Bug#808234: signify: Depends on virtual package "perl5" which is gone with perl/5.22

2015-12-17 Thread Brian White
Thanks. I no longer have a Debian development machine. -- Brian On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 9:16 AM, Dominic Hargreaves wrote: > Package: signify > Version: 1.14-1 > Severity: serious > Justification: package uninstallable > Tags: sid pending > User: debian-p...@lists.debian.org > Usertags: perl-5

Bug#773861: Signify - OpenBSD's cryptographic signing tool

2015-01-11 Thread Brian White
I don't maintain Signify it any longer (or even use it) so feel free to do with it whatever you like. -- Brian On Sat, Jan 10, 2015 at 12:31 AM, Riley Baird < bm-2cvqnduybau5do2dfjtrn7zbaj246s4...@bitmessage.ch> wrote: > Thanks for the review > > >> > http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/s

Bug#658139: Collaborative maintenance of mime-support (was Re: Using FreeDesktop MIME entries directly in mime-support).

2012-07-17 Thread Brian White
> > Lastly, I would like to thank Brian for his impressively 16-years long > work on > mime-support. Brian, feel free to stay among the uploaders ! > Thanks. I wish I had the energy to make some of the much-needed changes but I'm just not involved with the project enough these days to have a goo

Bug#674089: mime-support: removed application/x-httpd-* can lead to immense security problems

2012-05-31 Thread Brian White
> > In 3.52-1 you removed application/x-httpd-* to close #589384. > I have no preference to it being present or not. It was marked as "release critical" by the Apache/PHP folks. Decide among yourselves what is correct and I'll make it that way. -- Brian > > This happened without any notice to

Bug#661240: mime-support 3.52-1 breaks WordPress

2012-02-25 Thread Brian White
There's a number of new mime.type changes in 3.52. Would you be willing to copy /etc/mime.types from 3.51 to a temp location, install 3.52, copy that version elsewhere, copy the old version back to its original location, and see if it's okay again? If so, would you send me the "diff -u" output of

Bug#639580: [mime-support] A detailed error output

2012-02-12 Thread Brian White
Inserting quotes somewhere in the middle of a command-line argument is no different than putting quotes around the entire thing. The shell strips them and considers whitespace in the middle to not be an argument boundary. You can omit the quotes completely from the mailcap rule and update-mime wi

Bug#623384: mime-support: /usr/bin/see runs in an endless loop and spawn lot of processes

2012-02-12 Thread Brian White
At the very least I'd need to know the type of the attachment causing the problem, the contents of your /etc/mime.types file, the contents of your /etc/mailcap file, and any ~/.mime.types or ~/.mailcap file you may have. Brian bcwh...@pobox.com -

Bug#646462: mime-support: Runs notepad to view text files

2011-10-24 Thread Brian White
> > Excerpts from Brian White's message of Mon Oct 24 14:14:15 +0200 2011: > > Something is creating an entry in the /etc/mailcap (or ~/.mailcap) for > this file > > type. Mime support is just following the instructions there. > > Actually, there is no usable entry for text/plain in /etc/mailcap s

Bug#646462: mime-support: Runs notepad to view text files

2011-10-24 Thread Brian White
Something is creating an entry in the /etc/mailcap (or ~/.mailcap) for this file type. Mime support is just following the instructions there. Brian bcwh...@pobox.com - Treat someone as they are and they wi

Bug#646461: /usr/bin/run-mailcap: cannot view HTML files

2011-10-24 Thread Brian White
run-mailcap is doing the right thing here and calling "sensible-browser" to view the file. That program is the one claiming that there is now known browser on your system. Brian bcwh...@pobox.com - Treat s

Bug#608342: [mime-support] Please add cautious-launcher support to work with Wine.

2011-01-02 Thread Brian White
Can you attach the entire program instead of just a patch? Brian bcwh...@pobox.com - Treat someone as they are and they will remain that way. Treat someone as they can be and they will become that way.

Bug#605254: mime-support: compression schemes inconsistencies

2010-11-29 Thread Brian White
> Guess I was wrong with some of the above: > All of them, whose _decompressed_ data is more than just any raw data > (i.e. all archives which can have multiple files, or so) > can have their own (un)official mime type. > If an application stores information about the original file (like it's file

Bug#605250: mime-support: application/rss+xml is not a registered MIME Type

2010-11-29 Thread Brian White
> There are other unofficial mappings, outside the "x-" namesapce, e.g. for > rar. > > What's the policy of the mime-support package on them? > > IMHO all unofficials (except the "x-*"'s) should be removed. > When it comes to mappings, official mappings take precedence. Beyond that, I don't care.

Bug#445267: mime-support: Please make it possible to specify fallbacks in ~/.mailcap

2010-09-03 Thread Brian White
> At the moment ~/.mailcap takes precedence over /etc/mailcap, so a user can't specify a program to use for types that don't have a rule in /etc/mailcap. Specifically, I'd like to be able to specify fallbacks for text/* and application/* (and just point them to my editor).

Bug#560118: miscategorized mimetypes

2010-09-03 Thread Brian White
> Package: mime-support > Version: 3.46-1 > > I think application/x-go-sgf should be text/x-go-sgf. > > I also think its likely that application/x-chess-pgn and > application/x-ruby, as well as possibly some others, should be "text". > Additionally, it seems that these are the same on gentoo/KDE a

Bug#569738: mime-support: Should allow user-specific configuration

2010-09-03 Thread Brian White
> However, the coolest thing would be if I needn't keep my own .mailcap by > hand. Instead, I would just have my ~/.mailcap.order and call > update-mime with a "--userdir" option. > I've added a "--local" option todo this. Let me know if it doesn't work for you. Brian bcwh...@pobox.com

Bug#573518: mime-support: upstream and out of date mime.types

2010-09-03 Thread Brian White
> http://git.fedoraproject.org/git/mailcap.git?f=mime.types;hb=HEAD > Do you have an up-to-date link for that? Brian bcwh...@pobox.com - Treat someone as they are and they will remain that way. Treat som

Bug#589991: mime-support: MIME types needed for x-gzip and x-compress

2010-09-03 Thread Brian White
Dear Apache Maintainers... I'm being petitioned quite strongly to re-add types for gzipped files to the /etc/mime.types file. I originally removed those types from that file because they caused Apache to work incorrectly, namely that Apache would then send a foo.html.gz file as type=application/x

Bug#589991: mime-support: MIME types needed for x-gzip and x-compress

2010-09-03 Thread Brian White
> > There are many more of these. Debian's (lack of) handling of gzip as > a MIME type is broken, even with respect to HTTP. HTTP's handling of > gzip as a content encoding is intended to be transparent to the user: > if the file is stored on the server as a .gz file, it should arrive at > the us

Bug#589991: mime-support: MIME types needed for x-gzip and x-compress

2010-09-01 Thread Brian White
> > > > Everything is an encoding. HTML is an encoding. MP3 is an encoding. > > > ASCII is an encoding. All digital data on a computer is an encoding > > > of some sort. Purpose *absolutely* matters. > > > > > > > All of those are more than an encoding. They apply some meaning to the > > data.

Bug#589991: mime-support: MIME types needed for x-gzip and x-compress

2010-08-30 Thread Brian White
> > > Because if .gz was present, it would send the file as the associated > type. > > If it wasn't, then it would look beyond and send the correct type with a > > content-encoding of "gzip". > > Then Apache (or possibly the HTTP standard itself) is broken, and > should be fixed. You can not justi

Bug#589991: mime-support: MIME types needed for x-gzip and x-compress

2010-08-19 Thread Brian White
> > At one point (the point at which they were removed from this file), > > including them would break Apache. > > That's probably an apache bug, but I think you're confusing the issue. > MIME standards apply to e-mail, not HTTP, and as such Apache is > irrelevant to this discussion. > HTTP uses t

Bug#589991: mime-support: MIME types needed for x-gzip and x-compress

2010-08-18 Thread Brian White
> I will systematically prove that (depending on semantics) either this > is outright false, or that the term "encoding" has been > misappropriated and, in the context of MIME, excluding these on the > basis that they are "encodings" is completely inappropriate. > At one point (the point at which

Bug#572658: O: signify -- Automatic, semi-random ".signature" rotator/generator

2010-03-17 Thread Brian White
close 572658 -- As the original author of this code, I do do work on it at times. Brian bcwh...@pobox.com - Treat someone as they are and they will remain that way. Treat someone as they can be and they will

Bug#533723: mime-support: run-mailcap --action=cat should ignore non-copiousoutput entries

