Bug#345681: x-window-system-core incorrectly requires both xfonts-75dpi and xfonts-100dpi

2006-01-02 Thread The Wanderer
Package: x-window-system-core Version: 6.9.0.dfsg.1-1 The x-window-system core package currently depends on both xfonts-75dpi and xfonts-100dpi. In the package description for xfonts-75dpi, there is the note: This package and xfonts-100dpi provide the same set of fonts, rendered at

Bug#388861: apt-listchanges: consistently fails with traceback in DebianControlParser.py line 19

2006-09-22 Thread The Wanderer
Package: apt-listchanges Version: 2.63 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable For some time now, every time I install a package via apt-get, apt-listchanges does not pop up its display of changelogs. Instead, I get the following (immediately after Retrieving bug reports...

Bug#388861: apt-listchanges: consistently fails with traceback in DebianControlParser.py line 19

2006-09-23 Thread The Wanderer
Pierre Habouzit wrote: Le sam 23 septembre 2006 02:50, The Wanderer a écrit : Package: apt-listchanges Version: 2.63 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable For some time now, every time I install a package via apt-get, apt-listchanges does not pop up its display

Bug#429064: linux-libc-devel: linux/types.h conflicts with sys/ustat.h

2007-09-23 Thread The Wanderer
with the maintainer directly, except that there does not seem to be any such person... -- The Wanderer Warning: Simply because I argue an issue does not mean I agree with any side of it. Secrecy is the beginning of tyranny. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Bug#429064: linux-libc-devel: linux/types.h conflicts with sys/ustat.h

2007-08-18 Thread The Wanderer
decidedly uncomfortable with the situation. -- The Wanderer Warning: Simply because I argue an issue does not mean I agree with any side of it. Secrecy is the beginning of tyranny. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Bug#429064: (no subject)

2007-11-08 Thread The Wanderer
that other libcs will not necessarily provide the same structure in the same place, because otherwise I cannot see how your comment about glibc not being the only one provided by Debian is at all relevant to the issue at hand.) -- The Wanderer Warning: Simply because I argue an issue does

Bug#369405: kdrill: exits immediately with Warning: Unable to load any usable ISO8859 font\nError: Aborting: no font fond

2006-05-29 Thread The Wanderer
, SOCK_STREAM, 0) = 3 uname({sys=Linux, node=pegasus, ...}) = 0 uname({sys=Linux, node=pegasus, ...}) = 0 connect(3, {sa_family=AF_FILE, path=/tmp/.X11-unix/X0}, 19) = 0 uname({sys=Linux, node=pegasus, ...}) = 0 fcntl64(3, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC) = 0 access(/home/wanderer/.Xauthority, R_OK

Bug#369405: kdrill: exits immediately with Warning: Unable to load any usable ISO8859 font\nError: Aborting: no font fond

2006-05-29 Thread The Wanderer
Philip Brown wrote: On Mon, May 29, 2006 at 12:06:02PM -0400, The Wanderer wrote: kdrill 6.4: by Philip Brown -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Starting up kdrill... please wait a while. Warning: Unable to load any usable ISO8859 font Error: Aborting: no font found I am uncertain as to precisely what

Bug#369405: kdrill: exits immediately with Warning: Unable to load any usable ISO8859 font\nError: Aborting: no font fond

2006-05-29 Thread The Wanderer
, but this is not the correct place to do it. -- The Wanderer Warning: Simply because I argue an issue does not mean I agree with any side of it. Secrecy is the beginning of tyranny. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#566268: angband: Fails to start in X11 mode without xfonts-base

2010-01-22 Thread The Wanderer
Package: angband Version: 1:3.1.1.1626-1 Severity: important *** Please type your report below this line *** Angband has multiple display modes, selectable at runtime with the '-m' command-line option. By default, it runs with the X11 mode. Angband also installs a fair selection of fonts, in

Bug#547260: (no subject)

2010-01-22 Thread The Wanderer
In the latest development version, I see that spelling used in two other places: * In the Display options menu, the one-line description for the view_yellow_lite option reads Use special colors for torch lite. * In object.txt, there's the parenthetical aside always true for lites. -- To

Bug#518027: Dependence on configuration?

2009-08-11 Thread The Wanderer
Is this bug still actually open, or is it just that no one has bothered to formally close it yet? It looks to me, from the discussion, that this has been completely unreproducible for anyone but the original reporter, and that the original reporter seems to have found a satisfactory resolution.

