Re: Adding Pre-Depends from linux-image packages to linux-base

2025-05-06 Thread Helmut Grohne
Hi Ben, On Sat, May 03, 2025 at 04:08:55PM +0200, Ben Hutchings wrote: > I'm proposing to add a linux-run-hooks command to the linux-base package > [1] that will then be used in all maintainer scripts of linux-image > packages [2]. This requires upgrading the current Depends on linux-base > to Pr

Bug#1095202: nfs-common: file loss in upgrade due to /usr-move (DEP17 P1)

2025-02-04 Thread Helmut Grohne
canonicalization and move between +packages. (DEP17 P1 M8, Closes: #-1) + + -- Helmut Grohne Tue, 04 Feb 2025 21:19:43 +0100 + nfs-utils (1:2.8.2-2~exp1) experimental; urgency=medium * Move nfs-blkmap.service to nfs-common package. diff --minimal -Nru nfs-utils-2.8.2/debian/control nfs-utils

Bug#1084908: arch:all linux-libc-dev causes problems to architecture bootstrap

2024-12-05 Thread Helmut Grohne
Hi Bastian, On Thu, Dec 05, 2024 at 03:30:53PM +0100, Bastian Blank wrote: > What kind of information can this dependency satisfiability test use? > > Something like this? > > | Provides: > | linux-libc-dev-supports (= amd64-0), > | linux-libc-dev-supports (= arm64-0), > | linux-libc-dev-s

Bug#1084908: arch:all linux-libc-dev causes problems to architecture bootstrap

2024-12-05 Thread Helmut Grohne
Hi Bastian, I think much of what you are asking here is already answered in my reply to Ben's followup. On Wed, Dec 04, 2024 at 10:33:28PM +0100, Bastian Blank wrote: > On Sat, Oct 19, 2024 at 06:15:57PM +0200, Helmut Grohne wrote: > > On Sat, Oct 19, 2024 at 03:35:21PM +0200,

Bug#1084908: arch:all linux-libc-dev causes problems to architecture bootstrap

2024-12-05 Thread Helmut Grohne
Hi Bastian, On Wed, Dec 04, 2024 at 10:40:59PM +0100, Bastian Blank wrote: > On Thu, Oct 24, 2024 at 01:29:31AM +0200, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > Do we really want to be on the critical path for the early stages of > > defining a new architecture, including any renaming that might happen > > before

Bug#1084908: arch:all linux-libc-dev causes problems to architecture bootstrap

2024-11-28 Thread Helmut Grohne
Hi, I skipped replying here earlier, because I felt like I would not add any content. Stefano indicated that my impression was wrong. Hence replying now. On Thu, Oct 24, 2024 at 01:31:32AM +0200, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Sat, 2024-10-19 at 18:15 +0200, Helmut Grohne wrote: > > H

Bug#1084908: arch:all linux-libc-dev causes problems to architecture bootstrap

2024-10-19 Thread Helmut Grohne
Hi Bastian, On Sat, Oct 19, 2024 at 03:35:21PM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: > On Thu, Oct 10, 2024 at 06:03:24PM +0200, Helmut Grohne wrote: > > A. Multi-Arch: foreign is a lie ... > All the examples of yours will immediatelly fail to build anything with > it. So what harm is

Bug#1084908: arch:all linux-libc-dev causes problems to architecture bootstrap

2024-10-10 Thread Helmut Grohne
Package: linux-libc-dev Version: 6.6.3-1~exp1 Hi, Ben asked me to file a bug report with the linux package describing the issues I see with linux-libc-dev being Arch:all. A. Multi-Arch: foreign is a lie linux-libc-dev declares being Multi-Arch: foreign, but it does not live up to the involved p

Bug#1084820: firmware-realtek has an undeclared file conflict

2024-10-08 Thread Helmut Grohne
Package: firmware-realtek Version: 20240909-1 Severity: serious User: debian...@lists.debian.org Usertags: fileconflict Control: affects -1 + firmware-realtek-rtl8723cs-bt firmware-realtek has an undeclared file conflict. This may result in an unpack error from dpkg. The files * /usr/lib/firmwar

Re: Bug#1065416: Bastian's offer in #1065416

2024-09-14 Thread Helmut Grohne
Hi Ben, On Thu, Sep 12, 2024 at 07:56:09PM +0200, Ben Hutchings wrote: > It is trivial for us to add support for additional architectures once > they are minimally supported in upstream Linux (we may also require > that dpkg recognises their triplet; I'm not sure). There is no > requirement that

