Bug#1057121: dpkg: warning: unable to delete old directory '/lib/firmware/...

2023-11-30 Thread Dan Jacobson
Best would be a message on the screen too, during apt-get, saying "Don't worry about the unable to delete old directory messages, Pretend you didn't see them." or something.

Bug#1030189: Let regular users know need to put non-free-firmware in sources.list

2023-02-02 Thread Dan Jacobson
> "DK" == David Kalnischkies writes: DK> The message is rather cryptic, but its intent is to catch unaware DK> sid/testing users and those stable users who don't read release notes, I am the perfect user to test it on. I am the one who just has used sid for the last 20 years and all I do

Bug#177523: Bug#394937 closed by Russ Allbery [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Re: Bug#394937: warn about trailing whitespace)

2006-10-29 Thread Dan Jacobson
m realm of picky little notices that cause people to stop using lint Indeed, like the vrms package. Monthly picky notices. OK. P.S., I guess I will let spam have its way closing 177523 too. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Bug#177523: trailing whitespace

2006-10-23 Thread Dan Jacobson
So I was hoping there was a central place to mention it. J If you want this to get fixed, you need to make a specific suggestion. I recommend somewhere in the policy docs it say Often wasted trailing whitespace is not noticed. Check with grep ' $' --please adjust to catch TABs too! or

Bug#177523: reopen

2006-10-20 Thread Dan Jacobson
J This should really be a bug against individual packages; it doesn't make sense J to include it in policy (its obviously not ideal to include trailing J whitespace), or devref (people writing syslog code won't think to look there, J and it clutters the Debian practices content), or aging in the

Bug#177523: closed by Bridges, Erik [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Erik says Hi)

2006-10-20 Thread Dan Jacobson
reopen 177523 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Debian runlevels not documented enough

2005-09-06 Thread Dan Jacobson
In Bug#325234 I pointed out that Debian runlevels are probably not documented enough. They told me to mention it on debian-doc. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#245712: ddd: Info page not in main Info directory

2004-04-24 Thread Dan Jacobson
Package: ddd Version: 1:3.3.8-1 Severity: normal One can do $ info ddd but not $ info m ddd RET or even / ddd RET Maybe your script lacks something: $ grep install-info /var/lib/dpkg/info/ddd.*ins* $ grep install-info /var/lib/dpkg/info/bogosort.*ins* install-info --quiet --section Miscellaneous