Package: nodm
Version: 0.2
Severity: important
Tags: patch
When I install nodm on a machine where sh == dash:
Unpacking nodm (from .../apt/archives/nodm_0.2_i386.deb) ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Setting up nodm (0.2) ...
[: 74: false: unexpected operator
[: 74: false: une
Just after midnight (localtime), 2009/03/31, Justin B Rye wrote:
> grub2's boot-time invocation of "background_image /path/to/image"
> (as defined in /etc/grub.d/05_debian_theme) no longer succeeds;
> [...]
In case people think this was an April Fools' Day pran
Package: grub-common
Version: 1.96+20090317-1
Severity: normal
grub2's boot-time invocation of "background_image /path/to/image"
(as defined in /etc/grub.d/05_debian_theme) no longer succeeds;
trying it on the grub commandline returns "grub: No video mode
activated". This is presumably related to
Package: qalculate-kde
Followup-For: Bug #452492
Tags: patch
> Since no units are capitalized in this line, I don't think that is a
> bug.
>
> I will close this bug if you have no objections.
Excuse me jumping in here, but I don't see any indication that the
original 2007 bugreporter (Davide Manc
Package: developers-reference
Version: 3.4.1
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
This report has been brewing on debian-l10n-english for years - see
"http://lists.debian.org/debian-l10n-english/2008/08/msg4.html";
The advice in DevRef 6.2.2 about package short descriptions is good,
but it's undermin
Package: bsd-mailx
Version: 8.1.2-0.20081101cvs-2
Severity: minor
Tags: patch
The old package description said:
# Description: A simple mail user agent
# mailx is the traditional command-line-mode mail user agent.
# Even if you don't use it it may be required by other programs.
This is valid n
Andreas Metzler wrote:
> I think the doc-base entry is still fine, since the documentation
> still covers GNU locate. Closing.
Except that the doc-base entry doesn't say anything about GNU; it
just claims to be documenting "locate". On a given Debian system,
GNU locate may or may not even be inst
Package: findutils
Version: 4.4.0-2
Severity: minor
Tags: patch
It's currently using the Etch package description; my patch just
replaces that with the Lenny version.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable') <-- Stable's version is the latest!
Dan McCombs wrote:
> My draft as far as emphasizing that ddclient will try to keep these up
> to date, and that they are updated using the interface (or web
> detection) that was selected in a previous question.
>
>
> _Description: Host names to keep updated:
> The list of host names managed via
Ferenc Wagner wrote:
> Just to make it clear: "an hour" but "a hardware", right?
Yes. Well, "a hardware device", anyway (there's no singular noun
"hardware").
--
JBR with qualifications in linguistics, experience as a Debian
sysadmin, and probably no clue about this particular packag
W. Martin Borgert wrote:
> On 2009-02-07 18:41, Samuel Thibault wrote:
>> Christian Perrier, le Sat 07 Feb 2009 17:05:01 +0100, a écrit :
+
+ Install &debian; with a hardware speech synthesis
>>>
>>> I think that "device" is missing here
>>
>> I don't know, or maybe synthesizer instead.
Christian Perrier wrote:
> (dle users, see the discussion in bug #513626. We just reviewed
> ddclient's templates but that enhancement has been proposed in
> parallel and I proposed a review of new debconf templates)
>
[...]
> I propose:
>
> _Description: Find public IP address using checkip.dyndn
Peter S Galbraith wrote:
> Justin B Rye wrote:
>> Evidence of trivial but annoying bitrot in xcolmix:
>
> Absolutely. I haven't even used xcolmix for a long time. I wonder if
> it's time to simply remove it from Debian. What do you think?
As long as I can remembe
Package: nano
Version: 2.0.9-1
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
I see Experimental adopts bug #495289's modified short description,
but there's still a problem both there and in the long description:
given that washington.edu have released the Pico v2.0 codebase under
a DFSG-free license (available
Package: xcolmix
Version: 1.07-7
Severity: minor
Evidence of trivial but annoying bitrot in xcolmix:
a) it expects the rgb.txt file to be in xserver-common
b) it expects it to be located at /usr/lib/X11
It's been provided in x11-common since at least Etch, and located at
/etc/X11 (
Please note: I am not a Debian Developer, I'm just a user who
noticed this bugreport and felt like stepping in.
