Bug#501749: maximize letters to edge of keys

2008-10-09 Thread jidanni
Package: matchbox-keyboard Severity: wishlist Version: 0.1+svn20080916-1 Consider making the letters larger until they touch the edges of each key. Currently there is loads of wasted whitespace surrounding each letter. The letters are currently so small that I (born 1960) need to use a

Bug#499897: first add a basic Date: field

2008-10-09 Thread jidanni
All this is over my head, but I've always wished each package description would contain a Date: field so one could tell how stale it was. Likewise, the Release could just have a Date: field, and the software reading it could choose how many days it should be valid for with a default = 7 days or

Bug#501864: underlining of shortcut letters should consider decenders

2008-10-10 Thread jidanni
Package: transmission-gtk Version: 1.33-2 Please help me by reassigning this to the proper package. $ transmission -p Now type ALT v, which brings up the View menu. Observe the words Sort by Age, note the underline under the g is invisible, but indeed, ALT v g is indeed the keys for this item.

Bug#501867: merge with grub-pc's grub-mkrescue

2008-10-10 Thread jidanni
Package: grub-rescue-pc Version: 1.96+20080724-10 Severity: wishlist Perhaps grub-rescue-pc should be merged with grub-pc, just enhancing the documentation of the latter, as the functionality is duplicated: $ grub-mkrescue /dev/stdout 2-|wc -c - grub-rescue-cdrom.iso 870626 - 870400

Bug#501869: passwd(1) stops shadowing if /etc/passwd is edited manually

2008-10-10 Thread jidanni
Package: passwd Version: 1:4.1.1-5 File: /usr/bin/passwd Please document on the passwd(1) man page or better yet fix somehow: If a line in /etc/passwd has been changed by hand and not with passwd(1) or vipw(1), then from then on any users who change their passwords using passwd(1) will cause

Bug#501949: want full-upgrade and install in one command, like dselect-upgrade

2008-10-11 Thread jidanni
Package: aptitude Version: 0.4.11.10-1 Severity: wishlist Problem: one needs to remember to do two commands, # aptitude full-upgrade aptitude install to bring one's system to the desired state: all scheduled operations done and upgradeable packages upgraded. There should be a new single

Bug#381613: apt-get etc. all have lots of progress meters on by default

2008-10-11 Thread jidanni
apt-get etc. all have lots of progress meters on by default. So then should apt-file too. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#501954: use MediaWiki instead of MoinMoin

2008-10-11 Thread jidanni
Package: wiki.debian.org Severity: wishlist I hereby propose wiki.debian.org be moved from MoinMoin to the popular MediaWiki software. I expect this proposal to sit here for several years slowly gaining supporters (so please don't just stamp it wontfix, etc.) By that time there will be even more

Bug#502144: convert image to indexed colors page should stick around

2008-10-13 Thread jidanni
Package: gimp Version: 2.4.7-1 Severity: wishlist Tags: upstream (Sorry for always reporting downstream.) Regarding convert image to indexed colors, it is so frustrating to have to drag it back out of the menus (or ALT i m i) each time while experimenting with different settings, e.g., maximum

Bug#501954: use MediaWiki instead of MoinMoin

2008-10-13 Thread jidanni
OK, now I made http://wiki.debian.org/DebianWiki/Engine and http://wiki.debian.org/HelpMoveDebianWikiToMediaWiki also link back to this bug so users can better find this proposal in the BTS rather than opening a new wishlist. The pros and cons are already mentioned on those web pages. Just let

Bug#502154: add option to save ID3 tags

2008-10-13 Thread jidanni
Package: quelcom Version: 0.4.0-12 Severity: wishlist File: /usr/bin/quelcom X-Debbugs-cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Perhaps add an option to preserve the ID3 tags. E.g., one wishes to snip one second off the beginning of a song, but why then must qmp3cut throw away the ID3 tags? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Bug#502153: copy tags from another file

2008-10-13 Thread jidanni
Package: eyed3 Version: 0.6.16 Severity: wishlist Perhaps add an option to copy all tags in from another file, with any extra tags found on the command line overriding those in the copy. You see often one uses $ some_crap_converter_program old.mp3 new.mp3 which strips off the tags too, darn it.

Bug#501954: use MediaWiki instead of MoinMoin

2008-10-14 Thread jidanni
If MediaWiki is to be crossed off the longterm wishlist, so be it. You all have a clearer view of each wiki's momentum than I. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#502144: convert image to indexed colors page should stick around

2008-10-14 Thread jidanni
OK, grep -i tear-off /usr/share/gimp/2.0/help/en/* finds it. Gee, something I would never have encountered left clicking through life. However still a little problem: m after running the conversion, a second picking it out of the menus m (or ALT i m i) just does nothing! It should become

Bug#502252: try harder, even for reserved domains

2008-10-14 Thread jidanni
Package: whois Version: 4.7.28 Severity: wishlist File: /usr/bin/whois $ whois 251.217.64.151 No whois server is known for this kind of object. However http://whois.domaintools.com/251.217.64.151 gets it right, reserved block or not, even providing telephone numbers. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Bug#502144: convert image to indexed colors page should stick around

2008-10-14 Thread jidanni
AP == Ari Pollak [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: AP [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It should become unselectable (greyed in the menus), and/or the message already converted should somehow be conveyed to the user. AP Do you not have a radio button next to RGB indicating that it's already AP selected? Ah,

Bug#502340: pty: device name may not be given, but needed anyway

2008-10-15 Thread jidanni
Package: ppp Version: 2.4.4rel-10 Severity: minor X-debbugs-cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Odd, I need to add the eth1 again at the very end of this, else I get pppd: pty option precludes specifying device name even though the pppd man page says pty script ... An explicit device name may not be

Bug#502496: warn of permissions damage extracting just to /tmp

2008-10-16 Thread jidanni
Package: dpkg Version: 1.14.22 Severity: wishlist File: /usr/share/man/man1/dpkg-deb.1.gz At -x, --extract archive directory Extracts the filesystem tree from a package archive into the specified directory. Note that extracting a package to the root directory

Bug#451331: always run bootloader no matter what

2008-08-25 Thread jidanni
version 451331 2.6.26-3 retitle 451331 please always run bootloader, no matter what thanks I have an idea: always run the bootloader, no matter what, on any even most tiniest dpkg adjustment of the kernel stuff. (With an override for experts behind several child safety locks.) I don't know what

Bug#496316: no list checked

2008-08-25 Thread jidanni
Also it is not clear what will happen if one checkmarks no list. Say something like Search lists: (default: all, or:). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#451331: I am a loser

2008-08-25 Thread jidanni
All I am saying is that upon upgrade from 2.6.26-2 to 2.6.26-3, lilo, etc. is not run. The user must run it himself else no booting next time. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#451331: (no subject)

2008-08-26 Thread jidanni
second this is a user fault to comment, don't do that if you have zero idea what you do. I was commenting out my own workaround to the bug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#496717: extract-cache-subset documentation advice, and makes empty files

2008-08-26 Thread jidanni
Package: aptitude Version: 0.4.11.9-1 Severity: minor Man page says: extract-cache-subset Extract a subset of the package cache to the specified directory. If no packages are listed, the entire package cache is copied; This sounds like you are talking about

Bug#496719: raw HTML numeric character references in README

2008-08-26 Thread jidanni
Package: aptitude Version: 0.4.11.9-1 Severity: minor There are raw HTML numeric character references in README. Please either turn them into ASCII, $ fgrep '#' /usr/share/aptitude/README|head -n 4|ascii2uni -qa D|uni2ascii -qB At any time, you can use Undo - Undo (Control+u) to ``undo''

Bug#471347: aptitude-create-state-bundle documentation and tar

2008-08-26 Thread jidanni
the entries .//: $ tar tf file .//home/jidanni/.aptitude/ .//home/jidanni/.aptitude/config .//var/lib/aptitude/ ... weird weird weird. Also, SYNOPSIS aptitude-run-state-bundle [options...] input-file [program-arguments...] DESCRIPTION aptitude-run-state-bundle unpacks the given aptitude

Bug#497085: allow making no timeout

2008-08-29 Thread jidanni
Package: grub-pc Version: 1.96+20080724-8 Severity: wishlist File: /etc/default/grub Tags: patch The following patches enable the user to avoid creating any timeout line in grub.cfg, without her/him needing to edit more than /etc/default/grub. *** /etc/grub.d/00_header 2008-08-18

Bug#497085: allow making no timeout

2008-08-29 Thread jidanni
FZ please send patches upstream to [EMAIL PROTECTED] as I already told you. I thought I was changing a the Debian part, not the upstream part. FZ If people want to have a timeout of 0 then they just can set it FZ at /etc/default/grub But no timeout is different that a timeout of 0, isn't it? Does

Bug#497100: funny [sy|mb|ol]s not documented

2008-08-29 Thread jidanni
Package: bugs.debian.org Severity: wishlist One cannot find any links on the page or elsewhere that explain what the funny [ symbols ] mean here: $ w3m -dump http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=grub-pc\;[EMAIL PROTECTED]|fgrep \| #496706 [m| | ] [grub-pc] man pages' NAME

Bug#497100: document symbols as some browsers and printers can't see their meaning

2008-08-29 Thread jidanni
I see, they are some kind of mouseover, not usable in all browsers. But there should be a complete list available somewhere. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#452704: no APT::Get::Print-URIs

2008-08-29 Thread jidanni
There is no APT::Get::Print-URIs for aptitude. What works for apt-get will end up actually installing packages in aptitude. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#458351: aptitude: Strange message There are 0 new [-1].

2008-08-29 Thread jidanni
Current status: 3 updates [-35]. Yes I see lots of these. Nobody can figure out what they mean. Idea: say what they mean, and have an option available to be terse. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#486454: aptitude --purge

2008-08-29 Thread jidanni
EVL == Eugene V Lyubimkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: EVL [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I find no way in aptitude to # aptitude install telnet-ssl Reading package lists... Done - Get rid of these messages, and The following NEW packages will be installed: telnet-ssl The following packages will

Bug#173277: (no subject)

2008-08-29 Thread jidanni
Maybe it should say Continue [in simulation mode]?... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#141719: aptitude: non-interactive mode shouldn't display status messages [part 2]

2008-08-29 Thread jidanni
found 141719 0.4.11.9-1 forcemerge 470296 141719 thanks And there's no -o option to turn them off, and -q doesn't help either. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#340444: aptitude midclean

2008-08-29 Thread jidanni
Yes, want a midclean Like autoclean, but does not remove .debs of installed packages. Or Like autoclean, but also does not remove .debs of packages unless they are also purged. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe.

Bug#300759: (no subject)

2008-08-29 Thread jidanni
Indeed, it would be best to dump the fun and games and get working on these piles of real bugs! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#446085: -Z documentation

2008-08-29 Thread jidanni
Also -Z should be better documented, -Z Show how much MORE OR LESS disk space will be used or freed by the individual packages being installed, upgraded, or removed. and functionality could be added to give the whole size of the .deb. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#300759: (no subject)

2008-08-29 Thread jidanni
Also remove Super cow insider jokes from --help. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#497299: search should return exit status 1 if no matches, like grep(1)

2008-08-31 Thread jidanni
Package: aptitude Version: 0.4.11.9-1 Severity: wishlist The search command should return exit status 1 if no matches, like grep(1), that way it would be easier to use in programs. And return 2 on other errors. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe.

Bug#364176: wish8.4 sends extra CR's to terminal

2008-08-31 Thread jidanni
SG But why do you think that it's a bug? Is there a requirement SG not to send extra CR to a terminal? Or does it hurt somehow? Simple, there are two conventions for end of line: LF as in UNIX, and CRLF, as in MS-DOS. CRCRLF means they are not aware of what they are sending, and how it will be

Bug#364176: wish8.4 sends extra CR's to terminal

2008-08-31 Thread jidanni
SG This convention is only for files, isn't it? For terminals it's always SG safer to put CR LF if you want to make sure that you'll start from the SG beginning of the next line. Have you ever seen a 'stairs' after SG crashing a curses application (which sets terminal into a mode where SG single

Bug#364176: wish8.4 sends extra CR's to terminal

2008-08-31 Thread jidanni
My way is harmless to you, your way is harmful to me. OK, how about the Subject: Re: [SPAM] - Re: wish8.4 sends extra CR's to terminal - Bayesian Filter detected spam header you send. I suppose you don't see the extra parts either in your environment. But some people do. So I still think the

Bug#364176: [SPAM] - Re: wish8.4 sends extra CR's to terminal - Bayesian Filter detected spam

2008-08-31 Thread jidanni
SG So, if you're still think that it's a bug, I could forward it to SG upstream and ask their opinion. Yes, please do. I bet they aren't even aware of it. Thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#364176: [Pkg-tcltk-devel] Bug#364176: [SPAM] - Re: wish8.4 sends extra CR's to terminal - Bayesian Filter detected spam

2008-08-31 Thread jidanni
OK, I made a note on http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detailaid=1657421group_id=10894atid=110894 to see our discussion here. SG If you know why the translation should be All I know is no other program drives around town without a muffler and the stereo so loud they are unaware :-) As

Bug#497330: support purging packages that are already being removed

2008-08-31 Thread jidanni
Package: aptitude Version: 0.4.11.9-1 Severity: wishlist In http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2008/08/msg02342.html DB == Daniel Burrows [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: DB On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 07:53:56AM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: I find no way in aptitude to # aptitude

Bug#340444: one more *clean variation

2008-08-31 Thread jidanni
While you are at (one day implementing) it, you might as well add another variation: holmesboyclean(pick better name please) Only leaves .debs of installed (better yet, non-purged) packages, no matter if still available or not. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Bug#497340: ?bind example doesn't mention ?bind

2008-08-31 Thread jidanni
Package: aptitude-doc-en Version: 0.4.11.9-1 Severity: wishlist File: /usr/share/doc/aptitude/html/en/ch02s03s05.html In the file Search Term Reference, we see Example 2.2. Use of the ?bind term ?for x: ?depends(?depends(?for z: ?x:depends(?=z))) See the section called “Explicit

Bug#497365: libc6 man pages don't mention real bug reporting procedure

2008-09-01 Thread jidanni
Package: manpages-dev Version: 3.07-1 Severity: wishlist File: /usr/share/man/man3/getopt.3.gz Just looking at pages like the above, which I suppose is libc6 related, it is very hard to find out where to report bugs to. Yes, http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ is mentioned, but that is for

Bug#497330: support purging packages that are already being removed

2008-09-01 Thread jidanni
DB However, getopt_long has a feature that treats an abbreviation for DB an option as the option itself if it is unambiguous. What you're seeing DB is probably that --purge is handled as --purge-unused. I actually wasn't DB aware of this, but it should probably be documented in the manpage.

Bug#497333: more Customizing how packages are displayed advice

2008-09-01 Thread jidanni
Also there on the Customizing how packages are displayed HTML page: Mention truncation of fields explicitly. Filesize units in megabytes? Clarify. Say how to print a tree from the command line also, in addition to the GUI. Give an example of how to see all the flags at once. E.g., I want to

Bug#497374: Search Term Reference suggestions

2008-09-01 Thread jidanni
Package: aptitude-doc-en Version: 0.4.11.9-1 Severity: wishlist File: /usr/share/doc/aptitude/html/en/ch02s03s05.html name Matches packages whose names match the regular expression name. This is the “default” search mode and is used for patterns that don't start with ~.

Bug#497374: Search Term Reference suggestions

2008-09-03 Thread jidanni
$ COLUMNS= man aptitude|grep 'even .* is set'|perl -pwe 's/.*(.{33})/$1/' Resolver::No-New-Upgrades is set. Resolver::No-New-Installs is set. Say is set to what, true or false. As you know with the shell, unset, set to null, set to something, are all different. DB In fact, *set* is

Bug#497365: libc6 man pages don't mention real bug reporting procedure

2008-09-03 Thread jidanni
MK Reporting code problems is more difficult. Yes, if it's a system MK call bug raise a bug at the kernel.org bugzilla, and if it's a glibc MK bug, then raise a bug at sourceware.org. So perhaps on pages of section 2 of the manual, paste the system call address as where to report _code_ problem,

Bug#497712: enable rearranging the icons at the bottom of the screen

2008-09-03 Thread jidanni
Package: icewm Version: 1.2.35-1 Severity: wishlist I wish there was a way to move the blocks around at the bottom of the screen. For instance, e.g., today they are in the order of: xterm, emacs, firefox, but I am used to having firefox on the left. Apparently one has to close each window, and

Bug#395121: no emacs mode

2008-09-03 Thread jidanni
forcemerge 395121 252498 retitle 395121 document disabling of history, emacs, vi, or enable found 395121 0.5.4-12 thanks You have disabled the history and emacs and vi modes. This deserves a giant box on the man page explaining why they are not working as documented. Also say so in

Bug#497978: install built-in Help

2008-10-01 Thread jidanni
L It occured to me that I asked if you have gconfd-2 installed, but not if L it's actually running... can you run do a quick test, if you didn't already? L $ ps ax | grep gconfd L should return something. Nope, just $ ps ax | grep gconfd 18776 pts/2S+ 0:00 grep gconfd And I don't see any

Bug#497978: install built-in Help

2008-10-01 Thread jidanni
L Nope, it should start with the user session. That's a very likely L culprit for the whole problem. I should have thought of that question L before. OK, but please note how I run transmission, above in http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=497978#15 L So I should probably file an

Bug#501170: mention easiest method to copy partition table

2008-10-04 Thread jidanni
X-debbugs-cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Package: doc-linux-html Version: 2008.08-1 Severity: wishlist File: /usr/share/doc/HOWTO/en-html/Hard-Disk-Upgrade/partition.html Mention that this also can be as easy as # sfdisk -d /dev/hda|sfdisk /dev/hdb assuming one was happy with the /dev/hda table. -- To

Bug#501336: Will now activate swapfile swap...done, but there never was one

2008-10-06 Thread jidanni
Package: initscripts Version: 2.86.ds1-61 Severity: wishlist File: /etc/init.d/mountall.sh At log_daemon_msg Will now activate swapfile swap: One could have never established a swap area on a partition and in fstab and the messages will look totally the same as if one did, straight thru to the

Bug#501336: Will now activate swapfile swap...done, but there never was one

2008-10-06 Thread jidanni
SJ Yes. So what? Well, please don't say ...Done if indeed the action was not done. There should be a failure message. Or say will now activate swap ... if there are any. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#498783: bts: mention more DEBFULLNAME details

2008-10-06 Thread jidanni
ADB $ [EMAIL PROTECTED] DEBFULLNAME=Nurdson bts -n ret 12345 a ADB From: Nurdson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hmmm, that's what I see too here today, so OK never mind that part. Anyway, I now removed my name from /etc/passwd altogether to guarantee my spartan From: as above, no matter if I'm using bts or

Bug#294297: say what filesystems can and can't be used

2008-10-08 Thread jidanni
And the man page should mention what filesystems are valid. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#412005: support stdin

2008-10-08 Thread jidanni
If only zum could support stdin, then one wouldn't need 100 times more disk to go from state one to state three: $ ls -ogs file.gz 496 -r--r--r-- 1 497804 2008-10-09 00:36 file.gz $ gunzip file.gz $ ls -ogs file.gz 500131 -r--r--r-- 1 510132224 2008-10-07 13:18 file $ zum file file [1000160K] [1

Bug#501595: aptproxy user is left in /etc/passwd upon purge

2008-10-08 Thread jidanni
Package: apt-proxy Severity: wishlist I see and aptproxy user is left in /etc/passwd upon purge. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#501732: debtags not shown

2008-10-09 Thread jidanni
Package: aptitude Version: 0.4.11.10-1 Severity: wishlist Hi. I was reading 406201, 397652... kind of deep. All I know is $ apt-cache show aptitude #shows the debtags, #(Tag: admin::configuring, admin::pack ), but $ aptitude shows aptitude #still doesn't. (I don't have debtags installed.)

Bug#492337: document if filenames can use globs

2008-07-25 Thread jidanni
Package: smartmontools Version: 5.38-2 Severity: wishlist File: /etc/smartd.conf # This is an example smartd startup config file # /etc/smartd.conf... # behind two 3ware controllers, two disks on a cciss #

Bug#492340: don't comment smartd.conf

2008-07-25 Thread jidanni
Package: smartmontools Version: 5.38-2 Severity: wishlist File: /etc/smartd.conf I have an idea. Instead of adding or adjusting the commented out examples in /etc/smartd.conf, which causes the user to have to deal with: Configuration file `/etc/smartd.conf' == Modified (by you or by a script)

Bug#492340: don't comment smartd.conf

2008-07-25 Thread jidanni
GG I agree here. A smartd.conf like: Or better, just: #For documentation see man smartd.conf DEVICESCAN -m root -M exec /usr/share/smartmontools/smartd-runner and the man page would say where the examples file is, etc. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Bug#492573: pdftotext makes 1 byte file

2008-07-27 Thread jidanni
Package: poppler-utils Version: 0.8.4-1.1 File: /usr/bin/pdftotext Why does this make a one byte file? $ pdftotext n.pdf n.txt $ ls -l n.txt -rw-r--r-- 1 jidanni jidanni 1 2008-07-27 14:22 n.txt $ od -c n.txt 000 \f 001 Could it be the nos? $ pdffonts n.pdf name

Bug#485465: sometimes brightness OK (lowest) at boot

2008-07-27 Thread jidanni
Maybe a burglar alarm can be attached to the brightness, so that whenever it is tampered with, a syslog entry will be made, so we can tell what programs try to meddle with the brightness setting. H If you are confortable recompiling the kernel, I can send you a patch with H that burgar alarm.

Bug#492572: Font_Comparison should use contrasting pairs

2008-07-27 Thread jidanni
Package: ttf-arphic-uming Version: 0.2.20080216.1-1 Severity: wishlist File: /usr/share/doc/ttf-arphic-uming/Font_Comparison_ShanHeiSun_UMing.pdf.gz The two sides look the same to me. Maybe you should pick pairs of characters that look different, that way the reader won't get lost in the sea of

Bug#493089: You can continue a line onto the next line by ending it with a ''.

2008-07-31 Thread jidanni
Package: anacron Version: 2.3-13.1 Severity: minor File: /usr/share/man/man5/anacrontab.5.gz You can continue a line onto the next line by ending it with a ''. And what character might that be? Ah, the source shows You can continue a line onto the next line by ending it with a '\'. I

Bug#493102: differentiate animated GIFs

2008-07-31 Thread jidanni
Package: file Version: 4.25-1 Severity: wishlist file gives the same output for animated GIFs vs. regular GIFs. There should be some clue in the output to distinguish them. Compare identify(1). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Bug#493103: animated GIF total given on each frame

2008-07-31 Thread jidanni
Package: imagemagick Version: 7:6.3.7.9.dfsg1-2+b2 Severity: wishlist File: /usr/bin/identify $ identify f.gif f.gif[0] GIF 180x240 180x240+0+0 PseudoClass 256c 8-bit 59.2402kb f.gif[1] GIF 37x21 180x240+77+61 PseudoClass 256c 8-bit 59.2402kb f.gif[2] GIF 97x41 180x240+74+58 PseudoClass 256c

Bug#493636: document no second-layer macro facility

2008-08-03 Thread jidanni
Package: cron Version: 3.0pl1-104 Severity: minor File: /usr/share/man/man5/crontab.5.gz The value string is not parsed for environmental substitutions, ^^^ Say instead: ANY $ substitutions, thus lines like

Bug#491457: can't shake bash_completion

2008-08-05 Thread jidanni
I ended up manually removing bash_completion and reinstalling both bash and bash_completion so can't test this now. I can. $ grep /etc/bash_completion /var/lib/dpkg/info/bash.conffiles /var/lib/dpkg/info/bash.list /var/lib/dpkg/info/bash.list:/etc/bash_completion I then tried to remove both

Bug#493711: me too

2008-08-05 Thread jidanni
I got the same error, but then later dpkg -L unifont showed it was cleared. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#485465: reboot(8) messes with Thinkpad brightness

2008-08-07 Thread jidanni
Dear HMH, I have continued my observations. It seems the only time I have to still hit Fn End to bring the brightness back down is after a reboot: using reboot(8) brings one to a super bright Lilo screen. And 'shutdown -h now' also will give a bright Lilo screen upon next power up. (It is what I

Bug#493711: how bug is cleared

2008-08-07 Thread jidanni
Here is the exact sequence of how this bug resolves itself. All ends up OK, but the user should not need to encounter the jarring error message. This might be a apt, or dpkg issue, but I did not look into it. Selecting previously deselected package ttf-unifont. Unpacking ttf-unifont (from

Bug#485465: reboot(8) messes with Thinkpad brightness

2008-08-07 Thread jidanni
If the previous command was reboot(8), then at the Lilo prompt, one needs the full seven Fn Ends to restore minimal brightness. If the previous command was shutdown -h now, then at the Lilo prompt after next powerup, one needs only three or four Fn Ends to restore minimal brightness. H I hope to

Bug#494250: doc paths documented wrong on man page

2008-08-07 Thread jidanni
Package: netcat-traditional Version: 1.10-38 Severity: minor File: /usr/share/man/man1/nc_traditional.1.gz These paths have changed: EXAMPLES For several netcat recipes, please see /usr/share/doc/netcat/README.gz and /usr/share/doc/net- cat/README.Debian.gz. $ dlocate

Bug#494251: mention if netcat uses proxies

2008-08-07 Thread jidanni
Package: netcat-traditional Version: 1.10-38 Severity: wishlist Please document the relationship of netcat to the http_proxy environment variable, or if there is no relationship. P.S., please also update this path too: $ grep /doc/netcat/ /usr/share/doc/netcat-traditional/README.Debian Many

Bug#399546: readonly doesn't help

2008-08-07 Thread jidanni
Maybe just detect locking is not possible and don't try it. Or maybe detect you need a different kind of locking. Or say locking is not possible, using readonly mode. But even with -R we get the same delay and message! Anyway, the point is make there a way for users to read a mailbox with no

Bug#494563: underscores in URLs make u in href

2008-08-10 Thread jidanni
Package: txt2html Version: 2.51-1 You are putting u into the href! This has not been fixed at all. $ set http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/07/24/zimbabwes-money-worth-mor_n_114838.html $ echo $@|txt2html|validate *** Errors: *** -:9:168:E: element u undefined $ echo $@|txt2html|grep zim pa

Bug#493711: Debian unifont Bug #493711

2008-08-10 Thread jidanni
Yes, in the thread http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.devel.general/130808 talks about the problem. OK, thanks. Paul Hardy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Thank you both for your diagnostic information on this bug record. Thank you also for your interest in this package, which I'm now

Bug#494613: ValueError: invalid literal for int() with base 10: '1px'

2008-08-10 Thread jidanni
Package: plucker Version: 1.8-27 File: /usr/share/pyshared/PyPlucker/TextParser.py Error: Unknown error parsing document http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hidden_track: Traceback (most recent call last): File /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/PyPlucker/Parser.py, line 28, in generic_parser

Bug#413761: iceweasel: jitterning isolated

2008-08-10 Thread jidanni
reopen 413761 found 413761 3.0.1-1 thanks ED Unreproducible and no followup. Closing, please reopen if you're ED seeing it still with new versions. Yes, with mouse not over it, it is split onto two lines. With the mouse over it, it becomes one line. The problem is there are places on the link

Bug#494634: Say what file is the index

2008-08-10 Thread jidanni
Package: rsyslog-doc Version: 3.18.1-1 Severity: wishlist File: /usr/share/doc/rsyslog-doc/html Add a README to this directory or .. saying which file to browse first. One cannot find a index.html. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Bug#491672: must rotate in .0s upon installation

2008-08-10 Thread jidanni
You are really blowing it by leaving those .0 files around or expecting users will look in some README. E.g., today I did grep bla syslog. Not there? Must be in syslog.0, not there either. So I told my assistant the bla problem didn't occur this morning, hooray! when all along it was lurking in

Bug#393184: cdrom iocharset vs. Iceweasel

2008-08-13 Thread jidanni
found 393184 3.0.1-1 thanks I have isolated the problem with an exact test! CPIO attached. big5filenames.cpio Description: CPIO file $ locale #please adjust yours to this LANG=zh_TW.UTF-8 LC_CTYPE=zh_TW.UTF-8 LC_NUMERIC=zh_TW.UTF-8 LC_TIME=zh_TW.UTF-8 LC_COLLATE=C LC_MONETARY=zh_TW.UTF-8

Bug#491552: implement/allow/document making flyspell use wamerican-huge

2008-08-13 Thread jidanni
OK, thank you but I have now chosen the much more appropriate plan for my intelligence level: If a word turns red in emacs, that is to protect me from common misspelling, and I can use look(1) to double check if it bothers me. Thanks anyway for recording the more complex method in this bug for

Bug#485465: retaining brightness state through power offs on Thinkpad r50e

2008-08-19 Thread jidanni
My (mostly useless inconclusive) observations on retaining brightness state through power offs, with the poweroff(8) command with 2.6.26-1-686 stock kernel: Poweroff used in the dimmest state retains the dimmest state as seen at the next lilo prompt. However sometimes not. Sometimes one needs

Bug#495699: no savings if all packages are downloaded anyway

2008-08-19 Thread jidanni
Package: libhtml-wikiconverter-mediawiki-perl Severity: wishlist I don't understand why this doesn't just download one or two or three packages? Why should the dependencies bring in all those unrelated parts? What would then be the point of making them separate packages in the first place? #

Bug#495679: sorry for poor memory

2008-08-20 Thread jidanni
OK, just reporting what always happens at this end. Sorry for the poor memory. I should have checked closed bugs. Yes i386. Need dselect-upgrade for other items so becomes a manual upgrade/install operation. OK, bye. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe.

Bug#495679: transmission vs. apt

2008-08-21 Thread jidanni
Actually the condition persists for several days at a time. (still as we speak). What that means to the end user is that he cannot use apt-get dist-upgrade, not apt-get dselect-upgrade, but instead must use a combination of apt-get upgrade and apt-get install of other packages, for most of the

Bug#495989: csv-align-fields vs. multibyte chars

2008-08-21 Thread jidanni
Package: emacs-goodies-el Version: 29.3-2 File: /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/emacs-goodies-el/csv-mode.el csv-align-fields has problems with multibyte characters. Save this in a file.csv and do C-c C-a. 點名,點號,行政區,海拔高,TWD67橫座標,TWD67縱 東勢下股,N355,基隆市七堵區,230.39,319685.63

Bug#495995: man pages too narrow

2008-08-21 Thread jidanni
Package: proj Version: 4.6.0-1 Severity: minor File: /usr/share/man/man1/cs2cs.1.gz Please remove the .nr LL 5.5i from this and other files. It causes the man page to be display very narrowly. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Bug#496127: slash ignored

2008-08-22 Thread jidanni
Package: apt-file Version: 2.1.4 Severity: minor Why was my slash ignored? The man page gives no clue. $ apt-file search /fat.|fgrep -v /fat.|wc -l 26 Ah, but -v does: D: Search in ... using zfgrep fat\. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Bug#496128: auto-fill-inhibit-list vs. w3m

2008-08-22 Thread jidanni
Package: emacs-goodies-el Version: 29.3-2 Severity: wishlist File: /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/emacs-goodies-el/auto-fill-inhibit.el Sorry to inform you that (setq auto-fill-inhibit-list '(form textarea)) didn't work. Oh yes, it does for buffers created by (switch-to-buffer), but not the native

Bug#495679: newer sub package zaps main package instead of waiting

2008-08-22 Thread jidanni
Say, often a developer upgrades a group of related packages, but they don't hit the mirrors at the same time. This causes apt-get dselect-upgrade and dist-upgrade to remove the older parts instead of holding back for the newer parts. One must use apt-get upgrade for the many days the condition

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