Bug#767960: gitweb: no longer works: Undefined subroutine CGI::startform

2015-03-10 Thread Carl Worth
On Tue, Mar 10 2015, gregor herrmann wrote: > single-instance CGI but as a long-running process (f(ast)cgi?) which > needs to be restarted? Or that you have different (local) gitweb > versions lying around and the one which is hitting this problem is > not the one from the package? Yes, I was actu

Bug#767960: gitweb: no longer works: Undefined subroutine CGI::startform

2015-03-09 Thread Carl Worth
On Wed, 5 Nov 2014 00:10:28 +0100, gregor herrmann wrote: > On Tue, 04 Nov 2014 14:29:18 -0800, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > > > > Just shout as soon as we should upload. > > 1:2.1.3-1 which is now in sid has the fix, so it should be safe to > > upload. > > Great, thanks. > > I've uploaded libcgi-pm

Bug#771573: cups: Millions of symlinks to .ppd file created in /tmp

2014-12-01 Thread Carl Worth
On Mon, Dec 01 2014, Brian Potkin wrote: > On Sun 30 Nov 2014 at 12:03:17 -0800, Carl Worth wrote: > >> I looked through the bugs in cups and didn't see any talking about >> "symlinks" or "/tmp" so I hope this isn't a duplicate bug entry. >

Bug#771573: cups: Millions of symlinks to .ppd file created in /tmp

2014-11-30 Thread Carl Worth
Package: cups Version: 1.7.5-5 Severity: critical Justification: breaks the whole system A few days ago, I was using my laptop at the house of a family member, and needed to print something. I clicked through the add printer dialogs (in Gnome) and the printer was detected, added, and my document p

Bug#59568: less -F or less -E unuseable on an xterm or rxvt

2014-09-04 Thread Carl Worth
Package: less Version: 458-2 Followup-For: Bug #59568 I recently ran into this same bug. In my case, it caused a lot of confusion because a coworker developed a domain-specific "diff" script that invoked "less -F". On his machine, (Fedora), the script was showing differences, while on my Debian sy

Bug#748300: libwaffle-dev: Missing waffle.h

2014-05-15 Thread Carl Worth
Package: libwaffle-dev Version: 1.3.90+git20140426.f13bcdc-1 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable The -dev package doesn't install waffle.h, so nothing using waffle can actually be built against this package. This looks like a simple omission that should be easy to fix. -- Sy

Bug#740377: wagner.debian.org has a stale /etc/ssh/ssh_known_hosts file

2014-02-28 Thread Carl Worth
Package: www.debian.org Severity: normal In trying to verify the RSA host key fingerprint for git.debian.org I noticed that the /etc/ssh/ssh_known_hosts file has some stale data in it. What I found: wagner:~$ ssh-keygen -l -f /etc/ssh/ssh_known_hosts -F git.debian.org 2048 8c:c0:b8:9f:0a:79:ee:1

Bug#736893: wiggle: New upstream release (1.0) as of August 2013

2014-01-27 Thread Carl Worth
Package: wiggle Version: 0.9.1-1.1 Severity: normal I'm interested in using wiggle with git, but could not find the information in the wiggle documentation on how to do so. By poking around, I found that wiggle 1.0 was released in August 2013 and includes information in its man page on how to conf

Bug#734643: ITP: waffle -- Library for selecting OpenGL API and window system at runtime

2014-01-08 Thread Carl Worth
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jordan Justen * Package name: waffle Version : 1.3.0 Upstream Author : Chad Versace * URL : http://people.freedesktop.org/~chadversary/waffle * License : BSD Programming Lang: C Description : Library for selectin

Bug#679192: emacs: Text cursor displays solid without window focus in some situations

2012-06-26 Thread Carl Worth
Package: emacs Version: 23.4+1-3 Severity: minor I often get into a situation where an emacs window displays a solid black text cursor (rather than the expected outline cursor) when that emacs window does not have the current input focus. This generally causes me some confusion as I wonder why em

Bug#631974: Short description: s/emacs/vim/

2011-06-29 Thread Carl Worth
On Tue, 28 Jun 2011 15:37:39 -0400, Anthony DeRobertis wrote: > Package: notmuch-vim > Version: 0.6~254 > Severity: minor > > The short description for notmuch-vim needs to have 'emacs' changed to > 'vim'. Thanks. This is updated in the packaging and will be fixed in the next upload. -Carl --

Bug#631994: notmuch-emacs should allow use with emacs-snapshot

2011-06-29 Thread Carl Worth
On Wed, 29 Jun 2011 02:07:06 +0200, Andreas Rottmann wrote: > Currently, notmuch-emacs strictly depends on emacs23. It would be > nice if that dependency could be weakened so it can also be satisfied > by emacs-snapshot[0] Is that a snapshot of bleeding-edge emacs? > If notmuch-emacs doesn't sp

Bug#629534: libc6: Dynamic linker assertion failed after upgrade, nothing startable anymore

2011-06-07 Thread Carl Worth
retitle 629534 Upgrade fails, resulting in unusable system (no dynamic linking) thank you On Tue, 7 Jun 2011 10:49:48 -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > > Just to confirm that Sven is not alone, I was hit by the same bug. Me too! > Thanks. To be clear, that means you are also on i386 and also tri

Bug#628177: gpg-agent: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libassuan.so.0: undefined symbol: gpg_err_set_errno

2011-06-02 Thread Carl Worth
severity 628177 normal thank you > $ gpg-agent > gpg-agent: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libassuan.so.0: undefined symbol: > gpg_err_set_errno > > If this isn't a general problem, please let me know what might be > specific about my environment that could be causing the issue, and > I'll be gla

Bug#628177: gpg-agent: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libassuan.so.0: undefined symbol: gpg_err_set_errno

2011-05-27 Thread Carl Worth
Package: gnupg-agent Version: 2.0.17-2 Severity: grave Tags: sid Justification: renders package unusable gpg-agent fails to start for me, as follows: $ gpg-agent gpg-agent: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libassuan.so.0: undefined symbol: gpg_err_set_errno If this isn't a general problem, please

Bug#628018: ship mutt integration code (AKA "mutt-notmuch")

2011-05-27 Thread Carl Worth
On Fri, 27 May 2011 15:43:40 +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: Non-text part: multipart/signed > I didn't dare asking :), but yeah, absolutely. I also think that a > "contrib/" dir is the way to go and I hope it will encourage other > people to contribute their notmuch hacks. Excellent. I'll do t

Bug#628018: ship mutt integration code (AKA "mutt-notmuch")

2011-05-26 Thread Carl Worth
On Thu, 26 May 2011 14:50:50 +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > I've developed a while ago a tiny teeny script for integrating notmuch with a > Mutt-based workflow. Some rationale for it has been given at > http://upsilon.cc/~zack/blog/posts/2011/01/how_to_use_Notmuch_with_Mutt/ Very cool! I'll

Bug#603308: notmuch: FTBFS: test failures

2010-11-24 Thread Carl Worth
On Fri, 12 Nov 2010 21:46:41 +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Hi, > > your package no longer builds: Thanks for the bug report. > | emacs: Testing emacs interface > | FAIL Basic notmuch-hello view in emacs > | --- emacs.1.expected2010-11-12 06:53:56.0 + > | +++ emacs.1

Bug#586459: json-read-string crashes emacs when given a long string

2010-06-19 Thread Carl Worth
Package: emacs Version: 23.1+1-6 Severity: normal Tags: upstream patch A user of the emacs-based mail client, notmuch, found that attempting to display a particular message would consistently causes a segmentation fault in emacs. I tracked this down to calling `json-read-string' with a very long

Bug#585809: valgrind: stripped ld.so causes tons of false positives

2010-06-17 Thread Carl Worth
On Wed, 16 Jun 2010 22:58:54 -0700, Carl Worth wrote: > Is valgrind failing to substitute its own strlen implementation for some > reason? It seems to be, as I'm getting errors from a simple function > like this: [snip example with errors from __strlen_sse2] I switched from the

Bug#585809: valgrind: stripped ld.so causes tons of false positives

2010-06-16 Thread Carl Worth
> > http://valgrind.org/docs/manual/dist.readme-packagers.html > The problem is that strlen() process data 4 bytes by 4 bytes, so it can > read up to 3 bytes more if the first byte is 0. That's why valgrind > triggers here. The page cited above says: Reason for this is that Valgrind's Memc

Bug#578199: notmuch: GNU Emacs and VIM interfaces should be in specific packages

2010-04-17 Thread Carl Worth
On Sat, 17 Apr 2010 21:37:28 +0200, Xavier Maillard wrote: > Currently, notmuch package embeds both vim and GNU Emacs client > interfaces. I think we are wrong doing so. Could you explain what you perceive as the problem here? So far, the package is really just tracking the upstream approach. An

Bug#576647: [Carl Worth] Notmuch release 0.1 now available

2010-04-06 Thread Carl Worth
On Tue, 06 Apr 2010 02:25:57 -0600, Bdale Garbee wrote: > The upstream author has apparently released version 0.1 .. when can we > expect an upload of a fresh package? Unsurprisingly, that's the first task for me this morning. I've got a little bit of work to remind myself some packaging details,

Bug#566282: notmuch: description should mention maildir/mh format requirement

2010-02-25 Thread Carl Worth
On Fri, 22 Jan 2010 17:54:06 +, Justin B Rye wrote: > Given that mbox is the normal default format, this makes notmuch > fairly useless for a significant proportion of users. It would be > nice if the package description could give a hint at this - maybe Hi Justin, Sorry you had so much tr

Bug#560730: seahorse-plugins: Seahorse should be started from non-GNOME X sessions (such as xfce4)

2009-12-11 Thread Carl Worth
Package: seahorse-plugins Version: 2.28.1-2 Severity: important I recently switched from running GNOME to running xfce4 instead, and when I did so I found that my email program no longer brought up the nice, graphical prompt for my GPG passphrase, (nor remembered it from one email to the next). I

Bug#555722: libcairo2: Gtk apps ignore subpixelhinting (set in .fonts.conf) --- guess this is a cairo issue

2009-11-25 Thread Carl Worth
On Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:57:44 +0100, micu wrote: > It can have the following values: > > lcdnone lcdfilter 0 > lcddefault lcdfilter 1 > lcdlightlcdfilter 2 > lcdlegacy lcdfilter 3 > > I guess, this is it---isn't it? Yes, that looks like

Bug#555722: libcairo2: Gtk apps ignore subpixelhinting (set in .fonts.conf) --- guess this is a cairo issue

2009-11-16 Thread Carl Worth
On Mon, 16 Nov 2009 20:43:08 +0100, micu wrote: > ;-). For example, I still do not get how the subpixel and hinting renderer > knows, where the (sub-)pixels are. But this is no course in font > rendering :) This is from the value you set for the "rgba" parameter in fontconfig. When you set "rgb"

Bug#555722: example pics from kubuntu karmic | was: Re: Bug#555722: libcairo2: Gtk apps ignore subpixelhinting (set in .fonts.conf) --- guess this is a cairo issue

2009-11-16 Thread Carl Worth
On Sun, 15 Nov 2009 17:54:47 +0100, micu wrote: > I just updated to kubuntu karmic on the PC of my mother (no, I won't install > debian unstable on it :)). > > To make it (hopefully) more obvious what I am referring to, I'll send the > same > screenshots from the PC of my mother where the bug

Bug#555722: libcairo2: Gtk apps ignore subpixelhinting (set in .fonts.conf) --- guess this is a cairo issue

2009-11-16 Thread Carl Worth
On Fri, 13 Nov 2009 22:33:13 +0100, micu wrote: > If I say, I disable subpixelhinting, that means > > > > > >rgb > > > > > is changed to > > > > > >none > > > > Ah, thank you. That's much more clear. Let's call this setting "sub-pixel rendering. It specifies whether

Bug#555906: xserver-xorg-video-intel: enable KMS by default

2009-11-13 Thread Carl Worth
On Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:38:20 +0100, Julien Cristau wrote: > we should turn kms on by default in squeeze in the intel driver. The > following patch is an attempt to do that, and deal gracefully with > downgrades. It doesn't deal with plain 'remove; install old version' > though, I don't know how

Bug#555722: example pics

2009-11-13 Thread Carl Worth
On Wed, 11 Nov 2009 13:58:28 +0100, micu wrote: > These are the example pics. So I see lots of pictures, but which are correct and which are buggy? I do see you've got a circle around a kerning issue. But I'd like to deal with one issue per bug report. So let's start by figuring out the subpixel

Bug#555722: libcairo2: Gtk apps ignore subpixelhinting (set in .fonts.conf) --- guess this is a cairo issue

2009-11-13 Thread Carl Worth
On Wed, 11 Nov 2009 13:37:00 +0100, Michael wrote: > If I disable subpixel hinting in the KDE menu (or manually in > .fonts.conf, this has the same effect), gtk / gnome apps and kde / qt > apps show the same font rendering. If I enable subpixel hinting, the > qt / kde apps respond to it and look m

Bug#555722: example pics

2009-11-13 Thread Carl Worth
On Wed, 11 Nov 2009 13:58:28 +0100, micu wrote: > These are the example pics. Oops. I got ahead of myself in my response to the original message since I hadn't seen these images yet. ;-) -Carl -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscrib

Bug#548716: xserver-xorg-core: X server crashes upon startup with SEGV

2009-09-30 Thread Carl Worth
Excerpts from Hans-J. Ullrich's message of Wed Sep 30 13:31:30 -0700 2009: > IMO, this crash is mainly related to ATI-cards. Is there anyone, who confirm > this bug on cards other than ATI cards? This is a known bug in the upstream xserver 1.6.4 release. It will affect any driver which tries to i

Bug#549085: xserver-xorg-video-intel: X server crashes with SDL application when no window manager is running

2009-09-30 Thread Carl Worth
Excerpts from Ivan Vučica's message of Wed Sep 30 11:22:26 -0700 2009: > retitle 549085 xserver-xorg-core: When first x client closes connection, > X.org crashes > reassign 549085 xserver-xorg-core > thanks > > Spam, I know, I know. > However, with help of one friend, the bug was reproduced with x

Bug#544487: [pkg-cryptsetup-devel] Bug#544487: please try to reproduce with old cryptsetup

2009-09-20 Thread Carl Worth
Excerpts from Jonas Meurer's message of Sun Sep 06 02:26:59 -0700 2009: > On 05/09/2009 Jonas Meurer wrote: > > thanks for your bugreport. No problem. > > could you try to reproduce the bug with the cryptsetup from > > debian/testing[1]? > > > > you can do so by installing (downgrading to) the c

Bug#546180: video-intel: cannot display in LVDS native resolution when VGA connected

2009-09-11 Thread Carl Worth
Excerpts from Michal Suchanek's message of Sat Sep 12 01:36:30 -0700 2009: > Package: xserver-xorg-video-intel > Version: 2:2.8.1-1 > Severity: normal > File: video-intel > > When I have both VGA and LVDS connected I get the > largest resolution both support: 640x480. Yes, that's the current log

Bug#469706: Random lockups on i945GM chipset

2009-09-08 Thread Carl Worth
Excerpts from Matt Wozniski's message of Sat Sep 05 22:05:38 -0700 2009: > > Looks like you've got a good collection of software running, so just > > open a new bug report with the output of intel_gpu_dump when the GPU is > > hung. > > Is the GPU actually hung if I can still see the mouse cursor m

Bug#542701: xserver-xorg-video-intel: Very slow 2D performance on one screen of dual display until after switch to console VT and back.

2009-09-03 Thread Carl Worth
Excerpts from Thomas Vaughan's message of Thu Sep 03 16:54:13 -0700 2009: > On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 12:02 PM, Carl Worth wrote: > > You've got a very mysterious bug. > > Well, at least I have a reliable work-around. Yes, that is nice to have. > The output of 'xra

Bug#542701: xserver-xorg-video-intel: Very slow 2D performance on one screen of dual display until after switch to console VT and back.

2009-09-03 Thread Carl Worth
Excerpts from Thomas Vaughan's message of Wed Aug 26 11:57:59 -0700 2009: > At 2560x1024 and 3200x1200, the initial condition is for the right > monitor to be slow for 2D and 3D. > > After I do a VT switch via CTRL-ALT-F1 and back (ALT-F7), both 2D and 3D > are fully accelerated on the right monit

Bug#544487: cryptroot fails to recognize root fs (/dev/mapper/-root links to /dev/dm-1)

2009-08-31 Thread Carl Worth
Package: initramfs-tools Version: 0.93.4 Severity: important I'm using Debian with an encrypted root filesytem, (as set up by the Debian installer). I've been installing custom kernels for sometime, and for the most part update-initramfs has been working fine for me, so thanks! However, when I in

Bug#542646: Add description of teams to devel/join

2009-08-20 Thread Carl Worth
Excerpts from Adam D. Barratt's message of Thu Aug 20 12:00:12 -0700 2009: > > +Finally, Debian provides many teams of > > http://wiki.debian.org/Teams, presumably. http://www.d.o/Teams is 404. Yes, that's right. And thanks for your attention to detail. -Carl (who, after all these years still ne

Bug#542069: xserver-xorg-video-intel: Second screen (TMDS-1) not functioning after recent update to unstable.

2009-08-20 Thread Carl Worth
fixed 542069 thank you Excerpts from Thomas Vaughan's message of Thu Aug 20 12:11:53 -0700 2009: > Thanks for all of the kind responses. :^) You're welcome. Thanks for a detailed bug report that helped us actually find the correct problem. > I did indeed figure out the problem by this method ju

Bug#542684: developers-reference: Improve "Getting started" to talk about more than New Maintainer's Guide

2009-08-20 Thread Carl Worth
Package: developers-reference Version: 3.4.1 Severity: wishlist Excerpts from gregor herrmann's message of Thu Aug 20 11:53:56 -0700 2009: > Wow, cool, thanks a lot! No problem. > Can you image to take a look at the Developers' Reference too? AFAIK > the only mentioning of teams there is in 5.12

Bug#542069: xserver-xorg-video-intel: Second screen (TMDS-1) not functioning after recent update to unstable.

2009-08-20 Thread Carl Worth
Excerpts from Thomas Vaughan's message of Thu Aug 20 11:07:41 -0700 2009: > Well, it seems that I was using 2.7.1 at least as late as July 02, > according to the date stamp on '/var/log/Xorg.1.log'. There is an EDID > entry for each of my two monitors in the old log. > > > You can try downgrading

Bug#541307: xserver-xorg: x locks requires reboot

2009-08-20 Thread Carl Worth
Excerpts from Brice Goglin's message of Thu Aug 20 00:07:26 -0700 2009: > 865G support is severely broken unfortunately. It was supposed to > improve when disabling render acceleration in driver 2.8.0-2 but it > still miserably fails on my machine. I had to downgrade to 2.7.1 without > UXA to get s

Bug#542646: Add description of teams to devel/join

2009-08-20 Thread Carl Worth
/join, so here's a patch to promote them and link to them. -Carl >From 0eb870c71c71f57f0d05c3a0e5c92a2bfa0484c0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Carl Worth Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2009 08:59:34 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Add description of teams to devel/join As discussed recently at Debconf, and o

Bug#542491: libchronic-ruby: Chronic smashes ruby's library search path

2009-08-19 Thread Carl Worth
Package: libchronic-ruby Version: 0.2.3-1 Severity: normal Tags: patch Chronic is smashing the ruby library search path with the first line of /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/chronic.rb: $:.unshift File.dirname(__FILE__) # For use/testing when no gem is installed This causes problems when trying to prepen

Bug#541255: closed by Paul Wise (wiki.d.o: 541255: fixed)

2009-08-15 Thread Carl Worth
Excerpts from owner's message of Wed Aug 12 19:48:03 -0700 2009: > It has been closed by Paul Wise . > > Thanks for the report. This bug has been fixed in the git repository and > on the server by this commit: > > http://git.debian.org/?p=collab-maint/wiki.debian.org.git;a=commitdiff;h=921fb58 > 6

Bug#541255: wiki.debian.org: Failure to create new account (TypeError)

2009-08-12 Thread Carl Worth
Package: wiki.debian.org Severity: important To reproduce: http://wiki.debian.org Click "Login" Click "you can create one now" Fill all entries in form and click "Create profile" At this point, instead of getting an account created, I'm greeted with: TypeError unbound m

Bug#540975: Referenced program names are not included in PDF result

2009-08-10 Thread Carl Worth
Package: developers-reference Version: 3.4.1 Severity: normal I noticed a rendering defect in the PDF output. When the text refers to a program described in a particular section, the name of the program is ommitted in the PDF result. For example, section 5.6.1 has the following in the PDF output:

Bug#540974: Include full URL to UploadQueue/README

2009-08-10 Thread Carl Worth
Package: developers-reference Version: 3.4.1 In Section "5.6.1. Uploading to ftp-master" I missed the reference to the README file on a first reading. I suggest changing: For removing packages, please see the README file in that ftp directory, and the Debian package... to: For remov

Bug#540852: Describe use of 'urgency' (other than in the context of a security fix)

2009-08-10 Thread Carl Worth
Package: developers-reference Version: 3.4.1 Severity: normal I was recently trying to learn how to select correct values for the "urgency" field in debian/control for a package. I found that Debian Policy describes legal values for this field, (low, medium, high, emergency, or critical), but no r

Bug#539806: broken PDF rendering for inkscape-originated PDF files with gradients

2009-08-07 Thread Carl Worth
On Fri, 2009-08-07 at 22:28 +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > Thanks a lot for following up on this, Carl! Debian is still > a pleasure to work with and in thanks to dedicated people like you. > It might sound like hyperbole, but I mean it. No problem at all, Martin. I'm glad I could help. And a sim

Bug#521076: lp-solve: crash when creating columns with C API

2009-08-07 Thread Carl Worth
On Fri, 2009-08-07 at 22:59 +0200, fonsinchen wrote: > Most of the columns I added in my actual program were rather simple statements > which could be eliminated easily. So, the number is large, but the problem is > not necessarily hard. I just didn't want to eliminate them beforehand as > lpsolve

Bug#521076: lp-solve: crash when creating columns with C API

2009-08-07 Thread Carl Worth
Hi Fonso, Thanks for the bug report. I just noticed this bug while taking a look through the output of rc-alert, so I thought I'd look a little more closely at this one. On Tue, 24 Mar 2009 19:27:27 +0100 Fonso wrote: > Severity: grave > Justification: renders package unusable I don't think the

Bug#540409: Request to include man page (attached) with ledger

2009-08-07 Thread Carl Worth
Package: ledger Version: 2.6.2-1 Tags: patch I've formatted a man page for ledger by pulling out descriptions of the options and commands from the info documentation included with ledger and also adding the data from the sample ledger.dat as an example. Please consider adding this to the ledger p

Bug#540249: Suggestion to discuss emeritus keyring as part of "Retiring" section

2009-08-06 Thread Carl Worth
Package: developers-reference Version: 3.4.1 Severity: wishlist The Developer's Reference contains a section on Retiring giving instructions on the recommended way to retire from the project. I am under the impression that following this process causes the developer's key to be placed in the "eme

Bug#540248: Suggested additions for "Overview of Debian Maintainer Tools" (courtesy of NM)

2009-08-06 Thread Carl Worth
Package: developers-reference Version: 3.4.1 Severity: wishlist While recently going through the NM process I was presented with a list of "Important Packages" which is quite similar to the "Overview of Debian Maintainer Tools" in the Developer's Reference. But the list from NM has a few additions

Bug#351746: Include usertag explanation on http://www.debian.org/Bugs/server-control

2009-08-05 Thread Carl Worth
[On a process note, we're off-topic for the current bug, but I generally prefer to keep messages archived rather than not. Please let me know if I should take this interesting discussion somewhere else.] On Wed, 2009-08-05 at 11:41 -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: > control is a superset of request whi

Bug#351746: Include usertag explanation on http://www.debian.org/Bugs/server-control

2009-08-05 Thread Carl Worth
On Wed, 2009-08-05 at 09:33 -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: > On Wed, 05 Aug 2009, Carl Worth wrote: > > By avoiding putting the text here we can also ensure that the > > candidate knows how to search deep into Debian's mail archives and > > find the original announcem

Bug#351746: Include usertag explanation on http://www.debian.org/Bugs/server-control

2009-08-05 Thread Carl Worth
On Fri, 15 May 2009 18:01:37 +0200 Martin Michlmayr wrote: > * Nelson A. de Oliveira [2006-02-07 04:31]: > > Today I was searching how to use the usertag command. My first step was > > going to http://www.debian.org/Bugs/server-control and try finding an > > example of usertag. However, usertag is

Bug#313237: Preserve timestamp of symlinks when extracting (if utimensat available)

2009-08-04 Thread Carl Worth
ot be expected to pass on some systems.) Any feedback would be appreciated, -Carl From 2fe8827ad1874abf3295a5aa96eba18372b98c12 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Carl Worth Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2009 17:00:35 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Preserve timestamp of symlinks when extracting (if utimensat available

Bug#411485: Avoid undefined behavior of passing NULL to strcmp

2009-08-04 Thread Carl Worth
for cleaning up my original implementation. * Respect DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck to conform with Policy 3.8.2 + * Avoid undefined behavior of passing NULL to strcmp, closes: #411485 +Thanks to Raúl Sánchez Siles for proposing this patch. - -- Carl Worth Tue, 04 Aug 2009 12:07:06 -

Bug#508199: --backup can destroy an extracted member when followed by an existing directory

2009-08-04 Thread Carl Worth
s you'll have a cleaner fix. Please let me know. -Carl From 0465ed84d91583387763ab5ed016d1b58abc1ad2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Carl Worth Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2009 13:34:52 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] maybe_backup_file: Clear previously-set after_backup_name Without this, under various conditi

Bug#525437: tar: Can't extract bz2 file?

2009-08-04 Thread Carl Worth
merge 525437 525818 thanks On Fri, 24 Apr 2009 10:13:52 -0500 Marc F. Clemente wrote: > I am trying to unpack at bz2 tar file and I get this error: > > mc-laptop:~# tar tjf fglrx.tar.bz2 ... > bzip2: I/O or other error, bailing out. Possible reason follows. > bzip2: Broken pipe > Input

Bug#221482: [Bug-tar] Faster excludes

2009-08-04 Thread Carl Worth
On Sat, 2009-08-01 at 01:46 +0100, Phil Proudman wrote: > I've just updated the patch for tar-1.22. Please find attached. Thanks, Phil! Phil and Sergey, I just noticed I dropped bug-...@gnu.org from the CC list. That was accidental. Anyone looking for Phil's updated patch can find it here: http

Bug#539806: broken PDF rendering for inkscape-originated PDF files with gradients

2009-08-04 Thread Carl Worth
reassign 539806 poppler thanks Hi Martin, I verified that this is a bug in poppler 0.10.6. By compiling poppler upstream from git, (currently 0.11.2 aka 0.12 Beta 2), evince is able to display the file correctly. Since 0.11.1 several commits were made to poppler to have it use native cairo gradie

Bug#221482: [Bug-tar] Faster excludes

2009-07-30 Thread Carl Worth
On Wed, 04 Jun 2008 11:15:59 +0300, Sergey Poznyakoff wrote: > Hi Phil, > > > The attached patch speeds up the performance of --exclude by using > > hashes (speed gains are seen when using large exclude lists). > > You mean for non-wildcard patterns, don't you? > > > Is there any chance of getti

Bug#188663: [Bug-tar] tar fails to preserve hard links with --remove-files

2009-07-30 Thread Carl Worth
On Thu, 2009-07-30 at 23:52 +0300, Sergey Poznyakoff wrote: > Thanks for reporting. Thank you, Sergey. And thanks for the quick reply. > This one is mostly OK, except that I don't see any reason to test the > remove_files_option value in file_count_links. This will unnecessarily > inflate the lin

Bug#243141: tar restore gives implausibly old time stamp 1970-01-01 10:00:00 warning

2009-07-30 Thread Carl Worth
tags 243141 moreinfo thanks On Sun, 11 Apr 2004 20:29:24 +1000, Mark Hannon wrote: > Tar complains with a warning re implausibly old time stamp when > restoring files. > > The tar files are created by a script which uses options: > > -clpf - --numeric-owner -z -g $snapshot_filename > > Th

