nscd [amd64] now depends on libc6-i386?

2007-12-27 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
[Please cc me, I'm not subscribed to the list. Hopefully Mutt will set M-F-T correctly.] I notice that the etch4 version of nscd just released in 4.0r2 suddenly depends on libc6-i386. This is on amd64. I couldn't find anything about this using the lists.debian.org search engine, reading the chang

Unidentified subject!

2007-12-27 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
[Please cc me, I'm not subscribed to the list. Hopefully Mutt will set M-F-T correctly.] I notice that the etch4 version of nscd just released in 4.0r2 suddenly depends on libc6-i386. This is on amd64. I couldn't find anything about this using the lists.debian.org search engine, reading the chang

Re: nscd [amd64] now depends on libc6-i386?

2007-12-28 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On Fri, Dec 28, 2007 at 02:28:26PM +0100, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > this is a known issue of dh_shlibdeps that looks for nscd depends in > libc6-i386 because it comes first whereas it's not even from the same > $arch, and yields this useless depends. Though it's harmless, so just > live with it :)

Bug#326492: Please conflict with libterm-readline-gnu-perl << 1.15-2

2005-09-03 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
Package: libc6 Version: 2.3.5-6 Severity: serious -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I just did a glibc upgrade, and then many, many packages failed to configure, leaving the system quite broken. It turns out this is a bug in libterm-readline-gnu-perl which is exposed in the new glibc

Bug#165374: Breaks when upgrading to 2.3.1

2002-10-18 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On Fri, 2002-10-18 at 12:35, Jeff Bailey wrote: > Do you think making libc6-dbg pre-depend instead of depend'ing on > libc6 (= 2.3.1-1) would work? Should --- though, according to policy, libc6 will only be unpacked. But since it is Essential: yes, it should work that way. What a fun bug. Hope y

Bug#165258: libc6: Should restart services when upgrading from versions prior to 2.3

2002-10-19 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On Thu, 2002-10-17 at 22:38, Aaron M. Ucko wrote: > Incidentally, you should also broaden the list of relevant services; I > would suggest adding kdm (and other display managers?), ssh-krb5, and > apache2 at the least. Don't add display managers. At least with gdm I'm pretty sure that will kill X

Bug#165358: libc6 breaks static linked glftpd

2002-10-19 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On Sat, 2002-10-19 at 12:05, Justus Schwartz wrote: > glpftd (as binary installed from www.glftpd.org) doesn't work anymore too. it's a > static linked binary, so i am really surprised. (its definitely the libc6 > because it immediatly starts working again, if i downgrade to 2.2.5) ldd /path/to/g

Bug#164768: libc: IPv6 still not correct.

2002-10-17 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On Thursday, October 17, 2002, at 10:35 AM, Ben Collins wrote: No, sshd should be checking the validity of the data that is returned to it. If a program makes a correct library call to glibc, and glibc returns a result code that indicates success, and yet returns data the contradicts the rel

Bug#164768: libc: IPv6 still not correct.

2002-10-17 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On Thursday, October 17, 2002, at 12:04 PM, Ben Collins wrote: Glibc expects the correct data from the kernel. So by your logic, the kernel has the bug, ultimately. Fine by me. If the kernel is breaking its interface with glibc, then that's a kernel bug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL P

Bug#165921: libc6: Please use debconf to warn of likely breakage on major upgrade

2002-11-07 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
> Such a debconf warning may also be a convenient place to warn of > breakage to commercial packages (eg. Sun JDK <= 1.4.0) and request > that bugs are filed where they belong, not with libc6. Please don't. Warnings like that are very annoying --- consider how when you install woody one of the fe

Bug#169098: glibc: odditity in resolv.conf search path

2002-11-20 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
reassign 169098 bind9-host thanks [root@foo /etc]# grep search resolv.conf search ytti.fi sn.net [root@foo /etc]# host irc irc.ytti.fi does not exist (Authoritative answer) This is just host, which does it own resolver stuff. I thought it was documented somewhere, but I didn't see it in a quic

Bug#170635: libc6 2.3.1-3 to 2.3.1-5 upgrade breaks

2002-12-01 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On Sun, 2002-12-01 at 21:19, Magnus Danielson wrote: > rm /lib/ld-2.3.1.so > > I got the "Device or resource busy" message as a reply. It's because the file > is in use by many tools: That shouldn't happen. "File in use" != "name in use". rm removes names, not files. And you using something wei

Bug#170635: libc6 2.3.1-3 to 2.3.1-5 upgrade breaks

2002-12-02 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On Monday, December 2, 2002, at 09:27 AM, Rene Engelhard wrote: I got the same message too on a previous upgrade (IIRC on 2.2.5-x). / was ext3. After resetting / to ext2 it worked. I did not know whz then, and I do not know if that is a bug in glibc, dpkg or kernel. If unlink on the file fails

Bug#174140: libc6 2.3.1-6 is badly broken!

2002-12-24 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On Mon, 2002-12-23 at 18:24, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Target machine is a Pentium-III 450, 256MB, which had been > running Debian unstable for at least 6 months with no > problems. The problem occured with both kernel 2.4.17 (first > time) Are you sure about that? -7 was supposed to fix this p

Bug#136836: marked as done (libc6: pow(nan, 0) returns 0?)

2003-01-02 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
> I don't have IEEE754 and ANSI floating point issue, so I don't know > whether ANSI defines this behavior or not. If you have IEEE754 or any > related standards, and if such standards say pow(NaN, 0) have to > return NaN, reopen this bug. C99 draft standard (last freely available version, see ht

Bug#174027: resolving hosts with -8 still broken

2003-01-04 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On Fri, 2003-01-03 at 17:24, Nick Matthews wrote: > So, after my christmas vacation I update my sid host, and find that i can't resolve >anything. Not only that, but I don't have any earlier versions in my cache to >downgrade to... > > If there is a location where the last couple releases sit, I

Bug#97177: no plans to include getipnodebyname function

2003-01-13 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
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Bug#97177: no plans to include getipnodebyname function

2003-01-13 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On Fri, 2003-01-10 at 18:48, Philip Blundell wrote: > glibc takes the view that getaddrinfo() is the preferred interface for > name lookups. getipnodebyname and its friends are obsolete and should > not be used; it is unlikely glibc will ever include support for those > functions. man getipnodeb

Bug#97177: no plans to include getipnodebyname function

2003-01-14 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
clone 97177 -1 reassign -1 manpages-dev tags -1 -wontfix retitle -1 glibc doesn't and won't include getipnodebyname thanks > The man page isn't part of glibc. File a bug against manpages-dev if > you feel it's inadequate. Done. Or at least, I hope it is, if I gave the BTS the correct commands.

Bug#176910: libc6-dev: "kill" prototype not included from signal.h in -ansi mode

2003-01-17 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On Thursday, January 16, 2003, at 09:06 AM, GOTO Masanori wrote: Of cource, ISO C does not have kill(2), it's BSD/POSIX/XPG feature. Of course, it doesn't have a or a either. So the pure ISO C behavior would be to #error if those files (or any others not part of ISO C) were included. I'm

Bug#182251: libc6-dev: syntax error message in libintl.h

2003-02-23 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
reassign 182251 ghemical severity 182251 serious retitle 182251 ghemical: FTBS: syntax error before `__const' thanks > > Please reassign this bug to whereever you might think it really belongs. Most likely, those errors are being caused by a problem in ghemical. C[++] compilers are notorious for

Bug#184036: libc6: xscreensaver can no longer authenticate me

2003-03-08 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
Package: libc6 Version: 2.3.1-14 Severity: grave Justification: causes non-serious data loss -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Got locket out of my X display, no way back in (killing xscreensaver resulted in X-death, maybe because it was locked) So, all xscreensavers seem to need a r

Bug#184036: libc6: xscreensaver can no longer authenticate me

2003-03-09 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On Sun, 2003-03-09 at 01:55, GOTO Masanori wrote: > The point is that "no longer authenticate me" is really caused by > glibc. Which versions do you upgrade from? The one that was in testing until last night (2.2.5-14.3). > I guess you also upgrade > many packages at the same time including X

Bug#184036: libc6: xscreensaver can no longer authenticate me

2003-03-10 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On Sunday, March 9, 2003, at 07:09 PM, GOTO Masanori wrote: You upgraded a lot of packages, though. Agreed, it is quite a few packages. Everything that does authentication needs to be restarted after the glibc upgrade, correct? I think "yes". So we're warning with libc6 upgrade in postinst. Mor

Bug#184036: libc6: xscreensaver can no longer authenticate me

2003-03-10 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On Monday, March 10, 2003, at 10:23 AM, GOTO Masanori wrote: Hi, At Mon, 10 Mar 2003 08:17:08 -0500, Anthony DeRobertis wrote: On Sunday, March 9, 2003, at 07:09 PM, GOTO Masanori wrote: You upgraded a lot of packages, though. Agreed, it is quite a few packages. Everything that does

Bug#184257: libc6: Restart cups, too

2003-03-10 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
Package: libc6 Version: 2.3.1-14 Severity: important -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Can't log into cups anymore. A restart fixes it, of course. - -- System Information Debian Release: testing/unstable Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux bohr 2.4.16 #2 SMP Wed Nov 28 05:25:00 EST 2001

Bug#184257: libc6: Restart cups, too

2003-03-10 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On Mon, 2003-03-10 at 23:37, GOTO Masanori wrote: > At Mon, 10 Mar 2003 22:42:25 -0500, > Anthony DeRobertis wrote: > > Can't log into cups anymore. A restart fixes it, of course. > > cupsys ? Yes. Sorry about the confusion. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#184495: libc6.postinst needs to restart postgres

2003-03-12 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On Wednesday, March 12, 2003, at 07:53 PM, GOTO Masanori wrote: Is it ok to restart "/etc/init.d/postgresql" in postgresql package? That will terminate all connections. Some (many?) programs (e.g., msyslog, which could even be running on another machine) won't automatically re-establish the conne

Bug#186281: libc6 and libdb1-compat mutual dependency

2003-03-27 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On Wed, 2003-03-26 at 14:50, A.R. (Tom) Peters wrote: > Why not remove the dependency on libdb1-compat from libc6 instead? It's there to make sure upgrades from woody to sarge work. After sarge is released, it will be removed. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "u

Bug#183477: libc6 conflicts with php4 < 4:4.2.3-5

2003-03-28 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On Fri, 2003-03-28 at 10:42, Michel Meyers wrote: > > Is there any workaround for this? (an apt source for a different libc6 or > php4 package would be nice, better of course would be to actually get rid of > this conflict) Its fixed in the newer version of glibc in unstable. A workaround if you

Bug#181493: SUN RPC code is DFSG-free

2003-08-27 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
> As far as L/GPL incompatibility is concerned, you'll note that Sun, > the copyright holders, specifically offer Linux systems that include > glibc with GPLed applications, and an LGPLed libc, to their customers. > See http://wwws.sun.com/software/linux/index.html . You should also note that SCO

Bug#181493: SUN RPC code is DFSG-free

2003-08-29 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On Wednesday, Aug 27, 2003, at 12:35 US/Eastern, Steve Langasek wrote: Are you saying that the Sun code should be regarded as infringing solely because SCO is a company controlled by litigious, opportunistic bastards who have no qualms about filing suits with no legal basis for no other reason th

Bug#165921: libc6: Please use debconf to warn of likely breakage on major upgrade

2002-11-08 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
> Such a debconf warning may also be a convenient place to warn of > breakage to commercial packages (eg. Sun JDK <= 1.4.0) and request > that bugs are filed where they belong, not with libc6. Please don't. Warnings like that are very annoying --- consider how when you install woody one of the fe

Bug#169098: glibc: odditity in resolv.conf search path

2002-11-20 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
reassign 169098 bind9-host thanks [EMAIL PROTECTED] /etc]# grep search resolv.conf search ytti.fi sn.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] /etc]# host irc irc.ytti.fi does not exist (Authoritative answer) This is just host, which does it own resolver stuff. I thought it was documented somewhere, but I didn't see

Bug#170635: libc6 2.3.1-3 to 2.3.1-5 upgrade breaks

2002-12-02 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On Sun, 2002-12-01 at 21:19, Magnus Danielson wrote: > rm /lib/ld-2.3.1.so > > I got the "Device or resource busy" message as a reply. It's because the file > is in use by many tools: That shouldn't happen. "File in use" != "name in use". rm removes names, not files. And you using something wei

Bug#170635: libc6 2.3.1-3 to 2.3.1-5 upgrade breaks

2002-12-02 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On Monday, December 2, 2002, at 09:27 AM, Rene Engelhard wrote: I got the same message too on a previous upgrade (IIRC on 2.2.5-x). / was ext3. After resetting / to ext2 it worked. I did not know whz then, and I do not know if that is a bug in glibc, dpkg or kernel. If unlink on the file fails, I'd

Bug#174140: libc6 2.3.1-6 is badly broken!

2002-12-24 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On Mon, 2002-12-23 at 18:24, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Target machine is a Pentium-III 450, 256MB, which had been > running Debian unstable for at least 6 months with no > problems. The problem occured with both kernel 2.4.17 (first > time) Are you sure about that? -7 was supposed to fix this p

Bug#136836: marked as done (libc6: pow(nan, 0) returns 0?)

2003-01-03 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
> I don't have IEEE754 and ANSI floating point issue, so I don't know > whether ANSI defines this behavior or not. If you have IEEE754 or any > related standards, and if such standards say pow(NaN, 0) have to > return NaN, reopen this bug. C99 draft standard (last freely available version, see ht

Bug#174027: resolving hosts with -8 still broken

2003-01-04 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On Fri, 2003-01-03 at 17:24, Nick Matthews wrote: > So, after my christmas vacation I update my sid host, and find that i can't > resolve anything. Not only that, but I don't have any earlier versions in my > cache to downgrade to... > > If there is a location where the last couple releases sit,

Bug#184036: libc6: xscreensaver can no longer authenticate me

2003-03-09 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On Sun, 2003-03-09 at 01:55, GOTO Masanori wrote: > The point is that "no longer authenticate me" is really caused by > glibc. Which versions do you upgrade from? The one that was in testing until last night (2.2.5-14.3). > I guess you also upgrade > many packages at the same time including X

Bug#184036: libc6: xscreensaver can no longer authenticate me

2003-03-10 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On Sunday, March 9, 2003, at 07:09 PM, GOTO Masanori wrote: You upgraded a lot of packages, though. Agreed, it is quite a few packages. Everything that does authentication needs to be restarted after the glibc upgrade, correct? I think "yes". So we're warning with libc6 upgrade in postinst. Moreo

Bug#184036: libc6: xscreensaver can no longer authenticate me

2003-03-10 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On Monday, March 10, 2003, at 10:23 AM, GOTO Masanori wrote: Hi, At Mon, 10 Mar 2003 08:17:08 -0500, Anthony DeRobertis wrote: On Sunday, March 9, 2003, at 07:09 PM, GOTO Masanori wrote: You upgraded a lot of packages, though. Agreed, it is quite a few packages. Everything that does

Bug#184257: libc6: Restart cups, too

2003-03-10 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
Package: libc6 Version: 2.3.1-14 Severity: important -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Can't log into cups anymore. A restart fixes it, of course. - -- System Information Debian Release: testing/unstable Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux bohr 2.4.16 #2 SMP Wed Nov 28 05:25:00 EST 2001

Bug#184257: libc6: Restart cups, too

2003-03-10 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On Mon, 2003-03-10 at 23:37, GOTO Masanori wrote: > At Mon, 10 Mar 2003 22:42:25 -0500, > Anthony DeRobertis wrote: > > Can't log into cups anymore. A restart fixes it, of course. > > cupsys ? Yes. Sorry about the confusion. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#184495: libc6.postinst needs to restart postgres

2003-03-12 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On Wednesday, March 12, 2003, at 07:53 PM, GOTO Masanori wrote: Is it ok to restart "/etc/init.d/postgresql" in postgresql package? That will terminate all connections. Some (many?) programs (e.g., msyslog, which could even be running on another machine) won't automatically re-establish the conne

Bug#186281: libc6 and libdb1-compat mutual dependency

2003-03-27 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On Wed, 2003-03-26 at 14:50, A.R. (Tom) Peters wrote: > Why not remove the dependency on libdb1-compat from libc6 instead? It's there to make sure upgrades from woody to sarge work. After sarge is released, it will be removed.

Bug#183477: libc6 conflicts with php4 < 4:4.2.3-5

2003-03-28 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On Fri, 2003-03-28 at 10:42, Michel Meyers wrote: > > Is there any workaround for this? (an apt source for a different libc6 or > php4 package would be nice, better of course would be to actually get rid of > this conflict) Its fixed in the newer version of glibc in unstable. A workaround if you

Bug#193278: libc6: When restarting, if one fails, rest isn't done

2003-05-14 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On Wed, 2003-05-14 at 12:27, GOTO Masanori wrote: > That's right. However, is "restart" option really guaranteed to exist > in all scripts? As much as start and stop are, only reload is optional. See policy section 10.3.2: "The start, stop, restart, and force-reload options should be s

Bug#6798: Old bug

2003-11-16 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 23:56, Tom Zych wrote: > Hi, > > This bug is coming up on its seventh birthday and there's been no > activity for over a year. Should it be closed? Not if it still exists.

Bug#164768: libc: IPv6 still not correct.

2002-10-17 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On Thursday, October 17, 2002, at 10:35 AM, Ben Collins wrote: No, sshd should be checking the validity of the data that is returned to it. If a program makes a correct library call to glibc, and glibc returns a result code that indicates success, and yet returns data the contradicts the relevan

Bug#164768: libc: IPv6 still not correct.

2002-10-17 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On Thursday, October 17, 2002, at 12:04 PM, Ben Collins wrote: Glibc expects the correct data from the kernel. So by your logic, the kernel has the bug, ultimately. Fine by me. If the kernel is breaking its interface with glibc, then that's a kernel bug.

Bug#165258: libc6: Should restart services when upgrading from versions prior to 2.3

2002-10-18 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On Thu, 2002-10-17 at 22:38, Aaron M. Ucko wrote: > Incidentally, you should also broaden the list of relevant services; I > would suggest adding kdm (and other display managers?), ssh-krb5, and > apache2 at the least. Don't add display managers. At least with gdm I'm pretty sure that will kill X

Bug#165374: Breaks when upgrading to 2.3.1

2002-10-18 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On Fri, 2002-10-18 at 12:35, Jeff Bailey wrote: > Do you think making libc6-dbg pre-depend instead of depend'ing on > libc6 (= 2.3.1-1) would work? Should --- though, according to policy, libc6 will only be unpacked. But since it is Essential: yes, it should work that way. What a fun bug. Hope y

Bug#165358: libc6 breaks static linked glftpd

2002-10-19 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On Sat, 2002-10-19 at 12:05, Justus Schwartz wrote: > glpftd (as binary installed from www.glftpd.org) doesn't work anymore too. > it's a > static linked binary, so i am really surprised. (its definitely the libc6 > because it immediatly starts working again, if i downgrade to 2.2.5) ldd /path/t

Bug#6798: Old bug

2003-11-15 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 23:56, Tom Zych wrote: > Hi, > > This bug is coming up on its seventh birthday and there's been no > activity for over a year. Should it be closed? Not if it still exists. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EM