Bug#340892: libbonobo: debian/watch file seems bound to GNOME 2.8.x, though current package is for 2.10.1, and upstream is at 2.13.0

2005-11-27 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
Hello-- Thanks for the quick reply! i understand about not wanting to release a development version into debian. i'm still a bit confused about GNOME versioning, i suppose, since some GNOME projects appear to be stable at odd minor numbers (e.g. gnumeric is in debian at 1.5.90 right now). But y

Bug#340901: minicom build process includes many rejected patches without failing

2005-11-27 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
Thanks for the prompt reply, Martin. On November 26, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > The patches are good. i did a bit more looking into the minicom build process, and of course you're right: they're good. However, the build process emits a lot of bad-looking error messages in the initial "clean" ph

Bug#329683: ftp.debian.org: Please remove mime-codecs

2005-12-01 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On November 29, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > See above, seems the vm removal thingy is a misunderstanding. What a relief! For anyone looking to stop using mime-codecs within the vm suite, i thought i'd explicitly mention the perl one-liners that can replace them. >From my ~/.vm: ; *** replac

Bug#341247: an example of the breakage

2005-12-02 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
just wanted to chime in and report that this is indeed a problem. An example of such breakage is bug 341634 [0], filed against evince. If a user of beast encounters this problem, it looks like it can be repaired with: update-mime-database /usr/share/mime as suggested by Sebastien Bacher <[EMA

Bug#342067: gnome-games: gnobots2 image theme accidentally includes extra graphics

2005-12-04 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
Package: gnome-games Version: 1:2.10.1-5.1 Severity: minor Tags: patch in gnobots2 on my mixed etch/sid system, i'm offered two non-sensical graphics themes "teleport" and "rteleport". It looks like this is because a function in graphics.c is mis-filtering /usr/share/pixmaps/gnobots, and doesn't

Bug#342180: fontforge: broken watch file, maybe packaging change needed?

2005-12-05 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
Package: fontforge Version: 0.0.20050911-1.dkg.0 Severity: normal Tags: patch it looks to me like the current debian/watch doesn't actually track the source for fontforge (perhaps because upstream isn't terribly consistent with providing links). the following watchfile seems to work for me, alth

Bug#342388: please set up /usr/share/inkscape/default.svg automagicallly (not just A4)

2005-12-07 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
Package: inkscape Version: 0.43-0.0etch1 Severity: normal Inkscape is great! my only complaint is that it always launches by default with A4 paper (yes, i'm an American... sigh). when i change /usr/share/inkscape/default.svg by hand, new versions of inkscape overwrite my changes. it seems like

Bug#343840: patch available for per-user default templates

2005-12-18 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
tags 343840 +patch thanks (this patch was first submitted to bug 342388, but it is probably more relevant here.) The attached patch allows for individual users to keep their preferred default template in ~/.inkscape/templates/default.svg with this patch applied, a user who wants to have a defau

Bug#342388: patch available for per-user default templates

2005-12-18 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
tags 342388 +patch thanks The attached patch allows for individual users to keep their preferred default template in ~/.inkscape/templates/default.svg with this patch applied, a user who wants to have a default template of, say, US letter, could simply do: mkdir -p ~/.inkscape/templates ln /u

Bug#343852: inkscape: please enable inkboard collaborative editing features

2005-12-18 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
Package: inkscape Version: 0.43-0.0etch2 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch inkscape 0.43 has collaborative, networked editing via XMPP built-in, with the Inkboard project. More info is available about it in /usr/share/doc/inkscape/NEWS.gz The attached patch seems to enable this feature for the deb

Bug#343852: inkscape: please enable inkboard collaborative editing features

2005-12-19 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
Thanks for the prompt response, Wolfram. On December 19, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > I know the efforts around inkboard quite well and I thought about > including the option in the debian package. But since there are some > bug (besides security risks) which are being worked on, I decided not to

Bug#338032: lavaps: Gtk-WARNINGs about Unknown tag 'zombie'

2005-11-07 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
Package: lavaps Version: 2.7-4 Severity: minor Tags: patch i was just experimenting with lavaps. it seems to work well, but i noticed that i was getting error messages on stderr when i left-clicked on a zombie process. The error messages look like this: (lavaps:9389): Gtk-WARNING **: Failed to

Bug#338115: mime-codecs: base64-decode fails to properly decode many valid base64-encoded files

2005-11-08 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
Package: mime-codecs Version: 7.19-7 Severity: grave Tags: patch Justification: renders package unusable It appears that the buffering recently introduced to base64-decode has some major flaws in it that render of all base64-encoded files that are larger than the input buffer size (~36K) unreadab

Bug#329075: inkscape: reproducible in 0.42.2-1

2005-11-09 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
Package: inkscape Version: 0.42.2-1 Followup-For: Bug #329075 found 329075 0.42.2-1 thanks i'm able to reproduce this problem on a mixed etch/sid system. printing "as bitmap" produces the expected clipping mask, as does exporting to a PNG. However, printing using postscript operators ignores th

Bug#244711: update request

2005-11-09 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
Just a ping to see what's going on with this package... it would be great to see this move into debian (even if only to non-free at the moment). Any word on those two remaining Numerical Algorithm routines? --dkg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscr

Bug#338699: udev: fails to run appropriate hotplug scripts for openct devices after upgrade to 0.70-1

2005-11-11 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
Package: udev Version: 0.071-1 Severity: normal Tags: patch After an upgrade to udev 0.70-1 (which forced a removal of hotplug), i found that my cryptoflex eGate USB smartcard reader wasn't being properly attached to the openct framework when it was automatically plugged in. Since i need the dev

Bug#314963: followup about /etc/serial.conf

2006-01-10 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
i don't fully understand the /etc/serial.conf vs. /var/lib/setserial/autoserial.conf distinction, but i think the reason the script was trying to bail might be this: /etc/init.d/etc-setserial is responsible for working with the canonical /etc/serial.conf, if such a file exists. if such a file doe

Bug#252104: seconded!

2006-01-13 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
i'd like to second this particular request. in addition to making it easier to use xpdf's code in other applications, having a shared library would make dealing with security problems in xpdf much simpler. there has been a flood of recent DSA's [0] due to xpdf code copied into other projects. if

Bug#335944: gnome-session leaves esd running in $HOME, causing pam_mount's close_session unmount to fail

2005-10-26 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
Package: gnome-session Severity: normal Tags: patch in a system using pam_mount, it can be important for security that the user's home directory be unmounted (via pam_close_session()) when they log out. However, debian's gnome-session spawns esd at login with a current working directory (cwd) in

Bug#336101: coreutils: nohup -p should let you background a running process

2005-10-27 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
Package: coreutils Version: 5.2.1-2.1 Severity: wishlist This is an unabashed wishlist. But i notice that Sun's nohup command is capable of acting on already-running processes. See: http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/ahl/20040709 for more details on how it's done from the developer. It would

Bug#336241: mediawiki: New version available (1.5.1) which adds some nice features

2005-10-28 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
Package: mediawiki Severity: wishlist hello! mediaWiki released version 1.5 this month (now up to 1.5.1 as a security update has been issued). it would be great to see it in debian. You can see the release notes here: http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=366110 In partic

Bug#336555: mailutils: mailbox/imap/folder.c:imap_writeline() can't successfully write lines that contain > 254 chars

2005-10-30 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
"9" nil nil (number " " mark " Daniel Kahn Gillm Sep 131/9 " thread-indent "\"hello\"\n") nil nil nil nil nil nil] nil) Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: by whatever.example.net (P

Bug#329683: yikes!

2005-11-22 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
Hello-- i just noticed this bug. i'm really hoping that the vm package doesn't go away. if mime-codecs go away, that wouldn't be the end of the world (as manoj mentioned, there are one-line perl equivalents available), but i really want vm itself to stay in debian. i would be willing to co-main

Bug#187443: doesn't seem to be an issue any longer as of at least 1.4.2.0-1

2005-11-23 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
i'm running socat version 1.4.2.0-1, and i don't see any hexadecimal 0xB4 characters in the man page, despite there being many 0x27 characters there: [EMAIL PROTECTED] socat]$ zcat /usr/share/man/man1/socat.1.gz | hexdump -e '1/1 " %02x " "\n"' | grep ' B4 ' | wc -l 0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] socat]$ zc

Bug#311064: the fix for this man page

2005-11-23 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
tags 311064 + patch thanks here's a patch for the broken man page. i hope it's useful: --- socat-1.4.2.0/socat.1 2005-03-18 16:24:55.0 -0500 +++ socat-1.4.2.0.dkg/socat.1 2005-11-24 00:08:26.0 -0500 @@ -2034,7 +2034,7 @@ connected to the TCP socket (nofork)\&. The shell

