Bug#948193: e2scrub services delay boot by 2 seconds

Package: e2fsprogs Version: 1.45.4-1 Severity: important The e2fsprogs package installs a service and timer to run e2scrub. That service sleeps for 2 seconds before exiting, delaying the boot by 2 seconds. First of all, sleeping for 2 seconds is not OK. Second, please use ConditionPathExists or

Bug#948189: Please use /etc/kernel/postinst.d hooks for linux-update-symlinks so upstream packages work

Package: linux-base Version: 4.6 Severity: normal Currently, Debian packages of the Linux kernel call linux-update-symlinks manually, and then separately call the /etc/kernel/postinst.d hooks. Upstream kernel packages (built with "make bindeb-pkg") call the /etc/kernel/postinst.d hooks but do not

Bug#948166: blkid -t treats UUIDs as case-sensitive

Package: util-linux Version: 2.34-0.1 Severity: normal File: /sbin/blkid Just spent a while debugging a boot issue caused by blkid treating UUIDs as case-sensitive: Gave up waiting for root file system device. Common problems: - Boot args (cat /proc/cmdline) - Check rootdelay= (did the syste

Bug#948125: Please use partx (in essential util-linux) rather than kpartx

Package: vmdb2 Version: 0.13.2+git20191220-1 Severity: normal vmdb2 depends on the kpartx package; could it, instead, use partx from the essential util-linux package? -- System Information: Debian Release: bullseye/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Ar

Bug#926216: debootstrap: Add dpkgopt

On Tue, 2 Apr 2019 12:52:25 +0200 Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Hideki Yamane (2019-04-02): > > package: debootstrap > > severity: wishlist > > > > mmdebstrap has aptopt and dpkgopt option to manage apt and dpkg via > > passing some options to it, put conf file to > > /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/99mmdebst

Bug#948110: Please provide options to exclude files from installed image

Package: debootstrap Version: 1.0.116 Severity: wishlist Please consider providing options to exclude files from the installed image using --path-exclude (and keep them that way via dpkg configuration in the bootstrapped system). That would make it easier to install a small system image that (for

Bug#947759: Configuration optimizations for the cloud variant

On Tue, 31 Dec 2019 17:03:23 + Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Mon, 2019-12-30 at 00:03 -0800, Josh Triplett wrote: > > Source: linux > > Severity: wishlist > > > > A few requests for changes to the cloud configuration: > > Most of this looks reasona

Bug#947759: Configuration optimizations for the cloud variant

Source: linux Severity: wishlist A few requests for changes to the cloud configuration: - Please disable CONFIG_ACPI_BGRT; a cloud kernel doesn't need to spend time or code space looking for a boot logo that won't exist. - Please disable the CONFIG_CPU_SUP_* options for CPUs that no cloud pr

Bug#878599: git: [PATCH] Ship git-credential-libsecret

On December 16, 2019 3:17:28 PM PST, Jonathan Nieder wrote: >Hi, > >Josh Triplett wrote: > >> I would love to see git-credential-libsecret packaged. >> >> This patch would ship git-credential-libsecret in the git package, >which >> would add libsecret and

Bug#878599: git: [PATCH] Ship git-credential-libsecret

Package: git Version: 1:2.24.0-2 Followup-For: Bug #878599 I would love to see git-credential-libsecret packaged. This patch would ship git-credential-libsecret in the git package, which would add libsecret and its dependencies to the dependencies of git. Since many people use the git package on

Bug#946780: deb-changelog: Please document whether the format requires metadata (and the semicolon)

describes the requirements of the standard; I'd like to know what the standard allows/requires.) Thanks, Josh Triplett

Bug#945854: Please include additional virtio modules used for boot into initramfs for MODULES=most

Package: initramfs-tools-core Version: 0.135 Severity: wishlist Please consider adding the modules needed for virtiofs to MODULES=most, to support booting a system from virtiofs. -- System Information: Debian Release: bullseye/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'exper

Bug#945853: Please enable CONFIG_VIRTIO_FS and CONFIG_VIRTIO_PMEM

Source: linux Version: 5.3.9-3 Severity: wishlist Please consider enabling CONFIG_VIRTIO_FS (newer filesystem-over-virtio protocol) and CONFIG_VIRTIO_PMEM (persistent memory devices over virtio). -- System Information: Debian Release: bullseye/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unsta

Bug#945047: Needs dependency for Crypt/Digest/SHA256.pm

Package: extrepo Version: 0.2 Severity: serious Attempting to run extrepo produces: Can't locate Crypt/Digest/SHA256.pm in @INC (you may need to install the Crypt::Digest::SHA256 module) (@INC contains: /etc/perl /usr/local/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl/5.30.0 /usr/local/share/perl/5.30.0 /usr/lib

Bug#942881: Audio on Lenovo X1 Carbon 5th generation stopped working after upgrade to linux-image-5.3.0-1-amd64 ("No response from codec")

Package: src:linux Version: 5.3.7-1 Severity: normal After upgrading to linux-image-5.3.0-1-amd64, I get messages like those seen in the log ("No response from codec, resetting bus" and "Unable to sync register"), and eventually a WARN. The mixer doesn't show the audio device at all. This didn't

Bug#941198: initscripts: packages should ship systemd units

On Sun, 29 Sep 2019 12:03:11 +0200 Bill Allombert wrote: > On Sat, Sep 28, 2019 at 06:02:52PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > > Sean Whitton writes: > > > > > I don't currently have any reason to doubt we have a project consensus > > > that systemd unit files should be included in packages in addit

Bug#933330: Bug#903161: Same issue here; solution found

On Thu, Aug 29, 2019 at 01:08:32PM +0300, Timo Sirainen wrote: > On 29 Aug 2019, at 3.57, Josh Triplett wrote: > > > > On Wed, Aug 28, 2019 at 05:43:27PM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote: > >> So if the stats sockets don't exist at *all*, deliver won't complain.

Bug#936071: /usr/share/pam-configs/unix: nullok_secure tries to read /etc/securetty and generates a warning

Package: libpam-runtime Version: 1.3.1-5 Severity: normal The default auth configuration in /usr/share/pam-configs/unix includes this: Auth: [success=end default=ignore]pam_unix.so nullok_secure try_first_pass Auth-Initial: [success=end default=ignore]pam_unix.so nullok_se

Bug#903161: Same issue here; solution found

On Wed, Aug 28, 2019 at 05:43:27PM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote: > So if the stats sockets don't exist at *all*, deliver won't complain. > > To disable those stats sockets, add the following configuration to a > file in /etc/dovecot/conf.d/ : Update: sadly this doesn't

Bug#903161: Same issue here; solution found

I ran into a similar issue here, whenever I ran the "deliver" process as a user to deliver mail into IMAP folders (invoked from getmail). "deliver" delivered the mail but then produces the error about writing statistics, so getmail correctly concluded that the process errored. I don't want to make

Bug#935936: openssh-client should not depend on runit-helper

Package: openssh-client Version: 1:8.0p1-5 Severity: normal openssh-client 1:8.0p1-5 introduces a dependency on runit-helper. As the *client* doesn't contain any runit script, it should not pull in any such dependency. I'd guess that the dependency got added to every binary package built from the

Bug#934187: Please support (and default to) folding "binary-only=yes" changelog entries together

Package: apt-listchanges Version: 3.19 Severity: wishlist apt-listchanges output sometimes includes long seas of near-identical entries like this: > --- Changes for sudo --- > sudo (1.8.27-1+b1) sid; urgency=low, binary-only=yes > > * Binary-only non-maintainer upload for amd64; no source chang

Bug#933579: ITP: openvr -- openvr sdk

On Thu, Aug 01, 2019 at 02:23:21AM +0800, Andrew Lee (李健秋) wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Andrew Lee (李健秋) > > * Package name: openvr > Version : 1.4.18 > Upstream Author : Valve Corporation > * URL : https://github.com/ValveSoftware/openvr > * Li

Bug#478594: latex-beamer: Please support email on title slide

On Tue, Jul 30, 2019 at 09:34:15PM +0200, Hilmar Preuße wrote: > Am 30.04.2008 um 00:49 teilte Josh Triplett mit: > > Hi Josh, > > I'm going through some old bugs. > > > I often want to put my email address on the title slide, so people who > > see my pr

Bug#923494: Please Recommend and dlopen libsdl2 rather than depending on it

On July 21, 2019 11:38:03 AM PDT, James Cowgill wrote: >Hi, > >On 12/03/2019 12:44, Reinhard Tartler wrote: >> On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 8:36 AM Carl Eugen Hoyos > > wrote: >> >> Please show the dependencies of (at least) libavutil and >libavcodec >> with your app

Bug#545174: insserv: Please add simple "if" conditionals to disable scripts

On Mon, Jul 15, 2019 at 02:45:47PM +, Dmitry Bogatov wrote: > Checking this condition /inside/ initscript has neglectable cost (like > several /bin/sh processes) "several /bin/sh processes" is not a negligible cost. However, I reported this bug ten years ago when I still ran sysvinit, and I n

Bug#931911: user-setup: Fails to present no-root-password_first-user-sudoer option as a reasonable choice

On Fri, 12 Jul 2019 11:11:09 +0200 Philip Hands wrote: > I've just pushed a branch to salsa: > > > https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/user-setup/tree/bug-931911-empty-root-password-OK > > that is an attempt to make this better. Comments welcome. That looks like an improvement. But coul

Bug#762222: Support multiple mirrors

On Tue, Apr 23, 2019 at 09:06:12AM +0200, Christoph Biedl wrote: > Josh Triplett wrote... > > > debootstrap currently only supports a single mirror. For testing > > initial install scenarios with modified packages, it would help greatly > > to have support for an add

Bug#827627: Please support packaging vim addons as vim "packages"

On Thu, Apr 11, 2019 at 10:38:18PM -0400, James McCoy wrote: > On Sat, Jun 18, 2016 at 03:01:05PM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote: > > Vim supports loading "packages", typically installed as > > ~/.vim/pack/$package . A package consists of files under > > ~/.vim/

Bug#447701: Status of this bug?

This bug seems to have been open for more than a decade, spanning the entire duration of the last couple of releases. python3-software-properties Recommends unattended-upgrades, which means it gets pulled in automatically on a default desktop install. The debian-installer team stopped installing un

Bug#923494: Please Recommend and dlopen libsdl2 rather than depending on it

On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 07:10:09PM -0400, Reinhard Tartler wrote: > On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 1:49 PM Josh Triplett wrote: > > > On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 08:25:55AM -0400, Reinhard Tartler wrote: > > >Depends: libavcodec58 (= 7:4.1.1-2), >

Bug#923494: Please Recommend and dlopen libsdl2 rather than depending on it

On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 08:31:51PM +0100, Carl Eugen Hoyos wrote: > 2019-03-12 18:48 GMT+01:00, Josh Triplett : > > On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 08:25:55AM -0400, Reinhard Tartler wrote: > > >> I think this should address the issue. Any objections to this approach? > > &g

Bug#923494: Please Recommend and dlopen libsdl2 rather than depending on it

On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 08:25:55AM -0400, Reinhard Tartler wrote: >Depends: libavcodec58 (= 7:4.1.1-2), > libavdevice58 (= 7:4.1.1-2), libavfilter7 (= 7:4.1.1-2), libavformat58 (= > 7:4.1.1-2), libavresample4 (= 7:4.1.1-2), libavutil56 (= 7:4.1.1-2), libc6 > (>= 2.14

Bug#923494: Please Recommend and dlopen libsdl2 rather than depending on it

On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 08:25:55AM -0400, Reinhard Tartler wrote: > On Sun, Mar 10, 2019 at 9:36 PM Carl Eugen Hoyos wrote: > > > > What might work is disabling the avdevice outdev AND > > > moving 'ffplay' to its own binary package. > > > > Before suggesting this, I would prefer the OP to test.

Bug#924001: evince cannot decrypt PDFs using 256-bit keys

Package: evince Version: 3.31.91-1 Severity: normal Steps to reproduce: - Install qpdf - Have an unencrypted PDF "test.pdf" - qpdf --encrypt 123456789 123456789 256 -- test.pdf test-256.pdf - Try to open test-256.pdf with evince. Enter the password "123456789". Notice that evince fails and prom

Bug#918854: [Pkg-rust-maintainers] Bug#918854: Bug#918854: segfault updating crates.io index

On Sun, Jan 20, 2019 at 07:19:00AM +, Ximin Luo wrote: > I can't reproduce this, can you install cargo-dbgsym rustc-dbgsym rust-gdb > libstd-rust-1.31-dbgsym libllvm7-dbgsym libc6-dbg and provide a backtrace? I can reliably reproduce this, and I think I've figured out the distinguishing facto

Bug#923494: Please Recommend and dlopen libsdl2 rather than depending on it

Package: ffmpeg Version: 7:4.1.1-1 Severity: normal ffmpeg currently has a hard dependency on libsdl2. This pulls in a *huge* number of graphics-related dependencies. For a desktop/laptop, that's fine, and likely won't pull in much the user doesn't already have. However, on a headless server (usin

Bug#920296: Installs /etc/systemd/system/dbus-org.freedesktop.timesync1.service identical to /lib/systemd/system/systemd-timesyncd.service

On Wed, Feb 27, 2019 at 01:34:54PM -0300, Felipe Sateler wrote: > On Wed, Feb 27, 2019 at 12:48 PM Michael Biebl wrote: > > > On Wed, 23 Jan 2019 14:54:48 -0800 Josh Triplett > > wrote: > > > On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 07:52:24PM -0300, Felipe Sateler wrote: > > &g

Bug#920692: [PATCH] Packages must not install files or directories into /var/cache

On Wed, Feb 27, 2019 at 08:13:52AM +0100, Ansgar wrote: > Josh Triplett writes: > > diff --git a/policy/ch-files.rst b/policy/ch-files.rst > > index 48410be..1cdcb18 100644 > > --- a/policy/ch-files.rst > > +++ b/policy/ch-files.rst > > @@ -722,6 +722,15 @@ The

Bug#743138: [Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#743138: Bug#743138: [Needs upstream 0.9.10 release] Please only enable ifupdown plugin when ifupdown installed

On Tue, Feb 26, 2019 at 10:37:28PM +0100, Michael Biebl wrote: > The suggestion is, to change the NetworkManager.conf to > drop ifupdown from the default config. > > The ifupdown package in turn would ship a config snippet > like say /usr/lib/NetworkManager/conf.d/ifupdown.conf which contains > >

Bug#922881: manpage does not match help; documents attack mode 8 which does not exist

Package: hashcat Version: 5.1.0+ds1-1 Severity: normal The hashcat manpage documents an attack mode 8 for the PRINCE attack, and various PRINCE-specific options; however, those options don't appear to have ever existed in the history of this hashcat codebase; they're part of "hashcat-legacy", not

Bug#918498: /usr/share/initramfs-tools/hooks/keymap: Please ship in the kbd or console-setup package

On Sun, Feb 03, 2019 at 11:48:06PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Sun, 06 Jan 2019 10:59:47 -0800 Josh Triplett > wrote: > > Package: initramfs-tools-core > > Version: 0.132 > > Severity: normal > > File: /usr/share/initramfs-tools/hooks/keymap > > > >

Bug#908832: Please include application/wasm MIME type for WebAssembly files

On Sat, Feb 02, 2019 at 01:40:18PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > Le Fri, Sep 14, 2018 at 10:19:31AM -0700, Josh Triplett a écrit : > > > > Browsers require WebAssembly files to get served with the proper MIME > > type, application/wasm. To help web servers such as the one

Bug#915103: Apache2 HTTP/2 connection problems with Safari clients

We are also able to reproduce this issue. We did several days of testing trying to pinpoint the issue and also determined it was for sure http/2 with Apache 2.4.25 on Debian Stretch only, and only a problem in Safari. We were unable to reproduce on other versions of Debian/Apache, with http/1.1

Bug#921061: Upgrade added "amazon.co.uk" search engine

Package: firefox Version: 65.0-1 Severity: normal Upgrading firefox for some reason added a new search engine for "amazon.co.uk", which was enabled by default as a "one-click search engine", which made it show up as part of the drop-down when typing in the address bar by default.

Bug#920682: Ships file in /var/cache

On Mon, Jan 28, 2019 at 01:24:34PM +0100, intrigeri wrote: > Josh Triplett: > > I've submitted a debian-policy patch to document it. > > Amazing! :) Bug 920692 against policy, if you'd be interested in seconding the proposal.

Bug#920692: Packages must not install files or directories into /var/cache

On Tue, Jan 29, 2019 at 01:18:53PM +, Ian Jackson wrote: > Josh Triplett writes ("Bug#920692: Packages must not install files or > directories into /var/cache"): > > It's well-established in Debian (but not documented in Policy) that > > packages must not i

Bug#920692: Packages must not install files or directories into /var/cache

On Tue, Jan 29, 2019 at 01:20:31PM +, Ian Jackson wrote: > Ian Jackson writes ("Re: Bug#920692: Packages must not install files or > directories into /var/cache"): > > Josh Triplett writes ("Bug#920692: Packages must not install files or > > directories i

Bug#920575: copyright-without-copyright-notice assumes upstream has copyright notices

On Mon, Jan 28, 2019 at 05:07:54PM +0100, Chris Lamb wrote: > > However, this also applies to any upstream that simply doesn't > > contain any copyright notices. > > Mm, do you have any examples, out of interest? Many Rust projects, which just provide a license identifier in Cargo.toml and no cop

Bug#920682: Ships file in /var/cache

On Mon, Jan 28, 2019 at 10:57:56PM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: > (We should have a goal of not shipping ANY file in /var/, full stop.) Agreed, but that (and /etc) are much, much larger propositions, while /var/cache is already done at this point.

Bug#920778: Support /etc/X11/Xsession.options.d directory

Package: x11-common Version: 1:7.7+19 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch The merge request at https://salsa.debian.org/xorg-team/xorg/merge_requests/5 implements support for options in /etc/X11/Xsession.options.d, allowing sysadmins to drop configuration snippets there rather than editing /etc/X11/Xse

Bug#920682: Ships file in /var/cache

On Mon, Jan 28, 2019 at 12:27:09PM +0100, intrigeri wrote: > Josh Triplett: > > apparmor ships /var/cache/apparmor/CACHEDIR.TAG directly in the binary > > package. Packages must not ship files or directories in /var/cache; the > > system administrator is free to delete such fi

Bug#920692: Packages must not install files or directories into /var/cache

94eca4860fe51994f6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Josh Triplett Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2019 11:39:10 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Packages must not install files or directories into /var/cache --- policy/ch-files.rst | 9 + 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) diff --git a/policy/ch-files.rst b/policy/

Bug#920690: Only part of the icon is clickable

Package: gnome-shell-extension-top-icons-plus Version: 22-1 Severity: important With top-icons enabled, I've found that the tray icons are only partially clickable; only an area towards the upper-left corner of the icon responds to clicks. In case it helps, I have the following settings: [org/gn

Bug#908832: Status of this bug?

Any updates on this bug? It'd be helpful to have this mime entry in the next stable release.

Bug#920682: Ships file in /var/cache

Source: apparmor Severity: normal apparmor ships /var/cache/apparmor/CACHEDIR.TAG directly in the binary package. Packages must not ship files or directories in /var/cache; the system administrator is free to delete such files or directories at any time. In this case, it's the responsibility of t

Bug#920680: Installs files to /var/cache

Package: dms-core Severity: normal dms-core ships /var/cache/bind/dynamic in the binary packages. Packages must not ship files in /var/cache, as the sysadmin is free to delete such files at any time (or make /var/cache ephemeral). Instead, the package should create such files or directories as nee

Bug#920679: RM: piwi -- Orphaned, not updated, buggy

Package: ftp.debian.org Severity: normal The piwi package hasn't been updated upstream since 2004, was orphaned two years ago, and has bugs like https://bugs.debian.org/706244 with no response in 5+ years. Please remove it from unstable and testing.

Bug#920575: copyright-without-copyright-notice assumes upstream has copyright notices

On Mon, Jan 28, 2019 at 12:05:42AM +0100, Chris Lamb wrote: > Thanks for the report. I'm afraid I'm finding it hard to parse in > the lofty abstract; can you perhaps share which package you are > refering to? In my case, I've encountered this with various personal (local) packages. However, this a

Bug#745696: [Tts-project] Bug#745696: Please split system-wide configuration into a separate package or remove it

On Sun, Jan 27, 2019 at 10:18:51AM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Josh Triplett, le dim. 27 janv. 2019 08:16:54 +0100, a ecrit: > > On Mon, 12 Mar 2018 00:18:28 +0100 Samuel Thibault > > wrote: > > > Josh Triplett, on lun. 23 nov. 2015 22:11:18 -0800, wrote: > > &g

Bug#920582: gcc -v --help prints some output to stderr, not just stdout

Package: gcc-8 Version: 8.2.0-15 Severity: normal "gcc -v --help" prints some of its output to stderr, rather than stdout, which makes it awkward to run "gcc -v --help | less" as the stderr output steps on the pager. I think that all of the output from "gcc -v --help" should go to stdout. ~$ gcc

Bug#745696: Please split system-wide configuration into a separate package or remove it

On Mon, 12 Mar 2018 00:18:28 +0100 Samuel Thibault wrote: > Josh Triplett, on lun. 23 nov. 2015 22:11:18 -0800, wrote: > > one of the few packages left in a default desktop install that runs an > > init script with a default file disabling it. I'd like to remove that > &

Bug#920582: gcc -v --help prints some output to stderr, not just stdout

Package: gcc-8 Version: 8.2.0-15 Severity: normal "gcc -v --help" prints some of its output to stderr, rather than stdout, which makes it awkward to run "gcc -v --help | less" as the stderr output steps on the pager. I think that all of the output from "gcc -v --help" should go to stdout. ~$ gcc

Bug#920575: copyright-without-copyright-notice assumes upstream has copyright notices

e currently leads me to have a build wrapper script generating debian/copyright, rather than just having a static debian/copyright file checked in.) Thanks, Josh Triplett

Bug#920296: Installs /etc/systemd/system/dbus-org.freedesktop.timesync1.service identical to /lib/systemd/system/systemd-timesyncd.service

On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 07:52:24PM -0300, Felipe Sateler wrote: > On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 4:15 PM Josh Triplett wrote: > > Package: systemd > > Severity: normal > > > > I installed using the Buster Alpha 4 installer, and for some reason I > > ended up with a

Bug#920296: Installs /etc/systemd/system/dbus-org.freedesktop.timesync1.service identical to /lib/systemd/system/systemd-timesyncd.service

Package: systemd Severity: normal I installed using the Buster Alpha 4 installer, and for some reason I ended up with a file /etc/systemd/system/dbus-org.freedesktop.timesync1.service, identical to /lib/systemd/system/systemd-timesyncd.service. dpkg -S shows it not owned by any package, and search

Bug#919957: Please check for binaries depending on unused libraries

On January 21, 2019 8:48:35 AM PST, Chris Lamb wrote: >Hi Matthias, > >> [...] I think I'll enable that by default in GCC 9 for bullseye. > >Cool. I think that therefore asking Developers to add it manually >via Lintian would therefore not be ideal - what do you think? I think there'd still be va

Bug#919957: Please check for binaries depending on unused libraries

On Mon, 21 Jan 2019 08:39:27 +0200 Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Sun, Jan 20, 2019 at 03:45:35PM -0800, Josh Triplett wrote: > > I'd love to see lintian catch issues like this: > > > > $ ldd -u /sbin/badblocks > > Unused direct dependencies: > > /lib/x86_64-li

Bug#919958: badblocks links against libblkid but uses none of its symbols

Package: e2fsprogs Version: 1.44.5-1 Severity: normal File: /sbin/badblocks $ ldd -u /sbin/badblocks Unused direct dependencies: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libblkid.so.1 -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental'

Bug#919957: Please check for binaries depending on unused libraries

Package: lintian Version: 2.5.122 Severity: normal I'd love to see lintian catch issues like this: $ ldd -u /sbin/badblocks Unused direct dependencies: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libblkid.so.1 Lintian already parses binaries and libraries with objdump, so catching this seems reasonable. -- S

Bug#919950: Please drop compatibility hack for liblzma.so.2 (last present in squeeze)

Package: liblzma5 Version: 5.2.2-1.3 Severity: normal liblzma5 currently contains a compatibility hack for liblzma.so.2, which is the only thing pulling libdl into liblzma. liblzma.so.2 hasn't been in Debian since Squeeze, released in 2011; wheezy, released in 2013, has liblzma5. Please consider d

Bug#919914: gnome-tweaks now equates "don't suspend on lid close" with "don't lock on lid close" (security issue)

Package: gnome-tweaks Version: 3.30.2-1 Severity: grave Tags: security Recently, disabling the setting "Suspend when laptop lid is closed" seems to have started preventing *any* action on lid close, including locking the screen; disabling that setting adds a startup file to run /usr/lib/gnome-twea

Bug#919722: git-secret: Please update git-secret to upstream version

Package: git-secret Version: 0.2.3-1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, There have been a couple of versions of git-secret released since the last Debian update of 0.2.3. There have been several usability enhancements and bug fixes. There is debian packaging here: https://bintray.com/sobolev

Bug#918966: new(?) backlight brightness script

On Fri, 11 Jan 2019 07:41:27 +0200 Aleksi Suhonen wrote: > After upgrading and rebooting a virtual machine that has only a virtual > serial console, I get this message: > > /etc/init.d/brightness: 36: /etc/init.d/brightness: cannot create > /sys/class/backlight/acpi_video0/brightness: Director

Bug#918854: segfault updating crates.io index

Package: cargo Version: 0.31.1-1 Severity: grave Any time I try to update the crates.io index with the currently packaged version of cargo, I get a segfault: $ cargo update Updating crates.io index Segmentation fault I can reproduce this in a brand new project (`cargo new foo`) by adding any

Bug#918498: /usr/share/initramfs-tools/hooks/keymap: Please ship in the kbd or console-setup package

Package: initramfs-tools-core Version: 0.132 Severity: normal File: /usr/share/initramfs-tools/hooks/keymap initramfs-tools ships a hook for setting a keymap, which complains on every run of update-initramfs without kbd or console-setup installed. Please consider moving this hook to kbd or console

Bug#552275: network-manager-gnome: Wifi icons not scalable for larger panel sizes

On Mon, Dec 31, 2018 at 09:55:53AM +0100, Eugen Dedu wrote: > On Sat, 24 Oct 2009 17:09:07 -0700 Josh Triplett > wrote: > > Package: network-manager-gnome > > Version: 0.7.1-1 > > Severity: normal > > > > I use a 48-pixel bottom panel and no top pane

Bug#917032: Please improve error message for not having PyQt5 installed

Package: electrum Version: 3.2.3-1 Severity: wishlist > Error: Could not import PyQt5 on Linux systems, you may try 'sudo apt-get > install python3-pyqt5' First, please s/apt-get/apt/. Second, "on Linux systems" seems like an odd and unnecessary addition here. I would suggest: Error: Could no

Bug#916992: Should recommend or suggest an MTA, not depend on one.

Source: mailutils Version: 1:3.5-1 Severity: important Many of the tools in mailutils work perfectly fine without an MTA; mailutils should not depend on an MTA. Now that emacs depends on mailutils, this creates a dependency chain from emacs to an MTA. -- System Information: Debian Release: buste

Bug#916176: Please report remaining letters when saying a phrase doesn't contain a string

Package: an Version: 1.2-4+b1 Severity: wishlist $ an -c 'yellow' 'feeling mellow' Phrase 'feeling mellow' does not contain 'yellow' I'd like to have an additional line there that says: Need the following additional letters: 'y' That would help when trying to adjust the phrase to make an anagram

Bug#915797: /etc/sysctl.d/protect-links.conf should be in /usr/lib/sysctl.d/

Package: procps Version: 2:3.3.15-2 Severity: normal File: /etc/sysctl.d/protect-links.conf protect-links.conf is supplied by Debian, and should be in /usr/lib/sysctl.d/ ; the sysadmin can still override it by creating /etc/sysctl.d/protect-links.conf . -- System Information: Debian Release: bust

Bug#915477: Needs to handle glibc upgrades more smoothly

Package: gnome-terminal Version: 3.30.2-1 Severity: important After upgrading glibc, I could no longer open new terminal tabs, and the journal contained the following: Dec 03 15:01:47 jtriplet-mobl2 /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-x-session[644]: /usr/lib/gnome-terminal/gnome-terminal-server: relocation error

Bug#915475: Attempts to parse dpkg temporary files

Package: gnome-software Version: 3.30.5-1 Severity: normal During a recent upgrade: Dec 03 14:48:56 jtriplet-mobl2 gnome-software[1203]: failed to rescan: Failed to parse /usr/share/applications/gcr-prompter.desktop.dpkg-new file: cannot process file of type text/plain Dec 03 14:48:56 jtriplet-

Bug#810018: Additional info possibly relevant for procps-base/pidof ...

On Tue, 10 Jul 2018 03:19:58 +0200 Michael Biebl wrote: > On Mon, 9 Jul 2018 22:03:06 +1000 Craig Small wrote: > > On Mon, 9 Jul 2018 at 19:38 Simon McVittie wrote: > > > > > If we want pidof to be provided by a new procps-base instead of > > > sysvinit-utils for buster, maybe now is the time t

Bug#913116: Needs to depend on chromium-sandbox

On Sat, Nov 17, 2018 at 11:15:28AM +, Simon McVittie wrote: > On Fri, 16 Nov 2018 at 14:19:16 -0800, Josh Triplett wrote: > > On Fri, 16 Nov 2018 10:20:07 +0100 Bastian Blank wrote: > > > Debian does not support unprivileged user namespaces, so chromium needs > > &g

Bug#913116: Needs to depend on chromium-sandbox

On Fri, 16 Nov 2018 10:20:07 +0100 Bastian Blank wrote: > Debian does not support unprivileged user namespaces, so chromium needs > to depend on -sandbox to get a working package. Should we, perhaps, support unprivileged user namespaces? Or, at least, a means of granting targeted permission to us

Bug#868269: Regression from jessie to stretch in handling of %u, %U, %s, and %h

On Fri, Nov 16, 2018 at 12:55:21AM +0100, Michael Biebl wrote: > On Sat, 9 Sep 2017 17:18:35 -0700 Josh Triplett > wrote: > > On Sun, Sep 10, 2017 at 01:43:09AM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: > > > On Thu, 13 Jul 2017 15:09:29 -0700 Josh Triplett > > > w

Bug#746442: Please make /etc/rc.local non-executable by default

On Thu, Nov 15, 2018 at 08:44:03PM +0100, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > On Thu, 15 Nov 2018, Josh Triplett wrote: > > > Are you saying that even *with* that comment you'd be surprised? > > Yes. > > You probably know how many people read such instructions. But my > ma

Bug#746442: closed by Benda Xu (wontfix)

On Thu, Nov 15, 2018 at 12:51:05PM +, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: > Please `chmod -x /etc/rc.local` on your local systems, it's > straightforward. On my local system I'm inclined to `rm /etc/rc.local`. But what I'd like is for default installed systems to have less code running at startu

Bug#746442: Please make /etc/rc.local non-executable by default

On Thu, Nov 15, 2018 at 09:22:20PM +0100, Svante Signell wrote: > On Thu, 2018-11-15 at 12:01 -0800, Josh Triplett wrote: > > I will refrain from expanding on how much I care about "Unix admin > > tradition". I'd like /etc to be *empty* on a freshly installed >

Bug#746442: Please make /etc/rc.local non-executable by default

On Thu, Nov 15, 2018 at 09:14:19PM +0100, Michael Biebl wrote: > On Thu, 15 Nov 2018 11:37:51 -0800 Josh Triplett > wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 15, 2018 at 01:18:34PM +0100, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > > > On Thu, 15 Nov 2018, Dmitry Bogatov wrote: > > > > > > >

Bug#746442: Please make /etc/rc.local non-executable by default

On Thu, Nov 15, 2018 at 01:18:34PM +0100, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > On Thu, 15 Nov 2018, Dmitry Bogatov wrote: > > > I tend to agree. Dear co-maintainers, do you have objections? Any > > I do have an objection — a veto even. > > Installation instructions throughout the world say that “add the > f

Bug#913116: chromium

On Wed, Nov 14, 2018 at 03:35:24PM +0100, Salvo Tomaselli wrote: > If it can't start without it, it really should depend on it I get the impression that chromium is *supposed* to work without the setuid sandbox, if it has the necessary support from the underlying system to do unprivileged sandboxi

Bug#913271: segfault - broken rust compiling

There's an ABI incompatibility between LLVM compiled with GCC and Clang: https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=39427 So if you have a Clang-built libLLVM.so, and rustc's src/rustllvm is built with GCC, then I think you may be hitting this problem.

Bug#913285: RFP: oxipng -- Parallel lossless PNG compression optimizer

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: oxipng Version : 2.1.5 Upstream Author : Joshua Holmer * URL : https://github.com/shssoichiro/oxipng * License : MIT Programming Lang: Rust Description : Parallel lossless PNG compression optimizer Oxipn

Bug#913116: Fails to start without chromium-sandbox installed

Package: chromium Version: 70.0.3538.67-3 Severity: grave Without chromium-sandbox installed: ~$ chromium [10607:10607:1106/214902.149402:FATAL:zygote_host_impl_linux.cc(116)] No usable sandbox! Update your kernel or see https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/master/docs/linux_suid_sa

Bug#912189: [Xcb] Bug#912189: libpthread: man pthread_mutex_init doesn't find a man page

On Sun, Oct 28, 2018 at 04:15:14PM -0700, Joshua wrote: > Package: libpthread-stubs0-dev > Version: 0.3-4 > Severity: normal > File: libpthread > Tags: newcomer > > It's possible I don't quite have the right package. > > man pthread_init does not find a man page but should. I'm not certain but I

Bug#911759: manpage typo: s/"ame"/"name"/

Package: gawk Version: 1:4.2.1+dfsg-1 Severity: minor >From the gawk manpage: PROCINFO["ame", "NONFATAL"] Make I/O errors for name be nonfatal. s/"ame"/"name"/ -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (5

Bug#904248: Beginnings of a patch to add netbase to build-essential

On Sat, Oct 20, 2018 at 10:09:17AM -0700, Sean Whitton wrote: > On Wed 17 Oct 2018 at 01:47AM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote: > > Which is a good argument for them not being in /etc. > > Do we need to block this Policy change on moving these files out of > /etc? No, certainly not

Bug#910548: base-files - please consider adding /usr/share/common-licenses/Unicode-Data

On Sun, 7 Oct 2018 16:25:39 -0700 Paul Hardy wrote: > Package: base-files > Severity: wishlist > Tags: patch > > Hello, > > I recently formatted the Unicode Data license for the d/copyright file > of a Debian package that I created. I thought I would offer it to > Debian if you are interested.

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