Bug#1052058: apt: refuses to downgrade itself to a version that works on the system

2023-09-19 Thread Philippe Grégoire
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Bug#1052058: apt: refuses to downgrade itself to a version that works on the system

2023-09-18 Thread Philippe Grégoire
Hi, I'm being hit hard by this at the moment. Context: ``` # apt --version apt 2.7.5 (amd64) # apt-get autoremove Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading state information... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: libavcodec59 libavdevice59 libavfilter8

Bug#774970: bump

2022-05-10 Thread Philippe Grégoire
Still present 7 years later in 2.85-1 (bullseye)

Bug#1003362: Git repository no longer updated

2022-01-08 Thread Philippe Grégoire
Source: isc-dhcp Version: 4.4.1-2.3 According to https://packages.debian.org/source/sid/isc-dhcp the Git repository of the package is on Salsa. However, looking at the repository, it has been inactive for more than 2 years and the latest patches are not part of it. See:

Bug#871543: broken init script

2017-08-08 Thread Philippe Grégoire
Package: sane-utils Version: 1.0.25-4.1 Severity: grave Hi, The saned init script is broken: # sh /etc/init.d/saned stop Stopping SANE network scanner server: sanedstart-stop-daemon: invalid schedule item (must be [-], -, or 'forever' Try 'start-stop-daemon --help' for more information.

Bug#869511: linux: binNMU-unsafe dependency on linux-headers-*-common

2017-08-08 Thread Philippe Grégoire
Hi, Has this been uploaded yet? It's been more than 2 weeks that dkms is broken. I'm sure those that had the kept the older kernels and headers installed can work around this, but I, for one, cannot. :^) Thanks

Bug#870298: 4.11.0-2-amd64 headers cannot be installed

2017-07-31 Thread Philippe Grégoire
Package: linux-headers-4.11.0-2-amd64 Version: 4.11.11-1+b1 Severity: serious Hi, I have been trying to install linux-headers-4.11.0-2-amd64 on unstable/sid for a couple of days now and cannot due to an unresolved dependency. Specifically, the package depends on linux-headers-4.11.0-2-common

Bug#823185: The supplied mk files cause overlinking

2016-05-01 Thread Philippe Grégoire
Package: bmake Version: 20160220-2 Severity: wishlist Hi, Debian's bmake does not ship with the upstream mk files. One of the most noticeable differences between the two (2) sets is the use of libtool. As it was previously discussed in [1], this situation forces pkg-config files to expose

Bug#821752: Packager patch

2016-05-01 Thread Philippe Grégoire
The previous patch applies for the result of: $ apt-get source bmake Since Debian does not ship with the upstream mk files, the attached patch applies to the Debian-shipped mk; and is meant to be used by the packager. Thanks, P. Grégoire diff --git a/debian/mk/bsd.lib.mk

Bug#821752: Failure to build shared libraries

2016-04-18 Thread Philippe Grégoire
Package: bmake Version: 20160220-2 bmake fails to build shared libraries, due to bsd.lib.mk. The attached patch adds the appropriate -Wl flag. Thanks, P. Grégoire diff --git a/mk/lib.mk b/mk/lib.mk index c76fd9b..c1f4045 100644 --- a/mk/lib.mk +++ b/mk/lib.mk @@ -118,7 +118,7 @@ APICFLAGS?= -k

Bug#786611: Possible fix

2015-10-03 Thread Philippe Grégoire
Hi, Ubuntu got it fixed already with iscsitarget-1.4.20.3+svn499-0ubuntu2.1 You might want to try and apply their fix-build-3.19.patch (removing the changes to the Makefile). Is it possible to have this bug acknowledged and the patch included? Thanks, P. Grégoire

Bug#786611: Possible fix

2015-10-03 Thread Philippe Grégoire
Forgot to mention Ubuntu's bug report number: 1483415. On 2015-10-03 11:12, Philippe Grégoire wrote: Hi, Ubuntu got it fixed already with iscsitarget-1.4.20.3+svn499-0ubuntu2.1 You might want to try and apply their fix-build-3.19.patch (removing the changes to the Makefile). Is it possible

Bug#786611: Possible fix

2015-10-03 Thread Philippe Grégoire
On 2015-10-03 14:32, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: Perhaps I should have started with you. :-) Would you be interested in (co)-maintaining it Philippe ? I have been genuinely interested in adopting a package, for a while. Quite frankly, I only played with iscsitarget for a couple of minutes as I

Bug#791453: dante: 1.1.X no longer supported upstream

2015-07-04 Thread Philippe Grégoire
Source: dante Severity: important Dear Maintainer, I confirm the following (old) bugs of dante-derived packages: - dante-client, on sid, at least, is unusable due to bug #656096; - dante-server, on sid, at least, is unusable due to bug #731178; Also, dante 1.1.x is no longer supported

Bug#790324: FW: Bug#790324: luakit: Improve security level, dubious features

2015-06-30 Thread Philippe Grégoire
.. forgot to reply to the list Hi, Sorry I couldn't reply sooner. apt-get source luakitls luakit-tab/debian/patches/ Nice software, btw. :) Date: Sat, 27 Jun 2015 21:53:59 -0400 Subject: Re: Bug#790324: luakit: Improve security level, dubious features From: mason.larob...@gmail.com To:

Bug#790324: luakit: Improve security level, dubious features

2015-06-27 Thread Philippe Grégoire
Package: luakit Version: 2012.09.13-r1-4 Severity: serious Dear Maintainer, Looking at globals.lua, I was considering that the low level of security was due to the (somewhat) aged package. Now, looking at the changes applied by the 'ugh' patch, I see some of these artifacts are not provided

Bug#787281: ca-certificates: Missing GlobalSign nv-sa

2015-05-30 Thread Philippe Grégoire
Package: ca-certificates Version: 20150426 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, Quite frankly, I am not quite certain what certificate is missing exactly, but it's under GlobalSign... I was trying to download awesome's source from https://awesome.naquadah.org/ with wget when I received the

Bug#752042: libghc-xmonad-dev: Package not installable - Dependencies not met

2014-06-18 Thread Philippe Grégoire
Subject: libghc-xmonad-dev: Package not installable - Dependencies not met Source: libghc-xmonad-dev Version: 0.11-7+b1 Justification: renders package unusable Severity: grave Tags: d-i Dear Maintainer, * What led up to the situation? Trying to install the package to configure

Bug#744877: passwd: master fails to build

2014-04-15 Thread Philippe Grégoire
Package: passwd Version: 1:4.2-1 Severity: grave Hi, Recently, subuid/subgid support was added to passwd through a serie of patches. In commit, 68fb7a, those patches were later merged to form the userns patch present in HEAD. However, the package cannot be built due to an incorrect patch to

Bug#626812: GNOME dependency

2012-04-09 Thread Philippe Grégoire
Hi, I have icedove-3.0.11-1+squeeze8 and could not get it to start due to the libimgicon.so having an undefined symbol. I installed a package marked as Suggestion which resolved my problem: libgnome2-0. I use KDE! Hope it can help. Cheers. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to