Bug#642249: libnih: [INTL:de] Initial German translation

2011-09-21 Thread Scott James Remnant
Are you happy to keep this german translation up to date on an ongoing basis? On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 1:35 PM, Chris Leick c.le...@vollbio.de wrote: Hi Scott, Scott James Remnant: I'm not sure what you mean by debconf' here? Oh, sorry. It's a mistake - you can ignore it. Kind regards

Bug#642249: libnih: [INTL:de] Initial German translation

2011-09-21 Thread Scott James Remnant
If you can update on a bzr branch I can pull from, that would be superb. On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 1:45 PM, Chris Leick c.le...@vollbio.de wrote: Scott James Remnant: Are you happy to keep this german translation up to date on an ongoing basis? Good idea. What is the preferred way

Bug#642249: libnih: [INTL:de] Initial German translation

2011-09-21 Thread Scott James Remnant
http://code.launchpad.net/libnih would be the place to start. On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 1:51 PM, Chris Leick c.le...@vollbio.de wrote: Scott James Remnant: If you can update on a bzr branch I can pull from, that would be superb. ok.

Bug#642249: libnih: [INTL:de] Initial German translation

2011-09-21 Thread Scott James Remnant
No, I'll pull from you when you have a branch available On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 1:57 PM, Chris Leick c.le...@vollbio.de wrote: Scott James Remnant: http://code.launchpad.net/**libnih http://code.launchpad.net/libnihwould be the place to start. I will read the manpage of bazaar and when

Bug#642249: libnih: [INTL:de] Initial German translation

2011-09-20 Thread Scott James Remnant
I'm not sure what you mean by debconf' here? 2011/9/20 Chris Leick c.le...@vollbio.de ** Package: libnih Version: 1.0.3 Severity: wishlist Tags: l10n Hi, please find attached the inital German debconf translation of libnih. Kind regards, Chris

Bug#625257: libnih1: uninstallable in sid

2011-05-02 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 1:07 PM, brian m. carlson sand...@crustytoothpaste.net wrote: libnih1 depends on libc6 ( 2.12). libc6 2.13 is now in unstable, rendering libnih1 uninstallable. I'm not sure why such a strict dependency would be needed, but perhaps a mention in the documentation why

Bug#625257: Strict dependencies due to __abort_msg

2011-05-02 Thread Scott James Remnant
If upstart crashes, a crash dump is most definitely saved. Upstart handles SIGSEGV by catching it and forking a child and unmasking that signal in the handler - this means it's an Upstart child process that actually crashes and dumps core while the parent waits for it to exit and reaps it. This

Bug#624442: RFA: libnih

2011-04-28 Thread Scott James Remnant
I will adopt this; I'm the upstream author and will be adopting Upstart as well On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 6:46 AM, Michael Biebl bi...@debian.org wrote: Package: wnpp Severity: normal I request an adopter of the libnih package. The package should ideally be adopted together with upstart [1]

Bug#624440: RFA: upstart -- event-based init daemon

2011-04-28 Thread Scott James Remnant
I will adopt this; I'm the upstream author, and have been wanting to get properly back into Debian for a while now. On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 6:43 AM, Michael Biebl bi...@debian.org wrote: Package: wnpp Severity: normal As I don't actively use upstart anymore I request an adopter for the

Bug#591791: extend init.d policy to permit upstart jobs and describe their use

2011-01-12 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 6:38 PM, Kurt Roeckx k...@roeckx.be wrote: On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 12:50:21AM -0600, Steve Langasek wrote: On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 09:17:33PM +0100, Kurt Roeckx wrote: A lot of the scripts currently in /etc/rcS.d/ come from the initscripts package.  Is the alternative

Bug#591791: extend init.d policy to permit upstart jobs and describe their use

2011-01-10 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 8:17 PM, Kurt Roeckx k...@roeckx.be wrote: +          method guaranteed to be supported by all init implementations.  An +          exception to this rule is scripts or jobs provided by the init +          implementation itself; such jobs may be required for an +      

Bug#558782: This patch is wrong

2009-12-01 Thread Scott James Remnant
Upstart jobs are not supposed to have accompanying files in /etc/default. Please revert this patch in Debian (I will do so in Ubuntu) Scott -- Scott James Remnant sc...@ubuntu.com signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#558782: This patch is wrong

2009-12-01 Thread Scott James Remnant
in that one file. Scott -- Scott James Remnant sc...@ubuntu.com signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#543666: Add -b (boot) option

2009-08-26 Thread Scott James Remnant
Package: hostname Version: 2.95 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch User: ubuntu-de...@lists.ubuntu.com Usertags: origin-ubuntu jaunty ubuntu-patch In Ubuntu, we've applied the attached patch to achieve the following: * Add -b option that allows the file specified by -F to be non-existant or

Bug#543666: updated patch

2009-08-26 Thread Scott James Remnant
Package: hostname Version: 2.95 Followup-For: Bug #543666 User: ubuntu-de...@lists.ubuntu.com Usertags: origin-ubuntu jaunty ubuntu-patch I've updated the patch since Linux actually sets the initial hostname to (none) not , and we want to replace that with localhost too. -- System Information:

Bug#510634: [Pkg-cups-devel] Bug#510634: cups doesn't allow introspection in dbus config file

2009-03-23 Thread Scott James Remnant
the signal that details the name of the signal, number, name and type of its arguments, etc. This introspection is generally provided at the binding level, but you still need the policy to allow it (it's a method call on your object). Scott -- Scott James Remnant sc...@canonical.com

Bug#510634: [Pkg-cups-devel] Bug#510634: cups doesn't allow introspection in dbus config file

2009-03-23 Thread Scott James Remnant
really very primitive. This approach is really going to bite! Current practice is to always explicitly name the origin bus name when adding signal matches, many bindings are hardcoded to behave like this. Scott -- Scott James Remnant sc...@canonical.com signature.asc Description

Bug#518412: linux-2.6 install errors due to incompatible depmod files [was Re: Bug#518412: initramfs-tools: must support relative paths in modules.dep ]

2009-03-20 Thread Scott James Remnant
locally for my own use case. Doesn't Debian run depmod in the postinst of the kernel package - and iirc, again on boot anyway? In which case, you'd always have module files that match the version of depmod in the host environment not the build environment. Scott -- Scott James Remnant sc

Bug#518412: linux-2.6 install errors due to incompatible depmod files [was Re: Bug#518412: initramfs-tools: must support relative paths in modules.dep ]

2009-03-20 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Fri, 2009-03-20 at 12:05 +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: On Mar 20, Scott James Remnant sc...@canonical.com wrote: Doesn't Debian run depmod in the postinst of the kernel package - and iirc, again on boot anyway? Not anymore on boot, but I can't see why depmod should NOT being run when

Bug#512013: Ubuntu patches

2009-01-16 Thread Scott James Remnant
Package: libtool Version: 2.2.6a-1 Severity: normal Tags: patch User: ubuntu-de...@lists.ubuntu.com Usertags: origin-ubuntu intrepid ubuntu-patch We have a couple of patches in Ubuntu which you might want to apply: - libltdl7-dev provides libltdl3-dev since the two are API-compatible. -

Bug#512013: Ubuntu patches

2009-01-16 Thread Scott James Remnant
things and teaching them about autoreconf - rather than the manual way they run commands in the wrong order, but generally it's been ok. Scott -- Scott James Remnant sc...@ubuntu.com signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#511652: udev rules shouldn't be empty by default

2009-01-15 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Thu, 2009-01-15 at 18:48 +0100, Richard Atterer wrote: On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 02:35:39AM +, Scott James Remnant wrote: * Modify the package so that the udev rules aren't actually installed by default, and instruct the user to copy out of examples and then modify

Bug#511952: avoid apt-cache call if all information in lsb-release

2009-01-15 Thread Scott James Remnant
Package: lsb Version: 3.2-20 Severity: normal Tags: patch User: ubuntu-de...@lists.ubuntu.com Usertags: origin-ubuntu intrepid ubuntu-patch *** /tmp/tmpLNnEJz In Ubuntu, we've applied the attached patch to achieve the following: * Since /etc/lsb-release overrides detected information,

Bug#511652: udev rules shouldn't be empty by default

2009-01-12 Thread Scott James Remnant
Package: hama-slide-mouse-control Version: 1.0-2 Severity: minor Tags: patch User: ubuntu-de...@lists.ubuntu.com Usertags: origin-ubuntu intrepid ubuntu-patch *** /tmp/tmp--VmoN In Ubuntu, we've applied the attached patch to achieve the following: * Modify the package so that the udev rules

Bug#488271: cryptsetup: use a loop to wait for the root device

2008-07-01 Thread Scott James Remnant
/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?msg=5;filename=udev-support_rootdelay.patch;att=1;bug=414842 Is that acceptable for ubuntu? No. We already have a loop in mountroot() to deal with this problem, it waits until the root device is actually available before proceeeding. Scott -- Scott James Remnant [EMAIL

Bug#488271: [Pkg-cryptsetup-devel] Bug#488271: cryptsetup: use a loop to wait for the root device

2008-07-01 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Tue, 2008-07-01 at 23:11 +0200, David Härdeman wrote: On Tue, Jul 01, 2008 at 09:09:19PM +0100, Scott James Remnant wrote: On Tue, 2008-07-01 at 22:03 +0200, Reinhard Tartler wrote: Oh, I needed to do some investiagtions about that file, it has been submitted by you as #414842. However

Bug#488271: [Pkg-cryptsetup-devel] Bug#488271: Bug#488271: cryptsetup: use a loop to wait for the root device

2008-07-01 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Tue, 2008-07-01 at 23:44 +0200, David Härdeman wrote: On Tue, Jul 01, 2008 at 10:25:50PM +0100, Scott James Remnant wrote: On Tue, 2008-07-01 at 23:11 +0200, David Härdeman wrote: On Tue, Jul 01, 2008 at 09:09:19PM +0100, Scott James Remnant wrote: We already have a loop in mountroot

Bug#481369: run ioniced and in background

2008-06-02 Thread Scott James Remnant
do see a slight performance improvement when in the background, you always see an improvement in the foreground. Likewise ioniceing readahead is basically moronic. Scott -- Scott James Remnant [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#462470: PTS: don't show changelog-only ubuntu patches

2008-02-04 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Mon, 2008-02-04 at 16:10 +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: On Mon, 04 Feb 2008, Scott James Remnant wrote: On Fri, 2008-01-25 at 19:24 +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: Scott, could you exclude those from the PATCH file that you generate? (http://patches.ubuntu.com/PATCHES) Please file

Bug#462470: PTS: don't show changelog-only ubuntu patches

2008-02-04 Thread Scott James Remnant
/merge-o-matic/+bugs Thanks, Scott -- Scott James Remnant [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#456327: replace udevinfo call with udevadm

2008-01-06 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Sat, 2008-01-05 at 10:57 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Dec 14, 2007 at 04:34:28PM +, Scott James Remnant wrote: Package: ltspfs Version: 0.1cvs20060518-1 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch the patch appears to be for ltspfs version 0.5, and 0.1cvs20060518-1 was never

Bug#456324: use udevadm instead of udevtrigger

2007-12-15 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Fri, 2007-12-14 at 19:23 -0700, Martin Michlmayr wrote: * Scott James Remnant [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-12-14 16:21]: Package: dkms Version: None There's no such package in Debian and I cannot even find a binary with that name. Any idea if this really exists in Debian? Heh, I

Bug#456324: use udevadm instead of udevtrigger

2007-12-14 Thread Scott James Remnant
Package: dkms Version: None Severity: wishlist Tags: patch Recept versions of udev have made this change, including the one in Debian. *** /tmp/tmpUlSV5I In Ubuntu, we've applied the attached patch to achieve the following: * dkms: call udevadm instead of udevtrigger We thought you might be

Bug#456327: replace udevinfo call with udevadm

2007-12-14 Thread Scott James Remnant
Package: ltspfs Version: 0.1cvs20060518-1 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch tools merged into a single binary upstream *** /tmp/tmp36ZDNv In Ubuntu, we've applied the attached patch to achieve the following: * scripts/add_fstab_entry: call udevadm instead of udevinfo We thought you might be

Bug#456328: call udevadm instead of udevsettle

2007-12-14 Thread Scott James Remnant
Package: mouseemu Version: 0.15-8 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch tools have been merged into a single binary upstream *** /tmp/tmp_AQvpB In Ubuntu, we've applied the attached patch to achieve the following: * debian/mouseemu.init: call udevadm instead of udevsettle We thought you might be

Bug#456326: use udevadm instead of udevsettle

2007-12-14 Thread Scott James Remnant
Package: cryptsetup Version: 2:1.0.5-2 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch udevadm merges all the old udev tools *** /tmp/tmpxsyZ2u In Ubuntu, we've applied the attached patch to achieve the following: * debian/initramfs/cryptroot-script: call udevadm instead of udevsettle *

Bug#456325: use udevadm instead of udevsettle

2007-12-14 Thread Scott James Remnant
Package: lirc Version: 0.8.0-9 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch tools have been merged into one utility upstream *** /tmp/tmptRK4mG In Ubuntu, we've applied the attached patch to achieve the following: * debian/lirc.init.d: call udevadm instead of udevsettle We thought you might be interested

Bug#456330: use udevadm instead of udevinfo

2007-12-14 Thread Scott James Remnant
Package: xen-3.1 Version: None Severity: wishlist Tags: patch binaries have merged into one upstream *** /tmp/tmpA31Fyl In Ubuntu, we've applied the attached patch to achieve the following: * tools/examples/Makefile: call udevadm instead of udevinfo and thus simply version comparisons *

Bug#455975: recognise Sun's LDOM virtual block devices

2007-12-12 Thread Scott James Remnant
Package: lvm2 Version: 2.02.26-1 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch Please consider applying our patch to recognise Sun's LDOM virtual block devices, I have also mailed this upstream. -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers gutsy-updates APT policy: (500, 'gutsy-updates'),

Bug#455976: drop build-dependencies on libccs-dev and libgulm-dev

2007-12-12 Thread Scott James Remnant
Package: lvm2 Version: 2.02.26-1 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch fabbione asserts that gulm locking is obsolete and thus these build-dependencies are not required, we carry a diff from Debian to remove them and our package appears to build just fine without them. Please consider removing them as

Bug#455978: build clvm daemon and package

2007-12-12 Thread Scott James Remnant
Package: lvm2 Version: 2.02.26-1 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch We are currently carrying a patch to build the clvm daemon and place it in an extra clvm package, for use with the RedHat cman cluster infrastuture. Please consider applying the same patch to reduce our diff, or explain why we

Bug#455979: activate lvm devices from udev

2007-12-12 Thread Scott James Remnant
Package: lvm2 Version: 2.02.26-1 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch We activate LVM2 devices from udev, detecting when block devices containing LVM Physical Volumes are added to the system or changed and running lvm vgscan and vgchange afterwards. Please consider migrating to the same. (This almost

Bug#455745: apply patch to provide more atomic device creation

2007-12-11 Thread Scott James Remnant
Package: devmapper Version: 2:1.02.20-2 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch Please apply our patch (also submitted upstream) to make the device node creation more atomic, and avoid races with udev which also attempts to create these devices. -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT

Bug#455746: udev support

2007-12-11 Thread Scott James Remnant
Package: devmapper Version: 2:1.02.20-2 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch Please consider applying our attached patch that enables udev to know about the devicemapper device nodes, create /dev/disk symlinks to them and populate vol_id information so that filesystems on the devices can be used. This

Bug#455747: udev support

2007-12-11 Thread Scott James Remnant
Package: devmapper Version: 2:1.02.20-2 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch Please consider applying our attached patch that enables udev to know about the devicemapper device nodes, create /dev/disk symlinks to them and populate vol_id information so that filesystems on the devices can be used. This

Bug#289267: Debian #289267: ntpdate should use ifupdown instead of rcS to start

2007-01-08 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Fri, 2006-12-15 at 15:18 +0100, Tore Anderson wrote: * Scott James Remnant I'd actually argue that you wouldn't want to forcibly change the clock once the first service is *starting*. As soon as you have at least one service running, it's arguably dangerous to slew the clock

Bug#289267: Debian #289267: ntpdate should use ifupdown instead of rcS to start

2006-12-14 Thread Scott James Remnant
has been made? Scott -- Scott James Remnant [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#289267: Debian #289267: ntpdate should use ifupdown instead of rcS to start

2006-12-14 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Thu, 2006-12-14 at 13:07 +0100, Tore Anderson wrote: * Scott James Remnant We use -b because it was what was suggested in the manual page: -b Force the time to be stepped using the settimeofday() system call, rather than slewed (default) using the adjtime() system

Bug#398488: libgecode7-dev should be libgecode8-dev to match SONAME

2006-11-13 Thread Scott James Remnant
Package: gecode Severity: serious The source package as exists in Debian generates a libgecode8 binary package that contains, as one would expect, a libgecode.so.8 library. Yet the matching development binary package is named libgecode7-dev, while it contains a libgecode.so that links to

Bug#385722: [Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#385722: please consider splitting off sysvutils

2006-09-08 Thread Scott James Remnant
of the most critical pieces of infrastructure of the entire distro (be it Debian or Ubuntu), which seems quite fair to me. We'll adopt whatever name Debian ultimately decide. Scott -- Scott James Remnant [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#385722: [Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#385722: please consider splitting off sysvutils

2006-09-08 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Fri, 2006-09-08 at 12:44 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Fri, 08 Sep 2006, Scott James Remnant wrote: We'll adopt whatever name Debian ultimately decide. Thanks, although that was not the main point of my request :-) Umm, then I missed it? :P What was the main point

Bug#385722: Fwd: Re: please consider splitting off sysvutils

2006-09-06 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Wed, 2006-09-06 at 05:34 +0200, martin f krafft wrote: Scott, why does sysvinit pre-depend on sysvutils? How did you work around this problem? Because as an Essential package, sysvinit has to work unconfigured ... which means that if it requires it's dependencies they must actually be

Bug#354163: apmd: Computer does not switch off any more

2006-07-21 Thread Scott James Remnant
a fix for this bug. It would be nice if he could provide a patch. As soon as it's merged in the sysvinit package, I'll do the correponding changes to apmd. I don't think I do? Scott -- Scott James Remnant [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#375680: Ubuntu and Fedora patches reviewing

2006-06-27 Thread Scott James Remnant
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Bug#375680: Ubuntu and Fedora patches reviewing

2006-06-27 Thread Scott James Remnant
under the derivatives keyword for a while. Per-upload diffs are coming soon. Scott -- Scott James Remnant [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#116500: Making Automake 1.9 the default in Ubuntu

2006-06-13 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Mon, 2006-06-12 at 19:44 -0400, Eric Dorland wrote: * Scott James Remnant ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I notice that with a recent change to automake-1.9 you have adjusted the priorities so that 1.9 is the default, instead of 1.4. However this still does not solve many of the problems

Bug#228604: Making Automake 1.9 the default in Ubuntu

2006-06-11 Thread Scott James Remnant
depending ones) supplied both to you and to the respective maintainers, so that there is a minimum amount of work to get it into Debian. Many thanks in advance, Scott -- Scott James Remnant [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#365865: use update-notifier to get user to restart

2006-06-06 Thread Scott James Remnant
? Never found any, the person you need to ask is Michael Vogt; the author. Scott -- Scott James Remnant [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#368969: rounding error causes generation of invalid filesystems

2006-05-26 Thread Scott James Remnant
a bug here. Note that although the patch is against 2.2r2, the difference is small enough that it will apply successfully to 3.0 Scott -- Scott James Remnant [EMAIL PROTECTED] diff -ruNp squashfs-2.2r2~/squashfs-tools/mksquashfs.c squashfs-2.2r2/squashfs-tools/mksquashfs.c --- squashfs-2.2r2

Bug#332826: Many wrong man page references

2005-10-09 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Sat, 2005-10-08 at 22:08 +0200, Frank Lichtenheld wrote: It seems most man pages have changed their section from 8 to 1 (even though I haven't found the changelog entry for that yet) but the references were only sparsely updated and many false ones remain. 2005-01-14 Scott James Remnant

Bug#322309: Debian woody dpkg no longer works with recent linux kernel.

2005-10-09 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Mon, 2005-10-10 at 00:16 +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote: dpkg in Debian woody (3.0) is broken by recent linux kernels; due to the following command changing behavior (mmap of zero-byte length): addr=mmap(NULL, 0, PROT_READ, MAP_SHARED, fd, 0); These bugs are caused by mmap changing

Bug#328685: udev: main: action, subsystem or devpath missing

2005-09-23 Thread Scott James Remnant
udev_run_hotplugd and letting that deal with it. Scott [0] the new name for what used to be hotplug events. -- Scott James Remnant [EMAIL PROTECTED] diff -ruNp udev-060.orig/udev.c udev-060/udev.c --- udev-060.orig/udev.c 2005-09-23 23:08:25.374883000 +0100 +++ udev-060/udev.c 2005-09-23 23:22:45.034195864

Bug#317333: The case of udev and the missing /dev/input/mice

2005-09-21 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Wed, 2005-09-21 at 11:51 +0200, Kay Sievers wrote: On Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 03:38:06AM +0100, Scott James Remnant wrote: Background: in the upcoming Ubuntu 5.10 we've been having some problems with /dev/input/mice not being created on startup despite the mousedev module being hard-loaded

Bug#317333: The case of udev and the missing /dev/input/mice

2005-09-20 Thread Scott James Remnant
order slightly and thus hide the bug. [1] And if we deliberately start udevd before we begin any of this module loading, it sees the netlink event, and thus again hides the bug. -- Scott James Remnant [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#327444: dpkg-buildpackage: -I does not work on dot-directories

2005-09-10 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Sat, 2005-09-10 at 08:01 +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: Subject says it all. Specifically: I have my debian packages in a svn repository, but prefer to run dpkg-buildpackage manually inside that directory, rather than using something like svn-buildpackage. For that, I tried to use

Bug#326986: amd64 dpkg-architecture gives no information

2005-09-07 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Tue, 2005-09-06 at 17:46 -0700, Aaron T Porter wrote: Further digging shows an error reading /etc/libnss-ldap.conf, opening up permissions to this file produces the expected output from dpkg-architecture. This file does however contain an ldap bind password that would be best kept private.

Bug#326986: amd64 dpkg-architecture gives no information

2005-09-07 Thread Scott James Remnant
reassign 326986 perl,libnss-ldap retitle 326986 getpwnam fails if libnss-ldap.conf is not readable thanks On Wed, 2005-09-07 at 10:30 -0700, Aaron T Porter wrote: On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 01:09:22PM +0100, Scott James Remnant wrote: On Tue, 2005-09-06 at 17:46 -0700, Aaron T Porter wrote

Bug#317967: probably fixed in .11 ..

2005-09-05 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Sun, 2005-09-04 at 16:18 -0400, Joey Hess wrote: Presumably this bug was fixed in dpkg 1.13.11, which was released well after the fixed zlib got into the archive. Although I've not actually checked all the builds to see. Therefore I am not tracking this bug as a security hole, and IMHO

Bug#325804: dpkg: typo in Russian man start-stop-daemon

2005-09-01 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 17:49 +0200, Christian Perrier wrote: Quoting Stepan Golosunov ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Package: dpkg Version: 1.10.28 Severity: minor Tags: l10n patch man -L ru start-stop-daemon says that short vershion of --nicelevel is -n Scott, you fix or I fix? If it's

Bug#325890: Installing a package when disk space is full results in segfault

2005-08-31 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 11:38 -0400, Frans Flippo wrote: OK :) I moved some stuff from /usr/share/doc and managed to install the new dpkg now. Was just going to try to see if the problem still existed but I guess you answered that. It's worth testing to make sure. How would I have found an

Bug#192981: If this is considered a bug...

2005-08-28 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Thu, 2005-08-25 at 19:19 +0200, Thomas Hood wrote: I take it that dpkg will be changed someday so that an unmodified conffile will have its perms updated? Yeah, that should be supported I think. Don't know whether it'll get fixed in 1.13, but 2.0 would inherently fix it I think. Scott --

Bug#323909: dpkg-dev: Ignore Revision Control directories during making source package

2005-08-24 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Fri, 2005-08-19 at 10:30 +0300, Jari Aalto wrote: Problem: W: foo source: source-contains-svn-control-dir src/os/.svn It is typical that packages are put into Revision control and worked in there. However not all programs are aible to export things (like RCS). It would help if

Bug#267688: Shouldn't ...

2005-08-24 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Sun, 2005-08-21 at 20:12 +0200, Marcello Maggioni wrote: Shouldn't the package in sarge be corrected too?? Sarge has been released; no more bug fixes are applied to it. Scott -- Have you ever, ever felt like this? Had strange things happen? Are you going round the twist? signature.asc

Bug#324741: dpkg-gencontrol - loosed support for arch depend Depends line somewhere ago

2005-08-24 Thread Scott James Remnant
reopen 170575 merge 170575 324741 thanks On Tue, 2005-08-23 at 20:21 +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: #170575 was marked fixed some time ago, but the version in sid does not accept such dependency lines. dpkg has _never_ had support for arch-specific Depend lines, just Build-Depend. That bug

Bug#324741: dpkg-gencontrol - loosed support for arch depend Depends line somewhere ago

2005-08-24 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Wed, 2005-08-24 at 15:25 -0500, Adam Heath wrote: On Wed, 24 Aug 2005, Scott James Remnant wrote: On Tue, 2005-08-23 at 20:21 +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: #170575 was marked fixed some time ago, but the version in sid does not accept such dependency lines. dpkg has _never_ had

Bug#323824: /usr/bin/dpkg-source: wishlist: include attached /etc/bash_completion.d/dpkg-source file

2005-08-18 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Thu, 2005-08-18 at 19:48 +0200, Sven Mueller wrote: Basically the subject says everything needed: Please include the attached file as /etc/bash_completion.d/dpkg-source. This will enable bash command completion for dpkg-source in a (hopefully correct and) intelligent way. Sorry for being

Bug#317082: Not just a dpkg bug

2005-08-17 Thread Scott James Remnant
reassign 317082 libc6-dev,dpkg-dev thanks I managed to grab Matthias Klose and he helped me get a working demo of the problem on my lowly i386, and I understand the bug now -- there's some missing context in the above mails. For those following, the problem is that people are building 64-bit

Bug#320925: leaks dpkg.log filedescriptor to child processes

2005-08-16 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Fri, 2005-08-05 at 18:38 +0300, Török Edvin wrote: I have made a patch that sets close-on-exec. Tell me if this is what you expected, and if my patch really fixes what you meant. Also please test if dpkg still works correctly That kinda patches gettext g Already fixed this one, yet

Bug#317082: Uh, help!

2005-08-16 Thread Scott James Remnant
tags 317082 moreinfo thanks Unfortunately I don't have either a 64-bit platform, or any real knowledge of them. I've read this bug a dozen times, and I have absolutely no idea what I'm supposed to do about it. Could someone please supply a guide for idiots/dpkg maintainers or better yet, a

Bug#318416: Acknowledgement (/usr/bin/dpkg-shlibdeps: add udeb support)

2005-08-14 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Fri, 2005-07-15 at 21:16 +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: talking to joeyh he said that he did a patch for the same thing as well. Comparing the two his is the preferable solution so please ignore this patch and stick with his. I don't suppose you happen to know where joeyh's patch _is_

Bug#97320:

2005-08-14 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Sat, 2005-07-16 at 12:49 +1000, Michael Wardle wrote: Would it not be more efficient if this information were stored in /var/lib/dpkg/status? I would find this feature very useful. Out of interest, what would you find it useful _for_ ? I can't think of a use-case for this field that

Bug#322217: halt and bootmisc.sh is not in the initscripts package

2005-08-14 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Wed, 2005-08-10 at 10:34 +0200, Thomas Hood wrote: Raphael Wegmann wrote: When I remove /etc/init.d/halt and /etc/init.d/bootmisc.sh before I call apt-get --reinstall install initscripts, the files halt and bootmisc.sh do not get restored. This is a bug^Wfeature of dpkg. To

Bug#97320:

2005-08-14 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Mon, 2005-08-15 at 11:01 +1000, Michael Wardle wrote: On Sun, 2005-08-14 at 22:41 +0100, Scott James Remnant wrote: On Sat, 2005-07-16 at 12:49 +1000, Michael Wardle wrote: Would it not be more efficient if this information were stored in /var/lib/dpkg/status? I would find

Bug#310390: clarification

2005-07-16 Thread Scott James Remnant
This mail is just to clarify for myself, because I'm dizzy and forgetful at times, that this bug doesn't appear to be dpkg not removing diverted files during upgrade. It's more subtle than that, it's dpkg not removing the NOT diverted file during an upgrade. Scott -- Have you ever, ever felt

Bug#317967: [CAN-2005-2096] dpkg-deb contains a statically linked copy of zlib

2005-07-16 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Tue, 2005-07-12 at 18:10 +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: dpkg-deb seems to contain a statically linked copy of zlib version 1.2.2. This means it's potentially vulnerable to CAN-2005-2096. Please check, and advise the security team if an update for stable is required. From what I understand

Bug#296026: Okay...

2005-07-16 Thread Scott James Remnant
tags 296026 pending thanks So we can replicate this with a banana: syndicate tmp# dpkg -i banana.deb Selecting previously deselected package banana. (Reading database ... 126150 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking banana (from banana.deb) ... Setting up banana (1.0) ...

Bug#113626: Confirmed

2005-07-16 Thread Scott James Remnant
Found this by accident while making a test case for another bug, glad to see this one's open already... syndicate tmp# dpkg-divert --package banana --divert /banana.other --add /banana Adding `diversion of /banana to /banana.other by banana' syndicate tmp# dpkg -i banana.deb Selecting previously

Bug#310390: Example with DIVERTED file being removed during upgrade

2005-07-16 Thread Scott James Remnant
So it turns out this way is true too: syndicate tmp# dpkg-divert --package banana --divert /banana.other --add /banana Adding `diversion of /banana to /banana.other by banana' syndicate tmp# dpkg -i banana.deb Selecting previously deselected package banana. (Reading database ... 126152 files

Bug#310390: Example with UNDIVERTED file being removed during upgrade

2005-07-16 Thread Scott James Remnant
As well as this way round: syndicate tmp# dpkg-divert --package banana-icecream --divert /banana.other --add /banana Adding `diversion of /banana to /banana.other by banana-icecream' syndicate tmp# dpkg -i banana.deb Selecting previously deselected package banana. (Reading database ... 126152

Bug#310390: Example during removal

2005-07-16 Thread Scott James Remnant
syndicate tmp# dpkg -i banana.deb Selecting previously deselected package banana. (Reading database ... 126152 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking banana (from banana.deb) ... Setting up banana (1.0) ... syndicate tmp# dpkg -i banana-icecream.deb Selecting previously deselected

Bug#310390: Example with UNDIVERTED file being removed during upgrade

2005-07-16 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Sat, 2005-07-16 at 18:50 +0300, Scott James Remnant wrote: As well as this way round: Uh, that demo was bogus! It was demonstrating a diverted file again, wasn't it. Here's the right demo (and still proving this it happens this way too...) syndicate tmp# dpkg-divert --package banana

Bug#15695: Not a dpkg bug

2005-07-16 Thread Scott James Remnant
unmerge 15695 reassign 15695 lilo merge 15162 15965 kthxbye This is another bug that's a copy of 15162, dpkg is informing the old version that an upgrade to it was aborted -- and lilo's postinst is failing to catch that particular postinst argument. (ps. Andrés, as you can guess, you can just

Bug#15162: Not a dpkg bug

2005-07-16 Thread Scott James Remnant
unmerge 15162 reassign 15162 lilo kthxbye This is not a bug in dpkg, it has caught the fact it can't change the ownership of /boot/boot.b on an MS-DOS filesystem and has aborted the upgrade (as you can tell from your own status output). As part of the process of aborting the upgrade, it will run

Bug#65690: Unreplicable

2005-07-16 Thread Scott James Remnant
unmerge 65690 close 65690 kthxbye This is an old bug, and cannot be replicated. dpkg is extra-ordinarily anal about checking that every write() and the close() succeed -- and will roll-back the installation or upgrade of a package if the disk becomes full while it does so. If you can come up

Bug#269614: Please provide the .deb

2005-07-16 Thread Scott James Remnant
Core dump isn't that useful (dpkg isn't compiled with debugging symbols on your system) -- but PLEASE provide that broken.deb Scott -- Have you ever, ever felt like this? Had strange things happen? Are you going round the twist? signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message

Bug#89771: Old bug

2005-07-16 Thread Scott James Remnant
unmerge 89771 close 89771 kthxbye This is an old bug that cannot be replicated; there have been other bug fixes in this error that may have corrected that segfault -- if it happens again, please file a new bug. Scott -- Have you ever, ever felt like this? Had strange things happen? Are you

Bug#106224: Old bug

2005-07-16 Thread Scott James Remnant
unmerge 106224 close 106224 kthxbye This is an old bug, and is currently unreproducible. There were recent fixes to dpkg's error handling and unpack clean-up that may have fixed this. Please try again, and if you still get the problem, open a new bug. The intended behaviour is that on the

Bug#96391: Hmm...

2005-07-16 Thread Scott James Remnant
unmerge 96391 close 96391 kthxbye I don't really think it's dpkg's problem that you ran out of disk space, it did the best it could and will roll back the install/upgrade of that package and leave your system how it found it. Scott -- Have you ever, ever felt like this? Had strange things

Bug#313605:

2005-07-15 Thread Scott James Remnant
severity 313605 minor thanks This bug should not be serious, it is not a severe violation of Debian policy, and does not, in my opinion make the package unsuitable for release. Neither is it grave (it does not make dpkg unusuable, or mostly so, or introduce a security hole) or critical (in order

Bug#313381: reopen 313381, not all cases are fixed

2005-07-01 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Fri, 2005-07-01 at 11:13 +0200, Wolfram Quester wrote: On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 05:02:36PM +0100, Scott James Remnant wrote: On Thu, 2005-06-30 at 17:38 +0200, Wolfram Quester wrote: there is another appearence of the same bug, but with another extension, which was not captured

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