Bug#706679: Missing Depends: file

2014-01-02 Thread Trent W. Buck
Stuart Pook wrote: > I have the "expr: syntax error" as well expr doesn't appear in the codebase as at debian/4.0_alpha30-1. This appears to be the commit that fixes it. The new version could probably use SUS parameter expansion: $ busybox ash BusyBox v1.18.4 (Ubuntu 1:1.18.4-2ubuntu2)

Bug#739258: has_option ignores first line of file

2014-02-17 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: x11-common Version: 1:7.7+6 Severity: normal File: /etc/X11/Xsession.d/20x11-common_process-args There is a straightforward bug in Xsession.options parsing: if the first line is an option, it's ignored. echo use-session-dbus >/etc/X11/Xsession.options will not dbus-launch, but pr

Bug#445513: interesting race condition with mutex logins

2014-02-17 Thread Trent W. Buck
althaser wrote: > Could you please try to reproduce this issue with newer version of > gnome-terminal like 3.4.1.1-2 or 3.10.1-1 ? I can probably find time for that in the next week or two. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#736380: RFA: paredit-el -- Emacs minor mode for structurally editing Lisp code

2014-01-22 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: wnpp Severity: normal I request an adopter for the paredit-el package. The package description is: Paredit mode instruments several common keybindings to automatically balance all parentheses and respect the structure of S-expressions; it also provides numerous high-level operations t

Bug#737595: Warning when installed with --path-exclude=/usr/share/doc/*

2014-02-03 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: kgoldrunner Version: 4:4.8.4-3 Severity: wishlist Debian Policy §12.3 says packages are supposed to work when /usr/share/doc is absent. When I tried it, I got this info dialog: Get Folders - KGoldRunner Cannot find documentation sub-folder 'en/kgoldrunner/' in area '/root/.kde/sh

Bug#738495: "mono install" hides "Mono requires /proc" error

2014-02-09 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: mono Version: 2.10.8.1-8 Severity: normal Installing gbrainy into a chroot failed. It didn't say *why*. I've seen java fail because /proc wasn't mounted, so I specifically went looking for that. mono-gac.postinst -> /usr/share/cli-common/gac-install mono -> /usr/share/cli-common/gac-pack

Bug#732249: cal -M (like ncal -M)

2013-12-15 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: bsdmainutils Version: 9.0.5 Severity: wishlist File: /usr/bin/cal "ncal -M" starts weeks on Monday. "cal -M" gives an error. I wish "cal -M" started weeks on Monday. See also http://bugs.debian.org/729336 . -- System Information: Debian Release: jessie/sid APT prefers testing APT po

Bug#732249: cal -M (like ncal -M)

2013-12-16 Thread Trent W. Buck
Michael Meskes wrote: > On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 11:06:02AM +1100, Trent W. Buck wrote: > > "ncal -M" starts weeks on Monday. > > "cal -M" gives an error. > > I wish "cal -M" started weeks on Monday. > > See also http://bugs.debian.org/72

Bug#734331: RFH: mg -- microscopic GNU Emacs-style editor

2014-01-05 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: wnpp Severity: normal I request assistance with maintaining the mg package. There's been a new release waiting to go for months, but I have been too lazy to do it. I need someone to either do it or nag me into doing it. Current mg has a dependency on a new C library "clens". A working d

Bug#663941: Cannot rebase commits at midnight, 1 Jan 1970 (epoch 0)

2014-01-06 Thread Trent W. Buck
Jonathan Nieder wrote: > Version: 1:1.7.9.1-1 > notfound 663941 git/1:1.7.9.1-1 > quit > > Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote: > > > I just tested this, and with v1.7.9.1~8 I get the error message "fatal: > > invalid date format: 0 +", and with v1.7.9.1~7 (i.e. after the > > branch with the su

Bug#734331: RFH: mg -- microscopic GNU Emacs-style editor

2014-01-12 Thread Trent W. Buck
Peter De Wachter wrote: > Hi Trent, > I'd like to help with mg. I'm not a DD, so I won't be able to sponsor, > but I can help with anything else. Thanks. I'm usually in #debian-mentors on irc.oftc.net from ca. 10AM to 6PM Australia/Melbourne time. The mg stuff probably still says it's maintained

Bug#734331: mg-20131118 sans clens

2014-01-14 Thread Trent W. Buck
Han, Peter (another Debian packager) made mg works with libbsd alone; no clens. Is this likely to bite us on the ass later? Adding clens to Debian is work we'd rather avoid if possible. --- Begin Message --- On 13-01-14 00:19, Trent W. Buck wrote: > I'm usually in #debi

Bug#734331: RFH: mg -- microscopic GNU Emacs-style editor

2014-01-16 Thread Trent W. Buck
Peter, Peter De Wachter wrote: > Ok, I've taken a look, and I think we don't need to bother with clens at > all. As far as I can tell it only duplicates stuff that's already in > libbsd. I've attached a trivial patch to use that library and it seems > to work fine. Can you check if that's okay wit

