Bug#894053: zathura: upstream switched to a different issue tracker, please re-forward Debian bug reports

2018-03-25 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: zathura Version: 0.3.9-1 Severity: normal Hello! It seems to me that the old upstream issue tracker for zathura is gone. The upstream developers appear to have switched to a new [repository](https://git.pwmt.org/pwmt/zathura) with its associated [issue

Bug#893561: libtablelayout-java: license does not seem to meet the DFSG

2018-03-19 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: libtablelayout-java Version: 20090826-3 Severity: serious Justification: Policy 2.2.1 Hello! Thanks for maintaining this package in Debian. I noticed that the license was [discussed](https://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2009/06/msg00050.html) on debian-legal a long time ago. My

Bug#892296: gridengine-qmon: qmon fails to start, as it cannot load pixmaps

2018-03-07 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: gridengine-qmon Version: 8.1.9+dfsg-4 Severity: important Dear Debian HPC Team, I think I found a bug in the gridengine-qmon Debian package. The qmon program fails to start: $ qmon Warning: Cannot convert string "intro" to type Pixmap Can't load icon 21cal. Pixmaps should

Bug#892293: paraview: errors when saving animations as AVI files [regression]

2018-03-07 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: paraview Version: 5.4.1+dfsg3-1+b2 Severity: important Dear paraview Debian package maintainers, I've just found a regression. In a nutshell, version 5.4.1 fails to save animations as AVI files (while version 5.1.2 was perfectly capable of doing so). Other animation formats (OGV, PNG

Bug#888981: RFP: vim-vimtex -- modern Vim plugin for editing LaTeX files

2018-01-31 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: vim-vimtex Version : N/A Upstream Author : Karl Yngve Lervåg * URL : https://github.com/lervag/vimtex/ * License : Expat Programming Lang: Vim script Description : modern Vim plugin

Bug#888685: vim-gtk: segfaults after :set mouse=a in text console used for startx

2018-01-28 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: vim-gtk Version: 2:8.0.1401-2 Severity: important Hello! I noticed a bug in vim, while attempting to use it in a text console. The steps to reproduce the bug are: 0) use a (Debian testing) system (with systemd as PID 1 and) without graphical display managers (no lightdm or

Bug#888607: paraview: complaints about deprecated functions in VTK 7.0

2018-01-27 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: paraview Version: 5.4.1+dfsg3-1+b2 Severity: important Hello! Thanks for maintaining ParaView in Debian. For some time lately, I have been experienced an annoying issue: each time I load some data (it seems that this happens with different data file formats, if not with all of them), a

Bug#888468: pandoc: please support new YAML fields "front/back-notice" for LaTeX and HTML5 output

2018-01-25 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: pandoc Version: 1.19.2.4~dfsg-1+b1 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch Hello Debian Haskell Group! Thanks a lot for maintaining this really nice markup converter in Debian! The package is very useful and having it in Debian is greatly appreciated. While using it, I found that YAML metadata

Bug#886419: systray-mdstat: complains at startup, despite everything appears to be fine

2018-01-05 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: systray-mdstat Version: 1.1.0-1 Severity: normal Hello, thanks for developing and packaging this little nice notifier! I am giving it a try, when I noticed something weird. As soon as I start it, it complains on stdout (and Gtk complains on stderr): $ systray-mdstat no notify

Bug#886285: vim-runtime: tex syntax highlighting fails to enter math mode within align environment

2018-01-03 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: vim-runtime Version: 2:8.0.1401-2 Severity: normal Hello again! I noticed another regression, this time in tex syntax highlighting. The issue seems to be that it fails to enter math mode within the align environment (and probably other amsmath environments). The package version

Bug#885938: vim-runtime: sh syntax highlighting wrongly marks substring processing as bashism

2017-12-31 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: vim-runtime Version: 2:8.0.0197-2 Severity: normal Hello again, as said in [another bug report], substring processing (such as ${FOO%bar}, ${FOO%%bar}, ${FOO#bar}, ${FOO##bar}) is not a bashism: the man page for dash(1) states that it is supported and checkbashism does not complain...

Bug#885936: vim-runtime: please support TeX and YAML syntax highlighting within syntax/markdown.vim

2017-12-31 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: vim-runtime Version: 2:8.0.1401-2 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch Hello! # Description of the issue File runtime/syntax/markdown.vim supports highlighting the markdown syntax, but fails to support a pair of useful extensions of the markdown language: the [TeX Math] inside dollars and

Bug#884057: sweethome3d: crashes just after startup with nouveau graphics drivers

2017-12-10 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: sweethome3d Version: 5.6+dfsg-1 Severity: important Hello and thanks for maintaining this nice interior design tool! I have been experiencing an issue for some time. If I recall correctly, it started during last summer (on Debian testing systems). When starting sweethome3d on a box with

Bug#883880: sdpa: is GPL-licensed, but links with a GPL-incompatible library

2017-12-08 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: sdpa Version: 7.3.11+dfsg-1 Severity: important User: debian-science-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org Usertags: scotch-license-issues Hello, the executable /usr/bin/sdpa is under the GNU GPL v2 or later, with no (documented) special exception. However, at the same time, it links with:

Bug#883867: RFP: bookworm -- simple, focused eBook reader

2017-12-08 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: bookworm Version : 0.9.1 Upstream Author : Siddhartha Das * URL : https://babluboy.github.io/bookworm/ * License : GPL-3+ Programming Lang: Vala Description : simple, focused eBook

Bug#882161: gpg: fails to sign in console after quitting X; works in console after a new login

2017-11-19 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: gpg Version: 2.2.2-1 Severity: important Hello Debian GnuPG Maintainers! I have the following pinentry packages installed: $ aptitude search pinentry | grep ^i i A pinentry-gtk2 - GTK+-2-based PIN or pass-phrase entry dialog for GnuPG i pinentry-tty - minimal dumb-terminal PIN

Bug#880111: duplicity: fails to ask for GPG key passphrase and claims that none was given

2017-10-29 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: duplicity Version: 0.7.14-1 Severity: important Hello and thanks for maintaining duplicity in Debian. I have experienced a new issue with duplicity for some weeks and I do not understand what's going on. When I backup my user data with duplicity, I do not have any X graphical session

Bug#875509: lintian: please upload a version that knows about Policy 4.1.0

2017-09-11 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: lintian Version: 2.5.52 Severity: wishlist Hello! A new version of the Debian Policy has been recently published and [announced]. This new version has been almost immediately [added] to the list of standards known to lintian. [announced]:

Bug#874304: gpg: --refresh-keys became extremely verbose and complaining

2017-09-04 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: gpg Version: 2.1.23-2 Severity: normal Hello Debian GnuPG Maintainers! After today's upgrade, I refreshed some keys in my keyring and noticed that gpg has just become extremely verbose. For instance: $ gpg --refresh-keys 0xCCD2ED94D21739E9 gpg: refreshing 1 key from

Bug#873546: firefox-esr: fails to play some YouTube videos (which play correctly on chromium)

2017-08-28 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: firefox-esr Version: 52.3.0esr-2 Severity: normal Hello and thanks for maintaining Firefox in Debian! I noticed that some YouTube videos[^NOTE] fail to be played on firefox-esr, but are played with no issues on chromium (hence the videos themselves do not seem to be somehow

Bug#872348: valac-0.36-vapi: Please update "poppler-glib.vapi" against new poppler/0.57.0-1 in experimental

2017-08-16 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: valac-0.36-vapi Version: 0.36.3-1 Severity: normal Hello Maintainers of Vala packages! A new version of the poppler library (0.57.0-1) has been just uploaded to experimental, with some [additions] to the Glib API. [additions]: if you need further details, please take a look at

Bug#868082: linux-image-4.11.0-1-686: fails to boot on i386 (Soekris net5501)

2017-07-11 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: src:linux Version: 4.11.6-1 Severity: important Hello, after upgrading an i386 box (Soekris net5501) running testing (buster), I found out that the newly migrated Linux kernel fails to boot. Looking at the boot through the serial console reveals the following few messages: Booting

Bug#867222: pdf-presenter-console: [regression] movies are expanded full screen, cover the presentation, and never disappear

2017-07-04 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: pdf-presenter-console Version: 4.0.7-1 Severity: important Hello! As soon as I upgraded to pdf-presenter-console/4.0.7-1, I began experiencing a really really bad regression regarding movie playback. Suppose to have a PDF presentation (created with LaTeX and Beamer) that includes

Bug#866041: anacron: may execute daily/weekly/monthly jobs shortly after midnight

2017-06-26 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: anacron Version: 2.3-24 Severity: normal Tags: patch Hello, I see that bug #744753 has been solved by changing the frequency at which anacron checks whether there are jobs to be executed. When systemd is PID 1, anacron performs this check hourly via timer, rather than daily at 7:30, as

Bug#863663: libgstreamer1.0-0: plays MJPEG AVI files (and possibly other formats) at degraded quality

2017-05-29 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: libgstreamer1.0-0 Version: 1.10.4-1 Severity: important Hello maintainers of GStreamer packages! First off, thanks for maintaining these packages in Debian. I am experiencing an issue with GStreamer: I noticed it inside pdf-presenter-console (which uses libgstreamer1.0-0 to play back

Bug#860955: poppler: please package new upstream version 0.54.0 as soon as possible

2017-04-22 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Source: poppler Version: 0.48.0-2 Severity: wishlist Hello poppler Debian package maintainers! A new upstream version has just been released (0.54.0). This new version includes (among other things) a patch that I contributed to expose the PlayMode of a movie via the glib API. See the upstream

Bug#858304: vim-runtime: markdown syntax highlighting (and possibly others) goes crazy and drives the terminal crazy

2017-03-20 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: vim-runtime Version: 2:8.0.0197-3 Severity: normal Hello Debian Vim Maintainers, I have experienced this bug for a fairly long time, when editing markdown documents with vim. It has been triggered in a seemingly random manner. I finally found a reliable way to reproduce it. Steps to

Bug#500276: reportbug: Needlessly escapes brackets to \( in realname

2017-02-20 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
no longer experiences the misbehavior (when using version 7.1.5)... Thanks for your time! -- Package-specific info: ** Environment settings: DEBEMAIL="invernom...@paranoici.org" EMAIL="invernom...@paranoici.org" DEBFULLNAME="Francesco Poli (wintermute)" INTERFACE=&qu

Bug#855525: pdf-presenter-console: fails to play movies at some resolutions and rectangular area sizes

2017-02-19 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: pdf-presenter-console Version: 4.0.5-1 Severity: normal Hello! I found another issue with movie playback in pdfpc. With some combinations of screen resolution and movie rectangular area size, the movie fails to be played and I get the following errors on the terminal: Gstreamer

Bug#854273: pdf-presenter-console: movies are played in degraded quality in dual screen mode

2017-02-05 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: pdf-presenter-console Version: 4.0.5-1 Severity: normal Hello again! I think I found another flaw in pdfpc. While testing the program in dual screen mode [1], I noticed that the embedded movies were played in more degraded quality than in single screen mode. I mean: when I start the

Bug#854266: pdf-presenter-console: real fullscreen only works in dual screen mode and requires a trick

2017-02-05 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: pdf-presenter-console Version: 4.0.5-1 Severity: normal Hello! I think I found a bug in pdfpc. When I display a PDF file in single screen mode with $ pdfpc -Ss foo.pdf the program should run in fullscreen mode. Indeed it does. Almost... :-( What happens (at least with my Fluxbox

Bug#854170: texlive-latex-extra: please include python-latex-highlighting

2017-02-04 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: texlive-latex-extra Version: 2016.20170123-1 Severity: wishlist Hello Debian TeX Maintainers! Thanks for all the hard work on Debian TeX packages: it's really appreciated! Could you please include python-latex-highlighting [1] into Debian package texlive-latex-extra? It is released

Bug#853097: pdf-presenter-console: please support the loop and showcontrols=false options for movie playback

2017-01-29 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: pdf-presenter-console Version: 4.0.5-1 Severity: normal Hello! Thanks a lot for maintaining the Debian package for this really interesting PDF presentation tool. I've just found out about it, while searching for (DFSG-free) PDF viewers capable of playing back movies embedded in pages of

Bug#852179: RFP: xul-ext-quicklocaleswitcher -- browser plugin to switch language (for UI, spell checker, website content)

2017-01-22 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: xul-ext-quicklocaleswitcher Version : 1.7.8.5.1 Upstream Author : Martijn Kooij a.k.a. Captain Caveman * URL : https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/quick-locale-switcher/ * License : MPL-1.1 or GPL-2+

Bug#849282: zathura: please implement support for video playing in PDF document

2016-12-24 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: zathura Version: 0.3.6-2 Severity: wishlist Hello, I have a feature request: I found out that the okular [1][2] is able to play videos embedded in pages of PDF documents created with LaTeX and beamer [3] (which includes the "multimedia" LaTeX package, defining the \movie command). Could

Bug#848285: jackd2: spits verbose output and exits immediately when the client stops sending audio

2016-12-15 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: jackd2 Version: 1.9.10+20150825git1ed50c92~dfsg-4 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable Hello and thanks for maintaining jackd2! After the upgrade [UPGRADE] jackd2:amd64 1.9.10+20150825git1ed50c92~dfsg-3 -> 1.9.10+20150825git1ed50c92~dfsg-4 [UPGRADE]

Bug#846626: fbpanel: debian/copyright reports incorrect licenses (including mine)!

2016-12-02 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: fbpanel Version: 7.0-2 Severity: serious Justification: Policy 4.5 Hello, many thanks for fixing the recently reopened bug #585795 so quickly! I was taking a look at the debian/copyright file [1] and I noticed that the license for my two icons is not correctly described. [1]

Bug#844036: gfortran-6: spits out false warning about COMPLEX(4) to REAL(4) conversion when using a complex parameter

2016-11-11 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: gfortran-6 Version: 6.2.0-10 Severity: normal Hello, I think I found a bug in gfortran. Please consider the following simple program: $ cat cpxparam.f program main complex iu parameter (iu=(0,1)) complex val1,val2 write (*,*) 'iu =

Bug#840878: ruby-gettext: rxgettext --wrap breaks words!

2016-10-15 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: ruby-gettext Version: 3.2.2-1 Severity: normal Tags: patch Hello, I noticed that rxgettext, when used with the --wrap option, wraps long message lines by breaking words. I think this is awkward and should be avoided. Wrapping of long message lines should be performed by searching the

Bug#840691: libgs9: security update DSA-3691-1 breaks zathura, evince, ... in jessie

2016-10-13 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: libgs9 Version: 9.06~dfsg-2+deb8u3 Severity: grave Tags: security Justification: renders package unusable Hello! I had a bad surprise today in jessie. After the security update: [UPGRADE] libgs9:amd64 9.06~dfsg-2+deb8u1 -> 9.06~dfsg-2+deb8u3 [UPGRADE] libgs9-common:amd64

Bug#838940: rdtool: rd2man-lib.rb messes up with following DescListItem, if Description is multi-TextBlock

2016-09-26 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: rdtool Version: 0.6.38-4 Severity: important Hello again, I think I found one more bug in rd2man-lib.rb . Steps to reproduce with the attached trivial Ruby Document file: $ rd2 -r rd/rd2html-lib.rb -o desc desc.rd Everything's fine. The resulting HTML file looks OK: $

Bug#838938: rdtool: rd2man-lib.rb introduces spurious spaces around ((*emphasized*)) words in DescListItem Terms

2016-09-26 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: rdtool Version: 0.6.38-4 Severity: important Hello again, I think I found another bug in rd2man-lib.rb . Steps to reproduce with the attached trivial Ruby Document file: $ rd2 -r rd/rd2html-lib.rb -o emph emph.rd Everything's fine. The resulting HTML file looks OK: $

Bug#838414: gpick: colors.txt is non-free

2016-09-20 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: gpick Version: 0.2.5-2 Severity: serious Justification: Policy 2.2.1 Hello and thanks for maintaining this little tool in Debian! I noticed that the license for file share/gpick/colors.txt fails to meet the DFSG, as it includes at least one non-free restriction. Clause 5 states: | 5.

Bug#837796: paraview: segfaults when performing query-based selections

2016-09-14 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: paraview Version: 5.1.2+dfsg1-1 Severity: important Hello! First of all, thanks for maintaining ParaView in Debian. I noticed a segfault that can be obtained reproducibly. It happens with query-based selections. The steps to reproduce the segfaults are the ones detailed in _Exercise

Bug#836801: rdtool: rd2man-lib.rb crashes on MethodListItem

2016-09-05 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: rdtool Version: 0.6.38-4 Severity: important Hello and thanks for maintaining rdtool in Debian! I think I found a bug in rd2man-lib.rb . Steps to reproduce with the attached trivial Ruby Document file: $ rd2 -r rd/rd2html-lib.rb -o bar bar.rd Everything's fine. The resulting HTML

Bug#832794: xserver-xorg-core: modesetting on some Intel hw causes xmgrace graphical glitches

2016-07-28 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: xserver-xorg-core Version: 2:1.18.4-1 Severity: normal Hello again X Strike Force, I found out another regression caused by the use of the modesetting X video driver on one box (this regression does not seem to show on another box with more recent Intel graphics hardware...). Steps to

Bug#832484: xserver-xorg-core: modesetting on some Intel hw causes hangs on xscreensaver (and on VT switches)

2016-07-25 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: xserver-xorg-core Version: 2:1.18.4-1 Severity: normal Hello X Strike Force, thanks for taking the step to use the modesetting X video driver by default on most Intel graphics hardware. I hope this move will help in solving the issues that many users have been facing in recent times with

Bug#831458: tidy: adds too much vertical space

2016-07-16 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: tidy Version: 1:5.2.0-1.1 Severity: normal Hello again, besides bug #830066, another thing that I noticed after the upgrade [UPGRADE] tidy:amd64 20091223cvs-1.5 -> 1:5.2.0-1.1 is that tidy started to add too much vertical space. Please let me explain the steps to reproduce the

Bug#831047: debian-policy: two Debian Policy versions were released, but not announced on d-devel-announce

2016-07-13 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: debian-policy Severity: important Hello and thanks for maintaining the Debian Policy manual. I have just found out that two Debian Policy versions (3.9.7.0 and 3.9.8.0) were released without any announce on debian-devel-announce@l.d.o ! At least, I wasn't able to find any announce on

Bug#830066: tidy: fails to use ~/.tidy.conf , unless HTML_TIDY is appropriately set

2016-07-05 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: tidy Version: 1:5.2.0-1.1 Severity: normal Hello and thanks for maintaining tidy-html5 in Debian! Unfortunately, after the upgrade: [UPGRADE] tidy:amd64 20091223cvs-1.5 -> 1:5.2.0-1.1 I noticed that tidy was completely misbehaving. None of my usual settings was complied with. My

Bug#829443: apt: without systemd, apt-compat delays all other cron jobs, even if it has *nothing* to do!

2016-07-03 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: apt Version: 1.2.13 Severity: normal Hello! This may seem as a sort of comeback of bug #459344, but it's slightly different. However, the underlying issue is basically the same: if the cron daily job is supposed to do nothing, then it should behave exactly as /bin/true . OK, let's

Bug#827936: po4a: please implement support for Ruby document format

2016-06-22 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: po4a Version: 0.47-2 Severity: wishlist Hello and thanks for developing po4a. As discussed on the po4a-devel mailing list [1], it would be great if po4a supported the Ruby document format [2]. [1] https://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/po4a-devel/2016-June/002364.html [2]

Bug#826457: python-sympy: please implement a way to force a derivative to be partial or total

2016-06-05 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: python-sympy Version: 1.0-1 Severity: wishlist Tags: upstream Hello! I would love to have a way to force Sympy to consider a derivative as partial or total, depending on my wishes. This applies to how the derivative is printed (especially with the LaTeX printer). Let me explain with an

Bug#826249: discount: the debian/copyright file incorrectly labels the license texts

2016-06-03 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: discount Version: 2.2.0-1 Severity: important Tags: patch Hello! I noticed that the debian/copyright file of this package incorrectly labels the quoted license text. According to the machine-readable format specification [1], the license text cannot be labeled BSD-2-clause, as it is

Bug#824711: coin3: the debian/copyright file incorrectly labels the license texts

2016-05-18 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: coin3 Version: 3.1.4~abc9f50+dfsg1-1 Severity: important Tags: patch Hello and thanks for maintaining Coin3 in Debian! I noticed that the debian/copyright file incorrectly labels the quoted license texts. According to the machine-readable format specification [1], the two quoted

Bug#824393: fbreader: debian/copyright file has not been updated

2016-05-15 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: fbreader Version: 0.12.10dfsg2-1 Severity: important Hello again, as I said in my last comment [1] to bug #807074, I noticed that the debian/copyright file [2] still mentions the *.ent files and their problematic license. [1] https://bugs.debian.org/807074#54 [2]

Bug#824073: python-sympy: please package the galgebra module (as a separate binary package)

2016-05-11 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: python-sympy Version: 1.0-1 Severity: wishlist Hello and thanks again for packaging version 1.0 of sympy (see bug #819515): the new features work as expected! The only disadvantage is that the galgebra module has been taken out. $ isympy [...] In [1]: from sympy.galgebra.printing

Bug#824071: sympytexpackage: please define the Python path in sympytex.sty

2016-05-11 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: texlive-math-extra Version: 2015.20160320-1 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch Hello again, third and last (for the time being) thing about sympytexpackage: the sympytex.sty file should be patched so that it defines the Python path where the Python module will be found. Currently, the user

Bug#824069: sympytexpackage: please include example.tex along with example.pdf

2016-05-11 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: texlive-math-extra Version: 2015.20160320-1 Severity: wishlist Hello again, another thing about sympytexpackage: the example.pdf file installed into /usr/share/doc/texlive-doc/latex/sympytexpackage/ is distributed under the DFSG-free terms of the GNU GPL v2 or later (contrary to the rest

Bug#824068: sympytexpackage: documentation is non-free

2016-05-11 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: texlive-math-extra Version: 2015.20160320-1 Severity: serious Justification: Policy 2.2.1 Hello and thanks for maintaining TeX Live in Debian! I noticed that binary package texlive-math-extra includes, among other LaTeX packages, sympytexpackage. This is very useful, thanks for

Bug#823757: sm: fails to set background color with the -b option

2016-05-08 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: screen-message Version: 0.23-1 Severity: normal Hello and thanks for maintaining screen-message in Debian. I hope that using the above pseudo-headers will assign my bug report to the correct package (you should really solve the package name conflict with that other CRAN thing once and

Bug#823100: ghostscript: includes two files claimed to be under a non-free Unicode license

2016-04-30 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: ghostscript Version: 9.19~dfsg-1+b1 Severity: serious Justification: Policy 2.2.1 Hello, I noticed that two files included in the ghostscript source package are documented in the debian/copyright file as distributed under the terms of a non-free Unicode license. The two files are:

Bug#822579: inkscape: may mess up with hatches, when importing DXF files

2016-04-25 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: inkscape Version: 0.91-7+b2 Severity: normal Hello and thanks for maintaining Inkscape in Debian! I noticed an issue with the DXF import function. It may mess up badly with the hatches, when importing DXF files. Please take a look at the attached minimal test case. File section.dxf has

Bug#822568: librecad: PDF export lacks option to set page format to the minimum bounding box

2016-04-25 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: librecad Version: 2.0.9-2 Severity: wishlist Hello again, another thing I noticed, while testing the PDF export function of LibreCAD (please refer to the already sent test case of bug #822556 [1]): the PDF file is produced with the page format specified in the current drawing preferences

Bug#822556: librecad: PDF export creates poor quality (non vector?) curves

2016-04-25 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: librecad Version: 2.0.9-2 Severity: normal Hello and thanks for maintaining LibreCAD in Debian! I noticed that the PDF export function seems to create poor quality curves. Please take a look at the attached minimal test case. File arcs.dxf includes two simple cicular arcs, created with

Bug#820519: sitecopy: fails to accept SSL certificates issued by a CA (Let's Encrypt)

2016-04-09 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: sitecopy Version: 1:0.16.6-7 Severity: important Tags: security Hi! I use sitecopy to update websites via webdav over SSL: $ cat .sitecopyrc [...] protocol webdav http secure [...] When the website uses a self-signed SSL certificate, I have to explicitly check the

Bug#819515: python-sympy: please package new upstream version

2016-03-29 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: python-sympy Version: 0.7.6.1-2 Severity: wishlist Hello and thanks (again) for maintaining the sympy Debian package! There's a new upstream version (1.0) available with new interesting features: could you please package it? Thanks for your time. P.S.: As an aside, I noticed that the

Bug#818107: doconce: please package the latest upstream version (and update the homepage)

2016-03-13 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: doconce Version: 0.7.3-1 Severity: wishlist Hello! Thanks for maintaining this interesting package in Debian. First of all, I noticed that the homepage field [1] seems to be outdated: the URL leads me to an empty page [2], that displays a 404 error, after enabling JavaScript (I won't

Bug#816708: release.debian.org: migration waits 5 days despite urgency=high

2016-03-04 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: release.debian.org Severity: normal User: release.debian@packages.debian.org Usertags: britney Hello Release Team! I noticed something awkward about the unstable→testing migration and it seems to me that it's not even the first time I see it... It appears that the migration waits 5

Bug#815834: mdadm: with systemd as PID 1, no clean way to restart the mdadm monitor

2016-02-24 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: mdadm Version: 3.3.4-1.1+b1 Severity: normal Hello! The issue I am reporting may be related to bug #796624, but it's not the same. After upgrading packages (especially libraries), I routinely use "checkrestart" (from package debian-goodies) to see which processes need to be restarted.

Bug#815618: ovmf: Please someone create a DFSG-free ovmf variant

2016-02-22 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: ovmf Version: 0~20160104.c2a892d7-1 Severity: wishlist Hello. As far as I know, package ovmf is needed in order to create and run a virtual UEFI machine. Unfortunately, ovmf is non-free, since the included Intel FAT file system driver has "additional terms" that restrict redistribution

Bug#815600: isympy: lacks a dependency on python-sympy | python3-sympy

2016-02-22 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: isympy Version: 0.7.6.1-1 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable Hello and thanks for maintaining the sympy Debian package! I think binary isympy lacks a dependency on python-sympy | python3-sympy. Without this dependency, installing it leaves the package in an unusable

Bug#815110: tracker.debian.org: please use plain images (rather than web fonts) as icons

2016-02-18 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: tracker.debian.org Severity: wishlist Hello! As discussed in bug #753800 [1], I would love seeing the tracker web interface modified so that it uses plain images (rather than @font-face web fonts) in order to display icons. [1] https://bugs.debian.org/753800#34 and following messages

Bug#813878: security-tracker: DSA-3464-1 vs. tracker

2016-02-06 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: security-tracker Severity: normal Hi everyone! DSA-3464-1 [1] states that several vulnerabilities are fixed in rails/2:4.2.5.1-1 for sid, but the tracker claims that two of them [2][3] are still unfixed in sid. Is the DSA wrong or should the tracker data be updated? Please clarify,

Bug#811106: browser-plugin-gnash: crashes with general protection error and fails to work

2016-01-15 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: browser-plugin-gnash Version: 0.8.11~git20160109-1 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable Hello! I experienced a grave regression after upgrading browser-plugin-gnash: [UPGRADE] browser-plugin-gnash:amd64 0.8.11~git20150419-3+b3 -> 0.8.11~git20160109-1 [UPGRADE]

Bug#810608: systemd-sysv: on shutdown, fails to inform users that the system is going down

2016-01-10 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: systemd-sysv Version: 228-2+b1 Severity: normal Hello, I noticed a feature that systemd seems to lack. When the box is being shut down (reboot or halt or poweroff), users are not notified in any way of what is happening. For instance, any remote user (connected via SSH) is correctly

Bug#810005: xul-ext-cookie-monster: [regression] cannot login on www.amazon.com, even after temporarily allowing all cookies

2016-01-05 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: xul-ext-cookie-monster Version: 1.2.5-1 Severity: important Hello! I noticed a regression, after the recent [UPGRADE] iceweasel:amd64 38.5.0esr-1 -> 43.0.2-1 [UPGRADE] iceweasel:amd64 43.0.2-1 -> 43.0.2-1+b1 I can no longer login on www.amazon.it or www.amazon.com, even after

Bug#807074: fbreader: includes files with unclear DFSG-freeness and/or copyright status

2015-12-04 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: fbreader Version: 0.10.7dfsg-4 Severity: serious Justification: Policy 2.2.1 Hello Eugene and thanks for maintaining FBReader in Debian! I noticed something awkward in the debian/copyright file: [...] | Html entity files (fbreader/data/formats/docbook/*.ent) with | these licenses: |

Bug#806256: libpam-systemd: log out from a TTY and your X input devices get lost!

2015-11-25 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: libpam-systemd Version: 228-2 Severity: normal Hello, I noticed a weird bug that is possibly caused by libpam-systemd. Steps to reproduce (on a box with systemd as PID 1 process): 0) login on TTY1 (virtual terminal 1) as a regular user 1) start an X session with $ startx

Bug#803591: security-tracker: DSA-3381-1 vs. tracker

2015-10-31 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: security-tracker Severity: normal Hello everybody! DSA-3381-1 [1] states that several vulnerabilities are fixed in openjdk-7/7u85-2.6.1-5 for sid, but the tracker [2] claims that many of those vulnerabilities are only fixed in openjdk-7/7u85-2.6.1-6 . Is that a typo in the DSA or should

Bug#799392: apcalc: [regression] no longer prompts for input in scripts

2015-09-18 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: apcalc Version: 2.12.5.0-1 Severity: normal Hello and thanks for maintaining my favorite calculator in Debian! I have recently noticed a really annoying regression. Please consider the following minimal script: $ cat calc_script.cal #!/usr/bin/calc -q -f n = eval(prompt("Enter

Bug#799194: ruby-gettext: may return rubbish when LANGUAGE is set and LC_CTYPE='C'

2015-09-16 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: ruby-gettext Version: 3.1.6-1 Severity: normal Hello! As discussed on bug #799050 [1] and on debian-ruby@l.d.o [2], I've found a weird behavior of ruby-gettext. [1] https://bugs.debian.org/799050#22 [2] https://lists.debian.org/debian-ruby/2015/09/msg00042.html Steps to reproduce (with

Bug#797719: libgpgme11: when encrypting, sylpheed also asks me to select a key for ""

2015-09-01 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: libgpgme11 Version: 1.5.5-3 Severity: normal Hello and thanks for maintaining (in Debian) the library that makes it possible to integrate sylpheed with gnupg! I have recently noticed that sylpheed started to behave a bit strangely, when preparing an encrypted message. What follows are

Bug#795470: tagpending: Use of uninitialized value in split at /usr/bin/tagpending line 158

2015-08-14 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: devscripts Version: 2.15.8 Severity: minor Hello and thanks for maintaining devscripts! I noticed that tagpending, when run in a source tree where the last changelog entry includes no Closes directives, spits out the following error message: $ tagpending Use of uninitialized value

Bug#792050: security-tracker: DSA-330[67]-1 vs. tracker

2015-07-10 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: security-tracker Severity: normal Hi everybody! The tracker pages [1][2] for DSA-3306-1 [3] and DSA-3307-1 [4] do not seem to be linked with CVE-2015-1868 [5], which, according to the tracker, seems to be fixed everywhere, while the DSAs [3][4] seem to disagree. Please fix the tracker

Bug#791718: conky-std: conky should clearly document how the removed pre_exec variable may be replaced

2015-07-07 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: conky-std Version: 1.10.0-1 Severity: normal Hello Vincent, I've recently upgraded conky on my Debian testing boxes: [UPGRADE] conky-std:amd64 1.9.0-6 - 1.10.0-1 I noticed that the pre_exec variable has been removed, without providing anything with an equivalent behavior. This seems to

Bug#789810: summit.debconf.org: Registration form: parts of the page are not encrypted

2015-06-24 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: summit.debconf.org Severity: important Hello, I intend to register for DebConf15, but, after the authentication on the Debian SSO (by using my alioth account and accepting cookies from both sso.debian.org and summit.debconf.org), and after authorizing summit.debconf.org to fetch some of

Bug#789490: security-tracker: DSA-3290-1 vs. tracker

2015-06-21 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: security-tracker Severity: normal Hello! DSA-3290-1 [1] states that CVE-2015-3636 is fixed in linux/3.16.7-ckt11-1, but the tracker shows somewhat self-inconsistent information about this vulnerability [2], claiming that linux/3.16.7-ckt11-1 is fixed in jessie, but vulnerable in

Bug#788685: security-tracker: DSA-3288-1 vs. tracker

2015-06-14 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: security-tracker Severity: normal Hello! There seems to be no tracker page [1] for DSA-3288-1 [2], yet. Please update the tracker data. Thanks for your time! [1] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/DSA-3288-1 [2]

Bug#787662: tracker.debian.org: please always show bug statistics (even when the bug count is zero!)

2015-06-03 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: tracker.debian.org Severity: wishlist Hello! Thanks for fixing bug #787246. I am separating the wishlist part of #787246 into a distinct bug report. The bug statistics box is displayed only if the package has a number of bugs greater than 0. For instance:

Bug#787246: tracker.debian.org: [regression] the package tracker seems to have lost the bugs box

2015-05-30 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: tracker.debian.org Severity: important Hello and thanks for developing the (new) Debian Package Tracker! I have recently noticed a regression: the package tracker seems to no longer display the bugs box (which used to show up on the top of the right column). The bugs box seems to be

Bug#785405: bugs.debian.org: SOAP interface often fails with error message about undefined value as a subroutine reference

2015-05-15 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
*** Welcome to reportbug. Use ? for help at prompts. *** Note: bug reports are publicly archived (including the email address of the submitter). Detected character set: UTF-8 Please change your locale if this is incorrect. Using 'Francesco Poli (wintermute) invernom...@paranoici.org' as your

Bug#784833: checkrestart: wrongly suggests to use systemctl on boxes not running systemd as PID 1

2015-05-09 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: debian-goodies Version: 0.64 Severity: normal Hello Javier, I noticed that, after the [UPGRADE] debian-goodies:amd64 0.63 - 0.64 checkrestart suggests to restart some services by using systemctl, rather than by using service. This may be the right strategy on boxes that run systemd as

Bug#784828: xul-ext-cookie-monster: [regression] fails to show cookies for one or all sites

2015-05-09 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: xul-ext-cookie-monster Version: 1.2.5-1 Severity: normal Hello! First of all, thanks for maintaining this very useful extension in Debian. Unfortunately, I noticed a regression after: [UPGRADE] xul-ext-cookie-monster:amd64 1.2.0-1 - 1.2.5-1 The extension is no longer able to show the

Bug#784839: mayavi2: please package new upstream version

2015-05-09 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: mayavi2 Version: 4.3.1-3.1 Severity: wishlist Hello! It seems to me that a new upstream version of Mayavi2 has been published: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/mayavi/4.4.1 Please package it for inclusion in Debian. Thanks for your time. Bye. -- System Information: Debian Release:

Bug#784841: paraview-python: cannot be installed side by side with mayavi2

2015-05-09 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: paraview-python Version: 4.1.0+dfsg+1-1 Severity: normal Hello and thanks for maintaining ParaView in Debian! It seems to me that it's not possible to install paraview-python on boxes where mayavi2 is already present: $ aptitude -s install paraview-python The following NEW

Bug#784565: nx-libs-lite: parts are derived from non-free code

2015-05-06 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: nx-libs-lite Version: 3.5.0.27-1 Severity: serious Justification: Policy 2.2.1 Hello and thanks for maintaining this package in Debian! I noticed that the debian/copyright states: [...] | Parts of this software are derived from DXPC project. These copyright | notices apply to original

Bug#783553: numdiff: debian/copyright file is not complete

2015-04-27 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: numdiff Version: 5.8.1-1 Severity: serious Justification: Policy 4.5 Hello and thanks for maintaining this interesting package in Debian! After taking a look at bug #709492, I noticed that the debian/copyright file for numdiff/5.8.1-1 [1] seems to be incomplete, as it does not mention

Bug#777458: security-tracker: DSA-3156-1 vs. tracker

2015-02-08 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: security-tracker Severity: normal Hi again, DSA-3156-1 [1] states that CVE-2013-6933 is fixed in wheezy by vlc/2.0.3-5+deb7u2+b1 and mplayer/2:1.0~rc4.dfsg1+svn34540-1+deb7u1 . The CVE tracker page [2] seems to be unaware of these two fixed versions for vlc and mplayer. I don't know

Bug#777454: security-tracker: DSA-3155-1 vs. tracker

2015-02-08 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: security-tracker Severity: normal Hello everybody, there seems to be something weird going on. The tracker page [1] for DSA-3155-1 [2] looks OK: it states that the vulnerabilities are fixed in wheezy by postgresql-9.1/9.1.15-0+deb7u1 (in agreement with the DSA itself). On the other

<    1   2   3   4   5   >