Bug#763130: Improved version of "on" function

2014-09-28 Thread Christian Hudon
Le 2014-9-28 14:47, Joey Hess a écrit : Christian Hudon wrote: whoami="$(whoami)" shorthostname="$(hostname -s)" fullhostname="$(hostname -f)" domainname="${fullhostname#*.}" These comm

Bug#763130: Improved version of "on" function

2014-09-28 Thread Christian Hudon
Le 2014-9-28 13:04, Joey Hess a écrit : Christian Hudon wrote: # Check hostname if [ "$shorthostname" = "$host" -o "$fullhostname" = "$host" -o \ "

Bug#763130: Improved version of "on" function

2014-09-27 Thread Christian Hudon
Package: mr Severity: wishlist I'm using an improved version of the on() function in my .mrconfig, which handles usernames, etc. Maybe you'd like to include it in the defaults for mr, so people don't have to reinvent the wheel. Here it is: # Checks whether the given host basename i

Bug#763129: Wishlist: way of doing a checkout on a repo when skip=lazy is set that is easier to remember

2014-09-27 Thread Christian Hudon
Package: mr Severity: wishlist I'm using mr to manage (among other things) my ~/Code directory, where all the version control repositories for code I'm interested in live. I currently have 35 repositories listed for the .mrconfig for that directory, and more are added every month, so I don't want

Bug#672843: Mr register fails on bzr checkout with related branches

2012-05-13 Thread Christian Hudon
Package: mr Version: 1.11 Running "mr register" on a bzr checkout which has related branches fails. My guess is that mr is confused by the related branches which appear in the output of "bzr info". Running a similar "mr register" on a bzr checkout without related branches succeeds. Here is a

Bug#669047: stat(fullexecname) does not work with relative paths for executable / --chdir

2012-04-16 Thread Christian Hudon
Package: dpkg Version: 1.16.2 Severity: minor I was trying (and failing) to start a Python paster instance inside a virtualenv like this: start-stop-daemon -u useridhere --chdir /srv/virtualenv_path --exec bin/paster --start -- serve development.ini It took me a while to figure out what the

Bug#643589: Wishlist: doing the right thing automatically for bzr checkouts

2011-09-27 Thread Christian Hudon
Yes, this works great. Thanks! I went through the relevant parts of the mr code for the bzr commands and found something that I had missed. For the "record" command, when working on a bazaar checkout, the command to run is "bzr commit --local". Other than that, it would be nice to add a short note

Bug#643591: Mr uses deprecated "bzr clone" command instead of "bzr branch"

2011-09-27 Thread Christian Hudon
Package: mr Version: 1.04 Severity: minor I noticed that mr uses "bzr clone" to retrieve a repository. This is a deprecated (as of bzr 2.4) alias for the "branch" command. The "bzr clone" calls should be replaced by "bzr branch". Thanks, Christian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-d

Bug#643589: Wishlist: doing the right thing automatically for bzr checkouts

2011-09-27 Thread Christian Hudon
Package: mr Version: 1.04 Severity: wishlist Bazaar supports a concept of "checkouts", which basically keeps a designated remote repository in sync with the local one. For example, running "bzr update" on a checkout will automatically pull from the remote repository, and doing a commit will automa

Bug#633581: Having a directory in /usr/local in R_LIBS_SITE with the R version number would be nice

2011-07-11 Thread Christian Hudon
Package: r-core-case Version: 2.13.1-1 Severity: wishlist Hello, The Debian packages for R add a "/usr/local/lib/R/site-library" directory into which the local sysadmin can install packages, which is really useful. However, compiled R packages are not always compatible between versions of R (e.g.

Bug#584919: Some of the adduser.conf configuration options not present (in commented-out form) in installed /etc/adduser.conf

2010-06-07 Thread Christian Hudon
Package: adduser Version: 3.102 Severity: wishlist Hi, The installed /etc/adduser.conf file features most of the variables that can control adduser, at least in commented out form, together with an explanatory comment. This is really nice for the sysadmin, as it saves back and forth between the d

Bug#576367: "Buffer overflow detected" error when using cueconvert

2010-04-03 Thread Christian Hudon
Package: cuetools Version: 1.3.1-4 Severity: important Tags: patch Hi, I thought I had submitted this bug to Debian too, but I might have forgotten. When converting .toc files to .cue files, I get a "buffer overflow detected" warning and a core dump. The following patch fixes the buffer overflow

Bug#572259: Wishlist: command (or option) to install new version of package only if was already installed

2010-03-02 Thread Christian Hudon
Package: apt Version: 0.7.26 Severity: wishlist Hi, I've been wishing more than once for a version of the "install" command that works as follows: it installs the new version of the package only it said package was already installed on the computer. If the package was not installed, it does nothi

Bug#565454: Slurm version 2.1 available

2010-01-15 Thread Christian Hudon
Package: slurm-llnl Severity: wishlist Upstream version 2.1 of Slurm was released about a week ago. It introduces useful improvements in the scheduler, among others: https://computing.llnl.gov/linux/slurm/news.html#21 It'd be nice if the Debian packages were upgraded to this version. Thanks!

Bug#529619: RFP: blcr -- Berkeley Lab Checkpoint/Restart

2009-05-20 Thread Christian Hudon
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Blcr is a process checkpointing solution for Linux. More information is available at: https://ftg.lbl.gov/CheckpointRestart/CheckpointRestart.shtml Extract from the web site: Future Technologies Group researchers are developing a hybrid kernel/user implementa

Bug#525189: Wishlist: "apt-get install" that understands syntax of Depends, etc fields

2009-04-22 Thread Christian Hudon
Package: apt Severity: wishlist Hello, Sometimes, I need to cut and paste the contents of a Depends field (from running "dpkg -s", etc.) or from a Build-depend line (from the control file of a .deb whose source I just unpacked) to install packages required by a package that I downloaded separ

Bug#524405: Mount package could include copy of sharedsubtree.txt file in doc directory

2009-04-16 Thread Christian Hudon
Package: mount Version: 2.13.1.1-1 Severity: wishlist It'd be nice if the mount package included a copy of the sharedsubtree.txt file from the Linux kernel documentation in /usr/share/doc/mount. Currently, it's impossible to understand what the --make-private, etc. options do from the mount ma

Bug#519119: grep manpage does not explain which color setting is used with --color alone

2009-03-10 Thread Christian Hudon
Package: grep Version: 2.5.3~dfsg-6 Severity: minor The manpage for grep contains the following about the --color option: --color[=WHEN], --colour[=WHEN] Surround the matched (non-empty) strings, matching lines, context lines, file names, line numbers

Bug#511164: It'd be nice if mdadm -G --help mentioned "max" argument to -z switch

2009-01-07 Thread Christian Hudon
Package: mdadm Version: 2.6.7-1 Severity: wishlist It'd nice if the help printed out when running mdadm -G --help also mentioned the "max" parameter that can be passed to the -z option. Just a one-line mention would be fine. (I know it's already in the manpage... I found it trying to come up b

Bug#498520: Rprofile.site configuration file not under /etc

2008-09-10 Thread Christian Hudon
Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: Well, first off, congrats for finding it :) Second, you didn't have too, this is all documented in help(Startup) [ though I agree that finding help is not always easy; OTOH doing help.search("Rprofile") would have lead you there, along with some false positives ]

Bug#498527: closed by Dirk Eddelbuettel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Re: Bug#498527: Cairo should be default output device in R instead of X11 when r-cran-cairodevice installed)

2008-09-10 Thread Christian Hudon
Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: This is an automatic notification regarding your Bug report which was filed against the r-cran-cairodevice package: #498527: Cairo should be default output device in R instead of X11 when r-cran-cairodevice installed It has been closed by Dirk Eddelbuettel <[E

Bug#498527: Cairo should be default output device in R instead of X11 when r-cran-cairodevice installed

2008-09-10 Thread Christian Hudon
Package: r-cran-cairodevice Version: 2.8-1 It'd be really nice if the r-cran-cairodevice package was set up so that the R output device would default to 'Cairo' instead of 'X11' when r-cran-cairodevice is installed. That way, things would Just Work, instead of having to hunt for how to enable

Bug#498520: Rprofile.site configuration file not under /etc

2008-09-10 Thread Christian Hudon
Package: r-base-core Version: 2.7.1-1 Local R customizations by the sysadmin to the R startup are supposed to be done in the Rprofile.site file. However, R currently looks for that file under /usr (more precisely: /usr/lib/R/etc/Rprofile.site). It'd be nice to have the same setup as for other

