Bug#589504: eventfd manpage should mention EFD_SEMAPHORE

2010-07-18 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Package: manpages-dev Version: 3.24-1 Severity: normal File: /usr/share/man/man2/eventfd.2.gz Hi, the eventfd manpage lists only 2 flags, EFD_NONBLOCK and EFD_CLOEXEC, while there is a thrid flag: EFD_SEMAPHORE. EFD_SEMAPHORE changes the behaviour of eventfd_read() to decrement the count by 1

Bug#589138: Hangs when loading tuareg

2010-07-15 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Package: xemacs21 Version: 21.4.22-3 Severity: normal Hi, when I start xemacs with xemacs foo.ml the window pops up, loads the startup files and then hangs on Loading tuareg...done without ever bringing up foo.ml. The window is still repsonsive, as in it redraws when I cover it up and expose

Bug#588891: Policy 8.6 (shlibs files) needs a serious rewrite to cover symbols

2010-07-13 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Package: debian-policy Version: 3.8.4.0 Severity: normal Hi, Debian Policy 8.6 'Dependencies between the library and other packages - the shlibs system' seems seriously out of date as it makes no mentioning of symbols files at all. Other than the lack of documentation of the superior system I

Bug#588865: Missing NBD_OPTIONS[x] variable

2010-07-12 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Package: nbd-client Version: 1:2.9.15-3 Severity: wishlist Hi, when I connect nbd0 it says: Starting NBD client process: Connecting...Negotiation: ..size = 4522200KB bs=1024, sz=4522200 connected /dev/nbd0 How do I change the blocksize used? I think it would make sense to add NBD_OPTIONS[x]

Bug#588881: partx: Lacks support for NBD

2010-07-12 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Package: util-linux Version: 2.17.2-3 Severity: normal File: /usr/bin/partx Hi, r...@frosties:~# partx --type gpt -l /dev/nbd0 HDIO_GETGEO: Inappropriate ioctl for device partx seems to call HDIO_GETGEO solely to verify that the given device is a whole disk and not just a partition with a

Bug#588353: [Pkg-ia32-libs-maintainers] Bug#588353: ia32-libs: Need additional library for building and running pcsx2 (playstation 2 emulator)

2010-07-11 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Gregory Hainaut gregory.hain...@gmail.com writes: For my personal information, is there any status or clear roadmap of the multi- arch implementation ? Not for squeeze so things are basically on hold now. There is a Google summer of code project to multiarchify apt this year though. MfG

Bug#543484: [Pkg-ia32-libs-maintainers] Bug#543484: ia32-libs: failed to load 32bit version of dri lib (wrong version?)

2010-07-11 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Nicolas VIVIEN prog...@free.fr writes: Package: ia32-libs Version: 20090808 Severity: normal I have fixed my issue with Nvidia driver. Indeed, non-free nvidia users have to install nvidia-glx and nvidia-glx-ia32 for 32 bits applications. So, about the bug #543484, we have to only patch

Bug#588269: Missing crash dump output

2010-07-11 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Package: warzone2100 Version: 2.3.1-1 Severity: normal Forgot to attach the crash dump. -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.31.6-xen-2010.02.18 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale:

Bug#574292: corrupts if interrupted

2010-07-11 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Package: e2fsprogs Severity: normal File: /sbin/resize2fs Maybe resize2fs could catch the signal and ask if that is really what one wants for those cases where interupting causes corruption. MfG Goswin -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT

Bug#543484: [Pkg-ia32-libs-maintainers] Bug#543484: ia32-libs: failed to load 32bit version of dri lib (wrong version?)

2010-07-11 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
reassign #543484 mesa thanks Nicolas prog...@free.fr writes: Le dimanche 11 juillet 2010 à 09:34 +0200, Goswin von Brederlow a écrit : Nicolas VIVIEN prog...@free.fr writes: This is strange because google earth used to work. The problem is that ia32-libs can not fix this. Policy

Bug#588269: Segfault right at Mission acomplished

2010-07-06 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Package: warzone2100 Version: 2.3.1-1 Severity: normal Hi, I just finished the mission where you first scout an enemy based with orders not to engage the enemy and then go to landing zone 2. I had a large number of units left and they were on their way to the landing zone. Then I heard the

Bug#563402: [Pkg-ia32-libs-maintainers] Bug#563402: Any progress ?

2010-07-04 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Moritz Muehlenhoff j...@inutil.org writes: On Sun, Mar 07, 2010 at 10:28:12PM +0100, Sylvestre Ledru wrote: Le dimanche 07 mars 2010 à 19:30 +0100, Goswin von Brederlow a écrit : Sylvestre Ledru sylves...@debian.org writes: Is there any progress on this ? sun-java6 still not build

Bug#587989: apt-get source fetches the wrong package

2010-07-04 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Torsten Werner twer...@debian.org writes: Package: apt Version: 0.7.25.3 Severity: normal Hi, $ apt-get source -s automake NOTE: This is only a simulation! apt-get needs root privileges for real execution. Keep also in mind that locking is deactivated, so don't

Bug#588006: FTBFS the second time you build (cannot remove `lib/ivis_opengl/GLee.c')

2010-07-03 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Package: warzone2100 Version: 2.3.1-1a0.mrvn.1 Severity: normal Hi, building the package twice fails with the following error: # Remove GLee embedded code copy so we never use it rm lib/ivis_opengl/GLee.c lib/ivis_opengl/GLee.h rm: cannot remove `lib/ivis_opengl/GLee.c': No such file or

Bug#586333: [buildd-tools-devel] Bug#586333: Debian desktop support for virtualisation

2010-06-30 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Roger Leigh rle...@codelibre.net writes: On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 10:48:25AM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: Le dimanche 27 juin 2010 à 01:40 +0100, Roger Leigh a écrit : On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 01:46:41PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: You may also need (but I haven’t checked):

Bug#587620: apt: add an optionnal Why field to suggest entries (in the dependency field)

2010-06-30 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Alexandre Fournier bru...@free.fr writes: Package: apt Version: 0.7.25.3 Severity: wishlist Hello, Sometimes, from a user point of view, understanding why a package A recommends or suggests package B1 or B2 is not straightforward. It would be nice to add an optionnal why field to

Bug#587528: error |03:39:59: [droidUpdateBuild] unit is not building

2010-06-29 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Package: warzone2100 Version: 2.2.4-3a0.mrvn.1 Severity: normal Hi, first let me say that warzone2100 is highly adictive. Give yourself a pat on the back for packaging this great game. Now, while playing a skirmish against one AI I got the following: shm_open() failed: Permission denied

Bug#587530: Missing autosave feature

2010-06-29 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Package: warzone2100 Version: 2.2.4-3a0.mrvn.1 Severity: wishlist Hi, since warzone2100 crashed on me (see other bug) I noticed that there is no autosave feature. It would be nice if the game is automatically saved every 10 or 30 minutes so that when it does crash one doesn't loose everything.

Bug#587532: Missing feature to change keybindings during a game

2010-06-29 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Package: warzone2100 Version: 2.2.4-3a0.mrvn.1 Severity: wishlist Hi, I'm missing the feature to change (or just view) the keybindings during a game. This allpies to basically all options that can be changed but I noticed it most with keybindings. Given the shear amount of bindings I can't

Bug#586909: ganglia-monitor destroys permissions on /var/lib/ganglia

2010-06-23 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Package: ganglia-monitor Version: 3.1.2-2.1 Severity: normal The ganglia-monitor postinst contains: if [ -d /var/lib/ganglia ]; then mkdir -p /var/lib/ganglia/rrds chown -R ganglia:ganglia /var/lib/ganglia chmod 0755 /var/lib/ganglia fi The gmetad postinst on the other hand contains: if

Bug#586912: Why run rrds as no body?

2010-06-23 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Package: gmetad Version: 3.1.2-3.1 Severity: normal When installing gmetad the package defaults to: # User gmetad will setuid to (defaults to nobody) # default: nobody # setuid_username nobody nobody5509 0.1 0.1 162920 2252 ?Sl 14:50 0:00 /usr/sbin/gmetad Why does gmetad

Bug#558784: Isn't this a security problem?

2010-06-23 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
David Kalnischkies kalnischkies+deb...@gmail.com writes: 2010/6/12 Torsten Landschoff t.landsch...@gmx.net: I would consider this to be a critical issue as it could become a security problem. Let's assume an archive key is compromised. As an admin reading this on some information channel

Bug#586071: [Pkg-ia32-libs-maintainers] Bug#586071: libnss_ldap.so from ia32-libs incompatible with libnss-ldapd/nslcd setup

2010-06-23 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Florian Wagner f_wag...@syscomp.de writes: Package: ia32-libs Version: 20090808 Severity: normal I've recently switched from libnss-ldap to the more recent libnss-ldapd and nslcd setup on my 64bit squeeze install. Since libnss-ldapd is set to conflict with libnss-ldap that package and

Bug#585844: dpkg-cross: Please add version mangling

2010-06-23 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Simon Richter s...@debian.org writes: Package: dpkg-cross Version: 2.5.8 Severity: wishlist Hi, When resolving the duplicate Provides issue in a repository of pre-built -cross packages, I've come across the problem that it's difficult to generate packages with an increased version

Bug#318630: Design TRUSTED support

2010-06-08 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Julian Andres Klode j...@debian.org writes: On Mi, 2010-06-02 at 11:26 +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Any objections to the proposed design for this feature? - deb [key=0x1AB52325534,0x3475BDF478] ... Only accept signatures by one of the listed fingerprints Sounds good. - deb

Bug#318630: Design TRUSTED support

2010-06-02 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Any objections to the proposed design for this feature? - deb [key=0x1AB52325534,0x3475BDF478] ... Only accept signatures by one of the listed fingerprints - deb [keyring=foobar.gpg] ... Use foobar.gpg to verify the signatures and only foobar.gpg. deb [trust=always|never] Ignore the

Bug#580086: Messes up /etc/hosts on every call

2010-05-31 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Junichi Uekawa dan...@netfort.gr.jp writes: Hi, The default should be a working config for most people. The requirement to have a different /etc/hosts for the chroot and outside the chroot is a special case. At Fri, 14 May 2010 03:03:05 +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Junichi

Bug#583110: Fails to restore raid speed on error

2010-05-25 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Package: hdparm Version: 9.27-1 Severity: critical File: /etc/init.d/hdparm Hi, when a raid is reshaping or resyncing the hdparm boot script temporarily sets the speed to 0. But if the script then exits with an error, for example because /etc/hdparm.conf lists a device that is not present, the

Bug#583110: Fails to restore raid speed on error

2010-05-25 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Stephen Gran sg...@debian.org writes: This one time, at band camp, Goswin von Brederlow said: In my case I have a SATA Port Multiplier, last one I ever buy :), and it seems that takes a while to work after a boot. Sometimes its disks just aren't there fast enough during boot and for example

Bug#582488: Missing option to print the number of cores (excluding hyperthreads)

2010-05-21 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Package: coreutils Version: 8.4-1 Severity: wishlist File: /usr/bin/nproc Hi, linux is aware of cores and hyperthreads. It would be nice if one could ask nproc the number of actual cores as opposed to threads for the purpose of running cache intensive jobs where hyperthreading only slows things

Bug#469954: Maintainer is still/again active

2010-05-21 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Hi, just for the record the maintainer replied in private and is working on the source again. He said to expect a new release soon. MfG Goswin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Bug#581722: References missing manpage mallopt(3)

2010-05-15 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Package: manpages-dev Version: 3.23-1 Severity: normal File: /usr/share/man/man3/malloc.3.gz Hi, the malloc manpage mentions that MMAP_THRESHOLD can be adjusted using mallopt(3) but that manpage is missing. Similary malloc_hook mentions mallinfo(3) which is also missing. MfG Goswin --

Bug#581731: Bad option '--malloc-fill=0xcafebabe' is misleading

2010-05-15 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Package: valgrind Version: 1:3.5.0-3 Severity: normal Hi, I'm trying to track down uninitialized memory in some code so I would like it to have some nice recognisable values. Luckily valgrind has an option to initialize malloced memory, --malloc-fill. But trying to use it I always get this

Bug#531002: Bug#544481: apticron: apt-get dist-upgrade pulling required packages from unstable

2010-05-13 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Tiago Bortoletto Vaz ti...@debian.org writes: Hi all, On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 03:01:14PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: David Kalnischkies kalnischkies+deb...@gmail.com writes: [...] For apticron: can this be worked around or maybe just document ways the user can prevent it from

Bug#571255: Please fix this

2010-05-13 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Raphael Hertzog hert...@debian.org writes: On Thu, 13 May 2010, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: The only affect I see this will have is that an installed linux-image meta package will be updated. That might get a new kernel installed or not. If the minimal version is carefully chosen

Bug#580086: Messes up /etc/hosts on every call

2010-05-13 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Junichi Uekawa dan...@netfort.gr.jp writes: Hi, That's a good question. I'm not sure if there is an existing way to override hosts. Do you see any of the hooks run in the right timing for overriding hosts? Currently copy_local_configuration isn't configurable. I have no idea what hooks

Bug#469954: Klogic messes up connections and segfaults

2010-05-13 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Hi, I'm wondering if you have stoped careing for klogic? It's been over 3 years without a new release and klogic still has bugs[1]. Klogic simply is the only digital circuit editor and simulator I have found that has a usable GUI. It also is the only one that allows to define sub-circuits. On

Bug#571255: Please fix this

2010-05-12 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
m...@linux.it (Marco d'Itri) writes: On May 12, David Kalnischkies kalnischkies+deb...@gmail.com wrote: Good that i am not a developer so i can say crap and ask afterwards for pointers to a documentation which tells me why udev can't e.g. Breaks: linux-image-686 ( x), linux-image-amd64 ( x),

Bug#577759: closed by Michael Vogt m...@debian.org (Bug#577759: fixed in apt 0.7.26~exp4)

2010-05-07 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Hi, the problem still exists on ftp.debian.org. Apt-ftparchive needs to be updated and the kde-l10n entry for experimental needs to be regenrated. MfG Goswin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Bug#580152: dpkg: trigger - W: Unable to read /etc/apt/preferences.d/ - FileExists (2: No such file or directory)

2010-05-06 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
David Kalnischkies kalnischkies+deb...@gmail.com writes: 2010/5/5 Goswin von Brederlow goswin-...@web.de: David Kalnischkies kalnischkies+deb...@gmail.com writes: 2010/5/4 Raphael Hertzog hert...@debian.org: On Mon, 03 May 2010, Jonathan Nieder wrote:        Processing triggers for menu

Bug#576752: apt: should dpkg-source be run automatically when apt-getting a new source version?

2010-05-06 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
David Kalnischkies kalnischkies+deb...@gmail.com writes: Hi Michael Gilbert, 2010/4/8 Michael Gilbert michael.s.gilb...@gmail.com: hi, thanks for looking into this.  the two apt-gotted versions need to differ. for example getting kernel source from squeeze, then sid demonstrates the

Bug#580152: dpkg: trigger - W: Unable to read /etc/apt/preferences.d/ - FileExists (2: No such file or directory)

2010-05-05 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
David Kalnischkies kalnischkies+deb...@gmail.com writes: Hi *, 2010/5/4 Raphael Hertzog hert...@debian.org: On Mon, 03 May 2010, Jonathan Nieder wrote:        Processing triggers for menu ...        W: Unable to read /etc/apt/preferences.d/ - FileExists (2: No such file or directory)

Bug#578502: Missing biarch/multiarch/multilib support.

2010-05-03 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Tollef Fog Heen tfh...@err.no writes: severity 578502 wishlist thanks ]] Goswin von Brederlow | Hpasmd is a prebuild binary so I can't change it. It would be nice if | chrpath would support 32bit and 64bit elf format on i386, amd64, | sparc, ppc, s390, mips and mipsel. Yeah, it'd

Bug#579754: with a 3.0 (quilt) source

2010-05-03 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Package: reprepro Severity: normal It indeed seems to be a matter of giving the wrong error. Without _ it works. MfG Goswin -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64

Bug#580040: Requesting a limit of how much change an update can do

2010-05-03 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Package: reprepro Version: 4.0.2-1 Severity: normal Hi, I recently updated a verry old reprepro instance and it changed the interface for filter scripts. Before the update it would give the Packages.gz file as first argument while not it gives the uncompressed Packages. The filter script used

Bug#580086: Messes up /etc/hosts on every call

2010-05-03 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Package: pbuilder Version: 0.181 Severity: important Hi, I'm using pbuilder in an environment where local hostnames are resolved via NIS. Since I do not want to pollute the builder chroot with the NIS packages and don't want all hosts to be visible inside the chroot anyway I have added the

Bug#574956: dpkg drops zero-epoch in status file

2010-05-03 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Florian Weimer f...@deneb.enyo.de writes: * Integer overflow in epoch handling (i386)$ dpkg --compare-versions 4294967296:1 '' 4294967295:1 ; echo $? 1 (amd64)$ dpkg --compare-versions 4294967296:1 '' 4294967295:1 ; echo $? 0 Well, this is wrong if one is to take the wording of policy to

Bug#580040: Requesting a limit of how much change an update can do

2010-05-03 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Bernhard R. Link brl...@debian.org writes: * Goswin von Brederlow goswin-...@web.de [100503 12:18]: I recently updated a verry old reprepro instance and it changed the interface for filter scripts. Before the update it would give the Packages.gz file as first argument while not it gives

Bug#574956: dpkg drops zero-epoch in status file

2010-05-01 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Guillem Jover guil...@debian.org writes: Hi! On Fri, 2010-04-30 at 12:56:08 +0200, David Kalnischkies wrote: The problem: To compare versions with the same version number apt generates a hash over a few informations which are available online and in dpkgs status file: all dependencies and

Bug#579758: Explicit zero epoch confuses apt

2010-05-01 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Salvatore Bonaccorso salvatore.bonacco...@gmail.com writes: tag 579758 + pending confirmed thanks Hi Goswin On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 04:54:28PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Package: libconfigreader-simple-perl Version: 1.28-2 Severity: minor Hi, Package: libconfigreader-simple

Bug#579754: Fails with a 3.0 (quilt) source

2010-04-30 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Package: reprepro Version: 3.9.2-1~bpo40+1 Severity: normal Hi, I'm trying to include a 3.0 (quilt) source with multiple upstream tarballs and I'm getting the following error: # bin/ql include lenny /data/optdev/build/amd64/system/com/intel/11.1/intel-compiler_11.1-072-1_amd64.changes

Bug#579758: Explicit zero epoch confuses apt

2010-04-30 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Package: libconfigreader-simple-perl Version: 1.28-2 Severity: minor Hi, Package: libconfigreader-simple-perl Architecture: all Version: 1.28-2 Conflicts: squidtaild ( 0:2.1a6-5.4) Depends: perl Replaces: squidtaild ( 0:2.1a6-5.4) You explicitly specified a zero epoch for the version of

Bug#531002: Bug#544481: apticron: apt-get dist-upgrade pulling required packages from unstable

2010-04-29 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
David Kalnischkies kalnischkies+deb...@gmail.com writes: Hi .*, 2010/4/28 Matt Taggart tagg...@debian.org: 2) diffutils and dash are Priority: required/Essential: yes in unstable, but weren't in lenny. Every time we talk about the problem outlined here it boils down to: Why the user still

Bug#574956: keeps upgrading - to the same version

2010-04-29 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Celejar cele...@gmail.com writes: On Thu, 29 Apr 2010 23:17:59 +0200 David Kalnischkies kalnischkies+deb...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for your answer, it just that i have expressed my request in the wrong way - i thought of apt-cache policy libconfigreader-simple-perl in your first mail while

Bug#579408: dpkg-buildpackage could be more robust with 3.0 (quilt) and unapplied patches

2010-04-27 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Package: dpkg-dev Version: 1.15.7.1 Severity: wishlist File: /usr/bin/dpkg-buildpackage Hi, I just run into the problem with the following command sequence: dpkg-source -x foo.dsc cd */ quilt pop edit file quilt refresh dpkg-buildpackage -b I simply forgot to quilt push -a again before

Bug#578852: prohibit usage of Breaks for file conflicts

2010-04-26 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Guillem Jover guil...@debian.org writes: Hi! On Fri, 2010-04-23 at 10:51:56 +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Package: debian-policy Version: 3.8.4.0 Severity: normal to test the actual behaviour of dpkg for this situation I created the following 5 packages: [...] In conclusion

Bug#567510: Requesting some new checks for policy 8.2 and multiarch

2010-04-24 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Package: lintian Version: 2.3.4 Severity: normal Hi, Raphael Geissert suggested on irc that I write some t/tests/* to show what kind of test should be done. So attached my first ever work on lintian that verifies the (non-existant) tests for policy-8.2 compliance and sanity checks multiarch

Bug#578764: Please default to 'commit -a' when no changes were added

2010-04-24 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Nicolas Pitre n...@fluxnic.net writes: On Fri, 23 Apr 2010, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: I personaly have to work with different SCMs every day and every time I have to switch minds to work with each specific one. Making git commit work less surprising would be one less thing to keep in mind

Bug#578764: Please default to 'commit -a' when no changes were added

2010-04-24 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Jonathan Nieder jrnie...@gmail.com writes: Hi again, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: so far two people have suggested an alias for this and both have completly failed to achived the desired result. I had thought Adam already suggested using ‘git diff-index --cached --quiet HEAD’ [1

Bug#578852: prohibit usage of Breaks for file conflicts

2010-04-23 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
...@frosties:~/t% dpkg -s bar Package: bar Status: install ok installed Priority: optional Section: misc Installed-Size: 44 Maintainer: Goswin von Brederlow goswin-...@web.de Architecture: all Version: 2b Replaces: foo (= 1) Breaks: foo (= 1) Description: dummy foo dummy package to test m

Bug#578764: Please default to 'commit -a' when no changes were added

2010-04-23 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Nicolas Pitre n...@fluxnic.net writes: On Thu, 22 Apr 2010, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Nicolas Pitre n...@fluxnic.net writes: On Thu, 22 Apr 2010, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Exact. It is therefore not progress to impose some inconvenience to one work flow in order to make another

Bug#578764: Please default to 'commit -a' when no changes were added

2010-04-23 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Matthieu Moy matthieu@grenoble-inp.fr writes: Junio C Hamano gits...@pobox.com writes: Think of this sequence: There's another case where it would be hard to decide what's The Right Thing: vi existing-file.c # do some changes vi new-file.c # create the file git add new-file.c

Bug#578764: Please default to 'commit -a' when no changes were added

2010-04-23 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Adam Brewster adambrews...@gmail.com writes: What _you_ can do though, is this:       git config --global alias.ci commit -a But then when I accidentally use 'git ci' while having an index the index gets ignored and all changed files get commited in one big mess. Given how seldom I need an

Bug#578764: Please default to 'commit -a' when no changes were added

2010-04-23 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Jonathan Nieder jrnie...@gmail.com writes: Adam Brewster wrote: Consider $ echo -e '#!/bin/bash\nif git diff-tree --quiet HEAD; then git commit -a; else git commit; fi' `git --exec-path`/git-ci $ chmod 555 `git --exec-path`/git-ci Or just put it in your $PATH. :) By the way, all this

Bug#578764: Please default to 'commit -a' when no changes were added

2010-04-23 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Jon Seymour jon.seym...@gmail.com writes: On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 7:48 AM, Adam Brewster adambrews...@gmail.com wrote: Consider $ echo -e '#!/bin/bash\nif git diff-tree --quiet HEAD; then git commit -a; else git commit; fi' `git --exec-path`/git-ci $ chmod 555 `git --exec-path`/git-ci

Bug#578872: --auto-deconfigure makes dpkg think a package is unpacked twice

2010-04-23 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Package: dpkg Version: 1.15.5.6 Severity: normal Hi, bar 2 has Breacks: foo (= 1). Updating bar and foo in the wrong order gives: m...@frosties:~/t% sudo dpkg --auto-deconfigure -i bar_2_all.deb foo_2_all.deb dpkg: considering deconfiguration of foo, which would be broken by installation of

Bug#578764: Please default to 'commit -a' when no changes were added

2010-04-23 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Björn Steinbrink b.steinbr...@gmx.de writes: On 2010.04.22 22:37:05 +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Is there a risk? You do get an editor with all the files affected listed giving you a big fat warning what you are about to commit. And if I happen to have two unrelated changes in a single

Bug#578657: apt-cache policy should use TABs in format string to ease l10n

2010-04-23 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
David Kalnischkies kalnischkies+deb...@gmail.com writes: Hi Ralf Gesellensetter Julian Andres Klode, First of all i need to say: Nice find, i have looked at the output many times now but never saw the obvious… On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 05:23:28PM +0200, RalfGesellensetter wrote:

Bug#578852: debian-policy: prohibit usage of Breaks for file conflicts

2010-04-23 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Eugene V. Lyubimkin jac...@debian.org writes: Package: debian-policy Version: 3.8.4.0 Severity: normal From Debian policy, paragraph 7.3: -8- If the breaking package also overwrites some files from the older package, it should use Replaces (not Conflicts) to ensure this goes smoothly.

Bug#578854: debian-policy: Wording about Conflicts needs to be clarified

2010-04-23 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Steve Langasek vor...@debian.org writes: On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 09:27:32AM +0200, Raphaël Hertzog wrote: I stumbled upon policy 7.4: A Conflicts entry should almost never have an earlier than version clause. This would prevent dpkg from upgrading or installing the package which

Bug#578852: debian-policy: prohibit usage of Breaks for file conflicts

2010-04-23 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Eugene V. Lyubimkin jac...@debian.org writes: Goswin von Brederlow wrote: No. They can trivially see if two packages have conflicting files. Ther= e is a Replaces entry in the package. Two package with conflicting files may not have Replaces if they are tota= lly different

Bug#578852: debian-policy: prohibit usage of Breaks for file conflicts

2010-04-23 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Eugene V. Lyubimkin jac...@debian.org writes: package debian-policy retitle 578852 clarify installation of package having reverse-Replaces thanks Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote: [...] My mail client somewhy garbaged the output in my previous message, sorry for that. I think the title was

Bug#578267: Missing option to skip default configuration

2010-04-23 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
David Kalnischkies kalnischkies+deb...@gmail.com writes: 2010/4/20 Goswin von Brederlow goswin-...@web.de: David Kalnischkies kalnischkies+deb...@gmail.com writes: 2010/4/18 Goswin von Brederlow goswin-...@web.de: And even if the script knows about it the setting can not be overriden

Bug#578764: Please default to 'commit -a' when no changes were added

2010-04-23 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Wincent Colaiuta w...@wincent.com writes: El 23/04/2010, a las 11:03, Goswin von Brederlow escribió: You all say the index is such a great thing. So I might use it eventually. Other people might use it 1 out of 10 times. Yet other people use it 9 out of 10 times. Can you at least accept

Bug#578597: Recommend usage of dpkg-buildflags to initialize CFLAGS and al.

2010-04-22 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Bill Allombert bill.allomb...@math.u-bordeaux1.fr writes: On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 09:10:54AM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: Package: debian-policy Severity: wishlist The desired outcome is that all package grab the values directly from dpkg-buildflags and that we can stop exporting the

Bug#578762: Missing a SEE ALSO section

2010-04-22 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Package: git-core Version: 1:1.6.6-1 Severity: wishlist File: /usr/share/man/man1/git-diff.1.gz Hi, we had a discussion about the learning curve of git on irc and one example was how a new user is supposed to find git-format-patch. He would probably look at git-diff because that is the most

Bug#578764: Please default to 'commit -a' when no changes were added

2010-04-22 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Package: git-core Version: 1:1.6.6-1 Severity: wishlist File: /usr/bin/git Hi, in most (all but git?) RCS a plain 'commit' without any arguments commits all changes (to registered files). Git seems to be the odd one out and tells for example: % git commit # On branch master # Changed but not

Bug#578783: Requesting config option for multiarch / cross-compile setups

2010-04-22 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Package: dpkg Version: 1.15.5.6 Severity: wishlist Hi, with apt adding the first parts for multiarch support and multiarch debs appearing in the archive I think it is time to think about how multiarch systems should be configured. Since dpkg is the common and lowest point I beliefe the

Bug#578764: Please default to 'commit -a' when no changes were added

2010-04-22 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Jonathan Nieder jrnie...@gmail.com writes: [topic: making ‘git commit’ more helpful when there are no changes registered in the index] Hi Goswin, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: in most (all but git?) RCS a plain 'commit' without any arguments commits all changes (to registered files

Bug#578764: Please default to 'commit -a' when no changes were added

2010-04-22 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Nicolas Pitre n...@fluxnic.net writes: On Thu, 22 Apr 2010, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: I have never ever needed anything but git commit -a git commit file file ... When I was using CVS/SVN that's what I thought too. I do commit often and commit early and I start and finish one thing

Bug#563402: RFH: Bug#563402: ia32-libs broken on ia64

2010-04-21 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Torsten Werner twer...@debian.org writes: Hi, changing the link as described in http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=563402#47 will certainly help and won't make anything worse. Is someone working on that? Cheers, Torsten Try

Bug#578680: Adding -ICVS disables better default regexp for 3.0 (native) sources

2010-04-21 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Package: devscripts Version: 2.10.61 Severity: normal File: /usr/bin/debuild Hi, the new 3.0 source formats have an extensive regexp that excludes most version control system files making it unneccessary to manually exclude them. But when building a 3.0 (native) source debuild automatically adds

Bug#578682: multilib support missing (+ cross-compile support)

2010-04-21 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Package: dpkg-dev Version: 1.15.7 Severity: wishlist File: /usr/bin/dpkg-buildflags Hi, for those architectures that support multible ABIs via gcc-multilib it would be nice to get the right flags for each ABI. E.g on amd64: dpkg-buildflags -ai386 --get CFLAGS -g -O2 -m32 This could be further

Bug#578267: Missing option to skip default configuration

2010-04-20 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
David Kalnischkies kalnischkies+deb...@gmail.com writes: Hi Goswin von Brederlow, 2010/4/18 Goswin von Brederlow goswin-...@web.de: There is also the matter of new options beeing added to apt that existing scripts don't know about and therefore won't override. Specifically APT

Bug#578502: Missing biarch/multiarch/multilib support.

2010-04-20 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Package: chrpath Version: 0.13-2 Severity: normal Hi, I'm trying to package hpasm and I get the following error on amd64: % chrpath -d .../debian/hpasm/usr/sbin/hpasmd `.../debian/hpasm/usr/sbin/hpasmd' probably isn't a 64-bit LSB-first ELF file. elf_open: Exec format error % file

Bug#575761: x86 architecture names are confusing

2010-04-19 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk writes: Package: release-notes Severity: normal Tags: squeeze lenny The release notes use the long architecture names 'AMD64' and 'Intel x86' for our architectures 'amd64' and 'i386'. The name 'AMD64' sometimes confuses users with Intel x86-64 chips, who

Bug#578267: Missing option to skip default configuration

2010-04-18 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Package: apt Version: 0.7.26~exp3 Severity: normal Hi, several sources, projects and user use apt/aptitude as user to download debian packages and sources. This usualy involves specifying -c and/or multiple -o options. The problem now is that even with -c the default configuration file is

Bug#536029: support to download index files for multiple architectures

2010-04-16 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Package: apt Version: 0.7.26~exp3 Severity: normal Hi, seems that while rewriting the patch you broke a few things: 1) The parser is to strict and gives bad errors: deb [arch=amd64,i386] http://chocos/debian sid main contrib non-free E: Malformed line 1 in source list

Bug#536029: support to download index files for multiple architectures

2010-04-16 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
David Kalnischkies kalnischkies+deb...@gmail.com writes: 3) Segfaults if an architecture is excluded APT::Architectures={ amd64;i386;armel; }; deb     [ arch=amd64,i386 ] http://chocos/debian sid main contrib non-free Worked fine for me. (TM) My local repository has no amd64 so i excluded

Bug#577759: kde-l10n has incomplete and contradictory checksum information in experimental

2010-04-14 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Package: ftp.debian.org Hi, the kde-l10n entry in experimentals Sources.gz is missing md5sums for some of its files and the sha1 and sha256 entries disagree. This breaks the trust chain and kde-l10n can't be verified properly (= critical). MfG Goswin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#265985: Will not be fixed in kernel

2010-04-14 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Jurij Smakov ju...@wooyd.org writes: Hello, The upstream bug that I've filed has been updated, saying that fixing it (switching to fixed-size fields) would break the backwards compatibility, and since there is a replacement (logging via nfnetlink_log/ulogd2), it's not going to be fixed

Bug#265985: doesn't work on sparc64

2010-04-08 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Package: ulogd Severity: normal Please note that the less intrusive patch only fixes the issue for sparc. It does not fix the unaligned trap for alpha (#348532), but that is easy to add. It also does not fix the issue for ppc, s390, i386 (#499607), mips or mipsel. Those platforms have both

Bug#265985: ulogd doesn't work with mixed bitness

2010-04-05 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
@@ +ulogd (1.24-3a0.mrvn.1) unstable; urgency=low + + * Hack to make 32bitulogd work with 64bit kernel. + + -- Goswin von Brederlow goswin-...@web.de Tue, 06 Apr 2010 00:16:38 + + ulogd (1.24-3) unstable; urgency=low * Acknowledge NMUs. diff -u ulogd-1.24/debian/patches/ipt_ULOG.patch

Bug#265985: Patch: hardcoded handling for 64/32bit and alignment

2010-04-05 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
issues. This needs to be done dynamically depnding on the running kernel and for all 32bit archs that support 64bit kernel. Author: Goswin von Brederlow goswin-...@web.de Bug-Debian: http://bugs.debian.org/265985 Last-Update: 2010-04-06 Index: ulogd-1.24/ulogd.c

Bug#433462: Suggestions to fix #433462 (add free space info to reportbug)

2010-03-17 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Sandro Tosi mo...@debian.org writes: Hi all, in bug #433462 there is a request to add free space information in reportbug standard info appended to bug report. It's a valid request, that I want to fulfill, but there are some aspects I'd like to discuss. If the software can not write data

Bug#573332: Missing grep -f FILE equivalent

2010-03-10 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Package: dctrl-tools Version: 2.14 Severity: wishlist File: /usr/bin/grep-dctrl Hi, yet again I find myself confronted by the problem of filtering a Packages file by a a list from a file. With grep one can use grep -f FILE to avoid building a HUGE command line for such cases. That also

Bug#563402: [Pkg-ia32-libs-maintainers] Bug#563402: Any progress ?

2010-03-07 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Sylvestre Ledru sylves...@debian.org writes: Is there any progress on this ? sun-java6 still not build: https://buildd.debian.org/fetch.cgi?pkg=sun-java6arch=ia64ver=6.18-2stamp=1265956947file=log Thanks Sylvestre Can you confirm that updating the link fixes the problem? Or are there more

Bug#572939: Busybox lacks switch_root command

2010-03-07 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Package: busybox Version: 1:1.14.2-2 Severity: normal Hi, please add the switch_root command to Debians busybox that the linux Documentation/filesystems/ramfs-rootfs-initramfs.txt describes. Since it is impossible to get rid of libc6 in the initramfs I looked into getting rid of klibc instead.

Bug#571776: debian-policy: Libraries should be allowed to not provide shlibs when they provide symbols file

2010-03-07 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Russ Allbery r...@debian.org writes: Raphael Hertzog hert...@debian.org writes: Russ, dpkg-gensymbols could be modified to do that shlibs generation. Feel free to file a wishlist request against dpkg-dev. Will do. Thanks! I agree with Mike that for people already maintaining a symbols

Bug#572571: packages SHOULD ship checksums (a-la dh_md5sums, but better)

2010-03-06 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Russ Allbery r...@debian.org writes: Bill Allombert bill.allomb...@math.u-bordeaux1.fr writes: On Thu, Mar 04, 2010 at 11:00:45PM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: Currently, packages ships file checksums which are computed at package build time by the means of dh_md5sums (usually), and

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