Bug#675918: dpkg: [S-S-D]: write_pidfile() should not follow symlinks

2012-06-04 Thread Carsten Hey
00:00:00 2001 From: Carsten Hey Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2012 09:27:01 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] s-s-d: Do not follow symlinks when creating pidfiles --- utils/start-stop-daemon.c |8 +++- 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/utils/start-stop-daemon.c b/utils/start-stop-daemo

Bug#675918: dpkg: [S-S-D]: write_pidfile() should not follow symlinks

2012-06-04 Thread Carsten Hey
* Carsten Hey [2012-06-04 09:36 +0200]: > start-stop-daemon should not follow symlinks: > > # ls -l /etc/shadow /var/run/foo.pid > -rw-r- 1 root shadow 662 Apr 10 12:20 /etc/shadow > lrwxrwxrwx 1 nobody nogroup 11 Jun 4 06:00 /var/run/foo.pid -> /etc/shadow >

Bug#257505: dpkg: patch to fix the wrong output of dpkg-query --list in UTF-8 locales

2012-06-05 Thread Carsten Hey
Hi, I saw this old bug report yesterday whilst looking for the convention for bug subjects used in dpkg. * Changwoo Ryu [2004-07-04 06:57 +0900]: > In my ko_KR.UTF-8 locale and with the new Korean translation added > (#254590), > dpkg-query --list prints each fields in wrong columns (see attache

Bug#675918: dpkg: [S-S-D]: write_pidfile() should not follow symlinks

2012-06-05 Thread Carsten Hey
Hi, thanks for applying and extending the patch that fast! * Guillem Jover [2012-06-05 11:12 +0200]: > > (a configure script would ease testing patches) > > I'm not sure what you mean with this? I did not write what I meant ;) What I meant is that it is not obvious without looking into the docu

Bug#672829: upgrade-system|grml-live: running deborphan in loops (was: Bug#672829: upgrade-system: please bump dependency on deborphan to 1.7.28.7 after it has reached unstable

2012-06-09 Thread Carsten Hey
tl;dr: You use deborphan wrong. The last paragraph of this mail describes the fix that depends an unreleased deborphan version. I'll send an update when it hits unstable. * Martin-Éric Racine [2012-06-09 12:24 +0300]: > 2012/5/14 Carsten Hey : > > Since it does

Bug#672829: upgrade-system|grml-live: running deborphan in loops (was: Bug#672829: upgrade-system: please bump dependency on deborphan to 1.7.28.7 after it has reached unstable

2012-06-09 Thread Carsten Hey
* Carsten Hey [2012-06-09 13:37 +0200]: > A proper fix for both packages, upgrade-system and grml-live, is > depending on a yet not released deborphan with a --recursive option and > running apt-get remove `deborphan` instead of of your loop. I'll drop > you a mail when such a

Bug#672829: upgrade-system|grml-live: running deborphan in loops (was: Bug#672829: upgrade-system: please bump dependency on deborphan to 1.7.28.7 after it has reached unstable

2012-06-09 Thread Carsten Hey
* Martin-Éric Racine [2012-06-09 14:50 +0300]: > 2012/6/9 Carsten Hey : > > * Carsten Hey [2012-06-09 13:37 +0200]: > >> A proper fix for both packages, upgrade-system and grml-live, is > >> depending on a yet not released deborphan with a --recursive option and

Bug#672829: upgrade-system|grml-live: running deborphan in loops (was: Bug#672829: upgrade-system: please bump dependency on deborphan to 1.7.28.7 after it has reached unstable

2012-06-09 Thread Carsten Hey
* Martin-Éric Racine [2012-06-09 15:16 +0300]: > 2012/6/9 Carsten Hey : > > You have problems with endless loops because you do not check for > > already seen packages and deborphan fixes this for you in a proper way > > so that there is no need to run deborphan in a loop. >

Bug#676809: packagesearch: not fully multiarch aware

2012-06-09 Thread Carsten Hey
Package: packagesearch A while ago I checked all reverse dependencies of deborphan for multiarch and deborphan related problems, except of packagesearch since I assumed that it wouldn't be actively maintained anymore and had an release critical bug at that time. Now its very late in the release c

Bug#676810: packagesearch: please recommend aptitude

2012-06-09 Thread Carsten Hey
Package: packagesearch Severity: wishlist Please recommend aptitude. When trying to remove a package, packagesearch complains that aptitude is not installed (which was correct). If a package requires an other package for optional core functionality, adding the other package to the Recommends: fi

Bug#676811: packagesearch: apparently enters an endless loop if xapian index is missing

2012-06-09 Thread Carsten Hey
Package: packagesearch When I started packagesearch the first time in a multiarch Debian/Sid chroot (including the usual mounts) as root, it complained that the xapian index was not generated and offered to generate it. The systems CPU usage raised to 100% and nothing user visible happend in the

Bug#676812: packagesearch: shows only one-line descriptions

2012-06-09 Thread Carsten Hey
Package: packagesearch When displaying a packages description, only the first line is displayed. Nowadays the Packages files on the mirrors only contains this first line, the complete description is available in files that end in i18n_Translation-en or similar. If have no idea how libapt has bee

Bug#824346: sort(1): misleading description of option -n

2016-05-14 Thread Carsten Hey
y bug-coreutils thing seems to have some issues … Anyway, the description of the option -n in sort(1) is at best incomplete, see forwarded mail: - Forwarded message from Carsten Hey - Date: Sat, 14 May 2016 16:17:35 +0200 From: Carsten Hey To: bug-coreut...@gnu.org Subject: sort(1): misle

Bug#824346: sort(1): misleading description of option -n

2016-05-14 Thread Carsten Hey
locale), which shall be | sorted by arithmetic value. An empty digit string shall be | treated as zero. Leading zeros and signs on zeros shall not | affect ordering. * Michael Stone [2016-05-14 15:25 -0400]: > On Sat, May 14, 2016 at 08:15:18PM +0200, Carsten Hey wrote

Bug#824346: sort(1): misleading description of option -n

2016-05-14 Thread Carsten Hey
In case "proving" that I know how to use this simple program helps, the following lines are equivalent, but the second one does not contain the GNUism '-s': LC_ALL=C sort -r -s -k 1.3,1.4 grep -F -n '' | LC_ALL=C sort -t : -k 2.3r,2.4r -k 1n | cut -d : -f 2-

Bug#824346: sort(1): misleading description of option -n

2016-05-14 Thread Carsten Hey
this. These are a lot of mails and words for such a small change … * Bob Proulx [2016-05-14 14:55 -0600]: > Carsten Hey wrote: > > reopen 824346 > > But you forgot to terminate the command with 'thanks' or 'stop' and > therefore the entire rest of your message w

Bug#793883: bash: clears console after running ssh

2015-08-03 Thread Carsten Hey
* Carsten Hey [2015-07-28 16:11 +0200]: > clear_console normally does not clear an xterm, but after running su > it does, This is a .bash_logout problem, the code below fixes this. > and (run through skel.bash_logout) it also clears after running ssh on > tty1. This is actually a c

Bug#794696: zsh: please set $VENDOR to debian

2015-08-05 Thread Carsten Hey
Package: zsh Severity: wishlist % echo $VENDOR pc This should print something useful, for example, 'debian'. ID in /etc/os-release or /usr/lib/os-release if the former does not exist looks like the correct value, a possible fallback if both do not exist is 'unknown'. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Bug#792703: zsh: please improve newuser.zshrc.recommended and add new prompt_debian_setup

2015-08-08 Thread Carsten Hey
A new prompt_debian_setup that no longer tries to mimic adam1 is attached. I think "#setopt no_beep" and "#stty -ixon" should also be added to newuser.zshrc.recommended, but maybe we should concentrate on the prompt for now. # debian prompt theme prompt_debian_help () { cat <<'EOF' This promp

Bug#792703: zsh: please improve newuser.zshrc.recommended and add new prompt_debian_setup

2015-08-08 Thread Carsten Hey
nk Terbeck [2015-08-08 17:28 +0200]: > Carsten Hey wrote: > [...] > > I think "#setopt no_beep" and "#stty -ixon" should also be added to > > The latter might better be replaced by zsh's "no_flow_control" option. Indeed, setopt no_flow_control

Bug#794968: zsh: please clear console on logout (if recommended config is used)

2015-08-08 Thread Carsten Hey
Package: zsh Severity: wishlist There are more important things that involve less work to do, therefore this is intended as a low priority wishlist bug. Please clear console on logout if the recommended config for new users is used. This requires: * a console_clear (currently part of the bash p

Bug#794967: zsh: please enhance /etc/zshrc

2015-08-08 Thread Carsten Hey
Package: zsh Severity: wishlist Please enhance /etc/zshrc: * Please add some additional keybindings, at least for the emacs keymap: - bind PageUp "${terminfo[kpp]}" to history-search-backward - bind PageDown "${terminfo[knp]}" to history-search-forward The bash like history-search-

Bug#794968: zsh: please clear console on logout (if recommended config is used)

2015-08-08 Thread Carsten Hey
* Frank Terbeck [2015-08-08 23:51 +0200]: > Carsten Hey wrote: > > Please clear console on logout if the recommended config for new users > > is used. > > I think this should be doable with a zshexit hook like this: > > function debian_clear_upon_exit () { >

Bug#794967: zsh: please enhance /etc/zshrc

2015-08-08 Thread Carsten Hey
* Frank Terbeck [2015-08-08 23:46 +0200]: > Carsten Hey wrote: > [...] > > * Please add some additional keybindings, at least for the emacs keymap: > > > >- bind PageUp "${terminfo[kpp]}" to history-search-backward > >- bind PageDown &quo

Bug#794967: zsh: please enhance /etc/zshrc

2015-08-08 Thread Carsten Hey
* Frank Terbeck [2015-08-08 23:46 +0200]: > Carsten Hey wrote: > [...] > > >- Maybe F1 could invoke run-help? But then the output of run-help > > w/o arguments should be more useful for new users. > > > >- Red Hat maps or mapped space to m

Bug#794968: zsh: please clear console on logout (if recommended config is used)

2015-08-09 Thread Carsten Hey
Hi Axel, * Axel Beckert [2015-08-09 16:12 +0200]: > Carsten Hey wrote: > > Please clear console on logout if the recommended config for new users > > is used. > > Why? This is a very annoying behaviour IMHO and definitely shouldn't > be a default. at first we

Bug#794968: zsh: please clear console on logout (if recommended config is used)

2015-08-09 Thread Carsten Hey
Hi Axel, * Axel Beckert [2015-08-09 16:57 +0200]: > Carsten Hey wrote: > > * Axel Beckert [2015-08-09 16:12 +0200]: > > > Carsten Hey wrote: > > > > Please clear console on logout if the recommended config for new > > > > users is used. > > ... >

Bug#794967: zsh: please enhance /etc/zshrc

2015-08-10 Thread Carsten Hey
nd 15 with: if [[ -z "${DEBIAN_PREVENT_KEYBOARD_CHANGES-}" ]] && [[ "${TERM-}" != 'emacs' ]] * Frank Terbeck [2015-08-08 23:46 +0200]: > Carsten Hey wrote: > [...] > > * (( ${+aliases[run-help]} )) requires the zsh/parameter module. If,

Bug#794968: zsh: please clear console on logout (if recommended config is used)

2015-08-10 Thread Carsten Hey
* Carsten Hey [2015-08-09 18:05 +0200]: > Pasting the code that would be part of the recommended .zlogout could > help to clarify some things, but there's still a GPL'd triviality in it. Without the GPL'd trivial check of being a subshell - i.e., this test needs to be a

Bug#792703: zsh: please improve newuser.zshrc.recommended and add new prompt_debian_setup

2015-08-13 Thread Carsten Hey
Hi, I attached a new prompt_debian_setup and an RCS format diff between the former one and this one. The zstyle pattern now is :prompt:debian:${HOST-}:${USERNAME-}:${TERM-}: in order to implement a variant of the suggested terminal blacklist in future. The final : allows additional future extens

Bug#819793: c-n-f: uses ancient c_n_f_handle as c_n_f_handler

2016-04-02 Thread Carsten Hey
Package: command-not-found Severity: important c-n-f uses an ancient c_n_f_handle as c_n_f_handler. Since this leads, depending on the sets of installed, purged and removed but not purged packages, to a silently failing wipe command, you might want to add a security tag to this bug. Launchpad co

Bug#823534: apt-get remove is unhelpful for virtual packages

2016-05-05 Thread Carsten Hey
Hi, * Richard Stallman [2016-05-05 14:48 -0400]: > Package: apt > Version: 1.0.1ubuntu2.13+7.0trisquel3 > > I tried to remove a package which is virtual, specifically nethack. > apt-get told me it could not do this, but said nothing about > what to do. "apt-cache showpkg mail-transport-agent" lis

Bug#792703: zsh: please improve newuser.zshrc.recommended and add new prompt_debian_setup

2015-07-24 Thread Carsten Hey
If you add the attached files you do not read the other two mails :) The attached prompt_debian_setup is updated all around: * The prompt is not color-scheme-able anymore (the way all prompts do it is ugly, and introducing a new way to do this is beyond the scope of this bug report) -

Bug#793883: bash: clears console after running ssh

2015-07-28 Thread Carsten Hey
Package: bash 16:03:32 Hi, clear_console normally does not clear an xterm, but after running su it does, and (run through skel.bash_logout) it also clears after running ssh on tty1. You might use an other definition of console as I do, or this is a bug. 16:03:44 Also, ske

Bug#792703: zsh: please improve newuser.zshrc.recommended and add new prompt_debian_setup

2015-07-17 Thread Carsten Hey
Package: zsh Severity: wishlist Hi, there is an additional, related, bug report in this one. The actual bug report starts below the three dashes. If I use the color-enabling "zstyle ':vcs_info:*' formats" string from zshcontrib(1), it does not only add colors, but also slightly modifies the for

Bug#792703: zsh: please improve newuser.zshrc.recommended and add new prompt_debian_setup

2015-07-17 Thread Carsten Hey
* Carsten Hey [2015-07-17 18:22 +0200]: > http://stateful.de/~carsten/tmp/150717QVwIxjFQx9U/prompt_debian_setup > > http://stateful.de/~carsten/tmp/150717QVwIxjFQx9U/newuser.zshrc.recommended c894f695cc02f16af429c7506bb78354dcd9a1e3 looks like the final PROMPT+

Bug#792733: ksh: setenv() is wrong

2015-07-17 Thread Carsten Hey
Package: ksh Severity: minor Hi, setenv() in the example .kshrc at least in Jessie behaves different than setenv in tcsh. Your behaviour with one argument (exporting "$1") makes more sense than the tcsh's behaviour (exporting and setting "$1" to ""), but this doesn't seem to be relevant for an u

Bug#793008: pal: weeknumber calculation not locale aware

2015-07-20 Thread Carsten Hey
Thanks for this great bug report! * Rhonda D'Vine [2015-07-20 14:10 +0200]: > I noticed today that pal seems to calculate the weeknumber always US > centric (or at least not locale aware). If one has put show_weeknum > into ~/.pal/pal.conf, regardless of LC_TIME setting pal always seems to > cal

Bug#797017: screen: terminfo hack in /etc/screenrc confuses terminfo's upstream (was: terminfo status line for screen-s)

2015-08-26 Thread Carsten Hey
Package: screen Hi, in Debian's /etc/screenrc some termcap/terminfo capabilities for xterm are set (screen seems to always use termcap names in config files): termcapinfo xterm*|rxvt*|kterm*|Eterm* hs:ts=\E]0;:fs=\007:ds=\E]0;\007 ... and accordingly screen thinks that the terminal support

Bug#792703: zsh: please improve newuser.zshrc.recommended and add new prompt_debian_setup

2015-08-26 Thread Carsten Hey
* Carsten Hey [2015-08-13 12:02 +0200]: > I attached a new prompt_debian_setup and an RCS format diff between the > former one and this one. Unconditionally using zstyle or other things available in zsh modules only does not make that much sense for the intended purpose ... I already adapt

Bug#797017: screen: terminfo hack in /etc/screenrc confuses terminfo's upstream (was: terminfo status line for screen-s)

2015-08-27 Thread Carsten Hey
Hi Axel, * Axel Beckert [2015-08-27 10:53 +0200]: > Carsten Hey wrote: > > People that do not know what a hardstatus is, would just have tried > > alwayslastline and succeeded, but a terminfo upstream knows such things. > > Yeah, so that bug affects exactly one very knowledg

Bug#815134: python: please quote backslash in prerm-clean

2016-02-19 Thread Carsten Hey
Package: python Severity: minor Hi, on Debian stable (please close if already fixed in sid): $ fgrep ' \' /usr/share/debhelper/autoscripts/prerm-pyclean dpkg -L #PACKAGE# | grep \.py$ | while read file The \ is not passed to grep, instead it is used to quote the . in the shell. Correct

Bug#815158: debhelper: dpkg-maintscript-helper is not portable among recent shell releases

2016-02-19 Thread Carsten Hey
Package: debhelper Serverity: minor Hi, recent releases of yash and mksh follow POSIX' wording regarding backslashes in backquotes, the other shells follow POSIX' presumable intention and the historically correct behaviour, for example (run on Debian stable): $ bash -c 'echo "`echo \"x\"`"';

Bug#815158: debhelper: dpkg-maintscript-helper is not portable among recent shell releases

2016-02-19 Thread Carsten Hey
I don't know which real world problems, if any, are caused by the different ways the shells parses those lines. Figuring this out and discussing it would require more effort than doing the requested code cleanup, i.e., replacing `` with $(). * Carsten Hey [2016-02-19 15:36 +0100]: >

Bug#293879: debianutils: which should cannonicalize the path

2015-12-25 Thread Carsten Hey
I thought that this bug report would be about the behaviour of which if PATH is unset, but this is not true. A clean fix for this unfilled bug would require “getconf PATH” (getconf is in libc6-bin) to return the PATH bash and dash use, and ideally the other shells to adapt. * Justin Pryzby [2005

Bug#796848: debianutils: Missing dependency on awk

2015-12-25 Thread Carsten Hey
* Croxell, Jeffrey [2015-08-24 22:23 +]: > Package: debianutils > Version: 4.4+b1 > Severity: important > Tags: d-i > >* What led up to the situation? >Using cdebootstrap-static with a limited local mirror. >The local mirror included 'gawk'. >It appeared to be a race condition -

Bug#671120: debian-policy: suggest delegating binary name conflicts to tech-ctte in last resort

2016-07-05 Thread Carsten Hey
again, hopefully with a patch. * Bill Allombert [2014-03-23 16:56 +0100]: > On Wed, May 02, 2012 at 12:13:22AM +0200, Carsten Hey wrote: > > Package: debian-policy > > Severity: wishlist > > > > Please suggest delegating binary name conflicts to the tech-ctte in last >

Bug#437515: bitlbee: misleading error message

2007-08-12 Thread Carsten Hey
Package: bitlbee Version: 1.0.3-1.3 Severity: normal Hi, after chmod o-x ~ and an irc reconnect I got: 03:12:38 [bitlbee] -!- ERROR Warning: The configuration directory /var/lib/bitlbee/ does not exist. Configuration won't be saved. but the configuration directory is in my home directory: [EM

Bug#423103: xmltex: error in maintainerscript

2007-05-09 Thread Carsten Hey
Package: xmltex Version: 1.9-11.1 Severity: normal Hi, 29:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~deb> dpkg -r xmltex (Reading database ... 140874 files and directories currently installed.) Removing xmltex ... dirname: missing operand Try `dirname --help' for more information. Replacing config file /etc/texmf/texmf.

Bug#466158: [debcommit] Please use dash-less forms of git commands

2008-02-16 Thread Carsten Hey
Package: devscripts Severity: wishlist File: /usr/bin/debcommit Tags: patch Hi, | GIT v1.5.4 Release Notes | ... | Deprecation notices | --- | | * From v1.6.0, git will by default install dashed form of commands |(e.g. "git-commit") outside of users'

Bug#451150: baobab: unclear license

2007-11-13 Thread Carsten Hey
Package: baobab Severity: important Tags: upstream Hi, I did not check whether this bug ist still present in testing or unstable, if it is not please close it again. Help -> Abount -> License says "GPL", which is GPL version 1 http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-1.0.txt: | If the Progr

Bug#431869: apticron: Please provide an option to skip notices about packages that are on hold

2007-08-05 Thread Carsten Hey
> I have a few packages on hold, and unfortunately apticron emails me > about them as pending upgrade everytime it is run. It would be really > nice if I did not get these emails, so I would humbly request that an > option be added so that those who wish to see these would still see > them (default

Bug#502342: deborphan: --guess-dummy does not report the transitional lynx package

2008-10-15 Thread Carsten Hey
On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 09:40:03PM +0200, Andreas Beckmann wrote: > Eventually mention that it treats suggests = recommends = depends in the > manpage? Is this sufficient or would you prefer additional mentioning of this behaviour in the man page? -n, --nice-mode Turn off nic

Bug#495600: #495600 - deborphan: Package `"some_package_name"' is not installed and no info is

2008-08-19 Thread Carsten Hey
On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 08:47:07PM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote: > The apparent issue is a minor incompatibility (quoting) of output for the > checklist widget from the 20080727 changes. I've uploaded a fix for dialog, > which will presumably address this Thanks, I'll test it when it has hit unstab

Bug#495304: deborphan: Same problem for me, on several machines

2008-08-20 Thread Carsten Hey
On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 01:57:58PM +0200, Jean-Luc Coulon (f5ibh) wrote: > You tagged this bug as unreproductible. I did not, but I planned to do it. > I remarkes I've the same problem on 3 machines on Sid. > One is X86_64, the other i386. Could you please check whether you can reproduce this bu

Bug#495783: deborphan: orphaner does not work on sid

2008-08-20 Thread Carsten Hey
Hi Bill, On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 01:51:18PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: > orphaner does not work on sid on at least two systems. > 1) "Simulate" just discard the selection. > 2) "OK" fails with 'E: Couldn't find package' Fixed in dialog/incoming, dialog/testing does not have this bug. Please ch

Bug#495818: deborphan: orphaner makes mistake in package selection and shows it twice after simulate (broken sorting with locales set?)

2008-08-20 Thread Carsten Hey
Hi, On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 06:43:11PM +0200, Michal Pokrywka wrote: > I've notice very strange behaviour in orphaner. > ... please send me your status file (/var/lib/dpkg/status) privately, preferable compressed with bzip2. > Moreover, if I install dialog from unstable (1.1-20080727-1) ... orp

Bug#495818: setting package to deborphan, tagging 495818

2008-08-20 Thread Carsten Hey
# Automatically generated email from bts, devscripts version 2.10.29~bpo40+1 # # deborphan (1.7.27) unstable; urgency=low # # * Export LC_COLLATE=C in orphaner. Thanks to Michal Pokrywka for the #detailed bug report. (Closes: #495818) # package deborphan tags 495818 + pending -- To UNSU

Bug#495818: deborphan: orphaner makes mistake in package selection and shows it twice after simulate (broken sorting with locales set?)

2008-08-20 Thread Carsten Hey
in orphaner. Thanks to Michal Pokrywka for the +detailed bug report. (Closes: #495818) - -- Carsten Hey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Wed, 20 Aug 2008 16:29:15 +0200 + -- Carsten Hey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Wed, 20 Aug 2008 21:59:00 +0200 deborphan (1.7.26) unsta

Bug#507257: libpam-mount segfaults on i386

2008-11-29 Thread Carsten Hey
Severity: grave Version: 0.44-1+lenny2 Package: libpam-mount libpam-mount segfaults on i386 since the lastest upgrade in testing, reproducable on at least two computers using both, login and xdm. Please don't upload new upstream versions that will not hit testing before the release to unstable d

Bug#507574: --no-show-section is broken

2008-12-02 Thread Carsten Hey
Package: deborphan 1:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> deborphan --no-show-section | line main/libs libesmtp5 2:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> deborphan -a --no-show-section | line wml -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#507003: Please consider tagging this bug lenny-ignore (was: Bug#507003: initiatorname.iscsi should maybe not be in /etc)

2008-12-02 Thread Carsten Hey
Dear release team, bug #507003 is about a conffile in /etc that says "DO NOT EDIT OR REMOVE THIS FILE" and should better reside in /var. It has correctly been tagged as serious by Steve Langasek as this is against the policy (see bug report for more details). The recent past has shown that even

Bug#501357: epiphany-browser: UNRELASED in changelog and weired sorting

2008-10-06 Thread Carsten Hey
Package: epiphany-browser Severity: minor Hi, I just wondered whether epiphany or epiphany-browser was first in Debian an thus checked the first changelog entry of both: The last two entries of epiphany-browser are: epiphany-browser (0.5.0+0.4.99.20030214-1) unstable; urgency=low * Initial

Bug#502146: libpam-mount: conffile conversion during upgrade etch -> lenny breaks existing configuration

2008-10-13 Thread Carsten Hey
Package: libpam-mount Version: 0.44-1+lenny1 Severity: grave elmer% man pam_mount.conf | grep '"~"' | grep expand is mounted. "~" expands to the user’s home directory as present elmer% grep '~' /etc/security/pam_mount.conf.xml elmer% mount | grep '~' /dev/mapper/_dev_mapper_vg_elme

Bug#475199: w3m segfault

2008-11-12 Thread Carsten Hey
Some German speaking people are able to reproduce this but Japanese speaking people not? If yes then this could be helpful: 7:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> locale LANG=de_DE.UTF-8 LC_CTYPE="de_DE.UTF-8" LC_NUMERIC=C LC_TIME=C LC_COLLATE=C LC_MONETARY="de_DE.UTF-8" LC_MESSAGES=C LC_PAPER="de_DE.UTF-8" LC_NA

Bug#475199: w3m segfault

2008-11-12 Thread Carsten Hey
Hi, I did what was described in the bug reports first mail: zsh: segmentation fault w3m -no-mouse https://db.debian.org/ 2:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> dpkg -l w3m Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Inst/Cfg-files/Unpacked/Failed-cfg/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend |/ Err?=(none)/Hold

Bug#403938: tenmado: diff for NMU version 0.7-2.1

2008-12-27 Thread Carsten Hey
-2.1) unstable; urgency=low + + * Non-maintainer upload. + * Move tenmado.xpm to /usr/share/pixmaps. (Closes: #403938) + + -- Carsten Hey Sat, 27 Dec 2008 18:29:17 +0100 + tenmado (0.7-2) unstable; urgency=low * debian/rules, debian/control: no longer uses libdb3 to save high scores diff -u

Bug#483456: asfd

2008-12-27 Thread Carsten Hey
-dev. (Closes: #483456) + * Don't detect warnings as errors when built with DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=noopt. +(Closes: #454305) + * Fix FTBFS on GNU/kFreeBSD. Thanks to Cyril Brulebois for the patch. +(Closes: #404223) + + -- Carsten Hey Sat, 27 Dec 2008 22:45:12 +0100 + freecraft (1:1

Bug#393379: keynote: NMU

2008-12-30 Thread Carsten Hey
Hi, I prepared a NMU that fixes bug "#393379 - Source package contains non-free IETF RFC/I-D's" and used the following script to repack the tarball: #! /bin/sh -e # Copyright (c) 2008, Carsten Hey # Published under the conditions of a 2-clause BSD-like license. KEY

Bug#523984: flashplugin-nonfree: wget uses user settings

2009-04-14 Thread Carsten Hey
Debian does not require sudo -i to be used instead of sudo during upgrades, thus reopening. If you think otherwise please provide a pointer to the according documentation. The Lenny release notes mention sudo but not sudo -i: Any package installation operation must be run with superuser

Bug#508644: new release goal default-mta? (was: stable-p-u: mdadm 2.6.7.2-2)

2009-05-05 Thread Carsten Hey
On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 06:53:12AM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > (updated mdadm coming to s-p-u on Thursday, are there other > comments? > http://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2009/05/msg00024.html) Depending on default-mta | mta in a upload to s-p-u does not fix anything since there is no def

Bug#414865: popularity-contest: A script to filter requested/recommended/suggested packages

2009-05-11 Thread Carsten Hey
Hi, thanks for the CC. On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 04:23:14PM +0200, Christophe Lohr wrote: > . it manages a list of files to keep "/var/lib/deborphan/keep" (do one > have to do something else specific?) deborphan 1.7.29 will allow optional comments in the keep file, these are whitespace separated

Bug#414865: popularity-contest: A script to filter requested/recommended/suggested packages

2009-05-11 Thread Carsten Hey
On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 04:23:14PM +0200, Christophe Lohr wrote: > Bill Allombert a écrit : > This fourth version of "popcon-nodependency" is closer to deborphan: > . the "-e" option accepts a list of packets to exclude, separated by > commas I did just open popcon-retirement.sh and noticed th

Bug#414865: popularity-contest: A script to filter requested/recommended/suggested packages

2009-05-11 Thread Carsten Hey
On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 06:14:43PM +0200, Christophe Lohr wrote: > Carsten Hey a écrit : > > I did just open popcon-retirement.sh and noticed that you did change the > > license to GPL. > Sorry, I'm not very comfortable with licensing issues. Such things are not that compl

Bug#414865: popularity-contest: A script to filter requested/recommended/suggested packages

2009-05-11 Thread Carsten Hey
Christian, orphaner has been forked, see #414865. I CC'd you because I'm interested in your views regarding forks and l10n issues, since you are very experienced in the latter. Translators will probably need to do double work since most strings are currently the same. The textdomain changed, but

Bug#414865: popularity-contest: A script to filter requested/recommended/suggested packages

2009-05-11 Thread Carsten Hey
On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 09:39:34PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: > On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 08:22:50PM +0200, Carsten Hey wrote: > > Christian, orphaner has been forked, see #414865. I CC'd you because I'm > > interested in your views regarding forks and l10n i

Bug#414865: popularity-contest: A script to filter requested/recommended/suggested packages

2009-05-11 Thread Carsten Hey
Christian, there is currently no need to answer my question regarding forking and l10n. I'll ping you again if there is really need for this information. On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 11:37:48PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: > On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 09:50:51PM +0200, Carsten Hey wrote: > &g

Bug#414865: popularity-contest: A script to filter requested/recommended/suggested packages

2009-05-12 Thread Carsten Hey
On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 02:35:57PM +0200, Christophe Lohr wrote: > But perhaps deborphan and orphaner can do most of the work themselves. > deborphan is able to manages the dependency better than a grep in a list, > and orphaner does interaction with the administrator. > > So, deborphan and orphane

Bug#414865: popularity-contest: A script to filter requested/recommended/suggested packages

2009-05-13 Thread Carsten Hey
, this would minimize future changes in popcon-nodependency, but there is no need to adapt this before the rest of the script is finished. Before calling orphaner can be added I need to add the required options to deborphan. > Carsten Hey a écrit : > > Do you agree to publish the parts

Bug#414865: Required changes in deborphan done, how to proceed? (Was: Bug#414865: popularity-contest: A script to filter requested/recommended/suggested packages)

2009-05-13 Thread Carsten Hey
On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 03:53:51PM +0200, Carsten Hey wrote: > On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 10:10:17AM +0200, Christophe Lohr wrote: > > Please find in attachment a first draft of such a wrapper. Is it what > > you mean? > > Yes, this looks good. I would prefer to pass all o

Bug#414865: Required changes in deborphan done, how to proceed? (Was: Bug#414865: popularity-contest: A script to filter requested/recommended/suggested packages)

2009-05-13 Thread Carsten Hey
reassign 414865 deborphan thanks On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 11:31:06PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: > On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 10:51:41PM +0200, Carsten Hey wrote: > > On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 03:53:51PM +0200, Carsten Hey wrote: > > > On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 10:10:17AM +0200, Chr

Bug#488106: deborphan: --show-deps could distinguish between, Depends/Recommends/Suggests

2009-05-20 Thread Carsten Hey
. * Add options --ignore-suggests and --ignore-recommends. When both options are used together, deborphan behaves as if the nice-mode has been turned off. (Closes: #488329) ... -- Carsten Hey Thu, 19 Feb 2009 09:29:11 +0100 Regards Carsten -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian

Bug#536093: RM: rolo -- RoQA; dead upstream, orphaned

2009-07-07 Thread Carsten Hey
There is no reason to remove rolo. It works and has no reported non-wishlist bugs. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#536093: RM: rolo -- RoQA; dead upstream, orphaned

2009-07-07 Thread Carsten Hey
On Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 02:10:12AM +0200, Carsten Hey wrote: > There is no reason to remove rolo. It works and has no reported > non-wishlist bugs. ... and UTF-8 support is implemented. Applying patches before testing packages might help. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dis

Bug#536093: RM: rolo -- RoQA; dead upstream, orphaned

2009-07-08 Thread Carsten Hey
On Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 07:30:52AM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach martin f krafft [2009.07.08.0714 +0200]: > > Okay, I'll start filing the bugs then. Which patches are you talking > > about? I'm talking about debian/patches/compare-in-utf-8.diff and debian/patches/utf8-in-index.diff.

Bug#530231: sux: ctrl-z does not work anymore

2009-06-19 Thread Carsten Hey
Hi. I can't reproduce this bug using rxvt-unicode, on lenny. Which terminal do you use? 1:cars...@taz:~> sux Password: 1:r...@taz:/home/carsten> sleep 99 ^Z zsh: suspended sleep 99 2:r...@taz:/home/carsten> echo $TERM rxvt-unicode Regards Carsten -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-d

Bug#530231: sux: ctrl-z does not work anymore

2009-06-19 Thread Carsten Hey
On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 05:12:19PM +0200, Eugen Dedu wrote: > $ sux - user wireshark > Password: > ^Z <-- does not do anything; before, it stopped sux so that I can close > the terminal for example. Seems to work as expected here: 1:cars...@taz:~> sux - root wireshark Password: ^Zzsh: suspende

Bug#431352: pal: please check whether term is NULL in colorize.c (patch included)

