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

2010-03-05 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Stefano Zacchiroli z...@debian.org writes: Package: debian-policy Severity: wishlist Version: 3.8.4.0 [ For the full context, see the -devel thread starting at http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2010/03/msg00038.html ] On Thu, Mar 04, 2010 at 01:12:26PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:

Bug#572259: Wishlist: command (or option) to install new version of package only if was already installed

2010-03-03 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Christian Hudon chr...@pianocktail.org writes: Package: apt Version: 0.7.26 Severity: wishlist Hi, I've been wishing more than once for a version of the install command that works as follows: it installs the new version of the package only it said package was already installed on the

Bug#555743: dpkg-gencontrol: add support for Description:-s in the Source package stanza

2010-03-03 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Stefano Zacchiroli z...@debian.org writes: On Tue, Mar 02, 2010 at 11:05:14AM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: 0) (Starting intuition) most source package have a description per se, intuitively, that is the same description you'd find on the upstream homepage that made you download a

Bug#562506: init scripts should not use set -e

2010-03-03 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Russ Allbery r...@debian.org writes: martin f krafft madd...@debian.org writes: I still think set -e is a good idea, but I realise it boils down to preference. If your experience is representative, then it's probably better to advocate not setting set -e in init scripts. What about

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

2010-03-01 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Russ Allbery r...@debian.org writes: Mike Hommey m...@glandium.org writes: I first though having dh_makeshlibs do the right thing would be good enough, but that would also put an unnecessary burden on those that don't use debhelper. Is there any way that dpkg-gensymbols could do it

Bug#571717: Should not import orig.tar.gz that contain .git

2010-02-27 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Package: git-buildpackage Version: 0.4.63 Severity: normal File: /usr/bin/git-import-orig Hi, I accidentally included .git in the orig.tar.gz and when importing that with git-import-orig it silently overwrite the debian .git dir with the upstream .git dir with catastrophic effects.

Bug#567468: md homehost

2010-02-24 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
martin f krafft madd...@debian.org writes: also sprach Goswin von Brederlow goswin-...@web.de [2010.02.23.0831 +0100]: Both filesystems and LVM have UUIDs. Does dm-crypt / LUKS have one too? LVM already identifies PVs using UUIDs, so if you are using anything-on-LVM-on-md, you need

Bug#567468: md homehost

2010-02-24 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Neil Brown ne...@suse.de writes: On Tue, 23 Feb 2010 07:27:00 +0100 martin f krafft madd...@madduck.net wrote: The only issue homehost protects against, I think, is machines that use /dev/md0 directly from grub.conf or fstab. That is exactly correct. If no code or config file depends on a

Bug#567468: md homehost

2010-02-24 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Neil Brown ne...@suse.de writes: On Wed, 24 Feb 2010 14:41:16 +0100 Goswin von Brederlow goswin-...@web.de wrote: Neil Brown ne...@suse.de writes: On Tue, 23 Feb 2010 07:27:00 +0100 martin f krafft madd...@madduck.net wrote: The only issue homehost protects against, I think

Bug#567468: md homehost

2010-02-22 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Daniel Reurich dan...@centurion.net.nz writes: Could you please put forth the argument for why the homehost must match, and why unconditional auto-assembly is not desirable? Realistically, what problems are we protecting against? I can think of one or two. In the case of network boot,

Bug#567468: md homehost

2010-02-22 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
martin f krafft madd...@madduck.net writes: also sprach Neil Brown ne...@suse.de [2010.02.23.0330 +0100]: The problem to protect against is any consequence of rearranging devices while the host is off, including attaching devices that previously were attached to a different computer. How

Bug#570753: Segfaults if extended attribute list is not 0 terminated

2010-02-21 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Package: attr Version: 1:2.4.44-1 Severity: normal File: /usr/bin/getfattr Hi, I just added support for extended attributes to a fuse filesystem and forgot to add a final 0 termination to the attribute list. getfattr then segfaults. getfattr should ensure the data it gets back from the kernel is

Bug#567468: (boot time consequences of) Linux mdadm superblock question.

2010-02-21 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
martin f krafft madd...@madduck.net writes: also sprach Daniel Reurich dan...@centurion.net.nz [2010.02.19.0351 +0100]: But if a generated 'system uuid' value (I just suggested the root fs UUID because it would be highly unlikely to be unchanged, and nobody would be likely to fiddle with it)

Bug#570695: Fails with absolute symlinks

2010-02-20 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Package: makejail Version: 0.0.5-7 Severity: grave Hi, on amd64 the dynamic linker is /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 but /lib64 is a symlink to /lib. When makejail looks for missing files it correctly detects that /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 is missing. It then detects that /lib64 is a link to /lib

Bug#570697: fails to ldd existing binaries

2010-02-20 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Package: makejail Version: 0.0.5-7 Severity: normal Hi, in a wrapper around makejail I copy busybox into the chroot and create hardlinks for all the commands busybox supports. Then I start makejail telling it to eun busybox in the chroot. Makejail then just says busybox already exists and does

Bug#570707: Should use /proc/mounts in favour of /etc/mtab

2010-02-20 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Package: e2fsprogs Version: 1.41.9-1 Severity: normal File: /sbin/fsck.ext3 Hi, I'm experimenting with running fsck for / from the initramfs to avoid the extra reboot when the filesystem is changed. The initramfs has no /etc/mtab (as that is obsolete anyway) but /proc/mounts. I think it would be

Bug#570706: switch_root hangs if /dev is not mounted

2010-02-20 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Package: util-linux Version: 2.16.2-0 Severity: normal File: /sbin/switch_root Hi, I made a small initramfs to boot a system that ends with calling switch_root. The initramfs contains a static /dev dir and no udev. So nothing is mounted on /dev. Switch_root then says: switch_root: failed to

Bug#570607: Does not create chroot dir, fails without error

2010-02-19 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Package: makejail Version: 0.0.5-7 Severity: normal Hi, I just started trying out makejail with a simple example: chroot=/tmp/chroot testCommandsInsideJail=[ls] % sudo makejail config.py Loading configuration file config.py Defining testCommandsInsideJail = ['ls'] Defining chroot =

Bug#570612: Missing option to copy files to a different location inside the chroot

2010-02-19 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Package: makejail Version: 0.0.5-7 Severity: wishlist Hi, I'm missing an option to copy files from outside the chroot to a different location inside the chroot. Say I want to make a jail for apache. 'makejail apache.py' will then see an access to /etc/apache/httpd.conf and copy that file into

Bug#570363: Can't specify a user name for the git.debian.org

2010-02-18 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Package: dh-ocaml Version: 0.9.3 Severity: important File: /usr/bin/dom-git-checkout Hi, my local user is different to my user on git.debian.org. Combine that with the fact ssh refuses to honor the User setting from .ssh/config and I am unable to check out any git repository. dom-git-checkout

Bug#570365: Bad pagetable: 000f [#4] SMP

2010-02-18 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Package: nvidia-kernel-source Version: 190.53-2 Severity: normal Hi, starting X under xen leaves the console broken. I just build a xen pv-ops kernel from git (2.6.31.6 + xen patches) and compiled the nvidia-kernel module against it using the instructions from

Bug#570390: Breaks nvidia-libvdpau, should recommend nvidia-libvdpau1

2010-02-18 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Package: nvidia-glx Version: 190.53-2 Severity: important Hi, after updating nvidia-glx and nvidia-kernel-source mplayer stoped working with vdpau. The problem is that nvidia-libvdpau seems incompatible to nvidia-glx (not surprising). What is needed is nvidia-libvdpau1 which is 190.xxx. This

Bug#570363: Can't specify a user name for the git.debian.org

2010-02-18 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Mehdi Dogguy me...@dogguy.org writes: severity 570363 wishlist thanks Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Package: dh-ocaml Version: 0.9.3 Severity: important File: /usr/bin/dom-git-checkout Hi, my local user is different to my user on git.debian.org. Combine that with the fact ssh

Bug#570390: [pkg-nvidia-devel] Bug#570390: Breaks nvidia-libvdpau, should recommend nvidia-libvdpau1

2010-02-18 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Andres Mejia mcita...@gmail.com writes: On Thursday 18 February 2010 09:44:44 Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Package: nvidia-glx Version: 190.53-2 Severity: important Hi, after updating nvidia-glx and nvidia-kernel-source mplayer stoped working with vdpau. The problem is that nvidia

Bug#568251: [Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#568251: Bug#568251: Please support fsck on shutdown

2010-02-16 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh h...@debian.org writes: On Wed, 10 Feb 2010, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: The suggestion here is far simpler. Just do it on boot like now and on shutdown without ever blocking. That would mean that on boot under What stops the time-based trigger from not being

Bug#545464: Zombie cross packages

2010-02-10 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Neil Williams codeh...@debian.org writes: tag 545464 - patch thanks The plan for the transition will be: 0. fix dpkg-cross to properly create the packages that should have been made in the latest release. 1. dpkg-cross puts no files in the new multiarch locations, no matter what - this

Bug#569141: Please ignore backup conffiles

2010-02-10 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Package: schroot Version: 1.2.2-0+lenny1 Severity: normal Hi, I just created a new chroot config and didn't get it right the first time. So I edited the config to fix the error. But then I get: ql-dev:~# schroot -l E: /etc/schroot/chroot.d/lucid~: [lucid] location: line 1 [lucid]: Required key

Bug#563726: Should open file if fd 0 and futimesat() is ENOSYS

2010-02-10 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Package: tar Version: 1.22-2 Severity: normal Hi, first let me say that this bug is pretty anoying as it makes it impossible to bootstrap a recent Debian or Ubuntu here. Please make sure this gets fixed for Squeeze and Ubuntu Lucid. Now, looking at the source and strace I see that tar first

Bug#569141: [buildd-tools-devel] Bug#569141: Please ignore backup conffiles

2010-02-10 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Roger Leigh rle...@codelibre.net writes: On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 11:08:00AM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Package: schroot Version: 1.2.2-0+lenny1 Severity: normal Hi, I just created a new chroot config and didn't get it right the first time. So I edited the config to fix

Bug#545464: Zombie cross packages

2010-02-10 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Neil Williams codeh...@debian.org writes: On Wed, 10 Feb 2010 09:07:51 +0100 Goswin von Brederlow goswin-...@web.de wrote: 3. packages that contain multiarch metadata in debian/control get an explanation in the -cross package description and that's it - these are henceforth termed zombie

Bug#568251: [Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#568251: Please support fsck on shutdown

2010-02-09 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh h...@debian.org writes: On Fri, 05 Feb 2010, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh h...@debian.org writes: On Wed, 03 Feb 2010, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: recently we discussed the anoyance that is fsck during boot on irc and came

Bug#568251: [Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#568251: Please support fsck on shutdown

2010-02-09 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh h...@debian.org writes: On Tue, 09 Feb 2010, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh h...@debian.org writes: Sort of. Boot either has to check any dirty filesystems, or halt and go into a sulogin-or-shutdown loop. You must NOT skip a dirty

Bug#568251: [Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#568251: Please support fsck on shutdown

2010-02-05 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh h...@debian.org writes: On Wed, 03 Feb 2010, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: recently we discussed the anoyance that is fsck during boot on irc and came to the conclusion that on many systems the shutdown would be a btter time to do this. As long as fsck on startup

Bug#568251: Please support fsck on shutdown

2010-02-03 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Package: initscripts Version: 2.87dsf-8 Severity: wishlist File: /etc/init.d/checkfs.sh Hi, recently we discussed the anoyance that is fsck during boot on irc and came to the conclusion that on many systems the shutdown would be a btter time to do this. Specifically consider a desktop at work.

Bug#568252: Please support running fsck for / from an initramfs

2010-02-03 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Package: initscripts Version: 2.87dsf-8 Severity: wishlist Hi, if / needs to be checked and the check modifies it then one must reboot. On some systems this adds minutes to the boot process. This extra reboot could be avoided if the initramfs would already check / before mounting it. MfG

Bug#568104: cron.weekly job has sensless output

2010-02-02 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Package: apt-xapian-index Version: 0.22 Severity: important Hi, I just got a mail from cron: /etc/cron.weekly/apt-xapian-index: Reading package lists... 0% Reading package lists... 0% Reading package lists... 7% Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... 0% Building

Bug#567785: Creates circular link /usr/share/doc/thunar-data/thunar-data

2010-01-31 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Package: thunar-data Severity: normal Hi, I just purged thunar-data and got the following error: Purging configuration files for thunar-data ... dpkg: warning: while removing thunar-data, directory '/usr/share/doc/thunar-data' not empty so not removed. Inspeciting the problem I see:

Bug#567785: [Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#567785: Creates circular link /usr/share/doc/thunar-data/thunar-data

2010-01-31 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Yves-Alexis Perez cor...@debian.org writes: On 31/01/2010 13:55, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Package: thunar-data Severity: normal Hi, I just purged thunar-data and got the following error: Purging configuration files for thunar-data ... dpkg: warning: while removing thunar-data

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

2010-01-29 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Package: lintian Version: 2.3.1 Severity: wishlist Hi, I don't know enough about lintian myself to write the tests below but I think it would be good to have them. Any help writing them would be welcome by me. Policy 8.2 is there to ensure upgrades of library packages will go smoothly even when

Bug#545464: Please build full -cross packages by default still

2010-01-29 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Package: dpkg-cross Version: 2.5.5 Severity: normal Hi, on top of the multiarch support in dpkg-cross looking broken (it just skips multiarch packages instead of creating a dummy here) the current dpkg does not support installing the multiarch package for foreign architectures anyway. For that

Bug#384424: possible mishandling of similarily-named shlibs with dashes

2010-01-28 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Joey Hess jo...@debian.org writes: Goswin von Brederlow wrote: The entries are equivalent except that the symbols files matches against the full SONAME instead of trying to split it. So nothing is lost while something is gained. I agree in theory, less sure about practice. If someone can

Bug#566861: breaks mercurial

2010-01-28 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Joey Hess jo...@debian.org writes: Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Didn't know the name for _darcs. Would it be possible to get a list from dpkg? @Dpkg::Source::Package::tar_ignore_default_pattern is a list in dpkg, but it has a lot of other junk in it including things like *.o that dh_clean

Bug#384424: possible mishandling of similarily-named shlibs with dashes

2010-01-27 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Package: debhelper Version: 7.4.11 Severity: normal Hi, I recently run into a similar porblem of badly formated sonames causing a broken (incomplete in my case) shlibs file. Both dh_makeshlibs and dpkg-shlibdeps use the same patterns to extract the name and version from SONAME: name.so.ver

Bug#566861: breaks mercurial

2010-01-27 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
of packages debhelper suggests: ii dh-make 0.50 tool that converts source archives -- no debconf information Description: Prune version control system directories in dh_clean. Closes: #566861 Author: Goswin von Brederlow goswin-...@web.de Bug-Debian: http://bugs.debian.org

Bug#384424: possible mishandling of similarily-named shlibs with dashes

2010-01-27 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Joey Hess jo...@debian.org writes: Goswin von Brederlow wrote: So my proposed solution would be for dh_makeshlibs to stop creating shlibs files at all and create symbols files instead, with or without actual symbols as the user specifies. That is a pretty radical approach! Are we really

Bug#566861: breaks mercurial

2010-01-27 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Joey Hess jo...@debian.org writes: Goswin von Brederlow wrote: attached a patch that prunes away the common revision control system directories in dh_clean. Also prunes quilts .pc directory. I dislike the idea of having to maintain this list in yet another place. Your list

Bug#566820: lintian: Warn about missing debian/source/format, advise switch to new 3.0 source formats

2010-01-25 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Raphaël Hertzog hert...@debian.org writes: We could also add a tag using-old-source-format that warns of specifying 1.0 in that file. Obviously this one should start among the pedantic tags but its importance might be increased over time once we decide to really deprecate the old format. I

Bug#566837: dpkg-gencontrol: warning: unknown substitution variable ${shlibs:Depends}

2010-01-25 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Package: dpkg-dev Version: 1.15.5.5 Severity: wishlist File: /usr/bin/dpkg-gencontrol Hi, when I build a package I get dpkg-gencontrol: warning: unknown substitution variable ${shlibs:Depends} Since the package builds multiple debs it would be nice to know for which package the

Bug#566861: dh_clean breaks mercurial

2010-01-25 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Package: debhelper Version: 7.4.9 Severity: normal File: /usr/bin/dh_clean Hi, I have an upstream orig.tar.gz that contains autom4te.cache directories. Yeah, I know, bad pstream. But that is how the orig.tar.gz is. I've imported the upstream source into mercurial using pristine-tar, added my

Bug#557623: closed by Raphaël Hertzog hert...@debian.org (Bug#260664: fixed in quilt 0.48-5)

2010-01-24 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Changes: quilt (0.48-5) unstable; urgency=low . * Include debian/patches/backport-remember-locations cherry-picked from the upstream Git repository to remember the values of QUILT_PATCHES and QUILT_SERIES between multiple invocations. Closes: #260664 Is that my patch or did

Bug#566671: Fails to purge

2010-01-24 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Package: ogre-plugins-cgprogrammanager Version: 1.6.1-1 Severity: serious m...@frosties:~% sudo dpkg --purge ogre-plugins-cgprogrammanager (Reading database ... 142115 files and directories currently installed.) Removing ogre-plugins-cgprogrammanager ...

Bug#566683: trying to overwrite '/etc/bash_completion.d/xm', which is also in package xen-tools 0:4.1-1

2010-01-24 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Package: bash-completion, xen-tools Version: 1:1.0-3 Severity: serious Either bash-completion or xen-tools is missing a Replaces and then other should drop the file. (Reading database ... 142148 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace bash-completion 1:1.0-3 (using

Bug#566683: trying to overwrite '/etc/bash_completion.d/xm', which is also in package xen-tools 0:4.1-1

2010-01-24 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Jan Wagner w...@cyconet.org writes: Hi Goswin, On Sunday 24 January 2010, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Either bash-completion or xen-tools is missing a Replaces and then other should drop the file. maybe you have noticed, that xen-tools was removed from testing and sid and even the bug

Bug#566744: Fails if apt-cross is not installed

2010-01-24 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Package: libdebian-dpkgcross-perl Version: 2.5.5 Severity: normal Tags: patch Hi, if apt-cross is not installed then it fails to parse the non-existant config. Patch attached. MfG Goswin -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500,

Bug#566249: Missing support for broken SONAME libfoo.so

2010-01-22 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Package: dpkg-dev Version: 1.15.4.1 Severity: normal File: /usr/bin/dpkg-shlibdeps Hi, in the process of packaging the Intel pro c/c++ compiler I run into the problem that their libraries have broken SONAME libfoo.so. They do not have any soversion at all. Because of this dpkg-shlibdeps ignores

Bug#566249: Missing support for broken SONAME libfoo.so

2010-01-22 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Guillem Jover guil...@debian.org writes: Hi! On Fri, 2010-01-22 at 13:55:00 +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Package: dpkg-dev Version: 1.15.4.1 Severity: normal File: /usr/bin/dpkg-shlibdeps in the process of packaging the Intel pro c/c++ compiler I run into the problem

Bug#566249: Missing support for broken SONAME libfoo.so

2010-01-22 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Raphael Hertzog hert...@debian.org writes: On Fri, 22 Jan 2010, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: in the process of packaging the Intel pro c/c++ compiler I run into the problem that their libraries have broken SONAME libfoo.so. They do not have any soversion at all. Because of this dpkg-shlibdeps

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

2010-01-21 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Hi, lacking any access to ia64 I'm wondering if any porter can help with Bug#563402. Is there actualy something wrong in ia32-libs (and then what) or is merulo[1] just not capable of running 32bit x86 binaries? MfG Goswin -- [1] https://db.debian.org/machines.cgi?host=3Dmerulo -- To

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

2010-01-21 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
dann frazier da...@dannf.org writes: On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 06:30:14PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Hi, lacking any access to ia64 I'm wondering if any porter can help with Bug#563402. Is there actualy something wrong in ia32-libs (and then what) or is merulo[1] just not capable

Bug#563737: smarter cleaning of /var/lib/apt/lists

2010-01-20 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Julian Andres Klode j...@debian.org writes: Am Dienstag, den 05.01.2010, 11:51 +1300 schrieb martin f krafft: Package: apt Version: 0.7.25 Severity: wishlist Moving around a lot, I often switch my Debian mirrors. geo.debian.org is not really an option as that doesn't allow me to use

Bug#563737: smarter cleaning of /var/lib/apt/lists

2010-01-20 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Julian Andres Klode j...@debian.org writes: On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 05:59:21PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Julian Andres Klode j...@debian.org writes: So maybe index files should be referenced by their checksum instead of host,port,path. That way apt would download Packages.gz from

Bug#565894: Missing extern C in include files

2010-01-19 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Package: ocaml-nox Version: 3.11.1-3 Severity: normal File: /usr/lib/ocaml/caml/memory.h Hi, when using C++ to write bindings one needs to encapsulate the ocaml includes with extern C { #include caml/memory.h } The include files themself should already contain this just like many other

Bug#565901: Limit number of leeching torrents

2010-01-19 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Package: rtorrent Version: 0.8.5-1 Severity: wishlist Hi, when I wake up in the morning I usualy scan for new torrents to download and download them into my queue directory that rtorrent watches. Rtorrent then starts to leech all those torrents at the same time. Since the torrents are fast

Bug#562606: FTBFS: unknown options to dh_ocaml

2010-01-18 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Mehdi Dogguy me...@dogguy.org writes: Goswin von Brederlow wrote: No modifications to dh_ocaml. And no spare copy in /usr/share/bin or something. The problem seems to be debhelper. The Build-Depends of ocaml say debhelper (= 7) and dh-ocaml does not depend on debhelper at all

