Bug#444686: New upstream release

2007-09-30 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: xzgv Version: 0.8-5.1+b1 Severity: normal There is a new upstream release (0.9) using GTK2. http://sf.net/projects/xzgv >From Wikipedia: The source code for the utility is not under active development, but the code was updated in September 2007 to use the GTK+ 2 softwar

Bug#444691: Imperfect prose in manual

2007-09-30 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: openssh-client Version: 1:4.6p1-5 Severity: minor File: ssh-keygen.1.gz Tags: patch The following text is confusing. | There is no way to recover a lost passphrase. If the passphrase is | lost or forgotten, a new key must be generated and copied to the | corresponding public key to othe

Bug#439258: forbid doesn't advance selection

2007-08-23 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: aptitude Version: 0.4.6.1-1 Severity: normal In ~/.aptitude/config, I have aptitude::UI::Advance-On-Action "true"; In the initial view, pressing + (install) or = (hold) will advance the selection to the next line. Pressing F (forbid) does not; I think it should. -- System Informat

Bug#440128: superfluous continuation lines in manpage example

2007-08-29 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: keychain Version: 2.6.8-1 Severity: minor File: /usr/share/man/man1/keychain.1.gz Tags: patch The sh example in the manual contains useless continuation lines. keychain id_rsa id_dsa 0123ABCD [ -z "$HOSTNAME" ] && HOSTNAME=‘uname -n‘ [ -f $HOME/.keychain/

Bug#440129: Assumes tty uses ANSI escape sequences

2007-08-29 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: keychain Version: 2.6.8-1 Severity: minor File: /usr/bin/keychain Tags: patch /usr/bin/keychain contains the following: BLUE="" CYAN="" GREEN="" RED="" OFF="" It is bad style to use literal escape sequences. If tput(1) is installe

Bug#446083: Toggles global-font-lock-mode instead of enabling it.

2007-10-10 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: develock-el Version: 0.35-1 Severity: normal File: /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50develock-el.el This is wrong: (cond # ((>= emacs-major-version 20) (require 'develock) (global-font-lock-mode t))) It should call global-font-lock-mode with a positive argument. Wit

Bug#446082: C-a " (windowlist -b) does not display cursor

2007-10-10 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: screen Version: 4.0.3-7 Severity: wishlist In my screenrc I use the following to keep screen messages the same colour as normal, because I don't like the bright white background (my white-on-black urxvt renders standout (sorendition =s dd) as reverse video). sorendition = dd

Bug#446085: Show "real" DL size

2007-10-10 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: aptitude Version: 0.4.6.1-1.1 Severity: wishlist When apt-get installing (and aptitude's line interface, I think), the user can see both the total download size and the amount that is not available locally (either in apt's cache or in a CDROM repository). Using aptitude's GUI, I cannot fi

Bug#429824: Loops forever searching stale dlocate database

2007-10-10 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: reportbug Version: 3.39 Followup-For: Bug #429824 I have the same problem, here is how to reproduce it: aptitude install dlocate aptitude purge angband-doc update-dlocatedb aptitude install angband-doc reportbug /usr/share/doc-base/angband-doc Reportbug loops forever

Bug#446091: Error in `/usr/share/doc-base/angband-doc', line 21: format html already defined

2007-10-10 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: angband-doc Version: 3.0.3.3 Severity: normal File: /usr/share/doc-base/angband-doc When installing angband-doc, I get the following error: Error in `/usr/share/doc-base/angband-doc', line 21: format html already defined I'm not too familiar with doc-base, but here is my guesses.

Bug#446089: Typo: /usr/share/share

2007-10-10 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: angband-doc Version: 3.0.3.3 Severity: minor File: /usr/share/doc-base/angband-doc Tags: patch In /usr/share/doc-base/angband-doc the line /usr/share/share/doc/angband-doc/links.html should read /usr/share/doc/angband-doc/links.html -- System Information: Debian Releas

Bug#446109: typo in description field

2007-10-10 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: liferea-webkit Version: 1.4.3-1 Severity: minor Tags: patch In debian/control, the line "Please note that this plugin is highly experimental and not recomended for everyday use." should read "Please note that this plugin is highly experimental and not recommended for everyday use."

Bug#446133: Is crypt++.el obsolete?

