Bug#644788: [screen-devel] Current screen HEAD can't reattach to a detached screen 4.0.3

2011-11-19 Thread Axel Beckert
ernative to be mentioned in the Debian Wheezy release notes. A less laudable one for screen, though. Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert , http://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :' : | Debian Developer, ftp.ch.debian.org Admin `. `' | 1024D: F067 EA27 26B9

Bug#644788: Bug#649240: Upcoming upgrade issues with GNU Screen for Wheezy

2011-11-19 Thread Axel Beckert
Hi, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 05:24:34PM +, Justin B Rye wrote: > > > Axel Beckert wrote: > > >> Possible suggestions for the release notes: Use tmux instead of screen > > >> for the dist-upgrade. Not really a laudable note for sc

Bug#649240: Bug#644788: Upcoming upgrade issues with GNU Screen for Wheezy

2011-11-19 Thread Axel Beckert
ts.debian.org/debian-doc/2011/11/msg4.html Ah right, debian-doc is the owner of the release-notes package, not debian-release (to which I'm subscribed). Thanks for the clarification! > Axel Beckert wrote: > > Steve Langasek wrote: > >> Justin B Rye wrote: > >>

Bug#611739: autossh still does not notice if terminal goes away

2011-11-20 Thread Axel Beckert
when I hit Cancel, autossh just started a new ssh, so > the modal window came back after less than a second. This made > it impossible to use the computer.. Ok, this is annoying. I though never ran into this variant myself. > I've stopped using autossh, for now. Sad, but understandable

Bug#649513: xen-create-image creates Xen configuration file with "phy" type disk partitions

2011-11-21 Thread Axel Beckert
image would check if the given paths are really devices or not and act accordingly (either by printing out a warning or, probably better, to use files if the given path is no device or does not exist (and --lvm is not given). Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel B

Bug#649523: ratpoison: Please include program compiled from example sloppy.c

2011-11-21 Thread Axel Beckert
Package: ratpoison Version: 1.4.5-3 Severity: wishlist Hi Bernhard, the ratpoison source package contains a C code example called sloppy.c in the contrib directory. It is currently installed to /usr/share/doc/ratpoison/examples/sloppy.ch in the Debian binary package. Please include the program c

Bug#649523: ratpoison: Please include program compiled from example sloppy.c

2011-11-21 Thread Axel Beckert
Hi again, Axel Beckert wrote: > Please include the program compiled from that example in the package, > too, e.g. as /usr/bin/unrat like the comments in the code suggest. Well, unrat seems to be another example program in that directory on which sloppy is based on as it still refers to it

Bug#649523: ratpoison: Please include program compiled from example sloppy.c (Patch for sloppy.c to prevent race-condition)

2011-11-21 Thread Axel Beckert
Hi Bernhard, Axel Beckert wrote: > Please include the program compiled from that example in the package, > too, [...] I suggest the following modification to sloppy.c which prevents a race-condition between sloppy and the window switch with C-t C-t by checking the frame id of the to be se

Bug#643620: http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/b/busybox/current/c hangelog and others horribly out of date

2011-11-23 Thread Axel Beckert
two weeks. 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

Bug#649747: 127.0.1.1 hack is not supported by kFreeBSD

2011-11-23 Thread Axel Beckert
s:~# (Had to install inetutils-ping first as iputils-ping is not available on Hurd.) Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert , http://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :' : | Debian Developer, ftp.ch.debian.org Admin `. `' | 1024D: F067 EA27 26B9 C3FC 1486 202E C

Bug#697273: devscripts: [debuild] Support for calling blhc after a build similar to calling lintian

2013-01-03 Thread Axel Beckert
Package: devscripts Version: 2.12.6 Severity: wishlist Dear devscript Maintainers, it would be nice if debuild could automatically run blhc (the Build Log Hardening Checker) after a build in the same way as it runs lintian (and formerly linda) after a build. Possible options: $ debuild --blhc -

Bug#498061: Some commands like "show" needn't lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock

2013-01-06 Thread Axel Beckert
nce raising the severity to "minor" (only, since there is a workaround). 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#695785: hobbit-plugins: ipmi shows only first line of "sel list"

2013-01-07 Thread Axel Beckert
from the ipmitool sel list command is really printed and reported to > hobbit. > The attached patch fixes this. There was no patch attached to your mail. Could you resend that patch (and then readd the patch tag)? Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Becke

Bug#691827: ITA: mypaint -- Paint program to be used with Wacom tablets

2013-01-07 Thread Axel Beckert
> addressing right now, so thanks for the offer. I see you're already working on the next steps. Cool! One question here: Why changing http://mypaint.intilinux.com/ to http://mypaint.info/ when http://mypaint.info/ redirects to http://mypaint.intilinux.com/? Regards, A

Bug#697652: RFP: vimprobable2 -- Light-weight Webkit based browser with Vimperator's fingerfeel

2013-01-07 Thread Axel Beckert
not ITP), but I'm open for co-maintaining 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 1D89 9593 0EDE `-| 4096R: 2517

Bug#697724: aptitude: selecting packages in the curses interface slow iff Acquire::GzipIndexes="true"

2013-01-08 Thread Axel Beckert
Package: aptitude Version: 0.6.8.2-1 Severity: normal Hi, this may be the cause for the commenter's issues at http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=317841#10 but is likely not the cause for the issue of the original reporter of #317841 as there were no .gz in the file names he reported

Bug#351239: aptitude: should re-fetch package list if gzip fails

2013-01-08 Thread Axel Beckert
this issue with current versions of aptitude (i.e. 0.6.x versions)? 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#385631: aptitude: Doesn't offer sensible solution upon conflict

2013-01-08 Thread Axel Beckert
-transport-agent which is a virtual package. exim4-daemon-light: Conflicts: mail-transport-agent which is a virtual package. exim4-config: Conflicts: postfix but 2.7.1-1+squeeze1 is to be installed. The following actions will resolve these dependencies: Remove the following packages: 1)

Bug#402454: aptitude: ~O definition and behaviour

2013-01-08 Thread Axel Beckert
ve /etc/apt/sources.list on > |your system (packages not from the active Debian archive). That part seems to be rather documenting the current state. I though miss that ~c (remove but configured packages) are not mentioned, because they're matched, too, in case they're no more in the

Bug#414150: Problem with images in HTML documentation

2013-01-08 Thread Axel Beckert
.png and fr/images/broken-snapshot.png: the red line at the bottom showing the keybindings for handling conflict resolving is missing in the French version. I've splitted up these two issues into two separate bug reports. Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Becker

Bug#402454: [Aptitude-devel] Bug#402454: aptitude: ~O definition and behaviour

2013-01-08 Thread Axel Beckert
Hi Daniel, Daniel Hartwig wrote: > On 9 January 2013 09:43, Axel Beckert wrote: > >> I would suggest following instead: > >> |~Oorigin > >> | > >> |Matches non-virtual package versions whose origin can be traced to > >> |the regular expr

Bug#485008: aptitude: 'why' doesn't seem to work

2013-01-08 Thread Axel Beckert
s corrupted? *Possible* reason follows. bzip2: Inappropriate ioctl for device Input file = (stdin), output file = (stdout) Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert , http://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :' : | Debian Developer, ftp.ch.debian.org Admin `. `&#x

Bug#697724: [Aptitude-devel] Bug#697724: aptitude: selecting packages in the curses interface slow iff Acquire::GzipIndexes="true"

2013-01-08 Thread Axel Beckert
Hi Daniel, Daniel Hartwig wrote: > On 9 January 2013 05:55, Axel Beckert wrote: > > If I set Acquire::GzipIndexes to "true" in apt.conf, remove all files > > from /var/lib/apt/lists/ and run "apt-get update" again, the downloaded > > files don't g

Bug#697748: [Aptitude-devel] Bug#697748: aptitude safe-upgrade ignores some trivial upgrades

2013-01-09 Thread Axel Beckert
n.org/debian/ sid/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status fuse-utils is a transitional package which does no more exist in Sid, so I suspect that the dependencies playing here are not dead simple and I'm not so surprised that this can cause such issues. Nevertheless it should have

Bug#697808: [Pkg-zsh-devel] Bug#697808: zsh: missing copyright file after upgrade from 5.0.2-1

2013-01-09 Thread Axel Beckert
Indeed, thanks. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?msg=30;filename=nmu.diff;att=1;bug=685653 looks like some starting point. I'm though surprised that Lintian didn't catch that issue. Maybe because of the symlink in the package. Regards, Axel -- ,&#

Bug#421043: aptitude: Please allow forgetting new packages individually

2013-01-10 Thread Axel Beckert
;New" list. > It would be great to have an opportunity to do this on the commandline > and/or in the GUI. And with patterns! :-) Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert , http://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :' : | Debian Developer, ftp.ch.debian.org Ad

Bug#697855: aptitude: Tab-completion for fieldnames when sorting the package list

2013-01-10 Thread Axel Beckert
Package: aptitude Version: 0.6.8.2-1 Severity: wishlist Hi, when sorting the package list (especially the flat package list) in aptitude's TUI, you press Shift-S and then enter one of the following four fields: * installsize * name * priority * version More fields to sort by are requested: * d

Bug#421043: [Aptitude-devel] Bug#421043: aptitude: Please allow forgetting new packages individually

2013-01-10 Thread Axel Beckert
Hi, Daniel Hartwig wrote: > On 10 January 2013 21:32, Axel Beckert wrote: > > Josh Triplett wrote: > >> I use the "New Packages" list as an "I should look at this" todo list. > > Usertags handles this situation nicely, Not really IMHO. > althoug

Bug#245554: dh_install: no way to rename files while installing

2013-01-11 Thread Axel Beckert
s allowed -- unless you want reimplement mmv. :-) Typical, slightly generalized examples where I ran into the missing of such a feature: blafasel.conf.example etc/blafasel.conf example.conf etc/package.conf somesh7bin/somesh foobar.sh usr/bin/foobar

Bug#697958: semanticscuttle: Hardcodes minimal user name length to 5

2013-01-11 Thread Axel Beckert
Package: semanticscuttle Version: 0.98.4+dfsg-1 Severity: normal >From /usr/share/php/SemanticScuttle/Service/User.php: 995 function isValidUsername($username) { 996 if (strlen($username) < 4) { 997 return false; I don't see any reason for this arbitrary limit

Bug#245554: dh_install: no way to rename files while installing

2013-01-12 Thread Axel Beckert
e > archive! Perfect. Retitling this bug report then. Thanks again for the pointer. Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert , http://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :' : | Debian Developer, ftp.ch.debian.org Admin `. `' | 1024D: F067 EA27 26B9 C3FC 14

Bug#698054: debhelper: dh_install seems to call all executable debian/*.install files even with -p

2013-01-13 Thread Axel Beckert
Package: debhelper Version: 9.20120909 Severity: important Affects: dh-exec Dear Joey, the zsh source package builds its binary packages in (at least) two runs, one run for the normal packages and one run for the static package. I plan to make the zsh-static package using an executable debian/zs

Bug#650626: bash: autocompletion now prepends environment variables with \$, fails on 2nd autocomplete

2012-10-30 Thread Axel Beckert
ug/778627 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 CD

Bug#691886: [Pkg-zsh-devel] Bug#691886: zsh: ". file" in .zshenv gets arguments from the original script

2012-10-30 Thread Axel Beckert
quot; line! I think that's wrong. Sourced scripts are no subshells and hence inherit all variables from the script which sources it, including but not limited to $@, $*, $0, $1, $2, etc. And I'm sure there are tons of scripts which rely on this feature. The second sourcing of script2 j

Bug#598485: aptitude suggests to remove unrelated packages to resolve dependencies

2012-10-31 Thread Axel Beckert
-config:amd64 2.8.0-3ubuntu9 {fontconfig-config:amd64 2.8.0-3ubuntu9}>) of a supposedly unresolved dependency is already installed in step 1271 I think at least this internal error is fixed in more recent aptitude versions, so we'll try to reproduce the issue with a more recent versi

Bug#598485: [Aptitude-devel] Bug#598485: aptitude suggests to remove unrelated packages to resolve dependencies

2012-10-31 Thread Axel Beckert
Hi, Axel Beckert wrote: > Version: 0.6.6-1ubuntu1 > [...] we'll try to reproduce the issue with a more recent > version and with one from Debian, e.g. from Wheezy. So far I couldn't reproduce this on Wheezy (aptitude 0.6.8.1-2) with a minimal setup: debootstrap (actually xe

Bug#598485: [Aptitude-devel] Bug#598485: aptitude suggests to remove unrelated packages to resolve dependencies

2012-10-31 Thread Axel Beckert
Hi Daniel, Daniel Hartwig wrote: > Axel Beckert wrote: > > Version: 0.6.6-1ubuntu1 > > [...] we'll try to reproduce the issue with a more recent > > version and with one from Debian, e.g. from Wheezy. > > > > So far I couldn't reproduce this on Wheezy (a

Bug#598485: [Aptitude-devel] Bug#598485: Bug#598485: aptitude suggests to remove unrelated packages to resolve dependencies

2012-10-31 Thread Axel Beckert
Hi, Axel Beckert wrote: > > Your issue is this: > > > >* Multi-arch update for the problem resolver: > > - handle conflicts without removing all foreign-arch > >packages (Closes: #672340) (LP: #831768) > > - correctly recogni

Bug#691955: aptitude: Aptitude::ProblemResolver::SolutionCost does not support substraction

2012-10-31 Thread Axel Beckert
Package: aptitude Version: 0.6.8.1-2 Severity: wishlist Dear Maintainer, The followingAptitude::ProblemResolver::SolutionCost example is the aptitude manual: from removals + 2 * canceled-actions I tried to weight removals-of-manual higher than other removals and came up with the following rule:

Bug#692017: [Aptitude-devel] Bug#692017: aptitude: package "hold" consistency between apt - aptitude - dpkg - synaptic

2012-11-01 Thread Axel Beckert
You will be notified as soon as a fix is uploaded to Debian. 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#692807: Wiki page on XDG Base Directory Specification

2012-11-09 Thread Axel Beckert
ian.org/XDGBaseDirectorySpecification Thanks! That helps and avoids having to search for the specs. :-) Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert , http://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :' : | Debian Developer, ftp.ch.debian.org Admin `. `' | 1024D: F067 EA27 26B9 C3

Bug#692864: RFP: mdpress -- create Impress.js slideshows with Markdown

2012-11-09 Thread Axel Beckert
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Control: block -1 by 623914 * Package name: mdpress Version : 0.0.12 Upstream Author : Aditya Bhargava * URL or Web page : https://github.com/egonSchiele/mdpress#readme * License : MIT Description : create Impress.js slideshows with M

Bug#692864: RFP: mdpress -- create Impress.js slideshows with Markdown

2012-11-12 Thread Axel Beckert
Hi, Axel Beckert wrote: > mdpress is a commandline tool that converts Markdown files to > presentations using Impress.js. > > Markdown is an easy-to-read and easy-to-write markup language with > readability being emphasized above all else. JFTR: The already packaged python-landsl

Bug#690817: Request for upgrading drupal7 [backports] package

2012-11-13 Thread Axel Beckert
so before there were backports of drupal7). I though would be happy to see a proper backport (i.e. rebuild) nevertheless, e.g. for those who want the comfort of APT. :-) Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert , http://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :' : | Debia

Bug#686373: Guests should spawn a getty on hvc0

2012-11-13 Thread Axel Beckert
ter to be the culprit: [ -f ${prefix}/etc/inittab ] && sed -i -e 's/^\([2-6].*:respawn*\)/#\1/' -e 's/^T/#\t/' -e 's/tty1$/hvc0/' ${prefix}/etc/inittab If that's really the culprit, I though would be curious why it doesn't match in your case. Nev

Bug#691320: xen-image-create does not remove the index of memory-size

2012-11-13 Thread Axel Beckert
suffix "Mb". And actually just that suffix and "Gb" are currently recognized. Omitting the "b" leads to the described issue. This will be fixed in the next upstream release. Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert , http://people.debian.

Bug#693144: [Aptitude-devel] Bug#693144: aptitude should honour explicit installation request in connection with markauto package

2012-11-14 Thread Axel Beckert
you could pass parameters to aptitude so that you can do non-interactively the same things you would do interactively. (Doesn't need to be any of the current commands or syntax for me.) Because that's what Elmar and me are trying to do with aptitude-robot. (I can file separate wishlist bugs f

Bug#695918: mssh: Focus should change in middle mouse click (paste), too

2012-12-14 Thread Axel Beckert
Package: mssh Version: 1.2-1 Severity: wishlist Hi, to change the focus to a single host I always have to left click into its subwindow. But often I paste stuff into a subwindow using a middle mouse click (e.g. into an open editor) and I then I want to continue working on that. But the focus is t

Bug#248561: [Aptitude-devel] Bug#248561: still valid?

2012-12-14 Thread Axel Beckert
e more things, but includes grouping by Origin, too. It's left as execise to the reader to figure out which part is the grouping by Origin. :-) HTH. Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert , http://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :' : | Debian Developer, ftp.ch.d

Bug#695949: reprepro: Please allow multiple distributions for include* subcommands

2012-12-14 Thread Axel Beckert
Package: reprepro Severity: wishlist Version: 4.2.0-2 Hi Bernhard, I quite often have to do the following: reprepro include squeeze some.changes reprepro include wheezy some.changes reprepro include lucid some.changes reprepro include oneiric some.changes reprepro include precise some.changes re

Bug#696106: undistract-me: Support for zsh

2012-12-16 Thread Axel Beckert
Package: undistract-me Version: 0.1.0+bzr10-1 Severity: wishlist Dear Clint, it would be neat if undistract-me would also support zsh. -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers testing-updates APT policy: (902, 'testing-updates'), (901, 'testing-proposed-updates'), (900,

Bug#696107: undistract-me: Make global activation optional

2012-12-16 Thread Axel Beckert
Package: undistract-me Version: 0.1.0+bzr10-1 Severity: wishlist Dear Clint, currently undistract-me is activated for all users (who have bash as login shell) upon installation. It would be nice if global activation would be optional (e.g. via a debconf question), so that users can decide themse

Bug#696120: undistract-me: Configurable time counter

2012-12-16 Thread Axel Beckert
Package: undistract-me Version: 0.1.0+bzr10-1 Severity: wishlist Dear Clint, please make timespan configurable, after which a command is considered a "long command" and hence undistract-me emits a notification. -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers testing-updates APT

Bug#696156: hobbit-plugins: ircbot plugin non-functional since switch to POE::Component::IRC

2012-12-17 Thread Axel Beckert
Package: hobbit-plugins Version: 20120531 Severity: serious Justification: Makes the package unsuitable for release in the package maintainer's opinion Due to http://bugs.debian.org/640209 we were urged to port the ircbot server plugin from Net::IRC to POE::Component::IRC despite Net::IRC works r

Bug#696160: hobbit-plugins: ircbot doesn't reconnect after connection loss

2012-12-17 Thread Axel Beckert
Package: hobbit-plugins Version: 20120531 Severity: important The ircbot plugin doesn't reconnect to an IRC server on connection loss despite AutoJoin is enabled. This a severe regression introduced by the rushed port to POE::Component::IRC (see http://bugs.debian.org/640209) as a monitoring syste

Bug#696270: devscripts: Command-line interface to http://qa.debian.org/developer.php aka DDPO

2012-12-18 Thread Axel Beckert
Package: devscripts Version: 2.12.6 Severity: wishlist Dear Maintainer, it would be nice if devscripts would contain a command-line interface to http://qa.debian.org/developer.php aka DDPO. Probably most useful would be a command similar to the "bts" command, which can set and get package subscr

Bug#545396: mypaint: .ora files look like zip archives! (... really openraster support bugs: no mime-info, no thumbnailer)

2012-12-18 Thread Axel Beckert
recently has been orphaned in Debian (see http://bugs.debian.org/691827). I'm no regular user of mypaint, but would like to see it staying in shape in Debian, so if anyone is interested, I'd be happy to sponsor or co-maintain the package (I sponsored it in the past already),

Bug#659320: RFP: ora-thumbnailer-gnome -- OpenRaster thumbnailer for Gnome

2012-12-18 Thread Axel Beckert
/gitorious.org/openraster/ora-thumbnailers) 1 source package (ora-thumbnailers) 3 binary packages (ora-thumbnailer-{xfce,gnome,kde}) Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert , http://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :' : | Debian Developer, ftp.ch.debian.org Admin `. `&#

Bug#519906: [Aptitude-devel] Bug#519906: use a database like MySQL to speed things up

2012-12-20 Thread Axel Beckert
egards, 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 UNSUBSCRIBE

Bug#696411: aptitude: Missing dependency on apt?

2012-12-20 Thread Axel Beckert
Package: aptitude Version: 0.6.8.2-1 Severity: important After I ran into http://bugs.debian.org/548505 (aptitude: considers apt essential) I noticed, that if apt isn't really essential, in theory I should be able to remove apt and then still be able use aptitude. (Actually someone asked me a few

Bug#311435: Strange characters destroy the xdiskusage output

2012-12-20 Thread Axel Beckert
tch below is actually from before the current NMU): --- xdiskusage-1.48/debian/changelog2010-04-04 12:16:28.0 +0200 +++ xdiskusage-1.48/debian/changelog2011-08-01 13:07:14.0 +0200 @@ -1,3 +1,9 @@ +xdiskusage (1.48-10.1) unstable; urgency=low + + * Build against FLTK 1.3; fi

Bug#696411: aptitude: Missing dependency on apt?

2012-12-21 Thread Axel Beckert
Hi Daniel, Daniel Hartwig wrote: > On 20 December 2012 22:19, Axel Beckert wrote: > > So since apt is not essential, but aptitude needs some binaries out of > > that package to perform very common actions, aptitude must have a > > dependency on apt > > Such a depen

Bug#696544: undistract-me: Should display initial command instead of "fg" when a previously suspended command ends

2012-12-22 Thread Axel Beckert
Package: undistract-me Version: 0.1.0+bzr10-1 Severity: wishlist Dear Clint, if I suspend a long command temporarily and bring it back into the foreground with "fg", undistract-me reports at the end "Long command fg has finished after N seconds" (or similar). It would be nice if it would display

Bug#696613: libnet-smtp-server-perl: source package contains Emacs lock file

2012-12-23 Thread Axel Beckert
it's something you especially want to ship. Indeed. Thanks for the report! Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert , http://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :' : | Debian Developer, ftp.ch.debian.org Admin `. `' | 1024D: F067 EA27 26B9 C3FC 1486 202E

Bug#696156: hobbit-plugins: ircbot plugin non-functional since switch to POE::Component::IRC

2012-12-26 Thread Axel Beckert
#696160. (Hence I'd be unappy about a premature NMU for this. If you really think, you've got a working fix for #696156, please contact us first.) Axel Beckert wrote: > Package: hobbit-plugins > Version: 20120531 > Severity: serious > Justification: Makes the package unsuitabl

Bug#446343: I have this same problem

2012-12-26 Thread Axel Beckert
ed that cutter outputs once "Matched IP and port" and yet outputs "No matching connections found" at the end (and the connection seems not resetted) as reported by him, too. Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert , http://people.debian.org/~abe/

Bug#446343: cutter: does not work at all

2012-12-26 Thread Axel Beckert
-zero values in /proc/net/route. If I comment out line 132 ("(flags & 0x0001) && // route is UP"), it seems to select the right route, but I always end up with the message "ACK not seen so RST not sent (sorry!)". So I suspect there's more fishy than I found out so fa

Bug#446343: cutter: does not work at all

2012-12-26 Thread Axel Beckert
Hi again, Axel Beckert wrote: > While the if-case in line 129 seems logical for me, the flags variable > always contains 0 despite it contains non-zero values in > /proc/net/route. If I comment out line 132 ("(flags & 0x0001) && // > route is UP"), it seems to se

Bug#696888: RFA: pconsole -- parallel console shell for administering clusters

2012-12-28 Thread Axel Beckert
th co-maintaining or sponsoring it, in case someone would maintain it, but still needs some help. In that case I'd move the Git repo to alioth and put it under collab-maint. Here's some information about the package: Package: pconsole Binary: pconsole Version: 1.0-9 Maintainer: Axel Bec

Bug#696888: RFA: pconsole -- parallel console shell for administering clusters

2012-12-28 Thread Axel Beckert
Hi Vincent, Vincent Danjean wrote: > Le 28/12/2012 22:30, Axel Beckert a écrit : > > since I switched from FVWM to Awesome as window manager I prefer to use > > mssh (orphaned, I know) over pconsole for mass interactive SSH > > sessions. So I actually don't use

Bug#149873: Patch to add warnings about #149873 (mmv: silently drops files which contain spaces) to man page

2012-12-28 Thread Axel Beckert
Hi, to mitigate the issue (http://bugs.debian.org/149873), I've added a patch[1] to the package which adds warnings in two places to the man page. [1] http://git.deb.at/w/pkg/mmv.git/blob/0b0c71b9:/debian/patches/man-page-warning-149873.diff Regards, Axel -- ,'&#

Bug#617856: apt-show-versions: does not see gzipped Packages files when uncompressed are not available

2012-10-02 Thread Axel Beckert
dexes (Packages, Sources, or Translations), keep them gzip compressed locally instead of unpacking them. This saves quite a lot of disk space at the expense of more CPU requirements when building the local package caches. False by default. HTH Regards, Axel -- ,''

Bug#689480: xen-tools complains about Couldn't parse /etc/apt/sources.list of the Dom0

2012-10-03 Thread Axel Beckert
Nevertheless thanks for taking the time to write the bug-report. 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#689549: emacs-goodies-el: Add iedit and/or mark-multiple

2012-10-03 Thread Axel Beckert
Package: emacs-goodies-el Version: 35.2 Severity: wishlist Dear Maintainer, via [1] I stumbled over iedit[2] and I think that would be a neat addition to emacs-goodies-el. Alternatively [3] (via comments to [1]) sounds like an alternative for similar features, too. [1] http://www.masteringemacs

Bug#137771: #137771: aptitude's vs dpkg's hold state (was: Processed: more bts etc.)

2012-10-04 Thread Axel Beckert
x27;s rather a technical or a conceptual issue? TIA! (*) JFTR: Daniel Hartwig, not Daniel Burrows. :-) P.S.: http://bugs.debian.org/328616 looks to me like a different issue than http://bugs.debian.org/137771 -- maybe related, but not specifically related to syncing hold states. Reg

Bug#689657: yacpi: Always shows empty batteries on Thinkpad T61

2012-10-04 Thread Axel Beckert
Package: yacpi Version: 3.0-2 Severity: normal Hi Nico, on my Thinkpad T61 running Wheezy, yacpi always shows BAT0 Capacity [ ] 0% despite "acpi" says "Battery 0: Unknown, 99%" and "acpi -V" says "Battery 0: design capacity 6749 mAh, last full capacity 5916 mAh = 87%".

Bug#689657: yacpi: Always shows empty batteries on Thinkpad T61

2012-10-04 Thread Axel Beckert
port page, too. But as you're maintainer of both, it shouldn't matter much. :-) > I hope I have time soon to look into these issues. To be honest, I > got demotivated following constant kernel changes so I didn't touch > this code in a long time. I see.

Bug#137771: aptitude's vs dpkg's hold state

2012-10-05 Thread Axel Beckert
ecifically related to syncing hold states. > > Ah, you are correct. #328616 is more related to the “aptitude > installs (removes) package removed (installed) by apt-get, etc.” The > hold-bugs are currently entangled as blocking an archived bug. I have > been preparing some mo

Bug#690098: atool: an "agrep" would be cool

2012-10-09 Thread Axel Beckert
Package: atool Version: 0.39.0-2 Severity: wishlist Tags: upstream Dear Francois and Oskar, it would be cool if atool could also provide an "archive grep" which can grep through an archive's content including listing the archive's member which contains the match. Supporting the common grep option

Bug#690265: unburden-home-dir: Shows wrong version on --version

2012-10-11 Thread Axel Beckert
Package: unburden-home-dir Version: 0.3.1 Severity: important unburden-home-dir shows wrong version on --version: $ acp unburden-home-dir unburden-home-dir: Installed: 0.3.1 Candidate: 0.3.1 Version table: *** 0.3.1 0 500 http://ftp.ch.debian.org/debian/ wheezy/main amd64 Packages

Bug#690266: unburden-home-dir: Wrong and hence misleading comment in /etc/unburden-home-dir

2012-10-11 Thread Axel Beckert
Package: unburden-home-dir Version: 0.3.1 Severity: important /etc/unburden-home-dir says: # Configuration for and sourced by /etc/X11/Xsession.d/95unburden_home_dir # # This is a POSIX shell fragment. This is wrong in three places: a) /etc/X11/Xsession.d/95unburden_home_dir no more exists, it'

Bug#690299: xen-tools: with centos 6, 15-setup-arch refers to ../common/15-disable-hwclock

2012-10-12 Thread Axel Beckert
I went on the git repository and it's also upstream, even in the master > branch. Thanks for the report, I'll have a look. Already have an idea where this comes from. Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert , http://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :' : |

Bug#690538: grub-common: Please make submenu creation optional or at least allow users to disable it easily

2012-10-15 Thread Axel Beckert
Package: grub-common Version: 2.00-7 Severity: wishlist Dear GRUB Maintainers, before grub 2.00, the boot menu consisted of one single list with all installed kernels. Since 2.00 all but the latest kernel are now in a submenu which is annoying if you often switch kernels or prefer to have an over

Bug#691002: fail2ban: Add support to read the log piped from a command (e.g. logread)

2012-10-19 Thread Axel Beckert
Package: fail2ban Version: 0.8.6-3 Severity: wishlist Dear Maintainer, busybox-syslogd doesn't provide log files but writes to log into a ring buffer which can be read with the command "logread" or -- "tail -f" alike -- with "logread -f". It would be nice if it would be possible to let fail2ban

Bug#676509: please add restart-services to debian-goodies

2012-10-22 Thread Axel Beckert
ase include it in debian-goodies. > > A forked debian-goodies that includes restart-services lives here: > > http://github.com/tpo/debian-goodies Thanks for the addition. I'll have a closer look after the freeze. Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel

Bug#676509: please add restart-services to debian-goodies

2012-10-23 Thread Axel Beckert
ter) will make its own package out of it or incorporate it into some package of higher priority. Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert , http://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :' : | Debian Developer, ftp.ch.debian.org Admin `. `' | 1024D: F067 EA2

Bug#691344: dosemu: Binaries not compiled from source

2012-10-24 Thread Axel Beckert
Package: dosemu Version: 1.4.0+svn.2080-1 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, dosemu's source package contains pre-compiled binaries of an ancient GNU File Utilities (nowadays called GNU Core Utilities) for DOS which are not compiled from source at build time (although the sources are available)

Bug#592539: (isc-dhcp-server: supply additional initscript for IPv6 daemon): I'm using Florent Fourcot solution

2012-10-26 Thread Axel Beckert
to avoid duplicated configuration items. 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 C

Bug#684475: (pas de sujet)

2012-10-26 Thread Axel Beckert
(besides the informal bug title). I've added an according description now. Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert , http://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :' : | Debian Developer, ftp.ch.debian.org Admin `. `' | 1024D: F067 EA27 26B9 C3FC 1486 202E C09E 1

Bug#691619: unburden-home-dir: Option for a "dry run" is ignored under some circumstances

2012-10-27 Thread Axel Beckert
Package: unburden-home-dir Version: 0.3.1 Severity: grave Justification: May cause data loss Not yet sure what's the exact reason for this, but if the option -F (don't use lsof) is given before the option -n (dry run), the option -n seems to be ignored and unburden-home-dir does change things inst

Bug#691632: screenrc not working with ~

2012-10-27 Thread Axel Beckert
ect and what behaviour exactly do you get? 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

Bug#689522: Lisp directory `/etc/emacs23' does not exist

2012-10-27 Thread Axel Beckert
ich has been fixed just recently (20. Oct.) in unstable: http://bugs.debian.org/688416 Or is there any other special setup which could be relevant to cause this issue? Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert , http://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :' : | Debian Develo

Bug#690824: [pkg-wml] Bug#690824: slice: architecture-specific paths in arch-all package

2012-10-27 Thread Axel Beckert
is also setting a lib path > that does not exist on Debian. > > use lib "/usr/lib/slice/perl/lib"; > use lib "/usr/lib/slice/perl/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu-thread-multi"; Thanks for the report. I'm investigating. Regards, Axel -- ,''`. |

Bug#690824: [pkg-wml] Bug#690824: slice: architecture-specific paths in arch-all package

2012-10-28 Thread Axel Beckert
have that fix in Wheezy, I can upload this to unstable, but could you then solicit the freeze exception? Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert , http://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :' : | Debian Developer, ftp.ch.debian.org Admin `. `' | 1024D: F067 EA27 26B9

Bug#599523: Ping - unexpected downgrades

2012-10-28 Thread Axel Beckert
complicated with regards to reverse dependencies: update-notifier depends on update-manager-gnome But OTOH 26% popcon installations and 10% votes rather oppose a removal quite strongly. I hence recommend to at least issue an RFA for update-manager. Regards, Axel -- ,''

Bug#635969: /usr/sbin/apt-p2p: Failed to load application: cannot import name OpProgress

2012-10-28 Thread Axel Beckert
s bug Thanks for the patch. Tagging accordingly. > please check the impact on another version of Debian An according versioned dependency should be enough to take of that. Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert , http://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :' : | Debi

Bug#635969: /usr/sbin/apt-p2p: Failed to load application: cannot import name OpProgress

2012-10-28 Thread Axel Beckert
Hi again, I looked into doing an NMU for that and stumbled upon a prepared 0.1.7 release in git. Axel Beckert wrote: > > Starting apt-p2p > > /usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/apt_p2p_Khashmir/DHT.py:8: DeprecationWarning: > > the sha module is deprecated; use the hashlib module in

Bug#599523: Ping - unexpected downgrades

2012-10-29 Thread Axel Beckert
sie than for Wheezy. With regards to this bug (#599523), I guess it's not trivial to fix, otherwise it would have been fixed already earlier. So if update-manager won't be included in Jessie anyway, this bug possibly may be a candidate for the wheezy-ignore tag -- it already

Bug#592539: (isc-dhcp-server: supply additional initscript for IPv6 daemon): Yet another idea how to solve this issue

2012-10-29 Thread Axel Beckert
resses in your IPv6 network, SLAAC doesn't suffice and you need DHCPv6 even if SLAAC is in use. Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert , http://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :' : | Debian Developer, ftp.ch.debian.org Admin `. `' | 1024D: F067 EA27 26B9 C

Bug#688416: grub-common: error creating directory `./usr/share/locale/de_CH/LC_MESSAGES': No such file or directory

2012-09-22 Thread Axel Beckert
Package: grub-common Version: 2.00-5 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, upgrading grub-common from Sid to Experimental result in this error: Preparing to replace grub-common 1.99-22.1 (using .../grub-common_2.00-5_amd64.deb) ... Unpacking replacement grub-common ... dpkg: error processing /va

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