Bug#217243:

2017-03-02 Thread Gwern Branwen
Has there been any word from upstream on the patch for this? (The bug is now at least 14 years old, and breaks the blacklist option entirely.) -- gwern https://www.gwern.net

Bug#814601:

2016-07-27 Thread Gwern Branwen
I can replicate this same error using the Ubuntu 15.04 package version 0.9.1-1.1ubuntu5. chm2pdf crashes on every possible invocation when I try to convert the CHM of _Infinite in all directions, Freeman Dyson 1988 ( https://www.dropbox.com/s/9iwq6kiw6gie0ts/1988-dyson-infiniteinalldirections.chm

Bug#499328: Heuristics

2014-03-07 Thread Gwern Branwen
On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 6:55 AM, Christoph Biedl christ...@biedl.ath.cx wrote: Since my knowledge of Haskell is rather limited (but I wrote some programs in Miranda many years ago), can you recommend a package of very typical Haskell sources (there is no such thing as typical sources, I know)

Bug#217243: Real problem, not wishlist

2013-12-30 Thread Gwern Branwen
This bug was a very serious, almost fatal, bug for me recently, and I thought I would share my story to emphasize that for me, this was not a 'wishlist' severity bug. I research Tor black-markets (see http://www.gwern.net/Silk%20Road ) because I am interested in them from economic, historical,

Bug#650376: Replicated

2013-08-04 Thread Gwern Branwen
I recently reinstalled my Debian system, and while I was at it, I deleted my old ~/.fonts.conf because it was throwing warnings with applications; shortly thereafter, I realized that I was no longer seeing any underscores in my terminal output, nor were the underscores being fancily used for

Bug#698253: vorbisgain: '-a' option incorrectly described in man page

2013-01-18 Thread Gwern Branwen
Looks like adding -s to the doc example would fix it: $ vorbisgain -s -a -f -r music/ Processing directory 'music/alisonkrauss': Tags present; no files processed Processing directory 'music/amv': Tags present; no files processed Processing directory 'music/angelsairwaves': Tags present; no

Bug#677524: Problem continuing

2012-09-14 Thread Gwern Branwen
The issue is continuing to grow (literally); my .bitcoin is now 3.7GB. A far cry indeed... -- gwern http://www.gwern.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#641166: coreutils: 'man sort': '--random-sort' misleading

2011-09-12 Thread Gwern Branwen
On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 10:01 AM, Jim Meyering j...@meyering.net wrote: Did you see the real documentation? No; when I was younger, I sometimes looked at the info page for commands, but invariably they seemed to be useless or copies of the man page, and I wrote them off completely as a strange

Bug#499328: Heuristics

2010-04-26 Thread Gwern Branwen
There are a couple heuristics that 'file' could use to detect Haskell files: - Java files always have {}s in them*. Haskell files may have {}s, but mostly don't. - Java 'import' statements end in ';'. Haskell 'import' statements are allowed to end in in ';' as part of the alternate syntax, but in

Bug#237319: unclutter: Causes periodic displacement of mouse pointer

2007-05-07 Thread Gwern Branwen
I'd just like to note that this is still very much a bug. Three years and two systems later (both a Debian testing i386 and a Gentoo ~amd64) later, I still get this deeply annoying bug, so it hasn't gone away and is certainly not Debian-specific. -- Gwern Inquiring minds want to know. --

Bug#413455: Dealing with spaces: improve man page and handling in general

2007-03-04 Thread Gwern Branwen
Package: wikipediafs Version: 0.2-1 Severity: wishlist Currently, to deal with a article name containing spaces, it seems one must replace spaces with underscores; not $nano Fujiwara no Teika or $nano Fujiwara\ no\ Teika but $nano Fujiwara_no_Teika This is, from my perspective, not ideal. If

Bug#411955: haskell-mode needs to be updated

2007-02-21 Thread Gwern Branwen
Package: haskell-mode Version: 2.1-1 Currently, haskell-mode is at version 2.1-1. This version seems to be used in both testing and unstable packages (with stable and oldstable being even older versions); but version 2.1 was released November 2005, more than a year ago, and the authors are now