Bug#1004248: /etc/manpath.config: Section 0 (man0) is ignored

Package: man-db Version: 2.9.4-4 Severity: normal X-Debbugs-Cc: colomar.6@gmail.com Dear Maintainer, I have some manual pages for header files, and use section 0 for them, as the man-pages-posix upstream pages do. It seems to me to be more organized than adding stuff to man7, and since the

Bug#1002572: git-send-email: Adds spurious space to address name containing a dot

be sent (if anyone)? Message-ID to be used as In-Reply-To for the first email (if any)? (mbox) Adding cc: Alejandro Colomar from line 'From: Alejandro Colomar ' (mbox) Adding to: "Foo V . Bar" from line 'To: Foo V. Bar ' I know I should theoretically use --to='"Foo V. Bar"

Bug#978945: thunderbird: Message subwindow tilts (resizes in a loop)

Hi Carsten, On 1/1/21 13:36, Alejandro Colomar (man-pages) wrote: If the issue is still happen it's very likely it's an upstream issue and needs get reported on https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/home >> Could you mind filling (or searching for a similar) issue there and point to the bug

Bug#1001352: libc6-dev: pthread.h, setjmp.h: Include order matters (__sigsetjmp compilation error)

Package: libc6-dev Version: 2.32-5 Severity: normal Tags: upstream X-Debbugs-Cc: alx.manpa...@gmail.com, libc-al...@sourceware.org, u...@nginx.org Dear Maintainer, Building Nginx Unit from source results in a compilation error. I tried both Debian 11 and Debian Sid (12), and the bug is

Bug#1000023: vim: E315: ml_get: invalid lnum: 37 (or another number)

Hi James, On 11/19/21 17:40, James McCoy wrote: > On Thu, Nov 18, 2021 at 01:21:53PM +0100, Alejandro Colomar wrote: >> If you have a small file that fits in a single screen >> (in my case, it was 38 lines, which is smaller than half a FullHD screen), >> and >>

Bug#1000023: vim: E315: ml_get: invalid lnum: 37 (or another number)

Hi James, On 11/19/21 17:40, James McCoy wrote: > On Thu, Nov 18, 2021 at 01:21:53PM +0100, Alejandro Colomar wrote: >> If you have a small file that fits in a single screen >> (in my case, it was 38 lines, which is smaller than half a FullHD screen), >> and >>

Bug#1000146: cppcheck: incorrect dependencies: libc6 should be >= 2.32

Package: cppcheck Version: 2.6-1 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable X-Debbugs-Cc: colomar.6@gmail.com Dear Maintainer, I installed and run cppcheck on a system which I had not used for half a year. For that reason, many of its packages were outdated. glibc was on

Bug#1000023: vim: E315: ml_get: invalid lnum: 37 (or another number)

Package: vim Version: 2:8.2.3565-1+b1 Severity: minor Tags: upstream X-Debbugs-Cc: colomar.6@gmail.com Dear Maintainer, If you have a small file that fits in a single screen (in my case, it was 38 lines, which is smaller than half a FullHD screen), and you delete the last lines of the file

Bug#998687: Acknowledgement (lld: --no-allow-shlib-undefined: Doesn't check recursively)

hlib-undefined -Wl,--as-needed -Wl,--no-copy-dt-needed-entries -o foovar -Wl,-rpath=. main.o -L. -lfoovar -fuse-ld=lld $ $ LD_LIBRARY_PATH=. ./foovar $ -- Alejandro Colomar Linux man-pages comaintainer; https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ http://www.alejandro-colomar.es/

Bug#998687: lld: --no-allow-shlib-undefined: Doesn't check recursively

Package: lld Version: 1:13.0-53~exp1 Severity: normal Tags: upstream X-Debbugs-Cc: alx.manpa...@gmail.com, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) , Diego Elio Pettenò , 997...@bugs.debian.org Dear Maintainer, A week ago I detected a bug in ld.gold, where it differs from ld.bfd:

