Bug#956330: apt: Provide option to prompt on apt install foo whether foo should be marked manually installed

Package: apt Version: 1.8.2 Severity: wishlist Dear Maintainer, I'm just wondering whether for Deb 11 we might provide an option for users to perhaps, be prompted when they apt install foo and foo is already installed, to *ask* whether they intend to mark it manually installed. I find most of

Bug#949786: thunar: "Use a custom command" doesn't work to open a file

Package: thunar Version: 1.8.4-1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, In thunar (debian stable), right clicking a file and entering something in "use a custom command" does not open the file. I was trying to open image files with feh -B black but I suspect this is true of any file. XFCE's "mime

Bug#929278: vlc: Typo in man page: dashes

Package: src:vlc Version: 3.0.6-0+deb9u1 Severity: minor Dear Maintainer, The man page for vlc says, under "options": "VLC follows the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options start‐ ing with two dashes (`-')." This should, obviously, read "two dashes ('--')". -- System

Bug#906114: Suggestion: Add "any" as the default under package search

Package: www.debian.org Severity: wishlist Dear Maintainer, Personally, I tend to always look for packages on packages.debian.org in ANY release (stable, testing, unstable, backports, etc). The default is "stable", only giving you stable results. It would be a nice idea to include "any" by

Bug#903708: xfce4: xfce fails to start with all methods

Package: xfce4 Version: 4.12.4 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable Dear Maintainer, On a fresh install of Sid (as in minimal Stable -> dist-upgrade), xfce fails to start with any of sddm, lightdm, or startx. Here's my xorg log; I'm really not certain how to fix it. (PS if

Bug#902653: unattended-upgrades: Please do not auto enable upon install

Package: unattended-upgrades Severity: wishlist Dear Maintainer, If it were possible, I'd like to see unattended-upgrades not enable itself by default when the user first installs it. I'm actually not sure what the default is when you specifically tell it to install - aka "apt install

Bug#901980: wiki.debian.org: Request for search of "alioth" links on the wiki

Package: wiki.debian.org Severity: wishlist Dear Maintainer, I've been requested to ask as I may be involved in the project to transfer links from alioth to salsa on the Debian wiki (and website?), to file this bug and ping the admins of the wiki into running a search for alioth links on the

Bug#901565: debian-www: https://packages.debian.org/stretch/qterminal typo

Package: debian-www Severity: minor https://packages.debian.org/stretch/qterminal contains typo: "lightwight" should be "lightweight". -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux

Bug#895961: debian-www: doc-debian package description links to invalid page

Package: debian-www Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, https://packages.debian.org/sid/doc-debian (not just Sid, of course) links to ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/ - ftp is likely deprecated and it should instead link to http://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/ -- System Information: Debian

Bug#895624: debian-www: https://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ entreats users to install Testing incorrectly

Package: debian-www Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, The page https://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ says: "To install Debian testing, we recommend you use the Buster Alpha 2 release of the installer, after checking its errata." The general recommended way as I understand it to

Bug#894535: sendmail: Typo in apt show sendmail

Package: sendmail Version: 8.15.2-8 Severity: minor Dear Maintainer, Paragraph "Fortunately, simple thing can be done easily, and complex things are possible, even if not easily understood ;) Sendmail is the *ONLY* MTA with a Turing complete language to control *ALL* aspects of delivery!"

Bug#893041: libvirt-daemon: Update of libvirt fails due to dependency issues

Package: libvirt-daemon Version: 4.1.0-1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, (I hope this is filed under the right package, apologies if not) An update of libvirt fails, giving the following: annadane@debian:~$ su - Password: root@debian:~# apt update Get:1 http://ftp.ca.debian.org/debian sid

Bug#892792: apt: Typo in apt 1.5~beta1 changelog

Package: apt Version: 1.6~beta1 Severity: minor Dear Maintainer, Paragraph "As for backwards compatibility, the options IssuerCert and SslForceVersion are not supported anymore, and any specified certificate files must in the PEM format (curl might have allowed DER files as well)." should

Bug#892430: unattended-upgrades: Disabling unattended-upgrades and removing leaves apt update flag not set

Package: unattended-upgrades Version: 1.0 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, I had installed the pk-update-icon package which also installed and enabled unattended-upgrades. I did not want this in Debian Sid so I disabled and then apt removed unattended-upgrades. I then would only get updated

Bug#892244: debian-www: doc-debian package page contains invalid URL

Package: debian-www Severity: minor Dear Maintainer, On https://packages.debian.org/sid/doc-debian the "All of these files are available at fttp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/" text is an invalid url. This is solved by chanting it to http://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/ -- System Information:

Bug#888564: www.debian.org: Release-critical bugs status page has wrong designation for stable and testing

Package: www.debian.org Severity: minor Dear Maintainer, The page https://bugs.debian.org/release-critical/debian/main.html still lists Jessie as current stable which means all the other designations are thrown off as well (Stretch is still listed as testing, Wheezy as oldstable). -- System

Bug#884123: liferea: Liferea 1.12.0 hides the preview by default

Package: liferea Version: 1.12.0-2 Severity: minor Dear Maintainer, Liferea 1.12.0 seems to start in "full screen" - ie, there is no split view between the feed links at the top and the article/feed at the bottom. I suspect this is unintentional? There doesn't seem to be anything to toggle it

Bug#883946: www.debian.org: Typing debian.org/bugs in browser brings me to "page not found"

Package: www.debian.org Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, In Firefox, when I type into my browser debian.org/bugs, it says page not found. However, https://www.debian.org/Bugs/ does work. -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable')

Bug#883428: dolphin: Please provide the option to drag and drop files/folders

Package: dolphin Version: 4:17.08.3-1 Severity: wishlist Dear Maintainer, As far as I can tell, there is no drag and drop option for folders/files in Dolphin. There's a variety of sorting options, but nothing that allows you to manually rearrange via the mouse. I would like this very much,

Bug#881312: libreoffice-report-builder depends on libreoffice-report-builder-bin which is already installed

Package: libreoffice Version: 1:5.4.3~rc1-2 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, When trying to do a libreoffice upgrade, I get the following: libreoffice-report-builder : Depends: libreoffice-report-builder-bin (>= 1:5.4.3) but 1:5.4.3~rc1-2 is installed. apt-cache policy

Bug#881305: wiki.debian.org: Wiki page for Spotify lists libssl1.0.0 in the Stretch section but not available in Stretch

Package: wiki.debian.org Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, On the wiki page for Spotify (https://wiki.debian.org/spotify), in the section for Debian Stretch, it says to download the libssl1.0.0 package, which is an issue because 1) It provides a Jessie link and 2) That package is not available

Bug#880946: chessx: Clicking board pieces in board setup mode makes program unresponsive

Package: chessx Version: 1.4.6-1 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, When I go into board setup mode, clicking pieces to put them on the board gives the "red circle with a line through it" icon and "freezes" the mouse, making me unable to click on anything else in the program and indeed,

Bug#879179: www.debian.org: Excuses page for why libgles1-mesa-dev is not in testing doesn't exist

Package: www.debian.org Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, The excuses page for libgles1-mesa-dev nominally located at https://qa.debian.org/excuses.php?package=libgles1-mesa-dev does not exist where, indeed, libgles1-mesa-dev is not found in testing. -- System Information: Debian Release: