Bug#410790: man: apropos does not work, Debian testing

2007-02-13 Thread Colin Watson
> You possibly know the answer. Looking forward to your reply. Leave ~/.manpath alone. You don't need it under normal circumstances. Please show me the output of 'apropos --debug mandb'. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Bug#410790: man: apropos does not work, Debian testing

2007-02-13 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 02:13:44PM +0100, Arnfinn Ringvold wrote: > On Tue, 2007-02-13 at 12:12 +0000, Colin Watson wrote: > > Leave ~/.manpath alone. You don't need it under normal circumstances. > > > > Please show me the output of 'apropos --debug mandb'

Bug#92571: marked as done (RFP: webmin-debconf -- a frontend to debconf using the webmin framework)

2007-02-14 Thread Colin Watson
min-cdebconf. Either way, I sort of feel that [c]debconf frontends should simply be incorporated into debconf or cdebconf themselves. Neither implementation provides any kind of stable API/ABI promises to frontends, so it would really be easier to just include any new frontend in the core. --

Bug#413349: please remove /usr/X11R6/man from the search path

2007-03-05 Thread Colin Watson
/X11R6/man from the man pages would > probably not be accepted upstream and would have to be maintained for > Debian for the medium term... (Note that I am upstream.) I agree that it makes sense for /usr/X11R6/man no longer to be a mandatory directory, and have removed that upstream: Mo

Bug#197677: Pnews ignores errors and busy-waits instead

2007-03-05 Thread Colin Watson
rate this (along with a trn4 upload to fix the last minor bit not done upstream). It still doesn't use 'set -e' (hence I'm leaving this bug open) but it should at least make it less likely to spin following a failed read. -- Colin Watson

Bug#413570: complains on startup '/lib/udev/pcmcia-socket-startup' failed

2007-03-05 Thread Colin Watson
n/p/pcmciautils/pcmciautils_014-3_i386.deb | grep pcmcia-socket-startup -rwxr-xr-x root/root 16148 2006-11-27 14:03 ./lib/udev/pcmcia-socket-startup Marc, could you investigate in a bit more depth? -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCR

Bug#413570: complains on startup '/lib/udev/pcmcia-socket-startup' failed

2007-03-06 Thread Colin Watson
reopen 413570 thanks On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 08:31:42PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: > On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 11:37:01PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote: > > Marc, could you investigate in a bit more depth? > > For some reason, pcmciautils was uninstalled (but not purged) on the > sys

Bug#413846: openssh-client: post-4.3p2-6 openssh gets kerberos-related hang (non-root only)

2007-03-07 Thread Colin Watson
messenger and this is really a kerberos problem... It certainly doesn't happen to me. Is there anything you can tell me about your Kerberos configuration (e.g. how to reproduce it on my system)? -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#380226: NTFS (partition) not recreated correctly after resize:incorrect start sector

2007-03-07 Thread Colin Watson
e currently broken case, so this does not affect > > resizing ext2 etc. And none of it is running below > > maximize_extended_partition(). > > This new patch works again. I've asked Colin Watson if he can review your > patch. Within the D-I team he currently has the bes

Bug#389881: RC-ness of this bug

2007-03-08 Thread Colin Watson
the changes from > > them but we would also need RM and Frans approval :( > > I thought you were talking about user workarounds. > > Well, Ubuntu uses fstab labels, No, it uses UUIDs. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, e

Bug#389881: RC-ness of this bug

2007-03-08 Thread Colin Watson
distribution to fix up, IIRC. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] diff -Nru /tmp/bRFBYZWEev/partman-target-46/finish.d/fstab_hd_entries /tmp/gRV1OOc9kY/partman-target-46ubuntu2/finish.d/fstab_hd_entries --- /tmp/bRFBYZWEev/partman-target-46/finish.d/fsta

Bug#389881: RC-ness of this bug

2007-03-08 Thread Colin Watson
of the people involved in Anaconda development said to me in person that in hindsight this was probably a mistake). We've already backed away from automatic use of labels once (http://bugs.debian.org/310754) so let's not have to do so again! -- Colin Watson

Bug#415558: lintian: too pedantic about /usr/lib vs. /usr/share (image-file-in-usr-lib)

2007-03-24 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Mar 24, 2007 at 03:04:03PM +0100, Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt wrote: > Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Don't get me wrong: I'm not saying that we should fail to fix bugs just > > because "it's too much effort". Nor am I sayin

Bug#409360: openssh-client: Disabling GSSAPIAuthentication option by default

2007-03-30 Thread Colin Watson
f krb5. Russ, do you have any ideas here? -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#409360: openssh-client: Disabling GSSAPIAuthentication option by default

2007-03-30 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 12:32:48PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I would like to avoid the extra reverse DNS lookup if possible, though. > > I looked into the source and couldn't entirely see what was going on, as > >

Bug#417121: pcmciautils: Data Corruption while using Texas Instrument PCI7420 --CardBus

2007-04-01 Thread Colin Watson
ERNEL module. > Since both are part of Debian Etch, I am leaving it to the package > maintainer to reassign it to Kernel, if appropriate. pcmciautils only handles a small userspace component of device detection; everything else is done by the kernel. Reassigning.

Bug#409334: {Spam} spamassassin timing out randomly

2007-02-25 Thread Colin Watson
ld that's busy doing expiry, and could somehow tell spamc to wait longer until that child finishes? (I'll also try converting to SDBM_File and see if that helps; I'm still on the default DB_File.) -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] --

Bug#389881: RC-ness of this bug

2007-03-15 Thread Colin Watson
y in /etc/fstab documenting which traditional device name they corresponded to at the point of installation. Of course this can get out of date, but I don't think there's really any sensible way around that. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#389881: RC-ness of this bug

2007-03-15 Thread Colin Watson
ough the drive ID and possibly its physical location are different. Thus I don't agree that by-id or by-path are good solutions to this problem; by-id even breaks where old-style "IDE primary master"-type identification would have worked fine. -- Colin Watson

Bug#413855: Apple check is i386-specific

2007-03-15 Thread Colin Watson
-bit and available.) I intend to fix this up post-Etch by using the i386/mac and amd64/mac subarchitectures I introduced in libdebian-installer (also in post-Etch trunk). There are enough other glitches that I don't think it's worth trying to run around hoovering them all up for Etch

Bug#415558: lintian: too pedantic about /usr/lib vs. /usr/share (image-file-in-usr-lib)

2007-03-20 Thread Colin Watson
bles, we likely wouldn't care. It's been a while since I was particularly involved in lintian maintenance, so I don't feel that I can change this unilaterally. What do the other lintian maintainers think of my position? Thanks, -- Colin Watson

Bug#399840: Bug#409338: ssh task in tasksel

2007-02-03 Thread Colin Watson
: standard, as there are many people who are sensitive about what's in the standard installation and (rightly, IMO) don't want another thing that listens on a network port added to it since that's a security exposure that not everyone wants or need

Bug#418458: binfmt-support: cannot be installed due to syntax error in perl script

2007-04-09 Thread Colin Watson
t-get upgrade) the > following error messages occurred: > > >Setting up binfmt-support (1.2.9) ... > >syntax error at /usr/share/perl5/Binfmt/Format.pm line 138, near "'')" Already fixed in response to #418343, thanks. -- Colin Watson

Bug#419260: openssh-server: [INTL-nl] spelling errors

2007-04-15 Thread Colin Watson
o openssh maintainers: I propose waiting for this process to complete > before you upload a fixed version...unless of course more important > fixes are waiting. I committed the patch to CVS, but I'm not particularly bothered about uploading immediately. There are no other pending changes at

Bug#420663: openssh: [INTL:sv] Swedish debconf templates translation update

2007-04-24 Thread Colin Watson
; lines which strangely were appearing before other > comments and this has been fixed magically. Weird. This could be a > gettext bug. Thanks; I applied this additional correction in the change I committed to CVS. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -

Bug#420742: openssh: Minor error in debconf template

2007-04-24 Thread Colin Watson
switch the "file" before the filename, i.e.: > +"can ssh directly in as root). Please read the file README.Debian for more ") I think I prefer "the README.Debian file", actually. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#349388: Bug#411303: Bug#349388: argp.3

2007-04-24 Thread Colin Watson
o have two purposes: first, it purports to document the groff man macros; secondly, it acts as a man page style guide, at least for those manual pages using the man macros. Perhaps it would help if it dropped the first purpose and referred to groff_man instead, since that's pretty small? -- Col

Bug#385145: debian-installer: [powerpc] get ride of netboot64/cdrom64 for powerpc64 subarch.

2006-08-29 Thread Colin Watson
aily build with this patch applied, even though it runs here > locally. Thanks, applied. Instead of keeping the old *64 files around, I simply taught debian-cd to cope with either cdrom or cdrom64 for a while, so it should keep on building smoothly. Cheers,

Bug#385145: debian-installer: [powerpc] get ride of netboot64/cdrom64 for powerpc64 subarch.

2006-08-29 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 05:02:04PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > On Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 03:23:42PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > tags 385145 pending > > thanks > > > > On Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 02:15:50PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > > Now use an optional hype

Bug#385175: debian-installer: [powerpc] let's move powerpc d-i into the initramfs era ...

2006-08-29 Thread Colin Watson
using cramfs. Applied, thanks. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#385145: debian-installer: [powerpc] get ride of netboot64/cdrom64 for powerpc64 subarch.

2006-08-29 Thread Colin Watson
make there (adding qla2xxx), but it's in progress and I'll have it done tonight. I started on it but had to install the newer kernel packages first and then got distracted ... Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

Bug#385145: debian-installer: [powerpc] get ride of netboot64/cdrom64 for powerpc64 subarch.

2006-08-29 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 09:48:27PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > On Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 07:57:26PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 06:25:52PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > > Have you had time to look at the other svn diff -> BTS bugs i filled ? In >

Bug#352713: Netdev and powerdev groups

2006-09-03 Thread Colin Watson
roups in the first place?). Does anyone have the slightest clue on how to go about this? The other reason I was stalling is that I want to convert base-passwd over to debconf at long last before making any more changes to the passwd/group master files, since there are now extant syste

Bug#385888: autopartkit: should use update-dev

2006-09-03 Thread Colin Watson
use I can't test it myself. Could somebody please try this out and commit it if it works? Changelog entry: * Use update-dev rather than the sleep() hack to get the kernel and udev to create device nodes. Thanks, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTEC

Bug#386139: latex-ucs: /usr/share/unidata moved to unicode-data

2006-09-05 Thread Colin Watson
;, not "unicode-data | console-data (<< 2:1.0-1)" as I'd originally hoped. A patch to fix this bug is attached. If you could fix this in Ubuntu edgy as well, I'd appreciate it, as I think I'm going to pull in unicode-data there to save space

Bug#386144: unicode-data: should use Replaces, not Conflicts

2006-09-05 Thread Colin Watson
ment system. Thanks, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#386144: unicode-data: should use Replaces, not Conflicts

2006-09-06 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Sep 06, 2006 at 11:27:31AM +0100, Alastair McKinstry wrote: > Colin Watson wrote: > > Package: unicode-data > > Conflicts: console-data (<< 2:1.0-1) > > > > Isn't this just replacing some files that used to be in console-data? If > > so, p

Bug#386144: unicode-data: should use Replaces, not Conflicts

2006-09-07 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Sep 06, 2006 at 11:45:59AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Wed, Sep 06, 2006 at 11:27:31AM +0100, Alastair McKinstry wrote: > > Colin Watson wrote: > > > Package: unicode-data > > > Conflicts: console-data (<< 2:1.0-1) > > > > > > Isn&

Bug#386535: console-tools: unimap VT switch not needed with Linux >= 2.6.1

2006-09-08 Thread Colin Watson
e-tools for now ...) Thanks, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- console-tools-0.2.3dbs.orig/debian/patches/220_unimap_vts.patch 2006-06-29 10:42:54.0 +0100 +++ console-tools-0.2.3dbs/debian/patches/220_unimap_vts.patch 2006-09-08 11:03:45.0

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

2006-09-29 Thread Colin Watson
I know this isn't the best of reasons, but precisely because I'm not sure why we use auth, I'd rather leave it as it is. Thanks for the patch; I've applied something similar in CVS. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#391356: tasksel: support debconf-apt-progress for task scripts

2006-10-06 Thread Colin Watson
Package: tasksel Version: 2.55 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch On Wed, Sep 13, 2006 at 11:26:51AM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Colin Watson wrote: > > However, it isn't quite perfect, because the progress bar endpoints for > > the task scripts are all wrong. In order to fix this

Bug#384023: udev-udeb: please include udevinfo

2006-08-21 Thread Colin Watson
Package: udev-udeb Version: 0.093-1 Severity: wishlist We're about to start using udevinfo in d-i to help with doing things like listing all disk devices. Could you please include udevinfo in the udeb? Thanks, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -

Bug#384059: loop-aes-utils: diverts files from essential package

2006-08-21 Thread Colin Watson
f the essential components of an Essential package; the reason for this is that if there is a failure at the critical moment then your system will be unbootable". Could you please find some other way to do this? Thanks, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED

Bug#384197: dash: 3-argument test implementation isn't quite right

2006-08-22 Thread Colin Watson
are ordered, I suppose, but anything else seems to be a tortuous interpretation.) Thanks, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#391356: tasksel: support debconf-apt-progress for task scripts

2006-10-08 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Oct 07, 2006 at 01:48:13PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Colin Watson wrote: > > +# We also install the X server early on so that other packages (e.g. > > +# usplash) can get at the resolution it configures. > > +for pkg in discover1 xresprobe xserver-xorg; do > &

Bug#391695: buici-clock: ships files in /usr/man

2006-10-08 Thread Colin Watson
is contrary to the FHS. Thanks, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#391697: tkdesk: ships files in /usr/man

2006-10-08 Thread Colin Watson
2006-06-11 05:08:27 ./usr/man/man1/od-tkdesk.1.gz -rw-r--r-- root/root 613 2006-06-11 05:08:27 ./usr/man/man1/cd-tkdesk.1.gz Please move these files to /usr/share/man; /usr/man has been deprecated for several Debian releases now, and is contrary to the FHS. Thanks, -- Colin Watson

Bug#391693: xdu: ships files in /usr/man

2006-10-08 Thread Colin Watson
the FHS. Thanks, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#391696: isdnutils-xtools: ships files in /usr/man

2006-10-08 Thread Colin Watson
releases now, and is contrary to the FHS. Thanks, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#384081: xlockmore: installs manpage in /usr/man instead of /usr/share/man

2006-10-08 Thread Colin Watson
This is true of xlockmore-gl as well. It's a serious bug per policy 9.1.1 and release policy 5(c) (http://release.debian.org/etch_rc_policy.txt), so I'm upgrading the severity. Thanks, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Bug#392261: pcmciautils: ..i82365 is 'modprobe && modprobed -r'ed in a rah-rah-rah style loop, was first reported on udev as bug#391832

2006-10-11 Thread Colin Watson
igured to do so (/etc/default/pcmciautils), but not obviously in a loop. I can only conclude that this is a kernel bug of some kind that happens when the i82365 driver fails to load. Could you provide the output of 'uname -a' and 'dmesg'? I'm

Bug#391964: openssh-client: Non-ASCII characters not displayed correctly

2006-10-11 Thread Colin Watson
emote shell is running with a non-UTF-8 locale (setting the locale after you log in will not fix this)? If it's a Debian system, try 'dpkg-reconfigure locales' as root. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTEC

Bug#392779: liblockfile: fails to build with glibc 2.4

2006-10-13 Thread Colin Watson
unction to eaccess_write is attached. It doesn't affect liblockfile's shared library ABI. https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/liblockfile/+bug/65837 Thanks, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] diff -Nru /tmp/SQHNGoUibB/liblockfile-1.06.1

Bug#392856: openssh-server: Default locale ignored on ssh logins

2006-10-13 Thread Colin Watson
and set on the remote end. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#386835: console-setup: fails to configure if locale says C and debian-installer/locale is missing

2006-09-10 Thread Colin Watson
fall back to locale=C. Patch attached. This bug was originally filed as: https://launchpad.net/bugs/59718 Thanks, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- console-setup-1.7.orig/debian/config.proto 2006-07-22 21:05:55.0 +0100 +++ console-setup-1.7

Bug#386836: console-setup: smooth upgrade from pre-console-setup systems

2006-09-10 Thread Colin Watson
layout and variant questions from critical to medium. I realise this patch is less than entirely elegant, but it makes upgrades rather smoother, which I think will be useful if/when Debian moves to console-setup by default. I'm using this in Ubuntu. Thanks, -

Bug#386837: console-setup: "none" defaults for several questions seem bogus

2006-09-10 Thread Colin Watson
t string questions to just the empty string. The attached patch does this. This patch also adds special handling for XKBOPTIONS being '' to avoid triggering unsupported_layout=yes. If you refuse the other part of the patch, then "'')" would

Bug#386838: console-setup: non-Latin handling for cs seems wrong

2006-09-10 Thread Colin Watson
mmediately necessary.) Thanks, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- console-setup-1.7.orig/debian/config.proto 2006-07-22 21:05:55.0 +0100 +++ console-setup-1.7/debian/config.proto 2006-09-10 12:05:27.0 +0100 @@ -1145,7 +1145,7 @@

Bug#386844: console-setup: use LSB logging functions in init script

2006-09-10 Thread Colin Watson
d for direct changes to the init script. Thanks, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- console-setup-1.7.orig/debian/console-setup.console-setup.init 2006-07-22 21:05:55.0 +0100 +++ console-setup-1.7/debian/console-setup.console-setup.init 2006-09-0

Bug#386973: parted: header of 'print' output is corrupted

2006-09-11 Thread Colin Watson
tell) not to overlap the new memory area with the original, you need to duplicate the original string first and memcpy from that. The attached patch does this. Changelog entry: * kfreebsd-gnu.dpatch: Fix memory corruption in table_render_row. Thanks, -- Colin Watson

Bug#386853: trivial patch

2006-09-15 Thread Colin Watson
perties for a given unicode character, or searches Thanks, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#387501: sponge for stdout

2006-09-15 Thread Colin Watson
ge | patch -R -p0 Just out of interest, how is this usefully different from this? cvs diff | patch -R -p0 Or this? cvs diff | cat | patch -R -p0 All sponge does is soak up the input and squeeze it all out in one go; it doesn't change it ... Cheers, -- Colin Watson

Bug#385138: man-db: segfault with -a

2006-09-17 Thread Colin Watson
g /var/cache/man/local/index.db O_RDONLY > trying a db located file. Could I have a copy of /var/cache/man/local/index.db, please, plus the output of 'find /usr/local/share/man -type f'? Thanks, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Bug#387864: man: command exited with status 13: ...

2006-09-17 Thread Colin Watson
; echo $? > 1 > > I'm not sure whether the bug is in 'man-db' or 'grep'. It's a man-db bug, now fixed in upstream CVS. Thanks for your report! Sun Sep 17 09:20:33 BST 2006 Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * lib/pipeline.c (pip

Bug#388296: nobootloader: Pegasos firmware older than 1.2.99 need to substract 1 from partitions.

2006-09-19 Thread Colin Watson
d a somewhat modified version of your patch. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#355274: #355274: openssh-client with smart card support

2006-09-27 Thread Colin Watson
linked to normally; that way I could add smart card support without having to depend on another substantial library. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#379474: debconf-copydb: fails, "source does not exist"

2006-08-07 Thread Colin Watson
name => $name, + ); + Debconf::Db->makedriver(%config); + } + return $drivers{$name}; } Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#381619: [Debconf-devel] Bug#381619: debconf 1.5.3 breaks apache install

2006-08-07 Thread Colin Watson
rmal value. The only way I can see of avoiding this in debconf while still avoiding echo's undesirable behaviour is to do something like this: _db_internal_IFS="$IFS" IFS=' ' printf '%s\n' "$*" >&3 # Set to newline to get whole line. IFS=' &

Bug#380699: missing a4.sty

2006-08-07 Thread Colin Watson
I also need gs-gpl | gs for ps2pdf. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#382186: [Debconf-devel] Bug#382186: Proposed changes to the debconf templates

2006-08-10 Thread Colin Watson
terated in some languages? After all, Debian gets transliterated sometimes ... -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#382186: [Debconf-devel] Bug#382186: Proposed changes to the debconf templates

2006-08-10 Thread Colin Watson
biased towards hyphens.) > the readline frontend uses a more traditional plain text interface, and > both the GNOME and KDE frontends are modern graphical interfaces, > fitting the respective desktops environment (but may be used in any X "desktop environments" > "The GNOME and KDE frontends are modern graphical interfaces, > fitting the respective desktops environment (but may be used in any "desktop environments" -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#374569: groff-base: groff-base includes non-free material

2006-08-10 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Jun 25, 2006 at 11:08:34AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 04:54:01PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > On 20 Jun 2006, Colin Watson verbalised: > > > It's dual-licensed upstream; I contacted upstream years ago about > > > this issu

Bug#393427: pnm2ppa: blank version in /etc/pnm2ppa.conf; supply Default for pnm2ppa/printer_model

2006-10-16 Thread Colin Watson
ktop and/or print-server tasks. The fix (or workaround, depending on your point of view) is to add a Default to the pnm2ppa/printer_model template, as in the attached patch. Thanks, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- pnm2ppa-1.12.orig/debian/templates +++

Bug#393704: interactive client dies on ill-timed SIGWINCH

2006-10-17 Thread Colin Watson
d out if it emits any error messages before exiting? The general style of OpenSSH code is such that I would expect there to be an error message to identify the failing system call. Thanks, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#395495: debhelper: adjust Conflicts to take derived distributions into account

2006-10-27 Thread Colin Watson
6) Description: helper programs for debian/rules A collection of programs that can be used in a debian/rules file to automate common tasks related to building debian packages. Programs Thanks, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

Bug#395495: debhelper: adjust Conflicts to take derived distributions into account

2006-10-27 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Oct 27, 2006 at 01:24:03PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Colin Watson wrote: > > Conflicts: dpkg-cross (<< 1.18), python-support (<= 0.5.2), > > python-central (<= 0.5.5) > > > > This doesn't take into account that derived distributions may hav

Bug#732940: Breaks ssh: OpenSSL version mismatch. Built against 1000105f, you have 10001060

2013-12-23 Thread Colin Watson
but apparently it was either not really disabled or was enabled again > for some reason; I see no changelog entry for that. That was actually a typo for "Enable". Sorry for the confusion. I'll put that patch back. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@deb

Bug#732979: openssh-server Depends on openssh-client

2013-12-23 Thread Colin Watson
;m really wondering why you need such a strict version requirement. See my comments in #699473. You could of course just have upgraded all installed binary packages (e.g. "debi --upgrade" or "dpkg -iO *_6.4p1-1.1_amd64.deb"), which would have been appropriate when testing t

Bug#733021: libdmtx: use dh-autoreconf instead of autotools-dev for better new-port coverage

2013-12-23 Thread Colin Watson
/1/rules/autoreconf.mk DEB_DH_INSTALL_SOURCEDIR := debian/tmp DEB_CONFIGURE_EXTRA_FLAGS += --libdir=\$${prefix}/lib/$(DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH) Thanks, -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a s

Bug#733023: gst-plugins-good0.10: re-enable libtoolize for better new-ports coverage

2013-12-23 Thread Colin Watson
f not call libtoolize since we ship a patch for ltmain.sh -export LIBTOOLIZE=true +DEB_DH_AUTORECONF_ARGS := --as-needed + # make autoreconf not call autopoint since we ship a patch for po/Makefile.in.in export AUTOPOINT=true Thanks, -- Colin Watson [cjwa

Bug#733024: xerces-c: use dh-autoreconf instead of autotools-dev for better new-port coverage

2013-12-23 Thread Colin Watson
sr/share/cdbs/1/rules/debhelper.mk include /usr/share/cdbs/1/class/autotools.mk +include /usr/share/cdbs/1/rules/autoreconf.mk # This disables explicit passing of -msse2 to gcc. It does not # actually disable sse2 extensions for platforms such as x86_64 Thanks, -- Colin Watson

Bug#733045: debhelper: Can debhelper make autotools-dev updating default behaviour?

2013-12-24 Thread Colin Watson
needs and in the ethical sense that it makes it easier for users to change the true source code for the build system), but it does require a bit more knowledge and effort from maintainers. It is true, though, that *most* ports can get by without this, and just need wide

Bug#733045: debhelper: Can debhelper make autotools-dev updating default behaviour?

2013-12-25 Thread Colin Watson
years later, when the change in the autotools has been largely forgotten about, rather than it being fixed in a timely fashion. But this is sort of off-topic for the original report, and I apologise for derailing it ... -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org]

Bug#727708: systemd vs. binfmt-support

2013-12-25 Thread Colin Watson
x27;ve already included Upstart configuration; if I get time over Christmas I may manage to do this myself in the VM that Steve provided, as part of gaining practical experience with systemd. [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=716812#15 -- Colin Watson

Bug#732595: closed by Colin Watson (Bug#732595: fixed in grub2 2.02~beta2-1)

2013-12-26 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Dec 26, 2013 at 11:28:56AM +0800, jida...@jidanni.org wrote: > By the way, it would be neat if some bot could a check for this in > each package... This is a one-off problem, not something susceptible to being repeated in many packages. -- Colin

Bug#732595: closed by Colin Watson (Bug#732595: fixed in grub2 2.02~beta2-1)

2013-12-26 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Dec 26, 2013 at 08:44:22PM +0800, jida...@jidanni.org wrote: > >>>>> "CW" == Colin Watson writes: > CW> On Thu, Dec 26, 2013 at 11:28:56AM +0800, jida...@jidanni.org wrote: > >> By the way, it would be neat if some bot could a check for this

Bug#733185: lttoolbox: use dh-autoreconf instead of autotools-dev for better new-port coverage

2013-12-26 Thread Colin Watson
v (>= 1.2.3 ), libxml2-utils Standards-Version: 3.9.2 Section: misc Homepage: http://www.apertium.org Thanks, -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#727708: systemd vs. binfmt-support

2013-12-26 Thread Colin Watson
point of binfmt-support. This is straight wheel-reinvention and it seems like a total waste of everyone's time. Given that binfmt-support is doing a better job, my preference would be to put a small amount of work into making it more clearly an independent upstream project,

Bug#733193: thunar: use dh-autoreconf for better new-port coverage

2013-12-26 Thread Colin Watson
?= $(shell dpkg-architecture -qDEB_HOST_MULTIARCH) %: - dh $@ --parallel + dh $@ --parallel --with autoreconf + +override_dh_autoreconf: + NOCONFIGURE=1 dh_autoreconf xdt-autogen override_dh_auto_configure: dh_auto_configure -- \ Thanks, -- Colin Watson

Bug#733200: libchamplain: use dh-autoreconf for better new-port coverage

2013-12-26 Thread Colin Watson
/usr/share/gnome-pkg-tools/1/rules/uploaders.mk -include /usr/share/gnome-pkg-tools/1/rules/gnome-get-source.mk Thanks, -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of &qu

Bug#733500: nmu: haskell-comonad_4.0-1

2013-12-29 Thread Colin Watson
im doesn't seem to be around to run his usual script for Haskell packages, and I don't have direct w-b access, so hopefully somebody can help with this since I need it to be able to upload a fix for one of the outstanding Haskell problems ...) Thank

Bug#727708: systemd vs. binfmt-support

2013-12-29 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Dec 29, 2013 at 05:56:30AM +0200, Uoti Urpala wrote: > On Thu, 2013-12-26 at 21:42 +0000, Colin Watson wrote: > > The first reason is, I suppose, rather selfish: I've been working on > > this on and off for fourteen years and it seems a bit rude for systemd > > t

Bug#733649: cfitsio3: add ppc64el support

2013-12-30 Thread Colin Watson
/patches/ppc64el.patch 2013-12-30 17:21:26.0 + @@ -0,0 +1,25 @@ +Description: Handle little-endian PowerPC64 +Author: Colin Watson +Forwarded: no +Last-Update: 2013-12-30 + +Index: b/fitsio2.h +=== +--- a/fitsio2.h b

Bug#733193: [Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#733193: thunar: use dh-autoreconf for better new-port coverage

2013-12-30 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Dec 28, 2013 at 11:49:01PM +0100, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: > On Thu, Dec 26, 2013 at 10:30:49PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote: > > The ppc64el port requires a patch to libtool.m4. I don't think that's > > in Debian yet, but when it is it will require autoreconfing a

Bug#733679: wcslib: ensure that configure never runs before autoreconf

2013-12-30 Thread Colin Watson
@@ -6,6 +6,9 @@ %: dh $@ --with autoreconf,autotools_dev +override_dh_auto_clean: + [ ! -e makedefs ] || dh_auto_clean + override_dh_autoreconf: AUTOHEADER=true dh_autoreconf Thanks, -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] -- T

Bug#733193: [Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#733193: thunar: use dh-autoreconf for better new-port coverage

2013-12-30 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 01:09:03AM +0100, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: > On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 05:33:39PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote: > > On Sat, Dec 28, 2013 at 11:49:01PM +0100, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: > > > Unless we want to autoreconf each and every C package in Debian,

Bug#727708: init system thoughts

2013-12-30 Thread Colin Watson
jor part of what we try to thrash out over the next few weeks (at least to establish feasibility, given our mandate not to do detailed design work within the TC as such), and that there should eventually be ballot options related to this orthogonal to the choice of default. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#727708: init system other points, and conclusion

2013-12-30 Thread Colin Watson
actical (e.g. heuristic generation of Upstart job files from systemd units), unless we expect all service maintainers to have kFreeBSD/Hurd VMs lying around. Keeping the sysvinit scripts and using Upstart as the init daemon is another possibility, and at least in that case the sysvinit scripts are p

Bug#733753: cfitsio3: add arm64 support

2013-12-31 Thread Colin Watson
patch --- cfitsio3-3.340/debian/patches/arm64.patch 1970-01-01 01:00:00.0 +0100 +++ cfitsio3-3.340/debian/patches/arm64.patch 2013-12-31 16:25:17.0 + @@ -0,0 +1,21 @@ +Description: Handle 64-bit ARM +Author: Colin Watson +Forwarded: no +Last-Update: 2013-12-31 + +Index: b/fi

Bug#727708: loose ends for init system decision

2014-01-01 Thread Colin Watson
with using an environment > variable, though, as long as it's unset afterwards so that it's not > inherited by children. Bear in mind that this may often be being done by the Debian maintainer in advance of upstream, and adding a one-character command-line option is problematic since

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