Bug#587377: debian-policy: Decide on arbitrary file/path names limit

2011-03-02 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Sean Finney wrote: Having a warning in lintian for arbitrarily long (perhaps = 256) filenames is totally reasonable i'd say, but there's no reason to otherwise throw out limits for the sake of having them. Oh, I don't know. Now that I check, the path provoking this was 269 characters

Bug#587377: debian-policy: Decide on arbitrary file/path names limit

2011-03-02 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Sean Finney wrote: Back when I was doing the conffile stuff I recall seeing hardcoded 256 character limits within dpkg in the archive handling stuff. path_quote_filename(buf, fname, 256) and %.255s get used to display filenames to the user, but I think anything lower level having that limit

Bug#606966: dpkg: Hang when unpacking a package

2010-12-13 Thread Jonathan Nieder
forcemerge 595927 606966 quit Hi Sam, Sam Morris wrote: Package: dpkg Version: 1.15.8.5 Severity: normal dpkg hung while unpacking a package: [...] [5416783.438276] INFO: task dpkg:28315 blocked for more than 120 seconds. [5416783.438330] echo 0

Bug#606975: man page of git blame shows --date option, but git does not like it

2010-12-13 Thread Jonathan Nieder
found 606975 git-core/1:1.6.3~rc1-1 tags 606975 + upstream fixed-upstream patch # documentation bug retitle 606975 blame: manpage advertises non-working --date format (unsticked) syntax severity 606975 minor quit Eugen Dedu wrote: --date format The value is one of the

Bug#606821: mksh: bash-style process substitution

2010-12-13 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Thorsten Glaser wrote: Jonathan Nieder dixit[1]: ( ... )- runs ... in a subshell in the background, with its output connected to a pipe. [...] On Linux and similar OSes this is typically implemented using /proc/fd. A more portable implementation would use FIFOs

Bug#606825: dpkg: Please add mingw to ostable and triplettable.

2010-12-13 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote: There are currently two free implementations of msvcrt: mingw.org and mingw-w64. Programs built with mingw32 *unable* to safely use DLLs built with mingw64 there are subtle differences in implementations. That answers my main question. Then I suppose: We have one

Bug#607044: git: rebase doesn't work with diff.noprefix=true

2010-12-14 Thread Jonathan Nieder
found 607044 1:1.7.2.3-1 tags 607044 + upstream patch fixed-upstream quit Hi Philipp, Ph. Marek wrote: With my default setting in ~/.gitconfig [diff] noprefix = true git rebase says Applying: ... fatal: git diff header lacks filename information when

Bug#606756: [PATCH dash/debian-sid] debian/preinst: Do not error out if files are missing

2010-12-14 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Adam D. Barratt wrote: Thanks for this, Jonathan; I have to admit that it didn't occur to me while tidying up the preinst in -7.3. Yes, I missed it, too. :/ fwiw, it looks like the postinst will have the same issue. Good catch. Let me know if you need a sponsor for an upload fixing this.

Bug#123252: aio_cancel does not cancel a blocked aio_read

2010-12-14 Thread Jonathan Nieder
tags 123252 + upstream tags 123252 - fixed-upstream moreinfo # difficult, apparently. severity 123252 wishlist quit Ron wrote: The following code demonstrates what I believe is the same issue as was originally reported, but does so reading from stdin. Once the aio_read has begun and blocked,

Bug#476595: git-add --allow-empty would be nice

2010-12-14 Thread Jonathan Nieder
tags 476595 + upstream wontfix quit Hi Guido, Guido Günther wrote: for #476347 it'd be nice to have a: git-add --allow-empty filepattern git add is for humans and its behavior and output are potential to change as our understanding of humans improves; git update-index is for machines,

Bug#606756: [PATCH dash/debian-sid] debian/preinst: Do not error out if files are missing

2010-12-14 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Adam D. Barratt wrote: On Tue, 2010-12-14 at 03:12 -0600, Jonathan Nieder wrote: Thanks. I've put something up at - git://repo.or.cz/dash/debian/jrn.git for-sid - http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/d/dash/dash_0.5.5.1-7.4.dsc [...] I haven't managed to spot any obvious issues

Bug#528270: git-core: no way to have system-wide or user specified hooks dir

2010-12-14 Thread Jonathan Nieder
found 528270 git/1:1.7.2.3-2.1 tags 528270 - fixed-upstream forwarded 528270 http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/150141/focus=150346 quit sean finney wrote: it would be really nice to have in my ~/.gitconfig something that could override the location of the hooks dir

Bug#595063: read() builtin doesnt read integer value /proc files (but bashs does)

2010-12-15 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi Cristian, Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn wrote: On Sun, 28 Nov 2010, Herbert Xu wrote: On Sat, Sep 04, 2010 at 07:35:04PM +, Jilles Tjoelker wrote: This discarding is still bad as it throws away valid data if the open file description is shared. This happens if stdin is redirected inside a

