Package: release-notes
Severity: normal
After upgrading from sarge to etch, users were invited to manually
update some entries in /etc/kernel-img.conf (specifically, the
postinst_hook and postrm_hook) as described
in etch's /usr/share/doc/grub-doc/NEWS.Debian.
However, this was not totally
Package: wget
Version: 1.10.2-2
Severity: minor
Tags: patch
I believe that there is a bug in the manpage wget(1).
/usr/share/man/man1/wget.1.gz
The example involving follow/no-follow says the opposite of what I expect.
If I understand the example, then:
normal factory default: off (no-follow)
Package: kicker
Version: 4:3.5.5a.dfsg.1-6
Severity: normal
Many thanks for the clock applet, it's very nice.
When clock type is 'fuzzy', there's a bug with the timezones feature.
The bug doesn't happen with the other clock types.
If you step to the next timezone (by clicking the middle mouse
Package: knetwalk
Version: 4:3.5.5-1
Severity: normal
Many thanks for a nice puzzle!
There is a small bug, though.
1. Start knetwalk
2. Click menu option settings - choose game type.
Observe: There is no indication which game type is active.
3. Click on a game type, for example, normal.
4.
Package: parted
Version: 1.7.1-3
Severity: normal
Parted says You found a bug in GNU Parted!.
But even before it said that, a resize command seems to have failed silently.
I'm attaching a log file with details. I'm going to leave the offending
partitions alone for a while, in case you get back
Package: mpage
Version: 2.5.4-2
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
I propose the attached patch for the mpage(1) manpage;
the diff is relative to etch's version, 2.5.4-2.
I've tried to improve the description of the -bpapersize option.
I've also corrected a large number of typos, grammar errors,
Package: harden-clients
Version: 0.1.30
Severity: normal
From the sarge version (0.1.17) of harden-clients.config:
mkdir -p /var/lib/harden-clients
touch /var/lib/harden-clients/fetchmail
...
touch /var/lib/harden-clients/fetchmail-ssl
But there is no clean-up! When I purge the
Package: wbritish
Version: 6-2
Severity: normal
Please consider adding 'fenugreek' to the next edition of wbritish.
It's a medicinal herb and flavouring, popular since antiquity, known to
the Egyptians, widely used today in middle eastern and Indian cookery.
It's available in all good UK
Package: kdeprint
Version: 4:3.5.5a.dfsg.1-6
Severity: minor
Tags: patch
The attached patch cleans up a couple of things on the kprinter(1) manpage.
In particular, the option -n (number of copies) should be described on
a new line.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
APT prefers testing
Package: installation-reports
Version: weekly build 20070115
Severity: normal
I've met some problems with an existing vfat filesystem, specifically with
filenames that have non-ASCII characters. These problems might affect
very many users, hence severity important.
[Unrelated issue, for
Package: kmail
Version: 4:3.5.5.dfsg.1-6
Severity: normal
Several editors in kde integrate with spelling checking (e.g ispell).
No problem if you only use one dictionary.
The problems come if you often need to switch language.
(This is an area where debian should excel. Think: language teacher
Package: kedit
Version: 4:3.5.5-3
Severity: normal
Several editors in kde integrate with spelling checking (e.g ispell).
No problem if you only use one dictionary.
The problems come if you often need to switch language.
(This is an area where debian should excel. Think: language teacher
Package: openbsd-inetd
Version: 0.20050402-4
Severity: serious
Justification: Policy 2.5
policy: Packages must not depend on packages with lower priority values
Currently openbsd-inetd shows up as important but it [1]depends on
update-inetd which is only standard. I think the [2]overrides are
Package: cruft
Version: 0.9.6-0.15
Severity: normal
As before, comments come in the following categories: NEW, REMOVE,
RENAME, EDIT, RENAME AND EDIT, ASK
Some edits are described in pseudo-patch notation:
-delete this line
+add this line
==
NEW
Package: sharutils
Version: 1:4.6.3-0
Severity: minor
Tags: patch
Thank you for recently fixing some very old issues with this manpage.
May I make a further suggestion?
I think the main paragraph for uuencode is currently quite unclear and
also inaccurate. Unclear because of the future tense
Package: cruft
Version: 0.9.6-0.15
Severity: wishlist
Hi,
Maybe cruft should ignore /usr/lib/cruft/filters/foo if the admin
has created a filter /etc/cruft/filters/foo.
This would provide a neat way of overriding a filter shipped with cruft if
it is out of date, or if admin has installed foo
Package: emacs21-common
Version: 21.4a+1-3
Severity: minor
Tags: patch
Hi, I propose the attached minor patch for the file
/usr/share/emacs/21.4/etc/NEWS
which fixes a typo and removes some spurious trailing whitespace.
Best wishes, etc
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
--- NEWS
Package: cruft
Version: 0.9.6-0.15
Severity: normal
Hi Marcin,
I see that cruft has a filter /usr/lib/cruft/filters/xfree86-common
but there is no such package in etch.
http://packages.debian.org/xfree86-common
http://packages.debian.org/x11-common
I believe the filter should be renamed
Package: lapack-doc
Version: 3.0.2531a-28
Severity: minor
The same typo occurs prominently on nearly forty manpages.
Either 'apply' or 'applies' would be acceptable. With lapack-doc
installed, the command 'apropos applie | grep -v applies'
outputs a list of nearly forty afflicted manpages.
It
Package: xview-clients
Version: 3.2p1.4-19
Severity: normal
This package ships a short script
(sarge) /usr/X11R6/bin/owplaces
(etch) /usr/bin/owplaces
The sarge version, at least, merely tries to exec 'xtoolplaces'. However,
packages.debian.org lists no such file in either stable or
Package: po-debconf
Version: 1.0.8
Severity: minor
Tags: patch
s/seperate/separate/
I'm not sure if the manpage is the preferred form of modification, so
I'm not sure the patch will help, but here it is...
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
147c147
are managed in seperate files to help
Package: xserver-xorg-core
Version: 2:1.1.1-15
Severity: minor
Under SEE ALSO, the manpage /usr/share/man/man1/Xorg.1.gz refers to
xorgconfig(1), xorgcfg(1)
but those files don't seem to be in debian (stable or testing).
(I searched on packages.debian.org, x86 architecture only.)
Should those
trouble with videogen.1, in order to
- mention xorg.conf
- remove useless SEE ALSO entries (not in sarge or etch)
- add useful SEE ALSO entries
- fix some bad grammar
- make the formatting (bold vs italic) more standard, as specified in man(1).
I hope all this will be helpful!
(Dr) J S Bygott
Package: debconf-doc
Version: 1.5.11
Severity: minor
Tags: patch
two typos, here's the patch:
--- debconf-devel.7 2006-09-14 19:49:03.0 +0100
+++ debconf-devel.7.new 2007-02-08 08:57:04.0 +
@@ -268,7 +268,7 @@
.TP
.B TITLE string
This sets the title debconf displays to
Package: debconf-doc
Version: 1.5.11
Severity: minor
Tags: patch
typo, patch attached
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
--- debconf.7 2006-04-29 02:10:58.0 +0100
+++ debconf.7.new 2007-02-08 10:11:42.0 +
@@ -202,7 +202,7 @@
something.
.P
Once you have the
Package: klipper
Version: 4:3.5.5a.dfsg.1-5
Severity: minor
The first part of the long package description is clumsy English, and a
little bit wrong:
klipper provides several additional features of the traditional
clipboard functionality [...]
(wrong because, if they are features *of*,
Package: gnumeric
Version: 1.6.3-4
Severity: minor
Tags: patch
two typos/grammar glitches, patch attached
(the patch changes six lines because of slightly changed word wrapping)
best regards
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
--- gnumeric.1 2006-02-20 14:56:38.0 +
+++
Package: klipper
Version: 4:3.5.5a.dfsg.1-5
Severity: wishlist
I think 'clear clipboard' should clear the clipboard history file.
(Currently, the file is only cleared if one empties the clipboard and
then saves the empty clipboard on program exit.)
Suppose that, after using klipper for some
Package: mount
Version: 2.12r-16
Severity: normal
At the moment, neither mount(8) nor fstab(5) tells us how to do bind
mounts with fstab, or even that it's possible. We have to *guess* that
doing this in fstab works:
/some/old/dir /some/new/mountpoint ??? bind ??? ???
and it's not
Package: xsane
Version: 0.99+0.991-1
Severity: normal
Under certain conditions, the click-through appears again and again, at each
startup. I believe this to be a bug, because at
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=132679 the author wrote
The license dialog comes up once when the
Package: wine
Version: 0.9.25-1
Severity: normal
1. Overview
I'm trying to use wine to run programs from an existing win95 install.
(Win 95 version 4.00.950B, OEM SR2.1 with USB supplement, to be precise.)
The documentation suggests it will work, see e.g.
Package: xsane
Version: 0.99+0.991-1
Severity: important
You install debian gnu/linux for a friend, but forget to make her part
of the scanner group. She plugs in her USB scanner and runs xsane.
Error: Failed to open device `niash:libusb:004:006': Device busy.
This may, perhaps, be good enough
Package: guarddog
Version: 2.5.0-1
Severity: wishlist
Please consider adding the git protocol http://www.linux-mips.org/wiki/Git
so one can just enable it without learning the details.
Thanks for the good work.
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APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500,
Package: gstreamer0.10-tools
Version: 0.10.10-2
Severity: minor
s/versionned/versioned/
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Package: kword
Version: 1:1.6.1-2
Severity: important
The choosing of language for spelling checking seems quite broken.
Especially in kword, which doesn't choose from the installed languages
and can easily be made to crash. Details below.
Severity seems Important at least. It would be sad if
require this package to
ensure that at least some cursors are available. These cursors used to
be part of the xlibs-data package.
Please see libxcursor1 for more information.
Regards,
(Dr) J S Bygott
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Package: dfontmgr
Version: 0.11.10
Severity: normal
Experienced within kde from etch(testing). I can reproduce this every
time.
1. $ dfontmgr
2. click tab application
a list of applications is shown, eg
fontconfig, gs, psfontmgr, libwmf0.2-7, pango, x-ttcidfont-conf
3. click on any
Package: kdm
Version: 4:3.5.5a.dfsg.1-5
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
This is about the behaviour new in etch (the overrides to kdmrc).
Please consider the suggestions below. Judging by the number of related
bugs (eg #403776, #403797, #406438, #406939) it would help many people.
These
Package: ca-certificates
Version: 20061027
Severity: serious
Justification: Policy 6.2 (sometimes interacts non-idempotently), 3.9 (error
(missing dir) not checked for), 6.8 (removes files at wrong time)
The postrm, called with remove, changes into a directory that
does not always exist. The
Package: aptitude-doc-en
Version: 0.4.3-1
Severity: minor
Thanks for a useful manual. A few small bugs from the sarge
version (0.2.15.9) are still present in 0.4.3-1
ch01s01s04.html
quote
in the screen shot below, the kaffeine package was selected and + was pushed
/quote
correction:
Package: dictd
Version: 1.10.2-3
Severity: minor
Tags: patch
Two typos: in a command name, and in a path
(Also present in sarge version 1.19.15-1)
--- dictdconfig.alias.1.10.2-3 2006-12-14 11:51:35.822879000 +
+++ dictdconfig.alias.corrected 2006-12-14 11:53:15.010800336 +
@@ -1,9 +1,9
Package: scowl
Version: 6-2
Severity: normal
wbritish-* is wrong about practice
american-words.10: practice, practice's
american-words.20: practiced, practices, practicing
british-words.10: practise, practise's
british-words.20: practised, practises, practising
The British entry is wrong. I'm
Package: kmix
Version: 4:3.3.2-1
Severity: normal
How to reproduce the bug:
0. Start kmix with default settings.
1. Using the mouse, click menubar - settings - hide menubar
2. The menubar is gone. Now we try to show it again.
3. Right-click in mixer area, the context menu still says hide
when
Package: dict-gcide
Version: 0.48-4
Severity: minor
There's a typo in the package description displayed by aptitude.
Not good for a dictionary! ;-)
s/sever/server/
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Package: imagemagick
Version: 6:6.0.6.2-2.7
Severity: normal
The parsing of convert -draw commands is a bit broken. One example is
bug #344801. But the bug affects convert -draw much more generally.
For example, let's make a nice circle:
$ touch 1.gif
$ convert -size 200x200 -fill blue -draw
Package: adduser
Version: 3.85
Severity: minor
Tags: patch
This applies to both stable (version 3.63) and testing (version 3.85).
There are some typos (an user -- a user etc).
Also, I suggest adding DIR to the synopsis (--backup-to DIR).
I suggest changing setup (copied from adduser) to
Package: hdparm
Version: 6.1-2
Severity: wishlist
Quite early in the manpage we read some options may work correctly with
only the latest kernels and then in the current kernel (2.0.10) [...]
This makes it difficult for a learner to get involved: it isn't clear
how much of the manpage to trust,
Package: kdebase-bin
Version: 4:3.3.2-1sarge1
Severity: normal
This bug may be related: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=361733
I shall describe how to reproduce the bug on a new user account (for which
kxkb has never been run).
(1) start Control Centre -- Regional
Package: kdebase-bin
Version: 4:3.3.2-1sarge1
Severity: wishlist
I think you can improve the GUI to make it more intuitive and the
handbook to explain things better. Any maybe you can add functionality.
Let me first say that there are many things I like about kxkb:
-- country flags to show
Package: xscreensaver
Version: 4.21-3
Severity: minor
Tags: patch
There are two short chunks of repeated text (The pong the pong) on the
manpage. Also a missing full stop and a missing space. I've also changed
artifact to artefact because all my dictionaries (Collins 2003,
Chambers, Shorter
Package: xscreensaver
Version: 4.21-3
Severity: normal
I don't know if this is a bug or a feature.
When the ball speeds up, it often passes most of the way through a
paddle before bouncing back. This looks bad. Unless it's a
deliberate bug (to emulate classic pong?) it would be better not to
Package: kdebase-bin
Version: 4:3.3.2-1sarge1
Severity: normal
I shall describe how to reproduce the bug on a new user account (for which
kxkb has never been run). If the user has already made kxkb settings, the
screen will look different at step (2). But the bug is always there.
(1) start
Package: gdm
Version: 2.13.0.10-2
Severity: minor
There are some typos in the default conf file. This applies to both the
stable and the testing versions of gdm.
(version 2.6.0.8-1)
/etc/gdm/gdm.conf
/etc/gdm/factory-gdm.conf
(version 2.13.0.10-2)
/usr/share/gdm/defaults.conf
Package: util-linux
Version: 2.12p-4sarge1
Severity: minor
Tags: patch
[Also applies to unstable version 2.12r-8]
The cfdisk(8) manpage contains some typos. I attach a patch.
debian:~/bugs/cfdisk8$ diff -u cfdisk.8.orig cfdisk.8.new diffs
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
Package: gnome-games
Version: 1:2.8.3-2
Severity: minor
There seems to be an error in section 3.1 (Agnes) of the AisleRiot
manual (version 2.8).
The description for foundations says Eight piles top right.
Shouldn't that say Four piles top right ?
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Debian Release: 3.1
Package: floatbg
Version: 1.0-21
Severity: minor
[Applies also to floatbg 1.0-23 in unstable.]
you won't to see -- you won't see
deterministicly -- deterministically
[OPTIONAL] a hsv-model -- an hsv-model
addapted -- adapted
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Architecture: i386
Package: xserver-xfree86
Version: 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge1
Severity: minor
There is a typo in the English text of this template:
Template: xserver-xfree86/config/modules
s/capabilties/capabilities/
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Package: e2fsprogs
Version: 1.37-2sarge1
Severity: minor
overriden -- overridden
with an one pattern -- with one pattern
on an device -- on a device
I believe the first has been fixed in unstable
(e2fsprogs_1.38+1.39-WIP-2005.12.31-1_i386.deb)
but the other two remain.
Best wishes,
J
Package: vim
Version: 1:6.3-071+1
Severity: normal
Two symlinks in vim.list should be deleted:
srwxrwxrwxroot/root 0 ./usr/share/man/man1/ex.1.gz -- vim.1.gz
srwxrwxrwxroot/root 0 ./usr/share/man/man1/view.1.gz -- vim.1.gz
As soon as dpkg has unpacked these links, dpkg
Package: cruft
Version: 0.9.6-0.4
Severity: important
1.Outline
There seems to be a design flaw in cruft's filter mechanism. In some
ways this is a 'wishlist' bug, but I've tagged it 'important' because
- cruft's filters cause it to overlook cruft that it could and should find;
- with the
Package: nn
Version: 6.6.5-2
Severity: important
[I have checked 6.7.2-1 from testing and all the following applies.]
[I have also looked back at 6.6.4-0.woody.1, where it also applied.]
The control files nn.{templates,config,postinst} seem a bit broken, in
several ways. Perhaps the bug
Package: debconf-doc
Version: 1.4.30.13
Severity: minor
Tags: patch
I'm attaching a patch for about a dozen typos in the manpage
debconf-devel(7) (file /usr/share/man/man7/debconf-devel.7.gz)
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.27-2-686
Package: logrotate
Version: 3.7-5
Severity: minor
Tags: patch
There are a few more typos besides the then/than error from bug #333996.
(1) 100 k is size - 100k in size
(2) the (2) belongs inside the parenthesis, right after chmod
(3) they resides - they reside
(4) sharedscript - sharedscripts
Package: procmail-lib
Version: 1:2002.01.02-1
Severity: normal
Two, possibly related, bugs
(1) This code from the postinst looks dead to me.
if [ -d /usr/lib/procmail-lib -a ! -d /usr/lib/procmail-lib ]; then
rm -rf /usr/lib/procmail-lib
fi
So it can't have done
Package: modutils
Version: 2.4.26-1.2
Severity: minor
The manpage for update-modules says SEE ALSO depmod(1).
I believe that should be depmod(8).
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.27-2-686
Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB
Package: cruft
Version: 0.9.6-0.4
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
Cruft's filter file for itself, /usr/lib/cruft/filters/cruft , contains
a small mistake. Here is the patch:
--- cruft.dist 1998-04-13 17:40:45.0 +0100
+++ cruft 2005-10-15 13:53:26.0 +0100
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
Package: ppp
Version: 2.4.3-20050321+2
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
I suggest that /etc/ppp/ip-up should *append* to the logfile, not
overwrite. The other scripts (ip-down, ipv6-up and ipv6-down) append.
Here is my patch:
debian:/etc/ppp$ diff -u ip-up.dist ip-up
--- ip-up.dist
Package: ppp
Version: 2.4.3-20050321+2
Severity: minor
Tags: patch
There are two spelling errors in this file. These changes are needed:
s/therfore/therefore/
s/its/it's/(or s/its/it is/)
Because the line breaking changes a bit, the patch affects four lines.
Here it is:
Package: lifelines-doc
Version: 3.0.37.2-3
Severity: important
The package's file /usr/share/doc-base/lifelines-doc contains errors.
(1) The abstract is wrong, so the documentation is installed with a badly
misleading description.
(2) The control fields are wrong for non-html; each format
Package: swisswatch
Version: 0.6-8
Severity: normal
Severity is probably minor. (But it is serious if policy
says that purging a package must remove stuff like this).
Upgrading swisswatch from 0.6-7.1.1 to 0.6-8 does not deal properly with
the /usr/doc symlink. Consequently, when 0.6-8 is
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