Bug#762986: lyx-common: Both lyx and lyx-common provide the desktop file

2014-09-28 Thread grok
rename lyx.install to lyx-common.install in debian/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#439631: [imagemagick bug] Prod user

2009-01-25 Thread grok
defects of ImageMagick's SVG rendering, for that matter, which weren't mentioned at the time. Everything seems to render quite well now, SVG-wise. So it appears time indeed to close this bug report. Thanx for all the work. - -- grok. - -- *** FULL-SPECTRUM DOMINANCE

Bug#495901: poppler-utils: pdftoppm not padding zeros like xpdf version

2008-08-21 Thread grok
if nothing else is changed. -- grok. -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (998, 'testing'), (501, 'stable'), (99, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1

Bug#179384: apt: Limits of rate-limiting

2008-06-20 Thread grok
='. This, of course, is NFG for anyone who has set the rate limit thinking they have set an absolute bar for apt-get. They will instead max out their Internet connection, if there is more than one source. -- grok. -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers testing APT

Bug#449319: mpg123: Numerous mp3 Internet streams now corrupting console and failing

2007-11-04 Thread grok
with this. However, it could just as likely be some SNAFU purely on the mpg123 end. I can only speculate here at this point. And this is all I can give you here. Sorry. Hope it helps. -- grok. -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (998, 'testing'), (501

Bug#439631: convert: consistently placing string image/svg+xml inside rendered image

2007-08-26 Thread grok
format. Often, this string is stamped in inopportune places inside diagrams for instance; so I rated this a 'normal' bug, because it does actually interfere with reading/interpreting a number of images. -- grok. -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers testing APT policy

Bug#439622: clive: no longer works for Youtube

2007-08-25 Thread grok
Hopefully this is of use to you. -- grok. -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (998, 'testing'), (501, 'stable'), (99, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO

Bug#435903: convert: Problems with converting involved SVG polygons to other formats?

2007-08-03 Thread grok
this logo graphic to e.g. PNG, you should get some sort of scaling error. _Some_ of the image is visible, as a squashed segment. That's it. And it would be very interesting if we were to find out that 'it works for you' when you try it. ; -- grok. -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny

Bug#422737: dvisvga: Count my vote here

2007-06-20 Thread grok
Package: dvisvga Followup-For: Bug #422737 Add my 2ยข-worth here. The upgrade from teTeX to TeX Live was quite the hassle. This is just more of the same. -- grok. -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (998, 'testing'), (501, 'stable'), (99

Bug#429384: logcheck should depend on mktemp package

2007-06-17 Thread grok
Package: logcheck Version: 1.2.56 Severity: important logcheck requires mktemp to operate (it will abort with a fine, descriptive error message and email), but doesn't actually depend on it. -- grok. -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (998

Bug#374654: Please allow '#' comments in /etc/apt/apt.conf

2006-06-20 Thread grok
Package: apt Version: 0.6.44.2 Severity: normal The maintainers clearly do not want separate bug requests piled all into one report; but perhaps a request to allow hash (#) chars as comments in _all_ apt config files, such as '/etc/apt/apt.conf' is seen as the same bug/request. I dunno. Let's

Bug#357150: mytop: Need to hide password on commandline

2006-03-15 Thread grok
Package: mytop Version: 1.4-1 Severity: normal Sure you can put a password in the config file; but what about when you want to override this? A password entered on the commandline needs to be hidden, just like with MySQL programs. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT

Bug#331640: mysql-server-5.0 install still borking

2006-03-06 Thread grok
encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/mysql-server-5.0_5.0.18-8_i386.deb So this is no closed bug, loox like. -- grok. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers testing APT policy: (998, 'testing'), (501, 'stable'), (99, 'unstable') Architecture: i386

Bug#352884: snownews: pid should go in /var/run/

2006-02-14 Thread grok
Package: snownews Version: 1.5.6.1-2.1 Severity: minor The Debian version of snownews has the pid in ~/.snownews. Seems that it should probably be moved to /var/run/ . -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers testing APT policy: (998, 'testing'), (501,

Bug#336241: mediawiki: More than just a wish

2006-01-25 Thread grok
the trouble of packaging an *unofficial* version of v1.5.x... -- grok. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers testing APT policy: (998, 'testing'), (501, 'stable'), (99, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux

Bug#346289: After upgrade to v1.0 bogofilter and all utilities hang upon running wordlist.db

2006-01-06 Thread grok
Package: bogofilter Version: 0.94.4-1 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable I have no idea what happened, or how: bogofilter and bogoutil -- both v0.94.4 and v1.0.0 hang. I was hoping that this might be the #317524 bug at first; but I don't think so. I upgraded to the new v1.0

Bug#339549: fetchyahoo: script suddenly hanging, eating up 100% of CPU cycles

2005-11-16 Thread grok
Package: fetchyahoo Version: 2.9.0-1 Severity: normal I don't know what Debian policy fetchyahoo now violates, but it is now suddenly creating out of memory errors and having other packages close down, while multiple copies of fetchyahoo hang in memory adding a new one each time crontab runs;

Bug#326169: fetchyahoo: The Failure to Fetch bug must be reopened

2005-09-30 Thread grok
Package: fetchyahoo Version: 2.9.0-1 Followup-For: Bug #326169 *This bug is still a bug and must be re-opened.* My mail is piling up, and I'd really love to figger it out all myself -- but that ain't gonna happen anytime soon. If the maintainer doesn't re-open this bug very soon, I'm going to

Bug#156578: apt: When does a wishlist bug get promoted to serious?

2005-09-13 Thread grok
below (but not far below, eh?) Release Critical. As for the hacks: they have never worked for me. But maybe I'm just too stupid to understand why jumping thru hoops is an acceptable substitute for what should be normal procedure in any case. -- grok. -- System Information: Debian Release

Bug#326169: fetchyahoo: Got 0 Message IDs / Finished downloading 0 messages bug still not resolved

2005-09-10 Thread grok
consider this bug reopended. -- grok. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers testing APT policy: (998, 'testing'), (501, 'stable'), (99, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.4.20 Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US

Bug#326169: fetchyahoo: Getting Message ID(s) for message(s).... Got 0 Message IDs

2005-09-05 Thread grok
Package: fetchyahoo Version: 2.8.9-1 Followup-For: Bug #326169 This guy is right. He's not the only one suddenly getting this for a few days now. And it's happened before; last October I believe. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers testing APT policy:

Bug#320945: bmv: Needs to accept STDIN from pipe

2005-08-02 Thread grok
Package: bmv Version: 1.2-17 Severity: normal Unless I'm mistaken, bmv duznt accept STDIN -- either thru a pipe or by placing a dash after it. Now, this lack certainly must have been discussed somewhere at some time -- so please consider this merely a formal request for an important, normative

Bug#308266: swf-player: Still fails to play

2005-07-28 Thread grok
Package: swf-player Version: 0.3.4-3 Followup-For: Bug #308266 Neither the previous version of swf-player I tried, nor this one, overcomes this error. The error appears to be exactly what the bug-filer describes previously. And so swf-player is still completely useless for me. I almost forget

Bug#317848: mp3blaster: Timer display not properly bounds-checked/programmed?

2005-07-11 Thread grok
Package: mp3blaster Version: 1:3.2.0-6 Severity: normal (This problem has been around for a little while. Shouldn't have assumed it was being looked-into): When playing files that are over an hour in length, the timer/counter on the right-hand side of mp3blaster now flips over to negative

Bug#305223: nload: I meant console grafix...

2005-06-26 Thread grok
Package: nload Version: 0.6.0-2 Followup-For: Bug #305223 Sorry I am so late with a reply. World revolution is very time-consuming. It's a mystery to me why, but nload displays no grafik display at all. I tried changing the -i and -o. No dice. Makes nload a far less interesting package to

Bug#315886: elinks: core dump while sorting thru bookmarks' saved snapshots

2005-06-26 Thread grok
me know what I should do if you want to go further on this with me. -- grok. P.S.: The english in your error message is a little awkward. You can swap-in my version below here, if you want (I may have dropped some of your text while cutting pasting). [ELinks crashed. That shouldn't happen

Bug#315765: bsdmainutils: [cal] User-specified range of months defaulting to current year

2005-06-25 Thread grok
Package: bsdmainutils Version: 6.0.17 Severity: wishlist The -3 switch for cal which gives the last/present/next month is a great thing to have. So it'd be even greater IMO if cal could default to the present year while accepting _ranges_ of months: i.e. 7-9 or 7,9,11 for the months

Bug#315795: ppmforge: -mesh 1 segfaults program

2005-06-25 Thread grok
Package: netpbm Version: 2:10.0-8 Severity: normal Here I sit Broken-hearted Set -mesh to 1 And it segfaulted -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers testing APT policy: (998, 'testing'), (99, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.4.20 Locale: LANG=en_US,

Bug#308127: goats: footprint too big

2005-05-07 Thread grok
Package: goats Version: 2.2-2.1 Severity: wishlist Bah! Goats takes up way too much resident memory for what it is. But looking at the long list of dependencies below (I was going to delete them in this message, but I think I'll keep them as part of it), I'm wondering if that might be part of

Bug#164792: doc-linux-html: Should be re-titled: Low diskspace problem -- install in smaller chunx!

2005-05-06 Thread grok
Package: doc-linux-html Version: 2005.02-1 Followup-For: Bug #164792 I understand the original bug-filer's point: This package throws the entire unzipped contents into /usr before even beginning to replace things (AFAIK). And of course, too, the maintainer needs to maintain his sanity... ; I

Bug#307692: xfig: figure subdirectory 'Caribbean' (below 'Flags') is misspelled

2005-05-04 Thread grok
Package: xfig Version: 1:3.2.5-alpha5-3 Severity: minor The directory '/usr/share/xfig/Libraries/Flags/Carribean' should be instead '/usr/share/xfig/Libraries/Flags/Caribbean'. That's it (for now). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Bug#306603: Hardwired for 'hotmail.com' and cannot change in ~/.gotmailrc

2005-04-27 Thread grok
Package: gotmail Version: 0.8.2-2 Severity: important Gotmail can only access an alternate hotmail.2-letter country code domain server when every instance of hotmail.com in the actual gotmail perl script is changed (I did not spend time following the logic to find the minimum number of variables

Bug#305693: fortunes-mario: Typo corrections

2005-04-21 Thread grok
Package: fortunes-mario Version: 0.20-1 Severity: minor Tags: patch I've let many fortunes errors go by; but I felt ambitious with this file, however. I don't know if this is the right place to put this patch -- but here it is, regardless. Thanx for all the yucks and info! -- grok

Bug#305223: nload: No graphic display whatsoever

2005-04-18 Thread grok
Package: nload Version: 0.6.0-2 Severity: important It's a mystery to me why, but nload displays no grafik display at all. I tried changing the -i and -o. No dice. Makes nload a far less interesting package to me. Some mistake on my part, or something more general? -- System Information: