Bug#393818: Remove dart

2006-10-28 Thread Steve McIntyre
reassign 393818 ftp.debian.org retitle 393818 Please remove dart thanks dart-client has an RC bug open right now. Last maintainer upload was over 4 years ago, and popcon reports less than 10 users in total. Time to drop it, IMHO... -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK

Bug#393026: Please remove

2006-10-28 Thread Steve McIntyre
accoring to popcon. Please remove it... -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.[EMAIL PROTECTED] "We're the technical experts. We were hired so that management could ignore our recommendations and tell us how to do our jobs." -- Mike Andrews

Bug#343333: Patch for NMU of gnupod-tools (0.98.3-1.1)

2006-10-28 Thread Steve McIntyre
I'm about to upload an NMU using the attached diff. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.[EMAIL PROTECTED] "When C++ is your hammer, everything looks like a thumb." -- Steven M. Haflich diff -u gnupod-tools-0.98.3/debian/changelog gnupod-tools-0.98.3/d

Bug#393039: Much simpler patch possible

2006-10-28 Thread Steve McIntyre
wrapper around lseek() and compile with appropriate flags. I'm about to upload an NMU to fix this (and multiple of the other bugs open in this package). -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.[EMAIL PROTECTED] "The problem with defending the purity of the English l

Bug#393039: NMU to close lots of bugs in gpart

2006-10-28 Thread Steve McIntyre
In Incoming now... -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.[EMAIL PROTECTED] "Since phone messaging became popular, the young generation has lost the ability to read or write anything that is longer than one hundred and sixty characters." -- Ignatios Souvatz

Bug#394211: ganglia-monitor-core: FTBFS, uses PAGE_SHIFT

2006-10-28 Thread Steve McIntyre
Stu Teasdale wrote: > >Cheers. Ideally I'd just uplaod a neer version which is unaffected, >but this seems to have licencing issues as it stands. Hmmm? Could you clarify that? -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.[EMAIL PROTECTED] < sladen> I

Bug#394211: ganglia-monitor-core: FTBFS, uses PAGE_SHIFT

2006-10-31 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 08:13:43AM +, Stuart Teasdale wrote: > >On 29 Oct 2006, at 00:21, Steve McIntyre wrote: > >>Stu Teasdale wrote: >>> >>>Cheers. Ideally I'd just uplaod a neer version which is unaffected, >>>but this seems to have lice

Bug#1056348: FTBFS: tests fail in clean environment

2023-11-23 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Thu, Nov 23, 2023 at 09:20:37AM -0500, Nicolas Mora wrote: >Hello, > >On Tue, 21 Nov 2023 13:30:31 +0000 Steve McIntyre wrote: >> Source: libssh2 >> Version: 1.9.0-2 >> Severity: serious >> Tags: ftbfs patch >> >> Hi! >> >> Building

Bug#1056348: FTBFS: tests fail in clean environment

2023-11-23 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Thu, Nov 23, 2023 at 10:46:34AM -0500, Nicolas Mora wrote: >Le 2023-11-23 à 09 h 46, Steve McIntyre a écrit : >> >> Ah, apologies - that version is bogus, it's just the version on the >> bullseye machine I ran reportbug from. >> >> The tests are failing

Bug#1056348: FTBFS: tests fail in clean environment

2023-11-28 Thread Steve McIntyre
suggest to apply their patch rather than yours to make >the code more consistent with upstream, do you agree? > >[1] https://github.com/libssh2/libssh2/issues/1240 >[2] https://github.com/libssh2/libssh2/pull/1241 Thanks, that looks sane enough here! :-) -- Steve McIntyre, Cambrid

Bug#1057606: shim: FTBFS: ./debian/generate_dbx_list: 23: efisiglist: not found

2023-12-06 Thread Steve McIntyre
ssarily the most relevant >part. >If required, the full build log is available here: ACK, this is already known about. The pesign package no longer provides efisiglist in unstable. I already have the necessary changes made in shim in git, and we're due a new upload soon-ish. -- Steve M

Bug#548794: openturns-doc: The package is empty

2010-01-23 Thread Steve McIntyre
Hi Nobuhiro, OK - upstream have moved the docs out of the upstream source which is how your openturns-doc package is now empty. What do you plan to do about that? -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "I can't ever sleep on planes .

Bug#499078: Looking into #499078 some more

2009-11-29 Thread Steve McIntyre
Finally found the time to sit down with a sparc box and work through this. NMU diff attached. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com Mature Sporty Personal More Innovation More Adult A Man in Dandism Powered Midship Specialty diff -u jfsutils

Bug#558705: Please remove the switzerland package

2009-11-29 Thread Steve McIntyre
source. Grave bug #554823 has been open for several weeks with no response from the maintainer. The package has a very low popcon score. We don't need this kind of crap in the archive. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "Every time you us

Bug#558705: Please remove the switzerland package

2009-11-30 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 09:49:16AM +0100, Torsten Werner wrote: > Steve McIntyre schrieb: >> Grave bug #554823 has been open for several weeks with no response from the >> maintainer. > > There is a patch attached to #554823. I suggest NMUing the package. I don't s

Bug#603552: Bug#603554: Bug#603552: Update theme SpaceFun and wiki page

2010-12-09 Thread Steve McIntyre
>Nice to know that. Adding the debian-cd bug to the list then. > >For debian-cd people, the SpaceFun isolinux artwork is at >http://svn.debianart.org/themes/spacefun/isolinux/ > >Do you plan to include it? There's nothing needed in debian-cd at all; we jus

Bug#594967: Bug #594967: [poulsbo] grub-pc Hangs After "Welcome to GRUB!"

2011-01-01 Thread Steve McIntyre
ystem >at home? Maybe I could visit at some point (for others on the bug, >we're in the same city) ... Hi Colin, Yup, it is at the moment - Jo's around here for the next couple of days and it's her machine. If that works for you, then great. Or we can work something out - co

Bug#607193: document various download options/locations for Squeeze CD images

2011-01-02 Thread Steve McIntyre
ebian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/cd-including-firmware/ Once we do a release including them, I will add directory structure there to match how we release the official images (i.e. http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/cd-including-firmware/6.0.0 etc.) -- Steve McIntyre, Cambr

Bug#594967: Bug #594967: [poulsbo] grub-pc Hangs After "Welcome to GRUB!"

2011-01-02 Thread Steve McIntyre
8086:8116 [0c03] USB Controller 00:1d.7 8086:8117 [0c03] USB Controller [PI 20] 00:1f.0 8086:8119 [0601] ISA Bridge 00:1f.1 8086:811a [0101] IDE Controller [PI 80] grub> -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "Further comment on how I

Bug#594967: Bug #594967: [poulsbo] grub-pc Hangs After "Welcome to GRUB!"

2011-01-03 Thread Steve McIntyre
8115 [0c03] USB Controller 00:1d.2 8086:8116 [0c03] USB Controller 00:1d.7 8086:8117 [0c03] USB Controller [PI 20] 00:1f.0 8086:8119 [0601] ISA Bridge 00:1f.1 8086:811a [0101] IDE Controller [PI 80] bus/pci.c:92: bus 0x2 02:00.0 10ec:8136 [0200] Ethernet Controller bus/pci.c:92: bus 0x

Bug#594967: Bug #594967: [poulsbo] grub-pc Hangs After "Welcome to GRUB!"

2011-01-04 Thread Steve McIntyre
27;d appreciate confirmation from affected folks that >this is enough to make things boot. If it is, we can perhaps avoid >worrying about the rest; otherwise, we'll have to get more creative. Just tested on Jo's laptop now, and the new version works exactly as h

Bug#607927: powerpc squeeze CD image fails

2011-01-06 Thread Steve McIntyre
to investigate >this myself. > >I'm setting the severity to serious as we can't release without a >working powerpc CD build and this seems analogous to a FTBS bug. Feel >free to downgrade if you disagree. I'll mark it as important for now as it's gone away... :-

Bug#587333: javax-servletapi2.3_4.0.orig.tar.gz missing

2010-06-27 Thread Steve McIntyre
ather than in main. This meant that I needed a hack in the mirror locally to be able to make the CDs at all. Please fix! -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "Further comment on how I feel about IBM will appear once I've worked out whethe

Bug#685952: ruby-gherkin: does not build on several achitecture, blocking newer cucumber

2013-01-20 Thread Steve McIntyre
hellesoy/github/gherkin/tasks/../ragel/i18n/fi.c.rl" #line 207 "/Users/ahellesoy/github/gherkin/tasks/../ragel/i18n/fi.c.rl" #line 1116 "ext/gherkin_lexer_fi/gherkin_lexer_fi.c" #line 207 "/Users/ahellesoy/github/gherkin/tasks/../ragel/i18n/fi.c.rl" #line 1179 &q

Bug#687906: coreutils t-p-u for #687906?

2013-01-26 Thread Steve McIntyre
orted against 8.13-3.3. Building on my local powerpc box works with the attached debdiff, and I'm worried about maybe releasing wheezy with stuff that doesn't build. What do you think of this debdiff? -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com Can

Bug#582774: seed FTBFS on ia64

2013-01-26 Thread Steve McIntyre
severity 582774 important thanks I don't see any reason for this bug to be serious; there are no seed packages for ia64 in the archive and it's not blocking testing migrations etc. At the point when that changes, this bug should be re-evaluated. -- Steve McIntyre, Cam

Bug#687597: openslp-dfsg: touch bug CVE-2012-4428

2013-01-27 Thread Steve McIntyre
looks dodgy I *don't* see it as being particularly likely to be exploitable, more a DoS at worst, and only on a local-network basis rather than truly remote. I'm dropping severity from grave accordingly - feel free to re-raise if you think I'm wrong. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambr

Bug#695701: tagging 695701

2013-01-27 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 03:50:52PM +0100, Pino Toscano wrote: >tags 695701 + pending >thanks Hi, You've marked this pending 4 weeks ago - any progress towards an upload? -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com You raise the blade, you make

Bug#691600: libghc-warp-dev: does not parse request headers correctly

2013-01-27 Thread Steve McIntyre
libghc-warp-dev considering its tiny popcon and the fact that it has never been in a stable Debian release... -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com Into the distance, a ribbon of black Stretched to the point of no turning back -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Bug#694286: closed by Peter Miller (Bug#694286: fixed in fstrcmp 0.5.D001-1)

2013-01-27 Thread Steve McIntyre
u've fixed these bugs in unstable. Are you planning on doing anything about getting fixed packages into wheezy? -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "...In the UNIX world, people tend to interpret `non-technical user' as meaning someone w

Bug#696837: marked as done (Missing Depends on python-libtorrent, fails to start)

2013-01-27 Thread Steve McIntyre
this patch isn't really correct >either. This seems to remove the python-libtorrent dependency for >deluged. That will break the use case of running the daemon >application on a remote server. Should be fine: deluged depends on deluge-common (same versi

Bug#696837: marked as done (Missing Depends on python-libtorrent, fails to start)

2013-01-29 Thread Steve McIntyre
argue that the package split is a mess. Installing an end-user desktop program that *by default* will show a python stack strace to a user on first use is far too unfriendly. IMHO that's RC, just as described in this bug report. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.

Bug#691600: libghc-warp-dev: does not parse request headers correctly

2013-01-29 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 07:11:57PM +0100, Joachim Breitner wrote: >Hi, > >Am Sonntag, den 27.01.2013, 15:09 + schrieb Steve McIntyre: >> Do we have any hope of progress on this RC bug? Otherwise it's >> incredibly tempting to push for removal of libghc-warp-dev cons

Bug#699884: debian-cd: 2013-02-04 i386 weekly builds are unable to boot

2013-02-06 Thread Steve McIntyre
this is more fallout from the breakage in bug#699382. I'll add a note on the download page right now to warn people. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com Is there anybody out there? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org

Bug#699890: syslinux breakage causes i386/amd64 boot failure

2013-02-06 Thread Steve McIntyre
Package: cdimage.debian.org Version: weekly-image Severity: grave Tags: d-i syslinux in unstable is broken (#699382) and this means current sid builds of debian-installer for i386 and amd64 are broken for BIOS booting. This ripples through to Debian CD images too. Don't use the current daily-sid

Bug#599437: Looks like we should drop gdisk for squeeze

2010-11-13 Thread Steve McIntyre
n the older version of gdisk looks nasty, I'll be honest, and I would rather see it removed. Small popcon usage and no rdeps. Guillaume, I know you have the new upstream version waiting on a sponsor. I might be persuaded to sponsor that for you targetting post-squeeze. -- Steve McIntyre, Cam

Bug#593700: warsow: FTBFS on ia64

2010-11-13 Thread Steve McIntyre
-Win32 and using GNU C is i386, so it's using inline i386 asm. I can see some stuff in the Makefile for dealing with other architectures, but there's no sign of it having any effect here. I'd suggest changing this package to switch from Architecture: any to list just i386 etc...

Bug#600206: libcompass-ruby: compass apparently completely broken

2010-11-13 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 12:33:28PM +0530, Deepak Tripathi wrote: >Hi, > >I will have a look and let you know. Hi Deepak, Anything to report? Cheers, -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "This dress doesn't reverse." --

Bug#603450: Acknowledgement (offlineimap: fails check the remote servers ssl certificate is valid)

2010-11-14 Thread Steve McIntyre
vailable. >(offlineimap: fails check the remote > servers ssl certificate is valid) > >should be >(offlineimap: fails *to* check the remote > server's ssl certificate is valid) > >s/servers/server's/ -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.

Bug#594967: Same problem on Dell Inspiron Mini 10.

2010-11-20 Thread Steve McIntyre
his Poulsbo machine, but that was from quite a while back using an Ubuntu-based system. I'll start bisecting now to see where this came in. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "Every time you use Tcl, God kills a kitten." -- Mal

Bug#594967: grub-pc: GRUB Hangs After "Welcome to GRUB!"

2010-11-20 Thread Steve McIntyre
multiple >installation >methods and partitioning schemes with no luck. On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 10:38:03AM +, Steve McIntyre wrote: >On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 03:29:43PM -0500, Matt Zagrabelny wrote: >>Not sure what else, besides the subject, would be of use for debugging.

Bug#594967: grub-pc: GRUB Hangs After "Welcome to GRUB!"

2010-11-20 Thread Steve McIntyre
;> >> >This change affects only EFI port Ah, OK. There goes that theory. :-( I can help test/debug if desired, but I've not got much time to actually work on the code here. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com Who needs compute

Bug#605616: cdimage.d.o has broken 5.0.7-live mirror

2010-12-01 Thread Steve McIntyre
dreds of megabytes), apparently the mirroring >process was corrupted somehow. Arse. Don't know what happened there, I'm rsyncing again now. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com Who needs computer imagery when you've got Brian Bless

Bug#605616: cdimage.d.o has broken 5.0.7-live mirror

2010-12-01 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Thu, Dec 02, 2010 at 12:02:30AM +, Steve McIntyre wrote: >On Wed, Dec 01, 2010 at 09:36:57PM +0100, Daniel Baumann wrote: >>Package: cdimage.debian.org >>Severity: serious >> >>cdimage.d.o mirrors live images from live.d.n. however, for the 5.0.7 >>rel

Bug#673442: NMU diff

2012-06-11 Thread Steve McIntyre
Trivial NMU diff attached, as per NMU guidelines. No source changes, just updated changelog and copied .orig.tar.gz. Pushed urgently as this is breaking Debian source CD builds, and has been for 3 weeks now. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com Is

Bug#634890: [klibc] klibc issues on armhf (not Debian/armel)

2012-06-17 Thread Steve McIntyre
stingly, adding more TRACE() calls makes the problem go away. \o/ Classic Heisenbug behaviour. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debi

Bug#634890: [klibc] klibc issues on armhf (not Debian/armel)

2012-06-18 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 09:58:46PM +, Thorsten Glaser wrote: >Steve McIntyre dixit: > >>Digging further with the built-in debug TRACE function, I can see >>problems in usr/dash/eval.c:evalcommand(). The place where cmd >>switches from non-NULL to NULL is >>

Bug#689416: Reassigning [was Cannot install on Intel Centrino Ultimate-N 6300 (802.11 a/b/g/n 3X3) Half Mini Card]

2012-10-02 Thread Steve McIntyre
reassign 699416 firmware-iwlwifi thanks Reassigning to firmware-iwlwifi, not a CD-specific issue... -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com < liw> everything I know about UK hotels I learned from "Fawlty Towers" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Bug#685143: reassign 685143 to src:linux

2012-10-13 Thread Steve McIntyre
As discussed with Ben, this is blatantly a kernel bug. Strace output attached. The mount() syscall never returns. Debugging further now. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "Every time you use Tcl, God kills a kitten." -- Malcolm Ray 23

