> While this fixes this feature, it bloats the image for a feature that is
> seldom used.
Seldom used? I think of apropos and man as the most fundamental
commands in the Unix ecosystem. They are the first thing I mention,
when people ask me about learning (or mastering) the system.
Bloat? The
Control: found -1 60.5.1esr-1~deb9u1
Control: retitle -1 firefox-esr disobeys "until I close Firefox" "cookies and
site data" setting
To reproduce in version 60.5.1esr-1~deb9u1, currently in Debian stable:
Open Firefox ESR.
Configure Firefox thus:
≡
Preferences
Privacy & Security
Sven Joachim wrote:
> Basically that's the way session restore works, and I have
> always seen this as a feature rather than a bug, although
> that is certainly debatable. Some upstream discussions:
>
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=443354
>
Control: found -1 3.1.9-0+deb9u2
Scott Kitterman wrote:
> I agree this is a problem. A design change like this should not be
> implemented at the distro level, so it's not a patch I would consider
> for Debian. It should be discussed with the upstream developers.
Does upstream have a BTS? I
Package: live-build
Version: 1:20170213
Tags: patch
In a live system built by live-build, "man -k" and apropos produce
no output except the message ": nothing appropriate.", where
is the argument that was given.
The cause is the command "rm -rf /var/cache/man/*" in
Control: reassign -1 live-config 5.20170112
Control: retitle -1 live-config: Resolution changes and lost keystrokes, every
15 seconds
Package: debian-live
Severity: normal
I think this will be helpful to anyone who wants to run a GUI in
a live Stretch image in VirtualBox. None of my work-arounds seem
to be specific to VirtualBox, so this may also be helpful to people
using other (real or virtual) platforms.
I built a live
Control: found -1 6.6.6
Control: tags -1 - moreinfo unreproducible
I encountered this bug on Monday. Yesterday I was able to reproduce
it while recording a transcript. I used the ex command "%p" so that
all of the information that reportbug considered to be relevant would
be entered into the
Package: w3m
Version: 0.5.3-29
Severity: normal
I have a .html file that contains lots of text, and is valid according
to w3c.org's validator, but when this file is given to w3m -dump there
is no content written to standard output, and no error message written
to standard error, and zero exit
Control: found -1 24.5.0esr-1~deb7u1
Control: tags -1 security
Bug still present in Iceweasel 24.5, in Debian 7.5 wheezy.
Because this bug can cause retention of data which the user
has explicitly commanded must not be retained (and then allow
exfiltration of the illegitimately retained data to
Package: postfix
Version: 2.9.6-2
Severity: important
Tags: patch security
An unmodified Postfix install can be made to bounce arbitrary
content from an arbitrary internal address to an arbitrary external
address, by an external sender who has no affiliation with the
organization that's running
That message is caused by a bug in Debian's Postfix package,
but the bug didn't just appear last month; it's been there
at least since 2012. Probably something that changed on your
system last month caused fetchmail to start using the IPv6
loopback address instead of the IPv4 loopback address.
diff -ur old/postfix-2.9.6/src/global/post_mail.c new/postfix-2.9.6/src/global/post_mail.c
--- old/postfix-2.9.6/src/global/post_mail.c 2007-02-12 15:34:48.0 -0500
+++ new/postfix-2.9.6/src/global/post_mail.c 2014-03-08 07:31:00.0 -0500
@@ -165,6 +165,10 @@
#include post_mail.h
Simple patch, if I could find the file to apply it to :-). I take it
the init.d file (strange name for a file) is in the source package.
Do you know where I might find it outside of the source package, or is
the behavior in this file essentially compiled into the binary?
In the installed
PROBLEM: the kernel clock lags, so badly that ntpd can't synchronize.
Solution: run aptitude intall adjtimex and adjtimex -t 10011.
Change the line TICK= to TICK=10011 in /etc/default/adjtimex.
PROBLEM: some server processes crash with a bus error, when receiving
a connection attempt from an
Package: scsh-0.6
Version: 0.6.7-3
Severity: normal
Some flags (e.g. open/create) have wrong values on SPARC.
One result of this is that create-temp-file doesn't work.
Transcript below shows correct value used by gcc, and
incorrect value used by scsh.
$ cat flag.c
#include sys/types.h
#include
Package: kdegraphics
Version: 4:3.5.5-3etch2
Severity: normal
Running aptitude in Etch on SPARC, the keystrokes uUgg, which usually
just install security updates, now cause removal of over 150 packages
including all of KDE. This is because kde depends on kdegraphics, and
security.debian.org has
Package: installation-reports
Severity: normal
-- Package-specific info:
Boot method: CD
Image version: debian-40r0-sparc-netinst.iso
Date: Date and time of the install
2007 November 2
Machine: Sun Blade 100
Partitions: df -Tl will do; the raw partition table is preferred
FilesystemType
This bug is much worse in Etch. Debian-Installer overwrites the
Solaris partition's bootloader, without even asking! I am changing
the severity level to Critical. One of the definitions of Critical
is makes unrelated software on the system (or the whole system)
break. This bug breaks Solaris,
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