Bug#307685: #307685 leafnode: grouptimeout_* [group] = [days]

2005-05-11 Thread Mark Brown
On Wed, May 11, 2005 at 05:06:07PM +0200, Matthias Andree wrote: | ### BUGFIX | - Keep interesting groups interesting on LIST ACTIVE and GROUP even if | they have no articles. Reported by Brian Sammon. Your wish lets me conclude the fix is either not working or not sufficient. This

Bug#308799: zlib1g: zlib fails uncompressing zip method 9 (deflate64) files making virusscanners fail to scan such files

2005-05-12 Thread Mark Brown
retitle 308799 Please implement deflate64 support severity 308799 wishlist tag 308799 + upstream thanks On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 02:23:03PM +0200, Benoit Panizzon wrote: It seams to be a zlib bug where deflate64 zipped files larger 32kb always cause an error. As far as I can tell there is no

Bug#308877: smlnj: Build relies on network connection

2005-05-12 Thread Mark Brown
Package: smlnj Version: 110.52-1 Severity: serious Justification: fails to build from source The smlnj package build attempts to download files from a web site during the build. Aside from being a policy violation, this means that the package cannot be built on machines disconnected from the

Bug#308877: smlnj: Build relies on network connection

2005-05-13 Thread Mark Brown
On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 05:07:59PM -0600, aaron wrote: The actual package build doesn't require any downloads. The binary needed to compile is contained in the binary package. I believe the cmucl package uses the same technique, although I could be mistaken. In that case you really ought to

Bug#309196: rageircd: Includes private copy of libz

2005-05-15 Thread Mark Brown
Package: rageircd Version: 2.0.0-2 Severity: important Tags: security The rageircd package contains and uses a private copy of libz. Using a private copy like this is a policy violation for a range of reasons, including the additional security support required. I understand that this is fixed

Bug#307685: leafnode: grouptimeout_* [group] = [days]

2005-05-17 Thread Mark Brown
reopen 307685 severity 307685 normal forwarded 307685 [EMAIL PROTECTED] tag 307685 + upstream thanks On Tue, May 17, 2005 at 01:52:50AM +0200, Matthias Andree wrote: Bugs that cause unsubscription from a newsgroup although leafnode can easily know that the newsreader is interested in that very

Bug#346352: This is RC

2006-01-07 Thread Mark Brown
severity 346352 serious thanks Failure to install is an RC problem. I can reproduce this problem on both PowerPC and i386. Looking at the source package I'm guessing that this is just a typo for update_lsr_files()? -- You grabbed my hand and we fell into it, like a daydream - or a fever.

Bug#346885: usbview: FTBFS: build-depends on removed xlibs-dev

2006-01-09 Thread Mark Brown
On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 08:43:01PM +0100, Adeodato Simó wrote: The other way round? Certainly not, xlibs-dev does not exist anymore. Is substitute xlibs-dev for the list of individual ... unproper English to indicat ethat xlibs-dev is to disappear from Build-Depends? I parse it as

Bug#347545: login crashes when trying to use nis

2006-01-11 Thread Mark Brown
reassign 347545 glibc thanks On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 01:57:27PM +0100, Edward Welbourne wrote: When root tried to su - eddy it got this response on stderr: -su: nss_nis/nis-netgrp.c:79: _nss_nis_setnetgrent: Assertion `malloc_usable_size (netgrp-data) = len + 1' failed. This is a problem

Bug#329701: Local (non-NIS) users and groups

2005-12-09 Thread Mark Brown
On Fri, Dec 09, 2005 at 05:32:14AM +0100, Teddy Hogeborn wrote: Mark Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This looks like a question for policy rather than the NIS package since coordination with things like adduser seems at least desirable so I'm reassigning the bug there. Actually

Bug#329701: Local (non-NIS) users and groups

2005-12-11 Thread Mark Brown
On Fri, Dec 09, 2005 at 12:57:28PM +0100, Teddy Hogeborn wrote: And it's not like this would be changed on a running system, right? It would just be the default value in /var/yp/Makefile for new package installations for new NIS master servers. That is not the case. /var/yp/Makefile is a

Bug#329701: Local (non-NIS) users and groups

2005-12-11 Thread Mark Brown
On Sun, Dec 11, 2005 at 04:54:17PM +0100, Teddy Hogeborn wrote: Mark Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You might find that coming up with a concrete proposal for policy might help there. I have the feeling that all that would happen is that maybe someone would ask the maintainers

Bug#329701: Local (non-NIS) users and groups

2005-12-11 Thread Mark Brown
On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 12:28:58AM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: What I want is for any change in the default handling of UID and GID ranges in NIS to be made in other parts of Debian too. As long as you do not expect that NIS-served system users and groups will work too... This is a

