Bug#748153: Debian 7.5 /etc/issue

2014-05-14 Thread Santiago Vila
On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 03:27:55PM -0500, Vladimir Remetic wrote: Package: base-files (7.1wheezy5) I am not sure if this could technically be classified as a bug, but /etc/issue is still reporting version 7 with Debian 7.5. $ head /etc/debian_version 7.5 $ head /etc/issue Debian

Bug#748347: r-cran-deldir: New upstream release available

2014-05-16 Thread Santiago Vila
Package: r-cran-deldir Version: 0.0-22-1 Severity: wishlist Hello Andreas et al. This package is more current here: deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/marutter/c2d4u/ubuntu trusty main but I would prefer to take the source from Debian (I need it for a small local repository of R packages

Bug#745402: fuse-emulator: Better support for ROM in Debian opense-basic package

2014-04-24 Thread Santiago Vila
On Wed, 23 Apr 2014, Alberto Garcia wrote: On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 07:49:32PM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote: My point is that being opense.rom completely free, it would be a pity that fuse (which is also free) would not work well enough with it. Well, by default Fuse tries to use

Bug#745876: Please create /etc/machine-id if it does not exist

2014-04-26 Thread Santiago Vila
On Sat, 26 Apr 2014, Michael Stapelberg wrote: Package: base-files Version: 7.2 Severity: normal Tags: patch D-Bus, systemd and other programs use /etc/machine-id. Given that this file is per-machine and very central, it should live in base-files. The attached patch creates the file

Bug#745876: Please create /etc/machine-id if it does not exist

2014-04-26 Thread Santiago Vila
On Sat, 26 Apr 2014, Santiago Vila wrote: In fact: What's the benefit of generating this file in base-files at all? block -1 by 745876 Bug #619244 [systemd] systemd: unowned files after purge (policy 6.8, 10.8): /etc/machine-id 619244 was not blocked by any bugs. 619244 was not blocking

Bug#745930: RFP: fbzx -- ZX Spectrum emulator

2014-04-26 Thread Santiago Vila
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: fbzx Version : 2.10.0 Upstream Author : Raster Software Vigo (Sergio Costas) * URL : http://www.rastersoft.com/fbzx.html * License : GPL-3+ Programming Lang: C Description : ZX Spectrum emulator for X or

Bug#745402: fuse-emulator: Better support for ROM in Debian opense-basic package

2014-04-27 Thread Santiago Vila
On Sun, 27 Apr 2014, Alberto Garcia wrote: On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 11:22:11AM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote: fuse --rom-48 /usr/share/spectrum-roms/opense.rom does the trick indeed, so it is not such a big problem. Also Menu - Options - Select ROMs Well, I'd love to, but that doesn't

Bug#745876: Please create /etc/machine-id if it does not exist

2014-04-29 Thread Santiago Vila
On Mon, 28 Apr 2014, Michael Biebl wrote: Am 28.04.2014 17:51, schrieb Santiago Vila: For now, /etc/machine-id is a configuration (or state) file for the systemd package. Documentation about machine-id even says that removing the file on reboots is mostly harmless (you could have

Bug#745876: found + fixed on piuparts.d.o

2014-04-30 Thread Santiago Vila
On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 11:44:48AM +0200, Holger Levsen wrote: reassign 619244 piuparts tags 619244 + pending thanks Hi, so #745876 (and #619244 too) convinced me, so I now made piuparts ignore /etc/machine-id (in git and on piuparts.d.o, upload pending). I'd just prefered if

Bug#500965: This bug is causing real problems now

2014-05-02 Thread Santiago Vila
severity 500965 normal thanks For a lot of years this has not been a big problem, but now Yahoo and others are using a policy called DMARC (built on top of DKIM and SPF) and at least Yahoo is actually rejecting messages failing these kind of digital signatures. The following text comes from

Bug#500965: This bug is causing real problems now

2014-05-02 Thread Santiago Vila
El 02/05/14 19:07, Don Armstrong escribió: Control: retitle -1 Do not append footers to messages with DKIM headers On Fri, 02 May 2014, Santiago Vila wrote: For a lot of years this has not been a big problem, but now Yahoo and others are using a policy called DMARC (built on top of DKIM

Bug#500965: This bug is causing real problems now

2014-05-02 Thread Santiago Vila
El 02/05/14 19:07, Don Armstrong escribió: However, an interesting alternative possibility might be to just not attach footers to messages which contain DKIM headers, as we already do for messages which are signed. If you do this, I would suggest that you put the Archive info in the header in

Bug#500965: This bug is causing real problems now

2014-05-02 Thread Santiago Vila
On Fri, May 02, 2014 at 11:51:43AM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: On Fri, 02 May 2014, Santiago Vila wrote: Hmm. Can you elaborate on that? Do you consider that if I sign a message and you want to modify it, am I to blame that you can't modify it? Or else: If you modify it anyway, am I

Bug#716786: base-files: comments in /etc/nsswitch.conf don't match docs

2014-05-04 Thread Santiago Vila
On Fri, 12 Jul 2013, Brian Minton wrote: Package: base-files Version: 7.2 Severity: minor -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Dear Maintainer, In the comments of /etc/nsswitch.conf, the following text is listed: # Example configuration of GNU Name Service Switch

Bug#699090:

2014-05-04 Thread Santiago Vila
severity 699090 normal thanks For the record, I never considered this bug to be other than normal, for the reasons below: If the functionality is in libc, the user may easily change the configuration file, as it is plain text. I would reserve important severity for cases where the user has to

Bug#693126: limit source to latexmk, tagging 693126

2014-05-05 Thread Santiago Vila
On Tue, 5 Nov 2013, OHURA Makoto wrote: #latexmk (1:4.37-1) unstable; urgency=low # # * New upstream release (Closes: #693126) This is pending since November. Would you please upload the package or let someone else maintain it? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#500965: This bug is causing real problems now

2014-05-05 Thread Santiago Vila
On Fri, 2 May 2014, Alexander Wirt wrote: God no. DMARC is just broken by design. We should no in any way support it. We don't have to support DMARC as such, it would enough if lists.debian.org didn't send messages having DKIM signatures that do not verify. OTOH, if we are going to boycott

Bug#746548: closed by Santiago Vila sanv...@unex.es (Re: Bug#746548: base-files: os-release has no VERSION and VERSION_ID fields)

2014-05-05 Thread Santiago Vila
On Mon, May 05, 2014 at 02:37:21PM +0200, Sylvain Joyeux wrote: My use case is a provisioner, in which arbitrary names (e.g. avahi) is mapped to the OS proper package name (e.g.avahi-daemon). Since the name depends on the OS version, I do need to know. Which I currently do with a mix of

Bug#704675: procmail: formail crashes on specific mbox

2014-05-06 Thread Santiago Vila
Hello. I've reduced the test case to just 136 bytes (see attach). Apparently, formail is confused by lines containing this: nob...@example.com where the email is enclosed between '' at the left and '' at the right. I've built a debugging procmail this way: apt-get source procmail cd

Bug#752084: Debian lists need a plan to deal with messages from DMARC p=reject domains

2014-06-20 Thread Santiago Vila
On Fri, 20 Jun 2014, Tanguy Ortolo wrote: Marco d'Itri, 2014-06-19 16:10+0200: The possible solutions are: a) keep rejecting mail from these domains b) rewrite the From headers of messages from these domains c) implement a permanent and elegant solution like

Bug#752084: Debian lists need a plan to deal with messages from DMARC p=reject domains

2014-06-20 Thread Santiago Vila
El 20/06/14 22:19, Alexander Wirt escribió: read the bugreport again. at all. Hmm. What makes you think I didn't? Maybe you refer to the fact that your blog entry is dated from yesterday and solutions for this problem which are acceptable for you have been proposed in the bug report after

Bug#752084: Debian lists need a plan to deal with messages from DMARC p=reject domains

2014-06-20 Thread Santiago Vila
El 20/06/14 22:37, Alexander Wirt escribió: On Fri, 20 Jun 2014, Santiago Vila wrote: El 20/06/14 22:19, Alexander Wirt escribió: read the bugreport again. at all. Hmm. What makes you think I didn't? Maybe you refer to the fact that your blog entry is dated from yesterday and solutions

Bug#753003: autopoint: mark Multi-Arch:foreign

2014-06-30 Thread Santiago Vila
On Sat, 28 Jun 2014, Helmut Grohne wrote: Package: autopoint Version: 0.18.3.2-2 Severity: wishlist User: helm...@debian.org Usertags: rebootstrap Tags: patch Dear Maintainer, Is it possible to mark autopoint as Multi-Arch:foreign? Currently autopint has 106 reverse B-D, which are

Bug#753314: zip: fails to restore some split .zip archives

2014-07-01 Thread Santiago Vila
Thanks a lot for such an useful and detailed bug report. I will forward it upstream. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#753314: zip: fails to restore some split .zip archives

2014-07-01 Thread Santiago Vila
Forwarded upstream: http://www.info-zip.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=6t=383p=2726#p2726 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#748985: r-cran-stringr: Does not really depend on r-cran-plyr

2014-05-22 Thread Santiago Vila
Package: r-cran-stringr Version: 0.6.2-1 Tags: patch Hello Andreas et al. The NEWS file says this: * remove dependency on plyr and in fact a simple rgrep plyr on the source shows nothing in the real source (excluding debian/* files). Therefore, AFAIK, the current dependency is artificial and

Bug#753658: /etc/os-release has moved

2014-07-05 Thread Santiago Vila
On Fri, Jul 04, 2014 at 05:45:41AM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: Package: base-files Version: 7.3 Severity: normal From the changelog of systemd 215: * The /etc/os-release file should now be placed in /usr/lib/os-release. The old location is automatically

Bug#754549: python-polib: Does not handle previous msgid properly

2014-07-12 Thread Santiago Vila
Package: python-polib Version: 1.0.4-1 Tags: upstream Hola Ángel. I have this file called cobaya.po #: disk-utils/cfdisk.c:1825 #| msgid #| \n #| Partition table entries are not in disk order\n msgid Note that partition table entries are not in disk order now. msgstr and this simple parsing

Bug#754549: python-polib: Does not handle previous msgid properly

2014-07-12 Thread Santiago Vila
Note: I have forwarded this upstream: https://bitbucket.org/izi/polib/issue/61/does-not-handle-previous-msgid-properly -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#755221: gettext: Please update to 0.19.x for compatibility with bison 3.x

2014-07-19 Thread Santiago Vila
On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 10:14:05PM +0100, Reuben Thomas wrote: Package: gettext Version: 0.18.3.1-1ubuntu3 Severity: important bison 3.x can't built plural.y as shipped with gettext 0.18.x. This isn't normally a problem; in particular, gettext also ships a pre-compiled plural.c. However, a

Bug#628644: gettext-el: po in tar file coding system error

2014-07-19 Thread Santiago Vila
[ My apologies for not replying to this report before ]. On Tue, 31 May 2011, Kevin Ryde wrote: Package: gettext-el Version: 0.18.1.1-3 Severity: normal File: /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50gettext.el Visiting a .po file in a tar-mode .tar file such as touch x.po tar cf x.tar x.po

Bug#723195: base-files: Update FAQ with info about licenses

2014-07-19 Thread Santiago Vila
B1;3202;0cOn Thu, 3 Oct 2013, Gioele Barabucci wrote: The problem is not in the list of licences (abbreviated in my patch as [...]), but in the surrounding sentence. I searched the internet copying and pasting the words quoted by the base-files FAQ and I could not find the correct page in the

Bug#754549: python-polib: Does not handle previous msgid properly

2014-07-22 Thread Santiago Vila
The following patch *seems* to fix this bug: --- a/polib.py +++ b/polib.py @@ -1566,7 +1566,6 @@ token = token[3:] self.current_entry.previous_msgid_plural += token elif self.current_state == 'pm': -token = token[3:]

Bug#741516: postfix-policyd-spf-python: Please update README.Debian to match manpage

2014-03-13 Thread Santiago Vila
Package: postfix-policyd-spf-python Version: 1.2-1 README.Debian should ideally be updated to match manpage. Patch follows. Thanks. --- a/debian/README.Debian +++ b/debian/README.Debian @@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ 1. Add the following to /etc/postfix/master.cf: policyd-spf unix - n

Bug#741384: unzip -v: *** buffer overflow detected ***: unzip terminated

2014-03-14 Thread Santiago Vila
On Tue, 11 Mar 2014, Jonathan Nieder wrote: Jonathan Nieder wrote: I tried running unzip -v replication.jar with the attached replication.jar (it comes from WEB-INF/plugins/ in gerrit-2.8.1.war). ... actually attached this time. Thanks for the report. I've forwarded it upstream here:

Bug#741384: unzip -v: *** buffer overflow detected ***: unzip terminated

2014-03-14 Thread Santiago Vila
On Fri, 14 Mar 2014, Jonathan Nieder wrote: Santiago Vila wrote: The problem seems to disappear when disabling the fortify hardening option, which is probably what I will do. Oh dear. I think that would be counter-productive. Will find some time to track down the root cause

Bug#755140: should be serious

2014-08-30 Thread Santiago Vila
severity 755140 serious After a new jessie install today, I arrived at this bug. I'm using systemd, gdm3, and gnome-flashback, so no gnome-shell. Sorry not have the technical skills to fix this, but if we can't support Gnome3 without gnome-shell, then things like gnome-flashback should be

Bug#760011: etckeeper: Fresh installation from jessie fails if machine has no domain

2014-08-30 Thread Santiago Vila
Package: etckeeper Version: 1.13 Severity: important Hello Joey. I installed a new jessie system today, and the installation finished with an error message like this: [...] Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.19-9) ... *** Please tell me who you are. Run git config --global user.email

Bug#760443: procmail: CVE-2014-3618: Heap-overflow in formail when processing specially-crafted email headers

2014-09-04 Thread Santiago Vila
On Thu, Sep 04, 2014 at 08:40:23AM +0200, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote: Source: procmail Version: 3.22-19 Severity: grave Tags: security patch upstream Hi, the following vulnerability was published for procmail. CVE-2014-3618[0]: Heap-overflow in procmail's formail utility when

Bug#760443: procmail: CVE-2014-3618: Heap-overflow in formail when processing specially-crafted email headers

2014-09-04 Thread Santiago Vila
Checked: Yes, it is the same as this bug: http://bugs.debian.org/704675 I'll fix them both in unstable with urgency=high. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#760443: procmail: CVE-2014-3618: Heap-overflow in formail when processing specially-crafted email headers

2014-09-04 Thread Santiago Vila
Hello security people. I've just fixed this in procmail 3.22-22 in unstable. The quilt patch is debian/patches/27. If there is anything else I could/should do, please say so. Thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Bug#704675: Bugs #704675 and #760443 are the same

2014-09-04 Thread Santiago Vila
severity 704675 grave thanks The reason for this severity is data loss. However, I believe that if formail is used in this way in procmail recipes: :0 fhw | formail bla bla then the w flag prevents data from being lost: w Wait for the filter or program to finish and check its exitcode

Bug#760568: base-files: please depend on base-passwd to help (c)debootstrap process

2014-09-05 Thread Santiago Vila
reassign 760568 cdebootstrap thanks [ Executive summary for the cdebootstrap maintainer: I'm asked to add a Depends: base-passwd in base-files so that cdebootstrap configures base-passwd before trying to configure base-files. I think this is wrong for the reasons I explain below ]. This is

Bug#760568: base-files: please depend on base-passwd to help (c)debootstrap process

2014-09-05 Thread Santiago Vila
I said: This is not the first time I'm asked to help the bootstrapping tool. (Just tried a search on archived base-files bugs, but it seems all of that kind were reassigned to other packages). See http://bugs.debian.org/737939 for an example. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#760638: flashplugin-nonfree: Installation from wheezy fails

2014-09-06 Thread Santiago Vila
Package: flashplugin-nonfree Version: 1:3.2 Severity: grave Installing flashplugin-nonfree in wheezy does not work: # apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Suggested packages: konqueror-nsplugins

Bug#760638: flashplugin-nonfree: Installation from wheezy fails

2014-09-06 Thread Santiago Vila
retitle 760638 flashplugin-nonfree: Missing Depends: ca-certificates thanks On Sat, Sep 06, 2014 at 01:34:15PM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote: * Recent move of things from http to https. By reading Bug#758609, this is actually close: The move from http to https has made this package to suddenly

Bug#749479: Please include puppet into backports

2014-09-09 Thread Santiago Vila
On Tue, 27 May 2014, Klaus Ethgen wrote: Package: puppet Version: 3.6.1-1 Severity: wishlist As Puppet is doing the backward compatibility the wrong way, there is the problem that for the clients is always a current version of puppet available but for the server, that would most likely

Bug#761385: puppet-master: confusing error message when using parser=future

2014-09-13 Thread Santiago Vila
Package: puppet-common Version: 3.7.0-1 To be ready for puppet 4.0, I added parser=future to /etc/puppet/puppet.conf. Then I got this in the puppet master log: Could not parse for environment production: The gem 'rgen' version = 0.7.0 is required when using the setting '--parser future'.

Bug#761426: puppet resource does not tell the truth for files that may not be accessed

2014-09-13 Thread Santiago Vila
Package: puppet-common Version: 3.7.0-1 I have a bunch of logcheck rules in /etc/logcheck/ignore.d.paranoid/mylogcheck, served by puppet. If I query puppet about it as root, I get this: # puppet resource file /etc/logcheck/ignore.d.paranoid/mylogcheck file {

Bug#761511: ifup gives misleading message about /etc/fstab

2014-09-14 Thread Santiago Vila
Package: ifupdown Version: 0.7.48.1 Found this in /var/log: ifup[309]: Filesystem mounted on /dev/shm; setting up compatibility bind mount. ... (warning). ifup[309]: Please remove this mount from /etc/fstab; it is no longer needed, and it is preventing completion of the transition to /run/shm.

Bug#761511: ifup gives misleading message about /etc/fstab

2014-09-14 Thread Santiago Vila
reassign 761511 initscripts retitle 761511 misleading message about mount points in /etc/fstab thanks El 14/09/14 a las #4, Andrew Shadura escribió: I'm afraid this isn't something ifupdown prints. Probably something else does, but no way ifup can do this. Ok, I found the Please remove string

Bug#764318: Bugs #764318 and #765667 are not fixed yet.

2014-10-17 Thread Santiago Vila
forcemerge 764318 765667 reopen 764318 thanks Hello Bill. I'm running jessie on a computer lab, and I found this today in the logs for unattended-upgrades: Unpacking libjpeg-progs (1:9a-2) over (1:1.3.1-3) ... dpkg: error processing archive

Bug#765622: base-files: Dracut and systemd doesn't recognize / as sysroot

2014-10-17 Thread Santiago Vila
reassign 765622 systemd,dracut retitle 765622 Please support /usr being in a separate partition. severity 765622 normal thanks On Thu, 16 Oct 2014, Krzysztof Sobiecki wrote: Package: base-files Version: 7.6 Severity: minor Dear Maintainer, After switching to dracut from initramfs-tools

Bug#765750: initramfs-tools: should probably recreate initrd after installing

2014-10-17 Thread Santiago Vila
Package: initramfs-tools Version: 0.116 When I install dracut, a new initrd is generated automatically using dracut. If I install initramfs-tools again, dracut is removed but this time a new initrd (generated by initramfs-tools) is not generated. I see a lot of danger here. Either initrds are

Bug#766074: systemd: users should not have to put a value greater than desired in MaxRetentionSec to avoid loss of information

2014-10-20 Thread Santiago Vila
Package: systemd Version: 215-5+b1 I modified /etc/systemd/journald.conf by adding these two lines: MaxRetentionSec=7day MaxFileSec=1day Before the change, journalctl says: -- Logs begin at vie 2014-10-10 14:33:54 CEST, [...] After the change, journalctl says: -- Logs begin at mié 2014-10-15

Bug#766178: smartmontools: error in preinst

2014-10-21 Thread Santiago Vila
Package: smartmontools Version: 6.3+svn4002-1 Severity: serious On a system running unstable I did apt-get install smartmontools and this is what happened: Selecting previously unselected package smartmontools. (Reading database ... 96709 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to

Bug#766459: debootstrap: should not try to configure base-files before /etc/passwd has the usual users in a Debian system

2014-10-23 Thread Santiago Vila
reassign 766459 debootstrap retitle 766459 debootstrap: should not try to configure base-files before /etc/passwd has the usual users in a Debian system thanks [ Retitled because the predependency on awk in the subject is quite old and most probably has nothing to do with this ]. On Thu, 23

Bug#766459: debootstrap: should not try to configure base-files before /etc/passwd has the usual users in a Debian system

2014-10-23 Thread Santiago Vila
On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 12:08:50PM +0200, Holger Levsen wrote: for the avoidance of doubt: I have used debootstrap 1.0.48+deb7u1... Ok, so the problem is that in wheezy, deboostrap is no longer able to create a chroot of jessie or sid. IMHO, this is definitely worthy to be fixed in a point

Bug#766459: debootstrap: should not try to configure base-files before /etc/passwd has the usual users in a Debian system

2014-10-23 Thread Santiago Vila
On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 01:11:40PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: Santiago Vila wrote: Instead, the work of debootstrap is precisely to guess the right order in which packages should be configured so that everything work. In other words, essential packages should not get in the business

Bug#763744: samba: Huge number of samba panic messages

2014-10-24 Thread Santiago Vila
Hello. I upgraded to the samba packages in unstable (4.1.13) and unfortunately the panic messages still happen. Could you please forward this upstream? (This bug still appears as Unclassified in BTS web pages) Thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with

Bug#766598: systemd: help for journalctl --until option is misleading

2014-10-24 Thread Santiago Vila
Package: systemd Version: 215-5+b1 Tags: patch The output of journalctl --help says this: --since=DATE Start showing entries on or newer than the specified date --until=DATE Stop showing entries on or older than the specified date This is a little bit confusing. In fact,

Bug#754710: hello: packaging improvements: DEP-5, multiarch, use Breaks, ...

2014-10-26 Thread Santiago Vila
Sorry that I didn't found the time to reply to this report until now. First of all: A Big Thank You, specially for the copyright file! Working on this now. For the changes that will not be cherrypicked, I will try to post an explanation in this bug report, either before or after upload. Thanks.

