Bug#823534: apt-get remove is unhelpful for virtual packages
Package: apt Version: 1.0.1ubuntu2.13+7.0trisquel3 I tried to remove a package which is virtual, specifically nethack. apt-get told me it could not do this, but said nothing about what to do. It would surely be easy to make it handle a virtual package by seeing which real package provides it, and offering to delete that one. Alas. I can't reproduce this now, or show you the output, because I no longer have those packages installed. I am using Trisquel, not Debian, and reportbug does not seem to work for me. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See stallman.org/skype.html.
Bug#766397: Bug#766395: emacs/gnus: Uses s_client to for SSL.
[[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] In an issue of security vulnerability, giving users the right defaults is paramount. Allowing users to customize is no substitute. Most users don't know about the issue. We need to DTRT for them. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation 51 Franklin St Boston MA 02110 USA www.fsf.org www.gnu.org Skype: No way! That's nonfree (freedom-denying) software. Use Ekiga or an ordinary phone call. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#766397: Bug#766395: emacs/gnus: Uses s_client to for SSL.
[[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] I've read that falling back to ssl3 is a real security hole, being exploited frequently. That feature should be removed. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation 51 Franklin St Boston MA 02110 USA www.fsf.org www.gnu.org Skype: No way! That's nonfree (freedom-denying) software. Use Ekiga or an ordinary phone call. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#737395: Emacs Funny Manpages Copyright
[[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] They need to be free to be included in Debian, however. I believe Debian rules provide for an exception for some sorts of files that serve no functional purpose. I don't remember the details, but I suggest you take a look. Anyway, it isn't my problem, it's Debian's problem. It's GNU Project policy to follow our own license policy, rather than the policy of some other project, especially a project that distributes nonfree software. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation 51 Franklin St Boston MA 02110 USA www.fsf.org www.gnu.org Skype: No way! That's nonfree (freedom-denying) software. Use Ekiga or an ordinary phone call. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#737395: Emacs Funny Manpages Copyright
[[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] Okay, but as it stands, there is not even the right to distribute. Indeed, they ought to have a sharable license. In fact, the next Emacs release won't have these files any more. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation 51 Franklin St Boston MA 02110 USA www.fsf.org www.gnu.org Skype: No way! That's nonfree (freedom-denying) software. Use Ekiga or an ordinary phone call. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#737395: Emacs Funny Manpages Copyright
[[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] The funny man pages are not works for practical use. They are jokes. So they don't need to be free. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation 51 Franklin St Boston MA 02110 USA www.fsf.org www.gnu.org Skype: No way! That's nonfree (freedom-denying) software. Use Ekiga or an ordinary phone call. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#398270: iconv -f emacs-mule
It would be very helpful if one could do $ iconv -f emacs-mule -t utf8 file as one way or another, an emacs buffer sometimes gets saved in mule encoding -- one cannot guarantee it will never happen, and the person later who discovers the file has been saved that way might not have, be able to use, or understand the documents of emacs. This seems to be a suggestion for iconv, so please send it to the iconv developers. (I don't know who they are.) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