2009-12-08 Thread Brian White
> > I can change the "cat" option to only match "copiousoutput" entries if > you > > wish. It's a perfectly reasonable behavior given that "cat" isn't > defined > > in the first place. > > Yes, could you please do so. > > That would be the best since as you say "cat" isn't defined in the first > p

Bug#261162: Processed: reassign 261162 to mime-support, affects 261162

2009-12-08 Thread Brian White
> > Sorry to say, I don't think there's any way to fix this. I can't write > to > > the current directory and I can't pass a filename with shell > meta-characters > > to the command. > > What's so hard on properly escaping this? > It's impossible because there is no way to know how it will be inj

Bug#533723: mime-support: run-mailcap --action=cat should ignore non-copiousoutput entries

2009-12-03 Thread Brian White
> > > I thought "copiousoutput" meant "non-interactive stdout". Am > > > I mistaken? > > > > "copiousoutput" indicates that the program produces a lot of output > > and should be fed into a "pager" program so as to not overwhelm the > > user. I've added a "--nopager" option in the latest upload.

Bug#533723: mime-support: run-mailcap --action=cat should ignore non-copiousoutput entries

2009-12-03 Thread Brian White
> > > What are use-cases for current cat behaviour? If there is > > > none besides being used as a filter, let's please make it > > > ignore interactive viewers and just pipe the result to > > > stdout. > > > > That makes sense, but I can think of no generic way to know if it's an > > interactive v

Bug#558650: mime-support: Smooth handling of gzipped files ?

2009-12-03 Thread Brian White
> application/pdf; okular '%s'; nametemplate=%s.pdf; test=test "$DISPLAY" != > ""; encodings=gzip,bzip,bzip2,compress; > (note that the nametemplate would probably have to be removed, or > run-mailcap would > have to append the default compresser extension for the app to be fine). > That's an inte

Bug#261162: Processed: reassign 261162 to mime-support, affects 261162

2009-12-03 Thread Brian White
close 261162 -- Sorry to say, I don't think there's any way to fix this. I can't write to the current directory and I can't pass a filename with shell meta-characters to the command. Brian bcwh...@pobox.com ---

Bug#533723: mime-support: run-mailcap --action=cat should ignore non-copiousoutput entries

2009-12-03 Thread Brian White
> > What are use-cases for current cat behaviour? If there is none > > besides being used as a filter, let's please make it ignore > > interactive viewers and just pipe the result to stdout. > > That would be my preference too. To obtain the functionality as > Brian implemented it, I'd probably rat

Bug#533723: mime-support: run-mailcap --action=cat should ignore non-copiousoutput entries

2009-12-03 Thread Brian White
> I too think, --action=cat should ignore X viewers. > > After all, original --action=cat use case (as requested by me btw in > #526690) was to use it as canonical filter. So _filtering_ functionality > was assumed by --action=cat, and otherwise to me cat seems to be useless > because we have --act

Bug#545087: mime-support: gzip and bz2 should be listed as mime.types

2009-09-05 Thread Brian White
> while troubleshooting bug #541241 of the mutt package and reporting it to > upstream [0], I found out that Debian does not list .gz and .bz2 in > mime.types > because they are considered 'encodings'. I saw that this change happened in > version 3.1-1 but I wasn't able to find a related bug report

Bug#533723: mime-support: run-mailcap --action=cat should ignore non-copiousoutput entries

2009-06-26 Thread Brian White
> Hi Brian, I must be missing the point of --action=cat. Its name > seems to imply non-interactive stdout, but it will still run > X-based viewers and needsterminal viewers. The latter seems > especially strange since the user probably doesn't want an > interactive curses viewer if they used --ac

Bug#533723: mime-support: run-mailcap --action=cat should ignore non-copiousoutput entries

2009-06-21 Thread Brian White
> I came to the conclusion that --action=cat should ignore mailcap > entries other than copiousoutput. > I don't agree. Cat is like "view" but without a pager. To have it choose otherwise would be confusing. The mailcap system is pretty fragile in general; I don't think you should try to shoe-h

Bug#533722: mime-support: run-mailcap should discard non-applicable entries prior to calling "test" commands

2009-06-21 Thread Brian White
> Presently run-mailcap will run mailcap "test" commands even > though the rule will eventually be discarded because of > needsterminal or copiousoutput flags. > Neither of these options should even disallow a rule. Instead, a new terminal will be created or the output will be passed to a pager.

Bug#497779: mime-support: should use information in /usr/share/applications

2008-09-13 Thread Brian White
I’m tired of receiving bug reports asking to add a debian/mime file to support an outdated MIME system that no application I know besides mutt still uses. Thank you for your polite and informative email. I'll get to it soon. -- Brian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subj

Bug#485863: [mime-support] missing .ogv = video/ogg mime

2008-06-18 Thread Brian White
i just found out the i was missing this mime type after i tried to open a .ogv video capture i got from the application gtk-recordmydesktop. "ogv" is mapped to video/ogg in v3.43. i use kde, so i added it locally and my issue was solved but maybe we should see if their is upstream to mime-sup

Bug#458691: mime-support should not register a "view" alternative at any priority

2008-06-05 Thread Brian White
severity 458691 wishlist tag 458691 wontfix -- mime-support does not provide "the same functionality but different implementations". It provides a program "with different functionality but the same filename". That does not represent an appropriate use of the alternatives mechanism. Sure it d

Bug#458691: mime-support: diff for NMU version 3.40-1.1

2008-06-02 Thread Brian White
Brian, any particular reason why you didn't include this patch in your subsequent uploads, or did you just miss it? This bug is release-critical, was filed in January and has no comment from you... Your latest uploads of mime-support still install the /usr/bin/view alternative, and don't clean it

Bug#480374: Update

2008-05-28 Thread Brian White
-rw-r--r-- 1 debmirror debmirror 419 2008-05-26 15:17 rfc1522.txt -rw-r--r-- 1 debmirror debmirror 22502 1993-09-23 01:08 rfc1522.txt~ -rw-r--r-- 1 debmirror debmirror 393 2008-05-26 15:17 rfc1523.txt -rw-r--r-- 1 debmirror debmirror 32691 1993-09-23 01:10 rfc1523.txt~ -rw-r--r-- 1 debmirror d

Bug#428899: Support RFC4709: application/davmount+xml

2008-01-01 Thread Brian White
I'll add it to the mime.types file but you'll have to add the rule and script to whatever package includes the "webdav-client" program. -- Brian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#448023: mime-support: update-mime doesn't pick up everything in mailcap.order?

2008-01-01 Thread Brian White
Yes. Add "--debug=1" to the command line. -- Brian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#454520: jukebox-mercury: should this package be removed?

2007-12-23 Thread Brian White
severity 454520 normal reassign 454520 ftp.debian.org retitle 454520 RM: jukebox-mercury -- not supported -- While reviewing some packages, your package came up as a possible candidate for removal from Debian, because: * several RC bugs * long since last maintainer upload, last NMU in 2003 *

Bug#445267: mime-support: Please make it possible to specify fallbacks in ~/.mailcap

2007-10-11 Thread Brian White
At the moment ~/.mailcap takes precedence over /etc/mailcap, so a user can't specify a program to use for types that don't have a rule in /etc/mailcap. Specifically, I'd like to be able to specify fallbacks for text/* and application/* (and just point them to my editor). If I do this at the momen

Bug#445267: mime-support: Please make it possible to specify fallbacks in ~/.mailcap

2007-10-06 Thread Brian White
At the moment ~/.mailcap takes precedence over /etc/mailcap, so a user can't specify a program to use for types that don't have a rule in /etc/mailcap. Specifically, I'd like to be able to specify fallbacks for text/* and application/* (and just point them to my editor). If I do this at the momen

Bug#442072: scrabble: won't let you play both blanks at once

2007-09-25 Thread Brian White
So I had both blanks in my rack, and the Q and enough good stuff to score big with it, but it wouldn't let me. Odd. I've seen the computer play multiple blanks at once and so it should allow it for players, too. At what positions in the word were the blanks located? There's a restriction on

Bug#367727: jukebox-mercury: must use invoke-rc.d

2007-09-14 Thread Brian White
tags 367727 +patch thanks On 06/05/18 00:21 +0300, Lars Wirzenius said ... As of Debian Policy Manual version 3.7.2, the use of invoke-rc.d to run init.d scripts has been made mandatory. Earlier, its use was I no longer have the Mercury box I used to originally play with this. If you're using

Bug#274987: Bug#297293: Error Copying to Sent Folder

2007-07-06 Thread Brian White
Thank you for your bug report. Is this still a problem for you with latest version of Thunderbird? I haven't seen it recently, no. -- Brian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#400701: Confirm bug report

2007-06-18 Thread Brian White
Can you please confirm that this bug (#400701) still exists in the latest versions of the cyrus packages? Sorry. I no longer work at the company that had that configuration so I cannot test it. -- Brian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

Bug#413379: mime-support: /usr/bin/see does not handle whitespace in names.

2007-03-05 Thread Brian White
/usr/bin/see does not handle whitespace in names properly. It should. Please run see --debug=1 'A B.pdf' and send me the output. Thanks! -- Brian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#408252: jukebox-mercury is not suitable for a stable release

2007-01-24 Thread Brian White
On 24/01/07 at 11:05 -0500, Brian White wrote: It's in "experimental". It's not supposed to be considered stable. No, it's in sarge, etch and sid, according to http://packages.qa.debian.org/j/jukebox-mercury.html Hmmm... Then somebody moved it. Do you know the ste

Bug#137967: symlinks: convert relative to absolute

2007-01-21 Thread Brian White
There's a problem with the patch. While it will indeed convert a relative path to an absolute one, it will also convert any absolute paths it finds in to relative ones. Attached is an updated patch that avoids this. Brian

Bug#364167: missing sound drivers (were in 2.6.8 but gone in 2.6.17 and above)

2006-12-31 Thread Brian White
this is an obsolote sound module and oss is superseded by alsa. there is an equivalent sound driver for your sound card available. make sure you have the alsa userland installed aka alsa-utils and run alsaconf it will load the apprioriate sound driver. Okay, I got it. It was found and loaded by

Bug#364167: missing sound drivers (were in 2.6.8 but gone in 2.6.17 and above)

2006-12-31 Thread Brian White
I, too, have noticed that since 2.6.8, some OSS drivers are missing. For me specifically, "osssolo1.ko" is missing and my IBM ThinkPad needs it. This module is present in 2.6.8 but that version is too old to support udev and some other things. Please include these modules if possible. Thanks

Bug#403394: conflicts with scrabble

2006-12-16 Thread Brian White
While installing scribble it creates /usr/games/scrabble symlink which is also the name of the binary from scrabble package and having the latter installed on your system it tries to overwrite it. I don't undestand. "scribble" both conflicts and replaces "scrabble" and so should have removed t

Bug#402778: mime-support: add documentation

2006-12-12 Thread Brian White
I suppose that would be useful, but let me see if I can help you with your problem... Today I will recount my story of trying to get text/x-wiki treated as text/plain by firefox. To start, you need to realize that the mime-type is provided by the web server in the reply header that proceeds

Bug#311046: scrabble: unable to place word

2006-12-05 Thread Brian White
Actually, here's a sample (run in level 1) with two attempted words that fail, then one that succeeds. (Excuse the line wrapping, gpm joins if column 80 is filled and not if not.) Okay, got it. There is a rule that won't allow more than one blank within the first three letters in order to red

Bug#311046: scrabble: unable to place word

2006-12-04 Thread Brian White
Sorry for the long delay getting to this... If you encounter it again, give a command of "debug" and then try the play again. That should give me enough info to track down the problem. Just ender "debug" again to turn it off. That sucks, though, getting a 7-letter word rejected!

Bug#340504: mime-support: mailcap.order should consider Provides:

2006-12-04 Thread Brian White
severity 340504 wishlist tags 340504 wontfix -- I agree this would be nice, but it would require knowledge of the packaging system that is not within it's scope. Sorry. Brian ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) ---

Bug#400701: cyrdeliver: ignores -q option

2006-11-28 Thread Brian White
# Deliver to local cyrus IMAP server via LMTP cyrus: debug_print = "T: cyrus for [EMAIL PROTECTED]" driver = lmtp delivery_date_add envelope_to_add return_path_add user = cyrus socket = /var/run/cyrus/socket/lmtp batch_max = 40 I've found this doesn't work for me. It keeps tryi

Bug#400701: cyrdeliver: ignores -q option

2006-11-27 Thread Brian White
Package: cyrus-imapd-2.2 Version: 2.2.13-9 I've just upgrade from the cryus package in "stable" and have the following deliver rule in my exim4 configuration: # This transport uses cyrus for mail delivery cyrus_delivery: driver = lmtp command = "/usr/sbin/cyrdeliver -l -q ${local_part}"

Bug#325441: remove from debian

2006-09-22 Thread Brian White
Brian said that he was going to rename it, but that was a year ago. Unless there's some plan to fix it RSN, I think we should remove it from the archive in the meantime. I tried to rename it but it was rejected as being a "new package" and I just haven't had the time/will/desire to follow throu

Bug#388597: upgrade didn't preserve all kernel parameters

2006-09-21 Thread Brian White
Upon upgrading this package to the latest (the first upgrade since the machine was built), it lost the "pci=conf1" parameter passed to the kernel via grub. Other parameters, like "noapic" were preserved. grub in sarge has a strange method of configuration where you make your changes in the comm

Bug#388597: upgrade didn't preserve all kernel parameters

2006-09-21 Thread Brian White
Package: kernel-image-2.6.8-3-686 Version: 2.6.8-16sarge4 Upon upgrading this package to the latest (the first upgrade since the machine was built), it lost the "pci=conf1" parameter passed to the kernel via grub. Other parameters, like "noapic" were preserved. Here is the grub menu entry:

Bug#387262: mime-support: RTF isn't really a text format

2006-09-13 Thread Brian White
RTF format, tough a textual format, is not really readable as text (just like PostScript is not very readable). mime.types should rather only provide: application/rtf rtf Do you know of an official page specifying this?

Bug#355627: passing the filename to shell via environment variable

2006-09-08 Thread Brian White
The name alias occurs because said file has shell meta characters in it, specifically, the "&". Since according to the RFC, all commands from the mailcap file are to be passed to /bin/sh, including shell meta-characters in the filename can cause problems. Imagine trying to open a file named s

Bug#195716: Fixing Bug Info

2006-07-19 Thread Brian White
severity 195716 important -- After watching my external access logs for a while, I saw numerous attempts to log in to different accounts with password guessing. I try to keep user passwords pretty secure, but there's always a chance of it not being that way or being guessed anyway. For the

Bug#352644: no longer a problem?

2006-07-13 Thread Brian White
Since upgrading a few components on my system, I no longer encounter this problem. exim4: 4.62-2 sa-exim:4.2.1-2 spamassassin: 3.1.1-1 Brian ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) -

Bug#378072: newer kernels don't find secondary IDE controller during boot

2006-07-12 Thread Brian White
Package: linux-image-2.6.17-1-686 Version: 2.6.17-2 I cannot get my system to come up with the 2.6.17 kernel. It starts fine, but is unable to find drive hde,hdf,hdg, and hdh. These are all drives connected to a second IDE controller, a Promise "PDC20268 (Ultra100 TX2)". The 2.6.15 kernel also

Bug#352644: exim4-daemon-heavy: calls local_scan() with O_WRONLY|O_APPEND fd causing EBADF in read()

2006-07-11 Thread Brian White
Re: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=352644 Was there ever a resolution to this? Not that I am aware of. Unfortunately, upstream's handling of issue reports in the content scanning code is a little bit suboptimal in the last months. Is there a way I can contribute directly to

Bug#365348: kmail: IMAP-SSL fails with "connection to server is broken"

2006-07-11 Thread Brian White
Okay... It is reproducable because I just ran in to the same problem. Package: kmail Version: 4:3.3.2-3 This is from the "stable" distribution. I believe my problem to be that it is not honoring the "port" setting. I have it set to "993" for IMAPS but tcpdump shows that connection attempts a

Bug#352644: exim4-daemon-heavy: calls local_scan() with O_WRONLY|O_APPEND fd causing EBADF in read()

2006-06-29 Thread Brian White
Re: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=352644 Was there ever a resolution to this? I'm encountering the same log messages on a new server installation (exim 4.50-8sarge2). I have not verified that the flags are incorrect. Brian

Bug#373831: shorewall: won't forward back on same interface

2006-06-15 Thread Brian White
Package: shorewall Version: 3.0.5-1 When shorewall sets up the forwarding rules for "loc" interfaces, it omits a rules for forwarding back out the interface on which it arrives. Chain eth1_fwd (1 references) pkts bytes target prot opt in out source destination 1219 73105 dynamic

Bug#372133: cups: can't print test-page when not accepting jobs

2006-06-08 Thread Brian White
Package: cupsys Version: 1.1.23-10sarge1 I'm unable to print a test page when a printer is currently set to reject jobs. Since it is reasonable to expect a printer might be set to reject all jobs until such time as it can be verified, and printing a test page is one step in that verification

Bug#370714: exim4: seems to always require auth

2006-06-06 Thread Brian White
reopen 370714 -- Perhaps this is an invalid bug, but it would be nice to await my clarification _before_ simply closing it. remote_smtp_smarthost: debug_print = "T: remote_smtp_smarthost for [EMAIL PROTECTED]" driver = smtp hosts_try_auth = ${if exists {CONFDIR/passwd.client}{DCsmarthost}{

Bug#370714: passwd.client file

2006-06-06 Thread Brian White
One simple solution may be to just rename the "passwd.client" file in the exim4-config package to "passwd.client-example". Brian ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) -

Bug#370714: exim4: seems to always require auth

2006-06-06 Thread Brian White
Package: exim4 Version: 4.50-8sarge2 The default config for exim4 includes this: remote_smtp_smarthost: debug_print = "T: remote_smtp_smarthost for [EMAIL PROTECTED]" driver = smtp hosts_try_auth = ${if exists {CONFDIR/passwd.client}{DCsmarthost}{}} tls_tempfail_tryclear = false However

Bug#370550: slapd.conf: support for shadow password aging

2006-06-05 Thread Brian White
Package: slapd Version: 2.2.23-8 Severity: minor In order for password aging to work with LDAP, a user has to be able to both read and change the "shadowLastChange" field in their user object. I suggest the following be included in the default slapd.conf file, possibly commented-out by defaul

Bug#369701: networking restart: doesn't kill dhclient processes

2006-05-31 Thread Brian White
Package: netbase Version: 4.21 If an interface configuration in /etc/networking/intefaces changes from dhcp to static and "/etc/init.d/networking restart" is done, the dhclient process monitoring that interface is not aborted. Thus, next time it does a refresh it will overwrite the static inf

Bug#369563: cups: won't delete jobs with AuthType Group

2006-05-30 Thread Brian White
Package: cupsys Version: 1.1.23-10sarge1 I've been trying to get CUPS to allow cancelling of jobs via the web interface. The browser would get an "client-error-forbidden" error and the log would show cancel_job "user" not authorized to delete job id ## owned by "other" I tried using:

Bug#368488: tmpreaper: extended config

2006-05-22 Thread Brian White
Package: tmpreaper Version: 1.6.5 Severity: wishlist I'd like to see TmpReaper extended to be more versatile. 1) Allow different time checks for different directories: It's concievable that I would want files in /var/tmp to live longer than those in /tmp. 2) Allow both atime and mtime checks

Bug#368369: dhcpd3: signal to push all known host info to ddns

2006-05-21 Thread Brian White
Package: dhcp3-server Version: 3.0.1-2 Severity: wishlist I'd like to see a signal that can be sent to the dhcp3-server that will cause it to immediately send updates about all knows hosts to the dynamic dns server. That would allow quick recovery in the case where the dns server is known to

Bug#367557: Samba Doesn't Log Fatal Errors

2006-05-17 Thread Brian White
Are you in the position of trying to reproduce it with samba 3.0.22 in etch? I'll see what I can do. Right now I'm still trying to figure out why I can't join to it's domain.What fun! Brian ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] )

Bug#367648: aptitude: Can't "Hold" a Package Being Removed Automatically

2006-05-17 Thread Brian White
Package: aptitude Version: 0.2.15.9-2 Severity: minor If a package is about to be removed because it was automatically installed but is no longer needed, it is not possible to press ":" to tell aptitude to not do this on this run. This is important when the package being removed is the runnin

Bug#367557: Samba Doesn't Log Fatal Errors

2006-05-16 Thread Brian White
Package: samba Version: 3.0.14a-3sarge1 Severity: minor While trying to get a samba server set up via ldap, I ran in to the case where smbd would apparently start successfully but then exit without any messages of any kind and nothing in the log.smbd file. 1) The first problem was I had: ;

Bug#367507: Samba Documenation Problem

2006-05-16 Thread Brian White
o a network interface name (such as eth0). This may include shell-like wildcards so eth* will match any interface starting with the sub-string "eth" This last part implies that all shell wildcards can be used, but that is not the case. I tried "eth[1-9]" a

Bug#367507: Samba Documenation Problem

2006-05-16 Thread Brian White
Another man-page problem: interfaces (G) This option allows you to override the default network interfaces list that Samba will use for browsing, name registration and other NBT traffic. By default Samba will query the kernel for

Bug#367507: Samba Documentation Problem

2006-05-16 Thread Brian White
Package: samba Version: 3.0.14a-3sarge1 Severity: minor In the samba man-page for smb.conf, the some of the ldap settings are not correct. It says, for example... ldap group suffix (G) This parameters specifies the suffix that is used for groups when these

Bug#195716: Is this a security bug?

2006-05-05 Thread Brian White
Just wondering if perhaps this isn't a "security" level bug instead of just a wishlist. Brian ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) --- Until we are f

Bug#361128: aptitude: show distribution that versions come from

2006-04-06 Thread Brian White
Package: aptitude Version: 0.2.15.9-2 Severity: wishlist When aptitude shows multiple versions available for a package, it would be great if it showed where each version came from (i.e. "obsolete", "stable", "testing", "unstable", etc.). I use "stable" primarily with an occasional "testing" p

Bug#349745: squid-prefetch: Crashes every few minutes

2006-03-18 Thread Brian White
Not necessarily. 127.0.0.1 is the network loopback device, so *any* program on that machine which accesses the outside world via squid will show as 127.0.0.1 in the squid log, not just squid-prefetch as you imply. True. I don't use the loopback interface for connecting to squid from user clien

Bug#349745: squid-prefetch: Crashes every few minutes

2006-03-18 Thread Brian White
I now stays up thanks, though I can't work out how to be sure it's doing anything since it doesn't have a log file. Check out Squid's log file. Accesses from 127.0.0.1 will be from the prefetch. Brian ( [EMAIL PROTEC

Bug#355894: [Ticket#1001673] Bug#355894: mime-support: Enhancement of update-mime

2006-03-10 Thread Brian White
If /etc/update-mime.conf doesn't exist, our modified version should behave just like the original one does. We just didn't want to drop files into /usr/lib/mime/packages, but NFS mount them. Oh... I misunderstood. I thought you were talking about where to look for "mailcap" and "mime.types" f

Bug#355627: Local filename treated as non-local

2006-03-09 Thread Brian White
tag 355627 wontfix -- The name alias occurs because said file has shell meta characters in it, specifically, the "&". Since according to the RFC, all commands from the mailcap file are to be passed to /bin/sh, including shell meta-characters in the filename can cause problems. Imagine tryin

Bug#355894: mime-support: Enhancement of update-mime

2006-03-09 Thread Brian White
We're using Sarge for our workstations and we had to import several programs via nfs. These programs also use mime files and we had to patch update mime to look in these directories too. > We created a generalized version that uses a simple config file with the directories we're looking at. I

Bug#355882: mdadm: more information in report

2006-03-08 Thread Brian White
Package: mdadm Version: 1.9.0-4sarge1 Severity: wishlist When mdadm reports a "DegradedArray" event (or any other event) via email, it would be beneficial to include the contents of /proc/mdstat as well. Brian ( [EMAIL

Bug#351243: xargs: option to use \n as separator

2006-02-03 Thread Brian White
find / -name "*find*" -print0 | grep -v baddir | xargs -0 command [...] /me points to grep's -z and -Z option True, but you get the point. There are many command that could be in that pipe: sed, sort, etc. There is also the possibility to plug in tr in between: find ... -print | do so

Bug#351243: xargs: option to use \n as separator

2006-02-03 Thread Brian White
Package: findutils Version: 4.1.20-6 Severity: wishlist It would be useful to have an option in xargs that specifies that the filename separator is a linefeed (or an option to specify any arbitrary separotor). This would be really useful with find where filenames have spaces. I know that yo

Bug#350134: mime-support: It is trying to use some not-installed programs for some mime-types

2006-01-27 Thread Brian White
And take a look at this: ~$ see --debug=10 elen7b.doc - parsing parameter "elen7b.doc" - Reading mime.types file "/home/emil/.mime.types"... - Reading mime.types file "/etc/mime.types"... - extension "doc" maps to mime-type "application/msword" - Reading mailcap file "/home/emil/.mailcap"..

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