Bug#1023117: cups-filters: Permissions should be 755 or 644

2023-06-21 Thread Zachary Harris
Issue persists in Version: 1.28.17-3 (Debian 12 bookworm)

Bug#1023117: cups-filters: Permissions should be 755 or 644

2022-10-30 Thread Zachary Harris
Package: cups-filters Version: 1.28.7-1+deb11u1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, usr/lib/cups/backend/cups-brf has permissions set at 700. It "should" be universally readable as per https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-files.html#permissions-and-owners. Likewise, usr/lib/cups/backend

Bug#1010284: python3-pip: runs into infinite loop when installing package with pyproject.toml file

2022-05-15 Thread Zachary Harris
As noted in the error message itself: "This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip." Should the bug be filed against libpython3.10-stdlib since the infinite loop seems to occur within the logic of /usr/lib/python3.10/_distutils_system_mod.py?

Bug#675299: [Bash-completion-devel] Bug#675299 bash-completion: sudo -u should complete usernames

2015-02-27 Thread Zachary Harris
Perhaps this feature request has been resolved since the time it was submitted? For me, "sudo -u " does do username completion. Moreover, "sudo -u user " does do command completion, including commands in (/usr)/sbin which are not included in the bash-completion PATH for my normal (non-privileged)

Bug#734688: Logs are not rotated for a month

2015-02-25 Thread Zachary Harris
Regarding the patch proposed by Bolesław Tokarski (logrotate-dest-file-exists(2).patch) , I would not want logrotate to delete a zero-size log file that it happens to find on the system. An empty log file could be telling you something very important! However, if logrotate runs into an error which

Bug#578757: xine-ui: checksum problems with /var/lib/xine/xine.desktop

2013-09-28 Thread Zachary Harris
OK so, after learning more, dpkg-divert doesn't seem to be the solution for this type of situation where a maintainer script wants to modify one of its own files. Next question, then: can /var/lib/xine/xine.desktop simply be excluded from xine-ui.md5sums? I couldn't find any policy about whic

Bug#719208: mediawiki: md5sums for Renameuser{.alias, .i18n, _body}.php files are incorrect

2013-09-28 Thread Zachary Harris
Same problem here as OP. > Finally... is Renameuser the only affected extension? Here is my attempt to find matching filenames between the two packages: $ /bin/grep -f <(for x in `dpkg -L mediawiki-extensions-base | /bin/grep php` ; do echo "/"`basename $x` ; done) <(dpkg -L mediawiki) /usr/

Bug#578757: xine-ui: checksum problems with /var/lib/xine/xine.desktop

2013-09-28 Thread Zachary Harris
I'm not a package maintainer, but isn't this just the sort of thing that dpkg-divert is for? Tiger (at least the Debian package version), for example, is "dpkg-divert aware" when it goes around checking md5sums, so even if a file has been dpkg-diverted the checksum test is still able to verif

Bug#684013: rinse support for fedora-[10-17]

2013-09-28 Thread Zachary Harris
As implied in the original report, the forked version of rinse at http://gitorious.org/rinse is much more up to date. Rinse 2.0.1-1 (as contained in both wheezy and sid) only goes up to Fedora 10, whereas the fork handles Fedora releases up to 18. Nathan O' Sullivan appears to be actively maintaini

Bug#708360: tiger: check_known doesn't detect 3.x-y kernels properly

2013-08-07 Thread Zachary Harris
I'm having the same problem in Wheezy with kernel 3.9-0.bpo.1-amd64. I keep getting the following error message in cron logs: /usr/lib/tiger/scripts/check_known: 129: [: Illegal number: 9-0 There are a couple issues with this line (check_known:129): 1) As the comment in the script precedi

Bug#686143: debian-policy: FHS requirements on "essential" binaries cannot be well defined at distro level

2012-08-29 Thread Zachary Harris
Russ, OK, I'm tracking with you now. I'm sorry for my own misunderstanding. I was getting the impression that my request to document the "non-compliant status quo" was going to be relegated to a "wish" that would most likely be utterly ignored, and that didn't seem right. Having open issues, but

