Bug#511456: time: defaults to POSIX non-compliance

2011-02-07 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi Bart, Two years ago, you wrote[1]: GNU time has a --portability flag to get the POSIX-mandated formatting of its output. The BASH time builtin is used in /bin/sh invocations and is POSIX-compliant. The combination of these features means that it is difficult to write portable shell

Bug#611698: The node command in Debian

2011-02-07 Thread Jonathan Nieder
(please follow-up to debian-devel only) Hi Debianites, As you may know[0], there are currently two packages in Debian experimental providing a node binary. [0] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2010/08/msg00568.html The node.js project --- One is from the node.js project. It

Bug#611698: nodejs: conflicts with package node needlessly

2011-02-07 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Jérémy Lal wrote: I discussed the /sbin/node name conflict with ham radio maintainers, on debian-devel, with upstream nodejs, but totally forgot to ask upstream ax25, my bad. I'm going to do that now (infamously). Good luck! Probably worth mentioning the same on debian-devel in reply to

Bug#608900: xz-utils: Typos in Hungarian package description

2011-02-07 Thread Jonathan Nieder
tags 608900 - pending quit Hi, Braun Gábor wrote: In the Hungarian package description please correct the following typos: replace 'tarttalmaz' with 'tartalmaz' in the sentence just before the feature list (a 't' is erronously doubled), replace 'flimseri' with 'felismeri' in the first

Bug#422712: [gs-esp]

2011-02-07 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Bastien ROUCARIES wrote: Package: gs-esp Does this bug fixed in gpl version ? gs-esp was merged into ghostscript bit by bit, culminating in 2007-06-22 (so gs-gpl versions before then lack some gs-esp patches). Anyway, I've checked that modern ghostscript doesn't have Troy's patch applied

Bug#379901: gs-gpl: `ps2pdf' fails to embed URW++ fonts from `gsfonts'

2011-02-07 Thread Jonathan Nieder
reopen 379901 submitter 379901 ! severity 379901 normal tags 379901 = upstream moreinfo done Ludovic Courtès wrote: This is a 5-year old bug report, I changed email addresses in the meantime (congrats for finding a new one), and I even changed distros. :-) Thanks for an update. I'll take

Bug#612268: cupt: does not run triggers before unpacking reverse-pre-depends

2011-02-07 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote: On 2011-02-07 03:46, Jonathan Nieder wrote: dpkg: regarding .../inn2_2.5.2-2~squeeze1_amd64.deb containing inn2, pre-dependency problem: inn2 pre-depends on inn2-inews (= 2.3.999+20030227-1) inn2-inews is unpacked, but has never been configured. dpkg

Bug#511456: time: defaults to POSIX non-compliance

2011-02-07 Thread Jonathan Nieder
tags 511456 - moreinfo retitle 511456 time: documentation of -p is unclear severity 511456 minor tags 511456 + upstream quit Bart Massey wrote: Sorry, I hadn' t realized the POSIX standard was so broken that it required a flag to get a guarantee of predictable formatting. I guess under those

Bug#610376: [git-buildpackage/master] git-import-dscs: Fix --debsnap doc and option error handling

2011-02-07 Thread Jonathan Nieder
tag 610376 pending thanks Date: Mon Jan 17 19:17:56 2011 -0600 Author: Jonathan Nieder jrnie...@gmail.com Commit ID: f2f03b79db00f04e5fe2f3db0307eda419373ec8 Commit URL: http://git.debian.org/?p=users/agx/git-buildpackage.git;a=commitdiff;h=f2f03b79db00f04e5fe2f3db0307eda419373ec8 Patch URL

Bug#544192: Building a case for the need for a debian-live pseudopackage

2011-02-08 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Don Armstrong wrote: Pseudopackages are used as a place for bugs which have no other home. In these cases, there is a specific home for the bug (live-boot, live-build, live-magic, or perhaps some other package entirely). Sounds somewhat analogous to the case of debian-installer, which uses

Bug#611601: python-fastimport: please provide overview documentation

2011-02-08 Thread Jonathan Nieder
address at the moment: https://launchpad.net/python-fastimport Filing. http://bugs.debian.611601 has the original report. From 6d2d59767acd265cf19228edc3240050721f1c0b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jonathan Nieder jrnie...@gmail.com Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2011 22:42:09 -0600 Subject: [PATCH] python

Bug#607609: libssl-doc: undeclared file conflict with libssl-dev (trying to overwrite '/usr/share/man/man3/SSL_get_default_timeout.3ssl.gz', which is also in package libssl-dev 0.9.8o-4)

2011-02-08 Thread Jonathan Nieder
found 607609 openssl/1.0.0c-1 tags 607609 + patch pending quit Jonathan Nieder wrote: Severity: grave Justification: cannot install $ cupt full-upgrade [...] Unpacking libssl-doc (from .../libssl-doc_1.0.0c-2_all.deb) ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libssl-doc_1.0.0c