Bug#563402: [Pkg-ia32-libs-maintainers] Bug#563402: ia32-libs broken on ia64

2010-01-18 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Giuseppe Iuculano iucul...@debian.org writes: Il 16/01/2010 11:08, Goswin von Brederlow ha scritto: That usualy means one of the libraries can not be found. What does ldd i586-jdk/bin/unpack200 $ ldd i586-jdk/bin/unpack200 not a dynamic executable Cheers, Giuseppe

Bug#563402: IA-32 Execution Layer

2010-01-18 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Package: ia32-libs Severity: normal Maybe this should be added to the docs: http://www.intel.com/cd/software/products/asmo-na/eng/219773.htm MfG Goswin -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable-i386 APT policy: (1001, 'unstable-i386'), (500,

Bug#563402: [Pkg-ia32-libs-maintainers] Bug#563402: ia32-libs broken on ia64

2010-01-16 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Giuseppe Iuculano iucul...@debian.org writes: Package: ia32-libs Version: 20090808 Severity: serious Hi, it seems ia32-libs is broken on ia64: $ file i586-jdk/bin/unpack200 i586-jdk/bin/unpack200: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses

Bug#562606: FTBFS: unknown options to dh_ocaml

2009-12-27 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
tag 562606 - unreproducible thanks Mehdi Dogguy me...@dogguy.org writes: Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Package: ocaml Version: 3.11.1-5 Severity: normal Building ocaml fails with # Create .md5sums files and compute dependencies. Use # 3.11.1 because we know that OCaml ABI represents

Bug#562606: FTBFS: unknown options to dh_ocaml

2009-12-26 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Package: ocaml Version: 3.11.1-5 Severity: normal Building ocaml fails with # Create .md5sums files and compute dependencies. Use # 3.11.1 because we know that OCaml ABI represents # best dependencies for OCaml package. dh_ocaml -Xcompiler-libs \ --runtime-map

Bug#318630: Any progress on the per-repository trusted override?

2009-12-24 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Francesco Poli f...@firenze.linux.it writes: Hi! Is there any progress on the implementation of a field in sources.list that allows to specify that a given repository is to be trusted, even without signature checking? It would be really useful for local (i.e.: created on the same box

Bug#560170: Fails to reproduce openmpi-1.3.4.tar.bz2

2009-12-16 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Joey Hess jo...@debian.org writes: Goswin von Brederlow wrote: pristine-tar fails to reproduce http://www.open-mpi.org/software/ompi/v1.3/downloads/openmpi-1.3.4.tar.bz2 MD5: 978c29f3b671856daa0fc67459b73e01 SHA1:f62247e80296509d22b34bd4db1c230422210ad3 I don't know how

Bug#560170: Fails to reproduce openmpi-1.3.4.tar.bz2

2009-12-09 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Package: pristine-tar Version: 1.00 Severity: normal Hi, pristine-tar fails to reproduce http://www.open-mpi.org/software/ompi/v1.3/downloads/openmpi-1.3.4.tar.bz2 MD5:978c29f3b671856daa0fc67459b73e01 SHA1: f62247e80296509d22b34bd4db1c230422210ad3 I don't know how that file was generated

Bug#560189: Main tarball must follow dpkg format 3.0 error is confusing

2009-12-09 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Package: mercurial-buildpackage Version: 0.2 Severity: normal Hi, the following gives a cryptic error: % mercurial-importorig ../upstream-1.0.tar.gz ../upstream-plugin-1.0.tar.gz E: Main tarball must follow dpkg format 3.0 It should say that the filenames must follow the right pattern for 3.0

Bug#554349: rred and stack overflows

2009-11-30 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Robert Lemmen rober...@semistable.com writes: On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 08:08:36PM +0100, David Kalnischkies wrote: Really, i don't think it is a stackoverflow as it fails at a to prominent cmd count... I have rewritten a few parts of rred to use long and more sane return values and it patches

Bug#558781: FTBFS as root

2009-11-30 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Package: quilt Version: 0.48-2a0.mrvn.1 Severity: normal Hi, when building as root the build fails [delete.test] with: [78] $ chmod a-rx .pc/test3/dir -- ok [80] $ quilt delete test3 -- failed Removing patch patches/test3 == Removing patch patches/test3 No patches applied

Bug#557623: Patch update

2009-11-28 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
von Brederlow goswin-...@web.de Last-Update: 2009-11-28 diff --git a/quilt/scripts/patchfns.in b/quilt/scripts/patchfns.in index 9ed4fd1..7468349 100644 --- a/quilt/scripts/patchfns.in +++ b/quilt/scripts/patchfns.in @@ -20,9 +20,14 @@ export LANG=POSIX export QUILT_PATCHES QUILT_PC SUBDIR SERIES DB

Bug#557623: Quilt should remember where it first got patches and series from

2009-11-23 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Package: quilt Version: 0.48-2a0.mrvn.1 Severity: important Tags: patch Hi, by default quilt looks for patches and series in the current directory. With the new 3.0 (quilt) format patches are in debian/patches. In other projects patches can also be somewhere other than the current directory.

