Bug#491483: help?

2009-08-12 Thread Charles Fry
My current problem is that I've lost my development machine. So if you're interested in maintaing the package, please go right ahead and adopt it. :-) Charles On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 6:16 AM, Ivan Kohler wrote: > Is there anything I can do to help?  Would you like me to prepare > new packages?  W

Bug#128059: closed by "Charles Fry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (upstream won't fix)

2008-08-15 Thread Charles Fry
I'm glad to leave it as a wontfix if that makes you happier about it, but in reality I don't see it making a big difference upstream. Notice that the bug has been open for 6 years, and you are the only one who seems interested in it. :-/ Which isn't to say that it's an invalid request, but IMO thi

Bug#428013: new php-simpletest upstream

2008-07-31 Thread Charles Fry
to accept packaging patches. :-) Charles On Sun, Jul 6, 2008 at 10:22 AM, Charles Fry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Argh. We just moved, and it's going to take me a little while to get > caught up. If anyone else is interested in taking over that would be > most welcome. If not, I&#x

Bug#491483: libhtml-mason-perl: [patch] segfaults when alter_superclass method is used

2008-07-24 Thread Charles Fry
In that case do you mind just giving me an easy way to reproduce the bug, and thus test the patch, so that I can be somewhat confident that it is correct? thanks, Charles On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 11:11 PM, Ivan Kohler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 10:56:17PM -0400

Bug#462324: libhtml-mason-perl: typo in HTML::Mason::Component(3pm)

2008-07-24 Thread Charles Fry
Passing this on to upstream... On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 7:21 PM, Frédéric Brière <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Package: libhtml-mason-perl > Version: 1:1.36-2 > Severity: minor > > At line 438: > > component (<& &>, C<$m->comp>, C<$interp-Eexec>) > > The middle term should have a E, or use C<< >>.

Bug#436507: libhtml-mason-perl: autoflush breaks store modifier

2008-07-24 Thread Charles Fry
Can someone from the Mason development team take a look at this bug which was reported in Debian? The attached Perl script can be used for the demonstration. thanks, Charles -- Forwarded message -- From: Frédéric Brière <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, Aug 7, 2007 at 5:35 PM Subject

Bug#436507: libhtml-mason-perl: autoflush breaks store modifier

2008-07-24 Thread Charles Fry
Can you please verify that this is still broken with the new version I just uploaded (1.39)? thanks, Charles On Tue, Aug 7, 2007 at 5:35 PM, Frédéric Brière <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Package: libhtml-mason-perl > Version: 1:1.35-3 > Severity: normal > > Starting from some point between sarge (

Bug#491483: libhtml-mason-perl: [patch] segfaults when alter_superclass method is used

2008-07-24 Thread Charles Fry
Can someone from the Mason community please comment on this bug? I'm glad to apply the proposed patch in Debian if it will be going into upstream. Is this fix the right thing to do? thanks, Charles On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 3:45 PM, Ivan Kohler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Package: libhtml-mason-pe

Bug#374451: backupninja: rotating backups would be nice

2008-07-24 Thread Charles Fry
It sounds like you understand what I want. But I'm perfectly happy with the answer "use rdiff-backup for that". Charles On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 4:25 PM, intrigeri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > >> Some of backupninja's backups are already rotated (dpkg.status and >> aptitude.pkgstates, for

Bug#428013: new php-simpletest upstream

2008-07-06 Thread Charles Fry
Argh. We just moved, and it's going to take me a little while to get caught up. If anyone else is interested in taking over that would be most welcome. If not, I'll see if I can get to it once I get my workstation back up and running. Charles On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 5:31 PM, Matt Taggart <[EMAIL P

Bug#478968: [Pkg-awstats-devel] Bug#478968: Bug#478968: Do you want me to NMU awstats?

2008-05-21 Thread Charles Fry
> > Or even better: How would you like to join our little team maintaining > > awstats? > > I don't have any deeper awstats knowledge, and I'm not even a perl guru, > but sure.. I've been running awstats for a long time and I have no plans > to stop using it anytime soon, so I'm interested in seein

Bug#297730: closed by Julian Mehnle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Re: Bug#297730: Any updates?)

2008-03-25 Thread Charles Fry
I see. In that case I'm happy with you closing the bug. :-) Charles On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 11:52 AM, Julian Mehnle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Charles Fry wrote: > > reopen 297730 > > thanks > > > > I am satisfied with three of the four reported probl

Bug#297730: closed by Julian Mehnle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Re: Bug#297730: Any updates?)

2008-03-23 Thread Charles Fry
imminent and will promote the now-packaged libclamav-client-perl and > libnet-rblclient-perl packages from "Suggests:" to "Recommends:". > > > -- Forwarded message -- > From: Charles Fry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Debian Bug Track

Bug#380091: closed by Michael Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Re: tail: -n fails on multiple files)

2008-02-05 Thread Charles Fry
Sounds good! Thanks for the explanation and mailing list pointer. :-) On 2/5/08, Bob Proulx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > tags 380091 wontfix upstream > thanks > > Charles Fry wrote: > > reopen 380091 > > thanks > > > > I still don't buy this. :-)

Bug#380091: closed by Michael Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Re: tail: -n fails on multiple files)

2008-02-04 Thread Charles Fry
reopen 380091 thanks I still don't buy this. :-) If -1 syntax is unsupported, that's one thing. It should whine about -1. The problem is that -1 works just fine on a single file, but breaks when a second file is added, which is just wrong. A valid command line syntax should be valid regardless of

Bug#415334: [Pkg-awstats-devel] Bug#415334: Patch for the README.Debian file

2007-09-03 Thread Charles Fry
ast bit about cron should > just be dropped from my addition to the readme file. A comment to > explain why this isn't the default, as you suggest, is certainly a good > idea too, +1 from me. > > Thanks for all your work! > > --- Eric Wadsworth > > Jonas Smedeg

Bug#407452: [Pkg-awstats-devel] Bug#407452: awstats package has ^M in examples/logresolvemerge.pl

2007-09-03 Thread Charles Fry
Actually it appears to have been fixed in February in version 6.6+dfsg-1. Be sure to upgrade to the new version if you haven't already. Charles On 9/1/07, Roman Ovchinnikov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Package: awstats > Version: 6.5+dfsg-1 > Followup-For: Bug #407452 > > > awstats' examples/lo

Bug#416483: [Pkg-awstats-devel] Bug#416483: Use of uninitialized value in string at /home/awstats/awstats.pl line 5620.

2007-09-03 Thread Charles Fry
We don't install awstats in /home/awstats. Can you confirm whether or not this error happens with /usr/lib/cgi-bin/awstats.pl? thanks, Charles On 3/28/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Package: awstats > Version: 6.6+dfsg-1 > Severity: normal > > when running awstats.pl I alway

Bug#407450: awstats package has ^M in examples/awstats_buildstaticpages.pl

2007-09-03 Thread Charles Fry
Hi, This bug was actually fixed in a new upstream release in February. Sorry for not following up sooner. Charles

Bug#433456: I'm experiencing this problem as well

2007-08-02 Thread Charles Fry
Since we know that the file we are looking for is package.xml, is there any reason not to specify that explicitely, instead of using . which isn't working for some of us? Charles On 7/21/07, Charles Fry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > % /usr/bin/php5 -f /usr/share/dh-make-php/php

Bug#433456: I'm experiencing this problem as well

2007-07-21 Thread Charles Fry
% /usr/bin/php5 -f /usr/share/dh-make-php/phppkginfo . package % /usr/bin/php5 -f /usr/share/dh-make-php/phppkginfo package.xml package Pager% I don't know what the extra character is at the end, either. In any case, I am running a stable installation, which may have something to do with it? If s

Bug#398490: status of bug #398490

2007-07-20 Thread Charles Fry
I'll close this for now, assuming that it has been dealt with in the last update. Charles On 7/12/07, Charles Fry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, Can you confirm whether or not you are still experiencing the problem outlined in bug #398490 ( http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugrep

Bug#432880: dh-make-php: xmlstarlet commands no longer work

2007-07-13 Thread Charles Fry
Very cool! Nice work! Charles On 7/13/07, Uwe Steinmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 02:35:45PM -0400, Charles Fry wrote: > Package: dh-make-php > Version: 0.2.2 > Severity: important > > The xmlstarlet commands which are key components of >

Bug#432880: dh-make-php: xmlstarlet commands no longer work

2007-07-12 Thread Charles Fry
Package: dh-make-php Version: 0.2.2 Severity: important The xmlstarlet commands which are key components of /usr/share/cdbs/1/class/pear.mk no longer work correctly. I don't have the time right now to track this down, but maybe we should find something else to use instead. Charles -- System Info

Bug#398490: status of bug #398490

2007-07-12 Thread Charles Fry
Hi, Can you confirm whether or not you are still experiencing the problem outlined in bug #398490 ( http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=398490 )? If I don't hear back on its status I'll go ahead and close it. thanks, Charles

Bug#432499: libhtml-mason-perl: FTBFS: unmet build dep libapache-request-perl

2007-07-10 Thread Charles Fry
.debian.org/liba/libapache-request-perl.html (under problems): This package has been requested to be removed. Charles Fry wrote: > Can somebody help me understand this. Is libapache-request-perl really > scheduled for removal from unstable, and if so, how would I have been > able to dete

Bug#432499: libhtml-mason-perl: FTBFS: unmet build dep libapache-request-perl

2007-07-10 Thread Charles Fry
Can somebody help me understand this. Is libapache-request-perl really scheduled for removal from unstable, and if so, how would I have been able to determine that on my own? thanks, Charles On 7/10/07, Lucas Nussbaum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Package: libhtml-mason-perl version: 1:1.35-3 Sev

Bug#206536: Any news?

2007-06-11 Thread Charles Fry
Note that the bug is owned by Chris Seufert, who is currently the one working on this. I suspect that given the current state of the package he'd be willing to accept contributions if you're interested in helping out. If you don't hear back from him (after a reasonable amount of time) you can assi

Bug#398490: use Package doesn't fail when it should

2007-03-31 Thread Charles Fry
Hi, I have another bug which was reported in Debian which I don't know what to make of, though it does appear to be upstream related (i.e. not Debian-specific): http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=398490 If anyone has any ideas please Reply All so that the bug log can be updated.

Bug#409234: Wrong file called instead of dhandler

2007-03-31 Thread Charles Fry
Hi, I received a Debian bug report for Mason that seems to suggest an upstream issue, so I'm passing it along to you. The details can be found at: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=409234 Please Reply All so that the bug log gets automatically updated. Any help would be appreci

Bug#415334: [Pkg-awstats-devel] Bug#415334: Patch for the README.Debian file

2007-03-22 Thread Charles Fry
Thanks for the patch, Eric. Unless I hear objections from the other awstats maintainers, I'll apply your patch. cheers, Charles On 3/21/07, Eric Wadsworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: This patch to README.Debian might save a few people some time. Submitted for your consideration. --- Eric Wads

Bug#294586: [Pkg-awstats-devel] Bug#294586: Two years later...

2007-02-26 Thread Charles Fry
You can read about current contributions to the cron script in bug #224506. Feel free to pitch in if you'd like to help drive this to conclusion. cheers, Charles On 2/24/07, Thomas Quas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Tow years after this issue has been reported I eventually ran into it while using

Bug#409234: libhtml-mason-perl: Wrong file called instead of dhandler

2007-02-05 Thread Charles Fry
Does your dhandler refer to or include settings.html in any way? Charles On 1/31/07, srdjan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Package: libhtml-mason-perl Version: 1:1.35-2 Severity: normal We have following file structure off the component root (relevant bits): video/ dhandler settings.html Wh

Bug#408086: [Pkg-awstats-devel] Bug#408086: awstats: The links to GNU Hurd is false in operating_systems.pm, it leaks http://

2007-02-05 Thread Charles Fry
I can only assume that the subject line of your report got truncated; could you please explain in more detail? thanks, Charles On 1/23/07, Sylvain Rochet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Package: awstats Version: 6.5+dfsg-1 Severity: minor Everything is in the topic :) -- System Information: Debi

Bug#407014: azureus: depend on libbcprov-java

2007-01-15 Thread Charles Fry
Package: azureus Severity: normal Hi, Rather than including a duplicate copy of the Bouncy Castle code, the azureus package should depend on any necessary packages from the bouncycastle source package; most likely libbcprov-java is all that is necessary. cheers, Charles -- System Information: D

Bug#396452: can't run as root

2007-01-13 Thread Charles Fry
The security hole of running the cron scripts as root is a matter of privilege escalation. One should never run a script as root that could be run with lower privileges, as a bug in the script could lead to a root exploit. Your point, in general, is well taken, but the ideal solution is not obviou

Bug#399029: log format assumptions

2007-01-13 Thread Charles Fry
You are correct about this. Does anyone have a suggestion for changing this in a backwords-compatible manner? Charles -- Grandpa knows It ain't too late He's gone To git Some widder bait Burma-Shave http://burma-shave.org/jingles/1955/grandpa_knows signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#400901: [Pkg-awstats-devel] Bug#400901: awstats: geoip plugin stopped working after update

2006-11-29 Thread Charles Fry
What was your previous version? Do you have way of rolling back to ensure that it really did work with the previous version? None of the changes in the most recent upload should have impacted geo, as far as I can tell. Charles On 11/29/06, Joerg Dietrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Package: aw

Bug#400702: libhtml-mason-perl: [INTL:de] German po-debconf template translation

2006-11-28 Thread Charles Fry
Matthias, Thank you for the translation. I've already checked it into my subversion repository, and will include it in the next upload. thanks, Charles On 11/27/06, Matthias Julius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Package: libhtml-mason-perl Version: 1:1.35-1 Severity: minor Tags: patch l10n I hav

Bug#398490: libhtml-mason-perl: use Package doesn't fail when it should

2006-11-15 Thread Charles Fry
Thank you for the bug report.Would you mind testing this error against version 1:1.33-2 in testing, to help narrow down the potential scope of the problem?thanks,Charles On 11/13/06, srdjan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Package: libhtml-mason-perlVersion: 1:1.35-1Severity: importantI'm experiencing so

Bug#387979: libhtml-mason-perl-examples: purging the package fail without debconf

2006-11-11 Thread Charles Fry
> There is an error when attempting to purge the package: > > Removing libhtml-mason-perl-examples ... > Purging configuration files for libhtml-mason-perl-examples ... > /var/lib/dpkg/info/libhtml-mason-perl-examples.postrm: line 18: > /usr/share/debconf/confmodule: No such file or directo

Bug#396452: [Pkg-awstats-devel] Bug#396452: Run cron script under root.

2006-11-06 Thread Charles Fry
retitle 396452 facilitate awstats access to log files severity 396452 wishlist thanks > Excuse me. > > from README.Debian: > > ... > > This all require manual setup after install awstats. Okay. This is making more sense now. ;-) In fact, I think that your fundamental request is that we simplify

Bug#379774: php-simpletest: FTBFS (amd64): Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 8388608 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 64 bytes) in /usr/share/php/PEAR/Registry.php on line 1012

2006-11-04 Thread Charles Fry
ate: Sat, 4 Nov 2006 18:38:07 +0100 > To: Charles Fry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Hello, > > On 06-Nov-04 12:17, Charles Fry wrote: > > The changelog for bug #375070 indicates "bump the memory limit to 32M > > for

Bug#396452: [Pkg-awstats-devel] Bug#396452: Run cron script under root.

2006-11-04 Thread Charles Fry
> Simple workaround of security problem is run cron script as root. Thus > apache statistics will be easily parsed and resulted files will be created > as www-data visiable and usable from cgi script. Hi Olleg, Can you please indicate which security problem you are referring to? In general, runn

Bug#379774: php-simpletest: FTBFS (amd64): Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 8388608 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 64 bytes) in /usr/share/php/PEAR/Registry.php on line 1012

2006-11-04 Thread Charles Fry
> Bug #375070 has been closed some time ago. Uh, one week ago. :-) > However, I still get the same 'Fatal error' when trying to build > php-simpletest on amd64. > > I can avoid this error by adding something like '-d memory_limit="32M"' > to the 'exec $PHP' line in the /usr/bin/pear script. T

Bug#388571: [Pkg-awstats-devel] Bug#395142: Awstats package not found using apt-get

2006-10-25 Thread Charles Fry
> After running "apt-get update", now "apt-cache search awstats" cannot find > the package anymore. > awstats used to be be there untill only last week. > > My Debian distribution is etch, kernel 2.6.16-2-686-smp The problem is that awstats was kindly removed from testing due to bug #388571 (it

Bug#388571: [Pkg-awstats-devel] Bug#388571: awstats: Non-free Firefox icon included

2006-09-22 Thread Charles Fry
Can anyone comment on whether or not it is problematic for us to distribute a tiny icon of Firefox's logo? The only thing I could find is: http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/buttons.html which says "Mozilla Firefox and the Firefox logo are trademarks of The Mozilla Foundation. Usage guide

Bug#336166: closed upstream

2006-08-05 Thread Charles Fry
Hi, This bug was closed upstream. I don't feel that I understand the nuances of what you need enough to argue for it. If you are still concerned with this, would you mind explaining yourself on the upstream bug at: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1341276&group_id=1376

Bug#380091: tail: -n fails on multiple files

2006-07-29 Thread Charles Fry
> This is not a bug. > The -1 style syntax is what we call the obsolete (or at least > obsolescent) syntax. > > If you want to operate on more than one file, you have to use > the "-n N" option. E.g., > > tail -n1 file1 file2 file3 So why does head continue to work properly? I always thought

Bug#380129: postgresql-8.1-plr: should provide Debian default for R_HOME

2006-07-27 Thread Charles Fry
Package: postgresql-8.1-plr Severity: normal Hi, postgresql-8.1-plr should not insist that the R_HOME environmental variable be set. Debian uses standard filesystem locations, which should be assumed by the postgresql-8.1-plr package. Even if there were some reason to allow custom R_HOME location

Bug#380127: postgresql-8.1-plr: Missing documentation details about R_HOME

2006-07-27 Thread Charles Fry
Package: postgresql-8.1-plr Severity: wishlist The current documentation should recommend the correct value to which R_HOME should be set in Debian, and should also provide specific instructions on how to set it (if not set it itself). Charles -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unsta

Bug#380122: postgresql-8.1-plr: unhelpful README

2006-07-27 Thread Charles Fry
Package: postgresql-8.1-plr Severity: minor Hi, The current README.plr distributed with postgresql-8.1-plr is almost entirely unhelpful. It probably shouldn't even be included in the Debian package. Instead, the following two important lines should be put in README.Debian (with the full Debian pa

Bug#380124: postgresql-8.1-plr: can't open libR.so

2006-07-27 Thread Charles Fry
Package: postgresql-8.1-plr Severity: normal Hi, I followed the installation instructions for postgresql-8.1-plr, to no avail. My first attempt to load plr.sql yielded: % psql mydb < /usr/share/postgresql/8.1/plr.sql SET ERROR: permission denied for language c ERROR: must be su

Bug#380126: /usr/share/doc/r-base-core/doc is a broken symlink

2006-07-27 Thread Charles Fry
Package: r-base-core Version: 2.3.1-1 Severity: minor /usr/share/doc/r-base-core/doc is a broken symlink. cheers, Charles -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers testing APT policy: (800, 'testing'), (70, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linke

Bug#380091: tail: -n fails on multiple files

2006-07-27 Thread Charles Fry
Package: coreutils Version: 5.97-1 Severity: normal Hi, The version of tail currently in stable supports the following: tail -1 file1 file2 file3 Such syntax is also supported in head, both in stable and unstable. Unfortunately the current unstable release of tail breaks when this is attempt

Bug#375070: Bug#379774: php-simpletest: FTBFS (amd64): Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 8388608 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 64 bytes) in /usr/share/php/PEAR/Registry.php on line 1012

2006-07-25 Thread Charles Fry
> Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 8388608 bytes exhausted (tried to > allocate 64 bytes) in /usr/share/php/PEAR/Registry.php on line 1012 > Allowed memory size of 8388608 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 23 bytes) > make: *** [common-install-indep] Error 1 This is really just an expression

Bug#378249: courier-authlib: doesn't use shlibs

2006-07-22 Thread Charles Fry
> > courier-authlib appear to use shlibs as required by Policy 8.6. As a > > result, when I build courierpassd I get the following: > > >dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: unable to find dependency information for > >shared library libcourierauth (soname 0, path libcourierauth.so.0, > >dependenc

Bug#378960: [Pkg-awstats-devel] Bug#378960: awstats: CVE-2006-3681 CVE-2006-3682: multiple vulnerabilities

2006-07-21 Thread Charles Fry
> > Are these fixed in 6.6? When do you expect to release > >6.6? > > > It is fixed in 6.6. I have just launched the beta start for 6.6 meanings > code in current 6.6 package will not change (except for bug corrections > found during beta). > Beta last about 2 month. > > I also updated the AWSt

Bug#379179: democracyplayer: new upstream release 0.8.5

2006-07-21 Thread Charles Fry
Package: democracyplayer Version: 0.8.4 Severity: wishlist There is a new upststream release, which I'd love to see packaged. :-) cheers, Charles -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#378960: [Pkg-awstats-devel] Bug#378960: awstats: CVE-2006-3681 CVE-2006-3682: multiple vulnerabilities

2006-07-19 Thread Charles Fry
Hi Laurent, Can you please comment on these vulnerabilities, especially CVE-2006-3681? Are these fixed in 6.6? When do you expect to release 6.6? thanks, Charles -Original Message- > From: Alec Berryman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [Pkg-awstats-devel] Bug#378960: awstats: CVE-2006-3681

Bug#378569: ITP: courierpasswd -- Authenticate courier passwords with checkpassword interface

2006-07-17 Thread Charles Fry
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Charles Fry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: courierpasswd Version : 1.1.1 Upstream Author : Andrew St. Jean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.arda.homeunix.net/store/ * License : GPL

Bug#378571: courier-authdaemon: socket directory should have 750 permissions

2006-07-17 Thread Charles Fry
Package: courier-authdaemon Version: 0.58-3 Severity: critical Tags: security Justification: root security hole Hi, The current courier-authdaemon package sets 755 permissions on the directory /var/run/courier/authdaemon which allows non-root users to connect to the authentication daemon. The ups

Bug#378568: ITP: courieruserinfo -- Retrieve courier user account information

2006-07-17 Thread Charles Fry
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Charles Fry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: courieruserinfo Version : 1.1.1 Upstream Author : Andrew St. Jean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.arda.homeunix.net/store/ * License : GPL

Bug#378054: rpath and /usr/lib/ directories

2006-07-15 Thread Charles Fry
Hi, I recently uploaded courierpassd, which wraps some functionality of courier-authlib in the popassd protocol. lintian has been warning me about the use of rpath, about which I posted on debian-mentors. This culminated in the following thread: http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2006/07/

Bug#378249: at least libcourierauth

2006-07-14 Thread Charles Fry
I should have specified that all I really need is libcourierauth. I guess that whatever libraries are made public per bug #378241 should use shlibs. Charles -- Free--free A trip To Mars For 900 Empty jars Burma-Shave http://burma-shave.org/jingles/1955/free_free signature.asc Description: Digi

Bug#378241: at least libcourierauth

2006-07-14 Thread Charles Fry
I should point out that the shared library which I need is libcourierauth. It may very well be the case that the others can remain private. Charles -- Just moisten Your tooth brush Dip in jar And you'll enjoy Cleaner teeth by far Burma-Vita Tooth Powder http://burma-shave.org/jingles/1947/just_m

Bug#378249: courier-authlib: doesn't use shlibs

2006-07-14 Thread Charles Fry
Package: courier-authlib Version: 0.58-3 Severity: serious Justification: Policy 8.6 Hi, courier-authlib appear to use shlibs as required by Policy 8.6. As a result, when I build courierpassd I get the following: dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: unable to find dependency information for shared lib

Bug#378241: courier-authlib: libraries should be in /usr/lib

2006-07-14 Thread Charles Fry
Package: courier-authlib Version: 0.58-3 Severity: serious Justification: Policy 10.2 Hi, I just uploaded courierpassd which uses courier-authlib to change courier user passwords. I've been discussing on debian-mentors a lintian warning which complains about the rpath used to access the librarie

Bug#378055: [Fwd: Re: binary-or-shlib-defines-rpath documentation]

2006-07-13 Thread Charles Fry
PROTECTED]> On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 05:32:12PM -0400, Charles Fry wrote: > > > > Depends. Does it actually fix the warning? > > > > > > Yes, but it also broke my binary, which can no longer find the needed > > > library. Any suggestions? Is rpath okay in th

Bug#378056: subversion: all binaries should include real man pages

2006-07-12 Thread Charles Fry
Package: subversion Version: 1.3.2-3 Severity: wishlist Hi, It would be really nice if the subversion binaries all included real manpages, instead of the current "Run `svn help' to access the built-in tool documentation." Man pages can be automatically generated by help2man, so this should only

Bug#378055: lintian: binary-or-shlib-defines-rpath shouldn't complain about /usr/lib/ directories

2006-07-12 Thread Charles Fry
Package: lintian Version: 1.23.22 Severity: normal Hi, As far as I can tell, lintian's binary-or-shlib-defines-rpath warning shouldn't complain about /usr/lib/ directories. At least this is what is indicated at: http://wiki.debian.org/RpathIssue which is the closest thing I can find to offic

Bug#378054: lintian: should provide more detail about binary-or-shlib-defines-rpath

2006-07-12 Thread Charles Fry
Package: lintian Version: 1.23.22 Severity: wishlist Hi, Currently the information lintian-info provides about binary-or-shlib-defines-rpath is: "Please contact debian-devel@lists.debian.org if you have questions about this." It would be helpful if it instead/also referenced some online d

Bug#374256: watch out for Java naming policy

2006-07-11 Thread Charles Fry
When packaging this, please be aware of the Java policy, section 2.4: "Java libraries packages must be named libXXX[version]-java (without the brackets), where the version part is optional and should only contain the necessary part. The version part should only be used to avoid naming

Bug#377119: libsvn-javahl: package name violates Java policy

2006-07-11 Thread Charles Fry
> So ... I'm CCing this to the debian-java list with a question: is it > reasonable to name a package 'libsvn-java' if the jar file it ships is > named svn-javahl.jar? I really don't like 'libsvn-javahl-java' as a > name (reminds me of 'python-pyvorbis'), but if policy requires it, > we'll use it.

Bug#377119: libsvn-javahl: package name violates Java policy

2006-07-10 Thread Charles Fry
> Yes, I wonder about that too. The jar file really is named svn-javahl, > for historical reasons: there was once a second effort (now dead, I > believe) to produce java bindings which were not "high-level". > > There is also an independent project out there, not affiliated with the > Subversion

Bug#377674: whodepends: doesn't check build dependencies

2006-07-10 Thread Charles Fry
Package: devscripts Version: 2.9.20 Severity: wishlist Hi, It would be nice if whodepends also checked build dependencies (though they could of course be reported seperately). Charles -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTEC

Bug#377663: vlc: please split faad2 into a separate package

2006-07-10 Thread Charles Fry
Package: vlc Severity: wishlist Hi, faad2, which is currently compiled internally for vlc, should be split into a separate package. This will make it available to other programs that could use it (avidemux, gstreamer, mencoder, mplayer, sharpmusique, xmms-mp4). thanks, Charles -- To UNSUBSCRI

Bug#345903: license issues

2006-07-10 Thread Charles Fry
retitle 345903 RFP: sharpmusique -- The fair interface to the iTunes Music Store owner 345903 [EMAIL PROTECTED] thanks Well, after having prepared a package based on Christian Marillat's unofficial package, I started looking at ways for sharpmusique to depend on other packages that provided the vl

Bug#369199: Can't load Storable.so

2006-07-10 Thread Charles Fry
e and etch systems. good luck, Charles -Original Message- > From: Mohammed Adnène Trojette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [Pkg-awstats-devel] Bug#369199: Error: Plugin load for plugin > 'hashfiles' failed > Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 14:34:56 +0200 > To: Charl

Bug#369199: [Pkg-awstats-devel] Bug#369199: Error: Plugin load for plugin 'hashfiles' failed

2006-07-10 Thread Charles Fry
> Hi Charles and congrats for your account ;) Thanks. Sure took a while. Hopefully they'll get to you soon. :-) > > Your problem appears to be with your local Perl installation, which > > provides the Storable module required by the hashfiles plugin. > > Here are the versions installed: > > ii

Bug#377122: missing javadocs for libsvn-javahl

2006-07-06 Thread Charles Fry
Package: libsvn-javahl Version: 1.3.2-3 Severity: wishlist Hi, The Java library distributed as libsvn-javahl should include Javadocs documenting the API. Charles -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers testing APT policy: (800, 'testing'), (70, 'unstable') Archit

Bug#377119: libsvn-javahl: package name violates Java policy

2006-07-06 Thread Charles Fry
Package: libsvn-javahl Severity: serious Justification: Java policy 2.4 Hi, According to the current java policy, section 2.4: "Java libraries packages must be named libXXX[version]-java (without the brackets), where the version part is optional and should only contain the necessary pa

Bug#376920: lintian: missing-build-dependency cdbs even though depends on dh-make-php

2006-07-06 Thread Charles Fry
> > As for dh-make-php, as one of the maintainers I can vouch that the only > > reason to depend on dh-make-php at build time is to use the cdbs module > > pear.mk. > > But you're also using other cdbs modules not supplied directly by > dh-make-php, correct? Certainly, the template generated by d

Bug#376920: lintian: missing-build-dependency cdbs even though depends on dh-make-php

2006-07-06 Thread Charles Fry
> > I receive an error from lintian, complaining that my package is missing > > a build-dependency on cdbs, even though it depends on dh-make-php which > > depends on cdbs. > > It's not clear to me that this is a bug in lintian. I don't see anything > in the documentation of dh-make-php that guar

Bug#375070: pear memory limit too low as well

2006-07-05 Thread Charles Fry
retitle 375070 php-pear: pear and pecl memory limits too low thanks Hi, I just wanted to emphasize the importance of addressing this for both pear and pecl. Currently bug #206536 is dependent on this being resolved for pear. thanks, Charles -- Hat and tie Smart and clean Space between Spoiled

Bug#368542: holdup

2006-07-05 Thread Charles Fry
This package is currently being held up by the hep.aida package which is included with the source code. The source files don't contain any licensing information, and the colt package documentation claims an LGPL with a military prohibition (non-free). However an analysis of the upstream CVS reposit

Bug#369199: [Pkg-awstats-devel] Bug#369199: Error: Plugin load for plugin 'hashfiles' failed

2006-07-05 Thread Charles Fry
Hi Mohammed, Thank you for your bug report. Sorry that it took us a while to get back to you on this. :-) Your problem appears to be with your local Perl installation, which provides the Storable module required by the hashfiles plugin. Which Perl package is installed on your machine? Charles

Bug#376920: lintian: missing-build-dependency cdbs even though depends on dh-make-php

2006-07-05 Thread Charles Fry
Package: lintian Version: 1.23.22 Severity: normal Hi, I receive an error from lintian, complaining that my package is missing a build-dependency on cdbs, even though it depends on dh-make-php which depends on cdbs. Charles -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers t

Bug#376909: tar: Creates corrupt filenames in archives

2006-07-05 Thread Charles Fry
Package: tar Version: 1.14-2.2 Severity: critical Justification: breaks unrelated software Hi, It appears that bug #230910 has reappeared in the most recent upload of tar. I tried marking that bug as found, but as it has been archived I was told "Bug number 230910 not found". Regardless, all deta

Bug#376877: dput: -l not working with -o

2006-07-05 Thread Charles Fry
Package: dput Version: 0.9.2.25 Severity: minor I ran 'dput -o' (now that I figured out how), and was told: Package is now being checked with lintian. Warning: The option -o does not automatically include a lintian run any more. Please use the option -ol if you want to include runni

Bug#376796: dput: crash on -c

2006-07-05 Thread Charles Fry
> thank you for your interest in dput and for your bug report. > > can you elaborate on what you're trying to do here? Well, it appears that I was trying to exercise my new Debian privileges by using dput too late at night. I was trying to get -c to perform '--check-only', but I wasn't persuasive

Bug#376796: dput: crash on -c

2006-07-04 Thread Charles Fry
Package: dput Version: 0.9.2.25 Severity: important Hi, dput crashes when I execute it with -c : dput -c php-simpletest_1.0.0-4_i386.changes Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/dput", line 911, in ? main() File "/usr/bin/dput", line 681, in main read_configs(config_

Bug#375989: vim: more swap handling options

2006-06-29 Thread Charles Fry
Package: vim Version: 1:7.0-017+8 Severity: wishlist Hi, It would be most excelent if vim had a tiny bit of added cleverness when dealing with swap files. Here are my two specific requests: 1) vim should recognize when the swap file is unchanged from the saved file, and act accordingly (perhap

Bug#374451: backupninja: rotating backups would be nice

2006-06-19 Thread Charles Fry
Package: backupninja Severity: wishlist Hi, Some of backupninja's backups are already rotated (dpkg.status and aptitude.pkgstates, for example), while others only maintain a single backup. It would be most helpful if all backup mechanisms supported rotating backups, and even better if this could

Bug#373638: pgadmin3: crash when decrementing server status refresh rate to 0

2006-06-14 Thread Charles Fry
Package: pgadmin3 Version: 1.4.2-1 Severity: important Hi, pgadmin3 consistently crashes when I: 1) select my server 2) select Tools=>Server Status 3) click on the down arrow button to decrease the refresh rate to 0 While it would be nice to set the refresh rate to 0 (never refresh) I

Bug#328951: Clarification for difference between Build-Depends and Build-Depends-Indep (Section 7.6)

2006-06-14 Thread Charles Fry
reopen 328951 ! thanks While my specific concern is a bit different than Christoph's, it is closely enough related that I'm including it in the same bug report; feel free to separate it if you prefer. My biggest concern is that Section 7.6 makes it very difficult to distinguish between Build-Depe

Bug#244693: RFS: courierpassd

2006-06-12 Thread Charles Fry
Can I ask again if anyone is interested in checking and sponsoring courierpassd? thanks, Charles -Original Message- > From: Charles Fry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: RFS: courierpassd > Date: Sat, 27 May 2006 00:57:58 -0400 > To: debian-mentor

Bug#370778: backupninja: compress early to save disk space

2006-06-06 Thread Charles Fry
Package: backupninja Severity: wishlist Hi, It would be great if backups created by backupninja were compressed as early as possible to save on disk space. For example, the postgres backup is first dumped as plain text, and then compressed, rather than being compressed on the fly (piped through g

Bug#368931: license in files

2006-06-06 Thread Charles Fry
By way of update, I am currently working with upstream to include the license in the header of all files (currently it is only in most), and in a text file in the source distribution. Charles -- Best reference -- public preference Burma-Shave http://burma-shave.org/jingles/1939/best_reference

Bug#370143: backupninja: subversion plugin should support multiple repositories

2006-06-03 Thread Charles Fry
Package: backupninja Severity: wishlist Just as the database plugins allow multiple databases to be backed up, so should the subversion repository allow multiple repositories to be backed up (they could all, of course, be located in the same directory, as subversion does when using SVNParentPath).

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