Package: apt-listchanges
Version: 3.3
Severity: critical
Tags: security
The postinst script runs a Python script that it creates in /tmp/.
Unfortunately python will add the directory where the script resides
to sys.path and all the imports will be thus resolved in that
directory.
A simple user
Package: wnpp
Severity: normal
User: de...@kali.org
Usertags: origin-kali
The splint package has not seen a maintainer upload since 2009 and its
maintainer Y Giridhar Appaji Nag is missing in action). I'm therefore
orphaning the package.
At the same time I made a QA upload switching package
Package: python-pypdf2
Version: 1.26.0-1
Severity: serious
Justification: co-installation
User: de...@kali.org
Usertags: origin-kali
python-pypdf and python-pypdf2 use a differente module name and can thus
be co-installed... except that this is no longer possible because you
added unversioned
Source: apache2
Version: 2.4.10-10+deb8u5
Severity: normal
Tags: upstream
Control: forwarded -1 https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=53555
We got hit by this bug on Debian Jessie running on tracker.debian.org.
The server would not accept new connections until we force a restart.
A
Package: sbuild
Version: 0.70.0-1
Severity: important
User: de...@kali.org
Usertags: origin-kali
Hello,
in Kali our main suite is named "kali-rolling" and our development
release is called "kali-dev".
When we try to use sbuild-createchroot, it will incorrectly assume
that "kali-rolling" is a
Package: apt
Version: 1.3~pre2
Severity: normal
User: de...@kali.org
Usertags: origin-kali
Hello dear APT maintainers,
I have a package dependency "firefox-esr:any | firefox:any | www-browser" in a
metapackage. Unfortunately firefox-esr is neither "Multi-Arch: foreign" nor
"Multi-Arch: allowed"
Package: firefox-esr
Version: 45.2.0esr-1
Severity: wishlist
User: de...@kali.org
Usertags: origin-kali
In a Kali metapackage, we have a dependency on firefox-esr. But on arm64,
we would like to be able to install "firefox-esr:armhf" (which actually works
better right now). Unfortunately,
Package: release.debian.org
Severity: normal
User: release.debian@packages.debian.org
Usertags: transition
Hello,
I have small transition in the ftplib package, the SONAME got
bumped but the API is fully backwards-compatible. The package
is ready in experimental and I tested that the build
Package: devscripts
Version: 2.16.6
Severity: wishlist
I find myself often typing:
$ less ../build-area/ftplib_4.0-1-1_amd64.build
or
$ less ../build-area/ftplib_4.0-1-1_amd64-20160721-1340.build
(usually playing with tab completion to find an older build log)
I would like to have a "deblog"
Package: sbuild
Version: 0.69.0-2
Severity: wishlist
I have updated a library and in the process I renamed ftplib-dev into
libftp-dev (which provides "ftplib-dev") and I want to ensure that
reverse dependencies build correctly with the new package. I used
--extra-package to inject my package but
Package: pbnj
Version: 2.04-4.1
Severity: serious
User: de...@kali.org
Usertags: origin-kali
Forwarding a bug from Kali: https://bugs.kali.org/view.php?id=3420
root@kali # apt-get install pbnj
( accept dependencies and install )
root@kali # scanpbnj
Can't locate Shell.pm in @INC blah, blah,
Package: desktop-base
Version: 8.0.2
Severity: important
User: de...@kali.org
Usertags: origin-kali
When you install KDE on a fresh system, the default wallpaper that you get
is not the one provided by desktop-base. So it looks like that the
integration provided by
Package: nautilus
Version: 3.20.1-3
Severity: important
Tags: upstream patch
User: de...@kali.org
Usertags: origin-kali
Control: forwarded -1 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=767229
If you right click on a folder, then select "Properties" and then
click on the icon to try to change it,
Package: wireless-regdb
Version: 2015.07.20-1
Severity: wishlist
User: de...@kali.org
Usertags: origin-kali
Hello Ben,
there's a new upstream release available:
https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/network/wireless-regdb/wireless-regdb-2016.06.10.tar.xz
It would be nice to update the Debian
Package: fontconfig
Version: 2.11.0-6.4
Severity: serious
User: de...@kali.org
Usertags: origin-kali
For many months now, I have experienced myself and I have received dozens
of reports (on the Kali side) of users having squares instead of the
expected characters in their GNOME setup. The
Package: reprepro
Version: 4.17.1-1
Severity: wishlist
User: de...@kali.org
Usertags: origin-kali
I followed your advice to use temporary snapshots to keep some files
around for a few days... and now I always have like 16 snapshots for the
last 4 days.
