Bug#941573: service unbound reload reports insecure use of start-stop-daemon --pidfile

2019-10-02 Thread Matthew Palmer
Package: unbound Version: 1.9.0-2 Severity: normal Tags: patch With the introduction of a safety check around the use of --pidfile in start-stop-daemon (the best summary of which I've found is in https://bugs.debian.org/921557), the unbound init script's use of start-stop-daemon in the 'reload'

Bug#747376: Requesting debian-lts-{changes,announce} mailing lists

2014-05-07 Thread Matthew Palmer
Package: lists.debian.org Severity: wishlist Howdy, For the Squeeze LTS project, we would like two Debian mailing lists setup to help communicate changes out to the wider LTS userbase. I've put them both in this one bug report, but I'll split out the request data to make it easier to parse.

Bug#747279: Homepage field in package metadata does not point to a useful URL

2014-05-06 Thread Matthew Palmer
Package: td2planet Version: 0.3.0-1 Severity: minor http://github/znz/td2planet/ isn't a URL that's going to lead anywhere useful, unless `com` is in your resolver search path... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Bug#702144: Dependency on rubygems blocks removal of Ruby 1.8

2013-03-02 Thread Matthew Palmer
Package: vagrant Version: 1.0.3-1 Severity: normal Since vagrant depends on rubygems, and rubygems depends on ruby1.8, installing vagrant pulls in ruby1.8 (or prevents its removal, as happened in my case). Since vagrant depends on ruby, and not ruby1.8, I assume that vagrant supports Ruby 1.9.

Bug#669701: RM: ctcs -- ROM; not worth having in the archive

2012-04-21 Thread Matthew Palmer
Package: ftp.debian.org Severity: normal Hi FTP masters, I uploaded CTCS some time ago with the intention of using it for some projects and improving it. That didn't eventuate, and I've moved away from using it entirely, as I believe it is of very poor quality and not worth keeping in Debian.

Bug#643947: 'show' command gives wrong table name

2011-09-30 Thread Matthew Palmer
Package: asql Version: 1.6-1 Severity: minor It's easiest just to demonstrate this: -8- $ asql asql v1.6 - type 'help' for help. asql show The table 'log' table has the following columns: [...] asql select * from log; DBD::SQLite::db prepare failed: no such table: log at

Bug#643956: Updating existing log database produces empty log

2011-09-30 Thread Matthew Palmer
Package: asql Version: 1.6-1 Severity: normal I'm attempting to script the update of an existing asql database with new log entries, but re-saving the database file results in an empty log file. The problem isn't automation specific, it'll blow up quite happily interactively to, as the following

Bug#618743: Got bitten by this one too (kvm-ifup script hangs on ip call)

2011-09-25 Thread Matthew Palmer
Thought I'd add my two cents on this one -- I've been wrestling with this one for a little while now, and stumbled across this bug. Thank $DEITY *someone* identified it. I've modified my shebang to read #!/bin/bash and lo! it works again. This has been going on for a while, and it's stumping

Bug#614884: Test image available

2011-02-23 Thread Matthew Palmer
I've built an i386 testing mini.iso containing a proposed fix for this bug, and uploaded it to: http://people.debian.org/~mpalmer/614884_mini.iso If someone can test it out with an NM package that has the appropriate script (Ben Armstrong felt that an appropriate NM package wasn't already in

Bug#614054: netcfg: Debian-Installer hangs searching network wired card with firmware

2011-02-19 Thread Matthew Palmer
severity 614054 minor thanks On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 01:40:06PM +0100, minino wrote: We find several cases in which D-I hangs searching network wired card when it needs extra firmware. Please attach the syslog from the installation demonstrating the hang behaviour; that will allow us to

Bug#502227: Skipping NTP if no network interfaces: could be done in netcfg...

2011-02-17 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 07:17:48PM +0100, Christian PERRIER wrote: In this bug report, it is suggested that D-I does not attempt to sync the clock with NTP if no network was configuredwhich makes sense... One way to do this could be presetting clock-setup/ntp to False if no network

Bug#537271: closed by Matthew Palmer mpal...@debian.org (This is done, regardless of the reason)

2011-02-06 Thread Matthew Palmer
tag 537271 +help +wontfix # Need a 'cantfix' tag thanks On Sun, Feb 06, 2011 at 05:51:06PM -0500, Robert Edmonds wrote: Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: Given that there is no possible way to detect that the network link is up but unuseable, did you even read #537271? No, I find it far

Bug#537271: closed by Matthew Palmer mpal...@debian.org

2011-02-06 Thread Matthew Palmer
As you have identified: On Sun, Feb 06, 2011 at 10:15:48PM -0500, Robert Edmonds wrote: (this should probably actually be a loop that repeatedly invokes arping with a short timeout in order to update the progress bar.) This really needs to be implemented. Leaving users hanging

Bug#612109: netcfg: Please auto-detect the need for an HTTP proxy

2011-02-05 Thread Matthew Palmer
reassign 612109 choose-mirror-bin thanks netcfg has nothing whatsoever to do with choosing a mirror. Just sayin'. On Sat, Feb 05, 2011 at 03:39:37PM -0800, Josh Triplett wrote: The question asking for an HTTP proxy could instead auto-detect the need for a proxy by trying to fetch a fixed URI

Bug#606636: rDNS takes precedence over preseeding

2011-02-05 Thread Matthew Palmer
Just a quick note on this issue: I'm definitely planning on fixing this up for Wheezy, and sooner rather than later. However, my work on IPv6 has completely rewritten this part of the codebase, so the patch from Floris has no hope of applying cleanly. I will, however, be writing an equivalent

Bug#611870: Please build wide-dhcpv6-client-udeb

2011-02-03 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Thu, Feb 03, 2011 at 03:08:24PM +0100, Jérémie Corbier wrote: Hello Matthew, On Thu, Feb 03, 2011 at 05:05:14PM +1100, Matthew Palmer wrote: In order to support the installation of Debian over IPv6 networks, I need to run dhcp6c. The attached patch builds a wide-dhcpv6-client-udeb

Bug#611330: Updated patch for ndisc6 to build ndisc6-udeb and rdnssd-udeb

2011-02-02 Thread Matthew Palmer
retitle 611330 Please build ndisc6-udeb and rdnssd-udeb thanks I've now discovered that I need the rdisc6 tool as well as rdnssd, so the attached patch now builds an ndisc6-udeb containing just the rdisc6 binary. I've also fixed up the rdnssd-udeb (added a Section: header), so the attached patch

Bug#611870: Please build wide-dhcpv6-client-udeb

2011-02-02 Thread Matthew Palmer
Package: src:wide-dhcpv6 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch ipv6 In order to support the installation of Debian over IPv6 networks, I need to run dhcp6c. The attached patch builds a wide-dhcpv6-client-udeb for integration into d-i. Please apply it at your earliest convenience. Thanks, - Matt diff

Bug#562122: Improve preseeding of network device to use

2011-01-30 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 04:24:13PM +0100, Floris Bos wrote: I think that at least selection of the network interface by MAC-address instead of interface name should be possible. There is currently a patch pending for Ubuntu: http://launchpadlibrarian.net/60443113/S31pxedust (belonging to

Bug#611342: dnscache fails to resolve through v6 authoritative servers

2011-01-28 Thread Matthew Palmer
Package: dbndns Version: 1:1.05-9~exp0 Severity: normal File: /usr/bin/dnscache Tags: ipv6 Hi, I'm trying to fully IPv6-proof my home network, and currently using test-ipv6.com as a starting benchmark. It has flagged that my local resolver, dnscache in this case, is unable to perform a DNS

Bug#611250: please support network bonding

2011-01-27 Thread Matthew Palmer
tag 611250 +help tag 611250 +wontfix thanks On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 12:03:23PM +0100, Martin Zobel-Helas wrote: it would be nice if the debian-installer could support network bonding on several interfaces. I'm with Ferenc on this; bonding isn't necessary to install the system, so I'm loathe to

Bug#611330: Please build rdnssd-udeb

2011-01-27 Thread Matthew Palmer
Package: src:ndisc6 Version: 0.9.8-1 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch ipv6 Hi, For fully functioning IPv6 support in the debian installer, I'd like to detect DNS in RAs, and the rdnssd program fills that need nicely. Consequently, we need to build a udeb version of the rdnssd package to allow

Bug#610931: Please build wpasupplicant-udeb

2011-01-24 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 03:54:16PM +0100, Stefan Lippers-Hollmann wrote: On Monday 24 January 2011, Matthew Palmer wrote: Package: src:wpasupplicant Version: 0.6.10-2.1 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch It is planned that the next release of Debian Installer will include WPA I hope

Bug#610526: Preseed: Debian Installer ignores hostname parameter

2011-01-24 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 06:05:53PM +0100, Dennis Hoppe wrote: Am 24.01.2011 08:28, schrieb Matthew Palmer: On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 04:54:40PM +0100, Dennis Hoppe wrote: Am 20.01.2011 02:16, schrieb Matthew Palmer: * The kernel and initrd you're booting with; can I get the md5sums of them

Bug#591012: Use netif_carrier_ok() for link detection

2011-01-24 Thread Matthew Palmer
severity 591012 wishlist user debian...@lists.debian.org usertags gift thanks The more time passes, the more I think this is a good idea. It looks like everything (or nearly everything) supports it, wifi interfaces support it (which gives it better compatibility than ethtool/MII anyway), and it

Bug#610895: Fails to integrate well with GNOME (missing .desktop file)

2011-01-23 Thread Matthew Palmer
Package: sawfish Version: 1:1.3.5.2-2 Severity: normal Tags: patch I've just upgraded my system to squeeze (with GNOME 2.30), and sawfish completely failed to start. I followed directions online to use gconf-editor to set: /desktop/gnome/session/required_components/windowmanager to 'sawfish'

Bug#610931: Please build wpasupplicant-udeb

2011-01-23 Thread Matthew Palmer
Package: src:wpasupplicant Version: 0.6.10-2.1 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch It is planned that the next release of Debian Installer will include WPA support, a long overdue feature. To make this work, however, we need a udeb of wpasupplicant that can be built-in to the installer to

Bug#610526: Preseed: Debian Installer ignores hostname parameter

2011-01-23 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 04:54:40PM +0100, Dennis Hoppe wrote: Am 20.01.2011 02:16, schrieb Matthew Palmer: * The kernel and initrd you're booting with; can I get the md5sums of them and where you got them from? i am using the file debian-multi_5.0.7.iso from one of the official Debian

Bug#607766: Bug confirmed

2011-01-23 Thread Matthew Palmer
tag 607766 +confirmed thanks Just a quick note to indicate that I have, indeed, confirmed this bug, and it's quite easy to reproduce -- just turn off your DHCP server, setup your wireless NIC, then try and do anything with it. More investigation will be carried out into WTF is actually going on

Bug#610831: Notify user on link detection failure for static config

2011-01-22 Thread Matthew Palmer
Package: netcfg Version: 1.59 Severity: wishlist User: debian...@lists.debian.org Usertags: gift I've just committed a simple fix to static.c to allow netcfg to pause until it finds a good link on a statically configured interface (look for the netcfg_detect_link() call). However, if link

Bug#251333: Design for 'progress bar during static config'

2011-01-22 Thread Matthew Palmer
This would be a good project for someone looking to get into netcfg... like the other 'gift' bugs I've filed. Basically, you just need to put debconf_progress_start/stop calls at the top of netcfg_activate_static(), and add progress calls as you do each step. There shouldn't be much to it at

Bug#610752: Make the link detection timeout preseedable

2011-01-21 Thread Matthew Palmer
Package: netcfg Version: 1.59 Severity: wishlist User: debian...@lists.debian.org Usertags: gift With the closing of #414117, we've introduced a more robust method of detecting which network interfaces we want to configure have link. This is required because link autonegotiation (and other

Bug#610553: installation-reports: does not cleanly deconfigure network configured with DHCP

2011-01-20 Thread Matthew Palmer
reassign 610553 netcfg thanks On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 12:29:29PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: Matthew Palmer wrote: Yeah, I thought about that, but it appears as though finish-install wants to own all those sorts of things itself. I would have expected 50config-target-network to be in netcfg

Bug#384655: Lower choose_interface priority when default interface has been detected

2011-01-20 Thread Matthew Palmer
Hi Robert, You've probably completely forgotten about this bug report... but I'm resurrecting it in a big netcfg cleanup. Whilst your patch is fine as it is, I'm not inclined to apply it, because I'm planning on taking netcfg in a slightly different direction. My plan for default installations

Bug#186029: Grouping questions in netcfg -- but which ones?

2011-01-20 Thread Matthew Palmer
tag 186029 +moreinfo thanks Hi, I'm triaging netcfg bugs. Bear with me on this archaeological endeavour. Like Joey Hess, I'm having trouble identifying questions that can be grouped together. Even the IP address/netmask questions aren't groupable any more, as there's changes in the works to

Bug#591756: udeb size increase for vconfig support in busybox

2011-01-20 Thread Matthew Palmer
Just for the record, the difference between the size of the binary in busybox-udeb 1.17.1-9 (as is currently in git) when built on i386 with and without vconfig is 384 bytes. vconfig in is 212732, vconfig out is 212348. I built both locally in the same chroot to remove any other biases (gcc

Bug#527397: IPv6 support in default inetd config

2011-01-20 Thread Matthew Palmer
Is there any reason this patch hasn't been applied? I can confirm that the described change does make approx accessable via IPv6. - Matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#610597: Does not accept requests to IPv6 literals