Bug#729041: breaks panic=N (users can get a ramdisk shell)

2013-11-08 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: live-boot Version: 3.0.1-1 Severity: normal Below, I'm deliberately starting a Debian Wheezy live-boot system without ANY access to its root filesystem. (As a test for this happening as a result of a transient network outage.) Because panic=N is passed, it's *supposed* to reboot without

Bug#752492: mount(8klibc) does not support --no-canonicalize -- breaks httpfs2 in live-boot

2014-06-23 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: fuse Version: 2.9.3-10 Severity: normal When I try to use httpfs2 from within an initramfs-tools ramdisk, I get httpfs2 http://example.net/filesystem.squashfs /filesystem /bin/mount: invalid option -- There's no instance of "--" in the httpfs2 source. In both 2.9.0-2+deb7u1 and 2.9.

Bug#744167: udhcpc down script assumes pidfile exists

2014-04-10 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: ifupdown Version: 0.7.48.1 Severity: minor This morning when I turned on my machine, for some reason I got an IP address but no route, so I did root@frey:~# ifdown wlan0 ifdown: interface wlan0 not configured root@frey:~# ifup wlan0 ifup: interface wlan0 already configur

Bug#744836: "Device driver support needs thus be built-in linux image!" --> "Ensure all necessary drivers are built into the linux image!"

2014-04-15 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: initramfs-tools Version: 0.115 Severity: wishlist File: /usr/sbin/mkinitramfs When building a live-boot image with a custom kernel that lacks CONFIG_MODULE, I ran into this warning output: Setting up linux-image-3.13.7inmate (3.13.7inmate-1) ... update-initramfs: Generating /boot

Bug#742759: Consider removing "userhelper must be setuid root"

2014-03-26 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: usermode Version: 1.109-1 Severity: wishlist I am using usermode to let LDAP users change their attributes (password, shell, full name) from the GUI. This doesn't require root privileges, because the accounts aren't on the local machine at all: # chmod 755 /usr/bin/passwd # su -

Bug#743464: After this operation, N MB would have been used. [-s, --simulate, --just-print, --dry-run, --recon, --no-act]

2014-04-02 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: apt Version: 0.9.16.1 Severity: wishlist File: /usr/bin/apt-get I want to generate lists of install sizes. I don't mean the Installed-Size of the package I'm asking for, but the aggregate of everything that'll be installed. For example $ sudo apt-get install libreoffice --assume-no

Bug#743468: Replace GenericName "Board Game" with "Sudoku" in menu.

2014-04-02 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: gnudoq Version: 0.94-2.1 Severity: minor When you have a bunch of board games installed like chess, go and shogi, it's silly to have sudoku appear in the menu as "Board Game", which is what happens in xfce4-panel with 'show-generic-names' turned on. I think the generic name "Board Game"

Bug#743476: Strange path /usr/etc/default/keyboard.VARIANT

2014-04-03 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: console-setup Version: 1.102 Severity: minor File: /bin/setupcon In the following transcript, the path setupcon claims to search does not match its documentation and is not an FHS 2.3 path. # setupcon --help |& grep VARIANT Usage: setupcon [OPTION] [VARIANT] If VARIANT is not

Bug#743476: Acknowledgement (Strange path /usr/etc/default/keyboard.VARIANT)

2014-04-03 Thread Trent W. Buck
Update: strace indicates it can find my file, but ignores it? # ls -ld /etc/default/console-setup.small -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 77 Apr 3 18:20 /etc/default/console-setup.small # strace -etrace=file setupcon --font-only --verbose small execve("/bin/setupcon", ["setupcon", "--font-o

Bug#514651: request for enhancement: core.newwhitespace=error

2014-04-28 Thread Trent W. Buck
#514651 is about "this should be possible", I wrote the below about "this should be easy", before I found #514651. I'll sending it just in chance it's actually useful. I want to be able to say, on a user-wide basis, 1. these things are whitespace errors; 2. NEVER let me introduce whitespac

Bug#746560: please package tig 2.0.1

2014-05-29 Thread Trent W. Buck
Aníbal, Sebastian, Aníbal Monsalve Salazar wrote: > Please package tig 2.0.1 available at: > http://jonas.nitro.dk/tig/releases/tig-2.0.1.tar.gz I've done the first pass at packaging tig 2. I haven't updated debian/copyright, but I did the other things I usually do. Lintian is happy except for

Bug#751199: RFP: shellcheck -- static analysis and linting tool for sh/bash scripts

2014-06-10 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: shellcheck Version : 0.3.3 Upstream Author : Vidar Holen * URL : https://hackage.haskell.org/package/ShellCheck * License : Affero GPL3 Programming Lang: Haskell Description : static analysis and linting

