Bug#592719: This is grave.

2011-06-26 Thread Nathanael Nerode
This bug is grave (I've adjusted its severity accordingly). It breaks unrelated packages entirely. I have this problem too. The failure mode is quite cryptic. Killing udisks-daemon is the only way to fix it, though I have not tried the patch attached to #592719. Since this is grave, I suggest

Bug#457858: lirc-modules-source does not build, ever

2007-12-26 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Package: lirc-modules-source Version: 0.8.0-13 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable This has now been true for months. Please stop producing the lirc-modules-source package if you cannot make it compile properly. This bug IS grave. I'm sorry. -- System Information: Debian R

Bug#429249: lirc-modules-source: Badly documented, doesn't work

2007-06-16 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Package: lirc-modules-source Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable This package is pretty much completely worthless on etch. If I follow the instructions from dpkg-reconfigure-source, or the instructions in the README, it builds some modules (with the wrong extension -- .o inst

Bug#302964: ...and it's also fixed....

2007-04-11 Thread Nathanael Nerode
close 392964 0.99.33-1.3 thanks Luckily this bug was fixed in an NMU. This package could use a maintainer upload to wrap up all those fixed bugs though -- Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [Insert famous quote here] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subj

Bug#418508: libooc-vo: Please remove this package from unstable

2007-04-10 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Package: libooc-vo Severity: serious Justification: All of it This package has been unbuildable for over a year and uninstallable for some time as well. It also hasn't been updated since 2003. Users would be better served at this point to go directly upstream for sources. If and when you prepa

Bug#370186: kernel?

2007-03-16 Thread Nathanael Nerode
o the kernel or something) to deal with the remaining issue? -- Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "It's just a goddamned piece of paper." -- President Bush, referring to the US Constitution http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_7779.shtml -- To UNSUBSCR

Bug#370186: hal: HAL keeps CD drive spinning constantly

2007-03-16 Thread Nathanael Nerode
irm >that this fix is satisfactory? Yes, this is most satisfactory. With this documentation in place, I would have been able to implement the workaround in no time flat. :-) Thank you! -- Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [Insert famous quote here] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [E

Bug#370186: FINALLY got the workaround to work, after about 2 hours.

2007-01-20 Thread Nathanael Nerode
; As root, create a file /etc/hal/fdi/policy/dont-wake-drive.fdi containing the following text (replacing the string "HL-DT-STDVD-ROM GDR8162B" with the one for your drive): Then, as root, restart hal as follows: /etc/dbus-1/event.d/20hal force-reload

Bug#406966: utf8-migration-tool: Completely nonfunctional

2007-01-15 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Package: utf8-migration-tool Version: 0.5.1 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable command-line launch: --- File "/usr/bin/utf8migrationtool", line 85 w['Login'].newLocale .= match.group(3) ^ SyntaxError: invalid syntax - Launch from KDE

Bug#370186: gzipped systrace

2007-01-14 Thread Nathanael Nerode
OK, in the interests of space saving, I gzipped the logfile; it's at http://home.twcny.rr.com/nerode/hal.logfile.gz -- Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "(Instead, we front-load the flamewars and grudges in the interest of efficiency.)" --Steve Lanagasek, http://li

Bug#370186: Bug still grave

2007-01-14 Thread Nathanael Nerode
rade it, sorry. The best alternative if you can't fix the actual bug would be to provide an *easy* mechanism to *permanently* disable hald-addon-storage. If there was such a mechanism documented, then you could downgrade the bug. -- Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Theocracy

Bug#370186: FYI on the strace

2006-12-03 Thread Nathanael Nerode
32212 was hald-addon-storage, I think. -- Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [Insert famous quote here] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#388691: Georgia Tech failed to reply

2006-11-28 Thread Nathanael Nerode
I have gotten no relevant response from GTRC. Accordingly, I think this bug really is "serious". Perhaps someone else could try asking them the Three Questions. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#354622: Using Firefox as the app name without official branding

2006-10-17 Thread Nathanael Nerode
riginal function of trademarks are generally not DFSG-free, but are also unnecessary for trademark defense. This is just an FYI matter, as it is really quite off the main topic of the bug. -- Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> A thousand reasons. http://www.thousandreasons.org/ Li

Bug#390994: linux-2.6: e100 microcode: distributable with BSD license, but license not in Linux source

2006-10-04 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Package: linux-2.6 Severity: serious Justification: copyright OK. So the e100 microcode situation isn't as bad as we expected -- thanks entirely to OpenBSD. I'm opening this bug to track this issue because I expect it will be resolved relatively quickly, and because the 'big bug' is getting to

Bug#368559: Current status

2006-10-02 Thread Nathanael Nerode
FYI, the involved files are: SGI Free Software License B: glcore.h glxmd.h glxproto.h glxtokens.h GLX Public License: glxint.h Those five header files are the only ones in x11proto-gl which have the problem licenses. -- Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [Insert famous quot

Bug#368562: mesa: material under GLX Public License and SGI Free Software License B is not DFSG-free

2006-10-02 Thread Nathanael Nerode
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Steve Langasek wrote: > Hi Henning, Nathanael, > > I'm working on an NMU of mesa this weekend, and was going to take care of > bug #368562 ("debian/copyright does not contain all licenses") even though I > obviously can't take care of bug #368560 conc

Bug#368564: Bug status report

2006-10-02 Thread Nathanael Nerode
/ -- Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Bush admitted to violating FISA and said he was proud of it. So why isn't he in prison yet?... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#383403: Vicam driver appears to contain misappropriated code

2006-09-25 Thread Nathanael Nerode
ually likely to be sued over: the company clearly didn't authorize this use. -- Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> A thousand reasons. http://www.thousandreasons.org/ Lies, theft, war, kidnapping, torture, rape, murder... Get me out of this fascist nightmare! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Bug#387783: Tricky business.

2006-09-18 Thread Nathanael Nerode
ing a lawyer. -- Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Theocracy, fascism, or absolute monarchy -- I don't care which it is, I don't like it. pgptGfdIOdQ5u.pgp Description: PGP signature

Bug#379518: Partial fix

2006-09-09 Thread Nathanael Nerode
or directory This third failure mode can be worked around by creating the appropriate device nodes. That is obviously extremely suboptimal, so I wouldn't close the bug just yet. -- Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Bush admitted to violating FISA and said he was proud o

Bug#379518: Damnit, this is breaking even worse

2006-09-08 Thread Nathanael Nerode
severity 379518 critical thanks Now even the ignore-table option doesn't work. This makes it *impossible* to run lilo. Raising to critical. Since I have already upgraded the kernel, I cannot reboot the system until you fix this bug. (Well, actually, I can install the lilo from sarge, but you k

Bug#379518: New failure mode:

2006-09-08 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Here's the new failure mode. Which is obviously NONSENSE. Warning: '/proc/partitions' does not match '/dev' directory structure. Name change: '/dev/sda4' -> '/dev/sda4' part_nowrite check:: No such file or directory -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscri

Bug#385115: Sorry, no more RC bugs for non-free data in main (was: Bug#385115: chromium-data: Unclear license for some files)

2006-08-30 Thread Nathanael Nerode
ing. If upstream screwed up once, they're likely to have screwed up repeatedly in the same way. (This seems to be the case with legal issues, anyway.) -- Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Read it and weep. http://rawstory.com/news/2005/Text_of_Gore_speech_0116.html pgpaQ0WqnymTv.pgp Description: PGP signature

Bug#384544: mmx-emu: Copyright file doesn't list copyright holders

2006-08-24 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Package: mmx-emu Severity: serious Justification: Policy Simple enough to fix, but I think nobody really cares about this package. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#384514: ghc6: FTBFS on alpha

2006-08-24 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Package: ghc6 Version: 6.4.2-2 Severity: serious Justification: no longer builds from source http://buildd.debian.org/fetch.php?&pkg=ghc6&ver=6.4.2-2&arch=alpha&stamp=1151843053&file=log&as=raw Not that I care personally, but it's keeping most haskell packages from updating in etch, so you might

Bug#380520: Reassign this to hald

2006-08-22 Thread Nathanael Nerode
reassign 380520 hald thanks I believe that acpid has the prior claim on /proc/acpi/events. Furthermore, if acpid starts first, hald runs. But if hald starts first, acpid doesn't run. This means that *hal* is breaking *acpid*, not vice versa. So, hal's bug. -- Nathanael Nerod

Bug#379518: lilo: too clever for its own good

2006-07-23 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Package: lilo Version: 1:22.6.1-7+b1 Severity: grave Justification: breaks all kernel upgrades On upgrade, I find that running lilo gives me this: Fatal: '/dev/sdb' is not a whole disk device If I remove the "disk=/dev/sdb inaccessible" line from my lilo.conf and rerun lilo, I instead get: Can

Bug#370186: Syslog trace from hal

2006-07-01 Thread Nathanael Nerode
]: 21:11:23.621 [I] hald_dbus.c:3183: unregistered And sometime shortly *after* that, the drive spins down. -- Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> A thousand reasons. http://www.thousandreasons.org/ Lies, theft, war, kidnapping, torture, rape, murder... Get me out of this fascist nightmar

Bug#370186: HAL keeps CD drive spinning constantly

2006-07-01 Thread Nathanael Nerode
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sjoerd Simons wrote: > On Tue, Jun 20, 2006 at 01:45:36PM -0400, Nathanael Nerode wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> Steve Langasek wrote: >>> On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 11:23:02PM +02

Bug#370186: HAL keeps CD drive spinning constantly

2006-06-20 Thread Nathanael Nerode
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Steve Langasek wrote: > On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 11:23:02PM +0200, Sjoerd Simons wrote: >> On Mon, Jun 05, 2006 at 12:29:55PM -0400, Daniel Schepler wrote: >>> I can confirm that this happens on my laptop as well; when a CD is in the >>> drive, I can h

Bug#328200: ntp licensing status: looking pretty good

2006-06-06 Thread Nathanael Nerode
nse. Hopefully the authors of these can be found and will be happy to license the files. That's it; every other file has been mentioned previously by either Bdale or Andres. (4) There are some substantial updates needed to debian/copyright. I'd be happy to do this once (1), (2),

Bug#370295: "Clarifications" for licenses.

2006-06-05 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Why are these clarifications not sufficient when we regularly accept clarifications of this nature from other copyright holders? Such clarifications should be placed in the debian/copyright file. Preferably a copy of the email containing the clarifications, at least including the identity of

Bug#370186: hal: HAL keeps CD drive spinning constantly

2006-06-03 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Package: hal Version: 0.5.7-1 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable This damages hardware. Hence the 'grave' severity. The only fix I have found for this is to uninstall HAL. su-- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, '

Bug#368565: mesa-utils: Copyright file appears to be almost entirely wrong

2006-05-22 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Package: mesa-utils Severity: serious Justification: Policy 2.3 Looking at the actual files, they are mostly Copyright (C) 1999-2001 Brian Paul All Rights Reserved. (Some have fewer years; that's the union of the years.) One of these (opencloseopen.c) is additionally * (C) Copyright IBM Cor

Bug#368563: xorg-server: debian/copyright missing SGI Free Software License B

2006-05-22 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Package: xorg-server Severity: serious Justification: Policy 2.3 Do a search for "/FreeB". The source package contains a bunch of code under this license, but the license is not in the debian/copyright file. (Indeed, it's not even in the package -- the license header points to a URL, and you ha

Bug#368562: mesa: debian/copyright does not contain all licenses

2006-05-22 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Package: mesa Severity: serious Justification: Policy 2.3 The copyright file mentions that certain parts of the package are under the "FreeB" license. Checking, indeed certain files are. It does not mention that one file is under the "GLX Public License". Neither license is in the copyright fil

Bug#368558: x11proto-gl: debian/copyright does not contain actual licenses

2006-05-22 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Package: x11proto-gl-dev Severity: serious Justification: Policy 2.3 The copyright file contains a copy of the license notices from the top of the header files. So far so good. HOWEVER, those notices do not contain the actual licenses. They merely refer to them by reference: http://oss.sgi.com

Bug#350088: Forcibly orphaning mhash?

2006-05-09 Thread Nathanael Nerode
As discussed in this bug, mhash's maintainer appears to be MIA or out to lunch. Is it OK if we forcibly orphan the package now? -- Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "It's just a goddamned piece of paper." -- President Bush, referring to the US Constitution http

Bug#211765: Where have these files gone?

2006-05-06 Thread Nathanael Nerode
, but I'll do it if that's the only way. I also suspect that most of the files have gone to a small number of packages, and that a fair number of them may have disappeared (the Imakefiles). -- Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Theocracy, fascism, or absolute monarchy -- I d

Bug#212522: Ridiculous pedantry vs. ignorance of the law

2006-04-01 Thread Nathanael Nerode
. So just go do that, OK? Words fail me sometimes. I ask some upstream maintainers to fix a serious licensing mistake, and they fix it. I ask most upstream maintainers to fix a licensing mistake, and they respond "I don't see a problem, and I'm not going to look into the topic, let al

Bug#212522: Time to remove the GDB manual

2006-03-30 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > On Sun, Mar 26, 2006 at 02:39:50PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > >>Hi Dan, >> >>On Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 09:48:58AM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: >> >>>On Sun, Mar 12, 2006 at 06:26:15PM -0500, Nathanael Nerode wrote: >&g

Bug#207932: To be fixed, truce, peace

2006-03-15 Thread Nathanael Nerode
> Shall we make a truce, a peace even, and move on? Yes, totally, of course, thanks, and sorry. > -- > Jérôme Marant

Bug#212522: Time to remove the GDB manual

2006-03-12 Thread Nathanael Nerode
There has been absolutely no progress. It's March. The manual still contains invariant sections upstream and in Debian. Documentation with invariant sections was reaffirmed as non-free in the most recent GR. Time to remove the manual. -- Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> &

Bug#348529: OK, found the bug here.

2006-02-09 Thread Nathanael Nerode
please explain what broke to this bug trail and someone will explain how to fix it. :-) -- Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Read it and weep. http://rawstory.com/news/2005/Text_of_Gore_speech_0116.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubs

Bug#320876: Can't be fixed by binNMU

2006-02-09 Thread Nathanael Nerode
reopen 321551 reopen 320876 retitle 320876 uninstallable due to aalib transition severity 320876 grave thanks The package FTBFS (see 348529, and possibly also 320992), so these can't be fixed by binNMUs. :-P -- Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [Insert famous quote her

Bug#207932: Time to fix this bug.

2006-02-08 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Jérôme Marant wrote: > Quoting Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > >>Jérôme Marant wrote: >> >>>Sooner or later, Debian will have to decide if it definitely wants to >>>leave the project in the hands of extremists. I hope the GR will lead &g

Bug#207932: Time to fix this bug.

2006-02-06 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Jérôme Marant wrote: > Sooner or later, Debian will have to decide if it definitely wants to > leave the project in the hands of extremists. I hope the GR will lead > us to the right path, that is getting rid of fundamentalists. If Debian goes down your "we don't give a damn about freedom" path,

Bug#351319: [EMAIL PROTECTED] classic is dead, so wmufo is unusable

2006-02-03 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Package: wmufo Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable This is to keep the package out of testing until the ftpmasters process the removal bug (reassigned from the WNPP bug). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL P

Bug#351317: [EMAIL PROTECTED] switched to BOINC, so wmsetimon doesn't work

2006-02-03 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Package: wmsetimon Version: 0.5-3 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable wmsetimon can only monitor [EMAIL PROTECTED] Classic processes, and the [EMAIL PROTECTED] classic project is now officially dead. So it's unusable. Wmsetimon should probably be removed from Debian. Alter

Bug#207932: Time to fix this bug.

2006-02-01 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Romain Francoise wrote: > Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >>Please remove these from 'main' ASAP. > > > Don't: > > http://www.debian.org/vote/2006/vote_001> > That's not directly relevant, since it's

Bug#207932: Time to fix this bug.

2006-02-01 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Jérôme Marant wrote: > Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >>>And for whatever it's worth, as long as I'm maintaining the packages, >>>these files will almost certainly not be removed unless there's some >>>overwhelmingly con

Bug#329104: Only half fixed, sorry

2006-01-23 Thread Nathanael Nerode
ncy >from libmagick6-dev to libmagick9-dev -- Nathanael Nerode Doom! Doom! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#276962: Bug ping....

2006-01-23 Thread Nathanael Nerode
You said you might be able to upload harbour 0.45 in October. Any chance it's going to happen soon, or should harbour be removed from 'etch' for now? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#348529: This affects *all* architectures

2006-01-23 Thread Nathanael Nerode
FYI, this affects *all* architectures. It's probably caused by bug 320992. Unfortunately, solving it is somewhat beyond me at the moment. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#207932: Time to fix this bug.

2006-01-23 Thread Nathanael Nerode
The repeatedly-confirmed GRs, the current Social Contract, debian-legal consensus, and the stated opinion of the etch release team, are that everything in 'main', with the special exception of license texts which constitute the licenses to works in 'main', has to satisfy the DFSG. The DFSG re

Bug#340049: Pending for two months, is this really happening?

2006-01-23 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Is a new upload of antlr coming soon? It's been "pending" for two months. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#281639: Good news on the sed docs

2006-01-12 Thread Nathanael Nerode
>the boilerplate stuff? > >Paolo (The answer was that I couldn't find one, but I suggested some boilerplate to him.) (Ken Pizzini) >> You're still willing to license them under the GPL too though? > >Yes. > > --Ken Pizzini So, one RC bug nearly done.

Bug#346028: works (with lilo) in 2.6.15-1

2006-01-07 Thread Nathanael Nerode
close 346028 thanks I retested this (a tedious process to say the least) and 2.6.15-1 appears to purge cleanly now. I'm using lilo, so I haven't tested it with hook scripts present. Closing this. -- Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "(Instead, we front-load the fla

Bug#266407: Regarding the reference manual for alcovebook

2006-01-07 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Frank Litchenheld wrote: > the reference manual license is stated as for the generated material > only and is by the maintainer himself. I would suggest to just declare > GPL instead like the source code (I don't know if re-licensing the > generated material under GFDL is even legal, but tha

Bug#200003: Any progress?

2006-01-07 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Matthias Klose wrote: >anyway, I'll wait until Debian's position on the GFDL is documented >somewhere and then address all these together. It's pretty well documented by now. So is it time? :-P I'm sorry I haven't had the time or mental focus to write replacement manpages, but the {cpp, gcc, g++

Bug#326466: Is mesa actually maintained?

2006-01-06 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Hello! This is one of 5 RC bugs, apparently with no maintainer response. Apparently the list which is listed as the maintainer is rejecting messages (336752), which probably contributes to the problem. Hence the Cc: to debian-devel. This bug is trivial to fix, and because it prevents mesa fr

Bug#331573: Solution is obvious

2006-01-06 Thread Nathanael Nerode
> However the following packages replace it: > xlibmesa-gl-dev libglu1-xorg-dev Change the Build-Deps to: xlibmesa-gl-dev | libgl-dev If you actually need libglu (I doubt it, but you can test in pbuilder), then change them to xlibmesa-gl-dev | libgl-dev, libglu1-xorg-dev | libglu-dev You don'

Bug#346217: clisp: FTBFS on ia64

2006-01-06 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Package: clisp Version: 1:2.36-2 Severity: serious Justification: no longer builds from source Log is at http://buildd.debian.org/fetch.php?&pkg=clisp&ver=1%3A2.36-2&arch=ia64&stamp=1136422835&file=log&as=raw ... make[1]: Leaving directory `/build/buildd/clisp-2.36/debian/build/callback' make[1]

Bug#281639: Would you consider dual-licensing the sed docs?

2006-01-06 Thread Nathanael Nerode
n it should), and it would be nice if we could keep the sed docs in Debian main. Sincerely, Nathanael Nerode -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#346028: moreinfo

2006-01-06 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Also, could you please give us the output of ls -lR /etc/kernel "No such file or directory". -- Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This space intentionally left blank. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#345868: Policy should require _pic libraries for static-only libraries

2006-01-06 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Gerrit Pape wrote: > Nothing forces a maintainer to provide a _pic.a library, original > upstream says that this is not what the library is intended for. Checked djb's website; he says absolutely nothing about _pic.a libraries. There is no claim there that "that is not what the library is intended

Bug#339396: Are you still maintaining xalan?

2006-01-05 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Please reply to the bug trail. If you're not maintaining xalan, I'll be happy to orphan it for you. If you are, this bug *needs* to be addressed, because it will render xalan uninstallable very soon. -- Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [Insert famous quote here] --

Bug#332832: Please note...

2006-01-05 Thread Nathanael Nerode
This is a library package, so it needs a rename. -- Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Make sure your vote will count. http://www.verifiedvoting.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#346172: Package needs rename for C++ transition!

2006-01-05 Thread Nathanael Nerode
but it can and will break packages outside Debian. It would be best to use the same package name used by Ubuntu, which is libsp-gxmlcpp1c2a The Ubuntu patch is linked from http://packages.qa.debian.org/s/sp-gxmlcpp.html -- Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "It's just a god

Bug#336306: This isn't grave

2006-01-05 Thread Nathanael Nerode
put device; if you then try to do output directly through 'alsa', it will complain that the audio output device is busy. -- Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "It's just a goddamned piece of paper." -- President Bush, referring to the US Constitution http://www.c

Bug#272004: This bug doesn't appear to be happening

2006-01-05 Thread Nathanael Nerode
This is a very old bug, and it applies to a version in experimental which has been superseded by the version in unstable, and the version in unstable build just fine. So why is this bug open? Reply to bug trail please. -- Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [Insert famous quot

Bug#245314: Old, unreproducible bug.

2006-01-05 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Can this bug be closed? -- Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "It's just a goddamned piece of paper." -- President Bush, referring to the US Constitution http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_7779.shtml -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECT

Bug#286780: Any progress on this bug?

2006-01-05 Thread Nathanael Nerode
You said in Dec. 2004 that you would apply the patch to a Debian-only release. Ready to do so yet? -- Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [Insert famous quote here] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#281893: Any progress on this bug?

2006-01-05 Thread Nathanael Nerode
This is a very old bug report which appears to be very easy to fix. Do you need an NMU? -- Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This space intentionally left blank. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#346028: linux-2.6: Hangs while attempting to purge

2006-01-04 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Package: linux-2.6 Severity: serious Justification: Won't uninstall cleanly It hangs on this line of the postrm script: my $ret = purge(); I can get it to work by deleting this line. Perhaps this is because a debconf routine is being called after "stop" has been called? I don't know, but anyw

Bug#344723: Please fast-track the readline5 bugfix

2005-12-29 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Could you fast-track this one? It's at the base of a number of progression-to-testing delays, including the KDE mess. -- Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This space intentionally left blank. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsub

Bug#345282: xjig: Please stop shipping /usr/doc symlink

2005-12-29 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Package: xjig Version: 2.4-9 Severity: serious Justification: FHS We're post-sarge, so no /usr/doc symlink please. This can usually be solved by rebuilding with a new debhelper. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#345281: rolldice: Please remove /usr/doc symlink and stop making it

2005-12-29 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Package: rolldice Version: 1.10-1 Severity: serious Justification: FHS We're post-sarge, so no symlinks in /usr/doc please. You can usually fix this by updating debhelper and rebuilding. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTE

Bug#328674: Still planning to upload slsc?

2005-12-24 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Doing some late-night QA work, and noticed that you were planning to upload this in September. It does need an upload badly. Alternatively, you could orphan it or ask for it to be removed (your choice). It's already been kicked out of 'testing' so it won't be in the next release of Debian un

Bug#344237: readline5: FTBFS on i386, s390, powerpc.

2005-12-20 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Package: readline5 Severity: serious >From the buildd logs: checking for C compiler default output file name... configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables The common factor in the three logs is that it dies in the "build64" part of the build, which isn't present for the other archi

Bug#344230: xnecview: Ships file in /usr/man not /usr/share/man

2005-12-20 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Package: xnecview Version: 1.34-7.1 Severity: serious Justification: FHS This ships its manpage in /usr/man ; should be /usr/share/man, of course. This transition is essentially finished; only this package and am-utils are shipping files in /usr/man. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTE

Bug#344229: am-utils: Contains file in /usr/man

2005-12-20 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Package: am-utils Version: 6.1.3-1 Severity: serious Justification: FHS This package violates the FHS by shipping a file in /usr/man. This should be /usr/share/man, of course. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#344226: [EMAIL PROTECTED] switched to BOINC, ksetisaver must adjust or die

2005-12-20 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Package: ksetisaver Version: 0.3.4-1 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable This is a reminder to myself. :-P As of December 15, old [EMAIL PROTECTED] is dead. This package needs to be adapted to use BOINC, or replaced by a similar package which uses BOINC. It shouldn't go in

Bug#341663: Please remove queue (RoQA)

2005-12-20 Thread Nathanael Nerode
to be MIA, reported to [EMAIL PROTECTED] C++ package which never underwent the c102 transition, let alone the c2 transition. Please remove from unstable. -- Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [Insert famous quote here] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Bug#343328: gtkmm2.0 FTBFS on hppa

2005-12-14 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Package: gtkmm2.0 Severity: serious Justification: no longer builds from source This is almost certainly not your fault, but maybe you'll know what package to report this bug in (glibc? binutils?). The log is at: http://buildd.debian.org/fetch.php?&pkg=gtkmm2.0&ver=2.2.12-2&arch=hppa&stamp=113339

Bug#343322: debbugs: Version tracking: reopened bug doesn't display properly

2005-12-14 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Package: debbugs Severity: grave Justification: breaks tracking of open vs. closed bugs! Examine http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?src=glibc and look for bug #333766. It is listed under "resolved bugs" and looks like this: #333766: libc6: SIGBUS in libm on hppa breaks qt-x11-free Pac

Bug#343317: libapt-front FTBFS on ia64 (ld segfaults)

2005-12-14 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Package: libapt-front Severity: serious Justification: no longer builds from source Not your fault, setting blocking bug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#339231: Safe to upload mercator

2005-12-14 Thread Nathanael Nerode
All build-deps are built everywhere, so it's safe to upload a mercator transitioned to c2a. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#339243: It's OK to upload openscenegraph now....

2005-12-11 Thread Nathanael Nerode
All its dependencies are built with the needed ABIs everywhere that matters (m68k currently doesn't matter because it's so far behind that its uninstallability count is allowed to increase). -- Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> A thousand reasons. http://www.thousandr

Bug#342780: usrp: FTBFS on ia64

2005-12-10 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Package: usrp Version: 0.8-6 Severity: serious Justification: no longer builds from source Long, involved failure at: http://buildd.debian.org/fetch.php?&pkg=usrp&ver=0.8-5&arch=ia64&stamp=1133933801&file=log&as=raw Appears to be due to poor use of Linux kernel headers, since errors are spewing f

Bug#342778: dar FTBFS on mips, mipsel

2005-12-10 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Package: dar Version: 2.2.4-2 Severity: serious Justification: fails to build from source See the logs at http://buildd.debian.org/fetch.php?&pkg=dar&ver=2.2.4-2&arch=mips&stamp=1133597852&file=log&as=raw and http://buildd.debian.org/fetch.php?&pkg=dar&ver=2.2.4-2&arch=mipsel&stamp=1133613457&fil

Bug#341668: Ping on gfcui

2005-12-10 Thread Nathanael Nerode
You appear to have uploaded since I filed this grave -- but trivial to fix -- bug, without fixing it. So I wondered what was going on. The fix is to change the debian/control entry for libgfcui-2.0-0c2a-dbg, so it depends on libgfcui-2.0-0c2a rather than on libgfcui-2.0-0c2. -- Nathanael

Bug#332835: Ping! for xdb/ C++ transition

2005-12-08 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Do you need help? Is there some problem with the build? -- Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [Insert famous quote here] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#342599: openc++: FTBFS on hppa

2005-12-08 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Package: openc++ Severity: serious Justification: FTBFS Log at http://buildd.debian.org/fetch.php?&pkg=openc%2B%2B&ver=2.8-8&arch=hppa&stamp=1133557227&file=log&as=raw Odd stuff going on here, might not be your fault. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe

Bug#342191: sear: uninstallable in unstable

2005-12-05 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Package: sear Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable Mostly it's depending on obsolete library packages; most of this would be fixed by a rebuild, but not all since some transitions are involved. Here are the Build-Dep changes which I think are needed: * xlibmesa-dev | libgl-dev

Bug#341677: anjuta: bogus dependency on libfreetype6

2005-12-01 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Package: anjuta Severity: grave Please note that anjuta is one of the packages with an apparently spurious dependency on libfreetype6. This should probably be fixed at the same time as #339146. You should be able to lose quite a lot of dependencies actually, as this looks like it's suffering rat

Bug#341675: cppunit: FTBFS on hppa

2005-12-01 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Package: cppunit Version: 1.10.2-5 Severity: serious Justification: fails to build from source Build log is at http://buildd.debian.org/fetch.php?&pkg=cppunit&ver=1.10.2-5&arch=hppa&stamp=1132795524&file=log&as=raw The relevant bit is: cd src/qttestrunner && qmake qttestrunner.pro /usr/bin/make

Bug#339277: not fixed

2005-12-01 Thread Nathanael Nerode
reopen 339277 thanks You've misrenamed this package. Please read the announcement at http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2005/11/msg00010.html ; you should be using c2a, not c2. This causes, among other things, gratuitous differences from Ubuntu. -- Nathanael Nerode &l

Bug#341671: libcal3d11-dev: Uninstallable

2005-12-01 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Package: libcal3d11-dev Version: 0.10.0-3 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable Depends: libcal3d11 (= 0.10.0-3) But that doesn't exist, only libcal3d11c2 exists. Should be Depends: libcal3d11c2 (= 0.10.0-3), of course. Also, you *actually* should have used 'libcal3d11c2a', sin

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