Bug#736343: gdebi-core: Removes reverse dependencies if a to be installed package is an upgrade

2014-01-22 Thread Axel Beckert
Package: gdebi-core Version: 0.9.3 Severity: normal Hi, since I wanted to check if the recent aptitude upload works properly on sparc64 (the buildd hasn't built it yet), I've built all architecture-dependent packages from the aptitude source package (i.e. the binary package "aptitude"). The arch

Bug#736364: conkeror: stable package depends on obsolete xulrunner-10.0

2014-01-22 Thread Axel Beckert
ed debdiff and open a pu bug against > release.debian.org to discuss that. I'd probably make one update that fits already both, xulrunner 17 and 24 -- if possible. Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert , http://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :' : | Debian Develo

Bug#736382: UDD: RSS feed of DMD contains content-type header in body, hence fails to be parsed

2014-01-22 Thread Axel Beckert
and not as body. Maybe just an "\n" too many somewhere. Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert , http://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :' : | Debian Developer, ftp.ch.debian.org Admin `. `' | 1024D: F067 EA27 26B9 C3FC 1486 202E C09E 1D89 9593 0EDE `

Bug#736405: python-samba: multiple client-side packages pull in samba since python-samba 2:4.1.4+dfsg-2

2014-01-23 Thread Axel Beckert
Package: python-samba Version: 2:4.1.4+dfsg-2 Control: affects -1 fusesmb nautilus-share backuppc smb4k Hi, Since 2:4.1.4+dfsg-2 python-samba depends on samba (the daemon/service) package itself. But python-samba is (via samba-common-bin) a dependency of several client packages, including: * fus

Bug#736382: UDD: RSS feed of DMD contains content-type header in body, hence fails to be parsed

2014-01-23 Thread Axel Beckert
17:54:28 GMT 11 Client-Peer: 206.12.19.141:80 12 Client-Response-Num: 1 13 Client-Transfer-Encoding: chunked 14 15 Content-type: text/xml 16 17 18 http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"; 20xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"

Bug#573626: [Aptitude-devel] Bug#573626: aptitude: Terrible Interactive Search Performance

2014-01-23 Thread Axel Beckert
lightly slower. So these two settings may help people who consider the interactive search to be too slugish. Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert , http://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :' : | Debian Developer, ftp.ch.debian.org Admin `. `' | 1024D: F

Bug#709668: [PARTIAL PATCH] Re: Bug#709668: embperl: test failure with perl 5.18

2014-01-25 Thread Axel Beckert
t.htm Output: test/tmp/out.htm Compared to:test/cmp/exit.htm Log:test/tmp/test.log Testparameter: cgi = 0 This looks like a real bug as "[- exit -]" seems to have no effect but should have an effect. Hope this helps. Regards, Axel -- ,''

Bug#608583: Removing RC buggy leaf packages with low popularity?

2014-01-27 Thread Axel Beckert
#x27;m not vetoing against a removal of libnet-irc-perl, as I don't see an alternative, but I'm still unhappy about ditching it. Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert , http://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :' : | Debian Developer, ftp.ch.debian.org Adm

Bug#662114: ack: non-active upstream and there is nkf

2014-01-28 Thread Axel Beckert
ely not validate a removal of ack. But I think it's worth mentioning it in this discussion as even without the knowledge of this naming conflict someone thinks about ack's removal.) Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert , http://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :' : | Debian

Bug#662114: ack: non-active upstream and there is nkf

2014-01-29 Thread Axel Beckert
please forward this to FTP > master for removal. Will do. Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert , http://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :' : | Debian Developer, ftp.ch.debian.org Admin `. `' | 1024D: F067 EA27 26B9 C3FC 1486 202E C09E 1D89 9593 0EDE `-| 4096R: 2517 B7

Bug#570377: aptitude chooses to remove packages instead of upgrading

2014-01-30 Thread Axel Beckert
onflicts with newer packages, this is possible. But it's rather seldom the case according to my experience. Chris Tillman wrote: > I second (3rd? 4th?) this request. You're also free to submit a patch! Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert , http://people.debi

Bug#736678: grub2: support init boot flag selection

2014-01-30 Thread Axel Beckert
in grub. Which is perfectly fine for me (c.f. #690538 ;-). I may come up with a patch for that in the future if I get it once working. Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert , http://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :' : | Debian Developer, ftp.ch.debian.org Adm

Bug#676075: aptitude: sort by size change

2014-02-04 Thread Axel Beckert
; an official version. I'm perfectly fine with it, thanks! Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert , http://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :' : | Debian Developer, ftp.ch.debian.org Admin `. `' | 1024D: F067 EA27 26B9 C3FC 1486 202E C09E 1D89 9593 0EDE

Bug#732570: libarch-perl should be removed

2014-02-04 Thread Axel Beckert
ute numbers as well as in percentage) which seem to be around 10% of the highest peak. IMHO that's quite some "value left". (And yes, "left" fits. :-) > If that doesn't convince you, please follow the advice I gave when > reporting this bug: > Feel free to clo

Bug#737582: [Pkg-zsh-devel] Bug#737582: zsh: Help files in /usr/share/zsh/help cut at 58th column

2014-02-04 Thread Axel Beckert
related to the following upstream commit: > > * commit beb4084 > | Author: Martin Vaeth > | Date: Fri Dec 13 22:55:05 2013 -0800 > | > | 32105: support combinations of man or nroff with colcrt or col. Sounds reasonable. Thanks for this hint, too!

Bug#736716: Please raise package priority.

2014-02-05 Thread Axel Beckert
package to depend on (or maybe recommend) it only on kfreebsd-any. But then again, this will likely disregard the rule that no package should depend on a package with lower severity. (Not sure if that also counts for Recommends, which are installed by default, at least after the D-I.)

Bug#736720: Interrelation between this package and Linux manpages.

2014-02-05 Thread Axel Beckert
man-db package export that line depending on the architecture on which it is installed. So I'm thinking about reassigning this to the package "man-db". Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert , http://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :' : | Debian Develo

Bug#405907: [Aptitude-devel] Bug#405907: marked as done (aptitude: Bus error on sparc if a package on cmdline does not exist)

2014-02-05 Thread Axel Beckert
se "sparc" ones in the past few years, or only sparc64? It's a machine which runs with sparc and has a sparc64 (now again the Debian architecture) chroot. Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert , http://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :' : |

Bug#737582: [Pkg-zsh-devel] Bug#737582: (no subject)

2014-02-06 Thread Axel Beckert
Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert , http://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :' : | Debian Developer, ftp.ch.debian.org Admin `. `' | 1024D: F067 EA27 26B9 C3FC 1486 202E C09E 1D89 9593 0EDE `-| 4096R: 2517 B724 C5F6 CA99 5329 6E61 2FF9 CD59 6126 16

Bug#662114: ack: non-active upstream and there is nkf

2014-02-08 Thread Axel Beckert
quot; is around 40: > > > http://qa.debian.org/popcon-graph.php?packages=ack > > > > Well ... absolute numbers maybe going up but numbers in %, its not > > showing much rises. > > Good point. I forgot to count in the permanent rise of popcon > submitters.

Bug#412830: [Aptitude-devel] Bug#412830: aptitude: Remove option to run reportbug

2014-02-09 Thread Axel Beckert
the just the capital B is passed to aptitude's TUI -- which should be fixed independenly of #463510. Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert , http://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :' : | Debian Developer, ftp.ch.debian.org Admin `. `' | 1024D: F067 EA27 26B

Bug#738350: aptitude: "Reconfiguring" missing in Package submenu

2014-02-09 Thread Axel Beckert
Control: retitle -1 "Reconfiguring" and "Report Bug" missing in menu Hi, Axel Beckert wrote: > In the submenu "Package" there's the Reconfigure feature (reachable via > Shift-R) missing. Actually the controversial "Report Bug" feature (see #46

Bug#738452: [Pkg-zsh-devel] Bug#738452: zsh: FTBFS: I can't find file `ecrm1095'.

2014-02-10 Thread Axel Beckert
um * new upstream checkout * t-pictures: changes wish -> tk (Closes: #732784) * tighten build-dep on tex-common to >= 4 (Closes: #733414) -- Norbert Preining Thu, 23 Jan 2014 13:12:37 +0900 Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert , http://people.debian.org/~abe

Bug#738660: openssh-client: SSH_AGENT_FAILURE on ssh-add'ing an ed25519 key

2014-02-11 Thread Axel Beckert
Package: openssh-client Version: 1:6.5p1-1 Dear Debian OpenSSH Maintainers, I wanted to play with the new ed25519 key format: !517 Z5 ?0 L1 abe@nemo2:~ (pts/17 -zsh 5.0.5 sid) 17:08:50 ~ # ssh-keygen -t ed25519 Generating public/private ed25519 key pair. Enter file in which to save the key (/ho

Bug#731386: /usr/sbin/checkrestart: debian-goodies: checkrestart crashes with "AttributeError: 'list' object has no attribute 'startswith'"

2013-12-04 Thread Axel Beckert
amd64 as well as i386 on Sid and amd64 on Testing. Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert , http://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :' : | Debian Developer, ftp.ch.debian.org Admin `. `' | 1024D: F067 EA27 26B9 C3FC 1486 202E C09E 1D89 9593 0EDE `-| 4096R:

Bug#724768: glark: Does not work with ruby 1.9, but doesn't have according dependencies

2013-12-05 Thread Axel Beckert
Hi Andreas, Andreas Beckmann wrote: > On Thursday, 10. October 2013 20:15:20 Axel Beckert wrote: > > Michael Ablassmeier wrote: > > > On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 12:44:42PM +0200, Axel Beckert wrote: > > > > I've prepared an NMU for this issue based on my initially

Bug#731537: [uscan] fails to rename downloaded upstream tar ball if d/copyright is not machine-readable