Bug#681135: terminal.app: FTBFS on GNU/kFreeBSD

2012-10-13 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 11:02:07PM +0200, Petr Salinger wrote: >Package: terminal.app >Version: 0.9.8-1 >Severity: serious >Tags: patch >User: debian-...@lists.debian.org >Usertags: kfreebsd I've just uploaded an NMU with this patch. Here's the debdiff. -- S

Bug#688785: Also can't reproduce, downgrading

2012-10-13 Thread Steve McIntyre
severity 688785 important thanks I've also just installed and run that exact same version here with no issues at all. Downgrading... -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com < liw> everything I know about UK hotels I learned from "Fawlty

Bug#681361: NMU diff

2012-10-14 Thread Steve McIntyre
Just uploaded an NMU to implement the TC requirements. Here's the debdiff -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com Can't keep my eyes from the circling sky, Tongue-tied & twisted, Just an earth-bound misfit, I... diff -u node-0.3.2/Makef

Bug#677861: lftp: FTBFS[kfreebsd-i386]: error: conflicting declaration 'typedef __int32_t gl_intptr_t'

2012-10-14 Thread Steve McIntyre
(and 4.3.8-1 looks to build OK on a test machine for me), but the changes for from 4.3.6-1 (in current testing) to 4.3.8-1 (current unstable) are *huge*, way too big for the release team to accept them in my experience. I would expect that a focussed TPU upload with just the changes needed to fix

Bug#688348: mirror: modifies installed files during postinst for license conformance, causing debsums to report modifications

2012-10-18 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 07:23:05PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: >On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 11:01:10PM +0200, Andreas Beckmann wrote: >>Package: mirror >>Version: 2.9-62 >>Severity: serious >>User: debian...@lists.debian.org >>Usertags: piuparts >> >>H

Bug#681361: NMU diff

2012-10-20 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 10:58:42AM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: >Just uploaded an NMU to implement the TC requirements. Here's the debdiff And here's an updated debdiff for a new upload to fix man pages. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@ein

Bug#681361: NMU diff

2012-10-22 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Sat, Oct 20, 2012 at 05:29:16PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: >On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 10:58:42AM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: >>Just uploaded an NMU to implement the TC requirements. Here's the debdiff > >And here's an updated debdiff for a new upload to fix man

Bug#691173: build bug can lead to locking problems on some arches

2012-10-22 Thread Steve McIntyre
Package: libc6 Version: 2.13-35 Severity: serious Tags: upstream patch Hi folks, Just been directed to the bug discussion at http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13844 In some cases, the (e)glibc build will pick up an incorrect version of lowlevellock.c and this can cause futex dead

Bug#688348: #688348 mirror: modifies installed files during postinst for license conformance, causing debsums to report modifications

2012-11-14 Thread Steve McIntyre
r mirror to be removed from the archive - see #691377. The existing package is in such an awful mess that I don't think it's salvageable. :-( -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com Mature Sporty Personal More Innovation More Adult A M

Bug#658352: your mail

2012-12-16 Thread Steve McIntyre
debian-cd package upload. I'm planning one soon. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject o

Bug#682952: Log-Message (console4)

2012-07-31 Thread Steve McIntyre
tude is definitely included. Maybe there's a problem in its libraries, though. I'm looking further now. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "C++ ate my sanity" -- Jon Rabone -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lis

Bug#682952: Log-Message (console4)

2012-07-31 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Wed, Aug 01, 2012 at 12:00:52AM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: >On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 11:50:06AM +, Schlegel, Thomas wrote: >>main-menu[240]: Menu item 'pkgsel' selected >>in-target: Can't exec "aptitude" No such file or directory at >>/

Bug#682952: Log-Message (console4)

2012-08-03 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Fri, Aug 03, 2012 at 08:32:16AM +, Schlegel, Thomas wrote: >Hello, >the DVD of this week looks oK. So I think zou can close this bug! Great, thanks for confirming. :-) -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "Every time you use Tcl,

Bug#683309: Removal of /etc/mtab breaks auto-cleanup of loop devices

2012-08-04 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 06:47:25PM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: >reassign 683309 loop-aes-utils >severity 683309 serious >thanks > >On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 05:57:42PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> Since the move to remove /etc/mtab and link it to /proc/mounts, loop >> mo

Bug#570516: md UUID changed

2012-08-20 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 07:13:33PM +0200, Ivo De Decker wrote: >Hi, > >On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 11:59:25AM +0000, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> >The hostname didn’t change. However the latter might be possible, I >> >don’t really know. The MD array was built from lenny’s d-i.

Bug#649451: hard-coded gzip-only support in apt-cdrom

2011-11-20 Thread Steve McIntyre
Package: apt Version: 0.8.10.3+squeeze1 Severity: serious Justification: arbitrary limits on compression types wasting CD space Hi, I've just added support for translated description files into debian-cd, creating Translation-$LANG.bz2 on CDs to match the archive. A problem report from a user sh

Bug#649451: hard-coded gzip-only support in apt-cdrom

2011-11-22 Thread Steve McIntyre
Hi David, First of all, apologies for the tone of my initial report - I was too tired and frustrated and that shouldn't have tainted my words. :-( On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 01:03:08PM +0100, David Kalnischkies wrote: >On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 01:26, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> I've

Bug#649451: hard-coded gzip-only support in apt-cdrom

2011-11-23 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 05:01:13PM +0100, Michael Vogt wrote: >On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 06:57:41PM +0100, Julian Andres Klode wrote: >> On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 01:03:08PM +0100, David Kalnischkies wrote: >> > On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 01:26, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> > &g

Bug#649451: hard-coded gzip-only support in apt-cdrom

2011-11-23 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 05:20:36PM +0100, Michael Vogt wrote: >On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 04:09:23PM +0000, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 05:01:13PM +0100, Michael Vogt wrote: >> >On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 06:57:41PM +0100, Julian Andres Klode wrote: >> >&

Bug#649451: hard-coded gzip-only support in apt-cdrom

2011-11-24 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 01:26:44AM +0100, David Kalnischkies wrote: >On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 17:44, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> The main change is that I've factored out the decompressor code in >> IndexCopy::CopyPackages() and TranslationsCopy::CopyTranslations() >> int

Bug#649451: hard-coded gzip-only support in apt-cdrom

2011-11-24 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 02:09:25AM +, Steve McIntyre wrote: >On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 01:26:44AM +0100, David Kalnischkies wrote: >>On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 17:44, Steve McIntyre wrote: >>> The main change is that I've factored out the decompressor code in >>&g

Bug#649451: hard-coded gzip-only support in apt-cdrom

2011-11-24 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 02:18:09AM +, Steve McIntyre wrote: > >Scratch that, it's in DropBinaryArch. Maybe a silly mistake here. Yes, mis-configured for amd64 and testing with an i386 CD. Fixed. Now, the translations files are still not working. You're adding the .bz2 files

Bug#650599: snooper FTBFS: -ltermcap doesn't work

2011-11-30 Thread Steve McIntyre
Package: snooper Version: 19991202-7 Severity: serious Tags: sid Hi, snooper FTBFS in a current sid system. Build logs for armhf [1] and s390x [2] show this easily, but it's not limited to these new architectures. Building on amd64 shows the same problem, failure to link due to missing functions:

Bug#650599: snooper FTBFS: -ltermcap doesn't work

2011-11-30 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 11:52:59PM +, Steve McIntyre wrote: >Package: snooper >Version: 19991202-7 >Severity: serious >Tags: sid > >Hi, > >snooper FTBFS in a current sid system. Build logs for armhf [1] and >s390x [2] show this easily, but it's not limited to th

Bug#650600: FTBFS: curses.h: No such file or directory

2011-11-30 Thread Steve McIntyre
Package: ytree Version: 1.94-1 Severity: serious Tags: sid ytree FTBFS in a current sid system. Build logs for armhf [1] and s390x [2] show this easily, but it's not limited to these new architectures. Building on amd64 shows the same problem, failure to find curses.h: ... make[1]: Entering direc

Bug#646134: NMU diff

2011-12-01 Thread Steve McIntyre
Cheers, -- Steve McIntyresteve.mcint...@linaro.org <http://www.linaro.org/> Linaro.org | Open source software for ARM SoCs diff -Nru cdcd-0.6.6/debian/changelog cdcd-0.6.6/debian/changelog --- cdcd-0.6.6/debian/changelog 2011-09-04 14:53:50.0 + ++

Bug#596681: cdrkit: NMU diff for 9:1.1.10-1.1

2010-10-15 Thread Steve McIntyre
ian/changelog >cdrkit-1.1.10/debian/patches/10-fix-checksum.patch >cdrkit-1.1.10/debian/source/format Thanks for the effort, but NACK. The fix is already in svn ready to go, and I have an upload just about prepared and ready for some testing this weekend. Especially: please do

