Bug#557804: vm: does not conform to RFC 822 skipping

2009-11-24 Thread srivasta
Hi, I opened up the error.txt in VM (after adding a From line at top), to simulate a new mbox folder, and hit F. You can see the results below (I do not use supercite). So, this seems more like a problem in your setup, or possibly with supercite, and not VM proper. I think th

Bug#556929: kernel-package now severely broken

2009-11-20 Thread srivasta
> I repeat, I am not doing anything "non-standard": > > $ cp /boot/config-2.6.31-1-amd64 .config > $ make-kpkg --initrd --revision=custom.1.2 kernel_image That's [retty non-standard for a custom kernel. You are using a distro kitchen sync config for making a custom kernel; and kerne

Bug#556929: kernel-package now severely broken

2009-11-19 Thread srivasta
Alan BRASLAU writes: > On Thursday 19 November 2009 23:55:43 Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > Ou, Nov 19 2009, Alan BRASLAU wrote: > > > kernel-package is now severly broken! Building and installing a[nd] > > > new kernel image now results in *two* identical vmlinuz nodes with > > > *identical* na

Bug#543915: "libsepol.sepol_module_package_read: out of memory"

2009-08-29 Thread srivasta
Max Kellermann writes: > On 2009/08/27 18:02, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > > [...] > > > brk(0x3233000) = 0x3233000 > > > mmap(NULL, 18446744073703178240, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, > > > MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = -1 ENOMEM (Cannot allocate memory) > > > mma

Bug#543938: telinit: /etc/.initctl: ENOENT breaks debootstrap on kfreebsd

2009-08-27 Thread srivasta
Hi, > The bad thing is just that this makes it impossible to install > kfreebsd currently without fiddeling by hand inside the chroot. In retrospect, that is silly, seeing that libsepol can do no good on a non-linux machine > No solution / proposal how to continue yet. Can we please

Bug#501699: /usr/bin/make-kpkg: building with --rootcmd still fails

2009-08-12 Thread srivasta
Michal Suchanek writes: > 2009/8/12 Manoj Srivastava : > > Hi, > > > >        Well, what commands were you issuing when the  build failed? I > >  can still build a kernel_image with rootcmd fakeroot, and I do not see > >  where the bug could lie, especially without a log. > > I changed my

Bug#536339: Newer versions than that in oldstable cannot build kernel anymore

2009-07-09 Thread srivasta
Klaus Ethgen writes: > Hmm.. There was many changes between 2.6.28 and 2.6.30 so that might be > not comparable. In fact, some doesn't work with 2.6.29 and newer on my > test system. I have been able to succesfully compile, based on the currently installed kernel images: linux-image-2.

Bug#529811: kernel-package: MAKEFLAGS="CC=gcc-4.4" not honoured

2009-06-04 Thread srivasta
Hi, Arthur Marsh writes: > > MAKEFLAGS="CC=gcc-4.4";export MAKEFLAGS; CONCURRENCY_LEVEL=32;export > CONCURRENCY_LEVEL;time make-kpkg --initrd configure linux-image > modules-image > > and did produce a gcc-4.4 compiled binary. > > It appears that what I had overlooked was the "make-kp

Bug#527948: emacs21 unable to find "vm" after upgrade to lenny

2009-05-16 Thread srivasta
Hi, Ah. That bug was fixed in 8.0.12-1, in emacsen.remove. manoj -- Love means having to say you're sorry every five minutes. Manoj Srivastava 1024D/BF24424C print 4966 F272 D093 B493 410B 924B 21BA DABB BF24 424C -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@list

Bug#508230: Bug#506022: These bugs should be of higher severity

2009-04-29 Thread srivasta
Hi, I don't think that /usr/share/doc/gettext/README.Debian is good enough, no. Espescially since the user is not normally aware that theya re using gettext, which they are not, directly. They just called autoreconf, which is a pretty popular script in autoconf. I am not sure w

Bug#524499: kernel-package: fails to build initrd and make a non-compliant .deb from vanilla 2.6.27 source

2009-04-17 Thread srivasta
Arthur Marsh writes: > sriva...@acm.org wrote, on 2009-04-18 03:59: >> Can you list what is in /lib/modules/2.6.27? > False alarm. I should have mentioned that I had also built alsa-modules > for this kernel and they hadn't been removed at that stage. >> dpkg -S /etc/kernel/post

Bug#524499: kernel-package: fails to build initrd and make a non-compliant .deb from vanilla 2.6.27 source

2009-04-17 Thread srivasta
Arthur Marsh writes: > Manoj Srivastava wrote, on 2009-04-18 02:51: >> On Fri, Apr 17 2009, Arthur Marsh wrote: >>> make-kpkg --initrd linux-image >>> against the 2.6.27 kernel.org source. >>> The built package when installed did not have an initrd and when >>> I >> Did you drop

Bug#524499: kernel-package: fails to build initrd and make a non-compliant .deb from vanilla 2.6.27 source

2009-04-17 Thread srivasta
Arthur Marsh writes: > Further to my last email... > When I used aptitude again, linux-2.6.27 was marked with a "c" and > when I tried to remove linux-2.6.28 with aptitude I received the > errors: > aptitude > (Reading database ... 99365 files and directories currently installed.) > Remo

Bug#509237: purge: /var/lib/initramfs-tools' not empty so not removed

2008-12-21 Thread srivasta
Hi, This is not about this being a bug in linuz-image, or it being fixed there, since the suer does not use linux-image or kernel-package. The user uses straignt kernel source code, kbuild, and make deb from Kbuild directly. That just isntalls the kernel image. The user then

Bug#506307: Re: Bug#506307: kernel-package: [INTL:all ] Output shouldn't use I

2008-11-21 Thread srivasta
Kai Wasserb ch writes: > Hello Manjo, Manoj, not Manjo > Manoj Srivastava wrote: >> I do not consider the computer talking to me directly a bug. I >> consider the style to be personable, and the stilted, distant >> styles recommended as being very impersonal and unfriendly. I >> b

Bug#498010: This is about new functionality in base0files

2008-09-07 Thread srivasta
On Sun, 7 Sep 2008 11:27:48 +0200 (CEST), Santiago Vila <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Sat, 6 Sep 2008, Manoj Srivastava wrote: >> reassign 498010 base-files thanks >> >> Hi, >> >> policycoreutils already installs the /selinux directory. This >> report is not about that -- since policycoreutil

Bug#470531: "Could not set exec context to system_u:system_r:initrc_t:s0"

2008-04-03 Thread srivasta
Hi, On Thu, 3 Apr 2008 07:45:34 +0200, Max Kellermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Hi Manoj, > unfortunately, the problem persist. I can start and stop daemons > without run_init (they run as "root:system_r" instead of > "system_u:system_r", but I guess that is ok?), but run_init still > fails t

Bug#473987: [PATCH] Links relative to baseurl mangled in atom/rss feeds

2008-04-03 Thread srivasta
On Wed, 2 Apr 2008 13:39:38 -0400, Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Manoj Srivastava wrote: >> The issue is that we need to convert relative links to absolute >> ones for atom and rss feeds -- but there are two types of relative >> links. The first kind, relative to the current document ( >>

Bug#425179: standard, but recommends optional package checkpolicy

2007-07-01 Thread srivasta
On Sun, 1 Jul 2007 15:48:43 -0400, Filipus Klutiero <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Le samedi 30 juin 2007 19:09, Manoj Srivastava a écrit : >> On Sat, 19 May 2007 16:16:34 -0400, Filipus Klutiero >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >> > selinux-policy-refpolicy-targeted is priority standard, but it is >> >

Bug#414388: Policy blocks lynx/liblzo via execstack

2007-05-10 Thread srivasta
On Thu, 10 May 2007 06:56:55 -0400, Thomas Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 02:20:07AM +0200, Manoj Srivastava wrote: >> >> Why does lynx need an executable stack? > It doesn't. The error message states that liblzo requires the > executable stack. Beg pardon.

Bug#418845: kernel-package insists on overwriting setlocalversion script

2007-05-07 Thread srivasta
Hi, On Mon, 07 May 2007 10:48:33 +0200, Johannes Berg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Sat, 2007-05-05 at 20:09 -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: >> Not enough people are kernel hackers for that mode to be the >> default mode of operation. > Yeah, I guess. Maybe I'll just patch my local kernel-packa

Bug#418845: kernel-package insists on overwriting setlocalversion script

2007-05-04 Thread srivasta
On Mon, 30 Apr 2007 14:12:35 +0200, Johannes Berg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Hi, >> The setlocalversion script goes and changes the version of the >> kernel _after_ ./debian/ has been populated, which causes the >> ./debian/changelog and ./debian/control files to be out of synch >> with what the

Bug#416683: vm: Incompatible with Debian voting software

2007-03-30 Thread srivasta
On Fri, 30 Mar 2007 17:13:28 -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > You ztill so miss the point that it's laughable. It is about > DOCUMENTATION as well as the principle of leastt surprise. > Devotee fails on both. But sure, keep sending insulting emails. > That'll help. Not.

Bug#416683: vm: Incompatible with Debian voting software

2007-03-30 Thread srivasta
On Fri, 30 Mar 2007 13:10:23 -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 12:35:52PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> On Fri, 30 Mar 2007 12:01:10 -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >> >> > On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 11:13:21AM -0500, [EMAIL PROT

Bug#416683: vm: Incompatible with Debian voting software

2007-03-30 Thread srivasta
On Fri, 30 Mar 2007 12:01:10 -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 11:13:21AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> The right thing to say would be to specify what the voting system >> will accept. > Half way there. Now add "and mention which MUAs are known t

Bug#416683: vm: Incompatible with Debian voting software

2007-03-30 Thread srivasta
On Fri, 30 Mar 2007 10:54:20 -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 10:06:13AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> As for informing people, devotee sends in all the details ti can >> gather. thge issue has been discussed on the mailing lists. Case > Including

Bug#416683: vm: Incompatible with Debian voting software

2007-03-30 Thread srivasta
On Fri, 30 Mar 2007 09:44:04 -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 08:11:57AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Hey, everyone knows there are all kinds of buggy software out >> there. Conformant mailers don't have a problem. Buggy mailers >> do. Why is thi

Bug#416683: vm: Incompatible with Debian voting software

2007-03-30 Thread srivasta
On Fri, 30 Mar 2007 06:42:38 -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On 30 March 2007 at 00:02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> The setup is not borked. Sending in a non mangled ballot works >> fine. > ... which only works with certain MUAs, and which ones is not > documented anywhere.

