Bug#1068601: Acknowledgement (selinux-policy-default: /var with nosuid and SELinux enabled breaks dpkg)

The following dpkg.te seems to have solved the problem for me. ``` module dpkg 1.0; require { type dpkg_script_t; type dpkg_t; class process2 nosuid_transition; } ``` On Sun, Apr 7, 2024, at 2:42 PM, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: > Thank you for filing a new Bug

Bug#1068601: selinux-policy-default: /var with nosuid and SELinux enabled breaks dpkg

and tinker with the policy. Thanks, Blake -- System Information: Debian Release: trixie/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 6.7.9-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAG

Bug#1058657: python3-apt: undefined symbol: PyAptWarning

This bug can be reproduced with just a single import statement ``` import apt_inst ```

Bug#1053777: Man pages causes troff to warn about use of `CB` font

this is fixed upstream in 3.1.7. I notice now that the Debian version is quite behind upstream. Is there any plans to update it to current? I found some similar bug reports such as https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1040975 Thanks, Blake -- System Information: Debian

Bug#1052125: nala cannot install the debreate package

I was able to reproduce this on my system. First this is the error that happens when installing. This is what crashes Nala because of the formatter. ``` Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/debreate", line 230, in main() File "/usr/bin/debreate", line 27, in main import

Bug#1028245: nala: missing dependency

Hi thanks for using Nala and reporting bugs. This has been fixed upstream actually. We're currently working through a bug that is causing Nala to get removed from the testing repos. Once we fix that and release then this will be fixed, On Sun, Jan 8, 2023, at 2:13 PM, dimit...@stinpriza.org

Bug#1022275: Acknowledgement (nala: missing option "download only")

how to change that. I wouldn't worry about it though, I'll handle it all the same. This one is pretty simple to fix. Thanks, Blake On Wed, Oct 26, 2022, at 5:30 PM, mh wrote: > Am Sun, 23 Oct 2022 12:27:04 + > schrieb "Debian Bug Tracking System" : > > Hi, I need t

Bug#1008816: ITP: kwin-bismuth -- KDE Plasma extension for tiling windows

block to try. I believe I got everything else the way it should be. Thanks, Blake On Tue, Sep 27, 2022, at 2:53 AM, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: > Hello Blak, > > Le dimanche, 25 septembre 2022, 04.45:58 h CEST Blake Lee a écrit : > > Apologies for it taking me

Bug#1008816: ITP: kwin-bismuth -- KDE Plasma extension for tiling windows

successfully. Thanks, Blake On Tue, Aug 2, 2022, at 8:56 AM, Patrick Franz wrote: > Hej, > > Am Dienstag, 2. August 2022, 13:34:24 CEST schrieb Didier 'OdyX' Raboud: > > Hello there, > [...] > > I can't remember what the Qt-KDE Extras practices is, so I che

Bug#1008816: ITP: kwin-bismuth -- KDE Plasma extension for tiling windows

Hello! I've moved over the repository into Salsa, updated it for the latest release `3.1.2`. I've built it on my Sid desktop with sbuild, lintian reports no errors, and it the software is working as expected. Let me know if you see anything you would change. Thanks, Blake On Mon, Jul 25

Bug#1008816: ITP: kwin-bismuth -- KDE Plasma extension for tiling windows

to a new upstream version. On Mon, Jul 25, 2022, at 11:46 AM, Didier Raboud wrote: > Le lundi, 25 juillet 2022, 17.35:43 h CEST Blake Lee a écrit : > > As for the repo should I just mirror my current work from GitLab over to > > Salsa? > > If that's working well for you, I'd

Bug#1008816: ITP: kwin-bismuth -- KDE Plasma extension for tiling windows

Hello, Thanks for the response. I'd say if John is interested in maintaining the package then it would definitely make sense to collaborate on it. As for the repo should I just mirror my current work from GitLab over to Salsa? Thanks, Blake On Mon, Jul 25, 2022, at 7:11 AM, Didier Raboud wrote

Bug#1010913: nala: Please provide a means to run "nala upgrade" without updating the package list

I think this sounds like a great idea. I'll be sure to get a configuration option for this in the next release. In the mean time `nala upgrade --no-update` should be able to get the functionality that you want. Thanks, Blake On Thu, May 12, 2022, at 9:03 PM, Axel Beckert wrote: > Pack

Bug#563118: du cannot sort its output without help from other programs

ool for what it is good at. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - enigmai

Bug#1008816: ITP: kwin-bismuth -- KDE Plasma extension for tiling windows

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Blake Lee X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-de...@lists.debian.org * Package name: kwin-bismuth Version : 3.0.0 Upstream Author : Mikhail Zolotukhin * URL : https://github.com/Bismuth-Forge/bismuth * License : Expat, GPL-3+, CC

Bug#1008644: ITP: nala -- commandline frontend for the apt package manager

On 2022-03-30 04:37, Stephan Lachnit wrote: Hi, I think this is a wonderful looking tool, and I would be willing to sponsor this. Can you upload it to mentors.debian.net [1]? Regards, Stephan Stephan, Thanks for the kind words for Nala and volunteering to sponsor it. I've uploaded it to

Bug#1008644: ITP: nala -- commandline frontend for the apt package manager

ce I learn the ropes. Thanks, Blake

Bug#1008644: ITP: nala -- commandline frontend for the apt package manager

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Blake Lee X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-de...@lists.debian.org * Package name: nala Version : 0.7.1 Upstream Author : Blake Lee * URL : https://gitlab.com/volian/nala * License : GPLv3+ Programming Lang: Python Description

Bug#1006257: Sigwinch window resizes

I'm not sure if it's totally the correct fix or not, but setting the option below seems to resolve the issue. apt_pkg.config.set('Dpkg::Use-Pty', "0") Thanks, Blake

Bug#1006257: python3-apt: Sigwinch window resizes have no effect on debconf prompts

Package: python3-apt Version: 2.3.0+b1 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, After running cache.commit() sigwinch signals don't seem to be respected. If I resize the terminal after calling comit, and hit a debconf prompt it will be formatted weird. additionally if you can get a prompt that

Bug#995212: ungoogled-chromium? [was: Re: Bug#995212: chromium: Update to version 94.0.4606.61 (security-fixes)]

On Wed, 15 Dec 2021 21:08:28 +0100 Stephen Kitt wrote: > Hi Jeff, > > On Tue, 14 Dec 2021 09:13:42 +0000, Jeff Blake wrote: > [...] > > Inspector and convertutf are the worst offenders in terms of being > > unnecessary and complex. The disable/catapult.patch could al

Bug#995212: ungoogled-chromium? [was: Re: Bug#995212: chromium: Update to version 94.0.4606.61 (security-fixes)]

On Tue, 7 Dec 2021 19:43:10 +0100 Tomas Pospisek wrote: > On 06.12.21 20:43, Noah Meyerhans wrote: > > On Sun, Dec 05, 2021 at 07:58:17PM +0300, Dmitry Alexandrov wrote: > So what's happening with chromium in both sid and stable? I saw on > d-release that it was removed from testing

Bug#999441: selinux-policy-default: SELinux prevents dbus and firewalld from running properly

of it. Also if anyone from the SELinux team is willing to chat I have a few questions concerning the patches Debian uses. Thanks, Blake

Bug#999441: selinux-policy-default: SELinux prevents dbus and firewalld from running properly

Package: selinux-policy-default Version: 2:2.20210203-10 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, On a fresh install of Debian sid I installed firewalld and selinux. I rebooted to allow the system to do the autorelabling. Once done and the system came back up I got an error about dbus and firewalld

Bug#973848: chromium: Unsupported version, many security bugs unfixed

to omit it for the sake of simplicity and reduced maintenance burden. Regards, Jeff Blake

Bug#973848: chromium: Unsupported version, many security bugs unfixed

On Sat, 12 Dec 2020 19:47:32 +0100 Michel Le Bihan wrote: > Hello, > > Thank you for your reply. libvpx got updated in Debian, but I can't use > it because it's missing a lib. I also had issues with harfbuzz, so I'm > using bundled versions of those libs as you are. I also used your ozone >

Bug#972134: RE: chromium: please, consider moving the package to

ian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=973848 Jeff Blake

Bug#973848: chromium: Unsupported version, many security bugs unfixed

a new release is made) you could use Chromium's bundled version of libvpx [2]. Feel free to have a look around my repo, as you might well encounter some of the same problems that I had in getting things to build. Jeff Blake [1] https://github.com/berkley4/ungoogled-chromium-debian/commits/8

Bug#899317: mercurial-git: Breaks with python-dulwich 19.1

For reference, the recently-released version 0.8.12 of hg-git seems to fix this. Upstream release: https://bitbucket.org/durin42/hg-git/commits/tag/0.8.12 Upstream mailing-list discussion: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/hg-git/LLyCmSzf9Fw Thanks, Blake

Bug#888227: dash: Dash update remove /bin/sh symlink

Package: dash Version: 0.5.8-2.6 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, I was doing an apt dist-upgrade on sid today when apt stopped and there was no way to bring it back. Dpkg wouldn't work and neither would apt. I recreated the symlink and after a few tries was able to get the update to

Bug#862358: Kernel linux-image-3.16.0-4-amd64 missing Xen guest large grant table refs cast overflow bug fix

Package: linux-image-3.16.0-4-amd64 Version: 3.16.43-2 Jessie kernels, e.g. linux-image-3.16.0-4-amd64, (also applicable to Wheezy) when used on Xen guests that require a large number of grant table references (many vCPUs and/or vNICs in multi-queue xennet) leads to a boot-time kernel BUG

Bug#158969: [PATCH] doc: emphasize that config.h must be first

* doc/autoconf.texi (C and Posix Variants, System Services): Remind user to include config.h first. (Configuration Headers): Give another reason why config.h must be first, and mention that only .c files need it. Based on discussion on bugs.debian.org/158969 Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <

Bug#158969: autoconf: AC_SYS_LARGEFILE documentation misleading

On 01/25/2017 11:30 AM, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > On Wed, 25 Jan 2017, Eric Blake wrote: > >> Please propose a patch to the documentation, rather than just telling me >> that it is wrong, so that we have a concrete proposal for a wording >> improvement that we can discus

Bug#852617: autoconf: AC_SYS_LARGEFILE should output to CPPFLAGS

is a bug in the real-world package that should be fixed there. Autoconf clearly documents that if you create config.h, it MUST be included first, before any system headers. -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com+1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Bug#158969: autoconf: AC_SYS_LARGEFILE documentation misleading

a concrete proposal for a wording improvement that we can discuss. -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com+1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Bug#482999: The behavior of `jobs -p` is definitely, without a doubt, a bug

here only the single command is being executed, then it can behave as if that single command were in the context of the parent instead of being a true subshell, precisely for the purpose of giving output that would otherwise be lost. -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com+1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Bug#815838: linux-image-3.16.0-4-amd64: Boot randomly fails with "Initramfs unpacking failed"

I should also mention that this problem seems to be occurring for the 16 GB SanDisk USB disks, as well (part SDCZ33-016G-B35)... just appears to be slightly more rare. -- Blake Miner miner.bl...@gmail.com

Bug#815838: linux-image-3.16.0-4-amd64: Boot randomly fails with "Initramfs unpacking failed"

parameter to trigger an automatic reboot when this problem occurs. -- Blake Miner miner.bl...@gmail.com

Bug#815838: linux-image-3.16.0-4-amd64: Boot randomly fails with "Initramfs unpacking failed"

By the way, I will re-test with the current kernel version (probably next week) and report back the results. In the meantime, any thoughts on what might be causing this issue? On Mon, Mar 7, 2016 at 11:21 PM Blake Miner <compwiz...@gmail.com> wrote: > I no longer think that this bug

Bug#815838: linux-image-3.16.0-4-amd64: Boot randomly fails with "Initramfs unpacking failed"

not occur for the other 16 GB USB flash drive on the same hardware. -- Blake Miner miner.bl...@gmail.com

Bug#815838: linux-image-3.16.0-4-amd64: Boot randomly fails with "Initramfs unpacking failed", probably due to kaslr bug upstream

Package: src:linux Version: 3.16.7-ckt11-1+deb8u6 Severity: critical Justification: breaks the whole system Dear Maintainer, The operating system will boot up fine in most cases, but randomly, the kernel will panic on boot-up and display "Initramfs unpacking failed: uncompression error" I am

Bug#805512: usb-modeswitch-data: Huawei 12d1:1446 does not switch due to bad udev rule

just fine. Thanks. On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 1:37 PM Blake Miner <miner.bl...@gmail.com> wrote: > ​Josh, > > Thanks for your response. > > Here's the thing... the udev rule is triggering, and systemd is running > the /lib/udev/usb_modeswitch progra

Bug#805512: usb-modeswitch-data: Huawei 12d1:1446 does not switch due to bad udev rule

Honestly, I did try the whole usbmodeswitch logging thing to no avail - no logfile is generated in /var/log/. Can you give me some pointers on how to enable logging in Debian? If it's any consolation, I'm using a read-only root partition with a writable /var tmpfs.

Bug#805512: usb-modeswitch-data: Huawei 12d1:1446 does not switch due to bad udev rule

​Josh, Thanks for your response. Here's the thing... the udev rule is triggering, and systemd is running the /lib/udev/usb_modeswitch program, which ends up running usb_modeswitch_dispatcher. All is good there, but the problem (I think) is as follows: The working udev rule: * Triggered when

Bug#805512: usb-modeswitch-data: Huawei 12d1:1446 does not switch due to bad udev rule

Package: usb-modeswitch-data Version: 20150115-1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, This bug is very similar to archived bug # 751271. After upgrading from Debian 7 to Debian 8, my Huawei modem will no longer switch from "usb storage" to "modem mode" when the device is plugged in. I am

Bug#757142: closing 757142

Any chance a patch will land in Debian 8 jessie? Or, can the version in Debian stable be updated to 0.9.2? Thanks. On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 5:57 PM Laurent Bigonville wrote: > close 757142 0.9.2-2 > thanks > > Hi, > > Closing this bug per previous comment. > > Feel free to

Bug#757142: plymouthd crashes when trying to use framebuffer renderer

I also experienced this bug on Debian 8 (jessie) using plymouth/0.9.0-9. I simply downloaded and installed the packages from Debian testing (plymouth/0.9.2-2) and used dpkg to install. Then, the problem disappeared. Hope that helps.

Bug#796892: ftp.debian.org: Broken Sources.bz2 file for at least 3 repositories

This is causing me sadness as well.

Bug#764227: Boot hangs while starting bluetooth

Package: systemd Version: 215-5 Severity: serious -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#764231: systemd: boot hangs when starting bluetooth

at around 5pm on a Lenovo Thinkpad X230. Thank you, Blake PS: Please disregard my last accidental bug report. (#764227) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#762092: sha...sum man pages refer to nonexistent 'sha...sum invocation' info pages

into the right section, without having to do this munging of the man pages? -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com+1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Bug#762092: sha...sum man pages refer to nonexistent 'sha...sum invocation' info pages

On 09/18/2014 08:29 AM, Eric Blake wrote: On 09/18/2014 08:13 AM, Pádraig Brady wrote: On 09/18/2014 12:54 PM, Rebecca Palmer wrote: Package: coreutils Version: 8.23-2 Severity: minor Control: tags -1 patch The man page of sha512sum states that more documentation can be found at info

Bug#758105: bug#18266: grep -P and invalid exits with error

){ Space before { +line_utf8_clean[sub[0]+invalid_pos] = '\0'; Spaces around + -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com+1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Bug#725288: miniupnpc does not pick the correct router

Package: miniupnpc Version: 1.6-2 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, My network is setup as follows: my laptop - (wireless) - wireless ap - (ethernet) - router Both the wireless AP and the router are advertising themselves as uPnP devices correctly. In particular, the router has:

Bug#724550: clang-3.3: crash when parsing (invalid) c++ source

Package: clang-3.3 Version: 1:3.3-9 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, I was writing a class where I wanted to do something similar to this: class Foo { class Bar { Foo::Qux get_qux(); }; class Qux {

Bug#688804: m4 can accidentally link to libsigsegv

version of m4 SHOULD be linking against libsigsegv. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Bug#688804: m4 can accidentally link to libsigsegv

). -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Bug#672288: libghc-gtk-dev: Constructors of CellRendererMode not exported

Package: libghc-gtk-dev Version: 0.12.3-1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, The constructors of the Graphics.UI.Gtk.ModelView.CellRenderer.CellRendererMode type are not exported, which makes the cellMode attribute rather hard to use. It suffices to add them to the export list in

Bug#672289: libghc-gtk-dev: IconView has an overlapping instance of CellLayoutClass

Package: libghc-gtk-dev Version: 0.12.3-1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, The type Graphics.UI.Gtk.ModelView.IconView.IconView has two overlapping instances of CellLayoutClass; this prevents use of such instances. It suffices to remove the instance declaration from the

Bug#582083: patch for grep --color to non-tty output

another year or two go ahead with the change. But I'm not happy with forcing a change in bikeshed behavior with no warning. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Bug#659839: Sorry, user error

Virtual's. I assume I initialized with aideinit and not aide.wrapper -i. I do seem to have an issue with the desktop running with the 99_aide_root script enabled. Thanks for all your time and hard work supporting Debain. Blake

Bug#659839: aide-common: aide Never finds errors in the file system.

Package: aide-common Version: 0.15.1-5 Severity: normal Tags: security I have installed aide-common on my desktop and Virtual Box servers running debian stable. I had it installed on an older system, but when it was replaced with this new one, it appears to work a bit to well. It never indicates

Bug#658817: gnome-panel crashes with SIGFPE when in a vertical orientation

Package: gnome-panel Version: 3.2.1-2+b1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, I'd like to configure gnome-panel to run a single panel on the right side of my display. When I setup such a configuration in dconf, gnome-panel exits immediately with this error: (gnome-panel:13676):

Bug#644765: ssh-askpass-fullscreen: Please allow user to cancel passphrase entry

Package: ssh-askpass-fullscreen Version: 0.3-3 Severity: wishlist Please allow the user to cancel entry of a passphrase (by, for example, hitting the escape key or control-C) and cause ssh-askpass-fullscreen to exit with an error code. This would enable ssh-askpass-fullscreen to be usable with

Bug#638388: bug#9326: Bug#638388: update bug addresses to point to bug-coreutils instead

; and a 'git grep' of 'fileutils' within the findutils package shows that findutils does not have any stale references to the old coreutils mailing aliases. Likewise for a grep of the coreutils sources - the only references to the old addresses are in historical notes. -- Eric Blake ebl

Bug#630902: m4: FTBFS: FAIL: test-readlink

/commit/?id=dc446909 -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#551093: [PATCH] doc: describe the file permissions set by mktemp

to make it shorter, but couldn't come up with a good formulation. How about a one-liner: Files are created u+rw, and directories u+rwx, minus umask restrictions. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org signature.asc Description

Bug#627856: [1003.1(2008)/Issue 7 0000459]: clarification on the value of n for the shift built-in command

, and not a case of a bug in dash. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Bug#630902: m4: FTBFS: FAIL: test-readlink

compliance, or to determine that test-readlink was over-strict and can be relaxed to allow the new behavior. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Bug#563319: aptitude-gtk segmentation fault while upgrading

Gtk-- version 2.20.3 Current library versions: NCurses version: ncurses 5.7.20100626 cwidget version: 0.5.16 Apt version: 4.10.1 -- Blake Rainwater $ sudo aptitude (aptitude:9331): libglade-WARNING **: could not look up stock id '_Install/Remove Packages' (aptitude:9331): libglade-WARNING

Bug#615921: sgt-puzzles: Please package game group from upstream

Package: sgt-puzzles Version: 8933-1 Severity: wishlist Upstream has an experimental game group which is quite fun and challenging. Please consider packaging it for Debian in the next sgt-puzzles release. Thanks, Jules -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers unstable

Bug#480101: #480101 - pmw RFP

free to claim ownership of pmw packaging. I don't have my notes for it anymore, as I only had a personal need for that package for about a week, but I don't recall it being particularly irritating to package and I expect you'll have no trouble with it. Regards, Best wishes, -- -Julian Blake

Bug#610571: /etc/init.d/no-ip is missing LSB tags and overrides

Package: no-ip Version: 2.1.1-4+etch1 Severity: normal LSB headers are missing in the no-ip init.d configuration script and causes a warning when sysv-rc is being configured. To be able to check boot script order, and also to be able to start boot scripts in parallel, it is important to know

Bug#610571: no-ip: init.d script has been patched. Please review.

} exit 1 esac exit 0 -- no debconf information *** /home/blake/no-ip.patch --- no-ip.orig 2004-07-22 08:38:54.0 -0400 +++ no-ip 2011-01-19 22:26:14.0 -0500 @@ -5,6 +5,15 @@ # Modified for Debian GNU/Linux by Eivind L. Rygge eiv...@rygge.org # Modified too by Otavio Salvador

Bug#321036: diff -L undocumented in --help and man page

as other recursive programs, such as chown, where -L affects how symlinks are treated during recursion. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Bug#603895: bug#7433: ls: [manual] description for --directory is insufficient

Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Bug#381091: Word splitting in 'export' arguments (Re: bash: expands $@ within double-quotes inconsistently)

of the standard, and to require the ksh/bash behavior of suppressing word splitting after shell builtins that take arguments which can modify the current set of shell/environment variables? -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org signature.asc

Bug#381091: Word splitting in 'export' arguments (Re: bash: expands $@ within double-quotes inconsistently)

On 11/08/2010 03:09 PM, Jonathan Nieder wrote: Eric Blake wrote: Would you like me to take a stab at writing the bug report(s) to add support for 'local' in the next revision of the standard, and to require the ksh/bash behavior of suppressing word splitting after shell builtins that take

Bug#598768: m4: FTBFS on alpha: 1 of 93 tests failed

On 10/31/2010 04:42 PM, Santiago Vila wrote: Yes, I knew about this. I asked for help here: http://lists.debian.org/debian-alpha/2010/03/msg00015.html but had no luck. Eric Blake wrote: This is due to a known bug in the Alpha implementation of memchr: http://sourceware.org

Bug#593838: [PATCH] AS_LITERAL_IF: Treat raw = as literal again.

* lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_LITERAL_IF): Treat = like +. * tests/m4sh.at (AS@t...@_tr_sh and AS@t...@_tr_cpp) (AS@t...@_literal_if): Expand tests. * NEWS: Document the fix. Reported via Ben Pfaff; originally http://bugs.debian.org/593838 Signed-off-by: Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com --- It turns

Bug#529516: Network-admin forgets the Location on reboot

Having similar problems. I have one physical interface on my debian box (running fully-updated system), plus loopback. On reboot, the computer can operate as a file server to remote machines, but any access to internet services (email, web) from the debian box fails. When you run

Bug#598768: m4: FTBFS on alpha: 1 of 93 tests failed

in glibc and uses a replacement memchr() and strstr(). -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Bug#598445: electric: New upstream version available

Package: electric Version: 8.10-1 Severity: wishlist Upstream provides electric 8.11; please provide same in Debian if it's no trouble. Thanks, -Jules -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (101,

Bug#593838: Bug #593838: AX_CFLAGS_GCC_OPTION misuses AS_VAR_PUSHDEF variable

that one is not supposed to use the M4-NAME literally, and thus I believe that this is a bug in AX_CFLAGS_GCC_OPTION. So, I am reassigning this bug to autoconf-archive (with this email). That is the correct course of action. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization

Bug#593838: autoconf: macro AX_CFLAGS_GCC_OPTION does not work with equation argument (as '-std=c99')

the implementation of this macro. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#580492: bug#6124: basename/dirname are not POSIX compliant on arg starting with a dash

as taking no options, and the application needed to give it a pathname with a leading hyphen, it could safely do it as: foo -- -myfile and avoid any problems with -m used as an extension. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http

Bug#580492: bug#6124: basename/dirname are not POSIX compliant on arg starting with a dash

On 05/06/2010 07:41 AM, Eric Blake wrote: According to POSIX[*], basename and dirname take no options (examples in POSIX also assume that), so that this would make BusyBox's behavior correct. No, you're missing one other key point of POSIX: http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799

Bug#580492: bug#6124: basename/dirname are not POSIX compliant on arg starting with a dash

or busybox. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Bug#580492: bug#6124: basename/dirname are not POSIX compliant on arg starting with a dash

. But that is the fault of those broken scripts, not coreutils. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Bug#580492: bug#6124: basename/dirname are not POSIX compliant on arg starting with a dash

test is to determine whether basename(1) supports leading --, as required by POSIX. Or, more likely, perhaps they are independently obeying what POSIX says, without reference to either coreutils or busybox. So, I think I should reassign the bug to busybox? Yes. -- Eric Blake ebl

Bug#503840: ash: . not recognising -- as the end-of-options

The Austin Group (the folks who write POSIX) are considering changing POSIX to require that . support --: http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=252 -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP

Bug#509202: Broken kernel

this helps you. Blake On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 4:31 PM, Moritz Muehlenhoff j...@inutil.org wrote: tags 509202 moreinfo thanks On Wed, Jan 07, 2009 at 03:44:31PM +0100, Adrian Knoth wrote: Hi! I've installed the machine with debootstrap and the help of the Gentoo 2008.0 live CD. When trying

Bug#563726: [Bug 552320] Handling AT_FDCWD as EBADF in glibc's utimens() causes tar failures

timespec[2]) } # endif /* HAVE_UTIMENSAT */ # if HAVE_FUTIMENS - { -result = futimens (fd, ts); + if (0 = fd) + { Why the TAB? We just got rid of those in gnulib. -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake e...@byu.net

Bug#563118: du cannot sort its output without help from other programs

for what it is good at. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake e...@byu.net -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org

Bug#560105: autoconf: AC_TYPE_INT32_T generates broken test?

it might be worthwhile. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake e...@byu.net -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http

Bug#557632: broken test for mmap

to THANKS? Yes, this looks reasonable. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake e...@byu.net -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http

Bug#554952: [libwine-openal-unstable] package is empty on amd64

Package: libwine-openal-unstable Version: 1.1.31-1 Severity: normal --- Please enter the report below this line. --- I took a look at PTS the buildd logs. It seems it failed to build because libhal/libdbus, libgsm openAL mpg123 are not available in 32 bit flavor on amd64 -snip- configure:

Bug#539481: coreutils: [df] Please use DOT instead of COMMA in -h (human readable) size listing

a different locale. http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/faq/coreutils-faq.html#Sort-does-not-sort-in-normal-order_0021 Try: $ LC_ALL=C df -hl | grep usb to see the difference. -- Eric Blake -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe

Bug#530014: bacula-fd: /etc/init.d/bacula-fd doesn't use /etc/default/bacula-fd to enable/disable

John Goerzen wrote: Christopher Phillips (Blake) wrote: I sent in the same patches for bacula-sd and bacula-director. Since, those are daemons that should not be running on all hosts, they make more sense to enable/disable, especially if you're using a generated image across many hosts

Bug#530014: bacula-fd: /etc/init.d/bacula-fd doesn't use /etc/default/bacula-fd to enable/disable

Package: bacula-fd Severity: Normal Version: 2.4.4-1 Tags: patch I believe that bacula-fd should be enabled or disabled using the /etc/default/bacula-fd file. I'm submitting a patch to /etc/init.d/bacula-fd to include this. --- bacula-fd2009-05-22 13:31:25.0 -0700 +++

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