Bug#877711: Latest upstream firmware resolves this issue

2017-10-24 Thread Andrew McMillan
.0?id=96a7402d4172f4786ee93dd9f7cb3f76e1a 8025e "Update from a new firmware branch. This also fixes a regression with ath10k frequently disconnecting." Thanks, Andrew McMillan. -- -- https://google.com/+AndrewMcMillan

Bug#877711: firmware-atheros: Wifi connection becomes unreliable after upgrade to 20170823-1

2017-10-04 Thread Andrew McMillan
fe ff ff 49 8b 45 10 a8 04 0f 85 da 00 00 [ 2992.777529] ---[ end trace 15d423f6ce84b6e8 ]--- That doesn't show up every time when the drivers stop though, so perhaps it is unrelated. Thanks, Andrew McMillan. -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers unstable

Bug#742498: I'm very happy to see a team maintaining this package

2014-04-12 Thread Andrew McMillan
I'm totally happy to see the team take over responsibility for the Debian packaging (and upstream development :-) Cheers, Andrew. -- https://google.com/+AndrewMcMillan

Bug#703290: davical: possible code insertion or XSS

2013-03-18 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Mon, 2013-03-18 at 18:46 +0100, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote: > On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 07:43:09PM +1300, Andrew McMillan wrote: > > I guess I'm listed as 'upstream' for DAViCal as well as being the DD > > responsible for the package. Unfortunately I have no tim

Bug#703290: davical: possible code insertion or XSS

2013-03-17 Thread Andrew McMillan
Also worth noting that there is a (non-default) configuration setting that restricts the availability of setup.php to only administrators. I guess I'm listed as 'upstream' for DAViCal as well as being the DD responsible for the package. Unfortunately I have no time to do either job for the forese

Bug#682469: libjaxe-java: Dependency on openoffice.org-java-common should change to libreoffice-java-common

2012-07-22 Thread Andrew McMillan
Package: libjaxe-java Version: 3.5-2 Severity: minor Dear Maintainer, This dependency needs to change now that openoffice.org-java-common is a virtual dependency on libreoffice-java-common. -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (950, 'unstable'),

Bug#619477: Possible missing build-depends

2011-09-23 Thread Andrew McMillan
files for DAViCal depends on translating some strings which are present in the library - it's not needed for the execution of any code in this instance. Regards, Andrew McM

Bug#638924: [nginx-extras] Description does not list all included modules

2011-08-22 Thread Andrew McMillan
well. Regards, Andrew McMillan. -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (950, 'unstable'), (150, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.0.1-dave (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_NZ.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_NZ

Bug#89038: mime policy copying update-mime(8)

2011-04-04 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Sun, 2011-04-03 at 20:44 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > The bug: > > http://bugs.debian.org/89038 > > is still looking for two more seconds. This would allow us to retire the > tiny separate mime-policy document. Could other folks take a look and > confirm that all looks well? > > We sepa

Bug#548867: Proposed patch to update Debian Developer's Duties chapter

2011-03-13 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Sun, 2011-03-13 at 10:05 +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > Hi, > > As one of the (ex-)?dev-ref maintainers, I was also asked to comment by > Raphael. > > Generally, I think that the patch goes in the right direction. > > I'd like to suggest changes to the last paragraph, though: > Lack of atten

Bug#604990: clarify man page dates policy

2010-11-25 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Thu, 2010-11-25 at 22:29 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > jida...@jidanni.org writes: > >> "RA" == Russ Allbery writes: > > > RA> No, I don't believe that it should. I don't think this is something > > that > > RA> we need to make technical Policy about. > > > RA> I'll leave this bug open f

Bug#593611: Clarify whose signature should go in debian/changelog (4.4)

2010-09-22 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Sat, 2010-09-18 at 21:10 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Okay, here's new proposed wording that incorporates some of the discussion > on this bug along with my personal opinion on the best wording. How does > this look to everyone? > > diff --git a/policy.sgml b/policy.sgml > index 642f672..314d5

Bug#550195: evolution: WebDAV contacts don't work

2010-09-21 Thread Andrew McMillan
ding rebuilding Evolution or E-D-S, but just some information on how to get a few debugging messages out of the WebDAV contacts plugin would be much appreciated. Regards, Andrew McMillan. --

Bug#588014: Documenting the DM-Upload-Allowed field.

2010-09-11 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Sat, 2010-09-11 at 23:47 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > Le Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 04:15:15PM +0200, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort a écrit : > > > > Capitalization is inconsistent across the patch. I guess you should fix > > that. > > Ooops (correction attached). > I support the change, with the corr

Bug#595652: db packages failing to install...

2010-09-06 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Sun, 2010-09-05 at 18:58 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Holger Levsen writes: > > > please clarify what the right behaviour should be and how failing to > > install without a local db should be treated. Thanks. > > I agree with jcristau; I think it's reasonable to have database servers be > in

Bug#522776: debian-policy: mandate existence of a standardised UTF-8 locale

2010-09-06 Thread Andrew McMillan
f > C.UTF-8, because > this show that this actually work and is useful. I agree. I think that the impact of having a guaranteed UTF-8 locale available is only positive. It may be that nothing presently depends on it, but for that very reason it should be fine to promote to the release team for

Bug#578797: davical: Creating the Database fails

2010-09-02 Thread Andrew McMillan
in the next few releases. This is because I want to better support people in other installation situations, such as 'in a hosted environment on FreeBSD' and strange things like that. This does increase the chance of the situation being caught with an (eventuall

Bug#578797: davical: Creating the Database fails

2010-09-01 Thread Andrew McMillan
severity 578797 wishlist tag 579797 +wontfix retitle 578797 DAViCal: UTF-8 capable PostgreSQL setup required for database creation thanks On Thu, 2010-08-26 at 08:43 +0200, Frank Hartmann wrote: > Hi, > > I found a workaround/solution: > > postgres stores some information at install time about

Bug#594658: debian-policy: Add FHS exception for GNU/Hurd directories

2010-09-01 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Wed, 2010-09-01 at 17:05 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Andrew McMillan writes: > > > I would change the text around a little to add that to the beginning of > > the paragraph, something like: > > > On GNU/Hurd systems the /hurd and > > /server

Bug#594542: debian-policy: add descriptions for main, contrib, and non-free archive areas

2010-08-30 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Mon, 2010-08-30 at 12:05 -0400, CJ Fearnley wrote: > On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 10:38:14AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > > CJ Fearnley writes: > > > > > 2.2.1 The main archive area > > > > The main archive area comprises the Debian GNU/Linux distribution; > > only the packages in this are

Bug#593909: debian-policy: Clarifications about the syntax of Debian control files.

2010-08-29 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Sun, 2010-08-29 at 04:17 -0700, PJ Weisberg wrote: > On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 1:34 PM, Russ Allbery wrote: > > Charles Plessy writes: > >> Le Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 10:24:57AM -0700, Russ Allbery a écrit : > >> > >>> In fields where the value may not span multiple lines, the amount > >>>

Bug#594658: debian-policy: Add FHS exception for GNU/Hurd directories

2010-08-28 Thread Andrew McMillan
." might make it clearer when it stands on it's own. Regards, Andrew McMillan. -- andrew (AT) morphoss (DOT) com+64(272)DEBIAN The difference bet

Bug#594542: debian-policy: add descriptions for main, contrib, and non-free archive areas

2010-08-28 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Sat, 2010-08-28 at 07:35 -0400, CJ Fearnley wrote: > > > > I don't think CJ is advocating changing the DFSG, but rather is concerned > > that the way the DFSG is worded may not make it clear to people what the > > motivation is and what the implications are for users. In other words, a > > rep

Bug#594542: debian-policy: add descriptions for main, contrib, and non-free archive areas

2010-08-27 Thread Andrew McMillan
nt that gives them their strength in policy. If they were to place additional constraints on what software was acceptable in main it would make policy more confusing, not less, and would undermine the DFSG as a decision-making tool. Regards, Andrew McMillan

Bug#106073: recommend to install documentation into /usr/share/doc//

2010-08-27 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Fri, 2010-08-27 at 10:16 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Andrew McMillan writes: > > > My personal preference would be to encourage -doc packages to install > > their files into /usr/share/doc//docs - including their > > internal administrivia. > > That would

Bug#593909: debian-policy: Clarifications about the syntax of Debian control files.

2010-08-25 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Thu, 2010-08-26 at 10:05 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > Le Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 03:23:26PM +0900, Charles Plessy a écrit : > > > > > > I have been reading §5.1 (Syntax of control files) many times recently, and > > would like propose clarifications about a couple of points. If consensus > > e

Bug#106073: recommend to install documentation into /usr/share/doc//

2010-08-24 Thread Andrew McMillan
proposed change can probably be codified in some small number of scripts. Cheers, Andrew McMillan. -- andrew (AT) morphoss (DOT) com

Bug#594274: debian-policy: Don't track generated README documents in VCS

2010-08-24 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Wed, 2010-08-25 at 14:28 +1000, Ben Finney wrote: > On 25-Aug-2010, Ben Finney wrote: > > However, the VCS repository also contains the rendered documents > > themselves. Those should not be tracked in VCS; instead, they should > > be generated from source as needed. > > I couldn't find a way t

Bug#593611: Acknowledgement (debian-policy: Clarify whose signature should go in debian/changelog (4.4))

2010-08-19 Thread Andrew McMillan
put their name as a line in the changelog saying something like: * Packaging by Joe Cool for sponsored upload. Regards, Andrew McMillan. -- andrew (AT) morphoss (DOT) com

Bug#593533: debian-policy: Proposal to stop requesting to list initial Debian maintainers in debian/copyright

2010-08-19 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Wed, 2010-08-18 at 19:10 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Charles Plessy writes: > > > Information about the initial Debian maintainers partially overlaps the > > information in debian/changelog, and the copyright statements for the > > packaging work. > > Under normal circumstances, it always du

Bug#436105: suggestion to add GPL-1 as a common licence

2010-06-28 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Mon, 2010-06-28 at 10:58 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Andrew McMillan writes: > > On Fri, 2010-06-11 at 11:35 +0200, Santiago Vila wrote: > > >> Ok, I agree that it would a good idea to include GPL-1 in common-licenses > >> because of the high number of packa

Bug#575639: Bug#567489: Clarify that Changed-By must have name and email address

2010-06-14 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Sun, 2010-06-13 at 19:00 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Helps if I send this to the correct bug. > > Russ Allbery writes: > > > * maintainer-name-missing and uploader-name-missing are both automatic > > rejects in the ftp-master checks, which makes them automatically > > severity: serious i

Bug#104373: Subdirectory under /usr/lib/cgi-lib should be explicitly allowed

2010-06-13 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Sat, 2010-06-12 at 12:35 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > "Rémi Perrot" writes: > > > In section 12.5 of the policy it like that it is not possible to put > > cgi script in /usr/lib/cgi-lib// > > > If this is true, we will have more and more file name conflict, and > > these conflict are quite ha

Bug#347581: debian-policy: Explicitly permit *-headers binary package created from library source package

2010-06-13 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Sat, 2010-06-12 at 13:01 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > For background here, this bug is about permitting the splitting of the > architecture-independent headers for a library into a separate -headers > package rather than requiring (which the current Policy wording implies) > that they be in the

Bug#555978: debian-policy: Forbid duplicate fields in control files

2010-06-12 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Sat, 2010-06-12 at 18:18 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > Le Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 09:58:28AM -0700, Russ Allbery a écrit : > > > > diff --git a/policy.sgml b/policy.sgml > > index 87b9795..99ab0ff 100644 > > --- a/policy.sgml > > +++ b/policy.sgml > > @@ -2398,6 +2398,11 @@ Package: libc6 > >

Bug#436105: suggestion to add GPL-1 as a common licence

2010-06-11 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Fri, 2010-06-11 at 14:14 +0200, Giacomo A. Catenazzi wrote: > > Yes for new code, but old code cannot be relicensed easily: > all authors should agree, but GPLv1 is very old, in periods > where contribution did not have an email and "fix" (live-long) > email address was not common. It is: (a)

Bug#436105: suggestion to add GPL-1 as a common licence

2010-06-11 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Fri, 2010-06-11 at 11:35 +0200, Santiago Vila wrote: > > Ok, I agree that it would a good idea to include GPL-1 in common-licenses > because of the high number of packages still using it. I'm sorry, but I disagree, for the time being. I do not believe that large numbers of packages are delibe

Bug#569174: [PATCH] Correction of RFC number for date format -- bug #569174.

2010-06-03 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Thu, 2010-06-03 at 18:31 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Charles Plessy writes: > > > I also like the idea, so I prepared a patch (attached) > > Thank you! > > > RFC 822 dates use only two digits for the years, but Debian changelogs > > described by this paragraph (§4.4 in Policy 3.8.4) use fou

Bug#530687: [PATCH] bug530687-srivasta: Support for architecture wildcards

2010-06-03 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Thu, 2010-06-03 at 22:01 +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: > Hi! > > On Thu, 2010-06-03 at 09:56:30 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > > Okay, here's another try at this patch that removes some extraneous > > information that it sounds like we shouldn't get into, from this message > > and your other messag

Bug#224509: Don't require a TTY during maintainer script execution

2010-06-03 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Thu, 2010-06-03 at 09:34 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > The previous discussion on this bug didn't reach a final consensus on > wording, but I still believe we have a consensus that this is the right > general direction. Here's an updated patch that includes the permission > suggested by Steve La

Bug#569174: [PATCH] Correction of RFC number for date format -- bug #569174.

2010-06-02 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Wed, 2010-06-02 at 14:59 +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: > On Tue, Jun 01, 2010 at 10:47:18AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > > RFC 822 dates use only two digits for the years, but Debian changelogs > > described by this paragraph (§4.4 in Policy 3.8.4) use four digits. This > > patch > > replaces

Bug#580862: xmms2-client-nycli: Please include patch to extend command-line length

2010-05-09 Thread Andrew McMillan
is is mostly an issue for people who pipe the output of nycli into something else, although for those of us who do that it is a right pain :-) Thanks, Andrew McMillan. -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy:

Bug#561288: davical: PAM auth: full name extraction is too generous

2009-12-15 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Tue, 2009-12-15 at 23:27 +0100, gregor herrmann wrote: > Package: davical > Version: 0.9.7.6-0 > Severity: minor > > Hi Andrew, > > when adding a user from the pam db the full name gets extracted in > drivers_squid_pam.php with: > $fullname = trim( exec("getent passwd | grep ^" . $username ."

Bug#552690: mknod-in-maintainer-script postinst:39

2009-11-12 Thread Andrew McMillan
Seconded. On Thu, 2009-11-12 at 13:29 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > Manoj Srivastava writes: > > On Thu, Oct 29 2009, Simon Horman wrote: > > >> Could you suggest a policy-compliant method of creating fifos for the > >> package? At the time that I added mknod to the maintainer script the > >> con

Bug#553698: gwibber: New upstream version

2009-11-01 Thread Andrew McMillan
Package: gwibber Version: 1.2.0+bzr358-1 Severity: wishlist I see that gwibber 2.0 has been released. It seems a significant upgrade and it would be nice to see it in Debian. -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (999, 'unstable') Architecture:

Bug#546470: whereami: Patch used in NMU version 0.3.34-0.2

2009-09-13 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Sun, 2009-09-13 at 13:57 +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > Package: whereami > Version: 0.3.34-0.2 > Severity: wishlist > Tags: patch > > This is the patch I used in my NMU. Hi Petter, Thanks for this. You don't want to take over as maintainer, do you? I haven't used the program in years.

Bug#546389: gwibber: Unnecessary dependency on python-distutils-extra

2009-09-12 Thread Andrew McMillan
Package: gwibber Version: 1.2.0+bzr355-2 Severity: minor Gwibber seems to run just fine without python-distutils-extra installed, which from it's description seems like it should be a build dependency rather than a package dependency. It would be nice to remove this particular dependency since it

Bug#543417: README.source patch system documentation requirements considered harmful

2009-08-24 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Mon, 2009-08-24 at 15:46 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Chris Lamb writes: > > > If the motivation behind README.source is to highlight non-trivial > > packaging, then many packages can be presented that are trivial dispite > > using a patch system. My own conclusion is that the adoption of dpat

Bug#224509: Don't require a TTY during maintainer script execution

2009-08-08 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Fri, 2009-08-07 at 19:43 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > I think at this point, now that debconf is mandatory for all but essential > packages, removing the guarantee of a controlling terminal is > uncontroversial. This bug has been open for a while and I'd like to put > it to bed. Here's propose

Bug#534408: debian-policy: Installed-Size is defined as "kilobytes" but dpkg-gencontrol fills it in with kibibytes

2009-07-13 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Mon, 2009-07-13 at 17:20 +0100, Julien Cristau wrote: > On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 13:29:48 +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: > > > I formally object to the part '(in other words, the size in kibibytes)'. > > > > (I believe this change is not informative and only serve the purpose of > > endorsing a s

Bug#508673: davical can't find the include file, AWLUtilities.php

2009-07-02 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Thu, 2009-07-02 at 17:07 +0200, Leo 'costela' Antunes wrote: > Hi Andrew, > > Did you have a chance to think about my proposed solution for this bug? > Do you see any problem with it? > I'm considering upgrading the severity to "minor", since it does cause > more annoyances than necessary durin

Bug#534408: debian-policy: Installed-Size is defined as "kilobytes" but dpkg-gencontrol fills it in with kibibytes

2009-06-29 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Mon, 2009-06-29 at 09:42 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Bill Allombert writes: > > On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 07:49:40PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > > >> Agreed. At the time Policy was originally written, kilobyte nearly > >> universally meant kibibyte in the industry. I'll change this to: > >

Bug#530687: debian-policy: Please provide policy for architecture wildcards

2009-05-27 Thread Andrew McMillan
misinterpretation in the manner Julien suggests. How about: "... a list of specific and wildcard architectures separated by spaces, or the special values 'any' or 'all'." Cheers, Andrew.

Bug#530687: debian-policy: Please provide policy for architecture wildcards

2009-05-26 Thread Andrew McMillan
) > > Kernel: Linux 2.6.29-2-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) > Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash > > debian-policy depends on no packages. > > debian-policy recommends no packages. > > Versions of packages debian-policy suggests: >

Bug#530378: debian-policy: allow /usr/share/doc/ to point to another indirectly-depended-upon package's dir

2009-05-25 Thread Andrew McMillan
ption, and I can't see the value of it from a technical perspective. Regards, Andrew McMillan. -------- Andrew @ McMillan .Net .NZ Porirua, New Zealand http://andrew.

Bug#527871: Update information about DEB_*_ARCH variables

2009-05-08 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Sat, 2009-05-09 at 06:45 +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: > Package: debian-policy > Version: 3.8.1.0 > Severity: wishlist > Tags: patch > > Hi! > > Recommend using the DEB_*_ARCH_CPU and DEB_*_ARCH_OS variables instead > of the GNU style ones. And mention that the latter are mostly intended > for

Bug#523551: Quanta 3.5.9 with kde4

2009-04-25 Thread Andrew McMillan
Hi, While you're relaxing dependencies, it might as well to change the Suggests for kimagemapeditor at the same time. Regards, Andrew. andrew (AT) morphoss (DOT) com

Bug#522776: debian-policy: mandate existence of a standardised UTF-8 locale

2009-04-08 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Wed, 2009-04-08 at 15:31 +0200, Giacomo A. Catenazzi wrote: > > We have the same objective, but two different ways. Indeed, but it seems to me that you are pushing for a much bigger change than I am. So the smallest step which is in the same direction both of us want to go, is for *a* UTF-8 l

Bug#522776: debian-policy: mandate existence of a standardised UTF-8 locale

2009-04-08 Thread Andrew McMillan
; For testing? So why not test various locales (UTF-8, but also other non > ascii based encodings) What environments people build or test in is a separate issue to what environments are available to them to build or test in, a

Bug#522776: debian-policy: mandate existence of a standardised UTF-8 locale

2009-04-07 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Tue, 2009-04-07 at 22:32 +0200, Adeodato Simó wrote: > > It is my impression that more packages than mksh could use an UTF-8 > locale at build time (I’m afraid I don’t have pointers, but I’m sure > I’ve come across at least a couple). > > Wouldn’t it be just better to change Debian’s default t

Bug#522364: debian-policy: Remove obsolete /var/mail transition requirement

2009-04-03 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Thu, 2009-04-02 at 21:57 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Package: debian-policy > Version: 3.8.1.0 > Severity: minor > > This looks extremely obsolete. I think it can just be removed. > > Seconds? Seconded. Regards, Andrew. > > diff --git a/policy.sgml

Bug#521862: More info about the evolution startup crash

2009-03-31 Thread Andrew McMillan
rading sqlite to any of 3.6.11-* didn't help me, downgrading to 3.5.9-6 did sort the problem out and I am now able to get back into my e-mail... Regards, Andrew McMillan. ---

Bug#452843: amavisd-new-milter init script needs love...

2009-03-20 Thread Andrew McMillan
word... Also, the "-D" parameter is ignored, according to the command-line help, so you might as well remove it when you make that change too. Thanks, Andrew McMillan.

Bug#206684: mandatory use of debconf for user prompting a release goal for squeeze

2009-03-20 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Fri, 2009-03-20 at 23:43 +0100, Julien Cristau wrote: > On Sat, 2009-03-21 at 10:27 +1300, Andrew McMillan wrote: > > That seems to be accepted by everyone, so I've pushed it to policy now. > > > > I hope that's the right thing... Please tell me if I've

Bug#206684: mandatory use of debconf for user prompting a release goal for squeeze

2009-03-20 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Thu, 2009-03-19 at 16:44 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Andrew McMillan writes: > > > Here's an updated patch to apply the following wording: > > > > Package maintainer scripts may prompt the user if necessary. > > Prompting must be done by co

Bug#206684: mandatory use of debconf for user prompting a release goal for squeeze

2009-03-19 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Thu, 2009-03-19 at 13:59 -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 09:13:19AM +1300, Andrew McMillan wrote: > > On Thu, 2009-03-19 at 10:55 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > > > > Packages that are essential or that are dependencies of essential > > >

Bug#206684: mandatory use of debconf for user prompting a release goal for squeeze

2009-03-19 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Thu, 2009-03-19 at 10:55 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > > Packages that are essential or that are dependencies of essential > packages may fall back on another prompting method if no such > interface is available when they are executed. Since we're essentially saying that all package

Bug#206684: mandatory use of debconf for user prompting a release goal for squeeze

2009-03-19 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Wed, 2009-03-18 at 20:26 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > > Management Specification, version 2 or higher, unless no such > > interface is available when they are executed. > > > > Should we require that non-essential packages depend on debconf if they're > going to do prompting?

Bug#206684: mandatory use of debconf for user prompting a release goal for squeeze

2009-03-18 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Wed, 2009-03-18 at 14:42 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > > I'm not sure how many of these were false positives, but I'm fairly sure > that at least some of them are real: > > http://lintian.debian.org/tags/read-in-maintainer-script.html Not all that many, and some will be false positives. I thi

Bug#509732: marked as done (Debian Policy doesn't include directive for filing RC bugs against the Policy)

2009-02-23 Thread Andrew McMillan
reopen 509732 thanks It is truly classic irony that we see this one getting closed by spammers :-) andrew (AT) morphoss (DOT) com+64(272)DEBIAN Executive ability is prominent in your

Bug#470994: mail_spool default mode is 0660

2009-02-01 Thread Andrew McMillan
permission and ownership of mailboxes > > + unless required (such as when creating a new mailbox). A MUA > > + may remove a mailbox (unless it has nonstandard permissions) in > > + which case the MTA or another MUA must recreate it if needed. > > > >

Bug#508673: davical can't find the include file AWLUtilities.php

2008-12-15 Thread Andrew McMillan
d because I'll be too busy doing other things! Regards, Andrew McMillan. andrew (AT) morphoss (DOT) com+64(272)DEBIAN Yo

Bug#508673: davical can't find the include file AWLUtilities.php

2008-12-13 Thread Andrew McMillan
ncludes required by DAViCal are the AWL ones. Regards, Andrew McMillan. andrew (AT) morphoss (DOT) com+64(272)DEBIAN

Bug#504749: sarg.usertab fails for IPv6 addresses

2008-11-06 Thread Andrew McMillan
l use Squid as one of the technologies for mediating between IPv6 and IPv4 networks, so I have marked this bug as 'Important' even though there are no doubt very few users at present who will be encountering the problem. Regards, Andrew McMillan. -- System

Bug#504223: python-uniconvertor: Falis to find fonts

2008-11-01 Thread Andrew McMillan
t is worse though, is that it is falling back to a non-existent font. Furthermore, the manpage gives no information on how one might be able to configure an existing font as the fallback, or add other directories to it's font search path, even though the error messages about config.p

Bug#502273: sarg: Poor file location and naming

2008-10-15 Thread Andrew McMillan
then match the names of the actual sarg configuration options! Thanks, Andrew McMillan. -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (990, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.27-hap

Bug#501266: [intl:fr] davical po templates translation

2008-10-06 Thread Andrew McMillan
LibreOccupé - presumably that was just a typo. Thanks, Andrew McMillan. andrew (AT) morphoss (DOT) com+64(272)DEBIAN Bruce Schneier can log into any compute

Bug#493687: two removal suggestions awl and gem

2008-09-01 Thread Andrew McMillan
for this, since the point of having it in is kind of lost without the other software it depends on which didn't make it into testing before the freeze. Cheers, Andrew. ------

Bug#490872: New qlandkarte upstream release.

2008-07-14 Thread Andrew McMillan
Package: qlandkarte Version: 0.7.2+svn20080629-1 Severity: wishlist Hi, I note that there is a new upstream release of qlandkarte available which adds some nice new features, and fixes a bunch of bugs. Thank you, Andrew McMillan. -- System Information

Bug#490444: ITP: davical -- DAViCal CalDAV Server

2008-07-12 Thread Andrew McMillan
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Andrew McMillan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: davical Version : 0.9.5.1 Upstream Author : Andrew McMillan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://rscds.sf.net/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: PHP

Bug#490438: ITP: libawl-php -- Andrew's Web Libraries - PHP Utility Libraries

2008-07-12 Thread Andrew McMillan
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Andrew McMillan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libawl-php Version : 0.30 Upstream Author : Andrew McMillan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://andrew.mcmillan.net.nz/projects/awl * License : GPL Prog

Bug#481010: ircd-ircu: Incorrectly masks IPv6 addresses causing connection refusal

2008-05-12 Thread Andrew McMillan
pain right now :-) Regards, Andrew McMillan. -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (990, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.25.1-hippy (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_NZ.UTF8

Bug#475790: coreutils: touch -d fails to parse ISO timestamps correctly

2008-04-12 Thread Andrew McMillan
008-04-12T05:21:44' *not* being an ISO format date approaches zero. Regards, Andrew McMillan. -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (990, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.25-rc8-

Bug#474175: IPv6 support works well

2008-04-06 Thread Andrew McMillan
. Regards, Andrew McMillan. - Andrew @ Catalyst .Net .NZ Ltd, PO Box 11-053, Manners St, Wellington WEB: http://catalyst.net.nz/PHYS: Level 6, 150-154 Willis St DDI: +64(4)803-2201

Bug#474175: pmacct: Please enable IPv6 support

2008-04-03 Thread Andrew McMillan
Package: pmacct Version: 0.11.4-1 Severity: normal According to the documentation, pmacctd supports reporting on IPv6 traffic, but it needs to be built with the --enable-ipv6 flag configured for this functionality to be included. -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers uns

Bug#471104: php5: Please rebuild against up to date timezone data

2008-03-15 Thread Andrew McMillan
) New Zealand. Thanks, Andrew McMillan. -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.24.2-mousy Locale: LANG=en_NZ.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_NZ.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8

Bug#456634: closed by Bernd Zeimetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (GSA sentences should be included since 2.36-1)

2008-01-16 Thread Andrew McMillan
It is indeed working now, and gpsdrive correctly displays my altitude as a result. Thanks very much, Andrew McMillan. On Sun, 2008-01-13 at 11:15 +, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: > This is an automatic notification regarding your Bug report >

Bug#460606: fbpanel: Allow option for multiple rows in tasklist / pager

2008-01-13 Thread Andrew McMillan
find that this approach justifies having a slightly taller panel that is still useful when I have many applications open and/or many desktops available. Thanks, Andrew McMillan. -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT

Bug#456634: gpsd: Translated NMEA output does not include a GSA sentence

2007-12-22 Thread Andrew McMillan
s gpsd: New data, not yet a packet gpsd: select waits gpsd: select waits gpsd: select waits gpsd: select waits gpsd: select waits This is a different problem entirely, I guess, but it means I can't test whether the GSA changes make any difference :-( Regards,

Bug#456149: gpsdrive: Doesn't display my altitude

2007-12-17 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Mon, 2007-12-17 at 00:10 +0100, Andreas Putzo wrote: > On Dec 14 20:19, Andrew McMillan wrote: > > > > GPSDrive is not displaying any altitude reading from my GPS (a Garmin > > > > 60CSx). If I telnet to the gpsd port on my local machine I definitely > > >

Bug#456634: gpsd: Translated NMEA output does not include a GSA sentence

2007-12-16 Thread Andrew McMillan
6,16,28,11,290,38,11,02,019,33*70 $GPGSV,3,3,11,13,59,335,17,27,58,221,14,25,76,193,20*47 $GPGGA,063758,4106.5407,S,17452.2882,E,1,11,,90.9,M,16.836,M,,*44 $GPRMC,063758,A,4106.5407,S,17452.2882,E,0.9719,15.300,171207,,*0C r GPSD,R=0 Regards, Andrew McMillan. -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid

Bug#456149: gpsdrive: Doesn't display my altitude

2007-12-13 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Thu, 2007-12-13 at 22:50 +0100, Andreas Putzo wrote: > Hi Andrew, > > thanks for reporting this bug. > > On Dec 13 21:59, Andrew McMillan wrote: > > Package: gpsdrive > > Version: 2.10~pre4-1 > > Severity: normal > > > > GPSDrive is not displayi

Bug#456152: gpsdrive: Can't override window size

2007-12-13 Thread Andrew McMillan
Package: gpsdrive Version: 2.10~pre4-1 Severity: normal According to the man page, gpsdrive has -s and -r options to override the autodetection. Since the autodetection doesn't notice the panels at the top and bottom of my screen I tried to use these options to set a saner resolution. It appears

Bug#456149: gpsdrive: Doesn't display my altitude

2007-12-13 Thread Andrew McMillan
Package: gpsdrive Version: 2.10~pre4-1 Severity: normal GPSDrive is not displaying any altitude reading from my GPS (a Garmin 60CSx). If I telnet to the gpsd port on my local machine I definitely do see my altitude coming through on the various data streams available. -- System Information: Deb

Bug#452357: xserver-xorg-video-intel: 945GM always crashes within 10 seconds of login

2007-11-26 Thread Andrew McMillan
mmediately. Seems like it is probably a dupe of #451570 then. I've attached a log of my Xserver crashing when I reinstate the Virtual line... Thanks, Andrew McMillan. - Andrew @ Cat

Bug#452357: xserver-xorg-video-intel: 945GM always crashes within 10 seconds of login

2007-11-21 Thread Andrew McMillan
. Thanks, Andrew McMillan. -- Package-specific info: /var/lib/x11/X.roster does not exist. /var/lib/x11/X.md5sum does not exist. X server symlink status: lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 2007-09-04 07:26 /etc/X11/X -> /usr/bin/Xorg -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1672732 2007-11-20 13:03 /usr/bin/Xorg Contents

Bug#449059: whereami.pl missing from whereami

2007-11-02 Thread Andrew McMillan
Hi Cord, I had thought that whereami.pl was removed from whereami a while ago, but perhaps not. Does it all work again if you delete that symlink and reinstall the package? The symlink shouldn't be there any longer. I've renamed the actual program to /usr/sbin/whereami instead. Rega

Bug#443547: libpoppler1: Problems rendering Porirua City overview map

2007-09-22 Thread Andrew McMillan
. Including the time it took me to notice and click 'Accept' on the license agreement dialog. The various sub-map links are also overlaid in the correct positions. Thanks, Andrew McMillan. -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid A

Bug#443137: libpano12: New upstream version(s)

2007-09-18 Thread Andrew McMillan
Package: libpano12 Version: 2.8.3-1 Severity: wishlist I note that there is a new upstream version of libpano12 (2.8.6) as well as an even more advanced release which is libpano13 version 2.9.12. It would be really nice to get these into Debian, along with the latest version of Hugin. -- System

Bug#440143: [Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#440143: network-manager: No GNOME applet (yet)

2007-08-30 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Thu, 2007-08-30 at 14:10 +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: > > As Cyril explained it already very accurately, the correct way (for > users using network-manager-gnome) is simply to not force the upgrade > until network-manager-applet has left NEW. The old 0.6.4 packages will > then automatically be k

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