Bug#643948: Doesn't occur when LDAP is unencrypted

2014-05-14 Thread Trent W. Buck
Arthur, This datapoint is probably intuitive, but I'll point it out anyway. I've been running 0.9.2-1wheezy1 (my own backport) on top of wheezy for a while, and never saw this issue. In the last couple of weeks, I switched from unencrypted ldap://ldap to encrypted ldaps://ldap, and now I'm seein

Bug#741579: Hard-codes broken udhcpc args

2014-03-13 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: ifupdown Version: 0.7.47.2 Severity: normal inet.defn has this: udhcpc -n -p /run/udhcpc.%iface%.pid -i %iface% [[-H %hostname%]] \ [[-c %client%]] \ elsif (execable("/sbin/udhcpc") && mylinuxver() >= mylinux(2,2,0)) But -H is not valid in the old udhcpc still in

Bug#741593: Support profiling of ramdisk (a.k.a. initramfs, initrd)

2014-03-14 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: bootchart2 Version: 0.14.4-3 Severity: wishlist Currently bootchart2 can be used to profile everything after init easily, by booting with init=/sbin/bootchartd. I have some netboot kiosks that spend about 10s in the ramdisk doing boot=live (live-initramfs-tools) and then another 10s or s

Bug#741593: Support profiling of ramdisk (a.k.a. initramfs, initrd)

2014-03-16 Thread Trent W. Buck
Riccardo, I added /etc/initramfs-tools/hooks/bootchart2 as per #603656, and ran update-initramfs -ukall. With init=/sbin/bootchartd, the system boots normally. When I add rdinit=/sbin/bootchartd, it hangs at the kernel message "switched to clocksource tsc". The keyboard isn't working so I can't i

Bug#742003: Additional notes

2014-03-17 Thread Trent W. Buck
From #d-mentors, [...] twb> Actually the reason is that under wheezy, scribus templates assume Arial is in the path twb> And installing Liberation fonts doesn't help twb> It just pops up a thing saying "what typeface should I use instead?" which defaults to the *FIRST* font in the list, lexicogr

Bug#741593: Support profiling of ramdisk (a.k.a. initramfs, initrd)

2014-03-18 Thread Trent W. Buck
I did some more investigation, and after reading /sbin/bootchartd came up with a simpler hook that's 90% right: #!/bin/sh # Absolute barebones setup for rdinit=/sbin/bootchartd. # Does not support /etc/bootchartd.conf magic, # which in the ramdisk is only the sample rate (default 5

Bug#505382: libnss3-tools binaries are missing man pages

2014-03-20 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: libnss3-tools Version: 2:3.15.4-2 Followup-For: Bug #505382 As at 3.15.4, upstream ships manpages! They are in nss/doc/*.xml in docbook format, but pre-rendered HTML and roff versions are also available. Please create this file to quickly include them in Debian: debian/libnss3-tool

Bug#611754: bugs.debian.org: oldbugs.html shows quite a recent bugs

2014-03-20 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: bugs.debian.org Followup-For: Bug #611754 This bug is still present today (Mar 2014). Thanks to Murukesh Mohanan for pointing it out on #debian-mentors. -- System Information: Debian Release: jessie/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'testing-updates'), (500,

Bug#698203: Not a directory at /var/lib/dpkg/info/linux-base.postinst line 1177. (extlinux)

2013-01-14 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: linux-base Version: 3.5 Severity: minor I did the following: - basic squeeze install, choose no bootloader, - manually do an extlinux install in /boot (extlinux package is NOT installed) - set link_in_boot=yes in kernel-img.conf Those are about the only things I did. Then I tried

Bug#698615: lp ignores silly options; should give error

2013-01-20 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: cups-client Version: 1.5.3-2.12 Severity: wishlist Tags: upstream While dealing with an unrelated issue, I tried to type date | lp -n2 -o collate=true but instead I typed date | lp -n2 --collate=true AFAICT, lp silently ignored the bogus option. I would strongly prefer that it

Bug#698203: Not a directory at /var/lib/dpkg/info/linux-base.postinst line 1177. (extlinux)

2013-01-21 Thread Trent W. Buck
Ben Hutchings wrote: > I'll change it to treat ENOTDIR as non-fatal (same as ENOENT). Thanks, that sounds appropriate to me. > > 4875 open("/boot/extlinux/options.cfg", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOTDIR (Not a > > directory) FTR, this was happening because /boot/extlinux existed -- it was the install

Bug#452484: dosage: Multiplexing option similar to make -j 4

2013-01-23 Thread Trent W. Buck
FTR, this is the workaround I came up with since filing the ticket: cd Comics && find * -type d | xargs -n1 -P4 mainline -vcb. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#668439: mg: leaves alternatives after purge

2013-01-26 Thread Trent W. Buck
Andreas Beckmann wrote: > Followup-For: Bug #668439 > Control: tag -1 patch > > Hi, > > I'm attaching a minimal fix to the prerm script that fixes two issues: > * unregister the alternative in prerm remove > * keep the alternative untouched during upgrades - removing and readding > it everytime

Bug#693393: Increase in .deb size from 2MB to 1.2GB!

