Bug#785672: Critical ext4 data corruption bug

2015-05-19 Thread Elmar Stellnberger
Am 19.05.15 um 01:12 schrieb Josh Triplett: Package: src:linux Version: 4.0.2-1 Severity: critical Tags: upstream 4.0.3 includes a fix for a critical ext4 bug that can result in major data loss. I believe this is the bug I just hit on my server, resulting in massive filesystem corruption. See

Bug#817192: php5-cgi of version 5.6 tries to load libraries of version 5.4

2016-03-08 Thread Elmar Stellnberger
Package: php5-cgi Version: 5.6.17+dfsg-3 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, php5-cgi --version Failed loading /usr/lib/php5.4/20100525/opcache.so: /usr/lib/php5.4/20100525/opcache.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic

Bug#835288: ITP: confinedrv -- set up a virtual drive with confined access rights

2016-08-24 Thread Elmar Stellnberger
Package: wnpp Version: 1.7.7; issued 2013-08-23 Subject: ITP: confinedrv -- set up a virtual drive with confined access rights Severity: wishlist * Package name : confinedrv Version : 1.7.7 Upstream Author : Elmar Stellnberger <estel...@elstel.org> * URL : http://www.elstel.org/qemu * L

Bug#835368: RFS: confinedrv/1.7.7-3 [ITP] -- Hi everyone!

2016-08-25 Thread Elmar Stellnberger
Am 2016-08-25 um 06:52 schrieb Tobias Frost: Am Mittwoch, den 24.08.2016, 22:06 +0200 schrieb Elmar Stellnberger: The license in use, C-FSL v1.0 will still need to be reviewed. A predecessor license C-FSL v0.8 had already been discussed on debian-legal some time ago. However v1.0 has

Bug#835368: RFS: confinedrv/1.7.7-3 [ITP] -- Hi everyone!

2016-08-25 Thread Elmar Stellnberger
Am 2016-08-25 um 10:45 schrieb Gianfranco Costamagna: I see many GPL-2 similar-looking licenses, with some special exceptions, e.g. "In addition to the above license, you can relicense this software in whatever form you want, with a special exception: you can't do foo and bar if you change the

Bug#835368: RFS: confinedrv/1.7.7-3 [ITP] -- Hi everyone!

2016-08-25 Thread Elmar Stellnberger
Am 2016-08-25 um 12:39 schrieb Andrew Shadura: On 25 August 2016 at 11:53, Elmar Stellnberger <estel...@elstel.org> wrote: Am 2016-08-25 um 10:45 schrieb Gianfranco Costamagna: I see many GPL-2 similar-looking licenses, with some special exceptions, e.g. "In addition to the above l

Bug#838344: linux-image-4.6.0-1-amd64: allow a patch that makes elder radeon cards UltraHD ready

2016-09-20 Thread Elmar Stellnberger
Package: src:linux Version: 4.6.4-1 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch Here come the patches. Am 2016-09-20 um 09:16 schrieb Elmar Stellnberger: Package: src:linux Version: 4.6.4-1 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch In March I had developed a kernel patch that allows to set the TMDS frequency

Bug#838343: linux-image-4.6.0-1-amd64: allow a patch that makes elder radeon cards UltraHD ready

2016-09-20 Thread Elmar Stellnberger
Package: src:linux Version: 4.6.4-1 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch In March I had developed a kernel patch that allows to set the TMDS frequency for radeon cards by a new kernel parameter called radeon.hdmimhz if the automatically set frequency stays either behind of what has been advertised

Bug#835368: RFS: confinedrv/1.7.7-3 [ITP] -- Hi everyone!

2016-08-25 Thread Elmar Stellnberger
Hi Gianfranco, Hi Tobias, Hi all Readers of this Debian Mentor Request, Am 2016-08-25 um 13:12 schrieb Gianfranco Costamagna: Now this is an additional restriction: you need to provide everything that is necessary to run your software under an OSS based system (with exceptions given for the

Bug#835368: RFS: confinedrv/1.7.7-3 [ITP] -- Hi everyone!

2016-08-24 Thread Elmar Stellnberger
Package: sponsorship-requests Subject: RFS: confinedrv/1.7.7-3 [ITP] -- Hi everyone! Severity: wishlist Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "confinedrv": * Package name: confinedrv Version : 1.7.7-3 Upstream Author : Elmar Stellnber

Bug#904612: packaging of qcoan fully revised

2018-07-28 Thread Elmar Stellnberger
The packaging quality of qcoan has been highly improved since my original RFS. There are no more lintian errors that should be resolved and with the advice from wRAR at #debian-mentors I have improved the package internals (no nested .tar.bz2, debian/install list). see:

Bug#904612: RFS: qcoan/2.0-3 [ITP]

2018-07-25 Thread Elmar Stellnberger
Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: wishlist Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "qcoan" * Package name: qcoan Version : 2.0-3 Upstream Author : Elmar Stellnberger estel...@elstel.org * URL : https://www.elstel.org/coan/

Bug#913488: scdaemon: gnupg --card-status does not recognize smart card via usb reader

2018-11-11 Thread Elmar Stellnberger
Package: scdaemon Version: 2.1.18-8~deb9u3 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, The problem is that gnupg does not recognize my gpg-card if I insert it via the Gemalto PC-card reader; if I use the integrated reader it works. The problem only occurs with Debian GNU Linux 9. The USB reader still

Bug#913488: [pkg-gnupg-maint] Bug#913488: scdaemon: gnupg --card-status does not recognize smart card via usb reader

2018-11-12 Thread Elmar Stellnberger
On 12.11.18 11:52, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: Hi Elmar-- On Sun 2018-11-11 15:54:42 +0100, Elmar Stellnberger wrote: The problem is that gnupg does not recognize my gpg-card if I insert it via the Gemalto PC-card reader; if I use the integrated reader it works. The problem only occurs

Bug#838344: Acknowledgement (linux-image-4.6.0-1-amd64: allow a patch that makes elder radeon cards UltraHD ready)

2018-12-31 Thread Elmar Stellnberger
It is now about two years ago that I have developed a patch to set the TMDS frequency for Radeon cards. A similar patch for Nouveau and for the Windows ATI driver does already exist. The patch has been proven to work well in the long term at least with the Radeon R5 230 and the Radeon HD

Bug#928064: Acknowledgement (matchbox battery panel: can not view battery state)

2019-04-28 Thread Elmar Stellnberger
I have just investigated the issue further and found out that matchbox still relies on the old /proc/acpi interface in mb-applet-battery.c: #define ACPI_PREFIX "/proc/acpi" #define BAT_PREFIX "battery/BAT0" #define AC_PREFIX "ac_adapter/AC0" ... f = fopen(ACPI_PREFIX "/" BAT_PREFIX "/info",

Bug#928064: matchbox battery panel: can not view battery state

2019-04-27 Thread Elmar Stellnberger
Package: matchbox Version: 1:6 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, Matchbox is the ideal desktop environment for my EEEPC 4G. However the battery pnael fails to view the battery fill state. This is a problem of matchbox since I can retrieve the battery state via sysfs and upower easily: cat

Bug#932915: RFS: qcoan/2.0-6

2019-07-28 Thread Elmar Stellnberger
Borowski: On Sat, Jul 27, 2019 at 10:00:45AM +0200, Elmar Stellnberger wrote: This is a strange error. I have tested the package locally on Debian 10 as well as on Debian 8 and Debian 9 via the OpenSuSE build service. Well, "Debian 9" is oldstable, while all new packages must go t

Bug#932915: RFS: qcoan/2.0-6

2019-07-30 Thread Elmar Stellnberger
Hi Adam Thanks for the work you have put into qcoan. I hope that we will get someone else to have a look at the program soon. I have now added the missing dependency for qcoan. Regards, Elmar Am 30.07.19 um 06:16 schrieb Adam Borowski: On Mon, Jul 29, 2019 at 02:02:58PM +0200, Elmar

Bug#932915: RFS: qcoan/2.0-6

2019-07-29 Thread Elmar Stellnberger
I have now changed something in the dependencies and hope that this will work better for you. Am 28.07.19 um 02:02 schrieb Adam Borowski: On Sat, Jul 27, 2019 at 10:00:45AM +0200, Elmar Stellnberger wrote: This is a strange error. I have tested the package locally on Debian 10 as well

Bug#932915: RFS: qcoan/2.0-6

2019-07-27 Thread Elmar Stellnberger
:13PM +0200, Elmar Stellnberger wrote: * Package name: qcoan Version : 2.0-6 Changes since the last upload: The package is now available under GPLv3 I'm afraid it fails with: dh_testroot rm -f build-qt/* changelog.Debian.gz dh_clean debian/rules build #find

Bug#932909: RFS: xchroot/2.3.4-2

2019-07-24 Thread Elmar Stellnberger
Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: wishlist Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "xchroot": * Package name: xchroot Version : 2.3.4-2 Upstream Author : Elmar Stellnberger * URL : https://www.elstel.org/xchroot/

Bug#932911: RFS: bundsteg/1.2-2

2019-07-24 Thread Elmar Stellnberger
Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: wishlist Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "bundsteg": * Package name: bundsteg Version : 1.2-2 Upstream Author : Elmar Stellnberger * URL : https://www.elstel.org/bundsteg/

Bug#932913: RFS: confinedrv/1.7.7-4

2019-07-24 Thread Elmar Stellnberger
Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: wishlist Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "confinedrv": * Package name: confinedrv Version : 1.7.7-4 Upstream Author : Elmar Stellnberger * URL : https://www.elstel.org/qemu/

Bug#932915: RFS: qcoan/2.0-6

2019-07-24 Thread Elmar Stellnberger
Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: wishlist Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "qcoan": * Package name: qcoan Version : 2.0-6 Upstream Author : Elmar Stellnberger * URL : https://www.elstel.org/coan/ * License

Bug#932999: ITP: bundsteg - printing with innner margin

2019-07-25 Thread Elmar Stellnberger
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Elmar Stellnberger * Package name: bundsteg Version : 1.2-2 Upstream Author : Elmar Stellnberger * URL : https://www.elstel.org/bundsteg/ * License : GPLv3 Programming Lang: bash Description : add

Bug#933014: ITP: xchroot -- chroot for Xorg with read-only access

2019-07-25 Thread Elmar Stellnberger
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: xchroot Version : 2.3.4-2 Upstream Author : Elmar Stellnberger * URL : https://www.elstel.org/xchroot/ * License : GPLv3 Programming Lang: bash Description : an extended chroot with features like

Bug#933012: ITP: confinedrv -- sets up a virtual drive with restricted access rights

2019-07-25 Thread Elmar Stellnberger
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: confinedrv Version : 1.7.7-4 Upstream Author : Elmar Stellnberger * URL : https://www.elstel.org/qemu/ * License : GPLv3 Programming Lang: bash Description : a script to confine individual

Bug#933008: ITP: qcoan - a GUI for simulating non-deterministic FAs, PDAs and Turing machines

2019-07-25 Thread Elmar Stellnberger
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Elmar Stellnberer * Package name: qcoan Version : 2.0-6 Upstream Author : Elmar Stellnberger * URL : https://www.elstel.org/coan/ * License : GPLv3 Programming Lang: C++ Description : an automata

Bug#941993: common libraries these programs depend on

2019-10-28 Thread Elmar Stellnberger
Today I have written a program to filter out common library dependencies of the three programs exposing this bug, i.e. cheese, vlc and firefox-esr. For one library depending upon another only the top level dependency is outputted: elm@system76-18:~/projects/pydeps$ ./fetchupd.py commdep

Bug#941993: cheese works with current openSUSE

2019-10-22 Thread Elmar Stellnberger
Today I have tested the same webcam also with cheese but on openSUSE Leap 15.1 - and look there it works without any problems. Probably some of the libraries of Debian 10 are causing the issue. In order to give you the possibility to find out about it I have attached all packages installed

Bug#941993: cheese: Pixart Imaging, Inc. Typhoon Easycam USB 330K does no more work with cheese

2019-10-08 Thread Elmar Stellnberger
Package: cheese Version: 3.31.90-1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, Since Debian9 cheese can no more view the video output of my Pixart Imaging, Inc. Typhoon Easycam USB 330K (newer)/Typhoon Easycam USB 2.0. It works with cheese and Debian8 and also with a recent version of the program

Bug#941993: cheese: Pixart Imaging, Inc. Typhoon Easycam USB 330K does no more work with cheese

2021-02-20 Thread Elmar Stellnberger
I know now why it does work with OpenSUSE but not with Debian: GStreamer is compiled without libv4l2 code by default. Something that could be changed easily: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gst-plugins-good/-/issues/644

Bug#932909: Bug #932909: xchroot/2.7.5-1 [ITP] -- extended chroot with X11/Xorg forwarding

2023-01-17 Thread Elmar Stellnberger
r or local basis rather than by a MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1: Now xchroot can generate the cookie on the fly if none is encountered: https://www.elstel.org/ViewRSS.php?guid=7470#7470 Regards, Elmar Stellnberger

Bug#932909: Bug #932909: xchroot/2.7.5-1 [ITP] -- extended chroot with X11/Xorg forwarding

2023-01-17 Thread Elmar Stellnberger
Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: wishlist Xchroot 2.7.4 has also come with many new features. Dbus session creation and /dev/shm mounting satisfy the need even of exigent GUI programs like the Otter browser. It has a /media and subdirectory automounter which is especially useful for

Bug#511193: pciutils_2.2: no backport available for debian sarge.

2009-01-08 Thread Elmar Stellnberger
Subject: pciutils_2.2: no backport available for debian sarge. Package: pciutils Version: 1:2.1.11-15 Severity: normal *** Please type your report below this line *** Using the backported package linux-image-xen-686_2.6.18+6~bpo.1 it becomes possible to paravirtualise debian sarge. However it

Bug#670972: debian-installer: include remote-repo URIs for offline installations in /etc/apt/sources.list

2012-04-30 Thread Elmar Stellnberger
Package: debian-installer Version: 20110106+squeeze3+b1 Severity: normal The remote-repo URIs should always get included into /etc/apt/sources.list on installation. It is possible that we install in a place without internet access and want to connect our computer later. Some security hints also

Bug#669358: hal causes the disk access led to blink regularely by eSATA BD burner

2012-04-19 Thread Elmar Stellnberger
Subject: hal causes the disk access led to blink regularely by eSATA BD burner Package: hal Version: 0.5.14-3 Severity: normal Tags: squeeze As soon as my system enters runlevel 2 the disk access led is blinking every 2 seconds. This is caused by hal, exactly by hald-addon-storage. ps ax | grep

Bug#727023: ITP: xchroot -- extended chroot with X11/Xorg forwarding and aufs/unionfs support for read only roots

2013-10-21 Thread Elmar Stellnberger
Package: wnpp Version: 2.3; issued 2013-08-28 Subject: ITP: xchroot -- extended chroot with X11/Xorg forwarding and aufs/unionfs support for read only roots Severity: wishlist * Package name : xchroot Version : 2.3 Upstream Author : Elmar Stellnberger estel...@elstel.org * URL : http

Bug#728716: RFS: xchroot/2.3.2-9 [ITP] -- Hi Debian!

2013-11-04 Thread Elmar Stellnberger
Package: sponsorship-requests Subject: RFS: xchroot/2.3.2-9 [ITP] -- Hi Debian! Severity: wishlist Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package xchroot: * Package name: xchroot Version : 2.3.2-9 Upstream Author : Elmar Stellnberger estel...@elstel.org * URL

Bug#728716: RFS: xchroot/2.3.2-9 [ITP] -- Hi Debian!

2013-11-04 Thread Elmar Stellnberger
Am 04.11.13 17:56, schrieb Paul Tagliamonte: Control: tag -1 moreinfo On Mon, Nov 04, 2013 at 05:31:40PM +0100, Elmar Stellnberger wrote: The xchroot S-FSL v1.3.1 license would need some legal review. It was especially designed for distributions available free of charge like

Bug#728716: RFS: xchroot/2.3.2-9 [ITP] -- Hi Debian!

2013-11-04 Thread Elmar Stellnberger
Am 04.11.13 18:43, schrieb Paul Tagliamonte: On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 12:42 PM, Paul Tagliamonte paul...@debian.org mailto:paul...@debian.org wrote: On Mon, Nov 04, 2013 at 06:22:15PM +0100, Elmar Stellnberger wrote: Is it really a problem? If yes then I can add an exception

Bug#728716: RFS: xchroot/2.3.2-9 [ITP] -- Hi Debian!

2013-11-04 Thread Elmar Stellnberger
Am 04.11.13 18:43, schrieb Paul Tagliamonte: On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 12:42 PM, Paul Tagliamonte paul...@debian.org mailto:paul...@debian.org wrote: On Mon, Nov 04, 2013 at 06:22:15PM +0100, Elmar Stellnberger wrote: Is it really a problem? If yes then I can add an exception

Bug#728716: RFS: xchroot/2.3.2-9 [ITP] -- Hi Debian!

2013-11-04 Thread Elmar Stellnberger
S-FSL v1.3.3 uploaded at http://www.elstel.org/license/ Having clearly considered your critics I have published a reworked edition of S-FSL which should more strictly adhere to the terms of OSS-software. As you can understand and as I have already partially described there are still issues

Bug#728716: RFS: xchroot/2.3.2-9 [ITP] -- Hi Debian!

2013-11-04 Thread Elmar Stellnberger
Dear Gergely Nagy, Dear members of Debian-legal Do you know a license somehow similar in spirit than mine which I could use? It would be nice to have something that oblidges 'closed distributions' to publish at least their sources as required by some software in RHEL which is what puts

Bug#721447: RFP: xchroot -- extended chroot with X11/Xorg forwarding and aufs/unionfs support for read only roots

2013-08-31 Thread Elmar Stellnberger
Package: wnpp Version: 2.3; issued 2013-08-28 Subject: RFP: xchroot -- extended chroot with X11/Xorg forwarding and aufs/unionfs support for read only roots Severity: wishlist * Package name : xchroot Version : 2.3 Upstream Author : Elmar Stellnberger estel...@elstel.org * URL : http

Bug#728716: RFS: xchroot/2.3.3-3 [ITP] -- extended chroot with X11/Xorg forwarding and aufs/unionfs support for read only roots

2013-11-12 Thread Elmar Stellnberger
someone who is a lawyer. Again, thanks for your contribution to the license. It was actually necessary to make it fit for practical usage. Yours Sincerely, Elmar Stellnberger P.S. I hope my postings to the OSI license-discuss mailing list from last week will get posted soon. Am 12.11.2013 07:41

Bug#728716: RFS: xchroot/2.3.3-3 [ITP] -- extended chroot with X11/Xorg forwarding and aufs/unionfs support for read only roots

2013-11-12 Thread Elmar Stellnberger
Am 12.11.2013 10:24, schrieb Andrew Shadura: Hello, On 12 November 2013 10:22, Elmar Stellnberger estel...@gmail.com wrote: O.K. That is actually what is to be done next. There are some people whom I know and who I am going to consult. It will at last be necessary in my very own interest

Bug#762153: concrete steps for improving apt downloading security and privacy

2014-09-19 Thread Elmar Stellnberger
Am 19.09.14 um 06:34 schrieb Paul Wise: On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 9:30 AM, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: Finally did this: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=762153 Please note that you proposal to add signatures to .deb files will break reproducible builds because the hash of the

Bug#762153: [Reproducible-builds] concrete steps for improving apt downloading security and privacy

2014-09-21 Thread Elmar Stellnberger
simply un-ar and compare the data.tar.gz-s. Am 19.09.14 um 15:16 schrieb Daniel Kahn Gillmor: On 09/19/2014 06:07 AM, Elmar Stellnberger wrote: Isn`t there really any way to include the signatures in the header of the .deb files? Why not simply add multiple signature files in the control.tar.gz

Bug#762153: [Reproducible-builds] concrete steps for improving apt downloading security and privacy

2014-09-22 Thread Elmar Stellnberger
Am 22.09.14 um 01:52 schrieb Paul Wise: On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 2:04 AM, Elmar Stellnberger wrote: A package with some new signatures added is no more the old package. That is exactly what we do *not* want for reproducible builds. It should have a different checksum and be made