Bug#712228: [Pkg-haskell-maintainers] Bug#712228: ghc: Hard to use for compilation: linking failures with no apparent solution

2013-06-17 Thread Reuben Thomas
On 14 June 2013 22:14, Joachim Breitner nome...@debian.org wrote: Control: tag -1 + unreproducible Hi, I installed Ubuntu raring (in a chroot), and everything is fine: (raring)root@kirk:/tmp/twidge# ghc --make Setup.lhs [1 of 1] Compiling Main ( Setup.lhs, Setup.o ) Linking

Bug#712228: [Pkg-haskell-maintainers] Bug#712228: ghc: Hard to use for compilation: linking failures with no apparent solution

2013-06-17 Thread Reuben Thomas
On 17 June 2013 20:51, Joachim Breitner nome...@debian.org wrote: Hi, Am Montag, den 17.06.2013, 19:23 +0100 schrieb Reuben Thomas: On 14 June 2013 22:14, Joachim Breitner nome...@debian.org wrote: Control: tag -1 + unreproducible Hi, I installed Ubuntu

Bug#712228: ghc: Hard to use for compilation: linking failures with no apparent solution

2013-06-14 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: ghc Version: 7.6.2-1ubuntu1 Severity: normal I want to compile a simple Haskell program: $ git clone git://github.com/jgoerzen/twidge.git $ ghc --make -o setup Setup.lhs [1 of 1] Compiling Main ( Setup.lhs, Setup.o ) Linking setup ... /usr/bin/ld.bfd.real: Setup.o:

Bug#712228: [Pkg-haskell-maintainers] Bug#712228: ghc: Hard to use for compilation: linking failures with no apparent solution

2013-06-14 Thread Reuben Thomas
On 14 June 2013 11:17, Joachim Breitner nome...@debian.org wrote: Hi, Am Freitag, den 14.06.2013, 10:00 +0100 schrieb Reuben Thomas: I want to compile a simple Haskell program: $ git clone git://github.com/jgoerzen/twidge.git $ ghc --make -o setup Setup.lhs [1 of 1] Compiling Main

Bug#710187: efingerd: Typo in efingerd(8)

2013-05-28 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: efingerd Version: 1.6.2.7ubuntu1 Severity: minor it's output → its output -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers precise-updates APT policy: (500, 'precise-updates'), (500, 'precise-security'), (500, 'precise') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux

Bug#710188: efingerd: Upstream author's email address is out of date in efingerd(8)

2013-05-28 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: efingerd Version: 1.6.2.7ubuntu1 Severity: minor Should be: radovan.gara...@kassiopeia.juls.savba.sk -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers precise-updates APT policy: (500, 'precise-updates'), (500, 'precise-security'), (500, 'precise') Architecture: i386

Bug#709527: lush 2.0 has been out for a couple of years now!

2013-05-23 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: lush Version: 1.2.1-9+cvs20110227+nmu1build2 Severity: wishlist Lush 2.0 has been out for a couple of years; the stable 2.0.1 release is itself over two years old. It would be nice to see it packaged! -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers raring-updates APT

Bug#709093: dictionary-el: New version 1.10 available

2013-05-20 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: dictionary-el Severity: wishlist There's a new version available: https://user.in-berlin.de/~myrkr/dictionary/download.html (Also available in github https://github.com/myrkr/dictionary-el.git if you prefer) -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers

Bug#709096: libtextcat-2.0-0: Typo in package description

2013-05-20 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: libtextcat-2.0-0 Severity: minor technic should be technique in the package description. -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers raring-updates APT policy: (500, 'raring-updates'), (500, 'raring-security'), (500, 'raring') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign

Bug#363502: libreadline5: Something is wrong with binding keys to functions

2013-05-19 Thread Reuben Thomas
On 17 May 2006 22:43, Reuben Thomas r...@sc3d.org wrote: On Wed, 17 May 2006, Vincent Lefevre wrote: On 2006-04-19 15:11:20 +0100, Reuben Thomas wrote: I can get some Ctrl-letter keys to work by doing things like: \x1: kill-whole-line # binds C-a to kill-whole-line but \x15 does

Bug#363502: libreadline5: Something is wrong with binding keys to functions

2013-05-19 Thread Reuben Thomas
On 19 May 2013 17:55, Vincent Lefevre vinc...@vinc17.net wrote: On 2013-05-19 14:17:59 +0100, Reuben Thomas wrote: This bug still exists, but I'm no longer sure to which package it should be assigned. I come across the bug in bash 4.2, which doesn't seem to depend on any version

Bug#363502: libreadline5: Something is wrong with binding keys to functions

2013-05-19 Thread Reuben Thomas
On 19 May 2013 22:18, Vincent Lefevre vinc...@vinc17.net wrote: found 363502 5.2+dfsg-2 thanks On 2013-05-19 20:49:43 +0100, Reuben Thomas wrote: libreadline5 seems to be used by few programs now, so it's not so important. I think it's most important that it be filed against

Bug#363502: libreadline5: Something is wrong with binding keys to functions

2013-05-19 Thread Reuben Thomas
On 19 May 2013 23:42, Vincent Lefevre vinc...@vinc17.net wrote: Control: clone -1 -2 -3 Control: reassign -1 libreadline6 Control: retitle -1 libreadline6: Something is wrong with binding keys to functions Control: found -1 6.2+dfsg-0.1 Control: reassign -3 bash Control: retitle -3 bash

Bug#706654: aspell-en: Typo in README

2013-05-02 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: aspell-en Version: 7.1-0-1 Severity: minor In the README, the line britsh-* = en_GB-* should presumably be: british-* = en_GB-* (Add a second i in british.) -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers raring-updates APT policy: (500, 'raring-updates'),

Bug#705974: libsparsehash: Please update to latest version

2013-04-22 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: libsparsehash-dev Version: 1.10-1build1 Severity: wishlist File: libsparsehash sparsehash 2.x has been out for a while. Among other improvements are simple things like a pkgconfig file, without which some packages won't build! Since Google already provide Debian packages of this

Bug#689136: gforth: This is about to become a worse than wishlist problem

2013-04-14 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: gforth Version: 0.7.0+ds1-7 Followup-For: Bug #689136 Emacs 24.3 has hit sid, and therefore installing gforth on a system with emacs24 already installed, or vice versa, will stop working. If a solution can't quickly be found that will work equally well upstream, then indeed removing the

Bug#705432: gforth: Please update to 0.7.2

2013-04-14 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: gforth Severity: wishlist File: gforth Please update to the latest upstream version. Various places have different “latest” versions available, but the canonical one appears to be: http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/forth/gforth/ -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT

Bug#611919: emacs-goodies-el: Time to retire dict.el

2013-04-11 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: emacs-goodies-el Version: 35.2ubuntu2 Followup-For: Bug #611919 I have sent all the Debian updates upstream (to EmacsWiki, which is the upstream source for the el-get recipe for dict.el), so you can now safely remove this obsolete mode. -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid

Bug#695299: please update markdown-mode

2013-04-09 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: emacs-goodies-el Version: 35.2ubuntu2 Followup-For: Bug #695299 Note that markdown-mode 2.0 is now released. -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers quantal-updates APT policy: (500, 'quantal-updates'), (500, 'quantal-security'), (500, 'quantal') Architecture:

Bug#705059: emacs-goodies-el: Time to start winding up this package?

2013-04-09 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: emacs-goodies-el Version: 35.2ubuntu2 Severity: wishlist This package has a large number of outstanding bugs, which are unlikely (at the present rate) to be resolved either in Debian, or for that matter upstream (I doubt many upstreams check the Debian BTS). On the other hand, a major

Bug#656868: emacs-goodies-el: markdown-mode should be loaded automatically for suffix .md

2013-04-09 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: emacs-goodies-el Version: 35.2ubuntu2 Followup-For: Bug #656868 This can be achieved by adding the following line, I suggest just next to the commented out line that reads: ;(add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '(\\.text$ . markdown-mode)) The new line is: (add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist

Bug#705069: dict-freedict-nld-eng: Typo in definition of direct

2013-04-09 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: dict-freedict-nld-eng Version: 1.3-4ubuntu1 Severity: minor Tags: patch straigh ahead should be straight ahead -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers quantal-updates APT policy: (500, 'quantal-updates'), (500, 'quantal-security'), (500, 'quantal')

Bug#551875: mpd: Please add GNOME startup program entry

2013-04-04 Thread Reuben Thomas
On 4 April 2013 19:54, Florian Schlichting f...@debian.org wrote: I'm reluctant to ship a .desktop file in its proper place (/etc/xdg/autostart/) without some more testing how other desktops (KDE, XFCE, ..?) can be prevented to attempt to start MPD as a user when there's no useable

Bug#704488: el-get: Improved package description

2013-04-01 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: el-get Version: 3.1-1 Severity: wishlist Rewritten for improved English: El-get installs and manage Emacs Lisp packages. It supports many differents types of sources and is able to install, set up, update and remove them. That means it will take care of requiring the features you

Bug#703500: guile-2.0-doc: Missing guile-2.0-doc-non-dfsg package

2013-03-20 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: guile-2.0-doc Version: 2.0.5+1-3 Severity: minor guile-2.0-doc Suggests guile-2.0-doc-dfsg, which doesn't exist. Either produce the package or remove the suggestion? -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers quantal-updates APT policy: (500, 'quantal-updates'),

Bug#702375: gwhere: Typo in package description

2013-03-05 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: gwhere Severity: minor Tags: patch at each once → every time. -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers quantal-updates APT policy: (500, 'quantal-updates'), (500, 'quantal-security'), (500, 'quantal') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386

Bug#702391: psmisc: Missing comma in fuser(1)

2013-03-05 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: psmisc Version: 22.19-1ubuntu1 Severity: minor Tags: patch -M --ismountpoint should be -M, --ismountpoint -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers quantal-updates APT policy: (500, 'quantal-updates'), (500, 'quantal-security'), (500, 'quantal')

Bug#702199: hdapsd: Typo in package description

2013-03-03 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: hdapsd Version: 1:20090401-2 Severity: minor Tags: patch save you a bit power → save you a bit of power -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers quantal-updates APT policy: (500, 'quantal-updates'), (500, 'quantal-security'), (500, 'quantal') Architecture:

Bug#701934: fusefat mount is missing some files (loopback mount works fine)

2013-02-28 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: fusefat Version: 0.1a-1 Severity: normal If I mount a disk image using fusefat, some files don't show up. Mounting the same image loopback works fine, but then of course I have to use root. As far as I can tell, fusefat is not being developed; while it might not be enough to remove it

Bug#551875: mpd: Please add GNOME startup program entry

2013-02-22 Thread Reuben Thomas
On 22 February 2013 22:07, Florian Schlichting fschl...@zedat.fu-berlin.de wrote: Control: tags 551875 +moreinfo I don't use GNOME myself, and I don't know how things may have changed with GNOME 3, but my feeling is that it may not make a lot of sense to provide a menu button to turn on an

Bug#701114: easytag: Please update to 2.1.8

2013-02-21 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: easytag Version: 2.1.8-1 Severity: wishlist easytag 2.1.8 is out now, and offers many useful improvements and fixes. I've been running a pre-release version for some months because I needed some fixes, and it's been fine, plus straightforward to build. The 2.1.8 release itself removes

Bug#700465: man-db: man main gives a bizarre result

2013-02-12 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: man-db Version: 2.6.3-1 Severity: minor I was interested in the definition of the C main function, so I hopefully typed man main. Well, it turns out this function doesn't have a man page, but I was surprised to see that I got a page for mpd-dynamic(1PERL), a page which doesn't even

Bug#700086: icicles: Package is rather out of date

2013-02-08 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: icicles Severity: wishlist I'm interested in trying icicles, but I'll probably install it from source, since the package is rather out of date (there's a release in the last month, and at least in the last few months, there appears to be active development; I've just not checked the logs

Bug#696790: gnome-shell fails to start with JS error

2013-02-01 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: gnome-shell Version: 3.6.2-0ubuntu0.2 Followup-For: Bug #696790 I get the same problem, which looks very like bug #690554 (to the extent that I get an identical backtrace in my ~/.cache/gdm/session.log) but occurs even with evolution-data-server installed. For me, it only occurs when I

Bug#628790: auctex: TeX-next-error broken for error messages without line number

2013-01-17 Thread Reuben Thomas
On 17 January 2013 13:47, Davide G. M. Salvetti sa...@debian.org wrote: Hi Reuben, thank you for your analysis. I need some time to think about it and decide if it should be forwarded upstream; meanwhile I suggest you to read point 8 of AUCTeX 11.87 FAQ, and, more generally, bug #695282. I

Bug#628790: auctex: TeX-next-error broken for error messages without line number

2013-01-16 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: auctex Version: 11.87-1 Followup-For: Bug #628790 I had this problem with Emacs 24.2, AUCTeX 11.87-1, and the fix mentioned above didn't work for me. After a bit of digging I discovered that the pattern for excluding things that aren't actually files needs to be extended: first,

Bug#628790: auctex: TeX-next-error broken for error messages without line number

2013-01-16 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: auctex Version: 11.87-1 Followup-For: Bug #628790 Further to my previous message, although the changes I give work for the test file at the given URL, namely: \documentclass{article} \usepackage{hyperref} \begin{document} \Nothing to see here folks. \end{document} they do not work for

Bug#697759: dailystrips: Update to questionablecontent

2013-01-09 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: dailystrips Version: 1.0.28-11 Severity: normal The searchpattern line for questionablecontent needs to be updated to something like: searchpattern img.+?src=.+/(comics/\d+\..{3}) The current line is: searchpattern img.+?src=\./(comics/\d+\..{3}) which does not work

Bug#697738: auctex: preview-latex is not automatically loaded, but should be

2013-01-08 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: auctex Version: 11.87-1 Severity: normal According to the AUCTeX manual: After installation, the package may need to be activated (and remember to activate AUCTeX too). In XEmacs, and in any prepackaged versions worth their salt, activation should be automatic upon installation.

Bug#695167: x2x: Remove second paragraph of package description (obsolete)

2012-12-04 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: x2x Version: 1.27.svn.20060501-4 Severity: minor propsel is no longer shipped in Debian. I suggest simply removing the second paragraph of the package description of x2x; it’s easier in any case to use the various package search tools to find a package that does what one wants, and avoid

Bug#695178: psutils: Setting input paper size in psnup overrides output paper size

2012-12-04 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: psutils Version: 1.17-32 Severity: minor Tags: patch When -W or -H is passed to psnup, the relevant dimension is also used for the output paper size, regardless of any explicit or implicit paper size passed to the program. I attach a simple patch which only sets the output paper size

Bug#695179: psutils: psnup(1) has a confusing bit

2012-12-04 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: psutils Version: 1.17-32 Severity: minor In this bit of man page: normally specified in `cm' or `in' to convert PostScript's points (1/72 of an inch) to centimeters or inches, I could happily remove the bit from to convert… to the end without, AFAICS, losing anything. I don't see what

Bug#694428: dailystrips: Rename Scary Go Round to Bad Machinery

2012-11-26 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: dailystrips Version: 1.0.28-11 Severity: minor The comic whose id is scarygoround is now called Bad Machinery. I suggest you change the name field only: the URL is the same, and there's no need to make users change their configurations. Perhaps also add an alias with the new name for

Bug#693972: grcompiler: Typo in package description

2012-11-22 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: grcompiler Version: 4.2-1 Severity: minor Tags: patch extensability - extensibility -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers quantal-updates APT policy: (500, 'quantal-updates'), (500, 'quantal-security'), (500, 'quantal') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign

Bug#594902: vinagre: Please provide vncviewer alternative

2012-11-06 Thread Reuben Thomas
On 6 November 2012 10:32, Jon Dowland j...@debian.org wrote: On Sun, Sep 05, 2010 at 10:38:08PM +0100, Reuben Thomas wrote: I could email some of them if you like? Did you get anywhere? Looking at my archive, we had a thread of about a dozen messages in which the last message I have is one

Bug#691857: wajig: purge-removed doesn't work for packages with different arch

2012-10-30 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: wajig Version: 2.7.3 Severity: minor As shown: $ wajig purge-removed Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Package 'libibus-1.0-0' is not installed, so not removed. Did you mean 'libibus-1.0-0:i386'? I have set severity minor

Bug#691737: rubygems: Please make default install location the user's home directory for non-root users

2012-10-29 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: rubygems Version: 1.8.24-1ubuntu1 Severity: wishlist The support for Debian ruby packages to be available as gems is much appreciated, but currently users have to use --user-install to install gems in their home directory, and uninstalling doesn't work (see bug #595168). Please could

Bug#691739: bundler: Files installed via sudo must be chmodded and chowned

2012-10-29 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: bundler Version: 1.2.1-1 Severity: normal When I run bundle install as a normal user, targetted at the system directory, it correctly installs files using sudo, but does not take into account that my user's umask is 0027. Apparently, the files are simply moved:

Bug#691743: bundler: Bundler does not seem to see system-installed gems when using --user-install

2012-10-29 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: bundler Version: 1.2.1-1 Severity: normal To install gems in my home directory as a normal user I run bundle install --path $HOME/.gem However, this ignores all the gems already installed on the system via rubygems-integration. -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT

Bug#691481: zile: Dangling symlink and missing example

2012-10-26 Thread Reuben Thomas
In current upstream (2.4.9), dotzile.sample is installed directly in docdir, i.e. /usr/share/doc/zile for Debian. -- http://rrt.sc3d.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#691000: ddclient: Please support freedns in debconf

2012-10-19 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: ddclient Severity: wishlist Now that ddclient 3.8.1 is packaged, please can you support freedns in debconf? See here: http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Dynamic_DNS#freedns.afraid.org for an example configuration which should be enough information to add this support. -- System

Bug#656694: Please configure next release of less with --with-regex=gnu

2012-10-03 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: less Version: 444-1ubuntu1 Followup-For: Bug #656694 Less release 451 is now out, with GNU regex support as promised. -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers precise-updates APT policy: (500, 'precise-updates'), (500, 'precise-security'), (500, 'precise')

Bug#689055: luarocks: Please add support for parallel 5.1 5.2 trees

2012-09-28 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: luarocks Severity: wishlist luarocks now works nicely with Lua 5.2 (it can also be run by Lua 5.2, which is convenient for using it with Lua 5.2, though not of course essential). Please could you add support to the package for parallel 5.1 5.2 rocks trees. Support to ease this has

Bug#688679: lua5.2: debian-paths.patch adds ./?.lua to LUA_PATH_DEFAULT twice

2012-09-24 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: lua5.2 Version: 5.2.1-3 Severity: normal This means that ./?.lua is searched for twice, which is surely redundant. This looks like a copying error; it's not present in the equivalent Lua 5.1 patch. -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers precise-updates APT

Bug#685639: unzip: Make zipgrep use grep, not egrep

2012-08-22 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: unzip Version: 6.0-4ubuntu1 Severity: wishlist Please make zipgrep use grep, not egrep: in Debian it is not necessary to insist on egrep, which is just an alias for grep, and moreover prevents many grep switches from being used. I have tried simply making a copy of zipgrep and

Bug#683943: luatex: fontconfig overridden by OSFONTDIR in default settings

2012-08-19 Thread Reuben Thomas
On 19 August 2012 20:43, Frank Kuester fr...@kuesterei.ch wrote: As far as I read the text quoted above, OSFONTDIR is _not_ meant for this. It is meant to access fonts outside the TEXMF trees, and if an engine has a better way to achieve this, I don't see how this engine should require the

Bug#445330: closed by Brian Potkin claremont...@gmail.com (Re: Bug#445330: cupsys: mime.types(5) is confusingly named)

2012-08-18 Thread Reuben Thomas
This bug still exists, and has a simple fix for which there is already a model in another package: xfm contains xfm_mime.types(5), so why not rename the cups man page (which still exists in testing and unstable) to cups_mime.types(5)? Brian's hint: P.S. The result of a search on mime.types in

Bug#685252: auctex: With TeXLive 2012, bogus buffer opened for error messages

2012-08-18 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: auctex Version: 11.86-10.1 Severity: minor Using auctex with Emacs 24 and TeXLive 2012 (both packaged for Debian), I get the following message when I get an error compiling /home/rrt/foo.tex: File /home/rrt/rrt/TeX Live 2012/Debian is read-only on disk. Change buffer mode? (y or n)

Bug#669948: Obsolete conffiles /etc/cron.weekly/auctex and /etc/emacs23/site-start.d/50auctex.el not cleaned up on upgrade

2012-08-18 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: auctex Version: 11.86-10.1 Followup-For: Bug #669948 According to the Debian changelog, this step was already taken in 11.86-6: * [99860b2] Clean up obsolete conffiles; thanks to Sven Joachim. (Closes: #652962) So is this an old bug that has reappeared, or a faulty fix? --

Bug#685090: gforth: Incorrect use of byte-compile in gforth.el causes error with Emacs 24.2

2012-08-16 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: gforth Version: 0.7.0+ds1-6 Severity: normal When trying to install Emacs 24.2 (Emacs bzr head) on my system (using /usr/lib/emacsen-common/emacs-install emacs-snapshot), I get the following error: install/gforth: Byte-compiling for emacsen flavour emacs-snapshot In toplevel form:

Bug#685091: auctex: Please allow auctex to depend on emacs-snapshot

2012-08-16 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: auctex Version: 11.86-10.1 Severity: normal Although emacs currently has no emacs-snapshot package, third parties commonly provide them, and there's a useful pseudo-package to allow Emacs built from upstream sources to be used. Hence, auctex should allow the emacs-snapshot package to

Bug#685101: wajig: Please add command to purge old kernels

2012-08-16 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: wajig Version: 2.7 Severity: wishlist Whenever the kernel’s ABI is changed, the package name is changed, I presume for safety in case the new kernel fails to boot. This means that over time a large number of kernel packages can build up on a system. It would be good if one could say

Bug#684945: get-iplayer: Should use avconv, not ffmpeg

2012-08-14 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: get-iplayer Version: 2.82-2 Severity: normal Current versions of ffmpeg report that /usr/bin/ffmpeg is obsolescent and will be removed in a future release, and avconv should be used instead. -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers precise-updates APT policy:

Bug#683944: texlive: Please set TEXMFCNF by default

2012-08-13 Thread Reuben Thomas
On 12 August 2012 11:41, Frank Kuester fr...@kuesterei.ch wrote: Sorry, I was confused, but your wording was a bit unclear Apologies. I didn't understand the full complexity of the situation. - you don't want the variable to be set, but to be set differently. Correct. And you also didn't

Bug#683943: luatex: fontconfig overridden by OSFONTDIR in default settings

2012-08-13 Thread Reuben Thomas
On 12 August 2012 11:31, Frank Kuester fr...@kuesterei.ch wrote: Anyway, what I am not sure about is what we should do about this. The documentation in texmf.cnf says: % OSFONTDIR is to provide a convenient hook for allowing TeX to find % fonts installed on the system (outside of TeX). An

Bug#683943: luatex: fontconfig overridden by OSFONTDIR in default settings

2012-08-09 Thread Reuben Thomas
On 8 August 2012 20:53, Frank Kuester fr...@kuesterei.ch wrote: Hm, I just installed luatex and texlive-base in a chroot and get: root@riesling:/# kpsewhich --var-value=OSFONTSDIR It's OSFONTDIR, not OSFONTSDIR. -- http://rrt.sc3d.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#683944: texlive: Please set TEXMFCNF by default

2012-08-09 Thread Reuben Thomas
On 8 August 2012 20:56, Frank Kuester fr...@kuesterei.ch wrote: Reuben Thomas r...@sc3d.org writes: Package: texlive Version: 2012.20120611-3~ubuntu12.04.1 Severity: wishlist In order to make per-user settings for TeXLive, the user has to both discover that they should be placed

Bug#683943: luatex: fontconfig overridden by OSFONTDIR in default settings

2012-08-05 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: texlive-luatex Version: 2012.20120611-3~ubuntu12.04.1 Severity: normal As far as I can tell, luatex uses fontconfig to find fonts if no OSFONTDIR is configured (at least, the binary is linked against libfontconfig!). OSFONTDIR is, however, set in the default configuration to

Bug#683944: texlive: Please set TEXMFCNF by default

2012-08-05 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: texlive Version: 2012.20120611-3~ubuntu12.04.1 Severity: wishlist In order to make per-user settings for TeXLive, the user has to both discover that they should be placed in ~/.texmf-config, and then set an environment variable TEXMFCNF. Please consider setting this by default: the user

Bug#683968: wmctrl: Typo in man page

2012-08-05 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: wmctrl Version: 1.07-6 Severity: minor 'y,y' should be 'x,y' -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers precise-security APT policy: (990, 'precise-security'), (900, 'precise-updates'), (500, 'precise') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-27-generic

Bug#683970: wmctrl: Error in man page

2012-08-05 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: wmctrl Version: 1.07-6 Severity: minor One of the examples says: Toggle the 'stickiness' of a window with a specific window identity wmctrl -i -r 0x0120002 -b add,sticky However, this does not toggle the stickiness, but makes it sticky. Either change the

Bug#681868: webalizer: GeoIP analysis doesn't work on /var/log/apache2/other_vhosts_access.log

2012-07-17 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: webalizer Version: 2.23.05-1 Severity: normal I run webalizer on my other_vhosts_access.log. Everything works fine, except for country analysis. I believe my GeoIP setup is correct, as if I simply change the log to be analyzed to access.log, then it works fine, and I cannot see anything

Bug#680063: distcc: Typo in /etc/default/distcc

2012-07-03 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: distcc Version: 3.1-4ubuntu2 Severity: minor IP Adress → IP address -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers precise-updates APT policy: (500, 'precise-updates'), (500, 'precise-security'), (500, 'precise') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux

Bug#680064: distcc: Bad English in /etc/default/distcc

2012-07-03 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: distcc Version: 3.1-4ubuntu2 Severity: minor The abbreviation “f.e.” presumably means “for example”, but this is not in widespread use in English; better to use “e.g.” (“exempli gratia”). -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers precise-updates APT policy: (500,

Bug#627972: ddclient: Ping!

2012-06-22 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: ddclient Followup-For: Bug #627972 ddclient 3.8.1 has been out for nearly a year now. Is there some problem with packaging it? I would love to be able to use ddclient with afraid.org again! -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers precise-updates APT policy:

Bug#396489: Add a note to maildropex(5) that reformail -D doesn't need locking

2012-06-17 Thread Reuben Thomas
On 16 June 2012 12:07, Osamu Aoki os...@debian.org wrote: Hi, Thanks for your bug report. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=396489 The whole purpose of maildir was to do without locking which was required for mbox.  So this is obvious point for most of us and not so

Bug#674159: aptitude: completes filenames when it shouldn't

2012-05-23 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: bash-completion Version: 1:1.3-1ubuntu8 Severity: minor bash-completion for aptitude should not perform filename completion on certain commands. As the code says: # don't complete anything if these options are found

Bug#672304: emacs-goodies-el: Typo in docstring

2012-05-09 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: emacs-goodies-el Version: 35.2ubuntu1 Severity: minor The description of project-buffer-name-directory-limit is a bit mangled: Directories in buffer names are attempted kept shorter than this. How about: Try to keep the directory part of buffer names shorter than this. ? -- System

Bug#661637: closed by Francois Marier franc...@debian.org ([os...@osk.mine.nu: Re: [r...@sc3d.org: Bug#661637: atool: acat is either buggy or mis-documented]])

2012-04-02 Thread Reuben Thomas
On 2 April 2012 22:25, Debian Bug Tracking System ow...@bugs.debian.org wrote: Actually, it's not a bug. The first syntax: acat [OPTION]... ARCHIVE is for compressed files (.gz etc). The second acat [OPTION]... ARCHIVE FILE... is for file archivers. OK, but this needs explanation in

Bug#598992: closed by Hiroyuki Yamamoto yama1...@gmail.com (Bug#598992: fixed in sl 3.03-17)

2012-03-30 Thread Reuben Thomas
On 29 March 2012 20:51, Hiroyuki Yamamoto yama1...@gmail.com wrote: Incidentally, sl-h command, which is long version sl, supports CTRL-C by default. Thanks. I'll alias it to sl. Could this be mentioned in the sl man page? I bet I'm not the only user who would prefer to use sl-h! --

Bug#598992: closed by Hiroyuki Yamamoto yama1...@gmail.com (Bug#598992: fixed in sl 3.03-17)

2012-03-29 Thread Reuben Thomas
On 29 March 2012 16:27, Debian Bug Tracking System ow...@bugs.debian.org wrote: This is an automatic notification regarding your Bug report which was filed against the sl package: #598992: sl: Please support ^C] After all, sl is a joke; maybe the joke is on me :) -- http://rrt.sc3d.org

Bug#598992: sl: Please support ^C]

2012-03-28 Thread Reuben Thomas
2012/3/28 Hiroyuki Yamamoto yama1...@gmail.com: Hi, CTRL-C is already supported by -e option, not default. But this makes no sense: sl is a command usually typed by mistake, so of course I will not add the -e option (which doesn't even exist for ls). The whole point of the other options, -l,

Bug#598992: sl: Please support ^C]

2012-03-27 Thread Reuben Thomas
2012/3/27 Hiroyuki Yamamoto yama1...@gmail.com: Hi, I don't think that sl will support CTRL-C as default. Instead, supporting CTRL-Z will revert on next update. Ctrl-C and Ctrl-Z should both be supported. Ctrl-C is standard to interrupt a running program which has no interactive control, and

Bug#661636: atool: Typo in man page

2012-02-28 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: atool Version: 0.38.0-1 Severity: minor The line for arepack is missing a space: arepack [OPTION]...OLD-ARCHIVE NEW-ARCHIVE needs a space before OLD-ARCHIVE. -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers oneiric-updates APT policy: (500, 'oneiric-updates'),

Bug#661637: atool: acat is either buggy or mis-documented

2012-02-28 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: atool Version: 0.38.0-1 Severity: normal acat’s syntax summary is: acat [OPTION]... ARCHIVE [FILE]... yet if invoked without a filename, it gives an error: $ acat foo.zip acat: missing file argument Hence either the documentation needs to be fixed (remove the square brackets

Bug#661550: global: Typo in man page

2012-02-27 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: global Version: 5.7.1-2 Severity: minor its hardly → it's hardly -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers oneiric-updates APT policy: (500, 'oneiric-updates'), (500, 'oneiric-security'), (500, 'oneiric') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux

Bug#587318: This bug has not been fixed

2012-02-03 Thread Reuben Thomas
Please see my previous message, which you seem to have overlooked. At present, forth-mode only claims the file suffixes .fs, .4th c. when it is first loaded, so the user who tries merely to edit an .fs file will still have to select forth-mode manually. -- http://rrt.sc3d.org

Bug#532227: rsync seems unable to transfer 4Gb of data

2012-01-22 Thread Reuben Thomas
Since I no longer have the setup in question, and since I miscounted the size in the error (sorry!), I suggest you close this bug. -- http://rrt.sc3d.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Bug#656694: Please configure next release of less with --with-regex=gnu

2012-01-20 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: less Version: 444-1ubuntu1 Severity: wishlist The next upstream release of less will support the GNU regex API. Please use it, as, like PCRE, it enables less to find matches after NUL characters, but unlike PCRE does not add a dependency, change the regex syntax, or lose glibc’s

Bug#655926: less: More can go backwards!

2012-01-14 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: less Version: 444-1ubuntu1 Severity: minor Less’s package description says: Unlike the basic pager more, it is capable of both backward and forward navigation through a file. But more can go backwards; at least, Debian more can. more(1) says: b or ^B Skip backwards k

Bug#654446: sgrep: Typo in man page

2012-01-03 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: sgrep Version: 1.94a-4 Severity: minor patters → patterns (checked against latest Debian package) -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers oneiric-updates APT policy: (500, 'oneiric-updates'), (500, 'oneiric-security'), (500, 'oneiric') Architecture: amd64

Bug#654447: sgrep doesn't work for large files: please document this

2012-01-03 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: sgrep Version: 1.94a-4 Severity: normal sgrep doesn’t work for large files. I just spent a few hours looking into this. Unfortunately the code is not cleanly written: int is often used where long or off_t is needed. I concentrated on the simple case of getting long files working on a

Bug#652509: dash: echo '\1' produces a character code 1

2011-12-18 Thread Reuben Thomas
On 18 December 2011 02:55, Jonathan Nieder jrnie...@gmail.com wrote: Hi again, Jonathan Nieder wrote: # historical XSI and ash behavior That was a little misleading.  Just for fun, here's some history[*]. Thanks for that. I suppose it's rather neat that dash behaves differently from

Bug#639223: ccache: Please install symlinks in /usr/bin as alternatives

2011-12-18 Thread Reuben Thomas
On 18 December 2011 11:37, Joel Rosdahl j...@debian.org wrote: On 2011-08-25 07:41, Reuben Thomas wrote: For the majority of users of ccache, it would be nice if installing it simply installed alternatives symlinks for gcc, so that no user configuration is necessary. While I can understand

Bug#639223: ccache: Please install symlinks in /usr/bin as alternatives

2011-12-18 Thread Reuben Thomas
On 18 December 2011 17:07, Joel Rosdahl j...@debian.org wrote: On 2011-12-18 11:44, Reuben Thomas wrote: I agree with all of the above, but why not s/enable/install/? I think that it's not uncommon to want to use ccache only explicitly, but that's mostly speculation. Another example of where

Bug#640413: probably true but ...

2011-12-18 Thread Reuben Thomas
On 18 December 2011 17:53, Osamu Aoki os...@debian.org wrote: If you have access to im-switch on Debian, please try it. I'm sorry, I don't. By the way, ubuntu bug should be fixed in ubuntu in principle. Again, sorry for reporting to the wrong place. Please note Debian wheezy provide

Bug#652509: dash: echo '\1' produces a character code 1

2011-12-17 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: dash Version: 0.5.5.1-7.4ubuntu1 Severity: normal Note: I tested this against upstream 0.5.7 too, and this is the best place I can find to report an upstream bug. Sorry if it’s the wrong place. $ dash $ echo '\1'  In case that’s not easy to read, the output is a control-A, i.e.

Bug#651125: racket: Typo in package short description

2011-12-05 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: racket Version: 5.1.1+dfsg1-2 Severity: minor Package short description: “scheme” → “Scheme” -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers oneiric-updates APT policy: (500, 'oneiric-updates'), (500, 'oneiric-security'), (500, 'oneiric'), (500, 'natty-security')

Bug#326200: xterm: please set eightBitInput: false by default so Alt is usable as such

2011-12-04 Thread Reuben Thomas
On 4 December 2011 17:55, Jonathan Nieder jrnie...@gmail.com wrote: Reuben Thomas wrote: For xterm, kterm and xvt, the simplest thing to do would seem to be to add a suitable default resource to the various /etc/X11/app-defaults files. (xvt doesn't install such a file, but since it respects

Bug#326200: xterm: please set eightBitInput: false by default so Alt is usable as such

2011-12-02 Thread Reuben Thomas
On 1 December 2011 22:58, Jonathan Nieder jrnie...@gmail.com wrote:  2. Proposing a patch for xterm bug#326200. For xterm, kterm and xvt, the simplest thing to do would seem to be to add a suitable default resource to the various /etc/X11/app-defaults files. (xvt doesn't install such a file,

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