Bug#599627: ipppd removed, but is still needed

Package: isdnutils Version: 1:3.9.20060704+dfsg.1-3 Severity: grave ipppd is needed to set up a synchronous PPP connection through the old ISDN4Linux drivers. The favoured means to set up a synchronous PPP connection now is to use pppdcapiplugin and an ISDN driver that supports CAPI, but there ap

Bug#604644: loop-aes-source: does not compile against kernel 2.6.36

_queue_ordered’ > make[4]: *** [/usr/src/modules/loop-aes/tmp-d-kbuild/patched-loop.o] Error 1 You might wish to try the loop-aes compatible mode for dm-crypt in 2.6.38. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Dropping unversioned kernel links/copies; adding linux-version command

make these things easier, and should help you to generate kernel version menus without the aid of links. If there are any remaining reasons to continue using the unversioned links, or additional features you think linux-version should provide, please let us know. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Reality i

Bug#516599: mime manual page is in wrong section

Package: metamail Version: 2.7-54 Severity: normal The manual page begins: NAME MIME - Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions SYNOPSIS Not a command -- see the SEE ALSO section for usable commands. Clearly this belongs in section 7, not section 1. Ben. -- System Information: Debi

Bug#543602: Numerous regressions due to accidental removal of patches

Package: thttpd Version: 2.25b-6 Severity: serious Version 2.25b-5 of thttpd changed debian/rules such that the patches in debian/patches are no longer applied. As a result the following bugs have (re)appeared: - the binaries in thttpd-util are built statically linked - syslogtocern creates temp

Bug#543474: severity of 543474 is wishlist

# Automatically generated email from bts, devscripts version 2.10.35lenny7 # ffs learn how to write GUI apps severity 543474 wishlist -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-qa-packages-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#569101: Uses obsolete V4L1 API

Package: libv4l-ruby1.8 Version: 0.1.2-4 Severity: serious The V4L1 API is obsolete and does not work with most new V4L drivers. libv4l can be used as an emulation layer; see . Ben. -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers pro

Bug#569102: Uses obsolete V4L1 API

Package: webcam-server Version: 0.50-4 Severity: serious The V4L1 API is obsolete and does not work with most new V4L drivers. You can use libv4l as an emulation layer; see . Ben. -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers propo

Bug#559425: isdnutils: various licensing issues

gs in this Software without prior written authorization from the X Consortium. --- It appears that eurofile and ipppd cannot be built any more. I think eurofile would be no great loss but many ISDN users depend on ipppd. However I cannot see how ipppd can be distributable. Ben. -- Ben Hutchin

Bug#559425: isdnutils: various licensing issues

On Mon, 2010-06-21 at 02:10 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > It appears that eurofile and ipppd cannot be built any more. I think > eurofile would be no great loss but many ISDN users depend on ipppd. > However I cannot see how ipppd can be distributable. I now believe that we can safe

Bug#342815: Xdialog: syntax error leads to infinite memory allocation loop

tags 342815 patch thanks The result of the ridiculous memory use is not a loop but a recursion, which causes the stack to grow. This generally results in a SIGSEGV as there is no other way to report stack exhaustion to the program. If the label for a row is empty, the row is unselectable. If th

Bug#356324: FTBFS with G++ 4.1: 'entry_iovars' was not declared in this scope

ult in use of uninitialised variables. (This is why the replacement code in the patch initialises type_num to 0.) Ben. -- Ben Hutchings It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#839048: couchjs crashes on ARM64

different fix. It uses > less tag bits so that we can live with 48 VA bits. Because the old mozjs > may take JS objects from C code which is not allocated from JS heap. We have a temporary workaround for this in the kernel in unstable, but I want to remove that before releasing stretch. This must b

Bug#839048: js24 crashes on ARM64

this point in the release cycle no more library transitions are allowed, so libmozjs has to be fixed with a kluge like the patch that Zheng Xu sent, not the upstream change. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#839048: js24 crashes on ARM64

On Sun, 2016-12-11 at 03:24 +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On 12/11/2016 03:13 AM, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > Looking at the patch that was added in -4: WTF?  It changes the library > > ABI, but you didn't bump the soname.  Of course that breaks clients! > > Tha

Bug#839048: js24 crashes on ARM64

to rebuild all the packages which depends on mozjs1.8.5 That's not an option as no library ABI changes can go into testing before the release. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings If at first you don't succeed, you're doing about average. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#839048: js24 crashes on ARM64

On Mon, 2016-12-12 at 05:59 +, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Mon, 2016-12-12 at 13:51 +0800, Zheng Xu wrote: [...] > > mozjs1.8.5 -- The patch is different with the upstream one. Because in the > > old js, there might be objects pass from C allocation, only modify the heap > &

Bug#959457: isakmpd: Build-Depends on obsolete package linux-kernel-headers

c-dev is (transitively) build-essential, so you do not need to Build-Depend on it at all. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings The first rule of tautology club is the first rule of tautology club. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#681661: rfkill doesn't switch off Intel 2100

his) and is the bug still present? Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Teamwork is essential - it allows you to blame someone else. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#812150: rfkill: rkfill doesn't fully turn on bluetooth on ThinkPad X230.

river, not in the rfkill command. Which kernel version are you using now (use "uname -v" to find this) and is this bug still present? Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Teamwork is essential - it allows you to blame someone else. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#881206: rfkill: please consider attached suggestions

es-Root patch. I'm not convinced that it makes sense to add the GPG signature check in the absence of any new uploads, as we don't really know what key might be used for this. Let me know whether there are still any changes you still want on top of 0.5-3. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings I say w

Bug#927368: irqbalance: Should be Multi-Arch: foreign

Package: irqbalance Version: 1.5.0-3 Severity: normal 15:05 < Diziet> Starting SMP IRQ Balancer: irqbalancestart-stop-daemon: unable to start /usr/sbin/irqbalance (Exec format error) 15:06 < Diziet> What fun, if you install linux-image-amd64 on an i386 host it pul

Bug#569828: manpages/synop.xsl makes a mess of long function names

On Mon, 2022-04-18 at 17:22 +0200, Diederik de Haas wrote: > On Sun, 07 Mar 2010 17:53:11 +0000 Ben Hutchings wrote: > > tags 569828 + patch > > Example output in linux-manual-2.6.32 > > Is this still an existing issue? > > I noticed this bug was forwarded to