Bug#335959: clarifying the fix

2005-11-25 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
Just to clarify for the folks following along at home: Steve Kemp accidentally left out a leading 'U' on the last line of the fixed example. it should really look like this: # DscIndices: Sources Release . .gz bzip2.sh # DebIndices: Packages Release . .gz bzip2.sh # UDebIndices: Packages . .gz

Bug#340892: libbonobo: debian/watch file seems bound to GNOME 2.8.x, though current package is for 2.10.1, and upstream is at 2.13.0

2005-11-26 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
Package: libbonobo Severity: normal Tags: patch The existing debian/watch file for libbonobo seems to be capable of only detecting libbonobo versions 2.8.x. Given that the current version of libbonobo in debian is 2.10.1, and the current released version from GNOME is 2.13.0, the existing

Bug#340557: more updates to my version of socat-1.4.3.0-1

2005-11-26 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
-dev (closes: #326296) * bumped policy to 3.6.2.1 (no changes) * added debian/watch suggested from http://dehs.alioth.debian.org/ * set debhelper compatibility level to 5 (added debian/compat, removed export from debian/rules, updated debian/control) -- Daniel Kahn Gillmor [EMAIL

Bug#340899: minicom mishandles config files with lines = 80 characters

2005-11-26 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
Package: minicom Version: 2.1-10 Severity: normal Tags: patch try adding a comment line to /etc/minicom/minirc.fubar that is longer than 80 chars. It screws up linecounting for future error reports about the config file, and (worse!) it tries to evaluate the tail of that line after char 80 as

Bug#340901: minicom build process includes many rejected patches without failing

2005-11-26 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
Package: minicom Version: 2.1-10 Severity: normal the minicom packaging includes a number of patches in debian/patches which fail to apply cleanly during a pbuilder process. (maybe because they've been adopted upstream?) You can see this from (for example) the results of the powerpc buildd:

Bug#340892: libbonobo: debian/watch file seems bound to GNOME 2.8.x, though current package is for 2.10.1, and upstream is at 2.13.0

2005-11-27 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
Hello-- Thanks for the quick reply! i understand about not wanting to release a development version into debian. i'm still a bit confused about GNOME versioning, i suppose, since some GNOME projects appear to be stable at odd minor numbers (e.g. gnumeric is in debian at 1.5.90 right now). But

Bug#340901: minicom build process includes many rejected patches without failing

2005-11-27 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
Thanks for the prompt reply, Martin. On November 26, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: The patches are good. i did a bit more looking into the minicom build process, and of course you're right: they're good. However, the build process emits a lot of bad-looking error messages in the initial clean

Bug#329683: ftp.debian.org: Please remove mime-codecs

2005-12-01 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On November 29, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: See above, seems the vm removal thingy is a misunderstanding. What a relief! For anyone looking to stop using mime-codecs within the vm suite, i thought i'd explicitly mention the perl one-liners that can replace them. From my ~/.vm: ; ***

Bug#341247: an example of the breakage

2005-12-02 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
just wanted to chime in and report that this is indeed a problem. An example of such breakage is bug 341634 [0], filed against evince. If a user of beast encounters this problem, it looks like it can be repaired with: update-mime-database /usr/share/mime as suggested by Sebastien Bacher

Bug#342067: gnome-games: gnobots2 image theme accidentally includes extra graphics

2005-12-04 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
Package: gnome-games Version: 1:2.10.1-5.1 Severity: minor Tags: patch in gnobots2 on my mixed etch/sid system, i'm offered two non-sensical graphics themes teleport and rteleport. It looks like this is because a function in graphics.c is mis-filtering /usr/share/pixmaps/gnobots, and doesn't

Bug#342180: fontforge: broken watch file, maybe packaging change needed?

2005-12-05 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
Package: fontforge Version: 0.0.20050911-1.dkg.0 Severity: normal Tags: patch it looks to me like the current debian/watch doesn't actually track the source for fontforge (perhaps because upstream isn't terribly consistent with providing links). the following watchfile seems to work for me,

Bug#314963: followup about /etc/serial.conf

2006-01-10 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
i don't fully understand the /etc/serial.conf vs. /var/lib/setserial/autoserial.conf distinction, but i think the reason the script was trying to bail might be this: /etc/init.d/etc-setserial is responsible for working with the canonical /etc/serial.conf, if such a file exists. if such a file

Bug#252104: seconded!

2006-01-13 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
i'd like to second this particular request. in addition to making it easier to use xpdf's code in other applications, having a shared library would make dealing with security problems in xpdf much simpler. there has been a flood of recent DSA's [0] due to xpdf code copied into other projects.

Bug#342388: please set up /usr/share/inkscape/default.svg automagicallly (not just A4)

2005-12-07 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
Package: inkscape Version: 0.43-0.0etch1 Severity: normal Inkscape is great! my only complaint is that it always launches by default with A4 paper (yes, i'm an American... sigh). when i change /usr/share/inkscape/default.svg by hand, new versions of inkscape overwrite my changes. it seems

Bug#343840: patch available for per-user default templates

2005-12-18 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
tags 343840 +patch thanks (this patch was first submitted to bug 342388, but it is probably more relevant here.) The attached patch allows for individual users to keep their preferred default template in ~/.inkscape/templates/default.svg with this patch applied, a user who wants to have a

Bug#342388: patch available for per-user default templates

2005-12-18 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
tags 342388 +patch thanks The attached patch allows for individual users to keep their preferred default template in ~/.inkscape/templates/default.svg with this patch applied, a user who wants to have a default template of, say, US letter, could simply do: mkdir -p ~/.inkscape/templates ln

Bug#343852: inkscape: please enable inkboard collaborative editing features

2005-12-18 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
Package: inkscape Version: 0.43-0.0etch2 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch inkscape 0.43 has collaborative, networked editing via XMPP built-in, with the Inkboard project. More info is available about it in /usr/share/doc/inkscape/NEWS.gz The attached patch seems to enable this feature for the

Bug#343852: inkscape: please enable inkboard collaborative editing features

2005-12-19 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
Thanks for the prompt response, Wolfram. On December 19, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I know the efforts around inkboard quite well and I thought about including the option in the debian package. But since there are some bug (besides security risks) which are being worked on, I decided not to

Bug#338032: lavaps: Gtk-WARNINGs about Unknown tag 'zombie'

2005-11-07 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
Package: lavaps Version: 2.7-4 Severity: minor Tags: patch i was just experimenting with lavaps. it seems to work well, but i noticed that i was getting error messages on stderr when i left-clicked on a zombie process. The error messages look like this: (lavaps:9389): Gtk-WARNING **: Failed

Bug#338115: mime-codecs: base64-decode fails to properly decode many valid base64-encoded files

2005-11-08 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
Package: mime-codecs Version: 7.19-7 Severity: grave Tags: patch Justification: renders package unusable It appears that the buffering recently introduced to base64-decode has some major flaws in it that render of all base64-encoded files that are larger than the input buffer size (~36K)

Bug#329075: inkscape: reproducible in 0.42.2-1

2005-11-09 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
Package: inkscape Version: 0.42.2-1 Followup-For: Bug #329075 found 329075 0.42.2-1 thanks i'm able to reproduce this problem on a mixed etch/sid system. printing as bitmap produces the expected clipping mask, as does exporting to a PNG. However, printing using postscript operators ignores the

Bug#244711: update request

2005-11-09 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
Just a ping to see what's going on with this package... it would be great to see this move into debian (even if only to non-free at the moment). Any word on those two remaining Numerical Algorithm routines? --dkg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Bug#338699: udev: fails to run appropriate hotplug scripts for openct devices after upgrade to 0.70-1

2005-11-11 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
Package: udev Version: 0.071-1 Severity: normal Tags: patch After an upgrade to udev 0.70-1 (which forced a removal of hotplug), i found that my cryptoflex eGate USB smartcard reader wasn't being properly attached to the openct framework when it was automatically plugged in. Since i need the

Bug#296464: initrd-tools: still present in 0.1.82

2005-10-03 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
Package: initrd-tools Version: 0.1.82 Followup-For: Bug #296464 found 296464 0.1.82 tags 296464 + patch thanks This is still a problem for me with a /dev/random keyed swap partition and linux-image-2.6-686 version 2.6.12-10. I'm running with version 0.1.82 of initrd-tools and cryptsetup

Bug#303403: same as bug 296464

2005-10-03 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
This looks very similar to bug 296464 to me. the extra prompt at boot time is likely just a prompt for the crypted swap partition. There is a patch to mkinitrd attached to that bug [0] which avoids running cryptsetup on devices with a key specified in /etc/cryptab during the initrd phase. hth,

Bug#333548: debian/fontforge-patches/005_x_www_browser.diff isn't applying correctly

2005-10-12 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
Package: fontforge Version: 0.0.20050911-1 Severity: minor Tags: patch the debian package-specific web browser patch isn't applying during a run of dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot for me, probably because the list of preferred browsers changed upstream recently. i'm attaching a revised version of

Bug#333587: fontforge: scriptable setting of the TTF weight (from the OS/2 tab of the Font View)

2005-10-12 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
Package: fontforge Version: 0.0.20050911-1.dkg.0 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch Attached is a patch to add a function SetTTFWeight() to fontforge's scripting commands, since i couldn't find a way to set this variable from any existing script function. You can currently access this information

Bug#335944: gnome-session leaves esd running in $HOME, causing pam_mount's close_session unmount to fail

2005-10-26 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
Package: gnome-session Severity: normal Tags: patch in a system using pam_mount, it can be important for security that the user's home directory be unmounted (via pam_close_session()) when they log out. However, debian's gnome-session spawns esd at login with a current working directory (cwd)

Bug#336101: coreutils: nohup -p pid should let you background a running process

2005-10-27 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
Package: coreutils Version: 5.2.1-2.1 Severity: wishlist This is an unabashed wishlist. But i notice that Sun's nohup command is capable of acting on already-running processes. See: http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/ahl/20040709 for more details on how it's done from the developer. It would

Bug#336241: mediawiki: New version available (1.5.1) which adds some nice features

2005-10-28 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
Package: mediawiki Severity: wishlist hello! mediaWiki released version 1.5 this month (now up to 1.5.1 as a security update has been issued). it would be great to see it in debian. You can see the release notes here: http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=366110 In

Bug#336555: mailutils: mailbox/imap/folder.c:imap_writeline() can't successfully write lines that contain 254 chars

2005-10-30 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
compression library - runtime mailutils recommends no packages. -- no debconf information From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Sep 13 17:41:04 2005 X-VM-Bookmark: 4 X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] [9 Tuesday 13 September 2005 17:41:04 -0400 Daniel Kahn Gillmor [EMAIL PROTECTED] nil 1

Bug#318507: vlock maintenance

2005-10-17 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On October 17, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I'm currently not sure if changing vlock is the right approach - or if it is a misfeature in the pam module. i agree with you that there may be problems in the pam module as well, and it would be better if

Bug#328602: Offer of adoption for redir

2005-10-21 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi there-- i'm happy to take over maintenance for redir. i'm not a debian-developer yet, but i've started the NM process. i've uploaded a version of redir containing version 2.2.1 here: http://lair.fifthhorseman.net/~dkg/src/redir/ it fixes a

Bug#328602: Offer of adoption for redir

2005-10-21 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
:06AM -0400, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: Hi there-- i'm happy to take over maintenance for redir. i'm not a debian-developer yet, but i've started the NM process. i've uploaded a version of redir containing version 2.2.1 here: http://lair.fifthhorseman.net/~dkg/src/redir

Bug#335069: pcmcia-cs: failed to detect U.S. Robotics USR7901 PCMCIA NIC (uses pcnet_cs)

2005-10-21 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
Package: pcmcia-cs Version: 3.2.8-5 Severity: normal Tags: patch i've got a PCMCIA network card from US Robotics. [0] The model number is USR7901 (a.k.a. USR997901). Under Linux, this card uses the pcnet_cs kernel module. if the following stanza is added to /etc/pcmcia/config, the card should

Bug#335288: redir: buffer in copyloop() is dubiously allocated and referenced

2005-10-22 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
Package: redir Version: 2.2.1-1 Severity: normal In the course of tweaking the packaging for redir, i found that the copyloop() function in this latest version (2.2.1) seems defective. in 2.1, copyloop used: char buf[4096] But upstream's copyloop() in 2.2.1 allocates buf like this: char

Bug#329683: yikes!

2005-11-22 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
Hello-- i just noticed this bug. i'm really hoping that the vm package doesn't go away. if mime-codecs go away, that wouldn't be the end of the world (as manoj mentioned, there are one-line perl equivalents available), but i really want vm itself to stay in debian. i would be willing to

Bug#187443: doesn't seem to be an issue any longer as of at least 1.4.2.0-1

2005-11-23 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
i'm running socat version 1.4.2.0-1, and i don't see any hexadecimal 0xB4 characters in the man page, despite there being many 0x27 characters there: [EMAIL PROTECTED] socat]$ zcat /usr/share/man/man1/socat.1.gz | hexdump -e '1/1 %02x \n' | grep ' B4 ' | wc -l 0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] socat]$ zcat

