Bug#848587: castle-combat does not start because numpy.oldnumeric has been removed

2016-12-20 Thread John Lightsey
On Sun, 2016-12-18 at 18:15 +0100, koopa wrote: > numpy.oldnumeric has been removed in 1.9 release so castle-combat does not > start > https://docs.scipy.org/doc/numpy-dev/release.html#numpy-1-9-0-release-notes > > so castle-combat does not start > Thanks for pointing this out. castle-combat

Bug#688007: monkey: Fails to drop supplemental groups when lowering privileges

2012-09-17 Thread John Lightsey
Package: monkey Version: 0.9.3-1 Severity: grave Tags: security Justification: user security hole Monkey webserver fails to drop supplemental groups when lowering privileges. This allows any local user on the system to read any fine that root's supplemental groups can access. Monkey does perform

Bug#688008: monkey: CGI scripts executed without dropping RUID/RGID root

2012-09-17 Thread John Lightsey
Package: monkey Version: 0.9.3-1 Severity: grave Tags: security Justification: user security hole The Monkey webserver retains RUID/RGID root so that it can regain root as needed to perform privileged operations. Unfortunately, monkey does not drop RUID/RGID root before executing CGI scripts.

Bug#672080: apt-watch: FTBFS: apt-watch-common.cc:16:34: error: 'write' was not declared in this scope

2012-05-08 Thread John Lightsey
Thanks for the bug report on apt-watch. It should be straightforward to fix. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Bug#638074: apt-watch and the ongoing GNOME 3 transition

2011-10-20 Thread John Lightsey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/19/2011 07:08 PM, Michael Biebl wrote: Hi John, as you might have noticed, the GNOME 3 transition is now ongoing in unstable. Could you please upload apt-watch 0.4.0 from experimental to unstable now as otherwise apt-watch will block this

Bug#638002: Improper seteuid() calls in src/log.c and src/masqmail.c

2011-08-16 Thread John Lightsey
Package: masqmail Version: 0.2.21-4 Severity: critical Tags: security Justification: root security hole Reporting publicly since this has already been disclosed on the masqmail list. In src/log.c there are two logging functions that use this logic: uid_t saved_uid; saved_uid =

Bug#636270: FTBFS: test failure: Failed test 'direct split (yahoo) (rows)'

2011-08-01 Thread John Lightsey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/01/2011 04:00 PM, Dominic Hargreaves wrote: Source: libfinance-quotehist-perl Version: 1.16-1 Severity: serious Justification: fails to build from source (but built successfully in the past) This package FTBFS with a clean sid chroot:

Bug#612914: Fails to build from source

2011-05-27 Thread John Lightsey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 fixed 612914 1.14-1+squeeze1 thanks The fixed version of libfinance-quotehist-perl has been accepted into stable-proposed-updates and will be included in the next stable release. The patch applied is: diff --git a/debian/rules b/debian/rules index

Bug#612914: Fails to build from source

2011-04-29 Thread John Lightsey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/29/2011 04:05 AM, Moritz Mühlenhoff wrote: Hi, * Moritz Mühlenhoff muehlenh...@univention.de [2011-02-14 10:27:55 CET]: Am Montag 14 Februar 2011 04:24:35 schrieb John Lightsey: Yes, I can reproduce the FTBFS with 1.14. This was corrected

Bug#612914: Fails to build from source

2011-02-13 Thread John Lightsey
On 02/11/2011 08:28 AM, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote: Hi John, I've tried to rebuild java-imaging-utilities for Univention Corporate Server, a Debian derived distribution based on Debian stable (currently Lenny, our next release will be based on Squeeze). libfinance-quotehist-perl fails to

Bug#612914: Fails to build from source

2011-02-13 Thread John Lightsey
tag 612914 squeeze thanks Yes, I can reproduce the FTBFS with 1.14. This was corrected upstream with 1.16 which is already in testing and unstable. The newer version doesn't include adjusted prices in any tests since Yahoo changes these periodically. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#594353: apt-watch: FTBFS with apt 0.8.0

2010-08-26 Thread John Lightsey
tags 594353 + pending thanks I'll upload a new version tonight without -Werror in CXXFLAGS. The package builds fine aside from the deprecation warnings. Thanks for your bug report. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Bug#548909: xen-tools: xen-create-image creates world readable disk image files

2009-09-29 Thread John Lightsey
Package: xen-tools Version: 3.9-4 Severity: grave Tags: security Justification: user security hole I'm tagging this security, though common best practices would suggest that access to the Dom0 should be severely restricted to begin with. When xen-create-image is used to create a file based

Bug#478440: Should castle-combat be removed from Debian?

2009-09-27 Thread John Lightsey
On Sun, 2009-09-27 at 15:48 +0200, Luca Falavigna wrote: I was looking at castle-combat trying to see if it can be ported to python-numpy because python-numeric* packages have been removed. This is not a trivial task because some things have changed and it crashes every now and then, with

Bug#524474: FollowSymlinks / SymlinksIfOwnerMatch ignored with server-side-includes

2009-05-02 Thread John Lightsey
This shouldn't be tagged as a grave security issue. The symlink tests in Apache are trivial to overcome with timing attacks and the Apache documentation explicitly states that the symlink tests should not be considered a security restriction.

Bug#431324: FTBFS: undefined reference to `glade_xml_signal_autoconnect'

2007-07-11 Thread John Lightsey
tags 431324 + pending thanks I isolated the problem with apt-watch yesterday and I'll have a new version uploaded this evening with the fix. John signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#409523: FTBFS: gpe/render.h: No such file or directory

2007-02-07 Thread John Lightsey
tags 409523 + patch thanks According to the changelog in libgpewidget-0.114 gpe/render.h was removed because it was considered obsolete and unused. Simply deleting the #include directive from main.c allows gpe-edit to compile and run properly. Patch attached. John diff -Nur

Bug#409688: FTBFS: gpe/render.h: No such file or directory

2007-02-07 Thread John Lightsey
According to the changelog in libgpewidget-0.114 gpe/render.h was removed because it was considered obsolete and unused. Simply deleting the #include directive from main.c allows gpe-julia to compile and run properly. Patch attached. John diff -Nur gpe-julia-0.0.6.orig/main.c

Bug#369551: castle-combat: Unhandled error in Deferred when shooting

2006-06-21 Thread John Lightsey
On Tue, 2006-06-20 at 20:07 +0200, Karl Bartel wrote: I just uploaded a new release. The code worked out quite different than in the patch, because I wanted to add a Sound on/off switch without adding an additional conditional around each line where a sound is played. This bug should be

Bug#340070: yate: FTBFS: compile error: invalid conversion

2005-12-13 Thread John Lightsey
tags 340070 + patch thanks pri_set_error and pri_set_message in libpri.h from libpri-dev have changed since this version of yate was released. Updating yate to a newer upstream would likely fix the FTBFS error. Barring that, the attached dpatch gets the yate package compiling again in its

Bug#336840: space-orbit: doesn't start

2005-12-13 Thread John Lightsey
tags 336840 + patch thanks Reordering the call to glutInit in orbit.c fixes this error. John diff -ur space-orbit-1.01.orig/src/orbit.c space-orbit-1.01/src/orbit.c --- space-orbit-1.01.orig/src/orbit.c 2005-12-13 18:22:35.0 -0600 +++ space-orbit-1.01/src/orbit.c 2005-12-13

Bug#328044: FTBFS: PIC register ebx clobbered in asm

2005-10-14 Thread John Lightsey
On Mon, 2005-09-12 at 12:52 -0700, Matt Kraai wrote: xmms-goom fails to build because it clobbers the PIC register ebx in an asm statement: Sorry for taking so long to address this issue. I was originally thinking I'd just fix the sections of assembly code with the obvious pushl...popl, then