Bug#816063: emacs24: TLS certificate validation is silently broken

2016-02-26 Thread Nathaniel Smith
Package: emacs24 Version: 24.5+1-6+b1 Severity: serious Tags: security Justification: 5(b) of https://release.debian.org/testing/rc_policy.txt Debian's emacs builds are linked against gnutls: (gnutls-available-p) t By default, they aren't configured to validate TLS certificates, leaving users

Bug#769191: xorg: apt-get dist-upgrade somehow reconfigured my system to use the nvidia driver, even though I have no nvidia hardware

2014-11-22 Thread Nathaniel Smith
McVittie s...@debian.org wrote: On Mon, 17 Nov 2014 at 21:47:12 +, Nathaniel Smith wrote: Here's my apt history files. history.log.1 has the big upgrade that caused the problem; history.log has the mucking about I did to fix it. OK, thanks. At the top of history.log.1 you have: Upgrade

Bug#769072: Bug#769191: xorg: apt-get dist-upgrade somehow reconfigured my system to use the nvidia driver, even though I have no nvidia hardware

2014-11-17 Thread Nathaniel Smith
Here's my apt history files. history.log.1 has the big upgrade that caused the problem; history.log has the mucking about I did to fix it. Notice that the big upgrade got interrupted in the middle by libaudio2 failing to install (#768651), so there was some 'apt-get install -f' and 'dpkg

Bug#468130: python-gobject-dbg: There is no convenient way to *use* the debugging pygobject library

2008-02-26 Thread Nathaniel Smith
Package: python-gobject-dbg Version: 2.14.1-1 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable Most -dbg packages are set up so that when running under gdb, the debugging libraries are automatically used. Not so for pygobject. After flailing around for a while, the *only* way I could come

Bug#431123: aptitude: Initializing package states takes very much longer than before +b1

2007-07-05 Thread Nathaniel Smith
On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 07:42:08AM -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote: On Mon, Jul 02, 2007 at 10:00:53PM -0700, Nathaniel Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: On Sun, Jul 01, 2007 at 06:12:11PM -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote: Does installing the version in experimental fix the problem

Bug#431123: aptitude: Initializing package states takes very much longer than before +b1

2007-07-02 Thread Nathaniel Smith
On Sun, Jul 01, 2007 at 06:12:11PM -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote: Does installing the version in experimental fix the problem for you? Yes, the aptitude in experimental (0.4.4-5~2, which appears to be linked against apt 0.6.46.4-0.1, which is no longer in unstable?) works fine. -- Nathaniel --

Bug#423947: lftp: postrm script fails if 'ftp' package is not installed

2007-05-14 Thread Nathaniel Smith
Package: lftp Version: 3.5.9-1 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable ~$ sudo dpkg -i /var/cache/apt/archives/lftp_3.5.10-1_i386.deb (Reading database ... 109953 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace lftp 3.5.9-1 (using .../lftp_3.5.10-1_i386.deb) ...

Bug#384565: [Monotone-devel] Re: Bug#384565: monotone - FTBFS: Build killed with signal 15

2006-11-22 Thread Nathaniel Smith
On Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 09:54:42AM -0700, Shaun Jackman wrote: On 11/22/06, Roman Zippel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... 1. Is this more likely a bug in Boost or a bug in monotone? 2. Is it reasonable to workaround this bug by removing -DBOOST_SP_DISABLE_THREADS? 3. Is it worth going to the

Bug#384565: [Monotone-devel] Re: Bug#384565: monotone - FTBFS: Build killed with signal 15

2006-11-21 Thread Nathaniel Smith
On Tue, Nov 21, 2006 at 02:04:07PM -0700, Shaun Jackman wrote: It appears the BOOST_SP_DISABLE_THREADS is the source of monotone's cross-platform issues on Debian. Namely, that monotone fails to run (deadlock) on s390, hppa, sparc, mips, and mipsel, but runs fine on i386, amd64, ia64, alpha

Bug#319149: Bug 319149

2005-07-27 Thread Nathaniel Smith
This is indeed a Boost/gcc 4.0 incompatibility, but it only affects code that monotone does not actually use; monotone 0.21's configure checks for boost 1.32 and does some preprocessor kluging to work around the problem. So, monotone 0.21 should fix this. -- Nathaniel -- Civil rights were not