Bug#766927: debfoster: Removes packages I want to keep

2014-10-26 Thread Santiago Vila
Package: debfoster Version: 2.7-2 I'm not sure if this is the result of a bad or incomplete translation, a bug in the program, or both, but the end result is that the program does exactly the opposite of what it's expected. My locale is es_ES.UTF-8 and I'm trying debfoster in a machine running

Bug#766459: debootstrap: should not try to configure

2014-10-27 Thread Santiago Vila
I'm going to reply to Julien first, then to Michael. On Mon, 27 Oct 2014, Julien Cristau wrote: On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 08:35:14 +, Michael Tautschnig wrote: I agree this should be fixed in base-files. Bugs should be fixed where they are. If base-files, or any other package, essential or

Bug#766459: debootstrap: should not try to configure

2014-10-27 Thread Santiago Vila
On Mon, 27 Oct 2014, Michael Tautschnig wrote: In principle, every essential package may depend on any other, and the set of real dependencies may change over time, so it's natural that debootstrap needs minor adjustments from time to time. So would you expect some sort of versioned

Bug#766459: debootstrap: should not try to configure

2014-10-27 Thread Santiago Vila
On Mon, 27 Oct 2014, Michael Tautschnig wrote: I'm hoping this is not going to be too philosophical, so I'll enlist the facts first (please let me know if I got any of them wrong): debootstrap'ing a system fails, because - chown root:root ... won't work when invoked from base-files'

Bug#766459: debootstrap: should not try to configure

2014-10-27 Thread Santiago Vila
On Mon, 27 Oct 2014, Michael Tautschnig wrote: + [ ! -f /usr/info/dir ] + [ ! -f /usr/share/info/dir ] + install_from_default /usr/share/base-files/info.dir /usr/share/info/dir + [ ! -f /usr/share/info/dir ] + cp -p /usr/share/base-files/info.dir /usr/share/info/dir + chmod 644

Bug#766459: debootstrap: should not try to configure

2014-10-27 Thread Santiago Vila
For the record, base-files postinst had three lines like this chown root:root whatever I've dropped all of them in base-files_7.10. Thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#766459: debootstrap: should not try to configure

2014-10-27 Thread Santiago Vila
On Mon, 27 Oct 2014, Michael Tautschnig wrote: Then maybe take the first sentence in 3.8 Essential packages instead: Essential is defined as the minimal set of functionality that must be available and usable on the system at all times, even when packages are in the Unpacked state. If not

Bug#766459: debootstrap: should not try to configure

2014-10-28 Thread Santiago Vila
[ Trimming Cc list completely. After this email there is little more I have to say about this ]. On Mon, 27 Oct 2014, Michael Tautschnig wrote: Admittedly, all that *I* want is a working debootstrap, so I'm also ok just having the changes in base-files for now (or maybe also in debootstrap).

Bug#767208: unattended-upgrades: Misleading comment in /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/50unattended-upgrades

2014-10-29 Thread Santiago Vila
Package: unattended-upgrades Version: 0.83 // Within lines unattended-upgrades allows 2 macros whose values are // derived from /etc/debian_version: // ${distro_id}Installed origin. // ${distro_codename} Installed codename (eg, jessie) When jessie becomes stable,

Bug#767350: clamav: weird log entries showing percentage of download

2014-10-30 Thread Santiago Vila
Package: clamav Version: 0.98.5~rc1+dfsg-2 freshclam[7495]: Downloading daily-19559.cdiff [ 45%]#015Downloading daily-19559.cdiff [ 61%]#015Downloading daily-19559.cdiff [ 77%]#015Downloading daily-19559.cdiff [ 93%]#015Downloading daily-19559.cdiff [100%]#015Downloading daily-19559.cdiff

Bug#767353: clamav: ERROR: Can't save PID to file /var/run/clamav/freshclam.pid: No such file or directory

2014-10-30 Thread Santiago Vila
Package: clamav Version: 0.98.5~rc1+dfsg-2 Severity: serious The subject says it all. This may affect the ability of sysvinit to start or stop the process (but I may be wrong), hence the serious severity. Thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Bug#763744: [Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#763744: samba: Huge number of samba panic messages

2014-10-30 Thread Santiago Vila
On Fri, 24 Oct 2014, Ivo De Decker wrote: On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 11:09:17AM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote: I upgraded to the samba packages in unstable (4.1.13) and unfortunately the panic messages still happen. Could you please forward this upstream? (This bug still appears

Bug#763744: [Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#763744: Bug#763744: samba: Huge number of samba panic messages

2014-10-31 Thread Santiago Vila
On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 06:41:02PM +0100, Christian PERRIER wrote: When it comes at samba, the value added by maintainers acting as proxies between bug submitters and upstream is sometimes near to zero. Even more, we often don't have easy ways to reproduce the users' testing environment,

Bug#752450: ftp.debian.org: please consider to strongly tighten the validity period of Release files

