Bug#694979: debbugs: get_bugs() should allow specifying binary versions of packages

2012-12-02 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: debbugs Severity: wishlist Hello, as discussed via private e-mail with Don Armstrong, I would need the following enhancement in the BTS SOAP interface, in order to enhance apt-listbugs (which I maintain). Currently, one of the procedures that apt-listbugs calls via SOAP is get_bugs(),

Bug#694883: debian-policy: copyright format: please clarify the recommended form for public domain files

2012-12-01 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: debian-policy Version: 3.9.4.0 Severity: wishlist Hello. The machine-readable debian/copyright file format specification (version 1.0) says that, when a work is in the public domain, the Copyright field should record this information. More precisely

Bug#694657: libav-source: debian/copyright file no longer seems to be accurate

2012-11-28 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Source: libav Version: 6:0.8.4-1 Severity: important Hello, it seems to me that the debian/copyright file [1] is no longer consistent with the actual content of the upstream source archive (libav_0.8.4.orig.tar.gz). For instance, file libavcodec/dtsdec.c no longer exists (there is a

Bug#694663: security-tracker: DSA-2578-1 vs. tracker

2012-11-28 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: security-tracker Severity: normal Hello, although DSA-2578-1 [1] has been recently issued, the tracker still seems to be unaware of it [2]. Please update the tracker data. Thanks! [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2012/msg00221.html [2]

Bug#694270: figlet: includes non-free files copyrighted by Unicode Inc.

2012-11-24 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: figlet Version: 2.2.5-1 Severity: serious Justification: Policy 2.2.1 Hello, while reviewing the debian/copyright file of the (finally back in main!) figlet package, I noticed two issues. The first is an inaccurate copying of a license text: | Files: tests/emboss.tlf | Copyright: 2006

Bug#692928: unblock: apt-listbugs/0.1.9

2012-11-10 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: release.debian.org Severity: normal User: release.debian@packages.debian.org Usertags: unblock Please unblock package apt-listbugs As can be seen with the following command on the public git repository: $ git diff apt-listbugs/0.1.8..apt-listbugs/0.1.9 | filterdiff \

Bug#692152: gem2deb: should not add the obsolescent DM-Upload-Allowed field

2012-11-02 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: gem2deb Version: 0.3.0 Severity: normal Hello! I noticed that gem2deb creates the initial version of the debian/control file with the DM-Upload-Allowed field in it. Since this field will soon become obsolete and will stop working [1], I think that gem2deb should no longer add it to the

Bug#692071: storymaps: includes non-free files (src/org/json/*)

2012-11-01 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: storymaps Version: 1.0-1 Severity: serious Justification: Policy 2.2.1 Hello Javier, it seems to me [1] that storymaps includes non-free files (src/org/json/*) released under the JSON license [2]. [1] http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/s/storymaps/current/copyright [2]

Bug#691983: debian-handbook: eleventh chapter should suggest a more general tool for generating SSL certs

2012-10-31 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: debian-handbook Version: 6.0+20120509 Severity: minor Hello Raphaël, in a reply to my bug report #681690, you wrote: On Sun, 15 Jul 2012, Francesco Poli (wintermute) wrote: Section 11.1.1. Installing Postfix -- Snake oil certificates have

Bug#691132: gem2deb: garbled sentence in gem2deb(1) man page

2012-10-21 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: gem2deb Version: 0.3.0 Severity: minor Hello! While reading the gem2deb(1) man page, I noticed a sentence that does not look correct to me: | Metadata | It contains the gem metadata ends up in a file named | ``metadata.yml`` inside the mygem-0.1.0 directory. I am under

Bug#691133: gem2deb: typos in dh_ruby(1) man page

2012-10-21 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: gem2deb Version: 0.3.0 Severity: minor Hello again! While reading the dh_ruby(1) man page, I noticed the following typos: | You can use this variable to override that if want to provide | custom metadata for the Debian package. I would say: s/if want/if you want/ | This

Bug#690807: security-tracker: DSA-2559-1 vs. tracker

2012-10-17 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: security-tracker Severity: normal Hi all, DSA-2559-1 [1] was issued, but the tracker seems to know nothing about it [2] yet. Please update the tracker data. Thanks for your time! [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2012/msg00203.html [2]

Bug#689977: security-tracker: DSA-2557-1 vs. tracker

2012-10-08 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: security-tracker Severity: normal Hi everyone! it seems to me that the tracker page [1] for DSA-2557-1 [2] has a fixed version for stable that lacks the epoch (it should be 1:0.6.10-2+squeeze1, rather than 0.6.10-2+squeeze1). Please fix the tracker data. Thanks for your time! [1]

Bug#689862: gnome-mplayer: often segfaults inside iceweasel with MPEG, WMV, and AVI videos

2012-10-07 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: gnome-mplayer Version: 1.0.6-1 Severity: normal Hello Debian Multimedia Maintainers, since long ago, I have experienced frequent segmentation faults by gnome-mplayer, when using it inside iceweasel (with gecko-mediaplayer and xul-ext-noscript installed). Steps to reproduce the bug:

Bug#689919: subversion: includes a non-free file

2012-10-07 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: subversion Version: 1.7.5-1 Severity: serious Justification: Policy 2.2.1 Hello, while reviewing subversion/1.7.5-1 debian/copyright file, I noticed that debian/contrib/svn_load_dirs is licensed under the AFL v3.0 . This license includes non-free restrictions and is also problematic

Bug#689788: jh_repack: exits with rmdir errors (in certain conditions) and fails to repack

2012-10-06 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: javahelper Version: 0.43 Severity: normal Tags: patch Hello, I am trying to use jh_repack, but it fails to work on the case I have at hand. Steps to reproduce the bug: 0) download irclib-1.10.tar.gz from http://moepii.sourceforge.net/ 1) rename it: $ mv -i

Bug#689810: jh_repack: should also remove Subversion working copy administrative directories

2012-10-06 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: javahelper Version: 0.43 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch Hello again, this bug report is a sort of sequel for #689788, so, if you liked the first one, please enjoy the second! ;-) The upstream tarball mentioned in #689788 (irclib-1.10.tar.gz) includes several Subversion working copy

Bug#689532: grace: please consider packaging new upstream version 5.1.23

2012-10-03 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: grace Version: 1:5.1.22-13 Severity: wishlist Hello, it seems that a new upstream version has recently been released: ftp://plasma-gate.weizmann.ac.il/pub/grace/src/grace5/grace-5.1.23.tar.gz Please consider packaging it, at least for experimental (if you do not want to upload to

Bug#689342: qa.debian.org: incorrectly shows a new upstream version for a native package

2012-10-01 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: qa.debian.org Severity: normal Hi QA team, I am the maintainer of apt-listbugs. The PTS page for my package [1] currently tells me: | A new upstream version is available: 0.1.8, | you should consider packaging it. [1] http://packages.qa.debian.org/a/apt-listbugs.html This does not

Bug#689204: unblock: apt-listbugs/0.1.8

2012-09-30 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: release.debian.org Severity: normal User: release.debian@packages.debian.org Usertags: unblock Please unblock package apt-listbugs As can be seen with the following command on the git repository: $ git diff apt-listbugs/0.1.7..apt-listbugs/0.1.8 | filterdiff \

Bug#689254: podebconf-report-po: option gzip in configuration file is ignored!

2012-09-30 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: po-debconf Version: 1.0.16+nmu2 Severity: normal Tags: patch Hello, I think I spotted a bug in podebconf-report-po. When called without any gzip-related command-line option (that is to say: without --gzip or --nogzip), but with gzip in the configuration file, podebconf-report-po fails

Bug#688808: debian-goodies: checkrestart incorrectly ignores util-linux (getty)

2012-09-25 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: debian-goodies Version: 0.61 Severity: normal Tags: patch Hello Javier, I've just noticed that checkrestart fails to show getty processes, when they need to be restarted. # checkrestart Found 5 processes using old versions of upgraded files (1 distinct program) (1 distinct

Bug#688450: rdtool: misplaces a .TP in output man page (with ruby1.8)

2012-09-22 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: rdtool Version: 0.6.34-4 Severity: normal Tags: patch Hello and thanks for maintaining rdtool in Debian! I found a case where rd2 seems to produce a badly formed man page (when run with ruby1.8). I prepared a minimal test case to reproduce the bug. $ tar xvf frob_man_page.tar.gz

Bug#687841: java-common: [Policy] please explicitly state copyright and license in Java Policy

2012-09-16 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: java-common Version: 0.47 Severity: wishlist Hello java-common maintainers! It is my understanding that the Debian policy for Java [1] is currently part of the java-common package, and thus licensed under the GNU GPL v2 or later, as documented in the debian/copyright file [2]. Very

Bug#687854: supertux: please implement a way to increase/decrease audio volume inside the game

2012-09-16 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: supertux Version: 0.1.3-3 Severity: wishlist Tags: upstream Hello, thanks for maintaining this nice platform game in Debian! There seems to be no way to increase or decrease the audio (sound and music) volume from inside the game. This means that, before playing, I have to start

Bug#687452: devscripts: fails to recognize licenses in (fixed-form) Fortran code

2012-09-12 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: devscripts Version: 2.12.2 Severity: normal Hello Devscripts Devel Team, thanks for maintaining and developing this collection of useful tools! I noticed that licensecheck seems to be unable to recognize licenses in (fixed-form) Fortran code. Here's a minimal test case to reproduce the

Bug#686594: packaging-tutorial: improvements for slides 1÷40

2012-09-03 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: packaging-tutorial Version: 0.7 Severity: minor Hi Lucas, I am more or less half-way in my reading of the packaging tutorial. What follows is a list of suggestions, corrections, enhancements, and so forth, grouped by relevant slide. I hope this may be useful to you, in order to further

Bug#685904: packaging-tutorial: copyright and license of the Debian swirl is not documented in debian/copyright

2012-08-26 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: packaging-tutorial Version: 0.7 Severity: normal Hello Lucas, thanks a lot for writing this tutorial, for publishing it in a DFSG-free manner and for packaging it! I noticed that the tutorial incorporates the Debian swirl (Debian Open Use Logo without Debian [1]), but the

Bug#685843: security-tracker: DSA-2533-1 vs. tracker

2012-08-25 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: security-tracker Severity: normal Hello, DSA-2533-1 [1] states that four vulnerabilities are fixed in sid by pcp/3.6.5 The tracker [2][3][4][5] seems to disagree. Please update the tracker data. Thanks for your time! [1]

Bug#685280: security-tracker: DSA-2531-1 vs. tracker

2012-08-19 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: security-tracker Severity: normal Hello, DSA-2531-1 has been recently issued [1], but the corresponding tracker page [2] is basically empty. Please update the tracker data. Thanks for your time! [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2012/msg00172.html [2]

Bug#685285: debian-handbook: improvements for appendix A and appendix B

2012-08-19 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: debian-handbook Version: 6.0+20120509 Severity: minor Hi Raphaël, I've just finished reading the appendices of the book. That to say, I've just reached the end of the book! :-) Thanks again to you and Roland for writing this book, for translating it into English and for releasing it in

Bug#684983: debian-handbook: improvements for the fifteenth and sixteenth chapter

2012-08-15 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: debian-handbook Version: 6.0+20120509 Severity: minor Hello Raphaël, I've just finished reading chapters 15 and 16: I am here sending my usual list of corrections and improvements. Section 15.2.1. Meta-Packages or Fake Packages -- Typo?

Bug#684892: security-tracker: DSA-2527-1 vs. tracker

2012-08-14 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: security-tracker Severity: normal Hello! DSA-2527-1 [1] states that two vulnerabilities are fixed in sid by php5/5.4.4-4, but the tracker seems to disagree on one of them, namely CVE-2012-3450 [2]. Please update the tracker data. Thanks for your time! [1]

Bug#684928: volti: volume level numerical values differ from the ones shown by alsamixer

2012-08-14 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: volti Version: 0.2.3-4 Severity: normal Hello and thanks for maintaining Volti in Debian! I've just installed this package and I'm giving it a try. I noticed that the internal mixer shows volume level numerical values that differ from the ones shown by alsamixer. I think that this is

Bug#684562: debian-handbook: improvements for the fourteenth chapter

2012-08-11 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: debian-handbook Version: 6.0+20120509 Severity: minor Hi Raphaël, I've just finished reading chapter 14, here's my usual list of proposed changes. Section 14.1. Defining a Security Policy Typo? s/are we are willing/are we willing/ Section

Bug#684425: conky-std: please implement an alternative way to distinguish among hwmon devices

2012-08-09 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: conky-std Version: 1.9.0-2 Severity: wishlist Hello, thanks for maintaining conky in Debian! I have a problem with the hwmon object. One line in my ~/.conkyrc reads: ${color green}CPU Temp.:$color ${hwmon 0 temp 1 1 273} K${color green} - MB Temp.:$color ${hwmon 0 temp 2 1 273}

Bug#684307: podebconf-report-po: please add an option to send a request for English review

2012-08-08 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: po-debconf Version: 1.0.16+nmu2 Severity: wishlist Hello and thanks for maintaining po-debconf! In particular, podebconf-report-po is a really useful tool: I have recently begun using it and I think it's very nice! One feature that seems to be missing is an option (it could be called

Bug#684182: ruby-gettext: rgettext wrongly skips translatable strings containing the hash symbol (#)

2012-08-07 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: ruby-gettext Version: 2.2.1-2 Severity: normal Hello, thanks for maintaining ruby-gettext in Debian! I noticed a bug in rgettext. I prepared a small test case to reproduce it. Let's consider the following short Ruby program: $ cat myapplication.rb #!/usr/bin/ruby1.8 # Copyright

Bug#684184: ruby-gettext: rgettext wrongly copies comments for translators to all subsequent messages

2012-08-07 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: ruby-gettext Version: 2.2.1-2 Severity: normal Hello again! I noticed another bug in rgettext. Please see the test case described in bug #684182 [1]. [1] http://bugs.debian.org/684182 In that test case, a comment for translators is included for the string from line 31. xgettext

Bug#684187: ruby-gettext: please implement command-line options for rgettext to fill in some fields

2012-08-07 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: ruby-gettext Version: 2.2.1-2 Severity: wishlist Hi again! I noticed that rgettext lacks useful command-line options to specify actual values to be used in stead of placeholders. Please see the test case described in bug #684182 [1]. [1] http://bugs.debian.org/684182 I think it would

Bug#684091: id-utils: info documentation is non-free

2012-08-06 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: id-utils Version: 4.5-3 Severity: serious Justification: Policy 2.2.1 User: debian-rele...@lists.debian.org Usertags: nonfree-doc gfdl Hello, according to bug #644131 [1], the info documentation shipped with this package (/usr/share/info/idutils.info.gz and

Bug#683916: security-tracker: DSA-2520-1 vs. tracker

2012-08-05 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: security-tracker Severity: normal Hello! DSA-2520-1 [1] and the corresponding tracker page [2] state that CVE-2012-2665 has been fixed in stable by openoffice.org/3.2.1-11+squeeze7. I believe that an epoch is missing, since the version number of the openoffice.org package currently in

Bug#683921: security-tracker: DSA-2519-2 vs. tracker

2012-08-05 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: security-tracker Severity: normal Hi! DSA-2519-2 has been issued [1], stating that the previously announced security patches were not really applied to isc-dhcp/4.1.1-P1-15+squeeze5, an issue that has been fixed in isc-dhcp/4.1.1-P1-15+squeeze6. [1]

Bug#683922: security-tracker: DSA-2521-1 vs. tracker

2012-08-05 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: security-tracker Severity: normal Hello! DSA-2521-1 [1] has been recently issued, but the tracker [2] seems to be still unaware of it. Please update the tracker data. Thanks for your time! [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2012/msg00162.html [2]

Bug#683156: debian-handbook: improvements for the thirteenth chapter

2012-07-29 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: debian-handbook Version: 6.0+20120509 Severity: minor Hello Raphaël, I've just finished reading chapter 13. I am hereby sending my list of proposed modifications and corrections, as usual. Section 13.2.2. Choosing a Window Manager - | Light (or

Bug#682786: debian-handbook: improvements for the twelfth chapter

2012-07-25 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: debian-handbook Version: 6.0+20120509 Severity: minor Hi Raphaël, I've just completed the reading of chapter 12. What follows is my usual list of suggestions/corrections. Section 12.1.1.1. Different RAID Levels --- Typo?

Bug#682580: xgettext: fails to properly replace some placeholders in output .pot (PACKAGE, YEAR, C. HOLDER)

2012-07-23 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: gettext Version: 0.18.1.1-9 Severity: normal Hello! Thanks for maintaining gettext in Debian! I noticed that xgettext does not properly replace all the relevant placeholders in the output .pot file, when told to do so through command-line options. I'll try to explain the issues with a

Bug#681690: debian-handbook: improvements for the eleventh chapter

2012-07-15 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: debian-handbook Version: 6.0+20120509 Severity: minor Hello Raphaël, I've just finished reading chapter 11. Here's my usual list of proposed modifications and fixes. Section 11.1.1. Installing Postfix -- Typo? s/nomally/normally/ Snake oil

Bug#681692: debian-handbook: chapter 11: please document the configuration of Exim

2012-07-15 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: debian-handbook Version: 6.0+20120509 Severity: wishlist Hi Raphaël, all subsections of section 11.1. (Mail Server) describe the configuration of Postfix with great detail. On the other hand, Exim is only mentioned as a possible alternative. Since I would prefer learning Exim rather

Bug#681133: libreoffice-impress: segfaults at exit, leaving pending recoveries

2012-07-10 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: libreoffice-impress Version: 1:3.5.4-5 Severity: important Hello, thanks for maintaining LibreOffice in Debian. I am encountering serious difficulties in using loimpress. It seems to segfaults often. Minimal test case to reproduce this bug: $ loimpress With a few clicks and

Bug#680738: salome-gui: links with both GPL-licensed and GPL-incompatible libraries

2012-07-08 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: salome-gui Version: 6.5.0-1 Severity: serious Justification: Policy 2.2.1 Hello Debian Science Maintainers, thanks for your effort to reintroduce SALOME into Debian. However, it seems to me that one of the licensing issues that affected the previous package [1] is still present in the

Bug#680651: debian-handbook: improvements for the tenth chapter

2012-07-07 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: debian-handbook Version: 6.0+20120509 Severity: minor Hello Raphaël, I've just finished reading chapter 10 and I am sending my usual list of suggestions (shorter than for other chapter of comparable length, actually: well done!). Section 10.2.2. Virtual Private Network with SSH

Bug#679768: debian-handbook: improvements for the ninth chapter

2012-07-01 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: debian-handbook Version: 6.0+20120509 Severity: minor Hello Raphaël, I've just completed chapter 9: what follows is my list of suggestions, grouped by relevant section, as usual. Section 9.2.2. Secure Remote Login: SSH --- | The SSH (Secured Shel)

Bug#679563: security-tracker: DSA-2503-1 vs. tracker

2012-06-29 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: security-tracker Severity: normal Hello everybody! DSA-2503-1 [1] states that CVE-2012-3366 is fixed in sid by bcfg2/1.2.2-2, but the tracker [2] seems to disagree. I think that the DSA is probably right, since the BTS seems to tell the same story [3]. Please update the tracker data.

Bug#679437: brewtarget: includes non-free images

2012-06-28 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: brewtarget Version: 1.2.4-1 Severity: serious Justification: Policy 2.2.1 Hello, according to its debian/copyright file [1], this package includes some images licensed under the terms of CC-by-nc-nd-v3.0: | Files: images/flag*.png | Copyright: 2009-2010, A68 Freelance Graphics Designs

Bug#678746: desktop-base: Joy theme is a mix of incompatibly-licensed works

2012-06-24 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: desktop-base Version: 7.0.0~exp2 Severity: serious Justification: Policy 2.3 Hello, I read about the new Joy theme [1][2]. [1] http://blog.pault.ag/post/25614704596/my-quest-to-get-desktop-base-set-before-wheezy [2]

Bug#678582: debian-handbook: improvements for the eighth chapter

2012-06-22 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: debian-handbook Version: 6.0+20120509 Severity: minor Hi Raphaël, I've just finished reading chapter 8: here's the usual list of proposed modifications, grouped by relevant section. Section 8.1.1. Seing the Default Language - | representationfor

Bug#677421: mayavi2: segfaults as soon as a module is loaded

2012-06-13 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: mayavi2 Version: 4.1.0-1 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable Hello, it seems that I am unable to use mayavi2 on an updated Debian testing box. I reproduced this bug with any data set I tried to visualize, hence the package is currently unusable. Steps to reproduce:

Bug#676913: debian-handbook: improvements for the seventh chapter

2012-06-10 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: debian-handbook Version: 6.0+20120509 Severity: minor Hi Raphaël, I've just completed chapter 7 and what follows is my list of proposed changes, grouped by relevant section. Section 7.1. Documentation Sources -- | but since these documentations are As

Bug#676693: debian-handbook: improvements for the sixth chapter

2012-06-08 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: debian-handbook Version: 6.0+20120509 Severity: minor Hi Raphaël, I've just finished reading chapter 6. What follows is my list of corrections and proposed improvements, grouped by relevant section. Intro - | a package containing the source code of a program As usual, I would

Bug#676698: gnupg: --refresh-keys fails with HTTP fetch error 28: Previous alarm fired off!

2012-06-08 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: gnupg Version: 1.4.12-4 Severity: important Hello Debian GnuPG-Maintainers! It seems to me that I am experiencing a bug. Today, the --refresh-keys option suddenly stopped working. Now I get: $ gpg --keyserver-options no-honor-keyserver-url \ --import-options

Bug#675523: debian-handbook: improvements for the fifth chapter

2012-06-01 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: debian-handbook Version: 6.0+20120509 Severity: minor Hi Raphaël, I've just completed chapter 5 and here's my list of proposed modifications, grouped by relevant section. Intro - | while the latter contain the program source code Since packages may contain works that are not

Bug#674737: security-tracker: DSA-2479-1 vs. tracker

2012-05-27 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: security-tracker Severity: normal Hi all! DSA-2479-1 [1] says that CVE-2011-3102 is fixed in sid by libxml2/2.7.8.dfsg-9.1, but the tracker [2] seems to disagree. Assuming that the DSA is right, please update the tracker data. Thanks for your time. [1]

Bug#674607: debian-handbook: improvements for the fourth chapter

2012-05-25 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: debian-handbook Version: 6.0+20120509 Severity: minor Hi Raphaël, I've just finished reading chapter 4. What follows is the list of improvements and corrections I propose for this chapter, again grouped by relevant section. Section 4.2.1. Booting and Starting the Installer

Bug#673650: debian-handbook: improvements for the second and third chapter

2012-05-20 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: debian-handbook Version: 6.0+20120509 Severity: minor Hi again Raphaël, I've just finished reading chapters 2 and 3: I am here sending a list of corrections and improvements, grouped by relevant section, as usual. Those two chapters are not too long and are in a good shape: my bug

Bug#673463: debian-handbook: improvements for the first chapter

2012-05-18 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: debian-handbook Version: 6.0+20120509 Severity: minor Hi Raphaël, I am reading the PDF version of the handbook (downloaded from the upstream web site). I've just completed chapter 1: what follows is a list of corrections and improvements I've thought of while reading, grouped by relevant

Bug#672951: texlive-extra-utils: [regression] pdfnup no longer works with some input PDF files

2012-05-14 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: texlive-extra-utils Version: 2011.20120424-1 Severity: important Hello, I've recently upgraded texlive-* packages, after removing package pdfjam. Unfortunately, I seem to have found out a regression in pdfjam (version 2.08, now included in package texlive-extra-utils). I am attaching a

Bug#672755: debian-handbook: please also package the PDF version

2012-05-13 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: debian-handbook Version: 6.0+20120509 Severity: wishlist Hi Raphaël, thanks a lot to you and Roland for releasing this book under the DFSG-free terms: GNU GPL v2 or later (I know it's dual-licensed under CC-by-ss-v3.0 too, but I don't especially care...)! Thank you for also packaging it

Bug#671726: apt: should be able to provide hook information through a named pipe

2012-05-06 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: apt Version: 0.8.15.10 Severity: wishlist Dear APT deity team, I am one of the co-maintainers of the apt-listbugs package. Currently, apt-listbugs is automatically invoked by apt-get and aptitude (and other compatible package managers) thanks to the following Pre-Install-Pkgs hook: $

Bug#671728: apt-listbugs: should be able to read hook information through a named pipe

2012-05-06 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: apt-listbugs Version: 0.1.6 Severity: wishlist As a more radical fix for bug #662983 (for which a less than satisfactory work around has been implemented), apt-listbugs should be able to read the Pre-Install-Pkgs hook information through a named pipe, rather than on its stdin. The name

Bug#669286: security-tracker: DSA-2453-1 vs. tracker

2012-04-18 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: security-tracker Severity: normal Hello, DSA-2453-1 [1] states that three vulnerabilities are fixed in wheezy and sid by gajim/0.15-1, but the tracker seems to disagree regarding CVE-2012-2093 [2], which is still considered as unfixed in gajim/0.15-1 ... Please update the tracker data,

Bug#664231: wajig: uses su -c, even when the user is already root

2012-03-16 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: wajig Version: 2.2 Severity: important Tags: patch Hello, I am one of the co-maintainers of apt-listbugs. While dealing with a comment on one of the bugs filed against apt-listbugs http://bugs.debian.org/662983#50, I stumbled on a surprising behavior of wajig. It seems that wajig uses

Bug#663468: audacious-plugins: [regression] jack output plugin fails to start jack server

2012-03-11 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: audacious-plugins Version: 3.2.1-3 Severity: normal Hello, I've just upgraded audacious on my Debian testing boxes: [REMOVE, NOT USED] libmcs1 [INSTALL, DEPENDENCIES] audacious-plugins-data [INSTALL, DEPENDENCIES] libbs2b0 [INSTALL, DEPENDENCIES] libguess1 [INSTALL,

Bug#663236: security-tracker: DSA-2429-1 vs. tracker

2012-03-09 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: security-tracker Severity: normal Hello everybody! DSA-2429-1 [1] says that a good number of vulnerabilities are fixed in sid by mysql-5.1/5.1.61-2 However, the tracker seems to disagree on one of them (CVE-2012-0119 [2]). Who's right and who's wrong? Please clarify and/or update the

Bug#663270: libsepol1: fails to re-execute init in postinst script

2012-03-09 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: libsepol1 Version: 2.1.4-1 Severity: important Hello! After upgrading libsepol1 (2.1.0-1.2 - 2.1.4-1 , for the record) I noticed that checkrestart (from the debian-goodies package) tells me I need to restart init! # checkrestart Found 1 processes using old versions of upgraded

Bug#661237: mirrors: scalable-cyrfonts-tex_4.15_all.deb Hash Sum mismatch on some mirrors

2012-02-25 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: mirrors Severity: normal Dear Mirrors Team, I've been experiencing a Hash Sum mismatch on one package since yesterday on two different mirrors: http://ftp.it.debian.org/debian/ http://debian.fastweb.it/debian/ While upgrading my Debian testing boxes, aptitude skips the upgrade of

Bug#660517: xul-ext-requestpolicy: debian/copyright file seems to be inaccurate

2012-02-19 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: xul-ext-requestpolicy Version: 0.5.24-1 Severity: normal Hello maintainers of xul-ext-requestpolicy package, thanks for maintaining this extension in Debian! The current debian/copyright file of this package claims that all shipped files are under a license labelled as MPL-1.1 or

Bug#658756: opencity: unauthorized construction is observed!

2012-02-05 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: opencity Version: 0.0.6.4stable-1 Severity: normal Hello, I often experience what I think is a bug in the implementation of opencity. During the growth of my city, I often find cases of unauthorized construction: I mean that some building has been constructed without complying with

Bug#658767: opencity: the tax burden should be adjustable

2012-02-05 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: opencity Version: 0.0.6.4stable-1 Severity: wishlist Hello maintainers of the opencity Debian package, as I have already said, I like this game. I would like to suggest an important improvement: the tax burden should be a numeric parameter (for instance a percentage) that may be

Bug#658769: opencity: the sound volume should be adjustable

2012-02-05 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: opencity Version: 0.0.6.4stable-1 Severity: wishlist Hi! During the game, the sounds may be turned off/on by pressing the [S] key. This is good, since the sounds are not always welcome. However, I think that there should also be a way to increase/decrease the volume of the sounds. I

Bug#658545: security-tracker: DSA-2401-1 vs. tracker

2012-02-03 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: security-tracker Severity: normal Hello! DSA-2401-1 [1] claims that a number of referenced vulnerabilities are fixed in sid by tomcat6/6.0.35-1 However, two vulnerabilities (CVE-2011-3190 [2] and CVE-2011-4858 [3]) out of the 10 referenced ones are shown as not fixed in sid and wheezy

Bug#657788: opencity: should let the user choose the filename for the opencity.save file

2012-01-28 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: opencity Version: 0.0.6.4stable-1 Severity: wishlist Hello maintainers of the opencity Debian package! I would like to suggest how one of the current limitations of this nice game could be eliminated. The save button lets the user save the city. As the documentation [1] on the official

Bug#657648: security-tracker: DSA-2394-1 vs. tracker

2012-01-27 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: security-tracker Severity: normal Hello! The tracker page [1] for DSA-2394-1 [2] seems to be almost empty. Please fix the tracker data. Thanks for your time! [1] http://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/DSA-2394-1 [2]

Bug#656124: security-tracker: DSA-2389-1 vs. tracker

2012-01-16 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: security-tracker Severity: normal Hello everybody! The tracker page [1] for DSA-2389-1 [2] seems to be almost empty. Please fix the tracker data. Thanks for your time! [1] http://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/DSA-2389-1 [2]

Bug#656154: opencity: unsafely overwrites opencity.save

2012-01-16 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: opencity Version: 0.0.6.4stable-1 Severity: important Hi there! First of all, thanks a lot for maintaining OpenCity in Debian! I think it's a really nice game, with a great potential. I especially like its truly 3D approach to city simulation, and the fact that it's not a clone of any

Bug#655960: security-tracker: DSA-2388-1 vs. tracker

2012-01-15 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: security-tracker Severity: normal Hi! The tracker page [1] for DSA-2388-1 [2] looks OK, but some of the referenced CVE tracker pages [3][4] claim that t1lib/5.1.2-3.3 is still vulnerable in wheezy and sid, while the DSA [2] claims that all the CVEs are fixed in wheezy and sid by

Bug#653901: ltris: please package new upstream version 1.0.18

2012-01-01 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: ltris Version: 1.0.14-1 Severity: wishlist Hi there! It seems to me that, since the last upload to unstable (performed about 2 years ago) a number of newer upstream versions have been released. The latest upstream version seems to be 1.0.18 [1]. Could you please package it? Thanks for

Bug#653902: lbreakout2: please package new upstream version 2.6.3

2012-01-01 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: lbreakout2 Version: 2.6.1-1.1 Severity: wishlist Hello! It seems to me that, since the last maintainer upload to unstable (which was done about 2 years ago) a couple of newer upstream versions have been published. The latest upstream version appears to be 2.6.3 [1]. Could you please

Bug#653278: security-tracker: DSA-237[23]-1 vs. tracker

2011-12-26 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: security-tracker Severity: normal Hi! There seem to be no tracker pages [1][2] for DSA-2372-1 [3] or for DSA-2373-1 [4]. Please update the tracker data. Thanks for your time! [1] http://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/DSA-2372-1 [2]

Bug#653020: security-tracker: DSA-2370-1 vs. tracker

2011-12-22 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: security-tracker Severity: normal Hello! Is there any special reason why the tracker page [1] for DSA-2370-1 [2] lacks the reference to one (CVE-2011-4528) of the two CVE ids mentioned in the DSA [2] itself? If this is just a mistake, please fix the tracker data. Thanks for your time!

Bug#652918: security-tracker: DSA-2368-1 vs. tracker

2011-12-21 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: security-tracker Severity: normal Hi! The tracker page [1] for DSA-2368-1 [2] seems to report a wrong fixed version for lenny (I guess it should be 1.4.19-5+lenny3 , rather than 1.4.19+lenny3), probably because the DSA [2] itself reports the same (seemingly wrong) version. Please fix

Bug#652682: fluxbox: fbsetbg messes up with lastwallpaper when $DISPLAY switches between :0 and :0.0

2011-12-19 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: fluxbox Version: 1.3.2-2 Severity: normal Tags: patch Hello! I found out that fbsetbg may in some cases mess up with the user's ~/.fluxbox/lastwallpaper This misbehavior is caused by the fact that the DISPLAY environment variable is in the form hostname:displaynumber.screennumber where

Bug#652590: security-tracker: DSA-2364-1 vs. tracker

2011-12-18 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: security-tracker Severity: normal Hi! It seems to me that the tracker page [1] for DSA-2364-1 [2] misses the epoch in the squeeze fixed version (that should be 1:7.5+8+squeeze1, rather than 7.5+8+squeeze1). Please fix the tracker data. Thanks for your time! Actually, the epoch seems

Bug#651603: security-tracker: DSA-2362-1 vs. tracker

2011-12-10 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: security-tracker Severity: normal Hi all! It seems to me that the tracker page [1] for DSA-2362-1 [2] misses the epoch in the squeeze fixed version (which should be 1:2.0.7-1squeeze3 rather than 2.0.7-1squeeze3). Moreover, the DSA [2] says that CVE-2011-2777 does not affect oldstable,

Bug#650929: security-tracker: DSA-2357-1 vs. tracker

2011-12-04 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: security-tracker Severity: normal Hi! It seems to me that the tracker page [1] for DSA-2357-1 [2] is fairly incomplete. Please update the tracker data, so that they become consistent with the information provided by the DSA. Thanks for your time. [1]

Bug#649299: security-tracker: DSA-2349-1 vs. tracker

2011-11-19 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: security-tracker Severity: normal Hello, it seems to me that the tracker page [1] for DSA-2349-1 [2] is messed up: do I see correctly that the version number has been used in place of the package name? Please fix the tracker data. Thanks for your time! [1]

Bug#649011: security-tracker: DSA-2346-1 vs. tracker

2011-11-16 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: security-tracker Severity: normal Hello, it seems to me that the tracker page [1] for DSA-2346-1 [2] lacks the reference to CVE-2011-4130. Please update the tracker data. Thanks for your time! [1] http://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/DSA-2346-1 [2]

Bug#648558: security-tracker: DSA-2345-1 vs. tracker

2011-11-12 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: security-tracker Severity: normal Hello! It seems to me that there's no tracker page [1] for DSA-2345-1, yet. Please update the tracker data. Thanks for your time. [1] http://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/DSA-2345-1 [2]

Bug#647952: security-tracker: DSA-2339-1 vs. tracker

2011-11-07 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: security-tracker Severity: normal Hi all! DSA-2339-1 [1] states that CVE-2011-3640 has been fixed in sid by nss/3.13.1.with.ckbi.1.88-1 , but the tracker [2] seems to disagree. As long as the DSA is correct, please update the tracker data. Thanks for your time. [1]

Bug#646217: security-tracker: DSA-2324-1 vs. tracker

2011-10-22 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: security-tracker Severity: normal Hi, DSA-2324-1 [1] states that wireshark/1.6.2-1 fixes CVE-2011-3360 in sid. However, the tracker page for the CVE [2] seems to ignore this fact. Assuming the DSA is correct, please update the tracker data. Thanks for your time. [1]

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