Package: dwww
Version: 1.14
Severity: wishlist
The dwww configuration file "/etc/dwww/dwww.conf" statess
"The file is in Bourne shell script format, thus no spaces may be used in
variables assignments."
which gives a false impression since the configuration file is in fact read
using the Perl
Package: dash
Version: 0.5.7-4+b1
Severity: normal
In Bourne shell script with dash, using either [ ] or test,
test -n "${variable}" && echo "variable is set to -->${variable}<--"
works as expected even if the value of variable is to a value the same
as a test operator eg -ne or -nt
Package: xstow
Version: 1.0.0-2.1
Severity: normal
The Debian version of xstow is built with
rules: --sysconfdir=/etc/xstow
Therefore the manual page for xstow needs to be edited to reflect
this change.
--- xstow.1.orig2010-07-22 21:15:10.0 +0100
+++
Package: xstow
Version: 1.0.0-2.1
Severity: normal
It appears that nobody bothered to proofread the xstow.ini.5 manual page.
The most obvious problem is that every occurrence of "traverse-links"
has been written as "traserve-links".
Here is a suggested revision of the introductory section to
Package: xstow
Version: 1.0.0-2.1
Severity: normal
In the manual page for xstow provded in package version 1.0.0-2.1, it states
-d -dir DIR
Set stow dir to DIR. The default is the current directory.
-d -target DIR
Set target to DIR. The default is the
Package: php5-common
Version: 5.6.28+dfsg-0+deb8u1
Followup-For: Bug #783246
Allowing some white space on the priority line before the word priority
and around the equals sign in the get_priority function would be most welcome.
This strictness results for me in duplicate symlinks with wrong
In the bug report I wrote --
QUOTE
I am probably misunderstanding something here, because I do not understand
how these variables $height and $width can have a value at this point in the
script
other than undefined (rendering the test for non defined value pointless) since
they
have not
Package: bdf2psf
Version: 1.123
Severity: normal
In the script /usr/bin/bdf2psf in the section for reading the BDF
starting at
### READ BDFs
for my $bdf (@bdfs) {
there are tests
if ($height) {
and
if ($width)
Concerning the undefined symbol "php_XML_SetUserData" in
/usr/lib/php/20151012/wddx.so,
this symbol "php_XML_SetUserData" appears to be defined in
/usr/lib/php/20151012/xml.so
Therfore the plugin wddx must be loaded after the plugin xml.so
The Debian configuration priority for xml and wddx
Package: webalizer
Version: 2.23.08-1+b1
Severity: normal
The Debian webalizer package supplies a daily cron job which invokes
webalizer with its default configuration file
${WEBALIZER} -c ${i} -Q ${NLOGFILE};
where ${i} will have the value /etc/webalizer/webalizer.conf
for at least one
Package: webalizer
Version: 2.23.08-1+b1
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
The webalizer daily cron job can be easily modified to remove any
generated "usage" files older than MAX_DAY_AGE in order to prevent
perpetual growth without other intervention of the output directory.
If MAX_DAY_AGE is not
Package: sarg
Version: 2.3.6-1+b1
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
sarg-reports is a very useful script called by sarg script in
cron.{daily,weekly,monthly}
to create Squid analysis reports under the respective Daily, Weekly, or Monthly
directory.
However, as the warning in the script says,
===
This has been a long standing problem for Debian and reflects a lack
of coordination between the package maintainers and a lack of ordering
of cron job priorities.
The simple way to get around this issue, which also
Package: ntp
Version: 1:4.2.6.p5+dfsg-7+deb8u1
Followup-For: Bug #749761
Further to my original report of nearly TWO YEARS AGO, the extractions of
statsdir can be simplified with just the use of sed without the unecessary
and wasteful use of cat or grep, and take account of any leading
Package: php5-fpm
Version: 5.6.17+dfsg-0+deb8u1
Severity: normal
In the /etc/init.d/php5-fpm script, the PIDFILE path is extracted from
the /etc/php5/fpm/php-fpm.conf configuration file.
Multiple white space, both space and tabs, are allowed in this file
and therefore the initscript should be
Package: mime-support
Version: 3.58
Severity: normal
My understanding was that file extensions in /etc/mime.types must map
to only one MIME type, but perhaps I am in error?
In /etc/mime.types supplied with latest Debian 8.2 (Jessie) the
file extension "ent" appears twice --
Package: libmng-dev
Version: 1.0.10+dfsg-3.1+b3
Severity: normal
Tags: upstream
The header files for libmng consist of libmng.h, libmng_conf.h, and
libmng_types.h.
The header file libmng_types.h includes jpeglib.h.
Running a test program (as part of configurating mplayer build from
latest SVN
Package: samba-dev
Version: 2:4.1.11+dfsg-1~bpo70+1
Severity: normal
On Debian Release 7.7 (current Debian stable) it appears not to be
possible to install the samba-dev package.
apt-get --simulate --ignore-hold install samba-dev
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading
Package: libsasl2-dev
Version: 2.1.25.dfsg1-6+deb7u1
Severity: normal
The libsasl2-dev package does not include the much needed pkg-config file
/usr/lib/pkgconfig/libsasl2.pc
Please include pkg-config .pc files in all (as appropriate) dev
packages.
Also, it would be great, if
Package: ntp
Version: 1:4.2.6.p5+dfsg-2
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
The configuration file /etc/ntp.conf contains a line specifying the
statsdir path. There may be multiple spaces and/or tabs between the statsdir
specifier and the actual specified path value.
The daily cron job
Package: src:linux
Version: 3.2.57-3+deb7u1
Severity: normal
The openrd-client has an onboard sound device.
Trying to active this onboard sound device with the just arrived new version
of the kernel in Debian 7.5 with
modprobe -a snd-soc-cs42151
results in
[24745.574824] cs42l51-codec
Ben Hutchings explained:
It wants to allocate 256KB of contiguous memory. This is fairly likely
to fail unless it's done at boot time or the system has plenty of free
memory (much more than 256KB).
Adding
snd_soc_cs42l51
snd-soc-openrd
to /etc/modules to ensure the modules
Package: pulseaudio-utils
Version: 2.0-6.1
Severity: normal
Tags: upstream
The pulseaudio utility program pacmd should return meaningful exit codes --
0 for success or 1[...N] when it fails to perform a specified action.
In its current state in Debian 7.5 (pacmd 2.0, compiled with libpulse
===
Martin Oberzalek released a new version 1.0.1 of xstow on 2014-01-02
which fixes the compilation error
ref.h:208:3: error: cannot allocate an object of abstract type
âArg::Ruleâ
operator V() const {
Package: hdparm
Version: 9.39-1+b1
Severity: normal
In the documentation provided with hdparm, there is the file
/usr/share/doc/hdparm/README.Debian.gz
which contains introductory generic information for hard disk tuning
QUOTE
hdparm for Debian
-
General hard disk tuning:
Package: mediatomb-common
Version: 0.12.1-4+b1
Severity: grave
The MediaTomb daemon executable in Wheezy is linked to libfaac
ldd /usr/bin/mediatomb | grep libfaac
libfaac.so.0 = not found
In Wheezy, no package provides libfaac.so.0
Therefore the MediaTomb daemon fails to run.
Package: gkrellmd
Version: 2.3.5-3
Severity: normal
When gkrellmd is started with the supplied init.d script, it creates
a PID file, by default in /var/run/gkrellmd.pid
When gkrellmd is stopped with the supplied init.d script, it stops
the daemon but fails to remove the PID file.
Thus
Package: src:linux
Version: 3.2.32-1
Severity: normal
File: linux
Since the latest upgrade to the kernel 3.2.0-4-amd64, GPFs are
becoming a daily occurrence, in particular _raw_spin_lock_irqsave
[ 8541.864912] Pid: 7549, comm: emacs Tainted: P O
3.2.0-4-amd64 #1 Debian 3.2.32-1
Package: xserver-xorg-core
Version: 2:1.12.3.902-1
Severity: minor
Debian's custom defoma font configuration system has been withdrawn from
service,
but the latest(?) Debian Xorg binary from xserver-xorg-core 2:1.12.3.902-1
still contains a hard coded path to a defoma directory.
Xorg.0.log
Package: libstroke0-dev
Version: 0.5.1-6
Followup-For: Bug #302907
After more than 7 years of a patch being supplied to fix this problem,
how many more years are required for the issue to be resolved?
Still the problem persists today in 2012 ...
autoreconf -fiv
autoreconf: Entering
Package: xaw3dg
Version: 1.5+E-18.2
Severity: normal
Since the last upgrade of libXaw3d to multiarch format, xless linked
with libXaw3d crashes with Segmentation fault when the Search button
in the
Package: fvwm
Version: 1:2.5.30.ds-1.1
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
The version of FVWM in Debian (even in sid) is 2.5.30.
The Official Download Web page of FVWM states that
Note! Versions prior to 2.6.0 are no longer supported.
Therefore please update the version in Debian to the
Package: src
Version: 3.2.21-3
Severity: important
Up until about 10 days ago, for this i386 machine with Debian testing
and AGP Asus Radeon 9200 ATI RV280, with radeon kernel module, kernel mode
switching was working, plymouth in graphical mode (solar theme) worked,
and last time I checked the
Package: libxaw3dxft6
Version: 2.9.1.4-3+b2
Severity: normal
When libXaw3d was available, it was possible to do
LD_PRELOAD=libXaw3d.so athena_widget_program
and see the athena_widget_program with 3d widgets.
The fonts displayed in the windows were those specified either
via the command line
===
Sorry, this was my fault.
I have subsequently discovered that I had an outdated zlib installation
v1.2.5 in /usr/local (used for an application compiled and installed in
/usr/local), and it was the presence of this
Package: asclock-themes
Version: 2.0.12-22
Severity: minor
Is the presence of the Makefiles in the Freeamp theme directory
/usr/share/asclock/Freeamp/Makefile.am
/usr/share/asclock/Freeamp/Makefile
/usr/share/asclock/Freeamp/Makefile.in
an oversight, or are these being left in
Package: php5-common
Version: 5.4.0-2
Severity: critical
The latest update of the php5 related packages to version 5.4.0-2
fails with the installation of php5-common
Setting up php5-common (5.4.0-2) ...
**
Package: php5-curl
Version: 5.4.0-2
Severity: critical
Having removed the incorrectly inserted local from the
post installation of php5-common in order to get that to install
diffphp5-common.postinst~ php5-common.postinst
21,22c21,22
local md5sum=$(md5sum
Package: changetrack
Version: 4.7-1
Severity: wishlist
I extensively use changetrack to maintain an archive of
configuration files and as an alert system for when upgrades
change a configuration file.
At present in /var/lib/changetrack there are 7107 files and in the
RCS sub-directory 2357
Package: cups-filters
Version: 1.0.2-1
Severity: normal
Today's update/upgrade on Debian testing failed due to a problem
with latest cups-filter package 1.0.2-1
apt-get -f upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Correcting
Package: geneweb
Version: 6.03-1
Severity: normal
In the manual page for gwc it states
The primary documentation of gwc is in the HTML documentation, which
you can find in the documentation directory (/usr/share/doc/geneweb on
Debian systems).
Please look there for complete and
Package: mailfilter
Version: 0.8.2-1
Severity: serious
Mailfilter crashes out if there is a problem with a timestamp
according to the log file
mailfilter: Pass: [message details]
mailfilter: Error: POP timestamp in message-ID invalid.
mailfilter: Error: Parsing the header of message 18
Package: proftpd-basic
Version: 1.3.4a-1
Severity: normal
After upgrading to 1.3.4a-1, it is no longer possible to make a
connection to proftpd started by xinetd.
Instead of giving the connection message and the username prompt,
this happens
Connected to ocelot
ocelot proftpd[18520]: using
Package: dosemu
Version: 1.4.0+svn.2010-1
Severity: critical
On running dosemu on both i386 and amd64 installed Debian Testing,
the result is the same -- Bus Error
on i386
Reading symbols from /usr/bin/dosemu.bin...(no debugging symbols
found)...done.
(gdb) run
Starting program:
Package: proftpd-basic
Version: 1.3.4a-1
Severity: normal
If the installation of proftpd-basic is removed with dpkg --purge,
everything under /srv/ftp is wiped.
As /srv/ftp most likely contains the archive file collection for
distribution by anonymous ftp, is it really a good idea to do
a
Thank you for your quick response.
At 20:02h, on Wednesday, December 07, 2011,
in message 20111207190214.gi1...@radis.cristau.org,
on the subject of Re: Bug#651318: xserver-xorg: EQ overflowing -- probably
stuck in an infinite loop, you wrote -
Crashes how?
The screen goes totally black,
Package: vorbis-tools
Version: 1.4.0-1
Severity: normal
Debian Testing with ogg123 from vorbis-tools 1.4.0
Pulse audio is running and paplay /usr/share/gnome-games/sounds/gameover.ogg
works and correctly plays the sound through pulse.
Trying to use ogg123 with an ogg file works if -d oss or -d
Package: fluxbox
Version: 1.3.2-2
Severity: normal
When changing the style setting from the Fluxbox root window menu,
the color of the text in the focused window and other unfocused windows
title bars as specified by
window.label.focus.textColor
window.label.unfocus.textColor
does not
Package: exim4
Version: 4.77-1
Severity: normal
Three machines
ns-11 (armv5tel) running Debian stableexim4 : 4.72-6+squeeze2
libgnutls2 : 2.8.6-1
ocelot (i386) running Debian testing exim4 : 4.77-1
libgnutls26 : 2.12.11-1
puma (amd64)running Debian
Package: gdm
Version: 2.20.11-4
Severity: normal
gdm sadly exists no more in Testing and so after today's upgrade,
it was necessary to purge the configuration files.
This caused /etc/X11/Xsession to be deleted which should not have
happened because this file is also part of x11-common, xdm, and
Package: xfishtank
Version: 2.2-25.1+b1
Severity: normal
usage: xfishtank
...
[-p file] fish swim on picture in file
...
and from the manual page for xfishtank
OPTIONS
-p file Fish swim on picture in file
but
Package: pekwm
Version: 0.1.13-1
Severity: normal
The pekwm package has just been updated which much appreciated.
In the config files various absolute paths eg /usr/share/pekwm
have been replaced with variable strings eg $_PEKWM_THEME_PATH
The pekwm theme change script
As the versions of nmh and libdb2 have now long since changed,
from when the bug was reported, this bug should be closed.
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As Icewm has longed since moved from version 1.2.X to 1.3.X
and this bug is no longer present, the bug should be closed.
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Package: ascd
Version: 0.13.2-5
Severity: normal
It is to be expected that ascd will be used as an always on application
docked in the Afterstep wharf.
However, it is probable that a CD disc will not always be present in the
CD device assigned to ascd.
Even though no disc is present, ascd
Package: wmbutton
Version: 0.6.1-3.1
Severity: normal
If the mouse is positioned over one of the wmbutton mini-buttons
and Mouse Button 1 or 3 is clicked, then the button is seen to
depress and the appropriate application (if defined) is launched.
Clicking on Mouse Button 2 (middle button) on
Package: gnomint
Version: 1.2.1-2
Severity: normal
The first time gnomint is used, all works as expected.
Then after using the Quit entry in the Certificates menu, and restarting,
a smallish (probably 320x320) window appears which expands to a size almost
filling the screen, which then crashes
Package: cheesetracker
Version: 0.9.15.3-4+b1
Severity: minor
The amd64 package version of cheesetracker has a dependency on libgmp3c2
but the i386 version does not.
Should there be such a difference?
-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500,
Package: alsa-source
Version: 1.0.23+dfsg-4
Followup-For: Bug #627152
This bug is not specific to amd64 platform but also the i686 platform
as well.
I have linux-headers-2.6.38-2-686 installed
0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root35 2011-05-26 03:26 linux -
/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.38-2-686/
Package: ca-certificates-java
Version: 20110426
Severity: normal
The following error occurred when trying to upgrade to the
newly released version of ca-certificates-java
Setting up ca-certificates-java (20110426) ...
Cannot open Java keystore. Is the password correct? Message:
Keystore was
Package: dictionaries-common
Version: 1.10.6
Severity: normal
The dictionaries-common package contains two dangling symbolic links
in /usr/lib/ispell
0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 36 2011-03-28 16:16 default.aff -
/etc/dictionaries-common/default.aff
0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 37 2011-03-28 16:16
/false.
Should the upgrade of fetchmail be changing the login shell
without even asking?
Thank you for your consideration of this matter.
J G Miller
-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux
/default/dwww.
In this way, local directory trees such as /usr/local/X11R6/man
or /usr/local/share/doc can be added.
Why /usr/local/doc is specified in the original, rather than
/usr/local/share/doc is not clear.
Thanks for your support,
J G Miller
-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy
,
commented out for the default case, as is usually standard for most other
Debian packages.
Thank you for considering this point.
J G Miller
-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.38-2-686 (SMP
Package: gtk2-engines
Version: 1:2.20.1-1
Severity: normal
The package description states --
Description: theme engines for GTK+ 2.x
...
* Metal, which gives a metallic look;
but the Metal engine and theme is absent from the packages
in Lenny, Wheezy, and sid.
Please could you put this
Package: libproc-processtable-perl
Version: 0.45-1
Severity: normal
Whilst setting up mon (monitoring system) with the ps.monitor script
which uses Proc::ProcessTable to get a list of the processes on the
system, I discovered that processes with very long names are being
truncated, thus causing a
Package: ocaml-nox
Version: 3.10.2-3
Followup-For: Bug #569915
Stephane,
Thank you for your quick response and explanation as to
why the /usr/bin/ocamlopt executable is not present in the
arm architecture package.
With your information concerning butecode native-code compilers,
a check on the
Package: ocaml-nox
Version: 3.10.2-3
Severity: normal
The package contains the manual page for ocamlopt but not
the executable /usr/bin/ocamlopt.
The i386 architecture version of this package contains
the ocamlopt executable, so its omission from the arm
architecture package appears to be a bug,
the update nor respect the
settings in ucf.conf and leave this file untouched?
Thanks in advance,
J G Miller
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.2
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: arm (armv5tel)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-ixp4xx
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE
Package: mailutils
Version: 1:1.2+dfsg1-4
Followup-For: Bug #510949
With a .mailrc file containing just two alias definitions
and no other settings or even lines, mailx will crash with
a segmentation fault when invoked either as root or another
user in the manner
mail user
to send
Package: amule-daemon
Version: 2.2.1-1+lenny2
Severity: normal
I have freshly installed the new amule-daemon package.
The following NEW packages will be installed:
amule-daemon
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 1266kB of archives.
After this
Package: exmh
Version: 1:2.7.2-4
Severity: wishlist
Would it be possible to use ISO 8601 format dates in your exmh version string?
set exmh(version) version 2.7.2 2005-01-07 (debian 1:2.7.2-4)
instead of
set exmh(version) version 2.7.2 01/07/2005 (debian 1:2.7.2-4)
Package: netwag-doc
Version: 5.30.0-1
Severity: normal
On trying to upgrade netwag-doc to the latest version 5.30.0-1,
the installation process fails with the error message
Setting up netwag-doc (5.30.0-1) ...
error in control file: `Files' value not specified at
/usr/sbin/install-docs line
Package: netwox-doc
Version: 5.30.0-1
Severity: normal
On trying to upgrade netwox-doc to the latest version 5.30.0-1,
the process fails with the error
Setting up netwox-doc (5.30.0-1) ...
error in control file: `Files' value not specified at
/usr/sbin/install-docs line 617, IN line 9.
dpkg:
Package: kdm
Version: 4:3.3.1-4
Severity: normal
On trying to install the latest version of kdm,
4%3a3.3.2-1_i386
the installation process fails with the following error messages
dpkg -i kdm_4%3a3.3.2-1_i386.deb
(Reading database ... 349744 files and directories
Package: lirc
Version: 0.7.0.1-2
Severity: normal
Installation of the latest package version
lirc_0.7.1pre1-1_i386.deb
fails with the following error messages.
(Reading database ... 349744 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace lirc
Package: xplanet
Version: 1.1.2-1
Severity: wishlist
When upgrading a version of xplanet, the procedure should
only create .dpkg-new configuration files if the new version
is different from the version present on the system.
/etc/xplanet/satellites/iss.dpkg-new
Apologies for the misattributed bug report.
This problem is due to a bug in debconf and not the lirc package.
Moving /etc/debconf.conf out of the way allowed the latest lirc
package to be installed without error.
Package: i2c-source
Version: 1:2.9.0-11
Severity: wishlist
When installing a custome kernel image, the on screen blurb advises,
if a /lib/modules/same_kernel_version directory is detected, to move
that directory out of the way. If that is done, then on trying to
install the kernel image, if a
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