Bug#557648: Confusing mix of different styles in /lib/init/vars.sh

2009-11-23 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Package: initscripts Version: 2.87dsf-8 Severity: normal File: /lib/init/vars.sh Tags: patch Hi, the vars.sh script uses different code styles to check for noswap and quiet options in /proc/cmdline that makes reading the code harder. It can also get confused by similary spelled options: %

Bug#557322: --exclude='ing essential packages

2009-11-23 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Otavio Salvador ota...@ossystems.com.br writes: Hello, On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 5:27 AM, Goswin von Brederlow goswin-...@web.de wrote: Please also consider the case of virtual packages. E.g. --exclude exim4 should not add exim4 back in due to dependencies on mail-transport-agent. Instead

Bug#557322: --exclude='ing essential packages

2009-11-22 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Otavio Salvador ota...@ossystems.com.br writes: Hello Ivan, On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 4:00 AM, Ivan Shmakov i...@main.uusia.org wrote:  OS To you exclude a package you also need to exclude all one that  OS depends on it otherwise it will be added back into the installation  OS list by the

Bug#556859: Should not start xend on non xen systems

2009-11-17 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Package: xen-utils-common Version: 3.4.2-1 Severity: important Hi, installing xen-utils-common on a non xen system fails with: Installing new version of config file /etc/init.d/xend ... Starting Xen daemons: xenfs failed! invoke-rc.d: initscript xend, action start failed. dpkg: error processing

Bug#556471: FTBFS: cannot generate system identifier for public text -//OASIS//DTD DocBook V3.1//EN

2009-11-17 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
David Kalnischkies kalnischkies+deb...@gmail.com writes: tags 556471 + info thanks Hi Goswin von Brederlow, i think your problem is the same as the one occurring in two mips builds [0]. I don't know how/why it is fixed now but mips does build apt now successfully and i can't reproduce

Bug#556610: Please do incremental checks every night instead of a full monthly one

2009-11-16 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Package: mdadm Version: 3.0-2 Severity: wishlist Hi, Neil Brown recently explained on the linux-raid ML that one can do partial checks on a raid array: | If you first read from 'sync_completed' and store that value, | then before starting a new 'check', write the value to | sync_max, then you

Bug#451369: Bug partially fixed by patch from #536029

2009-11-16 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Hi, the problem in 451369 is that packages that are neither APT::Architecture not all are simply ignored when parsing index files. When parsing Packages files this might be a good idea to allow for multi-architecture Packages files. When parsing /var/lib/dpkg/status it seems wrong. The patch in

Bug#556471: FTBFS: cannot generate system identifier for public text -//OASIS//DTD DocBook V3.1//EN

2009-11-16 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Package: apt Version: 0.7.24 Severity: normal Hi, when running debuild -us -uc -b on a freshly unpacked apt source I get Creating man page apt_preferences.pt_BR.5 Using catalogs: /etc/sgml/catalog Using stylesheet: /usr/share/docbook-utils/docbook-utils.dsl#print Working on:

Bug#555982: debian-policy: RPATH in binaries and shared libraries

2009-11-16 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Vincent Danjean vincent.danj...@ens-lyon.org writes: Kurt Roeckx wrote: On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 08:51:42PM +0100, Bill Allombert wrote: I would suggest a new lintian tag 'rpath-outside-usr-lib' that flags packages with rpath pointing outside /usr/lib and /lib. This clearly warrant a REJECT

Bug#553909: [Pkg-ia32-libs-maintainers] Bug#553909: Please include the static version of libSDL

2009-11-15 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Adam C. Emerson az...@umich.edu writes: Package: ia32-libs Version: 20090808 Severity: normal libSDL.a would, I think, let me compile zsnes from source. What if you create the compile time link for the dynamic lib yourself? ln -s libSDL-1.2.so.0.11.2 /usr/lib32/libSDL.so MfG

Bug#555985: Missing xen support, regression from grub1

2009-11-13 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Felix Zielcke fziel...@z-51.de writes: reassign 505517 grub-common reassign 555985 grub-common forcemerge 505517 555985 thanks Am Freitag, den 13.11.2009, 02:37 +0100 schrieb Goswin von Brederlow: Package: grub-pc Version: 1.96+20090725-1 Severity: normal Hi, grub2 does not add

Bug#555985: Missing xen support, regression from grub1

2009-11-12 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Package: grub-pc Version: 1.96+20090725-1 Severity: normal Hi, grub2 does not add entries for xen hypervisor and kernels. After reading the docs I managed to create an entry manually like this: menuentry Xen 3.4, kernel 2.6.31.5 git 20091113 { insmod ext2 set root=(hd0,1) search

Bug#552729: weak-library-dev-dependency

2009-11-11 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Hi, please keep multiarch in mind, which is still a release goal for squeeze. Under multiarch shared libraries belong under /usr/lib/arch-os-libc/ as do their *.so links. As such there can be no arch:all dev package as each arch has a unique path. So maybe it is time to make your -dev package

Bug#546260: Problem seems to be gone

2009-11-11 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Package: gnome-utils Version: 2.28.1-1 Severity: normal File: /usr/bin/baobab The problem goes away when updating gnome-utils to 2.28.1-1. MfG Goswin -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable-i386 APT policy: (1001, 'unstable-i386'), (500, 'unstable')

Bug#554690: Building cross-compiler for multilib arch fails

2009-11-05 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Package: gcc-4.3 Version: 4.3.4-1 Severity: wishlist Hi, I'm trying to build a cross-compiler for i486-linux-gnu for amd64 Debian and it fails. I know, I know, there is gcc -m32. But I need to test cross-compiling and I don't have an arm cpu to test with. I followed the instructions on

Bug#553266: We need more triggers

2009-10-29 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Package: dpkg Version: 1.15.3.1 Severity: wishlist Hi, on irc the issue was raised that a package didn't call ldconfig in postinst and I thought to myself: Every library package has a call to ldconfig? That is so stupid. Don't we have dpkg triggers for that sort of thing now? As it turns out

Bug#551620: DOS on the LAN when starting kvm with 2 network devices and bridging

2009-10-27 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Jan Luebbe jlue...@lasnet.de writes: Hi! On Mon, 2009-10-19 at 16:23 +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: sudo kvm -m 256 -drive file=/scratch/ramdisk/build/build/hda.img,if=ide,boot=on -drive file=/scratch/ramdisk/build/build/hdb.img,if=ide,boot=off -net nic,model=e1000,macaddr=54:52:00:00

Bug#551620:

2009-10-22 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Hi, setting VLAN=xx to different values for each interfaces solves this problem. By default interfaces seem to be put into the same VLAN and that creates a loop with the bridge. The default should put each interface in a different VLAN. I can't even think of a use case where devices should be in

Bug#551992: general: stopping squeeze chroot shuts system

2009-10-22 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Daniel Burrows dburr...@debian.org writes: On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 02:16:39PM +0200, Martin Boer mar...@grachtwal.nu was heard to say: On this system I installed a squeeze chroot using the following command: debootstrap squeeze /chroot/squeeze-x64-lighttpd-chroot

Bug#551620: DOS on the LAN when starting kvm with 2 network devices and bridging

2009-10-19 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Package: kvm Version: 85+dfsg-4 Severity: critical Hi, I'm starting kvm with 2 network interfaces like this: sudo kvm -m 256 -drive file=/scratch/ramdisk/build/build/hda.img,if=ide,boot=on -drive file=/scratch/ramdisk/build/build/hdb.img,if=ide,boot=off -net

Bug#274747: dependency on dpkg-dev is not required for provides

2009-10-14 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Aurelien Jarno aurel...@aurel32.net writes: On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 01:05:18PM +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: Another option is that all the Provides: part of type-handling is done on dpkg. The current problem with the implementation: - A rebuild of type-handling is needed each time a new

Bug#549647: hda: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x21 errors

2009-10-14 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Paolo Sala paolo.s...@csaricerche.com writes: Furthermore I can't understand why if I set dma (hdparm -d1 /dev/hda) on, the dma is on even after a reboot; and why if I shut down the pc when I power up again the dma is off again... your conclusion is the hd is failing? While the IDE cable has

Bug#550924: lintian: direct-changes-in-diff-but-no-patch-system indirectly suggests to create files by patch.

2009-10-14 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Charles Plessy ple...@debian.org writes: Package: lintian Version: 2.2.17 Severity: normal Hello Lintian maintainers, I just got the direct-changes-in-diff-but-no-patch-system pedantic warning in the (non-free) clustalw package, that contains extra files for the user's service: the

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