Bug#934167: #934167: workaround for buster users

2020-12-04 Thread Robert McQueen
I was facing the error described at https://github.com/cweiske/grauphel/issues/72#issuecomment-519173520 In case anyone finds themselves here, and is running Debian buster, I was able to fix relatively easily. The latest version of php-oauth in bullseye (currently 2.0.5+1.2.3- 1+b1) depends on PH

Bug#530000: upgrading dbus and hal at the same time can break hal's init script

2009-05-22 Thread Robert McQueen
Package: dbus-daemon Version: 1.2.14-2 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable I just upgraded dbus from 1.2.12-1 to 1.2.14-2, and in the same dpkg/aptitude run, hal was upgraded from 0.5.11-8 to 0.5.12~git20090406.46dc48-2. The run didn't complete because the hal postinst script f

Bug#239111: Grub is shockingly bad code

2009-01-12 Thread Robert McQueen
Robert Millan wrote: > It would seem that running sync would suffice for that. Unfortunately, it > seems that: > > - sync is not enough > (see http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=239111#53) Correct. This is a property of XFS. As I said, it considers that putting metadata into

Bug#239111: Grub is shockingly bad code

2009-01-12 Thread Robert McQueen
Robert Millan wrote: > Grmf. I was making wrong assumptions. This is not about block lists > (I still think block lists suck, but let's be fair...): ... > So we freeze the filesystem and afterwards try to write to it. Not a > good idea... Indeed not. > #239111 initial report claims GRUB hangs

Bug#239111: Grub is shockingly bad code

2009-01-12 Thread Robert McQueen
Robert Millan wrote: > Rob, > > Did you hit this problem when installing GRUB to a partition, or to the > whole disk? I was upgrading from etch to lenny on a box where / is XFS and /boot and /var are on the same partition. GRUB is installed into the MBR. I know you can't install bootloaders onto

Bug#239111: Grub is shockingly bad code

2009-01-12 Thread Robert McQueen
Robert Millan wrote: > Hi Rob, Hi Robert, > You just convinced me that this is completely fucked up. This is not the > first time someone claims to have fixed this problem, only to discover that > it wasn't, and I'm not going to gamble with ioctls, freeze/unfreeze combos > or Linux version check

Bug#326260: pdns-backend-mysql: sed on non-existent pdns.local makes postrm fail

2005-09-02 Thread Robert McQueen
Package: pdns-backend-mysql Version: 2.9.17-13sarge1 Severity: serious The postrm says: PDNSCONF=/etc/powerdns/pdns.conf PDNSDIR=`cat $PDNSCONF | grep include | awk -F '=' '{print $2}'` PDNSLOCAL=$PDNSDIR/pdns.local ... case "$1" in remove) sed -i -e 's/^gmysql/# gmysql/' $PDNSLOCAL ...

Bug#323035: Processed: referring issue to technical committee

2005-08-30 Thread Robert McQueen
Raul Miller wrote: > It's not clear to me why this was assigned to the technical committee. > > There's definitely some issues here. For example, it sounds like libsilc > has some bugs that need to be fixed. > > But is there any problem that the technical committee needs to decide on? > > If so,

Bug#273871: referring issue to technical committee

2005-08-14 Thread Robert McQueen
clone 273871 -1 reassign -1 tech-ctte thanks (cloning bug to leave RC bug open on libsilc) The bug is reasonably self-explanatory - on top of the package itself being incorrectly named (not reflecting the SONAME), this library does not increment its version when symbols are added, or change the sh

Bug#309119: rhythmbox: fails to check return value when writing playlists to disk

2005-05-14 Thread Robert McQueen
Package: rhythmbox Version: 0.8.8-11 Severity: grave Justification: causes non-serious data loss I just ran out of disk space in ~, and rhythmbox just destroyed my playlist file. In the function rb_playlist_manager_save_thread_main in shell/rb-playlist-manager.c, it calls xmlSaveFormatFile to writ

Bug#304124: unison 2.9.1-2.sarge.1 NMU

2005-05-08 Thread Robert McQueen
* debian/unison.doc{s,-base}: + - remove mention of the HTML and PostScript manuals + + -- Robert McQueen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sun, 8 May 2005 10:20:30 +0100 + +unison (2.9.1-2.1) unstable; urgency=high + + * Non-maintainer upload. + * Updated build-dependency from ocaml-nox-3.08 to ocaml-nox-3.0

Bug#273871: libsilc package policy violations (bug #273871)

2005-04-14 Thread Robert McQueen
Tamas SZERB wrote: > once upon a time, I closed this bug. then the submitter reopened it, > so currently I don't give it a f*ck. Our opinion are different, so if > you feel any ambition to get the both sides together, feel free to > volunteer. :) This package's violation of Debian policy on the pa

Bug#298010: monodoc-browser: fails to depend on any Gtk#/etc bindings necessary to function

2005-03-03 Thread Robert McQueen
Package: monodoc-browser Version: 1.0.4-1 Severity: serious Justification: Policy 7.2 This package claims to be a Gtk+ browser for documentation, but depends on none of the CIL bindings to Gtk+/etc that are necessary to make it work, and there is nothing else in the package which could be conceive

Bug#296130: libdc0: versioned conflicts on dcgui-qt renders it uninstallable

2005-02-20 Thread Robert McQueen
Package: libdc0 Version: 0.3.2-1 Severity: serious Justification: Policy 7.3 "A Conflicts entry should almost never have an "earlier than" version clause. This would prevent dpkg from upgrading or installing the package which declared such a conflict until the upgrade or removal of the conflicted-

Bug#291827: /usr/share/doc/gaim is empty

2005-01-23 Thread Robert McQueen
Angel Abad (Indio) wrote: The /usr/share/doc/gaim directory is empty, please fill it, show: # dpkg -L gaim /usr/share/doc/gaim This is correct, the package contains a symlink from gaim to gaim-data. The error is that I forgot that dpkg won't replace a symlink with a directory, or vice versa, beca