Bug#508199: tar x --backup broken

2008-12-08 Thread Eric Lammerts
Package: tar Version: 1.20-1 When extracting, tar sometimes renames a backup back to the original name (overwriting the newly-extracted file) for no good reason. Example: # mkdir dir1 dir2 # echo bla > dir1/file1 # tar cf test.tar dir1 dir2 # tar xfv test.tar --backup dir1/ dir1/file1 Renaming `

Bug#473662: please upgrade to 1.4

2008-03-31 Thread Eric Lammerts
Package: ucarp Version: 1.2-2 Severity: wishlist 1.4 (and 1.3) have some important bugfixes. thanks, Eric -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#401287: time to fix this?

2007-10-03 Thread Eric Lammerts
etch has been released for quite a while now, can we fix this? thanks Eric -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#392835: reverse IP lookup failure leads to fatal error

2006-10-13 Thread Eric Lammerts
Package: msntp Version: 1.6.dfsg-1 Hi, I was trying out msntp with an IP number as argument. Msntp does a gethostbyaddr() on that, and if it fails, it says "unable to locate IP address/number" and exits. There does not seem to be any reason to do a reverse lookup (other than printing the hostname

Bug#392287: global doesn't build with m4 1.4.2-2

2006-10-10 Thread Eric Lammerts
Package: global Version: 4.8.6-2 Hi, When I tried to build global with dpkg-buildpackage, I got this: configure.ac:167: error: m4_popdef: undefined macro: AC_Dest autoconf/status.m4:848: AC_CONFIG_FILES is expanded from... configure.ac:167: the top level autom4te: /usr/bin/m4 failed with exit s

Bug#195620: fix chronyc output on 64-bit platforms

2006-04-13 Thread Eric Lammerts
Hi, I'm seeing stuff like this: chronyc> tracking Reference ID: 10.20.30.40 (10.20.30.40) Stratum : 4 Ref time (UTC) : Thu Apr 13 14:39:49 2006 System time : 4294967291.354725 seconds slow of NTP time Frequency : 12.108 ppm fast Residual freq : -0.000 ppm Skew

Bug#359622: temporary file in /usr/share/lanmap

2006-03-28 Thread Eric Lammerts
I think the problem has something to do with what I'm getting (with a read-only /usr): $ sudo lanmap -r 3 -i eth2 /usr/share/lanmap//tmp.lanmap: Read-only file system It tries to create a temporary file in /usr/share/lanmap!! Eric -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subjec

Bug#340047: perl should depend on libdb4.3 >=4.3.29 not 4.3.28

2005-11-20 Thread Eric Lammerts
Package: perl Version: 5.8.7-8 Perl should depend on libdb4.3 >= 4.3.29, not ">= 4.3.28-1" as is currently the case. With libdb4.3 4.3.28-2 installed I get this: $ perl -e 'use DB_File' DB_File needs compatible versions of libdb & db.h you have db.h version 4.3.29 and libdb version 4.

Bug#320452: vconfig doesn't set exit status on error

2005-10-18 Thread Eric Lammerts
Loic Minier wrote: On ven, jui 29, 2005, Eric Lammerts wrote: Vconfig doesn't report error conditions in its exit status. This is quite unpleasant in scripts. I agree with the complaint and with the fix. Thanks for the patch, I'll use it on my site. This is already fixed in up

Bug#59987: acknowledged by developer (smbmount options)

2005-10-17 Thread Eric Lammerts
Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: I tried to reproduce this old bug report http://bugs.debian.org/59987 (uhh below 10;)): /etc/fstab: //localhost/tmp/testdir smbfs username=3Dnk,uid=3D1000,user,noauto drwxr-xr-x 1 nk nk 4096 2005-10-17 20:47 /testdir/ $ mount /testdir/ Password:

Bug#330842: minicom doesn't handle EOF & I/O errors well

2005-09-29 Thread Eric Lammerts
Package: minicom Version: 2.1-7 I use minicom on a USB-to-serial converter on /dev/ttyUSB0. When the USB device gets pulled out of the PC, minicom starts eating CPU time. An strace shows: ioctl(3, TIOCMGET, [TIOCM_DTR|TIOCM_RTS]) = 0 select(4, [0 3], NULL, NULL, {1, 0})= 1 (in [3], left

Bug#320452: vconfig doesn't set exit status on error

2005-07-29 Thread Eric Lammerts
Package: vlan Version: 1.8-2 Vconfig doesn't report error conditions in its exit status. This is quite unpleasant in scripts. Example: # vconfig add eth1 2 && echo foobar ERROR: trying to add VLAN #2 to IF -:eth1:- error: Invalid argument foobar I suggest applying the patch below. thanks, Er

Bug#306293: minor error in salt generation

2005-04-25 Thread Eric Lammerts
Package: libcrypt-passwdmd5-perl Version: 1.3-4 Severity: minor Hi, I noticed that when you let Crypt::PasswdMD5 generate its own salt, it only uses 63 values out of 64: $itoa64 = "./0123456789ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz"; ... $salt .= substr($itoa64,int(rand(64)+1),1)

Bug#301681: libapache2-mod-speedycgi

2005-04-23 Thread Eric Lammerts
Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo wrote: Yes, it should work. The problem is compiling it, as you can only have or apache-1 or apache-2 apxs tool, needed for compiling the package. So this cannot be solved with Build-Dependencies. In Debian the apache-2 apxs tool is "apxs2", so it doesn't conflict with th