Bug#278125: gnome-terminal.wrapper's perl is devouring the --full-screen argument

2005-12-28 Thread Nick Black
Package: gnome-terminal Version: 2.10.0-3 Followup-For: Bug #278125 gnome-terminal --full-screen works as advertised. gnome-terminal.wrapper --full-screen or --fullscreen works not at all. adding the following to the end of the large if/elsif clause line gets everything working hunky-dory:

Bug#469601: nut-hal-drivers hangs in post-install

2008-03-05 Thread Nick Black
Package: nut-hal-drivers Version: 2.2.1-2 Severity: important I'm trying to use nut-hal-drivers with my PowerWare UPS. During post-installation, udevd is restarted successfully, but debconf hangs. Here's ps axf output: 14735 pts/5Ss 0:00 \_ bash 15085 pts/5S+ 0:00 \_ dpkg

Bug#469937: statsvn: Files containing spaces result in file has no revision errors

2008-03-07 Thread nick black
Package: statsvn Version: 0.3.1.dfsg-1 Severity: normal Howdy! I eagerly began running statsvn on our repositories today, using sun-j2sdk1.6 (1.6.0+update5) as built by java-package. It's working well, but files with spaces result in errors for various revision operations. The package output in

Bug#469938: statsvn: Files containing spaces result in file has no revision errors

2008-03-07 Thread nick black
Package: statsvn Version: 0.3.1.dfsg-1 Severity: normal *** Please type your report below this line *** Howdy! I eagerly began running statsvn on our repositories today, using sun-j2sdk1.6 (1.6.0+update5) as built by java-package. It's working well, but files with spaces result in errors for

Bug#471111: mpd_stop should preferentially invoke mpd --kill

2008-03-15 Thread Nick Black
Package: mpd Version: 0.13.1-3 Severity: normal Per the man page, mpd --kill is the proper way to shut down mpd. When successful, this causes the current state to be written out, and a clean, graceful shutdown. mpd_stop from /etc/init.d/mpd is not making use of mpd --kill, but rather (it seems;

Bug#471111: mpd_stop should preferentially invoke mpd --kill

2008-03-24 Thread Nick Black
, it suggests the cause of the problems, and why my initial suggestion was incorrect. --rigorously, nick -- Nick Black [EMAIL PROTECTED] NP: The class of dashed hopes and idle dreams. Principal Engineer, Secure Computing Applied Research signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#617391: nvidia driver built with binutils-gold on 2.6.37.3 displays black screen

2011-03-08 Thread nick black
Package: binutils-gold Version: 2.21.0.20110302-1 Severity: important Tags: upstream Hello. I installed binutils-gold this morning (alongside the recent gcc 4.5 upgrade), and set about compiling a new 2.6.37.3 kernel (I can attach the ..config if you think there's anything relevant there). It

Bug#609168: pidgin-facebookchat: package is uninstallable; this ought be 'grave'

2011-01-17 Thread nick black
Package: pidgin-facebookchat Version: pidgin-facebookchat_1.67.1-1_amd64.deb Severity: normal The package is uninstallable, and has been for over a week: Unpacking pidgin-facebookchat (from .../pidgin-facebookchat_1.67.1-1_amd64.deb) dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/pidgin-

Bug#530154: No man page provided for bugz

2009-05-23 Thread Nick Black
Package: bugz Version: 0.7.3-1 Severity: normal No manual page is provided for bugz(1). -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (990, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-rc6 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8,

Bug#530494: kernel-package: /etc/kernel specified as /etc/kenel in make-kpkg man page

2009-05-25 Thread Nick Black
Package: kernel-package Version: 12.014 Severity: minor The make-kpkg(1) man page refers to /etc/kenel: initrd generation hook scripts should not short circuit early. Without this option, the example initramfs hook scripts bundled in with

Bug#597678: avant-window-navigator ought provide notification-daemon

2010-09-21 Thread nick black
Package: avant-window-navigator Version: 0.4.0-2 Severity: normal avant-window-navigator supports a built in notification agent. There is no need to run a program such as notify-osd or notification-daemon when using this agent. Unfortunately, avant-window-navigator isn't marked as providing

Bug#603119: compiz: 0.8.4 version in sid is long out of date

2010-11-10 Thread Nick Black
Package: compiz Version: 0.8.4-4 Severity: important Hey there. Compiz 0.9.2 was recently released, and after a bit of annoyance I've got it running on my unstable system. It's awesome, and it'd really be nice to get the 0.8.4 currently in sid upgraded. -- System Information: Debian Release:

Bug#509499: strace: sendfile(2) isn't matched correctly with -e trace

2008-12-22 Thread Nick Black
Package: strace Version: 4.5.17+cvs080723-2 Severity: normal Tags: patch strace's -e trace=network option doesn't match sendfile on any architectures, despite the requirement that out_fd be a socket. Furthermore, -e trace=desc vs -e trace=file matching is inconsistent across architectures;

Bug#585771: dkms add failure isn't indicated by return code

2010-06-13 Thread nick black
Package: dkms Version: 2.1.1.2-3 Severity: important Tags: upstream dkms add doesn't return a non-zero result despite failure to create necessary files: [recombinator](1) $ dkms add -m nvidia -v 195.36.24 Creating symlink /var/lib/dkms/nvidia/195.36.24/source -

Bug#543914: octave3.2: octave ought use infobrowser on debian, not /usr/bin/info

2009-08-27 Thread Nick Black
Package: octave3.2 Version: 3.2.0-2+b1 Severity: normal Octave ought be using infobrowser from Debian's alternatives system as opposed to a direct call to /usr/bin/info. I don't have info(1) installed (I use pinfo(1) instead), and get the following error: octave:1 doc sh: info: command not

Bug#554901: libc6-dev: CPU_ISSET() doesn't use const casts

2009-11-07 Thread Nick Black
Package: libc6-dev Version: 2.10.1-5 Severity: normal Tags: patch CPU_ISSET(), defined in bits/sched.h, resolves to CPU_ISSET_S. That macro contains a cast: # define __CPU_ISSET_S(cpu, setsize, cpusetp) \ (__extension__ \ ({ size_t __cpu =

Bug#552260: kernel-package: install_vmlinux + grub2 == unbootable entries

2009-10-24 Thread Nick Black
-commented content of my kernel-image configs: [recombinator](0) $ grep -v ^# .kernel-pkg.conf /etc/kernel-img.conf .kernel-pkg.conf: .kernel-pkg.conf:CONCURRENCY_LEVEL = 2 .kernel-pkg.conf: .kernel-pkg.conf:maintainer := Nick Black # (KPKG_MAINTAINER) .kernel-pkg.conf:email

Bug#552260: kernel-package: install_vmlinux + grub2 == unbootable entries

2009-10-24 Thread Nick Black
of not installing the image at all; that's influenced by the grub scripts (as you state). I'd appreciate you reassigning the bug; otherwise, mark it resolved, and I'll file a new one against grub-pc. Thanks! -- Nick Black nickbl...@linux.com

Bug#533360: libc6: signalfd creation with SFD_* flags breaks under 2.9-15

2009-06-16 Thread Nick Black
Package: libc6 Version: 2.9-13 Severity: important Howdy! This morning, I upgraded libc6 et al from 2.9-13 to 2.9-15. Immediately, one of my unit tests began failing with a -1 return from signalfd(): 14|* Error (Invalid argument) in Signalfd(): Couldn't generate signalfd from -1/526336

Bug#533362: ia32-libs uninstallable against libc6 2.9-15

2009-06-16 Thread Nick Black
Package: ia32-libs Version: 2.7 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable Howdy! Yesterday, I upgraded to libc6 et al 2.9-14. Upon doing so, ia32-libs becomes uninstallable, until libc6 is backed down to 2.9-13. Today's 2.9-15 libc6 release does not solve the problem. As a

Bug#533360: libc6: signalfd creation with SFD_* flags breaks under 2.9-15

2009-06-16 Thread Nick Black
Aurelien Jarno left as an exercise for the reader: notfound 533360 2.9-13 found 533360 2.9-15 thanks On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 04:06:47PM -0400, Nick Black wrote: Package: libc6 Version: 2.9-13 Given your description that's clearly the wrong version. I reported the bug from a machine

Bug#533360: libc6: signalfd creation with SFD_* flags breaks under 2.9-15

2009-06-17 Thread Nick Black
Aurelien Jarno left as an exercise for the reader: Nick Black a écrit : This should now be fixed in version 2.9.15+b1 which should already be on the mirrors. I can confirm a fix on amd64 2.6.30 with 2.9-15+b1. Thanks, Aurelien! -- Nick Black dankamong

Bug#533362: [Pkg-ia32-libs-maintainers] Bug#533362: ia32-libs uninstallable against libc6 2.9-15

2009-06-17 Thread Nick Black
Goswin von Brederlow left as an exercise for the reader: Nick Black d...@qemfd.net writes: Package: ia32-libs Version: 2.7 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable Thanks for the explanation, Goswin. Feel free to close this at your discretion (you might want to leave

Bug#493053: kvm: We need a udev entry with a GROUP rule

2009-06-21 Thread Nick Black
Package: kvm Version: 85+dfsg-4 Severity: normal This was Ubuntu bug 127704, by the way: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/kvm/+bug/127704 there's a short writeup of the solution here: http://dank.qemfd.net/dankwiki/index.php?title=Udev#KVM basically, we need a udev rule like the

Bug#524768: apt-listbugs: reportbug issues likely due to packet arrival times

2009-06-29 Thread Nick Black
Package: apt-listbugs Version: 0.1.0 Severity: normal Hey. I've been seeing this problem as well over the past few months during development of some proxy software. apt-listbugs pretty much never gives me a problem otherwise (save on notoriously bad connections), but behind my proxy it was

Bug#553298: libcpuset1: cpuset_*() functions coredump with an empty /dev/cpuset

2009-10-29 Thread Nick Black
Package: libcpuset1 Version: 1.0-1 Severity: important I've got a full writeup in the libtorque issue tracker at: http://dank.qemfd.net/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14 Essentially, if one mounts the cpuset/cgroup filesystem at /dev/cpuset, but doesn't then create a cpuset explicitly, any

Bug#619823: binutils-gold: gold doesn't know --default-symver, but it's in the man page

2011-03-27 Thread nick black
Package: binutils-gold Version: 2.21.0.20110322-1 Severity: normal Howdy! I'm trying to build my libtorque package using binutils-gold. It appears that gold doesn't honor the --default-symver option, or understand it. This makes sense; running strings on ld.gold doesn't list it, nor is it in the

Bug#618415: gnome-do: kazach translation in /etc/xdg/ is misformatted

2011-03-14 Thread nick black
Package: gnome-do Version: 0.8.4-1 Severity: normal Tags: l10n I have the following output in my .xsession-errors: gnome-session[2012]: WARNING: Could not parse desktop file /etc/xdg/autostart /gnome-do.desktop: Key file contains line 'және тағы кез-келген барнәрселеріңізбен мүмкіндігінше жылдам

Bug#621075: manpages-dev: rtnetlink documents wrong return type for RTA_PAYLOAD

2011-04-06 Thread nick black
Package: manpages-dev Version: 3.27-1 Severity: normal Tags: patch RTA_PAYLOAD casts the expression to int, at least in 2.6.38.2. It's documented as unsinged int. Trivial patch included. The kernel header probably ought be modified not to perform this rather questionable cast, in which case

Bug#643304: python-awn-extras: can't install: unable to open '/usr/share/pyshared/awn/extras/__init__.py.dpkg-new'

2011-09-27 Thread nick black
Package: python-awn-extras Version: 0.4.0-3.1 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable Dear Maintainer, I attempted to upgrade to AWN 4.0.4 in sid. All my other packages are up to date. python-awn-extras fails to install with the following message: Retrieving bug reports... Done

Bug#643304: stat output

2011-10-04 Thread nick black
Jakub Wilk left as an exercise for the reader: Did you create the symlink manually, perhaps following the advice from http://bugs.debian.org/634684#10? this was precisely the issue. thanks! -- nick black nbl...@nvidia.com A main cause of the Roman

Bug#634684: awn-applets-c-core: applets using awn-extras die on launch

2011-07-19 Thread nick black
for the GConf conf -- Nick Black nbl...@nvidia.com Senior Compiler Engineer, NVIDIA NP: the class of dashed hopes, and idle dreams

Bug#673250:

2012-05-29 Thread Nick Black
i don't believe it to merely be due to apt-cdrom not being called. Apt-cdrom is setting up the /etc/apt/sources.list, but apt-get update is ignoring those entries. You can manually enter the chroot and run apt-cdrom -a add, and see that the /etc/apt/sources.list is unchanged. apt-get update still

Bug#678364: util-linux: [PATCH] mount.8 references reatime

2012-06-21 Thread nick black
Package: util-linux Version: 2.20.1-5 Severity: minor Tags: upstream patch Hey there! The man page for mount(8) references reatime. It ought be relatime. Patch below: [skynet](1) $ diff -ur util-linux-mine/mount/mount.8 util- linux-2.20.1/mount/mount.8 --- util-linux-mine/mount/mount.8

Bug#621075: manpages-dev: rtnetlink documents wrong return type for RTA_PAYLOAD

2012-04-29 Thread nick black
. Perhaps it applied to the expression itself, rather than the result? -- nick black nickbl...@linux.com http://www.sprezzatech.com -- unix and hpc consulting to make an apple pie from scratch, you need first invent a universe

Bug#671385: ITP: omphalos -- Network enumeration and domination

2012-05-03 Thread nick black
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: nick black d...@qemfd.net * Package name: omphalos Version : 0.99.0 Upstream Author : Nick Black d...@qemfd.net * URL : http://dank.qemfd.net/dankwiki/index.php/Omphalos * License : GPL Programming Lang: C Description

Bug#671476: RFS: omphalos/0.99.3-3 [ITP] -- network enumeration and domination

2012-05-04 Thread nick black
Package: rfs Severity: normal Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package omphalos * Package name: omphalos Version : 0.99.3-3 Upstream Author : Nick Black * URL : http://dank.qemfd.net/dankwiki/index.php/Omphalos * License : GPL

Bug#671476: RFS: omphalos/0.99.3-3 [ITP] -- network enumeration and domination

2012-05-04 Thread nick black
) sponorship-requests specifications -- perhaps I was expecting acronyms after filing a bug on wnpp. I appreciate the assistance. -- nick black nickbl...@linux.com http://www.sprezzatech.com -- unix and hpc consulting to make an apple pie from

Bug#671695: fuseiso9660: copies from fuseiso9660 mount aren't reliable

2012-05-05 Thread nick black
Package: fuseiso9660 Version: 0.2b-1.1 Severity: grave Tags: upstream Justification: causes non-serious data loss Dear Maintainer, I am using fuseiso9660 for the creation of my modified debian-installer ISO. simple-cdd creates a standard debian unstable netboot installer ISO, which I then mount

Bug#648778: awn-applets-python-extra: clock/calendar applet ought Suggest python-vobject

2011-11-14 Thread nick black
Package: awn-applets-python-extras Version: 0.4.0-4 Severity: normal File: awn-applets-python-extra awn-applets-python-extras ought Suggest python-vobject. Without it being installed, attempting to run the Clock/Calendar Applet fails. -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT

Bug#687378:

2012-09-17 Thread Nick Black
More info on this: I've tracked it back to at least ID_PATH/ID_PATH_TAG using udevadm. By the time those two variables are assigned, different devices are already colliding. I think I'll be able to work out the problem just tracking down source with this info. -- nick black -- http

Bug#687378:

2012-09-17 Thread Nick Black
/ata1/host1/target1:0:0/1:0:0:0/block/sdi both going to ID_PATH=pci-:00:1f.2-scsi-0_0_0_0 looks like including the ata/host/target information would be necessary and sufficient to resolve this issue. -- nick black -- http://www.sprezzatech.com -- unix/hpc consulting if you want to make

Bug#687378:

2012-09-17 Thread Nick Black
was released five months ago. Is there a particular reason why Debian's shipping 175? I will rebuild udeb-175 with the attached diff and see if that solves the problem. -- nick black -- http://www.sprezzatech.com -- unix/hpc consulting if you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first

Bug#687378:

2012-09-17 Thread Nick Black
This issue is also being tracked on Sprezzabugs, the SprezzOS bug tracker: https://www.sprezzatech.com/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=358 -- nick black -- http://www.sprezzatech.com -- unix/hpc consulting if you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent a universe

Bug#687378:

2012-09-23 Thread Nick Black
Here's another example of crosslinked entries: ╭[virtual]─[-]─╮ │╭╮│ ││Bind devices to the new aggregate. To be eligible, a device must either be ││

Bug#656585: iproute: ip l fails with RTNETLINK message

2012-01-20 Thread nick black
Package: iproute Version: 20120105-1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, ip l started failing a few weeks ago: [skynet](0) $ ip -o l RTNETLINK answers: No such file or directory Error talking to the kernel [skynet](1) $ oddly enough, ip link operates as expected: [skynet](1) $ ip -o link 1: lo:

Bug#629630: [629630] FIXED: New 'tuntap' object isn't documented in ip's man page

2012-01-21 Thread Nick Black
Andreas, my patch for 656585 ( http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=656585) ought allow you to mark this one FIXED, once it comes down from upstream. -- nick black -- senior compiler engineer, nvidia

Bug#687378: udev: /dev/disk/by-path is missing entries and has incorrect entries

2012-09-12 Thread nick black
Package: udev Version: 175-7 Severity: grave Tags: d-i Justification: causes non-serious data loss Dear Maintainer, I have experienced problems with udev's creation of links in /dev/disk/by-path on multiple machines (real and virtual) including missing links and incorrect links (ie, two

Bug#687378: grave - important

2012-10-01 Thread nick black
way back to udev soon enough. I'll post it here as well, if you'd like your guns labeled correctly. -- nick black http://www.sprezzatech.com -- unix and hpc consulting to make an apple pie from scratch, you need first invent a universe. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ

Bug#689469: libcairo2-dev: need libx11-xcb-dev in deps for pkg-config

2012-10-02 Thread nick black
Source: libcairo2-dev Version: 1.12.2-2 Severity: normal Tags: patch Dear Maintainer, The libcairo2-dev package ought have libx11-xcb-dev as a dependency. Please see my downstream report: https://www.sprezzatech.com/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=418 without this package installed, pkg-config --cflags

Bug#697256: cdrkit: missing watchfile

2013-01-02 Thread Nick Black
Source: cdrkit Version: 1.1.11 Severity: minor Tags: patch Dear Maintainer, Please include the attached watchfile so that Debian and Debian derivatives know about new cdrkit releases. Thanks! This watchfile was written for SprezzOS. [skynet](0) $ cat debian/watch version=3

Bug#697552: exim4-base: watchfile is broken

2013-01-06 Thread Nick Black
Source: exim4-base Version: 4.80 Severity: normal Tags: patch Dear Maintainer, During development of SprezzOS 1, a Debian derivative, it was discovered that the exim watchfile is out-of-date and broken. We've fixed the watchfile, and would like to provide it back to Debian. Here it is:

Bug#697555: libtokyocabinet9: missing watchfile

2013-01-06 Thread Nick Black
Package: libtokyocabinet9 Version: 1.4.47-2 Severity: normal Tags: patch Dear Maintainer, During development of SprezzOS 1, a Debian derivative, it was determined that the tokyocabinet package is missing a watchfile. We've authored one, and used it to discover a missing update. We'd like to add

Bug#697565: lintian: dsc field original-maintainer is unknown to lintian

2013-01-06 Thread Nick Black
Package: lintian Version: 2.5.10.3 Severity: normal Tags: patch Dear Maintainer, The lintian tool doesn't appear to be aware of XSBC-Original-Maintainer, the source field recommended in the Debian Derivatives Best Practices document. As a result, it flags all of our (SprezzOS's) packages with a

Bug#697565: lintian: dsc field original-maintainer is unknown to lintian

2013-01-06 Thread Nick Black
thoughts, I would still appreciate the change being made. I will otherwise likely fork lintian for SprezzOS, which I would really rather avoid doing. Have a great day! -- nick black http://www.sprezzatech.com -- unix and hpc consulting to make an apple pie from scratch, you need first invent

Bug#697565: lintian: dsc field original-maintainer is unknown to lintian

2013-01-06 Thread Nick Black
sorry if I misunderstood you! In that case, rather than forking, I'll just maintain this as a patch in the SprezzOS package. -- nick black http://www.sprezzatech.com -- unix and hpc consulting to make an apple pie from scratch, you need first invent a universe. signature.asc Description: Digital

Bug#697565: lintian: dsc field original-maintainer is unknown to lintian

2013-01-06 Thread Nick Black
, I saw that Ubuntu had one in there. There didn't seem to be any mechanism by which one could specify data for all derivatives though, so it was a choice of adding a SprezzOS section for this (and then adding it to all other such sections), or a global recognition. -- nick black http

Bug#697700: jigit: missing watchfile

2013-01-08 Thread Nick Black
Package: jigit Version: 1.19-1 Severity: normal Tags: patch Dear Maintainer, During the course of SprezzOS 1 development, it was found that jigit was lacking a watchfile. We'd like to provide one. [skynet](0) $ cat debian/watch version=3

Bug#697700: jigit: missing watchfile

2013-01-08 Thread Nick Black
Steve McIntyre left as an exercise for the reader: Sorry, but this is pointless. I'm upstream as well as the Debian maintainer for jigit. sure, although there's plenty of package analysis tools that make use of this file. whatever, though. -- nick black http://www.sprezzatech.com -- unix

Bug#697863: libftgl2: ftgl is missing watchfile

2013-01-10 Thread Nick Black
Package: libftgl2 Version: 2.1.3~rc5-4 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch Dear Maintainer, During development of SprezzOS 1, it was determined that the Debian FTGL package is lacking a watchfile. I wrote one, which properly downloads and mangles the current 2.1.3-rc5 release. Please include it in

Bug#704298: dpkg installs package without error, but it then shows up as uninstalled

2013-03-31 Thread Nick Black
Sven Joachim left as an exercise for the reader: On 2013-03-31 14:13 +0200, Nick Black wrote: https://www.sprezzatech.com/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=710 Hi there. I have two packages, apt and gir1.2-gtk-3.0, either of which when installed (via dpkg -i, apt-get, or aptitude) will install

Bug#704298: dpkg installs package without error, but it then shows up as uninstalled

2013-03-31 Thread Nick Black
understand how it affected people beyond my dev box :|. Thanks very much for your help. Package: apt Essential: yes State: not installed Automatically installed: yes Version: 0.9.7.8-SprezzOS1 Priority: important Section: admin Maintainer: Nick Black nick.bl...@sprezzatech.com

Bug#704298: dpkg installs package without error, but it then shows up as uninstalled

2013-03-31 Thread Nick Black
to close this bug as unreproducible you're welcome to. How can I go about cleaning out my current dpkg database so the problem is at least symptomatiocally treated? Thanks for all your help, Sven. -- nick black http://www.sprezzatech.com -- unix and hpc consulting to make an apple pie from

Bug#704298: dpkg installs package without error, but it then shows up as uninstalled

2013-03-31 Thread Nick Black
how bulletprood the relevant code is. Anyway -- nick black http://www.sprezzatech.com -- unix and hpc consulting to make an apple pie from scratch, you need first invent a universe. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe

Bug#704298: dpkg installs package without error, but it then shows up as uninstalled

2013-03-31 Thread Nick Black
the reassignment, and I'll let them handle it further). You're entirely correct, Guillem; I was confused as to how dpkg and apt interacted. Sorry to have bothered dpkg team! -- nick black http://www.sprezzatech.com -- unix and hpc consulting to make an apple pie from scratch, you need first

Bug#704298: closed by Daniel Hartwig mand...@gmail.com (Re: Bug#704298: Bug#704298: dpkg installs package without error, but it then shows up as uninstalled)

2013-04-02 Thread Nick Black
this investigative work. I'll look into all the issues you've raised. I really appreciate it! -- nick black http://www.sprezzatech.com -- unix and hpc consulting to make an apple pie from scratch, you need first invent a universe. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ

Bug#704554: mpd: crash when updating from large, varied collection

2013-04-02 Thread nick black
Package: mpd Version: 0.17.3-SprezzOS1 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, Hello there. I'm using mpd with a music archive of various formats (flac, ogg, mp3, aac in declining order) and size about 4.5TB. mpd currently crashes when trying to update its database. Yes, I know this bug is lacking

Bug#704554: mpd: crash when updating from large, varied collection

2013-04-03 Thread nick black
looks like it's probably a libav problem: Apr 03 13:44 : added c/circle jerks/circle jerks - behind the door.mp3 Apr 03 13:44 : added c/circle jerks/circle jerks - paid vacation.mp3 *** glibc detected *** mpd: free(): invalid pointer: 0x7fe1d1a2f040 *** === Backtrace: =

Bug#704554: Info received (Bug#704554: mpd: crash when updating from large, varied collection)

2013-04-03 Thread nick black
ok, it appears to be a particular file within c/ that causes the problems, although moving problematic subdirectories didn't solve it -- i.e., something might be fouling things up, and it only manifests as a secondary effect. continuing to investigate... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#698177: libgme-dev: watchfile broken

2013-01-14 Thread Nick Black
Package: libgme-dev Version: 0.5.5-2 Severity: minor Tags: patch Dear Maintainer, During the development of SprezzOS 2, it was determined that game-music-emu's watchfile is broken. We have fixed the watchfile to properly find and download the current game-music-emu package. Please include this

Bug#623377: (no subject)

2013-01-25 Thread nick black
Hello all, I started working on the necessary refactoring a bit ago as part of sprezzos bug 601 [0], but find myself wondering -- would it not be a lot simpler to just haul the necessary infrastructure up into the root partition? What prevents portmap, rpc.identd, etc from being moved into /sbin

Bug#623377: (no subject)

2013-01-25 Thread nick black
change have already been worked out and need be adhered to... -- nick black http://www.sprezzatech.com -- unix and hpc consulting to make an apple pie from scratch, you need first invent a universe. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Bug#703366: apt-file assistance

2013-03-20 Thread nick black
Stefan, I'd be interested in helping. I'm not a DD, but I am the developer of raptorial, an APT clone. I was already planning on starting in on the apt-file component, so this is fortuitous. -- nick black http://www.sprezzatech.com -- unix and hpc consulting to make an apple pie from

Bug#703366: RFH: apt-file -- search for files within Debian packages (command-line interface)

2013-03-21 Thread Nick Black
the somewhat aggressive way I launched this project. I think we're all on the same page, for at least the short term. -- nick black http://www.sprezzatech.com -- unix and hpc consulting to make an apple pie from scratch, you need first invent a universe. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist

Bug#703734: libcloog-isl-dev: [PATCH] missing pkgconfig file

2013-03-22 Thread Nick Black
-SprezzOS1 ii libisl-dev 0.11.1-SprezzOS1 libcloog-isl-dev recommends no packages. libcloog-isl-dev suggests no packages. -- no debconf information From 7137f7b0d450269339a41d02bfbe75cc92e2f8e2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: nick black nick.bl...@sprezzatech.com Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2013 18:35:31

Bug#703366: RFH: apt-file -- search for files within Debian packages (command-line interface)

2013-03-25 Thread Nick Black
So, as I posted to deity/debdev/derivatives last evening, apt-file has been rewritten as raptorial-file. On typical queries on my quadcore, raptorial-file() is about ~50% the runtime of apt-file(), a speedup of between 1.5x and 2x. For pathological queries, raptorial-file() is about ~3% the

Bug#703366: RFH: apt-file -- search for files within Debian packages (command-line interface)

2013-03-25 Thread Nick Black
i ought point out here that raptorial-file does not have update or purge functionality. it seems to me that if the user has installed apt-file or some equivalent, they're interested in the contents of Contents files, and thus they ought be downloaded with apt updates. if they have not installed

Bug#703366: RFH: apt-file -- search for files within Debian packages (command-line interface)

2013-03-25 Thread Nick Black
state per thread is limited, however, so we'll never be say trying to uncompress 256MB of text (this would be bad for parallelism anyway). Hope that answers these questions. Feel free to hit me with more. Hack on! --nick -- nick black http://www.sprezzatech.com -- unix and hpc consulting

Bug#704298: dpkg installs package without error, but it then shows up as uninstalled

2013-03-31 Thread Nick Black
: important Section: admin Maintainer: Nick Black nick.bl...@sprezzatech.com Architecture: amd64 Uncompressed Size: 3,336 k Depends: libapt-pkg4.12 (= 0.9.7.8-), libc6 (= 2.14), libgcc1 (= 1:4.1.1), libstdc++6 (= 4.6), debian-archive-keyring, gnupg Suggests: aptitude | synaptic | wajig, dpkg

Bug#695875: xfsprogs: Build-Depend on libreadline6 rather than libreadline5

2012-12-13 Thread Nick Black
Package: xfsprogs Version: 3.1.9 Severity: normal Tags: patch Dear Maintainer, Hello! During development of SprezzOS, I noticed that the xfsprogs package Build-Depends on libreadline-gplv2-dev | libreadline5-dev libreadline5-dev no longer exists in the archive; the current

Bug#696036: mpeg2dec: [PATCH] watchfile refers to 403 site

2012-12-15 Thread Nick Black
Package: mpeg2dec Version: 0.5.1-5 Severity: minor Tags: patch Dear Maintainer, The watchfile for mpeg2dec refers to a site which returns a 403. This has been fixed in SprezzOS 1 development. I'd like to provide it to Debian. Here you go: [skynet](0) $ cat debian/watch version=3

Bug#695875: xfsprogs: Build-Depend on libreadline6 rather than libreadline5

2012-12-17 Thread Nick Black
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Bug#676263: FTBFS with perl 5.16: error: 'defoutgv' undeclared

2013-03-03 Thread nick black
839609: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/attachment.cgi?id=601139action=diff. The original author appears to be Jitka Plesnikova: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=839609 -- nick black http://www.sprezzatech.com -- unix and hpc consulting to make an apple pie from scratch, you need first

Bug#702518: openms: watchfile for openms is broken

2013-03-07 Thread Nick Black
Package: openms Version: 1.9.0-2 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, Howdy! The watchfile for openms as released to Unstable this morning in 1.90-2 is broken, both syntactically and semantically. The correct watchfile would be: [skynet](0) $ cat debian/watch version=3

Bug#702937: libuhd-dev: Missing watchfile

2013-03-12 Thread Nick Black
Package: libuhd-dev Version: 3.5.1-1 Severity: minor Dear Maintainer, The uhd source package contains no watchfile, and thus cannot be monitored with the uscan program. For SprezzOS 2 (Kolmogorov), we've written a watchfile using the UHD-Mirror github tags repository. Please add it to the source

Bug#520872: libcdk5: Please package new upstream version 5.0.20090215

2013-01-28 Thread Nick Black
Package: libcdk5 Version: 5.0.20060507-4 Followup-For: Bug #520872 Dear Maintainer, I have just finished packaging libcdk5-5.0-20120323 for SprezzOS 2 (SprezzOS is a derivative of Debian). I am not a DD, and thus can't take over the package unless I'm made one, but you're welcome to take our

Bug#699439: scrub watchfile is broken

2013-01-31 Thread Nick Black
Package: scrub Version: 2.5.2-1 Severity: minor Tags: patch Dear Maintainer, The watchfile for scrub is broken when used with uscan. It specifies an invalid URI for the scrub package on Google Code. SprezzOS has replaced it with the following more general watchfile, and suggests that Debian use

Bug#700060: ITP: ITP: growlight -- Disk manipulation and system preparation tool -- Disk manipulation and system preparation tool

2013-02-07 Thread Nick Black
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nick Black nick.bl...@sprezzatech.com * Package name: growlight -- Disk manipulation and system preparation tool Version : 1.0.4.5 Upstream Author : Nick Black nick.bl...@sprezzatech.com * URL : http://nick-black.com/dankwiki

Bug#700200: debhelper: incomplete Depends lists due to deprecated find(1) usage

2013-02-09 Thread Nick Black
Package: debhelper Version: 9.20120909 Severity: important Tags: patch Dear Maintainer, Midweek, some of our packages in SprezzOS (a Debian derivative) started to be built with incomplete or entirely missing Depends lines. You can read the saga here:

Bug#700200: Acknowledgement (debhelper: incomplete Depends lists due to deprecated find(1) usage)

2013-02-09 Thread Nick Black
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Bug#700200: Acknowledgement (debhelper: incomplete Depends lists due to deprecated find(1) usage)

2013-02-09 Thread Nick Black
From: nick black nick.bl...@sprezzatech.com Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2013 16:22:44 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] fix another find issue in the makefile for debhelper --- packaging/debhelper/Makefile | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/packaging/debhelper/Makefile b/packaging

Bug#700200: Acknowledgement (debhelper: incomplete Depends lists due to deprecated find(1) usage)

2013-02-09 Thread Nick Black
yep, we're using -perm /111 in both places in 9.20120909-SprezzOS2. glad to be able to help out. have a good one, joey. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#700463: avahi: missing build-dep on libgtk2.0-cil-dev

2013-02-12 Thread Nick Black
insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) From a5240084aef9255a8c91be65113d77b8c2716a84 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: nick black nick.bl...@sprezzatech.com Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2013 16:31:07 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] add libgtk2.0-cil-dev dep to avahi --- packaging/avahi/debian/control| 1 + packaging

Bug#694766: gnome-session-properties references nonexistent gnome-session-save

2012-11-29 Thread nick black
Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: nick black nick.bl...@sprezzatech.com Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2012 23:47:34 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] rename session-save to -quit in man page --- doc/man/gnome-session-properties.1 | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/doc/man/gnome-session

Bug#695242: mon watchfile is non-functional

2012-12-05 Thread Nick Black
Package: mon Version: 1.2.0-6 Severity: minor Tags: patch Dear Maintainer, While building mon for SprezzOS, I determined its watchfile to be non-functional. From what I can tell, the authoritative source of mon is its sourceforge project. The kernel URI listed doesn't have the current 1.20

Bug#704554: Info received (Bug#704554: mpd: crash when updating from large, varied collection)

2013-04-22 Thread nick black
SUMMARY: 1 errors from 1 contexts (suppressed: 2 from 2) Killed [skynet](137) $ running with --verbose now... -- nick black http://www.sprezzatech.com -- unix and hpc consulting to make an apple pie from scratch, you need first invent a universe. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist

Bug#704554: more info

2013-04-22 Thread nick black
dank *530w FIFO0,8 0t0 458485 pipe memcheck- 29944 dank *531r FIFO 0,29 0t0 462341 /tmp/vgdb-pipe-from-vgdb-to-29944-by-dank-on-??? [skynet](0) $ -- nick black http://www.sprezzatech.com -- unix and hpc consulting to make an apple pie from

Bug#704554: found the culprit

2013-04-22 Thread nick black
461261 0t0 TCP localhost:6600-localhost:54053 (ESTABLISHED) mpd 30462 dank 18u IPv4 461262 0t0 TCP localhost:6600-localhost:54054 (ESTABLISHED) [skynet](0) $ -- nick black http://www.sprezzatech.com -- unix and hpc consulting to make an apple pie

Bug#704554: have examples of crashing files

2013-04-22 Thread nick black
happens when i load just this directory and do other obvious experiments. -- nick black http://www.sprezzatech.com -- unix and hpc consulting to make an apple pie from scratch, you need first invent a universe. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org

Bug#722632: libxcb-ewmh-dev ought depend on xcb-proto

2013-09-12 Thread Nick Black
Package: libxcb-ewmh-dev Version: 0.3.9-2 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, Please add a dependency on xcb-proto to libxcb-ewmh-dev. Using the xcb-ewmh pkgconfig test fails without xcb-proto: checking for XCBEWMH... no configure: error: Package requirements (xcb-ewmh) were not met: Package

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