Bug#735243: git-checkout(1): add a better overview

2014-01-13 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Package: git-doc Version: 1:1.8.5.2-2 Severity: minor Justification: documentation Tags: upstream >From #git: EugeneKay> man git-checkout always makes me cry The overview at the top of DESCRIPTION says "Update files in the working tree to match [...]. If no paths are given, 'git checkou

Bug#735336: git-svn fails 'tempfile' can't be called as a method at /usr/share/perl5/Git.pm line 1042.

2014-01-14 Thread Jonathan Nieder
clone 735336 -1 reassign 735336 git 1:1.8.5.2-1 retitle 735336 [1.8.5.1->1.8.5.2 regression] git: 'error Missing tree' when pushing to gerrit severity 735336 serious tags 735336 + upstream quit Hi, James Michael DuPont wrote: > I am forced to use an older version of git because of the problems

Bug#735336: git-svn fails 'tempfile' can't be called as a method at /usr/share/perl5/Git.pm line 1042.

2014-01-14 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Jonathan Nieder wrote: > James Michael DuPont wrote: >> I am forced to use an older version of git because of the problems with >> gerrit. >> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16586642/git-unpack-error-on-push-to-gerrit >> >> That is why I instlled the older ver

Bug#735336: git-svn fails 'tempfile' can't be called as a method at /usr/share/perl5/Git.pm line 1042.

2014-01-15 Thread Jonathan Nieder
James Michael DuPont wrote: > Well I started to use gerrit and got this problem, using the newest version > of git 1.8 something that is why i had to downgrade. What Gerrit version? Does it happen only some of the time, or 100% of the time when you try to push changes of a certain kind? Are you

Bug#735486: git blame: allow globs in file arguments

2014-01-15 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Package: git Version: 1:2.0~next.20140107-1 Severity: wishlist Tags: upstream spearce> wanted: a faster way to write git blame -L55,60 $(git ls-files | grep SkipManager.java) jrnieder> yeah, blame doesn't accept pathspecs but should jrnieder> git blame -L 55,60 -- '**/SkipManager.java

Bug#735336: git-svn fails 'tempfile' can't be called as a method at /usr/share/perl5/Git.pm line 1042.

2014-01-16 Thread Jonathan Nieder
James Michael DuPont wrote: > This is with : Gerrit Code Review (2.7) > No shallow clones. Using git review to make the most basic changes. > It seems to be all the time when I want to update an existing changes. > Yes, I am able to build native version, debs and

Bug#735336: git-svn fails 'tempfile' can't be called as a method at /usr/share/perl5/Git.pm line 1042.

2014-01-16 Thread Jonathan Nieder
James Michael DuPont wrote: > Using the freshly built version the problem does not occur : > git version 1.8.5.3.321.g14598b9 Weird. I don't think there's been a change that should have fixed it. Does 1.8.5.2 from testing or sid (putting /usr/bin earlier in $PATH again) still reproduce the prob

Bug#735527: ignores $DISPLAY on creating new windows

2014-01-16 Thread Jonathan Nieder
# difficult severity 587398 wishlist reassign 735527 chromium-browser 31.0.1650.63-1~deb7u1 forcemerge 587398 735527 quit Hi, Michael Gilbert wrote: > On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 2:23 AM, Harald Dunkel wrote: >> If I run >> >> env DISPLAY=:4 chromium >> >> then I get another window in my bac

Bug#664767: [Thomas Klokosch: Broadcom driver issue]

2013-11-06 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Forwarding with permission. --- Begin Message --- Hi Jonathan, sorry for mailing you directly - I saw your post on the kernel list about the broadcom driver issue. I’m having exactly the same issue on my lenovo thinkpad netbook, I only get a connection when I’m near or in line of sight of my rou

Bug#729307: git revert doc: explanation of "-m " needs an example

2013-11-11 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Package: git-man Version: 1:1.8.4.2-1 Severity: minor Justification: documentation Tags: upstream As reported by elplatt on #git: elplatt | Can anyone explain what the "parent line" is when using git revert | on a merge commit? _ikke_ | elplatt: It means which parent to choose f

Bug#729910: git push --undo

2013-11-18 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Package: git Version: 1:1.8.4.3-1 Severity: wishlist Tags: upstream After fat-fingering a push, it would be nice to have a command like "git push --undo origin" to rewind refs to their previous values. >From a question on #git: DolphinDream | how do i undo the last push ? (assuming noone fetche

Bug#729763: [PATCH] FTBFS because debian/rules calls $(MAKE) -Ccontrib/mw-to-git without $(OPTS)

2013-11-18 Thread Jonathan Nieder
# 86cb7f30 (debian/rules: don't call $(MAKE) -Ccontrib/mw-to-git without # $(OPTS), 2013-11-16) tags 729763 + pending # work around debbugs version tracking bug fixed 729763 git/1:1.8.4.3-1 quit Hi, Anders Kaseorg wrote: > Since debian/rules calls $(MAKE) -Ccontrib/mw-to-git all without $(OPTS),

