is fixed in the next upload. If you feel the
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Don't trample upon the namespace of other packages. You can read from
/var/*/apt. You can't write there. Put your files in
/var/cache/apt-file/ where they belong.
This isn't a policy violation but it should be.
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going into sarge now. It's quite fragile enough already without
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On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 09:05:33PM +0200, Andreas Jochens wrote:
On 05-May-12 19:53, Andrew Suffield wrote:
On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 06:01:14PM +0200, Andreas Jochens wrote:
there have been several request from amd64 users which would like to
use cdrdao.
Please reconsider applying
made its way into Debian.
It hardly matters, once sarge is released I'll be uploading a version
of cdrdao that refuses to be setuid.
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Package: gsm-utils
Severity: important
/usr/bin/gsmsmsspool and /usr/bin/gsmsmsrequeue are not executable
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Package: gsm-utils
Severity: important
gsm-utils calls deluser unconditionally on gsmsms in prerm, so that
the user is removed and recreated on every upgrade. Don't do that,
it's crazy.
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it opens this window at intervals on its own. Attaching another
patch to disable that too. There's no way I could deploy something
like that to users.
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Not that it seems to affect anything.
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Package: samba-dbg
There's no debugging symbols for anything from the winbind,
libsmbclient, and smbclient packages (at least) - in fact, nothing
except the contents of the samba package itself. I don't think you
meant to do that.
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, gdb does not appear to
understand these binaries at all. Most notably, it cannot attach to
their processes and produce a stack trace, which is proving to be
quite problematic for debugging samba.
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to backport 1.3.3-2 to sarge. The build went fine but
the tests failed with an apparent tar error:
Failing to build on sarge is not RC.
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On Sat, Dec 10, 2005 at 07:39:04PM +0100, Thiemo Seufer wrote:
Andrew Suffield wrote:
This doesn't look like #223110 to me - that bug is specific to signal
handlers.
After a closer look I agree.
I just tried the test on casals against 5.8.7-6 though, and
I can't get it to break
) and then allocating dynamically. This
happens in several places.
I don't know why your copy didn't build support for large
supplementary group lists.
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me anything particularly useful about the
package; in fact, I think my understanding has been slightly reduced
after reading it.
When you rewrite it, use more than one sentence.
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Package: libcatalyst-perl
Severity: serious
Version: 5.61-1
Fails to build without Template available, it's in Makefile.PL...
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to fail upgrades. You could
fiddle around with Conflicts/Depends or something... but the simplest
solution is to stop shipping the old files in
libuniversal-exports-perl.
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supposed to be doing. Letting
arch-buildpackage build one only makes sense when upstream uses arch,
in which case you want to keep the control files. The whole point of
this feature originally was to build tla itself directly from the
upstream archive.
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On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 10:22:09PM +0800, Zak B. Elep wrote:
On 11/4/05, Andrew Suffield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Which is exactly what you're supposed to be doing. Letting
arch-buildpackage build one only makes sense when upstream uses arch,
in which case you want to keep the control files
. scsilib rarely works on new arches without being
updated. No.
The requirements for arches to be supported by cdrdao are the same as
always: get the thing on ftp-master and thusly into Debian where I can
see it. Otherwise it's just impractical.
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that you can't read.
For the record, I'm sitting on this one until the next upstream
release, due shortly, because there are issues with rebuilding cdrdao
right now and I really can't see any point in backporting the fixes
just to get it in sid sooner.
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%new_toks, $self-DBM_MODULE, ${name}.new,
O_RDWR|O_CREAT|O_EXCL,
(oct($main-{conf}-{bayes_file_mode}) 0666);
Still got O_EXCL in there, so I presume it doesn't. Can't somebody
delete that already?
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Package: ipcalc
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INVALID MASK1: 0
No it isn't.
Address: 0.0.0.0 ...
Netmask: 255.255.255.0 = 24 ...
And that's not helpful.
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Good heavens, what an old bug.
On Sat, Oct 22, 2005 at 11:37:44AM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote:
Andrew (Suffield...as A. Bartlett is also following the Debian BTS, I
have to avoid confusion),
From what I see in samba sources, template primary group is not a
recognized parameter
Package: cogito
cg-commit -p -m ignores the -p argument and silently commits. Yes,
this is documented, but it's still stupid behaviour; if the user had
meant that, they would have just used -m alone.
At the very least, it should abort with an error (on the basis that
the command makes no sense);
. The script will always abort and fail if
$? is not zero. You'll have to set +e or put the if around the
command.
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On Sun, Jan 15, 2006 at 06:05:58PM +0100, Nico Golde wrote:
I intend to NMU fspanel package, are you already working on
the bug?
It's on my todo list for the next few days. This bug is less than a
week old.
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Severity: normal
I don't use this any more. It's not maintained upstream and not likely
to be, but it doesn't really need much maintaining upstream.
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I don't use this any more. It's also fragile and hasn't been properly
maintained upstream in years. If nobody wants it, it should be removed.
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On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 08:26:46AM -0500, Edward J. Shornock wrote:
cue2toc still exists in the upgraded package:
Argh, fiddling with the damn diff and lost the damn change before
uploading, I'll take care of it tomorrow.
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Package: libgnupg-perl
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
gpg helpfully reports when signature validation fails because the
public key isn't here. libgnupg-perl rather less helpfully discards
this information. Here's a patch to propagate it.
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using sunrpc
when this happens.
That said, there should still be a way to flush out the mappings on
demand.
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which. Look around, you should find
one easily enough. They're more or less equivalent, you may have to
fiddle the function names.
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uploading is nice would be good.
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to be something fairly obvious to be that badly
wrong... the filenames in the stat() and open() calls don't even
match. It doesn't appear to be related to the input data, so it's
probably a race condition.
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On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 06:23:21PM -0500, Duncan Findlay wrote:
On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 10:33:30PM +, Andrew Suffield wrote:
Package: spamassassin
Severity: important
This happens at random intervals:
stat64(/home/asuffield/.spamassassin/bayes_toks.expire2054, 0xb580
the relevant ones. Happens to be DB_File 1.808.
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Package: libaudiofile-dev
Severity: important
/usr/include/af_vfs.h uses ssize_t, but doesn't include sys/types.h,
so it will fail to compile if nothing has included that first.
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upload
It has been orphaned for 409 days
It has a RC security bug
It has no reverse-dependencies
It was never in a stable release
And it's grossly out of date WRT upstream to the point of having
security holes. Kill it.
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With these patches applied, dhcp requests on boot run in nothing flat,
rather than holding up the boot process for two seconds per interface.
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After reading the description I still have no idea what this thing is or does.
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and lets me create my cn=foo, ou=bar, ou=baz, o=quux certificates.
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Package: racoon
Severity: important
Version: 1:0.5-5
'racoon start' starts racoon before it generates the racoon config
file. That's pretty useless. It will only ever work by coincidence.
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Package: icheck
Severity: serious
This one's not targetted for sarge, thanks.
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Package: iceweasel
The dialog displayed when selecting the Help - About menu says 'All
rights reserved'. That's just wrong.
The page accessed via the about: URL has a link to about:license,
which has the correct information. The dialog should say something
similar.
Also, the weasel looks like
On Sun, Jan 14, 2007 at 04:50:23PM -0500, Eric Dorland wrote:
* Andrew Suffield ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Package: iceweasel
The dialog displayed when selecting the Help - About menu says 'All
rights reserved'. That's just wrong.
I suppose it wrong. I wonder why they have
On Mon, Jan 15, 2007 at 07:57:00PM -0500, Eric Dorland wrote:
I'm getting some pushback from upstream on this actually and on second
thought I'm leery to fuddle with someones copyright assertion, as
innocuous as it may be. I'm going to wait for upstream to make a
call.
I find it deeply
Package: bsdgames
Run dab. Hit q. Your terminal is now -inlcr -ocrnl -icanon.
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The following packages have unmet dependencies.
kaya: Depends: g++-4.0 but it is not installable
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On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 08:44:16AM +0100, Free Ekanayaka wrote:
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AS On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 11:38:57AM +0100, Free Ekanayaka wrote:
I among the ones who really would like to see cdrdao on Debian
amd64. Is there any reason that prevent fixing
libnss-ldap can field it.
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on here. This is the tail end of a
regular upgrade that left me with hundreds of packages properly
installed and three dead ones)
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(iburst is always a good thing to have; it lets ntpd sync up faster on
startup. I can't think of a good reason for not having -g. You can
still run ntpdate if you want to - it's just unnecessary).
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aren't. For those who don't know, a
module is in essence a midi file with embedded instrument samples.
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than just packaging.
Sure, but, in the meantime, are you open to me uploading the attached
NMU?
I was going to do this in the next few days, but you've got a diff
already, so I'll leave it for you.
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--- sysvinit-2.86.ds1.old/debian/changelog 2005-07-11 15:47:11.0
+0100
+++ sysvinit-2.86.ds1/debian/changelog 2005-07-11 16:10
it.
None of these look either important or annoying enough to merit
NMUing. I'd rather wait until the maintainer wakes up and says
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Still present in 2.3.5-2. I've managed to do what none of the
maintainers could do in the past year and a half, and forwarded this
upstream. Nice bit of maintaining, there.
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+ logon script = logon.bat
These are only for a PDC, but I always have to look them up. They
should be included, commented out, next to 'domain master'.
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It's dpkg-parsechangelog. And it's
/closes:\s*(?:bug)?\#?\s?\d+(?:,\s*(?:bug)?\#?\s?\d+)*/ig
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).
This would be nice to include in the default /etc/skel/.bashrc. Adding
a line like this (below the existing xterm PROMPT_COMMAND magic)
should do the trick:
PROMPT_COMMAND=stty echo; $PROMPT_COMMAND
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Package: wnpp
Severity: normal
I'm orphaning tla; I don't really use the thing any more.
The package description is:
arch is a revision control system with features that are ideal for projects
characterised by widely distributed development, concurrent support of
multiple releases, and
Package: wnpp
Severity: normal
I'm orphaning arch-buildpackage, since I don't really use arch now.
The package description is:
arch-buildpackage is a set of tools to simplify maintaining Debian
packages with arch. It is oriented around configurations, in order to
avoid placing restrictions on
Package: wnpp
Severity: normal
I'm orphaning cdrdao, since I actually don't need it any more (a
combination of bchunk, xine, daemon-tools, and effective dvd burning
on my desktop means that I no longer need to actually put this stuff
on CDs) and it's a real bitch to look after. Buyer beware, this
Package: wnpp
Severity: normal
I'm orphaning fspanel. This package is so simple that it should keep
working for years; if X hadn't bitrotted under it then it would be
releasing the same version in etch as in sarge. It probably doesn't
need a maintainer, so it may as well stay in the archive even
Package: wnpp
Severity: normal
I'm orphaning icheck. As far as I'm aware it doesn't have much of a
userbase since the original plans for its deployment in Debian never
happened, and I'm the upstream author, so it's probably dead now. Also
the chances of anybody else understanding the thing are
On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 12:50:10AM +0200, Tomas Pospisek wrote:
Running filelight over my 100Gb home directory (600k inodes, ~10
million files) resulted in it allocating 400Mb of memory, of which
200Mb was actually used.
Could you double check this? To me it looks like filelight is doing
Package: heartbeat
The OCF Filesystem agent uses this code to monitor the mounted
filesystems:
list_mounts() {
if [ -f /etc/mtab -a -r /etc/mtab ]; then
cut -d' ' -f1,2,3 /etc/mtab
else
$MOUNT | cut -d' ' -f1,3,5
fi
}
Since what we're
Package: heartbeat
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Lynx or w3m or user-defined HTML2TXT required to convert GettingStarted.html to
GettingStarted.txt
Presumably a build error.
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Solaris doesn't have a /proc/mounts. What it does have is the ability
(like Linux) to list the kernel mount table from a simple mount command.
Irritatingly, the Linux 'mount' command doesn't do this, it merely
dumps out whatever is in
Package: perl
Version: 5.10.0-24
asuffi...@cyclone:~/work/perl-bug$ cat One.pm
package One;
use Moose;
use overload '' = 'stringify';
use Two;
asuffi...@cyclone:~/work/perl-bug$ cat Two.pm
package Two;
One-new();
asuffi...@cyclone:~/work/perl-bug$ perl -MOne
panic: restartop
Segmentation fault
I just observed this behaviour on one server. No relevant debug
output, no obvious trigger, but at random intervals avahi causes all
network services to lock up. Uninstalling avahi makes the problem go
away. I can't take that box down to debug it further.
It should never have been installed in
Package: manpages
Version: 3.23-1
Severity: normal
The current ld.so manpage is from glibc. It's gratuitously out of date
and just plain wrong in places. The one in manpages is current and
reasonably accurate. Please arrange for the version from manpages to
be shipped instead of the glibc
Package: xemacs21
Version: 21.4.22-2
Severity: important
asuffi...@cyclone:~$ xemacs -vanilla -batch -eval (haskell-mode) -eval
(turn-on-haskell-ghci)
haskell-ghci is obsolete.
Loading haskell-ghci...Fatal error: assertion failed, file bytecode.c, line
1479, ABORT()
Aborted (core dumped)
Package: mysql-server-5.1
On a fresh install, using a password with a in it causes this failure:
ERROR: 1064 You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that
corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ')
WHERE user='root'' at line 1
Obviously a lack
The request is still applicable; the suggested solution is poor. A
given piece of software may wish to use both strict and transitional
versions on different components.
A better solution is to build it both ways and supply /usr/bin/camlp5
for transitional, and /usr/bin/camlp5-strict for strict
Package: debian-installer
It may require a preseed file to get this to happen. Regardless, something
should have added mdadm to the list of packages to install if raid devices
were used.
Package: spread
Severity: serious
3. All advertising materials (including web pages) mentioning
features or use of this software, or software that uses this software,
must display the following acknowledgment: This product uses software
developed by Spread Concepts LLC for use in the Spread
On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 07:28:03PM +0200, Francesco Poli wrote:
On Wed, 31 Aug 2011 15:50:27 +0100 Andrew Suffield wrote:
Package: spread
Severity: serious
3. All advertising materials (including web pages) mentioning
features or use of this software, or software that uses
Package: partman-auto
When there is a parse error in the start of a line in an expert recipe, it
responds as follows:
The minimum partition size is set to 22, with a comment in the
source remarking there is no so big storage device jet.
Since the recipe does not fit on the disk, it
Package: debpartial-mirror
Version: 0.2.99
Severity: grave
(Normally important, but bumped to RC because it's breaking for
security updates on squeeze and that needs to not happen)
If a Packages file contains two entries for the same package name,
debpartial-mirror will die with this exception:
On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 08:28:43PM +0200, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote:
Yup, I already noticed that older LD_ASSUME_KERNEL values
gave results such as the above. However, I was not sure
of the intention of your response? Did you mean that the
proposed text should be changed? If so, could
Things from my past coming back to haunt me, but if people want to
keep ccing me...
On Sat, Jul 20, 2013 at 10:15:25PM +0200, Michael Kerrisk wrote:
Yes. I've never been quite sure though whether the particular
kernel versions to specify for LD_ASSUME_KERNEL when
selecting the threading
Package: mtr
Tags: patch, security
This seems to have been fairly successful for iputils, so let's do it
more. The attached patch causes mtr and mtr-tiny to be installed with
a file capability for CAP_NET_RAW instead of being setuid root, which
substantially reduces their privileges. I've
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