Re: [Bug 1958308] Re: New upstream release - please update

2022-02-05 Thread Neil Mayhew
On Mon, 31 Jan 2022, 07:05 Neil Mayhew, <1958...@bugs.launchpad.net> wrote: > FYI, Debian will likely update again to 8.12.42 which is a better release > to work with long-term. > 8.12.42 is now in Debian testing. Will Ubuntu sync again automatically? > -- You received thi

[Bug 1958308] Re: New upstream release - please update

2022-01-31 Thread Neil Mayhew
> Debian update to the current version which got synced to Ubuntu That's good to hear. FYI, Debian will likely update again to 8.12.42 which is a better release to work with long-term. (It has a git tag, and the artefact versions don't have "-SNAPSHOT" in them). I assume this will sync

[Bug 1958308] Re: New upstream release - please update

2022-01-24 Thread Neil Mayhew
Thank you for the suggestion. I linked to the upstream bug report that describes the issue, but I can see that it's helpful to have a brief summary in both downstream issues. Previously, the C/C++ version of libphonenumber was accepting and parsing phone numbers that have malformed UTF-8

[Bug 1958308] [NEW] New upstream release - please update

2022-01-18 Thread Neil Mayhew
Public bug reported: The upstream project is now at 8.12.41. There are a number of bug fixes in this release, including one for handling invalid UTF-8 sequences correctly in the C version of the library. See: * https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/206677455 *

[Bug 1797390] Re: Update to 8.9.15

2021-01-20 Thread Neil Mayhew
Debian just updated to 8.12.16 and its bug was closed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1797390 Title: Update to 8.9.15 To manage notifications about this bug go to:

[Bug 1579712] Re: Refresh hangs indefinitely, appstreamcli using 100% CPU

2016-11-07 Thread Neil Mayhew
@nader-f: You're probably using an out-of-date ISO for your VM. This issue was fixed in 16.04 a long time ago. Be sure to use the 16.04.1 ISO and not the original 16.04 ISO in the future. The [change summary for 16.04.1][1] specifically mentions this bug as having been fixed. [1]:

[Bug 1576780] Re: Needs to implement the full DEP-11 icon spec for compatibility with 3rd-party repos

2016-06-30 Thread Neil Mayhew
Works well for me (0.5.13-1ubuntu2). Thanks for getting this done. I assume it can go into -updates now. ** Tags removed: verification-needed ** Tags added: verification-done -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 1579712] Re: Refresh hangs indefinitely, appstreamcli using 100% CPU

2016-05-19 Thread Neil Mayhew
The simplest workaround seems to be to use Ctrl-C when apt update hangs at the end. It's already done most of the work, and this just aborts the running of appstreamcli at the end. You can then go ahead and update any binary packages built from the appstream source package (ie any of appstream

[Bug 1576780] Re: Needs to implement the full DEP-11 icon spec for compatibility with 3rd-party repos

2016-05-19 Thread Neil Mayhew
This works great for me here too. All my 3rd-party apps are showing in Gnome Software. Thanks! ** Tags removed: verification-needed ** Tags added: verification-done -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 1579712] Re: Refresh hangs due to strdup on non-NULL terminated string

2016-05-19 Thread Neil Mayhew
** Tags removed: verification-needed ** Tags added: verification-done -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1579712 Title: Refresh hangs due to strdup on non-NULL terminated string To

[Bug 1579712] Re: Refresh hangs due to strdup on non-NULL terminated string

2016-05-17 Thread Neil Mayhew
Sorry to be slow in responding. I thought I was subscribed but wasn't. The version from -proposed (0.9.4-1ubuntu1) resolves this issue for me. Thanks! Great to have this. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 1579712] Re: Refresh hangs due to strdup on non-NULL terminated string

2016-05-10 Thread Neil Mayhew
I would really like to see this go through as an SRU to Xenial. I am hitting a problem with my third-party repo 100% of the time. When I have the repo enabled, apt-get update hangs indefinitely when it runs appstreamcli at the end, and I assume all of the users of my repo are experiencing the same

[Bug 1576780] Re: Needs to implement the full DEP-11 icon spec for compatibility with 3rd-party repos

2016-05-02 Thread Neil Mayhew
I have a 3rd-party repo (packages.sil.org/ubuntu) and I can confirm that this change enables Gnome Software to work correctly with my repo. Previously my apps weren't showing up, but now they are. I built a copy of appstream-glib_0.5.13-1 with this debdiff applied, installed it on a xenial

[Bug 945450] Re: Responsiveness: LightDM in ubuntu 12.04 very slow

2012-05-28 Thread Neil Mayhew
I think I may have found the cause of the problem, or a very similar one, at least. See bug #1005642 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/945450 Title: Responsiveness: LightDM in ubuntu

[Bug 1004295] [NEW] pandoc is linked against a non-existent libffi.so.5

2012-05-24 Thread Neil Mayhew
Public bug reported: pandoc fails to load: $ pandoc --help pandoc: error while loading shared libraries: libffi.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory $ ldd $(which pandoc) libffi.so.5 = not found The package depends on libffi6 ProblemType: Bug

[Bug 1004295] Re: pandoc is linked against a non-existent libffi.so.5

2012-05-24 Thread Neil Mayhew
** Description changed: pandoc fails to load: - $ pandoc --help - pandoc: error while loading shared libraries: libffi.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory - $ ldd $(which pandoc) - libffi.so.5 = not found + $ pandoc --help + pandoc: error

[Bug 790981] Re: usb-imagewriter is excessively slow

2011-08-01 Thread Neil Mayhew
Great! Thanks, Oliver. Once it's been accepted into the Oneiric package, I'd like to do an SRU request for Lucid, since a number of my users prefer LTS. I've done an SRU before, so I think I'll be able to handle this once it's in Oneiric. -- You received this bug notification because you are a

[Bug 790981] Re: usb-imagewriter is excessively slow

2011-07-19 Thread Neil Mayhew
I would have rated this a good bit higher than wishlist. It really is unusable at the moment. It takes hours when it should take minutes. The patch is quite trivial. Any chance it could be integrated soon? I want to recommend this utility to the users of the SD-based remix I'm distributing, but

[Bug 790981] Re: usb-imagewriter is excessively slow

2011-06-27 Thread Neil Mayhew
Thanks, Brian. I saw in some manual dd instructions on LP somewhere that bs=4M was being recommended, so this might be even better than the bs=1M in the patch. I have also posted an (unrelated) patch for the win32 equivalent of this application

[Bug 790981] [NEW] usb-imagewriter is excessively slow

2011-05-31 Thread Neil Mayhew
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: usb-imagewriter The reason is that it gives dd too small a buffer size. Using bs=1M makes it go much faster. Other sizes may be even better. Ubuntu 10.10 usb-imagewriter 0.1.3-0ubuntu4 ** Affects: usb-imagewriter (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided

[Bug 790981] Re: usb-imagewriter is excessively slow

2011-05-31 Thread Neil Mayhew
** Patch added: Use bs=1M https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/790981/+attachment/2149903/+files/imagewriter.patch -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/790981 Title: usb-imagewriter is

[Bug 647731] Re: java SIGSEGV in libGL.so.1

2011-05-30 Thread Neil Mayhew
This could possibly be related to #773339 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/647731 Title: java SIGSEGV in libGL.so.1 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com

[Bug 650525] Re: Failed to fetch http://extras.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/maverick/Release ; missing key

2010-11-30 Thread Neil Mayhew
** Changed in: ubuntu-extras-keyring (Ubuntu) Status: Invalid = Confirmed ** Changed in: ubuntu-extras-keyring (Ubuntu Maverick) Status: Invalid = Confirmed -- Failed to fetch http://extras.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/maverick/Release ; missing key

[Bug 650525] Re: Failed to fetch http://extras.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/maverick/Release ; missing key

2010-11-27 Thread Neil Mayhew
The link I quoted above is for lucid. You need a different key for maverick: gpg --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv 02FDF932 gpg --export --armor 02FDF932 | sudo apt-key add - @Linus, Mark: please say whether this works for you. I think the extras archive is using the wrong key for

[Bug 650525] Re: Failed to fetch http://extras.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/maverick/Release ; missing key

2010-11-26 Thread Neil Mayhew
extras.ubuntu.com seems to have changed key since this bug was first posted, and it no longer matches the one in ubuntu-extras-keyring (2010.09.27). I imported it manually using gpg --recv with the number given in the apt-get update error message. Now when I run apt-key list this key shows up as

[Bug 539008] Re: Microsoft Sans Serif maps to Thai font even on european setups

2010-11-15 Thread Neil Mayhew
@cablop: A fixed version was already in maverick. See bug #637131 for details. -- Microsoft Sans Serif maps to Thai font even on european setups https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/539008 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. --

[Bug 434054] Re: Waree font too high compared to Tahoma

2010-11-15 Thread Neil Mayhew
** Attachment added: Test case https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/thaifonts-scalable/+bug/434054/+attachment/1734639/+files/Tahoma-Test.html -- Waree font too high compared to Tahoma https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/434054 You received this bug notification because you are a member of

