Bug#738569: gpointing-device-settings: Segfaults at startup, cannot get it to work

2014-02-25 Thread Steve Cotton
On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 12:18 -0600, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > All the output I get from running this is: > > $ gpointing-device-settings > Segmentation fault Valgrind reports several functions accessing memory that's already been free'd by gpds_xinput_utils_get_device_info(), and that functi

Bug#740093: gpointing-device-settings: Should this package be removed?

2014-02-25 Thread Steve Cotton
Package: gpointing-device-settings Version: 1.5.1-6 Severity: wishlist Looking at the bugs in gpointing-device-settings, I think the package could be removed instead of fixed. This package is * orphaned since 2010-10-05 (#599164) * segfaulting on startup on some machines (#738569) * FTBFS, possib

Bug#685376: postinst fails on non-default Debian kernels and is useless on =<3.4

2012-08-25 Thread Steve Cotton
Package: makedev On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 12:54:54PM +0200, Evgeni Golov wrote: > But then the if condition still has to be updated, as it won't trigger > with [3.0..3.4[ Much of that postinst seems to be workarounds written in 2005 or earlier. I think this conditional block could be removed rath

Bug#517888: 517888 gnome-libs: Should be removed for Squeeze

2009-07-28 Thread Steve Cotton
On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 07:24:25PM +0100, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote: > Package: gnome-libs > Severity: serious > > gnome-libs is deprecated for Squeeze. # [2009-03-24] gnome-libs REMOVED from testing (Britney) # [2009-03-20] Removed 1.4.2-37 from unstable (Frank Lichtenheld)o I think this bug is