Bug#727708: Call for votes on init system resolution

2014-02-05 Thread Don Armstrong
in jessie, requiring specific init NOT allowed 9. GR project should decide via GR 10. FD further discussion -- Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort

Bug#727708: Call for votes on init system resolution

2014-02-05 Thread Don Armstrong
that it automatically enshrouds a non-technical statement by the project in the power of the CTTE. It may be that we can't actually do that, and should instead just have an agreement between CTTE members to enact a decision which followed a position statement GR under §4.1.5. -- Don Armstrong

Bug#727708: multiple init systems - formal resolution proposal

2014-02-04 Thread Don Armstrong
, if this is an option that needs to be on the ballot, we should get it there quickly. -- Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people. -- Oscar Wilde -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ

Bug#727708: TC resolution revised draft

2014-01-31 Thread Don Armstrong
other options than your preference in order to defeat them all. If this actually becomes the case, we can vote again, or change our votes. Burying will be pretty obvious in this case, after all. -- Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com One day I put instant coffee in my

Bug#727708: TC resolution revised draft

2014-01-31 Thread Don Armstrong
On Fri, 31 Jan 2014, Don Armstrong wrote: If this actually becomes the case, we can vote again, or change our votes. Burying will be pretty obvious in this case, after all. Scratch what I said. Given that there isn't actually a potential compromise winner in this case, or anyone who has

Bug#727708: init system resolution - revised proposal

2014-01-30 Thread Don Armstrong
sidesteps this problem, I think, since that avoids the technical details of how such compatibility is implemented. -- Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com Have you ever noticed: the most vocal superpatriots are the old men who send young men out to die. -- Harlan Ellison

Bug#728486: Current patch for resolving lvm/systemd compatibility

2014-01-29 Thread Don Armstrong
with me. Do you have an updated patch with this change and a documentation of the tmpfiles.d change? I will draft a resolution shortly to implement this patch, and will open it for discussion. -- Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com PowerPoint is symptomatic

Bug#728486: Draft of Resolution for 728486 (lvm/systemd compatibility)

2014-01-29 Thread Don Armstrong
is 728486_systemd_and_lvm_incompatibility/draft-dla in git. -- Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be. -- Douglas Adams _The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul_ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Bug#727708: call for votes on default Linux init system for jessie

2014-01-28 Thread Don Armstrong
so. -- Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com Taxes are not levied for the benefit of the taxed. -- Robert Heinlein _Time Enough For Love_ p250 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Bug#727708: call for votes on default Linux init system for jessie

2014-01-28 Thread Don Armstrong
. -- Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com The computer allows you to make mistakes faster than any other invention, with the possible exception of handguns and tequila -- Mitch Ratcliffe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Bug#727708: call for votes on default Linux init system for jessie

2014-01-28 Thread Don Armstrong
On Tue, 28 Jan 2014, Ian Jackson wrote: Don Armstrong writes (Bug#727708: call for votes on default Linux init system for jessie): On Tue, 28 Jan 2014, Ian Jackson wrote: M. Debian intends to support multiple init systems, for the foreseeable future, and so long

Bug#727708: call for votes on default Linux init system for jessie

2014-01-28 Thread Don Armstrong
On Tue, 28 Jan 2014, Neil McGovern wrote: On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 11:05:18AM -0800, Don Armstrong wrote: Where feasible, software should interoperate with non-default init systems; maintainers are encouraged to accept technically sound patches to enable interoperation, even

Bug#727708: call for votes on default Linux init system for jessie

2014-01-28 Thread Don Armstrong
On Tue, 28 Jan 2014, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote: On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 11:23:11AM -0800, Don Armstrong wrote: The former. So : Where feasible, software should interoperate with non-default init systems; maintainers are encouraged to accept technically sound patches

Bug#727708: call for votes on default Linux init system for jessie

2014-01-28 Thread Don Armstrong
reason at all is hard. I'd much rather give some guidance (in the form of the above), and trust maintainers to do the right thing. The CTTE and/or the project can always intervene if necessary after the fact. -- Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com There are two major

Bug#727708: New draft of the decision part [Re: call for votes on default Linux init system for jessie]

2014-01-27 Thread Don Armstrong
On Mon, 27 Jan 2014, Don Armstrong wrote: I think we should break the bigger question into this question plus additional advice for transition after we resolve this issue, but for me to vote things above FD, we should allow for a simple majority GR to vacate this decision. Here is a first

Bug#727708: Thoughts on Init System Debate

2014-01-21 Thread Don Armstrong
the technically superior position that systemd has, in my opinion. -- Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com A Bill of Rights that means what the majority wants it to mean is worthless. -- U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ

Bug#727708: Thoughts on Init System Debate

2014-01-21 Thread Don Armstrong
world would look like. -- Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com It can sometimes happen that a scholar, his task completed, discovers that he has no one to thank. Never mind. He will invent some debts. Research without indebtedness is suspect, and somebody must always

Bug#431299: Patches to add different timescales for RC bugs status graph

2014-01-21 Thread Don Armstrong
. The second patch replaces the default graph with the -release one, and adds a link to the two other graphs to the page. Thanks for this patch; I'll apply it shortly. -- Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com Something the junk advertisers don't seem to understand: we live

Bug#727708: Thoughts on Init System Debate

2014-01-18 Thread Don Armstrong
is something that I would like to see. -- Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com Tell me something interesting about yourself. Lie if you have to. -- hugh macleod http://www.gapingvoid.com/archives/batch20.php -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ

Bug#735853: upstart does not transition all gettys in /etc/inittab automatically (specifically, serial consoles)

2014-01-17 Thread Don Armstrong
so that someone who is doing an upgrade remotely or using a virtual console and isn't aware of this doesn't lose their serial console on reboot. -- Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com I never until now realized that the primary job of any emoticon is to say excuse me

Bug#727708: Thoughts on Init System Debate

2014-01-17 Thread Don Armstrong
be. [Even without cgroups, it'll be superior to sysv, after all.] -- Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society. -- Mark Twain -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org

Bug#728486: Current patch for resolving lvm/systemd compatibility

2014-01-17 Thread Don Armstrong
Michael: can you go ahead and prepare the patch to fix #728486 which does not use generators so that once the CTTE has resolved the init system question we have a patch in front of us that we can rule on? Thanks. -- Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com Judge if you

Bug#727708: Thoughts on Init System Debate

2014-01-17 Thread Don Armstrong
of the FOSS world might have just improved it, and systemd might never have shown up. I suspect that the fate of bzr might be similar. These should serve as a cautionary tale for for-profit companies requiring CLAs. [Or everyone, even.] -- Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com

Bug#735031: closed by Don Armstrong d...@debian.org (reply to listmas...@lists.debian.org) (Re: Bug#735031: lists.debian.org: arbitrary bans)

2014-01-15 Thread Don Armstrong
if they wish. [I suppose we could also send ban messages to -project on behalf of the banned individual if they requested it; that's basically what happened here.] -- Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I

Bug#735031: closed by Don Armstrong d...@debian.org (reply to listmas...@lists.debian.org) (Re: Bug#735031: lists.debian.org: arbitrary bans)

2014-01-15 Thread Don Armstrong
On Wed, 15 Jan 2014, Javier Serrano Polo wrote: El dc 15 de 01 de 2014 a les 08:33 -0800, Don Armstrong va escriure: We don't publish them in order to protect the reputation of people who are banned. The individuals who are banned can publish their ban if they wish. [I suppose we could

Bug#735134: perl: rename(1) is ancient

2014-01-14 Thread Don Armstrong
alternatives was naïve, as alternatives need to share a common command line syntax.] So the /usr/bin/rename syntax we've ended up with is very Perl specific and I think we're stuck with that. I'm Cc'ing Don Armstrong though, as he suggested using the alternatives system in #304705 and may have

Bug#729817: Please package LilyPond 2.18.0

2014-01-10 Thread Don Armstrong
to upload it to Debian. I believe this is a bug in dh-python2, but I haven't had a chance to completely debug it yet. -- Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you

Bug#734470: libdebbugs-perl: SOAP::Transport::HTTP::Server returns Content-Type Multipart/Related

2014-01-07 Thread Don Armstrong
) = ! ( $response =~ /^content-type:.* boundary=([^\]*)/im ); $self-response( HTTP::Response-new( -- Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com Rule 6: If violence wasn't your last resort, you failed to resort to enough of it. -- Howard Tayler _Schlock Mercenary_

Bug#734413: biber needs to be updated to 1.8 for latex-bibtex-extra version in unstable

2014-01-06 Thread Don Armstrong
version of biblatex seems to require a specific version of biber. -- Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com 6: I'm human. I have a thousand flaws. I break down. I get up or I don't get up. I get lost. I make the same mistakes over and over. I have scars and wounds. Sometimes

Bug#734053: please remove the base pseudo package

2014-01-03 Thread Don Armstrong
it as an option. Would that be good enough? -- Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com Three little words. (In order of importance.) █ █ ▌ ▞▀▖▌ ▌▛▀▘ █ ▌ ▌ ▌▝▞ ▛▀ you █ ▀▀▘▝▀ ▘ ▀▀▘ █ -- hugh macleod Three Words

Bug#734053: please remove the base pseudo package

2014-01-03 Thread Don Armstrong
On Fri, 03 Jan 2014, Holger Levsen wrote: On Freitag, 3. Januar 2014, Don Armstrong wrote: Instead of removing it, I'd like to just prominently mark it as deprecated, and coordinate with reportbug to never show it as an option. why? and then you'd want to remove the base package in 5

Bug#729817: Please package LilyPond 2.18.0

2014-01-02 Thread Don Armstrong
://git.donarmstrong.com/lilypond.git and you can send me patches, or point me at other git repositories to merge. -- Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com A Democracy lead by politicians and political parties, fails. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ

Bug#733399: lilypond: FTBFS: freetype-error.cc:34:31: warning: freetype/fterrors.h: No such file or directory

2013-12-28 Thread Don Armstrong
://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=731015#10 I will implement this shortly. -- Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com A people living under the perpetual menace of war and invasion is very easy to govern. It demands no social reforms. It does not haggle over

Bug#732662: bugs.debian.org: maximum number of bug email addresses in one message?

2013-12-22 Thread Don Armstrong
. I'd just resend them in blocks of five if that's not too much trouble. Excuse me if it looks a little bit stupid :) No, it's a perfectly reasonable question. [For messages from DAK, we don't do this sort of checking.] -- Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com

Bug#732257: bugs.debian.org: DPMS enabled after closing my laptop's lid

2013-12-16 Thread Don Armstrong
...@lists.debian.org, or on #debian on irc://irc.debian.org or irc://irc.freenode.net. -- Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com NASCAR is a Yankee conspiracy to keep you all placated so the South won't rise again. -- http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=327

Bug#727708: systemd (security) bugs

2013-12-03 Thread Don Armstrong
On Tue, 03 Dec 2013, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: ]] Russ Allbery Don Armstrong d...@debian.org writes: Projects which have multiple components, each of which has different security/interface surfaces without stable defined interfaces, can lead to problems when one set of developers

Bug#728486: Current patch for resolving lvm/systemd compatibility

2013-12-02 Thread Don Armstrong
On Mon, 02 Dec 2013, Bastian Blank wrote: On Sun, Dec 01, 2013 at 05:49:13PM -0800, Don Armstrong wrote: Bastian: Would such a patch be acceptable in principle? After systemd was fixed, yes. Can you let me know which part of systemd needed to be fixed? [What bug# is this?] Can you also

Bug#727708: systemd (security) bugs

2013-12-02 Thread Don Armstrong
implications of the parts that they do not work on. The combination of components into a single monolith is sometimes necessary, but it's not clear that it is so in the case of systemd. -- Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com THERE IS NO GRAVITY THE WORLD SUCKS

Bug#727708: initsystem decision process: Finalizing position statements before December 6th.

2013-12-01 Thread Don Armstrong
we can make the best technical decision possible; thanks to everyone for their work so far! 1: I apologize if anyone was missing mail to the bug too; I recently fixed a bug in EOC which was causing messages not to be sent to all but the first subscriber. -- Don Armstrong http

Bug#728486: Current patch for resolving lvm/systemd compatibility

2013-12-01 Thread Don Armstrong
such a patch be acceptable in principle? -- Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com Let us chat together a moment, my friend. There are still several hours until dawn, and I have the whole day to sleep. -- Count Orlock in _Nosferatu (1922)_ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Bug#730515: cd-hit-est is cdhit-est in Debian [Why?]

2013-11-25 Thread Don Armstrong
/bin/psi-cd-hit-local /usr/bin/cd-hit-2d-para /usr/bin/psi-cd-hit-2d /usr/bin/psi-cd-hit /usr/bin/psi-cd-hit-2d-g1 /usr/bin/cdhit-454 /usr/bin/cdhit-2d /usr/bin/cdhit-est-2d /usr/bin/cd-hit-para /usr/bin/cdhit -- Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com Do you need [...] [t

Bug#730258: please add arch-specific BTS tags

2013-11-23 Thread Don Armstrong
has another; I'd like to reference a canonical location for ports (perhaps maintained by debian-ports or similar) so I don't have to figure out for myself which ports need a tag and what that tag should be, and which ports are just duplicates of other ports, and therefore don't need a tag. -- Don

Bug#730258: please add arch-specific BTS tags

2013-11-23 Thread Don Armstrong
On Sun, 24 Nov 2013, Paul Wise wrote: On Sun, Nov 24, 2013 at 5:53 AM, Don Armstrong wrote: These are the list of ports that I see: I would strongly suggest not hardcoding this list and instead harvesting the Architecture fields of the Release files for oldstable - experimental

Bug#729817: LilyPond 2.17.95 released; preparing for 2.18.0

2013-11-17 Thread Don Armstrong
the latest, greatest package? Thanks! I'm probably not going to bother packaging it for experimental, as the 2.18.0 release is eminent. -- Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com It's not Hollywood. War is real, war is primarily not about defeat or victory, it is about

Bug#729764: libravatar.cgi replaces transparent avatar background with black

2013-11-16 Thread Don Armstrong
. This is a bug in libravatar.org's CDN, though perhaps the BTS can do better and ignore the content-type given and actually calculate it itself. -- Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com The trouble with you, Ibid he said, is that you think you're the biggest bloody authority

Bug#729449: Perl output when merging bugs

2013-11-13 Thread Don Armstrong
On Tue, 12 Nov 2013, Martin Michlmayr wrote: * Don Armstrong d...@debian.org [2013-11-12 19:42]: done of #729445 is '' not 'Holger Levsen hol...@layer-acht.org' done of #721491 is '' not 'Holger Levsen hol...@layer-acht.org' Failed to merge 701223: Did not alter merged bugs 729445

Bug#729449: Perl output when merging bugs

2013-11-12 Thread Don Armstrong
to merge 701223: Did not alter merged bugs 729445 and 721491 are not done. You probably want forcemerge instead. -- Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com Them as can do has to do for them as can't. And someone has to speak up for them as have no voices. -- Grandma Aching

Bug#729339: wine-bin-unstable (and possibly other packages) missing Conflicts: with wine-bin

2013-11-11 Thread Don Armstrong
is not installed. Package wine64-bin is not installed. dpkg: error processing wine-unstable (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured Errors were encountered while processing: wine-unstable -- Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com Americans can always be counted

Bug#729072: Leaves behing /var/spool/postfix/spamass after purge

2013-11-08 Thread Don Armstrong
it to important just so it doesn't get on the release team's radar this early in the release. I will make a release of spamass-milter in the not-too-distant future with this fix in. -- Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com PowerPoint is symptomatic of a certain type

Bug#728034: Bugreport.pm: doesn't uri_encode email addresses before querying libravatar.cgi

2013-10-29 Thread Don Armstrong
, and will roll it out to the BTS soonish. -- Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com Fate and Temperament are two words for one and the same concept. -- Novalis [Hermann Hesse _Demian_] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Bug#590180: Bug#602781: any progress on sigil/flightcrew?

2013-10-28 Thread Don Armstrong
On Sat, 26 Oct 2013, shirish शिरीष wrote: Any updates Don, to flightcrew ? I'm finishing up the final testing of sigil, and am about to start working on flightcrew itself. -- Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com My spelling ability, or rather the lack thereof, is one

Bug#622392: Bug#681834: Bug#726395: gnome-control-center: Please downgrade dependency on network-manager-gnome to Recommends (violates tech-ctte decision otherwise)

2013-10-21 Thread Don Armstrong
On Sat, 19 Oct 2013, Axel Beckert wrote: Don Armstrong wrote: [Axel: can you test to make sure that the failure mode of the gnome control center is reasonable without NM installed?] 1:3.8.3-3 with network-manager-gnome downgraded to Recommends works fine for me on kfreebsd-i386. Nothing

Bug#726565: Bugs with packages can occasionally be sent to the unknown package alias

2013-10-16 Thread Don Armstrong
-PR-Message: report 726495 X-Debian-PR-Package: sendfile X-Debian-PR-Keywords: patch X-Debian-PR-Source: sendfile This shows that the BTS knew what the package was at least at some point in time. I'll have to check this out more closely later. -- Don Armstrong http

Bug#622392: Bug#681834: Bug#726395: gnome-control-center: Please downgrade dependency on network-manager-gnome to Recommends (violates tech-ctte decision otherwise)

2013-10-15 Thread Don Armstrong
, though it may be the case that a Recommends: is warranted. 1: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=681834#273 -- Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com Sometimes I wish I could take back all my mistakes but then I think what if my mother could take back hers

Bug#622392: Bug#681834: Bug#726395: gnome-control-center: Please downgrade dependency on network-manager-gnome to Recommends (violates tech-ctte decision otherwise)

2013-10-15 Thread Don Armstrong
On Wed, 16 Oct 2013, Sjoerd Simons wrote: On Tue, 2013-10-15 at 16:09 -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/pkg-gnome/desktop/unstable/gnome-control-center/debian/control.in?r1=37425r2=37515 Assuming the rest of the gnome control center will work without NM

Bug#725091: [Pkg-openldap-devel] Bug#725091: slapd with memory leak in active sync

2013-10-01 Thread Don Armstrong
or maintaining the openldap packages in Debian, please refrain from responding. The maintainers of distribution packages in distributions like Debian do intend for them to be used in production use, and openldap is no exception. Otherwise, we wouldn't bother making the packages in the first place. -- Don

Bug#722904: Processed: tagging 722904

2013-09-22 Thread Don Armstrong
substantial new features beyond those present in core perl, there's no reason to maintain them separately in the archive. -- Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com I never meant to let you down. I thought for sure the attic lock would hold. -- a softer world #562 http

Bug#722906: New users can't verify downloads correctly

2013-09-14 Thread Don Armstrong
have to verify the key IDs via the web of trust. 1: Unless you're proposing that people check the authenticity of the SSL certificates too against a known set of fingerprints, which brings you right back to the same bootstrapping problem. -- Don Armstrong http

Bug#702211: please document why host caching is off by default

2013-09-11 Thread Don Armstrong
. -- Pierre Habouzit madco...@debian.org Sat, 28 Apr 2007 11:10:56 +0200 From reading the source code, it appears that this has not been fixed. Frankly, if you want to cache host requests, there are better methods than using nscd. -- Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com CNN

Bug#722415: RM: libthreads-shared-perl and libthreads-perl -- RoM; superceeded by perl

2013-09-10 Thread Don Armstrong
the libthreads-perl and libthreads-shared-perl beyond the version currently present perl 5.18.1 -- Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com I have no use for before and after pictures. I can't remember starting, and I'm never done. -- a softer world #221 http

Bug#602781: [wnpp] work aound for src/FlightCrew/Schemas/ncx-2005-1.dtd

2013-09-09 Thread Don Armstrong
ends (mainly cleaning up the copies of the original DTD from the git repository) and I should be doing an upload in the next few days. -- Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com A Bill of Rights that means what the majority wants it to mean is worthless. -- U.S

Bug#720996: [Debconf-team] Bug#720996: please create debconf-kids@lists.d.o

2013-08-27 Thread Don Armstrong
sense of security. -- Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com The attackers hadn't simply robbed the bank. They had carried off everything portable, including the security cameras, the carpets, the chairs, and the light and plumbing fixtures. The conspirators had

Bug#458993: rubber does not deal properly with chapterbib

2013-08-27 Thread Don Armstrong
On Tue, 27 Aug 2013, Hilmar Preusse wrote: On 04.01.08 Don Armstrong (d...@donarmstrong.com) wrote: Currently rubber does not deal properly with documents using chapterbib, and attempts to call bibtex on the main document [which fails] and does not call bibtex on the subsidary ones

Bug#721002: Please set CONFIG_HID_HUION=m

2013-08-26 Thread Don Armstrong
Package: src:linux Version: 3.11~rc4-1~exp1 Severity: minor Please set CONFIG_HID_HUION=m; this driver handles a series of cheap tablet input devices which was recently added to the kernel. -- Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com DIE! -- Maritza Campos http

Bug#720586: debbugs: SOAP: Please return also the usertag

2013-08-23 Thread Don Armstrong
On Fri, 23 Aug 2013, Sylvestre Ledru wrote: It would be nice if get_status in the soap interface could also return the usertags. It currently returns the tag but not the usertags... It will return the usertags if you pass the results of get_usertags to it. -- Don Armstrong

Bug#590269: create a web-based submission for use with reportbug and possibly everything

2013-08-20 Thread Don Armstrong
possible that I will implement the CGI with some sort of cache coupled with a response. -- Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com America was far better suited to be the World's Movie Star. The world's tequila-addled pro-league bowler. The world's acerbic bi-polar stand-up

Bug#719205: bugs.debian.org: sends mail with non-RFC compliant envelope sender address

2013-08-09 Thread Don Armstrong
; buxtehude.debian.org does not. Thanks for the report; it's been forwarded to the administrators of the mail installation. -- Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com Have you ever noticed: the most vocal superpatriots are the old men who send young men out to die. -- Harlan Ellison

Bug#718799: spamass-milter segfaults once a month

2013-08-06 Thread Don Armstrong
On Tue, 06 Aug 2013, Moritz Both wrote: thanks for your comment. No problem; thanks for getting back to me. On 05.08.2013 22:09, Don Armstrong wrote: [...] Could you do me a favor and install the libmilter1.0.1-dbg package, then rerun the commands you ran on the coredump? of course

Bug#718799: spamass-milter segfaults once a month

2013-08-05 Thread Don Armstrong
that the above will be sufficient.] -- Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com I really wanted to talk to her. I just couldn't find an algorithm that fit. -- Peter Watts _Blindsight_ p294 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org

Bug#632949: Bug#717076: tech-ctte: Decide what jpeg library the Debian project will use

2013-07-25 Thread Don Armstrong
to work, and any which have problems would be important to know. -- Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com No amount of force can control a free man, a man whose mind is free [...] You can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him. -- Robert Heinlein _Revolt

Bug#632949: Bug#717076: tech-ctte: Decide what jpeg library the Debian project will use

2013-07-24 Thread Don Armstrong
to be working. -- Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com What prison taught me was that some people are born into a life where they're going to be subjected to intense life experiences and personal tragedy on an almost daily basis. [...] I don't think you get enlightenment after

Bug#632949: Bug#717076: tech-ctte: Decide what jpeg library the Debian project will use

2013-07-23 Thread Don Armstrong
results which indicates that LJT is actually faster than IJG? 3) Has LJT tried to get its changes adopted by IJG? I'd also like to hear from Bill what the downsides are from his perspective from switching to LJT from IJG if possible. -- Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com 6

Bug#632949: Bug#717076: tech-ctte: Decide what jpeg library the Debian project will use

2013-07-23 Thread Don Armstrong
On Tue, 23 Jul 2013, Don Armstrong wrote: http://bugs.debian.org/632949 has more information from a previous discussion around 2011; I'm Cc:'ing that bug to make sure the logs have a connection between the two. The ITP for libjpeg-turbo also has some emails: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin

Bug#717071: piuparts.d.o pseudo package

2013-07-16 Thread Don Armstrong
for the psuedopackage, and that you will never be creating a real package in Debian with that name? 1: Examples here: http://www.debian.org/Bugs/pseudo-packages -- Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com But if, after all, we are on the wrong track, what then? Only

Bug#590180: any progress on sigil/flightcrew?

2013-07-07 Thread Don Armstrong
source? http://git.donarmstrong.com/?p=flightcrew.git;a=summary What's the word from upstream regarding the license problem you found? They responded once, but have not responded further, even though I have pinged them three times already. -- Don Armstrong http

Bug#644242: debbugs pkg: debbugs-upgradestatus does not work

2013-07-04 Thread Don Armstrong
On Thu, 04 Jul 2013, Bill Allombert wrote: On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 03:35:59PM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: That would probably be worthwhile. Would you rather I put out a release, or is running from git reasonable enough? To be honest I would very much welcome a release. Ok. I'll try

Bug#703119: Isn't this fixed already?

2013-07-03 Thread Don Armstrong
, but this will be fixed to use the complete libravatar federated avatar system. -- Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com You think to yourself, hey, it's a test tube, for God's sake. Pretty soon, though, the rush from a test tube isn't enough. You want to experiment more

Bug#644242: debbugs pkg: debbugs-upgradestatus does not work

2013-06-28 Thread Don Armstrong
is my git repository. -- Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com Miracles had become relative common-places since the advent of entheogens; it now took very unusual circumstances to attract public attention to sightings of supernatural entities. The latest miracle had raised

Bug#714131: bugs.debian.org: inline attachment view; full text isn't

2013-06-26 Thread Don Armstrong
has the file as a separate object. If the browser cannot render it, too bad. Yeah, this is probably what I'll do. Right now, the BTS just serves whatever the e-mail says to the end user. -- Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com Of course, there are cases where only

Bug#700759: clarify shared library policy for private libraries

2013-06-25 Thread Don Armstrong
reassign 700759 debian-policy thanks I believe that this bug only needs clarification in policy now, and does not require the CTTE's attention. -- Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com If it jams, force it. If it breaks, it needed replacing anyway. -- Lowery's Law

Bug#713001: Lack of proper escaping in http://www.debian.org/mirror/submit [Re: Vulnerability]

2013-06-21 Thread Don Armstrong
was successfully injected on the webpage. -- Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com I always thought violence didn't solve anything until one day it did. -- a softer world #470 http://www.asofterworld.com/index.php?id=470 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs

Bug#712979: debbugs: please add REST api

2013-06-21 Thread Don Armstrong
add an exclude/include argument as in the page then even better. :) ​I think that should be ok for now. Would a format=json or similar argument to the existing bugreport.cgi and pkgreport.cgi pages be enough? [Or at least, the existing argument parsing.] -- Don Armstrong

Bug#713001: Lack of proper escaping in http://www.debian.org/mirror/submit [Re: Vulnerability]

2013-06-21 Thread Don Armstrong
patch fixes this problem. As a side note, could we please put the code for the scripts running on cgi.debian.org into a publicly accessible VCS repository (ideally git) on git.debian.org or similar? -- Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com Clint why the hell does kernel

Bug#712201: mention exactly what line triggered the General info response!

2013-06-14 Thread Don Armstrong
if what you're sending looks like a subscribe or unsubscribe request. It probably should be disabled for messages to debian-bugs-dist which are sent through the BTS. -- Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com G: If we do happen to step on a mine, Sir, what do we do? EB

Bug#712101: Failed to forcibly merge #N1: can't find location for #N2 (merginng with bugs that are blocked by archived bugs)

2013-06-12 Thread Don Armstrong
of the members in a set are fixed. [Or alternatively, I should change the rules to allow archived bugs to have their blocks/blocked updated, or change the blocks/blocking to not be reflexive as it currently is.] -- Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com Religion is religion, however

Bug#711346: bugs.debian.org: should recognize multiline URL's with dash+newline

2013-06-07 Thread Don Armstrong
On Fri, 07 Jun 2013, Vincent Lefevre wrote: On 2013-06-06 14:18:58 -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: Perhaps only using this method if the URL on the line is more than 60 characters long and less than 110 characters long will be enough to catch most cases. Yes, but 60 may be a bit too large

Bug#711346: bugs.debian.org: should recognize multiline URL's with dash+newline

2013-06-06 Thread Don Armstrong
on the line is more than 60 characters long and less than 110 characters long will be enough to catch most cases. -- Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com If you find it impossible to believe that the universe didn't have a creator, why don't you find it impossible

Bug#708170: clone doesn't properly handle blocked-by [only uses blocks]

2013-05-29 Thread Don Armstrong
On Wed, 29 May 2013, Daniel Hartwig wrote: Don Armstrong d...@debian.org wrote: On Mon, 13 May 2013, Jakub Wilk wrote: Apparently the blocked-by relation between #692286 and #708166 was inverted. Yeah; this is a bug in the cloning; I'll get a fix out for it soonish. My perlfu

Bug#709995: lilypond-doc: lots of 'dpkg: warning: unable to delete old directory...' errors

2013-05-28 Thread Don Armstrong
which lilypond packages you had installed before upgrading? [I've probably not put in an appropriate set of Conflicts and Replaces, but I'd like to be able to replicate this so I can be sure I've fixed it.] -- Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com Herodotus says, Very few

Bug#709382: Built-Using, libgcc, and libc_nonshared

2013-05-23 Thread Don Armstrong
. This is one of the many reasons why GPLv2-only works are problematic when they link with works under non-GPLv2 compliant licenses without appropriate licensing exceptions. -- Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com NASCAR is a Yankee conspiracy to keep you all placated so

Bug#683024: /etc/dictionaries-common/words may be a broken symlink

2013-05-18 Thread Don Armstrong
. [Presumably, if you have removed a wamerican package, the postrm should remove the dangling symlink.] -- Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com Cheop's Law: Nothing ever gets built on schedule or within budget. -- Robert Heinlein _Time Enough For Love_ p242 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Bug#708537: debbugs: bugs filed against 'package:arch' go to package 'unknown'

2013-05-16 Thread Don Armstrong
On Thu, 16 May 2013, Andrei POPESCU wrote: See #694115 for an occurrence. This has never been supported at all. This is a bug in reportbug for sending the message this way. -- Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com Clothes make the man. Naked people have little

Bug#708537: debbugs: bugs filed against 'package:arch' go to package 'unknown'

2013-05-16 Thread Don Armstrong
Control: severity -1 wishlist Control: retitle -1 handle package:arch and package_version Package: pseudoheaders more intelligently. On Thu, 16 May 2013, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Jo, 16 mai 13, 10:01:26, Don Armstrong wrote: On Thu, 16 May 2013, Andrei POPESCU wrote: See #694115

Bug#669966: Processed: retitle

2013-05-15 Thread Don Armstrong
debianbts.get_bugs('package', 'eeepc-acpi-scripts', 'bugs', bugs,'archive','both') [616542] -- Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com No amount of force can control a free man, a man whose mind is free [...] You can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him. -- Robert

Bug#708170: bugs.debian.org: clone inverts blocked-by relation

2013-05-13 Thread Don Armstrong
. -- Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com The attackers hadn't simply robbed the bank. They had carried off everything portable, including the security cameras, the carpets, the chairs, and the light and plumbing fixtures. The conspirators had deliberately punished

Bug#708177: Rsync should default to ENABLE=TRUE and test for the existence of /etc/rsyncd.conf as it already does

2013-05-13 Thread Don Armstrong
of inetd. -- Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com Vimes hated and despised the privileges of rank, but they had this to be said for them: At least they meant that you could hate and despise them in comfort. -- Terry Pratchett _The Fifth Elephant_ p111 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Bug#708075: debbugs: requesting a triggered-by mechanism

2013-05-13 Thread Don Armstrong
-with and fixed-with or something similar instead. I'll have to think about this more before and get some more input I start actually implementing this. -- Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com Cheop's Law: Nothing ever gets built on schedule or within budget. -- Robert

Bug#706995: gtable: diff for NMU version 0.1.2-1.1

2013-05-08 Thread Don Armstrong
tags 706995 + patch tags 706995 + pending thanks Dear maintainer, I've prepared an NMU for gtable (versioned as 0.1.2-1.1) and uploaded it to DELAYED/05. Please feel free to tell me if I should delay it longer. -- Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com 6: I'm human. I

Bug#707190: lilypond: FTBFS with texinfo 5.1

2013-05-08 Thread Don Armstrong
to a warning and result in @item being interpreted as an @item and the offending packages fixed. [If you search google for @itemx you'll see lots of other cases of things failing to build.] Don Armstrong -- All my dreams came true. I just didn't think them through. -- a softer world #388 http

Bug#706995: r-cran-gtable needs to be rebuilt against R 3.0

2013-05-06 Thread Don Armstrong
things, I'm going to NMU it shortly unless you tell me otherwise. Thanks! Don Armstrong -- Facts are the refuge of people unwilling to reassess what they hold to be True. http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ

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