Bug#612532: sudo: prompts despite unmodified /etc/sudoers on upgrade

2011-02-08 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Package: sudo Version: 1.7.4p4-6 Justification: policy §10.7.3 Basic squeeze system, installed a few weeks ago. At installation time, I gave no root password, so sudo was set up automatically. Now I am upgrading to sid/experimental. | Preparing to replace sudo 1.7.4p4-2.squeeze.1 (using

Bug#612532: sudo: prompts despite unmodified /etc/sudoers on upgrade

2011-02-08 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Bdale Garbee wrote: The version of sudo in sid/experimental has switched to treating the sudoers file as a standard Debian conffile instead of the former ad-hoc approach to managing the file. Given that there's no way for the sudo package to know what changes you might have made to the

Bug#606053: debcheckout: warning when run with perl 5.12 (Prototype after '@' for main::set_destdir)

2011-02-09 Thread Jonathan Nieder
James Vega wrote: * debcheckout: Use the correct prototype for set_destdir. (Closes: #606053) Thanks! The other fixes and features look nice, too. Regards, Jonathan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Bug#612532: sudo: prompts despite unmodified /etc/sudoers on upgrade

2011-02-09 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Raphael Hertzog wrote: The point is precisely to deal with the case when the user has not made any change. And for this you would have to move /etc/sudoers aside in preinst upgrade if it matches the md5sum of an unmodified file. Thanks, Raphaël. The main problem with this solution is that it

Bug#612532: sudo: prompts despite unmodified /etc/sudoers on upgrade

2011-02-09 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Sven Joachim wrote: Before anyone delves into this, have a look at bug #605130 which is exactly the problem that was solved by making /etc/sudoers a conffile. Yes, sudoers is co-owned between sudo and sudo-ldap and needs to be removed when both are purged. I think ucf can handle that. When

Bug#611469: traceroute: please steal the BSD traceroute manpage

2011-02-09 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Dmitry Butskoy wrote: The man page was derived from the classic, decades old traceroute implementation from Van Jacobson, with some additions regarding the new features. Okay, so as a start to work on this, I tried to find where the BSD traceroute manpage comes from. Apparently the copy I

Bug#612532: sudo: prompts despite unmodified /etc/sudoers on upgrade

2011-02-09 Thread Jonathan Nieder
(-cc: debian-dpkg) Sven Joachim wrote: On 2011-02-09 11:25 +0100, Jonathan Nieder wrote: Yes, sudoers is co-owned between sudo and sudo-ldap and needs to be removed when both are purged. I think ucf can handle that. [...] You still need to remove the file yourself on purge, ucf does not do

Bug#612532: sudo: prompts despite unmodified /etc/sudoers on upgrade

2011-02-09 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Sven Joachim wrote: How about merging sudo-ldap into sudo? Some other possibilities to think about: - let sudo-ldap dlopen libldap and print a suitable message on failure (too slow?) - let sudo-ldap depend on and be coinstallable with ordinary sudo (using a diversion) - move

Bug#612128: [kfreebsd] grub-pc: fails to configure (camcontrol: cam_lookup_pass: CAMGETPASSTHRU ioctl failed)

2011-02-09 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Colin Watson wrote: On Sun, Feb 06, 2011 at 01:12:00AM -0600, Jonathan Nieder wrote: /usr/sbin/grub-probe: error: cannot find a GRUB drive for /dev/ad0s1. Check your device.map. Auto-detection of a filesystem of /dev/ad0s1 failed. Please report this together with the output

Bug#612532: sudo: prompts despite unmodified /etc/sudoers on upgrade

2011-02-09 Thread Jonathan Nieder
(-cc: debian-dpkg) Bdale Garbee wrote: But, given my understanding of how things work and my experiences trying to be clever handling the sudoers file in previous releases of sudo, I currently believe the best option is to just leave this alone and let users be potentially

Bug#610379: git-import-dsc: copes poorly with missing 'upstream' branch

2011-02-09 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi Guido, Guido Günther wrote: On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 10:01:46PM -0600, Jonathan Nieder wrote: 1) the error message from rev-parse --verify is not so useful. 2) it's not clear to me why git-buildpackage wants the 'upstream' rev in the first place. Couldn't it create the branch

Bug#419180: gs-esp fails while processing a file prepared for printing

2011-02-10 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi Alexei, Three years ago, you wrote: I can't print an openoffice document on a cups printer. Some investigation shows that the problem occurs when gs-esp processes a postscript file prepared for printing The situation may be modelled with the following command: $ cat prt.ps |

Bug#611699: acpi-support: Recommends xscreensaver without explanation

2011-02-10 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Michael Meskes wrote: Besides some system tools acpi-support recommends vbetool to be able to power off the screen and some screensavers to be able to lock the screen on lid close. Makes sense. Thanks! Regards, Jonathan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#419180: gs-esp fails while processing a file prepared for printing

2011-02-10 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Alexei Ustyuzhaninov wrote: Please find the files attached. I've just tried to re-execute this command with current ghostscript (8.71~dfsg2-6) and it failed again, but without segmentation fault. I will investigate this more carefully on weekend. Thanks, Alexei. I tried with 8.71~dfsg2-10

Bug#139861: tr fails with UTF-8

2011-02-11 Thread Jonathan Nieder
tags 139861 - wontfix quit Lucas Nussbaum wrote: I'm merging these bugs (all about tr not supporting UTF-8), that still affects the current coreutils in experimental. wontfix indicates that this is not going to be fixed by a debian-specific patch, but that the problem should be fixed

Bug#610379: git-import-dsc: copes poorly with missing 'upstream' branch

2011-02-11 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Guido Günther wrote: * [0363f47] git-import-dsc: better explain missing upstream branch. Thanks! Sorry about leaving this hanging. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#511456: time: defaults to POSIX non-compliance

2011-02-12 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Bart Massey wrote: Thanks! I agree that this is much better. Forwarded to bug-gnu-utils. Hopefully someone there will take pity on us and become GNU time maintainer. :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Bug#613023: dpkg-dev: dpkg-source doesn't update ctime of patched files (with 3.0 (quilt) format)

2011-02-12 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi Stéphane, Stéphane Glondu wrote: Le 12/02/2011 16:53, Raphael Hertzog a écrit : AFAIK the ctime can't be modified except if we do things like chown/chmod on the file. I don't see why quilt push would modify it... Well... it does... and so does touch. I think ctime is a red herring here.

Bug#613023: dpkg-dev: dpkg-source doesn't update ctime of patched files (with 3.0 (quilt) format)

2011-02-12 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Jonathan Nieder wrote: Stéphane Glondu wrote: And it seems that the bug doesn't appear on all filesystems (I was using NFS [and ext4 on the server side] when it bit me). If you have a better explanation/fix, I will be glad to hear it. Not sure. Maybe a problem of timestamp granularity

Bug#613023: dpkg-dev: dpkg-source doesn't update ctime of patched files (with 3.0 (quilt) format)

2011-02-13 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Raphael Hertzog wrote: On Sat, 12 Feb 2011, Jonathan Nieder wrote: 2. Raphaël, maybe dpkg-source could do something like this? utime does not return ENOENT unless all its arguments do not exist. What's the point? I don't see how it matters... When the filesystem is NFS, utime

Bug#614563: chromium-browser: Fails to render http://www.gda.bayern.de/findmittel/ead/index.php?fb=102

2011-02-22 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi, Daniel Skorka wrote: 1. Visit address 2. Click one of the numbered entries in the left frame, e.g. 05.1.2.1.1. Von Sidon bis Jaffa 3. Click one of the entries in the middle frame, e.g. Sidon: Stadt-Mitte 4. Click the small image that appears A window will open and commence

Bug#614563: chromium-browser: Fails to render http://www.gda.bayern.de/findmittel/ead/index.php?fb=102

2011-02-22 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Daniel Skorka wrote: my window manager is fvwm 2.5.30, screen size is 1024x768. I've got a dock running that shaves a few pixels of the EWMH usable screen size or what ever it's called. That is ignored by the resizing. By the way, I failed to mention that for me, using Firefox, the window

Bug#614578: fails to install when both emacs and git are installed in the same run (pre-depends needed?)

2011-02-22 Thread Jonathan Nieder
clone 614578 -1 retitle -1 git.emacsen-install is not idempotent thanks Hi Christoph, Christoph Egger wrote: Btw: fixing isn't that easy, the install script doesn't like being called again it seems: Thanks for catching this (both the original bug and this part). Were you able to recover?

Bug#614578: fails to install when both emacs and git are installed in the same run

2011-02-22 Thread Jonathan Nieder
retitle 614578 git: postinst fails if emacsen-common is unpacked but not configured severity 614578 serious quit Hi, Christoph Egger wrote: Setting up git (1:1.7.4.1-1) ... ERROR: emacsen-common being used before being configured. ERROR: This is likely a bug in the git package, which needs

Bug#611946: Freezes apparently caused by ath9k

2011-02-22 Thread Jonathan Nieder
(resending to the right bug number. Sorry for the noise.) Hi Tony, Tony Houghton wrote: I've reassigned this bug to the latest unstable kernel because that's affected too. I think the problem is caused by the ath9k driver because any attempt to disable wireless or even disconnect usually

Bug#542709: git-core: unexpectedly dirty index after rebase

2011-02-22 Thread Jonathan Nieder
tags 542709 - moreinfo # I wish I had an explanation. :) severity 542709 wishlist submitter 542709 ! quit Ximin Luo wrote: I can no longer reproduce the bug on my git version, 1.7.2.3. I'm lowering the severity since it seems it's unreproducible. (sorry if you wanted me to test an earlier

Bug#614578: [PATCH git] debian: make git*.el packaging more robust

2011-02-22 Thread Jonathan Nieder
svenj...@gmx.de Fixes: http://bugs.debian.org/614578 Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder jrnie...@gmail.com --- Sven Joachim wrote: If you want to make a separate package, it should be named git-el and depend on emacs | emacsen. Alternatively, you could make git depend on emacsen-common. How about

Bug#614680: make: fails to build external module if there are spaces in the module path

2011-02-22 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi! Iker Salmón wrote: Trying to compile an external webcam driver fails if there are spaces in the path of the driver: Do you have a copy of the makefile? Where does the driver come from? make -C /lib/modules/2.6.37-1-686/build SUBDIRS=/home/duffy/Programas y drivers/Compilar/driver

Bug#611946: Freezes apparently caused by ath9k

2011-02-22 Thread Jonathan Nieder
maximilian attems wrote: only with newer 2.6.38-rc4 : make ARCH=i386 deb-pkg Wasn't that part of 2.6.38-rc1? (v2.6.38-rc1~438^2~4, kbuild, deb-pkg: select userland architecture based on UTS_MACHINE, 2010-11-05) To do the same on older kernels: git checkout origin/master --

Bug#614734: libc6.1-dev: #include math.h from gcc on a DEC Alpha does not declare function `round'

2011-02-22 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi Wayne, Wayne Rossberg wrote: #include math.h [...] test.c:5: warning: incompatible implicit declaration of built-in function `round' When I check with man 3 round, I see: Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see feature_test_macros(7)): round(), roundf(), roundl():

Bug#614578: fails to install when both emacs and git are installed in the same run

2011-02-23 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi Agustin, Agustin Martin wrote: A temporary hack is [...] Very interesting (and especially thanks for the reference to Bug#268466). I feared the following sequence: install emacsen-common install git remove emacsen-common remove git but it actually works

Bug#613433: pu: package git/1:1.7.2.5-0.1

2011-02-23 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Julien Cristau wrote: On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 14:51:29 -0600, Jonathan Nieder wrote: The git package in stable is currently based against v1.7.2.3. Junio is conservative about not making risky changes to the maint-1.7.2 branch, so I would like to update the Debian packaging to v1.7.2.5

Bug#614563: chromium-browser: Fails to render http://www.gda.bayern.de/findmittel/ead/index.php?fb=102

2011-02-23 Thread Jonathan Nieder
found 614563 chromium-browser/9.0.597.98~r74359-1 tags 614563 + upstream quit Hi again, Daniel Skorka wrote: A window will open and commence resizing itself in small steps until it fills the whole screen. Yes, I can reproduce this with fvwm. Setting Hide system title bar and use compact

Bug#614892: libc6: please apply upstream qsort() crash fix

2011-02-23 Thread Jonathan Nieder
tags 614892 + upstream patch fixed-upstream fixed 614892 eglibc/2.13-0exp1 quit Ben Pfaff wrote: I noticed that msgmerge was randomly and intermittently dying with SIGFPE on multiple systems of mine. When I examined the core file, I saw that it was dying in qsort_r(). Some detective work

Bug#614907: node: name conflicts with node.js interpreter

2011-02-24 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Package: node Version: 0.3.2-7.1 Severity: serious Justification: policy §10.1 Tags: upstream Hi, Both LinuxNode (package node) and node.js (package nodejs) are designed to be accessed through the command name node. There seems to be no agreement[1][2] in Debian about what should be done with

Bug#614959: libbsd: please implement setproctitle

2011-02-24 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Package: libbsd Version: 0.2.0-1 Severity: wishlist Tags: upstream Hi, In libbsd, we find: void setproctitle(const char *fmt, ...) { /* Stub so that we can implement it later on and programs will * automatically benefit from it, w/o needing to recompile. */ } I would like

Bug#611946: Freezes apparently caused by ath9k

2011-02-24 Thread Jonathan Nieder
forwarded 611946 http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.wireless.general/65397 reassign 611946 linux-2.6 tags 611946 + upstream found 611946 linux-2.6/2.6.37-1~experimental.1 found 611946 linux-2.6/2.6.37-1 # bisected to v2.6.35-rc1~473^2~167^2~346 found 611946

Bug#206746: Please add an option to list all dependencies of a target (recursively)

2011-02-24 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Martin Quinson wrote: Le mardi 15 février 2011 à 00:28 -0600, Jonathan Nieder a écrit : I think something more easily machine-readable than -pnq (e.g., dependencies only) sounds valuable, so if you come up with a spec for that I'd be glad to take a look (maybe to refine it, or maybe to help

Bug#615041: dab: quitting leaves the terminal in an ugly state

2011-02-24 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Package: bsdgames Version: 2.17-19 After a rousing game of dots and boxes: $ dab if I press q to quit, a $ is printed to the current character cell and the terminal does not echo what I type any more. ┌ ┬ ┬ ┐ S c:0 $S h:0 ├ ┼─┼ ┤

Bug#613433: pu: package git/1:1.7.2.5-1

2011-02-25 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi, Julien Cristau wrote: On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 14:51:29 -0600, Jonathan Nieder wrote: The git package in stable is currently based against v1.7.2.3. Junio is conservative about not making risky changes to the maint-1.7.2 branch, so I would like to update the Debian packaging to v1.7.2.5

Bug#615129: RM: qt-x11-free/3:3.3.8b-7, kdelibs/4:3.5.10.dfsg.1-5

2011-02-25 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Package: release.debian.org Severity: wishlist User: release.debian@packages.debian.org Usertags: rm Tags: moreinfo Hi, There seems to be some interest in removing kde3 and qt3 before wheezy is released. This bug is meant to track that process and request removal of those packages from

Bug#612071: RM: kguitar -- RoQA; orphaned, KDE 3

2011-02-25 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi! Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote: Please remove kguitar: - Orphaned since 2007 - Depends on KDE 3 packages, which will be removed for Wheezy FYI, from the upstream website: After mistaking KGuitar for a dead and abandoned project, I (Ryan) have decided to take the role of

Bug#615139: git apply segfaults

2011-02-25 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi, Carl Fürstenberg wrote: I was doing some experiment, trying to create an empty branch with two submodules, and apply an branch upon them (a git svn conversion history). When the rebase is almost done, I've gotten an segfault for git apply via git-am. Is it reproducible? The work was

Bug#615139: git apply segfaults

2011-02-25 Thread Jonathan Nieder
tags 615139 + upstream quit Carl Fürstenberg wrote: Do you want some more data? No, hopefully the log you sent should be enough to reproduce it. Thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Bug#483268: ghostscript does not report the correct bounding box

2011-02-25 Thread Jonathan Nieder
tags 483268 + moreinfo quit Hi, Two years ago, Jeff Kenvin wrote: gs -sDEVICE=bbox -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH fname.ps Returns a bounding box that is too small, I have tried this on the K7 kernel and the amd64 kernel. Both have the same error. The cygwin version of ghostscript does not have the

Bug#615157: gcc-4.6: -Wunused-but-set-variable -Werror does not imply -Werror=unused-but-set-variable

2011-02-25 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Package: gcc-4.6 Version: 4.6-20110216-1 Hi, Turning on -Werror so the warnings don't scroll by. $ cat test.c #include stdio.h int main(void) { int x; x = printf(hello, world\n); return 0; } $ $ gcc-4.6 -Wall -Werror test.c; echo $? test.c: In function ‘main’:

Bug#615157: gcc-4.6: -Wunused-but-set-variable -Werror does not imply -Werror=unused-but-set-variable

2011-02-26 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Matthias Klose wrote: yes, explicitly disabled in the package, for a limited time. If you keep this warning enabled, it will result in too many build failures. Somebody needs to scan the successful build logs of a test rebuild for these warnings, file bug reports, user-tag them with

Bug#614515: Same crash on two different laptop systems after resume with 2.6.37 from unstable

2011-02-26 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi, Pedro Martínez Juliá wrote: I'm having this same problem in my laptop (Samsung X360). Could you file a separate bug and include a copy of the Oops message and information that follows it (you can get this from dmesg)? That said, I think the problem is in xserver-xorg-video-intel package

Bug#615129: Severity for KDE3 / Qt3 removal reminder bugs

2011-02-26 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Julien Cristau wrote: Care to elaborate? As I understand it: The Qt 3 part is a red herring. Bugs blocking removal of Qt 3 really should _not_ be release critical as long as there is someone willing to maintain Qt 3 itself. I'm not aware of an RFA, so... As for the KDE 3 part: to avoid user

Bug#615139: git apply segfaults

2011-02-26 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi again, Carl Fürstenberg wrote: I was doing some experiment, trying to create an empty branch with two submodules, and apply an branch upon them (a git svn conversion history). When the rebase is almost done, I've gotten an segfault for git apply via git-am. Alas, I can't reproduce

Bug#615139: git apply segfaults

2011-02-26 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Jonathan Nieder wrote: apt-get build-dep git apt-get source git cd git-* DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot ... wait a long time for manpages to be built ... Ah, forgot to mention fakeroot debian/rules binary-arch DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip BUILD_DOCS

Bug#615522: xserver-xorg-video-mach64: apt-listchanges prompts on every upgrade

2011-02-26 Thread Jonathan Nieder
, ... of multiple diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog index 23b9305..35e6c33 100644 --- a/debian/changelog +++ b/debian/changelog @@ -1,3 +1,9 @@ +xserver-xorg-video-mach64 (6.8.2-5.1) local; urgency=low + + * Drop the epoch from versions in NEWS entries. + + -- Jonathan Nieder jrnie...@gmail.com

Bug#615525: gcc: -Wtype-limits should not trigger for types of implementation-defined signedness

2011-02-26 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Package: gcc-4.6 Version: 4.6-20110216-1 Severity: wishlist Tags: upstream Hi, $ gcc -c -std=gnu99 -Wtype-limits -x c - -\EOF enum test_enum { FOO, BAR }; int valid(enum test_enum arg) { return arg = FOO arg = BAR; } EOF stdin: In function ‘valid’: stdin:8:9: warning:

Bug#615522: xserver-xorg-video-mach64: apt-listchanges prompts on every upgrade

2011-02-27 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Cyril Brulebois wrote: Also, thanks for the patch, but I went for another one: get rid of the NEWS file entirely. That was 3 years ago, now we have autoconfiguration Good idea. Thanks for the quick response. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Bug#615556: dash: fails to install when /usr/share/man doesn't exist

2011-02-27 Thread Jonathan Nieder
severity 615556 important quit Hi, Lorenzo wrote: Unpacking dash (from .../dash_0.5.5.1-7.4em1_i386.deb) ... Adding 'diversion of /bin/sh to /bin/sh.distrib by dash' ln: creating symbolic link `/usr/share/man/man1/sh.1.gz.tmp': No such file or directory [...] The error is due to the fact

Bug#615157: gcc-4.6: -Wunused-but-set-variable -Werror does not imply -Werror=unused-but-set-variable

2011-02-27 Thread Jonathan Nieder
(-cc: debian-release) Jonathan Nieder wrote: Matthias Klose wrote: yes, explicitly disabled in the package, for a limited time. If you keep this warning enabled, it will result in too many build failures. Somebody needs to scan the successful build logs of a test rebuild for these warnings

Bug#615157: gcc-4.6: -Wunused-but-set-variable -Werror does not imply -Werror=unused-but-set-variable

2011-02-27 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Matthias Klose wrote: this would require the build logs of all the *sucessful* builds from this rebuild. Indeed, grep -F '[-Wunused-but-set' does not dig up anything. Of 1010 failed packages: * 40 failed with cpp: fatal error: -fuse-linker-plugin, but liblto_plugin.so not found

Bug#615871: linux-2.6: CPU temperature very high Toshiba A200 Intel Dual Core

2011-02-28 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi Aleksi, Aleksi Palomäki wrote: Tested with radeon free driver and nothing changed also if possible I'd say this is critical bug as it caused my computer to over heat and to do emergency shutdown just because i was watching one video, last measuder temperature 98°C This didn't happen with

Bug#615892: Chromium-browser refuses to set itself to default browser

2011-02-28 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi Nick, Nick Niktaris wrote: Chromium-browser does not set itself a the default browser after the first run. When closing the browser the menubar pops-up asking if it should be the default browser Clicking on don't Ask again stops showing the message but even in the options menu trying

Bug#533565: linux-2.6: ATA bus error messages for PATA_SCH module

2011-02-28 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Kushal Koolwal wrote: I have verified that this issue still occurs on the latest stable kernel (2.6.37) from kernel.org and obviously on Debian Squeeze too. Hmm, so it's not a regression (i.e., no old kernel version without the problem exists)? What would it take to report this bug

Bug#615871: linux-2.6: CPU temperature very high Toshiba A200 Intel Dual Core

2011-02-28 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Ben Hutchings wrote: Don't bother, you'll just find the change which corrected temperature decoding. Thanks, Ben. Do you have any advice for a person finding that graphics-intensive activity causes the machine to overheat? I suppose this is more of a question for debian-user now. -- To

Bug#615139: git apply segfaults

2011-02-28 Thread Jonathan Nieder
severity 615139 normal tags 615139 + unreproducible quit Carl Fürstenberg wrote: As this might have been an local hardware technical issue, you might want to close this bug as not a bug, unless the error should never have happened in the first place, regardless of the health of the repo in

Bug#533565: linux-2.6: ATA bus error messages for PATA_SCH module

2011-02-28 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Kushal Koolwal wrote: It seems that upon passing the kernel boot parameter libata.force=40c solves the problem. Should I still report this upstream? I would. Maybe the message could be tweaked or some documentation under Documentation/ added to explain when the cable type needs to be forced,

Bug#615645: gitk: cannot handle tags with a % in them

2011-02-28 Thread Jonathan Nieder
tags 615645 + upstream forwarded 615645 http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/168177 quit Hi, Felipe Sateler wrote: Gitk chokes on tags containing a % character. Thanks for reporting. Let's take this upstream. Cheers, Jonathan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#615157: gcc-4.6: -Wunused-but-set-variable -Werror does not imply -Werror=unused-but-set-variable

2011-02-28 Thread Jonathan Nieder
(-cc: Lucas) Matthias Klose wrote: fyi, here is a partial rebuild with gcc-4.6 without the work around applied: Thanks. For reference, the simplest way I could find to just download the files that matter is wget -r -l 1 -H -Dlaunchpad.net -A gz

Bug#615922: dash: The . builtin does not reset the value of $?

2011-02-28 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi, Timothy Allen wrote: The only reference I can find to POSIX behaviour of . says[1]: EXIT STATUS: Returns the value of the last command executed, or a zero exit status if no command is executed. In the above example, no command is executed (since /dev/null is empty) Reading

Bug#615934: debiandoc-sgml: postinst provokes warnings from sgml-base = 1.99.0

2011-02-28 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Package: debhelper Version: 8.1.2 Severity: minor Justification: cosmetic X-Debbugs-Cc: sgml-b...@packages.debian.org Hi, /usr/share/debhelper/autoscripts/postinst-sgmlcatalog contains: if [ $1 = configure ]; then rm -f #CENTRALCAT# for ordcat in

Bug#615934: [PATCH debhelper] dh_installcatalogs: use update-sgmlcatalog in maintainer scripts if available

2011-02-28 Thread Jonathan Nieder
tags 615934 + patch quit -- 8 -- Subject: dh_installcatalogs: use update-sgmlcatalog in maintainer scripts if available Closes: #615934 --- But, um, I think you're supposed to do something. Maybe something like this? autoscripts/postinst-sgmlcatalog | 10 --

Bug#615934: [PATCH debhelper] dh_installcatalogs: use update-sgmlcatalog in maintainer scripts if available

2011-03-01 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Daniel Leidert wrote: I vote against this patch. It was planned to coordinate things with the debhelper maintainer(s) before the final step. If those warnings are a problem, I'm going to ask for removal of sgml-base from experimental. There is currently no breakage and (except of those

Bug#615962: linux-image-2.6.37-1-amd64: can not boot after updating to a new kernel 2-6.37-1

2011-03-01 Thread Jonathan Nieder
forcemerge 615806 615962 quit Hi, Pere Nubiola i Radigales wrote: when I am install de new linux image version and reboot de computer, system hans with this error: [0.788804] Kernel panic - not syncing: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel. See Linux Documentation/init.txt

Bug#615934: [PATCH debhelper] dh_installcatalogs: use update-sgmlcatalog in maintainer scripts if available

2011-03-01 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Joey Hess wrote: Jonathan Nieder wrote: +dh_update_catalog () { update-catalog $@; What is dh_update_catalog? I used that name to avoid polluting postinst's namespace, but I had forgotten that The dh_ namespace is reserved for debhelper commands, and add-on commands

Bug#616013: rxp: XML catalog processing is disabled by default

2011-03-01 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Package: rxp Version: 1.5.0-1 Hi, I tried to use rxp to validate an XHTML file, but it gets stuck trying to read the DTD from the www consortium: sendto(5, !\325\1\0\0\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\3www\2w3\3org\0\0\1\0\1, 28, MSG_NOSIGNAL, NULL, 0) = 28 poll([{fd=5, events=POLLIN}], 1, 5000)

Bug#616005: libhtml-tagcloud-perl breaks gitweb

2011-03-01 Thread Jonathan Nieder
tags 616005 + upstream forwarded 616005 http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/168266 quit Hi Uwe, Uwe Kleine-König wrote: I experiment with $feature{'ctags'}. After installing libhtml-tagcloud-perl (0.34-1) and adding $feature{'ctags'}{'default'} = [1]; to

Bug#599944: [PATCH] Add a reminder of Pre-Depends policy to §7.2 Binary Dependencies

2011-03-01 Thread Jonathan Nieder
. Requested-by: Mattias Ellert mattias.ell...@fysast.uu.se Fixes: http://bugs.debian.org/599944 Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder jrnie...@gmail.com --- Mattias Ellert wrote: I therefore suggest that the paragraph about Pre-Depends in section 7.2 is amended with a cross-reference to the rule

Bug#601839: debian/rules: reword build-arch, build-indep one line fix

2011-03-01 Thread Jonathan Nieder
a build-arch target without a build-indep target to go along with it. Tweak the wording slightly to avoid suggesting otherwise. Inspired-by: anatoly techtonik techto...@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder jrnie...@gmail.com --- policy.sgml |2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions

Bug#609160: debian-policy: include DEP5

2011-03-01 Thread Jonathan Nieder
user debian-pol...@packages.debian.org severity 609160 wishlist usertags 609160 + packaging quit Hi Charles, Charles Plessy wrote: Le Thu, Jan 06, 2011 at 09:49:17PM +, Lars Wirzenius a écrit : Attached please find a patch that adds a copy of DEP5 to the debian-policy package. [...] if

