Bug#962078: apt-listchanges: feature request: combine identical changelog entries from multiple packages

2023-10-10 Thread The Wanderer
, or some combination. Is that information sufficient to be able to provide a reproducer for testing potential fixes? -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progres

Bug#962078: apt-listchanges: feature request: combine identical changelog entries from multiple packages

2022-08-21 Thread The Wanderer
referenced in the message which opened this bug report as having identical changelog entries shown at once, and represents a correspondingly larger potential benefit from the ability to have them folded together into a single condensed entry. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself

Bug#970635: moosic: new upstream now supports Python 3

2022-01-22 Thread The Wanderer
would go into a package, I plan (as I have for some time now) to make a release with it, which should also include the new feature which has been sitting in Limbo for some time now. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt

Bug#994081: (no subject)

2021-09-12 Thread The Wanderer
I have the same result, although in my case, the command I had run was 'apt-get dist-upgrade' and there were no packages kept back. By "the same result", I mean that except for cosmetic things like the timestamp, the reported download speed, and the width of the wget download-progress bar, the

Bug#970635: moosic: new upstream now supports Python 3

2021-08-27 Thread The Wanderer
On 2021-05-30 at 19:53, The Wanderer wrote: > On 2021-05-30 at 09:33, The Wanderer wrote: > >> There is now a 'wip' branch on the relevant GitHub repository, >> which includes a commit dropping this. I haven't pushed it to the >> primary branch yet, because I'm still not

Bug#993132: python3-fife: prints "is"/"is not" used-with-a-literal warnings at install time

2021-08-27 Thread The Wanderer
Package: python3-fife Version: 0.4.2-3 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, When I installed python3-fife as a dependency from another package, I saw the following printed in the console: Setting up python3-fife (0.4.2-3) ... /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/fife/extensions/fife_settings.py:301:

Bug#783990: efivarfs is a separate fs and needs moutning

2021-07-17 Thread The Wanderer
On 2021-07-16 at 13:02, The Wanderer wrote: > On 2021-07-16 at 12:55, Ian Jackson wrote: > >> I have now tested this. I found that a safety catch in >> mount-functions caused it to not work, and this additional patch is >> needed. >> >> mount-functions

Bug#783990: efivarfs is a separate fs and needs moutning

2021-07-16 Thread The Wanderer
On 2021-07-16 at 13:36, Ian Jackson wrote: > The Wanderer writes ("Re: Bug#783990: efivarfs is a separate fs and > needs moutning"): > >> Wouldn't testing the existence of >> >> /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/fs/efivarfs/efivarfs.ko >> >> be e

Bug#783990: efivarfs is a separate fs and needs moutning

2021-07-16 Thread The Wanderer
the bodge in fstab commented > it) it all works. I need to do some other things for a while, so I won't be rebooting again immediately, but I'll probably test this sometime this afternoon. My current biggest concern about this is: -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to

Bug#783990: efivarfs is a separate fs and needs moutning

2021-07-16 Thread The Wanderer
, if people care to suggest them. (Unpacking and analyzing the initrd might well be useful, but is more than I'm interested in undertaking just at the moment, although I can probably do it at some point if necessary.) -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreaso

Bug#783990: efivarfs is a separate fs and needs moutning

2021-07-16 Thread The Wanderer
On 2021-07-16 at 11:54, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > On Fri, 16 Jul 2021, The Wanderer wrote: > >> On Fri, 16 Jul 2021, Ian Jackson wrote: >> >>> On Fri, 16 Jul 2021, The Wanderer wrote: >>>> A possible additional complicating factor: on my system >>

Bug#783990: efivarfs is a separate fs and needs moutning

2021-07-16 Thread The Wanderer
? That would be unfortunate, and a reason for me to return to replying only to the bug number rather than to the full addressee list...) On 2021-07-16 at 11:00, Ian Jackson wrote: > > The Wanderer writes ("Re: Bug#783990: efivarfs is a separate fs and > needs moutning"): >>

Bug#783990: efivarfs is a separate fs and needs moutning

2021-07-16 Thread The Wanderer
rrent stable, which I think doesn't sound like it is the case), and I'm not sure where to look to try to find out - but whatever fix is found for anyone experiencing this problem, it'll be important to make sure it doesn't break people for whom this *is* working. -- The Wanderer The reasonab

Bug#970635: moosic: new upstream now supports Python 3

2021-05-30 Thread The Wanderer
On 2021-05-30 at 09:33, The Wanderer wrote: > There is now a 'wip' branch on the relevant GitHub repository, which > includes a commit dropping this. I haven't pushed it to the primary > branch yet, because I'm still not certain how to properly test the > result; I'm reason

Bug#970635: moosic: new upstream now supports Python 3

2021-05-30 Thread The Wanderer
On 2021-03-12 at 06:11, The Wanderer wrote: > On 2021-03-12 at 05:57, Arto Jantunen wrote: > >> The Wanderer writes: > >>> Would this call for an upstream release dropping the file, or >>> are you OK with excluding it from what gets installed as part of &

Bug#987244: RFS: nbsdgames/4.0-1 [ITP] -- text based mini games for your terminal

2021-04-25 Thread The Wanderer
ion name, but if 'nb-' is considered acceptable it would at least have the advantage of being faster and easier to type. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Bug#970635: moosic: new upstream now supports Python 3

2021-03-12 Thread The Wanderer
On 2021-03-12 at 05:57, Arto Jantunen wrote: > The Wanderer writes: >> Would this call for an upstream release dropping the file, or are >> you OK with excluding it from what gets installed as part of the >> package? > > I'd prefer an upstream release if you don't

Bug#970635: moosic: new upstream now supports Python 3

2021-03-12 Thread The Wanderer
On 2021-03-12 at 05:32, Arto Jantunen wrote: > The Wanderer writes: >> Neither of these things is new; they were true of the last version >> prior to the removal, and possibly of some versions prior to that >> as well. That makes this a bit aggravating. >> >>

Bug#970635: moosic: new upstream now supports Python 3

2021-03-11 Thread The Wanderer
't want to impose on him unnecessarily. > In any case we have missed the freeze by a mile, so we have a couple > of years to get this done before the next round. I'd ideally prefer to at least have it in unstable (or at worst experimental) before the next stable release, but yeah,

Bug#970635: moosic: new upstream now supports Python 3

2021-03-09 Thread The Wanderer
(Apologies for breaking threading; I don't seem to have received the original mail, and my Web browser appears to be treating the mailto: links as something like file://mailto: links, and reports that it can't find any file by the given name.) On 2021-01-02 at 13:34, Arto Jantunen wrote: > The

Bug#981091: More-complete patch

2021-02-12 Thread The Wanderer
On 2021-02-09 at 08:51, The Wanderer wrote: > I'm seeing the same behavior, and I've put together a patch which > looks like it should address the problem. I'm not providing it here > just yet, because I haven't let it run overnight to confirm whether > it works, but syntactically i

Bug#981091: Same here, plus partial patch

2021-02-09 Thread The Wanderer
On 2021-02-09 at 08:51, The Wanderer wrote: > I'm seeing the same behavior, and I've put together a patch which > looks like it should address the problem. I'm not providing it here > just yet, because I haven't let it run overnight to confirm whether > it works, but syntactically i

Bug#981091: Same here, plus partial patch

2021-02-09 Thread The Wanderer
that one. The change should be simple and obvious by analogy to the psaccs_atop patch. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George

Bug#979682: startpar: Is it running anything in parallel?

2021-01-09 Thread The Wanderer
ial (interactive >> mode) instead of parallel when devpts check failed. >> Should greatly increase performance on affected systems. I'd guess that you may be hitting this regression. If so, the problem should be fixed in the currently latest startpar, although that version is appare

Bug#970635: moosic: new upstream now supports Python 3

2020-12-23 Thread The Wanderer
e existing daemon was able to parse and handle without issues. So my previously mentioned upgrade-scenario concerns may indeed not be a problem in practice. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.

Bug#970635: moosic: not Python-3-compatible, so due for removal

2020-12-23 Thread The Wanderer
ylist file can be backed up prior to first launch of the new demon under a given user. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- Geor

Bug#970635: moosic: new upstream now supports Python 3

2020-12-23 Thread The Wanderer
On 2020-12-23 at 02:08, Arto Jantunen wrote: > The Wanderer writes: >> I've decided it's worth the effort to become the new upstream for >> this, and confirmed with the original author that he has no >> objections, as he is no longer spending any time maintaining it. >&g

Bug#970635: moosic: not Python-3-compatible, so due for removal

2020-12-22 Thread The Wanderer
retitle -1 moosic: new upstream version works with Python 3 thanks I've decided it's worth the effort to become the new upstream for this, and confirmed with the original author that he has no objections, as he is no longer spending any time maintaining it. Version 1.5.7, based on Python 3

Bug#975911: mariadb-client: appears to ignore ~/.editrc keybind settings

2020-11-26 Thread The Wanderer
On 2020-11-26 at 09:43, The Wanderer wrote: > Package: mariadb-client > Version: 1:10.5.8-3 > Severity: normal > > Dear Maintainer, > > I have just upgraded mariadb-client (and -server) from version 10.3.x to > version 10.5.8-3. As far as I can tell, no ver

Bug#975911: mariadb-client: appears to ignore ~/.editrc keybind settings

2020-11-26 Thread The Wanderer
Package: mariadb-client Version: 1:10.5.8-3 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, I have just upgraded mariadb-client (and -server) from version 10.3.x to version 10.5.8-3. As far as I can tell, no versions between those made it into testing. If I'm not mistaken, the last version I was running

Bug#970635: moosic: not Python-3-compatible, so due for removal

2020-09-20 Thread The Wanderer
there as well. As best I can determine, none of them are new issues. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw

Bug#965363: RFS: opencpn/5.2.0+dfsg-1 [RC] -- Open Source Chartplotter and Marine GPS Navigation Software

2020-09-10 Thread The Wanderer
changes in debian/changelog, and it certainly doesn't seem to be an unacceptable violation if something as core as the kernel packages have been doing it for so long and are still going that way. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying t

Bug#968442: dpkg: "compressed data is corrupt" while unpacking locales-all

2020-08-25 Thread The Wanderer
On 2020-08-25 at 05:34, Guillem Jover wrote: > Hi! > > On Sat, 2020-08-15 at 07:29:42 -0400, The Wanderer wrote: >> During a routine 'apt-get dist-upgrade' against testing, I got (in >> part): >> After this, a run of 'apt-get -f install' did not appear to act on

Bug#968442: dpkg: "compressed data is corrupt" while unpacking locales-all

2020-08-15 Thread The Wanderer
Package: dpkg Version: 1.20.5 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, During a routine 'apt-get dist-upgrade' against testing, I got (in part): Preparing to unpack .../73-locales-all_2.31-3_amd64.deb ... Unpacking locales-all (2.31-3) over (2.31-2) ... dpkg-deb (subprocess): decompressing archive

Bug#968397: dpkg: package bug script exits with 256 on reportbug

2020-08-15 Thread The Wanderer
On 2020-08-14 at 14:15, Guillem Jover wrote: > Control: found -1 1.20.1 > > Hi! > > On Fri, 2020-08-14 at 10:00:23 -0400, The Wanderer wrote: >> Package: dpkg >> Version: 1.20.5 >> Severity: normal > >> When I attempt to file a bug report against d

Bug#968397: dpkg: package bug script exits with 256 on reportbug

2020-08-14 Thread The Wanderer
Package: dpkg Version: 1.20.5 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, When I attempt to file a bug report against dpkg with reportbug, I get the following output: The package bug script /usr/share/bug/dpkg exited with an error status (return code = 256). Do you still want to file a report?

Bug#964087: RFS: TomboyReborn/1.0-1 - Drop in replacement of deprecated Gnome Tomboy

2020-07-05 Thread The Wanderer
time to read through at least https://mentors.debian.net/intro-maintainers and https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/maint-guide/index.html, at length and in detail, before trying to proceed with package creation much further. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one pe

Bug#964087: RFS: TomboyReborn/1.0-1 - Drop in replacement of deprecated Gnome Tomboy

2020-07-05 Thread The Wanderer
you're already working on - and then do the above. If compiling your project needs the code from these repositories, how does your IDE-based build normally pick up that code? I'd expect that the same process should work for a command-line build, but I'll admit that I'm not familiar with Lazarus

Bug#964087: RFS: TomboyReborn/1.0-1 - Drop in replacement of deprecated Gnome Tomboy

2020-07-05 Thread The Wanderer
On 2020-07-05 at 10:54, The Wanderer wrote: > In order for this to be included in Debian, the final package build > - after all testing and tweaking to make sure things work properly - > will need to take place on the Debian build-daemon servers (AKA the > buildds), with no user

Bug#964087: RFS: TomboyReborn/1.0-1 - Drop in replacement of deprecated Gnome Tomboy

2020-07-05 Thread The Wanderer
hat what you'll probably need to do is figure out what's going wrong with the lazbuild result and fix it. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

Bug#964087: RFS: TomboyReborn/1.0-1 - Drop in replacement of deprecated Gnome Tomboy

2020-07-04 Thread The Wanderer
y not be any need to add a separate build system, although there would still be a need to add appropriate how-to-build documentation and (of course) the necessary debian/rules glue to get it to be run at package-build time. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the u

Bug#962078: apt-listchanges: feature request: combine identical changelog entries from multiple packages

2020-06-02 Thread The Wanderer
Package: apt-listchanges Version: 3.22 Severity: wishlist Dear Maintainer, >From my perspective, this is technically not a new bug report; it is another part of the wishlist item reported as bug #841837, which was not addressed by the change which led that bug report to be closed. The change

Bug#681177: run-parts: /etc/cron.daily/mlocate exited with return code 137

2020-05-05 Thread The Wanderer
On 2020-05-05 at 16:05, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > ]] The Wanderer > >> I'm not at all sure whether the underlying cause is still the same, >> but I'm getting a very similar-looking failure - albeit with >> different BUG details - after a reboot a few nights ago into

Bug#681177: run-parts: /etc/cron.daily/mlocate exited with return code 137

2020-05-03 Thread The Wanderer
On 2020-05-03 at 10:34, The Wanderer wrote: > I'm not at all sure whether the underlying cause is still the same, but > I'm getting a very similar-looking failure - albeit with different BUG > details - after a reboot a few nights ago into a new kernel. Blast. I forgot to specify:

Bug#681177: run-parts: /etc/cron.daily/mlocate exited with return code 137

2020-05-03 Thread The Wanderer
ewer version, and I've already upgraded well past that version.) -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw

Bug#954875: Seems needed for YouTube now

2020-04-09 Thread The Wanderer
d this should probably go from "wishlist" to "important". -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw

Bug#946840: libsmbclient-dev: libsmbclient.h: field *_ts has incomplete type

2019-12-16 Thread The Wanderer
Package: libsmbclient-dev Version: 2:4.11.1+dfsg-3 Severity: important Tags: patch upstream Dear Maintainer, When I attempt to compile FFmpeg from current git HEAD with the '--enable-libsmbclient' configure flag, detection of libsmbclient fails with the following errors: ---8<--- In file

Bug#946700: apt-listchanges: mail notifying of changes has (MIME-?) garbled Subject line

2019-12-13 Thread The Wanderer
to root, it shows up in the pending local mail queue for my non-root local account, which is named wanderer. Whenever a new message has arrived in that queue, every time a command I initiate from a console or terminal exits, that terminal reports a message along the lines of "You have new

Bug#940327: Help needed to detect gtest_main (Was: Bug#940327: convert libpbseq-dev to Architecture: any)

2019-09-16 Thread The Wanderer
manage, upstream no >> longer recommends using precompiled libraries [1]. >> [1] >> http://groups.google.com/group/googletestframework/browse_thread/thread/668eff1cebf5309d and that >> If your build system uses CMake, the ExternalProject command can >> be used t

Bug#935177: liblcms2-dev:i386: error overwriting src.zip on package upgrade

2019-09-01 Thread The Wanderer
-only uploads?), and that this is simply the first time such a thing has happened. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George

Bug#911148: kildclient: mouseover timestamp balloon disappears instantly

2018-10-16 Thread The Wanderer
Package: kildclient Version: 3.2.0-2 Severity: minor Dear Maintainer, One of the features of KildClient is that, when I hover the mouse pointer over a line of text in the scrollback buffer for about a second or so, a small "text balloon" will appear showing information about the line - most

Bug#890999: VirtualBox modules built against headers version 4.14.17-1 cannot be loaded by kernel version 4.14.13-1: Unknoe: Bug#890999: VirtualBox modules built against headers version 4.14.17-1 cann

2018-02-26 Thread The Wanderer
On 2018-02-26 at 14:55, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Mon, 2018-02-26 at 12:07 -0500, The Wanderer wrote: >> If the automatic DKMS rebuild is expected to be able to produce >> modules which can work with the running kernel, then clearly the >> current behavior is buggy in

Bug#890999: VirtualBox modules built against headers version 4.14.17-1 cannot be loaded by kernel version 4.14.13-1: Unknoe: Bug#890999: VirtualBox modules built against headers version 4.14.17-1 cann

2018-02-26 Thread The Wanderer
Or in other words: the unexpected behavior here is on the part of DKMS, in removing working modules when the ones which will be put in as their replacements do not work, not on the part of the kernel headers (et cetera) themselves. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself

Bug#890999: VirtualBox modules built against headers version 4.14.17-1 cannot be loaded by kernel version 4.14.13-1: Unknoe: Bug#890999: VirtualBox modules built against headers version 4.14.17-1 cann

2018-02-26 Thread The Wanderer
in functionality loss until a reboot can be carried out? -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw signature.asc

Bug#890590: libcomerr2:i386: no available i386 variant of transitional package

2018-02-16 Thread The Wanderer
On 2018-02-16 at 12:31, The Wanderer wrote: > On 2018-02-16 at 11:42, Theodore Ts'o wrote: >> If I had created separate transition packages for each architecture >> separately (e.g., libcommerr2:i386, libcomerr2:amd_64, etc. I >> belive I would have gotten Lintian errors

Bug#890590: libcomerr2:i386: no available i386 variant of transitional package

2018-02-16 Thread The Wanderer
On 2018-02-16 at 11:42, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > On Fri, Feb 16, 2018 at 07:05:41AM -0500, The Wanderer wrote: > >> Package: libcomerr2 Version: 1.43.8-2 Severity: normal >> >> Dear Maintainer, >> >> libcom-err2, which is currently at version 1.43.9-1, current

Bug#890590: libcomerr2:i386: no available i386 variant of transitional package

2018-02-16 Thread The Wanderer
Package: libcomerr2 Version: 1.43.8-2 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, libcom-err2, which is currently at version 1.43.9-1, currently Breaks: any libcomerr2 package of a lower version. This is normal and reasonable. There is a libcomerr2 package of matching version, which is labeled as a

Bug#887833: kildclient: fix for 885007 adds indirect dependency on libpam-systemd

2018-01-20 Thread The Wanderer
Package: kildclient Version: 3.2.0-1 Severity: wishlist Dear Maintainer, Bug 885007 was fixed by adding a dependency on gvfs. gvfs depends on gvfs-daemons, which depends on udisks2, which depends on libpam-systemd. I intentionally run a non-systemd system; the only packages from src:systemd on

Bug#866950: fontconfig: upgrade radically changes font-rendering - hotfix and possible lead

2017-07-04 Thread The Wanderer
s is almost certainly out of scope. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Bug#853086: livestreamer: Can't play twitch streams: Client Error: Bad Request for url

2017-05-15 Thread The Wanderer
wouldn't be surprised if it or a derivative had been adopted by the 'streamlink' fork. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George

Bug#851819: ERROR: wget failed to download http://people.debian.org/~bartm/...

2017-03-28 Thread The Wanderer
(making it optional would be fine), or alter the checksum lookup to point to a location which is write-accessible to a sufficiently large pool of people that one of them can be expected to respond to future Flash updates within a week or so. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself

Bug#851819: ERROR: wget failed to download http://people.debian.org/~bartm/...

2017-03-05 Thread The Wanderer
Webspace - which would only redirect the problem, in the long term - or B: (optionally) skip the validation entirely, which is potentially problematic in its own way. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world

Bug#856813: pidgin: AIM accounts will require 2.12 as of 2017-03-28

2017-03-04 Thread The Wanderer
Package: pidgin Version: 2.11.0-3 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, As has been reported on various tech-news sites, AOL is dropping support for older versions of the authentication methods which third-party clients such as Pidgin use to connect to the AOL Instant Messenger service. This

Bug#856247: dict-gcide: Missing definition present upstream: "appeal"

2017-02-27 Thread The Wanderer
On 2017-02-27 at 03:00, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: > On Sun, 2017-02-26 at 17:20 -0500, The Wanderer wrote:> >> Reinstalling the package (via 'apt-get install --reinstall dict-gcide') >> did not affect this behavior. > >> By contrast, looking up 'appeal' in either

Bug#856247: dict-gcide: Missing definition present upstream: "appeal"

2017-02-26 Thread The Wanderer
Package: dict-gcide Version: 0.48.3 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, When I run the following command, I get (in part) the following output: $ dict -d gcide repeal [...] >From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Repeal \Re*peal"\ (r?-p?l"), v. t. [imp. & p.

Bug#854314: youtube-dl: 'Signature extraction failed' on some YouTube videos

2017-02-05 Thread The Wanderer
Package: youtube-dl Version: 2016.12.01-1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, Today, in attempting to download videos from YouTube with youtube-dl, I have seen some download normally and others produce errors. (Unfortunately, this happened late enough that the release-freeze announcement came in

Bug#841837: apt-listchanges: feature request: combine identical changelog entries from multiple packages

2016-10-23 Thread The Wanderer
Package: apt-listchanges Version: 3.5 Severity: wishlist Dear Maintainer, On a semi-frequent basis - usually when there is an automatic mass binary rebuild on the buildds, in response to a transition against a common dependency package - running a dist-upgrade will result in being shown a flood

Bug#833621: RFS: libgap-sage/4.8.3+ds-1 [ITP] -- GAP kernel as a C shared library

2016-08-09 Thread The Wanderer
a room is the more common usage nowadays, it is in fact secondary to the sense related to providing anything with "anything necessary, useful, or appropriate". -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt

Bug#825104: zotero-standalone: claims to not require any Firefox browser, but depends on firefox packages

2016-05-23 Thread The Wanderer
Package: zotero-standalone Version: 4.0.29.5+dfsg-1 Severity: minor Dear Maintainer, The long package description of zotero-standalone states in part that: "This package contains the standalone version of Zotero which does not require any Firefox browser." However, the package includes a

Bug#810290: ITP: mediawiki -- website engine for collaborative work

2016-03-10 Thread The Wanderer
to upgrade that if-and-when the new version gets packaged.) -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw

Bug#817244: exim4-base: cron noise re environment

2016-03-10 Thread The Wanderer
On 2016-03-10 at 11:05, Andreas Metzler wrote: > On 2016-03-10 The Wanderer <wande...@fastmail.fm> wrote: > >> Andreas Metzler <ametz...@bebt.de> on Wed, 9 Mar 2016 18:07:30 +0100 >> I get this same behavior. > >>> The Debian configuration sets add_envir

Bug#817244: exim4-base: cron noise re environment

2016-03-10 Thread The Wanderer
d.client: Permission denied -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Bug#798033: www.debian.org: get.debian.org rejects HTTPS connections, but redirects to HTTPS site

2016-02-29 Thread The Wanderer
On 2016-02-18 at 04:27, Niklas Edmundsson wrote: >>>> * The Wanderer <wande...@fastmail.fm> [2015-09-04 12:17]: >>>>> When I connect to http://get.debian.org/ in a Web browser, I >>>>> am redirected to https://www.debian.org/CD/, which is a HTTP

Bug#807948: apt: 'update' fails with 'Couldn't create tempfiles for splitting up' InRelease files

2015-12-15 Thread The Wanderer
On 2015-12-14 at 23:31, The Wanderer wrote: > On 2015-12-14 at 12:47, David Kalnischkies wrote: >> On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 11:42:34AM -0500, The Wanderer wrote: >> >>> Couldn't create tempfiles for splitting up >>> /var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.us.debian.o

Bug#807948: apt: 'update' fails with 'Couldn't create tempfiles for splitting up' InRelease files

2015-12-14 Thread The Wanderer
to represent "current bug" or suchlike documented anywhere? I remembered seeing it used, but I couldn't find it in https://wiki.debian.org/HowtoUseBTS, https://www.debian.org/Bugs/server-control, or 'man bts', so I didn't risk trying it.) > On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 11:42:34AM -0500, The Wande

Bug#807948: apt: 'update' fails with 'Couldn't create tempfiles for splitting up' InRelease files

2015-12-14 Thread The Wanderer
Package: apt Version: 1.0.10.2 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, When I upgrade to apt 1.1.3 or later (tested with both that and 1.1.4), and then run 'apt-get update' or 'apt update', I get results like the following: Ign:1 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian stable InRelease Hit:2

Bug#807948: Acknowledgement (apt: 'update' fails with 'Couldn't create tempfiles for splitting up' InRelease files)

2015-12-14 Thread The Wanderer
found 807948 1.1.3 notfound 807948 1.0.10.2 thanks My mistake - I forgot to tweak the bug-report template's automatic version info before sending it in. This is found in 1.1.3 and later, not in 1.0.10.2. This is the first time I've used the BTS commands, so I hope I've got this right... I tried

Bug#799296: [debian-mysql] Bug#799296: mysql-client-5.6: upgrading from 5.5 to 5.6 with client running lost client command history

2015-09-18 Thread The Wanderer
indicate that I copied it from the name ~/.mysql_history. For whatever that's worth. > Thanks for reporting anyway, we'll try and figure this one out. You're quite welcome. In the unlikely event that there's anything I can do to help track this down, please don't hesitate to let me know. -

Bug#799296: mysql-client-5.6: upgrading from 5.5 to 5.6 with client running lost client command history

2015-09-17 Thread The Wanderer
Package: mysql-client-5.6 Version: 5.6.25-4 Severity: minor Dear Maintainer, I habitually have an instance of mysql-client running, connected to a particular database, with the somewhat-complex commands which I regularly use with that database present in the mysql command history. When I have

Bug#798033: www.debian.org: get.debian.org rejects HTTPS connections, but redirects to HTTPS site

2015-09-04 Thread The Wanderer
Package: www.debian.org Severity: minor Dear Maintainer, I'm not completely positive that this is the correct place for this bug report, but I don't know of anywhere else which would be better. Please feel free to reassign if appropriate. Whenever possible, I prefer to connect to Websites via

Bug#769602: youtube-dl: download from YouTube fails, “RegexNotFoundError: Unable to extract Initial JS player signature function name”

2014-11-21 Thread The Wanderer
This looks like an issue which was fixed upstream in version 2014.11.13: https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/issues/4175 -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends

Bug#763619: libmeanwhile-dev: package long description refers to old library package name

2014-10-01 Thread The Wanderer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Source: libmeanwhile-dev Version: 1.0.2-5 Severity: minor Dear Maintainer, The long description of libmeanwhile-dev states that the package contains development files of the libmeanwhile0 library.. However, the package itself now Depends: on

Bug#756883: micropolis-data: depends on dummy package ttf-dejavu-core

2014-08-02 Thread The Wanderer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Package: micropolis-data Version: 0.0.20071228-7 Severity: minor Dear Maintainer, The ttf-dejavu-core package has been replaced by the fonts-dejavu-core package; as far as I am aware, this is a simple package renaming. ttf-dejavu-core itself still

Bug#751048: marked as done (RFS: fizsh/1.0.6-1 (already in Debian))

2014-06-16 Thread The Wanderer
that, of course, and I agree that the phrasing in these (semi-automated?) closure messages is kind of confusing; it took me a few weeks seeing them come through the mentors list before I figured out what was probably going on. - -- The Wanderer Secrecy is the beginning of tyranny. A government

Bug#751396: genisoimage: -xa option not documented in man page

2014-06-13 Thread The Wanderer
On further research, it appears the man page was updated to include this option (and many others, some of them aliases to already-documented commands and some previously undocumented) in upstream SVN... in January 2011. (With typo fixes in March of the same year.) However, the last official

Bug#505381: genisoimage: writes blank sectors

2014-06-13 Thread The Wanderer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 This behavior (or one very similar to it) appears to still be present, five and a half years later. The patch still appears to apply (albeit with considerable a offset) against current upstream SVN. I have not managed to find any indication of what

Bug#751396: genisoimage: -xa option not documented in man page

2014-06-12 Thread The Wanderer
Package: genisoimage Version: 9:1.1.11-2 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, According to information found via Web search, the old mkisofs supported a '-xa' option, to create XA-format ISO filesystems. (Exactly what the differences between that and a non-XA filesystem are is not clear at a

Bug#519469: apt-get proposes to autoremove packages not yet installed

2014-04-27 Thread The Wanderer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 It looks like this happens when: * One version of a package is installed. * A newer version of that package is available from the repositories. * The newer version depends on a package which the currently-installed version does not. * The

Bug#519469: apt-get proposes to autoremove packages not yet installed

2014-04-26 Thread The Wanderer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 I'm seeing what looks like a somwhat less severe version of this same behavior. As it stands, I have no packages listed as candidates for autoremoval: root@apologia:~# apt-get autoremove Reading package lists... Done Building dependency

Bug#741843: [help] volview: FTBFS: vtkKWWizard.cxx:162:51: error: 'Tcl_Interp' has no member named 'result'

2014-04-15 Thread The Wanderer
enough about Tcl or its packaging to speak to that approach. In the long term, as the link indicates, the correct fix would involve modifying the source to avoid using internal fields from Tcl_Interp. However, that seems like the sort of thing that would be best done by upstream. - -- The Wanderer

Bug#737208: RFS: linuxlogo/5.11-4

2014-02-07 Thread The Wanderer
.) - -- The Wanderer Secrecy is the beginning of tyranny. A government exists to serve its citizens, not to control them. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1 Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJS9Y2HAAoJEASpNY00KDJr1yoP/AxDl1Xxx97kIL2QyDsoRUQ3

Bug#735182: RFS: fuseloop/1.0.1-1 ITP -- loopback mount using FUSE

2014-01-25 Thread The Wanderer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 01/25/2014 05:24 AM, Johannes Schauer wrote: Hi, Quoting The Wanderer (2014-01-22 15:14:34) Do things still work fine in Debian when using ld.gold (by installing the binutils-gold package) rather than ld.bfd? I know there's an important

Bug#735182: RFS: fuseloop/1.0.1-1 ITP -- loopback mount using FUSE

2014-01-22 Thread The Wanderer
linked. There's no expected completion date for this AFAIK, but trying to be compliant with it isn't a bad idea; I've already got the upstream of something I haven't even packaged yet to accept a compliance patch, just based on test packaging attempts. - -- The Wanderer Secrecy

Bug#730730: youtube-dl: long description lists 'youtube:search' twice

2013-11-28 Thread The Wanderer
Package: youtube-dl Version: 2013.11.11-2 Severity: minor Dear Maintainer, The long description of youtube-dl (as seen with e.g. 'apt-cache show') includes a list of sites which the program supports. In version 2013.11.11-2, the entry 'youtube:search' now appears in this list twice. A previous

Bug#730737: dizzy: exits immediately with strict refs error in Perl2GLSL.pm, line 160

2013-11-28 Thread The Wanderer
Package: dizzy Version: 0.3-1 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable Dear Maintainer, When I launch dizzy, it briefly displays a black window, then exits. The following is printed to the console: Smartmatch is experimental at /usr/share/perl5/Dizzy/Perl2GLSL.pm line

Bug#723107: less: search history no longer contains new blank entry from current search

2013-09-16 Thread The Wanderer
Package: less Version: 458-2 Severity: normal Tags: upstream Dear Maintainer, When beginning a text search in less by pressing the '/' key, you are presented with a blank line to type your search string into. It is possible to scroll backwards and forwards through the search history, in order

Bug#714820: ITP: ntopng -- High-Speed Web-based Traffic Analysis and Flow Collection Tool

2013-07-07 Thread The Wanderer
On 07/06/2013 09:14 PM, Ludovico Cavedon wrote: On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 5:00 AM, The Wanderer wande...@fastmail.fm wrote: Might I suggest a different package name, e.g. 'ntop-ng'? At a glance, 'ntopng' reads to me as N-to-PNG, along the lines of existing file-format converter programs. While

Bug#714820: ITP: ntopng -- High-Speed Web-based Traffic Analysis and Flow Collection Tool

2013-07-03 Thread The Wanderer
forward-development-compatible in that light. But that's just my principles speaking, not a source of present confusion. -- The Wanderer Warning: Simply because I argue an issue does not mean I agree with any side of it. Every time you let somebody set a limit they start moving

Bug#711961: libglib2.0-0: causes iceweasel 3.5.18-1 to SIGABRT on launch

2013-06-11 Thread The Wanderer
Package: libglib2.0-0 Version: 2.36.1-2build1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, I want to first note that I am intentionally using a configuration which may be unsupported. However, just in case the problem I am encountering might be relevant independent of that potentially unsupported

Bug#710140: gpgme1.0 (=1.3.2) dropping libgpgme-pth.so

2013-06-06 Thread The Wanderer
apt-listbugs alerted me to this bug when I attempted to upgrade from 1.2.0-1.4. I can't tell from the information provided: if I upgrade to an affected version, should I expect things on my system to break? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

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