This bug, first opened almost 7 years ago, originally concerned the fast
that emails sent through lists.dmarc.org were violating DMARC, causing
bounces, and in general causing mayhem for domains with p=reject DMARC
policies and users whose mail providers enforce DMARC.
Since then it appears that
Package: apticron
Version: 1.2.3+nmu1
Severity: normal
>From 1181855699a4cf14c8d8ed17ba0eb81403f93eeb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jonathan Kamens
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2021 15:58:45 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Fix NOTIFY_HOLDS=0 behavior with multiarch
When using multiarch, the output of `dpkg --
Package: apticron
Version: 1.2.3+nmu1
Severity: normal
>From 5a522f855b1bb79d237b44b4757b2878e60ebe70 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jonathan Kamens
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2021 16:25:09 -0400
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] When NOTIFY_HOLDS=0, ignore new packages depended on by
held ones
When NOTIFY_HOLD
Package: anacron
Version: 2.3-30
Tags: patch
There is a typo in the log message generated by anacron when it can't
send email. It says "ststus" when it should say "status".
>From 2c1a21af2eb173119187489e55605f1ec292d728 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jonathan Kamens
Date:
Package: thunderbird
Version: 1:115.2.0-1
Severity: wishlist
Dear Maintainer,
On other distributions when I right click on Thunderbird in my dash or
dock menu commands are available to open a new compose window or open
my contacts. These are missing on Debian. Would be nice if they were
added!
This is more complicated than I thought.
It turns out that the flameshot that gets launched on startup in Waldn
if I have it configured to do that doesn't work, but if I close and
relaunch flameshot from the terminal it is able to capture screenshots.
So the problem seems to be that
I am not proposing to change that Enter moves to the next screen. I am
proposing to change WHEN Enter can move to the next screen, or at the
very least, what happens when it fails to do so because the inputs on
the current screen are invalid.
Regarding either of these, what the installer does
Source: debian-installer
Version: 20230607+deb12u1
Severity: normal
Tags: a11y d-i
Dear Maintainer,
I keep my hard drive encryption passphrase in the "second slot" of my
YubiKey, so that I can use a long, random, secure encryption
passphrase. The YubiKey impersonates a USB keyboard, and when I
Source: debian-installer
Version: 20230607+deb12u1
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
I recently installed Bookworm on a ThinkPad X1 Carbon 6th Gen. During
the installation the TrackPad was virtually unuseable. If I put my
finger on it and moved it very slowly I could get the pointer to go in
the
Nearly two years after Alejandro Colomar reported this issue, the Debian
installer is still giving people this bad advice: "A good password will
contain a mixture of letters, numbers and punctuation and should be
changed at regular intervals."
Alejandro explained at length why this advice
Oh, I see now that the fact that the installer shouldn't recommend
changing one's password regularly was also reported previously, in bug
#868869.
On 9/2/23 22:04, Jonathan Kamens wrote:
Nearly two years after Alejandro Colomar reported this issue, the
Debian installer is still giving
One more update... Wireplumber doesn't continuously suck CPU. I have not
been able to determine what factors cause the CPU spikes.
Package: wireplumber
Version: 0.4.14-4
Followup-For: Bug #1042713
Dear Maintainer,
I don't think I was seeing this issue in Bookworm, though I could be
mistaken about that. I am definitely seeing it in Trixie. My laptop is
incredibly hot and like the original reporter of this bug I have to
Package: flameshot
Version: 12.1.0-2
Severity: important
Dear Maintainer,
The version of flameshot included in Bookworm is incapable of taking
screenshots in Wayland. When you tell it to take a screenshot it just
hangs.
I cloned https://github.org/flameshot-org/flameshot, ran "apt
build-dep
I believe your decision not to include Selenium Manager in the
python3-selenium package is objectively incorrect, inconsistent with
what is required for the correct functioning of the package and
inconsistent with the clearly stated intent of the package vendor.
I do not believe an RFP is the
Package: gnome-control-center
Version: 1:45~rc-1
Severity: normal
1. Open GNOME Settings app.
2. Go to Online Accounts.
3. Click Google to add a new Google account.
4. Finish logging into Google and authorizing GNOME access.
5. When the page with all the rocker switches comes up, turn off the
Oh, I see, the README.Debian file is packaged in python-selenium-doc.
Shouldn't that be python3-selenium-doc? Or even better, in
python3-selenium itself? That would at least give people a fighting
chance of finding it.
Regardless, I don't think this issue can/should be considered "resolved"
when it is included in the package, is a
sufficient fix for the issue. The issue IMO should remain unresolved
until Selenium Manager is properly packaged for Debian.
Thank you,
Jonathan Kamens
-- System Information:
Debian Release: trixie/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Archite
I just encountered this again, and sound (both input and output) weren't
working while it was going on. I did `systemctl --user restart pipewire
pipewire-pulse` and wireplumber stopped spinning and sound started
working again. Just posting this update in case somebody else stumbles
across this
I guess my question boils down to, can you please explain your rationale
for not including the Selenium Manager executable in the deb?
I am puzzled by your response.
If I create a new virtualenv, run "pip install selenium" in it, and then
run "python3 -c 'import selenium.webdriver;
selenium.webdriver.Chrome()'", it just works, right out of the box. That
is clearly the intent of the vendor of the PyPI package. Quoting from
Is it possible for you to find the file in
/var/lib/apt/listchanges-snapshots corresponding to the time of the apt
run when this issue occurred and either email it to me separately (don't
append to the ticket) if it's small enough or if it's not then upload it
somewhere and share the link with
One difference between the two systems that may or may not be relevant:
the one where this problem is occurring has a fingerprint reader, the
other one does not.
If I disable automatic login on the system having this problem and then
log in with my password, this problem does not occur. If on
Package: gnome-remote-desktop
Version: 44.2-6
Severity: normal
File: /usr/libexec/gnome-remote-desktop-daemon
Dear Maintainer,
Every time I reboot, the remote desktop password, as shown in the
remote desktop pop-up from the sharing settings panel, is changed to a
new, random value.
I have two
I was unable to reproduce the libdrm issue or determine how it could
have happened from attempting to reproduce it and examining the code. To
be clear: I'm not disputing that it happened, just saying I can't figure
out how so I can't figure out how to fix it. :-/
In the process of attempting
d and package Selenium
Manager. So this isn't a workable solution if that's unlikely to happen
any time soon. If there *is* progress being made on that, and none of
the other possible solutions I've enumerated above are considered
workable for whatever reason, then I think this one should be considered.
Thanks,
Jonathan Kamens
Package: apt-listchanges
Version: 3.27
Severity: normal
Under the documentation for the --which option in the apt-listchanges
man page, it claims, "The default is to display only news." I agree
that this _should_ be the default, but in fact it does not appear to
be. With no configuration changes
Package: apticron
Version: 1.2.7
Severity: minor
Both the README.Debian file for apticron and the man page say that it
is configurable but don't say how.
Ideally the man page would document the configuration options, but at
the very least it should reference /usr/lib/apticron/apticron.conf in
Package: apticron
Version: 1.2.7
Severity: wishlist
I would argue that apticron should default to apt-listchanges showing
news rather than changelog entries just like apt does.
I suppose this would happen automatically if bug 1052514 were fixed as
I propose, i.e., if news were made the default
Package: debmake-doc
Version: 1.17-7
Severity: minor
1) Section 3.6 of the debmake doc says to run `adduser
sbuild` but there should be `sudo` at the beginning of that command.
2) It also says "Logout and login to check you are a member of sbuild
group using id command." I don't know how
Package: apt-listchanges
Version: 3.27
Severity: normal
The --filter option to apt-listchanges (and the corresponding
configuration file system), which is intended to be used with the log
frontend, can't possibly work. It causes a crash with a traceback when
it is used because the code to
Control: retitle -1 apt-listchanges should put separate version numbers
in seen DB for each binary package
It doesn't seem like adding a sanitise mode (or a sanitize mode for
those of us on this side of the pond ;-) ) is the right answer here.
