Bug#612339: xdg-open: no longer works under fluxbox with BROWSER=galeon --new-tab %s

2011-02-07 Thread Francesco Poli (t1000)
Package: xdg-utils Version: 1.1.0~rc1-1 Severity: normal Hi! I've just upgraded to the version that has recently migrated into testing: [UPGRADE] xdg-utils 1.0.2+cvs20100307-2 - 1.1.0~rc1-1 and I noticed that xdg-open no longer seems to work with URLs for me. I use fluxbox, hence the desktop

Bug#607838: desktop-base: two .desktop files refer to a non-existing icon

2010-12-22 Thread Francesco Poli (t1000)
Package: desktop-base Version: 6.0.5 Severity: normal Hi! I noticed that debian-homepage.desktop and debian-reference.desktop include a reference to /usr/share/pixmaps/debian-official-logo-small.png which has been recently dropped: I think the two .desktop files should be modified somehow...

Bug#607839: desktop-base: debian/copyright file needs more official info about GNOME foot Logo

2010-12-22 Thread Francesco Poli (t1000)
Package: desktop-base Version: 6.0.5 Severity: normal Hi! The debian/copyright file currently states that the GNOME foot Logo | is released under the LGPL v2.1 or later, as stated in | http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Gnomelogo.svgoldid=39892275 More official information

Bug#607842: desktop-base: debian/copyright file needs more official info about KDE Official Oxygen Logo

2010-12-22 Thread Francesco Poli (t1000)
Package: desktop-base Version: 6.0.5 Severity: normal Hi! The debian/copyright file currently states that the KDE Official Oxygen Logo | is released under the | LGPLv2.1 or later, as stated in | http://www.kde.org/stuff/clipart.php |

Bug#607458: desktop-base: debian/copyright file is outdated

2010-12-18 Thread Francesco Poli (t1000)
Package: desktop-base Version: 6.0.4 Severity: serious Justification: Policy 4.5 Hi desktop-base maintainers! First of all, thank you very much for fixing bug #587668. However, the changes needed to fix that bug do not seem to be properly documented in the debian/copyright file, unfortunately.

Bug#606885: xpdf: no longer asks for password in dialog window

2010-12-12 Thread Francesco Poli (t1000)
Package: xpdf Version: 3.02-11 Severity: normal Tags: security Hi Debian xpdf maintainers! Thanks a lot for maintaining my favorite PDF viewer! I noticed a little regression (probably introduced during the conversion into a libpoppler front-end). In the past, xpdf used to pop up a useful

Bug#604402: python-matplotlib-data: includes local copies of fonts

2010-11-21 Thread Francesco Poli (t1000)
Package: python-matplotlib-data Version: 0.99.3-1 Severity: normal Hello and thanks for maintaining matplotlib in Debian! After taking a look at the copyright file http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/m/matplotlib/matplotlib_0.99.3-1/python-matplotlib-data.copyright and at the list of

Bug#603477: fenics: homepage link is outdated

2010-11-14 Thread Francesco Poli (t1000)
Package: fenics Version: 10.09-1 Severity: minor Hi FEniCS Debian package maintainers! Thanks for packaging these libraries and applications! I've just noticed that the homepage URL is outdated, since the FEniCS Project was moved from http://www.fenics.org/ to http://www.fenicsproject.org/

Bug#602081: apcalc: a few typos in the manpage

2010-11-01 Thread Francesco Poli (t1000)
Package: apcalc Version: 2.12.3.3-1 Severity: minor Hello and thanks for maintaining apcalc in Debian! I've just noticed a few typos in the calc(1) manpage: VARIABLES - s/into a a/into a/ CALC OPTIONS s/no more option follow/no more options follow/ CALC COMMAND

Bug#602115: apcalc: logarithm precision does not seem to improve with a lower epsilon()

2010-11-01 Thread Francesco Poli (t1000)
Package: apcalc Version: 2.12.3.3-1 Severity: normal Hi, I noticed something I cannot understand. I wanted to compute a base 10 logarithm with increasing precision, but it seems that the precision does not increase beyond some sort of limit value: $ calc C-style arbitrary precision

Bug#600879: RFH: apt-listbugs -- tool which lists critical bugs before each apt installation

2010-10-20 Thread Francesco Poli (t1000)
Package: wnpp Severity: normal I request assistance with maintaining the apt-listbugs package. The other co-maintainer (Ryan Niebur) is currently almost MIA and finally told me that he no longer wants to be involved in apt-listbugs maintenance: see http://bugs.debian.org/588636 and

Bug#598638: lapack: update-alternatives breaks application linking

2010-09-30 Thread Francesco Poli (t1000)
Package: lapack Version: 3.2.1-8 Severity: normal Hi and thanks for maintaining LAPACK in Debian! I am trying to see how much performance I may gain with ATLAS as a LAPACK replacement (I will also test the CPU-optimized libatlas-core2sse3-dev later on). I am trying to follow instructions

Bug#598140: ifconfig: ifdown,pause,ifup causes page allocation failure

2010-09-26 Thread Francesco Poli (t1000)
Package: net-tools Version: 1.60-23 Severity: normal Hi and thanks for maintaining net-tools in Debian! Today something very strange happened to me. I had to perform some tests which *required* network problems. In order to simulate network problems, I decided to bring the eth interface of my

Bug#597237: live-manual: includes non-free files

2010-09-17 Thread Francesco Poli (t1000)
Package: live-manual Version: 1:2.0~a4-1 Severity: serious Justification: Policy 2.2.1 Hi! According to http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/l/live-manual/live-manual_2.0~a4-1/live-manual.copyright the live-manual package seems to include two non-free files. The first troublesome

Bug#595075: xpdf: [regression] scrolling with arrows (cursor keys) always results in page change

2010-08-31 Thread Francesco Poli (t1000)
Package: xpdf Version: 3.02-10 Severity: normal Hello! I've just upgraded to xpdf/3.02-10, which has just migrated to testing. Thanks for your great job in converting xpdf to a libpoppler frontend! I noticed a regression, though. The arrows (that is to say, the cursor keys) used to scroll the

Bug#589542: xpdf.desktop file disappeared

2010-07-18 Thread Francesco Poli (t1000)
Package: xpdf Version: 3.02-9 Severity: important Hi! Where in the world is the xpdf.desktop file? It seems to have vanished from the package! $ dpkg -l | grep xpdf ii xpdf 3.02-9 Portable Document Format (PDF) reader $ ls -l

Bug#588636: apt-listbugs: communication problem between the two co-maintainers

2010-07-10 Thread Francesco Poli (t1000)
Package: apt-listbugs Severity: important I have a communication problem with Ryan (the other co-maintainer of apt-listbugs). I received his last reply on May, the 23rd. Since that day, I have sent him eight e-mail messages, but I received no replies whatsoever. I see some activity by him on

Bug#588578: /etc/fbpanel/default should be dropped, while preserving local modifications

2010-07-09 Thread Francesco Poli (t1000)
Package: fbpanel Version: 6.0-2 Severity: normal Hi. As explained in http://bugs.debian.org/585577#36 file /etc/fbpanel/default is now ignored by fbpanel. I assume that /etc/fbpanel/default is a conffile in the Debian package. If this is case, here we seem to have an obsolete conffile that is

Bug#586798: asymptote: incomplete debian/copyright file

2010-06-22 Thread Francesco Poli (t1000)
Package: asymptote Version: 1.90-1 Severity: important Hi! It seems to me that the debian/copyright file lacks the full text of the LPPL, which is not a license shipped in /usr/share/common-licenses/ Debian Policy [1] mandates a verbatim copy of copyright and distribution license(s) of the

Bug#586597: geomview: PLOT3D grid file reader module: please include it

2010-06-20 Thread Francesco Poli (t1000)
Package: geomview Version: 1.9.4-2 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch Hello, this bug report could be the last thing I do about geomview (but who knows?). During last August, I wrote a geomview module that reads a (two-dimensional, Fortran-unformatted, multi-block) PLOT3D grid file and visualizes

Bug#586156: sysklogd: strange error messages during boot

2010-06-16 Thread Francesco Poli (t1000)
Package: sysklogd Version: 1.5-5 Severity: normal I've recently noticed some strange error messages that my box spits out during the bootstrap. I am convinced that these messages did not use to come up, until recently. The error messages are: syslogd: unknown priority name oone syslogd:

Bug#585795: fbpanel: please include some terminal icons

2010-06-13 Thread Francesco Poli (t1000)
Package: fbpanel Version: 6.0-1 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch Hi! I prepared a couple of icons for /usr/share/fbpanel/images/ They represent a generic terminal (keyboard and screen) and may be suitable for the launchbar and/or for the icons Plugin. I must admit that I am not yet completely

Bug#585576: fbpanel: fails to appear in all workspaces

2010-06-11 Thread Francesco Poli (t1000)
Package: fbpanel Version: 6.0-1 Severity: normal Hi! Since I upgraded from fbpanel/4.12-1.1 to fbpanel/6.0-1, I experience the following bug: the fbpanel instance which is started by my ~/.xsession script (I use fluxbox) only shows up in the first workspace. As soon as I issue the following

Bug#585577: fbpanel: outdated documentation

2010-06-11 Thread Francesco Poli (t1000)
Package: fbpanel Version: 6.0-1 Severity: normal Hi! I noticed that the fbpanel man page is outdated in some respects (it still refers to ~/.fbpanel/ rather than to ~/.config/fbpanel, for instance): it looks like the documentation is still talking about version 4.x The shipped system-wide

Bug#585180: fluxbox: licenses for themes are not documented in debian/copyright

2010-06-09 Thread Francesco Poli (t1000)
Package: fluxbox Version: 1.1.1+dfsg1-1 Severity: normal Hi! If I understand the fix for bug #584513 correctly, the themes were not removed from the package, since they have been relicensed under the CC-by-sa-v3.0 license (which is considered acceptable by FTP Masters, even though I disagree,

Bug#584959: fbpanel: iconified sticky windows do not get square brackets in taskbar

2010-06-07 Thread Francesco Poli (t1000)
Package: fbpanel Version: 6.0-1 Severity: normal Hi! [This bug is what was left unfixed from bug #576588...] I use fbpanel with fluxbox, I don't know if the bug may be reproduced with other window managers. When a window is iconified, the corresponding taskbar item is shown with square

Bug#584794: audacious: [regression] context menu is unusable with rolled up player near bottom of screen

2010-06-06 Thread Francesco Poli (t1000)
Package: audacious Version: 2.3-2 Severity: normal Hi! The new audacious version that has recently migrated into testing (2.3-2) fixed several bugs, but also introduced some little regressions. I have already filed a bug report for the first regression I noticed (bug #584249). Here's a report

Bug#584249: audacious-plugins: [regression] shows meaningless timer values when playing Internet streams

2010-06-02 Thread Francesco Poli (t1000)
Package: audacious-plugins Version: 2.3-2 Severity: normal Hi! Thanks for maintaining audacious: version 2.3-2, which has recently migrated into testing, fixes many issues!:-) I noticed a regression, though. As discussed in bug #500081, I set Time Remaining for the timer. When playing an

Bug#583956: grace: fails to start after gsfonts upgrade

2010-05-31 Thread Francesco Poli (t1000)
Package: grace Version: 1:5.1.22-5 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable Hi! Thanks for maintaining this very useful package! After the following upgrade: [UPGRADE] gsfonts 1:8.11+urwcyr1.0.7~pre44-4 - 1:8.11+urwcyr1.0.7~pre44-4.1 xmgrace stopped working: $ xmgrace

Bug#583964: gsfonts: breaks grace

2010-05-31 Thread Francesco Poli (t1000)
Package: gsfonts Version: 1:8.11+urwcyr1.0.7~pre44-4.1 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable Upgrading gsfonts to version 1:8.11+urwcyr1.0.7~pre44-4.1 breaks grace, as detailed in bug #583956: http://bugs.debian.org/583956 If the issue is in the gsfonts package, please fix it.

Bug#583663: cpufreqd: fails to start when parallellized boot is enabled

2010-05-29 Thread Francesco Poli (t1000)
Package: cpufreqd Version: 2.4.2-1 Severity: important Tags: patch User: initscripts-ng-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org Usertags: incorrect-dependencies Hi Mattia! :) Since the parallellized boot was enabled, cpufreqd has no longer been automatically started during boot. The error message is:

Bug#582317: vim-scripts: could you please include vimwiki?

2010-05-19 Thread Francesco Poli (t1000)
Package: vim-scripts Version: 20091011 Severity: wishlist Hi and thanks for maintaining vim-scripts in Debian! Could you please consider to include vimwiki? It's a personal wiki for vim, and can be used to write and organize notes, ideas, todo-lists, and similar. The project page is at

Bug#580896: sylpheed: actions fail to provide message body in the appropriate charset for gpg to verify

2010-05-09 Thread Francesco Poli (t1000)
Package: sylpheed Version: 3.0.2-1 Severity: normal Hi! As suggested by Sylpheed's manual [1], I use the following action in order to verify inline GPG signatures in messages: |gpg --no-tty --verify This action works well for most cases, where the inline signed message is encoded in ASCII

Bug#579459: fusionforge-full: broken HTTPS (on alioth)

2010-04-27 Thread Francesco Poli (t1000)
Package: fusionforge-full Version: 5.0-1 Severity: normal Tags: upstream security Hi! When trying to register an alioth account [1], I get a broken HTTPS page. My browser (galeon) says: Parts of this page are loaded over an insecure connection and the secure connection status icon reports

Bug#579102: please let conky be moved back to main!

2010-04-25 Thread Francesco Poli (t1000)
Package: conky Version: 1.8.0-1 Severity: wishlist Hi! Thanks for adopting my favorite system monitor! :-) I've just found out that the package has been moved to contrib, though! :-( After digging into the ITA bug (#536320), it seems to me that the only reason why the source package was moved

Bug#578697: galeon: closing tabs with [Ctrl+W] breaks tree expansion

2010-04-21 Thread Francesco Poli (t1000)
Package: galeon Version: 2.0.7-1.2 Severity: normal Hi! I think I found a regression in galeon/2.0.7-1.2 . I waited a while before reporting it, since I wanted to have a chance to see if the problem was fixed in galeon/2.0.7-2.1: it's not. I tried to reproduce the same bug with iceweasel, but

Bug#578309: I cannot route audio input to rakarrack

2010-04-18 Thread Francesco Poli (t1000)
Package: rakarrack Version: 0.4.2-1 Severity: normal Hi and thanks for maintaining rakarrack in Debian! I am trying to use it with my electric guitar (connected to the sound card mic-in through a DI box). From a hardware point of view, the setup seemed to work, since, in the past, I managed to

Bug#577801: libgettext-ruby1.8: bindtextdomain mangles my LOAD_PATH

2010-04-14 Thread Francesco Poli (t1000)
Package: libgettext-ruby1.8 Version: 2.1.0-1 Severity: important Hi! It seems that the invocation of GetText::bindtextdomain() alters the $LOAD_PATH variable in an awkward manner. Steps to reproduce: $ cat test-bindtextdomain.rb #!/usr/bin/ruby puts initial LOAD_PATH:\n--- puts

Bug#576543: xpdf-reader: Invalid command syntax: 'zoomFitPage' / 'zoomFitWidth'

2010-04-05 Thread Francesco Poli (t1000)
Package: xpdf-reader Version: 3.02-2 Severity: normal Hi! First of all, thanks a lot for adopting this package. I hope it can migrate back into testing soon! Thank you very much for the time you are willing to spend maintaining it! :-) I've just upgraded from version 3.02-1.4+lenny1 to version

Bug#576588: fbpanel: sticky windows are not iconified/raised when their taskbar items are clicked

2010-04-05 Thread Francesco Poli (t1000)
Package: fbpanel Version: 4.12-1.1 Severity: normal Hi! I think I found a bug in fbpanel. I use it with fluxbox, I don't know if the bug may be reproduced with other window managers. Let me explain. I can iconify a normal window in at least two ways: (a1) right-click on its (fbpanel)

Bug#572288: audacious-plugins: after upgrade, audacious stopped working

2010-03-02 Thread Francesco Poli (t1000)
Package: audacious-plugins Version: 2.1-1 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable Hi! After upgrading audacious-plugins and audacious-plugins-extra from version 2.1-1 to version 2.1-1.1, audacious is totally unable to play anything (Internet streams, local files, ...). When I

Bug#568684: mayavi2: gl2ps-generated PDF images are slow and incorrect

2010-02-06 Thread Francesco Poli (t1000)
Package: mayavi2 Version: 3.3.0-1 Severity: normal Hi! This bug could be caused by vtk: please reassign, if appropriate. Steps to reproduce: $ mayavi2 -d /usr/share/doc/mayavi2/examples/mayavi/data/heart.vtk The main window shows up. * select Add module or filter in the Mayavi pane *

Bug#566582: debian/copyright does not say that ifrit is under GPLv2

2010-01-23 Thread Francesco Poli (t1000)
Package: ifrit Version: 3.2.8-1 Severity: important Hi! Thanks for maintaining ifrit in Debian. The official web site of IFrIT (which, BTW, has moved to http://sites.google.com/site/ifrithome/ : please update the homepage field) states that the software package is released under the terms of the

Bug#566591: supp-pdf.mkii: cannot use macro parameter character # in horizontal mode

2010-01-23 Thread Francesco Poli (t1000)
Package: texlive-latex-base Version: 2009-7 Severity: normal Hi! I've just found out what seems to be a problematic regression. Steps to reproduce: # aptitude install xml-resume-library $ cat test.xml ?xml version=1.0 encoding=UTF-8? !DOCTYPE resume PUBLIC -//Sean Kelly//DTD Resume

Bug#565436: pbuilder: new $HOME value broke my hook scripts

2010-01-15 Thread Francesco Poli (t1000)
Package: pbuilder Version: 0.196 Severity: normal Hi! The recent change in the $HOME value set by pdebuild-internal (see commit 88e0052c7362c2c2a7841579f007ccabeae27c49 ) broke most of my hook scripts, since they unfortunately rely on the fact that $HOME ends with /../ Would it be possible to

Bug#565219: qa.debian.org: bug history graphs are incorrect

2010-01-13 Thread Francesco Poli (t1000)
Package: qa.debian.org Severity: normal Hi! The bug count (and consequently the plot shape) is often incorrect in the bug history graphs. Consider for instance: http://packages.qa.debian.org/d/dpkg-ruby.html The package currenty has 0 (zero) outstanding bugs and 8 unarchived resolved bugs.

Bug#563719: milkytracker: homepage field should be updated

2010-01-04 Thread Francesco Poli (t1000)
Package: milkytracker Version: 0.90.80+dfsg-2 Severity: minor Hi! While searching for information about this program, I tried to visit the URL included in the homepage field: currently, it is http://www.milkytracker.net/ Well, this URL makes my browser time out after a long wait for a reply.

Bug#561005: purging console-setup-mini makes you lose some console-setup configuration

2009-12-13 Thread Francesco Poli (t1000)
Package: console-setup Version: 1.50 Severity: normal Hi and thanks for maintaining console-setup! On a box where console-setup-mini was installed, I issued the following command: # aptitude install console-setup console-setup-mini- in order to switch from console-setup-mini to

Bug#561008: console-setup: approximations for 'toilet -f future' symbols look different before and after X

2009-12-13 Thread Francesco Poli (t1000)
Package: console-setup Version: 1.50 Severity: normal Hi (again)! During the discussions for bug #546983, console-setup was greatly improved by Anton Zinoviev (which I would like to thank again): the console is now able to display 'toilet -f future' symbols in a strange, yet charming way, by

Bug#560415: grub-common: /etc/grub.d/30_os-prober detects and creates entries for an external backup disk!

2009-12-10 Thread Francesco Poli (t1000)
Package: grub-common Version: 1.97~beta3-1 Severity: normal Hello and thanks for maintaining GRUB in Debian. On a recently installed Debian testing box, I had the first Linux kernel upgrade the other day, due to the testing-security update (linux-image-2.6.30-2-amd64/2.6.30-8squeeze1). During

Bug#558400: gridengine: please ask Sun to re-license under better terms

2009-11-28 Thread Francesco Poli (t1000)
Package: gridengine Version: 6.2-4 Severity: wishlist Hi! Thanks for maintaining Sun GridEngine in Debian! As stated in [1], Sun has ceased to use or recommend the SISSL license. However, by looking at the debian/copyright file of this package, it seems gridengine is still under the SISSL. My

Bug#550635: mayavi2: [regression] interpolated scalar coloring results in black surface

2009-10-11 Thread Francesco Poli (t1000)
Package: mayavi2 Version: 3.3.0-1 Severity: important Hi! I've just found out a regression in mayavi2 (I am pretty sure this didn't use to happen previously). Steps to reproduce: $ mayavi2 -d /usr/share/doc/mayavi2/examples/mayavi/data/heart.vtk The main window shows up. * in the Mayavi

Bug#548611: gnash: please add a configuration setting for initial volume level

2009-09-27 Thread Francesco Poli (t1000)
Package: gnash Version: 0.8.6-1 Severity: wishlist Hi! First off, thanks for maintaining gnash in Debian! :-) I've just installed it (as a replacement for swfdec, which does not work very well, currently) and it seems to work, even though there's still room for improvement... Anyway, whenever

Bug#548380: checkrestart: complains about Xorg before any upgrade happens (with intel drivers)

2009-09-25 Thread Francesco Poli (t1000)
Package: debian-goodies Version: 0.51 Severity: normal Hi and thanks for maintaining debian-goodies! I noticed an awkward issue with checkrestart, since I upgraded xorg to the new version that recently migrated to testing (xorg/1:7.4+4). On boxes that use xserver-xorg-video-intel, checkrestart

Bug#547500: geomview: segfaults when trying to create a PostScript snapshot of certain data

2009-09-20 Thread Francesco Poli (t1000)
Package: geomview Version: 1.9.4-1 Severity: normal Hi! I noticed a problem with the PostScript snapshot saving option. The option seems to work in some cases, but causes geomview to segfault in other cases. First test: * start geomview with the following command: $ geomview tref.off

Bug#546983: console-setup-mini: fails to set the keyboard layout (and falls back to us layout)

2009-09-16 Thread Francesco Poli (t1000)
Package: console-setup-mini Version: 1.44 Severity: important Hi! I upgraded my Debian testing (squeeze) notebook yesterday and various packages were upgraded (among which several xorg packages). Due to dependencies, console-setup-mini was pulled in, as confirmed by /var/log/aptitude :

Bug#546456: mozilla-mplayer: does not step in to play an Ogg Video file

2009-09-13 Thread Francesco Poli (t1000)
Package: mozilla-mplayer Version: 3.55-2 Severity: normal Hi and thanks for maintaining mozilla-mplayer in Debian! This package works for me with several video formats, but fails to help me in viewing Ogg Video files. I haven't changed anything in the plugin configuration. The only

Bug#545895: debbugs: should drop '\r' characters from bug report subjects

2009-09-09 Thread Francesco Poli (t1000)
Package: debbugs Version: 2.4.2~exp0 Severity: normal Hi! I think I found a bug in the BTS, hence I am reporting it against the experimental version of debbugs (which I believe is the closest version to what is used in the BTS, right?). The following example use of apt-listbugs shows the

Bug#545531: rakarrack: no i386 binary ?!?

2009-09-07 Thread Francesco Poli (t1000)
Package: rakarrack Version: 0.3.0-1 Severity: important Hi! Thanks for maintaining rakarrack in Debian! I really cannot understand what's going on. It seems to me that the i386 binary package of rakarrack has not yet been built: the build status [1] says Building, the build log [2] seems to

Bug#544208: fluxbox: [regression] messes window positions up after running full-screen games at different resolution

2009-08-29 Thread Francesco Poli (t1000)
Package: fluxbox Version: 1.1.1-2 Severity: important Hi! Thanks for maintaining fluxbox in Debian! I've just found out a bug which was not present in older versions of fluxbox: this is a regression, although I cannot remember which version did not suffer from this issue. Anyway the bug is

Bug#544112: audacious: rolled up main player window partially disappears while buffering

2009-08-28 Thread Francesco Poli (t1000)
Package: audacious Version: 2.1-1 Severity: normal Hi! I forgot to report this bug when I began to experience it (that is to say, when I began to experience #516592, if I recall correctly). Anyway, I still experience it, and hence I am reporting it now. The problem is that audacious GUI

Bug#541414: midori: Homepage field is broken

2009-08-13 Thread Francesco Poli (t1000)
Package: midori Version: 0.1.8-1 Severity: minor Hi! ;-) The Homepage: field of the package description points to http://software.twotoasts.de/index.php?/pages/midori_summary.html which currently renders in a page showing only the following text: | | Not found. | This really looks like a

Bug#538062: openoffice.org-pdfimport: does not work at all (or is undocumented)

2009-07-22 Thread Francesco Poli (t1000)
Package: openoffice.org-pdfimport Version: 0.4+OOo3.1.0-5 Severity: important Hi! I've just installed openoffice.org-pdfimport, since I need to import PDF vector images (rather than JPEG, PNG, or other raster format images) into a Writer document. After installing openoffice.org-pdfimport, and

Bug#537546: aptitude: autoclean should avoid removing cached packages which are still installed

2009-07-19 Thread Francesco Poli (t1000)
Package: aptitude Version: 0.4.11.11-1+b1 Severity: wishlist Hi and thanks for maintaining my favorite package manager! ;-) The current behavior of the autoclean command removes from the cache *any* package which can no longer be downloaded (from currently configured sources). This is

Bug#537552: bugs.debian.org: please add links to package page and PTS in bug log HTML pages too

2009-07-19 Thread Francesco Poli (t1000)
Package: bugs.debian.org Severity: wishlist Hi! The HTML BTS page for a package [1] includes some handy and useful links to the corresponding package page [2] and PTS page [3], in a nice line at the top [4]. The HTML BTS page for a single bug [5] does not have these handy links. Having a

Bug#526471: [PATCH] run hooks inside the chroot root (Closes: #526471)

2009-07-16 Thread Francesco Poli (t1000)
Fix pdebuild-internal fails to execute hook scripts: set HOOKDIR and invoke executehooks inside the chroot root (in pdebuild-internal). --- AUTHORS |1 + pdebuild-internal | 14 ++ 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/AUTHORS b/AUTHORS index

Bug#526471: cleaned up patch for bug #526471

2009-07-16 Thread Francesco Poli (t1000)
Hi, two new versions of pbuilder have been uploaded to unstable without incorporating my patch to fix bug #526471. What's wrong with my patch? If it was rejected, I would like to know why, so that I can possibly prepare a new rectified patch... May I have some sort of response from the Debian

Bug#536705: creox: fails to apply effects

2009-07-12 Thread Francesco Poli (t1000)
Package: creox Version: 0.2.2rc2-3+b1 Severity: important Hi! Thanks for maintaining creox in Debian. I am trying to see if I can use it with my electric guitar (connected to the sound card mic-in through a DI box). From a hardware point of view, the setup seems to work, since I can hear the

Bug#536147: linux-2.6: [regression] CVE-2009-0029 fixed in testing, but not unstable

2009-07-07 Thread Francesco Poli (t1000)
Package: linux-2.6 Version: 2.6.30-1 Severity: grave Tags: security Justification: user security hole Hello Debian kernel team! According to the security tracker [1], CVE-2009-0029 is fixed in testing, but not in unstable. It's fixed in testing because it was fixed in a stable (lenny) point

Bug#536148: linux-2.6: [regression] CVE-2009-1758 fixed in testing, but not in unstable

2009-07-07 Thread Francesco Poli (t1000)
Package: linux-2.6 Version: 2.6.30-1 Severity: grave Tags: security Justification: user security hole Hello again Debian kernel team! According to the security tracker [1], CVE-2009-1758 is fixed in testing, but not in unstable. It's fixed in testing because it was fixed in a stable (lenny)

Bug#534976: consolekit: does not preserve state during daemon restarts

2009-06-28 Thread Francesco Poli (t1000)
Package: consolekit Version: 0.3.0-2 Severity: important Hi! As explained in bug #527846 (see its complete log, for more context), if a security update on one of the dependencies creates the *need* to restart console-kit-daemon, I find myself with the following dilemma: (a) I kill the daemon

Bug#534241: libruby1.8: [regression] tempfiles are no longer removed

2009-06-22 Thread Francesco Poli (t1000)
Package: libruby1.8 Version: 1.8.7.174-1 Severity: normal Tags: security Hi! After the following upgrade: [UPGRADE] libruby1.8 1.8.7.72-3.1 - 1.8.7.174-1 temporary files created with /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/tempfile.rb are no longer removed. Steps to reproduce the bug: $ irb1.8

Bug#534251: git-email: should support GnuPG signing and/or encryption

2009-06-22 Thread Francesco Poli (t1000)
Package: git-email Version: 1:1.6.3.1-1 Severity: wishlist Hi and thanks for maintaining git in Debian! I think the subject says it all: it would be great if the git 'send-email' command could send PGP/MIME signed and/or encrypted messages, by using GnuPG. This would improve patch integrity and

Bug#533109: mayavi2: fails to restore grid limits of CustomGridPlane modules from visualization (*.mv2) files

2009-06-14 Thread Francesco Poli (t1000)
Package: mayavi2 Version: 3.1.0-1 Severity: normal Hi! I think I found another bug in mayavi2. Steps to reproduce: $ mayavi2 -d /usr/share/doc/mayavi2/examples/mayavi/data/heart.vtk The main window shows up. * from menus, select Visualize - Modules - CustomGridPlane * in the MayaVi object

Bug#529542: debbugs: please upload the new version

2009-05-19 Thread Francesco Poli (t1000)
Package: debbugs Version: 2.4.1 Severity: wishlist Hi! I would have never thought that I would find myself filing a please package new upstream version wishlist bug against a Debian native package! ;-) Nonetheless, here I am: the Debian BTS is a great bug tracking system with many useful and

Bug#529360: g3data: fails to correctly refresh images with transparency

2009-05-18 Thread Francesco Poli (t1000)
Package: g3data Version: 1:1.5.1-1 Severity: normal Hi! I noticed a problem with how g3data handles images with transparent pixels (such as PNG images using the alpha channel). If you try to load such an image with a transparent background: $ g3data transp-bg-image.png the image is shown on

Bug#529362: linuxfacile: includes non-removable, non-modifiable text

2009-05-18 Thread Francesco Poli (t1000)
Package: linuxfacile Version: 5.0.new-5 Severity: serious Justification: Policy 2.2.1 User: debian-rele...@lists.debian.org Usertags: nonfree-doc gfdl Hi! This package is licensed under the | terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.1 or any | later version published by the Free

Bug#529087: vim: please implement a --drop-empty option

2009-05-17 Thread Francesco Poli (t1000)
Package: vim Version: 2:7.2.148-2 Severity: wishlist Hi and thanks for maintaining this very important package in Debian! :-) I use VIM for many tasks. Among other things, I often use View as a pager, that is to say: I pipe the output of a command to it. $ some_command | view - It works

Bug#527846: consolekit: does not provide a init.d script (how do I restart the daemon?)

2009-05-08 Thread Francesco Poli (t1000)
Package: consolekit Version: 0.3.0-2 Severity: normal Hi! Debian Policy 9.3.2 [1] states that | Packages that include daemons for system services should place | scripts in /etc/init.d to start or stop services at boot time or | during a change of runlevel. [1]

Bug#526471: pbuilder: pdebuild-internal fails to execute hook scripts

2009-05-01 Thread Francesco Poli (t1000)
Package: pbuilder Version: 0.187 Severity: normal Hi and thanks for maintaining pbuilder! I have a problem with pdebuild in the use-pdebuild-internal mode of operation. With the following configuration file: $ cat ~/.pbuilder/sid.conf DISTRIBUTION=sid COMPONENTS=main

Bug#500276: reportbug: Same problem here!

2009-05-01 Thread Francesco Poli (t1000)
...@firenze.linux.it DEBFULLNAME=Francesco Poli (t1000) NAME=Francesco Poli -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (800, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG

Bug#526471: [PATCH 1/3] restore lost changelog entry

2009-05-01 Thread Francesco Poli (t1000)
restore the changelog entry for version 0.187: this entry is present in pbuilder/0.187 currently in unstable and testing, but was somehow missing from the public git repository... --- debian/changelog | 19 +++ 1 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git

Bug#526471: [PATCH 3/3] Bug#526471: pbuilder: pdebuild-internal fails to execute hook scripts

2009-05-01 Thread Francesco Poli (t1000)
; urgency=low - * + * Fix pdebuild-internal fails to execute hook scripts: set HOOKDIR and +invoke executehooks inside the chroot root (Closes: #526471) - -- Francesco Poli (t1000) f...@firenze.linux.it Fri, 01 May 2009 17:19:03 +0200 + -- Francesco Poli (t1000) f...@firenze.linux.it Fri, 01

Bug#526471: patches that fix bug #526471

2009-05-01 Thread Francesco Poli (t1000)
Hi! As promised, here's a patch that fixes the bug. I prepare it with git format-patch against the public git repository. Please note that I also modified the changelog and the AUTHORS file. While doing this, I noticed that the entry for pbuilder/0.187 was missing from the public git repository,

Bug#526471: [PATCH 2/3] open 0.188 release

2009-05-01 Thread Francesco Poli (t1000)
Poli (t1000) f...@firenze.linux.it Fri, 01 May 2009 17:19:03 +0200 + pbuilder (0.187) unstable; urgency=low [ Junichi Uekawa ] -- 1.6.2.1 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#525761: libruby1.8: debug output in tempfile.rb should be directed to $stderr, rather than to $stdout

2009-04-26 Thread Francesco Poli (t1000)
Package: libruby1.8 Version: 1.8.7.72-3.1 Severity: normal Hi! I noticed that /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/tempfile.rb sends debug output (when $DEBUG is true) to $stdout. See the following two lines: print removing , path, ... if $DEBUG and print done\n if $DEBUG I think that this is a bug,

Bug#525575: mayavi2: ExtractGrid filter causes errors (traceback, ...)

2009-04-25 Thread Francesco Poli (t1000)
Package: mayavi2 Version: 3.1.0-1 Severity: normal Hi! I noticed another bug in Mayavi2. Steps to reproduce: $ mayavi2 -d /usr/share/doc/mayavi2/examples/mayavi/data/heart.vtk \ tmp/mayavi2.out 2 tmp/mayavi2.err The main window shows up. * select Add module or filter in the Mayavi

Bug#525485: g3data: please package new upstream version (1.5.3)

2009-04-24 Thread Francesco Poli (t1000)
Package: g3data Version: 1.5.1-1 Severity: wishlist Hi! A new upstream version is available from http://www.frantz.fi/software/g3data.php You can get the source code by fetching http://www.frantz.fi/software/g3data-1.5.3.tar.gz Please package this new upstream version, which should also fix bug

Bug#524732: simutrans: license is not Artistic as in common-licenses

2009-04-19 Thread Francesco Poli (t1000)
Package: simutrans Version: 102.0-1 Severity: normal Hi and thanks for maintaining Simutrans in Debian! I noticed something awkward in the debian/copyright file. It claims that the license for the package (except for a single font file) is Artistic. Then it quotes this Artistic license text

Bug#524740: firmware-nonfree: debian/copyright file seems to be outdated

2009-04-19 Thread Francesco Poli (t1000)
Package: firmware-nonfree Version: 0.15 Severity: important Hi! Let me first thank you for maintaining this package in non-free, and for moving Linux-kernel-shipped non-free firmware blobs from the Linux kernel package to it. IMHO, this is really the Right Thing™ to do, as it abides by the

Bug#524381: epiphany-extensions: dependency on python-elementtree seems to be pointless

2009-04-16 Thread Francesco Poli (t1000)
Package: epiphany-extensions Version: 2.22.2-1 Severity: minor Hi! In python-elementtree package description, I read: | ElementTree is included in Python 2.5, so there is no need to | install this package if you are using Python 2.5. On the other hand, epiphany-extensions depends on python2.5

Bug#523924: lingot: new upstream version 0.7.6 available

2009-04-13 Thread Francesco Poli (t1000)
Package: lingot Version: 0.7.4-2 Severity: wishlist Hi! Thanks for maintaining lingot in Debian. It seems that version 0.7.6 has been available from upstream since December 2007: http://mirror.lihnidos.org/GNU/savannah/lingot/ Please package this new upstream version. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Bug#523925: fmit: no sound seems to be captured with ALSA input

2009-04-13 Thread Francesco Poli (t1000)
Package: fmit Version: 0.97.7-2 Severity: normal Hi! Thanks for maintaining FMIT in Debian. I am trying to see if it can tune my electric guitar (connected to the sound card mic-in through a DI box). From a hardware point of view, the setup seems to work, since, if I start alsamixer, I can

Bug#522243: iceweasel: please include the User Agent Switcher add-on

2009-04-01 Thread Francesco Poli (t1000)
Package: iceweasel Version: 3.0.7-1 Severity: wishlist Hi! I would like to be able to easily switch between different user agent strings (it's useful for some stupid web sites that refuse to work when you announce yourself as a browser and/or platform they don't want to know anything about...).

Bug#518688: caret: debian/copyright file includes a confusing part

2009-03-07 Thread Francesco Poli (t1000)
Package: caret Version: 5.6.1~dfsg.1-1 Severity: normal Hi! Thanks for packaging this interesting piece of software for Debian! I took a look at the debian/copyright file and I am confused by the Files: caret_uniformize/* section. It says that those files are under the GNU GPL v2 or later,

Bug#516592: audacious: fails to show a rolled up playlist editor window

2009-02-22 Thread Francesco Poli (t1000)
Package: audacious Version: 1.5.1-4 Severity: normal On my Debian testing boxes, after upgrading the first packages that migrated from sid to squeeze (that is to say, after my boxes became squeeze systems), I began to experience a new audacious bug. If I start audacious with a configuration

Bug#516595: swfdec-mozilla: [regression] no audio in YouTube videos

2009-02-22 Thread Francesco Poli (t1000)
Package: swfdec-mozilla Version: 0.8.2-1 Severity: important Hi! After upgrading swfdec-mozilla from version 0.6.0-5 to version 0.8.2-1, I noticed a significant regression: I can no longer hear any audio in YouTube videos. It used to work fine with previous versions, but now no more audio on

Bug#516604: devtodo: when started with --purge option, todo seems to start an endless loop

2009-02-22 Thread Francesco Poli (t1000)
Package: devtodo Version: 0.1.20-4 Severity: normal When I try to purge all completed items older than 730 days (about 2 years), todo seems to enter an endless loop or something. It eats up one entire CPU core, but does nothing until I hit [Ctrl+C] to kill it. $ md5sum ~/.todo

Bug#476988: 0.0.95 release

2008-12-28 Thread Francesco Poli (t1000)
Hi Junichi, I cloned the apt-listbugs git repository, applied my changes (which take apt-listbugs to version 0.0.95), created one commit and prepared a patch with format-patch , as you suggested. The patch should follow this message. Next time I'll try and split my changes in more than one

Bug#476988: [PATCH] 0.0.95 release (add --bugs option, new uploader)

2008-12-28 Thread Francesco Poli (t1000)
+ + -- Francesco Poli (t1000) f...@firenze.linux.it Thu, 11 Dec 2008 23:58:31 +0100 + apt-listbugs (0.0.94) unstable; urgency=low * remove a trace of -R option which used to be 'release-critical' which diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control index c3fd35e..44e7c9f 100644 --- a/debian

  1   2   >