Package: aptitude
Version: 0.6.3-3.2
Severity: wishlist
Canonical places a Supported field in their Packages files,
indicating how long they (nominally) provide support for the package
in question. I can show this field in search results:
$ grep-aptavail -ns Package,Supported -F Provides
Package: release.debian.org
Severity: normal
User: release.debian@packages.debian.org
Usertags: freeze-exception
Please unblock package darcs
Fixes 600759, which makes commands like darcs push and darcs pull
fail most of the time on 64-bit architectures. When used
interactively, you can
intrigeri wrote:
Hi,
Trent W. Buck wrote (20 Oct 2010 09:19:13 GMT) :
# I am reluctant to push 2.5.0 into Squeeze just to fix this. I'll get
around to
uploading a 2.5.0 to experimental Real Soon Now.
tags 600759 + fixed-upstream
Isn't it possible to apply the patch that fixes
Package: coreutils
Version: 8.5-1
Severity: minor
File: /usr/bin/fmt
In the transcript below, I don't understand why the last three lines
appear to be wrapped to a width.
$ # hostnames are four-letter proper nouns - RFC1178
$ realpath /usr/share/dict/words
/usr/share/dict/british-english
$ grep
Joachim Breitner wrote:
eventually, I’d like to get ipatch into Debian. For that, I need to
ask you to start building libghc6-darcs-{dev,prof,doc} packages when
you start packaging darcs 2.5. Would that be possible?
I'm basically waiting for the release of Squeeze (and the resulting
un-freeze
Package: bluez
Version: 4.70-1
Severity: wishlist
File: /usr/share/doc/bluez/README.Debian.gz
From the README.Debian.gz, I used these commands to connect my new
bluetooth keyboard:
hcitool scan
sudo bluez-simple-agent hci0 E8:06:88:52:C7:74
sudo bluez-test-input connect
Package: openvas-scanner
Version: 3.0.2-4
Severity: wishlist
openvas.net lists a 3.1 version. I guess that'd be a cool thing to
have in Debian.
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PS: your current debian/watch rule should be prepended by
opts=uversionmangle=s/\.(?:rc|beta)/~\1/
this prevents it from preferring betas and RCs to releases.
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Joachim Breitner wrote:
while uploading the NMU I noticed that darcs FTBFS if hlint is
installed, at test tests/haskell-policy.sh.
I suggest you either disable the test, add hlint to Build-Conflicts
or fix the test (maybe it is fixed in the next upstream release).
I am fine with either of
Stefano,
I'm on vacation from the 12th until the 22nd of September, so I
probably can't address this until then. The patch looks OK at a
glance; feel free to upload this as an NMU or whatever else is
necessary to facilitate Squeeze's release.
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Package: apt
Version: 0.8.1
Severity: normal
I turn /var/cache/pbuilder/results into a flat repo using the following cron
job:
#!/bin/bash -eE
# As etckeeper is triggered by apt-get install but not dpkg -i, it
# is desirable to make a bare-bones private package archive.
test -x
Package: linux-base
Version: 2.6.34-1~experimental.2
Severity: minor
I had cdebootstrap generate a squeeze chroot, and installed a kernel
into it. When I then ran dpkg-reconfigure -a -plow in the chroot,
this package borked the dpkg-reconfigure run because /etc/fstab
doesn't exist.
+ chroot
Package: isc-dhcp-client
Version: 4.1.1-P1-9
Severity: wishlist
File: /sbin/dhclient-script
I'm building live-boot images. resolv.conf isn't included in the
squashfs root filesystem, because there's no sensible default and
dhclient will overwrite it during boot anyway.
And it WORKS, but there
Package: live-boot
Version: 2.0.1-1
Severity: minor
File: /usr/share/bug/live-boot/script
reportbug borked trying to run /usr/share/bug/live-boot/script, I
guess because I don't have usplash installed. A screenshot is
attached.
-- Package-specific info:
-- System Information:
Debian Release:
Package: live-boot-initramfs-tools
Version: 2.0.1-1
Severity: important
File: /usr/share/initramfs-tools/hooks/live
When installing live-boot and a kernel into a pretty minimalist
bootstrap chroot, update-initramfs fails with
cp: cannot stat `/lib/libdevmapper*': No such file or directory
Package: live-build
Version: 2.0~a23-1
Severity: minor
File: /usr/share/live/build/scripts/build/binary_rootfs
Images based on Emdebian Grip are smaller than images based on Squeeze
because the packages exclude directories like /usr/share/man/.
I found that I can achieve equally small images
Package: multistrap
Version: 2.1.6
Severity: important
I'm getting these errors (full transcript attached):
W: GPG error: http://mirror.internode.on.net testing Release:
Unable to read /srv/live/target/etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/ - opendir
(2: No such file or directory)
I think it
Neil Williams wrote:
[...] multistrap is stateless and will use whatever packages already
exist. This is a feature of multistrap, not a bug.
Fair enough.
When repeatedly re-running multistrap, I wanted to avoid the
lengthy download time for the binary packages.
The option to support this
package multistrap
tag 593326 + wontfix
quit
Neil Williams wrote:
Currently multistrap emits a lot of output.
Actually, it outputs very little itself. Most comes from apt and dpkg.
Right.
It would be nice if this could be elided, with a --quiet option.
Exactly what output are you seeking to
Neil Williams wrote:
I anticipated that apt would do the right thing with a copy://
source based on a flat-file repository. (This part of the method is
not within the control of multistrap.) [...] if that support
doesn't work, it should probably be looked at. I would need to see
the report
Package: multistrap
Version: 2.1.6
Severity: minor
Consider the case where multistrap.conf contains:
[General]
debootstrap=Y
aptsources=X
[...]
The user
1. runs multistrap to succesful completion
2. realizes that she forgot to include mg
3. adds mg to packages= line
Package: multistrap
Version: 2.1.6
Severity: wishlist
Currently multistrap emits a lot of output.
It would be nice if this could be elided, with a --quiet option.
I would expect this to also be passed to the apt-get calls multistrap makes.
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APT
Package: multistrap
Version: 2.1.6
Severity: minor
When repeatedly re-running multistrap, I wanted to avoid the lengthy
download time for the binary packages. So I did something like this:
- run multistrap with cleanup=false
- copy target/var/cache/apt/archives/*.deb to
Package: live-build
Version: 2.0~a23-1
Severity: minor
File: /usr/share/live/build/functions/defaults.sh
In defaults.sh:
# Setting keyring packages
case ${LH_MODE} in
debian|debian-release)
Trent W. Buck wrote:
emdebian)
LH_KEYRING_PACKAGES=${LH_kEYRING_PACKAGES:-debian-archive-keyring}
Worse, the k there is lowercase, so attempting to fix this user-side
fails! Here is a patch.
diff --git a/functions/defaults.sh b/functions/defaults.sh
index
Package: live-build
Version: 2.0~a23-1
Severity: minor
chroot_sources uses cp -l to copy packages from
config/chroot_local-packages/ into the chroot. This breaks when
packages are symlinks.
Example:
# ls -l config/chroot_local-packages/*deb
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root disk 46 Aug 16 13:58
Package: dpkg-dev-el
Version: 34.1
Severity: minor
File: /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/dpkg-dev-el/debian-changelog-mode.el
In my emacs, (Closes: #123456) has a cyan Closes, but the bug number
changed from red to white some time ago. Investigating, I find that
debian-changelog-warning-face
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
* Package name: ubuntu-docs
Version : 10.04.3
Upstream Author : Ubuntu Documentation Team ubuntu-...@lists.ubuntu.com
* URL : http://packages.ubuntu.com/source/lucid/ubuntu-docs
* License : CC-BY-SA, GPL
Programming Lang:
Package: fbterm
Version: 1.6-1
Severity: wishlist
I want to replace jfbterm (using PCF unifont) with fbterm (using TTF
unifont). Unfortunately, it seems to force 1px padding between cells:
$ fbterm -vs16 -nunifont -- login -f twb
[screen] driver: inteldrmfb, mode: 1024x600-32bpp,
tags 590831 + patch
thanks
Trent W. Buck wrote:
I *think* a cheap way to get what I want is to simply patch in a
corresponding --font-height=16 option that sets mHeight.
The attached patch works for me.
Author: Trent W. Buck trentb...@gmail.com
Bug-Debian: http://bugs.debian.org/590831
Index
AFAICT upstream hasn't had a release since 2005, so Debian's version
is still current. It still Just Works for me, e.g.
jfbterm -e w3m {zh,ja,ko,el,ru}.wikipedia.org
Even w3m-img's inline image rendering works! I'm testing on an Asus
Eee PC 1005P (GMA 3150), running Sid, using the i915
Package: w3m-img
Version: 0.5.2-7
Severity: normal
These commands result in inline images:
w3m google.com
jfbterm -e w3m google.com
fbterm -- env TERM=jfbterm w3m google.com
This command does not:
fbterm -- env TERM=fbterm w3m google.com
It looks like w3m-img is hard-coded to
with the first couple of months of polishing
and bug triaging – after that point, I expect it to be a
low-maintenance package that I can handle on my own.
Format: 3.0 (quilt)
Source: alephone
Binary: alephone
Architecture: any
Version: 20100424-1
Maintainer: Trent W. Buck trentb...@gmail.com
Dm
Package: dh-autoreconf
Version: 1
Severity: important
You aren't using find -print0 | xargs -0, so if any file contains
whitespace (e.g. Aleph One), it'll fail.
In any case, you can simply use find -exec {} +, which is just as
variadic as xargs:
find -ipath debian -prune -o -type f -exec
Kartik Mistry wrote:
On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 3:04 PM, Trent W. Buck trentb...@gmail.com wrote:
I don't expect there's much you, the Debian festival maintainer,
can do about this. I'm filing it anyway so that there'll be a
record next time someone (e.g. me, in the future) upgrades festival
Jonathan Nieder wrote:
Surely upstream keeps records in a vcs. So if it is not too
inconvenient, it might be nice to generate a list of changes between
releases from that.
It keeps records of each commit, but my view has always been that this
is too detailed, or low level, to be useful for
Jonathan Nieder wrote:
+override_dh_installchangelogs:
+ dh_installchangelogs -- NEWS
Ah, you've already solved it for me. This will be included in the
next package. Thanks.
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Jonathan Nieder wrote:
fixed 541848 2.0.2-3
quit
Whoops, I meant http://bugs.debian.org/541848 (FTBFS: ld: cannot find
-lHSrts_thr). I think the problem was introduced with Cabalization
in 2.2, making lenny safe.
Um, that bug only affects architectures which do not support the
threaded
Package: pastebinit
Version: 1.1-2
Severity: wishlist
pastebin.com is the default pastebin. Aside from my not liking it, it
doesn't work correctly with polipo due to bizarro HTTP/1.1 expectation
failures.
I wish I could create a dotfile in my home directory to define
additional pastebins and
Package: systemd
Version: 0~git+20100605+dfd8ee-1
Severity: wishlist
After including systemd, my live-helper image went from 80MB to 140MB
(post-compression). This puzzled me until I realized it includes a
GTK program.
I don't know what it is, because systemadm --help is unhelpful,
there's no
Package: apt-listchanges
Version: 2.84
Severity: wishlist
With the browser UI, #NN is translated into an HTML anchor. It
would be nice if http://... were also made into a clickable URLs.
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APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500,
Package: squashfs-tools
Version: 1:4.0-8
Severity: wishlist
File: /usr/bin/mksquashfs
I wish I could back up an active root filesystem like this:
mksquashfs --just-one-filesystem / /dev/sda2
AFAICT the nearest approximation at present is to
1) specify a lot of --excludes. This breaks
Package: xmoto
Version: 0.5.2-2
Severity: wishlist
xmoto --updateLevelsOnly is a scripted way to fetch all levels.
There are lots -- hundreds of megabytes -- and they end up in $HOME.
For a multi-user system with multiple xmoto users, this is a waste of
network and disk resources. It can also
Package: debhelper
Version: 7.9.1
Severity: wishlist
While waiting for some long-running packages to build, I wondered if
debhelper would protect me from the following:
1. I run debuild, then go to sleep;
2. I wake up the next day and, not realizing that debuild is still
running, initiate
Package: live-helper
Version: 2.0~a14-1
Severity: minor
With the following config/ tree:
# egrep -v '^[[:space:]]*(#|$)' config/*
config/binary:LH_BINARY_IMAGES=usb-hdd
config/binary:LH_MEMTEST=false
config/bootstrap:LH_BOOTSTRAP_FLAVOUR=minbase
Package: polipo
Version: 1.0.4.1-1.1
Severity: wishlist
I seed ~/.polipo-forbidden based on the adblockplus database[0]. I
updated this for the first time since 10 Jun 2010. Shortly after
this, I noticed that 1) polipo doesn't respond to most requests from
my browser[1]; and 2) polipo.log shows
Trent W. Buck wrote:
polipo doesn't respond to most requests from my browser
This part of the issue appears to be caused by 2.6.35-rc3; I can
reproduce it without any .polipo-forbidden, but I can't reproduce it
on 2.6.35-rc2. So it was merely a catalyst to make me notice the
regcomp error
Julien Cristau wrote:
* Pass --with-xterm=/usr/bin/xterm to configure (closes: #557138).
Sorry to be picky, but would it be better to use the
/usr/bin/x-terminal-emulator alternative?
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Frank Lin PIAT wrote:
di-n-a can't guarantee which version of pxelinux.0 is installed...
therefore we try to be conservative.
I'm assuming you'll add a a version floor like
Recommends: syslinux-base, ...
Conflicts: syslinux-base ( N)
I'll see if I can determine the correct value of N.
Package: di-netboot-assistant
Version: 0.36b
Severity: wishlist
Some time ago, syslinux (pxelinux) menu.c32 got some new features.
Firstly,
DEFAULT menu
LABEL menu
MENU HIDE
KERNEL debian-installer/pxelinux.cfg/menu.c32
becomes
UI menu.c32
Secondly, instead of
Package: ubuntu-dev-tools
Version: 0.99
Severity: minor
File: /usr/bin/lp-shell
I ran lp-shell vaguely expecting to get a stdio prompt. It fired up
my $BROWSER, w3m, with a single [continue] button on the default page.
This confused me. It was not until I closed w3m that I saw lp-shell
had
Package: emacs
Version: 23.1+1-5
Severity: normal
I set up a chroot containing GNU Emacs 23 and (almost) every elisp
package, with the intention of looking for libraries that shadow
emacs23's libraries with obsolete older versions.
Imagine my surprise when *even with -Q*, a number of libraries
Package: dictionaries-common
Version: 1.5.5
Severity: normal
File: /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50dictionaries-common.el
Usertags: emacs23-load-path-shadows
This package appears to provide old versions[0] of elisp libraries
that GNU Emacs 23 ships, and instructs GNU Emacs 23 to prefer these
old
found 540626 roundup/1.4.13-2
thanks
Rerunning the same tests as last time, I find this issue is still
present.
Trent W. Buck wrote:
Making requests to bugs.darcs.net *from* bugs.darcs.net (to avoid
network latency), we can see that HEAD and GET take about the same
amount of time
Michael Holtermann wrote:
Hi, on my Eee PC 1005 HA, only the suspend and the brightness keys
are working. All other keys (WLAN, touchpad, volume) do nothing.
Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Per http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEeePC/Model/1005HA,
2.6.32 and later require
Package: polipo
Version: 1.0.5~20091115+54-1
Severity: wishlist
Tags: upstream
It seems that polipo understands Range requests only if they have
exactly one range. This issue affected bzr export, which complained
as follows.
Got a 200 response when asking for multiple ranges, does your
Package: initramfs-tools
Version: 0.94.4
Severity: wishlist
Following the kernel handbook, I built a mainline kernel using make
deb-pkg. This kernel is configured without modules or initrd
support. On installing it with dpkg -i, I got this:
$ sudo dpkg -i
Package: llvm-gcc-4.5
Version: 0~20091229-2
Severity: minor
This doesn't Just Work for me:
$ echo 'void main(){}' tmp.c
$ cc tmp.c
$ cc -fplugin=/usr/lib/dragonegg/dragonegg.so tmp.c
cc1: error: Cannot load plugin /usr/lib/dragonegg/dragonegg.so
Package: msmtp-mta
Version: 1.4.20-1
Severity: wishlist
[Feel free to WONTFIX this if it's beyond msmtp's intended scope.]
I want a one-stop way to rewrite the recipient of system mail,
i.e. To: root becomes RCPT TO:f...@example.net. I suggest:
- add an msmtprc command local-to
Package: kexec-tools
Version: 1:2.0.1-1
Severity: wishlist
After installing kexec-tools, I get this:
$ sudo /etc/init.d/kexec-load stop
Loading new kernel image into memory...Cannot open `/vmlinuz': No such file
or directory
failed.
This is because my symlinks are in /boot:
$
Package: etckeeper
Version: 0.43
Severity: wishlist
File: /etc/etckeeper/pre-commit.d/30store-metadata
Tags: patch
Using Darcs, etckeeper pre-commit was annoyingly slow. Profiling
pre-commit.d, I found about 3s were spent running readlink(1) on each
link in /etc/, though there were only 590
Package: debhelper
Version: 7.4.17
Severity: wishlist
File: /usr/bin/dh_installinit
I wanted to try Ubuntu's (Scott's) bootchart implementation on Debian
Sid, so I did this:
$ bzr checkout --lightweight lp:ubuntu/bootchart bootchart
$ cd bootchart/
$ debuild
[...]
$ dpkg -I
# Put this ticket in MY queue.
reopen 526598
reassign 526598 paredit-el
retitle 526598 Prepare paredit for inclusion in emacs-goodies-el
thanks
Peter S Galbraith wrote:
- Instead of the HTML, provide documention in a form suitable for
inclusion into the Info doc of emacs-goodies-el (I can
Package: offlineimap
Version: 6.2.0+nmu2
Severity: wishlist
I use offlineimap unidirectionally to create a local cache of my gmail
inbox. I browse both imap.gmail.com and ~/Mail with mutt. For the
former, mutt distinguishes between new and old (in mutt terms) by
adding (KEYWORD Old) to IMAP
Package: bitlbee
Version: 1.2.5-1
Severity: normal
I got the error below when connecting rcirc (part of GNU Emacs) to
bitlbee, which was speaking XMPP to an internal server (running
ejabberd, I believe). rcirc's developer, rcy, believes bitlbee is at
fault. Please investigate.
twb I just got
Package: graphviz
Version: 2.26.3-3
Severity: important
Upon installing graphviz, I am confronted with
$ dot --help
There is no layout engine support for dot
Perhaps dot -c needs to be run (with installer's privileges) to register
the plugins?
I don't remember seeing this before.
Package: sleepd
Version: 2.01
Severity: normal
File: /usr/sbin/sleepd
If I boot my laptop, THEN connect a USB keyboard, sleepd puts my
system to sleep while I'm busy typing (on the external keyboard).
The symptoms don't appear if the keyboard is connected at boot, and
they disappear if I issue a
Package: jetring
Version: 0.18
Severity: normal
File: /usr/bin/jetring-explode
The gpg manual says:
--list-keys, -k, --list-public-keys
[...]
Avoid using the output of this command in scripts or
other programs as it is likely to change as GnuPG
changes. See
Package: jetring
Version: 0.18
Severity: wishlist
I wish to store changes to my .gnupg in a (private, of course!) VCS
repository. Since VCSs handle text files better than binary blobs,
jetring is useful -- ignore pubring.gpg itself, and instead run
jetring as a pre-commit hook, committing
Cyril Brulebois wrote:
your package FTBFS on kfreebsd-amd64:
| Configuring darcs-2.3.0...
| Setup: At least the following dependencies are missing:
| array =0.1 0.3, containers =0.1 0.3, unix =1.0 2.4
| make[1]: *** [override_dh_auto_configure] Error 1
I can reproduce this on amd64 with
Package: eeepc-acpi-scripts
Version: 1.1.10
Severity: normal
On a 1005P, if I shut the lid while mplayer is playing, and open the lid
and Control_L (to wake it), the speakers start spewing noise instead of
music. Mplayer reports:
[AO_ALSA] alsa-lib: pcm_hw.c:709:(snd_pcm_hw_resume)
David Kalnischkies wrote:
Are the maintainers waiting for a patch to be submitted?
[...] apt-ftparchive doesn't have a maintainer currently who takes
care of features and/or bugs and is therefore in (very) low
maintenance mode [...]
OK, I didn't realize.
[...] if you have a patch and/or
Package: xz-utils
Version: 4.999.9beta+20100307-1
Severity: wishlist
File: /usr/bin/xz
As a rough-and-ready way to get a compression estimate for -9 vs. the
default, I'm in the habit of doing running both with -v for a few
minutes, then interrupting them.
Unfortunately, ^C changes the ETA from
Package: battery-stats
Version: 0.3.6-1
Severity: normal
File: /usr/sbin/battery-stats-collector
I get this:
$ sudo battery-stats-collector
battery-stats-collector: Using libacpi.
battery-stats-collector: Number of batteries: 2.
battery-stats-collector: Reading info from battery
martin f krafft wrote:
Please add [NotAutomatic: yes] functionality to apt-ftparchive by
adding a configuration option to its configuration stanza.
This feature is still absent, and still desirable (to me, at least).
Are the maintainers waiting for a patch to be submitted?
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Package: libvirt-bin
Version: 0.7.7-2
Severity: minor
File: /usr/bin/virsh
From the following transcript, you can see that virsh honours $EDITOR,
but not $VISUAL. Convention is that the latter takes precedence over
the former (e.g. with EDITOR=ex VIRTUAL=vim, virsh should pick vim).
$
Vagrant Cascadian wrote:
Please consider setting CONFIG_RAMZSWAP (a.k.a. compcache), which
enables a ram based compressed swap device. i think it can be
enabled as a module, but i'm not sure.
This feature is very useful to thin clients, embedded devices, or
other environments with limited
Package: bash-completion-lib
Version: 1.3.1-2
Severity: wishlist
A number of packages advertise themselves to bash-completion.
These third-party completions are not visible to bash-completion-lib
users. It would be nice if they were.
On inspection, the internal layout of the two directories
Package: extlinux
Version: 2:3.85+dfsg-1
Severity: important
update-extlinux breaks any attempt to install/remove/purge kernels on
several of my hosts. Attached is a transcript of an attempt to purge
a kernel, after changing set -e to set -ex in update-extlinux.
AFAICT it's upset because
Package: extlinux
Version: 2:3.85+dfsg-1
Severity: normal
Attached is a transcript of an attempt to purge a removed kernel
(triggering update-extlinux) on a host that uses extlinux with a
static, hand-written extlinux.conf (using kernel-img.conf symlinks)
rather than update-extlinux.
This issue
Package: extlinux
Version: 2:3.85+dfsg-1
Severity: normal
I tried to use live-helper to build a rescue image for hosts that use
extlinux as their bootloader. Thus, I asked live-helper to include
extlinux in its package list, so that I can run extlinux --install
from the resulting rescue image,
Junichi Uekawa wrote:
Hmmm..I see a problem. Ubuntu isn't Debian so they can break Debian
policy as much as they wish. Which sucks.
FWIW upstart itself is in Debian, but daemons[0] don't support it
out-of-the-box, so this issue doesn't manifest with Debian chroots.
Of course, being able to use
Package: qemu-system
Version: 0.12.3+dfsg-1
Severity: normal
In the last upgrade, Recommends: bochbios became Recommends: seabios.
However, aptitude safe-upgrade didn't do anything, so the first I
learned of this was that qemu suddenly started complaining
qemu: could not load PC BIOS
Bdale Garbee wrote:
Since I don't personally admin anything LDAP-related, I have at best
a weak understanding of it myself... ;-)
Let me emphasize that my description was only a GUESS. I use sudo and
ldap (but not sudo-ldap); my sudoers is just a flat file distributed
by puppet.
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Package: etckeeper
Version: 0.43
Severity: minor
etckeeper init creates the following hooks for the Darcs backend:
record prehook etckeeper pre-commit -d /etc
record run-prehook
whatsnew prehook etckeeper pre-commit -d /etc
whatsnew run-prehook
I had a chroot which used
Package: sudo-ldap
Version: 1.7.2p1-1.2
Severity: wishlist
Currently this variant describes itself as
This version is built with LDAP support.
This puzzled me, because libpam-ldap already allows you to perform
authentication via LDAP -- did sudo-ldap only exist for people that
hated pam and
Junichi Uekawa wrote:
pbuilder currently creates a policy-rc.d that prevents daemons from
starting when they are installed to satisfy build dependencies.
This works well for sysvinit packages.
However, when working with Ubuntu Lucid[0] chroots, many daemons
use upstart instead of sysvinit.
Version: 0.19-8
Joey Hess wrote:
/etc/init.d/checkroot.sh runs fsck with an option of either -a or -y
(depending on a configuration variable).
FYI, the -f option also appears to be important; with a btrfs root
filesystem I tried touch /forcefsck; reboot and got
Checking root file
Cyril Brulebois wrote:
Trent W. Buck trentb...@gmail.com (03/02/2010):
Julien Cristau wrote:
$ xinit -- /usr/bin/Xfbdev
Fatal server error:
LinuxInit: Server must be suid root
It doesn't get the wrong mode. It needs to be started as root.
Is it reasonable to patch the source
Bastian Blank wrote:
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 09:57:37AM +1100, Trent W. Buck wrote:
# printf ondemand /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_governor
It should give an error here.
# dmesg | tail -1
[38198.312686] ondemand governor failed, too long transition latency
Ola Lundqvist wrote:
$ xinit /usr/bin/xtightvncviewer --help
[help output...]
Are you really sure you got VNC help screen here, and not xinit help?
Yes. Here's the full output:
$ xinit /usr/bin/xtightvncviewer --help
X.Org X Server 1.7.5
Release Date: 2010-02-16
X
Ola Lundqvist wrote:
Interesting. If you just type xtightvncviewer without the --help,
then you get the help text, right?
No. Without arguments:
$ xtightvncviewer
Error: Can't open display:
If I run it in X (i.e. xinit /usr/bin/xtightvncviewer), it prompts
me for a server to connect
I'll try to look into this before Monday.
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Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote:
After upgrading from .29 to .30, I can no longer change my CPU
frequency scaling governor: [...]
The next release of Debian (6.0, code name Squeeze) will be based on
2.6.32. Please test the current 2.6.32 from unstable/testing and
tell us whether the problem
Ben Hutchings wrote:
Also, you could try using acpi-cpufreq instead of p4-clockmod. I
don't know whether it will work on this machine but it might do.
# modprobe acpi-cpufreq
FATAL: Error inserting acpi_cpufreq
Package: rlfe
Version: 6.1-1
Severity: normal
File: /usr/bin/rlfe
rlfe doesn't propagate the exit status of its child to its parent. I
think it should.
$ rlfe false
$ echo $?
0
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'),
Trent W. Buck wrote:
In chroot_sysv-rc, live-helper currently creates a policy-rc.d that
prevents daemons from starting when they are installed. This works
well for sysvinit packages.
However, when working with Ubuntu Lucid[0] chroots, many daemons use
upstart instead of sysvinit. Thus
From: Trent W. Buck t...@cybersource.com.au
---
manpages/lh_config.en.1 | 16
1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
diff --git a/manpages/lh_config.en.1 b/manpages/lh_config.en.1
index 3a3e4cf..8a12232 100644
--- a/manpages/lh_config.en.1
+++ b/manpages
Package: xtightvncviewer
Version: 1.3.9-6
Severity: wishlist
This is stupid. I should be able to get the command-line options
BEFORE starting X:
$ xtightvncviewer --help
Error: Can't open display:
$ xinit /usr/bin/xtightvncviewer --help
[help output...]
-- System Information:
Package: debootstrap
Version: 1.0.21
Severity: important
The 1.0.21 tarball is huge:
-rw-rw-r-- 1 twb cyber 1.1K Oct 5 09:33 debootstrap_1.0.20.dsc
-rw-rw-r-- 1 twb cyber 50K Oct 5 09:33 debootstrap_1.0.20.tar.gz
-rw-rw-r-- 1 twb cyber 1.7K Feb 22 14:33 debootstrap_1.0.21.dsc
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