Package: bugs.debian.org
Here we observe missing MIME charset for
'Debian Bug help: instructions for cont...@bugs.debian.org'
several 994179 critical
thanks
# alsactl restore
alsa-lib parser.c:2372:(load_toplevel_config) Unable to find the top-level
configuration file '/usr/share/alsa/ucm2/ucm.conf'.
alsa-lib main.c:1405:(snd_use_case_mgr_open) error: failed to import hw:0 use
case configuration -2
alsa-lib
Package: bash-completion
Version: 1:2.11-3
Severity: minor
File: /usr/share/bash-completion/completions/perltidy
Only
$ perltidy -
works,
$ perltidy --
doesn't!
One needs to check the man page to see what the former mean.
Package: bash-completion
Version: 1:2.11-3
Severity: wishlist
File: /usr/share/bash-completion/completions/perltidy
Such files should mention where to report bugs to.
OK, so it first looks for exact hits,
then does a grep style match.
And we see that
$ help f|grep :.
false: false
fc: fc [-e ename] [-lnr] [first] [last] or fc -s [pat=rep] [command]
fg: fg [job_spec]
for: for NAME [in WORDS ... ] ; do COMMANDS; done
for ((: for (( exp1; exp2; exp3 )); do
$ help f|wc -l
72
$ help fo |wc -l
24
$ help for |wc -l
10
$ help for\ |wc -l
14
$ help for\ \( |wc -l
14
$ help for\ \(\(|wc -l
14
So help help's 'If PATTERN is specified, gives detailed help on all
commands matching PATTERN." is not telling the whole story about
What a headache.
"Six months ago" means slightly different things to cpio and ls.
And ls documents do say exactly what,
and cpio documents don't even say six months.
$ cat prover
set -eu
cd /tmp
for i in `seq 170 190`
do
touch -d "$i days ago" x
{
env - ls -l x|tr -s ' '
What a headache.
"Six months ago" means slightly different things to cpio and ls.
And ls documents do say exactly what,
and cpio documents don't even say six months.
$ cat prover
set -eu
cd /tmp
for i in `seq 170 190`
do
touch -d "$i days ago" x
{
env - ls -l x|tr -s ' '
OK, then "help for" should at least mention that trick to get the rest of
the story.
Package: devscripts
Version: 2.21.4
File: /usr/bin/checkbashisms
Regarding
possible bashism in (stdin) line 1 ('((' should be '$(('):
for (( k=1 ; k<8 ; k++ )) ; do echo $k ; done
OK, but
$ for (( k=1 ; k<8 ; k++ )) ; do echo $k ; done
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
$ for $(( k=1 ; k<8 ; k++ )) ; do echo $k ;
Package: alsa-utils
Version: 1.2.5.1-1
Severity: wishlist
File: /usr/share/man/man1/alsactl.1.gz
Mention something like
An exit status of zero indicates success, and a nonzero value
indicates failure.
Else one cannot tell if e.g.,
# alsactl --debug restore; echo $?
alsa-lib
$ help for
only mentions
for name [ [ in [ word ... ] ] ; ] do list ; done
and needs to be updated to mention
for (( expr1 ; expr2 ; expr3 )) ; do list ; done
$ echo $BASH_VERSION
5.1.8(1)-release
Well on a vanilla system I still get:
# aptitude -s purge debian-el
The following packages will be REMOVED:
debian-el{p} elpa-debian-el{u}
aptitude show says:
Package: elpa-debian-el
Version: 37.10
State: installed
Automatically installed: yes
Package: debian-el
Version: 37.10
State:
Well on a vanilla system I still get:
# aptitude -s purge debian-el
The following packages will be REMOVED:
debian-el{p} elpa-debian-el{u}
aptitude show says:
Package: elpa-debian-el
Version: 37.10
State: installed
Automatically installed: yes
Package: debian-el
Version: 37.10
State:
Also some of them will show up as
v ...
in aptitude search
But some won't show up at all.
Confusing.
Also some of them will show up as
v ...
in aptitude search
But some won't show up at all.
