Bug#710596: Net Install Problem

2014-02-10 Thread jmg@gmail
The instructions for the workaround were a little off for a Wheezy install and unfortunately still did not work. I did: cd /usr/lib/debootstrp/scripts chmod +x sid ln –s sid wheezy That got past the script error, however the package keys do not seem to be consistent with the debootstrap

Bug#717048: freecol: Feecol tries to getAudioInputStream when --no-soundoption is set

2013-07-16 Thread jmg
Package: freecol Version: 0.10.5+dfsg-1 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, *** Please consider answering these questions, where appropriate *** * What led up to the situation? Some time ago freecol was workingon this computer. Now, it does not. It might be related to an

Bug#717064: libcortado-java: Missing an example to show how to workaroundsecurity issues

2013-07-16 Thread jmg
Package: libcortado-java Version: 0.6.0-1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, *** Please consider answering these questions, where appropriate *** * What led up to the situation? I would like to understand why sound does not work in freecol. Bug#717048 As freecol uses cortado, I was wondering

Bug#692399: cpp-4.4: cpp does not handle all characters

2012-11-05 Thread jmg
Package: cpp-4.4 Version: 4.4.5-8 Severity: normal It looks like cpp does not handle by default symbols which contain diactrics such as in the following example. Nonetheless, from my undesrstanding, Linux is assumed to be UTF-8 by default. #define six 6 char * saint = {six,six,six}; #define π

Bug#680990: Diff does not show BOM difference.

2012-07-09 Thread jmg
Package: diff Version: 1:3.0-1 Severity: normal When diff is used to compare two files which are identical line by line and a unique difference which is wether BOM is present or not to indicates UTF-8 encoding, diff does not indicate the good difference. (Byte Order Mark is one kind of space

Bug#496740: bash: check_binary_file

2012-07-09 Thread jmg
Package: bash Severity: normal I assume this bug does not exist anymore in version 4.3 as a binary file appears to only be detected when a nul octet is present within the 80 first bytes. According to global.c file: /* Return non-zero if the characters from SAMPLE are not all valid

Bug#681001: bash: Bash does not like file starting with BOM character

2012-07-09 Thread jmg
Package: bash Version: 4.1-3 Severity: normal UTF8 is the standard encoding worldwide nowadays. Unicode gives two options for starting an UTF8 file: with or without BOM. BOM character in UTF8 is the sequence of three bytes EF BB BF. It is introduced by many text editors. bash only admit script

Bug#617599: audacity: patch for 64 bits systems

2011-03-10 Thread jmg
Package: audacity Followup-For: Bug #617599 Here is a patch that probably only work on amd 64 bits machines and compatibles as it assumes sizeof long equals sizeof double. --- ./lib-src/libnyquist/nyquist/nyqsrc/fft.c.original 2011-03-10 21:44:23.0 +0100 +++

Bug#617599: audacity: 32 bits floats 64 bits long and snd_fft behaviour

2011-03-09 Thread jmg
Package: audacity Version: 1.3.12-6 Severity: normal I have a nyquist script using snd-fft api which have a random beaviour on my computer where floats are 32 bits and long 64 bits. Each time I execute the script, result is different, when it should be about equal. I 'd like to know if same

Bug#617599: audacity: Additional information to reproduce the bug

2011-03-09 Thread jmg
Package: audacity Version: 1.3.12-6 Followup-For: Bug #617599 To reproduce the bug. Use a 64 amd processor. Install the nyquist script in ~/.audacity-files/plug-ins/fft.ny From a console, launch audacity. If you cannot load a sound with bass such as bachata, use the audacity menu: