Bug#1035382: Bookworm amd64 live install ISO RC1 and RC2 install pointless raspi-firmware package

2023-05-02 Thread Paul Seelig
Package: debian-live Severity: normal Tags: d-i X-Debbugs-Cc: think...@rumbero.org Installation of Bookworm RC1+2 using amd64 live install ISO[1] includes package 'raspi-firmware', which in this context is a useless waste of space. It's presence results in the creation of a /boot/firmware/

Bug#1035360: bookworm RC2 installation leaves luks encrypted system in unbootable state

2023-05-01 Thread Paul Seelig
Package: debian-installer Severity: grave X-Debbugs-Cc: think...@rumbero.org Hi all, using the xfce4 based RC2 live ISO image[1], on a Thinkpad T480 (16GB RAM/256GB NVME/INTEL GRAPHICS ONLY) installation of Debian in an luks encrypted LVM was performed. Apparently, the required

Bug#824835: tex-common: fmtutil fails

2016-05-21 Thread Paul Seelig
Hi, i was bitten by the same issue. Analyzing the various /tmp/fmtutil.* files created during installation trials, i stumbled over the line stating: ! I can't find file `syst-tex.mkii'. Checking with apt-file, syst-tex.mkii appeared to be contained in two packages, namely 'context' and

Bug#284274: Re: Bug#284274: Patch for the hardlink replacement bug request

2013-03-10 Thread Paul Seelig
Hi, for the time being, it would probably be much more reasonable to limit that function to the current local filesystem only, instead of trying to crack a nut with a sledgehammer. Finding duplicates over filesystems should be considered being a special use case which could/should be handled

Bug#610215: localepurge: Could remove Scribus translation files

2011-01-16 Thread Paul Seelig
Hello, as i found out, this localization file location is not limited to scribus in its both variations, but also holds true for various other qt based packages. Among these are for example the packages for hydrogen, virtualbox*, qt4, skype, pdfedit, qdacco, mscore, djvu, canorus, calibre,

Bug#563757: bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=563757

2010-04-09 Thread Paul Seelig
Hi Ilia, sorry for the late reply! Yes, this somewhat remedies the situation for me, although i still had to modify the mc.keymap.emacs file to more closely match the former key bindings of the old mcedit emacs mode. Thanks a lot! Paul Seelig On 03/11/2010 04:37 PM, Ilia Maslakov wrote: Good

Bug#563426: cofirming problem is in squeeze

2010-01-13 Thread Paul Seelig
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi Hugo, this is already fixed 0.6.2 in unstable, so either just wait for it to arrive in testing, or manually install it from unstable. Me too messages are okay, but previous checking for a newer release would defintely be recommendable. ;)

Bug#563597: Me too!

2010-01-13 Thread Paul Seelig
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 This is fixed in 0.6.2 which is still waiting in unstable to reach testing. On 01/13/2010 03:47 PM, Phillip Pi wrote: It looks like I have the same localepurge v0.6.1 bug in my old Debian system today: -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version:

Bug#563757: mc: emacs key bindings silently removed from internal editor

2010-01-04 Thread Paul Seelig
Package: mc Version: 3:4.7.0-1 Severity: important After upgrading mc from version 4.7.0-pre1-3 to the currrent 4.7.0-1 there is no more the old mcedit which was able to handle emacs key bindings. This was an unexpected and completely undocumented change, which severely harms years of trained

Bug#563683: localepurge: does not preserve configuration on upgrade

2010-01-04 Thread Paul Seelig
Hello Jakub, i am unable to reproduce this behavior, and i think you should definitely abstain from manually editing this configuration file. You are not supposed to touch any configuration file which is handled via debconf. Please try to purge the package from your system, and then reinstall

Bug#550109: localepurge: find: `/usr/share/man/be/man[1-9]': No such file or directory

2010-01-03 Thread Paul Seelig
Hello Sandro, could you please provide me with some more debugging details, so that i can understand how this error message is produced? Unfortunately i am unable to reproduce this behavior... If you could simply run localepurge -d within a script(1) session, and provide me with the resulting

Bug#560238: net.ipv6.bindv6only configuration breaks xdmcp

2009-12-10 Thread Paul Seelig
On 12/10/2009 03:34 AM, Marco d'Itri wrote: But was bindv6only=1 set on the client or on the server? Both server and client had this very same setting and, acting as both server and client, none of both could see each other anymore. Once i removed the file from one of them, and after a reboot,

Bug#560238: net.ipv6.bindv6only configuration breaks xdmcp

2009-12-09 Thread Paul Seelig
reopen 560238 ! # thanks Hi, just want to remark that i actualy had to move the newly created file /etc/sysctl.d/bindv6only.conf out of the way in order to restore the xdmcp functionality it completely broke. If you introduce new configuration files containing untested settings which might

Bug#560238: net.ipv6.bindv6only configuration breaks xdmcp

2009-12-09 Thread Paul Seelig
On 12/10/2009 01:53 AM, Marco d'Itri wrote: XDMCP is a protocol, which package is actually broken and how? It was not possible anymore to connect to a remote system via xdmcp both via gdm and Xephyr. The remote X server appeared to have become completely unvisible within the local network.

Bug#557992: grub-pc: Booting is completely broken

2009-11-29 Thread Paul Seelig
On 11/29/2009 09:08 AM, Felix Zielcke wrote: In the 24-1 one there was a syntax error in it which completely broke our parser. But unfortunately nobody thought that the grub.cfg could be just wrong and not the C code in GRUB itself. After having successfully rebooted today with 24-2, i took a

Bug#557992: grub-pc: Booting is completely broken

2009-11-29 Thread Paul Seelig
On 11/29/2009 09:10 PM, Felix Zielcke wrote: But if you only have ASCII chars in the menu entry names then it shouldn't at all make a difference. Yes, the files are all ASCII only. This shows if debconf thinks if you saw that prompt already or not echo FGET grub-pc/install_devices seen |

Bug#557992: grub-pc: Booting is completely broken

2009-11-28 Thread Paul Seelig
Just for the record, my old ThinkPad T23 become unbootable with the very same symptons after upgrading it to this 1.97+20091125-1 version. Luckily i still had 1.97+20091124-2 in the apt cache, and manually downgrading to it solved the issue for the time being. To me it looks like something went

Bug#557992: grub-pc: Booting is completely broken

2009-11-28 Thread Paul Seelig
Well, if upgrading to 25-1 does not by itself result in a working boot configuration, it defintely shouldn't be the user who should be held responsible to make sure that it works. As an end user, i do expect that the upgrade does work without any further intervention. If 25-1 does not work

Bug#454658: localepurge: Remove dangling symlinks in /usr/share/man and /etc/alternatives

2007-12-16 Thread Paul Seelig
Hello Behan, sorry for answering so late, but better late than never... ;) Thanks a lot for your patch, although i have decided not to include it in localepurge. The reason to decide against is simply that i'd like localepurge to stay what it's name suggests. While i think that your idea is

Bug#431522: depends on non-essential package ucf in postrm

2007-12-10 Thread Paul Seelig
Hello Frank, thanks a lot for your actions! Your NMU is very appreciated! Since my move from Germany to Spain one year ago i have almost no time to care for this package. I'm looking forward to be able to take better care again starting end of next January, when the biggest burdens here are

Bug#398890: O: ethiop

2006-11-16 Thread Paul Seelig
Package: wnpp Severity: normal Unfortunately, i have no use anymore for this package and therefore won't keep maintaining it. A new maintainer is needed, preferably with an Ethiopian language background, if at all possible. Maybe it would even be better to completely remove the package from the

Bug#390195: ethiop: Please package Type1 versions of the fonts

2006-09-29 Thread Paul Seelig
Frank Küster wrote: We'd be glad to hear from you whether you want to continue maintaining ethiop, and whether you plan to include the fonts in this or a separate package, so that we can adjust our dependencies. In case you'd rather give up the package (which we'd really regret), please also

Bug#387505: gworkspace.app: Debian package version is very outdated

2006-09-14 Thread Paul Seelig
Package: gworkspace.app Severity: normal Is this package still properly maintained? The current Debian package of gworkspace.app is at version 0.7.0 which originally dates from 18 Mar 2005, the good old times of the last Debian stable release. In the meantime, gworkspace.app has evolved

Bug#385338: wish: dpkg-reconfigure localepurge to select when to run localepurge automatically

2006-08-30 Thread Paul Seelig
CC'ed debian-devel On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 04:49:11PM +0100, João Batista wrote: I'd like to propose a facility, configurable when running dpkg-reconfigure localepurge , to allow the sysadmin to select when localepurge should be run e.g.: - everytime dpkg/apt is run (default) -

Bug#385338: wish: dpkg-reconfigure localepurge to select when to run localepurge automatically

2006-08-30 Thread Paul Seelig
Hi João! Like Steve Greenland pointed out on the debian-devel list a few hours ago, the desired functionality could be easily achieved by simply removing the associated file /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/99-localepurge after installation of localepurge. This file triggers the execution of

Bug#373186: localepurge: postinstall bailing out on missing /dev/tty in noninteractive installs

2006-06-14 Thread Paul Seelig
as a script is like the following: #! /bin/bash # one of dialog|noninteractive|readline| export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive # one of low|medium|high|critical export DEBIAN_PRIORITY=high [...] apt-get update apt-get upgrade -ufy [...] On Tuesday 13 June 2006 16:24, Paul Seelig

Bug#334424: localepurge frees negative amount of space... ?!

2006-06-14 Thread Paul Seelig
: On 2006-06-13 Paul Seelig wrote: Hi Christian! Is this bug still present with the latest localepurge package 0.5.4 from unstable? If yes, how could i reproduce this? localepurge: Disk space freed in /usr/share/locale: -12K I've not seen this for week now.. bye, -christian

Bug#373186: localepurge: postinstall bailing out on missing /dev/tty in noninteractive installs

2006-06-13 Thread Paul Seelig
Hi Michael! Please define noninteractive installation in a way for me to be able to reproduce the behavior you reported. Thanks, P. *8^) On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 02:28:44PM +0200, Michael Eyrich wrote: Package: localepurge Version: 0.5.4 Severity:

Bug#334424: localepurge frees negative amount of space... ?!

2006-06-13 Thread Paul Seelig
Hi Christian! Is this bug still present with the latest localepurge package 0.5.4 from unstable? If yes, how could i reproduce this? Thanks, P. *8^) On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 10:21:33PM +0200, Christian Hammers wrote: Package: localepurge Version: 0.4.1 Severity:

Bug#369107: localepurge reports bogus freed space: bytes instead of KBytes?

2006-05-28 Thread Paul Seelig
Hi kronos! This has already been fixed before your bug report with the upload of version 0.5.2. Thanks, P. *8^) On Sat, May 27, 2006 at 04:57:48PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Package: localepurge Version: 0.5.1 Severity: normal Tags: patch Hello,

Bug#368793: sysvinit: Overflow caused by strcpy()

2006-05-25 Thread Paul Seelig
Hi Petter! On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 04:11:34PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: [Paul Seelig] This what i get when i execute the last command: Can you try to run it using valgrind as well? I have no experience with this tool and unfortunately can't afford the time learning how to use

Bug#368793: sysvinit: Overflow caused by strcpy()

2006-05-25 Thread Paul Seelig
Hi Petter! On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 04:39:55PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: Sure. Use 'apt-get install valgrind' to install it, and then 'valgrind last' to run last within valgrind. See the acompanying valgrind_official_sysvinit_2.86.ds1-14.1_i386.log Even better would be to use a

