Bug#768650: mtr: use setcap instead of setuid to reduce security attack surface

2014-11-08 Thread Andrew Suffield
Package: mtr Tags: patch, security This seems to have been fairly successful for iputils, so let's do it more. The attached patch causes mtr and mtr-tiny to be installed with a file capability for CAP_NET_RAW instead of being setuid root, which substantially reduces their privileges. I've shameles

Bug#564874: manpages: Please ship ld.so manpage

2013-07-22 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 08:28:43PM +0200, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote: > Yup, I already noticed that older LD_ASSUME_KERNEL values > gave results such as the above. However, I was not sure > of the intention of your response? Did you mean that the > proposed text should be changed? If so, co

Bug#564874: manpages: Please ship ld.so manpage

2013-07-20 Thread Andrew Suffield
Things from my past coming back to haunt me, but if people want to keep ccing me... On Sat, Jul 20, 2013 at 10:15:25PM +0200, Michael Kerrisk wrote: > Yes. I've never been quite sure though whether the particular > kernel versions to specify for LD_ASSUME_KERNEL when > selecting the threading impl

Bug#645309: debpartial-mirror: cannot handle duplicate entries in Packages

2011-10-14 Thread Andrew Suffield
Package: debpartial-mirror Version: 0.2.99 Severity: grave (Normally important, but bumped to RC because it's breaking for security updates on squeeze and that needs to not happen) If a Packages file contains two entries for the same package name, debpartial-mirror will die with this exception:

Bug#639916: spread: license wackiness

2011-08-31 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 07:28:03PM +0200, Francesco Poli wrote: > On Wed, 31 Aug 2011 15:50:27 +0100 Andrew Suffield wrote: > > > Package: spread > > Severity: serious > > > > "3. All advertising materials (including web pages) mentioning > > features

Bug#639916: spread: license wackiness

2011-08-31 Thread Andrew Suffield
Package: spread Severity: serious "3. All advertising materials (including web pages) mentioning features or use of this software, or software that uses this software, must display the following acknowledgment: "This product uses software developed by Spread Concepts LLC for use in the Spread t

Bug#639713: debian-installer: grub-install fails during squeeze install if /boot is on raid and mdadm was not installed

2011-08-29 Thread Andrew Suffield
Package: debian-installer It may require a preseed file to get this to happen. Regardless, something should have added mdadm to the list of packages to install if raid devices were used.

Bug#628150: partman-auto: Conspires to commit inappropriate error reporting when expert recipe fails to parse

2011-05-27 Thread Andrew Suffield
Package: partman-auto When there is a parse error in the start of a line in an expert recipe, it responds as follows: The minimum partition size is set to 22, with a comment in the source remarking "there is no so big storage device jet". Since the recipe does not fit on the disk, it fil

Bug#467563: camlp5 strict vs transitional

2010-07-10 Thread Andrew Suffield
The request is still applicable; the suggested solution is poor. A given piece of software may wish to use both strict and transitional versions on different components. A better solution is to build it both ways and supply /usr/bin/camlp5 for transitional, and /usr/bin/camlp5-strict for strict (y

Bug#578171: mysql-server-5.1: install fails when password contains quote

2010-04-17 Thread Andrew Suffield
Package: mysql-server-5.1 On a fresh install, using a password with a " in it causes this failure: ERROR: 1064 You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near '""") WHERE user='root'' at line 1 Obviously a l

Bug#570165: avahi-daemon hangs

2010-02-17 Thread Andrew Suffield
I just observed this behaviour on one server. No relevant debug output, no obvious trigger, but at random intervals avahi causes all network services to lock up. Uninstalling avahi makes the problem go away. I can't take that box down to debug it further. It should never have been installed in the

Bug#564874: manpages: Please ship ld.so manpage

2010-01-12 Thread Andrew Suffield
Package: manpages Version: 3.23-1 Severity: normal The current ld.so manpage is from glibc. It's gratuitously out of date and just plain wrong in places. The one in manpages is current and reasonably accurate. Please arrange for the version from manpages to be shipped instead of the glibc version.

