Bug#618329: xserver-xorg: Server constantly reprobes monitor

2011-03-14 Thread Mark Brown
Package: xserver-xorg Version: 1:7.6+4 Severity: normal Since upgrading to current unstable the X server has constantly (at least once a minute, frequently much more often) reprobed the display configuration. According to the log it's detecting monitors fine, and the display looks OK when it's

Bug#618329: xserver-xorg: Same behaviour with 2.6.38-rc7-amd64

2011-03-14 Thread Mark Brown
Package: xserver-xorg Version: 1:7.6+4 Followup-For: Bug #618329 I'm observing exactly the same behaviour with kernel 2.6.38-rc7. -- Package-specific info: X server symlink status: lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Dec 17 13:03 /etc/X11/X - /usr/bin/Xorg -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root

Bug#618319: Acknowledgement (linux-image-2.6.37-2-amd64: Framebuffer issues with RV620)

2011-03-14 Thread Mark Brown
On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 11:15:04AM +, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: If you wish to submit further information on this problem, please send it to 618...@bugs.debian.org. This appears to be resolved by 2.6.38-rc7. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org

Bug#618319: linux-image-2.6.37-2-amd64: Framebuffer issues with RV620

2011-03-14 Thread Mark Brown
On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 01:24:26PM +, Ben Hutchings wrote: I notice that this system is using the radeon driver but does not have the Radeon firmware installed. On older hardware the firmware is only needed for 3D acceleration, but I suspect that other functions also depend on it now.

Bug#618329: upower triggers constant monitor reprobing

2011-03-14 Thread Mark Brown
reassign 618329 upower found 618329 0.9.8-2 merge 618329 613745 thanks This is another manifestation of the bug with upower causing the monitor to blank every 30s or so which has already been reported as 613745 - merging the two bugts (hopefully). This only manifests on some chipsets (probably

Bug#612444: peoples names on planet hard to read

2011-02-09 Thread Mark Brown
On Wed, Feb 09, 2011 at 02:35:08PM +0100, Luca Capello wrote: On Wed, 09 Feb 2011 14:07:28 +0100, Kalle S??derman wrote: This comments interest me quite at bit. Luca, what culture/language do you belong to? At least in Europe and USA it has been the norm to Small caps/Upper case the author

Bug#290049: Add some information

2011-01-11 Thread Mark Brown
reassign 290049 zlib severity 290049 wishlist notforwarded 290049 kthxbye On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 02:43:11PM +0100, Bastien ROUCARIES wrote: reassign 290049 zlib, rsync severity 290049 important forwarded 290049 https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6916 This is not the same issue as the

Bug#290049: Add some information

2011-01-11 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 03:13:02PM +0100, Bastien ROUCARIES wrote: On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 2:55 PM, Mark Brown broo...@debian.org wrote: This is not the same issue as the code duplication between the two packages, this is requesting support in zlib for compressing things in a way

Bug#609474: potential symlink attack when compiling tendra

2011-01-09 Thread Mark Brown
On Sun, Jan 09, 2011 at 06:55:08PM +, Simon McVittie wrote: A patch follows; it'll also be available in http://git.debian.org/?p=users/smcv/qa/tendra.git shortly. You need to at a minimum specify a branch as well if you want people to take stuff via git. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#608179: tendra: FTBFS: mv: cannot stat `debian/tendra/usr/share/man/man1/tcc.1': No such file or directory

2011-01-09 Thread Mark Brown
On Sun, Jan 09, 2011 at 07:00:31PM +, Simon McVittie wrote: Hopefully the patch below is better? It's also available from http://git.debian.org/?p=users/smcv/qa/tendra.git which also has some minor lintian fixes as separate commits. Yes, that's a lot less hideous. I've actually got an

Bug#608179: tendra: FTBFS: mv: cannot stat `debian/tendra/usr/share/man/man1/tcc.1': No such file or directory

2011-01-09 Thread Mark Brown
On Sun, Jan 09, 2011 at 07:00:31PM +, Simon McVittie wrote: Hopefully the patch below is better? It's also available from http://git.debian.org/?p=users/smcv/qa/tendra.git which also has some minor lintian fixes as separate commits. BTW, some things regarding the git tree: - You need to

Bug#609474: potential symlink attack when compiling tendra

2011-01-09 Thread Mark Brown
On Sun, Jan 09, 2011 at 10:14:06PM +, Simon McVittie wrote: On Sun, 09 Jan 2011 at 19:11:57 +, Mark Brown wrote: On Sun, Jan 09, 2011 at 06:55:08PM +, Simon McVittie wrote: A patch follows; it'll also be available in http://git.debian.org/?p=users/smcv/qa/tendra.git shortly

Bug#608179: tendra: FTBFS: mv: cannot stat `debian/tendra/usr/share/man/man1/tcc.1': No such file or directory

2011-01-04 Thread Mark Brown
On Mon, Jan 03, 2011 at 09:48:38PM +0100, Jakub Wilk wrote: Or, better, stop using dh_installmanpages. It's been deprecated for over 6 years for very good reasons. It wasn't visibly deprecated immediately, I think the warnings have only been on for this release or something. See the

Bug#608515: tagging 608515, severity of 608515 is normal

2011-01-03 Thread Mark Brown
retitle 608515 file: FORTRAN magic is woefully inaccurate and frequently used found 608515 5.04-5 merge 593928 608515 merge 605104 608515 kthxbye On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 10:37:32PM +0100, Jakub Wilk wrote: tags 608515 - patch # misidentification is by no means RC severity 608515 normal This

Bug#608179: tendra: FTBFS: mv: cannot stat `debian/tendra/usr/share/man/man1/tcc.1': No such file or directory

2010-12-31 Thread Mark Brown
useful to look at the man page and figure out how to tune it to make file happy as that's likely to involve figuring out the ultimate bug with file. In any case, I'll look at this tomorrow. On 31 Dec 2010, at 17:36, Cyril Brulebois wrote: tag 608179 patch thanks Mark Brown broo

Bug#608179: tendra: FTBFS: mv: cannot stat `debian/tendra/usr/share/man/man1/tcc.1': No such file or directory

2010-12-28 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 12:31:53PM +0100, Jakub Wilk wrote: tendra fails to build from source in a clean sid i386 chroot. Tail of the build log: It would be helpful to provide the full build log; in general when reporting build issues you should always link to the full build log in the

Bug#606483: /etc/grub.d/20_linux_xen inserts 'extra and useless' placeholder to xen.gz command line

2010-12-09 Thread Mark Brown
Package: grub-pc Version: 1.98+20100804-8 System: 2.6.32-5-xen-amd64 #1 SMP Thu Nov 25 20:08:32 UTC 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux debian_version: squeeze/sid Suggested solution: *** /root/grub.d/20_linux_xen/ro2010-12-09 11:04:15.0 -050020_linux_xen --- /etc/grub.d/20_linux_xen2010-12-09

Bug#606493: gnome-screensaver: Fails to authenticate users with NIS on amd64

2010-12-09 Thread Mark Brown
reassign 606493 gnome-screensaver thanks On Thu, Dec 09, 2010 at 08:16:55PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: Le jeudi 09 d??cembre 2010 ?? 20:07 +0100, Dietrich Clauss a ??crit : After upgrading my machine to amd64, users can no longer unlock the screen locked by gnome-screensaver. The

Bug#606493: gnome-screensaver: Fails to authenticate users with NIS on amd64

2010-12-09 Thread Mark Brown
On Thu, Dec 09, 2010 at 09:16:05PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: Le jeudi 09 d??cembre 2010 ?? 19:38 +, Mark Brown a ??crit : I'm not sure why you believe this is an issue in NIS? I???m not sure why you believe this is an issue in gnome-screensaver either. It's the root of the pam

Bug#574798: Please ship minizip as a shared library

2010-11-03 Thread Mark Brown
On Wed, Nov 03, 2010 at 05:45:10PM +0100, Guillaume Yziquel wrote: I believe it would be a nice idea to have a minizip shared lib packaged. I feel the need for that when writig my own bindings, and I do not like very much the idea of copy-pasting code in place of linking properly. Please

Bug#588819: which zlib for squeeze?

2010-09-28 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 01:14:55PM +0300, T??r??k Edwin wrote: Which zlib version will be part of squeeze? Given the release freeze it'll be the current version. If you intend on keeping 1.2.3.4, then please fix this uninitialized warning, valgrind spams lots of these when testing an

Bug#595371: zlib1g: experimental version breaks php-pear

2010-09-03 Thread Mark Brown
forcemerge 575994 595371 kthxbye On Fri, Sep 03, 2010 at 04:23:13PM +0200, Marco Amadori wrote: Package: zlib1g Version: 1:1.2.3.5.dfsg-1 Severity: important Tags: upstream This version makes pear segfault on decompression. From the gdb trace (below) I suggest it is already known by

Bug#589896: [Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#589896: openarena: segfaults when using pulse-via-ALSA output and PulseAudio capture

2010-08-23 Thread Mark Brown
On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 11:56:02PM +0200, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: forwarded 589896 https://bugtrack.alsa-project.org/alsa-bug/view.php?id=2124 forwarded 589896 https://bugtrack.alsa-project.org/alsa-bug/view.php?id=4426 thanks Thoughts from the ALSA/VoIP teams? There are already bugs in

Bug#589896: [Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#589896: Bug#589896: openarena: segfaults when using pulse-via-ALSA output and PulseAudio capture

2010-08-23 Thread Mark Brown
On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 09:11:44PM +0100, Simon McVittie wrote: forwarded 589896 https://bugtrack.alsa-project.org/alsa-bug/view.php?id=2124 tags 589896 + patch thanks On Sat, 21 Aug 2010 at 19:07:03 +0100, Simon McVittie wrote: I suggested removing the call to snd_dlobj_cache_cleanup();

Bug#575089: gnash: Crippling memory leak

2010-08-18 Thread Mark Brown
On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 08:54:30AM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: As neither me nor the upstream developers are able to reproduce this problem, I obviously do not affect everyone, and thus I believe its severity should be important and not grave. Changing severity. It's possible someone

Bug#575089: gnash: Crippling memory leak

2010-08-17 Thread Mark Brown
On 17 Aug 2010, at 20:40, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: I've talked with upstream on #gnash (irc.freenode.net), and they had a look at URL: http://www.last.fm/user/broonie to try to reproduce this. There is no media player on this page when upstream and me test it. Do one need to log in to be

Bug#575089: gnash: Crippling memory leak

2010-08-17 Thread Mark Brown
On 17 Aug 2010, at 20:48, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: [Mark Brown] You may need to be logged in. Presumably any last.fm user account will have a player, though in the considerable time between me reporting this bug and now it appears that last.fm have changed their player so perhaps other web

Bug#564276: Ubuntu trademark non-free?

2010-08-11 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 12:48:36PM -0400, Jordan Metzmeier wrote: I had been looking at this bug for a few days now as well the the Ubuntu Trademark Policy [1]. I am not a legal person, so I would like to bring it to the attention of people who are, to see if this policy makes the

Bug#589821: (no subject)

2010-08-06 Thread Mark Brown
On 6 Aug 2010, at 22:18, Thomas Lange wrote: I'm also creating chroots and using NIS. currently I did not run into this bug, but I would like to see it fixed. I did not find other post script that are using killall. Can't you use invoke-rc.d for restarting (and stoping) the service? Or why

Bug#591481: [Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#591481: Bug#591481: libasound2-dev: /usr/include/alsa/global.h:137: error: redefinition of ???struct timeval???

2010-08-04 Thread Mark Brown
On Wed, Aug 04, 2010 at 02:53:50PM -0500, John Simpson wrote: I finally found this (in the .diff file that apt-get source libasound2-dev retrieves): --- alsa-lib-1.0.14sa.orig/debian/copyright +++ alsa-lib-1.0.14sa/debian/copyright @@ -0,0 +1,35 @@ +This package was debianized by Wichert

Bug#589821: Kills systems ypbind when installing in chroot

2010-07-22 Thread Mark Brown
On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 10:16:25AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: As to the obscurity of this scenario: I was creating a chroot to be used as filesystem for a kvm instance. While nis is not widely used, those that do use it probably want to use it in virtualization too, if they do

Bug#589821: Kills systems ypbind when installing in chroot

2010-07-22 Thread Mark Brown
On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 03:04:40PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Mark Brown broo...@debian.org writes: Most people do virtualisation rather than chroots (as you yourself were actually going to do) and with virtualisation you don't get the problem since the virtual system is a separate

Bug#589821: Kills systems ypbind when installing in chroot

2010-07-21 Thread Mark Brown
severity 589821 important kthxbye On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 02:07:45PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Package: nis Version: 3.17-17 Severity: critical Please be realistic in the severity of your reports; this is a fairly obscure use case (it's been present for something in the region of ten

Bug#588819: zlib1g: Please upgrade to zlib 1.2.5

2010-07-12 Thread Mark Brown
severity 588819 wishlist kthxbye On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 10:49:50AM -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: According to http://www.zlib/net, zlib upstream has released 1.2.4 in March and 1.2.5 in April. It seems that R will depend on 1.2.5 so I'd love to be able to build the next version against it.

Bug#290049: zlib rsyncable

2010-07-03 Thread Mark Brown
On 4 Jul 2010, at 08:04, Thorsten Glaser t...@mirbsd.de wrote: Hi, any progress (forwarded to)? It's been mentioned upstream before now but there's nobody been actively pushing anything recently. I have another “hat” on, as BSD developer (who use a zlib based compress instead of GNU

Bug#579454: O: gob2 -- GTK+ Object Builder

2010-04-27 Thread Mark Brown
Package: wnpp Severity: normal I intend to orphan the gob2 package. The package description is: GOB is a preprocessor which simplifies the writing of GObjects in C. The syntax is somewhat similar to that for Java, yacc and lex. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#451191: usbview embarrassment

2010-04-15 Thread Mark Brown
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 09:05:18AM +0800, jida...@jidanni.org wrote: MB djdanni, *please* try to use realistic severities for reports. It makes the package unusable. There are a range of release criticial bug severities, of which grave is hte highest generally corresponding to some catastrophic

Bug#491451: closed by Don Armstrong d...@debian.org (messages which are too large should be rejected by the mailing lists)

2010-04-13 Thread Mark Brown
reopen 491451 kthxbye On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 05:21:15PM +, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: Messages which are too large should be being rejected by the mailing lists; RFC1512 and RFC2017 implementation is the subject of a separate bug report. I don't really see the connection between

Bug#491451: closed by Don Armstrong d...@debian.org (reply to ow...@bugs.debian.org) (Re: Bug#491451: closed by Don Armstrong d...@debian.org (messages which are too large should be rejected by th

2010-04-13 Thread Mark Brown
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 12:39:04AM +, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: The first bit was about your personal notifications (for which I need to see logs, preferably within 24 hours, but definetly within days, so it's not something I can resolve). The second part hijacked to deal with

Bug#451191: usbview embarrassment

2010-04-13 Thread Mark Brown
severity 451191 normal kthxbye On Fri, Apr 09, 2010 at 02:09:04PM -0700, Greg KH wrote: It works for me on my systems, perhaps Debian needs to do something to fix the usbfs configuration :) It's not mounted by default on Debian systems due to it being a legacy thing. djdanni, *please* try to

Bug#576513: gob2 segfaults on non-intel arches

2010-04-05 Thread Mark Brown
On Mon, Apr 05, 2010 at 11:50:33AM +0200, Joachim Breitner wrote: please have a look at https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=link-monitor-appletsuite=unstable The gob2 invocation segfaults on all arches besides i386 and amd64. Please remember to provide actual build logs or other

Bug#576564: linux-image-2.6.32-3-686: ali5451 - no sound after resuming from suspend

2010-04-05 Thread Mark Brown
On Mon, Apr 05, 2010 at 07:49:23PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Mon, 2010-04-05 at 20:00 +0300, Rami Autiom??ki wrote: My laptop suspends and resumes find, but sound is not working after computer is suspended and resumed. I compiled vanilla kernel 2.6.33.2 from kernel.org, after

Bug#576228: Bits from the Release Team: Scheduling, transitions, how to help

2010-04-01 Thread Mark Brown
Sorry for the bad quoting, replying from my phone. By 'library' it means an abstraction of some kind such as libsdl which will hide the particular kernel interface the program is talking to. This means that the application is insulated from any future changes in this area such as new kernels

Bug#574542: Processed: affects 574542

2010-03-26 Thread Mark Brown
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 03:42:06PM +, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: affects 574542 link-monitor-applet Bug #574542 [gob2] gob2 segfaults Added indication that 574542 affects link-monitor-applet thanks Stopping processing here.

Bug#575224: gnome: gnash is insufficiently stable to be depended on

2010-03-24 Thread Mark Brown
Package: gnome Version: 1:2.28+6 Severity: important The current gnome package pulls in gnash via the Mozilla plugin. This has had a dramatically negative effect on the stability of my system - with at least some of the web pages I visit gnash appears to have a very severe memory leak which

Bug#575089: gnash: Crippling memory leak

2010-03-23 Thread Mark Brown
Package: gnash Version: 0.8.7-2 Severity: critical With current versions of gnash there appears to be a very severe memory leak when running with at least some sites (I believe including the media player on last.fm user pages such as http://www.last.fm/user/broonie which appears to leak at

Bug#574798: zlib: Please ship minizip as a shared library

2010-03-21 Thread Mark Brown
On 21 Mar 2010, at 05:16, Jonathan Nieder jrnie...@gmail.com wrote: Source: zlib Version: 1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 Severity: wishlist The Chromium browser has its own copy of minizip. It would be nice if it could use libminizip.so.1 from a new libminizip1 package instead. Thoughts? Do you think

Bug#330032: fixed long ago

2010-03-18 Thread Mark Brown
On 18 Mar 2010, at 19:24, Török Edwin edwinto...@gmail.com wrote: On 03/18/2010 09:00 PM, Micha Lenk wrote: reopen 330032 found 330032 1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 thanks Török Edwin wrote: What is this bug doing as a zlib bug? miniunzip fails to unzip the test.zip file provided in the initial bug

Bug#570966: git-core: git am doesn't remove rebase-apply until after gc

2010-02-22 Thread Mark Brown
Package: git-core Version: 1:1.7.0-1 Severity: important When git am does an automatic gc it doesn't clean up the rebase-apply directory until after this has finished. This means that if the user aborts the gc then future am or rebase operations will report that an existing operation is in

Bug#569697: zlib1g: install the library to multiarch paths

2010-02-13 Thread Mark Brown
retitle 569697 zlib1g: Please install the library to multiarch paths tag 569697 - patch thanks On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 02:49:51PM +, Simon McVittie wrote: The attached patch is also available from: bzr+ssh://bzr.debian.org/home/users/smcv/public_bzr/multiarch/zlib You appear to have

Bug#497687: git-gui: Garbage collection warning triggers too easily

2010-02-12 Thread Mark Brown
On 13 Feb 2010, at 00:06, Jonathan Nieder jrnie...@gmail.com wrote: tags 497687 + upstream severity 497687 important thanks Hi Mark, Mark Brown wrote: When git gui starts it does a check to see how many loose objects are in the repository and displays a warning if this is over a certain

Bug#568518: Antwort: Re: Bug#568518: Aix 5.3 nis-client crashs ypserv[2358]: segfault

2010-02-08 Thread Mark Brown
notfound 568518 3.17-30 thanks On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 02:03:41PM +0100, thomas.lefringhau...@witte-automotive.de wrote: Hello Mr. Brwon, we have tested with the unstable package of nis in lenny. The test was good. NIS didn't crash. In the debug-log are some messages: xdr_string: out

Bug#568518: Aix 5.3 nis-client crashs ypserv[2358]: segfault

2010-02-05 Thread Mark Brown
severity 568518 important kthxbye On Fri, Feb 05, 2010 at 01:51:18PM +0100, thomas.lefringhau...@witte-automotive.de wrote: Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable Please file bugs with realistic severities, inflating the severity is unhelpful. In this case the problem only

Bug#568149: zlib: please allow resuming after EINTR

2010-02-03 Thread Mark Brown
On Wed, Feb 03, 2010 at 02:05:19PM +0100, Guillem Jover wrote: I had skimmed previously over the gzio.c (stdio based) code and there were several other problematic functions, but doing so now over the new gzlib.c based code it seems to be in a way better shape, although there might still be

Bug#568149: zlib: please allow resuming after EINTR

2010-02-03 Thread Mark Brown
On Wed, Feb 03, 2010 at 03:34:39PM +0100, Guillem Jover wrote: Ah! Thanks for pointing this out. I'm not sure upstream might see much point in fixing the stdio based code, but as I skimmed over the code anyway, it might be useful, so here's some of the problems I found: Oh, I doubt anything

Bug#568149: zlib: please allow resuming after EINTR

2010-02-03 Thread Mark Brown
On Wed, Feb 03, 2010 at 10:25:49AM -0600, Jonathan Nieder wrote: Considering each function in gzio.c from zlib 1.2.3.5 in turn: Like I say, gzio.c is irrelevant now - it's deprecated in favour of the new implementation. Looking at it is pretty much a waste of time, it's not built in the Debian

Bug#567125: network-manager: Requires Dell-specific utility without dependency/recommendation

2010-01-27 Thread Mark Brown
Package: network-manager Version: 0.7.2-2 Severity: important On startup on my Dell E4300 laptop NetworkManager reports: Jan 27 14:23:13 finisterre NetworkManager: WARN killswitch_getpower_reply(): Error getting killswitch power: dellWirelessCtl (/usr/bin/dellWirelessCtl) not available or

Bug#562757: Apparent portmap to rpcbind transition?

2010-01-20 Thread Mark Brown
On Mon, Jan 04, 2010 at 02:45:27PM +, Mark Brown wrote: As discussed by a number of people in bug #562757 it appears that nfs-kernel-server has kicked off a transition to the use of rpcbind - at least, nfs-kernel-server has switched to needing rpcbind and we can't have two things claiming

Bug#565823: zlib1g: Breaking ABI? {update-mime-database.real, xsltproc, xmllint} start segfaulting

2010-01-19 Thread Mark Brown
reassign 565823 libxml2 kthxbye On 19 Jan 2010, at 00:20, Cyril Brulebois k...@debian.org wrote: Package: zlib1g Version: 1:1.2.3.5.dfsg-1 Severity: serious Justification: ABI break? Hi, context: kfreebsd-* experimental buildds were not properly configured and pulled more stuff from

Bug#565683: Peers inside zlib internal code

2010-01-17 Thread Mark Brown
Package: libxml2 Version: 2.7.6.dfsg-1 Severity: important The new version of zlib, 1.2.3.5, contains a new implementation of gzio (the gzopen() and related API calls) which are used by libxml2. Sadly it looks like these break libxml2. It contains (in xmlIO.c) the following code:

Bug#565688: Please update lintian

2010-01-17 Thread Mark Brown
Package: ftp.debian.org Severity: normal The version of lintian on ftp.debian.org is generating false positives on tags used for archive rejections which have been fixed in current versions. Please update it to avoid these false positives. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#118023: Bug#213733: nis: upgrade breaks postinst and service restart

2010-01-15 Thread Mark Brown
On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 12:38:27PM +1100, Ben Finney wrote: Okay. As reported earlier, I can cause the failure with ???/usr/sbin/ypbind -f /etc/yp.conf??? so I've done an ???strace -f??? on that. Does your yp.conf specify a server? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#118023: Bug#213733: nis: upgrade breaks postinst and service restart

2010-01-15 Thread Mark Brown
On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 10:32:59PM +1100, Ben Finney wrote: On 15-Jan-2010, Mark Brown wrote: Does your yp.conf specify a server? My ???yp.conf??? is empty, except for blank lines and comments. That's what I've been showing with this: = $ grep -v '^\(#.*\|\)$' /etc/yp.conf# don't

Bug#565294: usbview: icon missing

2010-01-14 Thread Mark Brown
severity 565294 wishlist retitle 565294 usbview: Plaese provide a menu icon kthxbye On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 05:10:18PM +0100, Carlo Stemberger wrote: Package: usbview Version: 1.1-1 Severity: minor $ dpkg -L usbview Please describe the problem you are reporting in your bug reports, just

Bug#565294: usbview: icon missing

2010-01-14 Thread Mark Brown
On 14 Jan 2010, at 16:40, Carlo Stemberger carlo.stember...@gmail.com wrote: Il 14/01/2010 17:25, Mark Brown ha scritto: Please describe the problem you are reporting in your bug reports, just listing files does not add anything. Simply the subject is self-explaining: there is no icon

Bug#118023: Bug#213733: nis: upgrade breaks postinst and service restart

2010-01-14 Thread Mark Brown
tag 213733 + moreinfo tag 118023 + moreinfo merge 118023 213733 kthxbye On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 11:34:34AM +1100, Ben Finney wrote: On 14-Aug-2009, Ben Finney wrote: I have exactly the same problem on upgrading to version 3.17-27, with this output: […] I have upgraded to ‘nis’ 3.17-31. I

Bug#213733: Bug#118023: Bug#213733: nis: upgrade breaks postinst and service restart

2010-01-14 Thread Mark Brown
On 15 Jan 2010, at 01:00, Ben Finney ben+deb...@benfinney.id.au wrote: On 15-Jan-2010, Mark Brown wrote: On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 11:34:34AM +1100, Ben Finney wrote: I have upgraded to ‘nis’ 3.17-31. I repeated the same steps repo rted in the message (Message-ID: 20090814032406.ga3

Bug#561432: zlib: Missing entries in debian/copyright.

2010-01-10 Thread Mark Brown
unblock 561433 561432 unblock 561432 561433 kthxbye On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 12:15:00AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: Le Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 10:24:36AM +, Mark Brown a écrit : I share your point of view on the real importance of the issue, but formally, a policy violation is a serious

Bug#564272: closed by Mark Brown broo...@debian.org (Re: Bug#564272: nis: Depends on portmap)

2010-01-08 Thread Mark Brown
On Fri, Jan 08, 2010 at 02:58:12PM -0800, Richard A Nelson wrote: Your point about default alternatives is a valid one, and yes, for most folk, and until this is squared away, my bias would be to put portmap first, then rpcbind. I still think supporting both programs is proper. We need to

Bug#564272: closed by Mark Brown broo...@debian.org (Re: Bug#564272: nis: Depends on portmap)

2010-01-08 Thread Mark Brown
On Fri, Jan 08, 2010 at 02:55:07PM -0800, Richard A Nelson wrote: On Fri, 8 Jan 2010, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: Actually, rpcbind does, now have an init script: Oh, I see that Annibal did get round to fixing that one this week. I had assumed given the lack of communication that he was

Bug#562757: Apparent portmap to rpcbind transition?

2010-01-04 Thread Mark Brown
state but none of them seem to have a summary of what the intention is - does anyone have any information here? Daniel Baumann dan...@debian.org doodle (U) Mark Brown broo...@debian.org nis Tim Cutts t...@chiark.greenend.org.uk am-utils Debian QA Group packa...@qa.debian.org unfs3

Bug#563506: closed by Mark Brown broo...@debian.org (Re: Bug#563506: nis: Please update the debconf PO file in the clean target)

2010-01-03 Thread Mark Brown
tag 563506 - patch severity 563506 minor kthxbye On Sun, Jan 03, 2010 at 04:00:55PM +0100, Nicolas François wrote: You may update the files in another way (a dist target, a manual checklist, etc.), but the following files are outdated in the nis source package: OK, whatever. This really

Bug#562755: r-base-core: read.dcf() error

2009-12-28 Thread Mark Brown
On 28 Dec 2009, at 13:35, Dirk Eddelbuettel e...@debian.org wrote: We're having a rather serious breakage in R when the zlib1g from unstable is installed. R transparently wraps its file operations around open()/ gzopen() and now no longer works on uncompressed files -- see the logs of this

Bug#562878: GTK front end does not word wrap mails

2009-12-28 Thread Mark Brown
Package: reportbug Version: 4.9 Severity: important The GTK front end for reportbug neither word wraps text that is entered by users nor provides any indicication of how wide the text that's been entered is, meaning that it would be very surprising if input came back as anything other than one

Bug#562875: Misreports patches as modifying Debian files

2009-12-28 Thread Mark Brown
Package: lintian Version: 2.3.0 Severity: normal The check for reporting if a patch modifies Debian files appears to be based on checking for 'debian' in the filename. This is causing false positives in the zlib package since I work on a bzr branch called 'debian' in a directory called

Bug#562755: r-base-core: read.dcf() error

2009-12-28 Thread Mark Brown
On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 06:50:52PM +, Mark Brown wrote: OK, I've isolated the change in gzio that causes this and will do an upload shortly. feof() together with buffering was confusing a new change that had been introduce into gzio; that's both changes to gzio.c that I'll have reverted

Bug#562876: GTK front end says Ctrl+c can be used to exit

2009-12-28 Thread Mark Brown
Package: reportbug Version: 4.9 Severity: normal When prompting for the subject line for the bug the GTK front end says that Ctrl+c can be used to exit, but this does not in fact work when using the GTK front end. The string used to prompt should be changed depending on the front end, or the

Bug#562755: r-base-core: read.dcf() error

2009-12-28 Thread Mark Brown
On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 08:30:42AM -0600, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: Three different Debian unstable users reported / confirmed the issue. A simple test would be what has piled up in the bug reports, eg as demonstrated by ChenLiang things break once we wrap gzfile() around:

Bug#562518: zlib1g 1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-1 hangs(?)

2009-12-25 Thread Mark Brown
On Fri, Dec 25, 2009 at 11:33:05AM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: If, in a clean minimal chroot, I install zlib1g from testing first, then install man-db, it works fine. My guess is that it is related to the fixing of #301283. As far as I can tell zlib is performing correctly here, the man-db

Bug#562518: how to reproduce

2009-12-25 Thread Mark Brown
On Fri, Dec 25, 2009 at 06:41:16PM +0100, Joern Heissler wrote: you can reproduce the problem with this little program, more or less copied from man-db source. That's one of the tests I used (plus using man-db itself). Upgrading to zlib_1.2.3.4.dfsg-2 seems *NOT* to fix the problem. Works

Bug#562518: zlib1g 1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-1 hangs(?)

2009-12-25 Thread Mark Brown
On Fri, Dec 25, 2009 at 03:05:12PM +, Mark Brown wrote: As far as I can tell zlib is performing correctly here, the man-db process doing the decompression exits correctly having detected EOF and closed the file, then exits. The read() that's spinning with zero bytes is certainly

Bug#562503: #562503 upgrade of man-db hangs during postinst, consumes 100% cpu for over 30 minutes

2009-12-25 Thread Mark Brown
On Fri, Dec 25, 2009 at 08:16:26PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: To show the severity of the issue, this is from my sparc box during a regular upgrade (last one was 2 months ago): 9630 man 20 0 5448 1960 680 R 98.8 0.2 54:11.05 mandb And no idea how much longer it's going to take.

Bug#561432: zlib: Missing entries in debian/copyright.

2009-12-20 Thread Mark Brown
tag 561432 - patch kthxbye There's a series of different licenses, all of which would need to be recorded for true paperwork compliance (although only the standard zlib license actually makes it into the binary package). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org

Bug#561432: zlib: Missing entries in debian/copyright.

2009-12-17 Thread Mark Brown
severity 561432 important kthxbye On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 01:21:47PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: Package: zlib Severity: serious Please be a bit more realistic with severities. Obviously this should be fixed but making what is essentially a paperwork issue release critical seems

Bug#558456: nis: please let debconf ask whether to start ypbind

2009-12-04 Thread Mark Brown
On Wed, Dec 02, 2009 at 08:43:35AM -1000, Ryo Furue wrote: Because our NIS servers are not on the same subnet as my machine. I think it's one of the purposes of yp.conf to specify NIS servers when they are on different subnets (that is, when they are not reachable by broadcast). Is that

Bug#559186: hangs during fresh installation until ^C

2009-12-02 Thread Mark Brown
On Wed, Dec 02, 2009 at 04:38:42PM +0100, Jonas Stein wrote: /var/lib/dpkg/info/leafnode.postinst: line 226: 3169 Killed ${FETCHNEWS} -f /dev/null failed How long did you leave before doing this? This looks like there's a network I/O issue, quite possibly caused by something like

Bug#559186: hangs during fresh installation until ^C

2009-12-02 Thread Mark Brown
On Wed, Dec 02, 2009 at 05:08:01PM +0100, Jonas Stein wrote: i only have installed leafnode in that round. After waiting about 3 min. i canceled with ^C if there is anything i should try on console to help describing the bug please mail or ask via Check for network I/O during the

Bug#558456: nis: please let debconf ask whether to start ypbind

2009-12-02 Thread Mark Brown
On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 04:47:53PM -1000, Ryo Furue wrote: Before installing NIS, I had known that I needed to edit /etc/yp.conf for NIS to work; I intended to What makes you say that you need to edit /etc/yp.conf? To solve this problem, I'd like to suggest that debconf ask either 1)

Bug#550302: nis: ypbind cannot register with portmap on machine boot

2009-10-09 Thread Mark Brown
severity 550302 normal tag 550302 +moreinfo kthxbye On Thu, Oct 08, 2009 at 04:07:08PM -0700, Lorin Scraba wrote: Setting NIS domainname to: vendio-auth. Starting NIS services: ypbindbinding to YP server...[ 70.650939] RPC: Registered udp transport module. [ 70.739026] RPC:

Bug#546978: nis: please remove domainname and the links pointing to it

2009-09-17 Thread Mark Brown
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 12:33:25AM +0200, Cristian Greco wrote: Hi Marc, Mark. It actually declares an unversioned Replaces against nis. As soon as you fix this bug, a new hostname version could be uploaded with a Conflicts/Replaces against nis ( $this_new_revision), I guess. Use 3.17-29.

Bug#546978: nis: please remove domainname and the links pointing to it

2009-09-16 Thread Mark Brown
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 08:08:07PM +0200, Michael Meskes wrote: As discussed on IRC, hostname now provides domainname, ypdomainname and nisdomainname removing the need for another binary. What is the revision of hostname which adds this support? I'll need to add a dependency. You'll also

Bug#546177: usbview v1.1 released in March 2009

2009-09-11 Thread Mark Brown
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 07:12:49AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: According to the Changelog, it adds support for Gtk 2.0. version 1.1 - pretty icon (thanks to Bernhard). - gtk 2.0 support (finally, after many people submitted patches adding it, thanks for not letting me forget).

Bug#545970: nis: FTBFS on GNU/kFreeBSD (network-manager is linux specific)

2009-09-10 Thread Mark Brown
severity 545970 wishlist tag 545970 - patch kthxbye On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 01:11:44PM +0200, Petr Salinger wrote: +DEB_HOST_ARCH_OS := $(shell dpkg-architecture -qDEB_HOST_ARCH_OS) + +ifneq (linux,$(DEB_HOST_ARCH_OS)) +YPBIND_CONF=--disable-dbus-nm +endif This looks wrong -

Bug#545970: nis: FTBFS on GNU/kFreeBSD (network-manager is linux specific)

2009-09-10 Thread Mark Brown
On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 02:27:31PM +0200, Petr Salinger wrote: This looks wrong - configure should be figuring this out for itself if the system doesn't have usable DBus and/or NetworkManager support. Why are you forcing this manually? Well, the current configure figures this out for

Bug#545970: nis: FTBFS on GNU/kFreeBSD (network-manager is linux specific)

2009-09-10 Thread Mark Brown
On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 05:26:24PM +0200, Petr Salinger wrote: So the fix would be to change that behaviour then... It is usually upstream decision whether some Optional Feature have default yes, no or auto. In this case upstream uses yes, not auto. So please submit a patch changing that.

Bug#545571: Please ship crc32.h in zlib1g-dev

2009-09-08 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, Sep 08, 2009 at 09:34:02AM +0200, Joachim Breitner wrote: some haskell packages (haskell-zlib and haskell-digest) have a copy of the crc32.h file from the zlib source distribution in their tarballs, one without source. This is not the way we like it in Debian. It would be nice if

Bug#545571: Please ship crc32.h in zlib1g-dev

2009-09-08 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, Sep 08, 2009 at 12:16:52PM +0200, Joachim Breitner wrote: I see your point. What is your opinion with regard to the source of crc32.h (i.e. crc32.c) ??? do you think that zlib???s license requires this to be copied along the header file, if crc32.h is distributed somewhere else?

Bug#439980: Patch sent upstream, waiting for feedback before applying it

2009-08-24 Thread Mark Brown
On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 10:33:39AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: So my reading of this is that, if zlib is following the same scheme (and wouldn't anything else just be confusing?), then gzopen64 should only be defined if _LARGEFILE64_SOURCE is defined, and otherwise gzopen should just be

Bug#439980: Patch sent upstream, waiting for feedback before applying it

2009-08-24 Thread Mark Brown
On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 11:03:24AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: Of course, this relies on the special stuff glibc does in features.h to define __USE_LARGEFILE64 depending on whether __REDIRECT is defined, so maybe making this work cross-platform is too hard (though you could use '#if

Bug#439980: possible patch

2009-08-24 Thread Mark Brown
On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 02:19:13PM +0200, Michael Vogt wrote: I just wanted to mention a trivial patch I attached to the Ubuntu bug for this. It has the drawbacks that Colin mentions above that its not the standard semantics of _LARGEFILE64_SOURCE and _FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 It does however fix

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