Bug#972950: ncal: cal fails to highlight current date (and rejects -h flag)

2021-10-21 Thread Norman Ramsey
Package: ncal Version: 12.1.7+nmu3 Followup-For: Bug #972950 Dear Maintainer, The regression is annoying, but if absolute compatibility with original `cal` must be maintained, I can live with that. However, in that case the man page needs to be corrected. Note to other users: using `ncal -b`

Bug#992296: Acknowledgement (texlive-latex-recommended: index package warns that \markboth and \markright have changed)

2021-08-19 Thread Norman Ramsey
I have learned that this issue was fixed upstream, but not until TeXLive 2021. The fix can be found at https://github.com/latex3/latex2e/pull/518/commits/ab0cb06c45dd7beca0569a1b4004e5a1d5de0a70

Bug#992296: texlive-latex-recommended: index package warns that \markboth and \markright have changed

2021-08-16 Thread Norman Ramsey
upstream and just needs to be packaged) or an upstream issue (most recent `index.sty` is at fault). Norman Ramsey ## minimal input file \documentclass{book} \usepackage{index} \begin{document} try me \end{document} ## other

Bug#969915: pdfsandwich: permissions are to restrictive, not respecting umask

2020-09-08 Thread Norman Ramsey
pdf -rw--- 1 nr nr 1937185 Aug 4 09:17 ultimate-goto_ocr.pdf nr@homedog ~/a/p/guy-steele> umask 0002 I expected generated file ultimate-goto_ocr.pdf to have permission -rw-rw-r--. Norman Ramsey -- System Information: Debian Release: 10.5 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy

Bug#468225: pdfjam: pdfnup does not use /etc/papersize

2020-07-22 Thread Norman Ramsey
by running command paperconf -a -s -m -n on my Debian system, so perhaps if libpaper-utils could be added to the build dependencies for texlive-extra-utils, the whole process could be automated. I hope someone else has the skills to move this fix forward. Norman Ramsey

Bug#949389: nmh: after version upgrade, mh_build not run on outgoing messages

2020-03-27 Thread Norman Ramsey
> norman, sorry for the late response; i didn't find any time for nmh until > now... Help always arrives better late than never! > i do concur that forw -mime, with a plain 'send' at the whatnowproc prompt > does not translate #forw... directives; i just tried it with a trivial >

Bug#949389: nmh: after version upgrade, mh_build not run on outgoing messages

2020-01-20 Thread Norman Ramsey
.mh_profile, which borders on frightening. You'll see I have a custom whatnow, but I've confirmed the same issue occurs with the stock whatnow. Norman Ramsey -- System Information: Debian Release: 10.2 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable'), (200

Bug#947504: jack: crashes on tagging

2019-12-28 Thread Norman Ramsey
> Hi, > > On Fri, Dec 27, 2019 at 01:41:38PM -0500, Norman Ramsey wrote: > > I'm ripping and tagging a new CD. At the tagging step, jack crashes > > with an error message and stack trace (demonstration below). > > The outcome I expected was that the files wou

Bug#947505: jack: "jack -G help" crashes with error message

2019-12-27 Thread Norman Ramsey
Package: jack Version: 3.1.1+cvs20050801-31 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, I was trying to discover valid genres by using the "-G help" option documented on the man page. I expected some sort of list to be output, but instead I got a traceback: nr@homedog ~/j/T/Lateralus> jack -G help

Bug#947504: jack: crashes on tagging

2019-12-27 Thread Norman Ramsey
Package: jack Version: 3.1.1+cvs20050801-31 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, I'm ripping and tagging a new CD. At the tagging step, jack crashes with an error message and stack trace (demonstration below). The outcome I expected was that the files would be tagged. nr@homedog

Bug#921263: Info received (Thunar ignores dark theme)

2019-10-07 Thread Norman Ramsey
to work. Good luck! Norman Ramsey

Bug#921263: Thunar ignores dark theme

2019-10-06 Thread Norman Ramsey
I'm seeing similar issues. Using lxappearance or the lxde/xfce desktop tool to change the theme has no affect on Thunar's appearance. Checking both .gtkrc-2.0 and .config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini shows that the them is set correctly.

Bug#852436: delete prior message

2018-03-06 Thread Norman Ramsey
I spoke too soon. Going back and bumping the new HTTP timeouts up to larger values allowed the system to settle down after a few minutes. I set HttpLocalTimeout 10 HttpRemoteTimeout 50 and this seems to have done the trick. There are still occasional bursts of 100% CPU usage, but they pass

Bug#852436: followup---patches not improving issue

2018-03-06 Thread Norman Ramsey
Filters - Share ii libcupsfilters 1.11.6-3.1 i386 Debug symbols for libcupsfilters1 Could there be some other package I have failed to install? Or something else I might need to do? Norman Ramsey

Bug#874264: dash: 'command -v' mistakenly returns a shell script whose executable is not set

2017-09-04 Thread Norman Ramsey
Package: dash Version: 0.5.8-2.4 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, I tracked a build bug in s-nail to a problem with dash. Symptom: building s-nail tries to run /home/nr/bin/clang, a script whose executable bit is not set. We tracked the problem to the result of running `command -v clang`

Bug#867623: heirloom-mailx is not an alternative for /usr/bin/mailx

2017-07-19 Thread Norman Ramsey
> |Sorry, I think I misunderstand something. I would think that > |participation in update-alternatives would be a packaging issue, not > |an upstream issue. And I don't see a connection to custom headers... > > It was my understanding that we have been removed as an > alternative

Bug#867623: heirloom-mailx is not an alternative for /usr/bin/mailx

2017-07-18 Thread Norman Ramsey
> Norman Ramsey <n...@cs.tufts.edu> wrote: > |I upgraded from jessie to stretch, and I expected to continue using > |heirloom-mailx as my implementation of mailx. But my system was > |somehow switched to bsd-mailx. Worse, update-alternatives is not > |cap

Bug#867683: prototypejs: apt-get cannot download the source package

2017-07-08 Thread Norman Ramsey
Source: prototypejs Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, I'm trying to download the source package so I can work around bug #785314. I expected to be able to download it with apt-get, but apt-get cannot find it. But apt-get cannot find the source package: nr@homedog ~/tmp> sudo apt-get source

Bug#867623: heirloom-mailx is not an alternative for /usr/bin/mailx

2017-07-07 Thread Norman Ramsey
gon to know for sure. Norman Ramsey -- System Information: Debian Release: 9.0 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: amd64 Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=UT

Bug#866922: apt: 1024-bit signature misleadingly reported as 'invalid'

2017-07-02 Thread Norman Ramsey
. The outcome I would have preferred is an error message saying that the signature, while verified as valid according to the APT keyring, will not be accepted because apt-get requires a signature of at least 2048 bits, and the given signature has only 1024. Please improve the error message. Norman Ramsey

Bug#860837: Acknowledgement (dash: single quote does not protect \f from being converted to form feed)

2017-04-20 Thread Norman Ramsey
with the dash man page, so I cannot blame dash for anything. I apologize for the noise---please close this bug report. Norman Ramsey

Bug#860837: dash: single quote does not protect \f from being converted to form feed

2017-04-20 Thread Norman Ramsey
Package: dash Version: 0.5.7-4+b1 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, As it says on the man page and in the POSIX standard, the single quote is supposed to prevent escape sequences from being expanded. It's broken: nr@homedog ©105/c/lambda-solo> /bin/dash : nr@homedog ! ; echo '\f.\x.x'

Bug#849689: arandr: please change python dependency to python:any

2016-12-29 Thread Norman Ramsey
Package: arandr Version: 0.1.7.1-1 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, I'm running a multiarch jessie system, default architecture is i386. I tried to install arandr with python:amd64 installed, but because arandr depends on python and not python:any, it doesn't work. Documentation can be

Bug#801146: nvidia driver bug

2016-11-04 Thread Norman Ramsey
Oops. Nvidia fixed this bug in one of the 35x versions. I am almost certain it will have been fixed in 367.44. (Just now, I don't have access to the relevant machine.) Sorry not to have let you known---it took Nvidia about 6 months to respond.

Bug#789536: findutils: find -name pattern does not match when same pattern matches in shell

2015-12-29 Thread Norman Ramsey
> On 2015-06-22 Norman Ramsey <n...@cs.tufts.edu> wrote: > > Package: findutils > > Version: 4.4.2-9+b1 > > Severity: normal > > > Dear Maintainer, > > > What led up to the situation is a faulty library resulted in some file > > na

Bug#809164: xcalib: bundled ICC profiles are missing

2015-12-27 Thread Norman Ramsey
Package: xcalib Version: 0.8.dfsg1-2 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, The upstream README refers to bundled ICC profiles for gamma 1.0 and gamma 1.2. But these profiles (gamma_1_0.icc and gamma_2_2.icc) are not included in the Debian distribution. (Or at least dpkg -L does not find them).

Bug#801146: Acknowledgement (nvidia-driver: resume crashes X server when Dell P2715Q is power-save or off (GTX 960))

2015-10-06 Thread Norman Ramsey
The Ubuntu report I mentioned is at https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg/+bug/1493921

Bug#800554: nvidia-kernel-dkms: kernel module won't build for 3.16.0-4-amd64 (missing rule in Makefile)

2015-10-02 Thread Norman Ramsey
> > - The X server will not start. I have attached the Xorg.0.log. > > Now that is quite strange, I've never seen that error: > > /dev/dri/card0: failed to set DRM interface version 1.4: Inappropriate > ioctl for device [ 260.044] (--) PCI:*(0:1:0:0) 10de:1401:1043:8520 rev > 161,

Bug#800554: nvidia-kernel-dkms: here's the good configuration

2015-10-02 Thread Norman Ramsey
Package: nvidia-kernel-dkms Followup-For: Bug #800554 Dear Maintainer, As promised in a separate email, I have run reportbug to get a snapshot of what the configuration looks like when nvidia-kernel-dkms version 351.41 is running against an amd64 kernel with an i386 userland. I hope this is

Bug#798136: wmbattery does not update display after launching

2015-09-08 Thread Norman Ramsey
> I'm not able to reproduce this problem, so I'm downgrading the bug to > important. Could you provide some more information? OK, now *I* can't reproduce it. It hit on three long-haul airplane flights, but now, nothing. I've just returned home and the laptop is going back into the closet.

Bug#798136: wmbattery does not update display after launching

2015-09-05 Thread Norman Ramsey
Package: wmbattery Version: 2.48-1 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable Dear Maintainer, After a recent upgrade from wheezy to jessie, wmbattery no longer tracks battery information in real time. The time remaining and charge percentage are accurate when launched, but they

Bug#795439: poppler-utils: pdftotext incorrectly rendering some vertical bars as form feeds

2015-08-13 Thread Norman Ramsey
Package: poppler-utils Version: 0.26.5-2 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, Running pdftotext on the attached PDF produces some spurious form feeds. I'm using pdftotext to extract text for indexing an 800-page document, and the spurious form feeds throw off the page counts. I've worked around

Bug#794287: mathpartir: /usr/share/doc/mathpartir/mathpartir.dvi.gz is a symbolic link to a PDF file

2015-07-31 Thread Norman Ramsey
Package: mathpartir Version: 1.2.0-4 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, I tried to view /usr/share/doc/mathpartir/mathpartir.dvi.gz with a DVI viewer that understands .gz files. But that file is now a symbolic link to a PDF file. If you can't provide the .dvi.gz that was in past versions, please

Bug#792128: exiftran: fails when inode numbers exceed 32 bits

2015-07-11 Thread Norman Ramsey
. This is a problem on large XFS filesystems. . fbi (2.09-1.1) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium . * Non-maintainer upload. * Support for large inode numbers (more than 32 bits) Author: Norman Ramsey n...@cs.tufts.edu --- The information above should follow the Patch Tagging Guidelines, please checkout http

Bug#789534: lua-posix: posix.stat fails given a very large inode number

2015-06-21 Thread Norman Ramsey
Package: lua-posix Version: 31-2 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, I was using Lua function posix.stat to check to ensure a given pathname is a directory, when surprisingly, it failed with an error message. Given the same pathname, stat(1) succeeds. I suspect that the issue is that the inode

Bug#789534: large inode numbers are normal; _FILE_OFFSET_BITS 64 might work

2015-06-21 Thread Norman Ramsey
It turns out that for an XFS filesystem of more than 1TB, 64-bit inode numbers are normal. Recompiling the source with #define _FILE_OFFSET_BITS 64 might solve the problem. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Bug#789536: findutils: find -name pattern does not match when same pattern matches in shell

2015-06-21 Thread Norman Ramsey
Package: findutils Version: 4.4.2-9+b1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, What led up to the situation is a faulty library resulted in some file names that had DEL and other ugly characters embedded. In trying to track down these files, I used find(1), but didn't find anything. Very surprising.

Bug#785741: nmh: forw -mi results in a message that post will not send

2015-05-19 Thread Norman Ramsey
Package: nmh Version: 1.6-2 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, * What led up to the situation? I upgraded from wheezy to jessie. I tried to forward an email message using `forw -mi` * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or ineffective)? 1. Ran forw -mi 2.

Bug#785650: mpv will not launch

2015-05-18 Thread Norman Ramsey
Package: mpv Version: 0.6.2-2 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable Dear Maintainer, * What led up to the situation? I wanted to play a video. * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or ineffective)? At a shell prompt, I typed /usr/bin/mpv

Bug#785315: liblensfun-data: debian/control file needs updating to support multiarch dependencies

2015-05-14 Thread Norman Ramsey
Package: liblensfun-data Version: 0.2.8-2 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, * What led up to the situation? I asked aptitude to install liblensfun0:amd64 on a newly upgraded jessie multiarch system. Dpkg reports as follows: : nr@homedog 10074 ; dpkg

Bug#785313: libjs-scriptaculous: debian/control needs Multi-Arch: foreign or Multi-Arch: all

2015-05-14 Thread Norman Ramsey
Package: libjs-scriptaculous Version: 1.9.0-2 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, * What led up to the situation? I asked aptitude to install darktable:amd64 on a newly upgraded jessie multiarch system. Dpkg reports as follows: : nr@homedog 10074 ; dpkg

Bug#785314: libjs-prototype: debian/control file needs updating to support multiarch dependencies

2015-05-14 Thread Norman Ramsey
Package: libjs-prototype Version: 1.7.1-3 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, * What led up to the situation? I asked aptitude to install darktable:amd64 on a newly upgraded jessie multiarch system. Dpkg reports as follows: : nr@homedog 10074 ; dpkg --print-architecture

Bug#785163: followup -- package liblensfun0 is similarly affected

2015-05-12 Thread Norman Ramsey
I've installed darktable:amd64's dependencies by hand, and I've confirmed that /usr/bin/darktable launches and the user interface looks right. (And that the 64-bit version is much more responsive than the 32-bit version was!) To do this I had to use dpkg -i --force-depends, and I had to do

Bug#785163: darktable: package dependency on libjs-scriptaculous:amd64 prevents installation

2015-05-12 Thread Norman Ramsey
Source: darktable Version: darktable:amd64 1.4.2-1+b3 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, * What led up to the situation? I asked aptitude to install darktable:amd64 on a newly upgraded jessie multiarch system. Dpkg reports as follows: : nr@homedog 10074 ; dpkg

Bug#765510: lzma can't open a 22GB file

2014-10-15 Thread Norman Ramsey
Package: lzma Version: 9.22-2 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, I tried to compress a large file using lzma. But lzma failed to open the file. The command line was lzma -v9 filtermail.log lzma failed with an error message 'Cannot open input file filtermail.log'. The file in question is

Bug#760205: texlive-luatex: luatex otfload ignores /etc/fonts/conf.d

2014-09-04 Thread Norman Ramsey
On 01.09.14 Norman Ramsey (n...@cs.tufts.edu) wrote: Hi, Package: texlive-luatex Version: 2012.20120611-5 Severity: important Do you have eventually a Debian unstable at hand you could you test if the problem is still in unstable? I suppose I could try to create one

Bug#760205: texlive-luatex: luatex otfload ignores /etc/fonts/conf.d

2014-09-04 Thread Norman Ramsey
Generated pdf file attached. Does this convice you that the bug is solved in unstable? Yes, thank you kindly. Sorry for the false alarm. Just not willing to run sid :-( Norman -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe.

Bug#760205: texlive-luatex: luatex otfload ignores /etc/fonts/conf.d

2014-09-01 Thread Norman Ramsey
Package: texlive-luatex Version: 2012.20120611-5 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, I'm trying to run lualatex using a newly installed font. mkluatextfontdb does not find the font. A look at the source suggests that luatex reads only /etc/fonts/fonts.conf. But on a Debian system it should

Bug#752914: ml-lpt: man page for ml-ulex cites the wrong PDF

2014-06-27 Thread Norman Ramsey
Package: ml-lpt Version: 110.76-1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, The man page for ml-ulex says: SEE ALSO sml(1), ml-antlr(1), ml-lex(1), ml-yacc(1). The programs are documented fully by CM: The SML/NJ Compilation and Library Manager, User Manual, Matthias Blume,

Bug#745450: ess: noweb-mode.el conflicts with Debian noweb package

2014-04-21 Thread Norman Ramsey
Package: ess Version: 12.04-4-1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, The ess package installs /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/ess/noweb-mode.el. This installation conflicts with the noweb package, which installs /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/noweb-mode.el. I'm reporting a bug against ess because upstream,

Bug#745450: fixed in Jessie

2014-04-21 Thread Norman Ramsey
I see that in Jessie, the file has been renamed. Please close this report. NR -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#742047: nmh: send calls spost with -mhlproc, which spost does not recognize

2014-03-18 Thread Norman Ramsey
Package: nmh Version: 1.5-release-0.2 Severity: normal Tags: patch Dear Maintainer, I'm reporting a problem with spost. * What led up to the situation? Not sure. Maybe an upgrade to nmh? * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or ineffective)? I have a

Bug#700461: android-tools-adb: does not support 2GB files (adb backup, etc)

2014-02-06 Thread Norman Ramsey
. . android-tools (4.2.2+git20130529-3) unstable; urgency=low . Author: Norman Ramsey n...@cs.tufts.edu Bug-Debian: http://bugs.debian.org/700461 --- android-tools-4.2.2+git20130529.orig/core/adb/sysdeps.h +++ android-tools-4.2.2+git20130529/core/adb/sysdeps.h @@ -344,6 +344,19 @@ static __inline__ int

Bug#700461: android-tools-adb: does not support 2GB files (adb backup, etc)

2014-02-06 Thread Norman Ramsey
restore from a large file. Author: Norman Ramsey n...@cs.tufts.edu Bugs-Debian: 700461 --- android-tools-4.2.2+git20130529.orig/core/adb/sysdeps.h +++ android-tools-4.2.2+git20130529/core/adb/sysdeps.h @@ -341,7 +341,7 @@ static __inline__ int unix_open(const c static __inline__ int

Bug#699935: texlive-binaries: pdftex does not respect texconfig paper-size specification

2013-02-08 Thread Norman Ramsey
I'm running plain TeX using 'pdftex', and it's producing A4 PDF. But I have configured it to use US letter paper both using texconfig interactively and by texconfig pdftex paper letter Something is wrong with the configuration. sid:~# texconfig pdftex paper

Bug#699935: texlive-binaries: pdftex does not respect texconfig paper-size specification

2013-02-06 Thread Norman Ramsey
Package: texlive-binaries Version: 2009-8 Severity: normal I'm running plain TeX using 'pdftex', and it's producing A4 PDF. But I have configured it to use US letter paper both using texconfig interactively and by texconfig pdftex paper letter Something is wrong with the configuration.

Bug#698593: mistake -- problem is in echo builtin

2013-01-21 Thread Norman Ramsey
all. Please close this ticket, and I apologize for the noise. Norman Ramsey -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#698593: dash does not obey POSIX quoting rules for backlashes in single quotes

2013-01-20 Thread Norman Ramsey
Package: dash Version: 0.5.5.1-7.4 Severity: important POSIX rules specify that a backslash receive no special treatment when within single quotes. Unfortunately dash does not obey: : nr@homedog 10452 ; /bin/ksh93 : nr@homedog 10453 ; echo 'hello\n' hello\n : nr@homedog 10454 ;

Bug#615256: par: please update man page to include correct home page

2013-01-19 Thread Norman Ramsey
Package: par Version: 1.52-3 Severity: normal The man page points to a web page at Berkeley. It should point to http://www.nicemice.net/par/ -- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0.6 APT prefers stable APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (100, 'testing')

Bug#632123: problem located and patched

2012-10-21 Thread Norman Ramsey
The problem with frankenstein.bib is an unclosed open brace on line 444. The entry has clearly been truncated, but the patch (attached) allows bibtex to process the file successfully. Norman Ramsey --- frankenstein.bib~ 2007-05-18 12:33:56.0 -0400 +++ frankenstein.bib2012-10-21 11

Bug#685244: thunar: drag and drop causes crash (under fvwm)

2012-08-18 Thread Norman Ramsey
Package: thunar Version: 1.0.2-1+b2 Severity: important I launched thunar on two folders, thus: thunar current/. craigslist I then zoomed in twice, dragged a photo from one folder to the other, and Thunar crashed, leaving this message on the console: GLib (gthread-posix.c): Unexpected error

Bug#685244: not reproducible in 1.2.3; please close

2012-08-18 Thread Norman Ramsey
I upgraded to 1.2.3-4+b1 from testing, and I can't reproduce the bug. Sorry for the noise. NR -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#684951: gparted: default partition table cannot work on 3TB drives

2012-08-14 Thread Norman Ramsey
Package: gparted Version: 0.7.0-1 Severity: normal gparted suggests an msdos partition table by default. Using another type requires opening the 'advanced' menu. As 3TB drives are now affordable, I think gparted should choose a different default for a drive of more than 2TB. I used the gtp type,

Bug#479706: etcgit to be packaged?

2012-07-14 Thread Norman Ramsey
This request seems to have fallen off the radar. I'm using etckeeper, but I would love to have etcgit's support for keeping pristine conffiles in a separate branch, for purposes of merging at upgrade time. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Bug#678886: xdg-utils: xdg-open does not open magnet links (for bittorrent)

2012-06-28 Thread Norman Ramsey
I have attempted to patch the code to use xdg-mime query default application/x-bittorrent My patch works on Debian in a generic desktop environment. I find the code somewhat ugly. The general idea is an optional second parameter to open_generic_xdg_mime()

Bug#678886: xdg-utils: xdg-open does not open magnet links (for bittorrent)

2012-06-24 Thread Norman Ramsey
Package: xdg-utils Version: 1.0.2+cvs20100307-2 Severity: normal Tags: patch xdg-open currently cannot handle magnet: links. It should probably be rewritten to recognize such links and call xdg-mime, as in $ xdg-mime query default application/x-bittorrent

Bug#677036: latexmk does not see files read in using \verbatiminput

2012-06-11 Thread Norman Ramsey
Package: latexmk Version: 1:4.24-1 Severity: important A file read using \verbatiminput{mumble.tex} is not seen as a dependency. I've confirmed by inspecting the database and by using the -diagnostics option. -- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0.5 APT prefers stable APT policy:

Bug#668470: alsa-base: followup --- more amixer settings

2012-06-05 Thread Norman Ramsey
Package: alsa-base Version: 1.0.23+dfsg-2 Severity: normal I'm also seeing this bug. Output from amixer attached. -- Package-specific info: --- Begin additional package status --- Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold |

Bug#661635: noweb: patches for python

2012-03-17 Thread Norman Ramsey
Ross, I am delighted that someone wants to improve noweb's support for Python, and I took a quick look at your patches. I'm sorry to report that I am not very happy with the decisions that you have made. Perhaps we can work together to identify a way that noweb can support Python which will be

Bug#479659: any hope for progress?

2011-12-18 Thread Norman Ramsey
It's a real shame that disagreements about packaging have left us with wine packages that are wildly out of date. Perhaps it is better to have badly packaged software that is up to date than to have well-packaged software that is never updated? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#648211: dictionaries-common: fails to install because of problem with mktemp -- missing dependency?

2011-11-09 Thread Norman Ramsey
Package: dictionaries-common Version: 1.11.8 Severity: important I'm upgrading an old lenny system to squeeze. This package fails to install because during the installation process, it calls 'mktemp' with an argument that it doesn't recognize. Probably a suitable dependency would fix the

Bug#632121: texlive-bibtex-extra: ill-formatted /usr/share/texmf-texlive/bibtex/bib/amsrefs/amsj.bib

2011-06-29 Thread Norman Ramsey
Package: texlive-bibtex-extra Version: 2009-10 Severity: normal Tags: upstream The file /usr/share/texmf-texlive/bibtex/bib/amsrefs/amsj.bib uses % as a comment character. The % is not a valid comment character in bibtex files, and it breaks bibtex: : nr@homedog 10040 ; latex bug This is

Bug#632123: texlive-bibtex-extra: ill-formatted /usr/share/texmf-texlive/bibtex/bib/frankenstein/frankenstein.bib

2011-06-29 Thread Norman Ramsey
Package: texlive-bibtex-extra Version: 2009-10 Severity: normal Tags: upstream The file /usr/share/texmf-texlive/bibtex/bib/frankenstein/frankenstein.bib is not a valid bibtex file. It's probably missing a quote or bracket or something. FYI, I found this error with /usr/bin/nbibfind, which I

Bug#627564: debianutils: 'tempfile' should be deprecated

2011-05-21 Thread Norman Ramsey
Package: debianutils Version: 3.4 Severity: minor It's never clear to me whether new code should use tempfile or mktemp. Trawling the Internet suggests that mktemp is preferred and tempfile is deprecated. If the Debian maintainers agree, the man page for tempfile should say that it is

Bug#563154: f-spot: larger stack trace

2011-04-15 Thread Norman Ramsey
Package: f-spot Version: 0.6.2-2 Severity: normal Following directions from the gnome pages, I produced a larger stack trace with more information, which is attached to this report. Unfortunately the stack trace triggers a bug in GDB which causes it to continue writing until the disk fills. I

Bug#563154: more data on f-spot crash at startup

2011-04-15 Thread Norman Ramsey
Package: f-spot Version: 0.6.2-2 Severity: normal I too am having f-spot crash on startup. I did the best I could to try to get some debug information. My report appears below. My system was just upgraded from Debian 5, in part so that I could get f-spot :-) : nr@yorkie 12089 ; f-spot --gdb

Bug#597180: fix coming?

2010-09-25 Thread Norman Ramsey
I'd like to see a fix, patch, or workaround soonest. I'm teaching with valgrind and I definitely need a working man page. Norman Ramsey -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#588643: cupsd fails at launch with symbol lookup error

2010-07-10 Thread Norman Ramsey
Package: cups Version: 1.3.8-1+lenny8 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable I'm maintaining a lenny system, and during the normal upgrade process, something went very wrong with CUPS. The daemon won't launch: : n...@homedog 10073 ; sudo /etc/init.d/cups start Starting

Bug#583324: cuetools: cueprint says 31: too many files specified, which appears to make no sense

2010-05-26 Thread Norman Ramsey
Package: cuetools Version: 1.3.1-4 Severity: normal Cueprint seems to give sensible output on the attached cue file, but it also writes the cryptic error message: 31: too many files specified I'm stonkered. -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0.4 APT prefers stable APT policy:

Bug#582842: cuetools: missing dependency on mp3info

2010-05-23 Thread Norman Ramsey
Package: cuetools Version: 1.3.1-4 Severity: important cuetag fails to tag an mp3 file: /usr/bin/cuetag: line 109: mp3info: command not found it would appear that a dependency on the mp3info package is warranted. -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0.4 APT prefers stable APT

Bug#582718: bittornado-gui: btdownloadgui produces stack trace, asks me to report bug

2010-05-22 Thread Norman Ramsey
Package: bittornado-gui Version: 0.3.18-8 Severity: normal btdownloadgui reports a stack trace on the attached torrent file. the trace is: BitTorrent T-0.3.18 (BitTornado) OS: linux2 Python version: 2.5.2 (r252:60911, Jan 24 2010, 14:53:14) [GCC 4.3.2] wx.Windows version: 2.6.3.2 Traceback

Bug#576470: chkrootkit: false positives for libsmlnj-smlnj

2010-04-04 Thread Norman Ramsey
Package: chkrootkit Version: 0.48-8 Severity: normal chkrootkit is reporting a large number of false positives on files from package libsmlnj-smlnj. These files are named .cm and are located in places under /usr/lib/smlnj. -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0.4 APT prefers stable

Bug#575566: amarok: if playback fails because audio device is busy, song still counts as played

2010-03-26 Thread Norman Ramsey
Package: amarok Version: 1.4.10-2lenny1 Severity: minor I had some trouble trying to play an albums because amarok kept reporting the output device as busy. I eventually resolved the problem by changing audio from 'xine engine' to 'alsa', but amarok counts each failed attempt as a time the

Bug#425609: opengrok package abandoned?

2010-03-18 Thread Norman Ramsey
I saw the ITP but the project seems to have been abandoned. This is something I would really like to see. The directory at mentors is empty and I can't find it in the regular distribution either. What happened? Norman Ramsey -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ

Bug#572855: RFP: sfio-dev -- Phong Vo's Safe Fast I/O Library (ATT Advanced Software Technology)

2010-03-06 Thread Norman Ramsey
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist I'd like to see Phong Vo's sfio library packaged for easy use by Debian programmers. This software is extraordinarily flexible and performant, and I believe Debian developers will benefit materially by having it easily available. (The upstream install process

Bug#568931: mathtex: does not work as CGI script

2010-02-09 Thread Norman Ramsey
The mathtex package includes only /usr/bin/mathtex. But mathtex is intended to be run as a CGI script, and merely linking to /usr/lib/cgi-bin/mathtex.cgi is not working at all (many permissions problems on directories). Please extend the package, or better, create a new package

Bug#568931: mathtex: does not work as CGI script

2010-02-08 Thread Norman Ramsey
Package: mathtex Version: 1.03-1 Severity: important The mathtex package includes only /usr/bin/mathtex. But mathtex is intended to be run as a CGI script, and merely linking to /usr/lib/cgi-bin/mathtex.cgi is not working at all (many permissions problems on directories). Please extend the

Bug#541695: I spoke too soon --- bug still occurs in 30~pre9-4

2010-01-28 Thread Norman Ramsey
I had occasion to reboot, and now the wireless card is back to its old evil ways. Again the symptom is that I have to try repeatedly to get the card to associate with the access point. I believe I mentioned that I wound up using a loop: if [ -n $IF_WIRELESS_AP ]; then associate_limit=100

Bug#541695: wireless-tools: access point will not associated until after key is presented

2010-01-27 Thread Norman Ramsey
On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 12:54:54PM -0400, Norman Ramsey wrote: As a new Verizon FiOS customer, I just acquired an Actiontec MI424WR GEN2 wireless router. This router apparently refuses to associate until a key has been presented. To be safe, I have patched /etc/network/if-pre

Bug#377468: Bug lives on in Google Chrome

2010-01-21 Thread Norman Ramsey
Just a note that this bug in the nsdejavu plugin manifests in Google Chrome 4.0.288.1 (a non-Debian browser) on Debian i386. /etc/debian_version is 5.0.3. Norman -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Bug#558711: libtagsoup-java: tagsoup will not run on the command line as specified on the man page

2009-11-29 Thread Norman Ramsey
Package: libtagsoup-java Version: 1.2-1 Severity: important Every attempt to run the tool (according to the instructions on the man page) results in the same error message: : n...@homedog 9079 ; java -jar tagsoup-1.2 new.html new.xml Failed to load Main-Class manifest attribute from

Bug#558332: pulseaudio: no man page for default.pa(5) --- or rather, man page is misplaced

2009-11-27 Thread Norman Ramsey
Package: pulseaudio Version: 0.9.10-3+lenny1 Severity: normal The man page for pulse-daemon.conf says that a man page for default.pa lives in section 5, but this doesn't work: : n...@homedog 8608 ; man 5 default.pa No manual entry for default.pa in section 5 : n...@homedog 8614 ; dpkg -L

Bug#555935: libc6-dev: strsignal(3) should be available without #define _GNU_SOURCE

2009-11-12 Thread Norman Ramsey
Package: libc6-dev Version: 2.9-24 Severity: normal The man page for strsignal(3) claims that the function is not part of any standard. Actually the function is part of the POSIX standard, as of 2008. See http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/strsignal.html This means

Bug#555936: manpages-dev: strsignal(3) is falsely claimed non-standard

2009-11-12 Thread Norman Ramsey
Package: manpages-dev Version: 3.05-1 Severity: normal The man page for strsignal(3) claims that the function is not part of any standard. Actually the function is part of the POSIX standard, as of 2008. See http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/strsignal.html This means

Bug#541695: wireless-tools: access point will not associated until after key is presented

2009-08-15 Thread Norman Ramsey
Package: wireless-tools Version: 29-1.1 Severity: important Tags: patch As a new Verizon FiOS customer, I just acquired an Actiontec MI424WR GEN2 wireless router. This router apparently refuses to associate until a key has been presented. To be safe, I have patched

Bug#151820: let's give up on upstream and include a patch

2009-08-14 Thread Norman Ramsey
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 03:25:24PM -0400, Norman Ramsey wrote: While I understand both the reluctance to have a patch at all and the distaste for the ubuntu patch, this bug is an ugly wart on our distribution. I would really like to see *some* sort of patch go forward on this, so

Bug#541619: ifupdown-extra: network-test fails if current working directory is not writeable

2009-08-14 Thread Norman Ramsey
Package: ifupdown-extra Version: 0.12 Severity: normal If network-test(1) is run in a directory in which the user cannot create a temporary file, the program fails with this error message: INFO: The router 192.168.1.1 is reachable WARN: The eth0 interface is down mktemp: cannot create temp

Bug#151820: let's give up on upstream and include a patch

2009-08-11 Thread Norman Ramsey
While I understand both the reluctance to have a patch at all and the distaste for the ubuntu patch, this bug is an ugly wart on our distribution. I would really like to see *some* sort of patch go forward on this, so that debian boxes identify themselves correctly by default. Norman -- To

Bug#541166: RFP: liblua5.1-crypto -- Lua bindings for message digests and HMAC signings using OpenSSL

2009-08-11 Thread Norman Ramsey
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: liblua5.1-crypto Version : 0.2 Upstream Author : Keith Howe nez...@luaforge.net * URL : http://luacrypto.luaforge.net/ * License : Free software compatible with GPL Programming Lang: Lua and C Description

Bug#537670: noweb: examples/whitespace: trailing white space in chunk name is not chopped

2009-07-20 Thread Norman Ramsey
Please test the attachment. # whitespace -- noweb filter to make multiple whitespace # characters equivalent to a single space, so that #Hello World, Hello World, # and Hello Worldall refer to the chunk # Hello World sed -e '/^...@use /s/[ \t][ \t]*/ /g' -e

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