Bug#885884: bashburn: does not work: it passes incorrect options to wodim, so no CD can ever be burnt

2017-12-30 Thread Stephen McGregor
Package: bashburn Version: 3.0.1-2 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable Dear Maintainer, Correctly makes *.WAV files, but then incorrectly constructs the wodim command line, so can not work -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers testing APT

Bug#885881: mp3burn: does not work at all, produces blank CD ROMs

2017-12-30 Thread Stephen McGregor
Package: mp3burn Version: 0.4.2-2.2 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable Dear Maintainer, Ran mp3burn --check ATIP -o "dev=/dev/sr0 speed=10 " -M lame *mp3 in a directory of mp3 files. A CD of blank tracks was produced. Also, - the defaults are insane: can

Bug#803463: mlocate: both --wholename and -b -basename differ from using neither of these options

2015-10-30 Thread Stephen McGregor
Package: mlocate Version: 0.26 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, If I run mlocate abcde I am returned a short list of files, with obvious omissions. 19 files in my real-world example If I run mlocate -b abcde I am returned a longer list of files; 194 files in my real world

Bug#802251: usbview: does not run on modern Debian system

2015-10-18 Thread Stephen McGregor
Package: usbview Severity: grave Tags: upstream Justification: renders package unusable Dear Maintainer, *** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropriate *** * What led up to the situation? * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or

Bug#795840: udisks2: No man manpage (an no other documentation)

2015-08-17 Thread Stephen McGregor
Package: udisks2 Version: 2.1.3-5 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, * What led up to the situation? I want to configure udisks2 so that it will work, so I needed a man page. But there is no man page. I understand that this, also, violates Debian packaging rules There is an

Bug#788825: libarchive-zip-perl: crashes when run by unoconv (versions 1.30)

2015-06-15 Thread Stephen McGregor
Package: libarchive-zip-perl Version: 1.37 1.39 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, * What led up to the situation? running uncconv to convert an Open/libreoffice doc into a PDF. The crash only occurs if a version of libarchive-sip-perl greater than 1.30 is installed. Version 1.30 runs

Bug#747406: rubygems intall/upgrade bug has corrupted the apt packaging system

2014-05-10 Thread Stephen McGregor
Hi Francesco That was great: SOLVED Thank you very much Stephen | On Thu, 08 May 2014 14:35:47 +0300 Stephen McGregor wrote: [...] apt-get remove --purge apt-listbugs how-can-i-help [...] E: Failure running script /usr/sbin/apt-listbugs apt Hello Stephen, I am

Bug#747406: rubygems intall/upgrade bug has corrupted the apt packaging system

2014-05-09 Thread Stephen McGregor
Thanks for getting back on this. In answer to your questions: ls -al /usr/bin/ruby* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5468 Apr 13 00:48 /usr/bin/ruby -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5544 Dec 2 12:52 /usr/bin/ruby1.8 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5600 Dec 2 14:13 /usr/bin/ruby1.9.1 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5468 Apr 13

Bug#747406: rubygems intall/upgrade bug has corrupted the apt packaging system

2014-05-09 Thread Stephen McGregor
bottom posting... | * Stephen McGregor x...@stephen-mcgregor.com [140509 10:27]: Thanks for getting back on this. In answer to your questions: ls -al /usr/bin/ruby* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5468 Apr 13 00:48 /usr/bin/ruby -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5544 Dec 2 12:52 /usr/bin

Bug#747406: rubygems intall/upgrade bug has corrupted the apt packaging system

2014-05-08 Thread Stephen McGregor
Package: ruby Version: 2.0.0 Severity: normal Tags: d-i Dear Maintainer, *** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropriate *** * What led up to the situation? * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or ineffective)? * What was the outcome

Bug#747442: aptitude: progs run by aptitude (apt-listbugs, how-can-I-help block apt when they crash

2014-05-08 Thread Stephen McGregor
Package: aptitude Version: 0.6.10 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable Dear Maintainer, the specific situation: - [ already filed as #747406 against ruby] -a ruby corruption is crashing both apt-listbugs AND how-can-I-help - thus aptitude returns a failure

Bug#663069: Composite on: e16 menus corrupted. Composite off: applicn menus don't work

2012-03-08 Thread Stephen McGregor
Package: e16 Version: 1.0.0.3 Severity: normal When using the e16 window manager, the 'Composite' functionality is turned on, the desktop menus are constrained to the top left of the screen and even then are truncated and generally unuseable. With composite turned off, application menus, like

Bug#567045: inkscape: SAVE function corrupted : can't open any SVG files that inkscape iteself writes

2010-01-26 Thread Stephen McGregor
Package: inkscape Version: 0.47 r22583 Severity: grave Justification: causes non-serious data loss Fresh install of Inkscape on Debian, all dependencies installed. Inkscape runs, but it then can't open any SVG file that inkscape, itself, has written. That is, the default 'save' action makes the

Bug#566235: app=mscore : lost ability to play midi or mscore files, 99% CPU load, no response.

2010-01-22 Thread Stephen McGregor
Package: mscore Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable Package: mscore Status: install ok installed Priority: optional Section: sound Installed-Size: 19700 Maintainer: Toby Smithe tsmi...@ubuntu.com Architecture: i386 Version: 0.9.5+dfsg-1 Depends: libasound2 ( 1.0.18), libc6 (=

Bug#566238: app=mscore : lost ability to play midi or mscore files, 99% CPU load, no response.

2010-01-22 Thread Stephen McGregor
Package: mscore Version: 0.9.5+dfsg-1 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable Package: mscore Status: install ok installed Priority: optional Section: sound Installed-Size: 19700 Maintainer: Toby Smithe tsmi...@ubuntu.com Architecture: i386 Version: 0.9.5+dfsg-1 Depends: