Bug#458849: Triggered by replacement of SCons Install/InstallAs

2008-01-13 Thread Mark Brown
This bug is triggered by the replacement of the SCons-supplied Install and InstallAs methods in lines 124 and 125 of platform/default/SConscript. SCons then gets terribly confused copying the envirionment. The aqsis package should be able to avoid this by defining new Install and InstallAs

Bug#458849: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [Issue 1884] Infinite loop in InstallAs]

2008-01-14 Thread Mark Brown
Update from SCons upstream; personally I'd expect aqsis needs fixing here. -- You grabbed my hand and we fell into it, like a daydream - or a fever. ---BeginMessage--- http://scons.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=1884 --- Additional comments from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Jan 13 21:38:29

Bug#461474: zlib: provided symbols files do not match reality

2008-01-18 Thread Mark Brown
On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 09:45:17PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: The provided symbols files do not match reality on all arches. It seems to me that you have to provide arch-specific symbols files that include either a 32bit version or a 64bit version depending on the case apparently. You mean

Bug#461474: zlib: provided symbols files do not match reality

2008-01-18 Thread Mark Brown
severity 461474 minor On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 09:45:17PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1:1.1.4 + [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-9 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1:1.1.2 These symbols are not in the symbols file because they shouldn't be there on 64 bit cross builds; anything using

Bug#461474: zlib: provided symbols files do not match reality

2008-01-19 Thread Mark Brown
On Sat, Jan 19, 2008 at 02:12:50PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: I'm sorry I don't understand. Why should they not be there and why can't they be hidden/removed if they are not wanted? They shouldn't be there because they are there to provide access to a 64 bit off_t on 32 bit architectures.

Bug#461474: zlib: provided symbols files do not match reality

2008-01-19 Thread Mark Brown
On Sat, Jan 19, 2008 at 05:32:13PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: BTW, I noticed two other potential problems: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1:1.1.2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1:1.1.4 Why do the minimal version not match the version of the symbol ? The symbol versioning was added retrospectively upstream.

Bug#461474: zlib: provided symbols files do not match reality

2008-01-19 Thread Mark Brown
On Sat, Jan 19, 2008 at 08:30:36PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: On Sat, 19 Jan 2008, Mark Brown wrote: I wonder if the header line could even be autogenerated since I'd expect 90% of packages are going to want to use the same template? If people grab symbols files from qa.debian.org/cgi

Bug#461474: zlib: provided symbols files do not match reality

2008-01-19 Thread Mark Brown
On Sat, Jan 19, 2008 at 09:20:15PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: On Sat, 19 Jan 2008, Mark Brown wrote: Hrm? I thought you said the support for doing that (except by specifying an invalid version) wasn't implemented? I explained you how to associate a symbol to an alternate unsatisfiable

Bug#417589: segfault on i386 (patch attached)

2008-01-20 Thread Mark Brown
On Sun, Jan 20, 2008 at 02:45:08PM -0500, Ron Murray wrote: I think the following code should fix it (at least, it protects against out-of-array-bounds problems): Thanks. Could you please resend this patch as a unified diff (ie: 'diff -u orig new')? patch cannot apply the patch, complaining

Bug#458212: closed by Ari Pollak [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Re: Bug#458212: pidgin: XMPP uses GNOME HTTP proxy)

2008-01-20 Thread Mark Brown
reopen 458212 thanks On Sun, Dec 30, 2007 at 10:12:08PM +, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: I wouldn't really consider this a bug, since Pidgin will only use the HTTP proxy from the GNOME settings and none of the others. As discussed in my previous reply I do feel that there is some

Bug#417589: segfault on i386 (patch attached)

2008-01-20 Thread Mark Brown
On Sun, Jan 20, 2008 at 05:15:28PM -0500, Ron Murray wrote: Attached. Sorry about that: I assumed patch would cope with a context diff, but perhaps not. It does understand context diff format, I assume that some part of the process of e-mailing it must have caused the damage. I'll have a

Bug#463835: leafnode fails when used with SELinux

2008-02-03 Thread Mark Brown
reassign 463835 selinux-basics thanks On Sun, Feb 03, 2008 at 11:48:34PM +0530, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: When using leafnode with SELinux enabled, clients are not able to connect to the leafnode server. I get a permission denied error even though the permissions are correct. I tried using

Bug#463835: leafnode fails when used with SELinux

2008-02-04 Thread Mark Brown
On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 12:41:15PM +, Mark Brown wrote: On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 11:03:16AM +0100, Erich Schubert wrote: I'm adding the SELinux tracking usertag, to keep track of this bug report. Feel free to add a help tag, too. Given the factors above I am more inclined to close

Bug#463835: leafnode fails when used with SELinux

2008-02-04 Thread Mark Brown
On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 03:51:25PM +0100, Erich Schubert wrote: How about you just follow the same road that Exim took? Develop the module, send it to SELinux policy upstream, who happily included it in policy upstream. When the refpolicy package is updated again (Manoj seems to be MIA?),

Bug#463835: leafnode fails when used with SELinux

2008-02-04 Thread Mark Brown
severity 463835 wishlist kthxbye On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 11:03:16AM +0100, Erich Schubert wrote: 1. selinux-basics doesn't contain SELinux policy, but is a mere utility package, and thus the bug is not related to it. Right, I have to confess that I picked a central seeming SELinux package

Bug#463835: leafnode fails when used with SELinux

2008-02-05 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 02:54:47AM +0100, Erich Schubert wrote: Hi Mark, fixed in the Leafnode package. Now you're telling me that this should, as I had originally understood, be fixed in the SELinux packages. It requires knowledge of leafnode to be fixed. Ideally, it would be fixed

Bug#456855: Processed: latest scons will cause skim FTBFS

2008-02-05 Thread Mark Brown
On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 03:42:02PM +, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: reassign #456855 scons 0.97.0d20071212-3 Bug#456855: skim: FTBFS: TypeError: coercing to Unicode: need string or buffer, list found I've taken a bit of a look at the skim

Bug#463835: leafnode fails when used with SELinux

2008-02-05 Thread Mark Brown
reassign 463835 selinux-policy-refpolicy-strict kthxbye On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 12:52:02AM +0100, Erich Schubert wrote: Hello Mark, I would expect to see something more like the Python policy which would The python policy is built on quite an amount of experience in how to do it. We don't

Bug#459149: gitweb: Should document location of indextext.html

2008-01-04 Thread Mark Brown
Package: gitweb Version: 1:1.5.2.5-2 Severity: normal /etc/gitweb.conf documents the indextext option as: | # html text to include at home page | $home_text = indextext.html; which gives no hint as to which directory it is expecting indextext.html to be located in by default. My expectation

Bug#459685: scons: *** Dependency cycle: doc/en/index.cache.bz2 - doc/en/index.cache.bz2

2008-01-08 Thread Mark Brown
On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 08:35:50PM -0600, Raphael Geissert wrote: Just in case it is needed, the kio-locate source can be downloaded from http://arminstraub.com/downloads/kio-locate/kio-locate_0.4.5.tar.gz Note that when using admin/scons-mini.tar.bz2 the package builds just fine, but when

Bug#459685: scons: *** Dependency cycle: doc/en/index.cache.bz2 - doc/en/index.cache.bz2

2008-01-08 Thread Mark Brown
tag 459685 + moreinfo unreproducible thanks On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 08:35:50PM -0600, Raphael Geissert wrote: Just in case it is needed, the kio-locate source can be downloaded from http://arminstraub.com/downloads/kio-locate/kio-locate_0.4.5.tar.gz Note that when using

Bug#459685: scons: *** Dependency cycle: doc/en/index.cache.bz2 - doc/en/index.cache.bz2

2008-01-08 Thread Mark Brown
tag 459685 - unreproducible kthxbye On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 03:13:14PM -0600, Raphael wrote: On 08/01/2008, Mark Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have tried building the tarball linked above but this succeeded so I can't reproduce this. Please provide full reproduction instructions

Bug#459980: leafnode: invalid Path headers generated by config value hostname and NEWS_USER

2008-01-10 Thread Mark Brown
retitle 459980 leafnode: Article propagation problem severity 459980 normal tag 459980 - patch tag 459980 + moreinfo kthxbye On Thu, Jan 10, 2008 at 12:17:39AM +0100, Michael Weitzel wrote: Severity: important If this really were a severity important bug it would be affecting everyone who uses

Bug#459980: leafnode: invalid Path headers generated by config value hostname and NEWS_USER

2008-01-10 Thread Mark Brown
On Thu, Jan 10, 2008 at 12:03:39PM +0100, Michael Weitzel wrote: Mark Brown wrote: Tin adopts the Message-Id suggested by the news-server in the second line. Um, right. This is a Message-Id, not a Path entry. It would be helpful if you could distinguish more clearly between these two things

Bug#444204: scons: version 0.97.0d20070918-1 fails to clean csound 5.06 but 0.97.0d20070809-1 doesn't

2007-11-22 Thread Mark Brown
On Wed, Nov 21, 2007 at 10:08:09PM -0300, Felipe Sateler wrote: Any schedule on when this fix will be included in debian? This is preventing a security fix on ardour [1]. Note that there is no explicit mention in the bug log but there was some talk at debian-multimedia about it (scons

Bug#422141: viewcvs: Etch commitid fix has bad package version

2007-11-29 Thread Mark Brown
On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 08:32:11PM +0100, Bill Allombert wrote: Hello Marc, I assume you mean me? We should really try to adress this issue in the next point release. Go ahead. The package just needs a rebuild. -- You grabbed my hand and we fell into it, like a daydream - or a fever.

