Bug#836678: regina-normal: FTBFS: error: narrowing conversion of '-1' from 'int' to 'char' inside { } [-Wnarrowing]

2016-09-04 Thread Ben Burton
Thanks for the report. > /«PKGBUILDDIR»/engine/snappea/kernel/tables.c:229:67: error: narrowing > conversion of '-1' from 'int' to 'char' inside { } [-Wnarrowing] I believe this is fixed by declaring the elements of index_by_permutation[] as signed char, not just char. Caveat: I haven’t tried

Bug#797292: regina-normal: FTBFS: undefined reference to `srchilite::Utils::toupper...

2015-08-30 Thread Ben Burton
Thanks for the report; I can reproduce the error here also. I haven’t started digging yet for a resolution, but others may be ahead of me - see bug #797234 for the source-highlight package (on which regina-normal depends, and where the linking looks to be failing). - Ben.

Bug#778104: gcc-5 / regina-normal

2015-06-26 Thread Ben Burton
I’ve just tried to reproduce this, and I can’t - regina-normal seems to be building fine under current sid/amd64 with gcc-5 and g++-5 installed and the relevant CC / CXX environment variables set. The build log confirms that gcc-5 and g++-5 are indeed being called during the build. I’d be

Bug#556318: regina-normal: update coming RSN

2011-08-24 Thread Ben Burton
A note for these bug reports: much of the development on regina-normal has been queued up behind the fact that the current version (circa 2009) includes a KDE3-based GUI, and much of the new development has been queued behind the (fairly hefty) port of the GUI (KDE3 - KDE4) and the underlying

Bug#545621: regina-normal: FTBFS: problem linking with boost

2009-12-06 Thread Ben Burton
Hi, No reply in months, uploading an NMU which fixes this FTBFS. Please find the patch attached. Thanks for this (and apologies for the silence). Ben. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Bug#476029: regina-normal: FTBFS: /bin/sh: -O2: command not found

2008-04-15 Thread Ben Burton
severity 476029 important tags 476029 +pending thanks Hi, During a rebuild of all packages in sid, your package failed to build on i386. AFAICT the problem is because your build environment already has pre-set CFLAGS and CXXFLAGS (both set to -g); it should not happen in a clean build

Bug#473973: [pkg-boost-devel] Bug#473973: libboost-python-dev: rdeps fails to built - python packaging seems weird

2008-04-02 Thread Ben Burton
Hi Sune, kdeedu build doesn't fail by itself if it isn't found as it is only optional, but we test afterwards if it is actually build. As an aside, what I've done with regina-normal (which also uses boost.python) is make debian/rules check the config.log immediately after configure finishes,

Bug#371062: Bug#371060: libgcj7-dev

2006-06-08 Thread Ben Burton
No, its enough to rebuild the package with the new gcc package pointing to gcc-4.1 installed. Sure, but relying on (build-essential + libgcj-dev) assumes that the gcc and gcj versions will always be the same. Past experience has suggested this is not the case, which is why I've leaned towards

Bug#371060: Bug#371062: Bug#371060: libgcj7-dev

2006-06-08 Thread Ben Burton
IMO its now the best time to get rid of this package totally. FWIW, I'd forgotten that java-gcj-compat-dev even existed until your mailout to d-d-announce last month (GCJ 4.1 transition). In this mailout you ask maintainers of JNI packages to use -I/usr/lib/jvm/java-gcj/include, which relies

Bug#371060: libgcj7-dev

2006-06-07 Thread Ben Burton
Hi, Probably a solution would be including libgcj7-dev. It does. It build-depends on libgcj-dev (= 4:4.1.0), which brings in libgcj7-dev. From the amd64 build log (which failed in this way): Unpacking libgcj7-dev (from .../libgcj7-dev_4.1.1-2_amd64.deb) ... I suspect my problem is

Bug#355483: drgeo-doc: depends on dillo (extra)

2006-03-05 Thread Ben Burton
Package: drgeo-doc Version: 1.5-2.1 Severity: serious Hi. It seems that drgeo-doc (optional) depends on the web browser dillo (extra). This means that a higher-priority package depends on a lower-priority package, which is not allowed by policy (section 2.5). However, I don't see why dillo is

Bug#353814: Forwarded meinproc bug

2006-02-21 Thread Ben Burton
forwarded 353814 http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=122465 thanks mate Hi, I've filed this one upstream as well (#122465). FYI. Ben. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#353814: kdelibs-bin: meinproc is relicensing my code

2006-02-20 Thread Ben Burton
Package: kdelibs-bin Version: 4:3.5.1-2 Severity: serious Hi, I have a KDE application whose documentation is licensed under the GPL. In particular, its index.docbook contains the line: legalnoticeunderGPL;/legalnotice When I build the application and meinproc is run over the docbook

Bug#353814: kdelibs-bin: meinproc is relicensing my code

2006-02-20 Thread Ben Burton
Hi again, Just to confirm: As for the cause: I'm not too familiar with meinproc internals, but I suspect the culprit is /usr/share/apps/ksgmltools2/customization/kde-chunk.xsl. Around lines 90--100 it does look rather like the fdl-notice is being dropped into the documentation regardless

Bug#349730: jikes-gij: Uninstallable; please depend on libgcj6-jar

2006-01-24 Thread Ben Burton
Package: jikes-gij Version: 1:1.22-3 Severity: serious Hi, Currently jikes-gij is uninstallable in sid, since none of the libgcj*-common dependencies can be satisfied. It seems the jar is now provided by libgcj6-jar, not libgcj6-common. I therefore suspect that you'll be fine if you add a

Bug#337412: Intention to NMU

2006-01-03 Thread Ben Burton
Hi Luk, There's a couple of other patches queued that I might take another look at -- the larger python-pgsql update has been stalled to date because of a bug in python2.4. At any rate, since this is a serious issue I'll do an upload this week. If you haven't heard from me by the weekend,

Bug#342631: kile-i18n: uninstallable due to non-binNMU-safe dependency on kile

2005-12-08 Thread Ben Burton
A no source-changes upload should be enough to fix this bug, thanks in advance. I can also provide a NMU if needed. Please do -- I'm out of action here until Dec 15. Ben. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#337412: python2.1-pgsql: Uninstallable due to unavailable python2.1-egenix-mxdatetime

2005-11-04 Thread Ben Burton
python2.1-egenix-mxdatetime is not available in sid. Maybe python2.1-pgsql should be dropped in favor of python2.4-pgsql? There are problems with bringing in python2.4-pgsql, see #334022. However, I'll do an upload this weekend that removes 2.1 and 2.2 (this has been waiting in the wings for

Bug#333497: CAN-2005-2971: Heap overflow in kword's RTF import

2005-10-12 Thread Ben Burton
Ah, yes, I forgot to mention this when I mailed the security team earlier. Note that according to the Ubuntu advisory, this bug might also be present in the koffice-libs package. The issue for debian lies specifically within the kword binary package. Unless I'm mistaken, debian's koffice-libs

Bug#317208: Intention to NMU

2005-10-03 Thread Ben Burton
Hi, Attached the patch for the version I intend to upload. Regarding koffice: I'd be happy if you could give me another 48 hours or so to finish the koffice 1.4.2 packaging (which I agree has been terribly delayed thus far). If you don't see anything uploaded by then however, please do go

Bug#330934: Intention to NMU

2005-10-02 Thread Ben Burton
Hi, Attached the patch for the version I intend to upload. Please respond if you don't want this NMU to happen, if you are working yourself on a patch or if you think that the attached patch won't work. Looks fine to me, please do go ahead with the NMU. Ben. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#327332: several kde-i18n packages share files with old kturtle

2005-09-09 Thread Ben Burton
Package: kde-i18n Severity: serious Hi, Several kde-i18n packages contain files that used to be shipped with the old kturtle ( 4:3.4.2). There is no versioned replaces however, which means the upgrade can break (as happened with me today). The old kturtle package provided the following files,

Bug#327334: libqscintilla6: should conflict with libqscintilla5

2005-09-09 Thread Ben Burton
Package: libqscintilla6 Version: 1.6-1 Severity: serious Hi, Both libqscintilla5 and libqscintilla6 ship the file: /usr/lib/qt3/plugins/designer/libqscintillaplugin.so However, libqscintilla6 contains no conflict with libqscintilla5. As a result, the system will happily try to install them

Bug#326610: kde-i18n-de: kde-i18n / khangman problem affect several languages

2005-09-09 Thread Ben Burton
Package: kde-i18n-de Version: 4:3.4.2-3 Followup-For: Bug #326610 Hi, Bug #326610 was filed because kde-i18n-de needs to replace khangman ( 4:3.4.2). In fact this affects several languages, not just kde-i18n-de. The old khangman provided all of the following files:

Bug#326458: kbear: Broken dependency with KDE 3.4

2005-09-03 Thread Ben Burton
Hi, KBear is in the process of being adopted by someone else, but I haven't yet heard if they plan on taking it through the g++-4 transition. If I don't hear back in the next day or so, I'll transition it myeslf (at which point it will become installable again). b. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Bug#317201: Status update

2005-09-03 Thread Ben Burton
Hi, Just a note: Although most of kdeaddons' build-deps are ready now, we're still waiting on libdb4.2++ to be transitioned. b. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#322200: noatun-plugins: depends on package slang1, but package is not available

2005-08-09 Thread Ben Burton
Hi, The package depends on slang1 which is not available in unstable. This renders the package unusable/uninstallable in unstable. Can't do anything about this until the KDE/gcc4 transition goes through, I'm afraid. b. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Bug#322012: koffice-i18n: Dummy packages (2) built from these sources still needed?

2005-08-08 Thread Ben Burton
severity 322012 wishlist thanks mate This source package includes koffice-i18n-zhcngb2312 and koffice-i18n-zhtwbig5. These otwo packages are dummy packages that were present in sarge, etch and sid but were not present in woody. Why is this RC? Ben. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Bug#319154: kile: ftbfs [sparc] error: ISO C++ forbids declaration of 'KXMLGUIClient' with no type

2005-07-20 Thread Ben Burton
reassign 319154 kdelibs4-dev thanks mate (Reassigning to kdelibs which provides the offending headers.) Hi Blars, Things will almost certainly be broken at the moment for KDE packages while the gcc4 transition is taking place. All gcc4-related errors will be dealt with by the maintainers

Bug#317208: libjack0.80.0-0 removed from unstable; rebuild required

2005-07-06 Thread Ben Burton
Hi, As I understand it, nothing can be done about this until the gcc4 transition, since C++ uploads are currently restricted according to the transition policy. Ben. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#317201: libjack0.80.0-0 removed from unstable; rebuild required

2005-07-06 Thread Ben Burton
Hi, As I understand it, nothing can be done about this until the gcc4 transition, since C++ uploads are currently restricted according to the transition policy. Ben. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#317202: libjack0.80.0-0 removed from unstable; rebuild required

2005-07-06 Thread Ben Burton
Hi, As I understand it, nothing can be done about this until the gcc4 transition, since C++ uploads are currently restricted according to the transition policy. Ben. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#317202: libjack0.80.0-0 removed from unstable; rebuild required

2005-07-06 Thread Ben Burton
Hi, The gcc4 transition has already started. Yes, that was what I meant by my messages -- I was noting in the BTS why I can't fix any of these RC bugs at the moment. but now you know that there are two good reasons to upload kdeartwork ASAP. :) Yes, I am aware that there are two

Bug#312847: More on unix socket problem

2005-06-14 Thread Ben Burton
Hi, Just a note for the BTS: the libpq4 rebuild does not fix this problem for me. Moreover, #313507 and #313602 suggest that I am not alone. It appears that the postgresql maintainer will be fixing this problem in libpq4 shortly, so watch this space. b. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Bug#312847: python-pgsql upload pending

2005-06-14 Thread Ben Burton
tags 312847 + pending tags 311328 + pending thanks mate Hi. Just a note that fixes for these bugs are ready to go, and will be uploaded once libpq4 has fixed its unix socket locations (#313602). b. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Bug#312847: python-pgsql: Can't connect to UNIX socket with postgresql-7.4

2005-06-11 Thread Ben Burton
Hi, Thanks for the report, and thanks Roger for verifying that the libpq4 rebuild fixes it. I haven't uploaded these, but I can NMU if needed. Please don't -- the postgresql 8.0 / libpq4 transition has only just happened and the bug report is but a day old, and there are other things I'd like

Bug#305835: acknowledged by developer (Closing experimental kdesdk-misc bug)

2005-05-17 Thread Ben Burton
can you give me a hint, when this bug could be fixed? You'll have to ask the kdevelop3 maintainer. At this stage I've done all I can do until he uploads a new kdevelop3 without the conflicting files. Not beeing able to install kdevelop is very frustrating, when you need it to work ;) One

Bug#305835: kdevelop/kdesdk conflicts

2005-05-14 Thread Ben Burton
Hi, Currently there is a conflict with the subversion kioslave appearing in both kdevelop3-plugins in sid and kdesdk-misc 3.4.x. My understanding is that kdevelop has actually copied the svn kioslave from KDE 3.4 into its own source tree so that the svn kioslave is available from kdevelop + kde

Bug#296514: kdesdk/cervisia

2005-03-30 Thread Ben Burton
CVS commit by cloose: Changed license from QPL to GPL v2 or later. Once again, my many thanks to all those involved. Ben. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#301785: quanta: Quanta (from alioth) craches after few minutes (even when it's idle)

2005-03-28 Thread Ben Burton
tags 301785 + experimental thanks mate Hi.. just a note that this bug relates to the experimental and unofficial KDE 3.4 packages on alioth, and not to any of the packages in woody, sid or sarge. Ben. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Bug#301826: kturtle: Kturtle crashes right after opening the program.

2005-03-28 Thread Ben Burton
Hi, Can you please run kturtle from a console and let me know what error messages (if any) are written to the console? Also, does kturtle offer a window with a backtrace when it crashes? If so, could you please send a copy of that backtrace? (I can't reproduce this crash on my machine.) Ben.

Bug#296514: Cervisia licensing: moving forward?

2005-03-28 Thread Ben Burton
What about backporting for KDE 3.4, the current KDE version? If it's possible to do this for KDE_3_3_BRANCH also then I'd be most appreciative, since KDE 3.3 is currently the most likely candidate for the coming debian release. Ben. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Bug#301826: kturtle: Kturtle crashes right after opening the program.

2005-03-28 Thread Ben Burton
Hi, Can you please try moving your ~/.kde/share/config/kturtlerc out of the way, and let me know if it still crashes? If it fixes the crash: - Can you check whether the file had user write permissions? - Can you send me a copy? Thanks - Ben. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#296514: Cervisia licensing: moving forward?

2005-03-26 Thread Ben Burton
Hi again, At this stage it seems that everyone is happy to go with a dual QPL/GPL license for cervisia. My question now is how to go forward with the change. Thiago has written with the following instructions: If you people are ok with a dual license, then please place notices in all your

Bug#296514: Cervisia licensing: moving forward?

2005-03-26 Thread Ben Burton
I prefer a single GPL license and AFAIK Christian too. I think this shouldn't be a problem, right? I don't see why not; from Bernd's reply (courtsey of Andras), he seems happy with this also. Ben. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Bug#289646: kbabel patched

2005-03-24 Thread Ben Burton
severity 289646 important thanks mate Hi. I've uploaded a new kdesdk with the s/check/checkWord/ patch, so I'm lowering the severity of this bug. I'm leaving it open however, since kbabel was in fact using the kdelibs API as documented -- in theory kbabel was doing nothing wrong, so the problem

Bug#296514: [quanta-devel] Cervisia again, plus greater problems

2005-03-18 Thread Ben Burton
Hi, Many thanks for looking after this. Now to the real topic: if the licensing of the Cervisia part is a problem for applications embedding or using it, it is fine for me to change the license to GPL. FWIW, the other authors have said they are happy with a dual license (choice of QPL or

Bug#296514: Cervisia again, plus greater problems

2005-03-16 Thread Ben Burton
Hi, It's me writing about Cervisia licensing again. We still haven't heard back from Bernd Gehrmann at this stage, which means there's not really much that we can do. AFAICT he hasn't been around for a few years now; does anyone know of a way that we might be able to contact him? I've already

Bug#296433: Umbrello 1.4.0-beta2

2005-03-02 Thread Ben Burton
Hi, Thanks very much for looking at this bug. I've just tested latest umbrello version (which will be released with kde 3.4) and this works perfectly. You mentioned in an earlier mail that you couldn't reproduce the data loss with the current umbrello in sid. What then are you referring to

Bug#296433: Umbrello 1.4.0-beta2

2005-03-02 Thread Ben Burton
Well, as I said I couldn't reproduce the mentioned bug, but I got constant annoying crashes while trying to do it, and the fact that I don't managed to reproduce it doesn't mean it doesn't exist. Everything works ok in 1.4.0-beta2, I've run diff through both versions (the one in kde

Bug#296514: Cervisia license issues

2005-02-26 Thread Ben Burton
Hi, Thanks to everyone for their helpful responses. BTW, about which KDE version do we talk? Is it enough if we change the license in CVS HEAD aka KDE 4 (maybe 3.5)? If a license change is likely, I would be most appreciative if the change could be made in KDE_3_3_BRANCH also (since it

Bug#296514: Cervisia license issues

2005-02-24 Thread Ben Burton
Hi. Currently cervisia is licensed under the QPL. As the maintainer of kdesdk in debian, I am unfortunately faced with having to remove cervisia from the debian distribution since the QPL does not meet with debian's free software guidelies. Of course this is debian's decision, but nevertheless

Bug#292806: pmk: Fails to configure on fresh install

2005-01-29 Thread Ben Burton
Package: pmk Severity: serious Version: 0.9.0-1 Hi. On a fresh install of pmk (no previous version was installed), the postinst fails at configure time (see below). What appears to be happening is that the postinst is called as postinst configure (no version argument), causing the command dpkg