2007-10-10 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: crypt++el Version: 2.92-1 Severity: normal Hi Mario, I'm not familiar with crypt++.el, but it seems to me that - it has not been changed upstream since Jan 2003 (nearly five years) - there are two *old* "important" severity bug against the Debian package, neither of which show any re

Bug#446137: Segfault when migrating ~/.emacs when relative symlink

2007-10-10 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: xemacs21-gnome-mule Version: 21.4.20-2 Severity: normal File: /usr/bin/xemacs21-gnome-mule I am normally a GNU Emacs user. My .emacs is a relative symlink: $ readlink ~/.emacs Preferences/.emacs When I first started XEmacs, it offered to "migrate" my .emacs. I said yes, then "

Bug#446138: Use autoload, not load

2007-10-10 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: cxref-emacs Version: 1.6a-1.1 Severity: wishlist File: /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50cxref-emacs.el The file /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50cxref-emacs.el includes: (load "cxref") (autoload 'cflow "cflow" "" t) If this was changed to the following, Emacs would boot faster. (autoload

Bug#446149: Forcibly enables develock, annoys non-develock users

2007-10-10 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: develock-el Version: 0.35-1 Severity: normal File: /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50develock-el.el Tags: patch Currently, develock (and global font lock mode) is enabled for all users. When a multi-user system has both develock and non-develock users, this annoys the non-develock users -- they

Bug#446152: Use autoload, not load, in emacs site-start.d

2007-10-10 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: a2ps Version: 1:4.13c~rc5-1 Severity: minor File: /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50a2ps.el Tags: patch Currently /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50a2ps.el simply loads a2ps-print. (load "a2ps-print") It could use autoload, which would be slightly faster (it's only a slight improvement because a2ps

Bug#446153: Is ada-delete-key-deletes-forward still needed?

2007-10-10 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: ada-mode Version: 3.6-2 Severity: minor File: /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50ada-mode.el Currently /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50ada-mode.el sets ada-delete-key-deletes-forward. The changelog says this is the fix for http://bugs.debian.org/68678. However, there are no references to this variable

Bug#446186: Confused by filenames with newlines

2007-10-10 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: biomode Version: 1.002-7 Severity: minor File: /etc/emacs/site-start.d/92bio-mode.el Tags: patch In /etc/emacs/site-start.d/92bio-mode.el, (append '(("\\.embl$" . bio-mode) ("\\.seq$" . bio-mode) ("\\.fas$" . bio-mode) ("\

Bug#446178: Confused by filenames with newlines

2007-10-10 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: plywood Version: 0.5.11 Severity: minor File: /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50plywood.el Tags: patch In /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50plywood.el, (setq auto-mode-alist (cons '("\\.ply$" . play-mode) auto-mode-alist)) should read (setq auto-mode-alist (cons '("\\.ply\\'" .

Bug#446179: Confused by filenames with newlines

2007-10-10 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: rdtool-elisp Version: 0.6.20-1 Severity: minor File: /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50rdtool-elisp.el Tags: patch In /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50rdtool-elisp.el, (setq auto-mode-alist (cons '("\\.rd$" . rd-mode) auto-mode-alist)) should read (setq auto-mode-alist (co

Bug#446177: Confused by filenames with newlines

2007-10-10 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: ocaml-mode Version: 3.10.0-8 Severity: minor File: /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50ocaml-mode.el Tags: patch In /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50ocaml-mode.el, (setq auto-mode-alist (cons '("\\.ml[iylp]?$" . caml-mode) auto-mode-alist)) should read (setq auto-mode-alist

Bug#446174: Confused by filenames with newlines

2007-10-10 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: haskell-mode Version: 2.1-1 Severity: minor File: /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50haskell-mode.el Tags: patch In /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50haskell-mode.el, (setq auto-mode-alist (append auto-mode-alist '(("\\.[hg]s$" . haskell-mode) ("\\.hi$

Bug#446176: Confused by filenames with newlines

2007-10-10 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: html-helper-mode Version: 3.0.4kilo-2 Severity: minor File: /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50html-helper-mode.el Tags: patch In /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50html-helper-mode.el, (setq auto-mode-alist (cons '("\\.htm$" . html-helper-mode) auto-mode-alist)) (setq auto-mode-alist (cons '("\\

Bug#446173: Confused by filenames with newlines

2007-10-10 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: gri-el Version: 2.12.16-1 Severity: minor File: /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50gri-el.el Tags: patch In /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50gri-el.el, (setq auto-mode-alist (cons '("\\.gri$" . gri-mode) auto-mode-alist))) should read (setq auto-mode-alist (cons '("\\.gri\\'" . gri-mode) auto-mode

Bug#446172: Confused by filenames with newlines

2007-10-10 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: gnuplot-mode Version: 1:0.6.0-2.1 Severity: minor File: /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50gnuplot-mode.el Tags: patch In /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50gnuplot-mode.el, (setq auto-mode-alist (append '(("\\.gp$" . gnuplot-mode)) auto-mode-alist)) should read (setq auto-mode-alist (append '(("\\.

Bug#446171: Confused by filenames with newlines

2007-10-10 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: gnu-smalltalk-el Version: 2.3.6-1 Severity: minor File: /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50gnu-smalltalk-el.el Tags: patch In /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50gnu-smalltalk-el.el, '("\\.st$" . smalltalk-mode) should read '("\\.st\\'" . smalltalk-mode) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [E

Bug#446170: Confused by filenames with newlines

2007-10-10 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: coq Version: 8.1.pl1+dfsg-3 Severity: minor File: /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50coq.el Tags: patch In /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50coq.el, (setq auto-mode-alist (cons '("\\.v$" . coq-mode) auto-mode-alist)) should read (setq auto-mode-alist (cons '("\\.v\\'" . coq-mode) auto-mode-alis

Bug#446169: Confused by filenames with newlines

2007-10-10 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: bhl Version: 1.7.3-1 Severity: minor File: /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50bhl.el Tags: patch In /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50bhl.el, (add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.bhl$" . bhl-mode)) should read (add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.bhl\\'" . bhl-mode)) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Bug#446167: Confused by filenames with newlines

2007-10-10 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: asn1-mode Version: 2.7-5 Severity: minor File: /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50asn1-mode.el Tags: patch In /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50asn1-mode.el, (setq auto-mode-alist (cons '("\\.[Aa][Ss][Nn]1?$" . asn1-mode) auto-mode-alist)) should read (setq auto-mode-a

Bug#446166: Confused by filenames with newlines

2007-10-10 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: ada-mode Version: 3.6-2 Severity: minor File: /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50ada-mode.el Tags: patch In /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50ada-mode.el, (setq auto-mode-alist (cons '(".*\\.a2ps$" . a2ps-mode) auto-mode-alist)) should read (setq auto-mode-alist

Bug#446181: Confused by filenames with newlines

2007-10-10 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: tads2-mode Version: 1.2-2 Severity: minor File: /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50tads2-mode.el Tags: patch In /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50tads2-mode.el, (setq auto-mode-alist (cons (cons "\\.t$" 'tads-mode) auto-mode-alist)) should read (setq auto-mode-alist

Bug#446183: Confused by filenames with newlines

2007-10-10 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: verilog-mode Version: 357-1 Severity: minor File: /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50verilog-mode.el Tags: patch In /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50verilog-mode.el, (add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.v$" . verilog-mode)) (add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.dv$" . verilog-mode should

Bug#446182: Confused by filenames with newlines

2007-10-10 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: tdiary-mode Version: 2.0.4-2 Severity: minor File: /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50tdiary-mode.el Tags: patch In /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50tdiary-mode.el, (add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.td$" . tdiary-mode)) should read (add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.td\\'" . tdi

Bug#446180: Confused by filenames with newlines

2007-10-10 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: ruby1.9-elisp Version: 1.9.0+20070910-1 Severity: minor File: /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50ruby1.9-elisp.el Tags: patch In /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50ruby1.9-elisp.el, (setq auto-mode-alist (cons '("\\.rb$" . ruby-mode) auto-mode-alist)) should read (setq auto-mode-alist

Bug#446184: Confused by filenames with newlines

2007-10-10 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: yaml-mode Version: 0.0.3-4 Severity: minor File: /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50yaml-mode.el Tags: patch In /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50yaml-mode.el, (add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.yaml$" . yaml-mode)) (add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.yml$" . yaml-mode)) should read

Bug#446185: Confused by filenames with newlines

2007-10-10 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: tuareg-mode Version: 1:1.45.4-3 Severity: minor File: /etc/emacs/site-start.d/51tuareg-mode.el Tags: patch In /etc/emacs/site-start.d/51tuareg-mode.el, (setq auto-mode-alist (cons '("\\.ml[iylp]?$" . tuareg-mode) auto-mode-alist)) should read (setq auto-mode-alist (cons '("\\.

Bug#446191: 50devhelp.el naugtily binds reserved Emacs key, F7

2007-10-10 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: devhelp Version: 0.16.1-1 Severity: minor File: /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50devhelp.el Tags: patch This line of 50devhelp.el is naughty: (global-set-key [f7] 'devhelp-word-at-point) according to the Emacs manual, (info "(emacs)Keymaps"): The function keys through are also reser

Bug#446193: beagle-ping fails with w32 error

2007-10-10 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: beagle Version: 0.2.18-1 Severity: normal File: /usr/bin/beagle-ping I apparently installed some beagle stuff, and I noticed the indexer was using all my CPU for three hours (after being started by anacron). So I figured I'd try to talk to it and see if it knew anything. Looking at the be

Bug#446194: vmware-server-console_1.0.4.56528.0.16.0_amd64.deb depends on self

2007-10-10 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: vmware-package Version: 0.16 Severity: minor I made a package vmware-server-console_1.0.4.56528.0.16.0_amd64.deb using make-vmpkg. It appears to depend on itself; I think that's abnormal. $ dpkg -I vmware-server-console_1.0.4.56528.0.16.0_amd64.deb | > grep Depends: | fmt D

Bug#446234: Use autoload, not load.

2007-10-11 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: lua-mode Version: 20070703-1 Severity: minor File: /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50lua-mode.el Tags: patch In /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50lua-mode.el, the line (load "lua-mode") make Emacs take longer to boot, even when one isn't using lua mode. Instead it should use autoload; (autoload 'l

Bug#446235: Use autoload, not require.

2007-10-11 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: malaga-mode Version: 7.11-1 Severity: minor File: /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50malaga-mode.el Tags: patch In /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50malaga-mode.el, the line (require 'malaga "/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/malaga-mode.el") forces malaga to be loaded at boot, even when it is not immediatel

Bug#446244: Fnord

2007-10-11 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: prolog-el Version: 1.16-1 Severity: minor File: /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50prolog-el.el Tags: patch In /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50prolog-el.el, the subexpression (file (concat package-dir "/prolog.elc")) is useless and should be removed. -- System Information: Debian Release: lenn

Bug#446338: Source code is not UTF-8 and does not declare a coding.

2007-10-12 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: windows-el Version: 2.41-2 Severity: minor File: /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/windows/windows.el Tags: patch I believe Debian defaults to UTF-8 everywhere. The elisp files in this package are encoded in Shift-JIS, but do not declare so on their first line. Instead of ;;; -*- Emacs-Li

Bug#446191: 50devhelp.el naugtily binds reserved Emacs key, F7

2007-10-12 Thread Trent W. Buck
On Fri, Oct 12, 2007 at 01:56:50PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le jeudi 11 octobre 2007 à 08:55 +1000, Trent W. Buck a écrit : > > Package: devhelp > > Version: 0.16.1-1 > > Severity: minor > > File: /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50devhelp.el > > Tags: patch >

Bug#318834: crack-attack resizes self

2007-10-12 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: crack-attack Followup-For: Bug #318834 This is probably because crack-attack will resize itself whenever it decides it has the "wrong" aspect ratio. IMO it should not do this; if the WM decides that crack-attack does not deserve the requested (by crack-attack) aspect ratio, crack-attack

Bug#446579: plucker-setup: expects pilot-xfer (with no arguments) to succeed.

2007-10-14 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: plucker Version: 1.8-21 Severity: normal File: /usr/bin/plucker-setup Tags: patch I was referred to an outstanding Launchpad bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/plucker/+bug/126454 In plucker-setup is the following code: if not os.system('pilot-xfer > /dev/null 2>&1'

Bug#446972: mercurial.el: autoload

2007-10-16 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: mercurial Version: 0.9.4-1 Severity: normal Tags: patch This package provides a mercurial.el library which is not enabled by default. Something like this should be added to this package's emacs site-start.d file: (when (locate-library "mercurial") (autoload 'hg-find-file-hook

Bug#447087: Segfault: emacs -batch -Q -eval '(format-mode-line mode-line-format)'

2007-10-17 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: emacs22 Version: 22.1+1-2 Severity: normal File: /usr/bin/emacs22 I don't think this is supposed to happen: $ emacs -Q -eval '(format-mode-line mode-line-format)' -f kill-emacs $ emacs -batch -Q -eval '(format-mode-line mode-line-format)' Fatal error (11)Segmentation fault $ -- System I

Bug#447088: Problem loading extensions twice (by site and by user)

2007-10-17 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: mercurial Version: 0.9.4-1 Severity: normal File: /etc/mercurial/hgrc.d/hgext.rc Currently, - by default, /etc/mercurial/hgrc.d/hgext.rc loads several extensions; - a user whose $HOME is shared across multiple (heterogeneous) hosts is likely to want to enable these extensions explicit

Bug#443428: Diagnosis

2007-10-17 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: mercurial Version: 0.9.4-1 Followup-For: Bug #443428 This utility does not implement any user input validation; it is passing its data unexamined to child processes. It should, and print a help/usage synopsis for strange input. $ hgmerge mv: cannot stat `': No such file or direc

Bug#447094: hgmerge: uses non-POSIX syntax `type' in /bin/sh script

2007-10-17 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: mercurial Version: 0.9.4-1 Severity: normal File: /usr/bin/hgmerge Tags: patch The `type' builtin is not valid sh syntax: http://bugs.debian.org/397601 It is therefore a policy violation to use it in a script that has a #!/bin/sh shebang. The simplest way to fix this is to change the sh

Bug#447095: Does not use $VISUAL

2007-10-17 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: mercurial Version: 0.9.4-1 Severity: normal When a tool needs an editor, it is conventional to first examine $VISUAL, then $EDITOR, then fall back on vi -- for example, bzr and darcs behave this way. In sh notation, this is expressed as "${VISUAL:-${EDITOR:-vi}}" Mercurial appears

Bug#447097: Vacuous error on missing --style

2007-10-17 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: mercurial Version: 0.9.4-1 Severity: minor I misspelled "style = changelog" as "style = gnu" in my ~/.hgrc. This led to the following behaviour $ hg log abort: No such file or directory: gnu This error message is extremely unhelpful, especially since the file it is really searc

Bug#447100: Ignore .hg (Mercurial) metadata by default.

2007-10-17 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: darcs Version: 1.0.9-1 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch Darcs seeds _darcs/prefs/boring with a number of regexps to ignore, including the metadata of many SCMs. The Mercurial SCM uses a directory .hg/ to store metadata; this is not currently ignored by default. Adding the following entry s

Bug#447379: Bashism in init.d script.

2007-10-20 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: pioneers-console Version: 0.11.2-2 Severity: normal File: /etc/init.d/pioneers-console Tags: patch In /etc/init.d/pioneers-console, this line is wrong: test "$RUN_META_SERVER" == "yes" || exit 0 it should read test "$RUN_META_SERVER" = "yes" || exit 0 -- System Information: De

Bug#548999: busybox httpd -e fails.

2009-09-30 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: busybox Version: 1:1.14.2-2 Severity: minor File: /bin/busybox On OpenWRT (busybox v1.11.2), "busybox httpd -e foo" works, but on Debian it does not, though it claims to: $ busybox httpd -d foo; echo foo $ busybox httpd -e foo; echo httpd: invalid option -- 'e' BusyBox v1.14.2 (Debian 1:

Bug#541034: start-hildon: assumes sapwood-server and matchbox-window-manager are installed

2009-08-11 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: hildon-desktop Version: 1:2.0.19.debian.1-1 Severity: important File: /usr/bin/start-hildon When I tried xinit /usr/bin/start-hildon I got nothing but a white rectangle in the bottom-left corner of the screen. If I run "start-hildon" on the tty, I get $ /usr/bin/start-hildon

Bug#487555: Shouldn't complain about permissions unless .msmtprc contains passwords

2009-08-12 Thread Trent W. Buck
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 09:31:28AM +0200, Emmanuel Bouthenot wrote: > Hi, > > > However, I feel that msmtp should only complain about the file being > > group/world readable if it contains confidential information -- that > > is, a cleartext password. > > In my opinion, some accounts parameters (

Bug#541293: update-exlinux for kernel-img.conf

2009-08-12 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: syslinux Version: 2:3.82+dfsg-1 Severity: wishlist When a user installs grub, it's menu.lst or grub.conf is automatically populated with entries for each kernel. When a kernel is installed or removed, /etc/kernel-img.conf knows to run "update-grub" to update that list. There is no equiv

Bug#541455: /var/run/motd is now made by bootlogs, not bootmisc.

2009-08-14 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: manpages Version: 3.22-1 Severity: minor File: /usr/share/man/man5/motd.5.gz AFAICT, bootlog is now responsible for creating /var/run/motd. The motd(5) manpage should be updated to reflect this. -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990,

Bug#541843: darcs: use editor/pager, not sensible-*

2009-08-16 Thread Trent W. Buck
On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 04:29:11PM +, Clint Adams wrote: > Package: darcs > Version: 2.3.0-1 > > Since get_editor and get_viewer are already checking the contents of > the EDITOR/PAGER environment variables, you should probably be > falling back to editor and pager rather than their "sensible-"

Bug#539360: ln /usr/share/polipo/www/doc /usr/share/doc/polipo/html (symlink)

2009-07-30 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: polipo Version: 1.0.4+58-1 Severity: wishlist Please create a symlink such that the HTML documentation that ships with polipo can be found by users looking in /usr/share/doc/polipo/. This can be achieved with a debian/polipo.links file in your diff.gz, see dh_link(1) for details. -- Sys

Bug#510772: debhelper: dh binary-arch should call dh_strip with --dbg-package when a -dbg package is present in control

2009-08-01 Thread Trent W. Buck
On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 11:21:11AM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Note that the thing someone is working on to automatically generate > $PACKAGE-dbg for every package and not have them in the main archive > neatly sidesteps all this complexity of special cases. Is there a BTS ticket for that? If so, c

Bug#539575: netsurf-linuxfb: black screen

2009-08-01 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: netsurf-linuxfb Version: 2.1-1 Severity: important When I ran "netsurf google.com" as root on vt2, the screen went completely black. I managed to (blindly) switch to vt3, log in as root, and run "halt" to reboot my system. I didn't think to try "killall netsurf" until it was too late.

Bug#538098: [Pkg-haskell-maintainers] Bug#538098: Please upgrade to ≥0.5.1.0.

2009-08-01 Thread Trent W. Buck
On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 10:01:05AM +0200, Joachim Breitner wrote: >> I believe the reason Darcs' zlib dependency was bumped to 0.5.1 is >> because 0.5.0 has known problems with CRC (checksums) -- either >> generating bad ones, or failing to detect/repair bad ones. >> >> I can dig up the exact detai

Bug#539584: confused by global .gitconfig format.pretty=oneline

2009-08-02 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: git-buildpackage Version: 0.4.54 Severity: normal In my .gitconfig I had [format] pretty = oneline I was trying to do "debuild -uc -us -tc" in a clean clone of scim-anthy and getting errors of the form ../libtool: line 835: X--tag=CXX: command not found [...] It

Bug#311156: [issue54]

2009-08-02 Thread Trent W. Buck
On Sat, Dec 10, 2005 at 02:56:45PM +, Mark Stosberg wrote: > request to have darcs record file executable permissions I'm documenting the workarounds I know about here. 1. The most common case is where you want scripts to be executable. For this, the --set-scripts-executable heuristic can

Bug#539853: emacs-goodies-el's ido takes precedence over emacs23's

2009-08-03 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: emacs-goodies-el Version: 30.2-1 Severity: important I'm not sure if this is a problem with emacs23 or emacs-gooodies-el. I recently switched from emacs-snapshot to emacs23. Symptoms: With ido loaded, - C-x C-f opens a file, but doesn't switch to that buffer. - C-x C-f C-f (disabli

Bug#539809: emacs23-gtk: emacsclient cannot connect to daemon run from tty1

2009-08-03 Thread Trent W. Buck
On Mon, Aug 03, 2009 at 09:58:14PM +0400, Andrey wrote: > 0) Start X session. > 1) Switch to tty1 or any other console terminal and run "emacs --daemon" > 2) Make sure you can connect to it by running "emacsclient -t" > 3) Switch to X session and run "emacsclient -c" This fails with > >Waiting

Bug#539752: emacs uninstallable due to bad dependency

2009-08-03 Thread Trent W. Buck
On Mon, Aug 03, 2009 at 01:36:32PM +0300, Leonard Norrgård wrote: > The emacs package ultimately depends on emacs23-common =23.1+1-1, > which is outdated and gone. I can't reproduce this problem. The packages in my repo which depend on emacs23-common are: emacs23-bin-common=23.1+1-2 Depends:

Bug#540133: Ignores user-supplied CXX=g++-4.4.

2009-08-05 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: libwebkit-1.0-2 Version: 1.1.12-1 Severity: minor In debian/rules, the build-stamp target has a line cd build && \ CFLAGS="$(CFLAGS)" \ CXXFLAGS="$(CFLAGS)" \ CC="gcc -Wl,--as-needed" \ CXX="g++ -Wl,--as-needed" \ [...] This line ignores u

Bug#540142: Use the same cookie file format as curl and wget.

2009-08-05 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: w3m Version: 0.5.2-2.1 Severity: wishlist Summary: please make w3m use the same cookie file format as wget, curl and (apparently) netscape/mozilla/firefox. Both curl and wget can read and write cookie files in "the Netscape/Mozilla cookie file format". This means that I can automate log

Bug#540308: Honour $no_proxy

2009-08-06 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: midori Version: 0.1.7-1.1 Severity: wishlist Midori honours $http_proxy. This is great -- it means that it behaves just like wget, curl, w3m, lynx, etc. Unfortunately, Midori doesn't honour $no_proxy. So for example with "localhost" in the $no_proxy lisy, "w3m localhost" will take me t

Bug#540626: HEAD is ridiculously slow.

2009-08-09 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: roundup Version: 1.4.4-4+lenny1 Severity: normal Experimental evidence suggests that HEAD requests will result in Roundup generating the entire page, discard it, then send the headers to the client. This is very wasteful, particularly on large pages. Making requests to bugs.darcs.net *f

Bug#540629: /statusN and /priorityN are too slow

2009-08-09 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: roundup Version: 1.4.4-4+lenny1 Severity: normal The pages /statusN and /priorityN take an unreasonable amount of time to download -- presumably because the History table grows very large over time. Please improve the turnaround time of requests to /statusN and /priorityN, perhaps by bre

Bug#547991: battery: /proc/acpi/battery is not /sys/class/power_supply.

2009-09-22 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: byobu Version: 2.24-1 Severity: normal File: /usr/lib/byobu/battery I get ls: cannot access /proc/acpi/battery: No such file or directory because on my system, this information is computed thusly: backtick 2 120 0 sh -c 'cd /sys/class/power_supply/BAT0 && echo \ $((100 * `cat

Bug#537696: Tell mailcap not to use fbi in GNU Screen.

2009-07-20 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: fbi Version: 2.07-1 Severity: minor File: /usr/lib/mime/packages/fbi AFAIK, fbi will work iff it is run by root, or run from a securetty(5). In particular, this does not include GNU Screen sessions. Please extend lines such as this: image/jpeg; fbi '%s'; test=test -z "$DISPLAY"; ne

Bug#537699: Allow -title to be set in ~/.w3m/config.

2009-07-20 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: w3m Version: 0.5.2-2.1 Severity: wishlist w3m will set the terminal's title to the current page name if you start w3m with the -title option. This is really useful, so I want it to be on all the time. But I can't see any way to specify that in ~/.w3m/config. Even if I put this in .prof

Bug#537706: .w3m/config parser confused by blank lines.

2009-07-20 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: w3m Version: 0.5.2-2.1 Severity: normal Config after a blank line in ~/.w3m/config is ignored. To reproduce: $ hd ~/.w3m/config 63 6f 6c 6f 72 20 66 61 6c 73 65 0a |color false.| 000c $ w3m -v# as expected, does not use col

Bug#537706: Acknowledgement (.w3m/config parser confused by blank lines.)

2009-07-20 Thread Trent W. Buck
The patch below appears to fix this issue. $ cat debian/patches/07-rc-blank-line-fix Distinguish between the end of the file ("") and empty lines ("\n"). Closes #537706. Index: w3m-0.5.2/rc.c === --- w3m-0.5.2.orig/rc.c 2009-07-20 20:

Bug#316272: w3m-img displays no images

2009-07-20 Thread Trent W. Buck
On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 01:40:46PM -0700, Paul Telford wrote: >> Works fine for me. What terminal are you using it in? Does it >> work for you in an xterm? > > Fails for me in konsole (my default choice), xterm, rxvt & eterm. w3m-img *SHOULD* work in xterm, at least. Things to check: In the en

Bug#316272: w3m-img: does not display images on console

2009-07-20 Thread Trent W. Buck
On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 12:01:54PM +0200, Michael Prokop wrote: > While as w3m-img works in xterm as intended, it does not display > images inline on plain console using framebuffer (vesafb-tng). > > Tested with: > > % w3m -config /dev/null grml.org > > No problems with w3m/w3m-img 0.5.1-3, proble

Bug#538098: Please upgrade to ≥0.5.1.0.

2009-07-22 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: libghc6-zlib-dev Version: 0.5.0.0-2+b1 Severity: wishlist Please upgrade haskell-zlib in Debian. The upcoming release of Darcs 2.3 requires haskell-zlib 0.5.1.0. Without it, Darcs will use its deprecated internal zlib bindings, which will reduce the amount of real-world testing that hask

Bug#538110: Unusable -- DirectFBError [DirectFBSetOption ("quiet", "")]: Not supported!

2009-07-22 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: directvnc Version: 0.7.5-9+b1 Severity: important On a server "plum" I created a VNC session using qemu: plum$ qemu-system-x86_64 -snapshot -vnc :0 -hda foo.qcow2 Then I tried to connect to it with directvnc. I got this failure. I have no idea what it means or how to fix it:

Bug#538098: [Pkg-haskell-maintainers] Bug#538098: Please upgrade to ≥0.5.1.0.

2009-07-23 Thread Trent W. Buck
On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 10:32:09AM +0200, Joachim Breitner wrote: >> Package: libghc6-zlib-dev >> Version: 0.5.0.0-2+b1 >> Severity: wishlist >> >> Please upgrade haskell-zlib in Debian. The upcoming release of >> Darcs 2.3 requires haskell-zlib 0.5.1.0. >> >> Without it, Darcs will use its deprec

Bug#348971: looks kind of broken ...

2009-07-25 Thread Trent W. Buck
On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 06:48:31PM -0400, Samuel Bronson wrote: > Hmm. Doesn't look very good here -- things are overflowing their boxes > :-(. I want the old one back! (At least as an option.) > > My browser is "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.11) > Gecko/2009061212 Iceweasel/3.0.

Bug#539101: s/macthes/matches/ in iptables(8) manpage.

2009-07-28 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: iptables Version: 1.4.4-1 Severity: minor File: /usr/share/man/man8/iptables.8.gz In the "set" section of the manpage, "matches" is misspelt "macthes". -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stabl

Bug#533494: [imagemagick] Please forward to upstream

2009-07-29 Thread Trent W. Buck
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 05:48:48PM +0200, Bastien ROUCARIES wrote: > Could you please forward to upstream ie post to > http://tinyurl.com/kjkwsu And post the thread url in this bug > report. That appears to be a web forum. I cannot post without "logging in". I am not prepared to create an accoun

Bug#544971: Assumes HOME is /home/$USER.

2009-09-03 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: user-setup Version: 1.28 Severity: minor user-setup-apply is used by live-initramfs to create a "guest" account at boot time. I needed the account to have HOME outside of /home, because /home is an NFS mount used by non-guest accounts. Since user-setup-apply seems to end up just calling

Bug#445802: [Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#445802: alsamixer: ugly ASCII faux-box drawing characters in screen.

2009-09-04 Thread Trent W. Buck
On Fri, Sep 04, 2009 at 09:23:29PM +0200, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > * Trent W. Buck [090404 12:28 +1100] > > To get nice box drawing characters in GNU Screen instead of the ASCII > > fallback, I have added the following filthy kludge to my .bashrc: > > > > case &q

Bug#551050: aptitude tries to remove nis on sid/lenny hybrid as a result of the #546753 fix

2009-10-15 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: hostname Version: 3.00 Severity: important This is such an edge case that I normally wouldn't report it. Because it involves accidental removal of auth infrastructure, I raise it and will let you decide whether it's worth pursuing. On a hybrid testing/unstable system: $ aptitude fu

Bug#542585: Explodes on upgrade.

2009-08-20 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: roundup Version: 1.4.9-1 Severity: normal I happened to upgrade a box where the roundup package was installed, but not doing anything (I had been using roundup-demo on it as a non-privileged user). I got the following. Because roundup isn't actually running as root on this box, I can't

Bug#541848: darcs: FTBFS: ld: cannot find -lHSrts_thr

2009-08-23 Thread Trent W. Buck
On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 07:01:42PM +0200, Kurt Roeckx wrote: > Source: darcs > Version: 2.3.0-1 > Severity: serious > >> [136 of 136] Compiling Main ( src/darcs.hs, >> dist/build/darcs/darcs-tmp/Main.o ) >> Linking dist/build/darcs/darcs ... >> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lHSrts_thr >> c

Bug#541848: FTBFS on Alpha, ld: cannot find -lHSrts_thr

2009-08-23 Thread Trent W. Buck
>From http://bugs.debian.org/541848 and http://buildd.debian.org/build.php?arch=alpha&pkg=darcs&ver=2.3.0-1, it appears that Darcs 2.3.0 fails to build on Alpha systems, due to ld: cannot find -lHSrts_thr The good folk of #haskell think RTS probably isn't available on Alpha, and that we can/s

Bug#545438: startpar(8): confusing manpage (re weighting).

2009-09-07 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: sysvinit-utils Version: 2.87dsf-4 Severity: minor File: /usr/share/man/man8/startpar.8.gz >From startpar(8): > Processes block by pending I/O will weighting by the factor 800. To > change this factor the option -i can be used to specify an other > value. These sentences are totally uni

Bug#545770: RFP: elim (and garak) -- Emacs libpurple integration (C daemon and elisp client)

2009-09-08 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: elim (and garak) Version : 20090702-032501 Upstream Author : Vivek Dasmohapatra * URL : http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/elim * License : GPL3+ Programming Lang: C, elisp Description : Emacs libpurple

Bug#546404: Spelling: apPlication.

2009-09-12 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: lintian Version: 2.2.14 Severity: wishlist File: /usr/share/lintian/lib/Spelling.pm Seen in a debian/control on mentors.d.n: Description: multi-platform wiki aplication for the desktop Spelling.pm should catch this typo. -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT pref

Bug#471521: [Debian-eeepc-devel] Bug#471521: vga-toggle.sh: does not do XAUTHORITY dance

2008-03-18 Thread Trent W. Buck
On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 07:26:24PM +0100, Nico Golde wrote: >> Also note that gdm uses a pseudorandomly-named temporary file in >> /tmp rather than ~user/.Xauthority, so the current dance will not >> work for them. > > That's sad but there is currently no sane way to do this. I know. For the reco

Bug#471521: vga-toggle.sh: does not do XAUTHORITY dance

2008-03-18 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: eeepc-acpi-scripts Version: 1.0.2 Severity: important File: /etc/acpi/actions/vga-toggle.sh hotkey.sh does an XAUTHORITY dance to allow root to attach X clients to a running server. vga-toggle.sh does not do this, and thus its xrandr commands fail. Perhaps the XAUTHORITY dance in hotkey

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