Bug#613143: there is /usr/lib64 symlink but no /usr/local/lib64

2011-03-01 Thread Jonathan Nieder
user debian-pol...@packages.debian.org severity 613143 wishlist usertags 613143 + normative discussion quit Hi Matthias, Aurelien, Santiago, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: Suggested change: --- /proc/self/fd/13 2011-02-13 09:12:50.142239544 +0100 +++ policy.sgml 2011-02-13 09:12:01.565231567

Bug#229357: debian-policy: require build-arch and build-indep targets

2011-03-01 Thread Jonathan Nieder
user debian-pol...@packages.debian.org usertags 604397 + normative discussion quit (please consider dropping policy Bug#604397 or dpkg-buildpackage Bug#229357 from replies) Hi, Roger Leigh wrote: [out of order for convenience] Just for the record, I've implemented support in debhelper's dh

Bug#609162: debian-policy: package names with dots/periods ('.') and crontab files: packagers beware

2011-03-01 Thread Jonathan Nieder
user debian-pol...@packages.debian.org usertags 609162 + normative discussion severity 609162 normal quit Hi Karl, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: The debian policy section 9.5 [1] suggests using the package name as a file name when creating files in /etc/cron.d, /etc/cron.hourly, /etc/cron.daily

Bug#613046: debian-policy: please update example in 4.9.1 (debian/rules and DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS)

2011-03-01 Thread Jonathan Nieder
user debian-pol...@packages.debian.org usertags 613046 + informative discussion quit Hi, Julien Cristau wrote: On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 14:25:40 +0100, Niels Thykier wrote: CFLAGS = $(shell dpkg-buildflags --get CFLAGS) -Wall -g While related to #578597, I believe it to be a distinct issue.

Bug#613946: debian-policy: anchor issues in HTML version

2011-03-01 Thread Jonathan Nieder
user debian-pol...@packages.debian.org clone 613946 -1 -2 retitle -1 debiandoc2html: link titles should not have embedded tags retitle -2 debiandoc2html: a name anchors should enclose heading text severity -1 normal severity -2 minor reassign -1 debiandoc-sgml 1.2.20 reassign -2 debiandoc-sgml

Bug#606869: debian-policy: Please fix freedesktop.org links

2011-03-01 Thread Jonathan Nieder
user debian-pol...@packages.debian.org usertags 606869 + informative quit Hi David, David Prévot wrote: --- a/policy.sgml +++ b/policy.sgml @@ -8940,9 +8940,9 @@ name [varsyshostname/var]: item If the window manager complies with url -

Bug#587377: debian-policy: Decide on arbitrary file/path names limit

2011-03-01 Thread Jonathan Nieder
user debian-pol...@packages.debian.org usertags 587377 + normative issue quit Guillem Jover wrote: This is not really a dpkg bug, the limitation is not actually coming from it, it's coming from the kernel and/or specific file system implementation. I don't consider it appropriate to add an

Bug#609935: debian-policy: 5.2 should clarify how Hompage from the source and binary packages relate

2011-03-01 Thread Jonathan Nieder
user debian-pol...@packages.debian.org severity 609935 minor clone 609935 -1 retitle -1 policy: clarify precedence and propagation of Section and Priority usertags 609935 + informative issue usertags -1 + informative issue quit Hi, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: The Homepage control filed is

Bug#582873: Policy on update-alternatives still needed

2011-03-02 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi Ian, Ian Jackson wrote: On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 05:25:56PM +, Ian Jackson wrote: * retain the manual configuration but simply not use it when then user's manual selection is unavailable. [...] If we do this and retain the existing maintainer scripts then everything will be fine

Bug#609160: debian-policy: include DEP5

2011-03-02 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi, Lars Wirzenius wrote: Updating the patch should, I think, be done only after the draft is final and policy is ready to include it in the package (even if only in the policy VCS repository). If you mean that there is no need to update to an intermediate version, makes sense to me.

Bug#604397: debian-policy: require build-arch and build-indep targets

2011-03-02 Thread Jonathan Nieder
(-cc: Bug#229357) Jakub Wilk wrote: * Jonathan Nieder jrnie...@gmail.com, 2011-03-01, 21:01: So it seems to me that dpkg-buildpackage -B ought to be taught to run the equivalent of debian/rules build-arch if test $? = 2 then debian/rules build fi make

Bug#609160: debian-policy: include DEP5

2011-03-02 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Lars Wirzenius wrote: On ke, 2011-03-02 at 03:33 -0600, Jonathan Nieder wrote: If you mean that there is no need to update to an intermediate version, makes sense to me. Anyway, getting any version ready to include in the VCS (on a branch) seems worthwhile to me, and after that, updating

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