Bug#393079: update-grub: configurable generation of savedefault entries

2007-07-08 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Hi, I'd really like to see this patch added, too. Sometimes I have problems with the savedefault entry (which I actually don't need since I don't use default saved) when resuming from disk: * the hard disk state is somehow flagged as inconsistent (because / was not flushed/synced/unmounted

Bug#406992: virtualbox FTBFS

2007-07-08 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Hi all, after several more tries, I finally could compile virtualbox (in a pbuilder sid i386 environment). The following changes were neccessary * drop Build-Depends: gcc-3.4, g++-3.4 * drop 01-compiler.dpatch, 02-kernel.dpatch * add a Depends: kbuild to virtualbox-source Concerning the

Bug#432415: libaxis-java-gcj: depends on unavailable libservlet2.4-java-gcj

2007-07-09 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Package: libaxis-java-gcj Version: 1.4-2 Severity: normal Hi, libaxis-java-gcj depends on libservlet2.4-java-gcj, but this package is not available. Andreas -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (300,

Bug#429866: courier-authdaemon: please add support for /var/run on tmpfs

2007-06-20 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Package: courier-authdaemon Version: 0.59.3-1 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch Hi, please add support for having /var/run on tmpfs. All that's needed is to create /var/run/courier and /var/run/courier/authdaemon in the init script if they are missing. A possible solution is the patch from ubuntu

Bug#430427: /bin/ps: default sort order has changed

2007-06-25 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Package: procps Version: 1:3.2.7-3 Severity: normal Hi, the default sort order has changed from start time to pid recently. This could be caused by a kernel change between 2.6.18 and 2.6.21. I'd prefer ps to sort it's output by start time again, so the most recent process is at the end of the

Bug#430423: icedove-traybiff: uninstallable in unstable due to very strict versioned dependency on icedove

2007-06-25 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Package: icedove-traybiff Version: 1.2.3-2 Severity: important Hi, icedove-traybiff depends on the following icedove version: --- icedove ( 2.0.0.0.0) --- icedove (= 2.0.0.0) while the current unstable version is icedove (2.0.0.4-*) making it uninstallable (and un-upgradable from

Bug#408879: ps shifted start time

2007-06-25 Thread Andreas Beckmann
merge 408879 414104 thanks Hi, earlier I was curious about this problem, too. I've seen it on several servers. Now I just retried and I couldn't reproduce it any longer, perhaps it was fixed somewhere, e.g. * kernel 2.6.21 * ntp 4.2.4 Andreas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#430427: /bin/ps: default sort order has changed

2007-06-26 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Craig Small wrote: ps hasn't changed in months, so it is something else doing this. What ps command are you running? usually ps aux Andreas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#430423: Fixed

2007-06-26 Thread Andreas Beckmann
reopen 430423 thanks Version: 1.2.3-2 Reopening, as I really meant the unstable version that needs fixing as it's uninstallable in unstable (due to it's dependency on icedove 2.0.0.0 x 2.0.0.0.0 while 2.0.0.4 is the available one). But thanks for the hint where to get the current stable

Bug#430854: oxine: uninstallable in unstable due to dependency on removed libcurl4

2007-06-27 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Package: oxine Version: 0.6.4-3+b1 Severity: important Hi, even the binNMU version that should have been built against libcurl3 has a dependency on libcurl4. Andreas -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (300,

Bug#406992: virtualbox FTBFS

2007-06-28 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Hi, since virtualbox is still stuck in the NEW queue, I tried to build it myself for i386 from the pkg-virtualbox subversion repository with a tarball repackaged according to the instructions in debian/README.rebuild and found the following problems (using a sid pbuilder environment): * it lacks

Bug#425127: nvidia-kernel-legacy-96xx-source: Kernel module FTBFS with 2.6.20/2.6.21

2007-07-14 Thread Andreas Beckmann
-assistant. Andreas #! /bin/sh /usr/share/dpatch/dpatch-run ## 05_paravirt_ops.dpatch by Andreas Beckmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] ## ## All lines beginning with `## DP:' are a description of the patch. ## DP: Work around bug #425127: modpost: GPL-incompatible module nvidia.ko ## DP: uses GPL-only symbol

Bug#433154: nvidia-graphics-drivers-legacy-96xx: package cleanup

2007-07-14 Thread Andreas Beckmann
-96xx.override.in: refresh + * debian/nvidia-glx-legacy-96xx.shlibs: refresh + * debian/rules: run dh_strip to get rid of superfluous sections + + -- Andreas Beckmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun, 15 Jul 2007 00:00:09 +0200 + nvidia-graphics-drivers-legacy-96xx (1.0.9639-1) unstable; urgency=low * new

Bug#393079: update-grub: configurable generation of savedefault entries

2007-07-17 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Hi, I rediffed the patch against 0.97-29 (didn't apply any longer since some code had been moved in update-grub) and enabled it by default in order not to change the default behaviour of update-grub. Andreas --- a/debian/update-grub2007-07-17 08:37:46.0 +0200 +++

Bug#419388: load-dirs-common: outdated description

2007-04-15 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Package: load-dirs-common Version: 1.1.4 Severity: minor Hi, nowadays vcs-load-dirs supports more than only tla and darcs, so the description needs to be reworked someday ... Andreas -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500,

Bug#419387: svn-load: merge with vcs-load-dirs?

2007-04-15 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Package: svn-load Version: 0.4-2 Severity: wishlist Hi, perhaps svn-load should be merged with vcs-load-dirs which has the same functionality, only targeted at different VCSes. The common infrastructure could probably be reused for subversion, too. Andreas -- System Information: Debian

Bug#419511: libstdc++6-4.2-doc: file conflict with libstdc++6-4.1-doc

2007-04-16 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Package: libstdc++6-4.2-doc Version: 4.2-20070405-1 Severity: normal Hi, there is a file conflict with libstdc++6-4.1-doc: Selecting previously deselected package libstdc++6-4.2-doc. Unpacking libstdc++6-4.2-doc (from .../libstdc++6-4.2-doc_4.2-20070405-1_all.deb) ... dpkg: error processing

Bug#150124: Gridengine Status?

2007-04-17 Thread Andreas Beckmann
reopen 150124 thanks Is anyone still working on packaging the Grid Engine? I'm planning to install it on a new machine during the next weeks and of course it would be nice to have Debian packages :-) If noone is working on it, I'll try to package it myself. If you have some preliminary packages

Bug#420189: g++-4.1: fails to compile correct template code - 4.1.[01] regression

2007-04-20 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Package: g++-4.1 Version: 4.1.1-21 Severity: normal Hi, I have problems with some heavy templated code, which can't be compiled by g++ 4.1.1. It's not an ICE! The following compilers (Debian packages) do compile it: g++-3.3, g++-3.4, g++-4.0, g++-4.1.2 (Debian experimental) I have no 4.1.0

Bug#420458: pbuilder: if BUILDRESULT is created, it's owned by root:root

2007-04-22 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Package: pbuilder Version: 0.166 Severity: normal Hi, if the BUILDRESULT directory is missing, it's created with ownership set to root:root. That's inconvenient because I have to become root to get rid of this directory. Since the .debs etc. are being chowned to me, it shouldn't be too

Bug#420460: pbuilder: creates BUILDRESULT directory even in places where the user has no write permissions

2007-04-22 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Package: pbuilder Version: 0.166 Severity: normal Hi, since the BUILDRESULT creation is done with root permissions, it can be placed everyhere on the system. Probably creation and use of the BUILDRESULT directory should be restricted to places where the user invoking pbuilder/pdebuild has write

Bug#420472: [debsign] debsign -r requires write permissions in `pwd`

2007-04-22 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Package: devscripts Version: 2.10.3 Severity: normal File: /usr/bin/debsign Hi, debsign -r requires write permissions in the current directory in order to create a temporary directory. But since there are no local files to be modified, shouldn't it be perfectly OK to use a temporary directory

Bug#420465: lintian: no-md5sums-control-file triggered on binary package with no files

2007-04-22 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Package: lintian Version: 1.23.29 Severity: normal Hi, lintian triggers no-md5sums-control-file on dependency only packages. Obviously dh_md5sums didn't create an empty md5sums file (because all other packages containing files got one). One example is the php5 binary package, which only

Bug#328114: xine-ui: crashes on right-click - free(): invalid pointer

2005-09-13 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Package: xine-ui Version: 0.99.3-1.1 Severity: normal xine crashes immediately upon right-click into its window and throws the following error message: *** glibc detected *** free(): invalid pointer: 0x08126c89 *** Aborted Playing media is still possible using keyboard commands and the left

Bug#480893: /usr/sbin/a2dissite: should be able to remove dead symlinks

2008-05-12 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Package: apache2.2-common Version: 2.2.8-3 Severity: normal File: /usr/sbin/a2dissite Hi, a2dissite should be able to remove dead symlinks pointing from sites-enabled to a no longer existant file in sites-available. (bash_completion already gives you a proper list of sites from sites-anabled)

Bug#489582: foomatic-filters-ppds: cupsys -- cups transition

2008-07-06 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Package: foomatic-filters-ppds Version: 20080528-1 Severity: normal Hi, foomatic-filters-ppds tries to restart cupsys in its postinst, which has been renamed to cups. Setting up foomatic-filters-ppds (20080528-1) ... invoke-rc.d: unknown initscript, /etc/init.d/cupsys not found.

