Bug#419784: 'man bootcd2disk.conf' typos: "upcomming", "filessystem", "followinf" and "commandline" x 2

2007-04-17 Thread A. Costa
Package: bootcd Version: 3.02 Severity: minor Tags: patch Found some typos in '/usr/share/man/man5/bootcd2disk.conf.5.gz', see attached '.diff'. Hope this helps... -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686)

Bug#419786: 'man bootcdwrite' typos: "filessystem", "neccessary", "necessarry" and "devicefiles"

2007-04-17 Thread A. Costa
Package: bootcd Version: 3.02 Severity: minor Tags: patch Found some typos in '/usr/share/man/man5/bootcdwrite.conf.5.gz', see attached '.diff'. Hope this helps... -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686)

Bug#418819: 'playmidi --help' fails to give options details

2007-04-11 Thread A. Costa
Package: playmidi Version: 2.4debian-7 Severity: minor # number output of playmidi --help, with exit code % { playmidi --help ; echo $? ; } | nl 1 Playmidi 2.4 Copyright (C) 1994-1997 Nathan I. Laredo, AWE32 by Takashi Iwai 2 This is free software with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.

Bug#418456: circular error message: "W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems"

2007-04-09 Thread A. Costa
Package: apt Version: 0.6.46.4-0.1 Severity: minor A minor facet (a "buglet"?) of an older merged set of bugs: #345891 needs update for new archive key http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=345891 Merged with #345823, #345956, #346002, #347540 ...which I don't believe any

Bug#417985: "cli_loaddbdir(): Can't open directory /var/lib/clamav//main.inc"

2007-04-06 Thread A. Costa
On Fri, 6 Apr 2007 08:33:00 +0100 Stephen Gran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ...I am not sure how you got a mode 700 directory - do you run > freshclam with an odd umask or anything? But at any rate, the short > term fix is to chmod 0755 the directory - that's what it is here, and > everywhere I'v

Bug#417985: "cli_loaddbdir(): Can't open directory /var/lib/clamav//main.inc"

2007-04-05 Thread A. Costa
On Thu, 5 Apr 2007 23:19:23 +0100 Stephen Gran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What is the output of > find /var/lib/clamav -ls > ? It depends on whether I'm 'root' or not. Attached are four files, the outputs of: # run as user... find /var/lib/clamav -ls > /tmp/usertest 2> /tmp/u

Bug#417985: "cli_loaddbdir(): Can't open directory /var/lib/clamav//main.inc"

2007-04-05 Thread A. Costa
Package: clamav Version: 0.90.1-2 Severity: important (Uncertainty: nobody else reported this, so it may be some locally corrupt file or local config glitch.) Today 'clamscan' doesn't work on my system: % echo hello > /tmp/foo % clamscan /tmp/foo ; echo $? LibClamAV Error: cli_load

Bug#417983: freeguide tv listing '.ser' file format is pretty much undocumented

2007-04-05 Thread A. Costa
Package: freeguide Version: 0.10.4-2 Severity: wishlist Recent versions of 'freeguide' keep TV listings in '.ser' files: % file ~/.freeguide/day-2007-03-27-B.ser /home/alfie/.freeguide/day-2007-03-27-B.ser: Java serialization data, version 5 A search of the 'freeguide' man page, docs,

Bug#335295: timidity: Misleading error: "Can't read ANY configuration file"?

2007-03-29 Thread A. Costa
Package: timidity Followup-For: Bug #335295 Honorable timiditians, the new error message is better: % /etc/init.d/timidity start Starting TiMidity++ ALSA midi emulation: /etc/timidity/freepats.cfg: No such file or directory timidity: Error reading configuration file. Please chec

Bug#416477: badblocks: 'invalid blocks range' inaccuracies.

2007-03-28 Thread A. Costa
Package: e2fsprogs Version: 1.39+1.40-WIP-2006.11.14+dfsg-2 Severity: normal Error messages add one to a too low 'lastblock': % badblocks -vs /dev/hdb1 1 2 badblocks: invalid blocks range: 2-2 % badblocks -vs /dev/hdb1 1 99 badblocks: invalid blocks range: 99-2 Too high values va

Bug#415619: cdparanoia: man page vague about '-z' switch parameter syntax.

2007-03-20 Thread A. Costa
Package: cdparanoia Version: 3.10+debian~pre0-4 Severity: normal Man page says: -z --never-skip[=max_retries] Do not accept any skips; retry forever if needed. An optional maximum number of retries can be specified; for comparison, default without -z is currently 20. It's n

Bug#415621: cdparanoia: Surplus parameters should cause an error.