Bug#343708: cupsys: Writes invalid ports.conf

2005-12-17 Thread Mark Brown
Package: cupsys Version: 1.1.23-14 Severity: important My /etc/cups/cups.d/ports.conf (generated via debconf) reads: | -e -n Port 631 with the Debconf settings below (generated by accepting the defaults for everything). As a result cupsys fails to start. -- System Information: Debian Release:

Bug#344009: zlib: Remove Build-Depends on amd64-libs

2005-12-20 Thread Mark Brown
On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 01:43:29PM +0100, Daniel Schepler wrote: Currently, because amd64-libs depends on lib64z1, the zlib package's Build-Depends on amd64-libs amounts to a self-dependency. I'm assuming you added it at a time when amd64-libs had to be installed for linking to work, which

Bug#329701: [Adduser-devel] Bug#329701: Local (non-NIS) users and groups

2005-12-20 Thread Mark Brown
On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 08:40:31AM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 08:08:50AM +0100, Teddy Hogeborn wrote: One additional possibility is for adduser to support an interface to add users/groups in this new range, which would involve a new configuration option and at least

Bug#329701: [Adduser-devel] Bug#329701: Local (non-NIS) users and groups

2005-12-21 Thread Mark Brown
On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 10:43:04AM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 12:46:55AM +, Mark Brown wrote: adduser maintainership would like to see this discussed on debian-devel. Please state your case there, and I'll decide what to do afterwards. I personally don't care too

Bug#345015: smstools: Please rebuild against new libmm

2005-12-28 Thread Mark Brown
Package: smstools Version: 1.16-1 Severity: serious A new libmm has been uploaded with a new soname (libmm14) so smstools needs to be rebuilt against it - at present it is uninstallable. I can prepare an NMU doing this if you like. Sorry about the lack of coordination on this one - I was

Bug#345632: linda: Can't handle spaces in man page file names

2006-01-02 Thread Mark Brown
Package: linda Version: 0.3.17 Severity: minor Running linda on the clc-intercal package produces the following warning: | W: clc-intercal; Manual page /usr/share/man/man1/oo, ick.1p.gz failed to run through lexgrog. Since the same manual page is also installed as oo,space,ick (since a number

Bug#345675: gnome-session: Saving sessions creates duplicates of some apps

2006-01-02 Thread Mark Brown
Package: gnome-session Version: 2.10.0-8 Severity: normal For some time now (I think since 2.10.0, though I can't be 100% sure unfortunately - I saw some discussion of the issue at the time of the upgrade so I didn't investigate it then) whenever I save my GNOME session on logout I wind up with a

Bug#333232: nis: shadow entry missing in /var/yp/nicknames.. shadow support broken

2005-10-11 Thread Mark Brown
tag 333232 + unreproducible On Mon, Oct 10, 2005 at 05:19:57PM -0700, kgk wrote: Installing NIS with shadow support did not add the patch to /var/yp/nicknames which stops shadow support from working. What makes you say that this stops shadow support from working? The nicknames are just a

Bug#335346: gnome-blog: Wordpress xmlrpc URL invalid

2005-10-23 Thread Mark Brown
Package: gnome-blog Version: 0.8-5 Severity: normal In the preferences dialog gnome-blog offers the Self-Run Wordpress blog type. This takes the blog URL as configuration and attempts to construct an xmlrpc URL from that but unfortunately it does so by appending wordpress/xmlrpc.php to this when

Bug#334413: powertweak: [INTL:sv] Swedish debconf templates translation

2005-10-23 Thread Mark Brown
On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 08:17:37PM +0200, Daniel Nylander wrote: Package: powertweak Version: 0.99.5-8 Severity: wishlist Is there any chance you could update the Swedish translation for Leafnode? It's been languishing half translated for literally years now. -- You grabbed my hand and we

Bug#334413: powertweak: [INTL:sv] Swedish debconf templates translation

2005-10-23 Thread Mark Brown
On Sun, Oct 23, 2005 at 05:47:51PM +0200, Daniel Nylander wrote: Yes, I have submitted a bugreport with an updated translation now. Thanks. I've uploaded both translations, though katie doesn't seem to want to send me any e-mail about the uploads... -- You grabbed my hand and we fell into

Bug#335910: gcc-4.0: FTBFS on amd64: lib32z1 conflict with ia32-libs

2005-10-26 Thread Mark Brown
On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 09:57:26PM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote: Kurt Roeckx writes: Why ia32-libs and not lib32z1? because most of ia32-libs for amd64 should go away. Kurt Roeckx writes this too: Or did the zlib package change so that they now conflict? Did it used to have a

Bug#336297: udev: Doesn't appear to run RUN= entries on startup

2005-10-29 Thread Mark Brown
Package: udev Version: 0.071-1 Severity: normal I have the following rule in my /etc/udev/rules.d/local.rules: SYSFS{idVendor}==04e6, SYSFS{idProduct}==e003, RUN+=/etc/hotplug/usb/gnupg-ccid When I hotplug this device at run time the referenced script is executed. However, when I boot the

Bug#336297: udev: Doesn't appear to run RUN= entries on startup

2005-10-29 Thread Mark Brown
On Sat, Oct 29, 2005 at 01:36:53PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: It's supposed to work. At least, it does for me. BTW, you should add a BUS statement and definitely ACTION==add. I changed the rule to: BUS==usb, SYSFS{idVendor}==04e6, SYSFS{idProduct}==e003, ACTION==add,

Bug#335184: bugs.debian.org: Hiding categories appears to have no effect

2005-10-30 Thread Mark Brown
reopen 335184 thanks On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 03:26:23PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: On Sat, Oct 22, 2005 at 10:48:08AM +0100, Mark Brown wrote: When I attempt to use Options-Categorise bugs by... to display bugs in my maintainer listing by status and severity only I find that this has

Bug#336297: udev: Doesn't appear to run RUN= entries on startup

2005-10-30 Thread Mark Brown
On Sat, Oct 29, 2005 at 11:15:18PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: On Oct 29, Mark Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (note the test for $ACTION - this is why I didn't bother specifying it in the udev rule.) Yes, but if you test it in the rule you save a fork+exec if it does not match. Ah, OK

Bug#130557: libxml2: Reading from standard-input doesn't stop at EOF

2005-10-30 Thread Mark Brown
On Sun, Aug 14, 2005 at 12:55:15PM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote: reassign 130557 zlib1g thanks Of course, none of the BTS mail ever actually made it to me... Today, I finally decided myself to look into this long-standing well known bug, and realized this bug is actually zlib related. You can

Bug#130557: libxml2: Reading from standard-input doesn't stop at EOF

2005-10-30 Thread Mark Brown
tag 130557 + upstream patch thanks On Sun, Oct 30, 2005 at 11:45:27AM +0100, Mike Hommey wrote: 1.2.3-6 Right, OK. There were some changes to the EOF handling in 1.2 so I wanted to check. The following patch seems to fix the issue, at least for the test case you provided - I'll forward it

Bug#126177: #126177: Broadcasting

2005-10-30 Thread Mark Brown
retitle 126177 securenets and ypbind broadcasting don't play well merge 329382 126177 thanks These two are the same bug: due to the implementation of RPC broadcasts involving relaying by portmap on the server machine ypbind can find itself trying to talk to a server that won't. -- You grabbed

Bug#228903: nis: yppush fails on master which isn't also a client

2005-10-30 Thread Mark Brown
On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 05:02:50PM +0100, Oliver Kiddle wrote: The solution was to temporarily run ypbind. It seems that yppush trys to find out the list of slaves from ypbind. As this is a master and is not a NIS client itself, this fails. It should be able to just look in /var/yp/ypservers.

Bug#130557: libxml2: Reading from standard-input doesn't stop at EOF

2005-10-30 Thread Mark Brown
On Sun, Oct 30, 2005 at 03:43:16PM +0100, Mike Hommey wrote: I guess it doesn't solve the problem if you enter some lines followed by an EOF with the testcase. Rats, yes. You also need this: --- gzio.c.orig 2005-10-30 15:19:18.0 + +++ gzio.c 2005-10-30 15:18:45.0

Bug#228903: nis: yppush fails on master which isn't also a client

2005-11-01 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 05:17:34PM +0100, Oliver Kiddle wrote: I don't as such need to disable it. Enabling it is an effective workaround for the bug but it remains a bug. Following the howto document, it is quite logical to setup NISCLIENT=false on a server. The workaround isn't necessarily

Bug#334013: please add i386 biarch support

2005-10-15 Thread Mark Brown
On Sat, Oct 15, 2005 at 02:56:41AM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote: starting with libc6-dev-amd64 2.3.5-7, i386 has biarch support in glibc. please build lib64z1 for i386 as well (as done for powerpc). We don't build biarch for PowerPC? -- You grabbed my hand and we fell into it, like a daydream

