Bug#1105130: release-notes: uprading a minimal system with gnupg to trixie pulls in an MTA

2025-06-23 Thread Andrew Bower
Hi, On Mon, Jun 23, 2025 at 04:27:15PM +0100, Justin B Rye wrote: > Richard Lewis wrote: > >> If a minimal system with gnupg is upgraded to trixie it is likely to pull > >> in an > >> unwanted MTA because of changed dependencies. Such users may find it > >> helpful > >> for a hint in the release

Bug#1107917: runit-init: filenames of diverted man pages make them unusable

2025-06-17 Thread Andrew Bower
Package: runit-init Version: 2.2.0-3 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, The following commands fail: $ man service.real No manual entry for service.real $ man invoke-rc.d.real No manual entry for invoke-rc.d.real They should show the diverted man pages from init-system-helpers. The dive

Bug#1106121: isc-dhcp - EOL and not security supported

2025-06-17 Thread Andrew Bower
Hi Lorenzo et al., On Mon, Jun 02, 2025 at 12:25:41AM +0200, Lorenzo wrote: > What is the default replacement for the client? and for the server? > I looked at the discussion on -devel and I'm still unsure.. > dhcpcd-base + dhcpcd and kea? > without this info I'm not able to decide what to do for

Bug#1107677: cron: suggest merging NEWS entries introducing then ditching cron_now

2025-06-12 Thread Andrew Bower
Hi Georges, On Thu, Jun 12, 2025 at 04:42:38PM +0200, Georges Khaznadar wrote: > Hello Andrew, > thank you for the bug report. I agree that reading two NEWS entries > which overlap themselves, the second superseding the first one, > is annoying. > > Please can you help me to merge those entries?

Bug#1107677: cron: suggest merging NEWS entries introducing then ditching cron_now

2025-06-11 Thread Andrew Bower
Source: cron Version: 3.0pl1-196 Severity: minor Dear Maintainer, If you upgrade from bookworm to trixie you get two NEWS entries, where the second one supersedes the first one which talks about a 'cron_now' command that they will never see. Could I suggest merging these now into one to eliminate

Bug#1107534: lxc: initscript does not exit cleanly once package removed

2025-06-08 Thread Andrew Bower
Package: lxc Version: 1:6.0.3-1 Severity: minor Dear Maintainer, If lxc is uinstalled, its initscripts fail with an error code instead of exiting quitely as required by Debian policy 9.3.2: startpar: service(s) returned failure: lxcfs lxc lxc-net ... failed! The usual way to handle this is wi

Bug#1107533: apparmor: initscript should exit quietly when package not installed

2025-06-08 Thread Andrew Bower
Control: tags -1 + patch On Sun, Jun 08, 2025 at 10:37:58PM +0100, Andrew Bower wrote: > I uninstalled apparmor and now get (ignorable) errors on boot: > > startpar: service(s) returned failure: apparmor ... failed! > > Debian policy 9.3.2 says that initscripts "should not

Bug#1107533: apparmor: initscript should exit quietly when package not installed

2025-06-08 Thread Andrew Bower
Package: apparmor Version: 4.1.0-1 Severity: minor Dear Maintainer, I uninstalled apparmor and now get (ignorable) errors on boot: startpar: service(s) returned failure: apparmor ... failed! Debian policy 9.3.2 says that initscripts "should not fail obscurely when the configuration files rema

Bug#1107402: unblock: acct/6.6.4-6 (pre-approval)

2025-06-07 Thread Andrew Bower
root:adm /var/log/wtmp.report chmod 640 /var/log/wtmp.report diff -Nru acct-6.6.4/debian/changelog acct-6.6.4/debian/changelog --- acct-6.6.4/debian/changelog 2022-05-15 12:55:10.0 +0100 +++ acct-6.6.4/debian/changelog 2025-06-07 07:57:39.0 +0100 @@ -1,3 +1,19 @@ +acct (6.6.4-6) uns

Bug#1074591: /etc/cron.monthly/acct uses `last` which has been removed from util-linux

2025-06-05 Thread Andrew Bower
Control: retitle -1 acct: cron job needs wtmpdb last and points it to wtmp file On Thu, Jun 05, 2025 at 10:23:37PM +0100, Andrew Bower wrote: > On Sun, Jun 01, 2025 at 12:12:42PM +, internet2poi...@aim.com wrote: > > acct currently does not have any relationship with the new wtmpd

Bug#1074591: /etc/cron.monthly/acct uses `last` which has been removed from util-linux

2025-06-05 Thread Andrew Bower
On Sun, Jun 01, 2025 at 12:12:42PM +, internet2poi...@aim.com wrote: > acct currently does not have any relationship with the new wtmpdb package, > though, so the cronjob as shipped will never work and will send an error > message every month. > > acct should have a Depends or at least a Recom

Bug#1074591: /etc/cron.monthly/acct uses `last` which has been removed from util-linux

2025-06-04 Thread Andrew Bower
Control: tags -1 + patch On Mon, Jul 01, 2024 at 06:52:52PM +0100, Etienne Dechamps wrote: > Package: acct > Version: 6.6.4-5+b2 > > The acct package installs /etc/cron.monthly/acct which uses the last(1) > command. Fix proposed at https://salsa.debian.org/pkg-security-team/acct/-/merge_reques

Bug#285850: sysv-rc-conf: floating service

2025-05-20 Thread Andrew Bower
On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 12:46:59PM -0800, Joe Oppegaard wrote: > On Mon, 20 Dec 2004 at 11:09pm +0100, Osamu Aoki wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 11:46:29AM -0800, Joe Oppegaard wrote: > > > On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 at 10:20pm +0100, Osamu Aoki wrote: > > > > > > > Can you address bug report by mar

Bug#579205: Problems using sysv-rc-conf and update-rc.d together

2025-05-18 Thread Andrew Bower
Control: tags -1 + moreinfo Hi Garb, On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 10:49:58AM +0200, Garb Dowle wrote: > After removing all start links for a process like e.g. ntp via sysv-rc-conf, > then setting the start links again for ntp with "update-rc.d ntp defaults" > wont't set the start links. It says: "Syst

Bug#813178: sysv-rc-conf -P shouldn't need to know Terminal Size

2025-05-18 Thread Andrew Bower
Control: tags -1 + moreinfo Hi Dan, On Sat, Jan 30, 2016 at 02:19:06PM +0800, 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson wrote: > Package: sysv-rc-conf > Version: 0.99-7 > Severity: wishlist > File: /usr/sbin/sysv-rc-conf > > sysv-rc-conf -P shouldn't need to know Terminal Size. I assume you mean to add another option i

Bug#680293: update-rc.d manual: `update-rc.d remove name` works when `/etc/init.d/name` exists

2025-05-15 Thread Andrew Bower
On Fri, Jan 11, 2019 at 12:37:07PM +, Dmitry Bogatov wrote: > [2012-07-04 22:17] Paul Menzel > > I guess the bug has been present for a longer time, so please update the > > version information accordingly. > > Dear maintainers of init-system-helpers, please consider following > patch, that a

Bug#1105195: RFS: sysv-rc-conf/0.99-11 [ITA] -- SysV init runlevel configuration tool for the terminal

2025-05-13 Thread Andrew Bower
CI * add initial gbp.conf defining debian branch I would be grateful if any prospective sponsor would assign rights to me for the packaging repo so I can upload the corresponding git commits, please! Thanks, -- Andrew Bower signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#1105130: release-notes: uprading a minimal system with gnupg to trixie pulls in an MTA

2025-05-11 Thread Andrew Bower
Package: release-notes Severity: normal If a minimal system with gnupg is upgraded to trixie it is likely to pull in an unwanted MTA because of changed dependencies. Such users may find it helpful for a hint in the release notes to remove gpg-wks-server on upgrade, such as with: apt full-upgrad

Bug#615551: O: sysv-rc-conf -- SysV init runlevel configuration tool for the terminal

2025-05-11 Thread Andrew Bower
Control: retitle -1 ITA: sysv-rc-conf -- SysV init runlevel configuration tool for the terminal Control: owner -1 ! I am minded to adopt this package. It is worth noting, as mentioned [1] in the previous orphaning bug (#335790), that the upstream is also abandoned. The upstream version 0.99, wh

Bug#1105100: RFS: getdns/1.7.3-1 [Team] -- modern asynchronous DNS API (stub resolver)

2025-05-11 Thread Andrew Bower
d: getdns (1.7.3-1) experimental; urgency=medium . * Team upload. . [ Andrew Bower ] * New upstream version (Closes: #1025781, #1025741) * drop patches included upstream * catch new symbols and restore missing ones (Closes: #1023663) * add salsa CI pipeline * ditch unnecessary orig

Bug#428300: sysv-rc-conf: Program exception upon a "r" restore

2025-05-10 Thread Andrew Bower
On Sat, May 10, 2025 at 11:39:15PM +0200, Chris Hofstaedtler wrote: > On Sat, May 10, 2025 at 02:53:55PM +0100, Andrew Bower wrote: > > Control: tags -1 + patch > > I have provided a patch which handles this scenario correctly. > > This package needs a maintainer. Oth

Bug#428300: sysv-rc-conf: Program exception upon a "r" restore

2025-05-10 Thread Andrew Bower
curs whenever the services do not fit an exact number of screenfuls, in other words, almost always! I have provided a patch which handles this scenario correctly. From 319c24d502cf948dc87df4e20a943f1928794d5f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andrew Bower Date: Sat, 10 May 2025 14:26:48 +0100 Subject:

Bug#1105010: opensysusers: groupadd: invalid group ID '-:nogroup' with openssh

2025-05-09 Thread Andrew Bower
Package: opensysusers Version: 0.7.3-4.1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, During startup the following error is reported when the openssh-server.conf sysusers.d configuration is processed: Starting standalone sysusers service: opensysusersgroupadd: invalid group ID '-:nogroup' Opensysusers

Bug#1104921: dh-runit: is ${runit:Conflicts} still needed?

2025-05-08 Thread Andrew Bower
Package: dh-runit Version: 2.16.4 Severity: minor Dear Maintainer, If I build a package that uses dh_runit to include runit service integration, the ${runit:Conflicts} variable is defined and the build process warns if it is not used. Is this still helpful or is ${runit:Breaks} sufficient in most

Bug#1025781: getdns: new upstream version 1.7.3

2025-05-08 Thread Andrew Bower
Thomas, On Thu, May 08, 2025 at 10:14:15AM +0200, Chris Hofstaedtler wrote: > * Andrew Bower [250508 00:00]: > > On Wed, May 07, 2025 at 11:28:09PM +0200, Chris Hofstaedtler wrote: > > > * Andrew Bower [250507 21:42]: > > > > > > > Unfortunately, libgetdn

Bug#1025781: getdns: new upstream version 1.7.3

2025-05-07 Thread Andrew Bower
On Wed, May 07, 2025 at 11:28:09PM +0200, Chris Hofstaedtler wrote: > * Andrew Bower [250507 21:42]: > > > > > Unfortunately, libgetdns' soname has changed to 12, so I guess the > > > > > library's > > > > > binary package needs to be r

Bug#1025781: getdns: new upstream version 1.7.3

2025-05-07 Thread Andrew Bower
Hi Thomas, On Wed, May 07, 2025 at 06:55:39PM +0200, Thomas Uhle wrote: > to be honest, I don't know. However, I cannot find any evidence that the > project has been dropped. > > For me, the main purpose of this software is the support of stubby which is > from the same people that provide getdn

Bug#1025781: getdns: new upstream version 1.7.2

2025-05-06 Thread Andrew Bower
Hi Thomas, On Sat, Mar 01, 2025 at 02:17:47PM +0100, Thomas Uhle wrote: > the bugfix release 1.7.3 is now more than two years old. Do you think that > there is a chance to get this version into trixie before the freeze? Do we have any evidence that upstream is paying attention to this software a

Bug#1094965: wtmpdb: provides no way to prune rotated logs

2025-05-05 Thread Andrew Bower
Control: tags -1 - patch Removing 'patch' tag. The proper approach needs better design - for both the rotation and pruning aspects. Even the directory used is questionnable. This issue is mitigated in 0.73.0-3 by disabling rotation by default on new installations.

Bug#1104698: RFS: wtmpdb/0.73.0-3 -- utility to display login/logout/reboot information

2025-05-04 Thread Andrew Bower
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Bug#1094965: wtmpdb: provides no way to prune rotated logs

2025-04-23 Thread Andrew Bower
I have received some helpful feedback on this, essentially to the effect that the current policy is worse than useless because not only does it not prune but that the over-fragmented log files are just less useful. The suggestion is that rotation should either be disabled or given a long period li

Bug#1103152: Starts 2nd getty on hvc0, making console login (almost) impossible

2025-04-14 Thread Andrew Bower
On Mon, Apr 14, 2025 at 09:32:55PM +0200, Andras Korn wrote: > On Mon, Apr 14, 2025 at 05:45:48PM +0100, Andrew Bower wrote: > > > On Mon, Apr 14, 2025 at 04:28:36PM +0200, Andras Korn wrote: > > > During a dist-upgrade, the getty-run package was pulled in, and a(n > &g

Bug#1103152: Starts 2nd getty on hvc0, making console login (almost) impossible

2025-04-14 Thread Andrew Bower
Hi Andras and Lorenzo, On Mon, Apr 14, 2025 at 04:28:36PM +0200, Andras Korn wrote: > During a dist-upgrade, the getty-run package was pulled in, and a(n > IMO misleadingly named) getty-ttyS0 service enabled by default. IMO the system should not start anything on a serial port without user config

Bug#1102717: gnupg: fails to interact with HSM after upgrade from 2.2.46

2025-04-12 Thread Andrew Bower
Hi Andreas, On Sat, Apr 12, 2025 at 01:43:47PM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote: > On 2025-04-12 Andrew Bower wrote: > afaiui with gnupg 2.4 you have to either use gnupg's built-in ccid driver > *instead* of pcdsd (i.e. stop pcscd from grabbing the device) or > configure gnupg to *n

Bug#1102717: gnupg: fails to interact with HSM after upgrade from 2.2.46

2025-04-12 Thread Andrew Bower
Package: gnupg Version: 2.4.7-14 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, I upgraded gnupg from 2.2.46-6 to 2.4.7-13 and all operations with a hardware security module (Yubikey 5) now fail. It may be that there is a user configuration or dependency change that needs satisfying but I can't find any docu

Bug#1102643: libpam-wtmpdb: Coordinating openssh wtmpdb support

2025-04-11 Thread Andrew Bower
Hi Colin, On Fri, Apr 11, 2025 at 01:06:00PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > I'd like to arrange for the less-informative "ssh" one to be skipped. > This can be done by adding "skip_if=sshd" to libpam_wtmpdb's options, > and > https://build.opensuse.org/projects/Linux-PAM/packages/wtmpdb/files/wt

Bug#1094356: freeradius-utils radlast and wtmpdb last incompatible

2025-04-09 Thread Andrew Bower
RADIUS specifically but would be happy to help out with any issues. Andrew >From 4462edc88ec31b64c82bfc7fe6554403d58fc9df Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andrew Bower Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2025 21:04:53 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Patch radlast to wrap wtmpdb import step. (Closes: #1094356) --- debia

Bug#1102482: runit-services: rsyslog logrotate workaround not set up on upgrade from bookworm

2025-04-09 Thread Andrew Bower
Hi Lorenzo, On Wed, Apr 09, 2025 at 04:41:52PM +0200, Lorenzo wrote: > I just pushed a patch to git, next branch.. any chance that you can > test if it fixes the issue for you? I just re-did the distro upgrade with a build of runit-services/0.9.1 and it worked smoothly, thanks! Andrew

Bug#1102482: runit-services: rsyslog logrotate workaround not set up on upgrade from bookworm

2025-04-09 Thread Andrew Bower
Package: runit-services Version: 0.9.0 Severity: normal X-Debbugs-Cc: and...@bower.uk Dear Maintainer, I upgraded a minimal VM from stable to testing and the workaround for the broken rsyslog log rotation did not get installed: $ ls -l /etc/service/ total 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 Apr 20 2024

Bug#1102101: wtmpdb: Argument `last -p ` not working (UTC / local-time?)

