Bug#764817: sudo: fails if kernel auditing disabled

2014-10-11 Thread Pete Wyckoff
Package: sudo Version: 1.8.11p1-1 Severity: grave In 1.8.11p1-1, sudo silently exits(1) without creating a new shell. Here's output from a simple test case, as root: sudo id tests whether it functions: # strace -v -s 100 sudo id ... connect(8, {sa_family=AF_LOCAL, sun_path=/dev/log}, 110) = 0

Bug#751351: xterm: pointerMode reset ignores resource setting

2014-06-19 Thread Pete Wyckoff
dic...@his.com wrote on Fri, 13 Jun 2014 16:16 -0400: On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 07:25:44PM -0400, Pete Wyckoff wrote: Package: xterm Version: 306-1 Severity: normal Starting with xterm-306-1, when I run /usr/bin/reset in an xterm, the pointerMode goes back to default, ignoring my

Bug#751351: xterm: pointerMode reset ignores resource setting

2014-06-11 Thread Pete Wyckoff
Package: xterm Version: 306-1 Severity: normal Starting with xterm-306-1, when I run /usr/bin/reset in an xterm, the pointerMode goes back to default, ignoring my resource setting of never: arf$ xrdb -query | grep pointerMode xterm*pointerMode: 0 It looks like this is due to a

Bug#732920: When this patch can be adopted by Testing?

2014-05-27 Thread Pete Wyckoff
csm...@debian.org wrote on Wed, 28 May 2014 07:04 +1000: On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 11:43:38PM +0800, Bai Shi wrote: Do you mind to advice on the below statement. Does it wait for stat fail in purpose? if (stat(DEFAULT_PRELOAD, ts) 0 || S_ISREG(ts.st_mode)) It does look a bit odd doesn't

Bug#455481: [455481] python-mutagen fails to write tags

2014-01-26 Thread Pete Wyckoff
I took a look at this old bug, and tracked it down to a unicode conversion problem in dir2ogg. The ASF objects were getting as values for Vorbis comments. mutagen.vorbis.VComment expects that all tag values are unicode already, not, e.g., ASFUnicodeAttribute or other WMA tag types. The fix to

Bug#588332: patch

2014-01-26 Thread Pete Wyckoff
t...@pault.ag wrote on Thu, 23 Feb 2012 20:54 -0500: On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 6:37 PM, Jakub Wilk jw...@debian.org wrote: But it FTBFS here with: | set -e; cd tests; for x in python2.7 python2.6; do \ |               $x run-tests.py --with-hg=`which hg`; \ [..] | Traceback (most recent

Bug#732920: procps: sysctl --system fails to load /etc/sysctl.conf

2013-12-22 Thread Pete Wyckoff
Package: procps Version: 1:3.3.9-1 Severity: normal Since 69 was fixed, to use sysctl --system, a bug in sysctl makes it that no settings in /etc/sysctl.conf are loaded. Function PreloadSystem() has this near the end: if (stat(DEFAULT_PRELOAD, ts) 0 S_ISREG(ts.st_mode)) {

Bug#732577: flashplugin-nonfree: wgetrc verbose=on causes Can't be verbose and quiet at the same time.

2013-12-18 Thread Pete Wyckoff
Package: flashplugin-nonfree Version: 1:3.4 Severity: normal When root has a .wgetrc, that contains verbose = on, wget is unhappy with the -q option used by get-upstream-version.pl. It says: arf# dpkg-reconfigure flashplugin-nonfree Can't be verbose and quiet at the same time. Usage: wget

Bug#718286: kgb-client: requires unpackaged App/KGB/Painter.pm

2013-07-29 Thread Pete Wyckoff
Package: kgb-client Version: 1.27-1 Severity: important When exceeding 20 commits in the update (squash-threshold), kgb-client uses Painter.pm to produce a prettily colored message. The perl module Painter.pm is available in the source, but not packaged in kgb-client. grip$ echo