Bug#1043242: highlight: new upstream version

2023-08-09 Thread David Bremner
Unit 193 writes: > > Actually at the time of this writing, 4.7 is the current release. I had > gone ahead and jumped to the latest version a while ago, mainly to unify > my system on one Lua version, and I've attached the debdiff (debian/ only) > to this message. > Hi all; I've orphaned the

Bug#981219: schroot overwrites cpuset

2021-01-27 Thread David Bremner
Roger Leigh writes: > > The PAM auth and session handling is I think the most likely culprit, > and this is not under our direct control. Is there a particular PAM > module which can change these cpusets? If so, can you edit the > schroot PAM configuration and see if it can be disabled this

Bug#981219: schroot overwrites cpuset

2021-01-27 Thread David Bremner
Package: schroot Version: 1.6.10-11+b1 Severity: normal -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 As you can see with session below, schroot throws away the processor affinities present in the parent process. This breaks a common strategy (used e.g. by slurm) for sharing multi-processor

Bug#870682: a2ps does not install files in (x)emacs paths

2020-12-30 Thread David Bremner
Vagrant Cascadian writes: > But it wasn't clear to me, a humble QA uploader barely familiar with > emacs, XEmacs, and .el files at all, weather it is required to work with > XEmacs or how I would figure that out. The last time I checked, the basic technology used by dh-elpa (namely

Bug#965318: apt-xapian-index: uses obsolete Xapian method

2020-08-23 Thread David Bremner
Control: severity -1 normal David Bremner writes: > flush has been deprecated for a while. It looks like it has finally gone a > away? > > /etc/cron.weekly/apt-xapian-index: That turned out to be a corrupted install python3-xapian on my machine (installing xapian 1.5 in /usr, oop

Bug#965318: apt-xapian-index: uses obsolete Xapian method

2020-07-19 Thread David Bremner
Package: apt-xapian-index Version: 0.51 Severity: important Tags: newcomer -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 flush has been deprecated for a while. It looks like it has finally gone a away? /etc/cron.weekly/apt-xapian-index: Traceback (most recent call last): File

Bug#901141: '/usr/share/man/ja/man1/timidity.1.gz' is also in package timidity

2018-06-09 Thread David Bremner
Package: timidity-el Version: 2.14.0-2 Severity: serious -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Preparing to unpack .../timidity-el_2.14.0-2_all.deb ... ERROR: timidity-el is broken - called emacs-package-remove as a new-style add-on, but has no compat file. Remove timidity-el for

Bug#870682: a2ps does not install files in (x)emacs paths

2017-08-03 Thread David Bremner
Package: a2ps Version: 1:4.14-3 Severity: normal -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 The .el files are in the binary package, but I guess the postinst doesn't follow debian emacs policy to get the files byte compiled and installed in the right place. - -- System Information: Debian

Bug#765909: pristine-tar: fails to import racket-6.1-src.tgz

2014-10-19 Thread David Bremner
Package: pristine-tar Version: 1.32 Severity: normal how to reproduce: # or start from download.racket-lang.org % wget http://mirror.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de/mirror/racket/6.1/racket-6.1-src.tgz % git init pt-test % cd pt-test git commit -m'' --allow-empty # from git-buildpackage ; saves

Bug#557642: libiphone-dev: please package new upstream version (0.9.4)

2009-11-23 Thread David Bremner
Package: libiphone-dev Version: 0.9.1-4 Severity: wishlist Hi; I guess you plan to do this anyway as part of the adoption, but please do update to the new upstream. According to Hector Martin's blog, this is the version required for music updating. Thanks! David -- System Information: Debian

Re: Time for a new maintainer for Auctex?

2009-08-14 Thread David Bremner
Cyril Brulebois wrote: [1 text/plain; us-ascii (7bit)] David Bremner brem...@unb.ca (13/08/2009): I guess two of the NMUs are internationalization issues, so I don't really how indicative they are of lack of maintanence. On the other hand, the package has 22 lintian warnings, and sits

Time for a new maintainer for Auctex?

2009-08-13 Thread David Bremner
Since the last maintainer upload, there have been 3 (going on 4) NMUs and two new upstream versions. I guess two of the NMUs are internationalization issues, so I don't really how indicative they are of lack of maintanence. On the other hand, the package has 22 lintian warnings, and sits at

Re: adopting maxima

2008-07-27 Thread David Bremner
David Bremner bremner at unb.ca writes: The maxima package has an unacknowledged RC bug from early April, and an unacknowledged NMU from January. I have some (ever slimmer) hope of better version of maxima in Lenny, and I would be willing to adopt the package to make that happen. Riku

adopting maxima

2008-07-26 Thread David Bremner
The maxima package has an unacknowledged RC bug from early April, and an unacknowledged NMU from January. I have some (ever slimmer) hope of better version of maxima in Lenny, and I would be willing to adopt the package to make that happen. I would be happy to turn the package back over to Camm