Bug#973826: apt update ignores Diff-index files (WeakHashSums)

2020-11-05 Thread Alfredo Finelli
Package: apt Version: 2.1.11 Severity: normal Since a few days I have been observing this bug during regular “apt update” / “apt upgrade” cycles, without any configuration change on my side; I am not completely sure if all this started after the last upgrade to apt 2.1.11. apt finds (testing,

Bug#841688: grub-pc: post-installation script fails on upgrade

2016-10-22 Thread Alfredo Finelli
Package: grub-pc Version: 2.02~beta3-1 Severity: normal After the usual "apt update; apt upgrade" cycle I got this error: dpkg: error processing package grub-pc (--configure): subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 128 Errors were encountered while

Bug#818628: apt: apt search/show command, segfault if the user does not have permission to read sources.list

2016-03-19 Thread Alfredo Finelli
Package: apt Version: 1.2.7 Severity: normal The /usr/bin/apt command causes a segmentation fault by list/search/show if the user running it does not have the necessary permissions to read the sources.list files. The bug can be reproduced in the following way: # ls -l /etc/apt/sources.list.d/

Bug#795846: mutt-patched: Wrong handling of maildir folders with NEW messages

2015-08-17 Thread Alfredo Finelli
Package: mutt-patched Version: 1.5.23-3.1 Severity: normal I noticed a problem with how mutt-patched deals with folders containing new email messages. The behavior is somewhat different from the correct one of unpatched mutt. My muttrc configuration file contains the following: set

Bug#730726: zathura: Full-page scrolling not correct after update

2014-02-18 Thread Alfredo Finelli
Sebastian Ramacher [17.02.2014 23:28 +0100]: Hi Alfredo, On 2013-11-28 20:03:05, Alfredo Finelli wrote: After some recent upgrade scrolling does not work correctly for me anymore. I use continuous pages with 5 pixels padding in between and the standard value of scroll-full-overlap (0.1

Bug#730726: zathura: Full-page scrolling not correct after update

2014-02-18 Thread Alfredo Finelli
Sebastian Ramacher [18.02.2014 16:47 +0100]: ... Ugh, the documentation is wrong here. The default value is actually 0 (since 0.2.0 or 0.2.1). I have fixed the documentation upstream in ba917f174bdcf852e0d5c49bc0c1cc30c9075d8d [1]. Apart from the documentation issue, is there anything else

Bug#730726: zathura: Full-page scrolling not correct after update

2013-11-29 Thread Alfredo Finelli
Sebastian Ramacher [29.11.2013 00:58 +0100]: Hi Alfredo Hi, thanks for the prompt reply. On 2013-11-28 20:03:05, Alfredo Finelli wrote: After some recent upgrade scrolling does not work correctly for me anymore. I suppose this started with 0.2.5, right? Yes, this is correct

Bug#730726: zathura: Full-page scrolling not correct after update

2013-11-28 Thread Alfredo Finelli
Package: zathura Version: 0.2.6-1 Severity: normal After some recent upgrade scrolling does not work correctly for me anymore. I use continuous pages with 5 pixels padding in between and the standard value of scroll-full-overlap (0.1). When in page-fit mode I get the correct behavior: a small

Bug#729304: openvswitch-switch: logrotate error if directory /var/run/openvswitch does not exist

2013-11-12 Thread Alfredo Finelli
Ben Pfaff [11.11.2013 19:20 +0100]: [...] Thanks a lot for the patch! I would like to apply it to the Open vSwitch repository. May I have a Signed-off-by: for this? e.g.: Signed-off-by: Alfredo Finelli a...@computationes.de By doing this, you are agreeing to the Developer's Certificate

Bug#729304: openvswitch-switch: logrotate error if directory /var/run/openvswitch does not exist

2013-11-11 Thread Alfredo Finelli
Package: openvswitch-switch Version: 1.9.3+git20131029-1 Severity: normal Tags: patch Some time after the last update I received email from the cron daemon with the following error: /etc/cron.daily/logrotate: logrotate_script: 1: cd: can't cd to /var/run/openvswitch After further

Bug#702498: [Bash-completion-devel] Bug#702498: bash-completion: xpdf should be able to get completion of compressed PDF files

2013-03-09 Thread Alfredo Finelli
Ville Skyttä [09.03.2013 10:02 +0100]: On 2013-03-07 14:52, Alfredo Finelli wrote: The xpdf reader is also able to open PDF files compressed in various formats (gz, bz2, xz, and Z). My xpdf (version 3.03 on Fedora 18) isn't, and I see nothing in the code that would implement that. I don't

Bug#702498: bash-completion: xpdf should be able to get completion of compressed PDF files

2013-03-07 Thread Alfredo Finelli
Package: bash-completion Version: 1:2.0-1 Severity: normal Tags: patch The xpdf reader is also able to open PDF files compressed in various formats (gz, bz2, xz, and Z). The following patch allows completion for those cases (*.pdf.gz, etc.). Best regards. ---

Bug#702455: grub-common: wrong Bash auto complete for grub-set-default and grub-reboot

2013-03-06 Thread Alfredo Finelli
Package: grub-common Version: 1.99-27 Severity: normal Tags: patch When using the commands grub-set-default and grub-reboot it is possible, thanks to programmable completion, to let bash fill out the command line with kernel names and boot options obtained from the entries in

Bug#684524: apt-cacher: Please provide download resume capability.

2012-08-10 Thread Alfredo Finelli
Package: apt-cacher Version: 1.7.4 Severity: wishlist When downloading a package from the Debian archive aptitude keeps it in the directory /var/cache/apt/archives/partial. Upon completion the file is then moved to the cache in /var/cache/apt/archives and then installed. In case of network

Bug#672871: apt-cacher: libcurl thread uses too much CPU time

2012-05-17 Thread Alfredo Finelli
Mark Hindley: OK, I accept that this is not working properly on faster systems (than I have). Actually the impact on response time and throughput is not as great as I had previously thought either. This is my proposed solution -- I would be grateful if you could test that it fixes it for you.

Bug#672871: apt-cacher: libcurl thread uses too much CPU time

2012-05-17 Thread Alfredo Finelli
Mark Hindley: Thanks. I will make the default 10. Is the patched version always that much slower or is that just related to what else was going on at the time? It is hard to estimate exactly because I cannot measure/influence the network congestion between the proxy and the Debian mirror.

Bug#672871: apt-cacher: libcurl thread uses too much CPU time

2012-05-15 Thread Alfredo Finelli
Mark Hindley: Thanks for this. The select-can_read() timeout of 0.1 was the result of lots of testing in bug #533830. Reducing the timeout may reduce your throughput (which may not bother you ;)!) I am not sure why you see such high CPU usage with 0.1. What hardware is it running on?

Bug#672871: apt-cacher: libcurl thread uses too much CPU time

2012-05-15 Thread Alfredo Finelli
Mark Hindley: Thanks. From a purely selfish apt-cacher point of view we don't call select() directly, it is only through IO::Select. Although I am reluctant to deflect the blame, I think this maybe a perl-base bug. Could you try this script and play with the timeout value in

Bug#672871: apt-cacher: libcurl thread uses too much CPU time

2012-05-14 Thread Alfredo Finelli
Package: apt-cacher Version: 1.7.4 Severity: normal Tags: patch The 'libcurl' thread spawned by apt-cacher to manage downloads is using too much CPU time on my machine. I noticed just by chance that it easily reaches 80-90% of sustained (not peak) usage during downloads. This is the process in

Bug#669372: apt-cacher-cleanup.pl fails to update index files by patching

2012-04-21 Thread Alfredo Finelli
Mark Hindley: ... The full patch I have is below, perhaps you could verify it fixes it for you. I tested it with InRelease files only, then with Release and InRelease present together, with and without obsolete packages in the cache: now it behaves as expected both in the patch phase and in

Bug#669372: apt-cacher-cleanup.pl fails to update index files by patching

2012-04-19 Thread Alfredo Finelli
Package: apt-cacher Version: 1.7.3 Severity: normal Tags: patch apt-cacher-cleanup.pl is the Perl script used by apt-cacher to clean the cache: it updates Packages and Sources index files and removes obsolete .deb files; it is usually run daily or weekly by cron and has a command line option to

Bug#575652: cryptsetup: init script cryptdisks-early fails during system halt

2010-04-06 Thread Alfredo Finelli
I agree with you about the problem with an encrypted root partition. To understand how safe it is to ignore the error I investigated the behaviour of cryptsetup and lvm during shutdown and reboot. - Cryptsetup. The only effect of luksClose, correct me if I am wrong, is to remove the device

Bug#575652: cryptsetup: init script cryptdisks-early fails during system halt

2010-03-27 Thread Alfredo Finelli
Package: cryptsetup Version: 2:1.0.6-7 Severity: normal My setup has / on a normal primary partition, /var and /usr on logical volumes, /home and swap on encrypted logical volumes. insserv is also used to populate the runlevel directories /etc/rc*.d/, for parallel startpar execution of init