< bob.dyb...@gmail.com > wrote:
> There was no change in the packaging of pw 0.3.84 forcing the removal of
> pulseaudio.
# apt-get install pipewire-audio
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be
Package: pipewire
Version: 0.3.84-1
Severity: important
hardware:
# lspci | grep -i -e audio -e vga
00:14.2 Audio device: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] SBx00 Azalia
(Intel HDA) (rev 40)
01:00.1 Audio device: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Tahiti HDMI Audio
[Radeon HD 7870 XT / 79
Source: firmware-nonfree
Version: 20210315-3
Severity: important
Tags: ftbfs
On the tracker page for the "firmware-nonfree" source package, we read that
the testing and unstable versions should be 20221214-5 and 20230117-2,
respectively:
https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/firmware-nonfree
https://tr
Package: inkscape
Version: 1.1-1
Severity: important
Inkscape v1.1 is not being successfully built for amd64.
It is, however, being built for i386, ia64, ppc64, and sparc64,
so it's hard to see why amd64, surely by far the most common,
and most tested, architecture, would be omitted.
There seem
Package: vulkan-tools
Version: 1.2.154.0+dfsg1-1
Severity: important
# vulkaninfo
ERROR at /build/vulkan-tools-tihVv9/vulkan-
tools-1.2.154.0+dfsg1/vulkaninfo/vulkaninfo.h:248:vkEnumerateInstanceExtensionProperties
failed with ERROR_INITIALIZATION_FAILED
a google search finds this page --
http
Package: libb2-1
Version: 0.98.1-1.1
Severity: wishlist
Please consider packaging the new BLAKE3 hash library, either as part of
the libb2-1 package, or separately.
https://www.blake2.net/
https://github.com/BLAKE3-team/BLAKE3
description:
We present BLAKE3, an evolution of the BLAKE2 cryp
Package: cpio
Version: 2.13+dfsg-4
Severity: normal
Tags: upstream
"cpio --help" provides the following information:
Main operation mode:
-i, --extract Extract files from an archive (run in copy-in
mode)
-o, --create Create the archive (run in copy-out mode)
Package: inkscape
Version: 0.92.5-1
Severity: normal
One of the new features in Inkscape v1.0 is the ability to export PNG
images with 16-bit colour depth:
https://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php?title=Release_notes/1.0#Export_PNG_images
However, this depends on the corresponding feature in the
Package: mdadm
Version: 4.1-2
Severity: normal
Tags: upstream
The mdadm(8) manual page describes the "--size" option as follows:
Amount (in Kilobytes) of space to use from each drive in RAID levels
1/4/5/6. This must be
a multiple of the chunk size, and must leave about 128Kb of space at
Package: libcrypto++-dev
Version: 5.6.4-8
Severity: important
For some reason, linking to the crypto++ dynamic library fails.
Note that these are linker errors; the compiler has no problem.
What is wrong with this? Is some other option necessary?
If so, it should go in a README file.
$ g++ -I/
Package: webext-noscript
Version: 10.1.9.6-2
Severity: important
The latest version of NoScript in the Debian archive is v10.1.9.6, whereas the
current
released version is v10.2.1 .
https://noscript.net/changelog
The Debian version appears not to work with Firefox v65.0.1, which has just
entered
Package: apt
Version: 1.6.2
Severity: important
# apt-get source inkscape
Reading package lists... Done
Selected version '0.92.3-2' (testing) for inkscape
NOTICE: 'inkscape' packaging is maintained in the 'Git' version control system
at:
https://salsa.debian.org/multimedia-team/inkscape.git
Please
inal
"reportbug" package. Many other text/graphical packages have adopted
this split-package solution.
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** Environment settings:
INTERFACE="gtk2"
** /home/ian/.reportbugrc:
reportbug_version "6.6.6"
mode standard
ui gtk2
realnam
Package: gcc-7
Version: 7.3.0-3
Severity: normal
The files in these packages seem to be essentially duplicates of each
other. Is this really necessary?
# deborphan gcc-6-base gcc-7-base gcc-8-base
gcc-6-base
libgcj17
gcj-6-jre-headless
gcj-6-jre-lib
Package: systemd
Version: 236-1
Severity: important
Is there any legitimate reason why after logging out of an XFCE session,
all these desktop processes should remain alive?
# ps axfu | grep ^ian
ian 1687 0.0 0.0 80544 8384 ?Ss 19:35 0:00
/lib/systemd/systemd --user
ian
Package: freecad
Version: 0.16.6712+dfsg1-1+b2
Severity: normal
Why does freecad have dependencies for both "python2.7" and
"python:any"?
They can't both be correct.
-- System Information:
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APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'stable-updates'),
Package: gimp
Version: 2.8.20-1
Severity: normal
Why does gimp have dependencies for both "python2.7" and "python:any"?
They can't both be correct.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'unstable')
Package: im-config
Version: 0.32-1
Severity: important
Tags: l10n
im-config doesn't offer UIM as an option, even when it is installed.
$ dpkg -l | grep uim
ii libuim-custom2:amd64 1:1.8.6+gh20161003.0.d amd64 Universal
Input Method - uim-custom API library
ii libuim-scm0:amd
Package: apt-show-versions
Version: 0.22.7
Severity: important
When querying uninstalled packages, "apt-show-versions" fails with the
error message "Use of uninitialized value $arch":
# apt-show-versions -a linux-image-4.14.0-1-amd64 linux-image-4.13.0-1-amd64
linux-image-4.13.0-1-amd64:a
Package: xul-ext-useragentswitcher
Version: 0.7.3-3
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable
This Firefox addon has not been updated in six years, and does not work
with any version of Firefox available in the current release, even those
prior to v57. This package is therefore usele
Package: xul-ext-treestyletab
Version: 0.19.2017061601-1
Followup-For: Bug #881812
Please upgrade this package to the current version, which is required in
order to support Firefox v57, as recently uploaded to Unstable.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-style-tab/versions/
--
Package: src:vlc
Version: 2.2.6-6
Severity: normal
The Debian changelog entry for vlc/2.2.6-6 says "Update to ffmpeg
2.8.13." However, ffmpeg is currently at version 3.3.3, so this seems
inherently implausible.
At the very least, further explanation is required.
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Package: syslinux
Version: 3:6.03+dfsg-14.1
Severity: normal
Syslinux Master Boot Record files have been duplicated across three
packages:
$ dpkg -L syslinux-common | grep mbr
/usr/lib/syslinux/mbr
/usr/lib/syslinux/mbr/altmbr.bin
/usr/lib/syslinux/mbr/gptmbr.bin
/usr/lib/sysl
Package: xul-ext-treestyletab
Version: 0.18.2016111701-1
Severity: normal
This package is now seven months, and two versions, out-of-date.
Please upgrade to the current version.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-style-tab/versions/
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.0
then they
could be worked on, too. Or it might happen that GPU rendering would
finally just start working.
Can these updates be applied to the Debian archive, in the near future?
-- Ian Bruce
Package: libclc-dev
Version: 0.2.0+git20160907-3
Severity: important
3D rendering with Blender is one of the most important potential uses
for openCL, among programs in the Debian archive. Currently this is not
working; see here, for example:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=8482
Package: mesa-opencl-icd
Version: 13.0.5-1
Severity: important
Tags: upstream patch
LLVM versions before v5 contain a known language bug, involving the use
of pointers as boolean values, which makes them essentially unusable for
openCL:
https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30217
https://reviews
Package: libclc-amdgcn
Version: 0.2.0+git20160907-3
Severity: important
Tags: upstream patch
Running the "clinfo" utility (with AMD GPU), from the package of the
same name, produces the following openCL compile error:
unsupported call to function get_local_size
This is a known problem, and i
Package: libgegl-dev
Version: 0.3.8-3+b1
Severity: normal
As far as I understand, Debian packages aren't supposed to contain
duplicate copies of libraries which have been packaged independently
(isn't that a Policy violation?), but that appears to be the case here:
$ dpkg -L opencl-c-headers | g
Package: qpdfview
Version: 0.4.14-1+b1
Severity: normal
Tags: l10n
qpdfview-translations seems to consist entirely of internationalization
text files, so consequently there is no "+b1" version; however, that is
what qpdfview v0.4.14-1+b1 recommends, potentially resulting in
non-installation or aut
Package: mdadm
Version: 3.4-4
Severity: important
mdadm seems to have a limit of 27 block devices for a RAID array.
Is this limit documented anywhere?
Is it configurable?
I tried the solution suggested here, but it didn't help:
http://dev.bizo.com/2012/07/mdadm-device-or-resource-busy.html
Package: xfce4-settings
Version: 4.12.0-2
Severity: normal
xfce4-volumed doesn't seem to exist in Xfce 4.12,
but the xfce4-settings package still recommends it.
This is especially bad, because xfce4-volumed then
pulls in the entire gstreamer0.10 set of packages,
which are otherwise totally unnece
Package: udisks2
Version: 2.1.7-2
Severity: normal
Tags: upstream
Contrary to traditional expectations for UNIX command-line utilities
(but reminiscent of dumbed-down software systems such as MS-Windows),
/usr/bin/udisksctl produces non-informational output, which tells
a human user nothing they d
Package: gnuplot5
Version: 5.0.2+dfsg1-2
Severity: normal
# dpkg -l | grep gnuplot
ii gnuplot-tex 4.6.6-3 all
Command-line driven interactive plotting program. Tex-files
ii gnuplot5 5.0.2+dfsg1-2 all
Command-line driven interacti
Package: systemd-sysv
Version: 228-2
Severity: important
This option seems to have recently disappeared; see here, for example:
http://linuxcommand.org/man_pages/shutdown8.html
It seems to be related to systemd; perhaps it's supposed to be an
"improvement".
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthr
Package: ruby-rmagick
Version: 2.13.2-4+b1
Severity: normal
There's clearly something wrong with the README.html documentation file
for this package. See attached screenshot.
-- System Information:
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APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'stable-updates')
Package: info2www
Version: 1.2.2.9-24
Followup-For: Bug #493366
The previously mentioned misspelling of "/vaw/www/" still persists,
but the advice given in README.Debian is incorrect in another regard
as well.
The current default configuration for the Debian apache2 package
specifies /var/www/htm
Package: phppgadmin
Version: 5.1-1.1
Severity: critical
Justification: breaks unrelated software
Installing phppgadmin breaks the Apache webserver:
# /etc/init.d/apache2 start
[] Starting apache2 (via systemctl): apache2.serviceJob for apache2.service
failed. See 'systemctl status apache2.se
Package: xfce4-screenshooter
Version: 1.8.1-5
Severity: normal
Tags: l10n
The xfce4-screenshooter package contains some files under the
/usr/share/xfce4/doc/ast/ directory. (Asturian translation?)
This is surely the wrong place. All the other translations are under
/usr/share/doc/xfce4-screenshoo
Package: emscripten
Severity: normal
Package emscripten depends on "clang-3.2 | clang-3.3 | clang-3.4" and "llvm (>=
1:3.3)".
But the latest version of package llvm in the archive IS 3.3 .
This means that if you already have clang-3.4/llvm-3.4 installed, installing
emscripten
will require instal
Package: bfgminer
Version: 3.8.1-1
Severity: normal
As of January 15, 2014, BFGMiner v3.10.0 is available.
http://bfgminer.org/
https://bitcointalk.org/?topic=168174.msg4532634#msg4532634
The version in Debian unstable is 3.9.0 .
Please upgrade when convenient.
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dn't it write a
duplicate copy into the backup area?
I have attached a copy of the first 32 (512-byte) sectors of the
flashdrive partition in question, in case anybody wants to investigate
this problem in detail, although it shouldn't be difficult to replicate.
-- Ian Bruce
-- System
Package: texlive-extra-utils
Version: 2012.20120611-2
Severity: normal
/usr/bin/pdfjam reports the following errors:
pdfjam ERROR: can't find pdflatex!
pdfjam ERROR: LaTeX package pdfpages.sty is not installed
It turns out that the required files are /usr/bin/pdflatex , and
/usr/share/t
Package: archivemount
Version: 0.6.1-2+b1
Severity: normal
Tags: upstream
Basic read operations seem to fail on loop mounts of ISO-9660 images:
$ ls -l ubuntu/xubuntu-12.04-desktop-i386.iso
-rw-r--r-- 1 ian ian 713338880 Apr 23 14:34
ubuntu/xubuntu-12.04-desktop-i386.iso
$
$ ar
Package: archivemount
Version: 0.6.1-2+b1
Severity: minor
Tags: l10n
Surely package descriptions should be 8-bit only, especially for something
as trivial as quotation marks?
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APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'stable-upd
Package: coreutils
Version: 8.13-3.2
Severity: normal
quote from expr(1) info file:
When built with support for the GNU MP library, `expr' uses
arbitrary-precision arithmetic; otherwise, it uses native arithmetic
types and may fail due to arithmetic overflow.
This appears to actually
agreement with each other, one way or another.
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mode standard
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realname "Ian Bruce"
email "ian_br...@fastmail.net"
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Package: ghex
Version: 3.4.1-1
Severity: normal
Tags: upstream
Apparently ghex can be switched between insert and overstrike edit modes
either by the key or by an option in the [Edit] menu.
However, there is no visible indication in the main window which of
these modes is active, which can cause
Package: src:debian-installer
Severity: important
Tags: d-i
The version 6.0 installer invites users to specify the sizes of disk
partitions and volumes in units of "K", "M", "G", and "T". Only later do
they find out that what is meant by this is the politically-correct
decimal units 10^3, 10^6, 10
Package: lightdm
Version: 1.2.2-3
Followup-For: Bug #679386
I confirm this bug report in every detail; what the submitter describes
happens exactly the same for me. It used to work, prior to the recent
package upgrade.
I'm using the XFCE-4 desktop environment; I don't know if that matters.
The ~
Package: ifupdown
Version: 0.7~rc3
Severity: critical
Justification: breaks the whole system
I have specified this bug as "critical/breaks the whole system", because
its effect is that if an external PPP link does not come up for some
reason, the system boot fails. It actually gets wedged so hard
Package: libpodofo0.9.0
Version: 0.9.0-1.1
Severity: normal
The latest PoDoFo version in Debian is 0.9.0 . Version 0.9.1 was released
on April 26th, 2011, close to one year ago. Please upgrade to the current
version.
http://podofo.sourceforge.net/
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Package: libjson-spirit-dev
Version: 4.03-2
Severity: important
compilation error:
$ g++ -c file.cpp
In file included from /usr/include/json_spirit.h:13:0,
/usr/include/json_spirit_value.h:19:29: fatal error: boost/config.hpp: No such
file or directory
compilation terminated.
The file "/usr/i
Package: libwebkit-1.0-2
Version: 1.2.0-1
Severity: important
Webkit seems to make a DNS query for every mouse movement event that it receives
from the browser window. (This happens with both Epiphany and Midori, so I
assume
that the problem is in Webkit.)
This is easy to reproduce; run the fol
Package: galeon
Version: 2.0.7-2.1
Severity: important
This problem is easily reproducible:
Open at least two tabs in a Galeon window; these can be blank.
Select the "Detach Tab" item in the "Tabs" menu.
Immediate segmentation fault, with the following error messages:
** (galeon:2219): WARNI
Package: dpkg-dev
Version: 1.15.3.1
Severity: important
$ dscverify psutils_1.17-27.dsc
psutils_1.17-27.dsc:
Good signature found
validating psutils_1.17.orig.tar.gz
validating psutils_1.17-27.diff.gz
All files validated successfully.
$
$ dpkg-source -
Package: iptables
Version: 1.4.3.2-2
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
The attached patch corrects some minor errors in the iptables(8) man page,
related to port ranges in the "tcp" module.
--- /usr/share/man/man8/iptables.orig.8 2009-04-19 12:25:09.0 -0700
+++ /usr/share/man/man8/iptables.8
Package: claws-mail
Version: 3.7.1-2
Severity: important
Claws-Mail generates Message-ID headers of the form
; for example, <20090529055315.7f6ad...@foobar> .
This does not conform to RFC-2822, which requires that the string
after the "@" character be a fully-qualified domain name, in order
to
Package: flightgear
Version: 1.0.0-3+b1
Severity: normal
The file "/usr/share/doc/flightgear/README.Debian" says:
Additional scenery is available at http://www.flightgear.org/.
They should be unpacked into /usr/share/games/FlightGear/Scenery.
This works fine for the regular scenery file
Package: libglib1.2ldbl
Version: 1.2.10-19
Severity: important
Package libglib1.2ldbl contains these headers:
Replaces: libglib1.2
Conflicts: libglib1.2
Shouldn't it then also contain a "Provides: libglib1.2" header?
It can't really replace it otherwise.
For example, xmms is currently uninstal
Package: nvidia-kernel-2.6.26-1-amd64
Version: 173.14.09+2
Severity: important
This package contains the header "Provides: nvidia-kernel-100.11.14".
Shouldn't that match the version number, which is "173.14.09"?
The effect of the mismatch is that the corresponding nvidia-glx package
is currently
Package: grub-pc
Version: 1.96+20080724-7
Severity: critical
Justification: breaks the whole system
I installed grub because lilo wouldn't boot any more.
My root fs is on lvm; I don't know if this is related.
After running "grub-install" and rebooting, grub drops into the
"grub rescue>" prompt.
erged.
Prefixing a "+" to the "ExecCGI" option would resolve the issue.
This bug is a reversion. I reported it previously (bug #345922), and it
was supposed to have been fixed.
-- Ian Bruce
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wer versions of passwd were updated to reflect
this, the whole problem would just go away.
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> This one time, at band camp, Ian Bruce said:
> > "adduser" produces a
On Fri, 9 Jun 2006 10:57:57 +0100
Stephen Gran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> This one time, at band camp, Ian Bruce said:
> > "adduser" produces a lot of error messages about unrecognized
> > parameters, which may or may not be harmless. This may indicate a
&g
0.15-10
debconf : v1.5.1
The first example below shows "adduser" being invoked directly from the
command line. The other two examples show the same problem occurring
when "apt-get" tries to create system userids while installing other
packages.
-- Ian Bruce
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# adduser gd
nerator.rules:
>
> DRIVER!="?*", GOTO="persistent_net_generator_end"
That seems to fix the problem. With this change, the
/etc/udev/rules.d/z25_persistent-net.rules file is not recreated, and
the network interface comes up as eth0 on every reboot. There's still no
eth0/device/ subdi
;etc/modules" file. It seems like the default udev
configuration ought to be able to handle this situation without manual
intervention. Whether this problem also affects PCI ethernet cards, I do
not know. It doesn't seem to be an issue with the kernel driver; if I
manually "ifconfig" the device, it starts working immediately.
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earlier version of the NFS packages.
As soon as I manage to get Linux v2.6 running on the server, I'll try
all four permutations of 2.4/2.6 on the client and server and see what
happens.
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As the original report says, it is also necessary to change the
references in /etc/init.d/xdm and /etc/X11/default-display-manager from
"/usr/bin/X11/xdm" to "/usr/bin/xdm". It's hard to see how this problem
arose, because these files all come from the same package; t
like any other, but currently
this seems not to work. Perhaps the documentation could explain what
needs to be done to make this possible ("fsid=xxx"?), or if it is in
fact not possible for some reason, make this clear.
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been resolved, and should not have been closed.
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those problems without carefully
reading the documentation. It needs to be fixed. Prefixing a "+" to the
"ExecCGI" option would resolve the issue.
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s the dialup account information to pppd.
Anyway, for PPP clients, it's a lot more convenient just to use the
"user" and "password" options than messing around with the
{pap,chap}-secrets files. Since the "password" option is already
implemented, it ought to be documented along with the rest of the pppd
options.
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On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 14:15:19 +0200
Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Friday 25 March 2005 15:02, Ian Bruce wrote:
> > On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 20:38:28 -0500
> >
> > Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > The installer tries to load all modules in
tand why that would happen.
Let me know if there is other information that would be useful in
solving this problem.
-- Ian Bruce
syslog.gz
Description: Binary data
messages.gz
Description: Binary data
rnel
package, but the result was the same.
Attached are the files "/linuxrc.conf", "/script", and "/loadmodules"
extracted from the initrd image "/boot/initrd.img-2.4.27-2-586tsc" found
on the hard disk after the failed reboot. The initrd package is
"initr
Package: sylpheed
Version: 1.0.1-1
The sylpheed v1.0.1-1 package appears to have been compiled without
support for GnuPG. Sylpheed version 1.0.1 requires GPGME v1.0 rather
than v0.3 , as previous versions did.
If this omission is intentional, it should be noted as such in the
README or Changelog
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