Bug#118023: Bug#213733: nis: upgrade breaks postinst and service restart

2009-08-16 Thread Mark Brown
On 15 Aug 2009, at 14:21, Ben Finney ben+deb...@benfinney.id.au wrote: On 15-Aug-2009, Mark Brown wrote: On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 01:24:07PM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: I have exactly the same problem on upgrading to version 3.17-27, with this output: Can you reproduce this problem? I don't

Bug#118023: Bug#213733: nis: upgrade breaks postinst and service restart

2009-08-15 Thread Mark Brown
On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 01:24:07PM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: I have exactly the same problem on upgrading to version 3.17-27, with this output: Can you reproduce this problem? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Bug#213733: nis: upgrade breaks postinst and service restart

2009-08-15 Thread Mark Brown
On 15 Aug 2009, at 14:21, Ben Finney ben+deb...@benfinney.id.au wrote: On 15-Aug-2009, Mark Brown wrote: On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 01:24:07PM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: I have exactly the same problem on upgrading to version 3.17-27, with this output: Can you reproduce this problem? I don't

Bug#439980: Patch sent upstream, waiting for feedback before applying it

2009-08-09 Thread Mark Brown
On Sat, Aug 08, 2009 at 10:17:40PM +0200, Julien Cristau wrote: is there any news on this bug (zlib.h only defining a prototype for gzopen64 if _LARGEFILE64_SOURCE is defined)? I noticed some warnings related to gzopen64 when building libpciaccess on some archs, and just found this bug. I

Bug#539000: tftpd-hpa: Unannounced removal of inetd support

2009-08-04 Thread Mark Brown
Package: tftpd-hpa Version: 5.0-3 Severity: serious In an earlier response to this report you write: running tftpd-hpa through inetd is no longer supported (in debian). however, will include a check into the initscript to fail gracefully when user decides to run it through inetd. however

Bug#539106: Have nis suggest nscd

2009-08-02 Thread Mark Brown
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 01:03:03PM +0530, Bhavani Shankar wrote: In Ubuntu, we've applied the attached patch to achieve the following: * Have nis Suggest nscd. LP: #345137 We thought you might be interested in doing the same. If you're going to do things like forward on changes like

Bug#539278: lib32z1: not installable on kfreebsd-amd64/ppc64

2009-07-30 Thread Mark Brown
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 01:00:11PM +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote: In this case a Pre-Depends is overkill, a simple Conflicts is enough. Please find a patch below to fix the problem. Please confirm this with the amd64 porters. This whole transitions has been plagued with problems; the

Bug#539278: lib32z1: not installable on kfreebsd-amd64/ppc64

2009-07-30 Thread Mark Brown
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 01:41:51PM +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote: Note that this solution (suggested by one of the dpkg maintainers) is the one that has been tested and implemented for libc6-dev-i386. No problem have been reported so far, contrary to the Pre-Depends version which sometimes

Bug#538012: tftpd-hpa: Gramatical errors in postinst output

2009-07-22 Thread Mark Brown
Package: tftpd-hpa Version: 5.0-3 Severity: minor The postinst says: | tftpd user (tftp) is already existing, doing nothing. This should read something like: | tftpd user (tftp) already exists, doing nothing. instead. -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable

Bug#537844: libbotan1.8.2: Undeclared conflicts with libbotan1.8

2009-07-21 Thread Mark Brown
Package: libbotan1.8.2 Version: 1.8.4-1 Severity: serious Attempting to install libbotan-1.8.2 results in the following error: | Unpacking libbotan-1.8.2 (from .../libbotan-1.8.2_1.8.4-1_amd64.deb) ... | dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libbotan-1.8.2_1.8.4-1_amd64.deb (--unpack):

Bug#537457: RM: gob -- ROM; Obsoleted by gob2 and glib 1.2 removal

2009-07-18 Thread Mark Brown
Package: ftp.debian.org Severity: normal gob is obsolete, having being replaced by gob2 for current glib versions. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#530150: nis: bashism in /bin/sh script

2009-07-06 Thread Mark Brown
On Sun, Jul 05, 2009 at 02:28:24PM -0500, Raphael Geissert wrote: --- ypserv-2.19/scripts/match_printcap.in.orig2009-07-05 14:19:14.0 -0500 +++ ypserv-2.19/scripts/match_printcap.in 2009-07-05 14:19:32.0 -0500 Debian patches are, of course, traditionally

Bug#530150: nis: bashism in /bin/sh script

2009-07-06 Thread Mark Brown
On Mon, Jul 06, 2009 at 03:39:08PM -0500, Raphael Geissert wrote: On Monday 06 July 2009 15:24:29 Mark Brown wrote: Debian patches are, of course, traditionally generated against the package... Of course: --- ypserv-2.19/etc/ypserv.conf.5.orig 2003-12-13 20:27:44.0 +0100

Bug#536023: RFA: leafnode

2009-07-06 Thread Mark Brown
Package: wnpp Severity: normal I'm looking for an adopter for Leafnode since I no longer use it. The package is in fairly good shape, pretty static and upstream is very responsive. To be honest what's really needed here is more upstream effort rather than more Debian effort - there has been a

Bug#530150: nis: bashism in /bin/sh script

2009-07-06 Thread Mark Brown
On Mon, Jul 06, 2009 at 03:55:24PM -0500, Raphael Geissert wrote: On Monday 06 July 2009 15:47:23 Mark Brown wrote: On Mon, Jul 06, 2009 at 03:39:08PM -0500, Raphael Geissert wrote: --- ypserv-2.19/etc/ypserv.conf.5.orig 2003-12-13 20:27:44.0 +0100 +++ ypserv-2.19/etc

Bug#533015: lib32z1: /emul/ia32-linux deprecated

2009-06-23 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 09:49:16AM +0200, Thomas Cataldo wrote: The attached patch should fix it I already have a very similar patch. I'm not rushing to upload it given that the transition (for the initial mail on) appears to be a bit of a shambles and I don't want the hassle of sorting out the

Bug#533217: [pkg-nvidia-devel] Bug#533217: nvidia-kernel-source 185.18.14-1 does not build under vanilla 2.6.28 or 2.6.30

2009-06-15 Thread Mark Brown
On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 11:04:04AM -0700, Randall Donald wrote: Yes the kdist target is still missing. The changelog mentions that module-assistant is still the only working build method. How is one supposed to do this? As I have previously reported, module-assistant doesn't actually work

Bug#533217: [pkg-nvidia-devel] Bug#533217: nvidia-kernel-source 185.18.14-1 does not build under vanilla 2.6.28 or 2.6.30

2009-06-15 Thread Mark Brown
On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 08:54:10PM +0200, Manuel Bilderbeek wrote: I had the same problem, but first doing: $ m-a clean nvidia helped! OK, that worked - thanks! I guess some cleaning up is missing in the scripts still, because usually I don't need to do this. Indeed, it shouldn't be

Bug#533015: lib32z1: /emul/ia32-linux deprecated

2009-06-13 Thread Mark Brown
On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 06:12:28PM +, Clint Adams wrote: Package: lib32z1 Version: 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-13 On amd64, files in /emul/ia32-linux should be moved to /usr/lib32. Might be worth putting a reference to the decision making process or something in these reports - this change doesn't

Bug#531955: [Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#531955: Bug#531955: useradd creates local-only users on nis server

2009-06-05 Thread Mark Brown
On Sat, Jun 06, 2009 at 12:02:55AM +0200, nicolas.franc...@centraliens.net wrote: On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 10:54:47AM +0200, harald.dun...@aixigo.de wrote: The new user john is added _before_ the first NIS compat entry, instead of being appended to passwd. /var/yp/Makefile ignores

Bug#531542: czech translation for nis 3.17-20 -2nd :o)

2009-06-02 Thread Mark Brown
merge 531542 531541 kthxbye On Tue, Jun 02, 2009 at 10:18:44AM +0200, Viktor Matys wrote: Package: nis Version: 3.17-20 Severity: wishlist I forgot to attach the translation. I hope I'll be more succesful now.:o) Viktor Matys -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid

Bug#530150: nis: bashism in /bin/sh script

2009-05-29 Thread Mark Brown
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 04:41:13PM -0500, Raphael Geissert wrote: d) and it is easier and faster to fix it than to reply to the bug report :) If this is the case please submit patches. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe.

Bug#525872: Evolution MAPI plugin

2009-05-20 Thread Mark Brown
In the ITP for evolution-mapi you asked for testing. I just tried with the current version 0.26.1-1 (binaries from your site) but find that when attempting to authenticate during account creation I get prompted for my password and then Evolution crashes immediately after I click OK. Attempting to

Bug#525872: Evolution MAPI plugin

2009-05-20 Thread Mark Brown
On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 01:30:08PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: You???d need to rebuild the packages with DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=noopt nostrip and install evolution-dbg and evolution-data-server-dbg, after which you can run evolution in a gdb session. Hrm. That's failing to rebuild in unstable

