Bug#762116: general: Some packages depend on a particular init system

2014-09-18 Thread Rob Owens
Package: general Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, This bug applies to many desktop applications, and runs counter to Debian's goals of supporting multiple init systems. I classified this bug as normal, but I think consideration should be given to classifying it as serious. An example: 'apt-ge

Bug#705879: general: wheezy don't boot on ext4 with external-journal

2013-05-04 Thread Calvin Owens
I encountered a similar problem in Gentoo - e2fsck 1.42.5 can't check read-only mounted FS with an external journal. Ted Ts'o just wrote a fix: http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-ext4/msg38096.html That fixes the problem for me; it should for you as well. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-dev

lintian error manpage-has-errors-from-man

2012-06-28 Thread Nathan Owens
I get error : W: dwb: manpage-has-errors-from-man usr/share/man/man1/dwb.1.gz 1388: warning [p 11, 2.5i, div `3tbd2,0', 0.2i]: can't break line I have gotten this error before and it usually is a long line, but this one isn't a long line and I don't see why it can not break line(usually

Re: Uploading to multiple distros

2011-06-02 Thread Martin Owens
On Thu, 2011-06-02 at 13:20 +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > For this to work I think the "suite" target in the changelog entry > should be qualified by the distro, so you could say (picking a random > example): > > picocom (1.4-1) debian:unstable ubuntu:oneiric; urgency=low > > * new upstream v

Re: Default Homedir Permissions

2011-02-17 Thread Martin Owens
On Thu, 2011-02-17 at 15:24 +, Roger Leigh wrote: > Yes, but like everything there is a tradeoff. A totally secure system > is an unusable system. Having to instruct every user how to relax the > permissions to allow others to access their files, or allow their web > pages to be visible, is e

Re: Re (2): lilo removal in squeeze (or, "please test grub2")

2010-05-25 Thread owens
> > > > Original Message >From: zlinux...@wowway.com >To: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, debian-u...@lists.debian.org, >debian-b...@lists.debian.org >Subject: Re: Re (2): lilo removal in squeeze (or, "please test >grub2") >Date: Tue, 25 May 2010 13:00:45 -0400 (EDT) > >>On Tue, 25 May 2010

Re: bad postinst in kernel-images

2003-04-19 Thread Keith Owens
On Sun, 20 Apr 2003 09:54:53 +1000, Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >modutils >= 2.4.17 is not available for woody. You >have two options: 2.4.15 for stable or 2.4.21 for unstable. > >This means you would have to recompile 2.4.21. > >Recompiling is easy, I have a version at >http://www.microc

Re: bad postinst in kernel-images

2003-04-19 Thread Keith Owens
2/msg00349.html. >Please, let's return to the problem and let's try to solve it. > >On Fri, Apr 11, 2003 at 11:45:54AM +1000, Keith Owens wrote: > >> When using a recent binutils, you need modutils >= 2.4.17. The >> binutils team changed the output of the 

Re: bad postinst in kernel-images

2003-04-10 Thread Keith Owens
When using a recent binutils, you need modutils >= 2.4.17. The binutils team changed the output of the 'nm' command which changed the contents of System.map.

Re: gcc error - xfsprogs, ppc

2001-05-06 Thread Keith Owens
>> gcc -O1 -g -DNDEBUG -funsigned-char -Wall -I../include '-DVERSION="1.2.4"' >> -D_GNU_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -DXFS_BIG_FILES=1 >> -DXFS_BIG_FILESYSTEMS=1 -o xfs_db -L../libxfs addr.o agf.o agfl.o agi.o >> attr.o attrshort.o bit.o block.o bmap.o bmapbt.o bmroot.o bnobt.o check.o >> cn