Re: Please give back vlc 0.8.6.h-4 on mips and mipsel

On Thu, Sep 04, 2008, Luk Claes wrote: Christophe Mutricy wrote: vlc failed to build on mips and mipsel for unstable. The very similar package in experimental built fine. So I believe it was bad luck. No, this looks more like you want to write something in the homedir during build which

Re: New ftgl-dev seems to cause breakage

On Sun, Jun 22, 2008, Kevin B. McCarty wrote: apparently a new API-changing version of ftgl-dev was recently uploaded to unstable (which strikes me as a bad idea at this point!). It has apparently caused breakage in a package I'm sponsoring, see

Re: [Secure-testing-team] CVE-2007-1253: blender: eval injection vulnerability in kmz_ImportWithMesh.py

On Wed, Apr 04, 2007, Luk Claes wrote: Apparantly blender FTBFS on these archs, so finding out why it fails (and maybe fixing it) might help. It fails because it incorrectly tries to link with libstdc++, which should never be done directly. Patch attached. -- Sam. diff -puriN

please unblock toilet/0.1-2 and libcaca/0.99.beta11.debian-3

Following the discussion about FIGlet, I uploaded a new version of TOIlet, as well as a new version of libcaca (because it declared an incorrect old conflict with figlet, unnecessarily causing them to be uninstallable together). It might be too late for libcaca but well, I'm trying anyway.

Re: Please unblock figlet 2.2.2-1

. (Closes: #300735) + * /usr/bin/figlet is an alternative to /usr/bin/figlet-figlet now. This +change was made to pave the way for free figlet clones. + + -- Sam Hocevar (Debian packages) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue, 27 Mar 2007 13:51:54 +0200 + figlet (2.2.1-4) unstable; urgency=high * debian

Please unblock figlet 2.2.2-1

Not having this version of figlet makes it impossible for free figlet clones to use the figlet fonts. It has beenin unstable for 5 months and also fixes a potential security issue. Thanks, -- Sam. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

[SECURITY] Please unblock ffmpeg 0.cvs20060823-8

ffmpeg 0.cvs20060823-8 fixes numerous bugs with corrupted streams, exploitability was not confirmed but 11 potential crashes require some attention. Thanks, -- Sam. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Please unblock figlet 2.2.2-1

On Mon, Mar 26, 2007, Steve Langasek wrote: On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 11:18:04PM +0200, Luk Claes wrote: Sam Hocevar wrote: Not having this version of figlet makes it impossible for free figlet clones to use the figlet fonts. It has beenin unstable for 5 months and also fixes

Please unblock yasm 0.5.0-2

yasm 0.5.0-2 fixes a crash with some specific files. -- Sam. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [SECURITY] please unblock beast 0.6.6-8

On Wed, Mar 21, 2007, Steve Langasek wrote: Unblocked, then; Sam, I'd still appreciate seeing the error message fixed since we're updating the package anyway. Okay, I'm building -9. -- Sam. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

[SECURITY] please unblock beast 0.6.6-8

This version of beast fixes a memory corruption issue and a bug in the suid wrapper that may give root control to an attacker. No advisory has been released AFAIK but it is similar to CVE-2006-2916. Regards, -- Sam. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Please unblock colormake 0.2-4.3

This version fixes two bugs: clmake was unusable (#412772) and quotes were interpreted twice. Regards, -- Sam. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Please unblock ffmpeg 0.cvs20060823-7

This version fixes a link issue on PowerPC making the postproc library unloadable. Regards, -- Sam. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

SECURITY: unblock ffmpeg 0.cvs20060823-5

Can you please unblock ffmpeg 0.cvs20060823-5? It fixes two security issues, two build issues, a crash on non-AltiVec machines and a bug in the AVI parser. Regards, -- Sam. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Accepted vlc 0.8.6-svn20061012.debian-3 (source i386 all)

On Sun, Jan 21, 2007, Steve Langasek wrote: Anyway, I would still be a little more comfortable if the changes to debian/rules weren't included in the diff, but it's not a big enough deal that I would refuse to accept the package. So if you can make the three other changes discussed above,

Re: Bug#396459: libsdl1.2-dev: Dropping *-dev dependencies breaks package builds too close to release

On Wed, Nov 01, 2006, Steve Langasek wrote: * [2] SDL_syswm.h needs the X headers. I'm not sure whether this should be fixed in libsdl1.2-dev or not; if it is, that could take care of about 1/3 to 1/2 of the failures. Seems like a clear case of a bug in libsdl1.2-dev to me, that

Re: lesstif1 - lesstif2 migration

On Tue, Jun 13, 2006, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Is it neccessary to create a lesstiff2-dev? Did the API (not ABI) change? Though programs are usually backwards-source-compatible, the API slightly changed, yes. A few new functions and structure member here and there. Regards, -- Sam.