Bug#1032250: xfdesktop4: Launcher icons start from ~/Desktop rather than ~

2023-03-02 Thread Paul Evans
Package: xfdesktop4 Version: 4.18.1-1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, I have a bunch of launcher icons on the desktop to start terminals in particular places, or other similar activities. They all used to begin with $HOME as the working directory (shown by a shell prompt). After a recent

Bug#1029582: claws-mail: Processing rules don't apply to newly-created folders

2023-01-24 Thread Paul Evans
Package: claws-mail Version: 4.1.1-2+b1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, I have some pre-processing rules set to apply a colour to mails I've sent. E.g. Condition: from matchcase "leon...@leonerd.org.uk" Action:color 5 These work fine on most of my "old" mail folders I've had for

Bug#818176: debian-cd: hurd update

2016-03-14 Thread Paul Evans
Hi, your Debian won't install from my DVD, would it work better to select boot options and choose "Network" or I tried already the boot CD/DVD option and it did not work. God Bless and blessed be Paul Evans On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 10:41 AM, Samuel Thibault <sthiba...@debian.org> w

Bug#720521: claws-mail: Some new messages appear old instead

2013-08-22 Thread Paul Evans
Package: claws-mail Version: 3.9.2-1 Severity: normal I'm using claws-mail pointed at my IMAP server (dovecot, also from debian/testing). Most of the time, the new and old flags behave just fine. But occasionally, a message in a thread will not appear as new, instead only old. I know that

Bug#719229: claws-mail: Prompts for SMTP password despite being asked not to

2013-08-09 Thread Paul Evans
Package: claws-mail Version: 3.9.2-1 Severity: normal I have an account with IMAP and SMTP authentication. The Send tab of the account's configuration has SMTP Auth ticked, but the user ID and password fields left blank. It says If you leave these entries empty, the same user ID and password as

Bug#719228: xfce4-terminal: Does not understand DECRQM, yet claims to be TERM=xterm

2013-08-09 Thread Paul Evans
Package: xfce4-terminal Version: 0.6.2-3 Severity: normal The DECRQM sequence (CSI ? ... $ p) is important for programs to be able to query the current settings of modes, either to be able to restore them after exit, or just to see what the settings are or probe for supported features. A real

Bug#709245: sawfish: Fails to cope with windows with rediculous maximum size

2013-05-21 Thread Paul Evans
Package: sawfish Version: 1:1.5.3-2.1+b1 Severity: normal Recent versions of Iceweasel have been setting large values for maximum window size; e.g. as claimed by xprop: WM_NORMAL_HINTS(WM_SIZE_HINTS): program specified minimum size: 18 by 115 program specified maximum size: 1073741824 by

Bug#694375: xterm: Please update to a later upstream version

2012-11-25 Thread Paul Evans
Package: xterm Version: 278-2 Severity: normal (re-submission in case the previous did not make it) Current version in debian is still 278; this is rather old by now. There are several updates in later versions that I would like to make use of. Ideally at least version 282 would be lovely.

Bug#627841: manpages-dev: termios(3) does not mention _POSIX_VDISABLE

2011-05-24 Thread Paul Evans
Package: manpages-dev Version: 3.27-1 Severity: minor GNU libc / Linux allows disabling a c_cc setting by giving it the special value _POSIX_VDISABLE. This fact is not mentioned anywhere in the termios(3) manpage. Perhaps it ought to? Non-portable code might simply set 0, which happens to be its

Bug#586096: bzr-svn: Partial commit breaks status/diff of uncommitted files

2010-06-16 Thread Paul Evans
Package: bzr-svn Version: 1.0.2-2 Severity: normal 1. svn co {some URL} 2. edit two files At this point, bzr diff, bzr status, svn diff, svn status, all can see both changes. 3. bzr commit one of the files (bzr ci path/to/A) Now, none of the above tools notice the changes in the file, even

Bug#583587: RFP: libposix-strptime-perl -- POSIX::strptime - Perl extension to the POSIX date parsing strptime(3) function

2010-05-28 Thread Paul Evans
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: libposix-strptime-perl Version : 0.09 Upstream Author : Philippe M. Chiasson go...@cpan.org. * URL : http://search.cpan.org/~gozer/POSIX-strptime-0.09/lib/POSIX/strptime.pm * License : Artistic Programming

Bug#576219: racoon: Allow specification of local address for ISAKMP

2010-04-01 Thread Paul Evans
Package: racoon Version: 1:0.7.3-3 Severity: wishlist Our security gateway has multiple local IP addresses. Since our peers care about which IP address they see requests from, we have to pick the right source our end. Currently racoon appears to lack this ability. Instead, I have to work around

Bug#572109: Fixed upstream

2010-03-22 Thread Paul Evans
This bug is now fixed in the following upstream revision: 3274: Jelmer Vernooij 2010-03-09 Provide BranchConfig._get_change_editor(). Updating to that revision should fix it. -- Paul Evans p...@mxtelecom.com Tel: +44 (0) 845 666 7778 Fax: +44 (0) 870 163 4694 http://www.mxtelecom.com

Bug#573588: qemu: Transmit timeouts in guests using virtual e1000 NICs

2010-03-12 Thread Paul Evans
Package: qemu Version: 0.11.1-2 Severity: normal I have a collection of about 14 virtual machines running a variety of Linux 2.4, 2.6 and OpenBSD based guests, all connected using some VDE virtual ethernet switches. All the machines use e1000 NICs. A recent upgrade to this version of qemu has

Bug#572109: AttributeError during 'bzr shelve'

2010-03-01 Thread Paul Evans
Package: bzr-svn Version: 1.0.2-2 Severity: normal Since today's dist-upgrade, bzr-svn is no longer able to 'shelve'. In native bzr checkouts, shelve works fine. In SVN checkouts, 'bzr st' works fine. The assertion output is: - bzr: ERROR: exceptions.AttributeError: 'BranchConfig' object

Bug#567173: qemu: Don't treat CapsLock as a CapsLock if X says it isn't

2010-01-27 Thread Paul Evans
Package: qemu Version: 0.10.6-1 Severity: minor I use xmodmap to blow away any concept of caps lock, instead using the physical piece of plastic as a much more useful extra modifier key for my window manager. It would be nice if qemu would realise this and not go randomly altering the capslock

Bug#561959: iproute: Exit nonzero on 'ip route show' failure

2009-12-21 Thread Paul Evans
Package: iproute Version: 20090324-1 Severity: wishlist I'm trying to test for the presence of a default route. Unfortunately I can't just use if ip route show 0.0.0.0/0 /dev/null; then echo Have default fi because 'ip route show' exits 0 regardless: $ ip route show 0.0.0.0/0 ; echo

Bug#560041: libtest-reporter-perl: Please package new upstream - 1.54

2009-12-08 Thread Paul Evans
Package: libtest-reporter-perl Version: 1.27-3.1 Severity: wishlist I'd like to build CPAN::Reporter, which requires Test::Reporter 1.54. This isn't in Debian yet; we only have 1.27. -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500,

Bug#557974: syslinux-common: sha1pass missing manpage

2009-11-25 Thread Paul Evans
Package: syslinux-common Version: 2:3.83+dfsg-1 Severity: normal $ man sha1pass No manual entry for sha1pass $ dpkg -L syslinux-common | grep sha1pass /usr/bin/sha1pass -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable')

Bug#548919: simple-cdd: Built images fail to have modules, partition, or mount filesystems

2009-09-29 Thread Paul Evans
Package: simple-cdd Version: 0.3.11 Severity: normal Given a fresh new directory, I simply $ mkdir my-simple-cdd-squeeze $ cd my-simple-cdd-squeeze $ simple-cdd ... It successfully creates an image: $ ls -l images/debian-testing-amd64-CD-1.iso -rw-r--r-- 1 paul paul 134M

Bug#546216: libtest-warn-perl: Please upgrade to version 0.11_01 or above

2009-09-11 Thread Paul Evans
Package: libtest-warn-perl Version: 0.11-1 Severity: normal Prior to version 0.11_01, Test::Warn used Array::Compare. Array::Compare is now based on Moose, which pulls in a large amount of CPAN machinery. This means that Class::MOP, Moose, etc... are required for anything that uses Test::Warn,

Bug#545469: apt: dist-upgrade / autoremove fight over a package

2009-09-07 Thread Paul Evans
Package: apt Version: 0.7.22.2 Severity: normal I get a constant loop of: $ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade ... The following NEW packages will be installed librarian0 ... $ sudo apt-get autoremove ... The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:

Bug#540785: claws-mail: Cache problems with folders whose names are purely numeric

2009-08-10 Thread Paul Evans
Package: claws-mail Version: 3.7.2-1 Severity: normal In my IMAP cache, I have lots of mails, whose filenames are just the UID of the message on the server. On the server, I have split folders to archive previous years' messages: + Bugzilla + 2007 + 2008 + 2009 This seems to

Bug#525293: bash-completion: I get similar

2009-08-07 Thread Paul Evans
Package: bash-completion Version: 1:1.0-3 Severity: normal I get this instead: $ scp bash: /dev/null: Permission denied Possibly because my .ssh/config contains the following fragment (which I find useful for temporary build area machines): Host build-* User root

Bug#537762: openswan: pluto fails to start without manual modprobe ip_gre

2009-07-20 Thread Paul Evans
Package: openswan Version: 1:2.6.21+dfsg-2 Severity: normal After a clean install of openswan, it fails to start; throwing this into syslog every 10 seconds or so: Jul 20 19:29:19 nacelle ipsec_setup: Restarting Openswan IPsec U2.6.21/K2.6.26-2-amd64... Jul 20 19:29:19 nacelle ipsec_setup:

Bug#534332: debhelper: dh_auto_{configure, build, install} - Incorrect handling of Module::Build-based perl modules

2009-06-23 Thread Paul Evans
Package: debhelper Version: 7.2.16 Severity: normal The order of tests in dh_auto_configure goes: if (-x configure) ... elsif (-e Makefile.PL) ... elsif (-e Build.PL) ... This prevents dual ExtUtils::MakeMaker + Module::Build modules (e.g. anything using Module::Build::Compat ) from

Bug#533293: RFP: libnet-packet-perl -- a framework to easily send and receive frames from layer 2 to layer 7

2009-06-16 Thread Paul Evans
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist This perl module provides packet building/parsing. It is useful alongside libnet-pcap-perl for parsing the captured packets off the wire. * Package name: libnet-packet-perl Version : 3.26 Upstream Author : Patrice Auffret (go...@cpan.org) * URL

Bug#531884: bzr-svn: AssertionError after 'bzr unshelve'

2009-06-04 Thread Paul Evans
Package: bzr-svn Version: 0.5.3-1 Severity: normal I have a svn checkout that I use 'bzr shelve' against. shelveing changes works fine, but I get the following after unshelve: -- $ bzr unshelve Unshelving changes with id 2.

Bug#528256: claws-mail: check for new folders starts pulling message headers too

2009-05-11 Thread Paul Evans
Package: claws-mail Version: 3.7.1-2 Severity: normal I use an IMAP connection with a large number of shared public folders in a Shared Folders namespace, to which I subscribe about 5. If I show them all, and click check for new folders, claws-mail tries to download message headers within the

Bug#515634: python-yaml: YAML loader complains about non-unique anchors

2009-02-16 Thread Paul Evans
Package: python-yaml Version: 3.08-1 Severity: normal Given a small input file, such as - anchor 1 - anchor 1 yaml.load() dies with an error: yaml.composer.ComposerError: found duplicate anchor 'anchor'; first occurence in string, line 1, column 3: - anchor 1 ^

Bug#507887: bzr-svn: URL parsing bug: scheme://server//path

2008-12-05 Thread Paul Evans
Package: bzr-svn Version: 0.4.10-2 Severity: normal This works fine: bzr svn-branching-scheme svn+ssh://server/path/to/dir This causes an error: bzr svn-branching-scheme svn+ssh://server//path/to/dir - bzr: ERROR: exceptions.AssertionError: Traceback (most recent call last): File

Bug#506139: dpkg-dev: Parsing error in Objdump.pm causes erroneous output in dpkg-shlibdeps

2008-11-18 Thread Paul Evans
Package: dpkg-dev Version: 1.14.22 Severity: normal I got lots of lines warning of useless dependencies on libraries because I didn't use any symbols. dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: dependency on libncurses.so.5 could be avoided if debian/libtermkey0/usr/lib/libtermkey.so.0.1 were not uselessly

Bug#505998: vlan: vconfig should adjust MTU of created device

2008-11-17 Thread Paul Evans
Package: vlan Version: 1.9-3 Severity: normal When adding a vlan to eth0, for example: vconfig add eth0 2 The MTU of the new device is not changed. 2: eth0: BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state UP qlen 1000 3: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: BROADCAST,MULTICAST mtu 1500

Bug#504699: libc6: makecontext() on AMD64 does not handle pointers; docs do not make this clear

2008-11-06 Thread Paul Evans
Package: libc6 Version: 2.7-15 Severity: normal makecontext() on AMD64 cannot pass pointer arguments to the invoked function; they get squashed to 32bit values, ignoring the top bits. I'm aware that the POSIX spec doesn't require the ability to pass pointers, though it isn't all that clear on

Bug#504523: rvm-tools: rvmutl instantly segfaults

2008-11-04 Thread Paul Evans
Package: rvm-tools Version: 1.15+debian-4 Severity: normal --- $ /usr/sbin/rvmutl Segmentation fault --- $ gdb /usr/sbin/rvmutl GNU gdb 6.8-debian ... Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. 0x7f4d179e59d8 in makecontext () from /lib/libc.so.6 (gdb) bt #0 0x7f4d179e59d8

Bug#495399: libmpd-dev: Should be Section: libdevel, not Section: libs

2008-08-16 Thread Paul Evans
Package: libmpd-dev Version: 0.15.0-3 Severity: normal Development library packages should claim Section: libdevel. libmpd-dev claims Section: libs. This confuses deborphan. -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable')

Bug#486352: uswsusp: s2ram fails on IBM X31

2008-06-15 Thread Paul Evans
Package: uswsusp Version: 0.7-1.1 Severity: normal 's2ram' manages to suspend, I think. At least, the machine gives the appearence of suspending; the backlight turns off, the disks spin down, the power LED goes off, and the moon-shaped LED turns on. I am however unable to wake it up again - no

Bug#250848: cupsys: Followup

2008-02-20 Thread Paul Evans
Package: cupsys Version: 1.3.5-1+b1 Followup-For: Bug #250848 May or may not be the cause of your bug, but I found it segfaults instantly on startup after having used the GUI config editor to untick the Show printers shared by other systems option. This mangled the config file and lost the auth

Bug#457900: xfs: upgrade from xterm freezes X server

2007-12-26 Thread Paul Evans
Package: xfs Version: 1:1.0.5-2 Severity: normal During a normal 'dist-upgrade' of my system, the xfs package was upgraded. Early on in 'dist-upgrade', the old XFS was stopped. This caused the xterm that dist-upgrade was running from to stop responding, as well as other X programs stopping. To

Bug#383606: Any update?

2007-11-12 Thread Paul Evans
CPAN now has 0.17009; has been since August 2007. Any chance this could make its way into debian now? -- Paul Evans Internet Platform Development, Thus plc. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#419341: wminput: Supplied 'default' config file is a broken symlink

2007-04-14 Thread Paul Evans
Package: wminput Version: 0.5.02-1 Severity: normal The default config file is actually a broken symlink: $ ls -l /etc/cwiid/wminput/default lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 63 2007-04-15 02:41 /etc/cwiid/wminput/default - /build/buildd/cwiid-0.5.02/debian/tmp/etc/cwiid/wminput/acc_ptr -- System

Bug#345839: xserver-xorg: I can confirm; working with 6.8.2.dfsg.1-11, broken with 6.9.0.dfsg.1-2

2006-02-01 Thread Paul Evans
Package: xserver-xorg Version: 6.8.2.dfsg.1-11 Followup-For: Bug #345839 I am also having the same problem. I've tried installing various packages from /var/cache/apt/archive, and confirmed that all 6.8.2 versions work fine. 6.9.0.dsfg.1-2 breaks. I am unable to confirm with 1-1, as I don't have

Bug#342113: gdm should Build-Depend on libxinerama-dev

2005-12-05 Thread Paul Evans
Package: gdm Version: 2.8.0.6-1 Severity: important Latest gdm (2.8.0.6-1) seems to have been built without Xinerama support; earlier versions supported it. gdm does not currently Build-Depend on libxinerama-dev. If I rebuild locally where libxinerama-dev is installed then it correctly behaves

Bug#335076: Acknowledgement (xfce4-session: Shutdown messages invisible)

2005-10-28 Thread Paul Evans
Actually, false alarm... Turns out they are displayed, but on the somewhat non-obvious tty7; i.e., where X was running... It's now gone back to text mode by this stage... -- Paul Evans Global Services, Zeus Technology http://www.zeus.com Switchboard: 01223 525000 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Bug#335076: xfce4-session: Shutdown messages invisible

2005-10-21 Thread Paul Evans
Package: xfce4-session Version: 4.2.2-1 Severity: normal If I switch to a virtual console and init 0, or use GDM to shut the machine down, then all the usual messages from the various /etc/init.d scripts gets printed to the console as normal. However, if I use xfce4-session's shutdown option

Bug#333234: sawfish: Sawfish should build-depend on libxinerama-dev

2005-10-10 Thread Paul Evans
Package: sawfish Version: 1:1.3+cvs20050709-5 Severity: important The sawfish package does not currently depend on libxinerama in any way. This means that the currently-available package from debian.org has probably been built without xinerama support. By just obtaining the source locally and

Bug#327878: acknowledged by developer (Re: Bug#327878: sawfish: Does not honour xinerama under xserver-xorg)

2005-09-28 Thread Paul Evans
the two monitors. -- Paul Evans Global Services, Zeus Technology http://www.zeus.com Switchboard: 01223 525000 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#330530: unison: Harmless warning printed if directories contain sockets

2005-09-28 Thread Paul Evans
Package: unison Version: 2.13.16-2 Severity: minor If the directory to synchronize contains any named sockets, a warning is printed. The warning is harmless and skips over, it doesn't affect operation, but it is annoying. E.g.: error.Devhelp.pevans path

Bug#327878: sawfish: Does not honour xinerama under xserver-xorg

2005-09-12 Thread Paul Evans
Package: sawfish Version: 1:1.3+cvs20050709-4 Severity: normal I run a dual-monitor setup; with two 1280x1024 monitors left-to-right, with xinerama enabled in the X server. I recently upgraded to xserver-xorg, from xserver-xfree86. Under the latter, sawfish correctly honoured the xinerama

Bug#323857: [Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#323857: xfce4-panel: Panel buttons with a menu break sawfish if the menu is popped up

2005-09-09 Thread Paul Evans
in the screen, and sawfish continues to work as normal. However, the popup window is still displayed with full window decorations. -- Paul Evans Global Services, Zeus Technology http://www.zeus.com Switchboard: 01223 525000 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Bug#323857: [Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#323857: xfce4-panel: Panel buttons with a menu break sawfish if the menu is popped up

2005-09-09 Thread Paul Evans
the unstable package ? I've just installed the version from unstable; $ apt-cache policy sawfish sawfish: Installed: 1:1.3+cvs20050709-4 and restarted sawfish.. No change; bug still occurs (on the AMD64). -- Paul Evans Global Services, Zeus Technology http://www.zeus.com Switchboard: 01223 525000

Bug#321140: Acknowledgement (xfce4-panel: All windows move about randomly in sawfish if desktop switcher is clicked)

2005-08-18 Thread Paul Evans
the version of sawfish at the time of the original bug, but current version is ii sawfish1.3+cvs20050222-1 a window manager for X11 -- Paul Evans Global Services, Zeus Technology http://www.zeus.com Switchboard: 01223 525000 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Bug#323857: xfce4-panel: Panel buttons with a menu break sawfish if the menu is popped up

2005-08-18 Thread Paul Evans
Package: xfce4-panel Version: 4.2.2-1 Severity: normal To reproduce the bug: 1. Be running sawfish, rather than the default xfwm4 2. Click the up-arrow of the Printers button in the panel The popup window now appears, as a full Sawfish window, complete with window decorations. Futhermore, it

Bug#321140: xfce4-panel: All windows move about randomly in sawfish if desktop switcher is clicked

2005-08-03 Thread Paul Evans
Package: xfce4-panel Version: 4.2.2-1 Severity: important When switching between desktops by clicking on the desktop switcher, if sawfish is the window manager, then all the windows move about the screen massively; they all shift up and left, an amount relating to exactly where on the switcher

Bug#305849: xterm: Xterm sends broken Ctrl-Left/Right/Up/Down sequences

2005-04-22 Thread Paul Evans
Package: xterm Version: 4.3.0.dfsg.1-12 Severity: normal Since nearly a year ago now, Ctrl-arrow keys have not sent a control sequence that vim / bash / etc... can properly recognise as such. E.g. in bash/vim, Ctrl+Left/Right is supposed to move a whole word in the indicated direction. Running

Bug#297325: mingetty: Will reset terminal's Unicode mode when started

2005-02-28 Thread Paul Evans
Package: mingetty Version: 1.06-3 Severity: important My system runs unicode_start in the boot scripts, and has LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 set. All during the boot process, Unicode mode works fine (extended characters like the GB Pound Sterling symbol can be typed while the bootup process is running, and

Bug#295416: adduser: deluser will silently delete a group of the same name

2005-02-15 Thread Paul Evans
Package: adduser Version: 3.59 Severity: normal Example: # addgroup monkey # adduser --ingroup monkey monkey # deluser monkey This example will silently delete the monkey group, providing no output message that it will be doing so. The manpage also gives no indication that this will