Bug#240170: Cannot utime: Operation not permitted

2009-07-30 Thread Carl Worth
tags 240170 moreinfo thanks On Thu, 25 Mar 2004 16:15:49 -0800 Karl Hegbloom wrote: > When I try to unpack 'sl-modem.tar.bz2' in /usr/src, I get: > > karl...@journeyhawk:/usr/src > % tar xjf sl-modem.tar.bz2 > tar: modules: Cannot utime: Operation not permitted > tar: Error exit delayed from pre

Bug#188663: tar fails to preserve hard links with --remove-files

2009-07-30 Thread Carl Worth
assing afterwards). Please let me know if you need anything else, -Carl PS. If you could preserve the CC list in any replies that would be appreciated. From f1ed85d46043c523cd5b8196c1d266f3606a2531 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Carl Worth Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2009 20:45:58 -0700 Subject: [PATCH 1/2]

Bug#188663: tar fails to preserve hard links with --remove-files

2009-07-30 Thread Carl Worth
assing afterwards). Please let me know if you need anything else, -Carl PS. If you could preserve the CC list in any replies that would be appreciated. From f1ed85d46043c523cd5b8196c1d266f3606a2531 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Carl Worth Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2009 20:45:58 -0700 Subject: [PATCH 1/2]

Bug#525818: tar: closes file stream before real EOF

2009-07-29 Thread Carl Worth
eptable. (The patch moves the #if 0 down to exclude only the printing of the warning, without otherwise changing tar's behavior. The diff doesn't make that as obvious as one might like.) -Carl commit 37efd16782afb35738fcd67c85f134fef2cc409f Author: Carl Worth Date: Wed Jul 29 16:10

Bug#535319: tar - Fails to build with -j

2009-07-29 Thread Carl Worth
29b Author: Carl Worth Date: Wed Jul 29 14:21:50 2009 -0700 Fix to allow parallel build (-j2), closes #535319 We have to strictly serialize building after configuring, (by making build-stamp depend on configure-stamp). diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog ind

Bug#452365: Tagging 452365 with 'moreinfo'

2009-07-29 Thread Carl Worth
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Bug#522858: Anything more needed for bug #522858 ?

2009-07-29 Thread Carl Worth
Bdale, As can be seen in the bug report, the originally reported failure (against tar) has since been fixed with a change to dpkg. Since then, two other proposals have been made: 1. Change the tar package to indicate: Breaks: dpkg-dev (<< 1.14.26) 2. Consider removing the debian patch

Bug#483358: tar --null -T \-dequotes filenames !

2009-07-28 Thread Carl Worth
On Wed, 28 May 2008 12:29:46 +0100 Ian Jackson wrote: > lstat64("./test\\_file_with_^Hackslashes_in_name", 0xff9bb98c) = -1 ENOENT > (No such file or directory)$ > write(2, "./test_file_with_\\backslashes_"..., 52) = 52$ > mariner:d> > > ?!?! > > This is probably a security problem in some

Bug#452365: tar -cO . | tar -xC ../newplace - results in a killed symlinks

2009-07-28 Thread Carl Worth
On Thu, 22 Nov 2007 12:20:21 +0300 "Dmitry I. Kulagin" wrote: > Yesterday trying to move my root fs to a new location, while doing these > steps: > > mount -o bind,ro / /mnt/mnt > cd /mnt/mnt > tar -cO . | tar -xC ../newplace Hi Dmitry, Can you still reproduce this bug, and if so, can you give

Bug#517194: [Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#517194: network-manager: Does not recognize/manage wired ethernet card any more

2009-05-05 Thread Carl Worth
On Thu, 2009-02-26 at 15:16 +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > It probably has implications for default desktop installation as well, > they would get the status "offline" back from NM, which is not really > desirable as you know, just because NM would refuse to manage the default > DHCP connection c

Bug#507263: Patch to avoid creating undersized hufts table

2009-01-23 Thread Carl Worth
Thiemo Nagel reported (to the Debian project) that a specially-crafted file could cause gzip to segfault or hang. The file is attached below. Also attached is a patch that addresses the problem. With this patch attached, gzip will simply report a malformed input file and exit as desired. -Carl

Bug#507263: Thanks for the patch

2009-01-23 Thread Carl Worth
tags 507263 + pending thanks Thanks for the patch Thiemo. I've verified this and have it in a git commit ready to push out into a new package release, (assuming Bdale reviews and approves of course). But we'll wait for lenny to release and for unstable to unfreeze before we push it. -Carl sign

Bug#168606: [PATCH] Allow "-f -" to work with zgrep

2009-01-23 Thread Carl Worth
tags 168606 + patch thanks Here's a patch that allows the "-f -" option to work with zgrep in the same way that it works with grep. For example: $ echo "Example file matching pattern" > file $ gzip -c file > file.gz $ echo pattern | grep -f - file Example file matc

Bug#492140: xserver-xorg: xorg.conf generated with no ServerLayout section

2008-07-24 Thread Carl Worth
On Thu, 2008-07-24 at 09:31 +0200, Julien Cristau wrote: > AIUI, the problem is that the AllowEmptyInput option gets enabled by > default in xserver >= 1.5, so the server doesn't look for mouse/kbd > sections in xorg.conf. It should work fine when AllowEmptyInput is > disabled, as in xserver 1.4.

Bug#492140: Sampler ServerLayout section

2008-07-23 Thread Carl Worth
The ServerLayout section I came up with to fix the problem I ran into is as follows: Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "Default Layout" Screen "Default Screen" InputDevice "Configured Mouse" InputDevice "Generic Keyboard" EndSection So perhaps

Bug#492140: xserver-xorg: xorg.conf generated with no ServerLayout section

2008-07-23 Thread Carl Worth
Package: xserver-xorg Version: 1:7.3+14 Severity: important After running "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg" I get an /etc/X11/xorg.conf file that has no ServerLayout section. This means that the two InputDevice sections (for keyboard and mouse) that are generated, but not referenced by any other sec

Bug#474136: [cairo] Bug#474136: Error when creating pdf charts for new FreeSerifItalic.ttf

2008-04-04 Thread Carl Worth
On Thu, 03 Apr 2008 17:43:38 -0700, Carl Worth wrote: > /Td { moveto } bind def > /Tj { show } bind def ... > I'll probably have to do some more specification reading before I can > be of any more help here, (unless Adrian has the bug fixed before I > get around

Bug#474136: [cairo] Bug#474136: Error when creating pdf charts for new FreeSerifItalic.ttf

2008-04-03 Thread Carl Worth
On Thu, 03 Apr 2008 17:18:57 -0700, Carl Worth wrote: > Adrian, ready to work your magic again? I'll look and see if I can't > figure out something myself in the meantime. In the failing PostScript output the part that attempts to position and display the glyphs: BT /f-0-0 1 Tf

Bug#474136: [cairo] Bug#474136: Error when creating pdf charts for new FreeSerifItalic.ttf

2008-04-03 Thread Carl Worth
On Thu, 3 Apr 2008 20:53:07 +0200, Eugeniy Meshcheryakov wrote: > Simplified program that demonstrates this bug is attached. It expects > font as the only argument and gives wrong results on amd64 with cairo > 1.5.x but not 1.4.14 (result is in file out.pdf). Excellent, thank you! I used this as

Bug#474136: [cairo] Error when creating pdf charts for new FreeSerifItalic.ttf

2008-04-03 Thread Carl Worth
On Thu, 03 Apr 2008 11:22:30 -0700, Carl Worth wrote: > On Thu, 03 Apr 2008 11:09:21 -0700, Carl Worth wrote: > > Meanwhile, there's an independent bug that's perhaps even more > > concerning. Namely, with cairo 1.5.16 (or current git master), the > > results of runn

Bug#474136: [cairo] Error when creating pdf charts for new FreeSerifItalic.ttf

2008-04-03 Thread Carl Worth
On Thu, 03 Apr 2008 11:09:21 -0700, Carl Worth wrote: > Meanwhile, there's an independent bug that's perhaps even more > concerning. Namely, with cairo 1.5.16 (or current git master), the > results of running fntsample are totally wrong, (with the large glyphs > all mis

Bug#474136: Error when creating pdf charts for new FreeSerifItalic.ttf

2008-04-03 Thread Carl Worth
On Thu, 3 Apr 2008 17:28:37 +0200, Davide Viti wrote: > I get the following error when creating pdf (or ps) charts for > FreeSerifItalic.ttf > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/dejavu/freefont$ fntsample -f FreeSerifItalic.ttf -o > test.pdf > fntsample: /home/dajobe/dev/debian/cairo/cairo-1.4.14/src/cairo-arr

Bug#451026: libswt-gtk-3.3: Segfault with minimal SWT snippet

2007-11-13 Thread Carl Worth
On Mon, 12 Nov 2007 14:41:02 -0800, Carl Worth wrote: > I'm compiling it with: > > gcj -I /usr/share/java/swt-gtk-3.3.1.jar -lswt -lswt-pi \ > --main=org.eclipse.swt.snippets.Snippet1 -o Snippet1 Snippet1.java > > which works, but running the resulting bin

Bug#451026: libswt-gtk-3.3: Segfault with minimal SWT snippet

2007-11-12 Thread Carl Worth
Package: libswt-gtk-3.3 Version: 3.3.1-1 Severity: important Compiling a minimal SWT snippet results in a program which segfaults. The Hello, World snippet available from here is the simplest one to demonstrate the bug: http://www.eclipse.org/swt/snippets/ I'm compiling it with: