Bug#877106: pinta: Pinta 1.6-2 crashes on image scaling and other image manipulation.

2017-11-03 Thread Colin Alston
Package: pinta Version: 1.6-2 Followup-For: Bug #877106 Dear Maintainer, *** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropriate *** * What led up to the situation? Using the paintbrush tool * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or

Bug#688896: Bad idea?

2013-07-15 Thread Colin Alston
On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 9:44 AM, Wouter Verhelst w...@uter.be wrote: However, as a long-time and experienced Debian Developer, I can say that what dpkg does is not some trivial thing. It's certainly possible to build a debian package by bypassing all that; but it just feels wrong. The right

Bug#688896: Bad idea?

2013-07-14 Thread Colin Alston
On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 12:48 AM, Wouter Verhelst w...@uter.be wrote: However, that is not what fpm is. Instead, fpm is a tool to convert packages from one format to another. That, itself, is not necessarily a bad idea either; case in point, we do have a package in Debian, alien, which

Bug#688896: Bad idea?

2013-07-06 Thread Colin Alston
Wouter, is it your stance that people cannot produce a competing tool to dpkg and be included in Debian? If something can produce .deb files in accordance with whatever standard applies to them then using dpkg 'behind the scenes' or not is a non-issue to you or anyone else, and certainly any work

Bug#550405: mysql-server: Root user not created on install

2009-10-09 Thread Colin Alston
Package: mysql-server Version: 5.0.51a-24+lenny2 Severity: normal No root user is created during the installation of mysql-server, despite requesting a password. thebe:/etc# mysql -u root -p Enter password: ERROR 1045 (28000): Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: YES)

Bug#501795: mirrors: ftp.se.debian.org contains bad IPv6 AAAA

2008-10-10 Thread Colin Alston
Package: mirrors Severity: important No Debian sources on this mirror when going via IPv6 Err http://ftp.se.debian.org etch/main Sources 404 Not Found [IP: 2001:6b0:e:2018::173 80] should be removed or server should be synchronised properly. -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0

Bug#499505: python-cairo: Package depends on Python2.4

2008-09-19 Thread Colin Alston
Package: python-cairo Version: 1.2.0-1 Severity: normal python-cairo depends on Python2.4 which is inconsistent with the python meta-package which contains Python2.5 by default. Cairo should work fine on Python 2.5 so I don't grok the dependency, if it doesn't (and this can't be fixed) then it

Bug#499505: Acknowledgement (python-cairo: Package depends on Python2.4)

2008-09-19 Thread Colin Alston
Sources lines wrong.. bug author being blonde.. sorry. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#484472: tun interface for l2tpns does not route as expected

2008-06-04 Thread Colin Alston
Package: l2tpns Version: 2.1.21-1 Severity: important l2tpns does not appear to route packets from/to ranges not within that which is allocated to the tunnels themselves. Consider for example [E:192.168.0.0/24]--[LAC:10.0.0.2]---[LNS:10.0.0.1]--[E:192.168.1.0/24] It seems l2tpns will only

Bug#484472: tun interface for l2tpns does not route as expected

2008-06-04 Thread Colin Alston
level (set debug n)? Yes, it didn't seem to provide any detail -- Colin Alston [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Internet Services Thusa Business Support (Pty) Ltd Tel: (+27) 031 277 1272 Fax: (+27) 031 277 1269 Xenophobia is fear of the Xenix operating sytem, everybody knows that ~Noesis#CLUG

Bug#484472: tun interface for l2tpns does not route as expected

2008-06-04 Thread Colin Alston
Colin Alston wrote: I don't have a Frame-Route, no. From RADIUS documentation that attribute suggests it is a route to pass along to the LAC. I'm guessing l2tpns does not document its treatment of that attribute, or I'm blind. Apparently I am blind, and stupid. I do need a Framed-Route

Bug#285858: logrotate: Logrotate will fail thanks to aptitude stupidty and this bug

2008-06-02 Thread Colin Alston
Paul Martin wrote: On Mon, Jun 02, 2008 at 07:50:54AM +0200, Colin Alston wrote: I suggest this bug be upgraded to grave and fixed as soon as possible. etc # logrotate logrotate.conf error: clamav-daemon.ucf-dist:1 duplicate log entry for /var/log/clamav/clamav.log Apt may at any time

Bug#285858: logrotate: Logrotate will fail thanks to aptitude stupidty and this bug

2008-06-02 Thread Colin Alston
Paul Martin wrote: On Mon, Jun 02, 2008 at 01:36:06PM +0200, Colin Alston wrote: Ahh, I guess so. The only other thing I can think of is that logrotate treat each item in logrotate.d as a separate entity which might require some re-architecting of the configuration parser, or skip over

Bug#285858: logrotate: Logrotate will fail thanks to aptitude stupidty and this bug

2008-06-01 Thread Colin Alston
Package: logrotate Version: 3.7.1-3 Followup-For: Bug #285858 I suggest this bug be upgraded to grave and fixed as soon as possible. etc # logrotate logrotate.conf error: clamav-daemon.ucf-dist:1 duplicate log entry for /var/log/clamav/clamav.log Apt may at any time write a duplicate

Bug#481487: squid3: Squid should pass stderr from redirectors to logging

2008-05-16 Thread Colin Alston
Package: squid3 Version: 3.0.PRE5-5 Severity: wishlist When a redirector or rewriter process in Squid fails, Squid does not log anything returned via stderr by the process to its logs. This makes debugging the problem Very Fun (TM). ie: May 16 14:45:43 granite squid[8684]: WARNING:

Bug#481308: linux-image-2.6.18-6-686: dma-mapping.h failure while using ide_tape with Bacula

2008-05-15 Thread Colin Alston
Package: linux-image-2.6.18-6-686 Version: 2.6.18.dfsg.1-18etch3 Severity: minor Bacula using ide_tape causes major syslog spam due to some issue with dma-mapping.h. Possible duplicate of #327355. Message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] at Thu May 15 10:02:09 2008 ... and kernel: ]

Bug#462369: l2tpns: Configuration option 'bind_address' documentation is misleading

2008-01-24 Thread Colin Alston [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Package: l2tpns Version: 2.1.21-1 Severity: normal The bind_address option in l2tpns has the effect of setting the address bound for l2tp connection listening AND the address which is set on the tunnel interface created by l2tpns. man startup-config gives bind_address When the tun

Bug#454587: clamav-daemon: Clamav hangs checking database

2007-12-06 Thread Colin Alston [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Package: clamav-daemon Version: 0.90.1-3etch2 Severity: important Occasionaly after being in opperation for some time, clamav hangs with Reading databases from /var/lib/clamav in the logs. Clamav should complete this opperation in a short time, but for some reason it enters a state where even

Bug#454587: clamav-daemon: Clamav hangs checking database

2007-12-06 Thread Colin Alston
On 06/12/2007 15:29 Stephen Gran wrote: This one time, at band camp, Colin Alston [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Occasionaly after being in opperation for some time, clamav hangs with Reading databases from /var/lib/clamav in the logs. Clamav should complete this opperation in a short time

Bug#451227: bandwidthd: Preconfigure appears to be borked

2007-11-14 Thread Colin Alston [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Package: bandwidthd Version: 2.0.1+cvs20050208-10 Severity: minor Preconfigure error on install: cp: cannot stat `/usr/share/doc/bandwidthd/bandwidthd.conf': No such file or directory Cosmetic, package installs ok after

Bug#383937: tulip: Package needs to be recompiled

2006-08-20 Thread Colin Alston
Package: tulip Version: tulip Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable This package is completely broken I just wanted to put that in 1) The package requires libOSMesa but does not have it as a dependency 2) The package is linked against the wrong libOSMesa.so.6, this should be

Bug#365853: vncserver: Documentation is misleading for GDM [a.k.a. completely useless] (README.inetd)

2006-05-03 Thread Colin Alston
Package: vncserver Version: 3.3.7-12 Severity: minor Tags: patch diff /usr/share/doc/vncserver/README.inetd For GDM you need to change Enable=false to Enable=true in /etc/gdm/gdm.conf (but I have not tested this to see if anything else is needed) --- For GDM you need to alter the [xdmcp]

Bug#307705: webalizer: Webalizer ignores its -c config file switch

2005-05-04 Thread Colin Alston
Package: webalizer Version: 2.01.10-26 Severity: important For some reason webalizer ignores the -c switch, and does not read a config file given to it. -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux

Bug#298343: request-tracker3.2: Apache2 forks leek memory

2005-03-06 Thread Colin Alston
Package: request-tracker3.2 Version: 3.2.2-3 Severity: critical Justification: breaks the whole system Apache2 MPM prefork begins to leek memory at an alarming rate - forks reach around 35MB each at start up expanding to around 50MB in some cases in a few minutes even when request-tracker is