Bug#973861: apt: http acquire method still failing with "Undetermined error" or "Data left in the buffer"

2022-10-06 Thread Alexander Thomas
We are also regularly bumping into this issue. Part of our build process gathers changed Debian packages w.r.t. a reference environment, such that the packages can be updated in an offline environment. The packages are gathered by means of a `dist-upgrade --download-only` invocation of apt-get.

Bug#944364: dpkg: ldconfig is not invoked for Depends or even Pre-Depends

2019-11-08 Thread Alexander Thomas
Package: dpkg Version: 1.19.7 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, This was first discovered in Ubuntu 18.04 and has already been filed as Ubuntu bug #1851675, but was later on found to have originated in changes to dpkg in Debian itself.

Bug#841025: Hard links patch for bug #754878 makes little sense

2016-10-17 Thread Alexander Thomas
On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 11:25 AM, Andreas Beckmann <a...@debian.org> wrote: > On 2016-10-17 11:13, Alexander Thomas wrote: >> Because I don't know what was the use case for the submitter of that >> hard-linking patch, it is safest to preserve it, but make it optional >

Bug#841025: Hard links patch for bug #754878 makes little sense

2016-10-17 Thread Alexander Thomas
On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 1:08 AM, Holger Levsen <hol...@layer-acht.org> wrote: > package: piuparts > submitter: Alexander Thomas <alexander.tho...@esaturnus.com> > x-debbugs-cc: Alexander Thomas <alexander.tho...@esaturnus.com> > > Hi Alexander, > > thanks fo

Bug#679543: up and down arrows

2013-02-01 Thread Alexander Thomas
I had this same problem with both vnc4server and tightvncserver running on Wheezy and both SSVNC and tightvncviewer in Squeeze. The ‘fix’ of clearing the shortcuts works, but this is not a fix, it is a workaround. What is peculiar is that the shortcuts were set to Super+Up and Super+Down, not