Bug#1061155: closed by Debian FTP Masters (reply to Georges Khaznadar ) (Bug#1061155: fixed in cron 3.0pl1-186)

2024-03-01 Thread Jonathan H N Chin
them. -jonathan georges.khaznadar wrote: > To: Jonathan H N Chin , 1061...@bugs.debian.org > From: Georges Khaznadar > Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2024 14:08:08 +0100 > Subject: Re: Bug#1061155: closed by Debian FTP Masters > (reply to Georges Khaznadar > ) (Bug#1061155: fixed in cron 3.0pl1-186) &

Bug#1061155: closed by Debian FTP Masters (reply to Georges Khaznadar ) (Bug#1061155: fixed in cron 3.0pl1-186)

2024-02-29 Thread Jonathan H N Chin
Hi, I just received the new package and tried it. Thanks. It detects unacceptable MAILTO/MAILFROM, but because unacceptable values will cause an error later, issuing only a warning feels inadequate to me. For usability, perhaps it would be better to use check_error(). Currently, warnings could be

Bug#1061155: cron: "crontab -e" does not report "unsafe" mail and so job output can be lost

2024-02-27 Thread Jonathan H N Chin
addresses. > >I suppose that we can sanitize the value of MAILTO, by checking it > >with a regular expression derived from RFC 5322 Official Standard > >(see [1]https://emailregex.com/), or do you suggest some lighter approach? > >Best regards, 

Bug#1061155: cron: "crontab -e" does not report "unsafe" mail and so job output can be lost

2024-02-27 Thread Jonathan H N Chin
the extra space included in the > >list of MAILTO addresses. > >I suppose that we can sanitize the value of MAILTO, by checking it > >with a regular expression derived from RFC 5322 Official Standard > >(see [1]https://emailregex.com/), or do you suggest some li

Bug#1061155: cron: "crontab -e" does not report "unsafe" mail and so job output can be lost

2024-02-26 Thread Jonathan H N Chin
Sorry, my mail server does not seem to have received any email from debian when you sent your email on 2024-01-21. Was I supposed to have been automatically Bcc'd? I disagree that the bug is not grave - I believe it meets the criterion of data being lost (and was in fact lost by the user). However

Bug#1061155: cron: "crontab -e" does not report "unsafe" mail and so job output can be lost

2024-01-19 Thread Jonathan H N Chin
Package: cron Version: 3.0pl1-182 Severity: grave Justification: causes non-serious data loss Dear Maintainer, * What led up to the situation? 1. A user ran "crontab -e" 2. He added the line (note the space): MAILTO=a...@example.org, b...@example.com 3. He saved and exited 4. No errors

Bug#1054327: cron: color patch is undocumented and buggy but cannot be disabled

2023-10-21 Thread Jonathan H N Chin
Package: cron Version: 3.0pl1-176 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, * What led up to the situation? `crontab -l` has started producing garish yellow output that corrupts the prompt. There is no documentation in the manpage explaining that colour is produced in some circumstances (just notes i

Bug#1023939: findimagedupes: debian build process fails to set version

2022-11-12 Thread Jonathan H N Chin
Package: findimagedupes Version: 2.20.1-1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, Hi I am the author of findimagedupes. I believe you are building directly from the files on github. I don't provide the tar release file there. Perhaps I should. Building the debian package directly from the findimagesu

Bug#1023938: findimagedupes: uninitialized value warnings when program is run

2022-11-12 Thread Jonathan H N Chin
Package: findimagedupes Version: 2.20.1-1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, The debian build process appears to amend the Inline::C setup: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl5/5.36/findimagedupes/C.pm : ``` use Inline C => 'DATA', NAME => 'findimagedupes::C', VERSION => '0

Bug#1009614: findimagedupes: inline C code is out of date

2022-04-12 Thread Jonathan H N Chin
Package: findimagedupes Version: 2.19.1-1+b1 Severity: normal X-Debbugs-Cc: c...@jhnc.org Hi debian maintainers, thanks for all your work. I'm the author of findimagedupes. The original findimagedupes Perl script includes inline C code and autogenerates files at runtime in: /usr/local/lib/findim

Bug#758487: findimagedupes: speed improvements

2019-01-23 Thread Jonathan H N Chin
Thank you for the suggested patch which, unfortunately, I have only just seen. Benchmarking the change on a buster/sid system today with: findimagedupes_2.18-7 libgraphics-magick-perl_1.4~hg15873-1+b1 perl -dNYTProf ./findimagedupes-test -v fp -n -- ... I get: Calls P F Exclusi

Bug#822374: tt-rss: feeds may fail if php-curl not installed

2016-04-23 Thread Jonathan H N Chin
Package: tt-rss Version: 15.7+git20151123+dfsg-5 Severity: normal php-curl is not in the list of recommended dependencies for tt-rss. In include/functions.php:fetch_file_contents(), if php-curl is not installed, the code seems to fall back to using file_get_contents(). However, this fails to load

Bug#610722: thinkfan: dies setting fan to disengaged

2011-01-21 Thread Jonathan H N Chin
Package: thinkfan Version: 0.7.1-2 Severity: important Tags: patch I have a lenovo thinkpad x201. I am able to make the cpu overheat if I run processes that are very intensive. This is because the "level 7" fan speed (~4500RPM) is much lower than "level disengaged" speed (~5500RPM). It is not po

Bug#608323: f-spot: rotate fails on read-only files / "your original is never altered" is not true

2011-01-16 Thread Jonathan H N Chin
laney wrote: > On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 09:39:15PM +0000, Jonathan H N Chin wrote: >> It is important to me that my original files are never modified in any way. >> If the manual clearly states "your original is never altered", then there >> must never be a situation

Bug#608323: f-spot: rotate fails on read-only files / "your original is never altered" is not true

2010-12-29 Thread Jonathan H N Chin
Package: f-spot Version: 0.6.2-2 Severity: normal The online manual clearly states: |> 1.2.1. Versions |> When you edit your photos, a new copy (called a version) is created, |> so your original is never altered. After your first edit to a photo, |> subsequent edits will modify the same version.

Bug#587040: gnome-power-manager: battery -> battery/10 after suspend on mains

2010-06-24 Thread Jonathan H N Chin
Subject: gnome-power-manager: battery -> battery/10 after suspend on mains Package: gnome-power-manager Version: 2.30.1-1 Severity: normal I have a ThinkPad X201 with docking bay. It is configured to suspend when I close the lid. However, if the machine is connected to the external PSU (either di

Bug#583280: zfs-fuse: "zfs send | zfs recv" hangs

2010-05-26 Thread Jonathan H N Chin
Package: zfs-fuse Version: 0.6.0+critical20100301-5 Severity: important It does not seem to be possible to replicate data without first copying it to a temporary file. Invoking more than one instance of zfs in a pipeline simply hangs. I see a workaround in a 2007-11-09 post by Ricardo Correia to

Bug#583279: zfs-fuse: .zfs/snapshots cannot be accessed

2010-05-26 Thread Jonathan H N Chin
Package: zfs-fuse Version: 0.6.0+critical20100301-5 Severity: normal Despite the description of .zfs/snapshot in zfs(1M), it does not appear to be accessible in the zfs-fuse implementation. Apparently a workaround is to perform a "zfs clone" of the snapshot and access that instead. However this

Bug#531145: findimagedupes: man page contains installation instructions

2009-06-01 Thread Jonathan H N Chin
er the first one is probably all that you'll need in debian/rules to remove it: sed -i '/^=head1 INSTALLATION/,/^=head1 /{/^=head1 /p;d;}' $(pkg) -jonathan -- Jonathan H N Chin http://@jhnc.org; -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Bug#507956: findimagedupes: Use of glob means folders with whitespace in their names are dropped

2008-12-08 Thread Jonathan H N Chin
Okay, I removed the glob and just used opendir/readdir. I'm fairly certain this version should work properly. Thanks for noticing the problem Brendon. -jonathan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#507956: findimagedupes: Use of glob means folders with whitespace in their names are dropped

2008-12-08 Thread Jonathan H N Chin
Oops. No, escaping doesn't suffice. I didn't test thoroughly. Time for some coffee. -jonathan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#507956: findimagedupes: Use of glob means folders with whitespace in their names are dropped

2008-12-08 Thread Jonathan H N Chin
I think it suffices to escape the input: glob("\Q$file\E/*") $ find .|od -c 000 . \0 . / t h i s ' i s ' a 020 t e s t f i d \0 . / t h i s ' 040 i s ' a t e s t f i d / w i 0

Bug#504039: lazygal: link originals without copying

2008-11-05 Thread Jonathan H N Chin
alexandre.rossi wrote: > Done. Please test if you have a chance to do so. You should find an > up-to-date snapshot on the program's website. That was quick. Thanks. I'm not sure if this is considered to be a bug, but if I run the following two commands, the final html files contain links to "/FIR

Bug#504040: lazygal: handling broken for directory names containing period

2008-11-02 Thread Jonathan H N Chin
alexandre.rossi wrote: > Yep that's the other bug that I also fixed. http://bugs.debian.org/504040 Oops. Sorry, I didn't read that report. I will wait for the changes to make their way into the debian package. Thanks. -jonathan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Bug#504040: lazygal: handling broken for directory names containing period

2008-11-02 Thread Jonathan H N Chin
alexandre.rossi wrote: > > Some subdirectories are incorrectly treated as a picture. > > This results in files in such directories being difficult to access. > > I think the bug is with any directory that contains a ".". > > You were right, thanks a lot for the report. > > The patch that fixes th

Bug#504041: lazygal: empty placeholder image in menu if directory has no images

2008-10-31 Thread Jonathan H N Chin
alexandre.rossi wrote: > > If a subdirectory contains no images (directly, it may have them nested > > further down) then the placeholder image is empty. > > Could you elaborate a bit because this works for me. Which theme are you > using? The default theme. > There was an issue close to this

Bug#504041: lazygal: empty placeholder image in menu if directory has no images

2008-10-30 Thread Jonathan H N Chin
Package: lazygal Version: 0.4-1 Severity: wishlist If a subdirectory contains no images (directly, it may have them nested further down) then the placeholder image is empty. It is not immediately obvious that one should click on such an empty space on a webpage in order to proceed. Perhaps a no

Bug#504040: lazygal: handling broken for directory names containing period

2008-10-30 Thread Jonathan H N Chin
Package: lazygal Version: 0.4-1 Severity: normal Some subdirectories are incorrectly treated as a picture. This results in files in such directories being difficult to access. I think the bug is with any directory that contains a ".". Examples I have seen include: directory name:treated

Bug#504039: lazygal: link originals without copying

2008-10-30 Thread Jonathan H N Chin
Package: lazygal Version: 0.4-1 Severity: wishlist The "-O" option copies the original files into the new tree. I have a readonly hierarchy of large images that I don't want to copy but I do want to be linked into the html pages. I suggest a new option that allows a directory "base" to be specifi

Bug#497047: sqlite3: floating point behaviour has changed

2008-08-29 Thread Jonathan H N Chin
071507.55 $ cat /etc/debian_version lenny/sid $ uname -m i686 $ dpkg -l sqlite3 | awk '/^.i/{print $3}' 3.5.9-3 $ echo 'select 1219441430151/2.0, 1219441430151/20.0;' | sqlite3 609720715075.5| -jonathan -- Jonathan H N Chin, 2 dan | deputy computer | Newton Institut

Bug#487104: nis: map values containing non-ascii characters vanish

2008-08-15 Thread Jonathan H N Chin
on your Debian system when > this fails? The bug log suggests it'll be a UTF-8 one since it's a > fresh etch install. Yes, it is. -jonathan -- Jonathan H N Chin | deputy computer | Newton Institute, Cambridge, UK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | systems manager | tel/fax: +4

Bug#487104: nis: map values containing non-ascii characters vanish

2008-08-15 Thread Jonathan H N Chin
-jonathan -- Jonathan H N Chin | deputy computer | Newton Institute, Cambridge, UK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | systems manager | tel/fax: +44 1223 767091/330508 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#487104: nis: map values containing non-ascii characters vanish

2008-08-15 Thread Jonathan H N Chin
ypcat does not lose accounts: $ LC_ALL=en_GB.UTF-8 ypcat passwd|grep Marks|awk -F: '{print $5}'|od -c 000 K . M a r k s t r 367 m \n 015 -jonathan -- Jonathan H N Chin | deputy computer | Newton Institute, Cambridge, UK &l

Bug#487104: nis: map values containing non-ascii characters vanish

2008-08-15 Thread Jonathan H N Chin
; username' to query the different users. Yes, it works. > > > 'LC_ALL=en_GB.ISO-8859-1 LANG=en_GB.ISO-8859-1 ypcat' > > This works. > > This seems to say that the problem is in the nis package instead of the > glibc package. There's only

Bug#487104: nis: map values containing non-ascii characters vanish

2008-08-15 Thread Jonathan H N Chin
(note that you may have to generate the corresponding locale) This works. -jonathan -- Jonathan H N Chin | deputy computer | Newton Institute, Cambridge, UK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | systems manager | tel/fax: +44 1223 767091/330508 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#487104: nis: map values containing non-ascii characters vanish

2008-07-01 Thread Jonathan H N Chin
aurelien wrote: > Would it be possible to test that with libc6_2.7-12 ? Fails, with apparently same behaviour as 2.3.6.ds1-13etch5 : $ dpkg -l libc6|awk '/^.i/{print $3}' 2.7-12 $ ypcat passwd|grep Mark|awk -F: '{print $5}'|od -c 000 -jonathan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email t

Bug#488333: Acknowledgement (apache2.2-common: mod_speling no longer works on nested directories)

2008-06-29 Thread Jonathan H N Chin
I have been pointed to: https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=38635 https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=43562 Perhaps the fix can be backported, or maybe the necessity to use (and warnings about using) AcceptPathInfo with mod_speling can be documented i

Bug#488333: apache2.2-common: mod_speling no longer works on nested directories

2008-06-27 Thread Jonathan H N Chin
Package: apache2.2-common Version: 2.2.3-4+etch4 Severity: important I have a website which for historical reasons has lots of urls given with the wrong case (files were stored on a case-insensitive filesystem in the past). With sarge and apache 2.0.54, mod_speling hid the problem. For example,

Bug#487104: nis: map values containing non-ascii characters vanish

2008-06-20 Thread Jonathan H N Chin
broonie wrote: > ...here you are talking about specific NIS package versions rather than > a change from sarge to etch. Can you please confirm that the issue you > are seeing manifests when changing distributions rather than being > specifically the result of an upgrade of the nis package? Yes. S

Bug#487104: nis: map values containing non-ascii characters vanish

2008-06-20 Thread Jonathan H N Chin
broonie wrote: > Reassigning there as a result but please provide further information on > what has changed between a working and non-working system - I strongly > expect that you will also have changed other packages. I have a webserver running sarge. I'm building a replacement using etch. It's

Bug#487104: nis: map values containing non-ascii characters vanish

2008-06-19 Thread Jonathan H N Chin
Addendum: I can't see much difference between nis 3.13-2 and 3.17-6. However, there are lots of differences in libc6 going from 2.3.2.ds1-22sarge6 to 2.3.6.ds1-13etch5. Since ypcat is just a wrapper to yp_all calls (from libnsl ?), perhaps this bug should be reassigned to libc6. -jonathan -

Bug#479731: Processed: severity of 479731 is grave

2008-06-14 Thread Jonathan H N Chin
Sorry, I misunderstood your previous email. I've uploaded the new version. -jonathan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#479731: findimagedupes: Packages seems to need recompile for newer perl

2008-05-06 Thread Jonathan H N Chin
meskes wrote: > But I think what Andreas was refering to is the message > v-string in use/require non-portable at /usr/bin/findimagedupes line 25. Perl 5.10 appears to give more detailed diagnostics. I've changed the offending line in my source: "require 5.6.1;" -> "require 5.006_001;" I'm cons

Bug#479731: findimagedupes: Packages seems to need recompile for newer perl

2008-05-06 Thread Jonathan H N Chin
This is not a bug in findimagedupes, per se. It seems the Perl API changed between 5.8.8 and 5.10.0: http://lists.macosforge.org/pipermail/macports-dev/2007-December/003947.html I expect lots of programs are affected. A workaround might be to force the findimagedupes package to depend on the

Bug#470664: kvm: can't boot with qcow image

2008-03-12 Thread Jonathan H N Chin
Package: kvm Version: 63+dfsg-1 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable $ dpkg -l kvm | tail -1 | awk '{print $3}' 63+dfsg-1 $ qemu-img create -f qcow test.img 2G Formatting 'test.img', fmt=qcow, size=2097152 kB $ kvm -boot d -cdrom debian.img -hda test.img qemu: could not open di

Bug#454132: findimagedupes -strange results when using fp database

2007-12-05 Thread Jonathan H N Chin
Probably no need to Cc: the end-users for this. tillea wrote: > I wonder if you could provide a versioned tarball containing > the script itself the copyright statement (GPL) and a README > (in principle as it is done in the Debian tarball). The > rationale behind this request is that this would

Bug#454132: findimagedupes -strange results when using fp database

2007-12-04 Thread Jonathan H N Chin
I noticed some bad logic in process_file() and diffbits() so I have uploaded a new version (2.5). -jonathan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#454132: findimagedupes -strange results when using fp database

2007-12-04 Thread Jonathan H N Chin
Andreas, I have uploaded a new version that I believe fixes the bug to: http://www.jhnc.org/findimagedupes/ It is a single line change. Perhaps now would be a convenient time to switch the package to using graphicsmagick to fix the SIGSTOP issue with imagemagick. -jonathan -- To

Bug#361720: nn: save-files no longer works

2006-04-09 Thread Jonathan H N Chin
Package: nn Version: 6.7.2-1 Severity: normal Between nn-6.6.5 and this version, save-files has stopped working. Reproduce by creating a .nn/init like: --- 8< --- 8< --- 8< --- 8< --- 8< --- 8< --- 8< --- 8< --- 8< --- 8< --- set default-save-file +$G set folder /home/jhnc/archive/usenet save-fi

Bug#341460: apache2: can't serve big files

2005-11-30 Thread Jonathan H N Chin
Package: apache2 Version: 2.0.54-5 Severity: wishlist Although my filesystem can store multi-gigabyte files, apache can't serve them. For example, attempting to access an ~6GB tar file I get: /var/log/apache2/error.log:[Wed Nov 30 18:04:06 2005] [error] [client 131.111.145.57] (75)Value too lar

Bug#314232: libdbd-sqlite3-perl: bind variables change from text to integer

2005-06-15 Thread Jonathan H N Chin
Package: libdbd-sqlite3-perl Version: 1.08-1 Severity: important [ I have marked this as important. However it caused me data loss, so perhaps it should be grave. ] I have textual data that may look like integers. On insertion, any leading "0" will vanish. For example: sqlite3 test 'creat