Bug#1061635: bind9: Missing version dependency on libuv1

2024-01-27 Thread Greg Alexander
Subject: Missing version dependency on libuv1 Package: bind9 X-Debbugs-Cc: d...@galexander.org Version: 1:9.19.19-1 Severity: normal I used "apt install" to upgrade bind9:amd64 to version 1:9.19.19-1. apt failed and then I got this error from everything bind-related, such as dig in

Bug#926501: xpdf: continuousView memory leak

2021-03-04 Thread Greg Alexander
I updated to 3.04+git20210103-2 amd64, and it's usable again! I am still using continuousView. Memory usage remained below 150MB even after extensively navigating a large PDF. Thank you! This is a big improvement in usability for me. - Greg On Thu, Mar 04, 2021 at 07:05:55AM +0100, Florian

Bug#972539: isc-dhcp-client: fails to set valid_lft if IP exists, then IP expires early

2020-10-19 Thread Greg Alexander
Package: isc-dhcp-client Version: 4.4.1-2.1+b2 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, I believe I have found the exact bug anticipated by Sven Ulland in his fix for #834532. Here is a quote from his report: > A problem remains: If dhclient is terminated and started again, it starts with >

Bug#926501: xpdf: continuous memory leak

2019-06-19 Thread Greg Alexander
I experience this same problem. When browsing around the end of an 800 page PDF, xpdf will consume 250MB/sec! Also, it is very slow. I have manually downgraded xpdf from 3.04-13 several times on different computers because of this bug. Is xpdf abandoned? I understand if it's difficult to

Bug#901279: duplicate of bug #250626

2018-06-13 Thread Greg Alexander
Hi again - Sorry I had a problem and didn't check if this bug is already listed. It may be the same as bug #250626. I'm not clear on how to merge it so I'll leave that for someone else if it's appropriate. However, this bug should not be given severity of "wishlist", it occurred on a normal

Bug#792394: vtund sends UDP socket number over the network in host order

2018-06-13 Thread Greg Alexander
severity 792394 important tags 792394 patch ipv6 Hi! I ran into this same problem. The patch 07-dual-family-transport.patch changed it to use host order instead of network order when sending the UDP port number to the remote host. Background: When a vtun client connects, it first connects on a

Bug#901279: grub-common: update-grub overwrites /boot/grub/grub.cfg

2018-06-10 Thread Greg Alexander
Package: grub-common Version: 2.02+dfsg1-4 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, I upgraded from an old version of grub using Debian's "apt-get install grub-pc", and it overwrote my /boot/grub/grub.cfg without prompting me, and without making a backup copy. My old grub.cfg was hand-crafted,

Bug#861438: systemd is bad

2017-05-04 Thread Greg Alexander
Hi Michael - Thanks for the attempt to remedy. My problem is I start my VPN (openvpn) from /etc/rc.local, from /etc/acpi/actions/lm_lid.sh, and from su under a regular user shell (getty -> bash -> xinit -> rxvt -> bash -> su), depending on the situation. I have used the same shell script for

Bug#861438: systemd is bad

2017-04-28 Thread Greg Alexander
Package: systemd Version: 232-22 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, My specific problem is that systemd doesn't umount NFS before killing the network, which has previously been reported in Oct 2015 as Debian bug #800707, has not been fixed, and has been bumped several times by other users

Bug#859355: libxrandr-dev: apt info and pkg-config info disagree about version deps for x11proto-randr-dev

2017-04-02 Thread Greg Alexander
Package: libxrandr-dev Version: 2:1.5.1-1 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, The pkg-config file for libxrandr-dev (/usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/pkgconfig/xrandr.pc on my computer) contains this line: Requires: xproto randrproto >= 1.5 But the apt info for it (/var/lib/apt/lists/

Bug#813918: libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0: libgdk seems to have undeclared version dependency on libxi

2016-02-06 Thread Greg Alexander
Package: libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 Version: 2.32.3-1.2 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, This is a version interaction between several packages, so I'm sorry if libgdk isn't really where it belongs. I labelled it important because the interaction renders many other packages unusable, but the bug is

Bug#742889: bitlbee: including OTR support causes all messages to non-OTR peers to be silently dropped

2014-03-28 Thread Greg Alexander
Package: bitlbee Version: 3.2.1+otr4-1 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, Upgrading the bitlbee packages to 3.2.1+otr4-1 lead to *all* messages to non-OTR peers to be *silently* dropped. Seriously. I believe this is the same bug as: http://bugs.bitlbee.org/bitlbee/ticket/1109 You'll no

Bug#714409: This bug still bites

2013-09-10 Thread Greg Alexander
Control: severity -1 grave You are wrong. Debian is very good about supporting an indefinite upgrade path. It is *the* useful feature of Debian. I have been using Debian since 0.93rc6 and I have only re-installed from scratch once in that entire time period. I have this debate with about one

Bug#714409: This bug still bites

2013-09-10 Thread Greg Alexander
*SNAP SALUTE* Okay, do a little survey, since you seem to be proud of your connections within the Debian community. Next time you're chatting with your friends in high places, ask them if they religiously apt-get upgrade every box for for every new release, or if Debian is generally able to

Bug#714409: This bug still bites

2013-09-10 Thread Greg Alexander
Consider the different path taken by the texinfo project: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=709443 We're seeing a reasonable number of these sorts of failures in #debian over the past few days. I'm not wrong about the desire within the Debian community to use the dependency

Bug#714409: This bug still bites

2013-09-09 Thread Greg Alexander
Control: severity -1 grave Hi guys - The fact that some systems have been specifically found to have dpkg 1.15.something installed is not a reason to demote this bug. My system happened to have dpkg 1.probablyalotolderthan15 installed, and it failed on this bug. apt-get would not upgrade mutt

Bug#676539: mysql-server-5.5: migration from /var/run/mysqld to /run/mysqld incomplete

2012-06-07 Thread Greg Alexander
Package: mysql-server-5.5 Version: 5.5.24+dfsg-2 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, Upon upgrading to mysql-server-5.5, I find that /var/run/mysqld has been needlessly renamed to /run/mysqld. Pointless renaming is considered harmful! You forgot to update a few things when you performed this

Bug#676539: [debian-mysql] Bug#676539: mysql-server-5.5: migration from /var/run/mysqld to /run/mysqld incomplete

2012-06-07 Thread Greg Alexander
the mysql-5.5 package). However libdbd-mysql-perl has not yet been binNMU'ed so that would be why that is picking up the old location. If you have any more information please let me know. Otherwise can I close the ticket? On 07/06/12 18:10, Greg Alexander wrote: Package: mysql-server

Bug#620958: A few notes about this problem

2011-07-21 Thread Greg Alexander
Hi - I use Debian specifically because it upgrades cleanly from antiquity. I've never reinstalled Debian from scratch except when buying all-new hardware, and usually not even then. I had a computer from Debian 0.93rc6 to woody, and several others from woody to present day. So this problem

Bug#512381: xpdf: segfault on displaying PLRM.pdf

2011-04-26 Thread Greg Alexander
I'm a dissatisfied debian user. My machine just auto-upgraded xpdf for no particular reason. This auto-upgrade indicates that the package must be maintained. However, the upgrade reintroduced this bug that i had painstakingly patched on my local machine, even though debian bug tracker has been

Bug#623941: mpg321: -a option _still_ doesn't correspond to manpage

2011-04-24 Thread Greg Alexander
Package: mpg321 Version: 0.2.13-2 Severity: normal This is a repeat of bug #286176, which was either never fixed or broken immediately thereafter. The mpg321 man page says, of -a: For -o alsa, specify card:device; defaults to 0:0. Without -o, the default is ao_default_driver_id(). With -o

Bug#600625: Boa should support ; as an alternative to ? for indicating CGI get content

2010-10-18 Thread Greg Alexander
Package: boa Version: 0.94.14rc21-3.1 Severity: wishlist Tags: upstream Sorry if this is not the correct venue for this request...it seems the upstream maintainer has abandoned it? Anyways, I have some CGI which relies (*sigh*) on using ';' to separate the query string rather than '?', as in:

Bug#512381: xpdf: segfault on displaying PLRM.pdf

2010-10-12 Thread Greg Alexander
Hi - I encounter this bug with some frequency as I use continuous view as a default setting in my .xpdfrc (continuousView yes). It reproduces readily for me with a 32-bit x86 3.02-11 xpdf, using the PLRM.pdf. I have been able to trigger the same failure mode outside of continuous mode, but it is

Bug#470500: rndc fails when 'lo' interface is down

2009-10-15 Thread Greg Alexander
I have determined that rndc hangs (for reconfig or for stop, probably for anything) whenever the 'lo' interface is down. This poses a particular problem because /etc/init.d/bind9 stop and /etc/network/if-down.d/bind9 both use rndc to control bind, and on my system both happen to be executed after

Bug#551140: udev preinstall script fails if kernel doesn't have inotify

2009-10-15 Thread Greg Alexander
Package: udev Version: 146-5 udev 146-5 was installed as a result of dependencies while I was upgrading my computer. I happened to be in the process of installing a new kernel that had inotify support, but I was at the moment running a kernel without inotify support. The udev preinstall script

Bug#551140: udev preinstall script fails if kernel doesn't have inotify

2009-10-15 Thread Greg Alexander
Thank you for your response! Older versions of udev would complain on startup about missing inotify support, but would (mostly) function. This is the correct behavior, as This one does not and me and the upstream maintainer are not interested in revisiting this design decision. This is

Bug#419467: Whoa, upstream wontfix?

2007-05-09 Thread Greg Alexander
Hello - If the next version of glibc stopped running under the Linux kernel, period, would you also tag it upstream wontfix? Seriously guys, when the glibc people make a big mistake like this, you are not distributing a working distribution when you follow their lead. upstream is not a carte

Bug#419467: Whoa, upstream wontfix?

2007-05-09 Thread Greg Alexander
My mistake! I forgot that I was using Windows! I will never again forget that newer = better and works = wrong, thank you for the thorough schooling. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#419467: Whoa, upstream wontfix?

2007-05-09 Thread Greg Alexander
Judging by the volume of responses, I'll assume I've hit a nerve. You all are aware that what is happening with glibc is unfriendly but you're not sure why. The reason why is that libc6 is not a random package which you can individually decide to upgrade or not upgrade, it is a critical base

Bug#192253: debian still is inferior to windows thanks

2006-05-28 Thread Greg Alexander
Hello, Please, people, stop accepting that this package has to be unnecessarily feature poor. Here is the state of things in the unzip 5.52-8 debian package: (a) files 2GByes (b) files 2GB 4GB no (c) files 4GBno Here is the state of things after Paul Slootman's patch:

Bug#192253: Bug #192253 - unzip: Can't handle large zip files

2005-12-31 Thread Greg Alexander
We are hungry today. Worry about tomorrow when it gets here. I am trying to improve the Debian distribution so that its unzip utility is at least as powerful as Windows'. Thanks, - Greg On Sat, Dec 31, 2005 at 05:56:28PM +0100, Santiago Vila wrote: On Sat, 31 Dec 2005, Greg Alexander wrote

Bug#192253: Bug #192253 - unzip: Can't handle large zip files

2005-12-30 Thread Greg Alexander
Hello - I am writing in regards to bug #192253 on bugs.debian.org, reporting that unzip cannot handle 2GB-4GB zip files. A patch to fix this problem is provided in 2003 by Paul Slootman. The upstream version has not been updated to correct this problem, and it appears that debian is waiting on