Bug#1102482: runit-services: rsyslog logrotate workaround not set up on upgrade from bookworm

2025-04-09 Thread Andrew Bower
Hi Lorenzo, On Wed, Apr 09, 2025 at 04:41:52PM +0200, Lorenzo wrote: > I just pushed a patch to git, next branch.. any chance that you can > test if it fixes the issue for you? I just re-did the distro upgrade with a build of runit-services/0.9.1 and it worked smoothly, thanks! Andrew

Bug#1094356: freeradius-utils radlast and wtmpdb last incompatible

2025-04-09 Thread Andrew Bower
RADIUS specifically but would be happy to help out with any issues. Andrew >From 4462edc88ec31b64c82bfc7fe6554403d58fc9df Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andrew Bower Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2025 21:04:53 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Patch radlast to wrap wtmpdb import step. (Closes: #1094356) --- debia

Bug#1102105: wtmpdb: Argument combination `last -x -s ` not working

2025-04-06 Thread Andrew Bower
Control: tags -1 moreinfo upstream Hi Dirk, Thanks for these reports! On Sat, Apr 05, 2025 at 05:43:53AM +0200, Dirk Lehmann wrote: > Package: wtmpdb > Version: 0.72.0-1 > Severity: normal > > Dear Maintainer, > > here an `last -x` example output > > ``` > $> wtmpdb last -x -n20 > root pt

Bug#1102643: libpam-wtmpdb: Coordinating openssh wtmpdb support

2025-04-11 Thread Andrew Bower
Hi Colin, On Fri, Apr 11, 2025 at 01:06:00PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > I'd like to arrange for the less-informative "ssh" one to be skipped. > This can be done by adding "skip_if=sshd" to libpam_wtmpdb's options, > and > https://build.opensuse.org/projects/Linux-PAM/packages/wtmpdb/files/wt

Bug#1103152: Starts 2nd getty on hvc0, making console login (almost) impossible

2025-04-14 Thread Andrew Bower
On Mon, Apr 14, 2025 at 09:32:55PM +0200, Andras Korn wrote: > On Mon, Apr 14, 2025 at 05:45:48PM +0100, Andrew Bower wrote: > > > On Mon, Apr 14, 2025 at 04:28:36PM +0200, Andras Korn wrote: > > > During a dist-upgrade, the getty-run package was pulled in, and a(n > &g

Bug#1103152: Starts 2nd getty on hvc0, making console login (almost) impossible

2025-04-14 Thread Andrew Bower
Hi Andras and Lorenzo, On Mon, Apr 14, 2025 at 04:28:36PM +0200, Andras Korn wrote: > During a dist-upgrade, the getty-run package was pulled in, and a(n > IMO misleadingly named) getty-ttyS0 service enabled by default. IMO the system should not start anything on a serial port without user config

Bug#1102717: gnupg: fails to interact with HSM after upgrade from 2.2.46

2025-04-12 Thread Andrew Bower
Hi Andreas, On Sat, Apr 12, 2025 at 01:43:47PM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote: > On 2025-04-12 Andrew Bower wrote: > afaiui with gnupg 2.4 you have to either use gnupg's built-in ccid driver > *instead* of pcdsd (i.e. stop pcscd from grabbing the device) or > configure gnupg to *n

Bug#1025781: getdns: new upstream version 1.7.2

2025-05-06 Thread Andrew Bower
Hi Thomas, On Sat, Mar 01, 2025 at 02:17:47PM +0100, Thomas Uhle wrote: > the bugfix release 1.7.3 is now more than two years old. Do you think that > there is a chance to get this version into trixie before the freeze? Do we have any evidence that upstream is paying attention to this software a

Bug#1104698: RFS: wtmpdb/0.73.0-3 -- utility to display login/logout/reboot information

2025-05-04 Thread Andrew Bower
: #1094965) Regards, -- Andrew Bower signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#1094965: wtmpdb: provides no way to prune rotated logs

2025-05-05 Thread Andrew Bower
Control: tags -1 - patch Removing 'patch' tag. The proper approach needs better design - for both the rotation and pruning aspects. Even the directory used is questionnable. This issue is mitigated in 0.73.0-3 by disabling rotation by default on new installations.

Bug#1094965: wtmpdb: provides no way to prune rotated logs

2025-04-23 Thread Andrew Bower
I have received some helpful feedback on this, essentially to the effect that the current policy is worse than useless because not only does it not prune but that the over-fragmented log files are just less useful. The suggestion is that rotation should either be disabled or given a long period li

Bug#1102717: gnupg: fails to interact with HSM after upgrade from 2.2.46

2025-04-12 Thread Andrew Bower
Package: gnupg Version: 2.4.7-14 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, I upgraded gnupg from 2.2.46-6 to 2.4.7-13 and all operations with a hardware security module (Yubikey 5) now fail. It may be that there is a user configuration or dependency change that needs satisfying but I can't find any docu

Bug#1092031: runit-services: duplicate rsyslog logrotate

2025-02-18 Thread Andrew Bower
; succesfully. but... > > > > when some runit-services trigger is run following some package > > upgrade (eg. rsyslog), then, aa-rsyslog-runit is also renamed to > > aa-rsyslog-runit.disabled.. (?!)  and there is no (rsys)log rotation!! > > On Fri, 14 Feb 2025 19:0

Bug#1099199: RFS: wtmpdb/0.71.0+git20250228.4e4b54e-1 [ITA] -- utility to display login/logout/reboot information

2025-03-01 Thread Andrew Bower
onfig: do not check excluded wtmpdbd and varlink content * add d/upstream/metadata * dh_installinit: no-stop-on-upgrade Regards, -- Andrew Bower signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#1099199: RFS: wtmpdb/0.71.0+git20250228.4e4b54e-1 [ITA] -- utility to display login/logout/reboot information

2025-03-01 Thread Andrew Bower
Hi Maytham, On Sun, Mar 02, 2025 at 12:46:30PM +0800, Maytham Alsudany wrote: > On Sat, 2025-03-01 at 15:55 +0000, Andrew Bower wrote: > > Changes since the last upload: > > > > wtmpdb (0.71.0+git20250228.4e4b54e-1) experimental; urgency=medium > > . > >*

Bug#1099199: RFS: wtmpdb/0.71.0+git20250228.4e4b54e-1 [ITA] -- utility to display login/logout/reboot information

2025-03-01 Thread Andrew Bower
Hi Maytham, On Sun, Mar 02, 2025 at 02:27:19PM +0800, Maytham Alsudany wrote: > The packaging looks good to me. Just one question: do you plan on > including the wtmpdbd daemon later, or are you permanently excluding it > from the packaging? Thanks! Personally I'm not convinced of the merit and

Bug#1086559: wtmpdb: read old format files

2025-02-28 Thread Andrew Bower
Control: tags -1 fixed-upstream Control: severity -1 important Thanks for reporting this issue! I am pleased to report that the upstream maintainer has accepted the addition of an import command for old wtmp files. I intend to make this operation available for users upgrading from bookworm so th

Bug#1099199: RFS: wtmpdb/0.71.0+git20250228.4e4b54e-1 [ITA] -- utility to display login/logout/reboot information

2025-03-02 Thread Andrew Bower
Hi Maytham, On Mon, Mar 03, 2025 at 01:58:16PM +0800, Maytham Alsudany wrote: > Before I go ahead and upload, have you considered fixing this: > > I: libwtmpdb0: no-symbols-control-file > usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libwtmpdb.so.0.71.0 > N: > N: Although the package includes a shared library, the

Bug#1099199: RFS: wtmpdb/0.71.0+git20250228.4e4b54e-1 [ITA] -- utility to display login/logout/reboot information

2025-03-03 Thread Andrew Bower
Hi Maytham, On Mon, Mar 03, 2025 at 07:24:01AM +, Andrew Bower wrote: > On Mon, Mar 03, 2025 at 01:58:16PM +0800, Maytham Alsudany wrote: > > Before I go ahead and upload, have you considered fixing this: > > > > I: libwtmpdb0: no-symbols-control-file > &g

Bug#1050692: Outdated configuration file version

2025-03-07 Thread Andrew Bower
On Mon, Aug 28, 2023 at 11:36:52AM +0200, Yuri D'Elia wrote: > The configuration file provided in syslog-ng-core has "@version: 3.38", > which triggers the following warning on startup: > > > WARNING: Configuration file format is too old, syslog-ng is running in > > compatibility mode. Please upda

Bug#1091616: /usr/sbin/syslog-ng: smart-multi-line.fsm not found

2025-03-07 Thread Andrew Bower
On Sat, Dec 28, 2024 at 07:03:32PM +, Bryan D. Thomas wrote: > > Logs included this line about smart-multi-line.fsm, even when I made a bare > minimum config file. [..] > I copied the smart-multi-line.fsm file from the source tarball into the > directory where it was expected. If this fil

Bug#1099627: RFS: calcurse/4.8.1-1.2 [NMU] [RC] -- text-based calendar and todo manager

2025-03-07 Thread Andrew Bower
Control: tags -1 + confirmed On Sat, Mar 08, 2025 at 06:26:49AM +, Phil Wyett wrote: > Control: tags -1 -moreinfo > Control: tags -1 _confirmed I assume you meant +confirmed but slipped on the keyboard, so I'm taking the liberty of doing that myself! :-)

Bug#1099729: syslog-ng-core: /var/log/error flooded with EINVAL complaints seeking /dev/kmsg

2025-03-07 Thread Andrew Bower
Package: syslog-ng-core Version: 4.8.1-2+b1 Severity: normal Tags: upstream fixed-upstream Dear Maintainer, /var/log/error is flooded with messages of the form: Mar 6 22:17:27 arden syslog-ng[2174]: Error invoking seek on file; filename='/dev/kmsg', error='Invalid argument (22)' There appears

Bug#1073842: calypso: please patch-out usage of python3-lockfile

2025-03-08 Thread Andrew Bower
Control: tags -1 - patch On Sun, Nov 24, 2024 at 11:39:41PM +, Andrew Bower wrote: Control: tags -1 patch Withdrawing my patch that was an attempt to be helpful but would reduce functionality. It doesn't seem as if anyone cares and I couldn't work out if the bug that it blo

Bug#1092623: marked as pending in runit

2025-03-07 Thread Andrew Bower
Hi Lorenzo, On Fri, Mar 07, 2025 at 06:55:55PM +, Lorenzo Puliti wrote: > Control: tag -1 pending Thanks for considering and including my patches! Your prospective changelog says: [ Andrew Bower ] * stop build output interleaving leading to blhc false positives (Closes: #1092

Bug#1092623: marked as pending in runit

2025-03-07 Thread Andrew Bower
On Fri, Mar 07, 2025 at 10:29:18PM +0100, Lorenzo wrote: > On Fri, 7 Mar 2025 19:46:26 + > Andrew Bower wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 07, 2025 at 06:55:55PM +, Lorenzo Puliti wrote: > > > > Which is patches 1-3, but I don't see patch 2 ("pass all build flags

Bug#1099627: RFS: calcurse/4.8.1-1.2 [NMU] [RC] -- text-based calendar and todo manager

2025-03-07 Thread Andrew Bower
Hi Phil, Thanks for the review - much appreciated! On Fri, Mar 07, 2025 at 09:57:20AM +, Phil Wyett wrote: > Test 3 (build twice): Information [...] > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=986234 Yes, I tried to fix this but to no avail. I think the package needs attention from

Bug#1092031: runit-services: duplicate rsyslog logrotate

2025-03-07 Thread Andrew Bower
On Wed, Mar 05, 2025 at 06:53:34PM +0200, Dimitris T. wrote: > i confess i didn't know rsyslog background untill now... (read relative bug > reports/salsa MR/etc.. even decade old rsyslog bugs..) i can now see what > Andrew meant It's a bit sad really and totally unnecessary. > with all this

Bug#1099627: RFS: calcurse/4.8.1-1.2 [NMU] [RC] -- text-based calendar and todo manager

2025-03-09 Thread Andrew Bower
On Sat, Mar 08, 2025 at 08:40:59AM -0700, Soren Stoutner wrote: [discussion on copyright file requirements for autotools files etc.] Thanks for the interesting discussion. It's good to know that I may have misunderstood the policy! Anyway, for the benefit of any potential sponsors of this RC N

Bug#1086259: calcurse: FTBFS: FAIL: ical-007.sh

2025-03-04 Thread Andrew Bower
014457449d1b6f037f9012d8ea6f37b1b3087174 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andrew Bower Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2025 21:18:35 + Subject: Install tzdata-legacy to fix ftbfs (Closes: #1086259) --- debian/control | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control

Bug#1099199: RFS: wtmpdb/0.71.0+git20250228.4e4b54e-1 [ITA] -- utility to display login/logout/reboot information

2025-03-04 Thread Andrew Bower
Hi Maytham, On Tue, Mar 04, 2025 at 07:21:37PM +0800, Maytham Alsudany wrote: > I noticed that the package doesn't have a d/tests/control for > autopkgtest, even though upstream provides some (basic) tests, so I've > attempted to make the changes necessary to run these tests with > autopkgtest at

Bug#1086259: calcurse: FTBFS: FAIL: ical-007.sh

2025-03-04 Thread Andrew Bower
The problem here seems to be the application ignoring the TZID parameter expressed in the iCal test data. This clearly worked when the current binary package was built so it must be something that only comes to light with the latest toolchain or libraries. I haven't yet spotted any upstream issues

Bug#1099199: RFS: wtmpdb/0.71.0+git20250228.4e4b54e-1 [ITA] -- utility to display login/logout/reboot information

2025-03-04 Thread Andrew Bower
On Tue, Mar 04, 2025 at 06:10:25PM +0800, Maytham Alsudany wrote: It's your call, though please consider that you're packaging from a commit rather than a release. Could you please confirm that you want to upload to unstable? An upstream release would be preferred but they seem to be fairly ar

Bug#1093545: runit: please consider fake xchpst compat for runscripts

2025-02-27 Thread Andrew Bower
On Fri, Feb 21, 2025 at 12:14:51AM +0100, lorenzo wrote: > Hi Andrew, sorry for late reply: > > I was short on free time and also wanted to take some time to think > about this No problem! > On Sun, 19 Jan 2025 19:31:55 +0000 Andrew Bower wrote: > > Hey Lorenzo, > &

Bug#1095036: systemctl: Syntax Warning: invalid escape sequence '\w'

2025-02-27 Thread Andrew Bower
Hi Dmitry, On Sat, Feb 22, 2025 at 10:48:00PM +, Andrew Bower wrote: > I attach a patch which applies a backport of the upstream fix. Would you mind if I tried to prepare a sponsored NMU to your package with this fix? I'm sorry I don't think I'm in a position to contrib

Bug#1092031: runit-services: duplicate rsyslog logrotate

2025-02-27 Thread Andrew Bower
How about biting the bullet and doing a dpkg-divert like orphan-sysvinit-scripts does?

Bug#1099168: wtmpdb: consider packaging new upstream version 0.71.0

2025-02-28 Thread Andrew Bower
Source: wtmpdb Version: 0.13.0-6 Severity: wishlist The main changes since the current Debian release are a new system service 'wtmpdbd' accessed over a JSON-based IPC scheme called 'varlink' heavily tied to systemd. This seems like massive overkill and it is not clear that the greater attack surf

Bug#1099627: RFS: calcurse/4.8.1-1.2 [NMU] [RC] -- text-based calendar and todo manager

2025-03-05 Thread Andrew Bower
(4.8.1-1.2) unstable; urgency=medium . * Non-maintainer upload. * Update B-D to tzdata-legacy to fix FTBFS (Closes: #1086259) * Recommend tzdata-legacy for full functionality. Thanks, -- Andrew Bower signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#1095490: util-linux: new optional package to interrogate utmp-format files

2025-02-21 Thread Andrew Bower
at 08:46:39AM +0000, Andrew Bower wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 09, 2025 at 01:01:08AM +0100, Chris Hofstaedtler wrote: > > > On Sat, Feb 08, 2025 at 12:47:05PM +, Andrew Bower wrote: [..] > > utmp would work past 2038 except on i386 - and for > > 32-bit architectures that

Bug#1006971: runit-init: Add runit-init as Pre-Depends of init metapackage [tracker]

2025-02-23 Thread Andrew Bower
On Sat, Jan 07, 2023 at 05:40:04PM +0100, Lorenzo wrote: > About the list of TODO in #923450; It looks like you've done a great job of fulfilling these requirements. I hope we can see this resolved quickly now for new users! > > * It should be possible to configure the init system to provide a >

Bug#1095036: systemctl: Syntax Warning: invalid escape sequence '\w'

2025-02-22 Thread Andrew Bower
Control: tags -1 patch On Sun, Feb 02, 2025 at 09:50:56PM +, Andrew Bower wrote: > Severity: minor Although ostensibly minor, I think this level of warning (since Python 3.12) is excessive and could be more serious if it obscured error output in logs. I therefore think this is worth fix

Bug#1095036: systemctl: Syntax Warning: invalid escape sequence '\w'

2025-02-22 Thread Andrew Bower
On Sat, Feb 22, 2025 at 10:48:00PM +, Andrew Bower wrote: > Control: tags -1 patch > > I attach a patch which applies a backport of the upstream fix. Now actually attached - MUA operator error. >From 4d9562f2c19d4df82a1788c07fc7be1ead421126 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andrew

Bug#1031399: rsyslog: Log rotation broken on non-systemd systems

2025-02-25 Thread Andrew Bower
Hi Michael, On Thu, Feb 16, 2023 at 09:43:55PM +0100, Michael Biebl wrote: > (btw, this would break if orphan-sysvinit-scripts is not installed). That's a good point! Although addressed by a later version of Matthew's patch, I wonder if this points towards a simpler solution of restoring the init

Bug#1086559: wtmpdb: read old format files

2025-02-25 Thread Andrew Bower
Control: unblock -1 by 1095490 Control: tags -1 upstream Control: owner -1 ! Hi Andy, On Fri, Nov 01, 2024 at 06:51:20PM +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote: > On Fri, Nov 01, 2024 at 05:03:11PM +0100, Chris Hofstaedtler wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 01, 2024 at 02:39:54PM +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote: > > > E

Bug#1101410: RFS: wtmpdb/0.72.0-2 -- utility to display login/logout/reboot information

2025-03-27 Thread Andrew Bower
on upgrade from versions between 0.13.0-6 and 0.72.0-1 inclusive. * copyright: remove lrc override and include content not used in binary Regards, -- Andrew Bower signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#1025781: getdns: new upstream version 1.7.3

2025-05-08 Thread Andrew Bower
Thomas, On Thu, May 08, 2025 at 10:14:15AM +0200, Chris Hofstaedtler wrote: > * Andrew Bower [250508 00:00]: > > On Wed, May 07, 2025 at 11:28:09PM +0200, Chris Hofstaedtler wrote: > > > * Andrew Bower [250507 21:42]: > > > > > > > Unfortunately, libgetdn

Bug#1104921: dh-runit: is ${runit:Conflicts} still needed?

2025-05-08 Thread Andrew Bower
Package: dh-runit Version: 2.16.4 Severity: minor Dear Maintainer, If I build a package that uses dh_runit to include runit service integration, the ${runit:Conflicts} variable is defined and the build process warns if it is not used. Is this still helpful or is ${runit:Breaks} sufficient in most

Bug#1025781: getdns: new upstream version 1.7.3

2025-05-07 Thread Andrew Bower
Hi Thomas, On Wed, May 07, 2025 at 06:55:39PM +0200, Thomas Uhle wrote: > to be honest, I don't know. However, I cannot find any evidence that the > project has been dropped. > > For me, the main purpose of this software is the support of stubby which is > from the same people that provide getdn

Bug#1025781: getdns: new upstream version 1.7.3

2025-05-07 Thread Andrew Bower
On Wed, May 07, 2025 at 11:28:09PM +0200, Chris Hofstaedtler wrote: > * Andrew Bower [250507 21:42]: > > > > > Unfortunately, libgetdns' soname has changed to 12, so I guess the > > > > > library's > > > > > binary package needs to be r

Bug#1105130: release-notes: uprading a minimal system with gnupg to trixie pulls in an MTA

2025-05-11 Thread Andrew Bower
Package: release-notes Severity: normal If a minimal system with gnupg is upgraded to trixie it is likely to pull in an unwanted MTA because of changed dependencies. Such users may find it helpful for a hint in the release notes to remove gpg-wks-server on upgrade, such as with: apt full-upgrad

Bug#1105010: opensysusers: groupadd: invalid group ID '-:nogroup' with openssh

2025-05-09 Thread Andrew Bower
Package: opensysusers Version: 0.7.3-4.1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, During startup the following error is reported when the openssh-server.conf sysusers.d configuration is processed: Starting standalone sysusers service: opensysusersgroupadd: invalid group ID '-:nogroup' Opensysusers

Bug#428300: sysv-rc-conf: Program exception upon a "r" restore

2025-05-10 Thread Andrew Bower
On Sat, May 10, 2025 at 11:39:15PM +0200, Chris Hofstaedtler wrote: > On Sat, May 10, 2025 at 02:53:55PM +0100, Andrew Bower wrote: > > Control: tags -1 + patch > > I have provided a patch which handles this scenario correctly. > > This package needs a maintainer. Oth

Bug#428300: sysv-rc-conf: Program exception upon a "r" restore

2025-05-10 Thread Andrew Bower
curs whenever the services do not fit an exact number of screenfuls, in other words, almost always! I have provided a patch which handles this scenario correctly. From 319c24d502cf948dc87df4e20a943f1928794d5f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andrew Bower Date: Sat, 10 May 2025 14:26:48 +0100 Subject:

Bug#1105100: RFS: getdns/1.7.3-1 [Team] -- modern asynchronous DNS API (stub resolver)

2025-05-11 Thread Andrew Bower
d: getdns (1.7.3-1) experimental; urgency=medium . * Team upload. . [ Andrew Bower ] * New upstream version (Closes: #1025781, #1025741) * drop patches included upstream * catch new symbols and restore missing ones (Closes: #1023663) * add salsa CI pipeline * ditch unnecessary orig

Bug#615551: O: sysv-rc-conf -- SysV init runlevel configuration tool for the terminal

2025-05-11 Thread Andrew Bower
Control: retitle -1 ITA: sysv-rc-conf -- SysV init runlevel configuration tool for the terminal Control: owner -1 ! I am minded to adopt this package. It is worth noting, as mentioned [1] in the previous orphaning bug (#335790), that the upstream is also abandoned. The upstream version 0.99, wh

Bug#1105195: RFS: sysv-rc-conf/0.99-11 [ITA] -- SysV init runlevel configuration tool for the terminal

2025-05-13 Thread Andrew Bower
CI * add initial gbp.conf defining debian branch I would be grateful if any prospective sponsor would assign rights to me for the packaging repo so I can upload the corresponding git commits, please! Thanks, -- Andrew Bower signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#285850: sysv-rc-conf: floating service

2025-05-20 Thread Andrew Bower
On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 12:46:59PM -0800, Joe Oppegaard wrote: > On Mon, 20 Dec 2004 at 11:09pm +0100, Osamu Aoki wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 11:46:29AM -0800, Joe Oppegaard wrote: > > > On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 at 10:20pm +0100, Osamu Aoki wrote: > > > > > > > Can you address bug report by mar

Bug#813178: sysv-rc-conf -P shouldn't need to know Terminal Size

2025-05-18 Thread Andrew Bower
Control: tags -1 + moreinfo Hi Dan, On Sat, Jan 30, 2016 at 02:19:06PM +0800, 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson wrote: > Package: sysv-rc-conf > Version: 0.99-7 > Severity: wishlist > File: /usr/sbin/sysv-rc-conf > > sysv-rc-conf -P shouldn't need to know Terminal Size. I assume you mean to add another option i

Bug#579205: Problems using sysv-rc-conf and update-rc.d together

2025-05-18 Thread Andrew Bower
Control: tags -1 + moreinfo Hi Garb, On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 10:49:58AM +0200, Garb Dowle wrote: > After removing all start links for a process like e.g. ntp via sysv-rc-conf, > then setting the start links again for ntp with "update-rc.d ntp defaults" > wont't set the start links. It says: "Syst

Bug#680293: update-rc.d manual: `update-rc.d remove name` works when `/etc/init.d/name` exists

2025-05-15 Thread Andrew Bower
On Fri, Jan 11, 2019 at 12:37:07PM +, Dmitry Bogatov wrote: > [2012-07-04 22:17] Paul Menzel > > I guess the bug has been present for a longer time, so please update the > > version information accordingly. > > Dear maintainers of init-system-helpers, please consider following > patch, that a

Bug#1107917: runit-init: filenames of diverted man pages make them unusable

2025-06-17 Thread Andrew Bower
Package: runit-init Version: 2.2.0-3 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, The following commands fail: $ man service.real No manual entry for service.real $ man invoke-rc.d.real No manual entry for invoke-rc.d.real They should show the diverted man pages from init-system-helpers. The dive

Bug#1106121: isc-dhcp - EOL and not security supported

2025-06-17 Thread Andrew Bower
Hi Lorenzo et al., On Mon, Jun 02, 2025 at 12:25:41AM +0200, Lorenzo wrote: > What is the default replacement for the client? and for the server? > I looked at the discussion on -devel and I'm still unsure.. > dhcpcd-base + dhcpcd and kea? > without this info I'm not able to decide what to do for

Bug#1107533: apparmor: initscript should exit quietly when package not installed

2025-06-08 Thread Andrew Bower
Package: apparmor Version: 4.1.0-1 Severity: minor Dear Maintainer, I uninstalled apparmor and now get (ignorable) errors on boot: startpar: service(s) returned failure: apparmor ... failed! Debian policy 9.3.2 says that initscripts "should not fail obscurely when the configuration files rema

Bug#1074591: /etc/cron.monthly/acct uses `last` which has been removed from util-linux

2025-06-05 Thread Andrew Bower
Control: retitle -1 acct: cron job needs wtmpdb last and points it to wtmp file On Thu, Jun 05, 2025 at 10:23:37PM +0100, Andrew Bower wrote: > On Sun, Jun 01, 2025 at 12:12:42PM +, internet2poi...@aim.com wrote: > > acct currently does not have any relationship with the new wtmpd

Bug#1105130: release-notes: uprading a minimal system with gnupg to trixie pulls in an MTA

2025-06-23 Thread Andrew Bower
Hi, On Mon, Jun 23, 2025 at 04:27:15PM +0100, Justin B Rye wrote: > Richard Lewis wrote: > >> If a minimal system with gnupg is upgraded to trixie it is likely to pull > >> in an > >> unwanted MTA because of changed dependencies. Such users may find it > >> helpful > >> for a hint in the release

Bug#1108326: lintian: false positives using /bin/sh shebang from init-d-script(5) example

2025-06-25 Thread Andrew Bower
Package: lintian Version: 2.122.0 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, An initscript following the pattern from the init-d-script(5) man page triggers the following errors and warnings from lintian: #!/bin/sh /lib/init/init-d-script E: acct: init.d-script-does-not-implement-required-option force-r

Bug#1074591: /etc/cron.monthly/acct uses `last` which has been removed from util-linux

2025-06-04 Thread Andrew Bower
Control: tags -1 + patch On Mon, Jul 01, 2024 at 06:52:52PM +0100, Etienne Dechamps wrote: > Package: acct > Version: 6.6.4-5+b2 > > The acct package installs /etc/cron.monthly/acct which uses the last(1) > command. Fix proposed at https://salsa.debian.org/pkg-security-team/acct/-/merge_reques

Bug#1107402: unblock: acct/6.6.4-6 (pre-approval)

2025-06-07 Thread Andrew Bower
root:adm /var/log/wtmp.report chmod 640 /var/log/wtmp.report diff -Nru acct-6.6.4/debian/changelog acct-6.6.4/debian/changelog --- acct-6.6.4/debian/changelog 2022-05-15 12:55:10.0 +0100 +++ acct-6.6.4/debian/changelog 2025-06-07 07:57:39.0 +0100 @@ -1,3 +1,19 @@ +acct (6.6.4-6) uns

Bug#1074591: /etc/cron.monthly/acct uses `last` which has been removed from util-linux

2025-06-05 Thread Andrew Bower
On Sun, Jun 01, 2025 at 12:12:42PM +, internet2poi...@aim.com wrote: > acct currently does not have any relationship with the new wtmpdb package, > though, so the cronjob as shipped will never work and will send an error > message every month. > > acct should have a Depends or at least a Recom

Bug#1107677: cron: suggest merging NEWS entries introducing then ditching cron_now

2025-06-11 Thread Andrew Bower
Source: cron Version: 3.0pl1-196 Severity: minor Dear Maintainer, If you upgrade from bookworm to trixie you get two NEWS entries, where the second one supersedes the first one which talks about a 'cron_now' command that they will never see. Could I suggest merging these now into one to eliminate

Bug#1107534: lxc: initscript does not exit cleanly once package removed

2025-06-08 Thread Andrew Bower
Package: lxc Version: 1:6.0.3-1 Severity: minor Dear Maintainer, If lxc is uinstalled, its initscripts fail with an error code instead of exiting quitely as required by Debian policy 9.3.2: startpar: service(s) returned failure: lxcfs lxc lxc-net ... failed! The usual way to handle this is wi

Bug#1107533: apparmor: initscript should exit quietly when package not installed

2025-06-08 Thread Andrew Bower
Control: tags -1 + patch On Sun, Jun 08, 2025 at 10:37:58PM +0100, Andrew Bower wrote: > I uninstalled apparmor and now get (ignorable) errors on boot: > > startpar: service(s) returned failure: apparmor ... failed! > > Debian policy 9.3.2 says that initscripts "should not

Bug#1107677: cron: suggest merging NEWS entries introducing then ditching cron_now

2025-06-12 Thread Andrew Bower
Hi Georges, On Thu, Jun 12, 2025 at 04:42:38PM +0200, Georges Khaznadar wrote: > Hello Andrew, > thank you for the bug report. I agree that reading two NEWS entries > which overlap themselves, the second superseding the first one, > is annoying. > > Please can you help me to merge those entries?

Bug#1025781: getdns: new upstream version 1.7.3

2025-07-16 Thread Andrew Bower
Hi Thomas, On Sat, Mar 01, 2025 at 02:17:47PM +0100, Thomas Uhle wrote: > the bugfix release 1.7.3 is now more than two years old. Do you think that > there is a chance to get this version into trixie before the freeze? The good news is that getdns 1.7.3 is now available in Debian. The bad news

Bug#1109575: unblock: acct/6.6.4-8

2025-07-20 Thread Andrew Bower
+0100 +++ acct-6.6.4/debian/changelog 2025-07-07 16:09:45.0 +0100 @@ -1,3 +1,22 @@ +acct (6.6.4-8) unstable; urgency=medium + + * Team upload. + * Upload to unstable. Thanks to Andrew Bower for all the work. + + -- Carlos Henrique Lima Melara Mon, 07 Jul 2025 12:09:45 -0300 + +acct (6.

Bug#1108377: chkrootkit: daily system event: mail: /tmp/mail.RsXXXX8kWKZT: Read-only file system

2025-07-09 Thread Andrew Bower
Control: retitle -1 bsd-mailx: allow TMPDIR env to override /tmp On Thu, Jul 10, 2025 at 12:48:26AM +0100, Richard Lewis wrote: > On Wed, 9 Jul 2025 at 23:02, Andrew Bower wrote: > > On Sun, Jul 06, 2025 at 12:32:09PM +, Holger Levsen wrote: > > > On Sun, Jul 06, 2025 a

Bug#1069539: softhsm2: FTBFS randomly (failing tests)

2025-07-08 Thread Andrew Bower
tags -1 - moreinfo On Fri, Jun 20, 2025 at 10:21:50PM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote: > Hi. The most recent failure rate I've calculated for this package is around > 50%, > which exceeds the common thresholds used by the RT. I repro the failure in 28 out of 80 builds without the patch and 0 out of 3

Bug#1108969: sysvinit-utils: add common support for oneshot services in init-d-script helper

2025-07-08 Thread Andrew Bower
b/init/init-d-script fi ### BEGIN INIT INFO # Provides: acct # Required-Start:$remote_fs # Required-Stop: $remote_fs # Default-Start: 2 3 4 5 # Default-Stop: 0 1 6 # Short-Description: process and login accounting # Description: GNU Accounting Utilities is a set of u

Bug#1108377: chkrootkit: daily system event: mail: /tmp/mail.RsXXXX8kWKZT: Read-only file system

2025-07-09 Thread Andrew Bower
(I don't see that Debian overrode anything so much as setting an otherwise undefined but required build-time definition for the default.) Andrew From fe60bc9a58b31197791451097cf3550fb5542b85 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andrew Bower Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2025 22:44:53 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Patc

Bug#1109156: ircii: does not show non-ascii characters properly out of the box

2025-07-12 Thread Andrew Bower
Package: ircii Version: 20240918-1 Severity: minor Tags: l10n Dear Maintainer, Out of the box, ircII does not show UTF-8 characters properly. I couldn't see how to change this with a cursory check and perhaps it is easy to configure but in any case I think this should work by default in Debian.

Bug#1108377: bsd-mailx: allow TMPDIR env to override /tmp

2025-07-10 Thread Andrew Bower
I have raised a sponsorship request [1] and an unblock request [2] for an NMU to fix this in case the package maintainer is not currently able to take over this issue quickly at this stage in the freeze. Hope this helps! [1] RFS: https://bugs.debian.org/1109081 [2] unblock: https://bugs.debian.or

Bug#1109085: unblock: bsd-mailx/8.1.2-0.20220412cvs-1.1 (pre-approval)

2025-07-10 Thread Andrew Bower
* Patch to honour TMPDIR. (Closes: #1108377) +Thanks: Richard Lewis, Holger Levsen. + + -- Andrew Bower Wed, 09 Jul 2025 23:03:16 +0100 + bsd-mailx (8.1.2-0.20220412cvs-1) unstable; urgency=low [ Debian Janitor ] diff -Nru bsd-mailx-8.1.2-0.20220412cvs/debian/patches/36-Honour-TMPD

Bug#1109081: RFS: bsd-mailx/8.1.2-0.20220412cvs-1.1 [NMU] [RC] -- simple mail user agent

2025-07-10 Thread Andrew Bower
sc Changes since the last upload: bsd-mailx (8.1.2-0.20220412cvs-1.1) unstable; urgency=medium . * Non-maintainer upload. * Patch to honour TMPDIR. (Closes: #1108377) Thanks: Richard Lewis, Holger Levsen. Regards, -- Andrew Bower signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#1109085: unblock: bsd-mailx/8.1.2-0.20220412cvs-1.1 (pre-approval)

2025-07-11 Thread Andrew Bower
Hi Release Team, On Fri, Jul 11, 2025 at 06:44:29AM +0100, Andrew Bower wrote: > [ Other info ] > This package is currently awaiting sponsorship so this is initially a > pre-approval request; I will retitle accordingly if this package gets uploaded > before any unblock is granted. To

Bug#1105010: opensysusers: groupadd: invalid group ID '-:nogroup' with openssh

2025-06-25 Thread Andrew Bower
Hi Samuel, On Tue, Jun 24, 2025 at 11:58:39PM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Andrew Bower, le ven. 09 mai 2025 22:20:04 +0100, a ecrit: > > During startup the following error is reported when the openssh-server.conf > > sysusers.d configuration is processed: > > >

Bug#1023810: Workaround

2025-06-25 Thread Andrew Bower
Hi Alex, On Fri, Aug 18, 2023 at 10:57:36PM +0500, Alex Volkov wrote: > > (I got my /var stuffed with ever-growing /var/log/pacct as the rotation > stopped I couldn't reproduce this behaviour. So far as I can tell, the current 'lockfile' implementation is entirely cosmetic, both when it works

Bug#1108549: procps: w segfaults when run as non-root user

2025-06-30 Thread Andrew Bower
Package: procps Version: 2:4.0.4-8 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, Running 'w' as a non-root user on i386 segfaults: $ gdb w GNU gdb (Debian 16.3-1) 16.3 [...] This GDB was configured as "i686-linux-gnu". [...] (gdb) run Starting program: /usr/bin/w [Thread debugging using libthread_db enab

Bug#1108348: marked as done (RFS: rapidyaml/0.9.0 ds-3 [ITA] -- C library to parse and emit YAML (development files))

2025-06-28 Thread Andrew Bower
Hi all, On Fri, Jun 27, 2025 at 09:12:02AM -0700, Soren Stoutner wrote: > On Friday, June 27, 2025 6:37:02 AM Mountain Standard Time Debian Bug > Tracking > System wrote: > > Please do not add default salsa config as a file but rather configure it > > via Gitlab's web interface to reference the

Bug#1108428: acct: Ubuntu patch for lastcomm buffer overflow should be applied

2025-06-28 Thread Andrew Bower
Source: acct Version: 6.6.4-6 Severity: important Tags: upstream Dear Maintainer, Extra hardening features enabled at build time (FORTIFY_SOURCE=3) downstream in Ubuntu expose a buffer overflow in the lastcomm command: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/acct/+bug/2095035 A fix has been a

Bug#1108428: acct: Ubuntu patch for lastcomm buffer overflow should be applied

2025-06-28 Thread Andrew Bower
Control: tags -1 + patch On Sat, Jun 28, 2025 at 12:41:09PM +0100, Andrew Bower wrote: > A fix has been applied as a patch by Ubuntu: > > https://git.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/acct/commit/?id=25e47c5dda4ba79e2debec35cb206b1980c8f8c0 > > I propose that this patch be ap

Bug#1108549: procps: w segfaults when run as non-root user

2025-07-23 Thread Andrew Bower
Hi, On Mon, Jun 30, 2025 at 11:36:59PM +0100, Andrew Bower wrote: > Running 'w' as a non-root user on i386 segfaults: > > $ gdb w > GNU gdb (Debian 16.3-1) 16.3 > [...] > This GDB was configured as "i686-linux-gnu". > [...] > (gdb) run > Startin

Bug#1108549: procps: w segfaults when run as non-root user

2025-07-24 Thread Andrew Bower
Control: tag -1 + patch On Wed, Jul 23, 2025 at 10:31:47PM +0100, Andrew Bower wrote: > On Mon, Jun 30, 2025 at 11:36:59PM +0100, Andrew Bower wrote: [...] > However, we are unfortunately not out of the woods: elogind is running > on this host and root is able to see the sessions. So is

Bug#1108549: procps: w acts on value of uninit'd mem w/out systemd; poss segfault

2025-07-28 Thread Andrew Bower
Hi Craig, Thanks for reviewing my suggestions! On Mon, Jul 28, 2025 at 08:07:12PM +1000, Craig Small wrote: > On Mon, 28 Jul 2025 at 17:31, Andrew Bower wrote: > > I think we should do this: > > Remove sd_booted() check > if sd_get_sessions() >   &l

Bug#1108549: procps: w acts on value of uninit'd mem w/out systemd; poss segfault

2025-07-27 Thread Andrew Bower
On Thu, Jul 24, 2025 at 07:15:12PM +0100, Andrew Bower wrote: > On Wed, Jul 23, 2025 at 10:31:47PM +0100, Andrew Bower wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 30, 2025 at 11:36:59PM +0100, Andrew Bower wrote: > [...] > 1. Unitialised 'sessions' variable is a a bug on all systems which le

Bug#1108549: procps: w acts on value of uninit'd mem w/out systemd; poss segfault

2025-07-28 Thread Andrew Bower
On Sun, Jul 27, 2025 at 11:08:56PM +0100, Andrew Bower wrote: > On Thu, Jul 24, 2025 at 07:15:12PM +0100, Andrew Bower wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 23, 2025 at 10:31:47PM +0100, Andrew Bower wrote: > > > On Mon, Jun 30, 2025 at 11:36:59PM +0100, Andrew Bower wrote: > > [

Bug#1108549: procps: w acts on value of uninit'd mem w/out systemd; poss segfault

2025-07-28 Thread Andrew Bower
On Mon, Jul 28, 2025 at 06:16:24PM +0100, Andrew Bower wrote: > What do you think of this variation? See https://salsa.debian.org/debian/procps/-/merge_requests/9 for my implementation of this approach.

Bug#1110320: insserv: ignores --path when writing dependency files

2025-08-03 Thread Andrew Bower
Package: insserv Version: 1.26.0-1 Severity: minor Dear Maintainer, When specifying --path to an alternative /etc/init.d location insserv ignores this path for writing the Makefile-style dependency files. For example: /usr/sbin/insserv --path /home/a/zz/etc/init.d \ --over

Bug#1110329: syslog-ng-core: default config spews 1.2KB of stats to logs every second

2025-08-03 Thread Andrew Bower
Package: syslog-ng-core Version: 4.8.1-5 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, With the default configuration, syslog-ng writes a very long line of stats every second to two log files. This builds up to rather large log files of the order of 700MB over a week. Jul 20 07:45:06 syslog-ng[2065]: Log s

Bug#1110112: unblock: procps/2:4.0.4-8.1 (pre-approval)

2025-07-29 Thread Andrew Bower
.0 +0100 @@ -1,3 +1,16 @@ +procps (2:4.0.4-8.1) unstable; urgency=medium + + * Non-maintainer upload. + + [ Craig Small ] + * d/changelog: Fix number for skill bug + + [ Andrew Bower ] + * Initialise sessions variable in w. (Closes: #1108549) + * d/patches: get sessions even if

Bug#1110112: unblock: procps/2:4.0.4-8.1 (pre-approval)

2025-07-30 Thread Andrew Bower
On Wed, Jul 30, 2025 at 07:05:13AM +0100, Andrew Bower wrote: > [ Reason ] > To fix RC bug #1108549, of which there are two parts: > > 1. (severity: serious) w acts on the value of uninitialised memory if systemd > not present. On some systems this leads to a segfault. &g

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