Please ignore the part of the bug report claiming that the deb file
hosted in the experimental repository was corrupted. That was due to an
ftp error on my side. The remainder of the bug report, and its severity
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Package: whizzytex
Version: 1.3.7-1
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable
X-Debbugs-Cc: boruch_b...@gmx.com
Dear Maintainer,
1) The apt-get install process for whizzytex v1.3.7 {bookworm,trixie}
occurs without incident, but the package is unusable.
2) The developer website
Package: vlc
Version: 3.0.18-2
Severity: minor
Tags: l10n
X-Debbugs-Cc: boruch_b...@gmx.com
Dear Maintainer,
Ever since upgrading to bookworm, vlc has been presenting its
interface in my secondary locale. I can remediate this as follows:
LC_ALL="garbage-value" vlc
Using a valid value for
Package: util-linux
Version: 2.38.1-5+b1
Severity: minor
Tags: l10n
X-Debbugs-Cc: boruch_b...@gmx.com
Dear Maintainer,
I have two locales installed on my system, with the contents of
/etc/default/locale as follows:
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LC_ADDRESS=en_US.UTF-8
Hi Samuel, I appreciate the quick response. Like I mentioned. I did get
lios working by installing the dependency. Fortunately, my terminal
emulator was still open and had what you asked for in its scroll-back,
so here's the python traceback:
$ lios
Package: lios
Version: 2.7.2-6
Severity: normal
X-Debbugs-Cc: boruch_b...@gmx.com
Dear Maintainer,
Running this program as packaged by debian fails with a python error
pointing to a missing speech-dispatcher. Manually installing debian
package 'speech-dispatcher{,-espeak}' fixes the issue.
My
I've been lurking on this thread ever since I was cc'ed. It's been a
month now with no response, so I'll volunteer that I'm willing to
support / maintain the package for the benefit of debian emacs users.
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On 2020-08-06 02:13, Lior Kaplan wrote:
>We're still alive/here
Excellent to hear!
>and any help is much appreciated
Contact me (off this thread) with details of anything I can be of help.
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Thanks Moritz for stepping forward and adopting this. I still haven't
heard back from any member of the 'Debian Hebrew Maintainers' team, but
will continue in the future to attempt to use them as a first point of
contact until/unless I hear that they have been disolved / superseded /
replaced. Any
On 2020-03-18 15:13, Matthias Klose wrote:
> swig3 had support for Python3, and now we have swig 4.0 in the archive. Any
> update on this?
I understood this to be for the debian hebrew packaging team, to approve
and apply the patch submitted by Andreas Henriksson[1] (the related debian bug
Thanks for clearing that up for me, Torsten. Sorry for creating any confusion.
On 2019-10-27 19:35, Torsten Landschoff wrote:
> Actually, SWIG supports Python 3 for quite some time: Support was
> introduced in SWIG 1.3.37
>
> Source: https://github.com/swig/swig/blob/master/RELEASENOTES#L260
>
>
- Forwarded message from Boruch Baum -
Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2019 14:03:58 -0400
From: Boruch Baum
To: Andreas Henriksson , 727...@bugs.debian.org
Cc: Torsten Landschoff
Subject: Bug#727005: switch python bindings to python3
User-Agent: NeoMutt/20180716
Hi Andreas,
I don't foresee
Hi Andreas,
I don't foresee this working, because the package depends on swig to
perform the heavy lifting for the python bindings, and debian currently
packages only version 3 of swig, which as far as I can tell, does not
support python3...
Version 4 of swig does seem to support python3, using
On 2019-08-31 19:20, Marcin Kulisz wrote:
> Package: urlscan
> Version: 0.8.2-1
> Followup-For: Bug #926731
>
> Boruch are you still interested in maintaining this package?
> If not I my intent is to salvage/adopt it in the next couple of weeks, so
> please
> let me know asap if you're planning
l in communicating with potential contributors. Over the past 10-15
years, I've made several offers to contribute to debian, and all have
suffered similar fates.
>
> On Tue, 9 Apr 2019 13:27:25 -0400 Boruch Baum wrote:
> > Package: sponsorship-requests
> > Severity: important
> &
Package: packagesearch
Version: 2.7.10+b1
The package currently REQUIRES xterm, which seems odd for a GTK
application. As a casual user of the package, I don't see any condition
in which an xterm is launched.
If a terminal emulator really turns out to be necessary for the package,
is it possible
On 2019-05-22 00:04, Francesco Poli wrote:
> On Tue, 21 May 2019 06:02:56 -0400 Boruch Baum wrote:
> > On 2019-05-20 23:38, Francesco Poli wrote:
> > > First of all, apt-listbugs is not supposed to update
> > > file /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/10apt-listbugs
> >
> >
On 2019-05-20 23:38, Francesco Poli wrote:
> Control: tags -1 + moreinfo
>
>
> On Mon, 20 May 2019 03:23:24 -0400 Boruch Baum wrote:
>
> [...]
> > For several upgrade procedures in the course of the recent few weeks,
> > apt-listbugs has repeatedly been promptin
Subject: apt-listbugs: not saving pinnings to disk
Package: apt-listbugs
Version: 0.1.28
Severity: normal
For several upgrade procedures in the course of the recent few weeks,
apt-listbugs has repeatedly been prompting me for the same bug (#915689
rng-tools), and doesn't ever seem to update file
Subject: apt-listbugs: run before download
Package: apt-listbugs
Version: 0.1.28
Severity: normal
Currently, the program runs after downloading packages, with the result
that a user may needlessly be downloading packages that won't be
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Severity: important
Dear mentors,
I am looking for a sponsor for the existing debian package "urlscan[1]",
used by email clients such as mutt to parse and pipe embedded urls. The
debian package is an update and improvement to another debian package
"urlview", but[2]
I looked up the debian policy and the linux file system hierarchy
standard, and you're right that it does allow any package to install
anything anywhere to /usr/share as long as it's architecture-agnostic.
That was my misunderstanding when submitting the report: I thought that
the sub-directories
Package: newsbeuter
Version: 2.9-8+b1
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
I recently observed that apt-get was notifying me that performing an
'apt-get autoremove' would de-install package 'newsboat' - which would
be quite undesirable for me.
What seems to have occurred is that package newsbeuter
Upon manually deleting the directory and re-installing the package, I
see some surprising omissions that I expect are due to third-party
packages installing their own scripts into the
/usr/share/bash-completion/completions folder instead of into
/etc/bash_completion.d/ . Does that need to be
Package: bash-completion
Version: 1:2.8-6
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
Performing an 'apt-get purge bash-completion' does not delete the folder
/usr/share/bash-completion.
Over time, that folder has accumulated what is now cruft, because when
that package updates, it does not remove
On 2019-02-08 00:58, Francesco Poli wrote:
> On Wed, 6 Feb 2019 23:44:43 -0500 Boruch Baum wrote:
>
> > 2) My druthers would be for option 'a' to be made an upper-case 'I' and
> >the unqualified option 'p' be made an upper-case 'P'.
>
> Which would be the advantage of
On 2019-02-07 11:25, Stuart Prescott wrote:
> Control: reassign -1 apt-listbugs 0.1.28
> Control: severity -1 wishlist
> Control: retitle -1 apt-listbugs: simplify wording for pinning description
> ...
> I've reassigned this bug to apt-listbugs as that is the appropriate
> package. If you can
Subject: apt: improper integration with package apt-listbugs
Package: apt
Version: 1.8.0~rc2
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
Today, when I performed 'apt-get upgrade', apt correctly invoked
apt-listbugs, notified me of a grave bug in a package, and asked me if I
wanted to continue. When I said
Package: nnn
Version: 2.2-1
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
The package has a list of optional dependencies that are documented in
different parts of the README. None are implemented in the debian
packaging as 'suggests', or 'recommends'.
Here are what I've found: mediainfo or exiftool, atool
not received a
> better one in a separate message then please contact Matthias Klose
> by
> replying to this email.
>
>
> Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2019 11:21:03 +0100
> From: Matthias Klose
> To: Boruch Baum , 919873-d...@bugs.debian.org
> Subject: Re: Bug#919873: bash-builtins
Subject: bash-builtins: incomplete set of binaries
Package: bash-builtins
Version: 5.0-1
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
The debian package includes an incomplete set of compiled builtins for
the available 'loadable builtin' examples. Comparing the content
of folders /usr/lib/bash with
Package: surfraw
Version: 2.2.9-1
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
The package is meant to be a command line convenience tool; however, it
uses web-sites that aren't compatible with command-line (ie. text)
browsers.
Examples:
1) elvi: currency
there are many alternative sites and
Package: r-base
Version: 3.5.2-1
Severity: trivial
Dear Maintainer,
The package "suggests" package ess; however, that package has been
deprecated in favor of package elpa-ess.
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Package: emacs-gtk
Version: 1:26.1+1-2 (upgrade from 1:25.2+1-11)
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
Upon performing an apt upgrade, I noticed the presence of package
mailutils and its associated dependencies, none of which I want, need,
or should be necessary on my system. Some tracking led me
Recent correspondence for a consequent GNU emacs bug report:
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Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2018 00:56:29 -0500
From: Glenn Morris
To: Boruch Baum
Cc: 33...@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#33219: 25.2; crontab -e doesn't connect to existing emacs
daemon
I've prepared this as a set of two github repositories for MELPA, which
has accepted them for their purposes. If debian would like to build a
package for it, the repositories are at:
https://github.com/Boruch-Baum/emacs-home-end
https://github.com/Boruch-Baum/emacs-keypress-multi-event
Package: aufs-tools
Version: 1:4.9+20170918-2
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
My system does not have kernel 4.17 installed, so you can imagine my
surprise when my first attempt to install 'aufs-tools' included:
linux-headers-4.17.0-2-amd64
linux-headers-4.17.0-2-common
Package: cflow
Version: 1:1.4+dfsg1-3
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
The man page for the package indicates the existence of an info page,
and in fact the upstream tarball does include one; however, it is not
included in the debian package. (Also btw, GNU has released version 1.5
of this
On 2018-07-30 13:55, Nicholas D Steeves wrote:
> Dear Boruch,
>
> On Mon, Jul 30, 2018 at 01:14:20AM -0400, Boruch Baum wrote:
> >
> > ref: https://github.com/melpa/melpa/pull/5594
> >
> > The method I used to re-write 'home-end' for MELPA was to first write a
ref: https://github.com/melpa/melpa/pull/5594
The method I used to re-write 'home-end' for MELPA was to first write a
small generic el that handles an arbitrary number of responses for an
arbitrary number of repeated key-presses for an arbitrary key (I'm
calling it 'keypress-multi-event'),
Subject: moreutils: vidir does not accept variable assignments in $EDITOR
Package: moreutils
Version: 0.60-1
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
vidir exits with exit code 2 and the message "exited nonzero,
aborting" when $EDITOR includes a variable assignment prefix such as
the following:
Package: apt-show-versions
Version: 0.22.7
Severity: wishlist
Dear Maintainer,
Please consider offering an option to output data delimited in a manner
easily handled by other command line programs, possibly using a comma
delimiter for csv output.
The current output uses a combination of
21, 2017 at 07:02:50AM -0400, Boruch Baum wrote:
> > Upon upgrading `mutt' from the stable to testing repositories, mutt
> > ceased to function, offering the following error message:
>
> There is no mutt 1.7.2-1 in testing. Did you mean upgrading
> jessie→stretch?
I mea
Subject: mutt: Install missing required dependencies (libxapian30)
Package: mutt
Version: 1.7.2-1
Severity: serious
Dear Maintainer,
Upon upgrading `mutt' from the stable to testing repositories, mutt
ceased to function, offering the following error message:
#+BEGIN_SRC conf
mutt: symbol
Subject: post-el: install error in emacs25
Package: post-el
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
The apt installion process for the package into emacs25 produced the
following error:
#+BEGIN_SRC conf
Preparing to unpack .../post-el_1%3a2.6-1_all.deb ...
Unpacking post-el (1:2.6-1) ...
