Bug#620960: [PKG-IRC-Maintainers] Bug#620960: Packaging of inspircd

2011-05-24 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
On 23.05.2011 00:41, Stig Sandbeck Mathisen wrote: Run: * Starts by default, disable in /etc/default/inspircd don't do that! A lot of people install a lot of programs without knowing what their are doing (and so also without knowing the security impacts). Further, now it nearly recommended

Bug#627093: tex-gyre: pdfTeX fatal error using tgbonum

2011-05-17 Thread giacomo boffi
Package: tex-gyre Version: 2.004.1-2 Severity: important or using tgschola or... it seems that in any case, when i try to use the tex gyre fonts, pdf(la)tex tries to generate bitmap fonts while tex gyre should distribute OTF and Type 1 fonts i don't want to mention that i have no problem with

Bug#627093: package tex-gyre is ok, it's me...

2011-05-17 Thread Giacomo Boffi
in the last lines of the pdflatex output there was a reference to a pdftex configuration file deep in a cache in a hidden directory (~/.texmf-var/) in my $HOME... the time stamp on that file was paleolitical (is it a remain from tetex age), so i removed the whole stuff and bingo, i can use all

Bug#627093: tex-gyre: pdfTeX fatal error using tgbonum

2011-05-17 Thread Giacomo Boffi
Hilmar Preusse writes: On 17.05.11 giacomo boffi (bo...@stru.polimi.it) wrote: Moin, [1{/home/boffi/.texmf-var/fonts/ map/pdftex/updmap/pdftex.map}] Could you remove these map files from your homedir (all files/dirs bewlo map), then run updmap-sys and try again? i did more

Bug#626457: libc6 doesn't include lib64 symlink on amd64

2011-05-12 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
Package: libc6 Version: 2.13-3 Severity: critical Tags: sid The 2.13-3 version of libc6 doesn't include the lib64 symlink (in root and in /usr), thus making the system unusable (and blocking dpkg in the middle of operations). Restoring the symlink solve the problem. ciao cate --

Bug#620360: python-tk: need for ttk

2011-04-01 Thread giacomo boffi
Package: python-tk Version: 2.7.1-1 Severity: normal python2.7 supports the ttk widget set from tkinter, except in debian regards, gb -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500,

Bug#616357: binutils: linux-source-2.6.37 fails to compile

2011-03-04 Thread Giacomo Mulas
a known good kernel source, i.e. one which I had previously compiled successfully (and which is running on my laptop now) without changing anything in the configuration anywhere. However, if there is any check you would like me to perform to make sure of that, please let me know. Bye Giacomo

Bug#616357: binutils: linux-source-2.6.37 fails to compile

2011-03-03 Thread Giacomo Mulas
this bug against some other package, please let me know. Bye Giacomo -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.37-jak (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=it_IT.utf8, LC_CTYPE=it_IT.utf8

Bug#611339: screenlets: doesn't depend on python-gnomekeyring (just recommends)

2011-01-28 Thread giacomo boffi
Package: screenlets Version: 0.1.2-7 Severity: important if i try to start screenlets-daemon rom the cli, it fails 'cs gnomekeyring is nowhere to be found python module gnomekeyring is provided by python-gnomekeyring, that is simply in the list of recommended package please either include

Bug#604916: network-manager: support for additional configuration

2010-11-25 Thread Giacomo Mulas
the appropriate wireless network, and correctly connecting to it. It would be so much nicer if I could at least optionally attach a shell script to each network connection, so that everything would be set up just by choosing it. Thanks in advance Giacomo Mulas -- System Information: Debian Release

Bug#522776: debian-policy: mandate existence of a standardised UTF-8 locale

2010-09-03 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
On 03.09.2010 01:46, Russ Allbery wrote: Samuel Thibaultsthiba...@debian.org writes: Well, it's mostly - some people saying it's useless, - while other people saying I need it, and also - en_US.UTF-8 is just fine vs. - en_US.UTF-8 sucks, we really need C.UTF-8 instead without any

Bug#488214: make mailx a registered virtual package name

2010-08-25 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
On 21.08.2010 08:36, Raphael Hertzog wrote: On Fri, 20 Aug 2010, Russ Allbery wrote: diff --git a/virtual-package-names-list.txt b/virtual-package-names-list.txt index 9ba66e5..2308d39 100644 --- a/virtual-package-names-list.txt +++ b/virtual-package-names-list.txt @@ -123,6 +123,8 @@ News and

