Bug#321417: Known issue; patch exists

2005-11-25 Thread era eriksson
tags 321417 +patch thanks This is a known problem in Sawfish. The mail thread http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.window-managers.sawfish/2737 from the Sawfish mailing list contains a patch which supposedly fixes the problem. See also https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/sawfish/+bug/551

Bug#341353: uniq: -t option stopped working

2005-11-29 Thread era eriksson
Package: coreutils Version: 5.93-5 Upgrading coreutils yesterday appears to have broken the -t separator option in uniq. There is no mention of this change in /usr/share/doc/coreutils/NEWS.gz so I assume (and hope) that this was a mistake and not a conscious decision. There's a cryptic mention

Bug#152977: Old bug, suggest closing / wontfixing

2005-12-02 Thread era eriksson
retitle 152977 w3m-el: Cannot cope with URL #fragments notfound 152977 1.4.4-1 thanks Now that Woody is no longer the hot topic of the day, perhaps it would be appropriate to mark this bug as WONTFIX? /* era */ -- If this were a real .signature, it would suck less. Well, maybe not. -- To

Bug#344015: w3m-el: https auth not supported (?)

2005-12-19 Thread era eriksson
Package: w3m-el Version: 1.4.4-1 I'm having trouble logging in to a twiki server which runs over https. I can access the site fine with just w3m. I can access the same site fine over plain http with both w3m and w3m-el (albeit the latter with some difficulty). But with https, w3m-el just seems to

Bug#257010: submitter address changed (Reopen 257010)

2005-10-05 Thread era eriksson
Submitter changed because the original submitter didn't appear to care (didn't reopen the bug) I haven't had the time to check out the new skin. But be my guest. /* era */ -- If this were a real .signature, it would suck less. Well, maybe not. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Bug#369231:

2006-10-22 Thread era eriksson
On Thu, 20 Jul 2006 20:39:12 -0700, Daniel Burrows [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There are things that could be done to adjust the storage of the descriptions list, of course. For instance, I wonder if a suffix tree or some similar data structure would be helpful. I don't really want to

Bug#237830: Merge 143532 237830?

2006-10-22 Thread era eriksson
I perceive #143532 and #237830 to be fundamentally about the same problem, although I'm not sure you agree. Do you think they could be merged? Do you think one or both is identical to Ubuntu https://launchpad.net/products/aptitude/+bug/56742? For the time being, I marked it as upstream #143532,

Bug#394988: thttpd-util: Please compile cgi-bin/* statically

2006-10-24 Thread era eriksson
Package: thttpd-util Version: 2.23beta1-4 X-Debbugs-Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The shipped cgi-bin utilities will no longer work after you made the chroot option the default. One either has to disable the chroot option (which is of course a bit of a security risk) or compile these binaries statically

Bug#394991: thttpd: libthttpd.c.rej failed patch included in diff.gz

2006-10-24 Thread era eriksson
Package: thttpd Version: 2.23beta1-4 X-Debbugs-Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Severity: minor thttpd_2.23beta1-4.diff.gz includes a diff for creating the file thttpd-2.23beta1/libhttpd.c.rej which is a failed patch. The equivalent code is present via the regular libhttpd.c patch in the same diff. Probably

Bug#394988: thttpd-util: Please compile cgi-bin/* statically

2006-10-24 Thread era eriksson
On Tue, 24 Oct 2006 11:33:42 +0300, era eriksson [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: The shipped cgi-bin utilities will no longer work after you made the chroot option the default. One either has to disable the chroot option (which is of course a bit of a security risk) or compile these binaries

Bug#389933: tailor: obsolete link to upstream repo in README.Debian

2006-09-28 Thread era eriksson
Package: tailor Version: 0.9.19-2 Tags: patch Severity: minor X-Debbugs-Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] As per http://www.darcs.net/DarcsWiki/Tailor, the current URL for the master repo is http://darcs.arstecnica.it/tailor /* era */ -- If this were a real .signature, it would suck less. Well, maybe

Bug#389937: tailor: manual page should point to README file

2006-09-28 Thread era eriksson
Package: tailor Version: 0.9.19-2 Tags: patch Severity: minor X-Debbugs-Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The manual page is apparently Debian's. It describes the program's options, but as the real meat is in the configuration file, that doesn't help too much. The README file contains extensive