2011-01-20 Thread Matthew Palmer
Package: approx Version: 4.5-1 Severity: normal Tags: ipv6 When attempting to make a request to an IPv6-enabled approx installation (after applying the fix in #527397, *nudge*), attempts to use approx using an IPv6 literal (using the format described in RFC2732), doesn't work. To test this, I

Bug#610597: Does not accept requests to IPv6 literals

2011-01-20 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 09:01:19AM -0500, Eric Cooper wrote: Can you please send me the excerpts from the approx server's log (with $debug turned on) for the working and non-working case? Thanks. Sure. I should have thought to send those along in the first place. Good request: Jan 21

Bug#527397: IPv6 support in default inetd config

2011-01-20 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 09:06:09AM -0500, Eric Cooper wrote: Is there any reason this patch hasn't been applied? I can confirm that the described change does make approx accessable via IPv6. Sorry, just inertia. I also haven't found any other packages that enable IPv6 entries in

Bug#610526: Preseed: Debian Installer ignores hostname parameter

2011-01-19 Thread Matthew Palmer
package netcfg tag 610526 +moreinfo tag 610526 +unreproducible thanks Hi Dennis, I'm having some trouble reproducing your bug report. Here are the exact steps I took: 1) Download the mini.iso from

Bug#610553: installation-reports: does not cleanly deconfigure network configured with DHCP

2011-01-19 Thread Matthew Palmer
clone 610553 reassign 610553 finish-install reassign -1 di-utils-reboot thanks On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 03:32:59PM -0500, Jeffrey Sheinberg wrote: Install of squeeze-rc1 (expert mode, non-graphical) from *.iso - works great except the network is not cleanly deconfigured for DHCP. Solution -

Bug#610553: installation-reports: does not cleanly deconfigure network configured with DHCP

2011-01-19 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 06:00:51AM +0100, Christian PERRIER wrote: Quoting Matthew Palmer (mpal...@debian.org): clone 610553 reassign 610553 finish-install reassign -1 di-utils-reboot thanks On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 03:32:59PM -0500, Jeffrey Sheinberg wrote: Install of squeeze-rc1

Bug#606268: Bug#606268: Bug#606268: now ignores interfaces configured by d-i

2011-01-13 Thread Matthew Palmer
[Summary: NetworkManager doesn't properly transition away from /etc/network/interfaces-configured wireless interfaces to using it's own internal configuration database, causing them to not come up at all] On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 08:30:40PM +0100, Michael Biebl wrote: Imho, the cleanest solution

Bug#609648: Don't use DHCP on point-to-point links

2011-01-11 Thread Matthew Palmer
Package: netcfg Severity: wishlist [More a bug to remind myself for the future than anything else] I'm not 100% sure of the validity of this, but I *think* that it's not appropriate to run DHCP over a pointopoint link like PLIP, SLIP, etc. (Whether those should even bother to be supported any

Bug#603673: Workaround

2011-01-11 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 12:52:07AM -0500, Stephen Conrad wrote: I have found a workaround. It seems that while the Squeeze installer cannot seem to utilize the RTL8111, the resulting installation does not have the problem. I executed the following steps: 1) Installed an old 10/100 PCI

Bug#603441: #603441 cdrom: serial console on Belkin f5u103 unsupported in Lenny AMD64 netinst

2011-01-10 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 12:14:44AM -0700, Gregory Nowak wrote: I am making the assumption that the first item on the boot menu is text install, as was the case in the lenny installer. If this is not correct anymore, then that might be the problem. Thanks. No, the installer front screen in the

Bug#221602: serial console installs produces serial-compatible installed system

2011-01-07 Thread Matthew Palmer
Hi Martin, I've just done a test run using an SVN build of d-i over a serial console, and grub was configured to both use the serial console itself, and also to boot the kernel with appropriate console parameters. I was going to close this bug, but noticed that you had reopened it and changed

Bug#231003: netcfg: should support IPv6

2011-01-03 Thread Matthew Palmer
Just a quick note to indicate that I'm working on this at the moment. It's... not trivial, but enough of the pieces should be in place that the job isn't insanely difficult. - Matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Bug#362029: Thanks

2011-01-02 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Sun, Jan 02, 2011 at 11:58:11PM +0100, Sander De Graaf wrote: It's a long time since i filed this bug report, and I'm pleasantly surprised that it's believed fixed. Thanks for the work :) You know what they say... better late than never. grin - Matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#381975: Cannot reproduce cannot undo ssid entry

2011-01-01 Thread Matthew Palmer
package netcfg tag 381975 +unreproducible tag 381975 +moreinfo thanks Hi Michael, I've been trying to reproduce this bug, and I'm afraid I can't do it with a current testing image. I used the latest netinst from http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/arch-latest/i386/iso-cd/ and

Bug#538763: Patch for hostname craziness

2011-01-01 Thread Matthew Palmer
tag 538763 +patch thanks Here's a patch that should go into netcfg post-squeeze. It's not a high enough priority to be worth pissing off translators over. Some of the fix was already in place via Ubuntu, just not noted anywhere. - Matt Index: debian/netcfg-common.templates

Bug#490382: Should this be closed? (was: Wireless config issues with ath5k)

2011-01-01 Thread Matthew Palmer
It's an old bug, the ath5k driver has apparently been extensively rewritten, and now (apparently) works like mac80211-based drivers. Given that I've tested installation on a machine which uses one of these drivers (iwl3945), it seems like this bug has probably been tidied up at some point (either

Bug#414117: Retitle bug (was: netcfg link detection confused by multiple interfaces with the same driver)

2011-01-01 Thread Matthew Palmer
retitle 414117 netcfg doesn't wait long enough to detect link thanks I'm not seeing anything in this bug report that indicates that there's still a problem with netcfg picking the wrong interface due to confusion over which NIC from a given driver to use (and, like Jeremy, I'm not seeing anything

Bug#605013: Please add armhf support

2011-01-01 Thread Matthew Palmer
Straightforward patch, defer until after squeeze as requested by submitter. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#496647: ethtool-lite incorrectly reports status of e1000e

2010-12-31 Thread Matthew Palmer
package netcfg tag 496647 +confirmed tag 496647 +patch thanks [tl;dr: Here be dragons] Yeah, there's definitely something screwy going on here... but I'm not entirely sure it's ethtool-lite's fault. I get similar results to the submitter on an e1000e-equipped laptop (Thinkpad X60s), but

Bug#591012: netcfg: Support /sys/class/net/ethX/carrier for link detection?

2010-12-31 Thread Matthew Palmer
Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: Should netcfg link detection be extended to use /sys/class/net/ethX/carrier if it exist? At the moment its ethtool_lite() function uses the mii-diag/ethtool kernel API to check link status, but the /sys/ file seem to be a more generic way to do this. In principle,

Bug#608452: netcfg: Makefile rule to build standalone ethtool-lite

2010-12-30 Thread Matthew Palmer
Package: netcfg Severity: wishlist Tags: patch In testing for #496647, I found it useful to add a Makefile rule to build a standalone ethtool-lite. It doesn't get built by 'all', or as part of the package building process, but it might make life a bit easier for others in the future, so it'd be

Bug#362029: Installer doesn't create /etc/resolv.conf -- reproduction recipe

2010-12-29 Thread Matthew Palmer
I can still reproduce this with the latest mini.iso I can find on ftp.debian.org (20101127). To be absolutely clear, this is what I'm doing to show the problem: 1) Setup a DHCP server that provides an address and default route, but does not provide any DNS servers or domain name. 2) Boot the

Bug#362029: [PATCH] Installer doesn't create resolv.conf

2010-12-29 Thread Matthew Palmer
tag 362029 +patch thanks The attached patch fixes netcfg to write a complete resolv.conf if the DHCP server doesn't provide all of the necessary data for that file. As previously mentioned, the problem is that the DHCP configuration method assumes that resolv.conf will *always* be written

Bug#362029: Patch to attach

2010-12-29 Thread Matthew Palmer
Le sigh... - Matt Index: netcfg/dhcp.c === --- netcfg/dhcp.c (revision 66154) +++ netcfg/dhcp.c (working copy) @@ -521,6 +521,7 @@ } netcfg_nameservers_to_array (nameservers,

Bug#416378: etch-installer suggests wrong gateway address with non-/24 netmask

2010-12-29 Thread Matthew Palmer
tag 416378 +unreproducible thanks I've just tried this on the current SVN mini.iso (locally built), and when I give netcfg an address of 10.0.0.66 with a netmask of 255.255.255.192, it suggests using 10.0.0.65 as the gateway. I would assume that this has been fixed silently since the bug report

Bug#542915: pbuilder removes data from bind-mounted directories

2010-12-27 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 10:41:36PM -0600, Steve M. Robbins wrote: On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 09:38:30AM +1100, Matthew Palmer wrote: On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 05:04:02PM +0100, Julien Cristau wrote: do you plan on NMUing pbuilder for this bug? No, I don't consider it appropriate to NMU

Bug#542915: pbuilder removes data from bind-mounted directories

2010-12-27 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 05:04:02PM +0100, Julien Cristau wrote: do you plan on NMUing pbuilder for this bug? No, I don't consider it appropriate to NMU for an RC bug that I raised the severity on, withouth the acknowledgement of the maintainer that the severity is justified. Someone else NMUing

Bug#603881: Improved patch

2010-12-16 Thread Matthew Palmer
usertags 603881 +patch-in-git usertags 603881 +patch-supplied thanks The attached patch is based on Eric's, but is more Policy compliant, and includes a test case for added validation. I've verified that it all works as intended. - Matt From 5d7eced6b8e0f4fea917cc310bb271a0e817792b Mon Sep 17

Bug#606699: aptitude can't resolve packages from experimental

2010-12-16 Thread Matthew Palmer
Whilst I can't speak from authority, I'm fairly confident in saying that calling dpkg with any sort of --force option isn't going to be a winning solution to the problem. - Matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Bug#542915: pbuilder removes data from bind-mounted directories

2010-12-16 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 06:14:55PM +0100, Jakub Wilk wrote: * Matthew Palmer mpal...@debian.org, 2010-12-15, 14:21: +if mount |grep -q $(readlink -f $BUILDPLACE)/; then I think grep -q -F $(readlink -f $BUILDPLACE)/ would be more robust. Right you are. Patch 5 in a series

Bug#363193: pbuilder: support new-style architecture specifications

2010-12-15 Thread Matthew Palmer
usertags 363193 patch-in-git usertags 363193 patch-supplied thanks Well, this has turned into a monster of a bug, with several subtly different issues being raised and debated. Here's the ones that I've found and addressed in the attached patch series (which might be more easily accessed via the

Bug#363193: Additional patch

2010-12-15 Thread Matthew Palmer
This patch fixes things so that the test suite passes when being run during the build process (and only the build process). It's needed in addition to the previous 9 (and is in my git branch). - Matt From 08b4abb06950ec81901954feeb52a30378c6969b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Matt Palmer

Bug#542915: pbuilder removes data from bind-mounted directories

2010-12-14 Thread Matthew Palmer
tag 542915 +patch usertags 542915 -in-progress +patch-in-git thanks Attached is my minimal patch solving the problem of data loss in bind-mounted directories. It provides a safety net that, in the event that *anything* is still mounted inside the chroot, no attempt to delete anything will be

Bug#598316: pbuilder: mirrorsite is not preseedable

2010-12-14 Thread Matthew Palmer
tag 598316 +patch usertags 598316 +patch-supplied thanks Attached are three patches fixing the three issues reported in this bug. Hopefully it should be fairly self-explanatory which one is for which. - Matt From 3631bcda0a9bf0011d02268942ebc7756fd03ada Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Matt

Bug#161778: Use debconf to generate default config file -- can probably be closed

2010-12-13 Thread Matthew Palmer
As previously suggested by Andreas Beckmann in #598316, I think this bug can be closed. pbuilderrc is no longer shipped, and a minimal configuration is generated at installation time (providing a setting for MIRRORSITE). - Matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#542915: pbuilder: removes data from bind-mounted directories

2010-12-12 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 12:08:57PM +0100, Jakub Wilk wrote: 3) cp /usr/share/pbuilder/examples/C10shell /tmp/hooks s,pbuilder,doc/pbuilder, Ah, yes, sorry about that. But if I ls /tmp/valuable, the file do-not-delete-please is still there. Are /tmp/valuable and

Bug#606933: manpage-has-errors-from-man ... can't set the locale when running in Lenny

2010-12-12 Thread Matthew Palmer
Package: lintian Version: 2.4.3 Severity: minor When lintian 2.4.3 (or the 2.4.3+bpo50-1 backport) is installed and run on a Lenny system, each manpage produces the following error: W: pbuilder: manpage-has-errors-from-man usr/share/man/man1/debuild-pbuilder.1.gz can't set the locale; make

Bug#606221: pbuilder depends on gcc (or... not)

2010-12-11 Thread Matthew Palmer
Am Dienstag, den 07.12.2010, 17:31 +0100 schrieb Loïc Minier: On Tue, Dec 07, 2010, Daniel Leidert wrote: pbuilder depends on gcc, so it pulls in a compiler on a system, where I don't want to have a compiler for everybody. But why does it depend on gcc? There is no gcc dependency for

Bug#606636: Reverse DNS takes precedence over netcfg/get_hostname

2010-12-11 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 01:12:19AM +0100, Floris Bos wrote: On Saturday, December 11, 2010 07:31:48 am Christian PERRIER wrote: Correct. Apparently, though, that behaviour didn't bother anybody enough to look at current netcfg code and propose the needed patch Fair enough. Attached a

Bug#606605: pbuilder test failures

2010-12-11 Thread Matthew Palmer
tag 606605 +patch thanks Matt Taggart wrote: I was attempting to backport pbuilder to lenny and while it appears to build ok the package build fails due to test failures. Below are the errors. Maybe it needs a versioned dependency or the tests are depending on something newer than lenny?

Bug#542915: pbuilder: removes data from bind-mounted directories

2010-12-11 Thread Matthew Palmer
tag 542915 +moreinfo thanks Hi Jakub, I'm trying to reproduce this bug, but I can't manage to get pbuilder to behave in the manner you describe -- but I can't find any changes to pbuilder in the meantime that would explain a change in behaviour. Here is what I did, using pbuilder 0.199: 1)

Bug#604546: pbuilder: B90lintian uses bashism

2010-12-11 Thread Matthew Palmer
tag 604546 +patch thanks This one is simple to fix; just replace /bin/sh with /bin/bash in examples/S90lintian, as per this patch: diff --git a/examples/B90lintian b/examples/B90lintian index 83f39c3..888e323 100644 --- a/examples/B90lintian +++ b/examples/B90lintian @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -#!/bin/sh

Bug#603744: pbuilder: hangs while reading /dev/urandom

2010-12-11 Thread Matthew Palmer
tag 603744 +moreinfo thanks Hi Piotr, I'm having trouble reproducing this bug. I initially tried using my existing sid chroot (originally built who-knows-when and updated regularly), but when that worked fine I also created a new chroot (pbuilder --build --distribution sid --mirror

Bug#606636: Reverse DNS takes precedence over netcfg/get_hostname

2010-12-10 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 09:53:42PM +0100, Ferenc Wagner wrote: Floris Bos b...@je-eigen-domein.nl writes: Not everyone has the power to change their own reverse DNS entries, or it might take time to process (send a request to the upstream provider that is responsible for the IP block,

Bug#606687: ccache support fails in the face of su PATH mangling

2010-12-10 Thread Matthew Palmer
Package: pbuilder Version: 0.199 Severity: normal Tags: patch pbuilder's ccache support relies on being able to modify PATH when building packages. Unfortunately, su's documented behaviour is to reset PATH to a known safe setting (in login.defs), which breaks this (along with any other attempts

Bug#606542: --create fails to respect existing --extrapackages/EXTRAPACKAGES

2010-12-09 Thread Matthew Palmer
Package: cowbuilder Version: 0.62+nmu2 Severity: normal I'm pimping my local package build environments, by enabling cowbuilder/ccache/eatmydata. However, cowbuilder doesn't like to install extra packages that I ask for. In my /etc/pbuilderrc, I have specified: EXTRAPACKAGES=eatmydata ccache

Bug#593862: More info required on multibyte characters in account names mess up alignment

2010-12-06 Thread Matthew Palmer
Hi Harri, I'm finally getting around to playing with this bug report (hampered as I am by my complete lack of knowledge of character sets). I've come across something of a problem reproducing the issue, though -- the example you gave in the bug report appears to be all single-byte characters,

Bug#604116: ledger: Please, package new upstream release 2.6.3

2010-11-21 Thread Matthew Palmer
tag 604116 +wontfix thanks On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 07:08:59PM +0200, George Tellalov wrote: On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 12:53:42AM +1100, Matthew Palmer wrote: On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 02:49:36PM +0200, George Tellalov wrote: Package: ledger Version: 2.6.2-2.1 Severity: wishlist

Bug#604116: ledger: Please, package new upstream release 2.6.3

2010-11-20 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 02:49:36PM +0200, George Tellalov wrote: Package: ledger Version: 2.6.2-2.1 Severity: wishlist Upstream has released 2.6.3. Could someone package it, please? Which changes, present in 2.6.3 and not already present in the Debian package of 2.6.2-2.1, are you

Bug#603798: debian-installer: /tmp is not created with 777 mode when doing manual disk partitionning

2010-11-18 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 01:44:39PM +0100, VALETTE Eric RD-MAPS-REN wrote: On 11/18/2010 10:09 AM, Christian Perrier wrote: VALETTE Eric RD-MAPS-REN a écrit : Done nothing special except creating the partitions manually. This is ^

Bug#601726: RM: ctcs/1.3.1~pre1-1

2010-10-28 Thread Matthew Palmer
Package: release.debian.org Severity: normal User: release.debian@packages.debian.org Usertags: rm I'd like to request removal of ctcs from testing: - It has practically no popcon hits - It isn't in the best of shape (I had plans to polish it up, but my then-employer found something better

Bug#597036: ninvaders segfault

2010-10-04 Thread Matthew Palmer
package ninvaders tag 597036 pending thanks Hi Matt, Thanks for the patch. The problem doesn't occur for me (I'm guessing it's an ncurses version change that causes the crash), but I've applied the patch as it's definitely a potential problem. I'll make a new upload to unstable Real Soon Now,

Bug#593862: ledger: Multibyte characters in account names mess up alignment in equity reports

2010-08-21 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 08:07:10PM +0300, Harri Kiiskinen wrote: Trying out this ledger file: [snip] I guess the length of the account Varat:Pankki:Arkikäyttö is counted as the number of bytes. Yes, I'd say that's very likely the cause. I'll push this bug upstream, and see what can be

Bug#590498: interfaces does not include interfaces that do not end in a number

2010-07-26 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 10:15:40PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: I rename all my interfaces to give them meaningful names, like ext or cable or wifi or int or dmz etc. facter seems to assume that a notable interface always ends in a number. Hence, none of my interfaces turn up, nor does lo.

Bug#512746: radvd: Mistake between README.Debian and init file about forwarding

2010-04-10 Thread Matthew Palmer
This bug just bit me, and it's painfully annoying, given the triviality of the fix. Please try and get this fixed for squeeze. - Matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#576620: cpio and ledger file conflict: trying to overwrite '/usr/share/info/dir.gz'

2010-04-05 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Tue, Apr 06, 2010 at 10:36:12AM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: On a system with ???ledger??? 0:2.6.2-2 installed, the ???cpio??? 2.11-1 package fails to unpack: = Preparing to replace cpio 2.10-1 (using .../cpio_2.11-1_powerpc.deb) ... Unpacking replacement cpio ... dpkg: error processing

Bug#575506: libtimedate-perl confusion in unstable (giving cdebootstrap fits)

2010-03-26 Thread Matthew Palmer
Package: ftp.debian.org Severity: normal Hi, Attempting to use cdebootstrap to create a sid chroot dies with the following: O: Err bootstrap: ./main libtimedate-perl 1.2000-1 O: O: Failed to fetch bootstrap:/pool/main/libt/libtimedate-perl/libtimedate-perl_1.2000-1_all.deb This is because

Bug#575507: Fails to handle multiple packages with the same name in the target distribution

2010-03-26 Thread Matthew Palmer
Package: cdebootstrap Version: 0.5.4 Severity: important I'm currently trying to build a sid chroot, and it's failing with the following error: D: call action: apt-install D: Execute apt-get install --yes -o APT::Get::AllowUnauthenticated=true -o APT::Install-Recommends=false

Bug#574090: ledger 3.0 in experimental?

2010-03-16 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 09:02:17AM +, Martin Michlmayr wrote: What do you think of packaging the ledger 3.0 git tree for experimental? From what I hear on the mailing list, it has a lot of new features. I did consider it once or twice, but every time I thought about it discussions were

Bug#568092: daemontools: support QUIT, USR[12] signals

2010-02-02 Thread Matthew Palmer
Package: daemontools Severity: wishlist Version: 0.76-3 Tags: patch It would be handy if we could send QUIT/USR1/USR2 signals to supervise-managed processes. Handily, there's already a patch for that out in the wild: http://thedjbway.b0llix.net/patches/daemontools-0.76.sigq12.patch I adjusted

Bug#543434: ITA: filtergen

2010-02-01 Thread Matthew Palmer
retitle 543434 ITA: filtergen owner 543434 mpal...@debian.org tag pending thanks I plan on adopting filtergen. I maintain an internal updated package anyway, and have several updates and modifications involved. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Bug#567236: augeas: add debugging symbols

2010-01-27 Thread Matthew Palmer
Package: libaugeas0 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch I've just been hunting down a segfault in augeas, and I found debugging symbols to be awfully useful. The attached patch modifies the package build process to produce a separate package containing them. - Matt diff -u augeas-0.7.0/debian/rules

Bug#565353: linux-2.6: Update bnx2 PCI IDs

2010-01-14 Thread Matthew Palmer
Package: linux-2.6.26-2-amd64 Severity: important Tags: patch, lenny Version: 2.6.26-2 Hi, The BCM5716 network chipset from Broadcom works perfectly well with the bnx2 driver in 2.6.26 (including the existing firmware), but it has an unrecognised PCI ID, so the kernel doesn't detect it. The

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