Bug#1059457:

> > If qemu-system-gui package is already installed you can just look at the l > in it, - the list gives a good hint. It should, - I hope anyway - be > enough to read the > description already. At the very least, almost no one looks at READMEs > inside packages, > but some do look at the

Bug#1059457:

I fear that my bug report has sounded like a criticism or an argument. I apologize for that. Let me try to further describe my dilemma. I want to use qemu. I read the description of qemu-system-arm, and I believe that is a package that I want to use. The packager of qemu-system-arm appears

Bug#1059457: closed by Michael Tokarev (Re: Bug#1059457: qemu-system-gui: README.Debian or manpage needed)

The problem is: The package is recommended by qemu-system-*, but I can't figure out why, or what it adds. So I'm faced with either "install a package which I don't know how to use", or ignore the recommend. And... if I don't know how to use it, how do I figure out how to use it if there's no

Bug#1059457: qemu-system-gui: README.Debian or manpage needed

to install a program in /usr/bin/ , for example. -- Brian Sammon

Bug#1034774: Acknowledgement (xine-ui: aborts/killed when trying to play certain videos)

Since I have successfully watched this video in the past, I decided to try rolling back some of the recent package upgrades I've done, in attempt to see which one broke this. I've learned that if I downgrade xserver-xorg-video-intel to 2:2.99.917+git20161206-1 (and xserver-xorg-core to

Bug#1034774: xine-ui: aborts/killed when trying to play certain videos

Package: xine-ui Version: 0.99.14-1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, When I try to view certain videos (one example is at http://br1an.fastmail.fm.user.fm/debian/The_Banshees_Of_Inisherin.mp4 [4MB movie trailer] ) xine aborts/is killed immediately (sometimes after 1/2 sec of sound, but never

Bug#1032954: vboot-kernel-utils: futility manpage references missing info file

Package: vboot-kernel-utils Version: 0~R106-15054.B-1 Severity: normal The manpage for futility refers (at bottom) to texinfo documentation. I can't find the info doc packaged for Debian. Is it packaged? Or maybe the reference to the info doc should be removed from the manpage. -- System

Bug#976631: closed by Sebastian Ramacher (Re: Bug#976631: handbrake-cli: doesn't work with libdvdnav4 6.1.0-1 or older)

> This was an ABI break in libdvdnav which was fixed. I see. I filed this bug to ask you to update the dependencies to prevent people from installing handbrake-cli alongside an incompatible version of libdvdnav4. Don't you think that would be a good idea?

Bug#987034: display github page in Homepage tag

Package: atomicparsley Version: 0.9.6-2 I'm basing this bug report primarily on the information seen at https://packages.debian.org/sid/atomicparsley That debian page says the homepage for atomicparsley is at http://atomicparsley.sourceforge.net/ but it would be better to point at

Bug#976631: handbrake-cli: doesn't work with libdvdnav4 6.1.0-1 or older

Package: handbrake-cli Version: 1.3.1+ds1-2+b3 Severity: important When I have libdvdnav4 version 6.1.0-1 installed and run HandBrakeCLI, it segfaults When I have libdvdnav4 version 6.1.0-1+b1 installed, HandBrakeCLI runs fine. The problem (or similar one) also occured with version 6.0.0-1 of

Bug#958210: libghc-curl-dev: doesn't call the ProgressFunction and doesn't get all of the file

Package: libghc-curl-dev Version: 1.3.8-9+b1 Severity: normal When I run the attached script/program (small, reduced to a test-case) the callback function I register with the "CurlProgressFunction" option doesn't appear to get called. Additionally the output file "libc6.deb" is smaller than

Bug#954290: kexec doesn't do reboots on systemd install?

Package: kexec-tools Version: 1:2.0.20-2 When I do "dpkg-reconfigure kexec-tools" (on armhf), it asks me "Should kexec-tools handle reboots (sysvinit only)?" This suggests to me that kexec-tools will/can not be used to do reboots on a systemd install. Is that correct? Can systemd support be

Bug#951461: Acknowledgement (libgl1-mesa-dri: X crashes on startup when libgl1-mesa-dri ver is not same as libegl-mesa0/libgbm1)

On Wed, 19 Feb 2020 09:21:09 +0100 Julien Cristau wrote: > I think this might be essentially the same issue as #947813. Since > version 19.3.1-4, both libgl1-mesa-dri and libegl-mesa0 depend on > same-version libglapi-mesa, meaning this mismatch can no longer happen. Okay, If I read this

Bug#951461: Acknowledgement (libgl1-mesa-dri: X crashes on startup when libgl1-mesa-dri ver is not same as libegl-mesa0/libgbm1)

Some further bisecting: It works with libegl-mesa0 19.2.6-1 libgbm1 19.3.0-1 libgl1-mesa-dri 19.3.3-1 (dpkg allows this if you upgrade libgbm1 after libeg1-mesa0 is all set) and suggesting that the package conflict is with libgbm < 19.3.0

Bug#951461: libgl1-mesa-dri: X crashes on startup when libgl1-mesa-dri ver is not same as libegl-mesa0/libgbm1

1.1.0-1+b1 ii libpciaccess0 0.14-1 ii libpixman-1-0 0.36.0-1 ii libselinux1 3.0-1 ii libsystemd0 244-3 ii libudev1244-3 ii libunwind8 1.2.1-9 ii libxau6 1:1.0.8-1+b2 ii libxdmcp6 1:1.1.2-3 ii libxfont2 1:2.0.3-1 ii libxshmfence1 1.3-1 ii udev244-3 ii xserver-common 2:1.20.7-3 Versions of packages xserver-xorg-core recommends: ii libpam-systemd 244-3 Versions of packages xserver-xorg-core suggests: pn xfonts-100dpi | xfonts-75dpi pn xfonts-scalable -- no debconf information -- Brian Sammon

Bug#930236: Acknowledgement (gnucash crashes/aborts after new-user dialog)

Huh. The problem went away when I upgraded my kernel (from the rather old one I'd been running) I had no particular reason for still running that old kernel--it'd just never been necessary to upgrade until now.

Bug#930236: gnucash crashes/aborts after new-user dialog

Package: gnucash Version: 1:3.4-1+b10 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, When I run gnucash for the first time (or from a user profile that has not used GnuCash successfully before), I get as far as the "Welcome to GnuCash!" dialog. When I select the "Create a new set of accounts" checkbox

Bug#871740: gcc: error: unrecognized command line option ‘-no-pie’

Package: ghc Version: 8.0.1-17 On Thu, 10 Aug 2017 16:11:07 + (UTC) Gianfranco Costamagna wrote: > Hello, > > >Hmmm... the gcc packages involved (gcc 4.9.2-4 and gcc-5 5.2.1-23) are > definitely newer than Jessie -- I would think that means they're >

Bug#867853: closed by Gianfranco Costamagna <locutusofb...@debian.org> (Re: Bug#867853: gcc: error: unrecognized command line option ‘-no-pie’)

On Mon, 10 Jul 2017 16:50:03 + (UTC) Gianfranco Costamagna wrote: > updating control file, adding version constraints with versions not in the > > archive anymore is kind of useless, speaking about Buster we won't have suc > gcc versions anymore since at least two

Bug#867853: closed by Gianfranco Costamagna <locutusofb...@debian.org> (Re: Bug#867853: gcc: error: unrecognized command line option ‘-no-pie’)

> I guess it is better to patch older gccs to understand such flag and give > no-op in this case. > There is no point in: > 1) fixing the whole archive for a gcc-specific change > 2) using ghc with older, unsupported compilers. I'm not sure I understand this response. When you say "gcc-specific",

Bug#867853: gcc: error: unrecognized command line option ‘-no-pie’

Package: ghc Version: 8.0.1-17 Severity: important The ghc package needs tighter dependencies against gcc and gcc-5 : When I'm using old versions of gcc, I get the following error message when ghc tries to do the link phase: Linking test ... gcc: error: unrecognized command line option

Bug#856700: Acknowledgement (libghc-http-client-dev: bad link in documentation)

https://www.stackage.org/haddock/lts-8.3/http-client-0.5.6.1/Network-HTTP-Client.html has a correct link.

Bug#856700: libghc-http-client-dev: bad link in documentation

Package: libghc-http-client-dev Version: 0.4.31.1-3+b2 Severity: normal file:///usr/share/doc/libghc-http-client-doc/html/Network-HTTP-Client.html contains a link to https://github.com/commercialhaskell/jump/blob/master/doc/http-client.md which is no longer there. -- System Information: Debian

Bug#837966: libghc-regex-pcre-dev: problem when searching within a unicode string

Package: libghc-regex-pcre-dev Version: 0.94.4-7 Severity: normal When I try to run a program that searches for a (ASCII) string in a UTF8-encoded string, I get a wierd "off-by-one" error: I expect title is |Page Title| I get title is |age Title'| I can't find any docs that say I'm doing it

Bug#823026: exmh: default configuration wants to play sounds through mailcap -- which often fails

and people will have to explicitly set their > own sound player commands; i've also added example invocations to the > help text on the audio preferences page. Thank you. This is exactly the result I was hoping for. -- Brian Sammon <debian-b...@brisammon.fastmail.fm>

Bug#823026: exmh: default configuration wants to play sounds through mailcap -- which often fails

Package: exmh Version: 1:2.8.0-5 Severity: normal I've run into this problem numerous times when setting up a new computer, and usually I'm in such a hurry to get my email working that I just hackishly work around it and don't investigate what's going on. This time I had some energy/time, so

Bug#815108: emacs24: sql mode -- prompt doesn't show until after I enter something

This problem also occurs with ver 24.5+1-6 of emacs24.

Bug#819759: youtube-dl: needs ca-certificates but doesn't "require" it

eg | libav-tools pn mpv | mplayer | mplayer2 pn rtmpdump ii wget 1.13.4-3+deb7u1 youtube-dl suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- Brian Sammon <debian-b...@brisammon.fastmail.fm>

Bug#815108: emacs24: sql mode -- prompt doesn't show until after I enter something

Package: emacs24 Version: 24.4+1-5 Severity: normal When I do "M-x sql-mysql" and then log in successfully, I get to a screen with some introductory text, but no prompt, and the cursor positioned on a blank line. It isn't until after I submit a full SQL command, with semicolon, that I see a

Bug#814567: python-pil-doc-html

990, 'stable'), (990, 'oldstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash -- Brian Sammon <debian-b...@brisammon.fastmail.fm>

Bug#755845: rake: manpage points to nonexistent /usr/share/doc/rake/html

Package: rake Version: 10.1.1-1 Severity: normal At the bottom of the rake manpage, it says Full documentation is available in /usr/share/doc/rake/html, but /usr/share/doc/rake/html is not in the rake package or in any package depended, recommended, or suggested by rake -- System Information:

Bug#743961: Acknowledgement (libxine2-ffmpeg: breaks when version mismatched with libxine2 (or libxine2-bin))

I should also mention that I also get this error if I have libxine2-ffmpeg and libxine2-misc-plugins at 1.2.4-2 and the rest at 1.2.2-4. Also meant to add that all these combinations get the debian/apt dependency-checker seal of approval. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#743961: libxine2-ffmpeg: breaks when version mismatched with libxine2 (or libxine2-bin)

Package: libxine2-ffmpeg Version: 1.2.4-2 Severity: important If I upgrade libxine2-ffmpeg to 1.2.4-2, without upgrading libxine2-x or libxine2, I get unsupported codec messages (and it doesn't play the video) when I try to watch videos that I've watched successfully before the upgrade. I don't