Re: Bug#1065416: Bastian's offer in #1065416

2024-09-12 Thread Helmut Grohne
Hi Ben, Dropping leader@ and community@ from Cc as this is a technical side-track. On Thu, Sep 12, 2024 at 12:38:24AM +0200, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Mon, 2024-09-09 at 02:13 +0200, Ben Hutchings wrote: > [...] > > My answers below are mine alone. I have not discussed this with other > > team m

Bug#1058937: raising severity of /usr-move bugs (DEP17)

2024-08-06 Thread Helmut Grohne
# Dear package maintainer, # # as announced in June, I am raising the severity of all DEP17 # bugs to release-critical severity. Announcement at: # https://lists.debian.org/20240610102931.ga2106...@subdivi.de # The intention is to get all aliased files moved before the # release of Debian trixie. I

Bug#1073832: firmware-{intel-graphics,intel-misc,marvell-prestera,mediatek,misc-nonfree,nvidia-graphics}: ineffective replaces due to /usr-move (DEP17)

2024-06-19 Thread Helmut Grohne
#x27;binary-indep', ["$(MAKE) -f debian/rules.real binary-indep %s" % makeflags]) diff --minimal -Nru firmware-nonfree-20230625/debian/changelog firmware-nonfree-20230625/debian/changelog --- firmware-nonfree-20230625/debian/changelog 2024-06-18 02:33:12.0 +0200 +++ firmwa

Bug#1069572: firmware-nonfree: activate update-initramfs trigger declaratively

2024-04-20 Thread Helmut Grohne
/changelog 2024-04-20 18:11:28.0 +0200 @@ -1,3 +1,10 @@ +firmware-nonfree (20230625-2.1) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium + + * Non-maintainer upload. + * Activate update-initramfs trigger declaratively. (Closes: #-1) + + -- Helmut Grohne Sat, 20 Apr 2024 18:11:28 +0200 + firmware-nonfree

Bug#1069571: firmware-linux-free: activate update-initramfs trigger declaratively

2024-04-20 Thread Helmut Grohne
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@ +firmware-free (20200122-4.1) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium + + * Non-maintainer upload. + * Activate trigger declaratively. (Closes: #-1) + + -- Helmut Grohne Sat, 20 Apr 2024 17:27:53 +0200 + firmware-free (20200122-4) unstable; urgency=medium * Update to linux-support 6.6.15

Bug#1065214: NMU iproute2

2024-03-12 Thread Helmut Grohne
te2 (6.7.0-2.1) unstable; urgency=medium + + * Non-maintainer upload. + * Explicitly depend on libtirpc-dev. (Closes: #1065214) + + -- Helmut Grohne Tue, 12 Mar 2024 09:03:30 +0100 + iproute2 (6.7.0-2) unstable; urgency=medium * Backport fix for 'ss' output diff -Nru iproute2-

Bug#1065416: [Cross-toolchain-base-devs] Bug#1065416: linux-libc-dev claims to provide linux-libc-dev-ARCH-cross, but it doesn't do that completely

2024-03-05 Thread Helmut Grohne
Hi Bastian, On Mon, Mar 04, 2024 at 11:04:22PM +0100, Bastian Blank wrote: > > Arguably, a cross toolchain build should probably search > > /usr/include/. I went back and forth a bit with Matthias > > about whether we could add this and did not fully understand his > > reasons, but there is one te

Bug#1065416: [Cross-toolchain-base-devs] Bug#1065416: linux-libc-dev claims to provide linux-libc-dev-ARCH-cross, but it doesn't do that completely

2024-03-04 Thread Helmut Grohne
Hi Bastian, On Mon, Mar 04, 2024 at 12:30:09PM +0100, Bastian Blank wrote: > On Mon, Mar 04, 2024 at 12:07:15PM +0100, Matthias Klose wrote: > > On 04.03.24 11:29, Bastian Blank wrote: > > > On Mon, Mar 04, 2024 at 08:53:11AM +0100, Matthias Klose wrote: > > > > However the links in /usr/DEB_HOST_

Bug#1063554: firmware-linux-free: move files to /usr (DEP17)

2024-02-09 Thread Helmut Grohne
/usr (DEP17). (Closes: #-1) + + -- Helmut Grohne Fri, 09 Feb 2024 15:42:17 +0100 + firmware-free (20200122-2) unstable; urgency=medium [ Ben Hutchings ] diff --minimal -Nru firmware-free-20200122/debian/rules.real firmware-free-20200122/debian/rules.real --- firmware-free-20200122/debian/rules

Bug#1058937: Bug#1060700: Requesting advice regarding the impact of problems caused by aliasing on declared Conflicts

2024-01-17 Thread Helmut Grohne
On Fri, Jan 12, 2024 at 01:31:18PM +0100, Helmut Grohne wrote: > The relevant situation is not entirely trivial to construct: > > * Package $first contains an aliased file $file and this is moved to >package $second in an update. >OR >Package $first diverts alia

Re: consolidate linux-libc-dev headers

2023-12-23 Thread Helmut Grohne
Hi Dimitri and Bastian, On Thu, Nov 16, 2023 at 06:28:13PM +, Dimitri John Ledkov wrote: > Currently in both Debian and Ubuntu we ship like close to 40 .deb packages > that have linux-libc-dev (for native/multiarch, cross, ports, mipses). > > Each one of them is like 1.5MB, however they actua

Bug#1058937: /usr-move: Do we support upgrades without apt?

2023-12-22 Thread Helmut Grohne
Hi Matthew, On Thu, Dec 21, 2023 at 02:42:56PM +, Matthew Vernon wrote: > On 21/12/2023 09:41, Helmut Grohne wrote: > > > Is it ok to call upgrade scenarios failures that cannot be reproduced > > using apt unsupported until we no longer deal with aliasing? Let me thank Da

Bug#1058937: /usr-move: Do we support upgrades without apt?

2023-12-21 Thread Helmut Grohne
Hi, this installment serves a dual purpose. Let me first give an update of the status quo and then pose a consensus question on how we want to deal with a particular problem. I Cc d-release@l.d.o as upgrades are an integral part of releases. I Cc d-ctte@l.d.o for advisory feedback with experience

Bug#1057121: dpkg: warning: unable to delete old directory '/lib/firmware/...

2023-11-29 Thread Helmut Grohne
Control: reassign -1 release-notes Control: retitle -1 document expected warnings for the bookworm to trixie upgrade On Thu, Nov 30, 2023 at 02:26:07PM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote: > Package: firmware-misc-nonfree > Version: 20230625-1 > > Saw tons of these. > Unpacking firmware-misc-nonfree (2023

Bug#1051824: linux-patch-VER-rt.patch.xz went missing

2023-09-12 Thread Helmut Grohne
Package: linux-source-6.1 Version: 6.1~rc3-1~exp1 X-Debbugs-Cc: wa...@debian.org Hi, I noticed that linux-patch-VER-rt.patch.xz is missing from linux-source-VER lately. I tracked this down to having gone missing exactly when we moved from 6.0 to 6.1, i.e. all 6.0 builds include it and all 6.1 bui

Bug#1051365: linux: drop stage1 profile?

2023-09-06 Thread Helmut Grohne
Source: linux Severity: wishlist User: helm...@debian.org Usertags: rebootstrap Hi, I recently captured a conversation involving Bastain saying that the stage1 build profile was deprecated. He's right! So I went searching for users of this profile. The most obvious user to me is rebootstrap. It

Bug#1037938: linux FTCBFS: perf builds a python extension for the build architecture

2023-06-14 Thread Helmut Grohne
-1,3 +1,11 @@ +linux (6.3.7-1.1) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium + + * Non-maintainer upload. + * Fix FTCBFS: Pass _PYTHON_SYSCONFIGDATA_NAME to the perf build. +(Closes: #-1) + + -- Helmut Grohne Wed, 14 Jun 2023 16:09:09 +0200 + linux (6.3.7-1) unstable; urgency=medium * New upstream sta

Bug#1019118: patch for rtla regression

2023-02-07 Thread Helmut Grohne
+1,10 @@ +linux (6.1.8-1.1) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium + + * Non-maintainer upload. + * Fix FTCBFS: Supply the host pkg-config to the rtla build. (Closes: #1019118) + + -- Helmut Grohne Tue, 07 Feb 2023 07:55:34 +0100 + linux (6.1.8-1) unstable; urgency=medium * New upstream stable update:

Bug#1027915: systemd requires /run to be mounted with a minimum size of 20MB

2023-01-24 Thread Helmut Grohne
Hi Helge, On Tue, Jan 24, 2023 at 10:30:37PM +0100, Helge Deller wrote: > On 1/24/23 06:27, Helmut Grohne wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 23, 2023 at 10:48:27PM +0100, Helge Deller wrote: > > > --- ./init.org2023-01-23 21:40:33.079738389 + > > > +++ ./init20

Bug#1027915: systemd requires /run to be mounted with a minimum size of 20MB

2023-01-24 Thread Helmut Grohne
Hi Helge, On Mon, Jan 23, 2023 at 10:48:27PM +0100, Helge Deller wrote: > --- ./init.org2023-01-23 21:40:33.079738389 + > +++ ./init2023-01-23 21:40:45.983861851 + > @@ -205,6 +205,15 @@ else > resume=${RESUME:-} > fi > > +if [ -z "${RUNSIZE}" ] || [[ "${RUNSIZE}" \< "

Bug#1029270: linux-image-6.1.0-2-686-pae fails to boot in qemu

2023-01-20 Thread Helmut Grohne
Control: severity -1 normal On Fri, Jan 20, 2023 at 03:55:53PM +0100, Helmut Grohne wrote: > A CI job of debvm started failing. debvm creates a minimalistic virtual > machine based on Debian unstable i386 and tries to run it in qemu. With > the previous kernel package that worked. Once

Bug#1029270: linux-image-6.1.0-2-686-pae fails to boot in qemu

2023-01-20 Thread Helmut Grohne
Package: linux-image-6.1.0-2-686-pae Version: 6.1.7-1 Severity: important Control: affects -1 + debvm A CI job of debvm started failing. debvm creates a minimalistic virtual machine based on Debian unstable i386 and tries to run it in qemu. With the previous kernel package that worked. Once updati

Bug#1028184: unsatisfiable cross Build-Depends: python3-jinja2

2023-01-07 Thread Helmut Grohne
* Non-maintainer upload. + * Fix cross Build-Depends: Annotate python3 and python3-jinja2 +dependencies :native. (Closes: #-1) + + -- Helmut Grohne Sun, 08 Jan 2023 07:29:36 +0100 + linux (6.1.4-1) unstable; urgency=medium * New upstream stable update: diff --minimal -Nru linux-6.1.4/d

Bug#1027174: linux-image-*-cloud-amd64: please add support for the 9p filesystem

2022-12-28 Thread Helmut Grohne
Package: linux-image-6.0.0-6-cloud-amd64 Version: 6.0.12-1 Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-Cc: jo...@debian.org Hi, I already talked with Bastian on #debian-devel about this, but that was inconclusive, so I'm taking it to email. I request adding support for the 9p filesystem to the cloud image. Whi

Re: Dependencies of linux-headers- packages

2022-03-14 Thread Helmut Grohne
Hi Felix, On Mon, Mar 14, 2022 at 10:33:22AM +, Moessbauer, Felix wrote: > In general I agree, but here the situation is a bit different: > The dependency to the host compiler (e.g. arm64) is too narrow. Wrong. It certainly is not and beyond that, this aspect is not weakened. It still require

Re: Dependencies of linux-headers- packages

2022-03-13 Thread Helmut Grohne
Hi, On Thu, Mar 10, 2022 at 02:13:34PM +, Moessbauer, Felix wrote: > Many thanks for the patch. > I just (manually) backported that to Debian bullseye, tested it for arm64 and > it worked like a charm. Can we please stop piling up workarounds and instead fix this once and for all? I see us

Bug#996906: klibc FTBFS on armhf: cc1: error: '-mfloat-abi=hard': selected architecture lacks an FPU

2021-10-20 Thread Helmut Grohne
Source: klibc Version: 2.0.8-6.1 Severity: serious Tags: ftbfs klibc fails to build from source in unstable on armhf. I suppose this is fallout from gcc-11. Reproduced by reproducible builds: https://tests.reproducible-builds.org/debian/rbuild/unstable/armhf/klibc_2.0.8-6.1.rbuild.log.gz | /usr/b

Bug#994798: util-linux FTBFS: configure: error: raw selected, but required raw.h header file not available

2021-09-20 Thread Helmut Grohne
Source: util-linux Version: 2.37.2-2 Severity: serious Tags: ftbfs X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-kernel@lists.debian.org util-linux fails to build from source in unstable on amd64. I think the relevant bits are: | dh_auto_configure -- --enable-raw --with-selinux --with-smack --enable-partx --with-system

Bug#970011: linux: missing build dependency on kernel-wedge in stage1 build

2020-09-09 Thread Helmut Grohne
Source: linux Version: 5.8.7-1 Severity: important User: helm...@debian.org Usertags: rebootstrap Hi, I'm run into a bootstrap failure caused by linux: https://jenkins.debian.net/job/rebootstrap_hppa_gcc10/9/ | dh_prep | dh_prep: warning: All requested packages have been excluded (e.g. via a Bui

Bug#959225: libcap-ng FTBFS: Build-Depends: linux-kernel-headers is no longer provided

2020-05-01 Thread Helmut Grohne
Source: libcap-ng Version: 0.7.9-2.1 Severity: serious Tags: ftbfs patch User: helm...@debian.org Usertags: rebootstrap libcap-ng fails to build from source, because linux-libc-dev no longer provides linux-kernel-headers, which is what libcap-ng Build-Depends on. Please transition your dependency

Bug#908438: [PATCH resend] ARM: dts: sun7i: Disable OOB IRQ for brcm wifi on Cubietruck and Banana Pro

2019-12-18 Thread Helmut Grohne
Control: tags -1 + patch Hi, On Sun, Sep 30, 2018 at 04:58:52PM +0200, Hans de Goede wrote: > While doing some brcmfmac driver work I needed to test this also on some > devicetree based boards. So I fired up the good old Cubietruck and when > that would not work a Banana Pro. > > With an unmodif

Re: Bug#920286: gcc-8: Missing conflict/break with binutils-x86-64-linux-gnu:i386 can lead to broken compiler

2019-03-19 Thread Helmut Grohne
On Thu, Jan 24, 2019 at 04:38:19PM +0100, Helmut Grohne wrote: > Ultimately, this means that marking binutils- M-A:foreign was > wrong. It means that binutils plays the same role as ruby, perl, python > and even make: you can load shared objects into it, but much of the time > you d

Bug#898743: breaks when #included after

2018-05-15 Thread Helmut Grohne
Package: linux-libc-dev,libc6-dev Severity: serious Justification: makes systemd ftbfs User: helm...@debian.org Usertags: rebootstrap Control: affects -1 + src:systemd libmount-dev systemd FTBFS here, because compiling load-fragment.c fails. I spent a while minimizing that file and it boils down t

Bug#873176: linux-image-armmp-lpae: Please add module for DHT11/DHT22 sensors

2018-04-15 Thread Helmut Grohne
Hi Ben, On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 04:14:43PM +0200, Harald Geyer wrote: > Ben Hutchings writes: > > Control: reassign -1 src:linux tag -1 moreinfo > > This driver appears to depend on Device Tree properties, but none of the > > DTBs we build set those properties. It's not clear to me how it would be

Bug#887211: initramfs-tools-core should depend on e2fsprogs explicitly

2018-01-14 Thread Helmut Grohne
Package: initramfs-tools-core Version: 0.130 User: helm...@debian.org Usertags: nonessentiale2fsprogs Dear maintainer, We want to make removing e2fsprogs from installations possible. For standard installations this is not useful, but embedded applications and chroots benefit from such an option.

Bug#887198: linux-kbuild-4.14 should depend on e2fsprogs explicitly

2018-01-14 Thread Helmut Grohne
Package: linux-kbuild-4.14 Version: 4.14.12-2 User: helm...@debian.org Usertags: nonessentiale2fsprogs Dear maintainer, We want to make removing e2fsprogs from installations possible. For standard installations this is not useful, but embedded applications and chroots benefit from such an option.

Bug#858975: enable CONFIG_W1_MASTER_GPIO for arm kernels?

2017-03-29 Thread Helmut Grohne
Source: linux Severity: wishlist Would it be reasonable to enable CONFIG_W1_MASTER_GPIO as a module for arm kernels? I understand that the w1-gpio module can only be used with a suitable device tree, that device tree overlays (CONFIG_OF_CONFIGFS) are not yet mainline and that none of the precompil

Bug#836542: nfs-utils FTCBFS: uses build architecture compiler, uses pre-built ELF object files

2016-09-03 Thread Helmut Grohne
8-9.3) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium + + * Non-maintainer upload. + * Fix FTCBFS: (Closes: #-1) ++ Let dh_auto_configure provide cross flags. ++ Remove pre-built object files. + + -- Helmut Grohne Sat, 03 Sep 2016 22:26:25 +0200 + nfs-utils (1:1.2.8-9.2) unstable; urgency=medium

Bug#824524: please support building linux-libc-dev for the tilegx architecture

2016-05-16 Thread Helmut Grohne
+1,10 @@ +linux (4.5.3-2.1) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium + + * Non-maintainer upload. + * Enable building linux-libc-dev for tilegx. (Closes: #-1) + + -- Helmut Grohne Tue, 17 May 2016 06:20:55 +0200 + linux (4.5.3-2) unstable; urgency=medium * [s390x] PCI: Ignore zpci ABI changes; these function

Bug#823632: linux-libc-dev: architecture-dependent header in non-multiarch directory

2016-05-06 Thread Helmut Grohne
Package: linux-libc-dev Severity: wishlist Tags: patch User: helm...@debian.org Usertags: rebootstrap Hi Ben et al, While looking into bootstrapping tilegx (#823167), I noticed that linux installs some architecture dependent headers directly into /usr/include. Exampes include: /usr/include/a

Bug#718297: linux-source-3.10: broken binary package contains uncompressed member data.tar.gz

2013-07-29 Thread Helmut Grohne
Package: linux-source-3.10 Version: 3.10.3-1 Severity: important The binary package linux-source-3.10 does not comply to man 5 deb. It contains a data.tar.gz, that is not a valid gzip file. While the cause is in dpkg (see #718295). I ask you to work around this issue, by passing -z1 instead of -z0

Bug#707583: initramfs-tools: clarify documentation on break parameter

2013-05-09 Thread Helmut Grohne
Package: initramfs-tools Version: 0.112 Severity: minor Tags: patch When reading man 8 initramfs-tools I was wondering whether the shell spawned due to break=something would be spawned before or after the corresponding scripts. I suggest to apply the attached patch to clarify this. Helmut --- ini

Re: fix for #682964 is incomplete, maybe related to #630581

2012-11-10 Thread Helmut Grohne
On Thu, Nov 08, 2012 at 10:13:59AM +0100, Uwe Kleine-König wrote: > So copy_exec behaves like cp(1). Maybe introduce a warning for wheezy if > the 2nd argument is a directory in /? This isn't 100% fail-safe but > should catch most cases (among them all of the above instances). No, copy_exec does n

Re: fix for #682964 is incomplete, maybe related to #630581

2012-11-08 Thread Helmut Grohne
So I had a further look into the dropbear initramfs issue. The code where the breakage occurs is dropbear's hook: | LIBC_DIR=$(ldd /usr/sbin/dropbear | sed -n -e 's,.* => \(/lib.*\)/libc\.so\..*,\1,p') | for so in $(find "${LIBC_DIR}" -name 'libnss_compat*'); do | copy_exec "${so}" "${LIBC_

Bug#627669: linux-image-2.6.38-2-amd64: [brcm80211] oops on iwlist wlan0 scanning

2011-05-24 Thread Helmut Grohne
Hi Moritz, On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 06:46:58PM +0200, Moritz Mühlenhoff wrote: > Please retest with 2.6.39-1 from unstable. I just did that while you wrote this mail and it at least no longer oopses on either iwlist wlan0 scanning or iwlist wlan0 essid something. Thanks for the work (or forward t

Bug#627669: linux-image-2.6.38-2-amd64: [brcm80211] oops on iwlist wlan0 scanning

2011-05-23 Thread Helmut Grohne
Package: linux-image-2.6.38-2-amd64 Version: 2.6.38-5 Severity: normal I do know that brcm80211 comes from the staging tree. Nevertheless I hereby document one of its problems. firmware-brcm80211 version is 0.29 # lspci -v -s 05:00.0 05:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4313 802.1

Bug#472409: mkinitramfs: please mention that -d config_dir option requires an absolute path

2008-03-24 Thread Helmut Grohne
Package: initramfs-tools Version: 0.91e Severity: normal Invoking mkinitramfs using -d conf where conf is a relative path results in cpio bailing out: cpoio: ./conf/initramfs.conf: Cannot stat: No such file or directory Providing an absolute path makes this go away. I therefore suggest adding a

Bug#445510: initramfs-tools: please fail gracefully for ENOSPC

2007-10-06 Thread Helmut Grohne
Package: initramfs-tools Version: 0.85h Severity: wishlist I recently set up a system with /boot being too small. While this is my fault update-initramfs could handle this in a better way than backup the old (working) initramfs and leave a truncated one for the next reboot will fail. (Yes, it told