Bug#1067007: spamassassin: Insufficient test condition in /etc/cron.daily/spamassassin

2024-03-16 Thread Bob Proulx
Package: spamassassin Version: 4.0.1~pre1-1 Severity: normal Tags: patch In this following commit systemd timers were introduced. https://salsa.debian.org/debian/spamassassin/-/commit/f2753c72e8052f03e60c5a5532ccb4e1080b6406#b323bf39a23be9c27fd25690d333c4e9dbcddec7 In this following commit

Bug#1063719: More analysis and improved patch

2024-02-19 Thread Bob Proulx
George Robbert wrote: > On an intel system, where uCode/AMD.pm was run before uCode/Intel.pm > > intel_sys1# needrestart -b > NEEDRESTART-VER: 3.6 > NEEDRESTART-KCUR: 6.1.0-18-amd64 > NEEDRESTART-KEXP: 6.1.0-18-amd64 > NEEDRESTART-KSTA: 1 > NEEDRESTART-UCSTA: 1 > Use of

Bug#1058961: ntpsec: postinst should check for user:group before adding them

2023-12-24 Thread Bob Proulx
Richard Laager wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > if ! getent passwd ntpsec > /dev/null; then > > addgroup --system --quiet ntpsec > > fi > > if ! getent group ntpsec > /dev/null; then > > adduser --system --quiet --ingroup ntpsec \

Bug#1058961: ntpsec: postinst should check for user:group before adding them

2023-12-18 Thread Bob Proulx
Package: ntpsec Version: 1.2.2+dfsg1-3 Severity: normal Tags: patch Every time the ntpsec package upgrades it attempts to unconditionally add the ntpsec user and group as per the following postinst snippet. addgroup --system --quiet ntpsec adduser --system --quiet --ingroup

Bug#1055429: bind9: iproute2 change ripples through bind9 sysvinit script preventing start

2023-11-07 Thread Bob Proulx
Ansgar wrote: > > On systems using sysvinit and not yet UsrMerged this snags a > > problem in the sysvinit init script. I know and understand that > > this is not a combination that you or Debian is officially > > supporting. But it would help out interoperability if a one line > > fix were

Bug#1055429: bind9: iproute2 change ripples through bind9 sysvinit script preventing start

2023-11-05 Thread Bob Proulx
Package: bind9 Version: 1:9.19.17-1 Severity: normal Tags: patch A recent change in the iproute2 package moved the installed location of the "ip" program from /bin/ip to /usr/bin/ip with the iproute2-6.5.0-5 packaging. That's all well and good of course. On systems using sysvinit and not yet

Bug#1053379: munin-node: logrotate.d/munin-node should call invoke-rc.d

2023-10-10 Thread Bob Proulx
First let me thank you Holger for addressing the issue and resolving it. It is much appreciated! Things are once again in a happy state. Michael Biebl wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > Holger Levsen wrote: > > > Bob Proulx wrote: > > > > The introduction of systemctl

Bug#1053379: munin-node: logrotate.d/munin-node should call invoke-rc.d

2023-10-06 Thread Bob Proulx
Holger Levsen wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > > where? > > The /etc/logrotate.d/munin-node file contains TAB characters. > > yes, on purpose :) Sure. I use TABs all of the time. I was only commenting on my email describing the patch! Bob

Bug#1053379: munin-node: logrotate.d/munin-node should call invoke-rc.d

2023-10-05 Thread Bob Proulx
Holger Levsen wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > The introduction of systemctl is problematic especially when used in > > chroots. > > systemctl handles chroots, so can you elaborate on this? The policy-rc.d layer was created so that dpkg upgrading packages in chroot

Bug#1053379: munin-node: logrotate.d/munin-node should call invoke-rc.d

2023-10-02 Thread Bob Proulx
Package: munin-node Version: 2.0.73-2 Severity: normal Tags: patch The recent upgrade to 2.0.73-2 from 2.0.73-1 introduced the following changes. --- a/logrotate.d/munin-node +++ b/logrotate.d/munin-node @@ -3,7 +3,11 @@ missingok rotate 7 compress - copytruncate +

Bug#1028356: procmail: Variable set with stdin pipe action fails leaving empty variable

2023-01-09 Thread Bob Proulx
Package: procmail Version: 3.24-1 Severity: normal I am very happy to see procmail upstream is now active again! Excellent news! I am a long time user and have quite a few mail filtering rules. The recent upgrade to 3.24 broke using a pipe action to set a variable using stdin. Reverting to

Bug#1018301: update-binfmts: warning: current package is ksh93u+m, but binary format already installed by ksh

2022-08-28 Thread Bob Proulx
Package: ksh93u+m Version: 1.0.3-1 Severity: normal Upgrading today I noticed this warning printed by the package. update-binfmts: warning: current package is ksh93u+m, but binary format already installed by ksh Looking a little closer I find that the package did not transition the binfmts

Bug#1009791: mutt: change-folder no longer selects next folder with new mail

2022-04-17 Thread Bob Proulx
Package: mutt Version: 2.2.3-1 Severity: normal I upgrade my Sid Unstable desktop daily. The upgrade from 2.1.4-1 to 2.2.3-1 breaks the change-folder action (normally bound to 'c'). Normally and up through mutt 2.1.4-1 (at least) typing 'c' would prompt with the next mailbox that has new mail

Bug#996174: wget: Spurious SSL_INIT in 1.21.2-1

2021-10-11 Thread Bob Proulx
I posted an update to the upstream bug tracker. https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?61125

Bug#996174: wget: Spurious SSL_INIT in 1.21.2-1

2021-10-11 Thread Bob Proulx
Bob Proulx wrote: > In today's daily upgrade wget 1.21.2-1 was installed and now emits a > spurious "SSL_INIT" message. This is breaking scripts. :-( > > $ wget -q -O/dev/null https://www.example.com/ > SSL_INIT Already fixed upstream. https://git.savan

Bug#996174: wget: Spurious SSL_INIT in 1.21.2-1

2021-10-11 Thread Bob Proulx
Package: wget Version: 1.21.2-1 Severity: normal In today's daily upgrade wget 1.21.2-1 was installed and now emits a spurious "SSL_INIT" message. This is breaking scripts. :-( $ wget -q -O/dev/null https://www.example.com/ SSL_INIT A temporary workaround is to downgrade to the

Bug#993740: /etc/cron.weekly/man2html: this version of `which' is deprecated

2021-09-05 Thread Bob Proulx
Package: man2html Version: 1.6g-14 Severity: normal The recent change to "which" now cascades to this weekly message. From: Cron Daemon To: root Subject: Cron test -x /usr/sbin/anacron || ( cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.weekly ) /etc/cron.weekly/man2html:

Bug#984426: Another broken grub upgrade

2021-03-10 Thread Bob Proulx
I also hit this today with the latest upgrade. On a system that has been upgraded many times in the past. It's 2.02+dfsg1-20+deb10u4 upgrade this week caused it to fail to boot. It's was installed in 2014 and upgraded continuously since then. root@euphoria:~# ll /var/log/installer/syslog

Bug#751776: planning to NMU time 1.9

2021-01-12 Thread Bob Proulx
Matthias Klose wrote: > I prepared the time 1.9 release, and I'd like to NMU the package, planning to > upload on Tuesday to DELAYED/7. Thank you for preparing this NMU. I appreciate your help with this package. It is okay with me if you upload it to an earlier delayed queue if you desire. Bob

Bug#975591: insserv/update-rc.d coordination missing (was Re: Canonical method to locally disable an init script?)

2020-12-14 Thread Bob Proulx
Thorsten Glaser wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > root@angst:/etc# find /etc/rc?.d -name '*bind9' -delete > > root@angst:/etc# find /etc/rc?.d -name '*bind9' > > > > All removed. The re-install will reset the links to the defaults. > > > > root@

Bug#973572: emacs: man page timeout resets page

2020-11-01 Thread Bob Proulx
This appears to be a minimal way to recreate the problem. Try this. env -i PATH=$PATH HOME=$HOME TERM=$TERM MANWIDTH=80 /usr/bin/emacs -Q -nw Then I will repeat the recreation instructions. emacs -Q# no configuration M-x man RET # look at a man

Bug#973572: emacs: man page timeout resets page

2020-11-01 Thread Bob Proulx
Bob Proulx wrote: > Rob Browning wrote: > > And you could probably eliminate more variables by testing in a minimal > > debian VM, particularly if you also see the problem via the console > > (i.e. emacs -nw). > > I generally only use emacs -nw and would find it quite s

Bug#973572: emacs: man page timeout resets page

2020-11-01 Thread Bob Proulx
Rob Browning wrote: > Hmm, I don't see that here. That is, after the final C-x o, the manpage > buffer continues to show the ls "SEE ALSO" section. Hmm... That's annoying for me that it isn't universial. > I wonder if "something else" could be interfering. If it's easy, I > suppose you might

Bug#973572: emacs: man page timeout resets page

2020-11-01 Thread Bob Proulx
Package: emacs Version: 1:27.1+1-2 Severity: normal This is terribly annoying. :-( emacs -Q# no configuration M-x man RET # look at a man page ls RET # something a few pages long C-x o # go there

Bug#971399: my_print_defaults: unknown option '--mariadbd'

2020-09-29 Thread Bob Proulx
Package: mariadb-server-10.5 Version: 1:10.5.5-1 Severity: normal Since the daily Sid upgrade to mariadb-server-10.5 1:10.5.5-1 on Monday, 2020-09-28, one now receives the following from logrotate due to the /etc/logrotate.d/mysql-server file. my_print_defaults: unknown option '--mariadbd'

Bug#969667: smartd-runner: WARNING: tempfile is deprecated; consider using mktemp instead.

2020-09-06 Thread Bob Proulx
Package: smartmontools Version: 7.1-1 Severity: normal Tags: patch Since the recent updates to debianutils 4.10 the tempfile program now emits a run time deprecation warning. This is now printed by the smartmontools smartd-runner program whenever it is invoked. Attached is the trivial and

Bug#960777: libmail-dkim-perl: Argument "1.20200513.1" isn't numeric

2020-05-23 Thread Bob Proulx
Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > Argument "1.20200513.1" isn't numeric in numeric ge (>=) at > /usr/share/perl5/Mail/SpamAssassin/Plugin/DKIM.pm line 686 > Argument "1.20200513.1" isn't numeric in numeric ge (>=) at > /usr/share/perl5/Mail/SpamAssassin/Plugin/DKIM.pm line 809. In order to silence

Bug#891923: needrestart: Use of uninitialized value $ucode_vars

2018-03-14 Thread Bob Proulx
Thomas Liske wrote: > thanks for the report. The bug has been fixed upstream. Awesome! :-) Bob

Bug#891923: needrestart: Use of uninitialized value $ucode_vars

2018-03-02 Thread Bob Proulx
Package: needrestart Version: 3.0-1 Severity: normal On some systems I see the following: root@clash:~# needrestart -b NEEDRESTART-VER: 3.0 NEEDRESTART-KCUR: 4.15.0-1-amd64 NEEDRESTART-KEXP: 4.15.0-1-amd64 NEEDRESTART-KSTA: 1 NEEDRESTART-UCSTA: 0 Use of uninitialized value

Bug#890951: mutt: Displaying only 3 dots of a longer number of them

2018-02-20 Thread Bob Proulx
Package: mutt Version: 1.9.3-1 Severity: normal I was surprised to find that a mail message really looked awful when displayed in Mutt. (It was a financial report.) But then I realized that Mutt was not displaying all of the dots! What? This line should have . 25 dots

Bug#885989: chromium: MitM-ed TLS sites are being recognized as secure even though they are not

2018-01-06 Thread Bob Proulx
severity 885989 wishlist tags 885989 + wontfix thanks TemTem wrote: > A large portion of websites are being (willingly) attacked by > man-in-the-middles (MitM) such as Cloudflare. When someone commissions a service provider such as CloudFlare to host their web site CloudFlare then of course

Bug#884954: Improve sort with „simple byte comparison“ via command line option

2017-12-21 Thread Bob Proulx
H.-Dirk Schmitt wrote: > The sort behaviour depends deeply on the LC_COLLATE settings. > See e.g. https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=884943 > > This behaviour is not documented in the primary documentation > provided by `sort --help` or `man sort`. But it is mentioned in all three

Bug#884943: Sort should support an option --machine-sort or --byte-sort

2017-12-21 Thread Bob Proulx
H.-Dirk Schmitt wrote: > O.k. I understand that it is working as defined in the 19th century. > So it is maybe not a bug but still a weird behaviour. > > In my case it takes several hour to find out why I don't get rid of > ~ 2.000 false entries in a blocklist for squid. > > Reason for the lost

Bug#884163: spamassassin: spamd no longer works after upgrade

2017-12-12 Thread Bob Proulx
Noah Meyerhans wrote: > Believe it or not, it's a bug that you were running spamd in the first > place, as you had not enabled it. spamd is an optional feature of the > spamassassin package. Therefor, unlike most daemons shipped with Debian, > it is disabled by default and only enabled at the

Bug#882690: mutt: creates short name local mail address instead of FQDN

2017-11-25 Thread Bob Proulx
Package: mutt Version: 1.9.1-4 Severity: normal With the latest mutt package it appears that local email addresses are now created using the short host name instead of the FQDN as done previously. With the previous mutt version: $ mutt rwp To: Bob Proulx <r...@joseki.proulx.

Bug#882573: mutt: displays text/html raw again instead of using mailcap

2017-11-23 Thread Bob Proulx
Package: mutt Version: 1.9.1-3 Severity: normal With the lastest package we now have a regression of Bug#823971 https://bugs.debian.org/823971 where viewing text/html parts is displayed as the raw html instead of using mailcap. At the previous bug report time it was determined to be the loss of

Bug#882385: tinyproxy: trying to overwrite '/usr/sbin/tinyproxy', which is also in package tinyproxy 1.8.4-3

2017-11-21 Thread Bob Proulx
Package: tinyproxy Version: 1.8.4-4 Severity: normal While doing the daily upgrade in Sid today: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Calculating upgrade... Done The following NEW packages will be installed: tinyproxy-bin The

Bug#879978: /etc/init/php7.0-fpm.conf: Missing newline in /etc/init/php7.0-fpm.conf

2017-10-27 Thread Bob Proulx
Package: php7.0-fpm Version: 7.0.22-3 Severity: normal File: /etc/init/php7.0-fpm.conf The /etc/init/php7.0-fpm.conf file is missing a final newline making it a non-text file. Please add a newline so that every "line" in the file is terminated with a newline, literally making each line a line.

Bug#213706: marked as done (bind: apt-get install -y bind < /dev/null fails if /etc/named.conf exists)

2017-10-22 Thread Bob Proulx
Now that I am reminded to look at this bug again I will just note that the section of code I reported this bug against in the postinst seems to have been removed entirely in some version. So almost certainly this bug should have been closed at that previous time. Bob

Bug#751776: time: diff for NMU version 1.7-25.1

2017-09-24 Thread Bob Proulx
Hello Manuel, Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo wrote: > It seems that the changelog [1] mentions "Addresses", not "Closes", > therefore this bug report has not been closed even if the original > problem has really been fixed. That NMU only "addressed" bug#751776 but didn't close it because there

Bug#875791: sudo: /etc/sudoers.dist is created than deleted

2017-09-14 Thread Bob Proulx
> $ cat /var/lib/dpkg/info/sudo.postinst > [...] > if [ -f /etc/sudoers.dist ]; then > rm /etc/sudoers.dist > fi > [...] ... > sorry, my mistake :-( > > the sudoers.dist is an example file in another directory For the previous history of this bit of postinst code please see Bug#862309

Bug#873623: sudo: occasionally stalls infinitely instead of running command

2017-08-29 Thread Bob Proulx
Alban Browaeys wrote: > This is likely sssd related. > > I upgraded both today (sssd to 1.15.3-1) and "sudo ls" output was empty. > > Local workaround was to comment out "sss" on /etc/nsswitch.conf "sudoers:" > sudoers:files sss > to > sudoers:files #sss While sss might be

Bug#873476: coreutils: /bin/cat doesnt display a line of a txt file without an end of line [shell prompt problem]

2017-08-28 Thread Bob Proulx
Hello Jean-Luc, Jean-Luc Coulon wrote: > Thank you for the clear and detailed informations. You are most welcome. I know it was a confusing case. > Yes, *I* use cat (display a file on a terminal) as you said since... well... > maybe 1976 ;) But in these years, the standard output was a belt

Bug#869955: warning with perl 5.26

2017-08-25 Thread Bob Proulx
Hello Francois, Francois Mescam wrote: > I've made some test about this error and to trim to 200 caracters the string > I modify line 923 to : > > $str =~ s/^(.{0,200}).*$/$1/gs; > > With perl 5.26 there no warning and it gives the result explained by the > comment. This modification does

Bug#870567: date: day sequence modifiers of month appear to be wrong

2017-08-02 Thread Bob Proulx
Dale Harris wrote: > Package: coreutils > Version: 8.26-3 > Severity: normal > Tags: upstream > > Dear Maintainer, > > > Just trying to figure out what the first, second, third days are of a month. > > So for August 2017: > > > August 2017 > Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa >1 _2 34

Bug#870523: linux-image-4.11.0-2-amd64: task kworker/3:0:29 blocked for more than 120 seconds

2017-08-02 Thread Bob Proulx
Package: src:linux Version: 4.11.11-1+b1 Severity: normal My Sid desktop is normally updated daily. After being gone for some days I applied the latest package upgrades, including the latest linux-image-4.11.0-2-amd64 kernel. Immediately the system immediately began suffering problems. The

Bug#869955: warning with perl 5.24

2017-08-01 Thread Bob Proulx
Noah Meyerhans wrote: > Ivan Sergio Borgonovo wrote: > > After upgrading perl to 5.26.0-4 I get: > > > > Unescaped left brace in regex is deprecated here (and will be fatal in Perl > > 5.30), passed through in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/^(.{ <-- HERE > > ,200}).*$/ at

Bug#866048: fonts-beng-extra: upgrade does not clean up obsoleted directories

2017-06-26 Thread Bob Proulx
found 1.0-6 notfound 2.0-5 thanks Fixing my goofed up cross-versioning from the original report. Sorry about that.

Bug#866052: fonts-orya-extra: upgrade does not clean up obsoleted directories

2017-06-26 Thread Bob Proulx
Package: fonts-orya-extra Version: 2.0-5 Severity: normal This is almost certainly related to https://bugs.debian.org/854166 which reported a related issue of which the fix almost certainly created this one. Today's Sid upgrade brought in a change from having a directory to having a file of the

Bug#866051: fonts-guru-extra: upgrade does not clean up obsoleted directories

2017-06-26 Thread Bob Proulx
Package: fonts-guru-extra Version: 2.0-4 Severity: normal This is almost certainly related to https://bugs.debian.org/854166 which reported a related issue of which the fix almost certainly created this one. Today's Sid upgrade brought in a change from having a directory to having a file of the

Bug#866050: fonts-gujr-extra: upgrade does not clean up obsoleted directories

2017-06-26 Thread Bob Proulx
Package: fonts-gujr-extra Version: 1.0-6 Severity: normal This is almost certainly related to https://bugs.debian.org/854166 which reported a related issue of which the fix almost certainly created this one. Today's Sid upgrade brought in a change from having a directory to having a file of the

Bug#866049: fonts-deva-extra: upgrade does not clean up obsoleted directories

2017-06-26 Thread Bob Proulx
Package: fonts-deva-extra Version: 3.0-4 Severity: normal This is almost certainly related to https://bugs.debian.org/854166 which reported a related issue of which the fix almost certainly created this one. Today's Sid upgrade to 2.0-5 brought in a change from having a directory to having a

Bug#866048: fonts-beng-extra: upgrade does not clean up obsoleted directories

2017-06-26 Thread Bob Proulx
Package: fonts-beng-extra Version: 2.0-5 Severity: normal This is almost certainly related to https://bugs.debian.org/854166 which reported a related issue of which the fix almost certainly created this one. Today's Sid upgrade to 2.0-5 brought in a change from having a directory to having a

Bug#862309: Don't install /etc/sudoers.dist sample file

2017-06-01 Thread Bob Proulx
Paul Wise wrote: > Michael Biebl wrote: > > the latest update installed a new conffile /etc/sudoers.dist. > > Afaics, this is a sample file provided by upstream and I don't think > > this should go into /etc > > Agreed, but it might be useful to install it as an example instead. > A sudoers

Bug#862752: chromium: 404 pages can't be found

2017-05-16 Thread Bob Proulx
Emmanuel Revah wrote: > Dear Maintainer, Hello Emmanuel. I am not the maintainer but I have a suggestion. When you find strange things like this it is always good to double check using one of the command line tools. Note also that many sites have custom 404 pages that may be fooling you.

Bug#862476: sort: -u combined with -n looses lines

2017-05-13 Thread Bob Proulx
Michael Musenbrock wrote: > sort produces wrong output with combined '-u' and '-n' switch, if input lines > have an preceding '\' character. I think you have a misunderstanding of what is happening here. > # echo -e "\2\n\1\n\2" | sort -u -n First lets see what is produced by echo -e with the

Bug#687149: Still here in jessie!

2017-02-28 Thread Bob Proulx
reassign 687149 sa-exim thanks Marco Gaiarin wrote: > Ahem, this little annoying bug is still here in jessie. > > Attached current patch for jessie. ... > ---exec /usr/bin/sa-compile -- --quiet > +--exec /usr/bin/sa-compile -- --quiet > /dev/null 2>&1 ... > -

Bug#854663: resolvconf ignores dns entries

2017-02-09 Thread Bob Proulx
severity normal thanks Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: > Dear Maintainer, I am not the maintainer. I am simply another long time user. > either I misunderstood resolvconf or I resolvconf does not recognize dns > entries. > In /etc/network/intefaces I have I believe you are misunderstanding how

Bug#846850: mitmproxy uninstallable in current Sid and soon Stretch Testing (again)

2016-12-13 Thread Bob Proulx
Sébastien Delafond wrote: > On Dec/03, Bob Proulx wrote: > > By my count there are 23 "<<" dependencies in use with mitmproxy! > > Wow! That is a lot of very fragile and breakage prone packages. It > > is doomed to have repeated breakages in Sid and Test

Bug#833741: pepperflash-nonfree: patch/nmu ?

2016-12-13 Thread Bob Proulx
by the patch provided in Bug#833741#15 by Kristian Klausen +but rewritten. Closes: #833741. + * Adds in 32-bit support. + + -- Bob Proulx <b...@proulx.com> Mon, 12 Dec 2016 15:41:55 -0700 + pepperflashplugin-nonfree (1.8.1+deb8u1) jessie; urgency=medium * Non-maintainer upload.

Bug#847399: bash: /etc/skel/.profile please source .bashrc last after setting PATH

2016-12-07 Thread Bob Proulx
Package: bash Version: 4.4-2 Severity: normal In the packaged /etc/skel/.profile it sources the .bashrc *before* setting PATH. But PATH should be set before not after. Or put another way the sourcing of the .bashrc file should be the last thing the .profile does and not the first. That way any

Bug#837810: df and du shows different size

2016-12-06 Thread Bob Proulx
Manolo Díaz wrote: > I find du buggy. I think it's taking International System of Units > values as if they was binary values. An example: > > # stat file.pdf > File: 'file.pdf' > Size: 160594Blocks: 320IO Block: 4096 regular file ^^^ 320

Bug#846850: mitmproxy uninstallable in current Sid and soon Stretch Testing (again)

2016-12-03 Thread Bob Proulx
Package: mitmproxy Version: 0.18.2-3 Severity: important The dependencies for mitmproxy render it uninstallable in Sid today due to "Depends: python-passlib (<< 1.7)". But python-passlib 1.7.0-1 was uploaded to Sid on 2016-11-28. This is basically a deja-vu bug of Bug#844060 with a different

Bug#846060: patch

2016-11-28 Thread Bob Proulx
Bas Zoetekouw wrote: > -eval mail $XHEADERS -s \"$SUBJECT\" \"$MAILTO\" < "$MAIL" > +( printf "$hdr\n"; echo; cat $MAIL ) | sendmail -t If using sendmail and reading from stdin then the -oi option should also be used. The sendmail man page says: -oi When reading a

Bug#844060: mitmproxy uninstallable in current Sid and soon Stretch Testing

2016-11-11 Thread Bob Proulx
Package: mitmproxy Version: 0.18.2-1 Severity: normal The dependencies for mitmproxy render it uninstallable in Sid today due to "Depends: python-html2text (< 2016.9.19)". The following packages have unmet dependencies: mitmproxy : Depends: python-html2text (< 2016.9.19) but 2016.9.19-1 is to

Bug#843167: bash: when called as 'sh' interprets backslash in single quotes

2016-11-04 Thread Bob Proulx
Leszek Dubiel wrote: > Dear Maintainer, :) Note that I am not the maintainer but another long time shell user. > Create file /tmp/test that contains: > > echo 'a\nb' Use of the echo command with escape sequences is inherently non-portable behavior. See the bash FAQ item E5.

Bug#841427: unifdef: FTBFS under some locales (eg. fr_CH.UTF-8)

2016-10-28 Thread Bob Proulx
severity 841427 important tags 841427 + pending thanks Changing severity level to prevent removal from Testing. This is a build time issue not a run time issue. I don't think this is a severe enough problem to warrant removing the working package from Testing. Bob

Bug#841427: unifdef: FTBFS under some locales (eg. fr_CH.UTF-8)

2016-10-20 Thread Bob Proulx
Chris Lamb wrote: > unifdef fails to build from source in unstable/amd64 under some > locales (eg. LANG="fr_CH.UTF-8"). Thank you for the report. I am preparing a new package upload and will fix this in that upload. > This is due to hard-coded error messages in the testsuite: I would say due

Bug#837810: df and du shows different size

2016-09-15 Thread Bob Proulx
Андрей Василишин wrote: > Thanks for your reply. > If you watched my first message, you can see difference between df and du > used space 237G vs 24G. There are no open deleted files. If I unmount this > filesystems and do fsck, du and df will show the same used space. I did read your message

Bug#837810: df and du shows different size

2016-09-14 Thread Bob Proulx
Андрей Василишин wrote: > Usually df -h and du -hs shows the same used space. But now I have a > problem. I am using two SSD for a cache. Script all time writes and deletes > files. > > df -H > /dev/sdc1 237G 178G 47G 80% /megastorage1 > /dev/sdb1 237G

Bug#837032: chromium: unexpected gnome-keyring starts

2016-09-08 Thread Bob Proulx
Kevin Bradenstein wrote: > everytime I start chromium the gnome-keyring starts. > This behaviour is very annoying, because I am using a tiling window > manager and the gnome-keyring windows captures all input except ESC. Agreed. I am hoping there is a way to disable that new behavior. It is

Bug#835904: tail --retry doesn't

2016-09-06 Thread Bob Proulx
Harald Dunkel wrote: > Pádraig Brady wrote: > > > tail --retry doesn't > > Oh the file is renamed. > > You probably need `tail -F` rather than `tail -f --retry` > > Please check the man page. The man page says: -f, --follow[={name|descriptor}] output appended data as the

Bug#832550: date: Certain zone abbreviations do not support round-trip conversion

2016-07-26 Thread Bob Proulx
Mark Stafford wrote: > I was attempting to write a script something like a world clock to help > schedule a task in six time zones. Are you familiar with the GNU date FAQ entry? It contains a lot of useful information concerning date and practical date input formats.

Bug#832074: networking.service: Start operation timed out

2016-07-21 Thread Bob Proulx
Note that I am not the maintainer but simply another user. Gerald Turner wrote: > I have a Linux router running jessie that has four ethernet ports and a > pair of ath9k radios. > > Three of the ethernet interfaces (eth0, eth1, eth2) are statically > configured LAN ports. The fourth ethernet

Bug#831423: e2fsprogs: tune2fs -l modifies file system

2016-07-15 Thread Bob Proulx
Package: e2fsprogs Version: 1.43.1-1 Severity: normal The 'tune2fs -l' command modifies the file system. The man page says: -l List the contents of the filesystem superblock, including the current values of the parameters that can be set via this program. To recreate the problem: #

Bug#824346: sort(1): misleading description of option -n

2016-05-14 Thread Bob Proulx
Carsten Hey wrote: > reopen 824346 But you forgot to terminate the command with 'thanks' or 'stop' and therefore the entire rest of your message went to the control robot generating many parse errors. https://www.debian.org/Bugs/server-control > Looks like this bug even influenced you, i.e.,

Bug#823971: mutt: Ignores /etc/mailcap and ~/.mailcap files

2016-05-10 Thread Bob Proulx
Package: mutt Version: 1.6.0-1 Severity: normal The recent version 1.6.0-1 ignores both ~/.mailcap and /etc/mailcap files. At least for text/html entries. cat >> ~/.mailcap <. To report a bug, please visit http://bugs.mutt.org/. misc/am-maintainer-mode.patch features/ifdef.patch

Bug#786657: apache2.4 in jessie/stable missing mod_imagemap

2016-04-30 Thread Bob Proulx
Steven Sumichrast wrote: > It's been about a year since I last checked on this. I am not one of the package maintainers. I am just another user. However I wanted to comment. > I'm really not sure what the method to proceed here is -- am I going > to have to custom build my own package for

Bug#821406: spamasassin: postinst should call sa-update with absolut path otherwise locally installed other version might be called

2016-04-18 Thread Bob Proulx
Florian Lohoff wrote: > After diving into the problem the cause was that actually not the > shipped sa-update was called but a locally (and broken) version > in /usr/local/sbin/ > > The postinst should take care of not calling binarys with relative > path or relying on the PATH variable: No.

Bug#820212: iproute2: Colons in ethernet names under /sbin/ifconfig and /sbin/ip are not being recognized in Stretch

2016-04-06 Thread Bob Proulx
reassign 820212 net-tools found 820212 1.60+git20150829.73cef8a-2 retitle 820212 ifconfig output format change breaks downstream programs thanks Hi Justin, Justin McZeal wrote: > Starting from the beginning, ... :-) > there is this firewall agent we have Reading your latest I think I

Bug#820212: iproute2: Colons in ethernet names under /sbin/ifconfig and /sbin/ip are not being recognized in Stretch

2016-04-06 Thread Bob Proulx
Justin McZeal wrote: > and /sbin/ip -o link show eth0:1: to both come up without a > hitch. The ones without the colon have been tested to fully work on > a stock Debian 8 (jessie) image, not Debian 9 (stretch). I cannot reproduce this on stock Jessie 8.4. It needs "eth0" not "eth0:1". Note

Bug#819342: date command fails to parse some date strings close to a DST switch

2016-03-28 Thread Bob Proulx
Michael Stone wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > The "locale independent format" looks to be the problem in the above > > to me. But I think that is only your command line test as that is > > different from what I see in the tzdata postinst. > > This is wher

Bug#819342: date command fails to parse some date strings close to a DST switch

2016-03-27 Thread Bob Proulx
Ben Hutchings wrote: > $ readlink /etc/localtime > /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/London I assume that your locale is set to en_GB.UTF-8? Could you provide the output of locale so that we could see the other settings? I am interested in LC_TIME and LC_ALL particularly. locale > $ date -d 00:59

Bug#761676: lvm2: lvs output format too long wraps on standard sized terminals

2016-03-10 Thread Bob Proulx
severity 761676 wishlist thanks Zdenek Kabelac wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > Since the latest update the "lvs" command now emits output lines that > > are so long that they wrap on standard sized terminals. > > see the 'lvm.conf'report { compact_output = 1

Bug#813620: sudo: hostname checked against qualified hostname

2016-03-07 Thread Bob Proulx
So far I have been unable to recreate this problem. I tried various combinations today trying to set up a similar environment to the one reported. Always for me the host field in the sudoers file requires the short host name. I think this is going to require someone who is experiencing the

Bug#813620: sudo: hostname checked against qualified hostname

2016-03-06 Thread Bob Proulx
r.ductor wrote: > Apparently the hostname parameter is now checked against the > qualified hostmane. If true, please correct or document it. There was an additional report of this from Johannes Rohr in Bug#816915 that turned out to be the same issue. Now merged with this report. On my system I

Bug#816915: sudo: fails to honour NOPASSWD directive

2016-03-06 Thread Bob Proulx
Johannes Rohr wrote: > Thank you, > obviously the sudoers on Debian now needs to contain the full hostname > including the domain. It used to be different in the past, and it is > different on other distributions. > > This is not mentioned in README.Debian and NEWS.Debian But it doesn't need to

Bug#816703: regression: "mv from to" now fails when both are the same file

2016-03-06 Thread Bob Proulx
> Pádraig Brady wrote: > > mv no longer supports moving a file to a hardlink, instead issuing an > > error. > > The implementation was susceptible to races in the presence of multiple mv > > instances, which could result in both hardlinks being deleted. Also on > > case > > insensitive

Bug#816915: sudo: fails to honour NOPASSWD directive

2016-03-06 Thread Bob Proulx
Johannes Rohr wrote: > Current versions of sudo fail to honour the NOPASSWD directive set for a > user/host/command set in /etc/sudoers: > > sudo -n apt-get update > sudo: a password is required > > /etc/sudoers says: > > xxx =NOPASSWD:/usr/bin/apt-get I am not the maintainer but just

Bug#816567: postfix: Please avoid "backwards-compatible default settings" warnings.

2016-03-02 Thread Bob Proulx
Package: postfix Version: 3.0.4-5 Severity: normal With the recent 3.0 Postfix now complains with "backwards-compatible default settings" warnings about the package default settings in the master.cf file. Specifically the chroot default has changed from yes to no. This causes a new warning to

Bug#815897: apache2-utils: Conflicting /usr/sbin/httxt2dbm when upgrading from Squeeze to Jessie

2016-02-25 Thread Bob Proulx
Frederik Himpe wrote: > When upgrading my system from Squeeze to Jessie using apt-get dist-upgrade, >... Upgrades are supported from one major release to the next major release. The next dist-upgrade from Debian 6 "Squeeze" is to Debian 7 "Wheezy". This file ownership transition is handled in

Bug#808216: Removal of debmirror from testing

2016-02-03 Thread Bob Proulx
Bernhard wrote: > Do you see any chance to prevent the autoremoval? > I see you have a patch because of bug #808216. > For me, this package works fine, because i don't use the diff-files. I don't think 'grave' "renders package unusable" is correct for this since it seems to only affect those

Bug#809789: gawk: %G returns the date as 2015 It is 2016

2016-01-03 Thread Bob Proulx
severity 809789 normal tag 809789 + moreinfo thanks Brendan Reilly wrote: > Dear Maintainer, I am not the gawk maintainer but in this just another awk user. However I recognize this as being a misunderstanding of %G. > %G returns the date as 2015It is 2016 %G does not return the current

Bug#806949: ifupdown: some tweaks to networking.service

2015-12-23 Thread Bob Proulx
Michael Biebl wrote: > schrieb Bob Proulx: > > If a client system requires an NFS mounted file system then the admin > > must configure the network to be "auto" and not "allow-hotplug". > > The simple reason is that because otherwise it won't work. :-) &

Bug#806949: ifupdown: some tweaks to networking.service

2015-12-23 Thread Bob Proulx
Martin Pitt wrote: > Michael Biebl wrote: > > I still think though, that we should consider allow-hotplug interfaces > > when dealing with network-online.target. > > > > The reason is, that the debian installer uses allow-hotplug by default. > > Argh, this is indeed a tremendously bad default.

Bug#807279: closed by Bastian Blank <wa...@debian.org> (Bug#807279: fixed in lvm2 2.02.133-2)

2015-12-15 Thread Bob Proulx
>* Drop event plugin directory move. This moves the plugins back into > the main library path. (closes: #807279) I have confirmed that the "Monitoring v1/snapshot0 failed." is now gone with this update. Yay! Thank you for maintaining lvm in Debian! :-) Bob

Bug#807531: scrollbars are snapping back moving mouse away from scroll bar

2015-12-12 Thread Bob Proulx
Michael Gilbert wrote: > control: tag -1 moreinfo >... > That said, I don't see the problem with my setup (xfce for what it's > worth), so maybe there is something about the environment that can > avoid the issue. If so, I would prefer users configure that, rather > than applying a patch. I see

Bug#807279: lvm2: Monitoring v1/snapshot0 failed.

2015-12-06 Thread Bob Proulx
Package: lvm2 Version: 2.02.133-1 Severity: normal Snapshot creation reports a failure using Sid but not Jessie 8 Stable. # lvs | sed 's/ *$//' | grep -e LV -e root LVVG Attr LSize Pool Origin Data% Meta% Move Log Cpy%Sync Convert root v1 -wi-ao 16.00g

Bug#803709: ntp: Please document 'pool' in ntp.conf

2015-11-01 Thread Bob Proulx
Package: ntp Version: 1:4.2.8p4+dfsg-3 Severity: minor In the recent release the default Debian config file scheme has changed from "server" to "pool". That's great! But the included Debian man pages do not document the pool configuration option. man ntp.conf Upstream documentation

Bug#802636: Make a bootable USB with SYNC command when the ISO source from USB, then both of USB become bootable

2015-10-21 Thread Bob Proulx
severity 802636 normal tag 802636 + moreinfo thanks Imam Kurniawan wrote: > First, I do apologize if I have put this into the wrong category of bug > report. > Because I have to submit the package name, which is sync command is from the > coreutils package. > But it definitely related with

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