Bug#717158: network-manager: ignores settings from dhclient.conf and requests insecure properties

2013-07-17 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Package: network-manager Version: 0.9.8.0-5 Severity: important Tags: security Hi. NM aparently thinks it's smarter and ignores any settings from dhclient.conf. This leads to security problems, if one e.g. intentionally told dhcp to ignore properties like the dns-search path, which may be used b

Bug#717275: lvm2 shouldn't set --with-thin-check=/usr/sbin/thin_check

2013-07-18 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Package: lvm2 Version: 2.02.98-4 Severity: normal Hi. Please to not set --with-thin-check=/usr/sbin/thin_check 1) It's non existant, and if at all it should rather be /usr/local/sbin/thin_check, since it's a locally installed file, and not something by the package system. 2) Don't set a

Bug#717275: closed by Bastian Blank (Re: Bug#717275: lvm2 shouldn't set --with-thin-check=/usr/sbin/thin_check)

2013-07-18 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
On Thu, 2013-07-18 at 18:27 +, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: > > It does. Install thin-privisioning-tools. Ah... uhm.. that's new than, isn't it? Thanks, Chris. smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature

Bug#717285: bonnie++: "higher numbers are better"?

2013-07-18 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Package: bonnie++ Version: 1.97.1 Severity: normal Tags: upstream Hi. The manpage says that unless for the CPU values, higher numbers would be better. But I guess for all *latency values, _lower_ values are better as well. That should be documented. Cheers, Chris. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Bug#717158: [Secure-testing-team] Bug#717158: network-manager: ignores settings from dhclient.conf and requests insecure properties

2013-07-18 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
On Wed, 2013-07-17 at 21:15 +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: > dhclient.conf only controls which options are requested from the > server, the client will process unsolicited options anyway. > Therefore, changing dhclient.conf adds zero additional security. > > Upstream provided means to fix this in IS

Bug#717300: mdadm: probably use --freeze-reshape in initramfs and startup scripts

2013-07-18 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Package: mdadm Version: 3.2.5-5 Severity: wishlist Hi Martin, et all. According to mdadm(8) one should use --freeze-reshape in the early boot process and that really seems reasonable... can we add this to the initramfs scripts and the init.d scripts? If the system failed during reshape we sh

Bug#715510: libvirt-bin: libvirtd locks up whenever touching storage storage pool when related to systems's harddrive.

2013-07-19 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Hi. Can confirm this. It doesn't only happen on clones, but also when one manually creates a new VM and uses a pre-existing image for it. Interestingly... it seems not only to cause virt-manager to break... but also libvirtd... I really have to kill -9 libvirtd and restart it before anything work

Bug#717452: dosfstools: use device topology information to set sector size

2013-07-20 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Package: dosfstools Version: 3.0.16-2 Severity: wishlist Tags: upstream Hi Daniel. I hope my understanding of FAT isn't all too wrong, but AFAIU, the logical sector size (i.e. -S switch) is analogous to the block size in e.g. ext*, right? If so,.. wouldn't it make sense (for performance reasons

Bug#717454: lilo should register a namespace at the EFI System Partition Subdirectory Registry

2013-07-20 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Package: lilo Version: 1:24.0-2 Severity: wishlist Tags: upstream Hi. AFAIU you're also upstream for LILO!? :) I think it cannot harm (yes I know, right now you do not support EFI, but who knows what the future brings ... and even though the whole thing is anyway just voluntary), that lilo regi

Bug#717453: elilo: new upstream version

2013-07-20 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Package: elilo Version: 3.14-3 Severity: wishlist Hi. A new upstream vesion (3.16) seems to be available. Cheers, Chris. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#717462: bash-completion: all kinds of issues with the lvm2 completitions

2013-07-20 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Package: bash-completion Version: 1:2.0-1 Severity: normal Tags: upstream 1) pvcreate and vgcreate should complete to existin PV / VG names. It's usually not intended to re-create (overwrite) already existing PV / VG names, actually it even risks data loss if one accidentally completes to that an

Bug#717454: lilo should register a namespace at the EFI System Partition Subdirectory Registry

2013-07-21 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
On Sun, 2013-07-21 at 19:11 +0200, Joachim Wiedorn wrote: > On this site I read: "industry registry of vendor-specific subdirectory > names in the EFI system partition". And as I see only companies which > produces hardware. Na... there are folks like RedHat, Ubuntu, etc. > Until now I think ther

Bug#717535: phoronix-test-suite: new upstream version

2013-07-21 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Package: phoronix-test-suite Version: 4.6.0-1 Severity: wishlist Hi. A new upstream version (4.6.1) is available. Cheers, Chris. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#717536: phoronix-test-suite: installs software from outside debian

2013-07-21 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Package: phoronix-test-suite Version: 4.6.0-1 Severity: critical Tags: security Justification: root security hole Hi. The only way to operate PTS seems to be by installing the respective tests from OpenBenchmarking.org, right? Given that this introduces completely unchecked and untrusted softwa

Bug#666076: iozone3: new upstream version avilable

2013-07-21 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Again... much newer upstream version (3.420)... has this package been orphaned? btw: Is there any reason for not changing to the version numbers used by upstream, i.e. package name "iozone" (without 3) and version number, e.g. 3.420? Cheers, Chris. smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic s

Bug#717609: mdadm seems to ignore CREATE lines from mdadm.conf

2013-07-22 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Package: mdadm Version: 3.2.5-5 Severity: normal Hi. CCing Neil, as he might share some wisdom here :) Perhaps I'm just plain dumb or I don't now... ;) It seems that when creating/assembling devices, the create entry from mdadm.conf, which in debian happens to be: CREATE owner=root group=disk

Bug#666076: iozone3: new upstream version avilable

2013-07-22 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
On Mon, 2013-07-22 at 00:10 -0500, Steve M. Robbins wrote: > I would welcome collaborators / co-maintainers! Phew... being a bit busy right now with contributing to mdadm ;) > I don't know the history of the name / numbering convention. I inherited it. > > I can't recall anyone asking about

Bug#717724: qemu: any disk accesses broken

2013-07-24 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Source: qemu Version: 1.5.0+dfsg-5 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable Hi. Seems since the -5 update, any disk accesses in the VMs lead to errors. An I also get pty starting errors (in the VMs). In the HOST, the kernel log shows: [ 232.110748] Bridge firewalling registered

Bug#717724: qemu: any disk accesses broken

2013-07-25 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
On Thu, 2013-07-25 at 10:20 +0400, Michael Tokarev wrote: > > [ 242.483704] kvm [7790]: vcpu0 unhandled wrmsr: 0x6c4 data 0 > > [ 242.988307] kvm [7790]: vcpu0 unhandled rdmsr: 0xe8 > > [ 242.988312] kvm [7790]: vcpu0 unhandled rdmsr: 0xe7 > These are harmless (you provided these in your origin

Bug#717878: ifupdown: document preferred way to set up multiple IP addresses per interface

2013-07-25 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Package: ifupdown Version: 0.7.43 Severity: wishlist Hi. The wiki claims that the traditional way of defining multiple IPs per physical interface, e.g. iface eth0:1 inet static address 1.2.3.4 netmask 255.255.255.0 is deprecated now, see https://wiki.debian.org/NetworkConfigur

Bug#717880: gnupg: Yarom/Falkner flush+reload side-channel fix

2013-07-25 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Package: gnupg Version: 1.4.12-7 Severity: critical Tags: security Justification: root security hole Hi. There is a fix available upstream for the Yarom/Falkner flush+reload side-channel attack. See this announcement: http://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-announce/2013q3/000330.html Cheers,

Bug#717887: iproute2: doesn't calculate the broadcast addr for IPv4 aliases

2013-07-25 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Package: iproute2 Version: 3.10.0-1 Severity: normal Tags: upstream Hi. Not sure wheter this is actually an issue or not: When using ifconfig, respectively the old schema via /e/n/interfaces to set up secondary IP addresses like this: iface eth0:1 inet static address 84.16.242.145

Bug#717890: nfs-kernel-server: move manpages to nfs-common

2013-07-25 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Package: nfs-kernel-server Version: 1:1.2.8-4 Severity: wishlist Hi. I'd think it would be really useful to move the more general manpages (especially exports(5) but maybe also some of the others) to the nfs-common package. I would like to be able to read them, with getting a nfs server. Cheer

Bug#717887: iproute2: doesn't calculate the broadcast addr for IPv4 aliases

2013-07-26 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
On Fri, 2013-07-26 at 13:20 +0200, Andrew Shadura wrote: > But I'd like to know the version of > ifupdown we're talking about. I'm having everything at sid, thus ifupdown is 0.7.43. > No. It's an improper recommendation. Ifupdown supports both multiple > addresses and aliases, there's no need in

Bug#717887: iproute2: doesn't calculate the broadcast addr for IPv4 aliases

2013-07-26 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
On Fri, 2013-07-26 at 17:38 +0100, Andrew Shadura wrote: > > http://wiki.debian.org/NetworkConfiguration#Multiple_IP_addresses_on_One_Interface From what you wrote there,... AFAIU you cannot individually control the different addresses with that syntax with ifupdown (how should you when all have th

Bug#717887: iproute2: doesn't calculate the broadcast addr for IPv4 aliases

2013-07-26 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
On Fri, 2013-07-26 at 22:22 +0200, Andrew Shadura wrote: > CIDR netmask is already supported. And yes, I thought about it, but > what currently holds the implementation is that many hook scripts > expect IF_ADDRESS variable to have just one address. Should I pass > other addresses somehow else? Cal

Bug#717990: argyll: can't be installed...

2013-07-27 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Package: argyll Version: 1.5.1-1 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable Hi. dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/argyll_1.5.1-1_amd64.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite '/usr/share/man/man1/icclu.1.gz', which is also in package icc-utils 1.5.1-1 dpkg-deb: error: s

Bug#699847: sks: creates /var/lib/sks/gmon.out

2013-07-27 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Package: sks Version: 1.1.3-2 Followup-For: Bug #699847 It does not only generate that in /var/lib/sks ... but everywhere one run's the sks binary (e.g. just for sks --help). Cheers, Chris. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Bug#718021: resolvconf: dns-nameservers vs. dns-nameserver

2013-07-27 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Package: resolvconf Version: 1.74 Severity: minor Hi. Stumbled over this due to your last changelog entry. The manpage uses dns-nameservers all over the place; the README dns-nameserver. I think once should only use one keyword; probably dns-nameservers if more than one can be given per line.

Bug#718173: ca-certificates: /usr/local/share/ca-certificates/ handling broken

2013-07-28 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Package: ca-certificates Version: 20130610 Severity: important Hi. Since some time the handling of certs in /usr/local/share/ca-certificates/ seems to be broken. Neither are these anymore shown up in debconf on reconfiure nor are links in /etc/ssl/certs removed, created or re-created with new ha

Bug#718174: sks: better handle basedir patch

2013-07-28 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Package: sks Version: 1.1.3-2 Severity: normal Hi. It's of course a good thing to apply sks to FHS, but the handling right now is a bit problematic IMHO. First, if one uses -basedir now, the results are unexpected and this is not really well documented ("(Take special care if running the Debian

Bug#718210: netbase: please add port 4500 ipsec-nat-t

2013-07-28 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Package: netbase Version: 5.1 Severity: wishlist Hi Marco. Please add the definiton of port 4500, which is used by any IPsec implementation (of which we have several in Debian). ipsec-nat-t4500tcpIPsec NAT-Traversal

Bug#650425: Please add options to set the port range for nfs clients

2013-07-28 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
severity 650425 important tags 650425 + security stop It seems to always reserve one random (not 873) port in addition... why does it do so at all? I think that's even security critical, when it binds randomly to a port, which was opened by the firewall for something else,... and e.g. rpcbind is

Bug#594880: rpcbind loopback test is too strict

2013-07-28 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Because any normal user can bind to ports > reserved? So I don't think it's too strict... therefore can we close the bug? But one thing perhaps,.. shouldn't the test be for <= reserved instead of just < ? Cheers, Chris. smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature

Bug#718305: bind9: bind directories that hold zone data shouldn't be world readable

2013-07-29 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Package: bind9 Version: bind9 Severity: wishlist Hi. Directories that hold zone data shouldn't be world readable for privacy issues. This includes especially: /var/cache/bind and /var/lib/bind and as long as ther is no subdir like /etc/bind/zones for the zones (which I'd propose) it should als

Bug#594880: rpcbind loopback test is too strict

2013-07-29 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
On Sun, 2013-07-28 at 20:36 -0400, Buck Huppmann wrote: > depends what reserved is defined as, but if it's 1024, then it's > untrusted as well. per rresvport(3): ?? CAP_NET_BIND_SERVICE Bind a socket to Internet domain privileged ports (port numbers less than

Bug#718021: dns-nameservers vs dns-nameserver

2013-07-29 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Hi THomas. On Sun, 2013-07-28 at 20:37 +0200, Thomas Hood wrote: > Note that the current manpage is not incorrect: either "dns-nameservers" or > "dns-nameserver" is accepted. Sure... I know,... it's just that we're probably better off with suggesting people only one variant... so we can phase out

Bug#717724: qemu: any disk accesses broken

2013-07-29 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Hi. So long it doesn't turn out that this is Debian specific, I'll place all further information in the upstream bug. (I already have a bit, which I'll post in a few minutes)... so please keep a look or even subscribe to that. Thanks, Chris. smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signatur

Bug#718021: [Resolvconf-devel] Bug#718021: dns-nameservers vs dns-nameserver

2013-07-30 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
On Tue, 2013-07-30 at 09:15 +0200, Thomas Hood wrote: > meaning that *.some.domain queries should be routed to 192.168.1.254; > *.another.one to 12.34.56.78 and the rest to 8.8.8.8. Dnsmasq supports > this sort of query routing. I see... yeah, that sounds like a good argument. > Accepting multi

Bug#483788: /var/cache/git transition - no symlinks if not needed

2013-07-31 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
reopen 483788 stop Hi Jonathan. Nice change, but I reopen it for now as I don't think the following is necessary: I haven't had any repos in /var/cache/git at all, but now on upgrade (and I even don't have gitweb or git-daemon-* installed), - /var/cache/git was removed and /var/lib/git added =>

Bug#718426: bash-completion: introduce a plain host-list from which hosts are completed in addition

2013-07-31 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Package: bash-completion Version: 1:2.0-1 Severity: wishlist Hi. Right now bash completes hosts from the built-in compgen, form ssh configs and some others. It would be nice to have an optional additional host list where one could specify hosts and/or addresses that it completes. Without the ne

Bug#483788: /var/cache/git transition - no symlinks if not needed

2013-07-31 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
On Wed, 2013-07-31 at 11:31 -0700, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > That's not how the BTS works. Please open a new bug. I wouldn't see why it shouldn't work like this. The fix for the original problem has issues, and it doesn't make sense to open a new bug for every issue/subissue/etc. a patch for an ori

Bug#718530: sks: generates /var/backup instead of /var/backups

2013-08-01 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Package: sks Version: 1.1.4-1 Severity: normal Hi. sks, backups stuff on upgrade[0]. It places these in /var/backup but the FHS conform directory is /var/backups (trailing s). Cheers, Chris. [0] which btw failed for me with 1.1.4: Setting up sks (1.1.4-1) ... debian-sks uid check: ok debian-s

Bug#718529: sks database directories shouldn't be world-readable

2013-08-01 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Package: sks Version: 1.1.4-1 Severity: minor Hi. IMHO, for privacy reasons, the data directories i.e. /var/spool/sks /var/lib/sks /var/backups/sks shouldn't be world-readable. Sure, for a "normal" sks keyserver, this is not required, since the data is available anyway from other sites. But orga

Bug#699847: sks: creates /var/lib/sks/gmon.out

2013-08-01 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
fixed 699847 1.1.4-1 stop Hi. It seems this has been fixed in experimental, even though the changelog doesn't mention it. Kurt, can you confirm this and can we close it? Daniel, can you add a note on that to the changelog.Debian? Cheers, Chris. smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic sig

Bug#692061: sks: On boot SKS does not start if configured to use IPv6.

2013-08-01 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
hmm such sleeps are always really ugly... and they should IMHO not be part of the init scripts... especially not with modern init systems like systemd. IMHO it should rather be sks, that e.g. either wait's for all configured addresses to become usable, or perhaps start already with binding to the

Bug#600163: sks: random database corruption

2013-08-01 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Hi. Can you try all that again with the 1.1.4 version (in experimental) AFAIK, it fixed some DB corruption issues. Did that server run in a VM (where the fixed corruption issues happened reportedly much more often)? WRT your suggested init script changes... I'm not sure whether this is the right

Bug#718173: ca-certificates: /usr/local/share/ca-certificates/ handling broken

2013-08-02 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Hi. On Sun, 2013-07-28 at 17:49 -0500, Michael Shuler wrote: > > Since some time the handling of certs in > > /usr/local/share/ca-certificates/ seems to be broken. > This is rather vague. Could you provide some steps to > reproduce your problem? That came below =) > > Neither are these anymore

Bug#720115: gnome-core: gnome broken (both functionality and bluescreen) since switching to metacity

2013-08-18 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Package: gnome-core Version: 1:3.8+2 Severity: critical Justification: breaks the whole system Hi. Yeah... first sorry for reproting against gnome-core,... but I have hell no idea which component actually does the mess. Unfortunately compiz was removed from Debian (for whatever reason) and pr

Bug#720116: xinit: startx should just start a plain X, not the whole desktop-environment

2013-08-18 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Package: xinit Version: 1.3.2-1 Severity: wishlist Hi. IIRC, startx always used to do just that, "start X". But nowadays, when I "startx" I get all kinds of further stuff, i.e. GNOME tries to fully start up (WTF?). This behaviour is IMHO quite problematic, since in case of disaster recovery (se

Bug#720116: xinit: startx should just start a plain X, not the whole desktop-environment

2013-08-18 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
On Sun, 2013-08-18 at 22:41 +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > So either specify a client [1] or use a different session manager, e.g. > by using: update-alternatives --config x-session-manager Well that only gives e.g. gnome in my case. Can't you simply offer a dummy x-session-manager that has highe

Bug#720118: cinnamon: silently installs a plugin into browsers

2013-08-18 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Package: cinnamon Version: 1.7.4-2.1 Severity: important Tags: security Hi. For the same (security) reasons discussed in #660311, cinnamon shouldn't as well install any browser plugins per default into the user's browsers when these could lead to untrusted code (i.e. not from the Debian archive)

Bug#720192: libreoffice: impress forgets all font settings on storing a file

2013-08-19 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Package: libreoffice Version: 1:4.1.1~rc1-1 Severity: critical Justification: causes serious data loss Hi. Whenever saving a file in impress (possibly the others as well, haven't tried them though), all font settings are lost at least those that are get from styles. Happens in both, the sid and

Bug#720192: libreoffice: impress forgets all font settings on storing a file

2013-08-19 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
On Mon, 2013-08-19 at 16:50 +0200, Rene Engelhard wrote: > Maybe "data loss". But not "serious",imho. > As it looses formats, not the real data. Well... Libreoffice isn't just a plain text editor, right? So I guess someone who has a large scientific or thesis paper, with gazillions of styles, will

Bug#720354: gnome-panel: keybindings/media-key do not work when star-menu or a context menu is open

2013-08-20 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Package: gnome-panel Version: 3.4.2.1-5 Severity: normal Hi. As soon as any menu (start menu, or context menu) within the panel or any of it's applets is open, not keybinding or media key is handled anymore. Cheers, Chris. -- System Information: Debian Release: jessie/sid APT prefers unsta

Bug#720355: libgtk-3-0: gtk doesn't handle Super_L/R and Menu keys for keybindings

2013-08-20 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Package: libgtk-3-0 Version: 3.8.2-3 Severity: normal Hi. Since a very long time now (since GNOME 3.x), there is something wrong with the handling of Super_L/R and Menu keys (not in combination with other keys) in keybindings or custom launchers. So far I worked around this since it continued t

Bug#720364: /usr/lib/php5/sessionclean: find warning

2013-08-20 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Package: php5-common Version: 5.5.1+dfsg-2 Severity: normal Hi. I get the following warning when running the commands from the cron job: # /usr/lib/php5/sessionclean /var/lib/php5 $(/usr/lib/php5/maxlifetime) find: warning: you have specified the -ignore_readdir_race option after a non-option a

Bug#719928: blender: stale files after upgrade

2013-08-21 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
reopen 719928 stop Hey Matteo Uhm... On Wed, 2013-08-21 at 09:46 +0200, Matteo F. Vescovi wrote: > > On upgrade one gets these errors: > > Unpacking replacement blender ... > > dpkg: warning: unable to delete old directory > > '/usr/lib/blender/scripts/presets/framerate': Directory not empty >

Bug#721005: linux: sierra Gobi 3000 WWAN no longer works

2013-08-26 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Source: linux Version: 3.10.7-1 Severity: normal Hi. I got a little bit stuck with this... I'm having a Fujitsu Lifebook E782 which has some Sierra Gobi 3000 UMTS modem in it. For many years it simply used to work perfectly, but a year ago or so it already stopped working (i.e. wasn't detected

Bug#721151: pssh: should depend on ssh

2013-08-28 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Package: pssh Version: 2.2.2-1 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable Hi. pssh must depend on openssh-client (and / or alternatively on a commandline compatible ssh. Cheers, Chris. -- System Information: Debian Release: jessie/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'u

Bug#721390: libxml-libxml-perl: errors on upgrade

2013-08-30 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Package: libxml-libxml-perl Version: 2.0010+dfsg-1+b1 Severity: normal Hi. These errors appeared on upgrading: Preparing to replace libxml-libxml-perl 2.0010+dfsg-1 (using .../libxml-libxml-perl_2.0010+dfsg-1+b1_amd64.deb) ... Can't locate File/Basename.pm in @INC (you may need to install the

Bug#721393: perl-modules: please describe which recommended/suggested packages are used for what

2013-08-30 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Package: perl-modules Version: 5.18.1-2 Severity: wishlist Hi. perl-modules contains quite a few recommended/suggested packages since 5.18, and I think it would be appropriate to describe why/for what these are needed/used. Cause if these were just modules that _might_ be "often" used, it's IMH

Bug#726071: aptitude segfaults after dpkg finds file in another package

2013-10-11 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Package: aptitude Version: 0.6.8.2-1.2 Severity: important Hi. Currently this happens: # aptitude Retrieving bug reports... Done Parsing Found/Fixed information... Done Reading changelogs... Done (Reading database ... 104097 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace msr-to

Bug#726459: samba: does samba really need to built again heimdal krb or could MIT be used?

2013-10-15 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Source: samba Version: 2:3.6.19-1 Severity: wishlist Hi. I just wondered whether samba really needs to use heimdal Kerberos, or whether MIT could be used as well. Reason is, MIT kerberos seems to be kinda default in Debian (I personally don't have anything in favour of either one or the other).

Bug#726459: [Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#726459: samba: does samba really need to built again heimdal krb or could MIT be used?

2013-10-15 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
notfound 726459 2:3.6.19-1 found 726459 2:4.0.10+dfsg-2 stop On Wed, 2013-10-16 at 02:29 +0200, Jelmer Vernooij wrote: > ^ I suspect you're actually using Samba 4 rather than 3? The samba 3.x > packages > don't link against Heimdal. Ooops,.. sorry,.. forgot to adapt the Version field. > The Act

Bug#596005: TestU01 license change

2013-09-02 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
On Mon, 2013-09-02 at 11:52 +0900, NIIBE Yutaka wrote: > As of August 2013, I can't see any description about license change on > the website of TestU01. There is no source code distribution with > GPL, either. > > Could you give me status update? If it is distributed under GPL, > I'm willing to

Bug#722629: tiger: why is Tiger_Check_TRUSTED set to Y per default?

2013-09-12 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Package: tiger Version: 1:3.2.3-10 Severity: minor Hi. # - HPUX specific Tiger_Check_TRUSTED=Y Why is this enabled, if it's anyway HPUX specific? Cheers, Chris. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas..

Bug#718608: sks: improve/debianize /usr/share/doc/sks/sampleConfig/crontab.sample

2013-08-02 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Package: sks Version: 1.1.4-1 Severity: wishlist Hi. About /usr/share/doc/sks/sampleConfig/crontab.sample 1) Stat seems to be extremely fast nowadays... it takes about 4 seconds on my system. So why not installing this file per default at /etc/cron.d/? 2) I'd improve it like the following: 0

Bug#718609: sks: strange output on stopping sks

2013-08-02 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Package: sks Version: 1.1.4-1 Severity: minor Hi. When sks is stopped via the initscript it prints out some messages that should be sent to /dev/null: # /etc/init.d/sks stop Stopping sks daemons: sksrecon..Ctrl-C. Exiting eventloop sksdb..Ctrl-C. Exiting eventloop done. Cheers, Chris. --

Bug#703740: php5: disabled modules are automatically readded to /etc/php5/conf.d on package upgrade

2013-08-03 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Hi Ondřej Can it be, that this is already implemented in the meantime? Well at least partially... It seems that the new: /var/lib/php5/modules/ ├── cgi │ ├── disabled_by_admin │ └── enabled_by_maint └── registry Is about just what I was talking about. I tried it and it worked... :) One m

Bug#703740: [php-maint] Bug#703740: php5: disabled modules are automatically readded to /etc/php5/conf.d on package upgrade

2013-08-03 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Then I guess we can close the bug... Cheers, Chris. smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature

Bug#718986: libspice-client-glib-2.0-8: statoverride error in postinst

2013-08-07 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Package: libspice-client-glib-2.0-8 Version: 0.20-0nocelt1 Severity: normal Hi. There seems to be a problem in postinst: Setting up libspice-client-glib-2.0-8:amd64 (0.20-0nocelt1) ... dpkg-statoverride: warning: --update given but /usr/lib/*/spice-gtk/spice-client-glib-usb-acl-helper does not

Bug#719025: gedit crashes when closing a tab/file

2013-08-07 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Package: gedit Version: 3.8.3-3 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable Hi. When opening multiple files in gedit and closing one of them, e.g. by clickin on the "x" in the tab gedit crashes with different messages like: $ gedit 1 2 3 4 5 ** (gedit:6159): WARNING **: The spec

Bug#719025: gedit crashes when closing a tab/file

2013-08-07 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Hi Michael. On Wed, 2013-08-07 at 23:54 +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: > I suspect this is a plugin specific issue. Yep, you're right and it's multiedit :) Cheers, Chris. smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature

Bug#719278: jitsi: crashes when going to options/video

2013-08-09 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Package: jitsi Version: 2.3.4687.9786-1 Severity: important Hi. When starting jitsi I already get: $ jitsi Auto-properties install: reference:file:sc-bundles/galagonotification.jar (org.osgi.framework.BundleException: Unable to cache bundle: reference:file:sc-bundles/galagonotification.jar -

Bug#719928: blender: stale files after upgrade

2013-08-16 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Package: blender Version: 2.68a-3 Severity: normal Hi. On upgrade one gets these errors: Unpacking replacement blender ... dpkg: warning: unable to delete old directory '/usr/lib/blender/scripts/presets/framerate': Directory not empty dpkg: warning: unable to delete old directory '/usr/lib/bl

Bug#719930: apache2-suexec-custom: trailing whitespace

2013-08-16 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Package: apache2-suexec-custom Severity: minor Hi. Yeah... well... there is not severity available lower than minor ... guess we need "cosmetic" ;) Anyway in The file suexec/www-data :in the line # refuse the corresponding type of request. There is an unecessary traling space, that can be remo

Bug#724587: gnome-applets: date/time applet broken

2013-09-25 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Package: gnome-applets Version: 3.4.1-4 Severity: important - After the most recent upgrade, all the settings to the date/time applet were lost. - When adding new locations and storing them, they don't get stored. - When opening the calendar, it selects one month ahead instead of the current

Bug#724620: jedit: depends on soon-to-be-phased-out openjdk-6

2013-09-25 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Package: jedit Version: 5.0.0+dfsg-2 Severity: important Hi. OpenJDK 6 is about to go away... jedit should support OpenJDK 7 as well. Cheers, Chris. -- System Information: Debian Release: jessie/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: L

Bug#85960: wishlist: apt-get should 'dpkg-repack' packages before upgrade or removal

2013-09-25 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Hi. Anything new here? Especially for >= sid users, this seems to be quite handy, since it happens every now and then, that packages severely break things which one only notices after they've migrated to testing... subsequently downgrading is a bit problematic, even when considering snapshot.d.o.

Bug#722006: xserver-xorg-input-synaptics: new version breaks middle mouskey

2013-09-25 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
reopen 722006 stop This doesn't fix the issue at all (actually I'm not even using KDE). Backporting "fixes" it again. Therefore, reopening. Cheers, Chris. smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature

Bug#724625: ekeyd: depends on not longer available liblua5.1-socket2

2013-09-25 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Package: ekeyd Version: 1.1.5-5 Severity: important Hi. liblua5.1-socket2 (respectively lua-socket 2.0.2-8) is gone. Please upgrade to 3.0~rc1-3. Cheers, Chris. -- System Information: Debian Release: jessie/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64

Bug#724700: me-tv: new upstream version

2013-09-26 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Package: me-tv Version: 1.3.7-0.2 Severity: wishlist Hi. There's a new upstream version 1.4. Cheers, Chris. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#635226: mssh: add bash completion

2011-07-23 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Package: mssh Version: 1.2-1 Severity: wishlist Hi Bradley. Do you still maintain/develop this great program? What I'd like to see being added was bash completion: - for hostnames (this could probably simply use the functionallity, already present in bash-completion, that completes hosts afte

Bug#635227: mssh: some keys are not sent to the terminals

2011-07-23 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Package: mssh Version: 1.2-1 Severity: normal Hi. It seems that some key-strokes are not sent to the terminals... Most notably the functions keys (e.g. when pressing F10, this is caught by GTK and opens the menu of mssh). Would be nice if there was kind of an _optional_ capture mode, i.e. somet

Bug#635229: .mssh_clusters ideas/improvements

2011-07-23 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Package: mssh Version: 1.2-1 Severity: wishlist Hi. The following things might sense: 1) Add a comment character (e.g. "#") to comment lines. Currently something is simply taken as part of the alias name. 2) It might be worth adding a /etc/mssh_clusters file, where system-wide aliases can

Bug#635230: mssh: possible improvent to visualise closed terminals

2011-07-23 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Package: mssh Version: 1.2-1 Severity: wishlist Hi. Currently closed terminals are "visualised" by a: [Child Exited] Especially when many terminals are open, this can be easily overseen. Perhaps flashing the terminal space with blinking red or so could be a good idea? Cheers, Chris. -- To

Bug#626112: openssh-server: ssh doesn't log some failed authentications to auth.log anymore

2011-07-27 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Hi Colin. On Sun, 2011-07-24 at 11:02 +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > Did this work as you expect in some previous version? Which one? Yes definitely,.. but unfortunately,.. I don not remember which one.. > If you use 'LogLevel VERBOSE', does that help? > > Can you provide some examples of log me

Bug#713797: texlive-base: doesn't clean up legacy config files/dirs

2013-06-22 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Package: texlive-base Version: 2013.20130530-1 Severity: normal Hi. Apparently texlive-base no longer contains /etc/texmf/dvipdfm/config/config /etc/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /etc/texmf/dvipdfm/ But doesn't clean up these corretly by dpkg's means. Please do this. Thanks, Chris. -- To UNSUBSCRI

Bug#713931: aesfix: wrong recommends on aeskeyfinder?

2013-06-23 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Package: aesfix Version: 1.0.1-2 Severity: normal Hi. Shouldn't the recommends on aeskeyfinder be on aeskeyfind instead? Cheers, Chris. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#513742: Make pbzip2 use Debian alternatives system

2013-06-25 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Well that shouldn't prevent supporting the alternatives mechanism... it would just not apply to those tools that the original bzip2 ships in addition. The problem is rather that pbzip2 would need to offer a fully compatible command line interface... otherwise you always run into the danger that so

Bug#714125: lbzip2: use alternatives mechanism if possible

2013-06-25 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Package: lbzip2 Version: 2.2-2 Severity: wishlist Hi. Analogous to #513742 it would be nice if lbzip2 supports the alternatives mechanism to be used as a drop-in replacement for the original bzip2... if that is possible. bzip2 provides a few more tools,... but that shouldn't be a problem... the

Bug#714126: pixz: use alternatives mechanism if possible

2013-06-25 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Package: pixz Version: 1.0.2-1+b1 Severity: wishlist Hi. Analogous to e.g. #513742 it would be nice if pixz supports the alternatives mechanism to be used as a drop-in replacement for the original xz... if that is possible. xz provides a few more tools,... but that shouldn't be a problem... the

Bug#714181: fontconfig-config: cleaning up /etc/fonts/conf.avail.fc-old

2013-06-26 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Package: fontconfig-config Version: 2.10.2-1 Severity: normal Hi. AFAICS, /etc/fonts/conf.avail.fc-old is nowhere really used and contais just these configs: -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 864 Nov 11 2008 20-unhint-small-dejavu-lgc-sans.conf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 874 Nov 11 2008 20-unhint-small-d

Bug#714249: qemu-system-x86: support UEFI boot

2013-06-27 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Package: qemu-system-x86 Version: 1.5.0+dfsg-4 Severity: wishlist Hi. It seems that qemu supports also booting via UEFI now using the ovmf firmware. It would be nice if support for that was added to debian (the ovmf is already in debian)... So perhaps it should be a recommends or an alternati

Bug#612657: Debian crypto strength

2013-06-27 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
On Thu, 2013-06-27 at 11:24 +0200, Daniel Pocock wrote: > Some of the discussion in this bug seems relevant to the GnuPG and > GnuPG2 packages in Debian, but the bug is against the archive > pseudo-package: > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=612657 > > Can anybody else make any co

Bug#714252: qemu-system-x86: BIOS alternatives to seabios?

2013-06-27 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Package: qemu-system-x86 Version: 1.5.0+dfsg-4 Severity: wishlist Hi. Perhaps I'm wrong, but wasn't bochsbios used in earlier days instead of seabios? Even if seabios is better... wouldn't it be nice to suggest the possible alternative BIOSes as package altnertives (with seabios being the defaul

Bug#714265: /usr/bin/deb-systemd-helper: error: unable to write to /var/lib/systemd/deb-systemd-helper-enabled/rsyslog.service.dsh-also

2013-06-27 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Package: rsyslog Version: 7.4.1-2 Severity: normal Hi. Not sure if this is an issue: Setting up rsyslog (7.4.1-2) ... /usr/bin/deb-systemd-helper: error: unable to write to /var/lib/systemd/deb-systemd-helper-enabled/rsyslog.service.dsh-also [ ok ] Stopping enhanced syslogd: rsyslogd. [ ok ] Sta

Bug#714270: qemu-guest-agent: document what benefit it actually gives

2013-06-27 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Package: qemu-guest-agent Version: 1.5.0+dfsg-4 Severity: wishlist Hi. IMHO the package description should contain some of the major features that running this guest agent inside domains gives. Cheers, Chris. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subjec

Bug#714273: qemu-system-x86: manpage claims it would use bochsbios, etc.

2013-06-27 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Package: qemu-system-x86 Version: 1.5.0+dfsg-4 Severity: minor Hi. The manpage claims it would use Bochs bios, but we use seabios: QEMU uses the PC BIOS from the Bochs project and the Plex86/Bochs LGPL VGA BIOS. The VGA BIOS seems also to be another one? Cheers, Chris. -- To UNS

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