Bug#701170: singular: consider reducing package size by 1/3 by hard linking identical files

2013-02-22 Thread Helmut Grohne
Package: singular Version: 3-0-4-3.dfsg-3.1+b1 Severity: wishlist Please consider turning /usr/lib/singular/Singular and /usr/lib/singular/Singular-3-0-4 into hard links. Those files are already identical[1] and in the same directory. This would reduce the size of the binary package by 1/3.

Bug#701177: lintian: discovere more instances of extra-license-file

2013-02-22 Thread Helmut Grohne
Package: lintian Version: 2.5.10.3 Severity: wishlist The current extra-license-file check only looks for files named like m/(?:copying|licen[cs]e)(?:\.[^/]+)?/. Unfortunately this pattern misses a number of copies. I investigated the situation for sid and came up with the following list of

Bug#701081: debian-policy: mandate an encoding for filenames in binary packages

2013-02-22 Thread Helmut Grohne
Thanks for your comments. On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 01:31:32PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: - There are here and there discussions raising possible corner cases where distributing files with a name not representable in UTF-8 might be justified, for instance in test suites. Even though

Bug#630982: Automatic build-time dependency generation for jquery.js

2013-02-23 Thread Helmut Grohne
...@debian.org # Copyright © 2013 Helmut Grohne hel...@subdivi.de # # Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without # modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are # met: # # * Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright # notice, this list

Bug#701161: freefem++: /usr/bin/FreeFem++ and /usr/bin/FreeFem++nw are the same files

2013-02-23 Thread Helmut Grohne
Control: reopen -1 Hi Dimitris, On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 04:16:04PM +0200, Dimitrios Eftaxiopoulos wrote: I think that the two executables work differently on FreeFem++ source code (.edp files). FreeFem++ opens windows of plots while FreeFem++-nw doesn't and is targeted for batch jobs.

Bug#701161: freefem++: /usr/bin/FreeFem++ and /usr/bin/FreeFem++nw are the same files

2013-02-23 Thread Helmut Grohne
On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 10:20:04PM +0200, Dimitrios Eftaxiopoulos wrote: [1] Have a look at /bin/bzip2 and /bin/bunzip2. They are hardlinks but perform different jobs. I may be wrong but bzip2 and bunzip2 seem to be distinct executables. They add up to 60,9kB while each one is

Bug#701526: ampache-common: embeded copy of php-getid3

2013-02-23 Thread Helmut Grohne
Package: ampache-common Version: 3.6-git408e713+dfsg-3.1 Severity: normal ampache-common appears to ship an embedded copy of php-getid3[1]. The policy section 4.13 discourages such copies and they put additional work on the security team in case there is an update of php-getid3. Also the space

Bug#625956: jquery embedding in doxygen

2013-02-26 Thread Helmut Grohne
Dear javascript maintainers, I am writing to you, because I seek help with doxygen. For wheezy I believe that Mònica Ramírez Arceda's patch is the way to go, so this mail entirely applies to jessie. ** First embedding of jquery: src:doxygen The current situation is that doxygen upstream

Bug#701845: pass: support gnupg1

2013-02-27 Thread Helmut Grohne
Package: pass Version: 1.4.2-1 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch I would like to see pass support gnupg1. Some reasons that come to my mind: * I already have gnupg installed, why do I need gnupg2 as well? * gnupg2 invokes pinentry which shows then length of the pgp key passphrase as asterisks.

Bug#701845: pass: support gnupg1

2013-02-27 Thread Helmut Grohne
On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 10:19:47PM +0100, Helmut Grohne wrote: Tags: patch I just noticed that this one was missing. Sorry for the noise. Helmut diff -Nru password-store-1.4.2/debian/changelog password-store-1.4.2/debian/changelog --- password-store-1.4.2/debian/changelog 2012-11-30 13

Bug#701832: doxygen consistently segfaults on kfreebsd-i386 when building opendnssec documentation

2013-02-28 Thread Helmut Grohne
On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 07:24:59PM +0100, Ond??ej Surý wrote: the doxygen segfaults on kfreebsd-i386 when building opendnssec package and it blocks it's transition from unstable to testing. How do you know that it segfaults? I looked at your build logs, but those looked more like hanging. They

Bug#477751: tackling this bug

2012-05-09 Thread Helmut Grohne
On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 05:52:35PM +0200, Helmut Grohne wrote: On the debhelper side it should be enough to remove all remaining calls to update-catalog and introduce a dependency on the changed sgml-base. I did not test this thus far. I worked out the remaining bits and tested them

Bug#694311: pbuilder: fails to --create with EXTRAPACKAGES=ccache

2012-11-25 Thread Helmut Grohne
Package: pbuilder Version: 0.213 Severity: normal I tried using the documented[1] approach to pbuilder. Unfortunately it fails. Here is the tail of the create log: | I: Obtaining the cached apt archive contents | Reading package lists... | Building dependency tree... | Reading state

Bug#694314: eatmydata: support Multi-Arch

2012-11-25 Thread Helmut Grohne
/libeatmydata. ++ Use relative path for LD_PRELOAD and remove now disfunctional + verification step. ++ Call ldconfig upon installation and removal of libeatmydata. + + -- Helmut Grohne hel...@subdivi.de Sun, 25 Nov 2012 12:22:58 +0100 + libeatmydata (26-2) unstable; urgency=low * Switch

Bug#694311: pbuilder: fails to --create with EXTRAPACKAGES=ccache

2012-11-28 Thread Helmut Grohne
On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 02:25:33PM +, Thorsten Glaser wrote: I really recommend to not use ccache, but if you must, the normal way is to set CCACHEDIR in /etc/pbuilderrc, which will lead to it being installed as extra package on --update automatically. Can you explain why you discourage

Bug#479308: RFS: sipvicious/0.2.7-1 [ITP] Tools to audit SIP based VoIP systems

2012-11-29 Thread Helmut Grohne
For support@m.d.n: I believe the below package to be undistributable due to lacking and wrong license declarations. On Fri, Nov 02, 2012 at 12:56:21PM +0100, Victor Seva wrote: sipvicious - set of tools that can be used to audit SIP based VoIP systems. Can you briefly explain the relation

Bug#683847: unblock: sgml-base/1.26+nmu4

2012-11-29 Thread Helmut Grohne
Thanks for pinging the issue. On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 09:20:38PM -0500, Samuel Bronson wrote: Anyway, *someone* should probably do *something* here... Just what? As far as I can see the most fundamental question has not received a final answer: Will wheezy ship sgml catalogs as configuration

Bug#677786: patch

2012-11-29 Thread Helmut Grohne
) unstable; urgency=low + + * Non-maintainer upload. + * Add Multi-Arch headers. (Closes: #677786) +The support was basically there. libwmf0.2-7 already ships libraries in +/usr/lib/triplet. No changes besides adding headers were necessary. + + -- Helmut Grohne hel...@subdivi.de Thu, 29 Nov

Bug#694734: adjusting severity

2012-11-29 Thread Helmut Grohne
Control: severity -1 important Javier Domingo wrote: nouveau driver is not recognising GTX560 The definition of critical includes affecting all users. This is not the case. A little more information such as pciids would be welcome as well. Helmut -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#694737: RFS: libwmf/0.2.8.4-10.2 [NMU] [indirect RC] [MultiArch]

2012-11-29 Thread Helmut Grohne
Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: important Please fix #677786 using the patch to the bug log in message #12. I suggest delayed/7 to give the maintainer some more time to react. That bug blocks RC bug #677762. Helmut -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org

Bug#695204: RFP: geierlein -- Elster client to submit VAT declarations to Germany's fiscal authorities

2012-12-05 Thread Helmut Grohne
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: geierlein Version : 0.4.0 Upstream Author : Stefan Siegl ste...@brokenpipe.de * URL : http://stesie.github.com/geierlein/ * License : AGPL-3 Programming Lang: Mozilla XUL, Javascript, HTML5 Description :

Bug#695228: munin: please support libapache2-mod-fcgid out of the box

2012-12-05 Thread Helmut Grohne
Package: munin Version: 2.0.6-1 Severity: wishlist The shipped /etc/munin/apache.conf helpfully ships: |IfModule mod_fastcgi.c |SetHandler fastcgi-script |/IfModule This says that if the fastcgi module is loaded, run munin's cgi scripts as fastcgi. However there

Bug#695268: liblockfile1: harmful remove action in M-A:same package

2012-12-06 Thread Helmut Grohne
Package: liblockfile1 Version: 1.09-4 Severity: serious Steps taken: Install liblockfile1:amd64. Observe that it ships /usr/share/doc/liblockfile1. Install liblockfile1:i386. Observe that /usr/share/doc/liblockfile1 is still correctly there. Remove liblockfile1:i386, but not liblockfile1:amd64.

Bug#695271: libpaper1: harmful purge action in M-A:same package

2012-12-06 Thread Helmut Grohne
Package: libpaper1 Version: 1.1.24+nmu2 Severity: important The postrm purge removes /etc/papersize. In a setting where you can purge libpaper1:i386 while still using libpaper1:amd64 this causes trouble. The bug is currently unreproducible due to ucf lacking M-A:foreign. As soon as ucf gains that

Bug#695271: libpaper1: harmful purge action in M-A:same package

2012-12-06 Thread Helmut Grohne
Control: forcemerge 682420 695271 The postrm purge removes /etc/papersize. In a setting where you can purge libpaper1:i386 while still using libpaper1:amd64 this causes trouble. The bug is currently unreproducible due to ucf lacking M-A:foreign. As soon as ucf gains that flag, this bug is RC.

Bug#695271: libpaper1: harmful purge action in M-A:same package

2012-12-06 Thread Helmut Grohne
Control: reassign 695271 src:libpaper Control: forcemerge 682420 695271 Next try. Helmut -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#695272: libphone-utils0: harmful postrm purge action in M-A:same package

2012-12-06 Thread Helmut Grohne
Package: libphone-utils0 Version: 0.1+git20110523-1.2 Severity: serious It is technically possible to install libphone-utils0:amd64 and libphone-utils0:i386 in parallel. If I then purge libphone-utils0:i386, /etc/phone-utils.conf will disappear even though it is still needed by

Bug#695271: libpaper1: harmful purge action in M-A:same package

2012-12-06 Thread Helmut Grohne
On Thu, Dec 06, 2012 at 02:44:08PM +0100, Giuseppe Sacco wrote: What is the correct action sequence? When libpaper in i386 is purged I believe that this is sufficiently discussed in #682420. You proposed a solution yourself. Sorry for the noise. Helmut -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#695275: src:dspam: harmful actions in multiple postrm scripts of M-A:same packages

2012-12-06 Thread Helmut Grohne
Package: src:dspam Version: 3.10.2+dfsg-2 Severity: serious Let me give an example of the general issue in libdspam7. All the other issues are of similar nature. It is possible to install libdspam7:amd64 and libdspam7:i386 in parallel. Now a user could purge libdspam7:i386, but still use

Bug#695216: agda-stdlib: Package does not contain Data.FFI haskell module needed for compilation

2012-12-06 Thread Helmut Grohne
Control: severity -1 important On Wed, Dec 05, 2012 at 07:07:24PM +0400, Vladimir Lysikov wrote: Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable The package has uses beyond compilation. Data.FFI module is contained in ffi subdirectory of source tarball. It is needed for compilation

Bug#695272: libphone-utils0: harmful postrm purge action in M-A:same package

2012-12-07 Thread Helmut Grohne
On Fri, Dec 07, 2012 at 12:41:19AM +0100, Dominik George wrote: I propose that you, Helmut, try to test whether this fixes the problem and report back if it does. Thanks for your work on this issue. Introducing a new binary package is a quite big change. Please contact the release team on

Bug#695354: tcc: please provide a Multi-Arch: foreign interface

2012-12-07 Thread Helmut Grohne
!= $hosttriplet. ++ Turn tcc into a meta package providing symlinks for tcc and its manual + page. ++ Reassign lintian overrides to new packages. + + -- Helmut Grohne hel...@subdivi.de Tue, 23 Oct 2012 08:32:18 +0200 + tcc (0.9.26~git20120612.ad5f375-6) unstable; urgency=low [Paul

Bug#695356: src:libwmf: acknowledge NMUs 0.2.8.4-10.2

2012-12-07 Thread Helmut Grohne
. + * Add Multi-Arch headers. (Closes: #677786) +The support was basically there. libwmf0.2-7 already ships libraries in +/usr/lib/triplet. No changes besides adding headers were necessary. + + -- Helmut Grohne hel...@subdivi.de Thu, 29 Nov 2012 17:26:47 +0100 + +libwmf (0.2.8.4-10.1

Bug#695355: unblock: libwmf/0.2.8.4-10.2

2012-12-07 Thread Helmut Grohne
. No changes besides adding headers were necessary. + + -- Helmut Grohne hel...@subdivi.de Thu, 29 Nov 2012 17:26:47 +0100 + +libwmf (0.2.8.4-10.1) unstable; urgency=low + + * Non-maintainer upload. + * debian/control +- libwmf-bin: Depends: gsfonts fixes font load error (Closes: #685802

Bug#695531: /Bugs/Developer#severities: misleading description of serious

2012-12-09 Thread Helmut Grohne
Package: www.debian.org Severity: normal I was educated that the definition of severity level serious is subtly wrong. It is currently defined on /Bugs/Developer#severities as: | serious | is a severe violation of Debian policy (roughly, it violates a | must or required directive), or,

Bug#695531: /Bugs/Developer#severities: misleading description of serious

2012-12-10 Thread Helmut Grohne
reopen 695531 reassign 695531 bugs.debian.org thanks On Sun, Dec 09, 2012 at 11:09:21PM +0100, Julien Cristau wrote: No idea how you read that. Or what you think strictly violates means. There's no definition of what severe means here. I was using strictly violate as a shortcut not to

Bug#712348: ht: FTBFS: manuals build fails against textinfo5 because some incompatibles changes wrt 4.13 and below (some warnings have turned into errors)

2013-07-08 Thread Helmut Grohne
Control: tags -1 + patch pending On Sat, Jun 15, 2013 at 11:56:58AM +0200, David Suárez wrote: Relevant part: make[3]: Entering directory `/«PKGBUILDDIR»/doc' /bin/bash /«PKGBUILDDIR»/missing --run makeinfo --no-split --fill-column=64 --output hthelp.info ht.texi ht.texi:54: misplaced {

Bug#712348: ht: FTBFS: manuals build fails against textinfo5 because some incompatibles changes wrt 4.13 and below (some warnings have turned into errors)

2013-07-08 Thread Helmut Grohne
On Mon, Jul 08, 2013 at 08:55:04AM +0200, Helmut Grohne wrote: Please find a fix attached. I am uploading it to DELAYED/7 now, since tolimar is now lownmu. Yeah, I did forget the patch... Helmut diff -u ht-2.0.20/debian/changelog ht-2.0.20/debian/changelog --- ht-2.0.20/debian/changelog +++ ht

Bug#712348: ht: FTBFS: manuals build fails against textinfo5 because some incompatibles changes wrt 4.13 and below (some warnings have turned into errors)

2013-07-08 Thread Helmut Grohne
On Mon, Jul 08, 2013 at 02:25:35PM +0200, Alexander Reichle-Schmehl wrote: Many thanks! Feel free to reschedule to DELAYED/7 and if you like committ your changes to the SVN repo. Changes are committed to collab-maint as requested. The NMU is already sitting in DELAYED/6, so there is nothing to

Bug#693393: [Pkg-netsim-devel] Bug#693393: Increase in .deb size from 2MB to 1.2GB!

2013-07-13 Thread Helmut Grohne
On Thu, Mar 07, 2013 at 05:40:54AM +0800, Aron Xu wrote: This time it's 943MiB for new upstream release (with increased amount of docs), we tried to reduce the size by removing most of duplicate files and run optipng against all PNG files. Do you have any idea to help us reduce the size

Bug#716880: apache2 upgrade failed

2013-07-14 Thread Helmut Grohne
Control: severity -1 important Thanks for the detailed log, because it highlights the cause. On Sun, Jul 14, 2013 at 01:51:55AM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: Purging configuration files for apache2.2-common ... dpkg: warning: while removing apache2.2-common, directory '/usr/lib/cgi-bin' not

Bug#715611: [Mayhem] Bug report on aajm: aajm crashes with exit status 139

2013-07-14 Thread Helmut Grohne
Control: tags -1 + confirmed upstream Control: forwarded -1 http://icculus.org/pipermail/jugglemaster/2013-July/000117.html On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 11:19:54AM -0400, Alexandre Rebert wrote: [1] http://www.forallsecure.com/bug-reports/e4969ef9717548310e44a97ea017b2c03e124bdd/full_report

Bug#716880: apache2 upgrade failed

2013-07-14 Thread Helmut Grohne
On Sun, Jul 14, 2013 at 11:50:55AM +0200, Arno Töll wrote: we cannot do this as long as the transition is ongoing. Sadly lots of packages reverse-depends on on apache2.2-common. Satisfying this dependency would create (even more) havoc on such systems as apt would not force a removal of

Bug#716880: apache2 upgrade failed

2013-07-14 Thread Helmut Grohne
On Sun, Jul 14, 2013 at 12:14:04PM +0200, Arno Töll wrote: Pretending we provided apache2.2-common, modules depending on the 2.2 version of the server had their depdencies satisfied. Thus, they would be co-installable with Apache 2.4, they would migrate to Testing and so on. My point was that

Bug#717255: src:freeipmi: maintainer address rejects mail

2013-07-18 Thread Helmut Grohne
Package: src:freeipmi Version: 1.1.5-3 Severity: important My attempt to contact pkg-freeipmi-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org failed with the following bounce message: You are not allowed to post to this mailing list, and your message has been automatically rejected. If you think that your

Bug#330973: ppp: possible MTU problem when using mppe

2013-10-11 Thread Helmut Grohne
On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 08:59:35PM +0200, Alexander Weber wrote: mppe_compress[1]: osize too small! (have: 1400 need: 1404) ppp is configured to require 128-bit encryption. Altering the MTU value in the pppd options file does not help. After reducing the MTU by four bytes the messages

Bug#726329: vim-addon-manager: fails when $HOME is unset

2013-10-14 Thread Helmut Grohne
Package: vim-addon-manager Version: 0.5.2 Severity: normal Tags: patch Dear Maintainer, when executing vam in an environment that does not include $HOME, it errors out: $ env -u HOME vam -w show foo /usr/bin/vim-addon-manager:201:in `join': can't convert nil into String (TypeError)

Bug#726997: findbugs: reduce package size by 3.3M or 40%

2013-10-21 Thread Helmut Grohne
Package: findbugs Version: 2.0.2-1 Severity: wishlist Dear Maintainer, The findbugs package contains an excellent opportunity to reduce space on the mirrors and installations. The findbugs.jar, which makes up almost half of the package, is shipped twice in the binary package[1]. Can you replace

Bug#727708: tech-ctte: Decide which init system to default to in Debian.

2013-10-29 Thread Helmut Grohne
maybe provide an easy support path for sysvinit on non-linux platforms for a large number of simple services. There's a subthread about that starting at https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2013/05/msg01309.html Helmut Grohne (Cced) did most of the work on analyzing those possibilities

Bug#727708: tech-ctte: Decide which init system to default to in Debian.

2013-10-30 Thread Helmut Grohne
Hi Steve, On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 09:31:37AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 10:22:54AM +0100, Helmut Grohne wrote: Having read the parts of the ctte bug, it feels odd to preclude the option of supporting multiple init systems from discussion or consideration

Bug#731110: wget does not send Accept-Encoding and fails to handle Content-Encoding

2013-12-02 Thread Helmut Grohne
Package: wget Version: 1.14-5 Severity: minor I observed that wget downloads wrong content from a squid cache. Both tools operate within the bounds of RFC2616, but the resulting combination is wrong. Consider the following interaction: A http client that supports Accept-Encoding and

Bug#731142: git-annex: fails to get/fsck content from rsync remotes that is stored using hashDirMixed

2013-12-02 Thread Helmut Grohne
Package: git-annex Version: 5.20131130 Severity: normal Hi Joey, I noticed that the logic used in gitAnnexLocation' is flawed for rsync remotes that contain data stored using hashDirMixed. As a consequence none of the data stored using this hash is retrievable or fsckable. I am not sure whether

Bug#731326: haskell-mode: breaks agda-mode ( 2.3.2)

2013-12-04 Thread Helmut Grohne
Package: haskell-mode Version: 13.07-1 Severity: normal This version of the haskell-mode package removes haskell-ghci.el which is explicitly referenced by agda-mode 2.3.0.1-2 (stable). Without this file agda-mode will not work. Please add Breaks: agda-mode ( 2.3.2) to the haskell-mode package.

Bug#684153: puppetmaster must be upgraded before upgrading puppet

2013-04-23 Thread Helmut Grohne
Control: tags -1 + patch On 20.04.2013, at 08:52, Charles Plessy ple...@debian.org wrote: svn+ssh://svn.debian.org/svn/svn/ddp/manuals/trunk/release-notes Thank you for pointing this out. Please find a proposed patch attached. Helmut issues-puppet.patch Description: Binary data

Bug#706375: kgb-client-git: support for git-notes

2013-04-29 Thread Helmut Grohne
Package: kgb-client-git Version: 1.26-1 Severity: wishlist Dear Maintainer, It would be nice if kgb-client-git would gain support for git-notes. Technically this is a branch that usually lives under refs/notes/commits. As such the current behaviour is of kgb is an error message *** Unknown type

Bug#631229: ITP: dhcpd-pools -- ISC dhcpd lease analysis and reporting tool

2013-04-30 Thread Helmut Grohne
On 09.04.2013, at 16:25, Helmut Grohne h.gro...@cygnusnetworks.de wrote: * Package name: dhcpd-pools Version : 2.21 Version 2.22 now. Upstream Author : Sami Kerola kerol...@iki.fi * URL : http://dhcpd-pools.sf.net/ * License : BSD-2-clause + GPL

Bug#704136: lintian: treat git-dch --snapshot packages as local packages to avoid NMU warnings

2013-04-30 Thread Helmut Grohne
On 28.03.2013, at 13:31, Helmut Grohne h.gro...@cygnusnetworks.de wrote: $package ($origversion~$unixseconds~1.gbp$abbrevcommitid) … ** SNAPSHOT build @$longcommitid ** $origchangelog -- $changedmaintainer Unfortunately this does not work for all cases. When the distribution

Bug#706458: ITP: inotify-hookable -- blocking command-line interface to inotify

2013-05-01 Thread Helmut Grohne
On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 01:58:58PM +0200, Dominique Dumont wrote: Description : blocking command-line interface to inotify inotify-hookable is a program that monitor files with Linux inotify. This program accepts options to specify the files to be monitored and the command to run when

Bug#706629: python-jinja2: filesizeformat gives bogus results

2013-05-02 Thread Helmut Grohne
Package: python-jinja2 Version: 2.6-1 Severity: normal Tags: fixed-upstream The filesizeformat filter function gives wrong results. For example 1000 is rendered as 0.0 kB and 100 is rendered as 0.0 MB. The first attempt to fix this appears to be b1b7b0893ca2750c871b402ea556e31558dc09dc, but

Bug#706718: src:python-pysnmp4: python3 support missing from package

2013-05-03 Thread Helmut Grohne
Package: src:python-pysnmp4 Version: 4.2.2-1 Severity: wishlist Tags: fixed-upstream The current python-pysnmp4 source package does not build a binary package providing python3 access to the library. Upstream has a history of supporting python3, so in theory this should be easy to add to the

Bug#706849: libpq5: enable multi-arch

2013-05-05 Thread Helmut Grohne
. + * Connvert to Multi-Arch. ++ Build-Depend on debhelper (= 8.1.3~). ++ Change libdir to /usr/lib/triplet/ and adapt .install files. ++ Add ${misc:Pre-Depends}. ++ Mark libpq5, libecpg6, libecpg-compat3 and libpgtypes3 as M-A:same. + + -- Helmut Grohne hel...@subdivi.de Sun, 05 May

Bug#720989: www.debian.org: unexperienced users fail to download installation media especially for usb drives

2013-08-26 Thread Helmut Grohne
Package: www.debian.org Severity: normal Control: blocks -1 by 575760 The question of how to download installation media for Debian is a recurring question on ask.debian.net: http://ask.debian.net/questions/what-image-do-i-download http://ask.debian.net/questions/problem-installing-with-mini-iso

Bug#720989: www.debian.org: unexperienced users fail to download installation media especially for usb drives

2013-08-27 Thread Helmut Grohne
Thanks for your quick reply. On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 10:04:18PM +0200, Holger Wansing wrote: Helmut Grohne hel...@subdivi.de wrote: A few times he was amused and confused by the German translation and wording. Spiegel (mirror) is not a widely used word neither in the technical nor the non

Bug#721217: libfuzzy-dev: support stream hashing interface

2013-08-29 Thread Helmut Grohne
Package: libfuzzy-dev Version: 2.7-2 Severity: wishlist Control: block 702583 by -1 Dear Maintainer, I would like to use the newly added stream hashing functions provided by ssdeep 2.10. The relevant new symbols are fuzzy_new, fuzzy_update, fuzzy_digest and fuzzy_free. See

Bug#721828: pinentry-curses: shows passphrase length with asterisks

2013-09-04 Thread Helmut Grohne
Package: pinentry-curses Version: 0.8.1-1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, When entering a passphrase to pinentry-curses, the length is indicated using asterisks. Even though typing a passphrase in the presence of other people is a bad idea in general, this length indication makes it worse. I

Bug#717057: evince-gtk: eince must depend on gnome-icon-theme-symbolic

2013-09-05 Thread Helmut Grohne
Control: found -1 evince/3.8.2-1 Control: severity -1 serious On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 04:14:12PM +0400, sergio wrote: Without gnome-icon-theme-symbolic package there are no icons in the menu bar. http://www.dsch.univ.trieste.it/~balducci/tmp/evince-broken.png

Bug#721904: regression: removed keyboard shortcuts compared to 3.4

2013-09-05 Thread Helmut Grohne
Package: evince Version: 3.8.3-1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, After upgrading to 3.8 I noticed that some keyboard shortcuts no longer work. In part this is due to the UI redesign that replaces menus with buttons. Examples of broken shortcuts: * Switching contiguous view was previously

Bug#710413: src:boost1.53: multi-arch

2013-05-30 Thread Helmut Grohne
upload. + * Convert to Multi-Arch. ++ Add ${misc:Pre-Depends} to shared libraries. ++ Switch to multi-arch paths. ++ Mark shared libraries as Multi-Arch:same except for python related ones. + + -- Helmut Grohne hel...@subdivi.de Thu, 30 May 2013 11:54:25 +0200 + boost1.53 (1.53.0-5

Bug#709348: closed by Holger Levsen hol...@layer-acht.org (where's the bug?)

2013-06-03 Thread Helmut Grohne
Control: reopen -1 On Sun, 2 Jun 2013 22:47:03 +0200, Holger Levsen wrote: so I was wondering whether those two packages were legetimatly providing /usr/sbin/policy-rc.d, and then I noticed that those two packages were tested fine:

Bug#709348: [Piuparts-devel] Bug#709348: closed by Holger Levsen hol...@layer-acht.org (where's the bug?)

2013-06-03 Thread Helmut Grohne
Control: severity -1 minor On Mon, Jun 03, 2013 at 09:22:38AM +0200, Holger Levsen wrote: filing bugs for guesses is a bit... hm. The initial problem was a debsums failure. I tracked it down to cdebootstrap-helper-rc.d. Then I attempted to come up with more examples. You are testing the

Bug#711169: cups-daemon: ipp printer browsing support removed

2013-06-05 Thread Helmut Grohne
Package: cups-daemon Version: 1.6.2-8 Severity: normal Somewhere between 1.5.3-5 and 1.6.2-8 the support for IPP printer browsing was removed. This was a decision of cups upstream (i.e. some big fruit company). Still it breaks a legitimate use case: Having printers on a network just work. For

Bug#711169: cups-daemon: ipp printer browsing support removed

2013-06-05 Thread Helmut Grohne
On Wed, Jun 05, 2013 at 10:14:20AM +0200, Helmut Grohne wrote: As a first step I ask for an entry in NEWS.Debian, telling users about the issue. This helps users not finding their printing setup being broken for no obvious reason. This might also reduce the amount of bug reports for this issue

Bug#711385: src:opencv: consider moving haarcascade files to a non-dev package

2013-06-06 Thread Helmut Grohne
Package: src:opencv Version: 2.3.1-11 Severity: wishlist Dear Maintainer, The libopencv-dev package ships trained haarcascade .xml files. These files make up a significant fraction of the size of the package. In the mean time other packages have started embedding copies of these haarcascade

Bug#711169: cups-daemon: ipp printer browsing support removed

2013-06-06 Thread Helmut Grohne
-maintainer upload. + * Explain browsing transition in cups.NEWS (Closes: #711169). + + -- Helmut Grohne hel...@subdivi.de Wed, 05 Jun 2013 11:16:33 +0200 + cups (1.6.2-8) unstable; urgency=low * Upload to unstable. diff -Nru cups-1.6.2/debian/cups.NEWS cups-1.6.2/debian/cups.NEWS --- cups

Bug#711475: libsecret-tools: package description fails the should I install this package? test

2013-06-07 Thread Helmut Grohne
Package: libsecret-tools Version: 0.15-2 Severity: minor Dear Maintainer, The long descriptions of all packages built from the libsecret source package are unusually short. For libsecret-tools it is even shorter. A user with little clue about what is going on in the gnome world will be unable to

Bug#711739: xul-ext-foxyproxy-standard: uninstallable in sid

2013-06-09 Thread Helmut Grohne
Package: xul-ext-foxyproxy-standard Version: 3.4-1 Severity: serious Control: fixed -1 xul-ext-foxyproxy-standard/4.1-1 The xul-ext-foxyproxy-standard package as of version 3.4-1 to be found in Debian sid is uninstallable, because it breaks on iceweasel (= 11.0~a1+) and the iceweasel version in

Bug#729230: doxygen: hangs during ptlib build

2013-11-10 Thread Helmut Grohne
Control: tags -1 + moreinfo Hi Samuel, On Sun, Nov 10, 2013 at 04:57:52PM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: ptlib can't be built in unstable ATM, because doxygen seems to get in some loop: it eats 100% cpu and doesn't seem to terminate (I've left it running for 2 hours) While it may be possible

Bug#729230: doxygen: hangs during ptlib build

2013-11-10 Thread Helmut Grohne
On Sun, Nov 10, 2013 at 06:58:35PM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: * Check for duplicates, especially #718694 Most probably a duplicate then, indeed, I failed to find it among the open bugs. Removing code#operator/code in the header does fix the issue. Cloning as a bug against ptlib and

Bug#729230: doxygen: hangs during ptlib build

2013-11-10 Thread Helmut Grohne
On Sun, Nov 10, 2013 at 09:12:26PM +0100, Eugen Dedu wrote: On 10/11/13 19:10, Helmut Grohne wrote: This issue is solved in doxygen 1.8.5-1 sitting in NEW. As soon as it hits sid, you can downgrade the ptlib bug. ^ You mean *close* the ptlib bug, isn't it? No, I

Bug#729716: r-cran-rcppeigen: fully embeds libeigen3-dev

2013-11-16 Thread Helmut Grohne
Package: r-cran-rcppeigen Version: 0.3.2.0-1 Severity: minor Dear Maintainer, I noticed that the r-cran-rcppeigen package fully embeds the libeigen3-dev package. According to the Debian policy this is bad practise. Could you investigate whether it is feasible to remove this embedding?

Bug#729716: r-cran-rcppeigen: fully embeds libeigen3-dev

2013-11-17 Thread Helmut Grohne
Control: reopen -1 On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 06:14:48PM -0600, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: On 16 November 2013 at 09:48, Helmut Grohne wrote: | I noticed that the r-cran-rcppeigen package fully embeds the | libeigen3-dev package. According to the Debian policy this is bad | practise. Could you

Bug#724645: Error: Could not prefetch package provider 'apt': invalid byte sequence in US-ASCII

2013-09-26 Thread Helmut Grohne
Package: puppet-common Version: 3.3.0-1 Severity: normal Since this release puppet started erroring out with this message: | Debug: Prefetching apt resources for package | Debug: Executing '[/usr/bin/dpkg-query, -W, --showformat, '${Status} ${Package} ${Version} :DESC:

Bug#722213: owncloud: contains unregistered embedded copy of php-patchwork-utf8

2013-09-09 Thread Helmut Grohne
Package: owncloud Version: 5.0.10+dfsg-1 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, It has come to my attention that owncloud fully embeds[1] the php-patchwork-utf8 package. This practise is discouraged by the Debian policy, but not prohibited. Please investigate whether you can use the

Bug#701161: closed by Dimitrios Eftaxiopoulos eftax...@otenet.gr (Bug#701161: fixed in freefem++ 3.25-1)

2013-09-12 Thread Helmut Grohne
Control: reopen -1 Control: found -1 freefem++/3.25-1 On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 10:06:14PM +, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: #701161: freefem++: /usr/bin/FreeFem++ and /usr/bin/FreeFem++nw are the same files It has been closed by Dimitrios Eftaxiopoulos eftax...@otenet.gr. freefem++

Bug#737048: udd: import CVE identifiers from secure-testing SVN

2014-01-29 Thread Helmut Grohne
Package: qa.debian.org Severity: wishlist User: qa.debian@packages.debian.org Usertags: udd X-Debbugs-CC: debian-secur...@lists.debian.org It would be nice to have UDD import parts of the secure-testing SVN repository maintained by the Debian security team. The biggest benefit I see is that

Bug#737048: udd: import CVE identifiers from secure-testing SVN

2014-01-29 Thread Helmut Grohne
Control: merge 660170 -1 This is a duplicate. Sorry for the noise. Helmut -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#737259: util-linux block linux update

2014-02-02 Thread Helmut Grohne
On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 10:51:44PM +0100, Marco Righi wrote: After apt-get update and apt-get dist-upgrade I got this situation Debian E: util-linux: il sottoprocesso installato script di post-installation ha restituito lo stato di errore 1 PLEASE WRITE ME IF YOU NEED MORE INFORMATION

Bug#736432: Fwd: Re: Bug#736432: [doxygen] Include header/footer/img as external ressource

2014-02-02 Thread Helmut Grohne
Control: retitle -1 remove embedding of jquery Control: tags -1 - patch + upstream wontfix Control: severity -1 wishlist Control: outlook -1 /usr/share/doc/doxygen/README.jquery Given that this report has not received sufficient information to warrant the patch tag I am turning the issue into

Bug#736360: lintian: do not warn about doxygen embedding jquery

2014-02-03 Thread Helmut Grohne
On Mon, Feb 03, 2014 at 12:39:10PM +0100, Jakub Wilk wrote: Security is not the only issue here. jquery.js created by Doxygen is minified, so there's a risk that we ship it without source. Thanks for highlighting the issue. Fortunately we already have a tool to work around this issue. It is

Bug#737645: checksecurity: does not check file capabilities

2014-02-04 Thread Helmut Grohne
Package: checksecurity Version: 2.0.15 Severity: wishlist Dear Maintainer, As packages (e.g. iputils) transition from setuid to file capabilities, so should checksecurity. Worse, not detecting capabilities means that they can be used as a stealth mechanism against checksecurity and some

Bug#737957: munin: depends on transitional package ttf-dejavu

2014-02-07 Thread Helmut Grohne
Package: munin Version: 2.0.19-3 Severity: minor Hi Holger, ssm, and crowd, The munin package depends on the ttf-dejavu package. The latter is being hit by the fonts transition from ttf-* package names to fonts-* package names. In order to make removal of ttf-dejavu possible (the ultimate goal),

Bug#737957: munin: depends on transitional package ttf-dejavu

2014-02-08 Thread Helmut Grohne
Control: tag -1 + pending On Sat, Feb 08, 2014 at 12:18:57AM +0100, Matthias Schmitz wrote: Munin doesn't use the font file directly but configures RRDs::graph to use it by adding --font 'DejaVuSans' to the config options of RRDs. So it should be safe to replace ttf-dejavu by fonts-dejavu

Bug#736360: lintian: do not warn about doxygen embedding jquery

2014-02-08 Thread Helmut Grohne
On Sat, Feb 08, 2014 at 11:03:13PM +0100, Jakub Wilk wrote: Do you happen to have an alternative proposal in mind? Well, the simpler alternative is to make doxygen use unminified JS. I am not yet entirely convinced about the simpler yet. Thanks for the suggestion anyway. Upstream goes to

Bug#734329: denyhosts: regression in regex.py

2014-01-05 Thread Helmut Grohne
Control: found -1 2.6-7+deb6u2 Control: found -1 2.6-10+deb7u2 On Mon, Jan 06, 2014 at 11:00:45AM +1100, Vincent McIntyre wrote: I have 2.6-10 running on a few squeeze hosts here and applied the patch that should fix #692229. I think there is a problem with one aspect of that change - -

Bug#725653: --clip copies to CLIPBOARD, I'd prefer PRIMARY selection

2014-01-09 Thread Helmut Grohne
Hi Thorsten, On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 08:18:47PM +, Thorsten Glaser wrote: retitle 725653 --clip copies to CLIPBOARD, I'd prefer PRIMARY selection tags 725653 + patch Thanks for this patch and thanks to Colin Watson for carrying it. It scratches my itch as well. I???ve decided to just

Bug#682045: libtool: please mark libtool multi-arch: allowed

2014-01-12 Thread Helmut Grohne
On Thu, Jan 09, 2014 at 07:20:40PM +, Colin Watson wrote: If you weren't one of the people in the thinking extremely hard about multiarch BOF at DebConf, note that Multi-Arch: foreign denotes a point in the dependency graph where you're allowed to switch architectures, Multi-Arch: allowed

Bug#734329: denyhosts: regression in regex.py

2014-01-12 Thread Helmut Grohne
Control: tags -1 + patch Hi Vincent, On Mon, Jan 06, 2014 at 06:32:13AM +0100, Helmut Grohne wrote: A real fix seems more involved. Suggestions welcome. Personally I cannot reproduce this issue on any of my machines, but I believe that I understand the cause. Can you test one of the attached

Bug#732712: Requesting removal of denyhosts from sid

2014-01-12 Thread Helmut Grohne
Control: retitle -1 RM: denyhosts -- RoST; upstream dead; unmaintained; dysfunctional in sid Control: severity -1 normal Control: reassign -1 ftp.debian.org On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 04:10:21PM +0100, Helmut Grohne wrote: We, the Debian security team, believe that denyhosts should

Bug#734329: denyhosts: regression in regex.py

2014-01-17 Thread Helmut Grohne
On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 09:49:07AM +1100, Vincent McIntyre wrote: I've tried the patch and it works correctly. Thanks. Could you also mention which patch you tried? squeeze or wheezy? Helmut -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe.

Bug#735923: piuparts: maybe --pbuilder should also set --tmpdir?

2014-01-18 Thread Helmut Grohne
Package: piuparts Version: 0.56 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch Hi, When using piuparts --pbuilder I noticed that it feels slow. Now that's not the fault of piuparts, but instead an artifact of my setup that made me ponder whether piuparts' defaults are good. It happens that I mounted

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