Bug#520706: nvidia-kernel-source: Also fails with module-assistant

2009-05-19 Thread Mark Brown
Package: nvidia-kernel-source Version: 180.44-2 Severity: normal The bug log for this bug states that build of the modules works when using module-assistant. I'm finding that when I attempt to build the modules with: module-assistant build -l 2.6.29-2-amd64 nvidia-kernel the build fails

Bug#528897: please add info-dir-section to your info files

2009-05-16 Thread Mark Brown
On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 11:59:36AM +0200, Norbert Preining wrote: The source of this problem is the following missing entry in the texinfo source: @dircategory Package short info @direntry * menu item 1: (infofile). Description. * menu item 2:

Bug#528897: please add info-dir-section to your info files

2009-05-16 Thread Mark Brown
On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 09:40:54PM +0200, Norbert Preining wrote: On Sat, 16 May 2009, Mark Brown wrote: This looks like entirely inappropriate advice for this and most packages since it will lead to a category per package, which seems both pointless and excessive. It'd seem more sensible

Bug#527577: bzr-gtk: Depends on out of date GTK version

2009-05-08 Thread Mark Brown
Package: bzr-gtk Version: 0.95.0+bzr631-1 Severity: normal When bzr starts it displays the following error message, complaining that the gtk plugin uses an out of date GTK version: Unable to load plugin 'gtk'. It requested API version (1, 13, 0) of module module 'bzrlib' from

Bug#231808: With no server set-up, installing nis is guaranteed to fail its init.d restart

2009-04-22 Thread Mark Brown
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 10:58:37AM +0200, Edward Welbourne wrote: Since ypbind is able to discover servers automatically What needs to be set up to make that work ? Getting that configured (presumably on the local network) would indeed make this a non-problem, at least for me. Describing

Bug#231808: With no server set-up, installing nis is guaranteed to fail its init.d restart

2009-04-21 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 07:29:22PM +0200, Edward Welbourne wrote: binding ... message that reminds me that I need to hold this package's hand because it doesn't think to ask me for information it absolutely must have before its init.d/ script can succeed. That's not quite correct; the init

Bug#523657: gob: Please update build dep for libglib1.2

2009-04-13 Thread Mark Brown
On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 09:55:04AM -0400, Barry deFreese wrote: Aye, I probably broke the patch when I ripped out all of the autogenerated files. Do you want the whole debdiff? It's a pretty small change before the autoreconf. No, it's fine. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#523657: gob: Please update build dep for libglib1.2

2009-04-12 Thread Mark Brown
On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 01:47:05PM -0400, Barry deFreese wrote: Now that Gtk1.2 is removed we are also looking to remove glib1.2 from the archive. Gob currently fails to build with glib2.0 as it uses AM_PATH_GLIB. Here is a patch that makes it build, though it probably needs more testing.

Bug#301283: #301283 might be intended behaviour

2009-04-12 Thread Mark Brown
On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 04:29:28PM +0200, Bernhard R. Link wrote: I think there are people that think that a stream should no longer return anything after end of file was reached until clearerr was called, so the behaviour in this bug might actually be intended behaviour. Yes, the behaviour

Bug#520186: dput: Displays 'not running dinstall' message

2009-03-17 Thread Mark Brown
Package: dput Version: 0.9.3 Severity: wishlist It's been quite some time since Debian let people run dinstall against uploaded packages to verify uploads and the other big distribution that uses dput (Ubuntu) doesn't have this either but dput prints a mesage saying that it hasn't run dinstall by

Bug#518645: leafnode: missing conflict against inn2-inews

2009-03-07 Thread Mark Brown
notfound 1.11.7.rc2-1 found 2.0.0.alpha20070602a-2 kthxbye On Sat, Mar 07, 2009 at 05:43:49PM +0100, Alban Browaeys wrote: Version: 1.11.7.rc2-1 You've filed this against the current unstable version which doesn't contain such a manual page... Preparing to replace leafnode 1.11.7.rc2-1

Bug#517118: logcheck-database: Reams of messages reported for BIND

2009-02-25 Thread Mark Brown
Package: logcheck-database Version: 1.2.69 Severity: normal Since lenny logcheck now reports vast numbers of messages such as: | Feb 25 17:02:18 cassiel named[21606]: client 62.109.4.89#40033: query (cache) './NS/IN' denied from BIND. -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0 APT prefers

Bug#515990: debian-installer: Fails to detect partitions on hard disk

2009-02-18 Thread Mark Brown
Package: debian-installer Version: 5.0 Severity: important When attempting to install on my Dell XPS M1330 partitioning correctly detects my disk but only offers me the option of creating an entirely new partition table (either manually or via guided install). It does not offer me the ability to

