Bug#380609: konsole: prompt bold-printing no longer works

2006-10-30 Thread Hrvoje Niksic
I no longer see this bug in konsole 4:3.5.5a-2. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#391402: manpages-dev: Misleading wording regarding strcmp as the comparison routinein qsort

2006-10-06 Thread Hrvoje Niksic
Package: manpages-dev Version: 2.39-1 Severity: minor The qsort(3) man page seems to imply that strcmp can be passed as a comparison routine to qsort. The sentence I refer to is: Library routines suitable for use as the _compar_ argument include strcmp() (see below), alphasort(), and

Bug#380609: konsole: prompt bold-printing no longer works

2006-09-09 Thread Hrvoje Niksic
Please note that this bug occurs not only for bold printing of shell prompts, but for any bold text in the terminal. For example: $ printf 'bold test: \033[1mbold on\033[m bold off\n' shows bold on in bold typeface on terminal emulators other than the latest konsole. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Bug#386730: zsh: printf doesn't handle single-digit and two-digit octal escapes

2006-09-09 Thread Hrvoje Niksic
Package: zsh Version: 4.3.2-14 Severity: normal zsh's builtin printf fails to interpret two-digit octal escape, such as '\1' or '\33'. For example: zsh% printf '\33abc' | hd 5c 33 33 61 62 63 |\33abc| 0006 On the other hand, the printf from

Bug#377200: strace: Breaks multithreaded program with -f -p pid

2006-07-07 Thread Hrvoje Niksic
Package: strace Version: 4.5.14-1 Severity: normal If you attach to a running multithreaded program using -f -p pid, everything seems to work fine (you get the trace of all running threads) until the time comes to detach. Pressing ^C leaves strace hanging; pressing ^Z followed by kill %1 kills

Bug#373833: xbase-clients: hr(us) layout apparently broken

2006-06-16 Thread Hrvoje Niksic
Vedran Furač [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Inserting 'include us' after the 'name[Group1]= Croatia - US keyboard with Croatian letters;' line fixes the problem for me. Try that and see if it helps. That fixes the problem, thanks. The fix is obvious in retrospect, especially given that I

Bug#373833: xbase-clients: hr(us) layout apparently broken

2006-06-15 Thread Hrvoje Niksic
Package: xbase-clients Version: 1:7.0.1-2 Severity: normal The hr(us) layout appears completely broken in the current X server in testing. While the command `setxkbmap hr us' does not report an error, it leaves the keyboard in an unusable state: all ASCII characters, such as letters, numbers,

Bug#323099: License of wget.texi: suggest removal of invariant sections

2006-06-09 Thread Hrvoje Niksic
I understand and agree with the reasoning behind removing the GPL as the invariant section; but why also remove the GFDL as an invariant section? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#323099: License of wget.texi: suggest removal of invariant sections

2006-05-18 Thread Hrvoje Niksic
Don Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Summary: The issue with wget.texi is that the GNU GPL is an Invariant Section; since the GNU GPL cannot be modified anyway, this just forces gpl.texi to always be distributed with wget.texi, even when you're just distributing the manual. The GPL text

Bug#323099: License of wget.texi: suggest removal of invariant sections

2006-05-18 Thread Hrvoje Niksic
Don Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, 18 May 2006, Hrvoje Niksic wrote: If the point you're making is that someone might want to remove the GPL text from the manual, for example to make it shorter, I guess that's a valid concern. Yes, that's the issue. I see. But that's still

Bug#336354: emacs-goodies-el: please add savehist.el

2005-10-31 Thread Hrvoje Niksic
Peter S Galbraith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It would be nice to be able to activate it using the customize interface, similarly to what I've done with other other file in emacs-goodies-el. Good idea? I agree that that would be nice, but I don't know what is the standard way to present a

Bug#336354: emacs-goodies-el: please add savehist.el

2005-10-31 Thread Hrvoje Niksic
Peter S Galbraith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hrvoje Niksic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Peter S Galbraith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It would be nice to be able to activate it using the customize interface, similarly to what I've done with other other file in emacs-goodies-el. Good idea

Bug#336354: emacs-goodies-el: please add savehist.el

2005-10-29 Thread Hrvoje Niksic
Package: emacs-goodies-el Severity: wishlist You might want to add savehist.el, a neat package for persisting minibuffer histories across Emacs invocations. Get it from: http://fly.srk.fer.hr/~hniksic/emacs/savehist.el Note that an older version of savehist is distributed with XEmacs.

Bug#336356: emacs-goodies-el: newer htmlize available

2005-10-29 Thread Hrvoje Niksic
Package: emacs-goodies-el Severity: wishlist emacs-goodies-el ships with htmlize version 1.16. The latest version, available from the author's site, is 1.23. There are no incompatible changes, so I recommend to upgrade the version shipped with this package. As usual, the new version is at:

Bug#328269: manpages-dev: rand() manpage misrepresents FreeBSD's sranddev()

2005-09-20 Thread Hrvoje Niksic
Andries Brouwer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, Sep 20, 2005 at 02:34:37AM +0200, Hrvoje Niksic wrote: I have provided arguments for my position, to which you failed to respond. You didn't give any reasons why you consider FreeBSD to be very similar to Linux No response is needed

Bug#328269: manpages-dev: rand() manpage misrepresents FreeBSD's sranddev()

2005-09-19 Thread Hrvoje Niksic
Michael Kerrisk [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I see two possible ways of dealing with this: 1. s/random()/random(4)/ in the Linux page. 2. Simply remove this text from the page. What do you think? The first possibility doesn't make sense without also removing the deridive adjective strange,

Bug#328269: manpages-dev: rand() manpage misrepresents FreeBSD's sranddev()

2005-09-19 Thread Hrvoje Niksic
Andries Brouwer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This can be replaced by FreeBSD adds a function void sranddev(void); that initializes the seed for rand() with a value obtained from the /dev/random device. But why waste space on functions on other operating systems that Linux doesn't have?

Bug#328269: manpages-dev: rand() manpage misrepresents FreeBSD's sranddev()

2005-09-19 Thread Hrvoje Niksic
Andries Brouwer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: But why waste space on functions on other operating systems that Linux doesn't have? All Unix-like operating systems are rather similar. Except this function has no root in Unix tradition, it is a FreeBSD invention not shared by other Unix-like

Bug#328269: manpages-dev: rand() manpage misrepresents FreeBSD's sranddev()

2005-09-19 Thread Hrvoje Niksic
Andries Brouwer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, Sep 20, 2005 at 12:39:55AM +0200, Hrvoje Niksic wrote: [muttering that he does not want to hear about differences between the FreeBSD and the Linux API for the rand() family of functions; don't know why - I always consider info about

Bug#328269: manpages-dev: rand() manpage misrepresents FreeBSD's sranddev()

2005-09-14 Thread Hrvoje Niksic
Package: manpages-dev Version: 2.02-2 Severity: minor Man page for rand(3) claims the following: FreeBSD adds a function void sranddev(void); that initializes the seed for their bad random generator rand() with a value obtained from their good random generator

Bug#326767: Failure to use return value from realloc (!)

2005-09-06 Thread Hrvoje Niksic
Maybe I'm missing something, but AFAICT Debian's Wget 1.9.1 doesn't need escape_buffer in log.c at all. Wget 1.9.1-12 in stable includes my backport of 1.10's filtering of control characters via the escnonprint function. When I sent the backport to the maintainer, I expected that he would remove

Bug#319088: wget: off by one when parsing ftp listing.

2005-08-27 Thread Hrvoje Niksic
The latter patch has been applied and should be available in Wget 1.10.1. Thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#226084: wget: incorrect encoding of local file names with -k

2005-08-23 Thread Hrvoje Niksic
This bug is fixed in Wget 1.10. Thanks for the report. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#320148: requests keep-alive though working on single (or the last) file

2005-08-22 Thread Hrvoje Niksic
I believe this bug is fixed in Wget 1.10.1. See http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.web.wget.patches/1459 for a patch. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#324539: libwww-perl: HTTP::Daemon doesn't report keep-alive connection to HTTP/1.0 clients

2005-08-22 Thread Hrvoje Niksic
Package: libwww-perl Version: 5.803-4 Severity: normal When an HTTP/1.0 client requests persistent connections, HTTP::Daemon respects the request, but doesn't indicate to the client that the resulting connection is keep-alive. Assuming the server example from the man page, the conversation looks

Bug#322913: tcc: _Bool exists but doesn't comply with C99

2005-08-13 Thread Hrvoje Niksic
Package: tcc Version: 0.9.23-1 Severity: normal Tcc doesn't correctly implement casts from floating point types to _Bool. According to C99, such casts must return true for all numbers except 0: When any scalar value is converted to _Bool, the result is 0 if the value compares equal to 0;

Bug#320148: requests keep-alive though working on single (or the last) file

2005-08-08 Thread Hrvoje Niksic
Always requesting keep-alive is not a bug because, when the Wget process exits, it automatically closes all TCP connections to the remote servers. Now if Wget hangs when talking to a web server that supports keep-alive connections, it's a different bug. In that case the question is not why does

Bug#304082: tcc: dumps core in Autoconf large file test

2005-04-10 Thread Hrvoje Niksic
Package: tcc Version: 0.9.22-2 Severity: normal The following program makes tcc dump core: #define _FILE_OFFSET_BITS 64 #include sys/types.h #define LARGE_OFF_T (((off_t) 1 62) - 1 + ((off_t) 1 62)) int off_t_is_large[(LARGE_OFF_T % 2147483629 == 721 LARGE_OFF_T %