Package: policycoreutils
Version: 1.26-1
Severity: normal
With selinux-utils 1.26-1 installed:
dpkg: error processing
/var/cache/apt/archives/policycoreutils_1.28-3_i386.deb (--unpack):
trying to overwrite `/usr/sbin/setsebool', which is also in package
selinux-utils
Seems that
Package: lintian
Version: 1.23.14
Severity: wishlist
The 1.23.14 entry seems to be wrapped to a width of about 100 characters,
while the standard width of 80 seems to be obeyed in almost all packages I
saw. It would be nice if you used that, too.
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Package: opensc
Version: 0.10.0-2
Severity: normal
* debian/control:
- Remove libpam-opensc, libscam1 and libopensc-openssl.
What is the rationale for this regression?
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Package: winbind
Version: 3.0.14a-3
Severity: normal
/etc/logrotate.d/winbind references /var/log/samba/log.winbindd, but
/var/log/samba does not exist, which makes logrotate spew a daily error. (As
missingok is given, this may be an error in logrotate.)
But I think /var/log/samba should really
Package: xlibs
Version: 6.8.99.901.dfsg.1-1
Severity: normal
Tags: experimental
xlibs ships with /etc/X11/xkb/compat/basic (used by the default server config),
which relies on /etc/X11/xkb/compat/ledcaps. This file is not in the same
package but in xlibs-data (on purpose or by mistake?). Since
Package: libx11-dev
Version: 6.8.99.901.dfsg.1-1
Severity: normal
Tags: experimental
/usr/include/X11/Xlib.h uses the _X_SENTINEL macro, which is defined in
Xfuncproto.h as shipped with x-dev 6.8.2.dfsg.1-7 but not in 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14
(from xfree86). So libx11-dev needs to depend on a suitably
Package: xorg-x11
Severity: minor
Tags: experimental patch
Since @ is only special before shell constructs lines 206 and 214 of
debian/rules will try to run the command '@echo', which obviously fails,
with no effects rather than a warning.
diff -u xorg-x11-6.8.99.901.dfsg.1/debian/rules
Package: xscreensaver
Version: 4.23-1
Severity: normal
interaggregate.6x is just intermomentary.6x after s/momentary/aggregate/
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Package: xscreensaver
Version: 4.23-1
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Quote from the manpage:
The tangram program uses a view basic shapes to build silhouettes of...
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Loic Minier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Currently, build-dependencies don't have to be satisfied in testing,
but only in unstable, and buildds are tracking unstable.
It seems you are looking at this issue from the viewpoint whether it
affects testing and/or the next release.
My angle is more
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+dvdisaster (0.63.2-1.1) unstable; urgency=low
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+ * Don't put a one megabyte buffer on the stack.
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dvdisaster (0.63.2-1) unstable; urgency=low
* New upstream release:
diff -ruN dvdisaster-0.63.2
Package: dvdisaster
Version: 0.63.2-1
Severity: wishlist
Creating a ecc file always resulted in a segfault for me. I finally traced the
issue back to ScanImage() creating a 1MB structure (crcbuf) on the stack.
Together with my ulimit for stack size this ended in SIGSEGV.
Rewriting the code to
Package: libcompress-zlib-perl
Version: 1.41-1
Severity: minor
It has no change information ... looks more like a README to me.
Upstream seems to have a fine Changes file, please put it into /usr/share/doc.
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Package: kgeography
Severity: normal
s/berlios.kgeography.de/kgeography.berlios.de/
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Package: pkg-config
Version: 0.20-1
Severity: minor
/usr/share/doc/pkg-config/NEWS.gz stops at 0.18. The tarball at
http://pkgconfig.freedesktop.org/releases/pkg-config-0.20.tar.gz does
have an up to date version, though...
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Package: libvisual
Severity: minor
libvisual0.2 and libvisual0.2-dev sometimes use visualisation,
sometimes visualization.
BTW, shouldn't libvisual0.2 be in Section libs?
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Package: gnome-games
Version: 1:2.10.2-2
Severity: normal
From changelog.Debian:
* Remove versionned build-dep on binutils as a version with fixed
--as-needed is in unstable.
Your package still build-depends on ld with working --as-needed. Just because
unstable has this on some
Package: libiiimutils0
Severity: normal
IIIMF Utilities library
libiiimutils provides some functions to access the configuration files etc.
This borders on the useless... Questions that users will have that the
description should answer:
What is IIIMF?
Why do I need it? Why not
Package: testdisk
Severity: minor
Quotes are from Policy 5.6.13:
The lines in the extended description can have these formats:
* Those starting with a single space are part of a paragraph.
Successive lines of this form will be word-wrapped when
displayed. The leading space will
Package: libsfs0c2
Severity: minor
libsfs0c2 does not provide any executables -- I think it would be better placed
in section libs.
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Package: avahi
Severity: normal
The following packages are in net but should IMHO be in libs:
libavahi-cil
libavahi-client1
libavahi-common0
libavahi-core1
libavahi-glib0
libavahi-qt3-0
libavahi-qt4-0
The following packages are in net but should IMHO be in libdevel:
libavahi-client-dev
Package: irpas
Severity: minor
Quotes are from Policy 5.6.13:
The lines in the extended description can have these formats:
* Those starting with a single space are part of a paragraph.
Successive lines of this form will be word-wrapped when
displayed. The leading space will
Package: enigmail-locales
Severity: minor
Some of the enigmail-locale-* packages are (IMO correctly) placed in section
mail, the following ones are in web instead:
enigmail-locale-fi
enigmail-locale-nb
enigmail-locale-pt-br
enigmail-locale-sk
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Package: groff-base
Version: 1.18.1.1-10
Followup-For: Bug #296124
For the record: two systems I checked, one sid and one sarge, did have the
correct symlink. site-tmac was made into a symlink in groff 1.17-2 (June 2001)
-- maybe this transition was botched on Nick's machine? The code is still in
Package: groff-base
Version: 1.18.1.1-10
Severity: normal
LC_CTYPE is de_AT.UTF-8. man outputs utf8 just fine, but as a misfeature the
ASCII apostrophe (U+0027) is turned into a right quote (U+2019).
The three uses for the apostrophe that come to mind are:
(a) denoting omission in things like
Package: liboil0.3
Version: 0.3.3-1
Severity: wishlist
It is empty, so there is no need to include it.
On the other hand, maybe upstream could be prodded into maintaining a real
NEWS file...
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Package: shadow
Severity: wishlist
Please include the nice NEWS file from upstream in the package(s).
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Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Kernel: Linux
Package: wine-doc
Version: 0.0.20050524-1
Severity: normal
(This is probably serious, but not for sarge.)
The package seems to have lost its changelog (due to the source pkg split?).
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Package: gimp-help-en
Version: 2+0.8-1
Severity: serious
It seems that this change
* Make /usr/share/doc/gimp-help-lang symlink to gimp-help-common,
from 0.7-2 did not work as gimp-help-en and gimp-help-de both have an
empty /usr/share/doc/pkgname/ directory now; violating policy 12.5
and
Package: monotone
Version: 0.19-1
Severity: wishlist
Upstream now ships emacs support, Debian should, too.
Other stuff from contrib may be useful as well.
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Package: lpr
Version: 1:2005.05.01
Severity: minor
* Changed to Debian native package. It is still based from OpenBSD cvs, but
synching with upsteam is longer needed as it occurs on an ongoing basis
... is *no* longer needed ... ?
anyway. Debian's lpr is not synched with OpenBSD's cvs
Package: vera
Version: 1.15-1
Severity: minor
Both XLFD and XFLD are defined as X Logical Font Description. Is the
latter a typo?
Googling only finds the XFCE Live Demo project as common usage.
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unmerge 284196
reopen 284196
thanks
There is nothing udev can do about this, because %c(1) is a valid device
name.
This explanation makes no sense for #284196, two seperate issues seem to
have been merged by mistake:
284196: warning about bla_foo=xyzzy where bla_foo is an illegal key
261181:
Package: libuclibc0
Version: 0.9.27-1
Severity: wishlist
Upstream has a nice NEWS-like document at
URL:http://www.uclibc.org/downloads/Changelog, probably in the tarball, too.
It would be perfect if you could put that in /usr/share/doc/libuclibc0/
TIA,
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Package: xblast-tnt
Version: 2.10.2-1
Severity: wishlist
Hi Alfie co!
I'm looking for a rough-changelog style document like the NEWS file in
GNU packages. Unfortunately /usr/share/doc/xblast-tnt/NEWS is pretty unhelpful.
What I found is
http://xblast.sourceforge.net/features.html
Maybe you
Package: manpages
Version: 2.02-1
Severity: wishlist
The upstream change summary is now in Changes (last version) and Changes.old
(previous versions). Please put these files in /usr/share/doc.
A patch is attached.
TIA,
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Package: capplets
Version: 1:2.8.2-3
Severity: normal
When I start gnome-theme-manager the following error comes up:
The default theme schemas could not be found on your system. This
means that you probably don't have metacity installed, or that your
gconf is configured incorrectly.
Package: lirc
Version: 0.7.1pre2-6
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
Some variables in my /etc/lirc/hardware.conf (attached) are set in an
indented line. lirc's postinst fails to detect that these are
correctly set, and adds lines to set these. I simply deleted these
lines at first, but they are of
Package: gimp-help-common
Version: 2+0.7-3
Severity: wishlist
Please put upstream NEWS into /usr/share/doc/gnome-help-common/
TIA,
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Package: libvorbis0a
Version: 1.1.0-1
Severity: wishlist
Please put upstream's CHANGES in /usr/share/doc/libvorbis0a/
TIA
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Package: udev
Version: 0.056-1
Severity: wishlist
Please put upstream's RELEASE-NOTES in /usr/share/doc/udev
TIA!
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Package: apt
Version: 0.5.28.6
Severity: wishlist
I'd like to read what changed. Entries like
* Merge [EMAIL PROTECTED]/apt--sarge--0 again (patch-36)
don't help without a lot of digging (and the right tools). In this case,
including the summary line of patch-36 would have been nice.
TIA
Package: libtheora0
Version: 0.0.0.alpha4-1
Severity: wishlist
Please put upstream's CHANGES in /usr/share/doc/libtheora0.
TIA
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Package: tar
Version: 1.13.93-4
Filenames on the commandline or read from a file via -T are not interpreted
correctly. I.e. to include the file foo\bar in an archive, one has to
specify foo\\bar.
If this is intended behaviour it lacks documentation.
The attached script doit gave this output:
+
Package: ftp.debian.org
Severity: wishlist
Stable's Release file can't be checked with the gnupg in stable
(1.0.6-4woody3), as this release does not handle multiple signatures in one
file. My automated checks will break.
Stable clients that verify Release.gpg files will have to install the 2005
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Sat, 22 Jan 2005, Scott James Remnant wrote:
4) Add a dependency on autotools-dev; promoting it all the way from
optional to Essential.
dpkg-dev is Standard, so autotools-dev would only need to be Standard,
wouldn't it?
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