Bug#607174: dash: order of characters in IFS matters

2010-12-15 Thread Jonathan Nieder
p3; do echo p1=${p1}, p2=${p2}, p3=${p3} done Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu herb...@gondor.apana.org.au (cherry picked from commit 55c46b7286f5d9f2d8291158203e2b61d2494420) Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder jrnie...@gmail.com --- ChangeLog |4 ++ src/expand.c|9 ++--- src

Bug#607243: git-daemon-run: fails to uninstall (user gitlog is currently logged in)

2010-12-15 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Package: runit Version: 2.1.1-6 Severity: important 1. Install git-daemon-run (version 1:1.7.2.3-2.1). 2. dpkg --purge git-daemon-run. Then a second or two later, ps ax | grep runsvdir tells me (linewrapping added): runsvdir -P /etc/service log: \ rning: unable to open

Bug#603827: runit: unnecessary prompting when procps not installed

2010-12-15 Thread Jonathan Nieder
severity 603827 serious retitle 603827 fails to install noninteractively if procps is not installed forcemerge 603827 606792 quit Jonathan Nieder wrote: runit.config contains the following: if `ps -p 1 /dev/null`; then db_input low runit/signalinit || : else

Bug#607248: gitweb: XSS vulnerability (CVE 2010-3906)

2010-12-15 Thread Jonathan Nieder
be exploited only by person with write access to gitweb config, or at least access to the repository). This fixes CVE-2010-3906 Reported-by: Emanuele Gentili e.gent...@tigersecurity.it Helped-by: John 'Warthog9' Hawley warth...@kernel.org Helped-by: Jonathan Nieder jrnie...@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Jakub

Bug#600566: git: New upstream version v1.7.3.1

2010-12-16 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi Sedat, Sedat Dilek wrote: Maybe a CVE is now worth to package a new version? See [1] and [2]. Probably 1.7.4-rc0 will be uploaded to experimental as soon as it comes out (or maybe sooner, if it takes a long time ;-)). Thanks for your interest, Jonathan [1]

Bug#607346: FTBFS [hurd]: git: t5500.12 fetch same depth in shallow repo hangs

2010-12-16 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Source: git Version: 1:1.7.2.3-1 Severity: important Jonathan Nieder wrote [1]: You might have noticed that git's test suite is somewhat unreliable on hppa. A different problem occurs on the hurd (but aside from hurd and hppa, all is well). Hmm. 1:1.7.2.3-1 2010-09-08 12.28 mozart

Bug#606825: [PATCH v2] Re: dpkg: Please add mingw to ostable and triplettable.

2010-12-18 Thread Jonathan Nieder
NightStrike wrote: What's wrong with using the existing GNU triplet? FWIW sorry for setting off this discussion (but thank you --- the answers have been very helpful to me!). Luckily you provided a good example that might help explain the purpose of Debian triplets later in the thread:

Bug#607609: libssl-doc: undeclared file conflict with libssl-dev (trying to overwrite '/usr/share/man/man3/SSL_get_default_timeout.3ssl.gz', which is also in package libssl-dev 0.9.8o-4)

2010-12-20 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Package: libssl-doc Version: 1.0.0c-2 Severity: grave Justification: cannot install $ cupt full-upgrade [...] Unpacking libssl-doc (from .../libssl-doc_1.0.0c-2_all.deb) ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libssl-doc_1.0.0c-2_all.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite

Bug#607852: p910nd: no introductory documentation

2010-12-22 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Package: p910nd Version: 0.93-2 Severity: minor Justification: documentation Hi, Just installed p910nd. Unfortunately, it is not clear to me how to get started. From the postinst I learned that I should edit /etc/default/p910nd; not sure how I would have learned the otherwise. From man p910nd

Bug#608051: git: please remove A U Thor from NOTES of git-commit(1)

2010-12-26 Thread Jonathan Nieder
retitle 608051 git: pointless mailto links in manpages severity 608051 minor tags 608051 + upstream quit Oohara Yuuma wrote: The manpage of git-commit(1) mentions aut...@example.com in the NOTES section. Since it is a fictional address for explaining the --author option, listing it among the

Bug#538822: dash and local diversions

2010-12-26 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Julien Cristau wrote: the release notes for squeeze will need to mention that any local diversions of /bin/sh need to be removed prior to the upgrade. Any more tweaking of this code path to support other shells as /bin/sh, if at all necessary, will wait for post-squeeze. Thanks, makes

Bug#608051: git: please remove A U Thor from NOTES of git-commit(1)

2010-12-26 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Daniel Leidert wrote: Am Sonntag, den 26.12.2010, 14:12 -0600 schrieb Jonathan Nieder: Oohara Yuuma wrote: The manpage of git-commit(1) mentions aut...@example.com in the NOTES section. Since it is a fictional address for explaining the --author option, listing it among the authors of git

Bug#607982: modemmanager: can't connect using Nokia N900 as 3G modem

2010-12-27 Thread Jonathan Nieder
forwarded 607982 http://bugzilla.redhat.com/583691 tags 607982 + fixed-upstream quit Lucas Nussbaum wrote: It was fixed upstream, and the Ubuntu package contains the fix. Thanks, tagging accordingly. [1] has the fix. [1]

Bug#608022: make it clear that only upgrades from lenny are supported

2010-12-27 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi, Witold Baryluk wrote: On 12-26 13:53, Julien Cristau wrote: Upgrades skipping one release are not, and have never been, supported. [...] But on http://www.debian.org/releases/testing/i386/release-notes/ch-upgrading.en.html there is no explicit reference to etch, few times there is

Bug#608108: release-notes §1.1 does not explain where the source is

2010-12-27 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Package: release-notes Severity: minor Section 1.1 1.1. Reporting bugs on this document of the squeeze release notes says: You will find more information describing how to obtain the sources of this document in in Section 4.1.1, “Back up any data or configuration

Bug#603827: debdiff for NMU for 603827

2010-12-27 Thread Jonathan Nieder
is not +installed. (Thanks, Jonathan Nieder jrnie...@gmail.com) + * debian/control: Depends: procps (closes: #603827). + + -- Daniel Kahn Gillmor d...@fifthhorseman.net Sun, 26 Dec 2010 14:19:53 -0500 + runit (2.1.1-6) unstable; urgency=high * debian/rules: don't set -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 on sparc (fixes

Bug#608108: [PATCH] Fix typo in cross-reference to release-notes source

2010-12-27 Thread Jonathan Nieder
. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder jrnie...@gmail.com --- Javier Fernandez-Sanguino wrote: Yes, the cross-reference is not correct. The actual sources are available in the DDP's SVN and browsable at http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/ddp/manuals/trunk/release-notes/#_manuals_trunk_release-notes_ Thanks

Bug#616054: ghostscript: segfault on particular file not reproducible in git master

2011-03-02 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi Yves-Alexis, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: I tried: DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS='noopt,nostrip' debuild -us -uc This should be DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS='noopt nostrip' debuild -us -c An example gcc command line is: gcc -DHAVE_MKSTEMP -DHAVE_HYPOT -DHAVE_FILE64 -DHAVE_MKSTEMP64 -DHAVE_FONTCONFIG

Bug#616168: git-svn: git svn fetch fails with svn_path_join: Assertion `svn_path_is_canonical(component, pool)

2011-03-02 Thread Jonathan Nieder
reassign 616168 libsvn-perl 1.6.12dfsg-4 quit Hi Daniel, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: $ git svn init -Thttp://trac-hacks.org/svn/tagsplugin/trunk \ -thttp://trac-hacks.org/svn/tagsplugin/tags \ -bhttp://trac-hacks.org/svn/tagsplugin/branches I believe you are looking for git svn

Bug#615922: dash: The . builtin does not reset the value of $?

2011-03-02 Thread Jonathan Nieder
tags 615922 + upstream patch forwarded 615922 http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.shells.dash/496 quit Tim Allen wrote: src/main.c |1 + 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) Thanks! Gerrit, I'd like to propose the combination of Tim's patch and my tweak of it as a patch for

Bug#587377: debian-policy: Decide on arbitrary file/path names limit

2011-03-02 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Aaron M. Ucko wrote: As I recall, I was running reiser3 at the time. Thanks. To summarize: A lintian-clean Debian package failed to unpack with ENAMETOOLONG. Setting maximum lengths for paths and filenames in data.tar.gz in policy could prevent future mistakes of this kind, without making

Bug#615157: gcc-4.6: -Wunused-but-set-variable -Werror does not imply -Werror=unused-but-set-variable

2011-03-02 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Matthias Klose wrote: fyi, here is a partial rebuild with gcc-4.6 without the work around applied: http://people.ubuntuwire.org/~wgrant/rebuild-ftbfs-test/test-rebuild-20110111-gcc-natty.html A quick grep -F '[-Wunused' finds nothing, while grep -F '[-Werror=unused-but' finds 34 packages:

Bug#616194: acpid: FTBFS (error: comparison between signed and unsigned integer expressions)

2011-03-02 Thread Jonathan Nieder
' | make: *** [build] Error 2 How about this patch? Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder jrnie...@gmail.com --- debian/changelog | 11 +++ debian/control |2 +- debian/rules |8 ++-- 3 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian

Bug#616286: axis2c: FTBFS with ld --no-add-needed

2011-03-03 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Source: axis2c Version: 1.6.0-2 Severity: important User: peter.fritzs...@gmx.de Usertags: unresolved-symbols-so Tags: upstream Hi, axis2c doesn't build from source for me, due to errors triggered with -Werror. I'll file a separate bug for that in a moment. This bug is about what happens when

