Bug#586482: debmirror: bandwidth limit for http downloads

On su, 2010-09-26 at 16:35 -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Have you considered using trickle? I was not aware of it. That's good enough for me, no point in putting the functionality into debmirror as well. If you feel like it, you can close the bug (I'll let you be the decision maker on that). -- T

Bug#595217: Please create a debian-upstream list to serve as upstream guide and front desk

On to, 2010-09-02 at 23:16 +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > I think it would make sense to have something along the line of "whether > the software is already packaged for Debian or not" included, but I > don't have a strong opinion about it. Worded that way, I agree. :) I support this wording:

Bug#595217: Please create a debian-upstream list to serve as upstream guide and front desk

On to, 2010-09-02 at 09:43 +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > Long description: A contact point for developers of software packages > already present in Debian or not who want/need to get in touch with > Debian. This long description is weird to me: why would the packages need to be already present

Bug#594425: lists.debian.org: add URL to list archive to footer

On ke, 2010-08-25 at 23:43 +0200, Alexander Wirt wrote: > But we already add the link to the msgid redirector, isn't that enough? Oh, that's fine. I didn't realize that that's what it was. My bad. Closing the bug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Bug#594425: lists.debian.org: add URL to list archive to footer

Package: lists.debian.org Severity: wishlist It would be really practical at times if the list would add a URL to the archived message to the footer of the message it sends out. -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture:

Bug#593773: nvi: crashes when saving file when locale does not exist

Package: nvi Version: 1.81.6-4 Severity: normal My server had a missing locale, so edited /etc/locale.gen to enable it. I was using nvi as my editor, but it crashed while saving the file, resulting in a 0-byte /etc/locale.gen. Sorry, no core dump. -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0.5 A

Bug#593260: ITP: bar -- Show information about a data transfer

Dropped debian-devel from the Cc list. On ma, 2010-08-16 at 21:57 +0200, Georges Khaznadar wrote: > with bar, the replacement would be: > bar -s 4G -if someImageFile -of > /dev/disk/by-id/usb-TheNiceStick_0878101B77D1D977-0:0 pv -petrb someImageFile > /dev/disk/... (Or pipe to sudo dd of=/dev/d

Bug#593260: ITP: bar -- Show information about a data transfer

On ma, 2010-08-16 at 20:36 +0200, Georges Khaznadar wrote: > Bar is a simple tool to process a stream of data and print a display for > the user on stderr showing (a) the amount of data passed, (b) the > throughput of the data transfer, and, if the total size of the data stream > is known,

Bug#592894: wiki.debian.org change e-mails have no direct link to wiki page

On pe, 2010-08-13 at 21:48 +0200, Frank Lin PIAT wrote: > Reassign 592894 moin > Thanks > > Hello, > > I don't know if you noticed the page, but the linked page with the diff > also contains the full "rendered" content. No, I didn't notice that. The diffs are typically long enough that I have to

Bug#592894: wiki.debian.org change e-mails have no direct link to wiki page

Package: wiki.debian.org Severity: wishlist When you subscribe to a page in the wiki, you get an e-mail whenever someone changes the page. The mail contains a link showing the diff, and that's good. I often also want to read the actual page in its current state, rather than diffs, so that I do not

Bug#589248: rhythmbox: segfaults when pressing "play"

On pe, 2010-07-16 at 10:55 +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Since it’s a patch to the Python code, you don’t need to rebuild it, you > can do it in situ. So it is. Tried that (after some difficulty from the fact that copy-pasting from the browser did not result in a working diff; downloaded the re

Bug#589248: rhythmbox: segfaults when pressing "play"

On pe, 2010-07-16 at 10:32 +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Are you using the replaygain plugin? I am. That and the status icon plugin are my only enabled plugins. If I disabled the replaygain one, the crash goes away. > If so, does the following patch fix the bug for you? > http://git.gnome.org/

Bug#589248: rhythmbox: segfaults when pressing "play"

I hope this is more useful. l...@havelock$ gdb /usr/bin/rhythmbox GNU gdb (GDB) 7.0.1-debian Copyright (C) 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is N

Bug#589248: rhythmbox: segfaults when pressing "play"

Package: rhythmbox Version: 0.12.8-2 Severity: important When I start playing songs, rhythmbox immediately segfaults. Below is what happens when I run it under gdb and take a backtrace. l...@havelock$ gdb /usr/bin/rhythmbox GNU gdb (GDB) 7.0.1-debian Copyright (C) 2009 Free Software Foundation, I

Bug#339496: [Debian QA] please review your old bug reports against CUPS

On ke, 2010-07-07 at 19:44 +0200, Jean Felder wrote: > You reported a bug against the CUPS package in Debian a long time ago > (#339496) It was a bug report triggered by an automatic test using piuparts, which you would be able to try yourself, or you could check the piuparts log file site: http

Bug#575251: Moving debian-fi to lists.debian.org

I think this would be a good thing to do. I also concur that the topic of the list would be expanded from "user support in Finnish" to "all things related to Debian, in Finnish", and thus the name debian-finnish would seem to me to be better than debian-user-finnish. I'm fine with anything, thoug

Bug#586482: debmirror: bandwidth limit for http downloads

Package: debmirror Version: 1:2.4.4 Severity: wishlist It would be cool if there was a way to limit bandwidth usage for HTTP downloads. I know that doing this in a firewall would be a better solution overall, but that's not always easy to achieve. Even something as simple as doing HTTP downloads

Bug#586481: debmirror: optionally support zsync or apt-sync for downloading debs

Package: debmirror Version: 1:2.4.4 Severity: wishlist This is perhaps a bit of an unrealistic idea, so feel free to close the bug if it's unlikely to happen. Or possibly this should be a bigger thing than just debmirror. zsync is an implementation of the rsync algorithm, which works over HTTP w

Bug#586479: debmirror: better progress reporting would be nice

Package: debmirror Version: 1:2.4.4 Severity: wishlist It would be cool if debmirror could provide a bit better progress reporting. Specifically, one or more of the following: * number of files still to download * amount of data still to download * an estimate of the remaining time It is OK to u

Bug#586478: gwibber: package description does not mention identi.ca and/or status.net

Package: gwibber Version: 1.2.0+bzr358-3 Severity: normal The gwibber package description does not mention identi.ca or status.net. The software does support both, so it would be good for the description to mention them, and not just some non-free services. -- System Information: Debian Release:

Bug#584493: ITP: libbusiness-issn-perl -- Perl extension for International Standard Serial Numbers (ISSN)

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Lars Wirzenius * Package name: libbusiness-issn-perl Version : 0.91 Upstream Author : brian d foy * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Business-ISSN/ * License : Same as Perl (Artistic or GPL1+) Programming Lang: Perl

Bug#580169: daemon: period is allowed in usernames, --user should use colon instead

Package: daemon Version: 0.6.3-1 Severity: minor The --user option accepts a group to be specified as well, using period as a separator. Unfortunately, a period is allowed in usernames. Thus, a colon would be a better separator. See also chown's switch from user.group to user:group. See http://ww

Bug#578812: ITP: libfile-corresponding-perl -- Find corresponding files in the directory tree

On Wed, 2010-04-28 at 09:11 +0200, Dominique Dumont wrote: > Description : Find corresponding files in the directory tree > > File::Corresponding uses a configuration of groups of File Profiles to > identify corresponding files. It is not clear to me from the package description what "corre

Bug#579178: pwgen: manpage incomplete sentence

Package: pwgen Version: 2.06-1+b1 Severity: minor Tags: patch pwgen(1) says: -N, --num-passwords=num Generate num passwords. This defaults to a screenful if pass‐ words are printed by columns, and one password. I think the word "otherwise" is missing from th

Bug#578822: debbugs: Please add urls to affected bugs to control@ responses

Package: debbugs Version: n/a Severity: wishlist Some bugs.debian.org / debbugs reponses now contain a footer with a URL to the affected bug. It would be great if responses to messages to control@ would have them, too. -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers testing APT

Bug#578708: [Pkg-bazaar-maint] Bug#578708: bzr+ssh urls do not actually support /~/ as a path prefix

retitle 578708 bzr+ssh urlspec documentation should mention version required on remote end thanks On Thu, 2010-04-22 at 09:23 +0200, Roland Mas wrote: > My understanding is that the ~ handling is delegated to the remote bzr > process when you use bzr+ssh://, while it is done locally when you use

Bug#578708: bzr+ssh urls do not actually support /~/ as a path prefix

Package: bzr Version: 2.1.1-1 Severity: normal Tags: upstream >From "bzr help urlspec": For bzr+ssh:// and sftp:// URLs, Bazaar also supports paths that begin with '~' as meaning that the rest of the path should be interpreted relative to the remote user's home directory. For example

Bug#578705: "bzr help topics" does not mention "location" in description of "urlspec"

Package: bzr Version: 2.1.1-1 Severity: minor Tags: upstream I wanted to find the syntax for LOCATION in bzr. The following failed: l...@saimaa$ bzr help topics | grep -i location location-alias Aliases for remembered locations It would be nice if the description for "urlspec" woul

Bug#577825: dput: assumes epoch is a single digit

Package: dput Version: 0.9.5.1 Severity: normal The following code in dput seems wrong: if version.find(':') > 0: if debug: print "D: Epoch found" version = version[2:] Epochs are not limited to single digits, so assuming you can strip it off with vers

Bug#563517: manpage is not correctly formatted

On Mon, 2010-04-12 at 10:06 +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Mon, 12 Apr 2010, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > > The reason the auto-generated part of the manpage fails is because > > In what way does it fail? In the way indicated by the submitter of the bug. To re-cap, the output

Bug#563517: manpage is not correctly formatted

Package: quilt Version: 0.48-6 Severity: normal The reason the auto-generated part of the manpage fails is because the Makefile rule that does the auto-generation uses bash syntax, but make runs sh, which is often dash these days, not bash. Adding "SHELL=bash" to the top of Makefile.in and re-bui

Bug#576763: ITP: libtext-csv-encoded-perl -- encoding aware Text::CSV

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Lars Wirzenius * Package name: libtext-csv-encoded-perl Version : 0.09 Upstream Author : Makamaka Hannyaharamitu * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Text-CSV-Encoded/ * License : Perl Programming Lang: Perl

Bug#576762: ITP: libpdf-api2-simple-perl -- wrapper for PDF::API2 modules

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Lars Wirzenius * Package name: libpdf-api2-simple-perl Version : 1.001004 Upstream Author : Red Tree Systems LLC * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/PDF-API2-Simple/ * License : Public domain Programming Lang: Perl

Bug#576760: ITP: liblocale-currency-format-perl -- Perl functions for formatting monetary values

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Lars Wirzenius * Package name: liblocale-currency-format-perl Version : 1.28 Upstream Author : Tan D Nguyen * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Locale-Currency-Format/ * License : Perl Programming Lang: Perl

Bug#576761: ITP: libmemoize-memcached-perl -- use a memcached cache to memoize functions

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Lars Wirzenius * Package name: libmemoize-memcached-perl Version : 0.03 Upstream Author : David Trischuk * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Memoize-Memcached/ * License : Perl Programming Lang: Perl Description

Bug#576757: ITP: libhttp-oai-perl -- API for the OAI-PMH

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Lars Wirzenius * Package name: libhttp-oai-perl Version : 3.22 Upstream Author : Tim Brody * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/HTTP-OAI/ * License : Perl Programming Lang: Perl Description : API for the OAI-PMH

Bug#576594: debian-policy: Unclear "it" in Perl policy 2.2

Package: debian-policy Version: 3.8.4.0 Severity: minor http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/perl-policy/ch-perl.html says in section 2.2 (Base Package): As Perl is currently used by such things as update-alternatives and some package maintainer scripts, it must be priority requir

Bug#555892: RFP: ptouch-driver -- CUPS/Foomatic driver for Brother P-touch label printers

Package: wnpp Severity: normal http://www.diku.dk/hjemmesider/ansatte/panic/P-touch/ has the program ptouch-driver, which is a driver for CUPS and Foomatic for Brother P-touch label printers. I made a quick-and-dirty package for myself, diff.gz attached. Note that I am _not_ willing to maintain t

Bug#544441: enemies-of-carlotta ITA?

Hi, Dave, any progress on the enemies-of-carlotta ITA? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#546403: kipi-plugins: includes Adobe DNG SDK, with problematic license

Package: kipi-plugins Version: 0.6.0-1 Severity: severe Justification: presumed non-free license for included library kipi-plugins contains a copy of the Adobe DNG SDK, which the ftpmasters (specifically, Joerg Jaspert) has deemed to have a problematic license, preventing it from being packaged in

Bug#544441: RFA: enemies-of-carlotta -- mailing list manager)

I forgot the X-Debbugs-Cc in my original e-mail, sorry. Package: wnpp Severity: normal I would like to find a new maintainer for the enemies-of-carlotta package. It is a mailing list manager, of which I am upstream. I will gladly fix any bugs that exist upstream, but I do not wish to maintain the

Bug#544441: RFA: enemies-of-carlotta -- mailing list manager

Package: wnpp Severity: normal I would like to find a new maintainer for the enemies-of-carlotta package. It is a mailing list manager, of which I am upstream. I will gladly fix any bugs that exist upstream, but I do not wish to maintain the package in Debian anymore. As upstream, I do not predict

Bug#538707: RM: RoM: python-coverage-test-runner

Package: ftp.debian.org Please remove the package python-coverage-test-runner. It has practically no users according to popcon, and the nose package should be a good, easy replacement. (I am maintainer and upstream developer of python-coverage-test-runner.) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debia

Bug#538705: RM: RoM: unperish

Package: ftp.debian.org Please remove the package unperish, as it is not used by anyone and I as maintainer and upstream don't have time to fix the more glaring problems in it (even if they aren't reported in the BTS). Thank you. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.de

Bug#538273: [Piuparts-devel] Bug#538273: Piuparts fails when PATH environment variable doesn't include /usr/sbin/

pe, 2009-07-24 kello 16:33 +0200, Ignace Mouzannar kirjoitti: > Piuparts tries to run debootstrap(8) and chroot(8) which are located > in /usr/sbin/ > > If /usr/sbin/ is missing from the PATH environment variable, piuparts > returns a Python Traceback. Yeah. However, piuparts really needs to be r

Bug#537869: debdelta: [PATCH] Use hashlib, not md5 module

Package: debdelta Version: 0.28 Severity: minor Since Python 2.5, the standard library has provided a hashlib module, which supercedes the md5 module. Attached please find trivial patch to make debdelta use the hashlib module. === modified file 'debdelta' --- debdelta 2009-07-21 13:08:58 + ++

Bug#535982: gunzip to support writing sparse files

Package: gzip Version: 1.3.12-6 Severity: wishlist Sometimes there's a need to compress a sparse file. The typical use case for me would be a QEMU/KVM disk image file. It would be great if gunzip would have a --sparse option to write a sparse file when uncompressing, if the output is to a file and

Bug#529296: mr: a --really-quiet option would be handy

Package: mr Version: 0.39 Severity: wishlist I use mr to keep a number of branches on my laptop up to date, so that I can easily take my laptop and go hack, without having to remember to copy everything manually onto it. I run mr from cron. This works fine, since all branches I am mirroring are p

Bug#525301: /usr/bin/isutf8: accepts UTF-8-encoded UTF-16 surrogates

to, 2009-04-23 kello 16:52 +0200, Jakub Wilk kirjoitti: > Package: moreutils > Version: 0.34 > Severity: normal > File: /usr/bin/isutf8 > > $ man utf-8 | grep -A 2 UTF-16 | sed -e 's/^ *//' > The UCS code values 0xd800–0xdfff (UTF-16 surrogates) as well as 0xfffe > and 0x (UCS non-characters)

Bug#524352: mr: bzr update should use pull or "merge --pull"

Package: mr Version: 0.39 Severity: wishlist The mr source file has this: bzr_update = bzr merge "$@" Unfortunately, "bzr merge" only fetches the changes and merges them into the working tree. It does not commit them. This prevents one from using mr to mirror vcs branches locally, at least

Bug#512458: [Piuparts-devel] Bug#512458: Add offline instructions

pe, 2009-01-23 kello 06:14 +0800, jida...@jidanni.org kirjoitti: > And the user recently did a apt-get update, so /var/lib/apt/lists is > fully up to date. > $ ls /var/lib/apt/lists|wc -l > 24 > > The user is now offline, and wants to do > # piuparts -m ... --bindmount= ... bla.deb > and cannot fi

Bug#511258: add command to unpack tarball into a named directory, stripping root if present

pe, 2009-01-09 kello 12:35 +0100, Adeodato Simó kirjoitti: > wonder if it wouldn't be a better idea to try and get the functionality > into tar itself directly. That would, I think, be the ideal option. However, since that's taking the long route, a wrapper script would certainly be a good idea, t

Bug#511258: add command to unpack tarball into a named directory, stripping root if present

to, 2009-01-08 kello 22:12 +0100, Adeodato Simó kirjoitti: > Package: moreutils > Severity: wishlist > > Hello, > > Here's a suggestion for moreutils: a command that implements the > tarball-unpacking logic of dpkg-source. That is, it unpacks a tarball > into a named directory, but if the tarball

Bug#506234: ed: Please add Homepage field

Package: ed Version: 0.7-3 It would be handy to add a Homepage field to debian/control: Homepage: http://www.gnu.org/software/ed/ Thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#498263: [Pkg-kde-extras] Bug#498263: kaffeine: please provide debian/README.source

ti, 2008-09-09 kello 12:50 +1000, Mark Purcell kirjoitti: > We provide a patch target, which we felt meets the requirement of policy 2.8. (There is no section 2.8 in the policy manual. The relevant section is 4.14, http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-source.html#s-readmesource) > debian-de

Bug#496967: general: System completely blocks any input

la, 2008-08-30 kello 12:21 +0200, Frank Küster kirjoitti: > Can I download an iso image of a boot CD with memtest86+ somewhere? Do the Debian installer disks have that? I know that the Ubuntu ones do. (If the Debian ones don't, that would be a good wishlist bug to file, I think.) The Ubuntu live

Bug#496967: general: System completely blocks any input

pe, 2008-08-29 kello 19:51 +0200, Frank Küster kirjoitti: > Any ideas how I can start debugging this? My first suspicion would be about the hardware. You could run memtest86+ for at least 12 hours or until the first error. Another idea: you could test the system with another version of Debian, or

Bug#497056: lsb-base: /lib/lsb/init-functions NON-DSFG Licence ?

pe, 2008-08-29 kello 11:20 -0500, William Pitcock kirjoitti: > This is DFSG-free, and meets both requirements. Since I agree with William, I'm closing the bug. If Jari disagrees, he'll let us know. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contac

Bug#497056: lsb-base: /lib/lsb/init-functions NON-DSFG Licence ?

pe, 2008-08-29 kello 18:30 +0300, root kirjoitti: > Please investigate if files included in lsb-base conform to DFSG. A lincense > change to GPL would be better suited for Debian. In what way do you think the lsb-base license does not conform to the DFSG? > Policy / 2.1. The Debian Free Software

Bug#496846: gksu: --desktop is undocumented

Package: gksu Version: 2.0.0-5 The manual page does not document the --desktop option. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#493781: Can a package modify slapd.conf in its maintainer script?

su, 2008-08-10 kello 19:34 +0200, Fabio Tranchitella kirjoitti: > Considering that slapd.conf is not (anymore) a conffile, in my opinion this > behaviour is not forbidden from the Debian policy and thus the bug report > could be closed without any change to the phamm-ldap package. > > Of course, h

Bug#491832: unperish: can't build a binary .changes file for uploading to Debian

Package: unperish Version: 2.7-1 Severity: important This version of unperish builds binary packages, and the corresponding .changes file, by first building a source package, and then building the binary packages from that. It does this in such a way that the source package does not end up in the

Bug#491318: init scripts "should" support start/stop/restart/force-reload - why not "must"?

pe, 2008-07-18 kello 09:51 -0700, Russ Allbery kirjoitti: > Peter Samuelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Package: debian-policy > > Version: 3.8.0.1 > > Severity: minor > > > > The `start', `stop', `restart', and `force-reload' options should be > > supported by all scripts in `/etc

Bug#491055: allow debian/copyright to be compressed

ke, 2008-07-16 kello 09:57 +0200, Thijs Kinkhorst kirjoitti: > "Every package must be accompanied by a verbatim copy of its copyright and > distribution license in the file /usr/share/doc/package/copyright (may be > compressed with gzip -9). This file must not be a symbolic link." Would it make

Bug#489836: ITP: maq -- Mapping and Assembly with Quality

ti, 2008-07-08 kello 14:51 +0900, Charles Plessy kirjoitti: > How about "builds assembly by mapping short reads to reference > sequences"? Speaking as an outsider to both biology and interior decoration, as far as I can determine that short description could apply equally well to genetics and IKEA

Bug#486425: ITP: bomstrip -- strip Byte-Order Marks from UTF-8 text files

ma, 2008-06-16 kello 12:14 +0300, Peter Pentchev kirjoitti: > Hm. Okay, so maybe the two command-line utilities and the collection > might be separated. IMHO, the collection *is* still useful on its own :) > If others share this opinion, I may either create two separate packages, > or just remove

Bug#483845: lintian: could warn about uploads to wrong targets

la, 2008-05-31 kello 16:47 -0500, Raphael Geissert kirjoitti: > Wouldn't this be more suitable in dput/dupload? > Those already have similar options, some of which are disabled by default, > but available anyway. It seems to me that it's the kind of static checking that belongs to lintian, so I'd

Bug#483845: lintian: could warn about uploads to wrong targets

la, 2008-05-31 kello 11:08 -0700, Russ Allbery kirjoitti: > You'd need some way to request only that specific check, I think, since > even people who normally want lintian to be as verbose as possible aren't > going to want that. Yeah, thus the debian/lintian-me-harder suggestion: only do the chec

Bug#483845: lintian: could warn about uploads to wrong targets

Package: lintian Severity: wishlist Some of us are not so good at remembering to set the upload target (unstable/experimental/stable/whatever) correctly. It would be handy if lintian could warn about this. For example (names changed): liw: we have bar 3.0.x series in unstable and 3.2.x in experi

Bug#343985: apt: "Bad header line" and "404 Not Found"

ma, 2008-05-26 kello 00:58 +0200, Vincent Lefevre kirjoitti: > > Hasn't happened in years, though. I have no futher information to > > add to this bug. > > Well, currently it occurs with some mirrors for powerpc. I'm sure it does, but since I have no further information about this, there is no ne

Bug#343985: apt: "Bad header line" and "404 Not Found"

su, 2008-05-25 kello 23:50 +0200, Vincent Lefevre kirjoitti: > On 2007-01-20 23:36:40 +0200, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > > Notice the garbage header. The server was running a really old version > > of etch, with apache 1. I replaced it with apache 2, and the problem > > went away.

Bug#481318: [Fwd: [Debian Wiki] Update of "DebianHistory" by anwins]

Package: wiki.debian.org The attached message, sent by the wiki, documents a change to the DebianHistory wiki page, which only mentions the name of a company. This smells like a spammer. Also, they made a change that page's Discussion page. I've removed the change from the DebianHistory page, but

Bug#479953: uniform header for automated package maintenance emails

On ke, 2008-05-07 at 11:52 +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > * ^X-Debian-PR-Message: > * ^X-Katie: > * ^X-PTS- > * > ^From:.*(installer|katie|dak)@((ftp-master|spohr)\.debian\.org|backports\.org) > * ^From: DDPOMail robot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > * ^X-BTS-Link: > > I think it would be very nice to pr

Bug#454982: coverage.py version 2.78 released

On su, 2008-05-04 at 20:08 +1000, Ben Finney wrote: > On 07-Jan-2008, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > > Yah. I'll get the package updated as soon as I can. Thanks. > > Ping. > > Any chance this can get done soon? Quite a number of my projects are > being bitten by bugs i

Bug#478577: [Piuparts-devel] Bug#478577: piuparts: debfoster requires /proc/stat

On to, 2008-05-01 at 11:53 +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > i'm wondering whether it wouldn't be better to directly call tar, > instead of relying on the tarfile module. After all, tar is called > directly to extract the tarball. > > Piuparts devs, what do you think? I remember having some problem

Bug#473844: unperish: recommends packages not in main

On ke, 2008-04-02 at 00:06 +0200, Amaya wrote: > # No unmet recommends relations inside main I assume your changelog meant to say "linda" instead of "lintian". :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#470480: unperish: Linda has left the building

package unperish tag 470480 pending thanks On ti, 2008-03-11 at 14:31 +0100, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: > Unperish Recommends linda, but this package has been removed from > unstable (#469039). Attached patch removes the recommends relation > your package has with linda and the corresponding code. I'

Bug#381485: Let's fix this

On su, 2008-03-02 at 19:59 +0100, Amaya wrote: > > Unfortunately, I'm able to provide patch perl code at the time being. > > This does not parse. If you are unable to provide a patch atm, is it > because of perl? I don't know Perl and so I'm unable to write a patch that will add a lintian warning

Bug#381485: Let's fix this

On su, 2008-03-02 at 19:33 +0100, Amaya wrote: > Hey There, > > As an effort to try to finish the invoke-rc.d transition for lenny, I > feel I must prod you guys here. Any improvements so far? > Lars, could you maybe look into providing a patch? Unfortunately, I'm able to provide patch perl code

Bug#466669: ITP: squirrelmail-gpg -- GnuPG plugin for SquirrelMail

On ke, 2008-02-20 at 01:56 -0800, Don Armstrong wrote: > On Wed, 20 Feb 2008, Jan Hauke Rahm wrote: > > * Decrypt on reading encrypted message > > * Encrypt, Decrypt, and Sign Attachments > > * Sign messages and verify signatures > > I really, really hope it's implementing in some incredibly

Bug#466515: PTS: "you should include ."

On ti, 2008-02-19 at 14:14 +0100, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: > On Tuesday 19 February 2008 11:55, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > > On ti, 2008-02-19 at 11:23 +0100, Holger Levsen wrote: > > > And as this isn't always right, I suggest to use a less strong wording. > > > &quo

Bug#466515: PTS: "you should include ."

On ti, 2008-02-19 at 13:39 +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 12:55:32PM +0200, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > > I concur, although I suggest that the wording could say that if the > > patch is inappropriate, the patch tag should be removed. > > No objectio

Bug#466515: PTS: "you should include ."

On ti, 2008-02-19 at 11:23 +0100, Holger Levsen wrote: > And as this isn't always right, I suggest to use a less strong wording. "You > should look at.." or "You could include". Or whatever. But _all_ those > patches should definitly _not_ be included. I concur, although I suggest that the wordi

Bug#466118: [Piuparts-devel] Bug#466118: Bug#466367: apache2.2-common: conffile question during upgrade

On ma, 2008-02-18 at 21:03 +0100, Stefan Fritsch wrote: > On Monday 18 February 2008, Marc Haber wrote: > > piuparts -d etch -d lenny fails when the package being tested pulls > > in apache2, because dpkg issues a "conffile changed" question for > > /etc/default/apache2 during apache2.2-common upda

Bug#466118: [Piuparts-devel] Bug#466118: piuparts: force-confdef in dpkg configuration probably needed

On la, 2008-02-16 at 18:31 +0100, Marc Haber wrote: > On Sat, Feb 16, 2008 at 07:26:59PM +0200, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > > On la, 2008-02-16 at 18:20 +0100, Marc Haber wrote: > > > Adding force-confdef to /etc/dpkg/dpkg.cfg seems to help here. I do > > > not know whether

Bug#466111: [Piuparts-devel] Bug#466111: manpage needs update

package piuparts tags 466111 pending thanks On la, 2008-02-16 at 17:14 +0100, Patrick Schoenfeld wrote: > this is really a minor thing, however the manpage of piuparts contains > these sentence "(...) installs properly in the stable (sarge) > Debian release, then can be upgraded to the testing >

Bug#466048: [Piuparts-devel] Bug#466048: piuparts: please document tarball building

On la, 2008-02-16 at 09:39 +0100, Marc Haber wrote: > On Sat, Feb 16, 2008 at 10:16:09AM +0200, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > > > (3) offer an option to have piuparts itself create a tarball that it > > > actually wants to see > > > > It already does: see the -s

Bug#466118: [Piuparts-devel] Bug#466118: piuparts: force-confdef in dpkg configuration probably needed

On la, 2008-02-16 at 18:20 +0100, Marc Haber wrote: > Adding force-confdef to /etc/dpkg/dpkg.cfg seems to help here. I do > not know whether it would be appropriate to use that option generally > inside the piuparts chroot. I think that would be wholly inappropriate to use generally. That's the ki

Bug#466048: [Piuparts-devel] Bug#466048: piuparts: please document tarball building

package piuparts tag 446048 pending thanks On la, 2008-02-16 at 08:57 +0100, Marc Haber wrote: > Please > (1) document that the tarball needs to have the chroot directly at its > base Where else would it be? It's the contents of the chroot, so the root directory of the chroot needs to be the

Bug#466043: [Piuparts-devel] Bug#466043: piuparts: should have a hook to pre-process the chroot

On la, 2008-02-16 at 08:17 +0100, Marc Haber wrote: > currently, it is not possible to do a piuparts upgrade test since > tzdata does not upgrade cleanly. I'd therefore like to pin tzdata to > stable inside the piuparts chroot. It would be nice if such problems could be avoided by uploaders using

Bug#386741: [Piuparts-devel] Bug#386741: don't ignore apt-get update

On la, 2008-02-16 at 08:49 +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > It's my first time using piuparts, here on sid > > # piuparts /var/cache/apt/archives/plucker_1.8-22_i386.deb > > ...and it wants to haul the whole Packages.gz file down the phone > line, totally ignoring that I am an assiduous user of

Bug#465416: [Piuparts-devel] Bug#465416: piuparts: -a -d etch -d sid torrus-common fails

package piuparts severity 465416 serious thanks Marc, you're doing nothing wrong. This is a programming error in piuparts. My fault. On ti, 2008-02-12 at 10:17 +0100, Marc Haber wrote: > AttributeError: Chroot instance has no attribute 'create_temp_tgz' -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PR

Bug#456496: I think coverage 2.78 fixes #456496

On ke, 2008-01-09 at 18:19 -0500, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote: > Thank you Ned for the fix! > > It did resolve the issue! I hope to see 2.78 in Debian soon. > > Lars, if you need help uploading it into Debian I can do it via NMU or > may be we could co-maintain it if you are too busy? ;-) The packa

Bug#454982: coverage.py version 2.78 released

On ti, 2008-01-08 at 00:26 +1100, Ben Finney wrote: > Howdy, > > Ned Batchelder today released version 2.78 of coverage.py, addressing > a bug in recognising Python source files among others. > > http://nedbatchelder.com/code/modules/coverage.html> > http://nedbatchelder.com/code/module

Bug#375183: invoke-rc.d: Uses hardcoded path to policy-rc.d

On su, 2007-12-23 at 11:47 +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > This make me believe that if update-rc.d is changed to allow other > locations, the documentation need to change a the same time. Yes, of course. > [Lars Wirzenius 2006-06-24] > > This means that a sysadmin who w

Bug#457169: patch for qa.debian.org

On la, 2007-12-22 at 12:48 +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > A patch for this bug would be changing the font sizes so that they use > relative units instead of absolute ones (as you suggest in the end of > your last message) preserving the current look and feel. Attached is a patch that attempts

Bug#457169: patch for qa.debian.org

On pe, 2007-12-21 at 16:50 +0100, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: > Package: qa.debian.org > Followup-For: Bug #457169 > > The simple patch attached fixes the problem on high dpi displays and looks > good on a 96 dpi one. I guess removing all fonts: ##pt (and maybe replace them > with a px one) would hel

Bug#457295: http://www.debian.org/devel/people -- wrong homepage field for some people

Package: www.debian.org Version: N/A; noticed 2007-12-21 On http://www.debian.org/devel/people some people have the wrong homepage listed. I'm one of them, Stefano Zacchiroli is another. Both our homepage is listed correctly on db.debian.org, so it's probably a problem with the script that generat

Bug#457169: no, they are great

On to, 2007-12-20 at 14:09 +0100, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > I think the fonts are nice as they are now. Too small makes it > unreadable and one needs to Ctrl+ everytime, which is bad. Personally, I would prefer it the style sheet didn't touch the font size at all. That way everyone can choose the bas

Bug#456456: ITP: unperish -- release and build free software projects

On su, 2007-12-16 at 14:08 +0100, Guus Sliepen wrote: > How does unperish make life easier than "make dist" and "debuild"? This > is unclear if you only look at the description. You're right, I shall elaborate: Unperish takes care of all the repetitive, mechanical steps of releasing and building

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