Bug#342610: openoffice.org: update problems 1.1.4-7 - 2.0.0-4

2005-12-08 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Package: openoffice.org Version: 1.1.4-7 Severity: normal I'm trying to update to openoffice.org from 1.0.4-7 to 2.0.0-4 and get the following errors: # apt-get -t unstable install openoffice.org . Preparing to replace openoffice.org 1.1.4-7 (using .../openoffice.org_2.0.0-4_i386.deb) ...

Bug#342623: java-package: errors if J2SE_PACKAGE_FULL_NAME contains spaces

2005-12-08 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Package: java-package Version: 0.27 Severity: normal Tags: patch make-jpkg prints error messages if J2SE_PACKAGE_FULL_NAME is set and contains multiple words separated by spaces. This happens because no quotes are used around the variable during this test. I'm adding a small patch to fix this.

Bug#387675: undocumented rootstrap.conf option 'umlargs'

2006-09-15 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Package: rootstrap Version: 0.3.23-1 Severity: minor Hi, rootstrap(1) mentions an 'umlargs' option in rootstrap.conf while describing the -u / --umlargs option, but 'umlargs' is neither described in rootstrap(1) nor in /etc/rootstrap/rootstrap.conf. It seems to belong to the [global] section. I

Bug#387679: rootstrap: problems with debconf preseeding

2006-09-15 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Package: rootstrap Version: 0.3.23-1 Severity: normal Hi Mattia, at first many thanks for integrating all my suggestions into rootstrap. There are two problems with preseeding: a) can't use a local file (without an absolute path) b) can't use a file from /etc a) shouldn't be too hard to fix

Bug#387688: debian-archive-keyring: superfluous dependency on gnupg?

2006-09-15 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Package: debian-archive-keyring Version: 2006.01.18 Severity: normal Hi, I don't see the necessity for a Depends: gnupg. The postinst script calls apt-key (which is in package apt). So gnupg is only needed if someone wants to examine the contents of the keyrings - a Recommends: gnupg should be

Bug#387935: rootstrap: new module to configure locales

2006-09-17 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Package: rootstrap Version: 0.3.23-1 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch Hi, I wrote a new rootstrap module to configure the locales inside the uml image. It's currently a separate module, but perhaps an integration into the debian module might be senseful? It's working for both sarge and etch and

Bug#387938: rootstrap: run apt-get upgrade after installing sources.list?

2006-09-17 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Package: rootstrap Version: 0.3.23-1 Severity: wishlist Hi, might it be useful, to run apt-get upgrade after installing a custom sources.list? The new sources.list might contain the security updates source and there may be newer versions available than installed by debootstrap. I tried the

Bug#387679: rootstrap: problems with debconf preseeding

2006-09-17 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Hi, now I stumbled over it: $WORKDIR is the variable I have to use (instead of $HOST_CWD). Andreas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#372901: problem with setting multiple blocks in /etc/apt/preferences

2006-09-17 Thread Andreas Beckmann
reopen 372901 thanks Hi, unfortunately ConfigParser.py does not preserve empty lines indented with whitespace, so setting something like preferences= Packages: * Pin: release unstable Pin-Priority: 300 Packages: * Pin: release testing Pin-Priority: 400 ends as a single entry in

Bug#388055: rootstrap: modules/uml does not create /etc/timezone properly

2006-09-18 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Package: rootstrap Version: 0.3.23-1 Severity: normal Hi, /etc/timezone is actually created in / (rootstrap uml environment), not in $TARGET, my fix: chroot $TARGET echo $TARGET_TIMEZONE /etc/timezone echo $TARGET_TIMEZONE $TARGET/etc/timezone Andreas -- System Information:

Bug#388061: rootstrap: print an error message if a module is not executable

2006-09-18 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Package: rootstrap Version: 0.3.23-1 Severity: wishlist Hi, it would be nice if rootstrap would throw an error if a module script is found to be not executable. The error message Module ... failed with status 127 is not that clear ... Andreas -- System Information: Debian Release:

Bug#388068: rootstrap: mount /lib/modules before rcS.d/S20module-init-tools

2006-09-18 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Package: rootstrap Version: 0.3.23-1 Severity: wishlist Hi, this a followup to bug #377035 where [uml]kernel_modules=hostfs was introduced. Using kernel_modules=hostfs breaks /etc/modules (unless it's empty). Since this doesn't affect me (and I don't expect a large number of users needs to load

Bug#388076: rootstrap: configuring /etc/hosts

2006-09-18 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Package: rootstrap Version: 0.3.23-1 Severity: wishlist Hi, the /etc/hosts currently created is not that useful if I want to make the uml instance available (network-wise) in the local network. E.g. apache2 complains that it can't resolve the fqdn. The current template (in modules/network) is:

Bug#388121: rootstrap: /etc/fstab uses /dev/ubd0 instead of /dev/ubda

2006-09-18 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Package: rootstrap Version: 0.3.23-1 Severity: minor Hi, modules/uml creates an /etc/fstab that mentions the / filesystem on /dev/ubd0 - but ubd0 is uml command line syntax, the actual device is /dev/ubda. This is harmless, since the rootfs is not mounted based on the fstab entry. But it's a bad

Bug#388128: user-mode-linux: eats up the whole /dev/shm

2006-09-18 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Package: user-mode-linux Version: 2.6.17-1um-2 Severity: normal Hi, running several uml guests can consume the whole /dev/shm quickly: e.g. host mem: 1GB /dev/shm: 507 MB (default tmpfs size) 2x linux mem=256m: 512MB == greater than /dev/shm One uml guest crashed, the other could be shut down,

Bug#372901: [Pkg-uml-pkgs] Bug#372901: problem with setting multiple blocks in /etc/apt/preferences

2006-09-19 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Mattia Dongili wrote: yes, for this reason I'd prefer using a dot-only line used as separator, ... This is common already in debian packaging files (and probably others) and doesn't impose any other constraint. Sounds sensible. Andreas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Bug#387675: [Pkg-uml-pkgs] Bug#387675: undocumented rootstrap.conf option 'umlargs'

2006-09-19 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Hi Mattia, Isn't a little overkill separating the mem= argument from the others? Since umlargs is already there I'd simply document that one. For now umlargs is sufficient to set mem. Just in case rootstrap someday needs to increase the default mem limit because oom kills happen to often -

Bug#358712: Hints for changing thestart/stop level

2006-11-14 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Hi Arnaud, to change the update-rc.d invocation in the postinst script, add the following line to debian/rules: DEB_UPDATE_RCD_PARAMS= defaults 90 10 that will start the script at 90 and stop it at 10 (on new installations). If you want to change this on upgrades, too, do the following (it

Bug#390741: logwatch: unmatched postfix log messages

2006-10-16 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Willi Mann wrote: Can you please test if my fixes work for you? (Especially the postfix part) Upload is intended for tomorrow. The new package worked well, so go on and upload it. Thanks. Andreas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Bug#391368: list of some missing headers

2006-11-03 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Hi, ext/mbstring/oniguruma/*.h ext/mbstring/mbstring.h ext/mbstring/php_mbregex.h There seem to be more mbstring headers missing from the php5-dev package, but manually supplying the headers listed above allowed the compilation of the suhosin module. Andreas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#392349: typo in apache2.2-common.postinst

2006-11-05 Thread Andreas Beckmann
reopen 392349 thanks This bug was previously closed with: * Enable the same list of modules as we had in 2.0 (by default) and do that for all older versions than 2.2.3-3 to fix upgrade issues people have had. Closes: #392349 Unfortunately, there is a typo in apache2.2-common.postinst that

Bug#397179: php5: consider adding the suhosin patch

2006-11-05 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Package: php5 Version: 5.1.6-6 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch Hi, please consider including the suhosin patch: http://www.hardened-php.net/suhosin/index.html Suhosin is an advanced protection system for PHP installations. It was designed to protect servers and users

Bug#390741: logwatch: unmatched postfix log messages

2006-10-15 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Willi Mann wrote: I've reduced my fix by the nss-mysql fixes because I don't want a bug report like logwatch deliberately ignores important error message. Just because the error message is now useless doesn't mean it's useless in the future. Please use ignore.conf as described in the docs

Bug#393224: tomcat5.5: maintainer script problems

2006-10-15 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Package: tomcat5.5 Version: 5.5.17-2 Severity: normal Hi, on purge the tomcat5.5 postrm script tries to delete the user 'tomcat55' twice, according to the comments the second userdel invocation should probably remove 'tomcat5'. Lintian throws a few errors and warnings: E: tomcat5.5-webapps:

Bug#390741: logwatch: unmatched postfix log messages

2006-10-02 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Package: logwatch Version: 7.3.1-2 Severity: normal Hi, although most postfix 2.3 messages were properly detected by the 7.3.1 release, there seems to be a new message that can be ignored with the following additional line in scripts/services/postfix: or ( $ThisLine =~ m/^$re_MsgID: sender

Bug#390743: logwatch: unmatched postfix-mysql and libnss-mysql log messages

2006-10-02 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Package: logwatch Version: 7.3.1-2 Severity: normal Hi, postfix-mysql and lib-nss-mysql spit out a few messages that are not recognized in the secure log script. I added the following lines to scripts/services/secure in order to ignore these messages: or ( $ThisLine =~

Bug#390741: logwatch: unmatched postfix log messages

2006-10-03 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Willi Mann wrote: 4ECDB11F8004: client=host.example.com[8.1.2.1], sasl_method=CRAM-MD5, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Should I report sasl_username or sasl_sender? What does make more sense? Sorry, I don't have any postfix installation available. Looking at the code again ... I

Bug#390743: logwatch: unmatched postfix-mysql and libnss-mysql log messages

2006-10-03 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Willi Mann wrote: Will postfix/smtpd report anything useful to the secure logfile? If not, we should ignore it completely. postfix/smtpd messages from auth.log (user/domain info obscured and ran though sort | uniq -c | sort -n): 113 sql plugin create statement from cmusaslsecretCRAM-MD5

Bug#390743: logwatch: unmatched postfix-mysql and libnss-mysql log messages

2006-10-03 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Willi Mann wrote: I have looked at the source code of libnns-mysql. The only occurence of above message seems to be src/ent.c, line 202: _nss_mysql_log(LOG_ERR,setent(%d): conf file parsing failed, This says LOG_ERR, and I don't think we should kill error messages. However, it would

Bug#390972: libnss-mysql: please don't report errors reading nss-mysql-root.conf for non-root users

2006-10-03 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Package: libnss-mysql Version: 1.0-4 Severity: normal Hi, executing the getspnam() as non-root user gives the error _nss_mysql_getspnam_r conf file parsing failed every time. This is on purpose because the user is not allowed to read nss-mysql-root.conf, so this just pollutes the logs. I

Bug#391120: libnss-mysql: upstream location has moved

2006-10-04 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Package: libnss-mysql Version: 1.0-4 Severity: minor Hi, long ago upstream has moved to http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/nss-mysql/, debian/copyright still refers to http://freesoftware.fsf.org/download/nss-mysql/. Furthermore it would be nice to mention that this package is not made from

Bug#390743: logwatch: unmatched postfix-mysql and libnss-mysql log messages

2006-10-04 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Willi Mann wrote: This says LOG_ERR, and I don't think we should kill error messages. However, it would make sense to summarise it, to avoid differnent process numbers to make the list of Unmatched Entries longer. Superfluous non-error messages reported against libnss-mysql as bug #390972:

Bug#372901: problem with setting multiple blocks in /etc/apt/preferences

2006-09-20 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Sven Mueller wrote: yes, for this reason I'd prefer using a dot-only line used as separator, In rootstrap.conf this would be actually a line consisting of spacedot since it's a continuation line. I wouldn't require that. aptitude/apt-get etc. are working quite nicely with empty lines between

Bug#387675: [Pkg-uml-pkgs] Bug#387675: undocumented rootstrap.conf option 'umlargs'

2006-09-20 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Mattia Dongili wrote: how do you deal with [global] umlargs=init=/bin/sh mem=256M bla=b mem=128M Uups, didn't think about this. How does uml handle ... mem=128M mem=256M ... ? Looks like the last one wins ... We could just ship a rootstrap.conf with some clear comment on possible issues

Bug#501794: /usr/sbin/dpkg-reconfigure: --frontend should override DEBIAN_FRONTEND setting from environment

2008-10-10 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Package: debconf Version: 1.5.22 Severity: normal File: /usr/sbin/dpkg-reconfigure Hi, shouldn't command line settings override the environment? Probably not only --frontend vs. DEBIAN_FRONTEND, but for other parameters as well. I just ran into a problem when I wanted to manually reconfigure a

Bug#502222: subversion: svn does not react to Ctrl-C or signals properly on slow connections

2008-10-14 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Package: subversion Version: 1.5.1dfsg1-1 Severity: normal Hi, if I press Ctrl-C during a svn operation, svn often does not terminate properly. For instance, I may want to abort a 'svn update' that retrieves a lot of updates over a slow connection. Svn does somehow stop processing the update

Bug#502342: deborphan: --guess-dummy does not report the transitional lynx package

2008-10-15 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Package: deborphan Version: 1.7.27 Severity: normal Hi, deborphan --guess-dummy does not report the transitional lynx package: # deborphan --guess-dummy # dpkg -s lynx Package: lynx Status: install ok installed Priority: extra Section: web Installed-Size: 44 Maintainer: Atsuhito KOHDA [EMAIL

Bug#502342: deborphan: --guess-dummy does not report the transitional lynx package

2008-10-15 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Carsten Hey wrote: On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 08:42:21PM +0200, Andreas Beckmann wrote: deborphan --guess-dummy does not report the transitional lynx package: $ deborphan --guess-dummy $ deborphan --guess-dummy -n | line lynx $ deborphan --show-deps lynx lynx pciutils gettext

Bug#502347: apt-listchanges: displays changelog on stdout if frontend is set to mail and stdout is not a tty

2008-10-15 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Package: apt-listchanges Version: 2.82 Severity: normal Hi, I have set apt-listchanges to only send mail with the changelogs. But if I run aptitude noninteractively from a script that redirects output to a file, apt-listchages displays the changelog on stdout, so they end up in the logfile as

Bug#502542: /sbin/rescan-scsi-bus.sh: lots of errors when scanning host with no devices connected

2008-10-17 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Package: scsitools Version: 0.10-1.2 Severity: normal File: /sbin/rescan-scsi-bus.sh Tags: patch Hi, rescan-scsi-bus.sh may output tons of errors if scanning a host adapter with no devices connected. The amount of errors depends on the number of files in the current directory because at some

Bug#497073: nvidia-graphics-drivers: new upstream release 173.14.12

2008-08-29 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Package: nvidia-graphics-drivers Version: 173.14.09-3 Severity: normal Hi, there is a new upstream release available: http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_amd64_173.14.12.html http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_ia32_173.14.12.html Andreas -- System Information: Debian Release:

Bug#497075: nvidia-graphics-drivers: consider uploading beta releases to experimental

2008-08-29 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Package: nvidia-graphics-drivers Version: 173.14.09-3 Severity: wishlist Hi, there is also a new beta release of the driver available: http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_ia32_177.67.html http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_amd64_177.67.html What do you think about packaging

Bug#497077: nvidia-graphics-drivers: n

2008-08-29 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Package: nvidia-graphics-drivers Version: 173.14.09-3 Severity: wishlist Hi, what do you think about packaging libcuda separately from the nvidia-glx package? There is no dependency between libcuda and the glx libraries and if you just want to use cuda, glx pulls a lot of not needed stuff.

Bug#499888: subversion: bash completion for 'svn up --set-depth \t\t' incorrect

2008-09-23 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Package: subversion Version: 1.5.1dfsg1-1 Severity: normal Hi, bash completion for svn up --set-depth \t\t is incorrect - it gives me a list of files instead of the 4 valid option empty files immediates infinity Completion of --set-depth should be the same as for --depth where

Bug#491195: Valgrind: FATAL: VG_N_SEGMENTS is too low.

2008-07-17 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Package: valgrind Version: 1:3.3.1-2 Severity: normal Hi, valgrind just died with the following message: --19061:0:aspacem Valgrind: FATAL: VG_N_SEGMENTS is too low. --19061:0:aspacemIncrease it and rebuild. Exiting now. The program I debugged uses a huge amount of memory ... Andreas

Bug#462701: Debian grub: disabling savedefault

2008-02-10 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Hi all, I experienced similar problems on my notebook (reiserfs /) sometimes after using suspend-to-disk (uswsusp s2disk) - and it's perfectly OK to have an unclean / in that case and last week also on a server at my parents place (several hundred km away from me) that hang in grub after a power

Bug#393079: configurable-savedefault.diff updated for 0.97-30

2008-02-10 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Hi all, I attach an updated version of the configurable-savedefault patch that applies cleanly on 0.97-30. Andreas --- a/debian/update-grub2008-02-10 17:37:10.812178408 +0100 +++ b/debian/update-grub2008-02-10 17:42:24.516192190 +0100 @@ -330,6 +330,9 @@ # should grub create a

Bug#465240: [debsign] add support for signing Release files

2008-02-11 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Package: devscripts Version: 2.10.15 Severity: wishlist File: /usr/bin/debsign Hi, what do you think about signing Release files with debsign? Especially ones located on remote machines, so the existing debsign -r infrastructure may be reused. I also second the request for allowing more than one

Bug#465219: reprepro: please add a 'copysrc' command

2008-02-11 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Package: reprepro Version: 3.0.1-1 Severity: wishlist Hi Bernhard, what do you think about adding a 'copysrc' command? Like the removesrc command, this should operate on all packages belonging to a source package and copy them to the destination distribution, so you don't have to look up the

Bug#465235: grub-installer: kernel-img.conf hooks should call /usr/sbin/update-grub

2008-02-11 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Package: debian-installer Version: svn-r51292 Severity: normal Hi, according to the grub documentation [1][2] you should call update-grub with the full path (/usr/sbin/update-grub). But the installer creates a kernel-img.conf that calls it without path: postinst_hook = update-grub

Bug#465213: reprepro: please add a --pooldir option

2008-02-11 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Package: reprepro Version: 3.0.1-1 Severity: wishlist Hi Bernhard, the pooldir is currently the only directory that can't be moved out of the basedir by some configuration option. In my setup I like to have everything in basedir (== .) except distdir and pooldir that are moved to a documentroot

Bug#465236: base-installer: make kernel-img.conf/do_symlinks configurable and preseedable

2008-02-11 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Package: debian-installer Version: svn-r51292 Severity: wishlist Hi, please add support for a configurable and preseedable do_symlinks setting in kernel-img.conf. I'd like to turn this off because I don't need these links. They are not used if they are in / and if I enable link_in_boot I get two

Bug#465213: reprepro: please add a --pooldir option

2008-02-12 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Bernhard R. Link wrote: I've added an --outdir command line argument to set the directory the pool directory and the dists directory (unless --distdir is set) are created within. (Currently only in CVS, will be in 3.3.1) Do you think that is sufficent? That sounds fine, exactly what I'm going

Bug#465912: vim: Makefile systax highlighting does not know about $(lastword ...)

2008-02-15 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Package: vim Version: 1:7.1-245+1 Severity: normal Hi, the syntax highlighting in Makefile mode does not know about $(lastword ...) and doesn't highlight it as a builtin function. IIRC, lastword is a quite new keyword and perhaps there are some more newer keywords missing proper highlighting,

Bug#460736: gcc-4.2: openmp support went lost: omp.h, ... missing

2008-01-14 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Package: gcc-4.2 Version: 4.2.2-6 Severity: important Hi, in the last upload of gcc-4.2 (4.2.2-6) openmp support went lost. The following files are missing (compared to 4.2.2-4, thx to debdiff): -rw-r--r-- root/root /usr/lib/gcc/i486-linux-gnu/4.2/SYSCALLS.c.X -rw-r--r-- root/root

Bug#460805: colorgcc: colorize 'command-line: warning: ...'

2008-01-14 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Package: colorgcc Version: 1.3.2.0-6 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch Hi, I attach a patch that adds support for colorizing warnings like command-line: warning: FOOBAR redefined command-line: warning: this is the location of the previous definition Andreas -- System Information: Debian

Bug#460924: 32bit libcowdancer for amd64?

2008-01-15 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Package: cowdancer Version: 0.44 Severity: wishlist Hi Junichi, while using cow-shell on an amd64 system I came across a 32bit program running there and producing LD_PRELOAD warnings because the 64bit library obviously can't be preloaded in this case. The program is proprietary binary only, so

Bug#455555: libstdc++5 is available in lenny's ia32-libs

2008-01-15 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Hi, today I ran into this problem, too. But since I'm running testing, I could use the ia32-libs package available there. This version (2.2) includes libstdc++.so.5. Andreas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#460924: 32bit libcowdancer for amd64?

2008-01-15 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Hi Junichi, Junichi Uekawa wrote: I think this request is reasonable; if I can overcome the technical barriers, this should probably be implemented. I can live with this little annoyance, but perhaps it's something to think about: making cowdancer multilib capable and setting LD_PRELOAD in

Bug#461874: invalid $HOME in pbuilder -login session

2008-01-21 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Package: pbuilder Version: 0.177 Severity: normal Hi Junichi, in a pbuilder -login session the variable $HOME keeps the value of the user invoking pbuilder, which is obviously not valid inside the chroot. Probably should be set to /root if it's root's shell. I noticed this by vim failing to

Bug#461961: poppler-utils: pdftops lacks the '-cfg some.file' option

2008-01-21 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Package: poppler-utils Version: 0.6.2-1 Severity: important Hi, the pdftops provided by poppler lacks the -cfg command line option. This makes it incompatible with pdftops from xpdf-utils and also contradicts the manpage provided by poppler-utils (but that was probably copied from xpdf and not

Bug#460624: cups + pdftops - poppler-utils vs. xpdf-utils

2008-01-21 Thread Andreas Beckmann
merge 457810 460624 thanks Hi all, I just reported a bug against poppler-utils (#461961) [1] about the missing -cfg option, since this most probably should be fixed there. Installing xpdf-utils worked for me, too. And for the curious, the -cfg option is set in /usr/lib/cups/filter/pdftops

Bug#457391: autoremoving *after* upgrade

2008-01-06 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Hi Loïc, pbuilder (0.177) unstable; urgency=low . [ Loic Minier ] * Run apt-get autoremove after upgrade. It's nice to see autoremove being implemented, but unfortunately it's called before upgrade and so it will only take effect when updating twice (that is after updating next time)

Bug#459432: pbuilder: invalid Upgrading for distribution xyz message on update

2008-01-06 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Package: pbuilder Version: 0.177 Severity: minor Tags: patch Hi, when no --override-config option is given, options like --distribution, (or their .pbuilderrc counterparts DISTRIBUTION, ...) are not taken into account for setting up the chroot, they also shouldn't be used for outputting

Bug#459436: cowdancer: put cowbuilder in it's own package

2008-01-06 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Package: cowdancer Version: 0.44 Severity: wishlist Hi Junichi, recently I wanted to install cowdancer to try cow-shell, but unfortunately it brought a whole lot of dependencies due to the pbuilder dependency. Since cow-shell may be useful on it's own (e.g. working with hardlinked copies of

Bug#459605: configure-index.gz: does not mention Dir::Etc::sourceparts

2008-01-07 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Package: apt Version: 0.7.9 Severity: wishlist Hi, configure-index.gz is not up-to-date, Dir::Etc::sourceparts is not mentioned at all. According to the date in the header (2004/07/17), probably some more options are missing. Andreas -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT

Bug#459612: debian-installer: bad interaction with not-empty /etc/apt/sources.list.d

2008-01-07 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Package: debian-installer Version: svn r50786 Severity: normal Hi, debian-installer has bad interations with /etc/apt/sources.list.d when building e.g. the netboot installer (didn't try the other ones because I don't need them). I have no /etc/apt/sources.list, but several

Bug#460269: xkb-data: layout=us + variant=nodeadkeys breaks Ctrl+F1 ...

2008-01-11 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Package: xkb-data Version: 1.0~cvs.20070916-1 Severity: normal Hi, when I recently switched the x keyboard config from layout=de to layout=us, this broke Ctrl+F1, ... i.e. switching to the ttys which didn't react at all. I checked a bit further and found this to be caused by the Option

Bug#430427: /bin/ps: default sort order has changed

2008-01-02 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Samuel Thibault wrote: ps axu --sort=start Use ps aux --sort=start_time Andreas (who is using alias ps='ps aux --sort=start_time' for quite some time to work around this bug) Happy New Year! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Bug#462634: foomatic-db: update to new database snapshot ?

2008-01-26 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Package: foomatic-db Version: 20061031-1 Severity: normal Hi, what do you think about updating foomatic-db to a new database snapshot? The current package is nearly 15 months old and meanwhile probably a lot of new drivers have been added. For instance, linuxprinting.org has a Postscript driver

Bug#462637: uswsusp: machine freezes during snapshot if USB DVB-T Receiver Cinergy T^2 is plugged in

2008-01-26 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Package: uswsusp Version: 0.7-1 Severity: normal Hi, is there a possibility to add certain hardware to a blacklist in order to not suspend if it's plugged in? In my case, it's a ID 0ccd:0038 TerraTec Electronic GmbH Cinergy T^2 DVB-T Receiver (from lsusb) that freezes my laptop when I run

Bug#452750: icedtea-java7: building the Ubuntu package on Debian while it's not yet in the Debian archive

2008-01-28 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Hi, since icedtea ist still in NEW, but a coworker wants to test a 64bit java plugin (actually just any java plugin that works in his 64bit browser) I just rebuilt the Ubuntu package (7~b24-1.5+20080118-1) in a testing/unstable pbuilder environment (regenerated debian/control first) and will let

Bug#450938: doxygen: fails to generate images with graphviz from testing (2.8-2.6)

2007-11-12 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Package: doxygen Version: 1.5.3-20071020-1 Severity: normal Hi, doxygen fails to generate images if graphviz from testing (2.8-2.6) is installed. A lot of the following errors occurr: Renderer type: png:gd not recognized. Use one of: png:cg After updating graphviz to 2.12-5 from unstable,

Bug#443818: uswsusp: compression percentage is negative

2007-09-24 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Package: uswsusp Version: 0.7-1 Severity: normal Hi, since the last update of uswsusp the compression percentage displayed by s2ram is negative and beyond any sense. E.g. I remember seeing values like -4123.45 Andreas -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers testing

Bug#445839: texlive-base: using hyperref adds an unwanted end-of-page at AtEndDocument

2007-10-08 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Package: texlive-base Version: 2007-12 Severity: normal Hi, the following input file produces a two page document in texlive, it didn't do this with teTeX. Looks like hyperref (or something included by hyperref) fills the page at AtEndDocument and my additional text is moved to the next page.

Bug#445842: rmagic: fails with current libgd

2007-10-08 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Package: rmagic Version: 2.21-4 Severity: normal Tags: patch Hi, rmagic fails with the current libgd. I don't have the exact error message here anymore, but it was something like: * libgd: a memory allocation (silently) failed because there was a multiplicator 0 * in the perl module: new

Bug#423374: latex-make: bad interaction with comment.sty: dependencies include the junk file comment.cut

2007-10-10 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Hi Vincent, preparing some templates for the upcoming semester made me look into this again. So a correct fix would involve LaTeX Make to remove this intermediate file after compilation and remove it from depends and output, too. This will not be easy to do with the current implementation.

Bug#446110: [patch] colorgcc -5 broke my preferred usage of it

2007-10-15 Thread Andreas Beckmann
subscribe 446110 ! tag 446110 +patch thanks Hi, my preferred usage of colorgcc is to have a bunch of symlinks colorg++-x.y.z - colorgcc in the path and the compiler name mapping defined in .colorgccrc (usually just colorg++-x.y.z: g++-x.y.z), no weird gcc - colorgcc symlinks that might

Bug#440509: virtualbox: module postinst fails with FATAL: Module vboxdrv not found.

2007-09-02 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Package: virtualbox Version: 1.4.0svn4130-dfsg-1 Severity: normal Hi, the postinst script fails if the module currently installed is for a different kernel than the running one: Unpacking virtualbox-modules-2.6.22-2-686 (from

Bug#370494: dh-make: template kernel-module package postinst is not policy compliant

2007-01-11 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Craig Small wrote: thinking about the reformatted kernel-module postinst template again, I realized that invoking /etc/init.d/#PACKAGE# is a policy violation: Where did you find this invoking in dh_make? I tried looking for it but couldn't see it anywhere. it's in the template

Bug#397179: suhosin patch

2006-12-31 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Hi all, it's nice to hear that this patch will be included in Debian. I'm currently using PHP with suhosin patch (and suhosin module) on several production systems (i386, amd64, some still running php5.1) without problems (only had to increase some varfilter limits in the module configuration).

Bug#412914: reportbug: please add support for SSL protected SMTP communication

2007-02-28 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Package: reportbug Version: 3.33 Severity: wishlist Hi, some smarthosts provide smtp (auth) (only) over an ssl protected connection, but don't support TLS or ... So the following .reportbugrc settings would allow reporting bugs using such a smarthost: smtphost smarthost:465 smtpuser login

Bug#412915: linux-image-2.6.18-4-686: mmc/sdhci problems after resume from ram

2007-02-28 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Package: linux-image-2.6.18-4-686 Version: 2.6.18.dfsg.1-11 Severity: normal Hi, after resuming from suspend-to-ram (suspended with s2ram from uswsusp/unstable) mmc_core and sdhci spit out tons of errors and make the system very unresponsive. Eventually the system freezes (or unresponsiveness

Bug#413062: tinymce: please bundle the compressor(s)

2007-03-01 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Package: tinymce Severity: wishlist Hi, what do you think about bundling the tinymce compressors? I'm especially interested in tinymce_compressor_php, but the other compressors might be of use for other users, too (as long as they are usable on a Debian system). Andreas -- System Information:

Bug#413066: packaging tinymce locales?

2007-03-01 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Package: tinymce Severity: wishlist Hi, what about packaging the tinymce locales? I've created a tinymce-lcoales package for internal use (german translations only, but easily extensible), so if you are interested, I can make this available. Andreas -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0

Bug#404852: postfix-mysql corrections

2007-03-05 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Hi, here are some corrections/additions for the newly added postfix-mysql rules (from my own ruleset, hopefully to be retired someday): ^\w{3} [ :0-9]{11} [._[:alnum:]-]+ postfix/smtpd\[[0-9]+\]: sql plugin doing query select password from [_[:alnum:]]+ where [_[:alnum:]]+='[EMAIL

Bug#414242: vserver-debiantools: please add instructions how to remove vservers

2007-03-10 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Package: vserver-debiantools Version: 0.3.4 Severity: wishlist Hi, there is no documentation how to remove a vserver. The following procedure worked for me: vserver VSNAME stop rm -rf /var/lib/vservers/VSNAME rm -rf /etc/vservers/VSNAME Perhaps some instructions should be added to

Bug#411666: /usr/bin/svn-inject: initial checkout fails

2007-02-20 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Package: svn-buildpackage Version: 0.6.16 Severity: normal File: /usr/bin/svn-inject Tags: patch Hi, the initial checkout (default mode: 1 - trunk only) does not work: there is an attempt to copy the not existant directory $tempdir/trunk to the checkout destination. This happened while importing

Bug#422598: libc6: Segmentation fault in printf()/vfprintf()/strlen()

2007-05-07 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Package: libc6 Version: 2.5-6 Severity: normal Hi, there happens a segmentation fault with the following code: #include stdio.h int main(int argc, char**argv) { printf(%s\n, strerror(atoi(argv[1]))); } I have observed this on amd64 libc6 2.5-5

Bug#423374: latex-make: bad interaction with comment.sty: dependencies include the junk file comment.cut

2007-05-11 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Package: latex-make Version: 2.1.11-2 Severity: normal Hi, I just found a strange interaction with comment.sty: I use comment.sty and create a \specialcomment and afterwards there is a new file comment.cut in the current directory which seems to be a junk file that is shared between all targets

Bug#419511: another file conflict with gcc-4.1

2007-05-15 Thread Andreas Beckmann
reassign 419511 gcc-4.2 retitle 419511 several file conflicts with gcc-4.1 thanks Unpacking libstdc++6-4.2-dbg (from .../libstdc++6-4.2-dbg_4.2-20070405-1_amd64.deb) ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libstdc++6-4.2-dbg_4.2-20070405-1_amd64.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite

Bug#428437: dput: please add command line switch to disable lintian

2007-06-11 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Package: dput Version: 0.9.2.27 Severity: wishlist Hi, it would be nice if it were possible to disable lintian from the command line (e.g. a new switch --no-lintian) in order to force the upload of a package that didn't get approved by lintian to a private repository. Having to edit .dput.cf in

Bug#429379: nanourl: update fails due to incomplete postrm script

2007-06-17 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Package: nanourl Version: 0.1-7 Severity: important Hi, upgrading nanourl fails due to missing 'upgrade/failed-upgrade/abort-upgrade' in the postrm script: Preparing to replace nanourl 0.1-7 (using .../nanourl_0.1-7.1_i386.deb) ... Unpacking replacement nanourl ... postrm called with unknown

Bug#420846: svn-buildpackage: error writing .svn/deb-layout if --svn-tag is used

2007-04-24 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Package: svn-buildpackage Version: 0.6.18 Severity: normal Hi, writing .svn/deb-layout at the end of the operation fails if the current directory has been renamed meanwhile, as happens with --svn-tag. I've checked out svn://server/path/mypackage/trunk as mypackage-0815/ svn-buildpackage

Bug#422054: documentation: typo in example

2007-05-03 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Package: latex-make Version: 2.1.11-2 Severity: minor Hi, there is a typo in the first example in chapter 2.2: LU_MASTER=foo is used, but this needs to read LU_MASTERS=foo Andreas -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500,

Bug#427222: aptitude: fallback to display changelog from /usr/share/doc/*

2007-06-02 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Package: aptitude Version: 0.4.4-4 Severity: wishlist Hi, is it possible for aptitude to use use the changelog installed with the package in /usr/share/doc/* if fetching from the www fails? This would be helpful if the package version the changelog was requested from is is installed (or a newer

Bug#427660: reportbug: reporting on uninstalled packages displays same package several times to choose from

2007-06-05 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Package: reportbug Version: 3.38 Severity: normal Hi, when I want to report on a package that is not installed locally (but on another system where I can't/don't want to use reportbug for some reason) reportbug lets me choose the package I want to make the report. Unfortunately, due to lack of

Bug#427663: libnss-mysql-bg: needs ncsd on newer glibc (= 2.5)?

2007-06-05 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Package: libnss-mysql-bg Version: 1.5-1 Severity: normal Hi, I'm not sure whether this is really a libnss-mysql-bg bug, but there seems to be a connection. After recently upgrading a server running testing (amd64) from glibc 2.3 to glibc 2.5 I encountered repeated segmentation faults in several

Bug#431398: mozilla-traybiff-common: file conflicts with (old) icedove-traybiff

2007-07-02 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Package: mozilla-traybiff-common Version: 1.2.3-3 Severity: normal Hi Alan, I got the following error while updating icedove-traybiff from 1.2.2-13etch1 to 1.2.3-3: Selecting previously deselected package mozilla-traybiff-common. Unpacking mozilla-traybiff-common (from

Bug#431508: apr-util: .diff.gz contains .svn directories

2007-07-03 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Package: apr-util Version: 1.2.7+dfsg-2 Severity: minor Hi, the .diff.gz contains debian/.svn and debian/patches/.svn which shouldn't be shipped. Andreas -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (300, 'unstable'),

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