Executive summary: try setting a C locale in the environment of your
old scripts.
Marvin Germain wrote:
> Package: base
> Version: etch
>
> The output of /usr/bin/sort is always as if
Package: make
Version: 3.81-5
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
Make's package description could do with some dusting.
# Description: The GNU version of the "make" utility.
Do readers really need to be told that the package "make" provides
something called "make"? And isn't it pretty much the defa
Package: debtags
Version: 1.7.7
Severity: wishlist
I'm treating this as a token bug against debtags since there isn't a
debtags-vocabulary pseudopackage to report bugs against, and my
posts to the mailinglist have had no effect.
- The :data: in made-of::data:* is vestigial.
All of these
Package: po-debconf
Version: 1.0.15
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
There's a glitch in the present-tense third-person-singular
agreement in po-debconf's long description:
# Description: manage translated Debconf templates files with gettext
# This package is an alternative to debconf-utils and p
Followup-For: Bug #506578
Package: sg3-utils
Version: 1.24-2
Tags: patch
Noel Köthe wrote:
> the description talks about the obsolent kernels 2.2 and 2.4 but Debian
> ships 2.6 so people are interested in 2.6 information.
> The mentioned sg-utils is not available anymore.
It’s t
Package: installation-reports
*** Please type your report below this line ***
Executive summary: nothing to report.
-- Package-specific info:
Boot method: CD (required temporary drive transplant)
Image version: 20081029 build downloaded (on 2008/11/10) from
http://cdimage.debian.org/cd
Christian Perrier wrote:
> > for passing the initrd to the kernel. You will need to re-run lilo
> > to make this option take effect.
>
> Here, s/lilo/LILO is more debatable as one wants to run the "lilo"
> command.
>
> I'd propose "You will need to run the 'lilo' command..."
This is only part
Paul Wise wrote:
> Template: lilo/add_large_memory
[...]
> If you have an older BIOS you may need to reduce the size of the initrd
> *before* rebooting, please see README.Debian for tips on how to do that.
^
Since you ask: this is a "comma splice". A semicolon or period
woul
(Try again, including reasoning and CCs)
Christian Perrier wrote:
> As I'm in the process of NMU'ing the package for l10n we could use
> this opportunity to review the package description.
>
> Description: Pluggable Authentication Module allowing LDAP interfaces
"Interfaces" is an odd choice of
Hideki Yamane wrote:
> Transition waring: Upstream development of the kochi fonts has been
> discontinued. The author of this font suggests as a replacement the use of
> the kochi-based "sazanami" font. So if you want to use this package, please
> consider using "ttf-sazanami-mincho", instead.
Hideki Yamane wrote:
> Upstream development of the kochi fonts has been discontinued. The author
> of these fonts suggests as a replacement the use of the kochi-based
> "sazanami" fonts (in Debian, ttf-sazanami-mincho and ttf-sazanami-gothic
> package). These fix several glyphs which are c
Francesco Poli wrote:
> On Tue, 05 Aug 2008 11:35:52 +0900 Junichi Uekawa wrote:
>> Already-reported against debbugs.
>
> Could you please tell me which is the number for this debbugs bug?
I'm assuming 484789, which has claimed to be "pending" since early
August; debbugs has been at 2.4.1 since b
Here for d-l-e readers is the current NEWS.Debian text:
ttf-kochi (1.0.20030809-6) unstable; urgency=low
---
| Please use ttf-sazanami-{mincho,gothic}, instead of ttf-kochi |
--
I'm not the maintainer, but I say "unreproducible".
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> How does one send EOF interactively these days?
If that's a wishlist documentation bug, it should probably go to the
package that provides sh(1).
> $ at now
> warning: commands will be executed using /bin/sh
> at> te
Francesco P. Lovergine wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 10:58:23AM +0200, W. Martin Borgert wrote:
>> Btw: The wording "pseudo-package" is misleading, IMHO. We use
>> pseudo-package for "wnpp", "ftp.debian.org" etc. in the BTS.
>> This is probably a meta-package. The last sentence "You should
>> in
Package: gkrellm
Version: 2.3.1-7
Severity: minor
The first user of gkrellm seems to get privileged access to the
lockfile directory. Installing gkrellm doesn't create it:
$ ls -l /usr/bin/gkrellm /var/lock/gkrellm
ls: /var/lock/gkrellm: No such file or directory
-rwxr-xr
Justin B Rye wrote:
> Revised to match the versions accepted so far:
Attached is a patch to the samba control file incorporating all
these proposed revisions (using Steve Langasek's version of the
boilerplate). The ones for smbfs, swat and winbind may well still
need attention from
Justin B Rye wrote:
> Current package description:
> # Description: a LanManager-like simple client for Unix
> # The Samba software suite is a collection of programs that
> # implements the SMB/CIFS protocol for unix systems, allowing you to serve
> # files and printers
Steve Langasek wrote:
> > Problems shared with other packages in the set:
> > * Developers Reference 6.2.2 says the package synopsis should not
> > begin with an article.
>
> The devref recommendation is wrong. DevRef is not policy, and the
> grammatical justification given in 6.2.2 is bogus:
Steve Langasek wrote:
> > Suggested replacement text:
> > | Description: Samba client libraries
> > | The Samba software suite implements the SMB/CIFS protocol, providing
> > | cross-platform support for Windows-style network shares.
> > | .
> > | This package provides a library for client appl
Steve Langasek wrote:
>> This is part of a set of related bugreports on the packages in the
>> Samba suite; I've already reported many of these issues (with some
>> suggested fixes) as a single bugreport on samba4 (see #486370), but
>> since that approach is a dud I'm trying the alternative of spli
Package: samba-doc-pdf
Version: 2:3.2.1-1
Severity: minor
This is part of a set of related bugreports on the packages in the
Samba suite; I've already reported many of these issues (with some
suggested fixes) as a single bugreport on samba4 (see #486370), but
since that approach is a dud I'm tryin
Package: samba-tools
Version: 2:3.2.1-1
Severity: minor
This is part of a set of related bugreports on the packages in the
Samba suite; I've already reported many of these issues (with some
suggested fixes) as a single bugreport on samba4 (see #486370), but
since that approach is a dud I'm trying
Package: samba
Version: 2:3.2.1-1
Severity: minor
This is part of a set of related bugreports on the packages in the
Samba suite; I've already reported many of these issues (with some
suggested fixes) as a single bugreport on samba4 (see #486370), but
since that approach is a dud I'm trying the al
Package: winbind
Version: 2:3.2.1-1
Severity: minor
This is part of a set of related bugreports on the packages in the
Samba suite; I've already reported many of these issues (with some
suggested fixes) as a single bugreport on samba4 (see #486370), but
since that approach is a dud I'm trying the
Package: samba-dbg
Version: 2:3.2.1-1
Severity: minor
This is part of a set of related bugreports on the packages in the
Samba suite; I've already reported many of these issues (with some
suggested fixes) as a single bugreport on samba4 (see #486370), but
since that approach is a dud I'm trying th
Package: samba-common
Version: 2:3.2.1-1
Severity: minor
This is part of a set of related bugreports on the packages in the
Samba suite; I've already reported many of these issues (with some
suggested fixes) as a single bugreport on samba4 (see #486370), but
since that approach is a dud I'm trying
Package: smbclient
Version: 2:3.2.1-1
Severity: minor
This is part of a set of related bugreports on the packages in the
Samba suite; I've already reported many of these issues (with some
suggested fixes) as a single bugreport on samba4 (see #486370), but
since that approach is a dud I'm trying th
Package: libwbclient0
Version: 2:3.2.1-1
Severity: minor
This is part of a set of related bugreports on the packages in the
Samba suite; I've already reported many of these issues (with some
suggested fixes) as a single bugreport on samba4 (see #486370), but
since that approach is a dud I'm trying
Package: swat
Version: 2:3.2.1-1
Severity: minor
This is part of a set of related bugreports on the packages in the
Samba suite; I've already reported many of these issues (with some
suggested fixes) as a single bugreport on samba4 (see #486370), but
since that approach is a dud I'm trying the alt
Package: smbfs
Version: 2:3.2.1-1
Severity: minor
This is part of a set of related bugreports on the packages in the
Samba suite; I've already reported many of these issues (with some
suggested fixes) as a single bugreport on samba4 (see #486370), but
since that approach is a dud I'm trying the al
Package: samba-doc
Version: 2:3.2.1-1
Severity: minor
This is part of a set of related bugreports on the packages in the
Samba suite; I've already reported many of these issues (with some
suggested fixes) as a single bugreport on samba4 (see #486370), but
since that approach is a dud I'm trying th
Package: libpam-smbpass
Version: 2:3.2.1-1
Severity: minor
This is part of a set of related bugreports on the packages in the
Samba suite; I've already reported many of these issues (with some
suggested fixes) as a single bugreport on samba4 (see #486370), but
since that approach is a dud I'm tryi
Package: libsmbclient-dev
Version: 2:3.2.1-1
Severity: minor
This is part of a set of related bugreports on the packages in the
Samba suite; I've already reported many of these issues (with some
suggested fixes) as a single bugreport on samba4 (see #486370), but
since that approach is a dud I'm tr
Package: libsmbclient
Version: 2:3.2.1-1
Severity: minor
This is part of a set of related bugreports on the packages in the
Samba suite; I've already reported many of these issues (with some
suggested fixes) as a single bugreport on samba4 (see #486370), but
since that approach is a dud I'm trying
Package: xtide
Version: xtide_2.9.5-3
Severity: minor
/etc/cron.weekly/xtide claims to be useful only on oldoldoldstable
(or perhaps oldoldoldoldstable):
> #!/bin/sh
> # Rotate xtide's xttpd server file if logrotate is not used
>
> set -e
>
> # Only rotate if package is installed
> test -f /usr/s
Junichi Uekawa wrote:
> Justin B Rye wrote:
>> It chokes on texlive-latex-base, apparently due to bug 356853.
>> Is it taking the "fixed-version" 2007-14 as a year+month value?
>
> Already-reported against debbugs.
The way apt-listbugs handles the situation is
Package: xfonts-unifont
Version: 1:5.1.20080706-1
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable
If I had the old unifont binary package installed, attempts to
install this one fail, since of course both packages contain
/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc/unifont.pcf.gz (and nothing much else).
Package: apt-listbugs
Version: 0.0.89
Severity: normal
It chokes on texlive-latex-base, apparently due to bug 356853.
Is it taking the "fixed-version" 2007-14 as a year+month value?
Debug run as follows:
Exception `NoMethodError' at /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rational.rb:78 - undefined
method `gcd' for R
Package: info2www
Version: 1.2.2.9-24
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
(Sorry, yes, you fix one thing and it triggers a blizzard of new
minor bugreports.)
In Etch, info2www and its near twin man2html lived in different
doc-base sections: "Viewers" and "Manpages". This was a pity, but
unavoidable.
Package: info2www
Version: 1.2.2.9-24
Severity: minor
Tags: patch
(Sorry, yes, you fix one thing and it triggers a blizzard of new
nitpicky bugreports.)
The second example info node link on info2www.html is for fileutils,
which ceased to exist quite a long time ago. Patch attached.
I also modi
Package: info2www
Version: 1.2.2.9-24
Severity: minor
Tags: patch
(Sorry, yes, you fix one thing and it triggers a blizzard of new
minor bugreports.)
The suggested commandline for setting up info2www for Apache2 is
ln -s /var/lib/info2www/ /vaw/www/info2www
but cut'n'pasting that will f
Package: w3m
Version: 0.5.2-2+b1
Severity: normal
Another crash, observable on seemingly inoffensive web pages:
w3m http://mywebpages.comcast.net/boydmayberry/Bunnies.html
GC Warning: Repeated allocation of very large block (appr. size 31006720):
May lead to memory leak and poor perfor
Package: grub-invaders
Version: 1.0.0-7
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
See #492242; this is essentially the same bug, and I attach a fix
that Works For Me (though it's still something of a rough draft).
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'test
Package: memtest86+
Version: 2.01-1
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
The file /etc/grub.d/20_memtest86+ contains the line
linux ${GRUB_DRIVE_BOOT}/memtest86+.bin
Unfortunately, /usr/share/doc/grub-pc/changelog.gz says:
# 2008-05-30 Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
[...]
# * util/
Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
> No - your wording makes it sound like SMB2 is the main feature of Samba 4.
> It's just a
> minor part of Samba 4 and Samba 3 will probably support it as well soon.
Does this mean you want to keep the line about supporting "Windows,
NT, OS/2 and DOS clients", or is it ju
Package: samba4
Followup-For: Bug #486370
(Messages sent only to the Debian BTS won't reach me until I get
round to checking bugs.debian.org by hand. Please CC me, or maybe
debian-l10n-english.)
> Thanks for the bugreport. I agree the references to LanManager are a
> bit out of date, and are at
Package: dnscache-run
Version: 1:1.05-3
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable
A two-stage problem.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# sudo apt-get install dnscache-run
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following extra pac
Stefan Fritsch wrote:
>> This seems a bit much.
>
> mysql-common adds 136k to libmysqlclient15off's 3992k, that's hardly
> relevant. I agree that the situation is not optimal but it's better
> than the alternatives. And it will be fixed in lenny+1.
It's not the diskspace that I'm worried about;
Package: debian-refcard
Version: 0.3.2-1
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
A patch is attached; here's my commentary. Of course, applying the
patch as-is would give you a truncated and misorganised reference
card, so my general comments at the end also include a few suggested
topics for replacement
Package: debian-refcard
Version: 0.3.2-1
Severity: minor
Since all the PDF files are automatically compressed by some piece
of CDBS magic, the index.html hyperlinks are all broken - they point
at href="refcard-en-a4.pdf" instead of href="refcard-en-a4.pdf.gz"
(etcetera).
Meanwhile, every single r
Followup-For: Bug #481976
Package: libaprutil1
Version: 1.2.12+dfsg-7
Just sticking my nose in to point out (in case it hasn't been
noticed) that this new dependency means there is now a hard
dependency chain all the way from apache2 to mysql-common.
apache2 Depends: apach
Package: trash-cli
Version: 0.1.10.28-1
Severity: minor
This package is a classic case of "nice program, a shame about the
documentation". In particular:
1) The package description needs work:
# Description: Command line trashcan utility
# Command line interface trashcan freedesktop.
Package: molly-guard
Version: 0.4.4-1
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
# Depends: sysvinit | upstart, procps
On Debian, sysvinit is Essential, and unversioned dependencies on
Essential packages are bugs (see Debian Policy 3.5). The same may
or may not be true for upstart on Ubuntu.
At present upst
Package: axyl
Version: 2.6.0
Severity: minor
Tags: patch
The dependencies for axyl are:
# Depends: debconf | debconf-2.0, debianutils (>= 1.6), bash (>= 2.0), php4 |
php5, php4-cli | php5-cli, apache (>= 1.3) | apache-perl (>= 1.3) | apache-ssl
(>= 1.3) | apache2, adduser (>= 3.58)
Quite a lot
Package: dvbackup
Version: 0.0.4rj1
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
The package dvbackup "Recommends: star | afio | tar (>= 1) | cpio".
