Bug#461177: win32-loader: [INTL:zh_CN] Simplified Chinese PO translation

2008-01-17 Thread Robert Millan
On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 12:30:33PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: You sent a patch for a file that doesn't exist. Please, make your diff relative to a directory without the file. Or, just send the file if you find that easier. -- Robert Millan GPLv2 I know my rights; I want my phone call

Bug#461110: please include packages from Priority: important

2008-01-17 Thread Robert Millan
On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 12:26:33PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: Robert Millan wrote: Please move packages from Priority: important to tasksel so that user has the option to de-select them. Why? There should be nothing in important that a user should want to de-select, As a user, in most

Bug#461177: win32-loader: [INTL:zh_CN] Simplified Chinese PO translation

2008-01-17 Thread Robert Millan
-Version' still has initial default value po/zh_CN.po:95: `msgid' and `msgstr' entries do not both begin with '\n' po/zh_CN.po:131: `msgid' and `msgstr' entries do not both end with '\n' po/zh_CN.po:150: `msgid' and `msgstr' entries do not both end with '\n' msgfmt: found 4 fatal errors -- Robert

Bug#452640: Bug#461110: please include packages from Priority: important

2008-01-17 Thread Robert Millan
in its postinst, but apt doesn't), and fix the error message. This would allow d-a-k to stop dragging gnupg in eventually. -- Robert Millan GPLv2 I know my rights; I want my phone call! DRM What use is a phone call… if you are unable to speak? (as seen on /.) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Bug#461110: please include packages from Priority: important

2008-01-17 Thread Robert Millan
of d-i might need changes, to deal with tasksel not being installed. Ok. We reassign to base-installer, then? -- Robert Millan GPLv2 I know my rights; I want my phone call! DRM What use is a phone call… if you are unable to speak? (as seen on /.) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Bug#461344: win32-loader

2008-01-17 Thread Robert Millan
-- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Robert Millan GPLv2 I know my rights; I want my phone call! DRM What use is a phone call… if you are unable to speak? (as seen on /.) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Bug#452640: Bug#461110: please include packages from Priority: important

2008-01-17 Thread Robert Millan
On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 07:10:51PM -0200, Otavio Salvador wrote: Robert Millan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 02:31:35PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: Are you sure about these two? apt has Depends on them, but they're superflous (I verified that, see #452640). I don't

Bug#461177: win32-loader: [INTL:zh_CN] Simplified Chinese PO translation

2008-01-18 Thread Robert Millan
translation team for updates of this translation. win32-loader is part of D-I and they have overall responsability for the Chinese translations. Thanks, -- Robert Millan GPLv2 I know my rights; I want my phone call! DRM What use is a phone call… if you are unable to speak? (as seen

Bug#461367: grub: please use ucf for managing user changes to menu.lst

2008-01-19 Thread Robert Millan
is not yet ready to be a default bootloader, ... what makes you think it won't be for lenny? -- Robert Millan GPLv2 I know my rights; I want my phone call! DRM What use is a phone call… if you are unable to speak? (as seen on /.) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Bug#461367: grub: please use ucf for managing user changes to menu.lst

2008-01-19 Thread Robert Millan
+fi You can't autorun update-grub in Legacy GRUB. People will yell at you. -- Robert Millan GPLv2 I know my rights; I want my phone call! DRM What use is a phone call… if you are unable to speak? (as seen on /.) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Bug#461607: please include bash_completion script

2008-01-19 Thread Robert Millan
Package: mplayer Version: 1.0~rc1-12etch1 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch Please, can you include this bash_completion script in mplayer package? It provides bash expansion logic for mplayer mencoder gmplayer and kplayer. I think it doesn't harm if you provide it once for each of these packages,

Bug#461177: win32-loader: [INTL:zh_CN] Simplified Chinese PO translation

2008-01-20 Thread Robert Millan
investigation, I found the current string should be LANG_SIMPCHINESE, which makes the building process go smoothly. Here I'm attaching the patch. Thanks! Fixed, thank you. -- Robert Millan GPLv2 I know my rights; I want my phone call! DRM What use is a phone call… if you are unable to speak

Bug#437275: closed by Robert Millan [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bug#437275: fixed in grub2 1.95+20080116-1)

