Bug#409444: logcheck: ignore "last line repeated $n times" if prevline matched

2024-04-28 Thread Richard Lewis
On Sat, 03 Feb 2007 10:29:38 +0100 Jonas Koelker wrote: > I (think I) want to see how many times the messages I care about are > repeated. This means I can't ignore "last line repeated $n times" > messages (obviously). But since those can also occur after messages > that are ignored, I can't

Bug#690608: logcheck-database: consider to add ignore.d.server/rrdcached

2024-04-27 Thread Richard Lewis
On Tue, 16 Oct 2012 03:14:20 +0200 Sebastian Steinhuber wrote: > Dear Maintainer, > to drop (slightly boring) messages from the package rrdcached of the > form: > Oct 15 22:59:29 dds rrdcached[12045]: flushing old values > > I added a file named ignore.d.server/rrdcached, containing the line: >

Bug#442244: [Logcheck-devel] Bug#442244: logcheck-database: should include the filters from cyrus-imapd-2.2

2024-04-27 Thread Richard Lewis
On Fri, 14 Sep 2007 14:06:58 +0200 martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Alex Prinsier [2007.09.14.1344 > +0200]: > > Please copy over the filters from cyrus-imapd-2.2. I'm running > > logcheck on a loghost, which doesn't run cyrus itself. There might > > be a better alternative to copying the

Bug#588312: [Logcheck-devel] Bug#588312: logcheck-database: updated rules for many packages

2024-04-27 Thread Richard Lewis
Closing this bug from 2010 (14 years ago!) -- the then-maintainer found that most of the suggestions were either already present or should not actually be added, for various reasons. A requested was made to resubmit as more independent bugs - if that was done, we dont need this bug, and if not

Bug#511483: logcheck-database: please add rules for rkhunter

2024-04-27 Thread Richard Lewis
package: logcheck-database # think it's reasonable to add rkhunter rules - although the ones in this bug need updates severity 511483 normal tags 511481 - wontfix

Bug#592365: logcheck: ignore rules for transmission-daemon

2024-04-27 Thread Richard Lewis
On Tue, 10 Aug 2010 10:28:54 +1000 Nemo wrote: > > ^\w{3} [ :[:digit:]]{11} [._[:alnum:]-]+ > > transmission-daemon\[[[:digit:]]+\]: Saved > > "/var/lib/transmission-daemon/info/.*" \(bencode.c:1651\)$ > > ^\w{3} [ :0-9]{11} [._[:alnum:]-]+ transmission-daemon\[[0-9]+\]: .* DHT > > announce

Bug#1015201: logcheck: Update patterns, here: rsyslogd

2024-04-27 Thread Richard Lewis
On Sun, 17 Jul 2022 17:28:11 +0100 Richard Lewis wrote: > > The pattern for rsyslogd can be improved. Please add the following > > line: > > > > imuxsock: Acquired UNIX socket '/run/systemd/journal/syslog' \(fd 3\) from > > systemd. \[v8.2206.0\] > > >

Bug#532719: [Logcheck-devel] Bug#532719: additional sample

2024-04-27 Thread Richard Lewis
On Tue, 16 Jun 2009 11:27:57 -0700 Russ Allbery wrote: > chrysn writes: > touch /etc/default/locale will also make these go away with no behavior > changes. In my experience, it happens on systems upgraded from older > versions of Debian but not with new installs. I think this is more a > bug

Bug#510472: logcheck-database: pam_unix messages could be ignored.

2024-04-27 Thread Richard Lewis
On Tue, 18 Aug 2009 20:24:31 -0400 =?iso-8859-1?B?RnLpZOlyaWMgQnJp6HJl?= wrote: > On Fri, Jan 02, 2009 at 10:21:51AM +0100, Jan Evert van Grootheest wrote: > > Package: logcheck-database > > Version: 1.2.68 > > > > It has now started to spam the logs with lots of > > Jan 2 09:22:57 sisko

Bug#590684: [logcheck-database] rules for rsyslog

2024-04-27 Thread Richard Lewis
On Mon, 02 Aug 2010 10:29:03 +0200 Hannes von Haugwitz wrote: > > ^\w{3} [ :[:digit:]]{11} [._[:alnum:]-]+ rsyslogd: \[origin > > software="rsyslogd" swVersion="3.18.6" x-pid="[[:digit:]]+" > > x-info="http://www.rsyslog.com"\] restart$ > > Daemon restart messages are willingly not included in

Bug#1069697: lintian: debian-changelog-line-too-short CVEs

2024-04-23 Thread Richard Lewis
On Tue, 23 Apr 2024, 00:12 Thorsten Glaser, wrote: > P: openjdk-8-doc: debian-changelog-line-too-short CVEs > [usr/share/doc/openjdk-8-doc/changelog.Debian.gz:4] > > The changelog in question is: > > * New upstream release > * CVEs > - CVE-2024-21011 > - CVE-2024-21085 > -

Bug#885414: base-files: lack of quoting in shell variable expansions in /etc/profile

2024-04-20 Thread Richard Lewis
On Thu, 18 Apr 2024, 23:18 Santiago Vila, wrote: > El 18/4/24 a las 22:17, Richard Lewis escribió: > >>> '^[a-zA-Z0-9_][a-zA-Z0-9._-]*\.sh$' > >> > >> Hi. I confirm that this is appropriate for what we distribute: > > > > What about local sc

Bug#885414: base-files: lack of quoting in shell variable expansions in /etc/profile

2024-04-18 Thread Richard Lewis
> >'^[a-zA-Z0-9_][a-zA-Z0-9._-]*\.sh$' > > Hi. I confirm that this is appropriate for what we distribute: What about local scripts added by users (which this change might prevent loading): perhaps a NEWS.Debian entry would suffice?

Bug#1068775: sbuild-qemu: fails to work, if piuparts is requested, but not installed on the host

2024-04-14 Thread Richard Lewis
On Fri, 12 Apr 2024, 19:00 Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues, < jo...@debian.org> wrote: > Hi Francesco, > > Quoting Francesco Poli (wintermute) (2024-04-11 00:13:51) > > > > sbuild --dist unstable --purge-build=never --purge-deps=never > --chroot-mode=autopkgtest --autopkgtest-virt-server=qemu

Bug#1056137: systemd: downgrading systemd packages kills off the desktop environment

2024-02-28 Thread Richard Lewis
On Wed, 28 Feb 2024 18:37:41 +0100 Michael Biebl wrote: > On Fri, 17 Nov 2023 14:40:05 +0100 Christoph Anton Mitterer > wrote: > > Package: systemd > > Version: 255~rc2-1 > > Because of #1056135 I was downgradin systemd/udev packages to 254.5-1. > > While apt was still running, this causes the

Bug#1064395: logcheck: rsyslog produces two timestamp formats in latest version

2024-02-27 Thread Richard Lewis
On Mon, 26 Feb 2024, 13:03 Michael Biebl, wrote: > Hi > > On Thu, 22 Feb 2024 19:01:05 +0000 Richard Lewis > wrote: > > On Thu, 22 Feb 2024, 10:15 Ralf Schlatterbeck, wrote: > > > > > On Wed, Feb 21, 2024 at 02:52:33PM +0100, Ralf Schlatterbeck wrote: &g

Bug#1064395: logcheck: rsyslog produces two timestamp formats in latest version

2024-02-22 Thread Richard Lewis
On Thu, 22 Feb 2024, 10:15 Ralf Schlatterbeck, wrote: > On Wed, Feb 21, 2024 at 02:52:33PM +0100, Ralf Schlatterbeck wrote: > > > > I forgot to mention: > > There is an upstream (rsyslog) bug-report at > > https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/5332 > > Upstream has decided that it is not a

Bug#1059769: chkrootkit-daily : filtering out empty lines to prevent unnecessary empty alert emails.

2023-12-31 Thread Richard Lewis
On Sun, 31 Dec 2023 at 17:30, Franck Richter wrote: > Currently chkrootkit-daily send me emails even if I ignore all false > positives using chkrootkit.ignore. > Because chkrootkit outputs empty lines that cannot be excluded via > chkrootkit.ignore. I havn't checked this, but: i think you

Bug#1057302: Bug#1057234: sbuild: Generates weird messages in /var/log/syslog

2023-12-27 Thread Richard Lewis
On Sun, 3 Dec 2023 00:06:23 +0100 =?UTF-8?B?UHJldcOfZSwgSGlsbWFy?= wrote: > On 02.12.2023 08:30, Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues wrote: > > Quoting Hilmar Preusse (2023-12-01 23:10:36) > > Hi, > > >> I run sbuild as following: > >> > >> sbuild --no-run-lintian --arch-all --dist=sid *.dsc -d >

Bug#1058755: logcheck: Email not report log lines

2023-12-19 Thread Richard Lewis
control: close -1 thanks On Tue, 19 Dec 2023, 08:39 Stefano Callegari, wrote: > > > > The logs lines there are, but after the header I see many blank lines: I > > use mutt in a full screen console (more than 50 lines) and I need to > press > > page down for 16 times before reach the first line

Bug#1058755: logcheck: Email not report log lines

2023-12-17 Thread Richard Lewis
On Sun, 17 Dec 2023 at 19:03, Stefano Callegari wrote: > Il Fri, Dec 15, 2023 at 11:31:18PM +0000, Richard Lewis scrisse: > > On Fri, 15 Dec 2023 at 16:06, Stefano Callegari > > wrote: > > > > > from few days the email from cron are empty, there is only the heade

Bug#1058755: logcheck: Email not report log lines

2023-12-15 Thread Richard Lewis
On Fri, 15 Dec 2023 at 16:06, Stefano Callegari wrote: > from few days the email from cron are empty, there is only the header.txt. > /etc/logcheck <-bash> # su -s /bin/bash -c "/usr/sbin/logcheck -l > /var/log/syslog" logcheck > > the email has the log lines. Without the -l option, still

Bug#1042049: lintian: FTBFS: 3 tests failed

2023-12-11 Thread Richard Lewis
On Thu, 7 Dec 2023 22:05:29 +1300 Vladimir Petko wrote: > As of today there are more test failures: > Test Summary Report > --- > debian/test-out/eval/checks/documentation/manual/manpage-errors-from-man/generic.t >

Bug#1057470: Outdated rkhunter since 2018-02

2023-12-06 Thread Richard Lewis
On Wed, 6 Dec 2023, 04:41 Jörg Frings-Fürst, wrote: > Hello Francois, > > I did not search for Vulnerabilities. However, I am of the opinion that > using > rkhunter in its current form is equivalent to using a 6 year old virus > scanner > and therefore involves an increased security risk. > i

Bug#1057234: sbuild: Generates weird messages in /var/log/syslog

2023-12-04 Thread Richard Lewis
On Fri, 1 Dec 2023, 22:15 Hilmar Preusse, wrote: > > 2023-12-01T09:36:52.230653+01:00 haka2 schroot[3182]: [unstable- > amd64-sbuild-327cf8c2-30d1-4469-aa7b-9bc3653dbc45 chroot] (root->root) > Running > command: "perl -e #012use strict;#012 >use warnings;#012use POSIX;#012 > >

Bug#1056905: trixie: document architecture support in trixie

2023-11-26 Thread Richard Lewis
Package: release-notes tags: trixie X-Debbugs-No-Ack: yes Per https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2023/11/msg5.html mips64el is marked as out-of-sync and may not release with trixie. If so, we will need something in release-notes about architectures being removed. Or maybe both

Bug#862649: Dead upstream

2023-11-19 Thread Richard Lewis
On Sat, 06 Oct 2018 01:11:00 + Chris Knadle wrote: > I was investigating this orphaned package in relation to it being a dependency > for Logcheck, and unfortunately the inactive maintainer is also the upstream > author of mime-construct which was last updated 2010-06-23. That can be seen >

Bug#1019690: lintian: Exit code = 2 when using --show-overrides with overriden lintian error

2023-10-27 Thread Richard Lewis
On Thu, 17 Aug 2023 13:01:43 +0200 Philipp Huebner wrote: > FWIW, I can reproduce and thus confirm this. This issue - that the error code is 2 when --show-overrides is used and 0 otherwise is also reproduced in

Bug#1019202: dh-make-elpa: crashes with: Can't locate object method "gecos"

2023-10-22 Thread Richard Lewis
: > > Hi Richard, > > Чт 19 окт 2023 @ 22:42 Richard Lewis : > > > On Mon, 16 Oct 2023 at 09:00, Lev Lamberov wrote: > >> Вс 15 окт 2023 @ 19:37 Richard Lewis : > >> > On Mon, 05 Sep 2022 19:44:27 -0300 David Bremner > >> > wrote: > &

Bug#1019202: dh-make-elpa: crashes with: Can't locate object method "gecos"

2023-10-19 Thread Richard Lewis
On Mon, 16 Oct 2023 at 09:00, Lev Lamberov wrote: > Вс 15 окт 2023 @ 19:37 Richard Lewis : > > On Mon, 05 Sep 2022 19:44:27 -0300 David Bremner wrote: > >> Lev Lamberov writes: > > I also see this bug in bookwork: dh-make-elpa doesnt work at all > > unless D

Bug#1019202: dh-make-elpa: crashes with: Can't locate object method "gecos"

2023-10-15 Thread Richard Lewis
On Mon, 05 Sep 2022 19:44:27 -0300 David Bremner wrote: > Lev Lamberov writes: > > yes I did cd (just did again to double check). I don't have DEBFULLNAME > set, maybe that makes a difference. I also see this bug in bookwork: dh-make-elpa doesnt work at all unless DEBFULLNAME (and maybe

Bug#1053979: chkrootkit: ignore or lower to info for files owned by installed debian packages and unchanged

2023-10-15 Thread Richard Lewis
Thanks - i really like the idea to checking whether results are from Debian packages as that is the first thing a user will want to know. I doubt upstream would include such a patch, but debian has already made huge changes to the output. There is no concept of 'INFO' or 'lowering' of messages in

Bug#1053898: Hardening rsyslog.service breaks debian/tests/logcheck autopkgtest

2023-10-14 Thread Richard Lewis
On Fri, 13 Oct 2023 at 20:27, Michael Biebl wrote: > It turns out that `PrivateTmp=yes` breaks the logcheck autopkgtest. i think the test tells rsyslog to write to /tmp and then calls logcheck on the output outside the unit. But the PrivateTmp=true means rsyslog is actually writing to

Bug#953591: bash: colors should be enabled by default (force_color_prompt)

2023-10-09 Thread Richard Lewis
On Mon, 9 Oct 2023, 04:09 Kevin Otte, wrote: > I wrote a patch to address #1026379 that I feel would be appropriate > here too. As I noted there, using tput for detection basically means > having ncurses-bin as a Recommends, so we may want a better way of doing > this detection. > is it more

Bug#1043043: UDD patches: marks Forwarded as invalid if not 'no', 'not-needed', 'yes' or URL

2023-10-01 Thread Richard Lewis
On Mon, 7 Aug 2023 01:19:38 +0200 Guillem Jover wrote: > On Fri, 2023-08-04 at 23:35:27 -0300, David da Silva Polverari wrote: > > When using https://udd.debian.org/patches.cgi, I notice that whenever > > the Forwarded field contains anything other than "no", "not-needed", > > "yes" or an URL,

Bug#1051896: rkhunter: CVE-2023-4413

2023-09-14 Thread Richard Lewis
On Thu, 14 Sep 2023, 06:00 Francois Marier, wrote: > On 2023-09-13 at 14:15:53, Moritz Mühlenhoff (j...@inutil.org) wrote: > > https://gist.github.com/MatheuZSecurity/16ef0219db8f85f49f945a25d5eb42d7 > > My summary of this is: it's possible to figure out what files/ports/etc. > rkhunter is

Bug#1049412: logcheck: Does not respect removal of /etc/logcheck/header.txt in bullseye

2023-09-10 Thread Richard Lewis
On Tue, 15 Aug 2023 19:54:26 +0200 Santiago Vila wrote: > In preinst, do something like this: > > if upgrading-from-previous-version-whatever-is-coded >if [ ! -f /etc/logcheck/header.txt ]; then > touch /etc/logcheck.header.was.removed.txt >fi > fi > > Then in postinst, do something

Bug#1040690: emacsen-common analysis for cruft files from elpa-foo packages during apt upgrade

2023-08-28 Thread Richard Lewis
On Thu, 17 Aug 2023, 20:57 Nicholas D Steeves, wrote: > Richard Lewis wrote: > > David Bremner wrote: > > > Richard Lewis writes: > > > > David Bremner wrote: > > > > What happens in the 'apt upgrade' is: > > > > the old emacsen-common

Bug#1049411: chkrootkit: Possible Adore Worm in ansible

2023-08-28 Thread Richard Lewis
On Tue, 15 Aug 2023 at 12:51, Santiago Vila wrote: > On a Debian system with ansible and chkrootkit installed, > chkrootkit warns that ansible has possibly the Adore Worm. > WARNING: Possible Adore Worm installed: > /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/ansible_collections/cyberark/conjur/dev/start.sh

Bug#1049412: logcheck: Does not respect removal of /etc/logcheck/header.txt in bullseye

2023-08-15 Thread Richard Lewis
On Tue, 15 Aug 2023, 13:15 Santiago Vila, wrote: > > On a Debian 11 system where logcheck is installed, removing > /etc/logcheck/header.txt and then upgrading to Debian 12 > makes such file to reappear again. > > > thanks - i agree this is a bug and a patch to fix it would be great :) In the

Bug#684128: src:debian-installer: allow use of binary units in disk partitioner

2023-08-13 Thread Richard Lewis
Holger Wansing writes: > Justin B Rye wrote (Fri, 28 Jul 2023 10:04:09 > +0100): >> Holger Wansing wrote: >> > Thorsten Glaser : >> >> Could this information (valid unit sufficēs) be added to the dialogue >> >> where the size is entered? Screen space should suffice. >> [...] >> > CC'ing

Bug#770171: RE: sshd jail fails when system solely relies on systemd journal for logging

2023-08-11 Thread Richard Lewis
On Fri, 11 Aug 2023 01:11:49 +0100 Andrei Coada wrote: > Hi Team, > > This is getting pretty annoying, a 9 years old inconvenience, especially > now that Debian 12 does not even have a syslog service installed by default. > Fail2ban fails to start right after its installation. did you read the

Bug#994722: apt-show-versions: Syntax error on or around line 378.

2023-08-08 Thread Richard Lewis
control: tags -1 + patch thanks On Sun, 6 Aug 2023 at 17:15, Richard Lewis wrote: > On Sun, 19 Sep 2021 22:41:24 +0100 Richard Lewis > wrote: > > > giving two arguments including one that is not a package shows there is a > > syntax error somewhere around line 378: > &

Bug#1041236: ruby-nokogiri: useless use of a variable in void context in version.rb

2023-08-06 Thread Richard Lewis
On Sun, 16 Jul 2023 10:37:15 +0100 Richard Lewis wrote: > When loading nokogiri, with 'ruby -w' i get a warning > /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/rubygems-integration/3.1.0/gems/nokogiri-1.13.10/lib/nokogiri/version/info.rb:85: > warning: possibly useless use of a variable in voi

Bug#994722: apt-show-versions: Syntax error on or around line 378.

2023-08-06 Thread Richard Lewis
On Sun, 19 Sep 2021 22:41:24 +0100 Richard Lewis wrote: > giving two arguments including one that is not a package shows there is a > syntax error somewhere around line 378: > > $ apt-show-versions apt whatever > apt:amd64/bullseye 2.2.4 uptodate > Use of uniniti

Bug#939973: tiger: lin001w does not recognize usrmerge

2023-08-06 Thread Richard Lewis
On Tue, 10 Sep 2019 17:15:45 +0200 Benoit Friry wrote: > I did migrate "all in /usr" with usrmerge package. > After the migration, all my files are in /usr, and there are links from > /lib to /usr/lib, /bin to /usr/bin and /sbin to /usr/sbin. > > lin001w reports files found through links in root

Bug#1039591: logcheck: prompting due to modified conffiles which were not modified by the user: /etc/logcheck/header.txt

2023-08-06 Thread Richard Lewis
On Wed, 12 Jul 2023 at 12:20, Mathias Gibbens wrote: > > Andreas, thanks for the report, and Richard, thanks for your work as > well. I think the changes look good, and if there's no other concerns > I'll merge the salsa MR, and upload a new version to unstable. Once > that's done, I'll also

Bug#1040690: Bug#1030394: Bug#1040690: reassign bug to correct package

2023-08-05 Thread Richard Lewis
On Mon, 24 Jul 2023, 11:35 David Bremner, wrote: > Richard Lewis writes: > > On Sun, 23 Jul 2023, 12:34 David Bremner, wrote: > > > > As far as the actual bug with failing to clean up, I ran > > % systemd-nspawn --machine bullseye /usr/lib/dh-elpa/helper

