Bug#835446: Typo in mirror_reprepro.py

/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/simple_cdd/env.py", line 390, in format return string.format(*args, **kwargs) KeyError: 'security_mirro' I traced the problem down to what looks like a typo in mirror_reprepro.py. I have included a patch which fixes the typo. Best, Josh Gadeken Hewlett Packa

Bug#835202: Help message for pdfseparate includes %%

Package: poppler-utils Version: 0.44.0-3 Severity: normal File: /usr/bin/pdfseparate Running pdfseparate without a %d in the output name produces the following error message: Syntax Error: 'git-series' must contain '%%d' if more than one page should be extracted This error message should just

Bug#823348: Limit the strongest dependencies on supplemental -doc packages

[Please CC me on replies, as I didn't receive this mail, and just happened to see it in the archives.] On Mon, 22 Aug 2016 13:38:42 +0100 George Bateman wrote: > I'm currently making my first package, Processing. It's a GUI teaching > tool for (usually Java)

Bug#834524: init-system-helpers: does not own /etc/rc?.d

On Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 05:27:57PM -0300, Felipe Sateler wrote: > On 19 August 2016 at 17:23, Josh Triplett <j...@joshtriplett.org> wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 04:51:12PM -0300, Felipe Sateler wrote: > >> On 19 August 2016 at 15:24, Josh Triplett <j...@joshtriplet

Bug#834524: init-system-helpers: does not own /etc/rc?.d

On Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 04:51:12PM -0300, Felipe Sateler wrote: > On 19 August 2016 at 15:24, Josh Triplett <j...@joshtriplett.org> wrote: > > On Wed, 17 Aug 2016 12:34:59 -0300 Felipe Sateler <fsate...@debian.org> > > wrote: > >> On 17 August 2016 at 03:45,

Bug#834524: init-system-helpers: does not own /etc/rc?.d

On Wed, 17 Aug 2016 12:34:59 -0300 Felipe Sateler wrote: > On 17 August 2016 at 03:45, Ferenc Wágner wrote: > > Michael Biebl writes: > > > >> Am 16.08.2016 um 19:12 schrieb Ferenc Wágner: > >> > >>> Recently both my daemon packages

Bug#834765: mailto_allow should include Cc, In-Reply-To, and References by default

Package: mutt Version: 1.6.2-2 Severity: wishlist Tags: upstream Control: forwarded -1 https://github.com/neomutt/neomutt/issues/115 Mutt's default value for mailto_allow includes only Subject and Body. I'd like to suggest changing the default to also include Cc, In-Reply-To, and References.

Bug#834564: oxygen-icon-theme: Please run optipng on all PNGs

space in the .deb and on user disks, this reduces the amount of data loaded during startup, improving boot and application startup performance. - Josh Triplett -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture

Bug#834559: adwaita-icon-theme: Please run optipng on all PNGs

in the .deb and on user disks, this reduces the amount of data loaded during startup, improving boot and application startup performance. - Josh Triplett -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture

Bug#834367: systemctl daemon-reexec (as run on systemd upgrade) causes all keystrokes to go to text console in addition to X (including passwords)

On Mon, Aug 15, 2016 at 07:58:09PM +0200, Vincent Bernat wrote: > ❦ 15 août 2016 00:53 CEST, Josh Triplett <j...@joshtriplett.org> : > > > [Severity and tag due to the likely possibility of exposing user > > passwords this way. If this occurs with the version in j

Bug#834367: systemctl daemon-reexec (as run on systemd upgrade) causes all keystrokes to go to text console in addition to X (including passwords)

Package: systemd Version: 231-2 Severity: critical Tags: security [Severity and tag due to the likely possibility of exposing user passwords this way. If this occurs with the version in jessie as well, it'll require a security update.] After running "systemctl daemon-reexec" from within an X

Bug#834290: Warn about libraries with excessive priority?

Package: lintian Version: 2.5.46 Severity: wishlist Now that Lintian no longer warns about dependencies on packages with lower priorities, I think it would make sense for Lintian to warn about library packages with excessively high priorities. In general, a library package should only get pulled

Bug#833709: Please add the MIT/Expat license to common-licenses

On Mon, Aug 08, 2016 at 06:37:41PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Josh Triplett <j...@joshtriplett.org> writes: > > On Mon, Aug 08, 2016 at 11:53:37AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > > >> I don't think this is a good idea. This license is extremely short, > >> and

Bug#833709: Please add the MIT/Expat license to common-licenses

On Mon, Aug 08, 2016 at 05:10:52PM +0100, Simon McVittie wrote: > On Sun, 07 Aug 2016 at 21:00:12 -1000, Josh Triplett wrote: > > Numerous packages use the MIT/Expat license, and currently all of those > > packages need to include it in their copyright files. > > Although P

Bug#833709: Please add the MIT/Expat license to common-licenses

On Mon, Aug 08, 2016 at 11:53:37AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Josh Triplett <j...@joshtriplett.org> writes: > > > Numerous packages use the MIT/Expat license, and currently all of those > > packages need to include it in their copyright files. I'd love to see > &

Bug#833709: Please add the MIT/Expat license to common-licenses

SOFTWARE. Proposed diff to Policy in git-format-patch form: - 8< - >From 31949fd85228459d3236f34f144aa2475934044c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Josh Triplett <j...@joshtriplett.org> Date: Sun, 7 Aug 2016 20:57:12 -1000 Subject: [PATCH] Add the MIT/Expat license to

Bug#833192: Overwrites Message-Id when using "mutt -H" or Alt-e to resend (breaks patch mail threading)

as answering a prompt repeatedly would decrease the convenience of Alt-e. Personally, I'd favor the "second command and keystroke" approach, but any solution that fixes this issue would help. And in the meantime, I hope it's uncontroversial to have "mutt -H" or sending o

Bug#833190: Please provide an option to not add X-getmail-retrieved-from-mailbox header

Package: getmail4 Severity: wishlist When getmail retrieves a mail, it unconditionally adds a header X-getmail-retrieved-from-mailbox with the name of the mailbox it retrieved the mail from. As far as I can tell, getmail doesn't have any option to avoid adding that header. I'd like to leave the

Bug#831355: pulseaudio: Use module-udev-detect instead of module-detect

On Fri, Jul 29, 2016 at 10:51:09AM -0400, Felipe Sateler wrote: > I discussed this with upstream: [...snip...] > So the way forward would be to patch module-udev-detect to exit > gracefully if udev is not present. One could even chain load > module-detect if udev is not available. Chain-loading

Bug#831355: pulseaudio: Use module-udev-detect instead of module-detect

On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 10:04:41AM -0400, Felipe Sateler wrote: > On 28 July 2016 at 02:30, Josh Triplett <j...@joshtriplett.org> wrote: > > In the meantime, though: why split module-udev-detect into a separate > > module at all? The main pulseaudio package still depends on

Bug#832782: isc-dhcp-common: Description inaccurate

Package: isc-dhcp-common Version: 4.3.4-1 Severity: normal The description of isc-dhcp-common says: > Description: common files used by all of the isc-dhcp packages > This package includes all of the files that are used in common by the various > ISC DHCP packages, such as the dhcp-eval and

Bug#832707: less: resets ANSI colors at each newline

bold. Then try running the same through less -R: /usr/bin/printf '\e[1mHello\nworld\n\e[0m' | less -R This shows the first line bold, and the second line normal. - Josh Triplett -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1

Bug#795269: TMPTIME not honored anymore

Control: tags -1 + patch On Wed, 12 Aug 2015 10:36:07 -0700 Josh Triplett <j...@joshtriplett.org> wrote: > On Wed, 12 Aug 2015 15:00:22 +0200 Joey Schulze <j...@infodrom.org> wrote: > > Package: systemd > > Version: 215-17+deb8u1 > > > > /etc/default/rcS

Bug#831355: pulseaudio: Use module-udev-detect instead of module-detect

udev and libudev1, and several other components in the core package use it, so this doesn't reduce dependencies at all; it just introduces the possibility of breakage like this. Would you consider either merging module-udev-detect back into pulseaudio, or making it a Depends? - Josh Triplett

Bug#832631: Please ship spell files

On Wed, Jul 27, 2016 at 05:29:37PM -0400, James McCoy wrote: > On Wed, Jul 27, 2016 at 01:43:58PM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote: > > Ideally, vim could use one of the many other sources of spelling information > > available in Debian, rather than its own. Vim's help files suggest t

Bug#832631: Please ship spell files

use Hunspell files. - Josh Triplett

Bug#781766: sysvinit should depend on initscripts for a functional /lib/sysvinit/init

On Sun, Jul 17, 2016 at 03:07:23PM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote: > On Sun, Jul 17, 2016 at 11:30:26PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: > > Am 17.07.2016 um 23:17 schrieb Josh Triplett: > > > On Sun, Jul 17, 2016 at 11:05:09PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: > > >> If you have

Bug#781766: sysvinit should depend on initscripts for a functional /lib/sysvinit/init

On Sun, Jul 17, 2016 at 11:30:26PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: > Am 17.07.2016 um 23:17 schrieb Josh Triplett: > > On Sun, Jul 17, 2016 at 11:05:09PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: > >> If you have systemd-sysv installed and you want to try sysvinit-core, > >> you inst

Bug#781766: sysvinit should depend on initscripts for a functional /lib/sysvinit/init

*can't* boot without being the default. Also, installing sysvinit-core will uninstall systemd-sysv, so if the systemd package is marked as automatically installed, it'll be removed at the same time. - Josh Triplett

Bug#781766: sysvinit should depend on initscripts for a functional /lib/sysvinit/init

On Sun, Jul 17, 2016 at 04:37:10PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: > Control: retitle -1 Drop transitional sysvinit package in stretch > > Am 05.05.2015 um 17:57 schrieb Josh Triplett: > > On Tue, May 05, 2015 at 02:08:56PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: > >> Hi, > >>

Bug#831438: Completion should not emit errors for symbolic refs with no target

errors like "warning: ignoring broken ref refs/SYMREF" repeatedly during completion. I don't think it makes sense to emit such errors during completion. - Josh Triplett -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'ex

Bug#714526: Followup on upstream patch and backport

this change to the Debian OpenSSH package, as it fixes issues with other packages such as git-hub. Thanks, Josh Triplett

Bug#830937: [Bash-completion-devel] Bug#830937: Please support dynamically loading completions from $HOME

Control: tags -1 + fixed-upstream On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 08:34:16AM +0300, Ville Skyttä wrote: > We (upstream) already do this in bash-completion >= 2.2. Thanks! Tagging accordingly. - Josh Triplett

Bug#830937: Please support dynamically loading completions from $HOME

Package: bash-completion Version: 1:2.1-4.3 Severity: wishlist bash-completion supports dynamically loading completions from /usr/share/bash-completion/completions. Please consider adding support for dynamically loading completions from $XDG_DATA_HOME/bash-completion/completions (defaulting to

Bug#830580: Please also add "Provides: vim"

Additional patch attached. >From da7da47191265c5a376c7e32726941621e47e60c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Josh Triplett <j...@joshtriplett.org> Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2016 13:33:59 -0700 Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Provides: vim This allows vim addon packages that depend on vim to run with neovi

Bug#830580: Patch to install alternatives

Control: tags -1 + patch I've attached a patch to install these various alternatives. >From 8d4641be71797ef7d54a3067f2c15cb374b73b16 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Josh Triplett <j...@joshtriplett.org> Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2016 23:21:37 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Install alternatives for ex, rv

Bug#830580: Please install alternatives for vi, vim, view, vimdiff, etc

On Sat, Jul 09, 2016 at 10:12:27AM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote: > Please consider installing alternatives for /usr/bin/vi, /usr/bin/vim, > /usr/bin/view, /usr/bin/vimdiff, and so on. > > (If nvim doesn't already support using "view" as an alias for "nvim -R", >

Bug#830580: Please install alternatives for vi, vim, view, vimdiff, etc

Package: neovim Version: 0.1.4-1 Severity: wishlist Please consider installing alternatives for /usr/bin/vi, /usr/bin/vim, /usr/bin/view, /usr/bin/vimdiff, and so on. (If nvim doesn't already support using "view" as an alias for "nvim -R", and vimdiff as an alias for "vim -d", then don't install

Bug#830576: zero-width spaces in changelog

Source: gmime Version: 2.6.20-4 Severity: minor [If there were a severity even less than "minor", I'd use that.] The changelog entry for 2.6.20-4 contains several zero-width spaces, quite visible in apt-listchanges as less shows them explicitly: * export SHELL to try to make

Bug#830313: watch: segfaults with --color

Heh, yes. :) - Josh Triplett On Sat, Jul 09, 2016 at 05:53:35AM +, Craig Small wrote: > I messed up the manual patch when it wouldn't apply. I put the return > before the attrset() That'll do it! > > - Craig > > > On Sat, Jul 9, 2016 at 3:38 PM Craig Small <

Bug#830313: watch: segfaults with --color

On Sat, Jul 09, 2016 at 04:59:07AM +, Craig Small wrote: > Hi Josh, > Thanks for looking into this, I only do some simple use of watch so don't > see the problems. I agree, if it doesn't understand something then stop > messing around and drop out. > > Patch 0001 was alre

Bug#830313: watch: segfaults with --color

this by having set_ansi_attribute return a bool, with false meaning "skip the rest".) If not for ncurses, I would suggest using the behavior of "less -R": matching ANSI escape sequences, discarding non-color sequences, and passing through color sequences assuming they don't mo

Bug#506859: bz2: BZ2File should expose compression level as an attribute

Control: tags -1 + upstream Control: forwarded 506859 https://bugs.python.org/issue27451 Control: forwarded 507943 https://bugs.python.org/issue27450 On Mon, Jul 04, 2016 at 04:05:54PM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote: > Control: tags -1 + wontfix > > so you don't reply for about seven years, and

Bug#829528: Please migrate bash-completion file from "bash-completion" package to desktop-file-utils

e completions for themselves.[1] If a package has its own completion file, ideally bash-completion should stop providing that completion, and the package should start providing it (and conflict with bash-completion versions that provided it). - Josh Triplett [1] Insert paradox joke here.

Bug#829332: groff: HTML rendering turns \- into

Package: groff Version: 1.22.3-7 Severity: normal On Sat, Jul 02, 2016 at 09:06:57AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Fri, Jul 01, 2016 at 10:57:45PM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote: > > On Fri, 15 May 2015 22:15:14 +0200 Jakub Wilk <jw...@debian.org> wrote: > > > Yeah, these

Bug#785353: manpages, hyphens, minus signs, HTML, and lintian

On Sat, Jul 02, 2016 at 09:06:57AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Fri, Jul 01, 2016 at 10:57:45PM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote: > > On Fri, 15 May 2015 22:15:14 +0200 Jakub Wilk <jw...@debian.org> wrote: > > > Yeah, these days even upstream groff renders both - and

Bug#785353: manpages, hyphens, minus signs, HTML, and lintian

would type on the keyboard using that key such as an --option or command-name, the manpage should just use "-". I don't know if this deserves some kind of lintian check, but it does seem like a (very minor) bug in various manpages. - Josh Triplett

Bug#690412: Please auto-detect changed SSL certificates

ly, we ask for new features here, wishlist should > be fine. > > Josh, I hope all of those changes are okay with you? Yes, and thank you!

Bug#828079: Should not be in "ruby" section

Package: mkalias Version: 1.0.10-1 Severity: normal Applications written in ruby but not providing a ruby library or development tool shouldn't use the "ruby" section; they should use a section appropriate to their function. I would suggest the "utils" section. -- System Information: Debian

Bug#690412: Please auto-detect changed SSL certificates

. Any reason not to default to this in the default configuration? (And the default upstream configuration as well, to avoid diverging?) - Josh Triplett

Bug#827843: ITP: xlogo -- XLogo is an interpreter for the Logo programming language, written in Java.

On Tue, 21 Jun 2016 18:18:09 +0200 Wolf Bergenheim wrote: > * Package name: xlogo Note that x11-apps ships /usr/bin/xlogo (a tiny toy app that displays the X Window System logo), so you'll want to avoid a binary name conflict.

Bug#827634: ftplugin/man.vim: Does not handle window narrower than terminal width

On Sun, Jun 19, 2016 at 12:49:24PM -0400, James McCoy wrote: > On Sat, Jun 18, 2016 at 03:41:35PM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote: > > The :Man command, provided by /usr/share/vim/vim74/ftplugin/man.vim, > > always renders the manpage at the width of the terminal, not the width > &

Bug#827627: Please support packaging vim addons as vim "packages"

On Sat, Jun 18, 2016 at 11:55:17PM -0400, James McCoy wrote: > On Jun 18, 2016 6:03 PM, "Josh Triplett" <j...@joshtriplett.org> wrote: > > [Note: in addition to changing vim-addon-manager, this would ideally go > > along with some minor updates to the vim packagin

Bug#827642: Typo in description: EFI-compatbile

Package: refind Version: 0.10.3-1 Severity: minor s/EFI-compatbile/EFI-compatible/ -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.6.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale:

Bug#827634: ftplugin/man.vim: Does not handle window narrower than terminal width

Package: vim-runtime Version: 2:7.4.1829-1 Severity: normal File: /usr/share/vim/vim74/ftplugin/man.vim The :Man command, provided by /usr/share/vim/vim74/ftplugin/man.vim, always renders the manpage at the width of the terminal, not the width of the man window in vim. Ideally, I'd love to see

Bug#827627: Please support packaging vim addons as vim "packages"

in the registry yaml files with "package: pkgname", where pkgname matches the top-level directory in /usr/share/vim/packages. When installing a package, vim-addon-manager should just make a single symlink from ~/.vim/pack/$pkgname to /usr/share/vim/packages/$pkgname. - Josh Triplett -- Syst

Bug#714526: Patch available upstream; backport?

Upstream fixed this with the patch at https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/attachment.cgi?id=2811 . I've confirmed that the patch applies to the current package in Debian. Please consider applying it as a backport until the next upstream release of OpenSSH. Thanks, Josh Triplett

Bug#658635: Resolver extremely reluctant to upgrade packages to experimental, even as dependencies of packages in experimental

On Sat, Jun 11, 2016 at 06:57:14PM +0100, Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo wrote: > 2016-06-11 18:14 GMT+01:00 Josh Triplett <j...@joshtriplett.org>: > > On Sat, Jun 11, 2016 at 01:03:39PM +0100, Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo > > wrote: > >> 2012-02-04 19:10 Josh Trip

Bug#658635: Resolver extremely reluctant to upgrade packages to experimental, even as dependencies of packages in experimental

On Sat, Jun 11, 2016 at 01:03:39PM +0100, Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo wrote: > 2012-02-04 19:10 Josh Triplett: > > Package: aptitude > > Version: 0.6.4-1.2 > > Severity: normal > > > > I've run into similar problems before, but this time I had something I >

Bug#677865: [PATCH] Always use flock for file locking; drop Recommends on libfile-fcntllock-perl

On Mon, Jun 06, 2016 at 11:44:00PM +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: > On Sun, 2016-06-05 at 14:37:51 -0700, Josh Triplett wrote: > > Control: tags -1 + patch > > > > The attached patch implements the change I suggested, dropping fcntl > > locking in favor of flock,

Bug#153244: evolution: doesn't respect Mail-Followup-To

ed on list mail. - Josh Triplett

Bug#677865: [PATCH] Always use flock for file locking; drop Recommends on libfile-fcntllock-perl

Control: tags -1 + patch The attached patch implements the change I suggested, dropping fcntl locking in favor of flock, and documenting that change in the changelog along with the rationale. - Josh Triplett >From 0c6eddc8200e7bea482ad65c5870f7977847d26a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: J

Bug#826508: debuild: Does not recognize -J option to dpkg-buildpackage

Package: devscripts Version: 2.16.5 Severity: normal File: /usr/bin/debuild $ debuild -b -Jauto debuild: unknown dpkg-buildpackage/debuild option: -Jauto -- Package-specific info: --- /etc/devscripts.conf --- --- ~/.devscripts --- BTS_SMTP_HELO=joshtriplett.org

Bug#677865: Alternative solution: flock is NFS-safe now

ional use of File::FcntlLock entirely. - Josh Triplett

Bug#826362: Please provide a pam_env option to ignore non-existent envfile, and use it for /etc/default/locale

Package: libpam-modules Version: 1.1.8-3.3 Severity: wishlist File: pam_env If /etc/default/locale doesn't exist, then every login, cron job, or other invocation of the PAM stack that uses pam_env on /etc/default/locale produces an error like this: Jun 04 15:17:01 x CRON[12310]:

Bug#825394: shim screen etc?

On Sat, 28 May 2016 14:49:41 -0400 Joey Hess wrote: > Since the number of commands that start such a process is limited to > screen/tmux/nohup, these could just be shimmed to do whatever's > needed to let them keep running past logout. > > Course it would make more sense to have

Bug#825418: evince-previewer: Should not register as the default viewer for PDFs or other documents

vince does. /usr/share/applications/evince-previewer.desktop and /usr/share/applications/evince.desktop both contain an identical MimeType line. I don't see anything in either file that sets a priority, so I don't see any way that an application (or update-mime) could know to prefer one over the other. - Josh Triplett

Bug#824514: Please enable HSTS preloading

if a user types "debian.org" into their browser, the very first request from that browser will use HTTPS rather than HTTP. Thanks, Josh Triplett -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd

Bug#824440: git-format-patch manpage: Ambiguous "-o .." instead of "-o ."

Package: git-man Version: 1:2.8.1-1 Severity: normal File: /usr/share/man/man1/git-format-patch.1.gz Quoting "man git-format-patch": > If -o is specified, output files are created in . Otherwise they > are created in the current working directory. The default path can be > set with the

Bug#823672: Streaming SIMD Extensions (SSE) is an SIMD instruction set extension to the x86 architecture

quires unavailable CPU features. Optionally, we could also detect if the set of CPU features has changed incompatibly. For instance, if you move your Debian filesystem to a system without some features that you have installed packages depending on, it'd be nice to handle that as gracefully as possible. - Josh Triplett

Bug#822560: aptitude: Pressing "q" to quit after installation leaves a black terminal

output back to the shell? aptitude already needs to properly transition from curses mode back to text mode when invoking dpkg. - Josh Triplett -- Package-specific info: Terminal: xterm-256color $DISPLAY is set. which aptitude: /usr/bin/aptitude aptitude version information: aptitude 0.8.1 Compiler: g

Bug#824141: Pressing 'q' to quit shouldn't require hitting [enter] afterward

Package: aptitude Version: 0.8.1-1 Severity: wishlist I like the new option to quit after installation, rather than returning to the UI. However, I don't think doing so should require hitting q followed by [enter]; just hitting q should suffice. -- Package-specific info: Terminal:

Bug#823348: Limit the strongest dependencies on supplemental -doc packages

intainer's discretion how much the prospective user of a package will want the corresponding -doc package. - Josh Triplett -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.5.0-1-am

Bug#821341: debian-installer: unbootable, no gpt partition for uefi install

help here! :-) This interests me, but you know the usual problems one has with time and spreading oneself too thin, but I will put it on my list. Maybe I'll have a look. Can I just download a source package for d-i from a deb apt source link like for "regular" debian pkgs? I enjoyed this interaction. Thank you Steve! Cheers, Josh

Bug#821866: aptitude -t option does not work as documented; -t unstable download gets package from experimental

Package: aptitude Version: 0.7.8-1 Severity: normal "man aptitude" says: > -t , --target-release > Set the release from which packages should be installed. For > instance, “aptitude -t experimental ...” will install packages > from the experimental distribution unless you specify

Bug#821341: debian-installer: unbootable, no gpt partition for uefi install

non-gpt disks. I have an MSI mainboard, which I think are pretty good, and it definitely refused to boot from an mbr disk with an efi partition. cheers, Josh On 18.04.2016 16:00, Steve McIntyre wrote: > Control: merge -1 821340 > Control: reassign 821340 partman-efi > Control: retitle

Bug#821349: Please add Breaks for older gnome-terminal and libvte-2.91-0

On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 12:50:58AM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: > Am 18.04.2016 um 00:29 schrieb Josh Triplett: > > Package: libgtk-3-0 > > Version: 3.20.3-1 > > Severity: normal > > > > See https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=819712 and > > htt

Bug#821349: Please add Breaks for older gnome-terminal and libvte-2.91-0

Package: libgtk-3-0 Version: 3.20.3-1 Severity: normal See https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=819712 and https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=760944 for background. GTK+3 3.20 removed functionality that gnome-terminal and libvte-2.91-0 depended on. While newer versions of

Bug#821341: debian-installer: unbootable, no gpt partition for uefi install

Package: debian-installer Severity: important After installation system was not bootable. During the installation it said that it had detected that I had UEFI booted the installation CD and proposed to make an EFI boot partion which I accepted. However, after installation, Debian wasn't

Bug#821340: debian installer bug: doesn't partition with gpt for uefi install

Package: installation-reports Boot method: CD Image version: 8.3 amd64 netinstall Date: March 2016 Machine: custom built Processor: amd A10 7850k Memory: 8gb Partitions: pax:/home/josh# df -Tl FilesystemType 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/sda7

Bug#821319: aisleriot: sol Segmentation Fault

started segfaulting again. - Josh Triplett

Bug#821318: RFP: vim-toml -- Vim filetype and syntax plugin for TOML files

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: vim-toml * URL : https://github.com/cespare/vim-toml * License : MIT Description : Vim filetype and syntax plugin for TOML files This package provides vim support for editing TOML files, including filetype detection

Bug#820461: Please change Recommends on xboard | scid to a Suggests

Package: hoichess Version: 0.10.3-6.1+b1 Severity: normal hoichess has a Recommends on xboard | scid. However, other frontends exist, such as the one in gnome-games, installed as part of the GNOME desktop. The gnome-games dependency on hoichess currently brings in xboard on most GNOME users'

Bug#820459: Should not have a "Recommends: gdbserver"

Package: gdb Version: 7.10-1+b1 Severity: normal It doesn't actually seem very likely that the majority of users of gdb will use gdbserver on the system they installed gdb on. Users may want to install and use gdbserver on a target system, but in that case the target system seems unlikely to

Bug#573608: Split out colorit?

Seems like the easiest fix for this bug would be to split out colorit into a separate binary package.

Bug#820452: [Aptitude-devel] Bug#820452: Please don't Recommend the HTML manual packages

On Fri, Apr 08, 2016 at 05:48:16PM +0200, Axel Beckert wrote: > Josh Triplett wrote: > > aptitude Recommends: aptitude-doc-en | aptitude-doc > > > > Why would all but the most unusual configurations need an HTML version > > of the manual installed? aptitude a

Bug#820452: Please don't Recommend the HTML manual packages

option inside aptitude to display that. The HTML version is also available online. So only people who 1) want the HTML manual and 2) want it available offline need one of these packages installed. Suggests seems more appropriate in this case. - Josh Triplett

Bug#820449: qemu-utils: Drop Recommends on sharutils; qemu-make-debian-root doesn't use it anymore

Package: qemu-utils Version: 1:2.5+dfsg-5 Severity: normal qemu-utils currently Recommends sharutils; according to the changelog, it does so because qemu-make-debian-root uses it. However, qemu-make-debian-root no longer uses anything from sharutils. Please consider dropping the Recommends. --

Bug#819906: rect can't find its help

Package: sgt-puzzles Version: 20140928.r10274-1 Severity: normal File: /usr/games/rect In rect, the menu item "Help -> Help on Rectangles" shows an error "Help file is not installed". However, opening "Help -> Contents" shows help for all games, which inclu

Bug#819764: readline() on closed filehandle GZ at /usr/bin/helpztags line 64.

Package: vim-common Version: 2:7.4.1689-1 Severity: normal File: /usr/bin/helpztags When upgrading to this version of vim: Setting up vim-common (2:7.4.1689-1) ... Setting up vim-runtime (2:7.4.1689-1) ... Processing /usr/share/vim/addons/doc readline() on closed filehandle GZ at

Bug#819579: Short description continues into long description

Package: abi-monitor Version: 1.7-1 Severity: normal Policy 3.4.2. "The extended description": > Do not try to continue the single line synopsis into the extended > description. This will not work correctly when the full description > is displayed, and makes no sense where only the

Bug#819372: Please downgrade Depends on gnome-shell-extension-weather to Recommends

), and has a tendency to lag in updates, would you consider downgrading the current Depends on gnome-shell-extension-weather to a Recommends? This would still install it by default in the default apt configuration. Thanks, Josh Triplett -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers

Bug#819371: Please depend on "firefox | firefox-esr" rather than the reverse

ers like me who have metapackages depending on both gnome and "firefox | iceweasel" (to support both unstable and stable). With those dependencies, I end up with both firefox and firefox-esr installed; with gnome-core's dependencies swapped around, I'd end up with only firefox installed. Thanks, Josh Triplett

Bug#813252: pkg-config --libs libgit2 should include -lhttp_parser too

Control: tags -1 + moreinfo On Sat, 30 Jan 2016 23:18:28 +0100 Giuseppe Bilotta wrote: > Package: libgit2-dev > Version: 0.23.1-1+b1 > Severity: important > > libgit2 depends on libhttp-parser, and libgit2-dev depends on > libhttp-parser-dev. However, the pkg-config

Bug#819224: For local repository preseeding, please support inline keys

Package: apt-setup Severity: wishlist apt-setup supports preseeding local repositories, separate from the main Debian repository. The preseeding wants a URL for the repository key. Please consider supporting a key inlined into the preseed file, rather than provided via URL. That would provide

Bug#818680: "Deferred uploads" page makes no mention of "DELAYED queue"

On Sat, Mar 19, 2016 at 05:57:26PM +, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > On Sat, 2016-03-19 at 10:02 -0700, Josh Triplett wrote: > > [Not sure if I should file this on ftp.debian.org or www.debian.org; > > filing it on ftp.debian.org on the assumption that the archive generat

Bug#818680: "Deferred uploads" page makes no mention of "DELAYED queue"

ses the name "DELAYED", as does the dput option, it seems odd that both the URL and title of https://ftp-master.debian.org/deferred.html use "deferred" instead. Please consider prominently mentioning "DELAYED queue" on that page, in the hopes that it'll become easier to find in search engines. Thanks, Josh Triplett

Bug#818631: Should not depend on iceweasel or x-www-browser

Package: drgeo-doc Version: 1.5-7 Severity: normal drgeo-doc depends on "iceweasel | www-browser | x-www-browser". The virtual package "x-www-browser" doesn't exist, and nothing depends on it. And "iceweasel" is a transitional package, as current unstable has "firefox" and "firefox-esr".

Bug#798421: NMU uploaded to DELAYED/7-day

Control: tags -1 + pending David Bremner (CCed) uploaded this NMU to DELAYED/7-day.

Bug#798421: Updated NMU changelog patch

In the previous version, I didn't explicitly document dropping the associated Build-Depends on ca-certificates. The attached version does so. - Josh Triplett >From af01c459ac527710e2bc841eb12c81a806cdccc7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Josh Triplett <j...@joshtriplett.org> Date: Fri, 18

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