Bug#311064: the fix for this man page

2005-11-23 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
tags 311064 + patch thanks here's a patch for the broken man page. i hope it's useful: --- socat-1.4.2.0/socat.1 2005-03-18 16:24:55.0 -0500 +++ socat-1.4.2.0.dkg/socat.1 2005-11-24 00:08:26.0 -0500 @@ -2034,7 +2034,7 @@ connected to the TCP socket (nofork)\. The shell

Bug#340557: socat: new upstream version available

2005-11-23 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
Package: socat Version: 1.4.2.0-1 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch socat version 1.4.3 is available from upstream at: http://www.dest-unreach.org/socat/ http://www.dest-unreach.org/socat/download/socat-1.4.3.0.tar.gz i've built it into a deb with minimal changes (just enough to close the

Bug#401623: Confirmation

2006-12-06 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At 2006-12-04 23:21, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: When receiving mail with X-DSPAM headers already present, local dspam adds its own to the bottom. I just confirmed this: dspam does not replace already-present X-DSPAM headers on a functioning dspam

Bug#400849: 10.3 (just released) claims a fix for this problem

2006-12-12 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi folks-- this is definitely a serious bug, and 10.3 has been released, claiming to fix it. I would actually say that this bug makes trac unusable in a standard configuration (e.g. with an active svn repository, when hosted via apache). Perhaps

Bug#337317: seeing this problem (or something very similar) with 0.6.11-1

2006-12-13 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 reopen 337317 thanks Hi folks-- I recently upgraded openct, and switched to kernel 2.6.18 as well -- i know: too many things changing at once! But i think i'm seeing a recurrence of this problem, unfortunately. After the switchover, i noticed

Bug#337317: seeing this problem (or something very similar) with 0.6.11-1

2006-12-13 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thanks for the quick followup, Andreas-- At 2006-12-13 22:10, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: If you have both /dev/bus/usb and /proc/bus/usb that is a bug in your system config and can trigger this. hrm. /dev/bus/usb appears to be created/managed by

Bug#264985: this bug *is* a security concern

2006-09-11 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
i agree with Sam Morris that this bug should be treated as a security concern. checkrestart appears to be used primarily as a security audit tool: to find outdated versions of libraries still in use, particularly after security upgrades. It fails to report the things it claims to be able to

Bug#397683: trac 0.10.1 is available; it includes a security fix for a CSRF vulnerability

2006-11-08 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
Package: trac Version: 0.10-3dkg1 Severity: grave Tags: security Justification: user security hole Trac 0.10.1 is now available. It contains a fix for a CSRF vulnerability: http://trac.edgewall.org/wiki/TracDownload It would be great if this new version could make it into debian soon.

Bug#397744: nslu2-utils: leds choice of fast and slow are swapped.

2006-11-08 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
Package: nslu2-utils Version: 0.10+r71-1 Severity: minor i think the senses of fast and slow are reversed in the way that /usr/bin/leds sets up the lamps. I tend to think fast should be high frequency (short period), and slow should be low frequency (long period). the following patch fixes

Bug#388511: could not reproduce

2006-10-20 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
i'm running a mixed etch/sid system, and could not reproduce this problem with bash_completion turned on. TAB below reflects my hitting the tab key: [0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ dpkg -l bash grep dpkg libphp-pclzip Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold |

Bug#384381: trac 0.10-2 forces removal of libapache2-mod-python from etch

2006-10-20 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
i tried to upgrade my instance of trac today from 0.10-1 to 0.10-2, and apt wants to remove libapache2-mod-python (i have version 3.2.10-1 installed, which is the etch version). i'm not sure i understand why the removal is being requested, but if i were to agree with it, it would make trac

Bug#384381: trac 0.10-2 forces removal of libapache2-mod-python from etch

2006-10-20 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On October 20, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: A new upload has been made that i believe solves the problem. Check under incoming.debian.org Yep. That does it for me. I'll remember the versioned Conflicts: approach for next time i see something like this. Thanks, Jesus. --dkg -- To

Bug#394610: confirming

2006-10-24 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
I can confirm this. the precise error messages in my syslog look like this: Oct 24 09:03:07 squeak udevd[4790]: add_to_rules: invalid SUBSYSTEMS operation Oct 24 09:03:07 squeak udevd[4790]: add_to_rules: invalid rule '/etc/udev/rules.d/z60_openct.rules:49' Oct 24 09:03:07 squeak udevd[4790]:

Bug#386497: confirming Jan Wagner's workaround

2006-09-29 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
i just wanted to followup to confirm Jan Wagner's workaround. When i blacklist 8250_pnp, i can boot successfully with 2.6.17-2-686. i blacklisted 8250_pnp in two spots: /etc/hotplug/blacklist.d/8250_pnp, and also in /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist (i'm running backported udev and not hotplug on this

Bug#370657: Confirming package build for official 0.10 release

2006-10-04 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
I just built the trac package from a combination of: a) the official 0.10 release tarball (http://ftp.edgewall.com/pub/trac/trac-0.10.tar.gz) b) the beta1 diff.gz in experimental (0.10~b1-1) (ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/t/trac/trac_0.10~b1-1.diff.gz) the diff applies fine

Bug#387610: can this bug be closed for subversion?

2006-09-28 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
Perhaps i'm not following the thread on bug #367610 properly, but it sounds to me like this isn't actually a subversion bug any more, but rather an apache bug. Is this correct? If so, can bug 367610 be closed (or reassigned)? Or does svn 1.4.0 still failing on ia64, even with the libapr fix?

Bug#386497: confirming here, also with serial console

2006-09-28 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
Hi folks-- i can also duplicate this bug on a mixed sarge/sarge-backports machine with a serial console. I haven't had the chance yet to try the workaround jan wagner has suggested. The errors from the console look like this: ... 00:06: ttyS1 at I/O 0x2f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A hw_random: RNG

Bug#400804: putty-tools: puttygen can create world-readable private keys

2006-11-28 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
Package: putty-tools Version: 0.58-5 Severity: normal When i run puttygen (either to create a new key, or to translate an openssh-style key), the emitted ppk file (the putty private key) is created with the standard umask, which by default in debian leaves things world-readable. this is in

Bug#400806: Please include contrib/kh2reg.py somewhere like /usr/share/doc/putty-tools/contrib/

2006-11-28 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
Package: putty-tools Version: 0.58-5 Severity: wishlist When writing tools to interact with Windows systems, the kh2reg.py script in putty's contrib/ directory is actually pretty useful for pre-seeding windows registry Putty info with known hosts information. While i know i can grab it by

Bug#396667: confirmation and patch

2006-11-28 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
tags 396667 +patch thanks i'm seeing this also, when i try to build libivorbisidec (tremor, the integer-math-only ogg vorbis decoder, a new package for debian). # Add here commands to configure the package. ./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr checking for autoconf... checking for automake... yes

Bug#168966: can we raise the severity of #168966? Or forward it upstream? or both?

2008-10-10 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
I question whether debian bug #168966 is appropriately tagged with severity: minor. /etc/sudoers syntax is not for the faint of heart (q.v. sudoers(5)). And any sudoers file of even minor complexity can be challenging to debug if the reported line number of the error is wrong. I suggest that

Bug#476177: confirming the diagnosis for debian #476177

2008-10-16 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
I can confirm Jacob Winther's diagnosis: rm /usr/lib/irssi/modules/libfe_silc.so was sufficient for me to avoid getting the duplicated messages. I have not yet tried the modification of the Makefile to see if that builds acceptable packages. Thanks for the heads-up, Jacob! --dkg

Bug#495630: ITP: libfaketime -- report faked system time to programs

2008-08-26 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
retitle 495630 ITP: faketime: report faked system time to programs thanks As of version 0.8, upstream is now providing a wrapper script (/usr/bin/faketime), so the package can be built along the lines of fakeroot and fakechroot. Upstream has also provided a man page, which is quite nice.

Bug#496727: partman fails with LVM over dm-crypt over RAID with the lenny beta2 d-i

2008-08-26 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
Package: installation-reports Boot method: netboot Image version: lenny d-i beta2 Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2008 21:22:47 -0400 Machine: monkeyman Processor: Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.20GHz Memory: 1G Partitions: 0 shoveler:/# df -Tl FilesystemType 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on

Bug#496921: gpgv: man page EXAMPLES section broken

2008-08-28 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
Package: gpgv Version: 1.4.9-3 Severity: minor Tags: patch -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The EXAMPLES section of gpgv(1) is confusing and unclear. Attached is a patch to improve it. Regards, --dkg - -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers

Bug#121313: more followup on aptitude failing quietly

2008-08-28 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
These two bugs both seem related, in that aptitude is masking problems and making it difficult to diagnose a failed (or compromised) mirror: http://bugs.debian.org/457372 http://bugs.debian.org/121313 Maybe they should be merged? I'm behind an explicit http_proxy which (while it knows that

Bug#496727: partman fails with LVM over dm-crypt over RAID with the lenny beta2 d-i

2008-08-28 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On Thu 2008-08-28 11:40:51 -0400, Jérémy Bobbio wrote: On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 09:45:33PM -0400, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: Image version: lenny d-i beta2 FWIW, this arrangment (LVM over dm-crypt over RAID) seems like a reasonable common one, so it should be easy to configure from d-i. See

Bug#501085: seahorse creates all-capable PGP keys when it should create Sign-Only keys

2008-10-03 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
Package: seahorse Version: 2.22.3-2 Severity: normal -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 When creating a new OpenPGP key, seahorse sets all capabilities on the key (Encrypt, Certify, Sign, Authenticate) even though it claims to create Sign-Only keys. To reproduce from a bare account:

Bug#501085: followup on seahorse gpg key interaction

2008-10-03 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
From an strace of a running seahorse process (i used strace -f -s4096 seahorse), i get this output during the key creation of a key that is ostensibly RSA (Sign-Only): [...] 11214 execve(/usr/bin/gpg, [gpg, --batch, --no-sk-comment, --lc-messages, C, --lc-ctype, C, --status-fd, 16, --no-tty,

Bug#501340: sqlite3 error matching distinct unicode strings

2008-10-06 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
Package: sqlite3 Version: 3.5.9-3 Severity: important -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Here is a unicode SQL script: - - CREATE TABLE foo (a varchar(10) UNIQUE); INSERT INTO foo (a) VALUES ('@'); INSERT INTO foo (a) VALUES (NULL); INSERT INTO foo (a) VALUES ('●');

Bug#501340: narrowing down the problem

2008-10-06 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
retitle 501340 sqlite3 is wrong on SELECT DISTINCT a WHERE a IS NOT NULL over a TEXT UNIQUE column thanks OK, i'm narrowing down the case where this seems to be a problem. A couple notes: * if the a column is not declared UNIQUE, the misbehavior goes away. * including the NULL entry

Bug#501624: libjs-jquery: README.Debian refers to Prototype instead of JQuery

2008-10-08 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
Package: libjs-jquery Version: 1.2.6-1 Severity: minor Tags: patch -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 - --- /usr/share/doc/libjs-jquery/README.Debian 2008-07-18 10:52:02.0 -0400 +++ tmp/README.Debian 2008-10-08 22:07:53.0 -0400 @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ jquery for Debian

Bug#494991: git-daemon-run should run git-daemon as a non-privileged user

2008-08-13 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
Package: git-daemon-run Severity: wishlist -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 It looks to me like git-daemon-run creates a listening service running git-daemon as the superuser. I've set up similar runit-supervised git-daemon instances that operate as a non-privileged user and they

Bug#441989: Status on libcrypt-dsa-perl?

2008-08-13 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
What's the status on this ITP? It would be useful to have libcrypt-dsa-perl in debian. --dkg pgpEwSjjZqelG.pgp Description: PGP signature

Bug#42158: reducing severity

2008-08-14 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On Thu 2008-08-14 09:32:26 -0400, Bdale Garbee wrote: I'm in the process of packaging upstream head of CVS for pax, and spent some time looking at this bug. I haven't found the root cause yet, but it appears to be an upstream problem and not unique to Debian. Thanks for looking into this,

Bug#42158: a FreeBSD reference in disagreement with pax's behavior

2008-08-15 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
Tim Kientzle of FreeBSD (author of libarchive, attempting to CC here) describes the cpio format here: http://people.freebsd.org/~kientzle/libarchive/man/cpio.5.txt This document states about the SRV4 (newc) format (magic 070701, which is what we're dealing with): In this format,

Bug#42158: testing pax from the heirloom toolchest in reference to debian #42158

2008-08-18 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On Mon 2008-08-18 12:53:07 -0400, Tim Kientzle wrote: Oh, yeah. Gunnar Ritter's Heirloom toolchest (based on open-sourced ATT code) is also a good comparison point: http://heirloom.sourceforge.net/tools.html I just tested the heirloom suite here with a GNU cpio-built archive, and it seems

Bug#495630: ITP: libfaketime -- report faked system time to programs

2008-08-19 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Daniel Kahn Gillmor [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Package name: libfaketime Version : 0.7 Upstream Author : [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://www.code-wizards.com/projects/libfaketime

Bug#495630: libfaketime or just faketime?

2008-08-19 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
The libfaketime LD_PRELOAD hack would be really useful to me for writing a test suite for some time-sensitive code. However, packaging it as a library seems a little bit weird. I'm tempted to package it instead as a simple binary package called faketime, by analogy with fakeroot and fakechroot.

Bug#495630: ITP: libfaketime -- report faked system time to programs

2008-08-19 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
(CC'ing upstream for both datefudge and libfaketime) This is in reference to my proposal to package libfaketime for debian, found here: http://bugs.debian.org/495630 On Tue 2008-08-19 03:27:47 -0400, Peter Palfrader wrote: How does this differ from datefudge? On Tue 2008-08-19 05:41:31

Bug#457372: aptitude: confirmation of bug 457372

2008-08-19 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
Package: aptitude Version: 0.4.11.8-1 Followup-For: Bug #457372 -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Even worse than saying Err: and then exiting with status 255 is *not* saying Err: and exiting with status 255: 0 nik:/# aptitude update Hit http://security.debian.org lenny/updates

Bug#495630: ITP: libfaketime -- report faked system time to programs

2008-08-19 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On Tue 2008-08-19 13:33:06 -0400, Wolfgang Hommel wrote: Actually, if you could point out in more detail how you'd like libfaketime to be enhanced, e.g. how the time specification syntax could be improved from your perspective, I'm certainly interested in working on that. I didn't find

Bug#457372: aptitude: confirmation of bug 457372

2008-08-20 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On Tue 2008-08-19 14:07:15 -0400, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: This was on a debian lenny amd64 vserver system. When i switched /etc/apt/sources.list to use ftp.us.debian.org (instead of ftp.debian,org), it looks like these silent errors went away. These errors are back today, even

Bug#495832: cryptsetup(8) suggests default cipher is aes-cbc-plain, but luksFormat defaults to aes-cbc-essiv

2008-08-20 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
Package: cryptsetup Version: 2:1.0.6-6 Severity: minor -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 This is a documentation bug, not a functionality bug: cryptsetup luksFormat does the right thing by choosing aes-cbc-essiv as the default cipher. However, the man page for cryptsetup suggests

Bug#495873: silc client fails if terminal is resized during passphrase prompt

2008-08-20 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
Package: silc Version: 1.1.4-1+b1 Severity: normal -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The silc client fails if the controlling terminal is resized while the private key passphrase prompt is present. Steps to reproduce: 0) Open a resizable terminal emulator (konsole,

Bug#495881: util-linux: setsid masks return code of child process when invoked as process group leader

2008-08-20 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
in case we are process group leader + * + * 2008-08-20 Daniel Kahn Gillmor [EMAIL PROTECTED] + * - if forked, wait on child process and emit its return code (exit + * 111 if child doesn't exit cleanly). * */ #include stdio.h #include unistd.h #include stdlib.h +#include sys/types.h

Bug#499229: irssi segfaults on quit when xmpp and otr modules are loaded

2008-09-16 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
Package: irssi Version: 0.8.12-5 Severity: normal -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have both the OTR and XMPP plugins for irssi installed on my system (see below for versions). irssi will reliably segfault if i do the following (using a real account on a real XMPP server, of

Bug#361539: Confirming the problem with keyrings in non-user-owned directories

2008-09-19 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
clone 361539 -1 reassign -1 gnupg thanks On Fri 2008-09-19 06:14:31 -0400, Jonathan McDowell wrote: I agree. However the bug you've followed up to is assigned to the debian-keyring package, whereas the issue really seems to be gpg's behaviour. Hrm, yes you're right about that. It affects

Bug#497868: coreutils: Please add flags to base64 for drop-in compatibility with fourmilab's binary

2008-09-04 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
Package: coreutils Version: 6.10-6 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 there is another base64 program that performs the same purpose as base64 in coreutils: http://www.fourmilab.ch/webtools/base64/ It accepts -e or --encode to mean the same thing that

Bug#498401: irssi-plugin-otr truncates ~/.irssi/otr/otr.key during new key generation

2008-09-09 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
Package: irssi-plugin-otr Version: 0.2-1 Severity: normal -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I just tried out irssi-plugin-otr for the first time. Very nice. I'm a little concerned about the behavior when using the plugin on multiple networks, though, given that i've seen irssi

Bug#498406: Please weaken Dependency of postgresql-common on ssl-cert to Recommends:

2008-09-09 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
Package: postgresql-common Version: 90 Severity: normal -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Currently, you cannot install the postgresql server without installing postgresql-common. and postgresql-common depends on ssl-cert, which brings in its own dependencies. There are reasonable

Bug#498502: irssi-plugin-otr: OTR corrupts nickserv conversations

2008-09-10 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
Package: irssi-plugin-otr Version: 0.2-1 Severity: normal -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 If you already have a registered nick on some $IRC_SERVER, Try the following: * launch irssi with no arguments, and make sure ~/.irssi/config contains no autoconnect stanzas. * /load

Bug#462167: gnutls 2.1.5 is in unstable

2008-02-11 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
Hi Jack-- gnutls 2.2.1 is now in unstable: [0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ date Mon Feb 11 11:54:50 EST 2008 [0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ apt-cache policy libgnutls-dev libgnutls-dev: Installed: 2.2.1-3 Candidate: 2.2.1-3 Version table: *** 2.2.1-3 0 200 http://mirrors.kernel.org

Bug#464628: sometimes 'tweak' bails after ^X w

2008-02-07 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
retitle 464628 tweak crashes as superuser when terminal size is exceeded thanks Thanks for the report! On Thu 2008-02-07 21:19:10 -0500, A. Costa wrote: As 'root' in an xterm: # Show current size. % echo $COLUMNS $LINES 99 34 # view hard drive % tweak -l /dev/hda Do

Bug#459232: manpages: random(4) has inconsistent information about /proc

2008-01-04 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
Package: manpages Version: 2.67-1 Severity: normal -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 random(4) currently says: /proc Interface The files in the directory /proc/sys/kernel/random (present since 2.3.16) provide an additional interface to the /dev/random device.

Bug#459566: [Resolvconf-devel] Bug#459566: resolvconf: dnscache script uses == bash-ism

2008-01-07 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On Mon 2008-01-07 06:05:51 -0500, Jeff King wrote: Line 107 uses '==', which is a bash-ism, breaking the script for dash users. It can be replaced with the POSIX '='. Patch is below. --- dnscache.orig 2008-01-07 06:05:12.0 -0500 +++ dnscache 2008-01-07 05:56:02.0 -0500

Bug#459566: [Resolvconf-devel] Bug#459566: Bug#459566: resolvconf: dnscache script uses == bash-ism

2008-01-07 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
tags 458566 +pending thanks On Mon 2008-01-07 16:21:12 -0500, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: I would say you should commit it. The fix is obvious, correct, and will solve a problem for the wast set of users using dash as /bin/sh. I am one of them. :) i've committed the fix to svn. hopefully

Bug#459566: [Resolvconf-devel] Bug#459566: Bug#459566: resolvconf: dnscache script uses == bash-ism

2008-01-08 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On Mon 2008-01-07 18:46:17 -0500, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: i've committed the fix to svn. hopefully it'll make it into 1.38. Looks like we missed the window for 1.38. it'll be in 1.39. Sorry for the delay, and thanks for the report! Regards, --dkg pgpudv3CbqjG6.pgp Description: PGP

Bug#453805: thanks for fixing postfix-doc -- confirming that it works

2007-12-11 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
Just following up here to say that this fix worked for me on a system that only has postfix-doc installed: [0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# aptitude install postfix-doc/experimental Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Reading extended state

Bug#458038: nullmailer: new upstream version (1.0.4) is available

2007-12-27 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
Package: nullmailer Version: 1:1.03-5 Severity: wishlist -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Version 1.0.4 of nullmailer is available from upstream: http://untroubled.org/nullmailer/ Thanks for keeping nullmailer up-to-date in debian! Regards, --dkg - -- System

Bug#458375: ITP: xdotool -- simulate X11 keyboard/mouse input

2007-12-30 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Daniel Kahn Gillmor [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Package name: xdotool Version : 20071229 Upstream Author : Jordan Sissel [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://www.semicomplete.com/blog/projects

Bug#431181: [Resolvconf-devel] Bug#431181: resolvconf: Please replace abuse of /dev/shm with /lib/init/rw and /var

2007-12-31 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
tags 431181 +pending thanks On Mon 2007-12-31 06:10:17 -0500, Roger Leigh wrote: Has anything happened regarding this bug? I would really like to see this fixed for Lenny. The patch I provided has been tested, including for Etch-Lenny upgrades. Thanks for the patch, and for the ping,

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