Bug#541477: enlightenment: configuration lost in update to e16

2009-08-14 Thread The Wanderer
Package: enlightenment Version: 1:0.16.7.2-5.1 Severity: important -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.24.2 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8,

Bug#541477: closed by Marco Rodrigues goth...@sapo.pt (Package enlightenment has been removed from Debian)

2009-08-22 Thread The Wanderer
precisely why it bothers me that a problem like this is being dismissed the way this one seems to be. -- The Wanderer Warning: Simply because I argue an issue does not mean I agree with any side of it. Secrecy is the beginning of tyranny. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ

Bug#541477: closed by Marco Rodrigues goth...@sapo.pt (Package enlightenment has been removed from Debian)

2009-08-23 Thread The Wanderer
On 08/23/2009 03:04 AM, Laurence J. Lane wrote: e16 is essentially forked code and a new package based on enlightenment. e16 isn't a drop-in replacement for enlightenment 0.16x. It's actually intended to not interfere with enlightenment. I would, in that case, have argued that the

Bug#505938: (no subject)

2009-02-14 Thread The Wanderer
this has been forgotten? -- The Wanderer Warning: Simply because I argue an issue does not mean I agree with any side of it. Secrecy is the beginning of tyranny. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Bug#580220: xserver-xorg-input-evdev: Logitech G500 mouse detected as 'USB HID v1.1 Keyboard'

2010-05-04 Thread The Wanderer
Package: xserver-xorg-input-evdev Version: 1:2.3.2-4 Severity: important On my laptop, when I install xserver-xorg-input-evdev version 1:2.3.2-6 (now in testing), the next time I re-connect my Logitech G500 USB mouse it gets misdetected as a USB keyboard instead - and, naturally enough,

Bug#580220: xserver-xorg-input-evdev: Logitech G500 mouse detected as 'USB HID v1.1 Keyboard'

2010-05-04 Thread The Wanderer
On 05/04/2010 10:32 AM, Julien Cristau wrote: On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 10:01:38 -0400, The Wanderer wrote: X.Org X Server 1.7.6 Do you have a log from 1.7.6.901? Or did you upgrade the driver but neglected to restart X? I don't shut down X without specific reason; it's too disruptive

Bug#579813: ../../src/xcb_io.c:445: _XReply: Assertion `!dpy-xcb-reply_data' failed.

2010-05-05 Thread The Wanderer
On 05/04/2010 02:40 PM, Jamey Sharp wrote: On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 6:54 AM, The Wanderer wande...@fastmail.fm wrote: I'm familiar with doing that (well, 'gdb foo' and 'run -v quux'), but I could have sworn that last time I tried it on a failed assertion, the 'bt full' returned no information

Bug#579813: ../../src/xcb_io.c:445: _XReply: Assertion `!dpy-xcb-reply_data' failed.

2010-05-05 Thread The Wanderer
On 05/04/2010 02:40 PM, Jamey Sharp wrote: Of course if this application is forking, it can be quite tricky to get gdb attached to the process that actually dies. It may be easier to run `ulimit -c unlimited` to enable core dumps, then let the application die, then use `gdb -c` to inspect the

Bug#579813: ../../src/xcb_io.c:445: _XReply: Assertion `!dpy-xcb-reply_data' failed.

2010-05-05 Thread The Wanderer
On 05/05/2010 11:43 AM, The Wanderer wrote: On 05/04/2010 02:40 PM, Jamey Sharp wrote: Of course if this application is forking, it can be quite tricky to get gdb attached to the process that actually dies. It may be easier to run `ulimit -c unlimited` to enable core dumps, then let

Bug#579813: ../../src/xcb_io.c:445: _XReply: Assertion `!dpy-xcb-reply_data' failed.

2010-05-06 Thread The Wanderer
On 05/05/2010 03:21 PM, Jamey Sharp wrote: Yay, data! Thanks. On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 10:01 AM, The Wanderer wande...@fastmail.fm wrote: trace:wgl:wglGetProcAddress func: 'wglGetIntegerv' ../../src/xcb_io.c:445: _XReply: Assertion `!dpy-xcb-reply_data' failed. 0019:001a: exception

Bug#579813: ../../src/xcb_io.c:445: _XReply: Assertion `!dpy-xcb-reply_data' failed.

2010-04-30 Thread The Wanderer
Package: fglrx-driver Version: 1:10-3~prerelease-3 Severity: normal I should start out by saying that I am not 100% certain that this bug is in fglrx-driver; it also might be in libxcb, in Wine, or somewhere (else) in the OpenGL or GLX stack, or even in X. I am reporting it under fglrx-driver

Bug#554163: Bug #554163: Should import gqview preferences when migrating from gqview - geeqie

2009-12-18 Thread The Wanderer
On 12/18/2009 05:01 AM, Michal Čihař wrote: Hi Dne Mon, 14 Dec 2009 07:51:32 -0500 The Wanderer wande...@fastmail.fm napsal(a): That doesn't make any sense. AFAIK GQView never tagged files with anything, and even if it did, a program which can understand such data should read

Bug#506552: fontconfig-config: Same or similar problem in icedove

2008-12-21 Thread The Wanderer
The Wanderer wrote: Package: fontconfig-config Version: 2.6.0-3 Followup-For: Bug #506552 I am no longer nearly so certain that what I am seeing is the same bug. I have noticed that the same ugly-font problem is, in some cases, occurring in images as well as in normal text - images which I

Bug#506552: fontconfig-config: Same or similar problem in icedove

2008-12-13 Thread The Wanderer
Andrew J. Buehler wrote: Package: fontconfig-config Version: 2.6.0-3 Followup-For: Bug #506552 I have just tested downgrading each obviously-could-be-related package (see list below) to the version in my package archive immediately preceding the one installed on the same day as the change,

Bug#554163: Bug #554163: Should import gqview preferences when migrating from gqview - geeqie

2009-12-13 Thread The Wanderer
Consider this seconded. I would also prefer if it could pick up the same window-manager settings as used by gqview (size, location, desktop, et cetera), but that's both significantly easier to re-set by hand and probably much harder to have happen automatically. It was mentioned in passing in

Bug#554163: Bug #554163: Should import gqview preferences when migrating from gqview - geeqie

2009-12-14 Thread The Wanderer
On 12/14/2009 04:09 AM, Michal Čihař wrote: Hi Dne Sun, 13 Dec 2009 22:38:12 -0500 The Wanderer wande...@fastmail.fm napsal(a): However, I have not yet been able to confirm whether or not this menu entry actually does that migration. I would not expect it from the name (metadata to me refers

Bug#632386: kdrill: exits with 'Error: Object (null) does not have windowed ancestor'

2011-07-01 Thread The Wanderer
Package: kdrill Version: 6.5deb2-2 Severity: important When using certain versions of the radical file (radkfile), KDrill will exit before displaying any window. When this happens (on my system), the full text output of KDrill is: kdrill 6.5: by Philip Brown -- p...@bolthole.com

Bug#640113: NameError': global name 'PIPE' is not defined

2011-09-02 Thread The Wanderer
Package: moosic Version: 1.5.5-2 Severity: important When running moosic with any of the add to playlist commands (such as 'add' or 'mixin' or 'prepend') and passing a directory as the argument, moosic exits with the message NameError': global name 'PIPE' is not defined and nothing is added

Bug#639091: moosic: dies when not run with python2.7

2011-08-23 Thread The Wanderer
Package: moosic Version: 1.5.5-1 Severity: important On my system, moosic now dies on launch, with the following output: Traceback (most recent call last): File /usr/bin/moosic, line 6, in module main(sys.argv) File

Bug#635111: libnss3-1d: java.io.FileNotFoundException: /usr/lib/libnss3.so in 3.12.10-2

2011-07-22 Thread The Wanderer
Package: libnss3-1d Version: 3.12.10-2 Severity: critical Justification: breaks unrelated software The libnss-1d 3.12.10-2 update breaks logging in to Minecraft. After updating libnss3-1d from 3.12.10-1 to 3.12.10-2, attempting to log in to Minecraft (which is Java-based and authenticates to

Bug#635111: Acknowledgement (libnss3-1d: java.io.FileNotFoundException: /usr/lib/libnss3.so in 3.12.10-2 )

2011-07-23 Thread The Wanderer
Apparently people are ahead of me, and somehow I'm not being notified of changes to the bug even though I reported it (?). Yes, changing the path in /etc/java-6-openjdk/security/nss.cfg makes this work again. Last night when I tried this it didn't seem to work; I got an actual crash, with ***

Bug#679786: e16: Root-window menus don't work, on first virtual desktop only

2012-07-01 Thread The Wanderer
Package: e16 Version: 1.0.0-4 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, In E16, clicking on the root window normally brings up one of three menus, depending on whether it was a left-, middle-, or right-click. To the best of my awareness, this is the primary means of launching applications in that

Bug#675940: fglrx-driver: fglrx crashes with X server 1.12 on 64bit architecture

2012-07-16 Thread The Wanderer
According to the ati.cchtml.com bug, this is actually a problem with libpciaccess not handling 64-bit pointers correctly in some cases. The patch available there is a patch for libpciaccess, described by its author as an ugly hack (on which I agree, as it seems to be hardware-specific to some

Bug#675940: fglrx-driver: fglrx crashes with X server 1.12 on 64bit architecture

2012-07-18 Thread The Wanderer
On 07/18/2012 01:19 PM, Andreas Beckmann wrote: On 2012-07-16 15:50, The Wanderer wrote: According to the ati.cchtml.com bug, this is actually a problem with libpciaccess not handling 64-bit pointers correctly in some cases. The patch No. libpciaccess gets passed incorrect 64bit pointers

Bug#645625: [Pkg-fglrx-devel] Bug#645625: fglrx-driver: hangs on startx, using X.Org Foundation libglx.so

