Bug#340631: ITP: culmus-fancy -- Type1 Fancy Hebrew Fonts for X11

2005-11-28 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Sat, 2005-11-26 at 21:38 -0600, Peter Samuelson wrote: [Lior Kaplan] * Package name: culmus-fancy Description : Type1 Fancy Hebrew Fonts for X11 I understand that the 'culmus' package already exists, and other packages like 'lmodern' don't follow any particular name

Bug#308167: Please include animals into junior-games-text

2005-05-09 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Sun, 2005-05-08 at 17:13 +0200, Tobias Toedter wrote: I suggest you depend on animals again and do an upload of the metapackage to unstable. I've asked the release managers on IRC about this, and although they said that reviewing your changes would be at low priority, they would possibly

Bug#308194: tuxpaint: cannot type in russian

2005-05-09 Thread Ben Armstrong
Anton, Bill Kendrick (upstream author) tells me: Tux Paint's text input capabilities are currently fairly simplistic, so I don't believe this is possible yet. (Patches welcome! ;^) ) Ben -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Bug#346441: Poor collision detection: gameplay suffers when frames are dropped

2006-01-07 Thread Ben Armstrong
can figure out how to implement good collision detection in LBreakout2. Thanks, Ben Armstrong family -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.14-2

Bug#347574: nautilus: freezes in vnc4server session when dragging an icon on the desktop

2006-01-11 Thread Ben Armstrong
Package: nautilus Version: 2.12.2-2 Severity: normal When I am in a vnc4server session (viewed with xvnc4viewer) and I drag an icon on the desktop, it freezes nautilus the moment I start dragging. There is no dragging animation shown, and the cursor is stuck as an upper-left-corner-plus symbol.

Bug#343231: tuxpaint crashs with an segmentation fault

2005-12-13 Thread Ben Armstrong
Boris, Please provide the output of: ldd /usr/bin/tuxpaint Thanks, Ben Armstrong -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#343231: tuxpaint crashs with an segmentation fault

2005-12-14 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Wed, 2005-12-14 at 10:56 +0100, Boris Schäfer wrote: Hi Ben, the output of ldd /usr/bin/tuxpaint: linux-gate.so.1 = (0xe000) libSDL-1.2.so.0 = /usr/lib/libSDL-1.2.so.0 (0xb7f17000) libpthread.so.0 = /lib/tls/libpthread.so.0 (0xb7f05000)

Bug#343231: tuxpaint crashs with an segmentation fault

2005-12-15 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Wed, 2005-12-14 at 19:08 +0100, Boris Schäfer wrote: Hi Ben, i don't know how to create a core file, but i started tuxpaint in gdb. This is the backtrace after the sigsegv: (gdb) bt #0 0xb7f50bc6 in SDL_DisplayFormatAlpha () from /usr/lib/libSDL-1.2.so.0 #1 0x0805eb17 in ?? () #2

Bug#403273: No support for png with 16 bits per channel

2006-12-15 Thread Ben Armstrong
Package: xautomation Version: 0.96-5 Severity: normal Tags: patch When using patextract on a PNG with 16 bits per channel, the pixels end up mangled (colors distorted twice as wide). The attached patch fixes the problem for me. -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers

Bug#386695: Group commentary is a personal commentary in a group location

2006-09-09 Thread Ben Armstrong
Package: sword-comm-pers Version: 1.0-5 Severity: grave The group commentary isn't really a group commentary. It's a personal commentary installed in a group-wide location. 1. There is no x bit set on /usr/share/sword/modules/comments/rawfiles/group/ so the directory isn't even readable,

Bug#397475: Merge crashes with IndexError: list index out of range

2006-11-07 Thread Ben Armstrong
Package: debpartial-mirror Version: 0.2.94 Severity: normal I created /etc/debpartial-mirror.conf and ran debpartial-mirror all. Many packages were downloaded, but then debpartial-mirror crashed, producing the following traceback: Traceback (most recent call last): File

Bug#398291: Missing joyb

2006-11-12 Thread Ben Armstrong
Package: egoboo Version: 2.22-28 Severity: normal Tags: patch Egoboo is missing joypad B. I have included a patch. -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Bug#398602: Can't resolve dependencies for etch backend

2006-11-14 Thread Ben Armstrong
Package: debpartial-mirror Version: 0.2.95 Severity: normal I am trying to merge etch base + security updates and etch junior-* metapackages with the attached conf and get several ERROR: Can't resolve dependencies: errors that I don't think I should be seeing. I have attached the log and the

