Bug#308911: run-parts does not execute links/binaries containing periods in the name

2005-12-06 Thread Julian Mehnle
Clint Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Luke Schierer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Okay, even with the --lsbsysinit option, it is still skipping a file.sh type name. I used run-parts --lsbsysinit --test /etc/cron.daily to test. You would need to use the LSB hierarchical namespace, for

Bug#344072: apache2: Apache 2.2 has been released

2005-12-19 Thread Julian Mehnle
Package: apache2 Version: 2.0.54-5 Severity: wishlist Apache 2.2 has recently been released: http://www.apache.org/dist/httpd/Announcement2.2.html It brings quite a few new features and AFAICT also fixes some of the bugs that are in the Debian BTS, so packaging it would probably be a good

Bug#64141: apt-get wants to install dependencies for a package that is being kept back

2005-11-02 Thread Julian Mehnle
Package: apt Version: 0.6.41 Followup-For: Bug #64141 Today I experienced this problem, too. When I tried to perform a dist-upgrade with Debug::pkgProblemResolver=yes, I got: $ sudo apt-get -u -o=Debug::pkgProblemResolver=yes dist-upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency

Bug#344342: ITA: libmail-spf-query-perl -- Query SPF (Sender Permitted From) to validate mail senders

2005-12-21 Thread Julian Mehnle
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Package: wnpp Severity: normal Chip Salzenberg has recently given up[1] maintaining the libmail-spf-query- perl package[2], among others. Chip also wrote to me: Julian Mehnle wrote: I understand you are the maintainer of libmail-spf-query-perl

Bug#334687: libmail-spf-query-perl: Can't locate object method new via package Net::DNS::RR::PTR

2005-12-28 Thread Julian Mehnle
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 package libmail-spf-query-perl owner 334687 ! retitle 334687 libmail-spf-query-perl: Can't locate object method new via package Net::DNS::RR::PTR tags 334687 + moreinfo thanks Justin Mason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Filippo Giunchedi [EMAIL

Bug#345254: DBIx-SearchBuilder 1.38 is available

2005-12-29 Thread Julian Mehnle
Package: libdbix-searchbuilder-perl Severity: wishlist DBIx-SearchBuilder 1.38 is available upstream: http://search.cpan.org/~jesse/DBIx-SearchBuilder-1.38/ Please package it. 1.38 fixes some of the problems with Request Tracker 3/3.4 and with PostgreSQL 8 (which no longer creates tables

Bug#345336: package libmail-spf-query-perl in testing has missing dependency on LMAP::CID2SPF

2005-12-31 Thread Julian Mehnle
package libmail-spf-query-perl merge 345336 337319 owner 345336 ! thanks James, if you had looked at the other libmail-spf-query-perl bugs in the Debian bugtracker, you would have noticed that this issue has been filed twice already. The issue will be resolved by the next release, which will

Bug#344342: Mail::SPF::Query 1.998

2005-12-31 Thread Julian Mehnle
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, after 20 months, a final release of Mail::SPF::Query, which was the very first SPF implementation, has come up as version 1.998: CPAN: http://search.cpan.org/dist/Mail-SPF-Query Subversion repository:

Bug#344342: [spf-devel] Mail::SPF::Query 1.998

2005-12-31 Thread Julian Mehnle
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, after 20 months, a final release of Mail::SPF::Query, which was the very first SPF implementation, has come up as version 1.998: CPAN: http://search.cpan.org/dist/Mail-SPF-Query Subversion repository:

Bug#334687: libnet-dns-perl: Can't locate object method new via package Net::DNS::RR::PTR

2006-01-03 Thread Julian Mehnle
package libmail-spf-query-perl reassign 334687 libnet-dns-perl 0.48-1 package libnet-dns-perl noowner 334687 retitle 334687 libnet-dns-perl: Can't locate object method new via package Net::DNS::RR::PTR thanks Justin Mason wrote: Julian Mehnle writes: Justin, how do you know this is a bug

Bug#284047: openoffice.org: No stream compression on exported PDF files

2005-10-12 Thread Julian Mehnle
Package: openoffice.org Version: 1.1.4-7 Followup-For: Bug #284047 I do have the same problem. Exported PDF files do not feature stream compression. When I use `pdftk in.pdf output out.pdf compress`, the PDFs get compressed and thus become about 75% smaller. Can PDF stream compression be

Bug#340292: debchange: Should fall back to NAME env var if DEBFULLNAME is undefined

2005-11-22 Thread Julian Mehnle
Package: devscripts Version: 2.9.8 Severity: wishlist debchange currently uses a maintainer name of (empty string) if the DEBFULLNAME environment variable is undefined. However it should use the standard NAME env var if DEBFULLNAME is undefined. -- System Information: Debian Release:

Bug#387902: libnet-dns-perl: New upstream release 0.58 with helpful fixes

2006-09-17 Thread Julian Mehnle
Package: libnet-dns-perl Severity: normal A new upstream release, 0.58, is available from CPAN. It includes a number of helpful fixes (see the changelog). Please upgrade the libnet-dns-perl package. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Bug#235028: libmail-spf-query-perl: no init.d script for /usr/sbin/spfd daemon

2006-11-09 Thread Julian Mehnle
package libmail-spf-query-perl tags +wontfix thanks Sorry for wontfixing this so late. The problem here is that libmail-spf- query-perl really is a library package and not a tools package. Thus it should not run any daemons or install any init scripts for them. Further, Mail::SPF::Query has

Bug#397779: libmail-spf-query-perl should have dependency on LMAP::CID2SPF module

2006-11-09 Thread Julian Mehnle
Peter Fokkinga wrote: Package: libmail-spf-query-perl Version: 1.997-3 The Perl module Mail::SPF::Query in libmail-spf-query-perl uses LMAP::CID2SPF but AFAIK this module is not available as a Debian package. When spamassassin is installed in combination with libmail-spf-query-perl then

Bug#389475: courier-mta: `newaliases` should not ignore /etc/courier/aliases(/) in favor of /etc/aliases

2006-09-25 Thread Julian Mehnle
Package: courier-mta Version: 0.53.2-3 Severity: important Debian policy, section 11.6, mandates that every MTA package provide a `newaliases` program. The courier-mta package ships such a program, which calls `/usr/sbin/makealiases -src=/etc/aliases`. This call builds the e-mail aliases

Bug#306875: spfquery: Support for alternatives system

2006-12-02 Thread Julian Mehnle
Package: spfquery Version: 1.2.5-4 Followup-For: Bug #306875 Here's a patch that installs the `spfquery` executable as `spfquery. libspf2` and adds update-alternatives support for it. diff -ruN libspf2-1.2.5.org/debian/compat libspf2-1.2.5/debian/compat --- libspf2-1.2.5.org/debian/compat

Bug#308911: run-parts does not execute links/binaries containing periods in the name

2006-12-05 Thread Julian Mehnle
Erich Minderlein wrote: As I learnt recently , run-parts executes cron and this is intended behaviour see man cron not a BUG. Well, so what? Why can't a command-line option be introduced that allows the dots? That wouldn't be incompatible with cron. pgpG45VQFWF2X.pgp Description: PGP

Bug#306183: closing bug

2006-01-15 Thread Julian Mehnle
reopen 306183 ! thanks Bastian Venthur wrote: I'm closing this bug since it's fixed in KDE 3.5. But it still exists in testing. Re-opening, changing submitter to myself. Julian. pgpY4NlDy27yU.pgp Description: PGP signature

Bug#337679: X-Chat 2.6.1 is available upstream

2006-01-20 Thread Julian Mehnle
package xchat retitle 337679 X-Chat 2.6.1 is available upstream thanks Can we please have a current version of X-Chat in Debian soon? Thanks, Julian. pgpxqqWaFS6hR.pgp Description: PGP signature

Bug#349159: libsoap-lite-perl: 0.66.1 bugfix release is available upstream

2006-01-21 Thread Julian Mehnle
Package: libsoap-lite-perl Severity: normal A 0.66.1 bugfix release is available upstream: http://search.cpan.org/~byrne/SOAP-Lite-0.66.1/ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/soaplite/message/5114 It fixes at least one annoying use_prefix has been deprecated warning that is bogusly being

Bug#492996: python-dns: Should safely ignore IPv6 nameserver entries in resolv.conf as long as queyring those is not supported

2008-07-30 Thread Julian Mehnle
+++ python-dns-2.3.1/debian/changelog 2008-07-30 14:23:43.0 + @@ -1,3 +1,10 @@ +python-dns (2.3.1-6+ipv6safe) UNRELEASED; urgency=low + + * Safely ignore nameserver entries in resolv.conf that list IPv6 resolvers, +as querying those is not currently supported. + + -- Julian Mehnle

Bug#487541: Solution/work-around: Force building with Tcl thread support

2008-08-03 Thread Julian Mehnle
Package: eggdrop Followup-For: Bug #487541 tag 487541 patch thanks Postings on the egghelp.org forums indicate that eggdrop's hanging in background mode is caused by being compiled without Tcl thread support while still being linked against a thread-enabled libtcl:

Bug#466258: postgresql-common: pg_upgradecluster datadir argument undocumented

2008-02-17 Thread Julian Mehnle
Package: postgresql-common Version: 85 Severity: minor The optional datadir argument shown in `pg_upgradecluster` and `man pg_upgradecluster` is not documented. I wonder what it does. Please document it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Bug#297765: Package should be named libmime-tools-perl, not libmime-perl

