Bug#1011922: bugs.astron.com not very usable

[積丹尼 Dan Jacobson]

Package: file

https://bugs.astron.com/
1. Says 'Warning: "admin" directory should be removed, or access to it 
restricted.'
2. Says my password is wrong.
3. Has no way to retrieve a lost/forgotten password.
Hence I will report bugs to Debian.

Bug#1011921: big5

[積丹尼 Dan Jacobson]

Package: file
Version: 1:5.41-4

$ file 111D2012841-01.txt
111D2012841-01.txt: ISO-8859 text, with CRLF line terminators

Test further. It is big5!

交通部公路總局第二區養護工程處人民陳情案件處理情形調查表

親愛的民眾您好:

這是一項我們對人民陳情案件處理情形滿意度調查，主要目
的在瞭解您對我們處理情形的寶貴意見，以作為改進參考依據，
謝謝您的協助，並祝行車平安。(請寄回thb...@thb.gov.tw 信箱)

1.請問您本次提出陳情的時間是： 年 月 日
  機關回復之發文日期： 年 月 日及字號：
  陳情事由：


2、請問您本次是透過那一種方式提出陳情？
   □(1)書信□(2)電話□(3)傳真□(4)電子信箱
   □(5)親自至機關
3、請問您對本次陳情案件之機關處理情形是否滿意？（答(4)、(5)者請續答第3-1題）
   □(1)非常滿意   □(2)滿意   □(3)無意見/拒答 
   □(4)不滿意 □(5)非常不滿意
3-1、請問您不滿意的原因為何？（可複選）
   □處理時間太慢 □處理態度不佳
   □答復內容未具體明確   □答復內容為制式例稿，欠缺誠意
   □答復內容與陳情內容不符   □問題未獲解決
   □其他 
4、職業: 
  (1)□軍、公、教  (2)□工 (3)□農 (4)□商  (5)□服務業  (6)□自由業 
  (7)□其他
5、性別: 
   (1)□男性 (2)□女性
6、年齡: 
   (1)□20歲以下 (2)□21-30歲 (3)□31-40歲 (4)□41-50歲 
   (5)□51-60歲(6)□61歲以上
7、教育程度
   (1)□國中以下  (2)□高中 (3)□大學  (4)□研究所以上

Bug#1010680: dpkg: warning: while removing fonts-open-sans, directory '/usr/share/fonts/truetype/open-sans' not empty so not removed

[積丹尼 Dan Jacobson]

Package: fonts-open-sans
Version: 1.11-2

dpkg: warning: while removing fonts-open-sans, directory 
'/usr/share/fonts/truetype/open-sans' not empty so not removed

due to

/usr/share/fonts/truetype/open-sans/.uuid

Bug#1009989: Can't convert from HTML

[積丹尼 Dan Jacobson]

Package: gnumeric
Version: 1.12.51-1
File: /usr/bin/ssconvert

$ ssconvert --list-importers 2>&1 |grep -i htm
Gnumeric_html:html   | HTML (*.html, *.htm)
$ txt2html /etc/motd > g.html
$ ssconvert g.html /tmp/m.pdf
Loading file:///tmp/g.html failed

Bug#1009920: Internal error: Could not resolve keysym XF86EmojiPicker

[積丹尼 Dan Jacobson]

Package: x11-xkb-utils
Version: 7.7+5

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libx11/-/issues/156#note_1347383
says
   Internal error: Could not resolve keysym XF86EmojiPicker
might be a Debian bug.

Bug#972678: initramfs-tools: bad error message when zstd requested but not installed

[積丹尼 Dan Jacobson]

update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-5.16.0-6-amd64
W: No zstd in /usr/bin:/sbin:/bin, using gzip

Shouldn't it just not remind the user?

Bug#1007263: Document upgrading dash will change the /bin/sh no matter what

[積丹尼 Dan Jacobson]

Package: dash
Version: 0.5.11+git20210903+057cd650a4ed-8

/usr/share/doc/dash/ says

dash (0.5.5.1-2.1) unstable; urgency=low

  * The default system shell (/bin/sh) has been changed to dash for
new installations.  When upgrading existing installations, the
system shell will not be changed automatically.
  * One can see what the current default system shell on this machine
is by running 'readlink /bin/sh'.
  * Change it by running 'dpkg-reconfigure dash'. 

 -- Luk Claes   Wed, 22 Jul 2009 17:23:20 +0200

However, my /bin/sh -> bash got changed anyway, so the above is wrong.

# ls -l /bin/sh --full-time
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 2022-03-15 07:31:29.311937593 +0800 /bin/sh -> dash

# grep  dash /var/log/dpkg.log
2022-03-15 07:31:29 upgrade dash:amd64 0.5.11+git20210903+057cd650a4ed-3 
0.5.11+git20210903+057cd650a4ed-8
2022-03-15 07:31:29 status half-configured dash:amd64 
0.5.11+git20210903+057cd650a4ed-3
2022-03-15 07:31:29 status unpacked dash:amd64 0.5.11+git20210903+057cd650a4ed-3
2022-03-15 07:31:29 status half-installed dash:amd64 
0.5.11+git20210903+057cd650a4ed-3
2022-03-15 07:31:29 status unpacked dash:amd64 0.5.11+git20210903+057cd650a4ed-8
2022-03-15 07:31:29 configure dash:amd64 0.5.11+git20210903+057cd650a4ed-8 

2022-03-15 07:31:29 status unpacked dash:amd64 0.5.11+git20210903+057cd650a4ed-8
2022-03-15 07:31:29 status half-configured dash:amd64 
0.5.11+git20210903+057cd650a4ed-8
2022-03-15 07:31:29 status triggers-awaited dash:amd64 
0.5.11+git20210903+057cd650a4ed-8
2022-03-15 07:33:03 status installed dash:amd64 
0.5.11+git20210903+057cd650a4ed-8

# grep  dash /var/log/apt/term.log
Preparing to unpack .../dash_0.5.11+git20210903+057cd650a4ed-8_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking dash (0.5.11+git20210903+057cd650a4ed-8) over 
(0.5.11+git20210903+057cd650a4ed-3) ...
Setting up dash (0.5.11+git20210903+057cd650a4ed-8) ...
Adding 'diversion of /bin/sh to /bin/sh.distrib by dash'
Adding 'diversion of /usr/share/man/man1/sh.1.gz to 
/usr/share/man/man1/sh.distrib.1.gz by dash'

Bug#1007093: dpkg-reconfigure system shell question

[積丹尼 Dan Jacobson]

Package: dash

If we say no to the system shell question on
dpkg-reconfigure dash
well, there are some cases it still will be used...
E.g., if bash no longer ships with a system shell...
So the wording should be different.

Bug#1007021: Missing dependency

[積丹尼 Dan Jacobson]

Package: webcamoid
Version: 9.0.0-2

See https://github.com/webcamoid/webcamoid/issues/502 .
You must install qml-module-qt-labs-platform package.

Bug#1007008: qvidcap

[積丹尼 Dan Jacobson]

Package: v4l-utils
Version: 1.22.1-2

v4l-utils is missing qvidcap.

Bug#1006567: ifname is out of alphabetical order on the man page

[積丹尼 Dan Jacobson]

Package: ppp
Version: 2.4.9-1+1
Severity: minor
File: /usr/share/man/man8/pppd.8.gz

ifname is out of alphabetical order:

   unit num
  Sets the ppp unit number (for a ppp0 or ppp1 etc interface name)
  for  outbound  connections.  If the unit is already in use a dy‐
  namically allocated number will be used.

   ifname string
  Set the ppp interface name for outbound connections.  If the in‐
  terface  name  is  already in use, or if the name cannot be used
  for any other reason, pppd will terminate.

   unset name
  Remove a variable from the environment variable for scripts that
  are invoked by pppd.  When specified by a privileged source, the
  variable name cannot be set by options contained in an  unprivi‐
  leged  source.   See also the set option and the environment de‐
  scribed in SCRIPTS.

Bug#1006565: document adb ls

[積丹尼 Dan Jacobson]

Package: adb
Version: 1:29.0.6-6

$ man adb
$ adb help
both don't mention
$ adb ls

So how did I find it?
$ adb 

Bug#1006566: man should mention adb backup is deprecated and may be removed

[積丹尼 Dan Jacobson]

Package: adb
Version: 1:29.0.6-6
File: /usr/share/man/man1/adb.1.gz

Running adb backup says:
WARNING: adb backup is deprecated and may be removed in a future release

Therefore the adb backup section on the man page should mention this
fact also.

Bug#1006564: adb shell cmd settings help says Invalid command

[積丹尼 Dan Jacobson]

Package: adb
Version: 1:29.0.6-6

I'm not sure where to send this bug.

$ adb shell cmd settings
Settings provider (settings) commands:
  help
  Print this help text.
  get [--user  | current] NAMESPACE KEY
  Retrieve the current value of KEY.
...
$ adb shell cmd settings help
Invalid command: help

Bug#1006563: man page subitems need indenting

[積丹尼 Dan Jacobson]

Package: adb
Version: 1:29.0.6-6
Severity: minor
File: /usr/share/man/man1/adb.1.gz

-apk etc. need to be indented.


   adb  backup  [-f  file] [-apk|-noapk] [-obb|-noobb] [-shared|-noshared]
   [-all] [-system|-nosystem] [packages...]
 Write an archive of the device's data to file.  If no  -f  option  is
 supplied  then the data is written to backup.ab in the current direc‐
 tory.

   -apk | -noapk enable/disable backup of the .apks themselves in the  ar‐
   chive; the default is noapk.

   -obb | -noobb enable/disable backup of any installed apk expansion (aka
   .obb) files associated with each application; the default is noobb.

   -shared | -noshared enable/disable backup of the device's shared  stor‐
   age / SD card contents; the default is noshared.

   -all means to back up all installed applications.

   -system  | -nosystem toggles whether -all automatically includes system
   applications; the default is to include system apps.

   packages... is the list of applications to be backed up.  If  the  -all
   or -shared flags are passed, then the package list is optional.  Appli‐
   cations explicitly given on the command line will be included  even  if

P.S., adb help doesn't mention some things seen on the man page.
$ adb help|grep -ic backup
0

Bug#1004202: Don't leave empty files on disk if extraction fails

[積丹尼 Dan Jacobson]

Package: unar
Version: 1.10.1-2+b7
Severity: minor

Don't leave empty files on disk if extraction fails.

$ unar -p 0403 Certificate.zip
Certificate.zip: Zip
  Certificate.pdf  (254004 B)... Failed! (Missing or wrong password)
Extraction to current directory failed! (1 file failed.)
$ ls -l
-rw-r--r-- 1 jidanni jidanni  0 01-22 21:28 Certificate.pdf
-rw--- 1 jidanni jidanni 242430 01-22 21:26 Certificate.zip
$ lsar -l Certificate.zip
Certificate.zip: Zip
 Flags  File size   Ratio  Mode  Date   Time   Name
 =  ==  =    == =  
  0. ---E-  254004   4.6%    2022-01-22 09:38  Certificate.pdf
(Flags: D=Directory, R=Resource fork, L=Link, E=Encrypted, @=Extended 
attributes)
$ lsar -L Certificate.zip
Certificate.zip: Zip
Certificate.pdf: 
  Name:   Certificate.pdf
  Size:   254 KB (254004 bytes)
  Compressed size:242 KB (242264 bytes)
  Is encrypted:   Yes
  Last modified:  2022-01-22 09:38:52 +0800
  DOS file attributes:-- (0x00)
  Index in file:  0
  Start of data:  56
  Length of data: 242264
  WinZipAESCompressionMethod: 8
  WinZipAESKeySize:   3
  WinZipAESVendor:17729
  WinZipAESVersion:   2
  ZipCRC32:   0x
  ZipCompressionMethod:   99
  ZipExtractVersion:  20
  ZipFileAttributes:  0
  ZipFlags:   9
  ZipLocalDate:   1412844762
  ZipOS:  0
  ZipOSName:  MS-DOS

P.S., trailing blank spotted:
$ lsar -L Certificate.zip|sed -n '/ $/p'
Certificate.pdf: 

Bug#1004159: Add a qpdf-doc package

[積丹尼 Dan Jacobson]

Anyway, the idea is now we are on a camping trip, and don't want to need
to go back to town to run a second command to get the docs, because even
though we installed all the qpdf-* packages we could before we left, we
didn't read their instructions.

Bug#1004159: Add a qpdf-doc package

[積丹尼 Dan Jacobson]

> "JB" == Jay Berkenbilt  writes:

JB> /usr/share/doc/qpdf/README-doc.txt which includes instructions on how

Maybe just copy the three files it mentions, and make them into a
qpdf-doc package.

Bug#1004159: Add a qpdf-doc package

[積丹尼 Dan Jacobson]

Package: qpdf
Version: 10.5.0-1
Severity: wishlist

Add a qpdf-doc package, so the documentation can be viewed offline,
without needing to obtain an Internet connection, once one realizes the
full documentation is missing.

Bug#375275: #375275: getty: cursor state not reset

[積丹尼 Dan Jacobson]

reopen 375275
thanks
Easily reproducible currently using the steps in
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=375275#10

Bug#1003783: /usr/bin/which: this version of `which' is deprecated; use `command -v' in scripts instead.

[積丹尼 Dan Jacobson]

Package: libxml-libxml-perl
Version: 2.0207+dfsg-2

Preparing to unpack .../8-libxml-libxml-perl_2.0207+dfsg-2_amd64.deb ...
update-perl-sax-parsers: Unregistering Perl SAX parser XML::LibXML::SAX::Parser 
with priority 50...
update-perl-sax-parsers: Unregistering Perl SAX parser XML::LibXML::SAX with 
priority 50...
update-perl-sax-parsers: Updating overall Perl SAX parser modules info file...
/usr/bin/which: this version of `which' is deprecated; use `command -v' in 
scripts instead.
/usr/bin/which: this version of `which' is deprecated; use `command -v' in 
scripts instead.

Setting up libxml-libxml-perl (2.0207+dfsg-2) ...
update-perl-sax-parsers: Registering Perl SAX parser XML::LibXML::SAX::Parser 
with priority 50...
update-perl-sax-parsers: Registering Perl SAX parser XML::LibXML::SAX with 
priority 50...
update-perl-sax-parsers: Updating overall Perl SAX parser modules info file...
/usr/bin/which: this version of `which' is deprecated; use `command -v' in 
scripts instead.
/usr/bin/which: this version of `which' is deprecated; use `command -v' in 
scripts instead.

Bug#1003577: /usr/bin/which: this version of `which' is deprecated; use `command -v' in scripts instead.

[積丹尼 Dan Jacobson]

Package: texinfo
Version: 6.8-4

Setting up texinfo (6.8-4) ...
/usr/bin/which: this version of `which' is deprecated; use `command -v' in 
scripts instead.
/usr/bin/which: this version of `which' is deprecated; use `command -v' in 
scripts instead.