Bug#341431: localepurge: leaves temporary files

2006-05-25 Thread Paul Seelig
Hi Lars! On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 04:42:31PM +0200, Lars Wirzenius wrote: Package: localepurge Version: 0.4.1 Testing localepurge with piuparts I get the following error: 0m6.7s ERROR: Package purging left files on system: /tmp/file3z8b16 /tmp/fileDkL30Z /tmp/fileOFa7uu

Bug#368793: sysvinit: Overflow caused by strcpy()

2006-05-24 Thread Paul Seelig
Package: sysvinit Version: 2.86.ds1-14.1 Severity: important This what i get when i execute the last command: --- snip -- [pseelig]~ last Libsafe version 2.0.16 Detected an attempt to write across stack boundary. Terminating /usr/bin/last. uid=1000 euid=1000

Bug#368603: localepurge: typo in package description

2006-05-23 Thread Paul Seelig
Hi Lior! This is no typo, but quite intentional. It is a wordplay composed of the words 'automatic' and 'magically'. For explanation please see http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/automagical Thanks, P. *8^) On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 09:03:51PM +0300, Lior Kaplan

Bug#368603: localepurge: typo in package description

2006-05-23 Thread Paul Seelig
?! Feel free to tag this as 'won't fix'. Paul Seelig wrote: Hi Lior! This is no typo, but quite intentional. It is a wordplay composed of the words 'automatic' and 'magically'. For explanation please see http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/automagical

Bug#322169: localepurge: debconf is no registry

2006-01-23 Thread Paul Seelig
Hi Gerfried! On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 10:51:52PM +0100, Gerfried Fuchs wrote: I'm not sure if you just have forgotten about this bugreport, Sorry, but i've no time to care about this. Since the bugs in question don't render the functionality of the package unusable, i don't consider this to

Bug#345454: xserver-xorg: Upgrade to 6.9.0 broke vt switching

2006-01-01 Thread Paul Seelig
On Sat, Dec 31, 2005 at 06:57:49PM +0200, Shai Berger wrote: Package: xserver-xorg Version: 6.9.0.dfsg.1-1 [...] The upgrade to this version broke console switching under X for normal users. That is, Ctrl-Alt-F(N) does not work under X, but it works perfectly in non-X virtual terminals.

Bug#222232: Support for cruft?

2005-08-21 Thread Paul Seelig
Hi Marcin, just a short note: unfortunately i lack the time to bother about such enhancements. But i wouldn't mind applying a patch. On the other hand: why should it be considered a problem if cruft reports files as missing? And why should localepurge solve what cruft can't handle? Disclaimer: i

Bug#324120: localepurge: purge also files in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale/

2005-08-20 Thread Paul Seelig
On Sat, Aug 20, 2005 at 03:07:42PM +0200, Miernik wrote: That these are not *.mo files doesn't matter, I don't need any files which are only for people using zh_HK.big5 or ibm-cp1133. I don't touch anything other than *.mo files for deletion. Thanks, P. *8^) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#320429: wmaker: WPrefs binary missing

2005-07-29 Thread Paul Seelig
Package: wmaker Version: 0.92.0-1 Severity: important The Wprefs binary is not inluded: snip [root] ll /usr/bin/WPrefs lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 52 Jul 29 11:18 /usr/bin/WPrefs - ../lib/GNUstep/System/Applications/WPrefs.app/WPrefs [root]/tmp ll

Bug#301664: ted: New version 2.17 available since end of january

2005-03-27 Thread Paul Seelig
Package: ted Version: 2.16-5 Severity: wishlist Hi Chris! Just in case you are possibly not already aware of it, i wanted to make sure you know that a newer 2.17 release of Ted is available already since end of last january. Thanks, P. *8^) -- To