2014-10-31 Thread Santiago Vila
Dear ftpmasters: Contrary to what this report suggests, I believe the current validity of 7 days for testing and unstable is extremely low and should be increased. I have a laptop with testing which I use mostly on weekends. I have a partial mirror there, which I try to update as soon as I login

Bug#752450: ftp.debian.org: please consider to strongly tighten the validity period of Release files

2014-10-31 Thread Santiago Vila
More to the point: If we want testing to be constantly usable (as opposed to mostly useless if you don't apt-get update in a week), the expiration time for the Release file should be a lot closer than the one used for stable and far away than the one used for unstable. Thanks. -- To

Bug#764333: jed: tab key does not work by default

2014-10-07 Thread Santiago Vila
Package: jed Version: 1:0.99.19-3 Tags: upstream Hello Wookey. As the Subject says, the tab key does not seem to work at all. Ok, I didn't know and apparently this is a FAQ: http://www.jedsoft.org/jed/faq.html#faq-2 Many modes will set the TAB key to run an indent_line function. The

Bug#764336: logcheck: small typo: confilcts - conflicts

2014-10-07 Thread Santiago Vila
Package: logcheck Version: 1.3.16 Severity: minor Tags: patch diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog index bb0511a..768302a 100644 --- a/debian/changelog +++ b/debian/changelog @@ -2724,7 +2724,7 @@ logcheck (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low (Closes: #268277) * Remove qmail rules

Bug#764333: jed: tab key does not work by default

2014-10-09 Thread Santiago Vila
Well, I was looking for a small editor with an emacs-like feel, and the TAB key works in emacs by default, so this If you really want [...] is pure nonsense to me. Of course I want the TAB key to insert TABs! Well emacs TAB key is also context-sensitive is it not? jed's TAB key works as

Bug#764553: base-files: Does neither state which version nor which variant of the Artistic License is in /usr/share/common-licenses/Artistic

2014-10-09 Thread Santiago Vila
I'll try to document this in the next version, but not in the README as it has been suggested. This deserves a place in the copyright file itself, below the line saying The GNU Public Licenses [...]. Thanks for the report. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org

Bug#764625: xen-tools: no gateway in /etc/network/interfaces

2014-10-09 Thread Santiago Vila
Package: xen-tools Version: 4.4-1 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch This is fixed in git in commit 079382302ba0fd6bb22d5ca8d502eaa4c0ac1730 but I don't see it in the BTS. Is everybody using the git version? Anyway, the current code uses the variable gateway for two different things, namely, the ip

Bug#764553: base-files: Does neither state which version nor which variant of the Artistic License is in /usr/share/common-licenses/Artistic

2014-10-09 Thread Santiago Vila
On Thu, Oct 09, 2014 at 05:27:55PM +0200, Axel Beckert wrote: Hi, Santiago Vila wrote: I'll try to document this in the next version, but not in the README as it has been suggested. This deserves a place in the copyright file itself, below the line saying The GNU Public Licenses

Bug#763405: base-files: inclusion of /mnt in package can result in failures for systems where /mnt is ESTALE

2014-10-09 Thread Santiago Vila
On Mon, 29 Sep 2014, Stephen Dowdy wrote: Package: base-files Version: 7.1wheezy6 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, Since sysadmins tend to (and are often told to) use /mnt for temporary mounts, and sometimes forget those mounts and they go stale (nfs), a package (in this case

Bug#764553: base-files: Does neither state which version nor which variant of the Artistic License is in /usr/share/common-licenses/Artistic

2014-10-09 Thread Santiago Vila
Santiago Vila wrote: Another thing which I think would solve this issue easily, but which may have some side effects I'm not yet aware of, would be to rename the file to Artistic-1.0-Perl (or whatever) and make Artistic a symlink to it, analogous how it's done for the different GPL

Bug#763405: base-files: inclusion of /mnt in package can result in failures for systems where /mnt is ESTALE

2014-10-10 Thread Santiago Vila
On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 09:05:08AM -0600, Stephen Dowdy wrote: I guess the question i have here is... is /mnt being *USED* within the install at all, OTHER than by being an empty sub within the tarchive payload in the .deb ? Does dpkg, etc use /mnt for temporary extraction or as part of the

Bug#764828: No more application icon under GNOME

2014-10-12 Thread Santiago Vila
The icons should be named chromium.png, not product_logo_etc_etc.png. I'm using XFCE, and the following quick and dirty script worked for me after I removed /usr/share/icons/hicolor/icon-theme.cache and started a new session. #!/bin/sh cd /usr/share/icons/hicolor for a in `find * -name

Bug#765076: general: No way to have a clean chroot for building packages

2014-10-13 Thread Santiago Vila
Package: general Before systemd arrived, it was possible to have a chroot free from init packages (not needed to build packages). Now if I do apt-get dist-upgrade inside a minimal chroot (using schroot here), I get this: The following NEW packages will be installed: acl adduser dmsetup init

Bug#765076: general: No way to have a clean chroot for building packages

2014-10-13 Thread Santiago Vila
On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 01:43:29PM +0200, Niels Thykier wrote: In Wheezy, sysvinit was essential, so you would have the same issue in stable (just with a different init system). Oops. You are right. So this is not really a regression, only an undesirable feature that we have had in the system

Bug#765076: general: No way to have a clean chroot for building packages

2014-10-13 Thread Santiago Vila
On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 02:34:39PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: On Oct 13, Santiago Vila sanv...@unex.es wrote: Oops. You are right. So this is not really a regression, only an undesirable feature that we have had in the system for a long time. I would be happy to fix it FWIW, but I am

Bug#765373: jed: Grave accent ` needs dead key to be used twice

2014-10-14 Thread Santiago Vila
Package: jed Version: 1:0.99.19-3 When using a Spanish keyboard, the grave accent '`', when used alone, like this: tmp=`tempfile` is generated by pressing the key having the symbol, then the space key. This is how it works in Linux console, in xterm, in gnome-terminal, in emacs, in nano, and

Bug#765373: jed: Grave accent ` needs dead key to be used twice

2014-10-14 Thread Santiago Vila
El 14/10/14 a las #4, Wookey escribió: +++ Santiago Vila [2014-10-14 16:32 +0200]: Package: jed Version: 1:0.99.19-3 When using a Spanish keyboard, the grave accent '`', when used alone, like this: tmp=`tempfile` is generated by pressing the key having the symbol, then the space key

Bug#765385: samba: Please include dfsg-clean.sh script in the source

2014-10-14 Thread Santiago Vila
Package: samba Version: 2:4.1.11+dfsg-2 The script build-orig.sh in the source, which creates the +dfsg tarball, uses another script called dfsg-clean.sh. By comparing the Debian tarball with the original one, I guess the script does something like this: rm -f

Bug#762218: lightdm: maintainer scripts not idempotent: reinstalling does not fix half-working package

2014-09-19 Thread Santiago Vila
Package: lightdm Version: 1.10.2-1 Severity: serious On a system where lightdm is installed, then purged and then reinstalled again, the /var/lib/lightdm directory *might* not exist, leading to a system where lightdm does not start and the user is *greatly* confused. In my case, these are the

Bug#762242: stunnel4: typo: logrotate says 356 days, should probably be 365 days

2014-09-19 Thread Santiago Vila
Package: stunnel4 Version: 3:5.03-1 Severity: minor Tags: patch The intent is clearly to keep a whole year of logs, but that would be 365 days, not 356. --- a/debian/stunnel4.logrotate +++ b/debian/stunnel4.logrotate @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ /var/log/stunnel4/*.log { daily missingok -

Bug#762391: dpkg-dev: Unable to sign, weird message from pinentry-curses

2014-09-21 Thread Santiago Vila
Package: dpkg-dev Version: 1.17.13 Severity: serious When trying to build a trivial package on another machine via ssh, I get this: You need a passphrase to unlock the secret [...] [...] [...] pinentry-curses: no LC_CTYPE known - assuming UTF-8

Bug#762391: dpkg-dev: Unable to sign, weird message from pinentry-curses

2014-09-21 Thread Santiago Vila
Note: The same problem happens in a virtual console. In this case it is not even required to ssh to another host. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#762432: m17n-contrib: Please put it in oldlibs/extra

2014-09-22 Thread Santiago Vila
Package: m17n-contrib Version: 1.6.5-1 Please put this package in section oldlibs, so that deborphan shows it as a package which may be removed. Also, please put it in priority extra, as it is a package that one would normally not want to install on a newly installed system (only on upgrades).

Bug#762435: emacs24: Warning message from GLib-GObject

2014-09-22 Thread Santiago Vila
Package: emacs24 Version: 24.3+1-5+b1 Hello Rob. I got this today under unstable: (emacs:29258): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: The property GtkMisc:xalign is deprecated and shouldn't be used anymore. It will be removed in a future version. which apparently means emacs is using some obsolete

Bug#762467: dpkg: when using --no-act, messages should be shown on stdout, not stderr

2014-09-22 Thread Santiago Vila
Package: dpkg Version: 1.17.13 I fear that this has been the behaviour of dpkg for a long time, but nevertheless, I think it is a bug and should be fixed. When I use dpkg --no-act, dpkg shows messages on stderr, and I can't just do this: dpkg --no-act --purge somepackage | less If I tell a

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