On 19/2/19 8:50 pm, Ansgar Burchardt wrote:
It seems strange to treat top-level directories differently: why
should /usr be allowed to be a symlink, but /usr/local, /usr/lib or
/usr/share/doc not? I can't come up with a better idea than that
top-level directories are something like "driver
Package: dovecot-core
Version: 1:2.1.7-1
Severity: critical
Justification: causes serious data loss
The dovecot-core postinst makes serious assumptions about the state of
SSL certificates on a users machine. If a user has both the certificate
and the private key in one file called
Package: xfce4-smartbookmark-plugin
Version: 0.4.4-1
Severity: important
steven@liquified:~% dpkg-source -x xfce4-smartbookmark-plugin_0.4.4-1.dsc
dpkg-source: info: extracting xfce4-smartbookmark-plugin in
xfce4-smartbookmark-plugin-0.4.4
dpkg-source: info: unpacking
Package: libao4
Version: 1.0.0-5
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
Hi,
Please find attached my diff to add multi-arch support to libao. I
have also removed the .la files that were shipped by the package, which
closes bug #633179.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers
Hi,
It seems it does affect the package in Ubuntu, which you can download
from:
http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/y/yapra/yapra_0.1.2-3_all.deb
Cheers,
--
Steve
...In the UNIX world, people tend to interpret `non-technical user'
as
Package: yapra
Version: 0.1.2-3
Severity: grave
While looking at the Contents file, I noticed something strange at the
end of it. Running dpkg-deb -c confirmed it.
Following is an excerpt from dpkg-deb -c.
-rw-r--r-- root/root 1042 2010-10-18 10:28
../usr/share/man/man1/yapra.1.gz
Package: python-debian
Version: 0.1.17~bzr184~launchpad1
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
Hi,
The BaseVersion class in debian_support contains an re_valid_version
regular expression. It isn't quite strict enough, to quote from Policy
5.6.12: if there is no epoch then colons are not allowed..
Hi,
Speaking as the maintainer of this package, I'm happy for this package
to be removed from the archive. Shall we retitle and re-assign this bug?
Cheers,
--
Steve
In the beginning was the word, and the word was content-type: text/plain
--
To
severity 577759 important
kthxbye
This bug now impacts unstable, and worse, will impact people using
debmirror to mirror the sources of unstable.
Cheers,
--
Steve
bob2 joy hasn't spoken on IRC in 45 seconds, he must be MIA!
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Package: twin
Version: 0.5.1-3
Severity: serious
Tags: patch
Twin currently requires versioning information be replaced in four
different places in its packaging. This is unacceptable, and it should
get the information from one place (the changelog). Attached is a patch
that achieves that.
--
Package: fbreader
Version: 0.8.12-2
Severity: normal
Hi,
fbreader is a native package, with no .diff.gz. It should be
reuploaded as a non-native package.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers gutsy-updates
APT policy: (500, 'gutsy-updates'), (500,
Package: bluez-libs
Version: 3.22-1
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
Hi,
While merging the new Debian package for bluez-libs for Ubuntu, I
came across this patch, which bumps the version required in the .shlibs
file. This is required due to new symbols added in 3.12.
-- System Information:
Package: bluez-utils
Version: 3.22-1
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
Hi,
I just merged the Ubuntu changes into the latest Debian bluez-utils
package, and have attached a debdiff detailing the changes.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers gutsy-updates
APT
Package: muine
Version: 0.8.7-1
Severity: serious
Justification: no longer builds from source
muine can't build from source due to libflac transition.
===
cc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -I.. -DG_LOG_DOMAIN=\libmuine\
-DGNOMELOCALEDIR=\/usr/share/locale\ -DORBIT2=1 -pthread
-DPNG_NO_MMX_CODE
tags 322208 + patch
kthxbye
Hi,
I've written a patch that doesn't preserve the DISPLAY
environment variable by the usual standard, but stores it out of the
way, and then sets it again before calling debsign.
Cheers,
--
Steve
I'm a doctor, not a
Package: nbd-server
Version: 1:2.9.3-1
Severity: important
Hi,
Setting up nbd-server (1:2.9.3-1) ...
/var/lib/dpkg/info/nbd-server.postinst: line 92: .: filename argument
required
.: usage: . filename [arguments]
dpkg: error processing nbd-server (--configure):
subprocess post-installation
Package: libapache-mod-backhand
Severity: important
Hi,
The config script for this package is full of bashisms, which neatly
causes this package to fail to install when /bin/sh isn't bash.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers edgy-updates
APT policy:
tags 414292 + patch
thanks
Hi,
Attached is a patch to fix the postinst and postrm for this package
to use, firstly to use /bin/sh, since you don't use any bash-specific
features, secondly to make use of set -e, and thirdly to utilise
getent group to test if the group exists. In other news,
Package: htop
Severity: wishlist
There is a new upstream version (0.6.5) available at htop.sf.net.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers edgy-updates
APT policy: (500, 'edgy-updates'), (500, 'edgy-security'), (500, 'edgy')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Shell:
Hi,
Attached is an updated patch against the 2.0.9-5.1 version of
the templates.
Cheers,
--
Steve
I may be love's bitch, but at least I'm man enough to admit it.
- Spike
--- nufw-2.0.9/debian/control~ 2006-12-03 22:13:38.0 +1100
tags 349839 + patch
tags 356772 + patch
tags 361428 + patch
thanks
Hi,
Attached is a patch to sort out the issues listed below.
* #349839: nufw: debconf-updatepo is launched too late in the build
process
This adds a call to debconf-updatepo in the clean target of
debian/rules.
*
Package: aircrack-ng
Version: 0.6.1-2
Severity: important
The /usr/sbin/airmon-ng script completly breaks if /bin/sh is dash. In fact,
the entire script is full of bashisms.
The solution is to either use /bin/bash, or I can provide a (243 line) patch to
fix all of the bashisms.
-- System
Package: ddns3-client
Severity: important
Tags: patch
The init script included with this package fails to work with dash,
due to using 'source', which is a bashism. '.' is POSIX, and works
with any shell. Attached is a patch to fix this
I'd also suggest using $() instead of ``, but that's just
Hi Joey,
This is more a bug in file, as opposed to to a bug in
Linda. Linda depends on the output of file containing the word
'executable', but with file 4.17-2, this is reported:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp/linda-lab-85632/unpacked/usr/sbin% file dpkg-*
dpkg-preconfigure: awk script text
Package: network-manager
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
I'd like to propose this patch gets applied to the next upload of
network-manager. It is still in development upstream, and having
debugging packages available makes it that little bit easier for
problems to be diagnosed.
-- System
Package: python-statgrab
Version: 0.4-1
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
Hi,
Firstly, this package contains python in it's Build-Depends,
which will get dragged by the very next dependancy, namely
python2.3-dev, which means the python Build-Depends can be dropped.
Secondly, you call
a crash when run with an app linked against
+GTK 2.8. (Closes: #345334)
+
+ -- Steve Kowalik [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun, 15 Jan 2006 03:37:52 +1100
+
perl-tk (1:804.027-1) experimental; urgency=low
* Upload to experimental until numerous transitions in unstable
diff -u perl-tk-804.027/debian
Package: albatross
Severity: serious
Tags: patch
Hi,
This package fails to build from source when your uid isn't
root. It fails since starting the session server tries to write a file
underneath /var/log. Additionally, python-albatross-common misses a
dependancy on adduser, and
Package: debfoster
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
Hi,
There is a typo in the debfoster.8 manual page. Attached is a
patch you can apply that fixes the issue.
debfoster.8.patch
Description: Binary data
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers breezy
Package: svn-buildpackage
Version: 0.6.14.1
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
Hi,
So, I got bored and implemented -l 2 in svn-inject, since I
personally prefer that layout than -l 1. The patch is very intrusive,
mainly because I also added 'use strict'.
-- System Information:
Debian
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
* Package name: libpoe-filter-ircd-perl
Version : 1.2-1
Upstream Author : Jonathan Steinert, now Chris Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED]
* URL or Web page : http://search.cpan.org/~bingos/POE-Filter-IRCD-1.2/
* License : GPL/Artistic
Package: iptables
Version: 1.3.3-2
Severity: normal
The source package for iptables is built as Debian-native, not as a
normal source package, as shown in the .dsc:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~% grep -A 2 Files iptables_1.3.3-2.dsc
Files:
d3f55ef0a1aec874f25ffe52e0249d93 1277216 iptables_1.3.3-2.tar.gz
Package: python2.4-minimal
Version: 2.4.1-4
Severity: minor
Hi,
The README.Debian included with the python2.4-minimal package does not
substitute out PVER, as shown below:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~% head -n 4 /usr/share/doc/python2.4-minimal/README.Debian
Contents of the PVER-minimal package
On Wed, 10 Aug 2005 00:25:49 +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen uttered
I just tested building jts, and by coincident saw this warning from
dpkg-genchanges:
dpkg-genchanges: warning: missing Section for source files
Neither lintian nor linda warned about the missing section when I used
them to
On Sat, 16 Jul 2005 15:52:21 +0900, Junichi Uekawa uttered
Package: linda
Version: 0.3.15
Hi,
This is a workaround patch to work around limitations in python2.3
When you are going to move over to python 2.4,
you can replace this piece with
_ =
On Sun, 10 Jul 2005 08:42:42 +0200, Goswin Brederlow uttered
I think it would be a good idea for lintian to test for C++ ABI mixups
during the transition. As an example look at bookmarkbridge:
% ldd /usr/bin/bookmarkbridge | grep std
libstdc++.so.6 = /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6
On Thu, 28 Apr 2005 20:40:09 -0400, Glenn Maynard uttered
Peter's complaint is a legitimate and important one--it really is a terrible
package name--so please don't dismiss it. Package names are a shared
namespace, and must be chosen intelligently.
I concur. When I built this program
On Sun, 27 Mar 2005 19:26:03 +0200, Artur R. Czechowski uttered
E: php4-rrdtool; config has no shebang line.
Of course after installing a package php4-rrdtool.{pre,post}{inst,rm} files
_have_ a shebang. Also, unpacking package manually (ar x, tar zxvf) also
gives a files with proper shebang.
Hi,
I have tried booting two different businesscard images (URLs below) on
my Ultra5 (hardware below), and the results I got:
Sarge:
Overall: Doesn't boot
It seems the Sarge rc3 businesscard ISO uses SILO 1.4.9, and
complains about Fast Data Access MMU Miss, as well as
Package: installation-reports
Severity: normal
INSTALL REPORT
Debian-installer-version: rc2, downloaded from website today
uname -a: N/A
Date: 24/1/2005
Method: Booting off CD
Machine: AlphaStation 400 4/166
Processor: EV4 166MHz
Memory: 216Mb
Root Device: dka400
Root Size/partition table:
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