Bug#593804: CSS renders pages poorly in Elinks

2010-08-20 Thread Don Armstrong
and Iceweasel at all.. I can change this (since it doesn't actually change what the CSS means), but it certainly sounds like a bug in elinks, as the html CSS style should cascade down to the body and h1 level. [It sounds like the doctree is broken, or something similar is wrong in elinks.] Don

Bug#593611: Acknowledgement (debian-policy: Clarify whose signature should go in debian/changelog (4.4))

2010-08-19 Thread Don Armstrong
not be the case. AFAICT, this also documents current standard practice even in team maintained packages. Don Armstrong -- Our days are precious, but we gladly see them going If in their place we find a thing more precious growing A rare, exotic plant, our gardener's heart delighting A child whom we

Bug#559752: Ubuntu trademark non-free?

2010-08-18 Thread Don Armstrong
On Tue, 10 Aug 2010, Don Armstrong wrote: This is something that should be worked out with the Ubuntu One developers and/or Ubuntu people. So long as we and all of our downstream have the ability to exercise the rights guaranteed by the DFSG via a trademark grant (or probably even just e-mail

Bug#593260: ITP: bar -- Show information about a data transfer

2010-08-16 Thread Don Armstrong
time remaining, percent complete, and a progress bar. How does this differ from pv? Don Armstrong -- Some pirates achieved immortality by great deeds of cruelty or derring-do. Some achieved immortality by amassing great wealth. But the captain had long ago decided that he would, on the whole

Bug#593260: ITP: bar -- Show information about a data transfer

2010-08-16 Thread Don Armstrong
On Mon, 16 Aug 2010, Georges Khaznadar wrote: Don Armstrong a écrit : [as a handfull of other vigilant developers] How does this [bar] differ from pv? I used Michael Peek's bar for a few years because I never heard about pv. Thank you for this notice. No problem.[1] Is pv able to do

Bug#585796: debbugs-local: Same here : cannot contact the CGI

2010-08-16 Thread Don Armstrong
in the packaging at the moment ;) Yeah, I need to go through and really test this. I'll try to get on it later today. Don Armstrong -- The smallest quantity of bread that can be sliced and toasted has yet to be experimentally determined. In the quantum limit we must necessarily encounter

Bug#380855: lilypond: needs tight dependency on python

2010-08-14 Thread Don Armstrong
severity 380855 serious thanks On Sat, 14 Aug 2010, Jakub Wilk wrote: * Don Armstrong d...@donarmstrong.com, 2010-08-13, 16:34: * madcoder-python-transit...@debian.org, 2006-08-01, 12:32: Hi, your package has been detected as generating a (for most of that mass bug fill: private) python

Bug#532187: please mark bugs already closed by an upload in versioned view

2010-08-13 Thread Don Armstrong
On Fri, 13 Aug 2010, Bernhard R. Link wrote: * Don Armstrong d...@debian.org [100812 21:39]: Yeah, the old closed code removed the pending tag. I'm not sure if that's ideal, however. What is the current state of this? From the bahaviour it had when I filed the bug (I think 2009-06-07

Bug#380855: lilypond: needs tight dependency on python

2010-08-13 Thread Don Armstrong
somewhere. Finally, XS-Python-Version and the ${python:Depends} probably should be added, but certainly aren't a requirement, as it shouldn't matter for the first,[1] and should be python for the second. Don Armstrong 1: After all, your change just indicates that it supports all version of python

Bug#592687: debbugs-local vs. local-debbugs?

2010-08-12 Thread Don Armstrong
not obvious to anyone else, so I probably need to drop in a debbugs-local symlink. Don Armstrong -- I shall require that [a scientific system's] logical form shall be such that it can be singled out, by means of emperical tests, in a negative sense: it must be possible for an emperical scientific

Bug#532187: please mark bugs already closed by an upload in versioned view

2010-08-12 Thread Don Armstrong
On Thu, 12 Aug 2010, Bernhard R. Link wrote: * Bernhard R. Link brl...@debian.org [090608 19:37]: * Don Armstrong d...@debian.org [090607 23:23]: On Sun, 07 Jun 2009, Bernhard R. Link wrote: When a package is uploaded to unstable and not yet built and installed on all architectures

Bug#592508: can't keep bts info about historical packages w/o tbm getting mail

2010-08-10 Thread Don Armstrong
... but I don't really see the point.] Don Armstrong -- It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men. -- Frederick Douglass http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Bug#592508: can't keep bts info about historical packages w/o tbm getting mail

2010-08-10 Thread Don Armstrong
On Tue, 10 Aug 2010, Steve Langasek wrote: On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 12:52:12PM -0400, Don Armstrong wrote: IF bug is assigned to at least one currently existing package and all packages assigned existed at some point THEN do nothing ELSE bug tbm I think that sounds sane, yes

Bug#592508: can't keep bts info about historical packages w/o tbm getting mail

2010-08-10 Thread Don Armstrong
On Tue, 10 Aug 2010, Steve Langasek wrote: On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 10:49:21AM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: We never really handled source packages at all, actually. [We just sort of assumed that a bug assigned to a package for which there wasn't a corresponding binary package was assigned

Bug#592484: lilypond: FTBFS with current gcc/eglibc

2010-08-10 Thread Don Armstrong
On Tue, 10 Aug 2010, Petr Salinger wrote: the current version fails to build under current sid. Please find attached patch with needed tweaks. Thanks for the report and patch; I'll get it integrated shortly. Don Armstrong -- We were at a chinese resturant. He was yelling at the waitress

Bug#564276: Ubuntu trademark non-free?

2010-08-10 Thread Don Armstrong
not necessary to expunge every last mention of ubuntu from packages. In fact, upstream probably wants this package to be trivially rebrandable given the number of ubuntu derivatives there are. Don Armstrong -- Rule 30: A little trust goes a long way. The less you use, the further you'll go

Bug#559752: Ubuntu trademark non-free?

2010-08-10 Thread Don Armstrong
), it should be redistributable in main. [Indeed, it may even be the case for #564276 as well.] Let me get an Ubuntu person to weigh in on this. Don Armstrong -- Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society. -- Mark Twain http://www.donarmstrong.com http

Bug#592484: lilypond: FTBFS with current gcc/eglibc

2010-08-10 Thread Don Armstrong
forcemerge 560487 592484 thanks On Tue, 10 Aug 2010, Don Armstrong wrote: On Tue, 10 Aug 2010, Petr Salinger wrote: the current version fails to build under current sid. Please find attached patch with needed tweaks. Thanks for the report and patch; I'll get it integrated shortly

Bug#585796: #585796: local-debbugs: Cannot search

2010-08-09 Thread Don Armstrong
On Sun, 08 Aug 2010, Jonathan Nieder wrote: Don Armstrong wrote: * Various changes to make debbugs-local work better (Closes: #585796) That does help a lot. Now I’ve tried: echo src:git ~/.debbugs/bugs_to_get local-debbugs -M local-debbugs --daemon --no-detach

Bug#592117: debbugsconfig fails due to missing /etc/debbugs/indices/ directory

2010-08-09 Thread Don Armstrong
it.] Don Armstrong -- If you find it impossible to believe that the universe didn't have a creator, why don't you find it impossible that your creator didn't have one either? -- Anonymous Coward http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=167556cid=13970629 http://www.donarmstrong.com http

Bug#592145: bugs.debian.org: Please always include the package name into bug mails

2010-08-07 Thread Don Armstrong
that information... Don Armstrong -- Let me bring you up to speed: We know nothing. You are now up to speed. -- Steve Martin as Inspector Clouseau in _The Pink Panther 2_ (2009) http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ

Bug#585740: Bug#590931: See our D2R wrapper for UDD that provides RDF for Debian artifacts - Was: Re: Bug#590931: Would be great to integrate RDFa metadata into debbugs pages

2010-07-30 Thread Don Armstrong
-tracker formats we settle on exporting are more widely supported, as my time to understand and implement format translators is relatively limited.] Don Armstrong -- Three little words. (In descending order of importance.) I love you -- hugh macleod http://www.gapingvoid.com/graphics/batch35

Bug#562945: runinit-run, releaseability thereof

2010-07-27 Thread Don Armstrong
of course be refered back to the ctte.] Don Armstrong -- Information wants to be free to kill again. -- Red Robot http://www.dieselsweeties.com/archive.php?s=1372 http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org

Bug#499156: closed by Osamu Aoki os...@debian.org (Not expected for 3.02-9)

2010-07-17 Thread Don Armstrong
, as we don't deal with individual bug reports. [I'm Cc:'ing to indicate that I've handled this message.]) Don Armstrong -- The beauty of the DRUNKENNESS subprogram was that you could move your intoxication level up and down at will, instead of being caught on a relentless down escalator to bargain

Bug#589118: `rdev` setting ignored

2010-07-16 Thread Don Armstrong
be overridden. This necessitates a patch as required for #1. In neither case should you reopen bugs that a maintainer has closed.[1] Continuing to do so will result in restricting your use of cont...@bugs.debian.org. Don Armstrong (on behalf of ow...@bugs.debian.org) 1: It is of course acceptable

Bug#589104: Merging the same bug should give an error

2010-07-14 Thread Don Armstrong
it as a null operation, and indicate that we've refused to merge a bug with itself (much like we do if you try to retitle to the same title, or found the same version which are found.) Don Armstrong -- What, now? Soon equates to good, later to worse, Uagen Zlepe, scholar. Therefore, immediacy. -- Iain M

Bug#588315: bugs.debian.org: reassigning a bug to a package from the same source removes found information

2010-07-12 Thread Don Armstrong
On Sun, 11 Jul 2010, Jakub Wilk wrote: * Don Armstrong d...@debian.org, 2010-07-07, 09:06: Furthermore, there's no purpose to reassigning a bug to a different binary package built from the same source. There is: you cannot merge bugs if they are not assigned to the same package

Bug#588315: bugs.debian.org: reassigning a bug to a package from the same source removes found information

2010-07-07 Thread Don Armstrong
an example here: Yes, that's correct, and how it's currently designed. It will eventually be changed, but that change is a bit complicated. Furthermore, there's no purpose to reassigning a bug to a different binary package built from the same source. Don Armstrong -- UF: What's your favorite coffee

Bug#556015: Clarify requirements for copyright file

2010-07-07 Thread Don Armstrong
, as their source version is not Y+bNN, but Y.] Don Armstrong -- Of course Pacman didn't influence us as kids. If it did, we'd be running around in darkened rooms, popping pills and listening to repetitive music. http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Bug#556015: Clarify requirements for copyright file

2010-07-07 Thread Don Armstrong
On Wed, 07 Jul 2010, Steve Langasek wrote: On Wed, Jul 07, 2010 at 11:59:51AM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: I think there's some confusion here; [debian/changelog] documents changes to the source package, and as such, should always have the source version listed. [Binnmus have a changelog

Bug#556015: Clarify requirements for copyright file

2010-07-06 Thread Don Armstrong
package, but the arch: all package requires functionality in the arch: any package (and there isn't any required arch: all package from the same source). [Like a source package which builds a core set of binaries, and an -examples package of perl scripts which needs the core set to function.] Don

Bug#556015: Clarify requirements for copyright file

2010-07-05 Thread Don Armstrong
package, it should be the binary version, of course.) Don Armstrong -- Life would be way easier if I were easier. -- a softer world #473 http://www.asofterworld.com/index.php?id=473 http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist

Bug#571576: (no subject)

2010-06-20 Thread Don Armstrong
Something horrible happened to this bug, and the original report and the log has been lost; not sure what, though. Don Armstrong -- It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men. -- Frederick Douglass http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu

Bug#584922: please do not use 200 OK on errors

2010-06-07 Thread Don Armstrong
this, though we currently don't do this properly for cases where you send the BTS a malformed request. [We should return 400 or similar.] Don Armstrong -- I leave the show floor, but not before a pack of caffeinated Jolt gum is thrust at me by a hyperactive girl screaming, Chew more! Do more

Bug#584076: wbritish-huge: irregardless is not a word

2010-06-04 Thread Don Armstrong
retitle 584076 move irregardless to -insane for wbritish, but keep it for wamerican tag 584076 - wontfix thanks On Sat, 05 Jun 2010, Nick Phillips wrote: On Tue, 2010-06-01 at 11:54 -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: Irregardless is a word, but happens to be one which makes no grammatical sense

Bug#584184: Bug#584268: bugs don't close by binNMU upload

2010-06-02 Thread Don Armstrong
closed. You marked the bug as closed in 0.8.65-1 only, which it is indeed closed in. You can just send an unversioned close since this was a binary-only bug. See the discussion in #580406 if you want to know why you can't just marked this bug as closed in 0.7.110-1+b2. Don Armstrong -- I'm wrong

Bug#584076: wbritish-huge: irregardless is not a word

2010-06-01 Thread Don Armstrong
no grammatical sense and thus whose usage is nonstandard. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irregardless, etc. Don Armstrong -- With one simple pill we cured unhappiness and art -- a softer world #437 http://www.asofterworld.com/index.php?id=437 http://www.donarmstrong.com http

Bug#582171: bugs.debian.org: Can't set multiple users' usertags during submission

2010-05-19 Thread Don Armstrong
. Don Armstrong -- listen, what you do in the privacy of your neighbour's house while they're away is your own business -- a softer world #511 http://www.asofterworld.com/index.php?id=511 http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian

Bug#581836: bugs.debian.org: server-control online documentation doesn't list all commands

2010-05-16 Thread Don Armstrong
is fundamentally broken, and the BTS does not work around fundamentally broken MUAs. Use the bts command line tools in devscripts instead. The other stuff is a bug which I will deal with eventually. Don Armstrong -- This message brought to you by weapons of mass destruction related program activities

Bug#581337: sm: SIGSEGV on armel

2010-05-13 Thread Don Armstrong
On Thu, 13 May 2010, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: On 12 May 2010 at 22:40, Don Armstrong wrote: | However, the whole idea of having source package which do not | produce at least a binary of the same name is fundamentally | broken, and I have spoken repeatedly against doing it. Well narrowly

Bug#581337: sm: SIGSEGV on armel

2010-05-13 Thread Don Armstrong
On Thu, 13 May 2010, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: On 13 May 2010 at 10:01, Don Armstrong wrote: | If I was paying more attention when R packages started coming into | the archive, I would have lobbied harder for them to follow the | lib*-perl If memory serves, I started with RODBC and tseries

Bug#581337: sm: SIGSEGV on armel

2010-05-12 Thread Don Armstrong
against doing it. Don Armstrong -- The beauty of the DRUNKENNESS subprogram was that you could move your intoxication level up and down at will, instead of being caught on a relentless down escalator to bargain basement philosophy and the parking garage. -- Rudy von Bitter _Software_ p124 http

Bug#580406: not possible to set the bug just unfixed in a +b... version

2010-05-05 Thread Don Armstrong
handle correctly the verisoning of binary-only bugs, though I have thought about it and I already have a fairly good idea of how to solve it. Don Armstrong -- There are two types of people in this world, good and bad. The good sleep better, but the bad seem to enjoy the waking hours much more

Bug#580135: [debian-policy] 12.7 Changelog files shouldn't advise the use of lynx

2010-05-03 Thread Don Armstrong
, but I'm not convinced that it should be the default. Don Armstrong 1: I'm fairly sure there's some way to provide a style file which actually renders it reasonably... -- PowerPoint is symptomatic of a certain type of bureaucratic environment: one typified by interminable presentations with lots

Bug#579129: Neither reportbug, reportbug-ng, or browser using the cgi can access bugs.debian.org!

2010-04-29 Thread Don Armstrong
On Mon, 26 Apr 2010, David Baron wrote: On Monday 26 April 2010 02:11:28 Don Armstrong wrote: 2) I need to know if bugs-busoni.debian.org, bugs-duarte.debian.org, and bugs-lindberg.debian.org work or don't work All three of these mirrors DO work! Tried them from the browser. How might I

Bug#579129: Neither reportbug, reportbug-ng, or browser using the cgi can access bugs.debian.org!

2010-04-25 Thread Don Armstrong
of them that don't work, with and without -n. Don Armstrong -- The smallest quantity of bread that can be sliced and toasted has yet to be experimentally determined. In the quantum limit we must necessarily encounter fundamental toast particles which the author will unflinchingly designate here

Bug#578822: debbugs: Please add urls to affected bugs to control@ responses

2010-04-22 Thread Don Armstrong
it for control, but I'll tweak it shortly. Don Armstrong -- G: If we do happen to step on a mine, Sir, what do we do? EB: Normal procedure, Lieutenant, is to jump 200 feet in the air and scatter oneself over a wide area. -- Somewhere in No Man's Land, BA4 http://www.donarmstrong.com

Bug#577729: debbugs: The 'bug' parameter ... did not pass regex check

2010-04-14 Thread Don Armstrong
On Wed, 14 Apr 2010, Jonathan Nieder wrote: Don Armstrong wrote: If the bug is merged, unmerge it, and use one of the existing bugs. Maybe the message can make that more clear. For example, what did you think of this suggestion? -Bug is marked as being merged with others. Use

Bug#575019: spamass-milter: The fix for bug #573228 causes lots of zombie sendmail processess

2010-04-13 Thread Don Armstrong
On Tue, 13 Apr 2010, Len Padilla wrote: Hello. Has there been any progress with this issue? I'm eager to be able to reenable the -x flag for my spamass-milter installation. Yeah, I haven't yet uploaded the fix to unstable or stable-security, but I will be doing so shortly. Don Armstrong

Bug#575019: spamass-milter: The fix for bug #573228 causes lots of zombie sendmail processess

2010-04-13 Thread Don Armstrong
, they're not the right packages. I haven't uploaded htem anywhere yet. I just rebuilt the ones for amd64, and I'm building them for i386, so you can grab them from there in 20 minutes or so. Don Armstrong -- I'd sign up in a hot second for any cellular company whose motto was: We're less horrible than

Bug#577729: debbugs: The 'bug' parameter ... did not pass regex check

2010-04-13 Thread Don Armstrong
. The debugging output is there so that I know what is going on when people report things, so no, it won't be suppressed. Don Armstrong -- A kiss was mysterious and powerful, fragile and invincible. Like any spark, a kiss might fizzle into nothing or consume an entire forest. [...] A kiss could change

Bug#577487: Documented idiom clone N -1 reassign -1 PKG fails for merged bugs

2010-04-11 Thread Don Armstrong
the ticket. I'd have been less annoyed by this if the clone failure had ended processing. It doesn't make much sense to clone a merged bug, because the history isn't currently properly copied anyway. There is already an existing bug to rectify the issue of history propogation. Don Armstrong

Bug#577120: Please package wdiff 0.6.1

2010-04-09 Thread Don Armstrong
Package: wdiff Version: 0.5-21 Severity: wishlist Wdiff has released a new version (0.6.1) which has support for things like svn diff|wdiff -d; (use diff input). http://www.gnu.org/software/wdiff/ Don Armstrong -- Frankly, if ignoring inane opinions and noisy people and not flaming them

Bug#575059: Should Package-Type be included in udebs or not?

2010-04-07 Thread Don Armstrong
to decide in this instance (unless someone disagrees with Guillem's decision, and really needs the CTTE to ratify it.) Don Armstrong -- No matter how many instances of white swans we may have observed, this does not justify the conclusion that all swans are white. -- Sir Karl Popper _Logic

Bug#575059: Should Package-Type be included in udebs or not?

2010-04-01 Thread Don Armstrong
) Unfortunatly, this is the only way to currently not include P-T, but this is an implementation detail, and distinct from whether or not it should be included. Don Armstrong -- [T]he question of whether Machines Can Think, [...] is about as relevant as the question of whether Submarines Can

Bug#576240: say what ITP means right there in the report

2010-04-01 Thread Don Armstrong
of a request to provide information on a source package basis, perhaps through WAT or UDD or something similar, but as of yet, no such solution exists. Don Armstrong -- Dropping non-free would set us back at least, what, 300 packages? It'd take MONTHS to make up the difference, and meanwhile Debian users

Bug#557948: Severity of 557948 and plans for this bug

2010-03-31 Thread Don Armstrong
On Mon, 22 Mar 2010, Don Armstrong wrote: On Thu, 04 Mar 2010, Aníbal Monsalve Salazar wrote: On Mon, Mar 01, 2010 at 03:49:08PM -0800, Don Armstrong wrote: Do you expect the ctte to override the severity or demand a specific fix? The former can be done, but the latter will (almost

Bug#575059: Should Package-Type be included in udebs or not?

2010-03-31 Thread Don Armstrong
-Package-Type and why the lintian warning was used in the first place. [I suppose an alternative would be a lintian warning which noted the presence of Package-Type: in the udeb itself instead of looking at the source package's debian/control, which would allow this transition.] Don Armstrong -- You

Bug#575940: warn if packages do not adhere to Debian's Perl naming policy

2010-03-30 Thread Don Armstrong
name. Don Armstrong -- One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie. -- The Silicon Valley Tarot http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Bug#557948: Severity of 557948 and plans for this bug

2010-03-22 Thread Don Armstrong
On Thu, 04 Mar 2010, Aníbal Monsalve Salazar wrote: On Mon, Mar 01, 2010 at 03:49:08PM -0800, Don Armstrong wrote: Do you expect the ctte to override the severity or demand a specific fix? The former can be done, but the latter will (almost certainly) require a patch before that happens. I

Bug#575019: spamass-milter: The fix for bug #573228 causes lots of zombie sendmail processess

2010-03-22 Thread Don Armstrong
of this package for me? [I don't have a setup which is using -x at all, so I haven't been able to test it appropriately.] Don Armstrong -- Some pirates achieved immortality by great deeds of cruelty or derring-do. Some achieved immortality by amassing great wealth. But the captain had long ago decided

Bug#575019: spamass-milter: The fix for bug #573228 causes lots of zombie sendmail processess

2010-03-22 Thread Don Armstrong
On Mon, 22 Mar 2010, Bjørn Mork wrote: Don Armstrong d...@donarmstrong.com writes: On Mon, 22 Mar 2010, Bjørn Mork wrote: I'm running spamass-milter with -x and am as such very interested in the 573228 bugfix. But it causes a zombie process for every mail received: Awesome. It's

Bug#574629: patch

2010-03-19 Thread Don Armstrong
) - (/dev/null))) a) #f)) + /dev/tty + /dev/null)) a) #f)) (do-measurements (ly:get-option 'dump-profile)) (handler (lambda (key failed-file) (set! failed (append (list failed-file) failed) Don

Bug#433462: Suggestions to fix #433462 (add free space info to reportbug)

2010-03-16 Thread Don Armstrong
. [Here, only the mount points, free space, and free indoes matter, and anything mounted in deeper directories (ignoring/var or /usr) can probably have the mount point obfuscated. Don Armstrong -- Dropping non-free would set us back at least, what, 300 packages? It'd take MONTHS to make up

Bug#574059: Provide link to SPI meeting minutes and/or treasurer reports in appropriate (TBD) location

2010-03-15 Thread Don Armstrong
than I do right this second of where it should go could even prepare and/or commit a patch. Don Armstrong -- She was alot like starbucks. IE, generic and expensive. -- hugh macleod http://www.gapingvoid.com/Moveable_Type/archives/001376.html http://www.donarmstrong.com http

Bug#573228: Arbitrary command execution (report from full-disclosure)

2010-03-09 Thread Don Armstrong
as root, but we should definetly get a fix for it out. I'll see what I can whip up in the next few days if the upstream maintainers don't respond. Don Armstrong -- For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen. -- Douglas Adams http

Bug#572989: Limiting to package, with reassignment: version no. failure

2010-03-08 Thread Don Armstrong
a package limit and reassign and failing to include the reassigned package is kind of silly, though.] Don Armstrong -- The computer allows you to make mistakes faster than any other invention, with the possible exception of handguns and tequila -- Mitch Ratcliffe http://www.donarmstrong.com

Bug#572595: afterall is not a word

2010-03-04 Thread Don Armstrong
, but it should be listed. Don Armstrong -- Guns Don't Kill People. *I* Kill People. http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#572033: debbugs: The bug list should display the master bug when bugs are merged

2010-03-01 Thread Don Armstrong
which is displayed when you have repeatmerged off is always the bug with the lowest number. [In all but unusual cases, that's the right bug, and in those unusual cases, you should fix up the oldest bug anyway.] Don Armstrong -- It has always been Debian's philosophy in the past to stick to what

Bug#572133: bugs.debian.org: bugs marked as affecting individual packages don't show up on the source package's page

2010-03-01 Thread Don Armstrong
. This has already been reported as #563470. Don Armstrong -- A Bill of Rights that means what the majority wants it to mean is worthless. -- U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ

Bug#572033: debbugs: The bug list should display the master bug when bugs are merged

2010-03-01 Thread Don Armstrong
in that context: The first bug listed is the master bug, and its settings (the settings which must be equal in a normal merge) are assigned to the bugs listed next. Since it appears to be confusing, I'll adjust the wording. Don Armstrong -- Nothing is as inevitable as a mistake whose time has

Bug#557948: Severity of 557948 and plans for this bug

2010-03-01 Thread Don Armstrong
Is there still a request for the ctte to override the maintainer on the severity of this bug? FWICT, Anibal agrees that this is a bug, and currently the only issue is how to best fix both it and #500454. Don Armstrong -- I don't care how poor and inefficient a little country is; they like

Bug#557948: Severity of 557948 and plans for this bug

2010-03-01 Thread Don Armstrong
On Mon, 01 Mar 2010, Sune Vuorela wrote: On Monday 01 March 2010 23:21:37 Don Armstrong wrote: Is there still a request for the ctte to override the maintainer on the severity of this bug? FWICT, Anibal agrees that this is a bug, and currently the only issue is how to best fix both

Bug#571664: Date::Manip::DateCalc no longer properly handles addition of negative offsets

2010-02-26 Thread Don Armstrong
other issues). Don Armstrong -- I'd sign up in a hot second for any cellular company whose motto was: We're less horrible than a root canal with a cold chisel. -- Cory Doctorow http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ

Bug#513305: Integration of unscd

2010-02-25 Thread Don Armstrong
On Thu, 25 Feb 2010, Nico Schottelius wrote: Don Armstrong [Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 03:07:57PM -0800]: On Wed, 24 Feb 2010, Nico Schottelius wrote: What about the unscd package? I'm in a situation where I really need it, as nscd either breaks (stops answering) or consumes 100% cpu here

Bug#533555: Joke non-free clauses?

