Package: apt
Version: 2.9.3
Severity: minor
apt-transport-http
apt-transport-https
both say
The used bandwidth can be limited with Acquire::http::Dl-Limit which
accepts integer values in kilobytes per second.
Well many people use e.g., Dl-Limit=20K and no error is caused.
That's
Package: apt
Version: 2.9.3
Severity: wishlist
apt-transport-http
apt-transport-https
both say
The used bandwidth can be limited with Acquire::http::Dl-Limit which
accepts integer values in kilobytes per second. The default value is 0
which deactivates the limit and tries to
As a matter of fact, the solution I posted doesn't work either.
Therefore, be sure on the man page, to mention the true sequence needed:
# debootstrap
(missing step goes here)
# debootstrap --second-stage
$ apt-show-versions -r emacs
emacs:all/bookworm-backports 1:29.3+1-3~bpo12+1 uptodate
emacs-bin-common:arm64/bookworm-backports 1:29.3+1-3~bpo12+1 uptodate
emacs-common:all/bookworm-backports 1:29.3+1-3~bpo12+1 uptodate
emacs-common-non-dfsg:all/stable 1:28.2+1-2 uptodate 28!
Package: ydotool
Version: 0.1.8-3
As per
https://github.com/ReimuNotMoe/ydotool/issues/233#issuecomment-2094063802
Debian ydotool is five years old.
Package: bash-completion
Version: 1:2.11-8
In https://github.com/scop/bash-completion/issues/1175
we see GitHub is missing from Debian's bash-completion docs.
Temporary workaround:
$ exec bash
Package: emacs-common
Version: 1:29.3+1-2
Severity: minor
File: /usr/share/man/man1/emacsclient.emacs.1.gz
Please see image.
https://github.com/htacg/tidy-html5/releases/tag/5.8.0
X-Debbugs-Cc: adri...@gnu.org
Package: units
Version: 2.23-1
Severity: wishlist
It seems that a big lack of the units program, is access to the user's
own input after he inputs it.
Often one needs access to the original input value, and currently must
use workarounds.
$ for i in `seq 5`; do
Also even if at the 31st choice we finally get to keep all,
the next day we will still be facing the same problem.
Yes, usually it is just a temporary situation. Upstream was just in the
middle of sending out some packages, etc. But even so,
not for one minute should users be left digging for the
Package: aptitude
Version: 0.8.13-5+b1
Severity: wishlist
In #1064958 we see the usual choice after choice.
Well how about number each choice as it is shown to the user?
With letters, so as not to confuse them with the numbers being shown.
Not just for debugging purposes, but for everyday use.
There it finally was, way down at like the 31st choice.
Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?] n
XX. The following actions will resolve these dependencies:
Keep the following packages at their current version:
1) apt [2.7.12 (now)]
2) apt-utils [2.7.12 (now)]
3) at-spi2-core
Package: aptitude
Version: 0.8.13-5+b1
Severity: wishlist
Imagine there are 1000 different combinations of
Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?] n
The following actions will resolve these dependencies:
Remove the following packages:
1) libapt-pkg6.0 [2.7.12 (now, unstable)]
2)
Package: python3-i3ipc
Version: 2.2.1-3
File: /usr/share/doc/python3-i3ipc/examples/i3-cycle-focus.py
Shouldn't
/usr/share/doc/python3-i3ipc/examples/i3-cycle-focus.py
be chmod +x?
Same with some of the others there, but some are OK.
Then we could execute them directly...
Package: python3-i3ipc
Version: 2.2.1-3
File: /usr/share/doc/python3-i3ipc/examples/i3-cycle-focus.py
It seems upstream has a much newer version,
but I can't tell, due to
https://github.com/altdesktop/i3ipc-python/issues/210
Package: aptitude
Version: 0.8.13-5+b1
Severity: wishlist
Even with Aptitude::CmdLine::Always-Prompt true
there are some cases when prompting still doesn't make sense:
# aptitude full-upgrade
No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed.
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove
Package: wlrctl
Please also provide arm64 versions of this package!
Might as well make the other missing versions too.
Package: linklint
Version: 2.3.5-7
File: /usr/bin/linklint
Old package separator "'" deprecated at /usr/bin/linklint line 987...
OK, gv is from a different package.
Package: udisks2
Version: 2.10.1-5
Seen on Chromebook.
Setting up udisks2 (2.10.1-5) ...
vda: Failed to write 'change' to
'/sys/devices/platform/1.pci/pci:00/:00:04.0/virtio3/block/vda/uevent':
Permission denied
vdb: Failed to write 'change' to
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-6.6.9-amd64
cp: warning: behavior of -n is non-portable and may change in future; use
--update=none instead
cp: warning: behavior of -n is non-portable and may change in future; use
--update=none instead
cp: warning: behavior of -n is non-portable
An https://github.com/MacPaw/XADMaster/releases has a
has a 1.10.8 from Oct 2023.