[Bug 637131] Re: FFe: please sync 'thaifonts-scalable' 1:0.4.14-1 from sid-maverick

2010-11-15 Thread Neil Mayhew
I tested the new package (1:0.4.13-4ubuntu0.1) against both reported bugs (bug #434054 and bug #539008) using the test cases listed there. No regressions or other problems detected. -- FFe: please sync 'thaifonts-scalable' 1:0.4.14-1 from sid-maverick https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/637131 You

[Bug 434054] Re: Waree font too high compared to Tahoma

2010-11-15 Thread Neil Mayhew
** Attachment added: Improved test case https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/thaifonts-scalable/+bug/434054/+attachment/1734819/+files/Tahoma-Test.html -- Waree font too high compared to Tahoma https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/434054 You received this bug notification because you are a

[Bug 637131] Re: FFe: please sync 'thaifonts-scalable' 1:0.4.14-1 from sid-maverick

2010-11-08 Thread Neil Mayhew
Thanks, Benjamin. So will this new version just show up in Lucid now, or do I have to do something else to get it accepted? I was unable to subscribe ubuntu-sru as I explained above, and this is normally a prerequisite. -- FFe: please sync 'thaifonts-scalable' 1:0.4.14-1 from sid-maverick

[Bug 637131] Re: FFe: please sync 'thaifonts-scalable' 1:0.4.14-1 from sid-maverick

2010-11-02 Thread Neil Mayhew
For some reason, I'm not able to subscribe ubuntu-sru, only ubtunu- sponsors. (There is no explanation with the error message that I'm given.) So I'm not able to complete the SRU process, and I really need someone from sponsors to look at the package I uploaded. I'm not 100% sure of what I'm

[Bug 637131] Re: FFe: please sync 'thaifonts-scalable' 1:0.4.14-1 from sid-maverick

2010-11-01 Thread Neil Mayhew
I am using the SRU procedure as that should be attempted first. The bug impact is stated clearly in the description, when referencing #539008: prevents all non-plain ASCII working in all Mono WinForms apps owing to overly-broad name space grab. The bug has been addressed upstream and in maverick

[Bug 637131] Re: FFe: please sync 'thaifonts-scalable' 1:0.4.14-1 from sid-maverick

2010-10-27 Thread Neil Mayhew
Any chance of a backport to the LTS release? -- FFe: please sync 'thaifonts-scalable' 1:0.4.14-1 from sid-maverick https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/637131 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list

[Bug 658351] Re: Realtek card reader (device 5288) unusable on Dell Inspiron M301Z

2010-10-27 Thread Neil Mayhew
I have the same problem on an HP mini 110-3000. The MeeGo bug report suggests that there is a vendor-supplied driver available as source, but I haven't been able to find it. -- Realtek card reader (device 5288) unusable on Dell Inspiron M301Z https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/658351 You received

[Bug 580687] [NEW] brightside-properties isn't launchable from the menus

2010-05-14 Thread Neil Mayhew
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: brightside Brightside installs its .desktop file to the wrong directory. It uses /usr/share/control-center-2.0/ which is obsolete and unused. The result is that brightside-properties doesn't show up in the menus anywhere. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease:

[Bug 580687] Re: brightside-properties isn't launchable from the menus

2010-05-14 Thread Neil Mayhew
** Attachment added: Dependencies.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/48461272/Dependencies.txt -- brightside-properties isn't launchable from the menus https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/580687 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to

[Bug 580694] [NEW] brightside has no GUI setting for autostarting

2010-05-14 Thread Neil Mayhew
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: brightside Brightside needs to autostart on login but brightside-properties doesn't provide a setting for this. The user has to create an autostart item himself, using System - Preferences - Startup Applications - Add. It should instead copy a .desktop

[Bug 580694] Re: brightside has no GUI setting for autostarting

2010-05-14 Thread Neil Mayhew
** Attachment added: Sample .desktop file for autostart http://launchpadlibrarian.net/48462727/brightside.desktop ** Attachment added: Dependencies.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/48462126/Dependencies.txt -- brightside has no GUI setting for autostarting

[Bug 580687] Re: brightside-properties isn't launchable from the menus

2010-05-14 Thread Neil Mayhew
It also puts a single bitmap icon in /usr/share/pixmaps/. It should instead copy the three icons it already has to the appropriate places in /usr/share/icons. -- brightside-properties isn't launchable from the menus https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/580687 You received this bug notification

[Bug 459532] Re: sugar-web-activity uninstallable due to python-xpcom dependency, should depend on xulrunner-1.9 instead

2010-01-14 Thread Neil Mayhew
Version 103-0ubuntu1 depended on xulrunner-1.9, but the current version (108-2) has reverted to depending on python-xpcom. I have 103-0ubuntu1 installed, but can't upgrade, and the package keeps showing up as upgradable. -- sugar-web-activity uninstallable due to python-xpcom dependency, should

[Bug 24250] Re: Doesn't honor gnome proxy settings

2009-11-05 Thread Neil Mayhew
MetaRelease.py (the Python code that does the check) uses urllib2 directly, and doesn't use the apt/synaptic settings. Although urllib2 looks at the environment variables for proxy settings, sudo zaps these for security reasons. I was able to make it work by using sudo -s to get a root shell,

[Bug 466521] Re: update-manager ignores karmic

2009-11-05 Thread Neil Mayhew
MetaRelease.py (the Python code that does the check for a new release) uses urllib2 directly, and doesn't use the apt/synaptic settings. Although urllib2 looks at the environment variables for proxy settings, sudo zaps these for security reasons. I was able to make it work by using sudo -s to get

[Bug 325706] Re: [jaunty] Xephyr fails with D-Bus AccessDenied

2009-07-05 Thread Neil Mayhew
I can confirm that running the following command once enables sugar- emulator to work, so this is NOT a Xephyr problem: gconftool-2 -s /desktop/sugar/desktop/favorites_layout -t string ring- layout I will file a new bug against the sugar package, or add this information to an existing bug. --

[Bug 382863] [NEW] [needs packaging] Upgrade to version 0.4

2009-06-02 Thread Neil Mayhew
Public bug reported: There is a newer upstream release available (0.4) at https://sourceforge.net/projects/libwiimote/. This was released March 10, 2007, so should be pretty stable now. I was able to build it from source on jaunty, after applying debian/patches/01_fix_build.patch, although really

[Bug 382863] Re: [needs packaging] Upgrade to version 0.4

2009-06-02 Thread Neil Mayhew
** Attachment added: Replace deprecated hci_remote_name with hci_read_remote_name http://launchpadlibrarian.net/27423297/hci_remote_name.patch -- [needs packaging] Upgrade to version 0.4 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/382863 You received this bug notification because you are a member of

[Bug 341263] Re: Failure in generating pyc files when installing gedit-plugins

2009-03-16 Thread Neil Mayhew
The problem appears to be that /usr/share/pyshared-data/gedit-plugins specifies python-version = 2.5, and python2.5 is not installed. When I install python2.5, the problem goes away. However, pycentral should handle this situation and not crash. Maybe gedit-plugins also needs to be updated to

[Bug 342572] Re: pycentral crashed with AttributeError in install()

2009-03-13 Thread Neil Mayhew
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 341263 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/341263 Apologies for submitting two reports for the same bug. I thought I had cancelled the submission of the other one. -- pycentral crashed with AttributeError in install() https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/342572

[Bug 341263] Re: Failure in generating pyc files when installing gedit-plugins

2009-03-11 Thread Neil Mayhew
** Attachment added: Dependencies.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/23758293/Dependencies.txt ** Attachment added: ProcMaps.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/23758294/ProcMaps.txt ** Attachment added: ProcStatus.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/23758295/ProcStatus.txt ** Attachment

[Bug 341451] [NEW] Synaptic terminal window does not use system monospace font

2009-03-11 Thread Neil Mayhew
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: synaptic Synaptic is uses Monospace 10 by default, which is quite different to what I have set in System - Preferences - Appearance - Fonts. I can override this, of course, but when Use custom terminal font is unchecked synaptic should use the system

[Bug 341451] Re: Synaptic terminal window does not use system monospace font

2009-03-11 Thread Neil Mayhew
** Attachment added: Dependencies.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/23766524/Dependencies.txt ** Attachment added: ProcMaps.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/23766525/ProcMaps.txt ** Attachment added: ProcStatus.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/23766526/ProcStatus.txt -- Synaptic

[Bug 307223] [NEW] Help button links to a non-existent web page

2008-12-11 Thread Neil Mayhew
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: brightside The developer seems to have made the whole of his site closed, requiring a log-in. The help info for brightside should be made into a proper Gnome Help document. ProblemType: Bug Architecture: i386 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10 Package:

[Bug 307223] Re: Help button links to a non-existent web page

2008-12-11 Thread Neil Mayhew
** Attachment added: Dependencies.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/20365667/Dependencies.txt -- Help button links to a non-existent web page https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/307223 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. --