Bug#1100446: opencubicplayer-doc seems to be an empty package

2025-03-13 Thread Christian Garbs
Package: opencubicplayer-doc Version: 1:0.2.101+ds-1 Severity: wishlist Dear Maintainer, what is the purpose of the opencubicplayer-doc package? It seems to be completely empty apart from the changelog and copyright information: $ dpkg -L opencubicplayer-doc /. /usr /usr/share /usr/share/doc /u

Bug#1096681: gbsplay: ftbfs with GCC-15

2025-02-18 Thread Christian Garbs
This should be fixed by this upstream commit: https://github.com/mmitch/gbsplay/commit/118ed43ae47c6db6b6aec57a4ecdafff8cb86abd The fix is based on the error message, we did not set up an experimental Debian environment. version overview: - currently Debian unstable contains gbsplay 0.0.97 - gbs

Bug#1039344: reniced: ships sysv-init script without systemd unit

2024-01-11 Thread Christian Garbs
I'm working on it. I think I'll just remove the initscript without replacing it by a systemd unit. When using systemd, reniced is partly redundant because a unit override is better suited to change nice level and IO priority of a service as this will automatically work on service restarts as well

Bug#1049927: keyboard-configuration: should suggest packages using the configuration

2023-08-16 Thread Christian Garbs
Package: keyboard-configuration Version: 1.221 Severity: wishlist Dear Maintainer, in the newsgroup de.comp.os.unix.linux.misc we recently had a call for help because keyboard-configuration did not actually set the keyboard (see news:uaom6s$2daf5$1...@dont-email.me et seq.). The fact that keyboa

Bug#962956: reniced: diff for NMU version 1.21-1.2

2022-10-26 Thread Christian Garbs
On Sat, Oct 15, 2022 at 12:32:55PM +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote: > I've prepared an NMU for reniced (versioned as 1.21-1.2) and uploaded > it to DELAYED/2. Please feel free to tell me if I should cancel it. Dear Adrian, I really appreciate your NMU. I neither had the time nor the endurance to look

Bug#983179: zfs-dkms: fails to build with backports kernel 5.10.0-0.bpo.3-amd64

2021-02-20 Thread Christian Garbs
Package: zfs-dkms Version: 0.8.6-1~bpo10+1 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, * What led up to the situation? The kernel in stretch-backports was updated from 5.9.0-0.bpo.5-amd64 to 5.10.0-0.bpo.3-amd64. After rebooting, I was dropped to the initramfs rescue shell because my ZFS root file

Bug#977943: gbsplay should build verbosely by default

2021-01-04 Thread Christian Garbs
On Tue, Dec 22, 2020 at 05:43:19PM +0100, Helmut Grohne wrote: > The debian policy recommends that packages build verbosely by default. FTR: Based on this bug, the next upstream version of gbsplay will feature the new configure flag --enable-verbosebuild to enable full debug output in the Makefil

Bug#962956: reniced: reniced logs several syntax errors

2020-06-17 Thread Christian Garbs
On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 04:48:45PM +0200, Francesco Potortì wrote: > Package: reniced > Version: 1.21-1 > Severity: normal > > In daemon.log I read: > > Jun 16 15:43:03 tucano reniced[3522]: Starting reniced: > Jun 16 15:43:03 tucano reniced[3552]: Starting reniced: > Jun 16 15:43:03 tucano renic

Bug#961539: initramfs-tools-core: no error when modules listed in /etc/initramfs-tools/modules are missing

2020-05-25 Thread Christian Garbs
Package: initramfs-tools-core Version: 0.133+deb10u1 Severity: wishlist Dear Maintainer, I have a system using Root on ZFS that failed to boot after a kernel update, because the ZFS modules were not contained in the initramfs. The source for the problem seems to be located in the DKMS handling of

Bug#933231: exim4-base: /etc/cron.daily/exim4-base can't detect hostname via hostname --fqdn

2019-07-31 Thread Christian Garbs
On Sun, Jul 28, 2019 at 02:08:20PM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote: > On 2019-07-27 Christian Garbs wrote: > > Package: exim4-base > > Version: 4.92-8+deb10u1 > > Severity: normal > > Tags: ipv6 > > > After the update from Stretch to Buster, on one of my sy

Bug#933231: exim4-base: /etc/cron.daily/exim4-base can't detect hostname via hostname --fqdn

2019-07-27 Thread Christian Garbs
Package: exim4-base Version: 4.92-8+deb10u1 Severity: normal Tags: ipv6 After the update from Stretch to Buster, on one of my systems /etc/cron.daily/exim4-base failed on every run with just hostname: Name or service not known as an error message. I could trace this to the usage of "hostname --

Bug#832265: suck: Stack smash if lockfile exists (pid_t cast to long *)

2017-08-08 Thread Christian Garbs
I just ran into the same problem and wanted to add that the lock file was _not_ automatically unlinked on a restart. My hourly get-news cronjob failed for multiple days in a row. Manually removing the lockfile fixed the stack-smash error, so thanks for pointing that out. Regards Christian -- ..

Bug#821323: RFS: reniced/1.20-1

2016-05-16 Thread Christian Garbs
On Sun, May 15, 2016 at 11:26:34AM +, Mattia Rizzolo wrote: > On Sun, Apr 17, 2016 at 07:00:32PM +0200, Christian Garbs wrote: > > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "reniced" > > o/ > > I can do it. Great! :-) > > dget -x > > http://me

Bug#821323: RFS: reniced/1.20-1

2016-04-17 Thread Christian Garbs
Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: normal Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "reniced" * Package name: reniced Version : 1.20-1 Upstream Author : Christian Garbs * URL : https://github.com/mmitch/reniced * License : GPL-2

Bug#803951: use oom_score_adj instead of deprecated oom_adj

2015-11-11 Thread Christian Garbs
On Tue, Nov 03, 2015 at 04:34:08PM +0100, Michal Hocko wrote: > I am not sure where the upstream code sits for this package so I am > reporting it to distribution. Let me know if I should post the patch > somewhere else. > Anyway oom_adj is long deprecated and shouldn't be used. The attached > pat

Bug#794618: gbsplay: FTBFS on big endian architectures: Bigendian output failed

2015-08-14 Thread Christian Garbs
Upstream's guess was not an endianess bug, but rather subtle differences in floating point math (gbsplay unfortunately has not yet been rewritten to use fixed point calculations). After finally getting a MIPS system running under QEMU (with Debian Etch, I can't find any newer installation instruct

Bug#777862: gbsplay: diff for NMU version 0.0.91-1.1

2015-08-02 Thread Christian Garbs
> usr/share/common-licenses/GPL That's a problem. Upstream does not say _which_ GPL version in the README: | gbsplay - A Gameboy sound player | | (C) 2003-2006,2008 by Tobias Diedrich | Christian Garbs | Maximilian Rehkopf |

Bug#777862: gbsplay: diff for NMU version 0.0.91-1.1

2015-08-01 Thread Christian Garbs
On Sat, Aug 01, 2015 at 01:02:15PM +0200, Sebastian Ramacher wrote: > Dear maintainer, > > I've prepared an NMU for gbsplay (versioned as 0.0.91-1.1) and > uploaded it to DELAYED/2. Please feel free to tell me if I > should delay it longer. Hello Sebastian, thanks for the NMU! We've done a new

Bug#793737: RFS: gbsplay/0.0.92-2

2015-07-26 Thread Christian Garbs
m * add debian/watch -- Christian Garbs Sun, 26 Jul 2015 22:34:37 +0200 gbsplay (0.0.92-1) unstable; urgency=medium * New upstream release (Closes: #715944, #777862). * Ship contrib/gbs2ogg.sh again, license is now provided. * Update debian/rules to fix lintian warnings: - de

Bug#777862: Patch for GCC 5 build issue

2015-07-14 Thread Christian Garbs
Thanks for the patch! It has been included upstream, but no new version of gbsplay has been released yet: https://github.com/mmitch/gbsplay/commit/71acdd75a662d6b98bf8837c8578a498d9fee278 Regards Christian -- Christian.Garbs.http://www.cgarbs.de In relat

Bug#784692: release-notes: package maradns is not updated, it has been removed

2015-05-07 Thread Christian Garbs
Package: release-notes Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, chapter 2.2 of the Jessie release notes mentions that the version of the maradns package has been updated from 1.4.12 to 2.0.09 But maradns has not been updated, it's completely missing from Jessie. The package database lists no version f

Bug#752874: RM: whatsnewfm -- ROM; obsolete; abandoned upstream

2014-06-27 Thread Christian Garbs
Package: release.debian.org Severity: normal User: release.debian@packages.debian.org Usertags: rm This package is no longer useful since the underlying service (freecode.com) has now shut down and is no longer accepting new submissions: "The Freecode site has been moved to a static state eff

Bug#752560: RM: whatsnewfm -- ROM; package has become completely useless

2014-06-24 Thread Christian Garbs
Package: ftp.debian.org Severity: normal whatsnewfm is a filter for the daily newsletter from Freecode.com (once Freshmeat.net), a repository for free and open source software. The whatsnewfm project started in 08/2000 and since 04/2004 it has been an official Debian package. On 2014-06-18 Freec

Bug#752288: whatsnewfm: Obsolete package: the freecode.com newsletter is now defunct

2014-06-24 Thread Christian Garbs
Thanks for the info! I think the whatsnewfm package should thus be removed completely. I'll file a bug against ftp.debian.org for the removal. (I'm unsure if I should just reassign this bug instead, but I think I'll just reference it instead.) Regards Christian -- Christian.Garbs..

Bug#747018: uucp: uupick fails on files > 2GB

2014-05-05 Thread Christian Garbs
On Sun, May 04, 2014 at 10:09:04PM +0200, Thorsten Alteholz wrote: > > > On Sun, 4 May 2014, Christian Garbs wrote: > >This probably is an upstream bug. > >Could this be fixed or forwarded? > > I can try, but I don't think there is much development u

Bug#747018: uucp: uupick fails on files > 2GB

2014-05-04 Thread Christian Garbs
Package: uucp Version: 1.07-20 Severity: normal Tags: lfs Dear Maintainer, I move backup files via UUCP between my machines. Recently, one of the backups got larger than 2 GB. I am not longer able to receive the file via uupick - smaller files still work. See this example: mitch@yggdrasil:~/B

Bug#729606: inn2: actsync/simpleftp problems with default installation

2013-11-14 Thread Christian Garbs
Package: inn2 Version: 2.5.3-3 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, having done a fresh installation of a new inn2 site, I ran into some small problems with the default installation concerning actsync and simpleftp. ### symptoms When actsync tries to get a remote active file via FTP, it breaks

Bug#715944: [Mayhem] Bug report on gbsplay: gbsinfo crashes with exit status 139

2013-08-06 Thread Christian Garbs
Hello, the bug has been fixed upstream, but no new version has been released yet: https://github.com/mmitch/gbsplay/commit/983b5f13cfe06c16534f6bd64fb0075388e77ccb The problem was a large number of songs within a GBS file and a signed/unsigned mixup: The song number ended up negative and thus a

Bug#647079: whatsnewfm: New name and URL for freshmeat.net (parser broken)

2011-11-07 Thread Christian Garbs
Hi Francois, On Sat, Nov 05, 2011 at 11:37:17PM +1300, Francois Marier wrote: > On 2011-11-01 at 13:51:25, Christian Garbs wrote: > > Now I'm looking for somebody to sponsor my upload. > > I'm happy to sponsor this upload, but I think you might want to fix a few > m

Bug#647079: whatsnewfm: New name and URL for freshmeat.net (parser broken)

2011-11-01 Thread Christian Garbs
A new upstream version of whatsnewfm has been released: http://www.cgarbs.de/whatsnewfm.en.html Inofficial Debian packages are available from my repository: http://www.cgarbs.de/stuff/deb-repository.html#whatsnewfm deb http://www.cgarbs.de/stuff ./ deb-src http://www.cgarbs.de/stu

Bug#583960: [v-admins] Bug#583960: Bug#583960: reniced: Add option to use `ps H -eo lwp, cmd` instead of `ps H -eo lwp, comm`

2010-07-04 Thread Christian Garbs
On Sun, Jul 04, 2010 at 01:47:30PM +, Debian bug at v.nix.is wrote: > On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 20:15, Christian Garbs wrote: > > To sum it up: > > > >  * ps -e should be chosen automatically when you are root > >  * changing other users' processes as non-roo

Bug#583960: [v-admins] Bug#583960: reniced: Add option to use `ps H -eo lwp, cmd` instead of `ps H -eo lwp, comm`

2010-06-30 Thread Christian Garbs
On Mon, Jun 07, 2010 at 08:56:43PM +, Debian bug at v.nix.is wrote: > I looked at the source code for the 1.18 tarball and it doesn't work > as expected because you're using the --user option to ps: > > $ ps H -o lwp,cmd --user 0|wc -l > 110 > $ ps H -o lwp,cmd --user 1001|wc -l >

Bug#583960: reniced: Add option to use `ps H -eo lwp, cmd` instead of `ps H -eo lwp, comm`

2010-06-06 Thread Christian Garbs
On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 09:00:01PM +, v.nix.is wrote: > The reniced program is really limited by the hardcoded use of a > `comm' argument to ps(1). It should optionally allow for using > `cmd'. Or any other ps option with a command-line argument. I've extended the upstream version to include

Bug#583961: reniced: Add debug command-line option for setting the $debug variable

2010-06-06 Thread Christian Garbs
On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 09:02:09PM +, v.nix.is wrote: > This is hardcoded in the reniced source code: > > my $debug = 0; > > The debug output is really helpful to find if your rules are taking > effect. I use this hacky wrapper to do this: > > perl -0777 -pe 's[debug = \K0][1]' < /u

Bug#537542: update hugin to version 0.8.0

2009-07-19 Thread Christian Garbs
Package: hugin Version: 0.8.0-1~1 Severity: wishlist Yesterday hugin 0.8.0 was released. I've already prepared Debian packages for the preceding release candidates and now there is a package of version 0.8.0 as well. Feel free to have a look at the package from my repository to update the offici

Bug#531104: whatsnewfm: new releases are no longer shown in emails

2009-05-30 Thread Christian Garbs
On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 03:50:29PM +0200, Christian Garbs wrote: > On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 01:42:02PM +1200, Francois Marier wrote: > > Could this have been caused by a Perl upgrade of some sort in unstable? > > This is caused by a change in the newsletter format. > See this

Bug#531104: whatsnewfm: new releases are no longer shown in emails

2009-05-30 Thread Christian Garbs
On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 01:42:02PM +1200, Francois Marier wrote: > Package: whatsnewfm > Version: 0.7.0-2 > Severity: grave > Justification: renders package unusable > > (I was a little bit hesitant to mark this bug as grave, so feel free > to bump the severity down if I'm the only one affected by

Bug#524324: nekobee: remove lintian warnings

2009-04-16 Thread Christian Garbs
rors on $(MAKE) distclean +- install lintian-override file +- remove dpatch invocations + * debian/lintian-overrides: +- add override for desktop-command-not-in-package + * debian/dirs: +- remove unneeded dirs +- add /usr/share/lintian/overrides/ + * debian/nekobee.desktop: +

Bug#515678: [powerpc] netboot failure on installation

2009-02-16 Thread Christian Garbs
On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 11:09:22PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > On Monday 16 February 2009, Christian Garbs wrote: > > Comments/Problems: > > I used http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/powerpc/ch04s05.html.en > > to set up the netboot environment. It does not clearly state

