Bug#1019035: systemd-cron: prerm fails in unbooted systems

2022-09-03 Thread RjY
Package: systemd-cron Version: 1.15.19-1 Severity: minor Tags: patch The package fails to remove when the system is not booted. I think this is a bug; I think any package should be removable, regardless of the boot status of the system. #v+ Spawning container 220903 on /backup/220903. Press ^]

Bug#1007887: xxd autoremoved - please recommend or suggest

2022-08-09 Thread RjY
James McCoy wrote: >I'm not sure how many people that use Vim actually know or care about >xxd. For those that do, manually installing the package (now that it >has its own) is pretty easy. > >Other than a menu item that uses xxd, there's nothing else in Vim that >directly uses it. > >I guess I

Bug#1007887: xxd autoremoved - please recommend or suggest

2022-08-06 Thread RjY
Hi, this morning I was surprised to see xxd being removed by the latest apt upgrade (because it was marked as automatically installed - I have since marked it as manual). I agree it should not be a "Depends:" but would it make sense to retain a "Recommends:" or "Suggests:" relationship between

Bug#915766: wget: pcre regex support lost

2018-12-06 Thread RjY
Package: wget Version: 1.19.5-2 wget has lost pcre regex support: % wget --regex-type=pcre wget: --regex-type: Invalid value 'pcre'. This is presumably not intentional. (Running the same command on a Stretch system produces the expected "missing URL" error.) This can also be seen from the

Bug#908518: sicherboot: avoid uuid-runtime dependency by using kernel directly

2018-09-10 Thread RjY
rom 9b9eda0672a0a75120c7e3d5fc27bc13bc117337 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: RjY Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2018 18:21:42 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Obtain random uuid from /proc/sys, remove uuid-runtime dependency Avoid the dependency on uuid-runtime by asking the kernel for a random UUID via the /proc/sys/kernel/random interface. uuid

Bug#797067: apt: please restore upgrade auto-autoremove

2017-12-28 Thread RjY
Package: apt Version: 1.6~alpha5 Severity: wishlist % grep AutomaticRemove /etc/apt/apt.conf APT::Get::AutomaticRemove "true"; % sudo apt upgrade [...] The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: [...] Use 'sudo apt autoremove'

Bug#883437: rsnapshot dependencies seem wrong

2017-12-04 Thread RjY
Richard James Salts wrote: >rsnapshot's default is to use /usr/bin/logger to log to syslog, however >there is no dependency on bsdutils. I think that the dependency on >logrotate should be downgraded to recommends and that there should be a >new dependency on bsdutils. bsdutils is "Priority:

Bug#882740: hostapd installation error

2017-11-29 Thread RjY
Andrew Shadura wrote: >By 'running' I meant running in terms of systemd, that is the unit is >somehow started already. Why this matters: the user might have edited >the unit file or written one of their own, which potentially uses a >different configuration file from a different location. If we

Bug#882740: hostapd installation error

2017-11-29 Thread RjY
Andrew Shadura wrote: >On 28 November 2017 at 10:24, RjY <r...@users.sourceforge.net> wrote: >> I'm still observing this on upgrade from 2:2.4-1.1 to 2:2.6-8. [...] >> As workaround I did "sudo update-rc.d hostapd disable" (Wasn't sure what >> the sys

Bug#882740: hostapd installation error

2017-11-28 Thread RjY
I'm still observing this on upgrade from 2:2.4-1.1 to 2:2.6-8. rjy@vile /tmp % systemctl status hostapd ● hostapd.service - Advanced IEEE 802.11 AP and IEEE 802.1X/WPA/WPA2/EAP Authenticator Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/hostapd.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled

Bug#882104: debian-goodies: "checkrestart -n" throws TypeError: a bytes-like object is required, not 'str'

2017-11-19 Thread RjY
Great, thanks for the bug cloning magic + swift fixes :)

Bug#882080: debian-goodies: checkrestart from debian-goodies 0.77 finds no files to restart

2017-11-18 Thread RjY
Just wanted to add I am also seeing this. Also wanted to note using checkrestart with -n (I wondered if not using lsof might produce different results) instead gave a python exception/backtrace. -- % sudo lsof -n | grep -E 'DEL|deleted' | grep /lib/ mpv2765rjy DEL

Bug#872368: gpgme: please adjust libgpgme11 dependency on gnupg package

2017-08-18 Thread RjY
RjY wrote: >It seems in recent unstable the gnupg package has turned into a >metapackage pulling in the whole gpg suite. Thus the dependency chain > mutt -> libgpgme11 -> gnupg -> [lots of stuff] >is pulling in a lot of stuff I don't need. As a test I created an emp

Bug#872368: gpgme: please adjust libgpgme11 dependency on gnupg package

2017-08-16 Thread RjY
Package: src:gpgme1.0 Version: 1.8.0-3 It seems in recent unstable the gnupg package has turned into a metapackage pulling in the whole gpg suite. Thus the dependency chain mutt -> libgpgme11 -> gnupg -> [lots of stuff] is pulling in a lot of stuff I don't need. I use mutt and don't want to

Bug#860763: imagemagick: /etc/imagemagick-6/policy.xml useless limits settings

2017-07-30 Thread RjY
Oh so this explains why IM started refusing to create/handle images more than a few thousand pixels tall despite having gigabytes of free memory. Yes, please remove the limits policy, it is annoying, especially when you don't know about it, and stuff that used to work, stops working, with no

Bug#868890: sicherboot: tries to access nonexistent files, fails upgrade

2017-07-19 Thread RjY
Package: sicherboot Version: 0.1.3 Severity: important Tags: patch I installed sicherboot after its recommendation in #826045 for systemd-boot integration (instead of a tediously manually updated syslinux-efi configuration file). As I don't use secure boot, I answered 'n' to the question about

Bug#805322: nginx: please default to keeping logs for less time

2016-01-15 Thread RjY
Matt Taggart wrote: >Currently the logrotate config file that is shipped with nginx specifies: > > daily > rotate 52 > >so it's keeping 52 days of logfiles (I wonder if daily used to be weekly >and it was keeping a year? that would make more sense). Strange to see this again. I thought the

Bug#809721: iceweasel: cookie permission overrides no longer apply to webappsstore?

2016-01-03 Thread RjY
Package: iceweasel Version: 43.0.2-1 Severity: normal Summary: please restore the ability to allow whitelisted sites to write to webappsstore.sqlite without having to accept all cookies permanently. In Preferences/privacy I have cookies set to accept, but keep only until Iceweasel closes. Then,

Bug#798265: Please apply upstream mouse event duplication patch

2015-11-01 Thread RjY
Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo wrote: [...] >So now we try to be more cautious and to avoid cherry-picking fixes >(unless they are critical fixes), unless they were going to be released >imminently Upstream first. I quite understand. No problem, I can live with continuing to patch my local copy

Bug#803315: debsnap: use JSON::PP

2015-10-28 Thread RjY
Package: devscripts Version: 2.15.9 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch debsnap seems to work perfectly well with JSON::PP, part of perl core since 5.14, according to its manual page. So it might be nice to use it instead of requiring the extra dependency? I think running a bit slower (by using pure

Bug#798265: Please apply upstream mouse event duplication patch

2015-09-07 Thread RjY
Source: libsdl2 Version: 2.0.2+dfsg1-7 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch fixed-upstream Please apply this patch, cherry-picked from unreleased 2.0.4 upstream: https://hg.libsdl.org/SDL/rev/957a6ed39ad0 as it fixes some very annoying mouse behaviour in SDL2.

Bug#785075: util-linux: /sbin/fstrim contains 2MiB of zero bytes

2015-05-12 Thread RjY
Package: util-linux Version: 2.26.2-2 Severity: minor Huge increase in the size of /sbin/fstrim on amd64. % dpkg -c util-linux_2.25.2-6_amd64.deb | grep -F /sbin/fstrim -rwxr-xr-x root/root 35432 2015-03-29 23:34 ./sbin/fstrim % dpkg -c util-linux_2.26.2-2_amd64.deb | grep -F

Bug#781647: git: git commit --date ignores timezone, always uses UTC/GMT

2015-04-06 Thread RjY
I previously wrote: It seems --date always uses UTC instead of the user's timezone. The issue seems a little more complicated than this; I observe that specifying today's date along with the time picks up that we are in British Summer Time, and gets the correct timezone offset. With only a time

Bug#781647: git: git commit --date ignores timezone, always uses UTC/GMT

2015-04-01 Thread RjY
Package: git Version: 1:2.1.4-2.1 Severity: normal It seems --date always uses UTC instead of the user's timezone. When trying to specify the author date of a commit, I observe: % git ci --date='08:39:39' -am r_patch.c: FillEmptyPixels: code common to createPatch/Texture [master

Bug#756266: g++-4.9: test summaries compressed twice (and why install them at all..?)

2014-07-28 Thread RjY
Package: g++-4.9 Version: 4.9.1-3 Severity: minor Many of the files in /usr/share/doc/gcc-4.9-base are compressed by xz then by gz. This seems wrong. (Reporting to g++-4.9 since that package owns the files.) % ls -l /usr/share/doc/gcc-4.9-base/test-summaries total 15316 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root

Bug#753934: perl: large inexplicable package size increase on amd64

2014-07-06 Thread RjY
Package: perl Version: 5.18.2-5 Severity: minor Installed-Size for perl on amd64 increased by over 4MB from -4 to -5. As far as I understand all -5 is doing is adding some extra metadata fields on s390x, so a 4MB increase seems unintentional at least. % dpkg -c ./perl_5.18.2-4_amd64.deb | awk

Bug#750722: libsvn1: libsvn_ra_local inexplicably gains 2044KiB of zero bytes

2014-06-06 Thread RjY
Package: libsvn1 Version: 1.8.9-1 Severity: minor During a recent package update I noticed libsvn1 grew a lot in installed-size. Upon investigation it turned out this was: % for i in libsvn1_1.8.8-2_amd64.deb libsvn1_1.8.9-1_amd64.deb ; do dpkg -c $i ; done | grep ra_local | grep -v '^l'

Bug#726163: Some of this could be trimmed

2013-11-03 Thread RjY
Jelmer Vernooij wrote: This is happening because we moved all samba libraries that didn't have separate packages yet into a single large package. [...] In other words, the following dependencies should be avoidable: libsubunit0 libwind0-heimdal libkdc2-heimdal libhdb9-heimdal python-talloc

Bug#726163: libsmbclient: excess dependencies?

2013-10-12 Thread RjY
Package: libsmbclient Version: 2:4.0.10+dfsg-2 Severity: normal The following NEW packages will be installed: libaio1 libasn1-8-heimdal libgssapi3-heimdal libhcrypto4-heimdal libhdb9-heimdal libheimbase1-heimdal libheimntlm0-heimdal libhx509-5-heimdal libkdc2-heimdal libkrb5-26-heimdal

Bug#712162: tig: please upload 1.1 to unstable (fixes parent blame bug)

2013-06-13 Thread RjY
Package: tig Version: 1.0-2 Severity: normal Please upload 1.1-1, from experimental, to unstable; it fixes the parent blame in subdir bug[1] which I keep tripping over. [1] https://github.com/jonas/tig/issues/70 -- http://rjy.org.uk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#699536: git-svn: unnecessary dependency on libwww-perl

2013-02-01 Thread RjY
Package: git-svn Version: 1:1.7.10.4-2 Severity: minor It seems libwww-perl was only needed for git svnimport, which is long gone. (Original report: #345045) -- http://rjy.org.uk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Bug#696440: nginx: 52 days oddity in log rotation

2012-12-20 Thread RjY
: RjY r...@users.sourceforge.net Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2012 19:29:37 + Subject: [PATCH] logrotate: keep 52 weeks (not 52 days) of logs --- debian/logrotate |2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/debian/logrotate b/debian/logrotate index 2d9547e..bc122b8 100644

Bug#668463: libcairo2: very slow transitions in iceweasel

2012-04-11 Thread RjY
Package: libcairo2 Version: 1.12.0-2 Severity: important Justification: iceweasel becomes unusably unresponsive on some webpages With libcairo2 in sid (1.12.0-2) webpages rendered in iceweasel that use javascript fade transitions - a fade between one image and another - are rendered like a

Bug#668306: rs: immediate segfault, apparently caused by hardening options (-pie)

2012-04-10 Thread RjY
Package: rs Version: 20120325-1 Severity: serious rjy@vile ~ % seq 1 9 | rs 3 3 zsh: doneseq 1 9 | zsh: segmentation fault rs 3 3 This happens regardless of input. It appears to be caused by -pie in the parameters passed to cc rjy@vile /tmp/rs/rs-20120325 % cc

Bug#662946: equivs: does not strip subdirectories from files to be installed

2012-03-07 Thread RjY
Package: equivs Version: 2.0.9 Severity: normal Tags: patch For example, if I have a control file with Files: src/some_program /bin equivs installs /bin/src/some_program instead of /bin/some_program. Apologies if this is intentional behaviour, but it was unexpected, not to mention quite

Bug#650029: rs: -z accumulates column width

2011-11-25 Thread RjY
Package: rs Version: 20101029-1 Tags: patch When using -z to compress column width, the loop does not reset the maximum width for each column, but instead accumulates the maximum width of all preceeding columns. For example, the following input 1 a wide column 2 3 4 a another wide column b c d

Bug#638276: dh-make: please allow -p to specify 0 as a version number

2011-08-18 Thread RjY
Package: dh-make Version: 0.59 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch Please allow the forced package name option to specify 0 as a version, e.g. -p mypackage_0. The test currently looks for anything that Perl considers true; the patch below instead tests for the empty string. *** dh_make.patch ---

Bug#621693: case where error line ends with , is not handled

2011-08-16 Thread RjY
file that still shows the problem. -- http://rjy.org.uk/ make all-recursive make[1]: Entering directory `/home/rjy/src/rboom' Making all in doc make[2]: Entering directory `/home/rjy/src/rboom/doc' make[2]: Nothing to be done for `all'. make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/rjy/src/rboom/doc' Making

Bug#636939: toilet: --width is not honoured

2011-08-07 Thread RjY
Package: toilet Version: 0.2-1 Severity: normal Perhaps I have misunderstood how it is meant to work, but toilet does not appear to honour the -w/--width option. To illustrate: $ toilet -w 40 12345678901234567890 | awk '{print length($0),$0 }' 77

Bug#634132: dehydra: misleading package description, implies it can be used with C

2011-07-17 Thread RjY
Package: dehydra Version: 0.9.hg20110609-2 Severity: minor dehydra apparently only operates on C++ codebases. I tried using it with a project in plain C that doesn't compile as C++, and got no useful output. I'm not complaining that it doesn't work for C, I mean the program was obviously

Bug#633945: dmalloc.h breaks with -O2 -D_GNU_SOURCE=1 (strndup macro expansion)

2011-07-15 Thread RjY
Package: libdmalloc-dev Version: 5.5.1-1.1 Severity: normal Version of gcc: gcc-4.6 4.6.1-3 Version of libc6-dev: 2.13-10 When using any level of optimization in a program that enables GNU libc extensions (defines _GNU_SOURCE), gcc turns strndup into a macro, which confuses line 484 of

Bug#629080: extlinux: can't find kernel image /boot/extlinux/memdisk with separate /boot partition

2011-06-03 Thread RjY
Package: extlinux Version: 2:4.04+dfsg-2 Severity: normal I downloaded an ISO, put it in /boot, and ran extlinux-update. It generated the following memdisk.cfg: label m0 menu label Memdisk, image grml-medium_2011.05.iso linux /boot/extlinux/memdisk initrd

Bug#617644: pdnsd: fails to start, broken init script

2011-03-10 Thread RjY
Package: pdnsd Version: 1.2.8-par-1 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable /etc/init.d/pdnsd has several problems that prevent pdnsd from starting. Firstly line 28 test -f . /etc/default/rcS || exit 0 This just produces an error, '.: unexpected operator' (I just deleted the

Bug#617318: new upstream version 0.17

2011-03-08 Thread RjY
I noticed on the git list that there is a new upstream version out to fix this problem[1]: Here's an updated tig, which fixes an incompatibility with ncurses 2.8.[2] [1] http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/168563 [2] I think he means 5.8 :-) the particular patch is

Bug#616523: querybts: browsing fails unless xdg-open is present when /bin/sh is dash

2011-03-05 Thread RjY
) os.system(cmd) return -- Package-specific info: ** Environment settings: EDITOR=vim VISUAL=vim INTERFACE=text ** /home/rjy/.reportbugrc: reportbug_version 5.0 mode standard ui text email r...@users.sourceforge.net -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers

Bug#616319: sn constantly redownloads the same articles, presenting them as new

2011-03-03 Thread RjY
Package: sn Version: 0.3.8-10 Severity: normal Tags: patch sn gets confused and never updates the .serial file for a newsgroup when a server responds to ARTICLE nnn with 220 0 message-id. snfetch.c:fetch() expects the response to ARTICLE nnn to be 220 nnn message-id and is confused by servers

Bug#615902: libsdl1.2: typo in Vcs-Svn field

2011-02-28 Thread RjY
Source: libsdl1.2 Source-Version: 1.2.14-6.1 Severity: minor Tags: patch libsdl.2 should be libsdl1.2 -- http://rjy.org.uk/ Index: debian/control === --- debian/control (revision 266) +++ debian/control (working copy) @@ -5,7 +5,7

Bug#560377: [PATCH] debian/nmap.{postinst,prerm}: install ncat as netcat alternative

2011-02-23 Thread RjY
tags 560377 + patch thanks -- http://rjy.org.uk/ From 4d9038b2297615151b617471c62d40f959783e01 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: RjY r...@users.sourceforge.net Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2011 17:35:14 + Subject: [PATCH] debian/nmap.{postinst,prerm}: install ncat as netcat alternative Fix #560377

Bug#610679: deutex: please log to /dev/null by default

2011-01-21 Thread RjY
Package: deutex Version: 4.4.902-12 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch deutex by default writes a copy of stdout/stderr to a file named deutex.log in the current directory. I wonder if you might consider disabling this, since you generally run it yourself from a terminal or via a Makefile, and can