But from time to time, Debian uploads a
Package: libatk-wrapper-java
Version: 0.33.3-7
Severity: important
User: de...@kali.org
Usertags: origin-kali
Hello Samuel,
I got a new report of a problem related to libatk-wrapper-java:
https://bugs.kali.org/view.php?id=3367
You can reproduce it with the zaproxy package:
Source: hydra
Version: 8.1-1
Severity: wishlist
User: de...@kali.org
Usertags: origin-kali
Hello,
it would be nice if you could update the package with version 8.2 that got
recently released:
http://www.thc.org/releases/hydra-8.2.tar.gz
Also I would like to suggest you to join the new
Package: python-nltk
Version: 3.2.1-1
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable
User: de...@kali.org
Usertags: origin-kali
I just got a report on Kali that w3af no longer works:
https://bugs.kali.org/view.php?id=3323
The stacktrace ends with this:
File
Package: apt-listchanges
Version: 2.89
Severity: wishlist
It happened multiple times that I have been annoyed by a NEWS.Debian
saying that some perl library installed on my system got some backwards
incompatible change. I have that perl library as a dependency of something
else and I don't care
Package: sbuild
Version: 0.69.0-2
Severity: important
$ sbuild-update --update source:jessie-amd64-sbuild
source:jessie-amd64-sbuild: Performing update.
E: Syntax error /var/lib/sbuild/apt.conf:3: Malformed tag
Exiting from update with status 100.
And the broken /var/lib/sbuild/apt.conf looks
Package: libharfbuzz0b
Version: 1.2.6-2
Severity: serious
With this version of harfbuzz and fonts-cantarell 0.0.21-1 I get
incorrectly formatted accents in labels in GTK-3 apps at least.
A word like "Fenêtres" is badly displayed with the "t" being displayed
on top of the "ê". The "^" accent is a
Package: dh-systemd,debhelper
Severity: wishlist
Hello dh-systemd maintainers and debhelper maintainers,
with the adoption of systemd as default init system for quite a while now,
it does not make sense that we have to Build-Depend on dh-systemd and use
dh --with systemd to be able to properly
Package: debhelper
Version: 9.20160403
Severity: normal
User: de...@kali.org
Usertags: origin-kali
If a package contains a debian/foo.service file that gets installed by
dh_installinit (but no debian/foo.init) then the generated maintainer
scripts will still contain the update-rc.d invocations
Source: python-future
Version: 0.15.2-1
Severity: serious
Tags: upstream
User: de...@kali.org
Usertags: origin-kali
Control: forwarded -1 https://github.com/PythonCharmers/python-future/issues/118
Control: affects -1 python-configparser
python-future provides the "configparser" module and so does
Package: samba-vfs-modules
Version: 2:4.3.7+dfsg-1
Severity: serious
User: de...@kali.org
Usertags: origin-kali
In a (Kali) Jenkins job that test upgrades from one release to the next I got
this error:
Preparing to unpack .../samba-vfs-modules_2%3a4.3.6+dfsg-1_i386.deb ...
Unpacking
Package: reprepro
Version: 4.17.0-1
Severity: wishlist
User: de...@kali.org
Usertags: origin-kali
For some reasons it seems that "update" + "pull" rules do not properly
transfer the priority... for instance I have the emdebian-archive-keyring
which is priority extra in Debian's Packages files but
Package: reprepro
Version: 4.17.0-1
Severity: wishlist
User: de...@kali.org
Usertags: origin-kali
See
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~cjwatson/blog/no-more-hash-sum-mismatch-errors.html
It looks like that APT supports now clean atomic updates of all the
indices by retrieving index files
Source: wordpress
Version: 4.4.2+dfsg-1
Severity: wishlist
Hello,
I'm running the wordpress package from unstable on wheezy/jessie and up to
now it was working just fine (upgrading only some js packages from time to
time).
But now the package is uninstallable due to the switch to php-* and
Package: dh-golang
Version: 1.12
Severity: important
User: de...@kali.org
Usertags: origin-kali
dh-make-golang had a Build-Depends with this:
Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 9),
[...]
golang-blackfriday-dev | golang-github-russross-blackfriday-dev,
[...]
While golang-blackfriday-dev
Package: dh-make-golang
Version: 0.0~git20150913.0.1221041-1
Severity: serious
User: de...@kali.org
Usertags: origin-kali
Recent builds of dh-make-golang (such as on arm64 or ppc64el) have been
rejected by DAK because the package generated an invalid Built-Using
field:
Built-Using: golang (=
Source: firefox-esr
Version: 45.0.1esr-1
Severity: important
Tags: patch
User: de...@kali.org
Usertags: origin-kali
The Kali Linux arm64 porter (Steev Klimaszewski in copy)
reported to me that firefox needs to be compiled without
MALLOC_STATIC_SIZES for it to work on all ARM64
Package: live-build
Version: 1:20151215
Severity: normal
User: de...@kali.org
Usertags: origin-kali
If you download a Nessus deb from here:
https://www.tenable.com/products/nessus/select-your-operating-system
You get a Nessus-6.5.6-debian6_amd64.deb file for a "Nessus" package.
Note the
Package: dh-python
Version: 2.20151103
Severity: wishlist
User: de...@kali.org
Usertags: origin-kali
When I call "dh --with python3" it's because I know that the package is
built with Python3 and I know that dh_python3 should do some work...
So I would like
Source: wkhtmltopdf
Version: 0.12.2.4-1
Severity: wishlist
User: de...@kali.org
Usertags: origin-kali
Upstream has published 0.12.3 in January.
Also it would be nice to have a version of wkhtmltopdf that works
headless. I don't know if this new version add this but the feature
is advertised
Package: masscan
Version: 1.0.3-95-gb395f18~ds0-2
Severity: wishlist
User: de...@kali.org
Usertags: origin-kali
Hello,
Kali had a masscan package before Debian and much like Debian we packaged
an upstream git snapshot:
http://pkg.kali.org/pkg/masscan
But for historical reason, we have an epoch
Package: cdebootstrap
Version: 0.7.1
Severity: wishlist
User: de...@kali.org
Usertags: origin-kali
Please add this to /usr/share/cdebootstrap/suites:
Match-Origin: Kali
Mirror: http://http.kali.org
Keyring: kali-archive-keyring.gpg
Thank you!
-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
Package: cdebootstrap
Version: 0.7.1
Severity: important
User: de...@kali.org
Usertags: origin-kali
In Kali we use cdebootstrap and since our release were not known to
cdebootstrap, we always used "--suite-config=sid" to ensure it used
the same logic as the one of Debian.
Nowadays with 0.7.1 if
Source: pyscard
Version: 1.9.2-1
Severity: serious
User: de...@kali.org
Usertags: origin-kali
This version of pyscard dropped the Python 2 version without any
explanation on why this was needed. In the process, you made
yubioath-desktop uninstallable (as well as another package
which is only
Package: apt
Version: 1.2.1
Severity: normal
Simple to reproduce:
$ LANG=C sudo apt-get source debian-installer
[sudo] password for rhertzog:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
NOTICE: 'debian-installer' packaging is maintained in
Source: kismet
Severity: wishlist
User: de...@kali.org
Usertags: origin-kali
Please package the new uptsream release 2016-01-R1.
http://www.kismetwireless.net/code/kismet-2016-01-R1.tar.xz
We updated the kismet package in Kali already and you might find
some useful changes there (updated
Package: dh-exec
Version: 0.23
Severity: wishlist
Sometimes I would like to install files when they are available, and not
have to hardcode the precise list of conditions under which they are
available or not.
For example, I hade to make the pandoc build-dependency conditional so
that it does
Package: ifupdown
Version: 0.8.5
Severity: critical
Justification: breaks the whole system
User: de...@kali.org
debootstrap of stretch currently fails due to ifupdown:
$ sudo debootstrap --components=main,contrib,non-free stretch stretch
http://ftp.debian.org/debian
[...]
