Bug#1052489: iproute2: broken formatting in manual pages due to hermetic-/usr changes

2023-09-22 Thread Paul Wise
Package: iproute2 Version: 6.5.0-4 Severity: minor Usertags: formatting The hermetic-/usr changes to the manual pages documenting the new locations in /usr of the files previously in /etc and overridable by user files in /etc broke the formatting in the manual pages. The /usr paths have "or"

Re: Releasing linux/6.1.52-1 bookworm-security update without armel build, Image size problems

2023-09-09 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, 2023-09-09 at 11:42 +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: > The first one is the one with included size limitations, because those > load the kernel from a pre-defined flash partition, whose size can't be > easily changed by the user.  This one is now overflowing for the second > to last documented

Re: Bug#1026335: Review of the initial packaging of the carl9170 firmware

2023-08-15 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, 2023-08-13 at 11:51 +, John Scott wrote: > Because carl9170 is largely under the GPL and we're obligated to > distribute complete sources for our binaries, I've set Static-Built- > Using on both gcc (because of libgcc) and Newlib. FYI, that wasn't the correct thing to do.

Bug#606713: unarchiving 606713, reopening 606713, found 606713 in 5.10.28-1

2022-06-09 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, 2022-06-10 at 00:36 +0200, Diederik de Haas wrote: > A year has passed and it has been quiet on the upstream bug for almost a year. > Has there been progress which isn't visible in upstream or Debian's BTS? There hasn't. I haven't had time to try this bug again but I will try to make

Bug#1004667: linux-signed-arm64: Please enable CONFIG_TASK_DELAY_ACCT

2022-03-15 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, 31 Jan 2022 15:18:49 +0100 Matthias Urlichs wrote: > "iotop" complains: > > CONFIG_TASK_DELAY_ACCT not enabled in kernel, cannot determine SWAPIN and IO % For more recent Linux kernel versions you need this: sudo sysctl kernel.task_delayacct=1 I'm guessing that the patches changing

Re: Bug#1002617: RFS: carl9170fw/1.9.9-399-gcd480b9-1 [ITP] -- firmware for AR9170 USB wireless adapters

2022-01-13 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, 2022-01-13 at 20:54 +, John Scott wrote: > You might like to have a look at this mail from Ben Hutchings: > https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/179d6d32466dd13962a3aab251c45242fbf2d8ae.ca...@decadent.org.uk > The reason that none of the other Wi-Fi firmware packages have them is >

Re: Bug#1002617: RFS: carl9170fw/1.9.9-399-gcd480b9-1 [ITP] -- firmware for AR9170 USB wireless adapters

2022-01-04 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, 2021-12-25 at 18:25 +, John Scott wrote: > https://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/c/carl9170fw/carl9170fw_1.9.9-399-gcd480b9-1.dsc Some things that prevent the upload of this package: I don't think udebs are needed for firmware packages, none of the other WiFi firmware packages

Bug#972968: linux-image-5.9.0-1-amd64: Bluetooth stopped working

2021-01-06 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, 26 Oct 2020 18:59:16 +0100 Christian Britz wrote: > after upgrading my Debian testing installation to kernel 5.9.1, > my bluetooth mouse does not work anymore. The patch fixing this will be released in v5.10.6 and v5.11-rc1, see the upstream bug for details:

Bug#962681: battery drain during system shutdown

2020-06-13 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, 2020-06-13 at 20:39 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > After that you can use the Debian wayback machine to find out which > Debian builds of the Linux kernel have this issue and which do not. It seems you had trouble with this. I think the problem might be that you are downloadi

Bug#962681: battery drain during system shutdown

2020-06-13 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, 12 Jun 2020 12:45:47 +0530 Gopal Sharma wrote: > I'm still facing the issue only in debian. So on IRC we found that copying the Debian Linux kernel build config from 5.6.14-2 to the mainline Linux kernel did not have the issue and that booting the Debian Linux kernel build on Ubuntu did

Bug#962134: add Sound Open Firmware

2020-06-04 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, 2020-06-03 at 21:34 -0400, Mark Pearson wrote: > Hi Paul - I'm afraid it does (not something of Lenovo's choosing to my > knowledge...). Interesting, is it Intel doing the restrictions on Lenovo hardware? ISTR reading on one of the bugs that some hardware doesn't have the restrictions,

Bug#962134: add Sound Open Firmware

2020-06-03 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, 3 Jun 2020 18:02:50 +0200 Moritz Mühlenhoff wrote: > This is free software and could go into main or am I missing something? SOF is free software, but many devices require binaries that are signed by Intel's keys, so the free license/source code much less useful and the binaries going

Bug#931058: linux: enable CONFIG_USB_DUMMY_HCD=m for simulating USB UDCs for USB gadgets

2019-06-25 Thread Paul Wise
Package: src:linux Severity: wishlist I would like the CONFIG_USB_DUMMY_HCD=m option to be enabled, so that I can experiment with USB gadgets on x86 desktop systems where a USB UDC is not available. The other gadget-related config options are already enabled in the Debian version of the Linux

Re: Bug#928924: user-mode-linux: xterm functionality broken due to wrong path to port-helper

2019-05-14 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, 2019-05-14 at 13:57 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > Does user-mode-linux need to be a separate source package at all? I guess it is separate to not require building yet another variant. Looks like merging it was discussed in 2016: https://bugs.debian.org/837920 -- bye, pabs

Re: Bug#928924: user-mode-linux: xterm functionality broken due to wrong path to port-helper

2019-05-14 Thread Paul Wise
Control: notforwarded -1 On Tue, 2019-05-14 at 14:36 +0530, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: > I submitted this fix upstream to the kernel some time ago. I don't > recollect if the 4.19 kernel is what had it included. > >

upstream help needed for Linux USB gadget userland tools (libusbgx, gt, gadgetd)

2019-03-06 Thread Paul Wise
Hi all, I've been discussing with upstream the userland tools (libusbgx, gt, gadgetd) for the Linux USB gadget feature that allows for management of the Linux APIs that ARM/etc boards can use to flexibly present USB interfaces to other devices. Upstream mentioned that they have mainly been

Bug#916774: linux-perf metapackage fails to upgrade due to file conflict between linux-perf-4.18 & linux-perf-4.19

2018-12-18 Thread Paul Wise
Package: linux-perf-4.19 Version: 4.19.9-1 Severity: serious I had the linux-perf metapackage fail to upgrade due to a file conflict between linux-perf-4.18 & linux-perf-4.19: $ sudo apt install -t unstable linux-perf Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state

Bug#906189: linux-image-4.17.0-1-amd64: Laptop does not suspend in 4.17 - worked up to 4.16

2018-09-02 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, 15 Aug 2018 12:32:16 +0200 Christoph Haas wrote: > Booting into 4.16.0-2-amd64 works well. > > Linux kernel image 4.17.0-2 shows the mentioned problem. This sounds like a job for git bisect: https://wiki.debian.org/DebianKernel/GitBisect -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise

Bug#906180: linux: regression: drm: cmdline EDID override mechanisms no longer work since 4.15

2018-08-15 Thread Paul Wise
Package: src:linux Version: 4.15~rc5-1~exp1 Severity: important My monitor lost its VGA EDID a long time ago, so I retrieved a copy of it from backups of Xorg logs and I have to use the Linux kernel's EDID override mechanisms. In order to get the right mode early in boot, I use the Linux kernel

Re: armel not to be released anymore? (was: armel/marvell kernel size)

2018-03-27 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Mar 28, 2018 at 3:21 AM, W. Martin Borgert wrote: > Quoting Ben Hutchings: >> >> Still, as armel will not be a release architecture any more, I suppose >> it can diverge further from the normal configuration. > > I didn't know, that this already has been decided. > Could you point to the

Bug#883363: linux-compiler-gcc-7-x86: incorrect GCC version number in package description

2017-12-02 Thread Paul Wise
Package: linux-compiler-gcc-7-x86 Version: 4.14.2-1 Severity: minor The linux-compiler-gcc-7-x86 package depends on GCC 7 but declares in the description that it depends on GCC 6: Package: linux-compiler-gcc-7-x86 Depends: gcc-7 Description: Compiler for Linux on x86 (meta-package) This package

Bug#859066: linux-image-*: recommend firmware-ath9k-htc

2017-03-29 Thread Paul Wise
Source: linux Version: 4.10~rc6-1~exp1 Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: open-ath9k-htc-firmw...@packages.debian.org Now that open-ath9k-htc-firmware has been accepted into Debian unstable, please add "Recommends: firmware-ath9k-htc" to the metadata for the linux-image-* packages in Debian

Bug#845942: Linux: regression: cannot create wheezy amd64 chroots under 4.8.5-1 and later

2016-11-26 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, 2016-11-27 at 08:27 +0100, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote: > This was an intentional change in 4.8.4-1~exp1 afaict, from the > changelog entry: I wonder if this should be promoted to a NEWS.Debian entry? -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise signature.asc Description: This is a

Bug#845942: Linux: regression: cannot create wheezy amd64 chroots under 4.8.5-1 and later

2016-11-26 Thread Paul Wise
Control: close -1 On Sun, 2016-11-27 at 08:27 +0100, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote: > This was an intentional change in 4.8.4-1~exp1 afaict, from the > changelog entry: > >   * [amd64] Enable LEGACY_VSYSCALL_NONE instead of LEGACY_VSYSCALL_EMULATE. > This breaks (e)glibc 2.13 and earlier, and

Bug#845942: Linux: regression: cannot create wheezy amd64 chroots under 4.8.5-1 and later

2016-11-26 Thread Paul Wise
Package: src:linux Version: 4.8.5-1 Severity: important Control: found -1 linux/4.8.7-1 After upgrading and rebooting to Linux 4.8.5-1 (now running 4.8.7-1), I can no longer create wheezy chroots because dpkg inside the chroot segfaults. In addition, for existing chroots, bash segfaults and so

Re: Bug#841261: ulogd2: reliably crashes (SIGSEGV) on Debian's new arm64 nodes: acker/aagaard

2016-10-20 Thread Paul Wise
Control: reassign -1 src:linux 4.8~rc8-1~exp1 Control: retitle -1 linux: 4.8 causes crashes in ulogd2 due to bug in netfilter code On Thu, 2016-10-20 at 11:00 +0200, Julien Cristau wrote: > I think this should just be reassigned, there's not much point working > around a kernel bug. Doing that

Bug#826191: linux: build variant for kvmtool aka Clear Containers

2016-06-03 Thread Paul Wise
Source: linux Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: 817...@bugs.debian.org It would be nice to have support for Clear Containers in Debian. https://clearlinux.org/features/clear-containers http://lwn.net/Articles/644675/ This requires kvmtool (packaged) and a suitable Linux kernel build:

Bug#821761: linux-image-4.5.0-1-amd64: [regression] switching from gdm Xorg vt to normal virtual console corrupts display until reboot

2016-04-22 Thread Paul Wise
Control: reopen -1 On Thu, 2016-04-21 at 13:04 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > I will reopen if I see this next time I reboot. I did a bunch of reboot testing with Linux 4.6 from experimental and on about two-thirds of the reboots I got the problem occurring. During one boot where the problem

Bug#821761: linux-image-4.5.0-1-amd64: [regression] switching from gdm Xorg vt to normal virtual console corrupts display until reboot

2016-04-18 Thread Paul Wise
Package: src:linux Version: 4.5.1-1 Severity: normal When I upgraded to linux 4.5.1 I found that switching from a gdm Xorg vt to normal virtual console corrupts the display until I reboot. The display corruption is not static and is mostly black with some fuzz around the sides and sometimes

Bug#815563: initramfs-tools: conffiles not removed

2016-02-22 Thread Paul Wise
Package: initramfs-tools Version: 0.123 Severity: normal User: debian...@lists.debian.org Usertags: obsolete-conffile adequate The recent upgrade did not deal with obsolete conffiles properly. Please use the dpkg-maintscript-helper support provided by dh_installdeb to remove these obsolete

Re: ITP: freefall -- daemon to protect disk for laptops with supported sensors

2015-05-17 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, 18 May 2015 12:36:04 +0800 Jesse Sung wrote: * Package name : freefall * URL : https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/laptops/freefall.c * License : GPL Description : daemon to protect disk for laptops with supported sensors The

Re: retiring from security team

2014-12-13 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, 2014-09-26 at 14:02 -0600, dann frazier wrote: I've been unable to find time to work on kernel security updates for some time now and - since I don't see that changing - it is time I officially retire from the team. DSA, please remove me from the appropriate groups. Thanks for all

Re: Proper way for vendors to build deb packages of kernels.

2014-12-06 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Dec 6, 2014 at 8:24 AM, peter green wrote: Does anyone have any other suggestions on what the best way for a vendor to take a kernel source tree (not debian derived) and produce deb packages and a debian source package from it? Personally, I think the most useful way to do this would

Bug#766195: [PATCH] ipv6: reuse ip6_frag_id from ip6_ufo_append_data

2014-11-09 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, 31 Oct 2014 16:36:09 + Ben Hutchings wrote: We're going to document the live migration issue rather than fixing it. At work we are using libvirt guest suspend rather than shutdown across host reboots. It appears this feature uses migration because now we cannot start any of our VMs

Re: Removing some kernel-related virtual packages

2013-09-25 Thread Paul Wise
Do you also plan to get rid of these? They appear to be designed to block auto-removal of installed linux-image-* and linux-header-* packages. /etc/kernel/postinst.d/apt-auto-removal /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/01autoremove-kernels -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Bug#584656: Closing

2013-07-06 Thread Paul Wise
Control: reopen -1 Control: reassign -1 src:linux On Sat, 2013-07-06 at 18:00 +0200, Moritz Mühlenhoff wrote: We don't have the ressources to reproduce the complete backlog of all older kernel bugs, so we're closing this bug for now. If you can reproduce the bug with Debian Wheezy or a

Bug#572754: Closing

2013-06-05 Thread Paul Wise
Control: reopen -1 Control: found -1 3.9.4-1 The bug is still reproducible with Linux from jessie. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#703209: linux: Please Add multiplatform flavour to armhf

2013-03-19 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 9:23 AM, Ben Hutchings wrote: I would much prefer a name that will provide a more useful distinction in future (and not be too long!). Perhaps it should refer to the CPU requirement like the flavours for some other architectures. How about the same scheme as on other

Bug#703209: linux: Please Add multiplatform flavour to armhf

2013-03-19 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, 2013-03-19 at 15:05 +, Ian Campbell wrote: I think the question here is what the `uname -r` bit should be. Specifically the $FLAVOUR in 3.x.y-z-$FLAVOUR. Woops, I missed that uname -r includes the flavour bit. I think there is an argument for making the multiplatform case be the

Re: FYI: open-ath9k-htc-firmware

2013-03-12 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 10:13 AM, Hideki Yamane wrote: Okay, but they are using patched gcc and binutils for build it. So I guess, first it should be merged to upstream gcc/binutils, then be added to firmware git repo, right? No, that is not how the firmware-free source package works. It

Bug#664715: kerneloops: default submission site dead, should not be shipped in wheezy

2012-03-20 Thread Paul Wise
Package: kerneloops-daemon Severity: serious Tags: wheezy sid X-Debbugs-CC: debian-kernel@lists.debian.org The default submission site for kerneloops-daemon is dead and does not appear to be coming back any time soon, despite recentish interest: https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/6/1/436

Re: Bug#652015: pu: package iotop/0.4-2

2011-12-14 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, 2011-12-14 at 19:25 +, Adam D. Barratt wrote: Please go ahead; thanks. Uploaded. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: taskstats capability check in stable

2011-12-13 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, 2011-12-14 at 02:12 +, Ben Hutchings wrote: This change is likely to be included in 2.6.32.y and, by default, in our next stable point release. As Linus says, this means that unprivileged accounts won't be able to run iotop, but this is probably correct behaviour. Thanks for the

Bug#652015: pu: package iotop/0.4-2

2011-12-13 Thread Paul Wise
error instead of crashing when Linux +denies permission to read the taskstats files (Closes: #644616) + + -- Paul Wise p...@debian.org Wed, 14 Dec 2011 14:33:20 +0800 + iotop (0.4-2) unstable; urgency=low * Correct bug number in the changelog for previous version. --- a/debian/patches/0001

Re: taskstats capability check in stable

2011-12-13 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, 2011-12-14 at 04:32 +, Ben Hutchings wrote: Please do. Proposed in #652015 -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#647958: linux 3.1: debconf prompts for iwlwifi-135-IWL135_UCODE_API_MAX.ucode firmware instead of iwlwifi-135-6.ucode

2011-11-07 Thread Paul Wise
Package: linux-2.6 Version: 3.1.0-1~experimental.1 Severity: normal I just installed the Linux 3.1 image from experimental and it prompted for the installation of these firmware files: iwlagn: iwlwifi-135-IWL135_UCODE_API_MAX.ucode, iwlwifi-105-5.ucode, iwlwifi-2030-5.ucode,

Bug#550534: firmware-iwlwifi: 550534, 626965: new upstream version fixes microcode restarts

2011-07-04 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, 2011-07-04 at 03:47 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: How is an upgrade to the 6000-family microcode going to fix a bug reported on a 4965 chip? Obviously it isn't, but it will fix the same symptoms on 6000-family chips, so an update would be appreciated. -- bye, pabs

Bug#550534: firmware-iwlwifi: 550534, 626965: new upstream version fixes microcode restarts

2011-06-02 Thread Paul Wise
usertags 550534 + bittenby usertags 626965 + bittenby thanks I had this issue with the iwlwifi firmware and constant microcode software restarts. I reported it upstream and they asked me to try the latest version. I tried iwlwifi-6000-ucode-9.221.4.1.tgz and found that it seems to fix the issue

Bug#628547: [regression] Debian 2.6.39 reboots when attempting to resume after hibernate

2011-05-29 Thread Paul Wise
Package: linux-2.6 Version: 2.6.39-1+b1 Severity: important Whenever I try to resume after hibernate, Debian 2.6.39 reboots instead of resuming. When I built upstream 2.6.39 I didn't experience this specific issue (I did get random other problems though). When I try this on Debian 2.6.38 there

Bug#628547: [regression] Debian 2.6.39 reboots when attempting to resume after hibernate

2011-05-29 Thread Paul Wise
retitle 628547 breaks resume from hibernate with Linux 2.6.39 reassign 628547 virtualbox-ose-dkms thanks On Mon, 2011-05-30 at 10:44 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: * One of the out-of-tree modules that I used with the Debian kernel but not the upstream kernel, because I didn't install

Bug#625279: [regression] drm-nouveau-Use-pci_dma_mapping_error.patch causes GPU lockup on boot

2011-05-05 Thread Paul Wise
retitle 625279 [regression] drm-nouveau-Use-pci_dma_mapping_error.patch causes GPU lockup on boot thanks On Thu, 2011-05-05 at 22:19 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: I conclude that it is an issue with the Debian patches. Mainline 2.6.39 rc5 plus the following patch to gives GPU lockup: debian

Debian linux-2.6 configs moved from http://merkel.debian.org/~jurij/?

2011-04-05 Thread Paul Wise
Hi all, So merkel is now down and the KernelFAQ wiki pages all indicate that Debian linux-2.6 configs are on http://merkel.debian.org/~jurij/. Have they moved somewhere else or are Debian kernel configuration files no longer available on the web? The merkel URL is the first result for debian

Re: Debian linux-2.6 configs moved from http://merkel.debian.org/~jurij/?

2011-04-05 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, 2011-04-05 at 23:38 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: I uploaded the current configs for squeeze (release architectures) and sid (all defined architectures) to: http://kernel.alioth.debian.org/config/ Thanks, updated the KernelFAQ wiki pages. Jurij's page provided a nice introduction and

Bug#616639: context menu key does not work on Thinkpad X201 Tablet

2011-03-06 Thread Paul Wise
Package: linux-2.6 Version: 2.6.37-2 Severity: normal The context menu key on my keyboard for my new Thinkpad X201 Tablet does not work, according to evtest and xev it triggers the WakeUp keycode. Below is an evtest log of me pressing the menu key 10 times and then Ctrl+C to kill evtest. The data

Bug#520049: linux-2.6: 520049: images with debugging for iwlwifi?

2011-02-04 Thread Paul Wise
usertags 520049 + bittenby thanks I noticed that my new laptop (Thinkpad X201t) gets a lot of crashes in the iwlwifi firmware. I would like to report these issues upstream but Intel wants the CONFIG_IWLWIFI_DEBUG option to be set. Please reconsider the wontfix tag on this bug and add kernel

Bug#572754: renaming, also occurs on radeon

2010-11-20 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, 2010-11-20 at 12:14 +0100, Tomáš Pospíšek wrote: I assume this problem is still present with the latest sqeeze kernel? Yes, even with 2.6.36 from experimental. It is also present on other architectures, distros and graphics cards. I get it on my OpenMoko FreeRunner phone (S-Media Glamo

Re: Oracle’s Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel - is th ere more to it?

2010-09-22 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 4:44 PM, Fabian Greffrath fab...@greffrath.com wrote: Oracle recently announced [1] their own 2.6.32-based Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel for their RHEL derivative called Oracle Linux. The announcement promises severe performance improvements compared to the stock RHEL

Re: Bug#594561: firmware-ralink: fails to detect APs at frequency 2.472GHz

2010-08-28 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, 2010-08-28 at 17:21 +0200, k...@otaku42.de wrote: I have not disappeared. My apologies, I hadn't received any RFS mail so I incorrectly assumed. Nothing was ever sponsored, though multiple permutations of working packages were produced and annoying problems were found and discussed

Re: Bug#594561: firmware-ralink: fails to detect APs at frequency 2.472GHz

2010-08-27 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, 2010-08-27 at 10:15 +0200, Uwe Kleine-König wrote: This might be related to http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.devel.kernel/54624/ ? Any news there? Kel Modderman seems to have disappeared, haven't heard from him in a long time. If anyone else wants to join pkg-wpa

Bug#584656: linux-image-2.6.32-3-amd64: caps lock key doesn't toggle caps lock LED on virtual console

2010-06-05 Thread Paul Wise
Package: linux-2.6 Version: 2.6.32-9 Severity: minor When I switch to a virtual console and press the Caps Lock key, I expect the Caps Lock LED on my laptop to toggle on and off. The Caps Lock key does make all the other keys use upper case, just the LED doesn't switch on. On virtual consoles the

Re: [RFH] Debian 2.6.32 CONFIG_WIRELESS_OLD_REGULATORY, wireless-regdb and crda

2010-03-01 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, 2010-03-01 at 10:47 -0500, John W. Linville wrote: FWIW, I don't create the tarballs. Perhaps we could ask Johannes to do something in his scripts that create them? Beyond that I don't see much point in checking-in a ChangeLog. It definitely shouldn't be checked into git, but rather

Re: [RFH] Debian 2.6.32 CONFIG_WIRELESS_OLD_REGULATORY, wireless-regdb and crda

2010-03-01 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, 2010-03-02 at 04:44 +0200, Faidon Liambotis wrote: Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: Can you guys upstream a package into Debian with a gitweb URL reference? If I'm understanding the question correctly, yes. We have Vcs-$VCS (i.e. Vcs-Git) and Vcs-Browser pseudo-headers. Both are optional.

Re: [RFH] Debian 2.6.32 CONFIG_WIRELESS_OLD_REGULATORY, wireless-regdb and crda

2010-02-27 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, 2010-02-27 at 23:59 +0200, Faidon Liambotis wrote: I'm a member of pkg-wpa-devel and I've been sponsoring Kel for almost 4 years. I have absolute trust in him and I've even offered to advocate him to the NM process multiple times. I'd definitely agree with your assessment here and

Re: Debian 2.6.32 CONFIG_WIRELESS_OLD_REGULATORY, wireless-regdb and crda

2010-02-20 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, 2010-02-18 at 09:19 -0800, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: Upstream does not do the same. Ubuntu packages these two together right now but it was because it made life easier for packaging. John, do you guys package wireless-regdb and crda together on Fedora land? Was this because of the

Re: TCP SYN cookies and Bug #520668

2010-02-13 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 2:08 AM, Marco d'Itri m...@linux.it wrote: On Feb 13, Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk wrote: The upstream default is that they are disabled.  The onus is on proponents to argue why this should be changed. The proposed rationale for the change is that SYN cookies

Re: Debian 2.6.32 CONFIG_WIRELESS_OLD_REGULATORY, wireless-regdb and crda

2010-02-05 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, 2010-02-05 at 15:11 -0800, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: And after reviewing this again, I conclude Kel already did all the work :) So any mentors / DDs willing to take his package up? I think its at: dget -ux http://sidux.net/kelmo/sidux/crap/crda/crda_1.1.1-1.dsc Ok, here are my

Re: Debian 2.6.32 CONFIG_WIRELESS_OLD_REGULATORY, wireless-regdb and crda

2010-02-01 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, 2010-02-01 at 09:58 -0800, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: I can help with this only if no one else is up for it. I personally however find building a key on the fly for each build pretty pointless and would like to know if a package would be acceptable upstream on Debian if OpenSSL is used

Re: Debian 2.6.32 CONFIG_WIRELESS_OLD_REGULATORY, wireless-regdb and crda

2010-01-29 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, 2010-01-29 at 10:54 -0800, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: Exactly, this is already taken care of upstream with OpenSSL. The default directory is /etc/wireless-regdb/pubkeys/ Excellent. Patches for this are welcomed upstream on CRDA. Is this a requirement for Debian to package CRDA? No,

Re: Debian 2.6.32 CONFIG_WIRELESS_OLD_REGULATORY, wireless-regdb and crda

2010-01-28 Thread Paul Wise
[Please keep me in CC for this thread] There is a technical change coming in Debian that may mean one key for the pkg-wpa folks will be more problematic; it is planned that maintainer-built .debs are to be thrown away on upload (but still required) and all packages rebuilt on the buildds. There

Re: Debian 2.6.32 CONFIG_WIRELESS_OLD_REGULATORY, wireless-regdb and crda

2010-01-28 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, 2010-01-29 at 10:57 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: * wireless-regdb could check at build time if the source database has been modified and a new binary database been rebuilt * If so * generate a new temporary key at build time

Re: Xen support on Squeeze

2010-01-02 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 9:21 AM, Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk wrote: On Sun, Jan 03, 2010 at 12:01:40PM +1100, Brian May wrote: 2) I believe KVM needs CPU support, and this is not yet available on all modern computers. It does require virtualisation extensions, but most x86 processors

Re: Bits from the kernel team

2009-12-20 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 12:50 AM, Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk wrote: OSS --- This has been a deprecated kernel interface for some time and will be disabled for squeeze Done. with mechanisms put in place to deal with legacy users. Er, not sure. I guess oss4-dkms will be

Bug#559442: linux-image-2.6.32-rc8-amd64: does not turn screen on after laptop lid close and reopen on virtual consoles

2009-12-04 Thread Paul Wise
Package: linux-2.6 Version: 2.6.30-8 Severity: normal When I switch to a virtual console, close the laptop lid and reopen it again, Linux doesn't turn the LCD screen back on. When I switch to an X session it gets turned on again. My laptop is a Dell Inspiron 6400 with Intel GPU. I'm not using KMS

Re: Coordinating efforts to get a new kernel in testing?

2009-07-11 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 5:29 AM, Frans Pop elen...@planet.nl wrote: Like FTBFS of linux-modules-extra-2.6 on 3 architectures I guess? That seemed to me like a valid reason not to want to migrate .29 to testing. Also the armel linux-2.6 FTBFS:

Bug#529719: linux-2.6: please set CONFIG_IDE_TASK_IOCTL=y in Linux build configuration

2009-05-21 Thread Paul Wise
forcemerge 390616 529719 thanks On Thu, 2009-05-21 at 12:27 +0200, maximilian attems wrote: i don't have the time right now, but irc this has been discussed before and it was disabled due to troubles in the ide core. it's worth to search d-kernel for this. Thanks for the info, merging

Bug#529719: linux-2.6: please set CONFIG_IDE_TASK_IOCTL=y in Linux build configuration

2009-05-20 Thread Paul Wise
Source: linux-2.6 Severity: wishlist According to the comments at the URLs below, CONFIG_IDE_TASK_IOCTL=y is needed to allow hdparm to issue the Secure Erase command to ATA hard drives. Please add it to the kernel build configuration. http://freshmeat.net/projects/hdparm/comments

Re: add firmware-ipw2x00 to lenny?

2009-01-04 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 11:45 PM, Moritz Muehlenhoff j...@inutil.org wrote: firmware-nonfree (0.14) unstable; urgency=low . * Generate license acceptation prompt, based on sun-java5. (closes: #504668) * Add Intel Pro 2100 firwmare, version 1.3. (closes: #504671) * Add Intel Pro

add firmware-ipw2x00 to lenny?

2009-01-03 Thread Paul Wise
Hi all, Would it be possible to unblock firmware-nonfree 0.14 from unstable? This would add a firmware-ipw2x00 package so that users with old Intel wireless on their laptops can have it work out of the box. This is the kind of thing that might be added to lennyandahalf, but we may as well add it

Bug#506628: linux-2.6: please add usbmon module to the amd64 kernel image

2008-11-22 Thread Paul Wise
Package: linux-2.6 Severity: wishlist usbmon.ko is available on most platforms, but it seems to have been overlooked on amd64. I would like to have it for reverse engineering USB protocols. I switched from i386 to amd64 since the last time I was doing that and was surprised to find it was not

Re: firmware-nonfree : ipw2200 ?

2008-10-27 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 11:54 PM, Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I've read the FAQ (posted earlier in this thread) correctly, if Debian uses a centralized location for license files, which /usr/share/doc/packagename/copyright is, then Debian should be able to put the

Bug#421730: linux-image-2.6.20-1-686: fails to boot from external usb HD - doesn't wait long enough for root device to show up

2007-05-01 Thread Paul Wise
Package: linux-image-2.6.20-1-686 Version: 2.6.20-1 Severity: normal I run Debian sid on an external hard drive, which I then move between machines and boot off it whereever I am able. I've not been able to boot it with the 2.6.20 images showed up in Debian sid, so I am still using 2.6.18-4. The

Bug#421730: linux-image-2.6.20-1-686: fails to boot from external usb HD - doesn't wait long enough for root device to show up

2007-05-01 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, 2007-05-01 at 19:10 +1000, Paul Wise wrote: I run Debian sid on an external hard drive, which I then move between machines and boot off it whereever I am able. I've not been able to boot it with the 2.6.20 images showed up in Debian sid I was able to boot linux-image-2.6.20-1-686

fix for console gone with debian 2.6.14/13 kernels

2005-11-02 Thread Paul Wise
Hi, I had a problem with the console not working with recent kernels (debian's 2.6.14/13 images). I found out this is fixed by adding fbcon to the yaird configs: pabs3 trave11er: adding fbcon to yaird configs fixed lack of console trave11er pabs3: good trave11er pabs3: make sure yaird people are