Bug#998408: debian-installer: "good password" advise

On 11/3/21 21:12, Alejandro Colomar (man-pages) wrote: On 11/3/21 20:30, Alejandro Colomar wrote:    So my advise would be instead:    "A good password will not need rare characters, but rather be as long    as possible.  Having a memorable random password can help it be    l

Bug#998408: debian-installer: "good password" advise

On 11/3/21 20:30, Alejandro Colomar wrote: So my advise would be instead: "A good password will not need rare characters, but rather be as long as possible. Having a memorable random password can help it be longer, and therefore stronger." Hmm, I'd reword this a

Bug#998408: debian-installer: "good password" advise

Source: debian-installer Version: 20210731+deb11u1 Severity: normal Tags: upstream X-Debbugs-Cc: alx.manpa...@gmail.com Dear Maintainer, The Debian installer contains the following advise: "A good password will contain a mixture of letters, numbers and punctuation and should be changed at

Bug#998400: debian-handbook: 4.2.9: password generator suggestion

Package: debian-handbook Version: 10.20200619 Severity: normal Tags: upstream X-Debbugs-Cc: alx.manpa...@gmail.com Dear Maintainer, In Chapter 4, Installation, page 60, there's a note suggesting the use of password generators, and it suggests pwgen (as an example). IMO, much better suggestions

Bug#998017: pkg-config: Build a library with its own .pc file

On 10/28/21 16:48, Alejandro Colomar wrote: To build (link) a library, I have the following in my Makefile: PC_ENV := PKG_CONFIG_PATH=lib/pkgconfig req_pc := $(shell $(PC_ENV) pkg-config --print-requires-private libfoo) LIBS := -L$(builddir) LIBS += $(shell $(PC_ENV) pkg-config --libs libfoo

Bug#998017: pkg-config: Build a library with its own .pc file

Package: pkg-config Version: 0.29.2-1 Severity: wishlist Tags: upstream X-Debbugs-Cc: alx.manpa...@gmail.com Dear Maintainer, I'm building a library with its own pkg-config file. That avoids repeating the information in the .pc file again in the Makefile. And it also avoids releasing broken .pc

Bug#995638: debian-cd: Missing manual page debian-cd(7)

Package: debian-cd Version: 3.1.35 Severity: important X-Debbugs-Cc: alx.manpa...@gmail.com Dear Maintainer, I'd like to have a manual page for this package. I can collaborate to write one, from the README file, but I'd like to see some complete examples of usage. Thanks, Alex -- System

Bug#995589: xdg-utils: xdg-open: Fails to interpret 'man:' URIs

Package: xdg-utils Version: 1.1.3-4.1 Severity: normal X-Debbugs-Cc: alx.manpa...@gmail.com Dear Maintainer, * What led up to the situation? Discussing about adding a feature to groff, to add 'clickable' links (see ), and

Bug#989958: libopencv-*-dev: Missing pkg-config file (.pc)

Sprickerhof wrote: > * Alejandro Colomar (man-pages) [2021-07-25 > 21:38]: >>> I think that would be to big of a patch. >> >> Yes.  What is Fedora doing?  Do you know? > > They provide a opencv.pc: > > https://fedora.pkgs.org/rawhide/fedora-x86_64/op

Bug#989958: libopencv-*-dev: Missing pkg-config file (.pc)

Hi Jochen, On 7/21/21 5:32 PM, Jochen Sprickerhof wrote: Hi Alejandro, * Alejandro Colomar (man-pages) [2021-07-03 19:13]: It seems that they decided long ago to drop support for pkg-config files.  See <https://github.com/opencv/opencv/issues/20269#event-4970006284> and <https://g

Bug#989958: libopencv-*-dev: Missing pkg-config file (.pc)

Hi Jochen, On 6/21/21 8:43 PM, Jochen Sprickerhof wrote: > * Alejandro Colomar (man-pages) [2021-06-21 > 17:35]: >> Maybe Debian could write separate pkg-config files, and maybe offer >> them to upstream OpenCV (I offer myself to help write them if you >> decide it's

Bug#989958: libopencv-*-dev: Missing pkg-config file (.pc)

Hi Jochen, On 6/21/21 2:33 PM, Jochen Sprickerhof wrote: Control: severity -1 wishlist Hi Alejandro, * Alejandro Colomar [2021-06-16 17:31]: None of them contain the needed pkg-conig files for their use, making necessary to install 'libopencv', and making useless the separation into smaller

Bug#989958: libopencv-*-dev: Missing pkg-config file (.pc)

Package: libopencv-core-dev Version: 4.5.1+dfsg-4 Severity: important Tags: upstream X-Debbugs-Cc: alx.manpa...@gmail.com Dear Maintainer, This bug actually does apply to all of the *-dev libopencv packages. None of them contain the needed pkg-conig files for their use, making necessary to

Bug#989577: vim: highlight: Makefile: .SECONDEXPANSION: not correctly highlighted

Package: vim Version: 2:8.2.2434-3 Severity: minor Tags: upstream X-Debbugs-Cc: alx.manpa...@gmail.com Dear Maintainer, .SECONDEXPANSION: is a special target in a Makefile, similar to .PHONY:, but it isn't being highlighted as such, and instead is being colored as any other normal target. Could

Bug#989404: wtf: Very outdated; missing entries such as LGTM

@flutschi>:~$ wtf lgtm LGTM: looks good to me Yes, it looks like I had a typo... those that you try many times and have a look at them and you don't realize... Now I tried and yes, it works. Black magic :) Invalid bug. EBCAK. Cheers, Alex -- Alejandro Colomar Linux man-pages comaint

Bug#989404: wtf: Very outdated; missing entries such as LGTM

Package: bsdgames Version: 2.17-28 Severity: important X-Debbugs-Cc: alx.manpa...@gmail.com Dear Maintainer, I see the last sync with upstream was many years ago (9?). Today I wanted to know what LGTM means. I didn't find it with wtf(1), so I went looking for the upstream source code to try to

Bug#988546: iwyu.1, include-what-you-use.1: Missing sections in the manual page

Hi, On 5/15/21 1:14 PM, Alejandro Colomar wrote: > Package: iwyu > Version: 8.15-2 > Severity: minor > X-Debbugs-Cc: Alejandro Colomar (man-pages) > > Dear Maintainer, > > The manual page for this package has some formatting errors, > and has everything in the DESCRI

Bug#988546: iwyu.1, include-what-you-use.1: Missing sections in the manual page

Package: iwyu Version: 8.15-2 Severity: minor X-Debbugs-Cc: Alejandro Colomar (man-pages) Dear Maintainer, The manual page for this package has some formatting errors, and has everything in the DESCRIPTION section. I found that the upstream manual page is correct, so it's a bug specific

Bug#987060: vim: highlight: make: Incorrect highlighting in $(shell ...) expression

Package: vim Version: 2:8.2.2434-3 Severity: minor X-Debbugs-Cc: alx.manpa...@gmail.com Dear Maintainer, I have the following in a Makefile: base_branch = $(shell echo 'origin/develop origin/release/* origin/master' \ | xargs git branch -a -l \

Bug#980490: cups-client: Documentation for lp is very incomplete

that the option works. I wouldn't mind helping in writing the pages, if someone could compile the information that is missing. Thanks, Alex -- Alejandro Colomar Linux man-pages comaintainer; https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages

Bug#980176: hplip: ScanJet Pro 2500 f1 isn't recognized

On 1/15/21 6:45 PM, Alejandro Colomar wrote: > Package: hplip > Version: 3.20.11+dfsg0-1 > Severity: important > Tags: upstream > X-Debbugs-Cc: alx.manpa...@gmail.com > > Dear Maintainer, > > I bought a new ScanJet Pro 2500 f1. > After plugging

Bug#980176: hplip: ScanJet Pro 2500 f1 isn't recognized

Package: hplip Version: 3.20.11+dfsg0-1 Severity: important Tags: upstream X-Debbugs-Cc: alx.manpa...@gmail.com Dear Maintainer, I bought a new ScanJet Pro 2500 f1. After plugging it, I tried to scan a document, but it is not detected by the scanning programs. $

Bug#978945: thunderbird: Message subwindow tilts (resizes in a loop)

On 1/1/21 9:20 AM, Carsten Schoenert wrote: > Version: 1:78.5.1-1 > > Hello Alejandro, > > Am 01.01.21 um 00:20 schrieb Alejandro Colomar: >> Dear Maintainer, >> >> I opened an email from linux-...@vger.kernel.org mailing list, >> and when I clicked

Bug#978945: thunderbird: Message subwindow tilts (resizes in a loop)

Package: thunderbird Version: 1:84.0~ Severity: normal X-Debbugs-Cc: alx.manpages@g Dear Maintainer, I opened an email from linux-...@vger.kernel.org mailing list, and when I clicked on '1 more' to see the full list of CCs, the subwindow containing the email header (From, Subject, To, Cc, Date)

Bug#974166: 5.9.0-1-amd64 (5.9.11-1) has fixed the issue

Hi, I'm glad to say that just now I upgraded to the unstable kernel: $ sudo apt-get install linux-image-amd64 and now I can boot normally: $ uname -a Linux debian 5.9.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 5.9.11-1 (2020-11-27) x86_64 GNU/Linux I'm curious: I'd like to see the changelog and the code to see

Bug#974166: I'd like to help

Hi, I suspect it may have to do with the 5th gen (Broadwell Desktop) only, as they have a very special (and powerful) iGPU. And maybe that's why the bug passed inadvertently so much time: those CPUs didn't sell very well. Yes, I have that package installed: ||/ NameVersion

Bug#974166: I'd like to help

Hi, I received no answer at all, so I guess you are very busy. I know the bug was introduced somewhere between 5.6 and 5.7. If you have an idea of what the source of the bug could be, I'd like to help by testing on my computers, or providing code. I have two computers with similar CPUs

Bug#974166: Boot logs

I tried booting in recovery mode, and it also didn't work. However, I could see the some info. The 3 last lines of the boot log were: { [4.817936] hub 4-0:1.0: 2 ports detected [4.819372] i915 :00:02.0: [drm] Found 128MB of eDRAM [4.819882] fb0: switching to inteldrmfb from EFI

Bug#974166: linux/5.9.6-1 (unstable) has the same bug

I tried installing the new kernel from unstable, but I still can't boot with it. Same problems.

Bug#974166: linux-image-5.9.0-1-amd64: The system goes black when trying to boot graphical mode

Package: src:linux Version: 5.9.1-1 Severity: important X-Debbugs-Cc: alx.manpa...@gmail.com Dear Maintainer, *** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropriate *** * What led up to the situation? When I upgreeaded from kernel 5.6 to 5.7 a long time ago, my

Bug#972755: mousepad: find and replace: replace one by one

Package: mousepad Version: 0.4.2-1 Severity: wishlist Tags: upstream X-Debbugs-Cc: colomar.6@gmail.com Dear Maintainer, "find and replace" only allows replacing all of the appearances at once. gedit has two buttons, one of them to replace all at once, and the other to more carefully replace

Bug#972522: coreutils: install: Recursively install directories with new flag

Package: coreutils Version: 8.32-4+b1 Severity: wishlist Tags: upstream X-Debbugs-Cc: colomar.6@gmail.com Dear Maintainer, Could you please add a new flag to the install program so that it can install directories too? Maybe "-r" would do. If I can help in any way, please help me to do so.

Bug#968158: libbsd-dev: is broken in overlay mode

Package: libbsd-dev Version: 0.10.0-1 Severity: normal Tags: upstream X-Debbugs-Cc: colomar.6@gmail.com Dear Maintainer, ``libbsd-overlay`` breaks Concretely, it hides the header from the system, showing only the BSD version. If I don't compile with ``libbsd`` at all, I have

Bug#930695: libstdc++6 dependencies list is huge

Package: libstdc++6 Version: 6.3.0-18+deb9u1 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, *** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropriate *** * What led up to the situation? Installing g++-8 on Debian Stretch through the Debian Buster repository.

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