Bug#781009: xul-ext-zotero: fails to find installed pdfinfo and pdftotext

2015-03-23 Thread Mark Eichin
Package: xul-ext-zotero Version: 4.0.22-1 Severity: normal right-click on a just-downloaded pdf, select retrieve metadata (last item), and it gives a popup about installing pdf tools, which then opens the zotero preferences window in the search tab, which says PDF Indexing

Bug#795205: python-serial: new version available (since 2013)

2015-08-11 Thread Mark Eichin
Package: python-serial Version: 2.6-1.1 Severity: normal pyserial 2.7 has been up on pypi and sf.net since late 2013, but the debian package is only 2.6 and is older than that... is there some reason I'm missing that it was held back at the time? I don't see anything in the changelog.Debian

Bug#830750: photofloat: traceback on run

2016-07-10 Thread Mark Eichin
Package: photofloat Version: 0~20120917+dfsg-3 Severity: normal Tried a run based on the instructions in /usr/share/doc/photofloat/README.Debian $ mkdir photo $ cd photo $ mkdir albums cache $ ln -s /usr/share/photofloat/web/* . $ mkdir albums/flickr $ ln $(kpa-grep --tag flickr) albums/flickr/

Bug#881693: ftp.debian.org: RM: owl -- ROM; abandoned upstream

2017-11-13 Thread Mark Eichin
Package: ftp.debian.org Severity: normal barnowl is a fork that people actually use, and there was some plan to do something clever about this that didn't go anywhere - it's time to just make it go away. Thanks!

Bug#886871: postgresql-common: perl error in pg_createcluster

2018-01-10 Thread Mark Eichin
Package: postgresql-common Version: 189 While diagnosing an unrelated problem with pg_upgradecluster, got the "Configuring already existing cluster" message and chased down the code to this, starting at line 351: if ($existingver = $version) { print "Configuring already existing

Bug#910394: sqlcipher: Crashes on running any SQL Statement (with a key)

2018-10-24 Thread Mark Eichin
Freshly installed to test this: i-meant-that$ dpkg --status sqlcipher|grep Version Version: 3.2.0-2 i-meant-that$ sqlcipher mydata.db SQLCipher version 3.8.6 2014-08-15 11:46:33 Enter ".help" for instructions Enter SQL statements terminated with a ";" sqlite> pragma key = 'passphrase'; sqlite>

Bug#910394: sqlcipher: Crashes on running any SQL Statement (with a key)

2018-10-25 Thread Mark Eichin
Oh, this is already known upstream: https://github.com/sqlcipher/sqlcipher/issues/196 so it should be "merely" a matter of getting the sid version into stretch-backports.

Bug#1051743: debhelper: dh_installsystemd --name documentation doesn't match actual behavior

2023-09-11 Thread Mark Eichin
Subject: debhelper: dh_installsystemd --name documentation doesn't match actual behavior Package: debhelper Version: 13.11.6 Severity: normal Dear Debhelper Maintainers, The dh_installsystemd documentation says that As an example, B will look for F<<< IB<< I >>I<.service> >>> instead

Bug#501629: python-sphinx: ansi color not always appropriate

2008-10-08 Thread Mark Eichin
Package: python-sphinx Version: 0.4.2-1 Severity: wishlist Both sphinx-build and sphinx-quicksetup attempt (and fail) to use ansi color sequences, even when TERM=dumb (for example, when run from an emacs shell buffer, or m-x compile. This produces garbage, like this: ^[[01mSphinx v0.4.2,

Bug#495308: bfr: man page contains POD errors

2008-08-15 Thread Mark Eichin
Package: bfr Version: 1.6-2 Severity: normal bfr(1) ends with POD ERRORS. POD ERRORS Hey! The above document had some coding errors, which are explained below: Around line 179: You forgot a '=back' before '=head2' Around line 181: '=item'

Bug#499909: xscreensaver: new login button exists

2008-09-23 Thread Mark Eichin
Package: xscreensaver Version: 5.05-3 Severity: wishlist I couldn't find anything in the man page (and haven't dug in to the code yet) but I use xscreensaver to lock my laptop screen, and a new login button is something I don't want to have. (This is distinct from debbugs#304406 which suggests

Bug#304406: xscreensaver: New Login button without gdmflexiserver

2008-09-23 Thread Mark Eichin
This is checked in compilation-time. I could build a `xscreensaver-nonewlogin' package but I think could be annoying... And if you're using no [x|g|k]dm I guess you should know that there's no option to new login :). There are two issues here: (1) according to apt-file search,

Bug#306459: pymacs: examples from the documentation don't work

2008-02-13 Thread Mark Eichin
To create the re identifier on the Python side, you need to write M-x pymacs-exec RET import re RET It's nice that there's another workaround, but the real problem is that the example as-written in the documentation didn't work :-) Additionally the documentation will be clarified in the

Bug#451311: aptitude: Aptitude::ProblemResolver::StepLimit=0 spins forever

2007-11-14 Thread Mark Eichin
Package: aptitude Version: 0.4.4-4 Severity: normal Specifying -o Aptitude::ProblemResolver::StepLimit=0 (I'm looking for a way to turn off the resolver entirely, in a controlled-upgrade scenario where it shouldn't require resolution to complete the upgrade and I want it to fail instead, without

Bug#454632: owl: new upstream release (2.1.11)

2007-12-06 Thread Mark Eichin
Package: owl Version: 2.1.8-2.1 Severity: wishlist not actually known to fix anything, but should be upgraded for completeness, I hadn't heard about it. -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers gutsy-updates APT policy: (500, 'gutsy-updates'), (500, 'gutsy-security'),

Bug#304526: subversion: FTBFS: cdbs has no patchsys-quilt.mk

2005-04-13 Thread Mark Eichin
Package: subversion Version: 1.1.3-1 Severity: serious subversion's debian/rules line 13: include /usr/share/cdbs/1/rules/patchsys-quilt.mk subversion's debian/control build-depends: cdbs (=0.4.26) cdbs 0.4.27-3 changelog.Debian, ChangeLog, and changelog make no mention of quilt. There is a

Bug#306459: pymacs: examples from the documentation don't work

2005-04-26 Thread Mark Eichin
Package: pymacs Version: 0.22-3 Severity: normal Under @subsection Python handles: (setq matcher (pymacs-eval re.compile('pattern').match)) Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error Python: Traceback (most recent call last): File \/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/Pymacs/pymacs.py\, line 95, in

Bug#436790: dnsdoctor: -o text doesn't work

2007-08-08 Thread Mark Eichin
Package: dnsdoctor Version: 1.0.0-2 Severity: normal File: /usr/bin/dnsdoctor dnsdoctor --help says: -o, --outputOutput (see output) output: [byseverity|byhost] [text|html] byseverity*[bs] Output is sorted/merged by severity byhost [bh] Output is

Bug#436983: python-django: pydoc django.db blows up

2007-08-09 Thread Mark Eichin
Package: python-django Version: 0.96-1 Severity: normal $ pydoc django.db problem in django.db - EnvironmentError: Environment variable DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE is undefined. -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable')

Bug#436983: python-django: pydoc django.db blows up

2007-08-10 Thread Mark Eichin
by django-admin. I'm sorry that this behaviour is unfriendly towards pydoc but I doubt there's any way to avoid this (without defining the variable DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE to point to a valid Django settings module). As long as it stays open as a bug, that's fine; I suspect there *is* a way to

Bug#436983: python-django: pydoc django.db blows up

2007-08-12 Thread Mark Eichin
On closer inspection - django.db only *has* two functions and they don't have any docstrings :-) though presumably the __import__ changes that by pulling them in from django.db.backends.*.base. It could be argued, then, that a sufficient fix to the original problem would be to include a pointer

Bug#440349: svn-load: repository probe doesn't work

2007-08-31 Thread Mark Eichin
Package: svn-load Version: 0.6-1 Severity: normal (Note that this is the unstable version, built on and running on etch...) svn-load does a if not svn_path_exists(url, ''): sys.stderr.write(Error connecting or no such repository: %s\n % url) sys.exit(1) svn_path_exists

Bug#419387: suggest not...

2007-08-31 Thread Mark Eichin
perhaps svn-load should be merged with vcs-load-dirs which has the same functionality, only targeted at different VCSes. The common infrastructure could probably be reused for subversion, too. I'd prefer (as a user) to have svn-load, because it supports a specific usage that none of the

Bug#440357: jam: jam loses dependencies that are more than 2G

2007-08-31 Thread Mark Eichin
Package: jam Version: 2.5rel-1 Severity: normal Because jam is not compiled with -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 it treats any file over 2G as missing; this is particularly inconvenient when using jam to build iso images of large software releases. Since jam doesn't deliver any libraries, this seems like

Bug#440357: jam: jam loses dependencies that are more than 2G (patch)

2007-08-31 Thread Mark Eichin
Note that this also points out a failure to meet policy manual 10.1, Binaries: By default, when a package is being built, any binaries created should include debugging information, as well as being compiled with optimization. What's going wrong is that the build rule only passes CFLAGS in

Bug#412603: fakechroot: fakechroot doesn't allow nested chroots... but it should

2007-02-26 Thread Mark Eichin
Package: fakechroot Version: 2.5-1.1.20070223-2 Severity: normal (again, ignore the version as it's a local build with a bunch of previously submitted changes applied) I don't see a reason not to let subsequent chroot() calls within an already running fakechroot succeed - it's not like the

Bug#412774: fakechroot: execve handles #! incorrectly

2007-02-27 Thread Mark Eichin
Package: fakechroot Version: 2.5-1.1.20070227-1 Severity: normal (again, that's a local build version, but it is based on 2.5-1.1 with patches from other current bugs.) The execve wrapper, correctly, expands the actual-filename argument because the kernel needs an unfake name. It then looks for

Bug#412918: fakechroot: mktemp misimplemented (leaks unfake paths)

2007-02-28 Thread Mark Eichin
Package: fakechroot Version: 2.5-1.1.20070227-1 Severity: normal mktemp() just expands the template and passes it on to the real mktemp. If the template is an absolute path, that causes us to return an unfake path. Instead, it needs to * narrow the result * copy (memmove) it back into the

Bug#409856: fakeroot: nested fakeroot calls don't re-raise

2007-02-05 Thread Mark Eichin
Package: fakeroot Version: 1.2.10 Severity: normal I'm not sure that subject is clear, but the demonstration that follows should be: wildcat$ fakeroot wildcat# id -u 0 wildcat# id -g 0 wildcat# python Python 2.4.1 (#2, Oct 18 2006, 20:58:01) [GCC 3.3.5 (Debian 1:3.3.5-13)] on linux2 Type help,

Bug#409856: fakeroot: nested fakeroot calls don't re-raise

2007-02-05 Thread Mark Eichin
Clint Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm not sure that subject is clear, but the demonstration that follows should be: Currently fakeroot doesn't support nested operation. There is this little block in faked.c: if(getenv(FAKEROOTKEY_ENV)) { /* I'm not sure -- maybe this can work?) */

Bug#410145: fakechroot: narrow_chroot_path misimplements getcwd, and breaks make

2007-02-07 Thread Mark Eichin
Package: fakechroot Version: 2.5-1.1 Severity: important Inside fakechroot, make displays make[1]: Entering directory `/home/eichin/' ie. it display the *outside* path. Yet a Makefile target running pwd gives the correct value. (I was hunting this down in search of another problem...)

Bug#410145: fakechroot: narrow_chroot_path misimplements getcwd, and breaks make

2007-02-08 Thread Mark Eichin
(I went digging for this in search of an explanation for a /bin/sh: line 1: cd: .: No such file or directory message from deep in a fakeroot/fakechroot/pdebuild/pbuilder/dpkg-buildpackage stack, and will see if this helps shortly... but since it's clearly wrong even if it doesn't, I

Bug#187513: mailsync not working from cron - workaround and suggested fix

2007-02-10 Thread Mark Eichin
I saw that mailsync doesn't work from cron problem under Ubuntu 6.06, using mailsync 5.2.1-2build1; given that unstable has 5.2.2 and it (and libc-client) has the exact same lines of code, the analysis below applies there too... Given a .mailsyncrc including channel slurp imapmail localfile {

Bug#410739: fakechroot: canonicalize_file_name doesn't work either

2007-02-12 Thread Mark Eichin
Package: fakechroot Version: 2.5-1.1.20070207-1 Severity: normal readlink -f . inside fakechroot displays the external path, instead of the local one. Looking at coreutils, readlink -f calls canonicalize_file_name, which is supported, but it only calls it on the input side... it looks like it

Bug#413918: fakechroot: fakechroot doesn't fake unix domain sockets

2007-03-07 Thread Mark Eichin
Package: fakechroot Version: 2.5-1.1 Severity: wishlist I particularly care because I am using pbuilder with fakechroot on a machine that uses nscd; pbuilder stuffs an entry into the chroot'ed /etc/passwd, /etc/shadow, and /etc/group, but then can't reference it. (There's no exposed mechanism to

Bug#412141: fakechroot: readlink misimplemented

2007-02-23 Thread Mark Eichin
Package: fakechroot Version: 2.5-1.1.20070212-6 Severity: important (Ignore the version, it's my local build with other fixes, the bug is clear from reading the source...) libfakechroot.c, readlink() implementation, in particular the end-of-buffer handling, can truncate links; coreutils readlink

Bug#426483: krb5-clients: krb5-send-pr missing

2007-05-28 Thread Mark Eichin
Package: krb5-clients Version: 1.4.4-7etch1 Severity: normal According to http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/mail-lists.html krb5 bugs should be submitted with krb5-send-pr. I suggest either actually including it in some package, *or* if you prefer for these bugs to go through debian, to have a

Bug#418602: Acknowledgement (alsa-source: alsa-source doesn't build (with module-assistant) on freshly-upgraded etch)

2007-04-10 Thread Mark Eichin
The proximate cause of that obscure error message appears to be that /usr/src/modules/alsa-driver/usb/usx2y/usbusx2y.h says typedef struct { snd_usb_audio_tchip; ... but snd_usb_audio_t isn't defined anywhere. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Bug#418602: Acknowledgement (alsa-source: alsa-source doesn't build (with module-assistant) on freshly-upgraded etch)

2007-04-10 Thread Mark Eichin
and the proximate cause of *that* was that there was an older alsa-source unpacked previously in /usr/src/modules/alsa-driver; apparently modass silently failed to erase the previous version before unpacking the new one. So I'd suggest transferring this bug to module-assistant, or just closing

Bug#484231: erc: erc discards errors on join

2008-06-03 Thread Mark Eichin
Package: erc Version: 5.3-1 Severity: normal (C-c C-j runs the command erc-join-channel) connected to freenode, joined #python.web. c-c c-j #python did nothing, no errors, but no new buffer and no change either. c-c c-j #pylons however did create a new buffer with the #pylons channel in it.

Bug#486304: dfo: tracebacks while syncing

2008-06-14 Thread Mark Eichin
Package: dfo Version: 0.7+svn45-4 Severity: normal dfo mostly works, but I get these mono tracebacks intermittently while or perhaps after syncing (photos, tags, and sets seem ok, pools aren't up to date though...) near t: syntax error at Mono.Data.SqliteClient.SqliteCommand.GetNextStatement

Bug#477626: owl: should this package be orphaned or removed?

2008-04-24 Thread Mark Eichin
Barry deFreese [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Package: owl Version: 2.1.8-2.1 Severity: normal User: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Usertags: proposed-orphan Dear Maintainer, While reviewing some packages, your package came up as a package that should maybe be orphaned by its maintainer, because: * Out

Bug#486304: dfo: tracebacks while syncing

2008-06-17 Thread Mark Eichin
http://groups.google.com/group/dfo-users/browse_thread/thread/50e04abad374aca5 suggests that it's a similar sql-injection-ish quoting error; the fix given in that thread is mostly a demonstration, it's not anywhere near complete, but at least it's another instance of the same thing... -- To

Bug#417870: fakechroot: libtool's use of rpath fails under fakechroot

2007-04-04 Thread Mark Eichin
Package: fakechroot Version: 2.5-1 Severity: normal A package using libtool to build shared libraries, and then run them in-tree, ends up having two executables and a helper script... one of the executables is .libs/lt-foo and it has a run-time-link-path encoded into it (objdump -p, look for

Bug#367436: nbd-client: needs better input handling in config script

2006-05-15 Thread Mark Eichin
Package: nbd-client Version: 1:2.8.4-1 Severity: normal Fetched 64.1kB in 0s (79.2kB/s) Preconfiguring packages ... Configuring nbd-client -- nbd-client can handle multiple concurrent connections. Please state the number of connections you'd

Bug#385263: kpilot: kpilot doesn't handle [ in pdb-doc names

2006-08-30 Thread Mark Eichin
Package: kpilot Version: 4:3.5.2-0ubuntu6 Severity: normal (apologies if this should go somewhere ubuntu-specific, but m-x debian-bug sends it here... the version in unstable is only a little bit ahead of this one, though, but I haven't tested for the bug there.) Invalid entry (missing ']') at

Bug#159497: #159497 mondo: should use modprobe, not insmod

2006-07-24 Thread Mark Eichin
Was this in mondo-archive.log? Yes -- surprisingly, I even still have that /var/log/mondo-archive.log around :-) When you run the latest version of mondo, do you still get this? For unrelated reasons, I haven't run it since then, and so I don't really have any idea where to start...

Bug#181037: Can you confirm that this bug is fixed?

2006-07-31 Thread Mark Eichin
If the lyx in stable actually works with examples/docbook_article.lyx now (the original bug report was pre-sarge), go ahead and close it - I don't have any other examples (we switched from lyx back to straight latex back in 2004 or so.) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Bug#357682: bzip2: bunzip2 --force fails on pipes, *unlike* gunzip

2006-03-18 Thread Mark Eichin
Package: bzip2 Version: 1.0.2-8 Severity: normal File: /usr/bin/bunzip2 $ tail -2 /etc/motd | zcat --force Debian GNU/Linux comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by applicable law. $ tail -2 /etc/motd | bunzip2 --force $ There are two reasons this bothers me: 1.

Bug#476013: owl: FTBFS: configure: error: installation or configuration problem: C compiler cannot create executables.

2008-04-14 Thread Mark Eichin
Do you keep config.log from these? (Although in this case it's libfaim/config.log I guess.) The report doesn't actually give enough information to figure out what the bug is... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#440349: need help reproducing

2008-04-10 Thread Mark Eichin
dann frazier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've tried to reproduce this issue in various scenarios, but haven't been able to yet. Can you provide me the command you used? -- dann frazier I just tried the svn_path_exists I mentioned in the original bug report under Ubuntu Hardy pre-alpha

Bug#470519: libneon27-dev: missing libneon.la

2008-03-11 Thread Mark Eichin
Package: libneon27-dev Severity: normal Attempting to build debs of the 1.5.x branch of subversion fails when libneon27-dev is installed: libtool: link: cannot find the

Bug#470526: python-svn: inconsistent %-encoding

2008-03-11 Thread Mark Eichin
Package: python-svn Version: 1.5.1-2 Severity: normal The script below sets up a test repository, and then generates this output: file:///tmp/pysvn-bug/test_repos/trunk/testing/file with spaces [('file with spaces', PysvnInfo '')]

Bug#514310: vncsnapshot: argument parsing (-tunnel) broken

2009-02-05 Thread Mark Eichin
Package: vncsnapshot Version: 1.2a-1+b1 Severity: normal Took some playing around with ltrace to catch this, but vncsnapshot -tunnel ${host}:3 /tmp/${host}.03.jpg gives a Usage message which includes Usage: vncsnapshot [OPTIONS] [HOST]:DISPLAY# filename vncsnapshot [OPTIONS] -listen

Bug#540955: libpam-runtime: clever upgrade-logic seems to not work

2009-08-10 Thread Mark Eichin
Package: libpam-runtime Version: 1.0.1-5+lenny1 Severity: normal libpam-runtime.postinst does a clever update if the md5sums match our records bit, but only if [ -z $2 ] || dpkg --compare-versions $2 lt 0.76-17 which appears to mean it only triggers on upgrades from sarge to etch (since lenny

Bug#540982: postgresql-common: dependencies insufficient for ssl-cert group

2009-08-10 Thread Mark Eichin
Package: postgresql-common Version: 94lenny1 Severity: normal The ssl-cert package creates the ssl-cert group in its postinst. postgresql-common does: if getent group ssl-cert /dev/null; then adduser --quiet postgres ssl-cert fi to add the postgres user to this

Bug#541247: ntp: missing lockfile-progs dependency

2009-08-12 Thread Mark Eichin
Package: ntp Version: 1:4.2.4p4+dfsg-8lenny2 Severity: normal ntp (1:4.2.4p4+dfsg-4) unstable; urgency=low * Also use lockfile-progs to ensure that ntpd does not start while ntpdate.ifup is running (closes: #436029) -- Peter Eisentraut pet...@debian.org Tue, 29 Apr 2008 11:19:54 +0200

Bug#525563: please package new upstream release (2.0)

2009-08-19 Thread Mark Eichin
Looks like it's enough to $ git clone git://gitorious.org/python-markdown/mainline.git $ cd mainline $ svn co svn://svn.debian.org/python-modules/packages/python-markdown/trunk/debian Bump the version (debian/changelog diff) and tweak the rules file: Index: debian/changelog

Bug#120160: WINDOWID equivalent for m-x shell?

2009-01-07 Thread Mark Eichin
Sven Joachim svenj...@gmx.de writes: tags 120160 + moreinfo thanks Hello Mark, I'm going through the list of old Emacs bugs in Debian. This one is a bit mysterious to me. On 2001-11-19 04:50 +0100, Mark W. Eichin wrote: Package: emacs21 Version: 21.1-5 Priority: wishlist Could

Bug#531036: Working patch for #531036 (ratmenu: doesn't support multibyte/UTF-8 characters)

2010-03-17 Thread Mark Eichin
Appreciate the effort... except the resulting ratmenu doesn't actually display those characters, against a Karmic X server (where the uxterm example works fine.) XmbTextEscapement returns zero for the non-ASCII string, even though def_string is empty and missing_charset_count is zero... I haven't

Bug#531036: 2nd re: Bug#531036: Working patch for #531036 (ratmenu: doesn't support multibyte/UTF-8 characters)

2010-03-18 Thread Mark Eichin
Explicitly setting LANG=en_US.UTF-8 helped, and installing more fonts (xfonts-terminus in particular) improved things further (didn't work by itself, $LANG really is critical to Xmb* working, it appears.) Now that I can actually demonstrate it, I'm happy to push the change out, should show up

Bug#511553: python-werkzeug: unicode.html missing from package

2009-01-11 Thread Mark Eichin
Package: python-werkzeug Version: 0.3.1-1 Severity: normal /usr/share/doc/python-werkzeug/html/index.html points to a missing unicode.html. The source package contains python-werkzeug-0.3.1/docs/src/unicode.txt but python-werkzeug-0.3.1/build doesn't have a corresponding unicode.html... --

Bug#515118: CVE-2009-0363: multiple buffer overflows that can be remotely triggered

2009-02-18 Thread Mark Eichin
I'll take a look at those patches and also see if upstream is at all interested. (Last resort would be a self-immolating use-barnowl-instead package.) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Bug#515118: CVE-2009-0363: multiple buffer overflows that can be remotely triggered

2009-03-31 Thread Mark Eichin
FYI I've just heard back from kretch and he's testing a new release, so we should be able to kick out a new package within the week. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#561039: updated patch

2009-12-13 Thread Mark Eichin
found a second reset_heartbeat instance that did the same thing; switched to checking against not HB_DISABLED for consistency. --- tzc-2.6.15.orig/tzc.c +++ tzc-2.6.15/tzc.c @@ -1369,7 +1377,9 @@ globals-ebuf = (char *) malloc(globals-ebufsiz); globals-ebufptr = globals-ebuf; -

Bug#546245: sysvinit: /etc/nologin symlink deleted by /sbin/shutdown

2009-09-11 Thread Mark Eichin
Package: sysvinit Version: 2.86.ds1-61 Severity: normal When looking at some etch-lenny upgrade diffs, noticed that while the sysvinit postinst creates a symlink from /etc/nologin to /var/run/initscripts/nologin, the first shutdown after the upgrade (or install) simply deletes the symlink.

Bug#722177: 6.x dependencies

2013-10-29 Thread Mark Eichin
While you're updating things for nikola 6 - Debian only has python-doit 0.22.1, and nikola (6.2 at least, but probably went in earlier) needs at least doit 0.23 (and the failure mode is an obscure error, under earlier versions.) -- _Mark_ eic...@thok.org eic...@gmail.com

Bug#696866: git current (post 0.7) builds almost trivially

2013-12-14 Thread Mark Eichin
I needed post-0.5 to play with the spark.io spark core, which needed :leave support at least; dropping the debian dir into a git clone of upstream, running ./autogen.sh (and doing a dpkg --commit of that, which was probably wrong but I got about 15 seconds into untangling the cdbs autotools

Bug#753256: dgit: syntax error in at line 1: PGP signature not allowed here

2014-06-29 Thread Mark Eichin
Package: dgit Version: 0.21 Severity: minor Used dgit to pull ratmenu 2.3.20 down, work on it, pushed 2.3.21 which made it to unstable, dgit fetch again for consistency, made more changes for 2.3.22, tried to push ... but *forgot* to dgit build first (I'd been testing with dpkg-buildpackage

Bug#753458: googlecl: new plausible fork/upstream with a 0.9.15 version

2014-07-01 Thread Mark Eichin
Package: googlecl Version: 0.9.13-2 Severity: wishlist A possible new upstream for googlecl appeared on the forum, I just noticed it: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/googlecl-discuss/WqlM3fpBOVE https://github.com/vinitkumar/googlecl I have no particular opinion on the validity of this

Bug#755376: python-pbs: pbs replaced by sh

2014-07-19 Thread Mark Eichin
Package: python-pbs Version: 0.95-1 Severity: normal per the top of https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pbs, as of pbs 0.110, pbs is now sh, see http://pypi.python.org/pypi/sh which is at 1.09 (see also http://amoffat.github.io/sh/) -- System Information: Debian Release: jessie/sid APT prefers

Bug#763423: kphotoalbum: Android support is great - but it has *no security*

2014-09-30 Thread Mark Eichin
Package: kphotoalbum Version: 4.5-1 Severity: normal Just got the popup about trying the Android app, which acts as a remote for the client, and I tried it and it worked... with *no access control* or even a popup... lsof confirms that kphotoalbum is just listening on a port: kphotoalb 29586

Bug#763423: there *is* a way to turn it off

2014-11-06 Thread Mark Eichin
Got email from the upstream author who pointed out (and I just confirmed) that once you've started, hit *Settings, *Configure KPhotoAlbum, under the General Tab, Miscellaneous section, you can uncheck *Listen for Android devices on startup. I believe that for Debian this should certainly default

Bug#763423: there *is* a way to turn it off

2014-11-06 Thread Mark Eichin
Since this gets written out to ~/.kde/share/config/kphotoalbumrc under [General] as listenForAndroidDevicesOnStartup=false, it might be possible for the Debian-specific patch to install something in the existing global config in /usr/share/kde4/config/kphotoalbumrc though that uses different

Bug#769875: docker.io: docker-run manpage misformatted, loses curly braces, breaks examples

2014-11-17 Thread Mark Eichin
Package: docker.io Version: 1.2.0~dfsg1-1 Severity: normal man docker-inspect includes: Getting the IP address of a container instance To get the IP address of a container use: # docker inspect --format='.NetworkSettings.IPAddress' 1eb5fabf5a03 172.17.0.2