Bug#492545: pristine-tar: please make tar command configurable

2008-07-26 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Package: pristine-tar Version: 0.17 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch On Mac OS X 10.3 with tar from MacPorts installed, /usr/bin/tar is GNU tar 1.13.25 (from 2001) while /opt/local/bin/gnutar is GNU tar 1.20. For some reason, I learned not to trust the old version of tar. Maybe it doesn't like the

Bug#494505: [PATCH for git-core] fall back to 'editor', not 'vi', if EDITOR is unset

2008-08-10 Thread Jonathan Nieder
the .debs it produces. But I think it should be okay. I hope it is of some use. Thanks, Jonathan -- snipsnip -- This patch takes care of those instances of hardcoded vi that remain after the fix to bug #438793 Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- contrib/fast-import/git-p4

Bug#458954: git-diff silently fails if not a git repo or .git is not readable

2008-08-10 Thread Jonathan Nieder
tags 458954 fixed-upstream thanks Joey Hess wrote: Version: 1:1.5.3.7-1 [...] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc/splashygit diff [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc/splashy git diff should print an error and exit nonzero if it's not in a git repo or cannot read .git. The current behavior is indistingushable from

Bug#482138: Bug#479824: progress

2008-05-28 Thread Jonathan Nieder
If you could push your stuff to a non-bundle it would make life even easier Ack! Sorry I have been taking so long. I was bitten by the bug described at http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/83101 - serves me right for trying to get things done using a prerelease version of

Bug#476634: patch available for #476634

2008-05-28 Thread Jonathan Nieder
tags 476634 + patch thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#476347: git-buildpackage: Should handle empty .orig.tar.gz gracefully

2008-06-13 Thread Jonathan Nieder
On Thurs, Apr 17, 2008 at 16:04:11 +0200, Guido Günther wrote: On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 08:55:27AM +0200, Christoph Biedl wrote: [problem importing the contents of an empty tarball with git add .] git-commit --allow-empty allows for an empty initial commit (which we'd need then too), the same

Bug#478494: asciidoc: New upstream release

2008-05-19 Thread Jonathan Nieder
I am using the new upstream version. All that was needed was an update to the Debian changelog and the following change. (I mention this in the hope that it saves someone a few minutes.) Jonathan --- debian/patches/asciidoc-fix-python-path.patch.orig 2008-05-19 12:12:02.0 -0500 +++

Bug#476634: git-core: wrongly escaped .ft in manpages

2008-05-19 Thread Jonathan Nieder
The following changes fix this for me: 1. Add docbook-xsl ( 1.72) to the Build-Depends field of debian/control 2. Add DOCBOOK_XSL_172=Yes to the parameters for $(MAKE) in the build-indep-stamp: rule from debian/rules. See Documentation/asciidoc.conf for a brief hint to what's going on. Hope

Bug#476634: git-core: wrongly escaped .ft in manpages

2008-05-19 Thread Jonathan Nieder
I forgot to mention that in my local tree I have made some other changes to debian/rules: - the build-arch-stamp: patch-stamp line has become build-arch-stamp: build-indep-stamp patch-stamp - removed $(MAKE) -CDocumentation man ASCIIDOC8=YesPlease from the rules for build-arch-stamp

Bug#479824: progress

2008-05-27 Thread Jonathan Nieder
I just fetched it, but have to go to sleep soon. Will have a look at it in the next days. Thank you, but note that it is a work in progress - I haven't looked over everything to make sure it makes sense yet. I hope to put something more reasonable out tonight. Which branch is designed for

Bug#522858: tar: causes dpkg-source extract failures

2009-04-20 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi, I wrote: Would it be possible to add a Breaks: dpkg ( 1.14.26) line to a future release? but I should have said Breaks: dpkg-dev ( 1.14.26). Sorry about that. Regards, Jonathan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe.

Bug#547802: lzma: coexist with xz-lzma

2009-09-22 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Package: lzma Version: 4.43-14 Severity: wishlist Hi, Background, for completeness: 1. The Debian lzma package consists of an lzmp command, which uses the LZMA SDK functions to handle .lzma files (i.e. lzma_alone format). 2. There is no upstream source for lzmp. The command is

Bug#548190: xz-utils: --force not compatible with gzip and bzip2

2009-09-24 Thread Jonathan Nieder
tags 548190 + upstream fixed-upstream pending thanks Hi, Francesco Potortì wrote: here is a pipeline that decompresses stdin be it compressed with gzip or bzip2, and leaves it untopuched if it is not compressed: bzip2 -cdfq | gzip -cdfq However, extending it to also decompress xz

Bug#547802: lzma: coexist with xz-lzma

2009-10-01 Thread Jonathan Nieder
tags 547802 + patch thanks So we'd have: lzma Pre-Depends: lzma-lzma | xz-lzma lzma-lzma Replaces: lzma ( 4.43-+) Pre-Depends: libc6 (= 2.7-1), libgcc1 (= 1:4.1.1), libstdc++6 (= 4.2.1) Conflicts: xz-lzma Okay, so I've tried this out and it seems

Bug#547802: lzma: coexist with xz-lzma

2009-10-01 Thread Jonathan Nieder
tags 547802 - patch thanks This is my last message for tonight, I promise. I wrote: lzma Pre-Depends: lzma-lzma | xz-lzma lzma-lzma Replaces: lzma ( 4.43-+) Pre-Depends: libc6 (= 2.7-1), libgcc1 (= 1:4.1.1), libstdc++6 (= 4.2.1) Conflicts: xz-lzma

Bug#604557: [PATCH 0/5] Re: RFS: aspell-id

2010-12-02 Thread Jonathan Nieder
could help?) Jonathan Nieder (5): fix Vcs-Browser link provide aspell-dictionary virtual package remove build-time dependency on quilt Add upstream doc directory copyright: GPL-2+? debian/changelog |9 + debian/control |6 +- debian/copyright |7 +- doc

Bug#604557: [PATCH 1/5] fix Vcs-Browser link

2010-12-02 Thread Jonathan Nieder
--- a/debian/changelog +++ b/debian/changelog @@ -1,3 +1,9 @@ +aspell-id (1.2-0-3+) local; urgency=low + + * Vcs-Browser: point to gitweb, not raw repository. + + -- Jonathan Nieder jrnie...@gmail.com Thu, 02 Dec 2010 16:10:05 -0600 + aspell-id (1.2-0-3) unstable; urgency=low * Confirmed

Bug#604557: [PATCH 2/5] provide aspell-dictionary virtual package

2010-12-02 Thread Jonathan Nieder
@@ aspell-id (1.2-0-3+) local; urgency=low * Vcs-Browser: point to gitweb, not raw repository. + * provide aspell-dictionary virtual package. -- Jonathan Nieder jrnie...@gmail.com Thu, 02 Dec 2010 16:10:05 -0600 diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control index 508772b..dd56dbd 100644

Bug#604557: [PATCH 3/5] remove build-time dependency on quilt

2010-12-02 Thread Jonathan Nieder
+2,7 @@ aspell-id (1.2-0-3+) local; urgency=low * Vcs-Browser: point to gitweb, not raw repository. * provide aspell-dictionary virtual package. + * remove unnecessary build-time dependency on quilt. -- Jonathan Nieder jrnie...@gmail.com Thu, 02 Dec 2010 16:10:05 -0600 diff --git

Bug#604557: [PATCH 5/5] copyright: GPL-2+?

2010-12-02 Thread Jonathan Nieder
it. -- Jonathan Nieder jrnie...@gmail.com Thu, 02 Dec 2010 16:10:05 -0600 diff --git a/debian/copyright b/debian/copyright index abeecb5..f22d93f 100644 --- a/debian/copyright +++ b/debian/copyright @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ Upstream Authors: Benitius Brevoort benitius.brevo...@kapusin.org Files: * Copyright

Bug#601632: bash 4.0 breaks some completion scripts

2010-12-02 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Jonathan Nieder wrote: Bash 4.0 changed the rules for completion word splitting so that they are incompatible with 3.x. I think some Breaks: will be needed to ensure smooth upgrades. Just FYI: Ah, at last some clarity! From the bash 3 manual: COMP_WORDS An array variable (see

Bug#605762: xz-utils: Incorrect czech (cs_CZ.utf8) long help translation

2010-12-03 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi Petr, Petr Hubený wrote: The --no-sparse explanation is mistranslated as do not create backup files when decompressing instead of do not create sparse files when decompressing Thanks for reporting. What should it be replaced with? Jonathan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#605770: git send-email -h does not dump usage

2010-12-03 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Package: git-email Version: 1:1.7.2.3-2.1 Severity: minor $ git send-email -h format-patch -o /tmp/FVcbDfKpbq -h: command returned error: 129 A usage message would be nicer and more consistent with other git commands. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with

Bug#605767: git-email: UTF-8 content in To: causes Subject: to also be RFC2047 encoded

2010-12-03 Thread Jonathan Nieder
: =?UTF-8?q?Patches=20for=20Osqoop?= $ git format-patch HEAD^..HEAD;# some plain ASCII patch $ git send-email --to='Jönäthän Nïëdër jrnie...@gmail.com' 0001* Who should the emails appear to be from? [Jonathan Nieder jrnie...@gmail.com] Emails will be sent from: Jonathan Nieder jrnie

Bug#605540: chromium-browser: needlessly warns about unsafe PDFs

2010-12-03 Thread Jonathan Nieder
forcemerge 605540 605410 quit brian m. carlson wrote: When I attempted to download a PDF today, Chromium warned me that PDFs may be potentially unsafe. Yeah! Actually, it warns me whenever I try to download anything. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org

Bug#604114: dpkg: version '/usr/share/myspell/dicts' has bad syntax: invalid character in version number

2010-12-05 Thread Jonathan Nieder
reassign 604114 debconf 1.5.36 quit Kurt Roeckx wrote: it seems that debconf is turning a triggered into a configure. Yes. Maybe /usr/share/debconf/frontend near 69: if ($ARGV[0] =~/^(.*[.\/])(?:postinst|preinst)$/) { could be

Bug#606053: debcheckout: warning when run with perl 5.12 (Prototype after '@' for main::set_destdir)

2010-12-05 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Package: devscripts Version: 2.10.69 Severity: minor Justification: cosmetic $ debcheckout curl Prototype after '@' for main::set_destdir : @$$ at /usr/bin/debcheckout line 349. declared git repository at git://git.debian.org/collab-maint/curl.git [...] $ dpkg -l perl | tail -1 ii perl

Bug#606054: debuild: warning when run with perl 5.12 (Name main::OLDOUT used only once: possible typo)

2010-12-05 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Package: devscripts Version: 2.10.69 Severity: minor Justification: cosmetic $ debuild -I -i -b Name main::OLDOUT used only once: possible typo at /usr/bin/debuild line 617. Name main::OLDERR used only once: possible typo at /usr/bin/debuild line 618. dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -D -us -uc -I

Bug#606059: curl: please implement DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck

2010-12-05 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Source: curl Version: 7.21.2-3 Severity: wishlist Justification: policy §4.9.1 Running tests while building curl from source takes a long time. As far as I can tell they can be disabled with DO_TEST=no; would it make sense to treat the usual nocheck option in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS as a synonym?

Bug#606078: ExtUtils::MakeMaker: generated makefile can't cope with perl upgrade

2010-12-06 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Package: perl-modules Version: 5.10.1-16 Tags: upstream Upgraded perl to 5.12.2-2 today. Works very well, generally; thanks! But: $ cd ~/src/git $ make -j2 SUBDIR git-gui SUBDIR gitk-git make[1]: Nothing to be done for `all'. SUBDIR perl make[2]: *** No rule to make target

Bug#606148: st: warnings on console at startup (missing fontset: JISX0201.1976-0)

2010-12-06 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Package: suckless-tools Version: 38-1 Severity: minor Justification: cosmetic When I start st: $ st st: missing fontset: JISX0201.1976-0 st: missing fontset: GB2312.1980-0 st: missing fontset: KSC5601.1987-0 st: missing fontset: JISX0208.1983-0 It seems

Bug#606148: st: warning when control modifier pressed (errkey: 65508)

2010-12-06 Thread Jonathan Nieder
clone 606148 -1 retitle 606148 st: warning when control modifier pressed (errkey: 65508) quit Jonathan Nieder wrote: When I press the right control key: errkey: 65508 Cloning. Sorry, I should have filed that as a separate bug in the first place. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian

Bug#606150: st: leaves cursor as X shape

2010-12-06 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Package: suckless-tools Version: 38-1 Severity: wishlist Justification: usability It is hard to tell when text is going to be selected when clicking and dragging in 'st', since the cursor is a big X. Please consider changing the mouse cursor to the usual I-beam instead. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Bug#605039: apt-listbugs: scary message on interruption

2010-12-06 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Francesco Poli wrote: On Sat, 27 Nov 2010 17:49:08 -0600 Jonathan Nieder wrote: Francesco Poli wrote: I have somewhat good news for you: I prepared a patch that moves the trap instruction before everything else, in order to intercept early SIGINTs too

Bug#606163: Kernel.trap(..., SIG_DFL) prints a backtrace when triggered

2010-12-06 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Package: ruby1.8 Version: 1.8.7.302-2 Severity: minor Hi Lucas et al, a puzzle for you. Attempting Kernel.trap(SIGINT, SIG_DFL) doesn't actually set the handling of SIGINT to SIG_DFL at all, but makes the script print a backtrace on interruption. According to [1], with SIG_DFL the

Bug#606073: [qt4-doc] Doc formatting looks broken (no css used)

2010-12-06 Thread Jonathan Nieder
tags 606073 + upstream forwarded 606073 http://bugreports.qt.nokia.com/browse/QTBUG-13608 quit Romain Bossart wrote: qt assistant does not format the docs using css. The menus and generally the formating looks broken. Googling around gave a similar bug in ubuntu:

Bug#606180: assistant-qt4: prints warning to console at startup

2010-12-06 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Package: qt4-dev-tools Version: 4:4.7.1-1 Severity: minor Justification: cosmetic/warning $ assistant Object::connect: No such signal HelpViewer::printRequested() The assistant itself works fine (aside from bug#606073). Still, thought you might like to know. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#462792: RFS: failmalloc

2010-12-07 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi Allesandro, Alessandro Ghedini wrote: * URL : http://www.nongnu.org/failmalloc [...] - dget http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/f/failmalloc/failmalloc_1.0-1.dsc Since I am not a Debian Developer, I cannot upload this. Some comments anyway. Package:

Bug#482194: bash: PS1 non-empty for non-interactive shells

2010-12-08 Thread Jonathan Nieder
tags 482194 + moreinfo quit Hi again, Jonathan Nieder wrote: I can't reproduce this, though I suppose that's not so surprising given that I'm trying bash 4.1-3. Can't reproduce with bash 3.2-4 from lenny, either. Given that /etc/skel/.bashrc relies on $PS1 being set or not set depending

Bug#544731: error: no such disk renders system unbootable

2010-12-08 Thread Jonathan Nieder
found 544731 grub2/1.97-1 tags 544731 - unreproducible quit Albin Tonnerre wrote: Alright, so this started happening again. I'm using the latest version from unstable, 1.97-1. I assume you can reproduce this reliably? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org

Bug#548545: bash: Bash does not autocomplete anything after a backslash on the command prompt

2010-12-08 Thread Jonathan Nieder
tags 548545 + moreinfo unreproducible quit Jonathan Nieder wrote: Can you still reproduce this problem (perhaps with bash from snapshot.debian.org)? Can't reproduce with bash 4.0-7 (on i386), either, alas. :( -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org

Bug#606369: bash: Put $HOME/bin to end of $PATH

2010-12-08 Thread Jonathan Nieder
severity 606369 wishlist retitle 606369 skel/.profile: put $HOME/bin at end of $PATH quit Justin B Rye wrote: If as an innocent newcomer to GNU/Linux I sort a set of downloaded scripts into one directory called keep and another called bin, that doesn't necessarily mean I intend the second set

Bug#316213: bash confused by missing newline at end of script

2010-12-08 Thread Jonathan Nieder
tags 316213 + moreinfo tags 316213 - unreprocible quit Hi Martin, Martin Ziegler wrote: The script if /bin/false ; then echo hi fi prints hi, if there is NO NEWLINE at the end. Could you give a simple script to reproduce this? For example: cat -\EOF testme.sh

Bug#318117: bash: signal handling or man page deficiency

2010-12-08 Thread Jonathan Nieder
retitle 318117 bash: prints Terminated for jobs killed by signal when noninteractive tags 318117 + upstream severity 318117 wishlist found 318117 bash/4.1-3 # [1] forwarded 318117 http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.shells.bash.bugs/13711/focus=13741 quit Tim Connors wrote: cat bin/sig-test

Bug#318117: bash: signal handling or man page deficiency

2010-12-08 Thread Jonathan Nieder
[resending to more modern address for Tim. sorry for the noise] Tim Connors wrote: cat bin/sig-test #!/bin/sh while echo loop ; do sleep 5 done shell1 sig-test sheel2 killall sleep loop bin/sig-test: line 6: 19448 Terminated sleep 5 loop bin/sig-test: line 6:

Bug#462792: RFS: failmalloc

2010-12-09 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Alessandro Ghedini wrote: On Wed, Dec 08, 2010 at 01:14:03AM -0600, Jonathan Nieder wrote: Does failmalloc have a public API? Is it meant to be linked into programs without using the LD_PRELOAD mechanism? If not, what good is a development library for it? Quoting from the upstream site

Bug#593560: chromium-browser: Unlike Chrome, custom google maps don't work properly

2010-12-11 Thread Jonathan Nieder
found 593560 chromium-browser/6.0.472.63~r59945-2 quit Bertrand Marc wrote: Le 09/11/2010 02:06, Jonathan Nieder a écrit : I wasn't able to reproduce this, unfortunately; the [P]s show up for me. [...] Sorry for the delay, but i don't have an internet connexion at home these days, so I

Bug#599113: estimated download time always displayed as 'NaN'

2010-12-11 Thread Jonathan Nieder
# Christian Beier wrote: # # I tested with 6.0.472.63 from squeeze on i386: download time is indeed # displayed. So this seems to be a non-i386 issue at least, maybe it's # only 64bit systems affected... # # Turns out it has to do with comma as fraction separator. Who knew? tags 599113 + l10n

Bug#606821: mksh: bash-style process substitution

2010-12-11 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Package: mksh Version: 39.3.20101101-1 Severity: wishlist Tags: upstream Hi Thorsten, Recently I found myself debugging a pipeline with tee. Unfortunately the logs grew large very quickly, so as a stopgap measure I used a compressor. mkfifo backflow ... backflow | tee

Bug#606825: dpkg: Please add mingw to ostable and triplettable.

2010-12-11 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi, Some uninformed reactions. Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote: --- a/ostable +++ b/ostable @@ -31,3 +31,4 @@ bsd-openbsd openbsd openbsd[^-]* sysv-solaris solaris solaris[^-]* uclibceabi-uclinux uclinux-uclibceabi uclinux[^-]*-uclibceabi

Bug#606756: [PATCH dash/debian-sid] debian/preinst: Do not error out if files are missing

2010-12-11 Thread Jonathan Nieder
; urgency=low + + * Non-maintainer upload. + * dash.preinst: Do not error out if /bin/sh or its manpage is +not already present (thx Brian Potkin; closes: #606756). + + -- Jonathan Nieder jrnie...@gmail.com Sat, 11 Dec 2010 22:15:46 -0600 + dash (0.5.5.1-7.3) unstable; urgency=medium * Non

Bug#606078: ExtUtils::MakeMaker: generated makefile can't cope with perl upgrade

2010-12-11 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Niko Tyni wrote: Yeah, that probably works. However, EU::MM upstream needs to be very careful about portability issues and the like. Looking at the FORCE target, I suspect $(CONFIGDEP) : $(NOECHO) $(NOOP) is the right way to do this. I'm generally not very enthusiastic about

Bug#606839: dpkg-buildflags: please provide a makefile snippet to set all build flags

2010-12-11 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Package: dpkg-dev Version: 1.15.9 Severity: wishlist Hi, As mentioned at [1], using dpkg-buildflags --export from a makefile is more trouble than one might like. It would be simpler to do something closer to the current thing: CFLAGS := $(shell dpkg-buildflags --get CFLAGS)

Bug#608247: dpkg-architecture is slow

2010-12-28 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Package: dpkg-dev Version: 1.15.9 Severity: wishlist Thorsten Glaser wrote: dpkg-architecture appears to be called rather often. It’s slow though… r...@ara0:~/T # time dpkg-architecture DEB_BUILD_ARCH=m68k [...] 0m7.49s real 0m2.97s user 0m4.02s system The system is

Bug#600566: Intent to NMU for v1.7.4-rc0

2010-12-30 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Sedat Dilek wrote: On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 1:16 PM, Jonathan Nieder jrnie...@gmail.com wrote: Let's try that again.  Sorry about that. Is that the latest (fixed) version of git-1.7.4-rc0 in [1]? - Sedat - [1] http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/g/git/ Yes. The first diff I sent

Bug#608449: grub-pc: infinite debconf prompt loop (10 which devices? 20 continue without installing? 30 goto 10)

2010-12-30 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Package: grub-pc Version: 1.98+20100804-11 Severity: grave Justification: breaks upgrade Stock squeeze system. Upgrading grub-pc, I am asked: | # You are using the editor-based debconf frontend to configure | # your system. See the end of this document for detailed | # instructions. |

Bug#608449: grub-pc: infinite debconf prompt loop (10 which devices? 20 continue without installing? 30 goto 10)

2010-12-30 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Jonathan Nieder wrote: Bugscript output attached. Not my best day for attachments. Here's the actual bugscript result. *** BEGIN /proc/mounts /dev/mapper/copier-root / ext3 rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro,data=ordered 0 0 /dev/sda1 /boot ext2 rw,relatime,errors=continue 0 0

Bug#608449: grub-pc: infinite debconf prompt loop (10 which devices? 20 continue without installing? 30 goto 10)

2010-12-30 Thread Jonathan Nieder
found 608449 grub2/1.98+20100804-10 quit Jonathan Nieder wrote: Version: 1.98+20100804-11 [...] What if I just want to use the old version of grub-pc, which worked? Harder than it sounds. Symptoms are the same with 1.98+20100804-10 (even though I had successfully installed it before

Bug#608022: [PATCH v2 0/2] Recommend against direct upgrades from releases older than lenny

2010-12-30 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Adam D. Barratt wrote: On Thu, 2010-12-30 at 20:35 +0100, Julien Cristau wrote: [Subject: Recommend against direct upgrades from releases older than lenny] Bug#608022 Thanks for this. For what it's worth, Acked-by: Jonathan Nieder jrnie...@gmail.com [...] --- a/en/upgrading.dbk +++ b

Bug#608022: [PATCH v2 1/2] Recommend against direct upgrades from releases older than lenny

2010-12-30 Thread Jonathan Nieder
-off-by: Julien Cristau jcris...@debian.org Acked-by: Adam D. Barratt a...@adam-barratt.org.uk Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder jrnie...@gmail.com --- Adam, I carried over your ack; I hope that's okay. en/upgrading.dbk |7 +++ 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/en

Bug#608022: [PATCH 2/2] Clarify 'upgrading' chapter title

2010-12-30 Thread Jonathan Nieder
This chapter is about upgrades from lenny, not from previous releases in general, Title suggested by Osamu Aoki os...@debian.org. Requested-by: Witold Baryluk bary...@smp.if.uj.edu.pl Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder jrnie...@gmail.com --- en/upgrading.dbk |2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions

Bug#608471: www.debian.org: Installation Guide and d-i errata pages should be release-specific

2010-12-31 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Package: www.debian.org Version: 20101231 Severity: wishlist The intro to section 3 Installation system of the release notes contains cross references to the installation guide[1] and errata[2]: [1] http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/debian-installer/ [2]

Bug#608474: release-notes: Installation Guide and d-i errata links should be release-specific

2010-12-31 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Package: release-notes Severity: minor The intro to section 3 Installation system of the release notes contains cross references to the installation guide[1] and errata[2]: [1] http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/debian-installer/ [2]

Bug#515312: release-notes: Correct spelling of codename: lenny

2010-12-31 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Osamu Aoki wrote: I know it is correct to spell proper names capitalized as Lenny in the proper English grammar. But I still think Lenny in Release notes should have been lenny if we follow recent historic usages. Here is the fact about recent news: February 14th, 2009 Debian

Bug#608486: release notes §4.6.1 (expected removals): grub-legacy

2010-12-31 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Package: release-notes Tags: squeeze Hi grub maintainers, grub-pc 1.98+20100527-1 and later conflict with grub-legacy. grub 0.97-58 and later depend on grub-pc. Therefore upgrades from lenny with grub installed result in grub-legacy being removed, as planned. Is this worth a mention in the

Bug#499002: [PATCH git] debian: do not build documentation on buildds (Re: Intent to NMU for v1.7.4-rc0)

2010-12-31 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Thorsten Glaser wrote: I wonder though, why is the BUILD_DOCS, install-indep-real, etc. necessary, shouldn’t dpkg-buildpackage just call binary-arch and that be it? Background: see [1] [2] which seem to be blocked on [3]. sbuild and dpkg-buildpackage call 'debian/rules build', not

Bug#608449: grub-pc: infinite debconf prompt loop (10 which devices? 20 continue without installing? 30 goto 10)

2010-12-31 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Colin Watson wrote: Would it be possible to get a log with DEBCONF_DEBUG=developer set in the environment, to confirm exactly what's going on here? Gladly. | # cupt install grub-pc | Building the package cache... [done] | Initializing package resolver and worker... [done] | Scheduling

Bug#608536: debconf: editor frontend silently omits invalid values

2010-12-31 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Package: debconf Version: 1.5.36 Severity: wishlist Colin Watson wrote: On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 05:48:53PM -0600, Jonathan Nieder wrote: - No error response for typos --- the malformed resulting old_devices seems to just result in install_devices= or something. That's a debconf bug

Bug#608539: clang -ftrapv: UNREACHABLE on 64-bit off_t addition

2011-01-01 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Package: clang Version: 2.7-3 $ cat csum-file.c #define _FILE_OFFSET_BITS 64 #include sys/types.h extern ssize_t xwrite(void); void flush(off_t *total) { *total += xwrite(); } $ clang -c csum-file.c $ clang -ftrapv -c csum-file.c UNREACHABLE executed! 0 clang 0x08dc6ac8 Stack dump: 0.

Bug#608621: ogg123: Assertion 'p' failed at pulse/simple.c:384, function pa_simple_drain()

2011-01-01 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Package: vorbis-tools Version: 1.4.0-1 Using ogg123 to play through pulseaudio consistently segfaults for me. $ gdb --args ogg123 -d pulse TWID_001.ogg; # This week in Debian, #1 GNU gdb (GDB) 7.2-debian Copyright (C) 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or

Bug#608624: testparm.samba3: unexplained warning rlimit_max: rlimit_max (1024) below minimum Windows limit (16384)

2011-01-01 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Package: samba-common-bin Version: 2:3.5.6~dfsg-3 Severity: minor Justification: cosmetic Stock squeeze system. /etc/samba/smb.conf as below. Running testparm, I get a worrying message (the following is censored a bit): $ testparm Load smb config files from /etc/samba/smb.conf rlimit_max:

Bug#608624: testparm.samba3: unexplained warning rlimit_max: rlimit_max (1024) below minimum Windows limit (16384)

2011-01-01 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Christian PERRIER wrote: Quoting Jonathan Nieder (jrnie...@gmail.com): $ testparm Load smb config files from /etc/samba/smb.conf rlimit_max: rlimit_max (1024) below minimum Windows limit (16384) [...] Should one be worried about the rlimit_max comment? If there is anything I can do to help

Bug#608624: testparm.samba3: unexplained warning rlimit_max: rlimit_max (1024) below minimum Windows limit (16384)

2011-01-02 Thread Jonathan Nieder
miguelmeda...@sapo.pt Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder jrnie...@gmail.com --- source3/param/loadparm.c |4 ++-- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/source3/param/loadparm.c b/source3/param/loadparm.c index 2f68f00..bda20d8 100644 --- a/source3/param/loadparm.c +++ b/source3

Bug#607193: document various download options/locations for Squeeze CD images

2011-01-02 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi, Matthew Stitt wrote: Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: Starting with Debian Squeeze, there will be (more) download options/locations for CD images, be them netinst/complete/etc. In particular, users of specific pieces of hardware will be affected by the choice of images containing (or not)

Bug#608624: testparm.samba3: unexplained warning rlimit_max: rlimit_max (1024) below minimum Windows limit (16384)

2011-01-02 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Steve Langasek wrote: At minimum, the debug message should be cleaned up to state *what* rlimit is too low; the current message mentions nothing about file descriptors. Unfortunately I am not familiar enough with the surrounding context to write something better. Otherwise, I'm not overly

Bug#608624: testparm.samba3: unexplained warning rlimit_max: rlimit_max (1024) below minimum Windows limit (16384)

2011-01-02 Thread Jonathan Nieder
forwarded 608624 https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7898 quit Christian PERRIER wrote: Quoting Jonathan Nieder (jrnie...@gmail.com): I believe this is at least a documentation bug, as evidenced by the countless worried questions you can find online. IMHO the warning should just

Bug#607988: python2.6: the latest update is totally broken and can't byte compile *modules*

2011-01-03 Thread Jonathan Nieder
severity 607988 grave retitle 607988 python: OSError: [Errno 2] byte-compiling packages on upgrade (dangling symlinks) quit dave b wrote: Setting up python (2.6.6-3+squeeze4) ... Linking and byte-compiling packages for runtime python2.6... Traceback (most recent call last): File

Bug#608829: dpkg-dev - dpkg-source rejects valid patch files

2011-01-03 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Raphael Hertzog wrote: On Mon, 03 Jan 2011, Bastian Blank wrote: Unified diff files are applied from the start to the end, file by file. There is no notion of duplicate files in it. While such files are valid patch files, diff will never generate such a patch. So it's a sign either of a

Bug#552121: git-core: misleading error message when trying to push to read-only repo

2011-01-03 Thread Jonathan Nieder
severity 552121 important tags 552121 + patch quit Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote: $ git push fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly Isn't helpful at all and made me think about server's problem. Sad story: a rough fix for this has been available for months[1] but I dropped the ball and

Bug#607988: python2.6: the latest update is totally broken and can't byte compile *modules*

2011-01-03 Thread Jonathan Nieder
dave b wrote: well it was 1. reportlab and 2. bzr (gtk). Just to confirm, old python-central was not installed when you sent the report, right? What does zgrep 2010-12-2.*python-central /var/log/dpkg.log* say? ii python-central 0.6.16+nmu1 There

Bug#608900: xz-utils: Typos in Hungarian package description

2011-01-04 Thread Jonathan Nieder
tags 608900 + pending quit Hi Gábor, Braun Gábor wrote: In the Hungarian package description please correct the following typos: replace 'tarttalmaz' with 'tartalmaz' in the sentence just before the feature list (a 't' is erronously doubled), replace 'flimseri' with 'felismeri' in the

Bug#608449: grub-pc: infinite debconf prompt loop (10 which devices? 20 continue without installing? 30 goto 10)

2011-01-04 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: * Use semicolons rather than commas to separate size from model in debconf disk and partition descriptions; commas are too easily confused with the multiselect choice separator, and in particular make it impossible to answer questions

Bug#609049: du: process_file: Assertion `level == prev_level - 1' failed

2011-01-05 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Package: coreutils Version: 8.5-1 Happy new year. Today I ran $ du -sk ~/* to see where all the space is going. The traversal almost certainly was in ~/src, and being bored, I suspended it to examine that directory: ^Z [1]+ Stopped du -sk ~/* In another terminal I ran cd

Bug#609128: git checkout branch behaves differently from what specified in man page

2011-01-06 Thread Jonathan Nieder
r.ductor wrote: man git-chechout states: Updates files in the working tree to match the version in the index or the specified tree. If no paths are given, git checkout will also update HEAD to set the specified branch as the current branch. git checkout [branch], git checkout -b new

Bug#576313: Is /usr/lib/mutt/mailto-mutt still useful?

2011-01-06 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi, Antonio Radici wrote: Wrapper and news entry to be added in mutt/1.5.21-2 (to go to experimental). For reference: | mailto-mutt has been replaced by a wrapper as per #576313, because mutt is now | able to handle the mailto: urls; additionally it will also do some checks on | attachments

Bug#607498: lintian: detecting multiple lines in a single doc-base file entry

2011-01-07 Thread Jonathan Nieder
# cosmetic but obnoxious :) found 607498 doc-base/0.9.5 quit Russ Allbery wrote: Aron Xu happyaron...@gmail.com writes: For example, in fcitx 1:4.0.1-1, the doc-base entry must be like this: Format: text Files: /usr/share/doc/fcitx/Develop_Readme /usr/share/doc/fcitx/API.txt.gz

Bug#539855: Jonathan, your issue is #596062

2011-01-07 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Russell Coker wrote: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=596062 The above bug report has the issue that you described, and it's not related to this. So I'm reclosing this one. Thanks. Sorry I did not file a separate bug in the first place (and glad to see this moving

Bug#609292: gitweb: http://localhost/w/repo.git/blob_plain/HEAD:path/to/file (PATH_INFO support)

2011-01-08 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Package: gitweb Version: 1:1.7.2.3-2.2 Severity: wishlist Files: /etc/apache2/conf.d/gitweb Hi, Ever since git 1.6.6.1, the gitweb package has provided a gitweb instance at http://localhost/gitweb/ out of the box, which is great. The URLs it makes are old fashioned, like this:

Bug#605912: runit: Upgrade failure lenny - squeeze

2011-01-08 Thread Jonathan Nieder
a Homepage: field in debian/control instead of text pointing to the web page for simplicity). Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder jrnie...@gmail.com --- debian/changelog |7 +++ debian/control | 11 +-- debian/runit.README.Debian |2 +- debian/runit.config

Bug#605912: runit: Upgrade failure lenny - squeeze

2011-01-08 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Jonathan Nieder wrote: - if debconf is not installed and no init process is present, postinst fails; - there should be no debconf prompt at all, not a high priority one, when no init process is present (as you mentioned). ... and here is a possible fix for that. postrm is still

Bug#605912: runit: Upgrade failure lenny - squeeze

2011-01-08 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Jonathan Nieder wrote: possible fix for that. postrm is still a bit broken (it will print an error message if init is not running and does not respect the user choice expressed in runit/signalinit). ... part 3 is to remove support for the runit/signalinit choice in squeeze, since (1

Bug#609405: git-daemon-run: sometimes binds to fewer addresses on restart (does not use SO_REUSEADDR)

2011-01-09 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Package: git-daemon-run Version: 1:1.7.2.3-2.2 Severity: important Justification: bad behavior, especially re ipv6 support Hi, Was playing around with git-daemon-run to compare it with the proposed sysvinit support. See [1] for the war story. Okay, finished? The upshot is, as ip(7) explains,

Bug#455557: GPL Ghostscript SVN PRE-RELEASE 8.61: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1

2011-01-21 Thread Jonathan Nieder
retitle 47 ghostscript: Error: /undefined in eartomark tags 47 + upstream patch fixed-upstream forwarded 47 http://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=689577 fixed 47 ghostscript/8.71~dfsg-1 quit Daniel Leidert wrote: D [10/Dec/2007:22:13:28 +0100] [Job 531] foomatic-gswrapper:

Bug#343901: gs-esp's lx5000 driver runs into infinite loop with mozilla's postscript files

2011-01-21 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi Peter, I was trying to debug an old hang with ghostscript's lx5000 driver and am stuck. [1] has the original report and test file. Sebastian Schmidt wrote: gs produced 94MB output after 10 seconds or so, but what's notable about it is the following (hexdump -C): 05d13f70 00 02 02 00 18

Bug#610719: dpkg: [S-S-B] make start-stop-daemon find out the pid of forked processes

2011-01-21 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi, First of all, thanks for sending this. Peter Gyongyosi wrote: --- a/utils/start-stop-daemon.c +++ b/utils/start-stop-daemon.c [...] @@ -361,6 +369,152 @@ pid_list_free(struct pid_list **list) [...] +static void +start_trace(pid_t pid) +{ + wait(NULL); + + int retries; +

Bug#610731: kbuildsycoca4(18315) VFolderMenu::loadDoc: Parse error in /home/[...]/xdg-desktop-menu-dummy.menu , line 1 , col 1 : unexpected end of file

2011-01-21 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Package: kde Version: kde4libs/4:4.4.5-2 Severity: minor Justification: cosmetic Hi, Stock experimental i386 system. I recently installed okular + all packages it recommends to check out a bug. Now in my latest dpkg run: | # cupt --no-auto-remove install iceweasel [...] | The following 1

Bug#556867: cups-pdf: strong kerning errors

2011-01-21 Thread Jonathan Nieder
found 556867 cairo/1.10.2-1 quit Hi again, micu wrote: Bug Marked as fixed in versions cairo/1.10.2-1. Hmmm… I don't want to disappoint you: I wish this is (was?) the case. But actually, my test.ps was generated with Iceweasel 3.6.13-2 and libcairo2 1.10.2-1 from experimental :/. Weird.

Bug#485621: libgs8 has no ghostscript dependancy

2011-01-21 Thread Jonathan Nieder
to ghostscript a couple of years ago to address the same problem (Bug#470253). Yes, after this patch ghostscript would once again have a circular dependency. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder jrnie...@gmail.com --- Untested (testing with apt and aptitude of the upgrade path from lenny would be especially

Bug#314169: gs: gs -sDEVICE=ppmraw fails with unrecoverable error

2011-01-21 Thread Jonathan Nieder
retitle 314169 gs: unhelpful error when -sOutputFile missing (Error: /invalidfileaccess in --.outputpage--) severity 314169 normal tags 314169 - help tags 314169 + upstream quit Hi Uwe, Uwe Muench wrote: when calling gs with the option -sDEVICE=ppmraw, 36 gs -sDEVICE=ppmraw

Bug#314169: gs: gs -sDEVICE=ppmraw fails with unrecoverable error

2011-01-21 Thread Jonathan Nieder
submitter 314169 ! severity 314169 wishlist quit Uwe Muench wrote: wow, that bug report is like 5 and a half years old... Sorry, I don't have that system or that file anymore... I only remember that 'xv' automatically created the 'gs' call and that it had worked with the older version (at

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