Bug#593533: debian-policy: Proposal to stop requesting to list initial Debian maintainers in debian/copyright

2010-08-19 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
On 19.08.2010 04:10, Russ Allbery wrote: Charles Plessyple...@debian.org writes: Information about the initial Debian maintainers partially overlaps the information in debian/changelog, and the copyright statements for the packaging work. Under normal circumstances, it always duplicates

Bug#488214: make mailx a registered virtual package name

2010-08-19 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
On 18.08.2010 23:38, Russ Allbery wrote: Julien Cristaujcris...@debian.org writes: On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 12:31:59 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: I propose the following addition. Seconds or objections? (As mentioned elsewhere in the file, the * indicates that the providing packages are

Bug#593533: debian-policy: Proposal to stop requesting to list initial Debian maintainers in debian/copyright

2010-08-19 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
On 19.08.2010 09:37, Russ Allbery wrote: Giacomo A. Catenazzic...@debian.org writes: No, I think it is wrong! The debian/copyright also include packaging copyright. I think the part involved in this proposal is for such reasons. So IMHO we must still require the names of packagers

Bug#488214: make mailx a registered virtual package name

2010-08-19 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
On 19.08.2010 09:45, Russ Allbery wrote: Giacomo A. Catenazzic...@debian.org writes: On 18.08.2010 23:38, Russ Allbery wrote: Julien Cristaujcris...@debian.org writes: Is there a spec somewhere about the command line arguments for mailx? I know that bsd-mailx and heirloom-mailx do

Bug#585411: Bug#591059: Bug#585411: RM: lxr -- RoQA; security bugs, oooold upstream version, not properly maintained

2010-08-04 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
be fine. For lxr I think there is hardly much todo apart from upgrading to the current upstream version which you haven't done for quite a long. Thus the removal request. If that changes now fine, then I see no reason to remove it. So, any comments, Giacomo? I must say, that I tend to agree

Bug#585411: RM: lxr -- RoQA; security bugs, oooold upstream version, not properly maintained

2010-07-31 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
On 07/31/2010 04:38 PM, Nico Golde wrote: Package: ftp.debian.org Severity: normal Hi, I hereby request the removal of lxr from the archive, it should not be included in squeeze as well. The version that our package is currently based on is 0.3 (from 2003), which is light years behind

Bug#584671: [lxr-cvs] new stable version fix security hole

2010-07-26 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
On 26.07.2010 15:08, Alexander Reichle-Schmehl wrote: Hi! * Giacomo A. Catenazzic...@cateee.net [100607 09:29]: Please update lxr-cvs to the new stable version. The new version 0.9.8 of lxrng fix several cross-site scripting vulnerabilities (CVE-2009-4497) reported in bug #575745 The new

Bug#475101: obsolete linuxthreads requirement

2010-07-15 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
On 04.07.2010 10:42, Kurt Roeckx wrote: On Sat, Jul 03, 2010 at 12:26:40PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: --- a/policy.sgml +++ b/policy.sgml @@ -7225,10 +7225,10 @@ INSTALL = install -s # (or use strip on the files in debian/tmp) for C files) will need to be compiled twice, for the

Bug#477240: Please clarify status of XSI extensions for kill and trap

2010-07-15 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
On 05.07.2010 01:02, Raphael Geissert wrote: On Sunday 04 July 2010 00:04:20 Russ Allbery wrote: Yeah, I was trying too hard to avoid a problem which doesn't really exist. Here's an updated patch. diff --git a/policy.sgml b/policy.sgml index bad28af..8b715d0 100644 --- a/policy.sgml +++

Bug#477240: Please clarify status of XSI extensions for kill and trap

2010-07-15 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
On 07/15/2010 06:53 PM, Russ Allbery wrote: Giacomo A. Catenazzic...@debian.org writes: As we have in test item, I think we should add ,if implemented as a shell built-in, also for the kill command. Good point. Here's a new patch. (This doesn't apply to trap because I don't think trap can

Bug#487201: MPL-license

2010-06-11 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
On 10.06.2010 21:45, Russ Allbery wrote: I recently did a survey of both licenses already listed in common-licenses and ones proposed for common-licenses using a Perl script that's now in the debian-policy Git repository. The result was that the MPL version 1.1 was used by 654 binary packages

Bug#436105: suggestion to add GPL-1 as a common licence

2010-06-11 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
On 11.06.2010 13:16, Andrew McMillan wrote: On Fri, 2010-06-11 at 11:35 +0200, Santiago Vila wrote: Ok, I agree that it would a good idea to include GPL-1 in common-licenses because of the high number of packages still using it. I'm sorry, but I disagree, for the time being. I do not

Bug#436105: suggestion to add GPL-1 as a common licence

2010-06-11 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
On 11.06.2010 14:25, Andrew McMillan wrote: If the code is v1-or-later then a trivial fork (by the original developer) is able to relicense it as v2-or-later or v3-or-later. If the original developer is unhappy with doing that, then they do have uncommon licensing desires. It would be

Bug#584671: [lxr-cvs] new stable version fix security hole

2010-06-07 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
On 05.06.2010 15:00, Xavier Brochard wrote: Package: lxr-cvs Version: 0.9.5+cvs20071020-1 Severity: serious Tags: security X-Debbugs-CC: secure-testing-t...@lists.alioth.debian.org --- Please enter the report below this line. --- Please update lxr-cvs to the new stable version. The new version

Bug#584857: /usr/bin/tightvncserver: image selections are partially black

2010-06-07 Thread giacomo boffi
Package: tightvncserver Version: 1.3.9-6.1 Severity: normal File: /usr/bin/tightvncserver i use tightvncserver -depth 16 -geometry 1024x768 on my office debian system and then i connect from home using a vnc client from an old ibook yesterday, using djview4, that permits to save a selection

Bug#569174: [PATCH] Correction of RFC number for date format -- bug #569174.

2010-06-04 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
On 04.06.2010 04:40, Andrew McMillan wrote: On Thu, 2010-06-03 at 18:31 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: Charles Plessyple...@debian.org writes: I also like the idea, so I prepared a patch (attached) Thank you! RFC 822 dates use only two digits for the years, but Debian changelogs described by

Bug#569174: [PATCH] Correction of RFC number for date format -- bug #569174.

2010-06-02 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
On 02.06.2010 14:59, Bill Allombert wrote: What is the diffrence between RFC5322 and RFC2822 time format ? RFC 5322 was only released in 2008, so the standard that packages actually follow is clearly RFC2822. I would prefer if we keep a reference to RFC2822 because is is more well known than

Bug#572746: libm: sinf/cosf performance is awful on amd64

2010-03-17 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
On 17.03.2010 11:29, Vincent Lefevre wrote: On 2010-03-07 16:17:08 +0100, Aurelien Jarno wrote: On amd64, only sincos has an optimized version, It may be optimized, but completely buggy. For instance, on 1e22, sincos returns 0.46261304076460174617 for the sine instead of

Bug#572746: libm: sinf/cosf performance is awful on amd64

2010-03-17 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
On 17.03.2010 14:36, Vincent Lefevre wrote: On 2010-03-17 13:41:04 +0100, Giacomo A. Catenazzi wrote: On 17.03.2010 11:29, Vincent Lefevre wrote: On 2010-03-07 16:17:08 +0100, Aurelien Jarno wrote: On amd64, only sincos has an optimized version, It may be optimized, but completely buggy

Bug#568910: serna: segfault when show markup is selected

2010-02-08 Thread Giacomo Mulas
if I can further help in tracing this bug. Thanks in advance, Giacomo Mulas -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-jak (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap

Bug#567316: bsdmainutils: [ncal] -w week-numbers are off by one since version 8.0

2010-01-29 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
On 29.01.2010 12:57, Wesley Schwengle wrote: Michael Meskes wrote: severity 567316 normal thanks Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable You're kidding right? I just don't get the joke. A calender which displays incorrect weeks is not usable, not to me at least. Package

Bug#563910: microcode.ctl: [PATCH] Consider using logging functions in lsb-base for init script

2010-01-06 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
in the init script at the same time. Ok, thanks. But I think I should also add lsb-base as pre-dependency, right? giacomo Thanks, J. -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (750, 'testing'), (500, 'testing-proposed-updates') Architecture: i386

Bug#561612: bsdmainutils: [calendar] calendar.birthday lists some Emily Dickenson

2009-12-18 Thread giacomo boffi
Package: bsdmainutils Version: 8.0.3 Severity: minor calendar.birthday lists some Emily Dickenson that happens to share her birthday with the famous poet Emily Dickinson i'd prefer to have listed the poet... ciao gb -- System Information:

Bug#522776: debian-policy: mandate existence of a standardised UTF-8 locale

2009-12-01 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
Thorsten Glaser wrote: Albert Cahalan dixit: Unless plain C goes UTF-8 Not going to happen, it’s not binary-safe. (I fought that in MirBSD with the OPTU-8/16 encoding scheme.) Why not? Note that usual functions work on bytes, not on characters, and on POSIX utilities the old/classical

Bug#558093: python-wxgtk2.8: cannot import wx.aui module

2009-11-26 Thread giacomo boffi
Package: python-wxgtk2.8 Version: 2.8.7.1-2+b1 Severity: normal I see the following behaviour on my system: -- % python Python 2.5.4 (r254:67916, Nov 19 2009, 19:46:21) [GCC 4.3.4] on linux2 Type help,

Bug#547809: bauble: manipulates site-packages/ directly, failing with Python 2.6

2009-11-19 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
ACK the patch and the NMU. Thanks! I really had to solve myself the bugs (and a lot earlier). ciao cate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#556654: restart in init.d script fails when rddcollect isn't running

2009-11-17 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
Package: rrdcollect Version: 0.2.3-4+b2 Severity: normal Hello, the init.d script rrdcollect fail the restart target if rddcollect isn't running. The stop target in restart is missing the --oknodo flag (note that 'stop' target include it) ciao cate -- System Information: Debian Release:

Bug#494429: hplip: hp-check won't detect cups version : should be error or warning ?

2009-11-01 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
Hello, this is a moer general problem: hp-check check the wrong things (or the package dependencies are wrong). In this case: hp-check execute cups-config --version, but this command is available only on cups-dev. On some other dependency checks, hp-check doesn't check for the plain subsystem

Bug#494429: [Pkg-hpijs-devel] Bug#494429: hplip: hp-check won't detect cups version : should be error or warning ?

2009-11-01 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
Hello Mark, Mark Purcell wrote: Version: 3.9.8-1 On Sunday 01 November 2009 19:44:47 Giacomo A. Catenazzi wrote: Hello, this is a moer general problem: hp-check check the wrong things (or the package dependencies are wrong). hplip now will advise if it is a run time checks or build time

Bug#552757: debian-policy: all caps must

2009-10-29 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
Jakub Wilk wrote: must is a quite common word in the Debian Policy: For consistency, I'd do s/MUST/must/. But not automatically. On RFC usage must is different from MUST, so you SHOULD distinguish the normative MUST and with the non normative must. And BTW if we do such change, we SHOULD

Bug#552757: debian-policy: all caps must

2009-10-29 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
Jakub Wilk wrote: * Giacomo A. Catenazzi c...@debian.org, 2009-10-29, 10:16: must is a quite common word in the Debian Policy: For consistency, I'd do s/MUST/must/. But not automatically. On RFC usage must is different from MUST, so you SHOULD distinguish the normative MUST

Bug#551186: iceweasel: quits when there's only 1 tab and i hit close tab shortcut (^W)

2009-10-16 Thread giacomo boffi
Package: iceweasel Version: 3.5.3-2 Severity: normal i don't know if the change was deliberate or it is simply a regression... in any case recent package reverted to a very old behavior, that was corrected years ago, namely iceweasel now quits when there's only 1 tab and i hit the close tab

Bug#391836: debian-policy: New virtual package: cron-daemon

2009-10-15 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
Raphael Hertzog wrote: On Wed, 14 Oct 2009, Russ Allbery wrote: Do both of our proposed cron daemons support that same syntax? (Does anyone here use bcron to comment on that?) bcron supports the */n syntax, but not @reboot and the other @*. See

Bug#549910: debian-policy: Specify requirement in terms of upgradeability, interface stability

2009-10-07 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
Raphaël Hertzog wrote: Package: debian-policy Version: 3.8.3.0 Severity: wishlist We have some unwritten packaging rules and it would be good to write them down even if some of them appear to be obvious to most of us. I think in particular to stuff like: - a package must at least be upgradable

Bug#549699: microcode.ctl: update-intel-microcode downloads older microcode than latest

2009-10-06 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
Hajo Möller wrote: Hello, update-intel-microcode gets the last mentioned microcode instead of the lastest one, as the RSS feed currently mentions two firmware files and sed failing to use non-greedy patterns. The attached patch uses perl to parse the wget output, there's no need to add perl-base

Bug#549834: Bug#549816 and #549...@bugs.debian.org (g15daemon-audacious and g15macro): FTBFS: libtool: link: `/usr/lib/libg15.la' is not a valid libtool archive

2009-10-06 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
Yes, thanks you for remind me to publish the new g15daemon. On removing the *.la files I used a shortcut, but than I forgot to upload the new version of g15daemon without .la file (and references to no more existent libg15 la file. I'll upload the new version of g15daemon in next few days, and

Bug#532456: Are these licenses DFSG?

2009-09-30 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
Florian Weimer wrote: * MJ Ray: cate wrote: Eugen Dedu wrote: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=532456, about licenses I think there is a problem in terminology. AFAIK (but IANAL), the any use doesn't include distribution of software. For this reason I think it is safe to

Bug#548862: svgatextmode: doesn't support newer nvidia cards

2009-09-29 Thread giacomo boffi
Package: svgatextmode Version: 1.9-21 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable when i try to use the stm binary, i get what follows (i appended also the output of the lspci command) % sudo stm Chipset = `RIVA128', Textmode clock = 28.30 MHz, 80x25 chars, CharCell = 9x16. Refresh

Bug#532456: Are these licenses DFSG?

2009-09-29 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
Eugen Dedu wrote: Hi, We have a bug report, http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=532456, about licenses of various plugins of opal package, and I do not know if the licenses involved are DFSG-free. Could you please tell me if these plugins are allowed to be in debian main? The

Bug#530687: [PATCH] bug530687-srivasta: Support for architecture wildcards

2009-09-21 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
Russ Allbery wrote: Giacomo A. Catenazzi c...@debian.org writes: Do we really need to use the triplets? Do you see some possible cases where we must really specify the first part? Isn't someone working on a klibc port? That would require using the triplet. Does the new dpkg support also

Bug#518199: debian-policy: virtual package names for doom-related packages

2009-09-21 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
Manoj Srivastava wrote: Hi, The most recent version of this proposal was: --8---cut here---start-8--- --- virtual-package-names-list.txt~ 2009-03-15 18:19:17.0 + +++ virtual-package-names-list.txt 2009-03-15 18:20:00.0

Bug#547272: policy 5.6.16 - Format field: Is it really 1.5?

2009-09-18 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
Package: debian-policy Version: 3.8.3.0 In policy 5.6.16, about Format field I read: : This field specifies a format revision for the file. The most current format : described in the Policy Manual is version 1.5. The syntax of the format : value is the same as that of a package version number

Bug#530687: [PATCH] bug530687-srivasta: Support for architecture wildcards

2009-09-18 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
Manoj Srivastava wrote: + +p + A package may specify an architecture wildcard. Architecture + wildcards are in the format ttvaros/var/tt-any and + any-ttvarcpu/var/tt. footnoteInternally, the package + system normalizes the GNU triplets and the Debian

Bug#547186: g15daemon: Random crashes

2009-09-18 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
Could you check in /var/log/syslog, if at the time of the crash there is some additional information? The daemon is terminated with SIGKILL, and this signal should not be caused by the daemon itself (SEGSEGV, SIGILL, SIGBUS, etc. are delivered for internal errors). So I think an external

Bug#547186: g15daemon: Random crashes

2009-09-17 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
Could you send also the output of grep g15daemon /var/log/syslog thanks cate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#546877: depends on extra package (makedev)

2009-09-16 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
Xavier Bestel wrote: Package: microcode.ctl Version: 1.17-12 Severity: serious Justification: Policy 2.5 your package depends on makedev which is an extra packages. That's a violation of Debian Policy 2.5: Packages must not depend on packages with lower priority values (excluding

Bug#546933: fglrx-source: module fails to load on vanilla 2.6.31 kernel

2009-09-16 Thread Giacomo Mulas
whether this is a regression introduced in version 9-9-1 of fglrx or it depends on changes in the kernel upon going 2.6.31 - 2.6.31. Bye Giacomo Mulas -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux

Bug#544666: completion works on filesystem object instead of gnuplot's commands

2009-09-02 Thread giacomo boffi
Package: gnuplot Version: 4.2.5-2 Severity: important TAB completion works on filesystem object, while i expect that completion is done on gnuplot's commands and options -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')

Bug#541780: g15daemon spurious restarts due to udev rules.

2009-08-17 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
pancho horrillo wrote: When I run mplayer, or openarena, somehow udev reacts as if the device (Z-10 USB speakers) was reconnected, and calls strange. On my system I don't see such things (with vlc and mplayer). udev rules are still an hack, because I had not yet time to correct the g15daemon

Bug#542008: mediawiki reccomends ImageMagick over PHP GD library

2009-08-17 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
Package: mediawiki Severity: wishlist From http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/ImageMagick (and setup page): Image thumbnailing requires either ImageMagick or GD library. ImageMagick is recommended since it produces better quality thumbnails; Thus the package dependencies should have imagemagick

Bug#541306: g15daemon: Fail to install when required hardware is not present

2009-08-13 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: I just tried to install the g15daemon package on a Dell Latitude D505, and there the package failed to install because the init.d script return an error exit code (1). The messages sent to syslog indicate that the daemon failed to start because the supported hardware

Bug#531699: ITP: apt-offline -- Offline APT Package Manager

2009-08-13 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: Just for the record, apt-offline is being tailored for inclusion into Debian at: http://git.debian.org/?p=users/rrs-guest/apt-offline.git;a=summary Hello, I find interesting your program. I'm one of the maintainers of apt-zip, which do similar tasks, but: - it is not

Bug#381511: Please have spell support aspell as a backend in addition to ispell

2009-08-12 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
It should be easy to include support for aspell. Really using spell -i /usr/bin/aspell works as expected, using aspell instead of spell. But this should be done by default: if ispell doesn't exists, the program should try aspell. ciao cate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#491295: latencytop can run only on i386 and amd64 only, not any

2009-08-07 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
The new kernels support also other architectures. From latest kernel sources: arch/powerpc/Kconfig:config HAVE_LATENCYTOP_SUPPORT arch/sparc/Kconfig:config HAVE_LATENCYTOP_SUPPORT arch/arm/Kconfig:config HAVE_LATENCYTOP_SUPPORT arch/sh/Kconfig:config HAVE_LATENCYTOP_SUPPORT

Bug#540353: bash --posix: . (dot command) doesn't use PATH to search for scripts

2009-08-07 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
Package: bash Version: 3.2-4 Severity: normal /tmp$ echo echo OK ok /tmp$ bash --posix -c . ok OK According POSIX: http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/toc.htm the dot command should look the path (and not the local dir). ciao cate -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0.2

Bug#539744: chroot to lenny /target in debootstrap segfaults

2009-08-04 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
Frans Pop wrote: This oneliner change would fix the issue as well: +++ b/packages/base-installer/debian/bootstrap-base.postinst @@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ install_base_system () { # so make a backup to be restored later copied_fstab=true cp

Bug#539952: lxterminal doesn't pass Alt-number keys

2009-08-04 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
Package: lxterminal Version: 0.1.6-1 Severity: normal lxterminal doesn't pass to applications the Alt-1 to Alt-9 keys (Alt-0 and Alt-letters works as expected). This is annoying when using irssi. ciao cate -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT

Bug#539765: screenlets: problem in sensors.py?

2009-08-03 Thread giacomo boffi
Package: screenlets Version: 0.1.2-6 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable when i try to instantiate a screenlet i get the following % python /usr/share/screenlets/ClearCalendar/ClearCalendarScreenlet.py CachingBackend: Loading instances from cache No Daemon, Launching Daemon

Bug#539765: screenlets: problem in sensors.py?

2009-08-03 Thread giacomo boffi
Package: screenlets Severity: normal after reinstalling the nvidia (closed source) drivers, the bug i reported disappeared sorry for the noise, gb -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable

Bug#538389: ITP: rfkill -- tool for enabling and disabling wireless devices

2009-07-25 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
Darren Salt wrote: Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Darren Salt li...@youmustbejoking.demon.co.uk * Package name: rfkill Version : 0.1-4-g9429740 Upstream Authors: Johannes Berg, Marcel Holtmann, Tim Gardner * URL :

Bug#534408: debian-policy: Installed-Size is defined as kilobytes but dpkg-gencontrol fills it in with kibibytes

2009-06-24 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
Ben Pfaff wrote: Russ Allbery r...@debian.org writes: Ben Finney ben+deb...@benfinney.id.au writes: If you're going that far, please perform one of the following: s/rounded/fractions rounded up/ s/rounded/fractions rounded down/ s/rounded/fractions rounded to the nearest whole

Bug#534398: ITP: libposix -- unifed implementation of core functionality of all Unix systems

2009-06-24 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
Aníbal Monsalve Salazar wrote: Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Anibal Monsalve Salazar ani...@debian.org * Package name: libposix I still have doubts that this package is undistributable with this name, because of POSIX trademark (but DFSG allow us to change the package name).

Bug#533287: debian-policy: please clarify 10.7.4

2009-06-17 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
Don Armstrong wrote: On Wed, 17 Jun 2009, Sune Vuorela wrote: so it seems that the alternative interpretation, is that if there is a interface, then it must be used, but all that is wrapped in a should, which is not as binding as a must. While this section of policy could probably be

Bug#531797: request for more information

2009-06-12 Thread Giacomo Boffi
sean finney writes: right. i suspect that the problem is not in the compiz binary but one the libraries or plugins shipped in compiz (most likely libcompizconfig, which is linked to by both compiz.real and ccsm) right. what window manager are you using? it could be that the problem

Bug#531797: request for more information

2009-06-11 Thread Giacomo Boffi
sean finney writes: round two :) first of all, i have to ask if you have seen my bug report against ccsm also ccsm dumps core on me, with the same error message, and if i hand start compiz.real without invoking the configuration plugin, compiz starts ok (but it doesn't do anything valuable

Bug#531797: request for more information

2009-06-09 Thread Giacomo Boffi
sean finney writes: tags 531800 unreproducable severity 531800 important thanks hi giacomo, i can't reproduce this problem (and i'm also running 2.6.29/amd64). i'm running an AMD cpu, but debian's architecture is i386 are you sure you don't have a compiz component installed

Bug#532505: vlc: open dialog doesn't display file with extended characters

2009-06-09 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
Package: vlc Version: 0.9.9a-2 Severity: normal Tags: l10n Open dialog doesn't show all files. I noticed that filename with char c128 are not displayed (not only the character, but file) ciao cate -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy:

Bug#490605: debian-policy: please discourage the usage of echo -n, and echo in general

2009-06-04 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
Raphael Geissert wrote: On Tuesday 02 June 2009 12:54:00 Bill Allombert wrote: [...] It does not make sense to policy to discourage echo -n. Policy could deprecate it in favor of something else, but I do not see any alternative mentioned in this bug report, and otherwise discouraging echo -n

Bug#531797: compizconfig-settings-manager: apparent library mismatch [?]

2009-06-04 Thread giacomo boffi
Package: compizconfig-settings-manager Version: 0.8.2-2 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable when i launch ccsm, it breaks on me with the following error message terminate called after throwing an instance of

Bug#531798: compiz-core: /usr/bin/compiz starts xterm with --restart option

2009-06-04 Thread giacomo boffi
Package: compiz-core Version: 0.8.2-6 Severity: normal if something goes wrong in its attempt to start compiz.real the compiz script has a nuber of fallback options, and in my case it goes down to the last resort of starting an xterm alas it uses the same option that would be good for a window

Bug#531800: compiz-core: /usr/bin/compiz uses the ccp plugin, that is broken

2009-06-04 Thread giacomo boffi
Package: compiz-core Version: 0.8.2-6 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable at the end of its grinding, the /usr/bin/compiz script tries to execute this command -- /usr/bin/compiz.real --ignore-desktop-hints

Bug#490605: debian-policy: please discourage the usage of echo -n, and echo in general

2009-06-04 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
Raphael Hertzog wrote: For the second argument: [ using bash ] $ type printf printf is a shell builtin $ dash $ type printf printf is a shell builtin There's no external executable needed. but also echo -n is recognized by these tools. I've interpreted the original bug report as a way to

Bug#525872: Evolution-MAPI crash

2009-05-28 Thread Giacomo Tenaglia
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Bug#524273: compizconfig-settings-manager: Settings buttons don't work

2009-05-27 Thread giacomo boffi
Package: compizconfig-settings-manager Version: 0.8.2-1 Severity: grave when i launch ccsm from an xterm, i read the following output -- Backend : ini Integration : true Profile : default Adding plugins Initializing core

Bug#524273: compizconfig-settings-manager: Settings buttons don't work

2009-05-27 Thread Giacomo Boffi
Julien Cristau writes: On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 09:13:44 +0200, giacomo boffi wrote: Package: compizconfig-settings-manager Version: 0.8.2-1 Severity: grave Versions of packages compizconfig-settings-manager depends on: ii python-compizconfig 0.7.6-1

Bug#524273: compizconfig-settings-manager: Settings buttons don't work any more

2009-05-19 Thread giacomo boffi
Package: compizconfig-settings-manager Version: 0.8.2-1 Severity: normal The bug is still present in testing -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale:

Bug#528195: hobbit assumes to much abaout apache2

2009-05-11 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
Package: hobbit Version: 4.2.0.dfsg-14lenny2 Severity: normal Setting up hobbit (4.2.0.dfsg-14lenny2) ... .: 44: Can't open /etc/apache2/envvars invoke-rc.d: initscript apache2, action reload failed. dpkg: error processing hobbit (--install): subprocess post-installation script returned error

Bug#521918: pbuilder --build --binary-arch invokes 'build' target

2009-05-11 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
Filippo Rusconi wrote: On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 02:11:18PM +0200, Julien Cristau wrote: On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 13:46:30 +0200, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote: No, policy is very clear on that: if you call the build target, you _must_ satisfy Build-Depends-Indep and Build-Conflicts-Indep: And

Bug#508644: new release goal default-mta?

2009-05-05 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
martin f krafft wrote: [moving debian-rele...@l.d.o to Bcc, continuing discussion in bug log] also sprach Andreas Metzler ametz...@downhill.at.eu.org [2009.05.04.1856 +0200]: FWIW as previously discussed on debian-devel starting with the lastest upload (4.69-10) exim4-daemon-light provides

Bug#523093: undetermined copyright/license violation

2009-04-15 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Robert Millan wrote: On Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 10:27:19PM -0500, Adam Majer wrote: License and copyright are one and the same. GPL license relies on copyright law, just like almost any other open source license there is, be it BSD, Artistic or

Bug#521675: Only root can play sound in pulseaudio

2009-04-12 Thread giacomo
found 521675 0.9.15~test5-1 thanks I think I experienced the same bug, pulseaudio works just if started by root; it doesn't work if started from /etc/init.d/pulseaudio either (started as pulse user)... Tried both 0.9.14 and the version in experimental. Cheers, Giacomo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Bug#523799: moonlight-plugin-mozilla: Moonlight freezes if there are pulseaudio conf-files left but pulseaudio not installed

2009-04-12 Thread giacomo
Package: moonlight-plugin-mozilla Version: 1.0.1-2 Severity: normal Problem: Iceweasel freezes while browsing websites where moonlight is supposed to play sound. Running 'strace' on iceweasel I can see that Iceweasel runs this infinite loop: readlink(/home/giacomo/.pulse

Bug#522776: debian-policy: mandate existence of a standardised UTF-8 locale

2009-04-09 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
Thorsten Glaser wrote: Giacomo A. Catenazzi dixit: I think you misunderstand the mksh part of the problem. mksh has two modi: a legacy mode, in which it does not make any assumptions about charsets or encodings and is 8-bit clean and mostly 8-bit transparent, safe a few mostly past bugs

Bug#522776: debian-policy: mandate existence of a standardised UTF-8 locale

2009-04-09 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
Thorsten Glaser wrote: Giacomo A. Catenazzi dixit: a real locale), but in this case I would also test some UTF-16 or Asian locale (mksh should not assume UTF-8 in these cases). It doesn’t. This test is already run for the C locale. Besides, there are no UTF-16 or somesuch locales on UNIX

Bug#522776: debian-policy: mandate existence of a standardised UTF-8 locale

2009-04-08 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
Roger Leigh wrote: I wasn't aware that this level of checking was performed, though it does make sense. But, does it not reject non 7-bit input in the C locale for completeness? Should tools doing raw I/O not be using lower level interfaces such as fread() and fwrite() rather than the

Bug#522776: debian-policy: mandate existence of a standardised UTF-8 locale

2009-04-08 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
Andrew McMillan wrote: On Tue, 2009-04-07 at 22:32 +0200, Adeodato Simó wrote: It is my impression that more packages than mksh could use an UTF-8 locale at build time (I’m afraid I don’t have pointers, but I’m sure I’ve come across at least a couple). Wouldn’t it be just better to change

Bug#522776: debian-policy: mandate existence of a standardised UTF-8 locale

2009-04-08 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
Roger Leigh wrote: On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 09:24:38PM +0200, Adeodato Simó wrote: + Thorsten Glaser (Tue, 07 Apr 2009 18:54:59 +): Except the ton which sets LC_ALL=C to get sane (parsable, dependable, historically compatible) output. These would then unset all other LC_* and LANG and

Bug#522776: debian-policy: mandate existence of a standardised UTF-8 locale

2009-04-08 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
Roger Leigh wrote: On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 10:36:20AM +0200, Giacomo A. Catenazzi wrote: Roger Leigh wrote: I can't help but feel that your reply completely missed the purpose of what I want to do, and why. I hope the following response clears things up. I know that I missed the original

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