Bug#714899: dropbear's cryptroot setup does not use the system's host keys

On 07/04/2013 09:55:21 AM, Karl O. Pinc wrote: On 07/04/2013 01:25:59 AM, Jérémy Bobbio wrote: It all depends on one's threat model, but I think that blindly reducing the security of the system SSH key is not a good idea… Fair enough. A couple of thoughts come to mind. There should

Bug#627357: gnome-desktop-environment: I would like to remove avahi-daemon because mdns slows down PTR lookup

On 10/01/2012 02:26:25 AM, Simon McVittie wrote: On Thu, 19 May 2011 at 16:11:07 -0500, Karl O. Pinc wrote: gnome-desktop-environment depends on gnome-user-share which, eventually, depends on avahi-daemon. MDNS greatly slows down reverse dns (PTR) lookups You should be able to address

Bug#614173: release-notes: chainload to grub2 once is a good option for people with remote boxes

Hi, On 03/30/2013 11:21:59 AM, David Prévot wrote: On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 12:23:02AM -0600, Karl O. Pinc wrote: People who do not have immediate physical access to their boxes may be nervous about testing the chainloading of grub2. Is this issue still relevant for Wheezy? I suspect

Bug#533266: release-notes: Look for newly important/required packages

Hi, On 03/30/2013 11:30:45 AM, David Prévot wrote: On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 12:13:09AM -0500, Karl O. Pinc wrote: Package: release-notes Version: lenny Severity: normal I think that after upgrade it could be useful to look for packages that should be installed. aptitude search

Bug#533266: release-notes: Look for newly important/required packages

On 03/30/2013 12:01:35 PM, David Prévot wrote: Le 30/03/2013 12:39, Karl O. Pinc a écrit : On 03/30/2013 11:30:45 AM, David Prévot wrote: On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 12:13:09AM -0500, Karl O. Pinc wrote: I think that after upgrade it could be useful to look for packages that should

Bug#619431: closed by Steve Langasek vor...@debian.org (Re: Bug#619431: release-notes: Upgrading sh from bash to dash requires changes to /etc/passwd.)

Hi, Closing this makes sense to me. Karl k...@meme.com Free Software: You don't pay back, you pay forward. -- Robert A. Heinlein -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#715047: dropbear: /usr/share/initramfs-tools/conf-hooks.d/dropbear is not listed as a conffile

Package: dropbear Version: 2012.55-1.3 Severity: normal Hi, /usr/share/initramfs-tools/conf-hooks.d/dropbear is not listed as a package conffile but it does seem to be one. Regards, Karl O. Pinc -- System Information: Debian Release: 7.1 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable

Bug#715048: dropbear: no support for a different initramfs network config from that of the normal system

not obvious to me from the docs how to make klibc's ipconfig bring an interface down, if this is possible. Obviously, this would not be compatible with NFS root mounts. Regards, Karl O. Pinc -- System Information: Debian Release: 7.1 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable'), (500

Bug#715048: Patch to add support for an indpendendent initramfs networking config

Hi, Attached is a patch which adds support for a completely different networking configuration in the initramfs from that of the running system. The patch brings down network interfaces, when configured to do so, after the rootfs is mounted. There is a configuration file in conf.d/ and a script

Bug#715487: cryptsetup: Additional documentation regards ssh unlock of crypted rootfs

on top of the cryptsetup doc patch sent in Bug #714952. The patches to dropbear and klibc which the attached patch documents are in Debian Bug #715048 and http://www.zytor.com/pipermail/klibc/2013-July/003430.html (or https://github.com/kpinc/klibc.git) Regards, Karl O. Pinc k...@meme.com

Bug#714952: Additional doc patch which applies on top of this patch

Hi, See also Bug #715487 for another documentation patch which applies on top of this patch. (The existence of the referenced patch indicates to me that the affected section of the readme should be moved into the dropbear package.) Regards, Karl k...@meme.com Free Software: You don't pay

Bug#715487: [klibc] Allow ipconfig to bring down interfaces

On 07/09/2013 09:27:58 AM, Karl O. Pinc wrote: Attached and on the ipconfig_down branch at github (https://github.com/kpinc/klibc.git) you will find 4 patches which let ipconfig bring down interfaces. Please consider them for inclusion. I've related patches to the Debian dropbear package

Bug#715048: [klibc] Allow ipconfig to bring down interfaces

On 07/09/2013 09:27:58 AM, Karl O. Pinc wrote: Attached and on the ipconfig_down branch at github (https://github.com/kpinc/klibc.git) you will find 4 patches which let ipconfig bring down interfaces. Please consider them for inclusion. I've related patches to the Debian dropbear package

Bug#715497: klibc: Allow ipconfig to bring down interfaces

: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=715487 and the related Bug#714952: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=714952 Regards, Karl O. Pinc k...@meme.com -- System Information: Debian Release: 7.1 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable'), (500, 'oldstable

Bug#715487: [klibc] Allow ipconfig to bring down interfaces

On 07/09/2013 10:53:15 AM, Karl O. Pinc wrote: On 07/09/2013 09:27:58 AM, Karl O. Pinc wrote: Attached and on the ipconfig_down branch at github (https://github.com/kpinc/klibc.git) you will find 4 patches which let ipconfig bring down interfaces. Please consider them for inclusion

Bug#747132: libreoffice: The metapackage libreoffice should not recommend liberation fonts

On 05/06/2014 12:58:49 AM, Rene Engelhard wrote: severity 747132 wishlist found 747132 1:4.1.5-2 thanks On Mon, May 05, 2014 at 03:21:37PM -0500, Karl O. Pinc wrote: The libreoffice metapackage (in wheezy and experimental) recommends the liberation fonts. These fonts should instead

Bug#747132: libreoffice: The metapackage libreoffice should not recommend liberation fonts

On 05/06/2014 08:54:26 AM, Rene Engelhard wrote: On Tue, May 06, 2014 at 08:33:35AM -0500, Karl O. Pinc wrote: The typical computer user (most people out there) don't use all the components. The most basic user (the proverbial grandmother) gets confused by having too many choices

Bug#747132: libreoffice: The metapackage libreoffice should not recommend liberation fonts

Package: libreoffice Version: 1:3.5.4+dfsg2-0+deb7u2 Severity: normal Hi, The libreoffice metapackage (in wheezy and experimental) recommends the liberation fonts. These fonts should instead be recommended by the individual libreoffice components. The components need them, even when installed

Bug#755765: nginx-full: Package description does not mention Auth Request module's inclusion

package descriptions, but haven't looked.) Regards, Karl O. Pinc k...@meme.com -- System Information: Debian Release: 7.6 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8

Bug#755765: nginx-full: Package description does not mention Auth Request module's inclusion

On 07/23/2014 02:04:24 AM, Christos Trochalakis wrote: On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 10:17:28PM -0500, Karl O. Pinc wrote: I notice that the wheezy-backports version of nginx-full does not list Auth Request in the modules built, I think you are mistaken, Auth Request is listed in the OPTIONAL

Bug#715048: Patch to add support for an indpendendent initramfs networking config

On 08/01/2014 09:00:22 AM, Gerrit Pape wrote: tags 715048 + patch quit On Tue, Jul 09, 2013 at 09:29:02AM -0500, Karl O. Pinc wrote: Attached is a patch which adds support for a completely different networking configuration in the initramfs from that of the running system

Bug#670875: +1 on wanting logsurfer in debian

Hi, logsurfer would seem to have a lot more power than swatch. Not having tried it out it's hard to say. But with swatch (unless you use the perl hooks, but writing program is cheating) you can't do stuff like match multiple log line, in order, within a given time window and then fire an event.

Bug#762110: libpam-modules: pam_access docs are incomplete/misleading

pinged the list after about 10 days and it's been some time since then with no feedback. So, I'm sending the patch in here so that it won't get lost. Perhaps it will at least get into Debian. Thanks for the work. Karl O. Pinc -- System Information: Debian Release: 7.6 APT prefers stable APT

Bug#766269: apt-listchanges: Unify with debconf frontend config

Package: apt-listchanges Version: 2.85.11 Severity: wishlist Hello, It would be nice if apt-listchanges integrated it's configuration with debconf regards how it interacts with the user. This avoids having 2 places where this must be configured, and avoids confusion regarding what sort of

Bug#767112: solr-jetty: Broken symlink to solr's webapp (in wheezy)

Package: solr-jetty Version: 3.6.0+dfsg-1+deb7u1 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable Dear Maintainer, FYI. Debian bug #683854 remains in wheezy. (Symlink points to a non-existant place, which makes anyone trying to use the package get a 404.) $ ls -l

Bug#767152: bugs.debian.org: Graph in upper right reasonably incomprehensible

Package: bugs.debian.org Severity: minor Hi, The graphic graph that appears in the upper right of the pages of individual bugs would be entirely incomprehensible were it not for the URLs that appear in the browser on mouseover. For reference, attached is a copy of the image for bug #683854.

Bug#767159: bugs.debian.org: Add debian release version info to graphic found in header

Package: bugs.debian.org Severity: wishlist Hi, While I can imagine that package version information regards what versions the bug appears in is useful to somebody, what I would find really useful is the version of Debian (or the codename) in which the bug was found or fixed. In the interest of

Bug#767152: bugs.debian.org: Graph in upper right reasonably incomprehensible

On 10/28/2014 02:13:22 PM, Adam D. Barratt wrote: On Tue, 2014-10-28 at 14:03 -0500, Karl O. Pinc wrote: The graphic graph that appears in the upper right of the pages of individual bugs would be entirely incomprehensible were it not for the URLs that appear in the browser on mouseover

Bug#767152: bugs.debian.org: Graph in upper right reasonably incomprehensible

On 10/28/2014 02:13:22 PM, Adam D. Barratt wrote: On Tue, 2014-10-28 at 14:03 -0500, Karl O. Pinc wrote: The graphic graph that appears in the upper right of the pages of individual bugs would be entirely incomprehensible were it not for the URLs that appear in the browser on mouseover

Bug#767152: bugs.debian.org: Graph in upper right reasonably incomprehensible

On 10/29/2014 10:15:09 AM, Don Armstrong wrote: Control: retitle -1 consider expanding the version graph on mouseover Control: severity -1 wishlist On Tue, 28 Oct 2014, Karl O. Pinc wrote: I assumed that clicking on the various nodes would take me to information specific to that node

Bug#767159: bugs.debian.org: Add debian release version info to graphic found in header

On 10/29/2014 10:18:46 AM, Don Armstrong wrote: On Tue, 28 Oct 2014, Karl O. Pinc wrote: While I can imagine that package version information regards what versions the bug appears in is useful to somebody, what I would find really useful is the version of Debian (or the codename) in which

Bug#767312: dovecot-core: doveadm-fts has no man page

Package: dovecot-core Version: 1:2.2.9-1~bpo70+1 Severity: normal Hello, There is no manpage for the doveadm fts command. This might even be a policy violation, making this bug serious. Note that I believe this is true of dovecot in stable as well. Note also that man doveadm does not mention

Bug#767313: dovecot-core: decode2text.sh does not belong in /usr/lib/dovecot/

Package: dovecot-core Version: 1:2.2.9-1~bpo70+1 Severity: minor Hi, The decode2text.sh program does not really belong in /usr/lib/dovecot, especially since xml2cxv does not exist in Debian (wheezy) so the script must be modified to work properly. My take is that the right way to do this is to

Bug#767312: dovecot-core: doveadm-fts has no man page

On 10/29/2014 10:42:15 PM, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: On Wed, 29 Oct 2014, Karl O. Pinc wrote: There is no manpage for the doveadm fts command. You are right. This might even be a policy violation, making this bug serious. serious is a stretch but this is something that ought

Bug#762110: Trac bug submitted to linux-pam system

See also the trac bug submitted at: https://fedorahosted.org/linux-pam/ticket/39 Karl k...@meme.com Free Software: You don't pay back, you pay forward. -- Robert A. Heinlein -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe.

Bug#770163: Bump the priority on this bug?

Hi, Any way to get the priority on this bug bumped? The emails every 30 minutes are very annoying. Thanks. Karl k...@meme.com Free Software: You don't pay back, you pay forward. -- Robert A. Heinlein -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with

Bug#770163: [php-maint] Bug#770163: Bump the priority on this bug?

On 11/19/2014 12:28:35 PM, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: On Wed, November 19, 2014 18:01, Karl O. Pinc wrote: Hi, Any way to get the priority on this bug bumped? The emails every 30 minutes are very annoying. What do you mean bump the priority? The bug has been fixed early this morning

Bug#533267: release-notes: Purging uninstalled packages

On 11/24/2014 01:01:10 AM, Niels Thykier wrote: Control: tags -1 pending On 2014-11-24 07:40, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Du, 23 nov 14, 22:54:20, Niels Thykier wrote: Note, I opted for using dpkg -l + awk rather than aptitude, because a) all users have dpkg + awk and b) we have

Bug#533267: release-notes: Purging uninstalled packages

On 11/24/2014 07:31:19 AM, Karl O. Pinc wrote: Attached is a patch that a) simplifies the language by cutting out words. b) adds a little additional explanation. I've not tried the documented upgrade process (https://www.debian.org/releases/jessie/amd64/release-notes/ch-upgrading.en.html

Bug#533267: release-notes: Purging uninstalled packages

On 11/24/2014 12:28:14 PM, Niels Thykier wrote: On 2014-11-24 16:00, Karl O. Pinc wrote: On 11/24/2014 07:31:19 AM, Karl O. Pinc wrote: Attached is a patch that a) simplifies the language by cutting out words. b) adds a little additional explanation. I've not tried the documented

Bug#612250: closed by Niels Thykier ni...@thykier.net (Re: Bug#612250: release-notes: Loss of keyboard and mouse may occur during upgrade)

On 11/26/2014 01:42:31 AM, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: ==quoted message from Niels Thykier ni...@thykier.net, Closing, since there has been no indication of whether it is relevant for Wheezy. Thanks. Karl k...@meme.com Free Software: You don't pay back, you pay forward.

Bug#775970: libjasper1: CVE-2014-8157 CVE-2014-8158

Package: libjasper1 Version: 1.900.1-13+deb7u2 Severity: grave Tags: security upstream Justification: user security hole From: http://www.ocert.org/advisories/ocert-2015-001.html The library is affected by an off-by-one error in a buffer boundary check in jpc_dec_process_sot(), leading to a heap

Bug#762110: Patch committed upstream

Hi, FYI. The patch is now committed upstream. I imagine that it will be in the linux-pam release that comes after 1.1.8. Regards, Karl k...@meme.com Free Software: You don't pay back, you pay forward. -- Robert A. Heinlein -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#784661: debian-installer: Installation manual should note Green Drive failure under Linux

Package: debian-installer Version: Head Severity: wishlist Tags: d-i patch Hi, Western Digital Green drives fail early under Linux due to excessive load/park cycling of the heads. This should be noted in the Installation Manual's hardware compatibility section. For more information on the

Bug#785019: dcraw: [oCERT-2015-006] dcraw input sanitization errors

Package: dcraw Severity: important Tags: upstream FYI, a buffer overflow looks like it could be worse than important. Ocert says: #2015-006 dcraw input sanitization errors Description: The dcraw photo decoder is an open source project for raw image parsing. The dcraw tool, as well as several

Bug#787768: mon: local-syslog.monitor output in an email alert begins with messages

Package: mon Version: 1.2.0-6 Severity: minor Hi, When local-syslog.monitor reports matching lines in a log file and the result is emailed, the email has a spurious messages string that appears at the beginning of the first line of log output in the detailed text at the bottom of the email.

Bug#787769: mon: Monitor pod docs are not included in installed man pages.

Package: mon Version: 1.2.0-6 Severity: wishlist Hi, The pod docs in the program text of the monitors in /usr/lib/mon/mon.d/ are not included as man pages. As a result the monitors are not well documented. To read the docs: pod2man foo.monitor | man -l - I know Debian package are required

Bug#787777: release-notes: Mention debian-annou...@lists.debian.org regards release announcements

Package: release-notes Severity: wishlist Hello, You may wish to mention the debian-annou...@lists.debian.org email list (https://lists.debian.org/debian-announce/) as a way to receive notice of new releases. In section: 4.3. Preparing sources for APT, in the last paragraph before section 4.3.1

Bug#787766: mon: local-syslog.monitor silently fails when lacking read permission

Package: mon Version: 1.2.0-6 Severity: normal Hi, The local-syslog.monitor program silently fails when it does not have read permissions on the log file it is to monitor. One approach to getting it to work is to add the mon user to the adm group, but this is likely inapproprate for the package

Bug#787940: jetty: When jetty8 is installed purging jetty raises an error.

Package: jetty Severity: minor Hi, I just upgraded from wheezy to jessie. It seems that jetty is replaced by jetty8. When purging jetty an error is raised because the package attempts to delete the jetty user and group but these are used by jetty8. (This might not be severity minor since the

Bug#715048: Patch to add support for an indpendendent initramfs networking config

On Mon, 1 Jun 2015 03:30:36 +0200 Guilhem Moulin guil...@guilhem.org wrote: My test was probably not exhaustive, but added the following two lines to a init-bottom script did the trick for me: ip addr flush dev eth0 ip link set dev eth0 down Thanks for the work! I'll see if the

Bug#715048: Patch to add support for an indpendendent initramfs networking config

On Mon, 1 Jun 2015 13:46:26 +0200 Guilhem Moulin guil...@guilhem.org wrote: On Sun, 31 May 2015 at 21:30:25 -0500, Karl O. Pinc wrote: On Mon, 1 Jun 2015 03:30:36 +0200 Guilhem Moulin guil...@guilhem.org wrote: I'd rather not having to manually edit these scripts, and follow your original

Bug#715048: Patch to add support for an indpendendent initramfs networking config

It has been a while but I believe that VIP number and a net mask remained configured on the interface. I believe that ip flush may take care of the problem but I have not tried it. On May 29, 2015 12:30:35 PM CDT, Guilhem Moulin guil...@guilhem.org wrote: Hi, The problem is that, while klibc

Bug#715048: Patch to add support for an indpendendent initramfs networking config

On Fri, 29 May 2015 19:30:35 +0200 Guilhem Moulin guil...@guilhem.org wrote: The problem is that, while klibc can bring up and down network interfaces, the interface configuration does not go away. What doesn't go away exactly? (What do you mean by “interface configuration”?) I wonder

Bug#795396: aptitude: DEBIAN_FRONTEND does not affect the debconf invoked by aptitude

Package: aptitude Version: 0.6.11-1+b1 Severity: normal Hi, export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive aptitude --quiet=2 update aptitude --quiet=2 -o Dir::Etc::sourcelist=$tmpsources -y safe-upgrade Results in an interactive debconf session on jessie. This was not the case on wheezy. (Assuming of

Bug#803302: iceweasel: hangs with grey window after openjdk upgrade

Package: iceweasel Version: 38.3.0esr-1~deb8u1 Severity: important Hi, Upon start, iceweasel opens window, which is left with a title but with grey content, and then seems to hang. Closing the window produces a dialog from my window manager telling me the app is not responding and asking if it

Bug#803302: Similar backported iceweasel problems

Hi, I tried getting the backported iceweasel from mozilla.debian.net. Version: 41.0.2-1~bpo80+1 With this version a "grey" window never opens, otherwise the behavior is the same. Attached is an strace of "iceweasel -safe-mode" with the above backported version. I eventually pressed ctl-C,

Bug#803302: Iceweasel started after system reboot

Hi, After a reboot I can now start iceweasel. And I tried shutting it down and I started it back up successfully. Don't know if I mentioned this before but when I couldn't start iceweasel I ran debsums and got no errors. I'll let you know if it happens again. (The whole thing feels like a race

Bug#804117: sysv-rc: invoke-rc.d shuts down and does not restart daemons started by systemd targets

Package: sysv-rc Version: 2.88dsf-59 Severity: normal Hi, When a daemon is started by a systemd target, and not by the sysV runlevel, upgrading the package (which I presume runs invoke-rc.d to restart the daemon) stops the daemon and does not restart it. As an example, I do not want to start

Bug#803302: Iceweasel started after system reboot

On Fri, 30 Oct 2015 02:28:48 -0500 "Karl O. Pinc" <k...@meme.com> wrote: > After a reboot I can now start iceweasel. After another reboot the original problem has returned and iceweasel will no longer start. Karl <k...@meme.com> Free Software: "You d

Bug#803302: Restarting the X server seems to matter

Hello, I restarted the X server (via logging out of my X session and re-logging in with a dm). This seems to allow iceweasel to start. Regards, Karl Free Software: "You don't pay back, you pay forward." -- Robert A. Heinlein

Bug#792041: initramfs-tools: Broken fixfsck boot flag?

Package: initramfs-tools Version: 0.109.1 Severity: normal Hi, I was just looking through /usr/share/initramfs-tools/ on a Jessie system and noticed that /usr/share/initramfs-tools/init sets fixfsck to 'y' but /usr/share/initramfs-tools/scripts/functions tests for fixfsck to be 'yes'. I've not

Bug#792041: Acknowledgement (initramfs-tools: Broken fixfsck boot flag?)

Oops. It's fsckfix not fixfsck. Sorry. Karl k...@meme.com Free Software: You don't pay back, you pay forward. -- Robert A. Heinlein -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Bug#795396: [Aptitude-devel] Bug#795396: Bug#795396: aptitude: DEBIAN_FRONTEND does not affect the debconf invoked by "aptitude

Hi Manual, On Mon, 7 Sep 2015 22:23:16 +0100 "Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo" <manuel.montez...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2015-09-06 20:12 Karl O. Pinc: > >On Sun, 6 Sep 2015 16:15:56 +0100 > >"Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo" <manuel.montez...@gmail.com> wr

Bug#795396: [Aptitude-devel] Bug#795396: aptitude: DEBIAN_FRONTEND does not affect the debconf invoked by "aptitude

Hi Manual, On Sun, 6 Sep 2015 16:15:56 +0100 "Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo" <manuel.montez...@gmail.com> wrote: > Control: tags -1 + moreinfo > 2015-08-13 17:04 Karl O. Pinc: > >Package: aptitude > >Version: 0.6.11-1+b1 > >Severity: normal > >exp

Bug#795396: Is more info still needed

Hello, This bug is tagged "more information needed". Is this still true? If so, what information is needed? Regards, Karl Free Software: "You don't pay back, you pay forward." -- Robert A. Heinlein

Bug#539617: Logs for diagnostics

Hi, I've not read the entire thread, but it seems to me that if the concern is being able to debug broken package installation the solution is not to force output to the terminal but to log informative messages somewhere in the system logs. Regards, Karl Free Software: "You

Bug#776753: This problem is newer than bug#539617

Hi, It's not clear to me that this problem is the same as bug#539617. For one thing I'm seeing this problem occur only after upgrading to jessie. I'm using systemd and running plain old cron, or at least plain old cron is installed, and I'm getting progress messages from aptitude run from cron

Bug#799025: cups leaves old config files in /etc/cups/

Package: cups Version: 1.7.5-11+deb8u1 Severity: normal Hi, This is something of an FYI, but could matter. Upon upgrading to jessie I noticed that the box used for print serving (not the box on which I am composing this report) contained the following files in /etc/cups/: mime.convs mime.types

Bug#799028: xsane: Copy mode checkbox for compressed ps does not seem compressed

Package: xsane Version: 0.998-6+b1 Severity: normal Hi, Just upgraded to jessie and had problems with xsane "copy" mode. I found the following: Checking the checkbox for: "Create zlib compressed postscript image (PS level 3) for printing" in the "Copy" settings does not seem to result in a

Bug#799027: cups: scanned print job vanishes

Package: cups Version: 1.7.5-11+deb8u1 Severity: normal Hi, This seems like something you might want to know about. After upgrading to jessie I found that scanned print jobs don't print, they vanish as described in bug #638933. They are sent via cups to the box which acts as a print spooler,

Bug#799064: bash-completion: "pmount /med" then TAB hangs after upgrade to jessie

Package: bash-completion Version: 1:2.1-4 Severity: normal Hi, After the upgrade to jessie typing "pmount /med" and then the tab key hangs the terminal. ps ax --forest shows: 10975 pts/4Ss 0:00 \_ bash 10982 pts/4S 0:00 \_ bash 10992 pts/4S+ 0:00 \_ grep

Bug#813619: closed by Michael Biebl <bi...@debian.org> (Re: Bug#813619: libgdata: aptitude build-dep libgdata19 fails to install libuhttpmock-dev)

On Wed, 03 Feb 2016 19:54:05 + ow...@bugs.debian.org (Debian Bug Tracking System) wrote: > It has been closed by Michael Biebl . > -- > 813619: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=813619 > Debian Bug Tracking System > Contact ow...@bugs.debian.org with

Bug#813619: libgdata: aptitude build-dep libgdata19 fails to install libuhttpmock-dev

Source: libgdata Severity: normal Hi, FYI. In the process of backporting libgdata19 from stretch to jessie I ran "aptitude build-dep libgdata19". Running "apt-get -b source libgdata19" failed, complaining that the dependency on libuhttpmock-dev was not satisfied. (Sorry, I no longer have the

Bug#812916: systemd: Broadcast to all ttys on start of 2nd openvpn instance requiring password

Package: systemd Version: 215-17+deb8u3 Severity: normal Hello, I run multiple openvpn instances, each of which requires the entry of username and password to authenticate at the remote end. So, they are started manually with commands like: systemctl start openvpn@foo The first instance

Bug#815628: dicom3tools: dcintro man page missing

Package: dicom3tools Version: 1.00~20140902075059-1 Severity: normal Hi, All the man pages mention a dcintro man page, which is supposed to explain all the common options. But there is no dcintro man page packaged. -- System Information: Debian Release: 8.3 APT prefers stable APT policy:

Bug#816030: mirrors: README says ftpsync need not be in bin/, but this is not straightforward

Package: mirrors Severity: minor Hi, FYI. The archvsync README says that ftpsync need not be in ~/bin/. It says that you can put it in ~ if you like. But the README fails to mention that if you put it in ~ then you also need to adjust the $BASEDIR env variable. Otherwise it won't work. FWIW,

Bug#815212: lilypond: Changing the output paper size is "hard"

Package: lilypond Version: 2.18.2-4 Severity: wishlist Hi, It'd be nice if lilypond had a better way of specifying paper size. It defaults to a4 and figuring out how to set it to letter is non-trivial for the inexperienced. For the record, one approach is: lilypond -dpaper-size='"letter"'

Bug#819275: debian-security-support: check-support-status outputs a blank line, which is not cron friendly

Package: debian-security-support Version: 2015.04.04 Severity: wishlist Hi, I notice that when there are no packages installed with limited or no security support, that running "check-support-status" outputs a blank line. This is not cron friendly since it would result in a email. It'd be nice

Bug#812916: systemd-ask-password related log messages

Hi, I got the following 2 (contiguous) log messages in /var/log/daemon that may be useful and seem related to the problem. They occurred when messages were broadcast to all ttys (excepting the one tty which was starting the openvpn service.) Mar 26 12:37:49 example systemctl[30630]: Failed to

Bug#824443: gtk-redshift: README.Debian has bad autostart instructions

Package: gtk-redshift Version: 1.9.1-4 Severity: minor Hi, The README.debian says: If you want gtk-redshift autostarted please configure this in your specific desktop environment (e.g. by placing /usr/share/applications/gtk-redshift.desktop in $HOME/$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/autostart/ (usually defaults

Bug#824445: redshift: Man page says there's an info page, but there is not

Package: redshift Version: 1.9.1-4 Severity: minor Hi, The man page says there's an info page, but there is no info page. -- System Information: Debian Release: 8.4 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)

Bug#824446: redshift: There is no documentation on where to place a config file

Package: redshift Version: 1.9.1-4 Severity: normal Hello, The package includes a sample config file, but contains no information on where to put it. Where does the config file go? -- System Information: Debian Release: 8.4 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64

Bug#824444: gtk-redshift: The README.debian has the wrong filename vis autostart

Package: gtk-redshift Version: 1.9.1-4 Severity: minor Hello, The README.debian says to autostart install: /usr/share/applications/gtk-redshift.desktop This is wrong. The correct filename is: /usr/share/applications/redshift-gtk.desktop Regards, Karl -- System Information: Debian

Bug#824446: redshift: There is no documentation on where to place a config file

On Mon, 16 May 2016 15:11:36 +0530 Ritesh Raj Sarraf <r...@debian.org> wrote: > On Sun, 2016-05-15 at 22:00 -0500, Karl O. Pinc wrote: > > The package includes a sample config file, but contains > > no information on where to put it.  Where does the config > > file

Bug#815212: lilypond: Changing the output paper size is "hard"

On Tue, 31 Jan 2017 14:35:55 -0700 Anthony Fok <f...@debian.org> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 31, 2017 at 10:22 AM, Karl O. Pinc <k...@meme.com> wrote: > > Perhaps the following section could be added to the README.Debian: > > > &

Bug#815212: lilypond: Changing the output paper size is "hard"

On Mon, 30 Jan 2017 22:29:46 -0700 Anthony Fok <f...@debian.org> wrote: > Control: wontfix Ok. Your package. But see below. > On Sat, 20 Feb 2016 00:23:22 -0600 "Karl O. Pinc" <k...@meme.com> > wrote: > > It'd be nice if lilypond had a better way of sp

Bug#881769: udev: Docs on upgrading to predictable network interface names don't work

Package: udev Version: 232-25+deb9u1 Severity: normal Tags: patch Hi, The stretch README.Debian.gz for udev omits mention that update-initramfs -u must be run after changing configuration files when converting to the new "predictable network interface names". Attached is a patch which clarifies

Bug#881771: release-notes: No mention of "predictable network interface names" in Debian 10

Package: release-notes Severity: normal Hi, Section 4.7 "Preparing for the next release" of the jessie->stretch release notes do not mention that Debian 10 will require migration to the kernel's "predictable network names". (Or, I imagine, manual assignment of network names.) Because users are

Bug#881769: udev: Docs on upgrading to predictable network interface names don't work

On Wed, 15 Nov 2017 01:08:06 +0100 Michael Biebl <bi...@debian.org> wrote: > Am 14.11.2017 um 23:46 schrieb Karl O. Pinc: > > The stretch README.Debian.gz for udev omits mention that > > update-initramfs -u must be run after changing configuration files > >

Bug#884192: libqt5gui5: X startup hang due to glxinfo in Xsession.d/90qt5-opengl

On Tue, 19 Dec 2017 16:42:49 -0300 Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer <perezme...@gmail.com> wrote: > On martes, 12 de diciembre de 2017 09:15:55 -03 Karl O. Pinc wrote: > > Package: libqt5gui5 > > Version: 5.7.1+dfsg-3+b1 > > Severity: normal > > There is some

Bug#884192: libqt5gui5: X startup hang due to glxinfo in Xsession.d/90qt5-opengl

Package: libqt5gui5 Version: 5.7.1+dfsg-3+b1 Severity: normal Hello, There is some sort of race condition in glxinfo (package mesa-utils) which sometimes causes it to hang during X startup. Consequently sometimes /etc/X11/Xsession.d/90qt5-opengl hangs. And so X sometimes hangs on startup after

Bug#885660: lvm2: vgchange -ay has a race condition in symlink creation

FYI. A 1 second sleep is not enough. A 2 second sleep has resulted in some LVs being available and some not. I am trying a 3 second sleep and expect that to be sufficient. Regards, Karl Free Software: "You don't pay back, you pay forward." -- Robert A.

Bug#884192: libqt5gui5: X startup hang due to glxinfo in Xsession.d/90qt5-opengl

de 2017 16:46:48 -03 Karl O. Pinc wrote: [snip] > > > So far this is the first time we hear this > > > inconvinience. > > > > First time I've seen it also. Started when I upgraded from Debian > > Jessie to Debian Stretch. For what it's worth, that's the s

Bug#885660: lvm2: vgchange -ay has a race condition in symlink creation

Package: lvm2 Version: 2.02.168-2 Severity: normal Hi, After upgrade from Jessie to Stretch I now see a race condition in 'vgchange -ay'. I've a shell script that does a 'vgchange -ay' and on success proceeds to mount the newly active logical volumes. Now, about 1 in 10 times, the symlinks in

Bug#919507: debian-policy: Policy contains no mention of /var/run/reboot-required

Package: debian-policy Version: 3.9.8.0 Severity: normal Hi, Recent systemd security updates ( systemd (232-25+deb9u8) stretch-security; urgency=high, systemd (232-25+deb9u7) stretch-security; urgency=high) require a system reboot to take effect, but the unattended-upgrades did not tell the user

Bug#919509: systemd packaging does not touch /var/run/reboot-required

Package: systemd Version: 232-25+deb9u8 Severity: normal Hi, systemd security updates to stable systemd (232-25+deb9u8) stretch-security; urgency=high systemd (232-25+deb9u7) stretch-security; urgency=high required reboot to take effect, but /var/run/reboot-required was not `touch`ed. Therefore

Bug#919507: Related systemd bug

Hi, Here is the corresponding bug report on systemd: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=919509 Regards, Karl Free Software: "You don't pay back, you pay forward." -- Robert A. Heinlein

Bug#919507: Fw: Packaging policy to flag unattended-upgrades reboot

Begin forwarded message: Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2019 18:10:04 -0600 From: "Karl O. Pinc" To: Michael Vogt , Balint Reczey Subject: Packaging policy to flag unattended-upgrades reboot Hello, Do you have any suggestions for updating the Debian Policy docs so that packagers know what mu

Bug#919507: debian-policy: Policy contains no mention of /var/run/reboot-required

On Wed, 16 Jan 2019 15:28:05 -0700 Sean Whitton wrote: > > If Debian supports user notification when reboot is required > > (or automatic rebooting) after automatic upgrade then there > > should be some consistent standard. And that standard > > should be documented. Someplace. > It seems

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