Bug#440389: Too wide for 800x600

2007-09-03 Thread jidanni
I wish to limit my testing role as each time I start X, there's the snap/crackle/pop ... if my mountaintop terminal blows, I must make a two day journey to the city to buy a new one. Also as I use the terminal then the laptop, then the terminal, with a two day gap between each, full testing would

Bug#440746: -opw give Incorrect password

2007-09-03 Thread jidanni
Package: pdftohtml Severity: minor The file temporarily in http://jidanni.org/test/pdfbug.pdf can be read with $ xpdf -opw '' pdfbug.pdf However, $ pdftohtml -opw '' pdfbug.pdf gives Error: Incorrect password -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Bug#440747: one byte output

2007-09-03 Thread jidanni
Package: poppler-utils Version: 0.5.4-6.1 Severity: minor The file temporarily in http://jidanni.org/test/pdfbug.pdf can be read with $ xpdf -opw '' pdfbug.pdf However, $ pdftotext -opw '' pdfbug.pdf just makes a one byte file. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Bug#366593: scim.1.gz: say we don't have to type so long a line

2007-09-04 Thread jidanni
After The following command starts scim in daemon mode, using the simple configure module, Pinyin IM engine module, X11 frontend module: scim -c simple -e pinyin -f x11 --no-socket -d perhaps add: In fact, those are the current default options, so the

Bug#366593: scim.1.gz: say we don't have to type so long a line

2007-09-04 Thread jidanni
OK. I give up. I'm so stupid, the only way I can type , or 。 in chewing is CTRL-0 1 and CTRL-0 3.

Bug#440747: pdftotext debian bug

2007-09-05 Thread jidanni
D == Derek B Noonburg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: D On 5 Sep, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Perhaps you can look at http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=440747 even thought it might not be your fault :-) D Looks like font subsets without any useful encoding info. I see, no matter what

Bug#440747: pdftotext debian bug

2007-09-05 Thread jidanni
D (converting text to Unicode) doesn't work, and your choice of output D text encoding doesn't matter at all. I see. The reason I can still read the electric bill using xpdf is it must be stored in some wasteful image-like format, but not a pdfimages kind of image. OK. And if a chars are to be

Bug#440746: PDF electric bill bug

2007-09-05 Thread jidanni
(By the way there's also http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=440746 but that is a pdftohtml bug, so never mind.) Last I checked, pdftohtml was based on an old version of Xpdf (version 2.x), and was no longer being maintained. My guess would be that there's some bug in the

Bug#441006: wacko LC_ALL=zh_TW.utf8 egrep -i

2007-09-05 Thread jidanni
Package: grep Version: 2.5.3~dfsg-1 Severity: normal In http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-grep/2007-08/msg00027.html but nobody replied, so must be a Debian bug. $ printf Me\\nji\\n|LC_ALL=zh_TW.utf8 egrepMe\|ji Me ji $ printf Me\\nji\\n|LC_ALL=zh_TW.utf8 egrep -i Me\|ji ji $ printf

Bug#182894: Still there? sitecopy: needs reenforcing against 2nd instance of itself

2007-10-18 Thread jidanni
Thanks, however I dare not test if the bug is still there, as I would certainly damage my website. Please test it for me. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#447287: unclean purge

2007-10-20 Thread jidanni
Package: spamassassin Version: 3.2.1-1 Severity: wishlist Removing spamassassin ... SpamAssassin Mail Filter Daemon: disabled, see /etc/default/spamassassin Purging configuration files for spamassassin ... dpkg - warning: while removing spamassassin, directory

Bug#428257: reportbug: --query-bts vs. offline

2007-10-24 Thread jidanni
YGAN If this sounds OK, this bug is probably a wontfix. You're the boss. My head is 1 miles away these days. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#448514: Some Chinese characters can't be read

2007-10-29 Thread jidanni
Hurmf, compared to # #448494: fontconfig: Latest upgrade broke antialiasing in Qt4 apps. # #448504: fontconfig: Some fonts won't render correctly after upgrade to 2.4.91-1 where one can still read all the ASCII, some Chinese characters (one out of 200 perhaps) can't even be read. They have to be

Bug#448514: that last update made Chinese ugly

2007-10-29 Thread jidanni
Package: fontconfig Version: 2.4.91-1 All I know is Preparing to replace fontconfig 2.4.2-1.4 (using .../fontconfig_2.4.91-1_i386.deb) ... Cleaning up font configuration of fontconfig... Cleaning up category cid.. Cleaning up category truetype.. Cleaning up category type1..

Bug#448525: focus message

2007-10-29 Thread jidanni
Package: gimp Version: 2.4.0-2 Severity: wishlist Saw message: (gimp:8994): Gimp-Tools-CRITICAL **: gimp_tool_set_active_modifier_state: assertion `display == tool-focus_di play' failed -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Bug#448514: that last update made Chinese ugly

2007-10-29 Thread jidanni
Duh, OK # dpkg -i libfontconfig1_2.4.2-1.2_i386.deb dpkg - warning: downgrading libfontconfig1 from 2.4.91-1 to 2.4.2-1.2. # dpkg -i libfontconfig1-dev_2.4.2-1.2_i386.deb dpkg - warning: downgrading libfontconfig1-dev from 2.4.91-1 to 2.4.2-1.2. P.S. Looks like those packages also lost baggage.

Bug#448514: that last update made Chinese ugly

2007-10-29 Thread jidanni
Darn, I wanted to install something unrelated but You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these: The following packages have unmet dependencies: libfontconfig1: Depends: fontconfig-config (= 2.4.91-1) but 2.4.2-1.2 is to be installed E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install'

Bug#448514: that last update made Chinese ugly

2007-10-29 Thread jidanni
KP Yeah, looking at the two images it's fairly clear that you're using a KP different font for chinese in the new environment. Check your terminal KP configuration to see which font family it's using, then compare my terminal, uxterm is fine, iceweasel is what suffers. KP $ fc-match

Bug#444384: inefficient starting?

2007-09-28 Thread jidanni
Package: xdm Version: 1:1.1.6-3 Severity: wishlist I noticed something this time while happening to be starting at the screen when xdm starts: *Twice* during the oh, two seconds that xdm takes to start, the screen has this being powered off look to it, where there is this tide of powered off

Bug#448514: that last update made Chinese ugly

2007-10-29 Thread jidanni
edit- preferences-Content-Fonts Colors-Advanced KP It's probably just set to 'Sans Serif', in which case running Indeed, I see a lot of Sans Serif in there. I can even $ grep something ~/.mozilla/firefox/*/some_file if you wish. KP $ fc-match 'Sans Serif' KP on each version of fontconfig will

Bug#448525: focus message

2007-10-29 Thread jidanni
AP Could you give me a bit more information about this? What were you doing AP when the warning happened? I chose rectangle select, and when I finally release the mouse after pulling out the rectangle, that message pops up. AP Were you prevented from doing anything? No. Just looks bad in the

Bug#448514: that last update made Chinese ugly

2007-10-29 Thread jidanni
OK, we look at this line 其他訴求,例如,工寮材 料放寬認定為鐵皮及烤漆板、 attachment: c.png e.g.,寬 and 烤 look ugly KP Can you attach before and after pictures? Can you explain which Chinese KP font you are using? Can you attach runs of KP $ FC_DEBUG=1 xfd -fa family-name I don't know what fonts I'm using. All I know

Bug#448533: man page belongs in section 8

2007-10-29 Thread jidanni
File: /usr/share/man/man1/checkinstall.1.gz Package: checkinstall Version: 1.6.1-4 Severity: wishlist Perhaps note on the man page that the program must be run as root, and therefore also move the man page to section 8 of the manual. Or mention when to run and not run as root. Also give an

Bug#448514: that last update made Chinese ugly

2007-10-29 Thread jidanni
KP Looks like your locale doesn't include a territory; fontconfig will KP select an appropriate type of character (tradtional/simplified) based on KP the territory in your locale. If your territory is set to something KP other than cn, hk, mo, sg or tw, then fontconfig won't know the which KP type

Bug#448514: that last update made Chinese ugly

2007-10-29 Thread jidanni
By the way $ cat /tmp/test.html !DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC -//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd; html head titleTEST/title meta http-equiv=Content-Type content= text/html; charset=utf-8 /head body p 其他訴求,例如,工寮材 料放寬認定為鐵皮及烤漆板、 租地內灌溉水塔或水 池施設、租地內墳墓、/p /body /html $

Bug#448556: need both realname= and my_hdr

2007-10-29 Thread jidanni
Indeed, one needs both set realname= my_hdr From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] if one wishes to have just From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on outgoing messages from any machine, I find. This should be documented. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Bug#448556: my_hdr From: documentation doesn't help

2007-10-29 Thread jidanni
Package: mutt Version: 1.5.16-3 Severity: wishlist 14. User defined headers in the manual makes one think one can do my_hdr From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] When in fact one needs to do set realname= if one wants to get rid of their English name from outgoing mail and just say From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#448586: No such file or directory misleading

2007-10-30 Thread jidanni
Package: general Severity: wishlist This message made by several programs is misleading: # ed /etc/fonts/conf.d/61-traditional.conf /etc/fonts/conf.d/61-traditional.conf: No such file or directory q # ls /etc/fonts/conf.d/61-traditional.conf ls: /etc/fonts/conf.d/61-traditional.conf: No such

Bug#448514: that last update made Chinese ugly

2007-10-30 Thread jidanni
Right you are, the /etc/fonts/conf.d/61-traditional.conf fixed it. More effective than meta http-equiv=Content-Language content=zh-tw. Of course please do one day remind me to remove 61-traditional.conf when a real fix comes. OK, will be back to test more on Nov. 6 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#448586: No such file or directory misleading

2007-10-30 Thread jidanni
I guess what bothers me is # ed /etc/fonts/conf.d/61-traditional.conf /etc/fonts/conf.d/61-traditional.conf: No such file or directory makes me need to check do I need to create the directory? instead of just proceeding to edit the file. $ vi /zzz/qqq is worse. It only checks when it's time to

Bug#448586: No such file or directory misleading

2007-10-30 Thread jidanni
LC You can still create the necessary directories before closing the LC editor if writing the file doesn't succeed... Yes, but it is quite a shock to learn at that late stage. Now #448593. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Bug#448586: No such file or directory misleading

2007-11-01 Thread jidanni
I don't quite get why it would be a shock as you can still create the necessary directories before trying to save a second time... Not e.g., if you don't have permissions to write where you intended. You now are in the perilous state of have a lot of code typed and not saved and waiting for

Bug#449344: rm modules.seriomap upon purge

2007-11-05 Thread jidanni
Package: linux-2.6 Similar to 437420, which you have surely forgotten. Removing linux-image-2.6.22-1-686 ... Purging configuration files for linux-image-2.6.22-1-686 ... rmdir: /lib/modules/2.6.22-1-686: Directory not empty dpkg - warning: while removing linux-image-2.6.22-1-686, directory

Bug#160258: say not to expect more than one

2007-11-05 Thread jidanni
There I was, $ xpdf files*.pdf Enter Passwd [...] And when I hit q, it was like nobody cared I had put more than one file on the command line. And it turns out passwords also have nothing to do with this ... old bug. So why not do e.g., $ xpdf files*.pdf xpdf: Holmes, this is not less(1), please

Bug#160259: Control-K in output

2007-11-05 Thread jidanni
I also notice some ^K's sometimes. Here I have replaced them with ASCII ^+K, The other chars are normal UTF-8 Chinese. 當下,想想,試著回答這些問題: ^K1.說出世界上最富裕的5個人。BR 2.說出上5屆環球小姐比賽中的得勝者。BR 3.說出上5屆諾貝爾獎的得獎者。 ^K.說出上5屆奧斯卡的最佳演員。BR

Bug#449480: some common Chinese characters missing

2007-11-05 Thread jidanni
X-debbugs-CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED] Package: xterm Version: 229-1 Some very common Chinese characters, e.g., the first of $ echo 絕對| perl -C -nwe 'use Unicode::Normalize q(decompose); print decompose($_)' 絕對 are missing from what font xterm uses, and are as shown

Bug#449572: *_Packages modification date frozen wrongly

2007-11-06 Thread jidanni
X-Debbugs-No-Ack: please Package: apt Version: 0.7.9 Severity: wishlist I notice the modification date of /var/lib/apt/lists/*_Packages is frozen for no good reason and does not reflect the freshness of that file's contents, under your new Diffs updating system. No big deal you might say, but

Bug#449573: sources.list not owned by root

2007-11-06 Thread jidanni
X-Debbugs-No-Ack: please Package: apt Version: 0.7.9 Severity: wishlist Poking around /etc/apt with ls -o, /etc/apt: drwxr-xr-x 2 root 1024 Nov 7 01:11 apt.conf.d -rw--- 1 root0 Jan 23 2007 secring.gpg -rw-r--r-- 1 jidanni 491 Nov 7 01:25 sources.list drwxr-xr

Bug#449577: start on install only if already running

2007-11-06 Thread jidanni
X-Debbugs-No-Ack: please Package: fetchmail Version: 6.3.8-10 Severity: wishlist I discovered installing fetchmail also starts it. I have START_DAEMON=yes in /etc/default/fetchmail, so I can use /etc/init.d/fetchmail start when I please. * File /etc/default/fetchamil has been added to stablish

Bug#449577: [pkg-fetchmail-maint] Bug#449577: start on install only if already running

2007-11-06 Thread jidanni
N Maybe I misunderstood you, but what is the bug or the wish? N Fetchmail does not start again if it is already started: I meant _upon apt-get upgrade_, currently you probably do: 1. stop any running daemons 2. install new version 3. restart according to your rules instead you should 0. make a

Bug#449581: chmod 644 /etc/default/*logd

2007-11-06 Thread jidanni
Package: klogd Version: 1.5-1 Severity: wishlist The only files in /etc/default with the executable bit set are drwxr-xr-x 2 root 2048 2007-11-07 01:19 . drwxr-xr-x 107 root 8192 2007-11-07 01:49 .. -rwxr-xr-x 1 root 289 2006-05-25 17:38 klogd -rwxr-xr-x 1 root 186 2006-05-25 17:38

Bug#449480: also missing xiang1

2007-11-06 Thread jidanni
Another common missing char is $ echo 鄉|uni2ascii 0x9109

Bug#449577: [pkg-fetchmail-maint] Bug#449577: start on install only if already running

2007-11-06 Thread jidanni
N And where is the difference apart from the note in /tmp for N which I fail to see the use? Then one need not say START_DAEMON=yes to be able to say /etc/init.d/fetchmail start. If one does not want /etc/init.d/fetchmail start to work, then one should just not invoke /etc/init.d/fetchmail

Bug#450664: weird colors on second digits

2007-11-08 Thread jidanni
T ...in a UTF-8 locale, I see the second character of the first number is T colored incorrectly. Yes. Glad to see my bug is in good hands. okcolors.html is OK. T actually there's a glitch that I see on the right-margin of the first T line (locale en_US.UTF-8) Glad to see my bug is in great

Bug#427629: scim-chewing: KB_HANYU_PINYIN vs. punctuation

2007-06-05 Thread jidanni
Package: scim-chewing Version: 0.3.1-2 Severity: normal KB_HANYU_PINYIN 深難輸入標點符號 ,。、 etc. Using CTRL-O is very hard. Obviously the keys ,. etc. have not been fully mapped. Compare this with scim-pinyin, which gets this right. (Also in /usr/share/doc/scim-chewing/README.Debian mention For Hanyu

Bug#411220: why not fix dangling symlinks upon discovery

2007-07-05 Thread jidanni
I get these too daily, /etc/cron.daily/man-db: mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man1/x-terminal-emulator.1.gz is a dangling symlink I have an idea: instead of just warning, why doesn't the script take some action to fix up the problem, so yes, the user will still get the message, but only once,

Bug#428650: can't install kernel

2007-07-05 Thread jidanni
Help, I cannot finish installing new kernels. dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of linux-image-2.6.21-2-k7: linux-image-2.6.21-2-k7 depends on module-init-tools (= 0.9.13); however: Package module-init-tools is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing linux-image-2.6.21-2-k7

Bug#411220: or advise

2007-07-05 Thread jidanni
There is no way I am making mandb go around randomly unlinking stuff. Or perhaps add some lines of advice to the message, telling the user the best way of dealing with the problem, purge and reinstall what package, etc.? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Bug#428650: rm /usr/share/man/fr/man5/modules.5.gz

2007-07-05 Thread jidanni
I did # rm /usr/share/man/fr/man5/modules.5.gz # apt-get install and now things are OK again. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#204514: document AND bugs.debian.org queries

2007-07-08 Thread jidanni
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=bugs.debian.org;[EMAIL PROTECTED] OK, please document that it in /usr/share/doc/debian/bug-log-mailserver.txt etc., and on the website form too. But when giving the example, use an average package name, and an average user name, not nonaverage

Bug#428650: official solution?

2007-06-21 Thread jidanni
Then you have to install all forthcoming versions of module-init-tools with force, So what shall we do? I also don't have modutils installed. Do we just go on with life with this 1 not fully installed or removed forever? What is the official solution? Thank you. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#430157: unknown user inappropriate for general vague failure message

2007-06-22 Thread jidanni
Package: exim4-config Version: 4.67-3 Also it seems a shame that exim says User unknown while the real problem is logged only in mainlog. Please just say the more honest Not going to tell you what went wrong, instead of the dishonest User unknown!

Bug#432618: document no ssl

2007-07-17 Thread jidanni
reopen 432618 thanks On the man page we find pairs like keep -k Don’t delete seen messages from no keep-K Delete seen messages from server But only ssl Connect to server over the speci‐ No

Bug#176396: incoming packages directory introduction text

2007-07-17 Thread jidanni
Can you please send a proposed text to include Something like the below, the details of which I am not sure about. This is the Debian Sid[?] incoming packages directory. Its purpose is to . After which will be removed. It is for all main, non-free... ??, for more information see

Bug#76295: Bug#433567: emacs: alternatives problem

2007-07-22 Thread jidanni
(I also found I had to dpkg-reconfigure a lot of emacs stuff to get bbdb back working again, etc.) SJ Here you have been hit by a bug in update-alternatives, which does not SJ update the symlink to the last alternative. That's bug #76295. I see. I shall CC #76295. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#483425: use dlocate technology

2008-05-28 Thread jidanni
Package: apt-file Version: 2.1.2 Severity: wishlist Sorry to be rude but I notice dlocate is faster mainly because it uses some pre-made indexing step that apt-file apparently doesn't. So perhaps use a similar step. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe.

Bug#394258: warn of legacy package

2008-05-28 Thread jidanni
Then kindly on the ifconfig man page and package description mention warn that one should now be using ip and the iproute package. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#483444: backup image

2008-05-28 Thread jidanni
Package: linux-image-2.6-686 Version: 2.6.25+14 Severity: wishlist Maybe having a backup kernel in sid would be wise?: Apparently there is now only one linux-image-2.6.*-*-686 available on sid. Each time a new kernel comes out all older ones are removed. This is nice except in the case where

Bug#470566: /etc/wwwoffle/certificates -- /var

2008-05-29 Thread jidanni
OK, the ruling for http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=481283 is in: CW After having had a chance to think about it, it's clear they belong CW under /usr/share/$PACKAGE (I've gone for /usr/share/ssh), with CW administrative overrides in /etc (/var is inappropriate since data CW

Bug#483444: minimum 2 kernels safe

2008-05-30 Thread jidanni
m Keep a kernel that you know works installed then. Good thing I do, as one needed to run dpkg-reconfigure by hand on linux-image-2.6.25-2-686 in order to boot very far. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#483730: ssh-vulnkey --help

2008-05-30 Thread jidanni
Package: openssh-client Version: 1:4.7p1-12 Severity: wishlist File: /usr/bin/ssh-vulnkey Add a --help option that prints usage. Mention it on the man page and usage message. And detect unknown options, printing the usage message. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Bug#483756: insist ssh-vulnkey -a be run by the administrator upon upgrade

2008-05-30 Thread jidanni
Package: openssh-client Version: 1:4.7p1-12 Severity: wishlist File: /usr/bin/ssh-vulnkey X-debbugs-cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Upon the next upgrade of this package, a screen should greet the administrator asking him if we shall run ssh-vulnkey -a right now, or will he remember to run it later

Bug#483756: track forced notification

2008-05-30 Thread jidanni
After root goes thru the ssh-vulnkey -a forced experience, a file should be saved somewhere noting this so as not to bother him upon further upgrades. However a number should be stored in that file: 1, indicating forced experience #1, just in case additional somethings are discovered that we want

Bug#483730: ssh-vulnkey -h to man page

2008-05-30 Thread jidanni
m 'ssh-vulnkey -h' prints usage text. Please add this to the man page. By the way the usage text doesn't mention it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#483756: insist ssh-vulnkey -a be run by the administrator upon upgrade

2008-05-30 Thread jidanni
CW But that's OK; any keys that would be detected by ssh-vulnkey will also CW be blacklisted automatically by sshd. Well all I know is that I do my sid upgrades, and my friends emailed me to tell me I had things needing replacing on their machines. I don't run sshd but often use ssh... CW (Did

Bug#483756: insist ssh-vulnkey -a be run by the administrator upon upgrade

2008-05-30 Thread jidanni
CW Sure, but that's a problem with *their* machine (i.e. it allows access CW from unauthorised persons) rather than a problem with your machine. But from us regular users point of view it is *my* account on their machine that is the problem (if the administrator is not the up to date type.) CW

Bug#483756: insist ssh-vulnkey -a be run by the administrator upon upgrade

2008-05-30 Thread jidanni
Another question arises: what are all the remote machines where I have established a ~/.ssh/ directory (that needs to be cleaned up to plug the hole there if root there is not up to date)? Well, one finds a list in .ssh/known_hosts, but on sshd(8): Alternately, hostnames may be stored in a

Bug#483780: apt-get --no-download update

2008-05-30 Thread jidanni
Package: apt Version: 0.7.14 Severity: wishlist Please fix # apt-get --no-download update to just use the files the user has accumulated via APT::Get::List-Cleanup false; or has copied to this machine and put into lists/partial etc., instead of insisting on connecting to the network. Also mention

Bug#483781: FAT: utf8 is not a recommended IO charset for FAT filesystems, filesystem will be case sensitive!

2008-05-30 Thread jidanni
system is not as sensitive as one thinks anyway: $ touch K k touch: cannot touch `k': File exists $ mount /dev/sdb1 on /mnt/usb/cf type vfat (rw,shortname=mixed,..) $ touch Kk KK $ touch bb BB $ find -type f -mmin -11 -ls 133 14 drwxr-xr-x 2 jidanni jidanni 14336 5月 31 08:45 . 2080

Bug#483756: insist ssh-vulnkey -a be run by the administrator upon upgrade

2008-05-30 Thread jidanni
S Not allowed access as much as found a compromised key in ~/.ssh and warned S him. He has another - perfectly good and uncompromised - key he appears to S have been using . I login to machine C from machines A and B. The B-C key was bad, the A-C key was good. I use machine A then two days later

Bug#382360: also got failed to remove messages on latest sid

2008-05-30 Thread jidanni
All I know is # apt-get dselect-upgrade The following packages will be upgraded: deborphan initramfs-tools libilmbase6 libxcomposite1 ucf x11-common x11-utils xbase-clients xorg xserver-xorg xserver-xorg-input-mouse xutils ... rmdir: failed to remove `/etc/X11/rstart/commands/x11r6/':

Bug#483756: insist ssh-vulnkey -a be run by the administrator upon upgrade

2008-06-01 Thread jidanni
S == Suresh Ramasubramanian [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Having a compromised key in ~/.ssh/authorized_keys (if that's what it was) is effectively equivalent to allowing access to that account from the entire Internet. S Obviously. Which is why I found it. Removed it. Told him to reupload it. S

Bug#483781: FAT: utf8 is not a recommended IO charset for FAT filesystems, filesystem will be case sensitive!

2008-06-01 Thread jidanni
AEP Try creating files with non-ASCII characters in the name to see the effect. I did and everything worked just like on ext3. Perhaps you can give me an example. AEP Ignore the warning, it is completely bogus... OK, sure wish it wouldn't get printed by upstream. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#484040: single user mode /var/log/boot truncation ugly

2008-06-01 Thread jidanni
Package: initscripts Version: 2.86.ds1-58 Severity: wishlist File: /etc/init.d/bootlogd If one boots Single User Mode, the end of /var/log/boot looks like Mon Jun 2 00:23:56 2008: Setting up ICE socket directory /tmp/.ICE-unix Mon Jun 2 00:23:56 2008: I would put a -*- boot log truncated

Bug#484354: Unable to load module ... scary boot messages

2008-06-03 Thread jidanni
Package: acpid Version: 1.0.6-9 Severity: minor In /var/log/boot: Loading ACPI modules...Unable to load module: asus_acpi Unable to load module: bay Unable to load module: toshiba_acpi Well that makes sense, as my computer is not those brands, or has a bay, I guess. But wait, why is it attempting

Bug#382360: jidanni's full upgrade transcript

2008-06-03 Thread jidanni
OK, here's the complete /var/log/dpkg.log transcript. I didn't even run uniq(1) on it. upgrade.gz Description: Binary data

Bug#483781: Ответ: Bug#483781: FAT: utf8 is not a recommended IO charset for FAT filesystems, filesystem will be case sensitive!

2008-06-03 Thread jidanni
OK, thank you for documenting the test cases. (No wonder I never stumbled into problems: I use Chinese, which probably has very few upper/lower case pairs.) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#483756: insist ssh-vulnkey -a be run by the administrator upon upgrade

2008-06-03 Thread jidanni
OK, thanks. Anyway http://www.useit.com/alertbox/designer-user-differences.html . OK, bye. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#484451: mention ssh-vulnkey on more man pages

2008-06-03 Thread jidanni
Package: openssh-client Version: 1:4.7p1-12 Severity: wishlist Perhaps ssh-vulnkey should be mentioned on one or two more of these, e.g., ssh(1). At least in SEE ALSO. $ zgrep -c vulnkey /usr/share/man/man*/ssh*|perl -lnwe '[EMAIL PROTECTED]/@@;@F=split /:/;print @F[1,0]'|sort -r 2

Bug#480555: doc/libgdk-pixbuf2 not empty so not removed

2008-05-10 Thread jidanni
Package: libgdk-pixbuf2 Severity: minor Version: 0.22.0-14 # deborphan|xargs dpkg -P Removing libgdk-pixbuf2 ... Purging configuration files for libgdk-pixbuf2 ... dpkg - warning: while removing libgdk-pixbuf2, directory `/usr/share/doc/libgdk-pixbuf2' not empty so not removed. # ll -R

Bug#480556: dpkg.log permissions should be user readable

2008-05-10 Thread jidanni
Package: dpkg Version: 1.14.18 Severity: minor Please make all and create new /var/log/dpkg.log* in 644 mode. I see no reason for not letting users see what is going on. The can do dpkg -l anyway, and the only files not readable by the user in e.g., /var/lib/dpkg/ are some 0 byte lock files too.

Bug#480565: standard input: `\-' is not allowed in an escape name

2008-05-10 Thread jidanni
Package: man-db Version: 2.5.2-1 Severity: minor With any pipe or redirection: $ man perldelta | wc standard input:1010: `\-' is not allowed in an escape name 11858039 58334 $ man perldelta|: standard input:1010: `\-' is not allowed in an escape name $ man perldelta /dev/null standard

Bug#441099: -f on symlinks

2008-05-10 Thread jidanni
Also consider when there is a symlink: -f man #eats CPU, killed -f `which man` #caused 441099 -f /usr/lib/man-db/man #only one of the three that works -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#480567: perlrun: warn -C can no longer be used on the #! line

2008-05-10 Thread jidanni
Package: perl-doc Version: 5.10.0-10 File: /usr/share/man/man1/perlrun.1.gz $ man perldelta|grep -- -C\ o The -C option can no longer be used on the #! line. Perlrun doesn't warn the user that -C cannot be used there anymore! It just says: 2. Contained in the file specified by

Bug#480955: emacs' Man-reference-regexp vs. perl man pages

2008-05-12 Thread jidanni
Package: perl-doc X-Debbugs-Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Version: 5.10.0-9.1 Severity: wishlist I was going to send this To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: !Subject: Man-reference-regexp should recognize perl unnumbered man pages ! !I hit r whilst in man mode, and get ! byte-code: There are no references in the

Bug#480565: standard input: `\-' is not allowed in an escape name

2008-05-12 Thread jidanni
CW I'm sure I've asked you this before, but once again: please stop filing CW bugs against man-db about warning messages on individual manual pages. Ah no wonder: CW man-db (2.5.0-1) unstable; urgency=low CW - Discard stderr from formatting processes when outputting to a pager, CW to

Bug#480565: standard input: `\-' is not allowed in an escape name

2008-05-12 Thread jidanni
Please document that stderr is now special on the man man page, and give the user a MANOPT to restore the standard behavior. /dev/null That is nice to know but is not something that one can put in a say, MANOPT. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe.

Bug#480997: pod2man turns UTF8 into Xs

2008-05-12 Thread jidanni
X-Debbugs-Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Package: perl-doc Version: 5.10.0-10 UTF8 gets turned into X by pod2man, besides other disturbing issues: $ set \\n=encoding utf8\\n\\n=head1 中文\\n $ echo -e $@|uni2ascii -wq|grep 0x =head1 0x4E2D 0x6587 $ echo -e $@|pod2text Wide character in print at

Bug#480999: pod2html leaves tmpfiles in current directory

2008-05-12 Thread jidanni
Package: perl Version: 5.10.0-10 Severity: minor File: /usr/bin/pod2html pod2html always leaves two three byte long files, -rw-r--r-- 1 3 2008-05-13 05:31 pod2htmd.tmp -rw-r--r-- 1 3 2008-05-13 05:31 pod2htmi.tmp in the current directory. Please use proper /tmp tmpfiles and remove them when

Bug#481002: trimmed lines not revealed until 2nd run

2008-05-12 Thread jidanni
X-Debbugs-cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Package: eyed3 Version: 0.6.14-1 Severity: minor From all one sees, it looks like we successfully set the title: $ eyeD3 --no-color -t 'Once Upon A Time In The Projects' file Setting title: Once Upon A Time In The Projects Writing tag... ID3 v1.1: title: Once Upon

Bug#480567: pulled the rug out of under #!/usr/bin/perl -C

2008-05-12 Thread jidanni
Also please mention on perlrun if a feature will go away soon. There was no warning on perlrun that #!/usr/bin/perl -C was about to break next upgrade, and we were coding new programs with it right up until the day it broke. Also, $ man perldelta Too late for -T option The error

Bug#481283: big blacklists belong in /var/lib?

2008-05-14 Thread jidanni
Package: openssh-blacklist Version: 0.1.0 Severity: wishlist X-debbugs-Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Shouldn't those large lists go into /var/lib instead of /etc which is perhaps a tiny root partition, with backup and NFS sharing policies different than what those big files deserve? I did read a bit of

Bug#476519: [Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#476519: su - nobody sometimes logged back out instantly

2008-05-14 Thread jidanni
Yes, those http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-shadow-devel/2008-May/006589.html etc. are all the same bug. You can merge them. It says it does not occur on ibm laptops yes it does, and also on product: AMD Duron(tm) processor size: 1GHz $ COLUMNS= dlocate -l

Bug#385775: 758 files to delete or not?!

2008-05-15 Thread jidanni
Dear sirs, # grep upg.*suppo /var/log/dpkg.log 2008-05-16 03:01:03 upgrade python-support 0.7.7 0.8.1 dpkg: warning - unable to delete old directory `/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages': Directory not empty dpkg: warning - unable to delete old directory `/usr/lib/python2.3': Directory not empty

Bug#481679: watch(1) stderr CRLF damaged

2008-05-17 Thread jidanni
Package: procps Version: 1:3.2.7-8 Severity: wishlist File: /usr/bin/watch Try watch with an non-existent command. You'll see the message is wrapped in the wrong place. Try these: $ watch no_such_program $ TERM=dumb watch no_such_program #here you forget the CR and just send LF $ COLUMNS=75

Bug#481678: UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xae'

2008-05-17 Thread jidanni
Package: eyed3 Version: 0.6.14-1 Severity: wishlist Maybe this error should be better handled. I worked around it with --remove-comments afterwards. $ eyeD3 --no-color --to-v1.1 file.mp3 Converting tag to ID3 version v1.1 Writing tag... Traceback (most recent call last): File /usr/bin/eyeD3,

Bug#385775: 758 files to delete or not?!

2008-05-17 Thread jidanni
JM == Josselin Mouette [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: JM Le jeudi 15 mai 2008 à 22:11 +0200, Josselin Mouette a écrit : These are presumably .pyc files and/or .py symlinks let here by python-central, so you should probably check from which package they are coming, and, if appropriate, open a bug

Bug#481688: ETenms-B5-V excluded

2008-05-17 Thread jidanni
Package: ghostscript X-debbugs-Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Version: 8.62.dfsg.1-2.1 Severity: wishlist I wish this error message would say what the root cause is and what I should do about it. Setting up ghostscript (8.62.dfsg.1-2.1) ... ...Updating category cmap.. W: Following package's configuration

Bug#481692: document IP blocking using the Bluetack Level1 blocklist

2008-05-17 Thread jidanni
Package: transmission Version: 1.20-1 Severity: wishlist + IP blocking using the Bluetack Level1 blocklist Please document how to use this, and other features. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#485380: perlfunc `use' documentation augmentation

2008-06-08 Thread jidanni
Package: perl-doc Version: 5.10.0-10 Severity: wishlist In perlfunc use Module VERSION LIST use Module VERSION use Module LIST use Module use VERSION Imports some semantics into the current package from the named module, generally

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