2007-03-20 Thread A. Costa
Package: cdparanoia Version: 3.10+debian~pre0-4 Severity: normal Shouldn't work, but does: cdparanoia -z 5 9 output_file Due to the current syntax of '-z', the '5' is seen a track number, and thus the output file name is '9'. Which leaves the the final parameter left over. There seems to b

Bug#414666: 'man uuencode' typo: "which of the both"

2007-03-14 Thread A. Costa
On Wed, 14 Mar 2007 11:34:14 +0100 (CET) Santiago Vila <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It would be simpler, in general, if bug submitters could check that > the bug is present in the latest available version of the package, > be it stable, testing, unstable or experimental before submitting the > bug

Bug#414666: 'man uuencode' typo: "which of the both"

2007-03-13 Thread A. Costa
On Tue, 13 Mar 2007 09:31:07 +0100 (CET) Santiago Vila <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Please try version in experimental and tell me if you can reproduce > the bug there. Thanks. Sorry, but I'm a bit puzzled. A man page is a data file, and data files are the same on all systems. It would be simple

Bug#414666: 'man uuencode' typo: "which of the both"

2007-03-12 Thread A. Costa
Package: sharutils Version: 1:4.2.1-15 Severity: minor Tags: patch Found a typo in '/usr/share/man/man1/uuencode.1.gz', see attached '.diff'. Hope this helps... -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /b

Bug#414355: 'esdcompat': 'shift: 96: can't shift that many', if shell isn't 'bash'

2007-03-10 Thread A. Costa
Package: pulseaudio-esound-compat Version: 0.9.5-7 Severity: important Begin with no 'pulseaudio' in memory, and '/bin/sh' symlinked to '/bin/dash'. From an xterm command line, run 'galeon', which calls 'esdcompat', which gives this error: % galeon shift: 96: can't shift that many ...so

Bug#412946: dog: '-w n' doesn't work.

2007-02-28 Thread A. Costa
Package: dog Version: 1.7-8 Severity: normal Man page says: % man dog | grep -n "\-w n" 48: -w n Print first n characters of each line (default=80) ...but it doesn't work: # this should print "Po" % echo "Potato" | dog -w 2 - ; echo $? dog: 2: No such file or direct

Bug#407412: #407412: dlocate: '-s' option ignores virtual packages.

2007-02-27 Thread A. Costa
On Mon, 26 Feb 2007 10:40:14 +0200 "era eriksson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Pipes seem ideal, { for a 'Providers:' field } since for '.deb's they mean > > XOR. > > Well, they clutter the output, and don't really add anything. Just a > whitespace separator makes the data easier to cut and pa

Bug#407412: #407412: dlocate: '-s' option ignores virtual packages.

2007-02-24 Thread A. Costa
On Sat, 24 Feb 2007 16:41:11 +0200 "era eriksson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 0> vnix$ dlocate -s mail-transport-agent 1> Package: mail-transport-agent (virtual) 2> Providers: exim4-daemon-heavy, exim4-daemon-light, postfix, courier-mta ... 3> 4> Package: postfix 5> Status: install ok install

Bug#407412: #407412: dlocate: '-s' option ignores virtual packages.

2007-02-20 Thread A. Costa
Short version: go to the end, read the last 16 lines. Long version: start to finish floundering. On Tue, 20 Feb 2007 21:49:05 +0200 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sat, 17 Feb 2007 21:25:20 -0500, "A. Costa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said > [proposed]: > >% dlo

Bug#407412: #407412: dlocate: '-s' option ignores virtual packages.

2007-02-17 Thread A. Costa
Package: dlocate Version: 0.5-0.3 Followup-For: Bug #407412 January's suggested revision: % dlocate -s mail-transport-agent 'mail-transport-agent' is a virtual package, currently provided by 'exim4-daemon-light'. List of provider packages: courier-mta exim exim-tls exim4-daemon-heav

Bug#397384: Re 397384: "sorry about that!" -- accidental post

2007-02-16 Thread A. Costa
My abject apologies to M.D'I. and his kindred peace keepers. That last rather critical and discursive post was sent by accident. Please ignore it if at all possible. For the record: obviously nothing is written by accident... I was attempting to follow the Abraham Lincoln method to blunt my own

Bug#395054: -- it came from the draft folder...

2007-02-15 Thread A. Costa
Argh, I just now mistakenly sent an old message from the 'Draft' folder! I mean I wrote it and all, a few months ago, but figured, "eh, why bother?" Anyway I'll try to undo the contol part of it, and please, I wouldn't be offended if you'd kindly ignore it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL P

Bug#395054: closed by Don Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Re: Bug#395054: Puzzle: my reopening a closed bug results in closing BTS reply, reportedly from me.)

2007-02-15 Thread A. Costa
reopen 395054 ! tag 395054 +wontfix thanks Around Wed, 08 Nov 2006 02:33:49 -0800 Don Armstrong wrote (caps added): > Since the original issue behind this report has been resolved, and the > secondary issue isn't one I think is a bug (OR AM INTERESTED IN fixing > IF IT IS), I'm closing this bug.