Bug#446270: grep: another testcase for -w reporting non-matches

2008-04-28 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Package: grep Version: 2.5.3~dfsg-5 Followup-For: Bug #446270 Hi, on the weekend I discovered this bug, too, and found the following minimal test case: echo -e '\344RC' 0.bin cat 1.txt EOF RC is not ARCH EOF Testing this with LC_CTYPE=POSIX grep -w RC 0.bin 1.txt yields the correct

Bug#482164: firmware-qlogic: new firmware available

2008-05-21 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Package: firmware-qlogic Version: 0.10 Severity: normal Hi, on ftp://ftp.qlogic.com/outgoing/linux/firmware/ there is updated and new firmware available: ql2400_fw.bin -- 4.04.00 IP (in firmware-qlogic: 4.00.27) ql2500_fw.bin -- 4.04.00 (not yet in firmware-qlogic) Andreas -- System

Bug#489264: gsoap: new upstream release 2.7.10

2008-07-04 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Package: gsoap Version: 2.7.9l-0.2 Severity: normal Tags: patch Hi, there is a new release of gsoap available that fixes some nasty bugs. I attach the .diff.gz for my locally updated package. If someone is interested in using the new version, I can also make the .debs available. I had to do

Bug#481858: packaging App::SVN::Bisect with dh-make-perl

2008-06-18 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Hi, building a App::SVN::Bisect package is quite easy using dh-make-perl (from the dh-make-perl package). Just run dh-make-perl --cpan App::SVN::Bisect and change to the newly created folder App-SVN-Bisect-0.4 Now edit the debian/control file (created by dh-make-perl) and add the following

Bug#487850: dh-make-perl: allow adding, not overwriting dependencies with --depends and friends

2008-06-24 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Package: dh-make-perl Version: 0.47 Severity: wishlist Hi, what do you think about having an option to add packages to the dependency list without overwriting the defaults and generated deps? I'd suggest allowing the arguments to --depends etc. to be prefixed with '+' which means appending, not

Bug#487856: Use of uninitialized value $pattern in substitution (s///) at /usr/bin/apt-file line 333.

2008-06-24 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Package: apt-file Version: 2.1.3 Severity: minor Hi, I saw the following warning when apt-file was invoked via dh-make-perl --cpan App::SVN::Bisect Searching for package containing IO::All using apt-file. Use of uninitialized value $pattern in substitution (s///) at /usr/bin/apt-file

Bug#446270: grep -w in UTF-8 locale reporting non-matches is a regression introduced by 65-dfa-optional.patch

2008-05-03 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Package: grep Version: 2.5.3~dfsg-5 Followup-For: Bug #446270 Hi, the grep -w failures in UTF-8 locales (incorrectly reports non-whole-word matches) are a regression introduced by 65-dfa-optional.patch. According to debian/changelog, this patch was enabled/disabled/reworked several times in the

Bug#479445: gnuplot: wrong line numbers for missing files reported during replot

2008-05-04 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Package: gnuplot Version: 4.2.2-1 Severity: minor Hi, consider the following test.gnuplot file: plot \ x, \ missing.dat,\ also-missing.dat replot pause -1 The files missing.dat and also-missing.dat do not exist. Run this via 'gnuplot test.gnuplot'

Bug#366135: libgphoto2-2: digikam doesn't recognize camera with experimental libgphoto2

2006-05-05 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Package: libgphoto2-2 Version: 2.1.99-9 Severity: normal Hi! The new gphoto2 release in experimental now recognices my camera (Canon Powershot A620) no longer as a Generic PTP Mode Camera but by the correct name - thats fine. Accessing, downloading, ... with gphoto2 works (as a user in group

Bug#367133: pbuilder: --help gives wrong usage for pdebuild

2006-05-13 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Package: pbuilder Version: 0.152 Severity: minor Hi, pdebuild --help says: pdebuild [pbuilder-options] while pdebuild(1) says: pdebuild [pdebuild options] -- [pbuilder options] and e.g. 'pdebuild --basetgz some.tgz' fails with 'Unknown option ...' Andreas -- System Information:

Bug#351536: pbuilder: cdebootstrap bug #331554 has been fixed

2006-05-13 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Package: pbuilder Version: 0.152 Followup-For: Bug #351536 Hi, the cdebootstrap bug blocking this report has been fixed. Andreas -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (300, 'unstable'), (30,

Bug#367135: pbuilder: /etc/mtab symlink errors

2006-05-13 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Package: pbuilder Version: 0.152 Severity: normal Hi, every time while extracting the .tgz and setting up the build environment, the following error message is printed: ln: creating symbolic link `/tmp/pbuilder/build/25744/etc/mtab' to `../proc/mounts': File exists indicating there would be

Bug#351241: dh-make: should install debian/compat in kernel-module-source package

2006-02-03 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Package: dh-make Version: 0.40 Severity: normal Tags: patch The generated kernel-module-source package misses debian/compat causing debhelper to whine about deprecated compat levels while building the module package. This patch should be applied after the patch for #350938. -- System

Bug#350938: dh-make: [Patch] for #350938 replacing $(package) with $(sname)

2006-02-03 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Package: dh-make Version: 0.40 Followup-For: Bug #350938 tag 350938 + patch --- dh-make-0.40/lib/debiank/rules.orig 2005-05-18 13:00:29.0 +0200 +++ dh-make-0.40/lib/debiank/rules 2006-02-03 14:20:56.0 +0100 @@ -140,12 +140,12 @@ dh_installdirs -p$(psource)

Bug#351522: pbuilder: base.tgz contains var/cache/bootstrap/*.deb

2006-02-05 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Package: pbuilder Version: 0.146 Severity: minor Including the debs that were used to build the chroot environment just bloats the base.tgz. They could be moved to the APTCACHE and should be removed before creating the base.tgz archive. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable

Bug#351526: sudo pbuilder login --save-after-login includes the apt cache in the base.tgz

2006-02-05 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Package: pbuilder Version: 0.146 Severity: minor The base.tgz generated after executing sudo pbuilder login --save-after-login contains a filled var/cache/apt/archives directory bloating the base.tgz. var/cache/apt/archives was initialized by copying the debs from APTCACHE after unpacking the

Bug#351536: please document cdebootstrap --flavour=build in pbuilderrc

2006-02-05 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Package: pbuilder Version: 0.146 Severity: wishlist pbuilderrc contains: ... # Set the debootstrap variant to 'buildd' type. # DEBOOTSTRAPOPTS[0]='--variant=buildd' # or work around bug in debootstrap 3.0.0 (314858) unset DEBOOTSTRAPOPTS ... - this should probably mean debootstrap 0.3.0 ? - now

Bug#351522: #351522: pbuilder: base.tgz contains var/cache/bootstrap/*.deb

2006-02-05 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Package: pbuilder Version: 0.146 Followup-For: Bug #351522 Hi, I think, /var/cache/bootstrap/ is specific to cdebootstrap and won't be touched by apt-get clean. I haven't seen any debs remaining after using debootstrap and got interested in this problem after seeing a base.tgz created with

Bug#355157: apt-cacher-format-transition.pl fails on CRLF terminated headers

2006-03-03 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Package: apt-cacher Version: 1.5.3 Severity: normal Tags: patch The conversion script apt-cacher-format-transition.pl fails to convert old cache files that contain HTTP headers that are terminated with CRLF. (IIRC, CRLF is the correct line ending for HTTP headers). The following one line patch

Bug#355160: apt-cacher-import.pl does not check for errors on rename() call

2006-03-03 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Package: apt-cacher Version: 1.5.3 Severity: normal Tags: patch While importing over file system boundaries (no symlinking or hardlinking option specified) the return value from rename() isn't checked producing a headers/my.deb and private/my.deb.complete without an existing packages/my.deb. The

Bug#360758: linux-image-2.6.16-1-vserver-k7: module binary incompatibility between 2.6.16-4 and 2.6.16-5 ?

2006-04-04 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Package: linux-image-2.6.16-1-vserver-k7 Version: 2.6.16-5 Severity: normal After upgrading linux-image-2.6.16-1-vserver-k7 from 2.6.16-4 to 2.6.16-5 I had to rebuild the third party modules. Errors reported when inserting the old modules were: kernel: nvidia: disagrees about version of

Bug#360765: util-vserver: init script sets barrier flag on / - breaking vserver operation

2006-04-04 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Package: util-vserver Version: 0.30.210-2 Severity: important The init script executes a call to setattr --barrier for every entry $CURRENT in /etc/vservers, even if there exists no /etc/vservers/$CURRENT/vdir, because e.g. $CURRENT is a file. Files that may exist in /etc/vservers are e.g.

