Bug#339907: acknowledged by developer (Closing)

2005-11-24 Thread Bill Allombert
On Thu, Nov 24, 2005 at 08:03:48AM -0800, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: Closing this bug as it's not really a bug (as stated by Bill in his last message). Hello Robin, Sorry to be a pain, but the circular dep _is_ a problem, and I still don't understand why you need it. A sarge to etch

Bug#339903: Bug#339908: Bug#339903 acknowledged by developer (Required.)

2005-11-26 Thread Bill Allombert
On Mon, Nov 21, 2005 at 10:15:40AM -0800, Daniel Burrows wrote: On Mon, Nov 21, 2005 at 11:55:54AM +0100, Bill Allombert [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: These Depends lines are required by Policy section 12.5. I suppose you mean: `/usr/share/doc/package' may

Bug#341005: xemacs21 involves several dependencies loops.

2005-11-27 Thread Bill Allombert
Package: xemacs21 Version: 21.3+1-9 Severity: important Hello Rob, The various xemacs21 component dependencies are very complex and include several loops, see the graph: http://debian.semistable.com/dot/xemacs21-support_unstable.png We should try to get rid of circular dependencies, especially

Bug#341007: kaffe involves circular dependencies

2005-11-27 Thread Bill Allombert
Package: kaffe Version: 2:1.1.6-3 Severity: important Hello Debian JAVA maintainers, kaffe is involved in a complex dependency loop. http://debian.semistable.com/dot/libjessie-java_unstable.png Such dependency loop make install and upgrade less reproducible and are known to cause problem

Bug#341424: amaya: rpath to directory in /home is a security risk.

2005-11-30 Thread Bill Allombert
Package: amaya Version: 9.2.1-6 Severity: grave Justification: might allow to access others users accounts Tags: security Hello Anand, Amaya binary include a rpath: /usr/bin/amaya: RPATH=/home/anand/Debian/amaya/config--amaya-full/amaya-full/Amaya/WX/Mesa/lib This means that a user having

Bug#341433: pari: FTBFS on GNU/kFreeBSD

2005-11-30 Thread Bill Allombert
On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 03:52:13PM +0100, Petr Salinger wrote: Hello Petr, the current version fails to build on GNU/kFreeBSD. Where is the buildlog ? It would also be nice if you can ask upstream to include this change. As soon as I get access to a kfreebsd machine (I am part of

Bug#341433: pari: FTBFS on GNU/kFreeBSD

2005-11-30 Thread Bill Allombert
On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 04:28:10PM +0100, Petr Salinger wrote: The failing is here: http://experimental.ftbfs.de/build.php?arch=kfreebsd-i386pkg=pari Thanks. As soon as I get access to a kfreebsd machine (I am part of upstream). So, is it possible to get an account on a kfreebsd machine ?

Bug#341701: update-menus should exit cleanly if the dpkg database is broken

2005-12-03 Thread Bill Allombert
On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 04:52:53PM +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If dpkg has a slightly broken index file then menu will complain and generate a new menu with many missing entries. A better behavior would be to complain and leave the old menus in place until the dpkg index files are

Bug#341037: phpgroupware has four circular Depends

2005-12-03 Thread Bill Allombert
On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 03:15:57PM +0100, Thomas Viehmann wrote: Hi Bill, Bill Allombert wrote: Circular dependencies are known to cause problems during upgrade between stable releases so we should try to get rid of them. I don't think your analysis completely applies to this case

Bug#341992: Probable typo in 10.1 install -s miss INSTALL =

2005-12-04 Thread Bill Allombert
Package: debian-policy Version: 3.6.2.1 Severity: minor Hello Debian policy editors, Section 10.1 include the following: For the C programming language, this means the following compilation parameters should be used: CC = gcc CFLAGS = -O2 -g -Wall # sane warning options

Bug#273338: Patch for the symlinks NMU

2005-05-10 Thread Bill Allombert
@@ -1,3 +1,13 @@ +symlinks (1.2-4.2) unstable; urgency=low + + * NMU + * Add license clarification from Mark Lord to copyright file. +Thanks Mark for your email. Closes: #273338 + * This upload will trigger a rebuild with current gcc, thus it +Closes: #176341. + + -- Bill Allombert [EMAIL

Bug#307450: INTL:vi

2005-05-13 Thread Bill Allombert
severity 307450 wishlist tags 307450 l10n tags 307450 patch quit On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 05:16:58PM +0930, Clytie Siddall wrote: Package: menu Version: Severity: wishlist Tags: l10n, patch [Apparently the BTS does not like an empty version field, since it did not parse the severity and tags

Bug#303896: openscenegraph: FTBFS: Unsatisfiable Build-Depends

2005-05-13 Thread Bill Allombert
On Wed, Apr 27, 2005 at 04:08:40PM +0200, Loic Dachary wrote: Bill Allombert writes: On Mon, Apr 11, 2005 at 09:26:37AM +0200, Loic Dachary wrote: I've fixed the problem and the new package will be uploaded within the next 48 hours. Thanks for your help. Hello

Bug#303896: openscenegraph: FTBFS: Unsatisfiable Build-Depends

2005-05-13 Thread Bill Allombert
On Fri, May 13, 2005 at 11:41:54PM +0200, Loic Dachary wrote: Bill Allombert writes: Would you mind if I upload the following NMU to fix that? I don't mind, on the contrary. Thanks a lot for your help. Uploaded. It was a great opportunuity to extend my pbuilder chroot to 2Gb

Bug#308953: INTL:vi

2005-05-14 Thread Bill Allombert
Hello Clytie, I checked the translation and msgcmp found a problem: $ msgcmp vi.po menu-sections.pot menu-sections.pot:29: this message is used but not defined in vi.po msgcmp: found 1 fatal error Apparently vi.po miss the following entry: #. Second level entry under Apps #. Menu policy

Bug#309085: poedit should be in the same category in the menu as kbabel(kbabel is bugged also)

2005-05-14 Thread Bill Allombert
On Sat, May 14, 2005 at 05:41:41PM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote: Quoting Eddy Petrisor ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Package: poedit Version: 1.3.1-1 Severity: minor Poedit should be placed in the same category in the Debian menu as Kbabel. Poedit is in Apps/Editors, while kbabel is in

Bug#309210: gcc-4.0 miscompile PARI/GP on x86

2005-05-15 Thread Bill Allombert
Package: gcc-4.0 Version: 4.0.0-7 Severity: normal Hello Debian GCC maintainers, gcc-4.0 and gcc-snapshot generate wrong code for PARI/GP 2.2.10 on x86. The source code can be found here: http://pari.math.u-bordeaux.fr/pub/pari/unstable/pari-2.2.10.alpha.tar.gz The problem is in the file

Bug#309329: sarge upgrade

2005-05-16 Thread Bill Allombert
On Mon, May 16, 2005 at 02:57:31PM +0200, Marco Bertolini - Sal wrote: Package: upgrade-reports Archive date: Sun May 15 19:00:02 UTC 2005 uname -a: Linux charas 2.4.29 #10 Sat Mar 26 15:40:33 CET 2005 i686 GNU/Linux Method: apt-get -f dist-upgrade I also had to upgrade fetchmail by

Bug#309340: woody - sarge failure on hppa - aptitude segfault

2005-05-16 Thread Bill Allombert
On Mon, May 16, 2005 at 08:11:46AM -0700, Paul Telford wrote: Package: upgrade-reports Upgrade date: Mon, 16 May 2005 08:03:30 -0700 uname -a: Linux zaphod 2.4.27-pa4 #2 Wed Nov 3 08:18:42 PST 2004 parisc unknown Method: aptitude Further Comments/Problems: Following the

Bug#309338: Woody to Sarge Upgrade Report

2005-05-16 Thread Bill Allombert
On Mon, May 16, 2005 at 04:52:55PM +0200, Sebastian Feltel wrote: Package: upgrade-reports Archive date: Sun May 15 19:00:02 UTC 2005 Upgrade date: 2005-07-18 uname -a: Linux debian 2.2.20-idepci #1 Sat Apr 20 12:45:19 EST 2002 i686 unknown Method: apt-get dist-upgrade dpkg: dependency

Bug#309437: libpango1.0-common - libpango1.0-0 circular dependencies

2005-05-17 Thread Bill Allombert
Package: libpango1.0-0 Version: 1.8.1-1 Severity: important Hello Sebastien, libpango1.0-0 depends on libpango1.0-common and libpango1.0-common depends on libpango1.0-0. This is a circular dependency and cause problem during woody to sarge upgrade. dpkg: dependency problems prevent

Bug#309338: Woody to Sarge Upgrade Report

2005-05-17 Thread Bill Allombert
On Tue, May 17, 2005 at 01:28:46AM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: Using my upgrade test setup with gnome-applets installed, I get the following error instead: dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libpango1.0-common: libpango1.0-common depends on libpango1.0-0 (= 1.8.1); however

Bug#309357: [Release Notes] Use Woody's or Sarge's aptitude for upgrades?

2005-05-17 Thread Bill Allombert
retitle 309357 woody aptitude update can fail quit On Tue, May 17, 2005 at 01:45:14PM +0200, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: On Mon, May 16, 2005 at 05:58:24PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: Long version: The current version of the release notes tells users to (simplified): 1. apt-get install aptitude

Bug#309604: Circular dependency libgtk2.0-0 -- libgtk2.0-common

2005-05-18 Thread Bill Allombert
Package: libgtk2.0-0 Version: 2.6.4-3 Severity: important Hello Sebastien, libgtk2.0-0 and libgtk2.0-common have a circular dependency. This can cause problems when upgrading to sarge: See bug #263546: dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libgtk2.0-common: libgtk2.0-common

Bug#309437: libpango1.0-common - libpango1.0-0 circular dependencies

2005-05-18 Thread Bill Allombert
On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 09:25:32PM +0200, Loïc Minier wrote: Hi Bill, Hi Loïc, On Tue, May 17, 2005, Bill Allombert wrote: libpango1.0-0 depends on libpango1.0-common and libpango1.0-common depends on libpango1.0-0. This is a circular dependency and cause problem during woody

Bug#345619: debian-policy: 4.8. binary-{arch, indep} should fail with error code 2 - must

2006-01-05 Thread Bill Allombert
On Mon, Jan 02, 2006 at 11:44:21AM +0200, Kari Pahula wrote: But, since it's not a requirement for debian/rules build-{arch,indep} to return an error when the targets are missing, tools such as dpkg-buildpackage have no choice but to always call debian-rules build even when building arch

Bug#346126: libjpeg6b: source package missing configure.in

2006-01-06 Thread Bill Allombert
On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 03:50:33PM -0500, C. Scott Ananian wrote: Package: libjpeg6b Severity: normal The source package is missing the configure.in file (from which the configure script is generated by autoconf) which violates provision 2 (source code) of the DFSG (where source code is the

Bug#331438: wrong usage of su in /etc/cron.weekly/popularity-contest

2006-01-06 Thread Bill Allombert
On Sat, Jan 07, 2006 at 01:43:08AM +0100, Nicolas Fran�ois wrote: Hello, [This bug is already tagged as pending, this is just an additional note] On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 11:07:45PM +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: invoking /etc/cron.weekly/popularity-contest fails with: sh: - :

Bug#344434: menu: French translation update

2006-01-07 Thread Bill Allombert
On Thu, Dec 22, 2005 at 07:02:42PM +0100, Jean-Luc Coulon (f5ibh) wrote: Package: menu Version: 2.1.27 Severity: wishlist Tags: l10n Hi, Please find attached the French translation update, proofread by the debian-l10n-french mailing list contributors. Hello Jean-Luc, apparently this

Bug#345179: toppler: [INTL:sv] Swedish PO translation

2006-01-07 Thread Bill Allombert
On Thu, Dec 29, 2005 at 03:43:12PM +0100, Daniel Nylander wrote: Package: toppler Version: 1.1.1-1 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch l10n Here is the swedish translation of toppler. There is an error in toppler. Seems like letter å (aring;) is not in the font. Therefor the swedish

Bug#346445: popularity-contest: cron run fails (with anacron at least)

2006-01-08 Thread Bill Allombert
merge 346445 331438 quit On Sun, Jan 08, 2006 at 07:42:46AM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote: (shadow package maintainer hat ON. Please keep at least the pkg-shadow mailing list CC'ed) Quoting Frank Pavageau ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Package: popularity-contest Version: 1.31 Severity:

Bug#347510: lintian: menu-icon-not-in-xpm-format needs updating/removing

2006-01-11 Thread Bill Allombert
On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 04:14:59PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: Package: lintian Version: 1.23.14 Severity: normal The description for lintian's menu-icon-not-in-xpm-format check needs to be updated since it refers to section 3.4 of the menu policy, which does not currently exist. This

Bug#347581: debian-policy: Explicitly permit *-headers binary package created from library source package

2006-01-11 Thread Bill Allombert
On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 01:04:44PM -0500, Kevin B. McCarty wrote: benjo (sid)[126]:~% ls -l src/GEANT4/geant4-headers_4.8.0-1_all.deb -rw-r--r-- 1 kmccarty kmccarty 1300680 2006-01-11 11:58 src/GEANT4/geant4-headers_4.8.0-1_all.deb but I guess even 11 * (1.3 MB) isn't so much compared to the

Bug#345868: Policy should require _pic libraries for static-only libraries

2006-01-11 Thread Bill Allombert
On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 03:28:54PM +, Roger Leigh wrote: My own view is that, at least for the common case, static libraries don't really serve a useful purpose today; they are rarely used, and needlessly bloat our -dev packages. Wherever possible, we should be providing shared libraries

Bug#342787: deborphan -a miss some packages

2005-12-10 Thread Bill Allombert
Package: deborphan Version: 1.7.18 Severity: normal Hello Peter, Despite what the manpage say, I find deborphan -a very useful on small server/firewall type box when I want to have a minimum of packages installed. However, deborphan -a miss some packages that are orphaned. I can send you

Bug#342787: deborphan -a miss some packages

2005-12-10 Thread Bill Allombert
Hello Peter, I have identified two problems: 1) if a package Depends of foo | bar, then both foo and bar are considered non-orphaned. 2) if a package Depends of baz and If foo and bar Provides baz, then both foo and bar are considered non-orphaned. How can we improve this ? For example here

Bug#342896: libaqbanking0c2a is involved in three circular dependencies

2005-12-11 Thread Bill Allombert
On Sun, Dec 11, 2005 at 06:22:55PM +0100, Thomas Viehmann wrote: Hi Bill, Hello Thomas, I am well aware that removing circular dependencies is usually a pain and that it is easier to report a bug than to fix it, but I think this will induce maintainers to think their dependencies globally. I

Bug#335675: menu: [INTL:fr] Manpages translation to French

2005-12-13 Thread Bill Allombert
On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 01:13:40PM +0200, Nicolas François wrote: Package: menu Version: 2.1.26 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch l10n Hello, Please find attached a patch that adds the French translation of the menu's man pages. Hello Nicolas, Thanks for your translations! I could not

Bug#305764: Bug#81495: Bug#305764: menu/menu-xdg: menu-xdg doesn't know when menu is gone

2005-12-13 Thread Bill Allombert
tags 305764 - patch retitle 305764 Removing menu should remove the generated menus. severity 305764 wishlist thanks On Wed, Apr 27, 2005 at 01:02:44AM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: Hello Christopher, One third of this wishlist is implemented, now update-menus --remove will remove the menu provide

Bug#335675: menu: [INTL:fr] Manpages translation to French

2005-12-13 Thread Bill Allombert
On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 05:49:35PM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote: I could not apply your patch wholesale because switchng to po4a cause too much practical issues. Doe this means that you won't switch to po4a at all...or just don't switch *now*? I am not switching to the way it was used

Bug#343217: Patch for NMUs

2005-12-13 Thread Bill Allombert
#297322. + + + -- Bill Allombert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue, 13 Dec 2005 16:04:26 +0100 + +menu-xdg (0.2.1) unstable; urgency=low + + * NMU + * Apply fix from Christopher Martin: ++ Use 'find | xargs rm 'instead of 'rm *' to remove .desktop files. + packages installed. (Closes: #297322

Bug#335675: menu: [INTL:fr] Manpages translation to French

2005-12-13 Thread Bill Allombert
On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 07:56:03PM +0100, Nicolas François wrote: Hi! On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 04:35:03PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I could not apply your patch wholesale because switchng to po4a cause too much practical issues. No problem. I don't really see the practical

Bug#335675: menu: [INTL:fr] Manpages translation to French

2005-12-14 Thread Bill Allombert
On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 08:34:58AM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote: Well frankly, I prefer to handle that myself. This way I can decide a string That doesn't scale, sorry. What will happen when you'll get more than 60 translations ? :-). Will you check each one and try to decide whether it

Bug#343327: menu: wrong i18n: out of date po files

2005-12-14 Thread Bill Allombert
On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 01:47:19PM +0100, Thomas Huriaux wrote: Package: menu Severity: minor Tags: patch l10n Hi, The po files are not updated when the .pot files has been modified. For example: $ msgfmt --statistics fr.po 66 translated messages. $ msgfmt --statistics menu.pot

Bug#343465: 'install -s -d foo' error message French translation is misleading.

2005-12-15 Thread Bill Allombert
Package: coreutils Version: 5.93-5 Severity: minor Hello Mike, % LANG=C install -s -d foo install: the strip option may not be used when installing a directory % LANG=fr_FR install -s -d foo install: les options de strip peuvent ne pas être utilisées lors de l'installation d'un répertoire which

Bug#343511: g++-3.4 -O1: wrong code generation

2005-12-15 Thread Bill Allombert
Package: g++-3.4 Version: 3.4.5-1 Severity: normal Hello Debian GCC maintainers, g++-3.4 incorrectly compiles the attached file at -O1 and up by causing an infinite loop. %g++-3.4 bug.c -o bug -Wall -O1 %./bug oo-loop gcc-3.4,g++-4.0 and gcc-4.0 all work correctly. Cheers, Bill. #include

Bug#343550: fltk1.1-doc: documentation of foreground() is incorrect

2005-12-15 Thread Bill Allombert
Package: fltk1.1-doc Version: 1.1.6-10 Severity: normal Hello Aaron, I try to fully migrate flwm to fltk1.1, in particular default color handling, see bug #267983. However the documentation is not accurate: Section G - Migrating Code from FLTK 1.0.x does not mention this change and the

Bug#343626: aptitude Debian menu entry: title should be capitalised

2005-12-16 Thread Bill Allombert
Package: aptitude Version: 0.4.1-1 Severity: minor Hello Daniel, /usr/share/menu/aptitude loo like: ?package(aptitude):needs=text section=Apps/System \ title=aptitude command=/usr/bin/aptitude hints=apt According to the menu manual the title should be capitalized, this make the menu look

Bug#343469: menu-xdg: Makes GNOME menu disappear

2005-12-19 Thread Bill Allombert
On Sat, Dec 17, 2005 at 04:20:05PM -0300, Javier Kohen wrote: Could you retry to see if it happen again ? I did and it seems to be in order this time around. It looks like a race condition between update-menus and the GNOME menu update mechanism. In this case it is not something that

Bug#340079: insecure tempfiles

2005-12-19 Thread Bill Allombert
On Sun, Nov 20, 2005 at 03:01:58PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: On Sun, Nov 20, 2005 at 10:13:00PM +0100, Bill Allombert wrote: However I am not sure this is a security bug: The original script create a file named tempfile in the current directory, not int /tmp. Would you consider

Bug#337966: apt-proxy: Description still refer to v1

2005-11-07 Thread Bill Allombert
Package: apt-proxy Severity: minor Hello Otavio, apt-proxy description start by: This is version 2 of apt-proxy which will, when ready, replace apt-proxy v1. I think this is outdated, and should be removed. Cheers, -- Bill. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Imagine a large red swirl here. -- To

Bug#337992: acidlab: sarge to sid upgrade mess with conffiles

2005-11-07 Thread Bill Allombert
Package: acidlab Version: 0.9.6b20-13 Severity: serious When upgrading from sarge, acidlab mess with conffiles and triggers the dpkg conffiles handling for the file /etc/acidlab/acid_conf.php while I did not modify it, which is confusing. See the piuparts log at

Bug#332300: menu entry in wrong location

2005-10-05 Thread Bill Allombert
Package: aee Version: 2.2.15b-1 Severity: normal Hello Javier, aee menu entry is shipped as /usr/lib/menu/aee/menu. You might be interested to know that menu will ignore it completly, since it does not search for menu entries in subdirectories of /usr/lib/menu. The proper location for the menu

Bug#332400: lintian: install-menu and su-to-root moved to /usr/bin

2005-10-06 Thread Bill Allombert
Package: lintian Version: 1.23.12 Severity: wishlist Dear Lintian maintainers, As part of Stage 2 menu transition (to be announced in d-d-a), menu-methods should now use #! /usr/bin/install-menu instead of #! /usr/sbin/install-menu So the check wrong-path-for-install-menu needs to be updated.

Bug#332876: weird problem with menu-2.1.26

2005-10-10 Thread Bill Allombert
On Sun, Oct 09, 2005 at 11:58:30AM +0800, bear wrote: Package: menu Version: 2.1.26 Severity: important hi, The update-menu in menu-2.1.26 always outputs the following error: update-menus: relocation error: update-menus: symbol _ZN9__gnu_cxx6__poolILb1EE13_M_initializeEv,

Bug#333151: upgrade-reports: X broken after apt-get upgrade

2005-10-11 Thread Bill Allombert
On Mon, Oct 10, 2005 at 10:50:28AM -0700, Arthur Barlow wrote: Package: upgrade-reports Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable I just did an update of packages with aptitude. After I rebooted X could not be brought up, and the error log did not list any information.

Bug#333531: Bayesian classification much less efficient that with 3.0.2

2005-10-12 Thread Bill Allombert
Package: spamassassin Version: 3.1.0a-1 Severity: normal Hello Duncan, Since I have upgraded to 3.1.0a-1, bayesian filtering is far less efficient than with the sarge version or 3.0.4. Symptoms are a ton of spam with BAYES_50, sa-learn not increasing the bayesian probability most of the time

Bug#333531: Bayesian classification much less efficient that with 3.0.2

2005-10-12 Thread Bill Allombert
On Wed, Oct 12, 2005 at 10:01:35AM -0400, Duncan Findlay wrote: On Wed, Oct 12, 2005 at 02:42:03PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: Hello Duncan, Since I have upgraded to 3.1.0a-1, bayesian filtering is far less efficient than with the sarge version or 3.0.4. Symptoms are a ton of spam

Bug#333848: menu: should Suggests or Recommends: menu-xdg

2005-10-14 Thread Bill Allombert
On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 01:31:17PM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: Package: menu Version: 2.1.25 Severity: normal The 'menu' package provides desktop menus, but the Debian menu is mysteriously not available until the 'menu-xdg' package is installed. However, this isn't made clear by the package

Bug#322517: Bug#333848: Additional endorsement for this recommendation

2005-10-14 Thread Bill Allombert
On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 10:49:51AM -0400, Barry Hawkins wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I agree that this action would be a good thing. I spent time over a six week period trying to figure out where my Debian menu went and how to get it back. I posted to the

Bug#334330: typo in dpkg-architecture(1): dpkg-architetcure

2005-10-17 Thread Bill Allombert
Package: dpkg Version: 1.13.11.0.1 Severity: minor Hello dpkg maintainers, dpkg-architecture(1) has a typo: If you still wish to support versions of dpkg-dev that did not include dpkg-architetcure, the following does the job: I have checked other

Bug#334337: hugs segfault if Show class in instancied but show method not defined.

2005-10-17 Thread Bill Allombert
Package: hugs Version: 98.200503.08-3 Severity: normal Hello Isaac, It looks like hugs segfault if you instancy Show but not define a show method and then implicitly use it: Let foo.hs = ---8- module Fibo where type Quad = (Integer,Integer) newtype Gauss = Karl Quad instance Eq Gauss where

Bug#305761: Bug#330077: flwm should provide a session file for kdm and gdm

2005-10-18 Thread Bill Allombert
Hello Christopher (Martin), Would help me to fix menu-xdg bug 317567,324545,328055 ? You send a patch to 305761, but I am a bit confused by the second patch in bug #317567. What is the correct fix ? Will that work with both GNOME and KDE ? Chris, I plan to NMU this package soon, I hope you

Bug#305761: Bug#330077: flwm should provide a session file for kdm and gdm

2005-10-19 Thread Bill Allombert
On Tue, Oct 18, 2005 at 05:31:45PM -0400, Christopher Martin wrote: On October 18, 2005 13:41, Bill Allombert wrote: Would help me to fix menu-xdg bug 317567,324545,328055 ? You send a patch to 305761, but I am a bit confused by the second patch in bug #317567. I would ignore

Bug#334740: binary-server target fail due to Xorg.1 -- Xorg.1x renaming

2005-10-19 Thread Bill Allombert
Package: xserver-xorg Severity: minor Version: 6.8.2.dfsg.1-9 Hello X Strike Force, debian/rules binary-server fails because the manpage Xorg.1 was moved to Xorg.1x. Here a patch that fix that and allow debian/rules binary-server to complete. Cheers, -- Bill. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Imagine a large

Bug#334750: doc should say that linux will not boot with 0 fastram

2005-10-19 Thread Bill Allombert
Package: aranym Version: 0.9.0final-1 Severity: normal Hello Antonin, The documentation about running woody or sarge under aranym miss a crucial point: Linux will not boot with FastRAM=0 which is the default, it will hang while decompressing the ramdisk. I lost quite some times before finding

Bug#334912: sarge to etch/sid upgrade trigger useless conffiles handling

2005-10-20 Thread Bill Allombert
Package: x11-common Version: 6.8.2.dfsg.1-9 Severity: important Hello X Strike Force, When upgrading from Sarge to Etch or Sid (I tried both) in a clean chroot, x11-common trigger 2 dpkg conffiles handling: /etc/X11/Xsession /etc/X11/Xsession.options I suspect this files have changed from

Bug#153467: #153467: libjpeg62: JPEG is patent-encumbered

2005-11-16 Thread Bill Allombert
Hello Florian, For the purpose of documentation only: The Public Patent Foundation is filling for reexamination of this patent, see http://www.pubpat.org/Chen_672_Reexam_Filed.htm. Cheers, Bill. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Bug#333531: Bayesian classification much less efficient that with 3.0.2

2005-11-17 Thread Bill Allombert
Package: spamassassin Version: 3.1.0a-2 Hello Duncan, I retried with 3.1.0a-2, and this time I deleted the bayesian database and rebuilt it from my spam/ham maiboxes. The results are better but there still the problem of sa-learn --spam having no effect on the rating of some spam, whereas the

Bug#338204: 12.3: define small for compression of documentation

2005-11-17 Thread Bill Allombert
On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 01:04:28PM -0600, Adam Heath wrote: package: debian-policy version: 3.6.2.1 Section 12.3 says extra documentation should be compressed if it is small. However, small is not defined. It would be useful if it was; otherwise, there is no real incentive to compress

Bug#309437: acknowledged by developer (Bug#309437: fixed in gtk+2.0 2.6.10-2)

2005-11-17 Thread Bill Allombert
On Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 09:33:12AM -0800, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: This is an automatic notification regarding your Bug report #309437: libpango1.0-common - libpango1.0-0 circular dependencies, which was filed against the libpango1.0-0 package. [ Loic Minier ] . * Remove

Bug#339849: fam: please remove call to start-stop-daemon in preinst

2005-11-19 Thread Bill Allombert
Package: fam Version: 2.7.0-8 Severity: wishlist Hello, fam preinst include a call to start-stop-daemon: # forcibly stop all still running instances of famd because # some old versions of this package missed a stop in their prerm # on upgrade /sbin/start-stop-daemon --exec

Bug#339901: pachi-data has circular Depends on pachi

2005-11-19 Thread Bill Allombert
On Sat, Nov 19, 2005 at 05:24:27PM +0100, Martin Godisch wrote: On Sat, Nov 19, 2005 at 16:33:21 +0100, Bill Allombert wrote: There is a circular dependency between pachi-data and pachi: Circular dependencies known to cause problems during upgrade, so we should try to get rid of them

Bug#81495: menu: should allow to remove generated menufiles

2005-11-19 Thread Bill Allombert
. + - New update-menus option --remove to call install-menu with --remove. + + -- Bill Allombert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sat, 29 Oct 2005 22:05:33 +0200 + menu (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low * The And no, I'm not accepting job offers (2) release. Index: install-menu/install-menu.cc

Bug#339962: gftp-common has circular Depends on gftp-gtk|gtk-text

2005-11-19 Thread Bill Allombert
Package: gftp-common Version: 2.0.18-10 Severity: important Hello Aurelien, There is a circular dependency between gftp-common and gftp-gtk|gftp-text: gftp-common:Depends: gftp-gtk (= 2.0.18-10) | gftp-text (= 2.0.18-10) gftp-gtk:Depends: libatk1.0-0 (= 1.9.0), libc6 (= 2.3.5-1), libglib2.0-0

Bug#339931: fgfs-base has circular Depends on flightgear

2005-11-20 Thread Bill Allombert
On Sun, Nov 20, 2005 at 06:50:16AM +0100, Ove Kaaven wrote: I know what is needed by what, and the unidirectional dependency was how I originally had it. The bidirectional dependency was added by request, requested explicitlly by some fairly persistent users. They cited prior game

Bug#340015: abiword-common has circular Depends on abiword|abiword-gnome

2005-11-20 Thread Bill Allombert
Package: abiword-common Version: 2.4.1-2 Severity: important Hello Masayuki, There is a circular dependency between abiword-common and abiword|abiword-gnome: abiword-common: Depends: abiword | abiword-gnome abiword:Depends: abiword-common (= 2.4.1) abiword-gnome: Depends:

Bug#340079: insecure tempfiles

2005-11-20 Thread Bill Allombert
On Sun, Nov 20, 2005 at 08:17:17PM +0100, Uwe Zeisberger wrote: Package: libjpeg-progs Version: 6b-10 Severity: grave File: /usr/bin/exifautotran Tags: security patch Hello, exifautotran just uses a file named tempfile for temporarly saving the result of jpegtran. With the attached

Bug#340079: insecure tempfiles

2005-11-20 Thread Bill Allombert
On Sun, Nov 20, 2005 at 08:17:17PM +0100, Uwe Zeisberger wrote: Package: libjpeg-progs Version: 6b-10 Severity: grave File: /usr/bin/exifautotran Tags: security patch Hello, exifautotran just uses a file named tempfile for temporarly saving the result of jpegtran. Note that woody is

Bug#276419: Advices for an su transition

2005-11-20 Thread Bill Allombert
On Sun, Nov 20, 2005 at 11:26:20PM +0100, Nicolas Fran?ois wrote: IIRC people from debian-audit have some tools to perform such grep on the source package with some heuristics to extract and patch the sources (dpatch, cdbs, ...), and ignore the documentation files (e.g. su is a common word in

Bug#276419: Advices for an su transition

2005-11-20 Thread Bill Allombert
On Sun, Nov 20, 2005 at 05:44:46PM -0600, Bill Allombert wrote: On Sun, Nov 20, 2005 at 11:26:20PM +0100, Nicolas Fran?ois wrote: IIRC people from debian-audit have some tools to perform such grep on the source package with some heuristics to extract and patch the sources (dpatch, cdbs

Bug#339903: acknowledged by developer (Required.)

2005-11-21 Thread Bill Allombert
These Depends lines are required by Policy section 12.5. I suppose you mean: `/usr/share/doc/package' may be a symbolic link to another directory in `/usr/share/doc' only if the two packages both come from the same source and the first package Depends on the second. These

Bug#339907: 339907

2005-11-24 Thread Bill Allombert
On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 12:42:56PM -0600, Robin Verduijn wrote: On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 09:49:10AM +0100, Bill Allombert wrote: On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 06:28:35PM -0600, Robin Verduijn wrote: The reason for this dependency is the versioned part of it. kvirc used to be what is now kvirc2

Bug#81495: menu: should allow to remove generated menufiles

2005-11-24 Thread Bill Allombert
On Sat, Nov 19, 2005 at 09:27:46PM +0100, Yann Dirson wrote: Do you think there are situations where install-menu could be smart enough to remove the menu without the need for removemenu ? There are quite a number of menu-methods specifying a fixed name for genmenu. Couldn't that be used

Bug#402179: tar: FTBFS: race condition in test-suite

2006-12-08 Thread Bill Allombert
Package: tar Version: 1.16-2 Severity: serious Hello Bdale, tar test-suite tests/append02.at has a race condition which cause the test to fail sometimes, and thus the package to FTBFS. echo Creating archive.1 tar cf archive.1 file1 file2 here echo Creating archive.2 tar cfT archive.2

Bug#374834: menu: Patch to just fork and die, instead of waiting on a si

2006-12-15 Thread Bill Allombert
On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 11:30:57AM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: I took a look at the patch and I understand the same. I agree it would have been nice to know exactly why the signal code doesn't work reliably but I don't see any drawback to use this new method. Can you reproduce the

Bug#374834: menu: Patch to just fork and die, instead of waiting on a si

2006-12-15 Thread Bill Allombert
On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 12:19:35PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: No, I don't remember having encountered this problem, but the information provided by others looks convincing. I would apply the patch, check that update-menus still works according to your wishes and trust the others to verify

Bug#383321: su-to-root = localisation ;-)

2006-09-08 Thread Bill Allombert
On Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 07:21:12PM +0200, Michelle Konzack wrote: Package: menu Version: 2.1.24 Severity: wishlist Since some of my frech clients had ask me to make an i18l version of su-to-root, I send you the resultat. I have attached the 5 files (su-to-root, su-to-root.pot,

Bug#385996: Shortcuts in menu

2006-09-08 Thread Bill Allombert
On Sat, Sep 02, 2006 at 10:23:27PM +0200, Michelle Konzack wrote: Package: menu Version: 2.1.24 Severity: wishlist Error description: I have create some Debian packages and since I need for some programs more then one item, I have put them into a submenu. Also the menus are localized.

Bug#383320: su-to-root should provide additional arguments for the -c option

2006-09-08 Thread Bill Allombert
On Sun, Aug 27, 2006 at 11:32:48AM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: On Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 06:50:39PM +0200, Michelle Konzack wrote: Package: menu Version: 2.1.24 Severity: wishlist Hello Michelle, I have the need to run a XTerm with su-to-root to get a terminal for root. Using

Bug#377511: menu: [INTL:th] Thai translations

2006-09-08 Thread Bill Allombert
On Sun, Jul 09, 2006 at 10:48:57PM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote: tags 377511 pending thanks Quoting Theppitak Karoonboonyanan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Package: menu Version: 2.1.29 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch Committed Well, but this is not the translation of the official

Bug#377511: menu: [INTL:th] Thai translations

2006-09-08 Thread Bill Allombert
On Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 11:50:12PM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote: Committed Well, but this is not the translation of the official programm POT file (the one I sent to debian-i18n and which is shipped in the package). I will let it stand because I plan to send a new official programm

Bug#377511: menu: [INTL:th] Thai translations

2006-09-09 Thread Bill Allombert
On Sat, Sep 09, 2006 at 08:35:55AM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote: I'm pretty sure that we already discussed about this and that POT We did not. files being generated from source you probably don't want to keep generated stuff in CVS, but this gives the result you have now. I

Bug#338638: only affect sarge

2006-09-09 Thread Bill Allombert
tags 338638 sarge quit Cheers -- Bill. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Imagine a large red swirl here. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#386741: piuparts: need to redo apt-get update after apt is upgraded from sarge

2006-09-09 Thread Bill Allombert
Package: piuparts Version: 0.19-1 Hello Lars, I am back using piuparts and I am performing Sarge to Etch upgrades. When I try to do 'piuparts -a gnupg openoffice.org' it fails in the last step because apt was upgraded but 'apt-get update' was not peformed. piuparts to fail with: WARNING: The

Bug#386747: piuparts: -b option conflict with --mirror

2006-09-09 Thread Bill Allombert
Package: piuparts Version: 0.18-1 Hello Lars, When using both --mirror and -b, the mirror specified with --mirror does not always superced the sources.list included in the tarball specified with -b. Both mirror can be used in the same piuparts run when doing an upgrade. Cheers, -- Bill.

Bug#386751: mediamate [sarge] : postinst fails during install

2006-09-09 Thread Bill Allombert
Package: mediamate Version: 0.9.3.6-2 Severity: serious Tags: sarge Hello Jamin, When installing mediamate on sarge the postinst fails with: + . /usr/share/wwwconfig-common/apache-run.get ++ '[' -z '' ']' ++ . /usr/share/wwwconfig-common/apache.func +++ set -e ++ getwwwoption User

Bug#386789: [INTL:ru] Updated Russian menu po/ translation

2006-09-10 Thread Bill Allombert
On Sun, Sep 10, 2006 at 12:43:44PM +0400, Yuri Kozlov wrote: Package: menu Severity: wishlist Tags: l10n, patch Updated Russian menu po/ru.po file is attached. Hello Yuri, your update is missing the translation of this line --menumethod=method Run only the menu method method.\n in the

Bug#386701: menu: [INTL:sv] Swedish translation

2006-09-10 Thread Bill Allombert
On Sat, Sep 09, 2006 at 04:49:32PM +0200, Daniel Nylander wrote: Package: menu Version: 2.1.29 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch l10n Here is the updated Swedish translation of menu. Hello Daniel, Thanks for your translation! Could you reformat a bit the text after --menufilesdir so that

Bug#386701: menu: [INTL:sv] Swedish translation

2006-09-10 Thread Bill Allombert
tags 386701 pending quit On Sun, Sep 10, 2006 at 03:08:22PM +0200, Daniel Nylander wrote: Bill Allombert skrev: Hello Daniel, Thanks for your translation! Could you reformat a bit the text after --menufilesdir so that it does not overflow the line ? Hi Bill, Here

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