Bug#966286: Minor correction: xdg-email (as used in nemo-data, where 'Send by email' misbehaves when parent's folder name contains a comma.)

2020-07-26 Thread Howard Johnson
.. I had previously _incorrectly_ said: Note that in our case there is only one path/filename, *so this could be further simplified as follows*: ATTACH=$(/bin/echo -e $(echo "$MAILTO" | grep '^attach='     | sed 's/^attach=//;s|^|file://|g'                               

Bug#966286: xdg-email (as used in nemo-data, where 'Send by email' misbehaves when parent's folder name contains a comma.)

2020-07-25 Thread Howard Johnson
I'm happy to report that I think I found the problem and a solution for 966...@bugs.debian.org aka  https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=966286 When you call `/usr/bin/thunderbird`, one must separate optional attachments with a comma.   See: 

Bug#966286: nemo-data: 'Send by email' misbehaves when parent's folder name contains a comma.

2020-07-25 Thread Howard Johnson
I've tracked the bug back into /usr/bin/xdg-email I think.

Bug#966286: nemo-data: 'Send by email' misbehaves when parent's folder name contains a comma.

2020-07-25 Thread Howard Johnson
Package: nemo-data Version: 3.8.5-1 Severity: normal CreateCreate a folder named 'foo,bar'. $ mkdir ~/'foo,bar' # <-- note the comma here Touch a file in it named y. touch Create~/'foo,bar'/y Then in nemo right click on y and select Send by email. This misbehaves. a

Bug#963785: gman: Search and viewing are inconsistant

2020-06-26 Thread Howard Johnson
Package: gman Version: 0.9.3-5.3 Severity: normal Hi I've installed and tried both the normal Buster version and the most recent version (both running on Buster). I can't consistently enter a search word, e.g. 'tree' (without the quotes), and get an index of man pages. It may work. And then

Bug#946617: Confirming the bug and fix. Suggesting also man2html

2020-06-25 Thread Howard Johnson
Hi, I also observed this bug, and furthermore, also used the previously suggested fix to correct it, i.e. adding     $ENV{'MAN_DISABLE_SECCOMP'} = 1; Also I think you might want to consider instead using *man2html* like dpkg-www does, (or at least have it as an option), as I think it looks

Bug#963680: dwww: Coding error setting $mime_charset

2020-06-25 Thread Howard Johnson
Package: dwww Version: 1.13.5 Severity: normal Hi. I discovered this code in dwww-convert that doesn't make sense. Unless I'm missing something, why test and set $mime_charset="UTF-8" again, when it's already set that way. Perhaps you had in mind setting something else. Or perhaps these tests

Bug#963169: minor correction to my initial report

2020-06-19 Thread Howard Johnson
I wrote: 3) Furthermore, you can run `# /usr/sbin/dwww-find mysql` and you can see that the man page for the mysql COMMAND is actually contained in the html. More correctly: 3) Furthermore, you can run `# /usr/sbin/dwww-find mysql` and you can see that the *_a man page LINK for the mysql

Bug#963169: dwww: `--package` should be `--program` in usage: to agree with manpage and actual function

2020-06-19 Thread Howard Johnson
Package: dwww Version: 1.13.5 Severity: normal Hi. I believe that the `usage:` message for dwww-find has an error. Here is how you observe and confirm this: 1) Run `$ man dwww-find` and observe that dwww-find only spells out a `--program` option, not a `--package` option. 2) Run `#

Bug#963031: man2html: `hman` "executable rejected due to location or path"

2020-06-17 Thread Howard Johnson
Package: man2html Version: 1.6g-12 Severity: normal Tags: patch The problem: 1) Install and configure man2html package. 2) Make sure that MANHTMLPAGER is not set. 3) Run `hman` command (script) to view man pages in the default browser: lynx. 3) Bug: Get red lynx

Bug#954191: vbackup homepage is bad

2020-03-17 Thread Howard Johnson
Package: vbackup Version: 7.5.3 On https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/vbackup under "links" clicking on "homepage " is broken. It properly goes to URL https://www.v13.gr/ but this only displays: PANIC: Failed to connect to the database.

Bug#954188: `reportbug` is a mess and should not be recommended as a method of sending Debian bug reports.

2020-03-17 Thread Howard Johnson
Package: reportbug Version: 7.5.3 https://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting says:     "We strongly recommend that you report bugs in Debian using the reportbug program." I'm using Buster 10.3 now.  But when I was using Jessie, I reported to Debian that *reportbug* was not working. So a few years

Bug#885928: (no subject)

2020-01-24 Thread Howard Johnson
For me fixed with this: sudo chown -R _apt:root /var/lib/apt/lists

Bug#903552: /var/lib/apt/lists must be owned by '_apt'.

2020-01-24 Thread Howard Johnson
|/var/lib/apt/lists must be owned by '_apt'. | ** *So for me this fix worked: * |sudo chown -R _apt:root /var/lib/apt/lists |

Bug#921037: typo correction

2019-01-31 Thread Howard Johnson
I accidentally left out the Types: line.   Should be: --- start of code --- #NOTE: Most preferred source listed first! #=== NEW MULTI-LINE FORMAT === Types: deb deb-src URIs:http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ Suites: stretch

Bug#921037: apt: Additional empty lines not ignored in multi-line format

2019-01-31 Thread Howard Johnson
Package: apt Version: 1.4.9 Severity: normal Tags: newcomer In `man sources.list`, under the heading: "DEB822-STYLE FORMAT", it says, "Individual entries are separated by an empty line; additional empty lines are ignored". However, additional empty lines are not being ignored.

Bug#919634: wiki.debian.org: https://wiki.debian.org/ down

2019-01-17 Thread Howard Johnson
Package: wiki.debian.org Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable wiki web server is mis-configured. When I browse to: https://wiki.debian.org/ The web page returned says: Forbidden You are not allowed to access this!" OR when viewed as source, I see this:

Bug#881232: xserver-xorg-input-libinput package: Depends: xorg-input-abi-* but is not installable

2017-11-08 Thread Howard Johnson
Package: xserver-xorg-input-libinput Version: 0.23.0-2 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, I was looking for version numbers for all packages for xserver (to work on a different bug), when I noticed this non-existing xserver package dependency. I also noticed that this bug almost got fixed in

Bug#800643: I think I'm seeing the same issue

2017-07-02 Thread Howard Johnson
Been looking through my journal for errors, and noticed this. I assume I'm seeing the same bug. A few additional pieces of info for you (that may or may not be helpful): - From my journal: ... Jul 2 22:04:41

Bug#297485: libwvstreams4.0-extras: WvModem class does not work on ptys (SmartLink software modem daemon)

2005-02-28 Thread Howard Johnson
Package: libwvstreams4.0-extras Version: 4.0.1-1.3 Severity: normal Tags: patch The SmartLink software modem (sl-modem-daemon) presents it's modem interface on a pty, but the WvModem class's dependency on TIOCGSERIAL prevents it's use on ptys such as /dev/pts/0. This renders wvdial unusable from

Bug#296945: installation-reports

2005-02-25 Thread Howard Johnson
Package: installation-reports Debian-installer-version: 2004-11-21 (sarge rc2) from cdimage.debian.org uname -a: Linux hoto 2.6.8-2-386 #1 Mon Jan 24 03:01:58 EST 2005 i686 GNU/Linux Date: 2005-01-05 08:30 PST Method: cdrom Machine: Toshiba Satellite A45-S150 Processor: Mobile Intel(R) Pentium(R)