Bug#1053006: Solution, workaround

2023-10-11 Thread Anders Andersson
I did some further investigation after seeing the same problem in Blender. There are at least two ways in Gnome to remap Caps Lock to a Ctrl key: 1: Keyboard & Mouse Additional Layout Options Caps Lock behavior Make Caps Lock and additional Ctrl 2: Keyboard & Mouse Additional

Bug#1053006: /usr/games/wesnoth-1.16: Wesnoth does not respect remapped keys

2023-09-26 Thread Anders Andersson
Package: wesnoth-1.16-core Version: 1:1.16.10-2~bpo12+1 Severity: normal File: /usr/games/wesnoth-1.16 Tags: a11y X-Debbugs-Cc: pipat...@gmail.com Dear Maintainer, After installing a clean debian bookworm with the default gnome desktop environment I reconfigure the keyboard with the setting:

Bug#1052765: npm: README.Debian refers to missing manpage npm-folders

2023-09-26 Thread Anders Andersson
Package: npm Version: 9.2.0~ds1-1 Severity: minor X-Debbugs-Cc: pipat...@gmail.com Dear Maintainer, While trying to understand how npm works with global paths in debian I started reading the file /usr/share/doc/npm/README.Debian which contains the following line: "Please read npm-config(1),

Bug#991540: wget2: Wget2 dumps core on ctrl-c instead of exiting cleanly

2021-07-26 Thread Anders Andersson
Package: wget2 Version: 1.99.1-2.2 Severity: normal I can't abort wget2 even for trivial error cases. Example: $ wget2 http://doesntexist/nope Failed to resolve doesntexist (Name or service not known) Failed to resolve doesntexist (Name or service not known) ^C^CAborted (core dumped) If wget2

Bug#990109: wget2: The man-page is too new and lists options not available in the binary

2021-06-20 Thread Anders Andersson
Package: wget2 Version: 1.99.1-2.2 Severity: normal Reading the man-page for wget2 I found the option "--unlink" that I wanted to use, but wget2 complains about "Unknown option 'unlink'". $ man wget2 | grep -A1 unlink --unlink Force Wget2 to unlink file instead of clobbering existing

Bug#905316: maxima: printf hangs with format string, works in lisp mode

2018-08-02 Thread Anders Andersson
Package: maxima Version: 5.41.0-3 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, I wanted to format a list of integers in base 16, but the default output was returned in mixed case for the letters A-F. When I added case-conversion to the format string, maxima suddenly ends up in an infinite memory-consuming

Bug#904849: maxima: stderr is sent to stdout

2018-07-28 Thread Anders Andersson
Package: maxima Version: 5.41.0-3 Severity: normal While writing a script for Maxima, I wanted to print output to stdout while simultaneously printing debug output to stderr. I am reporting this as a debian bug first because console I/O likely ties in to the underlying libraries and build

Bug#873382: adlint only supports ancient gcc not available in debian

2017-08-27 Thread Anders Andersson
Package: adlint Version: 3.2.14-2 Severity: important Tags: upstream Dear Maintainer, Eager to try out a linter for my C code, I found the 'adlint' package in the repository. After installation I set up a project as described in the documentation at

Bug#873290: xwayland: freeciv extremely slow, Xwayland using 85% CPU

2017-08-26 Thread Anders Andersson
Package: xwayland Version: 2:1.19.3-2 Severity: normal After upgrading my debian testing, I noticed that freeciv is unplayably slow. Changing the view takes several seconds while the process Xwayland is shown taking 85% CPU in 'top'. Previously it was almost instant. Additionally, just showing a

Bug#821353: wxmaxima: Alt+Up/Down does not work in Gnome 3

2016-04-17 Thread Anders Andersson
Package: wxmaxima Version: 16.04.1-1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, The keyboard shortcuts Alt+Up/Down does not work when using wxMaxima in Gnome 3. They are supposed to make it possible to edit previous commands (like cursor up/down does in bash/readline), but instead they simply act like

Bug#814577: nemiver: Local variables not shown

2016-02-13 Thread Anders Andersson
After using the program for a while, I found that moving the window to a larger screen and maximizing it, I found the Variable pane by accident by noticing that the mouse cursor changed shape when moving it to the screen edge. This made it possible to pull out the Variable pane, which seems to be

Bug#814577: nemiver: Local variables not shown

2016-02-12 Thread Anders Andersson
Package: nemiver Version: 0.9.6-1+b1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, After installing and starting Nemiver, I can't find the local variables pane anywhere. I created a small test program which I compiled like this: gcc -O0 -ggdb -o hello hello.c Then I started nemiver: nemiver

Bug#783741: Not fixed for debian live 8.2.0 i386 standard

2015-09-10 Thread Anders Andersson
I just tried the debian live 8.2.0 i386 standard live image, and even though memtest shows up in the menu, it doesn't work. I don't understand why the menu is even generated if the binary is not even included.

Bug#796066: gnome-software reboots before performing the update before shutdown action

2015-08-19 Thread Anders Andersson
Package: gnome-software Version: 3.16.5-2 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, When I was about to shutdown my desktop computer for the night, I noticed a new checkbox, which would update the system before shutting down. After selecting that and continuing, the system rebooted instead of performing

Bug#795541: wcalc: Confuses engineering notation with scientific notation

2015-08-15 Thread Anders Andersson
Package: wcalc Version: 2.5-2 Severity: minor Tags: upstream Dear Maintainer, 'wcalc' mixes the terms engineering notation and scientific notation, even though the only notation available is scientific. The option to enable scientific notation is called engineering in the configuration file and

Bug#795139: debian-installer: Softlink target path for /initrd.img is different from /vmlinuz

2015-08-10 Thread Anders Andersson
Package: debian-installer Severity: minor Dear Maintainer, This is a bug so minor, that I am embarassed to report it. It has, however, bugged me for some time now. After a fresh install of debian jessie, the softlinks from /initrd.img and /vmlinuz points to different locations: lrwxrwxrwx 1

Bug#794957: transmission: Upgrading transmission made it the default program for bittorrent files

2015-08-08 Thread Anders Andersson
Source: transmission Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, I recently performed an upgrade of my debian testing system, as usual. Later when I downloaded a bittorrent seed file (foobar.torrent), I expected it to open in Deluge, which has been my default bittorrent program since I installed this

Bug#666516: ckermit: Link to project homepage is now just a placeholder

2012-03-31 Thread Anders Andersson
Package: ckermit Version: 211-15 Severity: normal Typing apt-cache show ckermit shows this line: Homepage: http://www.kermit-project.org That website is just a placeholder and may at any time be replaced with something more sinister. Maybe http://www.kermitproject.org/ is the correct address?

Bug#567966: libvirt-bin: can't use striped LVs for LVM storage pool

2010-02-01 Thread Anders Andersson
Package: libvirt-bin Version: 0.7.5-5 Severity: normal When I tried to use an already existing volume group as a storage pool for libvirt, it failed with internal error lvs command failed. After tracking this down a bit, I find that there is a problem in how libvirt is parsing the output from

Bug#533031: Got the transparency wrong

2009-07-03 Thread Anders Andersson
I have the same problem, and it renders the gui gmplayer unusable. I just wanted to say that you got the transparency wrong, it's the main.png that has transparency, and main-silver.png doesn't. Check with this command: $ file /usr/share/mplayer/skins/default/* RGBA means it has transparency

Bug#486558: installation-reports: strange (null) in URL for tasksel for automatic install

2008-06-16 Thread Anders Andersson
Package: installation-reports Boot method: Netinstall CD (ISO) Image version: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/lenny_di_beta2/i386/iso-cd/debian-LennyBeta2-i386-netinst.iso Date: 2008-06-16 Machine: VirtualBox 1.6.2 Processor: Intel Core2 Quad Q9300 @ 2.5 GHz Memory: 256MB Partitions: root on