Bug#727708: Call for votes on init system resolution

2014-02-05 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Wed, Feb 05, 2014 at 09:56:14AM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: >... > 8. OT openrc default in jessie, requiring specific init is allowed > 8. VT sysvinit default in jessie, requiring specific init is allowed >... Is this a typo or an intentional equal ranking? cu Adrian -- "Is

Bug#727708: TC resolution revised draft

2014-02-05 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 06:06:35PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: >... > So if for example 4 members of the TC would say "only systemd is an > acceptable choice", and the other 4 members of the TC would say "only > upstart is an acceptable choice", then any result o

Bug#727708: Both T and L are wrong, plea for something simpler (was: Re: Call for votes on init system resolution)

2014-02-06 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Thu, Feb 06, 2014 at 10:20:02AM +0100, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: >... > Now, I think there is currently a shared agreement in Debian that > > "all Debian packages (unless there's a good reason) should run on > sysvinit + Linux + amd64 , support outside that is best-effort" sysvinit

Bug#736557: Please follow the MIA process instead of asking for package removal

2014-02-06 Thread Adrian Bunk
Hi Moritz, hi Christian, please follow the MIA process [1] instead of requesting the removal of packages you consider "Apparently unmaintained". This gives other developers the chance to adopt the package (yes, many packages get adopted quite quickly after filing an O: WNPP bug). And it is very

Bug#727708: Call for votes on init system resolution

2014-02-06 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Fri, Feb 07, 2014 at 07:22:10AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > On 7 February 2014 06:20, Ian Jackson wrote: > > Don Armstrong writes ("Bug#727708: Call for votes on init system > > resolution"): > >> Given the already stated preferences of the CTTE, and the previous votes > >> we've already had

Bug#727708: Call for votes on init system resolution

2014-02-06 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Thu, Feb 06, 2014 at 02:20:51PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: >... > This is one of the major reasons why I'm voting GR second. I see Bdale's > point that we shouldn't abdicate our responsibility to make the best > decision that we can, and I followed that maxim by voting my preference > first. B

Bug#727708: Call for votes on init system resolution

2014-02-06 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Fri, Feb 07, 2014 at 08:59:59AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > On 7 February 2014 08:44, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > If Colin joins Ian, Andreas and Steve in voting DT and UT below FD, > > then T is dead. > > It's really pretty terrible to actively use FD to try to block

Bug#727708: Call for votes on init system resolution

2014-02-07 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Fri, Feb 07, 2014 at 01:08:46AM -0800, Keith Packard wrote: > Russ Allbery writes: > > > I consider the L option as currently written to be a commitment to a > > course of action that is technically broken and unsustainable. I also > > think the effect of L is contrary to its intended goal an

Bug#727708: Call for votes on init system resolution

2014-02-07 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Fri, Feb 07, 2014 at 10:42:13AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > Andreas Barth writes: > > * Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) [140207 02:09]: > > >> I also flatly disagree with Adrian over whether we're deadlocked. I > >> don't see any point in discussing it, though. > > > I agree with you, I don'

Bug#738169: how-can-i-help shouldn't list ITA bugs

2014-02-08 Thread Adrian Bunk
Package: how-can-i-help Version: 4 Severity: normal There is no lack of opportunities for people to help in Debian, but ITA bugs are not among them: ITA means someone is working on adoption, and usually that person does not need any help with that. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-

Bug#738170: how-can-i-help: Add an option to list opportunities in all packages

2014-02-08 Thread Adrian Bunk
Package: how-can-i-help Version: 4 Severity: wishlist It would be useful if how-can-i-help would have an option to list opportunities in *all* packages, not just the installed ones. The first call to that option might display an unmanage amount of opportunities to help, but subsequent calls (with

Bug#727708: Call for votes on init system resolution

2014-02-08 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Sat, Feb 08, 2014 at 12:38:21PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: >... > I don't see any reason why, > say, mountall or socklog-run should be required to support sysvinit. >... What about udev? cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness.

Bug#727708: call for votes on default Linux init system for jessie

2014-02-11 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 08:22:19PM +0100, Kurt Roeckx wrote: > On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 10:59:34AM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 12:18:41PM -0500, Sam Hartman wrote: > > > > "Bdale" == Bdale Garbee writes: > > > > > Bdale> Steve Langasek writes: > > > >> FWI

Bug#731316: e2undel is obsolete and should be removed

2013-12-04 Thread Adrian Bunk
Package: e2undel Version: 0.82-1.1 Severity: normal What e2undel does is a subset of the features of debugfs (from the e2fsprogs package), and since the latter is actually maintained it contains for example a fix for #662034. If you agree that the e2undel should be removed, please reassign this b

Bug#731329: e2fsprogs: debugfs(8): document lsdel

2013-12-04 Thread Adrian Bunk
Package: e2fsprogs Version: 1.42.8-1 Severity: minor Tags: patch >From 408228b09c7d1988a831249951976d8c72836b16 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Adrian Bunk Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2013 13:33:05 +0200 Subject: debugfs(8): document lsdel --- debugfs/debugfs.8.in | 6 ++ 1 file changed, 6 inserti

Bug#731316: e2undel is obsolete and should be removed

2013-12-04 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Thu, Dec 05, 2013 at 03:14:50AM +0100, Javier Fernandez-Sanguino wrote: > On 4 December 2013 09:07, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > What e2undel does is a subset of the features of debugfs (from the > > e2fsprogs package), and since the latter is actually maintained > > it conta

Bug#731415: unrar-free is dead upstream and completely useless

2013-12-05 Thread Adrian Bunk
Package: unrar-free Version: 1:0.0.1+cvs20071127-2 Severity: serious unrar-free is dead upstream. unrar-free is completely useless, since the new format produced by all RAR versions since 2001 (sic) is not supported. It is already a tough task trying to find any rar archive at all that unrar-free

Bug#731687: man-db: unnecessary dpkg version check in the cron jobs

2013-12-08 Thread Adrian Bunk
Package: man-db Version: 2.6.5-2 Severity: minor Checking for dpkg >= 1.15.0 is no longer needed (even oldstable has a more recent version). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#731894: kate-data: Please mention "K Advanced Text Editor" in the package description

2013-12-10 Thread Adrian Bunk
Package: kate-data Version: 4:4.11.3-2 Severity: minor I was curious whether kate-data was related to libkate, and the package description was not very helpful for getting an answer. Please mention "K Advanced Text Editor" in the package description. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dis

Bug#578720: This seems to have been a bug with an old libao

2013-12-13 Thread Adrian Bunk
Hi John, this bug (vorbis-tools: Sends invalid argument to ALSA when playing some files) seems to have been a bug with an old libao. The problematic file works fine for me on unstable. Can you confirm on an unstable, stable or oldstable system that the problem is gone? Thanks Adrian --

Bug#650301: I cannot reproduce this problem

2013-12-13 Thread Adrian Bunk
Hi, I cannot reproduce this problem you reported (vorbis-tools: ogg123 - ERROR: Cannot open device pulse.) on an unstable system. Can you try on an unstable or stable system whether you can still reproduce this problem? Thanks in advance Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling

Bug#732175: ogmtools: ogmcat not mentioned in the package description

2013-12-14 Thread Adrian Bunk
Package: ogmtools Version: 1:1.5-3+b1 Severity: minor ogmcat is not mentioned in the package description. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#432298: RM: elvis -- RoQA; orphaned; abandoned upstream

2013-12-15 Thread Adrian Bunk
reassign 432298 ftp.debian.org retitle 432298 RM: elvis -- RoQA; orphaned; abandoned upstream thanks elvis is dead upstream since 2004. It even lacks UTF-8 support.[1] Popcon shows some users for elvis,[2] but considering that it installs itself as "vi" alternative with a higher priority than v

Bug#299324: Reassign to emacs24

2013-12-15 Thread Adrian Bunk
reassign 299324 emacs24 found 299324 24.3+1-2 retitle 299324 emacs24 should build a GNUstep flavor thanks If that should happen, the only option is to build GNUstep flavor packages from the emacs24 sources. cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out

Bug#404407: Reopening: ITP, not RFP

2013-12-15 Thread Adrian Bunk
reopen 404407 thanks Sorry, I missed that this was an ITP and not an RFP. cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said.

Bug#727708: systemd jessie -> jessie+1 upgrade problems

2013-12-16 Thread Adrian Bunk
Hi Josselin, reading through the systemd position statement [1], I ran into a statement that is either incomplete or incorrect: The upstart position statement [2] states: <-- snip --> systemd is hasty. ... While we are committed to having sane upgrade paths and not depend on such kernel fe

Bug#729203: RFP is not a solution for ffmpeg

2013-12-16 Thread Adrian Bunk
Hi Rogério, I am currently doing some cleanup among WNPP bugs, and this one strikes me as between useless and harmful. Harmful, since adding ffmpeg additionally to libav to the archive would create a great mess with the ffmpeg/libav libraries. The only way to prevent endless discussions would

Bug#727708: systemd jessie -> jessie+1 upgrade problems

2013-12-17 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 12:38:50PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Hi Adrian, Hi Josselin, > Le lundi 16 décembre 2013 à 17:52 +0200, Adrian Bunk a écrit : > > Can you give a pointer to what guarantees systemd upstream makes > > regarding supporting older kernels? > >

Bug#580320: RM: debnest -- RoQA; orphaned; abandoned upstream

2013-12-17 Thread Adrian Bunk
reassign 580320 ftp.debian.org retitle 580320 RM: debnest -- RoQA; orphaned; abandoned upstream thanks This is a Debian native package that had it's last upload 6 years ago. Any package using it would have to declare a build dependency on debnest, and there are no build dependencies on debnest i

Bug#636727: RM: cvssuck/cvsconnect

2013-12-17 Thread Adrian Bunk
reassign 636727 ftp.debian.org reassign 636728 ftp.debian.org block 636728 by 636727 retitle 636727 RM: cvsconnect -- RoQA; orphaned; abandoned upstream retitle 636728 RM: cvssuck -- RoQA; orphaned; abandoned upstream thanks Both packages are: - orphaned upstream (even the homepage no longer exist

Bug#615552: RM: wyg -- RoQA; orphaned; abandoned upstream

2013-12-17 Thread Adrian Bunk
reassign 615552 ftp.debian.org retitle 615552 RM: wyg -- RoQA; orphaned; abandoned upstream thanks The last upstream release was in 1999... cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days.

Bug#727708: systemd jessie -> jessie+1 upgrade problems

2013-12-17 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 10:29:35AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > Adrian Bunk writes: > > > this hits exactly the core of the problem: > > > The minimum supported Linux kernel version in glibc is currently 2.6.16, > > released in 2006. And I'd trust glibc upstreamt

Bug#727708: systemd jessie -> jessie+1 upgrade problems

2013-12-18 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 06:02:50PM -0500, Sam Hartman wrote: > >>>>> "Adrian" == Adrian Bunk writes: > > > Adrian> Yes, it is speculation that other new features (or even > Adrian> bugfixes) might appear in the kernel and might become >

Bug#727708: systemd jessie -> jessie+1 upgrade problems

2013-12-18 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 01:19:48PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Hi Adrian, Hi Josselin, > Le mercredi 18 décembre 2013 à 13:34 +0200, Adrian Bunk a écrit : > > That point you bring up is semi-orthogonal to the upgrade decision, > > but it also brings up two important poin

Bug#727708: systemd jessie -> jessie+1 upgrade problems

2013-12-18 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 08:53:04AM -0500, Sam Hartman wrote: > Adrian, I'm frustrated when I read your message because you put words in > my mouth that I did not speak. Hi Sam, > I never said that Debian should allow systemd to dictate policy for > multiple distributions nor did I say that Debian

Bug#727708: systemd jessie -> jessie+1 upgrade problems

2013-12-18 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 03:10:19PM +0200, Uoti Urpala wrote: > On Wed, 2013-12-18 at 13:34 +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: >... > > When not using systemd as pid 1, that risk would be confined to the > > parts of systemd Debian would be using (currently only udev). > > I thi

Bug#727708: systemd jessie -> jessie+1 upgrade problems

2013-12-18 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 04:10:19PM +0100, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: > Hi, > > Adrian Bunk writes: > > On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 01:19:48PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > >> > And now you bring up the point that Debian should reconsider the > >> > lenght of

Bug#727708: systemd jessie -> jessie+1 upgrade problems

2013-12-18 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 03:50:33PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Hi, Hi Josselin, >... > I do not consider keeping an arbitrary number of packages at the wheezy > version an appropriate answer, regardless of the choice of init systems. >... how many and which packages would have to be kept at

Bug#599994: openjdk-7 might soon be available on mips/mipsel

2013-12-18 Thread Adrian Bunk
This is a headsup that Aurelien is working on getting openjdk-7 on mips/mipsel, which might also resolve these two issues in rjava. cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a

Bug#730602: ssed should be removed

2013-12-18 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 08:45:47PM +0100, Jose Antonio Quevedo Muñoz wrote: > Dear Adrian, Dear Jose, > first of all, thanks for your bug report. > > It's true that upstream is not being very active about the ssed > development, and maybe all the features of ssed are already incorporated > in se

Bug#732563: Please consider dropping cvs-autoreleasedeb

2013-12-18 Thread Adrian Bunk
Package: cvs-autoreleasedeb Version: 0.12-1 Severity: normal cvs-autoreleasedeb is the only package depending on the orphaned cvs-buildpackage, and I doubt that anyone is still using CVS for maintaining Debian packages. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with

Bug#732564: devscripts: Please consider dropping the cvs-* programs

2013-12-18 Thread Adrian Bunk
Package: devscripts Version: 2.13.8 Severity: normal Looking at the rdeps of the orphaned cvs-buildpackage I saw that devscripts suggests it for the cvs-* programs. Please consider dropping these programs - I doubt that anyone is still using CVS for maintaining Debian packages. -- To UNSUBSCRI

Bug#732567: packaging-dev: Please drop the Suggests: cvs-buildpackage

2013-12-18 Thread Adrian Bunk
Package: packaging-dev Version: 0.7 Severity: normal cvs-buildpackage is orphaned, and using CVS is definitely not something that should still be done (if someone liked CVS, he will also like SVN). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscr

Bug#732570: libarch-perl should be removed

2013-12-18 Thread Adrian Bunk
Package: libarch-perl Version: 0.5.2-1 Severity: normal GNU arch is dead since 2006, and I seriously doubt that anyone is still using libarch-perl. Please reassign this bug to ftp.debian.org for requesting the removal of libarch-perl from Debian. Feel free to close this bug if you disagree. --

Bug#727708: systemd jessie -> jessie+1 upgrade problems

2013-12-18 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 02:44:03PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > Adrian Bunk writes: >... > > When not using systemd as pid 1, that risk would be confined to the > > parts of systemd Debian would be using (currently only udev). > > There appears to be near-unanimous ag

Bug#727708: systemd jessie -> jessie+1 upgrade problems

2013-12-18 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 02:53:39PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > Adrian Bunk writes: > > > [1] Personally, I am sceptical whether it is a good idea to switch to a > > different init system for jessie. But I am not on a desperate rant > > against systemd, and if

Bug#719203: Raising severity

2013-10-24 Thread Adrian Bunk
severity 719203 grave tags 719203 +security thanks Setting RC severity. DSA for stable was already released more than a month ago: http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2760 cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There ha

Bug#714279: This is nota non-severe issue

2013-10-28 Thread Adrian Bunk
severity 714279 serious thanks Hi Michael, it sounds like a joke that you wrote "This is a non-severe issue". Many people had a real WTF? experience after upgrading to the broken package, and this is an issue that negatively effects a huge number of GUI applications. By lowering the severity y

Bug#729203: (no subject)

2014-01-10 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 08:17:45AM +0100, Lorenzo Sutton wrote: > Agree with many on at least providing the *option* for users to have > the original ffmpeg instead of libav and using sensible clear names > and descriptions for both packages. >... > > Without getting into the politics of the fork

Bug#729203: (no subject)

2014-01-10 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 09:50:37PM +0100, Georg Lippitsch wrote: > Am 10.01.2014, 17:52 Uhr, schrieb Adrian Bunk : > > to do > >> > >>apt-get install ffmpeg > >> > >>or > >> > >>apr-get install libav > >>... > > > &

Bug#729203: (no subject)

2014-01-13 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 03:40:48PM -0800, Timothy Gu wrote: > On Jan 10, 2014 8:54 AM, "Adrian Bunk" wrote: > > > > On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 08:17:45AM +0100, Lorenzo Sutton wrote: > > > Agree with many on at least providing the *option* for users to have > >

Bug#726530: Lowering the severity of this bug

2014-01-13 Thread Adrian Bunk
severity 726530 important thanks Hi Luke, as bad as this issue is for you (and it should be fixed!), it is not so bad that it should prevent the inclusion of fvwm into the next stable release of Debian - in most setups fvwm still works fine. cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain

Bug#727708: Bits from linux.conf.au

2014-01-14 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 01:57:29PM -0700, Bdale Garbee wrote: > Ian Jackson writes: > > > I'm coming round to the view that we should be planning to support > > multiple systems indefinitely. > > This has been my opinion all along. Various assertions that it's > somehow just too hard really hav

Bug#727708: Bits from linux.conf.au

2014-01-14 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 06:03:33PM +, Ian Jackson wrote: > Adrian Bunk writes ("Bug#727708: Bits from linux.conf.au"): >... > > 3. Switching init systems after installation. > > Assume I am currently using systemd. > > What is supposed to happen when I

Bug#727708: Bits from linux.conf.au

2014-01-14 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 11:31:09AM -0700, Bdale Garbee wrote: > Adrian Bunk writes: >... > > If dependencies like "installing GNOME enforces systemd as init system" > > would be legal, then after a few more such dependencies it would turn > > out that systemd wil

Bug#727708: Init system resolution open questions

2014-01-16 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 09:39:37PM +0100, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: >... > Maintainers only should not drop support for a (default) init system > when the application supports it. >... So if udev (maintained by systemd upstream as part of the systemd sources) would ever get a dependency on systemd

Bug#735612: ghostscript-cups became useless and should be removed

2014-01-16 Thread Adrian Bunk
Package: ghostscript-cups Version: 9.05~dfsg-8+b1 Severity: serious cups depends on cups-filters, which now conflicts with ghostscript-cups since gstopxl and gstoraster moved there. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? C

Bug#727708: On diversity

2014-01-17 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 05:08:51PM +0100, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: > On Fri, 2014-01-17 at 16:01 +, Ian Jackson wrote: > > The "universal operating system" > > phrase is a slogan. > Sure it is, but that slogan actually stands for some important > principles in the open source world... li

Bug#727708: Thoughts on Init System Debate

2014-01-18 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 08:41:32PM -0800, Don Armstrong wrote: >... > With all that said, I think all of these considerations give me a slight > preference for systemd over upstart, though I believe that whatever the > committee decides on will be a great improvement over venerable SysV. >... > 3:

Bug#727708: Init system resolution open questions

2014-01-18 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 08:13:30PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: >... > I believe it is reasonable to allow GNOME to require systemd as the init > system if that's the only way to get a working logind with the software > that we release with jessie, Why does logind actually have to be a hard dependen

Bug#728444: libfontconfig1 will also need a Breaks: xpdf

2013-11-01 Thread Adrian Bunk
Hi, > Please do not downgrade the severity of this bug report below the > release-critical threshold and please do not close it or reassign it, > until an xpdf package that fixes bug #727070 has landed in testing. You are seeing only a small part of the whole problem - migration to testing won't

Bug#728825: longomatch: New upstream version available

2013-11-05 Thread Adrian Bunk
Package: longomatch Version: 0.16.8+git20110626-1+b2 Severity: wishlist longomatch 0.18.19 is available at http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/longomatch/0.18/ Could you package this version? Thanks in advance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Bug#728890: libccss is unused and dead upstream

2013-11-06 Thread Adrian Bunk
Package: src:libccss Version: 0.5.0-4 Severity: normal libccss is unmaintained upstream (no activity in git since 2009) and not used by other packages in Debian. If it gets released in jessie, Debian will have to provide security support until around 2018 for this CSS parsing library. If you agr

Bug#728911: mdoc: Could not load file or assembly Mono.Cecil

2013-11-06 Thread Adrian Bunk
Package: monodoc-base Version: 2.10.8.1-8 Severity: serious <-- snip --> $ mdoc mdoc: Could not load file or assembly 'Mono.Cecil, Version=0.9.4.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=0738eb9f132ed756' or one of its dependencies. See `mdoc help' for more information. $ <-- snip --> I don't k

Bug#729062: longomatch must depend on gstreamer0.10-plugins-good and gstreamer0.10-x

2013-11-08 Thread Adrian Bunk
Package: longomatch Version: 0.16.8+git20110626-1+b2 Severity: serious longomatch doesn't even start unless both gstreamer0.10-plugins-good and gstreamer0.10-x are installed. See https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=711671 for my report that the error handling is also broken - and one would

Bug#728444: The #728444 hack is not a good idea

2013-11-09 Thread Adrian Bunk
Hi Michael, your #728444 hack is extremely ugly, and it is unclear how bad the performance penalty for this hack is. I am myself an xpdf user affected by this bug, but it seems clear that there are libpoppler issues that have to be sorted out in xpdf, instead of ugly hacks like this (that coul

Bug#714279: This is nota non-severe issue

2013-11-11 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 12:27:23AM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2013-10-28 12:44:34 +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > The simplicity of the workarounds implies that it should be easy to fix, > > not that every single user should have to do the workaround himself. > >

Bug#728444: Regarding the fintconfig/xpdf issue

2013-11-12 Thread Adrian Bunk
Hi Michael, first of all, please don't strip me from the Cc - when you are answering to me send me a copy since I might not receive your message otherwise (like in this case here). > fontconfig was without pthreads for its lifetime prior to 2.11, so > there won't be any performance regressions

Bug#728444: Please remove the libfontconfig NMU from the delayed incoming

2013-11-21 Thread Adrian Bunk
Hi Michael, as I've already explained, the horrible hack in your NMU would affect all packages using libfontconfig even though without a doubt the actual bug is in your package (xpdf). And as I've already said, abusing the fact that the maintainers seem to be a bit inactive at the moment to fo

Bug#714279: Not a serious bug

2013-11-22 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 10:00:43AM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > severity 714279 important > thanks > > This bug happens only when people have fiddled with non-trivial parts of > the fontconfig configuration. I agree it should be fixed in an ideal > world, but I fail to see how this qualifies a

Bug#730600: libkolabxml: New upstream version available

2013-11-26 Thread Adrian Bunk
Package: src:libkolabxml Version: 0.8.4-5 Severity: wishlist libkolabxml 1.0.1 is available at http://git.kolab.org/libkolabxml Could you package this version? Thanks in advance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

Bug#730602: ssed should be removed

2013-11-26 Thread Adrian Bunk
Package: ssed Version: 3.62-7 Severity: normal ssed is a dead (no release in 8 years) fork of an ancient version of sed incorporating new features that are now also available in the normal sed. I am not aware of any reason why ssed should be used by anyone today, please reassign this bug to ftp.d

Bug#731107: libsoup2.4: New upstream version available

2013-12-01 Thread Adrian Bunk
Package: src:libsoup2.4 Version: 2.44.1-1 Severity: wishlist libsoup 2.44.2 is available at ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/libsoup/2.44/ Could you package this version? Thanks in advance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubsc

Bug#752246: OPAL is compiled without any optimization

2014-06-21 Thread Adrian Bunk
Package: src:opal Version: 3.10.10~dfsg-2.2 Severity: important OPAL is currently compiled without any optimization due to a combination of 2 bugs: 1. configure.ac overwrites the default CFLAGS/CXXFLAGS that are set to "-g -O2" by autoconf when these variables aren't set in the environment a

Bug#752249: gcc-doc should be updated to point at gcc-4.9-doc

2014-06-21 Thread Adrian Bunk
Package: gcc-doc Version: 5:4.8.2-3 Severity: normal gcc-doc should be updated to point at gcc-4.9-doc. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#753120: libguess: Homepage URL is dead

2014-06-29 Thread Adrian Bunk
Source: libguess Version: 1.2~git20131128.cc43cefc-1 Severity: minor Homepage: http://www.atheme.org/project/libguess This URL returns "404 Not Found". -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debia

Bug#753123: libmikmod3 shouldn't be linked with libesd0

2014-06-29 Thread Adrian Bunk
Source: libmikmod3 Version: 3.3.6-2 Severity: normal There is no longer a daemon for the obsolete ESD in Debian, and the only reasonable usage of ESD support is through pulseaudio-esound-compat for applications without PulseAudio support. Since libmikmod contains PulseAudio support, linking with

Bug#753165: lintian needs "Provides: funny-manpages (<< 1.3-5.1)"

2014-06-29 Thread Adrian Bunk
Package: lintian Version: 2.5.24 Severity: serious <-- snip --> Unpacking lintian (2.5.24) over (2.5.21) ... dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/lintian_2.5.24_all.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite '/usr/share/lintian/overrides/lintian', which is also in package funny-ma

Bug#753165: Ups, Replaces: not Provides:

2014-06-29 Thread Adrian Bunk
retitle 753165 lintian needs "Replaces: funny-manpages (<< 1.3-5.1)" thanks It is of course Replaces: not Provides: cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," La

Bug#739997: ITAs are not the proper way for handling MIA maintainers

2014-03-02 Thread Adrian Bunk
Hi Chris, please don't abuse ITA bugs for trying to steal packages from people whom you suspect to be MIA. Section 7.4. of the Developer's Reference Team descripes the proper procedure. It is also very bad for Debian as a whole when only one package of a MIA maintainer gets adopted, and the oth

Bug#739860: There is already a source package tox in Debian

2014-03-02 Thread Adrian Bunk
Hi Bartosz, this is a headsup that there is already a source package tox in Debian (binary package python-tox), and it is not possible that both packages will have the same source package name in Debian. Please agree with Barry on which package should have this source package name before uploadi

Bug#738908: Can the how-can-i-help RFH be closed?

2014-03-02 Thread Adrian Bunk
Hi Lucas, it seems you already got enough help? cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Drago

Bug#739233: Moving O: bugs to the wnpp package

2014-03-02 Thread Adrian Bunk
reassign 739233 wnpp retitle 739233 O: stdeb -- Python to Debian source package conversion utility reassign 700883 wnpp thanks O: bugs belong to the wnpp package. Packages: - stdeb - ncmpcpp cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darknes

Bug#739997: ITAs are not the proper way for handling MIA maintainers

2014-03-02 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Sun, Mar 02, 2014 at 02:54:51PM -0500, Chris Knadle wrote: >... > When you get a chance, let me know Ron's IRC screen name and when he might be > expected to be active in the channel. ron_ Just try to talk to him when he's online, the last time I saw him saying something on IRC was 2 hours a

Bug#640069: Bug#735917: Two ITPs for stm32flash

2014-03-03 Thread Adrian Bunk
owner 640069 Andrew Shadura merge 640069 735917 thanks On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 11:54:40AM +0100, Uwe Hermann wrote: > Hi, > > On Sat, Feb 15, 2014 at 09:30:31AM +0100, Andrew Shadura wrote: > > > there are currently two different ITPs for stm32flash with different > > > owners. > > > > > Plea

Bug#739860: There is already a source package tox in Debian

2014-03-06 Thread Adrian Bunk
retitle 739860 ITP: tox-im -- easy to use all-in-one communication platform thanks On Sun, Mar 02, 2014 at 09:43:24PM +0100, Bartosz Feński wrote: > > W dniu 02.03.2014 20:34, Barry Warsaw pisze: > > On Mar 02, 2014, at 09:30 PM, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > > >> this

Bug#742151: isc-dhcp-client depends on transitional package iproute

2014-03-19 Thread Adrian Bunk
Package: isc-dhcp-client Version: 4.2.4-7 Severity: minor Please update the dependency from iproute to iproute2. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#692155: Please

2012-11-02 Thread Adrian Bunk
y NMUs or multiarch support caused by such strict dependencies don't apply in such a case of the dependency of binaries on a shared library. Thanks in advance for considering my request Adrian Bunk [1] http://bugs.debian.org/668662 [2] http://bugs.debian.org/677180 [3] http://bugs.debian.org/66

Bug#692162: X-Debbugs-Cc emails on bug submission not sent

2012-11-02 Thread Adrian Bunk
Package: bugs.debian.org Severity: important In bug #692155 the X-Debbugs-Cc emails on bug submission were not sent (I've now manually forwarded the email). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.d

Bug#692155: Please

2012-11-02 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Fri, Nov 02, 2012 at 04:41:19PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > "Didier 'OdyX' Raboud" writes: >... > > Le vendredi, 2 novembre 2012 23.47:11, Russ Allbery a écrit : > >> In practice, divergence from the upstream SONAME practice is probably a > >> bad idea. This business of having an exposed priv

Bug#691248: inn: Package description shouldn't suggest trn

2012-10-23 Thread Adrian Bunk
Package: inn Version: 1:1.7.2q-41 Severity: minor Even if it makes sense to suggest a specific newsreader in the package description (I'm not even sure about that), then an ancient text-mode program in non-free is not the best choice. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.d

Bug#691249: inn2: Package description shouldn't suggest trn

2012-10-23 Thread Adrian Bunk
Package: inn2 Version: 2.5.3-1 Severity: minor Even if it makes sense to suggest a specific newsreader in the package description (I'm not even sure about that), then an ancient text-mode program in non-free is not the best choice. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debi

Bug#668662: Only half-fixed in 1.5.3-2.4

2012-10-29 Thread Adrian Bunk
found 668662 1.5.3-2.4 thanks In 1.5.3-2.4 this bug was correctly fixed in cups-client (libcups2 (= ${binary:Version}), but the fix in cups is not complete (libcups2 (>= ${binary:Version}) - that allows a library upgrade without upgrading cups). cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rai

Bug#668662: Only half-fixed in 1.5.3-2.4

2012-10-29 Thread Adrian Bunk
reopen 668662 found 668662 1.5.3-2.4 thanks On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 04:08:55PM +0100, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: > Control: notfound -1 1.5.3-2.4 > > Le lundi, 29 octobre 2012 15.04:12, Adrian Bunk a écrit : > > In 1.5.3-2.4 this bug was correctly fixed in

Bug#688644: audacious needs more strict audacious-plugins dependency

2012-09-24 Thread Adrian Bunk
Package: audacious Version: 3.3.1-1 Severity: serious <-- snip --> *** ERROR: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/audacious/Input/xsf.so is not compatible with this version of Audacious. *** ERROR: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/audacious/Input/metronom.so is not compatible with this version of Audac

Bug#633961: closed by Jonathan Nieder (Re: linux images must conflict with unfixed input-utils)

2012-01-16 Thread Adrian Bunk
nux images must conflict with unfixed input-utils > > Adrian Bunk wrote: > > > Upgrading the kernel without also upgrading input-utils (e.g. when > > using the version in squeeze or the version currently in testing) > > makes input-utils unusable (see #609300). > [.

Bug#678637: flashplugin-nonfree: please update the package dependencies

2012-06-23 Thread Adrian Bunk
Package: flashplugin-nonfree Version: 1:2.8.4 Severity: normal Please update the dependencies: - libnspr4-0d -> libnspr4 - libnss3-1d -> libnss3 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#668662: Unfortunately that bug is not yet completely fixed

2012-06-23 Thread Adrian Bunk
reopen 668662 thanks This bug (cups needs a more strict dependency on libcups) is now properly fixed in cups-client with Depends: libcups2 (= ${binary:Version}) but not in cups with Depends: libcups2 (>= ${binary:Version}) Please fix the dependency in cups, currently there is still the pote

Bug#679465: openjdk-7-jre-headless: please update the NSS dependency

2012-06-28 Thread Adrian Bunk
Package: openjdk-7-jre-headless Version: 7~u3-2.1.1-1 Severity: minor Please update the NSS dependency from the transitional libnss3-1d package to libnss3. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.d

Bug#680663: apt-show-versions: bash-completion _comp_dpkg_installed_packages error

2012-07-07 Thread Adrian Bunk
Package: apt-show-versions Version: 0.18 Severity: normal This is what you get when you type in a shell "apt-show-versions ": <-- snip --> $ apt-show-versions bash: _comp_dpkg_installed_packages: command not found <-- snip --> This bug seems to be similar to the already fixed #658773.

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