Bug#686143: debian-policy: FHS requirements on "essential" binaries cannot be well defined at distro level

2012-08-29 Thread Zachary Harris
Under #652011, presumably with reference to my proposed addition to policy here, Russ Allbery wrote: > Policy already says what you want it to say currently, Where? If policy is already clear on this, then this bug should be closed rather than wishlisted. On the other hand, if policy is not c

Bug#652011: Please revert original bug title

2012-08-28 Thread Zachary Harris
Russ, Not only is your new title for this bug a different (though related) issue from the original bug report, the new title is in fact contradictory to, and incompatible with, the problem that the original bug was addressing. I am using 8G in /usr and the entire root partition is 2G. If the sep

Bug#686143: Would close #652011

2012-08-28 Thread Zachary Harris
Some addition to Debian policy such as the one suggested here would, in my opinion, close bug #652011 which I filed in December. -Zach -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#686143: debian-policy: FHS requirements on "essential" binaries cannot be well, defined at distro level

2012-08-28 Thread Zachary Harris
Package: debian-policy Version: 3.9.1.0 Severity: normal Tags: patch Proposed additional bullet point to 9.1.1 regarding Debian exceptions to FHS: * The FHS language of "essential" vs. "non-essential" binaries and libraries is local system dependent, and cannot be well defined at the distribution

Bug#652011: consider dropping the separation between /bin and /usr/bin, and /lib and /usr/lib ...

2012-08-16 Thread Zachary Harris
I would propose: 1) /bin vs. /usr/bin (likewise for sbin) is both subjective and context dependent. It is subjective because it may be *possible* to do certain essential tasks with a certain minimal set of tools, but far *easier* or *preferable* to get them done with a larger set. The ability to

Bug#652011: general: Repeated pattern of FHS violation: Dependencies of /sbin and /bin, belong in /lib

2012-08-10 Thread Zachary Harris
After some time, I've recently gotten back to tackling the FHS dynamic library dependency issue for separate root and usr partitions. Testing release 0.1.3 of my FHS-utils package is available at git://everythingwiki.sytes.net/fhs-utils. It currently consists of three commands: fhscheck -

Bug#683579: gpgsm: package should depend on dirmngr

2012-08-01 Thread Zachary Harris
Package: gpgsm Version: 2.0.14-2 Severity: important The package gpgsm should depend on (or at the very least recommend) the package dirmngr. -- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0.5 APT prefers stable APT policy: (700, 'stable'), (500, 'stable-updates') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Ke

Bug#652011: general: Repeated pattern of FHS violation: Dependencies of /sbin and /bin, belong in /lib

2011-12-15 Thread Zachary Harris
Ok, ok, ok, I think I may have got it. Some of your comments helped get me on the proper track of distro-oriented thinking where different systems are picking and choosing a different subset of available packages, but those packages have predefined locations where they have to put things. It has

Bug#652011: general: Repeated pattern of FHS violation: Dependencies of /sbin and /bin, belong in /lib

2011-12-14 Thread Zachary Harris
On 12/14/2011 04:43 PM, J.A. Bezemer wrote: > > On Wed, 14 Dec 2011, Roger Leigh wrote: > > [..] >> The same argument applies to encryption. / and /usr both contain a >> selection of programs, libraries etc. If you're encrypting one, why >> would you not encrypt all of it? > > Speed. > > On one o

Bug#652011: general: Repeated pattern of FHS violation: Dependencies of /sbin and /bin, belong in /lib

2011-12-14 Thread Zachary Harris
Wow, if this sort of bug report is re-evoking questions on the whole relevance of the historical FHS to modern distros, it does seem that some real "soul searching" is in order on the part of the community as far as the future of where people see Debian/GNU/Linux headed. "Begin with the end in m

Bug#652011: general: Repeated pattern of FHS violation: Dependencies of /sbin and /bin, belong in /lib

2011-12-13 Thread Zachary Harris
Package: general Severity: serious Justification: Policy 10.1.1 My understanding of the FHS would be that if a library is a dependency of a binary in /bin or /sbin, then such library belongs in /lib, not /usr/lib. (If for some reason the library is also desired in /usr/lib then a sym link from /li