2007-11-29 Thread Julian Mehnle
Niko Tyni wrote: I'm still not sure if it's worth it to rename, though. Gregor Herrmann wrote: Considering the arguments with versioned dependencies I'm inclined to propose to stick with the current name. Cost: This would be a one-time action, and we can easily supply a dummy libmime-perl

Bug#448279: [new] wipnity: Why is package X not in testing yet? query script

2007-12-21 Thread Julian Mehnle
Mohammed Adnène Trojette wrote: What's significantly different from grep-excuses in wipnity? I have little idea since I have never used grep-excuses before. However, from looking at it now, it seems that grep-excuses doesn't work for source package names, and doesn't give all the information

Bug#404228: kmail's handling of passwords/kdewallet very broken

2007-12-27 Thread Julian Mehnle
This issue is known upstream (see bug's forwarded info). A work-around (that's acceptable at least to me) seems to be to disable the KDE Wallet system entirely (KDE Control Center - Security Privacy - KDE Wallet - Wallet Preferences - Enable the KDE wallet subsystem := OFF). signature.asc

Bug#458205: libnet-dns-perl: New upstream version 0.62 fixes various issues

2007-12-29 Thread Julian Mehnle
Package: libnet-dns-perl Severity: wishlist A new upstream version, 0.62, was just released: http://search.cpan.org/dist/Net-DNS-0.62/ It fixes various issues: http://search.cpan.org/src/OLAF/Net-DNS-0.62/Changes (Personally, I'm interested in a fix for rt.cpan.org #29531, which plagues

Bug#455220: aptitude: Reading package list percentage shown without % sign

2008-01-01 Thread Julian Mehnle
I can confirm this. I have been observing it for nearly a year now. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Bug#114920: [PROPOSAL] remove foolish consistency in perl module names

2008-01-02 Thread Julian Mehnle
Russ Allbery wrote: This is a Policy proposal that's sat in the Policy bug queue with wording and seconds for quite some time. I'd like to resurrect it and resolve it one way or the other. There's some room for clarification here. I think it is apparent from comments given in 2001 the that

Bug#114920: [PROPOSAL] remove foolish consistency in perl module names

2008-01-02 Thread Julian Mehnle
Don Armstrong wrote: On Wed, 02 Jan 2008, Julian Mehnle wrote: I think that from the final sentence it can be inferred that it primarily intends to mandate the _binary_ package name. So while we're discussing the binary package naming, maybe we can decide whether the mandate should

Bug#175351: apache2-common: The problem persists with 2.0.52-1

2007-12-08 Thread Julian Mehnle
Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: The problem persists with 2.0.52-1. The URIs mentioned above are still current. Thank you for your help in testing this problem. I'm working through the (rather long) list of Apache2 bugs. Could you try it again one more time with current Apache 2.2.3 ? That would

Bug#294130: README.mailman: Multiple databases should now be possible

2005-02-07 Thread Julian Mehnle
Package: lurker Version: 1.2-4 Severity: minor README.mailman says: | As long as lurker doesn't support multible databases per instance, you | have to archive either all private lists, all public lists or both with | lurker. I don't have any experience with older versions of lurker, but I see

Bug#294662: apache2-common: Duplicate SSL example configuration file (ssl-std.conf)

2005-02-10 Thread Julian Mehnle
Package: apache2-common Version: 2.0.52-3 Severity: minor In /usr/share/doc/apache2/examples, there is a duplicate SSL example configuration file called ssl-std.conf(.gz), which is essentially identical to ssl.conf(.gz): | # cd /usr/share/doc/apache2/examples | # ls -la ssl* | -rw-r--r-- 1 root

Bug#294130: README.mailman: Multiple databases should now be possible

2005-02-11 Thread Julian Mehnle
Jonas Meurer wrote: [...] you'll have to install seperate instances of lurkers binary to configure different htdocs (webcache) directories as well. therefore i see currently no possibility to run more than one lurker instance with the debian lurker package installation. Huh? Why is that? Is

Bug#223371: Documentation problem will probably be fixed by next upstream release

2005-03-10 Thread Julian Mehnle
Julian Mehnle wrote: FYI, the documentation problem will probably be fixed by the next upstream release. This is the change from CVS: http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/courier/courier/courier/courier/filters/courierfilter.sgml?r1=1.1r2=1.2 Uhm, forget that. There is no documentation

Bug#307458: mailutils: Should not depend on libmysqlclient* (and other stuff)

2005-05-03 Thread Julian Mehnle
Package: mailutils Severity: normal mailutils should not depend on libmysqlclient* (currently: libmysqlclient12). I just wanted to install the `sieve` tool, but as long as I don't want to install the MySQL stuff (and I don't want to!), I can't. Perhaps you should split the package if it has so

Bug#307975: gksu: Segfaults after password has been entered (correctly or incorrectly)

2005-05-06 Thread Julian Mehnle
Package: gksu Version: 1.2.5-1 Severity: important I recently installed synaptic, whose menu entry uses the command-line `gksu -u root /usr/sbin/synaptic` to start synaptic with root privileges. Unfortunately, this does not work. After the password has been entered (correctly or incorrectly),

Bug#289796: courier-filter-perl: Perl 5.8 dependency not represented in package

2005-01-11 Thread Julian Mehnle
Severity: serious Justification: Policy 3.5 Line 26 of /usr/share/courier-filter-perl/perl5/Courier/Filter.pm is: use v5.8; This requirement is not represented in the testing package of courier-filter-perl. I don't think it has to. courier-filter-perl is only in Debian/testing (and

Bug#284072: clamav: Navigational IMG tags in LaTeX2HTML-generated docs should not have absolute paths

2005-01-16 Thread Julian Mehnle
Stephen Gran wrote: Dammit - I have just noticed that latex2html is in non-free, making it unclear (at least to me) that I can go about this the way I was planning to. I was going to uuencode the icons, and then uudecode them back in postinst. Now that I notice it's a non-free package, I may

Bug#297224: kmahjongg: Theme, tileset, background, and layout settings are not saved

2005-02-27 Thread Julian Mehnle
Package: kmahjongg Version: 4:3.3.2-1 Severity: normal When I select a theme, tileset, background, or layout, KMahjongg does not save my selection and returns to the defaults when I close and restart the program. Thus I always have to choose my preferred background and tileset manually when

Bug#297730: courier-filter-perl: incorrect recommends and suggests

2005-03-02 Thread Julian Mehnle
Charles Fry wrote: Currently courier-filter-perl has recommends/suggests of four non-existent packages: - libmime-tools-perl - libclamav-client-perl - libnet-address-ipv4-local-perl - libnet-rblclient-perl libmime-tools-perl should be changed to libmime-perl. Right. I guess

Bug#297765: Package should be named libmime-tools-perl, not libmime-perl

2005-03-02 Thread Julian Mehnle
Package: libmime-perl Version: 5.417-1 Severity: wishlist The CPAN package is named MIME-tools, so following the unofficial naming convention for Debian Perl packages, the Debian package should probably really be named libmime-tools-perl. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Bug#297730: courier-filter-perl: incorrect recommends and suggests

2005-03-02 Thread Julian Mehnle
All of these have not yet been packaged for Debian, and as I am not a regular Debian Developer, I cannot do it myself. Until some DD sponsors them, Debian packages can easily be built manually at least from the two CPAN packages written by me (Debian package control files are included).

Bug#41890: libapache-dbilogger-perl: Incompatible with PostgreSQL due to unquoted column names

2005-03-05 Thread Julian Mehnle
package libapache-dbilogger-perl submitter 41890 ! retitle 41890 libapache-dbilogger-perl: Incompatible with PostgreSQL due to unquoted column names tags 41890 patch thanks Gunnar Wolf wrote: I want to close a pretty old bug ( #41890! :-O ). It requires a minor change in

Bug#443069: mailman: senddigests cron job: TypeError: iso-8859-1

2007-09-18 Thread Julian Mehnle
Package: mailman Version: 1:2.1.9-8 Severity: important Followup-For: Bug #384016 It seems that #384016 is not resolved yet. I recently upgraded mailman from 1:2.1.8-4 to 1:2.1.9-8, and now I am getting the following error message whenever the senddigests cron job runs (i.e. daily): | Traceback

Bug#443069: mailman: senddigests cron job: TypeError: iso-8859-1

2007-09-18 Thread Julian Mehnle
Joost van Baal wrote: FWIW, I've recently manually done: ln -s /usr/lib/mailman/pythonlib /var/lib/mailman/pythonlib after such a Mailman upgrade. It solved the shown errors from senddigests. Apparently, the postinst script fails to execute this under some circumstances. Not only that,

Bug#437508: debarchiver now _always_ warns: Loading config file /etc/debarchiver.conf:\n^I\n^I in syslog, even if no error condition

2007-09-20 Thread Julian Mehnle
Package: debarchiver Version: 0.7.4 Followup-For: Bug #437508 debarchiver now _always_ warns in syslog: | debarchiver: Warning: Loading config file /etc/debarchiver.conf: | debarchiver: ^I | debarchiver: ^I even if there is no error condition! I think you changed one log level too many from 4

Bug#443405: Bug#437508: debarchiver now _always_ warns: Loading config file /etc/debarchiver.conf:\n^I\n^I in syslog, even if no error condition

2007-09-21 Thread Julian Mehnle
Ola Lundqvist wrote: I think you need to end the configuration file with 1; Why would that make a difference? The last statement is ... $gpgkey = '74E1D63F'; which returns a true value. So this is equivalent to a trailing 1;. Please try that and tell me if the warning disappear. As

Bug#443405: Bug#437508: debarchiver now _always_ warns: Loading config file /etc/debarchiver.conf:\n^I\n^I in syslog, even if no error condition

2007-09-23 Thread Julian Mehnle
Ola Lundqvist wrote: I have now tried to reproduce your problem, but failed. The current code that cause the warning looks like this: if (-e $etcconfigfile) { my $t = do $etcconfigfile; unless ($t) { pdebug(3, Loading config file $etcconfigfile:\n\t$!\n\t$@); } } So I

Bug#443405: Bug#437508: debarchiver now _always_ warns: Loading config file /etc/debarchiver.conf:\n^I\n^I in syslog, even if no error condition

2007-09-23 Thread Julian Mehnle
Ola Lundqvist wrote: On Sun, Sep 23, 2007 at 11:49:36AM +, Julian Mehnle wrote: So I think debarchiver should check $! and $@ rather than the result of do() (unless ($t)), which really says nothing about whether the file could be read and compiled successfully, UNLESS you require

Bug#443405: Bug#437508: debarchiver now _always_ warns: Loading config file /etc/debarchiver.conf:\n^I\n^I in syslog, even if no error condition

2007-09-24 Thread Julian Mehnle
Ola Lundqvist wrote: `perldoc -f do` says: | If do cannot read the file, it returns undef and sets $! to the | error. If do can read the file but cannot compile it, it returns | undef and sets an error message in [EMAIL PROTECTED] If the file is | successfully compiled, do returns the

Bug#443923: svn-buildpackage: svn-inject fails with native packages

2007-09-25 Thread Julian Mehnle
Not only that, but it fails specifically for repository layouts of type 2 as well, i.e. `svn-inject -l 2`! signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Bug#443923: svn-buildpackage: svn-inject fails with native packages

2007-09-25 Thread Julian Mehnle
Julian Mehnle wrote: Not only that, but it fails specifically for repository layouts of type 2 as well, i.e. `svn-inject -l 2`! ... for native packages, I meant to say. (The patch from #433536 seems to support non-native packages OK.) signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed

Bug#426968: webalizer: Wishing new conf setup were like logrotate

2007-09-17 Thread Julian Mehnle
I agree completely. I think the new vhost/multiple-config-file support architecture is bad. I recently upgraded from a year-old version of the webalizer package to the current one and tried to adapt my homegrown vhost infrastructure (which is similar to Jacob's) to the new one in order to

Bug#448279: [new] wipnity: Why is package X not in testing yet? query script

2007-10-27 Thread Julian Mehnle
Package: devscripts Severity: wishlist I'd like to suggest the inclusion of a command-line script that queries http://bjorn.haxx.se/debian/. I am attaching one that I wrote and use. It depends on w3m and libterm-size-perl. Here's some example output to give you an idea (although it's kind of

Bug#444442: ITP: mail-spf-perl -- Perl implementation of Sender Policy Framework and Sender ID

2007-09-28 Thread Julian Mehnle
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Julian Mehnle [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Package name: mail-spf-perl Version : 2.005 Upstream Author : Julian Mehnle [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Mail-SPF/ * License : BSD Programming Lang: Perl

Bug#444443: ITP: net-dns-resolver-programmable-perl -- programmable DNS resolver class for offline emulation of DNS

2007-09-28 Thread Julian Mehnle
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Julian Mehnle [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Package name: net-dns-resolver-programmable-perl Version : 0.003.1 Upstream Author : Julian Mehnle [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Net-DNS-Resolver-Programmable/ * License

Bug#444443: ITP: net-dns-resolver-programmable-perl -- programmable DNS resolver class for offline emulation of DNS

2007-09-28 Thread Julian Mehnle
David Paleino wrote: this package should be named libnet-dns-resolver-programmable-perl. I think this can be said merely of the _binary_ package, not the _source_ package. And as I said in the ITP, the binary package will be named like that. See also my response on #42. signature.asc

Bug#444442: ITP: mail-spf-perl -- Perl implementation of Sender Policy Framework and Sender ID

2007-09-28 Thread Julian Mehnle
David Paleino wrote: Julian Mehnle wrote: Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Julian Mehnle [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Package name: mail-spf-perl as per Debian Perl Policy, the package should be named libmail-spf-perl. You are probably referring to 4.2, Module Package Names: http

Bug#448671: spamassassin: Depend on Mail::SPF instead of legacy Mail::SPF::Query for SPF support

2007-10-30 Thread Julian Mehnle
Package: spamassassin Severity: wishlist SpamAssassin can use both the new Mail::SPF and the old Mail::SPF::Query Perl modules for SPF support. Mail::SPF is fully compliant with the final SPFv1 specification (RFC 4408), whereas Mail::SPF::Query is a legacy implementation that has many issues and

Bug#406427: apache2-mpm-worker: Error on upgrade from 2.0.55: Cannot load /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_actions.so into server: /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_actions.so: cannot open shared object file:

2007-01-10 Thread Julian Mehnle
Package: apache2-mpm-worker Version: 2.2.3-3.2 Severity: important I just tried upgrading my slightly older Debian Testing system including the Apache 2.0 packages on it. When it came to upgrading apache2-mpm-worker, this is what happened: [...] Selecting previously deselected package

Bug#406428: Error on upgrade from 3.1.3-2: initscript pdns-recursor, action stop failed. [...] old ( new) pre-removal script returned error exit status 1

2007-01-10 Thread Julian Mehnle
Package: pdns-recursor Version: 3.1.4-1 Severity: important I just tried upgrading my slightly older Debian Testing system including the pdns-recursor package on it. When it came to upgrading pdns-recursor, this is what happened: Preparing to replace pdns-recursor 3.1.3-2 (using

Bug#403750: jabberd2: New upstream release

2007-01-15 Thread Julian Mehnle
Marcus Better wrote: I have a few other ideas about this package. First, I think we should build one binary package with support for all database and authentication options. This would simplify packaging a lot, for the price of a few additional library dependencies, which is not so bad. (And

Bug#407591: xml2rfc: New upstream version available: 1.32

2007-01-19 Thread Julian Mehnle
Package: xml2rfc Severity: wishlist 1.32 has been released upstream: http://xml.resource.org Please package it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#407799: desktop-base: /etc/defaults/kdm.d/10_desktop_base overrides configured login desktop without warning on upgrade

2007-01-21 Thread Julian Mehnle
Package: desktop-base Version: 4.0.0 Severity: normal After I had upgraded desktop-base to 4.0.0 yesterday, today I was forced to see a very weird login desktop totally unlike what I had configured for kdm and have been using for years. At first, I was unable to find any clue whatsoever about

Bug#329644: libnetaddr-ip-perl: New upstream release

2007-01-05 Thread Julian Mehnle
FYI, I updated the package in my HTTP directory to the 4.004 upstream version. pgpiiyr9hykF7.pgp Description: PGP signature

Bug#406428: Error on upgrade from 3.1.3-2: initscript pdns-recursor, action stop failed. [...] old ( new) pre-removal script returned error exit status 1

2007-02-04 Thread Julian Mehnle
package pdns-recursor retitle 406428 pdns-recursor: initscript stop action fails if pdns-recursor not running (e.g. if disabled in current runlevel), makes prerm script fail thanks It seems that the pdns-recursor initscript's stop action fails if pdns- recursor is not running, e.g. if it has

Bug#407799: KDM and desktop-base

2007-01-22 Thread Julian Mehnle
Just wanting to follow up on a comment from Bastian Venthur in #406438: Bastian Venthur wrote: As the maintainer of kde-kdm-themes I don't think that desktop-base brakes my package. I'm happy that it finally enables the new KDM theme by default for the masses. The problem is that it doesn't

Bug#365241: libmodule-build-perl: Upstream version 0.28 has been released

2007-05-20 Thread Julian Mehnle
Julian Mehnle wrote: Upstream has released version 0.28 of Module::Build: [...] It fixes many bugs of 0.26 and brings many new useful features. Please package it! We're now at 0.2808. I updated the Debian package: http://files.mehnle.net/software/debian/libmodule-build-perl

Bug#430508: Patches from Robert Millan

2007-07-13 Thread Julian Mehnle
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Magnus Holmgren wrote: Any comments or objections to these patches? http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?msg=5;att=1;bug=430508 Thanks for your patch! Robert Millan wrote in bugs.debian.org #430508: spfquery segfaults when passing it a

Bug#433047: libspf2: debian/copyright misrepresents license as GPL/BSD, should be LGPL/BSD

2007-07-13 Thread Julian Mehnle
Package: libspf2 Version: 4 Severity: serious Tags: patch Justification: Policy 12.5 debian/copyright misrepresents the license as GPL/BSD, but libspf2's README file says: | The code in the libspf2 distribution is Copyright 2005 by Shevek | and Wayne Schlitt, all rights reserved. Copyright

Bug#431239: Patches from Robert Millan

2007-07-13 Thread Julian Mehnle
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Scott Kitterman wrote: On Friday 13 July 2007 16:20, Magnus Holmgren wrote: Any comments or objections to these patches? http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?msg=5;att=1;bug=431239 RFC conformance issues #431239 is a little more

Bug#431239: Patches from Robert Millan

2007-07-14 Thread Julian Mehnle
Robert Millan wrote: On Fri, Jul 13, 2007 at 11:25:26PM +, Julian Mehnle wrote: Robert's patch needs to be dual-licensed under LGPL and BSD just like libspf2 in order to allow the patched libspf2 to be distributed under the BSD license in the future. Robert, would you consider

Bug#431239: Patches from Robert Millan

2007-07-14 Thread Julian Mehnle
Robert Millan wrote: On Sat, Jul 14, 2007 at 01:23:56PM +, Julian Mehnle wrote: I can see that. However, how would dual-licensing your patch under LGPL and BSD make your patch non-free? BSD just isn't copyleft (in FSF terms[1]), but it's free nonetheless. For example, BSD license

Bug#420294: pdns: Upstream version 2.9.21 released

2007-04-21 Thread Julian Mehnle
Package: pdns Severity: wishlist PowerDNS 2.9.21 has been released upstream: http://mailman.powerdns.com/pipermail/pdns-announce/2007-April/76.html Please package it! Apparently this release also addresses at least the Debian bugs #406462 and #406461. See the changelog:

Bug#331242: bugzilla: Bugzilla 2.20 released

2005-10-02 Thread Julian Mehnle
Package: bugzilla Severity: wishlist Bugzilla 2.20 has been released on September 30th: http://www.bugzilla.org/news/ Please package it when you find the time. Julian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#312145: libspf2-dev: spf_dns_internal.h missing

2005-07-29 Thread Julian Mehnle
I am experiencing the same problem. spf_dns_internal.h seems to be missing from libspf2-dev. Are there plans to fix the libspf2-dev package any time soon? Julian. pgpCwNPAwAZXe.pgp Description: PGP signature

Bug#312925: [bugzilla] bug 312925

2005-09-12 Thread Julian Mehnle
Alexis Sukrieh wrote: Filling empty values for a username or its password is just stupid. In the pending upload release, a debconf note will warn the user if he fill empty values here. That's now forbidden by the debconf screens. Thanks for calling me stupid. Why is wanting to set an empty

Bug#314939: libdatetime-perl: Package is outdated

2005-06-19 Thread Julian Mehnle
Package: libdatetime-perl Version: 1:0.22-1 Severity: normal libdatetime-perl is really outdated. The current version is 0.29, but only 0.22 is in the Debian archive. Please update the package to version 0.29 soon. Thanks, Julian Mehnle. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable

Bug#307975: acknowledged by developer (Bug#307975: fixed in libgksu1.2 1.3.2-1)

2005-07-14 Thread Julian Mehnle
Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of libgksu1.2, [...] * New Upstream Release - fixes wording of the xauth warning message (Closes: #309563) - no longer crashes on AMD64 because of gnome-keyring (Closes:

Bug#312925: bugzilla: Entering no password for new MySQL user causes postinst to fail with An error occured with the MySQL values !

2005-06-10 Thread Julian Mehnle
Package: bugzilla Version: 2.18-6 Severity: normal Tags: sid I just installed bugzilla 2.18-6. In DebConf, I chose manual configuration and entered stuff. For the new MySQL user, bugzilla, I intentionally entered an empty password. However, the postinst then failed with the following error

Bug#475169: [kaddressbook] KAdressbook doesn't handle UTF8 when the contacts are stored in an IMAP folder

2008-05-15 Thread Julian Mehnle
I can confirm this. This bug is extremely annoying and makes KAddressbook almost unusable for me. A real productivity killer! signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Bug#481970: libpam-pgsql: Ctrl+C while in authentication phase induces success, may circumvent sudo et al.

2008-05-19 Thread Julian Mehnle
Package: libpam-pgsql Version: 0.6.3-1 Severity: critical Tags: security Justification: root security hole I recently upgraded libpam-pgsql to 0.6.3-1. I now noticed that pressing Ctrl+C during libpam-pgsql's authentication phase, e.g., when sudo is asking for the user's password, erroneously

Bug#461709: /usr/sbin/spamd: spf: lookup failed: Can't locate object method new via package Net::DNS::RR::SOA

2008-06-27 Thread Julian Mehnle
Michael(tm) Smith wrote: Not happening any longer. But up to March 13, I was getting a different but similar message: Can't locate object method new via package Net::DNS::RR::TXT at /usr/lib/perl5/Net/DNS/RR.pm line 305 Since March 13, that seems to have disappeared (I assume because

Bug#356700: syslog-ng: Inappropriately expects \n (and \0?) in syslog messages

2006-04-20 Thread Julian Mehnle
Julian Mehnle wrote: I still think that my original assessment is true, that this is actually a bug in syslog-ng, and that this bug should not be closed until it has been fixed in syslog-ng. Are there any indications to the contrary? Oops, I have read Balazs' analysis[1] only now

Bug#356700: syslog-ng: Inappropriately expects \n (and \0?) in syslog messages

2006-04-20 Thread Julian Mehnle
John A. Martin wrote: syslog-ng 1.9.9-2 using unix-stream with perl 5.8.8-4 handles log messages from libmail-spf-query-perl 1.999.1-1 properly for me with postfix 2.2.10-1. I had been using unix-dgram as a work-around. I should think this bug could be closed now. Thank you for reverting

Bug#356700: perl (Sys::Syslog): \0 terminator required in syslog messages [perl #28019]

2006-04-20 Thread Julian Mehnle
maintainers could submit a documentation patch upstream?) Julian Mehnle. References: 1. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=356700#msg64 pgp7au4eGOlWH.pgp Description: PGP signature

Bug#350388: mailman: False assumption that listarchive url needs to end with /

2006-02-18 Thread Julian Mehnle
package mailman tags 350388 +patch thanks I've applied the patch to the SVN repo, will be part of my next upload, unless it doesn't survive basic testing. Which it didn't. Your patch breaks public pipermail (the archiver bundled with Mailman) archives. Patch rejected. Joerg's patch was a

Bug#353744: sysklogd: Logging date format should be configurable, or at least support ISO format

2006-02-20 Thread Julian Mehnle
Package: sysklogd Severity: wishlist I wish syslogd would support configuring the logging date format. The logging date-stamps don't contain the year, and the Month DD format is kind of weird. Yes, I know this is standardized, but on my systems I don't care, because I don't use log analyzers or

Bug#284072: [Clamav-users] 0.81rc1 - html documentation missing, intentional?

2005-01-26 Thread Julian Mehnle
Tomasz Kojm wrote: Brian Morrison wrote: Is this part of the work in progress or have the html docs been forgotten this time round? They are in the CVS tree. There were technical problems with generating new html documentation. It will be included in 0.81, though. The HTML docs are

Bug#284072: FW: [Clamav-users] 0.81rc1 - html documentation missing, intentional?

2005-01-26 Thread Julian Mehnle
Tomasz Kojm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Julian Mehnle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The HTML docs are missing from the 0.81 release, too. What happened? Are there plans to include them again in future releases? There were problems generating HTML documentation (probably due to broken TeX

Bug#366173: libmail-spf-query-perl: spfquery fails with Bad arg length for Socket:$

2006-05-05 Thread Julian Mehnle
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John A. Martin wrote: Package: libmail-spf-query-perl Version: 1:1.999.1-1 Severity: normal ,[ spfquery --version ] spfquery version 2.3 ` [...] ,[ spfquery -i 11.22.33.44 -m [EMAIL PROTECTED] -h spammer.example.net ] Bad arg

Bug#366173: libmail-spf-query-perl: spfquery fails with Bad arg length for Socket:$

2006-05-06 Thread Julian Mehnle
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John A. Martin wrote: Now that we have the second working box working right, why does the first box fail? Please give me the output of... perl -MCarp=verbose /usr/bin/spfquery -i 199.184.165.135 -m [EMAIL PROTECTED] -h gwyn.tux.org -BEGIN

Bug#366173: libmail-spf-query-perl: spfquery fails with Bad arg length for Socket:$

2006-05-07 Thread Julian Mehnle
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John A. Martin wrote: ,[ perl -d /usr/bin/spfquery -i 199.184.165.135 -m [EMAIL PROTECTED] -h gwyn.tux.org ] [...] Bad arg length for Socket::pack_sockaddr_in, length is 0, should be 4 at /usr/lib/perl/5.8/Socket.pm line 201.        

Bug#366173: libmail-spf-query-perl: spfquery fails with Bad arg length for Socket:$

2006-05-07 Thread Julian Mehnle
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John A. Martin wrote:  Use q to quit or R to restart,   use O inhibit_exit to avoid stopping after program termination,   h q, h R or h O to get additional info.   DB1 q ` I could not reproduce the problem in a

Bug#366396: vim: Vim 7 is out!

2006-05-08 Thread Julian Mehnle
Package: vim Severity: wishlist Vim 7 has been released: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=vim-announcem=114708043011893w=2 Please package it. :-) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#345157: Bug #356700

2006-03-23 Thread Julian Mehnle
John A. Martin wrote: With regard to the \0 please see 'man sysklogd' from sysklogd-1.4.1-17 which, as of this writing, is in stable and testing. The 1.4.1-17.1 in unstable does not appear to touch the present issue. , INSTALLATION CONCERNS There is probably one important

Bug#343131: Package name ntp-server doesn't make sense

2006-02-03 Thread Julian Mehnle
Even as a long-time Debian user, I must agree. This has confused me over and over in the past. I know renaming packages gracefully is a hassle, but I think in this case it's probably worth it. Julian. pgpXCB8CbC3ik.pgp Description: PGP signature

Bug#351925: udev: fresh installation doesn't fill /dev = makes system quite unusable

2006-02-09 Thread Julian Mehnle
I had to install udev. Bad surprise: /dev didn't get filled enough: bus cdrom cdrw console core disk dvd fd full gpmctl gpmdata hpet initctl input kmem kmsg log loop lp0 MAKEDEV mem net null port ppp psaux ptmx pts ptya0 ptya1 ptya2 ptya3 ptya4 ptya5 ptya6 ptya7 ptya8 ptya9 ptyaa ptyab

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