But tar is Essential, and dependencies on Essential packages are
prohibited by Policy (3.5). Versioned dependencies are okay; but
tar was already at >= 1 in even th
Olivier Berger wrote:
> *Should be "apache" in all three.*
>
> By "apache user", I mean something which relates to Require user in the
> apache.conf section of the 'configure' script... of course, this assumes
> that it's running apache and no other web server ;)
>
> In any case, that's meant to
Olivier Berger wrote:
> I propose a new version of the templates, in attachment, due to several
> changes that I think were problematic. My explanations bellow on why.
Well, I suspected I was out of my depth, and now I know.
> Template: twiki/configuser
> Type: string
> Default: configuser
> #fla
Package: lsb-base
Version: 3.2-12
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
In the control file:
# Package: lsb-base
[...]
# Depends: sed, ncurses-bin
# Replaces: lsb-core (<< 2.0-6), lsb (<< 2.0-6)
# Conflicts: lsb-core (<< 2.0-6), lsb (<< 2.0-6)
"Depends: sed, ncurses-bin" achieves nothing, since both pa
Package: cron-apt
Version: 0.6.6
Severity: minor
Tags: patch
You can safely drop the dependency on the Essential package
debianutils (>= 1.7) now that Hamm is Old-old-old-old-oldstable.
Oh, and if you feel like getting rid of the "Recommends:
liblockfile1" dependency too, you could probably rewri
Package: freej
Version: 0.10-1
Severity: minor
Tags: patch
I noticed this package hitting Testing and thought I'd better point
out the obvious typo: "dance teather" should be either "tHeatER" or
"tHeatRE". Here's a full debian-l10n-english-style review:
# Description: Vision mixer
Package: apache2
Version: 2.2.9-1
Severity: minor
Tags: patch
Apache 2 is the only version of Apache currently in Debian, so it's
time its package descriptions took responsibility for describing
what it is, instead of saying what it's better than.
Here's a review of the current control file, with
Package: samba4
Version: 4.0.0~alpha4~20080522-1
Severity: minor
The references to LanManager in the short descriptions of so many
samba packages are unhelpful.
For a start, as I understand it, its name was "LAN Manager", not
"LanManager"; up until about version 2.1 it couldn't do SMB, and
soon a
Package: less
Version: 394-4
Followup-For: Bug #432002
I'm sweeping the high-popcon packages for outdated descriptions.
This obvious case has already been reported, but the submitter was
seemingly unaware of the most obvious anachronism of all:
#
Package: psmisc
Version: 22.6-1
Severity: minor
Tags: patch
The package description for psmisc says:
# Package: psmisc
[...]
# Replaces: procps (<< 1:1.2)
[...]
# Description: Utilities that use the proc filesystem
# This package contains three little utilities that use the proc FS:
# .
# `fus
Package: cron
Version: 3.0pl1-104
Severity: minor
Tags: patch
The package description for cron says:
# Description: management of regular background processing
# cron is a background process (`daemon') that runs programs at regular
# intervals (for example, every minute, day, week or month); wh
Guillem Jover wrote:
> On Sun, 2008-06-01 at 20:57:15 +0100, Justin B Rye wrote:
>> Description: Debian package management system
>>This package provides the low-level infrastructure for handling the
>>installation and removal of Debian software packages.
>>
Bdale Garbee wrote:
> So, how about this for a long description:
>
> This package provides the standard GNU file compression
> utilities, which are also the default compression tools for
> Debian. They typically operate on files with names ending in
> '.gz', but ca
Package: perl-base
Version: 5.10.0-10
Severity: minor
Tags: patch
I've been going through Essential looking for package descriptions
that were in need of a review. This one's the very last on my
"Severity: minor" list (see #482098, #482666, #458029, #483023,
#483221, #484002, #484172, #484547).
Thanks for the swift response! I'm arguing my corner, but I may yet
be able to come up with something you'll like.
Joey Hess wrote:
> Justin B Rye wrote:
>> There are a couple of stylesheet issue here (DevRef recommends
>> against leading capitalisation and articl
Package: gzip
Version: 1.3.12-5
Severity: minor
Tags: patch
I've been going through Essential looking for package descriptions
that were in need of a review. This one's on the "Severity: minor"
end of the list (see #482098, #482666, #458029, #483023, #483221,
#484002, #484172).
