Package: sponsorship-requests
Severity: normal
Dear mentors,
I am looking for a sponsor for my package "xlbiff":
* Package name : xlbiff
Version : 4.6.6-1
Upstream contact : e...@edsantiago.com (Ed Santiago)
* URL : https://www.edsantiago.com/xlbiff/
* License
Package: equivs
Version: 2.3.1
Tags: patch
Please accept this enhancement to add a "Date" field to the
equivs-build control file.
If supplied, the Date value will be used instead of the current time
to set the date/time in the generated debian/changelog file.
Sometimes the caller does not need t
Package: devscripts
Version: 2.23.6
Tags: patch
The packages mk-build-deps builds work on only one architecture, even if the
built package architecture is "all". This is because the generated package
always includes a dependency on "build-essential:", where is a
specific architecture.
Because o
Thank you for this bug report! I had noticed that the xlbiff test
fails in some chroots, but I had not yet identified that nmh 1.8 was
the difference.
I will upload a fix in the next few days.
< Stephen
Package: sponsorship-requests
Severity: normal
Dear mentors,
I am looking for a sponsor for my package "xlbiff":
* Package name: xlbiff
Version : 4.3-1
Upstream Author : e...@edsantiago.com (Ed Santiago)
* URL : http://www.edsantiago.com/xlbiff/
* License
Ping
Package: distributed-net
Version: 2.9112.521-1
Tags: patch
Every week, cron logs an error from attempting to logrotate distributed-net.
/etc/logrotate.d/distributed-net says after rotating to run
invoke-rc.d distributed-net reload >/dev/null
/etc/init.d/distributed-net doesn't support a "reload"
Package: acpi-support
Version: 0.142-8
Tags: patch
Please accept this patch updating the brightness-adjusting script.
I noticed that asus-keyboard-backlight.sh did all the things I wanted,
but it had the path of the device class hardwired in, and I have
different hardware. So I pulled out the pa
Package: openvpn
Version: 2.3.2-7
Tags: patch
This patch is an update of the patch in bug 614036. It is refreshed
for the changes to the init.d script merged in 2.3.2-6. It is also
re-written to be more generic.
The script now reads external data files to build a list of files to
copy into the
Package: openvpn
Version: 2.3.2-5
Tags: patch
This patch moves all openvpn /var/run files down into a subdirectory.
This change is in support of running openvpn in a chroot: it allows
that subdirectory to be moved into the chroot tree and still be
soft-linked from the real /var/run (and thus visib
With some use, I've found I need to make a slight update to my
"easy chroot" patch. I think this bug report will stay most
readable if I just give the one line I'm updating rather than
resubmit the whole patch anew.
This added line:
test -f "$file" && cp -p "$file" "$CHROOT/$file"
s
Package: openvpn
Version: 2.1.3-2
Tags: patch
I have found the following changes to /etc/init.d/openvpn make it
easy to run openvpn with the --chroot option.
This patch moves all the openvpn /var/run files into a subdirectory,
so that directory can be then moved into the chroot tree and still
lin
Wait, so you're telling me that
VAR=$stuff
export VAR
and
export VAR=$stuff
parse differently from each other in Dash, and this is not considered
a bug? If so, I have to say that it appears Bash got it right here.
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Package: dash
Version: 0.5.5.1-7
Dash segfaults when fed the following script. Yes, the quoting in
this script is wrong, but Dash should still not segfault. I would
have expected it to run without error.
#! /bin/dash
dummyfn() {
local a="$1"
local b="$2"
echo
}
if test ! $1; the
Package: dash
Version: 0.5.5.1-7
Using the "local" command to do variable assignment should not do word
splitting. The following script shows how a Dash function incorrectly
handles an argument with a space in it.
#! /bin/dash
show_buggy_word_splitting() {
local d=$1
if [ "$d" = "two w
Package: cryptsetup
Version: 2:1.1.3-3
Tags: patch
The only real problem I had setting up my first cryptsetup disks was
that the pass-phrase file cannot end in a newline. I'm sure there's a
good technical reason for this bit of trickiness, but it needs to be
documented more thoroughly. Appended
Package: postgrey
Version: 1.32-4
The fix to bug 519707 (postgrey upgrade fails because of old Berkeley DB)
seems to have broken my ability to upgrade from postgrey 1.31-2. The
preinst script fails with the following error:
db4.7_upgrade: Program version 4.7 doesn't match environment version 4.8
Package: debian-installer
Version: snapshot 20080906-21:39 (newer than lenny beta 2)
Boot method: CD
Image version: Debian GNU/Linux testing "Lenny" - Official Snapshot i386
NETINST Binary-1 20080906-21:39
Date: 2008-09-06
Problems:
I have a system with an encrypted partition, inside which is a
6.0+dv4.0_i386.deb
I build both versions of the packages from the same source.
The binary version is set with a pbuilder hook that edits the
debian/rules file to pass a -v flag to dh_gencontrol (which
passes it to dpkg-gencontrol). Here is my hook script:
#! /bin/sh -e
# A50add-debianversion, by
work with timestamp 0, even though it is a valid timestamp.