Bug#1002478: Say "(virtual package)" in search results

[積丹尼 Dan Jacobson]

Package: aptitude
Version: 0.8.13-3
Severity: wishlist

Instead of
# aptitude search xmonad
p   libghc-xmonad-contrib-dev- Extensions to xmonad
v   libghc-xmonad-contrib-dev-0.16-c9735 -
p   libghc-xmonad-contrib-doc- Extensions to xmonad; 
documentation
p   libghc-xmonad-contrib-prof   - Extensions to xmonad; 
profiling libraries
v   libghc-xmonad-contrib-prof-0.16-c9735-
p   libghc-xmonad-dev- Lightweight X11 window 
manager
v   libghc-xmonad-dev-0.15-a09b4 -
p   libghc-xmonad-doc- Lightweight X11 window 
manager; documentation
p   libghc-xmonad-extras-dev - third party extensions for 
xmonad with wacky dependencies
v   libghc-xmonad-extras-dev-0.15.2-a1447-
p   libghc-xmonad-extras-doc - third party extensions for 
xmonad with wacky dependencies; documentation
p   libghc-xmonad-extras-prof- third party extensions for 
xmonad with wacky dependencies; profiling libraries
v   libghc-xmonad-extras-prof-0.15.2-a1447   -
p   libghc-xmonad-prof   - Lightweight X11 window 
manager; profiling libraries
v   libghc-xmonad-prof-0.15-a09b4-
p   libghc-xmonad-wallpaper-dev  - xmonad wallpaper extension
v   libghc-xmonad-wallpaper-dev-0.0.1.4-24bf6-
p   libghc-xmonad-wallpaper-doc  - xmonad wallpaper extension; 
documentation
p   libghc-xmonad-wallpaper-prof - xmonad wallpaper extension; 
profiling libraries
v   libghc-xmonad-wallpaper-prof-0.0.1.4-24bf6   -
p   xmonad   - Lightweight X11 window 
manager written in Haskell

Perhaps say
# aptitude search xmonad
p   libghc-xmonad-contrib-dev- Extensions to xmonad
v   libghc-xmonad-contrib-dev-0.16-c9735 - (virtual package)
p   libghc-xmonad-contrib-doc- Extensions to xmonad; 
documentation
p   libghc-xmonad-contrib-prof   - Extensions to xmonad; 
profiling libraries
v   libghc-xmonad-contrib-prof-0.16-c9735- (virtual package)
p   libghc-xmonad-dev- Lightweight X11 window 
manager
v   libghc-xmonad-dev-0.15-a09b4 - (virtual package)
p   libghc-xmonad-doc- Lightweight X11 window 
manager; documentation
p   libghc-xmonad-extras-dev - third party extensions for 
xmonad with wacky dependencies
v   libghc-xmonad-extras-dev-0.15.2-a1447- (virtual package)
p   libghc-xmonad-extras-doc - third party extensions for 
xmonad with wacky dependencies; documentation
p   libghc-xmonad-extras-prof- third party extensions for 
xmonad with wacky dependencies; profiling libraries
v   libghc-xmonad-extras-prof-0.15.2-a1447   - (virtual package)
p   libghc-xmonad-prof   - Lightweight X11 window 
manager; profiling libraries
v   libghc-xmonad-prof-0.15-a09b4- (virtual package)
p   libghc-xmonad-wallpaper-dev  - xmonad wallpaper extension
v   libghc-xmonad-wallpaper-dev-0.0.1.4-24bf6- (virtual package)
p   libghc-xmonad-wallpaper-doc  - xmonad wallpaper extension; 
documentation
p   libghc-xmonad-wallpaper-prof - xmonad wallpaper extension; 
profiling libraries
v   libghc-xmonad-wallpaper-prof-0.0.1.4-24bf6   - (virtual package)
p   xmonad   - Lightweight X11 window 
manager written in Haskell

Just plain looks better.
Also we now know at a glance that the maintainer didn't forget a title, etc.

Bug#1001693: userguide.html missing background

[積丹尼 Dan Jacobson]

Package: i3-wm
Version: 4.20.1-1
Severity: minor
File: /usr/share/doc/i3-wm/userguide.html

Browsing
https://i3wm.org/docs/userguide.html
/usr/share/doc/i3-wm/userguide.html
The former has a black background, missing in the latter.

Bug#1001011: /usr/bin/which: this version of `which' is deprecated; use `command -v' in scripts instead.

[積丹尼 Dan Jacobson]

Package: ucf
Version: 3.0043

# env UCF_FORCE_CONFFOLD=1 ucf --three-way --debconf-ok 
--sum-file=/usr/share/grub/default/grub.md5sum /tmp/grub.ytSP5JjQ2w 
/etc/default/grub
/usr/bin/which: this version of `which' is deprecated; use `command -v' in 
scripts instead.

See #1000830 .

Bug#1001010: man dpkg should also mention --unpack processes triggers

[積丹尼 Dan Jacobson]

Package: dpkg
Version: 1.20.9
Severity: minor
File: /usr/share/man/man1/dpkg.1.gz

Man page says

   --unpack package-file...
   Unpack the package, but don't configure it. If --recursive or -R
   option is specified, package-file must refer to a directory
   instead.

But wait, it should also mention --unpack processes triggers:

# dpkg --unpack /var/cache/apt/archives/grub-pc_2.06-2_amd64.deb
(Reading database ... 145018 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../grub-pc_2.06-2_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking grub-pc (2.06-2) over (2.06-2) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.9.4-2) ...

Bug#1000968: closed by Colin Watson (Re: Bug#1000968: Mention the only way to abort dpkg-reconfigure)

[積丹尼 Dan Jacobson]

>> Else there is no way to quit. ^C, ^Z don't work.

B> This is too situational for there to be a reasonable way to advise on it
B> in the man page - it'll depend very much on the debconf frontend in use,

Fine. Then the very clear solution is on every page, automatically add an 
'abort' choice.

B> on the maintainer scripts in question, etc.

Hmmm, I see. Not so simple.

Well anyway, see
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/newt/+bug/31207 .

And dpkg-reconfigure remains the craziest command in Debian.

Even the Debian Installer allows people to abort out.

Anyway, you will have a bunch of people using 'killall dpkg-reconfigure'
at random steps.

It would be much better, if like in the Debian Installer, at each step,
authors were required to add an abort choice, which would do the proper
clean up for their scripts at that point.

Sure, currently thoughtful authors already add such choices.
But most just assume the user "always wants to complete and submit their
tax return, and never has second thoughts halfway."

Bug#1000968: Mention the only way to abort dpkg-reconfigure

[積丹尼 Dan Jacobson]

Package: debconf
Version: 1.5.79
Severity: wishlist
File: /usr/share/man/man8/dpkg-reconfigure.8.gz

On this man page please mention how to quit halfway.

E.g.,
"Open another window and do killall dpkg-reconfigure"

(And mention the possible consequences.)

Else there is no way to quit. ^C, ^Z don't work.

Bug#1000830: /usr/bin/which: this version of `which' is deprecated; use `command -v' in scripts instead.

[積丹尼 Dan Jacobson]

# ed /var/lib/dpkg/info/grub-pc.postinst
# dpkg --configure grub-pc
dpkg: error processing package grub-pc (--configure):
 package grub-pc is already installed and configured
Errors were encountered while processing:
 grub-pc
# dpkg-reconfigure grub-pc #
# xterm
# killall dpkg-reconfigure

Bug#1000830: /usr/bin/which: this version of `which' is deprecated; use `command -v' in scripts instead.

[積丹尼 Dan Jacobson]

# strace --output=/tmp/xx -ff  dpkg -i 
/var/cache/apt/archives/grub-pc_2.06-2_amd64.deb
shows plenty of which's still left, as you said. But apparently one is
still not going to /dev/null for me.

Maybe you can send me a .deb with an set -x in
/var/lib/dpkg/info/grub-pc.postinst so I don't have to repackage the
whole package.

Bug#1000964: add way to run installation scripts with sh -x

[積丹尼 Dan Jacobson]

Package: dpkg
Version: 1.20.9
Severity: wishlist

Add a way to run /var/lib/dpkg/info/* scripts with sh -x instead of sh,
without needing to repackage a package just to put an set -x at the top
of a file.

Bug#1000834: Support U+031A COMBINING LEFT ANGLE ABOVE

[積丹尼 Dan Jacobson]

Package: fonts-liberation
Version: 1:1.07.4-11

Maybe https://crbug.com/1274125 is a fonts-liberation bug. As that is
what Developer Tools shows is being used here.

Bug#1000832: apt-listchanges: news for jidanni5

[積丹尼 Dan Jacobson]

OK, maybe next release, the maintainer will remove the run-time warning,
as we also see there is already a NEWS item.

> "r" == root   writes:
r> --- News for grub2 (grub2-common grub-pc grub-pc-bin grub-common) ---
r> grub2 (2.06-1) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium

r>   * Boot menu entries for other operating systems are no longer generated by
r> default.  To re-enable this, set GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER=false in
r> /etc/default/grub.

r>  -- Colin Watson   Wed, 18 Aug 2021 13:03:23 +0100

Bug#1000000: million bugs

[積丹尼 Dan Jacobson]

People always told me Debian has a million bugs.

Bug#1000832: Mention how to turn off GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER warnings

[積丹尼 Dan Jacobson]

Package: grub-pc
Version: 2.06-2

We see two warnings:

Setting up linux-image-5.15.0-2-amd64 (5.15.5-1) ...
...
Warning: os-prober will not be executed to detect other bootable partitions.
Systems on them will not be added to the GRUB boot configuration.
Check GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER documentation entry.

Setting up grub-pc (2.06-2) ...
...
Warning: os-prober will not be executed to detect other bootable partitions.
Systems on them will not be added to the GRUB boot configuration.
Check GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER documentation entry.

We look at
(info "(grub) Simple configuration")
and read about GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER.

But nowhere is it mentioned how to turn off those two warnings.

No, we don't want to turn on the prober. We just want to turn off the warnings.

Bug#1000830: /usr/bin/which: this version of `which' is deprecated; use `command -v' in scripts instead.

[積丹尼 Dan Jacobson]

Package: grub-pc
Version: 2.06-2

Setting up grub-pc (2.06-2) ...
/usr/bin/which: this version of `which' is deprecated; use `command -v' in 
scripts instead.

Bug#962216: Github link

[積丹尼 Dan Jacobson]

See also https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/21491 .

Bug#1000464: journalctl --fac #just beeps

[積丹尼 Dan Jacobson]

Package: systemd
Version: 249.7-1
Severity: minor
File: /usr/share/bash-completion/completions/journalctl

# journalctl --help|grep fac
 --facility=FACILITY...  Show entries with the specified facilities
# journalctl --fac #just beeps
$ grep -c fac /usr/share/bash-completion/completions/journalctl
0

Bug#999733: -fillscreen vs. < and > and 100% zoom

[積丹尼 Dan Jacobson]

Package: xli
Version: 1.17.0+20061110-6

(Not sure where to report this.)
If one uses
$ xli -forall -fillscreen *.jpg
then the < and > keys will never take one to 100%.
They skip over it!

Bug#998908: Two identical messages about paniclog

[積丹尼 Dan Jacobson]

Package: exim4-base
Version: 4.95-2
Severity: minor

If there was a paniclog entry,
then even if the problem is already fixed,
root will get *two identical* messages the next boot.
One is enough.

(Never mind the actual entry (failed to expand...) I already fixed that.
That is not my point.)

$ sum $@
48822 1 /home/jidanni/.procmail/backup/msg.PFhP
48822 1 /home/jidanni/.procmail/backup/msg.zFgP
$ cat $1
>From r...@jidanni.org Wed Nov 10 02:41:01 2021
Return-path: 
Envelope-to: r...@jidanni.org
Delivery-date: Wed, 10 Nov 2021 02:41:01 +0800
Subject: exim paniclog on jidanni.org has non-zero size
To: r...@jidanni.org
Message-Id: 
From: root 
Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2021 02:41:01 +0800

exim paniclog /var/log/exim4/paniclog on jidanni.org has non-zero size, mail 
system might be broken. Up to 10 lines are quoted below.

2021-11-08 05:56:22 1mjq90-00011Y-DN failed to expand "<; ${if 
exists{/etc/exim4/passwd.client} 
{${lookup{$host}nwildlsearch{/etc/exim4/passwd.client}{$host_address}}}{} }" 
while checking a list: failed to open /etc/exim4/passwd.client for linear 
search: Permission denied (euid=116 egid=121)

Bug#998806: deprecated which

[積丹尼 Dan Jacobson]

Package: apt-listchanges
Version: 3.24

Setting up apt-listchanges (3.24) ...
/usr/bin/which: this version of `which' is deprecated; use `command -v' in 
scripts instead.

Bug#998805: empty /etc/polkit-1/rules.d remains after purge

[積丹尼 Dan Jacobson]

Package: policykit-1
Version: 0.105-31

Purging configuration files for policykit-1 (0.105-31) ...
dpkg: warning: while removing policykit-1, directory '/etc/polkit-1' not empty 
so not removed

Bug#998802: which deprecated

[積丹尼 Dan Jacobson]

Package: libdebuginfod-common
Version: 0.185-2

Purging configuration files for libdebuginfod-common (0.185-2) ...
/usr/bin/which: this version of `which' is deprecated; use `command -v' in 
scripts instead.

Bug#998694: Don't timeout if you haven't asked for password yet

[積丹尼 Dan Jacobson]

Package: login
Version: 1:4.8.1-1.1

(/usr/share/doc/login/copyright says
This is Debian GNU/Linux's prepackaged version of the shadow utilities.

It was downloaded from: .
As of May 2007, this site is no longer available.)

OK, I'll report the bug here:

Let's say the system is so overloaded that...

Login: root

Login timed out after 60 seconds

Yes, that's right, even before the password prompt appeared!

So that timeout will prevent access to the whole system!

So: at least don't timeout if you haven't asked for password yet!

Thanks.

Bug#998665: The SYNOPSIS only randomly mentions one of the programs

[積丹尼 Dan Jacobson]

Package: imagemagick-6.q16
Version: 8:6.9.11.60+dfsg-1.3
Severity: minor
File: /usr/share/man/man1/ImageMagick-im6.q16.1.gz

The SYNOPSIS only randomly mentions one of the programs.

Bug#997072: "Need to get ... MB of archives" didn't check the partial directory!

[積丹尼 Dan Jacobson]

Package: aptitude
Version: 0.8.13-3
Severity: minor

# aptitude full-upgrade
Let it download a bit, then hit ^C.

OK do it again:
# aptitude full-upgrade
The following packages will be upgraded:
  libdatetime-timezone-perl  libllvm12
2 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 19.4 MB/19.7 MB of archives. After unpacking 913 kB will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?]
Get: 1 http://opensource.nchc.org.tw/debian unstable/main amd64 libllvm12 amd64 
1:12.0.1-14 [19.4 MB]
76% [1 libllvm12 14.7 MB/19.4 MB 76%]...

In fact "Need to get 19.4 MB/19.7 MB of archives" is wrong.
It didn't figure in the 14.7 MB I had already downloaded!

/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/10jidanni :
APT::AutoRemove::RecommendsImportant false;
APT::AutoRemove::SuggestsImportant false;
APT::Cache::AllVersions false;
APT::Clean-Installed false;
APT::Default-Release "unstable";
APT::Get::Fix-Missing true;
APT::Get::Purge true;
APT::Install-Recommends false;
APT::Keep-Downloaded-Packages true;
APT::Periodic::Enable false;
Acquire::PDiffs true;
Acquire::http::No-Cache true;
Aptitude::CmdLine::Always-Prompt true;
Aptitude::CmdLine::Show-Deps true;
Aptitude::CmdLine::Show-Why true;
Aptitude::CmdLine::Verbose 1;
Aptitude::Purge-Unused true;
Binary::apt::APT::Keep-Downloaded-Packages true;

Bug#996730: Certain menus don't work right when chrome is in the Normal Layer

[積丹尼 Dan Jacobson]

> "EB" == Eduard Bloch  writes:
EB> I have no idea what you mean and this is definitively not "grave". Tried

I was thinking because it caused other packages to not work properly...

EB> to reproduce with different settings and chromium 93.0.4577.82-1 and it
EB> just works.

EB> Maybe some issue with other software on your system which is
EB> manipulating properties?

Well I turned off picom and it didn't help.

EB> Maybe gijsbers finds something.

I don't know. I think he is saying this bug is not possible:
https://github.com/ice-wm/icewm/issues/62#issuecomment-933694736

Does it work if you downgrade icewm (and
EB> icewm-common) to the Testing version?

They are the same:
# apt-cache policy icewm icewm-common
icewm:
  Installed: 2.8.0-1
  Candidate: 2.8.0-1
  Version table:
 *** 2.8.0-1 990
990 http://opensource.nchc.org.tw/debian unstable/main amd64 Packages
500 http://opensource.nchc.org.tw/debian testing/main amd64 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
icewm-common:
  Installed: 2.8.0-1
  Candidate: 2.8.0-1
  Version table:
 *** 2.8.0-1 990
990 http://opensource.nchc.org.tw/debian unstable/main amd64 Packages
500 http://opensource.nchc.org.tw/debian testing/main amd64 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

Should I go further back?

Bug#996873: Add link to emails: "this reply contains spam"

[積丹尼 Dan Jacobson]

Package: bugs.debian.org

Got a mail (I chopped it):

From: "Elizab
Subject: Bug#
To: "476519-s
Date: Wed, 20
Reply-To: "el
Resent-From:
Attachment: [

1.  ( ) text/

Hallo, ich bi
USD anbieten.

Elizabeth Liu

Wouldn't it be great if at the bottom there was a link "Report ... spam".

Bug#996854: Mention that "install" indeed does accept filenames after all

[積丹尼 Dan Jacobson]

Package: apt
Version: 2.3.10
File: /usr/share/man/man8/apt-get.8.gz

man apt-get says:
   install
   install is followed by one or more packages desired for
   installation or upgrading. Each package is a package name, not a
   fully qualified filename

All I know is
apt-get install ./Webex.deb
apt-get install $PWD/Webex.deb
worked fine.

Bug#996730: Certain menus don't work right when chrome is in the Normal Layer

[積丹尼 Dan Jacobson]

Package: icewm
Version: 2.8.0-1
Severity: grave

Are there any other users who can confirm
https://github.com/ice-wm/icewm/issues/62 ?

Bug#995034: Only single dash completions shown

[積丹尼 Dan Jacobson]

Actually I just take a random guess each time of where to report to.
Also often I am offline, so queuing a mail to bugs.debian.org is quite 
attractive.

Bug#995715: Problem seen only when package is in trouble

[積丹尼 Dan Jacobson]

Problem only seen when package is in
$ aptitude search ~i
C a dictionaries-common
state.
I.e., during #995685 .

Bug#995715: Internal Error, No file name for dictionaries-common:amd64

[積丹尼 Dan Jacobson]

Package: aptitude
Version: 0.8.13-3

# aptitude reinstall dictionaries-common
The following packages will be REINSTALLED:
  dictionaries-common
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 0 not 
upgraded.
Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 0 B will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?]
E: Internal Error, No file name for dictionaries-common:amd64

Bug#995034: Only single dash completions shown

[積丹尼 Dan Jacobson]

Well OK. But e.g., if a user e.g., reports to all

perltidy debian
perltidy upstream
bash-completion debian
bash-completion upstream

then that would require a total of 4 x 4 = 16 cross references,
(as users have no hint of where to report.)

Bug#995497: dpkg: warning: while removing fonts-noto-cjk, directory '/usr/share/fonts/opentype/noto' not empty so not removed

[積丹尼 Dan Jacobson]

Package: fonts-noto-cjk

Purging configuration files for fonts-noto-cjk (1:20201206-cjk+repack1-1) ...
dpkg: warning: while removing fonts-noto-cjk, directory
'/usr/share/fonts/opentype/noto' not empty so not removed

/usr/share/fonts/opentype/noto/.uuid

Bug#995214: Wide apostrophe ending up on single width pages

[積丹尼 Dan Jacobson]

> "YW(" == Yao Wei (魏銘廷)  writes:

YW(> You can try preferring Latin fonts to CJK fonts.

How? 怎麼設定？

Bug#995214: Wide apostrophe ending up on single width pages

[積丹尼 Dan Jacobson]

Package: fonts-noto-cjk-extra
Version: 1:20201206-cjk+repack1-1
File: /usr/share/fonts/opentype/noto/NotoSansCJK-Medium.ttc

Why is this happening in Firefox and Chrome?
$ LC_CTYPE=zh_TW.UTF-8 $BROWSER http://ud.taichung.gov.tw/

Bug#994179: Upstream mess

[積丹尼 Dan Jacobson]

OK I meant serious: "makes the package unsuitable for release."
Because it is now spitting out error messages on every use.

Bug#995100: Missing MIME charset for Debian Bug Help

[積丹尼 Dan Jacobson]

Package: bugs.debian.org

Here we observe missing MIME charset for
'Debian Bug help: instructions for cont...@bugs.debian.org'

Bug#994179: Upstream mess

[積丹尼 Dan Jacobson]

several 994179 critical
thanks

# alsactl restore
alsa-lib parser.c:2372:(load_toplevel_config) Unable to find the top-level 
configuration file '/usr/share/alsa/ucm2/ucm.conf'.
alsa-lib main.c:1405:(snd_use_case_mgr_open) error: failed to import hw:0 use 
case configuration -2
alsa-lib parser.c:2372:(load_toplevel_config) Unable to find the top-level 
configuration file '/usr/share/alsa/ucm2/ucm.conf'.
alsa-lib main.c:1405:(snd_use_case_mgr_open) error: failed to import hw:2 use 
case configuration -2

One would think that doing

# aptitude install alsa-ucm-conf

a non dependency, would fix it.

Alas, no:

# alsactl restore
alsa-lib parser.c:242:(error_node) UCM is not supported for this HDA model 
(HD-Audio Generic at 0xfe96 irq 46)
alsa-lib main.c:1405:(snd_use_case_mgr_open) error: failed to import hw:0 use 
case configuration -6
alsa-lib parser.c:242:(error_node) UCM is not supported for this HDA model (HDA 
ATI HDMI at 0xfe964000 irq 45)
alsa-lib main.c:1405:(snd_use_case_mgr_open) error: failed to import hw:2 use 
case configuration -6

https://github.com/alsa-project/alsa-utils/issues/101

https://github.com/alsa-project/alsa-lib/issues/159

https://www.reddit.com/r/archlinux/comments/hz0ef8/feeling_discouraged/

https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/67027

Bug#995034: Only single dash completions shown

[積丹尼 Dan Jacobson]

Package: bash-completion
Version: 1:2.11-3
Severity: minor
File: /usr/share/bash-completion/completions/perltidy

Only
$ perltidy -
works,
$ perltidy --
doesn't!

One needs to check the man page to see what the former mean.

Bug#995033: Files should mention where to report bugs to

[積丹尼 Dan Jacobson]

Package: bash-completion
Version: 1:2.11-3
Severity: wishlist
File: /usr/share/bash-completion/completions/perltidy

Such files should mention where to report bugs to.

Bug#994718: checkbashisms: notice for loops before saying to use $((

[積丹尼 Dan Jacobson]

Package: devscripts
Version: 2.21.4
File: /usr/bin/checkbashisms

Regarding

possible bashism in (stdin) line 1 ('((' should be '$(('):
for (( k=1 ; k<8 ; k++ )) ; do echo $k ; done

OK, but

$ for (( k=1 ; k<8 ; k++ )) ; do echo $k ; done
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
$ for $(( k=1 ; k<8 ; k++ )) ; do echo $k ; done
bash: `$(( k=1 ; k<8 ; k++ ))': not a valid identifier

So checkbashisms needs to remember we are talking about a for loop here,
and say something different. (No, I don't know what it should say instead.)

Bug#994717: mention return codes on man pages

[積丹尼 Dan Jacobson]

Package: alsa-utils
Version: 1.2.5.1-1
Severity: wishlist
File: /usr/share/man/man1/alsactl.1.gz

Mention something like
   An exit status of zero indicates success, and a nonzero value
   indicates failure.
Else one cannot tell if e.g.,

# alsactl --debug restore; echo $?
alsa-lib parser.c:2372:(load_toplevel_config) Unable to find the top-level 
configuration file '/usr/share/alsa/ucm2/ucm.conf'.
alsa-lib main.c:1405:(snd_use_case_mgr_open) error: failed to import hw:0 use 
case configuration -2
alsactl: set_controls:1493: device='hw:0', doit=0
alsactl: set_controls:1505: card-info-id: 'PCH'
alsactl: set_controls:1531: maxnumid=29
alsactl: set_controls:1549: result code: 0
alsactl: set_controls:1493: device='hw:0', doit=1
alsactl: set_controls:1505: card-info-id: 'PCH'
alsactl: set_controls:1531: maxnumid=29
alsactl: set_controls:1549: result code: 0
0

worked or not.