2011-10-17 Thread The Wanderer
On 10/17/2011 09:44 AM, Andreas Beckmann wrote: Please send the output of update-alternatives --display glx find /usr/lib/xorg/modules /usr/lib/fglrx -ls wanderer@aqualung:~$ update-alternatives --display glx glx - auto mode link currently points to /usr/lib/fglrx /usr/lib/fglrx

Bug#645650: kdrill: increase maximum search results

2011-10-17 Thread The Wanderer
Package: kdrill Version: 6.5deb2-4 Severity: wishlist Dear Maintainer, The search component of kdrill imposes a hard limit of 200 results to all kanji searches, and provides no way to get at any results beyond that limit. I have routinely needed to be able to look through all results, well

Bug#645625: [Pkg-fglrx-devel] Bug#645625: fglrx-driver: hangs on startx, using X.Org Foundation libglx.so

2011-10-17 Thread The Wanderer
On 10/17/2011 12:26 PM, Andreas Beckmann wrote: Hi, where does this in your xorg.conf come from? Section Files ModulePath /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions ModulePath /usr/lib/xorg/modules EndSection I don't know offhand where it came from; either it was added automatically

Bug#684538: libgl1-fglrx-glx: multiarch fglrx_dri no longer functional

2012-08-17 Thread The Wanderer
for the time being. -- The Wanderer Warning: Simply because I argue an issue does not mean I agree with any side of it. Every time you let somebody set a limit they start moving it. - LiveJournal user antonia_tiger -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org

Bug#684538: libgl1-fglrx-glx: multiarch fglrx_dri no longer functional

2012-08-20 Thread The Wanderer
After having moved /usr/lib32/libGL* out of the way to fix 32-bit direct rendering, 32-bit Wine no longer compiles with OpenGL support, since it cannot find libGL.so. This appears to be because the /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libGL.so symlink does not exist. (Nor, for that matter, do some of the

Bug#684538: libgl1-fglrx-glx: multiarch fglrx_dri no longer functional

2012-08-10 Thread The Wanderer
Source: libgl1-fglrx-glx Severity: important Since transitioning from fglrx-glx and fglrx-glx-ia32 to libgl1-fglrx-glx:{amd64,i386}, I am no longer able to get OpenGL direct rendering in 32-bit programs. The example which primarily concerns me is 32-bit Wine in a 32-and-64-bit side-by-side

Bug#650238: libgcc1 (4.6.2-4) breaks gcc-4.3 4.3.6-1, but, there is no package for gcc-4.3(4.3.6-1)

2011-12-13 Thread The Wanderer
Eh? How is this wishlist? The bug here is that it is possible, using only Debian-provided packages and the Debian dependencies system, to get the system into a state where it is not possible to compile modules for the currently-running kernel. That sounds like a pretty serious problem to me,

Bug#650238: libgcc1 (4.6.2-4) breaks gcc-4.3 4.3.6-1, but, there is no package for gcc-4.3(4.3.6-1)

2011-12-13 Thread The Wanderer
And one point I forgot: it might be simple enough to fix this by recompiling the various linux-image-* packages with a newer GCC version, one which can still be obtained via Debian. However, as far as I can tell by looking at changelogs, that doesn't seem to have been done. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Bug#711961: libglib2.0-0: causes iceweasel 3.5.18-1 to SIGABRT on launch

2013-06-11 Thread The Wanderer
Package: libglib2.0-0 Version: 2.36.1-2build1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, I want to first note that I am intentionally using a configuration which may be unsupported. However, just in case the problem I am encountering might be relevant independent of that potentially unsupported

Bug#714820: ITP: ntopng -- High-Speed Web-based Traffic Analysis and Flow Collection Tool

2013-07-03 Thread The Wanderer
forward-development-compatible in that light. But that's just my principles speaking, not a source of present confusion. -- The Wanderer Warning: Simply because I argue an issue does not mean I agree with any side of it. Every time you let somebody set a limit they start moving

Bug#697423: dizzy: fullscreen display with '-f' fails on undefined subroutine, 'SDL::Mouse::show_cursor' at line 61

2013-01-04 Thread The Wanderer
Package: dizzy Version: 0.3-1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, When I run dizzy with the fullscreen option, '-f', it does not work. The screen flashes blank for a fraction of a second, and the line Undefined subroutine SDL::Mouse::show_cursor called at /usr/games/dizzy line 61.

Bug#705293: manpages-dev: access(2) does not document return-value behavior for F_OK

2013-04-12 Thread The Wanderer
Package: manpages-dev Version: 3.44-1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, The man page for the 'access' function describes two ways to use the function: to check whether the current real user ID has specific permissions for a file (R_OK, W_OK, X_OK), or to check whether that file simply exists

Bug#455769: same problem on wheezy + Thinkpad X220T

2013-03-28 Thread The Wanderer
to take two. You pay for that convenience by sacrificing the convenience of being able to close the lid *without* suspending, but which inconvenience is the greater depends on your usage patterns, and different people may well prefer to sacrifice different ones. -- The Wanderer Warning: Simply

Bug#695550: libjack-dev: does not automatically transition to libjack-jackd2-dev

2012-12-11 Thread The Wanderer
On 12/10/2012 04:59 PM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: Quoting The Wanderer (2012-12-10 17:57:18) On 12/10/2012 11:21 AM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: Check the meanings with aptitude --help. On my system, the text output from that command does not include the string 'dist': True. Look

Bug#695550: libjack-dev: does not automatically transition to libjack-jackd2-dev

2012-12-11 Thread The Wanderer
On 12/11/2012 08:32 AM, The Wanderer wrote: While I'd be interested to continue the discussion of aptitude vs. apt-get, it's certainly offtopic for this bug. As such, I do not (presently) intend to reply to any further posts on this bug on that subject, unless they appear to be going back

Bug#695550: libjack-dev: does not automatically transition to libjack-jackd2-dev

2012-12-11 Thread The Wanderer
On 12/11/2012 08:56 AM, Fabian Greffrath wrote: Am 11.12.2012 14:44, schrieb The Wanderer: And since I didn't say it explicitly before: although I do think the bug report is legitimate, I'm willing enough at this point to fix my own package-install situation manually and proceed from

Bug#695550: libjack-dev: does not automatically transition to libjack-jackd2-dev

2012-12-14 Thread The Wanderer
On 12/14/2012 05:59 PM, Felipe Sateler wrote: On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 11:17 AM, The Wanderer wande...@fastmail.fm wrote: On 12/11/2012 08:56 AM, Fabian Greffrath wrote: You could try aptitude why libjack-jackd2-0 to find out what caused the installation of that package and thus

Bug#696060: mtr: StDev overflowed to negative

2012-12-16 Thread The Wanderer
Package: mtr Version: 0.82-3 Severity: minor Dear Maintainer, As part of an effort to diagnose - and later to confirm the fix of - an ongoing network problem, I have maintained an mtr session running for several weeks straight. The current overall summary for one hop in that session presently

Bug#696060: mtr: StDev overflowed to negative

2012-12-16 Thread The Wanderer
On 12/16/2012 10:44 AM, Rogier Wolff wrote: Hi, The variance, which is used to calculate the stdev, is stored in a 64-bit integer. However, what we store there are the squares of the difference from the average. So if you have 70 second ping time (sometimes), the square of 7 miliseconds

Bug#695594: xserver-xorg-video-radeon: X segfaults when entering OpenGL mode in Minecraft

2012-12-17 Thread The Wanderer
- but at least the direct-rendering mode does appear to work properly. (Though I'd like to know why, judging from the output of glxgears, I seem to get enforced vsync with radeon but didn't with fglrx... but that's not really related to this bug.) -- The Wanderer Warning: Simply because I argue

Bug#696363: devscripts: Repeated-word typo in wrap-and-sort man page

2012-12-19 Thread The Wanderer
Package: devscripts Version: 2.12.6 Severity: minor In the man page for wrap-and-sort, the entry for the '--wrap-always' option reads: Wrap all package lists in the Debian control file even if the entries are shorter than 80 characters and could fit in one line

Bug#695550: libjack-dev: does not automatically transition to libjack-jackd2-dev

2012-12-09 Thread The Wanderer
Package: libjack-dev Version: 1:0.121.3+20120418git75e3e20b-2.1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, When I attempt to dist-upgrade to current testing, apt wants to remove libjack0 and install libjack-jackd2-0. This is fine; the latter explicitly Provides: the same virtual package as the former,

Bug#695550: libjack-dev: does not automatically transition to libjack-jackd2-dev

2012-12-10 Thread The Wanderer
On 12/10/2012 06:08 AM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: Hi, Quoting The Wanderer (2012-12-10 02:25:21) When I attempt to dist-upgrade to current testing, apt wants to remove libjack0 and install libjack-jackd2-0. This is fine; the latter explicitly Provides: the same virtual package as the former

Bug#695550: libjack-dev: does not automatically transition to libjack-jackd2-dev

2012-12-10 Thread The Wanderer
On 12/10/2012 10:08 AM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: Quoting The Wanderer (2012-12-10 14:41:51) Just to clarify: is JACK v2 strictly a superset of JACK v1 in terms of API and presumably ABI? Or are there parts of the JACK v1 API which JACK v2 does not provide? If the former, then I would

Bug#695550: libjack-dev: does not automatically transition to libjack-jackd2-dev

2012-12-10 Thread The Wanderer
(Apologies to Felipe for the duplicate reply; I didn't notice until after sending that the To: didn't include the bug address.) On 12/10/2012 10:15 AM, Felipe Sateler wrote: On Sun, Dec 9, 2012 at 10:25 PM, The Wanderer wande...@fastmail.fm wrote: Package: libjack-dev Version: 1:0.121.3

Bug#695550: libjack-dev: does not automatically transition to libjack-jackd2-dev

2012-12-10 Thread The Wanderer
On 12/10/2012 11:21 AM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: Quoting The Wanderer (2012-12-10 16:30:19) On 12/10/2012 10:08 AM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: There are multiple implementations of JACK, and one of those implementations happen to have a 2 in its name. In that case (and based on a few other

Bug#714820: ITP: ntopng -- High-Speed Web-based Traffic Analysis and Flow Collection Tool

2013-07-07 Thread The Wanderer
On 07/06/2013 09:14 PM, Ludovico Cavedon wrote: On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 5:00 AM, The Wanderer wande...@fastmail.fm wrote: Might I suggest a different package name, e.g. 'ntop-ng'? At a glance, 'ntopng' reads to me as N-to-PNG, along the lines of existing file-format converter programs. While

Bug#730730: youtube-dl: long description lists 'youtube:search' twice

2013-11-28 Thread The Wanderer
Package: youtube-dl Version: 2013.11.11-2 Severity: minor Dear Maintainer, The long description of youtube-dl (as seen with e.g. 'apt-cache show') includes a list of sites which the program supports. In version 2013.11.11-2, the entry 'youtube:search' now appears in this list twice. A previous

Bug#730737: dizzy: exits immediately with strict refs error in Perl2GLSL.pm, line 160

2013-11-28 Thread The Wanderer
Package: dizzy Version: 0.3-1 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable Dear Maintainer, When I launch dizzy, it briefly displays a black window, then exits. The following is printed to the console: Smartmatch is experimental at /usr/share/perl5/Dizzy/Perl2GLSL.pm line

Bug#710140: gpgme1.0 (=1.3.2) dropping libgpgme-pth.so

2013-06-06 Thread The Wanderer
apt-listbugs alerted me to this bug when I attempted to upgrade from 1.2.0-1.4. I can't tell from the information provided: if I upgrade to an affected version, should I expect things on my system to break? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Bug#723107: less: search history no longer contains new blank entry from current search

2013-09-16 Thread The Wanderer
Package: less Version: 458-2 Severity: normal Tags: upstream Dear Maintainer, When beginning a text search in less by pressing the '/' key, you are presented with a blank line to type your search string into. It is possible to scroll backwards and forwards through the search history, in order

Bug#737208: RFS: linuxlogo/5.11-4

2014-02-07 Thread The Wanderer
.) - -- The Wanderer Secrecy is the beginning of tyranny. A government exists to serve its citizens, not to control them. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1 Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJS9Y2HAAoJEASpNY00KDJr1yoP/AxDl1Xxx97kIL2QyDsoRUQ3

Bug#735182: RFS: fuseloop/1.0.1-1 ITP -- loopback mount using FUSE

2014-01-22 Thread The Wanderer
linked. There's no expected completion date for this AFAIK, but trying to be compliant with it isn't a bad idea; I've already got the upstream of something I haven't even packaged yet to accept a compliance patch, just based on test packaging attempts. - -- The Wanderer Secrecy

Bug#735182: RFS: fuseloop/1.0.1-1 ITP -- loopback mount using FUSE

2014-01-25 Thread The Wanderer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 01/25/2014 05:24 AM, Johannes Schauer wrote: Hi, Quoting The Wanderer (2014-01-22 15:14:34) Do things still work fine in Debian when using ld.gold (by installing the binutils-gold package) rather than ld.bfd? I know there's an important

Bug#741843: [help] volview: FTBFS: vtkKWWizard.cxx:162:51: error: 'Tcl_Interp' has no member named 'result'

2014-04-15 Thread The Wanderer
enough about Tcl or its packaging to speak to that approach. In the long term, as the link indicates, the correct fix would involve modifying the source to avoid using internal fields from Tcl_Interp. However, that seems like the sort of thing that would be best done by upstream. - -- The Wanderer

Bug#519469: apt-get proposes to autoremove packages not yet installed

2014-04-26 Thread The Wanderer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 I'm seeing what looks like a somwhat less severe version of this same behavior. As it stands, I have no packages listed as candidates for autoremoval: root@apologia:~# apt-get autoremove Reading package lists... Done Building dependency

Bug#519469: apt-get proposes to autoremove packages not yet installed

2014-04-27 Thread The Wanderer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 It looks like this happens when: * One version of a package is installed. * A newer version of that package is available from the repositories. * The newer version depends on a package which the currently-installed version does not. * The

Bug#751048: marked as done (RFS: fizsh/1.0.6-1 (already in Debian))

2014-06-16 Thread The Wanderer
that, of course, and I agree that the phrasing in these (semi-automated?) closure messages is kind of confusing; it took me a few weeks seeing them come through the mentors list before I figured out what was probably going on. - -- The Wanderer Secrecy is the beginning of tyranny. A government

Bug#751396: genisoimage: -xa option not documented in man page

2014-06-12 Thread The Wanderer
Package: genisoimage Version: 9:1.1.11-2 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, According to information found via Web search, the old mkisofs supported a '-xa' option, to create XA-format ISO filesystems. (Exactly what the differences between that and a non-XA filesystem are is not clear at a

Bug#751396: genisoimage: -xa option not documented in man page

2014-06-13 Thread The Wanderer
On further research, it appears the man page was updated to include this option (and many others, some of them aliases to already-documented commands and some previously undocumented) in upstream SVN... in January 2011. (With typo fixes in March of the same year.) However, the last official

Bug#505381: genisoimage: writes blank sectors

2014-06-13 Thread The Wanderer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 This behavior (or one very similar to it) appears to still be present, five and a half years later. The patch still appears to apply (albeit with considerable a offset) against current upstream SVN. I have not managed to find any indication of what

Bug#756883: micropolis-data: depends on dummy package ttf-dejavu-core

2014-08-02 Thread The Wanderer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Package: micropolis-data Version: 0.0.20071228-7 Severity: minor Dear Maintainer, The ttf-dejavu-core package has been replaced by the fonts-dejavu-core package; as far as I am aware, this is a simple package renaming. ttf-dejavu-core itself still

Bug#763619: libmeanwhile-dev: package long description refers to old library package name

2014-10-01 Thread The Wanderer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Source: libmeanwhile-dev Version: 1.0.2-5 Severity: minor Dear Maintainer, The long description of libmeanwhile-dev states that the package contains development files of the libmeanwhile0 library.. However, the package itself now Depends: on

Bug#769602: youtube-dl: download from YouTube fails, “RegexNotFoundError: Unable to extract Initial JS player signature function name”

2014-11-21 Thread The Wanderer
This looks like an issue which was fixed upstream in version 2014.11.13: https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/issues/4175 -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends

Bug#798033: www.debian.org: get.debian.org rejects HTTPS connections, but redirects to HTTPS site

2015-09-04 Thread The Wanderer
Package: www.debian.org Severity: minor Dear Maintainer, I'm not completely positive that this is the correct place for this bug report, but I don't know of anywhere else which would be better. Please feel free to reassign if appropriate. Whenever possible, I prefer to connect to Websites via

Bug#799296: mysql-client-5.6: upgrading from 5.5 to 5.6 with client running lost client command history

2015-09-17 Thread The Wanderer
Package: mysql-client-5.6 Version: 5.6.25-4 Severity: minor Dear Maintainer, I habitually have an instance of mysql-client running, connected to a particular database, with the somewhat-complex commands which I regularly use with that database present in the mysql command history. When I have

Bug#799296: [debian-mysql] Bug#799296: mysql-client-5.6: upgrading from 5.5 to 5.6 with client running lost client command history

2015-09-18 Thread The Wanderer
indicate that I copied it from the name ~/.mysql_history. For whatever that's worth. > Thanks for reporting anyway, we'll try and figure this one out. You're quite welcome. In the unlikely event that there's anything I can do to help track this down, please don't hesitate to let me know. -

Bug#807948: apt: 'update' fails with 'Couldn't create tempfiles for splitting up' InRelease files

2015-12-14 Thread The Wanderer
to represent "current bug" or suchlike documented anywhere? I remembered seeing it used, but I couldn't find it in https://wiki.debian.org/HowtoUseBTS, https://www.debian.org/Bugs/server-control, or 'man bts', so I didn't risk trying it.) > On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 11:42:34AM -0500, The Wande

Bug#807948: apt: 'update' fails with 'Couldn't create tempfiles for splitting up' InRelease files

2015-12-14 Thread The Wanderer
Package: apt Version: 1.0.10.2 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, When I upgrade to apt 1.1.3 or later (tested with both that and 1.1.4), and then run 'apt-get update' or 'apt update', I get results like the following: Ign:1 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian stable InRelease Hit:2

Bug#807948: Acknowledgement (apt: 'update' fails with 'Couldn't create tempfiles for splitting up' InRelease files)

2015-12-14 Thread The Wanderer
found 807948 1.1.3 notfound 807948 1.0.10.2 thanks My mistake - I forgot to tweak the bug-report template's automatic version info before sending it in. This is found in 1.1.3 and later, not in 1.0.10.2. This is the first time I've used the BTS commands, so I hope I've got this right... I tried