2013-12-06 Thread Axel Beckert
Package: devscripts Version: 2.13.5 Severity: normal Since recently (probably since the recent uscan changes), uscan still downloads upstream tar balls, but fails to rename them if debian/copyright is not in the machine-readable format. Example: libstring-random-perl $ uscan --verbose --download

Bug#731848: ack-grep: potential remote code execution via per-project .ackrc files

2013-12-10 Thread Axel Beckert
Package: ack-grep Version: 2.10-1 Severity: grave Tags: security upstream fixed-upstream pending Forwarded: https://github.com/petdance/ack2/issues/399 Upstream fixed a security issue which could possibly lead to a remote code execution. Several options to ack take perl or shell code which will b

Bug#731848: CVE request for remote code execution in ack

2013-12-10 Thread Axel Beckert
to 2.10. Not affected versions: Below 2.00 Fixed versions: 2.12 so far Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert , http://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :' : | Debian Developer, ftp.ch.debian.org Admin `. `' | 1024D: F067 EA27 26B9 C3FC 1486 202E C09E 1D89 95

Bug#731848: CVE request for remote code execution in ack

2013-12-10 Thread Axel Beckert
Hi Andy, Andy Lester wrote: > On Dec 10, 2013, at 7:46 AM, Axel Beckert wrote: > > as discussed with Salvatore Bonaccorso of the Debian Security Team > > (team cc'ed), I'm herewith requesting a CVE ID for the following > > security issue in ack (http://beyondgr

Bug#731915: O: graphicsmagick -- collection of image processing tools

2013-12-12 Thread Axel Beckert
Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert , http://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :' : | Debian Developer, ftp.ch.debian.org Admin `. `' | 1024D: F067 EA27 26B9 C3FC 1486 202E C09E 1D89 9593 0EDE `-| 4096R: 2517 B724 C5F6 CA99 5329 6E61 2FF9 CD59 6126 16B5 -- To U

Bug#732245: grub-common: "Warning: is a crypto device, which GRUB cannot read directly" without device name

2013-12-15 Thread Axel Beckert
Package: grub-common Version: 2.00+20131208-1 Severity: normal Dear GRUB Maintainers, upgrading grub-{pc,common,…} from 2.00-22 to 2.00+20131208-1 issued the following obviously incomplete output: ---snip--- Setting up grub-pc (2.00+20131208-1) ... grub-install: warning: cannot open directory `/

Bug#732246: lintian: False positive for rc-version-greater-than-expected-version with "+dev" in version number

2013-12-15 Thread Axel Beckert
r_db directory in t/perl-syntax.t. -- Axel Beckert Sun, 15 Dec 2013 17:20:43 +0100 xen-tools (4.4-1) unstable; urgency=low * New upstream release […] ---snap--- I'd either exclude the "dev" suffix completely from that test or check the second last changelog entry, if the

Bug#732315: src:linux: Please include extract-vmlinux somewhere

2013-12-16 Thread Axel Beckert
Package: src:linux Severity: wishlist Upstream contains a script called extract-vmlinux at https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/scripts/extract-vmlinux It is helpful if you e.g. want to boot Debian linux kernel images >= 3.6 on a Squeeze based Xen Dom0 with pygrub. (With 3.6 the kernel p

Bug#731449: isc-dhcp-server: Server not removes DDNS if client releases the address.

2013-12-17 Thread Axel Beckert
.254) from 00:1e:c2:fb:85:b6 (colorado) via eth1 Dec 17 15:54:35 stock dhcpd: DHCPACK on 192.33.100.151 to 00:1e:c2:fb:85:b6 (colorado) via eth1 No DDNS update: Dec 17 15:54:35 stock dhcpd: Forward map from colorado.dhcp.phys.ethz.ch to 192.33.100.151 FAILED: Has an address record but no DHCI

Bug#732401: isc-dhcp: FTBFS: File series fully applied, ends at patch dhclient-exit-hook.patch

2013-12-17 Thread Axel Beckert
Source: isc-dhcp Version: 4.2.4-7 Severity: serious Tags: sid jessie patch While trying to backport the current version of isc-dhcp to Wheezy, I noticed that I get the the following build failure on Unstable, too: ~/debian/isc-dhcp-4.2.4 → debuild -uc -us -b dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -D -us -

Bug#732410: procps: Signal 18 (CONT) caught by ps (procps-ng version 3.3.8). ps:display.c:66: please report this bug

2013-12-17 Thread Axel Beckert
Package: procps Version: 1:3.3.8-2 Severity: normal Hi, since zsh 5.0.3-1 (as in Debian Unstable currently), ps throws the following error message if called in zsh's .zshrc or on on the zsh commandline, even if zsh is started without sourcing .zshrc and friends: $ ssh somehost -t zsh -f somehost

Bug#732401: isc-dhcp: FTBFS: File series fully applied, ends at patch dhclient-exit-hook.patch [also solved on Wheezy now]

2013-12-17 Thread Axel Beckert
Hi, Axel Beckert wrote: > With this patch, isc-dhcp builds again on Sid. It also passes that point > on Wheezy, but FTBFS later on. But for now, that's only my problem. ;-) Just to clarify: The package also builds fine on Wheezy -- if you don't try make a parallel build: -j8 f

Bug#731449: isc-dhcp-server: Server not removes DDNS if client releases the address.