Bug#400829: live-package should suggest apt-cacher or similar

2006-11-29 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Tue, 28 Nov 2006 18:34:22 -0500 csights [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Thanks for the nice iso auto build script! I stumbled across it while looking for a way to customize liveCDs. Sweet! Anyway, I think Suggesting apt-cacher along with some commented out configuration in

Bug#343231: tuxpaint crashs with an segmentation fault

2006-01-17 Thread Ben Armstrong
Boris, I still have no idea how to proceed with this bug, as I cannot reproduce it myself. A new tuxpaint, version 0.9.15b, has now migrated to testing. Would you please try that and see if you are still having the problem? Thanks, Ben -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Bug#346941: intent to upload sponsored NMU to fix xlibs-dev bug

2006-01-18 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 21:17 -0500, Justin Pryzby wrote: package xletters tag 346941 patch thanks I intend to NMU a fix for this bug sponsored by some member of the QA group; patch attached. My pbuild result of this patch was clean, and produced a binary package with expected debdiff

Bug#348005: tuxpaint (--sound) refuses to quit when /dev/sequencer cannot be found

2006-01-19 Thread Ben Armstrong
Jeroen, On Sat, 2006-01-14 at 00:46 +, Jeroen Nijhof wrote: Starting tuxpaint on my newly installed, but not 100% setup box works -- but it refuses to quit! When I start tuxpaint (without any arguments) from a terminal, it responds with 'open /dev/sequencer: No such file or directory'.

Bug#341432: Debian .menu file too?

2006-01-20 Thread Ben Armstrong
It's well and good to have a .desktop file, but what about the non-GNOME, non-KDE users? I would be nice to have a Debian menu file too, referencing the same .xpm. Ben -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#262460: Does the latest tuxpaint latest X still do this on dual monitors without metamodes workaround?

2006-01-21 Thread Ben Armstrong
Jeff, It has been a year and a half since you submitted http://bugs.debian.org/262460 against tuxpaint, and still I can't find a general solution. Without the metamodes workaround, which is unfortunately nvidia-specific, does the latest Xorg X and tuxpaint 0.9.15b still behave this way, taking

Bug#496619: (no subject)

2008-08-26 Thread Ben Armstrong
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Bug#497526: Please remove eeepc-modules

2008-09-02 Thread Ben Armstrong
Package: linux-modules-extra-2.6 Version: 2.6.26-3 Severity: normal Please remove eeepc-modules, as 2.6.26 now contains eeepc-laptop which supercedes it. Thanks, Ben -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')

Bug#501322: eeepc-acpi-modules-2.6-686 won't install on new installation.

2008-10-06 Thread Ben Armstrong
Cedric, On Mon, 6 Oct 2008 23:36:38 +0300 Martin Michlmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Credric, please don't drop the addresses from the CC list. Ben, see below. * Cedric Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-10-06 21:30]: According to the Wiki I needed the package eeepc-acpi-modules, it wasn't

Bug#501498: [Debian-eeepc-devel] Bug#501498: Bug#501498: Bug#501498: eeepc-acpi-scripts: Fn-F2 turns wireless off, but never back on

2008-10-09 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Thu, 9 Oct 2008 07:09:42 +0300 Damyan Ivanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: # dmidecode -s system-manufacturer ASUSTeK Computer INC. # dmidecode -s system-product-name 901 Or for that matter, skip dmidecode and get the info from: cat /sys/class/dmi/id/sys_vendor cat

Bug#493152: netbeans-platform: Netbeans crashes while scrolling/editing an editor window

2008-07-31 Thread Ben Armstrong
Package: netbeans-platform Version: 6.0.1+dfsg-1 Severity: important Recently, I've had several crashes of netbeans with no discernable pattern, and a backtrace with no distinctive calls that I can see, so I can't begin to guess the cause or how we might reproduce it. Earlier today, I was

Bug#498956: atl2-modules-2.6-686: Transmitted bytes counter does not work

2008-09-22 Thread Ben Armstrong
Looks like this should help: http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdevm=122195444208504w=2 Ben -- ,-. nSLUGhttp://www.nslug.ns.ca [EMAIL PROTECTED] \`' Debian http://www.debian.org[EMAIL PROTECTED] ` [ gpg 395C F3A4 35D3 D247 1387 2D9E 5A94 F3CA 0B27 13C8 ] -- To

Bug#492029: ITP: atl1e -- Atheros(R) L1e ethernet driver

2008-07-23 Thread Ben Armstrong
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Ben Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Package name: atl1e Version : 1.0.0.7r5 Upstream Author : xiong huang [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://marc.info/?t=12160065951r=1w=2 * License : GPL Programming Lang: C

Bug#498180: ITP: eee-applet -- A systray applet for Eee Pc

2008-09-07 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Mon, 08 Sep 2008 00:07:39 +0200 Julien Lavergne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Start or stop Wifi I'm concerned about how this is implemented. Does it play well with eeepc-acpi-scripts? * Control fan speed I'd be interested to see that supported in a way that doesn't require the

Bug#457071: smokeping: Javascript error: $(zoom) has no properties

2007-12-19 Thread Ben Armstrong
Package: smokeping Version: 2.2.7-1 Severity: minor Firebug tells me: $(zoom) has no properties at line 85 in smokeping-zoom.js This happens whenever I view a page without the javascript zoom widget. This could be handled by testing for the presence of the element and only execute these

Bug#452014: ITP: atl2-source -- Source for the Attansic L2 ethernet driver

2007-11-19 Thread Ben Armstrong
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Ben Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Package name: atl2-source Version : 1.0.40.2 Upstream Author : xiong huang [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/hardy/+source/linux-ubuntu-modules-2.6.22/ * License

Bug#288684: The process remains running after the game has quit

2005-02-16 Thread Ben Armstrong
Package: bzflag Version: 2.0.0.20050118 Followup-For: Bug #288684 I am guessing the original poster of this bug meant that the process remains running after the game has quit, as that is the behaviour I have observed. We have two avid bzflag players in my family, and this is getting to be a

Bug#300632: tuxpaint: FTBFS: Changed header files.

2005-03-20 Thread Ben Armstrong
I find detection of presense of a header file like that a stupid way. It should not rely on those defines. The proper way to do this would be to have a configure script that could then give an error message. I agree. I have recommended this to upstream, and will deal with this problem

Bug#298453: gnome-blog: Minor error in long description

2005-03-07 Thread Ben Armstrong
Package: gnome-blog Severity: minor In the long description you have a repeated word notably: It notably works notably with Blogger.com / Blogspot.com, Advogato.org, ... Eliminate the second notably: It notably works with Blogger.com / Blogspot.com, Advogato.org, ... Ben -- To

Bug#307912: evolution: relocation error: /usr/lib/libnspr4.so

2005-05-06 Thread Ben Armstrong
Package: evolution Version: 2.2.2-3 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable Evolution won't start. This error is displayed: evolution-shell-Message: Killing old version of evolution-data-server... evolution: relocation error: /usr/lib/libnspr4.so: symbol

Bug#444143: XF86MiscGetMouseSettings fails in xpilot after upgrade to xorg 7.3

2007-09-26 Thread Ben Armstrong
Package: libxxf86misc1 Version: 1:1.0.1-2 Severity: normal After upgrading to xorg 7.3, xpilot-ng-x11 dies as soon as I click the mouse with the following error: X Error of failed request: BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation) Major opcode of failed request: 137

Bug#438510: RM: subproject-howto: obsolete; superceded by cdd-doc

2007-08-17 Thread Ben Armstrong
Package: ftp.debian.org Severity: normal Please remove subproject-howto from unstable, as it has not been updated in many years, is obsolete largely superceded by cdd-doc. Also, it has no md5sum. -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500,

Bug#438512: RM: xpilot-server; superceded by xpilot-ng-server

2007-08-17 Thread Ben Armstrong
Package: ftp.debian.org Severity: normal Please remove xpilot-server from unstable as it is superceded by xpilot-ng-server. -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-k7 (SMP w/1 CPU

Bug#438518: RM: xpilot-client-common; superceded by xpilot-ng-common

2007-08-17 Thread Ben Armstrong
Package: ftp.debian.org Severity: normal Please remove xpilot-client-common from unstable, as it is superceded by xpilot-ng-common. -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-k7 (SMP

Bug#438514: RM: xpilot-client-rplay; superceded by xpilot-ng-client-*

2007-08-17 Thread Ben Armstrong
Package: ftp.debian.org Severity: normal Please remove xpilot-client-rplay from unstable as it is superceded by xpilot-ng-client-*. -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-k7 (SMP

Bug#438519: RM: xpilot; superceded by xpilot-ng

2007-08-17 Thread Ben Armstrong
Package: ftp.debian.org Severity: normal Please remove xpilot from unstable, as it is superceded by xpilot-ng. -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-k7 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale:

Bug#438517: RM: xpilot-client-nas; superceded by xpilot-ng-client-*

2007-08-17 Thread Ben Armstrong
Package: ftp.debian.org Severity: normal Please remove xpilot-client-nas from unstable, as it is superceded by xpilot-ng-client-*. -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-k7 (SMP

Bug#438515: RM: xpilot-client-nosound; superceded by xpilot-ng-client-*

2007-08-17 Thread Ben Armstrong
Package: ftp.debian.org Severity: normal Please remove xpilot-client-nosound from unstable as it is superceded by xpilot-ng-client-*. -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-k7 (SMP

Bug#434866: Minimum window size unnecessarily large

2007-07-27 Thread Ben Armstrong
Package: liferea Version: 1.2.16b-1 Severity: normal Tags: patch Due to a workaround for strange window size increasings after feed selection changing tagged FIXME in src/ui/ui_feedlist.c, the window size is arbitrarily set to a minimum of 640x480. On the face of it, this may seem like a

Bug#366493: Geometry change artefacts are not a vnc4server problem

2007-07-27 Thread Ben Armstrong
Package: vnc4server Version: 4.1.1+X4.3.0-21 Followup-For: Bug #366493 I earlier reported that in testing this patch I observed strange artefacts in window size and positioning in some applications when switching geometries. Well, that turned out to be a bug in just one application I use

Bug#405813: amarok: Wizard depends on konsole

2007-01-06 Thread Ben Armstrong
Package: amarok Version: 1.4.4-2 Severity: normal We installed amarok today on a non-KDE system. When we ran the first-time wizard, after selecting the location of our collection, a dialog box containing the following was displayed: Could not launch the mail client. KDEInit could not launch

Bug#404496: Adding a label with a blank in it breaks checkgmail

2006-12-25 Thread Ben Armstrong
Package: checkgmail Version: 1.10.1-1 Severity: normal If you add a label with a blank in it, checkgmail refuses to start. It breaks because the blank is output directly into prefs.xml instead of being encoded into a valid attribute name character. Workaround: in Gmail, rename your labels so

Bug#416302: su-to-root is not paranoid enough

2007-03-26 Thread Ben Armstrong
Package: menu Version: 2.1.33 Severity: normal I think su-to-root could use a bit more paranoia. For instance, sourcing the ~/.su-to-rootrc, while not harmful in itself might be used in conjunction with other bugs to in a local escalation of privileges. Also, PATH is set for text mode, but not

Bug#410875: debian-live needs this issue to be addressed

2007-03-26 Thread Ben Armstrong
Package: menu Version: 2.1.33 Followup-For: Bug #410875 No, installing gksu and/or kdesu only partially addresses the problem. While it is true that both of these packages can be configured to use sudo instead of su, some menu entries are run in the terminal and therefore cannot use either

Bug#400247: casper: non-standard mount option syntax is confusing

2006-11-24 Thread Ben Armstrong
Package: casper Version: 1.77+debian-5 Severity: minor In scripts/casper: mount -r -o move ${copyto} ${copyfrom} Just because busybox considers -o option and --option to be the same (probably done so that the option processing code can be streamlined, saving precious bytes) doesn't mean you

Bug#429155: Uninstallable due to missing /var/games/zblast

2007-06-15 Thread Ben Armstrong
Package: zblast-data Version: 1.3-2.2 Severity: grave Hi, zblast-data is uninstallable because the postinst tries to touch a file in a non-existent directory: Setting up zblast-data (1.3-2.2) ... touch: cannot touch `/var/games/zblast/zblast.scores': No such file or directory dpkg: error

Bug#421916: tuxpaint-config settings aren't used by tuxpaint

2007-05-02 Thread Ben Armstrong
Tuxpaint works with either pt_BR.UTF-8 or pt_PT.UTF-8. This is certainly not a bug against tuxpaint-config, which you can see by checking ~/.tuxpaintrc after running tuxpaint-config, and is certainly not grave, as it does not render the package unusable, which is easy to see if you just try some

Bug#421916: tuxpaint-config settings aren't used by tuxpaint

2007-05-03 Thread Ben Armstrong
Sorry, Marcos. I wrote my response distractedly last night and didn't finish my thought. I meant to say dpkg-reconfigure -plow locales, then select the appropriate locale. This is not a bug in tuxpaint. Tuxpaint does the best it can, given that it uses UTF-8 fonts for all languages. If your

Bug#421916: tuxpaint-config settings aren't used by tuxpaint

2007-05-03 Thread Ben Armstrong
Marcos, On Thu, 3 May 2007 11:53:23 +0100 Marcos Marado [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, shouldn't then tuxpaint-configure install the chosen locale, if it isn't installed yet? Or depend on those locales? It can't depend on the locales because it locales aren't packages, and therefore cannot

Bug#421916: tuxpaint-config settings aren't used by tuxpaint

2007-05-03 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Thu, 3 May 2007 12:42:00 +0100 Marcos Marado [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Understood. Shouldn't tuxpaint-config then check if the user chose a language that is not installed, and, whenever that's the case, issue a message saying something like Attention: your system doesn't have that language

Bug#366493: New vncserver wrapper to allow multiple -geometry options

2007-07-02 Thread Ben Armstrong
Package: vnc4server Version: 4.1.1+X4.3.0-21 Followup-For: Bug #366493 I tried Nikita's patch and it works well. All it needs to be released is the attached new vncserver wrapper that allows multiple -geometry options to be specified. Ben #!/usr/bin/env perl # # Copyright (C) 2004-2006 Ola

Bug#431561: Wording of verify link misleading

2007-07-03 Thread Ben Armstrong
was inclined to not take any action until I asked around to find out how it worked. Thanks, Ben Armstrong -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-k7 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG

Bug#366493: New vncserver wrapper to allow multiple -geometry options

2007-07-08 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Sun, 8 Jul 2007 22:23:51 +0200 Ola Lundqvist [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, sounds good. I'll take care of 2 and 3 before I upload. I have attached a new vncserver wrapper that now properly checks single or multiple geometries. Ben vnc4server Description: Binary data

Bug#366493: New vncserver wrapper to allow multiple -geometry options

2007-07-10 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Tue, 10 Jul 2007 09:56:36 -0300 Ben Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: window apparently does not always follow those changes. Maximized applications remain centered around the initial geometry's center: the upper left corner of the desktop is not filled by the window, and the lower left

Bug#366493: New vncserver wrapper to allow multiple -geometry options

2007-07-10 Thread Ben Armstrong
This doesn't necessarily indicate a problem in any of the patches supplied so far, but I thought I should record this for posterity in case it turns out to be a direct consequence of applying this patch and not just a quirk of GNOME/Metacity. After having played with this for a while and switched

Bug#249789: irssi: Recurrence on ssl server

2007-05-18 Thread Ben Armstrong
Package: irssi Version: 0.8.10-2 Followup-For: Bug #249789 11:54 -!- Irssi: critical g_io_error_get_from_g_error: assertion `err != NULL' failed 11:54 [slammer] -!- Irssi: Connection lost to slammer.cs.dal.ca 11:54 -!- Irssi: Removed reconnection to server slammer.cs.dal.ca port 6668 11:54

Bug#433510: Local changes to /etc/default/mailgraph are overwritten

2007-07-17 Thread Ben Armstrong
Package: mailgraph Version: 1.13-1 Severity: serious Justification: Policy 10.7.3 We set MAIL_LOG=/var/log/maillog in /etc/default/mailgraph and upgraded. The local change was ignored and set to the value stored in debconf. This took down mailgraph for two days. Unhappiness ensued. Please fix.

Bug#281246: Debian-live needs this

2007-04-23 Thread Ben Armstrong
Package: aptitude Version: 0.4.4-4 Followup-For: Bug #281246 This isn't merely a matter of convenience for Debian-live. The live CDs produced by live-helper use casper which sets no root password. Instead the live user uses sudo. Thus, the aptitude menu entry that starts aptitude in a terminal

Bug#281246: Debian-live needs this

2007-04-23 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Mon, 23 Apr 2007 16:42:32 -0400 Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: update-alternatives --set libgksu-gconf-defaults \ /usr/share/libgksu/debian/gconf-defaults.libgksu-sudo update-gconf-defaults I have attached the diff to casper's 10adduser script which sets up the live user account

Bug#281246: Debian-live needs this

2007-04-23 Thread Ben Armstrong
Oh. I forgot to mention ... the patch attached in my last message also contains a fix to konsole to make its root terminal root midnight commander work with sudo. Ben -- ,-. nSLUGhttp://www.nslug.ns.ca [EMAIL PROTECTED] \`' Debian http://www.debian.org[EMAIL PROTECTED] `

Bug#325564: Bug#325565: Processed: tagging 325564

2005-09-07 Thread Ben Armstrong
You have inadvertently CC'd this message that seems applicable only to bug #325564 to bug #325565 against my package, gtypist. Please omit 325565 from any followup messages. Thanks, Ben Armstrong -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Bug#325565: Processed: tagging 325564

2005-09-07 Thread Ben Armstrong
Ignore the extra info Re: Processed: tagging 325564 above. It was clearly intended only for bug #325564 and ended up here by mistake. Ben -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#315528: mindi: 2.6.12 kernel won't fit

2005-09-09 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Mon, 2005-08-15 at 21:23 +1000, Andree Leidenfrost wrote: So, it would be fabulous if you could send me that initrd.img file, so that I can have a look at it. You would have to added another cp command immediately after the cp commands for initrd.img and copy the initrd.img file to say

Bug#324302: mindi: Patch available?

2005-09-09 Thread Ben Armstrong
Package: mindi Version: 1.04-6 Followup-For: Bug #324302 Laszlo, I'd sure appreciate it if you'd post a patch, since Andree won't be back for a while. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell:

Bug#324413: Strange default keybindings

2005-08-22 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Sun, 2005-08-21 at 18:44 -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote: For some reason, this version of xpilot doesn't have a default binding for the rotate left and rotate right commands, which makes it a bit unplayable. This is not a bug. This is a feature. But the good news is, XPilot is highly

Bug#324497: smokeping: Missing dependency on font DejaVuSansMono-Roman.ttf

2005-08-22 Thread Ben Armstrong
Package: smokeping Version: 1.42-1 Severity: normal Without rrdtool installed, smokeping.cgi reports: failed to load /usr/share/rrdtool/fonts/DejaVuSansMono-Roman.ttf failed to load /usr/share/rrdtool/fonts/DejaVuSansMono-Roman.ttf failed to load

Bug#327544: xpilot-ng-common: don't discard errors and fail mysteriously

2005-09-11 Thread Ben Armstrong
Lars, Thanks. I probably copied that from someone else's package, not realizing the problems with it. Now that I'm aware of this class of error, I'll be on the lookout for it elsewhere in my packages. On Sun, 2005-09-11 at 00:10 +0300, Lars Wirzenius wrote: The postinst does this: adduser

Bug#329237: Must conflict with libwxgtk2.4-python

2005-09-20 Thread Ben Armstrong
the bug to xpilot-ng-common. Thanks, Ben Armstrong -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.11-1-k7 Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO

Bug#315528: mindi: 2.6.12 kernel won't fit

2005-08-11 Thread Ben Armstrong
Package: mindi Version: 1.04-6 Followup-For: Bug #315528 Like the original submitter, my mindi failed when called from mondo. Taking my cue from the way the bug was resolved in 1.04-6 for the submitter, I examined mindi.log. Sure enough, the ramdisk is not big enough for the kernel, except in

Bug#253447: gnomesword: Assertion hangs program: 'GDK_IS_DRAWABLE (drawable)' failed

2005-08-12 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Fri, 2005-08-12 at 18:07 +0100, Daniel Glassey wrote: I still haven't worked this one out. I've uploaded gnomesword 2.1.2. Any chance this has fixed it? Daniel, I have 2.0.0-6 now, and it's not reproducible in this version, so whatever the issue was with GNOME has apparently already

Bug#323066: Best practices for dummy/transition packages

2005-08-14 Thread Ben Armstrong
practices in general, providing best practice solutions to the problems I have sketched out above, adding to those as needed. Thanks, Ben Armstrong synrg at debian dot org -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386

Bug#323399: snowflake: segfaults

2005-08-16 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Tue, 2005-08-16 at 15:31 +0200, Laurent Fousse wrote: Versions of packages snowflake depends on: ii libc62.3.2.ds1-22GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libglib1.2 1.2.10-10 The GLib library of C routines ii libgtk1.2

Bug#227174: Upstream is considering this one, but it isn't easy

2005-08-16 Thread Ben Armstrong
I received some help on #xpilot today with this, but we found: seems it's more than just insert a loop and break condition everything is entangled with the X code While we agree the wishlist is reasonable, it's going to take more than just a quick to implement, and they'll have to prioritize it

Bug#323399: confirmed

2005-08-18 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Thu, 2005-08-18 at 09:59 +0100, Paul Brossier wrote: for info, i could reproduce this bug using the latest X packages and debian kernel. Thanks. Hm. The bug seems to be here (from semctl(2)): This function has three or four arguments, depending on cmd. When there are

Bug#313580: INTL:vi

2005-06-14 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Tue, 2005-06-14 at 11:44 -0400, Ari Pollak wrote: If this is for vi, why is it filed against drscheme? vi is the name of the locale, not the program. Here is an exerpt from vi.po: #.Description #:../drscheme.templates:11 msgid Run DrScheme as drscheme. For Help, select `Help Desk' from

Bug#485121: gnomekiss: Menu bar disappears

2008-06-08 Thread Ben Armstrong
Package: gnomekiss Version: 2.0-2 Severity: normal The first time into gnomekiss, I see a menubar. The second time, it disappears. I see two files in .gnome2: Gnomekiss GnomeKiss They differ like this: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ diff .gnome2/Gnomekiss .gnome2/GnomeKiss 3c3

Bug#325448: Are you aware of mupen64plus?

2008-07-05 Thread Ben Armstrong
Ryan, we've been using your packages for a while now, but realize upstream has been dead for some years. Today my son pointed out that there is this new project, reviving development again: http://code.google.com/p/mupen64plus/ Thought you might be interested in checking it out. The LICENSE

Bug#489249: tuxpaint: Incorrect KDE menu entry showing up in Lost and Found [nb]

2008-07-09 Thread Ben Armstrong
Petter, Is the problem still present in 1:0.9.20? It has an all-new desktop file, so it should be solved, but since you reported the problem in a norwegian locale which I do not use, I thought I had better ask first before closing this one. Thanks, Ben -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Bug#479217: linux-latest-2.6: 40-pin cable bug still present in -4

2008-05-28 Thread Ben Armstrong
Package: linux-latest-2.6 Version: 2.6.25-4 Followup-For: Bug #479217 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dmesg | egrep 'Linux version|cable' [0.00] Linux version 2.6.25-2-686 (Debian 2.6.25-4) ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 4.1.3 20080420 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.2-22)) #1 SMP Tue May 27 15:38:35

Bug#487098: tuxpaint-config: useless with tuxpaint from Debian

2008-06-19 Thread Ben Armstrong
The 0.9.19 upload happened at the same time as tuxpaint-config. Unfortunately, the corresponding upload of 0.9.19 was rejected because the copyright file needs some work, so this delays 0.9.19 entering Debian until the problems are resolved. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Bug#487697: provide acpi_fakekey utility in its own package

2008-06-23 Thread Ben Armstrong
Package: acpi-support Severity: wishlist Please provide the useful acpi_fakekey utility in a package of its own. Users who don't want and/or can't use acpi-support (due to conflicts) have to resort to building their acpi_fakekey on their own if they want to use it. This would have the added

Bug#479217: linux-latest-2.6: Wrong UDMA mode due to error in 40/80 wire cable detection

2008-05-03 Thread Ben Armstrong
Package: linux-latest-2.6 Severity: normal As reported against Ubuntu in https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/195221, on the Asus Eee PC, the disk is reported as UDMA66 capable, but is installed as UDMA33 because the system does not detect a 80 pin conductor. And indeed, when I

Bug#417902: Prevent pieces from flipping when -side lock is used

2007-04-05 Thread Ben Armstrong
Package: xjig Version: 2.4-11.1 Severity: normal Tags: patch When -side 2 (or -side 1) is specified, you can still flip pieces over accidentally by middle clicking them. This is quite frustrating when it happens, as it is far too easy to accidentally middle click when you meant to middle drag.

Bug#417916: Simulate an initial End keypress to bring all pieces into view

2007-04-05 Thread Ben Armstrong
Package: xjig Version: 2.4-11.1 Severity: wishlist Please simulate an initial End keypress so that when you start working on the puzzle, all pieces are in view. Children using xjig who know how to use the mouse but don't yet read well are not as comfortable using keys as they are click and

Bug#353293: ITP: littlewizard -- development environment for children

2006-02-17 Thread Ben Armstrong
Kari, I'm interested in littlewizard, as it may be suitable to include in Debian Jr.'s junior-programming metapackage. If you need any help, please drop me a note. Thanks, Ben -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#349939: came: links to libfreetype6, which is going away

2006-02-03 Thread Ben Armstrong
Thanks for the patch, Steve. I have applied it in my working copy, but as I don't currently have a working webcam, I can't test the package properly. I'll be looking for time on the weekend to get the cam working again so I can test it. Assuming all goes well, I'll upload before the weekend is

Bug#308194: #308194: tuxpaint: cannot type in russian

2006-02-03 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Sat, 2006-01-21 at 18:15 +0300, Alexandra N. Kossovsky wrote: Tuxpaint does not support Unicode at all. Some Americans think that supporting unicode is supporting Latin-1 mapping to unicode. Such unicode support does not work for Russians, Greeks and many other people. :-( I am told that

Bug#308194: #308194: tuxpaint: cannot type in russian

2006-02-03 Thread Ben Armstrong
Alexandra, Thanks for testing. On Sat, 2006-02-04 at 00:17 +0300, Alexandra N. Kossovsky wrote: I've just tried CVS tuxpaint on the Sarge and Etch systems. I see the behaviour changed. Every time I type a Russian letter, I see a new letter on the screen, but it is not the Russian letter. It

Bug#351655: mzscheme: postinst fails with older slib

2006-02-06 Thread Ben Armstrong
Package: mzscheme Version: 1:301-5 Severity: important Until I decided to remove drgenius today, which depends on an older slib, drscheme would not install. With slib 3a1-4.2 this error occurs: Cataloging SLIB routines... path-string: expects argument of type path; given usercat Upgrading to

Bug#346120: junior-doc: tasksel directions don't work

2006-02-07 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Thu, 2006-01-05 at 14:28 -0500, Charles Fry wrote: Package: junior-doc Severity: normal The instructions for installing with tasksel don't work for me. For that matter, the bug referenced in section 8.1 is closed. I am working on this. The trouble is, there really isn't a replacement

Bug#360794: xpilot-ng: not installable in sid; package not prepared for binNMU

2006-04-04 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Tue, 2006-04-04 at 20:19 +0200, Laurent Bonnaud wrote: # apt-get install xpilot-ng-client-sdl xpilot-ng-common Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are

Bug#339896: Status of your freedroid-rpg ITP

2006-04-08 Thread Ben Armstrong
What's the status of this? My son picked up an old LJ in which he read about this game. He's interested in trying it. Do you have any packages to test? Ben -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#349415: it's tuxpaint.svg -- libart doesn't like it

2006-01-22 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Sun, 2006-01-22 at 22:51 +, Jeroen Nijhof wrote: I looked a bit further, and found that gnome-panel tries to load /usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/tuxpaint.svg (rather than a .png or .xpm version). And it looks like libart_lgpl_2.so.2 (from libart-2.0-2 version 2.3.17-1) doesn't

Bug#263278: evolution-exchange: Patch to fix memory leaks

2006-01-31 Thread Ben Armstrong
. + * Backport memory leak fix from CVS: +http://bugzilla.gnome.org/attachment.cgi?id=58445action=view + + -- Ben Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue, 31 Jan 2006 08:27:27 -0400 + ximian-connector (2.4.2-1) unstable; urgency=low * New upstream release diff -urN ximian-connector-2.4.2.debian/mail

Bug#350745: evolution-data-server: Backport of CVS patch for exchange memory leak

2006-01-31 Thread Ben Armstrong
Package: evolution-data-server Version: 1.4.2.1-1.1 Severity: normal I have prepared a patch backporting from CVS a fix provided by upstream for memory leaks in exchange I reported. The memory leaks were in two places, here in the evolution-data-server and also in evolution-exchange. I will be

Bug#263278: Cross-reference to #350745 evolution-data-server

2006-01-31 Thread Ben Armstrong
The bug with the other part of this patch I filed against evolution-data-server is #350745. Ben -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#350745: Cross-reference to #263278 evolution-exchange

2006-01-31 Thread Ben Armstrong
Instead of filing a new bug, I submitted the evolution-exchange part of this patch on the already open #263278. I'm continuing to monitor evolution-data-server evolution-exchange to see if there are further leaks. If I find any more, I'll update the upstream bug report and incorporate them into

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