Bug#973826: apt update ignores Diff-index files (WeakHashSums)

2020-11-05 Thread Alfredo Finelli
Package: apt Version: 2.1.11 Severity: normal Since a few days I have been observing this bug during regular “apt update” / “apt upgrade” cycles, without any configuration change on my side; I am not completely sure if all this started after the last upgrade to apt 2.1.11. apt finds (testing, uns

Bug#841688: grub-pc: post-installation script fails on upgrade

2016-10-22 Thread Alfredo Finelli
Package: grub-pc Version: 2.02~beta3-1 Severity: normal After the usual "apt update; apt upgrade" cycle I got this error: dpkg: error processing package grub-pc (--configure): subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 128 Errors were encountered while process

Bug#818628: apt: apt search/show command, segfault if the user does not have permission to read sources.list

2016-03-19 Thread Alfredo Finelli
Package: apt Version: 1.2.7 Severity: normal The /usr/bin/apt command causes a segmentation fault by list/search/show if the user running it does not have the necessary permissions to read the sources.list files. The bug can be reproduced in the following way: # ls -l /etc/apt/sources.list.d/

Bug#795846: mutt-patched: Wrong handling of maildir folders with NEW messages

2015-08-17 Thread Alfredo Finelli
Package: mutt-patched Version: 1.5.23-3.1 Severity: normal I noticed a problem with how mutt-patched deals with folders containing new email messages. The behavior is somewhat different from the correct one of unpatched mutt. My muttrc configuration file contains the following: set mail_che

Bug#730726: zathura: Full-page scrolling not correct after update

2014-02-18 Thread Alfredo Finelli
Sebastian Ramacher [18.02.2014 16:47 +0100]: > ... > Ugh, the documentation is wrong here. The default value is actually 0 > (since 0.2.0 or 0.2.1). I have fixed the documentation upstream in > ba917f174bdcf852e0d5c49bc0c1cc30c9075d8d [1]. Apart from the > documentation issue, is there anything els

Bug#730726: zathura: Full-page scrolling not correct after update

2014-02-18 Thread Alfredo Finelli
Sebastian Ramacher [17.02.2014 23:28 +0100]: > Hi Alfredo, > > On 2013-11-28 20:03:05, Alfredo Finelli wrote: >> After some recent upgrade scrolling does not work correctly for me >> anymore. >> >> I use continuous pages with 5 pixels padding in between and the

Bug#730726: zathura: Full-page scrolling not correct after update

2013-11-29 Thread Alfredo Finelli
Sebastian Ramacher [29.11.2013 00:58 +0100]: > Hi Alfredo Hi, thanks for the prompt reply. > On 2013-11-28 20:03:05, Alfredo Finelli wrote: >> After some recent upgrade scrolling does not work correctly for me >> anymore. > > I suppose this started with 0.2.5, righ

Bug#730726: zathura: Full-page scrolling not correct after update

2013-11-28 Thread Alfredo Finelli
Package: zathura Version: 0.2.6-1 Severity: normal After some recent upgrade scrolling does not work correctly for me anymore. I use continuous pages with 5 pixels padding in between and the standard value of scroll-full-overlap (0.1). When in page-fit mode I get the correct behavior: a small d

Bug#729304: openvswitch-switch: logrotate error if directory "/var/run/openvswitch" does not exist

2013-11-12 Thread Alfredo Finelli
Ben Pfaff [11.11.2013 19:20 +0100]: > [...] > Thanks a lot for the patch! I would like to apply it to the Open > vSwitch repository. May I have a Signed-off-by: for this? e.g.: > > Signed-off-by: Alfredo Finelli > > By doing this, you are agreeing to the Developer's Ce

Bug#729304: openvswitch-switch: logrotate error if directory "/var/run/openvswitch" does not exist

2013-11-11 Thread Alfredo Finelli
Package: openvswitch-switch Version: 1.9.3+git20131029-1 Severity: normal Tags: patch Some time after the last update I received email from the cron daemon with the following error: /etc/cron.daily/logrotate: logrotate_script: 1: cd: can't cd to /var/run/openvswitch After further inspec

Bug#702498: [Bash-completion-devel] Bug#702498: bash-completion: xpdf should be able to get completion of compressed PDF files

2013-03-09 Thread Alfredo Finelli
Ville Skyttä [09.03.2013 10:02 +0100]: > On 2013-03-07 14:52, Alfredo Finelli wrote: >> The "xpdf" reader is also able to open PDF files compressed in >> various formats (gz, bz2, xz, and Z). > > My xpdf (version 3.03 on Fedora 18) isn't, and I see nothing in

Bug#702498: bash-completion: xpdf should be able to get completion of compressed PDF files

2013-03-07 Thread Alfredo Finelli
Package: bash-completion Version: 1:2.0-1 Severity: normal Tags: patch The "xpdf" reader is also able to open PDF files compressed in various formats (gz, bz2, xz, and Z). The following patch allows completion for those cases (*.pdf.gz, etc.). Best regards. --- /usr/share/bash-completion/b

Bug#702455: grub-common: wrong Bash auto complete for grub-set-default and grub-reboot

2013-03-06 Thread Alfredo Finelli
Package: grub-common Version: 1.99-27 Severity: normal Tags: patch When using the commands "grub-set-default" and "grub-reboot" it is possible, thanks to programmable completion, to let bash fill out the command line with kernel names and boot options obtained from the entries in "/boot/grub/grub

Bug#684524: apt-cacher: Please provide download resume capability.

2012-08-10 Thread Alfredo Finelli
Package: apt-cacher Version: 1.7.4 Severity: wishlist When downloading a package from the Debian archive aptitude keeps it in the directory "/var/cache/apt/archives/partial". Upon completion the file is then moved to the cache in "/var/cache/apt/archives" and then installed. In case of network p

Bug#672871: apt-cacher: libcurl thread uses too much CPU time

2012-05-17 Thread Alfredo Finelli
Mark Hindley: > Thanks. I will make the default 10. > > Is the patched version always that much slower or is that just related > to what else was going on at the time? It is hard to estimate exactly because I cannot measure/influence the network congestion between the proxy and the Debian mirror.

Bug#672871: apt-cacher: libcurl thread uses too much CPU time

2012-05-17 Thread Alfredo Finelli
Mark Hindley: > OK, I accept that this is not working properly on faster systems (than I > have). Actually the impact on response time and throughput is not as > great as I had previously thought either. This is my proposed solution > -- I would be grateful if you could test that it fixes it for yo

Bug#672871: apt-cacher: libcurl thread uses too much CPU time

2012-05-15 Thread Alfredo Finelli
Mark Hindley: > Thanks. > > From a purely selfish apt-cacher point of view we don't call select() > directly, it is only through IO::Select. Although I am reluctant to > deflect the blame, I think this maybe a perl-base bug. > > Could you try this script and play with the timeout value in > $select

Bug#672871: apt-cacher: libcurl thread uses too much CPU time

2012-05-15 Thread Alfredo Finelli
Mark Hindley: > Thanks for this. > > The select->can_read() timeout of 0.1 was the result of lots of > testing in bug #533830. Reducing the timeout may reduce your throughput > (which may not bother you ;)!) I am not sure why you see such high CPU > usage with 0.1. What hardware is it runni

Bug#672871: apt-cacher: libcurl thread uses too much CPU time

2012-05-14 Thread Alfredo Finelli
Package: apt-cacher Version: 1.7.4 Severity: normal Tags: patch The 'libcurl' thread spawned by apt-cacher to manage downloads is using too much CPU time on my machine. I noticed just by chance that it easily reaches 80-90% of sustained (not peak) usage during downloads. This is the process in t

Bug#669372: apt-cacher-cleanup.pl fails to update index files by patching

2012-04-21 Thread Alfredo Finelli
Mark Hindley: > ... > The full patch I have is below, perhaps you could verify it fixes it for > you. I tested it with "InRelease" files only, then with "Release" and "InRelease" present together, with and without obsolete packages in the cache: now it behaves as expected both in the patch phase a

Bug#669372: apt-cacher-cleanup.pl fails to update index files by patching

2012-04-19 Thread Alfredo Finelli
Package: apt-cacher Version: 1.7.3 Severity: normal Tags: patch apt-cacher-cleanup.pl is the Perl script used by apt-cacher to clean the cache: it updates Packages and Sources index files and removes obsolete .deb files; it is usually run daily or weekly by cron and has a command line option to up

Bug#575652: cryptsetup: init script "cryptdisks-early" fails during system halt

2010-04-06 Thread Alfredo Finelli
I agree with you about the problem with an encrypted root partition. To understand how safe it is to ignore the error I investigated the behaviour of cryptsetup and lvm during shutdown and reboot. - Cryptsetup. The only effect of luksClose, correct me if I am wrong, is to remove the device map

Bug#575652: cryptsetup: init script "cryptdisks-early" fails during system halt

2010-03-27 Thread Alfredo Finelli
Package: cryptsetup Version: 2:1.0.6-7 Severity: normal My setup has "/" on a normal primary partition, "/var" and "/usr" on logical volumes, "/home" and "swap" on encrypted logical volumes. "insserv" is also used to populate the runlevel directories "/etc/rc*.d/", for parallel "startpar" executi