Bug#184333: mguesser: upstream contact address changed

2006-11-26 Thread era eriksson
As per http://www.mnogosearch.org/guesser/ I believe [EMAIL PROTECTED] might be a working address for the upstream maintainer. The address is in cleartext on that page, so I'm not spamproofing it here ... Hope this helps, /* era */ -- If this were a real .signature, it would suck less. Well,

Bug#400462: mguesser: wishlist: specify directories for language files

2006-11-26 Thread era eriksson
Package: mguesser Version: 0.2-5 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch X-Debbugs-Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The -p option is somewhat hard to use without root access, since you need to add your generated language models to /usr/share/mguesser/ for them to be of any use. Attached please find a patch to

Bug#400212: (no subject)

2006-12-04 Thread era eriksson
Just a quick note: Amaya closed this bug, but Sven's changelog portion also has an entry which sounds like it was related to this bug, with closes: 40212 which is an unrelated old mysql- /* era */ -- If this were a real .signature, it would suck less. Well, maybe not. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Bug#219188: Downgrade bogus bug

2008-07-30 Thread era eriksson
retitle 219188 equivs: confusing message for syntax error in control file severity 219188 wishlist merge 219188 247974 thanks Because 247974 is IMHO essentially about the same issue, I'm taking the liberty of merging these two. I think it's a fair point that the error message is confusing, if

Bug#493861: Please remove the mguesser binary from the othar packages instead

2008-08-08 Thread era eriksson
The mnogosearch-* packages provide this binary: http://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=contentskeywords=mguessermode=exactfilenamesuite=unstablearch=any Craig, what about putting the binary into one binary debian package instead of three? I would much prefer if that one package were

Bug#494651: dlocate: add README about mlocate/slocate compatibility options

2008-08-11 Thread era eriksson
Package: dlocate Version: 0.96.1 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch X-Debbugs-Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Following the apparent deluge of bugs against dlocate asking for interoperability with slocate and/or dlocate (#101426, #453952, #454471, #456249, #489262), I would like to second the suggestion in

Bug#247974: fix bug description

2008-08-11 Thread era eriksson
retitle 247974 unintuitive error message for free-form text input thanks As shown below, the error message is even marginally less useful now, because the input file and line number are no longer indicated. Error handling aside, maybe the instructions in template.ctl could be even more explicit

Bug#251673: fix bug description

2008-08-11 Thread era eriksson
retitle 251673 parsechangelog fails if Maintainer: formatted wrong thanks The problem is IMHO real, but it's not necessarily equivs which should be fixed. Perhaps a better solution would be for dpkg-parsechangelog to issue a more candid error message about the nature of the error.

Bug#219188: fix bug description

2008-08-11 Thread era eriksson
retitle 219188 unintuitive handling of syntax error in Provides thanks The error message from the back end is now fairly explicit about the nature of the parsing problem, and the build fails; furthermore, the comments in template.ctl now mention that the dependency fields need to be

Bug#323648: Attaching equivs-build-multi script

2008-08-11 Thread era eriksson
different files. Both will contain the global values, and then one each of the package sections. Source: example-local-equivs Section: misc Priority: optional Standards-Version: 3.5.10 Changelog: changelog Version: 0.01 Architecture: all Maintainer: era eriksson [EMAIL PROTECTED

Bug#364620: Stopped being a FTBFS

2008-07-23 Thread era eriksson
tags 364620 +patch thanks I used to get FTBFS for this bug too, but it appears that it is indeed fixed in recent versions of Perl. Specifically, according to http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/software/podlators/changes.html, the --release= option is permitted to be empty starting with a version which

Bug#94986: Tuxtype 1.5.6.dfsg1 provides the requested functionality

2008-01-12 Thread era eriksson
fixed 94986 1.5.6.dfsg1 thanks From a brief look at the current version of Tuxtype in Ubuntu, which is directly based on Debian's version, the requested functionality is present. Word lists are editable (in some way; did not explore this much, but there is a menu entry for this) and in addition,

Bug#94986: Tuxtype 1.5.6.dfsg1 provides the requested functionality

2008-01-12 Thread era eriksson
On Sat, 12 Jan 2008 14:48:00 +0200, era eriksson [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Word lists are editable (in some way; did not explore this much, but there is a menu entry for this) Actually, this simply opens up a screen where it says this feature doesn't work. Argh! Now that's useful. /* era

Bug#451750: dlocate: Does not work with split-off locate package

2007-11-18 Thread era eriksson
On Sun, 18 Nov 2007 09:26:09 +0100, Andreas Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: It would be nice if this fix should be uploaded *before* locate is going to sid. Could somebody who is a Debian Developer please do a MIA check on Craig Sanders, still the owner of dlocate? He might simply be ignoring

Bug#451750: dlocate: Does not work with split-off locate package

2007-11-18 Thread era eriksson
On Sun, 18 Nov 2007 09:26:09 +0100, Andreas Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: following a brief discussion o debian-devel locate is going to be split off from the findutils package. [http://tinyurl.com/2s32v3] This has already happened in experimental and will soon be done in sid, too. A fix

Bug#451940: bugs.debian.org: uninformative bounce for mzil to archived bugs

2007-11-19 Thread era eriksson
Package: bugs.debian.org Severity: minor X-Debbugs-cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sun, 18 Nov 2007 17:47:07 -0500 (EST), the olde mailer daemon said: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: host bugs.debian.org[140.211.166.43] said: 550 unknown user (in reply to RCPT TO command) Turns out that this bug was archived,

Bug#294214: rootstrap: Configuration file handling undocumented / incomplete

2005-02-08 Thread era eriksson
Package: rootstrap Version: 0.3.21-1 Severity: minor I'm afraid this bug report contains multiple minor bug reports and enhancement requests. If you'd like me to split it up into a number of minor and wishlist bug reports, feel free to write back and I'll take care of it. I have been trying to

Bug#303346: gdm: Suppresses X logging with Too much output

2005-04-06 Thread era eriksson
Package: gdm Version: 2.6.0.4-1 Severity: grave Justification: Discards error output rather than logging as requested When an X session has been running for a while, I get the message ...Too much output, ignoring rest... and then all logging to my ~/.xsession-errors stops. I googled for this

Bug#295300: Un-localizing error message and subject

2005-04-06 Thread era eriksson
retitle 295300 gdm: gdm_slave_xioerror_handler|: Fatal X error - Restarting :0 thanks As per http://anoncvs.gnome.gr.jp/viewcvs.cgi/gdm2/po/fr.po?rev=1.62 the error message is a translation of Fatal X error - Restarting %s (where in this case apparently %s expands to :0). /* era */ -- If this

Bug#304743: bugs.debian.org: pts subscribers get all notices

2005-04-15 Thread era eriksson
Package: bugs.debian.org Severity: normal I can see how this could be considered a feature, at least occasionally, but since the boilerplate notices contain so little per-message information, it's usually mostly just annoying that as a subscriber to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I get the following three

Bug#305528: xscreensaver: Stop thermometer from sinking when you're typing

2005-04-20 Thread era eriksson
Package: xscreensaver Version: 4.16-1 Severity: wishlist Tags: upstream I'm sure you must have seen Matthew Thomas First 48 hours enduring Ubuntu and his suggestion to not make the password dialog expire in the middle of your typing (this is a posting in his blog; the URL is

Bug#305528: xscreensaver: Stop thermometer from sinking when you're typing

2005-04-20 Thread era eriksson
On Wed, 20 Apr 2005 18:09:05 +0300 (EEST), era eriksson [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Could the thermometer / fuel gauge start over from the top, and/or pause when you type or move the mouse? Sorry, I realize when reading what I posted that I wasn't very explicit about the context of this wish. Just

Bug#305528: xscreensaver: Stop thermometer from sinking when you're typing

2005-05-02 Thread era eriksson
On Sat, 30 Apr 2005 13:59:22 -0700, Jamie Zawinski [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: That's not a bad idea; I've made it add 10% to the time remaining every time you type a key. Thanks. I'm not convinced that's how it should work, though. How about make it stop sinking for 3 seconds? Or start over from

Bug#296461: UpgradeTwiki upgrade script not present/working : fix setlib.cfg

2005-02-23 Thread era eriksson
In http://bugs.debian.org/296461, you write: In order to upgrade from a previous twiki installation, the upstream script UpgradeTwiki is quite [useful]. If you are using a Debian package, you should not be updating things in place. dpkg will be rightfully upset if you change an installed

Bug#297468: equivs: provide a equics manpage

2005-02-28 Thread era eriksson
On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 22:57:40 +0100, Vincent Fourmond [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I would just like that you provide a equivs man page, stating the name and the basic usage of teh main executables of the package. As far as I can tell, this is already present. The main executables of the package

Bug#400462: Forwarded upstream

2007-08-25 Thread era eriksson
I'm hesitant to tag this as forwarded until I hear back from upstream, but my attempt to forward this bug is now at http://www.mnogosearch.org/bugs/bugs.php?id=1979 /* era */ -- If this were a real .signature, it would suck less. Well, maybe not. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Bug#447140: dlocate: dlocate -l prints header even if no result

2007-10-18 Thread era eriksson
Package: dlocate Version: 0.5-0.3 Severity: minor X-Debbugs-Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Compare: vnix$ dpkg -l nosuchpackagenosiree No packages found matching nosuchpackagenosiree. vnix$ dlocate -l nosuchpackagenosiree Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold |

Bug#447141: dlocate: need to quote regex specials in package names

2007-10-18 Thread era eriksson
Package: dlocate Version: 0.5-0.3 Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] If dlocate wants to be a drop-in replacement for dpkg, shouldn't this simple thing also work the same? vnix$ dpkg -l libsigc++-2.0-0c2a Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold |

Bug#448078: mell: short desctiption is unhelpful

2007-10-25 Thread era eriksson
Package: mell Version: 1.0.0-7 Severity: minor X-Debbugs-Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] emacs lisp library written by Hiroyuki Komatsu The last three words do not add any significant value unless you know the guy. I'm pretty well versed with Emacs if I may say so myself, and I have never heard of him

Bug#444982: Secure coding guidelines

2007-10-26 Thread era eriksson
On Fri, 26 Oct 2007 14:28:28 +0200, Nico Golde [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does the (testing) security team have a comprehensive page with security best and worst practices? To be able to point people at it, so one [doesn't] have to point at random wikipedia pages or google hits? No, but I

Bug#444982: (no subject)

2007-10-26 Thread era eriksson
On Sun, 21 Oct 2007 19:48:23 +1000, Sven Dowideit [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 777 is on the working/tmp dir only, which is not used for any web content. Also, as the twiki cgi scripts are callable from the command line by any user, requiring the working/tmp dir to be writable by any user, I

Bug#441997: Any tracker for upstream info-zip bug?

2007-09-28 Thread era eriksson
Did you receive any sort of response for the Info-Zip bug submission? The forwarded URL is just their submission form, and I was unable to bring up anything resembling a public mailing list or web-based bug tracker where the bug would be ending up. Perhaps you could at least ask them to Cc: this

Bug#393651: Reportedly fixed in newer upstream version

2007-10-05 Thread era eriksson
According to https://bugs.launchpad.net/debian/+source/subversion/+bug/113977 a workaround is to install the upstream psvn.el. Note also the comments to #441994. Perhaps it would be time to upgrade the version in Debian, too? /* era */ -- If this were a real .signature, it would suck less.

Bug#448524: thttpd: Init script does not properly search for PID

2007-10-30 Thread era eriksson
merge 448524 390112 thanks The /etc/init.d/thttpd init script incorrectly anchors the regex when searching for PIDs to terminate. I believe this was fixed in the 2.25b-2 upload a couple of months ago. /* era */ -- If this were a real .signature, it would suck less. Well, maybe not. --

Bug#448524: Processed: Re: Bug#448524: thttpd: Init script does not properly search for PID

2007-10-30 Thread era eriksson
On Tue, 30 Oct 2007 09:51:04 +, Debian Bug Tracking System [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: merge 448524 390112 Bug number 390112 not found. (Is it archived?) Oh cripes, what's the proper procedure for doing this then? /* era */ -- If this were a real

Bug#400233: Use pidof instead

2007-01-16 Thread era eriksson
Actually, there is a utility pidof which is included in sysv-init and which is already used by the patch for #396277 (security, NMU) so that should be preferred to these other approaches. /* era */ -- If this were a real .signature, it would suck less. Well, maybe not. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Bug#400233: Problem with the shipping script

2007-01-08 Thread era eriksson
On Sat, 16 Dec 2006 14:12:13 +0100, Jesus Climent [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: The only problem with the script that thttpd ships right now is a missing space between ^ and $PID: if ps ax | grep -q ^ $PID; then since ps ax puts a space in the begining. Actually, seems it pads the

Bug#407412: #407412: dlocate: '-s' option ignores virtual packages.

2007-02-26 Thread era eriksson
On Sun, 25 Feb 2007 02:26:20 -0500, A. Costa [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Sat, 24 Feb 2007 16:41:11 +0200 era eriksson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 0 vnix$ dlocate -s mail-transport-agent 1 Package: mail-transport-agent (virtual) 2 Providers: exim4-daemon-heavy, exim4-daemon-light, postfix

Bug#410938: Pach was against description!

2007-03-03 Thread era eriksson
reopen 410938 thanks It's very nice if similar bugs were fixed in the manual, but my patch was against the package's description (the text in debian/control). If you need a proper diff, I'll be happy to provide one. /* era */ -- If this were a real .signature, it would suck less. Well, maybe

Bug#267803: Documentation is in magic(5)

2007-03-20 Thread era eriksson
tags 267803 +patch thanks As indicated in the file(1) manual page, the format of the magic database is described in the magic(5) manual page. However, be warned that file(1) is not very good at handling various heuristics. You really do need something like a magic marker somewhere in the file

Bug#267803: Oops, small informal fix for patch

2007-03-20 Thread era eriksson
Actually, it seems that the snippet I created has a bug, but works anyway because of a bug in file itself. Still investigating, but the first + in the regular expression should be a * (allow the -*- mode -*- stuff to be at beginning of line, like it is e.g. in my /usr/share/info/dir on this

Bug#38542: file: This bug is fixed upstream in the next release; please close

2007-03-20 Thread era eriksson
I sent my report and patch upstream and it will be fixed in the next release. The Debian bug should be closed only when a fixed version is available in Debian. The ChangeLog for 4.20 doesn't mention any patch from you; do you know if it was included there? If not, do you know which next

Bug#362977: Cycling thru external screen a workaround?

2007-02-02 Thread era eriksson
I am typing this from a Libretto U105 running the Ubuntu Edgy i386 Live CD. I am only just familiarizing myself with this machine, but I already accidentally found that at least once, the Fn+F5 screen cycling key would seem to fix the problem. (Cycle through external and external+LCD and back to

Bug#382336: dh-make: a copyright file is not bsd with -c bsd and -n

2007-02-03 Thread era eriksson
I'll see if it makes sense to be able to specify copyright, I cannot see any rules that say Debian native packages need to be GPL. Indeed. any DFSG-license should be acceptable. But if you want to be conservative, and not go all the way, then at least a warning that the requested copyright is

Bug#409557: equivs: Please don't override Source: if present

2007-02-03 Thread era eriksson
Package: equivs Version: 2.0.6 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch As a small step towards #247974, please consider this patch. It at least allows one to supply a Source: different from Package: /* era */ -- If this were a real .signature, it would suck less. Well, maybe not. * equivs-build:

Bug#409557: Sorry, not 247974

2007-02-03 Thread era eriksson
The bug I was wanting to write about was #323648 -- sorry for the confusion. Gaah, it's too late for me to do things right. /* era */ -- If this were a real .signature, it would suck less. Well, maybe not. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe.

Bug#409557: equivs: Please don't override Source: if present

2007-02-10 Thread era eriksson
On Sat, 3 Feb 2007 21:29:00 -0600, Peter Samuelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: As a small step towards [#323648], please consider this patch. It at least allows one to supply a Source: different from Package: Why did you create a new bug rather than just attach this patch to the old one?

Bug#413415: ITA?

2007-03-06 Thread era eriksson
Do I understand correctly that you intend to adopt this package and do an upload to fix these problems? (Ref. recent activity on bug #245101) Good to finally see some activity here! (-: /* era */ -- If this were a real .signature, it would suck less. Well, maybe not. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Bug#415362: Security fix included in GNU file 4.20

2007-03-18 Thread era eriksson
Package: file Version: 4.19-1 Severity: grave Tags: security X-Debbugs-Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] According to the changelog included in the GNU file 4.20 tarball at ftp://ftp.gw.com/mirrors/pub/unix/file/, this version includes a security fix: 2007-02-08 17:30 Christos Zoulas [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#354959: tags ! +upstream?

2007-02-15 Thread era eriksson
This is upstream bug #160654, http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=160654 Should it be tagged as such? /* era */ -- If this were a real .signature, it would suck less. Well, maybe not. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Bug#412033: PTS: extremely noisy when new package closes many bugs

2007-02-22 Thread era eriksson
Package: qa.debian.org X-Debbugs-Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I am subscribed to some packages via the PTS. For example, I receive copies of all messages related to the twiki package. Now, recently, twiki has gone through a number of update cycles where a lot of bugs have been closed.

Bug#412033: PTS: extremely noisy when new package closes many bugs

2007-02-23 Thread era eriksson
On Fri, 23 Feb 2007 12:33:59 +0100, Raphael Hertzog [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Fri, 23 Feb 2007, Christoph Berg wrote: keyword you won't receive discussions concerning bug reports. I agree that the done mails from the BTS are quite boring as they only repeat the initial mail. That's

Bug#407412: #407412: dlocate: '-s' option ignores virtual packages.

2007-02-24 Thread era eriksson
On Tue, 20 Feb 2007 17:19:19 -0500, A. Costa [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: How about then just proceed to display the status of exim4-daemon-light instead? It depends if the 'dlocate' programmer (or patcher) likes long or short output. The longer version you suggested (with status switch) has

Bug#421739: thttpd: lintian warnings for manual pages

2007-05-01 Thread era eriksson
Package: thttpd Version: 2.23beta1-6 Severity: minor Tags: patch X-Debbugs-Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lintian produces the following warnings when building thttpd and thttpd-util: W: thttpd source: ancient-standards-version 3.5.6 (current is 3.7.2) W: thttpd-util: manpage-has-errors-from-man

Bug#421750: thttpd: cannot serve 301 redirects

2007-05-01 Thread era eriksson
Package: thttpd Version: 2.23beta1-6 Tags: patch X-Debbugs-Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The attached patch changes the precedence of the heuristic that a Location: header always produces a 302 HTTP status, and allows an explicit CGI Status: 301 to override it. This fixes the problem that it is

Bug#421752: thttpd: tilde expansion not clearly documented

2007-05-01 Thread era eriksson
Nov 1 15:07:28 EET 2006 era eriksson [EMAIL PROTECTED] * era's documentation patch to explain tilde expansion Adds a section to thttpd.8 explaining the compile-time options TILDE_MAP_x, for the benefit of users who don't have ready access to the helpful comments in config.h (i.e

Bug#421753: thttpd: symlink option missing from thttpd.conf

2007-05-01 Thread era eriksson
; although even my friends think I'm fairly unique in many intriguing respects, I would expect some others to benefit from having this explication available in thttpd.conf. /* era */ -- If this were a real .signature, it would suck less. Well, maybe not. Tue Oct 31 07:42:36 EET 2006 era

Bug#421757: thttpd-util: Revert V_STATICFLAG patch

2007-05-01 Thread era eriksson
Package: thttpd-util Version: 2.23beta1-6 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch X-Debbugs-CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The .diff.gz contains a spurious change which was probably intended to avoid compiling the CGI utilities statically. However, the utilities are not compiled statically by default in any

Bug#426166: Perhaps be more explicit about creating a separate file

2007-06-01 Thread era eriksson
I like this suggestion, but I had to read it three times to see that you actually mentioned putting these commands in a file. Perhaps this could be a little bit more explicit? For newbies, it might also be useful to say a word or two about how to create a useful name for the file (I personally

Bug#320102: jack: Erratic error messages for fuzzy freedb match

2005-07-27 Thread era eriksson
On Tue, 26 Jul 2005 23:30:44 +0100, Martin Michlmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Warning: calculated id (870a660a) and id from freedb file : ['870a680a'] : do not match, hopefully due to inexact match. Also, if these warnings are really useful in some context, I guess it would be

Bug#316482: Lowering priority and retitling -- not really actually broken?

2005-07-28 Thread era eriksson
severity 316482 normal retitle 316482 apt-file: jarring 404 warnings from back end should be hidden from view thanks As far as I can tell, the 404 is not actually an error from apt-file's perspective. It faithfully reports that the file is not available but it's not a fatal condition at all. To

Bug#320313: apt-file: a way to update without being root

2005-07-28 Thread era eriksson
Package: apt-file Version: 2.0.3-7 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch I can see how this might be tricky to fix, but it really sucks to have to be root to do `apt-file update' (or some cheesy workaround, such as adding a new system group with permission to write to the APT cache). At a minimum, I

Bug#320318: apt-file: obsolete pointers in README and man page

2005-07-28 Thread era eriksson
Package: apt-file Version: 2.0.3-7 Severity: minor The pointers to sjgross.org are stale and should probably be replaced or removed. /* era */ -- If this were a real .signature, it would suck less. Well, maybe not. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Bug#320322: apt-file: Errors in manual page

2005-07-28 Thread era eriksson
Package: apt-file Version: 2.0.3-7 Severity: minor Tags: patch The manual page contains some unintelligible passages. I have tried to fix the obvious errors, but there a few issues remain: * The use of literal for parameters. I'm not knowledgeable enough with DocBook to tell what element

Bug#233214: found, tags upstream patch, retitle 233214 perlcall(1) incorrectly refers to X windows

2005-08-23 Thread era eriksson
found 233214 5.8.7-4 tags 233214 upstream patch retitle 233214 perlcall(1) incorrectly refers to X windows thanks The simple patch would be to simply talk about X or X11 pro X windows, as the meaning of the abbreviated term should be obvious from the context. /* era */ -- If this were a real

Bug#179019: Fixed (sort of) in 5.4.7-4

2005-08-23 Thread era eriksson
notfound 179019 5.8.7-4 thanks On a Sarge system, I get this: perl /tmp/179019.pl Illegal declaration of anonymous subroutine at /tmp/179019.pl line 5. /* era */ -- If this were a real .signature, it would suck less. Well, maybe not. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Bug#324800: perl: backslash not working as expected in m(\() and m[\[]

2005-08-23 Thread era eriksson
Package: perl Version: 5.8.7-4 Tags: upstream When square or round brackets are used as regular expression delimiters, the expression apparently cannot contain a backslash-escaped literal opening delimiter bracket. I see nothing in the documentation to suggest that this is intentional or

Bug#322351: libtest-warn-perl: Language errors in messages

2005-08-10 Thread era eriksson
Package: libtest-warn-perl Version: 0.08-2 Severity: minor Tags: patch The messages printed by this package are not fully idiomatic English. Please find attached a patch for the current stable version. (The latest upstream version on CPAN is still 0.08, from 2003.) /* era */ -- If this were a

Bug#321375: cvs: cvs tag -B option not documented in manual page

2005-08-04 Thread era eriksson
Package: cvs Version: 1:1.12.9-14 The manual page does not document the -B option to cvs tag. This is something which broke some of my scripts when I upgraded from woody to sarge. I had to take the detour via Google to find out what was wrong.

Bug#292323: jack: Dislikes CD titles with exclamation marks?

2005-01-26 Thread era eriksson
Package: jack Version: 3.0.0-9 Severity: normal Tags: upstream I'm not overtly certain of this diagnostic, but I happened to have two Pretenders CD:s with exclamation marks in the title, and both of them failed with the following error message: bash$ jack -Q This is jack 3.0.0 (C) 2003 Arne

Bug#292612: jack: Cannot cope with empty title

2005-01-28 Thread era eriksson
Package: jack Version: 3.1.1-1 Severity: normal Tags: upstream I stumbled over a record which has what appears to be an anonymous track -- not sure if this is non-audio CD content or what. DISCID=700fe60a DTITLE=John Paul Jones / Zooma bash$ jack -q This is jack 3.1.1 (C)2004 Arne Zellentin

Bug#350994: erc: Recommends: emacs-chess

2006-02-02 Thread era eriksson
Package: erc Version: 5.0.4-2 X-Debbugs-Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] There are probably situations where you want to play chess over IRC, but I would imagine this is on the level of a Suggests: priority for most users of IRC. Certainly the use of erc for its primary intended purpose is in no way harmed

Bug#374753: tcpquota: Typo fixes and clarifications for package description

2006-06-21 Thread era eriksson
Package: tcpquota Version: 1.6.15-11 Severity: minor X-Debbugs-Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tags: patch Minimally, /^Description:/s/\.$// s/monitors and debit user/monitors and debits users/ s/depending on there/depending on their/ s/as a Internet gateway/as an Internet gateway/ s/debit each

Bug#372151: dlocate: please rename atomically

2006-08-17 Thread era eriksson
On Thu, 8 Jun 2006 10:45:14 -0400, Justin Pryzby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: +unlink($dbfile.old) if ( -e $dbfile.old ) ; +link($dbfile, $dbfile.old) if ( -e $dbfile ) ; Erm, shouldn't you take care to leave .old if no new $dbfile exists? +if (-e $dbfile) { + unlink($dbfile.old) if (-e

Bug#361196: Contents and formatting of die message

2006-08-24 Thread era eriksson
Shouldn't the last die say die can't open file $pkg.list; instead? Also, as a matter of style, it would be nice if the die messages contained the prefix $0: throughout, i.e. die $0: can't open file $pkg.list; and similarly for other dies, globally. /* era */ -- If this were a real

Bug#367632: libapt-pkg-dev: Please Suggests: or even Recommends: libapt-pkg-doc

2006-05-17 Thread era eriksson
Package: libapt-pkg-dev Version: 0.6.38 Severity: minor Finding out what packages to install when the starting point is looks like I need libapt-pkg but what is it and where is it is overtly cumbersome. There is no package named just libapt-pkg and the obvious hit in Google is this package; thus,

Bug#468806: mguesser: upstream mail address changed

2008-03-01 Thread era eriksson
Package: mguesser Version: 0.2-5.1 Severity: minor X-Debbugs-Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] As incidentally reported in #184333, the upstream contact address in debian/copyright etc is no longer current. You might want to update it. [EMAIL PROTECTED] still appears to work. (See further also

Bug#456292: dlocate: ionice in cronjob does not work in VServer

2008-03-02 Thread era eriksson
On Sun, 2 Mar 2008 09:51:39 +1100, Craig Sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: there's a few other things i want to fix in the next release (especially #42 - that's a serious bug rather than just an annoyance)i'll upload 0.95 when i've finished them. It occurred to me that it might be useful

Bug#466452: (no subject)

2008-03-06 Thread era eriksson
I'd just like to chime in here. vnix$ darcs pull --dry Enter passphrase for key '/h/c/ling/reriksso/.ssh/id_dsa': ^C Error in subprocess: Interrupt Error in subprocess: Interrupt withSignalsHandled: Interrupted! Exception thrown by an atexit registered action: exception ::

Bug#221790: perl: please kick out that annoying locale warning

2008-03-06 Thread era eriksson
perl: warning: Setting locale failed. perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: LANGUAGE = (unset), LC_ALL = (unset), LANG = [EMAIL PROTECTED] are supported and installed on your system. How about adding something like this to /etc/skel/.bash_profile

Bug#474730: www.debian.org: cannot link to DSA without knowing year

2008-04-07 Thread era eriksson
Package: www.debian.org Version: 20080407 Severity: minor There appears to be no way to link to a DSA page without knowing in which year the DSA was published. Could you please set up a rewrite rule such that http://security.debian.org/dsa/1234-1 links to the right place? This is valuable for

Bug#474730: www.debian.org: cannot link to DSA without knowing year

2008-04-07 Thread era eriksson
On Mon, 7 Apr 2008 15:45:01 +0200, Nico Golde [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Hi era, * era eriksson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-04-07 15:24]: There appears to be no way to link to a DSA page without knowing in which year the DSA was published. Could you please set up a rewrite rule such that http

Bug#218000: Retitle 218000: Missing dependency between perl and libperl

2008-03-06 Thread era eriksson
retitle 218000 Missing dependency between perl and libperl thanks Is this still topical? It looks to me like the dependencies would be correct now, but I don't know since when, and/or what things looked like when this bug was submitted. /* era */ -- If this were a real .signature, it would

Bug#469941: #469941 Swedish localisation has a typo

2008-03-08 Thread era eriksson
In http://bugs.debian.org/469941, Holger Levsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Puh, because I should have let the bugreporter, who speaks swedish, decide. What I've heard is, that alfabet == alphabet, alfabetet == *the* alphabet and I've decided to go for alfabet, as it's shorter and unspecific.

Bug#343099: #343099 Example code in Heap::Elem documentation is not valid perl5

2008-03-08 Thread era eriksson
In http://bugs.debian.org/343099, Anthony DeRobertis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: File: /usr/share/perl5/Heap/Elem.pm The documentation reads, in part: sub new { my $self = shift; my $class = ref($self) #9474;#9474; $self; my $self =

Bug#221790: perl: please kick out that annoying locale warning

2008-03-09 Thread era eriksson
On Sun, 9 Mar 2008 18:05:42 +1100, Brendan O'Dea [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 10:54:55PM +0200, era eriksson wrote: How about adding something like this to /etc/skel/.bash_profile instead of fixing a warning in Perl which is, per se, correct and warranted? case `perl

Bug#471373: mguesser: new upstream version 0.4

2008-03-18 Thread era eriksson
Package: mguesser Version: 0.2-5.1 X-Debbugs-Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] A new version of mguesser is available at http://www.mnogosearch.org/guesser/ Also perhaps you want to update the upstream maintainer's email address; I have been corresponding with him at bar at (the domain above sans www.);

Bug#400462: New version fixes 400462

2008-03-18 Thread era eriksson
On Mon, 17 Mar 2008 21:50:55 +0200, I submitted bug #471373: A new version of mguesser is available Incidentally, the new version contains the patch for #400462 in a slightly improved and overhauled form, so closes that bug as well. /* era */ -- If this were a real .signature, it would suck

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