Bug#411034: 'pngcrush infile outfile' vague wording: 'for outfile'

2007-02-15 Thread A. Costa
On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 07:19:55 -0800 Kapil Hari Paranjape <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Perhaps this verbosity should be turned on by a command-line switch. > When we enable that we could also change the message as suggested. That'd be fine too, as long as the wording (long or short) is accurate.

Bug#411028: Harmful 'man pngcrush' typo: "pngcrush [options] [file1.png] [file2.png] ..."

2007-02-15 Thread A. Costa
After further thought, I now believe most of the brackets in the current SYNOPSIS aren't needed. Using 'man cp' as a model: % man cp | grep -n SYN -A 4 8:SYNOPSIS 9- cp [OPTION]... [-T] SOURCE DEST 10- cp [OPTION]... SOURCE... DIRECTORY 11-

Bug#411033: 'pngcrush infile outfile' may overwrite file without prompting.

2007-02-15 Thread A. Costa
On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 07:17:03 -0800 Kapil Hari Paranjape <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think it would be better if this was not on by default but could be > put on by a command-line switch like for "rm" or "mv". That'd work. BTW, as you must have noticed, my suggestion of a '--force' switch has

Bug#397384: module-init-tools: Misleading error: "modprobe: Can't locate module /lib/modules/2.4.27/misc/lirc_dev.o"

2007-02-15 Thread A. Costa
On Tue, 12 Dec 2006 02:01:38 +0100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco d'Itri) wrote: > How boring. False ennui; while this painful emotion must seem valid to you, it's cause is only your supposing premises that flatter your pride. Naturally it's boring living on a pedastal looking down at the ants, brightl

Bug#411034: 'pngcrush infile outfile' vague wording: 'for outfile'

2007-02-15 Thread A. Costa
Package: pngcrush Version: 1.6.4-3 Severity: minor As mentioned before, due to an erroneous man page SYNOPSIS, I ran 'pngcrush *' in a directory with only two files: % ls -log total 32554 -rw-r- 1 16638693 Jun 14 2005 Jettaradio0001.png -rw-r- 1 16562597 Jun 14 2005 Jet

Bug#411032: 'pngcrush infile outfile' shouldn't say 'recompressing'.

2007-02-15 Thread A. Costa
Package: pngcrush Version: 1.6.4-3 Severity: minor As mentioned in another bug, a misleading man page error caused me to wipe out a file: % man pngcrush | grep -n -A 1 SYN 9:SYNOPSIS 10- pngcrush [options] [file1.png] [file2.png] ... While referring to that erroneous man page

Bug#411033: 'pngcrush infile outfile' may overwrite file without prompting.

2007-02-15 Thread A. Costa
Package: pngcrush Version: 1.6.4-3 Severity: normal To rehash, while refering to the erroneous man page SYNOPSIS described in a prior bug report, I had the bad luck to run 'pngcrush' in a directory with only two files: % ls -log total 32554 -rw-r- 1 16638693 Jun 14 2005 Jettaradi

Bug#411028: Harmful 'man pngcrush' typo: "pngcrush [options] [file1.png] [file2.png] ..."

2007-02-15 Thread A. Costa
Package: pngcrush Version: 1.6.4-3 Severity: important Tags: patch This misleading man page typo caused me to wipe out a file: % man pngcrush | grep -n -A 1 SYN 9:SYNOPSIS 10- pngcrush [options] [file1.png] [file2.png] ... Those three dots at the end of line #10 claim that s

Bug#411026: 'man hfind' verbose description: "the UNIX sorter program located in /usr/bin/."

2007-02-15 Thread A. Costa
Package: sleuthkit Version: 2.07-1 Severity: minor Tags: patch Found a verbose description in '/usr/share/man/man1/hfind.1.gz', see attached '.diff'. Hope this helps... -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) S

Bug#338574: 'man sformat' typos: "I you" and "Intercative"

2007-02-13 Thread A. Costa
Package: sformat Version: 3.5-1.1 Followup-For: Bug #338574 Found another typo in '/usr/share/man/man8/sformat.8.gz', see attached '.diff', which fixes both typos. -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell:

Bug#410604: 'man gr_monitor' typos: "stardard" and "writen"

2007-02-11 Thread A. Costa
Package: grmonitor Version: 0.81-4.1 Severity: minor Tags: patch Found a few typos in '/usr/share/man/man1/gr_monitor.1.gz', see attached '.diff'. Hope this helps... -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shel

Bug#410601: 'man pavumeter' typo: "ommited"

2007-02-11 Thread A. Costa
Package: pavumeter Version: 0.9.2-1 Severity: minor Tags: patch Found a typo in '/usr/share/man/man1/pavumeter.1.gz', see attached '.diff'. Hope this helps... -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin

Bug#410603: 'man adduser-ng' typos: "crated" & "differed"

2007-02-11 Thread A. Costa
Package: adduser-ng Version: 0.1.2-2 Severity: minor Tags: patch Found a few typos in '/usr/share/man/man8/adduser-ng.8.gz', see attached '.diff'. Hope this helps... -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shel

Bug#410602: 'man gr_gather' typo: "infomation"

2007-02-11 Thread A. Costa
Package: grmonitor Version: 0.81-4.1 Severity: minor Tags: patch Found a typo in '/usr/share/man/man1/gr_gather.1.gz', see attached '.diff'. Hope this helps... -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bi

Bug#410252: 'man ip6tables' typos: "Ehternet", "aswell", "fragement", etc.

2007-02-08 Thread A. Costa
Package: iptables Version: 1.3.6.0debian1-5 Severity: minor Tags: patch Found some typos in '/usr/share/man/man8/ip6tables.8.gz', see attached '.diff'. Also fixed a few grammar typos not listed in the subject line. Hope this helps... -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers un

Bug#410250: 'man iptables' typos: "extremly", "mached", "miliseconds" x 2, "tranferred", etc.

2007-02-08 Thread A. Costa
Package: iptables Version: 1.3.6.0debian1-5 Severity: minor Tags: patch Found some typos in '/usr/share/man/man8/iptables.8.gz', see attached '.diff'. Also fixed a few grammar errors. Hope this helps... -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unst

Bug#409590: 'man timidity.cfg' typo: "specifing"

2007-02-03 Thread A. Costa
Package: timidity Version: 2.13.2-7.1 Severity: minor Tags: patch Found a typo in '/usr/share/man/man5/timidity.cfg.5.gz', see attached '.diff'. Hope this helps... -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture

Bug#409589: 'man nvidia-settings' typo: "specifed"

2007-02-03 Thread A. Costa
Package: nvidia-settings Version: 1.0+20060516-3 Severity: minor Tags: patch Found a typo in '/usr/share/man/man1/nvidia-settings.1.gz', see attached '.diff'. Hope this helps... -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental

Bug#409588: 'man timidity' typos: "Windodws" x 2

2007-02-03 Thread A. Costa
Package: timidity Version: 2.13.2-7.1 Severity: minor Tags: patch Found a few typos in '/usr/share/man/man1/timidity.1.gz', see attached '.diff'. Hope this helps... -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architectur

Bug#409585: 'man btcompletedirgui' typo: "whithin"

2007-02-03 Thread A. Costa
Package: bittornado-gui Version: 0.3.18-1 Severity: minor Tags: patch Found a typo in '/usr/share/man/man1/btcompletedirgui.bittornado.1.gz', see attached '.diff'. Hope this helps... -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experim

Bug#409584: 'man bittorrent-downloader' & 'man btcompletedir' typos: "whithin" & "avaliable"

2007-02-03 Thread A. Costa
Package: bittornado Version: 0.3.18-1 Severity: minor Tags: patch Found a couple typos in '/usr/share/man/man1/bittorrent-downloader.bittornado.1.gz' and '/usr/share/man/man1/btcompletedir.bittornado.1.gz', see attached '.diff' files. Hope this helps... -- System Information: Debian Release: 4

Bug#409579: 'man icmpinfo' typos: "Usefull" and "recomended"

2007-02-03 Thread A. Costa
Package: icmpinfo Version: 1.11-5 Severity: minor Tags: patch Found a few typos in '/usr/share/man/man8/icmpinfo.8.gz', see attached '.diff'. Hope this helps... -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i

Bug#409580: 'man gocr' typos: "developpers", "oprational" and "usefull"

2007-02-03 Thread A. Costa
Package: gocr Version: 0.41-1 Severity: minor Tags: patch Found some typos in '/usr/share/man/man1/gocr.1.gz', see attached '.diff'. Hope this helps... -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686

Bug#409581: 'man which-pkg-broke' typo: "dependancies"

2007-02-03 Thread A. Costa
Package: debian-goodies Version: 0.27 Severity: minor Tags: patch Found a typo in '/usr/share/man/man1/which-pkg-broke.1.gz', see attached '.diff'. Hope this helps... -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architec

Bug#395368: iprint: 'i' dumps any chars after decimal digits.

2007-02-03 Thread A. Costa
On Sat, 3 Feb 2007 13:28:20 +0100 Jeroen van Wolffelaar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > And in CS it's common practice then to give an error or warning... I > don't see what your problem is with adding a warning to stderr in such > cases. Just silently truncating at the point where you cannot find a

Bug#374824: nethogs: 'ppp0' doesn't work.

