Bug#558997: sudo is unusable and closes my terminal as soon as I type a single letter

2009-12-01 Thread Bdale Garbee
tags 558997 +moreinfo +unreproducible thanks On Tue, 2009-12-01 at 15:55 +1300, Francois Marier wrote: > If I do something like "sudo -v" or "sudo ls", sudo closes as soon as I type > the first > letter of my password. Furthermore, it closes the terminal in which it was > started. Not seeing a

Bug#564536: GRUB maintainer address bounces

2010-01-12 Thread Bdale Garbee
On Mon, 11 Jan 2010 22:56:08 +0100, Robert Millan wrote: > I'm open to being convinced about changing our current setup, and about > discussing constructive proposals. I've often contemplated the idea of accepting signed emails in addition to subscribers as a potential compromise for situations

Bug#555153: elilo: FTBFS: gcc: bin_to_h.c: No such file or directory

2009-11-09 Thread Bdale Garbee
On Sun, 2009-11-08 at 19:51 +0100, Kurt Roeckx wrote: > Source: elilo > Version: 3.12-1 > Severity: serious > > Hi, > > There was an error while trying to autobuild your package: Yep, looks like the changes to support cross-building both 32 and 64 bit flavors of x86 on either platform only work

Bug#549746: tar: FTBFS: tests failed

2009-11-09 Thread Bdale Garbee
On Mon, 2009-10-05 at 20:49 +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > I'm building on tmpfs, if it's relevant. It could be. I don't know enough about tmpfs offhand to know if there might be limitations on what it allows that could be affecting these tests. Will have to investigate. Bdale -- To UN

Bug#556572: [libgnuradio-qtgui0] typo in short description

2009-11-16 Thread Bdale Garbee
tags 556572 +pending thanks On Mon, 2009-11-16 at 21:43 +0100, Frank S. Thomas wrote: > there are typos in the short descriptions of the libgnuradio-qtgui0 and > libgnuradio-qtgui-dev packages ("fro" instead of "for"): Thanks for pointing that out! Fixed in my repo for the next upload. Bdale

Bug#556747: Add homepage field.

2009-11-17 Thread Bdale Garbee
tags 556747 +pending thanks On Tue, 2009-11-17 at 12:59 -0500, Adam Buchbinder wrote: > The homepage of the mtx project is not specified in debian/control. The > attached debdiff adds it in a new Homepage field. Per the Debian > Developer's Reference, section 6.2.4, including the homepage URL is

Bug#557050: grc and gnuradio-companion: error when trying to install together

2009-11-19 Thread Bdale Garbee
reassign 557050 gnuradio tags 557050 +pending thanks On Thu, 2009-11-19 at 08:47 +0100, Ralf Treinen wrote: > Possible solutions are to have the two packages conflict I've added a conflict with grc to gnuradio-companion. I don't anticipate much overlap of interest between the two packages so thi

Bug#557204: fixed

2009-11-20 Thread Bdale Garbee
tags 557204 +pending thanks Thanks for pointing this out! Looks like the Perl scripts that process the man pages were accidentally left out of the 1.7.2p1 release tarball. Reported upstream and fixed locally in my tree for the next upload. Bdale -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist

Bug#558094: amanda-server: amgtar must be run setuid root

2009-11-26 Thread Bdale Garbee
tags 558094 +pending thanks On Thu, 2009-11-26 at 11:49 +0100, Matthias Wamser wrote: > So my recommendation is to set the setuid root on > /usr/lib/amanda/application/* per package default. Thanks for reporting this. After studying the source a bit, I think only the amgtar and amstar programs

Bug#505407: adjust timeouts in amanda.conf

2009-11-26 Thread Bdale Garbee
severity 505407 normal tags 505407 +moreinfo thanks I'm not surprised that using nice on the amdump call made no difference. I suggest you read the amanda.conf man page to see the various timeouts that are adjustable and what their defaults are, then try changing one or more of them in your amand

Bug#560286: gattrib seg faults are back

2009-12-10 Thread Bdale Garbee
Package: geda-gattrib Version: 1:1.4.3-2+b1 Severity: serious The gattrib command seg faults on every one of my designs in this version. Bdale -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#559761: ITP: release -- provides information about the current releases

2009-12-11 Thread Bdale Garbee
On Thu, 2009-12-10 at 23:59 +0100, Benjamin Drung wrote: > Am Mittwoch, den 09.12.2009, 09:34 +0800 schrieb Paul Wise: > > On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 8:07 AM, Benjamin Drung wrote: > > > Am Montag, den 07.12.2009, 09:03 +0100 schrieb Frank Lin PIAT: > > >> On Mon, 2009-12-07 at 00:14 +0100, Benjamin D

Bug#561411: gzip: tgz does not have compressed suffix -- skipping

2009-12-16 Thread Bdale Garbee
severity 561411 wishlist thanks > Gzip should not rely on file suffix, or it sould recognize standard > *.tgz as a gzip file. Couldn't you just as easily feed the .tgz file to gzip on stdin gzip < file.tgz | tar or have tar call gzip tar -zf file.tgz Forcing gzip to learn fi

Bug#623422: dump locks up on sparc

2011-05-04 Thread Bdale Garbee
On Wed, 20 Apr 2011 12:29:40 +1000, Alexander Zangerl wrote: > i've got two sparcs (a enterprise 250 and a sunfire v240) which were recently > upgraded from lenny to squeeze. they've got locally built kernels (one > ancient, one 2.6.35.12). > > on both machines dump locks up ... I'm not sure what

Bug#623422: dump locks up on sparc

2011-05-08 Thread Bdale Garbee
On Mon, 09 May 2011 11:57:18 +1000, Alexander Zangerl wrote: > just did that, too: no change, same lockup. do you want me to add a tad > of printf debugging to the code in question? Sure. The situation is basically that it would be a lot of work that I don't have time for in the next few weeks

Bug#626180: useless without ag_console policy

2011-05-09 Thread Bdale Garbee
Package: network-manager-openvpn Version: 0.8.4-1 Severity: important The content of /etc/dbus-1/system.d/nm-openvpn-service.conf as provided does not appear sufficient to allow the openvpn functionality in network manager to work in a useful way. Adding an 'at_console' policy seems to fix things

Bug#626180: [Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#626180: useless without ag_console policy

2011-05-09 Thread Bdale Garbee
On Mon, 09 May 2011 18:38:12 +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: > Could you elaborate on that, please. > What is your setup, what is the error message. See [1] for debugging tips. Using an OATH token setup to access a remote OpenVPN server run by my employer. This means I'm filling in a username but no

Bug#626180: [Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#626180: Bug#626180: useless without ag_console policy

2011-05-09 Thread Bdale Garbee
On Mon, 09 May 2011 19:40:01 +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: > I'm making a guess here: Do you perhaps have a root console open when you are > trying connect to the OpenVPN server? I do not. > Do you have a /var/run/console/root state file? No. Bdale pgp9MrKajt8KF.pgp Description: PGP signature

Bug#626180: [Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#626180: Bug#626180: Bug#626180: useless without ag_console policy

2011-05-09 Thread Bdale Garbee
On Mon, 09 May 2011 23:10:29 +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: > Ok, then I'll need to setup a test system to debug this further. > > Thanks for the input so far, My pleasure. And of course I'll be happy to try things for you if/when that would be useful. Bdale pgpppv2uxUA4m.pgp Description: PGP s

Bug#632986: hard-coded python version without dependency

2011-07-07 Thread Bdale Garbee
Package: getmail4 Severity: serious Version: 4.20.2-1 The /usr/bin/getmail wrapper hard-codes /usr/bin/python2.5, but the package does not declare a dependency on a specific version of python. Since the wrapper has explicit code to check for a sufficiently recent version of python, I suggest chang

Bug#623481: cannot turn off auto-hiding

2011-04-20 Thread Bdale Garbee
Package: xfce4-panel Version: 4.8.3-1 Regardless of the setting of the "Automatically show and hide the panel" switch in the panel preferences, auto-hiding is always on. Bdale -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Conta

Bug#563391: 0.12 in unstable

2011-06-01 Thread Bdale Garbee
I just installed a trac instance and could really use the multiple repo support added in 0.12. If there's something I can do to help an upload of 0.12.something to unstable, please let me know. Bdale -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsu

Bug#563391: [Python-apps-team] Bug#563391: 0.12 in unstable

2011-06-03 Thread Bdale Garbee
On Fri, 3 Jun 2011 09:43:19 +0200, Mitar wrote: > Hi! > > On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 12:21 AM, W. Martin Borgert wrote: > > I would love to work on the Trac package again, but "real world" > > keeps me busy. No upload nor testing can be done by me, sorry. > > We have here a working Trac 0.12.2 deb

Bug#589222: closing with no action taken

2011-07-15 Thread Bdale Garbee
tags 589222 +wontfix severity 589222 minor thanks It appears that the FHS may have mistakenly made a 'must' out of something that was merely standard practice for some versions of the gzip package on some distributions at the time this text was written. I can think of no strong reason for requi

Bug#634500: mtx: debian/control uses hardcoded list of kFreeBSD architectures

2011-07-20 Thread Bdale Garbee
tags 634500 +pending thanks On Mon, 18 Jul 2011 16:12:12 +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > ... please consider using dpkg wildcards instead. For example: > > Build-Depends: libfoo-dev [kfreebsd-any] Fixed in my repo for the next upload. Thanks! Bdale pgpsPcwf7dLNu.pgp Description: PGP signat

Bug#901952: find the commit

2018-07-27 Thread Bdale Garbee
We need to isolate which upstream commit caused the behavior change. I've got other things to work on that are higher priority to me right now, so help from someone more motivate to chase this down would be appreciated. Bdale signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#901636: mandoc: "mandoc -mdoc -T man" causes memory dump

2018-07-27 Thread Bdale Garbee
Bjarni Ingi Gislason writes: > Output from "mandoc -mdoc -T man groff_mdoc.7": Where is "groff_mdoc.7" from? I have no such file on my system, so there's no way for me to try and reproduce this error. Bdale signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#895435: Unclear License

2018-07-27 Thread Bdale Garbee
"Jason Self" writes: > Package: as31 > Version: 2.3.1-6+b2 > > The copyright file mentions only that as31 is "provided under the BSD > license." > > Which one? Upstream doesn't specify, but given the date of that assertion versus what was considered the "default" BSD license at various points in

Bug#905080: O: as31 - Intel 8031/8051 assembler

2018-07-30 Thread Bdale Garbee
Package: wnpp Severity normal I no longer have any personal need for as31, so would like to drop it from the list of packages I maintain. I recently uploaded a fix for the segfault encountered building the usbdux driver in the firmware-nonfree source package. The only remaining open bug regards

Bug#905412: ITP: lepton-eda -- Lepton Electronic Design Automation

2018-08-04 Thread Bdale Garbee
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist I'm working to package the Lepton EDA suite, a fork of the gEDA suite I already help maintain within the electronics team: https://github.com/lepton-eda Bdale

Bug#854878: /bin/zgrep: Confirmed + patch

2017-12-23 Thread Bdale Garbee
Ben Wong writes: > Looking at the man page for grep(1), it's clear that the > --binary-files option (and perhaps future --binary-* options) was what > the script was trying to emulate, but the programmer simply forgot the > "--" prefix. Thanks for the patch. Bdale signature.asc Description: P

Bug#901636: mandoc: "mandoc -mdoc -T man" causes memory dump

2019-03-01 Thread Bdale Garbee
Bjarni Ingi Gislason writes: > On Fri, Jul 27, 2018 at 03:22:03AM -0600, Bdale Garbee wrote: >> Bjarni Ingi Gislason writes: >> >> > Output from "mandoc -mdoc -T man groff_mdoc.7": >> >> Where is "groff_mdoc.7" from? I have no such f

Bug#990384: ITP: librnd -- Ringdove 2D CAD library framework

2021-06-27 Thread Bdale Garbee
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Bdale Garbee X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-de...@lists.debian.org * Package name: librnd Version : 3.0.0 Upstream Author : Tibor Palinkas * URL : http://repo.hu/projects/pcb-rnd * License : GPL Programming Lang: C

Bug#982160: sudo does not honour "NOPASSWD" directive

2021-02-07 Thread Bdale Garbee
Wolfgang Sourdeau writes: > [myuser] ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL Try [myuser] ALL=(ALL:ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL Bdale signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#192522: sudo: should validate sudoers on upgrade and abort if incompatible

2021-02-25 Thread Bdale Garbee
Marc Haber writes: > I am therefore reluctant to implement this at the moment. FYI, I never found an acceptable solution to this problem, and chose to leave the bug open to remind myself and anyone searching for help that this *could* happen. It might be better to move this into a README.Debian

Bug#984609: openrocket: uninstallable: depends on no longer available openjdk-8-jre

2021-03-05 Thread Bdale Garbee
Andreas Beckmann writes: > Package: openrocket > Version: 15.03.6 > Severity: serious > User: debian...@lists.debian.org > Usertags: piuparts > > Hi, > > during a test with piuparts I noticed your package is no longer > installable in sid: > > The following packages have unmet dependencies: >

Bug#970198: src:openrocket: fails to migrate to testing for too long: Depends on openjdk-8 which is blocked from testing

2020-09-12 Thread Bdale Garbee
Paul Gevers writes: > Your package Depends on openjdk-8, which isn't supposed to be used in > testing since beginning 2019. FYI, this dependency will remain until/unless upstream makes a new release, and is still present in the version in unstable. Bdale signature.asc Description: PGP signatu

Bug#970242: debian-history: The current DPL info is outdated, please update

2020-09-13 Thread Bdale Garbee
Boyuan Yang writes: > Let me know if it's okay for me to make a quick 0-day NMU and fix this > info Yes. Bdale signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#932795: How to handle FTBFS bugs in release architectures

2019-07-29 Thread Bdale Garbee
Santiago Vila writes: > Even if we ever wanted to allow packages to "need" more than one CPU > for building, I'd like to believe that we would do so by introducing a > new control field for that, say, Build-CPU, instead of making > multi-core mandatory for all packages. I agree. Bdale signatu

Bug#975075: tech-ctte: Should maintainers be able to block init compatibility changes?

2020-12-27 Thread Bdale Garbee
Russ Allbery writes: > I assumed that if option B won, some > maintainers would drop init scripts, and therefore if folks wanted to > maintain a set of working init scripts, they'd need to look at different > options than ensuring they were incorporated into each package. I agree, this was my se

Bug#979649: libvirt-guests.sh shouldn't whine about not being used

2021-01-09 Thread Bdale Garbee
Package: libvirt-daemon Version: 6.9.0-1+b2 Severity: normal The libvirt-guests.sh script outputs the text "libvirt-guests is configured not to start any guests on boot" on every system boot if ON_BOOT is set to anything other than "start". This is confusing to inexperienced systems admins w

Bug#972831: tar: produces incorrect TAR+zstd archive when creating archive remotely

2020-10-24 Thread Bdale Garbee
Laurent Bonnaud writes: > $ tar --zstd -cvf localhost:foo.tar.zst foo I took a quick look and the problem is with the use of localhost: in the filename, it appears to be unrelated to the compression algorithm chosen. I don't have time to chase this further today. Bdale signature.asc Descript

Bug#958402: sudo: A password is required for /usr/bin/uptime

2020-04-21 Thread Bdale Garbee
l0f4r0 writes: > My journalctl indicates numerous alerts/1 like "sudo[XXX]: l0f4r0 : a > password is required ; TTY=unknown ; PWD=/home/l0f4r0 ; USER=root ; > COMMAND=/usr/bin/uptime". I've never seen this before, and can find no evidence of it on any of my stable servers running the same sudo v

Bug#885195: [Pkg-electronics-devel] Bug#885195: geda-gaf: please migrate to guile-2.2

2020-04-27 Thread Bdale Garbee
Rob Browning writes: > Please try to migrate soon, and at this point, to guile-3.0 if possible. > Otherwise we might need to consider removing the package from Debian. As far as I'm concerned, you can feel free to remove geda-gaf from Debian. I'm personally quite happily living on the fork that

Bug#981040: RM: pcb-rnd [s390x] -- ANAIS; architecture specific bug upstream

2021-01-25 Thread Bdale Garbee
Package: ftp.debian.org Severity: normal Please remove s390x binary packages built from pcb-rnd version 2.3.0-3 from the archive. The newer version 2.3.1-1 is failing to build on s390x due to an architecture-specific bug in floating point math handling acknowledged by upstream. Unfortunately

Bug#977595: [Pkg-electronics-devel] Bug#977595: lepton-eda/lepton-attrib and lepton-eda/lepton-schematic can't find libgtk-x11-2.0

2020-12-17 Thread Bdale Garbee
severity 977595 serious thanks Vanessa Dannenberg writes: Hi Vanessa! > Package: lepton-eda > Version: 1.9.13-1 > Severity: grave > > [ This is a fresh install of Bullseye/testing, from a net-install > image fetched just today] I couldn't duplicate your problem on my "unstable" development sys

Bug#975938: ITP: jboss-vfs -- JBoss Virtual File System

2020-11-26 Thread Bdale Garbee
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Bdale Garbee X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-de...@lists.debian.org * Package name: jboss-vfs Version : 3.2.15.Final Upstream Author : JBoss, A division of Red Hat, Inc. * url : http://www.jboss.org * License : Apache-2.0

Bug#975985: O: geda-gaf

2020-11-27 Thread Bdale Garbee
Package: wnpp Severity: normal I personally don't use geda-gaf any longer, and do not plan to do any more work on it. From the discussion in #965098, it seems not all users are happy just moving to lepton-eda. I'm filing this bug to ensure that if the package remains in Debian, it is at least c

Bug#965098: geda-gaf orphaned

2020-11-27 Thread Bdale Garbee
In light of Kai-Martin Knaak's comments here, I won't push harder for geda-gaf to be removed from Debian. However, since I have no intention of doing more work on it myself, I just filed bug #975985 marking geda-gaf as orphaned. Bdale

Bug#976244: RFA: sudo -- Provide limited super user privileges to specific users

2020-12-01 Thread Bdale Garbee
Package: wnpp Severity: normal I took over the sudo package in August of 1996, and have maintained it since then. The package is in pretty good condition, with very reliable core functionality. Upstream is active and responds promptly to concerns. Despite this, there are a significant number o

Bug#976304: RFA: gzip -- GNU compression utilities

2020-12-02 Thread Bdale Garbee
Package: wnpp Severity: normal I took over the Debian gzip package on 2 December 1995, which means that as of today, I've taken care of it for 25 years! The package is in good shape, though a number of bugs have accumulated over the years that I have neither the time nor motivation remaining t

Bug#974156: ITP: ezdxf -- Python package to create and modify DXF drawings

2020-11-10 Thread Bdale Garbee
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Bdale Garbee X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-de...@lists.debian.org * Package name: ezdxf Version : 0.14.2 Upstream Author : Manfred Moitzi * URL : https://ezdxf.mozman.at * License : MIT Programming Lang: Python Description

Bug#974160: ITP: scikit-fmm -- Python module which implements the fast marching method

2020-11-10 Thread Bdale Garbee
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Bdale Garbee X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-de...@lists.debian.org * Package name: scikit-fmm Version : 2019.1.30 Upstream Author : The scikit-fmm team * URL : http://packages.python.org/scikit-fmm * License : BSD Programming

Bug#974161: ITP: openmotor -- internal ballistics simulator for rocket motor experimenters

2020-11-10 Thread Bdale Garbee
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Bdale Garbee X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-de...@lists.debian.org * Package name: openmotor Version : 0.4.0 Upstream Author : https://github.com/reilleya * URL : https://github.com/reilleya/openMotor * License : GPL Programming

Bug#973844: RFA: tar

2020-11-10 Thread Bdale Garbee
Janos LENART writes: > I would like to adopt & maintain tar. I am using some of the 'newer' > features at many sites that the current bugs are about, like remote > archives, zstd and incremental; also well versed in C. I have been a DD > since 2000. > > Looking at the list of bugs I am thinking m

Bug#974811: ITP: pyqt-distutils -- distutils extension to work with PyQt applications and UI files

2020-11-14 Thread Bdale Garbee
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Bdale Garbee X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-de...@lists.debian.org * Package name: pyqt-distutils Version : 0.7.3 Upstream Author : Colin Duquesnoy * URL : https://github.com/ColinDuquesnoy/pyqt_distutils * License : MIT

Bug#975404: ITP: annotation-detector -- scan class path for annotated classes, methods, or instance variables

2020-11-21 Thread Bdale Garbee
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Bdale Garbee X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-de...@lists.debian.org * Package name: annotation-detector Version : 3.0.5 Upstream Author : XIAM Solutions B.V. (http://www.xiam.nl) * URL : https://github.com/rmuller/infomas-asl * License

Bug#973844: RFA: tar -- GNU version of the tar archiving utility

2020-11-05 Thread Bdale Garbee
Package: wnpp After maintaining the Debian package of tar since 3 December 1995 (nearly a quarter century!), I've decided it's time to let someone else take over. The Debian tar package is generally in very good shape, and does all the routine things quite reliably. However, like many GNU proje

Bug#877024: modemmanager should ask before messing with serial ports

2017-10-11 Thread Bdale Garbee
Aleksander Morgado writes: I'm no longer a TC member, but have been bitten by this problem, so will chime in. > Would the new approach satisfy Debian's needs? It seems so to me. The key thing I care about is that we *not* assume any arbitrary cdc-acm device is a modem. I can't say for sure, b

Bug#877005: send_summary script referenced in default cron.d file does not exist

2017-09-27 Thread Bdale Garbee
Package: burp Version: 2.0.54-1 The /etc/cron.d/burp file delivered with the burp package has a couple of commented-out lines for use on the server. One of those invokes the script /etc/burp/send_summary. Unfortunately, no such script is provided in the package, and I don't see any obvious corre

Bug#877516: sudo-ldap: fails to upgrade due to insserv rejecting the script header

2017-10-02 Thread Bdale Garbee
Andreas Beckmann writes: > during a test with piuparts I noticed your package failed to install due > to insserv rejecting the script header. Thanks for letting me know. > We had a similar problem in the past ... #719755 > Looks like the fix for #870456 "enabled" this bug again. Hrm. Right, b

Bug#944135: laptop audio not working

2019-11-04 Thread Bdale Garbee
Package: linux-image-5.2.0-3-amd64 Version: 5.2.17-1+b1 The audio on my Lenovo T490 doesn't work at all with this kernel package. Dropping back to linux-image-5.3.0-1-amd64 resolves the problem. 00:1f.3 Audio device: Intel Corporation Cannon Point-LP High Definition Audio Controller (rev 30) Is

Bug#944136: laptop audio not working

2019-11-04 Thread Bdale Garbee
Package: linux-image-5.3.0-1-amd64 Version: 5.3.7-1 The audio on my Lenovo T490 doesn't work at all with this kernel package. Dropping back to linux-image-5.2.0-3-amd64 resolves the problem. 00:1f.3 Audio device: Intel Corporation Cannon Point-LP High Definition Audio Controller (rev 30) Is thi

Bug#954283: gzip: produces corrupt output files on armv5tel

2020-03-19 Thread Bdale Garbee
Jörg Mechnich writes: >> DEB_CPPFLAGS_MAINT_APPEND := -DUNALIGNED_OK That was originally meant to only be enabled on amd64 .. I think that got lost in one of the packaging style updates I accepted a while back. Just uploaded 1.10-2 hopefully making the architecture-specificity true again. Bdal

Bug#469315: still need mailcap entries

2020-03-19 Thread Bdale Garbee
It's a decade later, and various apps including emacs still make routine use of mailcap data. Any chance you could just deliver a mailcap file and save me the pain of having to drop entries on every machine I configure? Bdale

Bug#949419:

2020-03-19 Thread Bdale Garbee
tags 949519 +needhelp thanks I don't have any easy way to debug LDAP issues. If someone else does and wants to chase this down and let me know where the problem is, that'd be great. Bdale signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#931532: could use help on this

2020-03-19 Thread Bdale Garbee
tags 931532 +needhelp thanks I don't have any easy way to debug LDAP issues in sudo. If someone else has time to chase this down and tell me what's wrong, that'd be great. Bdale signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#943413: sudo 1.8.28p1-1 built with wrong libexecdir

2019-10-24 Thread Bdale Garbee
tags 943313 +pending thanks Dominick Grift writes: > Package: sudo > Version: 1.8.28p1-1 > > The --libexecdir=/usr/lib/sudo entries in debian/rules are wrong > > It should be --libexecdir=/usr/lib The word "wrong" might be a bit strong, but I agree that losing the extra directory level makes se

Bug#901952: anyone want to craft a patch?

2019-01-05 Thread Bdale Garbee
tags 901952 +help thanks I question whether this bug is really release-critical, since the only cases of it I've heard about so far are the two instances pointed to in this bug log where pristine-tar is being used across distributions and versions... I've not seen the behavior in any of my own pac

Bug#884741: sudo-ldap: Lacking support for SSSD

2017-12-18 Thread Bdale Garbee
Thore writes: > Package: sudo-ldap > Version: 1.8.19p1-2.1 > Severity: wishlist > > Good evening, > while trying to integrate SSSD for LDAP authentication the sudo provider > constantly failed. > After a while of searching for a reason I came across this: > > sudo -V > Sudo version 1.8.19p1 > Con

Bug#927261: tar: file capabilities lost upon extraction

2019-07-10 Thread Bdale Garbee
Brian Murray writes: > That being said I started a discussion about having to use > '--xattrs-include=*' when extracting a tar archive with upstream[1] Thanks for working on this with upstream! Bdale signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#924131: host the scanned printout of the Debian creation announcement in Debian server

2019-03-10 Thread Bdale Garbee
Laura Arjona Reina writes: > I suggest to download a copy and host it in a Debian > server (could be www.debian.org or other that you see it better) and > then change the link to point to the resource in our server. > > What do you think? It sounds like a great idea! Bdale signature.asc Descr

Bug#924301: error isn't about space in filesystem

2019-03-17 Thread Bdale Garbee
The complaint is not about a lack of space inside the filesystem, the complaint is about a lack of unallocated space in the volume group. I suspect a large number of users are now seeing this message from cron, as I am, because they have a volume group where all blocks are allocated. I think eith

Bug#901952: can affect packaged with old source tarballs

2019-01-27 Thread Bdale Garbee
Hans-Christoph Steiner writes: > this also goes the other way, where tarballs created in tar 1.30 fail to > work in pristine-tar when tar 1.29 is installed: Unfortunately, the nature of pristine-tar is such that it's somewhat brittle in the face of upstream changes to tar. I don't think it's un

Bug#885195: guile-2.2 fix in lepton-eda

2019-02-01 Thread Bdale Garbee
The lepton-eda package is a fork of geda-gaf, and is what I'm personally using and focusing my package maintenance efforts on now. A patch for guile-2.2 support provided by lepton-eda upstream is now part of the Debian package version 1.9.7-2. That patch may illuminate the changes required to upd

Bug#921123: RM: altos [ppc64el] -- RoM; arch-specific Java problem

2019-02-01 Thread Bdale Garbee
Package: ftp.debian.org Please remove ppc64el packages of altos from the repository. There appears to be a non-package-specific Java compiler problem on that architecture that will prevent promotion of the latest altos version to testing even once other blockers are cleared. Bdale signature.as

Bug#921269: RM: cc1111 -- RoM; obsolete and no longer needed

2019-02-03 Thread Bdale Garbee
Package: ftp.debian.org Please remove the cc package from unstable and testing. This is a fork of sdcc that was necessary for a while to be able to build altos, but it's no longer needed and I don't want to maintain it through the buster lifecycle and beyond. Regards, Bdale signature.asc

Bug#1006172: [Pkg-electronics-devel] Bug#1006172: src:lepton-eda: fails to migrate to testing for too long: FTBFS on s390x

2022-02-20 Thread Bdale Garbee
Paul Gevers writes: > Your package fails to build on s390x where it build successfully in > the past. I've X-Debbugs-CC-ed the s390x porters to help you > understand why only this architecture is affected. It's hard to imagine anyone actually trying to use lepton-eda on s390x. If the porting tea

Bug#1006227: please resolve lepton-eda s390x out of date in testing

2022-02-21 Thread Bdale Garbee
Package: ftp.debian.org Hi. In response to bug 1006172, it appears the best fix for now would be to arrange for the lepton-eda 1.9.16-3 binaries for s390x to be removed from the archive. I'd be fine with either the s390x binaries only being removed, or the complete removal of 1.9.16-3 from the a

Bug#1002252: [Pkg-electronics-devel] Bug#1002252: pcb-rnd: FTBFS: dh_auto_test: error: make -j4 test VERBOSE=1 returned exit code 2

2022-01-02 Thread Bdale Garbee
severity 1002252 important thanks Lucas Nussbaum writes: > During a rebuild of all packages in sid, your package failed to build > on amd64. It looks like noise from the latest librnd version is causing a pcb-rnd test failure. There is no operational bug in either the library or the applicatio

Bug#994921: [Pkg-electronics-devel] Bug#994921: librnd3-dev: missing Breaks+Replaces: librnd-dev

2021-09-24 Thread Bdale Garbee
Andreas Beckmann writes: > I'm not sure whether it would be helpful, but a (versioned?) > Provides: librnd-dev (= ${binary:Version}) > could ease upgrading from librnd-dev to librnd3-dev. Yes, that makes sense. > BTW, why has the -dev package been renamed from librnd-dev to librnd3-dev? > I

Bug#999738: runtime deps on -dev library symlinks not caught

2021-11-18 Thread Bdale Garbee
Felix Lechner writes: > Do you have the output of 'readelf --all --wide' [1] for one of those > binaries? The elf library binaries delivered by the package actually look fine. Digging further, it appears the problem cases are all in guile code, where the function dynamic-link is handed a token

Bug#791946: Please support ARM64 (new upstream works)

2021-11-11 Thread Bdale Garbee
Martin Michlmayr writes: > pforth is not enabled for arm64 in debian/control. Using upstream > version V27, pforth works on arm64. I recently traded emails with upstream, because even V27 is quite old and there's much more reason work in upstream revision control. He says a new upstream releas

Bug#999699: [Pkg-electronics-devel] Bug#999699: Start of lepton-schematic failed

2021-11-15 Thread Bdale Garbee
tags 999699 +pending thanks Bernhard writes: > The start of lepton-schematic failed because of missing > libglib-2.0.so. The underlying problem is with the way the lepton-eda developers refer to shared libs in the Makefile.am content in scheme library build directories. The side effect is that

Bug#999738: runtime deps on -dev library symlinks not caught

2021-11-15 Thread Bdale Garbee
Package: lintian Severity: wishlist I've had a couple bugs recently, including 999699, where upstream Makefile.am content has resulted in binaries delivered in a .deb having a run-time dependency on the symlinks provided in the library -dev package instead of the ".0" version of those files provid

Bug#1002050: dh-addon dependency test false positive

2021-12-20 Thread Bdale Garbee
Package: lintian Version: 2.114.0 I'm getting the error: E: lepton-eda source: missing-build-dependency-for-dh-addon autoreconf => dh-autoreconf | debhelper (>= 9.20160403~) | debhelper-compat [debian/rules] on a package that has Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 13) in the control file. This

Bug#1002479: precompile scheme code for faster start times

2021-12-22 Thread Bdale Garbee
Package: lepton-eda Severity: wishlist There is some upstream support for pre-compiling the scheme code and including the resulting files in the binary package. Getting it to actually work in a Debian package will take more work than I'm currently motivated to undertake. Still .. it would be nice

Bug#716143: working as intended

2021-10-25 Thread Bdale Garbee
tags 716143 +wontfix thanks The upstream author of pforth has weighed in and believes that crashing in this way means that pforth is working as intended. I'll leave the bug open so it isn't duplicated in the future, but mark it wontfix as I don't intend to change anything because of it. Bdale

Bug#997871: debian-history: A few paragraphs are not translated

2021-10-26 Thread Bdale Garbee
Nicolas Patrois writes: > Package: debian-history > Version: 2.26 > Severity: normal > Tags: l10n > > Dear Maintainer, > > A few paragraphs in the French pages are not translated. > These pages are mostly in French excepted one or two paragraphs. > > Maybe it’s the same in other languages. My Fr

Bug#997871: Re : Bug#997871: debian-history: A few paragraphs are not translated

2021-10-27 Thread Bdale Garbee
nicolas.patr...@gmail.com writes: > Le 26/10/2021 20:17:29, Bdale Garbee a écrit : > >> My French language skills are insufficient to work on this myself. >> I'll be happy to merge credible patches if/when they appear from others. > > OK, I’ll read again the history

Bug#906785: version warping patch is overly aggressive

2018-08-20 Thread Bdale Garbee
Package: ant Version: 1.10.5-1 Severity: important The Debian ant package is built with a patch "0013-auto-adjust-target.patch" that forces the Java target version number to 7. The utterly breaks the ability to use Debian ant for building Java applications that get wrapped up in installer package

Bug#906785: patch that fixes my immediate problem

2018-08-20 Thread Bdale Garbee
Attached is a patch that fixed my immediate problem, the ability to build packages using ant that remain compatible with Java 1.6. Bdale From 07a73a1b2f10255ec9535f66db82a192780611b7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Bdale Garbee Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2018 20:49:42 -0600 Subject: [PATCH] see if we can

Bug#906785: version warping patch is overly aggressive

2018-08-21 Thread Bdale Garbee
Markus Koschany writes: > we all assumed that OpenJDK 11 will remove support for source/target > 1.6. After a discussion on the OpenJDK mailing list they decided to > postpone this change for OpenJDK 12. [1] Aha, that helps explain things. Thanks. > The current patch simplifies our packaging w

Bug#915484: openrocket is an installer that must move to contrib

2018-12-03 Thread Bdale Garbee
Adrian Bunk writes: > Package: openrocket > Version: 13.05.1 > Severity: serious > > openrocket was turned into an installer that downloads > the actual softare during package installation. > > In this state it mustn't be in main. Oops, you're right. Working on it now. Bdale signature.asc De

Bug#914469: sudo: Truncated sudo(8) man page

2018-11-23 Thread Bdale Garbee
Sven Joachim writes: > This has also been reported upstream today. A fix is at > https://www.sudo.ws/repos/sudo/rev/7ddfb74781a1. Thanks. I'll have an updated package uploaded shortly. Bdale signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#914677: [Pkg-electronics-devel] Bug#914677: libmawk fails it's tests on s390x

2018-11-26 Thread Bdale Garbee
Matthias Klose writes: > libmawk fails it's tests on s390x (also different failures on some non-release > architectures). Thanks, I've let upstream know. Bdale signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#908553: can't reproduce

2018-10-11 Thread Bdale Garbee
tags 908553 +unreproducible severity 908553 normal thanks I've been unable to reproduce this problem, and am in fact a nearly-daily user of pcb-rnd. If the problem is persistent for you, I'm going to need to know more about your system config, how you're invoking pcb-rnd, etc, to be able to usef

Bug#897653: tar 1.30 breaks pristine-tar

2018-05-14 Thread Bdale Garbee
Paul Eggert writes: > On 05/14/2018 07:56 AM, Antonio Terceiro wrote: >> I still need to study the > code a bit further to try to come up with a >> better suggestion. > Sorry, the only suggestion I can make is that you should just use the > new GNU tar. The old one was obviously busted and it

Bug#846490: tar(5) page never existed

2018-05-16 Thread Bdale Garbee
tags 846490 +pending thanks Upstream indicates that there was never a section 5 man page for the tar archive format in the GNU tar sources, thus the "see also" reference to such a page is now removed from the upstream section 1 man page for tar. I've put an equivalent patch into my source tree

Bug#904302: Whether vendor-specific patch series should be permitted in the archive

2018-07-23 Thread Bdale Garbee
Sean Whitton writes: > The concrete question that I am asking the committee to decide, in my > capacity as a Policy delegate, is whether or not vendor-specific patch > series should be permitted in the Debian archive. While I am no longer a member of the TC, and my analysis of the situation cons

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