2008-01-20 Thread Robert Millan
On Sun, Jan 20, 2008 at 04:15:52PM +0100, Fabian Greffrath wrote: found 437275 1.95+20080116-1 thanks Sorry, but it's still flickering on my screen. Sounds very strange. Did you re-run grub-install ? -- Robert Millan GPLv2 I know my rights; I want my phone call! DRM What use is a phone

Bug#462218: Bug#461442: detection of other OSes in update-grub

2008-01-31 Thread Robert Millan
On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 09:31:57AM +0100, Fabian Greffrath wrote: Robert Millan schrieb: Suggestions? For the time being I could duplicate the convert() function from Debian's grub-installer to convert the device names. However, I believe that there are plenty of cases in which you could

Bug#462218: Bug#461442: detection of other OSes in update-grub

2008-01-31 Thread Robert Millan
On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 03:26:24PM +0100, Fabian Greffrath wrote: Robert Millan schrieb: Sorry, I got confused. The generic linux-device / grub-drive conversion tool is no problem. I think it's fine to add it. Fine! The problem is if you need grub-probe to work with an input

Bug#463391: update-grub: wrong root device

2008-01-31 Thread Robert Millan
it impossible to even boot manually. I've to use a livecd and change hd1 to hd0 in order to boot again. Error handling in the scripting engine clearly can be improved. I'll keep this bug open for that purpose. Thanks -- Robert Millan GPLv2 I know my rights; I want my phone call! DRM What use is a phone

Bug#462159: grub-pc: doesn't boot: free magic is broken

2008-01-31 Thread Robert Millan
On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 08:32:27PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: Yuck. xfs strikes again, like some kind of curse or so. Please could you try the attached patch? Also, if you can test the one in: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2008-01/msg00830.html and it works, maybe we

Bug#462159: grub-pc: doesn't boot: free magic is broken

2008-01-31 Thread Robert Millan
. Please could you try the attached patch? -- Robert Millan GPLv2 I know my rights; I want my phone call! DRM What use is a phone call… if you are unable to speak? (as seen on /.) diff -ur grub2/fs/xfs.c xfs/fs/xfs.c --- grub2/fs/xfs.c 2007-08-02 20:40:36.0 +0200 +++ xfs/fs/xfs.c 2008-01-31 20

Bug#433527: closed by Daniel Baumann [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bug#433527: fixed in linux-modules-extra-2.6 2.6.24-1)

2008-01-31 Thread Robert Millan
, was the arch whose requirements couldn't be specified correctly (and still aren't). -- Robert Millan GPLv2 I know my rights; I want my phone call! DRM What use is a phone call… if you are unable to speak? (as seen on /.) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Bug#402972: grub2: Please switch to gettext-based debconf templates

2008-02-02 Thread Robert Millan
-debconf package. Sorry for the oversight. Your patch is in SVN now. -- Robert Millan GPLv2 I know my rights; I want my phone call! DRM What use is a phone call… if you are unable to speak? (as seen on /.) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Bug#463123: grub (legacy) and e2fsprogs

2008-02-02 Thread Robert Millan
Hi! Please, can you make sure e2fsprogs-udeb = 1.40.5-1 doesn't reach testing before grub 0.97-30 (just uploaded) has? Otherwise D-I builds will fail to boot onto installed system. For details see #463236, #463123. Thanks -- Robert Millan GPLv2 I know my rights; I want my phone call! DRM

Bug#462497: grub-pc: debian theme not working

2008-02-03 Thread Robert Millan
more eyes will look at your problem. -- Robert Millan GPLv2 I know my rights; I want my phone call! DRM What use is a phone call… if you are unable to speak? (as seen on /.) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#463765: debian-installer: Installer offers to install grub bootloader on PowerPC. Why?

2008-02-03 Thread Robert Millan
-Installer-Menu-Item in yaboot-installer ? -- Robert Millan GPLv2 I know my rights; I want my phone call! DRM What use is a phone call… if you are unable to speak? (as seen on /.) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#463765: debian-installer: Installer offers to install grub bootloader on PowerPC. Why?

2008-02-03 Thread Robert Millan
are different versions of GRUB, it's correct to use GRUB to refer to either of them. -- Robert Millan GPLv2 I know my rights; I want my phone call! DRM What use is a phone call… if you are unable to speak? (as seen on /.) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Bug#394868: moreinfo

2008-02-03 Thread Robert Millan
/bugs/?2394 -- Robert Millan GPLv2 I know my rights; I want my phone call! DRM What use is a phone call… if you are unable to speak? (as seen on /.) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#463391: update-grub: wrong root device

2008-02-03 Thread Robert Millan
retitle 463391 wrong root device reassign 463391 grub-pc thanks On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 08:02:44PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: update-grub sets my root partition to (hd1,0), however when grub boot it seems to always consider the booting disk as (hd0). device.map files maps my sda disk

Bug#462497: grub-pc: debian theme not working

2008-02-03 Thread Robert Millan
On Sun, Feb 03, 2008 at 11:53:07AM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: At first it does nothing but displaying a greeting from grub. But after pressing ESC (or maybe waiting, but I didn't want to wait that long) it shows the menu. The greeting is new though (must have happend after

Bug#432154: LVM not working when *any* md array degraded

2008-02-03 Thread Robert Millan
unsuccessfully. Please can you try with latest grub-probe? Also, add -v flag for verbose output. Finally, a very big thanks to the maintainer for holding my hand in #grub on freenode for a couple of hours while I raged at rescue mode, etc. I did that? Ah well, you're welcome ;-) -- Robert Millan

Bug#430513: output of grub-probe

2008-02-03 Thread Robert Millan
(against latest grub2), and try the commands: grub-probe -t device /boot grub-probe -t drive /boot grub-probe -t fs /boot For each command, if it works tell me the output, if it doesn't re-run with -v (verbose) and send me the whole log. Thank you -- Robert Millan GPLv2 I know my rights; I

Bug#426341: grub-pc: failure to read one device in a RAID-1 array causes boot failure

2008-02-03 Thread Robert Millan
grub_raid_scan_device() hook, grub_device_iterate will continue running the hook for every remaining device. Only when you return 1 from the hook, the iteration is interrupted. So what is wrong exactly? -- Robert Millan GPLv2 I know my rights; I want my phone call! DRM What use is a phone call… if you

Bug#463391: update-grub: wrong root device

2008-02-03 Thread Robert Millan
On Sun, Feb 03, 2008 at 08:15:28PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: Unfortunately when you have multiple disks of different types, like you do, there's no perfect way to figure out what number will the bios assign to each one. It'll be possible to improve this in the future (by not using

Bug#463765: debian-installer: Installer offers to install grub bootloader on PowerPC. Why?

2008-02-04 Thread Robert Millan
On Sun, Feb 03, 2008 at 02:51:08PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: On Sunday 03 February 2008, Robert Millan wrote: I'm not familiar with this part; could it be that we just need to adjust XB-Installer-Menu-Item in yaboot-installer ? From installer/doc/devel/menu-item-numbers.txt: 7000 apt-setup

Bug#462218: Bug#461442: detection of other OSes in update-grub

2008-02-04 Thread Robert Millan
On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 03:47:26PM +0100, Fabian Greffrath wrote: Robert Millan schrieb: Why is that a problem? Because foobar is not a block device, but grub-probe claims that it will print a device if '--target=device' is given. Uhm I'm not sure if that's a good thing or may

Bug#462218: Bug#461442: detection of other OSes in update-grub

2008-02-04 Thread Robert Millan
be simplified with echo something | read a b c d feature? -- Robert Millan GPLv2 I know my rights; I want my phone call! DRM What use is a phone call… if you are unable to speak? (as seen on /.) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Bug#426341: grub-pc: failure to read one device in a RAID-1 array causes boot failure

2008-02-04 Thread Robert Millan
. That means more eyes staring at your description of the problem, thus more chances to find a solution. -- Robert Millan GPLv2 I know my rights; I want my phone call! DRM What use is a phone call… if you are unable to speak? (as seen on /.) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Bug#457867: please provide a win32 binary

2008-02-05 Thread Robert Millan
On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 11:02:11PM -0700, Bdale Garbee wrote: On Fri, 2007-12-28 at 19:37 +0100, Robert Millan wrote: Ok, here's an updated patch with fixed Build-Depends and install target. I've applied the patch and uploaded new versions. Thanks! I'll get to work on win32-loader ASAP

Bug#425648: grub: Hang occurring slightly later for me

2008-02-05 Thread Robert Millan
/qemu and switching to GRUB 2 when found? See attached patch. The `archdetect' part for subarch-x86-linux.c is loosely based on code from the mips variant. -- Robert Millan GPLv2 I know my rights; I want my phone call! DRM What use is a phone call… if you are unable to speak? (as seen

Bug#464166: please stop using winelauncher

2008-02-05 Thread Robert Millan
Package: wine-bin Version: 0.9.51-2 Severity: normal winelauncher is deprecated according to upstream: http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11474 they even refuse to fix bugs in that script because of this. Please, could you remove it from the package and switch to wine.bin ? Thanks --

Bug#464172: output is corrupted when input contains newlines

2008-02-05 Thread Robert Millan
Package: cpio-win32 Severity: normal Tags: patch Output is corrupted when input contains newlines, because write() without binary mode replaces all \n with \r\n (even where \r is already present!), resulting in checksum failure. Attached patch fixes the problem. I've also sent it upstream. --

Bug#464166: please stop using winelauncher

2008-02-05 Thread Robert Millan
something broke, but they don't understand the message which leaves a bad impression. -- Robert Millan GPLv2 I know my rights; I want my phone call! DRM What use is a phone call… if you are unable to speak? (as seen on /.) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Bug#464166: please stop using winelauncher

2008-02-05 Thread Robert Millan
On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 05:45:21PM +0100, Ove Kaaven wrote: Robert Millan skrev: On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 05:01:24PM +0100, Ove Kaaven wrote: [...]. Besides the obvious user-friendliness features, which are nice, I need it to put up a warning box when Wine is launched from mailcap. Actually

Bug#464208: please strip cpio.exe

2008-02-05 Thread Robert Millan
Package: cpio-win32 Severity: normal Hi, I forgot to include a line to strip cpio.exe in my patch. Please can you add it? For win32 binaries, the command would be: i586-mingw32msvc-strip cpio.exe Thanks -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers stable APT policy:

Bug#425648: grub: Hang occurring slightly later for me

2008-02-05 Thread Robert Millan
On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 06:04:17PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: On Tuesday 05 February 2008, Robert Millan wrote: Not worth it IMHO, since it (grub) is going to disappear really soon now. You keep saying that, but with the first freeze starting in March, I wonder if it is realistic. Last I know

Bug#462497: grub-pc: debian theme not working

2008-02-05 Thread Robert Millan
mean in text mode? Sounds like fonts aren't loading properly. Please could you check why /usr isn't accessible from GRUB ? (use 'ls' in the grub console). -- Robert Millan GPLv2 I know my rights; I want my phone call! DRM What use is a phone call… if you are unable to speak? (as seen

Bug#464086: grub-pc: update-grub should sort rc kernels after released kernels

2008-02-05 Thread Robert Millan
the sorting rules you think should apply and report that to grub-devel ? GRUB Legacy's update-grub can be useful as reference, but 100% compatibility is not mandatory. -- Robert Millan GPLv2 I know my rights; I want my phone call! DRM What use is a phone call… if you are unable to speak

Bug#464215: grub2: grub-probe -t fs / fails to detect the file system with / on LVM

2008-02-05 Thread Robert Millan
/ grub-probe: error: unknown device This one is a known problem. I expect to fix it soon. -- Robert Millan GPLv2 I know my rights; I want my phone call! DRM What use is a phone call… if you are unable to speak? (as seen on /.) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Bug#464233: complains cannot find win32-loader.ini and quit

2008-02-05 Thread Robert Millan
) but still do not support proxies in following form : http://${USER}:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:${PORT} This is an NSIS bug. I can't do much about it. -- Robert Millan GPLv2 I know my rights; I want my phone call! DRM What use is a phone call… if you are unable to speak? (as seen

Bug#464233: complains cannot find win32-loader.ini and quit

2008-02-05 Thread Robert Millan
On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 01:05:14AM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: win32-loader is not supposed to be used directly. You want to either use it in the official Debian CD builds, or the network version as provided by http://goodbye-microsoft.com/ But I admit that description could explain

Bug#462497: grub-pc: debian theme not working

2008-02-05 Thread Robert Millan
no background image or anything like it. Is desktop-base installed? background image is only enabled when it is provided by that package. -- Robert Millan GPLv2 I know my rights; I want my phone call! DRM What use is a phone call… if you are unable to speak? (as seen on /.) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Bug#464215: grub2: grub-probe -t fs / fails to detect the file system with / on LVM

2008-02-06 Thread Robert Millan
you try with more verbosity (-vv) ? You'll need the attached patch. -- Robert Millan GPLv2 I know my rights; I want my phone call! DRM What use is a phone call… if you are unable to speak? (as seen on /.) diff -ur grub2/util/grub-probe.c tmp/util/grub-probe.c --- grub2/util/grub-probe.c 2008-01

Bug#464455: please strip gzip.exe

2008-02-06 Thread Robert Millan
Package: gzip-win32 Severity: normal Hi, I forgot to include a line to strip gzip.exe in my patch. Please can you add it? For win32 binaries, the command would be: i586-mingw32msvc-strip gzip.exe Thanks -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers stable APT policy:

Bug#462497: grub-pc: debian theme not working

2008-02-06 Thread Robert Millan
. At least I can see the file, when using the grub commandline. If you try the commands by hand, do you see any error? -- Robert Millan GPLv2 I know my rights; I want my phone call! DRM What use is a phone call… if you are unable to speak? (as seen on /.) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Bug#441019: reopen

2008-02-07 Thread Robert Millan
reopen 441019 thanks This wasn't fixed. You need a versioned dependency in base-files in the binary packages, not as Build-Depends. -- Robert Millan GPLv2 I know my rights; I want my phone call! DRM What use is a phone call… if you are unable to speak? (as seen on /.) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Bug#441019: reopen

2008-02-07 Thread Robert Millan
On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 12:51:02PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: reopen 441019 thanks This wasn't fixed. You need a versioned dependency in base-files in the binary packages, not as Build-Depends. Ah, if you care about backports, I suggest you make it depend on base-files = 4.0.1~bpo40+1

Bug#464613: copyright file refers to common-licenses/GPL, which is GPLv3+, but LICENSE.GPL says GPLv2-only

2008-02-07 Thread Robert Millan
Package: qt-x11-free Version: 3:3.3.7-9 Severity: serious copyright file refers to common-licenses/GPL, which is GPLv3+, but LICENSE.GPL says GPLv2-only. Untill Qt license is upgraded you should point to common-licenses/GPL-2 instead. -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT

Bug#464615: links with GPLv2-only libqt-mt.so.3

2008-02-07 Thread Robert Millan
Package: klash Version: 0.8.1~rc.070818-2.1+b1 Severity: serious /usr/bin/klash is GPLv3+, but links with GPLv2-only libqt-mt.so.3. Btw, I also checked konqueror-plugin-gnash, which was believed to be affected by this problem as well, and it doesn't seem to link with libqt-mt.so.3. -- System

Bug#464839: grub-pc: update-grub does not export user defined variables

2008-02-09 Thread Robert Millan
to export all variables used in /etc/default/grub. We don't want to export all variables, only those that are appropiate for the user to mess with. Which one are you missing? -- Robert Millan GPLv2 I know my rights; I want my phone call! DRM What use is a phone call… if you are unable to speak

Bug#464615: Qt is GPLv3 now

2008-02-09 Thread Robert Millan
files with 644 permissions. -- Robert Millan GPLv2 I know my rights; I want my phone call! DRM What use is a phone call… if you are unable to speak? (as seen on /.) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#449135: Booting fails with 'CLAIM failed'

2008-01-03 Thread Robert Millan
to the openfirmware prompt: 'CLAIM failed' -- Robert Millan GPLv2 I know my rights; I want my phone call! DRM What use is a phone call, if you are unable to speak? (as seen on /.) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#436943: grub2: after install boots into rescue mode

2008-01-03 Thread Robert Millan
This report doesn't provide enough information for us to figure out what was the problem. Will you provide the input Sam requested ? If not, I'm afraid we'll have to close this bug. Please let us know if you have questions or need more assistance. -- Robert Millan GPLv2 I know my rights; I

Bug#407338: tagging

2008-01-03 Thread Robert Millan
, and there isn't any real manpower (hint: volunteer before you complain) to maintain the features we have now in Debian grub package, or even do proper bug triage. -- Robert Millan GPLv2 I know my rights; I want my phone call! DRM What use is a phone call, if you are unable to speak? (as seen

Bug#451710: grub: No setup signature found error message not shown on serial console

2008-01-03 Thread Robert Millan
for GRUB 2 (by design, it's not possible to print something to an unused terminal unless you explicitly dig into the terminal list). -- Robert Millan GPLv2 I know my rights; I want my phone call! DRM What use is a phone call, if you are unable to speak? (as seen on /.) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Bug#451701: grub: boot sector code is not automatically updated, resulting in boot trouble with 2.6.23

2008-01-03 Thread Robert Millan
mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-grub-devel -- Robert Millan GPLv2 I know my rights; I want my phone call! DRM What use is a phone call, if you are unable to speak? (as seen on /.) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Bug#458663: Missing support for data.tar.bz2-based debs

2008-01-04 Thread Robert Millan
at it, why not use lzma instead? Gives better compression ratio, and the size increase becomes insignificant once that issue is solved. -- Robert Millan GPLv2 I know my rights; I want my phone call! DRM What use is a phone call, if you are unable to speak? (as seen on /.) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Bug#458663: Missing support for data.tar.bz2-based debs

2008-01-04 Thread Robert Millan
On Fri, Jan 04, 2008 at 03:34:13PM -0200, Otavio Salvador wrote: Robert Millan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The worst (and most relevant here) constraint is on initrd size, and that is unaffected by .deb size. Why not move it out, then? Just unpack the necessary packages in the target

Bug#459199: Acknowledgement (grub-pc: locks up when upgrading)

2008-01-05 Thread Robert Millan
, rather than _after_ it? You can use gdb to determine. Try building a debug grub-mkdevicemap (DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip,noopt,debug), run it with gdb and interrupt it where it has hung, then obtain a backtrace (bt). -- Robert Millan GPLv2 I know my rights; I want my phone call! DRM What use

Bug#459199: Acknowledgement (grub-pc: locks up when upgrading)

2008-01-05 Thread Robert Millan
On Sat, Jan 05, 2008 at 11:49:29PM +1030, Arthur Marsh wrote: Robert Millan wrote, on 05/01/08 22:52: On Sat, Jan 05, 2008 at 03:20:31AM +1030, Arthur Marsh wrote: Previously, the upgrade was locking up when running grub-mkdevicemap which was calling: open(/dev/hdc, O_RDONLY

Bug#459352: please provide 640x480 TGA version of debian-blueish-wallpaper.svg for GRUB

2008-01-05 Thread Robert Millan
Package: desktop-base Version: 4.0.4 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch Hi! GRUB 2 supports background images now, in TGA format with 640x480 resolution and 24-bit depth. I'd like it to use the default Debian theme image (which I believe at the moment is debian-blueish-wallpaper.svg; let me know if

Bug#459352: new patch

2008-01-05 Thread Robert Millan
Uhm sorry, I overlooked that the resulting image had its bit depth dramatically degraded. Here's a new patch, using rsvg for svg-png conversion, then imagemagick for png-tga. -- Robert Millan GPLv2 I know my rights; I want my phone call! DRM What use is a phone call, if you are unable

Bug#459352: please provide 640x480 TGA version of debian-blueish-wallpaper.svg for GRUB

2008-01-05 Thread Robert Millan
non-desktop users with questions, or desktop users with extra setup. -- Robert Millan GPLv2 I know my rights; I want my phone call! DRM What use is a phone call, if you are unable to speak? (as seen on /.) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Bug#459352: please provide 640x480 TGA version of debian-blueish-wallpaper.svg for GRUB

2008-01-05 Thread Robert Millan
(I'm one of the debian maintainers). -- Robert Millan GPLv2 I know my rights; I want my phone call! DRM What use is a phone call, if you are unable to speak? (as seen on /.) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#459199: Acknowledgement (grub-pc: locks up when upgrading)

2008-01-05 Thread Robert Millan
On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 11:21:18AM +1030, Arthur Marsh wrote: Robert Millan wrote, on 06/01/08 02:48: ... You can use gdb to determine. Try building a debug grub-mkdevicemap (DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip,noopt,debug), run it with gdb and interrupt it where it has hung, then obtain

Bug#459352: please provide 640x480 TGA version of debian-blueish-wallpaper.svg for GRUB

2008-01-05 Thread Robert Millan
On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 12:37:40AM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: Sorry, but I don't understand why you wan't a new image. Why aren't you using the /boot/grub/splashimages/debian-moreblue-swirl.xpm.gz (package grub-splashimages) ? It's like the same no ? Two reasons: #1- GRUB

Bug#459199: Acknowledgement (grub-pc: locks up when upgrading)

2008-01-06 Thread Robert Millan
fault tollerant and allow open()ing drives even if they're unusable, because one might just want to open them for the purpose of CDROM_GET_CAPABILITY ioctl). -- Robert Millan GPLv2 I know my rights; I want my phone call! DRM What use is a phone call, if you are unable to speak? (as seen

Bug#456777: grub-pc: Please support installation Xen virtual block devices

2008-01-07 Thread Robert Millan
please send this to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ? We can discuss this in upstream since it's not Debian-specific. -- Robert Millan GPLv2 I know my rights; I want my phone call! DRM What use is a phone call, if you are unable to speak? (as seen on /.) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Bug#458015: invalid group error in postinst

2008-01-07 Thread Robert Millan
On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 11:24:01PM +, Stephen Gran wrote: This one time, at band camp, Robert Millan said: postinst seems to assume that clamav group already exists: [...] S'està configurant clamav-base (0.92~dfsg-2) ... chown: «clamav:clamav»: el grup no és vàlid dpkg: s'ha

Bug#458015: invalid group error in postinst

2008-01-08 Thread Robert Millan
--disabled-login \ --shell /bin/false --home /var/lib/clamav clamav \ --ingroup clamav fi -- Robert Millan GPLv2 I know my rights; I want my phone call! DRM What use is a phone call, if you are unable to speak? (as seen on /.) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Bug#459712: build-conflicts with its own runtime

2008-01-08 Thread Robert Millan
Package: libpt-dev Severity: normal 10:04 * nyu grumbles at libpt-dev and its Build-Conflict with itself forcing him to uninstall ekiga 10:08 moray Build-Conflicting with yourself sounds like a wrong way to fix a bug 10:19 paravoid nyu: afaik there was no other way 10:19 paravoid I'm in

Bug#459715: FTBFS on parallel build (-j2)

2008-01-08 Thread Robert Millan
Package: pwlib Severity: important Tags: patch Fails when using -j2 for parallel build. Patch attached. -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux

Bug#459726: debian/changelog contains non-changelog data

2008-01-08 Thread Robert Millan
Package: pwlib Severity: serious Justification: Policy 4.4 $ dpkg-genchanges -v0 parsechangelog/debian: error: badly formatted heading line, at file debian/changelog line 699 dpkg-genchanges: error: syntax error in parsed version of changelog at line 0: empty file -- System Information: Debian

Bug#250864: shall we close this bug?

2008-01-08 Thread Robert Millan
to make progress on that, and given the confusing (and personally disturbing) track record of this bug, I'd recommend closing it. Anyone objects? [1] That we know of, in GRUB Legacy (where it won't be fixed), and maybe in GRUB 2 as well. -- Robert Millan GPLv2 I know my rights; I want my

Bug#458015: invalid group error in postinst

2008-01-08 Thread Robert Millan
On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 11:51:54AM +, Stephen Gran wrote: severity 458015 normal retitle 458015 clamav-base: Could be more robust when group has been removed thanks This one time, at band camp, Robert Millan said: On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 11:42:43PM +, Stephen Gran wrote

Bug#459352: new patch

2008-01-08 Thread Robert Millan
New patch that includes update-grub2 hooks (which will be supported by next upload of grub2). -- Robert Millan GPLv2 I know my rights; I want my phone call! DRM What use is a phone call, if you are unable to speak? (as seen on /.) diff -ur desktop-base-4.0.4.old/debian/control desktop-base

Bug#455899: damned ADMtek junk

2008-01-09 Thread Robert Millan
or similar, so that others can avoid (some of) the hassle. -- Robert Millan GPLv2 I know my rights; I want my phone call! DRM What use is a phone call, if you are unable to speak? (as seen on /.) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Bug#425286: grub2: not able to boot grub-invaders

2008-01-09 Thread Robert Millan
On Tue, May 29, 2007 at 03:36:25PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 07:21:53PM +0200, Fabian Greffrath wrote: package: grub-pc version: 1.95+20070515-1 severity: important Hello, the version of grub2 which is currently in unstable is unable to boot the GRUB

Bug#460079: use update-grub2 instead of update-grub

2008-01-10 Thread Robert Millan
Package: memtest86 Version: 3.2-1.1 Severity: normal Tags: patch For menu.lst, we delivered the promise that this file wouldn't be automaticaly updated unless /etc/kernel-img.conf was configured to do so. Assuming otherwise might be irritating to some users (for example see #459247). In order

Bug#460078: use update-grub2 instead of update-grub

2008-01-10 Thread Robert Millan
Package: invaders Severity: normal Tags: patch For menu.lst, we delivered the promise that this file wouldn't be automaticaly updated unless /etc/kernel-img.conf was configured to do so. Assuming otherwise might be irritating to some users (for example see #459247). In order to allow packages

