Bug#539451: 2vcard: Improve package description

2009-07-31 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: 2vcard Severity: minor Here's an edited description, which is more accurate, shorter, and up-to-date. 2vcard converts address books and alias files into the widely-used vCard format. Currently it can convert from abook, Eudora, Juno, LDIF, mutt, mh and pine. -- System Information:

Bug#539299: plptools: New (and probably final) release 1.0.8

2009-07-30 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: plptools Version: 1.0.4-4 Severity: wishlist Please update to 1.0.8 from upstream. This is likely to be the last release of plptools as I (the maintainer) no longer use a Psion device, barring updates that fix compilation problems. With 1.0.8 and small fixes to the packaging you should

Bug#536795: texlive-base-bin: 'man texconfig' typos

2009-07-13 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: texlive-base-bin Version: 2007.dfsg.2-4 Severity: minor you may need ot - you may need to TeX-on-Debian.hmlt - TeX-on-Debian.html -- Package-specific info: If you report an error when running one of the TeX-related binaries (latex, pdftex, metafont,...), or if the bug is related to bad

Bug#536844: perl-doc: Typo in mro(3perl)

2009-07-13 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: perl-doc Version: 5.10.0-19 Severity: minor precendence - precedence -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0.2 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8

Bug#535831: dailystrips: New strip: Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereals

2009-07-05 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: dailystrips Version: 1.0.28-9 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch Oddly, a google search finds someone getting SMBC with dailystrips, but I can't find a definition in the current package, so I guess they made their own and didn't share :( Definition follows: strip smbc name

Bug#535894: libmcrypt4: libmcrypt.m4 should be in -dev package

2009-07-05 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: libmcrypt4 Version: 2.5.7-5 Severity: minor /usr/share/aclocal/libmcrypt.m4 should be in the -dev package. -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0.2 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale:

Bug#535895: libmcrypt4: libmcrypt.m4 needs fixing slightly

2009-07-05 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: libmcrypt4 Version: 2.5.7-5 Severity: minor aclocal says: /usr/share/aclocal/libmcrypt.m4:17: warning: underquoted definition of AM_PATH_LIBMCRYPT /usr/share/aclocal/libmcrypt.m4:17: run info '(automake)Extending aclocal' /usr/share/aclocal/libmcrypt.m4:17: or see

Bug#535647: copher: Please update!

2009-07-03 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: copher Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable Please update to 0.2.0, which actually works, unlike the currently packaged version, owing to changes at SourceForge. -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0.2 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable')

Bug#525007: offlineimap: See also Ubuntu bug #364481

2009-06-30 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: offlineimap Version: 6.0.0 Followup-For: Bug #525007 There might be more useful information there. -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0.2 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale:

Bug#532816: offlineimap: Crash indicating bug

2009-06-12 Thread Reuben Thomas
2009/6/12 John Goerzen jgoer...@complete.org: Sounds to me like the server returned messages could not be FETCHed (Failure) when it should have returned some actual list of flags. So shouldn't offlineimap exit with an error message in this case rather than crashing?  Can you run under -d

Bug#532816: offlineimap: Crash indicating bug

2009-06-11 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: offlineimap Version: 6.0.0 Severity: normal I got this traceback from a recent failure to sync. For all I know it could indeed represent a failure, but the error message suggests a bug in offlineimap to me: Thread 'Folder sync gmail[INBOX]' terminated with exception: Traceback (most

Bug#532578: Treat EOF as newline in crontab?

2009-06-10 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: cron Version: 3.0pl1-105 Severity: normal crontab(5) says: BUGS Although cron requires that each entry in a crontab end in a newline character, neither the crontab command nor the cron daemon will detect this error. Instead, the crontab will appear to load

Bug#532295: reportbug finds no bugs for libc6

2009-06-08 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: reportbug Version: 3.48 Severity: normal On my lenny system if I run reportbug libc6, no bugs are found. Unsurprisingly, looking at the BTS shows quite a lot are filed! reportbug on other packages (notably reportbug, in this case) works fine; I've not found another package recently on

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

2009-06-07 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: rsync Version: 3.0.3-2 Severity: normal Running rsync -avHX /foo /bar, where /foo contains several hundred Gb of data, (and a lot of hard links) I eventually get: rsync: writefd_unbuffered failed to write 4 bytes [sender]: Broken pipe (32) rsync: connection unexpectedly closed

Bug#530749: closed by Matthias Andree matthias.and...@gmx.de (Re: [pkg-fetchmail-maint] Bug#530749: fetchmail: Please add option to make no mail not an error condition)

2009-05-29 Thread Reuben Thomas
From: Matthias Andree matthias.and...@gmx.de To: 530749-d...@bugs.debian.org Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 16:47:09 +0200 Subject: Re: [pkg-fetchmail-maint] Bug#530749: fetchmail: Please add option to make no mail not an error condition Am 27.05.2009, 15:12 Uhr, schrieb Reuben Thomas r...@sc3d.org

Bug#530749: fetchmail: Please add option to make no mail not an error condition

2009-05-27 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: fetchmail Version: 6.3.9~rc2-4 Severity: wishlist When using fetchmail in a cron job to fetch mail regularly (because daemon mode is still not reliable, and yes, I've reported it and tried and failed to help fix it), it's annoying that no mail, which is a perfectly normal condition,

Bug#530812: atool: Failure to recognise zip

2009-05-27 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: atool Version: 0.35.0-4 Severity: minor Oddity: $ aunpack gears-linux-opt.xpi aunpack: gears-linux-opt.xpi: format not known, identifying using file aunpack: gears-linux-opt.xpi: unsupported file format `empty (Zip archive data, at least v1.0 to extract)' But the pattern mentioned

Bug#530813: atool: Use MIME types, not textual descriptions from file

2009-05-27 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: atool Version: 0.35.0-4 Severity: normal It's easier and more reliable to match against MIME types from file (file -i). The only potential problem is that some MIME types might be missing, but I'm file upstream, and if you tell me of any missing in the current version I'll happily add

Bug#528762: -r in /etc/init.d/dnsmasq seems to override resolv-file in /etc/dnsmasq.conf

2009-05-15 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: dnsmasq Version: 2.45-1 Severity: normal I seem to have to set RESOLV_CONF in /etc/default/dnsmasq, as otherwise the -r setting in /etc/init.d/dnsmasq overrides the resolv-file setting in /etc/dnsmasq.conf, contrary to the comments in /etc/init.d/dnsmasq. I don't know if it is because

Bug#203109: grep: Part of the original patch should still be applied

2009-05-08 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: grep Version: 2.5.4-4 Followup-For: Bug #203109 I think this bug was kept open because of the lack of -P support in Debian grep, but that has now been fixed. However, the original man page patch made two other useful contributions which in some form are still needed: 1. It mentioned

Bug#527602: grep: Patch to support transparent decompression

2009-05-08 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: grep Version: 2.5.3~dfsg-6 Severity: minor Tags: patch Attached is a patch against grep CVS to support transparent decompression. This is on the grep to-do list and has been accepted in principle for inclusion upstream, but I'm posting it here because that was two years ago, and I'm

Bug#525007: offlineimap: I'm keen to track this bug down!

2009-05-06 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: offlineimap Version: 6.0.3 Followup-For: Bug #525007 I'm still keen to track this bug down, and I'm still getting it regularly, to the extent that it's rather a pain, as I have to keep killing offlineimap manually. As I've said, it's sufficiently intermittent that I can't reproduce it

Bug#526407: /etc/init.d/plptools won't start plpfuse if fuse is built in to kernel

2009-04-30 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: plptools Severity: normal On kernels that have fuse built-in, the line modprobe fuse will fail. Something like: if ! grep fuse /proc/filesystems; then modprobe fuse fi is needed instead. This breaks in Ubuntu Jaunty for example (see LP#370142). -- System Information: Debian

Bug#526411: /etc/init.d/plptools won't start or stop plpfuse properly

2009-04-30 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: plptools Version: 1.0.4-4 Severity: normal Attached, a patch that fixes both #526407 and a similar bug when stopping plpfuse: rather than catting to a virtual file, the file system can simply be unmounted. -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0.1 APT prefers stable APT policy:

Bug#526124: rss2email: Mention how to use authenticated feeds

2009-04-29 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: rss2email Version: 1:2.62-3 Severity: minor Please mention in the man page that one can use HTTP basic authenticated feeds with the normal syntax http://user:passw...@example.com/feed This is in the FAQ on the rss2email web site but not in the man page. -- System Information: Debian

Bug#477921: wajig: Better script for purge-removed

2009-04-29 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: wajig Version: 2.0.38 Followup-For: Bug #477921 I attach a script that does not suffer from the problem I described before (no longer gives an error if there are no removed packages to purge). What would you like next? Python code? -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0.1 APT

Bug#477921: wajig: Fixed script

2009-04-29 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: wajig Version: 2.0.38 Followup-For: Bug #477921 Sorry, the last version was wrong. This one is actually correct and tested. -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0.1 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU

Bug#477921: wajig: Is there something holding up this bug?

2009-04-28 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: wajig Version: 2.0.38 Followup-For: Bug #477921 We seemed to agree on a way forwards with this bug (use the code I provided) nearly a year ago. Is there something else lacking for its resolution? -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0.1 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500,

Bug#432040: texlive-lang-greek: Missing built documentation

2009-04-27 Thread Reuben Thomas
On Mon, 27 Apr 2009, Hilmar Preusse wrote: On 17.07.07 Reuben Thomas (r...@sc3d.org) wrote: Hi, I've forwarded this bug to the upstream author, and will report progress to this bug. Do you know already if the bug is fixed in upstream? As I said, I'll report progress to this bug. Since I

Bug#434697: closed by Ana Guerrero a...@debian.org (reply to 434...@bugs.debian.org) (Package kcontrol removed from Debian)

2009-04-23 Thread Reuben Thomas
I appreciate you probably have quite a lot of bugs like this to close, but if you read the bug report, you'd see that it applies equally to KDE 4, and you might check whether it has in fact been resolved. -- http://rrt.sc3d.org/ | author, n. one who parades ignorance in public -- To

Bug#434697: closed by Ana Guerrero a...@debian.org (reply to 434...@bugs.debian.org) (Package kcontrol removed from Debian)

2009-04-23 Thread Reuben Thomas
On Thu, 23 Apr 2009, Ana Guerrero wrote: Hi Ruben, On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 07:12:16PM +0100, Reuben Thomas wrote: I appreciate you probably have quite a lot of bugs like this to close, but if you read the bug report, you'd see that it applies equally to KDE 4, and you might check whether

Bug#434697: Default alternative terminal emulator should be x-terminal-emulator; arguably it should be the actual default too

2009-04-23 Thread Reuben Thomas
Updating this bug for KDE 4: I see that in systemsettings the default terminal emulator is Konsole. This ignores Debian's settings; it should be x-terminal-emulator. In any case, x-terminal-emulator should be the default *alternative* terminal emulator on Debian. -- http://rrt.sc3d.org/ |

Bug#525007: offlineimap: Runs indefinitely at 100% CPU if network changes

2009-04-22 Thread Reuben Thomas
I've had the bug happen again, this time at home (which I don't remember happening before). Is there something I can do to a running process to help identify the problem? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Bug#525007: offlineimap: Runs indefinitely at 100% CPU if network changes

2009-04-21 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: offlineimap Version: 6.0.0 Severity: normal I'm using a laptop that frequently disconnects and reconnects to a wireless router at present. I regularly find that offlineimap, which I have set to run once per minute under cron, is using 100% CPU but making no progress. -- System

Bug#525007: offlineimap: Runs indefinitely at 100% CPU if network changes

2009-04-21 Thread Reuben Thomas
On Tue, 21 Apr 2009, John Goerzen wrote: Eugenia Cheng wrote: On Tue, 21 Apr 2009, John Goerzen wrote: Try running it outside of cron, with -u TTY.TTYUI -d imap -1 See what you can find from that. I tried a few dozen times but it didn't fail in that way. Then perhaps there is

Bug#525007: offlineimap: Runs indefinitely at 100% CPU if network changes

2009-04-21 Thread Reuben Thomas
On Tue, 21 Apr 2009, Reuben Thomas wrote: I've changed the command-line for now as you requested (and removed the redirection of stderr). This results in some 15Mb and 2Mb log mails coming into my inbox from cron, but I can't see anything of interest in them except that they seem

Bug#524739: libaudio-file-perl: Either man page is wrong about audio_properties methods, or there's a bug

2009-04-19 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: libaudio-file-perl Version: 0.11-1.1 Severity: normal The man page in the second paragraph of the synopsis mentions methods like this: print The . $file-type() .-file . $file-name . is . int $file-length() . seconds long.\n; but they don't work for me, at least

Bug#434456: closed by Karl Ferdinand Ebert ferdi1...@gmx.de (Re: gwenview)

2009-04-19 Thread Reuben Thomas
Visual comparison is unlikely to be helpful; better is to regenerate a thumbnail, then extract it and the original and do a binary comparison. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#524789: RFP: libaudio-scan-perl -- Fast C parser for MP3, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, ASF

2009-04-19 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: libaudio-scan-perl Version : 0.08 Upstream Author : Dan Sully dan...@cpan.org * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Audio-Scan/ * License : GPLv2 or later Programming Lang: C, Perl Description : Fast C

Bug#524791: libmp3-info-perl: Please deprecate in favour of Audio::Scan

2009-04-19 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: libmp3-info-perl Version: 1.23-1 Severity: wishlist See RFP bug #524789. The maintainer of MP3::Info and Audio::Scan recommends the latter be used instead of the former. -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0.1 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386

Bug#523908: plptools: Typo in package description

2009-04-13 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: plptools Severity: minor packed should be packaged. -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0.1 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Bug#523611: bash-completion for man should recognise -l

2009-04-11 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: bash Version: 3.2-4 Severity: normal After man -l bash-completion still tries to insert executable names, when it should rather be offering file names as normal. -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686)

Bug#523327: cups: Can't print self-test page

2009-04-09 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: cups Severity: normal For an Epson 1290, CUPS offers both Print test page and Print self-test page. The former works fine, producing a CUPS-generated page. The latter fails, producing the error: Error from /usr/lib/cups/filter/pstoraster in the web interface. I can't find a

Bug#432266: wajig: details doesn't work on installed but unavailable packages

2009-04-08 Thread Reuben Thomas
Updated patch attached. Two changes: 1. Use grep-status instead of dpkg. This means needing dctrl-tools for describe. Is that a big deal? It has the desired behaviour with respect to exit codes, i.e. 0 for an installed package, 1 otherwise (dpkg --status exits with 0 for an available or

Bug#522836: zile: Assertion crash in auto-fill-mode

2009-04-07 Thread Reuben Thomas
On Mon, 6 Apr 2009, Tim wrote: Oh, please take no offense, as none was intended. I'm not even sure what bug reports I might have submitted on the issue in the past, and if I did, it probably didn't have enough detail. It's just one of those bugs that only pops up right in the middle of

Bug#432266: wajig: details doesn't work on installed but unavailable packages

2009-04-07 Thread Reuben Thomas
On Tue, 7 Apr 2009, Graham Williams wrote: I'm looking to close out some long outstanding wajig bugs. I'm thinking to close this one - perhaps its a wishlist? Or would you have some suggested code to update? As far as I can see it's a bug: wajig detail's documentation in wajig listcommands

Bug#522844: dash: Accepts non-POSIX for syntax

2009-04-06 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: dash Version: 0.5.4-12 Severity: normal dash accepts the following syntax: for i; do... but this is not correct POSIX syntax, as documented here: http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/95399/utilities/xcu_chap02.html#tag_02 where it says: for name [ in [word ... ]]do

Bug#522836: zile: Assertion crash in auto-fill-mode

2009-04-06 Thread Reuben Thomas
On Mon, 6 Apr 2009, Tim wrote: This bug has been in zile a *long* time, but I have never managed to either write a detailed enough bug report or get anyone to care. My dear sir, I'm not sure whether I've ever had a bug report from you, but I certainly *do* care, and have made several

Bug#522841: zile: 2.2 to 2.3 transition is a pain with command line switches

2009-04-06 Thread Reuben Thomas
On Mon, 6 Apr 2009, Tim wrote: Would it be possible to add the -f back to the new package version for a while? Done. Will be in 2.3.5. -- http://rrt.sc3d.org/ | taciturn, n. a silent pot -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe.

Bug#522516: manpages-posix: Please supply Shell Command Language as a man page

2009-04-04 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: manpages-posix Version: 2.16-1 Severity: wishlist Actually, this is a special case of a more general request. There are cross-references from some of the POSIX man pages to things that are not man pages, e.g. the document Shell Command Language, without which sh(1posix) is woefully

Bug#522292: manpages-posix: Missing character in make(1posix)

2009-04-02 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: manpages-posix Version: 2.16-1 Severity: normal The man page contains the text: However, the rules for target names have been set to reserve the \fB'%'\fP and \fB''\fP characters. It's therefore unclear what is meant as the second character. This problem appears to go beyond the man

Bug#522323: man-db: Angle brackets displayed as double-width but treated for wrapping as single-width

2009-04-02 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: man-db Version: 2.5.2-4 Severity: minor *** Please type your rs those around the GNU homepage URL in groff.1: Angle brackets, such as those in the URL in groff(1): .URL http://\:www.gnu.org GNU . are displayed as occupying two character cells, but treated for wrapping purposes as if

Bug#522187: Could gnulib be a pseudo-package?

2009-04-01 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: gnulib Version: 20081101-1 Severity: wishlist Since gnulib is not released, why not make it like one of the non-free pseudo-packages that downloads its real content? It could simply check out the git respository into /var, and make links to the various files. (I'm imagining that this

Bug#522187: Could gnulib be a pseudo-package?

2009-04-01 Thread Reuben Thomas
On Wed, 1 Apr 2009, Daniel Baumann wrote: this is a good suggestion to do in *addition* to the normal gnulib package. but replacing gnulib with an installer-only package is no way - i don't want packages that depend on having internet access. Good point. anyway. i'll be looking into it (it

Bug#384362: tads3: Please package latest stable TADS3

2009-03-31 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: tads3 Followup-For: Bug #384362 As with the original reporter, I found that the currently packaged TADS3 won't play a randomly-downloaded game (in my case, Ditch Day, which I enjoyed playing on my Atari ST years ago). Is there some problem with updating this package? If so, perhaps I

Bug#522127: wput: Please mention username and password in man page

2009-03-31 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: wput Severity: wishlist wput(1) doesn't mention usernames and passwords. In fact, wput does support URLs containing them, but it would be nice to know this fact, and maybe even summarise the format, as it's not that widely used. -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0 APT prefers

Bug#384362: tads3: May be easier to package frobtads instead

2009-03-31 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: tads3 Followup-For: Bug #384362 Frobtads is an autotoolised version of tads, including the latest stable tads VM: http://www.tads.org/frobtads.htm This may be easier to package than tads. -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable')

Bug#521873: Confusing comment in /etc/default/firehol

2009-03-30 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: firehol Severity: normal The first line says: #To enable firehol at startup set this everything != NO I had to think quite hard to understand it. I think it would better say: #To enable firehol at startup set START_FIREHOL=YES (Strictly, it's trying to say set to anything other than

Bug#521948: atool: aunpack fails to unpack multiple files

2009-03-30 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: atool Version: 0.35.0-4 Severity: normal Illustration: $ ls *.bz2 config.log.zile-2.3.5.r4-fuji.bz2 config.log.zile-2.3.5.r4-green.bz2 $ aunpack *.bz2 config.log.zile-2.3.5.r4-fuji.bz2: extracted to `config.log.zile-2.3.5.r4-fuji' Oops! Only one file extracted! -- System Information:

Bug#521954: git-core: Markup problems in man pages

2009-03-30 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: git-core Version: 1:1.5.6.5-3 Severity: minor Formatting problems in (at least) git-reset(1), git-branch(1) under EXAMPLES: $ git commit ... $ git reset --soft HEAD^ fB(1)fR $ editfB(2)fR i.e. some troff commands

Bug#397262: grep: Patch to dlopen PCRE so we can have -P

2009-03-27 Thread Reuben Thomas
On Fri, 27 Mar 2009, Aníbal Monsalve Salazar wrote: On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 11:46:50PM +, Reuben Thomas wrote: To get it to build I removed the --disable-perl-regexp from the configure line in debian/rules, and added -dl to the end of LDFLAGS. The installed package seems to work

Bug#397262: grep: Patch to dlopen PCRE so we can have -P

2009-03-27 Thread Reuben Thomas
Also, it looks as though with the patch you'll build without --disable-perl-regexp? That would be good, as it would mean that Ubuntu, who have libpcre in /lib and hence already ship with PCRE support, would be able simply to ignore this patch; effectively this would be a patch for getting

Bug#521367: dict-gcide: Typo in definition of fiducial

2009-03-26 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: dict-gcide Severity: minor measurments - measurements. -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Bug#397262: grep: Patch to dlopen PCRE so we can have -P

2009-03-25 Thread Reuben Thomas
On Wed, 25 Mar 2009, Aníbal Monsalve Salazar wrote: On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 11:51:35PM +, Reuben Thomas wrote: To clarify: my patch applies cleanly to current CVS. Ah, but the one in the BTS appears to be out of date. I attach the patch I have. I tried it: [errors] OK, I'll have

Bug#397262: grep: Patch to dlopen PCRE so we can have -P

2009-03-25 Thread Reuben Thomas
Hi, To get it to build I removed the --disable-perl-regexp from the configure line in debian/rules, and added -dl to the end of LDFLAGS. The installed package seems to work, in particular the -P option. -- http://rrt.sc3d.org/ | dumb blonde, n. susbt. phr. peroxymoron -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Bug#397262: grep: Patch to dlopen PCRE so we can have -P

2009-03-24 Thread Reuben Thomas
On Wed, 25 Mar 2009, Aníbal Monsalve Salazar wrote: On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 10:12:03PM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: On Nov 06, Reuben Thomas r...@sc3d.org wrote: As we discussed a while ago, I've made a patch for grep to use PCRE via dlopen. Are there any news about this bug? Do you need help

Bug#397262: grep: Patch to dlopen PCRE so we can have -P

2009-03-24 Thread Reuben Thomas
On Wed, 25 Mar 2009, Aníbal Monsalve Salazar wrote: On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 09:35:07PM +, Reuben Thomas wrote: If there's interest, I'm happy to get it up to date. Yes, please. Currently my patch applies cleanly. It only patches search.c, it doesn't attempt to patch the build system

Bug#397262: grep: Patch to dlopen PCRE so we can have -P

2009-03-24 Thread Reuben Thomas
To clarify: my patch applies cleanly to current CVS. Ah, but the one in the BTS appears to be out of date. I attach the patch I have.Binary files grep/src/egrep and grep-dlopen-pcre/src/egrep differ Binary files grep/src/egrep.o and grep-dlopen-pcre/src/egrep.o differ Binary files

Bug#520162: manpages-posix: Problem with display of man(1posix)

2009-03-17 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: manpages-posix Version: 2.16-1 Severity: normal The example grep command in the explanation of man -k does not dispaly properly (it should all display on one line, and when displayed some text at the end of the command is missing). -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0 APT

Bug#519762: valgrind: README.Debian looks out of date

2009-03-14 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: valgrind Version: 1:3.3.1-3 Severity: normal README.Debian says that valgrind is compiled on kernel 2.4 and hence doesn't support NPTL. Since Debian stable has not shipped this kernel for years, I presume this is false. If not, it's surely time to rectify this problem? -- System

Bug#519492: devhelp: Remove mention of Gecko from package description

2009-03-12 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: devhelp Severity: minor Two reasons: 1. It's irrelevant. 2. On Ubuntu devhelp is built against webkit, so the package description isn't true there. It would be nice not to make this a problem for Ubuntu when there isn't really a good reason. -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0

Bug#336465: easytag: This bug should be closed

2009-03-09 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: easytag Followup-For: Bug #336465 The situation seems fairly clear: Debian cannot (for whatever reason) include AAC suport, so if you want to edit AAC/MP4 tags, you need to install easytag-aac from Debian multimedia, or build with such support enabled from source. Hence, this bug can

Bug#518955: easytag refuses to work with unreadable directories

2009-03-09 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: easytag Severity: normal If I start easytag with a path a component of which is unreadable, easytag refuses to read the given path, even though the leaf directory is readable and each component of the path is executable. This means that I can't work with some files even though I do have

Bug#518283: plptools: Typo in package description

2009-03-05 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: plptools Severity: minor The final sentence of the package description lacks a concluding full stop. -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale:

Bug#518282: plptools: No longer needs to Suggest portmap

2009-03-05 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: plptools Severity: minor plptools Suggested portmap because it was needed for plpnfsd, but this no longer exists (replaced by plpfuse). -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686

Bug#505702: plptools: Bug fixed in 1.0.7.

2009-03-05 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: plptools Followup-For: Bug #505702 This bug is fixed in 1.0.7; please update the package. -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8,

Bug#517990: jhead: -ce broken (fix released in 2.87)

2009-03-03 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: jhead Version: 2.84-2 Severity: important -ce is broken in 2.86, and is fixed in 2.87, just released. -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale:

Bug#517930: gutenbrowser: URL in package description appears to be wrong

2009-03-02 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: gutenbrowser Severity: minor The URL should be: http://gutenbrowser.sourceforge.net/index.html Without the index.html an error page is shown. -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux

Bug#516677: manpages-dev: Typo in strftime(3)

2009-02-22 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: manpages-dev Version: 3.05-1 Severity: minor Under %G, it says that it has the same value and format as %y, but it means %Y (4-digit year). -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux

Bug#516293: manpages-dev: realpath BUGS section overly pessimistic

2009-02-20 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: manpages-dev Version: 3.05-1 Severity: normal The BUGS section starts with a bald Avoid using this function, but that advice only applies to calls with a non-NULL second argument. If one uses the glibc extension (which the POSIX man page hints may well become standard) then one is safe.

Bug#515694: cgiirc should set up alias for images

2009-02-16 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: cgiirc Version: 0.5.9-3 Severity: normal cgiirc seems to assume that /usr/share/images is aliased to the URL /images, but this is not the case with Apache 2. According to Tollef Fog Heen, Those packages should make sure to set up the necessary aliases they need -- System

Bug#511500: wcalc: This bug is fixed in 2.4.

2009-02-09 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: wcalc Version: 2.3.1-1 Followup-For: Bug #511500 This bug is fixed in 2.4. -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0 APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8,

Bug#514618: wcalc: Please package 2.4.

2009-02-09 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: wcalc Version: 2.3.1-1 Severity: wishlist There's a newer release (from last October) that fixes some bugs, including #511500. -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0 APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/1

Bug#514008: apache2: Alias for /usr/share/images missing?

2009-02-05 Thread Reuben Thomas
On Thu, 5 Feb 2009, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: Given that /usr/share/images is not only used by web packages, I think the answer is «no». Those packages should make sure to set up the necessary aliases they need (or we could have something like /usr/share/httpd/images that would be shipped in

Bug#514279: gbuffy: Package description is misleading.

2009-02-05 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: gbuffy Version: 0.2.6-13 Severity: minor The package description says that support for an external program run on notification is planned, but since gbuffy has now not been updated for over ten years that seems to be stretching the truth. I would simply delete that bit. -- System

Bug#514300: apt_preferences(5) typo

2009-02-05 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: apt Version: 0.7.20.1 Severity: minor The line Pin: release unstable should be Pin: release a=unstable. -- Package-specific info: -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Bug#514008: apache2: Alias for /usr/share/images missing?

2009-02-03 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: apache2.2-common Version: 2.2.9-10+lenny2 Severity: minor As far as I can see, web applications designed to run under Apache install images under /usr/share/images and expect the URL /images to be aliased to this directory. However, I can't find any traces of it in the default apache2

Bug#509307: xbacklight: -set does nothing if it thinks the setting is already correct

2009-02-01 Thread Reuben Thomas
On Sun, 1 Feb 2009, Brice Goglin wrote: Reuben Thomas wrote: Package: xbacklight Severity: normal xbacklight -set sometimes has no effect. For example, when I suspend and resume my laptop, the backlight is reset to 100%, but is still reported as whatever I set it to before. xbacklight seems

Bug#447861: autoconf-doc: Patches to update documentation to current release (2.63)

2009-01-25 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: autoconf-doc Followup-For: Bug #447861 I attach updated .dsc and .diff.gz files to bring the package up to date. -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0 APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)

Bug#512198: openssh-client: Suggestion for improved short description of package

2009-01-18 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: openssh-client Version: 1:5.1p1-5 Severity: wishlist The current short package descriptions refer to rsh, yet for some years, new users are unlikely to have used rsh, and experienced users are likely (like me!) not to have used rsh for years. Also, it's a good idea to avoid indirection

Bug#511546: wajig: Please add support for apt-get build-dep

2009-01-11 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: wajig Version: 2.0.38 Severity: wishlist Please make wajig build-dep do apt-get build-dep. -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0 APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8,

Bug#510915: mpd tries to change uid when run from non-root user

2009-01-05 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: mpd Severity: minor mpd claims that when run from a non-root user it will run as that user (see the comments in /etc/mpd.conf) but in fact it tries to become mpd and then aborts when it can't. Either the comments should be clarified (mpd will try to become the given user, if any), or

Bug#510427: Missing referand in man page expect(1)

2009-01-01 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: expect Version: 5.43.0-17 Severity: minor expect(1) refers to a note on system indigestion, but that note doesn't seem to appear anywhere in the man page. -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0 APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel:

Bug#510458: Incorrect heading of psiconv(1)

2009-01-01 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: psiconv Version: 0.9.8-4 Severity: minor The man page actually thinks it is called Version(1). Further, the final paragraph of the page that says that the full documentation is maintained as info is incorrect, and should be deleted. -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0 APT

Bug#484729: psiconv: This typo actually comes from --help

2009-01-01 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: psiconv Version: 0.9.8-4 Followup-For: Bug #484729 This typo is also apparent in --help, and presumably comes from there. -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0 APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU

Bug#444043: [Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#444043: Bug#444043: network-manager: Unconnected USB ethernet device is made to take priority over connected wireless!

2009-01-01 Thread Reuben Thomas
On Fri, 26 Dec 2008, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote: On Sun, Sep 30, 2007 at 12:41:35AM +0100, Reuben Thomas wrote: On Sun, 30 Sep 2007, Michael Biebl wrote: Please reassign to the package providing the flusb driver. In your case that should probably be on of the linux-image-* packages. Sounds

Bug#510111: reiserfsprogs: Incorrect or unclear documentation of exit codes in reiserfsck(1)

2008-12-29 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: reiserfsprogs Version: 1:3.6.19-6 Severity: normal The exit codes for reiserfsck mentioned under AN EXAMPLE OF USING reiserfsck do not seem to tally with those listed under EXIT CODES. It is possible that these refer to different sets of error codes (for --check versus the fixing

Bug#509772: nfs-kernel-server: all_squash export option does not seem to work

2008-12-26 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: nfs-kernel-server Version: 1:1.1.2-6lenny1 Severity: important If I use all_squash in an export line such as /home/foo/music 192.168.11.0/255.255.255.0(all_squash,no_subtree_check) then I find that remote mounts of the exported tree give the actual uid and gid of the exported files and

Bug#509846: Synopsis of obexfs(1) is missing mount point and options

2008-12-26 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: obexfs Severity: minor The synopsis doesn't show mount point and options. Adding something like: [ -- mount_options ] mount_point to the end of the synopsis should be sufficient. An example lower down the page would also be nice. One thing would be nice to clear up, too: obexftp seems

Bug#509306: xbacklight: Typo in man page

2008-12-20 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: xbacklight Severity: minor faiding - fading -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0 APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell:

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