Rather, I think we need to understand what is
I have a fix pending which merges changelog entries which are _entirely_
identical, which I implemented as part of addressing bug #383803, but I
gather that fix won't work here. If I'm understanding correctly, the
issue discussed here is the content of the changelog entry being
identical but
Thanks for the bug report and patch, will fix.
Do you want to be credited for the fix in the changelog, and if so, how
do you want to be identified?
I am not sure I agree with this.
Sure, when apt-listchanges is running out of apticron or
unattended-upgrades it should use the system locale, and indeed I assume
it does in those contexts. But it seems arguably correct to me that if
it is being run by a user who has it configured to send
Hmm.
A program should stop with an error when it encounters an error
condition (a) which is unexpected, (b) it doesn't know how to recover
from, and (c) action by the user is probably necessary to fully resolve
(in fact, (c) is a bonus; (a) and (b) are probably sufficient to justify
The next release of apt-listchanges completely overhauls how it
determines which changelog and NEWS entries are displayed to users. The
overhaul addresses the issue identified in this bug.
This will be fixed in the next release of apt-listchanges to unstable.
apt-listchanges no longer calls less by default, it calls
sensible-pager. It feels to me like perhaps settings LESSSECURE should
be sensible-pager's job if anybody is going to do it, not
apt-listchanges's job. What do you think?
I am confused about why this is filed against apt-listchanges rather
than apt. It's apt that's generating the error message when the
apt-listchanges command exits with a non-zero status. There's no way
apt-listchanges can influence what the error looks like; if we want it
to be prettier, we'll
Control: reassign -1 apt
The timing of when apt-listchanges gets called vs. when packages get
installed is controlled by apt, not by apt-listchanges. While it would
certainly be possible to add an option to apt to call apt-listchanges
after rather than before the upgrade, and to omit the
This will be fixed in the next release of apt-listchanges to unstable,
tentatively version 4.0, which is hopefully coming soon.
Hi Stefano,
Thanks for your quick reply! More thoughts inline below.
On 9/26/23 07:08, Stefano Rivera wrote:
Thanks for taking on a much bigger job than you probably expected to
have signed up for :)
Indeed, this has turned out to be a larger endeavor than I had expected,
but on the flip
the program works the way it does.
Please let me know your thoughts.
Thank you,
Jonathan Kamens
---
# Determining which entries the user has already seen
## Historical perspective
Earlier versions of this program used the following approach to
determine which changlog or NEWS entries (hereafter
A bit ago, I wrote:
On 9/26/23 08:33, Simon McVittie wrote:
If we disregard non-standardized files like changelog.Debian.devmapper.gz,
I think we can model changelog entries as being keyed by (source package,
source version) pairs.
Changing apt-listchanges so that it always uses the version
Package: debmake-doc
Version: 1.17-7
Severity: normal
Using the .sbuildrc in the debmake documentation, when I build my
package with sbuild piuparts fails, because it can't be located in the
search path when sudo piuparts is called. Setting $piuparts explicitly
to /usr/sbin/piuparts in .sbuildrc
Hi Simon,
Thanks for the response! Comments below.
On 9/26/23 08:33, Simon McVittie wrote:
If we disregard non-standardized files like changelog.Debian.devmapper.gz,
I think we can model changelog entries as being keyed by (source package,
source version) pairs.
Changing apt-listchanges so
Package: network-manager
Version: 1.44.0-1
Severity: normal
I have two laptops running debian testing. (i.e., "deb
http://deb.debian.org/debian/ testing main non-free-firmware contrib
non-free" in my sources.list). They are both up-to-date. I have
wake-on-wlan set to 0x8 on the wifi interface on
d probably be to modify the config script
so that it calls postconf -nhx instead of postconf -hx and then only
replaces the setting in debconf if postconf returns a non-empty value.
Thanks,
Jonathan Kamens
-- System Information:
Debian Release: trixie/sid
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (50
Package: gettext
Version: 0.21-13+b1
Severity: normal
Save this as /tmp/foo.py:
---cut here---
_("bare string")
f'{_("string inside f-string")}'
Dear Maintainer,
---cut here---
Run gettext on it. The resulting messages.po file will have "bare
string" but not "string inside f-string" in it.
--
Package: whatmaps
Version: 0.0.13-1
Severity: minor
1. Install whatmaps.
2. Remove (but do not purge) whatmaps.
3. Run apt upgrade.
4. Observe: "/bin/sh: 1: /usr/bin/whatmaps: not found".
Fix: DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs in /etc/apt/apt.cofn.d/50whatmaps_apt
should only execute /usr/bin/whatmaps if
On 9/26/23 12:24, Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues wrote:
Hi,
Quoting Jonathan Kamens (2023-09-26 17:51:19)
Tested on both Debian Bookworm and Ubuntu Mantic
Sbuild can't find piuparts unless I put $piuparts =
'/usr/sbin/piuparts' in my .sbuildrc.
what happens if you run this outside
I have escalated this issue to the technical committee. Ref:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1052460
Package: tech-ctte
Severity: important
This referral to the technical committee concerns the issue identified
in ticket 1051368. I appear to be at an impassse in that ticket with
the maintainer of the python3-selenium package referenced in that
ticket, and they have stopped responding to my
be modified to contain the email address of the
bug, not the email address of the original sender. The original
sender's address can be put in Reply-To and/or indicated in the header
in a number of other ways. For example, sometimes something like this
is done:
From: Jonathan Kamens
becomes:
From
On 9/27/23 23:11, Don Armstrong wrote:
The problem with this specific From-rewriting is that it breaks replying
to the sender instead of just the bug (though maybe that's not a huge
deal).
Ideally we'd be able to oversign the messages, but DMARC and DKIM
weren't engineered to allow that.
I
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
* Package name: python3-pytest-subprocess
Version : 1.5.0
Upstream Contact: https://github.com/aklajnert/pytest-subprocess/issues
* URL : https://github.com/aklajnert/pytest-subprocess
* License : MIT
Programming Lang: Python
You don't have to look into it anymore, I know what's happening. ;-)
Been working on it for a couple of hours. Will have an update in the
morning, no time to write it up now.
Thanks for the report!
jik
On 10/8/23 22:23, Russ Allbery wrote:
Package: apt-listchanges
Version: 4.0
bubbling up exceptions instead
of converting them to strings.
Thank you,
Jonathan Kamens
I really hate to do this, but I have spent hours constructing test cases
and poring over the code and I can't reproduce this or figure out how it
happened, so I need to ask... can you both please check your
/var/log/dpkg.log and make 100% certain that you had apt-listchanges 4.1
(not 4.0)
Again, I hate to do this, but until we've figured this out, can the two
of you please do me a favor? Before you run each apt upgrade, please
save a backup copy of /var/lib/apt/listchanges, then if the problem
happens during the upgrade, please send me the backup copy of the file
as well as the
Package: cups
Version: 2.4.7-1
Severity: important
Dear Maintainer,
The NEWS entry for CVE-2023-32360 says /etc/cups/cupds.conf when ite
should say /etc/cups/cupsd.conf.
In addition, after reading the NEWS entry and reviewing the contents
of my cupsd.conf file, I'm left completely clueless
TLDR this will be fixed in 4.1 and it's a significant enough fix that I
should probably release 4.1 to experimental
So, this was one of the edge cases mentioned in the design documentation
for the revamped changelog filtering logic: when the persistent database
is not being used in a
Control: unmerge -1
Not the same bug. #1053696 only applies to changelog entries, not NEWS
entries, since the latter can't be downloaded via apt.
I am thus far unable to reproduce this. Still investigating.
On 10/9/23 12:12, Russ Allbery wrote:
Control: merge 1053696 1053725
Axel Beckert
OK, this will be fixed in 4.1. Description of the bug and fix, copied
from the commit message:
Bug:
* Main package a has both changelog and NEWS.