Bug#729930: 'git add' within uninitialized submodule message is confusing

2013-11-18 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Package: git Version: 1:1.8.4.1-1 Tags: upstream Severity: minor Justification: confusing Suppose I run git clone https://gerrit.googlesource.com/gerrit cd gerrit git checkout 5cf89bc928f2efe08d2ab6c29d0ef5a717aac8ac echo hi >plugins/commit-message-length-validator/greeting cd plugins/c

Bug#729931: 'git add' should recurse into submodules

2013-11-18 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Package: git Version: 1:1.8.4.3-1 Severity: wishlist Tags: upstream After cloning a repository with 'git clone --recurse-submodules' I should be able to add a file with 'git add --recurse-submodules' to avoid worrying about submodule boundaries. This is not like normal 'git add' since to avoid lo

Bug#704985: git-daemon-sysvinit: GIT_DAEMON_BASE_PATH missing in /etc/default/git-daemon

2013-11-21 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi, Antonio Ospite wrote: > having this fixed would be really good. Thanks for looking into it. Does the patch I proposed at [1] look right and work (i.e., can I have your ack for it), or should it be tweaked in some way? Curious, Jonathan [1] http://bugs.debian.org/704985#10 -- To UNSUBSC

Bug#704985: git-daemon-sysvinit: GIT_DAEMON_BASE_PATH missing in /etc/default/git-daemon

2013-11-22 Thread Jonathan Nieder
tags 704985 + pending quit Daniel Baumann wrote: > On 11/22/2013 12:29 AM, Jonathan Nieder wrote: >> Does the patch I proposed at [1] look right and work > > It does for (at least) me, yes. Thanks for looking it over. Applied. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian

Bug#698867: gettext CTYPE for libc

2013-11-25 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Duy Nguyen wrote: > Do you think it's ok to revert the workaround if we detect > the running glibc is fixed (or if it does not run glibc at all)? I > think we could use gnu_get_libc_version() to detect it. That would be wonderful. Thanks, Jonathan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debia

Bug#730520: 'git push' is noisy and pushes more than one branch by default

2013-11-25 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Package: git Version: 1:1.8.5~rc3-1 Severity: wishlist Hi Anders et al, I would like to help upstream test the changes destined for git 2.0 (push.default change, "add -A" by default, etc) by uploading a snapshot of the "next" branch to experimental. What do you think? Thanks, Jonathan -- To

Bug#730521: 'git checkout' should recurse into submodules

2013-11-25 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Package: git Version: 1:1.8.5~rc3-1 Severity: wishlist Tags: upstream Hi Anders et al, The patches in https://github.com/jlehmann/git-submod-enhancements.git branch recursive_submodule_update are known to have problems in edge cases, but I don't think they'll ever be found and ironed out without

Bug#606821: Not tracking upstream feature requests in downstream BTS

2014-06-23 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Thorsten Glaser wrote: > I will no longer track these bugs in Debbugs, because they are > feature requests for the upstream software, and duplicating them > here serves no benefit as no patches from users are forthcoming > either. Fine with me, as long as I can report them again if I run into the

Bug#750016: chromium: pepper and hangout plugins no longer working after update

2014-06-23 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi, Michael Gilbert wrote: >> Is the proposed solution for the flash plugin applicable to hangouts? > > Likely not. You'll need to request that upstream implement hangouts > via ppapi instead of npapi. The hangouts plugin I find at https://www.google.com/tools/dlpage/hangoutplugin installs to

Bug#752824: 'git --git-dir' is counterintuitive

2014-06-26 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Package: git-man Version: 1:2.0.0-1 Severity: minor Tags: upstream git(1) sayeth: --git-dir= Set the path to the repository. This can also be controlled by setting the GIT_DIR environment variable. It can be an absolute path or relative path

Bug#723719: ghostscript: New Upstream Version 9.10 available

2014-04-10 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Thomas Weber wrote: > On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 10:13:09AM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: >> Quoting Thomas Kempf (2013-09-19 08:45:37) >>> Upstream released Version 9.10 with significant improvements >> >> Packaged has been prepared since some time - awaits newer libcms2, >> tracked in bug#701993.

Bug#744149: gitweb: missing static files

2014-04-10 Thread Jonathan Nieder
unarchive 673546 forcemerge 673546 744149 quit Hi, Joseph Nahmias wrote: > It seems that the gitweb package is missing the CSS stylesheet and other > files from the gitweb/static directory. Are you sure? Did you install the package and find gitweb to load unstyled, or did you run into somethin

Bug#744149: gitweb: missing static files

2014-04-10 Thread Jonathan Nieder
unmerge 744149 reopen 744149 retitle 744149 gitweb on lighttpd can't find its CSS stylesheet quit Hi, Joseph Nahmias wrote: > Yes, gitweb is unstyled Ok. Yeah, that sounds like a bug. Did you have a working setup with a previous version of gitweb, and if so which one? [...] >

Bug#741573: Two menu systems

2014-04-13 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi, Russ Allbery wrote: > Things that I don't think are TC issues: > > * Whether desktop files should be documented in Policy at all. For what it's worth: * I was unhappy with the patch at http://bugs.debian.org/707851 and said so. I didn't object when people seconded it and applied it

Bug#741573: Two menu systems

2014-04-14 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi again, Russ Allbery wrote: > So, I think the questions before the TC are: > > 1. Should programs that make sense in the context of a typical DE (I >realize there's some fuzziness around this) all have desktop files? Ah, I completely misread this before as saying "menu files" instead of "d

Bug#737680: git: please ship git-subtree

2014-02-27 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi, Gilles Filippini wrote: > I've just noticed that git 1:1.9.0-1 was uploaded without git-subtree. > Anything wrong with the patch I submited against 1:1.9.0~rc3-1? I've just been a bit slow about testing it and getting it uploaded. Sorry about that. The prefix= bit points to an upstream bug

Bug#741384: unzip -v: *** buffer overflow detected ***: unzip terminated

2014-03-11 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Package: unzip Version: 6.0-10 Severity: important Justification: buffer overflow Control: submitter -1 Max Spring I tried running "unzip -v replication.jar" with the attached replication.jar (it comes from WEB-INF/plugins/ in gerrit-2.8.1.war). Expected result: A nice file listing. Actual re

Bug#741394: "git fsck" should error out for tree entries with two leading zeroes

2014-03-11 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Package: git Version: 1:2.0~next.20140214-2 Severity: wishlist Tags: upstream "git fsck" checks for modes with leading zeroes but only warns about them instead of erroring out, which is good because grit used to write them. Luckily nobody writes modes with multiple leading zeroes. Please teach "g

Bug#743227: "git -c transfer.fsckobjects=true clone https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware" fails

2014-03-31 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Package: git Version: 1:2.0~next.20140318-1 Severity: important Tags: upstream $ git -c transfer.fsckobjects=true clone https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware Cloning into 'linux-firmware'... remote: Counting objects: 2518, done. remote: Compressing object

Bug#669292: RFH: updating gitweb packaging for Apache 2.4

2014-04-07 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi, With Apache 2.2, the gitweb package worked out of the box. With Apache 2.4, it doesn't. http://bugs.debian.org/669292 tracks this problem. Last year, I tried to fix it --- patch at https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?msg=23;filename=update-apache-packaging.patch;att=1;bug=669292

Bug#745646: chromium: certificate revocation is not checked

2014-04-30 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi, Giuseppe Iuculano wrote: > On 30/04/2014 19:49, Vincent Lefevre wrote: >> Bug 745646 is a different bug, specifically about the CRLSet system, >> which is very broken. > > What you write is not a bug, if you want to do revocation check you must > enable it in settings. However Vincent is rig

Bug#685992: debian-policy: Document in the policy the way to properly set selinux labels on files and directories

2014-05-01 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi, Laurent Bigonville wrote: > A maintainer script can for example call the restorecon(8) executable > to achieve this: > [ -x /sbin/restorecon ] && /sbin/restorecon $myfile Should I do this for all files I create in maintainer scripts, or only those that someone who knows things :) has

Bug#746710: "git clone -q --recurse-submodules" is not quiet

2014-05-02 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Package: git Version: 1:2.0~next.20140318-1 Tags: upstream Expected: $ git clone -q --recurse-submodules https://gerrit.googlesource.com/gerrit $ Actual: $ git clone -q --recurse-submodules https://gerrit.googlesource.com/gerrit Submodule 'plugins/commit-message-length-validator' (https://

Bug#747136: git: nondeterministic file modes in mo files

2014-05-05 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Source: git Version: 1:2.0.0~rc0+next.20140422-1 Today I rebuilt git from experimental. $ debdiff git_2.0.0~rc0+next.20140422-1_amd64.deb git_2.0.0~rc0+next.20140422-1.1_amd64.deb [The following lists of changes regard files as different if they have different names, permissions or owners

Bug#748813: git-log(1): --cc doesn't perform a diff unless asked to

2014-05-20 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Package: git-man Version: 1:2.0.0~rc2-1 Severity: minor Tags: upstream git-log(1) explains: -c With this option, diff output for a merge commit shows the differences from each of the parents to the merge result simultaneously instead of showing pairwise diff between a

Bug#745591: [PATCH] Documentation/technical/api-hashmap: Remove source highlighting

2014-05-21 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Anders Kaseorg wrote: > On Sat, 17 May 2014, Anders Kaseorg wrote: >> --- a/Documentation/technical/api-hashmap.txt >> +++ b/Documentation/technical/api-hashmap.txt >> @@ -166,7 +166,6 @@ Usage example >> - >> >> Here's a simple usage example that maps long keys to double values. >

Bug#703864: RFP: git-mercurial -- hg remote helper from git/contrib/remote-helpers

2014-05-21 Thread Jonathan Nieder
retitle 703864 RFP: git-remote-hg -- bidirectional bridge between Git and Mercurial reassign 703864 wnpp affects 703864 + src:git quit Anders Kaseorg wrote: > https://git.kernel.org/cgit/git/git.git/commit/?id=b2c851a8e67da752d8a5dbde5a9dae6e3428a4c9 > https://git.kernel.org/cgit/git/git.git/com

Bug#702697: git: please enable git-remote-hg and git-remote-bzr

2014-05-21 Thread Jonathan Nieder
reopen 702697 retitle 702697 RFP: git-remote-bzr -- bidirectional bridge between Git and Bazaar reassign 702697 wnpp affects 702697 + src:git quit Hi, Paul Wise wrote: > Please move these two files to the correct path and give them execute > permissions so that git clone hg::... and git clone b

Bug#702697: RFP: git-remote-bzr -- bidirectional bridge between Git and Bazaar (Re: git: please enable git-remote-hg and git-remote-bzr)

2014-05-22 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi Sven, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2014-05-21 23:20 +0200, Jonathan Nieder wrote: >> Now git-remote-bzr has graduated to its own upstream. Reopening as a >> reminder to package it. (Or if someone else gets to it before me, I >> won't mind.) > > Well, it would ha

Bug#702697: RFP: git-remote-bzr -- bidirectional bridge between Git and Bazaar

2014-05-22 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Paul Wise wrote: > On Thu, 2014-05-22 at 12:37 -0700, Jonathan Nieder wrote: >> Okay. Alas, there's no easy answer for software that people use but >> no one wants to maintain. > > Are you not intending to package these? I use them quite a bit :( If someone better tha

Bug#702697: RFP: git-remote-bzr -- bidirectional bridge between Git and Bazaar

2014-05-28 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Paul Wise wrote: > On Fri, 2014-05-23 at 21:03 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: >> I wanted a package now, so I created one, Debian tarball is >> attached. It's probably not perfect, but it works for me. Anyone who >> volunteers for maintaining git-remote-bzr could use it as a starting >> point. > > I

Bug#750492: commit-msg hook is not run on 'git merge'

2014-06-03 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Package: git Version: 1:2.0.0-1 Severity: wishlist Tags: upstream Gerrit uses a commit-msg hook to add a Change-Id line to commits. "git merge" does not call the commit-msg hook. So people end up pushing commits without a Change-Id. Merges can benefit from having the commit message modified in p

Bug#750687: "git status" becomes fork-bomb under some circumstances

2014-06-05 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi, Axel Beckert wrote: > 10/0/0 root@acromantula:pts/4 18:53:47 [~] # ps auxwwwf | fgrep git > abe 11352 77.1 0.0 4552 596 pts/2R+ 18:53 0:10 | > | \_ strace -f -e fork git status > abe 11353 6.3 0.1 24632 6848 pts/2S+ 18:53 0:00 |

Bug#750687: "git status" becomes fork-bomb if a submodule's .git directory is not accessible

2014-06-05 Thread Jonathan Nieder
severity 750687 important quit Hi, Axel Beckert wrote: > Axel Beckert wrote: >> I couldn't willingly reproduce it yet outside the setup where I ran >> into that issue, > > Here's how to reproduce: Yay! Thanks for this. [...] > Control: severity -1 grave [...] > Since I consider such a setup

Bug#538822: dash fails to upgrade if /bin/sh is locally diverted

2014-06-06 Thread Jonathan Nieder
reopen 538822 # difficult, invasive severity 538822 wishlist tags 538822 = quit Hi, Niels Thykier wrote: > I am taking the liberty of closing this bug, because: > 1) there is no sign of progress in this bug for the past 1-and-a-half > 2) there is no sign of desire/need for being able to locall

Bug#613143: there is /usr/lib64 symlink but no /usr/local/lib64

2014-05-08 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > Suggested change: > > --- /proc/self/fd/13 2011-02-13 09:12:50.142239544 +0100 > +++ policy.sgml 2011-02-13 09:12:01.565231567 +0100 > @@ -5993,6 +5993,13 @@ >to get access to kernel information. > > > +

Bug#613143: there is /usr/lib64 symlink but no /usr/local/lib64

2014-05-08 Thread Jonathan Nieder
tags 613143 = pending quit Russ Allbery wrote: > I second this as well, although I think it's unnecessary at this point. Thanks. Applied. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#613143: there is /usr/lib64 symlink but no /usr/local/lib64

2014-05-08 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Bill Allombert wrote: > On Thu, May 08, 2014 at 11:15:57AM -0700, Jonathan Nieder wrote: >> Thanks. Applied. > > Well, I was working on a patch that looks like: > > + The requirement for /usr/local/lib<qual> > +

Bug#613143: there is /usr/lib64 symlink but no /usr/local/lib64

2014-05-08 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Bill Allombert wrote: > On Thu, May 08, 2014 at 12:51:05PM -0700, Jonathan Nieder wrote: >> FWIW I don't mind if you tweak the wording. >> >> Unfortunately it's not just = 32 or 64[1]. Luckily the only >> ones that would be relevant the way Debian uses are

Bug#715534: git is built without support for python

2014-05-09 Thread Jonathan Nieder
retitle 715534 RFP: git-p4 -- Perforce importer/exporter for git reassign 715534 wnpp affects 715534 + src:git quit Hi Lukas, Lukas Anzinger wrote: > I'm still interested in having this issue fixed, and obviously I'm not > the only one. By "this issue" to you mean git-p4 being included in Debia

Bug#741573: Please decide on a reversion of commit 3785878 in the Policy's Git repository.

2014-05-09 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi Charles, Charles Plessy wrote: >In particular, in the absence of > Bill's contribution to the resolution of our conflict, I am asking the TC to > not discuss the menu systems and focus instead on correcting Bill's > misbehaviour. > > What is at a sta

Bug#709803: zlib: Please ship minizip as a shared library

2014-05-12 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi Mark, Mark Brown wrote: > On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 08:29:46PM -0400, Michael Gilbert wrote: >> I was in the process of putting together a patch addressing both of >> these requests, and hadn't yet finished this mail, which has the >> desired context. > > This doesn't address the issue in the or

Bug#574798: zlib: Please ship minizip as a shared library

2014-05-12 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Michael Gilbert wrote: > On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 4:05 PM, Mark Brown wrote: Please discuss this with upstream. >>> >>> If you have bug reports in upstream's libminizip support, I'm happy to >>> work on them upstream. Last time I checked, it Just Worked (tm). > > I'm also willing to help if

Bug#748387: liblockfile: missing debian/copyright

2014-05-16 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Source: liblockfile Version: 1.09-6 Severity: serious Justification: policy 4.5 In liblockfile 1.09-6: $ ls debian/ changelog control liblockfile-bin.overrides patches postinst postrm rules shlibs source $ tar -tf ../liblockfile_1.09-6.debian.tar.bz2 debian/ debian/control debian/so

Bug#748387: liblockfile: missing debian/copyright

2014-05-16 Thread Jonathan Nieder
severity 748387 important quit Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Jonathan Nieder (2014-05-16): >> Source: liblockfile >> Version: 1.09-6 >> Severity: serious >> Justification: policy 4.5 > > What you're talking about is a 'should' in Policy 12.5; doesn&#x

Bug#742756: multi-arch and system-dependent header files

2014-05-19 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Bill Allombert wrote: > --- a/policy.sgml > +++ b/policy.sgml > @@ -6955,50 +6955,61 @@ Built-Using: grub2 (= 1.99-9), loadlin (= 1.6e-1) [...] > + The requirement for C and C++ headers files to be > + accessible through the search path > + /usr/in

Bug#555980: debian-policy: No policy on statically linked binaries

2014-05-19 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi, Bill Allombert wrote: > --- a/policy.sgml > +++ b/policy.sgml > @@ -8466,7 +8466,11 @@ fi > renamed. If a consensus cannot be reached, both > programs must be renamed. > > - > + > + Binary executables must not be statically linked with the > + G

Bug#555980: debian-policy: No policy on statically linked binaries

2014-05-19 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi, Russ Allbery wrote: > Usually I argue for relaxing it to a should. In this case, I think we can > flesh out the exception somewhat better and preserve the must. > > Binary executables must not be statically linked with the GNU C > library, since this prevents the binary f

Bug#741578: git-archive doc: 'tar' and 'zip' are not the only formats

2014-03-13 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Package: git-man Version: 1:2.0~next.20140214-2 Severity: minor Tags: upstream git-archive(1) sayeth: --format= Format of the resulting archive: tar or zip. But in reality git-archive supports tgz, too, and you can have all sorts of custom formats if you like. -- To U

Bug#741384: unzip -v: *** buffer overflow detected ***: unzip terminated

2014-03-14 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Santiago Vila wrote: > The problem seems to disappear when disabling the fortify hardening > option, which is probably what I will do. Oh dear. I think that would be counter-productive. Will find some time to track down the root cause this weekend. Thanks, Jonathan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Bug#698030: debian-policy: document micro binary packages (udebs).

2013-01-13 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Russ Allbery wrote: > I vote for just calling them "udebs" instead of "micro binary packages." > The latter sounds more formal, but I don't think anyone calls them that in > practice, so it may be confusing. Perhaps: > > udebs (stripped-down binary packages used by the Debian Installer) are >

Bug#698030: debian-policy: document micro binary packages (udebs).

2013-01-13 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Steve Langasek wrote: > The installer team are consulted on the > question of which packages should be made available as udebs, but for shared > libraries the maintenance of the udeb definitely lies with the library > maintainer, not the installer team. So it makes pe

Bug#698055: git: /etc/bash_completion.d/git gone

2013-01-13 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Philipp Marek wrote: > Hello Jonathan, >> +elif [ -e /etc/bash_completion.d/git ] > > you might want to put a "; then" at the end of this "elif" line. Good catch. Thanks. >> + . /etc/bash_completion.d/git >> +fi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.o

Bug#697635: [3.6.9 -> 3.7.1 regression] Dell D630: System doesn't reboot nor power off

2013-01-15 Thread Jonathan Nieder
forwarded 697635 https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=49001 quit Hi Nicolas, Nicolas Le Cam wrote: > I have bisected the problem to commit : > > f96972f2dc6365421cf2366ebd61ee4cf060c8d5 is the first bad commit Thanks much for this. Let's take this upstream. [...] > I'll try to revert t

Bug#695182: [RFC] Reproducible OOM with just a few sleeps

2013-01-15 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi Paul, paul.sz...@sydney.edu.au wrote: > Dear Sedat, >> ... it really makes sense to switch to x86_64 >> (amd64) architecture when you have a modern computer. >> Switching makes even more sense when you have more than 4GiB RAM. > > You seem to say that one should switch to amd64 (if hardware al

Bug#698259: guilt: Maintainer address does not accept mail

2013-01-15 Thread Jonathan Nieder
, 15 Jan 2013 18:31:44 -0800 From: Jonathan Nieder To: Josef 'Jeff' Sipek Cc: g...@vger.kernel.org, Per Cederqvist , Theodore Ts'o , Iulian Udrea , Axel Beckert Subject: [GUILT] [PATCH 7/7] Drop unneeded git version check. Message-ID: <20130116023144.gp12...@goog

Bug#698382: s390/time: fix sched_clock() overflow

2013-01-17 Thread Jonathan Nieder
tags 698382 + upstream patch severity 698382 important clone 698382 -1 reassign -1 src:linux 3.2.35-2 quit Hi Philipp, Philipp Kern wrote: > this should be backported/included into our kernel when/if it's accepted > upstream. 2.6.32 and 3.2.0 are both affected. [...] > From: Heiko Carstens > Da

Bug#685248: unblock boinc/7.0.34+dfsg-2

2013-01-19 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi Steffen, Steffen Möller wrote: > I have mentally given up on Wheezy and BOINC. That's unfortunate to hear. What is your advice for the release team? Is the version currently in wheezy appropriate for release, should it be removed, or are there some fixes missing that would make it appropriat

Bug#697741: Intel i915: black display after boot

2013-01-19 Thread Jonathan Nieder
forwarded 697741 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53926#c43 quit Ben Hutchings wrote: > Please open a new bug report at https://bugs.freedesktop.org and let us > know the URL so we can track it. Upstream bug 53926 is now de facto about Nathan's bug. ;-) It has lots of useful informa

Bug#697709: pcspkr and snd-pcsp fighting

2013-01-19 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Ben Hutchings wrote: > I agree, and I think we have two options: > > 1. Blacklist in udev rather than alsa-base. This is already done for > the framebuffer drivers in /etc/modprobe.d/fbdev-blacklist.conf, which > conflict with KMS and X drivers. > > 2. Remove the module alias from snd-pcsp. This

Bug#698532: dash integer overflow behavior is non-typical

2013-01-19 Thread Jonathan Nieder
tags 698532 + upstream # quality-of-implementation issue severity 698532 wishlist quit Hi, Osamu Aoki wrote: > $ dash > $ echo "$((18446744073709551616))" > 9223372036854775807 [...] > What dash returns for anything larger than 2^63-1=9223372036854775807 > are always quietly 2^63-1=9223372036854

Bug#692011: taxbird: version in testing (0.16.x) is completely useless

2013-01-20 Thread Jonathan Nieder
retitle 692011 RM: taxbird/0.16-0.2 user release.debian@packages.debian.org usertags 692011 = rm quit Jonathan Wiltshire wrote: > On Sat, Dec 22, 2012 at 08:46:50PM +, Steven Chamberlain wrote: >> Then aim to make the version in sid, or any later revisions, available >> through wheezy-bac

Bug#683683: unblock: openswan/1:2.6.38-1

2013-01-20 Thread Jonathan Nieder
René Mayrhofer wrote: > I agree with going for the backports option so as not to delay the freeze > period any more than necessary. Thus closing. > However, the typical issue with openswan > will remain in this case: security updates will be more difficult to > ba

Bug#698593: dash does not obey POSIX quoting rules for backlashes in single quotes

2013-01-20 Thread Jonathan Nieder
forcemerge 538100 698593 quit Hi Norman, Norman Ramsey wrote: > : nr@homedog ! ; echo 'hello\n' > hello > > : nr@homedog ! ; > > This bug is breaking my POSIX-compliant shell scripts. Not POSIX-compliant, unfortunately. See http://bugs.debian.org/613473 http://bugs.debian.org/538100

Bug#697085: qemu-system: tries to overwrite doc/qemu/qemu-doc.html from qemu (missing Breaks+Replaces?)

2013-01-20 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Michael Tokarev wrote: > We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of > qemu, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive. Thanks. [...] > qemu (1.3.0+dfsg-2exp) experimental; urgency=low [...] >* move vde2 from Recommends to Suggests, since it isn't >

Bug#685248: unblock boinc/7.0.34+dfsg-2

2013-01-20 Thread Jonathan Nieder
(resending to BTS with Steffen's permission) Steffen Möller wrote > 7.0.27 does the job. [... lots of interesting details snipped ...] > Since the package does something good to the world at large, I do > not want any such removal again, [...] > On http://boinc.berkeley.edu/download.php you see th

Bug#698668: Ambiguous gfdl license: empty list of invariant sections

2013-01-21 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi Bastien, bastien ROUCARIES wrote: > user: debian...@lists.debian.org > usertags: json-evil-license Did you mean to set this usertag? Thanks, Jonathan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.de

Bug#695182: Write couple of 1GB files for OOM crash

2013-01-21 Thread Jonathan Nieder
paul.sz...@sydney.edu.au wrote: > I am coming back to the idea that this is some > signed-vs-unsigned or similar issue... though I could not find it yet! Thanks for your work, and good luck. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "

Bug#697029: [squeeze -> wheezy regression] i915_hangcheck_ring_idle error makes the computer lag using intel core i7-620 integrated gpu

2013-01-23 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Pierre AUSSAGUEL wrote: > I installed again linux-image-3.7-trunk-amd64 to be able to report the bug, > but the problem seem to have gone by now ! > Maybe the version has changed (I am currently using 3.7.3-1~experimental.1 > x86_64) since my previous try, a few weeks ago. [...] > What can I do to

Bug#691180: connman: Connman won't run due to missing libxtables.so.7

2013-01-24 Thread Jonathan Nieder
found 691180 connman/1.0-1.1+wheezy1 fixed 691180 connman/1.0-1.2 quit Hi Adrian, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > close 691180 > thanks > > Hi, > > there have been new uploads of connman both into testing and unstable, > the issue has been resolved as the package has been rebuilt in both > ca

Bug#691180: connman: Connman won't run due to missing libxtables.so.7

2013-01-24 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Adam D. Barratt wrote: > On 24.01.2013 09:22, Jonathan Nieder wrote: >> Fixing this properly would presumably require an iptables update in >> testing (either bumping shlibs or, better, backporting the >> introduction of a separate libxtables9 package from sid) fo

Bug#698867: git clone prints localized error messages as question marks

2013-01-25 Thread Jonathan Nieder
tags 698867 + upstream block 698867 by 208308 # basic i18n severity 698867 important quit Hi Andrey, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: > If git clone cannot connect to the server and maybe in other circumstances > (and > other tools) it fails to print a localized strerror() in the ru_RU.UTF-8 > locale:

Bug#650345: npm: please consider rewriting shebangs on the fly to refer to "nodejs" name

2013-01-25 Thread Jonathan Nieder
found 650345 npm/1.1.4~dfsg-2 quit Hi, Dominique Dumont wrote: > # bug has been fixed by Jeremy and Jonas Thanks for the heads up. It doesn't seem to be fixed, though: $ npm install express [...] $ head -1 node_modules/express/bin/express #!/usr/bin/env node $ dpkg-query -W npm 1.1.4~dfs

Bug#698917: [wheezy] cpu overheat and shutdown after suspend/resume cycle on Thinkpad T410

2013-01-25 Thread Jonathan Nieder
severity 698917 important quit Hi Florian, Florian Lohoff wrote: > after 1 in 4 or 5 suspend/resume cycles the CPU overheats after some minutes > which causes > the notebook to shut down with the message: > > Jan 25 10:12:38 p2 kernel: [64778.121330] Critical temperature reached > (128 C

Bug#698957: dpkg poorly handles dependencies with | operator

2013-01-25 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi Maurizio, Maurizio Oliveri wrote: > Of course, "dpkg --get-selections | grep gnome-terminal" returns > "gnome-terminal install". What is the output of "dpkg --configure -a"? Regards, Jonathan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscr

Bug#682659: dpkg-buildflags: Please add "-Wall" to CFLAGS

2013-01-25 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Guillem Jover wrote: > Some packages might be using -Werror, adding -Wall might cause FTBFS, > please see the recently created FAQ [0] for the procedure to follow to > add a new flag to the default set. When working with upstream projects that don't use -Wall, adding it can create a lot of noise

Bug#695182: [PATCH] Subtract min_free_kbytes from dirtyable memory

2013-01-25 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi Paul, paul.sz...@sydney.edu.au wrote: > Dear Ben, >> If you can identify where it was fixed then ... > > Sorry I cannot do that. I have no idea where kernel changelogs are kept. Here are some tools. # prerequisite: apt-get install git; # as root # to get the kernel history: git clon

Bug#698999: Links to the Policy for dpkg's manual pages.

2013-01-25 Thread Jonathan Nieder
> +.br > .SH SEE ALSO > .BR deb (5), The link should go in the SEE ALSO section, not the EXAMPLES section. With that tweak Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder Thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#695182: [PATCH] Subtract min_free_kbytes from dirtyable memory

2013-01-25 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Cc: Wu Fengguang Cc: Dave Chinner Cc: Jan Kara Cc: Shaohua Li Cc: Chris Mason Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder --- include/linux/mmzone.h | 6 ++ include/linux/swap.h | 1 + mm/page-writeback.c| 5 +++-- mm/pa

Bug#691180: connman: Connman won't run due to missing libxtables.so.7

2013-01-26 Thread Jonathan Nieder
reassign 691180 iptables 1.4.14-3 affects 691180 + connman quit Hi Julien, Julien Cristau wrote: > On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 01:22:21 -0800, Jonathan Nieder wrote: >> In wheezy, there is instead an unversioned dependency on iptables, >> which is not enough to ensure the correct sh

Bug#691180: connman: Connman won't run due to missing libxtables.so.7

2013-01-26 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Julien Cristau wrote: > On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 07:04:16 -0800, Jonathan Nieder wrote: >> Julien Cristau wrote: >>> NAK. iptables in sid needs to add Breaks on the packages in wheezy that >>> want libxtables.so.7. And 691180 should be reassigned to iptables. [..

Bug#699013: new git prompt stuff doesn't work on virtual consoles, only in terminals under X11

2013-01-27 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi Paul, Paul Wise wrote: > export PROMPT_COMMAND='__git_ps1 "\[\e]0;\u@\h: \w\a\]\u@\h\ \w" " \\\$ "' > > I switched from editing PS1 to PROMPT_COMMAND because it gets me the new > colour stuff in the git part of my prompt, it looks like this in xterm: > > pabs@chianamo ~ $ > > When I login on

Bug#699013: new git prompt stuff doesn't work on virtual consoles, only in terminals under X11

2013-01-27 Thread Jonathan Nieder
notfound 699013 git/1:1.8.1.1-1 quit Paul Wise wrote: > Hmm, good point, I guess only X11 terminals support setting the title, > so this is user error. I am now setting PROMPT_COMMAND to a different > value when TERM=linux. Sorry for the noise :( No problem. Thanks for testing. Do you remember

Bug#699013: new git prompt stuff doesn't work on virtual consoles, only in terminals under X11

2013-01-27 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Paul Wise wrote: > /usr/lib/git-core/git-sh-prompt suggests PROMPT_COMMAND but doesn't > mention the title setting stuff, which I copied from my previous setup > using PS1. No idea where I found out about the title setting stuff, I've > had that enabled for years. Makes sense, thanks. There's an

Bug#698917: [wheezy] cpu overheat and shutdown after suspend/resume cycle on Thinkpad T410

2013-01-28 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Florian Lohoff wrote: > Opened a bug in the Kernel Bugzilla: > > https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53101 Thanks! If I have any more questions, I'll ask them upstream. Ciao, Jonathan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe

Bug#699177: Wrong sorting in pathname expansion

2013-01-28 Thread Jonathan Nieder
retitle 699177 dash ignores locale tags 699177 + upstream # standards compliance, i18n severity 699177 important quit Hi Alexander, Alexander Gerasiov wrote: > If the pattern matches any existing filenames or pathnames, the pattern > shall be replaced with those filenames and pathnames, sorted a

Bug#699205: linux-image-3.7-trunk-amd64: ps, pgrep and pkill segfault after upgrade from 3.7.1-1~experimental.2 to 3.7.3-1~experimental.1

2013-01-28 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi Sascha, Sascha Silbe wrote: > after updating the linux-image-3.7-trunk-amd64 from > 3.7.1-1~experimental.2 to 3.7.3-1~experimental.1 today and rebooting, > the tools ps, pgrep and pkill (package procps) are always segfaulting: Just to check: if you downgrade to 3.7.1 again, do the segfaults g

Bug#648477: ath9k wireless: frequent connection drops (TKIP MIC failure)

2011-11-13 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi Mohammed, Mohammed Shafi wrote: > installing latest compat wireless will helps us to know whether this > issue persists in > latest kernel tree No need. Christoph tried v3.1 and found that it was fixed. Thanks for looking it over, Jonathan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-r

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