Package: ncurses-base
Version: 5.6+20080308-1
Severity: minor
Tags: patch
I've been going through Essential looking for package descriptions
that were in need of a review. I've already worked my way through
all the "Severity: normal" cases and started on the "minor" ones
(#482098, #482666, #45802
Package: dpkg
Version: 1.14.18
Severity: minor
Tags: patch
I've been going through Essential looking for package descriptions
that are in need of a review. I've already dealt with all the
"Severity: normal" ones (see #482098, #482666, #458029, #483023,
#483221), but dpkg heads my list of "minor"
Package: hostname
Version: 2.95
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
I've been looking through Essential for the package descriptions
most in need of a review (see #482098, #482666, #458029, #483023).
This one's just about the last on my list of serious cases.
# Description: utility to set/show the hos
Followup-For: Bug #458029
Package: apt
Version: 0.7.11
I've been looking through Essential for the package descriptions
most in need of a review (see #482098, #482666). Since apt already
has a BTS entry for this issue, I thought I'd better attach my
suggested patch to that report.
Philippe Clo
Clint Adams wrote:
> Or we could just replace the package entirely with the mktemp from
> coreutils.
Oh, is there another /bin/mktemp in upstream GNU coreutils? So
there is. I was wondering about the /bin/tempfile in debianutils,
but if scripts like fetchmail.postinst needn't even be rewritten,
Minutes ago, Justin B Rye wrote:
> I'd suggest something simple like:
>
> Description: tool for creating temporary files
>This package provides a simple utility designed to make temporary
>file handling in shell scripts simple and secure.
That's simply t
Package: mktemp
Version: 1.5-7
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
I've been looking through Essential for the package descriptions
most in need of a review...
> Package: mktemp
> Description: Makes unique filenames for temporary files
> Mktemp is a simple utility designed to make temporary file hand
Package: bsdutils
Version: 1:2.13.1.1-1
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
I've been looking through Essential for the package descriptions
most in need of a review. When I come to bsdutils:
> Description: Basic utilities from 4.4BSD-Lite
> This package contains the bare minimum number of B
Package: rsyslog-doc
Version: 3.14.2-2
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
I've just noticed that there's a /usr/share/doc/rsylog-doc (not
rsySlog) directory here containing a single lost file:
"/usr/share/doc/rsylog-doc/html/queueWorkerLogic.dia"
Once I look at the source the patch is obvious (attached
Package: rsyslog
Version: 3.14.2-1
Followup-For: Bug #475303
Speaking as a user with scripts that parse my logfiles for me, I'd
say this change should at a bare minimum have been mentioned in a
changelog/NEWS file along with an explanation of how to revert it
(in terms clearly intelligible to user
Khalid Aziz wrote:
> "Please choose whether to enable kexec-tools to load a new kernel
> automatically on reboots and kexec into the new kernel instead of
> rebooting into firmware."
>
> Any thoughts?
Mainly, again, "what's new about them?" - kexec _can_ be used to
load a specified kernel, but th
Package: sudo
Version: 1.6.9p9-1
Severity: wishlist
>From the changelog:
> * make default editor be /usr/bin/vi instead of /usr/bin/editor, so that
> the command 'visudo' invokes a vi variant by default as documented,
> closes: #388659
And as a result, non-vi-users who upgrade from Etch and t
Christian Perrier wrote:
> But let's see what others on debian-l10n-english have to say.
>
> You might need to explain us in more details what is a "kexec'able" kernel.
> Template: kexec-tools/load_kexec
> Type: boolean
> Default: true
> _Description: Enable automatic kexec reboots?
> Please cho
Package: partman-partitioning
Version: 57
Severity: minor
Tags: l10n
I did an install recently using lenny_di_beta1 and noticed a
dialogue from partman-partitioning (would that be version 57?):
> Hint: Use "20%" (or "30%", etc.) for 20% (resp. 30%, etc.) over the
> minimal allowed size. Use "max
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