2007-01-29 Thread A. Costa
Just tested the new 'nethogs' v0.6.0-2 (dated 1/6/07) and the bug is still there. Maybe that's less up-to-date than the CVS version Arnout mentioned on 11/5/06. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#408752: 'man scsi_id' & 'man udevd' typos: "availabe" & "continiuous"

2007-01-28 Thread A. Costa
Package: udev Version: 0.103-2 Severity: minor Tags: patch Found a few typos in '/usr/share/man/man8/scsi_id.8.gz' and '/usr/share/man/man8/udevd.8.gz', see attached '.diff' files. Hope this helps... -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstabl

Bug#392256: Suggestion: include a 'nocomment' util.

2007-01-24 Thread A. Costa
What follows is some fussing with prototype functions, to show how a 'nocomment' can harvest some stats. The question: what's the longest config file in '/etc' that's nothing but comments, as well as the longest file with no comments? On 10/10/06 I'd written: > nocomment() { grep -v -

Bug#343672: More about #343672: sylpheed: Queue to Trash has same trouble

2007-01-24 Thread A. Costa
Package: sylpheed Version: 2.3.0~beta5-1 Followup-For: Bug #343672 This bug also happens after deleting an item from the 'Queue' folder. The deleted message goes to the 'Trash' folder, but the headers are blank (moved to the message body) when the message changes folders. Resulting difficulty:

Bug#408326: 'man tree' typo: "cooresponding"

2007-01-24 Thread A. Costa
Package: tree Version: 1.5.1-1 Severity: minor Tags: patch Found a typo in '/usr/share/man/man1/tree.1.gz', see attached '.diff'. Hope this helps... -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) S

Bug#407412: dlocate: '-s' option ignores virtual packages.

2007-01-18 Thread A. Costa
Package: dlocate Version: 0.5-0.3 Severity: wishlist Consider the virtual package "mail-transport-agent", provided on my system by 'exim4-daemon-light': % dlocate -s exim4-daemon-light | grep 'Status\|Provides' Status: install ok installed Provides: mail-transport-agent % dlocat

Bug#407402: 'man cs2cs' and 'man proj' typo: "auxilliary"

2007-01-17 Thread A. Costa
Package: proj Version: 4.4.9d-2 Severity: minor Tags: patch Found a pair of typos in '/usr/share/man/man1/cs2cs.1.gz' and '/usr/share/man/man1/proj.1.gz', see attached '.diff' files. Hope this helps... -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unsta

Bug#407401: 'man nad2nad' typo: "reconized"

2007-01-17 Thread A. Costa
Package: proj Version: 4.4.9d-2 Severity: minor Tags: patch Found a typo in '/usr/share/man/man1/nad2nad.1.gz', see attached '.diff'. Hope this helps... -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i68

Bug#407400: 'man pj_init' typo: "degress"

2007-01-17 Thread A. Costa
Package: proj Version: 4.4.9d-2 Severity: minor Tags: patch Found a typo in '/usr/share/man/man3/pj_init.3.gz', see attached '.diff'. Hope this helps... -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i68

Bug#407399: 'man geod' typos: "contrl" and "occurance"

2007-01-17 Thread A. Costa
Package: proj Version: 4.4.9d-2 Severity: minor Tags: patch Found a few typos in '/usr/share/man/man1/geod.1.gz', see attached '.diff'. Hope this helps... -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i

Bug#406582: style: style.c:676: style: Assertion `length>=2' failed.

2007-01-11 Thread A. Costa
Package: diction Version: 1.10~rc4-1 Severity: normal I had this big text file that confused 'style'. Whittling down the big file produced: % echo "Um..." | style ; echo $? style: style.c:676: style: Assertion `length>=2' failed. Aborted 134 Yet if the string 'Um' is changed to

Bug#374824: #374824: nethogs: 'ppp0' doesn't work.

2007-01-06 Thread A. Costa
Package: nethogs Version: 0.6.0-1 Beg pardon, I just noticed I'm running the same version of 'nethogs' as last June, when opening this bug -- I'd assumed it was a newer version. Given that, my previous message isn't the requested test! The new version is in CVS, would somebody please send a URL?

Bug#374824: #374824: nethogs: 'ppp0' doesn't work.

2007-01-06 Thread A. Costa
Package: nethogs Version: 0.6.0-1 Beg pardon, I just noticed I'm running the same version of 'nethogs' as last June, when opening this bug -- I'd assumed it was a newer version. Given that, my previous message isn't the requested test! The new version is in CVS, would somebody please send a URL?

Bug#374824: #374824: nethogs: 'ppp0' doesn't work.

2007-01-06 Thread A. Costa
Package: nethogs Version: 0.6.0-1 Followup-For: Bug #374824 (Hey Arnout, you didn't 'cc:' me, so I never got your message. Luckily I read it just now on the BTS, after Bart emailed.) The bug still seems to be on my system. As requested, here's some data: /sbin/ifconfig eth0 Link encap:Ethe

Bug#384953: 'man debram': needless neologisms "subramifications", "misramifications", "metaramification", etc.

2007-01-05 Thread A. Costa
On Sun, 24 Dec 2006 18:02:36 + T. Black said: > Ninety days have now passed with no activity in this bug log... Sorry, I've been thinking of other wild and crazy stuff. BTW, you didn't 'cc:' me -- I was just reviewing the bug log, and saw your message. Well I need a change, so back to 'debr

Bug#405652: 'man lzma' typos: "groupped", "orignal" and "overwriteen"

2007-01-05 Thread A. Costa
Package: lzma Version: 4.43-3 Severity: minor Tags: patch Found some typos in '/usr/share/man/man1/lzma.1.gz', see attached '.diff'. Hope this helps... -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686

Bug#405646: 'libhocr-perl' package description typo: 'bingings'

2007-01-05 Thread A. Costa
Package: libhocr-perl Severity: minor % apt-cache search bingings libhocr-perl - Hebrew OCR library Perl bingings s/bingings/bindings/ Hope this helps... -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architectur

Bug#405645: 'libgda2-bin' package description typo: 'Binnary'

2007-01-05 Thread A. Costa
Package: libgda2-bin Severity: minor % apt-cache search binnary libgda2-bin - Binnary files for GNOME Data Access library for GNOME2 s/Binnary/Binary/ Hope this helps... -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimenta

Bug#401110: gramps: Help 3.6.2 / Family Editor -- selecting spouse doesn't work

2006-12-28 Thread A. Costa
Hi AR, here's a late reply... To refresh my bad memory, I just reread the whole thread here: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=401110 ...and need to retract something: Summing up: Marriage selection is broken or hasn't been coded yet. In hindsight that's too bro

Bug#404289: 'man genisoimage' typos: "suplied" and "outout"

2006-12-22 Thread A. Costa
Package: genisoimage Version: 9:1.1.0-1 Severity: minor Tags: patch Found a few typos in '/usr/share/man/man8/genisoimage.8.gz', see attached '.diff'. Hope this helps... -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Archi

Bug#404290: 'man sox' typos: "Unfortunetly", "determeind", "limtergain", "quadtuple", "specifed", "specifing", "Nuttal", "sinodial" x 2, etc.

2006-12-22 Thread A. Costa
Package: sox Version: 12.18.2-1 Severity: minor Tags: patch Found some typos in '/usr/share/man/man1/sox.1.gz', see attached '.diff'. Hope this helps... -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i68

Bug#404288: 'man play' typo: "preceed"

2006-12-22 Thread A. Costa
Package: sox Version: 12.18.2-1 Severity: minor Tags: patch Found a typo in '/usr/share/man/man1/play.1.gz', see attached '.diff'. Hope this helps... -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686)

Bug#302764: #302764 [FIXED xawtv 3.95-1]: 'man fbtv' typo: "availabile"

2006-12-14 Thread A. Costa
Package: fbtv Version: 3.95.dfsg.1-1 Followup-For: Bug #302764 This typo's still there: % dlocate -s fbtv | grep Ver ; man fbtv | grep -n "availabile" Version: 3.95.dfsg.1-1 101: modes availabile. The file containing the videomodes is normally named HTH... -- System Inform

Bug#397384: module-init-tools: Misleading error: "modprobe: Can't locate module /lib/modules/2.4.27/misc/lirc_dev.o"

2006-12-11 Thread A. Costa
tion of several fundamental Debian policies, but if so should not be penalized, out of respect for his numerous and continuing good works. However, his requests for actively suppressive powers to police unwritten laws deserve open censure. It might be worthwhile to consider new policies to further

Bug#400858: #400858 iceweasel is not lightweight unlike the description suggest

2006-12-03 Thread A. Costa
Package: iceweasel Version: 2.0+dfsg-1 Followup-For: Bug #400858 An ambivalent "me too" note, with details and comments: % dlocate -s iceweasel | grep -n -A 2 lightweight | head -n 4 24:Description: lightweight web browser based on Mozilla 25- Iceweasel is a redesign of the Mozilla b

Bug#401212: gramps: Children shouldn't be older than their parents.

2006-12-02 Thread A. Costa
On Fri, 01 Dec 2006 13:20:11 -0800 Alex Roitman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A minor point: if you would like to send/attach a testcase, > please export into XML format. The file you attached is not > protable: it does not open outside the environment and that > only exists on your user account on

Bug#401110: gramps: Help 3.6.2 / Family Editor -- selecting spouse doesn't work

2006-12-01 Thread A. Costa
On Thu, 30 Nov 2006 16:48:25 -0800 Alex Roitman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If both Father and Mother are present in the family, then there's > a - button for each of them. Only missing parents have +/select > button. > > You seem to be using the select button on the bottom, that applies > to th

Bug#401212: gramps: Children shouldn't be older than their parents.

2006-12-01 Thread A. Costa
Package: gramps Version: 2.2.2-1 Severity: normal Attached is an impossible family I invented with 'gramps'. The bug should be self-explanatory -- the child was born over 200 years before their 6 year old parent. The suggested fix would be for 'gramps' to check for obvious contradictions in

Bug#401110: gramps: Help 3.6.2 / Family Editor -- selecting spouse doesn't work

2006-11-30 Thread A. Costa
Package: gramps Version: 2.2.2-1 Severity: normal Help 3.6.2 says: Now a question: Does the person who will form the relationship with the Active person already exist in the database? If yes, click the Select button to the other person. You'll then be able to brow

Bug#401101: 'man gramps' typos: "geneology", "invokation", "succesfully", etc.

2006-11-30 Thread A. Costa
Package: gramps Version: 2.2.2-1 Severity: minor Tags: patch Found some typos in '/usr/share/man/man1/gramps.1.gz', see attached '.diff'. Hope this helps... -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386

Bug#339141: #339141: bugs.debian.org: Archived bugs are still displayed

2006-11-24 Thread A. Costa
Package: bugs.debian.org Followup-For: Bug #339141 This is a "me too", with examples.. I downloaded what should be two separate listings of my bugs: % wget "http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?dist=unstable;[EMAIL PROTECTED];archived=yes" -o /dev/null % wget "http://bugs.debia

Bug#400245: 'man cdrdao' typo: "temporay"

2006-11-24 Thread A. Costa
Package: cdrdao Version: 1:1.2.2-4 Severity: minor Tags: patch Found a typo in '/usr/share/man/man1/cdrdao.1.gz', see attached '.diff'. Hope this helps... -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i

Bug#399085: 'popcheck' typo: "responce"

2006-11-17 Thread A. Costa
Package: popcheck Version: 1.3-4 Severity: minor A 'popcheck' error message typo: Bad PASS command responce: -ERR you are already connected This text is the main program: % strings /usr/bin/popcheck | grep respon Bad %s command responce: %s Where 'responce' should be 'response'.

Bug#371869: closed by [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Theodore Y. Ts'o) (Bug#371869: fixed in e2fsprogs 1.39+1.40-WIP-2006.11.14+dfsg-1)

2006-11-15 Thread A. Costa
Giving the new fix a test: % badblocks -nw /dev/hda4 ; echo $? The -n and -w options are mutually exclusive. Usage: badblocks [-b block_size] [-i input_file] [-o output_file] [-svwnf] [-c blocks_at_once] [-p num_passes] [-t test_pattern [-t test_pattern [...]]]

Bug#398498: mount says loop device is writable, bit it isn't.

2006-11-15 Thread A. Costa
On Tue, 14 Nov 2006 13:36:59 -0700 LaMont Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Suggested easy kludges, nothing low-level: > > Parse for '-w' and an ISO9660 mount, and return an error. > > Don't show ISO9660 as 'rw'. > > That's a kludge - not a fix. having the filesystem return an error >

Bug#398498: mount says loop device is writable, bit it isn't.

2006-11-13 Thread A. Costa
Package: mount Version: 2.12r-15 Severity: normal This looks like one of those bugs that are so old and people are so accustomed to that they've ceased to think of it as bug, it just seems normal to them. I didn't find a report on it in the BTS, and it seems there should be one... 1) As root, I

Bug#397384: module-init-tools: Misleading error: "modprobe: Can't locate module /lib/modules/2.4.27/misc/lirc_dev.o"

2006-11-13 Thread A. Costa
On Fri, 10 Nov 2006 14:52:31 +0100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco d'Itri) wrote: > On Nov 10, "A. Costa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I have doubts about that interpretation of Debian policy, and would > > like to remind you of the 'wontfix' tag.

Bug#398471: 'man dog' typos: "atleast", "conjuction" x 2, and "eachother"

2006-11-13 Thread A. Costa
Package: dog Version: 1.7-7 Severity: minor Tags: patch Found some typos in '/usr/share/man/man1/dog.1.gz', see attached '.diff'. Hope this helps... -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) S

Bug#396810: moreutils: 'URLgrep' command wanted

2006-11-10 Thread A. Costa
On Fri, 10 Nov 2006 03:11:42 -0500 Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A. Costa wrote: > > URLcat() { wget -o /dev/null --output-document=- "$1" | html2text > > -ascii -nobs ; } > > Already available as lynx -dump url (formatting html), or w3m url >

Bug#397983: 'reportbug' typo "No, it does't..."

2006-11-10 Thread A. Costa
Package: reportbug Version: 3.31 Severity: minor Tags: patch Noticed this in the course of a bug report: Does this bug still exist in version 3.95-6 of this package? [y|N|q|?]? ? y - Yes, it does. N - (default) No, it does't (or I don't know). See attached '.diff'. Hope this helps.

Bug#239914: #239914: fbtv doesn't work with kernel 2.6

2006-11-10 Thread A. Costa
Package: fbtv Followup-For: Bug #239914 Ran into this bug on a system I'm setting up to be tv box that hasn't got email or 'reportbug'. Stats are... Debian 'stable'. Vid card: lspci | grep VGA :01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV5M64 [RIVA TNT2 Model 64/Model

Bug#397384: module-init-tools: Misleading error: "modprobe: Can't locate module /lib/modules/2.4.27/misc/lirc_dev.o"

2006-11-09 Thread A. Costa
On Thu, 9 Nov 2006 00:34:55 +0100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco d'Itri) wrote: > On Nov 08, "A. Costa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Sending Debian bugs upstream is the maintainers job. Obviously we > Not if I disagree with them. That's wild, I w

Bug#396810: moreutils: 'URLgrep' command wanted

2006-11-09 Thread A. Costa
A. Costa clumsily typed: > I think you're at half right... s/at half/at least half/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#396810: moreutils: 'URLgrep' command wanted

2006-11-09 Thread A. Costa
On Wed, 8 Nov 2006 15:23:44 -0500 Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > # usage: URLgrep pattern URL > > # (ad hoc grep switches return first instance of 'pattern' > > # in URL and next line, with numbered lines.) > > URLgrep() { wget -o /dev/null --output-document=- "$2" | > >

Bug#397384: module-init-tools: Misleading error: "modprobe: Can't locate module /lib/modules/2.4.27/misc/lirc_dev.o"

2006-11-08 Thread A. Costa
reopen 397384 ! tag 397384 +wontfix thanks On Wed, 8 Nov 2006 11:46:05 +0100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco d'Itri) wrote: > I consider the message clear enough and I have no plan to change it. > If you disagree, feel free to discuss this with the upstream > maintainer. Sending Debian bugs upstream i

Bug#386898: closed by Eduard Bloch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Bug#386898: fixed in cdrkit 5:1.0~pre5-1)

2006-11-08 Thread A. Costa
On Tue, 07 Nov 2006 16:48:42 -0800 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Debian Bug Tracking System) wrote: > + typos in wodim.1 fixes, thanks to J. Alto (closes: #386898) It's the mysterious "J. Alto"! A Google search for '"J. Alto" debian' shows four hits, two at this bug, and two in some LISP code. Where

Bug#389469: 'man lzop': invalid example under 'archive mode'

2006-11-08 Thread A. Costa
On Tue, 7 Nov 2006 08:58:20 +0100 Peter Eisentraut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [ ...60 lines of quoting deleted... ] > > Of course the archive is the object of the action, because lzop is > the subject... Thanks, very glad we agree. > ...What is your point? I added the bit about verb subjec

Bug#395054: Puzzle: my reopening a closed bug results in closing BTS reply, reportedly from me.

2006-11-08 Thread A. Costa
On Fri, 3 Nov 2006 22:05:22 -0800 Don Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ...It's a question of how much logging and recording > > is enough, too much, or too little. I don't know if there's a > > general answer, but I know how to scratch where it itches... > > Again, the bug log keeps the o

Bug#397384: module-init-tools: Misleading error: "modprobe: Can't locate module /lib/modules/2.4.27/misc/lirc_dev.o"

2006-11-07 Thread A. Costa
reopen 397384 ! thanks On Tue, 7 Nov 2006 00:37:36 +0100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco d'Itri) wrote: > On Nov 07, "A. Costa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > tvbox:~# modprobe -v /lib/modules/2.4.27/misc/lirc_dev.o > > modprobe: Can't locate &g

Bug#389469: 'man lzop': invalid example under 'archive mode'

2006-11-06 Thread A. Costa
reopen 389469 ! thanks Please excuse this message's being late, I ought to have replied to this before it was closed. There's a good reason not to close it yet... On Fri, 27 Oct 2006 11:18:40 +0200 Peter Eisentraut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Am Montag, 25. September 2

Bug#397384: module-init-tools: Misleading error: "modprobe: Can't locate module /lib/modules/2.4.27/misc/lirc_dev.o"

2006-11-06 Thread A. Costa
Package: module-init-tools Version: 3.2-pre1-2 Severity: normal I compiled a module, maybe in the wrong spot. This is where it is: tvbox:~# ls -l /lib/modules/2.4.27/misc/lirc_dev.o -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 13180 2006-11-04 14:19 /lib/modules/2.4.27/misc/lirc_dev.o Attempting to install

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