Bug#608179: tendra: FTBFS: mv: cannot stat `debian/tendra/usr/share/man/man1/tcc.1': No such file or directory

2011-01-09 Thread Mark Brown
On Sun, Jan 09, 2011 at 07:00:31PM +, Simon McVittie wrote: Hopefully the patch below is better? It's also available from http://git.debian.org/?p=users/smcv/qa/tendra.git which also has some minor lintian fixes as separate commits. BTW, some things regarding the git tree: - You need to

Bug#612444: peoples names on planet hard to read

2011-02-09 Thread Mark Brown
On Wed, Feb 09, 2011 at 02:35:08PM +0100, Luca Capello wrote: On Wed, 09 Feb 2011 14:07:28 +0100, Kalle S??derman wrote: This comments interest me quite at bit. Luca, what culture/language do you belong to? At least in Europe and USA it has been the norm to Small caps/Upper case the author

Bug#609474: potential symlink attack when compiling tendra

2011-01-09 Thread Mark Brown
On Sun, Jan 09, 2011 at 10:14:06PM +, Simon McVittie wrote: On Sun, 09 Jan 2011 at 19:11:57 +, Mark Brown wrote: On Sun, Jan 09, 2011 at 06:55:08PM +, Simon McVittie wrote: A patch follows; it'll also be available in http://git.debian.org/?p=users/smcv/qa/tendra.git shortly

Bug#290049: Add some information

2011-01-11 Thread Mark Brown
reassign 290049 zlib severity 290049 wishlist notforwarded 290049 kthxbye On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 02:43:11PM +0100, Bastien ROUCARIES wrote: reassign 290049 zlib, rsync severity 290049 important forwarded 290049 https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6916 This is not the same issue as the

Bug#290049: Add some information

2011-01-11 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 03:13:02PM +0100, Bastien ROUCARIES wrote: On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 2:55 PM, Mark Brown broo...@debian.org wrote: This is not the same issue as the code duplication between the two packages, this is requesting support in zlib for compressing things in a way

Bug#506849: closed by Mark Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Re: Bug#506849: leafnode: leafenode does forced fecth on install)

2008-11-25 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 11:42:53PM +1100, Alex Samad wrote: I understand it needs to be done for it to work, but I was hoping to have the ability to schedule it at a later time (during my off peak downloads), don't want to have to get up at 4 am to install this ! As I say, this feature is

Bug#567125: network-manager: Requires Dell-specific utility without dependency/recommendation

2010-01-27 Thread Mark Brown
Package: network-manager Version: 0.7.2-2 Severity: important On startup on my Dell E4300 laptop NetworkManager reports: Jan 27 14:23:13 finisterre NetworkManager: WARN killswitch_getpower_reply(): Error getting killswitch power: dellWirelessCtl (/usr/bin/dellWirelessCtl) not available or

Bug#559186: hangs during fresh installation until ^C

2009-12-02 Thread Mark Brown
On Wed, Dec 02, 2009 at 04:38:42PM +0100, Jonas Stein wrote: /var/lib/dpkg/info/leafnode.postinst: line 226: 3169 Killed ${FETCHNEWS} -f /dev/null failed How long did you leave before doing this? This looks like there's a network I/O issue, quite possibly caused by something like

Bug#559186: hangs during fresh installation until ^C

2009-12-02 Thread Mark Brown
On Wed, Dec 02, 2009 at 05:08:01PM +0100, Jonas Stein wrote: i only have installed leafnode in that round. After waiting about 3 min. i canceled with ^C if there is anything i should try on console to help describing the bug please mail or ask via Check for network I/O during the

Bug#558456: nis: please let debconf ask whether to start ypbind

2009-12-02 Thread Mark Brown
On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 04:47:53PM -1000, Ryo Furue wrote: Before installing NIS, I had known that I needed to edit /etc/yp.conf for NIS to work; I intended to What makes you say that you need to edit /etc/yp.conf? To solve this problem, I'd like to suggest that debconf ask either 1)

Bug#558456: nis: please let debconf ask whether to start ypbind

2009-12-04 Thread Mark Brown
On Wed, Dec 02, 2009 at 08:43:35AM -1000, Ryo Furue wrote: Because our NIS servers are not on the same subnet as my machine. I think it's one of the purposes of yp.conf to specify NIS servers when they are on different subnets (that is, when they are not reachable by broadcast). Is that

Bug#539278: lib32z1: not installable on kfreebsd-amd64/ppc64

2009-07-30 Thread Mark Brown
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 01:00:11PM +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote: In this case a Pre-Depends is overkill, a simple Conflicts is enough. Please find a patch below to fix the problem. Please confirm this with the amd64 porters. This whole transitions has been plagued with problems; the

Bug#539278: lib32z1: not installable on kfreebsd-amd64/ppc64

2009-07-30 Thread Mark Brown
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 01:41:51PM +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote: Note that this solution (suggested by one of the dpkg maintainers) is the one that has been tested and implemented for libc6-dev-i386. No problem have been reported so far, contrary to the Pre-Depends version which sometimes

Bug#539106: Have nis suggest nscd

2009-08-02 Thread Mark Brown
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 01:03:03PM +0530, Bhavani Shankar wrote: In Ubuntu, we've applied the attached patch to achieve the following: * Have nis Suggest nscd. LP: #345137 We thought you might be interested in doing the same. If you're going to do things like forward on changes like

Bug#539000: tftpd-hpa: Unannounced removal of inetd support

2009-08-04 Thread Mark Brown
Package: tftpd-hpa Version: 5.0-3 Severity: serious In an earlier response to this report you write: running tftpd-hpa through inetd is no longer supported (in debian). however, will include a check into the initscript to fail gracefully when user decides to run it through inetd. however

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

2010-02-12 Thread Mark Brown
On 13 Feb 2010, at 00:06, Jonathan Nieder jrnie...@gmail.com wrote: tags 497687 + upstream severity 497687 important thanks Hi Mark, Mark Brown wrote: 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

Bug#569697: zlib1g: install the library to multiarch paths

2010-02-13 Thread Mark Brown
retitle 569697 zlib1g: Please install the library to multiarch paths tag 569697 - patch thanks On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 02:49:51PM +, Simon McVittie wrote: The attached patch is also available from: bzr+ssh://bzr.debian.org/home/users/smcv/public_bzr/multiarch/zlib You appear to have

Bug#564272: closed by Mark Brown broo...@debian.org (Re: Bug#564272: nis: Depends on portmap)

2010-01-08 Thread Mark Brown
On Fri, Jan 08, 2010 at 02:58:12PM -0800, Richard A Nelson wrote: Your point about default alternatives is a valid one, and yes, for most folk, and until this is squared away, my bias would be to put portmap first, then rpcbind. I still think supporting both programs is proper. We need to

Bug#564272: closed by Mark Brown broo...@debian.org (Re: Bug#564272: nis: Depends on portmap)

2010-01-08 Thread Mark Brown
On Fri, Jan 08, 2010 at 02:55:07PM -0800, Richard A Nelson wrote: On Fri, 8 Jan 2010, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: Actually, rpcbind does, now have an init script: Oh, I see that Annibal did get round to fixing that one this week. I had assumed given the lack of communication that he was

Bug#561432: zlib: Missing entries in debian/copyright.

2010-01-10 Thread Mark Brown
unblock 561433 561432 unblock 561432 561433 kthxbye On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 12:15:00AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: Le Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 10:24:36AM +, Mark Brown a écrit : I share your point of view on the real importance of the issue, but formally, a policy violation is a serious

Bug#565294: usbview: icon missing

2010-01-14 Thread Mark Brown
severity 565294 wishlist retitle 565294 usbview: Plaese provide a menu icon kthxbye On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 05:10:18PM +0100, Carlo Stemberger wrote: Package: usbview Version: 1.1-1 Severity: minor $ dpkg -L usbview Please describe the problem you are reporting in your bug reports, just

Bug#565294: usbview: icon missing

2010-01-14 Thread Mark Brown
On 14 Jan 2010, at 16:40, Carlo Stemberger carlo.stember...@gmail.com wrote: Il 14/01/2010 17:25, Mark Brown ha scritto: Please describe the problem you are reporting in your bug reports, just listing files does not add anything. Simply the subject is self-explaining: there is no icon

Bug#118023: Bug#213733: nis: upgrade breaks postinst and service restart

2010-01-14 Thread Mark Brown
tag 213733 + moreinfo tag 118023 + moreinfo merge 118023 213733 kthxbye On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 11:34:34AM +1100, Ben Finney wrote: On 14-Aug-2009, Ben Finney wrote: I have exactly the same problem on upgrading to version 3.17-27, with this output: […] I have upgraded to ‘nis’ 3.17-31. I

Bug#213733: Bug#118023: Bug#213733: nis: upgrade breaks postinst and service restart

2010-01-14 Thread Mark Brown
On 15 Jan 2010, at 01:00, Ben Finney ben+deb...@benfinney.id.au wrote: On 15-Jan-2010, Mark Brown wrote: On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 11:34:34AM +1100, Ben Finney wrote: I have upgraded to ‘nis’ 3.17-31. I repeated the same steps repo rted in the message (Message-ID: 20090814032406.ga3

Bug#118023: Bug#213733: nis: upgrade breaks postinst and service restart

2010-01-15 Thread Mark Brown
On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 12:38:27PM +1100, Ben Finney wrote: Okay. As reported earlier, I can cause the failure with ???/usr/sbin/ypbind -f /etc/yp.conf??? so I've done an ???strace -f??? on that. Does your yp.conf specify a server? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#118023: Bug#213733: nis: upgrade breaks postinst and service restart

2010-01-15 Thread Mark Brown
On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 10:32:59PM +1100, Ben Finney wrote: On 15-Jan-2010, Mark Brown wrote: Does your yp.conf specify a server? My ???yp.conf??? is empty, except for blank lines and comments. That's what I've been showing with this: = $ grep -v '^\(#.*\|\)$' /etc/yp.conf# don't

Bug#568149: zlib: please allow resuming after EINTR

2010-02-03 Thread Mark Brown
On Wed, Feb 03, 2010 at 02:05:19PM +0100, Guillem Jover wrote: I had skimmed previously over the gzio.c (stdio based) code and there were several other problematic functions, but doing so now over the new gzlib.c based code it seems to be in a way better shape, although there might still be

Bug#568149: zlib: please allow resuming after EINTR

2010-02-03 Thread Mark Brown
On Wed, Feb 03, 2010 at 03:34:39PM +0100, Guillem Jover wrote: Ah! Thanks for pointing this out. I'm not sure upstream might see much point in fixing the stdio based code, but as I skimmed over the code anyway, it might be useful, so here's some of the problems I found: Oh, I doubt anything

Bug#568149: zlib: please allow resuming after EINTR

2010-02-03 Thread Mark Brown
On Wed, Feb 03, 2010 at 10:25:49AM -0600, Jonathan Nieder wrote: Considering each function in gzio.c from zlib 1.2.3.5 in turn: Like I say, gzio.c is irrelevant now - it's deprecated in favour of the new implementation. Looking at it is pretty much a waste of time, it's not built in the Debian

Bug#568518: Aix 5.3 nis-client crashs ypserv[2358]: segfault

2010-02-05 Thread Mark Brown
severity 568518 important kthxbye On Fri, Feb 05, 2010 at 01:51:18PM +0100, thomas.lefringhau...@witte-automotive.de wrote: Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable Please file bugs with realistic severities, inflating the severity is unhelpful. In this case the problem only

Bug#568518: Antwort: Re: Bug#568518: Aix 5.3 nis-client crashs ypserv[2358]: segfault

2010-02-08 Thread Mark Brown
notfound 568518 3.17-30 thanks On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 02:03:41PM +0100, thomas.lefringhau...@witte-automotive.de wrote: Hello Mr. Brwon, we have tested with the unstable package of nis in lenny. The test was good. NIS didn't crash. In the debug-log are some messages: xdr_string: out

Bug#562755: r-base-core: read.dcf() error

2009-12-28 Thread Mark Brown
On 28 Dec 2009, at 13:35, Dirk Eddelbuettel e...@debian.org wrote: We're having a rather serious breakage in R when the zlib1g from unstable is installed. R transparently wraps its file operations around open()/ gzopen() and now no longer works on uncompressed files -- see the logs of this

Bug#562878: GTK front end does not word wrap mails

2009-12-28 Thread Mark Brown
Package: reportbug Version: 4.9 Severity: important The GTK front end for reportbug neither word wraps text that is entered by users nor provides any indicication of how wide the text that's been entered is, meaning that it would be very surprising if input came back as anything other than one

Bug#562875: Misreports patches as modifying Debian files

2009-12-28 Thread Mark Brown
Package: lintian Version: 2.3.0 Severity: normal The check for reporting if a patch modifies Debian files appears to be based on checking for 'debian' in the filename. This is causing false positives in the zlib package since I work on a bzr branch called 'debian' in a directory called

Bug#562755: r-base-core: read.dcf() error

2009-12-28 Thread Mark Brown
On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 06:50:52PM +, Mark Brown wrote: OK, I've isolated the change in gzio that causes this and will do an upload shortly. feof() together with buffering was confusing a new change that had been introduce into gzio; that's both changes to gzio.c that I'll have reverted

Bug#562876: GTK front end says Ctrl+c can be used to exit

2009-12-28 Thread Mark Brown
Package: reportbug Version: 4.9 Severity: normal When prompting for the subject line for the bug the GTK front end says that Ctrl+c can be used to exit, but this does not in fact work when using the GTK front end. The string used to prompt should be changed depending on the front end, or the

Bug#562755: r-base-core: read.dcf() error

2009-12-28 Thread Mark Brown
On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 08:30:42AM -0600, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: Three different Debian unstable users reported / confirmed the issue. A simple test would be what has piled up in the bug reports, eg as demonstrated by ChenLiang things break once we wrap gzfile() around:

Bug#563506: closed by Mark Brown broo...@debian.org (Re: Bug#563506: nis: Please update the debconf PO file in the clean target)

2010-01-03 Thread Mark Brown
tag 563506 - patch severity 563506 minor kthxbye On Sun, Jan 03, 2010 at 04:00:55PM +0100, Nicolas François wrote: You may update the files in another way (a dist target, a manual checklist, etc.), but the following files are outdated in the nis source package: OK, whatever. This really

Bug#562757: Apparent portmap to rpcbind transition?

2010-01-04 Thread Mark Brown
state but none of them seem to have a summary of what the intention is - does anyone have any information here? Daniel Baumann dan...@debian.org doodle (U) Mark Brown broo...@debian.org nis Tim Cutts t...@chiark.greenend.org.uk am-utils Debian QA Group packa...@qa.debian.org unfs3

Bug#565683: Peers inside zlib internal code

2010-01-17 Thread Mark Brown
Package: libxml2 Version: 2.7.6.dfsg-1 Severity: important The new version of zlib, 1.2.3.5, contains a new implementation of gzio (the gzopen() and related API calls) which are used by libxml2. Sadly it looks like these break libxml2. It contains (in xmlIO.c) the following code:

Bug#565688: Please update lintian

2010-01-17 Thread Mark Brown
Package: ftp.debian.org Severity: normal The version of lintian on ftp.debian.org is generating false positives on tags used for archive rejections which have been fixed in current versions. Please update it to avoid these false positives. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#565823: zlib1g: Breaking ABI? {update-mime-database.real, xsltproc, xmllint} start segfaulting

2010-01-19 Thread Mark Brown
reassign 565823 libxml2 kthxbye On 19 Jan 2010, at 00:20, Cyril Brulebois k...@debian.org wrote: Package: zlib1g Version: 1:1.2.3.5.dfsg-1 Severity: serious Justification: ABI break? Hi, context: kfreebsd-* experimental buildds were not properly configured and pulled more stuff from

Bug#562757: Apparent portmap to rpcbind transition?

2010-01-20 Thread Mark Brown
On Mon, Jan 04, 2010 at 02:45:27PM +, Mark Brown wrote: As discussed by a number of people in bug #562757 it appears that nfs-kernel-server has kicked off a transition to the use of rpcbind - at least, nfs-kernel-server has switched to needing rpcbind and we can't have two things claiming

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

2008-11-05 Thread Mark Brown
On Wed, Nov 05, 2008 at 12:52:57AM +, Gerrit Pape wrote: On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 03:46:58PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote: Since the manual lists no way of disabling the warning and the garbage collection which is suggested by the dialog doesn't actually resolve the problem this is highly

Bug#436260: closed by maximilian attems [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Re: linux-support-2.6.22-1: Support for exernal module packages broken)

2008-11-13 Thread Mark Brown
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 11:03:55PM +0100, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote: On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 02:13:33PM +0200, maximilian attems wrote: if you can reproduce it with 2.6.25 or newer snapshots. i'm all ears unless so it is assumed fixed. Mark, does the problem still exist for you with the

Bug#513065: Acknowledgement (libz.so: System Profiler and Benchmark calls libz.so but ln is libz.s0.1)

2009-01-27 Thread Mark Brown
On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 07:44:02AM +1100, George Kirkham wrote: The System Profiler and Benchmark is a program which provides information about the installation of Debian and the PC on which it is Can you provide any references to this software? run. When I run System Profiler and

Bug#513065: Acknowledgement (libz.so: System Profiler and Benchmark calls libz.so but ln is libz.s0.1)

2009-01-28 Thread Mark Brown
On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 11:10:44PM +1100, George Kirkham wrote: There is an issue, however which library/program is the cause of the issue ? This is a bug in the application. If I understand what your saying, I guess that I should raise this issue against Hard Info, not zlib1g Yes. It has

Bug#457703: hardinfo: Please fix references to zlib

2009-01-28 Thread Mark Brown
Package: hardinfo Version: 0.4.2.3-5 Followup-For: Bug #457703 Please fix this bug for lenny. This bug is causing users to believe that there is a problem in the zlib1g package - I would really rather see this fixed before release, it's just going to make work for me as zlib maintainer and it's

Bug#439980: Patch sent upstream, waiting for feedback before applying it

2009-08-09 Thread Mark Brown
On Sat, Aug 08, 2009 at 10:17:40PM +0200, Julien Cristau wrote: is there any news on this bug (zlib.h only defining a prototype for gzopen64 if _LARGEFILE64_SOURCE is defined)? I noticed some warnings related to gzopen64 when building libpciaccess on some archs, and just found this bug. I

Bug#118023: Bug#213733: nis: upgrade breaks postinst and service restart

2009-08-15 Thread Mark Brown
On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 01:24:07PM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: I have exactly the same problem on upgrading to version 3.17-27, with this output: Can you reproduce this problem? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Bug#213733: nis: upgrade breaks postinst and service restart

2009-08-15 Thread Mark Brown
On 15 Aug 2009, at 14:21, Ben Finney ben+deb...@benfinney.id.au wrote: On 15-Aug-2009, Mark Brown wrote: On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 01:24:07PM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: I have exactly the same problem on upgrading to version 3.17-27, with this output: Can you reproduce this problem? I don't

Bug#118023: Bug#213733: nis: upgrade breaks postinst and service restart

2009-08-16 Thread Mark Brown
On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 10:04:26AM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: Are there any particular conditions you want tested? My first thought is to downgrade to a prior version, get the NIS master working, then upgrade again. That sounds reasonable - the goal is just to try to see the same thing

Bug#118023: Bug#213733: nis: upgrade breaks postinst and service restart

2009-08-16 Thread Mark Brown
On 15 Aug 2009, at 14:21, Ben Finney ben+deb...@benfinney.id.au wrote: On 15-Aug-2009, Mark Brown wrote: On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 01:24:07PM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: I have exactly the same problem on upgrading to version 3.17-27, with this output: Can you reproduce this problem? I don't

Bug#439980: Patch sent upstream, waiting for feedback before applying it

2009-08-24 Thread Mark Brown
On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 10:33:39AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: So my reading of this is that, if zlib is following the same scheme (and wouldn't anything else just be confusing?), then gzopen64 should only be defined if _LARGEFILE64_SOURCE is defined, and otherwise gzopen should just be

Bug#439980: Patch sent upstream, waiting for feedback before applying it

2009-08-24 Thread Mark Brown
On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 11:03:24AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: Of course, this relies on the special stuff glibc does in features.h to define __USE_LARGEFILE64 depending on whether __REDIRECT is defined, so maybe making this work cross-platform is too hard (though you could use '#if

Bug#439980: possible patch

2009-08-24 Thread Mark Brown
On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 02:19:13PM +0200, Michael Vogt wrote: I just wanted to mention a trivial patch I attached to the Ubuntu bug for this. It has the drawbacks that Colin mentions above that its not the standard semantics of _LARGEFILE64_SOURCE and _FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 It does however fix

Bug#520706: nvidia-kernel-source: Also fails with module-assistant

2009-05-19 Thread Mark Brown
Package: nvidia-kernel-source Version: 180.44-2 Severity: normal The bug log for this bug states that build of the modules works when using module-assistant. I'm finding that when I attempt to build the modules with: module-assistant build -l 2.6.29-2-amd64 nvidia-kernel the build fails

Bug#525872: Evolution MAPI plugin

2009-05-20 Thread Mark Brown
In the ITP for evolution-mapi you asked for testing. I just tried with the current version 0.26.1-1 (binaries from your site) but find that when attempting to authenticate during account creation I get prompted for my password and then Evolution crashes immediately after I click OK. Attempting to

Bug#525872: Evolution MAPI plugin

2009-05-20 Thread Mark Brown
On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 01:30:08PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: You???d need to rebuild the packages with DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=noopt nostrip and install evolution-dbg and evolution-data-server-dbg, after which you can run evolution in a gdb session. Hrm. That's failing to rebuild in unstable

Bug#530150: nis: bashism in /bin/sh script

2009-05-29 Thread Mark Brown
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 04:41:13PM -0500, Raphael Geissert wrote: d) and it is easier and faster to fix it than to reply to the bug report :) If this is the case please submit patches. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe.

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

2009-02-14 Thread Mark Brown
On Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 09:42:10PM +0200, Didier Roche wrote: Please consider applying the attached patch. Please check your MUA configuration - your patch has been sent HTML encoded which means that it is difficult to apply using standard tools. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#515430: Depends on GTK 1.2

2009-02-15 Thread Mark Brown
On 15 Feb 2009, at 19:51, Moritz Muehlenhoff j...@debian.org wrote: Package: powertweak-gtk Severity: serious powertweak build-depends on libgtk1.2-dev, which will be removed for Squeeze. Please port it to GTK 2 or drop the powertweak-gtk binary package. The package will be removed from

Bug#515588: RM: powertweak -- ROM; Unmaintained upstream and uses out of date APIs

2009-02-16 Thread Mark Brown
Package: ftp.debian.org Severity: normal Please remove the powertweak package from unstable - it uses GTK 1 and has been unmaintained upstream for years. -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux

Bug#509170: zlib1g: gzrecover SIGSEGV in inflate from zlib

2008-12-31 Thread Mark Brown
On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 03:26:38PM +0900, Paul Wise wrote: gzrecover (from gzrt) crashes with a SIGSEGV in inflate from zlib when trying to recover the attached flasm_1.61-1.diff.gz (corrupted with 1 bit - byte 0xB41 should be 0x02 not 0x12). It crashes half way through the output of the

Bug#509170: zlib1g: gzrecover SIGSEGV in inflate from zlib

2009-01-01 Thread Mark Brown
On 1 Jan 2009, at 03:32, Paul Wise p...@debian.org wrote: On Wed, 2008-12-31 at 17:48 +, Mark Brown wrote: Does that make sense to you? I'm not familiar with the code of either gzrecover or zlib, so it didn't make heaps of sense. It sounds like this is a bug in gzrecover rather than

Bug#531542: czech translation for nis 3.17-20 -2nd :o)

2009-06-02 Thread Mark Brown
merge 531542 531541 kthxbye On Tue, Jun 02, 2009 at 10:18:44AM +0200, Viktor Matys wrote: Package: nis Version: 3.17-20 Severity: wishlist I forgot to attach the translation. I hope I'll be more succesful now.:o) Viktor Matys -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid

Bug#531955: [Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#531955: Bug#531955: useradd creates local-only users on nis server

2009-06-05 Thread Mark Brown
On Sat, Jun 06, 2009 at 12:02:55AM +0200, nicolas.franc...@centraliens.net wrote: On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 10:54:47AM +0200, harald.dun...@aixigo.de wrote: The new user john is added _before_ the first NIS compat entry, instead of being appended to passwd. /var/yp/Makefile ignores

Bug#537457: RM: gob -- ROM; Obsoleted by gob2 and glib 1.2 removal

2009-07-18 Thread Mark Brown
Package: ftp.debian.org Severity: normal gob is obsolete, having being replaced by gob2 for current glib versions. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#537844: libbotan1.8.2: Undeclared conflicts with libbotan1.8

2009-07-21 Thread Mark Brown
Package: libbotan1.8.2 Version: 1.8.4-1 Severity: serious Attempting to install libbotan-1.8.2 results in the following error: | Unpacking libbotan-1.8.2 (from .../libbotan-1.8.2_1.8.4-1_amd64.deb) ... | dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libbotan-1.8.2_1.8.4-1_amd64.deb (--unpack):

Bug#538012: tftpd-hpa: Gramatical errors in postinst output

2009-07-22 Thread Mark Brown
Package: tftpd-hpa Version: 5.0-3 Severity: minor The postinst says: | tftpd user (tftp) is already existing, doing nothing. This should read something like: | tftpd user (tftp) already exists, doing nothing. instead. -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable

Bug#530150: nis: bashism in /bin/sh script

2009-07-06 Thread Mark Brown
On Sun, Jul 05, 2009 at 02:28:24PM -0500, Raphael Geissert wrote: --- ypserv-2.19/scripts/match_printcap.in.orig2009-07-05 14:19:14.0 -0500 +++ ypserv-2.19/scripts/match_printcap.in 2009-07-05 14:19:32.0 -0500 Debian patches are, of course, traditionally

Bug#530150: nis: bashism in /bin/sh script

2009-07-06 Thread Mark Brown
On Mon, Jul 06, 2009 at 03:39:08PM -0500, Raphael Geissert wrote: On Monday 06 July 2009 15:24:29 Mark Brown wrote: Debian patches are, of course, traditionally generated against the package... Of course: --- ypserv-2.19/etc/ypserv.conf.5.orig 2003-12-13 20:27:44.0 +0100

Bug#536023: RFA: leafnode

2009-07-06 Thread Mark Brown
Package: wnpp Severity: normal I'm looking for an adopter for Leafnode since I no longer use it. The package is in fairly good shape, pretty static and upstream is very responsive. To be honest what's really needed here is more upstream effort rather than more Debian effort - there has been a

Bug#530150: nis: bashism in /bin/sh script

2009-07-06 Thread Mark Brown
On Mon, Jul 06, 2009 at 03:55:24PM -0500, Raphael Geissert wrote: On Monday 06 July 2009 15:47:23 Mark Brown wrote: On Mon, Jul 06, 2009 at 03:39:08PM -0500, Raphael Geissert wrote: --- ypserv-2.19/etc/ypserv.conf.5.orig 2003-12-13 20:27:44.0 +0100 +++ ypserv-2.19/etc

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

2010-03-21 Thread Mark Brown
On 21 Mar 2010, at 05:16, Jonathan Nieder jrnie...@gmail.com wrote: Source: zlib Version: 1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 Severity: wishlist The Chromium browser has its own copy of minizip. It would be nice if it could use libminizip.so.1 from a new libminizip1 package instead. Thoughts? Do you think

Bug#575089: gnash: Crippling memory leak

2010-03-23 Thread Mark Brown
Package: gnash Version: 0.8.7-2 Severity: critical With current versions of gnash there appears to be a very severe memory leak when running with at least some sites (I believe including the media player on last.fm user pages such as http://www.last.fm/user/broonie which appears to leak at

Bug#575224: gnome: gnash is insufficiently stable to be depended on

2010-03-24 Thread Mark Brown
Package: gnome Version: 1:2.28+6 Severity: important The current gnome package pulls in gnash via the Mozilla plugin. This has had a dramatically negative effect on the stability of my system - with at least some of the web pages I visit gnash appears to have a very severe memory leak which

Bug#574542: Processed: affects 574542

2010-03-26 Thread Mark Brown
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 03:42:06PM +, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: affects 574542 link-monitor-applet Bug #574542 [gob2] gob2 segfaults Added indication that 574542 affects link-monitor-applet thanks Stopping processing here.

Bug#570966: git-core: git am doesn't remove rebase-apply until after gc

2010-02-22 Thread Mark Brown
Package: git-core Version: 1:1.7.0-1 Severity: important When git am does an automatic gc it doesn't clean up the rebase-apply directory until after this has finished. This means that if the user aborts the gc then future am or rebase operations will report that an existing operation is in

Bug#491451: closed by Don Armstrong d...@debian.org (messages which are too large should be rejected by the mailing lists)

2010-04-13 Thread Mark Brown
reopen 491451 kthxbye On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 05:21:15PM +, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: Messages which are too large should be being rejected by the mailing lists; RFC1512 and RFC2017 implementation is the subject of a separate bug report. I don't really see the connection between

Bug#491451: closed by Don Armstrong d...@debian.org (reply to ow...@bugs.debian.org) (Re: Bug#491451: closed by Don Armstrong d...@debian.org (messages which are too large should be rejected by th

2010-04-13 Thread Mark Brown
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 12:39:04AM +, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: The first bit was about your personal notifications (for which I need to see logs, preferably within 24 hours, but definetly within days, so it's not something I can resolve). The second part hijacked to deal with

Bug#451191: usbview embarrassment

2010-04-13 Thread Mark Brown
severity 451191 normal kthxbye On Fri, Apr 09, 2010 at 02:09:04PM -0700, Greg KH wrote: It works for me on my systems, perhaps Debian needs to do something to fix the usbfs configuration :) It's not mounted by default on Debian systems due to it being a legacy thing. djdanni, *please* try to

Bug#451191: usbview embarrassment

2010-04-15 Thread Mark Brown
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 09:05:18AM +0800, jida...@jidanni.org wrote: MB djdanni, *please* try to use realistic severities for reports. It makes the package unusable. There are a range of release criticial bug severities, of which grave is hte highest generally corresponding to some catastrophic

Bug#579454: O: gob2 -- GTK+ Object Builder

2010-04-27 Thread Mark Brown
Package: wnpp Severity: normal I intend to orphan the gob2 package. The package description is: GOB is a preprocessor which simplifies the writing of GObjects in C. The syntax is somewhat similar to that for Java, yacc and lex. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#576228: Bits from the Release Team: Scheduling, transitions, how to help

2010-04-01 Thread Mark Brown
Sorry for the bad quoting, replying from my phone. By 'library' it means an abstraction of some kind such as libsdl which will hide the particular kernel interface the program is talking to. This means that the application is insulated from any future changes in this area such as new kernels

Bug#576513: gob2 segfaults on non-intel arches

2010-04-05 Thread Mark Brown
On Mon, Apr 05, 2010 at 11:50:33AM +0200, Joachim Breitner wrote: please have a look at https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=link-monitor-appletsuite=unstable The gob2 invocation segfaults on all arches besides i386 and amd64. Please remember to provide actual build logs or other

Bug#576564: linux-image-2.6.32-3-686: ali5451 - no sound after resuming from suspend

2010-04-05 Thread Mark Brown
On Mon, Apr 05, 2010 at 07:49:23PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Mon, 2010-04-05 at 20:00 +0300, Rami Autiom??ki wrote: My laptop suspends and resumes find, but sound is not working after computer is suspended and resumed. I compiled vanilla kernel 2.6.33.2 from kernel.org, after

Bug#330032: fixed long ago

2010-03-18 Thread Mark Brown
On 18 Mar 2010, at 19:24, Török Edwin edwinto...@gmail.com wrote: On 03/18/2010 09:00 PM, Micha Lenk wrote: reopen 330032 found 330032 1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 thanks Török Edwin wrote: What is this bug doing as a zlib bug? miniunzip fails to unzip the test.zip file provided in the initial bug

Bug#561432: zlib: Missing entries in debian/copyright.

2009-12-20 Thread Mark Brown
tag 561432 - patch kthxbye There's a series of different licenses, all of which would need to be recorded for true paperwork compliance (although only the standard zlib license actually makes it into the binary package). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org

Bug#562518: zlib1g 1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-1 hangs(?)

2009-12-25 Thread Mark Brown
On Fri, Dec 25, 2009 at 11:33:05AM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: If, in a clean minimal chroot, I install zlib1g from testing first, then install man-db, it works fine. My guess is that it is related to the fixing of #301283. As far as I can tell zlib is performing correctly here, the man-db

Bug#562518: how to reproduce

2009-12-25 Thread Mark Brown
On Fri, Dec 25, 2009 at 06:41:16PM +0100, Joern Heissler wrote: you can reproduce the problem with this little program, more or less copied from man-db source. That's one of the tests I used (plus using man-db itself). Upgrading to zlib_1.2.3.4.dfsg-2 seems *NOT* to fix the problem. Works

Bug#562518: zlib1g 1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-1 hangs(?)

2009-12-25 Thread Mark Brown
On Fri, Dec 25, 2009 at 03:05:12PM +, Mark Brown wrote: As far as I can tell zlib is performing correctly here, the man-db process doing the decompression exits correctly having detected EOF and closed the file, then exits. The read() that's spinning with zero bytes is certainly

Bug#562503: #562503 upgrade of man-db hangs during postinst, consumes 100% cpu for over 30 minutes

2009-12-25 Thread Mark Brown
On Fri, Dec 25, 2009 at 08:16:26PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: To show the severity of the issue, this is from my sparc box during a regular upgrade (last one was 2 months ago): 9630 man 20 0 5448 1960 680 R 98.8 0.2 54:11.05 mandb And no idea how much longer it's going to take.

Bug#523657: gob: Please update build dep for libglib1.2

2009-04-12 Thread Mark Brown
On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 01:47:05PM -0400, Barry deFreese wrote: Now that Gtk1.2 is removed we are also looking to remove glib1.2 from the archive. Gob currently fails to build with glib2.0 as it uses AM_PATH_GLIB. Here is a patch that makes it build, though it probably needs more testing.

Bug#301283: #301283 might be intended behaviour

2009-04-12 Thread Mark Brown
On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 04:29:28PM +0200, Bernhard R. Link wrote: I think there are people that think that a stream should no longer return anything after end of file was reached until clearerr was called, so the behaviour in this bug might actually be intended behaviour. Yes, the behaviour

Bug#523657: gob: Please update build dep for libglib1.2

2009-04-13 Thread Mark Brown
On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 09:55:04AM -0400, Barry deFreese wrote: Aye, I probably broke the patch when I ripped out all of the autogenerated files. Do you want the whole debdiff? It's a pretty small change before the autoreconf. No, it's fine. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#595371: zlib1g: experimental version breaks php-pear

2010-09-03 Thread Mark Brown
forcemerge 575994 595371 kthxbye On Fri, Sep 03, 2010 at 04:23:13PM +0200, Marco Amadori wrote: Package: zlib1g Version: 1:1.2.3.5.dfsg-1 Severity: important Tags: upstream This version makes pear segfault on decompression. From the gdb trace (below) I suggest it is already known by

Bug#574798: Please ship minizip as a shared library

2010-11-03 Thread Mark Brown
On Wed, Nov 03, 2010 at 05:45:10PM +0100, Guillaume Yziquel wrote: I believe it would be a nice idea to have a minizip shared lib packaged. I feel the need for that when writig my own bindings, and I do not like very much the idea of copy-pasting code in place of linking properly. Please

Bug#588819: which zlib for squeeze?

2010-09-28 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 01:14:55PM +0300, T??r??k Edwin wrote: Which zlib version will be part of squeeze? Given the release freeze it'll be the current version. If you intend on keeping 1.2.3.4, then please fix this uninitialized warning, valgrind spams lots of these when testing an

Bug#527577: bzr-gtk: Depends on out of date GTK version

2009-05-08 Thread Mark Brown
Package: bzr-gtk Version: 0.95.0+bzr631-1 Severity: normal When bzr starts it displays the following error message, complaining that the gtk plugin uses an out of date GTK version: Unable to load plugin 'gtk'. It requested API version (1, 13, 0) of module module 'bzrlib' from

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