Bug#807948: apt: 'update' fails with 'Couldn't create tempfiles for splitting up' InRelease files

2015-12-15 Thread The Wanderer
On 2015-12-14 at 23:31, The Wanderer wrote: > On 2015-12-14 at 12:47, David Kalnischkies wrote: >> On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 11:42:34AM -0500, The Wanderer wrote: >> >>> Couldn't create tempfiles for splitting up >>> /var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.us.debian.o

Bug#798033: www.debian.org: get.debian.org rejects HTTPS connections, but redirects to HTTPS site

2016-02-29 Thread The Wanderer
On 2016-02-18 at 04:27, Niklas Edmundsson wrote: >>>> * The Wanderer <wande...@fastmail.fm> [2015-09-04 12:17]: >>>>> When I connect to http://get.debian.org/ in a Web browser, I >>>>> am redirected to https://www.debian.org/CD/, which is a HTTP

Bug#817244: exim4-base: cron noise re environment

2016-03-10 Thread The Wanderer
On 2016-03-10 at 11:05, Andreas Metzler wrote: > On 2016-03-10 The Wanderer <wande...@fastmail.fm> wrote: > >> Andreas Metzler <ametz...@bebt.de> on Wed, 9 Mar 2016 18:07:30 +0100 >> I get this same behavior. > >>> The Debian configuration sets add_envir

Bug#810290: ITP: mediawiki -- website engine for collaborative work

2016-03-10 Thread The Wanderer
to upgrade that if-and-when the new version gets packaged.) -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw

Bug#817244: exim4-base: cron noise re environment

2016-03-10 Thread The Wanderer
d.client: Permission denied -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Bug#825104: zotero-standalone: claims to not require any Firefox browser, but depends on firefox packages

2016-05-23 Thread The Wanderer
Package: zotero-standalone Version: 4.0.29.5+dfsg-1 Severity: minor Dear Maintainer, The long package description of zotero-standalone states in part that: "This package contains the standalone version of Zotero which does not require any Firefox browser." However, the package includes a

Bug#833621: RFS: libgap-sage/4.8.3+ds-1 [ITP] -- GAP kernel as a C shared library

2016-08-09 Thread The Wanderer
a room is the more common usage nowadays, it is in fact secondary to the sense related to providing anything with "anything necessary, useful, or appropriate". -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt

Bug#854314: youtube-dl: 'Signature extraction failed' on some YouTube videos

2017-02-05 Thread The Wanderer
Package: youtube-dl Version: 2016.12.01-1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, Today, in attempting to download videos from YouTube with youtube-dl, I have seen some download normally and others produce errors. (Unfortunately, this happened late enough that the release-freeze announcement came in

Bug#856247: dict-gcide: Missing definition present upstream: "appeal"

2017-02-27 Thread The Wanderer
On 2017-02-27 at 03:00, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: > On Sun, 2017-02-26 at 17:20 -0500, The Wanderer wrote:> >> Reinstalling the package (via 'apt-get install --reinstall dict-gcide') >> did not affect this behavior. > >> By contrast, looking up 'appeal' in either

Bug#856247: dict-gcide: Missing definition present upstream: "appeal"

2017-02-26 Thread The Wanderer
Package: dict-gcide Version: 0.48.3 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, When I run the following command, I get (in part) the following output: $ dict -d gcide repeal [...] >From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Repeal \Re*peal"\ (r?-p?l"), v. t. [imp. & p.

Bug#841837: apt-listchanges: feature request: combine identical changelog entries from multiple packages

2016-10-23 Thread The Wanderer
Package: apt-listchanges Version: 3.5 Severity: wishlist Dear Maintainer, On a semi-frequent basis - usually when there is an automatic mass binary rebuild on the buildds, in response to a transition against a common dependency package - running a dist-upgrade will result in being shown a flood

Bug#851819: ERROR: wget failed to download http://people.debian.org/~bartm/...

2017-03-28 Thread The Wanderer
(making it optional would be fine), or alter the checksum lookup to point to a location which is write-accessible to a sufficiently large pool of people that one of them can be expected to respond to future Flash updates within a week or so. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself

Bug#856813: pidgin: AIM accounts will require 2.12 as of 2017-03-28

2017-03-04 Thread The Wanderer
Package: pidgin Version: 2.11.0-3 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, As has been reported on various tech-news sites, AOL is dropping support for older versions of the authentication methods which third-party clients such as Pidgin use to connect to the AOL Instant Messenger service. This

Bug#851819: ERROR: wget failed to download http://people.debian.org/~bartm/...

2017-03-05 Thread The Wanderer
Webspace - which would only redirect the problem, in the long term - or B: (optionally) skip the validation entirely, which is potentially problematic in its own way. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world

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