$ man unar | tail -n 1 | tr -s ' '
The Unarchiver 2011-09-26 unar(1)
$ unar --version
v1.10.1
$ w3m -dump https://macpaw.com/the-unarchiver | grep Version
Latest Version: 4.3.6 (20 Oct 2023)
> "GK" == Georges Khaznadar writes:
GK> Hello Dan,
GK> I would like to get more information about your intent, for this bug
GK> report.
Looking at the crontab(5) man page,
everything lines up very pretty:
17 * * * * root cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly
25 6 * *
Package: isc-dhcp-client
Version: 4.4.3-P1-4
Severity: minor
File: /usr/share/doc/isc-dhcp-client/NEWS.Debian.gz
We read
> isc-dhcp-client (4.4.3-1) unstable; urgency=medium
>
> ISC has decided to stop maintaining the client and relay parts of isc-dhcp,
> and they will be removed after the
Package: aptitude
Version: 0.8.13-5
Today I out of habit hit RET to the following.
It removed much of my system.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Crostini/comments/alytbc/comment/kcv98ks/
Next time I'll be more careful and not trust it.
I didn't realize how long the list was when I hit RET.
Maybe there
Package: wpagui
Version: 2:2.10-18
Severity: wishlist
When connected, the connect button should become grey (unclickable).
When diconnected, the disconnect button should also become grey.
Yes, even if the state is detectable from other words on the interface.
Sorry.
I don't know if I am talking about Geo:: or Gis::
or libgeo or libgis.
It is all too confusing.
I'll leave it to others to straighten out.
As far a packages that don't seem to work as their man pages say,
I sure hope there is at least a README file in their doc directories
about it.
Sorry.
I don't know if I am talking about Geo:: or Gis::
or libgeo or libgis.
It is all too confusing.
I'll leave it to others to straighten out.
On https://metacpan.org/pod/Geo::Distance
is says
Deprecated.
The maintainer of this distribution has indicated that it is deprecated and
no longer suitable for use.
So it is time to remove this package from Debian! Thanks. I made a
separate bug report about it.
Package: libgis-distance-perl
Severity: grave
On https://metacpan.org/pod/Geo::Distance
is says
Deprecated.
The maintainer of this distribution has indicated that it is deprecated and
no longer suitable for use.
So it is time to remove this package from Debian! Thanks.
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.
Package: netselect-apt
Version: 0.3.ds1-30.1
Severity: minor
Testing in Taiwan, fastest machine
http://opensource.nchc.org.tw/
somehow missed getting into the competition.
It is listed on https://www.debian.org/mirror/list .
Package: firmware-misc-nonfree
Version: 20230625-1
Saw tons of these.
Unpacking firmware-misc-nonfree (20230625-1) over (20230515-3) ...
dpkg: warning: unable to delete old directory '/lib/firmware/wfx': Directory
not empty
dpkg: warning: unable to delete old directory
Package: netselect-apt
netselect-apt --nonfree only makes
deb http://ftp.tku.edu.tw/debian/ sid main contrib non-free
it should make
deb http://ftp.tku.edu.tw/debian/ sid main contrib non-free
non-free-firmware
Package: viking
In /usr/share/doc/viking/copyright it says
It was downloaded from
and there is a blank space.
I just did the simple Linux installation as seen on
https://support.google.com/chromebook/answer/9145439
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVWrdrvQ-rU
Oh, and then I changed the /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ to get "sid",
and also picked beta channel:
Google Chrome: Version 120.0.6099.25 (Official
Seen on Chromebook 120 Linux systemd 255~rc2-3
Setting access ACL "u::rwx,g::r-x,g:adm:r-x,g:4294967295:r-x,m::r-x,o::r-x" on
/var/log/journal failed: Invalid argument
Setting access ACL "u::rwx,g::r-x,g:adm:r-x,g:4294967295:r-x,m::r-x,o::r-x" on
Package: sensible-utils
Version: 0.0.20
Severity: important
$ set sensible-terminal
$ man $@ | grep $@
sensible-terminal-emulator - sensible terminal emulator
sensible-terminal-emulator [-T title] [--wait] [-e cmd...]
sensible-terminal-emulator makes sensible decisions on
$
Package: w3m-el-snapshot
Version: 1.4.632+0.20221206.2328.4f27810-1
I see:
⛔ Warning (comp): w3m-session.el:112:2: Warning: defvar
`w3m-session-group-open' docstring has wrong usage of unescaped single quotes
(use \= or different quoting)
⛔ Warning (comp): w3m-bookmark.el:208:25: Warning:
OK, that's great. But nobody visiting the packages page knows about the
tracker page, so there ought to be a hyperlink added to it on the
packages page.
Package: graphicsmagick
Hello. The viewnior and gpicview packages support heic, so should gm.