2012-11-15 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: ns3-doc Version: 3.15+dfsg-1 Severity: normal At 1.2GiB, ns3-doc is currently the largest package in the repo. Since the previous version was only 2MiB, I suspect this is a bug. 11:44 Hm, $ rsync mirror.internode.on.net::debian/pool/main/n/ns3/ | grep doc 11:44 -rw-r--r-- 1320450910

Bug#693394: freefoam-dev-doc package increased from 66MB to 622MB!

2012-11-15 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: freefoam-dev-doc Version: 0.1.0+dfsg-1 Severity: normal Your dev-doc package is now one of the largest files in the repo. Since the previous version was relatively small, this may be a bug. On #debian-mentors, nbreen says the problem appears to be an enormous doxygen tree. Ref. http://bu

Bug#693946: mailfilter.crm spw misleading comment (underscore vs. hyphen)

2012-11-21 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: crm114 Version: 20100106-3 Severity: minor Tags: upstream mailfilter.cf says: #If you leave it as "DEFAULT-PASSWORD", you will not be able to #access the mail-to-myself commanding system, as "DEFAULT-PASSWORD" #is specifically _disabled_ as a legal password. Just

Bug#694123: debcommit: support $onlydebian=1 for git

2012-11-23 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: devscripts Version: 2.12.5 Severity: wishlist File: /usr/bin/debcommit I just migrated my packaging (collab-maint/mg) from darcs to git. I maintain debian/ as a separate repo, which appears to correspond to: } elsif (-d "debian/_darcs") { $onlydebian = 1;

Bug#631167: On purge, deletes RRD databases without prompting.

2012-01-11 Thread Trent W. Buck
Sebastian Harl wrote: > However, policy does not talk about anything else (besides log files > which should be removed as well) in that respect. *Imho*, "purge" is > meant to be "remove any trace of the package in question" which includes > generated data as well. Anyway, for now I'm downgrading th

Bug#679361: RFP: nwipe (DBAN) -- Erase disks for computer recycling

2012-06-28 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: nwipe (DBAN) Version : 0.08 Upstream Author : Andy Bev * URL : http://www.andybev.com/index.php/Nwipe * License : GPL Programming Lang: C Description : Erase disks prior to donation DBAN is a well-known l

Bug#642172: packaged 6.1.0.62018-1

2012-08-05 Thread Trent W. Buck
Hi, Richard Sellam wrote: > Thank you for your interest in likewise-open package. > As said in http://mentors.debian.net/package/likewise-open , > i have a working likewise-open package in version 6.1.0.62018-1. > You can get this version from mentors or wait for the package to be > uploaded (hope

Bug#704504: dget: confused by "compressed" in ~/.curlrc

2013-04-01 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: devscripts Version: 2.12.6 Severity: wishlist File: /usr/bin/dget $ dget --insecure https://launchpad.net/~linrunner/+archive/tlp/+files/tlp_0.3.8.1-1.dsc [...] $ dpkg-source -x *dsc gpgv: Signature made Sat 30 Mar 2013 10:06:24 EST using DSA key ID BB97FFE6 gpgv: Can

Bug#101317: fixed ages ago

2013-04-04 Thread Trent W. Buck
Hi, this issue was resolved many years ago by ifenslave-2.6 providing hooks in if-[up|down].d. I was about to close this, but first I think ifupdown should add a "Suggests: ifenslave", as it currently does for similar integration packages for ppp, dhcp and icmpv6. Opinions? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Bug#705584: syslog a succesful login (like pam_unix does)

2013-04-17 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: libpam-ldap Version: 184-8.6 Severity: wishlist On my netboot desktop farm, I used to have both pam_ldap and pam_unix enabled. I turned off pam_unix to workaround something or other. Only later did I realize this also meant I have no logs of when a user has successfully logged in, becaus

Bug#705913: Choosing -ize/-ise has no effect

2013-04-22 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: aspell-en Version: 7.1-0-1 Severity: normal I can't see it stated anywhere, but I think en_GB-ize is supposed to let me have something close to Oxford spelling (en-GB-oed). When I tried it, it didn't work for me. $ cat test.txt The group analysed labour statistics published by t

Bug#706055: Unicode box art lines in git log --graph

2013-04-23 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: git Version: 1:1.8.2.1-1 Severity: wishlist Tags: upstream I like git log --graph. I'd like it more if it could use Unicode lines. A trivial example is mocked up below. BEFORE * 8f78c67 (origin/prisonpc-satellite) Merge branch 'wheezy' into prisonpc-satellite |\ | * 0278e

Bug#706596: wget tftp:// support

2013-05-02 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: busybox Version: 1:1.20.0-7 Severity: wishlist Tags: upstream curl has a "conventional" tftp:/// syntax to download a file from a TFTP server. To do the same with busybox tftp, you have to break up the URL into pieces. If busybox wget supported tftp:// when the tftp applet was also comp

Bug#706679: Missing Depends: file

2013-05-03 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: live-config Version: 3.0.23-1 Severity: minor During reboot of a minimal live image, I get live-boot: caching reboot files... /lib/live/boot-init.sh: 38: /lib/live/boot-init.sh: file: not found /lib/live/boot-init.sh: 38: /lib/live/boot-init.sh: file: not found /lib/live/

Bug#706679: Missing Depends: file

2013-05-03 Thread Trent W. Buck
Trent W. Buck wrote: > Package: live-config > Version: 3.0.23-1 > Severity: minor > > During reboot of a minimal live image, I get > > live-boot: caching reboot files... > /lib/live/boot-init.sh: 38: /lib/live/boot-init.sh: file: not found > /lib/live/boot-

Bug#706686: quickreboot ignored by /lib/live/boot-init.sh

2013-05-03 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: live-config Version: 3.0.23-1 Severity: wishlist While quickreboot is documented in and parsed by live-boot, the actual prompting is done in /lib/live/boot-init.sh (from live-config). I am testing wheezy images with live-boot 3.0.1-1. If and only if live-config installed, "quickreboot" i

Bug#706691: In rc0.d, sendsigs stops before rpcbind stops

2013-05-03 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: rpcbind Version: 0.2.0-8 Severity: normal In a minimal live-boot image I built, I noticed that sendsigs was running before all the NFS stuff was turned off. # ls /etc/rc0.d/ -l total 4 lrwxrwxrwx 2 root root 23 2013-05-03 21:19 K01busybox-klogd -> ../init.d/busybox-klogd

Bug#706693: hwclock.sh creates incorrect /etc/adjtime

2013-05-03 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: util-linux Version: 2.20.1-5.3 Severity: normal I created a minimal live netboot image, and I noticed it was complaining during shutdown: [info] Saving the system clock. hwclock: Warning: unrecognized third line in adjtime file (Expected: `UTC' or `LOCAL' or nothing.) The fi

Bug#706933: 1100-sslcert checks for wrong package; snakeoil cert is not regenerated

2013-05-06 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: live-config Version: 3.0.23-1 Severity: normal [When asked privately in IRC, dba didn't consider this a security issue, so I'm reporting it normally.] It looks like /lib/live/config/1100-sslcert is trying to regenerate the snakeoil key & cert at boot time, similar to how SSH host keys ar

Bug#703392: Support round numbers (4GiB not 4GB)

2013-03-18 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: partman Severity: wishlist Quick ticket before I forget this again. When I do an install with LVM LVs created by partman, and I say "4GB" and partman reports them as 4GB, once the install is finished lvs will list them as 3.78g or something, so I lvextend them. This is a bit icky, and i

Bug#703593: squashfs4 support

2013-03-21 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: file-roller Severity: wishlist Tags: upstream Squashfs4 is a compressed archive format that can EITHER be mounted as a loopback read-only filesystem OR it can be treated as an archive like tgz or zip -- using "unsquashfs foo.sq" to extract some/all files, or with -ls / -ll to list the con

Bug#699410: false positive for shell-script-fails-syntax-check (bash -O extglob)

2013-01-30 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: lintian Version: 2.5.10.3 Severity: minor In an exceptionally stupid in-house package, I ran across a false positive for shell-script-fails-syntax-check. Distilled, it is $ cat tmp.bash #!/bin/bash shopt -s extglob ls -ld /home/!(prisoners) $ bash -n tmp.bash tm

Bug#645286: fix works

2013-02-05 Thread Trent W. Buck
Trent W. Buck wrote: > I applied 5629fba80b05cc906c45e62c397d18e5afa18636 to wheezy's > 1.4.25-2 and the resulting binary fixed the problems I was having, > when run with buffer_mail=on in ~/.msmtprc. (Without > buffer_mail=on, the problem came back, so the test is sound.) > &

Bug#701863: invoke-rc.d: report service when policy-rc.d prevents execution.

2013-02-27 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: sysv-rc Version: 2.88dsf-41 Severity: wishlist File: /usr/sbin/invoke-rc.d When doing "dpkg-reconfigure -a" in a chroot where everything is denied by policy-rc.d, I see a sequence like this: live-boot: core filesystems devices utils udev blockdev. update-initramfs: deferring upda

Bug#702835: debhelper-but-no-misc-depends

2013-03-11 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: dh-make Version: 0.61 Severity: minor File: /usr/share/debhelper/dh_make/debianl/control Building a freshly dh-make'd library package, I get debhelper-but-no-misc-depends. I think this is a trivial fix by adding the ${misc:Depends} lines to control by default, at least when using dh7 sty

Bug#702925: Replace cups-specific mime.types/libcupsmime with libmagic

2013-03-12 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: cups Version: 1.5.3-2.15 Severity: wishlist File: /usr/share/cups/mime/mime.types Tags: upstream I came across mime.types / libcupsmime and my immediate reaction is "why is cups doing this, when libmagic already provides a perfectly good library and database of MIME type heuristics?" The

Bug#568074: Xfbdev: LinuxInit: Server must be suid root

2010-03-03 Thread Trent W. Buck
Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Trent W. Buck (03/02/2010): > > Julien Cristau wrote: > > >> $ xinit -- /usr/bin/Xfbdev > > >> Fatal server error: > > >> LinuxInit: Server must be suid root > > > It doesn't get the wrong mode. It needs to

Bug#571300: fsck.btrfs does not support -a option used by checkroot.sh

2010-03-05 Thread Trent W. Buck
Version: 0.19-8 Joey Hess wrote: > /etc/init.d/checkroot.sh runs fsck with an option of either -a or -y > (depending on a configuration variable). FYI, the -f option also appears to be important; with a btrfs root filesystem I tried "touch /forcefsck; reboot" and got Checking root file system.

Bug#573108: Clarify what "ldap support" means.

2010-03-08 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: sudo-ldap Version: 1.7.2p1-1.2 Severity: wishlist Currently this variant describes itself as This version is built with LDAP support. This puzzled me, because libpam-ldap already allows you to perform authentication via LDAP -- did sudo-ldap only exist for people that hated pam and

Bug#571054: Divert /sbin/initctl to fix start(8) in lucid postinsts.

2010-03-08 Thread Trent W. Buck
Junichi Uekawa wrote: >> pbuilder currently creates a policy-rc.d that prevents daemons from >> starting when they are installed to satisfy build dependencies. >> This works well for sysvinit packages. >> >> However, when working with Ubuntu Lucid[0] chroots, many daemons >> use upstart instead of

Bug#575797: There is no layout engine support for "dot". Perhaps "dot -c" needs to be run (with installer's privileges) to register the plugins?

2010-03-29 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: graphviz Version: 2.26.3-3 Severity: important Upon installing graphviz, I am confronted with $ dot --help There is no layout engine support for "dot" Perhaps "dot -c" needs to be run (with installer's privileges) to register the plugins? I don't remember seeing this before

Bug#575883: Ignores USB keyboards connected after boot.

2010-03-29 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: sleepd Version: 2.01 Severity: normal File: /usr/sbin/sleepd If I boot my laptop, THEN connect a USB keyboard, sleepd puts my system to sleep while I'm busy typing (on the external keyboard). The symptoms don't appear if the keyboard is connected at boot, and they disappear if I issue a

Bug#576120: Sending 333 in response to /query confuses rcirc.

2010-03-31 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: bitlbee Version: 1.2.5-1 Severity: normal I got the error below when connecting rcirc (part of GNU Emacs) to bitlbee, which was speaking XMPP to an internal server (running ejabberd, I believe). rcirc's developer, rcy, believes bitlbee is at fault. Please investigate. I just got this

Bug#576248: Preserve mutt Old flag.

2010-04-01 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: offlineimap Version: 6.2.0+nmu2 Severity: wishlist I use offlineimap unidirectionally to create a local cache of my gmail inbox. I browse both imap.gmail.com and ~/Mail with mutt. For the former, mutt distinguishes between "new" and "old" (in mutt terms) by adding (KEYWORD Old) to IMAP

Bug#526598: emacs-goodies-el: please include paredit.el 21

2010-04-05 Thread Trent W. Buck
# Put this ticket in MY queue. reopen 526598 reassign 526598 paredit-el retitle 526598 Prepare paredit for inclusion in emacs-goodies-el thanks Peter S Galbraith wrote: > - Instead of the HTML, provide documention in a form suitable for >inclusion into the Info doc of emacs-goodies-el (I can

Bug#630108: Stopped propagating errors from child.

2011-06-10 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: kbd Version: 1.15.3-3 Severity: normal File: /bin/openvt The version of openvt(1) I had yesterday, would return an error if its child did, i.e. "openvt -sw -- false", failed. This version doesn't. I want the old behaviour back, because it's useful for my scripts. I think my old version

Bug#630108: [Pkg-kbd-devel] Bug#630108: Stopped propagating errors from child.

2011-06-13 Thread Trent W. Buck
Anton Zinoviev wrote: >>> PS: I'm using kbd instead of console-setup because the former can do a >>> smaller Terminus font than the latter. [...] > > Maybe Trent means console-tools (not console-setup)? Console-tools > doesn't support small font sizes (12x6). Sorry, yes, I meant console-tools. I

Bug#630448: iptables-apply: does not rollback on error.

2011-06-13 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: iptables Version: 1.4.10-1 Severity: normal File: /usr/sbin/iptables-apply If iptables-restore exits with a non-zero status, iptables-apply will NOT roll back to the original ruleset. This is not a problem if the file contains a single table (e.g. *filter ... COMMIT), because that is ato

Bug#628476: Package does not seem to work at all

2011-08-19 Thread Trent W. Buck
Jakub Wilk wrote: > tags 628476 + confirmed upstream fixed-upstream thanks > > * Florian Weimer , 2011-05-29, 12:59: > >The documentation mentions importing wordaxe.DCWHyphenator. But this > >does not work: > > > >fw@deneb:~$ python > >Python 2.6.6 (r266:84292, Dec 26 2010, 22:31:48) > >[GCC 4.4.

Bug#645286: Can't send mail from long cron jobs.

2011-10-13 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: msmtp-mta Version: 1.4.24-2 Severity: important Consider the following scenario: msmtp-mta is installed and configured to relay mail to a postfix smarthost at smtp., which accepts it. Thus, cron can demonstrably send mail, e.g. with a job "@hourly echo foo". Now, suppose there is a back

Bug#635772: [ha...@afaics.de: Bug#635772: mg should not touch modification date of the backup]

2011-09-05 Thread Trent W. Buck
tag 635772 + wontfix thank you Han Boetes wrote: > As stated in the source code: > > /* > * Make a backup copy of "fname". On Unix the backup has the same > * name as the original file, with a "~" on the end; this seems to > * be newest of the new-speak. The error handling is all in "file.c".

Bug#641270: aptitude segfault in qemu-arm-static.

2011-09-12 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: qemu-user-static Version: 0.15.0~rc2+dfsg-1 Severity: normal File: /usr/bin/qemu-arm-static I did this: mkdir -p target/usr/bin cp /usr/bin/qemu-arm-static target/usr/bin cdebootstrap -f minimal -k /etc/debmirror/trustedkeys.gpg -a armhf unstable target http://apt/debian-por

Bug#641270: Acknowledgement (aptitude segfault in qemu-arm-static.)

2011-09-12 Thread Trent W. Buck
Here's another one: (bootstrap)root@twb:~# git clone git://github.com/lilstevie/CrOS-Hybrid-Kernel.git Cloning into CrOS-Hybrid-Kernel... *** longjmp causes uninitialized stack frame ***: /usr/bin/qemu-arm-static terminated === Backtrace: = [0x600d6395] [0x600

Bug#642349: Please put cache in ~/.cache

2011-09-21 Thread Trent W. Buck
Josh Triplett wrote: > Darcs seems to store a cache in ~/.darcs/cache . Please consider moving > this to a darcs subdirectory in the common ~/.cache directory. As a short-term workaround, you can manually make .darcs/cache a symlink to .cache/darcs; Darcs will honour this. You can also specify d

Bug#643306: Don't ask about GRUB2 when it isn't used.

2011-09-26 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: kexec-tools Version: 1:2.0.2-2 Severity: minor On upgrading to current sid version as at today, kexec-tools asked If you choose this option, kexec will read grub2 config file to determine which kernel and options to load for kexec reboot, as opposed to what is in /etc/defa

Bug#643311: secure_defaults affects BOTH sudo -i and sudo -iufred

2011-09-27 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: sudo Version: 1.8.2-1 Severity: important This issue may tie in with the change that closed #85123 and #85917 and opened #639841. Once upon a time, I ran "su -", and it gave me a clean root login shell, with /sbin and /usr/sbin in its path. Then I switched to "sudo su -" or "sudo -H -s"

Bug#643321: no bt after upgrade (4.94-2 -> 4.96-1)

2011-09-27 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: bluez Version: 4.96-1 Severity: important After a large dist-upgrade today, typing on bluetooth keyboard had no effect. Initial investigation follows. Please advise how to proceed. The relevant bluez upgrades were as follows. The kernel was not upgraded; it is 2.6.38-2-amd64. dbus was

Bug#643321: Acknowledgement (no bt after upgrade (4.94-2 -> 4.96-1))

2011-09-27 Thread Trent W. Buck
PS: looking through the logs, I found /var/log/apt/term.log contained this: Unpacking replacement cron ... Preparing to replace bluez 4.94-2 (using .../bluez_4.96-1_amd64.deb) ... Stopping bluetooth: /usr/sbin/bluetoothd. dpkg: warning: version 'bluez' has bad syntax: version number does not start

Bug#643321: Acknowledgement (no bt after upgrade (4.94-2 -> 4.96-1))

2011-09-27 Thread Trent W. Buck
OK, yes, that mv_conffile fuckup is the cause of this problem. Moving it back *and* restarting dbus and bluetooth daemons fixed it. I didn't realize at first that hcitool talked to the daemon; its manpage gave me the impression that it talked directly to the devices; that the bluetooth daemon was

Bug#637365: Also affects fbi

2011-09-27 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: fbi Version: 2.07-8 Followup-For: Bug #637365 After an overdue dist-upgrade, this issue affects me in fbi. That is, fbi -e foo.jpg, hit l, and it segfaults. 2011-09-27 15:13:43 upgrade fbi 2.07-7 2.07-8 -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers unstable APT polic

Bug#495163: useless static library due to libkrb5

2011-09-29 Thread Trent W. Buck
Hannes von Haugwitz wrote: > What is the state of this bug? I would like to add curl support to > the aide pkg (which is statically linked). AFAIK, no change. If it were a private package, I'd advise you to reroll curl without kerberos support, so it can be statically linked into aide. To do th

Bug#674744: Wikipedia broke w3m-search-escape-query-string (+ vs. %20)

2013-07-19 Thread Trent W. Buck
Tatsuya Kinoshita wrote: > Hi Trent, > > On May 27, 2012 at 6:46PM +1000, trentbuck (at gmail.com) wrote: > > Package: w3m-el-snapshot > > Version: 1.4.478+0.20120501-1 > > Around 15 July 2011, this stopped working properly. It turned out to > > be because Wikipedia started treating these links d

Bug#720134: Missing but documented option: --monochrome

2013-08-18 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: netrik Version: 1.16.1-1.1 Severity: minor I was looking at alternatives to lynx --dump to turn text/plain into text/html. The manpage describes using TERM=ansi, but since I didn't want *any* escape sequences, I tried TERM=dumb. That tells me to pass --monochrome, but netrik doesn't acc

Bug#635093: GTK3 Adwaita - gtk3-demo segfaults without notebook tab style.

2011-07-22 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: gnome-themes-standard Version: 3.0.2-1 Severity: important File: /usr/lib/gtk-3.0/3.0.0/theming-engines/libadwaita.so With the following ~/.config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css, gtk3-demo segfaults on start: * { engine: adwaita; } This gtk.css doesn't cause a segfault: * { engine: adwaita; }

Bug#714235: Allow not sending Accept, Accept-Encoding, Accept-Language headers

2013-06-26 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: w3m Version: 0.5.3-8 Severity: wishlist I was reading http://panopticlick,eff.org and I see that it looks at Accept headers to help "fingerprint" a user. I thought: the simplest thing was to turn off those headers, since I don't rely on them AFAIK. It looks like I can't in w3m -- url.c:

Bug#353980: fortune-mod: Fortune invocation by relative path broken in two different ways.

2013-06-27 Thread Trent W. Buck
Andrea, Andrea Colangelo wrote: > I wasn't able to reproduce this bug: [...] I can still reproduce this issue as at fortune-mod 1:1.99.1-6, but only for the trailing slash case. $ with-temp-dir with-temp-dir: entering directory `/tmp/with-temp-dir.J22eEB' This directory will be delet

Bug#662765: RFP: MARS (Core Wars / corewars) -- Memory Array Redcode Simulator

2012-03-06 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: mars Version : not sure Upstream Author : not sure * URL : http://corewar.co.uk/mars.htm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_War * License : not sure Programming Lang: C Description : Me

Bug#647600: PS1=\\W reports "pocc" for /proc

2011-11-04 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: bash Version: 4.1-3 Severity: minor File: /bin/bash I noticed a strange thing on my laptop: root@dali:~# PS1=\\W ~cd /proc pocc For some reason the \W of /proc is reported as "pocc"; \w is reported correctly (as "/proc") and other paths (e.g. /usr) are reported c

Bug#645286: Patch dropped

2011-11-30 Thread Trent W. Buck
Martin, Martin Lambers wrote: >> Hi Trent, >> >> The latest git version of msmtp adds a 'buffer_mail' command and >> '--buffer-mail' option which tells msmtp to first buffer the complete >> mail in a temporary file before sending it. >> >> Can you test if this works for you? > > Since there was no

Bug#641270: aptitude segfault in qemu-arm-static.

2012-01-04 Thread Trent W. Buck
Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > Version: 1.0+dfsg-1 > > On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 07:18:40PM +1000, Trent W. Buck wrote: > > Package: qemu-user-static > > Version: 0.15.0~rc2+dfsg-1 > > Severity: normal > > File: /usr/bin/qemu-arm-static > > > > I did this: &

Bug#654674: vim-tiny incompatible with vim-common's mailcap

2012-01-04 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: vim-common Version: 2:7.3.363-1 Severity: minor File: /usr/lib/mime/packages/vim-common After installing vim-tiny, $ compose /tmp/tmp.c sh: 1: vim: not found Warning: program returned non-zero exit code #127 This is because vim-tiny provides "vi" but not "vim", and vim-commo

Bug#645286: fix works

2011-12-07 Thread Trent W. Buck
I applied 5629fba80b05cc906c45e62c397d18e5afa18636 to wheezy's 1.4.25-2 and the resulting binary fixed the problems I was having, when run with buffer_mail=on in ~/.msmtprc. (Without buffer_mail=on, the problem came back, so the test is sound.) So, if it's not too much trouble, I would like this

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