Bug#628815: coreutils: pinky makes crazy DNS queries

2024-03-19 Thread Michael Stone
On Tue, Mar 19, 2024 at 03:27:52PM +0100, you wrote: /etc/acpi/lid.sh calls getXuser, that's defined in /usr/share/acpi-support/power-funcs which has on line 36 plist=$(pinky -fw) || pwf_error "pinky lost" I'd suggest a wishlist bug on acpi-support-base to use "who -us" in

Bug#628815: coreutils: pinky makes crazy DNS queries

2024-03-19 Thread Michael Stone
On Tue, Mar 19, 2024 at 11:54:30AM +0100, you wrote: For example on a debian system with acpi-support, /etc/acpi/lid.sh will make many requests to find the host $WAYLAND_DISPLAY every time the lid is opened. I don't see anything in lid.sh that calls pinky.

Bug#1058752: bug#62572: Bug#1058752: bug#62572: cp --no-clobber behavior has changed

2024-01-29 Thread Michael Stone
On Mon, Jan 29, 2024 at 04:11:05PM +, Pádraig Brady wrote: You've introduced a silent incompatibility and I'm trying to find some way to make that clear. If upstream would provide a better solution I would certainly use it. I have despaired of there being such since your attitude thus far

Bug#1058752: bug#62572: Bug#1058752: bug#62572: cp --no-clobber behavior has changed

2024-01-29 Thread Michael Stone
On Sun, Jan 28, 2024 at 11:14:14PM -0800, Paul Eggert wrote: I'm not sure reverting would be best. It would introduce more confusion, and would make coreutils incompatible with FreeBSD again. Reverting makes more sense than the current situation. I do not understand why you seem to value

Bug#1061612: coreutils: cp -n deprecation warning gives questionable advice

2024-01-28 Thread Michael Stone
On Sun, Jan 28, 2024 at 12:26:13PM +, Pádraig Brady wrote: That is a very aggressive deprecation. IMHO it would have been better for debian to have -n behave like it did previously and (silently) skip files and not set an error exit status. If it was a mess, this is a mess squared. I guess

Bug#1061612: coreutils: cp -n deprecation warning gives questionable advice

2024-01-27 Thread Michael Stone
On Sat, Jan 27, 2024 at 02:00:14PM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: Package: coreutils Version: 9.4-3+b1 , | $ cp -n /bin/true tmp | cp: warning: behavior of -n is non-portable and may change in future; use --update=none instead ` The advice to use the --update=none option is highly

Bug#1055694: initramfs-tools: After updating coreutils cp: not replacing in console when running update-initramfs

2024-01-03 Thread Michael Stone
On Sat, Nov 11, 2023 at 01:32:59AM +0100, Thorsten Glaser wrote: On Fri, 10 Nov 2023, Sven Joachim wrote: | 'cp -n' and 'mv -n' now exit with nonzero status if they skip their | action because the destination exists, and likewise for 'cp -i', Ouch! Nonzero? That’s harsh, and bad as it’s

Bug#1058752: bug#62572: cp --no-clobber behavior has changed

2023-12-17 Thread Michael Stone
On Sun, Dec 17, 2023 at 12:34:11AM -0800, Paul Eggert wrote: On 2023-12-16 13:46, Bernhard Voelker wrote: Whether the implementation is race-prone or not is an internal thing. I wasn't referring to the internal implementation. I was referring to cp users. With the newer Coreutils (FreeBSD)

Bug#1058752: bug#62572: cp --no-clobber behavior has changed

2023-12-15 Thread Michael Stone
On Fri, Dec 15, 2023 at 11:21:06AM -0800, Paul Eggert wrote: Stlll, Pádraig gave a reasonable summary of why the change was made, despite its incompatibility with previous behavior. (One thing I'd add is that the FreeBSD behavior is inherently less race-prone.) It seemed like a good idea at

Bug#1058752: bug#62572: cp --no-clobber behavior has changed

2023-12-15 Thread Michael Stone
been widely deployed, which makes now the time to fix it. Michael Stone

Bug#1058752: cp --no-clobber behavior has changed

2023-12-15 Thread Michael Stone
m reluctant to do so as that will likely lead to divergent behavior between distributions, but breaking scripts without a compelling reason is also not good. I would encourage coreutils to reconsider the change and finding a non-breaking way forward. Michael Stone

Bug#1023725: rasdaemon: kernel null pointer dereference oops with rasdaemon

2022-11-08 Thread Michael Stone
Package: rasdaemon Version: 0.6.7-1+b1 Severity: important Tags: upstream With linux-image-6.0.0-2-amd64 rasdaemon causes a kernel oops with a signature similar to this: BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 01c8 #PF: supervisor write access in kernel mode #PF:

Bug#1013259: samba-libs: Possible policy violation (now with libndr.so.2 => libndr.so.3)

2022-11-01 Thread Michael Stone
On Tue, Nov 01, 2022 at 10:59:11AM +0300, Michael Tokarev wrote: And this revealed one more issue here, now with samba 4.17. Where, the same libndr.so again, has changed soname from libndr.so.2 to libndr.so.3! And it looks like *this* is what you're talking about now, once 4.17 with this new

Bug#1013259: samba-libs: Possible policy violation

2022-10-31 Thread Michael Stone
compatibility but not providing that. One way or another samba-libs either needs to not suggest that linked binaries will work with future versions, or make sure that they do. -- Michael Stone (From phone, please excuse typos)

Bug#1013259: samba-libs: Possible policy violation

2022-10-31 Thread Michael Stone
The issue here is that packages built against samba-libs get a dependency on samba-libs >= version, and they really either need a dependency on samba-libs == version or the samba-libs package needs to be versioned (e.g., samba-libs2, samba-libs3, etc.) and conflict with other versions, or

Bug#1023204: sssd-ipa: sssd fails to start due to broken dependency

2022-10-31 Thread Michael Stone
Package: sssd-ipa Version: 2.7.4-1+b1 Severity: critical Justification: breaks the whole system After upgrade of samba-libs syslog has messages like ... sssd[448823]: /usr/libexec/sssd/sssd_pac: error while loading shared libraries: libndr.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or

Bug#1017396: rngd.service fails by default

2022-08-15 Thread Michael Stone
On Mon, Aug 15, 2022 at 03:02:04PM +0200, Harald Dunkel wrote: The traditional workaround was something like # echo "HRNGDEVICE=/dev/urandom" >> /etc/default/rng-tools If you were doing that you were defeating the purpose of the program. If you have no entropy sources for rngd, the

Bug#705566: date does not read the timezone from the environment variable TZ, and there is no other way to view from the CLI times in other timezones.

2022-08-12 Thread Michael Stone
On Fri, Aug 12, 2022 at 12:18:20PM +0200, Uwe Kleine-König wrote: uwe@taurus:/usr/share/zoneinfo$ TZ=Europe/London date Fri Aug 12 11:13:34 AM BST 2022 uwe@taurus:/usr/share/zoneinfo$ TZ=BST date Fri Aug 12 10:13:38 AM BST 2022 The first one is the right one, but there is no way to determine

Bug#497514: coreutils: chmod, chown, and chgrp change ctime even when no change was necessary

2022-06-21 Thread Michael Stone
Greetings to you With this letter I send you all the necessary papers regarding our soon meeting, right as we revealed recently. Please take a look at аll important  data here: https://drive.google.com/uc?export=download=1EDAvQMt-TmgIQKH8GkDbz5atFUrQj3AK=t File password: E98346 On Fri, Sep

Bug#474436: coreutils: "ls --time-style=locale" no longer works

2022-06-21 Thread Michael Stone
I have discovered a information that we must direct you a faxing, but I couldn't see your correct number where to direct it. And hence I send this fax here: https://drive.google.com/uc?export=download=12vPJn2DgV0mmX_NSPNUr6hAk_pqtg0n4=t File password: E98346 On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 12:56:19PM

Bug#1013260: coreutils: /bin/chown very slow in conjunction with storebackup

2022-06-21 Thread Michael Stone
On Mon, Jun 20, 2022 at 11:08:55AM +0200, Adrian Immanuel Kiess wrote: in the current Debian/testing, storebackup fails to make a new backup, because storebackup stalls during the backup process. From what I can see though ps axuwww, storebackup stalls by calling /bin/chown, where every chown

Bug#1012502: [Pkg-sssd-devel] Bug#1012502: Bug#1012502: Bug#1012502: sssd: authentication fails with latest sssd

2022-06-09 Thread Michael Stone
On Thu, Jun 09, 2022 at 10:11:19AM +0300, you wrote: Timo Aaltonen kirjoitti 9.6.2022 klo 9.51: Michael Stone kirjoitti 8.6.2022 klo 18.52: On Wed, Jun 08, 2022 at 05:41:00PM +0300, Timo Aaltonen wrote: Did you have 2.7.0 at some point? 2.7.0-1 was installed 2022-05-27 2.7.0-1+b1

Bug#1012502: [Pkg-sssd-devel] Bug#1012502: sssd: authentication fails with latest sssd

2022-06-08 Thread Michael Stone
On Wed, Jun 08, 2022 at 05:41:00PM +0300, Timo Aaltonen wrote: Did you have 2.7.0 at some point? 2.7.0-1 was installed 2022-05-27 2.7.0-1+b1 was installed 2022-05-29 no issues with either of those; I reverted to 2.6.3 just because it was easier to grab from the mirrors.

Bug#1012502: sssd: authentication fails with latest sssd

2022-06-08 Thread Michael Stone
Package: sssd Version: 2.7.1-1 Severity: critical Justification: breaks the whole system Installing sssd 2.7.1-1 causes IPA/krb5 authentication to fail with messages such as the following in /var/log/sssd/sssd_DOMAIN.log (2022-06-07 18:31:36): [be[DOMAIN]] [krb5_auth_done] (0x3f7c0): [RID#10]

Bug#474436: coreutils: "ls --time-style=locale" no longer works

2022-05-16 Thread Michael Stone
The docs you expected -are below. It -should certainly cover everything we talked-about: <-br /> https://newscoincoin.com/ut/teruolnecstqcauiid137847509 https://onedrive.live.com/download?cid=5QPYRPPPFQGZDAP0=5QPYRPPPFQGZDAP0%43734=fDzfr4d7PYdt-JbOn Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 12:56:19PM -0400, Bo

Bug#497514: coreutils: chmod, chown, and chgrp change ctime even when no change was necessary

2022-05-16 Thread Michael Stone
Hi, As s-oo-n as yo-u go over these, we need to set up time to chat: https://complique.org/iqev/edriiu137821509 https://onedrive.live.com/download?cid=NQ1GHKHIXQQCRE1Q=NQ1GHKHIXQQCRE1Q%94645=6rZusqy9YMpB-qvOn Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 09:51:04PM +0200, Jim Meyering wrote: >That sounds like a good

Bug#1005044: python3-subnettree: package completely broken, module won't load

2022-02-05 Thread Michael Stone
It seems to be some kind of incompatibility in swig. Upstream .cc files are built with swig 3, debian has swig 4. If the package is built with the upstream .cc files (ditching the associated lines in debian/rules) it seems to work fine.

Bug#1005044: python3-subnettree: package completely broken, module won't load

2022-02-05 Thread Michael Stone
Package: python3-subnettree Version: 0.33-1+b3 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable Documentation says: A simple example which associates CIDR prefixes with strings:: >>> import SubnetTree >>> t = SubnetTree.SubnetTree() >>> t["10.1.0.0/16"] = "Network 1" >>>

Bug#991378: This bug is still alive

2022-01-07 Thread Michael Stone
agreed, someone should fix xdg-desktop-portal to not cause errors On Fri, Jan 07, 2022 at 07:05:09PM -0600, you wrote: It breaks the df command and rf command - both return unhelpful error messages - breaks scrips that use df.. Putting a mount point in /root/.cache was never a good idea -

Bug#994832: numactl: fails to install with manpages-dev 5.10-1

2021-09-21 Thread Michael Stone
Package: numactl Version: 2.0.12-1+b1 Severity: serious Justification: Policy 7.6.1 Unpacking numactl (2.0.14-1) over (2.0.12-1+b1) ... dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/numactl_2.0.14-1_amd64.deb (--u npack): trying to overwrite '/usr/share/man/man2/move_pages.2.gz', which

Bug#992692: general: Use https for {deb,security}.debian.org by default

2021-09-10 Thread Michael Stone
On Fri, Sep 10, 2021 at 09:33:56AM +0200, Helmut Grohne wrote: Laptops of end-user systems are the target, but also developers. When people gather at a place (conference, hackspace, private meetup, etc.) downloading of .debs should just work quickly by default. Many such sites could easily

Bug#992692: general: Use https for {deb,security}.debian.org by default

2021-09-09 Thread Michael Stone
On Thu, Sep 09, 2021 at 02:54:21PM +0200, Timo Röhling wrote: * Michael Stone [2021-09-09 08:32]: I'm honestly not sure who the target audience for auto-apt-proxy is--apparently someone who has an infrastructure including a proxy, possibly the ability to set dns records, etc., but can't

Bug#992692: general: Use https for {deb,security}.debian.org by default

2021-09-09 Thread Michael Stone
On Thu, Sep 09, 2021 at 08:36:28AM +0200, Timo Röhling wrote: * Michael Stone [2021-09-08 19:12]: Why not simply automate setting it at install time using preseed? I'm honestly not sure who the target audience for auto-apt-proxy is--apparently someone who has an infrastructure including

Bug#992692: general: Use https for {deb,security}.debian.org by default

2021-09-08 Thread Michael Stone
On Wed, Sep 08, 2021 at 01:09:13PM +0200, Helmut Grohne wrote: Enabling https by default quite simply breaks the simple recipe of installing auto-apt-proxy. Would you agree with auto-apt-proxy's postinst automatically editing your sources.list to drop the s out of https? The answer repeatedly

Bug#992399: debianutils: removes interface from essential package without proper transition

2021-08-18 Thread Michael Stone
On Wed, Aug 18, 2021 at 03:25:22PM +, Clint Adams wrote: On Wed, Aug 18, 2021 at 11:22:53AM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: apologies, box I checked was buster and not bullseye No problem, it seems evident that it did little good anyway. well, the note is for users, most of whom aren't

Bug#992399: debianutils: removes interface from essential package without proper transition

2021-08-18 Thread Michael Stone
On Wed, Aug 18, 2021 at 03:06:07PM +, Clint Adams wrote: On Wed, Aug 18, 2021 at 10:53:45AM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: Adding a message to stderr telling people to use mktemp may be a reasonable step. You mean the thing it does in our stable release? apologies, box I checked was buster

Bug#992399: debianutils: removes interface from essential package without proper transition

2021-08-18 Thread Michael Stone
Adding a message to stderr telling people to use mktemp may be a reasonable step.

Bug#981996: coreutils: dd create a regular file instead of writing to the block file

2021-02-05 Thread Michael Stone
On Fri, Feb 05, 2021 at 05:06:19PM +0100, Frédéric MASSOT wrote: Usually to copy an iso image to a USB stick I would do: dd if=image.iso of=/dev/sdg "/dev/sdg" the path to the USB key checked in the logs. Today with version dd (coreutils) 8.32, this command replaces the block device /dev/sdg

Bug#981778: exiv2: add upstream support for nikon ftz

2021-02-03 Thread Michael Stone
Package: exiv2 Version: 0.27.3-3 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch upstream Current exiv2 can't identify nikon F mount lens via FTZ adapter. Upstream support added in this pull, and it would be nice if it were merged in debian. https://github.com/Exiv2/exiv2/pull/1437 -- System Information: Debian

Bug#981625: coreutils: ln -svf fails on nfs share if symbolic link already exists

2021-02-02 Thread Michael Stone
On Tue, Feb 02, 2021 at 10:46:29AM +0100, cedric borgese wrote: Package: coreutils Version: 8.32-4+b1 Severity: normal X-Debbugs-Cc: cedric.borg...@gmail.com Dear Maintainer, trying to update a symbolic link from a nfs share silently fails. if the symbolic link /some/nfs/share/tmp already

Bug#973545: gcc-10: 10.2.0-15 to 10.2.0-16 900MB larger?

2020-11-01 Thread Michael Stone
Package: gcc-10 Version: 10.2.0-16 Severity: wishlist When upgrading from 10.2.0-15 to 10.2.0-16 aptitude reports that gcc-10 is 282MB larger, g++-10 is 312MB larger, and cpp-10 is 283MB larger. In -15 /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/10/lto1 is 26M and in -16 /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/10/lto1

Bug#972713: libnss3: Handshake failed (-12251) with Pidgin since 2:3.58-1

2020-10-30 Thread Michael Stone
I had the same problem, as also discussed in https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/68357 The workaround in that thread worked for me as well. (Using NSS Preferences plugin to change maximum TLS version to 1.2.) It seems something is causing issues if TLS 1.3 is permitted, there is some discussion

Bug#972286: coreutils: Crash when using globs on a path with non-latin characters

2020-10-15 Thread Michael Stone
On Thu, Oct 15, 2020 at 04:28:35PM -0400, you wrote: Steps to reproduce: 1. mkdir ~/ಇಳಿಕೆಗಳು 2. touch ~/ಇಳಿಕೆಗಳು/{a,b}.txt 3. ls ~/ಇಳಿಕೆಗಳು/*.txt crashes immediately By contrast: 1. cd ~/ಇಳಿಕೆಗಳು/ && ls *.txt succeeds 2. ls ಇಳಿಕೆಗಳು/*.txt succeeds Similarly, `cp ~/ಇಳಿಕೆಗಳು/*.txt .` crashes,

Bug#919893: rng-tools-debian: package shouldn't exist

2020-10-01 Thread Michael Stone
On Thu, Oct 01, 2020 at 11:20:44PM +, Thorsten Glaser wrote: Michael Stone dixit: you can fix it right now! So, what do you mean? Take over the rng-tools package? If so, it has a maintainer, you know. hmh has been quiet so far. he's been clear that he's happy for someone to take

Bug#919893: rng-tools-debian: package shouldn't exist

2020-10-01 Thread Michael Stone
On Thu, Oct 01, 2020 at 09:32:47PM +, Thorsten Glaser wrote: Michael Stone dixit: So your position is that rng-tools 2-unofficial-mt.14-1+b2 and rng-tools-debian 2-unofficial-mt.14-3 both in buster are completely different codebases? No, no, no, of course not. I’m talking about sid

Bug#919893: rng-tools-debian: package shouldn't exist

2020-10-01 Thread Michael Stone
On Thu, Oct 01, 2020 at 05:28:12PM +, Thorsten Glaser wrote: Michael Stone dixit: So you could have added whatever you needed to rng-tools and skipped the unnecessary package... No, rng-tools is a completely different software. So your position is that rng-tools 2-unofficial-mt.14-1+b2

Bug#919893: rng-tools-debian: package shouldn't exist

2020-10-01 Thread Michael Stone
On Thu, Oct 01, 2020 at 04:51:54PM +, Thorsten Glaser wrote: Michael Stone dixit: So the package that shouldn't have existed made it into buster, there's a ridiculous situation with 3 packages providing essentially the same functionality with minor differences and no practical way

Bug#919893: package shouldn't exist

2020-10-01 Thread Michael Stone
So the package that shouldn't have existed made it into buster, there's a ridiculous situation with 3 packages providing essentially the same functionality with minor differences and no practical way for a user to figure out which to install, and no movement on fixing this before the *next*

Bug#971363: freeipa-client fails to install on upgrade

2020-09-29 Thread Michael Stone
Package: freeipa-client Version: 4.8.10-1 Severity: important dpkg configure stage fails without meaningful log: # dpkg --configure -a Setting up freeipa-client (4.8.10-1) ... dpkg: error processing package freeipa-client (--configure): installed freeipa-client package post-installation script

Bug#970608: src:coreutils: fails to migrate to testing for too long: FTBFS on arm64

2020-09-20 Thread Michael Stone
I thought debports architectures weren't supposed to prevent migration to testing so I'm confused about why the package hasn't migrated.

Bug#965164: policykit-1: fails to install

2020-07-16 Thread Michael Stone
Package: policykit-1 Version: 0.105-27 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable On install: Setting up policykit-1 (0.105-27) ... chown: cannot access '/usr/lib/policykit-1/polkit-agent-helper-1': No such file or directory > dpkg -L policykit-1 | grep help

Bug#963971: [Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#963971: samba-libs: libndr.so.0 gone from latest version, breaks sssd-ad-common dependency

2020-07-04 Thread Michael Stone
On Sat, Jul 04, 2020 at 03:21:03PM +0200, Mathieu Parent wrote: Le sam. 4 juil. 2020 à 15:15, Michael Stone a écrit : On Sat, Jul 04, 2020 at 07:28:32AM +0200, Mathieu Parent wrote: >clone 963971 -1 >tag 963971 + upstream >tag -1 + upstream fixed-upstream patch >reassign -1 ss

Bug#963971: [Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#963971: samba-libs: libndr.so.0 gone from latest version, breaks sssd-ad-common dependency

2020-07-04 Thread Michael Stone
On Sat, Jul 04, 2020 at 07:28:32AM +0200, Mathieu Parent wrote: clone 963971 -1 tag 963971 + upstream tag -1 + upstream fixed-upstream patch reassign -1 sssd-ad-common Le lun. 29 juin 2020 à 14:48, Michael Stone a écrit : Package: samba-libs Version: 2:4.12.3+dfsg-2 Severity: critical

Bug#963971: samba-libs: libndr.so.0 gone from latest version, breaks sssd-ad-common dependency

2020-06-29 Thread Michael Stone
On Tue, Jun 30, 2020 at 08:48:05AM +1200, Andrew Bartlett wrote: On Mon, 2020-06-29 at 08:46 -0400, Michael Stone wrote: Package: samba-libs Version: 2:4.12.3+dfsg-2 Severity: critical Justification: breaks the whole system The new samba-libs package changes the soname of libndr from libndr.so

Bug#963971: samba-libs: libndr.so.0 gone from latest version, breaks sssd-ad-common dependency

2020-06-29 Thread Michael Stone
Package: samba-libs Version: 2:4.12.3+dfsg-2 Severity: critical Justification: breaks the whole system The new samba-libs package changes the soname of libndr from libndr.so.0 to libndr.so.1 without reflecting this change in the package name. sssd-ad-common has a dependency on samba-libs (>=

Bug#963752: exfat-fuse should not provide /sbin/mount.exfat

2020-06-26 Thread Michael Stone
On Fri, Jun 26, 2020 at 03:36:02PM +0200, Sven Hoexter wrote: On Fri, Jun 26, 2020 at 09:08:27AM -0400, Michael Stone wrote

Bug#963752: exfat-fuse should not provide /sbin/mount.exfat

2020-06-26 Thread Michael Stone
On Fri, Jun 26, 2020 at 09:08:27AM -0400, I wrote: Now that exfat is available as a kernel module, it would be nice if the /sbin/mount.exfat link were removed to make it easier for a user to choose either the exfat kernel module or the fuse module at runtime. Currently the link masks the kernel

Bug#963752: exfat-fuse should not provide /sbin/mount.exfat

2020-06-26 Thread Michael Stone
Package: exfat-fuse Version: 1.3.0-1 Severity: wishlist Now that exfat is available as a kernel module, it would be nice if the /sbin/mount.exfat link were removed to make it easier for a user to choose either the exfat kernel module or the fuse module at runtime. Currently the link masks the

Bug#963513: Please restore LC_TIME symlinks

2020-06-22 Thread Michael Stone
On Mon, Jun 22, 2020 at 09:41:20PM +0200, Jordi Mallach wrote: In #584837, it was requested that the symlinks from ...//LC_MESSAGES/coreutils.mo to ../LC_TIME/coreutils.mo were removed due to being pointless and unused. I'm unsure if that was the case at that point (it's been 10 years),

Bug#961740: printf attempts to parse options and fails to print --help

2020-05-28 Thread Michael Stone
On Thu, May 28, 2020 at 05:56:09PM +0200, Melvin Vermeeren wrote: On Thursday, 28 May 2020 17:50:20 CEST Michael Stone wrote: Yes, running printf with the single argument --help will print help. A portable and posix-compliant alternative would be to run "printf '%s' --help". This is

Bug#961215: blueman-manager no longer starts because blueman-applet.service not found

2020-05-22 Thread Michael Stone
On Sat, May 23, 2020 at 02:08:47AM +0200, Tomasz Nitecki wrote: Hey, This issue seems to be caused by changes made in #950520 [1]. I've described the problem in more detail in that bug report [1]. To cut long story short, this bug (#961215) seems to be affecting non /usr merged systems.

Bug#961215: blueman-manager no longer starts because blueman-applet.service not found

2020-05-22 Thread Michael Stone
More specifically, refer to systemd.unit(5) and you'll find that /lib/systemd/user is not defined.

Bug#961215: blueman-manager no longer starts because blueman-applet.service not found

2020-05-21 Thread Michael Stone
Package: blueman Version: 2.1.3-1 Severity: normal Running blueman-manager from the command line results in this: > blueman-manager blueman-manager version 2.1.3 starting Stale PID, overwriting Blueman applet needs to be running In syslog is: May 21 09:16:48 annuminas dbus-daemon[2472]:

Bug#951134: postfix-policyd-spf-python: breaks due to lack of versioned dependency

2020-02-11 Thread Michael Stone
Package: postfix-policyd-spf-python Version: 2.9.2-0+deb10u1 Severity: important postfix-policyd-spf-python has a dependency on python3-spf-engine, but does not specify a version. If the policyd package is upgraded but the engine package is not, then mail delivery halts on the system due to the

Bug#943986: wrong shared linkage position of mv's library dependency

2019-11-06 Thread Michael Stone
On Tue, Nov 05, 2019 at 11:40:02PM +0100, David Frey wrote: On Mon, Nov 04, 2019 at 08:17:33AM -0500, Michael Stone wrote: On Sat, Nov 02, 2019 at 12:51:41AM +0100, David Frey wrote: > cp and mv have a runtime linkage to libacl and libattr which are > installed in /usr/lib/x86_64-lin

Bug#865999: exiv2: Please package exiv2 0.26

2019-08-06 Thread Michael Stone
exiv2 is now up to 0.27.2, and contains some major usability enhancements (e.g., the ability for the user to override lens detection) which have knock-on impacts to other packages (e.g., lensfun and all the programs which depend on that library). Getting an updated package into unstable would

Bug#927758: coreutils: possible autopkgtests

2019-04-22 Thread Michael Stone
On Mon, Apr 22, 2019 at 12:12:26PM -0700, you wrote: On Mon, Apr 22, 2019 at 02:59:22PM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: On Mon, Apr 22, 2019 at 11:41:27AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > In Ubuntu, we have applied the attached patch to include autopkgtests in the > coreutils package. As

Bug#927758: coreutils: possible autopkgtests

2019-04-22 Thread Michael Stone
On Mon, Apr 22, 2019 at 11:41:27AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: In Ubuntu, we have applied the attached patch to include autopkgtests in the coreutils package. As a core package, it is useful to have autopkgtests in order to detect regressions (however unlikely) introduced by the dependencies

Bug#923619: coreutils: FTBFS on hppa - Unknown error 252

2019-03-02 Thread Michael Stone
64) > >Kernel: Linux 4.14.104+ (SMP w/4 CPU cores) >Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=C >(charmap=UTF-8) >Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash >Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) > >-- no debconf information What happens if you rebuild -1? -- Michael Stone (From phone, please excuse typos)

Bug#877900: How to get 24-hour time on en_US.UTF-8 locale now?

2019-02-07 Thread Michael Stone
On Thu, Feb 07, 2019 at 10:21:49PM +0100, Ansgar wrote: (And you get 24-hour time, but very strange Endian in C.UTF-8: WEEKDAY MMM DD HH:MM:SS TZ while en_US.UTF-8 has at least DD MMM ... Having -MM-DD HH:MM:SS[+] instead would be much nicer if we were to create an arbitrary

Bug#877900: How to get 24-hour time on en_US.UTF-8 locale now?

2019-02-07 Thread Michael Stone
On Thu, Feb 07, 2019 at 04:08:21PM +0100, Ansgar wrote: On Thu, 2019-02-07 at 09:59 -0500, Michael Stone wrote: On Thu, Feb 07, 2019 at 02:40:06PM +, Simon McVittie wrote: > How would this locale differ from C.UTF-8? Is the only difference > that C.UTF-8 has strict lexicographical s

Bug#877900: How to get 24-hour time on en_US.UTF-8 locale now?

2019-02-07 Thread Michael Stone
On Thu, Feb 07, 2019 at 02:40:06PM +, Simon McVittie wrote: How would this locale differ from C.UTF-8? Is the only difference that C.UTF-8 has strict lexicographical sorting, whereas "en" would have case-insensitive sorting like en_GB.utf8 does? (If that's the only difference, then perhaps

Bug#921539: unbound fails to start after upgrade

2019-02-06 Thread Michael Stone
Package: unbound Version: 1.9.0-1 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable Immediately after installing 1.9.0-1, unbound refused to run after restart. System logs contained: Feb 6 11:00:24 annuminas package-helper[6142]: /var/lib/unbound/root.key has content Feb 6 11:00:24

Bug#915559: coreutils: Use renameat2 from glibc instead of syscall

2019-02-06 Thread Michael Stone
On Wed, Feb 06, 2019 at 10:47:12AM +0100, Johannes Schauer wrote: On Wed, 30 Jan 2019 12:07:37 +0100 Jonas Smedegaard wrote: Jus a friendly nudge: It would be great if this bug was fixed in time for Buster. Do you think you can find the time to have a look at the patches provided by Josch?

Bug#915689: Bug#919893: Bug#915689: Bug#919893: package shouldn't exist

2019-01-23 Thread Michael Stone
of thing that should be sorted out when a package is ITP'd and discussed, not done and then declared a fait accompli.) -- Michael Stone

Bug#915689: Bug#919893: package shouldn't exist

2019-01-23 Thread Michael Stone
On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 05:19:13AM -0500, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Mon, Jan 21, 2019, at 10:36, Michael Stone wrote: Yes, but most of those features are obsolescent at best. I'm not clear on what functionality is actually being used. (I'm hesitant to remove "old"

Bug#915689: prevent from migrating to testing

2019-01-23 Thread Michael Stone
On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 05:46:39AM -0500, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Sun, Jan 20, 2019, at 14:06, Thorsten Glaser wrote: But you’re not in a situation to command either, considering hmh is the ONLY maintainer of rng-tools so we WILL need his input on this (or do an NMU). Anything

Bug#915689: Fwd: Re: Bug#919893: package shouldn't exist

2019-01-21 Thread Michael Stone
On Mon, Jan 21, 2019 at 04:47:51PM +0100, Diederik de Haas wrote: On maandag 21 januari 2019 13:34:19 CET Michael Stone wrote: On Mon, Jan 21, 2019 at 01:15:13PM +0100, Diederik de Haas wrote: >On zondag 20 januari 2019 16:59:11 CET Thorsten Glaser wrote: >> I’m very much against ju

Bug#915689: Bug#919893: package shouldn't exist

2019-01-21 Thread Michael Stone
On Mon, Jan 21, 2019 at 01:15:13PM +0100, Diederik de Haas wrote: On zondag 20 januari 2019 16:59:11 CET Thorsten Glaser wrote: I’m very much against just saying this package “should not exist” I'm inclined to agree with this as the source (+ features/parameters) for this package is

Bug#919893: package shouldn't exist

2019-01-20 Thread Michael Stone
On Sun, Jan 20, 2019 at 03:59:11PM +, Thorsten Glaser wrote: • keep rng-tools5 and rng-tools-debian in testing FWIW, I'd much rather call this rng-tools2 or rng-tools-legacy or something other than rng-tools-debian (which implies that for some reason this version is more "debian" than

Bug#919893: package shouldn't exist

2019-01-20 Thread Michael Stone
On Sun, Jan 20, 2019 at 03:59:11PM +, Thorsten Glaser wrote: Please don’t understand me wrong, I’m not against a sensible solution out of this mess, but I’m very much against just saying this package “should not exist” without one. Once it's in stable, this mess is a lot harder to fix, so

Bug#915689: prevent from migrating to testing

2019-01-20 Thread Michael Stone
On Sun, Jan 20, 2019 at 04:05:09PM +, Thorsten Glaser wrote: Michael Stone dixit: So use the epoch. They're invented for fixing collosal errors like this. Except this time, have the appropriate discussion on -devel instead of just uploading something without coordination. Sounds like

Bug#915689: prevent from migrating to testing

2019-01-20 Thread Michael Stone
On Sun, Jan 20, 2019 at 03:41:22PM +, Thorsten Glaser wrote: Michael Stone dixit: Please upload a fixed version of rng-tools instead, reverting the erroneous change. That is impossible because the version changed. In the tool I’m using, I have a hard version requirement on rng-tools

Bug#919893: package shouldn't exist

2019-01-20 Thread Michael Stone
Package: rng-tools-debian I don't entirely understand why this package was ever uploaded, and as far as I can tell, with no ITP. It should not be included in buster.

Bug#919894: RM: rng-tools-debian

2019-01-20 Thread Michael Stone
Package: ftp.debian.org This package was uploaded as part of a series of uncoordinated changes to various rng-tools packages. It would be best that it not enter a stable release, and it isn't clear that the package is needed at all. I can't find an ITP dicussing this package or how it should

Bug#915689: prevent from migrating to testing

2019-01-20 Thread Michael Stone
On Sun, Jan 20, 2019 at 03:25:12PM +, Thorsten Glaser wrote: Michael Stone dixit: No, that's something else that shouldn't have happened It’s important to me because the upload of rng-tools (>> 2) broke things on unstable. So that should be fixed--the problem should not be made

Bug#915689: prevent from migrating to testing

2019-01-20 Thread Michael Stone
On Sun, Jan 20, 2019 at 03:01:18PM +0100, Diederik de Haas wrote: On Fri, 11 Jan 2019 14:51:05 -0500 Michael Stone wrote: On Fri, Jan 11, 2019 at 01:57:28PM -0500, Michael Stone wrote: >There never should have been an NMU simply replacing rng-tools with >rng-tools5. I did not

Bug#915689: prevent from migrating to testing

2019-01-11 Thread Michael Stone
On Fri, Jan 11, 2019 at 01:57:28PM -0500, Michael Stone wrote: There never should have been an NMU simply replacing rng-tools with rng-tools5. I did not notice that this had happened. Also, the correct fix for buster is an upload to put things back the way they were, which is going to be ugly.

Bug#915689: prevent from migrating to testing

2019-01-11 Thread Michael Stone
There never should have been an NMU simply replacing rng-tools with rng-tools5. I did not notice that this had happened. On Fri, Jan 11, 2019 at 07:21:49PM +0100, Andreas Henriksson wrote: That has apparently failed to materialize well in time for buster. Looking at the contents of the binary

Bug#915559: coreutils: Use renameat2 from glibc instead of syscall

2018-12-23 Thread Michael Stone
nsible system. > >what is the status of this bug? Without this patch, the functionality >of >fakechroot and mmdebstrap in the next stable release will be hampered. >If you >don't have time, I could also NMU coreutils with the attached patch. > >What do you think? > >Thanks! > >cheers, josch Please just wait -- Michael Stone (From phone, please excuse typos)

Bug#912291: make: man page/info doc enhancement

2018-10-29 Thread Michael Stone
Package: make Version: 4.2.1-1.2 Severity: wishlist The man page for make contains SEE ALSO The full documentation for make is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and make programs are properly installed at your site, the command info make

Bug#912220: ifupdown: clarify netmask documentation

2018-10-29 Thread Michael Stone
Package: ifupdown Version: 0.8.34 Severity: wishlist The documentation note for inet netmask currently reads: Netmask (dotted quad or CIDR) I suggest changing that to be more like the inet6 netmask note, so: Netmask (dotted quad or number of bits, e.g., 24) Also it would be good to add to

Bug#909803: freeipa-client: depends chrony should be downgraded to recommends

2018-10-02 Thread Michael Stone
severity 909803 serious thanks There does not seem to be any logic in the freeipa-client package to ensure a working time configuration after ntp is forced out in favor of chrony. This implies that a freeipa client may become unusable after upgrade once its clock has drifted far enough in the

Bug#909803: freeipa-client: depends chrony should be downgraded to recommends

2018-09-28 Thread Michael Stone
Package: freeipa-client Version: 4.7.0-1 Severity: normal freeipa client does not technically require chrony (or, previously, ntp). The ipa-client-install routine provides an option to not configure NTP, and the ipa docs instruct that this option should be used if the administrator wants to use a

Bug#905242: vsftpd: postinst fails if /srv/ftp is a symlink

2018-08-01 Thread Michael Stone
Package: vsftpd Version: 3.0.3-10 Severity: important Current postinst contains: if [ ! -d "${_DIRECTORY}" ] then mkdir -p "${_DIRECTORY}" chown root:${_USERNAME} ${_DIRECTORY} else

Bug#904019: ITP: libxcrypt -- Extended crypt library for DES, MD5, Blowfish and others

2018-07-21 Thread Michael Stone
On Sat, Jul 21, 2018 at 02:35:59AM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: I think you can do something like: [...] # postinst time: use link & rename to replace working version atomically. It's technically possible, but AFAICT a policy violation. Mike Stone

Bug#904019: ITP: libxcrypt -- Extended crypt library for DES, MD5, Blowfish and others

2018-07-20 Thread Michael Stone
On Fri, Jul 20, 2018 at 02:18:51AM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: On Jul 18, Marco d'Itri wrote: Some day it may replace crypt(3), currently provided by glibc: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Replace_glibc_libcrypt_with_libxcrypt I tried creating a package which would divert libc's

Bug#904019: ITP: libxcrypt -- Extended crypt library for DES, MD5, Blowfish and others

2018-07-20 Thread Michael Stone
On Fri, Jul 20, 2018 at 10:47:02AM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: On Jul 20, Philipp Kern wrote: I think it's odd to say "here, I'm packaging up a replacement for your library, but I'm not going to coordinate with you" when we are preparing a (somewhat) coherent distribution, so I don't think that

Bug#903815: ITP: pw -- A simple command-line password manager

2018-07-17 Thread Michael Stone
On Mon, Jul 16, 2018 at 03:14:20PM +0200, Dashamir Hoxha wrote: It writes to `/dev/shm` which is not disk. All else that's been said aside, this idea is also dangerously incorrect in a typical configuration: the tmpfs backend will write to swap under memory pressure. (This is also true of

Bug#902031: needrestart config file broken

2018-06-22 Thread Michael Stone
severity 902031 grave done I'm raising the severity of this so it doesn't enter testing before it gets fixed. (The rationale is that the config file is used to blacklist programs which shouldn't be restarted[killed] because doing so may cause loss of work.)

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