* Subpackage a-sub has identical changelog but no NEWS.
* Both a and a-sub version 1 are installed but not in database.
*
how it got made, and that's the bug that
needs to be fixed. Let me know.
Thanks,
Jonathan Kamens
Thanks for reporting. Can you email me the snapshot file in
/var/lib/apt/listchanges-snapshots with the timestamp corresponding to when
this occurred, or it it's too big to email upload it somewhere and share the
link? Just to me, please, not to BTS. Thank you!
On October 21, 2023 1:39:15 AM
On 10/21/23 12:24, Andreas Metzler wrote:
However I still do not get it.
* Is there a useful scenario where someone would set save_seen=none in
the apt stanza?
*shrug* I don't know. That design decision was made long before my time.
I don't see any good reason to change it given that if
Package: devscripts
Version: 2.23.6
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
Please add a --date option to the debchange command to allow the
invoker to specify the date to be used in newly created trailers.
Use case: The Qt/KDE team adds mostly identical changelog entries to
many different packages every
Makes sense. Thanks for the response!
On 10/9/23 09:20, Julian Andres Klode wrote:
Control: notfound -1 2.6.0ubuntu1
Control: found -1 2.6.0
On Mon, Oct 09, 2023 at 08:03:44AM -0400, Jonathan Kamens wrote:
Package: python3-apt
Version: 2.6.0ubuntu1
Severity: normal
My use case
Thanks, will be fixed in 4.3.
So, Russ sent me his apt-listchanges database and I took a lot at it and
it was very messed up.
There was a bug in 4.1 which was uncovered and fixed a couple of days
ago as a result of Alexandre Detiste's push to add typing hints to the
program. This bug would have caused the type of
you observed the issue. Please upload it to a file sharing site and send
me the link (privately, not in the ticket). I'll let you know when I've
downloaded it so you can remove the uploaded copy.
Thank you,
Jonathan Kamens
+1 on creating a NEWS entry for this. It just bit me and took over an
hour for me to figure out how to fix.
Those errors aren't coming from apt-listchanges. I don't know where they're
coming from, all I can tell you is it's something else apt is calling, not
apt-listchanges. There's zero ruby code in apt-listchanges.
On November 27, 2023 1:11:44 PM EST, Klaus Ethgen wrote:
>Package: apt-listchanges
It turns out things aren't working right on my second laptop either. It
is correctly detecting network printers and making them visible to the
OS as driverless printers, but I can't print to them. When I try, the
print job gets paused and lpstat -t prints "No suitable destination host
found by
Package: cups-browsed
Version: 1.28.17-3+b1
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
cups-browsed on this laptop is not detecting either of the printers on
my home network.
I have another Debian laptop upstairs, on the same wifi network,
installed and configured pretty much exactly the same way as
I also can't print to a printer I add explicitly to the system rather
than relying on auto-discovered printers.
Basically printing through CUPS appears to be completely borked, at
least for me, across two diffferent laptops running Debian testing.
*sigh* Ignore everything I said about my second laptop. The cups-browsed
problem I originally reported persists, but I believe everything else
was a PEBKAC issue. Sorry.
Package: src:linux
Version: 6.6.13-1
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
This happens to me on a somewhat regular basis on two different
computers that have Intel WiFi controllers (iwlwifi): I suddenly stop
being able to connect to WiFi, NetworkManager repeatedly reports
"Connection activation
I've debugged this further and I think it's probably a kernel network
driver issuer but I don't know how to categorize that appropriately in
the bug-tracking system so some help in that regard would be appreciated.
`avahi-browse --all --terminate --ignore-local` returns no results on
the
One more data point: on the laptop that is not seeing mDNS query
response broadcasts, if I disable wifi and plug into ethernet it works
just fine. If I then unplug from ethernet and reenable wifi, it stops
working again.
close 1062554
thanks
*sigh* I can't believe it. Rebooted my wifi router, and the problem went
away. Apparently the wifi router was preventing the responses from
getting back to the laptop. Sorry to bother you.
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