Bug#326383: bird NMU for RC bugs

2005-11-17 Thread Steve Langasek
uld take a look at next time you upload. Cheers, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/ diff -u bird-1.0.4/d

Bug#339622: libfluidsynth-dev: [sparc] depends on no longer available libreadline4-dev

2005-11-17 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Nov 17, 2005 at 11:38:11PM +0100, Eric Van Buggenhaut wrote: > On Thu, Nov 17, 2005 at 10:14:38AM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 17, 2005 at 08:55:50AM -0800, Blars Blarson wrote: > > > Package: libfluidsynth-dev > > > Version: 1.

Bug#339622: libfluidsynth-dev: [sparc] depends on no longer available libreadline4-dev

2005-11-17 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Nov 18, 2005 at 03:10:12AM +0100, Eric Van Buggenhaut wrote: > On Thu, Nov 17, 2005 at 10:14:38AM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 17, 2005 at 08:55:50AM -0800, Blars Blarson wrote: > > > Package: libfluidsynth-dev > > > Version: 1.

Bug#339214: library package needs to be renamed (libstdc++ allocator change)

2005-11-17 Thread Steve Langasek
of libofx 1:0.8.0-4 built by autobuilders after clearing the NEW queue will immediately break packages which depend on libofx2 (changed ABI without changed package name), so it's not necessarily a good idea for the ftpmasters to *let* libofx through NEW in its present state... -- Steve Lang

Bug#336645: php4: not only dependent on register_globals

2005-11-17 Thread Steve Langasek
rity Team themselves feel an update is warranted, I'm more than happy to prepare one at their request regardless. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#339691: vacation does not wait for its sendmail child

2005-11-17 Thread Steve Langasek
is that a reasonable thing for the MDA to do? -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/ signature.asc Description

Bug#326382: please rebuild with libreadline5-dev as build dependency

2005-11-18 Thread Steve Langasek
heers, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/ diff -u cdcd-0.6.5/debian/changelog cdcd-0.6.5/debian/changelog ---

Bug#339007: php4-mapscript: php_mapscript.so is into incorrect directory

2005-11-18 Thread Steve Langasek
expects modules in /usr/lib/php4/20050606/, and packages using this interface need to depend on phpapi-20050606. You should be using php-config4 --extension-dir and php-config4 --phpapi respectively to determine these values, as the #defines PHP upstream provides in their headers for this are comple

Bug#339691: vacation does not wait for its sendmail child

2005-11-18 Thread Steve Langasek
clone 339691 -1 reassign -1 maildrop retitle -1 maildrop: kills processes it shouldn't severity 339691 normal thanks On Fri, Nov 18, 2005 at 10:44:26AM +0100, Vlada Macek wrote: > [At 18.11.2005 08:23, Steve Langasek kindly sent the following quotation.] > > On Fri, Nov 18, 2005

Bug#339720: never call debian/control rule and build this file during the build

2005-11-18 Thread Steve Langasek
regeneration is done as part of the clean target, it's guaranteed that the file included in the source package is the one used for building. So there is no release-critical bug here. Possibly no bug at all, but I'll leave it to the maintainers to decide whether to close. Cheers, -- Stev

Bug#339691: vacation does not wait for its sendmail child

2005-11-18 Thread Steve Langasek
up to run standalone (daemon), it should never be left > on its own by a parent. There should never be any zombies. Zombies mean > lame programmers. And the way to avoid zombies is by installing a proper SIGCHLD handler, *not* by killing child processes at an arbitrary point of the parent'

Bug#336645: php4: not only dependent on register_globals

2005-11-18 Thread Steve Langasek
ver-ending supply of exploitable bugs, I'm not keen to have them spend their time on a bug that is not confirmed to be exploitable within Debian. > Why not just move to 4.4.1 anyways? This is what will be done for unstable, but we don't do this for stable security updates. Even if we

Bug#339271: library package needs to be renamed (libstdc++ allocator change)

2005-11-18 Thread Steve Langasek
ame by simply setting better > dependencies on the rebuilds? (Library conflicts app, library shlibs > updated, app build-depends new library.) These are not "better" dependencies, because the library conflicts will result in apt trying to remove the app in some circumstances when up

Bug#247163: Bug #247163: time to fix this?

2005-11-18 Thread Steve Langasek
is. This is related to the introduction of strict FHS support in the Debian packages of Samba, and requires that this patch be refactored by someone who understands the issues involved (including issues of upgrade paths from existing Debian systems). -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever

Bug#234038: Bug#267988: marked as done (samba: No upgrade control on /etc/default/samba)

2005-11-18 Thread Steve Langasek
b.conf in /etc and replace by the Debian > package > -upgrade sarge to etch wfter modifying the smb.conf file > I have never been able to get the smb.conf overwritten. This bug isn't about smb.conf. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debia

Bug#339793: sed: In-place editing (-i flag) drops EA (ACLs and user-defined)

2005-11-18 Thread Steve Langasek
ng when *not* using the -i option to sed for in-place editing, I don't see any grounds for treating this as a grave bug. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROT

Bug#339711: dhcp-client: Severely broken on sparc

2005-11-18 Thread Steve Langasek
ect the udeb on sparc the same as it affects the deb. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/ signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#326380: please rebuild with libreadline5-dev as build dependency

2005-11-19 Thread Steve Langasek
Hi Robert, > packages are ready and are waiting for my sponsor to upload them If these packages are available on-line somewhere, I'd be happy to sponsor this upload for you. Cheers, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian D

Bug#333835: ctrlproxy: Eats up memory making the system unusable

2005-11-19 Thread Steve Langasek
n the bug report, I agree that sounds release-critical. Cheers, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debia

Bug#339793: sed: In-place editing (-i flag) drops EA (ACLs and user-defined)

2005-11-19 Thread Steve Langasek
e the bug and it's little brothers > more serious, because it's not isolated... I don't think that's realistic. I suspect there are quite a number of package maintainer scripts that don't even preserve *basic* Unix permissions when making changes to config files. The

Bug#339852: libgdal1c2: Broken replaces dependency

2005-11-19 Thread Steve Langasek
s here should be minimal, though; downgrading accordingly. Cheers, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/ si

Bug#339154: [pkg-boost-devel] boost and new g++

2005-11-19 Thread Steve Langasek
-4? > Steve, how is there? how we are going? :)) Per Matthias's email, it's ok to rename this package now with the c2 ending, and upload it built with the new compiler. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer

Bug#339214: library package needs to be renamed (libstdc++ allocator change)

2005-11-19 Thread Steve Langasek
t; this case? He was not responding to my email, but to an out-of-band request I made to him asking him to comment on your concerns as the member of the ftp team who does most of the NEW processing currently. Sorry, I know "out-of-band" is a sub-optimal answer, but that's

Bug#339711: dhcp-client: Severely broken on sparc

2005-11-19 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sat, Nov 19, 2005 at 03:05:47PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > On Saturday 19 November 2005 05:05, Steve Langasek wrote: > > What's holding up the switch to dhcp3-client-udeb? Andrew Pollock did > > a lot of work earlier this year to get it ready for d-i use. Is there > &g

Bug#334089: remotely segfaultable, DOS

2005-11-19 Thread Steve Langasek
n trying to valgrind centericq. I don't suspect that it's relevant to a stable security update, but the maintainer may want to consider including it in his next upload to unstable. Thanks, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer

Bug#339961: rsplib-dev: file conflict with rsplib1

2005-11-19 Thread Steve Langasek
obytes, so I won't attach it, but I'd be glad to > mail it on request. If /usr/lib/librsplib.so is the only file that conflicts, then the correct fix for this is for rsplib-dev to Replace: rsplib1, without conflicting. Cheers, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enoug

Bug#339955: [Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#339955: sysv-rc: /etc/init.d/*.sh should be sourced in runlevel S

2005-11-19 Thread Steve Langasek
ll other runlevels". > What a strange thing for policy to specify. :) > This will make it impossible to speed up the rcS.d boot by running > scripts in parallel. It does not sound sensible to me. It's perfectly sensible: if the scripts were meant to be run in parallel, they

Bug#317963: quodlibet: fails to start on x86_64

2005-11-19 Thread Steve Langasek
any good reason for obfuscating the python files in this manner within the Debian package. (I can think of some good reasons for doing so when distributing a bundle *outside* of Debian, but they don't apply here.) Please, stop shipping quodlibet in a zip file, so that amd64 users are also able to use

Bug#337897: dancer-ircd: server fails to start with warning: different zlib version

2005-11-19 Thread Steve Langasek
o, forward some config information to the bug report so that the bug can be reproduced? Thanks, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#317963: quodlibet: fails to start on x86_64

2005-11-19 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, Nov 20, 2005 at 01:01:16AM -0600, Joe Wreschnig wrote: > On Sat, 2005-11-19 at 22:20 -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > > Yes, this failure is due to a bug in python2.3, but seriously -- this isn't > > Java, and zip files aren't cool. I really can't see any good

Bug#339955: [Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#339955: sysv-rc: /etc/init.d/*.sh should be sourced in runlevel S

2005-11-20 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, Nov 20, 2005 at 08:20:59AM +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > [Steve Langasek] > > It's perfectly sensible: if the scripts were meant to be run in > > parallel, they shouldn't have the ".sh" extension... > Eh, are you claiming that policy mention

Bug#316637: newt: Etch is expected to be fully Unicode-compliant so fribidi should be in Depends, not Recommends

2005-11-20 Thread Steve Langasek
n a UTF-8 locale as correctly as they do in a single-byte locale. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.o

Bug#340035: quodlibet: png files in /usr/lib violates FHS

2005-11-20 Thread Steve Langasek
ity, at the distributor's discretion." http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/fhs/fhs-4.7.html -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#340049: antlr-2.7.5/examples/java/unicode.IDENTs/ShowString.java fails DFSG #1

2005-11-20 Thread Steve Langasek
keep in mind that non-free code should not be distributed at all in main, including in source packages, even if it's not shipped in binary packages. I imagine you'll need to roll a new .orig.tar.gz for this. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian De

Bug#340079: insecure tempfiles

2005-11-20 Thread Steve Langasek
at "$1" > tempfile > mv tempfile "$2" Yes, because the tool may be run in an untrusted directory that can be written to by an attacker. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on

Bug#316637: newt: Etch is expected to be fully Unicode-compliant so fribidi should be in Depends, not Recommends

2005-11-20 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, Nov 20, 2005 at 11:43:47PM +0200, Martin-Éric Racine wrote: > su, 2005-11-20 kello 10:16 -0800, Steve Langasek kirjoitti: > > On Sun, Nov 20, 2005 at 07:29:00PM +0200, Martin-Éric Racine wrote: > > > Given how Unicode compliance is a release goal for Etch, having &g

Bug#314385: Agreement?

2005-11-21 Thread Steve Langasek
s where the library is important enough to keep around for binary compatibility with software external to Debian. I don't have reason to believe this is the case for libfreetype; do you? Thanks, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Dev

Bug#314385: Agreement?

2005-11-21 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Nov 21, 2005 at 11:45:05AM +0100, Loic Minier wrote: > On Mon, Nov 21, 2005, Steve Langasek wrote: > > This procedure should be avoided except in cases where the library is > > important enough to keep around for binary compatibility with software > > external to

Bug#340163: 3ddesktop: links to libfreetype6, which is going away

2005-11-21 Thread Steve Langasek
he near future. Since 3ddesktop doesn't use freetype, I'm filing this bug at "grave" severity pre-emptively, to encourage you to get your package free of the transition before it starts. Cheers, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Fr

Bug#340208: uninstallable, needs rebuild

2005-11-21 Thread Steve Langasek
.1; it depends (by mistake) on libroken16-kerberos4kth, which is the package that has the dependency on libdb4.1. I'll get the dependency on libroken removed (it only applies to i386), but it's libroken that breaks with the removal of libdb4.1. -- Steve Langasek Give

Bug#340260: abiword: missing build-dependency on libfreetype6-dev

2005-11-21 Thread Steve Langasek
6-dev directly since it uses it directly. Cheers, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/ signature.asc Descri

Bug#338900: reportbug: smtp connection direct to master.debian.org is fails

2005-11-22 Thread Steve Langasek
ookup for bugs.debian.org. Now, it's a problem because master.d.o is no longer an MX for bugs.d.o (and should not be). -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTEC

Bug#340284: mozilla-firefox: "su root -c firefox" gives root access to any other firefox loaded.

2005-11-22 Thread Steve Langasek
y that you were already logged into. If I even just run ssh -CX [EMAIL PROTECTED] -f firefox instead of su'ing directly, the firefox profiles are not shared. There is no evidence that arbitrary users are going to be able to get into root's firefox session this way. -- Steve Langasek

Bug#340289: amaya: missing build-dependency on libfreetype6-dev

2005-11-22 Thread Steve Langasek
, this will cause amaya to stop supporting freetype, which should probably be considered a misbuild. Please add libfreetype6-dev to the build-dependencies explicitly. Thanks, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it

Bug#314385: Agreement?

2005-11-22 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Nov 21, 2005 at 07:51:56AM -0800, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > On Mon, Nov 21, 2005 at 03:33:49AM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 21, 2005 at 11:45:05AM +0100, Loic Minier wrote: > > > Anyway, your preferred option seems saner, and quite doable given the > &

Bug#340395: amule-utils: links to libfreetype6, which is going away

2005-11-23 Thread Steve Langasek
it starts. The patch is very straightforward, so I hope you'll be able to apply it quickly. Cheers, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#293185: squidguard: Please use a newer version of Berkeley DB

2005-11-23 Thread Steve Langasek
he packages can be found at this URL: > http://tuco.sfritsch.de/~stf/squidguard/ I'm preparing to upload this. Thanks, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can

Bug#293185: squidguard: Please use a newer version of Berkeley DB

2005-11-23 Thread Steve Langasek
Hi Stefan, On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 12:14:58AM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 10:23:49AM +0100, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: > > On Tue, 2005-11-22 at 10:22 +0100, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: > > > Hello, > > > Stefan Fritsch has prepared a QA upload

Bug#340401: libmagick9-dev: Magick-config --ldflags spits out things that aren't flags

2005-11-23 Thread Steve Langasek
--libs and --ldflags, it would be helpful if you would put each in the right bucket. :) -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.

Bug#340406: libvte-dev: please do not export unnecessary libraries in vte.pc

2005-11-23 Thread Steve Langasek
orted pkg-config. It might be worthwhile to clean up the configure script to use pkg-config for handling freetype, unless upstream thinks it's important to continue supporting FreeType2 << 2.1.5. Thanks, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debia

Bug#340412: vte: requires freetype2 to build, but doesn't build-depend on it

2005-11-23 Thread Steve Langasek
-dependency to the vte control file where it belongs. Thanks, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/ signature.asc

Bug#340416: gtk+2.0: builds against freetype2, but doesn't build-depend on it

2005-11-23 Thread Steve Langasek
, and not just through pango, this should be a build-dependency of gtk+2.0; please add it to the control file where it belongs. Thanks, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL

Bug#340412: vte: requires freetype2 to build, but doesn't build-depend on it

2005-11-23 Thread Steve Langasek
he buildds. For completeness' sake, vte should still build-depend on freetype since it uses it directly. Thanks, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the wo

Bug#231806: Bug #231806: Explain why we don't package findsmb, smbtar, etc. in samba?

2005-11-23 Thread Steve Langasek
the > minimum. Let's wait for the advice of other contributors to the samba package No particular reason, AFAIK. If you decide to put together a samba-utils package, please make sure that everything you put in it is both useful, and functional on Debian. :) Cheers, -- Steve Langasek

Bug#339955: not really serious

2005-11-23 Thread Steve Langasek
ase the bug ranges somewhere between "policy violation" and "breaks unrelated packages, so I think it's best to mark it as serious here for now. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, an

Bug#320260: problems libtoolizing qgo

2005-11-24 Thread Steve Langasek
: old version is something else Well, that's a rather disturbing upstream setup. You have two choices: - move admin/ltmain.sh to admin/old-ltmain.sh (*why* would upstream do this?), and make ltmain.sh a symlink to old-ltmain.sh again - repackage the upstream tarball with a distinguishing up

Bug#340416: gtk+2.0: builds against freetype2, but doesn't build-depend on it

2005-11-24 Thread Steve Langasek
t into testing until freetype is figured out. OTOH, gtk+2.0 already has to be uploaded *for* the freetype transition, then uploading gtk 2.8 at the same time as freetype gets sorted out seems like a good idea to me. Cheers, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a

Bug#340570: samba: Please do checks before modifying debian/control

2005-11-24 Thread Steve Langasek
rs from that in the source package (owing to changes in the behavior of type-handling). Yes, this should be moved to a separate target. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I ca

Bug#340570: samba: Please do checks before modifying debian/control

2005-11-24 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Nov 24, 2005 at 10:36:59AM +0100, Thomas Viehmann wrote: > Steve Langasek wrote: > > If type-handling is not present, then you have a broken build environment, > > because type-handling is listed in the Build-Depends: field for samba and > > Build-Depends *are* requir

Bug#340608: fai: nfsroot should not be in /usr

2005-11-25 Thread Steve Langasek
ce it's > nfsroot there. See #309554. Could you elaborate on why you believe this is an FHS violation? Is the fai nfsroot not shareable, or is it not read-only? (I would expect an nfsroot image to be both...) -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS D

Bug#339955: TODO

2005-11-25 Thread Steve Langasek
nlevel manager in Debian and millions of people use it, if no one has yet reported breakage as a result of not sourcing .sh scripts, my concern about this breaking "unrelated packages or the whole system" is invalid. Downgrading again, with apologies. Cheers, -- Steve Langasek

Bug#340699: firestarter breaks nis

2005-11-25 Thread Steve Langasek
reason to treat this as a grave bug, either. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/ signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#340704: rar support violates DFSG #4

2005-11-25 Thread Steve Langasek
x27;s being suggested, and it is generally considered acceptable to Suggest: non-free packages from main anyway. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROT

Bug#340729: sylpheed-claws-gtk2: links to libfreetype6, which is going away

2005-11-25 Thread Steve Langasek
shortly. Cheers, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/ diff -u sylpheed-claws-gtk2-1.9.100/debian/changelog

Bug#339146: library package needs to be renamed (libstdc++ allocator change)

2005-11-25 Thread Steve Langasek
If their only use is for plugins or similar, though, then this probably isn't necessary after all. Cheers, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the wor

Bug#340730: [php-maint] Bug#340730: Bug Report

2005-11-25 Thread Steve Langasek
Debian > package. That would be an unsatisfied dependency in the *php-image-canvas* Debian package, not in the php-pear package. It's not php-pear's fault if php-image-canvas depends on a file that nothing provides. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enou

Bug#320260: still more problems with libtool + qgo

2005-11-25 Thread Steve Langasek
ywhere > how can I fix it ? > is there any doc somewhere or someone in IRC/mailing lists to help me > with that ? If you follow the directions at <http://people.debian.org/~keybuk/libtool-updating.html>, this shouldn't happen. -- Steve Langasek Give me a le

Bug#340716: missing conflict/replaces

2005-11-25 Thread Steve Langasek
if you *don't* conflict, there's nothing telling the user that packages depending on libginac1.3c2 will break. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#340608: fai: nfsroot should not be in /usr

2005-11-25 Thread Steve Langasek
severity 340608 important thanks On Fri, Nov 25, 2005 at 01:41:18PM +0100, Pierre THIERRY wrote: > Scribit Steve Langasek dies 25/11/2005 hora 00:56: > > > According to the FHS, ``/usr is shareable, read-only data''. So FAI > > > should not by default try to write

Bug#340704: rar support violates DFSG #4

2005-11-25 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Nov 25, 2005 at 01:34:23PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: > On Fri, Nov 25, 2005 at 02:41:49AM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > > Sorry, I have to disagree with these bug severities; Suggests: are just not > > important enough in our packaging system to treat them as r

Bug#340699: firestarter breaks nis

2005-11-25 Thread Steve Langasek
not a definition, this is only an explanation of one type of package relationship that *disqualifies* a bug for being of critical severity. :) Software may be "related" in other ways than through dependency fields -- like I said, a firewall and a network application are another case of rela

Bug#340809: lirc: asks whether to create devices, instead of telling

2005-11-25 Thread Steve Langasek
should be able to *check* whether they are there, and skip the prompt if no device creation is needed... Cheers, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [

Bug#340809: lirc: asks whether to create devices, instead of telling

2005-11-25 Thread Steve Langasek
active DevFS. Aborting MAKEDEV invocation." # use exit 0, not 1, so postinst scripts don't fail on this exit 0 fi Also, lirc is creating not just /dev/lirc, but also two pipes: /dev/lircd and /dev/lircm. Even though historically a number of packages have done this, pipes don'

Bug#338226: lirc-modules-source: does not build without kernel-source

2005-11-26 Thread Steve Langasek
ifies as "important". (BTW, "serious" is the wrong severity anyway; "no longer builds from source" refers to being able to build *source* packages, not binary packages containing kernel module sources.) Thanks, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lev

Bug#340833: winbind: logrotate complains about missing /var/log/samba

2005-11-26 Thread Steve Langasek
by the samba package, not the winbind package. I'm not sure why you would want to have winbind installed without samba, but it's *valid* according to the dependencies, so this is a bug that should be fixed by having winbind also include the log directory. Cheers, -- Steve Langasek

Bug#340833: winbind: logrotate complains about missing /var/log/samba

2005-11-26 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sat, Nov 26, 2005 at 12:12:50PM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote: > Quoting Steve Langasek ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Right, this would be because the /var/log/samba directory is only provided > > by the samba package, not the winbind package. I'm not sure why you would >

Bug#340608: fai: nfsroot should not be in /usr

2005-11-26 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sat, Nov 26, 2005 at 12:41:10PM +0100, Pierre THIERRY wrote: > Scribit Steve Langasek dies 25/11/2005 hora 18:42: > > I certainly agree that it's desirable to never have anything written > > to /usr except by the package management system and to be able to keep > > it

Bug#338226: lirc-modules-source: does not build without kernel-source

2005-11-26 Thread Steve Langasek
t by default; maybe it makes sense to change this default, given the requirement for a full kernel source tree when building it? -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMA

Bug#340857: totem-xine: claims to support LIRC, but doesn't

2005-11-26 Thread Steve Langasek
necessary initialization function in order to connect to lircd and listen for events! An strace of totem likewise shows that the lirc config is never read, and the lircd pipe is never opened. Please fix totem so that it's usable with a remote. Thanks, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever

Bug#340608: fai: nfsroot should not be in /usr

2005-11-26 Thread Steve Langasek
ch ?) FHS 2.3 for etch is still an open question, as there are some transition issues. But as far as I'm concerned, /srv is fine for packages to begin using. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I

Bug#339144: library package needs to be renamed (libstdc++ allocator change)

2005-11-27 Thread Steve Langasek
generation code to be compatible with g++ 4.0. This patch is attached, and I'll be uploading the package shortly to the NEW queue. If you disagree, please make a maintainer upload in its place. Thanks, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free

Bug#312129: unixodbc-dev: header files should be better in /usr/include/odbc/

2005-06-05 Thread Steve Langasek
libiodbc2-dev has its headers under a different name. > Including the headers with e.g. is more significant, > too. It's also not the traditional interface used everywhere else. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#311749: INTL:vi

2005-06-06 Thread Steve Langasek
are Foundation, Inc. # Clytie Siddall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 2005. Has the copyright for this translation actually been assigned to the FSF? If so, under what license is it being made available to Debian? -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#203001: ITA: hesiod -- Utilities for Project Athena's service name resolution protocl

2005-06-06 Thread Steve Langasek
Hi Karl, The portability bug in hesiod has been fixed now in an NMU, so the package is pretty much up for grabs -- are you still interested in it? Thanks, -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#308819: openmotif: affected by vulnerabilities in libxpm

2005-06-06 Thread Steve Langasek
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Bug#310982: smbmount does not honor uid and gid options with 2.4 kernel

2005-06-06 Thread Steve Langasek
reopen 310982 tags 310982 security thanks samba 3.0.14a-4 didn't make the cut for sarge, so this bug is still present in the release. That being the case, it would be far better to fix this bug in the kernel instead of in smbfs. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer signatur

Bug#312267: t1lib-old: This package should not be released in next stable (etch)

2005-06-06 Thread Steve Langasek
her than later? IMHO a bug against ftp.debian.org is appropriate at this point. Cheers, -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#310982: smbmount does not honor uid and gid options with 2.4 kernel

2005-06-07 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 06:42:33PM +0900, Horms wrote: > On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 04:19:28AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > > reopen 310982 > > tags 310982 security > > thanks > > > > samba 3.0.14a-4 didn't make the cut for sarge, so this bug is still prese

Bug#312493: devscripts: please add support for the etch tag to /usr/bin/bts

2005-06-08 Thread Steve Langasek
Package: devscripts Version: 2.8.14 Severity: normal Subject says it all... sarge is out, so bts should support the new 'etch' tag :) -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-2-686-smp Locale: LAN

Bug#312483: libmyodbc: Tables cannot be edited with Openoffice.

2005-06-08 Thread Steve Langasek
nd. So, I doubt that downgrading to 3.51.06 would actually help you very much; but if this workaround works for 3.51.06 and not for 3.51.09, then yes, I'm quite disappointed that no one filed a bug against libmyodbc before the release. :/ -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#277074: Useless without 'abuse' or 'abuse-sdl' packages

2005-06-08 Thread Steve Langasek
im that it's obsolete still seems to apply? -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#312483: libmyodbc: Tables cannot be edited with Openoffice.

2005-06-08 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 07:39:15PM +, Uwe Brauer wrote: > >>>>> "Steve" == Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Steve> Is this bug related to bug #240634? It has been reported since at > least > Steve> 3.51.06 that there were

Bug#312292: Processed: your mail

2005-06-08 Thread Steve Langasek
en for this package, and sarge doesn't have version 1.0.28 anyway. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#309739: Processed: Unfixed in Woody

2005-06-09 Thread Steve Langasek
tiff4: vulnerable to CAN-2005-1544 > Tags were: security > Tags added: woody Why was this bug reopened? There is no libtiff4 package in woody. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#312483: libmyodbc: Tables cannot be edited with Openoffice.

2005-06-09 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 04:18:48PM +, Uwe Brauer wrote: > >>>>> "Steve" == Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Steve> On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 07:39:15PM +, Uwe Brauer wrote: > >> >>>>> "Steve" ==

Bug#312483: libmyodbc: Tables cannot be edited with Openoffice.

2005-06-10 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 11:31:06PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 04:18:48PM +, Uwe Brauer wrote: > > >>>>> "Steve" == Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Steve> On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 07:39:15PM

Bug#312821: Configuration is world-readable

2005-06-10 Thread Steve Langasek
gt; release. That would seem to be a user-level security hole, not a root-level security hole, so the proper severity would be "grave". And of course, the bug should be tagged "security". -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#312879: jigdo fails to download smbclient for stable version.

2005-06-10 Thread Steve Langasek
r, your network connection, or the jigdo file, but not in the smbclient package itself. What mirror were you pulling packages from, and is the error reproducible if you point at a different mirror? -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#312879: jigdo fails to download smbclient for stable version.

2005-06-10 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 04:09:41PM -0500, Ismael Chavez Alvarez wrote: > On Fri, 10 Jun 2005, Steve Langasek wrote: > >On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 09:40:50AM -0500, Ismael Chavez Alvarez wrote: > >>Package: smbclient > >>Severity: normal > > > >>In d

Bug#272127: freecdb: does not provide a shared library

2005-06-10 Thread Steve Langasek
Hi Tommi, Since freecdb was already considered dead roughly a year ago, should we be thinking about pulling it from etch and forcing its reverse-dependencies to migrate to tinycdb? Thanks, -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer signature.asc Description: Digital signature

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