Bug#340597: updatedb.conf: Add udf to PRUNEFS list

2005-11-24 Thread Sven Joachim
Package: findutils Version: 4.2.26-1 Severity: wishlist I would like to propose to add udf to the PRUNEFS list in /etc/updatedb.conf. UDF is used for DVD-RAM and for some CD/DVD-ROMs, therefore it seems to me that udf fits in the same category as iso9660 (a file system for removable media).

Bug#340735: edit-env.el: Symbol's function definition is void: copy-list

2005-11-25 Thread Sven Joachim
Package: emacs-goodies-el Version: 26.4-1 Severity: normal On both Emacs 21 and Emacs snapshot, M-x edit-env signals the error: Symbol's function definition is void: copy-list Since copy-list is defined in cl.el, edit-env.el should (require 'cl) if it wants to use it. Indeed, after manually

Bug#340741: Installing calc breaks the emacs-snapshot calc package

2005-11-25 Thread Sven Joachim
Package: calc Version: 2.02f-24 Severity: important Tags: patch After I installed calc, the version bundled with emacs-snapshot stopped working, pressing M-# signals the error: Symbol's function definition is void: calc-record-compilation-date-macro Enabling debug-on-error gave me the

Bug#341125: sysutils: bogomips exits with value 17

2005-11-28 Thread Sven Joachim
Package: sysutils Version: 2.0.0-1 Severity: minor On my system with a 2 GHz Athlon-XP 2400+ processor, bogomips prints Calibrating delay loop... 1992.29 BogoMIPS and exits with a value of 17. Since apparently no error occurred, that is a bit strange. If there is a legitimate reason for

Bug#341125: sysutils: bogomips exits with value 17

2005-11-28 Thread Sven Joachim
();} } calibrate_delay(); + return 0; } 8- Thank you for adapting the sysutils package. BTW, you probably want to remove the files tofrodos-1.7.6/{from,to}dos.exe from the orig.tar.gz file. -- Sven Joachim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Bug#341381: grub: Grub shell cannot find hard disk

2005-11-30 Thread Sven Joachim
Package: grub Version: 0.97-1 Severity: important After updating Grub to version 0.97-1, grub-install /dev/hda failed with the error message The file /boot/grub/stage1 not read correctly. The following log is left in /tmp: GNU GRUB version 0.97 (640K lower / 3072K upper memory)

Bug#341125: sysutils: bogomips exits with value 17

2005-11-30 Thread Sven Joachim
Florian Ernst wrote: Nonetheless this patch could be forwarded upstream. I could do this for you, but if you want to get full credit from upstream you should rather do so yourself. I have done that now, hoping that the author's e-mail address is still valid (the last update of bogomips was

Bug#341125: sysutils: bogomips exits with value 17

2005-12-01 Thread Sven Joachim
Sven Joachim wrote: Florian Ernst wrote: Nonetheless this patch could be forwarded upstream. I could do this for you, but if you want to get full credit from upstream you should rather do so yourself. I have done that now, hoping that the author's e-mail address is still valid (the last

Bug#341829: dpkg-dev-el: Error message during configuration of emacs-snapshot

2005-12-03 Thread Sven Joachim
Package: dpkg-dev-el Version: 26.4-1 Severity: minor During configuration of this week's emacs-snapshot, I got an error message regarding dpkg-dev-el. Here is the output of the postinst script: Richte emacs-snapshot ein (20051202-1) ... emacs-install emacs-snapshot install/auctex: Setting up

Bug#341381: Bug #341381: grub: Grub shell cannot find hard disk

2005-12-04 Thread Sven Joachim
Sven Joachim wrote: After updating Grub to version 0.97-1, grub-install /dev/hda failed with the error message The file /boot/grub/stage1 not read correctly. The following log is left in /tmp: GNU GRUB version 0.97 (640K lower / 3072K upper memory) [ Minimal BASH-like line

Bug#341888: fails to read stage1 file on cciss raid

2005-12-04 Thread Sven Joachim
, look in /tmp, grub-install should have left a log there. Best regards, -- Sven Joachim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#340741: Bug #340741: Installing calc breaks the emacs-snapshot calc package

2005-12-04 Thread Sven Joachim
to be absolutely unnecessary after all (though harmless). But since the problem is not actually solved, I have reopened the bug and given it a better title. Cheers, -- Sven Joachim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#340741: acknowledged by developer (Bug#340741: fixed in calc 2.02f-26)

2005-12-05 Thread Sven Joachim
Manoj Srivastava wrote: * Bug fix: calc: spurious old configuration file breaks emacs-snapshot calc package, thanks to Sven Joachim. We now move it out of the way (we don't delete it, since the user may have customization they wish to preserve, and reoving is so ... final

Bug#343705: emacs-snapshot: Quitting `save-buffer' can lose backup file

2006-01-07 Thread Sven Joachim
tags 343705 - moreinfo tags 343705 + pending thanks Romain Francoise wrote: Now that your patch has been applied upstream, do you consider this bug closed? You still lose the backup file, but `buffer-backed-up' is now correctly reset to nil. Actually, losing the old backup is unavoidable

Bug#343705: emacs-snapshot: Quitting `save-buffer' can lose backup file

2005-12-17 Thread Sven Joachim
Package: emacs-snapshot Version: 1:20051215-1 Severity: normal [ I had already reported this bug upstream four weeks ago, but got no response. And since it has not been fixed either, nobody seems to feel responsible. So I report it here, trying to draw attention to the problem. ] If saving a

Bug#343705: emacs-snapshot: Quitting `save-buffer' can lose backup file

2005-12-18 Thread Sven Joachim
Romain Francoise wrote: Hm... it doesn't happen here. After hitting C-g, the backup file is still there, and `buffer-backed-up' is still nil in the `bar' buffer. That's how it ought to be, yes. And if you cannot reproduce the problem, that explains why upstream didn't bother (and probably

Bug#343705: emacs-snapshot: Quitting `save-buffer' can lose backup file

2005-12-18 Thread Sven Joachim
Romain Francoise wrote: For the record, why do you rebuild each snapshot? Not using unstable? In the first weeks, that was one of the reasons as I was still running sarge then; but not anymore. Now it has other reasons: following links in *Help* buffers for built-in functions and variables

Bug#343705: emacs-snapshot: Quitting `save-buffer' can lose backup file

2005-12-18 Thread Sven Joachim
Romain Francoise wrote: Nope, and starting Emacs with -Q disables all customizations. I know, I just wanted to make sure that you really started with -Q. :-) Which filesystem are you using? Is it a regular filesystem, or a remote NFS mount (or something similar)? A normal local file

Bug#344260: deb-view.el: Fails if coding system utf-8 is preferred

2005-12-21 Thread Sven Joachim
Package: debian-el Version: 26.4-1 Severity: normal When I switched from my formerly preferred iso-latin-1 language environment to a utf-8 one, deb-view-dired-view suddenly stopped working. Now the *.deb-DATA buffer is always empty on both emacs21 and emacs-snapshot. The following log is left

Bug#344260: deb-view.el: Fails if coding system utf-8 is preferred

2005-12-21 Thread Sven Joachim
Peter S Galbraith wrote: As you can see above, deb-view is simply a superset of tar-mode. That is where the problem is occurring. I might be able to patch around it, but it is more than likely an Emacs bug. I am not so certain. Tar-mode works fine with coding-system utf-8, also for gzipped

Bug#338333: emacs-goodies-el: Some Lisp packages are useless without non-free software

2005-11-09 Thread Sven Joachim
Package: emacs-goodies-el Version: 26.3-1 Severity: serious It seems to me that some Emacs Lisp packages in emacs-goodies-el are only of any use if non-free software is installed on the system, namely: maplev.el needs Maple, matlab.el needs Matlab and tcl.el needs the Target Language Compiler

Bug#338334: tetex-doc: Debian changelog is missing

2005-11-09 Thread Sven Joachim
Package: tetex-doc Version: 3.0-10 Severity: serious The Debian changelog is missing in the /usr/share/doc/tetex-doc directory. Please add it there as mandated by section 12.7 of the Policy Manual. -- System Information excluded -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Bug#338333: emacs-goodies-el: Some Lisp packages are useless without non-free software

2005-11-10 Thread Sven Joachim
. While I would still prefer a different package for these files, I am sufficiently convinced that it is no policy violation to leave them in the main section. So I've downgraded the severity to wishlist. Kind Regards, -- Sven Joachim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Bug#344260: deb-view.el: Fails if coding system utf-8 is preferred

2005-12-21 Thread Sven Joachim
tags 344260 patch thanks In my last message I wrote: I am not so certain. Tar-mode works fine with coding-system utf-8, also for gzipped tarballs. What might be the culprit is the message gzip: stdin: not in gzip format that appears (hidden, due to narrowing) in the *.deb-DATA buffer.

Bug#344260: deb-view.el: Fails if coding system utf-8 is preferred

2005-12-22 Thread Sven Joachim
Peter S Galbraith wrote: Many thanks for finding the solution! I'll fix it soon. Okay, thank you. :-) I guess I was a bit lucky to hit on the right track so soon. BTW, could you reproduce the bug? I am a bit surprised that nobody had noticed it before. In my patch, instead of binding

Bug#341888: Problem is gone in version 0.97-2

2005-12-27 Thread Sven Joachim
In the new grub package 0.97-2, I no longer see the dreadful message Error 21: Selected disk does not exist when running grub unter a 2.4 kernel. AFICT, the only change that can be responsible for this welcome change is the removal of the odirect.diff patch, which was supposed to close

Bug#344631: Dangling symlink open_memstream unreproducible?!

2005-12-27 Thread Sven Joachim
FWIW, I don't know why you cannot reproduce this, since the dangling symlink definitely _is_ in the package: $ dpkg --contents ./manpages-dev_2.17-1_all.deb | grep open_memstream lrwxrwxrwx root/root 0 2005-12-23 18:05:26 ./usr/share/man/man3/open_memstream.3.gz - fmemopen.3.gz $ dpkg

Bug#331421: shell-command.el: activation is documented wrongly

2005-10-03 Thread Sven Joachim
Package: emacs-goodies-el Version: 24.15-2 Severity: normal The documentation for activating the advices in the shell-command.el library is wrong. Quoting from the Info section: , |Install this file to an appropriate directory, and put these lines | into your ~/.emacs. | |

Bug#331430: bar-cursor.el: Loading the library changes cursor to hollow box in emacs-snapshot

2005-10-03 Thread Sven Joachim
Package: emacs-goodies-el Version: 24.15-2 Severity: normal There is an annoying problem with the library bar-cursor.el. Just loading the bar-cursor library (e.g. when creating the customization buffer for the variable bar-cursor-mode) will change the cursor of the selected frame to a hollow

Bug#331430: bar-cursor.el: Loading the library changes cursor to hollow box in emacs-snapshot

2005-10-08 Thread Sven Joachim
Peter S Galbraith wrote: Weird that this happens simply by loading the code. Any idea what's happening ? Yes. :-) I tried to explain it already in my original report, but may not have been clear enough. Take the following steps to get a backtrace in emacs-snapshot[1]: M-x debug-on-entry RET

Bug#332753: xlibmesa-gl-dev: cannot link OpenGL app: /usr/bin/ld: cannot find, -lGL

2005-10-09 Thread Sven Joachim
Do you have nvidia-glx installed? That package diverts some files in the xlibmesa-gl package, which leads to the dangling symlink /usr/lib/libGL.so. Here's what dpkg -L xlibmesa-gl prints for me: /. /usr /usr/X11R6 /usr/X11R6/lib /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1.2 diverted by nvidia-glx to:

Bug#332753: xlibmesa-gl-dev: cannot link OpenGL app: /usr/bin/ld: cannot find, -lGL

2005-10-09 Thread Sven Joachim
severity 332753 important thanks Andre Heynatz wrote: I have read bug report #208198 and am somewhat confused. It has become a combinatorical problem, and my head smokes. But there seems to be an easy way out: libGL.so.1 is linked to different files whether Mesa or nVidia libs are used:

Bug#208198: Symlink /usr/lib/libGL.so dangling again

2005-10-10 Thread Sven Joachim
reopen 208198 tags 208198 - fixed-in-experimental thanks As of version 1.0.7676-1 of nvidia-glx, the symlink /usr/lib/libGL.so - libGL.so.1.2 in the xlibmesa-gl-dev package is dangling again after installing nvidia-glx. See http://bugs.debian.org/332753 . Will this mess ever be cleaned up?

Bug#333578: fvwm95: Non-free programs in system.fvwm95rc

2005-10-12 Thread Sven Joachim
Package: fvwm95 Version: 2.0.43ba-22 Severity: wishlist The system-wide configuration file /etc/X11/fvwm95/system.fvwm95rc contains menu entries for non-free programs. I have found netscape and pine, maybe there are others. Could you replace them with *free* programs, e.g. mozilla and mutt,

Bug#336352: slang-mode.el: Bad default for slang-default-application

2005-10-29 Thread Sven Joachim
Package: emacs-goodies-el Version: 26.1-1 Severity: minor The default value for the user option slang-default-application in slang-mode.el is c:/bin/slsh.exe, which is unlikely to exist on GNU/Linux. ;-) Please change that to /usr/bin/slsh, available in the slsh package. -- System

Bug#386368: dev/shm mounted noexec breaks DOSEMU

2006-09-10 Thread Sven Joachim
Just FYI, my locally compiled DOSEMU 1.3.3 stopped working because it needs /dev/shm to be mounted with the `exec' option. In the file src/arch/linux/mapping/mapfile.c it does mpool = mmap(0, mapsize, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE|PROT_EXEC, MAP_SHARED, tmpfile_fd, 0); and that

Bug#387427: Please loosen the firefox version dependency in install.rdf

2006-09-14 Thread Sven Joachim
A new version of mozilla-firefox-locale-all is in incoming, but it will become useless in just a few days, when the freshly-announced firefox 1.5.0.7 enters the Debian archives. :-( Can't this be fixed by upgrading maxVersion in /usr/lib/firefox/extensions/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/install.rdf to

Bug#397824: emacs-snapshot-common: cperl-mode and po-mode break M-x compile

2006-11-09 Thread Sven Joachim
is distributed under the same license as the debsums package. # Sven Joachim [EMAIL PROTECTED], 2006. msgid msgstr Project-Id-Version: debsums 2.0.28\n Report-Msgid-Bugs-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] POT-Creation-Date: 2006-08-29 08:06+0200\n PO-Revision-Date: 2006-08-24 16:26+0200\n Last-Translator: Sven Joachim

Bug#398272: emacs21: black icon

2006-11-13 Thread Sven Joachim
reassign 398272 icewm severity 398272 normal merge 354434 398272 quit Dan Jacobson writes: Emacs21 has a black square icon in icewm these days. This is a bug in IceWm, not in Emacs; see #354434. Reassigning and merging accordingly, Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Bug#393855: kdebase: Please loosen the `Build-Conflicts' with nvidia-glx

2006-10-18 Thread Sven Joachim
Package: kdebase Version: 4:3.5.5a-2 Severity: wishlist Hi, currently kdebase Build-Conflicts with nvidia-glx. I presume (debian/changelog contains no hints) this is due to the dangling libGL.so symlink that nvidia-glx left on the system, see #208198. Recent versions of nvidia-glx have fixed

Bug#389878: dosemu: Some keys are wrong under X

2006-10-20 Thread Sven Joachim
Hello, I'm facing the same problem with a locally compiled dosemu 1.3.3. IIRC it started after upgrading to X.Org 7.1, before that dosemu had worked fine. The keyboard layout in ~/.dosemurc does not matter. Would it be of help if I post my xorg.conf? Regards, Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Bug#394960: emacs-snapshot: Please register /usr/bin/emacs-snapshot as emacs alternative

2006-10-23 Thread Sven Joachim
Package: emacs-snapshot Version: 1:20061022-1 Severity: wishlist Hello, I just switched from emacs-snapshot-x to emacs-snapshot-gtk and noticed that I actually had to update two alternatives, one for emacs and one for emacs-snapshot: $ /usr/sbin/update-alternatives --display emacs-snapshot

Bug#342887: hwclock.sh runs too late

2006-10-31 Thread Sven Joachim
Michael Biebl writes: As /etc/localtime is a copy and not a symlink anymore, hwclock.sh could be started even earlier than S11. The only requirement I see is S03udev (because of /dev/rtc). So the earliest possible time would be S04. As Thomas pointed out earlier, it should also be started

Bug#396854: emacs21-common: missing documentation

2006-11-04 Thread Sven Joachim
Am 03.11.2006 um 20:17 schrieb Valery V. Vorotyntsev: On 11/3/06, Rob Browning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Valery V. Vorotyntsev [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This is not a bug. Please see /usr/share/doc/emacs21-common/copyright and/or the /usr/share/doc/emacs21-common/changelog entry. Okay,

Bug#391143: Please update debconf PO translation for the package dpkg 1.13.23~

2006-10-08 Thread Sven Joachim
Attached is the German dpkg translation. Cheers, Sven de.po.gz Description: application/gzip

Bug#390093: gcc-4.1-doc: Overwrites copyright and Debian changelog of gcc-4.1-base

2006-09-29 Thread Sven Joachim
Package: gcc-4.1-doc-non-dfsg Version: 4.1.1-nf1 Severity: serious In previous versions of gcc-4.1-doc (up to 4.1.1-10), /usr/share/doc/gcc-4.1-doc was a symlink to gcc-4.1-base. Because dpkg follows the symlink when upgrading the package, your files end up in /usr/share/doc/gcc-4.1-base,

Bug#323554: No Ediff crash under IceWM 1.2.28

2006-09-20 Thread Sven Joachim
[Romain, somehow your mail from today didn't reach me (yet). But I had news about this topic anyway, so I looked it up in the BTS.] Hello everyone, indeed the Ediff crash seems to be fixed in IceWM 1.2.28, I can no longer reproduce it. Downgrading to 1.2.27 made it reappear again, so this

Bug#388264: New upstream releases

2006-09-24 Thread Sven Joachim
severity 388264 wishlist thanks Daniel Baumann wrote: Since the current locales do not work with the thunderbird version in unstable, I'm raising the severity to grave. Huh?! What makes you think they don't work? The German locale package works perfectly fine for me. Note that its

Bug#401201: nvidia-kernel-source: Fails to build with kernel 2.6.19

2006-12-01 Thread Sven Joachim
Package: nvidia-kernel-source Version: 1.0.8776-2 Severity: important The NVIDIA kernel module fails to build with the just released Linux kernel 2.6.19. Here's an excerpt from the log: $ fakeroot make-kpkg modules_image [...lots of output truncated] NVIDIA: calling KBUILD... make CC=gcc-4.1

Bug#396875: tagging 396875

2006-12-03 Thread Sven Joachim
On Tue, 28 Nov 2006, Rob Browning wrote: I should have a new version uploaded later this week, probably by tomorrow night. Ping? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#381346: emacs-snapshot: fundamental mode converts tabs to spaces

2006-08-05 Thread Sven Joachim
Romain Francoise wrote: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: emacs21 correctly preserves the tab, while emacs-snapshot converts it to spaces. There is no tab in the initial file, so a more accurate way to put it is emacs21 inserts a tab, and emacs-snapshot inserts spaces. Whether or not

Bug#364410: backup-manager: duplicate archives are not purged

2006-08-06 Thread Sven Joachim
Sven Joachim wrote: Package: backup-manager Version: 0.7.2-1 Severity: normal To work around bug #363663, I put a line with export GZIP=-9n into backup-manager's cron script. However, duplicate files are still not replaced by symlinks: AFICT, this seems to be fixed in version 0.7.4-1. I

Bug#382307: dselect: SIGWINCH ignored in help screens

2006-08-10 Thread Sven Joachim
Package: dselect Version: 1.13.22 Severity: normal If the terminal is resized while dselect is displaying a help screen, dselect does not update the display accordingly. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture:

Bug#382335: aspell-de: Broken maintainer scripts

2006-08-10 Thread Sven Joachim
Package: aspell-de Version: 0.60-20030222-1-5 Severity: normal The maintainer scripts make assumptions about output messages of `update-alternatives', e.g. in the preinst: [...] if update-alternatives --display de.multi | grep -q 'status is manual'

Bug#348152: freedoom: New upstream version available

2006-01-15 Thread Sven Joachim
Package: freedoom Version: 0.3-2 Severity: wishlist Freedoom 0.4 has been released. Can you package it for Debian? -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Bug#321257: NEWS.Debian: no such file or directory

2006-01-19 Thread Sven Joachim
found #321257 3.0-13 thanks From /usr/share/doc/changelog.Debian.gz: , | tetex-base (3.0-12) unstable; urgency=low | | * [...] | * Document in NEWS.Debian that we cannot migrate user's changes from old | 00updmap.cfg to 10tetex-base.cfg and 10tetex-extra.cfg (closes: | #321257)

Bug#501793: kernel-package: linux-image*.postinst does not create an initrd

2008-10-10 Thread Sven Joachim
Package: kernel-package Version: 11.003 Severity: important Today I built a linux-image package for the just-released kernel 2.6.27. It built and installed fine, but when I wanted to boot it, grub complained about the initrd being non-existent. Okay, I should have noted that the postinst told

Bug#500285: no patch necessary for building against 2.6.27

2008-10-10 Thread Sven Joachim
Hi, the nvidia kernel module 173.14.09-5 built fine against the just released kernel 2.6.27. So it seems the bug can be closed without further action. :-) Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#501816: kernel-package: sed: can't read ./debian/pkg/pkg/image/postinst: No such file or directory

2008-10-10 Thread Sven Joachim
Package: kernel-package Version: 11.005 Severity: grave I got this error when trying to build an 2.6.27 linux-image: , | % MAKEFLAGS=CC=gcc-4.1 fakeroot make-kpkg --revision=custom.1.0 --initrd linux-image modules-image | [...] | /usr/bin/make -f ./debian/rules

Bug#501855: upgrade-reports: initscripts Conflicts/Pre-Depends loop

2008-10-10 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2008-10-11 03:44 +0200, Olaf van der Spek wrote: Package: upgrade-reports Severity: normal I'm afraid the severity might have to be bumped to grave if other people see this problem as well. I'm trying to upgrade a fresh Etch install to Lenny. I've hit a speedbump, it seems, see below.

Bug#501855: upgrade-reports: initscripts Conflicts/Pre-Depends loop

2008-10-11 Thread Sven Joachim
reassign 501855 apt 0.7.14 thanks On 2008-10-11 10:20 +0200, Olaf van der Spek wrote: On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 6:59 AM, Sven Joachim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2008-10-11 03:44 +0200, Olaf van der Spek wrote: Package: upgrade-reports Severity: normal I'm afraid the severity might have

Bug#501855: upgrade-reports: initscripts Conflicts/Pre-Depends loop

2008-10-11 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2008-10-11 14:03 +0200, Olaf van der Spek wrote: On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 12:02 PM, Sven Joachim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hm, that looks fairly normal. Probably it would work if you upgrade initscripts before the full-upgrade. However, it does not explain why apt wanted to temporarily

Bug#501855: upgrade-reports: initscripts Conflicts/Pre-Depends loop

2008-10-11 Thread Sven Joachim
clone 501855 -1 reassign -1 initscripts, insserv severity -1 important thanks On 2008-10-11 14:54 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: Thanks, now I see that there is indeed a dependency loop: the lenny version of initscripts conflicts with the etch version of insserv and vice versa, so apt has

Bug#500285: no patch necessary for building against 2.6.27

2008-10-12 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2008-10-12 12:51 +0200, Clemens Buchacher wrote: On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 02:03:34PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: the nvidia kernel module 173.14.09-5 built fine against the just released kernel 2.6.27. Does this include any patches I'm not aware of? 173.14.09-5 contains the file nv-linux.h

Bug#501987: nvidia-kernel-source: ignores make errors and reuses previously built nvidia.ko

2008-10-12 Thread Sven Joachim
Package: nvidia-kernel-source Version: 173.14.09-5 Severity: important As noted in #500285, the nvidia module does not build against Linux 2.6.27. However, the nvidia-kernel-source hides that fact by ignoring make errors and reusing a previously built nvidia.ko, which will of course fail to load

Bug#406715: dpkg: should stop (or at least warn) when installing /usr/foobar both as dir and symlink

2008-10-12 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2008-10-12 16:19 +0200, Torsten Werner wrote: Package: dpkg Version: 1.14.22 Followup-For: Bug #406715 Hi, the same problem happens, when a directory is replaced by a symlink during the upgrade of a package. I am attaching 2 versions of the testpackage tp to illustrate the problem.

Bug#502074: emacs22-gtk: Doesn't show filenames/hosts properly

2008-10-13 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2008-10-13 13:48 +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: emacs22-gtk only has the following title: “WM_NAME(STRING) = %f / %h” even after having opened some files, and even using “emacs foo.c” to make sure it's aware of the filenames from the very beginning. Yes, that's on purpose. By default Emacs

Bug#502202: dpkg: crashes if $PATH contains unreachable nfs directory

2008-10-14 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2008-10-14 15:35 +0200, Daniel Abel wrote: Package: dpkg Version: 1.14.16.6ubuntu4 Severity: normal Please report Ubuntu bugs in Launchpad, not in the Debian BTS. Running 'dpkg -l' gives the following if $PATH contains an unreachable NFS-mounted directory: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dpkg -l

Bug#501866: Missing dependancy - libpango1.0-common.prerm uses defoma-app in pkg defoma

2008-10-16 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2008-10-15 17:20 +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: Le mercredi 15 octobre 2008 à 10:37 -0400, Higgins, Paul a écrit : I'm not sure where the problem lies. I saw that the packages that couldn't find File/Copy.pm seemed to have their dependencies correct, but apt and dpkg still allowed

Bug#501866: Missing dependancy - libpango1.0-common.prerm uses defoma-app in pkg defoma

2008-10-16 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2008-10-16 13:35 +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: On Thu, 16 Oct 2008, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2008-10-15 17:20 +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: Frankly, I’m tempted to reassign this to dpkg; Policy §7.2 is very clear on the relationship between prerm scripts and Depends. I think

Bug#502285: first upgrade fails, xserver-xorg-video-ati is removed

2008-10-18 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2008-10-15 11:22 +0200, Martin Michlmayr wrote: Package: upgrade-reports Severity: important I upgraded my old laptop from etch to lenny. I followed the instructions from d-d-a, i.e. I first upgraded dpkg, apt and aptitude with aptitude and then did an aptitude dist-upgrade. The first

Bug#502285: first upgrade fails, xserver-xorg-video-ati is removed

2008-10-18 Thread Sven Joachim
reassign 502285 aptitude 0.4.11.10-1lenny1 retitle 502285 aptitude: full-upgrade from etch wants to remove xserver-xorg-video-all thanks On 2008-10-18 11:23 +0200, Julien Cristau wrote: On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 09:33:00 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: As you can see, I accepted the third solution

Bug#502686: ncurses-base: Overwrites files from libncurses5

2008-10-19 Thread Sven Joachim
Package: ncurses-base Version: 5.6+20081012-1 Severity: serious , | % ls -ld /usr/share/doc/*ncurses* | drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 19. Okt 08:31 /usr/share/doc/libncurses5 | drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 19. Okt 08:31 /usr/share/doc/libncurses5-dev | drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 19. Okt 08:31

Bug#502686: ncurses-base: Overwrites files from libncurses5

2008-10-19 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2008-10-19 09:05 +0200, Daniel Baumann wrote: severity 502686 important tags 502686 +pending thanks Sven Joachim wrote: Both the ncurses-base and ncurses-term packages in etch shipped a symlink to libncurses in /usr/share/doc. in general, direct upgrades from stable to unstable

Bug#500285: [pkg-nvidia-devel] Bug#500285: no patch necessary for building against 2.6.27

2008-10-21 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2008-10-20 22:34 +0200, Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 03:22:11PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: Indeed, it doesn't build correctly. But I didn't notice that, because the nvidia-kernel-source package hides the problem by ignoring make errors and reusing a previously built

Bug#501987: [pkg-nvidia-devel] Bug#500285: no patch necessary for building against 2.6.27

2008-10-21 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2008-10-21 20:58 +0200, Lennart Sorensen wrote: make-kpkg has a modules_clean target. Does using that before the build help? Nope, same problem. If not, then I suspect there is a problem with the cleaning target in the nvidia package we have to figure out. All I can say that make-kpkg

Bug#503054: emacs22: should build-depend on libasound2-dev

2008-10-22 Thread Sven Joachim
Package: emacs22 Version: 22.2+2-4 Severity: normal As can be seen on http://packages.debian.org/sid/emacs22, the emacs22 package depends on libasound2 on i386, but not on other architectures. The reason is that Emacs will be built with ALSA support if the configure script finds that on the

Bug#496580: Emacs should set a background color when highlighting

2008-08-25 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2008-08-25 21:49 +0200, Claus Fischer wrote: When calling emacs in my root xterm which has no X authority and has a light-red background, emacs will display some portions of config files in colors that are virtually unreadable. I would not recommend to run Emacs as root at all. There are

Bug#496920: dpkg-dev: dpkg-source fails to convert packages into format 3.0 (quilt)

2008-08-28 Thread Sven Joachim
Package: dpkg-dev Version: 1.14.21 Severity: important It seems that dpkg-source is unable to convert existing packages into the new 3.0 (quilt) format if these packages do not use quilt already: , | /tmp% apt-get source mktemp | Reading package lists... Done | Building dependency tree

Bug#496925: dpkg-dev: debian/patches/debian-patches-x.y.z has mode 600 in format 3.0 (quilt)

2008-08-28 Thread Sven Joachim
Package: dpkg-dev Version: 1.14.21 Severity: normal , | /tmp% umask | 022 | /tmp% apt-get source xfs | Reading package lists... Done | Building dependency tree | Reading state information... Done | Need to get 236kB of source archives. | Get:1 http://ftp.de.debian.org unstable/main xfs

Bug#494550: mc: vfs script depend on mawk, but mc doesn't even recommend it

2008-08-29 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2008-08-29 01:58 +0200, Michelle Konzack wrote: Am 2008-08-10 17:05:16, schrieb Ji??í Pale??ek: Package: mc Version: 2:4.6.2~git20080311-2+b1 Severity: normal Hello, I get errors like mawk not found from mc vfs scripts (eg. when opening a rar archive in mc). Indeed: snip I

Bug#496650: pre-depends on mktemp

2008-08-31 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2008-08-31 17:00 +0200, Clint Adams wrote: The current build of mktemp supports templates with a minimum of 1 X. For the record, actually the minimum is 0 X. Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#496920: dpkg-dev: dpkg-source fails to convert packages into format 3.0 (quilt)

2008-08-31 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2008-08-29 10:36 +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: Thanks for the bugreport! It would be even nicer if we could those kind of bugs sooner, it would be nice if we could get a few more persons running development versions of dpkg. Would you be interested? I have now built and installed dpkg from

Bug#495563: udev: double cdrom symlink in 70-persistent-cd.rules

2008-08-31 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2008-08-28 02:47 +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: On Aug 18, Sven Joachim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | # (pci-:00:02.5-scsi-1:0:1:0) For a start, this is bad: how can ID_MODEL be empty? I don't know. For a test, I rebooted into an old kernel with ide-cdrom driver, and udev put the model

Bug#497200: ITP: rt2860-source -- source for RT2860 wireless adapter kernel module

2008-09-01 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2008-09-01 09:07 +0200, Damyan Ivanov wrote: -=| Ben Hutchings, Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 11:16:27PM +0100 |=- Possibly not. The module source code should go in contrib with the blob and firmware.h removed. The blob should go in the firmware-ralink binary package built from the

Bug#497575: initscripts: /etc/rcS.d/S30checkfs.sh starts very soon

2008-09-02 Thread Sven Joachim
tags 497575 - patch thanks On 2008-09-02 21:47 +0200, Noel David Torres Taño wrote: It can happen that a system which needs to mount external USB disks detects them some seconds after /etc/rcS.d/S30checkfs.sh starts. In my laptom system, I see the USB udev lines just below the Press

Bug#497575: initscripts: /etc/rcS.d/S30checkfs.sh starts very soon

2008-09-03 Thread Sven Joachim
forcemerge 386006 497575 thanks The problem is not new, it has already been reported in #386006, as well as several times in Ubuntu: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sysvinit/+bug/40722 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/udev/+bug/47850

Bug#500460: oss-compat: modules are not loaded

2008-09-28 Thread Sven Joachim
Package: oss-compat Version: 0.0.4+nmu1 Severity: normal Somehow the snd-*-oss modules are not loaded at boot time: , | % lsmod | grep ^snd | snd_intel8x0 25564 0 | snd_ac97_codec 86880 1 snd_intel8x0 | snd_pcm54600 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec |

Bug#500470: debsums: [INTL:de] German debconf translation update

2008-09-28 Thread Sven Joachim
as the debsums package. # Sven Joachim [EMAIL PROTECTED], 2006, 2008. msgid msgstr Project-Id-Version: debsums 2.0.38\n Report-Msgid-Bugs-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] POT-Creation-Date: 2008-09-25 21:05+1200\n PO-Revision-Date: 2008-09-28 17:17+0200\n Last-Translator: Sven Joachim [EMAIL PROTECTED]\n Language

Bug#366342: more info

2008-09-28 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2008-09-28 19:13 +0200, Michael Gilbert wrote: for what its worth, even though invoking timidity's startup seems to error out: $ sudo invoke-rc.d timidity start Starting TiMidity++ ALSA midi emulation... ALSA lib seq_hw.c:457:(snd_seq_hw_open) open /dev/snd/seq failed: No such file or

Bug#499840: debsums: cron script should certainly not be daily

2008-09-29 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2008-09-29 08:20 +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: On Mon, 22 Sep 2008, Adeodato Simó wrote: Package: debsums Version: 2.0.37 Severity: important As subject says, it should be weekly at most. Full ack. It takes several hours on my laptop… and my computer is very slow when debsums still

Bug#500526: Can not be install, missing or incomplete dependencies

2008-09-29 Thread Sven Joachim
reassign 500526 python-gnome2-extras 2.19.1-2 tags 500526 + sid thanks On 2008-09-29 07:50 +0200, Kartik Mistry wrote: Package: istanbul Version: 0.2.2-4 Severity: serious Package can't be install on Sid. I have tried on both i386/amd64 arch. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo apt-get install

Bug#500659: acpid: init script will fail if /proc/modules does not exist

2008-09-30 Thread Sven Joachim
Package: acpid Version: 1.0.6-13 Severity: normal Tags: patch It is a bad idea to use the syntax [ -f /proc/modules ] load_modules in /etc/init.d/acpid, since that causes immediate failure of the script if /proc/modules does not exist (such as in non-modular kernels). Please use the

Bug#500705: emacs21-common: c-perl-mode misparses some regexes

2008-09-30 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2008-09-30 18:08 +0200, Tim Cutts wrote: Package: emacs21-common Version: 21.4a+1-3etch1 Severity: normal Try entering the following code in a c-perl-mode buffer, with syntax highlighting on (I use font-lock-mode): my $seq = 'A' x 200; $seq =~ s/.{80}/$1\n/g; The {80} confuses the

Bug#500722: xfs: stop links in runlevels 0 and 6 are unnecessary

2008-09-30 Thread Sven Joachim
Package: xfs Version: 1:1.0.8-2 Severity: wishlist There is currently a small but noticeable slowdown when turning off the machine due to xfs' inability to remove its own pid file (see #498823). This could be circumvented by not running the stop script in runlevels 0 and 6; since xfs doesn't have

Bug#500659: [Pkg-acpi-devel] Bug#500659: acpid: init script will fail if /proc/modules does not exist

2008-09-30 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2008-09-30 21:15 +0200, Loïc Minier wrote: Thanks for the report, this was already fixed in git; I'm only waiting for some confirmation one way or the other from release team to push. Is this git repository publicly accessible? The debian/control file only lists some inaccessible SVN

Bug#500794: uswsusp - s2ram does not follow kernel

2008-10-01 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2008-10-01 15:53 +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: Package: uswsusp Version: 0.8-1.1 Severity: grave s2ram ignores if the kernel say it supports suspend-to-ram and insist on a white list. As using s2ram is currently the default method, this is unacceptable. The kernel know itself if it can

Bug#289954: emacs terminal causes package installs using ucf/debconf to hang

2008-10-02 Thread Sven Joachim
reassign 289954 debconf forcemerge 497357 289954 thanks [ A bit belated reply, I hope it is still useful. ] On 2005-12-26 23:16 +0100, Ross Boylan wrote: I'm still seeing this problem in a current testing system. In the latest incarnation, xserver-xorg was prompting for responses

Bug#149341: emacs21: show-paren-mode cannot handle a very long line

2008-10-02 Thread Sven Joachim
retitle 149341 emacs21: Please document that `show-paren-mode' is influenced by `blink-matching-paren-distance' severity 149341 wishlist thanks [ Please forgive the slightly delayed response. I hope it's still useful. ] On 2002-06-07 21:54 +0200, Oohara Yuuma wrote: Package: emacs21

Bug#499568: Not just Emacs

2008-10-02 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2008-10-02 20:56 +0200, Steve Cotton wrote: Bug #484305 reports the same problem in Vim, X-Chat, Gnumeric, python-nautilus and gedit. And there are very likely dozens of other applications affected where the problem just isn't known yet. Unfortunately the Python guys don't seem to be

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