Subject: dnscrypt-proxy: system user incompletely installed
Package: dnscrypt-proxy
Version: 1.9.4-1
Severity: grave
Dear Maintainer,
1] APOLOGY (kind of): This is the first time I'm reporting a bug as
'grave', and I'm hesitant to do so, but I guess that most bugs
associated with this package
6] The instructions for uninstalling may be unclear. It seems that the
procedure mentioned will do the equivalent of `apt-get purge'. If I
understand TPM correctly and what the uninstall script is
performing, then: The uninstall instructions should say that
uninstalling requires
Subject: tmux-plugin-manager: Install bugs
Package: tmux-plugin-manager
Version: 3.0.0-1
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
Thanks for the new package, ChangZhuo Chen (陳昌倬)!
1] The 'normal' install instructions need to be modified for the
debian-ized package, to reflect the correct pathname
Subject: gnuplot-doc: incomplete setup of this package
Package: gnuplot-doc
Version: 5.0.4+dfsg1-3
Severity: important
Note: This bug report equally applies to package `gnuplot5-doc'.
Dear Maintainer,
The package as installed by debian requires a sysadmin to perform
multiple manual actions in
Subject: emacs-goodies-el: dict.el not working
Package: emacs-goodies-el
Version: 35.12
Severity: important
One of the components of package `emacs-goodies-el' is `dict.el',
which does not work.
1] The linux program `dict', upon which dict.el depends, has
deprecated its option `--pager', with
On 04/14/2016 02:59 AM, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> Boruch Baum, on Thu 14 Apr 2016 02:46:29 -0400, wrote:
>> I was surprised to discover that bluetooth pacakges were installed on my
>> system, and found that the culprit was orca.
>
> ? AFAIK, gnome-orca does not recommend blue
Package: gnome-orca
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
I was surprised to discover that bluetooth pacakges were installed on my
system, and found that the culprit was orca. For myself, I don't need even the
orca package, so I removed it and its dependencies, but for other, who do use
orca, the
Package: icedove
Version: 38.7.0-1~deb8u1
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
Please re-open the archived bug #788038, and consider downgrading the inclusion
of the additional pacakges from 'recommends' to 'suggests'. The discussion
already on file for the archived bug #788038 adequately covers
The failure to display anything but a blank screen manifests itself
after any hardware change whatsoever. Even a change in physical
connection of a usb device or an ethernet cable will cause it, and once
it happens, it won't resolve until one performs 'update-initramfs -u'
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Today, the bug displayed different symptoms, but only once. The
restoration proceeded to displaying X windows; However,
1] Mouse / trackpad were not functional
2] keyboard arrow keys did work
3] alt-tab did work
4] other keys did not seem to respond
5] about twice every minute terminal windows
Package: libpam-mount
Version: 2.14-1.1
When upgrading this package to version 2.14-1.1, apt-get returns a
suggestion to install tc-utils. However, that package is not in the
debian repositories.
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Package: reportbug
Version: 6.6.1
reportbug, when invoked in text mode, generates the python traceback
pasted below. The particular traceback points to an ImportError for name
HTTPSConnection. The debian maintainers for python 2.7 have been aware
of similar problems (eg. bug #659831), to which
Hi Sandro,
Your response is unclear to me - if reportbug requires a specific
version of python 2.7, then the debian package for reportbug should
include the requirement for that particular version of python 2.7, which
it hasn't, which is the essence of the bug I'm reporting. When I updated
of python2.7 then debian packaging rules require you to
include a REQUIRES for that package.
Because you did not do that, apt-get did not update the dependency when
it updated reportbug.
If that isn't clear, let me know.
On 12/30/2014 03:11 PM, Sandro Tosi wrote:
On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 7:41 PM, Boruch
On 11/08/2014 06:51 PM, Lennert Van Alboom wrote:
I think you just hit bull's eye there. This was what I tested with:
[alver@Crusoe ~]$ dpkg -l *poppler* | grep ^ii
ii libpoppler-glib8:amd64 0.26.5-2 amd64PDF rendering library
(GLib-based shared library)
ii libpoppler46:amd64
Package: ecb
Version: 2.40+git20140216-1
Severity: important
Dear Maintainer,
When performing an 'apt-get -t testing upgrade', I get the following, which
since repeats for specifically installing any package:
In toplevel form:
stack-m.el:52:1:Warning: !! The file uses old-style backquotes !!
Package: evince
Version: 3.14.1-1
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable
Dear Maintainer,
When trying to open a pdf from a gui context, nothing happens. When trying from
a console, the following errors are reported:
** (evince:26475): WARNING **: Couldn't register with
Package: libhdate1
Version: 1.6-2.2
Severity: important
Dear Maintainer,
The current build of the debian package does not include the two command line
tools `hcal' and `hdate', which are the ways most people use the package.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
Architecture: amd64
Package: fpc
Severity: minor
Dear Maintainer,
apt-get install fpc requires installing a number of really unnecessary audio
packages. In my case: fp-units-multimedia-2.6.4 fpc-2.6.4 libpulse-dev
libsdl-mixer1.2-dev libsdl1.2-dev
-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
Architecture:
Excellent idea, Brian.
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The flaw with my original patch is that it is too specific. Even on my
own computer, the ascii sequences generated will differ in length when
using emacs differently (eg. emacs-nox in gui frame versus in a tty
session without X). The SOLUTION (thank you, Stefan Monnier) was to not
use function
Package: emacs-goodies-el
Version: 35.12
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
The functions home-end-end and home-end home didn't work for me,
because they were assuming a keyboard-event (key-press) was being
stored as a single byte, or single element, in the vector returned by
funciton
Package: xscreensaver
Version: 5.26-1
Severity: important
Dear Maintainer,
Below is a description of a security flaw in the 'distort' option of
xscreensaver. In short, when changing from account 'A' to account 'B', a
distort of account 'C' is displayed, thus compromising the privacy and
.
On 07/25/2014 11:01 PM, Boruch Baum wrote:
The package installs a config file, /etc/laptop-mode/conf.d/ethernet.conf,
which on line 59 sets ETHERNET_DEVICES=eth0, without first checking
whether such a device exists (I ususally does, but see below), or whether
other devices exist
Package: laptop-mode-tools
Version: 1.65-2
Severity: important
Dear Maintainer,
The package installs a config file, /etc/laptop-mode/conf.d/ethernet.conf,
which on line 59 sets ETHERNET_DEVICES=eth0, without first checking whether
such a device exists (I ususally does, but see below), or
Package: gnome-system-tools
Version: 3.0.0-3
Severity: important
Dear Maintainer,
See the attached screenshot to see how this bug renders the 'services-admin'
program unusable. When run from the command-line, the program complains:
(services-admin:2317): Gtk-WARNING **: Theme parsing error:
Package: dictionaries-common
Version: 1.23.4
Severity: minor
Dear Maintainer,
Last evening, when I performed 'apt-get -t testing upgrade', apt-get
suggested package 'jed-extra'. However, I do not have package 'jed'
installed, nor did apt-get suggest installing it.
When I then ran 'aptitude
Package: elserv
Severity: minor
Dear Maintainer,
When I did an apt-get install for devscripts-el, apt-get 'suggests' installing
also emacs-wiki, but that package does not currently exist.
It should be removed from the 'suggest' list.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
Package: ben
Version: 0.6.6
Severity: minor
Dear Maintainer,
When preparing to upgrade this package, apt recommends installing package
'dose-debcheck', which is not currently in debian.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
).
https://github.com/Boruch-Baum/mac_changer_choice
Reards,
-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 3.12-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh
Yes, installing nautilus-data alone does yield a functioning
gnome-search-tool.
apt-get --no-install-recommends -t testing nautilus-data
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Package: macchanger
Version: 1.5.0-9
Severity: minor
Dear Maintainer,
The OUI list (the list of known mac-address vendors) packaged with macchanger
seems real old. The IEEE publishes updates of the data daily in text form
(http://standards.ieee.org/develop/regauth/oui/oui.txt). The description
Package: gnome-search-tool
Version: 3.6.0-1
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
1] I'm using an xfce 4.10 desktop and do NOT have nautilus installed.
2] The installation of gnome-search-tool does not require nautilus.
3] Upon running gnome-search-tool fromthe command line, the response is:
mentors libhdate_1.6.02-0.1_amd64.changes
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gpg: Signature made Sun 03 Mar 2013 01:55:55 PM EST using RSA key ID E60B1F4B
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gpg: aka Boruch Baum (backup e-mail) boruch_b...@yahoo.com
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