2010-02-24 Thread Don Armstrong
to remove or make them clearly requests in future releases, I think that'd be sufficient. Don Armstrong -- Our days are precious, but we gladly see them going If in their place we find a thing more precious growing A rare, exotic plant, our gardener's heart delighting A child whom we

Bug#513305: Integration of unscd

2010-02-24 Thread Don Armstrong
://rzlab.ucr.edu/debian/unscd; if you could try them out and see if they work properly, I'll probably get them uploaded shortly. Don Armstrong -- The smallest quantity of bread that can be sliced and toasted has yet to be experimentally determined. In the quantum limit we must necessarily encounter

Bug#533555: Joke non-free clauses?

2010-02-24 Thread Don Armstrong
tag 533555 patch retitle 533555 Clauses 4-6 can be ignored by a new clause 8; clarify copyright file summary -1 533555 severity 533555 minor thanks On Wed, 24 Feb 2010, Don Armstrong wrote: If the real maintainers can actually be contacted by mail and get a binding response that clauses 4-6

Bug#571018: bugs.debian.org: send mail on affected package when adding “affect” to a bug

2010-02-22 Thread Don Armstrong
all of the messages to a bug. [Well, eventually; at least initially that wouldn't be the case.] Don Armstrong -- If it jams, force it. If it breaks, it needed replacing anyway. -- Lowery's Law http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian

Bug#571051: debbugs: hyperlinks with CVE names are now broken

2010-02-22 Thread Don Armstrong
had actually noticed this problem earlier (or maybe you reported it on IRC) and just hadn't merged in the fix for it. Don Armstrong -- There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself. -- Bach http

Bug#571057: lilypond: FTBFS: relocate.cc:281: error: invalid conversion from 'const char*' to 'char*'

2010-02-22 Thread Don Armstrong
forcemerge 560487 571057 thanks On Tue, 23 Feb 2010, Nobuhiro Iwamatsu wrote: lilypond FTBFS on sid. I confirmed it in i386 and amd64. Yes, this is already reported and I'll resolve it shortly. [It has also already been fixed upstream.] Don Armstrong -- Junkies were all knitted together

Bug#570251: bugs.debian.org: Please display affecting bugs in source package report as well.

2010-02-18 Thread Don Armstrong
-terminal but not in: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?src=gnome-terminal Ok, I'll take a look at this again. Thanks for the report. Don Armstrong -- More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total

Bug#570209: bugs.debian.org: modifies my email address

2010-02-17 Thread Don Armstrong
, what it was rewritten from, to, and what you think it should be. Don Armstrong -- UF: What's your favorite coffee blend? PD: Dark Crude with heavy water. You are understandink? If geiger counter does not click, the coffee, she is just not thick. http://www.donarmstrong.com http

Bug#570251: bugs.debian.org: Please display affecting bugs in source package report as well.

2010-02-17 Thread Don Armstrong
Please display them in the source package report as well: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?src=srcpkg This is already done. If you have an actual example of it not working, that would be useful to see. Don Armstrong -- Creativity can be a social contribution, but only in so far

Bug#569606: bugs.debian.org rejects legitimate failure messages

2010-02-13 Thread Don Armstrong
to reportbug? Must I try to file another bug from reportbug and trace the complete TCP connection? You can just send a followup message to this bug using reportbug. If you can trace the tcp connection using tcpdump and also include your reportbug configuration file, that'd be useful too. Don

Bug#569529: bugs.debian.org: “affects” bugs don't show up clearly

2010-02-12 Thread Don Armstrong
section like “Bug affecting this package”. This is a possibility, but if you don't want to see them, you can exclude them with noaffects=yes. [Well, you will once I merge a fix to a small bug, anyway.] Don Armstrong -- America was far better suited to be the World's Movie Star. The world's tequila

Bug#569606: bugs.debian.org rejects legitimate failure messages

2010-02-12 Thread Don Armstrong
to bugs.debian.org directly instead of obeying the MX record. reportbug is by default configured to do this correctly. Don Armstrong -- Your village called. They want their idiot back. -- xkcd http://xkcd.com/c23.html http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu

Bug#569048: tech-ctte: Unable to record the sound

2010-02-09 Thread Don Armstrong
) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-ctte-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Don Armstrong -- Miracles had become relative common-places since the advent of entheogens; it now took

Bug#568360: Debian bug tracker email addresses are reported as incorrect

2010-02-05 Thread Don Armstrong
; they just can't subscribe. Don Armstrong -- Judge if you want. We are all going to die. I intend to deserve it. -- a softer world #421 http://www.asofterworld.com/index.php?id=421 http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ

Bug#568230: bugs.debian.org: forwarded tags should gracefully ignore line breaks

2010-02-03 Thread Don Armstrong
is fundamentally broken. If you don't want to fix your MUA, use the bts command line tools instead. Don Armstrong -- Our days are precious, but we gladly see them going If in their place we find a thing more precious growing A rare, exotic plant, our gardener's heart delighting A child whom we

Bug#568313: Suggestion: forbid the use of dpkg-statoverride in postinst scripts, except for --list

2010-02-03 Thread Don Armstrong
unpacked with the wrong permissions set until the postinst is called to fix them up. Don Armstrong -- Who is thinking this? I am. -- Greg Egan _Diaspora_ p38 http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org

Bug#568313: Suggestion: forbid the use of dpkg-statoverride in postinst scripts, except for --list

2010-02-03 Thread Don Armstrong
to be setuid/setgid to that uid/gid, or when you've got a sensible default of not setgid (or similar) but you want that setting to be easily configurable via debconf. Don Armstrong -- There's no problem so large it can't be solved by killing the user off, deleting their files, closing their account

Bug#568313: Suggestion: forbid the use of dpkg-statoverride in postinst scripts, except for --list

2010-02-03 Thread Don Armstrong
about an xsendmail package; sendmail itself doesn't do this. (Or at least, it doesn't any more.) The reason why I'm asking this question is because before policy is changed into a must requirement, someone should have found out which packages will be instantly RC buggy. Don Armstrong -- People

Bug#485803: Re: Bug#485803: debbugs: Please add a comaint option, like on http://qa.debian.org/developer.php

2010-01-28 Thread Don Armstrong
On Thu, 28 Jan 2010, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote: On -10/01/37 20:59, Don Armstrong wrote: You mean to track the Uploaders: of a package? Yes. I'd love to see this. Currently that information isn't exported to the BTS, but it's something that could be added in the future. Now

Bug#566232: bugs.debian.org: Can't Active Audio with Fn+F7

2010-01-22 Thread Don Armstrong
://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting Don Armstrong -- Vimes hated and despised the privileges of rank, but they had this to be said for them: At least they meant that you could hate and despise them in comfort. -- Terry Pratchett _The Fifth Elephant_ p111 http://www.donarmstrong.com

Bug#565981: debbugs: Debbugs::MIME::parse doesn't handle PGP Signed messages with \r correctly

2010-01-20 Thread Don Armstrong
On Wed, 20 Jan 2010, Don Armstrong wrote: On Wed, 20 Jan 2010, Mike Hommey wrote: #532828 is an example of a bug with a PGP signed report message with \r. Debbugs::MIME::parse doesn't handle this case correctly, leading to the returned message being empty after it strips off RFC2440-style

Bug#565981: debbugs: Debbugs::MIME::parse doesn't handle PGP Signed messages with \r correctly

2010-01-20 Thread Don Armstrong
] and $bodylines[0] ne qq(\r); shift @bodylines while @bodylines and $bodylines[0] !~ /\S/; for my $findsig (0 .. $#bodylines) { if ($bodylines[$findsig] =~ /^-BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE/) { Don Armstrong -- Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people

Bug#565981: debbugs: Debbugs::MIME::parse doesn't handle PGP Signed messages with \r correctly

2010-01-20 Thread Don Armstrong
On Wed, 20 Jan 2010, Mike Hommey wrote: On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 10:19:17AM -0800, Don Armstrong wrote: On Wed, 20 Jan 2010, Mike Hommey wrote: #532828 is an example of a bug with a PGP signed report message with \r. Debbugs::MIME::parse doesn't handle this case correctly, leading

Bug#565513: debbugs: Provide an OSLC-CM compatible REST API

2010-01-17 Thread Don Armstrong
On Sun, 17 Jan 2010, Olivier Berger wrote: Le samedi 16 janvier 2010 à 07:18 -0800, Don Armstrong a écrit : On Sat, 16 Jan 2010, Olivier Berger wrote: OSLC-CM is a protocol that seeks to establish a standard for interoperability with Change Management servers, i.e. bugtrackers included

Bug#565513: debbugs: Provide an OSLC-CM compatible REST API

2010-01-17 Thread Don Armstrong
attributes. Anyway, thanks for your comments, and we'll eventually try and hack some code to demonstrate if/how debbugs may benefit from OSLC-CM ;) That would be great! Code or a working demo always tells me more than a specification. Don Armstrong -- Every gun that is made, every warship launched

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