/
It fixes two completely unrelated bugs that I ran into mere hours
after releasing 1.0.5. It also changes license terms from GPL2 to
Publid Domain.
Such flurry of activity after 2+ years of stasis ...
Thanks, Jan, for taking hand of this.
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Now, if you would like to do me a big favour, you could send me a patch
(as small as possible) for the security bug found in 1.0.4.
Here is an absolutely minimal patch that fixes only the security issue.
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I will try to think of improvements to the wording of the manpage such
that others will not be similarly confused. Suggestions welcome.
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? 533361b.patch
? autotools-stamp
? configure-stamp
in.
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Index: flatten.c
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RCS file: /home/makcvs/repository/source/xcftools/flatten.c,v
retrieving revision 1.27
diff -u -r1.27 flatten.c
--- flatten.c 22 Feb 2006
Package: wnpp
Severity: normal
I am orphaning the autotrace package.
The package description is:
AutoTrace is a program for converting bitmaps to vector graphics. The aim
of the AutoTrace project is the development of a freely-available
application similar to CorelTrace or Adobe Streamline.
Package: wnpp
Severity: normal
I am orphaning the xcftools package, due to lack of time on my part.
I'm the upstream author of xcftools, but no development has happened
since 2006. The program already does what it is supposed to and has no
known bugs.
Package description:
This is a set of fast
Package: wnpp
Severity: normal
I am orphaning the bibclean package.
The package description is:
This is a pretty-printer and syntax-checker for bibliographic
databases in the BibTeX format. It is a useful tool for canonicalizing
the layout of personal bibliographies with entries fetched from
Package: wnpp
Severity: normal
I am orphaning the bibtool package.
The package description is:
BibTool is a command-line utility for rewriting and transforming
bibilography databases for BibTeX.
It can sort records.
It can generate normalized citelabels.
It can rewrite field contents based
time, except that I was (and am) snowed under by
my day job.
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Package: fvwm
Version: 1:2.5.17-1
Severity: important
After upgrading to 1:2.5.17-1, fvwm segfaults at startup after
complaining that the X library does not support my locale. This
segfault did not happen with 1:2.5.16-2.
I built an unstripped binary and reproduced the segfault in a clean
.
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tag 377049 fixed-upstream
thanks
This bug is fixed in the upstream Gimp release 2.2.12.
The fix did not make it into the development release 2.3.10, but
I have verified that it exists in the development CVS, so it will
probably be fixed in 2.3.11.
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Package: gimp
Version: 2.2.6-1
Severity: grave
Tags: security patch
Justification: user security hole
I have reported this bug privately to the maintainer and the security
team, but it turns out that the upstream developers have no way of
reporting security bugs privately, so it is hereby in the
seems a bit dead)
What do you mean, dead? We get lots of lively spam.
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-letter space is getting crowded. Argh, this
program is too young to die of featuritis! What about -C/--autocrop?
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Package: man-db
Version: 2.4.3-3
Severity: normal
Tags: l10n patch
Lexgrog does not recognise
.SH NAVN
which is the Danish translation of .SH NAME. That makes linda
unhappy about the Danish manpages in the xcftools upload I am
preparing currently.
The attached patch should teach lexgrog the
Package: imagemagick
Version: 6:6.2.4.5-0.6
Severity: normal
This seems to affect all RGBA-format PNG images: if 'display' is given a
filename with a png: prefix, it ignores the alpha channel, but the
alpha is shown OK if the filename is given raw and 'display' autodetects
the format.
Unlike
Package: imagemagick
Version: 6:6.2.4.5-0.6
Severity: normal
ImageMagick seems to ignore the alpha channel when it reads a PNG file with
the 'grayscale + alpha' color mode.
Attached is a simple example; it has a vertical grayscale gradient and
a horizontal opacity gradient. Gimp(1) and gqview(1)
, I have plans to add a xcf2png program as well, such
that one won't have to use separate files for transparency data, and
that would be harder to fit into netpbm.
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Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Henning Makholm [EMAIL PROTECTED]
* Package name: xcftools
Version : 0.5
Upstream Author : Henning Makholm [EMAIL PROTECTED]
* URL : http://henning.makholm.net/software
* License : GPLv2
Description : command-line
Package: xdm
Version: 6.9.0.dfsg.1-3
Severity: normal
Upon upgrading xdm to version 6.9.0.dfsg-1.3, dpkg silently rewrote
/etc/X11/xdm/xdm-config such that my Xsetup script does not get run
anymore. This is contrary to the xdm(1) manual page which clearly states
that the Xsetup script will get
Scripsit Peter Samuelson
[Henning Makholm]
I have written a Lintian check which attempts to flag instances of
this problem. It looks for ELF objects that flag shared libraries in
the default search path as NEEDED without actually importing symbols
that the library exports
Scripsit Jeroen van Wolffelaar
On Sun, Nov 27, 2005 at 04:30:49AM +0100, Henning Makholm wrote:
The check is a bit unorthodox in that it needs to have the referenced
libraries present on the host system (where lintian is run) and runs
objdump over them to figure out which symbols
it be possible to
have the extract_info function in
packages.qa.debian.org/www/bin/common.py recognize the
X-Testing-Watch-Package header as an alternative to the X-PTS-Package
header?
(debian-qa readers: Please cc me)
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try to do his on sanitizing of the _form_ of the copyright notice.
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One should always read the spec!
It turns out that getaddrinfo() can already do the filtering I did
manually in my original patches. Here is a set of smarter patches that
lets getaddrinfo() filter instead.
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; the second one
is more a feature addition that one might conceivably want to
implement in a different way instead.
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Package: inn2
Version: 2.4.2-3
Severity: normal
When I configure a peer in innfeed.conf with an address that has
records in DNS, innfeed seems to insist on trying to establish an IPv6
connection - which does not work because my DSL line runs IPv4 only.
Thus, the outgoing feed never gets
I will NMU based on the attached patch momentarily.
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diff -u
Scripsit Panayotis Katsaloulis
On 10/25/05, Henning Makholm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This is a known condition, bug #332456. Unfortunately, a new autotrace
package cannot be (usefully) uploaded until the C++ transition
regression of pstoedit has been fixed.
In my system the pstoedit
Package: libpstoedit0
Version: 3.42-1
Severity: serious
Justification: Breaks C++ ABI transition policy; must not enter testing
Libpstoedit0 did a C++ ABI transition and became libpstoedit0c2 in
version 3.40-1. Inexplicably the transition was undone in version
3.42-1. This is wrong; a transition
of luck with that. Torsten might still be interested, too.
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Scripsit Jay Berkenbilt
I should have also mentioned that I have pretty good PostScript
knowledge and a current PostScript language reference manual on my
bookshelf. I've done PostScript work on and off since the 80's.
OK, I can't beat that. Good luck with the package.
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at keeping the common psutils
tools in Debian (and keeping them well-maintained), preferably as part
of a team [thus not retitling to ITA just yet].
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'}))[2] ;
defined $uid or die User $dwwwcfg{'cgiuser'} does not exist\n;
$uid or die You DON'T want to run the dwww CGI script as root!\n;
(with the last line present or absent according to how much babysitting
we want the maintainer script to do).
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content for it? (As far as Google could tell me, it is
only the game engine that has been GPL'ed).
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Package: cvs-buildpackage
Version: 5.19
Severity: minor
cvs-upgrade contains the following code snippet:
if [ X$docmd = XYES ]; then
numdirs=`ls -1 | wc -l`
if [ ${numdirs} -gt 1 ]; then
echo 2 Source unpacked into more than one dir
cd ..
mkdir ${tmpdir}-new
maintainers beside the one named in the qref
(etc)
s/(inta)+/inta/
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The empty line between the first to examples should have
Error unwind: on it.
Also too in the second sentence seems to be spurious.
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Status: Currently waiting for libpstoedit to transition.
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--- pstoedit-3.33/debian/changelog
+++ pstoedit-3.33/debian/changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+pstoedit (3.33-15mak3) unstable; urgency=low
+
+ * C++ ABI transition; libpstoedit0 is now libpstoedit0c2
+
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+
pstoedit (3.33-15) unstable
Scripsit Steve Langasek
Henning Makholm wrote:
The attached patch represents my understanding on what needs to be
done for the transistion.
diff -u pstoedit-3.33/debian/shlibs.local pstoedit-3.33/debian/shlibs.local
Well, I wonder why shilbs.local needs to be here at all...
So did I
you to lose your Vaio.
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retitle 321332 ITA: bibtool -- A tool for manipulating BibTeX data bases
owner 321332 !
thanks
I intend to take this one. If I have not made an upload by
mid-September, nor added new information here, you can assume that
I changed my mind and/or forgot all about it.
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Package: apt-show-versions
Version: 0.08
Severity: normal
After
# apt-get install apt-show-versions
# apt-get --purge remove apt-show-versions
files are left in /var/cache/apt-show-versions (dpkg complains about
this while purging).
Installing and then purging a package should leave no garbage
in
debian/control, and everything else will be automatic.
In order to be completely correct, the package-building commands in
debian/rules should also be moved from the binary-arch target to
binary-indep.
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Package: nessus-plugins
Version: 2.2.4-2
Severity: normal
/var/lib/nessus/plugins/w32_spybot_worm_variant.nasl (Nessus ID 15520)
erroneously identifies nullidentd 1.0-3 as being the w32.spybot.fcd
worm.
The script sends GET \r\n to the server and considers a worm to be
found if the reply
Scripsit David Moreno Garza [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Revolution is a little Ruby binding to the excellent Evolution email
client.
Is it so little that it would be better to include it with the
evolution package?
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aware of the problem.
[1] Well, such as it is. As long as one does not get oneself in more
trouble by trying to use the module against a different kernel
build, the warning message at load time seems to be all that
happens.
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/poweredbymaia.gif;
~c. Rebranding License
~ is obtained from the copyright owner, exempting the Licensee
~ from 4(a) and 4(b), subject to the additional conditions laid out
~ in that license document.
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Scripsit Henning Makholm [EMAIL PROTECTED]
It is not free. We have previously rejected software with similar
functional restrictions (though the name escapes me at the moment).
Now I remember: Phpnuke. The discussion on d-l in Feb-Mar 2003
metamorphosed into a variety of other topics
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