[Touch-packages] [Bug 1626775] Re: add-apt-repository incorrect error msg for ipv6

2017-02-01 Thread mpb
My Ubuntu 16.04 system does not have a default gateway.  Instead, I have configured apt-get to use an HTTP proxy. Today I tried to add a ppa. $ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:libreoffice/libreoffice-prereleases Cannot add PPA: 'ppa:~libreoffice/ubuntu/libreoffice-prereleases'. ERROR: '~libreoffice'

[Touch-packages] [Bug 1650667] Re: Dapper Contents files are empty at old-releases.ubuntu.com

2016-12-16 Thread mpb
I have no idea why Launchpad classified this bug as belonging to systemd. I thought I told launchpad that I did not know which package should be associated with this bug. Sorry! ** Package changed: systemd (Ubuntu) => dapper-backports -- You received this bug notification because you are a

[Touch-packages] [Bug 1650667] [NEW] Dapper Contents files are empty at old-releases.ubuntu.com

2016-12-16 Thread mpb
Public bug reported: Is there some reason that the Contents-.gz files are empty for Dapper at old-releases.ubuntu.com? http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/dapper/ Contents-amd64.gz 29-Apr-2011 05:39 677 Contents-hppa.gz16-Dec-2008 05:56 9.1M 

[Touch-packages] [Bug 589496] Re: bash --rcfile does not behave as documented

2016-09-28 Thread mpb
[TL;DR: Bash developer Chet Ramey claimed in 2015 that this is a documentation bug. Then, in 2016, a documentation patch has been proposed to (and possibly accepted by?) Debian.] On 16 Sep 2016, Chet Ramey released version 4.4 of bash. This inspired me to check and see if this long standing