Bug#360885: util-vserver: posinst failure

2006-04-05 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Package: util-vserver Version: 0.30.210-3 Followup-For: Bug #360885 The script fails after ... + '[' -e /proc/self/vinfo ']' + showattr -d / + awk '{print $1}' + grep -q B because grep returns 1 on mismatch and this terminates the script because of the 'set -e' at the beginning. The following

Bug#361382: util-vserver: overwrites admins choice for /etc/vservers/.defaults/vdirbase

2006-04-08 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Package: util-vserver Version: 0.30.210-5 Severity: normal I've manually changed the symblic link /etc/vservers/.defaults/vdirbase to point to a partition with enough free space. But after every update of the package this gets reset to the default /var/lib/vservers. Is there a better way to

Bug#361446: postinst: checksetup.pl fails with compilation error

2006-04-08 Thread Andreas Beckmann
/bugzilla_admin_real_name: Andreas Beckmann * bugzilla/mysql_host: localhost bugzilla/bugzilla_installation_way_single: Manual * bugzilla/mysql_need_root: false * bugzilla/mysql_root_name: root bugzilla/index_upgrade1: * bugzilla/mysql_name: bugzilla * bugzilla/bugzilla_admin_name: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Bug#350938: dh-make: kernel module: $(package) vs. $(sname)

2006-02-01 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Package: dh-make Version: 0.40 Severity: normal In the install target of /usr/share/debhelper/dh_make/debiank/rules both $(package) and $(sname) are used to reference the module source directory below usr/src/modules, but only $(sname) is defined, while $(package) is empty, breaking the build of

Bug#350935: dh-make: kernel-module template needs to Build-Depend on bzip2

2006-02-01 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Package: dh-make Version: 0.40 Severity: normal The template /usr/share/debhelper/dh_make/debiank/control needs a build dependency on bzip2 (either by adding it to the template or by adding it to the generated list before substituting #BUILD_DEPS#). bzip2 is used during build of the

Bug#371073: backuppc: fix for your tar arguments

2006-06-07 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Package: backuppc Version: 2.1.2-4 Followup-For: Bug #371073 Hello Klaus, I think, you need to change your settings to $Conf{TarFullArgs} = '$fileList+'; $Conf{TarIncrArgs} = '--newer=$incrDate+ $fileList+'; The additional '+' will add another level of shell escapes to the arguments to protect

Bug#372768: dh-make: template formatting cleanup

2006-06-11 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Package: dh-make Version: 0.41 Severity: minor Tags: patch Hi, in addition to the maintainer script template cleanup (bug #370488), I looked over all the other templates, too, and fixed the following: - removed trailing whitespace - made use of empty lines/comments consistent between the

Bug#372768: some more cleanup hints

2006-06-11 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Hi, if debiank/rules gets execute permission, the corresponding lintian override can be removed. source package: debian/subtsvars seems to be some forgotten cruft caused by a typo. Andreas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Bug#372777: dh-make: hyphen vs. minus on manpage

2006-06-11 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Package: dh-make Version: 0.41 Severity: minor Tags: patch Hi, lintian complained about hyphens in the manpage that should be minus signs. Most minus signs already were proper '\-', the attached patch replaces the remaining '-' with '\-'. Andreas -- System Information: Debian Release:

Bug#370468: patch to use debhelper 5 in all templates

2006-06-11 Thread Andreas Beckmann
tags patch thanks Hi, I attach a patch to remove the remaining references to debhelper 4. lib/debianb/control, dh_make: generate the Build-Depends like in every other debian*/control lib/debiank/{control,control.modules.in}: bump to debhelper (= 5) Andreas diff -ur lib.orig2/debianb/control

Bug#372828: modules/mkfs: reiserfs creation broken

2006-06-11 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Package: rootstrap Version: 0.3.22-1 Severity: normal Tags: patch Hi, creating an uml image with reiserfs does not work because of typos in the mkfs script. Andreas -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'),

Bug#372901: rootstrap: extend /etc/apt/{sources.list, preferences, apt.conf} configuration

2006-06-12 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Package: rootstrap Version: 0.3.22-1 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch Hi, the ability to initialize /etc/apt/sources.list from rootstrap.conf is a nice feature. Based on this, I wrote a patch for rootstrap to configure /etc/apt/preferences, too. (rootstrap-apt-preferences.patch) Is it useful to

Bug#372905: rootstrap: modules/uml does not umount /proc

2006-06-12 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Package: rootstrap Version: 0.3.22-1 Severity: normal Tags: patch Hi, the module uml mounts $TARGET/proc, but doesn't umount it again. This breaks any user supplied modules that are run after 'uml' and try to mount/umount /proc themselves. Andreas -- System Information: Debian Release:

Bug#372906: rootstrap: add ability to preseed debconf values

2006-06-12 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Package: rootstrap Version: 0.3.22-1 Severity: wishlist Hi, it would be nice if there was a way to preseed some debconf values. E.g. currently there is no way to enable shadow passwords until I log into the uml image and run dpkg-reconfigure passwd. Or select the locales I want to have

Bug#372901: the complete patch

2006-06-12 Thread Andreas Beckmann
this patch now contains both parts: the patches for rootstrap.conf and modules/debian Andreas --- rootstrap.conf.org1 2006-05-28 21:12:40.0 +0200 +++ rootstrap.conf 2006-06-12 04:38:22.0 +0200 @@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ # Extra packages to install via apt after initial debootstrap

Bug#372942: rootstrap: needs ability to disable /lib/tls

2006-06-12 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Package: rootstrap Version: 0.3.22-1 Severity: normal Hi Mattia, /lib/tls seems to be a problem under user-mode-linux. I couldn't find any really good documentation about this issue causing crashes without useful error messages, debugging info etc. but

Bug#372937: rootstrap: add support for non-debian .deb archives

2006-06-12 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Package: rootstrap Version: 0.3.22-1 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch Hi Mattia, although it's possible to add e.g. a local package archive with the [debian]sources= settings, this can't be used to install local packages because apt doesn't trust this archive. So rootstrap needs to configure apt

Bug#373850: smbclient: tarmode excludes don't work

2006-06-15 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Package: smbclient Version: 3.0.22-1 Severity: normal Hi, excluding directories during tarmode transfer does not work. The following example command line was generated by backuppc: /usr/bin/smbclient host\\share -U user -E -N -d 1 \ -c tarmode\ full -TcrX - NOBACKUP Here 'NOBACKUP' is

Bug#376404: locale settings within pbuilder sessions

2006-07-02 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Package: pbuilder Version: 0.155 Severity: wishlist Hi, I'd like pbuilder to run commands in cleaned locale settings (e.g. LC_ALL=POSIX) in the chroot environment, because - in a minimal and clean build environment no locales (besides the default) are available - some programs (e.g. perl)

Bug#376589: udev: z25_persistent-net.rules is no longer generated

2006-07-03 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Package: udev Version: 0.093-1 Severity: normal Hi, I wanted to regenerate the persistent rules for net and cd (because their format regularily changes and I want to use the current one), so I moved z25_* out of the way and rebooted, but only z25_persistent-cd.rules was created,

Bug#376404: [Pbuilder-maint] Bug#376404: locale settings within pbuilder sessions

2006-07-04 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Junichi Uekawa wrote: Hi, I've tried setting 'export LC_ALL=POSIX' in my .pbuilderrc, but this made no difference (while 'export debian_chroot=pbuild$$' works well). Do you explicitly set LC_CTIME? Yes. Probably all helper scripts that do chroot / $CHROOTEXEC should set LC_ALL=C first:

Bug#376589: udev: z25_persistent-net.rules is no longer generated

2006-07-04 Thread Andreas Beckmann
reopen 376589 thanks I'm reopening this bug because manually running /lib/udev/write_net_rules all_interfaces creates z25_persistent-net.rules Marco d'Itri wrote: You can easily run the rules generator from the prompt to debug it, look at postinst. OK, I started playing with

Bug#376589: udev: z25_persistent-net.rules is no longer generated

2006-07-05 Thread Andreas Beckmann
SYSFS{subsystem_vendor}==0x10ec SYSFS{device}==0x8139 SYSFS{vendor}==0x10ec looking at device '/devices/pci:00': ID==pci:00 BUS== DRIVER== Marco d'Itri wrote: On Jul 04, Andreas Beckmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: # ignore interfaces without a driver link DRIVER

Bug#376589: udev: z25_persistent-net.rules is no longer generated

2006-07-05 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Kay Sievers wrote: ... PHYSDEVDRIVER is an environment variable set by the kernel and needs to be in an ENV{} key to match the value. ENV{PHYSDEVDRIVER}!=?*, GOTO=persistent_net_generator_end This seems to work, z25_persistent-net.rules was generated during boot. Andreas -- To

Bug#372942: rootstrap: needs ability to disable /lib/tls

2006-07-06 Thread Andreas Beckmann
user-mode-linux kernel 2.6.17-1um-1 now supports TLS, so working around /lib/tls seems to be no longer neccessary. Andreas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#377035: rootstrap/user-mode-linux need a possibility to update the kernel modules inside the uml-image

2006-07-06 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Package: rootstrap Version: 0.3.22-1 Severity: wishlist Hi, rootstrap supports installing (by copying) the modules available on the host during uml image creation time into the uml image (module uml). But after an update of user-mode-linux on the host, this copy becomes outdated and the image is

Bug#377084: backuppc: exceeds $conf{MaxHardLinks} and reaches system limit of hard links, throwing errors

2006-07-06 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Package: backuppc Version: 2.1.2-5 Severity: normal Tags: patch Hi, backuppc recently managed to overflow $conf{MaxHardLinks} (31999) and shortly later reached the system limit (64535) throwing tons of errors: Unable to link ... Checking the upstream CVS I found that this has problem has

Bug#377088: backuppc: new upstream patch 2.1.2pl2 available

2006-07-06 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Package: backuppc Version: 2.1.2-5 Severity: wishlist # ChangeLog: # # - In conf/config.pl, changed --devices to -D in $Conf{RsyncArgs} #and $Conf{RsyncRestoreArgs} to fix fileListReceive failed and #Can't open .../f%2f for empty output errors with rsync 2.6.7+. #Fix proposed by

Bug#377484: uswsusp: package installs .svn directories

2006-07-09 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Package: uswsusp Version: 0.2-1 Severity: minor Hi, the swsusp package installs the following .svn directories: /usr/share/initramfs-tools/hooks/.svn /usr/share/initramfs-tools/scripts/.svn /usr/share/initramfs-tools/scripts/local-premount/.svn Andreas -- System Information: Debian Release:

Bug#369285: reiserfsprogs: can't mount reiserfs volume with 8kb block size

2006-05-28 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Package: reiserfsprogs Version: 1:3.6.19-2 Severity: normal Hi, I just created a new reiserfs volume with the following command: mkreiserfs -d -l backup -b 8192 /dev/hda11 but mounting it fails with the error: mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda11, missing

Bug#369388: /usr/bin/locale: misleading error: locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory

2006-05-29 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Package: libc6 Version: 2.3.6-7 Severity: normal File: /usr/bin/locale Hi, I stomped over this error message when one of the LC_* variables was set to a locale that was not generated on that particular machine. It had nothing to do with LC_ALL (which is unset) and can be reproduced by doing $

Bug#369391: login: should /etc/pam.d/su read /etc/default/locale?

2006-05-29 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Package: login Version: 1:4.0.15-10 Severity: normal Hi, since the LC_* settings were moved from /etc/environment to /etc/default/locale, they are missing in 'su -' sessions. Perhaps it should be configured similar to /etc/pam.d/login? Andreas -- System Information: Debian Release:

Bug#369395: openssh-server: should /etc/pam.d/ssh read /etc/default/locale?

2006-05-29 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Package: openssh-server Version: 1:4.3p2-2 Severity: normal Hi, since the LC_* settings were moved from /etc/environment to /etc/default/locale pam_env no longer reads and sets them. See /usr/share/doc/locales/NEWS.Debian.gz for more information. Perhaps the pam_env settings in /etc/pam.d/ssh

Bug#369401: openssh-client: SenvEnv misses possibility to reset/override/disable previous settings

2006-05-29 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Package: openssh-client Version: 1:4.3p2-2 Severity: wishlist Hi, the SendEnv config option is an 'append-only' option making it impossible to overwrite settings from /etc/ssh/ssh_config (the default there is 'SendEnv LANG LC_*') in .ssh/config This may be needed for 'broken servers' that don't

Bug#369428: backuppc: wrong path in documentation

2006-05-29 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Package: backuppc Version: 2.1.2-4 Severity: minor Hi, the backuppc online documentation mentions /usr/share/backuppc/BackupPC_archiveHost (two times, iirc) while the script actually resides in /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_archiveHost Andreas -- System Information: Debian Release:

Bug#369425: backuppc: new upstream patch 2.1.2pl1 available

2006-05-29 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Package: backuppc Version: 2.1.2-4 Severity: normal Hi, a new patch for backuppc has been released by the upstream authors and can be downloaded from http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/backuppc/BackupPC-2.1.2pl1.diff?download The changelog (between pl0 and pl1) says: # # - Fixed bug in

Bug#369464: backuppc: update Suggests:

2006-05-29 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Package: backuppc Version: 2.1.2-4 Severity: normal Hi, the debian backuppc package * 'Suggests: ssh' which is a transitional package and should most probably replaced by 'openssh-client' or 'openssh-client | ssh-client' * 'Suggests: libfile-rsyncp-perl (= 0.50)' but

Bug#369466: backuppc: some statistics variables are not initialized

2006-05-29 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Package: backuppc Version: 2.1.2-4 Severity: minor Tags: patch Hi, some variables that are used for transfer statistics are not properly initialized and result in incomplete messages if the counters are never incremented. This seems to affect the tar and samba transfer methods, the

Bug#369465: backuppc: incremental backups don't work properly with localhost.pl

2006-05-29 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Package: backuppc Version: 2.1.2-4 Severity: normal Hi, using the supplied config.pl and localhost.pl does not result in proper incremental backups (they are not really incremental) because of the following error message from tar: Running: /usr/bin/env LC_ALL=C /bin/tar -c -v -f - -C /etc

Bug#369684: backuppc: runs BackupPC_nightly and BackupPC_link in parallel

2006-05-31 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Package: backuppc Version: 2.1.2-4 Severity: normal Hi, since BackupPC_nightly and BackupPC_link both access the pool they probably shouldn't run in parallel. There must be a logic error somewhere. A raw timeline of the events that happened: * everything is idle ... * backup starts (manually

Bug#369684: backuppc: Patch to not run nightly and link jobs in parallel

2006-06-04 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Package: backuppc Version: 2.1.2-4 Followup-For: Bug #369684 tags patch thanks I attach a patch that fixes the logic error that allowed nightly and link jobs to run in parallel. As a result any pending link jobs that were present in the command queue at time the nightly jobs were queued will be

Bug#369428: backuppc: Patches for documentation errors

2006-06-04 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Package: backuppc Version: 2.1.2-4 Followup-For: Bug #369428 tags patch thanks Hi, attached are a patch for the wrong path and another patch for a typo in BackupPC_nightly Andreas Index: doc-src/BackupPC.pod === RCS file:

Bug#370399: backuppc: Don't rotate empty logfiles at the beginning of the month

2006-06-04 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Package: backuppc Version: 2.1.2-4 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch Hi, backuppc rotates the client logfiles in the first night of the month. But clients that are configured to not do any regular backups ($Conf{FullPeriod} 0) and didn't do any manually triggered backups don't produce any log

Bug#370460: /etc/init.d/cupsys prints no newline after 'Starting ...' message

2006-06-05 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Package: cupsys Version: 1.2.1-1 Severity: minor Hi, this is most probably caused by a missing log_end_msg $? at the end of the start) block. Andreas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#370468: templates: debhelper compat level 5, but dependency on 4

2006-06-05 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Package: dh-make Version: 0.41 Severity: normal Hi, two template control files still depend on debhelper 4: debianb/control:Build-Depends: cdbs, debhelper (= 4.1.0) debiank/control.modules.in:Build-Depends: debhelper ( 4.0.0) Andreas -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable

Bug#370465: PTS: http://packages.qa.debian.org/common/index.html could set the focus automatically to the input field

2006-06-05 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Package: qa.debian.org Severity: wishlist Hi, if the focus would be set to input field, one could start typing the package name immediately. Google does this with some javascript: function sf(){document.f.q.focus();} body onLoad=sf() form ... name=finput ... name=q... Andreas -- System

Bug#370488: dh-make: consistent formatting of the maintainer script templates

2006-06-05 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Package: dh-make Version: 0.41 Severity: minor Tags: patch Hi, I made some cleanup of the the maintainer script templates: - indentation (no tabs!) - empty lines - typos - comments - forgotten may-be-called comment - use #PACKAGE# in module package postinst Now the scripts only produce minimal

Bug#370494: dh-make: template kernel-module package postinst is not policy compliant

2006-06-05 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Package: dh-make Version: 0.41 Severity: normal Hi, thinking about the reformatted kernel-module postinst template again, I realized that invoking /etc/init.d/#PACKAGE# is a policy violation: 3.7.0.0Apr 2006 * packages that invoke initscripts now must use

Bug#384722: /etc/nsswitch.conf: references the wrong package for glibc info documentation

2006-08-28 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Santiago Vila wrote: Hmm, do you know when and why did they change the package name? quite recently: glibc-doc-reference (2.3.6-1) unstable; urgency=low * Backport from experimental (thanks Denis): - For licensing reasons, the GNU C Library Reference Manual cannot be

Bug#383659: apache2: please switch to libdb4.4-dev

2006-08-18 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Package: apache2 Severity: normal Hi, apache (1.x) recently switched to libdb4.4-dev, but apache2 still uses libdb4.3-dev. Now php5 can't be built due to conflicting build depends: libdb4.4-dev (pulled by apache-dev) and libdb4.3-dev (pulled by apache2-prefork-dev). Andreas -- System

Bug#384722: /etc/nsswitch.conf: references the wrong package for glibc info documentation

2006-08-26 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Package: base-files Version: 3.1.14 Severity: minor File: /etc/nsswitch.conf Hi, /etc/nsswitch.conf mentions that the info documentation is in glibc-doc, but actually the info documentation is included in glibc-doc-reference. Andreas -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable

Bug#379558: lintian: php-script-but-no-php4-cli-dep vs. php5-cli

2006-07-24 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Package: lintian Version: 1.23.22 Severity: wishlist Hi, while packaging something locally, I got the 'php-script-but-no-php4-cli-dep' warning from lintian although the package depends on php5-cli. Shouldn't this package suffice to provide a cli php interpreter? Perhaps change this check to

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