Bug#916457: grub2-common: Grub refuses to re-enable IPv6 traffic

2018-12-16 Thread Colin Watson
able=1 quiet appears in the above results of (2) and > (3) despite the fact that I had deleted/removed > GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="ipv6.disable=1 quiet" from /etc/default/grub. I'll need to see the full contents of /etc/default/grub and /boot/grub/grub.cfg immediately afte

Bug#916457: grub2-common: Grub refuses to re-enable IPv6 traffic

2018-12-14 Thread Colin Watson
In /etc/hosts, I ensure that # does not appear in front of lines that > mention IPv6 hosts > > 15. Reboot machine > > Result: IPv6 traffic is NOT blocked. IPv6 traffic is re-enabled These symptoms indicate to me that the equivalent of ipv6.disable=1 is being set somewhere else

Bug#858022: add systemd timer

2018-12-06 Thread Colin Watson
Control: tag -1 fixed-upstream On Tue, Dec 04, 2018 at 08:05:13PM +0100, Michael Biebl wrote: > On Wed, 22 Aug 2018 00:40:15 +0200 Michael Biebl wrote: > > On 8/21/18 23:50, Colin Watson wrote: > > > Can somebody explain what it achieves, other than churn? cron still > &

Bug#189920: Any update after 16 years?

2018-11-30 Thread Colin Watson
eing older. If you don't have anything constructive to add to the report, please don't add noise. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org]

Bug#775797: bugs.debian.org: BTS doesn't know about BPO versions; breaks apt-listbugs

2018-11-28 Thread Colin Watson
on graph a bit more would result in a significant increase of bug reports against backports. If I were a more active BTS admin then TBH I'd be inclined to just do this, but since I'm pretty inactive I thought it best to ask around. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org]

Bug#913857: dh_bash-completion: add --sourcedir option

2018-11-15 Thread Colin Watson
" anyway. I hope this verbal description is clear enough, but if not let me know and I can probably put together a patch. Thanks, -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org]

Bug#913816: dpkg-dev: dpkg_vendor_derives_from documentation produces wrong results

2018-11-15 Thread Colin Watson
, although presumably there would be compatibility concerns with changing it. (I noticed this because I tried to use dpkg_vendor_derives_from in openssh, and then Jeremy Bicha pointed out to me that it broke: https://salsa.debian.org/ssh-team/openssh/commit/2df9bff12640a33749f0f20ae806b6efac32711

Bug#913721: man-db: man gives incorrect error message if stdout not open for writing

2018-11-14 Thread Colin Watson
quot;stdout not open for writing!\n". Oops, thanks. Fixed upstream: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/man-db.git/commit/?id=d272bc3e81db44100467f720689ca2992d19f976 -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org]

Bug#913699: keymapper depends on nonexistent package python-yapps2

2018-11-14 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Nov 14, 2018 at 05:02:08AM +, peter green wrote: > keymapper depends on python-yapps2 which does not appear to exist, did > you mean to depend on python-yapps? Urgh, yes, silly mistake, sorry! Upload on its way. -- Colin Watson

Bug#913587: Drop obsolete /etc/default/grub.d/init-select.cfg

2018-11-12 Thread Colin Watson
weeks ago ... -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org]

Bug#913392: yapps2: diff for NMU version 2.2.1-2.1

2018-11-11 Thread Colin Watson
fix. Much appreciated, thanks! I've cancelled my NMU. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org]

Bug#913392: yapps2: diff for NMU version 2.2.1-2.1

2018-11-11 Thread Colin Watson
ng an ugly implementation-detail workaround.) Regards, -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org] diff -u yapps2-2.2.1/debian/changelog yapps2-2.2.1/debian/changelog --- yapps2-2.2.1/debian/changelog +++ yapps2-2.2.1/debian/changelog @@ -1,3 +1,11 @@ +yapps2 (2.2.1-2.1

Bug#913392: yapps2: missing dependency on python3-pkg-resources

2018-11-10 Thread Colin Watson
ntry_point ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'pkg_resources' yapps2 needs to depend on python3-pkg-resources. Thanks, -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org]

Bug#913351: man-db: lexgrog handles escaped hyphens after the first wrongly

2018-11-09 Thread Colin Watson
(man -w tfmtodit hpftodit afmtodit); do src/lexgrog "$F"; done /usr/share/man/man1/tfmtodit.1.gz: "tfmtodit - create font files for use with groff -Tdvi" /usr/share/man/man1/hpftodit.1.gz: "hpftodit - create font description files for use with groff -Tlj4"

Bug#912846: grub2: stop depending on ttf-dejavu-core

2018-11-04 Thread Colin Watson
any-amd64 any-arm64], I think this doesn't quite work because ttf-dejavu-core installs the relevant font file (DejaVuSans.ttf) to a different path, and it isn't one of those that configure.ac looks in; configure.ac will need to be patched to look in that path as wel

Bug#912170: stretch-pu: package grub2/2.02~beta3-5+deb9u1

2018-11-02 Thread Colin Watson
> No objections, thanks. > > Thanks. Colin - feel free to upload, bearing in mind that the window > for getting fixes into the 9.6 point release closes this weekend. Thanks. Uploaded. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org]

Bug#912569: openssh-client: openssh 7.8p1-1 and higher fail to connect to any host, "packet_write_wait: Broken pipe"

2018-11-01 Thread Colin Watson
y later version > right now. > Downgrading to openssh-client 7.7p1-4 fixes the issue. Can you post your ~/.ssh/config, editing out anything sensitive if necessary? I can't reproduce this problem myself. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org]

Bug#912380: endless looping, breaks dpkg

2018-10-31 Thread Colin Watson
low. I'd need more evidence to determine that there's an endless-loop-type bug here. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org]

Bug#912420: dh_systemd_start: fails to substitute #RESTART_ACTION#

2018-10-31 Thread Colin Watson
in buggy postinst scripts. I think this bug was introduced very recently; the offending commit appears to be 9f02cb6fae8a822092ef504f46cbdd0a4f5547c2. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org]

Bug#912222: RM: grub-efi-amd64-signed-template [i386], grub-efi-ia32-signed-template [amd64] -- ROM; *-signed-* no longer built on non-native architectures

2018-10-29 Thread Colin Watson
-signed-template on i386; these are still built and in use. Thanks, -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org]

Bug#912087: openssh-server: Slow startup after the upgrade to 7.9p1

2018-10-28 Thread Colin Watson
Control: reassign -1 openssl 1.1.1-1 Control: affects -1 openssh On Mon, Oct 29, 2018 at 12:48:32AM +0100, Bernhard Übelacker wrote: > Am 28.10.2018 um 19:23 schrieb Colin Watson: > > Thanks for the investigation. (Note also that the OpenSSH version in > > question is the one tha

Bug#886178: An extra trailing slash is added to ZFS root pool and it's not bootable

2018-10-28 Thread Colin Watson
quot; - LINUX_ROOT_DEVICE="ZFS=${rpool}${bootfs}" + LINUX_ROOT_DEVICE="ZFS=${rpool}${bootfs%/}" ;; esac Thanks, -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org]

Bug#741464: grub-pc-bin: hangs after displaying boot menu

2018-10-28 Thread Colin Watson
nce, then it could easily end up confused about which is the current scan code set (see the changes to query_mode in particular) and so end up using the wrong set, or possibly even send a nonsense command somehow. It seems worth testing if you can. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org]

Bug#891434: grub-efi: System fails to boot after "No space left on device" on EFI variable storage

2018-10-28 Thread Colin Watson
iguration, but only if it's different from what's already there". However, I think GRUB can at least manage to delete all but one entry from the same distributor rather than all of them, and if it finds one remaining entry then it can modify that rather than writing a brand new variable. As I understand it, that would probably be enough to fix this bug? -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org]

Bug#912170: stretch-pu: package grub2/2.02~beta3-5+deb9u1

2018-10-28 Thread Colin Watson
tboot environments on arm64, and the other makes it impossible to boot on Intel Apollo Lake systems. The proposed debdiff is attached. Thanks, -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org] diff -Nru grub2-2.02~beta3/debian/.git-dpm grub2-2.02~beta3/debian/.git-dpm ---

Bug#912087: openssh-server: Slow startup after the upgrade to 7.9p1

2018-10-28 Thread Colin Watson
difference? Unfortunately this is a little complicated as it will require doing a local build of the Debian OpenSSH source package in order to reduce the dependency; let me know if you need help with setting this up. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org]

Bug#912144: grub2-common: marks kernel update scripts falsely as obsolete conffiles

2018-10-28 Thread Colin Watson
https://salsa.debian.org/grub-team/grub/commit/014ba384bb8ac9869f2ccd2692f8ae05641d5bec Did I do something wrong, or is this a dpkg bug? Thanks, -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org]

Bug#912059: debian-policy: please increase ToC depth (for Lintian's benefit)

2018-10-27 Thread Colin Watson
tribution. This is Debian Policy version |policy_version|, released on |policy_date|. .. toctree:: - :maxdepth: 3 + :maxdepth: 4 :numbered: ch-scope @@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ This is Debian Policy version |policy_version|, released on |policy_date|. .. toctree:: :caption: Append

Bug#912055: doc-base: DocBook XML conversion reduced ToC section depth, omitting links used by Lintian

2018-10-27 Thread Colin Watson
depth? diff --git a/doc/xsl/common.xsl b/doc/xsl/common.xsl index cfa406d..6115fba 100644 --- a/doc/xsl/common.xsl +++ b/doc/xsl/common.xsl @@ -12,4 +12,6 @@ 1 + 3 + Thanks, -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org]

Bug#911704: keymapper: depends on obsolete yapps2-runtime

2018-10-27 Thread Colin Watson
rts against yapps2 ...). -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org]

Bug#911019: mandb: long waiting time during system update

2018-10-27 Thread Colin Watson
er Oracle changed its license to AGPL-3 in > version 6.0. Over the total lifetime I'm still content with this decision. :-) -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org]

Bug#911242: grub-legacy - Fails to install on disk (Bug #911242)

2018-10-25 Thread Colin Watson
Thanks for your patch there, which looks as reasonable as it's likely to get - I'm having a few unrelated difficulties getting a test environment completely working, but I'll upload as soon as I've sorted that out. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org]

Bug#911800: cabal-install: depend on or recommend curl/wget for HTTPS support?

2018-10-24 Thread Colin Watson
clue users into the fact that cabal-install works better with them? I think at least Recommends for HTTPS support would be justified on the modern internet. Thanks, -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org]

Bug#911758: ssh-add doesn't recognize PKCS#11 URL

2018-10-24 Thread Colin Watson
key exchange patch, which is already a significant maintenance headache). The author of this patch set sent it upstream here: https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2817 I'd very much rather wait for it to be accepted there. Thanks, -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org]

Bug#911753: python3-yapps: error reporting completely broken in Python 3 port

2018-10-24 Thread Colin Watson
The first exception is probably my fault somehow; I'm doing this in spare moments so haven't worked out the details. However, the second exception is because there is code in a Python 3 module that's using the Python 2 print syntax. Please could you fix the port by converting Scanner.print_line_with_pointer to Python 3 print syntax? Thanks, -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org]

Bug#911752: yapps2: half of examples in source package broken with Python 3 port

2018-10-24 Thread Colin Watson
#x27;Running tests___')? This is hopefully just a matter of converting the print statements in examples/calc.g and examples/xml.g to Python 3 syntax (since yapps2 itself now inserts "from __future__ import print_function" and thus requires parsers to use the new syntax). -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org]

Bug#911730: yapps2: writes __future__ import after preparser

2018-10-23 Thread Colin Watson
the preparser to avoid this problem. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org]

Bug#910959: grub-cloud-amd64: missing Conflicts: grub-coreboot, grub-efi-ia32, grub-ieee1275, grub-xen

2018-10-22 Thread Colin Watson
y and I don't think you need to do this. I will consider your patch but have been busy on a project at work that has a deadline of Wednesday, so please hold off as if this patch is wrong it will be complicated to unwind properly. I promise I'll look at it ASAP after Wednesday. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org]

Bug#910326: parted: include sys/sysmacros.h missing for major(), minor()

2018-10-05 Thread Colin Watson
it/parted.git/commit/?id=ba5e0451b51c983e40afd123b6e0d3eddb55e610), since that'll be slightly more convenient at the next upstream release (git will automatically drop it rather than me having to resolve a conflict). It'll be in my next upload. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com]

Bug#828475: openssh and OpenSSL 1.1

2018-09-26 Thread Colin Watson
t; > we are down to two users in testing with one of them fixed in > experimental. Upstream committed the necessary changes to switch to the 1.1 API earlier this month, so that should be in OpenSSH 7.9. There's usually a release every few months, so I think we should be OK to just w

Bug#908113: openssh-client: When I try to connect to a remote SSH server I got broken-pipe error

2018-09-06 Thread Colin Watson
d by a change in OpenSSH, this is really a VMware bug; I'd encourage you to report it to them. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org]

Bug#908113: openssh-client: When I try to connect to a remote SSH server I got broken-pipe error

2018-09-06 Thread Colin Watson
using VMware, or is there anything else interesting about your network setup? Does passing -o 'IPQoS lowdelay throughput' to ssh help? -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org]

Bug#907534: new upstream (7.8)

2018-08-29 Thread Colin Watson
sort out an interoperability issue with conch first. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org]

Bug#906912: RM: nukeimage/0.3-12

2018-08-22 Thread Colin Watson
stable already requested in #906861. Ack, as the maintainer. Thanks. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org]

Bug#906861: mozilla-nukeimage no longer works with firefox-esr 60

2018-08-21 Thread Colin Watson
> XUL addons are no longer supported. Yeah, I think it's time to put this package to bed. ftpmaster, please remove it. Thanks, -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org]

Bug#858022: add systemd timer

2018-08-21 Thread Colin Watson
> > Did you have time to look at this patch? Can somebody explain what it achieves, other than churn? cron still works just fine on systemd-based systems ... -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org]

Bug#906236: openssh: CVE-2018-15473: delay bailout for invalid authenticating user until after the packet

2018-08-21 Thread Colin Watson
free(pkblob); > + free(sig); > return authenticated; > } > This bit has the same memory leak problem that I noticed in Sébastien's backport for stretch: https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2898, but the backported fix

Bug#906470: grub2: FTBFS in buster/sid (failing tests)

2018-08-18 Thread Colin Watson
; Test failed: 2018-08-14 00:00:37 Tuesday Is this consistently reproducible? I think I've seen this locally on occasion, but it's always gone away when I tried to debug it. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org]

Bug#906124: Additional debug info

2018-08-17 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Aug 17, 2018 at 05:46:10PM +0200, Somebody else wrote: > On Fri, Aug 17, 2018 at 4:42 PM Colin Watson wrote: > > No, that change was added a long time ago. The change that caused the > > symptoms you observe was the addition of > > debian/patches/linuxefi_disa

Bug#906124: Additional debug info

2018-08-17 Thread Colin Watson
ode is in general necessary to fit the generally-understood SB security model; unfortunately your custom setup sits in a corner case that we hadn't previously heard much about and so isn't handled right now. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org]

Bug#906265: RFH: julia -- ppc64el port of Julia language and LLVM-6.0

2018-08-16 Thread Colin Watson
vel of course, but you can contact us at feedb...@launchpad.net, or #launchpad on freenode. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org]

Bug#865341: pagein: Segfaults roughly every 1 in ten executions

2018-08-15 Thread Colin Ian King
Hi Ben, pagein has gone through some considerable re-working since this bug report and I can't reproduce this issue. Do you mind re-trying with the latest version to check if it is now fixed. Regards, Colin On Tue, 20 Jun 2017 17:34:20 +0200 Ben Wiederhake wrote: > Package: pagein &

Bug#891691: [Pkg-mailman-hackers] Bug#891691: Bug#891691: mailman3-core: Cannot install mailman3-suite with mysql database

2018-08-15 Thread Colin Turner
> On 13 Aug 2018, at 22:29, Pierre-Elliott Bécue wrote: > [..] >> > > Dear Colin, > > As this bug is not fixable by ourselves (it's not specifically a > mailman-web bug), may I close this bug? > > Cheers! > Good morning Pierre-Elliott, Yes,

Bug#906091: man: 8 bit characters from the '.tm' request are displayed as \[u00XY]

2018-08-14 Thread Colin Watson
. Either preconv needs to understand enough about the input to avoid encoding the argument to .tm (although I wonder what this would do if the input text were in some more exotic encoding), or .tm needs to evaluate \[...] escapes, or we need to accept that this debugging command will pro

Bug#405798: wget patch for debmirror

2018-08-06 Thread Colin Watson
rather have a single code path that does the right thing without the need for options. I'm currently testing a patch that directly implements restarting of partial downloads in the LWP-based code, which should supersede this. Thanks, -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org]

Bug#905407: ssh-keygen: Use new OpenSSH key format by default

2018-08-04 Thread Colin Watson
https://lists.mindrot.org/mailman/listinfo/openssh-unix-dev) would be a good place. Thanks, -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org]

Bug#905094: Grub2 boot card dead

2018-07-31 Thread Colin Watson
t, but not all the pieces have been put together yet. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org]

Bug#905094: Grub2 boot card dead

2018-07-31 Thread Colin Watson
If so, the more details of what you're doing the better. Philipp and Luca, if you could have a look at this in case it's a regression in the SB work, that'd be great. Thanks, -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org]

Bug#903603: ssh upgrade breaks in some openvz container

2018-07-31 Thread Colin Watson
to reproduce the bug so that I can experiment? My efforts at zen-debugging this aren't really getting anywhere fast. Thanks, -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org]

Bug#905026: emacs: broken version

2018-07-30 Thread Colin Watson
ersion comparison algorithm: $ dpkg --compare-versions 1:25.2+1-8 gt 47.0 && echo yes yes So I think you need to go into quite a lot more detail about exactly what is failing ... -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org]

Bug#904302: Whether vendor-specific patch series should be permitted in the archive

2018-07-27 Thread Colin Watson
hat was part of what source package management features like this were trying to reduce). I'm aware my comments here are mostly Ubuntu-specific; this is not only because it's what I have most experience of, but also because I'm pretty sure that ubuntu.series is the only kind of vendor series I've ever seen in Debian source packages. It's possible I've missed some. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org]

Bug#887687: [Debconf-devel] Bug#887687: libsmokeqt4-dev: broken symlinks and causes qt4-perl FTBFS

2018-07-26 Thread Colin Watson
quot;libqtgui4-perl based frontend > might need to be removed") then. That's now fixed, so as far as debconf is concerned you can remove qt4-perl. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org]

Bug#631769: [Debconf-devel] Bug#631769: New Kde frontend based on debconf-kde-helper

2018-07-25 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Jul 25, 2018 at 10:23:49AM +0800, Matthias Klumpp wrote: > 2018-07-25 5:51 GMT+08:00 Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer > : > > On Thu, 19 Jul 2018 at 14:04, Colin Watson wrote: > >> Simple enough: once you've installed the new version, "dpkg-reconfigure &g

Bug#850156: Please firmly deprecate vendor-specific series files [and 1 more messages]

2018-07-23 Thread Colin Watson
the ways that Steve and others have pointed out, I don't think it's a good use of time to try to improve the tooling. I second Steve's opinion that, in the aggregate, this feature is actively harmful to downstreams (notwithstanding some individual cases where i

Bug#903603: ssh upgrade breaks in some openvz container

2018-07-22 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Jul 22, 2018 at 11:40:40AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > Do you know of a good support/bug contact for OpenVZ? I'm not familiar > with it at all, and I think we need some idea of what the problem is > there before we even have a clue about what a reasonable workaround in >

Bug#903603: ssh upgrade breaks in some openvz container

2018-07-22 Thread Colin Watson
is there before we even have a clue about what a reasonable workaround in OpenSSH might be. (Disabling the sandbox doesn't count as reasonable here, at least not long-term.) Have you asked the hosting provider if they know what might be going on, or if they have an upstream

Bug#899143: man-db: man - Error clone: main.c Operation not permitted

2018-07-22 Thread Colin Watson
pB > %pB\%.. (press h for help or q to quit)$-R MAN_PN=ls(1) less Sorry for the delay in getting back to you. Please could you run "sudo strace -f -o man.trace -s 1024 man ls", and attach the resulting man.trace file in an email to me? -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org]

Bug#629405: [Debconf-devel] Bug#629405: debconf: libqtgui4-perl based frontend might need to be removed

2018-07-21 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Jul 21, 2018 at 02:22:16PM +0200, gregor herrmann wrote: > On Sat, 21 Jul 2018 15:13:30 +0300, Niko Tyni wrote: > > Not quite but we're close now (thanks again Colin!). The old Qt frontend > > and the corresponding build dependency on libqtgui4-perl are still there >

Bug#631769: [Debconf-devel] Bug#631769: New Kde frontend based on debconf-kde-helper

2018-07-19 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Jul 19, 2018 at 01:43:09PM -0300, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote: > El jueves, 19 de julio de 2018 07:08:43 -03 Colin Watson escribió: > > Sorry for dropping this on the floor for so long! I've reviewed this > > and tested it on a Debian KDE stretch system

Bug#631769: [Debconf-devel] Bug#631769: New Kde frontend based on debconf-kde-helper

2018-07-19 Thread Colin Watson
mmit. Nowadays, task-kde-desktop happens to pull debconf-kde-helper in via apper, so most people probably have it; but we should probably explicitly add it to the task. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org]

Bug#902928: Cannot bring the grub menu up with Shift key along with GRUB_TIMEOUT_STYLE=hidden with GRUB_TIMEOUT=0

2018-07-03 Thread Colin Watson
bout held modifier keys. You'll probably need to use a short but non-zero timeout and press Escape instead. (It's possible that more recent versions of the UEFI spec have improved this; but if so then somebody would need to implement that in GRUB, and it w

Bug#902924: debootstrap: doesn't mount /proc when building chroot inside LXD container

2018-07-03 Thread Colin Watson
l check whether /proc and /sys are mounted and mount them if they aren't, rather than assuming that they must be mounted. Thanks, -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com]

Bug#902257: groff-base: nroff crashes when the environment variable SHELL is unset

2018-06-24 Thread Colin Watson
x27;s no good reason for a pure text filter to be talking to a socket. I'm not yet sure what the best solution is. Fiddling about with SHELL is obviously brittle. I could change man to call groff directly rather than nroff, which would avoid the problem, but that's also brittle

Bug#882380: initramfs-tools: Update-initramfs can take an unnecessarily long time if other disk activity is ongoing

2018-06-21 Thread Colin Watson
est adding a dependency on coreutils (>= 8.24), which introduced the feature of sync(1) being used here. I've put all this in a merge request: https://salsa.debian.org/kernel-team/initramfs-tools/merge_requests/6 -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org]

Bug#810735: [Parted-maintainers] Bug#810735: fatresize: fails to open /dev/mmcblk0p1

2018-06-16 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Jun 11, 2018 at 12:06:33PM +0100, Tim Small wrote: > This patch works for me, please could we get it into buster? Sorry for having missed this for so long; I've uploaded it now. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org]

Bug#901185: [Debconf-devel] Bug#901185: me too

2018-06-11 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Jun 11, 2018 at 08:52:11PM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote: > On 2018-06-11 Colin Watson wrote: > > On Sun, Jun 10, 2018 at 04:04:13PM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote: > > > yes, resetting IFS to its default value in confmodule helps. > > > Thanks. For completeness,

Bug#901185: [Debconf-devel] Bug#901185: me too

2018-06-10 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Jun 10, 2018 at 04:04:13PM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote: > On 2018-06-10 Colin Watson wrote: > > On Sun, Jun 10, 2018 at 03:03:28PM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote: > >> I have tried debugging the issue to get a minimal testcase. I have had > >> some success

Bug#901185: [Debconf-devel] Bug#901185: me too

2018-06-10 Thread Colin Watson
IFS="$_db_internal_IFS" # Disgusting, but it's the only good way to split the line, # preserving all other whitespace. RET="${_db_internal_line#[! ][ ]}" (If so, that would suggest that the problem might be specifically in variable ass

Bug#901007: Looks for files "mandb_nfmt" and "-" (in the current directory)

2018-06-08 Thread Colin Watson
file named "-" in the current directory. > Try "touch ./-" , then run "man man" under strace -f and look for a stat > of "-" in the trace. This is a bug in less. Can you file it there separately? You can reproduce it like this: echo | strace -otrace less fgrep '"-"' trace -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org]

Bug#898627: man-db: dependency loop

2018-05-14 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, May 14, 2018 at 04:03:51PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > Colin Watson writes ("Re: Bug#898627: man-db: dependency loop"): > > I've never seen this myself. I guess it's due to man-db having > > "interest-noawait /usr/share/man" in its triggers an

Bug#898627: man-db: dependency loop

2018-05-14 Thread Colin Watson
it as a cycle? In any case I don't see any way to exclude man-db itself from the file trigger if that's not the case. CCing the dpkg maintainers. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org]

Bug#891267: man-db: i386 or x32 mandb doesn't work due to seccomp filter

2018-04-28 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Apr 28, 2018 at 06:00:00PM +0200, Mikulas Patocka wrote: > On Fri, 30 Mar 2018, Colin Watson wrote: > > Hm, OK. I mean, you could always just make sure that everything man > > needs to call matches, but I guess that's a bit fiddly. Fixed upstream, >

Bug#895374: openssh: autopkgtest fails with new release while succeeded in the past

2018-04-13 Thread Colin Watson
nge in OpenSSH, it's in fact because it tickled a long-standing bug in Twisted. I've filed an upstream bug about this with a patch, and assuming reviewers don't entirely hate it I think we should cherry-pick the patch into Debian's twisted p

Bug#890355: man: nroff: Bad system call

2018-04-05 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Apr 04, 2018 at 06:35:12PM +, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > Hi Colin, > >tglase@tglase:~ $ man ls > >man: nroff: Bad system call > > Manual page ls(1) line ?/? (END) (press h for help or q to quit) > > any progress on this? Can I disable the seccomp stuff local

Bug#894792: man-db: Permission denied running man as root

2018-04-04 Thread Colin Watson
Control: tag -1 fixed-upstream On Wed, Apr 04, 2018 at 01:22:09PM +0200, Salvo Tomaselli wrote: > Here it is Thanks. I've fixed your bug upstream, for the upcoming man-db 2.8.3: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/man-db.git/commit/?id=c08cb8aedb7bb647e3f1ac6b9d009c0b174f8ba1 -

Bug#894805: xpra: Trailing space in systemd service file prevents line continuation

2018-04-04 Thread Colin Watson
etc/xpra/ssl-cert.pem --ssl=on \ + --bind=/run/xpra/system --auth=${AUTH} --socket-dirs=/run/xpra --socket-permissions=666 \ + --log-dir=/var/log --pidfile=/run/xpra.pid --debug=${DEBUG} Thanks, -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com]

Bug#894792: man-db: Permission denied running man as root

2018-04-04 Thread Colin Watson
eproduce the problem, so I'd like to collect more information in order to make sure that I've really fixed it. Could you please run "strace -f -o /root/man.trace -s 1024 man man" in the same environment, and attach the resulting /root/man.trace file? Thanks, -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org]

Bug#893934: openssh-client: Potentially unintended dependency on libbsd

2018-04-03 Thread Colin Watson
ved to Libs.private? But I don't know the libedit interface in detail, and in any case this is up to the libedit maintainers, so reassigning. Thanks, -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org]

Bug#892423: man -Tutf8 /usr/share/man/ja/man5/apt_preferences.5.gz (and several others) enter infinite loop

2018-03-31 Thread Colin Watson
Control: reassign -1 groff 1.22.3-10 On Thu, Mar 08, 2018 at 07:35:49PM -0500, Anthony DeRobertis wrote: > Running: > > man -Tutf8 /usr/share/man/ja/man5/apt_preferences.5.gz > > starts outputting the manpage, but then at some point switches over to > outputting an (so far as I can tell) infinit

Bug#891267: man-db: i386 or x32 mandb doesn't work due to seccomp filter

2018-03-30 Thread Colin Watson
s, but I guess that's a bit fiddly. Fixed upstream, and will be in 2.8.3: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/man-db.git/commit/?id=770cd67aaf711b2cded9cbc2f9e503ca0f5e73ba -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org]

Bug#893300: cdebconf: Adding support for a pkg.cdebconf.nogtk build-profile

2018-03-26 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Mar 26, 2018 at 12:50:26PM +0200, Karsten Merker wrote: > On Mon, Mar 26, 2018 at 12:47:18AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > I think this would be clearer reversed, i.e.: > > > > DEB_FRONTENDS=passthrough text newt > > UDEB_FRONTENDS=passthrough text new

Bug#893300: cdebconf: Adding support for a pkg.cdebconf.nogtk build-profile

2018-03-25 Thread Colin Watson
#x27;re trying to keep the package contents identical regardless of build profile, since the main build system won't handle it in this case due to the change in *_FRONTENDS? Thanks, -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org]

Bug#893688: libserf-1-1: bzr-svn segfaults in serf_bucket_aggregate_append

2018-03-21 Thread Colin Watson
+++ serf-1.3.9/debian/changelog 2018-03-20 12:41:54.0 + @@ -1,3 +1,10 @@ +serf (1.3.9-5) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium + + * Backport r1712790 from upstream to fix a segfault in +serf_bucket_aggregate_prepend when prepending a bucket to an empty list. + + -- Colin Watson Tue, 20 M

Bug#892309: groff: crash (SIGSYS) when running `man man | head -n1`

2018-03-17 Thread Colin Watson
Control: tag -1 fixed-upstream On Sat, Mar 10, 2018 at 01:20:49PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > On Thu, 2018-03-08 at 13:38 +0000, Colin Watson wrote: > > Hmm, this doesn't seem to show a SIGSYS, and man exited 0. > > I added some debugging to groff and looked at the code. >

Bug#892309: groff: crash (SIGSYS) when running `man man | head -n1`

2018-03-08 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Mar 08, 2018 at 09:25:05PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > On Thu, 2018-03-08 at 10:03 +0000, Colin Watson wrote: > > They aren't useful, but I'm not sure why that means I should close > > the bug. > > It is a standard line to get grumpy people who don't

Bug#892357: deb-systemd-invoke: if one unit is forbidden by policy-rc.d, all requested units are skipped

2018-03-08 Thread Colin Watson
} +@units = @allowed_units; } # If the job is disabled and is not currently running, the job is not started or restarted. @@ -107,5 +111,5 @@ if ($action eq "start" || $action eq "restart") { } exit(0); } else { -exec '/bin/systemctl', @ARGV; +exec '/bin/systemctl', @units if @units; } Thanks, -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org]

Bug#892309: groff: crash (SIGSYS) when running `man man | head -n1`

2018-03-08 Thread Colin Watson
t means I should close the bug. Reassigning to man-db since this is due to the seccomp filtering there and not a bug in groff. Could you please run: PIPELINE_DEBUG=1 strace -f -o man.trace -s 1024 man man | head -n1 ... and attach both the full output on stderr and the resulting man.trace file? Th

Bug#892159: unattended-upgrades: Reboots with user logged in with Unattended-Upgrade::Automatic-Reboot-WithUsers "false"

2018-03-07 Thread Colin 't Hart
colin@quokka:~$ apt-config dump |grep Users Unattended-Upgrade::Automatic-Reboot-WithUsers "false"; colin@quokka:~$ I logged in from another PC and ran /usr/bin/users, it showed "colin colin" as output, so that seems OK. /Colin On 6 March 2018 at 11:26, Bálint Réczey wrote

Bug#892159: unattended-upgrades: Reboots with user logged in with Unattended-Upgrade::Automatic-Reboot-WithUsers "false"

2018-03-07 Thread Colin 't Hart
colin@quokka:~$ users colin colin@quokka:~$ loginctl SESSIONUID USER SEAT TTY 79 1000 colinseat0 c1112 lightdm seat0 2 sessions listed. colin@quokka:~$ w 10:59:28 up 1 day, 8:57, 1 user, load average: 0.28

Bug#892159: unattended-upgrades: Reboots with user logged in with Unattended-Upgrade::Automatic-Reboot-WithUsers "false"

2018-03-06 Thread Colin 't Hart
Package: unattended-upgrades Version: 0.93.1+nmu1 Severity: normal I have Unattended-Upgrade::Automatic-Reboot-WithUsers "false" in my /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/50unattended-upgrades I have noticed several times now when I arrive at my office in the morning that my machine has rebooted even though I w

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