Package: gmt
Version: 4.1-1
Severity: normal
The Debian package uses 4.1 as upstream version number, while the real one
is 4.1.2.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (x86_64)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to
Package: gmt
Version: 4.1-1
Severity: normal
Please include the upstream changelog in the package, as Debian policy 12.7
requests.
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Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (x86_64)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to
Package: gmt
Version: 4.1-1
Severity: normal
There is debian/README file in the gmt_4.1-1 source package, but no
corresponding binary package includes it.
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Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (x86_64)
Package: gmt-examples
Version: 4.1-1
Severity: important
The gmt-examples package doesn't include any examples:
$ dpkg -L gmt-examples
/.
/usr
/usr/share
/usr/share/doc
/usr/share/doc/gmt-examples
/usr/share/doc/gmt-examples/copyright
/usr/share/doc/gmt-examples/changelog.Debian.gz
-- System
Package: linux-2.6
Severity: wishlist
Please provide i386 packages of amd64 kernels. 2.6.17 includes support for
running 32-bit iptables under amd64 kernel, so standard i386 Debian userland
should be compatible with 64-bit kernel now.
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Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT
Package: fbi
Version: 2.01-1.4
Severity: wishlist
Tags: fixed-upstream
New upstream version (2.03) is available at Gerd Knorr's page.
* Overview: http://linux.bytesex.org/fbida/
* Changelog: http://cvs.bytesex.org/fbida.html
* Releases: http://dl.bytesex.org/releases/fbida/
-- System
Package: security.debian.org
Severity: wishlist
Please consider distributing Contents-ARCH.gz files for security updates on
http://security.debian.org/.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (x86_64)
Shell:
Package: acpitool
Version: 0.4.4-1
Severity: minor
$ acpitool -c
CPU type : AMD Sempron(tm) Processor 2500+
CPU speed : 1406.848 MHz
Bogomips : es : 40 bi
Processor ID : 0
Bus mastering control : yes
Power management : no
Package: netcat
Version: 1.10-32
Severity: normal
netcat -e redirects standard error to the network. This applies both to the
program it executes (which is quite weird and inconvenient, even considering
that it can be worked around with silly file descriptor duplication and
redirection shell
Package: netcat
Version: 1.10-32
Severity: normal
For outbound connections, netcat -c is treated as netcat -e.
On the local side:
$ nc -vc cd localhost
localhost [127.0.0.1] (?) open
$
On the remote side:
$ nc -vlp
listening on [any] ...
connect to
Package: lintian
Version: 1.23.16
Severity: wishlist
$ ls -l /usr/sbin/post{drop,queue}
-r-xr-sr-x 1 root postdrop 8736 Apr 7 16:48 /usr/sbin/postdrop*
-r-xr-sr-x 1 root postdrop 9988 Apr 7 16:48 /usr/sbin/postqueue*
The above is a violation of section 10.9 of the Debian Policy, but lintian
Package: metacity
Version: 1:2.14.1-1
Severity: minor
Man pages for metacity and metacity-message say:
This manual page was written for the Debian distribution because the
original program does not have a manual page. Instead, it has
documentation in the GNU Info format; see below.
Package: stellarium
Version: 0.7.1-1
Severity: minor
The man page for stellarium says:
This manual page was written for the Debian distribution because the
original program does not have a manual page. Instead, it has
documentation in the GNU Info format; see below.
The info
Package: lintian
Version: 1.23.16
Severity: wishlist
Some man pages contain the following snippet:
This manual page was written for the Debian distribution because the
original program does not have a manual page. Instead, it has
documentation in the GNU Info format; see below.
Please
reopen 305500
tags 305500 + fixed-upstream
The correct po/da.po has been added, but you should also remove the
incorrect po/dk.po.
Package: kbiff
Version: 3.8-1
Severity: normal
Tags: l10n
Please rename the Nynorsk translation from po/no_NY.po to po/nn.po. The
current code is not a correct locale name.
Package: firefox
Version: 1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.2-3
Severity: minor
In the themes window (Tools - Themes), the default Firefox theme no longer
has its icon or thumbnail displayed. User-installed themes work correctly.
-- System Information:
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APT prefers testing
APT
Package: firefox
Version: 1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.2-3
Severity: minor
The user-agent string:
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686 (x86_64); rv:1.8.0.2)
Gecko/Debian-1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.2-3 Firefox/1.5.0.2
violates Mozilla user-agent string specification
On 24/04/06, Mike Hommey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 06:42:30PM +0200, Piotr Engelking [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
The user-agent string:
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686 (x86_64); rv:1.8.0.2)
Gecko/Debian-1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.2-3 Firefox/1.5.0.2
violates Mozilla
On 24/04/06, Mike Hommey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 10:00:50PM +0200, Piotr Engelking [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Won't this cause problems for scripts that attempt to parse user-agent
string?
Why would it ?
They could naively expect the string to follow
Package: libfreetype6
Version: 2.1.10-1
Severity: minor
libfreetype6 suggests libfreetype6-dev, but libfreetype6-dev doesn't enhance
the functionality of libfreetype6.
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APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386
I believe that this bug has been resolved incorrectly. Section 10.4 of the
Debian Policy says:
All command scripts, including the package maintainer scripts inside the
package and used by dpkg, should have a #! line naming the shell to be
used to interpret them.
In the case of
Package: joe
Version: 3.3-5
Severity: important
During the search replace operation, joe doesn't allow to replace with an
empty string. (Empty string in answer to 'Replace with:' prompt is
interpreted as the same answer as before.)
Steps to reproduce:
$ joe
^K F
Find: xyzzy
(I)gnore (R)eplace
On 08/04/06, Justin Pryzby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The etch release policy states that:
| http://release.debian.org/etch_rc_policy.txt
| If two packages cannot be installed together, one must list
| the other in its Conflicts: field.
At least one of these packages must conflict
Package: llvm
Version: 1.6-1
Severity: normal
/etc/init.d/llvm claims to be sh script, but uses bash features, which is a
violation of paragraph 10.4 of the Debian Policy.
# /etc/init.d/llvm start
/etc/init.d/llvm: 19: function: not found
FATAL: Module binfmt_misc not found.
Installing LLVM
Package: llvm
Version: 1.6-1
Severity: wishlist
Currently, llvm uses init script to register itself as an interpreter for
its byte-code programs. Please consider replacing this solution with a
higher-level one, such as update-binfmts(8) from the binfmt-support package.
-- System Information:
Package: crystalcursors
Version: 1.1.1-3
Severity: normal
Since version 1.1.1-3, crystalcursors depends on x-window-system-core
without actually needing it, which is a violation of paragraph 7.2 of the
Debian Policy. Please also note, that x-window-system-core is a metapackage,
and, as such, it
Package: ca-certificates
Version: 20050804
Severity: important
Tags: security
Please explicitly mention that certificate authorities whose certificates
are included in the package are not in any way audited for trustworthiness
and RFC 3647 compliance, and that full responsibility to assess them
Package: cdrtools
Severity: important
The debian/copyright file for cdrtools says that the license for cdrecord is
GPL with additional restrictions. At some moment between cdrtools 2.00 and
cdrtools 2.01 these restrictions were removed and are now clarifications
based on the author's
Package: cdrtools
Severity: serious
Justification: Policy 2.3
In cdrtools 2.01.01a03 license of several makefiles have been changed to a
custom version of CDDL, which is a non-GPL-compatible license. These
makefiles are used to build GPL-licensed binaries, which is a violation of
paragraph 3 of
Package: gedit
Version: 2.10.5-2
Severity: normal
In the presence of spaces at the end of the line, pressing the END key
causes the cursor to jump between the end of the line and the end of the
last word of the line. This is non-standard and very confusing, as it
replaces the usual non-modal
On 20/01/06, Eric Dorland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yes, this would be cleaner, but what exactly is the problem? just
passing the open file descriptor doesn't mean the execed process has
access to it, unless it went through it's descriptor list looking for
it.
The problem is that now xpdf
On 29/10/05, Brendan O'Dea [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sat, Oct 29, 2005 at 12:21:29PM +0200, Piotr Engelking wrote:
In 1.36.1, the following snippet was added to help2man.PL:
# Add default territory to locale.
$locale .= _\U$locale if $locale =~ /^[a-z]{2}$/;
This is hopelessly
Package: cpuid
Version: 3.3-4
Severity: minor
The man page for cpuid says:
This manual page was written for the Debian distribution because the
original program does not have a manual page. Instead, it has
documentation in the GNU Info format; see below.
The info documentation you
Package: java-common
Version: 0.23
Severity: wishlist
Currently, java-common suggests using equivs to create dummy java packages.
It should probably suggest using java-package instead. As far as I
understand, it is the preferred way of installing non-free java on Debian
nowadays.
-- System
Package: firefox
Version: 1.0.7-1
Severity: normal
When Firefox executes external programs, it passes to them all file
descriptors it has open. This is undesirable, especially in the case of
/dev/dsp, since two programs cannot use it at the same time. This bug is
present in version 1.5, as well.
Package: rrdcollect
Version: 0.2.3-2
Severity: minor
Your package depends on libpcap on i386 (the version built by you) but not
on other architectures (the auto-built ones). If you consider packet capture
support useful, please explicitly enable it, and update build dependencies
accordingly. If
Package: help2man
Version: 1.36.1
Severity: normal
Tags: l10n
In 1.36.1, the following snippet was added to help2man.PL:
# Add default territory to locale.
$locale .= _\U$locale if $locale =~ /^[a-z]{2}$/;
This is hopelessly broken for many languages. Uppercasing an ISO 639-1 code
often
I believe that xarchon really should recommend the font package it
uses. A fat collection of xfonts-* packages isn't something that any
sane system should have anymore, since nowadays programs use freetype
instead.
By the way, how did this bug end being tagged 'patch'?
Package: xpdf-reader
Version: 3.01-2
Severity: normal
'xpdf foo bar' opens foo and silently ignores the second argument. Expected
behaviour: xpdf should complain about bar not being a number.
(Fixing #160258 instead would be, of course, even better.)
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Debian Release:
Package: xpdf-reader
Version: 3.01-2
Severity: normal
$ ls -l
total 332
-rw--- 1 hippy hippy 195872 Oct 25 00:33 FOO
-rw--- 1 stoner stoner 141902 Oct 25 00:33 foo
$ who am i
hippytty10Oct 24 19:43
In this situation, 'xpdf foo' opens FOO!
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Debian
Please also include upstream changelog (this is, actually, a policy
requirement).
Package: libbz2-1.0
Version: 1.0.2-10
Severity: minor
libbz2-1.0 suggests libbz2-dev, but libbz2-dev doesn't enhance the
functionality of libbz2-1.0.
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APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:
On 12/10/05, Alexander Gattin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, Oct 12, 2005 at 09:39:59AM +0200, Piotr Engelking wrote:
Please also include upstream changelog (this is, actually, a policy
Please, specify which chapter of debian policy are you
referring to.
requirement).
BTW
On 04/10/05, Karl Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
gecko mis-parses the following:
!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC -//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN
http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd;
htmlfoo
!-- a -- b --
bar/html
firefox, galeon, etc. display:
foo -- a -- b -- bar
Package: module-init-tools
Version: 3.2-pre9-1
Severity: important
Module-init-tools diverts /usr/share/man/man8/ksyms.8.gz and kallsyms.8.gz
to ksyms.modutils.8.gz and kallsyms.modutils.8.gz. This is unneccessary, and
so is a violation of Debian policy on diversions, since module-init-tools
tags 208532 patch
thanks
diff -ur dpkg-1.13.11/lib/database.c dpkg/lib/database.c
--- dpkg-1.13.11/lib/database.c 2005-06-06 06:07:12.0 +0200
+++ dpkg/lib/database.c 2005-09-16 19:58:28.0 +0200
@@ -100,9 +100,11 @@
pkg-eflag != eflagv_ok ||
pkg-status !=
Package: amd64-libs
Version: 1.2
Severity: important
Your version of ldd doesn't print anything on setgid programs.
$ ldd /usr/bin/crontab
$ echo $?
1
$ ldd.i386 /usr/bin/crontab
linux-gate.so.1 = (0xe000)
libpam.so.0 = /lib/libpam.so.0 (0xb7fa3000)
libselinux.so.1 =
On 9/12/05, Daniel Jacobowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 02:47:26AM +0200, Piotr Engelking wrote:
Your version of ldd doesn't print anything on setgid programs.
It does for me:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~% ls -l =crontab
-rwxr-sr-x 1 root crontab 26872 Feb 16 2005 /usr
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