Bug#515678: [powerpc] netboot failure on installation

2009-02-16 Thread Christian Garbs
Package: installation-reports Boot method: network boot (CD-ROM did just hang) Image version: http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/lenny/main/installer-powerpc/current/images/powerpc/netboot/mini.iso Date: 2009-02-16 22:00h Machine: IBM 43P Model 140 / 7043 (RS/6000 PReP) Processor: 604e 233 M

Bug#492805: RFP: ditz -- a distributed issue tracker

2008-07-29 Thread Christian Garbs
Hi there, I've already packaged ditz 0.4 for Debian. As I'm only using Etch, the package is(?) only Standards-Version 3.7.2 compliant and I don't know if it works out on the box on unstable or testing. It's available either via apt-get[¹] or by direct download links[²]. Feel free to use this as

Bug#492456: libimage-exiftool-perl: wrong characters in manpage

2008-07-27 Thread Christian Garbs
Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 11:28:54AM +0200, Christian Garbs wrote: > There needs to be a distinction between the typographical apostrophe > and the ASCII apostrophe. > > I don't know if this can be distinguished in POD at all (then propably > lots of Perl packages would need

Bug#492456: libimage-exiftool-perl: wrong characters in manpage

2008-07-26 Thread Christian Garbs
Package: libimage-exiftool-perl Version: 7.30-1 Severity: normal The manpage exiftool.1p.gz contains (especially in the EXAMPLES sections) lots of ’ that should be ' instead. If you copy a line like exiftool ’-DateTimeOriginal>FileModifyDate’ dir to your shell you will get an error message:

Bug#449172: uucp: documentation on UUCP and exim4 is missing

2007-11-04 Thread Christian Garbs
On Sat, Nov 03, 2007 at 08:12:49PM +0100, Christian Garbs wrote: > I've just set up a UUCP node and now I want to make it work with > exim4. README.exim4 contains this text: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat /usr/share/doc/uucp/README.exim4 > How to put exim4 and uucp together

Bug#449172: uucp: documentation on UUCP and exim4 is missing

2007-11-03 Thread Christian Garbs
Package: uucp Version: 1.07-19.1 Severity: normal (I am unsure if this classifies as a bug in uucp or exim4) I've just set up a UUCP node and now I want to make it work with exim4. README.exim4 contains this text: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat /usr/share/doc/uucp/README.exim4 How to put exim4 and u

Bug#444564: lvm2: vgcfgbackup does not handle templates correctly

2007-09-29 Thread Christian Garbs
Package: lvm2 Version: 2.02.06-4 Severity: normal I have 4 volume groups on my system named "vg0", "sw1", "sw2" and "sw3". When I use vgcfgbackup with a template filename like this, I get errors: yggdrasil:~# vgcfgbackup -f /tmp/vgbackup-%s Volume group "sw3" successfully backed up. VGs must

Bug#431333: bash ignores ACLs

2007-07-01 Thread Christian Garbs
Package: bash Version: 3.1dfsg-8 Severity: normal bash's builtin test function does not honor ACLs. I have a test file which my user can read, but only because of the ACLs: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/Mail$ ls -l testdatei -rw-r-+ 1 root root 0 2007-07-01 12:51 testdatei [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/Mail$ g

Bug#420204: batch: manpage describes non-existent paramater

2007-04-20 Thread Christian Garbs
Package: at Version: 3.1.10 Severity: normal After updating to Etch, some of my scripts stopped working because the batch command no longer understands the -f parameter. In Sarge this parameter did work (I did not see a note about this during the update, shouldn't there be a message for apt-listc

Bug#385764: whatsnewfm Recommends: procmail?

2006-09-03 Thread Christian Garbs
On Sun, Sep 03, 2006 at 12:17:04AM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote: > How come procmail is recommended by whatsnewfm? I don't see any > explanation for this. whatsnewfm recommends procmail because procmail is used in the example configuration (and that's mainly because the author - that's me - only know

Bug#314818: mimms: confusing manpage title

2005-06-18 Thread Christian Garbs
Package: mimms Version: 0.0.9-1 Severity: minor I knew I had a tool to download MMS:// URLs, but I forgot it's name. So I decided to use `apropos mms` to find the program. This is my output: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ apropos mms WMXMMS (1) [wmxmms] - a dockable XMMS control applet. XMMS (1) [xmms]

Bug#275658: renice via /etc/default/apt-proxy

2005-05-22 Thread Christian Garbs
Package: apt-proxy Version: 1.9.29 Followup-For: Bug #275658 You can set the nice value for apt-proxy quite easily: Just add a line like "renice 20 $$" to /etc/default/apt-proxy. This will renice the current process to 20. /etc/default/apt-proxy is sourced from /etc/init.d/apt-proxy so this also

Bug#301353: gphpedit: typo in package description

2005-03-25 Thread Christian Garbs
Package: gphpedit Severity: minor There is a typo in the package description line that is visible in aptitude: "developemnt environment for PHP/HTML/CSS" This should be "development" instead of "developemnt" -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, '

Bug#172271: ITP: japana -- HTTP proxy converting Japanese characters into ASCII

2005-03-06 Thread Christian Garbs
tags 172271 + patch thanks Current status: I'm still looking for a sponsor. Packages (currently 2.0.5-2) can still be found here: deb http://www.h.shuttle.de/mitch/stuff ./ deb-src http://www.h.shuttle.de/mitch/stuff ./ -- Christian.Garbs.http://www.

Bug#269650: php-elisp: byte-compiling php-mode.el fails

2005-03-06 Thread Christian Garbs
tags 269650 + unreproducible thanks I can't reproduce this error any more. If nobody else has the same problem, I think this bug should be closed. Regards, Christian -- Christian.Garbs.http://www.cgarbs.de Mother Nature always sides with the hidden flaw.

Bug#193883: aptitude: temporary subdirectories don't get removed on NFS

2005-03-06 Thread Christian Garbs
tags 193883 + unreproducible thanks I can't reproduce this bug any more. (In the meantime, I've changed to NFS, made several kernel upgrades and switched from woody to sarge.) If nobody else has encountered this bug then I think it should be closed. Regardsm Christian -- Christian.Garbs...

Bug#294802: tin: line-wrap in German filter menu

2005-02-11 Thread Christian Garbs
Package: tin Version: 1:1.7.6+rel-1 Severity: minor Tags: l10n In the German filter menu (scoring for articles) the item "Wähle Msg-Id" has four values: * Nur * Nein * Voll * Letzte "Letzte" is too long and always wrapped around to the next line, regardless of screen width. It looks to me l

Bug#294788: bwm: long device names are not cut off properly

2005-02-11 Thread Christian Garbs
Package: bwm Version: 1.1.0-8 Severity: normal Tags: patch Long device names are not cut off properly. I've got a device named "tun6to4_ppp0" for IPv6 which gives me 3 garbled characters and moves the tables two spaces to the right as shown here: <- snip -> Bandwidth Monitor 1.1.0

Bug#291824: gqview: typo in German localization

2005-01-23 Thread Christian Garbs
Package: gqview Version: 1.4.5-1 Severity: minor Tags: patch l10n There is a typo in the German localization: missing "s" character in the word "rekursiv". The attached patch fixes this. -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (50, 'unstab

Bug#289758: bogofilter always reports spamicity=0.520000

2005-01-12 Thread Christian Garbs
On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 04:15:18PM -0500, Clint Adams wrote: > > in the bogofilter manpage (except for an extra "-l" for syslog output > > and an explicit "-d ~/.bogofilter" to point to my directory). > > What's the output of "bogoutil -p ~/.bogofilter .MSG_COUNT" ? Thanks, this was a huge push i

Bug#289758: bogofilter always reports spamicity=0.520000

2005-01-10 Thread Christian Garbs
Package: bogofilter Version: 0.93.3.1-1 Severity: important I had some problems with the upgrade from 0.93.1 bogofilter version, so I just removed my old wordlist and started new with a clean and empty ~/.bogofilter directory. I'm using procmail to classify my mail, the receipt looks like the one