Bug#710520: apt: New /usr/lib/apt/methods/bzip2 (gzip) now incompatible with pbzip2

2013-05-31 Thread Mike Ashton
Package: apt Version: 0.9.7.8 Severity: normal Hi there, In squeeze /usr/lib/apt/methods/bzip2 was an independent binary, but in wheezy it has become a symlink to the gzip method binary which now appears to attempt to cope with various compression methods. Unfortunately, this implementation is

Bug#658239: pbzip2 fails to preserve ownership on 0 length files

2012-02-01 Thread Mike Ashton
Package: pbzip2 Version: 1.1.1-1 Severity: important pbzip2, when run as root, does not preserve the user and group ownership of the source file on the newly created .bz2 file if the source file is zero length. This is inconsistent with its behaviour in lenny, but worse it is inconsistent with

Bug#641419: linux-image-2.6.32-5-amd64: sendfile(2) behaves incorrectly in 2.6.32-5-amd64, overwriting written data

2011-09-14 Thread Mike Ashton
On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 01:34:17PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Tue, 2011-09-13 at 10:18 +, Mike Ashton wrote: Package: linux-2.6 Version: 2.6.32-35squeeze2 Severity: important In the squeeze standard 64 bit kernel (with either 64 or 32 bit userspace) sendfile(2

Bug#641419: linux-image-2.6.32-5-amd64: sendfile(2) behaves incorrectly in 2.6.32-5-amd64, overwriting written data

2011-09-13 Thread Mike Ashton
Package: linux-2.6 Version: 2.6.32-35squeeze2 Severity: important In the squeeze standard 64 bit kernel (with either 64 or 32 bit userspace) sendfile(2) is overwriting data already written to the file descriptor by write(2). Here's a minimal test case:

Bug#385146: Not a supported combination

2006-09-01 Thread Mike Ashton
On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 06:04:29PM +0100, Helge Kreutzmann wrote: severity 385146 wishlist thanks I've never used trac, but saw your report and felt a little strange. You blame a Debian version which version requirements are perfectly fullfilled (as you say, trac works with stable

Bug#385146: Not a supported combination

2006-09-01 Thread Mike Ashton
policy rather than the package itself, which is sort of where this problem falls) then I apologise, and please feel free to downgrade it. Ta, Mike. -Original Message- From: Helge Kreutzmann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 01 September 2006 14:28 To: Mike Ashton Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL

Bug#385146: trac: trac has an inaccurate dependency and can be installed but broken.

2006-08-29 Thread Mike Ashton
Package: trac Version: 0.8.1-3sarge5 Severity: serious As you can see below, trac depends on subversion, but this isn't quite true. It depends on the particular version of libsvn0 that stable subversion comes with. If you install a backport subversion, libsvn_swig_py is no longer included in