2007-07-01 Thread Carsten Hey
Package: pal Version: 0.3.5-1pre1 Severity: normal Tags: patch Hi, please check whether term is NULL in colorize.c 1:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> crontab -l | grep palmail # /home/carsten/etc/crontab/palmail.crontab 45 3 * * * nice $HOME/bin/palmail 2:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> cat =palmail #!/bin/sh DAYS=21

Bug#439999: reproduced

2007-09-12 Thread Carsten Hey
Hi, I was able to reproduce this bug twice in "Rolling Hexagons". It apparently occurs when I move very fast, but it is not reproducible when I do the same movements again. > I tested with -4, so maybe it is already fixed in this version? I > mainly fixed i18n so I doubt it. It is not, I use -

Bug#439999: reproduced

2007-09-13 Thread Carsten Hey
On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 01:24:52AM +0200, Carsten Hey wrote: > On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 12:52:13AM +0200, Jens Seidel wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 12:25:09AM +0200, Carsten Hey wrote: > > Please test also -5. This fixes also some wrong memory accesses which > > could

Bug#440237: www.debian.org: missing hamm-upgrade-foo

2007-08-30 Thread Carsten Hey
Package: www.debian.org Severity: minor Hi, http://www.debian.org/releases/hamm/errata links to http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/upgrade-i386/cd_autoup.sh and http://www.debian.org/releases/hamm/HOWTO.upgrade links to http://www.debian.org/releases/hamm/autoup/HOWTO/libc5-libc6-Mini

Bug#340061: binary autosave broken

2007-06-20 Thread Carsten Hey
Hi, today I recovered my hnb-file using binary autosave. It did not include the last 16 nodes, instead there was an empty entry as last node. I will probably use the patch in this bug-report in future. Regards, Carsten -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscri

Bug#539340: debfoster: please add multiarch support

2009-07-30 Thread Carsten Hey
package: debfoster severity: grave As requested in irc: The release goals for Squeeze have just been published [1]. One release goal is multiarch support, which, according to vorlon, in best case will already be in Ubuntu 9.10 (Feature freeze: August 27 [2]). The current multiarch spec [3] incl

Bug#471870: lintian: Please add additional Debian architectures

2008-06-03 Thread Carsten Hey
Hi, > You're probably correct, but the solution would be to drop this tag > entirely. This tag is warning about precisely that case -- the > presence of a normal but unofficial architecture. what about typos like alhpa instead of alpha? Adding armel and the semi-official archs would probably be

Bug#484337: RM: pkglist -- RoQA; unmaintained; orphaned; low popcon

2008-06-03 Thread Carsten Hey
On Tue, Jun 03, 2008 at 08:56:45PM +0200, Carsten Hey wrote: > pkglist also has an unfiled RC-Bug: JFTR, we found pkglist with the following command, some of the other packages might also be candidates for removal: $ w3m http://lintian.debian.org/reports/tags/ancient-standards-version.h

Bug#484337: RM: pkglist -- RoQA; unmaintained; orphaned; low popcon

2008-06-03 Thread Carsten Hey
Hi, pkglist also has an unfiled RC-Bug: It uses a hardcoded release name, woody, so it can't work with sarge or newer and probably nobody used it since then: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp> egrep -ri 'sarge|etch|lenny|sid' pkglist-0.5.1/*.pl | wc -l 0 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp> egrep -ri 'woody' pkglist-0

Bug#471870: lintian: Please add additional Debian architectures

2008-06-03 Thread Carsten Hey
On Tue, Jun 03, 2008 at 12:05:22PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Carsten Hey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > what about typos like alhpa instead of alpha? > > We'd still catch completely unknown architectures. > > Currently, lintian has three different classific

Bug#484370: lvm2: please consider adding pvinfo to the Debian package

2008-06-03 Thread Carsten Hey
It is recommended to call \fBpvinfo\fR with \fBsudo\fR from a normal user's account. .SH "BUGS" Please report bugs or fixes to Uli Martens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. .SH "COPYING" \fBpvinfo\fR is released under the the GNU General Public Version 2 (not above). The full legalese can be found in \fBpvinfo\fR. .SH "SEE ALSO" .BR lvm (8), .BR pvdisplay (8), .BR lvdisplay (1), .BR sudo (8), .BR perl (1). .SH "AUTHOR" \fBpvinfo\fR was written by Uli Martens. This manpage has been written by Uli Martens and Carsten Hey and is published under the same terms as \fBpvinfo\fR itself.

Bug#484536: debhelper: please add clobber to dh_auto_clean

2008-06-04 Thread Carsten Hey
Package: debhelper Severity: wishlist Tags: patch Hi Joey, what do you think about adding clobber to foreach my $target (qw{distclean realclean clean}) { in dh_auto_clean? The new line would be: foreach my $target (qw{distclean realclean clobber clean}) { Currently, our beloved comma

Bug#484536: debhelper: please add clobber to dh_auto_clean

2008-06-04 Thread Carsten Hey
| If there's a Makefile and it contains a "distclean", "realclean", or | "clean" target, ... must of course be changed too: | If there's a Makefile and it contains a "distclean", "realclean", | "clobber" or "clean" target, ... Carsten -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a sub

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