"Also sprach Debian Bug Tracking System:" > > On Wed, Jul 06, 2011 at 07:16:55PM +0200, Peter T. Breuer wrote: > > Package: openni-dev > > Version: 1.1.0.41-5+maverick1 > > There is no such package in Debian, nor in Ubuntu, come to that, so we > cannot help with your bug report. As far as I can tell, you must have > got this package from > https://launchpad.net/~v-launchpad-jochen-sprickerhof-de/+archive/pcl.
Sure, no problem. It's part of stuff necessary to compile PCL (point cloud library, sf.net), which is kind-of a VTK-ey thingamajig for 3-D model manipulation. DEB packages are supplied on the point cloud library site, but in the end I recompiled them to avoid the problem I reported .. there's a wrongheaded -msse2 in the default compile options. I wrongly assumed that the bug report would go to the registered maintainer, not to debian. Apologies! Time to file a bug report against "reportbug"? It has the maintainer's email address available in the dpkg status file, after all! > That user has no public address registered on Launchpad, so I can't even That's extremely helpful, but I KNOW where I got the thing from .. www.pointcloud.org. The package maintainer is Maintainer: Jochen Sprickerhof <launch...@jochen.sprickerhof.de> I'll cc him on reply. Indeed, I'll repost the bug report to him, if I find I have a clean copy somewhere. > CC him on this mail. I suggest you use Launchpad's "Contact this user" > facility to contact him directly. > > > Distributor ID: Ubuntu (nah .. I 'graded to debian immediately after > > install years ago .. dunno where it gets it from). > > Description: Ubuntu 8.04.1 (nahhhhh - where IS this from!). > > I deduce that your sidegrade to Debian was incomplete. At the very > least, you appear to have: > > * Ubuntu's version of the base-files package Oh, great! A CLUE! You are really really being very helpful. That's most un-maintainer-like in my experience! Are you sure this isn't your first encounter with the luser population? ii base-files 6.4 Debian base system miscellaneous files Nope. > * Either an old Ubuntu version of the reportbug package, or perhaps > stale configuration in .reportbugrc ii reportbug 5.1.1 reports bugs in the Debian distribution Nope. > I would recommend that, before you submit further bug reports to Debian, > you establish that you're running a coherent system whose base packages Oh, please don't worry about stuff like that. If I don't know what I'm doing, nobody does! :-) But it's really nice to see a helpful maintainer! One day I am going to take reportbug apart and see what it thinks it is about. Simple straces never show anything indicative. > are from a single distributor, otherwise a bunch of people processing > your reports are liable to get rather confused. You can use the > apt-show-versions package to help with this; if you filter out Ubuntu and debian don't diverge sufficiently to bother me. Ubuntu has better X setup but since latest X servers on debian are broken for me (intel TP x40), I've been holding them for yonks. Every so often I forget and inadvertently smash X in an upgrade splurge - it would be so nice if aptitude or apt actually respected holds from dpkg forever - it's clear that they don't or that I don't know how to make them. One can get more misaligned by just following unstable - not that that is a bother either. Occasionally I wage a war on one distros packages or the other. Currently % dpkg -l | grep ubuntu | grep ^ii | wc -l 48 so 48 out of % dpkg -l| grep ^ii | wc -l 2972 Not worth worrying about. I bequeath you the complete list, just to demonstrate: % dpkg -l | grep ubuntu | grep ^ii ii arts 1.5.10-0ubuntu sound system from the official KDE release ii brother-cups-w 1.2.1-0ubuntu1 Cups Wrapper drivers for extra brother print ii cobex 0.2.13-2ubuntu Connector for mobile devices ii command-not-fo 0.2.17ubuntu1 Set of data files for command-not-found. ii dict-freedict- 1.3-4ubuntu1 Dict package for Spanish-English Freedict di ii esound-clients 0.2.38-0ubuntu Enlightened Sound Daemon - clients ii gcj-4.1-base 4.1.2-18ubuntu The GNU Compiler Collection (gcj base packag ii helix-player 1.0.9-0ubuntu5 Helix audio and video player ii i855-crt 0.4-0ubuntu3 i855 TV Out switching ii jargoninformat 1.3.6-0ubuntu2 French dictionary of computer vocabulary ii jargoninformat 1.3.6-0ubuntu2 Data files for jargoninformatique ii kcontrol-autos 0.5-0ubuntu2 autostart module for KDE control center ii ksniffer 0.3.2-1ubuntu2 network traffic analyzer for KDE ii ksocrat 3.2.1-2ubuntu1 English/Russian and Russian/English Dictiona ii libappframewor 1.03-0ubuntu2 Swing Application Framework API ii libarts1c2a 1.5.10-0ubuntu aRts sound system core components ii libartsc0 1.5.10-0ubuntu aRts sound system C support library ii libbtctl4 0.10.0-1ubuntu GObject Bluetooth library ii libdaemon-gene 0.51-0ubuntu1 framework for starting, stopping, reconfigur ii libdc1394-13 1.1.0-5ubuntu3 high level programming interface for IEEE139 ii libeel2-data 2.22.1-0ubuntu Eazel Extensions Library - data files (for G ii libfaac0 1.26-0.1ubuntu an AAC audio encoder - library files ii libgcj7-1 4.1.2-18ubuntu Java runtime library for use with gcj ii libgcj7-jar 4.1.2-18ubuntu Java runtime library for use with gcj (jar f ii libgcj8-jar 4.2.4-5ubuntu1 Java runtime library for use with gcj (jar f ii libgnutls13 2.0.4-1ubuntu2 the GNU TLS library - runtime library ii libini4j-java 0.2.6-0ubuntu2 Java API for handling Windows ini file forma ii liblogkit-java 1.2.2-9ubuntu1 Lightweight and fast designed logging toolki ii libnb-apisuppo 6.0.1-0ubuntu2 Common NetBeans Platform Development Related ii libnb-ide8-jav 6.0.1-0ubuntu2 Common Integrated Development Environment Li ii libnb-java1-ja 6.0.1-0ubuntu2 Common Java Related Libraries for NetBeans ii libnb-platform 6.0.1-0ubuntu3 Build harness for NetBeans Platform ii libnb-platform 6.0.1-0ubuntu3 NetBeans Platform for building rich desktop ii libnb-svnclien 6.0.1-0ubuntu2 High-level Java API to subversion ii libnetdude 0.3.3-4ubuntu2 NETwork DUmp data Displayer and Editor for t ii libopencdk10 0.6.6-1ubuntu1 Open Crypto Development Kit (OpenCDK) (runti ii libpoppler2 0.6.4-1ubuntu3 PDF rendering library ii libswingworker 1.1-0ubuntu2 Swing Worker API ii libvolume-id0 117-8ubuntu0.2 volume identification library ii localechooser- 1.42ubuntu5 Lists of locales supported by the installer ii mozilla-helix- 1.0.9-0ubuntu5 Helix audio and video player (browser plugin ii mpatrolc2 1.4.8-12ubuntu A library for debugging memory allocations ii postgresql-cli 8.3.14-0ubuntu front-end programs for PostgreSQL 8.3 ii prismstumbler 0.7.3-0ubuntu4 Wireless network sniffer ii slocate 3.1-1.1ubuntu3 Secure replacement of findutil's locate ii ubuntu-keyring 2008.03.04 GnuPG keys of the Ubuntu archive ii xfce4-mcs-plug 1.0.1-0ubuntu3 Extra plugins for the Xfce mcs manager ii xresprobe 0.4.24ubuntu8 X Resolution Probe % Again, I thank you for your extremely helpful and savvy message! > 'uptodate' lines, it will list the packages that differ from the > archives in your current /etc/apt/sources.list. Wonderful theory, but not so in practice. Only the other week I recall making a big start on the output from "cruft" in order to try and recover from the last time my dpkg status file vanished due to some power surge about 6 months ago. And it's 40C here .. and I made big progress, removing about 400M of "cruft" file by file. Now if somebody would like to tell me why my /usr is STILL nearly 4GB, and looks legit, I would love to know. It seems as though any reasonable package nowadays takes 300MB! KB DIR 91840 /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-sun-1.5.0.22/jre/lib 93824 /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-sun-1.5.0.22/jre 93860 /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-sun-1.5.0.22 100264 /usr/lib/gcc 101704 /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/lib 102464 /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre 114192 /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun-1.6.0.26/jre/lib 115764 /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun-1.6.0.26/jre 115800 /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun-1.6.0.26 136192 /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk 186736 /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu 200960 /usr/lib/libreoffice/basis3.3/program 243452 /usr/lib/libreoffice/basis3.3 245172 /usr/lib/libreoffice 345972 /usr/lib/jvm 2800156 /usr/lib Whatever happend to the days when I could write a distro to fit in 3MB of ram and 16MB of disk! > > Regards, > > -- > Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org] Equally Peter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