Bug#932957: #932957 Please migrate Release Notes to reStructuredText

2023-07-30 Thread Richard Lewis
Holger Wansing writes: > Richard Lewis wrote (Sun, 30 Jul 2023 > 11:10:10 +0100): >> in [0] the '#' is meant to indicate 'run this as root', but the rst has >> '.. code-block:: shell' so the commands are being formatted as a >> comment. > > Yes, there are differen

Bug#932957: #932957 Please migrate Release Notes to reStructuredText

2023-07-30 Thread Richard Lewis
Holger Wansing writes: > Tests were successful, the results can be found on > https://people.debian.org/~holgerw/release-notes_sphinx/www.debian.org/, > in the exact same structure as they would appear on the Debian > website. nice - it looks like it's come on a long way from the previous

Bug#1041524: logcheck: badly handles "rsyslog + journalctl" checking

2023-07-27 Thread Richard Lewis
On Mon, 24 Jul 2023, 12:33 Thomas Parmelan, wrote: > Le vendredi 21 juillet 2023 à 23:32, d'après > > > > (or stop using rsyslog entirely). > > I quite like my old habits wrt to /var/log/* :p > > But I now understand that all that is logged via rsyslog comes from > systemd-journald anyway, so

Bug#1042384: Modifications made for logcheck.logfiles.d break usage of -L option

2023-07-27 Thread Richard Lewis
On Thu, 27 Jul 2023, 10:15 phep, wrote: > > the -L option does not overrules anymore the default > logfiles list as stated in the manpage, it now extends it. > true - we should perhaps clarify the documentation to make this clearer > We are impacted here since in addition to logcheck standard

Bug#1030394: Bug#1040690: Bug#1030394: Bug#1040690: reassign bug to correct package

2023-07-23 Thread Richard Lewis
On Sun, 23 Jul 2023, 12:34 David Bremner, wrote: > Richard Lewis writes: > > > I suspect a plain chroot isnt 'enough', i had success with > systemd-nspawn: > > > > ln -s /tmp/bullseye/ /var/lib/machines > > > > # im sure there is a better way than these tw

Bug#1040690: reproducer(s)

2023-07-23 Thread Richard Lewis
On Sun, 23 Jul 2023, 11:19 David Bremner, wrote: > Richard Lewis writes: > > > I suspect a plain chroot isnt 'enough', i had success with > systemd-nspawn: > > > > Not sure what you mean here. The reproducer using chroot you posted > works fine for me, it's

Bug#1041715: chkrootkit runs at very inopportune times (when the server is loaded)

2023-07-22 Thread Richard Lewis
On Sat, 22 Jul 2023 at 15:48, james.bottom...@hansenpartnership.com wrote: > The systemd chkrootkit.timer has this line: > > OnBootSec=30min > > Which means it runs 30 minutes after a reboot. I tend to upgrade my servers > in the early morning, which means it's still running when people start

Bug#1040690: Bug#1030394: Bug#1040690: reassign bug to correct package

2023-07-22 Thread Richard Lewis
I suspect a plain chroot isnt 'enough', i had success with systemd-nspawn: ln -s /tmp/bullseye/ /var/lib/machines # im sure there is a better way than these two lines cp /etc/passwd bullseye/etc/passwd cp /etc/shadow bullseye/etc/shadow systemd-nspawn --ephemeral --boot --machine bullseye #

Bug#1030394: Bug#1040690: reassign bug to correct package

2023-07-22 Thread Richard Lewis
An attempt to reproduce - partially successful, maybe reveals deeper issues! su - mkdir /tmp/bullseye cd /tmp/bullseye debootstrap bullseye . https://deb.debian.org/debian chroot . apt install emacs elpa-helpful sed -i s/bullseye/bookworm/ ./etc/apt/sources.list chroot . apt update chroot . apt

Bug#1030394: Bug#1040690: reassign bug to correct package

2023-07-22 Thread Richard Lewis
On Fri, 21 Jul 2023 at 23:39, Nicholas D Steeves wrote: > retitle 1030394 dh-elpa: elpa-csv-mode 1.20 not cleaned up important to note that it's not just this one package, but many elpa packages (but not all) which were either upgraded or purged as part of the upgrade: I get the same set of

Bug#1041524: logcheck: badly handles "rsyslog + journalctl" checking

2023-07-21 Thread Richard Lewis
On Fri, 21 Jul 2023 at 09:57, Thomas Parmelan wrote: > > Le jeudi 20 juillet 2023 à 21:43, d'après > Richard Lewis : > With the default configuration and without my patch I get this in the > report, which is really not easy to read because of the huge difference > in ti

Bug#1037437: From fresh bookworm install default sshd jail in fail2ban won’t work

2023-07-21 Thread Richard Lewis
i wonder if a missing python3-systemd is the only reason for this bug: fail2ban + sshd works fine with backend=auto for me, and i have recommends installed. So rather than changing the default 'backend', debian should just promote python3-systemd to 'depends'. On Fri, 21 Jul 2023, 07:03 Jeremy

Bug#1041524: logcheck: badly handles "rsyslog + journalctl" checking

2023-07-20 Thread Richard Lewis
On Thu, 20 Jul 2023 12:15:25 +0200 Thomas Parmelan wrote: Some interesting ideas in here - i think i am missing something though: > The systemd journal is checked by default, in addition to rsyslog files, > starting with logcheck version 1.4.1. But the format of timestamps are > different by

Bug#1041236: ruby-nokogiri: useless use of a variable in void context in version.rb

2023-07-16 Thread Richard Lewis
Package: ruby-nokogiri Version: 1.13.10+dfsg-2+b1 Severity: normal X-Debbugs-Cc: richard.lewis.deb...@googlemail.com Dear Maintainer, When loading nokogiri, with 'ruby -w' i get a warning /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/rubygems-integration/3.1.0/gems/nokogiri-1.13.10/lib/nokogiri/version/info.rb:85:

Bug#931205: chkrootkit: Honor Single Unix Specification (SUS) by allowing multiple arguments to be grouped behind single `-`

2023-07-15 Thread Richard Lewis
On Fri, 28 Jun 2019 13:39:46 +0530 Avinash Sonawane wrote: > As per SUS Utility syntax guideline 5[0], command-line utility should allow > multiple arguments to be grouped behind single `-` delimiter. This is a valid request and would be reasonably straightforward for someone to implement. The

Bug#1004232: chkrootkit: overzealous Linux.Xor.DDoS warnings

2023-07-15 Thread Richard Lewis
On Sun, 23 Jan 2022 10:27:26 +0100 Samuel Thibault wrote: > chkrootkit reports this: > > Searching for Linux.Xor.DDoS ...INFECTED: > Possible Malicious Linux.Xor.DDoS installed > /tmp/lynx-2.9.0dev.10/configure >

Bug#1040990: chromium: switch package from master_preferences to initial_preferences & warn users

2023-07-14 Thread Richard Lewis
fwiw i'd appreciate a NEWS.Debian entry as well, it's too easy to miss messages from postinst - much better to have it somewhere people can read at their convenience (and apt-list-changes send the NEWS by email) than scrolling by - i imagine unattended-upgrades doesnt even show people those

Bug#1040690: me too

2023-07-10 Thread Richard Lewis
On Mon, 10 Jul 2023 20:07:30 +0100 Richard Lewis < richard.lewis.deb...@googlemail.com> wrote: > i've only ever run stable, i get the following list > > Warning (comp): Cannot look-up eln file as no source file was found for > /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/elpa/helpful-0.18/helpful

Bug#1040690: me too

2023-07-10 Thread Richard Lewis
i've only ever run stable, i get the following list Warning (comp): Cannot look-up eln file as no source file was found for /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/elpa/helpful-0.18/helpful.elc Warning (comp): Cannot look-up eln file as no source file was found for

Bug#1014193: This hit me on upgrade to bookworm

2023-07-09 Thread Richard Lewis
After upgrading to bookworm, encfs segfaults for me when trying to open encrypted directories created a long time ago. The solution in https://askubuntu.com/questions/1405656/encfs-segfault-in-version-22-04 worked, which is to edit /etc/ssl/opensslf.conf and add [openssl_init] providers =

Bug#1039591: logcheck: prompting due to modified conffiles which were not modified by the user: /etc/logcheck/header.txt

2023-07-07 Thread Richard Lewis
https://salsa.debian.org/debian/logcheck/-/merge_requests/18 now has the patch for this On Thu, 29 Jun 2023 at 21:36, Richard Lewis wrote: > > I think you might be missing one md5sum - I found 4 versions in the git repos > > # > for x in $(git log debian/h

Bug#1039591: logcheck: prompting due to modified conffiles which were not modified by the user: /etc/logcheck/header.txt

2023-06-29 Thread Richard Lewis
I think you might be missing one md5sum - I found 4 versions in the git repos # for x in $(git log debian/header.txt | awk '/commit/{print $2}'); do git show $x:debian/header.txt | md5sum ; done d9206d89f2f8d85d346a23da90459862 - a32fc12d69628d96756fd3af3f8b3ecd -

Bug#1039591: logcheck: prompting due to modified conffiles which were not modified by the user: /etc/logcheck/header.txt

2023-06-29 Thread Richard Lewis
On Tue, 27 Jun 2023, 22:01 Andreas Beckmann, wrote: > Control: tag -1 patch > > On 27/06/2023 19.21, Richard Lewis wrote: > > header.txt has not been modified since 2015. > > I've found three versions (with sightly different spelling): > * lenny > * squeeze, wheezy,

Bug#1039591: logcheck: prompting due to modified conffiles which were not modified by the user: /etc/logcheck/header.txt

2023-06-27 Thread Richard Lewis
header.txt has not been modified since 2015. it is a simple yext file that is installed with debian/logcheck.install the only change is that it used to be installed into /usr/share but got moved to /etc to be a conffile in 2021. This didnt trigger any piuparts issues and there was no change to

Bug#1039442: release notes dont mention the security archive

2023-06-25 Thread Richard Lewis
package: release-notes I am sure i must be missing something, but i couldnt see anywhere in the release notes does it explain what the sources.list for security updates should be. i was expecting this to be mentioned in one of

Bug#1039078: logcheck: Force LANG locale for journalctl to get date in English format

2023-06-25 Thread Richard Lewis
On Sun, 25 Jun 2023, 15:09 Ludovic Rousseau, wrote: > > It looks like journalctl now displays the month using the configured > locale. > > Compare: > # journalctl -t smartd -S "Jun 25 10:00:00" > juin 25 11:09:27 zotac smartd[548]: Device: /dev/sda [SAT], SMART Usage > Attribu> > juin 25

Bug#1038163:

2023-06-18 Thread Richard Lewis
ill reply later, with a proper patch (or MR if i can find the right place on salsa) but in the meantime, the NEWS.Debian in the logcheck-database package has details of how to support both formats in case people find this an issue

Bug#1007998: release-notes: netcat-openbsd incompatibilities

2023-05-21 Thread Richard Lewis
On Mon, 8 May 2023 12:13:40 +0100 Richard Lewis wrote: > On Sun, 20 Mar 2022 11:40:44 +0100 Guilhem Moulin wrote: > > > netcat-openbsd 1.218-5 adds support for abstract sockets (on Linux), Suggested words at: https://salsa.debian.org/ddp-team/release-notes/-/merge_requests/172

Bug#995397: Dropped support for 32-bit Xen PV guests should be mentioned in i386 release notes

2023-05-21 Thread Richard Lewis
On Thu, 14 Oct 2021 15:48:07 +0200 Paul Gevers wrote: > On 30-09-2021 22:59, Andy Smith wrote: > > Thanks. I am not sure whether it fits in "Items not limited to the > > upgrade process" or under "Obsolescence and deprecation", but how > > about: > > I think the second one makes more sense. > > >

Bug#1034344: Bug#1028002: dash: sid dash globs no longer allow [^...] to negate a class; upcoming breaking change from bullseye

2023-05-21 Thread Richard Lewis
On Fri, 06 Jan 2023 10:52:31 +0100 "Andrej Shadura" wrote: > On Thu, 5 Jan 2023, at 21:32, наб wrote: > > Please for the love of god add this to the NEWS. > > I /guarantee/ people are using '[^0-9]' to mean "not 0-9", > > and similar constructs, even if they are well-versed in the shell

Bug#1036358: release-notes: Debian 12 expected to be last release w/ installer for i386

2023-05-21 Thread Richard Lewis
On Sat, 20 May 2023 15:21:49 +0100 Justin B Rye wrote: > Perhaps the angle the Release Notes should be taking on this is to > announce what's going to happen for dist-upgrades to trixie/forkie. > When do we stop producing official Release Notes? That was my aim too. Think people would welcome

Bug#1033511: release-notes: mention the switch from old polkit .pkla files to JavaScript .rules

2023-05-21 Thread Richard Lewis
On Mon, 8 May 2023 13:42:26 +0100 Richard Lewis wrote: > By searching the internet, and reading the previous version, I think i > understood the following ... MR submitted here: https://salsa.debian.org/ddp-team/release-notes/-/merge_requests/170

Bug#932957: #932957 Please migrate Release Notes to reStructuredText

2023-05-18 Thread Richard Lewis
On Thu, 18 May 2023 22:39:11 +0200 Holger Wansing wrote: > I worked on this recently, and I have something like a prototype ready. > It can be found (as html) at > https://people.debian.org/~holgerw/release-notes_sphinx/ I hope the below doesn't come across as negative - it;s not meant to be:

Bug#1036245: “Any arguments after the -- are treated as filenames and arguments.” in the bash man page makes no sense the way stated

2023-05-18 Thread Richard Lewis
On Thu, 18 May 2023, 00:57 Al Ma, wrote: > > In the man page for bash we see the line, > > “-- A -- signals the end of options and disables further option > processing. Any arguments after the -- are treated as filenames and > arguments. An argument of - is equivalent to --.” > I suggest the

Bug#1000518: logcheck: separate filtering for apt term.log and or unattended-upgrades-dpkg.log etc?

2023-05-18 Thread Richard Lewis
On Thu, 18 May 2023, 04:45 Paul Wise, wrote: > Thanks for the info and thoughts. > > The idea would do something like your second suggestion; run logcheck > on apt logs separately, but within Debian instead of just on my system. > Perhaps we could also distribute the ignore regexes across

Bug#1000518: logcheck: separate filtering for apt term.log and or unattended-upgrades-dpkg.log etc?

2023-05-15 Thread Richard Lewis
I'm sorry, but i read the bug and i am not entirely sure i understood what the request for logcheck is! but if you want to use logcheck to scan apt logs this is already possible. You just need to add the name of the log to a file in the logfiles.d directory. Your script using sed could be then be

Bug#1033511: release-notes: mention the switch from old polkit .pkla files to JavaScript .rules

2023-05-08 Thread Richard Lewis
i cant be the only one who has seen many references to "polkit" but never managed to understand what it does - or whether i was using it as part of gnome etc - so this was helpful! By searching the internet, and reading the previous version, I think i understood the following

Bug#1007998: release-notes: netcat-openbsd incompatibilities

2023-05-08 Thread Richard Lewis
On Sun, 20 Mar 2022 11:40:44 +0100 Guilhem Moulin wrote: > netcat-openbsd 1.218-5 adds support for abstract sockets (on Linux), > which is a breaking change with possible security implications: > https://sources.debian.org/src/netcat-openbsd/1.218-5/debian/NEWS/ . > elbrus suggested to mention

Bug#987971: (for post boomworm)

2023-05-08 Thread Richard Lewis
On Sun, 12 Mar 2023 23:59:16 + Richard Lewis wrote: > I think leaving the logcheck user behind on purge is actually best > practice because it may still own files (eg in /etc/logcheck if that > was stored in a version control system). This thread reminded me of this logcheck b

Bug#987017: recommends 3 different ways to find obsolete packages, pick one

2023-05-08 Thread Richard Lewis
On Thu, 15 Apr 2021 13:24:29 -0400 Antoine Beaupre wrote: > The release notes, in sections 4.2.2 and 4.8, actually suggest *three* > *different* ways of finding what are essential orphaned packages: > > aptitude search '~o' > aptitude search '?narrow(?installed, ?not(?origin(Debian)))' >

Bug#1012174: Inconsistent advice wrt security archive

2023-05-08 Thread Richard Lewis
On Wed, 3 May 2023 21:52:47 +0200 Paul Gevers wrote: > Hi Richard, > > On 01-05-2023 16:26, Richard Lewis wrote: > > I dont think the 'errata' page above is in the release-notes repository (?) > > That's correct, but that's also why the original reporter filed t

Bug#1030119: Bug#1018260: openssh-server: fills the log with "deprecated reading of user environment enabled"

2023-05-01 Thread Richard Lewis
On Tue, 31 Jan 2023 10:52:54 + Colin Watson wrote: > There's now > https://salsa.debian.org/ssh-team/openssh/-/merge_requests/21 for this, > but as noted there I have documentation concerns about simply removing > this. Copying my comments from there: > At a bare minimum, this needs an

Bug#1012174: Inconsistent advice wrt security archive

2023-05-01 Thread Richard Lewis
On Tue, 31 May 2022 16:13:27 +0100 Brian Potkin wrote: > On Tue 31 May 2022 at 14:58:00 +0200, Julien Cristau wrote: > > On Tue, May 31, 2022 at 02:26:39PM +0200, David Prévot wrote: > > > The [errata] advises one to use > > > > > > deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security

Bug#992345:

2023-05-01 Thread Richard Lewis
package: release-notes # disk space tags 992345 + patch # usrmerge tags 992116 + patch # both patches are in salsa MRs

Bug#992113: release-notes: Initial availability of Bazel build system in Debian

2023-05-01 Thread Richard Lewis
On Wed, 11 Aug 2021 15:28:12 -0400 Olek Wojnar wrote: > If possible, please include the following in section 2.2 (What's new in the > distribution?) of the release notes for the following architectures: > amd64, arm64, ppc64el, s390x, ppc64, riscv64 Is this perhaps an old bug that should be

Bug#1030040: release-notes: usrmerge and dist-upgrade

2023-05-01 Thread Richard Lewis
control: tags -1 + patch (In case of duplication, just wanted to ensure the BTS had a link to this MR (which covers this and the other bug about usrmerge): https://salsa.debian.org/ddp-team/release-notes/-/merge_requests/155

Bug#1034248: release-notes: Document that GTK4 apps are not accessible with screen reader

2023-05-01 Thread Richard Lewis
On Thu, 27 Apr 2023 22:19:53 +0200 Holger Wansing wrote: > Hi Paul, > > Paul Gevers wrote (Thu, 27 Apr 2023 22:10:16 +0200): > > > > + If you depend on a screen reader and want to upgrade to , > > we suggest > > + that you install a desktop like MATE instead of GNOME. > > > > I guess our

Bug#1028149: bookworm: ntp has been replaced by ntpsec

2023-05-01 Thread Richard Lewis
control: tags -1 + patch thanks > On Sat, Apr 15, 2023 at 04:31:45PM +0100, Richard Lewis wrote: > > if no-one else does, i can draft some text that says > > - ntp is dropped (do we know why?). > > I think the main reason is very slow upstream development with a large >

Bug#992345:

2023-05-01 Thread Richard Lewis
control: tags + patch thanks This one, on free space needed is hopefully addressed by https://salsa.debian.org/ddp-team/release-notes/-/merge_requests/159

Bug#992116: release-notes: Add breakage from merged-/usr-via-aliased-dirs

2023-05-01 Thread Richard Lewis
control: tags + patch thanks Think this is covered by https://salsa.debian.org/ddp-team/release-notes/-/merge_requests/155

Bug#1033675: release-notes: apt-key improves system security with 3rd party sources

2023-05-01 Thread Richard Lewis
On Wed, 29 Mar 2023 22:58:35 +0200 Rainer Dorsch wrote: > according to > https://linuxnews.de/2021/04/10/debian-11-repositories-aus-3-hand-ohne-apt-key-einbinden/ > Debian 12 supports and requires a safer way to import keys for 3rd > party repos. If that is the case, I suggest to add this to the

Bug#1033538: chkrootkit: Chkrootkit reports a false positive?

2023-04-30 Thread Richard Lewis
control: clone -1 -2 control: retitle -2 spurious warnings if no sniffers (ifpromisc needs a proper exit status to fix this) thanks On Sun, 30 Apr 2023, 11:33 Red Omen, wrote: > Package: chkrootkit > Version: 0.57-2+b1 > Followup-For: Bug #1033538 > Thanks - this should be in a separate bug

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