Here is a short test program:
#! /usr/bin/perl -w
# test Parse::DebianChangelog's handling of the epoch
# by Stephen Gildea, August 2007
use Parse::DebianChangelog;
my $changelog_entry =
'test-package (1.0) unstable; urgency=
Package: dpkg-dev
Version: 1.14.5
Tags: patch
When using the "-v" flag of dpkg-gencontrol to set the version number
of the binary package being built, the subst variable "binary:Version"
fails to be set correctly. Instead of getting the value specified with
the -v, it gets the version of the sour
Package: mime-support
Version: 3.39-1
Tags: patch
There are several extensions used for Encapsulated PostScript files
that are not included in the /etc/mime.types list:
.epsi (interchange format--all ASCII, commonly has preview)
.eps2 (PS level 2)
.eps3 (PS level 3)
.epsf (Macintosh namin
> >But why didn't the installer set up my crypt configuration?
>
> This sounds very weird, but also not reproducible.
I've tried myself to reproduce the problem, without success.
< Stephen
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Package: debian-installer
Severity: normal
Version: daily-20070308
I had a couple of problems with the netinst GUI installer.
If you create an LVM physical partition and then use it in a Volume
Group, you cannot later change the size of the LVM partition. One
would think you could delete the VG,
Package: debian-installer
Severity: normal
Version: daily-20070308
In the "Partition disks" step, using the "Manual" partitioning method,
I cannot configure encrypted volumes.
I create a partition, for use as a physical volume for encryption.
When I try to "Configure encrypted volumes", I get the
> Except that there are a couple of old bugs in the BTS about that, what
> evidence do you have that this issue is actually "widely recognized" as
> a "problem"? And why the proper solution should be to use libpaper,
> instead of teaching users to use geometry.sty or hyperref.sty to includ
> As we found out, libpaper support didn't work in the old
> setup, anyway. So we are not dropping any functionality if we just add
> the hook and the file in /etc/default, setting the variable to "no
> action". We are just adding the possibility to have it done with
> libpaper. Why
Package: tetex-bin
Version: 3.0-27
Tags: patch
The attached patch solves the widely-recognized problem that tetex
does not obey the system's default paper size.
It's a problem when TeX formats documents for the wrong size paper,
because what's wrong isn't obvious to many users. Everybody expects
Package: dhcp3
Version: 3.0.4-10
Tags: patch
The default dhcp3 client configuration is unnecessarily and harmfully
limiting the DHCP options the server is sending.
The "request" statement in dhclient.conf changes the list of DHCP
options that the client allows the server to send back. The list o
Package: libpaper1
Version: 1.1.19
Tags: patch
Running "dpkg-reconfigure libpaper1" can change the system's paper size,
but it fails to run the hooks in /etc/libpaper.d/ to notify other
packages of the change. This small patch changes the postinst script to
run the hooks if /etc/papersize changes
Package: sudo
Version: 1.6.8p12-4
Tags: patch
It is nice that the new, tighter sudo now keeps the XAUTHORITY variable,
but there are still X variables that sudo is not respecting, and this
makes it hard for me to run some X11 applications. sudo should keep the
Xt toolkit variables XAPPLRESDIR, XF
This bug is still present in libpaper 1.1.14-6; the unsubstituted
string @RUNPARTSDIRVAR@ is still in paperconfig after building.
The problem appears to be that although configure.ac was fixed,
configure was not regenerated from it for this release.
< Stephen
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Package: postgresql-7.4
Version: 7.4.12-2
Tags: patch
When starting the PostgreSQL server (with "pg_ctl start") with a
specific directory (the -D flag), the "wait" code (triggered with the -w
option) fails to use the directory to find the Unix socket, and so it
fails to connect to the newly-starte
Package: libpaper-utils
Version: 1.1.14-5
Tags: patch
The config variable RUNPARTSDIRVAR is used in paperconfig.in but not
defined in configure.ac. RUNPARTSDIRVAR is supposed to name an
environment variable.
This patch adds a definition to configure.ac and fixes an unrelated
typo in configure.ac
Marco d'Itri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in full:
> No way. This has no place in the init script.
Could you please explain why you feel this way? My reading of
http://refspecs.freestandards.org/LSB_3.1.0/LSB-Core-generic/LSB-Core-generic/iniscrptact.html
led me to think the init script was a reas
Marco d'Itri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in full:
> Useless.
Not at all!
Maybe you are thinking, "of course the network state never changes."
Not so on my laptop. When I'm on the train, I have no network service.
I find I get increased battery life if I disable the network hardware
(particularly
Package: netbase
Version: 4.24
Tags: patch
The following patch provides a "status" option for the
/etc/init.d/networking script.
< Stephen
--- netbase-4.24/debian/netbase.init2006-01-03 17:14:07.0 -0500
+++ debian/netbase.init 2006-01-15 17:46:35.0 -0500
@@ -6,6 +6,8 @@
#
Package: libpaper
Version: 1.1.14-3
Tags: patch
The libpaper package should provide a hook for other packages to
receive notification when the paper size has been set or changed.
Not all packages can use libpaper as part of their normal run-time
to determine the current paper size. Those that ha
Package: dhcp3-server
Version: 3.0.2-2
Tags: patch
The following patch provides a "status" option for the
/etc/init.d/dhcp3-server script. It also removes the pid
file on "stop".
< Stephen
--- dhcp3-3.0.2/debian/dhcp3-server.init.d 2005-07-31 08:00:03.0
-0700
+++ debian/dhcp3-ser
> I think it should report if it fails to unload a module which is
> loaded, ...
Then how about this patch instead. It outputs error messages if
modules fail to unload.
--- pcmcia-cs-3.2.5/etc/rc.pcmcia 2005-07-21 12:01:28.0 -0700
+++ etc/rc.pcmcia 2005-07-22 23:52:53.00
Package: pcmcia-cs
Version: 3.2.5-11
Tags: patch
The "stop" option to /etc/init.d/pcmcia unloads the kernel modules it
loaded only if the "ds" module is found to be loaded. But on at least
one of my systems, running Debian kernel 2.6.11, "ds" appears to be
compiled into the kernel while yenta_soc
Package: libapache-mod-php4
Version: 4:4.3.10-15
Tags: patch
The default Debian /etc/apache/conf.d/php4.conf should use a Files
directive to deny access to files that probably shouldn't have been
placed in the web tree to begin with.
I recognize that with a properly-configured site this step wo
Package: ntp-server
Version: 4.2.0a+stable-8
Tags: patch
The following patch provides a "status" option for the
/etc/init.d/ntp-server script. It also corrects the "run-as" username
displayed in the error message when that user account does not exist.
< Stephen
--- ntp-4.2.0a+stable/debian/nt
Package: apache-common
Version: 1.3.33-6
Tags: patch
The default Debian /etc/apache/httpd.conf uses a Files directive to deny
access to .htaccess files. But there are many other filename patterns
that, should they be found in the web tree, should also be denied.
The Files directive currently loo
Package: sl-modem-daemon
Version: 2.9.9a-1
Tags: patch
The enclosed patch makes the following improvements to the
/etc/init.d/sl-modem-daemon script:
1. On "stop", unload the kernel module. This is the most important
change, as unloading the kernel module powers down the device hardware,
which
Package: cupsys
Version: 1.1.23-10
Tags: patch
The following patch provides a "status" option for the /etc/init.d/cupsys
script. It also updates the usage message to add "status" and display
the correct name for this script.
< Stephen
--- cupsys-1.1.23/debian/cupsys.init.d 2005-06-08 09:49:09
Package: nscd
Version: 2.3.2.ds1-22
Tags: patch
The following patch provides a "status" option for the /etc/init.d/ncsd
script. It also fixes the exit status if the script is given an
unsupported option.
< Stephen
--- glibc-2.3.2.ds1/debian/debhelper.in/nscd.init 2005-02-08
12:35:08.00
Package: mysql-server
Version: 4.0.24-10
Tags: patch
The init script for mysql-server implements a "status" command, which is
useful for humans. But that command doesn't use different exit values
for different statuses, making it useless for scripts.
The following patch
1) exits non-zero if the
Package: sysvinit
Version: 2.86.ds1-1
Severity: minor
Tags: patch
The man page of the "pidof" program should document its exit status.
The program is more useful to scripts if they can count on its returning
non-0 iff the pid search fails.
< Stephen
--- sysvinit-2.86.ds1/man/pidof.8 1998
If bug #208010 goes too far, this bug report doesn't go far enough.
The "status" option should be required, not optional. Only if it can be
counted on will it be useful.
I'm interested in being able to check the status of services when I
suspend and resume a laptop. Some services must be stopped
Package: mysql-server
Version: 4.0.24-5
I have some suggestions to make it easier to use mysqld's "chroot"
feature. As with the setuid call, the chroot call must be carefully
positioned in the server's initialization sequence. The current
placement of the chroot call makes it hard to use.
By mo
Version: 1.0.7-3
Tags: patch
The statd daemon changes its uid to match that of the file(s) (in)
/var/lib/nfs/. So if you change your /var/lib/nfs to be owned by, say,
"daemon", then you will see this bug in Sarge. Running the daemon
non-root is a good security feature, and security-conscious sys
> "Since /usr/local can be mounted read-only from a remote server, these
> directories must be created and removed by the postinst and prerm
> maintainer scripts and not be included in the .deb archive. These
> scripts must not fail if either of these operations fail." (9.1.2)
> since the
Package: emacs21-common
Version: 21.4a-1
Tags: patch
The postinst script does several chown and chmod operations on
subdirectories of /usr/local/share/. If these fail, the script fails
(it runs with sh -e) and the package installation fails. This is too
severe, as the chown/chmod failure can be
I have the same hardware as Florent (Athlon, ASUS VIA, Adaptec RAID),
and I'm running into the same bug. That is, the kernel sees my Adaptec
RAID disk fine (presented as SCSI, aacraid driver), but it doesn't see
any of my IDE disks.
I have done some experiments to try to pin down the location of
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