Bug#946649: libnss-unknown breaks adduser and useradd

Package: libnss-unknown Version: 0.0.2 libnss-unknown modifies getpwuid to never return NULL; but this is how adduser determines whether a user id is unused. This makes libnss-unknown problematic to install, because installation of other packages will fail if they require users of their own. It's

Bug#774698: multistrap sets Dir::Etc on the command line which has no effect

On Tue, 6 Jan 2015 12:59:54 + Neil Williams wrote: > On Tue, 06 Jan 2015 13:14:44 +0100 > Johannes Schauer wrote: > > > multistrap sets the Dir::Etc apt configuration option on the command > > line. > > > > But this has no effect because the config files are read before the > > commandline is

Bug#782785: initramfs-tools: allow URI/server:/path root= arguments

Package: initramfs-tools Version: 0.120 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch I'm trying to properly package local scripts which allow me to boot from a plan9 fs over TCP/IPv6 without using an IPv4 address. I believe the most natural way of doing so is with a kernel command line along the lines of "root=

Bug#697017: An improved patch over Jonathan's

On Tue, 1 Jan 2013 11:56:00 -0500 (EST) Stephen Powell wrote: > On Tue, 01 Jan 2013 10:18:06 -0500 (EST), Gabriel Klawitter wrote: > > Your patch will sort out cases like 08:02 but not the case where root > > equals 'facade', 'added' or 'dead01'. > > I'm using the root= parameter for giving the na

Bug#782126: apt-cacher: apt-cacher-import.pl calculates invalid Content-Length header

Package: apt-cacher Version: 1.7.10 I believe I have found a bug in apt-cacher-import.pl which would result in its generating header files without a Content-Length header, which would then force the relevant packages to be redownloaded rather than served from the cache. The patch probably demonstr