Bug#1087616: confirm linux-image-6.11.7-amd64 boot failure

2024-12-12 Thread ian_bruce
On Mon, 2 Dec 2024 22:56:25 -0800 wrote: > having now installed systemd v257~rc3-1, the problem seems to have > gone away, without altering the boot parameters. This is the case at > least with kernel linux-image-6.11.10-amd64. I've now had an apparent hang with this configuration, so it's an in

Bug#1087616: confirm linux-image-6.11.7-amd64 boot failure

2024-12-02 Thread ian_bruce
On Fri, 22 Nov 2024 19:05:43 -0800 wrote: > It now occurs to me that I may have installed a new version of > udev/systemd (current "testing", v257~rc2-3) at the same time as > kernel v6.11.7, so there may be some interaction there. > > The current situation on my system is that kernel v6.1 boots

Bug#1087616: confirm linux-image-6.11.7-amd64 boot failure

2024-11-22 Thread ian_bruce
On Fri, 22 Nov 2024 17:42:06 -0800 wrote: > after this boot hang with kernel v6.11.7, the exact same thing happens > with kernel v6.11.5, although this previously worked fine before the > v6.11.7 boot failure. > > Fortunately, I still have kernel v6.1.0-26 installed (Debian package, > as are the

Bug#1087616: confirm linux-image-6.11.7-amd64 boot failure

2024-11-22 Thread ian_bruce
I confirm this bug; same platform (AMD64), same kernel (6.11.7). > The last line I see says how many files and blocks are ok. This is also what I see -- fsck status (both clean) for root and /usr filesystems (split on this system; current usrmerge package applied). After that, nothing happens.

Bug#994741: regression tests: skipped vs failed

2021-09-23 Thread ian_bruce
On Tue, 21 Sep 2021 19:03:07 +0200 Mattia Rizzolo wrote: > concerning the ftbfs of 1.1. I know of it of course. Just that I've > been busy over the past month. I'm as weirded out by that test failure > as you, especially since I couldn't reproduce it anywhere else. Does that not suggest that the

Bug#994741: regression tests: skipped vs failed

2021-09-21 Thread ian_bruce
On Tue, 21 Sep 2021 18:57:41 +0300 Andrius Merkys wrote: > I cannot reproduce the failure myself on amd64. I tried building on a > machine without a display, and yet the test succeeds. I will try a > porterbox next. If the test succeeds, is the overall build then successful? Is that the cause of

Bug#994741: regression tests: skipped vs failed

2021-09-21 Thread ian_bruce
On Tue, 21 Sep 2021 12:33:07 +0300 Andrius Merkys wrote: > if(${CMAKE_SIZEOF_VOID_P} EQUAL 8) > set(RENDERING_TESTS_64bit > # .otf font with compressed SVG glyphs > # (test not stable on 32bit Windows) > text-gzipped-svg-glyph > ) > endif() > > Thus this test

Bug#994741: regression tests: skipped vs failed

2021-09-21 Thread ian_bruce
The Inkscape v1.1 build fails on amd64, because of a regression test called "text-gzipped-svg-glyph", which can be found here: https://sources.debian.org/src/inkscape/1.1-1/testfiles/rendering_tests/text-gzipped-svg-glyph.svg/ from the build log: Start 301: render_text-glyphs-vertic

Bug#994741: Inkscape v1.1 build failure

2021-09-20 Thread ian_bruce
This page provides a compact overview of the Inkscape v1.1 build failure: https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=inkscape&suite=experimental There is no obvious reason why one particular regression test should succeed on some architectures, but fail on others, so it seems likely that some

Bug#977345: enabling vector acceleration on non- x86/amd64 hardware

2021-01-17 Thread ian_bruce
> Use hardware-accelerated XXH3 computation on x86 architecture, and > install the hardware-accelerating header file. note that the upstream source code also includes vectorized algorithms for ARM NEON and POWER VSX CPUs: XXH_VECTOR : manually select a vector instruction set (default: aut

Bug#902606: closed by Debian FTP Masters (Bug#902606: fixed in man2html 1.6g-13)

2020-12-25 Thread ian_bruce
On Sun, 20 Dec 2020 20:21:05 + "Debian Bug Tracking System" wrote: > * Add the following patches: > + 037-man2html-Nm-and-Bk-mdoc.patch to ensure that .Nm mdoc macro > properly remembers command name, and .Bk ignores -word option > (closes: #902606); This still does not work proper

Bug#970420: python dependencies now uninstallable

2020-09-16 Thread ian_bruce
Matthias Klose wrote: > no, the python package is gone. It may be going, but it's not gone: # apt-show-versions -a python python:amd64 2.7.16-1 stable ftp.us.debian.org No stable-updates version No testing version python:amd64 2.7.17-2 unstable ftp.us.debian.org No ex

Bug#949444: bug #949444 : now affects Linux v4 kernels

2020-03-13 Thread ian_bruce
kmod : v 27-1 initramfs-tools : v 0.136 # apt-get install linux-image-4.19.0-8-amd64 ... depmod: ERROR: ../libkmod/libkmod.c:515 lookup_builtin_file() could not open builtin file '/lib/modules/4.19.0-8-amd64/modules.builtin.bin' depmod: ERROR: ../libkmod/libkmod.c:515 lookup_builtin_file() coul

Bug#953146: texlive-extra : bad version number

2020-03-08 Thread ian_bruce
It appears that an extra "0" has been inserted into the version number of packages derived from the "texlive-extra" source package: texlive-base 2019.20200302-1 texlive-extra-utils 2019.202000302-1 texlive-font-utils 2019.202000302-1 texlive-font

Bug#949444: confirm

2020-01-25 Thread ian_bruce
confirm. kmod: v 26+20191223-1 initramfs-tools: v 0.136 depmod: ERROR: ../libkmod/libkmod.c:515 lookup_builtin_file() could not open builtin file '/lib/modules/5.4.0-3-amd64/modules.builtin.bin' depmod: ERROR: ../libkmod/libkmod.c:515 lookup_builtin_file() could not open builtin file '/lib/mo

Bug#949211: bad opencv dependency

2020-01-22 Thread ian_bruce
It seems to be the dependency on OpenCV-3.2 that is the source of the problem. OpenCV-4.1 appears to be the current version in the "testing" archive. -- Ian Bruce

Bug#945824: depending on multiple interpreter versions is obviously a bug

2020-01-15 Thread ian_bruce
Package: python3-numpy Depends: python3 (<< 3.9), python3 (>= 3.7~), python3.7:any, python3.8:any, python3:any, libblas3 | libblas.so.3, libc6 (>= 2.29), liblapack3 | liblapack.so.3, python3-pkg-resources How can it possibly not be a bug that a single package depends on two diffe

Bug#922396: webext-noscript is now one year out-of-date

2019-09-04 Thread ian_bruce
It appears that the firefox-esr package is going to be upgraded to v68, which will not work with this badly-out-of-date version of noscript, probably the single most important browser extension available. The current version is 11.0.3 : https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/noscript/vers

Bug#932620: example program fails to link

2019-07-21 Thread ian_bruce
An example program, found here -- https://www.cryptopp.com/wiki/BLAKE2#Sample_Programs -- also fails to link. In contrast, the equivalent example program from here -- https://www.cryptopp.com/wiki/MD5 -- compiles, links, and runs without any problem. Apparently, the BLAKE2 object module is not

Bug#932620: bad package Makefile

2019-07-21 Thread ian_bruce
It appears that there may be a problem with the Makefile for this package. The "libcrypto___la_SOURCES" macro does not reference the "blake2.cpp" source file, although it ought to. https://sources.debian.org/src/libcrypto++/5.6.4-8/blake2.cpp/ https://sources.debian.org/src/libcrypto++/5.6.4-8/de

Bug#904988: /bin/su does not set $PATH

2018-08-02 Thread ian_bruce
wrote: > I thought I (or something) had hosed my system, but it turns out this > change is by design. That was exactly my reaction. I don't think that it's acceptable to have a major (unannounced) change in behaviour for an essential system utility like "/bin/su". some discussion here: https:/

Bug#888026: FreeCAD v0.17 release

2018-06-26 Thread ian_bruce
As mentioned above, FreeCAD v0.17 has been released, as of April 6th, 2018. https://freecadweb.org/wiki/Release_notes_0.17 Also, OpenCascade v7.3.0 has been packaged for Debian. https://packages.debian.org/source/experimental/opencascade Hopefully, this means that the Debian FreeCAD package can

Bug#881812: xul-ext-treestyletab: nine months out-of-date

2018-06-21 Thread ian_bruce
This package is now nine months out-of-date. When might we expect a version that actually works with current versions of Firefox? https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-style-tab/versions/2.0 Even the firefox-esr package will soon require a newer version: https://packages.debian.or

Bug#883917: closed by Osamu Aoki (Bug#883917: fixed in im-config 0.33-1)

2017-12-25 Thread ian_bruce
On Sat, 23 Dec 2017 13:39:06 + "Debian Bug Tracking System" wrote: > #883917: im-config: doesn't offer UIM as an option > > It has been closed by Osamu Aoki . Now im-config offers both ibus and uim as input methods, but neither of them actually work, even though they are both installed. Tha

Bug#884097: lightdm-gtk-greeter: default panel options have disappeared

2017-12-25 Thread ian_bruce
It appears that the default panel layout has changed between lightdm-gtk-greeter versions and , although this is not mentioned in the changelog. Specifically, the language selector, session/environment selector, accessibility options, and reboot/poweroff menu have all disappeared. The default now

Bug#765077: language selection still broken, after all these years

2017-12-07 Thread ian_bruce
I don't understand why this bug is marked "unreproducible". I find it extremely reproducible, in that language selection ABSOLUTELY NEVER WORKS. quoting : > $LANG and $LANGUAGE are completely untouched by lightdm. > ~/.dmrc is always written with correct settings on login That is just exactly wh

Bug#857631: bug #857631 : why isn't this fixed?

2017-05-07 Thread ian_bruce
Antonio Ospite wrote: > I saw that 4.0-5 has been uploaded without this fix, > is this fix going to be in 4.0.1? It appears that the answer to this question is "no": $ clang-4.0 --version clang version 4.0.1-+rc1-1 (tags/RELEASE_401/rc1) Target: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu Thread model:

Bug#857394: Debian Policy violation -- libgegl-dev contains duplicate copy of openCL library files

2017-04-14 Thread ian_bruce
On Thu, 13 Apr 2017 01:25:29 -0700 wrote: >> I'm not going to try a 'merge-on-the-fly' on headers to save a bunch >> of kilobytes. Sorry. > > Saving a bunch of kilobytes is really not the issue, as I suggested > when I said "isn't that a Policy violation?". I was right -- it IS a Debian Policy

Bug#857394: libgegl-dev: contains duplicate copy of openCL library files

2017-04-13 Thread ian_bruce
On Wed, 12 Apr 2017 23:51:03 +0200 "Matteo F. Vescovi" wrote: >> /usr/include/gegl-0.3/opencl/gegl-cl-color.h >> /usr/include/gegl-0.3/opencl/gegl-cl.h >> /usr/include/gegl-0.3/opencl/gegl-cl-init.h >> /usr/include/gegl-0.3/opencl/gegl-cl-random.h >> /usr/include/gegl-0.3/opencl/gegl-cl-types.h

Bug#848258: Blender: libclc version needs to be updated

2017-03-18 Thread ian_bruce
It turns out that the "implicit declaration of function {lgamma,native_tan} is invalid in C99" compiler warning results from using an insufficiently up-to-date version of libclc, and would turn into a linker error, if other problems did not prevent the compilation from progressing that far. See her

Bug#848258: two known issues; patches are available

2017-03-13 Thread ian_bruce
It turns out that the "invalid argument type 'X *' to unary expression" compiler error is the result of a known bug in LLVM. See here for details: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=857623 The "unsupported call to function get_local_size" compiler error is the result of a known bug

Bug#848258: openCL / Blender problems: solutions now available

2017-03-12 Thread ian_bruce
the openCL component of this problem is addressed here: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=99856#c24 related Debian bug report: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=857591 the unrelated Blender bugs are being discussed here: https://developer.blender.org/T50522 Hopefull

Bug#848258: openCL errors: patch available upstream

2017-03-10 Thread ian_bruce
On Fri, 10 Mar 2017 10:47:37 +0900 Michel Dänzer wrote: >> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=99856#c24 > > That's a different issue from the one this bug report is about. It > would have to be reported against the libclc-amdgcn package. That's a bug report (now with patch) filed agai

Bug#848258: openCL errors: patch available upstream

2017-03-09 Thread ian_bruce
wrote: > You should get in touch with Mesa upstream developers about these > issues. Your Debian bug reports are mostly creating additional > overhead for the Debian package maintainers, for little gain towards > your goal of using Blender with OpenCL. quote from Mesa upstream bug report: >> th

Bug#855871: non-metadata RAID arrays are limited to 27 component devices

2017-02-23 Thread ian_bruce
It appears that the 27-component-device limit is specific to non-metadata arrays ("mdadm --build"). More research: When the RAID assembly fails -- # mdadm --build /dev/md/md-test --level=linear --raid-devices=28 /dev/loop{0..27} mdadm: ADD_NEW_DISK failed for /dev/loop27: Device or resource bus

Bug#846382: display artifacts in Blender

2016-12-07 Thread ian_bruce
I confirm this bug. It's extremely easy to reproduce; simply moving the mouse pointer across any of the controls is sufficient to trigger flickering and display corruption. This program is currently unusable. I, too, have Mesa v13 installed. Whatever the cause of the problem is, it's of very recen

Bug#694879: Blender + OpenCOLLADA FTBFS

2016-08-06 Thread ian_bruce
On Thu, 4 Aug 2016 04:08:30 -0700 wrote: > If removing the illegal UTF-8 and Windows-1252 characters doesn't fix > the problem, then try this: > > > --- opencollada/COLLADAFramework/COLLADAFWPrerequisites.h.orig > 2014-07-03 09:30:54.0 -0700 > +++ opencollada/COLLADAFramework/CO

Bug#694879: Blender + OpenCOLLADA FTBFS

2016-08-04 Thread ian_bruce
If removing the illegal UTF-8 and Windows-1252 characters doesn't fix the problem, then try this: --- opencollada/COLLADAFramework/COLLADAFWPrerequisites.h.orig 2014-07-03 09:30:54.0 -0700 +++ opencollada/COLLADAFramework/COLLADAFWPrerequisites.h 2016-08-04 03:42:44.765860036 -07

Bug#694879: Blender still missing Collada support, one year after opencollada was packaged

2016-08-04 Thread ian_bruce
On Tue, 2 Aug 2016 14:49:26 +0200 "Matteo F. Vescovi" wrote: >> Is there any remaining reason why the Blender package should not be >> linked against it? Blender is supposed to have built-in support for >> Collada. > Simple, it fails: I didn't know that; it hasn't previously been mentioned in t

Bug#694879: Blender still missing Collada support, one year after opencollada was packaged

2016-07-30 Thread ian_bruce
It has now been over a year since the opencollada-dev package became available in the Debian archive. https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=694932 https://packages.debian.org/stretch/opencollada-dev Is there any remaining reason why the Blender package should not be linked against it

Bug#827104: [Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#827104: Recommends: obsolete package xfce4-volumed

2016-06-13 Thread ian_bruce
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=827104 On Sun, 12 Jun 2016 17:30:19 +0200 Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: Please remove this false dependency. >>> >>> It's not a false dependency, it's just that the package has been >>> removed and the dependency line not updated. >> >> If a d

Bug#827104: [Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#827104: Recommends: obsolete package xfce4-volumed

2016-06-12 Thread ian_bruce
On Sun, 12 Jun 2016 12:45:23 +0200 Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: >> xfce4-volumed doesn't seem to exist in Xfce 4.12, but the >> xfce4-settings package still recommends it. > > Indeed. This situation is perfectly proper and correct, in your opinion? >> This is especially bad, because xfce4-volumed

Bug#780754: README.html screenshot

2015-03-18 Thread ian_bruce
> See attached screenshot.

Bug#779544: phppgadmin: apache config needs "mod_dir" enabled

2015-03-02 Thread ian_bruce
On Mon, 02 Mar 2015 11:24:18 + Jean-Michel Nirgal Vourgère wrote: > Do you know how you came to have that module disabled? Do you remember > if you disabled it as an admin? I can't imagine why I would have done so. > Can you check for apache related package you installed that would > disabl

Bug#763412: libjpeg-dev reinstalls over itself

2014-09-29 Thread ian_bruce
Package: libjpeg-dev Version: 1:1.3.1-3 Surely there is something wrong with this. This can be repeated indefinitely; there's something wrong with the version checking. It would be nice if somebody would fix reportbug, so we could use that again. https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bu

Bug#660163: three versions, and three and a half years, out of date

2014-09-26 Thread ian_bruce
PoDoFo 0.9.3 has been released. http://podofo.sourceforge.net/download.html Version 0.9.0 is the latest available in the Debian archive. This is now three versions, and three and a half years, out of date. Please upgrade to the current release. -- Ian Bruce -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debia

Bug#725107: this bug was previously reported, and wrongly closed

2014-05-29 Thread ian_bruce
This is the same problem I previously reported under bug #715314 : https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=715314#35 That bug should not have been closed, because the "fix" is worse than the problem it was supposed to cure; the program is now much less useful than the previous version i

Bug#724931: Please include the patch in git

2013-10-13 Thread ian_bruce
I'm not done with this yet. I'm working on a more general patch with new features, which will be forthcoming shortly. I would ask that nothing major be done until that is ready. The current version is certainly ready for testing, although Andreas already seems to have done so extensively. On Sat

Bug#724931: PATCH: improved(2) ISO loopmount option

2013-10-06 Thread ian_bruce
(I see that Andreas has recently posted a set of patches. The patches I have attached below are not based on that work, although they address some of the same problems. At the end of this message, are some comments about how our alternative solutions might be combined.) On Fri, 4 Oct 2013 06:02:4

Bug#724931: PATCH: improved ISO loopmount option

2013-10-04 Thread ian_bruce
On Fri, 04 Oct 2013 12:45:24 +0200 Andreas Cadhalpun wrote: > Sadly it only "seems" to work well, but in fact, your previous (and I > assume also this) patch break apt-setup trying to add the CD to > /etc/sources.list. I am currently working on this problem and hope to > finish this soon. I'm so

Bug#724931: PATCH: improved ISO loopmount option

2013-10-04 Thread ian_bruce
This is an improved version of the patch I originally posted to this bug report. It applies mainly to the "cdrom-detect" udeb, although I suggest that the ISO volume label (such as "Debian 7.1.0 M-A 1") be included somewhere in the initrd; currently it does not appear to be. As I said previously, a

Bug#724931: Fw: PATCH: specify pathname for ISO loop-mount

2013-09-30 Thread ian_bruce
This message describes the motivation for the "debian-iso-loopmount.diff" patch, which is reproduced above. It was originally posted here: http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2013/09/msg00509.html Begin forwarded message: Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2013 03:08:48 -0700 From: To: debian-b...@lists.debian

Bug#724931: Patch works great

2013-09-30 Thread ian_bruce
On Mon, 30 Sep 2013 21:54:15 +0200 Andreas Cadhalpun wrote: > I have applied your patch to the debian-testing-amd64-netinst.iso and > also included the loop.ko. This increased the size from 230.7 MB to > 232.3 MB, i.e. by 0.7 %. This must be because of differences in compression, or something el

Bug#724931: loop-mounted ISO images

2013-09-30 Thread ian_bruce
On Mon, 30 Sep 2013 13:10:01 +0200 Andreas Cadhalpun wrote: > wrote: > >> iso-scan is part of the Debian installer. >> >> However, it is only included in the hd-media initrd. There is no >> reason to include it on the regular CD initrd, because isohybrid >> allows mounting the USB stick directly

Bug#715314: apt-show-versions now completely nonfunctional

2013-09-11 Thread ian_bruce
On Wed, 11 Sep 2013 13:14:24 +0200 Christoph Martin wrote: >> apt-show-versions now knows absolutely nothing about any package that >> isn't already installed: >> >> # apt-show-versions -a mplayer >> mplayer not installed (available for: amd64) > > This is weird. You did not say on wh

Bug#715314: apt-show-versions now completely nonfunctional

2013-09-10 Thread ian_bruce
apt-show-versions now knows absolutely nothing about any package that isn't already installed: # apt-show-versions -a mplayer mplayer not installed (available for: amd64) It doesn't even know its own version, which is not very encouraging: # apt-show-versions -h Apt-Show-Versions

Bug#721360: blockdev-wipe can be very slow

2013-09-10 Thread ian_bruce
wrote: > I have to wonder why this is so slow. We should be able to write > about 100 MB/s sequentially to a recent HD, so 750 GB would take > about 2 hours and not 36 hours. I chose an encrypted swap volume, of size 16GB. The Debian installer took close to an hour to wipe this. This result is

Bug#660163: two years and four months out of date

2013-09-01 Thread ian_bruce
Now two years and four months out of date. I must point out that this is a dependency of scribus, surely an important package, which does seem to get updated, so it's not irrelevant. If there have been no major changes in the last two releases, then it should be easy to package. If there HAVE bee

Bug#684128: so long, and thanks for all the fish

2013-04-04 Thread ian_bruce
On Thu, 04 Apr 2013 16:45:26 -0300 Ben Armstrong wrote: > the long and sordid tale of your bid to get attention for this bug That's right; I wrote it up in detail, provided patches when asked to do so, provided test scripts to demonstrate the correctness of those patches, answered every question

Bug#684128: failure to communicate

2013-04-04 Thread ian_bruce
On Thu, 4 Apr 2013 19:09:04 +0200 Christian PERRIER wrote: > This mail is a very good argument to confirm that overcomplicated > methods to make your point will just fail. > > If you have a point to make it, make ti. Once. With facts. I supplied plenty of facts. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/

Bug#684128: so long, and thanks for all the fish

2013-04-04 Thread ian_bruce
On Thu, 04 Apr 2013 12:45:55 -0300 Ben Armstrong wrote: > Just take care in future that the style of communications you used > triggered someone's "wetware spam filter" with a false positive. I initially wrote up a detailed bug report, and then when somebody suggested that the problem would get

Bug#684128: down the memory hole

2013-04-04 Thread ian_bruce
It seems that Historical Revisionism, of the bad kind, is now in operation at Debian, in that critical commentary about unapplied patches is made to disappear down the memory hole, without leaving so much as a trace on the relevant bug report. If it were thought that the criticism was unfair, or i

Bug#684128: "When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said...

2013-04-02 Thread ian_bruce
"When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, "it means just what I choose it to mean -- neither more nor less." "The question is," said Alice, "whether you can make words mean so many different things." "The question is," said Humpty Dumpty, "which is to be master -- that's

Bug#704198: VFAT header from USB flashdrive partition

2013-03-29 Thread ian_bruce
$ dd if=/dev/sde1 bs=512 count=32 | gzip >usb-flash-partition-vfat.gz 32+0 records in 32+0 records out 16384 bytes (16 kB) copied, 0.000119295 s, 137 MB/s usb-flash-partition-vfat.gz Description: GNU Zip compressed data

Bug#687009: archivemount: package description contains unicode quote characters

2012-09-09 Thread ian_bruce
On Sun, 9 Sep 2012 06:13:04 -0700 wrote: > Thanks for pointing that out; I had assumed that they were supposed to > be Latin-1 or something like that. > > Even so, using Unicode quote marks seems to be overkill, when an ASCII > quote mark (0x22) would do just as well. I probably wouldn't have e

Bug#687009: archivemount: package description contains unicode quote characters

2012-09-09 Thread ian_bruce
On Sat, 8 Sep 2012 18:20:38 +0300 Nanakos Chrysostomos wrote: > would it be better if there were single quotation marks (1 byte)? The > Debian Policy, section 5.1 dictates that control files should be UTF8 > encoded. Thanks for pointing that out; I had assumed that they were supposed to be Latin

Bug#673314: flightgear: please upgrade to v2.8.0

2012-08-22 Thread ian_bruce
In case you don't already know, FlightGear v2.8.0 has been released, as of August 17, 2012. http://www.flightgear.org/news/flightgear-v2-8-0-released/ Presumably it would make sense to cease packaging work on v2.6.0, and concentrate on the newer version instead. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to deb

Bug#666783: ST290 USB device information

2012-08-21 Thread ian_bruce
This is the information reported by my ST290 joystick, in case it is helpful. *** # lsusb -v -d 06a3:0460 Bus 002 Device 003: ID 06a3:0460 Saitek PLC ST290 Pro Flight Stick Device Descriptor: bLength18 bDescriptorType 1 bcdUSB 2.00 bDeviceClass

Bug#684128: PATCH: choice of binary or decimal disk storage units is runtime-configurable

2012-08-13 Thread ian_bruce
On Thu, 9 Aug 2012 13:53:30 +0200 Christian PERRIER wrote: > I'd like to get other D-I people advice about including these changes > *now* as thereis always a risk of regressions which, at this point of > the release, we would like to avoid. That's an important consideration. I offer the followi

Bug#684128: PATCH: choice of binary or decimal disk storage units is runtime-configurable

2012-08-10 Thread ian_bruce
On Thu, 9 Aug 2012 13:53:30 +0200 Christian PERRIER wrote: > Thanks for your care providing a patch. Even if I don't give a great > importance to this issue, some people seem to (including you) so > there's no reason to not consider your patch. Thanks for taking seriously, the fact that /other/

Bug#684128: PATCH: choice of binary or decimal disk storage units is runtime-configurable

2012-08-10 Thread ian_bruce
On Thu, 9 Aug 2012 17:33:04 +0200 "Didier 'OdyX' Raboud" wrote: >> By defining a single environment variable, the new code can be >> configured to use the binary, rather than decimal, values of the >> suffixes {K, M, G, T} for both input and output, while retaining the >> above features. > > To

Bug#684128: PATCH: choice of binary or decimal disk storage units is runtime-configurable

2012-08-10 Thread ian_bruce
On Thu, 9 Aug 2012 10:59:20 -0400 Joey Hess wrote: > I hate to bring this news, but this cannot be used in the installer, > because shell arrays are a bashism, and the installer uses busybox sh. Thanks for pointing that out. It seems that shell arrays are more of a ksh-ism; see the manual page f

Bug#684128: PATCH: choice of binary or decimal disk storage units is runtime-configurable

2012-08-09 Thread ian_bruce
wrote: > I don't think anyone is trying to avoid a proper resolution of this > bug. So the people who care mostly (and know what a gibibyte is) > should start working on patches if they really want to get this fixed; > this work will not come magically out of the blue. See attached patch, and co

Bug#641749: package libmtp-runtime breaks AR3011 Bluetooth

2012-08-07 Thread ian_bruce
Andres Cimmarusti wrote: > I believe I have finally narrowed down the problem. It lies in the > 'libmtp-runtime' package with the command 'mtp-probe' (only present in > wheezy or newer). > > I'm not sure what this is doing to my system, but when the package > mentioned is installed, it "messes" u

Bug#684128: false advertising

2012-08-07 Thread ian_bruce
On Tue, 7 Aug 2012 14:11:05 +0200 Christian PERRIER wrote: >> So if the partitioner invites people to specify their swap space, or >> any other volume, in units of "gigabytes", which JUST ABOUT EVERYBODY >> understands to mean 2^30 in that context, and instead it uses the >> hard disk manufacture

Bug#684128: false advertising

2012-08-07 Thread ian_bruce
> Severity set to 'wishlist' from 'important' So if the partitioner invites people to specify their swap space, or any other volume, in units of "gigabytes", which JUST ABOUT EVERYBODY understands to mean 2^30 in that context, and instead it uses the hard disk manufacturers' phony units which are

Bug#679386: [Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#679386: Bug#679386: lightdm: Language selection is ignored in session, $LANG is system default

2012-07-23 Thread ian_bruce
On Mon, 23 Jul 2012 11:29:26 +0200 Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: >> Not just user-specific settings, but session-specific settings. > > Eh? The same user might want to work in different languages at various times. The natural place to specify this is when they log in, rather than with some inconven

Bug#679386: [Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#679386: Bug#679386: lightdm: Language selection is ignored in session, $LANG is system default

2012-07-23 Thread ian_bruce
On Mon, 23 Jul 2012 10:33:32 +0200 Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: >> One might ask why a Pluggable Authentication Module ought to be >> responsible for things which clearly have nothing to do with >> authentication, such as locale selection, especially when they are >> liable to change at every login.

Bug#679386: [Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#679386: lightdm: Language selection is ignored in session, $LANG is system default

2012-07-23 Thread ian_bruce
On Mon, 23 Jul 2012 07:59:32 +0200 Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: > It seems that this was done on purpose because, apparently, the data > should come from PAM. See upstream bug for more details. Presumably you mean here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/lightdm/+bug/1019314 I agree with your description

Bug#675016: ifupdown: don't use PPP updetach option by default

2012-05-29 Thread ian_bruce
On Tue, 29 May 2012 14:47:58 +0200 Andrew Shadura wrote: > I agree with many points of yours, but please explain how does it > break the boot sequence. Networking initscript allows ifup to fail as > far as I can see. How exactly does it break for you? "pppd persist maxfail 0 updetach" does not r

Bug#652660: 70-persistent-net.rules not generated

2012-02-18 Thread ian_bruce
I confirm this bug, and the fix proposed here: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=652660#25 Since this will break a lot of network configurations (it broke mine), and the fix is trivial, why is this not being urgently updated? This seems absurd. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debi

Bug#578019: closed by Gustavo Noronha Silva (Bug#578019: fixed in webkit 1.2.7-3)

2011-05-02 Thread ian_bruce
On Fri, 29 Apr 2011 12:36:10 + ow...@bugs.debian.org (Debian Bug Tracking System) wrote: > This is an automatic notification regarding your Bug report > which was filed against the libwebkit-1.0-2 package: > > #578019: libwebkit-1.0-2: makes DNS query for every mouse movement > > It has been

Bug#578019: libwebkit-1.0-2: makes DNS query for every mouse movement

2010-04-20 Thread ian_bruce
On Tue, 20 Apr 2010 10:12:16 -0300 Gustavo Noronha Silva wrote: > I can reproduce the problem with the HTML page you crafted. Seems > worth reporting upstream (I will do it later today). > For some reason WebKit thinks it should do the pre-resolution when the > mouse is moved on top of the blank

Bug#578019: libwebkit-1.0-2: makes DNS query for every mouse movement

2010-04-20 Thread ian_bruce
On Tue, 20 Apr 2010 10:12:16 -0300 Gustavo Noronha Silva wrote: > I can reproduce the problem with the HTML page you crafted. Seems > worth reporting upstream (I will do it later today). > For some reason WebKit thinks it should do the pre-resolution when the > mouse is moved on top of the blank

Bug#578019: libwebkit-1.0-2: makes DNS query for every mouse movement

2010-04-19 Thread ian_bruce
On Sun, 18 Apr 2010 10:08:23 -0400 Michael Gilbert wrote: > i suppose i am not able to reproduce it either. i see a modest amount > of dns queries when the page is first loaded, then more queries when > links are moused over. I have that too, the first time the mouse pointer touches a link to s

Bug#578019: libwebkit-1.0-2: makes DNS query for every mouse movement

2010-04-18 Thread ian_bruce
On Sun, 18 Apr 2010 09:53:26 +0200 Mike Hommey wrote: >> Does tcpdump show the DNS query for the webhost when a page gets >> loaded? > > Yes it does. Have you tried with another window manager ? xfwm4 (v4.6.1-1) and metacity (v1:2.28.0-3) exhibit exactly the same behavior. Are there any others

Bug#578019: libwebkit-1.0-2: makes DNS query for every mouse movement

2010-04-18 Thread ian_bruce
On Sun, 18 Apr 2010 08:41:30 +0200 Mike Hommey wrote: > I can't reproduce this behaviour... Are you sure these requests come > from epiphany ? Epiphany, or Midori. midori : version 0.2.4-2 epiphany-browser : version 2.30.2-1 libwebkit-1.0-2 : version 1.2.0-1 The correlation between moving th

Bug#578019: libwebkit-1.0-2: makes DNS query for every mouse movement

2010-04-17 Thread ian_bruce
On Sat, 17 Apr 2010 17:46:50 -0400 Michael Gilbert wrote: >> I have to say that I find this behaviour appalling. It seems to be a >> security issue all by itself, and is probably a symptom of even >> bigger problems. > > it may actually be undesirable, It may actually be completely illegitimate

Bug#431809: podofo packages available from scribus project

2009-12-09 Thread ian_bruce
The scribus project seems to have produced podofo packages for Debian (and Ubuntu). download here: http://debian.scribus.net/debian/dists/stable/main/ http://debian.scribus.net/debian/dists/testing/main/ http://debian.scribus.net/debian/dists/unstable/main/ A number of people seem to be interest

Bug#545274: dpkg-dev: dpkg-source cannot verify GPG signatures

2009-09-08 Thread ian_bruce
On Mon, 7 Sep 2009 08:45:58 +0200 Raphael Hertzog wrote: > Other idea, please paste the output of > "dpkg-vendor --query Vendor && echo $?". > > I guess that's more likely to be the problem... you have not upgraded > base-files to the unstable version. Install version 5.0.0 or newer and > try ag

Bug#545274: dpkg-dev: dpkg-source cannot verify GPG signatures

2009-09-06 Thread ian_bruce
On Sun, 6 Sep 2009 10:38:37 +0200 Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > $ dpkg-source --require-valid-signature -x psutils_1.17-27.dsc > > gpgv: keyblock resource `/home/ian/.gnupg/trustedkeys.gpg': general > > error > > gpgv: Signature made Wed 19 Aug 2009 04:21:54 PM PDT using DSA key ID > >

Bug#531052: claws-mail: Message-ID header does not conform to RFC-2822

2009-06-01 Thread ian_bruce
On Sun, 31 May 2009 23:16:04 +0200 Colin Leroy wrote: >> As Colin Leroy pointed out, there's already an option to set the >> domain name of the Message-ID, so most of the necessary code is >> already there. It just needs to be changed so that the default option >> is to use the email address inst

Bug#531052: claws-mail: Message-ID header does not conform to RFC-2822

2009-05-31 Thread ian_bruce
On Sat, 30 May 2009 12:04:54 +0200 Ricardo Mones wrote: >> Claws-Mail generates Message-ID headers of the form >> ; for example, >> <20090529055315.7f6ad...@foobar> . >> >> This does not conform to RFC-2822, which requires that the string >> after the "@" character be a fully-qualified domain n

Bug#503067: claws-mail: should depend on package libc-ares2

2008-10-22 Thread ian_bruce
Package: claws-mail Version: 3.5.0-2 Severity: important If this package is not installed, the program will not run because of a missing dynamic library. -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable') Arch

Bug#496283: nvidia-kernel-2.6.26-1-amd64 still broken

2008-08-25 Thread ian_bruce
There's still a problem. "nvidia-kernel-2.6.26-1-amd64" depends on "nvidia-kernel-common", which contains the header "Recommends: nvidia-kernel-source | nvidia-kernel". Apparently there is no package which "Provides: nvidia-kernel". Therefore, "nvidia-kernel-common" sucks in an extra 96MB of stuf

Bug#495049: don't scan floppy disks for LVM or RAID

2008-08-16 Thread ian_bruce
Bean wrote: > Just like raid, lvm needs to scan all device. I think this is caused > when it try to open (fd0), and fails. The grub_errno is not cleared, > it's carried out and cause the rescue shell. I think we can improve > the test of (fd0) so that it won't appear in machine that don' t have >

Bug#495049: why is (fd0) hard-coded into the grub image?

2008-08-15 Thread ian_bruce
On Fri, 15 Aug 2008 18:36:49 +0200 Felix Zielcke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -- why does adding an "fd0" entry to "device.map" not resolve this error? >> >> If (fd0) is an "unknown device", then why doesn't "(fd0) /dev/fd0" >> make it known? > > Because the file is called device.map > W

Bug#495049: why is (fd0) hard-coded into the grub image?

2008-08-15 Thread ian_bruce
On Fri, 15 Aug 2008 16:15:30 +0200 Felix Zielcke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I should point out that when grub drops into the rescue prompt, it >> coughs up the message "error: unknown device fd0". Perhaps this is >> why it goes into rescue mode? > > Thanks for telling us. I would have mention

Bug#495049: why is (fd0) hard-coded into the grub image?

2008-08-15 Thread ian_bruce
I should point out that when grub drops into the rescue prompt, it coughs up the message "error: unknown device fd0". Perhaps this is why it goes into rescue mode? My "device.map" file, as previously listed, does not contain an entry for "fd0", because the machine does not in fact have a floppy dr

Bug#495049: grub-pc: does not boot because module "normal" is not loaded

2008-08-14 Thread ian_bruce
On Thu, 14 Aug 2008 13:20:53 +0200 Felix Zielcke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > After running "grub-install" and rebooting, grub drops into the > > "grub rescue>" prompt. The "pc", "lvm", and "ext2" modules are loaded, > > "ls" finds the root volume, and the variable "root" is set > > appropriate

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