Bug#743961: Acknowledgement (libxine2-ffmpeg: breaks when version mismatched with libxine2 (or libxine2-bin))

More info: xine-ui is 0.99.8-2 The problem doesn't happen with the reverse mismatch: libxine2-ffmpeg at 1.2.2-4 and the others at 1.2.4-2 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#743964: libxine2-x: breaks when using a newer version than libxine2/libxine2-bin

Package: libxine2-x Version: 1.2.4-2 Severity: important *** Please type your report below this line *** If I upgrade libxine2-x to 1.2.4-2, while leaving all other libxine2 packages at 1.2.2-4, xine-ui (0.99.8-2) crashes when I try to use it. Upgrading libxine2-ffmpeg or libxine2-misc-plugins

Bug#743831: rygel-preferences: uses button-image not found in dependencies

Package: rygel-preferences Version: 0.20.3-1 Severity: normal *** Please type your report below this line *** Background: I do not use (much of) the gnome desktop, just a few gnome-oriented apps and libs. When I install rygel-preferences with the dependencies (and the recommends and suggests

Bug#721887: initramfs-tools: breaks system when used with module-init-tools from lenny or older

daemo Versions of packages initramfs-tools recommends: pn busybox | busybox-initramfs | none (no description available) Versions of packages initramfs-tools suggests: pn bash-completion none (no description available) -- no debconf information -- Brian Sammon debian-b

Bug#721210: libxine2-bin: undefined reference to `gzopen64@ZLIB_1.2.3.3'

compression library - runtime libxine2-bin recommends no packages. libxine2-bin suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- Brian Sammon debian-b...@brisammon.fastmail.fm -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Bug#703951: Acknowledgement (xine-ui: xine toggles caps-lock)

This seems to be a reemergence of bug # 374644 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=374644 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#704279: libxine1-ffmpeg: upgrading 1.1.20.1-3 to 1.1.21-1+b1 breaks flv playback

ii libxine2-plugins 1.2.2-4 ii libxine2-x1.2.2-4 ii xine-ui 0.99.6-1 -- no debconf information -- Brian Sammon bsam...@fastmail.fm -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Bug#703951: xine-ui: xine toggles caps-lock

Package: xine-ui Version: 0.99.7-1 Severity: normal *** Please type your report below this line *** When I run xine-ui, it toggles the caps-lock settings, but the keyboard caps-lock light doesn't change. This didn't happen with xine-ui 0.99.6. Some googling suggested to me that this might have

Bug#600551: upgrade to udev 163 breaks X on my Inspiron 8500

Package: udev Version: 163-1 Severity: important When I upgrade udev from 0.125-7+lenny3 to 163 on my system, after reboot, X doesn't work (I don't use a display manager, I use startx) I get a mouse cursor that moves, a black background (I don't usually have a black background), some video

Bug#583612: MakeMaker-created Makefile can't do make install if /usr/local/share/man/ doesn't exist

Package: perl-modules Version: 5.10.1-12 The first piece of /usr/local/ software I try to install on this machine is a perl library. I get the following error message ERROR: Can't create '/usr/local/man/man3' mkdir

Bug#578467: libchronic-ruby: doesn't parse basic dates

Package: libchronic-ruby Version: 0.2.3-1 Severity: important *** Please type your report below this line *** The following program #!/usr/bin/ruby require 'chronic' z = 'february 14, 2004' dtobj = Chronic.parse(z) print #{dtobj.class}\n z = 'today' dtobj =

Bug#542491: contact

Contact information can be found at http://rubyforge.org/projects/chronic/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#556429: libc6: attempted install leaves system in bad state - ldconfig

Package: libc6 Version 2.10.1-5 When I try to upgrade libc6 with dpkg (yeah, I still do that occasionally) from 2.7-18 to 2.10.1-5, it unpacks before noticing that libc-bin is not there. This leaves the system without a copy of ldconfig. Should the dependency on libc-bin be a Pre-Depends?

Bug#555946: audacious: Segmentation fault

Package: audacious Version: 2.1-1+b1 Severity: serious *** Please type your report below this line *** When I start audacious by typing audacious2 from the command line, I get a segmentation fault. There is no other output. This happens even after I move my .audacious directory out of the way.

Bug#555946: Acknowledgement (audacious: Segmentation fault)

Hmm... it appears the problem is related to libcdio-cdda0 (required by audacious-plugins) When I upgraded libcdio-cdda0 from 0.78.2+dfsg1-3 to 0.81-4, the problem went away. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Bug#548976: please support non-orphaned ODBC

Package: libqt4-sql-odbc Version: 4.5.2-2 as iodbc seems to be orphaned in Debian, please consider providing a qt4-sql package for use with unixODBC. Maybe two qt4-odbc packages, one called libqt4-sql-iodbc and another called libqt4-sql-unixodbc. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#546947: Please include freetds.conf manpage in package

Package: freetds-common Version: 0.82-6 The /etc/freetds.conf file provided by this package mentions a freetds.conf manpage, and indeed, upstream provides one. Please package the manpage. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe.

Bug#520439: xfe requires libcups2

Package: xfe Version: 1.04-2.1 Severity: important The xfe package installs with no error, but then it won't run. # xfe xfe: error while loading shared libraries: libcups.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory # ldd /usr/bin/xfe linux-gate.so.1 = (0xe000)

Bug#509925: clive: pre-install package fails when python package versions are insufficient

Package: clive Version: 1.0.2 Severity: normal # dpkg --unpack clive_1.0.2-1_all.deb (Reading database ... 73518 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking clive (from clive_1.0.2-1_all.deb) ... INFO: using unsupported version '/usr/bin/python2.5' pycentral: required runtimes not yet

Bug#458037: [Bluez-users] SCO flow control patch

In my readings I've seen a reference to a SCO flow control patch. What is it? Where is it? Do I need it? please specify your sourngces. What are those reading? What is the patch about? My source is a debian package called bluetooth-alsa. Here's what I believe to be the upstream

Bug#458037: [Bluez-users] SCO flow control patch

please specify your sourngces. What are those reading? What is the patch about? My source is a debian package called bluetooth-alsa. Here's what I believe to be the upstream copy: http://bluetooth-alsa.cvs.sourceforge.net/*checkout*/b

Bug#457717: closed by Reinhard Tartler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bug#457717: fixed in gxine 0.5.900-dev-20071222-1)

It still crashes after I upgrade to 0.5.900-dev-20071222-2: # gxine gtkvideo: failed to get a proxy for gnome-screensaver gxine has suffered a fatal internal error. To get a backtrace, run gxine in a debugger such as gdb. Then, when the error occurs: (gdb) thread apply all bt

Bug#458156: libdbus-1-3: Option `--close-stderr' is unknown until dbus 1.1.0

Package: libdbus-1-3 Version: 1.1.1-3 Severity: normal When I upgrade libdbus-1-3 from the etch version to the lenny version, I start getting the following message when I start bluetooth-applet from the command-line: libnotify-Message: Unable to get session bus: dbus-launch failed to

Bug#458037: better documentation of SCO flow control patch

Package: bluetooth-alsa Version: 0.5cvs20070908-1 /usr/share/doc/bluetooth-alsa/build.html gives a dire warning about the importance of the SCO flow control patch, but then gives only vague direction of where to find it. It would be nice if the documentation explained which kernels you need it

Bug#457717: gxine: Segfault on start

Package: gxine Version: 0.5.900-dev-20071007-1 Severity: serious *** Please type your report below this line *** When I try to run gxine (from the commandline with no arguments) I get: # gxine bind: No such file or directory process 3396: D-Bus library appears to be incorrectly set up;

Bug#434471: rdoc1.8: please provide rdoc for rdoc

Package: rdoc1.8 Severity: wishlist Please consider providing the rdoc-generated html files for the rdoc classes and modules. Either as part of the rdoc or rdoc1.8 packages, or maybe as a separate package (I guess you'd call it rdoc-doc) I currently generate them myself, but I would prefer

Bug#434167: rubygems: gem contents doesn't find package

Package: rubygems Version: 0.9.4-1 Severity: normal *** Please type your report below this line *** When I do gem contents httpclient it says: Unable to find gem 'httpclient' in default gem paths When I do gem list I get: *** LOCAL GEMS *** hpricot (0.4) a swift, liberal HTML parser with

Bug#416448: Please make avifile-utils package that doesn't depend on Qt

Package: avifile-utils Version: 0.7.44.20051021-2.2 Severity: wishlist I'm interested in installing the commandline utilities found in avifile-utils package. I'd like to save disk space by not installing libqt3-mt. An ldd of the avicat program that comes in avifile-utils suggests that it, at

Bug#400305: linux-image-2.6.17-2-686: linux-initramfs-tool dependency bypasses versioning on yaird dependency

Package: linux-image-2.6.17-2-686 Version: 2.6.17-9 Severity: important Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii *** Please type your report below this line *** When I try to install linux-imaqe-2.6.17-2-686, it fails to notice that my copy of yaird is too old, and proceeds

Bug#391843: Docs

Package: libhttp-access2-ruby1.8 Version: 2.0.6-1 This package could use some documentation. At the very least, a pointer to a website containing documentation, or instructions on how to generate the documentation. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Bug#291203: patch

This patch modifies the config script to only use the first line of /etc/mailname instead of the whole thing. --- debian/postfix.config 2006-06-25 20:56:32.0 -0400 +++ debian/postfix.config.new 2006-06-25 21:21:54.0 -0400 @@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ my $mailname; if

Bug#291203: more info

This happened to me recently. In my case, it turned out to be the result of a malformed /etc/mailname. Specifically, an extra newline at the end of the file. And it happens for both 2.2.10-2 and 2.1.5-9 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Bug#239584: more info

This happened to me recently. In my case, it turned out to be the result of a malformed /etc/mailname. Specifically, an extra newline at the end of the file. I can provide more information; this is reproducible. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe.

Bug#345123: Please add explanation of please purge hotplug to docs

Package: udev Version: 0.079-1 Severity: wishlist Please add an explanation to the udev docs (maybe in README.Debian) about how important it is to purge hotplug after replacing it with udev, and why it is important. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Bug#345124: Please add explanation of 2.4/2.6 dual-boot options

Package: udev Version: 0.079-1 Severity: wishlist I would like to set up my machine to dual-boot between a 2.4 kernel and a 2.6 kernel. When I installed a recent debian 2.6 kernel package, the udev package was installed and the hotplug package was uninstalled. With udev not supporting 2.4

Bug#344837: README in discover-data_2.2005.02.13.orig.tar.gz is outdated

Package: discover-data Version: 2.2005.02.13-1 The README points to http://hackers.progeny.com/discover/, which currently redirects to http://componentizedlinux.org/index.php/Main_Page, which doesn't mention discover. A better page to link to would be

Bug#338066: broken indentation in CPerl mode

Package: xemacs21 Version: 21.4.17-1 I have a testcase at http://www.club.cc.cmu.edu/~brian/test.pl On both computers I tested this on, if I hit tab on the line containing print e; It indents to the 19th column, instead of the 2nd column as expected. ii xemacs21 21.4.17-1

Bug#311844: acknowledged by developer (no infos supplied - closing bug)

i have not received any of the requested information from the submitter; i also think it's not a bug that sound doesn't work if you have no sound card driver but tell exmh that sound is available... I'm sorry I didn't get back to you sooner. To make things clearer, this was a fresh,

Bug#324418: perl-base overwrites libperl.so.5.8 of libperl5.8

Package: perl-base Version: 5.8.7-4 # dpkg --install perl-base_5.8.7-4_i386.deb (Reading database ... 57352 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace perl-base 5.8.7-3 (using perl-base_5.8.7-4_i386.deb) ... Unpacking replacement perl-base ... dpkg: error processing

Bug#321216: abcde: requires oggenc, but dependencies don't

Package: abcde Version: 2.2.6-1 Severity: important I don't have vorbis-tools installed. abcde installed fine, with all dependencies satisfied by the packages below. When I try to run it, it gives the error: abcde error: oggenc is not in your path. and terminates. -- System Information:

Bug#321216: acknowledged by developer (Re: Bug#321216: abcde: requires oggenc, but dependencies don't)

The dependencies are set so that you dont need a whole set of encoders, but just one is suficient: vorbis-tools (= 1.0beta4-1) | lame | flac | bladeenc | speex So if you happen to have lame or flac, you have to manually add the other dependencies into your system. Another thing would

Bug#316433: patch to fall back to adb on powerpc if no /dev/rtc

Package: util-linux Version: 2.12p-4 Tags: patch Here's a patch that takes the code distributed in util-linux source as hwclock/clock-ppc.c and modifies it to work with the clock_ops structure. It allows PPC machines running kernels without /dev/rtc support to fall back to modifying the

Bug#311844: exmh hangs indefinitely waiting for playaudio when no sound driver

Package: exmh Version: 2.7.2-5 When I start exmh, it hangs indefinitely (okay...I only waited about 60 sec). If I do killall playaudio a few times, it proceeds (one step for each time I do killall playaudio). I suspect the problem is that I have no sound drivers installed on this machine. ii

Bug#70052: Reloading whole groups list when you use a new server for the first time and it doesn't finish all

I've ran into two variations of this bug in the past and I thought I'd add a note about what I know from upstream: Variation 1: If configured for 2 upstream server and noactive on neither, Leafnode will try and refetch every time until it gets active file for _both_ in the same run. It is

Bug#297649: better documentation of dynamic mmap ran out of room error

Package: apt Version: 0.5.28.5 There's already a couple of bug reports requesting that this be fixed, but I didn't find any requesting that this long-standing issue be documented. That's because it's been fixed, in that the size of the map has been increased to accomodate even

Bug#298504: misleading documentation for AC_PATH_XTRA

Package: autoconf-doc Version: 2.59-1 The documentation says the following: - Macro: AC_PATH_XTRA ([LIBRARY = `Xt'], [HEADER-FILE = `X11/Intrinsic.h'], [FUNCTION-CALL = `XtMalloc (0)']) An enhanced version of `AC_PATH_X'. It adds the C compiler flags that X needs to

Bug#290405: confusing error message in log when ssh as root with no passwd

Package: libpam-modules Version: 0.76-22 The bug reported in #248133 appears to have resurfaced, and since I'm too late to reopen it, here goes: When I try to ssh into the machine as root when root has no password (and shadow passwords are disabled), the error in the logfile is

Bug#290187: www.debian.org: packages.debian.org recently got uglier in non-CSS browsers

Package: www.debian.org Severity: normal This change has happened in the past week or two, as far as I can tell; I look at packages.debian.org at least once or twice a week. When I look at a package info page with my non-CSS browser, where it used to display a graphical bullet color-coded to the

Bug#290188: upgrading bochsbios without upgrading rest of bochs -- problem

Package: bochsbios Version: 2.1.1+20041109-3 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable I had the following installed and everything worked OK: bochs 2.1.1-10 bochs-wx 2.1.1-10 bochsbios 2.1.1-10 vgabios 0.4b-1 I upgraded bochsbios to 2.1.1+20041109-3 without upgrading bochs