That's great, thanks
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Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Would the Debian Med team be interested in Primer Pooler
for Debian's Next Generation Sequencing section?
Primer Pooler has been used and cited in cancer research,
plant science and climatology, and I am also aware of its
use at a national food standards agency
Hi Hilmar, yes it's OK to close the bug now, sorry I forgot to reply before.
Silas
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that should be
optional (if it's included at all).
Thanks.
Silas
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not sure if that should be in the same package.)
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Windows), Cepstral, Mac, X-SAMPA,
Acapela UK, CMU, and Unicode IPA. (Oh, and the BBC Micro.)
Thanks.
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can use it to put dictionaries
and other references onto a mobile phone for offline lookup
(an example using the CEDICT dictionary is shown on that page).
Thanks.
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Hi,
Brice Goglin writes:
Hi,
About 2 years ago, you reported a bug to the Debian BTS regarding bitmap
fonts not being loaded while the others looked ugly. Did you reproduce
this problem recently? If not, I will close this bug in the next weeks.
Problem hasn't changed for me, but I haven't
Hi Brice,
I don't know if I'm going to get a chance to
move to etch, but I'd be happy to re-open the
bug if I do upgrade and find it's still there.
Silas
Brice Goglin writes:
Silas S. Brown wrote:
Dear Brice,
I'm still suffering from this bug on my Debian Sarge system.
I haven't tried
Dear Brice,
I'm still suffering from this bug on my Debian Sarge system.
I haven't tried Debian Etch. In the circumstances I'm in at
the moment, it's a bit too much work to change to non-stable
just to try this out. But I'd be happy to try anything
that's reversible.
Silas
Brice Goglin
Package: playmidi
Version: 2.4debian-3
Severity: normal
I tried to play the .mid.gz files in
/usr/share/doc/playmidi/examples using 'playmidi
-e' and it segfaulted every time. It played the
files correctly when I manually unzipped them
with 'gzip -d' first.
'man playmidi' doesn't say anything
Package: locales
Version: 2.3.2.ds1-22sarge3
Severity: normal
If you install too many locales by mistake
(perhaps thinking just in case) and later want
to remove some to save disk space, running
'dpkg-reconfigure locales' and de-selecting them
won't do it. You have to manually run 'rm -rf
Package: dcd
Version: 0.99-1
Severity: normal
When I enter a command like dcd 1 (to start a
CD at track 1) and an Internet connection is not
available, DCD will print:
Warning: CD not found on www.musicbrainz.org
However, if an Internet connection is available,
dcd 1 has no output, which means
Hi,
Sven Hoexter writes:
Maybe the reporter of this bug can tell us what exactly he did and if
it's reproduceable.
Yes it is reproduceable.
All I did was to put this in a script that I
run every time I connect to the Internet:
/usr/sbin/ntpdate -b time.cableol.net
which synchronises the
Package: kodo
Version: 4:3.3.2-3
Severity: normal
The package description incorrectly describes
kodo as useless. It is not. When looking at
on-screen maps, I use kodo to get a rough idea
of which routes are shorter.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel:
Package: netpbm
Version: 2:10.0-8sarge3
Severity: normal
I tried: pgmtopbm -threshold -value 160
and all I get is:
usage: pgmtopbm [-floyd|-fs | -hilbert | -threshold | -dither8|-d8 |
-cluster3|-c3|-cluster4|-c4|-cluster8|-c8] [-value val] [-clump size]
[pgmfile]
It works OK if I just
Hi,
Per Olofsson writes:
The Screen DPI setting should probably be removed from
Preferences. LyX should always use the DPI given by X.
That would make the problem worse. What I
actually want to do is get LyX to use my 20-pixel
font for its on-screen text. This is because the
20-pixel font is
Package: xserver-xfree86
Version: 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge1
Severity: normal
xset dpms force off does nothing except blank the monitor
(it does not actually turn it off). Similarly, setting
timeouts does not cause the monitor to turn off after the
timeout but only blanks it.
When I boot into
Package: gcc-3.3
Version: 1:3.3.5-13
Severity: minor
I tried to compile flite (Festival Lite, the speech
synthesizer) using gcc. One of the source files is a
7.5-megabyte C file with no includes and the only thing it
contains is a single array of the form
const char array[]={142,152,276,371,
...
Package: flwm
Version: 1.00-7
Severity: minor
If there is a window with an ampersand () in its title,
then on the window-list menu the will not be displayed but
the following letter will be underlined instead. This is
probably because the window-list is displayed by some
function that is
Package: bsdmainutils
Version: 6.0.17
Severity: normal
An entry to appear on the 30th of each month, marked 30
*, will appear on March 2 in a non-leap year and March
1 in a leap year. I'm not sure if this would always be
desirable or not but it would be nice if it were documented
in the man
Package: lyx-xforms
Version: 1.3.4-2
Severity: normal
File: /usr/bin/lyx-xforms
Today I set the system clock back 1 hour due to the end of
British Summer Time (the equivalent of Daylight Saving
Time). The LyX cursor stopped blinking, and when another
window was placed over the cursor and then
Package: xemacs21-mule
Version: 21.4.17-1
Severity: normal
File: /usr/bin/xemacs-21.4.17-mule
Today I set the system clock back 1 hour due to the end of
British Summer Time (the equivalent of Daylight Saving
Time). xemacs' display-time did not change the time on its
clock display for 1 hour.
Package: gimp
Version: 2.2.6-1
Severity: normal
Go to Xtns / Proceduce browser, and in the Search box type a
backslash (\) or any string containing \, press Enter, and
gimp will segfault (losing unsaved changes).
On the Dvorak keyboard, \ is next to Return, so it is easily
possible to make gimp
Package: rox-filer
Version: 2.2.0-2
Severity: normal
I did this:
cd /tmp
mkdir space test
cd space test
rox-filer
In that directory (/tmp/space test) I created a new blank
file and then clicked on it.
Emacs opened /tmp/space and /home/ssb22/test/NewFile.
So I imagine it has been invoked as
Package: gnomesword
Version: 2.0.0-6
Severity: normal
The package description says
Interlinear Page - Display up to five versions
The word interlinear makes me think of the Greek text with
English renderings under each word. However, I was not able
to find any such functionality. Perhaps
Package: multimon
Version: 1.0-3
Severity: normal
'man multimon' says:
The programs are documented somewhat more by files in
/usr/doc/multimon/
but that directory doesn't exist, and there isn't any
significant documentation in /usr/share/doc/multimon/
either.
-- System Information:
Package: mailx
Version: 1:8.1.2-0.20040524cvs-4
Severity: normal
This error message is confusing and I don't understand it.
I thought -s was for subject (not recipient), and I DID
say -b (and -s).
ssb22:~$ mail -b ssb22 -s This is a test
mail: You must specify direct recipients with -s, -c, or
Package: ssh
Version: 1:3.8.1p1-8.sarge.4
Severity: normal
If you press Control-C at scp's Password prompt, you get
dropped back to the shell prompt but subsequent commands are
not echoed as you type them (only the prompt and the output
is visible). For example, here I pressed Control-C at the
Package: mpg123
Version: 0.59r-20
Severity: normal
In describing the -s option of mpg123, the man page says:
The output format is raw (headerless) linear PCM audio
data, 16 bit, stereo, host byte order.
However, if the MP3 file is mono, then mono data is output.
No conversion is made from mono
Package: cjk-latex
Version: 4.5.1-4
Severity: normal
I used \begin{CJK*}{GB}{song} .. \end{CJK*} around some
GB2312-encoded Chinese characters in a letter which I
intended to send by fax. Because I was going to fax it
using a fax modem, I used the -Pdfaxlo option of dvips
(see
Package: console-tools
Version: 1:0.2.3dbs-56
Severity: normal
I had a problem with my software suspend script which I
tracked down to a hang in vt-is-UTF8. vt-is-UTF8 works by
writing a sequence of characters to the terminal and then
querying it. However, if a background process just happens
Package: mozilla-firefox
Version: 1.0.4-2
Followup-For: Bug #318061
It seems that a little more information has appeared on that
page now. Code execution through shared function objects
sounds scary.
Why not simply backport 1.0.5? I can't see any major
difference between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5
Package: plptools
Version: 0.12-5
Severity: normal
If I connect my Psion Revo and type plpftp everything
works fine. It works fine if I quit plpftp and run
plpftp again. However, if I then physically disconnect
the Revo and reconnect it, and then run plpftp, plpftp will
say there is no Psion
have a pure woody installation any more.
Neither do I. I've upgraded to sarge, and that's when I
reported the bug. Doing it manually worked fine in woody
but not in sarge. I'm sorry I didn't keep a backup of my
woody installation (I only backed up the user data).
Silas
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). The paper26.ly file was part
of Woody's distribution of lilypond but it is no longer
present in Sarge.
Thanks.
Silas
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would notice that the fonts are missing, because without
autoexpand it won't generate them.)
I don't know how the old Woody version of pdflatex managed
to do font expansion then. Any ideas how to get it back?
Thanks.
Silas
Frank K,A|(Bster writes:
Silas S. Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote
Package: lilypond
Version: 2.2.6-3
Severity: normal
Here is a piece of music in Lilypond format which I wrote on
Debian Woody and it worked fine. When I upgraded to Sarge,
it wouldn't typeset anymore. I tried using convert-ly to
upgrade it, but the resulting output from convert-ly
wouldn't
Package: tetex-bin
Version: 2.0.2-30
Severity: normal
When I was using Debian Woody, I would put
\pdfadjustspacing=2 \pdfprotrudechars=2 in the preambles of
my letters and other documents, and this would make a
positive difference to the spacing when typeset with
pdflatex. After the upgrade to
Package: gv
Version: 1:3.6.1-10
Severity: normal
If you use gv to view a PDF file, and that PDF file has a
full pathname, e.g.
gv /tmp/flyer.pdf
and then use the drop-down box to change the zoom factor,
the gs interpreter crashes with the following message:
Execution stack:
%interp_exit
Package: initscripts
Version: 2.86.ds1-1
Followup-For: Bug #286479
Bug 286479 hit me too. I use Software Suspend for the Linux
kernel. This defaults to running umountnfs.sh on suspend
and mountnfs.sh on resume (even if you're not actually using
NFS). The result was that bootclean.sh was
filed about this, bug 286479. I'll put some more info in it.)
Silas
Paul Martin writes:
tag 316983 unreproducible moreinfo
thanks
On Tue, Jul 05, 2005 at 11:22:39AM +0100, Silas S. Brown wrote:
After I upgraded from woody to sarge, syslogd is no longer
signalled when the logs are rotated
Package: lyx-xforms
Version: 1.3.4-2
Severity: normal
File: /usr/bin/lyx-xforms
The LyX window cannot be made smaller than its initial size.
When I try to do so (on the FLWM window manager), nothing
happens. To work around this I have to supply a -geometry
setting that represents the smallest
Package: logrotate
Version: 3.7-5
Severity: normal
After I upgraded from woody to sarge, syslogd is no longer
signalled when the logs are rotated. The effect is that
syslogd continues to write to /var/log/syslog.0 instead of
the new /var/log/syslog, and my log tracking scripts (which
assume
Package: flwm
Version: 1.00-7
Followup-For: Bug #267983
This is an accessibility bug because it can make flwm
unreadable for people like me (my visual disability means I
need bright text on a dark background, not the other way
around).
The colours used to work OK in Debian Woody.
I did apt-get
Package: reportbug
Version: 3.8
Severity: normal
When I tell reportbug to submit the report, it says
Bug report submitted to: Debian Bug Tracking System [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Copies sent to:
Silas S. Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]
However, the copy never appears in my inbox, and according
to my Exim
Package: libxft2
Version: 2.1.7-1
Severity: normal
The problem with libXft-2.1.5 described at
http://lists.freedesktop.org/pipermail/xlibs/2004-March/000263.html
appears to be still present in this version.
In particular, when I do: fc-list : file | grep dpi
(looking to see if it found any of
Package: htp
Version: 1.13-2
Followup-For: Bug #193652
Actually it nukes anything of the form !-- ...
so, for example, !-- this is a comment BR with a tag in
it -- will be re-written as !-- -- with a tag in it --
This caused my home page to be messed up when I upgraded to
sarge. I worked
Package: lyx-qt
Version: 1.3.4-2
Severity: normal
In lyx-qt, the screen dpi setting in Preferences has no
effect. It works correctly in lyx-xforms.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.23
Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Package: www.debian.org
Version: N/A; reported 2005-03-09
Severity: normal
I believe there is a sub-project called [EMAIL PROTECTED], but I
could not find more information about it on www.debian.org,
either from the front page, the site map, or via Search.
-- System Information
Debian Release:
Package: www.debian.org
Version: N/A; reported 2005-03-09
Severity: normal
The page http://www.debian.org/intro/why_debian contains a
paragraph labelled Good system security which begins
Windows 95 has essentially no security. True, but
mentioning Windows 95 first makes it seem rather dated
Package: popularity-contest
Version: N/A; reported 2005-03-09
Severity: normal
popularity-contest reports the atime (access time) of files in packages, but
if you mount your disk with noatime option (if you want to reduce the number
of disk writes in order to use a solid-state drive or noflushd)
Package: xemacs21
Version: 21.4.6-8
Severity: normal
VM seems to implement FCC (folder carbon copy) by loading
the file you specify, appending the current message to it,
and writing the result. If some other process is filling up
the disk while this is happening, the resulting folder may
be
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