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

2010-01-16 Thread Don Armstrong
of the specification and how it could apply to a bug server if you want me to look into it. Don Armstrong -- A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election. -- Bill Vaughan http://www.donarmstrong.com http

Bug#564536: GRUB maintainer address bounces

2010-01-12 Thread Don Armstrong
will rarely bother to subscribe just to communicate information to a package maintainer, just like I rarely bother to deal with challenge/response emails. Don Armstrong -- S: Make me a sandwich B: What? Make it yourself. S: sudo make me a sandwich B: Okay. -- xkcd http://xkcd.com/c149.html

Bug#564536: GRUB maintainer address bounces

2010-01-12 Thread Don Armstrong
On Tue, 12 Jan 2010, Robert Millan wrote: On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 07:58:09PM -0800, Don Armstrong wrote: The main reason is that you avoid bothering people whose mails are obviously not spam with needing to subscribe to a mailing list simply to communicate with the maintainer. Why would

Bug#564536: GRUB maintainer address bounces

2010-01-11 Thread Don Armstrong
archive-wide. Don Armstrong 1: In fact, if enough other CTTE members feel similarly, I'd propose to require a discussion on -policy or -project first to come up with an appropriate wording change to §3.3. -- For those who understand, no explanation is necessary. For those who do not, none

Bug#564536: Returned mail: see transcript for details

2010-01-11 Thread Don Armstrong
of the people involved. If someone wants to clue Robert Millan in about this discussion, that may be useful. Don Armstrong -- [Panama, 1989. The U.S. government called it Operation Just Cause.] I think they misspelled this. Shouldn't it be Operation Just 'Cause? -- TekPolitik http://slashdot.org

Bug#564183: bugs.debian.org: allow forcemerge on different binary packages from the same source package

2010-01-08 Thread Don Armstrong
but different binary packages. In such a case, the bug would be reassigned to the binary package of the first bug if it was different. Don Armstrong -- Religion is religion, however you wrap it, and like Quell says, a preoccupation with the next world clearly signals an inability to cope credibly

Bug#563030: Fwd: allow # in shortcut URL

2010-01-07 Thread Don Armstrong
?bug=$1$2 [L,R,NE] Is the precise rule which is used, which handles # which are properly url encoded. Don Armstrong -- Them as can do has to do for them as can't. And someone has to speak up for them as have no voices. -- Grandma Aching in _The Wee Free Men_ by Terry Pratchett p227 http

Bug#563999: libjpeg.so.7 should not be preferentially loaded to libjpeg.so.62

2010-01-06 Thread Don Armstrong
library that is loaded... but that's not for me to decide.] 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-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org

Bug#563860: Please package LilyPond 2.12.3

2010-01-05 Thread Don Armstrong
the release. Don Armstrong -- Il semble que la perfection soit atteinte non quand il n'y a plus rien a ajouter, mais quand il n'y a plus rien a retrancher. (Perfection is apparently not achieved when nothing more can be added, but when nothing else can be removed.) -- Antoine de Saint-Exupe'ry

Bug#563030: Fwd: allow # in shortcut URL

2009-12-30 Thread Don Armstrong
passed to apache. Don Armstrong -- Religion is religion, however you wrap it, and like Quell says, a preoccupation with the next world clearly signals an inability to cope credibly with this one. -- Richard K. Morgan Broken Angels p65 http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu

Bug#562727: [lilypond] Problem with Unicode UTF-8 character (not a quotation mark).

2009-12-27 Thread Don Armstrong
, the character you have in the subject *is* , not gershayim (״), which is what I assume you're talking about. 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

Bug#562727: [lilypond] Problem with Unicode UTF-8 character (not a quotation mark).

2009-12-27 Thread Don Armstrong
gershayim. Don Armstrong -- It's not Hollywood. War is real, war is primarily not about defeat or victory, it is about death. I've seen thousands and thousands of dead bodies. Do you think I want to have an academic debate on this subject? -- Robert Fisk http://www.donarmstrong.com

Bug#553661: bugs.debian.org: provide some way through the SOAP interface to determine if a package exists

2009-12-23 Thread Don Armstrong
tag 553661 - patch thanks On Wed, 23 Dec 2009, Ryan Niebur wrote: On Sun, Nov 01, 2009 at 03:21:33PM -0800, Don Armstrong wrote: reassign 553661 debbugs retitle 553661 expose Debbugs::Common::package_maintainer via soap thanks On Sun, 01 Nov 2009, Ryan Niebur wrote: one way I

Bug#561218: bugs.debian.org: unarchive command is not recognized, so I can't reopen a bug

2009-12-15 Thread Don Armstrong
problem. You don't start the line with unarchive; you've got something else there. Don Armstrong -- For those who understand, no explanation is necessary. For those who do not, none is possible. http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian

Bug#557734: imagemagick should recommends: or suggests: ufraw

2009-11-23 Thread Don Armstrong
Package: imagemagick Version: 7:6.5.5.3-1 Severity: normal ufraw is used by convert et al. when converting from (or possibly to) a RAW image, and isn't suggested or recommended by imagemagick. Don Armstrong -- Personally, I think my choice in the mostest-superlative-computer wars has

Bug#557734: imagemagick should recommends: or suggests: ufraw

2009-11-23 Thread Don Armstrong
On Mon, 23 Nov 2009, Nelson A. de Oliveira wrote: On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 11:15 PM, Don Armstrong d...@donarmstrong.com wrote: ufraw is used by convert et al. when converting from (or possibly to) a RAW image, and isn't suggested or recommended by imagemagick. I will add a suggests if you

Bug#557283: append triggering mail to [SmartList] error messages

2009-11-20 Thread Don Armstrong
. Don Armstrong -- Never underestimate the power of human stupidity. -- Robert Heinlein 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

Bug#231616: defoma: Apply patch, please

2009-11-19 Thread Don Armstrong
that any additional fixes will be added outside of sporadic QA uploads to fix particularly glaring issues. Don Armstrong -- Quite the contrary; they *love* collateral damage. If they can make you miserable enough, maybe you'll stop using email entirely. Once enough people do that, then there'll

Bug#556884: locale/C-time.c erroneously lists the first day of the week as Monday

2009-11-18 Thread Don Armstrong
correctly and assume week 7;19971130;4 (like probably cal does), I'll fix that in the next upload. No, the problem isn't that they aren't parsinng the locales value properly; the problem is that what the C locale is reporting has changed. Don Armstrong -- Who is thinking this? I am. -- Greg Egan

Bug#556884: locale/C-time.c erroneously lists the first day of the week as Monday

2009-11-18 Thread Don Armstrong
On Wed, 18 Nov 2009, Aurelien Jarno wrote: On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 10:22:55AM -0800, Don Armstrong wrote: On Wed, 18 Nov 2009, Aurelien Jarno wrote: week 7;19971130;4 / first_weekday 7 and week 7;19971201;4 / first_weekday 1 are both meaning that the week starts on sunday. That's

Bug#556863: bugs.debian.org: can't search with a usertag and a maintainer

2009-11-17 Thread Don Armstrong
reassign 556863 debbugs retitle 556863 bugs assigned to a source package not searched properly when searching by maintainer thanks The issue is that bugs assigned to the source package aren't being searched properly by maintainer. Don Armstrong -- When I was a kid I used to pray every night

Bug#556884: locale/C-time.c erroneously lists the first day of the week as Monday

2009-11-17 Thread Don Armstrong
Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 Don Armstrong -- Unix, MS-DOS, and Windows NT (also known as the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly). -- Matt Welsh http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu

Bug#556842: libhtml-calendarmonth-perl: FTBFS: tests failed

2009-11-17 Thread Don Armstrong
cal.] 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

Bug#556884: locale/C-time.c erroneously lists the first day of the week as Monday

2009-11-17 Thread Don Armstrong
. Don Armstrong -- People selling drug paraphernalia ... are as much a part of drug trafficking as silencers are a part of criminal homicide. -- John Brown, DEA Chief http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu diff -u eglibc-2.10.1/debian/changelog eglibc-2.10.1/debian/changelog

Bug#553108: RC and bug severities

2009-11-04 Thread Don Armstrong
, their decision must be respected, baring an override by the release team or the CTTE. Don Armstrong -- Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society. -- Mark Twain http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian

Bug#553661: bugs.debian.org: provide some way through the SOAP interface to determine if a package exists

2009-11-01 Thread Don Armstrong
a better way, of course please do that instead. That's basically how Debbugs does it. Don Armstrong -- I'm wrong to criticize the valor of your brave men. It's important to die for one's country when it means being the subject of a king who wears a ruffled collar or a pleated one. -- Cyrano de

Bug#553591: bugs.debian.org: Should allow to say this affects me too without cluttering the bug log

2009-11-01 Thread Don Armstrong
and has as small of a replication case as possible. b) need attention sooner. The best way to get attention sooner is to do the above. [You can also provide a patch.] Don Armstrong -- You have many years to live--do things you will be proud to remember when you are old. -- Shinka proverb

Bug#553280: defoma: read-in-maintainer-script postinst:20

2009-10-31 Thread Don Armstrong
should go away, I'm not going to bother to make a QA release where I just delete this codepath, but the next time someone makes an upload (if that actually happens) it should get deleted. Downgrading to important so people don't needlessly waste time looking at this bug. Don Armstrong -- CNN/Reuters

Bug#551006: backtrace for this bug

2009-10-29 Thread Don Armstrong
is NULL, and DoSetSize in libwx dereferences the null pointer. It's most likely a bug in hugin somewhere that results in m_parent being NULL. 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

Bug#553168: bugs.debian.org incredibly slow

2009-10-29 Thread Don Armstrong
in the list of bugs for xfce4-power-manager (though I'm not quiet sure whether it should since it has already been merged with Bug#552692). We're currently working out from under a rather large spam backlog. We're aware of the problem, and have been working to resolve it. Don Armstrong

Bug#551006: backtrace for this bug

2009-10-27 Thread Don Armstrong
severity 551006 important thanks This bug is caused by m_parent in wxWindowGTK::DoSetSize being null. See the backtrace; I can provide the coredump upon request. Don Armstrong -- He was wrong. Nature abhors dimensional abnormalities, and seals them neatly away so that they don't upset

Bug#552395: 'moreinfo' should be cleared when receiving mail from submitter

2009-10-25 Thread Don Armstrong
that their new information is what was required, and clearing the tag in the same step. Don Armstrong -- If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something. -- Steven Wright http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Bug#552395: 'moreinfo' should be cleared when receiving mail from submitter

2009-10-25 Thread Don Armstrong
On Sun, 25 Oct 2009, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Sun, 2009-10-25 at 16:07 -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: There's no way for the BTS to know if the information received from the submitter is actually the more info needed. [And sometimes, it's not even information that the submitter can submit

Bug#551813: nagios3-cgi fails to conflict/replaces nagios3-doc 3.0.6-5

2009-10-20 Thread Don Armstrong
(Broken pipe) D10: ensure_pathname_nonexisting `/var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci' D10: ensure_pathname_nonexisting running rm -rf D10: ensure_pathname_nonexisting `/var/lib/dpkg/reassemble.deb' Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/nagios3-cgi_3.2.0-1_amd64.deb Don

Bug#551386: Per-package link to upstreams bugtracker

2009-10-19 Thread Don Armstrong
to implement. Don Armstrong 0: the more complexity, the longer it'll take; the actual code change to debbugs is relatively trivial. 1: probably a good idea to also have a draft for inclusion in devel-reference 2: where this is depends on the method, but probably ftpmaster is the ideal place; dunno

Bug#351856: About the importance of this bug

2009-10-18 Thread Don Armstrong
accepted; you can see the work on this branch in http://bzr.donarmstrong.com/debbugs/. [Needless to say, I won't be responding to further mails about this, as it will only delay the implementation of this feature.] Don Armstrong -- Leukocyte... I am your father. -- R. Stevens http

Bug#551386: Per-package link to upstreams bugtracker

2009-10-17 Thread Don Armstrong
, an optional link to a wiki page on wiki.debian.org about package specific bug-reporting information could also be included. (In such a page, more links to upstream mailing lists or debugging resources could be provided.) Don Armstrong -- I learned really early the difference between knowing

Bug#549439: pkgreport.cgi - internal server errors when using include= parameter

2009-10-05 Thread Don Armstrong
haven't had a chance yet; cloned out as a sepearate bug. Don Armstrong -- We were at a chinese resturant. He was yelling at the waitress because there was a typo in his fortune cookie. -- hugh http://www.gapingvoid.com/Moveable_Type/archives/000321.html http://www.donarmstrong.com

Bug#549439: pkgreport.cgi - internal server errors when using include= parameter

2009-10-05 Thread Don Armstrong
and will be deployed shortly.] Don Armstrong -- We must realize that today's Establishment is the New George III. Whether it will continue to adhere to his tactics, we do not know. If it does, the redress, honored in tradition, is also revolution. -- William O. Douglas _Points of Rebellion_ http

Bug#190753: About dropping the ‘should’ recommendation to rename binary programs using a suffix to indicate their programming language.

2009-10-05 Thread Don Armstrong
historical userbase with legacy scripts; fixing these sorts of issues upstream at the earliest opportunity is the right way forward, and a should directive in policy is the right way to inform everyone of what the proper practice is. Don Armstrong 1: Obviously, tab completion works in interactive

Bug#549439: pkgreport.cgi - internal server errors when using include= parameter

2009-10-05 Thread Don Armstrong
when it is fully displayed. They are supposed to be; it's just a small bug that caused them not to be, which (as I've said), I'll be fixing sometime later. Don Armstrong -- If it jams, force it. If it breaks, it needed replacing anyway. -- Lowery's Law http://www.donarmstrong.com

Bug#190753: About dropping the ‘should’ recommendation to rename binary programs using a suffix to indicate their programming language.

2009-10-05 Thread Don Armstrong
are installed into the system PATH, then it's because people who install those packages are expected to be able to make use of them as a public API, and they should generally be treated as such. Don Armstrong 0: Or alternatively, they're written by people like me who don't think about other

Bug#190753: About dropping the ‘should’ recommendation to rename binary programs using a suffix to indicate their programming language.

2009-10-05 Thread Don Armstrong
On Tue, 06 Oct 2009, Charles Plessy wrote: Le Mon, Oct 05, 2009 at 06:33:53PM -0700, Don Armstrong a écrit : In the few cases where I've run into this problem, patches have been readily accepted upstream. Indeed, that is the way to go, and the core of my argument is that renaming before

Bug#549439: pkgreport.cgi - internal server errors when using include= parameter

2009-10-04 Thread Don Armstrong
or s390 or sarge-r0 or etch-rc1 or hppa or powerpc or amd64 or i386) See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?users=debian-b...@lists.debian.org Don Armstrong -- For those who understand, no explanation is necessary. For those who do not, none is possible. http://www.donarmstrong.com

Bug#549439: pkgreport.cgi - internal server errors when using include= parameter

2009-10-03 Thread Don Armstrong
well be abusing the 'include' parameter but surely this could be handled more gracefully. Right, it should probably produce a slightly more informative error message. Don Armstrong -- You could say to the Universe this is not /fair/. And the Universe would say: Oh it isn't? Sorry. -- Terry

Bug#548823: devref: please point to text file to get #debian-private password

2009-09-29 Thread Don Armstrong
suggest providing a patch which makes this change. Don Armstrong -- We were at a chinese resturant. He was yelling at the waitress because there was a typo in his fortune cookie. -- hugh http://www.gapingvoid.com/Moveable_Type/archives/000321.html http://www.donarmstrong.com http

Bug#548230: dropbear: configuration in /etc/package does not follow FHS

2009-09-29 Thread Don Armstrong
the process of coming to a decision. Don Armstrong -- A one-question geek test. If you get the joke, you're a geek: Seen on a California license plate on a VW Beetle: 'FEATURE'... -- Joshua D. Wachs - Natural Intelligence, Inc. http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu

Bug#548230: dropbear: configuration in /etc/package does not follow FHS

2009-09-24 Thread Don Armstrong
appearing under /etc, not executables: it must be static and cannot be an executable binary.[1] Don Armstrong 1: http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#ETCHOSTSPECIFICSYSTEMCONFIGURATION 2: $ sudo find /etc -type l|wc -l 1432 -- Physics is like sex. Sure, it may give some practical results

Bug#547979: Processed: Re: Bug#547979: www.debian.org: Typographical error

2009-09-23 Thread Don Armstrong
reassign 547979 www.debian.org close 547979 thanks Debbugs doesn't distribute the web pages in other languages, so we don't really have this error. Don Armstrong -- I now know how retro SCOs OSes are. Riotous, riotous stuff. How they had the ya-yas to declare Linux an infant OS in need

Bug#546656: Trivial patch for this CVE

2009-09-22 Thread Don Armstrong
Attached please find the trivial patch for this security fix. Don Armstrong -- Leukocyte... I am your father. -- R. Stevens http://www.dieselsweeties.com/archive.php?s=1546 http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu diff -u dovecot-1.0.15/dovecot-sieve/src/libsieve

Bug#546656: Trivial patch for this CVE

2009-09-22 Thread Don Armstrong
On Tue, 22 Sep 2009, Timo Sirainen wrote: On Sep 22, 2009, at 9:46 AM, Don Armstrong wrote: Attached please find the trivial patch for this security fix. snprintf, not sprintf: - sprintf(errbuf, flag '%s': not a valid relational operation, r); + sprintf(errbuf, sizeof(errbuf

Bug#546656: Trivial patch for this CVE

2009-09-22 Thread Don Armstrong
On Tue, 22 Sep 2009, Don Armstrong wrote: On Tue, 22 Sep 2009, Timo Sirainen wrote: On Sep 22, 2009, at 9:46 AM, Don Armstrong wrote: Attached please find the trivial patch for this security fix. snprintf, not sprintf: - sprintf(errbuf, flag '%s': not a valid relational

Bug#514635: #514635 defoma: Use Font::FreeType instead of Freetype.pm

2009-09-16 Thread Don Armstrong
On Wed, 16 Sep 2009, Thomas Dickey wrote: The fix is incomplete, since the package dependencies do not include libfont-freetype-perl The package Recommends: libfont-freetype-perl, which is sufficient. Don Armstrong -- Debian's not really about the users or the software at all. It's a large

Bug#514635: #514635 defoma: Use Font::FreeType instead of Freetype.pm

2009-09-16 Thread Don Armstrong
On Wed, 16 Sep 2009, Thomas Dickey wrote: On Wed, 16 Sep 2009, Don Armstrong wrote: On Wed, 16 Sep 2009, Thomas Dickey wrote: The fix is incomplete, since the package dependencies do not include libfont-freetype-perl The package Recommends: libfont-freetype-perl, which is sufficient

Bug#514635: #514635 defoma: Use Font::FreeType instead of Freetype.pm

2009-09-16 Thread Don Armstrong
. Don Armstrong 1: I certainly can't remember the last time I needed to use tic to compile a terminfo file, so it's not like its a significant portion of the functionality that ncurses-bin provides. -- Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense

Bug#546268: cereal should pass UIDs to chpst

2009-09-11 Thread Don Armstrong
this shortly. Don Armstrong -- Love is... a complex sequence of neurochemical reactions that makes people behave like idiots. It's similar to intoxication, but the hangover's even worse. -- J. Jacques _Questionable Content_ #1039 http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1039 http

Bug#546230: limit source failed for #546223

2009-09-11 Thread Don Armstrong
On Fri, 11 Sep 2009, Joey Hess wrote: Package: bugs.debian.org AFAICS, the source package for 546223 is ikiwiki, but limit source failed. Right; I totally screwed up the routine that figures out the source for a package last night. I think I've fixed it, and I'm testing it right now. Don

Bug#546230: limit source failed for #546223

2009-09-11 Thread Don Armstrong
limit source ikiwiki tags 546223 + pending thanks In theory at least, this should be working. Don Armstrong -- A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election. -- Bill Vaughan http://www.donarmstrong.com

Bug#546248: Bogus complains: `Failed to clear fixed versions and reopen.... limit failed...'

2009-09-11 Thread Don Armstrong
Bug reassigned from package 'mailx' to 'bsd-mailx'. at this point, 68934 is no longer in the mailx package, but since it's been reassigned, the fixed versions should be cleared, and the package should be reopened. Don Armstrong -- Cheop's Law: Nothing ever gets built on schedule or within budget

Bug#545895: debbugs: should drop '\r' characters from bug report subjects

2009-09-10 Thread Don Armstrong
; I'll try to go through and fix them all sometime in the near future. Don Armstrong -- Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it. -- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Bug#545996: #545996: please inform submitters they need to subs cribe

2009-09-10 Thread Don Armstrong
the process I outlined in http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2009/09/msg00458.html. Of course, considering that it's been on my todo list for quite some time, I probably should just implement the hack... Don Armstrong -- All my dreams came true. I just didn't think them through. -- a softer

Bug#545911: input/mutopia/claop.py is not free software; ditch it and fix

2009-09-09 Thread Don Armstrong
to go through the whole thing. This bug is a placeholder for me to fix it, for those following at home. Please ignore it.] Don Armstrong -- There is no more concentrated form of evil than apathy. http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Bug#545580: bugs.debian.org: source package/version number version format not consistently allowed

2009-09-08 Thread Don Armstrong
to be consistent across commands. All of the non-deprecated commands should accept the sourceversion/versionnumber syntax. Don Armstrong -- I'd never hurt another living thing. But if I did... It would be you. -- Chris Bishop http://www.chrisbishop.com/her/archives/her69.html http

Bug#543417: README.source patch system documentation requirements considered harmful

2009-09-08 Thread Don Armstrong
a generic set of packaging types that we could agree didn't need to be documented in README.source (perhaps in devref, with pointers to the actual documentation?), the README.source could be reserved for things which actually were unusual, and would obviate most of the concerns raised. Don Armstrong

Bug#545575: closed by Don Armstrong d...@debian.org (reply to ow...@bugs.debian.org) (Re: Bug#545575: bugs.debian.org: bug still considered resolved after 'notfixed')

2009-09-08 Thread Don Armstrong
, not codenotfixed/code. Don Armstrong -- Facts are the refuge of people unwilling to reassess what they hold to be True. 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

Bug#545471: [pkgreport.cgi] Support gpg/pgp signature checking

2009-09-07 Thread Don Armstrong
be a while before this happens, but it's certainly something to integrate as I continue working on making bugreport.cgi better. Don Armstrong -- Physics is like sex. Sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it. -- Richard Feynman http://www.donarmstrong.com

Bug#544192: Please add debian-live pseudo package

2009-08-29 Thread Don Armstrong
note that the pseudopackage should ideally have a name that won't possibly be used by a normal package; debian-live doesn't quite fit the bill, IMO. Don Armstrong -- I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be. -- Douglas Adams _The Long Dark Tea

Bug#542136: [bts] sends block X with Y instead of block X by Y

2009-08-27 Thread Don Armstrong
is that the bugs which show this behavior are merged. I've now got a test which fails, and after fixing the underlying bug, succeeds. I'll fix up the bug(s) in question to actually indicate that they also block the merged pair once I get around to deploying this. Don Armstrong -- I learned really early

Bug#540576: Toggle useless messages and similar links don't work unless Javascript is enabled

2009-08-27 Thread Don Armstrong
On Wed, 26 Aug 2009, Michael Gold wrote: On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 09:16:34 -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: The reasonable default is to not display the useless messages at all. If for some reason you actually want to see them, you can either enable javascript, munge the CSS yourself, or view

Bug#513305: Status of unscd, and nscd in Debian

2009-08-27 Thread Don Armstrong
On Thu, 27 Aug 2009, Marc Dequènes (Duck) wrote: I don't see any progress here. Don Armstrong, do you need help ? Is there a preliminary package we could help testing ? Sure, there's a preliminary package here: http://svn.donarmstrong.com/deb_pkgs/unscd/trunk/ the main reason I haven't yet

Bug#532070: bugs.d.o: provide a list of available tags

2009-08-26 Thread Don Armstrong
or $config{tags} variable in /etc/debbugs/config. Don Armstrong -- You could say to the Universe this is not /fair/. And the Universe would say: Oh it isn't? Sorry. -- Terry Pratchett _Soul Music_ p357 http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian

Bug#540576: Toggle useless messages and similar links don't work unless Javascript is enabled

2009-08-26 Thread Don Armstrong
you actually test this? Don Armstrong -- Them as can do has to do for them as can't. And someone has to speak up for them as have no voices. -- Grandma Aching in _The Wee Free Men_ by Terry Pratchett p227 http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Bug#543508: bugs.debian.org: control parses block X with Y as block X by 1, Y

2009-08-25 Thread Don Armstrong
a link to the ack message from this bug, I'll take a closer look. Don Armstrong -- You know, said Arthur, it's at times like this, when I'm trapped in a Vogon airlock with a man from Betelgeuse, and about to die from asphyxiation in deep space that I really wish I'd listened to what my mother

Bug#510415: Call for votes on Bug#510415: tech-ctte: Qmail inclusion (or not) in Debian

2009-08-23 Thread Don Armstrong
be properly addressed. [As a process issue, is there some better way[1] to let people know that someone is starting to get close to calling for votes? Should we Cc: CTTE members directly or ping on IRC?] Don Armstrong 1: I had just assumed that sending a mail to the bug was enough, but it's

Bug#535645: Wrongfull removal of ia32-libs-tools

2009-08-22 Thread Don Armstrong
to remove ia32-libs-tools. The CTTE suggests that ftpmaster make a clear statement regarding the reasoning behind this rejection. 2. Further Discussion Don Armstrong -- If it jams, force it. If it breaks, it needed replacing anyway. -- Lowery's Law http://www.donarmstrong.com http

Bug#510415: Call for votes on Bug#510415: tech-ctte: Qmail inclusion (or not) in Debian

2009-08-21 Thread Don Armstrong
| outlined in option #2 will take effect. | | 4. Qmail is not to be allowed into Debian. | | 5. Further discussion. Don Armstrong 1: With apologies if someone's made suggestions/objections while this is in transit. -- Quite the contrary; they *love* collateral damage. If they can make you

Bug#535645: Wrongfull removal of ia32-libs-tools

2009-08-21 Thread Don Armstrong
ftpmaster's decision to remove ia32-libs-tools. 2. Further Discussion or is there additional information which would convince the CTTE to override the ftpmasters which we feel wouldn't convince the ftpmasters to allow its inclusion? Don Armstrong 1: I've personally not heard anything

Bug#510415: Call for votes on Bug#510415: tech-ctte: Qmail inclusion (or not) in Debian

2009-08-21 Thread Don Armstrong
On Thu, 20 Aug 2009, Don Armstrong wrote: I'm calling for a vote on the following options[1]: | 1. Qmail is to be allowed into the archive without special | preconditions. Ftpmaster should perform standard NEW processing for | licensing, copyright, and general packaging issues as normal

Bug#542665: libthreads-perl: newer upstream release bundled with Perl 5.10.1

2009-08-20 Thread Don Armstrong
an upload to do this shortly. Thanks for the heads up. Don Armstrong -- Personally, I think my choice in the mostest-superlative-computer wars has to be the HP-48 series of calculators. They'll run almost anything. And if they can't, while I'll just plug a Linux box into the serial port

Bug#542452: debbugs: does not recognize # when handling summary keyword

2009-08-19 Thread Don Armstrong
paragraph to insert into the summary. See #540219 as an example I sumbled upon. :) I've already fixed that, at least in theory. The control block and quote detection is done by a rough heuristic, so it sometimes gets it wrong. If you have more recent examples of it going wrong, let me know. Don

Bug#542449: debbugs: cannot retitle with UTF-8 characters in new title

2009-08-19 Thread Don Armstrong
. Don Armstrong -- It's not Hollywood. War is real, war is primarily not about defeat or victory, it is about death. I've seen thousands and thousands of dead bodies. Do you think I want to have an academic debate on this subject? -- Robert Fisk http://www.donarmstrong.com http

Bug#542249: debbugs-local: unable to use due to bug or absent relevent documentation

2009-08-18 Thread Don Armstrong
in experimental.] (btw -- why cmdline tool is not debbugs-local to match the package name?) Because it's a local debbugs; the package name is debbugs-local because it's the local variant of the debbugs package. Don Armstrong -- An elephant: A mouse built to government specifications. -- Robert

Bug#542288: debian-policy: Version numbering: native packages, NMU's, and binary only uploads

2009-08-18 Thread Don Armstrong
long as the as-yet-to-be-proposed wording is clear on this, it should be a big deal.] That said, the rest looks reasonable, but it would probably be useful to make sure that we're actually representing current practice. Don Armstrong 1: I've personally made a at least one of these before I

Bug#542249: debbugs-local: unable to use due to bug or absent relevent documentation

2009-08-18 Thread Don Armstrong
On Tue, 18 Aug 2009, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote: On Tue, 18 Aug 2009, Don Armstrong wrote: So, it does need initial configuration? Just touch /etc/debbugs/config for starters; I've actually fixed this nope $ sudo touch /etc/debbugs/config $ ls -ld /etc/debbugs/config -rw--- 1 root

Bug#542249: debbugs-local: unable to use due to bug or absent relevent documentation

2009-08-18 Thread Don Armstrong
On Tue, 18 Aug 2009, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote: installing it helped! so I guess it should be among depends? Yerp; added. Don Armstrong -- I learned really early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something -- Richard Feynman What is Science Phys. Teach. 7(6

Bug#510415: tech-ctte: Qmail inclusion (or not) in Debian

2009-08-18 Thread Don Armstrong
of calling for votes then. Don Armstrong -- This isn't life in the fast lane, it's life in the oncoming traffic -- Terry Pratchett http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe

Bug#460036: Maintainance of defoma

2009-08-18 Thread Don Armstrong
to set the maintainer to packa...@qa.debian.org at the same time; if you still plain on maintaining it, please prepare an upload which fixes these bugs and coordinate with debian-ment...@lists.debian.org or similar to arrange a sponsor. Don Armstrong -- Junkies were all knitted together in a loose

Bug#514635: NMU diff for QA upload to unstable

2009-08-18 Thread Don Armstrong
I have just made a QA upload for this package fixing this bug; please see the attached diff; serious thanks to K.-M. Hansche debian...@hansche.de for doing most of the grunt work on this, though I modified his patch a bit. Don Armstrong -- [T]he question of whether Machines Can Think

Bug#538392: group staff: moving forward

2009-08-12 Thread Don Armstrong
existing installs. If you don't have any non-root users in the staff group, I can't see any reason to keep /usr/local 2775. If you do, you may have a problem; we should warn about it, and ask about transitioning at some priority. (It's fine if it's low priority.) Don Armstrong 1: Or at least, we

Bug#510415: tech-ctte: Qmail inclusion (or not) in Debian

2009-08-11 Thread Don Armstrong
On Fri, 07 Aug 2009, Don Armstrong wrote: On Sat, 25 Jul 2009, Andreas Barth wrote: So, I can see three different ways to continue. In any case a. and c. should be fixed if the package is allowed into Debian. 1. Allow qmail to go into Debian (including squeeze). 2. Allow qmail

Bug#538392: group staff: moving forward

2009-08-11 Thread Don Armstrong
; fi; for each of the subdirectories created, as appropriate. Don Armstrong -- This isn't life in the fast lane, it's life in the oncoming traffic -- Terry Pratchett http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ

Bug#540611: Bug#535888: [php-maint] Bug#540611: php5: exif buffer overread

2009-08-10 Thread Don Armstrong
the BTS works, or you're unsure as to the proper way to do something, feel free to ask on debian-debb...@lists.debian.org or on #debbugs or #debian-bugs on IRC, or you can track me down if necessary. [But the former three options almost invariably result in me responding anyway.] Don Armstrong

Bug#540925: www.debian.org: web interface for bug needs specific error if package

2009-08-10 Thread Don Armstrong
. Don Armstrong -- A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election. -- Bill Vaughan http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org

Bug#540934: bugs.debian.org: bugreport.cgi uses array ref as names of packages

2009-08-10 Thread Don Armstrong
the data for you. If you don't see it in any, then it's because you haven't actually reloaded the page or cleared your browser cache (or restarted your browser). Don Armstrong -- NASCAR is a Yankee conspiracy to keep you all placated so the South won't rise again. -- http

Bug#510415: tech-ctte: Qmail inclusion (or not) in Debian

2009-08-07 Thread Don Armstrong
testing. If there aren't any objections to #2, I think we should clean up the language, and put out a sample ballot and call for a vote. Don Armstrong -- Show me your flowcharts and conceal your tables, and I shall continue to be mystified. Show me your tables, and I won't usually need your

Bug#540384: bugs.debian.org: deprecate ##-close@ addr in favor of control@ to keep spam from closing bugs

2009-08-07 Thread Don Armstrong
a negative SA score I'm almost certainly going to disable the closed control interface in the not-to-far-distant future, so that's not a viable alternative. In the end, though, helping us make the SA rules better is generally a far better alternative. Don Armstrong -- If everything seems

Bug#540384: debbugs: disable -done for likely spam messages

2009-08-07 Thread Don Armstrong
On Fri, 07 Aug 2009, Mark Hedges wrote: On Fri, 7 Aug 2009, Don Armstrong wrote: I'm almost certainly going to disable the closed control interface in the not-to-far-distant future, so that's not a viable alternative. Is it too late to ask why? It's sort of like a captcha to have

Bug#540430: Bugs against source packages don't always send to the maintainer.

2009-08-07 Thread Don Armstrong
of the maintainer. Can you bounce this bug (or attach to a message to this bug) a few of those messages? [It'll help me track this down, because that shouldn't be happening.] Don Armstrong -- Everyone has to die. And in a hundred years nobody's going to inquire just how most people died

Bug#540384: debbugs: disable -done for likely spam messages

2009-08-07 Thread Don Armstrong
that affect my work which aren't fixed, an acceptable amount of spam in this case is zero spam, which filters won't provide. Which is why I said what I said in http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=540384#8. Don Armstrong -- For those who understand, no explanation is necessary

Bug#540384: debbugs: disable -done for likely spam messages

2009-08-07 Thread Don Armstrong
have this property, and only for some classes of them, so the average user won't notice (or care). Don Armstrong -- Q: What Can a Thoughtful Man Hope for Mankind on Earth, Given the Experience of the Past Million Years? A: Nothing. -- Bokonon _The Fourteenth Book of Bokonon_ (Vonnegut _Cats

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