Bug#453321: zilib Bug: Incorrect gzeof() behaviour when reading from uncompressed file

2007-11-29 Thread Mark Brown
[Please respect the reply-to - you appear to have sent this mail to the BTS three times for some reason.] On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 10:26:33PM +0100, Gregor Maier wrote: Please note, that my patch will only change/fix the behavior if gzeof(), not of gzread(). My patch will set the EOF indicator

Bug#456299: /etc/init.d/nis should appreciate the nis-domain when given via DHCP

2007-12-14 Thread Mark Brown
On Fri, Dec 14, 2007 at 01:45:34PM +0100, Erik Braun wrote: When an option nis-domain ist set via a DHCP server, there is no need for the file /etc/defaultdomain (in addition, dpkg -S does not know this file). That's very common - the only configuration files that can be managed by dpkg are

Bug#456299: /etc/init.d/nis should appreciate the nis-domain when given via DHCP

2007-12-15 Thread Mark Brown
severity 456299 wishlist thanks Requests for new features should generally be wishlist. On Fri, Dec 14, 2007 at 01:45:34PM +0100, Erik Braun wrote: When an option nis-domain ist set via a DHCP server, there is no need for the file /etc/defaultdomain (in addition, dpkg -S does not know this

Bug#456425: wesnoth: Can't select audio output device

2007-12-15 Thread Mark Brown
Package: wesnoth Version: 1:1.2.8-1 Severity: normal I have a number of sound devices in this system only some of which are actually capable of producing usable audio. Unfortunately wesnoth appears to select one of the unusable ones and I cannot see any method of selecting a different output

Bug#456449: postfix-doc: Should check for presence of postconf

2007-12-15 Thread Mark Brown
Package: postfix-doc Version: 2.4.6-2 Severity: normal When attempting to configure the new version of postfix-doc the following error was reported: | Setting up postfix-doc (2.4.6-2) ... | /var/lib/dpkg/info/postfix-doc.postinst: line 27: postconf: command not found | dpkg: error processing

Bug#456518: scons 0.97.0d20071212-1 doesn't track dependencies correctly

2007-12-16 Thread Mark Brown
On Sun, Dec 16, 2007 at 03:09:34PM +0100, Tim Blechmann wrote: as i said, i am currently busy with other things, so i don't want to start debugging scons ... there were issues, when changing header files, which are included by files, that are autogenerated by my scons build system ... I am

Bug#456299: /etc/init.d/nis should appreciate the nis-domain when given via DHCP

2007-12-17 Thread Mark Brown
On Mon, Dec 17, 2007 at 11:08:42AM +0100, Erik Braun wrote: Turning on the kernel level autoconfiguration (CONFIG_IP_PNP=y) will suffice to test the use of option nis-domain. That testing is going to go better if one has access to a DHCP server which is providing the option, though. -- You

Bug#458212: pidgin: XMPP uses GNOME HTTP proxy

2007-12-29 Thread Mark Brown
Package: pidgin Version: 2.3.1-1 Severity: normal The default proxy configuration setting for XMPP is to use the GNOME proxy settings. In my GNOME configuration I have configured a manual HTTP proxy but I have not checked the 'Use the same proxy for all protocols' checkbox. This configuration

Bug#458212: closed by Ari Pollak [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Re: Bug#458212: pidgin: XMPP uses GNOME HTTP proxy)

2007-12-30 Thread Mark Brown
I wouldn't really consider this a bug, since Pidgin will only use the HTTP proxy from the GNOME settings and none of the others. There are three ways of fixing the dialog that spring to mind immediately: - Only use the proxy if GNOME is configured to use the same proxy for all protocols

Bug#456644: edac-utils: Patch fixing this

2008-01-02 Thread Mark Brown
Package: edac-utils Version: 0.10-1 Followup-For: Bug #456644 The problem is with the check for verbosity - the logical expression it is part of is is the last statement executed by the script and so the return code from that becomes the return code of the init script. If the check for verbosity

Bug#462737: nis: Problem with LSB header in init.d script

2008-01-27 Thread Mark Brown
tag 462737 - patch thanks On Sun, Jan 27, 2008 at 06:43:48AM +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: When testing dependency based boot sequencing, I discovered a bug in the init.d/nis script. It is missing the provides header in the LSB section, and this confuses the system used to order the boot

Bug#462737: nis: Problem with LSB header in init.d script

2008-01-27 Thread Mark Brown
On Sun, Jan 27, 2008 at 01:03:27PM +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: [Mark Brown] Hrm. It might be worth making it clearer which fields are mandatory in: http://wiki.debian.org/LSBInitScripts Yes, the documentation and the understanding on how to use the LSB header have improved

Bug#462737: nis: Problem with LSB header in init.d script

2008-01-27 Thread Mark Brown
On Sun, Jan 27, 2008 at 01:03:27PM +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: [Mark Brown] FWIW since I actually had to think about it now I'm going to declare the individual daemons, not a virtual nis service since those are more sane things to depend on and it'll provide better future proofing

Bug#462737: nis: Problem with LSB header in init.d script

2008-01-27 Thread Mark Brown
On Sun, Jan 27, 2008 at 02:24:44PM +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: [Mark Brown] This is blocked by licensing issues - there are some nits with the licensing which cause ftpmaster to reject any split packages. I I am talking about producing two binary packages from the nis source

Bug#452480: nis: ypxfr_XperY broken

2008-01-27 Thread Mark Brown
On Fri, Nov 23, 2007 at 02:39:37PM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: never returns anything on a slave server. For some reason the ypxfr_XperY cmomands would only transfer maps listed by this command. It's checking to see which maps are present on the server so that (in the case of _1perday)

Bug#461980: (forw) Bug#461980: gnupg-agent: manpage typos

2008-01-29 Thread Mark Brown
On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 08:44:46AM +0100, Werner Koch wrote: On Sun, 27 Jan 2008 23:55, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Ignore requests to change the current @code{tty} respective the X window system's @code{DISPLAY} variable. This is useful to lock the What I mean is: The one option changes

Bug#443065: locales: Prompts to replace locale.alias on upgrade

2007-11-16 Thread Mark Brown
On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 04:20:12PM +0100, Aurelien Jarno wrote: reassign 443065 locales tag 443065 + wontfix thanks Is this not going to bite pretty much all users upgrading from etch? -- You grabbed my hand and we fell into it, like a daydream - or a fever. signature.asc Description:

Bug#443065: locales: Prompts to replace locale.alias on upgrade

2007-11-17 Thread Mark Brown
On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 10:13:14PM +0100, Aurelien Jarno wrote: Mark Brown a écrit : Is this not going to bite pretty much all users upgrading from etch? I have no idea how to remove the dpkg prompt so we have to live with it. This file is not present in etch and I don't really known from

Bug#451191: Patch appears to be wrong

2007-11-18 Thread Mark Brown
severity 451191 wishlist tag 451191 - patch thanks On Thu, Nov 15, 2007 at 01:18:23AM +0100, dAniel hAhler wrote: Apparently the patch is completely wrong: it turns out that there's no /dev/bus/usb/devices file by default - at least in Ubuntu. Given that Ubuntu wishes to drive this change

Bug#311416: nis: preseeding and nis' usage of debconf do not get along

2005-05-31 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, May 31, 2005 at 05:56:42PM -0400, Andres Salomon wrote: First, the postinst checks whether /etc/defaultdomain is set, and if not, resets nis/domain, sets the default value to `hostname --fqdn`, and prompts the user for the value. Yes, I know. This needs some TLC but it's not

Bug#311416: nis: preseeding and nis' usage of debconf do not get along

2005-06-01 Thread Mark Brown
On Wed, Jun 01, 2005 at 09:57:32AM -0400, Andres Salomon wrote: On Tue, 2005-05-31 at 23:53 +0100, Mark Brown wrote: Yes, I know. This needs some TLC but it's not getting it until after sarge goes out the door (as I said to myself over a year ago :P ). Hehe, that's been my standard excuse

Bug#311618: add 32bit libz for amd64

2005-06-02 Thread Mark Brown
tag 311618 - patch thanks On Thu, Jun 02, 2005 at 11:05:28AM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote: a 32bit version auf libz is needed to build the 32bit libgcj version. http://people.ubuntu.com/patches/zlib32.patch Thanks for this. I'll add this to the package I've got queued for upload as soon as

Bug#311618: add 32bit libz for amd64

2005-06-02 Thread Mark Brown
On Thu, Jun 02, 2005 at 05:08:20PM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote: Mark Brown writes: I see that the patch only adds the 32 bit library for amd64 but it looks just as applicable for ia64. Is there any great reason for doing this other than a lack of immediate demand? we don't have a cross

Bug#311618: add 32bit libz for amd64

2005-06-02 Thread Mark Brown
On Thu, Jun 02, 2005 at 05:47:50PM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote: Mark Brown writes: So what's with the ia64 ia32-libs package, then? have a look at the package. it's not compiled. Oh, lordy. So I see. -- You grabbed my hand and we fell into it, like a daydream - or a fever

Bug#293891: scons doesn't work with ccache

2005-02-06 Thread Mark Brown
On Sun, Feb 06, 2005 at 12:34:49PM -0500, Jason Dorje Short wrote: it seems as though scons is clearing environment variables? The file is supposed to be in $HOME/.ccache. It's not a bug, it's a feature :) . As you say, SCons does start from a fresh environment. See:

Bug#295690: leafnode: fetchnews is not IPv6-aware

2005-02-17 Thread Mark Brown
On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 03:24:59PM +0100, root wrote: newszilla6.xs4all.nl: connecting to port nntp... warning: newszilla6.xs4all.nl: cannot resolve host name: Name exists in DNS, but has no associated address (A-type DNS resource record). newszilla6.xs4all.nl: connection failed. Can you

Bug#295690: leafnode: fetchnews is not IPv6-aware

2005-02-18 Thread Mark Brown
retitle 295690 Trouble resolving IPv6 hostnames tag 295690 + moreinfo thanks On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 08:14:26PM +0100, Andreas Krennmair wrote: 20:04:20.072198 192.168.23.6.1561 192.168.23.3.domain: 33126+ A? newszilla6.xs4all.nl.home. (43) (DF) 20:04:20.073317 192.168.23.3.domain

Bug#296265: evolution: Many broken icons

2005-02-21 Thread Mark Brown
Package: evolution Version: 2.0.3-1.2 Severity: important Since my apt upgrade on Friday (before Friday's mirror run) the majority of icons in Evolution have displayed as broken image icons. The only icons that seem properly visible are the print, delete and cancel toolbar icons and the icon for

Bug#295690: gethostbyname vs. IPv6

2005-02-21 Thread Mark Brown
On Mon, Feb 21, 2005 at 04:53:42PM +0100, Matthias Andree wrote: On Mon, 21 Feb 2005, Mark Brown wrote: Advising applications to watch out for addresses being returned by IPv6 lookups is actually sensible behaviour since there's a RFC 2133 specified resolver option inet6 which can

Bug#296265: evolution: Many broken icons

2005-02-22 Thread Mark Brown
forwarded 296265 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=167942 severity 296265 grave merge 295777 296265 thanks On Mon, Feb 21, 2005 at 07:14:11PM +0100, Christian Surchi wrote: Only evolution icons? Or maybe you don't use gnome and so you can only see problems in evo? I do actually use

Bug#301060: nut: Silently upgrades to version with incompatible configuration

2005-03-23 Thread Mark Brown
Package: nut Version: 2.0.1-2 Severity: important As part of the upgrade to version 2 the syntax for granting access to network clients has changed. This means that as a result of upgrading the package to version 2 configurations which use network access to UPSs (which one would have thought

Bug#301283: zlib1g: gzread returns 0 after eof even if the file continues to grow

2005-03-24 Thread Mark Brown
severity 301283 normal thanks On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 03:35:15PM -0700, Khalid Aziz wrote: Severity: important This looks like just a regular bug to me... is there some reason other than this seeming like useful functionality for raising the severity? Unless there is some reason for urgency

Bug#301283: zlib1g: gzread returns 0 after eof even if the file continues to grow

2005-03-25 Thread Mark Brown
On Fri, Mar 25, 2005 at 09:08:58AM -0700, Khalid Aziz wrote: Another thing I should point out is, this is a regression from previous version. My test code which does continuous gzread() on a growing compressed file worked fine with zlib1g 1.2.1. Would that be enough reason to mark severity

Bug#302821: nis: init script reuses ksh builtin function stop()

2005-04-03 Thread Mark Brown
On Sun, Apr 03, 2005 at 06:09:10PM +1000, Michael Wardle wrote: With a ksh-like shell (such as pdksh) as /bin/sh, /etc/init.d/nis stop fails with a syntax error on line 160. I'll fix this but are you sure that ksh is a POSIX shell? I seem to recall that it isn't, but I could be

Bug#302821: nis: init script reuses ksh builtin function stop()

2005-04-03 Thread Mark Brown
On Sun, Apr 03, 2005 at 07:53:18PM +1000, Michael Wardle wrote: I take your point, however, that /bin/bash is a more popular choice as /bin/sh, and is therefore better tested. It's not so much that as that there's some shells that adopt a much more relaxed attitude to working with standard

Bug#302684: zeroconf configuration method / option?

2005-04-03 Thread Mark Brown
On Sun, Apr 03, 2005 at 05:21:41PM +0200, Thomas Hood wrote: For the time being I think that the cleanest thing to do is to add a zeroconf method to the inet and inet6 address families. Initially the Note that zeroconf should not be used with IPv6 - that includes its own link local allocation

Bug#302684: zeroconf configuration method / option?

2005-04-06 Thread Mark Brown
On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 07:08:18PM +1000, Anand Kumria wrote: Yes - totally agreed, it is a bug that zeroconf currently wil attempt to assign an IPv4 link-local address to an interface with an address family of 'inet6'. That's not buggy: an interface can quite happily run multiple protocols

Bug#302684: zeroconf configuration method / option?

2005-04-06 Thread Mark Brown
On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 07:06:21PM +1000, Anand Kumria wrote: On Sun, Apr 03, 2005 at 03:28:24PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote: It would be helpful if the program were to monitor the configuration of the interface and only bring up a zeroconf address in the absence of any other configuration

Bug#302684: zeroconf configuration method / option?

2005-04-07 Thread Mark Brown
) Fcc: +sent-mail On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 12:59:19PM +1000, Anand Kumria wrote: On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 10:35:36AM +0100, Mark Brown wrote: That's not buggy: Yes it is, if this only existed in /etc/network/interfaces iface eth0 inet6 static Oh, you're thinking of the Debian

Bug#302684: zeroconf configuration method / option?

2005-04-07 Thread Mark Brown
On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 01:55:51PM +1000, Anand Kumria wrote: [Disabling zeroconf when an address is allocated otherwise.] Actually I read it entirely the other way -- the RFC recommends *against* doing it the way that has been done on these platforms. The behaviour it's complaining about is

Bug#303936: RFA: powertweak

2005-04-09 Thread Mark Brown
Package: wnpp Severity: normal I no longer use the powertweak package - it could probably use a more interested maintainer. Upstream is fairly helpful but hasn't been terribly active recently. Package: powertweak Description: Tool to tune system for optimal performance Powertweak is a tool for

Bug#263237: SCons user guide

2005-04-10 Thread Mark Brown
Source for the user guide is not obviously available as a release tarball and the document itself contains no visible license. I'm fairly sure asking upstream would change this: worth asking next time upstream becomes active. -- You grabbed my hand and we fell into it, like a daydream - or a

Bug#304165: cvsgraph: new version 1.5.1 available

2005-04-12 Thread Mark Brown
On Mon, Apr 11, 2005 at 01:18:56PM +0200, Adriaan Peeters wrote: It would be nice to have is packaged. I think will leave this until sarge is released (or testing is frozen, at least). There's more changes than I'd like to risk right now in there given that we're supposed to be freezing very

Bug#306380: leafnode: postinst adds spurious lines to /etc/inetd.conf

2005-04-26 Thread Mark Brown
tag 306380 + moreinfo unreproducible thanks On Tue, Apr 26, 2005 at 10:16:11AM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: Every time postinst is called (including upgrades), a new entry is added to /etc/inetd.conf. update-inetd will catch this problem, and ask the following question: Could you please

Bug#306380: leafnode: postinst adds spurious lines to /etc/inetd.conf

2005-04-26 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, Apr 26, 2005 at 10:16:11AM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: Every time postinst is called (including upgrades), a new entry is added to /etc/inetd.conf. update-inetd will catch this problem, and ask the Right, worked it out: update-inetd changed behaviour in the last release, breaking

Bug#306465: nis: ypserv can bind to port 636 which causes slapd to fail to start

2005-04-26 Thread Mark Brown
merge 306465 257876 thanks On Tue, Apr 26, 2005 at 09:31:09PM +0200, Jens Taprogge wrote: I have had problems with ypserv binding to port 636 a couple of times. This port is also used by slapd. Since slapd is startes after nis, this causes slapd to be unable to bind and thus fail. This is a

Bug#306465: nis: ypserv can bind to port 636 which causes slapd to fail to start

2005-04-27 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, Apr 26, 2005 at 11:29:06PM +0200, Jens Taprogge wrote: The same is---or at least can be, if ldap is used for authentification and/or autofs map serving---true for slapd. But since nis is flexible in its use of ports it would make more sense IMHO to move it after slapd which binds to

Bug#289070: I meet the same issue

2005-04-29 Thread Mark Brown
On Fri, Apr 29, 2005 at 09:17:25AM +0800, Guanghui Yu wrote: I also have a apache-ssl with php, libmm. After upgraded to 6.3, the apache-ssl will suspend every 1-2 days. When it stoped, this error displayed in the apache-ssl's error.log, semget: No space left on This looks like a

Bug#307296: blogtk: Edit post ignores post contents

2005-05-02 Thread Mark Brown
Package: blogtk Version: 1.0-1.1 Severity: normal Using a WordPress blog I find that if I select a partially written draft post for editing with the Edit/delete posts UI the actual content of the post is not made avaliable for editing. It seems that only the title is downloaded. -- System

Bug#307297: blogtk: Hard to get started

2005-05-02 Thread Mark Brown
Package: blogtk Version: 1.0-1.1 Severity: normal The account user interface for blogtk is quite hard to get started with. There are a number of issues: - There is no indication provided as to what would be a suitable URI to supply. It appears that the URI of the XML RPC server is required

Bug#307684: x86info: FTBFS on amd64 while it should build

2005-05-04 Thread Mark Brown
On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 07:37:09PM +0200, Goswin Brederlow wrote: attached is a minor patch to build x86info on amd64 as 32bit code (due to the i386 asm). Please consider fixing this for sarge as well as sid. It's *very* late in the game (ie, post freeze) to be doing sarge targetted fixes.

Bug#307698: leafnode: Minor DoS issue in fetchnews

2005-05-04 Thread Mark Brown
On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 10:20:30PM +0200, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote: that fixes a minor DoS issue: (Copying the report verbose as I couldn't find it on the web site) Hardly suprising, given that you appear to have managed to file this promptly enough to preempt the upstream release

Bug#307684: Remove patch tag

2005-05-06 Thread Mark Brown
tag 307684 - patch tag 307684 + moreinfo thanks I'm removing the patch tag because I can't understand the patch provided. It would also be preferable if the the patch were to only change things on hammer but this is much less important. -- You grabbed my hand and we fell into it, like a

Bug#307684: x86info: FTBFS on amd64 while it should build

2005-05-07 Thread Mark Brown
On Fri, May 06, 2005 at 07:09:28PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: gcc-3.3 in debian can not compile for the other bitness, i.e. on i386 -m64 fails and on amd64 -m32 fails. gcc-3.4 has been build as biarch compiler on both i386 and amd64. This is already used in kernel-image-2.6.8-amd64

Bug#289602: x86info: Bogus MHz output with --all

2005-01-11 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 06:51:12PM -0500, Justin Pryzby wrote: On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 11:34:08PM +, Mark Brown wrote: Do you experience any problems with clock accuracy, by any chance? I dont thing so .. how would I know? I mean the RTC - does the time reported by your system seem

Bug#286758: kernel-image-2.6.9-powerpc: Same openpic hang on PowerBook

2005-01-12 Thread Mark Brown
Package: kernel-image-2.6.9-powerpc Version: 2.6.9-4 Followup-For: Bug #286758 I'm seeing the same hang on my PowerBook. I'm pretty sure I had seen the same with -3, but only when the machine was running on battery (I hadn't written up a bug report since I wanted to confirm the failure mode).

Bug#290307: nis: howto server setup modifications

2005-01-13 Thread Mark Brown
On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 09:14:46AM -0500, Charles Fry wrote: - ypinit, when run as suggested in section 3.7, assumes that localhost.localdomain is the current NIS server if that line comes first in /etc/hosts. By putting the real IP address and hostname above the 127.0.0.1 line,

Bug#290049: zlib rsyncable support?

2005-01-13 Thread Mark Brown
On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 03:57:43PM +, Colin Watson wrote: https://svn.uhulinux.hu/packages/dev/zlib/patches/02-rsync.patch ... but I'm afraid I don't know its current state or whether there's a newer version available. Attached in case the URL goes bad. Looks plausible at a first

Bug#297455: minizip: preserve modes

2005-02-28 Thread Mark Brown
retitle 297455 Minizip does not support file permissions tag 297455 + upstream merge 297455 253068 thanks On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 02:41:44AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote: minizip makes file modes all 666, whereas zip preserves them. Dan, this is a duplicate of a bug #253068, a bug you filed

Bug#286758: kernel-image-2.6.9-powerpc: Same openpic hang on PowerBook

2005-03-01 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 04:08:32PM +0800, Martin Michlmayr wrote: 2.6.9 has been removed from the archive. Can you please test the 2.6.10 kernel from the archive to see whether this issue is still there? Also, can you confirm that you've never seen this with 2.6.8 (which is the kernel we'll

Bug#429662: Acknowledgement (linux-image-2.6.21-1-powerpc: Suspend fails on PowerBook)

2007-08-05 Thread Mark Brown
reassign 429662 linux-image-2.6.22-1-powerpc found 429662 2.6.22-3 thanks On Thu, Jul 05, 2007 at 12:39:16PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote: Suspending via closing the laptop lid appears to have been fixed by 2.6.21-2-powerpc but if I try to initiate a suspend from the GNOME power manager GUI

Bug#436260: linux-support-2.6.22-1: Support for exernal module packages broken

2007-08-06 Thread Mark Brown
Package: linux-support-2.6.22-1 Version: 2.6.22-3 Severity: important Attempting to build a module module package such as linux-modules-extra-2.6 which uses gencontrol.py fails even when using the copy of gencontrol.py included in the package as

Bug#436260: Acknowledgement (linux-support-2.6.22-1: Support for exernal module packages broken)

2007-08-06 Thread Mark Brown
tag 436260 + patch thanks The enclosed gencontrol.py for use in module packages probably fixes interoperation with module packages for current kernel versions. It appears to work for me but I have relatively little confidence in my changes given that I don't particularly understand the changes

Bug#436260: Acknowledgement (linux-support-2.6.22-1: Support for exernal module packages broken)

2007-08-07 Thread Mark Brown
by the kernel team. On Mon, Aug 06, 2007 at 08:03:13PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote: tag 436260 + patch There is no patch attached. Sorry, here's the updated gencontrol.py. I've not generated a patch since I don't really know what to generate it against. -- You grabbed my hand and we fell into it, like

Bug#436881: ftnchek: not handling nostrip build option (policy 10.1)

2007-08-09 Thread Mark Brown
retitle 436881 Please implement nostrip support thanks -- You grabbed my hand and we fell into it, like a daydream - or a fever. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#443065: locales: Prompts to replace locale.alias on upgrade

2007-09-18 Thread Mark Brown
Package: locales Version: 2.6.1-5 Severity: wishlist When I upgrade locales I am being prompted to accept changes to locale.alias, a file which I have never to my knowledge edited. Reviewing the diff appears to support my recollection here. I'm guessing that this is as a result of moving

Bug#435638: comments

2007-09-20 Thread Mark Brown
On Mon, Sep 10, 2007 at 03:01:16PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: The bts command line allows comments to be inserted. Short of making them mandatory, which seems like a bad idea, I don't see a way to encourage them further.. Yes, it's tricky. I suppose you could warn (either in the generated mail

Bug#443570: powerpc: X server forces Apple Cinema display into power save mode

2007-09-22 Thread Mark Brown
Package: xserver-xorg-video-ati Version: 1:6.6.193-3 Severity: important Since upgrading to the above version of the ATI driver I find that when the X server starts my Apple Cinema display goes into power saving mode, apparently unrecoverably. The framebuffer appears to work fine, though I have

Bug#443570: xserver-xorg-video-ati: fbdev didn't immediately help

2007-09-22 Thread Mark Brown
Package: xserver-xorg-video-ati Version: 1:6.6.193-3 Followup-For: Bug #443570 FWIW simply switching to the fbdev driver didn't immediately help - logs and configuration below; I've not bade any effort to get this to work. -- Package-specific info: Contents of /var/lib/x11/X.roster: xserver-xorg

Bug#443570: powerpc: X server forces Apple Cinema display into power save mode

2007-09-22 Thread Mark Brown
On Sat, Sep 22, 2007 at 05:16:04PM +0200, Brice Goglin wrote: Can you try xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.7.193-1 currently in experimental? It might not be built for powerpc yet, but the previous one (1:6.7.192-4) has been built already, testing any of them would be nice. Will do that in just a

Bug#443570: xserver-xorg-video-ati: Old version in experimental...

2007-09-22 Thread Mark Brown
Package: xserver-xorg-video-ati Version: 1:6.7.192-4 Followup-For: Bug #443570 The version in experimental is indeed out of date. I'm not sure that I don't need to update something else as well as this since the server can't find any valid modes and fails to start at all. -- Package-specific

Bug#443570: xserver-xorg-video-ati: Locally built current experimental

2007-09-22 Thread Mark Brown
Package: xserver-xorg-video-ati Version: 1:6.7.193-1 Followup-For: Bug #443570 I've locally built the current experimental package and started playing with your suggestions. Here for info are the diagnostics generated by the bug script for this version - I'll reply separately to your mail after

Bug#443570: xserver-xorg-video-ati: Specifying 'powerbook' reinstates the original problem

2007-09-22 Thread Mark Brown
Package: xserver-xorg-video-ati Version: 1:6.7.193-1 Followup-For: Bug #443570 If I remove all the mode lines and sync options then specify the powerbook layout I get the original problem with the monitor going into power save mode again. On the bright side, this is the first time I've ever had

Bug#443570: xserver-xorg-video-ati: Old version in experimental...

2007-09-22 Thread Mark Brown
On Sat, Sep 22, 2007 at 05:55:20PM +0200, Brice Goglin wrote: Can you try removing (or commenting out) some lines in xorg.conf as explained below? Sorry about the mailbomb... HorizSync and the whole Mode subsection. All Modes line. Changing these without changing anything else had no

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