Bug#918328: aptitude: symbol lookup error: aptitude: undefined symbol: _ZN6Xapian4MSetC1EOS0_

2019-01-04 Thread Ted Percival
Package: aptitude Version: 0.8.11-3 Severity: important Starting aptitude fails due to a missing Xapian symbol: $ aptitude aptitude: symbol lookup error: aptitude: undefined symbol: _ZN6Xapian4MSetC1EOS0_ This is probably a bug in the syms in the applicable xapian library package causing aptitud

Bug#915603: (no subject)

2018-12-05 Thread Ted Percival
Bug 871306[2] says graphicsmagick needs to Build-Depend on g++ (>= 4:7) to get the new & old ABIs, but I don't see a versioned Build-Depends on g++ since the bug was closed in version 1.3.26-5. > For new > executables to build without undefined references, your library will > need rebuilding with

Bug#915606: libgraphicsmagick++-q16-12: Requires soname/shlibs bump for C++11 ABI changes

2018-12-05 Thread Ted Percival
Package: libgraphicsmagick++-q16-12 Version: 1.3.31-1 Severity: important Important due to RC Policy "Shared library packages must include correct shlibs files". There was an ABI change between libgraphicsmagick++-q16-12 versions 1.3.30+hg15796-1~deb9u2 and 1.3.31-1 but the shlibs file was not ch

Bug#915603: libgraphicsmagick++-q16-12: Requires soname/shlibs bump for libstdc++11 transition

2018-12-05 Thread Ted Percival
Package: libgraphicsmagick++-q16-12 Version: 1.3.31-1 Severity: important Important due to RC Policy "Shared library packages must include correct shlibs files". There was an ABI change between libgraphicsmagick++-q16-12 versions 1.3.30+hg15796-1~deb9u2 and 1.3.31-1 but the shlibs file was not ch

Bug#907496: libcurlpp0: Always fails with "No URL set!"

2018-08-28 Thread Ted Percival
Package: libcurlpp0 Version: 0.8.1-2+b1 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable libcurlpp0 appears to always fail with a "No URL set!" error message. I only tested the "Easy" API. For example even the first example in its repo

Bug#367320: Patch available

2014-01-07 Thread Ted Percival
On Sat, Dec 28, 2013 at 6:31 PM, Geoffrey Thomas wrote: > On Sat, 2 Sep 2006, Ted Percival wrote: > >> I have written a patch that adds timestamps to the output of prelink >> through a "-T" command-line option. The patch is attached as >> prelink-timestamp.patch

Bug#706593: Fwd: [Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#706593: network-manager: Don't know how to create 'NMSettingVPN' connections

2013-05-02 Thread Ted Percival
On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 8:04 AM, Michael Biebl wrote: > It seems you don't have any of the VPN plugins installed. > If you want to create new connections from within the GUI you will need > them. Please install them and report back. After installing network-manager-pptp-gnome the UI works fine. M

Bug#706593: Dependencies are not the problem

2013-05-01 Thread Ted Percival
I tried upgrading libnm-glib-vpn1 to version 0.9.8.0-2 to match but that did not solve the problem. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#706593: network-manager: Don't know how to create 'NMSettingVPN' connections

2013-05-01 Thread Ted Percival
Package: network-manager Version: 0.9.8.0-1 Severity: normal I installed network-manager from experimental. When I try to create a VPN from the GNOME GUI I get an error saying "Error creating connection" "Don't know how to create 'NMSettingVPN' connections" I guess the dependencies below show tha

Bug#663752: Fixed in glibc

2012-03-31 Thread Ted Percival
tags fixed-upstream upstream thanks This bug is fixed in glibc. Here are the patches: Patch 1: http://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=commitdiff;h=c0244a9dedce43a4b950d91451b16a7cf5408476;hp=c5e3c2ae59cc8c5d3ad5e1adfd099c726baad862 Patch 2: http://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=commitdiff;

Bug#663752: Literals map correctly, names do not

2012-03-13 Thread Ted Percival
Further investigation indicates that IPv4 literals (eg. 127.0.0.1) are mapped correctly when resolved, but names (eg. localhost) are not. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#663752: libc6: getaddrinfo AI_V4MAPPED & AF_INET6 returns AF_INET addresses

2012-03-13 Thread Ted Percival
Package: libc6 Version: 2.13-27 Severity: normal Tags: ipv6 getaddrinfo() does not correctly implement the AI_V4MAPPED flag. When requesting AF_INET6 addresses using the AI_V4MAPPED | AI_ALL flags in the request, IPv4 addresses are returned as AF_INET, ie. as standard IPv4 addresses, not IPv6-mapp

Bug#93810: Bug 93810 merged but it is not the same

2011-02-16 Thread Ted Percival
On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 2:27 AM, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: > > forcemerge 93810 95254 > Bug#93810: Australian zoneinfo wrong - should be AEST, not EST > Bug#95254: strftime("%Z") uses ambiguous timezone names > Bug#149902: strftime("%Z") uses ambiguous timezone names I don't find bug 9381

Bug#575026: update-manager-gnome: Typo (Administraion) & missing space in header text

2010-03-22 Thread Ted Percival
Package: update-manager-gnome Version: 0.200.0-1 Severity: minor Tags: patch There is a typo, "Administraion", in the main UI when there are upgrades. Additionally, when first run, there are two sentences directly against each other with no space: "... issued since Debian GNU/Linux was released.If

Bug#559475: Description suggests non-existent tomcat6-webapps package

2009-12-04 Thread Ted Percival
Package: tomcat6 Version: 6.0.20-7 Severity: minor The tomcat6 package description suggests installing "the tomcat6-webapps package", but it does not exist. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.

Bug#508388: Dead links in samba-doc/htmldocs/index.html

2008-12-10 Thread Ted Percival
Package: samba-doc Version: 2:3.2.5-1 Severity: minor The Using Samba, Man pages, WHATSNEW and README.VENDOR links in /usr/share/doc/samba-doc/htmldocs/index.html are dead. -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (

Bug#489060: Needs a versioned binary package dependency too

2008-07-08 Thread Ted Percival
tags 489060 -patch thanks pulseaudio needs a dependency on the libcap2 >= 2.10 binary package too, not just a build-dependency. For details see http://bugs.debian.org/464712#22 and its links. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Bug#464712: avahi-daemon needs "Depends libcap2 (>= 2.10)" too

2008-07-08 Thread Ted Percival
reopen 464712 found avahi-daemon/0.6.23-2 thanks The libcap2 dependency is more nuanced than I realised. In order to avoid a similar warning (warning: `avahi-daemon' uses deprecated v2 capabilities in a way that may be insecure.") the libcap2 package must be >= 2.10 as well (not just libcap2-dev).

Bug#489060: Corrected patch for 32-bit capabilities warning

2008-07-02 Thread Ted Percival
severity 489060 minor thanks Oops, forgot the '2' in libcap2-dev in that patch. Here is a patch that actually works. Build against libcap2 Removes a warning about deprecated 32-bit capabilities. Build-Depends on libcap2-dev (>= 2.10-1) to avoid possibly-insecure use of v2 capabilities. See kernel

Bug#489060: warning: `pulseaudio' uses 32-bit capabilities (legacy support in use)

2008-07-02 Thread Ted Percival
0.9.10-2X11 module for PulseAudio sound se -- no debconf information commit 3af50eeb6c20754b1893b8e0471245d16e23d4c1 Author: Ted Percival <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu Jul 3 14:24:16 2008 +1000 Build against libcap2 Removes a warning about deprecated 32-bit capabilities.

Bug#464712: Patch for 32-bit capabilities warning

2008-07-02 Thread Ted Percival
tags 464712 patch thanks Avahi needs to be built against libcap2 instead of libcap1 to avoid this warning from the kernel. Build-Depend on libcap2-dev (>= 2.10-1) to avoid possibly-insecure use of v2 capabilities. See kernel/capability.c in the Linux source for details (look for warn_deprecated_v

Bug#486179: apt: Typo "intervall" in cron.daily script

2008-06-13 Thread Ted Percival
Package: apt Version: 0.7.14+b1 Severity: minor There is a tiny typo "intervall" in /etc/cron.daily/apt (debian/apt.cron.daily in source) that should be "interval", on line 150. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#480053: Switching b43 firmware

2008-06-09 Thread Ted Percival
Rene Engelhard wrote: Nadav Kavalerchik wrote: but you could have the bash script install different firmware to different kernels ? can you ? I could, but what will happen when the kernel gets upgrded from .24 to .25? b43-fwcutter won't be upgraded. (although, hmm, that probably can be solved

Bug#483560: Unable to load image-loading modules

2008-05-30 Thread Ted Percival
Loïc Minier wrote: /var/lib/dpkg/info/libgtk2.0-0.postinst: # versions prior to 2.10.1-1 used the 2.4.0 binary version and generated module # files below /etc/gtk-2.0 which will we can not leave behind (since they # reference modules not on the system anymore) if [ "$1" = "configure" ] && dpkg -

Bug#483560: Unable to load image-loading modules

2008-05-29 Thread Ted Percival
Loïc Minier wrote: Failed to load gnome-fs-desktop: Unable to load image-loading module: /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.4.0/loaders/svg_loader.so: /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.4.0/loaders/svg_loader.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Both 2.12.9-3 and 2.12.9-4 are using /usr/lib

Bug#483560: Problem details

2008-05-29 Thread Ted Percival
When upgrading libgtk2.0-0 and gtk2-engines-pixbuf from 2.12.9-3 to 2.12.9-4 then running startx, in ~/.xsession-errors there are a bunch of errors like this from gnome-fs-desktop, gnome-panel, nm-applet and update-notifier: Failed to load gnome-fs-desktop: Unable to load image-loading modu

Bug#483560: libgtk2.0-0: Fails to load icons with libpixbufloader-png.so

2008-05-29 Thread Ted Percival
Package: libgtk2.0-0 Version: 2.12.9-4 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable Subject: libgtk2.0-0: Fails to load icons (libpixbufloader-png.so) Package: libgtk2.0-0 Version: 2.12.9-4 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable -- System Information: Debian Release

Bug#482655: reprepro: Typo "incomming" in manpage

2008-05-24 Thread Ted Percival
Package: reprepro Version: 3.4.2-1 Severity: minor reprepro(1): > processincoming rulesetname [.changes-file] > Scan an incomming directory and process the .changes files found ^ Incoming should have one 'm' :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Bug#478714: smbfs: Please provide debug symbols in samba-dbg

2008-05-01 Thread Ted Percival
Steve Langasek wrote: Ted Percival wrote: There are no debug symbols available for the files in the smbfs package. Could they be included in samba-dbg too? Why do you need these? The smbfs package only contains small userspace utilities for interfacing with the kernel fs driver. Are these

Bug#478714: smbfs: Please provide debug symbols in samba-dbg

2008-04-30 Thread Ted Percival
Package: smbfs Version: 1:3.2.0~pre3-1 Severity: wishlist There are no debug symbols available for the files in the smbfs package. Could they be included in samba-dbg too? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#93810: libc6: Patched tzdata packages available

2008-04-27 Thread Ted Percival
Package: libc6 Followup-For: Bug #93810 For those who prefer their timezones as AEST, AEDT and so on, I am maintaining a patch & Debian tzdata package with these timezone names. http://tedp.id.au/tzdata-au/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble

Bug#476896: kdelibs4c2a: Ported patch

2008-04-19 Thread Ted Percival
Package: kdelibs4c2a Followup-For: Bug #476896 There are two trivial conflicts when applying upstream's patch to the Debian package. In case it saves some time, I prepared a patch with the conflicts resolved. commit 3b2e06674197b23e52381521185bd13e046a16d7 Author: Ted Percival <[EMAIL P

Bug#476896: kdelibs4c2a: Crash when rendering some pages (including debianhelp.org)

2008-04-19 Thread Ted Percival
Package: kdelibs4c2a Version: 4:3.5.9.dfsg.1-2+b1 Severity: important Tags: patch, upstream, fixed-upstream libkhtml crashes in khtml::RenderBlock::addChildToFlow when rendering some pages. There are 12 duplicates upstream, so I guess it's popular. You can trigger it by loading a forum page from

Bug#475329: iceweasel: "Report Broken Web Site" is broken

2008-04-09 Thread Ted Percival
Package: iceweasel Version: 3.0~b5-1 Severity: normal The "Report Broken Web Site..." option in the Help menu seems to be nerfed, maybe as part of Iceweasel rebranding. There are two problems: - The Privacy Policy pane is empty. - The dialog does not actually submit a report. It seems to be missi

Bug#471587: Patch & more

2008-03-19 Thread Ted Percival
I like patches, even for trivial bugs. This one is no different. I'm also providing one that makes the Homepage a real dpkg field rather than being part of the description. If you're feeling really adventurous, there is a new upstream version (currently 0.4.2) -- \0 diff -ru libntlm-0.3.13

Bug#471587: libntlm0-dev: test.txt in doc directory is useless

2008-03-18 Thread Ted Percival
Package: libntlm0-dev Version: 0.3.13-1 Severity: minor libntlm0-dev installs /usr/share/doc/libntlm0-dev/test.txt which is used when running the automated tests at build-time, but is not useful to have installed. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". T

Bug#461181: found 461181 in 0.6.20-2

2008-01-19 Thread Ted Percival
# Automatically generated email from bts, devscripts version 2.10.13 # toresbe reports on #avahi that this happens in 0.6.20-2ubuntu3, i am marking this found so it shows up in the unstable bugs list instead of just "other branch" found 461181 0.6.20-2 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROT

Bug#459344: Patch to make the cron script quiet

2008-01-17 Thread Ted Percival
tags 459344 patch stop This would do the trick for me -- making the cron script exit quietly if the cache is locked. -- \0 diff -ru apt-0.7.10/debian/apt.cron.daily apt-0.7.10-rofl/debian/apt.cron.daily --- apt-0.7.10/debian/apt.cron.daily 2008-01-08 06:22:37.0 +1000 +++ apt-0.7.10-ro

Bug#457191: octave2.1: Should conflict with octave2.9

2007-12-20 Thread Ted Percival
Package: octave2.1 Version: 1:2.1.73-14 Severity: important octave2.1 cannot be installed when octave2.9 is installed. Neither package has a Conflicts relationship so the failure happens when dpkg tries to install the package: > Unpacking octave2.1 (from .../octave2.1_1%3a2.1.73-14_i386.deb) ...

Bug#455446: Failure to execute absolute paths with directory-based config

2007-12-09 Thread Ted Percival
Package: ccontrol Version: 0.9.1+20071204-1 Severity: important When using the directory-based program configuration introduced in 0.9.1+20071204-1, gcc fails to call ld because gcc does its own path resolution. Given the config line ld = /usr/bin and PATH=/usr/lib/ccontrol:/usr/bin:/bin cco

Bug#367835: fetchexc package ready

2007-12-05 Thread Ted Percival
A fetchexc package is ready on mentors.debian.net, awaiting sponsorship. http://mentors.debian.net/cgi-bin/maintainer-packages?action=details;package=fetchexc It has been put up for sponsorship before but no sponsor was found: http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2006/07/msg00151.html http

Bug#209043: Workaround for misdetection of UTF-16 LE

2007-12-02 Thread Ted Percival
One workaround for this bug (UTF-16 LE text detected as MPEG ADTS) is to check for Unicode before MPEG. The attached patch does this. If the two file formats really do have overlapping magic bytes, one will have to take precedence over the other. Here's a +1 vote for UTF16-LE before MPEG ADTS.

Bug#451333: miro: instead of in German translation

2007-11-14 Thread Ted Percival
Package: miro Version: 0.9.9.1-1 Severity: minor Tags: upstream l10n patch The welcome screen when run in LANG=de_DE shows a line of text with mismatching HTML tags and . The upstream translation website has a problem at the moment, so I hope you can pass on this patch for me. -- System Inform

Bug#447832: Make ccontrol abort when called as a specific gcc version.

2007-11-03 Thread Ted Percival
Tony Breeds wrote: On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 12:03:03PM +1000, Tony Breeds wrote: The debian package includes a bunch of symlinks (I've sumbitted a bug asking that they're removed) for various compilers which point to ccontrol which leads to the following unexpected behaviour. Hmm actually this

Bug#433782: libcap-bin: Manual page for `cap_from_text(3)' is missing

2007-10-12 Thread Ted Percival
Ludovic Courtes wrote: In addition to bug #118186, the manual page for `cap_from_text(3)' (which is referred to by `getpcaps') isn't available. This makes it hard to use the tools. cap_from_text(3)'s manpage is in libcap-dev. Would this be solved if libcap-bin suggested libcap-dev? I hesita

Bug#444235: Patch for 444235: Typo in avahi-daemon

2007-09-27 Thread Ted Percival
tags 444235 patch found 444235 0.6.21-2 thanks avahi-received.patch: "Recieved" should also be "'I' before 'E' except after 'C'" (despite the many exceptions to that rule[1]). avahi-an_utf-8.patch: I also suggest "a UTF-8" is preferable over "an UTF8" because it's pronounced with a 'y' so

Bug#444109: irssi-plugin-xmpp: Copyedited package description

2007-09-25 Thread Ted Percival
Package: irssi-plugin-xmpp Version: 0.13-1 Severity: minor Tags: patch The package description seems a bit awkward to a native English speaker and "resources" is misspelled. I reviewed the package description and have some suggested changes. Thanks, -Ted diff -ru irssi-plugin-xmpp-0.13/debian/con

Bug#428554: Can't reproduce this problem

2007-09-23 Thread Ted Percival
Andrés Roldán wrote: Hi. I am unable to reproduce this problem. I have icedove 2.0.0.4.dfsg1-2 installed and I run prelink daily without problems. Today I took another look and it works fine, although I have upgraded some packages since my first message. These are the packages that have been u

Bug#325755: fixed 325755 in 0.9.23-1

2007-09-14 Thread Ted Percival
# Automatically generated email from bts, devscripts version 2.10.7 # allow the BTS to consider this closed (sorry for the noise, notfound did not seem to work) fixed 325755 0.9.23-1 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECT

Bug#325755: notfound 325755 in 0.9.28-2

2007-09-14 Thread Ted Percival
# Automatically generated email from bts, devscripts version 2.10.7 # allow the BTS to consider this closed notfound 325755 0.9.28-2 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#442268: tailor: Homepage has changed

2007-09-14 Thread Ted Percival
Package: tailor Version: 0.9.28-2 Severity: minor The Tailor homepage has changed from what is in the package description. It is now http://wiki.darcs.net/DarcsWiki/Tailor -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')

Bug#428554: Icedove segfault caused by prelink

2007-09-12 Thread Ted Percival
reassign 428554 prelink 0.0.20061201-1 retitle 428554 prelink: Breaks icedove 2 thanks I saw Icedove segfaulting today after I upgraded to Icedove 2 yesterday (I also added a userChrome.css on the same day). I reinstalled icedove and the problem went away, but then I ran `prelink --all` and it

Bug#440602: RFP: tinytinyrss -- Web-based news reader

2007-09-02 Thread Ted Percival
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: tinytinyrss Version : 1.2.14.2 Upstream Author : Andrew Dolgov * URL : http://tt-rss.spb.ru/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: PHP Description : Web-based news reader Tiny Tiny RSS is a web-based news fe

Bug#440324: bugzilla: Uninstallable due to bashisms (when using POSIX shell, eg. dash)

2007-08-31 Thread Ted Percival
Package: bugzilla Version: 2.22.1-2 Severity: serious Justification: Policy 10.4 Installation is failing on my system where /bin/sh is a link to /bin/dash. The precense of the "-ne" and "-e" in output indicates that there are probably one or more scripts using bash features without specifying /bin

Bug#435064: aptitude: Continues downloading packages when disk is full

2007-08-07 Thread Ted Percival
Daniel Burrows wrote: Are you sure you really had a full partition, and not just one that had exhausted its non-root quota? I tested aptitude and it turns out it was just using root quota. PEBKAC ;) -- \0 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble

Bug#435201: Patch for htdig's noisy cron

2007-08-03 Thread Ted Percival
tags 435201 patch thanks Here's a patch for htdig's daily cron script to exit silently if it is not installed. -- \0 diff -ruN htdig-3.2.0b6/debian/htdig.cron.daily htdig-3.2.0b6-new/debian/htdig.cron.daily --- htdig-3.2.0b6/debian/htdig.cron.daily 2007-08-04 16:22:58.0 +1000 +++ htdig

Bug#435064: aptitude: Continues downloading packages when disk is full

2007-07-31 Thread Ted Percival
Daniel Burrows wrote: > Are you sure you really had a full partition, and not just one that > had exhausted its non-root quota? e.g., > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ df -h /mnt > FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on > /home/daniel/testfs49M 46M 0 100% /mnt > > Note that "S

Bug#431054: Found in 0.4.6.1-1 (aptitude doesn't respond to keyboard)

2007-07-30 Thread Ted Percival
found 431054 0.4.6.1-1 thanks This problem of loss of keyboard input still occurs for me in 0.4.6.1-1 on 2.6.18. -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-k7 (S

Bug#435064: aptitude: Continues downloading packages when disk is full

2007-07-30 Thread Ted Percival
Daniel Burrows wrote: Could you include the contents of sources.list, so I can see what methods you're using, and describe exactly what symptoms you see? I saw aptitude continue to download packages. There was nothing out of the ordinary as far as aptitude appeared. I knew I'd run out of space

Bug#368840: Updated patch for amarok-dbg package

2007-07-29 Thread Ted Percival
Here is an updated patch for adding a debug package, based on the 1.4.6-1 source package. -- \0 diff -ru amarok-1.4.6/debian/control amarok-1.4.6-new/debian/control --- amarok-1.4.6/debian/control 2007-07-30 14:31:37.0 +1000 +++ amarok-1.4.6-new/debian/control 2007-07-30 14:41:21.

Bug#435201: htdig: cron.daily script fails noisily when package is not installed

2007-07-29 Thread Ted Percival
Package: htdig Version: 1:3.2.0b6-3.1 Severity: normal I removed the htdig and its lockfile-progs dependency but its cron script remains (as it is a conf file), however every day I get an email saying: /etc/cron.daily/htdig: /etc/cron.daily/htdig: 6: lockfile-create: not found Policy 9.5 (Cro

Bug#435141: aptitude: Continues downloading packages when disk is full

2007-07-29 Thread Ted Percival
Package: aptitude Version: 0.4.5.4-1 Severity: minor When I run out of disk space downloading packages, aptitude continues downloading, seemingly unaware that its downloads are going nowhere. I would expect it to stop downloading packages if the system runs out of disk space to save on bandwidth.

Bug#435064: aptitude: Continues downloading packages when disk is full

2007-07-28 Thread Ted Percival
Package: aptitude Version: 0.4.5.4-1 Severity: minor When I run out of disk space downloading packages, aptitude continues downloading, seemingly unaware that its downloads are going nowhere. I would expect it to stop downloading packages if the system runs out of disk space to save on bandwidth.

Bug#407800: Patch for bug #407800 (Debian seahorse)

2007-07-06 Thread Ted Percival
tags 407800 patch upstream forwarded 407800 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=454469 thanks > seahorse: undocumented conflict with gpg-agent causing crash I think I have solved this. A patch is attached. I also filed it upstream (URI above) with a long description of what caused the bu

Bug#428157: mail-notification: patch for incorrect no-SSL behaviour

2007-06-09 Thread Ted Percival
tags 428157 patch security stop I have sent a patch for this to the upstream tracker: https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/index.php?20131 https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/download.php?file_id=12991 I wonder if this should be set to grave severity because of password leakage. -- \0 signature.a

Bug#428157: mail-notification: Silently falls back to unencrypted connection: password sent in cleartext

2007-06-09 Thread Ted Percival
Package: mail-notification Version: 4.0.dfsg.1-1+b1 Severity: important mail-notification falls back to unencrypted connections even when the user has configured a connection to use SSL/TLS. mail-notification will send a user's password over an insecure connection and it can easily be sniffed. It

Bug#425783: apt-listbugs: Obsolete invocation of `tail`

2007-05-23 Thread Ted Percival
Package: apt-listbugs Version: 0.0.75 Severity: normal Tags: patch apt-listbugs uses the obsolete tail invocation of "tail -1". The coreutils NEWS.Debian.gz and tail info page describe that it should be changed to "tail -n 1". This showed up when I used inotail as /usr/bin/tail. -- System Infor

Bug#215849: ccache profiling patch

2007-05-19 Thread Ted Percival
I've had this problem too. The effect was the .gcno file never showing up for object compilation. I think a reasonable workaround is to simply pass profiling-enabled builds to a real compiler, rather than trying to cache them. Frediano Ziglio provides some details at http://lists.samba.org/archiv

Bug#422188: bum: Homepage should not have trailing slash (/)

2007-05-03 Thread Ted Percival
Package: bum Version: 2.1.8-1 Severity: minor Tags: patch The Homepage line contains a trailing slash that leads to a page with broken CSS. Removing the slash at the end leads to the right place. It should also be indented by one more space (and with an empty line before it) to match the format a

Bug#419186: apt-listbugs: Prompt breaks/repeats with non [Y/n] response

2007-04-14 Thread Ted Percival
Package: apt-listbugs Version: 0.0.74 Severity: minor The apt-listbugs prompts append the [Y/n] prompt every time, which leads to interesting/broken prompts if something other than 'y' or 'n' is entered: > Retry downloading bug information?[Y/n]? l > Retry downloading bug information?[Y/n]?[Y/n]?

Bug#418496: kernel-package: Typo "call" -> "cause" in make-kpkg(1) manpage

2007-04-09 Thread Ted Percival
Package: kernel-package Version: 10.067 Severity: minor The make-kpkg(1) manpage says the following under CONCURRENCY_LEVEL: > Do NOT set the -j > option in MAKEFLAGS directly, this shall call the build to fail. It should be "... shall cause the build to fail." ^ --

Bug#418494: checkinstall: Charset not set for de and es, displays broken characters

2007-04-09 Thread Ted Percival
Package: checkinstall Version: 1.6.1-1 Severity: minor Tags: patch l10n The German (de) and Spanish (es) PO-files don't have their charsets set, causing some characters to display incorrectly. I discovered this with "LANG=de_DE.utf8". LANG=es_ES.utf8 is probably the same, but I couldn't test prop

Bug#418242: bpalogin-configure uses bashism for "read" builtin

2007-04-08 Thread Ted Percival
Package: bpalogin Version: 2.0.2-9 Severity: normal Tags: patch When /bin/sh points to /bin/dash, bpalogin-configure doesn't work -- instead it prints out messages like: > read: 63: arg count > read: 191: arg count and exits without prompting for anything. It is relying on bash to assign a respon

Bug#416238: gdm: Should suggest xnest

2007-03-25 Thread Ted Percival
Package: gdm Version: 2.16.4-1.1 Severity: wishlist gdm should Suggest xnest, because when Xnest is installed the "New Login in a Nested Window" menu item will be visible and gdmflexiserver --xnest will work. See /usr/share/applications/gdmflexiserver-xnest.desktop for reference. -- System Info

Bug#416236: desktop-file-utils: Manpage for non-existent command desktop-menu-tool

2007-03-25 Thread Ted Percival
Package: desktop-file-utils Version: 0.11-1 Severity: minor desktop-file-utils ships a manpage for desktop-menu-tool(1) but there is no such command. An `apt-file search` indicates the program does not exist at all in Debian, so it can probably just be removed. The package's README can also be upd

Bug#326733: Minor bug in that snapshot patch

2007-03-19 Thread Ted Percival
Ted Percival wrote: > I have an early version of the change available that will patch against > the current (4.24-5) version of XScreenSaver in Debian if you're > interested. I just remembered a bug where if the newLoginCommand option is not set, there will be no mouse cursor with

Bug#326733: Done upstream, patch available

2007-03-18 Thread Ted Percival
A patch has been merged upstream that adds an "Unlock" button. The button positioning is not yet finalised but it should at least be an improvement from the current dialog. I have an early version of the change available that will patch against the current (4.24-5) version of XScreenSaver in Debia

Bug#414156: apt-cacher: Does not reopen log file after it is cycled

2007-03-09 Thread Ted Percival
Package: apt-cacher Version: 1.5.3 Severity: normal apt-cacher has a daily logrotate command, but the process is not notified that the logfile has been cycled. That means logging information is written to the now-cycled log file. Here, the .1 file is still being written to (note the file timestam

Bug#408898: samba-common: smb.conf refers to wrong documentation directory

2007-01-28 Thread Ted Percival
Package: samba-common Version: 3.0.23d-4 Severity: minor The included smb.conf file refers to the file /usr/share/doc/samba-doc/htmldocs/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/ServerType.html but it is actually in /usr/share/doc/samba-doc/htmldocs/Samba3-HOWTO/ServerType.html There is also a reference to /usr/sh

Bug#408368: avifile-utils: Typo in avicat manpage (joing -> joining)

2007-01-25 Thread Ted Percival
Package: avifile-utils Version: 1:0.7.44.20051021-2.2+b1 Severity: minor The avicat manpage says: >avicat - cat tool for joing files Looks like s/joing/joining/ would do the trick :) Cheers. -tedp -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'uns

Bug#408343: ssh-askpass: Package ships /usr/bin and /usr/sbin but does not use them

2007-01-24 Thread Ted Percival
Package: ssh-askpass Version: 1:1.2.4.1-6.1 Severity: minor The ssh-askpass package creates /usr/bin and /usr/sbin but does not put any files in those directories: > $ dpkg -L ssh-askpass | grep bin > /usr/bin > /usr/sbin They are created by the debian/dirs file and dh_installdirs. -- System I

Bug#408030: systemimager-server-flamethrowerd: Incorrect package description

2007-01-22 Thread Ted Percival
Package: systemimager-server-flamethrowerd Version: 3.6.3dfsg1-2 Severity: minor The systemimager-server-flamethrowerd package has the wrong short description: $ apt-cache show systemimager-server-flamethrowerd | grep ^Description Description: SystemImager boot binaries for ia64 client nodes Its

Bug#407886: xscreensaver: New upstream release: 5.01

2007-01-21 Thread Ted Percival
Package: xscreensaver Version: 4.24-5 Severity: wishlist I'd love to see the latest version of XScreenSaver packaged for Debian. Currently the latest version is 5.01: http://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/download.html -- tedp -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubsc

Bug#320742: Too much work

2006-11-07 Thread Ted Percival
OK, turns out to be difficult to do without messing up with the giant state machine that the readConfigFile function is. I suggest using the existing fix for now. After seeing the myriad of things that could cause logrotate to exit, I think it's OK for logrotate to exit if missingok is not set and

Bug#320742: Patch for logrotate #320742

2006-11-05 Thread Ted Percival
Ted Percival wrote: > If missingok is _not_ set and a glob fails, logrotate will still exit > without processing any more stanzas & log files. If you think it should > continue, just remove lines 71 and 72 of the patch. Having thought about this a bit more, I think printing an erro

Bug#396949: Patch for Debian #396964 - lynx security

2006-11-05 Thread Ted Percival
tags 396964 patch stop Here's a possible patch to stop lynx opening .mailcap and .mime.types files in its current directory. -- tp diff -ru lynx-2.8.5/src/HTInit.c lynx-2.8.5-new/src/HTInit.c --- lynx-2.8.5/src/HTInit.c 2004-01-08 12:03:09.0 +1000 +++ lynx-2.8.5-new/src/HTInit.c 2006-11-

Bug#320742: Patch for logrotate #320742

2006-11-03 Thread Ted Percival
it should continue, just remove lines 71 and 72 of the patch. -- tp Patch for Debian bugs #277652, #320742, #391439: Logrotate breaks if unmatched glob pattern is found This patch makes the "missingok" directive apply to the directory glob. Patch by Ted Percival <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Bug#395897: Patch for ktorrent FTBFS (#395897)

2006-11-03 Thread Ted Percival
tags 395897 patch fixed-upstream stop Upstream removed the LDFLAGS in revision 594434 [1]. This patch removes all three instances of LDFLAGS from the source, equivalent to the upstream change. It fixed FTBFS on my powerpc machine and passed "program starts OK" testing. [1] Upstream revision 5944

Bug#395512: Patch for #395512: sg3-utils FTBFS

2006-10-28 Thread Ted Percival
tags 395512 patch stop Here's a patch to fix the FTBFS. It's very similar to the one for the FTBFS in sg-utils, but this one uses a function wrapper rather than a preprocessor macro in order to get type-checking and it follows the existing code style better. diff -rup sg3-utils-1.21/llseek.c sg3-u

Bug#395891: extipl: Fails to build from source and ignores $(MAKE) return code

2006-10-28 Thread Ted Percival
Package: extipl Version: 5.04-2 Severity: serious Tags: patch Justification: FTBFS extipl fails to build from source, or would if the $(MAKE) return code was not ignored. I have attached a patch that does the following: - Don't ignore return status of $(MAKE) calls in debian/rules - Update _llsee

Bug#294836: gpart bug fixes

2006-10-28 Thread Ted Percival
tags 294836 patch stop I was able to reproduce bug #294836 on my powerpc system. I was also able to fix it by changing some ifdefs. I combined the patch to fix that with the existing FTBFS patch for bug #393039 and ended up with the attached patch. It should at least increase the number of platfor

Bug#393039: Patch for bug 393039: FTBFS in gpart

2006-10-28 Thread Ted Percival
tags 393039 patch stop Here is a patch to fix the FTBFS. It updates gpart to use the syscall libc function required since linux-kernel-headers 2.6.18 made the _syscall* macros unavailable. diff -ru gpart-0.1h/src/l64seek.c gpart-0.1h-new/src/l64seek.c --- gpart-0.1h/src/l64seek.c 2000-12-14 08:54:

Bug#395425: Confirmed, fixed upstream

2006-10-26 Thread Ted Percival
tags 395425 fixed-upstream stop I tested the new upstream release (0.99.12) using `uupdate` and it fixes this problem. -Ted -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#394535: Unnecessary build-dep

2006-10-23 Thread Ted Percival
* Fix FTBFS because old syscall usage. (closes: #394535) Apply patch so lphdisk compiles with new kernel headers; Build-depend on linux-kernel-headers >= 2.6.18. I don't think the build-dependency is necessary. It should still work fine on older kernels, as the syscall() libc funct

Bug#392392: Patch for amarok #392392 FTBFS

2006-10-23 Thread Ted Percival
tags 392392 patch forwarded 392392 http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=136185 stop Here is a patch that makes the libhttp11.so* files install to /usr/lib rather than /usr/share. I tested as much DAAP and ruby-script functionality as I could and nothing seemed to be broken by it. After that, I spo

Bug#394853: sg-utils: FTBFS due to old syscall usage

2006-10-23 Thread Ted Percival
Package: sg-utils Version: 1.02-3 Severity: serious Tags: patch sg-utils fails to build from source using linux-kernel-headers >= 2.6.18. > gcc -g -O2 -Wall -D_REENTRANT -c -o llseek.o llseek.c > llseek.c:44: error: expected declaration specifiers or ‘...’ before ‘_llseek’ > llseek.c:44: error:

Bug#394535: Severity #394535 - FTBFS is serious

2006-10-23 Thread Ted Percival
severity 394535 serious stop FTBFS bugs are serious. This one should be too. -Ted signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Bug#394535: lphdisk: FTBFS due to old syscall usage

2006-10-21 Thread Ted Percival
Package: lphdisk Version: 0.9.1-1 Severity: normal Tags: patch lphdisk does not build with linux-kernel-headers >= 2.6.18 due to the _syscall* macros being no longer available. It results in the following build failure: > cc -g -Wall -O2 -c -o lphdisk.o lphdisk.c > lphdisk.c:117: error: expecte

Bug#393040: Patch available for #393040 FTBFS

2006-10-21 Thread Ted Percival
tags 393040 patch stop Here's a patch to use the syscall() libc function rather than the no-longer-available syscall* macros. -Ted diff -ru grubconf-0.5.1/src/partitioning.c grubconf-0.5.1-new/src/partitioning.c --- grubconf-0.5.1/src/partitioning.c 2003-04-17 23:32:59.0 +1000 +++ grubcon

Bug#393007: Patch available for #393007 (FTBFS)

2006-10-21 Thread Ted Percival
tags 393007 patch stop Here's a patch to fix FTBFS. The comment in the patch's context is amusing. -Ted diff -ru tct-1.11/src/fstools/mylseek.c tct-1.11-new/src/fstools/mylseek.c --- tct-1.11/src/fstools/mylseek.c 2000-07-31 09:39:20.0 +1000 +++ tct-1.11-new/src/fstools/mylseek.c 2006-10

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