Bug#1108841: libabsl-dev: build with ABSL_USES_STD_STRING_VIEW

2025-07-24 Thread Frank Heckenbach
Benjamin Barenblat wrote: > On Wednesday, July 16, 2025, at 3:49 PM +0200, Frank Heckenbach wrote: > > I do wonder if this fine-grained splitting is really necessary -- > > shouldn't -Wl,--as-needed already take care of only linking what's > > needed? > >

Bug#1108841: libabsl-dev: build with ABSL_USES_STD_STRING_VIEW

2025-07-16 Thread Frank Heckenbach
> On Sunday, July 6, 2025, at 12:50 AM +0200, Frank Heckenbach wrote: > > Could libabsl be built with ABSL_USES_STD_STRING_VIEW, > > ABSL_OPTION_USE_STD_OPTIONAL, ABSL_OPTION_USE_STD_VARIANT and > > similar settings? > > Yes, but it's not going to happen i

Bug#1108920: libbctoolbox-dev: cannot bind non-const lvalue reference of type "pumpstream&" to an rvalue of type "pumpstream"

2025-07-07 Thread Frank Heckenbach
Package: libbctoolbox-dev Version: 5.3.105-1 Severity: normal Tags: patch /usr/include/bctoolbox/logging.h: In function "pumpstream& operator<<(pumpstream&&, _Tp&&)": /usr/include/bctoolbox/logging.h:392:16: error: cannot bind non-const lvalue reference of type "pumpstream&" to an rvalue of type

Bug#1108890: convert: failing to call a library init() function

2025-07-06 Thread Frank Heckenbach
Package: imagemagick-7.q16 Version: 8:7.1.1.43+dfsg1-1 Severity: normal File: /usr/bin/convert-im7.q16 % cat test.svg % convert test.svg x.png ** (inkscape:2240392): WARNING **: 23:09:23.167: Failed to wrap object of type 'PangoFT2FontMap'. Hint: this error is commonly caused by failing to call

Bug#1108845: pkgconf is unusably slow

2025-07-05 Thread Frank Heckenbach
Package: pkgconf Version: 1.8.1-4 Severity: important Tags: patch % time pkgconf --cflags --libs re2 > /dev/null real0m2,902s user0m2,884s sys 0m0,008s re2 uses libabsl which is quite a monster, yet it only has some 100 .pc files. Processing them shouldn't take nearly as long. This p

Bug#1108841: libabsl-dev: build with ABSL_USES_STD_STRING_VIEW

2025-07-05 Thread Frank Heckenbach
Package: libabsl-dev Version: 20240722.0-4 Severity: normal Could libabsl be built with ABSL_USES_STD_STRING_VIEW, ABSL_OPTION_USE_STD_OPTIONAL, ABSL_OPTION_USE_STD_VARIANT and similar settings? // ABSL_OPTION_USE_STD_STRING_VIEW // // This option controls whether absl::string_view is implemented

Bug#1104479: file: detect MP3 files created by LAME

2025-04-30 Thread Frank Heckenbach
Package: file Version: 1:5.46-5 Severity: normal I got some MP3 files which were apparently created by LAME that "file" detects only as "data". I'm not completely sure if the files are valid, but apparently they are generated like this, and "ffprobe" and "mpv" do recognize them. I can't attach t

Bug#1067505: libc-bin: iconv: misleading error "illegal input sequence"

2024-03-22 Thread Frank Heckenbach
Package: libc-bin Version: 2.36-9+deb12u4 Severity: normal File: /usr/bin/iconv % printf '\xc3\xa4' | iconv -futf8 -tascii iconv: illegal input sequence at position 0 - First, according to the FSF's own coding standards (https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/GNU-Manuals.html), it shoul

Bug#777584: wrap long lines

2023-11-19 Thread Frank Heckenbach
Hello Georges, > thank you for your response. I was busy otherwise recently. I suppose, this is still open, isn't it? > cron is a key command for UNIX systems, and it is supposed to remain > lightweight and efficient. This is why it does not implement the mailing > features, and relies on other

Bug#1053740: /usr/bin/rsvg-convert (pdf): different x/y scale only respected for stroke, not fill of same text

2023-10-09 Thread Frank Heckenbach
Package: librsvg2-bin Version: 2.54.7+dfsg-1~deb12u1 Severity: normal File: /usr/bin/rsvg-convert % cat test.svg ABC % rsvg-convert -f pdf -o test.pdf test.svg The resulting pdf has the outline (stroke) correctly, but the filled letters are spaced without respecting the scale, see attached scre

Bug#777584: wrap long lines

2023-08-25 Thread Frank Heckenbach
Hello, > I am the new maintainer for cron package, since a few months. Please can > one elaborate a little longer about use cases where too long lines are a > problem? Thanks for picking up this issue again. I'm not the original reporter, but also effected, as I wrote in my comment last year. SM

Bug#1042862: Xspice crashes on start

2023-08-01 Thread Frank Heckenbach
Package: xserver-xspice Version: 0.1.6-1 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable See #1038648. As I wrote there, 0.1.6-1 doesn't fix the problem, but this was ignored, so I'm sending a new bug report. The buggy patch is now upstream, but that doesn't make it correct. I've already

Bug#1038648: closed by Debian FTP Masters (reply to Timo Aaltonen ) (Bug#1038648: fixed in xserver-xorg-video-qxl 0.1.6-1)

2023-06-27 Thread Frank Heckenbach
Doesn't fix the problem.

Bug#1038648: Xspice crashes on start

2023-06-20 Thread Frank Heckenbach
Control: tags patch I think I found the problem. It seems to be Fix-a-build-error-with-Xorg-master.patch To be honest, I don't really understand the patch. According to the comment, instead of just changing one renamed parameter, it changes the calling conventions at the cost of an unnecessary "s

Bug#1038648: Xspice crashes on start

2023-06-19 Thread Frank Heckenbach
Package: xserver-xspice Version: 0.1.5+git20200331-3 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable Since upgrading to bookworm, Xspice always crashes when I try to start it: Xspice --config xspice.1.conf :25 (EE) Caught signal 6 (Aborted). Server aborting Full log: xspice.1.log https

Bug#1037524: libortp: still missing -lbctoolbox (was: Bug#994437: fixed in ortp 1:5.0.37-1)

2023-06-18 Thread Frank Heckenbach
> > You added a "Requires.private" in the .pc, but that doesn't help. > > "Requires" is required (sic!) because a program that links to ortp > > apparently must also link to bctoolbox. > > Dude, did you not see that the string "bctbx_set_log_level_mask" does > not occur anywhere in your program?

Bug#1037524: libortp: still missing -lbctoolbox (was: Bug#994437: fixed in ortp 1:5.0.37-1)

2023-06-13 Thread Frank Heckenbach
Package: libortp-dev Version: 1:5.1.64-2 Severity: normal > This is an automatic notification regarding your Bug report > which was filed against the libortp-dev package: > > #994437: libortp: missing -lbctoolbox > > It has been closed by Debian FTP Masters > (reply to Bernhard Schmidt ). > > Th

Bug#1034708: lintian: false positive "build-depends-on-versioned-berkeley-db Build-Depends:libdb5.3-sql-dev"

2023-04-22 Thread Frank Heckenbach
Package: lintian Version: 2.116.3 Severity: normal I get the warning "build-depends-on-versioned-berkeley-db Build-Depends:libdb5.3-sql-dev" My package used to depend on libdb-sql-dev, but this package doesn't exist anymore in bookworm, so I think I have to depend on libdb5.3-sql-dev now, don't

Bug#1031380: install: options --compare (-C) and --preserve-timestamps are mutually exclusive

2023-02-15 Thread Frank Heckenbach
Package: coreutils Version: 8.32-4+b1 Severity: normal === % install -C -p x y install: options --compare (-C) and --preserve-timestamps are mutually exclusive Try 'install --help' for more information. % install --help Usage: install [OPTION]... [-T] SOURCE DEST or: install [OPTION]... SOURCE

Bug#1029913: Fwd: Bug#1029913: texlive-pictures: /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/scripts/epspdf/epspdf.tlu: /tmp write vulnerability

2023-02-15 Thread Frank Heckenbach
Siep Kroonenberg wrote: > The problem was that the test was specifically for a file rather > than for any filesystem item. > > In the updated TL package, the test has been removed altogether > since there was already a later test for successful generation of a > temp subdirectory. > > The update

Bug#1029913: texlive-pictures: /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/scripts/epspdf/epspdf.tlu: /tmp write vulnerability

2023-01-28 Thread Frank Heckenbach
Package: texlive-pictures Version: 2020.20210202-3 Severity: grave File: /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/scripts/epspdf/epspdf.tlu Classic /tmp write vulnerability: function dir_writable writes to "/tmp/1" (and if this fails, "/tmp/2" etc.) without sufficient checks. Harmless demonstration: % mkfi

Bug#1015293: wrong row targeted with "insert ... on duplicate" and "replace", leading to data corruption

2022-11-20 Thread Frank Heckenbach
Forwarded: https://jira.mariadb.org/browse/MDEV-30046

Bug#1015294: spamprobe: a few patches

2022-07-18 Thread Frank Heckenbach
spamprobe-1.4d/src/parser/MbxMailMessageReader.cc @@ -85,6 +85,7 @@ bool MbxMailMessageReader::readMBXRecord cerr << "MBX: SKIPPED DELETED MESSAGE" << endl; } } + return true; } OWNED MailMessage *MbxMailMessageReader::readMessage() Index: spamprobe-1.4d/src/p

Bug#1015293: wrong row targeted with "insert ... on duplicate" and "replace", leading to data corruption

2022-07-18 Thread Frank Heckenbach
Package: mariadb-server-core-10.5 Version: 1:10.5.15-0+deb11u1 Severity: important Using the MySQL interface, these statements: DROP TABLE IF EXISTS t; CREATE TABLE t (s BLOB, n INT, UNIQUE (s)); INSERT INTO t VALUES ('Hrecvx_0004ln-00',1), ('Hrecvx_0004mm-00',1); INSERT INTO t VALUES ('Hrecvx_00

Bug#1014201: spamprobe hangs in libdb; use MySQL instead?

2022-07-01 Thread Frank Heckenbach
Package: spamprobe Version: 1.4d-14+b2 Severity: important Tags: upstream I posted this upstream at https://sourceforge.net/p/spamprobe/bugs/40/, but as expected got no reaction there. Is anyone here maintaining spamprobe anymore, or am I on my own? --- I had used spamprobe for many years with

Bug#777584: wrap long lines

2022-06-02 Thread Frank Heckenbach
The limit according to RFC 2822 is 998 characters. Current versions of exim4, e.g., enforce this limit. So if you do wrapping, you might as well use the correct limit. Of course, wrapping slightly alters the content. If this is deemed inacceptable, you might need to MIME encode the message (QP o

Bug#1003639: gdb sometimes doesn't set hardware breakpoint for no discernible reason

2022-01-12 Thread Frank Heckenbach
Package: gdb Version: 10.1-1.7 Severity: normal >From a coomplicated gdb session (https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1003638): (gdb) p (float*)$2 $29 = (float *) 0x556e612bd530 (gdb) watch *(float*)$29 Hardware watchpoint 10: *(float*)$29 (gdb) d 10 [...] (gdb) watch *(float*)$30 W

Bug#1003638: mbeq: uninitialized field access corrupts output

2022-01-12 Thread Frank Heckenbach
Package: swh-plugins Version: 0.4.17-2+fh1 Severity: important Tags: upstream patch mbeq_1197.xml: float coefs[FFT_LENGTH / 2]; [...] coefs[0] = 0.0f; for (bin=1; bin < (FFT_LENGTH/2-1); bin++) { coefs[bin] = ((1.0f-bin_delta[bin]) * gains[bin_base[bin]]) + (bin_de

Bug#1003482: libre2-dev: re2.pc contains "-std=c++11"

2022-01-10 Thread Frank Heckenbach
Package: libre2-dev Version: 20210201+dfsg-1 Severity: normal re2.pc contains "-std=c++11". This conflicts with other "-std" options, especially if one wants to use a newer standard (which otherwise works with libre2, as indicated by its support for string_view, e.g.). In order to make sure it's

Bug#1003012: Fixing #1003012 in bullseye (was: Re: Bug#1003012: closed by Salvatore Bonaccorso (Re: Accepted bash 5.1-6 (source) into unstable))

2022-01-08 Thread Frank Heckenbach
Hi Salvatore, > > Thanks for the quick fix! > > Just in avoidance of doubt, thanks goes to Matthias, I just fixed the > BTS metadata as the bug was not closed along with the upload. Thanks to Matthias then! :) > >From a security team perspective, we do not plan to release the fix as > a DSA via

Bug#1003012: closed by Salvatore Bonaccorso (Re: Accepted bash 5.1-6 (source) into unstable)

2022-01-07 Thread Frank Heckenbach
Thanks for the quick fix! However, it's not clear to me if the fix will go to bullseye-security or at least bullseye-updates or only to testing. (Is there some way to find this out on the web site or so?) I need to know because now I have to either wait for the bullseye package or backport it mys

Bug#1003012: bash: Corrupted multibyte characters in command substitutions

2022-01-02 Thread Frank Heckenbach
Package: bash Version: 5.1-2+b3 Severity: critical Justification: breaks unrelated software Tags: patch upstream l10n I've reported this bug on bug-bash: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2022-01/msg0.html only to learn that it's known and not fixed for months (it was known before b

Bug#1002457: rsvg-convert: incorrect text rendering with small font-size (regression)

2021-12-22 Thread Frank Heckenbach
Package: librsvg2-bin Version: 2.50.3+dfsg-1 Severity: normal File: /usr/bin/rsvg-convert Text with small font-size is rendered incorrectly. In the attached exmples, letters are rendered on top of each other instead of next to each other. It was rendered correctly under buster (see font-tiny-2.44

Bug#929612: sispmctl: support EG-PMS2 aka usb-id 04b4:fd15

2021-12-14 Thread Frank Heckenbach
I wrote: : Still broken in stable and testing. Still broken in current stable, testing and unstable. : upstream 4.1 still works out of the box. Still does. : Does anyone read these bug reports at all? Apparently not. :(

Bug#1001070: command-not-found: crashes when entering an unknown command

2021-12-03 Thread Frank Heckenbach
Package: command-not-found Version: 20.10.1-1 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable See https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=917455 Bug #917455 was closed with: Marked as fixed in versions 20.10.1-1 This is *NOT* the case! After upgrading to bullseye, which inc

Bug#996872: librsvg2-bin: stroke-dasharray rendered wrong

2021-10-19 Thread Frank Heckenbach
Package: librsvg2-bin Version: 2.50.3+dfsg-1 Severity: normal % cat a.svg % rsvg-convert -f pdf -o a.pdf a.svg % The resulting PDF (attached) contains a thin line across the part of the path that should not be drawn. -- System Information: Debian Release: 11.0 APT prefers stable-security

Bug#994437: libortp: missing -lbctoolbox

2021-09-15 Thread Frank Heckenbach
Package: libortp-dev Version: 1:4.4.13-2 Severity: normal File: libortp % cat a.c #include int main () { ortp_init (); ortp_set_log_level_mask (ORTP_LOG_DOMAIN, ORTP_FATAL); } % gcc a.c `pkg-config --cflags --libs ortp` /usr/bin/ld: /tmp/ccnMlrim.o: undefined reference to symbol 'bctbx_set

Bug#994436: librsvg2-bin: error reporting

2021-09-15 Thread Frank Heckenbach
Package: librsvg2-bin Version: 2.50.3+dfsg-1 Severity: normal % cat bogus.svg % rm -f bogus.pdf % rsvg-convert -f pdf -o bogus.pdf bogus.svg Error reading SVG:XML parse error: error code=201 (3) in (null):1:71: Namespace prefix xlink for href on use is not defined % ls -la bogus.* -rw--- 1

Bug#987981: exim4: misleading bounce and error message "message is too big (transport limit = 1)"

2021-05-03 Thread Frank Heckenbach
Package: exim4 Version: 4.92-8+deb10u5 Severity: normal When I tried to send a mail, exim sent me this bounce: Subject: Mail delivery failed: returning message to sender This message was created automatically by mail delivery software. A message that you sent could not be delivered to one

Bug#980364: sudo: segfault when /var/lib/sudo/lectured not writable

2021-03-08 Thread Frank Heckenbach
Hi Marc, > Is it ok for you if I close this bug? Sure. > > Most likely unrelated, but one thing I did notice when checking the > > code is that sudo_mkdir_parents might UB if path is an empty string, > > since it first does "char *slash = path; strchr (slash + 1, '/');". > > > > Now I don't kno

Bug#980364: sudo: segfault when /var/lib/sudo/lectured not writable

2021-03-07 Thread Frank Heckenbach
> > On a system with disk errors, which had therefore remounted its > > file systems read-only, I tried to sudo in order to do further > > diagnostics as root, but sudo crashed with a segfault. > > I tried reproducing this with sudo 1.8.27-1+deb10u3, on a clean file > system, mounted read-only, on

Bug#905015: xserver-xorg-input-elographics: Xorg hangs on start when touchscreen does not answer

2021-02-17 Thread Frank Heckenbach
> This was a bug in X server 1.19 fixed in 1.19.4 with > https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/-/commit/d8f63717e05ae8d820ceae74216916ebd180441d > > Unfortunately this bug is in the X server in stretch and won't get fixed > there now that stretch is LTS, but the versions in buster and later

Bug#757582: closed by Bernhard Schmidt (Closing bugs opened for old Gtk client)

2021-01-18 Thread Frank Heckenbach
> You seem to forget that What you (and apparently many other maintainers) seem to forget is: > a) we are all volunteers Most bug reporters (including me) are volunteers too. Well managed projects treat good bug reports as a valuable resource to increase the quality of the project. Others consi

Bug#980364: sudo: segfault when /var/lib/sudo/lectured not writable

2021-01-17 Thread Frank Heckenbach
Package: sudo Version: 1.8.27-1+deb10u2 Severity: normal On a system with disk errors, which had therefore remounted its file systems read-only, I tried to sudo in order to do further diagnostics as root, but sudo crashed with a segfault. I think it should be possible (perhaps with a special opti

Bug#757582: closed by Bernhard Schmidt (Closing bugs opened for old Gtk client)

2021-01-17 Thread Frank Heckenbach
> you have reported a bug against Linhone 3.12 or earlier. This version > has been deprecated upstream for a couple of years Well, I did report the bug many years ago, so ... > We are sorry we could not deal with your bug report in time. s/could not/did not choose to/ ! You certainly could have

Bug#968757: command-not-found: breaks apt-get update

2020-08-20 Thread Frank Heckenbach
Package: command-not-found Version: 18.04.5-1 Severity: critical Justification: breaks unrelated software % apt-get update Hit:1 http://raspbian.raspberrypi.org/raspbian buster InRelease Hit:2 http://archive.raspberrypi.org/debian buster InRelease Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/li

Bug#916783: Bug#917455: command-not-found: "command-not-found unable to open database file"

2020-07-10 Thread Frank Heckenbach
> It's a minor issue of a missing database that fixes itself the > next time you run apt update. I now found out, it does *NOT* fix itself. In contrast, it unfixes itself! Even when I correct the permissions manually, they're wrong some time later (probably after the next upgrade). So the bug sti

Bug#929612: sispmctl: support EG-PMS2 aka usb-id 04b4:fd15

2020-07-06 Thread Frank Heckenbach
Still broken in stable and testing. upstream 4.1 still works out of the box. Does anyone read these bug reports at all?

Bug#961761: psmisc: killall fails to kill processes with names longer than 15 characters

2020-05-30 Thread Frank Heckenbach
> On Fri, 29 May 2020 at 09:21, Frank Heckenbach > wrote: > > killall fails to kill processes with names longer than 15 > > characters. > Actually it does. But the comm length has increased for some kernels. > > If you're asking it to kill something with an

Bug#961761: psmisc: killall fails to kill processes with names longer than 15 characters

2020-05-28 Thread Frank Heckenbach
Package: psmisc Version: 23.2-1 Severity: serious killall fails to kill processes with names longer than 15 characters. According to the manpage: -e, --exact Require an exact match for very long names. If a command name is longer than 15 characters, the full name may be

Bug#940661: swh-plugins: analogueOsc produces NaN under some conditions (reloaded)

2019-09-18 Thread Frank Heckenbach
Package: swh-plugins Version: 0.4.17-2 Severity: normal Tags: upstream patch The bug from https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=781997 has reappeared! The same test program as given there fails again, even though my patch from then has been applied. I suppose this is due to more aggr

Bug#940218: gpg: --textmode doesn't work in verify mode

2019-09-13 Thread Frank Heckenbach
Package: gpg Version: 2.2.12-1 Severity: normal Tags: upstream I got a number of "invalid signatures" recently, and when I investigated, I found that the "--textmode" option apparently has no effect during verify operations, unlike what I expected, so I had to manually convert the input to CR/LF t

Bug#929612: sispmctl: support EG-PMS2 aka usb-id 04b4:fd15

2019-09-05 Thread Frank Heckenbach
Can confirm. Present version in buster doesn't work, upstream 4.1 works out of the box.

Bug#917455: command-not-found: "local variable 'cnf' referenced before assignment" shown when entering an unknown command

2019-07-11 Thread Frank Heckenbach
> ack. I misremembered. It's funny that it works fine for its > entire lifetime in Ubuntu, and only Debian users seem to be > using different umasks for root. Kind of a niche thing. Though it's getting off-topic, a reason may be that Ubuntu is used more often on personal desktops (where, honestly,

Bug#917455: command-not-found: "local variable 'cnf' referenced before assignment" shown when entering an unknown command

2019-07-10 Thread Frank Heckenbach
> It's a minor issue of a missing database that fixes itself the > next time you run apt update. 1. If it's so easy, why wasn't it mentioned before? 2. Didn't work for me, neither "apt update", nor "apt-get update" (which I normally use). 3. After some digging, I found a solution that actuall

Bug#917455: command-not-found: "local variable 'cnf' referenced before assignment" shown when entering an unknown command

2019-07-10 Thread Frank Heckenbach
I get the same crash every time! Is there any workaround? Otherwise, it seems the package is totally broken. Shouldn't this be "grave" then? And why include it in the stable release at all if it doesn't work? I've seen packages banned for less severe reasons. Apparently, the problem has been kno

Bug#926702: dvb-apps: alevt: Font size too small

2019-04-09 Thread Frank Heckenbach
Package: dvb-apps Version: 1.1.1+rev1500-1.1 Severity: normal File: /usr/bin/alevt Tags: patch upstream The font size of alevt is very small on modern display sizes and resolutions. The same problem was reported on another distribution over 10 years ago (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?i

Bug#925516: libreoffice: Extension Manager: exception in synchronize

2019-03-25 Thread Frank Heckenbach
Package: libreoffice Version: 1:5.2.7-1+deb9u5 Severity: normal This is the same bug as #853149 which was closed on a formality (reported against the wrong package due to confusing naming -- a base is a base and a database is a database, isn't it ... anyway). How to reproduce: - Start libreoffic

Bug#914153: Update to version 2.3.0-3 breaks Megaglest

2019-02-07 Thread Frank Heckenbach
> > > Hmm, simply "./autogen.sh && ./configure && make -j" does build it > > > for me (though with some warnings), using stretch. Does that work > > > for you? If so, it must be something in the Debian rules; otherwise > > > it seems to be difference between stable and testing which may be > > > wo

Bug#914153: Update to version 2.3.0-3 breaks Megaglest

2019-02-07 Thread Frank Heckenbach
> I checked and everything looks all right, but I've been fighting for > 1+ hours because it cannot generate the ftgl.pdf documentation. Hmm, simply "./autogen.sh && ./configure && make -j" does build it for me (though with some warnings), using stretch. Does that work for you? If so, it must be s

Bug#914153: Update to version 2.3.0-3 breaks Megaglest

2019-02-07 Thread Frank Heckenbach
> The idea of using both RenderDefault() and RenderBasic() as well as > the flag, would equally work if you have just Render() and the > behaviour of one render or the other nested in an "if/else" based on > the flag. Whatever makes more sense to you. I suggested it because > in that way it is ea

Bug#914153: Update to version 2.3.0-3 breaks Megaglest

2019-02-06 Thread Frank Heckenbach
> > My suggestion of 2018-11-25 still stands. But if you want me to do > > my part of it, please do your review quickly and tell me soon > > (or, if it's indeed necessary for the soft freeze, immediately) to > > avoid running out of time. > > Your plan sounds OK. Changing packages after the relea

Bug#914153: Update to version 2.3.0-3 breaks Megaglest

2019-02-05 Thread Frank Heckenbach
> Em qui, 3 de jan de 2019 às 22:56, Frank Heckenbach > escreveu: > > > > According to https://release.debian.org/buster/freeze_policy.html: > > > > 2019-01-12 - Transition freeze > > > > Is there still time yet to get a fix in, or is it FUBAR already? &

Bug#914153: Update to version 2.3.0-3 breaks Megaglest

2019-01-03 Thread Frank Heckenbach
According to https://release.debian.org/buster/freeze_policy.html: 2019-01-12 - Transition freeze Is there still time yet to get a fix in, or is it FUBAR already? Frank

Bug#914153: Update to version 2.3.0-3 breaks Megaglest

2018-11-28 Thread Frank Heckenbach
Hi Manuel, > > That seems to me the best solution indeed. So I can offer this: > > > > - I add these two new versions for all functions involved (quite a > > few); we'd just need to agree about naming ("old" and "new" won't > > do, since in this complicated situation it's not even clear which

Bug#914153: Update to version 2.3.0-3 breaks Megaglest

2018-11-25 Thread Frank Heckenbach
Hi, coming back to my own mail, after thinking about it some more: : > And I think that the default would have to be the old behaviour, yes, : > because after many years behaving in that way the applications must : > have learned to adapt or cope, and no one knows that they have to use : > a diff

Bug#914153: Update to version 2.3.0-3 breaks Megaglest

2018-11-21 Thread Frank Heckenbach
Hi, > Em qua, 21 de nov de 2018 às 15:15, Frank Heckenbach > escreveu: > > > > > I think that we should revert this change for the time being, though, > > > because if it was working in this way for about a decade and the > > > programs using FTGL work

Bug#914153: Update to version 2.3.0-3 breaks Megaglest

2018-11-21 Thread Frank Heckenbach
Hi, > I think that we should revert this change for the time being, though, > because if it was working in this way for about a decade and the > programs using FTGL worked "fine" despite having some bug there, Sorry, they did *NOT* all work fine, see my bug report. And if we apply my patch from 7

Bug#914153: Update to version 2.3.0-3 breaks Megaglest

2018-11-20 Thread Frank Heckenbach
Hi Evgeny, > >After updating libftgl2 from version 2.1.3~rc5-5 to version 2.3.0-3, text > >rendering in Megaglest is broken. Text is shown correctly in menus, but text > >displayed in the game itself is replaced by white rectangles. > > Thanks for the report. > > Any idea of what's going on, F

Bug#905033: xserver-xorg-input-elographics: locks up system on EOF from touchscreen

2018-07-30 Thread Frank Heckenbach
Package: xserver-xorg-input-elographics Version: 1:1.4.1-1 Severity: normal Tags: patch When reading from the touchscreen device returns 0 (EOF), the driver goes into an endless loop of poll and read. This locks up the Xorg server, and when trying to kill it with -9, it hangs the whole system (no

Bug#905015: xserver-xorg-input-elographics: Xorg hangs on start when touchscreen does not answer

2018-07-30 Thread Frank Heckenbach
Package: xserver-xorg-input-elographics Version: 1:1.4.1-1 Severity: normal Tags: patch See subject. Reason: ELO_MAX_WAIT is microseconds, but xf86WaitForInput expects milliseconds. Patch (line numbers after #776990): --- src/xf86Elo.c +++ src/xf86Elo.c @@ -459,7 +459,7 @@ * timeout and e

Bug#760571: libftgl2: problems with bitmap fonts, incorrect blending function, etc.

2018-02-15 Thread Frank Heckenbach
I wrote: > Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo wrote: > > > Now, what I can offer is that if you are interested in the package, want > > to take responsability for the changes, and want to fix the problems in > > the long term (including maybe switching to the fork in github, which > > seems more lively

Bug#760571: libftgl2: problems with bitmap fonts, incorrect blending function, etc.

2018-01-29 Thread Frank Heckenbach
Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo wrote: > So basically the package has been unmaintained all these years, and > still is. Sorry that your patches were ignored, but it seems that the > maintainers are simply not available, and the rest of the Debian folks > don't always take a look to packages unless

Bug#887411: fgfs: segfaults when receiving UDP data too early

2018-01-15 Thread Frank Heckenbach
Package: flightgear Version: 1:2016.4.4+dfsg-3+deb9u1 File: /usr/games/fgfs Severity: normal When receiving UDP data too early, fgfs segfaults after giving the message: AI error: updating aircraft without traffic record at ... I've traced the segfault to trafficcontrol.cxx:984 At this point,

Bug#622340: udev - system hangs about 90 seconds on boot (first line,"Loading, please wait") -> ata1.00: failed command: IDENTIFY PACKET DEVICE

2017-06-18 Thread Frank Heckenbach
FYI, my drive that triggered this bug has now broken down, probably just the optical/mechanical part (not worth investigating); it's still seen by the computer and can probably be used to debug it if someone's interested. (So far it doesn't seem so to me, and I won't care about this bug now either.

Bug#864649: bash: SIGINT isn't handled after "wait -n" etc.

2017-06-12 Thread Frank Heckenbach
Package: bash Version: 4.3-11+deb8u1 Severity: normal In the following program, bash hangs when interrupting (Ctrl-C) the read. It seems to depend on all the previous statements, including "wait -n" and the pipe. #!/bin/bash : & wait -n : | : read strace shows the following: read(0, 0x6fe4c0, 1

Bug#772874: closed by IOhannes m zmölnig (Debian/GNU) (either fixed or wontfix upstream.)

2017-05-31 Thread Frank Heckenbach
> 3) incompatible VOC files: upstream denies that there is a problem here. > also i agree with upstream that the error message is pretty clear: > "Error in VOC file, incompatible VOC sections" doesn't say "your VOC > file is broken" but instead "it is incompatible with my notion of VOC > files due

Bug#859008: dvb-tools: dvbv5-scan segfaults with DVB-T2 HD service that just started in Germany

2017-03-30 Thread Frank Heckenbach
I got the same problem, only on some channels though, e.g. ZDF using this input: [CH34] DELIVERY_SYSTEM = DVBT2 FREQUENCY = 57800 BANDWIDTH_HZ = 800 MODULATION = QAM/16 *** Error in `dvbv5-scan': malloc(): memory corruption: 0x00fe13c0 *** I did some debugging with gdb and valgri

Bug#805259: automatically move instead of close bugs in removed (upgraded) package versions

2016-09-24 Thread Frank Heckenbach
> On Wed, 21 Sep 2016, Frank Heckenbach wrote: > > I've just experienced another such case after gcc-4.9 was "removed" > > (#785249, which was reported upstream, and probably a whole more, > > some of which are probably lost now). > > These all sti

Bug#805259: automatically move instead of close bugs in removed (upgraded) package versions

2016-09-20 Thread Frank Heckenbach
I've just experienced another such case after gcc-4.9 was "removed" (#785249, which was reported upstream, and probably a whole more, some of which are probably lost now). PS: It's quite ironic that a bug report in which I also complained about so many Debian bug reports sitting idly in the bug da

Bug#835542: flex: comparison between signed and unsigned integer expressions

2016-09-05 Thread Frank Heckenbach
Hi, > On Sat, Sep 03, 2016 at 10:57:13PM +0200, Frank Heckenbach wrote: > > > > Will this fix be pushed by security.debian.org as well now, or will > > I have to install it manually? > > It will be pushed via security.debian.org archive "soon", since we >

Bug#835542: flex: comparison between signed and unsigned integer expressions

2016-09-03 Thread Frank Heckenbach
Hi, > On 02/09/16 06:31, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 01, 2016 at 12:14:02PM +0100, Robert Shearman wrote: > >> Alternatively, I'm pretty sure that adding the resulting changes to skel.c > >> in 0006-CVE-2016-6354.patch would work too. > > > > I uploaded new varaiants of the builds

Bug#835650: Imagemagick regression pin point patch

2016-09-01 Thread Frank Heckenbach
> I suppose > https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/f6242e725c819a69bee2a444f8e4a3c7718b2b3f > > Fix it. If so plezse merge this bug with the other one régression about pdf Yes, this seems to fix my problem, thanks. Frank

Bug#835650: Imagemagick regression pin point patch

2016-08-31 Thread Frank Heckenbach
> On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 8:42 AM, Bastien ROUCARIES > wrote: > > > Patches are needed for a security point of view but it is likely a > > problem of backport intereaction. > > > > Could you help by pin point the problem. > > > > as root install a few package needed for imagemagick compilation: >

Bug#835542: flex: comparison between signed and unsigned integer expressions

2016-08-26 Thread Frank Heckenbach
Package: flex Version: 2.5.39-8+deb8u1 Severity: normal After this update, I get the following warning when compiling the flex generated code with gcc, which I didn't get before: scan.cpp: In function ‘int yy_get_next_buffer(yyscan_t)’: scan.cpp:758:18: error: comparison between signed and un

Bug#826072: alevt: Program table overflow

2016-06-01 Thread Frank Heckenbach
Package: dvb-apps Version: 1.1.1+rev1500-1+fh1 Severity: normal File: /usr/bin/alevt Tags: patch progtbl has a size of 16 (actually, only 15 are used due to the check "progcnt >= sizeof(progtbl)/sizeof(progtbl[0])"; maybe this should be ">", unless the last entry is needed as a terminator). Anywa

Bug#821321: libvorbisfile: ov_pcm_seek wrongly returns OV_EOF or segfaults sometimes

2016-04-18 Thread Frank Heckenbach
Hi Martin, > Thank you for your bug report! > > Judging from the code that reproduces the bug (two subsequent seeks to > 0) and from the related vorbis code you are mentioning, this sounds a > lot like #782831, which was fixed in 1.3.4-3. Could you confirm or > refute that theory by testing yo

Bug#821321: libvorbisfile: ov_pcm_seek wrongly returns OV_EOF or segfaults sometimes

2016-04-17 Thread Frank Heckenbach
Package: libvorbisfile3 Version: 1.3.4-2 Severity: important ov_pcm_seek wrongly returns OV_EOF or segfaults sometimes. I've observed it in some situations, below is a very simple one to reproduce. It's an important problem to me, because (unless fixed or you can tell me exactly when seeking will

Bug#788303: systemd: Hangs indefinitely on >90% of reboot attempts

2016-04-01 Thread Frank Heckenbach
> On 28 March 2016 at 12:18, Frank Heckenbach wrote: > > Felipe Sateler wrote: > > > >> BTW, systemd has been uploaded to proposed-updates[1] fixing #805133. > >> Could you please upgrade to that version and try using the > >> After=swap.target workar

Bug#788303: systemd: Hangs indefinitely on >90% of reboot attempts

2016-03-28 Thread Frank Heckenbach
Felipe Sateler wrote: > BTW, systemd has been uploaded to proposed-updates[1] fixing #805133. > Could you please upgrade to that version and try using the > After=swap.target workaround? Actually, I'm not sure if it works. I could not reproduce the bug now (but it wasn't 100% reproducible anyway)

Bug#819327: bash: executes statement after "exit"

2016-03-26 Thread Frank Heckenbach
Package: bash Version: 4.3-11+b1 Severity: normal % cat bash-bug #!/bin/bash if true; then $[()] exit fi echo "Should not get here." % ./bash-bug ./bash-bug: line 4: (): syntax error: operand expected (error token is ")") Should not get here. The error is correct, but after that it should c

Bug#788303: State of the bug?

2016-03-24 Thread Frank Heckenbach
> Nicht genügend Hauptspeicher verfügbar > > at shutdown time. > > Thanks for the reporting and analysis so far! > > @Frank Heckenbach: I would love to give the "workaround" a try, but I > don't fully understand, what will be achieved by > > > ExecStop

Bug#818037: vorbis-tools: vcut always(?) segfaults

2016-03-19 Thread Frank Heckenbach
> I debugged it and found the problem. It was a simple indexing problem > that seemed to have slipped away during quite some time because of a > lucky memory layout: The pointer resulting from the wrong indexing > points to the stack and therefore to valid memory (in terms of memory > management

Bug#818037: vorbis-tools: vcut always(?) segfaults

2016-03-18 Thread Frank Heckenbach
> It's not yet in the upstream git repository (I submitted the patch > through their bug tracker, but someone from upstream has to check it and > apply it), but in our (the Debian package's) git repository. > > You can find the patch here: > > https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-xiph/vorbis-tool

Bug#818045: libspice-server1: cursor disappears in KDE in Xspice

2016-03-12 Thread Frank Heckenbach
Package: libspice-server1 Version: 0.12.5-1+deb8u2 Severity: normal Tags: patch When running KDE in Xspice, the cursor disappears. To reproduce, I start the server like this: #!/bin/sh set -e export DISPLAY=:30 zcat /usr/share/doc/xserver-xspice/spiceqxl.xorg.conf.example.gz > /tmp/xspice.conf

Bug#818037: vorbis-tools: vcut always(?) segfaults

2016-03-12 Thread Frank Heckenbach
Package: vorbis-tools Version: 1.4.0-6 Severity: grave File: /usr/bin/vcut Justification: renders package unusable Sorry for the brief description, but for what I can tell, that's really it. I tried various cases, and vcut always seems to just segfault. Here's one example: % head -c 50 /dev/z

Bug#622340: udev - system hangs about 90 seconds on boot (first line,"Loading, please wait") -> ata1.00: failed command: IDENTIFY PACKET DEVICE

2016-03-02 Thread Frank Heckenbach
Hi Jort, > Great comment and recommendation. I was using SB04 and experienced the 90 > second boot delay. Workaround was functioning as described before, however > udev rules might easily get overwritten so it's not an ideal solution. > > I have a dual boot OS. > What I did: > Booted to windows a

Bug#788303: systemd: Hangs indefinitely on >90% of reboot attempts

2016-01-15 Thread Frank Heckenbach
> > This seems to work. However, given that this single line is now >1 > > KB and more than 3 times as long as my work-around service, and > > heavily depends on the system configuration, I doubt whether it's > > actually less hackish. (I do occasionally change my swap partitions. > > I also build

Bug#788303: systemd: Hangs indefinitely on >90% of reboot attempts

2016-01-14 Thread Frank Heckenbach
> Due to the other bug I linked, this may not be sufficient. Please list > all the swap units listed in > > % systemctl list-units '*.swap' > > You'll see that there are multiple units each of the different ways > you can access the underlying partition (by uuid, did, wwm and sdX > name). > > I

Bug#788303: systemd: Hangs indefinitely on >90% of reboot attempts

2016-01-14 Thread Frank Heckenbach
> What if instead of this service, you add an: > > After=swap.target > > To your tmp.mount ? Doesn't work. Also, systemctl still lists tmp.mount before the swap targets, which means (I suppose) it will be stopped after them. I thought maybe swap.target is just a virtual target that depends on t

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