Bug#616291: axis2c: FTBFS due to use of -Werror

2011-03-03 Thread Jonathan Nieder
+DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=noopt or DEB_CFLAGS_APPEND=-Werror in the +build-time environment. + * Build-Depends: dpkg-dev (= 1.15.7) for dpkg-buildflags. + + -- Jonathan Nieder jrnie...@gmail.com Thu, 03 Mar 2011 01:48:21 -0600 + axis2c (1.6.0-2) unstable; urgency=low * Fix patches/03_enable-security to enable

Bug#616296: btrfs-tools: will FTBFS with gcc-4.6

2011-03-03 Thread Jonathan Nieder
happy to know it will be there when I need it. :) Regards, Jonathan [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2011/02/msg00012.html From: Jonathan Nieder jrnie...@gmail.com Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2011 03:01:31 -0600 Subject: Remove unused variable This variable was never used, even when first

Bug#616291: axis2c: FTBFS due to use of -Werror

2011-03-03 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi, Jonathan Nieder wrote: --- a/debian/control +++ b/debian/control @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ DM-Upload-Allowed: yes Uploaders: Daniel Nurmi nu...@eucalyptus.com, Graziano Obertelli grazi...@eucalyptus.com, Chris Grzegorczyk g...@eucalyptus.com, Thierry Carrez thierry.car...@ubuntu.com XSBC

Bug#616296: btrfs-tools: will FTBFS with gcc-4.6

2011-03-03 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Jonathan Nieder wrote: + debhelper (= 8), dpkg (= 1.14.7), This should say dpkg-dev (= 1.14.7). Sorry for the thinko. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#616194: acpid: FTBFS (error: comparison between signed and unsigned integer expressions)

2011-03-03 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Jonathan Nieder wrote: --- a/debian/control +++ b/debian/control @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ Maintainer: Debian Acpi Team pkg-acpi-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org Uploaders: Michael Meskes mes...@debian.org, Loic Minier l...@dooz.org Standards-Version: 3.9.1 -Build-Depends: debhelper

Bug#616194: acpid: FTBFS (error: comparison between signed and unsigned integer expressions)

2011-03-03 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi, Michael Meskes wrote: I prefer fixing the bug over working around it. Even makes the patch smaller: I should mention that gcc-4.6 gives another warning[1]. In general I think -Werror is a good tool for development but not so good when autobuilding, since warnings can subtly vary from

Bug#616194: acpid: FTBFS (error: comparison between signed and unsigned integer expressions

2011-03-03 Thread Jonathan Nieder
user debian-...@lists.debian.org clone 616194 -1 severity -1 important retitle -1 acpid: will FTBFS with gcc-4.6 (error: variable ‘type’ set but not used [-Werror=unused-but-set-variable]) usertags -1 - ftbfs-gcc-4.5 ftbfs-gcc-4.4 block 615157 by -1 quit Michael Meskes wrote: * Make both

Bug#616306: acpid: FTBFS (error: comparison between signed and unsigned integer expressions)

2011-03-03 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Michael Meskes wrote: Could you please give us the whole warning gcc-4.6 spits out? Sure, sorry about that. cc -g -O2 -Wall -Wextra -Wundef -Wshadow -Werror -c -o libnetlink.o libnetlink.c libnetlink.c: In function ‘rtnl_from_file’: libnetlink.c:444:17: warning: variable ‘type’ set but not

Bug#616194: acpid: FTBFS (error: comparison between signed and unsigned integer expressions)

2011-03-03 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Michael Meskes wrote: Sorry, I didn't see that as I dn't use gcc-4.6. No problem; I should have mentioned it before. Which is why I think it should stay in there. We build on way more systems than upstream probably can, so keeping -Werror in will help the package. Fair enough. Now that

Bug#587377: debian-policy: Decide on arbitrary file/path names limit

2011-03-03 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Bill Allombert wrote: On Wed, Mar 02, 2011 at 10:17:32PM -0600, Jonathan Nieder wrote: Another question: is Debian policy the right place to make a decisions like this? Ideally these maxima would be set using some cross-distro standard like POSIX or the FHS. Sadly: I do not think

Bug#587377: debian-policy: Decide on arbitrary file/path names limit

2011-03-03 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Bill Allombert wrote: Not really; the packager might not be able to change the filename without breaking either FHS compliance, the interface or compatibility with upstream. Ah, now I think I understand a bit better. FHS compliance sounds like a red herring to me. Does the FHS mandate

Bug#587377: debian-policy: Decide on arbitrary file/path names limit

2011-03-03 Thread Jonathan Nieder
tags 587377 + wontfix quit Sean Finney wrote: On Thu, 2011-03-03 at 15:58 -0600, Jonathan Nieder wrote: * how many characters of grace area can tools like dpkg-divert feel free to use? I don't think tools should be like whoa, i think this filename is going to be too long for some

Bug#587377: debian-policy: Decide on arbitrary file/path names limit

2011-03-03 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Bill Allombert wrote: To give an example: Debian policy mandates that the file /usr/share/doc/package/changelog.Debian.gz exists. Now perl subpolicy mandate that the perl module Foo::Bar::Baz::Qux::Quux::Quuux::Qx whic live in /usr/share/perl5/Foo/Bar/Baz/Qux/Quux/Quuux/Qx be

Bug#542709: git-core: git-rebase gives faulty instructions on conflict

2011-03-04 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi Pertti, Pertti Kellomäki wrote: I ran into this issue today. The sequence of events was: Excellent! I wonder: . What filesystem are you using? . What kernel (uname -a)? . Did you catch what 'git diff-files' and 'git ls-files -u' said at the time? . Can you reproduce it? 3) At this

Bug#616465: debian-policy: description file in each system directory

2011-03-04 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi Sergey! sergey wrote: What do you think about placing README in each system directory? I think the idea is interesting but agree with Steve that policy is not the best way to move it forward. Packages already can put README files in particularly mysterious directories, and I don't see a

Bug#616457: debian-policy: always write version of Debian in documentation at the beginning

2011-03-04 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi again, sergey wrote: It is like bad tradition now: many documentation do not contain information about Debian version. It is very strange for me. How can be authors 100% sure that their documentation is absolutely correct for all Debian versions, from 1.1 or older to the current? In

Bug#613946: debian-policy: anchor issues in HTML version

2011-03-04 Thread Jonathan Nieder
didn't know about that page. I agree that it's not worth spending time on other aspects. So please feel free to ignore the rest of this message. ;-) On Tue, Mar 01, 2011 at 10:24:05PM -0600, Jonathan Nieder wrote: retitle -1 debiandoc2html: link titles should not have embedded tags What

Bug#504880: Disambiguate installed for packages

2011-03-04 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Russ Allbery wrote: Does that look okay? Yes, the version in branch 504880-rra looks good to me (with one tweak: --- a/policy.sgml +++ b/policy.sgml @@ -4027,5 +4027,5 @@ fi in prgnpostrm/prgn purges the prgndebconf/prgn configuration for the package

Bug#587279: debian-policy: clarify wording of parenthetical in section 2.2.1

2011-03-04 Thread Jonathan Nieder
forcemerge 587279 616462 quit Hi Marvin, Marvin Renich wrote: to ...the packages in main • must not require a package outside of main for compilation or execution (thus, all declared Depends, Recommends, and Build-Depends relationships must be satisfiable with only

Bug#574443: dpkg-maintscript-helper

2011-03-04 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi, Colin Watson wrote: On Tue, Nov 02, 2010 at 04:17:02PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: The only glaring problem is that Pre-Depends: ${misc:Pre-Depends} needs to be added -- but I suppose lintian can be made to check for that. Yes (and I think I forgot to document that, but that's a simple

Bug#616502: dpkg: malloc failed (-1739558537 bytes): Cannot allocate memory for file = 2 GiB

2011-03-04 Thread Jonathan Nieder
a similar fix. Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder jrnie...@gmail.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#587991: perl-policy: /etc/perl missing from Module Path

2011-03-04 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi, Ansgar Burchardt noticed: perl/5.8.0-7 added /etc/perl to @INC: * Prepend /etc/perl to @INC to provide a standard location for configuration modules: But this addition has never been documented in the Debian Perl Policy. Russ Allbery wrote: Good point. Here's updated proposed

Bug#23712: conflicting packages with the same conffile

2011-03-04 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Raphael Hertzog wrote: On Sat, 21 Aug 2010, Russ Allbery wrote: Hm. All the words that I had intended to be there are there. I clearly need to rephrase it somehow, though, if it's not clear. How about: When two packages both declare the same ttconffile/tt, they may see left-over

Bug#403649: debian-policy: Should clarify package availability in postrm remove

2011-03-04 Thread Jonathan Nieder
forcemerge 504880 403649 quit Hi Frank, Frank Küster wrote: Current Policy says: , 7.2 Binary Dependencies | The Depends field should also be used if the postinst, prerm or | postrm scripts require the package to be present in order to | run. Note, however, that the postrm cannot rely

Bug#556015: Clarify requirements for copyright file

2011-03-04 Thread Jonathan Nieder
tags 556015 - patch quit Hi, Russ Allbery wrote: Here's a patch that is explicit about the required dependencies and discourages the last case. Does this look good to everyone? I'm missing some background but hopefully that's all right. Quick comments. +++ b/policy.sgml @@ -573,10

Bug#556015: Clarify requirements for copyright file

2011-03-04 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi Russ, Russ Allbery wrote: Right, this was the reason why I hadn't committed anything yet. We have to decide whether we're going to prohibit arch:any - arch:all links completely to ensure that the binNMU changelog entries are visible. My inclination is to do so, and hence drop this whole

Bug#591791: extend init.d policy to permit upstart jobs and describe their use

2011-03-05 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi, Steve Langasek wrote: Sorry this has taken so long; I spun my wheels on it for some time because I couldn't quite accept that there were so few additional requirements that needed to be specified here! Thanks for your work. :) [...] + tasks at boot time. However, any package

Bug#616502: dpkg: malloc failed (-1739558537 bytes): Cannot allocate memory for file = 2 GiB

2011-03-05 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Raphael Hertzog wrote: Pushed a fix to master. It's not important enough to warrant a fix in lenny. Maybe squeeze... FWIW I think sid will be enough. I was only flailing around for words for this is why the patch does not apply directly to master. Thanks, Raphaël. :) Jonathan -- To

Bug#591791: extend init.d policy to permit upstart jobs and describe their use

2011-03-05 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Bill Allombert wrote: On Sat, Mar 05, 2011 at 02:19:12AM -0600, Jonathan Nieder wrote: Maybe policy could allow (but discourage) packages that only support some non-Sys-V init system as long as they include a dependency indicating so? This would be a terrible idea. We would end up

Bug#616465: debian-policy: description file in each system directory

2011-03-05 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi Sergey, sergey wrote: Does Debian policy can recommend something (including READMEs)? Or policy can only force something, no recommendations is possible? Policy sets rules that make sure the system works well. These can be hard requirements (generally using the word must), which

Bug#593177: Pre-Depends: dpkg (= 1.15.7.2) for dpkg-maintscript-helper okay?

2011-03-05 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi, Steve Langasek wrote: So in this case the pre-dependency should *not* be set, as it only serves to complicate the upgrade path. I think this example might deserve a closer look. Documentating the required dpkg version seems useful for backporters and others who would use the package in

Bug#616465: debian-policy: description file in each system directory

2011-03-05 Thread Jonathan Nieder
(-cc: Steve since he is already subscribed to -policy) Hi Sergey, sergey wrote: I agree that it is a good place for proposals like mine. But making long well-developed draft and driving it - this is mostly operating system developer's task, not users one. I think that Debian should have some

Bug#616623: chromium: upgrade to new binary name is not smooth

2011-03-05 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Package: chromium Version: 10.0.648.114~r75702-1 Hi, Two quick observations: 1. $ chromium-browser bash: chromium-browser: command not found This breaks scripts, so I think it should be mentioned in NEWS.Debian.gz and perhaps a compatibility symlink provided for a short time. 2. If

Bug#616042: debian-policy: anchor issues in HTML version

2011-03-05 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Osamu Aoki wrote: This may be a bug which can be quickly fixed. I guess dropping all ... should be enough. I can even agree this to be minor bug which is annoynig enough. Thanks! Confirmed, version 1.2.21 fixes this for me. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#616627: stdio functions should not be declared __wur (ignoring return value of ‘fwrite’, declared with attribute warn_unused_result)

2011-03-05 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Package: libc6-dev Version: 2.13-0exp3 Severity: minor Justification: noisy, results in ugly code Tags: upstream Forwarded: http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11959 Hi, Testcase follows[1]. The C standard I/O facilities include an error flag on file streams, so instead of a noisy

Bug#616627: stdio functions should not be declared __wur (ignoring return value of ‘fwrite’, declared with attribute warn_unused_result)

2011-03-05 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi again, Jonathan Nieder wrote: Unfortunately glibc marks fwrite --- but oddly not the other stdio output functions --- with __wur (which expands to __attribute__((__warn_unused_result__)) when optimization is enabled and the _FORTIFY_SOURCE feature is in use). An alternative fix would

Bug#616634: gcc-4.6: errors from -pedantic -Werror say [-Werror=edantic]

2011-03-05 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Package: gcc-4.6 Version: 4.6-20110227-1 Severity: minor Justification: cosmetic Tags: upstream Using -Werror with -pedantic to catch constructs the standard does not permit: $ ./test.c; # case (1) ./test.c:6:7: warning: ISO C90 does not support flexible array members [-pedantic] $ ./test.c

Bug#593177: Clarify when dependencies of pre-dependencies are satisfied

2011-03-06 Thread Jonathan Nieder
(switching topics; sorry for the cognitive dissonance) Steve Langasek wrote: Taken in sum, there is a cost to that documentation. Thanks for a nice summary. On Sat, Mar 05, 2011 at 06:26:27PM -0600, Jonathan Nieder wrote: Bug#593177 brings the possibility of change. In the extreme case

Bug#583433: libc6-dev: bassackwards tests for ARG_MAX in sys/param.h

2011-03-07 Thread Jonathan Nieder
forwarded 583433 http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.glibc.alpha/15973 found 583433 eglibc/2.13-0exp3 quit Hi, Ian Zimmerman wrote: The line just below the comment should be #ifdef and not #ifndef. See also /usr/include/bits/local_lim.h where the same mechanism is used (correctly). I've

Bug#617299: dpkg-deb: should give a hint when it fails due to filling /tmp

2011-03-07 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi Yann, Yann Dirson wrote: dpkg-deb -b apparently uses some temporary files which can take some place. When it fills /tmp, it stops with a no space left on device error, but since it cleans up before exiting, the user is left with few clues as to where to add space. An explicit message

Bug#617441: Binutils installs hard link

2011-03-08 Thread Jonathan Nieder
reassign 617441 hardening-wrapper forcemerge 615262 617441 affects 615262 + binutils quit Hi Mats, Mats Erik Andersson wrote: The new binutils package installs a hard link hrwxr-xr-x root/root0 2011-03-03 09:10 /usr/bin/ld link to ./usr/bin/ld.bfd This causes an unresolvable

Bug#617631: git-el: postinst creates /usr/share/doc/git/contrib/emacs.old

2011-03-09 Thread Jonathan Nieder
of git-el because debbugs doesn't know about the latter yet.) Thoughts? Jonathan Nieder (2): debian/git-el: avoid spurious doc/git/contrib/emacs.old directory debian/git-el: remove spurious doc/git/contrib/emacs.old directory debian/changelog | 11 +++ debian/git-el.postinst

Bug#617631: [PATCH 1/2] debian/git-el: avoid spurious doc/git/contrib/emacs.old directory

2011-03-09 Thread Jonathan Nieder
@@ +git (1:1.7.4.1-3.1) experimental; urgency=low + + * git-el.postinst: check if /usr/share/doc/git/contrib/emacs is +already a symlink before making room for one. + + -- Jonathan Nieder jrnie...@gmail.com Wed, 09 Mar 2011 16:52:14 -0600 + git (1:1.7.4.1-3) unstable; urgency=low [ Anders

Bug#617631: [PATCH 2/2] debian/git-el: remove spurious doc/git/contrib/emacs.old directory

2011-03-09 Thread Jonathan Nieder
to install git-el once), remove it. - if contrib/emacs/emacs is a symlink (from trying to install git-el twice), remove it. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder jrnie...@gmail.com --- debian/changelog |4 debian/git-el.postinst |6 ++ 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 0 deletions

Bug#617759: icedove: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/icedove/components/libdbusservice.so: undefined symbol: NS_Alloc

2011-03-10 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Package: icedove Version: 3.1.9-1 Severity: grave Hi, Typical experimental system. Trying to run icedove, I get $ icedove; echo $? /usr/lib/icedove/icedove-bin: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/icedove/components/libdbusservice.so: undefined symbol: NS_Alloc 127 I have no plugins installed.

Bug#617760: chromium-browser: package broken - missing files

2011-03-10 Thread Jonathan Nieder
reassign 617760 chromium severity 617760 important severity 616623 important forcemerge 616623 617760 affects 616623 + chromium-browser quit Fathi Boudra wrote: Since latest upgrade, I cannot run chromium. Looking into the package, it seems the main binary is missing. The new package calls it

Bug#617759: icedove: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/icedove/components/libdbusservice.so: undefined symbol: NS_Alloc

2011-03-11 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Christoph Goehre wrote: On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 01:28:33AM -0600, Jonathan Nieder wrote: $ icedove; echo $? /usr/lib/icedove/icedove-bin: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/icedove/components/libdbusservice.so: undefined symbol: NS_Alloc 127 I have no plugins installed. Any hints

Bug#617784: git depends on emacsen-common

2011-03-11 Thread Jonathan Nieder
severity 617784 wishlist quit Hi Bertrand, Bertrand Yvain wrote: package git should not depend on emacsen-common. The postinst in git 1.7.4.1-3 uses emacsen-common to clean up after git 1.7.4.1-1. So it really is intended. Is the dependency causing a problem? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#426938: git-core: Conflict markers should always have a SHA1

2011-03-12 Thread Jonathan Nieder
tags 426938 + moreinfo quit Hi again, 4 years ago, Bart Massey wrote[1]: As of now, the conflict markers generated by merges sometimes include only a relative symbolic name such as HEAD. A SHA1 should also always be included, so that months later the marker is still meaningful. My

Bug#618015: git: Unneeded dependencies for emacsen-common

2011-03-13 Thread Jonathan Nieder
forcemerge 617784 618015 quit Hi Klaus, Klaus Ethgen wrote: I was near to write idiotic dependencies but that would be not objective. However, my system was emacs free until the update today that brings emacsen-common in by git. This strikes me as an odd thing to say. Did you know that

Bug#618015: git: Unneeded dependencies for emacsen-common

2011-03-13 Thread Jonathan Nieder
tags 618015 - sid quit Klaus Ethgen wrote: Ups, sorry, overlooked this bug. No problem --- the bug list is pretty daunting to wade through. Looks good. Ill give em a test. (I see no problems from the log.) Good to hear. :) Thanks for reporting it, by the way. Jonathan -- To

Bug#609627: dpkg: update-alternatives for x-www-browser/gnome-www-browser doesn't take

2011-01-10 Thread Jonathan Nieder
reassign 609627 gwibber quit Hi Kartik et al, Ben Bromley wrote: I've installed Firefox in /opt so that I can run the beta. I linked /opt/firefox/firefox to /usr/bin/firefox, and I have been using that location. I have Firefox listed as the preferred application for web browser, and used

Bug#609643: yelp: warnings on terminal (failed to load config file; assertion failures)

2011-01-10 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Package: yelp Version: 2.30.1+webkit-1 Severity: minor Justification: cosmetic $ yelp 21 |grep . (yelp:9290): Gtk-CRITICAL **: IA__gtk_tool_button_new: assertion `icon_widget == NULL || GTK_IS_MISC (icon_widget)' failed (yelp:9290): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: invalid (NULL) pointer instance

Bug#596527: gnome-help crash

2011-01-10 Thread Jonathan Nieder
tags 596527 + moreinfo quit Hi Eliad and Christina, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote: On 02/12/10 15:42, ctineo wrote: when execute gnome-help ghelp:///usr/share/gnome/help/network-admin/es/network- admin.xml Or any app with help button many windows open and freeze computer. Can you still

Bug#531575: yelp: warning messages in .xsession-errors

2011-01-10 Thread Jonathan Nieder
retitle 531575 yelp: OMF category 'Applications|Other' not recognised, ignoring quit Dominique Brazziel wrote: Since the move from 'scrollkeeper' to 'librarian0/rarian-compat' there are hundreds of these messages in '.xsession-errors': OMF category 'Applications|Other' not recognised,

Bug#609644: yelp: does not list documents registered with doc-base, even with rarian-compat installed

2011-01-10 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Package: yelp Version: 2.30.1+webkit-1 Severity: normal Aron Xu wrote[1]: 2. Registering to doc-base won't benefit users of Yelp or something in same category. Yep. Even with rarian-compat installed, none of the documentation from doc-base is visible in yelp for me. This makes the effort of

Bug#607498: lintian: detecting multiple lines in a single doc-base file entry

2011-01-11 Thread Jonathan Nieder
clone 607498 -1 retitle -1 doc-base: not clear what to do with multiple-file text documents severity -1 wishlist quit Robert Luberda wrote: And this is the main problem here - how doc-base or other tools should handle documentation consisting of multiple text documents? I've just checked how

Bug#609644: yelp: does not list documents registered with doc-base, even with rarian-compat installed

2011-01-11 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Josselin Mouette wrote: The performance issue is still here, we need to wait for yelp 3.0 for it to be solved. The classification issue is still here: completely random and mostly useless documents appear more prominently than the core GUI documentation, and this is not acceptable. Thanks.

Bug#403409: yelp still fork bombing

2011-01-11 Thread Jonathan Nieder
tags 403409 - moreinfo quit Eric Cooper wrote: Unfortunately I haven't been able to reproduce this so far. Any insights would be appreciated (or if you are able to somewhat reliably reproduce it though can't explain how, that would be interesting, too). I can't reproduce it either. I

Bug#546208: Bug#607498: lintian: detecting multiple lines in a single doc-base file entry

2011-01-11 Thread Jonathan Nieder
reassign 546208 yelp 2.26.0-2 forcemerge 609644 546208 quit Robert Luberda wrote: Yes, I was checking yesterday why doc-base docs are not visible in yelp, but failed to find the reason. I found out that I had already reported bug #546208 against rarian-compat about this issue. FYI:

Bug#546208: Bug#607498: lintian: detecting multiple lines in a single doc-base file entry

2011-01-11 Thread Jonathan Nieder
# as before unmerge 546208 reassign 546208 rarian-compat 0.8.1-4 severity 546208 important quit Robert Luberda wrote: There's a similar issue in khelpcenter, and both yelp and khelpcenter worked fine when scrollkeper was used. That's why my bug was about the rarian-compat package. Also your

Bug#609176: chromium-browser: Developer tools don't work

2011-01-11 Thread Jonathan Nieder
tags 609176 + upstream moreinfo quit Dmitry Azhichakov wrote: Ctrl-Shift-I shows the 'Developer tools' frame but nothing is working in it. It's just dead. I've checked it with clean user-data-dir also. Works for me (also with chromium-browser 9.0.597.19~r68937-1 but on i386). Any hints for

Bug#609176: chromium-browser: Developer tools don't work

2011-01-12 Thread Jonathan Nieder
tags 609176 - moreinfo quit Dmitry Azhichakov wrote: After I hit ctrl-shit-I, the panes show, but empty. I can switch Elements to Resources to Scripts etc. But they are empty: no html tree displayed, no scripts etc. On Resources I can see a selection: Only enable for this session or Always

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