Bug#1019564: (during upgrade) grub-install: warning: Attempting to install GRUB to a disk with multiple partition labels. This is not supported yet..

2022-09-11 Thread Ben Longbons
Package: grub-pc Version: 2.06-3~deb11u1 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable X-Debbugs-Cc: brlongb...@gmail.com Dear Maintainer, Today I attempted to upgrade several security and non-security updates (must have been a point release) as usual. This system is not new, but was in

Bug#930005: regina-rexx: rexxutil error

2019-06-09 Thread Ben Longbons
Package: libregina3 Version: 3.6-2.1 Followup-For: Bug #930005 Dear Maintainer, I took a look at this since I thought it would be a simple `-ltinfo` fix, but it's more complicated than that. As it is, the package can't possibly run on 64-bit platforms. There are a *lot* of dangerous warnings; s

Bug#848523: More info

2017-01-23 Thread Ben Longbons
Sorry, I've since upgraded my *entire* system from testing to unstable, and the problem went away at some point. If it wasn't a bug in some dependency, my guess is that something had migrated to testing without all of its true dependencies having migrated. There are a lot of ways that that can hap

Bug#848842: /usr/lib/tracker/tracker-extract: Crashes with SIGSYS, and repeatedly restarts

2016-12-19 Thread Ben Longbons
Package: tracker-extract Version: 1.10.3-1 Severity: critical File: /usr/lib/tracker/tracker-extract Justification: breaks the whole system Dear Maintainer, During a recent apt run, my system became almost completely unresponsive. Luckily I was able to get to another terminal, find the offender

Bug#848818: xterm: ctlseqs.txt is not rebuilt from ctlseq.ms

2016-12-19 Thread Ben Longbons
On Mon, Dec 19, 2016 at 3:48 PM, Thomas Dickey wrote: > On Mon, Dec 19, 2016 at 02:39:27PM -0800, Ben Longbons wrote: >> The ctlseqs.txt file is not built from ctlseqs.ms if it is modified >> (which it should be, since it is wrong in a few places). > > I don't recall an

Bug#848824: trigger-rally: File conflict: /usr/share/man/man6/trigger-rally.6.gz in both packages

2016-12-19 Thread Ben Longbons
Package: trigger-rally Version: 0.6.5+dfsg-1 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable Dear Maintainer, With this version, the man page is now shipped in the -data package as well as the main package. You should remove it from the main package, and give appropiate Breaks/Conflicts/

Bug#848818: xterm: ctlseqs.txt is not rebuilt from ctlseq.ms

2016-12-19 Thread Ben Longbons
Package: xterm Version: 327-2 Severity: serious Justification: Policy 2.1 Dear Maintainer, The ctlseqs.txt file is not built from ctlseqs.ms if it is modified (which it should be, since it is wrong in a few places). The command to bytewise-reproduce the existing file is: $ groff -P{-c,-b,-o,-u}

Bug#848696: valgrind: prerm fails: dpkg-maintscript-helper: error: dpkg: error: version '' has bad syntax: version string is empty

2016-12-19 Thread Ben Longbons
Package: valgrind Version: 1:3.12.0~svn20160714-1+b1 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable Dear Maintainer, It is not possible to upgrade to 1:3.12.0-1 because the prerm fails. Complete output of an aptitude run: Performing actions... Reading changelogs... Done Preconfiguring

Bug#848602: Depends: nodejs-legacy

2016-12-18 Thread Ben Longbons
Package: libkf5purpose-bin Version: 1.1-3 Severity: serious Justification: Policy 10.1 Dear Maintainer, Per CTTE decree, packages may not depend on nodejs-legacy. It exists solely for compatibility with non-Debian packages that are unaware of the fact that someone else claimed the name 'node' man

Bug#848524: kwin-wayland: rapid memory leak

2016-12-17 Thread Ben Longbons
Package: kwin-wayland Version: 4:5.8.4-1 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable Dear Maintainer, Since kwin-x11 was being even crashier than usual, I tried the other Plasma (wayland) entry for a change. To my great joy, it worked flawlessly ... for the first several minutes. Af

Bug#848523: kwin-x11: Fails to start

2016-12-17 Thread Ben Longbons
Package: kwin-x11 Version: 4:5.8.4-1 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable Dear Maintainer, With some recent upgrade, kwin-x11 fails to start properly. Usually I track testing, but . I can see the process *running*, but it doesn't actually decorate any windows (if I manually e.

Bug#848162: konsole: Interprets options even after -e

2016-12-14 Thread Ben Longbons
Package: konsole Version: 4:16.08.3-1 Severity: serious Justification: Policy 11.8.3 Dear Maintainer, Quoting policy: >To be an x-terminal-emulator, a program must: > * Support the command-line option -e command, which creates a new terminal > window[106] and runs the specified command, inter

Bug#848097: terminal.app: Provides x-terminal-emulator, but doesn't implement the requirements

2016-12-13 Thread Ben Longbons
Package: terminal.app Version: 0.9.8-1+nmu1+b2 Severity: serious Justification: Policy 11.8.3 Dear Maintainer, Quoting policy: >To be an x-terminal-emulator, a program must: > * Be able to emulate a DEC VT100 terminal, or a compatible terminal. > * Support the command-line option -e command, w

Bug#848096: guake: Provides x-terminal-emulator, but doesn't implement the requirements

2016-12-13 Thread Ben Longbons
Package: guake Version: 0.8.7-1 Severity: serious Justification: Policy 11.8.3 Dear Maintainer, Quoting policy: >To be an x-terminal-emulator, a program must: > * Be able to emulate a DEC VT100 terminal, or a compatible terminal. Guake does this one, at least. > * Support the command-line opt

Bug#798401: gdb-python2 does not actually link to python2, but python3

2016-05-29 Thread Ben Longbons
On Sun, May 29, 2016 at 1:59 AM, Hector Oron wrote: > Please let me know your gdb-python2 use case, that'd be quite helpful. I certainly prefer the python3 version most of the time - by this point, the infelicities of python3 are well understood and fewer in number than those of python2. However

Bug#798401: gdb-python2 does not actually link to python2, but python3

2016-05-28 Thread Ben Longbons
Thanks, is there any chance you could look at the related-but-wishlist bug 798405 while you have this package's debian/rules in your brain's cache? -Ben On Sat, May 28, 2016 at 9:50 AM, Andreas Bombe wrote: > tags 798401 + patch > thanks > > On Tue, Sep 08, 2015 at

Bug#822651: linux-image-4.5.0-1-amd64: Spews into /dev/kmsg, causing unresponsive journald

2016-04-25 Thread Ben Longbons
Package: src:linux Version: 4.5.1-1 Severity: critical Justification: breaks the whole system Dear Maintainer, Apologies for not following the instructions to run the kernel while reporting the bug, but the system was barely responsive enough for me to extract any info. Whenever my system is sta

Bug#799430: libkf5texteditor5: libgit2 upgrade pulls in OpenSSL, conflicting with the GPL

2015-09-18 Thread Ben Longbons
Package: libkf5texteditor5 Version: 5.13.0-1+b1 Severity: serious Justification: license violation Dear Maintainer, libgit2-23 now links to OpenSSL, which conflicts with the GPL license used by this package. See #798421 for more information. -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid

Bug#799431: kate: libgit2 upgrade pulls in OpenSSL, conflicting with the GPL

2015-09-18 Thread Ben Longbons
Package: kate Version: 4:15.08.0-1 Severity: serious Justification: license violation Dear Maintainer, libgit2-23 now links to OpenSSL, which conflicts with the GPL license used by this package. See #798421 for more information. -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers

Bug#798401: gdb-python2 does not actually link to python2, but python3

2015-09-08 Thread Ben Longbons
Package: gdb-python2 Version: 7.10-1 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable Dear Maintainer, The gdb-python2 package does not actually contain a version of gdb linked to python2. Rather, it is a byte-for-byte identical copy of the /usr/bin/gdb shipped in the gdb package, which li

Bug#752581: gdb did switch back to python2 without any notice, breaking packages

2014-06-24 Thread Ben Longbons
The switch to python3 was equally without notice, and also broke packages at the time. If packages are broken by Debian-specific patches to fix the previous breakage, revert them in *those* packages now that gdb is sane again. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org

Bug#750567: startx does not propagate the logind session

2014-06-11 Thread Ben Longbons
reassign 750567 xinit retitle 750567 startx does not propagate the logind session thanks >From discussion on IRC, the problem is that the logind session that gets created when I login on the text tty doesn't get propogated to the X11 tty. It can be seen by running 'loginctl show-session and obse

Bug#750567: plasma-nm: Can't connect to new wireless networks, only existing ones

2014-06-04 Thread Ben Longbons
Package: plasma-nm Version: 0.9.3.3-3 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable Dear Maintainer, I can no longer create new network connections. Clicking the connect button, nothing happens. I have not tried the gnome applet, so I don't know if it's a bug in the KDE part or in the d

Bug#744792: clang-3.4: unusable with libstdc++ from gcc 4.9

2014-04-14 Thread Ben Longbons
Package: clang-3.4 Version: 1:3.4-2 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable Dear Maintainer, clang 3.4 can't use libstdc++ 4.9's headers, due to changes in The error is: /usr/bin/../lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.9/../../../../include/c++/4.9/cstddef:51:11: error: no member named

Bug#707191: lldb-3.2: lldb exits without doing anything

2013-05-07 Thread Ben Longbons
Package: lldb-3.2 Version: 1:3.2repack-2 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable Dear Maintainer, Trying to run the lldb-3.2 program does not work. Instead, the program just exits without doing anything. I previously had an lldb built from an old svn snapshot, which worked, but I