Bug#515990: debian-installer: Fails to detect partitions on hard disk

2009-02-18 Thread Mark Brown
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 02:46:11PM -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote: Please verify if parted sees the partition table. How would I go about doing this? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Bug#515990: debian-installer: Fails to detect partitions on hard disk

2009-02-18 Thread Mark Brown
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 02:46:11PM -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote: Please verify if parted sees the partition table. Parted reports Error: Cannot have overlapping partitions. -- You grabbed my hand and we fell into it, like a daydream - or a fever. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#515999: exim4-config: Uses all ca-certificates by default

2009-02-18 Thread Mark Brown
Package: exim4-config Version: 4.69-9 Severity: normal By default exim4-config includes all certificates ca-certificates installs in /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt. This causes interoperability with a number of mail clients, primarily Microsoft ones, which get upset when a very large number

Bug#515588: RM: powertweak -- ROM; Unmaintained upstream and uses out of date APIs

2009-02-16 Thread Mark Brown
Package: ftp.debian.org Severity: normal Please remove the powertweak package from unstable - it uses GTK 1 and has been unmaintained upstream for years. -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux

Bug#515430: Depends on GTK 1.2

2009-02-15 Thread Mark Brown
On 15 Feb 2009, at 19:51, Moritz Muehlenhoff j...@debian.org wrote: Package: powertweak-gtk Severity: serious powertweak build-depends on libgtk1.2-dev, which will be removed for Squeeze. Please port it to GTK 2 or drop the powertweak-gtk binary package. The package will be removed from

Bug#497849: nis: Please remove stop links from rc0 and rc6

2009-02-14 Thread Mark Brown
On Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 09:42:10PM +0200, Didier Roche wrote: Please consider applying the attached patch. Please check your MUA configuration - your patch has been sent HTML encoded which means that it is difficult to apply using standard tools. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#513065: Acknowledgement (libz.so: System Profiler and Benchmark calls libz.so but ln is libz.s0.1)

2009-01-28 Thread Mark Brown
On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 11:10:44PM +1100, George Kirkham wrote: There is an issue, however which library/program is the cause of the issue ? This is a bug in the application. If I understand what your saying, I guess that I should raise this issue against Hard Info, not zlib1g Yes. It has

Bug#457703: hardinfo: Please fix references to zlib

2009-01-28 Thread Mark Brown
Package: hardinfo Version: 0.4.2.3-5 Followup-For: Bug #457703 Please fix this bug for lenny. This bug is causing users to believe that there is a problem in the zlib1g package - I would really rather see this fixed before release, it's just going to make work for me as zlib maintainer and it's

Bug#513065: Acknowledgement (libz.so: System Profiler and Benchmark calls libz.so but ln is libz.s0.1)

2009-01-27 Thread Mark Brown
On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 07:44:02AM +1100, George Kirkham wrote: The System Profiler and Benchmark is a program which provides information about the installation of Debian and the PC on which it is Can you provide any references to this software? run. When I run System Profiler and

Bug#509170: zlib1g: gzrecover SIGSEGV in inflate from zlib

2009-01-01 Thread Mark Brown
On 1 Jan 2009, at 03:32, Paul Wise p...@debian.org wrote: On Wed, 2008-12-31 at 17:48 +, Mark Brown wrote: Does that make sense to you? I'm not familiar with the code of either gzrecover or zlib, so it didn't make heaps of sense. It sounds like this is a bug in gzrecover rather than

Bug#509170: zlib1g: gzrecover SIGSEGV in inflate from zlib

2008-12-31 Thread Mark Brown
On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 03:26:38PM +0900, Paul Wise wrote: gzrecover (from gzrt) crashes with a SIGSEGV in inflate from zlib when trying to recover the attached flasm_1.61-1.diff.gz (corrupted with 1 bit - byte 0xB41 should be 0x02 not 0x12). It crashes half way through the output of the

Bug#510049: [Python-apps-team] Bug#510049: Bug#510049: subdownloader: Fails to upgrade cleanly

2008-12-29 Thread Mark Brown
On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 08:27:36AM +, Marco Rodrigues wrote: Mark Brown wrote: Rolf was working in cooperation with upstream when he produced those packages. He was responsible for the packaging.. now I am. You can talk with upstream about this. I don't really case either way, just

Bug#510049: subdownloader: Fails to upgrade cleanly

2008-12-28 Thread Mark Brown
Package: subdownloader Version: 2.0.8.1-1 Severity: serious subdownloader 2.0.8.1-1 has at least an undeclared conflict with the previous subdownloader-cli package: | Preparing to replace subdownloader 2.0.5.1-1 (using .../subdownloader_2.0.8.1-1_all.deb) ... | Unpacking replacement

Bug#510049: [Python-apps-team] Bug#510049: subdownloader: Fails to upgrade cleanly

2008-12-28 Thread Mark Brown
On 28 Dec 2008, at 23:34, Piotr Ożarowski pi...@debian.org wrote: [Mark Brown, 2008-12-29] subdownloader 2.0.8.1-1 has at least an undeclared conflict with the previous subdownloader-cli package: was subdownloader-cli ever in Debian? I don't recall it ever being removed during the review

Bug#510049: [Python-apps-team] Bug#510049: subdownloader: Fails to upgrade cleanly

2008-12-28 Thread Mark Brown
On 29 Dec 2008, at 00:31, Piotr Ożarowski pi...@debian.org wrote: sorry, what version did you upload? What review process? Did I miss something? I reviewed (and thought I'd eventually uploaded) some earlier versions of the package for Rolf based on 2.0.5. It's possible the problems

Bug#508937: Bug#508936: x86info: Processor frequency estimate is off by orders of magnitude

2008-12-21 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 09:54:01PM +0200, Török Edwin wrote: The last number is obviously wrong (I wish such a CPU would exist!). Attached is full x86info -a output Please retest both bugs you've reported with version 1.23-1 which I have just uploaded to experimental. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Bug#508936: [edwinto...@gmail.com: Bug#508936: x86info: Processor frequency estimate is off by orders of magnitude]

2008-12-16 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 04:34:04PM -0500, Dave Jones wrote: On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 09:11:28PM +, Mark Brown wrote: The enclosed bug report was submitted against the Debian x86info package. I've not looked at it yet myself. I reworked the code that estimates this for 1.22, so

Bug#507397: Precision and patch

2008-12-02 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, Dec 02, 2008 at 12:20:06PM +0100, Lo??c Fejoz wrote: @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ + programme memain + write (*,*) 'Hello, world!' + end Better to stick with program here. Other than that this looks good - I was going to go with the same fix myself. -- You grabbed my hand and we

Bug#506849: closed by Mark Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Re: Bug#506849: leafnode: leafenode does forced fecth on install)

2008-11-25 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 11:42:53PM +1100, Alex Samad wrote: I understand it needs to be done for it to work, but I was hoping to have the ability to schedule it at a later time (during my off peak downloads), don't want to have to get up at 4 am to install this ! As I say, this feature is

Bug#436260: closed by maximilian attems [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Re: linux-support-2.6.22-1: Support for exernal module packages broken)

2008-11-13 Thread Mark Brown
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 11:03:55PM +0100, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote: On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 02:13:33PM +0200, maximilian attems wrote: if you can reproduce it with 2.6.25 or newer snapshots. i'm all ears unless so it is assumed fixed. Mark, does the problem still exist for you with the

Bug#497687: git-gui: Garbage collection warning triggers too easily

2008-11-05 Thread Mark Brown
On Wed, Nov 05, 2008 at 12:52:57AM +, Gerrit Pape wrote: On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 03:46:58PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote: Since the manual lists no way of disabling the warning and the garbage collection which is suggested by the dialog doesn't actually resolve the problem this is highly

Bug#497849: nis: Please remove stop links from rc0 and rc6

2008-09-05 Thread Mark Brown
On Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 09:42:10PM +0200, Didier Roche wrote: Package: nis Version: 3.17 Please ensure that you fill in the full package version when reporting bugs, including the Debian revision. Please consider applying the attached patch. Looks reasonable. Due to the current release

Bug#497831: Missing Depends on lib64z1

2008-09-05 Thread Mark Brown
On Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 07:25:05PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: to ensure that it will always match the version exactly. Without that the lib64z1 can be uninstalled (which doesn't hurt as then you would not have anything to debug) or more importantly have a different version. Seems

Bug#487104: nis: map values containing non-ascii characters vanish

2008-09-03 Thread Mark Brown
severity 487104 important kthxbye On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 05:12:43PM +0100, Jonathan H N Chin wrote: The problem causes data loss, so it is grave at minumum: http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Developer#severities (At my site at least, the data loss is serious, as I explained in my previous

Bug#497687: git-gui: Garbage collection warning triggers too easily

2008-09-03 Thread Mark Brown
Package: git-gui Version: 1:1.5.6.5-1 Severity: normal When git gui starts it does a check to see how many loose objects are in the repository and displays a warning if this is over a certain number, offering to do a gc. Since I track trees like linux-next that are rebased and do a lot of local

Bug#487104: setting package to nis, tagging 487104

2008-09-02 Thread Mark Brown
# Automatically generated email from bts, devscripts version 2.10.35 # via tagpending # # nis (3.17-17) unstable; urgency=low # # * Force locale for ypcat to C in order to work around errors from #fprintf() with multi-byte characters (closes: #487104). # package nis tags 487104 + pending

Bug#311772: Fwd: Password leaks are security holes

2008-08-28 Thread Mark Brown
On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 01:05:19PM +0200, Johan Walles wrote: 2008/8/28 Giacomo A. Catenazzi [EMAIL PROTECTED]: auth.log was invented for this reason, and separated to standard log: it should be readable only by root, because users do errors. It's readable by anybody with physical access

Bug#487104: nis: map values containing non-ascii characters vanish

2008-08-15 Thread Mark Brown
On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 04:40:36PM +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote: On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 03:15:21PM +0100, Jonathan H N Chin wrote: - Could you please run the ypcat command using: 'LC_ALL=en_GB.ISO-8859-1 LANG=en_GB.ISO-8859-1 ypcat' (note that you may have to generate the

Bug#487104: nis: map values containing non-ascii characters vanish

2008-08-15 Thread Mark Brown
severity 487104 important thanks On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 05:08:37PM +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote: No as Jonathan just confirmed, this actually does not prevents login, this only prevents the entries from being displayed with ypcat. Downgrading the bug, then - as I said, the original

Bug#487104: nis: map values containing non-ascii characters vanish

2008-08-15 Thread Mark Brown
On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 04:42:39PM +0100, Jonathan H N Chin wrote: I still silently lose accounts when I run ypcat on the linux server. (Apparently the locale setting is the culprit, so there is a workaround.) I consider that this to be serious data loss. At the very least it is data loss, so

Bug#487104: nis: map values containing non-ascii characters vanish

2008-08-15 Thread Mark Brown
On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 06:20:04PM +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote: I don't expect ypcat to print a correct string when the encoding of the NIS server and the locale of the client do not match, but at least it should not drop the line, and either print the line with broken characters or print an

Bug#487104: nis: map values containing non-ascii characters vanish

2008-08-15 Thread Mark Brown
On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 05:42:00PM +0100, Jonathan H N Chin wrote: If I put data into the database, I expect exactly the same data to come back when I perform a query. If not, an error must be returned. Silent data loss is not acceptable. I'm not saying that this a great thing, just that it's

Bug#493471: x86info: FTBFS on kfreebsd-amd64

2008-08-03 Thread Mark Brown
On Sat, Aug 02, 2008 at 10:20:16PM +0200, Petr Salinger wrote: --- debian/control~ 2008-08-02 21:56:11.0 + +++ debian/control 2008-08-02 21:56:11.0 + Please also note that patches should always be supplied in a format suitable for application with patch -p1.

Bug#493471: x86info: FTBFS on kfreebsd-amd64

2008-08-02 Thread Mark Brown
severity 493471 wishlist retitle 493471 x86info: Please implement kfreebsd-amd64 support kthxbye On Sat, Aug 02, 2008 at 10:20:16PM +0200, Petr Salinger wrote: the current version fails to build on kfreebsd-amd64. It have to be listed in Architecture line. If you're filing bugs like this it

Bug#155583: Bug#492426: libpam-modules: does unix_chkpwd have to be SUID root?

2008-07-27 Thread Mark Brown
On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 01:20:22PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 10:41:11AM +0100, Mark Brown wrote: Oh, good - I think that's the last Ubuntu diff here. According to the changelog in Ubuntu, there's one other: +- remove stop links from rc0 and rc6 But perhaps

Bug#492426: libpam-modules: does unix_chkpwd have to be SUID root?

2008-07-26 Thread Mark Brown
severity 492426 wishlist tag 492426 + pending thanks On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 05:44:22PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: So the latest upstream version of Linux-PAM, which I'm now merging into Debian, has split out the selinux password updating functionality into a Oh, good - I think that's the

Bug#491462: closed by Craig Small [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Re: Bug#491462: dh-make: Doesn't understand negative components in version numbers)

2008-07-21 Thread Mark Brown
On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 11:52:14AM +1000, Craig Small wrote: On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 11:56:56PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote: Given the function of the package I'd really expect to be able to throw any random upstream tarball at it and have it fail only in the face of insurmountable errors

Bug#491451: bugs.debian.org: Missing mail from #489643

2008-07-21 Thread Mark Brown
On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 09:40:19PM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: In order for us to have a chance of tracking it down, we need to know about it within a week (preferably 24 hours!) of it happening. We also need to know the message id, and any and all logs you have available. OK, same position

Bug#491451: bugs.debian.org: Missing mail from #489643

2008-07-21 Thread Mark Brown
On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 05:04:27AM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: Yeah; most likely it's your spamfilters that are eating the message. [If you really wanted to check that it's not the BTS screwing up, you can check to see if it hit one of the gmane groups tracking debian-bugs-dist.] Hrm.

Bug#491462: closed by Craig Small [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Re: Bug#491462: dh-make: Doesn't understand negative components in version numbers)

2008-07-20 Thread Mark Brown
On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 10:33:08PM +, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: | CLC-INTERCAL-Base-1.-94.-2$ dh_make | Package name CLC-INTERCAL-Base-1.-94. is not in a valid format. | Debian policy manual states: | Package names must only consist of lower case letters, digits (0-9), |

Bug#491451: bugs.debian.org: Missing mail from #489643

2008-07-19 Thread Mark Brown
Package: bugs.debian.org Severity: normal I don't appear to have received any e-mail from the BTS regarding bug 489643 which was filed against the NIS package. Unfortunately it's taken long enough for me to notice this that I no longer have any logs for the relevant period, though my archiving

Bug#491462: dh-make: Doesn't understand negative components in version numbers

2008-07-19 Thread Mark Brown
Package: dh-make Version: 0.46 Severity: normal Attempting to use dh_make on the CLC-INTERCAL base release I find: | CLC-INTERCAL-Base-1.-94.-2$ dh_make | Package name CLC-INTERCAL-Base-1.-94. is not in a valid format. | Debian policy manual states: | Package names must only consist of lower

Bug#489923: debtorrent: Doesn't download .debs

2008-07-08 Thread Mark Brown
Package: debtorrent Version: 0.1.8 Severity: important As far as I can tell all packages I attempt to download with debtorrent result in a 404 being returned to apt and messages such as: 2008-07-08 18:48:50,467 MainThread DebTorrent.BT1.AptListener WARNING Unable to find the file in any

Bug#436260: closed by maximilian attems [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Re: linux-support-2.6.22-1: Support for exernal module packages broken)

2008-06-30 Thread Mark Brown
On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 11:01:43PM +0200, maximilian attems wrote: there was no patch provided nor any proof of any trouble by your side, so tagging with moreinfo and willl close in 10 days unless something substantial comes up. Uh, message 10 of the bug report contains the updated version of

Bug#436260: closed by maximilian attems [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Re: linux-support-2.6.22-1: Support for exernal module packages broken)

2008-06-29 Thread Mark Brown
reopen 436260 thanks On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 03:48:07PM +, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: closing as this general assumption seems not true quite a bunch of external modules is build. As far as I remember (this was all quite some time ago) the external module packages were all using

Bug#487104: nis: map values containing non-ascii characters vanish

2008-06-20 Thread Mark Brown
On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 11:32:05AM +0100, Jonathan H N Chin wrote: I have a webserver running sarge. I'm building a replacement using etch. It's not an upgrade, it's a fresh install. So, everything is different. You say this but... When I used ypcat to retrieve the map, both entries were

Bug#487104: nis: map values containing non-ascii characters vanish

2008-06-19 Thread Mark Brown
reassign 487104 libc6 thanks On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 05:02:01PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Solaris 10 and Debian nis package 3.13-2 both accept non-ascii characters in maps: However, 3.17-6 does not: This breaks login access to the system. As Jonathan said, ypcat is just a thin

Bug#484780: Documentation needs to mention bind and server's nisdomainname

2008-06-10 Thread Mark Brown
On Fri, Jun 06, 2008 at 03:01:38PM +0200, Edward Welbourne wrote: - the expectation is that your network administrator will tell you what it is Failing that, the documentation should at least say Ask your network administrator what it is if you don't know. The fact that network

Bug#484780: Documentation needs to mention bind and server's nisdomainname

2008-06-06 Thread Mark Brown
On Fri, Jun 06, 2008 at 01:03:58PM +0200, Edward Welbourne wrote: 1. HOW TO SETUP A LOCAL NIS CLIENT 1.1 Install the netbase, portmap and nis packages 1.2 The installation procedure will ask for your NIS domainname. This is just a name which describes the group of systems that use

Bug#484810: Configure failure when all code is position independent

2008-06-06 Thread Mark Brown
On Fri, Jun 06, 2008 at 06:53:31PM +0300, Marko Lindqvist wrote: - SFLAGS=${CFLAGS--O3} -fPIC + SFLAGS=${CFLAGS--O3} + + if ! $CC -c $CFLAGS -fPIC $test.c 21 | + grep all code is position independent /dev/null + then +SFLAGS=$SFLAGS -fPIC + fi This patch is too specific to

Bug#482716: Generated changes and patch systems

2008-05-28 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 06:06:28PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: Neil Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: With these gtk-doc files, it's not so much that the tmpl/*.sgml files are generated but that a tool essential to the build modifies them in a way that cannot be patched because the results

Bug#471263: Generated files and patch systems

2008-05-25 Thread Mark Brown
On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 01:07:56PM +0100, Neil Williams wrote: So I am running the relevant autotools at build time but I still get the warning. If you run autotools at build time you should also ensure that the changes which autotools makes are reverted in the clean target. This means that

Bug#429662: linux-image-2.6.21-1-powerpc: Suspend fails on PowerBook

2008-05-21 Thread Mark Brown
On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 08:59:23PM +0200, maximilian attems wrote: can we have an update on a recent linux image aka 2.6.25 from sid installs just fine in testing. thanks I do not currently run Linux on the affected machine. I could test with a d-i image? -- You grabbed my hand and we fell

Bug#481735: bugs.debian.org: Can't change bug categorisation

2008-05-18 Thread Mark Brown
Package: bugs.debian.org Severity: important If I view http://bugs.debian.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED], select Options then change Categorise bugs by to staus and severity and select Reload page then a page is displayed saying: An error occurred. Dammit. Error was: You have to choose something to

Bug#411696: r8169: Fails on interfaces cabled at modprobe

2008-05-13 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 01:46:51AM +0200, maximilian attems wrote: humm is that reproducible with a recent Lenny kernel? thanks for update. I left the job where I had access to the hardware about seven months ago. I seem to remember we were able to avoid the issue by using 2.6.22 or so so

Bug#477925: Adopting the Debian SCons packages

2008-05-01 Thread Mark Brown
On Thu, May 01, 2008 at 10:58:10AM +0200, Luca Falavigna wrote: We can set up a team and a repository, both Alioth + SVN or Launchpad + bzr can go. I'm more confident with the latter because Ubuntu does wide use of it to manage projects, but the former is ok too. There was some talk of moving

Bug#477925: Adopting the Debian SCons packages

2008-04-30 Thread Mark Brown
Since both of you e-mailed at roughly the same time about taking over the Debian SCons packages I thought the best thing to do would be to put you both in touch with each other and suggest forming a team to take over the package in order to pool the availible expertise - I don't know what you

Bug#476976: Sorry: still not working

2008-04-28 Thread Mark Brown
reassign 476976 python-central 0.6.6 kthxbye On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 09:36:33PM +0200, Andreas Tscharner wrote: Package: scons Version: 0.98.2-3 Followup-For: Bug #476976 Sorry, but the bug is still not fixed: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ scons Traceback (most recent call last): File

Bug#476976: Reopen #476976 (_not_ fixed in scons 0.98.2-1)

2008-04-27 Thread Mark Brown
On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 05:14:22PM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote: sorry, will need another rebuild with 0.6.6 (or you remove the directory manually). Will upload python-central tonight. No problem, thanks for the fix. -- You grabbed my hand and we fell into it, like a daydream - or a fever.

Bug#478014: bts: Does not CC maintainer of reassigned package

2008-04-26 Thread Mark Brown
Package: devscripts Version: 2.9.6 Severity: important In bug #477930 a bug was reassigned with a fairly long explanation by the reassigner. Unfortunately the BTS does not send the reassigned maintainer a complete copy of the mail doing the reassignment so all that reached me was: #

Bug#477971: Missing -I fixed in unstable

2008-04-26 Thread Mark Brown
This should be fixed by SCons 0.98.2-2 which was uploaded to unstable this afternoon, please let me know if that's not the case. -- You grabbed my hand and we fell into it, like a daydream - or a fever. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Bug#476976: Reopen #476976 (_not_ fixed in scons 0.98.2-1)

2008-04-25 Thread Mark Brown
the scons package: #476976: scons: Doesn't work at all It has been closed by Mark Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]. | Changes: | scons (0.98.2-1) unstable; urgency=low | . |* New upstream release. |* Build against new python-central, picking up new generated code which | fixes

Bug#476976: Reopen #476976 (_not_ fixed in scons 0.98.2-1)

2008-04-25 Thread Mark Brown
against the scons package: #476976: scons: Doesn't work at all It has been closed by Mark Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]. | Changes: | scons (0.98.2-1) unstable; urgency=low | . |* New upstream release. |* Build against new python-central, picking up new generated code which

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