2025-04-07 Thread Andrew Bower
Control: tags -1 patch Control: forwarded -1 https://github.com/thkukuk/wtmpdb/issues/33 Hi Dirk, A quick update: On Sun, Apr 06, 2025 at 09:40:17PM +0100, Andrew Bower wrote: > Thanks for this. The four issues here need to be dealt with separately: > > On Sat, Apr 05, 2025 at 04:38:1

Bug#1102105: wtmpdb: Argument combination `last -x -s ` not working

2025-04-06 Thread Andrew Bower
Control: tags -1 moreinfo upstream Hi Dirk, Thanks for these reports! On Sat, Apr 05, 2025 at 05:43:53AM +0200, Dirk Lehmann wrote: > Package: wtmpdb > Version: 0.72.0-1 > Severity: normal > > Dear Maintainer, > > here an `last -x` example output > > ``` > $> wtmpdb last -x -n20 > root pt

Bug#1102101: wtmpdb: Argument `last -p ` not working (UTC / local-time?)

2025-04-06 Thread Andrew Bower
Control: tags -1 confirmed upstream Hi Dirk, Thanks for this. The four issues here need to be dealt with separately: On Sat, Apr 05, 2025 at 04:38:17AM +0200, Dirk Lehmann wrote: > for the command-line argument `last -p ` there are existing at > least 4 issues: > > 1. last -p now > >

Bug#1102167: wtmpdb: upgrading from [0.13.0-6, 0.72.0-1] leaves useless runlevels configured for one-shot service

2025-04-05 Thread Andrew Bower
Package: wtmpdb Version: 0.72.0-1 Severity: normal Upgrading wtmpdb from versions between 0.13.0-6 and 0.72.0-1 can leave useless runlevels configured that do not cause the edge-level trigger in the init script since version 0.71.0+git20250228.4e4b54e-2 to record boots. Fresh installations since

Bug#1102102: wtmpdb: Argument `last -t ` not working

2025-04-05 Thread Andrew Bower
Control: tags -1 confirmed upstream patch Control: forwarded -1 https://github.com/thkukuk/wtmpdb/pull/30 Hi Dirk, Thank you for this bug report! On Sat, Apr 05, 2025 at 04:53:47AM +0200, Dirk Lehmann wrote: > the argument `last -t ` seems not to be implemented yet. Here > an example: > > ```

Bug#1101410: RFS: wtmpdb/0.72.0-2 -- utility to display login/logout/reboot information

2025-03-27 Thread Andrew Bower
on upgrade from versions between 0.13.0-6 and 0.72.0-1 inclusive. * copyright: remove lrc override and include content not used in binary Regards, -- Andrew Bower signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#1101338: sysv-rc-conf: wants to remove runit-init when I dist-upgrade

2025-03-25 Thread Andrew Bower
Package: sysv-rc-conf Version: 0.99-10 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, sysv-rc-conf is my preferred tool for manipulating symlinks under rcN.d but when I tried to use apt-get dist-upgrade to upgrade sysv-rc-conf from 0.99-7.1 to 0.99-10, it wanted to uninstall my init system, runit, in favour o

Bug#1093545: runit: please consider fake xchpst compat for runscripts

2025-03-23 Thread Andrew Bower
Control: tags -1 - moreinfo Hi Lorenzo, On Mon, Mar 17, 2025 at 09:42:51PM +, Andrew Bower wrote: > On Mon, Mar 17, 2025 at 12:47:43AM +0100, Lorenzo wrote: > > That said, I know this is your least favorite option, I think there are > > still important details that need to be

Bug#1101101: initscripts: update initscripts 3.14-3 to 3.14-4 removes kernel

2025-03-23 Thread Andrew Bower
On Sun, Mar 23, 2025 at 11:21:25AM +0100, Lorenzo wrote: > On Sun, 23 Mar 2025 10:34:00 +0100 > rich...@appendix.xaq.nl wrote: [...] > this is a duplicate of #1100955, > see > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1100955 > > in order to upgrade initscripts you have to wait for kmod th

Bug#1100971: lintian: groff false +ve because tbl preprocessor not enabled for man pages

2025-03-21 Thread Andrew Bower
On Fri, Mar 21, 2025 at 05:19:07PM +0800, Maytham Alsudany wrote: > Please let me know if this helps solve the problem. Yes, thank you both for the useful information. Please feel free to close the bug! Andrew

Bug#1100971: lintian: groff false +ve because tbl preprocessor not enabled for man pages

2025-03-21 Thread Andrew Bower
Package: lintian Version: 2.121.2 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, The groff linting is coming up with false positives because man pages are checking (presumably) without enabling the 'tbl' preprocessor. An example, running: apt-get source libcrypt-dev cd libxcrypt-4.4.38 debuild -i -uc

Bug#1099627: closed by Bastian Germann (RFS: calcurse/4.8.1-1.2 [NMU] [RC] -- text-based calendar and todo manager)

2025-03-18 Thread Andrew Bower
Bastian, On Tue, Mar 18, 2025 at 04:12:03PM +, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: > Thanks for the NMU. Thanks for the upload! Unfortunately the buildd runs exposed RC https://bugs.debian.org/1100813 on some archs, which would take a little more effort to sort out.

Bug#1100813: calcurse: FTBFS on t64 ILP32 archs (armel, armhf): -Wincompatible-pointer-types

2025-03-18 Thread Andrew Bower
Source: calcurse Version: 4.8.1-1.2 Severity: serious Tags: ftbfs upstream Justification: fails to build from source (but built successfully in the past) X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-...@lists.debian.org User: debian-...@lists.debian.org Usertags: armel armhf Dear Maintainer, calcurse fails to build from

Bug#1093545: runit: please consider fake xchpst compat for runscripts

2025-03-17 Thread Andrew Bower
> define the final version of the xchpst integration. It seems to work - all in, it's a neat solution. > On Thu, 27 Feb 2025 22:52:47 + > Andrew Bower wrote: > > > I had a look at runscripts and chpst is rarely used, often with one > > > option like 'ch

Bug#1099627: RFS: calcurse/4.8.1-1.2 [NMU] [RC] -- text-based calendar and todo manager

2025-03-09 Thread Andrew Bower
On Sat, Mar 08, 2025 at 08:40:59AM -0700, Soren Stoutner wrote: [discussion on copyright file requirements for autotools files etc.] Thanks for the interesting discussion. It's good to know that I may have misunderstood the policy! Anyway, for the benefit of any potential sponsors of this RC N

Bug#1073842: calypso: please patch-out usage of python3-lockfile

2025-03-08 Thread Andrew Bower
Control: tags -1 - patch On Sun, Nov 24, 2024 at 11:39:41PM +, Andrew Bower wrote: Control: tags -1 patch Withdrawing my patch that was an attempt to be helpful but would reduce functionality. It doesn't seem as if anyone cares and I couldn't work out if the bug that it blo

Bug#1099627: RFS: calcurse/4.8.1-1.2 [NMU] [RC] -- text-based calendar and todo manager

2025-03-07 Thread Andrew Bower
Control: tags -1 + confirmed On Sat, Mar 08, 2025 at 06:26:49AM +, Phil Wyett wrote: > Control: tags -1 -moreinfo > Control: tags -1 _confirmed I assume you meant +confirmed but slipped on the keyboard, so I'm taking the liberty of doing that myself! :-)

Bug#1092031: runit-services: duplicate rsyslog logrotate

2025-03-07 Thread Andrew Bower
On Wed, Mar 05, 2025 at 06:53:34PM +0200, Dimitris T. wrote: > i confess i didn't know rsyslog background untill now... (read relative bug > reports/salsa MR/etc.. even decade old rsyslog bugs..) i can now see what > Andrew meant It's a bit sad really and totally unnecessary. > with all this

Bug#1091616: /usr/sbin/syslog-ng: smart-multi-line.fsm not found

2025-03-07 Thread Andrew Bower
On Sat, Dec 28, 2024 at 07:03:32PM +, Bryan D. Thomas wrote: > > Logs included this line about smart-multi-line.fsm, even when I made a bare > minimum config file. [..] > I copied the smart-multi-line.fsm file from the source tarball into the > directory where it was expected. If this fil

Bug#1050692: Outdated configuration file version

2025-03-07 Thread Andrew Bower
On Mon, Aug 28, 2023 at 11:36:52AM +0200, Yuri D'Elia wrote: > The configuration file provided in syslog-ng-core has "@version: 3.38", > which triggers the following warning on startup: > > > WARNING: Configuration file format is too old, syslog-ng is running in > > compatibility mode. Please upda

Bug#1092623: marked as pending in runit

2025-03-07 Thread Andrew Bower
On Fri, Mar 07, 2025 at 10:29:18PM +0100, Lorenzo wrote: > On Fri, 7 Mar 2025 19:46:26 + > Andrew Bower wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 07, 2025 at 06:55:55PM +, Lorenzo Puliti wrote: > > > > Which is patches 1-3, but I don't see patch 2 ("pass all build flags

Bug#1092623: marked as pending in runit

2025-03-07 Thread Andrew Bower
Hi Lorenzo, On Fri, Mar 07, 2025 at 06:55:55PM +, Lorenzo Puliti wrote: > Control: tag -1 pending Thanks for considering and including my patches! Your prospective changelog says: [ Andrew Bower ] * stop build output interleaving leading to blhc false positives (Closes: #1092

Bug#1099627: RFS: calcurse/4.8.1-1.2 [NMU] [RC] -- text-based calendar and todo manager

2025-03-07 Thread Andrew Bower
Hi Phil, Thanks for the review - much appreciated! On Fri, Mar 07, 2025 at 09:57:20AM +, Phil Wyett wrote: > Test 3 (build twice): Information [...] > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=986234 Yes, I tried to fix this but to no avail. I think the package needs attention from

Bug#1099729: syslog-ng-core: /var/log/error flooded with EINVAL complaints seeking /dev/kmsg

2025-03-07 Thread Andrew Bower
Package: syslog-ng-core Version: 4.8.1-2+b1 Severity: normal Tags: upstream fixed-upstream Dear Maintainer, /var/log/error is flooded with messages of the form: Mar 6 22:17:27 arden syslog-ng[2174]: Error invoking seek on file; filename='/dev/kmsg', error='Invalid argument (22)' There appears

Bug#1099627: RFS: calcurse/4.8.1-1.2 [NMU] [RC] -- text-based calendar and todo manager

2025-03-05 Thread Andrew Bower
(4.8.1-1.2) unstable; urgency=medium . * Non-maintainer upload. * Update B-D to tzdata-legacy to fix FTBFS (Closes: #1086259) * Recommend tzdata-legacy for full functionality. Thanks, -- Andrew Bower signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#1086259: calcurse: FTBFS: FAIL: ical-007.sh

2025-03-04 Thread Andrew Bower
014457449d1b6f037f9012d8ea6f37b1b3087174 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andrew Bower Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2025 21:18:35 + Subject: Install tzdata-legacy to fix ftbfs (Closes: #1086259) --- debian/control | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control

Bug#1086259: calcurse: FTBFS: FAIL: ical-007.sh

2025-03-04 Thread Andrew Bower
The problem here seems to be the application ignoring the TZID parameter expressed in the iCal test data. This clearly worked when the current binary package was built so it must be something that only comes to light with the latest toolchain or libraries. I haven't yet spotted any upstream issues

Bug#1099199: RFS: wtmpdb/0.71.0+git20250228.4e4b54e-1 [ITA] -- utility to display login/logout/reboot information

2025-03-04 Thread Andrew Bower
Hi Maytham, On Tue, Mar 04, 2025 at 07:21:37PM +0800, Maytham Alsudany wrote: > I noticed that the package doesn't have a d/tests/control for > autopkgtest, even though upstream provides some (basic) tests, so I've > attempted to make the changes necessary to run these tests with > autopkgtest at

Bug#1099199: RFS: wtmpdb/0.71.0+git20250228.4e4b54e-1 [ITA] -- utility to display login/logout/reboot information

2025-03-04 Thread Andrew Bower
On Tue, Mar 04, 2025 at 06:10:25PM +0800, Maytham Alsudany wrote: It's your call, though please consider that you're packaging from a commit rather than a release. Could you please confirm that you want to upload to unstable? An upstream release would be preferred but they seem to be fairly ar

Bug#1099199: RFS: wtmpdb/0.71.0+git20250228.4e4b54e-1 [ITA] -- utility to display login/logout/reboot information

2025-03-03 Thread Andrew Bower
Hi Maytham, On Mon, Mar 03, 2025 at 07:24:01AM +, Andrew Bower wrote: > On Mon, Mar 03, 2025 at 01:58:16PM +0800, Maytham Alsudany wrote: > > Before I go ahead and upload, have you considered fixing this: > > > > I: libwtmpdb0: no-symbols-control-file > &g

Bug#1099199: RFS: wtmpdb/0.71.0+git20250228.4e4b54e-1 [ITA] -- utility to display login/logout/reboot information

2025-03-02 Thread Andrew Bower
Hi Maytham, On Mon, Mar 03, 2025 at 01:58:16PM +0800, Maytham Alsudany wrote: > Before I go ahead and upload, have you considered fixing this: > > I: libwtmpdb0: no-symbols-control-file > usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libwtmpdb.so.0.71.0 > N: > N: Although the package includes a shared library, the

Bug#1099199: RFS: wtmpdb/0.71.0+git20250228.4e4b54e-1 [ITA] -- utility to display login/logout/reboot information

2025-03-01 Thread Andrew Bower
Hi Maytham, On Sun, Mar 02, 2025 at 02:27:19PM +0800, Maytham Alsudany wrote: > The packaging looks good to me. Just one question: do you plan on > including the wtmpdbd daemon later, or are you permanently excluding it > from the packaging? Thanks! Personally I'm not convinced of the merit and

Bug#1099199: RFS: wtmpdb/0.71.0+git20250228.4e4b54e-1 [ITA] -- utility to display login/logout/reboot information

2025-03-01 Thread Andrew Bower
Hi Maytham, On Sun, Mar 02, 2025 at 12:46:30PM +0800, Maytham Alsudany wrote: > On Sat, 2025-03-01 at 15:55 +0000, Andrew Bower wrote: > > Changes since the last upload: > > > > wtmpdb (0.71.0+git20250228.4e4b54e-1) experimental; urgency=medium > > . > >*

Bug#1099199: RFS: wtmpdb/0.71.0+git20250228.4e4b54e-1 [ITA] -- utility to display login/logout/reboot information

2025-03-01 Thread Andrew Bower
onfig: do not check excluded wtmpdbd and varlink content * add d/upstream/metadata * dh_installinit: no-stop-on-upgrade Regards, -- Andrew Bower signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#1099168: wtmpdb: consider packaging new upstream version 0.71.0

2025-02-28 Thread Andrew Bower
Source: wtmpdb Version: 0.13.0-6 Severity: wishlist The main changes since the current Debian release are a new system service 'wtmpdbd' accessed over a JSON-based IPC scheme called 'varlink' heavily tied to systemd. This seems like massive overkill and it is not clear that the greater attack surf

Bug#1086559: wtmpdb: read old format files

2025-02-28 Thread Andrew Bower
Control: tags -1 fixed-upstream Control: severity -1 important Thanks for reporting this issue! I am pleased to report that the upstream maintainer has accepted the addition of an import command for old wtmp files. I intend to make this operation available for users upgrading from bookworm so th

Bug#1093545: runit: please consider fake xchpst compat for runscripts

2025-02-27 Thread Andrew Bower
On Fri, Feb 21, 2025 at 12:14:51AM +0100, lorenzo wrote: > Hi Andrew, sorry for late reply: > > I was short on free time and also wanted to take some time to think > about this No problem! > On Sun, 19 Jan 2025 19:31:55 +0000 Andrew Bower wrote: > > Hey Lorenzo, > &

Bug#1092031: runit-services: duplicate rsyslog logrotate

2025-02-27 Thread Andrew Bower
How about biting the bullet and doing a dpkg-divert like orphan-sysvinit-scripts does?

Bug#1095036: systemctl: Syntax Warning: invalid escape sequence '\w'

2025-02-27 Thread Andrew Bower
Hi Dmitry, On Sat, Feb 22, 2025 at 10:48:00PM +, Andrew Bower wrote: > I attach a patch which applies a backport of the upstream fix. Would you mind if I tried to prepare a sponsored NMU to your package with this fix? I'm sorry I don't think I'm in a position to contrib

Bug#1031399: rsyslog: Log rotation broken on non-systemd systems

2025-02-25 Thread Andrew Bower
Hi Michael, On Thu, Feb 16, 2023 at 09:43:55PM +0100, Michael Biebl wrote: > (btw, this would break if orphan-sysvinit-scripts is not installed). That's a good point! Although addressed by a later version of Matthew's patch, I wonder if this points towards a simpler solution of restoring the init

Bug#1086559: wtmpdb: read old format files

2025-02-25 Thread Andrew Bower
Control: unblock -1 by 1095490 Control: tags -1 upstream Control: owner -1 ! Hi Andy, On Fri, Nov 01, 2024 at 06:51:20PM +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote: > On Fri, Nov 01, 2024 at 05:03:11PM +0100, Chris Hofstaedtler wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 01, 2024 at 02:39:54PM +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote: > > > E

Bug#1006971: runit-init: Add runit-init as Pre-Depends of init metapackage [tracker]

2025-02-23 Thread Andrew Bower
On Sat, Jan 07, 2023 at 05:40:04PM +0100, Lorenzo wrote: > About the list of TODO in #923450; It looks like you've done a great job of fulfilling these requirements. I hope we can see this resolved quickly now for new users! > > * It should be possible to configure the init system to provide a >

Bug#1095036: systemctl: Syntax Warning: invalid escape sequence '\w'

2025-02-22 Thread Andrew Bower
On Sat, Feb 22, 2025 at 10:48:00PM +, Andrew Bower wrote: > Control: tags -1 patch > > I attach a patch which applies a backport of the upstream fix. Now actually attached - MUA operator error. >From 4d9562f2c19d4df82a1788c07fc7be1ead421126 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andrew

Bug#1095036: systemctl: Syntax Warning: invalid escape sequence '\w'

2025-02-22 Thread Andrew Bower
Control: tags -1 patch On Sun, Feb 02, 2025 at 09:50:56PM +, Andrew Bower wrote: > Severity: minor Although ostensibly minor, I think this level of warning (since Python 3.12) is excessive and could be more serious if it obscured error output in logs. I therefore think this is worth fix

Bug#1095490: util-linux: new optional package to interrogate utmp-format files

2025-02-21 Thread Andrew Bower
at 08:46:39AM +0000, Andrew Bower wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 09, 2025 at 01:01:08AM +0100, Chris Hofstaedtler wrote: > > > On Sat, Feb 08, 2025 at 12:47:05PM +, Andrew Bower wrote: [..] > > utmp would work past 2038 except on i386 - and for > > 32-bit architectures that

Bug#1092031: runit-services: duplicate rsyslog logrotate

2025-02-18 Thread Andrew Bower
; succesfully. but... > > > > when some runit-services trigger is run following some package > > upgrade (eg. rsyslog), then, aa-rsyslog-runit is also renamed to > > aa-rsyslog-runit.disabled.. (?!)  and there is no (rsys)log rotation!! > > On Fri, 14 Feb 2025 19:0

Bug#1092031: runit-services: duplicate rsyslog logrotate

2025-02-14 Thread Andrew Bower
Hi everyone, Three thoughts come to mind, reading this. Two of them, terrible... On Fri, Feb 14, 2025 at 05:40:28PM +0200, Dimitris T. wrote: > something relative i noticed. > > if i set /etc/logrotate.d/rsyslog -> rsyslog.disabled (so only one > logrotation script for rsyslog ), then logrotate

Bug#1095490: util-linux: new optional package to interrogate utmp-format files

2025-02-09 Thread Andrew Bower
Hi Chris, Firstly, thanks for supporting my contributions to making sure wtmpdb works well for users! To expand on my earlier reply: On Sun, Feb 09, 2025 at 01:01:08AM +0100, Chris Hofstaedtler wrote: > On Sat, Feb 08, 2025 at 12:47:05PM +0000, Andrew Bower wrote: > > I appreciate that

Bug#1095490: util-linux: new optional package to interrogate utmp-format files

2025-02-08 Thread Andrew Bower
On Sun, Feb 09, 2025 at 01:01:08AM +0100, Chris Hofstaedtler wrote: > On Sat, Feb 08, 2025 at 12:47:05PM +0000, Andrew Bower wrote: > > I appreciate that the utmp-capable tooling has been removed from default > > installations to avoid users being misled that they are

Bug#1095490: util-linux: new optional package to interrogate utmp-format files

2025-02-08 Thread Andrew Bower
Source: util-linux Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-Cc: sysvi...@packages.debian.org Control: block 1086559 by -1 Dear Maintainers of util-linux and sysvinit source packages, Since util-linux 2.40.2-12 dropped utmpdump, there are no tools in the archive capable of interrogating log files in the utmp(

Bug#1094921: sysvinit-core: does not write entries to wtmpdb

2025-02-07 Thread Andrew Bower
Hi Lorenzo, On Sun, Feb 02, 2025 at 11:52:25PM +0100, Lorenzo wrote: > On Sun, 2 Feb 2025 22:25:43 + > Andrew Bower wrote: > > > On Sun, Feb 02, 2025 at 11:00:46PM +0100, Lorenzo wrote: > > > On Sun, 2 Feb 2025 21:00:41 + > > > Andrew Bower wrote: >

Bug#1094356: freeradius-utils radlast and wtmpdb last incompatible

2025-02-06 Thread Andrew Bower
Control: block -1 by 1086559 Hi John, On Mon, Jan 27, 2025 at 08:28:02AM -0500, John Chittum wrote: >the old `last` was removed from util-linux for not being 2038 compliant. >`glibc` has made the `utmp` seconds uint, so it's safe for additional >time. `wtmpdb` has not implemented a me

Bug#1095268: RFS: getdns/1.6.0-3.2 [NMU] [RC] -- modern asynchronous DNS API (stub resolver)

2025-02-06 Thread Andrew Bower
ntinuation lines. * Bump debhelper from old 11 to 13. + debian/rules: Drop --fail-missing argument to dh_missing, which is now the default. * Set debhelper-compat version in Build-Depends. * Update standards version to 4.6.2, no changes needed. . [ Andrew Bower ] * Patch te

Bug#1095267: RFS: wtmpdb/0.13.0-6 [QA] -- utility to display login/logout/reboot information

2025-02-05 Thread Andrew Bower
abower/wtmpdb/-/tags/rfs%2F0.13.0-6%2Fv1 Thank you! -- Andrew Bower signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#1094965: wtmpdb: provides no way to prune rotated logs

2025-02-04 Thread Andrew Bower
On Tue, Feb 04, 2025 at 10:32:55AM +0100, Chris Hofstaedtler wrote: > On Tue, Feb 04, 2025 at 12:33:04AM +0000, Andrew Bower wrote: > > > > Surely it depends - some thing are highly distro-specific. The amount of > > detritus that accumulates in upstream contrib directori

Bug#1094965: wtmpdb: provides no way to prune rotated logs

2025-02-03 Thread Andrew Bower
Thanks for the review, Chris! On Mon, Feb 03, 2025 at 11:52:08PM +0100, Chris Hofstaedtler wrote: > ISTM this is a lot of new, potentially fragile sh code, possibly > with undefined semantics. Indeed shellcheck has a lot of things to > say, including: > > | In prune-logs line 9: > | set -o pipefa

Bug#1094965: wtmpdb: provides no way to prune rotated logs

2025-02-03 Thread Andrew Bower
Control: tags -1 patch On Sat, Feb 01, 2025 at 09:24:31PM +, Andrew Bower wrote: > wtmpdb will rotate logs but nothing will prune them (like logrotate would for > other types of log - unfortunately it doesn't fit in well with the wtmpdb > way). I have come up with a solu

Bug#1094921: sysvinit-core: does not write entries to wtmpdb

2025-02-03 Thread Andrew Bower
Control: tags -1 + patch On Mon, Feb 03, 2025 at 09:05:59AM +, Mark Hindley wrote: > control: reassign -1 wtmpdb > > Andrew, > > This seems to be resolvable in wtmpdb, so I am reassigning. https://salsa.debian.org/abower/wtmpdb/-/commit/bfcc651ba54f2edec3cb502968db21556d0cb47e https://salsa

Bug#1094921: sysvinit-core: does not write entries to wtmpdb

2025-02-02 Thread Andrew Bower
On Sun, Feb 02, 2025 at 11:00:46PM +0100, Lorenzo wrote: > On Sun, 2 Feb 2025 21:00:41 + > Andrew Bower wrote: > > For the boot entry I can just remove the wtmpdb call in stage 1; for the > shutdown entry in runit, is implemented as "halt -w[1]" in shutdown.c > th

Bug#1095036: systemctl: Syntax Warning: invalid escape sequence '\w'

2025-02-02 Thread Andrew Bower
Package: systemctl Version: 1.4.4181-1.1 Severity: minor Dear Maintainer, Any invocation of systemctl results in 8 lines of warnings that have been introduced to Python in some recent version. # systemctl status /usr/bin/systemctl:1541: SyntaxWarning: invalid escape sequence '\w' expanded = re

Bug#1095035: plymouth: backtrace when booting into single user mode

2025-02-02 Thread Andrew Bower
Package: plymouth Version: 24.004.60-2+b2 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, If I boot into single user mode (append 'single' to kernel command line) there is a backtrace from plymouth and a delay before the password prompt is presented. There is no problem with normal boot mode. Transcribed from

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