Bug#340557: socat: new upstream version available

2005-11-23 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
Package: socat Version: 1.4.2.0-1 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch socat version 1.4.3 is available from upstream at: http://www.dest-unreach.org/socat/ http://www.dest-unreach.org/socat/download/socat-1.4.3.0.tar.gz i've built it into a deb with minimal changes (just enough to close the outs

Bug#335959: clarifying the fix

2005-11-25 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
Just to clarify for the folks following along at home: Steve Kemp accidentally left out a leading 'U' on the last line of the fixed example. it should really look like this: # DscIndices: Sources Release . .gz bzip2.sh # DebIndices: Packages Release . .gz bzip2.sh # UDebIndices: Packages . .gz b

Bug#340892: libbonobo: debian/watch file seems bound to GNOME 2.8.x, though current package is for 2.10.1, and upstream is at 2.13.0

2005-11-26 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
Package: libbonobo Severity: normal Tags: patch The existing debian/watch file for libbonobo seems to be capable of only detecting libbonobo versions 2.8.x. Given that the current version of libbonobo in debian is 2.10.1, and the current released version from GNOME is 2.13.0, the existing watchf

Bug#340557: more updates to my version of socat-1.4.3.0-1

2005-11-26 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
st libreadline5-dev (closes: #326296) * bumped policy to 3.6.2.1 (no changes) * added debian/watch suggested from http://dehs.alioth.debian.org/ * set debhelper compatibility level to 5 (added debian/compat, removed export from debian/rules, updated debian/control) -- Daniel Kahn

Bug#340899: minicom mishandles config files with lines >= 80 characters

2005-11-26 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
Package: minicom Version: 2.1-10 Severity: normal Tags: patch try adding a comment line to /etc/minicom/minirc.fubar that is longer than 80 chars. It screws up linecounting for future error reports about the config file, and (worse!) it tries to evaluate the tail of that line after char 80 as th

Bug#340901: minicom build process includes many rejected patches without failing

2005-11-26 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
Package: minicom Version: 2.1-10 Severity: normal the minicom packaging includes a number of patches in debian/patches which fail to apply cleanly during a pbuilder process. (maybe because they've been adopted upstream?) You can see this from (for example) the results of the powerpc buildd: htt

Bug#292890: ytalk description still claims X support

2005-01-30 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
Subject: ytalk: description still claims X support Package: ytalk Version: 3.2.0-1 Severity: minor *** Please type your report below this line *** the ytalk description should no longer claim that it has X support, since it it's been pulled as of 3.2.0-1 (btw, thanks for removing the X support.

Bug#294109: alsa-base should blacklist cs461x kernel module for hotplug and discover

2005-02-07 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
Package: alsa-base Version: 1.0.8-4 Severity: normal since alsa-base already blacklists cs46xx for both hotplug and discover, it should also blacklist cs461x. Please add: cs461x to /etc/hotplug/blacklist.d/alsa-base and add skip cs461x to /etc/discover.d/alsa-base Rationale: i have a

Bug#318464: djbdns script

2005-07-19 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On July 19, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > Thanks a lot for the script. Yer welcome! > The best place for the script would be in the package containing > the dnscache program. Right. That makes a lot of sense. i think i was confused by /etc/resolvconf/update.d/bind being part of resolvconf in

Bug#299594: options used for shfsmount in this instance?

2005-03-30 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
how was the directory mounted when the client machine hung? did you try the --persistent flag? It approximates your suggestion #2. The difficulty with the suggestion, though, is how to handle the authentication when re-establishing the connection. The --persistent flag handles this by only doin

Bug#302256: shfs-utils: shfs(u)mount man pages need update and fix for i386 binary packages at least

2005-03-30 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
Package: shfs-utils Version: 0.35-1 Severity: minor Tags: patch for some reason, the manpage for shfsumount is missing from the i386 packages in sarge. When i rebuild the package from source, the shfsumount man page is included, oddly enough. i haven't checked the other packages yet. [dkg]$ dp

Bug#318046: ifplugd: poor system responsiveness and jerkiness when used with ifrename and hotplug

2005-07-12 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
Package: ifplugd Version: 0.26-2 Severity: normal i'm using ifrename to keep my interfaces in order on a laptop ("squeak"). i'm also running hotplug on the same machine. i initially configured ifplugd to act on all hotplugged interfaces, because i have a couple USB NICs that i plan to use in

Bug#318123: xlockmore: xlock segfaults with libpam-opensc, returns to user session

2005-07-13 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
Package: xlockmore Version: 1:5.13-2.1 Severity: important if i tell xlockmore to use libpam-opensc, it segfaults under every attempt to reauthenticate after a screenlock. When it segfaults, it returns the underlying xsession. i don't know whether that's any worse than locking the user out perm

Bug#318464: resolvconf script for dnscache (djbdns)

2005-07-15 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
Package: resolvconf Version: 1.29 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch i would really like it if resolvconf would handle updating local forwarding instances of djbdns's dnscache [0]. I wrote a simple script to do this based off of Thomas Hood's work on the bind and libc resolver scripts. the script l

Bug#318507: vlock renders system authentication unusable for exclusive-access PAM modules

2005-07-15 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
(e.g. libpam-opensc locks the smartcard +during a PAM conversation) + + -- Daniel Kahn Gillmor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sun, 15 Jul 2005 15:32:58 -0400 + vlock (1.3-8) unstable; urgency=medium * Argh, forgot about this bug when RL jumped at me. diff -ru orig/vlock-1.3/debian/r

Bug#318507: vlock maintenance

2005-10-17 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On October 17, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > I'm currently not sure if changing vlock is the right approach - or if > it is a misfeature in the pam module. i agree with you that there may be problems in the pam module as well, and it would be better if

Bug#328602: Offer of adoption for redir

2005-10-20 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi there-- i'm happy to take over maintenance for redir. i'm not a debian-developer yet, but i've started the NM process. i've uploaded a version of redir containing version 2.2.1 here: http://lair.fifthhorseman.net/~dkg/src/redir/ it fixes a co

Bug#328602: Offer of adoption for redir

2005-10-21 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
21, 2005 at 01:47:06AM -0400, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > >Hi there-- > > > >i'm happy to take over maintenance for redir. i'm not a > >debian-developer yet, but i've started the NM process. i've uploaded > >a version of redir containing v

Bug#335069: pcmcia-cs: failed to detect U.S. Robotics USR7901 PCMCIA NIC (uses pcnet_cs)

2005-10-21 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
Package: pcmcia-cs Version: 3.2.8-5 Severity: normal Tags: patch i've got a PCMCIA network card from US Robotics. [0] The model number is USR7901 (a.k.a. USR997901). Under Linux, this card uses the pcnet_cs kernel module. if the following stanza is added to /etc/pcmcia/config, the card should b

Bug#335288: redir: buffer in copyloop() is dubiously allocated and referenced

2005-10-22 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
Package: redir Version: 2.2.1-1 Severity: normal In the course of tweaking the packaging for redir, i found that the copyloop() function in this latest version (2.2.1) seems defective. in 2.1, copyloop used: char buf[4096] But upstream's copyloop() in 2.2.1 allocates buf like this: char bu

Bug#330729: tinyca: serial count not chosen from index.txt when importing CA

2005-09-29 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
Package: tinyca Version: 0.7.0-2 Severity: important Tags: patch if i import a CA into tinyca, and provide it with an index.txt file, the initial value for the serial file seems to always be 01. This is bad, because it makes tinyca fail to sign any new cert requests with this authority if serial

Bug#296464: initrd-tools: still present in 0.1.82

2005-10-03 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
Package: initrd-tools Version: 0.1.82 Followup-For: Bug #296464 found 296464 0.1.82 tags 296464 + patch thanks This is still a problem for me with a /dev/random keyed swap partition and linux-image-2.6-686 version 2.6.12-10. I'm running with version 0.1.82 of initrd-tools and cryptsetup version

Bug#303403: same as bug 296464

2005-10-03 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
This looks very similar to bug 296464 to me. the extra prompt at boot time is likely just a prompt for the crypted swap partition. There is a patch to mkinitrd attached to that bug [0] which avoids running cryptsetup on devices with a key specified in /etc/cryptab during the initrd phase. hth,

Bug#322145: Further confirmation reports.

2005-08-22 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
i'm using libpam-opensc on a mixed etch/sid system here, with an eGate cryptoflex USB token. i'm seeing the same effects other folks are reporting. It's important. one other place that i'm seeing difficulties is with xscreensaver (which uses libpam-opensc for unlocking): [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ x

Bug#333548: debian/fontforge-patches/005_x_www_browser.diff isn't applying correctly

2005-10-12 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
Package: fontforge Version: 0.0.20050911-1 Severity: minor Tags: patch the debian package-specific web browser patch isn't applying during a run of dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot for me, probably because the list of preferred browsers changed upstream recently. i'm attaching a revised version of t

Bug#333587: fontforge: scriptable setting of the TTF weight (from the OS/2 tab of the Font View)

2005-10-12 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
Package: fontforge Version: 0.0.20050911-1.dkg.0 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch Attached is a patch to add a function SetTTFWeight() to fontforge's scripting commands, since i couldn't find a way to set this variable from any existing script function. You can currently access this information th

Bug#328468: confirming bug 328468

2005-09-20 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
I'm having the same problem reported here, on a mixed etch/sid system. i also don't have autoconf installed. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ dpkg -l autoconf Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-require

Bug#328468: confirming bug 328468

2005-09-21 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On September 21, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > Thanks! If you have time and know about make, I would like to ask you > to delve into the Makefile and try to understand _why_ the configure > target is called. I think it should not be. (Refer to the log of this > bug for a longer explanation.) I

Bug#320136: thirded

2005-09-22 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
i'm thirding this request. EnableWheelTimeout would be very useful for me. Alternatively, i'd be satisfied if debian would use the EmulateWheelClickToo [0] patch, which has arguably better semantics for those of us with TrackPoint devices (but may work worse for people with regular mice). it'

Bug#325929: openafs-dbserver: afs-newcell refuses to complete when `hostname` doesn't return FQDN and debconf's openafs-client/cell-info has a FQDN

2005-08-31 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
Package: openafs-dbserver Version: 1.3.81-3sarge1 Severity: normal doing a fairly standard installation of an openafs server, i got tripped up on afs-newcell. here's an example of the run which failed: korat:~/openafs# afs-newcell Prerequisites In order to set up a

Bug#322145: further status reports

2005-09-01 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
OK, i needed to reboot my machine, finally. i experienced the same problem other people were having with version 0.9.2-2 crashing the pam stack, which actually made it so that i couldn't log in at all (login and xdm both rely on libpam-opensc on my machine). Rebooting to recovery mode (no PAM, ju

Bug#404652: ITP: ttf-fifthhorseman-dkg-handwriting -- A goofy font that imitates the author's handwriting

2006-12-27 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Daniel Kahn Gillmor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I've created this font from a sample of my own handwriting. I've packaged it for debian. The package builds with no lintian/linda errors or warnings, and it is currently available via apt

Bug#408412: socat.1 manpage should refer to OPENSSL{, -LISTEN} instead of SSL-{CONNECT, LISTEN}

2007-01-25 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
Package: socat Version: 1.4.3.1-1 Severity: minor Tags: patch There appears to be some legacy cruft in the socat man page. The following patch should fix it. --- socat.1.orig2007-01-25 13:02:28.0 -0500 +++ socat.1 2007-01-25 13:04:42.0 -0500 @@ -1407,8 +1407,8 @@ ke

Bug#400849: 10.3 (just released) claims a fix for this problem

2006-12-12 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi folks-- this is definitely a serious bug, and 10.3 has been released, claiming to fix it. I would actually say that this bug makes trac unusable in a standard configuration (e.g. with an active svn repository, when hosted via apache). Perhaps the

Bug#337317: seeing this problem (or something very similar) with 0.6.11-1

2006-12-13 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 reopen 337317 thanks Hi folks-- I recently upgraded openct, and switched to kernel 2.6.18 as well -- i know: too many things changing at once! But i think i'm seeing a recurrence of this problem, unfortunately. After the switchover, i noticed that,

Bug#337317: seeing this problem (or something very similar) with 0.6.11-1

2006-12-13 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thanks for the quick followup, Andreas-- At 2006-12-13 22:10, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > If you have both /dev/bus/usb and /proc/bus/usb that is a bug in > your system config and can trigger this. hrm. /dev/bus/usb appears to be created/managed by

Bug#397683: trac 0.10.1 is available; it includes a security fix for a CSRF vulnerability

2006-11-08 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
Package: trac Version: 0.10-3dkg1 Severity: grave Tags: security Justification: user security hole Trac 0.10.1 is now available. It contains a fix for a CSRF vulnerability: http://trac.edgewall.org/wiki/TracDownload It would be great if this new version could make it into debian soon. Than

Bug#397744: nslu2-utils: leds choice of "fast" and "slow" are swapped.

2006-11-08 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
Package: nslu2-utils Version: 0.10+r71-1 Severity: minor i think the senses of "fast" and "slow" are reversed in the way that /usr/bin/leds sets up the lamps. I tend to think "fast" should be high frequency (short period), and "slow" should be low frequency (long period). the following patch fi

Bug#401623: Confirmation

2006-12-06 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At 2006-12-04 23:21, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > When receiving mail with X-DSPAM headers already present, > local dspam adds its own to the bottom. I just confirmed this: dspam does not replace already-present X-DSPAM headers on a functioning dspam 3

Bug#404652: ITP: ttf-fifthhorseman-dkg-handwriting -- A goofy font that imitates the author's handwriting

2007-01-08 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At 2006-12-27 22:51, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > Very nice font, thanks. I would gladly sponsor the upload but I can > do it only after January 8. If nobody steps forward until this > date, I will do it. Thanks, Rafael! I've taken your comments into

Bug#406090: putty: psftp crashes when it tries to mkdir a directory which already exists.

2007-01-08 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
Package: putty Version: 0.58-5 Severity: important Here's an example session showing the crash (with return code 134): [0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ psftp [EMAIL PROTECTED] Using username "xxx". Remote working directory is /home/xxx psftp> rmdir testdir rmdir /home/xxx/testdir: OK psftp> rmdir testdi

Bug#404652: ITP: ttf-fifthhorseman-dkg-handwriting -- A goofy font that imitates the author's handwriting

2007-01-08 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At 2007-01-08 17:38, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > There are though two further remaining issues: first, when running > the fontforge script, I see many error messages that I do not > remember seeing in the 0.009 version (see build log attached > below).

Bug#406090: putty: psftp crashes when it tries to mkdir a directory which already exists.

2007-01-08 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
At 2007-01-08 20:25, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > Thanks for your report. This was fixed upstream in SVN r5929, so > will be fixed in the upcoming putty 0.59. If it's urgent, I can > backport the fix? Not urgent for me, since i don't use psftp much. Thanks for the prompt response, though, and for i

Bug#260420: patch available

2007-01-08 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
.0+beta5/debian/changelog 2007-01-08 13:19:05.0 -0500 @@ -1,3 +1,10 @@ +gaim (1:2.0.0+beta5-9.1) unstable; urgency=low + + * NMU. + * added silc support. + + -- Daniel Kahn Gillmor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mon, 8 Jan 2007 13:19:05 -0500 + gaim (1:2.0.0+beta5-9)

Bug#306200: unit consistency in lvm

2007-01-09 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I agree that consistency and clarity of units is important in LVM and any other block device management tool. It's weird to see things like: monkey:~# vgs --units G vg_troop0 VG #PV #LV #SN Attr VSize VFree vg_troop0 1 0 0 wz--n-

Bug#167464: Intent to package libvorbisidec (aka "tremor") -- useful for FPU-less arm processors

2006-11-22 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
reopen 167464 retitle 167464 ITP: libvorbisidec - Integer-only Ogg Vorbis decoder, AKA "tremor" thanks I would like to maintain libvorbisidec, the integer-math-only Ogg Vorbis decoder, also known as "tremor". it is useful for my debian NSLU2 ("igor"), an arm-based device without a FPU. If i've

Bug#399965: cmus: pkg_config search for tremor (int-only vorbis decoder) is busted

2006-11-22 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
Package: cmus Version: 2.0.4-1 Severity: normal Tags: patch i'm intending to take over debian packaging for tremor, the integer-only vorbis decoder (see bug #167464). The tremor libraries are known as libvorbisidec. cmus is designed to work with either libvorbisidec or libvorbis. In the course

Bug#400301: dspam should not be run with hash drivers in daemon mode

2006-11-24 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
Package: dspam Version: 3.6.8-4 Severity: important Debian currently ships dspam with only the default set of hash storage drivers. We also ship /etc/init.d/dspam, which is designed to run dspam in daemon mode (though it is initally disabled in /etc/default/dspam). Buried in the /usr/share/doc/d

Bug#400301: [Pkg-dspam-misc] Bug#400301: dspam should not be run with hash drivers in daemon mode

2006-11-24 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On November 24, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > Yikes! i wish i'd noticed that earlier. Is it documented anywhere > else that anyone knows? in /usr/share/doc/dspam/README.gz, i just noticed that in one part it claims the hash driver is threadsafe: Driver Requirements

Bug#400301: [Pkg-dspam-misc] Bug#400301: dspam should not be run with hash drivers in daemon mode

2006-11-25 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On November 25, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > We should probably clarify it with the dspam developers, but dspam > seems to be currently stalled, for one reason or another. > > Any idea why? If you mean upstream dspam development seems to be stalled, it seems that way to me, too. Jonathan Zdziarski

Bug#396757: Confirmed

2006-11-25 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
i'm getting the same problem when i install gnupg-doc 2003.04.06-5 on a mixed etch/sid system: Setting up gnupg-doc (2003.04.06-5) ... warning: file `/usr/share/doc/gnupg-doc/GNU_Privacy_Handbook/html/book1.html' does not exist at /usr/sbin/install-docs line 718, line 12. warning: file `/usr/s

Bug#400804: putty-tools: puttygen can create world-readable private keys

2006-11-28 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
Package: putty-tools Version: 0.58-5 Severity: normal When i run puttygen (either to create a new key, or to translate an openssh-style key), the emitted ppk file (the putty private key) is created with the standard umask, which by default in debian leaves things world-readable. this is in contr

Bug#400806: Please include contrib/kh2reg.py somewhere like /usr/share/doc/putty-tools/contrib/

2006-11-28 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
Package: putty-tools Version: 0.58-5 Severity: wishlist When writing tools to interact with Windows systems, the kh2reg.py script in putty's contrib/ directory is actually pretty useful for pre-seeding windows registry Putty info with known hosts information. While i know i can grab it by fetchi

Bug#396667: confirmation and patch

2006-11-28 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
tags 396667 +patch thanks i'm seeing this also, when i try to build libivorbisidec ("tremor", the integer-math-only ogg vorbis decoder, a new package for debian). # Add here commands to configure the package. ./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr checking for autoconf... checking for automake... yes check

Bug#264339: Appears resolved for me with initrd-tools 0.1.76

2005-01-11 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
This appears to be fixed for me with version 0.1.76 of initrd-tools! Thanks for getting it straightened out. from the changelog: initrd-tools (0.1.76) unstable; urgency=low * Joshua Kwan - Fix typo in Harald's workaround for drivers not listing SCSI modules in /proc/scsi. (Closes: #2

Bug#276834: This is explained in the man page

2005-01-12 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
This is actually explained in the man page, though it is perhaps a bit cryptic. from man dosfsck: If -a and -r are absent, the file system is only checked, but not repaired. (note that -y is a synonym for -a). The confusing part is what the man page says about the -r flag:

Bug#402881: Confirming bug 402881

2007-02-06 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
I'm seeing this behavior as well. Is the problem the expectation of a '/' character in the symlink file name? --dkg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#410886: bug confirmation

2007-02-15 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
I had the same problem with this package just now on an etch system. my apt-get upgrade updated several packages, including postgresql-8.1 8.1.8-1 ssl-cert 1.0.14 It tried to configure postgresql-8.1 before it configured ssl-cert: ... Starting PostgreSQL 8.1 database server: main* The Postgr

Bug#413790: silc-toolkit: new upstream version available

2007-03-06 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
Package: silc-toolkit Version: 0.9.12-6 Severity: normal Thanks for cleaning this package up and putting it back in debian proper. The folks at silcnet.org are offering version 1.0.2 of the toolkit: http://silcnet.org/software/download/toolkit/ There are enough significant changes that you c

Bug#412111: can't reproduce

2007-03-21 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thanks for this report. i'm actually seeing a similar behavior on certain versions of Inkscape on Mac OS X, but i don't see it under debian. Under debian, i can open the tutorials fine either from the help menu or from File|Open. Is it possible that

Bug#416540: new webdeveloper feature: Forms|Insert Clean Submit Buttons

2007-03-28 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
+ diff -ur webdeveloper-1.0.2+0/debian/changelog webdeveloper-1.0.2+0.dkg/debian/changelog --- webdeveloper-1.0.2+0/debian/changelog 2007-03-28 15:55:10.0 -0400 +++ webdeveloper-1.0.2+0.dkg/debian/changelog 2007-03-28 1

Bug#410886: postgresql-8.1: package configuration failed after update, private SSL server.key not found

2007-02-18 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At 2007-02-18 12:10, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > Which version of ssl-cert did you have before? [0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ grep -e ssl-cert -e postgres /var/log/dpkg.log | grep ^2007-02-15 2007-02-15 09:30:32 upgrade postgresql-client-8.1 8.1.7-1 8.1.8-

Bug#412158: starttls: --verify option doesn't do anything

2007-02-23 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
Package: starttls Version: 0.10-3 Severity: normal Looking through the source for starttls, i see that --verify sets the int "opt_verify", but nothing else appears to use that variable. Am i misunderstanding something? If the goal is to make the starttls verify the remote host (which would be a

Bug#414839: mkvmlinuz fails with undefined reference to zlib_inflate_blocks* against 2.6.18-4-powerpc

2007-03-13 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
Subject: mkvmlinuz fails with undefined reference to zlib_inflate_blocks* against 2.6.18-4-powerpc Package: mkvmlinuz Version: 32 Severity: normal i'm not using mkvmlinuz as my sole bootloader: i am considering it as an alternate. However, running it by hand with a stock kernel and an initrd fai

Bug#414844: ITP: tweak -- an efficient hex editor

2007-03-13 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Daniel Kahn Gillmor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: tweak Version : 3.01 Upstream Author : Simon Tatham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/tweak/ * License : MIT

Bug#414844: Acknowledgement (ITP: tweak -- an efficient hex editor)

2007-03-13 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 OK, i've packaged tweak version 3.01 now. I've published binary packages for i386, arm, and powerpc (and of course the source as well). They work for me on both etch and sid. The packages are in an apt repository located at: http://lair.fifthhorse

Bug#414839: mkvmlinuz fails with undefined reference to zlib_inflate_blocks* against 2.6.18-4-powerpc

2007-03-14 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thanks for the quick response, Sven. On Wed 2007-03-14 08:28:38 -0400, Sven Luther wrote: > This is due to building on a powermac, which usually uses yaboot for > booting, i believe. This seems a strange error, because the same > kernel is building n

Bug#414844: Acknowledgement (ITP: tweak -- an efficient hex editor)

2007-03-14 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed 2007-03-14 11:23:35 -0400, Rafael Laboissiere wrote: > Okay, since I already sponsored a package from you, I am ready to do > it again for this one. I will give you a feedback on the tweak > package soon. Great! Thank you, Rafael. > BTW, th

Bug#414844: Acknowledgement (ITP: tweak -- an efficient hex editor)

2007-03-14 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thanks once again for the good feedback, Rafael. I'm working on these changes now. On Wed 2007-03-14 12:49:35 -0400, Rafael Laboissiere wrote: > * LICENCE: > + Are the contents of this file some standard boilerplate? The licensing > condition

Bug#414844: Acknowledgement (ITP: tweak -- an efficient hex editor)

2007-03-14 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
irement is only that all the files must be properly licensed, i think it's clear that they are, despite not including any internal notice. in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> at Wed, 14 Mar 2007 20:56:52 +, Simon Tatham wrote: > Daniel Kahn Gillmor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Bug#414964: lintian: debian-rules-missing-required-target references policy section 4.8 instead of 4.9

2007-03-14 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
Package: lintian Version: 1.23.28 Severity: minor /usr/share/lintian/checks/rules.desc contains the handy debian-rules-missing-required-target, but references the wrong debian policy section. It refers to section 4.8, but i think the appropriate section is 4.9, as seen here: /usr/share/doc/debi

Bug#414844: Acknowledgement (ITP: tweak -- an efficient hex editor)

2007-03-15 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu 2007-03-15 03:57:19 -0400, Rafael Laboissiere wrote: > I checked the package and I think that 3.01-2 has release quality. > If you agree, I will upload it to unstable. My comments below are > quite minor and you could implement them in a futur

Bug#414844: copyright notices and clarity

2007-03-16 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri 2007-03-16 13:40:05 -0400, Ian Jackson wrote: > What is required for a program to be in Debian is that we (which > includes the developers, our users, the ftpmasters, etc.) are > _clear_ on what the licence is, and which files are covered by wh

Bug#260420: silc in gaim?

2007-01-28 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Any word on getting silc into gaim? i see a new version of gaim just dropped into experimental, which includes cyrus SASL support. Cyrus SASL is good news for folks concerned with secure instant messaging. Thanks! Adding SILC back in would be even m

Bug#409555: Please have cron-apt Recommend: or Suggest: cron

2007-02-03 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
Package: cron-apt Severity: wishlist Please have cron-apt Recommend: or Suggest: cron itself, since the package isn't much use without it. I know this request sounds silly, but cron is only Priority: important, so a minimally-installed machine actually won't have cron. If you try to add cron-ap

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