Trent W. Buck wrote:
Package: live-config
Version: 3.0.23-1
Severity: minor
During reboot of a minimal live image, I get
live-boot: caching reboot files...
/lib/live/boot-init.sh: 38: /lib/live/boot-init.sh: file: not found
/lib/live/boot-init.sh: 38: /lib/live/boot-init.sh
Package: live-config
Version: 3.0.23-1
Severity: wishlist
While quickreboot is documented in and parsed by live-boot, the actual
prompting is done in /lib/live/boot-init.sh (from live-config).
I am testing wheezy images with live-boot 3.0.1-1.
If and only if live-config installed, quickreboot in
Package: rpcbind
Version: 0.2.0-8
Severity: normal
In a minimal live-boot image I built, I noticed that sendsigs was
running before all the NFS stuff was turned off.
# ls /etc/rc0.d/ -l
total 4
lrwxrwxrwx 2 root root 23 2013-05-03 21:19 K01busybox-klogd -
../init.d/busybox-klogd
Package: util-linux
Version: 2.20.1-5.3
Severity: normal
I created a minimal live netboot image, and I noticed it was
complaining during shutdown:
[info] Saving the system clock.
hwclock: Warning: unrecognized third line in adjtime file
(Expected: `UTC' or `LOCAL' or nothing.)
The
Package: busybox
Version: 1:1.20.0-7
Severity: wishlist
Tags: upstream
curl has a conventional tftp://server/path syntax to download a
file from a TFTP server. To do the same with busybox tftp, you have
to break up the URL into pieces. If busybox wget supported tftp://
when the tftp applet was
Package: git
Version: 1:1.8.2.1-1
Severity: wishlist
Tags: upstream
I like git log --graph.
I'd like it more if it could use Unicode lines.
A trivial example is mocked up below.
BEFORE
* 8f78c67 (origin/prisonpc-satellite) Merge branch 'wheezy' into
prisonpc-satellite
|\
| *
Package: aspell-en
Version: 7.1-0-1
Severity: normal
I can't see it stated anywhere, but I think en_GB-ize is supposed to
let me have something close to Oxford spelling (en-GB-oed). When I
tried it, it didn't work for me.
$ cat test.txt
The group analysed labour statistics published by
Package: libpam-ldap
Version: 184-8.6
Severity: wishlist
On my netboot desktop farm, I used to have both pam_ldap and pam_unix
enabled. I turned off pam_unix to workaround something or other.
Only later did I realize this also meant I have no logs of when a user
has successfully logged in,
Hi, this issue was resolved many years ago by ifenslave-2.6 providing
hooks in if-[up|down].d. I was about to close this, but first I think
ifupdown should add a Suggests: ifenslave, as it currently does for
similar integration packages for ppp, dhcp and icmpv6.
Opinions?
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Package: devscripts
Version: 2.12.6
Severity: wishlist
File: /usr/bin/dget
$ dget --insecure
https://launchpad.net/~linrunner/+archive/tlp/+files/tlp_0.3.8.1-1.dsc
[...]
$ dpkg-source -x *dsc
gpgv: Signature made Sat 30 Mar 2013 10:06:24 EST using DSA key ID BB97FFE6
gpgv:
Package: file-roller
Severity: wishlist
Tags: upstream
Squashfs4 is a compressed archive format that can EITHER be mounted as
a loopback read-only filesystem OR it can be treated as an archive
like tgz or zip -- using unsquashfs foo.sq to extract some/all
files, or with -ls / -ll to list the
Package: partman
Severity: wishlist
Quick ticket before I forget this again.
When I do an install with LVM LVs created by partman, and I say 4GB
and partman reports them as 4GB, once the install is finished lvs will
list them as 3.78g or something, so I lvextend them. This is a bit
icky, and it
Package: cups
Version: 1.5.3-2.15
Severity: wishlist
File: /usr/share/cups/mime/mime.types
Tags: upstream
I came across mime.types / libcupsmime and my immediate reaction is
why is cups doing this, when libmagic already provides a perfectly
good library and database of MIME type heuristics?
Package: dh-make
Version: 0.61
Severity: minor
File: /usr/share/debhelper/dh_make/debianl/control
Building a freshly dh-make'd library package, I get
debhelper-but-no-misc-depends. I think this is a trivial fix by
adding the ${misc:Depends} lines to control by default, at least when
using dh7
Package: sysv-rc
Version: 2.88dsf-41
Severity: wishlist
File: /usr/sbin/invoke-rc.d
When doing dpkg-reconfigure -a in a chroot where everything is
denied by policy-rc.d, I see a sequence like this:
live-boot: core filesystems devices utils udev blockdev.
update-initramfs: deferring
Trent W. Buck wrote:
I applied 5629fba80b05cc906c45e62c397d18e5afa18636 to wheezy's
1.4.25-2 and the resulting binary fixed the problems I was having,
when run with buffer_mail=on in ~/.msmtprc. (Without
buffer_mail=on, the problem came back, so the test is sound.)
So, if it's not too much
Package: lintian
Version: 2.5.10.3
Severity: minor
In an exceptionally stupid in-house package, I ran across a false
positive for shell-script-fails-syntax-check. Distilled, it is
$ cat tmp.bash
#!/bin/bash
shopt -s extglob
ls -ld /home/!(prisoners)
$ bash -n tmp.bash
Andreas Beckmann wrote:
Followup-For: Bug #668439
Control: tag -1 patch
Hi,
I'm attaching a minimal fix to the prerm script that fixes two issues:
* unregister the alternative in prerm remove
* keep the alternative untouched during upgrades - removing and readding
it everytime could
FTR, this is the workaround I came up with since filing the ticket:
cd Comics find * -type d | xargs -n1 -P4 mainline -vcb.
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Ben Hutchings wrote:
I'll change it to treat ENOTDIR as non-fatal (same as ENOENT).
Thanks, that sounds appropriate to me.
4875 open(/boot/extlinux/options.cfg, O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOTDIR (Not a
directory)
FTR, this was happening because /boot/extlinux existed -- it was the
installer
Package: cups-client
Version: 1.5.3-2.12
Severity: wishlist
Tags: upstream
While dealing with an unrelated issue, I tried to type
date | lp -n2 -o collate=true
but instead I typed
date | lp -n2 --collate=true
AFAICT, lp silently ignored the bogus option.
I would strongly prefer that
Package: linux-base
Version: 3.5
Severity: minor
I did the following:
- basic squeeze install, choose no bootloader,
- manually do an extlinux install in /boot (extlinux package is NOT installed)
- set link_in_boot=yes in kernel-img.conf
Those are about the only things I did. Then I
Package: devscripts
Version: 2.12.5
Severity: wishlist
File: /usr/bin/debcommit
I just migrated my packaging (collab-maint/mg) from darcs to git.
I maintain debian/ as a separate repo, which appears to correspond to:
} elsif (-d debian/_darcs) {
$onlydebian = 1;
Package: crm114
Version: 20100106-3
Severity: minor
Tags: upstream
mailfilter.cf says:
#If you leave it as DEFAULT-PASSWORD, you will not be able to
#access the mail-to-myself commanding system, as DEFAULT-PASSWORD
#is specifically _disabled_ as a legal password. Just
Package: ns3-doc
Version: 3.15+dfsg-1
Severity: normal
At 1.2GiB, ns3-doc is currently the largest package in the repo.
Since the previous version was only 2MiB, I suspect this is a bug.
11:44 twb Hm, $ rsync mirror.internode.on.net::debian/pool/main/n/ns3/ | grep
doc
11:44 twb -rw-r--r--
Package: freefoam-dev-doc
Version: 0.1.0+dfsg-1
Severity: normal
Your dev-doc package is now one of the largest files in the repo.
Since the previous version was relatively small, this may be a bug.
On #debian-mentors, nbreen says the problem appears to be an enormous
doxygen tree.
Ref.
Hi,
Richard Sellam wrote:
Thank you for your interest in likewise-open package.
As said in http://mentors.debian.net/package/likewise-open ,
i have a working likewise-open package in version 6.1.0.62018-1.
You can get this version from mentors or wait for the package to be
uploaded
Package: crystalhd
Severity: normal
The Broadcom CrystalHD kernel module tries to dereference a NULL pointer
after playback is paused for a long (~1min) time. Fix at
https://github.com/t-nelson/crystalhd-debian/tree/fixes . This branch
also fixes a compile error on newer kernels, though I'm not
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
* Package name: nwipe (DBAN)
Version : 0.08
Upstream Author : Andy Bev
* URL : http://www.andybev.com/index.php/Nwipe
* License : GPL
Programming Lang: C
Description : Erase disks prior to donation
DBAN is a well-known
Package: live-config
Severity: normal
Tags: upstream
This issue is present in git as at debian/3.0_a37-1.
The script live-config/scripts/config/019-upstart edits /etc/init/tty*
This include ttyS0.conf i.e. a serial port, which it changes to
exec /bin/login -f cyber /dev/ttyS0 /dev/ttyS0 21
Daniel Baumann wrote:
tag 675308 - upstream
severity 675308 wishlist
retitle 675308 please support serial consoles when using upstart
thanks
On 05/31/2012 09:09 AM, Trent W. Buck wrote:
This will not make the serial consoles auto-log-in, but it will at
least let them remain functional
Package: w3m-el-snapshot
Version: 1.4.478+0.20120501-1
Severity: normal
I use wikipedia as my default search engine:
(setq
w3m-search-engine-alist
'((google http://encrypted.google.com/search?q=%s;)
;; (google http://google.com.au/search?q=%s;)
(wikipedia
Package: mutt
Severity: minor
Tags: upstream
Mutt uses a fixed-length buffer for passwords, 64-bytes wide. The
last byte is for NULL termination, meaning that mutt will silently
truncate IMAP passwords longer than 63 bytes.
Upstream has doubled the buffer length in HEAD (6204:0fb6d7579fd1),
but
Package: w3m
Version: 0.5.3-5
Severity: normal
In debian/rules, please change
ifeq ($(DEB_BUILD_GNU_SYSTEM),linux-gnu)
DEVS=x11,fb+s
else
DEVS=x11
endif
to
ifeq ($(DEB_BUILD_ARCH_OS),linux)
DEVS=x11,fb+s
else
DEVS=x11
endif
On my ARM laptop,
Alessandro Ghedini wrote:
Hannes von Haugwitz wrote:
A static library without krb is better than the current one which
is not usable at all.
That's just not true. Nothing stops you from using the static
libcurl library and linking to the shared krb5, which is installed
on pretty much every
Alessandro Ghedini wrote:
Would it be possible to use MIT krb for the dynamic libcurl, and
*no* krb for the static libcurl? The krb part is, after all, only
used for SPNEGO, and the set intersection of people who want
static libcurl and people who need krb is probably pretty
small.
[...]
Alessandro Ghedini wrote:
On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 11:14:25AM +0200, Hannes von Haugwitz wrote:
Hello,
On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 05:01:14PM +0100, Alessandro Ghedini wrote:
An alternative solution would be to build curl with Heimdal (AFAICT they
do
provide the static library)
Andreas Beckmann wrote:
While there is ongoing discussion how to remove alternatives correctly
(see http://bugs.debian.org/71621 for details) the following strategy
should work for regular cases:
* 'postinst configure' always installs the alternative
* 'prerm remove' removes the alternative
Trent W. Buck wrote:
For now, I am working around it as follows, but this feels like a
dirty hack, and it's a pain to have to do it on all my hosts.
# dpkg-divert --rename /usr/sbin/sendmail
# cat /usr/sbin/sendmail -EOF
#!/bin/bash -e
## Workaround long cron jobs being
-nitech-us-awb-arctic-hts
Binary: festvox-nitech-us-awb-arctic-hts
Architecture: all
Version: 2.1-2
Maintainer: Trent W. Buck trentb...@gmail.com
Dm-Upload-Allowed: yes
Homepage: http://hts.sp.nitech.ac.jp/?Download
Standards-Version: 3.8.4
Vcs-Browser:
http://darcs.debian.org/cgi-bin/darcsweb.cgi
: Trent W. Buck trentb...@gmail.com
1 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 65 deletions(-)
$ git show
$ git rebase --continue
[detached HEAD ebd32a8] .crawlrc: switch pickup logic from a whitelist to a
blacklist.
Author: Trent W. Buck trentb...@gmail.com
1 files changed, 127
Package: git
Version: 1:1.7.9.1-1
Severity: wishlist
When creating a test repo to demonstrate a problem, I deliberately
forced commit dates to the most obvious date -- epoch zero:
$ git filter-branch --env-filter 'export GIT_AUTHOR_DATE=$(TZ=UTC date
-d@0 -R)'
$ git rebase -f HEAD~1
Ah, sorry, my test of @1 was wrong, because that is also not accepted.
#git on Freenode indicated that git considers dates before ca. 1975 obviously
wrong and rejects them.
So I guess this is WONTFIX, this is by design.
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Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
* Package name: mars
Version : not sure
Upstream Author : not sure
* URL : http://corewar.co.uk/mars.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_War
* License : not sure
Programming Lang: C
Description :
Package: pastebinit
Version: 1.2-4
Severity: wishlist
Apparently when using paste.debian.net from a browser, you get back
two URLs -- one to publish, and and one that allows you to redact the
paste ahead of time.
The latter is useful if you accidentally paste, say, a transcript that
contains
The worst part about this bug is if you do
ifdown eth0:1
With an IPv6 stanza configured, it downs the entire interface, including IPv4.
This caused a production server outage for me and is likely to catch people out.
In my opinion that is a much more critical bug than the fact there is no
Sebastian Harl wrote:
However, policy does not talk about anything else (besides log files
which should be removed as well) in that respect. *Imho*, purge is
meant to be remove any trace of the package in question which includes
generated data as well. Anyway, for now I'm downgrading the
Vagrant Cascadian wrote:
Version: 1.0+dfsg-1
On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 07:18:40PM +1000, Trent W. Buck wrote:
Package: qemu-user-static
Version: 0.15.0~rc2+dfsg-1
Severity: normal
File: /usr/bin/qemu-arm-static
I did this:
mkdir -p target/usr/bin
cp /usr/bin/qemu-arm
Package: vim-common
Version: 2:7.3.363-1
Severity: minor
File: /usr/lib/mime/packages/vim-common
After installing vim-tiny,
$ compose /tmp/tmp.c
sh: 1: vim: not found
Warning: program returned non-zero exit code #127
This is because vim-tiny provides vi but not vim, and vim-common
[With] GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=ipv6.disable=1 [on upgrade...]
Setting up iptables-persistent (0.5.3) ...
ip6tables-save v1.4.12: Cannot initialize: Address family not supported
by protocol
dpkg: error processing iptables-persistent (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation
I applied 5629fba80b05cc906c45e62c397d18e5afa18636 to wheezy's
1.4.25-2 and the resulting binary fixed the problems I was having,
when run with buffer_mail=on in ~/.msmtprc. (Without buffer_mail=on,
the problem came back, so the test is sound.)
So, if it's not too much trouble, I would like this
Martin,
Martin Lambers wrote:
Hi Trent,
The latest git version of msmtp adds a 'buffer_mail' command and
'--buffer-mail' option which tells msmtp to first buffer the complete
mail in a temporary file before sending it.
Can you test if this works for you?
Since there was no reaction
Package: bash
Version: 4.1-3
Severity: minor
File: /bin/bash
I noticed a strange thing on my laptop:
root@dali:~# PS1=\\W
~cd /proc
pocc
For some reason the \W of /proc is reported as pocc; \w is reported
correctly (as /proc) and other paths (e.g. /usr) are reported
Peter,
Peter Drysdale wrote:
anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=tts/festival.git
I just built from here, please find attached some red tape changes
that keep lintian happy. (Testing if my vox works now is the next
step :-)
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index d0a1a2a..e70e631
Peter Drysdale wrote:
Dear Trent Buck and Festival users in Debian and Ubuntu,
I have applied a commit to the git repository for Debian festival, currently
located at:
anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=tts/festival.git
I can confirm this work with my favourite vox, with this change to the
vox
Package: msmtp-mta
Version: 1.4.24-2
Severity: important
Consider the following scenario: msmtp-mta is installed and configured
to relay mail to a postfix smarthost at smtp.local domain, which
accepts it. Thus, cron can demonstrably send mail, e.g. with a job
@hourly echo foo.
Now, suppose
Hannes von Haugwitz wrote:
What is the state of this bug? I would like to add curl support to
the aide pkg (which is statically linked).
AFAIK, no change.
If it were a private package, I'd advise you to reroll curl without
kerberos support, so it can be statically linked into aide. To do
Package: kexec-tools
Version: 1:2.0.2-2
Severity: minor
On upgrading to current sid version as at today, kexec-tools asked
If you choose this option, kexec will read grub2 config file to
determine which kernel and options to load for kexec reboot, as
opposed to what is in
Package: sudo
Version: 1.8.2-1
Severity: important
This issue may tie in with the change that closed #85123 and #85917
and opened #639841.
Once upon a time, I ran su -, and it gave me a clean root login
shell, with /sbin and /usr/sbin in its path. Then I switched to sudo
su - or sudo -H -s.
Package: bluez
Version: 4.96-1
Severity: important
After a large dist-upgrade today, typing on bluetooth keyboard had no
effect. Initial investigation follows. Please advise how to proceed.
The relevant bluez upgrades were as follows.
The kernel was not upgraded; it is 2.6.38-2-amd64.
dbus was
PS: looking through the logs, I found /var/log/apt/term.log contained this:
Unpacking replacement cron ...
Preparing to replace bluez 4.94-2 (using .../bluez_4.96-1_amd64.deb) ...
Stopping bluetooth: /usr/sbin/bluetoothd.
dpkg: warning: version 'bluez' has bad syntax: version number does not
OK, yes, that mv_conffile fuckup is the cause of this problem.
Moving it back *and* restarting dbus and bluetooth daemons fixed it.
I didn't realize at first that hcitool talked to the daemon; its
manpage gave me the impression that it talked directly to the devices;
that the bluetooth daemon was
Package: fbi
Version: 2.07-8
Followup-For: Bug #637365
After an overdue dist-upgrade, this issue affects me in fbi.
That is, fbi -e foo.jpg, hit l, and it segfaults.
2011-09-27 15:13:43 upgrade fbi 2.07-7 2.07-8
-- System Information:
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APT prefers unstable
APT
Josh Triplett wrote:
Darcs seems to store a cache in ~/.darcs/cache . Please consider moving
this to a darcs subdirectory in the common ~/.cache directory.
As a short-term workaround, you can manually make .darcs/cache a
symlink to .cache/darcs; Darcs will honour this. You can also specify
Package: qemu-user-static
Version: 0.15.0~rc2+dfsg-1
Severity: normal
File: /usr/bin/qemu-arm-static
I did this:
mkdir -p target/usr/bin
cp /usr/bin/qemu-arm-static target/usr/bin
cdebootstrap -f minimal -k /etc/debmirror/trustedkeys.gpg -a armhf unstable
target
Here's another one:
(bootstrap)root@twb:~# git clone
git://github.com/lilstevie/CrOS-Hybrid-Kernel.git
Cloning into CrOS-Hybrid-Kernel...
*** longjmp causes uninitialized stack frame ***: /usr/bin/qemu-arm-static
terminated
=== Backtrace: =
[0x600d6395]
tag 635772 + wontfix
thank you
Han Boetes wrote:
As stated in the source code:
/*
* Make a backup copy of fname. On Unix the backup has the same
* name as the original file, with a ~ on the end; this seems to
* be newest of the new-speak. The error handling is all in file.c.
* We do a
Jakub Wilk wrote:
tags 628476 + confirmed upstream fixed-upstream thanks
* Florian Weimer f...@deneb.enyo.de, 2011-05-29, 12:59:
The documentation mentions importing wordaxe.DCWHyphenator. But this
does not work:
fw@deneb:~$ python
Python 2.6.6 (r266:84292, Dec 26 2010, 22:31:48)
[GCC
Package: gnome-themes-standard
Version: 3.0.2-1
Severity: important
File: /usr/lib/gtk-3.0/3.0.0/theming-engines/libadwaita.so
With the following ~/.config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css, gtk3-demo segfaults on start:
* { engine: adwaita; }
This gtk.css doesn't cause a segfault:
* { engine: adwaita;
Package: procps
Version: 1:3.2.8-10
Severity: wishlist
File: /usr/bin/free
It's a minor but ongoing annoyance that free doesn't support a -h
human-readable format as other GNU tools (e.g. df, sort) do.
I can use -m, but I'd prefer -h.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
APT
Hi,
None of the following programs/packages exhibit the problem
(segfaulting on boot). I think this ticket can be closed.
$ COLUMNS=70 dpkg -l libwebkit*[0-9] | grep ^ii
ii libwebkit-1.0- 1.2.7-3Web content engine library for Gtk+
ii libwebkitgtk-1 1.4.2-1Web
Package: collectd-core
Severity: wishlist
The disks plugin uses the same names as are in /proc/partitions,
e.g. sda, md0, dm-1. The third of these uses a number that
isn't very intuitive. My dm-N devices are LVM LVs; I would like it to
use the names from /dev/mapper/, like vg0-lv1 or omega-var.
Package: collectd-core
Severity: wishlist
collectd generates notifications internally, and its notify_email
plugin provides a notification handler that will send an email for
each one.
I prefer notifications to turn into syslog entries, so that even if
there are a hundred notifications all at
Package: collectd-core
Severity: wishlist
I'm using tcpconns to look at e.g. the number of open SSH and HTTP
connections.
It's really useful that it auto-detects which ports are in use, rather
than me having to list them. It means if a new service is added to a
machine (especially a customer
Package: collectd
Version: 4.10.1-2.1
Severity: critical
Recently I apt-get remove collectd-core and manually installed
collectd for its git repo. Later, I found that /etc/collection.conf
was still around, so I did dpkg -P collectd-core. To my surprise, I
found that collectd-core's postrm purge
Package: iptables
Version: 1.4.10-1
Severity: normal
File: /usr/sbin/iptables-apply
If iptables-restore exits with a non-zero status, iptables-apply will
NOT roll back to the original ruleset.
This is not a problem if the file contains a single table
(e.g. *filter ... COMMIT), because that is
Anton Zinoviev wrote:
PS: I'm using kbd instead of console-setup because the former can do a
smaller Terminus font than the latter. [...]
Maybe Trent means console-tools (not console-setup)? Console-tools
doesn't support small font sizes (12x6).
Sorry, yes, I meant console-tools. I
Package: kbd
Version: 1.15.3-3
Severity: normal
File: /bin/openvt
The version of openvt(1) I had yesterday, would return an error if its
child did, i.e. openvt -sw -- false, failed. This version doesn't.
I want the old behaviour back, because it's useful for my scripts.
I think my old version
Package: dlocate
Version: 1.02
Severity: minor
Looks like I can't search for strings that start with a leading
hyphen. Second error indicates you have code to deal with this, but
apparently it needs more work.
$ dlocate -- -multi
grep: invalid max count
$ dlocate -multi
dlocate: unknown option
Package: gnutls-bin
Version: 2.10.5-1+b1
Severity: wishlist
File: /usr/bin/certtool
When you say something like certtool --to-p12, it will prompt you
for filenames and suchlike. These prompts would be easier to use if
filename tab completion and other readline features were available.
(I'm
Package: wnpp
Severity: normal
I wanted English-language hyphenation in rst2pdf, which apparently
needs/needed both pyhyphen and wordaxe. So I got wordaxe into Debian
as a first step. I never managed to get pyhyphen into Debian, and
since hyphenation completely broke in rst2pdf a while back,
Package: webkit2pdf
Version: 0.2-1
Severity: important
I can't see how to use this tool without installing X.
This also makes it difficult to automate, e.g. in a cron job.
$ webkit2pdf --help
(webkit2pdf:8302): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:
$ webkit2pdf http://example.net/
Package: libvirt
Version: 0.9.0-1
Severity: normal
I run logcheck with syslog-summary enabled. That allows me to get ONE
line like this, indicating the number of duplicate (in this case 10):
10 stomp dovecot: IMAP(russm): stat(/var/mail/lists/.managers/tmp) failed:
Permission denied
Package: lintian
Version: 2.5.0~rc3
Severity: minor
I noticed that when files are in / (don't ask), lintian gets confused.
root@blood:/# lintian haskell-mmap_0.5.7-1.dsc
warning: the authors of lintian do not recommend running it with root
privileges!
W: haskell-mmap source:
Package: wnpp
Severity: normal
I request an adopter for the darcs package.
The package description is:
Darcs is a free, open source revision control system. It is:
.
* Distributed: Every user has access to the full command set,
removing boundaries between server and client or committer
Package: logcheck-database
Version: 1.3.13
Severity: minor
File: /etc/logcheck/ignore.d.server/dhclient
I have an interface br-dmz, configured via DHCP and to which KVM VMs
attach. Currently this rule (I think)
^\w{3} [ :0-9]{11} [._[:alnum:]-]+ dhclient(-2.2.x)?: DHCP(REQUEST|RELEASE)
(of
Package: aptitude
Version: 0.6.3-3.2
Severity: minor
Instead of -sy, I tried -s -, which instructs the shell to close
stdin after forking and before execing. The behaviour was
undesirable:
$ aptitude -s install - vim
The following NEW packages will be installed:
vim vim-common{a}
Package: x11-xserver-utils
Version: 7.6+1
Severity: wishlist
File: /usr/bin/xrandr
xrandr provides a means to SET the DPI, but no means to GET it.
Please add one, e.g. in the xrandr -q output.
Otherwise, the only way I know to query DPI is to grep Xorg.0.log,
which is a pain in the ass.
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Package: geiser
Version: 0.1.2-2
Severity: normal
I use emacs23-nox because I do not have (nor want) X installed.
This means I cannot install geiser (transcript follows).
Please fix your Depends to allow all supported emacsen to be used.
root@blood:/# aptitude -sR install geiser
The
Package: extlinux
Version: 2:4.03+dfsg-12
Severity: minor
I was really confused by this /boot/extlinux/memdisk.cfg in my
hand-bootstrapped images:
label m0
menu label Memdisk, image initrd.img
linux /boot/extlinux/memdisk
initrd /boot/initrd.img
Michal Suchanek wrote:
Excerpts from Cyril Brulebois's message of Sun Mar 06 08:16:47 +0100 2011:
Cyril Brulebois k...@debian.org (06/03/2011):
if you'd like this bug to be looked at, you probably want to report
it upstream (product xorg, component App/xdm):
Package: squashfs-tools
Version: 1:4.1-3
Severity: minor
I get lots (hundreds/thousands) of these when I do something like
mksquashfs $HOME $HOME.sq:
Unrecognised xattr prefix system.posix_acl_default
Unrecognised xattr prefix system.posix_acl_access
I don't know why... I haven't
Package: acpi-fakekey
Version: 0.138-6
Severity: important
In the postinst, you do
start-stop-daemon --oknodo --stop --quiet --exec /usr/sbin/acpi_fakekeyd
This makes it impossible to install acpi-support in a chroot,
e.g. when preparing a rootfs for a live CD:
Setting up acpi-fakekey
Package: linux-2.6
Severity: wishlist
Tags: experimental
User: debian-l...@live.debian.org
Usertags: kernel
xz (a.k.a. LZMA2) is a shiny new compression algorithm that yields
smaller files than gzip, and is faster than bzip2.
For Debian Live images, especially, it would be nice to have better
Package: w3m-el-snapshot
Version: 1.4.400+0.20100725-1
Severity: minor
For some reason anchors within a page (e.g. from the table of
contents) don't work on wikipedia anymore. For example,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/example.net#Subdomains
AFAICT this is supposed to hit the id=Subdomains
Package: dpkg
Version: 1.15.8.7
Severity: minor
File: /usr/bin/dpkg
I wanted to run logcheck on my centralized logging server, to which
syslog messages are sent. Further, I wanted to see this with the
logcheck exclusions provided by individual packages. To this end, I
fetched the relevant
Raphael Hertzog wrote:
--path-include/exclude apply for installation of packages
(i.e. dpkg's operations) and not for the other operations delegated
to dpkg-deb.
The opposite can be also very misleading... suppose you have a few
--path-* options in /etc/dpkg.cfg and you want to extract a
feeling especially
paranoid, I would at least like it to default to (say) /bin/false, so
that I don't have spurious blank lines in my getent output.
root@blood:~# getent passwd twb conz
twb:x:1008:1008:Trent W. Buck:/home/twb:
conz:x:1001:1001:Con Zymaris:/home/conz:
root@blood
Arthur de Jong wrote:
On Tue, 2011-01-18 at 19:36 +1100, Trent W. Buck wrote:
RFC2307 (nis.schema) doesn't require a passwordAccount object to
set any loginShell. For such an account, PADL falls back to
/bin/sh, but this implementation falls back to \n, which
obviously is not useful
Package: syslog-summary
Version: 1.14-2
Severity: wishlist
In rsyslog.conf, there is
# Use traditional timestamp format.
# To enable high precision timestamps, comment out the following line.
#
$ActionFileDefaultTemplate RSYSLOG_TraditionalFileFormat
When it's commented out, I
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