Bug#287189: reassign initrd-tools

2005-02-03 Thread Thomas Hood
in discover are: /sbin/discover-modprobe /bin/discover-static /usr/bin/discover /usr/bin/discover-config In discover1 there is only: /sbin/discover Where does the faulty discover command occur? -- Thomas Hood [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Bug#287189: reassign initrd-tools

2005-02-03 Thread Thomas Hood
idea when 2.0.7 will be out? Will it include the patch that (reportedly) fixes #269372? -- Thomas Hood [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#293312: alsa-modules fails to Depend on modutils or module-init-tools

2005-02-02 Thread Thomas Hood
Package: alsa-source Version: 1.0.8-4 Severity: minor An alsa-modules package has a Dependency on modutils | module-init-tools. This is too weak; each such package really Depends on one or the other. This is not a major problem because every alsa-modules package in the archive Depends on an

Bug#88946: ifupdown: documented in sarge, but not working

2005-02-02 Thread Thomas Hood
without removing the information about the VERBOSITY variable. -- Thomas Hood [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#293138: Request header is too large in syslog

2005-02-01 Thread Thomas Hood
Package: squid Version: 2.5.7-5 Severity: minor I run squid in its default configuration. Today for the first time I got this message from logcheck: System Events =-=-=-=-=-=-= Feb 1 12:24:29 thanatos squid[4226]: Request header is too large (20997 bytes) Feb 1 12:24:29 thanatos squid[4226]:

Bug#254998: Change initscripts rather than dpkg?

2005-01-31 Thread Thomas Hood
because dpkg is the more senior program, or is there some other hindrance to deleting the space before ... in dpkg's output? -- Thomas Hood [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#292967: doc-base preinst and prerm use command -v with #!/bin/sh

2005-01-31 Thread Thomas Hood
Package: doc-base Version: 0.7.18 Severity: minor command -v is not POSIX. The doc-base preinst and prerm both use it and have #!/bin/sh at the top, so they violate policy 10.4. Possible solutions: * Using #!/bin/bash eliminates the 10.4 violation. However, there remains the additional

Bug#292965: bzip2.postinst uses #!/bin/sh and command -v

2005-01-31 Thread Thomas Hood
Package: bzip2 Version: 1.0.2-1 Severity: minor command -v is not POSIX. bzip2.postinst uses it and has #!/bin/sh at the top, so it violates 10.4. Possible solutions: * Using #!/bin/bash eliminates the 10.4 violation. However, there remains the additional problem that command -v doesn't

Bug#292977: fingerd.postrm is a #!/bin/sh script but uses command -v

2005-01-31 Thread Thomas Hood
Package: fingerd Version: 0.17-7 Severity: minor command -v is not POSIX. However, the postrm uses it and has #!/bin/sh at the top, so it violates policy 10.4. Possible solutions: * Using #!/bin/bash eliminates the 10.4 violation. However, there remains the additional problem that command

Bug#292976: fcron.postrm is a #!/bin/sh script but uses command -v

2005-01-31 Thread Thomas Hood
Package: fcron Version: 2.9.5.1-1 Severity: minor command -v is not POSIX. The postrm uses it and has #!/bin/sh at the top, so it violates policy 10.4. Possible solutions: * Using #!/bin/bash eliminates the 10.4 violation. However, there remains the additional problem that command -v

Bug#292972: doc-debian postinst and prerm are #!/bin/sh scripts but use command -v

2005-01-31 Thread Thomas Hood
Package: doc-debian Version: 3.1 Severity: minor command -v is not POSIX. However, the postinst and prerm scripts use it and have #!/bin/sh at the top, so they violate policy 10.4. Possible solutions: * Using #!/bin/bash eliminates the 10.4 violation. However, there remains the additional

Bug#292973: postinst and prerm are #!/bin/sh scripts but use command -v

2005-01-31 Thread Thomas Hood
Package: dpkg-doc Version: 1.10.26 Severity: minor command -v is not POSIX. However, the postinst and prerm scripts use it and have #!/bin/sh at the top, so they violate policy 10.4. Possible solutions: * Using #!/bin/bash eliminates the 10.4 violation. However, there remains the additional

Bug#292983: partimage-doc postinst and prerm contain duplicate code

2005-01-31 Thread Thomas Hood
Package: partimage-doc Version: 20020126-8 Severity: minor partimage-doc.postinst contains two stanzas that do the same thing, one static and one inserted by dh_installdocs. Ditto for the prerm. The code inserted by dh_installdocs has the advantage of being in conformance with policy 10.4. --

Bug#292980: latex2html postinst and prerm are #!/bin/sh scripts but use command -v

2005-01-31 Thread Thomas Hood
Package: latex2html Version: 2002-2-1-8 Severity: minor command -v is not POSIX. The postinst and prerm scripts use it and have #!/bin/sh at the top, so they violate policy 10.4. Possible solutions: * Using #!/bin/bash eliminates the 10.4 violation. However, there remains the additional

Bug#292981: lintian postinst and prerm are #!/bin/sh scripts but use command -v

2005-01-31 Thread Thomas Hood
Package: lintian Version: 1.23.7 Severity: minor command -v is not POSIX. The postinst and prerm scripts use it and have #!/bin/sh at the top, so they violate policy 10.4. Possible solutions: * Using #!/bin/bash eliminates the 10.4 violation. However, there remains the additional problem

Bug#292740: linuxlogo: Please do not store files in /etc

2005-01-29 Thread Thomas Hood
Package: linuxlogo Version: 4.09-2 Severity: wishlist /etc/init.d/linuxlogo writes the files issue.linuxlogo and issue.linuxlogo.ascii to /etc/ at run time. This is one of very few remaining obstacles to mounting the root filesystem read-only[0] and is arguably a FHS violation. Fortunately

Bug#292741: linuxlogo preinst not compatible with file-rc

2005-01-29 Thread Thomas Hood
Package: linuxlogo Version: 4.09-2 Severity: normal The preinst assumes that the user has sysv-rc rather than file-rc: # If the init script symlinks have the default priority (20) we will # delete them so that they will be reinstalled with priority 99 in postinst. if [ `find /etc/rc*.d

Bug#202480: Here is a patch to fix this

2005-01-29 Thread Thomas Hood
# dh_installpam # dh_installmime - dh_installinit -- start 99 2 3 4 5 . + dh_installinit --no-start -- start 99 2 3 4 5 . # dh_installcron # dh_installinfo dh_installman -- Thomas Hood [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Bug#291026: Use of command -v

2005-01-29 Thread Thomas Hood
The one problems is that this prints an unwanted: bash: foo: command not found if foo is not executable. Do particular shells provide some means of switching that message off? -- Thomas Hood [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Bug#246405: New version of alsa modprobe-post-install script for awesfx

2005-01-27 Thread Thomas Hood
kernel_is_2_6_or_above || return 1 return 0 } udev_is_active exit 0 case $1 in snd-emu8000-synth) echo -n Loading SoundFonts... /usr/bin/asfxload $ASFXLOAD_OPTS $SOUNDFONT_FILE echo done. || echo failed. ;; esac exit 0 -- Thomas Hood [EMAIL PROTECTED

Bug#246405: updated /etc/alsa/modprobe-post-install.d/awesfx

2005-01-26 Thread Thomas Hood
-emu8000-synth) /usr/bin/asfxload $ASFXLOAD_OPTS $SOUNDFONT_FILE || : ;; esac exit 0 -- Thomas Hood [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#292343: scrollkeeper directory in /usr/var/

2005-01-26 Thread Thomas Hood
Package: scrollkeeper Version: 0.3.14-9.1 Severity: normal I don't know how it got there, but I have a directory named 'scrollkeeper' in /usr/var/. /usr/var/ is not a FHS directory. The files seem to be comparable to those in /var/lib/scrollkeeper. $ ls /tmp/1 am az be C ca cs da de el es fr hu

Bug#278495: Update, please

2005-01-22 Thread Thomas Hood
Hi. What is happening with this bug? It's still rated RC and there hasn't been any visible (in the log) activity for a couple of months now. -- Thomas Hood [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#265285: Really RC?

2005-01-22 Thread Thomas Hood
Hi. I was looking at the bug logs and it isn't obvious to me why this bug is rated RC. What's the status of this bug? Can it be downgraded? -- Thomas Hood [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#286549: Clarification of #286549

2005-01-22 Thread Thomas Hood
If a package is upgraded and new-preinst upgrade old-version fails, old-postinst abort-upgrade new-version is called. Is the latter called instead of, or in addition to, new-postrm abort-upgrade old-version, or is one called in case the other fails? -- Thomas Hood [EMAIL PROTECTED

Bug#291518: Please initialize mixer levels to reasonable levels

2005-01-21 Thread Thomas Hood
Package: alsa-base Version: 1.0.8-2~unreleased3 Severity: wishlist As discussed in ubuntu bug report #5525 ... https://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=5525 if there is no asound.state file (as at the time of initial installation) then mixer levels should be initialized to reasonable

Bug#291580: update-modules uses local and therefore fails under posh

2005-01-21 Thread Thomas Hood
Package: modutils Version: 2.4.26-1.2 Severity: normal [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo update-modules [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo ln -sf posh /bin/sh [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo update-modules /sbin/update-modules.modutils:148: local: not found -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers

Bug#291127: Please fix for sarge

2005-01-20 Thread Thomas Hood
Please note that it would be good if this patch were applied to the 2.6 kernel that releases with sarge; otherwise users of sarge may encounter bug #288423. -- Thomas Hood [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Bug#287109: AOL

2005-01-19 Thread Thomas Hood
=== mail received after chkrootkit cron job === /etc/cron.daily/chkrootkit: /usr/lib/kaffe/.system wlanp_0: PACKET SNIFFER(/sbin/dhcpcd-bin[20318]) -- Thomas Hood [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Bug#267095: Use terminology from TERMINOLOGY section

2005-01-19 Thread Thomas Hood
] ... --install genname symlink altern priority [--slave sgen slink salt] ... -- Thomas Hood [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#291197: command -v prints pathnames of non-executable files

2005-01-19 Thread Thomas Hood
Package: bash Version: 3.0-5 Severity: normal Please consider the following sequence of commands which illustrates that command -v foo prints the name of the first executable file foo it finds on the PATH, failing which it prints the first non-executable file foo it finds on the PATH. [EMAIL

Bug#285390: How to rename conffiles

2005-01-19 Thread Thomas Hood
fi ;; esac fi -- Thomas Hood [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#218530: Conditional command execution

2005-01-18 Thread Thomas Hood
found on the patch can actually be executed. So I guess you need to do this: #!/bin/bash ... if CMD=$(command -v update-menus 2/dev/null) [ $CMD ] [ -x $CMD ] ; then update-menus fi -- Thomas Hood [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Bug#289732: Conditional command execution

2005-01-18 Thread Thomas Hood
So I guess you need to do this: Actually, the snippet I gave can be simplified since test -x simply returns false if it is given an empty string as argument. #!/bin/bash ... if CMD=$(command -v update-menus 2/dev/null) [ -x $CMD ] ; then update-menus fi -- Thomas

Bug#291026: 9.3.3.2 command -v example needs tweaking

2005-01-18 Thread Thomas Hood
Package: debian-policy Version: 3.6.1.1 Severity: minor Section 9.3.3.2 gives this as an example of how to check for the availability of invoke-rc.d: if command -v invoke-rc.d /dev/null 21; then 1. It would be helpful to mention that command -v is not POSIX and that therefore, to be

Bug#291127: Please apply patch to allow alsa modules to be loaded with negative index option, to be interpreted as bitmask of allowed indices

2005-01-18 Thread Thomas Hood
Package: kernel-source-2.6.8 Version: 2.6.8-12 Severity: normal Tags: patch The attached patch modifies sound/core/init.c so that a negative index value is interpreted as a bitmask indicating the allowed indices for the driver. This extends the current semantics according to which: value

Bug#290776: snd-intel8x0 doesn't work on IBM T41

2005-01-16 Thread Thomas Hood
, but it isn`t because - no sound Is this a bug in the driver or in the Debian packaging? -- Thomas Hood [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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