Bug#858529: minimal update narrows to libc6.

2017-03-23 Thread Neil Spring
I took a clean jessie install in vagrant (bento/debian-8.7), then rather than update everything to stretch, I apt-get install’ed only libc6 from stretch. Same result: four lines before the upgrade, seven lines, duplicating the last three, after. Happy to share Vagrantfile and output, though I

Bug#858529: libc6: fgets repeats content after fork on stretch only

2017-03-22 Thread Neil Spring
Package: libc6 Version: 2.24-9 Severity: normal Dear Maintainers, I'm testing a programming exercise for students, and found failed tests that I believe are due to libc6. I retried the minimal test case on every machine I have access to, and found that only my two Debian Stretch machines failed,

Bug#776886: This patch is necessary

2016-06-27 Thread Neil Spring
I applied the first two changes (memmove and long->int) and doing so solved a segfault problem on my x86_64 system. They appear safe (memmove acts as memcpy except it handles overlap). Please apply the patch! -neil

Bug#666980: zoneminder: hash authentication broken in update

2012-04-02 Thread Neil Spring
Package: zoneminder Version: 1.25.0-1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, I upgraded from 1.24.2 recently, and streaming (live and recorded) failed with errors in the log: socket_sendto( /tmp/zms-562793s.sock ) failed: No such file or directory I tracked this down to a socket that should have be

Bug#633678: Apparently this change happened in may.

2011-07-13 Thread Neil Spring
curl http://d-i.debian.org/daily-images/amd64/20110531-00:15/hd-media/initrd.gz | gunzip -c | cpio -i -t | grep _id lacks edd_id, while curl http://d-i.debian.org/daily-images/amd64/20110501-00:14/hd-media/initrd.gz | gunzip -c | cpio -i -t | grep _id includes it. Just in case this helps trac

Bug#633678: edd_id missing from daily initrd images

2011-07-12 Thread Neil Spring
Package: debian-installer Hi, I'm unable to reinstall wheezy from usb / iso on my amd64 machine. After sufficient wrestling to create a symlink for wheezy to appear "stable" to appease anna-install (which seemed to look for stable anyway... there's a FIXME in there somewhere that seems suspec

Bug#510346: new TLS_CIPHER_SUITE underdocumented

2008-12-31 Thread Neil Spring
Package: libldap-2.4-2 Version: 2.4.11-1 Severity: normal Please feel free to retitle; I don't know if this is a documentation problem or a feature problem. I'm trying my absolute hardest to get libldap to talk ssl to ldaps://directory.umd.edu:636/ and haven't figured it out. I believe my inab

Bug#466477: it's biting me; don't close, maybe reassign

2008-12-31 Thread Neil Spring
I'm about to submit a documentation wishlist request (at least) on openldap because I've bloodied my forehead getting it to talk to directory.umd.edu. The following statement does not appear to be true: I don't think you even need to re-assign the bug to OpenLDAP, since it supports cipher p

Bug#457645: mt-daapd: doesn't index more than one itunes.xml file

2007-12-23 Thread Neil Spring
Package: mt-daapd Version: 0.9~r1586-1 Severity: minor mt-daapd incorrectly processes the second 'iTunes Music Library.xml' file that it scans, with the symptom of having the second set of playlists be present, but empty of songs. After some investigation, the scanner misinterprets the second x

Bug#412220: ruby1.8: reverse lookup doesn't work.

2007-02-24 Thread Neil Spring
Package: ruby1.8 Version: 1.8.5-4 Severity: normal ri Socket.gethostbyname implies that ruby -rsocket -e 'p Socket.gethostbyname("127.0.0.1")' should return something like: ["localhost", ["localloop", "loop", "loghost"], 2, "\177\000\000\001"] as it does on a redhat machine I have access to u

Bug#373101: debarchiver: warn on package architecture not in @architectures?

2006-06-13 Thread Neil Spring
On Jun 12, 2006, at 6:10 PM, Ola Lundqvist wrote: Although it was my mistake, I think it might be reasonable to warn when the dists/ (or at least incoming/) directory contains architectures not listed in the @architectures configuration variable. I fully agree. Maybe it should even reject such

Bug#373101: debarchiver: warn on package architecture not in @architectures?

2006-06-12 Thread Neil Spring
Package: debarchiver Version: 0.3.2 Severity: wishlist I decided to add amd64 packages into a debarchiver managed directory, and couldn't figure out why the Packages file wasn't being generated even though debarchiver did grab the amd64 packages from the incoming directory and place them in the r

Bug#362775: swig: 1.3.29 fixes a bug for me

2006-06-07 Thread Neil Spring
Package: swig Version: 1.3.28-1 Followup-For: Bug #362775 Support for ruby 1.6 was broken by swig 1.3.28. CVS logs at: http://swig.cvs.sourceforge.net/swig/SWIG/Lib/ruby/rubystrings.swg?view=log appear to confirm that the fix is present in release 1.3.29. ... just in case that extra demand fo

Bug#350979: libruby1.8: http.rb 'verify_mode' error

2006-02-01 Thread Neil Spring
Package: libruby1.8 Version: 1.8.4-1 Severity: normal When running code that worked with 1.8.2 on sarge, 1.8.4 complains with the following trace. It suggests to me that @ssl_context is not set to anything other than nil (in the initialize method), so line 565 would more safely check @ssl_contex

Bug#285590: stable yet?

2006-01-19 Thread Neil Spring
After trying to build a program that would use libdts on amd64, I discovered that I had to root around in its configuration to retarget it to use dts_pic instead. Your scheme of building a second library file with _pic is one I hadn't seen before. Given that libdts apparently hasn't changed for o