Bug#994412: OK I removed both, then reinstalled one

[積丹尼 Dan Jacobson]

Well on a vanilla system I still get:

# aptitude -s purge debian-el
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  debian-el{p} elpa-debian-el{u}

aptitude show says:

Package: elpa-debian-el
Version: 37.10
State: installed
Automatically installed: yes

Package: debian-el
Version: 37.10
State: installed
Automatically installed: no

True, when I installed them I had:

APT::AutoRemove::RecommendsImportant false;
APT::AutoRemove::SuggestsImportant false;
APT::Cache::AllVersions false;
APT::Clean-Installed false;
APT::Default-Release "unstable";
APT::Get::Fix-Missing true;
APT::Get::Purge true;
APT::Install-Recommends false;
APT::Keep-Downloaded-Packages true;
APT::Periodic::Enable false;
Acquire::PDiffs true;
Acquire::http::No-Cache true;
Aptitude::CmdLine::Always-Prompt true;
Aptitude::CmdLine::Show-Deps true;
Aptitude::CmdLine::Show-Why true;
Aptitude::CmdLine::Verbose 1;
Aptitude::Purge-Unused true;
Binary::apt::APT::Keep-Downloaded-Packages true;

OK, now doing purge, install, purge again, with my above settings list I
get:

# aptitude purge debian-el
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  debian-el{p}  elpa-debian-el{pu} (D: debian-el)

OK, I'll just purge debian-el, and then
install elpa-debian-el.
OK, now it is not marked Automatically Installed.

(I only dare use -s when I don't have my settings list installed,
as it might delete all my downloaded packages, etc.)

Bug#994504: Don't just say "not a real package"

[積丹尼 Dan Jacobson]

Also some of them will show up as
v ...
in aptitude search
But some won't show up at all.
Confusing.

Bug#994504: [Aptitude-devel] Bug#994504: Bug#994504: Don't just say "not a real package"

[積丹尼 Dan Jacobson]

Also the user is curious where these determinations are drawn from.
It would be nice if aptitude said "Based on /var/lib/dpkg/status, this
package is a ephemeral / virtual / refereed etc. package."

Bug#994503: cannot make such installations stick

[積丹尼 Dan Jacobson]

So one needs to unmarkauto each of the recommends packages.

Bug#994503: [Pkg-fonts-devel] Bug#994503: Must Depend, not just Recommend

[積丹尼 Dan Jacobson]

Description: metapackage to pull in all Noto fonts
^^^
 Use this package if you want all Noto fonts.
 ^^^  ^^^
# apt install fonts-noto
fonts-noto is already the newest version (20201225-1).
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  fonts-noto-cjk fonts-noto-cjk-extra fonts-noto-extra fonts-noto-mono 
fonts-noto-ui-core fonts-noto-ui-extra fonts-noto-unhinted
Use 'apt autoremove' to remove them.

That was following the steps in #994509 to install them.

Bug#994503: cannot make such installations stick

[積丹尼 Dan Jacobson]

And in #994509 you can see that one cannot make such installations stick.

Bug#994504: [Aptitude-devel] Bug#994504: Don't just say "not a real package"

[積丹尼 Dan Jacobson]

In this particular case, all I found was this package was mentioned in
other installed packages' headers.

I don't know if that makes it a virtual package or not.

Bug#994509: --with-recommends: mention what to do if package is already installed

[積丹尼 Dan Jacobson]

Package: aptitude
Version: 0.8.13-3
Severity: wishlist

Manpage mentions:

   -r, --with-recommends
   Treat recommendations as dependencies when installing new packages
   (this overrides settings in /etc/apt/apt.conf and
   ~/.aptitude/config).

   This corresponds to the configuration option
   APT::Install-Recommends

OK, but mention what to do if the package is already installed.

One would think reinstall would work, but no, it doesn't get the
recommendations.

$ set fonts-noto
$ aptitude --with-recommends -s install $@
fonts-noto is already installed at the requested version (20201225-1)
fonts-noto is already installed at the requested version (20201225-1)
Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 0 B will be used.
$ aptitude --with-recommends -s reinstall $@
The following packages will be REINSTALLED:
  fonts-noto
Need to get 0 B/21.1 kB of archives. After unpacking 0 B will be used.
Note: Using 'Simulate' mode.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?]
Inst fonts-noto [20201225-1] (20201225-1 Debian:unstable [all])
Conf fonts-noto (20201225-1 Debian:unstable [all])
$ aptitude --with-recommends -s purge $@
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  fonts-noto{p}  fonts-noto-core{pu} (D: fonts-noto)
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 2 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 43.6 MB will be freed.
# dpkg -P fonts-noto
Removing fonts-noto (20201225-1) ...
# aptitude --with-recommends -s install fonts-noto
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  fonts-noto  fonts-noto-cjk{a} (D: fonts-noto-cjk-extra, R: fonts-noto) 
(fonts-noto R: fonts-noto-cjk)  fonts-noto-cjk-extra{a} (R: fonts-noto, S: 
fonts-noto-cjk) (fonts-noto R: fonts-noto-cjk-extra)
  fonts-noto-extra{a} (R: fonts-noto, S: fonts-noto-ui-extra, E: 
fonts-noto-unhinted) (fonts-noto R: fonts-noto-extra)
  fonts-noto-mono{a} (R: fonts-noto, E: fonts-noto-extra, E: 
fonts-noto-unhinted) (fonts-noto R: fonts-noto-mono)
  fonts-noto-ui-core{a} (R: fonts-noto, E: fonts-noto-ui-extra) (fonts-noto R: 
fonts-noto-ui-core)  fonts-noto-ui-extra{a} (R: fonts-noto) (fonts-noto R: 
fonts-noto-ui-extra)
  fonts-noto-unhinted{a} (R: fonts-noto) (fonts-noto R: fonts-noto-unhinted)
0 packages upgraded, 8 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 273 MB/273 MB of archives. After unpacking 729 MB will be used.

Ah, finally.

Actually this is a bug: --with-recommends plus reinstall should pull
them in!

Bug#994506: Don't hide real packages among the D: stuff!

[積丹尼 Dan Jacobson]

Package: aptitude
Version: 0.8.13-3

It's just crazy to jumble these like this:

The following packages will be REMOVED:
  bubblewrap{pu} (D: libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37)  gstreamer1.0-plugins-base{pu} (D: 
gstreamer1.0-plugins-good, D: libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37)  
gstreamer1.0-plugins-good{pu} (D: libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37)
  libcdparanoia0{pu} (D: gstreamer1.0-plugins-base)  libharfbuzz-icu0{pu} (D: 
libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37)  libhyphen0{pu} (D: libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37)
  libjavascriptcoregtk-4.0-18{pu} (D: libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37, D: yelp)  
libmanette-0.2-0{pu} (D: libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37)  libshout3{pu} (D: 
gstreamer1.0-plugins-good)
  libtag1v5{pu} (D: gstreamer1.0-plugins-good)  libtag1v5-vanilla{pu} (D: 
libtag1v5)  libvisual-0.4-0{pu} (D: gstreamer1.0-plugins-base)
  libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37{ap} (D: bubblewrap, D: gstreamer1.0-plugins-base, D: 
gstreamer1.0-plugins-good, D: libharfbuzz-icu0, D: libhyphen0, D: 
libjavascriptcoregtk-4.0-18, D: libmanette-0.2-0, D: libwoff1, D: libwpe-1.0-1, 
D: libwpebackend-fdo-1.0-1, D: xdg-dbus-proxy)
  libwoff1{pu} (D: libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37)  libwpe-1.0-1{pu} (D: 
libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37, D: libwpebackend-fdo-1.0-1)  libwpebackend-fdo-1.0-1{p}  
libyelp0{ap} (D: libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37)
  lsb-release{pu} (D: python3-distro)  python3-distro{pu} (D: yelp)  
xdg-dbus-proxy{pu} (D: libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37)
  yelp{a} (D: libjavascriptcoregtk-4.0-18, D: libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37, D: 
libyelp0, D: python3-distro)


It's much better to put one package per line:


The following packages will be REMOVED:
  bubblewrap{pu} (D: libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37)
  gstreamer1.0-plugins-base{pu} (D: gstreamer1.0-plugins-good, D: 
libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37)
  gstreamer1.0-plugins-good{pu} (D: libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37)
  libcdparanoia0{pu} (D: gstreamer1.0-plugins-base)
  libharfbuzz-icu0{pu} (D: libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37)
  libhyphen0{pu} (D: libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37)
  libjavascriptcoregtk-4.0-18{pu} (D: libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37, D: yelp)
  libmanette-0.2-0{pu} (D: libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37)
  libshout3{pu} (D: gstreamer1.0-plugins-good)
  libtag1v5{pu} (D: gstreamer1.0-plugins-good)
  libtag1v5-vanilla{pu} (D: libtag1v5)
  libvisual-0.4-0{pu} (D: gstreamer1.0-plugins-base)
  libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37{ap} (D: bubblewrap, D: gstreamer1.0-plugins-base, D: 
gstreamer1.0-plugins-good, D: libharfbuzz-icu0, D: libhyphen0, D: 
libjavascriptcoregtk-4.0-18, D: libmanette-0.2-0, D: libwoff1, D: libwpe-1.0-1, 
D: libwpebackend-fdo-1.0-1, D: xdg-dbus-proxy)
  libwoff1{pu} (D: libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37)
  libwpe-1.0-1{pu} (D: libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37, D: libwpebackend-fdo-1.0-1)
  libwpebackend-fdo-1.0-1{p}
  libyelp0{ap} (D: libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37)
  lsb-release{pu} (D: python3-distro)
  python3-distro{pu} (D: yelp)
  xdg-dbus-proxy{pu} (D: libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37)
  yelp{a} (D: libjavascriptcoregtk-4.0-18, D: libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37, D: 
libyelp0, D: python3-distro)


So eight lines became 21.

Well yes, but those were eight dangerous lines, potentially hiding
packages we need to notice in the middle of those lines.

Yes, each one of your eight lines starts with a real package, just like
my 21 lines.

But your 8 lines **hides** real packages among the D: stuff!

Bug#994504: Don't just say "not a real package"

[積丹尼 Dan Jacobson]

Package: aptitude
Version: 0.8.13-3
Severity: wishlist

$ aptitude show ttf-unifont
Package: ttf-unifont
State: not a real package
$ apt show ttf-unifont
Package: ttf-unifont
State: not a real package (virtual)

That's a little better.

Bug#994505: /usr/bin/which: this version of `which' is deprecated; use `command -v' in scripts instead.

[積丹尼 Dan Jacobson]

Package: gconf2-common
Version: 3.2.6-7

Seen on purge:

The following packages will be REMOVED:
  gconf2-common{p}
Removing gconf2-common (3.2.6-7) ...
Processing triggers for sgml-base (1.30) ...
Purging configuration files for gconf2-common (3.2.6-7) ...
/usr/bin/which: this version of `which' is deprecated; use `command -v' in 
scripts instead.

Bug#994503: Must Depend, not just Recommend

[積丹尼 Dan Jacobson]

Package: fonts-noto
Version: 20201225-1

For this package to work as intended, you need to make
Depends: fonts-noto-core
Recommends: fonts-noto-cjk, fonts-noto-cjk-extra, fonts-noto-color-emoji, 
fonts-noto-extra, fonts-noto-mono, fonts-noto-ui-core, fonts-noto-ui-extra, 
fonts-noto-unhinted
all Depends! No Recommends.

Bug#994412: Not easy to remove dummy package cleanly

[積丹尼 Dan Jacobson]

Package: debian-el
Version: 37.10

When I try to remove this dummy package, aptitude says
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  debian-el{p}  elpa-debian-el{pu} (D: debian-el)

But other dummy packages don't trigger this in aptitude.

Bug#953032: Please import fix

[積丹尼 Dan Jacobson]

Can you please update so we can see if
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libx11/-/issues/137
really fixes the problem?
My disks are reaching the breaking point.

Bug#994188: Comments within textareas are not comments

[積丹尼 Dan Jacobson]

Package: lynx
Version: 2.9.0dev.9-2
File: /usr/bin/lynx

I tried to make sense to them in
https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=50539

I tested all the browsers at hand.

Lynx failed the test.

Lynx treats comments within textareas as comments and not text.

That's wrong. Probably according to
https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/form-elements.html#the-textarea-element
too.

Bug#994179: Unable to find the top-level configuration file '/usr/share/alsa/ucm2/ucm.conf'.

[積丹尼 Dan Jacobson]

Package: alsa-utils
Version: 1.2.5.1-1
File: /usr/sbin/alsactl

# alsactl restore
alsa-lib parser.c:2372:(load_toplevel_config) Unable to find the top-level 
configuration file '/usr/share/alsa/ucm2/ucm.conf'.
alsa-lib main.c:1405:(snd_use_case_mgr_open) error: failed to import hw:0 use 
case configuration -2

Bug#993654: nobody can reply to "gregor herrmann "

[積丹尼 Dan Jacobson]

gh> This "From" is indeed a bit unfortunate but there's nothing
gh> indiviudal salsa users can do about it …

OK, filed https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=993654#30 .

Bug#993654: nobody can reply to "gregor herrmann "

[積丹尼 Dan Jacobson]

gregor herrmann: nobody can reply to
"gregor herrmann "

Bug#993686: Replace deprecated 'which' with 'command -v'

[積丹尼 Dan Jacobson]

Package: ucf
Version: 3.0043

> "gh" == gregor herrmann  writes:
gh> Control: tag -1 pending

gh> Hello,

gh> Bug #993654 in libxml-sax-perl reported by you has been fixed in the
gh> Git repository and is awaiting an upload. You can see the commit
gh> message below and you can check the diff of the fix at:

gh> 
https://salsa.debian.org/perl-team/modules/packages/libxml-sax-perl/-/commit/43330f716f58062a0fbb629054dc8e9459753cda

gh> 
gh> Replace deprecated 'which' with 'command -v' in maintainer script(s).

gh> Note that this change doesn't make the warnings on installation go away, as
gh> they actually come from ucf(1).

That sounds terrible. OK, I hereby tell them.

Bug#993654: /usr/bin/which: this version of `which' is deprecated; use `command -v' in scripts instead.

[積丹尼 Dan Jacobson]

Package: libxml-sax-perl
Version: 1.02+dfsg-2

Setting up libxml-sax-perl (1.02+dfsg-2) ...
update-perl-sax-parsers: Registering Perl SAX parser XML::SAX::PurePerl with 
priority 10...
update-perl-sax-parsers: Updating overall Perl SAX parser modules info file...
/usr/bin/which: this version of `which' is deprecated; use `command -v' in 
scripts instead.
/usr/bin/which: this version of `which' is deprecated; use `command -v' in 
scripts instead.

Bug#993653: /usr/bin/which: this version of `which' is deprecated; use `command -v' in scripts instead.

[積丹尼 Dan Jacobson]

Package: exim4-config
Version: 4.95~RC2-1

Setting up exim4-config (4.95~RC2-1) ...
Installing new version of config file 
/etc/exim4/conf.d/acl/30_exim4-config_check_rcpt ...
Installing new version of config file 
/etc/exim4/conf.d/transport/30_exim4-config_remote_smtp ...
Installing new version of config file 
/etc/exim4/conf.d/transport/30_exim4-config_remote_smtp_smarthost ...
Installing new version of config file /etc/exim4/exim4.conf.template ...
/usr/bin/which: this version of `which' is deprecated; use `command -v' in 
scripts instead.
/usr/bin/which: this version of `which' is deprecated; use `command -v' in 
scripts instead.

Bug#992867: root cause found

[積丹尼 Dan Jacobson]

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/proto/xorgproto/-/issues/35#note_1045802

Bug#993253: man page gone

[積丹尼 Dan Jacobson]

Package: binutils-common
Version: 2.37-4
Severity: wishlist
File: /usr/share/man/man1/strings.1.gz

$ zcat /usr/share/man/man1/strings.1.gz | wc
  0   0   0

$ dlocate -L binutils-common
Package binutils-common is not installed or 
/var/lib/dpkg/info/binutils-common.list is empty.

Bug#992867: Stop flooding syslog! You will fill up the disk.

[積丹尼 Dan Jacobson]

Package: x11-xkb-utils
Version: 7.7+5
Severity: grave

Did anybody take a look at syslog recently?

It is flooded with
Internal error:   Could not resolve keysym ...

So much so that the disk will fill up.

Bug#992411: Just use clearer message

[積丹尼 Dan Jacobson]

OK,
instead of saying
   /usr/bin/which: this version of 'which' is deprecated and should not be 
used.*
please say
   /usr/bin/which: The 'which' utility will be removed in the future.  
Please use
   'command -v' instead. For more info, see ...

*Else you mean "tell the maintainer he needs to install the correct version"!

Bug#953032: Bug is back, filling up disks like crazy

[積丹尼 Dan Jacobson]

# ls -l /var/log/syslog*
-rw-r- 1 root adm 23119076 08-21 03:15 /var/log/syslog
-rw-r- 1 root adm   542530 08-16 01:01 /var/log/syslog.1
-rw-r- 1 root adm   136476 08-08 19:03 /var/log/syslog.2.gz
-rw-r- 1 root adm   309712 08-01 11:46 /var/log/syslog.3.gz
-rw-r- 1 root adm   141645 07-25 16:26 /var/log/syslog.4.gz
-rw-r- 1 root adm26718 2021-02-13  /var/log/syslog.6.gz
-rw-r- 1 root adm47465 2021-02-12  /var/log/syslog.7.gz

Aug 21 03:13:50 jidanni5 sh[1327]: > Internal error:   Could not resolve keysym 
XF86Macro29
Aug 21 03:13:50 jidanni5 sh[1327]: > Internal error:   Could not resolve keysym 
XF86Macro30
Aug 21 03:13:50 jidanni5 sh[1327]: > Internal error:   Could not resolve keysym 
XF86MacroRecordStart
Aug 21 03:13:50 jidanni5 sh[1327]: > Internal error:   Could not resolve keysym 
XF86MacroRecordStop
Aug 21 03:13:50 jidanni5 sh[1327]: > Internal error:   Could not resolve keysym 
XF86MacroPresetCycle
Aug 21 03:13:50 jidanni5 sh[1327]: > Internal error:   Could not resolve keysym 
XF86MacroPreset1
Aug 21 03:13:50 jidanni5 sh[1327]: > Internal error:   Could not resolve keysym 
XF86MacroPreset2
Aug 21 03:13:50 jidanni5 sh[1327]: > Internal error:   Could not resolve keysym 
XF86MacroPreset3
Aug 21 03:13:50 jidanni5 sh[1327]: > Internal error:   Could not resolve keysym 
XF86KbdLcdMenu1
Aug 21 03:13:50 jidanni5 sh[1327]: > Internal error:   Could not resolve keysym 
XF86KbdLcdMenu2
Aug 21 03:13:50 jidanni5 sh[1327]: > Internal error:   Could not resolve keysym 
XF86KbdLcdMenu3
Aug 21 03:13:50 jidanni5 sh[1327]: > Internal error:   Could not resolve keysym 
XF86KbdLcdMenu4
Aug 21 03:13:50 jidanni5 sh[1327]: > Internal error:   Could not resolve keysym 
XF86KbdLcdMenu5

Bug#992411: not fixed

[積丹尼 Dan Jacobson]

reopen 992411
found 992411 5.3-1
thanks

All I know is the bug was to make
/usr/bin/which keep working.

All I see that was 'fixed' was making a news item.

There are hundreds of cgi etc. scripts that are now emitting errors.

Bug#992598: Download while installing

[積丹尼 Dan Jacobson]

Package: aptitude
Severity: wishlist
Version: 0.8.13-3

Let's say there is to be done:
54 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 1 to remove and 1 not upgraded etc.

Idea: well in fact, these can be smartly grouped:

First split the list into groups of packages that don't depend on each
other.

Then download the smallest (bytes) group.

Then start installing them.

But even when we are still installing them, start downloading the next
group. Etc.

OK. It is too confusing to do parallel installs. But at least
downloading of independent (of this group) packages could continue,
while installing is occurring.

Well, perhaps all this is only important in slower speed countries.

Bug#992411: Warnings coming out of everywhere

[積丹尼 Dan Jacobson]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Which_(command)

Please make sure /usr/bin/* stuff keeps working.

Bug#992411: You don't know how many scripts you are breaking

[積丹尼 Dan Jacobson]

severity 992411 grave
thanks

You don't know how many scripts you are breaking.
Error messages coming out of everywhere.
Major embarrassment.

Bug#992303: speaker-test --verbose: to tell which device it is actually using

[積丹尼 Dan Jacobson]

Package: alsa-utils
Version: 1.2.4-1
Severity: wishlist
File: /usr/bin/speaker-test

$ speaker-test

speaker-test 1.2.4

Playback device is default ...

OK that's great, but a --verbose option could mention which device it is
actually using.

Bug#992295: Add an option to test all the speakers on the system

[積丹尼 Dan Jacobson]

Package: alsa-utils
Version: 1.2.4-1
Severity: wishlist
File: /usr/bin/speaker-test

Add an option or mention how to test all the speakers on the system.

Currently, working back from what the man page says, one needs

for i in $(aplay -L|perl -nwle '/(.*):CARD=([^,]+)/ && print "$1:$2";'|sort -u)
do speaker-test --device $i --nloops 1; done

And that creates a lot of errors, as not all the aplay -L devices can be
used.

Anyway, the idea is: try making a noise that can be heard somewhere.
E.g., it is night time.
My house has 25 windows.
I will make a noise inside it,
and stand outside, wondering what window the noise came out of...

So running the above command, when the user finally hears a noise,
he can look quickly at the screen to see which --device made it.

Bug#992294: speaker-test: document default amount of loops

[積丹尼 Dan Jacobson]

Package: alsa-utils
Version: 1.2.4-1
Severity: minor
File: /usr/share/man/man1/speaker-test.1.gz

   -l | --nloops COUNT

  Specifies the number of loops.  Zero means to run infinitely.

  When -s option below with a valid channel is given, speaker-test
  will perform always a single-shot without looping.

Mention that simply doing
$ speaker-test
loops infinitely.

Bug#992289: modules listed twice

[積丹尼 Dan Jacobson]

Package: alsa-utils
Version: 1.2.4-1
Severity: minor
File: /usr/sbin/alsa-info

Modules listed twice:

!!Loaded ALSA modules
!!---

snd_hda_intel
snd_hda_intel

Bug#991929: Man page doesn't mention many options

[積丹尼 Dan Jacobson]

Package: sqlformat
Version: 0.4.1-1
Severity: wishlist
File: /usr/share/man/man1/sqlformat.1.gz

-h reveals many more options not mentioned on man page.

Bug#991669: Add usage examples

[積丹尼 Dan Jacobson]

Package: libsqlite3-mod-csvtable
Version: 0.9998-2
Severity: wishlist

Add usage examples, so we know how to use this package.

And mention if this package has anything to do with

/usr/share/doc/sqlite3/cli.html#csv
or
/usr/share/doc/sqlite3/csv.html .