Bug#512764: procps: Misleading comment in /etc/sysctl.conf.

2009-01-23 Thread Adam Rice
Package: procps Version: 1:3.2.7-11 Severity: minor Version 1:3.2.7-10 adds the following comment to /etc/sysctl.conf: # This disables TCP Window Scaling (http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/2/5/167), # and is not recommended. This comment is misleading, as can easily be determined by reading the rest of

Bug#475669: Suggest informing the user

2008-05-11 Thread Adam Rice
days old now, it might be time to look at a workaround like > this. Do you know, does Azureus work with any other versions of GIJ? I > know that it works with Sun's VM. > > Cheers, > Shaun > > On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 1:45 PM, Adam Rice <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > &g

Bug#475669: Suggest informing the user

2008-05-01 Thread Adam Rice
The problem is that it comes so close to working with gij-4.3 that it's hard to notice that anything is actually wrong. How about putting a temporary hack in the /usr/bin/azureus script to check if /usr/bin/java is gij-4.3 and popup an xmessage saying something like " You are running azureus wi

Bug#467522: googleearth-package: /usr/lib/googleearth/linux/README-mailto.txt

2008-02-25 Thread Adam Rice
Package: googleearth-package Version: 0.5.3 Severity: minor The file /usr/lib/googleearth/linux/README-mailto.txt in the generated package should be moved to /usr/share/doc/googleearth. googleearth version is 4.2.205.5730. -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers stable APT p

Bug#462352: doc-linux-text: The X Window User HOWTO contains misleading font comment

2008-01-23 Thread Adam Rice
Package: doc-linux-text Version: 2007.02-1 Severity: minor XWindow-User-HOWTO.gz contains the statement: " Terminal emulators like xterm require a monospaced font. So forget about TrueType or Type 1 fonts. " This is wrong on two counts: firstly monospaced TrueType fonts exist, and secondly xte

Bug#404565: "shaper stop" spews errors when network interfaces containing capital letters are present

2006-12-26 Thread Adam Rice
Package: shaper Version: 2.2.12-0.7.3-2.1 Severity: normal Tags: patch When the system has network interfaces with capital letters in their names, many errors are displayed at shutdown time. For example: Cannot find device "2:" RTNETLINK answers: No such file or directory Cannot find device "---

Bug#368462: alsa-utils depends on dummy package python-minimal

2006-05-22 Thread Adam Rice
Package: alsa-utils Version: 1.0.11-2 Severity: minor python-minimal is a dummy package which appears to exist only in a misguided attempt to be compatible with Ubuntu. Since it pulls in the whole of Python anyway (python upstream strongly disproves of incomplete installations), there's no benefi

Bug#368464: python-minimal: Package description is blatantly deceptive

2006-05-22 Thread Adam Rice
Package: python-minimal Version: 2.3.5-5 Severity: normal > A minimal subset of the Python language This package pulls in the entirity of Python, and unless you want to alienate Python upstream, it always will. > This package contains the interpreter and some essential modules. True if you con

Bug#356501: python2.4-minimal: This package should not exist

2006-03-12 Thread Adam Rice
Package: python2.4-minimal Version: 2.4.2-2 Severity: normal python-minimal only exists in Ubuntu so that users can uninstall python without breaking the base system. Ubuntu has an agreement with the python developers that a user will only get a system with python-minimal but without the full pyt

Bug#340717: libc-client2002edebian: cram-md5.pwd format ridiculously finicky

2005-11-29 Thread Adam Rice
Jonas Smedegaard wrote: On Fri, 25 Nov 2005 11:12:52 + Adam Rice <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The format of /etc/cram-md5.pwd is . This is particularly troublesome for those of us with 7-character usernames, as the tabs become indistinguishable from spaces. Naturally if you get it wro

Bug#340717: libc-client2002edebian: cram-md5.pwd format ridiculously finicky

2005-11-25 Thread Adam Rice
Package: libc-client2002edebian Version: 7:2002edebian1-12 Severity: normal The format of /etc/cram-md5.pwd is . This is particularly troublesome for those of us with 7-character usernames, as the tabs become indistinguishable from spaces. Naturally if you get it wrong, no error is reported. Fra

Bug#295921: caudium: Caudium takes over from Apache

2005-03-07 Thread Adam Rice
Marek Habersack wrote: > So my guess is that for some weird reason the above pulls caudium-php4 and, > in consequence, caudium. I'm also wondering whether caudium asked you about > the port it should listen on - it should have done that precisely to avoid > clash with any installed webserver. In m

Bug#295921: caudium: Caudium takes over from Apache

2005-03-06 Thread Adam Rice
This just happened to me too. I don't know why Caudium was installed, but the result was major suckage. This may not actually be a bug in Caudium, but in the depends for another package. But I was able to uninstall Caudium without difficultly, so frankly, I'm confused. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

Bug#295642: minor English changes for cupsys.postinst

2005-02-16 Thread Adam Rice
Package: cupsys Version: 1.1.23-4 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch I changed the wording of some sentences in cupsys.postinst to make them more readable. Please consider applying this patch. --- cupsys.postinst.old 2005-02-17 05:05:53.0 + +++ cupsys.postinst 2005-02-17 05:29:25.000