[Bug 367854] [NEW] screen's initscript "cleans" currently running sessions

2009-04-27 Thread Geoffrey Thomas
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: screen If you manage to start a screen session before the rcS.d initscripts run (e.g., because you do this at the "type password for emergency maintenance" prompt, e.g. because you set SULOGIN=yes in /etc/default/rcS), then /etc/rcS.d/S70screen-cleanup wi

[Bug 340993] [NEW] alpine's ./configure wants Build-Depends and Depends: aspell

2009-03-11 Thread Geoffrey Thomas
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: alpine alpine's debian/rules configures it it --with-spellcheck-program=aspell which according to the changelog has been in Debian since 0.82+dfsg-4. However, if you build it without aspell installed on your local system, ./configure reports: checki

[Bug 326501] Re: wrong description for ubuntustudio-desktop

2009-03-12 Thread Geoffrey Thomas
Yeah, tasksel-data should say "Ubuntu Studio desktop" instead of "Ubuntu Studio desktop (must install)". Marking as confirmed... ** Summary changed: - wrong desription for ubunt studio desktop + wrong description for ubuntustudio-desktop ** Changed in: tasksel (Ubuntu) Status: New => Con

[Bug 343389] Re: Inconsistent kerning in Firefox

2009-03-15 Thread Geoffrey Thomas
Confirmed; same issue on Firefox 3.0.6, Intrepid, defaulting to DejaVu Sans, under xmonad with no GNOME or msttcorefonts. This doesn't seem like a problem with the web page's design to me; it's a very straightforward example. I do wonder if the same kerning issue is present in other programs that

[Bug 341832] Re: SRU: mit-scheme uninstallable on Intrepid

2009-03-18 Thread Geoffrey Thomas
I can confirm that installing the Jaunty package (via adding the repo and pinning all but mit-scheme and libltdl7) works perfectly on my Intrepid laptop. Because of the versioned dependency on libtldl7, I think that will need to be SRU'd too. ** Summary changed: - SRU: mit-scheme uninstallable on

[Bug 341832] Re: SRU: mit-scheme uninstallable on Intrepid

2009-03-18 Thread Geoffrey Thomas
Er, maybe I'm confused and building on Intrepid will let it use the older version of libltdl7. -- SRU: mit-scheme uninstallable on Intrepid https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/341832 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu

[Bug 335666] Re: libc6 integration gives way wrong error message to libc5 binaries.

2009-03-03 Thread Geoffrey Thomas
So I was looking into two workarounds for this. One is a stub ld-linux.so.5 that gets mad at you and exits. If you just compile a short program that write()s an error message with gcc -static -fPIC, it "works" as an interpreter. The other option, which I think is a little more suitable, is to add

[Bug 267376] Re: [intrepid] Package OpenOffice.org 3.0 for Backports

2009-02-12 Thread Geoffrey Thomas
Hey, What's the status of getting this package into backports? It looks like both OOo and go-oo 3.0.1 are out now, but I don't see this package in intrepid-backports. -- [intrepid] Package OpenOffice.org 3.0 for Backports https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/267376 You received this bug notification

[Bug 104602] Re: root password visible at emergency console

2009-03-30 Thread Geoffrey Thomas
Still an issue on my Intrepid laptop, when enabling SULOGIN in /etc/default/rcS. Which "usplash fixes that ... went into Hardy" fixed this? Presumably, we need to move that code to just before sulogin runs, instead of merely before fsck runs? -- root password visible at emergency console https://

[Bug 335666] Re: libc6 integration gives way wrong error message to libc5 binaries.

2009-07-09 Thread Geoffrey Thomas
I've submitted a longer version of the patch above to the LKML: http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/7/9/74 -- libc6 integration gives way wrong error message to libc5 binaries. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/335666 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subsc

[Bug 330766] Re: pulseaudio hangs, prevents login, home as ntfs

2009-08-09 Thread Geoffrey Thomas
I installed the Jaunty backport from Evan's PPA, and it fixes the problem for me. (For bonus points, most audio seems to fall back to ALSA directly if Pulse doesn't start.) I'm running into this issue with a home directory in the AFS networked file system that's exceeded its quota; if you can't lo

[Bug 345813] Re: alpine does not obsolete pine, package install fails

2009-08-10 Thread Geoffrey Thomas
Even so, it's possible for people to have the pine package installed. The source package is provided in http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/multiverse/p/pine/ with the intention of people building it manually because binaries can't be distributed (see debian/rules). So the packaging for alpine

[Bug 441950] Re: dh-make-perl 0.59 FTBFS since NO_NETWORK is unset

2009-10-03 Thread Geoffrey Thomas
** Attachment added: "dh-make-perl_0.59ubuntu1.debdiff" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/32964388/dh-make-perl_0.59ubuntu1.debdiff -- dh-make-perl 0.59 FTBFS since NO_NETWORK is unset https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/441950 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bug

[Bug 441950] [NEW] dh-make-perl 0.59 FTBFS since NO_NETWORK is unset

2009-10-03 Thread Geoffrey Thomas
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: dh-make-perl Bug #404272 merged in 0.59, to fix an FTBFS in 0.57 fixed in 0.58. Unfortunately, the additional changes between 0.58 and 0.59 included a replacement of debian/rules with just the "dh" command, which unintentionally stopped setting NO_NETWORK

[Bug 328575] Re: Cannot start gnome-terminal (or x-terminal-emulator) because of gconf error

2009-08-27 Thread Geoffrey Thomas
I've confirmed that installing Evan's package addresses this issue (i.e., that gnome-terminal starts with this patch applied, and doesn't produce any GTK warnings or other ill effects). -- Cannot start gnome-terminal (or x-terminal-emulator) because of gconf error https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/

[Bug 370749] Re: dash's test ("[") builtin uses stat() instead of access()

2010-01-03 Thread Geoffrey Thomas
** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #556521 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=556521 ** Also affects: dash (Debian) via http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=556521 Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown -- dash's test ("[") builtin uses stat() instead o

[Bug 1725110] Re: config-package-dev 5.2 broke transforms

2017-11-09 Thread Geoffrey Thomas
For what it's worth, all the other examples build successfully, too, and the resulting debathena-transform-example_1.0.deb works properly when installed (it reconfigures lynx so its home page is web.mit.edu). -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is

[Bug 1725110] Re: config-package-dev 5.2 broke transforms

2017-11-09 Thread Geoffrey Thomas
distribution unstable dpkg-buildpackage: info: source changed by Geoffrey Thomas dpkg-buildpackage: info: host architecture amd64 dpkg-source --before-build debathena-transform-example-1.0 debian/rules clean dh clean --with=config-package dh_auto_clean dh_clean dpkg-source -b debathena-transform-example

[Bug 1725110] Re: config-package-dev 5.2 broke transforms

2017-11-02 Thread Geoffrey Thomas
This seems to be in bionic now - nacc, want to sponsor it for artful? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1725110 Title: config-package-dev 5.2 broke transforms To manage notifications ab

[Bug 1725110] Re: config-package-dev 5.2 broke transforms

2017-10-27 Thread Geoffrey Thomas
** Description changed: [Impact] As reported at https://bugs.debian.org/873966 , a patch in config- package-dev 5.2 broke the transform functionality entirely. Any attempt to use transforms in a config package causes the build to fail with Can't use string ("/ARRAY(0x7fda137152e0)"

[Bug 1725110] Re: config-package-dev 5.2 broke transforms

2017-10-27 Thread Geoffrey Thomas
Ran update-maintainer ** Patch added: "config-package-dev_5.4~ubuntu17.10.1.debdiff" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/config-package-dev/+bug/1725110/+attachment/4998223/+files/config-package-dev_5.4~ubuntu17.10.1.debdiff -- You received this bug notification because you are a membe

[Bug 1725110] [NEW] config-package-dev 5.2 broke transforms

2017-10-19 Thread Geoffrey Thomas
Public bug reported: [Impact] As reported at https://bugs.debian.org/873966 , a patch in config- package-dev 5.2 broke the transform functionality entirely. Any attempt to use transforms in a config package causes the build to fail with Can't use string ("/ARRAY(0x7fda137152e0)") as an ARRAY ref

[Bug 1725110] Re: config-package-dev 5.2 broke transforms

2017-10-19 Thread Geoffrey Thomas
** Patch added: "config-package-dev_5.2ubuntu0.1.debdiff" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/config-package-dev/+bug/1725110/+attachment/4977653/+files/config-package-dev_5.2ubuntu0.1.debdiff -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscr

[Bug 1725110] Re: config-package-dev 5.2 broke transforms

2017-10-19 Thread Geoffrey Thomas
Above is a backport of the patch (a two-line fix to some Perl) to 5.2. This is a backport of the entire 5.4 version, which includes autopkgtests and fixes the examples to successfully build. The diff might be easier to read on GitHub: https://github.com/sipb/config- package-dev/compare/5.2...5.4

[Bug 918896] Re: No data returned from MSSQL server

2016-07-21 Thread Geoffrey Thomas
Hi Thomas, A few months ago I pushed a branch updating the python-pymssql packaging to Debian's git repository, but I'm still waiting to hear back from the maintainer. I'll attempt to get sponsorship for a team upload to Debian soon - if so, it's possibly better to just sync the package from Debia

[Bug 977700] [NEW] "use Prophet::CLI::Dispatcher" crashes on Natty

2012-04-09 Thread Geoffrey Thomas
Public bug reported: If I try to run sd, I get this error: gthomas@salmon-of-wisdom:~$ sd Can't locate object method "has_name" via package "Path::Dispatcher::Rule::Empty" at /usr/share/perl5/Path/Dispatcher/Declarative/Builder.pm line 245. Compilation failed in require at /usr/share/perl5/App/

[Bug 1243473] [NEW] LD_AUDIT is broken on amd64

2013-10-22 Thread Geoffrey Thomas
Public bug reported: [Impact] LD_AUDIT is an "auditing interface" for the dynamic linker (ld.so), which allows an audit library specified in that environment variable to register hooks for loading and unloading objects, resolving relocations, and calling functions across dynamic libraries. It i

[Bug 1243473] Re: LD_AUDIT is broken on amd64

2013-10-22 Thread Geoffrey Thomas
Here's a debdiff that backports that one commit from upstream. I've tested that it fixes the bug inside a Precise chroot. I'm also currently rebuilding on Quantal, which is what I use on my desktop at the moment, and run with that for a bit. ** Patch added: "eglibc_2.15-0ubuntu10.5+mokafive1.debdi

[Bug 1243473] Re: LD_AUDIT is broken on amd64

2013-10-30 Thread Geoffrey Thomas
Hm, I guess I should mention that latrace -A (trace arguments) still segfaults on my Quantal machine with this patch applied: salmon-of-wisdom:~ gthomas$ latrace -A true true finished - killed by signal 11 salmon-of-wisdom:~ gthomas$ dmesg | tail -1 [2319682.778709] true[26822]: segfault at 15 ip

[Bug 1013807] Re: transparent hugepages and thrashing on amd64

2015-12-11 Thread Geoffrey Thomas
Since you seem to be using transparent hugepages and not libhugetlbfs (LD_PRELOAD=libhugetlbfs.so), I'm going to reassign this bug to the Linux kernel package. (It's also entirely possible this bug got solved in the last 3 years, to be fair) ** Package changed: libhugetlbfs (Ubuntu) => linux (Ubu

[Bug 1412909] [NEW] Please raise Suggests for lib{pam, nss}-winbind to Recommends in trusty

2015-01-20 Thread Geoffrey Thomas
Public bug reported: The Debian packaging of Samba demoted the Recommends relationships to libpam-winbind and libnss-winbind to Suggests after one Debian release: samba (2:3.6.15-1) unstable; urgency=high * Team upload. * New upstream bugfix release. Closes: #707042 * Update VCS URL's for

[Bug 1334886] Re: [mk-sbuild] /home not mounted, causes schroot errors

2014-09-09 Thread Geoffrey Thomas
** Summary changed: - /home not mounted, causes schroot errors + [mk-sbuild] /home not mounted, causes schroot errors -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1334886 Title: [mk-sbuild] /home

[Bug 1153009] [NEW] [FFe] Please sync config-package-dev 5.0 from Debian sid main

2013-03-09 Thread Geoffrey Thomas
* Bump Standards-Version to 3.9.4 (no changes required). * Update Vcs-Git and Vcs-Browser locations to new upstream. * Drop CDBS runtime dependency. CDBS users should be explicitly Build-Depending on CDBS, probably through use of the @cdbs@ macro in debian/control.in. -- Geof

[Bug 1153089] [NEW] Please backport config-package-dev 5.0 to lucid, precise, and quantal

2013-03-09 Thread Geoffrey Thomas
ebhelper 7.   * Bump Standards-Version to 3.9.4 (no changes required).   * Update Vcs-Git and Vcs-Browser locations to new upstream.   * Drop CDBS runtime dependency. CDBS users should be explicitly Build-Depending on CDBS, probably through use of the @cdbs@ macro in debian/control.in.  --

[Bug 824999] Re: timidity: segfault with --force-program for a nonexistent patch

2012-10-18 Thread Geoffrey Thomas
** Summary changed: - Segmentation fault on converting .midi to .wav + timidity: segfault with --force-program for a nonexistent patch -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/824999 Title: ti

[Bug 1068431] Re: timidity crashes with either abort or segfault

2012-10-18 Thread Geoffrey Thomas
Do you have a backtrace, either created yourself with gdb or automatically submitted via apport? (apport bugs are private by default, so you may have to make the bug public so I can see it.) I believe there are instructions on grabbing a backtrace with gdb on the Ubuntu wiki, if you're unfamiliar

[Bug 483491] Re: libtimidity missing in timidity+ package

2012-10-14 Thread Geoffrey Thomas
Yeah, I don't think this relates to the timidity package itself. Notably, this looks based on the old TiMidity, not TiMidity++, so it's not even very related to the codebase packaged as timidity. I'd be curious to see what gstreamer requires. One approach that comes to mind would be to apply the s

[Bug 454401] Re: Errors from gtk+ interface of timidity

2012-10-14 Thread Geoffrey Thomas
Thanks for the report. Many Gtk+ programs I see display various assertion failures on stderr; this usually does not cause any practical problems. Have you seen any actual issues with the interface, or are you just reporting the messages? It's certainly worth fixing the causes of these messages, bu

[Bug 753590] Re: timidity user is not deleted when purging timidity-daemon

2012-10-14 Thread Geoffrey Thomas
Thanks for reporting this bug. It looks like general consensus is that packages should not delete system users they create, even on purge: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2012/02/msg01100.html In particular, http://bugs.debian.org/621833 is a bug against Debian Policy to clarify that package

[Bug 718695] Re: package timidity 2.13.2-37 failed to install/upgrade: Package is in a very bad inconsistent state - you should reinstall it before attempting a removal.

2012-10-14 Thread Geoffrey Thomas
Thanks for reporting this bug, and sorry about the trouble. I realize this was a long time ago, but do you still have logs of the terminal output when installing timidity? If you're lucky, one of the /var/log/apt/term.log.*.gz files has it -- try "zgrep timidity /var/log/apt/term.log.*.gz". Please

[Bug 1058343] [NEW] Regression in CVE-2012-3524 security update

2012-09-28 Thread Geoffrey Thomas
*** This bug is a security vulnerability *** Public security bug reported: There's a minor regression in CVE-2012-3524-dbus.patch, since dbus- daemon-launch-helper is a setuid binary that links libdbus, and does its own environment sanitization. Specifically, it attempts to pass through DBUS_STAR

[Bug 992145] [NEW] "Folder vulnerable" for /var/mail in default Ubuntu config

2012-04-30 Thread Geoffrey Thomas
Public bug reported: Having not done anything particularly interesting regarding my mail configuration, on a Natty desktop system, after having received one locally delivered mail (from sbuild), alpine goes "Folder vulnerable - directory /var/mail must have 1777 protection" every time I start it.

[Bug 1048039] Re: indicator-session-service crashed with SIGSEGV

2012-09-08 Thread Geoffrey Thomas
** Visibility changed to: Public -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1048039 Title: indicator-session-service crashed with SIGSEGV To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bu

[Bug 992145] Re: "Folder vulnerable" for /var/mail in default Ubuntu config

2012-06-09 Thread Geoffrey Thomas
** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #414264 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=414264 ** Also affects: alpine (Debian) via http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=414264 Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown -- You received this bug notification because yo

[Bug 893541] [NEW] Please sync timidity 2.13.2-40

2011-11-22 Thread Geoffrey Thomas
audio to fix FTBFS (Closes: #639196, #641415) (LP: #832841). * Bump standards-version to 3.9.2; no changes necessary. * Add lintian override for embedded mikmod copy; I'll deal with this later (opens #649344). -- Geoffrey Thomas Sat, 19 Nov 2011 23:45:23 -0500 ** Affects: timidi

[Bug 821778] Re: software-center crashed with DocNotFoundError in __init__(): Document 345 not found

2011-08-05 Thread Geoffrey Thomas
** Visibility changed to: Public -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/821778 Title: software-center crashed with DocNotFoundError in __init__(): Document 345 not found To manage notifica

[Bug 840925] [NEW] Please make /dev/kvm world-accessible in 45-qemu-kvm.rules

2011-09-04 Thread Geoffrey Thomas
Public bug reported: It would be nice if /dev/kvm were world-accessible, so that unprivileged users could use hardware virtualization features without needing to be added to the kvm group in advance by a system administrator. Currently the following rule is in place on Natty: w-a-thornhump-iii:~

[Bug 841331] Re: package timidity-daemon 2.13.2-39build1 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed pre-removal script returned error exit status 127

2011-09-04 Thread Geoffrey Thomas
Out of curiosity, what was the misconfiguration here? (It sounds like you had added the word "source" in /etc/default/timidity with some malformed syntax?) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bug

[Bug 819097] [NEW] fontconfig: don't "clean up" on new installs

2011-07-31 Thread Geoffrey Thomas
Public bug reported: This is a re-reporting of Debian #636173, since the actual failure is only triggered on Ubuntu. debian/fontconfig.postinst includes this snippet: if dpkg --compare-versions "$2" lt 2.4.0-1; then printf "Cleaning up old fontconfig caches... " for dir in /usr/share/fonts

[Bug 670629] Re: EULA not shown for Microsoft Fonts

2011-07-31 Thread Geoffrey Thomas
I filed the following bugs about the fontconfig issue: http://bugs.debian.org/636173 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/819097 I'm attaching a debdiff that creates /usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts in the postinst (unconditionally) instead of using debian/dirs for this. I've tested that this pa

[Bug 819106] [NEW] msttcorefonts fails to install because of bad fontconfig interaction

2011-07-31 Thread Geoffrey Thomas
Public bug reported: Per the following bug http://bugs.debian.org/636173 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/819097 fontconfig's postinst likes to delete empty directories in /usr/share/fonts. Unfortunately, msttcorefonts packages an empty directory, /usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts, and depen

[Bug 819106] Re: msttcorefonts fails to install because of bad fontconfig interaction

2011-07-31 Thread Geoffrey Thomas
** Patch added: "msttcorefonts-670629.debdiff" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/819106/+attachment/2246156/+files/msttcorefonts-670629.debdiff -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/819106 T

[Bug 670629] Re: EULA not shown for Microsoft Fonts

2011-07-31 Thread Geoffrey Thomas
I guess I can't reopen a "Fix released" bug, and in any case a new bug report seems better, so I've attached that debdiff to a new bug #819106. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/670629 Tit

[Bug 832841] Re: timidity version 2.13.2-39build1 failed to build in oneiric

2011-08-27 Thread Geoffrey Thomas
This is due to multiarch paths and something I don't entirely understand causing ./configure to hard-code the location of NAS as /usr/lib/libaudio.so unless you specify otherwise. I'm planning on adopting this package in Debian and should have an upload to fix this as soon as my sponsor's online

[Bug 719181] [NEW] lprng: FTBFS on Natty because of pickier linker

2011-02-14 Thread Geoffrey Thomas
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: lprng On Ubuntu Natty, the lprng source package fails to build with the following error: gcc -g -O2 -Wl,-Bsymbolic-functions -o lpr lpr.o openprinter.o stty.o child.o copyright.o debug.o errormsg.o fileopen.o gethostinfo.o getopt.o getprinter.o getqu

[Bug 719181] Re: lprng: FTBFS on Natty because of pickier linker

2011-02-14 Thread Geoffrey Thomas
** Patch added: "debdiff to fix FTBFS" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lprng/+bug/719181/+attachment/1850812/+files/lprng-krb5-config.debdiff -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bug

[Bug 710755] Re: compiz crashed with SIGSEGV in _mesa_generate_mipmap()

2011-02-18 Thread Geoffrey Thomas
Same here; Compiz crashed on alt-tab, and my mouse worked but my keyboard became useless. (This might be an artifact of Unity or something?) Manually running Metacity let me log in to post this. I don't believe Launchpad uploaded my crash report since I marked it as a dupe, but I can send it out o

[Bug 146314] Re: package description says html is included but it seams not

2011-01-23 Thread Geoffrey Thomas
schnollk, you wanted dpkg -L, not dpkg -S. dpkg -L lists all files owned by a package; dpkg -S searches packages for owning a file name or a part of a file name -- in this case the only filenames containing "aptitude-doc-en" were /usr/share/doc/aptitude-doc- en/*. (I just installed aptitude-doc-e

[Bug 280623] Re: .deb association with gdebi doesn't work in firefox

2010-06-26 Thread Geoffrey Thomas
Changed back to "confirmed" because multiple people are reporting this and there's no evidence a fix has actually been released (although I haven't personally tested this). ** Changed in: firefox-3.0 (Ubuntu) Status: Fix Released => Confirmed -- .deb association with gdebi doesn't work i

[Bug 538912] Re: xlinks shouldn't replace Firefox as /etc/alternatives/x-www-browser

2010-08-26 Thread Geoffrey Thomas
> The alternatives system is not a good way of managing the default > browser anyway Perhaps, but it's what apps that use sensible-browser (alpine, xpdf, end up using, which is why I really care. Perhaps another solution would be to make ubufox or something make sensible-browser unconditionally op

[Bug 611256] Re: Using lighttpd as a source for network installation of ubuntu fails

2010-08-12 Thread Geoffrey Thomas
Hi Wouter, Is the bug present in the version of lighttpd included with Ubuntu 10.04, or do you merely mean that installing Ubuntu 10.04 fails when using an older version of lighttpd as the mirror? There is a known bug in lighttpd regarding pipelining that cases corruption when installing from ap

[Bug 92862] Re: Shouldn't be apt-get-centric

2010-08-14 Thread Geoffrey Thomas
> I have heard this "aptitude is prefered" before but have never seen any official documentation to support it. >From the dpkg man page: "dpkg is a tool to install, build, remove and manage Debian packages. The primary and more user-friendly front-end for dpkg is aptitude(1)." I agree with Evan

[Bug 1847611] Re: Installing prelink on a fresh eoan install gets me a "Core dumped" error

2019-11-07 Thread Geoffrey Thomas
As the Debian maintainer I filed a removal ticket https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=921401 but there's one package using it (sl-modem, I think that's fixable by throwing -Wl,-execstack or something at it) that I haven't gotten around to chasing. If someone wants to apply Ubuntu-spec