Package: manpages-dev
Version: 2.01-1
Severity: normal
The flock(2) man page says
A process may only hold one type of lock (shared or exclusive) on a
file. Subsequent flock() calls on an already locked file will convert
an existing lock to the new lock mode.
I read thi
Package: xlhtml
Version: 0.5.1-2
Severity: normal
Near the bottom of the page
http://www.amp.com.au/au/3column/0,2338,CH8437%255FCT5%255FCI24915%255FSI56,00.html
there's a "Download an Excel version of the unit prices" link. In the
xlhtml output from that document, the line "Unit prices ef
Package: catdoc
Version: 0.93.4-2
Severity: normal
Near the bottom of the page
http://www.amp.com.au/au/3column/0,2338,CH5196%255FCT5%255FCI13456%255FSI56,00.html
there's a link to "Download an Excel version of the unit prices". In
the xls2csv output on that document, the second column of
Andreas Jochens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> - extern const scm_lt_dlsymlist lt_preloaded_symbols[];
> + extern const scm_lt_dlsymlist *lt_preloaded_symbols;
As noted under bug 326527, this is incorrect. It happens to work
because the first entry in the array is NULL, but the thing to do to
Package: w3m-el
Version: 1.4.4-1
Severity: wishlist
A file /tmp/foo.shtml containing
this is some html
browsed with
M-x w3m-find-file /tmp/foo.shtml
brings up a buffer with an ordinary find-file in sgml-mode, where I
wanted it displayed with w3m.
I wonder if this is somethi
Package: scrabble
Version: 1.9-1
Severity: wishlist
When the board gets a bit full it can be hard to see where the
computer has placed a small word. It'd be nice if it could print the
coordinates, maybe "I played 76A: ..." or whatever.
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Package: scrabble
Version: 1.9-1
Severity: normal
In the game board below, the blank used as Z at 1C was incorrectly
counted as 10 in my "zed(26)". If I'm not mistaken a blank is worth
nothing, no matter what letter it's used as. The computer's initial
"sieze" and subsequent "seized" seem to hav
Package: scrabble
Version: 1.9-1
Severity: normal
In the game below I think the computer is wrong when it says "petiole"
cannot go at position 1A down. I've got two blanks, one should be the
"p" and the other the "i".
It also rejected "stolen" at E9 across (again using two blanks), which
I think
Brian White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> What are your general impressions of the game,
It's good, especially for a pretty modest amount of code. I've been
playing level 3, which is enough for me if I'm not concentrating :).
The only real problem I've struck is a few dodgy looking words like
Brian White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> All the words are taken from official Scrabbe dictionaries available on
> the 'net. You can view them from the source package if you want. Many
> have definitions.
It'd be good to note that in the man page, especially with some urls.
I guessed the tw
reopen 306866
thanks
Version 1.9 still seems to wrap around in 80 columns in certain cases,
the board below has the line ending "[et(2)]" with 80 chars, and when
that and a newline is printed (on the console) it leaves a blank line.
(Nosing around the code, maybe the final "]" needs to be include
Package: catdoc
Version: 0.94.0-1
Severity: normal
When netscape (or mozilla) is not running, "xlsview foo.xls" does
nothing.
The code looks like it's meant to start a new netscape in that case,
but it tests an apparently never set $status, and has deleted the temp
file if the "remote" invocation
Package: glibc-doc
Version: 2.3.2.ds1-19
Severity: normal
In the "TZ Variable" node, the "TZ=:chars" form is described,
If CHARACTERS begins with a slash, it is an absolute file
name; otherwise the library looks for the file
`/share/lib/zoneinfo/CHARACTERS'.
But there see
Package: lha
Version: 1.14i-10
Severity: wishlist
In /usr/share/doc/lha/copyright, the translation of part 7.b. of the
license says
b. If the recipient of commercial use deems inappropriate as a
program user, you must not distribute.
I'm unable to figure out what this means. I
Package: scrabble
Version: 1.8-1
Severity: normal
The words display at the right seems to go past 80 columns in certain
cases, eg.:
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
0| D - @ - @ |0 My Words:
1| R A Y B O + * |1 size(13) blue
Package: emacs-goodies-el
Version: 24.10-1
Severity: normal
When the perl-doc package is not installed, and starting from "emacs
-q", M-x perldoc gives an error
Wrong type argument: stringp, t
I think in perldoc-functions-alist the call
(shell-command "perldoc -u perlfunc" t t)
Package: privoxy
Version: 3.0.3-4
Severity: normal
I've been getting mails from anacron reporting
/etc/cron.daily/logrotate:
Restarting filtering proxy server: privoxy.
which I think originates in the postrotate part of
/etc/logrotate.d/privoxy.
It'd be nice if that script looke
Package: debian-el
Version: 24.10-1
Severity: normal
M-x debian-bug on the reportbug package (ie. reporting about that
package itself) brings up a badly formatted message buffer, see
msg.txt example below.
I think the bit about "EMAIL ADDRESS SETTING" has no place when run
from debian-bug. And I
Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> By coincidence, I submitted this as bug 314695 against reportbug last
> Friday and a fix was uploaded yesterday (version 3.15). I've just test
> it. It's fixed.
Yep. :)
I skimmed through the reportbug bugs, but missed that, or only saw the
case
Package: dpkg-dev-el
Version: 24.10-1
Severity: wishlist
It'd be nice if emacs defaulted to utf-8 for debian changelog files,
perhaps with this in 50dpkg-dev-el.el,
(modify-coding-system-alist 'file "/changelog\\.Debian\\'" 'utf-8)
(modify-coding-system-alist 'file "/debian/changelog\\'"
Package: w3m-el
Version: 1.4.4-1
Severity: wishlist
It'd be nice if the package description mentioned shimbun, I didn't
know w3m-el was more than just w3m within emacs, until I started
nosing around.
Maybe a few of the other extra features could be mentioned too, like
the weather and perldoc look
Package: slib
Version: 3a1-4.2
Severity: wishlist
"make install" creates a /usr/bin/slib script to startup slib with a
selected scheme implementation. It'd be nice if that was included in
the package. (Some of its paths might have to be munged for the
debian layout.)
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Package: gettext-el
Version: 0.14.5-1
Severity: wishlist
It'd be nice if .gmo files were ignored for completion, so .po files
can be hit when there's both in a po subdir. Perhaps the following in
50gettext.el,
;; these already in emacs 22, add them here for emacs 21
(add-to-list
Package: dpkg-dev-el
Version: 24.11-1
Severity: wishlist
The code below is an idea for /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50dpkg-dev-el.el
to get the correct coding system (ie. utf-8) for the changelog file in
a debian native package, eg. /usr/share/doc/adduser/changelog.gz.
This is for gnu emacs, xemacs se
Package: guile-1.6
Version: 1.6.7-1
Severity: normal
With the "gcc" package version 4:4.0.0-1, guile-snarf fails with
/usr/bin/guile-snarf: 83: i386-linux-gcc: not found
It looks like "@CPP@" got put in the script as "i386-linux-gcc -E",
perhaps on account of --host and --build in the de
Daniel Schepler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> - extern const scm_lt_dlsymlist lt_preloaded_symbols[];
> + extern const scm_lt_dlsymlist *lt_preloaded_symbols;
This change is wrong, that variable is an array not a pointer,
as discussed on guile-devel. Fixed in the 1.6 cvs.
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Package: mpg123-el
Version: 1:1.44-1
Severity: normal
File: /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50mpg123-el.el
50mpg123-el.el modifies load-path directly, but part 9 of
/usr/share/doc/emacsen-common/debian-emacs-policy.gz requires the use
of debian-pkg-add-load-path-item these days.
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Package: scrabble
Version: 1.9-1
Severity: wishlist
It'd be nice if the board display showed how many letters the computer
has left, when there's no more left in the bag. In normal play it
could be just
22 letters remain
But when it gets to 0,
0 letters remain (I have 5 in my r
Package: lookup-el
Version: 1.4-4
Severity: normal
File: /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50lookup-el.el
50lookup-el.el modifies load-path directly, but part 9 of
/usr/share/doc/emacsen-common/debian-emacs-policy.gz requires the use
of debian-pkg-add-load-path-item these days.
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Package: dpkg-dev-el
Version: 24.11-1
Severity: normal
File: /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50dpkg-dev-el.el
I notice 50dpkg-dev-el.el calls `substitute' to mung the load-path,
but I think that function is in the cl package, which in emacs21 is
not normally loaded at that point.
An error can be provoked
Package: dictionary-el
Version: 1.8.7-2
Severity: normal
File: /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50dictionary-el.el
50dictionary-el.el modifies load-path directly, but part 9 of
/usr/share/doc/emacsen-common/debian-emacs-policy.gz requires the use
of debian-pkg-add-load-path-item these days.
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Package: dictem
Version: 0.0.5-1
Severity: normal
File: /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50dictem.el
50dictem.el modifies load-path directly, but part 9 of
/usr/share/doc/emacsen-common/debian-emacs-policy.gz requires the use
of debian-pkg-add-load-path-item.
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Package: gnuserv
Version: 3.12.7-1
Severity: normal
File: /etc/emacs21/site-start.d/50gnuserv.el
50gnuserv.el modifies load-path directly, but part 9 of
/usr/share/doc/emacsen-common/debian-emacs-policy.gz requires the use
of debian-pkg-add-load-path-item these days.
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Package: linkchecker
Version: 3.2-2
Severity: normal
The file
http://www.geocities.com/user42_kevin/chart/chart.html.gz
gunzipped and checked with
linkchecker -r1 chart.html
produces the error below, and doesn't seem to check anything.
This html comes from makeinfo, but with s
Package: mit-scheme
Version: 7.7.90+20050912-1
Severity: normal
File: /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50mit-scheme.el
50mit-scheme.el modifies load-path directly, but part 9 of
/usr/share/doc/emacsen-common/debian-emacs-policy.gz requires the use
of debian-pkg-add-load-path-item these days.
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Package: glibc-doc
Version: 2.3.5-6
Severity: normal
A program
#include
#include
int
main (void)
{
printf ("%s\n", nl_langinfo (DECIMAL_POINT));
return 0;
}
compiled with gcc foo.c gives an error
foo.c:7: error: 'DECIMAL_POINT' undeclared (first use in
Package: emacsen-common
Version: 1.4.16
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
File: /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/debian-startup.el
When an error occurs loading one of the /etc/emacs/site-start.d parts,
it'd be nice if the message included the error description, to give a
clue what went wrong. As per the c
Package: gnumeric
Version: 1.5.90-1
Severity: normal
Opening the xls file
http://www.eex.de/info_center/downloads/dl_futures/energy_french_power_futures_historie_2005.xls
with gnumeric produces assertion failures
Reading file:///tmp/energy_french_power_futures_historie_2005.xls
Perhaps for the non-toplevel manpages lintian could force a locale
which has charset latin-1, instead of the current LANG=C. Dunno how
easy it is to find one, might have to look through what "locale -a"
says is available.
(I'm not sure what I had when I proposed the test, I might have been
in en_
Package: efax
Version: 1:0.9a-15
Severity: normal
Running
fax make foo.txt
gives an error
/etc/efax.rc: 63: paperconf: not found
This is with libpaper1 installed, but not libpaper-utils.
Maybe efax should depend on libpaper-utils these days, for the
paperconf program.
Or mayb
Package: tla-doc
Version: 1.3.3-2
Severity: normal
The file
/usr/share/doc/tla-doc/handbook/index.html
and other tla-doc html files seem to be unviewable in lynx (2.8.5-2)
and w3m (0.5.1-4). They show a heading
A GNU Arch Handbook
but nothing else.
In index.html I think the c
Package: xmcd
Version: 2.6-19
Severity: normal
Running "cda on" gives an error
CD audio Fatal Error: XMCD_LIBDIR environment not defined.
Goodbye!
I believe it's policy (sect 9.9 "Environment variables") that programs
should work without users setting env vars like this. That's
Package: slib
Version: 3a4-4
Severity: normal
File: /usr/bin/slib
Running the "slib" program to start up a scheme in slib mode gets an
error. Eg.
slib mzscheme
gives
default-load-handler: cannot open input file:
"/usr/share/slib/DrScheme.init" (No such file or directory; errno
Brian White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> If you encounter it again, give a command of "debug" and then try the
> play again.
I've encountered it a couple of times. I guess unrandomizing the
letter selection could make the first rack of letters come out with
both blanks and something else that
Brian White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> If you encounter it again, give a command of "debug" and then try the
> play again. That should give me enough info to track down the
> problem. Just ender "debug" again to turn it off.
Actually, here's a sample (run in level 1) with two attempted words
Loïc Minier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> I'm not sure upstream would accept a patch cluttering the headers for
> to avoid warnings with an old compiler.
Nosing around in /usr/lib/glib-2.0/include/glibconfig.h I see there's
just such a 2.95 conditional on G_HAVE_ISO_VARARGS, if that could be
e
Package: fontconfig
Version: 2.4.2-1
Severity: normal
The fc-cache man page refers to the user manual
/usr/share/doc/fontconfig/fontconfig-user.html
but that file doesn't seem to be in the fontconfig package (or
anywhere else according to packages.debian.org). Is it meant to exist
still
Package: libx11-dev
Version: 2:1.0.3-4
Severity: normal
File: /usr/share/man/man3/XDrawArc.3.gz
On a tty, the eqn math bits in "man XDrawArc" come out looking like
[x+wi2th,y+hei2ht]
or
2n for normal-angle in the range [32,2n]
which makes it pretty hard to understand.
Apparent
Package: libguilegtk-1.2-0
Version: 0.31-3
Severity: wishlist
Guile Gtk version 0.40 is available from
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/guile-gtk/guile-gtk-0.40.tar.gz
It'd be nice if the debian packages could upgrade to that at some
time.
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Package: guile-library
Version: 0.1.2-1
Severity: normal
Running with GUILE_WARN_DEPRECATED=detailed,
(use-modules (srfi srfi-34))
provokes a warning
Using `export' to re-export imported bindings is deprecated. Use
`re-export' instead.
(You just re-exported `raise' fro
Package: kernel-image-2.6.10-1-386
Version: 2.6.10-4
Severity: normal
With the esssolo1 sound card driver loaded from /etc/modules, doing
cat
Package: babygimp
Version: 0.41-6
Severity: wishlist
It'd be nice if the help directory in the Options dialog defaulted to
the package installed /usr/share/doc/babygimp/doc instead of
/usr/local/doc/Babygimp.
And it'd be nice if the browser there defaulted to something neutral
like "sensible-brow
Package: scribble
Version: 1.10-2
Severity: normal
Nosing around the code, it looks like the program does the "change"
letters command by putting the discards back in the bag and then
drawing letters from it to fill the rack.
But I believe the rule is that the discards are put to one side, then
r
Package: dpkg-dev-el
Version: 26.9-1
Severity: normal
File: /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50dpkg-dev-el.el
The `debian-changelog-coding-system' function I submitted for choosing
utf-8 on a debian-native package changelog.gz gets an error in the
upcoming emacs 22. Eg. with the emacs-snapshot,
(
Package: iceape-browser
Version: 1.0.7-2
Severity: normal
File: /usr/bin/iceape
When an iceape is running, a second startup run to open a new window
results in an error message.
iceape &
starts up fine. Then while it's still running a further invocation
iceape http://www.debian
Package: doc-base
Version: 0.8.0
Severity: normal
During install of this new doc-base version I got an error
/usr/share/omf/doc-base/glade-2-faq/glade-2-faq-C.omf:10: parser error :
AttValue: " or ' expected
^
I think it's from scrollkeeper-update,
Package: emacs-snapshot
Version: 1:20070302-1
Severity: normal
Running up
emacs-snapshot -Q
and opening the manual
C-h i g (emacs)
then following the emacs lisp manual link
Tab Ret
opens the emacs 21 manual from the elisp-manual package,
ie. /usr/share/info/elisp.gz,
Package: dictionary-el
Version: 1.8.7-4
Severity: wishlist
After starting M-x dictionary, exiting emacs gives a query about the
network connection still being open. Eg. with emacs21
emacs -q
M-x dictionary
C-x C-c
=>
Active processes exist; kill them and exit anyw
Package: manpages-dev
Version: 2.39-1
Severity: normal
File: /usr/share/man/man3/clog10.3.gz
The clog10 man page shows the function as
log10(cabs(z))+I*carg(z)
but I think there should be a factor 1/log(10) in there
log10(cabs(z))+I*carg(z)/log(10)
ie. clog10(z) = clog(z)/log(1
"Michael Kerrisk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Does the clog2() man page have the same problem?
Yes I think so.
Does that function exist in the library at the moment though? Trying
gcc clog2.c -lm
on the file below gives
/tmp/ccHc7oB9.o: In function `main':
clog2.c:
Package: debian-el
Version: 26.6-1
Severity: normal
File: /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/debian-el/debian-bug.el
Starting "emacs -q" and giving the command
M-x debian-bug-get-bug-as-file
results in an error
Debugger entered--Lisp error: (void-function word-at-point)
word-a
Package: gettext
Version: 0.15-1
Severity: normal
File: /usr/bin/xgettext
With a file foo.scm containing
(define foo '("bar" "quux"))
a run of
xgettext foo.scm
gets a seg fault.
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Package: libc6
Version: 2.3.6.ds1-4
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
When given a negative imaginary number, csqrt() returns a negative
real part, whereas the principal root should be the one with positive
real part. Sample program below.
I believe this was fixed upstream last year. It'd be nice to
Hilmar Preusse writes:
>
> This is still to much for people only using plain TeX, but better
> then before I guess.
The point was what is dvisvga actually using, and to express that.
Is it just a likely set of fonts?
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Package: whizzytex
Version: 1.3.2-1.2
Severity: wishlist
File: /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/whizzytex/whizzytex.el
In a dark background frame, the colours in whizzy-point-face and
whizzy-error-face have too little contrast between white text and their
yellow or orange background. It'd be good if th
Package: xnest
Version: 2:1.14.5-1
Severity: normal
File: /usr/bin/Xnest
If Xnest is run with two screens then when the mouse pointer is moved
into the second screen it dies with a segfault. Eg.
Xnest -scrns 2 :1
move mouse into second screen
=>
segv
If the mouse is already in t
James McCoy writes:
>
>> vim -R %s
>
> There was some discussion about the view alternative on debian-devel
> last year and the mime-support maintainer had agreed that /usr/bin/see
> shouldn't be part of that alternative set.
I agree see should not be view, but I'd meant this particular bug to
Package: vim-common
Version: 2:7.4.052-1
Severity: wishlist
File: /usr/lib/mime/packages/vim-common
/usr/lib/mime/packages/vim-common contains
text/plain; view %s; edit=vim %s; compose=vim %s; test=test -x /usr/bin/vim;
needsterminal; priority=4
text/*; view %s; edit=vim %s; compose=vim %s;
Package: alsaplayer-text
Version: 0.99.80-5.1
Severity: wishlist
File: /usr/lib/mime/packages/alsaplayer-text
It'd be good if /usr/lib/mime/packages/alsaplayer-text had audio/flac in
addition to audio/x-flac.
/etc/mime.types gives audio/flac for .flac files and so the "see"
program looks it up un
Package: mplayer2
Version: 2.0-701-gd4c5b7f-2
Severity: wishlist
File: /usr/lib/mime/packages/mplayer2
It'd be good if /usr/lib/mime/packages/mplayer2 had an entry for
"audio/flac". FLAC seems to work and is described in
/usr/share/doc/mplayer-doc/HTML/en/menc-feat-enc-libavcodec.html
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Package: tar-doc
Version: 1.27-1
Severity: normal
Visiting the tar manual in emaacs24 info mode
C-h i (tar) Ret
gives an error
info-insert-file-contents: Can't find tar.info-3 or any compressed version
of it
/usr/share/info/tar.info.gz refers to three sub-files
Indirect:
tar.
Package: mime-support
Version: 3.54
Severity: wishlist
File: /etc/mime.types
/etc/mime.types contains
application/x-font-woff woff
but if I'm not mistaken woff is a registered type
http://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/application/font-woff
I wonder if on that basis it shoul
Package: tar
Version: 1.26+dfsg-8
Severity: wishlist
File: /usr/lib/mime/packages/tar
/etc/mime.types reckons .ustar as application/x-ustar. If I'm not
mistaken tar supports that format tar and so might helpfully include it
in /usr/lib/mime/packages/tar.
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Package: mime-support
Version: 3.54
Severity: wishlist
File: /etc/mime.types
/etc/mime.types contains
application/x-font pfa pfb gsf pcf pcf.Z
I think it'd be good if pcf font was a different mime type than pfa and
pfb since some tools can operate on one but not the
Package: mime-support
Version: 3.54
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
File: /usr/bin/run-mailcap
If you elevate the vim entry in /usr/lib/mime/packages/vim-common in
~/.mailcap so that it is used,
text/plain; view %s; edit=vim %s; compose=vim %s; test=test -x
/usr/bin/vim; needsterminal; priori
Package: tar
Version: 1.27-1
Severity: wishlist
File: /usr/lib/mime/packages/tar
I think the mailcap entries in /usr/lib/mime/packages/tar should be at a
lower priority. I suggest priority=1.
Currently for example /usr/lib/mime/packages/tar is ahead of
"file-roller" in /etc/mailcap, whereas I ho
Package: unzip
Version: 6.0-10
Severity: wishlist
File: /usr/lib/mime/packages/unzip
I think the mailcap entries in /usr/lib/mime/packages/unzip should be at
a lower priority. I suggest priority=1.
Currently for example /usr/lib/mime/packages/unzip is ahead of
"file-roller" in /etc/mailcap, wher
Package: cpio
Version: 2.11+dfsg-1
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
This is an idea for a mailcap for cpio to list the archive contents.
tar and unzip have similar for tar and zip files.
The "debian/cpio.mime" file below is installed by the rules.diff below
to /usr/lib/mime/packages/cpio and the mi
Package: mpg123
Version: 1.16.0-1
Severity: wishlist
File: /usr/lib/mime/packages/mpg123
This is two ideas for the mailcap of mpg123,
- Run mpg123.bin to be sure of getting the mpg123 program in case
update-alternatives has selected something else (like mpg321).
- Run "-C -v" when on a tty for
Package: mpg321
Version: 0.3.2-1.1
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
This is an idea for /etc/mailcap entries for mpg321. This allows for
example
see foo.mp3
to run mpg321 to play the file.
# On a terminal "mpg321 -K" for keys and "-v" to print elapsed time.
# Reprinting the progress every fr
Package: coreutils
Version: 8.21-1
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
This is an idea for an /etc/mailcap entry for "cat". This allows a text
file to be catted with
run-mailcap --action=cat foo.txt
The file below is debian/coreutils.mime and adding dh_installmime to the
binary-arch should insta
Package: vorbis-tools
Version: 1.4.0-1
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
File: /usr/lib/mime/packages/vorbis-tools
This is an idea for an /etc/mailcap entry to run ogginfo for textual
parts of ogg files,
# Textual parts of an ogg file, as low priority display.
application/ogg; ogginfo '%s'; copiouso
tag 452404 + patch
thanks
I had trouble with the mouse button not working too with either oroborus
or fvwm.
Nosing around the code I think the main loop may sleep in a select()
when there's still X events in the queue. Does that select do anything?
It looks worryingly like a cut and paste from d
Michael Stone writes:
>
> I'm not sure why this would be useful.
Currently "run-mailcap --action=cat" cannot cat a text/plain text file
but adding a mailcap entry will let it work.
> Why wouldn't you just pipe the
> file to a pager and avoid the mailcap indirection?
Primarily for genericness.
Bob Proulx writes:
>
> What mail-user-agent are you using where this configuration is
> advantageous?
It was to make "run-mailcap --action=cat" work on text/plain.
> The text/plain mailcap is already loaded with other entries such as
> on my system:
Notice they're all either needsterminal or $D
Tony Godshall writes:
>
> if __name__ == '__main__':
> -os.environ[ "DISPLAY" ] = ":0"
> +if not os.environ.has_key("DISPLAY"):
> +os.environ[ "DISPLAY" ] = ":0"
Usually there's no need to have a default or fallback for $DISPLAY. If
it's not set then you're not under X. I sugge
Package: jwm
Version: 2.1.0+svn579-2
Severity: normal
File: /usr/bin/jwm
In .jwmrc, if an attribute contains an "&" or similar entity then
the parse of subsequent attributes doesn't work properly.
For example the .jwmrc below provokes a warning
JWM: warning: /home/gg/.jwmrc[4]: invalid tag
Package: jwm
Version: 2.1.0+svn579-2
Severity: wishlist
File: /etc/menu-methods/jwm
This is an idea to show icons in /etc/jwm/debian-menu by adding the bit
below to /etc/menu-methods/jwm.
--- jwm.orig 2014-01-16 15:49:57.0 +1100
+++ jwm 2014-01-17 07:46:37.0 +1100
@@ -56,9 +56,14
Package: amiwm
Version: 0.20.48-8
Severity: wishlist
When a window is iconified, an ICCCM style MapRequest doesn't de-iconify
it, whereas I hoped that it would. For example with an xterm and the
xwit program,
xwit -iconify -id $WINDOWID; sleep 2; xwit -pop -id $WINDOWID
The xterm is iconifi
Package: flwm
Version: 1.02+cvs20080422-10
Severity: wishlist
When a window is iconified, meaning hidden in flwm, an ICCCM style
MapRequest doesn't de-iconify it, whereas I hoped that it would.
For example with xwit and an xterm,
xwit -iconify -id $WINDOWID; sleep 2; xwit -pop -id $WINDOWID
Jens Thoms Toerring writes:
>
> pointing out the problem!
I since had a lintian test accepted which reports various packages with
this ... so you're not Robinson Crusoe :-)
http://lintian.debian.org/tags/info-document-missing-image-file.html
--
Events jargon elucidated for the layman:
"Weddi
Package: mpg123-el
Version: 1:1.58-1
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
File: /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/mpg123-el/mpg123.el
If an ogg file does not have an artist tag then M-x mpg123 gets an
error.
oggenc /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav -o /tmp/foo.ogg
M-x mpg123 /tmp/foo.ogg
=>
Jens Thoms Toerring writes:
>
> noticed this (and neither did any of the users of the library - or at
> last no-one mentioned it).
It probably works running from a build tree but last time I used
automake it didn't automatically install png images for info but
required a bit of
myinfodir = $
Package: eterm
Version: 0.9.6-1
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
File: /usr/bin/Esetroot
If the default visual on a screen is PseudoColor then Esetroot gets an
error. This can be seen with the Xvfb test server,
xvfb-run -a -s '-cc 33' Esetroot /usr/share/Eterm/pix/tile/circuit.jpg
=>
X Error o
Package: pcf2bdf
Version: 1.04-4
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
This is an idea for an /etc/mailcap entry to run pcf2bdf to display a
pcf font file when on a text tty. The debian/mime file below is
installed by debhelper to /usr/lib/mime/packages/pcf2bdf.
The mime type application/x-font-pcf is
found 570054 3.4.9-1
thanks
In 3.4.9-1 the edbrowse man page still shows
EXAMPLES
edbrowse file:///usr/share/doc/edbrowse/edbdoc.html
SEE ALSO
The HTML documentation ...
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Package: nvi
Version: 1.81.6-10
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
It'd be good if nvi was in /etc/mailcap the same way that vim is.
debian/nvi.mime and rules diff below can install
/usr/lib/mime/packages/nvi which mime-support "update-mime"
automatically puts into /etc/mailcap.
These bits are lower
Package: gv
Version: 1:3.7.4-1
Severity: normal
File: /usr/bin/gv
With the foo.ps below running
gv foo.ps
gets a segfault. The blank line in foo.ps seems to matter. If you take
it away then gv doesn't segv.
I struck this in some output from an "lsys" program. This foo.ps is an
extremely
Package: leafnode
Version: 2.0.0.alpha20090406a-1
Severity: wishlist
For experimental there's a new version 2.0.0.alpha20121101a available at
http://www.dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de/~ma/leafnode/beta/
I haven't tried it for quality yet as such though.
-- Package-specific info:
version: leafnode-
Package: latexmk
Version: 1:4.24-1
Severity: wishlist
As an idea for a feature, latexmk could setup for emacs completion to
ignore foo.fdb_latexmk files, since you usually don't want to visit
them. The debian/emacsen-startup and debian/rules.diff setup a line in
/etc/emacs/site-start.d/50latexmk.
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