Bug#619785: Please move logsave to sysvinit-utils

2011-03-27 Thread Carsten Hey
* Carsten Hey [2011-03-27 01:19 +0100]: > Debian supports (or rather will probably support) three init systems: > > * systemd does not use logsave to save the fsck log if /var/log is not >mounted yet, but instead "just pipes the stdout of fsck to syslog >which ends u

Bug#605740: unblock: pal/0.4.3-6

2010-12-02 Thread Carsten Hey
Package: release.debian.org Severity: normal User: release.debian@packages.debian.org Usertags: unblock Please unblock pal/0.4.3-6 Changelog: * Pal requires some translatable strings to be lowercased, otherwise the option -d doesn't work when these strings are passed to it. Adapt t

Bug#605749: git-annex: please don't run pre-commit hook if git-annex is not installed

2010-12-02 Thread Carsten Hey
Package: git-annex Hi, git annex init adds the following git pre-commit hook: #!/bin/sh # automatically configured by git-annex git annex pre-commit . If git-annex would be removed this hook would fail and render the git repository unusable for plain git. To fix this problem one co

Bug#606056: unblock deborphan

2010-12-05 Thread Carsten Hey
Package: release.debian.org Severity: normal User: release.debian@packages.debian.org Usertags: unblock I uploaded deborphan 1.7.28.1 four days ago to sid and 1.7.28.2 recently to delayed/7. Changelog summary for 1.7.28.1: * Doc fixes * Translation updates * Add basic multiarch

Bug#606105: orphaner: config.option to use aptitude rather than apt-get

2010-12-06 Thread Carsten Hey
Hi, thanks for your bug report. * Olivier Aubert [2010-12-06 12:41 +0100]: > Orphaner hard-codes apt-get as application to remove package, ... A long time ago I thought about using dpkg instead of apt, but there were two good reasons why orphaner should use apt-get instead of dpkg: * Apt has

Bug#603450: Is 603450 realy release critical?

2010-12-08 Thread Carsten Hey
* Bastian Blank [2010-12-08 10:37 +0100]: > On Wed, Dec 08, 2010 at 08:45:30AM +0100, Alexander Reichle-Schmehl wrote: > > #603450 is a bug (currently with severity grave, Justification: user > > security hole), as offlineimap does no ssl certificate checking. > > Could you explain why it should be

Bug#428189: coreutils: move printf to /bin

2011-03-29 Thread Carsten Hey
Hi, there have been systems failing to boot in the past (#532324) because there was no consensus about what scripts may assume that /bin/sh implements. Due disagreement on #532324, the Technical Committee was called to decide in #539158. Their decision was: | 1. The Technical Committee refuses t

Bug#620064: apt: please drop dependency on gnupg

2011-03-29 Thread Carsten Hey
Package: apt Severity: wishlist Hi, please drop apt's dependency on gnupg. There has already been some discussion in related bugs #387688 and #558784. Having a dependency on gnupg in both, apt/squeeze and debian-archive-keyring/squeeze prevents problems with partial upgrades after this bug has

Bug#620064: apt: please drop dependency on gnupg

2011-03-29 Thread Carsten Hey
* David Kalnischkies [2011-03-29 20:03 +0200]: > On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 18:32, Carsten Hey wrote: > > please drop apt's dependency on gnupg. > > > > There has already been some discussion in related bugs #387688 and > > #558784. I suggest a possible plan to

Bug#620064: apt: please drop dependency on gnupg

2011-03-30 Thread Carsten Hey
* David Kalnischkies [2011-03-30 18:11 +0200]: > On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 21:30, Carsten Hey wrote: > > * David Kalnischkies [2011-03-29 20:03 +0200]: > >> On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 18:32, Carsten Hey wrote: > Support was added in 0.7.25.1 -- some bugfixes occurred later, &

Bug#620064: apt: please drop dependency on gnupg

2011-03-31 Thread Carsten Hey
* Carsten Hey [2011-03-31 02:18 +0200]: > * David Kalnischkies [2011-03-30 18:11 +0200]: > > It doesn't currently (command not found), but after all, what is a > > 'sane way' to fail? > > ... > > Patch attached. This patch was a bit too simple, since it d

Bug#620756: Please adapt code of conduct

2011-04-03 Thread Carsten Hey
Package: lists.debian.org Severity: wishlist Hi, at the moment the code of conduct contains: | When replying to messages on the mailing list, do not send a carbon | copy (CC) to the original poster unless they explicitly request to be | copied. There is a recent thread[1] on debian-project in

Bug#620566: dpkg: "version number does not start with digit" is in contrast to policy

2011-04-04 Thread Carsten Hey
* Bill Allombert [2011-04-04 12:03 +0200]: > Unfortunately, we cannot force upstream to use a version that start by a > digit, > We would need to document a mangling process for upstream version that start > by a letter. Quoting policy: | epoch | | This is a single (generally small) unsigned inte

Bug#620898: Moving bash from essential/required to important?

2011-04-05 Thread Carsten Hey
* Guillem Jover [2011-04-05 06:19 +0200]: > On Tue, 2011-04-05 at 01:08:19 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > This appears to open up any accounts that have been deliberately > > disabled by setting their shell to a nonexistent path. I know that's a > > dumb way to disable an account, but that doesn'

Bug#387688: Add gnupg as apt dependency in Squeeze to be able to solve #387688 in Squeeze+1?

2011-04-05 Thread Carsten Hey
* Carsten Hey [2011-03-20 10:28 +0100]: > ... As noted above, the remaining part of this bug could and should > be fixed in apt[1] instead. JFTR, since already apt/squeeze provides a sane interface that could be used by keyring packages, an other way of getting rid of the gnupg dependency

Bug#301239: mii-diag: should not be released in Wheezy without gigabit ethernet support (#301239)

2011-02-25 Thread Carsten Hey
severity 301239 serious tags 301239 + help tags 301239 + wheezy thanks Due the growing number of computers with build-in gigabit ethernet adapters, I discussed with Alexander (the maintainer of mii-diag) whether mii-diag should be part of Wheezy if #301239 is not fixed. We both agreed that mii-di

Bug#590729: logcheck: please enable syslog-summary by default

2010-07-28 Thread Carsten Hey
Package: logcheck Severity: wishlist Currently syslog-summary is only enabled if it is installed and if it is enabled in logcheck's conffile. I think enabling it by default if syslog-summary is installed would be more sane. A new option -U "Disable syslog-summary" should be added in the assumedl

Bug#447955: debsign: relation between #447955 (DEBSIGN_ALWAYS_RESIGN) and #580821 (--always-resign)

2010-07-28 Thread Carsten Hey
Hi, you wondered about how #580821 relates to #447955 but did not have time to check. #447955 is about a DEBSIGN_ALWAYS_RESIGN variable, #580821 is about an equivalent --always-resign option and about a --never-resign option. Actually they are named --{no-,}-re-sign in the current patch, I could

Bug#591144: zsh: new option in zsh-newuser-install is displayed in the wrong line

2010-07-31 Thread Carsten Hey
Package: zsh Severity: minor | This is the Z Shell configuration function for new users, | zsh-newuser-install. | You are seeing this message because you have no zsh startup files | (the files .zshenv, .zprofile, .zshrc, .zlogin in the directory | ~). This function can help you with a few setting

Bug#591144: zsh: zsh-newuser-install

2010-07-31 Thread Carsten Hey
I don't think this is worth an extra bug report ... When I run "ln -s doesnotexist .zshrc" and start a new shell I get the following error messages after pressing 2 in the zsh-newuser-install menu: | cp: not writing through dangling symlink `/home/carsten/.zshrc' | zsh-newuser-install:source:982:

Bug#583709: 72 piuparts fails are caused by this fontconfig bug

2010-08-05 Thread Carsten Hey
Hi, piuparts tests in sid for the following 72 packages fail with: ERROR: WARN: Broken symlinks: /etc/fonts/conf.d/30-defoma.conf -> /var/lib/defoma/fontconfig.d/fonts.conf because of bug #583709 in fontconfig: afterstep_2.2.9-5 amavis-stats_0.1.22+dfsg-1 auto-complete-el_1.3-1 battery-

Bug#583709: 5154 + 72 piuparts fails are caused by this fontconfig bug

2010-08-05 Thread Carsten Hey
* Carsten Hey [2010-08-06 00:52 +0200]: > piuparts tests in sid for the following 72 packages fail with: > > ERROR: WARN: Broken symlinks: > /etc/fonts/conf.d/30-defoma.conf -> > /var/lib/defoma/fontconfig.d/fonts.conf > > because of bug #583709 in fontconfi

Bug#577982: localepurge: prints misleading message when purged

2010-04-15 Thread Carsten Hey
Package: localepurge Severity: minor localepurge prints a misleading message when it gets purged: To reinstall all the packages which localepurge has been taking care of before, you can use the following command: apt-get --reinstall install $(dpkg -S LC_MESSAGES | cut -d: -f1 | tr ', ' '

Bug#577982: localepurge: prints misleading message when purged

2010-04-15 Thread Carsten Hey
On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 08:58:43PM +0200, Carsten Hey wrote: > Maybe splitting this in two lines would be even better: > > REINSTALL=$(dpkg -S LC_MESSAGES | cut -d: -f1 | tr ', ' '\n' | sort -u) > apt-get --reinstall install $REINSTALL If someone pastes

Bug#582350: slack: please include information about parallel universe simulators in /usr/share/doc/slack

2010-05-19 Thread Carsten Hey
Package: slack Severity: wishlist Hi, upstream describes in doc/slack-intro how parallel universe simulators could be used to find out how running a script could influence our universe. Please do echo doc/slack-intro >> debian/docs to include this useful information in the binary package.

Bug#574118: hnb: deletes parent entry if empty sub-entry is cutted with Ctrl-X

2010-03-16 Thread Carsten Hey
On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 01:03:39PM +0100, Axel Beckert wrote: > Workaround: Put some text in the sub-entry and delete/cut it then. > > I though once managed to have a case in which that workaround didn't > work and it still deleted the parent, too. But I couldn't reproduce > that in a virgin enviro

Bug#571416: libgcgi: diff for NMU version 0.9.5.dfsg-5.1

2010-04-17 Thread Carsten Hey
-0.9.5.dfsg/debian/changelog @@ -1,3 +1,16 @@ +libgcgi (0.9.5.dfsg-5.1) unstable; urgency=low + + [ Jeremy T. Bouse ] + * Update Standards-Version to 3.8.4 + * Add misc:Depends to clear lintian warnings + + [ Carsten Hey ] + * Non-maintainer upload. + * debian/rules: Avoid useless invocation of au

Bug#579139: deborphan: --guess-section should ignore *-{bin,tools,utils}

2010-04-25 Thread Carsten Hey
* Piotr Engelking [2010-04-25 18:30 +0200]: > The '--guess-section' option incorrectly considers packages with names > matching 'lib*-{bin,tools,utils}' to contain shared libraries, while these > packages actually contain programs. Please do not list these as shared > library packages. Thanks, th

Bug#579218: lintian: uninitialized value in string eq at /usr/bin/lintian line ...

2010-04-26 Thread Carsten Hey
Package: lintian Hi, I run pbuilder with "exec env - HOME="$HOME" /usr/sbin/pbuilder ..." and in a pbuilder hook I do: LINTIAN_OPTS="--allow-root --verbose --no-override -I -E" if lintian --help | grep -q -- --pedantic; then LINTIAN_OPTS="$LINTIAN_OPTS --pedantic" fi lint

Bug#579218: lintian: uninitialized value in string eq at /usr/bin/lintian line ...

2010-04-26 Thread Carsten Hey
Looks like I found two bugs, #579211 and "does weired things if PATH is not set" which might be much older. Workaround for the latter is simple: "env - PATH=...", so feel to ignore this part of the bug report if you don't think lintian should work without PATH set. * Ca

Bug#499797: pal -m moves cursor strange after 8bit characters (in utf8 locale)

2009-01-27 Thread Carsten Hey
Hi Martijn. On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 12:57:12PM +0200, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: > On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 12:46:50PM +0200, Gerfried Fuchs wrote: > > When you then press tab to go to the next entry, type e for edit, you > > have the New description: line infront of you, and the current text.

Bug#126528: common editing commands don't work in hnb

2009-01-27 Thread Carsten Hey
There has been some progress in this bug: Common editing commands already available in hnb-1.9.18-4: ^A bol ^E eol ^C copy ^V paste ^X cut Additional common editing commands that will be in hnb-1.9.18-5: ^F right ^B left ^D delete Still missing to consider this

Bug#499797: pal -m moves cursor strange after 8bit characters (in utf8 locale)

2009-01-28 Thread Carsten Hey
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 10:22:53PM +0100, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: > On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 09:26:31AM +0100, Carsten Hey wrote: > > When fixing this bug we should consider that one UTF-8 characters might > > need two columns to be displayed properly, e.g. some Chinese signs

Bug#393379: Keynote NMU-diff

2009-01-29 Thread Carsten Hey
I did a QA upload to the delayed queue based based on my prepared NMU. Besides fixing this bug it sets the maintainer to the Debian QA Group, bumps the Standards-Version, uses debhelper 7 and fixes some lintian warnings. It will hit unstable in a about week Carsten -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#507574: setting package to deborphan, tagging 507574, tagging 402992

2009-02-02 Thread Carsten Hey
# Automatically generated email from bts, devscripts version 2.10.35lenny2 # via tagpending # # deborphan (1.7.28) unstable; urgency=low # # * Fix parsing of --no-show-section. (Closes: #507574) # * Handle Mono libraries like other special libraries, e.g. Perl or Python #ones and add --gues

Bug#405117: Bug #405117 hnb: broken new node behavior - sometimes losing fresh entries

2009-02-02 Thread Carsten Hey
severity 405117 minor thanks Since hnb 1.9.18-4 there is a workaround which addresses this bug in hnb. I use this workaround since 2006 and it works quite well, hence I consider this bug only to be a minor issue. Carsten -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org

Bug#301661: deborphan: --guess-kernel option request

2009-02-03 Thread Carsten Hey
Hi. Eduard Bloch wrote: > as discussed on IRC, I would like to see the --guess-kernel to remove > kernel modules packages because the current options do not work well. > The problem: foo-module-$KVERS has no Depends on the kernel module. All kernel modules in Lenny depend on foo-module-$KVERS, s

Bug#387594: setting package to deborphan, tagging 387594

2009-02-03 Thread Carsten Hey
# Automatically generated email from bts, devscripts version 2.10.35lenny2 # via tagpending # # deborphan (1.7.28) unstable; urgency=low # # * Add option --no-guess-*. (Closes: #387594) # package deborphan tags 387594 + pending -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.deb

Bug#301661: deborphan: --guess-kernel option request

2009-02-03 Thread Carsten Hey
On Wed, Feb 04, 2009 at 01:15:51AM +0100, Carsten Hey wrote: > If you want to make a non-official fork of deborphan please substitute > every appearance of pike (--guess-pike is rather useless for most > people) with kernel, PIKE with KERNEL and strcat(guess, > "^pike[[:digit:].]*

Bug#301661: deborphan: --guess-kernel option request

2009-02-03 Thread Carsten Hey
On Tue, Feb 03, 2009 at 08:50:47PM +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote: > * Carsten Hey [Tue, Feb 03 2009, 11:35:25AM]: > > Eduard Bloch wrote: > > > as discussed on IRC, I would like to see the --guess-kernel to remove > > > kernel modules packages because the current options

Bug#488329: setting package to deborphan, tagging 488329

2009-02-05 Thread Carsten Hey
# Automatically generated email from bts, devscripts version 2.10.35lenny2 # via tagpending # # deborphan (1.7.28) unstable; urgency=low # # * Add options --ignore-suggests and --ignore-recommends. When both options #are used together, deborphan behaves as if the nice-mode has been turned #

Bug#393379: Keynote NMU-diff

2009-01-15 Thread Carsten Hey
TF RFC/I-D's. (Closes: #393379) + + -- Carsten Hey Tue, 30 Dec 2008 22:47:04 +0100 + keynote (2.3-11) unstable; urgency=low * use automake-1.9, cdbs diff -u keynote-2.3/debian/copyright keynote-2.3+dfsg/debian/copyright --- keynote-2.3/debian/copyright +++ keynote-2.3+dfsg/debian/copyri

Bug#393379: Keynote NMU-diff

2009-01-15 Thread Carsten Hey
On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 01:25:58PM +0100, Carsten Hey wrote: > Just for the record, the diff for the still to be uploaded NMU: ... and, since the diff between the two tarballs is rather useless their diffstat: $ difftar keynote_2.3.orig.tar.gz keynote_2.3+dfsg.orig.tar.gz | diffstat rfc2

Bug#511904: bitlbee: please consider rethinking prerm

2009-01-15 Thread Carsten Hey
Package: bitlbee Hi, as reported via IRC, I got the following after an restart of bitlbee: Error opening helpfile /usr/share/bitlbee/help.txt. I guess one need to think about the prerm in the debian package, which moves the file when a upgrade happens. Regards Carsten -- To UNSUBSCRIB

Bug#441200: libconfig name clash

2009-01-21 Thread Carsten Hey
Hi, the old libconfig has been orphaned and removed from lenny and sid (#499259). After that the hyperrealm libconfig has then been uploaded as libconfig (#438683). I don't think this bug still makes any sense due to this facts. Should this bug be closed? Regards Carsten -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Bug#489067: Debian bug #489067: sc: Sc does not handle æ, ø and å

2009-02-10 Thread Carsten Hey
Just for the record, linking against libncursesw does not fix this bug and locales are (besides the other bug form this month) correctly used. Carsten -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian

Bug#514775: sc: does not use default colors and colors on xterm with black background and white foreground color broken

2009-02-10 Thread Carsten Hey
Package: sc Hi, sc does not use default colors and colors on xterm with black background and white foreground color broken. Not using default colors leads to e.g. black background color when the terminal has white background. Regards Carsten Patch: diff --git a/color.c b/color.c index c9d9b

Bug#514777: sc: Please don't compress tutorial.sc

2009-02-10 Thread Carsten Hey
Package: sc Severity: minor Tags: patch Hi, please don't compress tutorial.sc, it is supposed to be read with one simple command as specified in the man page. Carsten Patch: diff --git a/debian/rules b/debian/rules index 7290a51..509874f 100755 --- a/debian/rules +++ b/debian/rules @@ -80,7

Bug#499797: pal -m moves cursor strange after 8bit characters (in utf8 locale)

2009-02-11 Thread Carsten Hey
On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 03:45:25PM +0100, Carsten Hey wrote: > On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 10:22:53PM +0100, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 09:26:31AM +0100, Carsten Hey wrote: > > > When fixing this bug we should consider that one UTF-8 characters mi

Bug#514926: rolo: UTF-8 is broken

2009-02-11 Thread Carsten Hey
Package: rolo Severity: important Hi, UTF-8 in rolo is broken, lines including UTF-8 are simply not displayed. Build-depending on libncursesw5-dev and linking against menuw and formw (libncursesw5) instead of menu and form (libncurses5) fixes this partly. The following example shows what would

Bug#514933: rolo: Columns displayed wrongly in UTF-8

2009-02-13 Thread Carsten Hey
On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 10:18:07AM +0100, Rafael Laboissiere wrote: > It happens that the problem with the column display has nothing to do with > ncurses, but with sprintf. Each line in the index screen is produced with a > code in src/entry.c that is roughly like this: > >sprintf (menu_name,

Bug#519339: ITP: tmux -- an alternative to screen, licensed under 3-BSD

2009-03-12 Thread Carsten Hey
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 11:17:02PM +0100, Guus Sliepen wrote: > On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 10:37:41PM +0100, Karl Ferdinand Ebert wrote: > > - a clearly-defined client-server model: windows are independent > > entities which may be attached simultaneously to multiple sessions > > and viewed from multi

Bug#508644: mass bugfiling (against 8 packages) and/or new package default-mta

2009-03-01 Thread Carsten Hey
On Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 04:55:23PM +0100, Andreas Metzler wrote: > We could have a exim4 upload implementing in sid this rather quickly > after receiving a go. In general I much prefer a virtual package over a real one but I think we should wait a bit until the following issues are clarified: On

Bug#508644: mass bugfiling (against 8 packages) and/or new package default-mta

2009-03-01 Thread Carsten Hey
On Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 08:25:38PM +0100, Carsten Hey wrote: > ... if apt would try to solve a dependency on the virtual package > default-mta provided by exim4 and exim5 it would ... choose to install > exim4 in the described case ... In case of a virtual default-mta package, the exist

Bug#508644: mass bugfiling (against 8 packages) and/or new package default-mta

2009-03-02 Thread Carsten Hey
On Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 09:44:41PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > You have a case here where the user has managed to run a complete > system for a non-negligible period of time without ever installing an > MTA (long enough to either configure oldstable in their sources.list, > or for the version of

Bug#315531: setting package to deborphan, tagging 315531

2009-02-20 Thread Carsten Hey
# Automatically generated email from bts, devscripts version 2.10.35lenny3 # via tagpending # # deborphan (1.7.29) unstable; urgency=low # # * Added an option to detect orphaned circular dependencies. Orphaner doesn't #accept this option yet. Patch written by Daniel Déchelotte. (Closes: #

Bug#516487: deborphan: --guess-section shouldn't list libpam-unix2

2009-02-21 Thread Carsten Hey
Hi, thank you for your bug report. On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 08:35:26PM +, Mark Sheppard wrote: > If you run "deborphan --guess-section" it lists "libpam-unix2". If > you then remove that package Bad Things happen and no-one can log in, > as I just discovered on a remote server! So please can

Bug#516487: deborphan: --guess-section shouldn't list libpam-unix2

2009-02-22 Thread Carsten Hey
On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 11:39:27PM +0100, Carsten Hey wrote: > Especially --guess-sections is correct when it shows you a possible > library packages from a different section since that is what you asked > for when you used --guess-sections. What could be done, is removing --guess-sec

Bug#448324: moreutils: utility to sample stdin?

2009-03-24 Thread Carsten Hey
Robert Edmonds wrote: > How about a utility to sample every Nth line of stdin to stdout? ... GNU sed does this: $ seq 100 | sed -n '0~35p' 35 70 Regards Carsten -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contac

Bug#389684: new README does not close the bug

2008-03-31 Thread Carsten Hey
Hi, > The new README you propose does not address the bug at all. All you > did was to copy the commandline recipe I used and write a README > around it. I *fixed* your commandline recipe and wrote a README around it, that is a difference. > It also clearly shows that dpkg does not implement wha

Bug#389684: new README does not close the bug

2008-03-31 Thread Carsten Hey
Comparision of both commands: Your proposal with false positives: $ dpkg -l | grep "rc " ii apt-src 0.25.1-0.1 manage Debian source packages rc binfmt-support 1.2.8 Support for

Bug#389684: new README does not close the bug

2008-03-31 Thread Carsten Hey
On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 07:45:37PM +0200, Carsten Hey wrote: > retitle 389684 deborphan: Please add a wrapper around dpkg -l | grep '^rc' Of course this would not be implemented as a simple shell-wrapper nor would it call dpkg. I want you to rename the bug (if you still feel the ne

Bug#470230: base: Multiple lines on terminal does not works

2008-03-11 Thread Carsten Hey
close 470230 thanks Hi, since Debian bug #53491 (where a user had the same problem as you) has been fixed, /usr/share/doc/bash/README.Debian.gz states: | 4. bash doesn't display prompts correctly. | | When using colors in prompts (or escape characters), then make sure | those characters are surr

Bug#470230: base: Multiple lines on terminal does not works

2008-03-11 Thread Carsten Hey
On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 04:00:54PM -0300, Saulo Soares de Toledo wrote: > Ok, I think this fix my problem, thanks. Your're welcome! > But I have a new info about this: first than put colors on bash, I thought this was intended by whoever did alter your /etc/profile. If you don't linke colors in

Bug#275621: libc6-i686: deborphan flags it as an orphan (resulting in unintended removal)

2008-03-13 Thread Carsten Hey
close 275621 thanks Hi, this bug was never a bug in deborphan. Peter correctly stated in [EMAIL PROTECTED] "libc6-i686 _is_ a library, and nothing depends on it". In fact this missing dependency (or recommendation) on libc6 was the bug. Im closing this bug now, since this was fixed a long time a

Bug#389684: deborphan: --find-removed option

2008-03-13 Thread Carsten Hey
Hi, thanks for your bugreport! This functionality is already provided by dpkg and I don't think that it provides any benefit to add this to deborphan. Those users that care about the difference between not purged but removed packages that have any configuration files left and not purged but remov

Bug#274818: Please add option to work from Packages (or available) instead of status

2008-03-13 Thread Carsten Hey
wontfix 274818 thanks Hi! > I think it would be useful to be able to analyze the dependencies of a > Debian package pool in order to possibly identify e.g. old libraries > that no one needs any longer. I just asked someone from the release team whether this would be a useful feature for them and

Bug#274818: Please add option to work from Packages (or available) instead of status

2008-03-13 Thread Carsten Hey
> Use case: if you have your own package pool which includes old and/or > orphaned packages from Debian that are no longer a part of the > official archive, it would be good to know which old libraries are > safe to get rid of. I used to have such a pool with packages such as > 'xv', 'spamdb' and q

Bug#342787: Bug #342787: deborphan: support for provides, alternatives and versions

2008-03-16 Thread Carsten Hey
Attaching the mentioned patch and changelog. There is also an older version of this patch available, attaching the interdiff. Note to self: whitespaces... Changes: - Handle OR dependencies: - parser code stores single dependencies in pkg_info->deps, OR dependencies

Bug#415555: Bug #415555: deborphan: circular dependencies

2008-03-16 Thread Carsten Hey
Attaching mentioned patches. diff -ru deborphan-1.7.14/debian/changelog deborphan-1.7.14circ/debian/changelog --- deborphan-1.7.14/debian/changelog 2004-12-06 19:17:43.0 +0100 +++ deborphan-1.7.14circ/debian/changelog 2004-12-13 21:11:07.0 +0100 @@ -1,3 +1,10 @@ +deborphan (1.7.14ci

Bug#315531: Bug #315531: deborphan: circular dependencies

2008-03-16 Thread Carsten Hey
See merged bug #41 for the above-mentioned patches -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#601961: apt: wrongly thinks install-info is essential

2010-11-17 Thread Carsten Hey
* Lucas Nussbaum [2010-10-31 15:24 +0100]: > On 31/10/10 at 14:16 +0100, David Kalnischkies wrote: > > On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 12:40, Lucas Nussbaum > > wrote: > > > apt won't let me remove install-info, because it thinks that it is > > > essential. > > > > > > grep depends on dpkg (>= 1.15.4) |

Bug#606056: unblock deborphan

2010-12-12 Thread Carsten Hey
* Mehdi Dogguy [2010-12-06 23:38 +0100]: > On 12/06/2010 02:20 AM, Carsten Hey wrote: > > I uploaded deborphan 1.7.28.1 four days ago to sid and 1.7.28.2 recently > > to delayed/7. > > > > ... > > FTR, I unblocked deborphan/1.7.28.1. Thanks, today .1 migrated to

Bug#579139: deborphan: --guess-section should ignore *-{bin,tools,utils}

2010-12-12 Thread Carsten Hey
Hi, today, I uploaded deborphan 1.7.28.2 to unstable, which fixes the bug you reported, I also uploaded 1.7.28.3 to delayed/0. The move from delayed/0 to unstable happened before 1.7.28.2 was completely processed and thus you did not receive the mail that is commonly sent to bug submitters when t

Bug#516487: deborphan: --guess-section shouldn't list libpam-unix2

2010-12-12 Thread Carsten Hey
Hi, today, I uploaded deborphan 1.7.28.2 to unstable, which fixes the bug you reported, I also uploaded 1.7.28.3 to delayed/0. The move from delayed/0 to unstable happened before 1.7.28.2 was completely processed and thus you did not receive the mail that is commonly sent to bug submitters when t

Bug#588831: lintian: please add permission check for /etc/sudoers.d/*

2010-12-12 Thread Carsten Hey
* Carsten Hey [2010-07-12 19:54 +0200]: > | ... : /etc/sudoers.d/aegir is mode 0600, should be 0440 ; ... > > Could you please add a check for this? Nowadays many people exclusively > use sudo to get privileges and thus breaking sudo (e.g., #576527) by an > unrelated package is rea

Bug#607090: initramfs-tools/squeeze: trigger cryptroot/lenny prints alarming error message - missing versioned breaks or conflicts on cryptsetup?

2010-12-14 Thread Carsten Hey
Package: initramfs-tools Severity: important Please adapt the severity if you think this is RC. The trigger cryptroot from Lenny prints an alarming error message - missing versioned breaks or conflicts on cryptsetup? I don't use an encrypted root. $ file -s /dev/sda{5,6} /dev/sda5: Linux/i38

Bug#607293: 75 unreported RC bugs, (mostly?) fixable by rebuilding / could lintian please prevent such packages from being uploaded in future?

2010-12-16 Thread Carsten Hey
Package: lintian Severity: wishlist $ dpkg-reconfigure nana This is not dpkg install-info anymore, but GNU install-info See the man page for ginstall-info for command line arguments install-info: No dir file specified; try --help for more information. zsh: exit 1 dpkg-reconfigure nana This

Bug#607297: cvs: violates FHS

2010-12-16 Thread Carsten Hey
Package: cvs Severity: serious cvs puts a cvs repository into /srv/cvs, even when the user does not see the debconf question. This violates FHS. Carsten -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.d

Bug#607297: cvs: violates FHS

2010-12-16 Thread Carsten Hey
* Carsten Hey [2010-12-16 19:24 +0100]: > Package: cvs > Severity: serious > > cvs puts a cvs repository into /srv/cvs, even when the user does not see > the debconf question. This violates FHS. Actually, I think this is serious because of the FHS violation in combination with t

Bug#607297: cvs: violates FHS

2010-12-16 Thread Carsten Hey
severity 607297 normal retitle 607297 cvs: Please don't install files to /srv/cvs without administrators permission thanks * Joey Hess [2010-12-16 17:41 -0400]: > > cvs puts a cvs repository into /srv/cvs, even when the user does not see > > the debconf question. This violates FHS. > > I can see

Bug#607315: deborphan: [INTL:pt] Updated European Portuguese translation for manpage

2010-12-17 Thread Carsten Hey
* Américo Monteiro [2010-12-16 23:35 +]: > Updated European Portuguese translation for deborphan's manpage messages. Thanks a lot, it's great to see more translations for deborphan's man pages! Unfortunately, the release team stopped to accept new translation updates targeted for Squeeze on T

Bug#609337: deborphan: --guess-all lists libreoffice-*

2011-01-08 Thread Carsten Hey
Thanks for your bug report. * Eric Cooper [2011-01-08 11:54 -0500]: > Perhaps a special case for ^lib but not ^libre is needed. ^libre also matches libreadline6. A special case for ^lib but not ^libreoffice would work. Regards Carsten -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lis

Bug#592068: deborphan: missing multiarch support will lead to wrongly removed packages when people upgrade to Squeeze+1

2010-08-07 Thread Carsten Hey
Package: deborphan Severity: serious Missing multiarch support will lead to wrongly removed packages when people upgrade to Squeeze+1. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#592071: O: deborphan / please remove deborphan from Squeeze

2010-08-07 Thread Carsten Hey
Package: wnpp Severity: normal I orphan deborphan now since I'm not willing to make the old code ready for Squeeze, nor do I want to have it released with the old code and the new code will not be allowed to enter Squeeze due the freeze happening before I (and probably most other Debian developers

Bug#592564: document unusual but supported file system configurations

2010-08-11 Thread Carsten Hey
* Russ Allbery [2010-08-10 16:47 -0700]: > Debian supports /usr as a separate file system from /, /usr as a remote > file system, and /, /usr, and /etc mounted read-only ... > > Since these requirements keep catching people by surprise, I think we > should write them down explicitly. Actually the

Bug#592659: freeze exception for deborphan

2010-08-12 Thread Carsten Hey
* Neil McGovern [2010-08-11 22:21 +0100]: > On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 01:04:49PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > > The request is, therefore, not for an advance freeze exception > > (since I know you'll want to look at the package as uploaded), but > > for an indication of whether such a new release has

Bug#387688: Add gnupg as apt dependency in Squeeze to be able to solve #387688 in Squeeze+1?

2010-08-12 Thread Carsten Hey
Hi, currently apt depends on debian-archive-keyring which depends on gnupg. It has been proposed to remove the latter dependency in #387688, this would save about 5 MB of disk space in a sid debootstrap. I don't see how this bug could be fixed in debian-archive-keyring but think it should be fixe

Bug#592899: cdebconf: please move newt frontend to its own binary package

2010-08-13 Thread Carsten Hey
Package: cdebconf Severity: wishlist Hi, cdebconf currently depends on libnewt and libslang2 because of the newt frontend. On Sid both libraries together require more than two MB disk space: $ dpkg -s libslang2 libnewt0.52 | egrep 'Package:|Installed-Size:' Package: libslang2 Instal

Bug#592902: gnupg: please provide additional binary packages without readline dependency

2010-08-13 Thread Carsten Hey
Package: gnupg Severity: wishlist Hi, the dependency on libreadline6 which depends on readline-common costs about 450 kb of disk space on minimal Debian installations (given that apt is still installed). Please consider building additional binary packages without the dependency on libreadline.

Bug#472199: I want to improve licensecheck, if ok with current maintainers

2010-08-14 Thread Carsten Hey
Hi Jonas, our DPL is thankful and happy about your work and would welcome your helping hands with devscripts although he is no project admin and thus could not grant you commit access ... but he forgot to CC you in his reply to #472199 (possibly because he assumed you did already subscribe to the

Bug#387688: Add gnupg as apt dependency in Squeeze to be able to solve #387688 in Squeeze+1?

2010-08-21 Thread Carsten Hey
* Philipp Kern [2010-08-15 13:30 +0200]: > On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 01:37:15AM +0200, Carsten Hey wrote: > > currently apt depends on debian-archive-keyring which depends on > > gnupg. It has been proposed to remove the latter dependency in > > #387688, this would save about 5

Bug#387688: Add gnupg as apt dependency in Squeeze to be able to solve #387688 in Squeeze+1?

2010-08-22 Thread Carsten Hey
[ dropping the gnupg bug and d-rele...@l.d.o from To:/CC: since this mail does not seem to be relevant there ] * Philipp Kern [2010-08-22 11:24 +0200]: > On 08/22/2010 12:46 AM, Carsten Hey wrote: > >By removing the (currently indirect) apt dependencies on gnupg and > >libusb-0

Bug#593951: debian-archive-keyring: misses a call to `apt-key update' as a postrm script

2010-08-22 Thread Carsten Hey
Carsten - Forwarded message from Philipp Kern - Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2010 16:10:03 +0200 From: Philipp Kern To: Carsten Hey , 387...@bugs.debian.org Subject: Re: Bug#387688: Add gnupg as apt dependency in Squeeze to be able to solve #387688 in Squeeze+1? Organization: The Debian Proje

Bug#387688: Add gnupg as apt dependency in Squeeze to be able to solve #387688 in Squeeze+1?

2010-08-22 Thread Carsten Hey
* Philipp Kern [2010-08-22 16:10 +0200]: > On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 03:11:19PM +0200, Carsten Hey wrote: > > * Placing packaged keyrings in, e.g., /var/lib/apt/trusted.gpg.d/ might > >be preferable to using /etc/; on the other side, above-mentioned > >description

Bug#592902: [Pkg-gnupg-maint] Bug#592902: Bug#387688: Add gnupg as apt dependency in Squeeze to be able to solve #387688 in Squeeze+1?

2010-08-22 Thread Carsten Hey
* Thijs Kinkhorst [2010-08-22 16:57 +0200]: > On Sun, August 22, 2010 00:46, Carsten Hey wrote: > > * Build a new package gpgv-tiny, configured with --without-readline. > > Just wondering here if there would be any need for a regular 'gpgv' > package if 'gpgv

Bug#558784: see discussion in related #387688

2010-08-23 Thread Carsten Hey
Hi, in the related bug "#387688 - debian-archive-keyring: superfluous dependency on gnupg?" has been some discussion recently. A part of this discussion was sent to debian-rele...@l.d.o. Many things discussed are basically the same in both bugs, others only appear only in one bug, e.g., mentione

Bug#588831: lintian: please add permission check for /etc/sudoers.d/*

2010-07-12 Thread Carsten Hey
Package: lintian Severity: wishlist | ... : /etc/sudoers.d/aegir is mode 0600, should be 0440 ; ... Could you please add a check for this? Nowadays many people exclusively use sudo to get privileges and thus breaking sudo (e.g., #576527) by an unrelated package is really bad, but it is also easi

Bug#548085: aegir-provision: these bugs are release critical

2010-07-12 Thread Carsten Hey
Hi, bugs #548084, #548085 and especially #576527 are release critical bugs and need to be fixed - neither of them seems to be hard to fix. Looks like one of these bugs is already fixed but debian/changelog was missing the proper changelog entry, if this bug is really fixed please send an appropri

Bug#588831: lintian: please add permission check for /etc/sudoers.d/*

2010-07-12 Thread Carsten Hey
* Carsten Hey [2010-07-12 20:24 +0200]: > | } elsif ($operm == 0440 and $file =~ | m,etc/sudoers.d/,) { > > Looks like you fixed the bug before I reported it and the false negative > was caused by generating /etc/sudoers.d/whatever in postinst. Closing. No, you fixed the &quo

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