Bug#460080: use update-grub2 instead of update-grub

2008-01-10 Thread Robert Millan
Package: memtest86+ Version: 1.65-1 Severity: normal Tags: patch For menu.lst, we delivered the promise that this file wouldn't be automaticaly updated unless /etc/kernel-img.conf was configured to do so. Assuming otherwise might be irritating to some users (for example see #459247). In order

Bug#399633: how to make User-Agent useless

2008-01-10 Thread Robert Millan
that have such stupid ideas on how to design their sites. -- Robert Millan GPLv2 I know my rights; I want my phone call! DRM What use is a phone call, if you are unable to speak? (as seen on /.) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Bug#460222: iceweasel openoffice.org l10n

2008-01-11 Thread Robert Millan
Package: debian-cd Severity: normal On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 01:07:55AM +, Steve McIntyre wrote: Should we open a BTS entry out of this? Might be a good plan, yeah. Ok For the summary: http://lists.debian.org/debian-cd/2007/12/msg00028.html -- Robert Millan GPLv2 I know my rights

Bug#460078: use update-grub2 instead of update-grub

2008-01-11 Thread Robert Millan
-invaders? Most of the changes of the previous revisions were your patches anyway. Sorry, I barely have time to maintain grub.. -- Robert Millan GPLv2 I know my rights; I want my phone call! DRM What use is a phone call, if you are unable to speak? (as seen on /.) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Bug#452359: please rise the priority

2007-11-21 Thread Robert Millan
Package: rt2x00-source Version: 0cvs20060928-1 Severity: wishlist Would you consider rising the priority of this package and its associated binaries so that it makes it to the first CD / DVD ? It's very useful to have it when your only means of internet connection that would let you install

Bug#452393: [PROPOSAL] clarify overstep between required and important priorities

2007-11-22 Thread Robert Millan
Package: debian-policy Version: 3.7.2.2 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch In the definition of priorities, required and important seem to collide with each other. In particular, the part of required that reads: Packages which are necessary for the proper functioning of the system with the part

Bug#452388: Standard system is confusing

2007-11-22 Thread Robert Millan
Package: tasksel Version: 2.70 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch Policy describes the standard priority level as: These packages provide a reasonably small but not too limited character-mode system. This is what will be installed by default if the user doesn't select anything else. It

Bug#452359: please rise the priority

2007-11-22 Thread Robert Millan
On Thu, Nov 22, 2007 at 06:30:47PM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2007-11-22 08:41 +0100, Robert Millan wrote: Package: rt2x00-source Version: 0cvs20060928-1 Severity: wishlist Would you consider rising the priority of this package and its associated binaries so that it makes

Bug#452393: [PROPOSAL] clarify overstep between required and important priorities

2007-11-22 Thread Robert Millan
On Thu, Nov 22, 2007 at 07:41:10PM +0100, Kurt Roeckx wrote: On Thu, Nov 22, 2007 at 04:00:28PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: Unlike required, important may include packages following other conditions not related to this one (and in fact, most of them aren't), so my proposal is to clarify

Bug#452388: Standard system is confusing

2007-11-23 Thread Robert Millan
, which should be obvious). -- Robert Millan GPLv2 I know my rights; I want my phone call! DRM What use is a phone call, if you are unable to speak? (as seen on /.) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#452640: unnecessarily drags in debian-archive-keyring and gnupg

2007-11-24 Thread Robert Millan
Package: apt Version: 0.7.9 Severity: normal Tags: patch apt depends on debian-archive-keyring, but it doesn't really need it, since /usr/share/apt/debian-archive.gpg is already part of the apt package. In turn, debian-archive-keyring depends on gnupg, which is only needed to make apt-key

Bug#452652: [Priorities] please lower priority of dselect

2007-11-24 Thread Robert Millan
Package: ftp.debian.org Severity: wishlist According to Policy s.2.5, packages with required priority are necessary for the proper functioning of the system, that is to say, they provide enough functionality to allow the sysadmin to boot and install more software. But dselect does none of that.

Bug#452654: skipping Priority: important packages

2007-11-24 Thread Robert Millan
Package: debootstrap Version: 1.0.7 Severity: wishlist Hi! It'd be nice if there was some way to use debootstrap to create a base Debian system without including all the cruft that lives in the Priority: important package set (sure, you can clean it up by hand afterwards, but it's a hassle).

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