I: Unpacking
Package: lintian
Version: 2.5.39.1
Severity: normal
With python-django 1.9-2 I get those tags:
I: python-django source: runtime-test-file-is-not-a-regular-file
debian/tests/django-admin-py3
I: python-django source: runtime-test-file-is-not-a-regular-file
debian/tests/test-suite-py3
Both files
Package: autopkgtest
Version: 3.19
Severity: wishlist
I just added some DEP-8 tests to python-django and it would have been nice
if I could have reused the same script in multiple environments (python2
only, python3 only). Right now I created symlinks to the same script
and the sole purpose of
Package: autopkgtest
Version: 3.19
Severity: wishlist
systemd-nspawn supports --template and/or --ephemeral (provided that you use
btrfs)
so that you can have throw-away chroots. It also supports various
networking related options (--private-network notably) so that you can get
proper network
Package: uhd-host
Version: 3.9.1-5
Severity: normal
User: de...@kali.org
Usertags: origin-kali
I'm running tests of upgrades in chroots managed by systemd-nspawn. By
default /proc is read-only in such chroots and this lead to this failure:
Setting up uhd-host (3.9.1-5) ...
sysctl: setting key
Package: sbuild
Version: 0.66.0-5
Severity: important
This morning I wanted to build pysvn_1.8.0-1.dsc out of its git repository
with "gbp buildpackage --git-builder=sbuild" (just like I usually do) but
the I got warnings and errors at the end (the start was entirely normal, more
comments after
Source: libnsgif
Severity: serious
Hello,
libnsgif has not seen a maintainer upload ever since its addition to
Debian in 2009.
Recently two CVE [1] have been reported against this package and I wonder
why we have this package in Debian at all.
[1]
Source: libnsbmp
Severity: serious
Hello,
libnsbmp has not seen a maintainer upload ever since its addition to
Debian in 2009.
Recently two CVE [1] have been reported against this package and I wonder
why we have this package in Debian at all.
[1]
Package: release.debian.org
Severity: normal
Tags: jessie
User: release.debian@packages.debian.org
Usertags: pu
Hello,
I would like to update the Debian Administrator's Handbook in jessie
so that it documents jessie instead of wheezy. We finished the update
about a month ago and basicly I'd
Package: tryton-modules-party
Version: 3.8.0-1
Severity: normal
Hello,
I installed the backport of tryton on wheezy but I got a failure during
database upgrade:
18474 140635880355584 [2015-12-01 08:46:27,838] INFO trytond.modules
party:registering classes
Traceback (most recent call last):
Package: lintian
Version: 2.5.38.1
Severity: normal
User: de...@kali.org
Usertags: origin-kali
I just got this warning:
W: bully source: obsolete-url-in-packaging debian/watch
http://code.google.com/p/wps-bully/
But my watch file is like this:
$ cat debian/watch
version=3
# The original
Source: preseed
Version: 1.68
Severity: wishlist
User: de...@kali.org
Usertags: origin-kali
In Kali, we rely on initrd preseeding to set a bunch of Debconf entries
because it's the only sane way to ensure that we have those during netboot
too.
Unfortunately, it makes it very hard for end-users
Package: libsane
Version: 1.0.25-1
Severity: serious
Control: fixed -1 1.0.25+git20150927-1
With libsane 1.0.25-1 available in sid, I can't scan with my HP printer.
I use this to start the scanning process:
simple-scan hpaio:/net/HP_Color_LaserJet_2840?ip=192.168.1.10
With libsane 1.0.24-14 in
Source: tryton-server
Version: 3.6.3-2
Severity: important
I'm not quite sure how this happened but I just upgraded from 3.4 to 3.6
on a wheezy server and /etc/default/tryton-server contained this:
DAEMON_OPTS=" --config ${CONFIGFILE} --logconf ${LOGCONF} --cron"
Note the initial space. With the
Source: bouncycastle
Version: 1.44+dfsg-2
Severity: serious
Tags: security
Control: fixed -1 1.51-1
Hello,
bouncycastle 1.49 in stable/testing/unstable (and 1.44 in wheezy/squeeze)
is vulnerable to an invalid curve attack as described here:
Package: gnome-keyring
Version: 3.18.1-1
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable
Control: forwarded -1 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=756865
This is the continuation of #800660 (that I failed to re-open). There's
still something fishy in gnome-keyring and I have filed
Package: devscripts
Version: 2.15.9
Severity: wishlist
Hello,
When I use mass-bug, it's because I have rebuilt many packages
and some of them failed to build. I need to provide the details
to the packager... for now I host the build los on people.debian.org
and provide a link but that's not
Package: git-dpm
Version: 0.9.1-1
Severity: important
Hello,
Since the Python team now mandates git-dpm usage, I have to look into how
to use it for my own packages and I immediately came across this
limitation. The only way to configure the name of the various branches is
through "git config".
Package: git-dpm
Version: 0.9.1-1
Severity: normal
Still discovering git-dpm, I tried to do something basic:
- make a packaging change in debian/sid (adding debian/README.source)
- switch to debian/experimental
- merge debian/sid into it to get the latest packaging changes
But this doesn't work
Package: git-dpm
Version: 0.9.1-1
Severity: wishlist
It looks git-dpm will only create the upstream tag with "git-dpm tag" and
this operation can only be called when you want to tag a released package.
However when I work on a new upstream release, it might take some time
until the new release
Package: gnome-keyring
Version: 3.18.0-1
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable
Since I upgraded to gnome-keyring 3.18, I'm no longer able to login into
password-protected website with iceweasel. It just gets stuck and I have
to kill it.
In the logs I see this:
oct. 02 10:04:42
Package: valgrind
Version: 1:3.10.1-4
Severity: wishlist
User: de...@kali.org
Usertags: origin-kali
Hello,
I just noticed[1] that there's a new upstream version of valgrind:
http://valgrind.org/downloads/valgrind-3.11.0.tar.bz2
It would be nice to update the package in sid/stretch.
Thank you!
Package: libuhd003
Version: 3.9.0-1
Severity: serious
User: de...@kali.org
Usertags: origin-kali
I just noticed that with uhd 3.9.0 libuhd003 lost the v5 suffix that had
been introduced with 3.8.5-2.1.
And the changelog has no explanation for this. So to avoid problems
when upgrading from jessie
Source: puppet
Severity: wishlist
Hello,
what are your plans to switch to puppet 4? I see that the watch
file currently tracks version 3 but upstream makes regular releases
of version 4.
Should version 4 be packaged separately or do you intend to switch
to it?
I do not know anything about the
Package: debootstrap
Version: 1.0.72
Severity: wishlist
User: de...@kali.org
Usertags: origin-kali
Control: block -1 by 798562
Hello,
I'd like debootstrap to have native support of the various kali releases.
We don't need any special script compared to Debian except that we use a
different
Package: debootstrap
Version: 1.0.72
Severity: wishlist
User: de...@kali.org
Usertags: origin-kali
Most debootstrap wrappers allow you to inject arbitrary options and let
you customize the target suite and the mirror. But very few let you
specify the "script" parameter (the specific wrapper that
Package: debootstrap
Version: 1.0.72
Severity: wishlist
User: de...@kali.org
Usertags: origin-kali
I would like to add a /u/s/debootstrap/scripts/kali file that behaves
exactly like Debian's one except that it would have different
meta-information at the top... in particular default_mirror and
Source: gnuradio
Version: 3.7.8-2.2
Severity: important
The package failed to build on mips recently because some files
take way too long to compile and the build got killed due to inactivity:
[ 65%] Building CXX object
gr-blocks/swig/CMakeFiles/_blocks_swig5.dir/blocks_swig5PYTHON_wrap.cxx.o
e severity in the same way...
Example:
X-Debian-PR-Message: closed 784766
X-Debian-PR-Package: libadios-dev
X-Debian-PR-Keywords: sid stretch
X-Debian-PR-Source: adios
X-Debian-PR-Severity: serious
Thank you in advance for your help!
Raphaël Hertzog,
tracker.debian.org maintainer.
Source: gpsd
Severity: wishlist
User: de...@kali.org
Usertags: origin-kali
Hello,
There's a new upstream release available (3.15). Can you package it
and coordinate its upload to unstable? (I saw that the experimental
version already has a SONAME change so a library transition is required)
FTR,
Package: sbuild
Version: 0.65.2-1
Severity: normal
User: de...@kali.org
Usertags: origin-kali
I had to reinstall a machine, but I had the possibility to keep around
all the build chroots since they were stored in a separate filesystem.
So I did that but the resulting system failed miserably.
Package: tracker.debian.org
Severity: wishlist
Tags: newcomer
distro_tracker/vendor/debian/sso_auth.py uses the ldap Python module
in DebianSsoUserBackend.get_user_details() to retrieve the first name
and last name of Debian developers.
I would like to stop relying on LDAP (as the ldap module
Package: ftp.debian.org
Severity: grave
tracker.debian.org has been failing to import new source packages for
4 days. I have such failures during apt-get update:
[...]
FetchFailedException: W:Failed to fetch
file:/srv/mirrors/debian/dists/jessie-backports/main/source/Sources Hash Sum
mismatch
Source: impacket
Severity: wishlist
User: de...@kali.org
Usertags: origin-kali
Please fix the watch file to have this:
version=3
opts=uversionmangle=s/(rc|a|b|c)/~$1/ \
http://pypi.debian.net/impacket/impacket-(.+)\.(?:zip|tgz|tbz|txz|(?:tar\.(?:gz|bz2|xz)))
You will notice that there's a
Package: jarwrapper
Version: 0.52
Severity: important
User: de...@kali.org
Usertags: origin-kali
In Kali, we have a package depending on jarwrapper and which provides
/usr/bin/burpsuite as an executable jar. However when it gets installed
in the build chroot of our live ISO image, the postinst of
Package: how-can-i-help
Version: 11
Severity: wishlist
User: de...@kali.org
Usertags: origin-kali
In Kali we would like to detect when Debian package that we are using
are at risk (mainly for testing autoremoval for now). Thus we want
to run how-can-i-help -s testing-autorm as part of a jenkins
Package: dh-python
Version: 1.20150705-1
Severity: important
I would have never expected this patch to break my package, yet it did:
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -8,6 +8,8 @@ Build-Depends:
debhelper (= 9),
dh-python,
pylint (= 1.0.0),
+# Enable once pylint3 is in unstable
Package: apt
Version: 1.0.9.6
Severity: normal
User: de...@kali.org
Usertags: origin-kali
There are probably multiple problems but just to prove my case:
$ apt-config dump|grep metapackages
APT::Never-MarkAuto-Sections:: metapackages;
APT::Never-MarkAuto-Sections:: restricted/metapackages;
Source: nvidia-graphics-drivers
Severity: wishlist
User: de...@kali.org
Usertags: origin-kali
A new upstream (long-lived) release is available since June 15:
http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html
It would be nice if it could be packaged for unstable, or at least
experimental.
-- System
Package: schroot
Version: 1.6.10-1.1
Severity: normal
User: de...@kali.org
Usertags: origin-kali
Consider the log below and you'll see that /dev/shm is mounted
in the chroot setup but it's never umounted when the chroot is
ended. That's because schroot-listmounts is not listing
it. The chroot is
Source: wine
Severity: wishlist
User: de...@kali.org
Usertags: origin-kali
Wine provides a wineconsole command ready to use to execute text-mode
programs. It would be nice if the Debian package shipped that executable
too.
It's possible to use this feature already but it requires some hackery
Package: release.debian.org
Severity: normal
User: release.debian@packages.debian.org
Usertags: binnmu
nmu jemalloc_3.6.0-3 . powerpc . -m Rebuild to fix crash reported in #788591.
gb hiredis_0.13.1-2 . powerpc
dw hiredis_0.13.1-2 . powerpc . -m 'libjemalloc1 (= 3.6.0-3+b1)
In #788591, Tom
Source: python3-guess-language
Version: 0.5.2-2
Severity: normal
User: de...@kali.org
Usertags: origin-kali
Hello,
New upstream version of w3af that we have in Kali (the package in Debian
is currently outdated) depend on this Python module but the package uses
Python 2.
Can you thus provide the
Package: debtags
Version: 2.0
Severity: important
User: de...@kali.org
Usertags: origin-kali
In Kali, we have a kali-debtags package to provide custom tags at the
appropriate place and the postinst runs debtags update --local to update the
tag database.
This broke recently with the arrival of
Package: texinfo
Version: 6.0.0.dfsg.1-2
Severity: serious
User: de...@kali.org
Usertags: origin-kali
The problem is that texinfo's postinst can fail this way:
Setting up texinfo (6.0.0.dfsg.1-2) ...
update-fmtutil: cannot read /etc/texmf/fmt.d/00tex.cnf
update-fmtutil: if it was removed by
Package: pinba-engine-mysql-5.5
Version: 1.0.0-4
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable
User: de...@kali.org
Usertags: origin-kali
The package is not installable in stretch or sid:
(stretch-amd64-sbuild)root@x230-buxy:/root# apt-get install
pinba-engine-mysql-5.5
Reading
Package: live-build
Version: 4.0.4-1
Severity: wishlist
User: de...@kali.org
Usertags: origin-kali
When live-build is used to build a distribution not listed in
/usr/share/live/build/functions/releases.sh then it will fail
with a cryptic error message like this one:
E: Invalid operation
Package: reprepro
Version: 4.16.0-1
Severity: wishlist
User: de...@kali.org
Usertags: origin-kali
It would be nice if reprepro had the possibility to clone
a distribution under a new codename/suite.
Since this requires editing conf/distributions I would understand
if you opted to only document a
Package: reprepro
Version: 4.16.0-1
Severity: wishlist
User: de...@kali.org
Usertags: origin-kali
It would be nice if reprepro had a feature to rename a distribution.
For example I have a kali distribution and would like to rename it
to moto and use kali as suite name.
I don't know of a simple
Package: reprepro
Version: 4.16.0-1
Severity: wishlist
User: de...@kali.org
Usertags: origin-kali
In Kali, we build our distribution on top of the Debian distribution. As
such we have some debian-* distributions defined in conf/distributions
with update rules pointing to an official Debian
Package: reprepro
Version: 4.16.0-1
Severity: wishlist
User: de...@kali.org
Usertags: origin-kali
reprepro should make it possible to not immediatly delete files which are
no longer referenced. Instead it should be able to drop them a few days
after.
This avoids breaking users's apt-get
Package: blhc
Version: 0.04+20140813+gitac2b8ce-1
Severity: normal
For cpputest I get two reports (out of 80 calls scanned) of CPPFLAGS
missing:
$ blhc deb/pkg/build-area/cpputest_3.7.2-1_amd64.build
CPPFLAGS missing (-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2): libtool: link: g++ -include
Package: security-tracker
Severity: important
It looks like that squeeze-lts/non-free is not handled correctly. Have a look at
jruby:
$ rmadison jruby
jruby | 1.5.1-1| oldoldstable/non-free | source, all
jruby | 1.5.1-1+deb6u1 | buildd-squeeze-lts/non-free | source, all
Package: suricata
Version: 2.0.7-2
Severity: important
Looking at https://packages.debian.org/sid/amd64/suricata/filelist
you will see this:
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libhtp-0.5.17.so.1
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libhtp-0.5.17.so.1.0.0
But libhtp is already packaged separately. Embedded copy are
Package: gnome-shell-extensions
Version: 3.14.2-1
Severity: normal
$ cat /usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/10_gnome-shell-extensions.gschema.override
[org.gnome.shell]
enabled-extensions=['alternative-status-m...@gnome-shell-extensions.gcampax.github.com']
$ dpkg -L gnome-shell-extensions|grep
Package: dpkg
Version: 1.17.24
Severity: wishlist
User: de...@kali.org
Usertags: origin-kali
In the context a Debian derivative, you might want to tweak the priorities
of alternatives because you make different choices about what should be
the default implementation of something (my immediate
Package: ftp.debian.org
Severity: normal
Hello,
squeeze-security (on security.debian.org) contains packages which were
dropped from squeeze (on main archive) because they are no longer
supported. They should thus be also dropped from squeeze-security.
I noticed at least:
- bugzilla 3.6.2.0-4.4
Package: openbsd-inetd
Version: 0.20140418-2
Severity: serious
User: de...@kali.org
Usertags: origin-kali
systemd doesn't seem to handle having two service files for the same
service very well.
For example, systemctl disable openbsd-inetd does not work since
inetd.service is the unit enabled by
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