2013-12-17 Thread Axel Beckert
Hi again, Axel Beckert wrote: > Control: fixed -1 4.2.4-7 > Control: tag -1 + fixed-upstream […] > Holger Sander wrote: > > The bug is fixed in Debian jessie. > > Marked as such. Thanks for the information. I can now also confirm that this is fixed in 4.2.4-7. > We

Bug#732410: procps: Signal 18 (CONT) caught by ps (procps-ng version 3.3.8). ps:display.c:66: please report this bug

2013-12-17 Thread Axel Beckert
Hi, Axel Beckert wrote: > since zsh 5.0.3-1 (as in Debian Unstable currently), ps throws the > following error message if called in zsh's .zshrc or on on the zsh > commandline, even if zsh is started without sourcing .zshrc and friends: > > $ ssh somehost -t zsh -f > s

Bug#732247: grub-xen: Package description doesn't explain if this package is thought for DomUs or Dom0s

2013-12-20 Thread Axel Beckert
Hi Colin, Colin Watson wrote: > On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 12:48:40AM +0100, Axel Beckert wrote: > > the current package description of grub-xen leaves open if this package > > is thought for DomUs (guest machines) or Dom0s (host machines): > > > > This package contains

Bug#732570: libarch-perl should be removed

2013-12-20 Thread Axel Beckert
libarch-perl and there were no bug reports in the past year either: http://qa.debian.org/data/bts/graphs/liba/libarch-perl.png So I think it should probably stay until tla itself is about to be removed as it does no harm if it stays. Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel B

Bug#732570: libarch-perl should be removed

2013-12-20 Thread Axel Beckert
Hi again, Axel Beckert wrote: > Adrian Bunk wrote: > > Package: libarch-perl [...] > > GNU arch is dead since 2006, and I seriously doubt that anyone is still > > using libarch-perl. > > Popcon is steadily descreasing in the past 5 years, but there are a > few &q

Bug#726727: bup: FTBFS on !linux

2013-10-18 Thread Axel Beckert
Package: bup Version: 0.25~rc3-1 Severity: important Justification: FTBFS Hi, bup FTBFS on kfreebsd and hurd. According to the build logs[1] it's the test suite which fails and around the failing tests, there are tons of these warnings: Warning: POSIX ACL support missing; install python-pylibacl

Bug#726727: bup: FTBFS on !linux

2013-10-18 Thread Axel Beckert
Hi Robert, Robert Edmonds wrote: > Axel Beckert wrote: > > bup FTBFS on kfreebsd and hurd. According to the build logs[1] it's the > > test suite which fails and around the failing tests, there are tons of > > these warnings: > > > > Warning: POSIX ACL su

Bug#622392: Bug#681834: Bug#726395: gnome-control-center: Please downgrade dependency on network-manager-gnome to Recommends (violates tech-ctte decision otherwise)

2013-10-18 Thread Axel Beckert
his version" which is correct as I'm using wicd. Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert , http://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :' : | Debian Developer, ftp.ch.debian.org Admin `. `' | 1024D: F067 EA27 26B9 C3FC 1486 202E C09E 1D89 9593 0EDE `-

Bug#522935: Compiz has been removed from Debian, but Emerald seem to require it

2013-10-21 Thread Axel Beckert
://bugs.debian.org/719870 [2] http://bugs.debian.org/722451 Emerald seems to depend on Compiz. So unless Compiz reenters Debian, Emerald and Emerald Themes don't make sense to be packaged for Debian. Hence adding according "blocked by" references. Regards, Axel --

Bug#727169: RFP: lua-stdlib -- Standard Lua libraries

2013-10-22 Thread Axel Beckert
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: lua-stdlib Version : v35 Upstream Author : Reuben Thomas et al. * URL or Web page : https://github.com/rrthomas/lua-stdlib * License : MIT Description : Standard Lua libraries Upstream description: This is a collect

Bug#727170: RFP: lua-alien -- Pure Lua extensions

2013-10-22 Thread Axel Beckert
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: lua-alien Version : 0.7.0 Upstream Author : Fabio Mascarenhas * URL or Web page : http://mascarenhas.github.io/alien/ * License : MIT Description : Pure Lua extensions Upstream description: Alien is a Foreign Functi

Bug#727170: RFP: lua-alien -- Pure Lua extensions

2013-10-23 Thread Axel Beckert
Hi Enrico, Enrico Tassi wrote: > On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 01:25:23AM +0200, Axel Beckert wrote: > > I maintain GNU Zile in Debian. Upstream currently works on a > > reimplementation of Zile in Lua which seems to become "Zile 3". > > It is awesome you package zile 3

Bug#727544: [Aptitude-devel] Bug#727544: aptitude: symbol lookup error: aptitude: undefined symbol

2013-10-24 Thread Axel Beckert
eady known) culprit. Merging accordingly. Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert , http://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :' : | Debian Developer, ftp.ch.debian.org Admin `. `' | 1024D: F067 EA27 26B9 C3FC 1486 202E C09E 1D89 9593 0EDE `-| 4096R:

Bug#727562: [Aptitude-devel] Bug#727562: [aptitude] On start: aptitude: symbol lookup error: aptitude: undefined symbol

2013-10-24 Thread Axel Beckert
is due to a faulty libept1.4.12 update. Reassigning and merging accordingly. Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert , http://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :' : | Debian Developer, ftp.ch.debian.org Admin `. `' | 1024D: F067 EA27 26B9 C3FC 1486 202E C09E 1D89

Bug#727565: [Aptitude-devel] Bug#727565: aptitude: latest version of aptitude crash on startup

2013-10-24 Thread Axel Beckert
make sure you have all build-dependencies installed. Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert , http://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :' : | Debian Developer, ftp.ch.debian.org Admin `. `' | 1024D: F067 EA27 26B9 C3FC 1486 202E C09E 1D89 9593 0EDE `-| 4096

Bug#727606: [Aptitude-devel] Bug#727606: aptitude won't work

2013-10-24 Thread Axel Beckert
bept1.4.12 update. Reassigning and merging the bug-report accordingly. Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert , http://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :' : | Debian Developer, ftp.ch.debian.org Admin `. `' | 1024D: F067 EA27 26B9 C3FC 1486 202E C09E 1D89 9593

Bug#727614: libept-dev | aptitude: aptitude FTBFS since libept/1.0.10

2013-10-24 Thread Axel Beckert
Package: libept-dev,aptitude Version: libept/1.0.10 Version: aptitude/0.6.8.2-1.2 Severity: serious Hi, after the hint in http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=727565#10, I started to rebuilt the current aptitude package on amd64 and it indeed FTBFS, but at some other, libept-related p

Bug#727682: bilibop-rules: Fails to configure: lsbilibop calls udevadm in an unsupported way

2013-10-25 Thread Axel Beckert
Package: bilibop-rules Version: 0.4.17 Severity: serious Dear Maintainer, I've just dist-upgraded my Debian armhf running Toshiba AC100 (an ARM-based netbook originally running Android) from Wheezy to Jessie. As it currently runs of an SD card, installing bilibop sounds like a good idea. But bil

Bug#683329: flash-kernel: Toshiba AC100 support broken [fix included]

2013-10-25 Thread Axel Beckert
$i >/dev/null 2>&1 ; echo $?; done /dev/mmcblk0p1 * image size = 5242880 bytes (5.00 MB) 0 /dev/mmcblk0p2 * image size = 8388608 bytes (8.00 MB) 0 /dev/mmcblk0p3 /dev/mmcblk0p3: no Android Magic Value /dev/mmcblk0p3: not a valid Android Boot Image. 1 ← This is where flash-kernel aborts due

Bug#728026: systemd: timeout opening/writing control channel /run/initctl + Failed to get D-Bus connection: Failed to connect to socket /run/systemd/private: Connection refused

2013-10-27 Thread Axel Beckert
Package: systemd Version: 204-3 Severity: grave Justification: no more able to shutdown system except by turning off power Dear Systemd Maintainers, first sorry for the late bug report. The following happened the first time on 13th of September 2013 (i.e. shortly after the 204-3 upload while bein

Bug#728029: dh-autoreconf: Please allow a list of additional files to be backed up and restored

2013-10-27 Thread Axel Beckert
Package: dh-autoreconf Version: 9 Severity: wishlist Dear Julian, especially with packages maintained in VCS, it would be very helpful if dh_autoreconf and dh_autoreconf_clean would support a list of additional files dh_autoreconf backs up and dh_autoreconf_clean restores in addition to the commo

Bug#728382: nslcd: Should have a switch to reduce amount of error logging

2013-10-31 Thread Axel Beckert
Package: nslcd Version: 0.8.10-4 Severity: wishlist Hi Arthur, it would be nice if nslcd could be configured to not log any occurrences of "request denied by validnames option" or similar less critical but potentially noisy logging. Reasoning: On systems with nslcd, any tool which looks up arbit

Bug#734283: openrc: missing dependency on insserv (causes endless loops at shutdown and read-only root fs at boot)

2014-01-05 Thread Axel Beckert
Package: openrc Severity: important Version: 0.12.4+20131230-3 Hi, [Writing this report from another machine, hence no meta data at the end] I've installed a Xen DomU with xen-tools 4.4 and "xen-create-image --dist sid --dhcp --pygrub --noaccounts --role minimal [some host-specific parameters li

Bug#733692: O: genisovh -- Make CD-ROMs bootable for SGI MIPS machines

2014-01-05 Thread Axel Beckert
to common current practices. Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert , http://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :' : | Debian Developer, ftp.ch.debian.org Admin `. `' | 1024D: F067 EA27 26B9 C3FC 1486 202E C09E 1D89 9593 0EDE `-| 4096R: 2517 B724 C5F6 CA99 5329 6E61 2F

Bug#734336: init-select: Consider using choice management like update-alternatives

2014-01-05 Thread Axel Beckert
Package: init-select Version: 1.20140105 Severity: wishlist Dear Maintainer, /etc/default/init doesn't follow the common practise to be a sourcable shell code fragment and doesn't seem allow for documenting inline comments. >From neither of the two included man-pages it is clear what exactly to

Bug#734334: [Aptitude-devel] Bug#734334: aptitude --refresh-state

2014-01-05 Thread Axel Beckert
l be used. > Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] > dpkg: warning: ignoring request to remove iproute which isn't installed This is a duplicate of http://bugs.debian.org710587 -- merging. Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert , http://people.debian.o

Bug#734337: init-select: Update package description to be more concise

2014-01-05 Thread Axel Beckert
from will grow exponentially as (number > kernels)^(number of inits). Yeah, that's known and expected. > But I'm open to alternative ideas. Actually when I noticed that init-select goes into a different direction than I expected, I started thinking about how to imp

Bug#734507: [pkg-wml] Bug#734507: wml: forgets to remove temporary /tmp/ipp.* directories

2014-01-07 Thread Axel Beckert
(quilt), die, but that's another story. I'm quite fine with it since the release where it started unapplying patches at the end of a build if it also had to applied it in the beginning. Before using it together with a VCS felt like PITA. But yeah, that's off-topic here. :-)

Bug#734867: xymon-client: port monitoring (netstat -ant) cuts IPv6 addresses

2014-01-10 Thread Axel Beckert
I've pushed an according patch into our packaging git repository, but we should probably also forward this to upstream, who is working on Xymon 5 which should provide much better IPv6 support in general. Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert , http://people.

Bug#729596: wml: there is a new maintainer of wml

2014-01-11 Thread Axel Beckert
properly, mostly the test suite fails to work (i.e. not the test fail but running the tests fails already). Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert , http://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :' : | Debian Developer, ftp.ch.debian.org Admin `. `' | 1024D: F067 EA27

Bug#735050: [Aptitude-devel] Bug#735050: aptitude: Continues to remove conflicting package, although new package failed to download

2014-01-12 Thread Axel Beckert
I would love to hear other opinions, e.g. from APT developers. Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert , http://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :' : | Debian Developer, ftp.ch.debian.org Admin `. `' | 1024D: F067 EA27 26B9 C3FC 1486 202E C09E 1D89 9593 0EDE `-| 4096R: 2517 B7

Bug#732410: Fwd: Re: Signal 18 (CONT) caught by ps (procps-ng version 3.3.9) [origin: schae...@brasslantern.com]

2014-01-13 Thread Axel Beckert
wait4(-1, 0xbfeefb24, WNOHANG|WSTOPPED|WCONTINUED, 0xbfeefaac) = -1 ECHILD (No child processes) kill(9550, SIG_0) = -1 ESRCH (No such process) 128 exit_group(0) = ? -- Barton E. Schaefer - End forwarded message - HTH. R

Bug#735278: Lsof is needed by checkrestart but it's tagged as 'recommends'

2014-01-15 Thread Axel Beckert
ge, but for package developers) or hobbit-plugins (another program collection) do it. Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert , http://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :' : | Debian Developer, ftp.ch.debian.org Admin `. `' | 1024D: F067 EA27 26B9 C3FC 1486 202E C09E

Bug#733984: Conflicts newer gpg-idea packages

2014-01-15 Thread Axel Beckert
you made this obviously controversial change. If there's no technical reason, I'd be happy if you would revert that change with the next upload -- to allow people to continue to decide themselves if they want/need/can use gpg-idea or not. Regards, Axel -- ,

Bug#735554: screen: "Screen owner name too long - sorry" error when attaching to multiuser screen

2014-01-16 Thread Axel Beckert
-- even without having tested it or having checked the code yet. :-) > I've attached a patch that resolved this issue for me. Thanks! Will probably include it in the next upload. Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert , http://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :' : |

Bug#674885: ITA: mssh

2014-01-16 Thread Axel Beckert
new features > and a new branch migrated to gtk3. > I hope to upload a new gtk2 version this week with a few patches. Looking forward to both. :-) Thanks again. Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert , http://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :' : | De

Bug#735590: manpages: filesystems(5) should describe the nodev prefix in /proc/filesystems

2014-01-16 Thread Axel Beckert
Package: manpages Version: 3.55-1 filesystems(5) says: When, as is customary, the proc filesystem is mounted on /proc, you can find in the file /proc/filesystems which filesystems your kernel currently supports. If you need a currently unsupported one, insert the corr

Bug#733670: libspork-perl: Binary package should neither be named like a library nor be in section perl

2014-01-16 Thread Axel Beckert
Control: clone -1 -2 Control: retitle -1 libspork-perl: Binary package shouldn't be in section perl Control: retitle -2 libspork-perl: Binary package shouldn't be named like a library Axel Beckert wrote: > Hence at least the binary package (and maybe also the source package) >

Bug#735434: ruby1.8 won't be available on Jessie

2014-01-17 Thread Axel Beckert
bsite says 0.6 is 93% finished), the git repository at https://gitorious.org/ditz/mainline seems to work with at least 1.9.x if not even with 2.0 since a branch called ruby2 has been merged 5 months ago. See also https://gitorious.org/ditz Regards, Axel -- ,''`.

Bug#735590: manpages: filesystems(5) should describe the nodev prefix in /proc/filesystems

2014-01-17 Thread Axel Beckert
it is a pseudo-filesystem). > ]] > > Look okay to you? Doesn't clash with what I guessed, but since I was looking for facts, I can't say if it's correct or wrong. Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert , http://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :' :

Bug#418199: Fwd: Re: segfault with exceedingly long path [origin: schae...@brasslantern.com]

2014-01-18 Thread Axel Beckert
ingly long path On Jan 18, 1:20am, Axel Beckert wrote: } } this is a forward of http://bugs.debian.org/418199 This is a known issue and unlikely ever to be fixed. Various parts of the shell rely on system limits such as PATH_MAX which cannot be dynamically changed. There's a comment with s

Bug#559124: unnecessary files

2013-11-07 Thread Axel Beckert
cm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=collab-maint/zsh.git;a=commitdiff;h=04838041ad6e6f6fd865ba05cf22850f93249e5b for what I did so far. Downgrading severity to minor and tagging the bug with "help" as it's not really important, probably more work than gain, but still a small shortcoming.

Bug#482525: failure to fcntl-lock history file, takes ages to create interactive session

2013-11-07 Thread Axel Beckert
sue. (*) Since zsh-beta is merely a transitional dummy package in Jessie, I tested not zsh-beta, but zsh. The closing version is though the one of the according zsh-beta version to let the BTS get the version tracking right. Regards, Axel -- ,''`. |

Bug#729043: RFS: automx/0.10.0-1 [ITP] automx -- A mail user agent auto configuration service #662168

2013-11-09 Thread Axel Beckert
erride_dh_installchangelogs is unnecessary. dh_installchangelog at compat level >= 7 guesses the upstream changelog name. And it does so correctly in this case. Still have to look closer at copyrights and such stuff. Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert , http

Bug#722989: Can't reproduce #722989 (gsmartcontrol: Has several 'unknown properties' in it and just crashes out.)

2013-11-13 Thread Axel Beckert
Followup-For: Bug #722989 Package: gsmartcontrol Hi, I just wanted to note that I can't reproduce this issue on my EeePC 900A running Sid i386. It throws some of the mentioned warnings, but works as expected otherwise: ~ # gsmartcontrol [app] SmartctlParser::parse_section_info_property(): Unk

Bug#674885: Bug#729881: mssh: port number is always fixed to 22

2013-11-18 Thread Axel Beckert
ad's old Git repository, so if you want to import it to have the whole history, I can help. (Just have to check where my local copy is as git.debian.org/anonscm.debian.org is currently down due to hard disk issues. Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert , http

Bug#674885: Bug#729881: mssh: port number is always fixed to 22

2013-11-18 Thread Axel Beckert
ian QA Group. > I saw "orphaned" when filling the report That's still the case. > and this is a package I use really a lor in everyday job. Same here. Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert , http://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :' : | Debian Developer, ftp.ch.deb

Bug#730004: kfreebsd-image-9.2-1-686: "service stop wdm" crashes kernel occasionally: "Sleeping thread owns a non-sleepable lock"

2013-11-19 Thread Axel Beckert
Package: kfreebsd-image-9.2-1-686 Version: 9.2-1 Severity: grave Dear kFreeBSD Porters, running "service wdm stop" crashes the kernel with an approximately 25% percent chance on my ASUS EeeBox. Managed to trigger it twice in a row (i.e. second time directly after reboot), but then again it took 6

Bug#730004: kfreebsd-image-9.2-1-686: "service stop wdm" crashes kernel occasionally: "Sleeping thread owns a non-sleepable lock"

2013-11-19 Thread Axel Beckert
Hi, Axel Beckert wrote: > I installed wdm newly today on that box, so the fact that I can't > remember having such issues in the past may be cause by wdm not being > installed, but also by a newer kernel. (ca. 70 days uptime before the > boot where it crashed for the first tim

Bug#721498: JFTR: Bug #721498 (ITA: silo) is work in progress

2013-11-25 Thread Axel Beckert
happen immediately though as I'm on the road travelling a bit often currently, but next weekend sounds realistic. (Can't test _that_ package remotely, i.e. need to be at home for preparing the upload. :-) Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert , http://people

Bug#729527: [Aptitude-devel] Bug#729527: aptitude says Error: Timeout was reached

2013-11-26 Thread Axel Beckert
o get an overview over the installed and APT hook installing packages. If you're ok with it, an additional "cat /etc/apt/apt.conf /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/*[^~]" could be shed some additional light on the issue. Thanks in advance. Regards, Axel -- ,''`. |

Bug#729527: [Aptitude-devel] Bug#729527: aptitude says Error: Timeout was reached

2013-11-26 Thread Axel Beckert
Control: tag -1 + moreinfo Hi, thanks for the prompt replies. Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2013-11-26 10:00:50 +0100, Axel Beckert wrote: > > At least I haven't this issue on any of my machine, so I suspect > > either a mirror or an APT hook issue. Since Vincent and shir

Bug#729527: [Aptitude-devel] Bug#729527: aptitude says Error: Timeout was reached

2013-11-26 Thread Axel Beckert
reassign 729527 packagekit 0.8.12-1 affects 729527 apt aptitude severity 729527 minor kthxbye Hi Vincent, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2013-11-26 13:05:51 +0100, Axel Beckert wrote: > > 20packagekit interacts with DBus, so I can imagine it to cause such an > > error message. >

Bug#688428: Bug#729527: aptitude says Error: Timeout was reached

2013-11-26 Thread Axel Beckert
tag 729527 - moreinfo forcemerge 688428 729527 kthxbye Hi, Axel Beckert wrote: > In the meanwhile I'm reassigning this and the mentioned bug report on > Launchpad to packagekit and marking #729527 as "affects apt and > aptitude". Actually http://bugs.debian.org/729527 is

Bug#729527: [Aptitude-devel] Bug#729527: aptitude says Error: Timeout was reached

2013-11-26 Thread Axel Beckert
tp://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=688428#34 At least no error message. The above mentioned message suggests that the 1-second timeout in /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/20packagekit maybe just a too short time frame to let DBus answer, hence the occasional timeout error. Regards

Bug#730720: cups-browsed: severe memory leak in 1.0.41-1

2013-11-28 Thread Axel Beckert
Package: cups-browsed Version: 1.0.41-1 Severity: grave Justification: consumes all RAM after running for an hour Dear Maintainer, updating cups-browsed from 1.0.34-3+b1 to 1.0.41-1 caused the new cups-browsed process to consume about 1.2 GB of RAM after approximately 6 hours (i.e. between two di

Bug#730720: Memory graph for Bug#730720: cups-browsed: severe memory leak in 1.0.41-1

2013-11-28 Thread Axel Beckert
Hi, Axel Beckert wrote: > Justification: consumes all RAM after running for an hour [...] > updating cups-browsed from 1.0.34-3+b1 to 1.0.41-1 caused the new > cups-browsed process to consume about 1.2 GB of RAM after approximately > 6 hours (i.e. between two dinstall runs ;-). >

Bug#730776: buildd.debian.org: Add "sparc64" to Packages-arch-specific for all sparc-specific packages

2013-11-29 Thread Axel Beckert
Package: buildd.debian.org Severity: wishlist Tags: patch Hi, please add "sparc64" as architecture to all sparc-specific packages: diff --git a/Packages-arch-specific b/Packages-arch-specific index 8d08449..98785be 100644 --- a/Packages-arch-specific +++ b/Packages-arch-specific @@ -25,7 +25,7 @

Bug#730778: how-can-i-help: Claims RFA bugs are O bugs

2013-11-29 Thread Axel Beckert
Package: how-can-i-help Version: 0.9 Severity: normal Dear Lucas, how-can-i-help claimed a bunch of new orphaned packages today on multiple of my machines: == How can you help? (doc: http://wiki.debian.org/how-can-i-help ) == New orphaned packages: - debtags - http://bugs.debian.org/5

Bug#730795: [Aptitude-devel] Bug#730795: aptitude: buggy newline output with aptitude-curses in case of error during package install

2013-11-29 Thread Axel Beckert
ot;reset" blindly after pressing Ctrl-C should always help. Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert , http://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :' : | Debian Developer, ftp.ch.debian.org Admin `. `' | 1024D: F067 EA27 26B9 C3FC 1486 202E C09E 1D89 9593

Bug#730795: aptitude: buggy newline output with aptitude-curses in case of error during package install

2013-11-29 Thread Axel Beckert
le with apt-get rather than aptitude, > in a quite minimal pbuilder chroot. Thanks for checking. So maybe this is related to http://bugs.debian.org/730490 ? Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert , http://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :' : | Debian Developer, ftp.ch.debian.org A

Bug#730859: qa.debian.org: PTS: Wrong news item linked when two versions went through NEW at the same time

2013-11-30 Thread Axel Beckert
Package: qa.debian.org Severity: normal Hi, on http://packages.qa.debian.org/9/9mount.html both, "Accepted 1.3-8 in unstable (low)" and "Accepted 1.3-9 in unstable (low)" link to http://packages.qa.debian.org/9/9mount/news/20131130T10Z.html The expected news item for "Accepted 1.3-9 in unsta

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