Bug#676803: lintian: Please add a sanity check for .pc-introduced flags

Package: lintian Version: 2.5.8 Severity: wishlist [#657699 is a special case of this] Hi, It would be useful to have a check for .pc (pkg-config) files introducing flags they probably should not, like Cflags -O2, -g or -DNDEBUG. I went through ...

Message posted on the June 9th, 2012 - 10:10 AM ET

Gartner Says Declining Worldwide PC Shipments in Fourth Quarter of 2012 Signal Structural Shift of PC Market

Global PC Shipments Declined 4.9 Percent in Fourth Quarter While EMEA PC Shipments Declined 9.6 Percent.

Press published on the January 14th, 2013 - 7:53 AM ET

IDC Lowers PC Outlook As Shipments Decline In Second Quarter Ahead Of Fall Product Updates

The worldwide PC market is now expected to grow just 0.9% in 2012, as mid-year shipments slow. According to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly PC Tracker, 367 million PCs will ship ...

Press published on the August 23rd, 2012 - 6:39 PM ET

PC Volume to Grow Almost 5% in 2012, But Will Expand Further in 2013 and Beyond, According to IDC

The worldwide PC market is expected to grow 5% year over year in 2012, in what is likely to be a challenging year. According to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly PC Tracker, nearly ...

Press published on the June 19th, 2012 - 6:00 AM ET

PC Shipments Expected to Have Strong Second Half of 2012, Long-Term PC Growth Capped Within Single Digits, According to IDC

Worldwide PC shipment growth for 2011 ended on a slightly positive note, growing to 1.8% on the year, according to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly PC Tracker. While the first half ...

Press published on the March 20th, 2012 - 6:00 AM ET

Slowing Consumer Demand Reduces PC Growth for 2011 While Longer-Term Growth Will Remain In Double Digits, According to IDC

Worldwide PC shipments are now expected to grow by just 4.2% in 2011, down from a February forecast of 7.1%, according to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly PC Tracker. A combination ...

Press published on the June 6th, 2011 - 6:00 AM ET

PC Market Forecast to Decline for a Second Consecutive Year in 2013, According to IDC

Despite intense industry efforts to overcome market inertia, 2012 nonetheless ended on a sour note with global PC shipment volume shrinking 3.7% on the year. With limited initial traction from Windows 8 in the ...

Press published on the March 4th, 2013 - 1:37 PM ET

Gartner Says Worldwide PC Shipments Grew 1.9 Percent in First Quarter of 2012

Worldwide PC shipments totaled 89 million units in the first quarter of 2012, a 1.9 percent increase from the first quarter of 2011, when shipments reached 87.3 million units, according to preliminary results by ...

Press published on the April 11th, 2012 - 2:54 PM ET

Bug#691359: grub-pc: warning message on grub upgrade

Package: grub-pc Version: 1.99-23.1 Severity: minor While upgrading grub, I got the following warning message. In the debconf window, grub recommends that user select all provided opitons (which are the whole disk and the individual partitions) to ...

Message posted on the October 24th, 2012 - 2:40 PM ET

Bug#703745: grub-pc: `sudo dpkg-reconfigure grub-pc` does not ask all questions for variables

Package: grub-pc Version: 2.00-13 Severity: normal Control: notfound -1 1.99-27 Dear Debian folks, running `sudo dpkg-reconfigure grub-pc` (also with `-plow`), I am only asked for the parameters/options for Linux and nothing else. As you can see ...

Message posted on the March 22nd, 2013 - 7:40 PM ET

Bug#706415: grub-pc: grub-probe fails to find / on a ZFS-on-Linux system

Package: grub-pc Version: 1.99-27+deb7u1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, I use zfsonlinux using the repository from http://zfsonlinux.org/debian.html and ZFS itself is contained in a LUKS volume, so it is a somewhat unusual setup. There is an ...

Message posted on the April 29th, 2013 - 6:10 PM ET

Bug#668319: grub-pc postins issuses a find / which takes an overly long time on large disks

Package: grub-pc Version: 1.99-17 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, grub-pc's postinst runs a find / over all local disks. This takes a lot of time if large disks with lots of small files are installed. In my case it takes nearly 20 minutes. This ...

Message posted on the April 10th, 2012 - 7:00 PM ET

Bug#668920: grub-pc: grub 1.99-21 fails to detect mdraid partitions

Hash: SHA256 Package: grub-pc Version: 1.99-21 Severity: critical Justification: breaks the whole system Upgrading from 1.99-17 to 1.99-21 on wheezy today renders the system unbootable. Grub cannot detect any mdraid partition and is therefor ...

Message posted on the April 15th, 2012 - 12:30 PM ET

Bug#666992: grub-pc: installation into partition broken, postinst script does not detect MBR installation

Package: grub-pc Version: 1.99-20 Severity: important Dear maintainers of grub2 I don't know if it was always like that, but the last update of grub2 failed in the postinst script, because it tried to install into /dev/sda3 which was found via ...

Message posted on the April 3rd, 2012 - 4:00 AM ET