Bug#475952: Patch

2008-08-15 Thread Christian Hudon
Jurij Smakov a écrit : > It appears that the intention of the maintainer was to build on most > (all?) architectures with -O0 to avoid problems (as there is a longish > trail of icon bugs on various architectures, related to its inability > to work properly when compiled with -O2). However, due

Bug#420979: FTBFS: time.c:35: error: 'CLK_TCK' undeclared

2007-04-25 Thread Christian Hudon
Jérémy Bobbio escribió: > Package: icon > Version: 9.4.2-2.7 > Severity: serious > Justification: no longer builds from source > > Hi! > > icon currently fails to build from source in sid [1]: > Which architecture are you building on? Christian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTE

Bug#274242: Followup requested

2006-07-10 Thread Christian Hudon
Filipus Klutiero escribió: > Hi, the maintainer of ethereal requested more information from you about this > bug. Please see his mail and reply to his question. > Hi, I tried to reproduce the bug by removing gnome-icon-theme, but I couldn't. I don't know what the problem was when installing it

Bug#192253: Suggestion from upstream FAQ

2006-07-06 Thread Christian Hudon
I went to have a look at the Info-zip FAQ page, and the method used in Chris Chiappa's patch is mentionned for handling zip files less than 2GB that create uncompressed data files between 2GB and 4GB. From http://www.info-zip.org/FAQ.html#limits: In the short term, it is possible to improve Zi

Bug#362012: tdsodbc needs odbcinst1

2006-04-11 Thread Christian Hudon
Package: tdsodbc Version: 0.63-2 Installing tdsodbc is not possible when answering yes to the debconf question about registering ODBC stuff, unless the odbcinst1 package is also installed. tdsodbc should depend on odbcinst1 if it's using programs from that package in its postinst. I also thi

Bug#355901: Quota warning emails should have title

2006-03-24 Thread Christian Hudon
Michael Meskes wrote: Could you please add your local config to the bug report? The default Subject should be "Over quota", but can be configured differently using /etc/warnquota.conf. So unless you have a meaningful entry in warnquota.conf but still no subject, I do not see a bug here. I loo

Bug#355901: Quota warning emails should have title

2006-03-08 Thread Christian Hudon
Package: quota Version: 3.12-6 Severity: wishlist Right now when the quota system sends emails, it leaves the subject empty. It'd be nice if it supplied a descriptive subject line instead, so I'd see something like "Over quota on /home/whatever" or "Over quota on /foo, last warning!", which wo

Bug#355755: apcupsd-doc does not register texinfo documentation

2006-03-07 Thread Christian Hudon
Package: apcupsd-doc Version: 3.10.17-2 apcupsd-doc does not register its texinfo documentation using install-info, which means it does not show up in info's top-level (dir) page. Registering the texinfo documentation would make it much easier to find. Christian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Bug#341730: New upstream version 0.85 available

2005-12-02 Thread Christian Hudon
Package: matplotlib Version: 0.82-5 A new version of matplotlib (0.85) is available from upstream. Christian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#328584: very old package, should this be removed?

2005-09-16 Thread Christian Hudon
Roger Leigh wrote: On Fri, Sep 16, 2005 at 11:15:05AM +0200, Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt wrote: During the Debian QA meeting hold during Sept. 09th till 11th, we decided that looking at packages that haven't been uploaded for a very long time could cover up some QA problems. I've done this now an

Bug#325239: pppoe.8.gz: explain pty or no arguments

2005-08-30 Thread Christian Hudon
Dan Jacobson a écrit : Well, in SYNOPSIS pppd pty 'pppoe [pppoe_options]' [pppd_options] pppoe -A [pppoe_options] we see that just plain pppoe with no arguments is illegal. So someone should add it to the SYNOPSIS, at least. It wouldn't hurt to also mention what it does. Actua

Bug#323139: RoM: please remove altgcc

2005-08-16 Thread Christian Hudon
Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: >On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 01:14:45AM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote: > > >A number of libc5 related packages still depend on it though, and >should be removed together. > >ld.so: The Linux dynamic linker and library for libc4 and libc5. >libc: libc5 >libdb: libdb1 >libg

Bug#317979: New xmlrpc-c upstream version available

2005-07-12 Thread Christian Hudon
Package: libxmlrpc-c3 Version: 0.9.10-4 This version of the library is getting rather old... Version 1.0 was released on 2004-10-25. The current version is 1.03.01, released a couple of days ago. An updated Debian package would be nice. Thanks, Christian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL P

Bug#312948: lcap: Pretends to remove capabilities even when capability.ko module is not loaded

2005-06-10 Thread Christian Hudon
Jurij Smakov wrote: Removing capabilities with lcap on a 2.6.11 kernel without capability.ko module loaded does not produce any warning or error. In fact, it erroneously indicates that the capability was successfully removed, creating a false impression of security. Can you please post the .c

Bug#309384: pppoe: die if mtu badly set

2005-05-17 Thread Christian Hudon
Marco d'Itri wrote: On May 16, Marc Dequènes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I forgot to decrease mtu of one of my boxes to 1492 (because i'm using IPv6), thus causing pppoe to die with the following error when doing a simple "apt-get update" from that box : Interesting, but you should really us

Bug#304498: RPy doc package should be better usable (without having to run Makefile)

2005-04-13 Thread Christian Hudon
Package: python-rpy-doc Version: 0.4.1-2 The way the python-rpy-doc package is done now, it's not much more useful than the rpy source package. There's just the raw texinfo source together with a Makefile. It'd be nice if the texinfo source was installed and registered with install-info so info

Bug#303633: Small error in ls manual?

2005-04-07 Thread Christian Hudon
Package: coreutils Version: 5.2.1-2 Severity: minor In the ls manpage (and in its info manual too, I presume), option -f is described as: -f do not sort, enable -aU, disable -lst However looking in the neighborhood of option -s, we see: -s, --size print size of each f

Bug#302408: New upstream version available

2005-03-31 Thread Christian Hudon
Package: python-numarray Version: 1.1.1-3 FYI, the latest upstream version of numarray is 1.2.3. http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=1369&release_id=223264 Christian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#302259: Manpage for -L option not clear where capture output ends up

2005-03-30 Thread Christian Hudon
Package: isakmpd Version: 20041012-1 Severity: minor The description for the -L option in the manpage does not make it clear where the capture output is send: -L Enable IKE packet capture. When this option is given, isakmpd will capture to file an unencrypted copy of the neg

Bug#300771: zile does not resize on SIGWINCH

2005-03-23 Thread Christian Hudon
Reuben Thomas wrote: It's easily possible that there are still bugs in Zile's SIGWINCH handling, but it's not as simple as this. It works fine for me (now using 2.0.2 of course, but there's no change to this code since 2.0.1). If the reporter could give more precise indications of the problem t

Bug#300771: zile does not resize on SIGWINCH

2005-03-21 Thread Christian Hudon
Package: zile Version: 2.0.1-1 When resizing a terminal window with a zile editing session running inside it, it'd be really nice if zile reacted to the SIGWINCH signal sent by the terminal on a resize and resized itself also to fit in the terminal window's new size. Christian -- To UNSUBSCRI

Bug#298740: Launching ethereal over ssh doesn't work with ForwardX11Trusted no

2005-03-09 Thread Christian Hudon
Package: ethereal Version: 0.10.9-1 I set up my ssh to run with "ForwardX11Trusted no". All the programs I've tried run fine when run over a X11 connection forwarded via ssh, except ethereal, which fails with the following error message: The program 'ethereal' received an X Window System error.

Bug#298576: famd busy-looping; shouold behave better when famqueue is overflowing

2005-03-08 Thread Christian Hudon
Package: fam Version 2.7.0-5 Today on one of our machines famd was taking up >97% of the CPU. I attached to it with strace and I saw a continuous stream of: write(2, "*** overflow famqueu"..., 51) = 51 rt_sigreturn(0xbfffecd0)= 0 --- SIGRT_1 (Real-time signal 0) @ 0 (0

Bug#295721: Gzip manpage does not mention --rsyncable option

2005-02-17 Thread Christian Hudon
Package: gzip Version: 1.3.5-9 Severity: minor The --rsyncable option appears when you do gzip --help, but it isn't mentioned anywhere in the manpage. It'd be nice to have it appear in the manpage too. Christian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tro

Bug#294861: ipython doesn't work with new python packages unless profiler (from non-free) is also installed.

2005-02-11 Thread Christian Hudon
Package: ipython Version: 0.6.5-1 Severity: major The new python2.3 split off the profiler module into its own package (into non-free). When trying to run ipython with that new python package installed, I get: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/ipython", line 26, in ? import I

Bug#277666: Actually, the latest stable version is 1.2

2005-02-09 Thread Christian Hudon
The "2.0a1" in the version number stands for alpha, so I'd be in no big hurry to get a Debian package of that. But the latest stable version is 1.2, not 1.0. It'd be nice to have an update of the Debian package. Christian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubsc

Bug#293622: acknowledged by developer (Re: Bug#293622: python2.4 recommends non-existant packages)

2005-02-04 Thread Christian Hudon
Package: python2.4 Version: 2.4-3 Python2.4 recommends the packages python2.4-iconvcodec, python2.4-japanese-codecs and python2.4-korean-codecs, however these packages do not exist. I seem to vaguely remember the CJK codecs being folded into the core python package for python 2.4, so that coul

Bug#293622: python2.4 recommends non-existant packages

2005-02-04 Thread Christian Hudon
Package: python2.4 Version: 2.4-3 Python2.4 recommends the packages python2.4-iconvcodec, python2.4-japanese-codecs and python2.4-korean-codecs, however these packages do not exist. I seem to vaguely remember the CJK codecs being folded into the core python package for python 2.4, so that could

Bug#292070: Unable to create VG on md device with newer lvm2

2005-01-24 Thread Christian Hudon
Package: lvm2 Version: 2.00.32-1 I'm using a setup with lvm over RAID1 (using the Linux software md driver). I set up the machine using an old version of lvm2, etc. a year ago and everything worked fine. But now (with upgraded tools) I can't seem to create a VG on the new RAID array I just insta

Bug#291629: CVS $Id$ string cause spurious "conffile modified dialog" when upgrading cupsys

2005-01-21 Thread Christian Hudon
Package: libcupsys2-gnutls10 Version: 1.1.23-2 Because all the conffiles from cupsys retain the $Id$ CVS strings from upstream, pretty much every cupsys upgrade asks me "conffile x has changed, what do you want to do?" even when the only change is that the cvs id went from 1.8 to 1.9. Please re

Bug#291621: gv doesn't select proper paper size when reading from pipe

2005-01-21 Thread Christian Hudon
Package: gv Version: 3.5.8-36 I create a Postscript file using (say) a2ps: a2ps foo.txt -o foo.ps When I view the Postscript file using "gv foo.ps", gv selects the correct paper format (letter) that the Postscript file was created in. When I view the same Postscript file by piping it to gv ("cat

Bug#291422: eject could be smarter when trying to find the device to use.

2005-01-20 Thread Christian Hudon
Package: eject Version: 2.0.13deb-7 We have a directory /cdrom, which is intended to be a mountpoint for CD-ROMs. When trying to eject an audio CD, the eject program's heuristic picked /cdrom as the filename to open and then to try its various ioctls to eject stuff. Needless to say, this doesn't

Bug#291271: -dbg package for NSPR?

2005-01-19 Thread Christian Hudon
Package: libnspr-dev Version: 1.7.3-5 Severity: wishlist It'd be really useful when debugging programs based on NSPR to have the debug version of the libraries available, either in libnspr-dev or in a separate -dbg package. Christian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Bug#290381: Subversion 1.1.2 is out

2005-01-13 Thread Christian Hudon
Package: subversion Version: 1.1.1-2 Severity: minor A new upstream version (1.1.2) is available, which includes several bugfixes that would be nice to have... Christian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#289888: Default max vg size of 256GB a bit on the small size nowadays...

2005-01-11 Thread Christian Hudon
Patrick Caulfield wrote: It might be that you are using LVM1 format metadata - which still has this restriction. vgconvert will upgrade that metadata to LVM2 and remove the limit. (BTW the default of 4MB PE size is years old on LVM1 (25/10/2002), and has never been a limitation in LVM2) Hmm. I

Bug#289888: Default max vg size of 256GB a bit on the small size nowadays...

2005-01-11 Thread Christian Hudon
Package: lvm2 Version: 2.00.24-1 I guess 256GB was a nice large number the for default max vg size when lvm1 was started, but now that you can buy a single hard drive that is twice this size, it seems to me to be a bit on the small side for a default max vg size value. Especially given that ther