Bug#512764: procps: Misleading comment in /etc/sysctl.conf.

2009-01-23 Thread Adam Rice
Package: procps Version: 1:3.2.7-11 Severity: minor Version 1:3.2.7-10 adds the following comment to /etc/sysctl.conf: # This disables TCP Window Scaling (http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/2/5/167), # and is not recommended. This comment is misleading, as can easily be determined by reading the rest of

Bug#475669: Suggest informing the user

2008-05-11 Thread Adam Rice
be time to look at a workaround like this. Do you know, does Azureus work with any other versions of GIJ? I know that it works with Sun's VM. Cheers, Shaun On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 1:45 PM, Adam Rice [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The problem is that it comes so close to working with gij-4.3 that it's

Bug#475669: Suggest informing the user

2008-05-01 Thread Adam Rice
The problem is that it comes so close to working with gij-4.3 that it's hard to notice that anything is actually wrong. How about putting a temporary hack in the /usr/bin/azureus script to check if /usr/bin/java is gij-4.3 and popup an xmessage saying something like You are running azureus

Bug#467522: googleearth-package: /usr/lib/googleearth/linux/README-mailto.txt

2008-02-25 Thread Adam Rice
Package: googleearth-package Version: 0.5.3 Severity: minor The file /usr/lib/googleearth/linux/README-mailto.txt in the generated package should be moved to /usr/share/doc/googleearth. googleearth version is 4.2.205.5730. -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers stable APT

Bug#462352: doc-linux-text: The X Window User HOWTO contains misleading font comment

2008-01-23 Thread Adam Rice
Package: doc-linux-text Version: 2007.02-1 Severity: minor XWindow-User-HOWTO.gz contains the statement: Terminal emulators like xterm require a monospaced font. So forget about TrueType or Type 1 fonts. This is wrong on two counts: firstly monospaced TrueType fonts exist, and secondly

Bug#404565: shaper stop spews errors when network interfaces containing capital letters are present

2006-12-26 Thread Adam Rice
Package: shaper Version: 2.2.12-0.7.3-2.1 Severity: normal Tags: patch When the system has network interfaces with capital letters in their names, many errors are displayed at shutdown time. For example: Cannot find device 2: RTNETLINK answers: No such file or directory Cannot find device

Bug#368464: python-minimal: Package description is blatantly deceptive

2006-05-22 Thread Adam Rice
Package: python-minimal Version: 2.3.5-5 Severity: normal A minimal subset of the Python language This package pulls in the entirity of Python, and unless you want to alienate Python upstream, it always will. This package contains the interpreter and some essential modules. True if you

Bug#368462: alsa-utils depends on dummy package python-minimal

2006-05-22 Thread Adam Rice
Package: alsa-utils Version: 1.0.11-2 Severity: minor python-minimal is a dummy package which appears to exist only in a misguided attempt to be compatible with Ubuntu. Since it pulls in the whole of Python anyway (python upstream strongly disproves of incomplete installations), there's no

Bug#356501: python2.4-minimal: This package should not exist

2006-03-12 Thread Adam Rice
Package: python2.4-minimal Version: 2.4.2-2 Severity: normal python-minimal only exists in Ubuntu so that users can uninstall python without breaking the base system. Ubuntu has an agreement with the python developers that a user will only get a system with python-minimal but without the full

Bug#340717: libc-client2002edebian: cram-md5.pwd format ridiculously finicky

2005-11-29 Thread Adam Rice
Jonas Smedegaard wrote: On Fri, 25 Nov 2005 11:12:52 + Adam Rice [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The format of /etc/cram-md5.pwd is usertabpassword. This is particularly troublesome for those of us with 7-character usernames, as the tabs become indistinguishable from spaces. Naturally if you get

Bug#340717: libc-client2002edebian: cram-md5.pwd format ridiculously finicky

2005-11-25 Thread Adam Rice
Package: libc-client2002edebian Version: 7:2002edebian1-12 Severity: normal The format of /etc/cram-md5.pwd is usertabpassword. This is particularly troublesome for those of us with 7-character usernames, as the tabs become indistinguishable from spaces. Naturally if you get it wrong, no error

Bug#295921: caudium: Caudium takes over from Apache

2005-03-07 Thread Adam Rice
Marek Habersack wrote: So my guess is that for some weird reason the above pulls caudium-php4 and, in consequence, caudium. I'm also wondering whether caudium asked you about the port it should listen on - it should have done that precisely to avoid clash with any installed webserver. In my

Bug#295921: caudium: Caudium takes over from Apache

2005-03-06 Thread Adam Rice
This just happened to me too. I don't know why Caudium was installed, but the result was major suckage. This may not actually be a bug in Caudium, but in the depends for another package. But I was able to uninstall Caudium without difficultly, so frankly, I'm confused. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Bug#295642: minor English changes for cupsys.postinst

2005-02-16 Thread Adam Rice
Package: cupsys Version: 1.1.23-4 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch I changed the wording of some sentences in cupsys.postinst to make them more readable. Please consider applying this patch. --- cupsys.postinst.old 2005-02-17 05:05:53.0 + +++ cupsys.postinst 2005-02-17