Bug#763334: dgit rpush documentation should include an example workflow

2014-09-29 Thread Matthew Vernon
Package: dgit Version: 0.22 Severity: normal Hi, Further to our conversation on IRC, the workflow for using dgit rpush isn't very clear from the manual at the moment. An example workflow would be a great improvement IMO. Thanks, Matthew -- System Information: Debian Release: 7.6 APT prefers

Bug#763332: dgit should have useful error message when passed -C

2014-09-29 Thread Matthew Vernon
Package: dgit Version: 0.22 Severity: normal Hi, If you do dgit -C ../foo.changes (instead of -C../foo.changes), you get a very unhelpful error message: dgit: dgit push: changelog specifies unstable (sid) but command line specifies ../dump_0.4b44-5_source.changes In fact, dgit -C should emit s

Bug#714234: (no subject)

2014-09-29 Thread Matthew Vernon
On 29/09/14 12:49, Apollon Oikonomopoulos wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, 18 Sep 2014 15:12:39 +0100 Matthew Vernon wrote: >> It's Ben Harris' patch, not mine, but yes, I hope to upload a fixed >> version. Don't let me stop you doing so sooner, though :-) > &

debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.org

2014-09-24 Thread Matthew Vernon
Package: evince Version: 3.4.0-3.1 Severity: normal Tags: upstream Hi, evince lets me create annotations, but I cannot then type anything into the annotation box that appears. I can cut-and-paste things into it, though. As you can imagine, this is quite irritating! Thanks, Matthew -- System

Bug#714234: (no subject)

2014-09-18 Thread Matthew Vernon
Hi, On 18/09/14 11:39, Michael Prokop wrote: > * Matthew Vernon [Mon Aug 04, 2014 at 04:37:51PM +0100]: >> severity 714234 grave >> tags 714234 +upstream patch >> forwarded 714234 http://sourceforge.net/p/dump/bugs/157/ >> quit > >> This bug bit me, and meant

Bug#760609:

2014-09-09 Thread Matthew Vernon
Hi, Thanks for the report; I’ll get to this once I’m home from travelling (so not for a week or so yet) unless someone gets an NMU in first. The answer for post-jessie is perhaps to re-package to use debhelper for the building, but I think a more minimal patch would be better for jessie. Regar

Bug#759526: New upstream version fixes CVE-2014-3604

2014-09-09 Thread Matthew Vernon
Hi, Upstream have released 0.3.15, which fixes this bug. I’m still away (and will be for a while yet); would one of the java team mind uploading 0.3.15, please? Hopefully it’ll just drop in on top of the existing packaging… Thanks, Matthew -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@

Bug#714234: (no subject)

2014-08-04 Thread Matthew Vernon
severity 714234 grave tags 714234 +upstream patch forwarded 714234 http://sourceforge.net/p/dump/bugs/157/ quit Hi, This bug bit me, and meant that restoring an incremental backup failed :-( My justification of severity is that broken backups result in data loss. Ben Harris has analysed the bug

Bug#755075: ikiwiki: initial wiki build should honour --no-gettime

2014-07-17 Thread Matthew Vernon
Package: ikiwiki Version: 3.20100815.9 Severity: normal Hi, When you build a wiki for the first time (or rebuild after --clean), ikiwiki ignores --no-gettime (or gettime set to 0 in the setup file). I think this is wrong - defaulting to gettime=1 is OK, but over-riding an explicit disabling of th

Bug#636783: supermajority bug

2014-06-28 Thread Matthew Vernon
Ian Jackson writes: > Russ Allbery writes ("Bug#636783: supermajority bug"): > > Ian Jackson writes: > > > The fix to the constitutional supermajority bug has been delayed > > > rather. Sorry about that. I have drafted what I think is an > > > implementation of our conclusions here and in the

Bug#684043: latex-beamer: table of contents wrong in user guide

2014-04-28 Thread Matthew Vernon
Hi, On 28/04/14 13:19, Hilmar Preusse wrote: > On 06.08.12 Matthew Vernon (matthewv+sacb...@coriolis.greenend.org.uk) wrote: > > Hi, > >> The table of contents for beameruserguide.pdf.gz are all wrong. I >> think you need to run pdflatex one more time dur

Bug#744305: ITP: rsbackup -- rsync-based backup utility

2014-04-12 Thread Matthew Vernon
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Matthew Vernon Package name: rsbackup Version : 0.4.3 Upstream Author : Richard Kettlewell URL : http://www.greenend.org.uk/rjk/2010/rsbackup.html License : GPL Programming Lang: C++ Description : rsync

Bug#744239: ITP: libshib-common-java -- Shibboleth Common Library

2014-04-11 Thread Matthew Vernon
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Matthew Vernon Package name: libshib-common-java Version : 2.4.0 Upstream Author : University Corporation for Advanced Internet Development, Inc. URL : http://shibboleth.net/shibboleth-common License : Apache-2.0

Bug#744134: ITP: libshib-parent-project2-java -- Shibboleth Project (V2) Super POM

2014-04-10 Thread Matthew Vernon
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Matthew Vernon Package name: libshib-parent-project2-java Version : 1 Upstream Author : University Corporation for Advanced Internet Development, Inc. URL : http://shibboleth.net/ License : Apache-2.0

Bug#743493: send_nsca signal handling is undefined behaviour, causes SEGVs

2014-04-03 Thread Matthew Vernon
Package: nsca Version: 2.9.1-2 Severity: important Tags: upstream, patch Control: found -1 2.7.2 Hi, I tripped over this bug because send_nsca was SEGVing on a machine where another high-priority process was chewing up nearly all the CPU. Our cron scripts just complained about SEGV, but running i

Bug#741573: On menu systems.

2014-03-25 Thread Matthew Vernon
Charles Plessy writes: > Over almost one year of work and discussion, including a call for comments on > the debian-devel mailing list, we have shaped a modification to the Debian > Policy that 1) incorporates the description of the FreeDesktop menu system and > its use in Debian for listing prog

Bug#742513: Oops

2014-03-24 Thread Matthew Vernon
Hi, This bug is worse than I initially thought - if you're using SSHFP/DNSSEC, and I am evil, then my pretend-server offers the client a certificate, at which point ssh will not check the DNS at all, and simply offer the user the usual "unable to verify" dialogue. Since most users have been traine

Bug#742513: If server offers certificate, doesn't fall back to checking SSHFP records

2014-03-24 Thread Matthew Vernon
Package: openssh-client Version: 1:6.0p1-4 Severity: important Tags: security upstream Hi, I've been looking at handling host keys better, and tripped over this bug. Essentially, if the server offers a HostCertificate that the client doesn't accept, then the client doesn't then check for SSHFP re

Bug#741545: ITP: libvt-ldap-java -- Virginia Tech LDAP Library

2014-03-13 Thread Matthew Vernon
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Matthew Vernon Package name: libvt-ldap-java Version : 3.3.7 Upstream Author : Middleware Services URL : http://code.google.com/p/vt-middleware/wiki/vtldap License : LGPL-3 or Apache-2.0 Programming Lang: Java

Bug#741416: ITP: libowasp-esapi-java -- Enterprise Security API (ESAPI)

2014-03-12 Thread Matthew Vernon
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Matthew Vernon Package name: libowasp-esapi-java Version : 2.1.0 Upstream Author : Jeff Williams URL : https://code.google.com/p/owasp-esapi-java/ License : BSD (documentation CC-BY-SA-3.0) Programming Lang

Bug#741367: ITP: libowasp-antisamy-java -- OWASP AntiSamy

2014-03-11 Thread Matthew Vernon
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Matthew Vernon Package name: libowasp-antisamy-java Version : 1.5.3 Upstream Author : Arshan Dabirsiaghi URL : https://code.google.com/p/owaspantisamy/ License : BSD Programming Lang: Java Description

Bug#740350: Acknowledgement (Bogus dependencies in installed POM file)

2014-03-05 Thread Matthew Vernon
Hi, There's also an error in debian/ant-contrib.poms - the --has-package-version is incorrect and should be removed, otherwise if you build using maven, then mh_resolve_dependencies puts a versioned dependency on 1.0b5-SNAPSHOT into the package you're building, which isn't satisfiable. Regards,

Bug#740826: libjgrapht0.8-java: packaging should be jar not pom

2014-03-05 Thread Matthew Vernon
On 05/03/14 12:43, Emmanuel Bourg wrote: > org.jgrapht:jgrapht is of type pom in Maven central, so we are > consistent with the upstream artifact: > > http://search.maven.org/#search|ga|1|g%3A%22org.jgrapht%22 > > But the type of the artifact org.jgrapht:jgrapht-core is jar. libjgrapht0.8-java i

Bug#740826: libjgrapht0.8-java: packaging should be jar not pom

2014-03-05 Thread Matthew Vernon
Package: libjgrapht0.8-java Version: 0.8.3-4 Severity: important Hi, The POMs for libjgrapht0.8-java include the following: org.jgrapht jgrapht pom I think this latter should be "jar" not "pom", since that's how the compiled java is supplied? mh_resolve_dependencies cert

Bug#740368: libjargs-java: Needs maven support

2014-02-28 Thread Matthew Vernon
Package: libjargs-java Version: 1.0.0-3 Severity: normal Tags: patch Hi, The enclosed patch adds maven support (i.e. it installs relevant entries into /usr/share/maven-repo/), meaning that other java code that builds with maven and depends upon this package will build. Thanks, Matthew -- Syst

Bug#740360: Needs maven support

2014-02-28 Thread Matthew Vernon
Package: libjgrapht0.8-java Version: 0.8.3-3 Severity: normal Tags: patch Hi, The enclosed patch adds maven support (i.e. it installs relevant entries into /usr/share/maven-repo/), meaning that other java code that builds with maven and depends upon this package will build. Thanks, Matthew --

Bug#740350: Bogus dependencies in installed POM file

2014-02-28 Thread Matthew Vernon
Package: ant-contrib Version: 1.0~b3+svn177-5 Severity: serious Tags: patch Hi, ant-contrib's installed POM contains 3 dependencies that are unsatisfiable in the Debian maven repository. This means that maven-based builds of packages that depend upon it will fail. The enclosed patch adds a maven

Bug#740346: mh_installpom - will always exit non-zero if called with -n

2014-02-28 Thread Matthew Vernon
Package: maven-repo-helper Version: 1.8.7 Severity: normal Hi, the -n "do nothing, print what would have been done" argument to mh_installpom is mishandled. Specifically, what will happen is: mh_cleanpom is called with -n [correct] once with --keep-pom-version and once without. source debian/.m

Bug#740347: mh_installpoms -n should output what it would have done, not just exit

2014-02-28 Thread Matthew Vernon
Package: maven-repo-helper Version: 1.8.7 Severity: important Hi, mh_installpoms has an -n argument, documented thus: -n --no-act: don't actually do anything, just print the results But in fact, if you use -n, it does nothing at all and prints nothing - line 96's check: if [ -z "$NOACT

Bug#341781: ssh hostbased authentication problems still extant?

2014-02-20 Thread Matthew Vernon
Hi, Are you still experiencing the problems you reported in bug 341781? Upstream's 6.5 release (available in Debian) has improved the support for canonicalising hostnames in ssh_config, so it seems plausible that it might have fixed this bug, too. If not, do you have an example config we could lo

Bug#586685: Lack of progress on this bug

2013-11-21 Thread Matthew Vernon
Hi, I supplied a patch that fixes this important bug over a year ago. Could it be applied, please? Upstream's approach to this issue is clearly inadequate, my patch is hardly invasive, and this is a bug that is causing real problems. Thanks, Matthew -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dis

Bug#696148: Debugging info re hanging buici-clock

2013-09-12 Thread Matthew Vernon
Hi, > In this dump, it's the first call to stroke that fails. I'd guess that > most of the cairo calls before this are local and don't interface with > the X server. So, what would be interesting to see is a) increasing the > draw rate so that the clock locks-up more quickly, and then seeing if

Bug#696148: Debugging info re hanging buici-clock

2013-09-02 Thread Matthew Vernon
Hi, I rebuilt buici-clock with debugging information turned on, ran it, and waited for it to hang. When it did, here's the backtrace from gdb. Any other debugging info I can provide? Thanks, Matthew #0 pthread_cond_wait@@GLIBC_2.3.2 () at ../nptl/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86_64/pthread_con

Bug#718350: python-mode fails to parse empty triple-quoted strings

2013-07-30 Thread Matthew Vernon
Package: emacs23-common Version: 23.4+1-4 Severity: normal Tags: upstream Hi, python-mode fails to parse empty triple-quoted strings properly. Consider the following brief example: --begin example-- #!/usr/bin/env python def bar(): """ """ print "bar" def foo(): "" print "foo" if

Bug#716975: Should deal with lack-of-curl gracefully

2013-07-15 Thread Matthew Vernon
Package: twittering-mode Version: 3.0.0-1 Severity: important Hi, If you try and run twittering-mode without curl installed, you get the following error message on start-up: Response: nil for POST https://api.twitter.com/oauth/request_token twittering-oauth-get-access-token: Failed to retrieve a

Bug#715388: SEGV on save if unknown extension

2013-07-08 Thread Matthew Vernon
Package: inkscape Version: 0.48.3.1-1.3 Severity: important Tags: upstream Hi, Inkscape reliable SEGVs if you try and save with unknown extension: File -> Save As Select "Guess from extension" type a filename with an unknown extension e.g. "foo.pdf" SEGV Inkscape should instead emit an error of

Bug#617419: xserver-xorg-video-intel: xrandr doesn't offer all possible resolutions (regression)

2013-07-04 Thread Matthew Vernon
Package: xserver-xorg-video-intel Version: 2:2.19.0-6 Followup-For: Bug #617419 Hi, I have this problem with my monitor (HP A4576A CRT monitor); even though I specify horizontal and vertical specs in xorg.conf, X isn't offering me the 1600x1200 resolution that it's capable of (and which oldstab

Bug#714613: ap_log_perror ignores LogLevel configuration directives

2013-07-01 Thread Matthew Vernon
Hi, On 01/07/13 12:52, Stefan Fritsch wrote: > On Monday 01 July 2013, Matthew Vernon wrote: >> void *merge_dir_config(apr_pool_t *p, void* base, void *new) >> >> so the only logging function you can use is ap_log_perror. > > Since the server config does not yet e

Bug#714613: ap_log_perror ignores LogLevel configuration directives

2013-07-01 Thread Matthew Vernon
Source: apache2 Version: 2.4.4-6 Severity: normal Tags: upstream Hi, This problem bit me while I was trying to debug merging configurations within an apache module. The interface you get is: void *merge_dir_config(apr_pool_t *p, void* base, void *new) so the only logging function you can use i

Bug#711534: Disabling strtoul violates C89 and C99 and is unnecessary

2013-06-07 Thread Matthew Vernon
Package: apache2-dev Version: 2.4.4-2 Severity: serious Tags: upstream Hi, httpd.h contains the following: /** strtoul does not exist on sunos4. */ #ifdef strtoul #undef strtoul #endif #define strtoul strtoul_is_not_a_portable_function_use_strtol_instead i.e. apache intentionally breaks strtoul

Bug#699463: python2.7: csv.DictReader should fail if >1 column has the same name

2013-01-31 Thread Matthew Vernon
Package: python2.7 Version: 2.7.3-6 Severity: normal Tags: upstream Hi, The csv.DictReader object doesn't handle multiple columns with the same name very well - it simply over-writes the first column-with-same-name with the contents of the second column-with-same-name e.g.: foo,bar,foo 1,2,3 on

Bug#698409: xtrlock not work

2013-01-18 Thread Matthew Vernon
On 18/01/13 10:36, Vascom wrote: Yes, Fedora using shadow passwords. And its field is not empty for my user and for root. What's the length of the password field? Regards, Matthew -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

Bug#698409: xtrlock not work

2013-01-18 Thread Matthew Vernon
Hi, On 18/01/13 07:02, Vascom wrote: Package:xtrlock Version: 2.2 I compiled xtrlock in Fedora (17 фтв 18). But it dont work properly. Version 2.2 and 2.0-14 $ xtrlock password entry has no pwd This error message appears if xtrlock cannot get a password for your account. Are you using shad

Bug#696148: buici-clock: sometimes hangs

2013-01-16 Thread Matthew Vernon
On 17/12/12 18:13, Marc Singer wrote: Interesting. I think that the 15:41 is the accumulated CPU time. Seems like it has been running for a while. Are we talking about days, or weeks, or months? It's hung again now [it's been a week since I looked at this desktop, so some time between 9 J

Bug#681227: Can anyone reproduce #681227: installation-reports: grub-install tries to install to a nonsense string?!

2013-01-07 Thread Matthew Vernon
Hi, Sorry, I don't think this email's going to help very much. On 02/01/13 22:49, Steven Chamberlain wrote: Hi! On 02/01/13 20:26, Cyril Brulebois wrote: Jul 10 16:48:43 in-target: grub-common is already the newest version. Jul 10 16:48:43 in-target: 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remo

Bug#696148: buici-clock: sometimes hangs

2012-12-18 Thread Matthew Vernon
On 17/12/12 18:13, Marc Singer wrote: Interesting. I think that the 15:41 is the accumulated CPU time. Seems like it has been running for a while. Are we talking about days, or weeks, or months? Weeks, I'd have said. I'll take a look at the program. Thanks. If you want me to run a deb

Bug#696148: buici-clock: sometimes hangs

2012-12-17 Thread Matthew Vernon
Package: buici-clock Version: 0.4.9.2 Severity: normal Hi, I have a buici-clock running on my workstation almost all the time. I've noticed that, after an extended period, sometimes it will hang - either with the face black, or simply with the face no longer updating. At this point, there seems t

Bug#693460: (no subject)

2012-11-26 Thread Matthew Vernon
Hi, Thanks for all the activity on this bug. I have a couple of comments i) finding this bug (and, well, some of the associated code quality issues with bcrypt) has persuaded me that I don't want to use bcrypt for any data I care about. ii) "gpg -c --cipher-algo aes" is almost certainly a bett

Bug#694057: ed: add a mode to deal with crlf-terminated lines

2012-11-23 Thread Matthew Vernon
Package: ed Version: 1.6-2 Severity: wishlist Tags: upstream Hi, ed doesn't deal very nicely with text files generated on inferior operating systems, e.g. those that have lines that end crlf. The failure mode is that queries / replacement regexps involving $ don't do what you want. It would be n

Bug#693460: bcrypt: Mangles at least some files

2012-11-16 Thread Matthew Vernon
Package: bcrypt Version: 1.1-6 Severity: critical Justification: causes serious data loss Hi, bcrypt doesn't handle at least some files (possibly large ones?). This source file 13G -rw-r--r-- 1 matthew matthew 13G Nov 16 16:01 CTS-2012-11.tar.bz2 when encrypted with bcrypt -cr, results in on

Bug#691204: unblock: trn/3.6-23

2012-10-22 Thread Matthew Vernon
ebian/changelog 2012-10-22 21:45:25.0 +0100 @@ -1,3 +1,10 @@ +trn (3.6-23) unstable; urgency=high + + * use the shared/news/server debconf template rather than prompting in +postinst (closes: #688563) + + -- Matthew Vernon Mon, 22 Oct 2012 21:45:25 +0100 + trn (3.6-22) unstable; urgenc

Bug#684166: angband: Please enable shared score file again

2012-08-07 Thread Matthew Vernon
Package: angband Version: 1:3.3.2-2 Severity: normal Hi, One of the good things about playing angband on a multi-user system is the shared score file. Moving from stable to testing has done away with this. There should be at least an option to keep using it! Looking through the Debian changelog,

Bug#684043: latex-beamer: table of contents wrong in user guide

2012-08-06 Thread Matthew Vernon
Package: latex-beamer Version: 3.10-2 Severity: normal Hi, The table of contents for beameruserguide.pdf.gz are all wrong. I think you need to run pdflatex one more time during the build process. Should be a nice easy fix :-) Cheers, Matthew -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid

Bug#683267: phppgadmin: Incorrect path in README.Debian

2012-07-30 Thread Matthew Vernon
Package: phppgadmin Version: 5.0.4-1 Severity: normal Tags: patch Hi, phppgadmin's README.Debian says: "Edit /etc/phppgadmin/apache.conf if you want to change the default access policy or other Apache settings." This is incorrect - the file to edit is, in fact, /etc/apache2/conf.d/phppgadmin T

Bug#682208: icedove: fails to pop up new email alert

2012-07-20 Thread Matthew Vernon
Package: icedove Version: 10.0.4-1 Severity: normal Hi, I have icedove configured to alert me on new email, but it is not doing so - no window ever appears saying "[mailbox] has new email". It works in current stable... Thanks, Matthew -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT pr

Bug#681935: unblock: electric-fence/2.2.4

2012-07-17 Thread Matthew Vernon
Package: release.debian.org Severity: normal User: release.debian@packages.debian.org Usertags: unblock Please unblock package electric-fence Hi, Sorry for another unblock request, but I've finally got the threading in electric-fence sorted properly, such that it now builds on all archs (no

Bug#586685: Patch to actually fix this bug

2012-07-17 Thread Matthew Vernon
tags 586685 +patch quit Hi, Having said someone should write a patch as suggested in this report, I have gone away and done so. I've tested this a bit, and it seems to DTRT. Please apply it :-) Cheers, Matthew diff -ruN gdm3-3.4.1.orig/debian/36gdm3-xauth gdm3-3.4.1/debian/36gdm3-xauth ---

Bug#681873: cifs-utils: mount.cifs does not check errno correctly

2012-07-17 Thread Matthew Vernon
Package: cifs-utils Version: 2:5.5-1 Severity: normal Hi, I have the following fstab entry: //san/Homes/MVernon /mnt/Hcifs credentials=/root/saccreds,user,noauto 0 0 mounting this as a user fails; that's not the problem here, though. The problem is the error message: error -1 (Unknown err

Bug#586685: gdm3 problem in wheezy

2012-07-17 Thread Matthew Vernon
reassign 586685 gdm3 found 586685 3.4.1-2 quit Hi, Sorry for further BTS noise; I'd missed this being reassigned to xorg. I've just installed a new box with wheezy on it, which came with gdm3 as display manager, and lo and behold this bug is biting me on it. Particularly, it's the problem tha

Bug#569668: Update?

2012-07-12 Thread Matthew Vernon
Hi, I see that libjackrabbit-java is now in Debian. How are you getting on with libhtmlcleaner-java and, more pertinently davmail packaging? Thanks, Matthew -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@li

Bug#681244: gdm3: Should have a "use ~/.xsession" option

2012-07-11 Thread Matthew Vernon
Hi, On 12/07/12 00:49, Michael Biebl wrote: On 11.07.2012 18:55, Matthew Vernon wrote: gdm3 should ship a .desktop file that runs the users ~/.xsession ; lightdm does, and the file they provide (contents reproduced below) would be just fine. Why is /etc/X11/Xsession.d/40x11-common_xsessionrc

Bug#681244: gdm3: Should have a "use ~/.xsession" option

2012-07-11 Thread Matthew Vernon
Package: gdm3 Version: 3.4.1-2 Severity: important Hi, gdm3 should ship a .desktop file that runs the users ~/.xsession ; lightdm does, and the file they provide (contents reproduced below) would be just fine. [Desktop Entry] Version=1.0 Name=Default Xsession Exec=default Icon= Type=Applicatio

Bug#681242: adns-tools: adnshost should say what is inconsistent about resource records

2012-07-11 Thread Matthew Vernon
Package: adns-tools Version: 1.4-2 Severity: normal Hi, The following behaviour of adnshost is suboptimal matthew@b144-mcv1-mlt:~$ adnshost -i 143.234.205.70 Error during DNS PTR lookup for 70.205.234.143.in-addr.arpa: Inconsistent resource records in DNS It should instead tell me what the pro

Bug#679320: elecctric-fence: FTBFS: testsuite timeout

2012-06-27 Thread Matthew Vernon
tags 679320 moreinfo unreproducible help quit Hi! Your package failed to build on the buildds: rm -f eftest cc -g -O2 -DUSE_SEMAPHORE -fPIC eftest.o libefence.a -o eftest -lpthread Testing Electric Fence. After the last test, it should print that the test has PASSED. ./eftest Electric Fen

Bug#316343: More information on this

2012-06-26 Thread Matthew Vernon
Hi, I added some printfs to the xtrlock code (which, even if I can't get this bug fixed before the freeze, I'll upload), and it's definitely the keyboard grab that's failing. Bizarrely, if I add some short waits (e.g. 10x 100microseconds), then still xtrlock can't get the keybroadgrab when run fr

Bug#325878: nut: suggested udev change is not quite right

2012-03-19 Thread Matthew Vernon
Package: nut Version: 2.4.3-1.1squeeze1 Severity: normal Hi, Readme.Debian.gz says: "b) Another solution, for system supporting udev, is to create a file (for example /etc/udev/rules.d/52_nut-serialups.rules), placed after 020_permissions.rules and to add something like:

Bug#663730: qa.debian.org: falsely merges two people

2012-03-13 Thread Matthew Vernon
Package: qa.debian.org Severity: normal Hi, The Package Overview page at: http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=matthew%40debian.org is showing packages for both myself and another Matthew Vernon, namely suner...@vernshome.net. We are not the same person, so our packages should not be

Bug#658438: inn2: sendinpaths should not mail pathsur...@top1000.org

2012-02-02 Thread Matthew Vernon
package: inn2 version: 2.5.2-2~squeeze1 Hi, pathsur...@top1000.org no longer receives email; according to discussion in news.software.nntp e.g. This situation is not going to change any time soon. sendinpaths should therefore only mail top1...@anthologeek.net - this is a trivial change to

Bug#529793: Triage

2012-01-30 Thread Matthew Vernon
On 30/01/12 12:06, Richard Hartmann wrote: Is there any update to this? To me, this screams "local config", not bug. My mtr has been updated in the mean time (to 0.75-2), and does not have the problem described. Ping -t 1 does result in "Time to live exceeded". Matthe

Bug#652733: inn2: should Suggest gnupg2

2011-12-20 Thread Matthew Vernon
Package: inn2 Version: 2.5.2-2~squeeze1 Hi, pgpverify (needed for automated processing of signed control messages) calls $gpgv, which is set in innshellvars (and Config.pm) to be "/usr/bin/gpgv2". This is part of the gnupg2 package. Accordingly, inn2 should Suggest: gnupg2, probably instead

Bug#650148: Add posibility to allow new login

2011-11-28 Thread Matthew Vernon
Hi, I'd like to now if there is the chance to add to xtrlock the posibility to allow a new login by calling gdmflexiserver or with a dbus signal like org.freedesktop.DisplayManager.Seat.SwitchToGreeter, whatever seems better for current times, but the thing is to be able to allow other people to

Bug#586685: (no subject)

2011-10-13 Thread Matthew Vernon
Hi, This bug is biting me, too (particularly, it breaks emacsclient), and I think we should fix it. If there are pointers as to how to patch gdm3's scripts so as to not do this, I'd like to see them. I agree with other commenters that we should fix this in Debian if we can, as it's clearly

Bug#643866: electric-fence: FTBFS on GNU/kFreeBSD

2011-10-05 Thread Matthew Vernon
Hi, I have just tested and the version in testing also FTBFS on kfreebsd OOI, what's the failure mode? Thanks, Matthew -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#625756: electric-fence: FTBFS due to OOM with gcc-4.5

2011-09-27 Thread Matthew Vernon
On 19/09/11 15:55, Colin Watson wrote: On Thu, Sep 08, 2011 at 06:14:49PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: * Build with -fno-tree-dse, since otherwise GCC>= 4.5 misoptimises allocateMoreSlots() (closes: #625756, LP: #749139). In fact, as GCC upstream pointed out, a more targeted - and I thin

Bug#636993: xtrlock: add blank screen support

2011-08-08 Thread Matthew Vernon
Hi, As I understand, this will require adding new cmdline option and updating documentation. Please tell me if you're interested in getting this patch applied for Debian package. Yeah. The patch you supply replaces the current behaviour (blue padlock) with a locked screen-blank. While I'd be

Bug#629527: apt: should warn (or emit an error) if symbolic and code-names mixed in sources.list

2011-06-07 Thread Matthew Vernon
On 07/06/11 14:05, David Kalnischkies wrote: On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 13:46, Matthew Vernon wrote: For most users, most of the time, mixing symbolic (stable, unstable) and code-names (lenny, squeeze) in sources.list is a mistake, and will lead to trouble. In which way? You are talking about

Bug#629527: apt: should warn (or emit an error) if symbolic and code-names mixed in sources.list

2011-06-07 Thread Matthew Vernon
Package: apt Version: 0.8.10.3 Severity: wishlist Hi, For most users, most of the time, mixing symbolic (stable, unstable) and code-names (lenny, squeeze) in sources.list is a mistake, and will lead to trouble. I've encountered this problem on other peoples' systems a few times now. Clearly, t

Bug#622614: rdesktop: [patch] add an option not to revert mouse button mappings

2011-04-13 Thread Matthew Vernon
Package: rdesktop Version: 1.6.0-3 Severity: normal Tags: upstream patch Hi, This patch adds a -M option to rdesktop which means that it doesn't undo any mouse-button remappings the user may have done. It applies cleanly to stable's source package. I found it here: https://bugs.archlinux.org/tas

Bug#622381: alsa-base: No sound on Mac Pro (Realtek ALC889A)

2011-04-12 Thread Matthew Vernon
Package: alsa-base Version: 1.0.23+dfsg-2 Severity: important Hi, I cannot get any sound out of the headphones or onboard speaker of my intel Mac Pro. I believe that it has a Realtek ALC889A card. Sound works fine under OSX, so I am confident that this is not a hardware issue. I attach the output

Bug#605632: denyhosts: fills hosts.deny with vast numbers of duplicate entries

2010-12-01 Thread Matthew Vernon
Package: denyhosts Version: 2.6-4 Severity: normal Hi, denyhosts has made an implausibly vast file full of duplicates: matt...@ming:~$ wc -l /etc/hosts.deny 741529 /etc/hosts.deny matt...@ming:~$ sort -u /etc/hosts.deny | wc -l 4155 As an example, one host I picked roughly at random appears 20

Bug#501520: CTAN upload

2010-08-13 Thread Matthew Vernon
Hilmar Preusse wrote: On 30.07.10 Matthew Vernon (matt...@debian.org) wrote: Hi, FYI, In response to a request by email, I've uploaded my patched version of flashcards (as v1.0.1) to CTAN. I don't know how long that will take to update, but it would be nice if my fix made it in

Bug#501520: CTAN upload

2010-07-30 Thread Matthew Vernon
Hi, FYI, In response to a request by email, I've uploaded my patched version of flashcards (as v1.0.1) to CTAN. I don't know how long that will take to update, but it would be nice if my fix made it into testing before release :) Regards, Matthew -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-d

Bug#501520: Updated patch - fix warning about twosideshift

2010-07-22 Thread Matthew Vernon
Hi, I've also removed the twosideshift setting, since that's now obsolete. HTH, Matthew --- /home/matthew/programming/latex/texlive-extra-2007.dfsg.17/texmf-dist/source/latex/flashcards/flashcards.dtx 2006-01-11 23:53:23.0 + +++ flashcards.dtx 2010-07-22 17:09:41.0 +0100 @@

Bug#501520: Patch for this bug

2010-07-22 Thread Matthew Vernon
tags 501520 +patch -wontfix quit Hi, The problem is that RequirePackage{geometry} is called without any arguments; that's where the error is coming from, not from the \geometry invocation further down flashcards.cls. My patch (to the .dtx file from which the .cls is generated) shifts that invoc

Bug#359946: #359946: musixtex: Fails to run with "I can't find file `bcr8'" error

2010-06-28 Thread Matthew Vernon
Hi, we didn't talk about #359946 for some years. ;-) I never really did get it to work, so I went to using lilypond instead :( Can you add some more input or is the problem gone? Well, I am sad enough that I'd still like to debug this, so :) I installed texlive-music, and copied the musix

Bug#584234: (no subject)

2010-06-03 Thread Matthew Vernon
reopen 584234 quit Hi, Sorry for a third thought on your reply to this bug report. If the default pathnews is /usr/lib/news (which seems to be the case), surely it can't be the intent of this that /usr/lib/news/.gnupg gets created by the various gpg-related scripts that are run as user news

Bug#584234: inn2: innshellvars should not override $HOME

2010-06-03 Thread Matthew Vernon
Marco d'Itri writes: > On Jun 02, Matthew Vernon wrote: > > > That breaks things. Most notably, it means that gpg will try and create > > files in pathnews/.gnupg so if pathnews is not the same as ~news things > > like buildinnkeyring and gpgverify won

Bug#584234: inn2: innshellvars should not override $HOME

2010-06-02 Thread Matthew Vernon
Marco d'Itri writes: > On Jun 02, Matthew Vernon wrote: > > > That breaks things. Most notably, it means that gpg will try and create > > files in pathnews/.gnupg so if pathnews is not the same as ~news things > > like buildinnkeyring and gpgverify won

Bug#584234: inn2: innshellvars should not override $HOME

2010-06-02 Thread Matthew Vernon
Package: inn2 Version: 2.4.5-5 Severity: normal Hi, innshellvars, innshellvars.pl and innshellvars.tcl all set $HOME to the value of pathnews specified in inn.conf, over-riding the home directory of the news user. That breaks things. Most notably, it means that gpg will try and create files

Bug#35471: Bug#515516: xbs: diff for NMU version 0-7.4

2010-05-16 Thread Matthew Vernon
Hi, > The package will enter unstable in another day or so. Please indicate if you > are planning an upload to address the bugs and I will remove the NMU from the > delayed queue. I've already uploaded a fixed package, including some of your changes. Thanks! Regards, Matthew -- "At lea

Bug#581558: inn2: nntpsend should use a per-site lock

2010-05-13 Thread Matthew Vernon
Package: inn2 Version: 2.4.5-5 Severity: normal Hi, It's not unusual to want to run multiple nntpsends out of cron (to feed different sites at different frequencies, for example). However, nntpsend uses one global lock file, and silent exits if unable to get that lock. I suggest it instead uses a

Bug#581431: inn2: nntpsend manual incorrect on -D and -d options

2010-05-12 Thread Matthew Vernon
Package: inn2 Version: 2.4.5-5 Severity: normal Hi, nntpsend(8) says: -d -D The ``-d'' flag causes nntpsend to send output to stdout rather than the log file /nntpsend.log. The ``-D'' flag does the same and it passes ``-d'' to all innxmit invocations, which in turn caus

Bug#35471: Bug#515516: xbs: diff for NMU version 0-7.4

2010-05-11 Thread Matthew Vernon
Hi, I've prepared an NMU for xbs (versioned as 0-7.4) and uploaded it to DELAYED/7. Please feel free to tell me if I should delay it longer. Thanks for these changes. Unfortunately, you're also making big packaging changes (like adding debhelper), rather than just fixing the bugs. I'm conten

Bug#579219: icedove: viewing all a messages headers is impossible due to display bug

2010-04-26 Thread Matthew Vernon
Package: icedove Version: 2.0.0.24-0lenny1 Severity: important Hi, If you select View->Headers->All, icedove attempts to expand the grey headers bit of the message display such that the full headers can be displayed in it without scrolling. In the event that there are too many headers for this

Bug#238029: closed by Marco Rodrigues (Package dhcp has been removed from Debian)

2010-03-26 Thread Matthew Vernon
Debian Bug Tracking System writes: > This is an automatic notification regarding your Bug report > which was filed against the dhcp package: > > #238029: dhcp: Fails to be intelligent about statically-assigned hosts > > It has been closed by Marco Rodrigues . Have you checked whether dhcp3

Bug#510759: log4cxx: diff for NMU version 0.10.0-1.1

2009-12-21 Thread Matthew Vernon
No need to delay. I have been very busy, and can't directly upload myself anyway. It would be good if someone else wants to take over as maintainer, as I have not been keeping up on the package. --matthew Quoting David Paleino : > Dear maintainer, > > I've prepared an NMU for log4cxx (versioned

Bug#556936: email address where news.daily sends output should be configurable

2009-11-18 Thread Matthew Vernon
Marco d'Itri wrote: On Nov 18, Matthew Vernon wrote: IME, you should be able to configure this on the command-line, not just at build-time. mailto=address By default, news.daily mails the report to the newsmaster address specified with --with-news-mast

Bug#556936: email address where news.daily sends output should be configurable

2009-11-18 Thread Matthew Vernon
Package: inn2 Version: 2.4.5-5 Severity: normal Hi, news.daily emails its output by default. You can turn this off by specifying "nomail", but it would actually be useful to be able to configure where this email goes. news.daily(8) says: "By default, news.daily performs all of its functions an

Bug#545806: libgsl0-dev: GSL should deal with an uninitialised rng better

2009-09-10 Thread Matthew Vernon
error-checking. Regards, Matthew -- Matthew Vernon, Research Fellow Ecology and Epidemiology Group, University of Warwick http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/mcvernon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#545838: evince: silently discards print queuing on window close

2009-09-09 Thread Matthew Vernon
Package: evince Version: 2.22.2-4~lenny1 Severity: normal Hi, If I tell evince to print a file, and then hit close (or C-W), then if the print queuing operation hasn't completed, evince closes the window and discards the part-completed print queueing. This is particularly annoying when the pri

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