Confusing.
___
Aptitude-devel mailing list
Aptitude-devel@alioth-lists.debian.net
https://alioth-lists.debian.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/aptitude-devel
Also the user is curious where these determinations are drawn from.
It would be nice if aptitude said "Based on /var/lib/dpkg/status, this
package is a ephemeral / virtual / refereed etc. package."
Also the user is curious where these determinations are drawn from.
It would be nice if aptitude said "Based on /var/lib/dpkg/status, this
package is a ephemeral / virtual / refereed etc. package."
___
Aptitude-devel mailing list
So one needs to unmarkauto each of the recommends packages.
Description: metapackage to pull in all Noto fonts
^^^
Use this package if you want all Noto fonts.
^^^ ^^^
# apt install fonts-noto
fonts-noto is already the newest version (20201225-1).
The following packages were
And in #994509 you can see that one cannot make such installations stick.
In this particular case, all I found was this package was mentioned in
other installed packages' headers.
I don't know if that makes it a virtual package or not.
In this particular case, all I found was this package was mentioned in
other installed packages' headers.
I don't know if that makes it a virtual package or not.
___
Aptitude-devel mailing list
Aptitude-devel@alioth-lists.debian.net
Package: aptitude
Version: 0.8.13-3
Severity: wishlist
Manpage mentions:
-r, --with-recommends
Treat recommendations as dependencies when installing new packages
(this overrides settings in /etc/apt/apt.conf and
~/.aptitude/config).
This
Package: aptitude
Version: 0.8.13-3
Severity: wishlist
Manpage mentions:
-r, --with-recommends
Treat recommendations as dependencies when installing new packages
(this overrides settings in /etc/apt/apt.conf and
~/.aptitude/config).
This
Package: aptitude
Version: 0.8.13-3
It's just crazy to jumble these like this:
The following packages will be REMOVED:
bubblewrap{pu} (D: libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37) gstreamer1.0-plugins-base{pu} (D:
gstreamer1.0-plugins-good, D: libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37)
gstreamer1.0-plugins-good{pu} (D:
Package: aptitude
Version: 0.8.13-3
Severity: wishlist
$ aptitude show ttf-unifont
Package: ttf-unifont
State: not a real package
$ apt show ttf-unifont
Package: ttf-unifont
State: not a real package (virtual)
That's a little better.
Package: gconf2-common
Version: 3.2.6-7
Seen on purge:
The following packages will be REMOVED:
gconf2-common{p}
Removing gconf2-common (3.2.6-7) ...
Processing triggers for sgml-base (1.30) ...
Purging configuration files for gconf2-common (3.2.6-7) ...
/usr/bin/which: this version of `which'
Package: aptitude
Version: 0.8.13-3
It's just crazy to jumble these like this:
The following packages will be REMOVED:
bubblewrap{pu} (D: libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37) gstreamer1.0-plugins-base{pu} (D:
gstreamer1.0-plugins-good, D: libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37)
gstreamer1.0-plugins-good{pu} (D:
Package: fonts-noto
Version: 20201225-1
For this package to work as intended, you need to make
Depends: fonts-noto-core
Recommends: fonts-noto-cjk, fonts-noto-cjk-extra, fonts-noto-color-emoji,
fonts-noto-extra, fonts-noto-mono, fonts-noto-ui-core, fonts-noto-ui-extra,
fonts-noto-unhinted
all
Package: aptitude
Version: 0.8.13-3
Severity: wishlist
$ aptitude show ttf-unifont
Package: ttf-unifont
State: not a real package
$ apt show ttf-unifont
Package: ttf-unifont
State: not a real package (virtual)
That's a little better.
___
Package: debian-el
Version: 37.10
When I try to remove this dummy package, aptitude says
The following packages will be REMOVED:
debian-el{p} elpa-debian-el{pu} (D: debian-el)
But other dummy packages don't trigger this in aptitude.
Package: debian-el
Version: 37.10
When I try to remove this dummy package, aptitude says
The following packages will be REMOVED:
debian-el{p} elpa-debian-el{pu} (D: debian-el)
But other dummy packages don't trigger this in aptitude.
Can you please update so we can see if
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libx11/-/issues/137
really fixes the problem?
My disks are reaching the breaking point.
Can you please update so we can see if
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libx11/-/issues/137
really fixes the problem?
My disks are reaching the breaking point.
Can you please update so we can see if
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libx11/-/issues/137
really fixes the problem?
My disks are reaching the breaking point.
Package: lynx
Version: 2.9.0dev.9-2
File: /usr/bin/lynx
I tried to make sense to them in
https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=50539
I tested all the browsers at hand.
Lynx failed the test.
Lynx treats comments within textareas as comments and not text.
That's wrong. Probably
Package: alsa-utils
Version: 1.2.5.1-1
File: /usr/sbin/alsactl
# alsactl restore
alsa-lib parser.c:2372:(load_toplevel_config) Unable to find the top-level
configuration file '/usr/share/alsa/ucm2/ucm.conf'.
alsa-lib main.c:1405:(snd_use_case_mgr_open) error: failed to import hw:0 use
case
gh> This "From" is indeed a bit unfortunate but there's nothing
gh> indiviudal salsa users can do about it …
OK, filed https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=993654#30 .
gregor herrmann: nobody can reply to
"gregor herrmann "
Package: ucf
Version: 3.0043
> "gh" == gregor herrmann writes:
gh> Control: tag -1 pending
gh> Hello,
gh> Bug #993654 in libxml-sax-perl reported by you has been fixed in the
gh> Git repository and is awaiting an upload. You can see the commit
gh> message below and you can check the diff
Package: libxml-sax-perl
Version: 1.02+dfsg-2
Setting up libxml-sax-perl (1.02+dfsg-2) ...
update-perl-sax-parsers: Registering Perl SAX parser XML::SAX::PurePerl with
priority 10...
update-perl-sax-parsers: Updating overall Perl SAX parser modules info file...
/usr/bin/which: this version of
Package: exim4-config
Version: 4.95~RC2-1
Setting up exim4-config (4.95~RC2-1) ...
Installing new version of config file
/etc/exim4/conf.d/acl/30_exim4-config_check_rcpt ...
Installing new version of config file
/etc/exim4/conf.d/transport/30_exim4-config_remote_smtp ...
Installing new version
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/proto/xorgproto/-/issues/35#note_1045802
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/proto/xorgproto/-/issues/35#note_1045802
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/proto/xorgproto/-/issues/35#note_1045802
Package: binutils-common
Version: 2.37-4
Severity: wishlist
File: /usr/share/man/man1/strings.1.gz
$ zcat /usr/share/man/man1/strings.1.gz | wc
0 0 0
$ dlocate -L binutils-common
Package binutils-common is not installed or
/var/lib/dpkg/info/binutils-common.list is empty.
Package: x11-xkb-utils
Version: 7.7+5
Severity: grave
Did anybody take a look at syslog recently?
It is flooded with
Internal error: Could not resolve keysym ...
So much so that the disk will fill up.
Package: x11-xkb-utils
Version: 7.7+5
Severity: grave
Did anybody take a look at syslog recently?
It is flooded with
Internal error: Could not resolve keysym ...
So much so that the disk will fill up.
Package: x11-xkb-utils
Version: 7.7+5
Severity: grave
Did anybody take a look at syslog recently?
It is flooded with
Internal error: Could not resolve keysym ...
So much so that the disk will fill up.
I did
$ mail.mailutils --headers --file imaps://...:...@imap.example.com
and the line truncater function just counts bytes, causing multibyte
unicode to get shattered.
$ mail.mailutils --version
mail.mailutils (GNU Mailutils) 3.11.1
$ help command | grep -i -- -v
-vprint a description of COMMAND similar to the `type' builtin
-Vprint a more verbose description of each COMMAND
$ command -v cat
/bin/cat
$ type cat
cat is /bin/cat
$ command -V cat
cat is /bin/cat
So it turns out -V is like type, not -v!
Also
OK,
instead of saying
/usr/bin/which: this version of 'which' is deprecated and should not be
used.*
please say
/usr/bin/which: The 'which' utility will be removed in the future.
Please use
'command -v' instead. For more info, see ...
*Else you mean "tell the maintainer he
OK,
instead of saying
/usr/bin/which: this version of 'which' is deprecated and should not be
used.*
please say
/usr/bin/which: The 'which' utility will be removed in the future.
Please use
'command -v' instead. For more info, see ...
*Else you mean "tell the maintainer he
# ls -l /var/log/syslog*
-rw-r- 1 root adm 23119076 08-21 03:15 /var/log/syslog
-rw-r- 1 root adm 542530 08-16 01:01 /var/log/syslog.1
-rw-r- 1 root adm 136476 08-08 19:03 /var/log/syslog.2.gz
-rw-r- 1 root adm 309712 08-01 11:46 /var/log/syslog.3.gz
-rw-r- 1 root adm
# ls -l /var/log/syslog*
-rw-r- 1 root adm 23119076 08-21 03:15 /var/log/syslog
-rw-r- 1 root adm 542530 08-16 01:01 /var/log/syslog.1
-rw-r- 1 root adm 136476 08-08 19:03 /var/log/syslog.2.gz
-rw-r- 1 root adm 309712 08-01 11:46 /var/log/syslog.3.gz
-rw-r- 1 root adm
# ls -l /var/log/syslog*
-rw-r- 1 root adm 23119076 08-21 03:15 /var/log/syslog
-rw-r- 1 root adm 542530 08-16 01:01 /var/log/syslog.1
-rw-r- 1 root adm 136476 08-08 19:03 /var/log/syslog.2.gz
-rw-r- 1 root adm 309712 08-01 11:46 /var/log/syslog.3.gz
-rw-r- 1 root adm
reopen 992411
found 992411 5.3-1
thanks
All I know is the bug was to make
/usr/bin/which keep working.
All I see that was 'fixed' was making a news item.
There are hundreds of cgi etc. scripts that are now emitting errors.
reopen 992411
found 992411 5.3-1
thanks
All I know is the bug was to make
/usr/bin/which keep working.
All I see that was 'fixed' was making a news item.
There are hundreds of cgi etc. scripts that are now emitting errors.
Package: aptitude
Severity: wishlist
Version: 0.8.13-3
Let's say there is to be done:
54 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 1 to remove and 1 not upgraded etc.
Idea: well in fact, these can be smartly grouped:
First split the list into groups of packages that don't depend on each
other.
Package: aptitude
Severity: wishlist
Version: 0.8.13-3
Let's say there is to be done:
54 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 1 to remove and 1 not upgraded etc.
Idea: well in fact, these can be smartly grouped:
First split the list into groups of packages that don't depend on each
other.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Which_(command)
Please make sure /usr/bin/* stuff keeps working.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Which_(command)
Please make sure /usr/bin/* stuff keeps working.
severity 992411 grave
thanks
You don't know how many scripts you are breaking.
Error messages coming out of everywhere.
Major embarrassment.
Package: alsa-utils
Version: 1.2.4-1
Severity: wishlist
File: /usr/bin/speaker-test
$ speaker-test
speaker-test 1.2.4
Playback device is default ...
OK that's great, but a --verbose option could mention which device it is
actually using.
Package: alsa-utils
Version: 1.2.4-1
Severity: wishlist
File: /usr/bin/speaker-test
Add an option or mention how to test all the speakers on the system.
Currently, working back from what the man page says, one needs
for i in $(aplay -L|perl -nwle '/(.*):CARD=([^,]+)/ && print "$1:$2";'|sort -u)
Package: alsa-utils
Version: 1.2.4-1
Severity: minor
File: /usr/share/man/man1/speaker-test.1.gz
-l | --nloops COUNT
Specifies the number of loops. Zero means to run infinitely.
When -s option below with a valid channel is given, speaker-test
Package: alsa-utils
Version: 1.2.4-1
Severity: minor
File: /usr/sbin/alsa-info
Modules listed twice:
!!Loaded ALSA modules
!!---
snd_hda_intel
snd_hda_intel
Package: sqlformat
Version: 0.4.1-1
Severity: wishlist
File: /usr/share/man/man1/sqlformat.1.gz
-h reveals many more options not mentioned on man page.
Branch: refs/heads/blead
Home: https://github.com/Perl/perl5
Commit: 27901ad1f7facd17596e1df55cf68af25a21f52a
https://github.com/Perl/perl5/commit/27901ad1f7facd17596e1df55cf68af25a21f52a
Author: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Date: 2021-07-31 (Sat, 31 Jul 2021)
Changed paths:
M pod
> "TR" == Tim Rühsen writes:
TR> If you know that the server sends uncompressed content, you can
TR> compress it yourself on-the-fly to avoid excessive disk space usage.
TR> At least it works for single files:
TR> wget -O- | gzip > radio.csv.gz
That's nice but like
The man page should mention for --compression=gzip,
the website can still ignore it and send the whole file uncompressed.
And wget is not picky, and still will accept it. So better have extra
disk space ready. Tested with
https://www.ncc.gov.tw/chinese/files/opendata/radio.csv .
Package: libsqlite3-mod-csvtable
Version: 0.9998-2
Severity: wishlist
Add usage examples, so we know how to use this package.
And mention if this package has anything to do with
/usr/share/doc/sqlite3/cli.html#csv
or
/usr/share/doc/sqlite3/csv.html .
(info "(coreutils) tr invocation")
all the options don't appear together on the same page.
Only the man page's DESCRIPTION has them all together.
Package: aptitude-common
Version: 0.8.13-3
File: /usr/share/man/man8/aptitude-curses.8.gz
https://salsa.debian.org/apt-team/aptitude/-/merge_requests/11
Example 12. Usage of --show-summary --show-summary used with -v to
^
Package: aptitude-common
Version: 0.8.13-3
File: /usr/share/man/man8/aptitude-curses.8.gz
https://salsa.debian.org/apt-team/aptitude/-/merge_requests/11
Example 12. Usage of --show-summary --show-summary used with -v to
^
All I know is I am using chrome canary,
and I still cannot see what others already see in
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1214832
I am using Debian sid.
I don't use gnome, but notice I have:
$ aptitude search ~i~ngnome
i gnome-icon-theme
i gnome-keyring
i A
Package: libunicode-map-perl
Version: 0.112-12+b3
Severity: minor
$ apropos Unicode::Map
I18N::Charset (3pm) - IANA Character Set Registry names and Unicode::MapUTF8
(et al.) conversion scheme names
Unicode::Map (3pm) - (unknown subject)
^
Unicode::Map8
(info "(coreutils) Differences from the official Debian Algorithm") and
(info "(coreutils) Minus/Hyphen and Colon characters")
could mention workarounds, so one could indeed achieve the Debian
Algorithm.
Or mention the only way is to use
dpkg --compare-versions
(on pairs only.)
(info "(mailutils) Mail Variables") says
3.5.6 How to Alter the Behavior of 'mail'
-
Following variables control the behavior of GNU 'mail':
Mention [yes, also right on that page!] if one can use e.g.,
$ mail
Man page says:
-t, --to
read recipients from the message header
-u, --user=USER
operate on USER's mailbox
Global debugging settings
--debug-level=LEVEL
set Mailutils debugging level
--[no-]debug-line-info show
In (info "(mailutils) Mail Variables")
'record'
Type: String.
Default: Unset.
When set, any outgoing message will be saved to the named file.
Add: ^a copy of
Also mention how to save without also actually sending. So one can see
what would have been sent, without
In (info "(mailutils) Modifying the Headers")
To change the 'Subject' header, use '~s' escape, e.g.:
~s "Re: your message"
Mention if one can also just use
~s Re: your message
without the quotes or not, and also how to get a real quote mark into the
Subject.
Package: libhtml-parser-perl
Version: 3.76-1
File: /usr/share/doc/libhtml-parser-perl/examples/htext
You need to say
use Encode qw(encode);
else the program will die.
(Also if the file is already utf8, it will be double encoded...)
I can't tell if these are normal, or bugs.
# /usr/share/debconf/fix_db.pl
debconf: question "passwd/username" has no template field; removing it.
debconf: question "debian-installer/country" has no template field; removing it.
debconf: question "debian-installer/language" has no template field;
Package: aptitude
Version: 0.8.13-3
I tried but...
# COLUMNS=11 aptitude -w 11 --disable-columns -s install
The following packages will be upgraded:
apt apt-doc apt-utils console-setup console-setup-linux debconf
debconf-i18n debconf-utils e2fsprogs ffmpeg git git-man (git D:
Package: aptitude
Version: 0.8.13-3
I tried but...
# COLUMNS=11 aptitude -w 11 --disable-columns -s install
The following packages will be upgraded:
apt apt-doc apt-utils console-setup console-setup-linux debconf
debconf-i18n debconf-utils e2fsprogs ffmpeg git git-man (git D:
Yes, I am talking about -H headers: one line per message.
E.g., for a remote mailbox with a thousands of mails in it, if I just
want to see what the last 20, or first 20 messages' headers are, with
the minimum of data passing over the wire.
> "SP" == Sergey Poznyakoff writes:
SP> These are
Package: fonts-noto-color-emoji
Version: 0~20200916-1
Please see
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1214832#c4
Branch: refs/heads/blead
Home: https://github.com/Perl/perl5
Commit: 047a0ea72f583771e88b81f628b4e3468b794b37
https://github.com/Perl/perl5/commit/047a0ea72f583771e88b81f628b4e3468b794b37
Author: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Date: 2021-05-31 (Mon, 31 May 2021)
Changed paths:
M pod
Package: xfonts-wqy
Version: 1.0.0~rc1-7
Why do I see the same character for both
U+629B, U+62CB ?
$ unicode -v U+629B U+62CB |grep -i strokes
kTotalStrokes: 7
kTotalStrokes: 8
For both I only see the latter (8).
Package: mplayer
Severity: wishlist
https://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/news.html announces debian packages.
Maybe useful.
Package: mplayer
Severity: wishlist
https://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/news.html announces debian packages.
Maybe useful.
Package: xdg-utils
Version: 1.1.3-4.1
File: /usr/bin/xdg-settings
Why not make an error message?
$ xdg-settings get default-web-browser
firefox.desktop
$ xdg-settings set default-web-browser google-chrome.desktop
$ xdg-settings get default-web-browser
firefox.desktop
Yes, $? was 2.
Package: ibus-chewing
Version: 1.6.1-1
有
斷崖 169 duan4 yai2
但無法打所有 yai 字。
只好打 ya.
(info "(coreutils) tr invocation") says
Currently ‘tr’ fully supports only single-byte characters.
Eventually it will support multibyte characters; when it does, the ‘-C’
And the man page has no warning at all. #BUG. Please add one.
BTW,
$ echo 哇|tr 哇 123
123
It works fine! (People will
On the diff man and INFO pages there is no mention if diff has any GNU
extensions in it, or portability gotchas, so maybe mention it is POSIX
compatible or something. One worries there are extensions but just not
mentioned. E.g., "I am about to use diff -U0. But I have an uneasy
feeling that it
found 902652 0.8.13-3
severity 902652 important
thanks
Proof that aptitude is not ready for
/usr/share/doc/apt/NEWS.Debian.gz
apt (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=medium
Automatically remove unused kernels on apt {dist,full}-upgrade. To revert
to previous behavior, set
found 902652 0.8.13-3
severity 902652 important
thanks
Proof that aptitude is not ready for
/usr/share/doc/apt/NEWS.Debian.gz
apt (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=medium
Automatically remove unused kernels on apt {dist,full}-upgrade. To revert
to previous behavior, set
Package: ttf-xfree86-nonfree
dpkg: warning: unable to delete old directory
'/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-xfree86-nonfree': Directory not empty
Due to .uuid file.
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