Bug#416683: vm: Incompatible with Debian voting software

2007-03-29 Thread srivasta
On Thu, 29 Mar 2007 22:18:18 -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On 29 March 2007 at 21:27, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Hmm, I am no longer seeing anything new in here. Seems like you >> are whinging that the ballots are not constrained to ascii, and >> your broken MUA(s) can't

Bug#416683: vm: Incompatible with Debian voting software

2007-03-29 Thread srivasta
On Thu, 29 Mar 2007 20:15:38 -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On 29 March 2007 at 19:46, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> So, if you are using software that does not conform to a RFC >> published in '96, that's your funeral. Don;t expect us to keep > It worked in 2006, 2005, 2004

Bug#416683: vm: Incompatible with Debian voting software

2007-03-29 Thread srivasta
On Thu, 29 Mar 2007 18:55:34 -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On 29 March 2007 at 17:35, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> It was not actually working. mailcrypt created something, and then >> emacs went and was free to mangle it -- which means it is broken >> for any message body t

Bug#416683: vm: Incompatible with Debian voting software

2007-03-29 Thread srivasta
On Thu, 29 Mar 2007 16:01:21 -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 03:42:14PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Since I do not think that UTF-8 is broken, I am unlikely to > You are entitled to your own opinion. I prefer to let mine be guided > by casual a

Bug#416683: vm: Incompatible with Debian voting software

2007-03-29 Thread srivasta
On Thu, 29 Mar 2007 15:18:33 -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 03:02:11PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> On Thu, 29 Mar 2007 14:00:03 -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >> >> >> > Please for reasoning below. If mailcrypt is usele

Bug#416683: vm: Incompatible with Debian voting software

2007-03-29 Thread srivasta
On Thu, 29 Mar 2007 14:00:03 -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Please for reasoning below. If mailcrypt is useless, lets remove it. mailcrypt is not useless -- it was just used wrongly. In other words, PEBKAC. mailcrypt still does what is has always done just as wel

Bug#413941: kernel-package: Needs better support and/or documentation for initramfs

2007-03-10 Thread srivasta
On Fri, 9 Mar 2007 21:27:04 +, Tony Houghton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > But that's a bit different; things like make are implicitly > supported and nobody would expect them not to be. But > initramfs/initrd support is a feature that make-kpkg users have to > specifically ask for. initrd and

Bug#413941: kernel-package: Needs better support and/or documentation for initramfs

2007-03-09 Thread srivasta
Hi, On Thu, 8 Mar 2007 22:37:55 +, Tony Houghton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, you wrote: >> Hi, On Thu, 08 Mar 2007 00:25:07 +, Tony Houghton >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >> >> > initrd is deprecated, but make-kpkg is still geared towards that >> >> I think you ar

Bug#409693: kernel-package: please rename to linux-package

2007-02-05 Thread srivasta
On Mon, 5 Feb 2007 08:00:09 -0500, Filipus Klutiero <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Monday 05 February 2007 13:14, Manoj Srivastava wrote: >> Hi, > [...] >> b) Changing the name would be mischaracterization of the >> capabilities of the package > Why? Because linux is just one of the tar

Bug#358552: I don't think this belongs in ucf

2006-12-04 Thread srivasta
Hi, On Mon, 4 Dec 2006 15:03:51 +0100, Marc Haber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 10:38:04AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: >> If a configuration file is removed, the package should be dealing >> with old configuration files, since some of the tings mentioned >> require packa

Bug#372783: Err, there is not enough information here to make a determination

2006-06-11 Thread srivasta
Hi, Hmm. Well, can you edit the postinst in /var/lib/dpkg/info/linux-image-2.6.16-2-amd64-k8_2.6.16-14.postinst, set DEBUG=1, and run # /var/lib/dpkg/info/linux-image-2.6.16-2-amd64-k8_2.6.16-14.postinst configure as root? I think I see a typo in the postinst, but I'd like to

Bug#365138: I can't reproduce this bug

2006-06-06 Thread srivasta
Hi, Darn. I forgot that debconf reexecs the script, so bash -x only works until the point of the first execution. I think we'll have to add a set -x just after the set -e line in /usr/bin/ucf, to see where exactly is the script dying. Can you please re-run this after editing /

Bug#301974: mailagent: Upgrade outputs duplicate messages

2006-02-07 Thread srivasta
Hi, On 7 Feb 2006, Bart Martens told this: > The attached patch fixes the bug. > > Regards, > > Bart Martens diff -ruN orig/mailagent-3.73/debian/postinst > mailagent-3.73/debian/postinst > --- orig/mailagent-3.73/debian/postinst 2006-02-07 15:13:58.0 > +0100 > +++ mailagent-3.73/d