Bug#570516: md UUID changed

2011-02-21 Thread Steve McIntyre
itself. I've only managed to get things up and running by actually recreating the RAID1 devices by hand, using the same settings as the previous devices. Scary stuff... :-( Yet if I reboot into the new kernel again, things fall apart again. Even on a newly-created v1.2 device. Help! -- S

Bug#570516: md UUID changed

2011-02-21 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 03:12:43PM +0100, Martin Krafft wrote: >also sprach Steve McIntyre [2011.02.21.1259 +0100]: >> However, now when I use the 2.6.28 system I get similar problems. >> Previously-working devices are now not working. I'm seeing >> complaints all ov

Bug#614557: debian-cd: Businesscard images spit "Invalid Release File"

2011-02-22 Thread Steve McIntyre
e done successfully until "Install the base system" where it >fails with "Debootstrap Error: Invalid Release File: no entry for >main/binary-amd64/Packages." >I have only tried amd64/testing. Reassigning to debootstrap; the Release files in the archive have changed, and deb

Bug#768788: Recent installer versions using the wrong GPT partition type GUID for EFI System Partition

2014-11-09 Thread Steve McIntyre
Package: partmen-efi Severity: serious Tags: d-i Not sure if partman-efi is the right place for this bug to be filed, but it's where things are showing up. Maybe parted is a better place? Older versions of the installer (up to and including at least jessie d-i alpha 1, 2014-03-18) use the correct

Bug#768788: Acknowledgement (Recent installer versions using the wrong GPT partition type GUID for EFI System Partition)

2014-11-09 Thread Steve McIntyre
Control: reassign -1 partman-efi Gah, typos in package names... :-( -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "C++ ate my sanity" -- Jon Rabone -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubs

Bug#787708: Build ignores crashes in the test suite

2015-06-04 Thread Steve McIntyre
Package: src:acpica-unix Version: 20150515-2 Severity: serious Tags: upstream Hi, Prompted by kernel log messages on the buildd (arm-linaro-03), I can see that aapits is crashing a lot during the package build on arm64. The test suite crashing is worrying; the package build continuing on is worse

Bug#767037: Grub EFI fallback - patches for review

2014-12-21 Thread Steve McIntyre
d get a shim upload for Jessie that still hasn't happened. :-( I now think it's now way too late to add a new package like that for Jessie, hence I've been continuing down this route. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "I used to

Bug#767037: Grub EFI fallback - patches for review

2014-12-21 Thread Steve McIntyre
nd I'm not >confident that dpkg will work fully/safely without all the POSIX-ish >semantics (hardlinks, atomic updates and the like), might want to handle >that by installing via the postinst instead of shipping in /boot/EFI. Definitely, yes. dpkg directly on VFAT is a no-go. -- St

Bug#772778: abcde: diff for NMU version 2.6-1.1

2015-01-11 Thread Steve McIntyre
to it, which is no bad thing. :-) I was more tempted to do some version-detection code for eyeD3, but this is safer right now I guess. Thanks! -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com The two hard things in computing: * naming things * cache invalidati

Bug#775235: Repeatable failure to start on i386 running under kvm

2015-01-12 Thread Steve McIntyre
Package: gnome-shell Version: 3.14.2-3+b1 Severity: serious Hi, During testing of the Jessie d-i RC1 CD build, I installed lots and lots of different variations of virtual systems using KVM. All the others worked OK given sufficient packages (access to a mirror, etc.), but installing Gnome on i38

Bug#756253: Upgrade from 2.02~beta2-10 to 2.02~beta2-11 left grub unbootable

2015-01-16 Thread Steve McIntyre
\\0001\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0"..., 2084) = >-1 ENOSPC (No space left on device) >umask(0)= 022 ... That ENOSPC error is the cause of your problem - your firmware has filled up the EFI variable space, so the system cannot add new EFI variables. I suggest you look

Bug#756253: Upgrade from 2.02~beta2-10 to 2.02~beta2-11 left grub unbootable

2015-01-16 Thread Steve McIntyre
1, >Boot* Windows Boot Manager >Boot0001* Windows Boot Manager >Boot0002* grub >Boot0003* debian ... > > 4534 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 1月 8 2014 > /boot/efi/EFI/Boot > 455 1580 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1617240 4月 27

Bug#765540: missing symbol

2015-01-16 Thread Steve McIntyre
* have it. Downgrading and retitling appropriately. I'll see what I can do to add support for something like that soon. In a related(ish) sense, we could do with some similar extra work to make EFI systems and RAID play nicely too... :-/ -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.

Bug#761815: installation adds entries for USB media to /etc/fstab which confuse udisks

2015-01-17 Thread Steve McIntyre
d. I've personally at least encountered 3 people having problems >with using USB media under desktop environments (KDE or GNOME) due to >these entries in /etc/fstab. I'm thinking the best way to go with this is to simply drop this misc USB device support altogether from partm

Bug#764798: grub2: Grub rescue shell with RAID 6 mdadm over 8 disks

2015-01-17 Thread Steve McIntyre
UB. What would be nice is a warning at grub-install(?) time if lots of devices are needed for /boot: "your system may not boot like this". Mike: I'm afraid the only way you're going to get your system back properly is to re-arrange your filesystems. Maybe re-shuffle th

Bug#756253: Upgrade from 2.02~beta2-10 to 2.02~beta2-11 left grub unbootable

2015-01-17 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 04:16:56PM +0900, Mike Hommey wrote: >On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 10:28:51PM +0000, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> Hi Mike, >> >> Have you seen this again recently? Is it still happening for you? > >As a matter of fact, it hasn't happened rec

Bug#774366: also on wheezy

2015-01-17 Thread Steve McIntyre
to you as the maintainer, but I'd be very tempted to file for removal at this point. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "...In the UNIX world, people tend to interpret `non-technical user' as meaning someone who's only ever written o

Bug#756253: Upgrade from 2.02~beta2-10 to 2.02~beta2-11 left grub unbootable

2015-01-18 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Sun, Jan 18, 2015 at 08:16:51AM +0900, Mike Hommey wrote: >On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 05:22:52PM +0000, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 04:16:56PM +0900, Mike Hommey wrote: >> >On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 10:28:51PM +0000, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> >>

Bug#756253: Upgrade from 2.02~beta2-10 to 2.02~beta2-11 left grub unbootable

2015-01-18 Thread Steve McIntyre
67 write(2, ": ", 2) = 2 >9167 write(2, "No such file or directory\n", 26) = 26 >9167 write(2, "efibootmgr: ", 12) = 12 >9167 write(2, "Could not prepare boot variable", 31) = 31 >9167 write(2, ": ", 2)

Bug#725417: This would not be a simple fix

2015-01-18 Thread Steve McIntyre
no longer works of course. Well, as another person with a chiark account I can see that Neil is still using his login there and has been active in the last week. Whether or not he's reading email there, I don't know... I'll prod too. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.

Bug#768897: MBR disklabels also yield destructive pvcreate

2015-01-18 Thread Steve McIntyre
filesystem/blkid contents; OR (b) Warn about such partitions and ask the user what to do. 2(a) looks much easier, I'll be honest, so that's my plan for now. As a point of information, you weren't sure what the "K" tag means in the d-i partitioner. Ironical

Bug#775689: Do NOT use unetbootin for Debian CD images

2015-01-18 Thread Steve McIntyre
Source: unetbootin Severity: serious Tags: d-i Justification: wasting massive amounts of developer and user time I've already added one wishlist bug for d-i to add code to detect unetbootin usage and complain about it, but I've not got there yet. unetbootin used to be a helpful tool for many peopl

Bug#775689: Do NOT use unetbootin for Debian CD images

2015-01-19 Thread Steve McIntyre
7;t warn other >users using UNetbootin. I know that, but a warning for Debian users would help too. I'm also tempted to look into how to detect unetbootin media within d-i so that we can potentially flash up a warning to the user. I *know* it may be a useful tool for some folks (and it use

Bug#756253: Upgrade from 2.02~beta2-10 to 2.02~beta2-11 left grub unbootable

2015-01-20 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 07:42:37AM +0900, Mike Hommey wrote: >On Sun, Jan 18, 2015 at 11:37:28AM +0000, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> The ENOSPC handling has been bad in the past, but it's not clear that >> was the cause of your original bug. :-/ *Now* it's a very bad state t

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