Link Request From Diskeeper.com

2008-11-13 Thread Joey Block
e this link code below. --- Diskeeper 2008 http://www.diskeeper.com";>Disk Defragmentation software. --- Please let me know if you are going to link to us! Thank You, Joey Blo

Re: Orphaned packages that were not part of etch, take 2

2008-10-31 Thread Joey Hess
Christoph Berg wrote: > Joey had concerns against the removal of sparkline-php in July. Popcon > lists 5 installations, so I'd propose to remove it. Joey? It would make ikiwiki buggy by causing it to suggest a package that is not in the distribution, and by removing one of its feature

Re: Report from Debconf's QA BOF

2008-08-15 Thread Joey Hess
Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > Sure, Luk was here, and didn't express any disagreement. Actually, I > tried hard to give several opportunities to raise concerns, but > everybody apparently really agreed with the proposal. (you might want to > check the video when it will be available) That wasn't really

Re: Orphaned packages that were not part of etch

2008-07-20 Thread Joey Hess
Some of these packages were orphaned within the past month. I don't feel such packages should be removed from testing; people may just not have reacted to the orphaning yet. Frank Lichtenheld wrote: > cryopid: popcon 233/23/203/7/0, RC bug, no rdepends > -> keep in unstable This seems potentiall

Re: List of packages which should probably be Architecture: all

2008-01-02 Thread Joey Hess
Interesting idea, though so few packages lack dependencies that it won't catch much. Perhaps grepping for package that don't depend on any shared libraries would catch more? Raphael Geissert wrote: > maximilian attems <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >klibc >linux-2.6 (U) heh > Andreas Barth <[EMAIL

Bug#452323: developer.php DM-Upload-Allowed field

2007-11-21 Thread Joey Hess
Package: qa.debian.org Bas Wijnen wrote: > DM is meant for people who are already uploading packages through > sponsors. So at first the packages they'll be uploading will be (at > most) the ones they already are in the uploader list for. > DM-Upload-Allowed may of course not yet be set. > > A l

Bug#433469: PTS: please parse 'Homepage:' pseudo-header in the Descriptions...

2007-07-17 Thread Joey Hess
Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > Because we already have a documented convention for how a Homepage > should be specified in a debian/control No, we have a pseudo-standard that is not adhered to very well: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~>apt-cache dumpavail |grep -i homepage: | sed 's/:.*//'| sort | uniq -c | so

Re: RFC: use readable $(cmd) syntax instead of unreadable `cmd`

2007-02-09 Thread Joey Hess
Jari Aalto wrote: > "If your development environment cannot display ` differently than ' , > you need to get a new one." Note that even though I wrote the above, I'm not exactly opposed to $(). I've been using $() in most shell code I write for years. But this does not mean that I feel i

Re: [Help] Transition "Link in /usr/doc/"

2006-07-23 Thread Joey Hess
Stefan Huehner wrote: > Hi Amaya, > > i think lintian has a check for this issue. Please look into [1] if this > is what you need. > > Regards, > Stefan > > [1] > http://lintian.debian.org/reports/Tpostinst-should-not-set-usr-doc-link.html FWIW, that's all I used for the original mass bug filin

Re: removing packages only in oldstable and in unstable

2006-04-21 Thread Joey Hess
Andreas Barth wrote: > boot-floppies This can't be removed from unstable until oldstable has been dropped, at least if you're being pedantic about licenses -- the boot-floppy images in oldstable were built with the version of boot-floppies that's in unstable or something like that, and so removin

Re: Proposal for collaborative maintenance of packages

2005-12-29 Thread Joey Hess
Lars Wirzenius wrote: > I'm going to dip my spoon into this soup, because I dislike soup, and > this one especially irks me. Even ice cream soup? > Reviewing other people's patches in large quantities every day is > something that few people will be happy to do for more than a few > days. After t

Re: Bugs, usertags, and including more people

2005-08-03 Thread Joey Hess
Margarita Manterola wrote: > One of the things that I proposed in my talk during Debconf5 is to > have a friendlier bug interface that allows for bugs to be sorted on > the language (c, python, perl, etc) of the code, and the difficulty of > solving them (trivial, easy, interesting, tedious, diffic

Re: The PTS should list Ubuntu patches

2005-07-19 Thread Joey Hess
Why are changes made by one particular derived debian distribution so important that they should be singled out by the PTS? Wouldn't it be more useful if the PTS highlighted patches that are actually of interest by those of our users who care enough about working with Debian to file patches in the

Re: The PTS should list Ubuntu patches

2005-07-19 Thread Joey Hess
Raphaël Hertzog wrote: > I'd like to add the integration of patches in the TODO list (much like Please don't do that. Ubuntu's 1.5 mb patch for base-config is thuroughly useless (as I've mentioned before) and if the PTS starts nagging me about it, I'll have to stop using the PTS. -- see shy jo

Re: Ranking of the worst maintainers

2004-11-02 Thread Joey Hess
Eduard Bloch wrote: > to visualize what we all already know, I created a simple ranking page > that counts the bug reports of a certain person together and gives it > appropriate weight (based on the priority of the package, the time the > bug has been kept open and its severity). The results can b

Re: QA Upload best practices, 2nd draft

2004-07-18 Thread Joey Hess
Matthew Palmer wrote: > Would you encourage people to rewrite the packaging method used (eg convert > from dh_ to cdbs) in a QA upload? I'm thinking that, apart from fixing > hideous bletcherisms of past maintainers (such as making upstream-available > packages Debian-native) we would want to avoi

Re: Old, ignored RC bugs revisited

2003-12-05 Thread Joey Hess
Andreas Metzler wrote: > Isn't this moot now? Progeny is using anaconda and afaik[1] anaconda uses > kudzu instead of discover(2). debian-installer currently uses discover v1. -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Helping busy maintainers

2003-10-12 Thread Joey Hess
Martin Michlmayr wrote: > Brian Mays <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Brian said he's busy, but he's around. Perhaps don't NMU, but reproduce > his bugs and send in patches. Give special attention to pcmcia-cs. > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/[EMAIL PROTECTED] Thomas Hood (and me, kinda) are c

Re: Orphaned packages (part 1): obsolete

2003-06-10 Thread Joey Hess
Andrew Suffield wrote: > xanim > xanim-modules > - non-free, and effectively obsoleted by xine I suspect we still have quite a few users using this, based on debian-user traffic. Then again, we have quite a few users still using xv.. -- see shy jo pgpotZy07658f.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: /usr/doc/transition: little test to run

2003-04-20 Thread Joey Hess
Hélio Loureiro wrote: > My output for stable: It doesn't work on stable. I'll bet most of these are real directories or have been fixed already. -- see shy jo pgpaiSdMJ55Ug.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: /usr/doc/transition: little test to run

2003-04-20 Thread Joey Hess
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > Also: > at > crossfire-client-gtk > crossfire-client-x11 > gsfonts-wadalab-mincho > HTML2 > libpgsql2 > lynx > raidtools2 > xscreensaver > xscreensaver-gl If you've not investigated and filed bugs on these yet, I can do it. Though it might be hard to find what

packages using files in /usr/share/doc

2003-04-20 Thread Joey Hess
I ran this command the other day to find packages that use files in /usr/share/doc in their postinsts. When dpkg gets directory exclude support these will presumably all break. They could break today if the admin removed /usr/share/doc in the middle of a dpkg run. I filed bugs on adduser, apt-listb

/usr/doc/transition: little test to run

2003-04-20 Thread Joey Hess
Try the following command on your system: $ cd /usr/doc; for p in *; do if ! grep -q /usr/doc /var/lib/dpkg/info/$p.prerm 2>/dev/null; then echo $p; fi; done dhcp dhcp-client glibc-doc libc6 libc6-dev libruby locales sash vim vim-perl xmcd This is a list of packages that still h

Re: doc-rfc package

2003-04-15 Thread Joey Hess
Martin Quinson wrote: > Yes I am. Vorlon proposed to sponsor me, but I guess he wouldn't mind if you > sponsor me. The most problematic problem with doc-rfc is > #92810: doc-rfc: license is not DFSG-free > I'll let vorlon contact upstream and search for a solution to this problem > (that's a par

Re: doc-rfc package

2003-04-14 Thread Joey Hess
Martin Quinson wrote: > Hello, > > here is the mail I made one week ago to vorlon stating that I did repackage > doc-rfc, closing most of its bugs on the way. I'm resending this to > debian-qa because I'm affraid that someone else dupplicate this work... > > Could someone please comment on this

Re: Removing bug?

2002-12-28 Thread Joey Hess
Martin Michlmayr wrote: > I think we should make some preperations to remove bug from Debian > and tell users to use reportbug. Are there still any features in > bug which are missing in reportbug? What remains to be done to get > rid of bug? bug has hardly any incompatabilities with reportbug,

Re: Orphaned packages in testing which were never in stable

2002-04-06 Thread Joey Hess
Martin Michlmayr wrote: > #135057: O: manpages-ru -- Russian translations of Linux manpages This is in the russian task. It would probably be better to leave it, unless it has other bugs. -- see shy jo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Con

Re: woody

2002-04-01 Thread Joey Hess
Nick Jacobs wrote: > Certainly not. Waiting for hppa (etc) support has > delayed release of woody - that's a fact. That's strange, I thought that the existance of 20 release critical bugs that noone is bothering to fix is what had delayed woody. Only a few are architecture specific. > > If you wa

Re: Why is slapd listed as base?

2002-01-03 Thread Joey Hess
Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas Bushnell, BSG) writes: > > > Why is slapd listed in http://base.debian.net/? Probably because it has the same source package as libldap2, on which exim depends. > And also, there are many "optional" packages listed in > standard.debian.net.

Re: testing boot floppies 3.0.18

2001-12-09 Thread Joey Hess
Jeff Sheinberg wrote: > Ok, here is why the above check is not working corrrectly, > > from the "/var/lib/dpkg/info/ppp.postinst" file, > > test -f /etc/ppp/peers/provider || \ > install -g dip -m 640 /usr/share/doc/ppp/examples/provider.peer > /etc/ppp/peers /provider Hm, what ve

Re: testing boot floppies 3.0.18

2001-11-27 Thread Joey Hess
Jeff Sheinberg wrote: > o After rebooting, I am asked if I want to startup the ppp > connection, however, the pppconfig program is _not_ run before > pon is executed. A newbie user would be completely lost here, > and under potato, pppconfig was run before pon was executed. The co

Re: Bug#112850: noatun: Doesn't play MP3

2001-09-22 Thread Joey Hess
Chris Lawrence wrote: > My gut feeling is that we let the users do the first level of bug > triage, and then developers can agonize about reclassifying the < 5% > they get wrong. I'd rather see 100x too many grave reports than let > one slip through at "normal" because we put some artificial barri

Bug#104107: default config assumes /dev/modem

2001-07-09 Thread Joey Hess
Package: xringd Version: 1.20-4 (and -3) Severity: normal Setting up xringd (1.20-4) ... Installing new version of config file /etc/xringd.conf ... Installing new version of config file /etc/init.d/xringd ... Starting Phone line monitor: xringd: error opening modem device No such file or directory

Re: more about /usr/share transition

2001-05-16 Thread Joey Hess
Martin Quinson wrote: > I've seen a lot of effort to remove all files from /usr/doc in profit to > /usr/share/doc, but nobody trying to enforce the part "13.4 Accessing the > documentation" of the policy. Well, not so -- I have searched out and filed bugs on exactly this before. Normal proprity II

Bug#93626: interactive configuration process

2001-04-11 Thread Joey Hess
Package: ircd-dalnet Version: N/A; reported 2001-04-10 Severity: normal The package is interactive at build time, and asks a ton of non-obvious questions. This makes it essentually unmaintainable by debian-qa, unless we have a dalnet ircd expert on the team I'm not aware of.. -- System Informatio

Bug#93625: bashism

2001-04-11 Thread Joey Hess
Package: ircd-dalnet Version: N/A; reported 2001-04-10 Severity: normal The build process uses . rather than source in Config, which is a bashism -- System Information Debian Release: unstable Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux kite 2.4.3 #1 Tue Apr 3 20:44:00 PDT 2001 i686

Re: scripts on pandora

2001-04-03 Thread Joey Hess
Martin Michlmayr wrote: > weasel has added a page about "Stats on broken Depends, Oldlibs, > Priorities etc." at http://qa.debian.org/debcheck.php [ btw, the > link to 'heavy' _is_ heavy. Give your browser a couple of minutes > to render the page ] Interesting, but not perfect yet. :-) It seems

Re: Your help with QA is needed

2001-03-31 Thread Joey Hess
Martin Michlmayr wrote: > - Help fix bugs in the base. Currently, the base has over 1500 > bugs, including 23 RC bugs. Please send in patches through > the BTS. See http://qa.debian.org/base-bugs.html for a full list. > Since base is going to be frozen before the rest of the system

Bug#91072: man page in /usr/man should move to /usr/share/man

2001-03-24 Thread Joey Hess
Package: saml Version: as in unstable on March 24th According to the Contents file for unstable, saml contains at least one file in /usr/man/. That directory is deprecated, and policy says that packages should place man pages in /usr/share/man/ instead. Please update your package soon to use the

Bug#91023: man page in /usr/man should move to /usr/share/man

2001-03-24 Thread Joey Hess
Package: netenv Version: as in unstable on March 24th According to the Contents file for unstable, netenv contains at least one file in /usr/man/. That directory is deprecated, and policy says that packages should place man pages in /usr/share/man/ instead. Please update your package soon to use

Bug#91012: man page in /usr/man should move to /usr/share/man

2001-03-24 Thread Joey Hess
Package: mserver Version: as in unstable on March 24th According to the Contents file for unstable, mserver contains at least one file in /usr/man/. That directory is deprecated, and policy says that packages should place man pages in /usr/share/man/ instead. Please update your package soon to us

Re: Crafty

2001-02-21 Thread Joey Hess
Karl-Martin Skontorp wrote: > Is the crafty package still orphaned and in need of a new maintainer? I > will probably be updating the deb package for myself anyway, so if a new > maintainer is needed I will be happy to apply for that position. To the best of my knowledge, it badly needs a maintain

Re: Crafty

2001-02-20 Thread Joey Hess
Karl-Martin Skontorp wrote: > for your information; I have created a new version of the crafty package > with the latest upstream version. Also fixed up alot in the files in > debian/. > > If you are interested, see here for the package: > > http://skontorp.net/debian/ Are you planning on

Re: xpuzzles_5.5.2-3_i386.changes REJECTED

2001-02-19 Thread Joey Hess
Debian Installer wrote: > Rejected: xpuzzles_5.5.2-3_i386.deb Old version `5.5.2-3' >= new version > `5.5.2-3'. > Rejected: can not overwrite existing copy of 'xpuzzles_5.5.2-3_i386.deb' > already in the archive. > Rejected: md5sum and/or size mismatch on existing copy of > xpuzzles_5.5.2-3_i386

Bug#86336: xtrojka uses /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults

2001-02-16 Thread Joey Hess
Package: xtrojka Version: 123-15 Severity: serious xtrojka is still using the old /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults directory. This directory is obsolete, and files in it are no longer used. Moreover, until everything is moved out of this directory to the new location, /etc/X11/app-defaults/, the ma

Bug#86330: xpuzzles uses /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults

2001-02-16 Thread Joey Hess
Package: xpuzzles Version: 5.5.2-2 Severity: serious xpuzzles is still using the old /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults directory. This directory is obsolete, and files in it are no longer used. Moreover, until everything is moved out of this directory to the new location, /etc/X11/app-defaults/, the

Bug#86321: xmpuzzles uses /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults

2001-02-16 Thread Joey Hess
Package: xmpuzzles Version: 5.5.2-2 Severity: serious xmpuzzles is still using the old /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults directory. This directory is obsolete, and files in it are no longer used. Moreover, until everything is moved out of this directory to the new location, /etc/X11/app-defaults/, t

Bug#86278: mgdiff uses /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults

2001-02-16 Thread Joey Hess
Package: mgdiff Version: 1.0-9 Severity: serious mgdiff is still using the old /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults directory. This directory is obsolete, and files in it are no longer used. Moreover, until everything is moved out of this directory to the new location, /etc/X11/app-defaults/, the maint

Re: realplayer

2001-01-23 Thread Joey Hess
Brian Russo wrote: > is realplayer currently orphaned? it's not listed in wnpp, but the > current maintainer appears to be Debian QA. Yes. -- see shy jo

Re: crafty: suggesting bugfixes

2001-01-09 Thread Joey Hess
Tommi Komulainen wrote: > Yes please. > Just to make things clear, my intention is not to adopt this package and > like I said earlier I'm not a Debian developer. I just wanted to have more > up to date version packaged and doing it myself seemed to be the fastest > way. Oh, ok. Then if you can j

Re: crafty: suggesting bugfixes

2001-01-09 Thread Joey Hess
Tommi Komulainen wrote: > I have now moved the initial files in /usr/lib/games/crafty. They are then > copied in postinst to /var/lib/games/crafty, not overwriting anything in > the process. The files are removed in postrm on purge as you suggested. The files can be pretty big, can't they? I thin

Re: realplayer, support for version 8

2001-01-08 Thread Joey Hess
r 8, patch from Matthew Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sun, 31 Dec 2000 13:51:36 -0600 -- see shy jo

Re: crafty: suggesting bugfixes

2001-01-08 Thread Joey Hess
Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > >> W: crafty: non-standard-file-perm var/games/crafty/books.bin 0664 != 0644 > > > > The second message looks like a lintian bug. Shaleh? > > > > lintian expects files in general to be mode 0644 if plain files or 0755 for > scripts/bins. Oops, I just misread a 664 a

Re: crafty: suggesting bugfixes

2001-01-08 Thread Joey Hess
Tommi Komulainen wrote: > I've done some work with crafty, my main motivation being getting a more > recent version packaged and installed. I also tried to squash some > existing bugs while I was at it, with more or less successful results. I > moved learning files (book openings etc.) to /var/gam

Re: Updating the realplayer package for RealPlayer 8

2000-12-31 Thread Joey Hess
Matthew Campbell wrote: > I don't know how you handle contributions from people who aren't registered > Debian developers, but I decided I'd patch the realplayer package so it > could be used to install RealPlayer 8, and I'm sending my patches. Apply > these under the root directory of the realpla

Re: RFC: Changing the NM system

2000-12-28 Thread Joey Hess
Adrian Bunk wrote: > I propose to stop the current NM process and to reorganize it. "... let's do the time warp a-gain!". (Ok, so I'm behind on email, but this is giving me cold sweats.) -- see shy jo

Bug#80704: outdated perl dependency

2000-12-28 Thread Joey Hess
Package: libset-object-perl Version: current in unstable as of 28-dec-00 [ This bug report was automatically generated. If it is in error, close it. ] libset-object-perl depends on a version of perl prior to perl-5.6; either perl-5.004, perl-5.004-base, perl-5.005, or perl-5.005-base. Perl 5.6 i

Bug#78660: free version available

2000-12-03 Thread Joey Hess
Package: xmap-smotif Now free.. - Forwarded message from Remco Treffkorn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - From: Remco Treffkorn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sun, 03 Dec 2000 01:21:05 -0800 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: mayko xmap... X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.16-22 i686) is no m

Bug#76487: Realplayer fails postinstall because cannot remove the RPM file

2000-11-07 Thread Joey Hess
Jens Benecke wrote: > This is what I get (the RPM is on a NFS mounted drive, of course it cannot > access or delete it): (it means, briefly, "rm: permission denied") > > I think this should not be deleted because you might want to reinstall the > package and NOT have to redownload the RPM. Templa

Re: Bug#72738: Unnecessary changes to /etc/passwd

2000-09-30 Thread Joey Hess
Lindsay Haisley wrote: > > If you didn't see that, it wasn't base-passwd that did this. If you did see > > it, it should be in your log file, right? > > Don't I wish! I went through the system logs and there was nothing, and > update-passwd doesn't mention anything about logging on its man page.

Re: Bug#72738: Unnecessary changes to /etc/passwd

2000-09-30 Thread Joey Hess
iguration of stuff in /etc/pam.d to > reproducte the functionality of /etc/suauth or a warning about possible > problems, I took care of it immediately on another vt and where appropriate > I copied the screen data to a review file. Here's my experiment: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/joey

Bug#69556: Bug#72442: [PATCH] dh_installdocs removes /usr/doc/symlink before calling install-docs -r

2000-09-25 Thread Joey Hess
Peter Palfrader wrote: > The /usr/doc symlink is removed before "install-docs -r" is called. > For this reason install-docs cannot remove /usr/doc/python-xml/.dhelp > (cf. Bug #69556). > > The solution is to reorder the commands. No, I think the solution is to fix this: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp/pyt

Re: Please remove chimera and xmap-[d|s]motif

2000-09-18 Thread Joey Hess
Adrian Bunk wrote: > Move xmap-[d|s]motif to project/orphaned > xmap-[d|s]motif are nonfree packages that need Motif. There are open bugs > that they need to be recompiled for XFree4 - but Motif isn't packaged for > Debian. If these are removed, mxmaps should be too, since it is worthless w/o them

Bug#69817: realplayer upgrade hosed

2000-08-29 Thread Joey Hess
FYI, realplayer is orhaned. Presumably, if noone maintains it, it will rapidly become unusable as real releases new versions -- if it's not already. -- see shy jo

Bug#69842: ntop: security hole: remote root in web mode

2000-08-24 Thread Joey Hess
Matthew Vernon wrote: > Joey Hess writes: > > > Please see http://lwn.net/2000/0824/a/fb-ntop.php3 > > Is this distinct from the remote root in web mode that was fixed in > ntop about a week ago? You mean 3 or 4 weeks ago, and yes it is. Fixed package in Incoming, btw. -- see shy jo

Bug#69842: ntop: security hole: remote root in web mode

2000-08-24 Thread Joey Hess
Package: ntop Version: 1.2a7-10 Severity: grave Please see http://lwn.net/2000/0824/a/fb-ntop.php3 -- System Information Debian Release: woody Kernel Version: Linux kite 2.2.16 #1 Sun Jun 11 15:30:48 PDT 2000 i686 unknown Versions of the packages ntop depends on: ii libc6 2.1.3-10

Bug#68418: FWD: [ Hackerslab bug_paper ] ntop web mode vulnerabliity

2000-08-02 Thread Joey Hess
Package: ntop Severity: grave I have verified this bug report -- fixing it is my utter top priority, but I'd be very happy if someone else fixes it first. - Forwarded message from root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - From: root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2000 17:50:35 +0900 To: B

Re: trolling for bad memory references using electric fence

2000-02-16 Thread Joey Hess
Torsten Landschoff wrote: > Hmm, perl sometimes tends to crash but what can you do about it? Ever > tried to read and understand the source? If perl ever crashes (which I find happens quite rarely; perhaps 5 times in my 5 years working with the language), I always: a) Reproduce the bug b) Reduce

Bug#51493: mcvert: please stop using dh_du

1999-11-29 Thread Joey Hess
Package: mcvert Version: N/A Severity: normal dh_du does nothing, and has been depreacted for years, and I want to get it removed from debhelper before potato is released. mcvert is one of the very few packages that still uses it. Please simply delete the call from debian/rules. -- System Info

Bug#50826: xpuzzles 5.5.2 available

1999-11-21 Thread joey
Package: xpuzzles Version: 5.4.4 Severity: wishlist This package appears to be out of date. On metalab, I see a file named /pub/Linux/games/strategy/xpuzzles-5.5.2.tar.gz that appears to be version 5.5.2 of this package. Note: This bug report was generated semi-automatically by a program that

Bug#50821: xabacus 5.5.2 available

1999-11-21 Thread joey
Package: xabacus Version: 5.4.4 Severity: wishlist This package appears to be out of date. On metalab, I see a file named /pub/Linux/apps/math/xabacus-5.5.2.tar.gz that appears to be version 5.5.2 of this package. Note: This bug report was generated semi-automatically by a program that scans t

Re: data-dumper missing? (Re: request that base gets testing by test groups

1999-11-18 Thread Joey Hess
Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: > > It's not that easy. The data-dumper package is for perl-5.004. Perl-5.005 > > does include Data::Dumper and not perl-5.005-base ... > > Again, is it a bug? It's a problem for debconf, sure (even the tiny version > uses Data::Dumper) but for who else? > > Should I f

Bug#44274: this package is not native

1999-09-05 Thread Joey Hess
Johnie Ingram wrote: > I'm not sure this is worth it; that adds 700k of ancient pre-Apache C > webserver code to Debian just to put 38k of perl CGI in the deb. > Also, the original idea was to assemble free CGIS from a number of > places, but that never got going. Feel free to close this. Looks li

Bug#44329: this package is not native

1999-09-05 Thread joey
Package: filters-nonfree Version: debian unstable as of 4 Sep 99 It seems that filters-nonfree is not really a debian native package; examination of the copyright file shows that the sources for it were obtained from elsewhere, not written by a debian developer. And yet, in the debian archive, the

Bug#44274: this package is not native

1999-09-05 Thread joey
Package: cgi-scripts Version: debian unstable as of 4 Sep 99 It seems that cgi-scripts is not really a debian native package; examination of the copyright file shows that the sources for it were obtained from elsewhere, not written by a debian developer. And yet, in the debian archive, there is on

Bug#10975: electric-fence: mprotect() failed: Invalid argument

1999-06-19 Thread Joey Hess
Christian Kurz wrote: > Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Christian Kurz wrote: > > > I packaged the new version 2.1 of electric-fence and uploaded it today. > > > Could you please check if this bug still exists or if it has been > > > resolved? Tha

Bug#10975: electric-fence: mprotect() failed: Invalid argument

1999-06-19 Thread Joey Hess
Christian Kurz wrote: > I packaged the new version 2.1 of electric-fence and uploaded it today. > Could you please check if this bug still exists or if it has been > resolved? Thanks for doing so. I can't reproduce it. Note that I'm not trying to link fakeroot with it, just the program I think I w

Re: RFC: Debian Quality Assurance Group

1999-04-22 Thread Joey Hess
Josip Rodin wrote: > If it is neccessary to make all this official policy, lets go to > debian-policy list and vote for including this text in policy. This does not belong in policy. Policy concerns building packages, you don't see the constitution or the policy group policy or anything in there.

Re: Closing libc4 related bugs.

1999-04-11 Thread Joey Hess
Martin Schulze wrote: > Is somebody working on this? Does somebody else than you want to achive > this? I'm very interested in making this happen, but I don't know how I can get the necessary changes made to the system with the BTS on it. I suppose the first step is to modify debbugs.. > I mean,

Bug#35714: anacron and cron both run cron.daily !

1999-04-07 Thread Joey Hess
Ian Jackson wrote: > Even if anacron is subsequently removed but not purged ... Good point. It should probably check both /etc/cron.d/anacron and /usr/sbin/anacron and continue with the run-parts unless both are present). (I think checking the presense of a conffile as part of the test is a good

Bug#35714: anacron and cron both run cron.daily !

1999-04-07 Thread Joey Hess
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The problem is that anacron does not have the right to disable crontab. I > have > mailed the cron maint about this and am awaiting a solution. > > Simply commenting out the calls in crontab to daily,monthly,weekly fix the > problem. > > If you can offer him and I a s

Re: how to participate?

1999-03-29 Thread Joey Hess
Martin Schulze wrote: > People who work on QA are: > > . Vincent > . James > . Torsten Landschoff > . Christian Kurz > . myself > . Josip Rodin, future . Joey Hess -- see shy jo

Re: Debian QA Policy Draft

1999-03-28 Thread Joey Hess
Martin Schulze wrote: > Re-upload the known orphaned packages with the 'Maintainer' field > set to: "Orphaned Package " We're currently using "Maintainer: Debian QA Group " I forget whatever log-ago discussion requted in that exact string, but it is already used for about 25 packages and I do

Re: xtrojka - bug.

1999-03-21 Thread Joey Hess
Petr Hudec wrote: > chown: invalid option -- 1 > Try `chown --help' for more information. Oops. It's fixed in -14. Odd breakage caused by fakeroot. -- see shy jo, maintaining a package he's orphaned, with his QA group hat on

Bug#34483: ispell 3.1.21 available

1999-03-14 Thread joey
Package: ispell Version: 3.1.20 Severity: wishlist This package appears to be out of date. On metalab, I see a file named /pub/Linux/apps/wp/spellcheck/ispell-3.1.21.tar.gz that appears to be version 3.1.21 of this package. Note: This bug report was generated semi-automatically by a program that

Re: [owner@bugs.debian.org: Unanswered problem reports by date]

1999-02-06 Thread Joey Hess
Erick Kinnee wrote: > On Sat, Feb 06, 1999 at 12:36:16PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > 3773 xless xless default window too thin Erick Kinnee > > (Vincent's also done something about xless) > > Fixed per Vincent's instructions. AND uploaded, just never closed it. Doh! A

Re: List of bugs that *must* be fixed before releasing Slink

1999-02-01 Thread Joey Hess
Wichert Akkerman wrote: > > general 28850 gettext: security problem when used in setuid > > programs [0] (debian-devel@lists.debian.org) > > Everyone who has a package with a setuid program or something that runs > as root should check if it uses gettext, and if so recompile it with >

Bug#5011: does this bug still exist?

1999-01-18 Thread Joey Hess
I tried installing ppd-gs and I cannot reproduce these bugs. Could you check and see if they are still reproducable? -- see shy jo

Re: I'd like to take byacc maintainership.

1999-01-01 Thread Joey Hess
Jason Henry Parker wrote: > What worries me is that byacc isn't actually listed on the WNPP as > orphaned; but I'm under the impression that if the QA group is the > maintainer then the package is up for adoption, is this right? All packages maintained by the QA group are in fact orphaned. It migh

Bug#26712: mozilla: crashes on startup

1998-09-16 Thread Joey Hess
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Is it getting loaded against the correct libraries (ldd mozilla)? After I set LD_LIBRARY_PATH like the wrapper script does, I get this, which looks ok to me (very scarey, but ok): libxfe2.so => /usr/lib/mozilla/libxfe2.so (0x4000c000) libXmL.so => /usr/l

Bug#26712: mozilla: crashes on startup

1998-09-15 Thread Joey Hess
Package: mozilla Version: 19980904-1 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~>mozilla zsh: segmentation fault mozilla This was soon after I saw the startup screen. I didn't click on it or anything. It worked a lot better before it got linked to lesstif... seems that was a step backwards. It'd probably be good to ke

Bug#20914: Seyon's copyright.

1998-08-29 Thread Joey Hess
Igor Grobman wrote: > Seyon is Copyright (c) 1992 of Muhammad M. Saggaf. Seyon is not > public domain. Permission is granted to use and distribute Seyon > freely for any use and to sell it at any price without reference to > the copyright owner provided that in all above cases Seyon is inta

Bug#23661: Security issue when accessing documentation through an http server

1998-06-18 Thread Joey Hess
Martin Stjernholm wrote: > Section 4.4 item 2 in the Debian Policy Manual implies that /usr/doc > should be made accessible by a web server. It's not mentioned there > that it would introduce a security weakness if access to those files > isn't restricted to localhost. Almost every package puts fil

Bug#23258: anacron: /etc/anacrontab should use run-parts --report

1998-06-07 Thread Joey Hess
Package: anacron Version: 2.0.1-2 For a while now, /etc/crontab has used "run-parts --report /etc/cron.daily", etc, to make run-parts print out which command generated which output. Anacron should do the same in /etc/anacrontab. If you do this, you need to make anacron depend on debianutils (>= 1

Bug#17976: ftplib 3 available

1998-02-09 Thread joey
Package: ftplib Version: 2 This package appears to be out of date. On sunsite, I see a file named /pub/Linux/libs/ftplib-v3.tar.gz that appears to be version 3 of this package. It's been there since Dec/2/1997. Note: This bug report was generated semi-automatially by a program that scans the v

Bug#16323: ftplib 3 available

1997-12-28 Thread joey
Package: ftplib Version: 2 This package appears to be out of date. On sunsite, I see a file named /pub/Linux/libs/ftplib-v3.tar.gz that appears to be version 3 of this package. It's been there since Dec/2/1997. Note: This bug report was generated semi-automatially by a program that scans the v

Bug#16226: seyon: postinst failure

1997-12-23 Thread Joey Hess
Package: seyon Version: 2.14c-5.2 Setting up seyon (2.14c-5.2) ... Do you have a color X11 system? (y/n) -> /var/lib/dpkg/info/seyon.postinst: [: =: unary operator expected /var/lib/dpkg/info/seyon.postinst: [: =: unary operator expected Seyon NOT configured with color support. -- System Informat

Bug#16050: Problems compiling mc without gpm

1997-12-17 Thread joey
Apart from the fact that one libgpm should be enough the library is also included if there is no gpm - which lets ld fail. Btw. Could the rules file be extended so that configure isn't called everytime a build is run? Regards, Joey -- / Martin Schulze * [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#15080: seyon: bad location in menus

1997-11-21 Thread Joey Hess
Yann Dirson wrote: > OK. But don't you think it would be better to place them in > Apps/Emulators ? All other stuff in Apps/Net (on my machine at least) > is TCP/IP related, and I feel seyon does not fall into this > category... But it has nothing at all to do with emulating a computer! -- see s

Bug#15061: seyon uses wrong devices

1997-11-21 Thread Joey Hess
Martin Schulze wrote: > Package: seyon > Version: Please, always give a version. > Seyon from 1.3.1 uses wrong serial devices. /dev/cua* are used but > they don't even exist on a 1.3.1 system. This should be fixed. > > During installation I'm queried: > > Where is your modem located? > (0) /

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