Bug#334013: please add i386 biarch support

2005-10-15 Thread Mark Brown
On Sat, Oct 15, 2005 at 11:29:15AM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote: Mark Brown writes: We don't build biarch for PowerPC? well, yes, but the patch is in the archive as well. Hrm... Interesting. I see that the new glibc is still only in incoming. I've pulled it from there but I'm running

Bug#330220: [Logcheck-devel] Bug#330220: logcheck: Fails to obtain lockfile

2005-10-16 Thread Mark Brown
On Sat, Oct 15, 2005 at 06:51:52PM -0400, Todd Troxell wrote: This is pretty weird. It would be useful to know if/why thelock is [really] failing. I can't seem to reproduce it on my machines. Me either. Do you think you could try changing the lock line(595) to somehting like:

Bug#333232: nis: shadow entry missing in /var/yp/nicknames.. shadow support broken

2005-10-16 Thread Mark Brown
tag 333232 + moreinfo thanks On Mon, Oct 10, 2005 at 05:19:57PM -0700, kgk wrote: Installing NIS with shadow support did not add the patch to /var/yp/nicknames which stops shadow support from working. Without more information there's not much I can do with this bug. I'm unable to reproduce

Bug#334013: please add i386 biarch support

2005-10-16 Thread Mark Brown
On Sat, Oct 15, 2005 at 07:10:15PM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote: thanks, validated that a b-d amd64-libs [i386] works around it. Thanks - I'm just integrating the changes now. One thing that I noticed in the Ubuntu packaging is a change to specify -march=x86-64 and -mtune=x86-64 when building

Bug#334243: amd64-libs: Please remove zlib

2005-10-16 Thread Mark Brown
Package: amd64-libs Version: 1.3 Severity: wishlist Starting with zlib 1:1.2.3-6 the i386 zlib package will ship an amd64 copy of libz in the lib64z1 package (and the corresponding -dev package) which will conflict with amd64-libs. The package is not uploaded yet since it needs to replace files

Bug#334243: amd64-libs: Please remove zlib

2005-10-16 Thread Mark Brown
On Sun, Oct 16, 2005 at 11:24:05AM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: Great! I'd been meaning to ask for this. I will upload version 1.4 later today, without zlib, and with a transitional dependency on lib64z1 and lib64z1-dev. Most of the thanks go to Doko - he filed a bug pointing me at the

Bug#334282: dpkg-cross: Mangles Description: in .changes file

2005-10-16 Thread Mark Brown
Package: dpkg-cross Version: 1.25 Severity: important When the dpkg-cross dpkg-buildpackage merges changes files it renames the description field to 'Desription'. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')

Bug#335184: bugs.debian.org: Hiding categories appears to have no effect

2005-10-22 Thread Mark Brown
Package: bugs.debian.org Severity: normal When I attempt to use Options-Categorise bugs by... to display bugs in my maintainer listing by status and severity only I find that this has no effect on the displayed page. Selecting display by bug number alone has no visible effect either. -- System

Bug#338886: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Bug#338886: leafnode security bug SA-2005:02 (CVE-2005-1911)]

2005-11-13 Thread Mark Brown
The enclosed bug was filed by Leafnode upstream. I believe this patch contains the relevant fix: diff -urN leafnode-1.11.2.rel/artutil.c leafnode-1.11.3.rel/artutil.c --- leafnode-1.11.2.rel/artutil.c 2004-03-16 02:54:43.0 + +++ leafnode-1.11.3.rel/artutil.c 2005-06-08

Bug#339105: needs to Replace: ia32-libs

2005-11-15 Thread Mark Brown
On Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 02:46:23PM -0800, Joshua Kwan wrote: lib32z1 should Replace: ia32-libs. I'm still waiting for someone to give me a version number for the ia32-libs release which removes libz. -- You grabbed my hand and we fell into it, like a daydream - or a fever. -- To

Bug#338886: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Bug#338886: leafnode security bug SA-2005:02 (CVE-2005-1911)]

2005-11-15 Thread Mark Brown
On Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 08:21:32AM +0100, Martin Schulze wrote: Mark Brown wrote: The enclosed bug was filed by Leafnode upstream. I believe this patch contains the relevant fix: Err, could you explain the security implication? A malicious or buggy upstream server could hang

Bug#339409: typo in lib64z1-dev dependency

2005-11-16 Thread Mark Brown
On Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 04:43:40AM +0100, Matthias Klose wrote: s/lib64c-dev/lib64c6-dev/ The version of glibc in unstable seems to disagree with that one (not that it matters too much given your subsequent message). -- You grabbed my hand and we fell into it, like a daydream - or a fever.

Bug#339409: typo in lib64z1-dev dependency

2005-11-17 Thread Mark Brown
On Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 04:43:40AM +0100, Matthias Klose wrote: Package: lib64z1-dev Severity: serious Version: 1:1.2.3-6 s/lib64c-dev/lib64c6-dev/ Could you clarify what the problem you're reporting here is, please? As far as I can tell the current packages are installable with just the

Bug#339409: acknowledged by developer (Re: Bug#339409: typo in lib64z1-dev dependency)

2005-11-19 Thread Mark Brown
On Sat, Nov 19, 2005 at 03:20:20PM +, Stephen Gran wrote: If there were more than one package per architecture providing this virtual package, then the dependency would need to be adjusted to provide consistent behavior. But at first blush, we don't seem to be there. Yes, that's pretty

Bug#326185: Wider issue here?

2005-11-22 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 10:40:36PM +, Jules Bean wrote: I don't understand how this came to be because he is sure that he installed from an official CD, and he knows he has not manually installed any packages. Could it be that some CDs were produced with some security updates applied

Bug#400952: Comments on the possibility of starting portmap earlier in multi-user runlevels

2006-12-07 Thread Mark Brown
On Thu, Dec 07, 2006 at 11:16:23AM +0100, Javier Fern??ndez-Sanguino Pe??a wrote: As for the suggestion of moving portmap to have it started earlier in the boot sequence (maybe S17 instead of S18) I don't think that would be an issue but I don't think it would be a good move to do now that

Bug#402107: scons: windres command incorrect

2006-12-08 Thread Mark Brown
severity 402107 minor tag 402107 + upstream forwarded 402107 http://scons.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=1511 thanks On Fri, Dec 08, 2006 at 02:52:42PM +0800, Paul wrote: Scons doesn't generate windres command lines correctly. Lowering the severity since Windows resources aren't heavily

Bug#402557: program conflicts with tendra

2006-12-12 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 01:56:48PM -0500, Hubert Chan wrote: I'll let you decide whether you want to expand the scope of this bug to include the conflict with transcriber, or if you want to open a new bug for that issue. Another bug, no sense in mixing two different issues into the same bug.

Bug#402557: program conflicts with tendra

2006-12-15 Thread Mark Brown
clone 403168 -1 reassign 403168 transcriber thanks On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 08:12:59PM -0500, Hubert Chan wrote: As per discussion with the maintainer, I'm also opening a new bug, to deal with the issue of /usr/bin/trans, which still violates Policy 10.1, and Etch RC Policy section 2. (I'm

Bug#398643: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [Issue 1496] sconsign fails: AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'ninfo']

2006-11-14 Thread Mark Brown
-- You grabbed my hand and we fell into it, like a daydream - or a fever. ---BeginMessage--- http://scons.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=1496 User guest changed the following: What|Old value |New value

Bug#398643: two-line fix for sconsign bug

2006-11-15 Thread Mark Brown
On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 02:22:39PM -0600, Steve Robbins wrote: Just after submitting this bug, I worked out the patch, below. I've already sent it upstream. You might want to claim credit on the -dev list. I think the fix that went in was actually slightly different but haven't checked yet.

Bug#394185: usbview: No icon in gnome applications menu.

2006-10-20 Thread Mark Brown
severity 394185 wishlist thanks On Fri, Oct 20, 2006 at 01:48:37AM +0200, Stefan Schmidt wrote: No icon shows up in the gnome application menu. Yes, there is no icon for usbview. -- You grabbed my hand and we fell into it, like a daydream - or a fever. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Bug#394723: gtk2-engines: Crux has turned purple

2006-10-22 Thread Mark Brown
Package: gtk2-engines Version: 1:2.8.1-3 Severity: normal Following a recent dist-upgrade the colours of the Crux theme appear to have changed from teal (as in the description) to purple on my system. This seems like it's probably unintentional. -- System Information: Debian Release:

Bug#395273: All leafnode binaries die horribly

2006-10-30 Thread Mark Brown
On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 01:32:18PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: See attached output. Thanks, that's helpful. There seems to be something going wrong outside fetchnews but there does look to be a problem in fetchnews itself. Could you please generate a valgrind trace against a fetchnews binary

Bug#396280: ecartis: Does not handle SMTP errors well

2006-10-30 Thread Mark Brown
Package: ecartis Version: 1.0.0+cvs.20030911-10 Severity: normal When it encounters a fatal error from a RCPT while attempting to inject mail via SMTP ecartis appears to abandon the delivery attempt, even if other recipients were accepted. Ideally ecartis would be able to handle this situation

Bug#395273: All leafnode binaries die horribly

2006-10-30 Thread Mark Brown
On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 01:32:18PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: See attached output. Sorry, I should also have asked: could you please try running fetchnews with verbosity turned up: fetchnews -vvv (it's probably as well to do this outside of valgrind; if you don't feel comfortable with

Bug#290049: replicating package compression used by dpkg-deb

2006-09-28 Thread Mark Brown
On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 03:45:16AM -0700, Ian Bruce wrote: It appears that dpkg-deb does not exec gzip, and it's not dynamically linked with anything except glibc. I suppose that it's statically linked against zlib1g or something like it. So the question is, how can the exact compression

Bug#290049: replicating package compression used by dpkg-deb

2006-09-28 Thread Mark Brown
Followup to the other lists too... On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 12:15:21PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote: On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 03:45:16AM -0700, Ian Bruce wrote: It appears that dpkg-deb does not exec gzip, and it's not dynamically linked with anything except glibc. I suppose that it's statically

Bug#400665: nis startup take long time

2006-11-27 Thread Mark Brown
On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 10:09:51PM +0100, Heiner Markert wrote: When I boot my system which uses nis, the boot procedure takes very long time hanging at ypbind process stating binding to ypserver. When I start/restart /etc/init.d/ypbind after the rest of the system booted up, it however

Bug#400664: nis starts too late

2006-11-27 Thread Mark Brown
severity 163116 important merge 400664 163116 thanks On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 10:07:06PM +0100, Heiner Markert wrote: nis starts after the automounter starts (both are S19 in rc2.d). This breaks automounts via nis (automount:nis in /etc/nsswitch.conf). I don't know whether this is a bug

Bug#400061: Processed: your mail

2006-11-29 Thread Mark Brown
reassign 400061 lprof thanks I'm reassigning this back to lprof since it's been marked as being blocked by the actual scons issue. If you want to reassign it to scons please merge it with 400922 but it looks like there's been some crossing in the post with regard to how this is handled. -- You

Bug#400952: portmap: Should start earlier

2006-11-29 Thread Mark Brown
Package: portmap Version: 5-21 Severity: normal Could you please move portmap earler in the startup sequence so that NIS could start earlier? As far as I can see portmap shouldn't depend on other services so this should be safe. There are long standing problems with the ordering of NIS vs.

Bug#348054: xserver-xorg: [ati/radeon] Desktop window corrupted with ghost images

2006-01-14 Thread Mark Brown
Package: xserver-xorg Version: 6.9.0.dfsg.1-2 Severity: important When running GNOME the desktop window becomes corrupted, carrying images of the contents of other windows, mostly those to the top left of the screen. This mostly seems to happen when a window is moved: the desktop beneath it is

Bug#348054: Acknowledgement (xserver-xorg: [ati/radeon] Desktop window corrupted with ghost images)

2006-01-14 Thread Mark Brown
Further data point: after a certain amount of uptime (it appears to have been over 6 hours) the desktop window problem goes away, though the mouse pointer corruption is still there. -- You grabbed my hand and we fell into it, like a daydream - or a fever. signature.asc Description: Digital

Bug#70509: Leafnode 2

2006-01-15 Thread Mark Brown
This is fixed in Leafnode 2. No ETA for a release of that. -- You grabbed my hand and we fell into it, like a daydream - or a fever. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#311772: Fwd: Password leaks are security holes

2008-08-28 Thread Mark Brown
On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 01:05:19PM +0200, Johan Walles wrote: 2008/8/28 Giacomo A. Catenazzi [EMAIL PROTECTED]: auth.log was invented for this reason, and separated to standard log: it should be readable only by root, because users do errors. It's readable by anybody with physical access

Bug#487104: setting package to nis, tagging 487104

2008-09-02 Thread Mark Brown
# Automatically generated email from bts, devscripts version 2.10.35 # via tagpending # # nis (3.17-17) unstable; urgency=low # # * Force locale for ypcat to C in order to work around errors from #fprintf() with multi-byte characters (closes: #487104). # package nis tags 487104 + pending

Bug#487104: nis: map values containing non-ascii characters vanish

2008-09-03 Thread Mark Brown
severity 487104 important kthxbye On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 05:12:43PM +0100, Jonathan H N Chin wrote: The problem causes data loss, so it is grave at minumum: http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Developer#severities (At my site at least, the data loss is serious, as I explained in my previous

Bug#497687: git-gui: Garbage collection warning triggers too easily

2008-09-03 Thread Mark Brown
Package: git-gui Version: 1:1.5.6.5-1 Severity: normal When git gui starts it does a check to see how many loose objects are in the repository and displays a warning if this is over a certain number, offering to do a gc. Since I track trees like linux-next that are rebased and do a lot of local

Bug#492426: libpam-modules: does unix_chkpwd have to be SUID root?

2008-07-26 Thread Mark Brown
severity 492426 wishlist tag 492426 + pending thanks On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 05:44:22PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: So the latest upstream version of Linux-PAM, which I'm now merging into Debian, has split out the selinux password updating functionality into a Oh, good - I think that's the

Bug#155583: Bug#492426: libpam-modules: does unix_chkpwd have to be SUID root?

2008-07-27 Thread Mark Brown
On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 01:20:22PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 10:41:11AM +0100, Mark Brown wrote: Oh, good - I think that's the last Ubuntu diff here. According to the changelog in Ubuntu, there's one other: +- remove stop links from rc0 and rc6 But perhaps

Bug#493471: x86info: FTBFS on kfreebsd-amd64

2008-08-02 Thread Mark Brown
severity 493471 wishlist retitle 493471 x86info: Please implement kfreebsd-amd64 support kthxbye On Sat, Aug 02, 2008 at 10:20:16PM +0200, Petr Salinger wrote: the current version fails to build on kfreebsd-amd64. It have to be listed in Architecture line. If you're filing bugs like this it

Bug#493471: x86info: FTBFS on kfreebsd-amd64

2008-08-03 Thread Mark Brown
On Sat, Aug 02, 2008 at 10:20:16PM +0200, Petr Salinger wrote: --- debian/control~ 2008-08-02 21:56:11.0 + +++ debian/control 2008-08-02 21:56:11.0 + Please also note that patches should always be supplied in a format suitable for application with patch -p1.

Bug#487104: nis: map values containing non-ascii characters vanish

2008-08-15 Thread Mark Brown
On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 04:40:36PM +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote: On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 03:15:21PM +0100, Jonathan H N Chin wrote: - Could you please run the ypcat command using: 'LC_ALL=en_GB.ISO-8859-1 LANG=en_GB.ISO-8859-1 ypcat' (note that you may have to generate the

Bug#487104: nis: map values containing non-ascii characters vanish

2008-08-15 Thread Mark Brown
severity 487104 important thanks On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 05:08:37PM +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote: No as Jonathan just confirmed, this actually does not prevents login, this only prevents the entries from being displayed with ypcat. Downgrading the bug, then - as I said, the original

Bug#487104: nis: map values containing non-ascii characters vanish

2008-08-15 Thread Mark Brown
On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 04:42:39PM +0100, Jonathan H N Chin wrote: I still silently lose accounts when I run ypcat on the linux server. (Apparently the locale setting is the culprit, so there is a workaround.) I consider that this to be serious data loss. At the very least it is data loss, so

Bug#487104: nis: map values containing non-ascii characters vanish

2008-08-15 Thread Mark Brown
On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 06:20:04PM +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote: I don't expect ypcat to print a correct string when the encoding of the NIS server and the locale of the client do not match, but at least it should not drop the line, and either print the line with broken characters or print an

Bug#487104: nis: map values containing non-ascii characters vanish

2008-08-15 Thread Mark Brown
On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 05:42:00PM +0100, Jonathan H N Chin wrote: If I put data into the database, I expect exactly the same data to come back when I perform a query. If not, an error must be returned. Silent data loss is not acceptable. I'm not saying that this a great thing, just that it's

Bug#491451: bugs.debian.org: Missing mail from #489643

2008-07-19 Thread Mark Brown
Package: bugs.debian.org Severity: normal I don't appear to have received any e-mail from the BTS regarding bug 489643 which was filed against the NIS package. Unfortunately it's taken long enough for me to notice this that I no longer have any logs for the relevant period, though my archiving

Bug#491462: dh-make: Doesn't understand negative components in version numbers

2008-07-19 Thread Mark Brown
Package: dh-make Version: 0.46 Severity: normal Attempting to use dh_make on the CLC-INTERCAL base release I find: | CLC-INTERCAL-Base-1.-94.-2$ dh_make | Package name CLC-INTERCAL-Base-1.-94. is not in a valid format. | Debian policy manual states: | Package names must only consist of lower

Bug#491462: closed by Craig Small [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Re: Bug#491462: dh-make: Doesn't understand negative components in version numbers)

2008-07-20 Thread Mark Brown
On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 10:33:08PM +, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: | CLC-INTERCAL-Base-1.-94.-2$ dh_make | Package name CLC-INTERCAL-Base-1.-94. is not in a valid format. | Debian policy manual states: | Package names must only consist of lower case letters, digits (0-9), |

Bug#491462: closed by Craig Small [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Re: Bug#491462: dh-make: Doesn't understand negative components in version numbers)

2008-07-21 Thread Mark Brown
On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 11:52:14AM +1000, Craig Small wrote: On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 11:56:56PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote: Given the function of the package I'd really expect to be able to throw any random upstream tarball at it and have it fail only in the face of insurmountable errors

Bug#491451: bugs.debian.org: Missing mail from #489643

2008-07-21 Thread Mark Brown
On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 09:40:19PM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: In order for us to have a chance of tracking it down, we need to know about it within a week (preferably 24 hours!) of it happening. We also need to know the message id, and any and all logs you have available. OK, same position

Bug#491451: bugs.debian.org: Missing mail from #489643

2008-07-21 Thread Mark Brown
On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 05:04:27AM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: Yeah; most likely it's your spamfilters that are eating the message. [If you really wanted to check that it's not the BTS screwing up, you can check to see if it hit one of the gmane groups tracking debian-bugs-dist.] Hrm.

Bug#497849: nis: Please remove stop links from rc0 and rc6

2008-09-05 Thread Mark Brown
On Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 09:42:10PM +0200, Didier Roche wrote: Package: nis Version: 3.17 Please ensure that you fill in the full package version when reporting bugs, including the Debian revision. Please consider applying the attached patch. Looks reasonable. Due to the current release

Bug#497831: Missing Depends on lib64z1

2008-09-05 Thread Mark Brown
On Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 07:25:05PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: to ensure that it will always match the version exactly. Without that the lib64z1 can be uninstalled (which doesn't hurt as then you would not have anything to debug) or more importantly have a different version. Seems

Bug#389007: Regression: Radeon 9200 powers off Apple Cinema Display

2008-02-17 Thread Mark Brown
On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 09:57:17AM +0100, Michel Dänzer wrote: That's not minimal - does commenting out Option MacModel or changing its value to mini-internal help? I'm experiencing the same problem. Neither of these help for me - they both result in the monitor powering off. -- You grabbed

Bug#397939: Lintian: outdated-autotools-helper-file

2008-02-17 Thread Mark Brown
On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 08:08:47PM +0100, Bas Wijnen wrote: The fact that there exist packages which work properly without recompiling from source doesn't mean it's a good default. IMO the default should be to always compile from source. Yes, that means hassle for the packager; it's pretty

Bug#389007: Regression: Radeon 9200 powers off Apple Cinema Display

2008-02-18 Thread Mark Brown
On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 01:07:58PM +0100, Michel D??nzer wrote: Please attach the full log file from running without Option MacModel. Attached are two logs. Xorg.0.log is from running without MacModel but it looks like the kernel is managing to lock up before it gets as far as logging much.

Bug#397939: Lintian: outdated-autotools-helper-file

2008-02-18 Thread Mark Brown
On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 05:03:24PM +0100, Bas Wijnen wrote: On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 12:47:41PM +, Mark Brown wrote: On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 11:55:03PM +0100, Bas Wijnen wrote: No, I don't want to force a version, I want the package to force it. By forcing a version I mean doing so

Bug#459980: leafnode: invalid Path headers generated by config value hostname and NEWS_USER

2008-01-12 Thread Mark Brown
On Sat, Jan 12, 2008 at 11:21:33AM +0100, Michael Weitzel wrote: 1. the value of the hostname configuration variable must not contain the fqdn of the upstream news-server. If it does, the article is accepted by the upstream news-server and available on it -- but not delivered further because

Bug#459980: leafnode: invalid Path headers generated by config value hostname and NEWS_USER

2008-01-12 Thread Mark Brown
On Sat, Jan 12, 2008 at 02:51:15PM +0100, Matthias Andree wrote: As side observation during testing, some servers (such as individual.net) rename the original Path:-Header X-Orig-Path and fill in their own, some replace the Path: header in their entirety (T-Online), some just prepend their

Bug#459980: leafnode: invalid Path headers generated by config value hostname and NEWS_USER

2008-01-12 Thread Mark Brown
On Sat, Jan 12, 2008 at 02:51:15PM +0100, Matthias Andree wrote: Attached is the patch as taken from my CVS repository. Hrm, actually I'd kind of prefer to just not set path - it means that users can do less damage by setting a silly hostname. -- You grabbed my hand and we fell into it, like

Bug#459980: leafnode: invalid Path headers generated by config value hostname and NEWS_USER

2008-01-12 Thread Mark Brown
On Sat, Jan 12, 2008 at 06:14:07PM +0100, Michael Weitzel wrote: network, including a domain that host is in. At least from my experience I can witness that there exist systems (mail and news) that resolve the domain part of a message id (i.e. at least the part following the first dot; if not

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