Bug#563714: xemacs21: crash (assertion failed) when calling function from haskell-mode

2010-01-04 Thread Andrew Suffield
Package: xemacs21 Version: 21.4.22-2 Severity: important asuffi...@cyclone:~$ xemacs -vanilla -batch -eval "(haskell-mode)" -eval "(turn-on-haskell-ghci)" haskell-ghci is obsolete. Loading haskell-ghci...Fatal error: assertion failed, file bytecode.c, line 1479, ABORT() Aborted (core dumped) Ob

Bug#538757: panic:restartop and segfault in perl interpreter

2009-07-26 Thread Andrew Suffield
Package: perl Version: 5.10.0-24 asuffi...@cyclone:~/work/perl-bug$ cat One.pm package One; use Moose; use overload '""' => 'stringify'; use Two; asuffi...@cyclone:~/work/perl-bug$ cat Two.pm package Two; One->new(); asuffi...@cyclone:~/work/perl-bug$ perl -MOne panic: restartop Segmentation fault

Bug#476692: [Linux-ha-dev] Re: Bug#476692: heartbeat: OCF Filesystem agent doesn't check /proc/mounts

2008-04-21 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 10:22:01AM +0100, David Lee wrote: > Solaris doesn't have a "/proc/mounts". What it does have is the ability > (like Linux) to list the kernel mount table from a simple "mount" command. Irritatingly, the Linux 'mount' command doesn't do this, it merely dumps out whatever i

Bug#476700: heartbeat: failed html to text conversions

2008-04-18 Thread Andrew Suffield
Package: heartbeat [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat /usr/share/doc/heartbeat/GettingStarted.txt Lynx or w3m or user-defined HTML2TXT required to convert GettingStarted.html to GettingStarted.txt Presumably a build error. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Bug#476692: heartbeat: OCF Filesystem agent doesn't check /proc/mounts

2008-04-18 Thread Andrew Suffield
Package: heartbeat The OCF Filesystem agent uses this code to monitor the mounted filesystems: list_mounts() { if [ -f "/etc/mtab" -a -r "/etc/mtab" ]; then cut -d' ' -f1,2,3

Bug#425694: kaya: uninstallable (dependency on g++-4.0)

2007-05-23 Thread Andrew Suffield
Package: kaya Severity: serious The following packages have unmet dependencies. kaya: Depends: g++-4.0 but it is not installable -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#406704: iceweasel: about dialog has bogus 'license' text

2007-01-16 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Mon, Jan 15, 2007 at 07:57:00PM -0500, Eric Dorland wrote: > I'm getting some pushback from upstream on this actually and on second > thought I'm leery to fuddle with someones copyright assertion, as > innocuous as it may be. I'm going to wait for upstream to make a > call. I find it deeply am

Bug#406704: iceweasel: about dialog has bogus 'license' text

2007-01-15 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Sun, Jan 14, 2007 at 04:50:23PM -0500, Eric Dorland wrote: > * Andrew Suffield ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Package: iceweasel > > > > The dialog displayed when selecting the Help -> About menu says 'All > > rights reserved'. That's just wrong. &g

Bug#406704: iceweasel: about dialog has bogus 'license' text

2007-01-12 Thread Andrew Suffield
Package: iceweasel The dialog displayed when selecting the Help -> About menu says 'All rights reserved'. That's just wrong. The page accessed via the about: URL has a link to about:license, which has the correct information. The dialog should say something similar. Also, the weasel looks like i

Bug#404465: /usr/games/dab: fails to reset terminal on exit

2006-12-25 Thread Andrew Suffield
Package: bsdgames Run dab. Hit q. Your terminal is now -inlcr -ocrnl -icanon. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#387515: cg-commit -p -m ignores -p

2006-09-14 Thread Andrew Suffield
Package: cogito cg-commit -p -m ignores the -p argument and silently commits. Yes, this is documented, but it's still stupid behaviour; if the user had meant that, they would have just used -m alone. At the very least, it should abort with an error (on the basis that the command makes no sense);

Bug#231399: filelight: memory usage is obscene

2006-08-30 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 12:50:10AM +0200, Tomas Pospisek wrote: > >Running filelight over my 100Gb home directory (600k inodes, ~10 > >million files) resulted in it allocating 400Mb of memory, of which > >200Mb was actually used. > > Could you double check this? To me it looks like filelight is do

Bug#352431: O: icheck -- C interface ABI/API checker

2006-02-11 Thread Andrew Suffield
Package: wnpp Severity: normal I'm orphaning icheck. As far as I'm aware it doesn't have much of a userbase since the original plans for its deployment in Debian never happened, and I'm the upstream author, so it's probably dead now. Also the chances of anybody else understanding the thing are pre

Bug#352430: O: fspanel -- minimalist panel for X

2006-02-11 Thread Andrew Suffield
Package: wnpp Severity: normal I'm orphaning fspanel. This package is so simple that it should keep working for years; if X hadn't bitrotted under it then it would be releasing the same version in etch as in sarge. It probably doesn't need a maintainer, so it may as well stay in the archive even i

Bug#352429: O: cdrdao -- records CDs in Disk-At-Once (DAO) mode

2006-02-11 Thread Andrew Suffield
Package: wnpp Severity: normal I'm orphaning cdrdao, since I actually don't need it any more (a combination of bchunk, xine, daemon-tools, and effective dvd burning on my desktop means that I no longer need to actually put this stuff on CDs) and it's a real bitch to look after. Buyer beware, this

Bug#351582: O: tla -- arch revision control system

2006-02-05 Thread Andrew Suffield
Package: wnpp Severity: normal I'm orphaning tla; I don't really use the thing any more. The package description is: arch is a revision control system with features that are ideal for projects characterised by widely distributed development, concurrent support of multiple releases, and substan

Bug#351583: O: arch-buildpackage -- tools for maintaining Debian packages using arch

2006-02-05 Thread Andrew Suffield
Package: wnpp Severity: normal I'm orphaning arch-buildpackage, since I don't really use arch now. The package description is: arch-buildpackage is a set of tools to simplify maintaining Debian packages with arch. It is oriented around configurations, in order to avoid placing restrictions on

Bug#347241: cdrdao: cue2toc and its manpage are still in the package

2006-01-19 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 08:26:46AM -0500, Edward J. Shornock wrote: > cue2toc still exists in the upgraded package: Argh, fiddling with the damn diff and lost the damn change before uploading, I'll take care of it tomorrow. -- Andrew Suffield signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#348748: O: dancer-services

2006-01-18 Thread Andrew Suffield
Package: wnpp Severity: normal I don't use this any more. It's also fragile and hasn't been properly maintained upstream in years. If nobody wants it, it should be removed. -- Andrew Suffield signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#348746: O: dancer-ircd

2006-01-18 Thread Andrew Suffield
Package: wnpp Severity: normal I don't use this any more. It's not maintained upstream and not likely to be, but it doesn't really need much maintaining upstream. -- Andrew Suffield signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#346684: intent to upload sponsored NMU to fix xlibs-dev bug

2006-01-16 Thread Andrew Suffield
/bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=346684;msg=20 -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- | signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#346684: Intend to NMU fspanel

2006-01-15 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Sun, Jan 15, 2006 at 06:05:58PM +0100, Nico Golde wrote: > I intend to NMU fspanel package, are you already working on > the bug? It's on my todo list for the next few days. This bug is less than a week old. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :'

Bug#348154: lvm2: fails to upgrade (and probably install)

2006-01-15 Thread Andrew Suffield
= 0 ]; then You cannot do this in set -e. The script will always abort and fail if $? is not zero. You'll have to set +e or put the if around the command. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `'

Bug#346416: samba: panic actions script is useless because samba is built with -pie

2006-01-07 Thread Andrew Suffield
-disable-pie to configure. This misfeature was added upstream in samba 3.0.20. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- | signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#346409: gdb: fails to function at all on stuff linked with -pie

2006-01-07 Thread Andrew Suffield
0x612: Input/output error. I couldn't find anything that actually worked, gdb does not appear to understand these binaries at all. Most notably, it cannot attach to their processes and produce a stack trace, which is proving to be quite problematic for debugging samba.

Bug#346394: samba-dbg: no symbols for anything but samba

2006-01-07 Thread Andrew Suffield
Package: samba-dbg There's no debugging symbols for anything from the winbind, libsmbclient, and smbclient packages (at least) - in fact, nothing except the contents of the samba package itself. I don't think you meant to do that. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux

Bug#346381: glurp: misplaced glurp.svg

2006-01-07 Thread Andrew Suffield
xmaps/glurp.svg Not that it seems to affect anything. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- | signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#346362: azureus: disable annoyware

2006-01-07 Thread Andrew Suffield
close it immediately. Also it opens this window at intervals on its own. Attaching another patch to disable that too. There's no way I could deploy something like that to users. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | And

Bug#346240: gsm-utils: syslog support does not work

2006-01-06 Thread Andrew Suffield
ue; break;" makes it work. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- | signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#346238: gsm-utils: deletes and recreates the gsmsms user on each upgrade (!?)

2006-01-06 Thread Andrew Suffield
Package: gsm-utils Severity: important gsm-utils calls deluser unconditionally on gsmsms in prerm, so that the user is removed and recreated on every upgrade. Don't do that, it's crazy. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :'

Bug#346230: gsm-utils: uselessly installs non-executable scripts into /usr/bin

2006-01-06 Thread Andrew Suffield
Package: gsm-utils Severity: important /usr/bin/gsmsmsspool and /usr/bin/gsmsmsrequeue are not executable -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- |

Bug#257162: Mail::Message::Head::Complete::guessTimestamp complains for mails with no 'date' or 'received' headers

2005-12-29 Thread Andrew Suffield
obably objecting to it 'working' but spewing an incomprehensible warning - it should either work cleanly or throw an exception. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- | signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#344018: libuniversal-exports-perl: contains UNIVERSAL::require, which breaks on sarge dpkg

2005-12-19 Thread Andrew Suffield
#x27;s going to fail upgrades. You could fiddle around with Conflicts/Depends or something... but the simplest solution is to stop shipping the old files in libuniversal-exports-perl. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :&

Bug#343606: libcatalyst-perl: missing build-dep on libtemplate-perl

2005-12-16 Thread Andrew Suffield
Package: libcatalyst-perl Severity: serious Version: 5.61-1 Fails to build without Template available, it's in Makefile.PL... -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : h

Bug#343582: update-notifier: WTF is this?

2005-12-16 Thread Andrew Suffield
scription doesn't tell me anything particularly useful about the package; in fact, I think my understanding has been slightly reduced after reading it. When you rewrite it, use more than one sentence. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffiel

Bug#343107: debians perl requires an extreme amount of stack

2005-12-13 Thread Andrew Suffield
ynamically. This happens in several places. I don't know why your copy didn't build support for large supplementary group lists. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- | signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#335105: perl FTBFS in t/op/fork

2005-12-11 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Sat, Dec 10, 2005 at 07:39:04PM +0100, Thiemo Seufer wrote: > Andrew Suffield wrote: > > This doesn't look like #223110 to me - that bug is specific to signal > > handlers. > > After a closer look I agree. > > > I just tried the test on casals against 5.8.7-

Bug#335105: perl FTBFS in t/op/fork

2005-12-09 Thread Andrew Suffield
ng somehow... -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- | signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#342468: tla package build failure in "make test" for "undo" test

2005-12-08 Thread Andrew Suffield
> version >= 1.3.2 I tried to backport 1.3.3-2 to sarge. The build went fine but > the tests failed with an apparent tar error: Failing to build on sarge is not RC. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Su

Bug#341169: apt-file: get out of /var/cache/apt

2005-11-28 Thread Andrew Suffield
Package: apt-file Severity: important Don't trample upon the namespace of other packages. You can read from /var/*/apt. You can't write there. Put your files in /var/cache/apt-file/ where they belong. This isn't a policy violation but it should be. -- .''`. ** Deb

Bug#263887: cdrdao override disparity

2005-11-24 Thread Andrew Suffield
ase fix the package > so that this disparity is fixed in the next upload. If you feel the > override is incorrect then please reply to this mail and explain why. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `'

Bug#295451: Please try with spamassassin 3.1.0a-1

2005-11-09 Thread Andrew Suffield
tie %new_toks, $self->DBM_MODULE, "${name}.new", O_RDWR|O_CREAT|O_EXCL, (oct($main->{conf}->{bayes_file_mode}) & 0666); Still got O_EXCL in there, so I presume it doesn't. Can't somebody delete that already? -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** |

Bug#309735: Debianization patch against upstream 1.2.0

2005-11-05 Thread Andrew Suffield
ixing' it just shows that you can't read. For the record, I'm sitting on this one until the next upstream release, due shortly, because there are issues with rebuilding cdrdao right now and I really can't see any point in backporting the fixes just to get it in sid sooner.

Bug#249634: cdrdao: simple fix for multiple FTBFS in scsilib

2005-11-05 Thread Andrew Suffield
s a very good idea. scsilib rarely works on new arches without being updated. No. The requirements for arches to be supported by cdrdao are the same as always: get the thing on ftp-master and thusly into Debian where I can see it. Otherwise it's just impractical. -- .''`. ** Debi

Bug#324135: arch-buildpackage: Does not exclude {arch} or .arch-id dirs when building

2005-11-04 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 10:22:09PM +0800, Zak B. Elep wrote: > On 11/4/05, Andrew Suffield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Which is exactly what you're supposed to be doing. Letting > > arch-buildpackage build one only makes sense when upstream uses arch, > > in

Bug#324135: arch-buildpackage: Does not exclude {arch} or .arch-id dirs when building

2005-11-04 Thread Andrew Suffield
you're supposed to be doing. Letting arch-buildpackage build one only makes sense when upstream uses arch, in which case you want to keep the control files. The whole point of this feature originally was to build tla itself directly from the upstream archive. -- .''`. ** Deb

Bug#259973: Debian bug #259973: "template primary group" seems to be an unknown parameter

2005-10-22 Thread Andrew Suffield
Good heavens, what an old bug. On Sat, Oct 22, 2005 at 11:37:44AM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote: > Andrew (Suffield...as A. Bartlett is also following the Debian BTS, I > have to avoid confusion), > > From what I see in samba sources, "template primary group" is not a >

Bug#332468: ipcalc: overzealous input checking

2005-10-06 Thread Andrew Suffield
Package: ipcalc [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ipcalc 0.0.0.0/0 INVALID MASK1: 0 No it isn't. Address: 0.0.0.0 ... Netmask: 255.255.255.0 = 24 ... And that's not helpful. -- .''`. ** Debian G

Bug#326986: amd64 dpkg-architecture gives no information

2005-09-07 Thread Andrew Suffield
. Somebody who likes libnss-ldap can field it. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- | signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#249642: cdrdao: FTBFS amd64: x86_64 not supported

2005-09-07 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 08:44:16AM +0100, Free Ekanayaka wrote: > |--==> Andrew Suffield writes: > > AS> On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 11:38:57AM +0100, Free Ekanayaka wrote: > >>I among the ones who really would like to see cdrdao on Debian > >>amd64.

Bug#249642: cdrdao: FTBFS amd64: x86_64 not supported

2005-09-06 Thread Andrew Suffield
ses that creates coasters. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- | signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#321669: enigma: Copyright violation for menu.s3m

2005-08-29 Thread Andrew Suffield
;re dealing with here, like midi files, are usually their own source. As distinct from mp3 or wav files, which usually aren't. For those who don't know, a module is in essence a midi file with embedded instrument samples. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield

Bug#284426: Trivial, annoying warning at boot time

2005-08-11 Thread Andrew Suffield
ed packages are more > > than just packaging. > > Sure, but, in the meantime, are you open to me uploading the attached > NMU? I was going to do this in the next few days, but you've got a diff already, so I'll leave it for you. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux *

Bug#321838: bash: please put 'stty echo' in PROMPT_COMMAND in /etc/skel/.bashrc

2005-08-07 Thread Andrew Suffield
lt). This would be nice to include in the default /etc/skel/.bashrc. Adding a line like this (below the existing xterm PROMPT_COMMAND magic) should do the trick: PROMPT_COMMAND="stty echo; $PROMPT_COMMAND" -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield

Bug#320986: debbugs: would like bug numbers in "Closes: #" text linked to the bugs

2005-08-02 Thread Andrew Suffield
ug report > page. It's dpkg-parsechangelog. And it's /closes:\s*(?:bug)?\#?\s?\d+(?:,\s*(?:bug)?\#?\s?\d+)*/ig -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><-

Bug#320893: samba: updating smb.conf

2005-08-01 Thread Andrew Suffield
= yes These are useful, and I can't think of a reason not to turn them on. + domain logons = yes + logon path = \\%N\%U\.profile + logon drive = Z: + logon script = logon.bat These are only for a PDC, but I always have to look

Bug#223110: Race condition between fork() and exit() when using pthread_atfork() from a shared library

2005-08-01 Thread Andrew Suffield
Still present in 2.3.5-2. I've managed to do what none of the maintainers could do in the past year and a half, and forwarded this upstream. Nice bit of maintaining, there. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : h

Bug#319142: apt: attempts to install corrupted packages

2005-07-28 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 10:42:18AM -0700, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > severity 319142 wishlist > merge 319142 250305 > thanks > > On Wed, Jul 20, 2005 at 07:44:02AM +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ md5sum > > /var/cache/apt/archives/xfonts-scal

Bug#319776: ntp: adjust default config files so ntpdate is unnecessary

2005-07-24 Thread Andrew Suffield
he command line. (iburst is always a good thing to have; it lets ntpd sync up faster on startup. I can't think of a good reason for not having -g. You can still run ntpdate if you want to - it's just unnecessary). -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suff

Bug#319142: apt: attempts to install corrupted packages

2005-07-20 Thread Andrew Suffield
going on here. This is the tail end of a regular upgrade that left me with hundreds of packages properly installed and three dead ones) -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : h

Bug#284426: Trivial, annoying warning at boot time

2005-07-14 Thread Andrew Suffield
e will really > appreciate it. None of these look either important or annoying enough to merit NMUing. I'd rather wait until the maintainer wakes up and says something. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux **

Bug#284426: Trivial, annoying warning at boot time

2005-07-11 Thread Andrew Suffield
s attached. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- | reverted: --- sysvinit-2.86.ds1.old/debian/changelog 2005-07-11 15:47:11.0 +0100 +++ sysvinit-2.86

Bug#310792: libgnupg-perl: add support for missing public keys during validation

2005-05-25 Thread Andrew Suffield
Package: libgnupg-perl Severity: wishlist Tags: patch gpg helpfully reports when signature validation fails because the public key isn't here. libgnupg-perl rather less helpfully discards this information. Here's a patch to propagate it. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux

Bug#309735: cdrdao: upstream 1.2.0 fix suid issues

2005-05-19 Thread Andrew Suffield
, why it would be very nice if this > release made its way into Debian. It hardly matters, once sarge is released I'll be uploading a version of cdrdao that refuses to be setuid. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linu

Bug#249642: [Call For Help] cdrdao: Please support the amd64/sarge release

2005-05-12 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 09:05:33PM +0200, Andreas Jochens wrote: > On 05-May-12 19:53, Andrew Suffield wrote: > > On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 06:01:14PM +0200, Andreas Jochens wrote: > > > there have been several request from amd64 users which would like to > > > use

Bug#249642: [Call For Help] cdrdao: Please support the amd64/sarge release

2005-05-12 Thread Andrew Suffield
new uploads of cdrdao are going into sarge now. It's quite fragile enough already without getting rebuilt everywhere. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><-

Bug#306078: icheck: not for sarge

2005-04-23 Thread Andrew Suffield
Package: icheck Severity: serious This one's not targetted for sarge, thanks. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, em

Bug#304138: moomps: WTF?

2005-04-14 Thread Andrew Suffield
the thing actually does or why I might want it. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- | signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#304573: racoon-tool: useless sequence of operations on 'start'

2005-04-13 Thread Andrew Suffield
Package: racoon Severity: important Version: 1:0.5-5 'racoon start' starts racoon before it generates the racoon config file. That's pretty useless. It will only ever work by coincidence. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :&

Bug#304571: certtool: DN input braindamage

2005-04-13 Thread Andrew Suffield
h for most things and lets me create my "cn=foo, ou=bar, ou=baz, o=quux" certificates. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- | diff -u gnut

Bug#304138: moomps: WTF?

2005-04-10 Thread Andrew Suffield
Package: moomps After reading the description I still have no idea what this thing is or does. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- | signatur

Bug#304097: dhclient: brainless waiting after DHCPOFFER

2005-04-10 Thread Andrew Suffield
ct client_state *client, With these patches applied, dhcp requests on boot run in nothing flat, rather than holding up the boot process for two seconds per interface. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew

Bug#285871: xdm logrotate script eats logs

2005-03-25 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Fri, Mar 25, 2005 at 05:55:02PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 02:40:00AM +0000, Andrew Suffield wrote: > > Package: xdm > > Severity: important > > > > /etc/logrotate.d/xdm manages to delete the /var/log/xdm.log currently > > in use

Bug#231457: Let's remove limewire

2005-03-21 Thread Andrew Suffield
aking it difficult to make a QA > upload > It has been orphaned for 409 days > It has a RC security bug > It has no reverse-dependencies > It was never in a stable release And it's grossly out of date WRT upstream to the point of having security holes. Kill it. -- .'

Bug#300391: af_vfs.h: missing #include line

2005-03-19 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Sat, Mar 19, 2005 at 04:42:49PM +0100, Daniel Kobras wrote: > On Sat, Mar 19, 2005 at 12:59:16PM +0000, Andrew Suffield wrote: > > /usr/include/af_vfs.h uses ssize_t, but doesn't include , > > so it will fail to compile if nothing has included that first. > > It

Bug#300391: af_vfs.h: missing #include line

2005-03-19 Thread Andrew Suffield
Package: libaudiofile-dev Severity: important /usr/include/af_vfs.h uses ssize_t, but doesn't include , so it will fail to compile if nothing has included that first. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : h

Bug#299247: openoffice.org-debian-files: noisy purge script

2005-03-12 Thread Andrew Suffield
pear to be real errors). -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- | signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#295451: spamassassin: infinite loop in bayes database handling

2005-02-15 Thread Andrew Suffield
Practical Extraction and Report Languag ii spamassassin 3.0.2-1Perl-based spam filter using text analysis ii libdb4.2 4.2.52-18 Berkeley v4.2 Database Libraries [runtime] Those should be all the relevant ones. Happens to be DB_File 1.808. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- | signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#295451: spamassassin: infinite loop in bayes database handling

2005-02-15 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 06:23:21PM -0500, Duncan Findlay wrote: > On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 10:33:30PM +0000, Andrew Suffield wrote: > > Package: spamassassin > > Severity: important > > > > This happens at random intervals: > > > > stat64("/home/a

Bug#295451: spamassassin: infinite loop in bayes database handling

2005-02-15 Thread Andrew Suffield
lessly) Obviously the lock-and-create logic has gone badly wrong here somewhere. It's got to be something fairly obvious to be that badly wrong... the filenames in the stat() and open() calls don't even match. It doesn't appear to be related to the input data, so it&#x

Bug#295264: php4-auth-pam: completely broken, crashes apache on start

2005-02-14 Thread Andrew Suffield
loading is nice" would be good. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- | signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#293932: profile.py has non-free license

2005-02-07 Thread Andrew Suffield
27;ve seen it before. There are other variations of md5.c, at least one of which has either a BSD or an MIT license, I forget which. Look around, you should find one easily enough. They're more or less equivalent, you may have to fiddle

Bug#293743: portmap: discards port mappings on stop; start

2005-02-05 Thread Andrew Suffield
how it breaks everything using sunrpc when this happens. That said, there should still be a way to flush out the mappings on demand. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `-

Bug#289764: Drawings similar to well known products. Copyright problems?

2005-01-10 Thread Andrew Suffield
may > be a problem. There is no law, not even trademark law, against drawing pictures of somebody else's product. This whole affair is insane. Trademarks don't even apply outside their domain, and the domain of the "HUMMER" does not include artwork. -- .