank KÃster wrote: > Thank you. This clearly shows that there was no attempt to configure > emacsen-common before giving the error message about a2ps: > On closer examination, a2ps and emacsen-common are being

Bug#294895: [DPKG] emacsen-common package not configured before a2ps despite Depends

2005-03-12 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Sat, 2005-03-12 at 02:03 -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > Is it certain that this is a dpkg bug? I notice that the submitter's > typescript shows he was using apt 0.5.27 when upgrading, which was before > the Dpkg::MaxArgs setting was bumped to 1024 -- the first typescript shows a > total of 640

Bug#295169: dpkg: [S-S-D] start-stop-daemon doesn't set HOME enviroment variable when switching users via --chuid

2005-02-14 Thread Scott James Remnant
severity 295169 normal retitle 265169 "[S-S-D] doesn't set HOME enviroment variable when switching users via --chuid" thanks merge 265169 267784 thanks On Sun, 2005-02-13 at 23:42 -0500, Adam R. Skutt wrote: >Justification: breaks unrelated software > Software using start-stop-daemon is implicit