---
On 2023-10-08 08:08, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
On Sat, 7 Oct 2023, Dan Jacobson wrote:
I was using https://packages.debian.org/sid/graphicsmagick on a
chromebook
$ gm convert -list formats
Package: remind-tools
Version: 04.02.06-1
Severity: minor
>Description: sophisticated calendar and alarm program - rem2ps, 2pdf, 2html
>tools
> Remind allows you to remind yourself of upcoming events and appointments.
> Each reminder or alarm can consist of a message sent to standard output,
See also https://github.com/tumic0/GPXSee/issues/98 .
They are listed, but not present:
$ dlocate --filename-only cron_now | xargs ls -l
ls: cannot access '/usr/sbin/cron_now': No such file or directory
ls: cannot access '/usr/share/man/man8/cron_now.8.gz': No such file or directory
Also make sure to mention them on the other man pages' SEE ALSO.
Hi 1034744 team: please see #1024695 as a bug that could get fixed at
the same time...
OK, I put this in my (29.1) .emacs file
(require 'comp)
(native-compile-prune-cache)
⛔ Warning (comp): debian-el.el:90:26: Warning: reference to free variable
‘dired-mode-map’
⛔ Warning (comp): debian-el.el:95:35: Warning: docstring has wrong usage of
unescaped single quotes (use \= or different quoting)
⛔ Warning (comp): debian-ispell.el:420:16: Warning: reference to free
I notice the Debian's emacs comes with e.g.,
/usr/lib/emacs/28.2/native-lisp/28.2-66fa0d00/preloaded/elisp-mode-90dbfe40-c7c8
already installed, So no extra version needs to be made (involuntarily,
with no way to turn off apparently, by the user.)
So the answer is: Debian should come with all the
Package: gmt
Version: 6.4.0+dfsg-2+b1
Severity: minor
We see:
Depends: gmt-common (= 6.4.0+dfsg-2), libc6 (>= 2.35), libgmt6 (>= 6.4.0),
libnetcdf19 (>= 3.6.1)
Recommends: gmt-gshhg-data | gmt-gshhg-low, gmt-dcw
But aren't all the gmt-gshhg-data Recommends files already included by the
All I know is based on
https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/71825/how-often-should-emacs-28-1-native-compile-basic-emacs-files
and
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1041767
I am not even sure that these files piling up in
individual Debian users'
Package: greetd
Version: 0.9.0-3
Unpacking greetd (0.9.0-3) ...
Setting up greetd (0.9.0-3) ...
Failed to preset unit, file "/etc/systemd/system/display-manager.service"
already exists and is a symlink to "/lib/systemd/system/xdm.service".
/usr/bin/deb-systemd-helper: error: systemctl preset
Package: xdm
Version: 1:1.1.11-3+b2
# dpkg-reconfigure xdm #and then chose xdm. Then we see:
start-stop-daemon: pid value must be a number greater than 0
Try 'start-stop-daemon --help' for more information.
Package: emacs-bin-common
Version: 1:28.2+1-15
These are piling up on user's disks,
$ du -sh .emacs.d/eln-cache/*
4.0K.emacs.d/eln-cache/28.2-43f520ab
19M .emacs.d/eln-cache/28.2-467432cd
4.0K.emacs.d/eln-cache/28.2-7a6329ed
23M .emacs.d/eln-cache/28.2-8ab3e389
31M
Package: exim4-config
Version: 4.96-16
Users need to set
IGNORE_SMTP_LINE_LENGTH_LIMIT=true
else they cannot forward messages except ones with short lines.
Alas,
# update-exim4.conf --verbose
using non-split configuration scheme from /etc/exim4/exim4.conf.template
undocumented line
Package: debianutils
Version: 5.7-0.5
Preconfiguring packages ...
(Reading database ... 126526 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../debianutils_5.7-0.5_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking debianutils (5.7-0.5) over (5.7-0.4) ...
Setting up debianutils (5.7-0.5) ...
(Reading
Package: gmt
Version: 6.4.0+dfsg-2+b1
Severity: minor
File: /usr/share/man/man1/gmt.1.gz
In https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/gmt/issues/7603
we see there are grotty error messages on the man page.
Ah ha!
You see the batch job user scours the man page, and only finds:
-1, --one-line
Give only one line of output (the forward conversion); do not
print the reverse conversion. If a reciprocal conversion is
performed, then units will
Here we see the "d" items are mixed with the "m" items,
but the "m" isn't shown:
set 42.1527288 -87.8284360 42.1817060 -87.8275970
geod +ellps=GRS80 -I <
I am just saying that some commands,
like
set 42.1527288 -87.8284360 42.1817060 -87.8275970
geod +ellps=GRS80 -a -p -f %.6f -F %.4f -I +units=us-ft <
Package: units
Version: 2.22-2
Severity: wishlist
X-Debbugs-CC: adri...@gnu.org
Offer a way to just print the numbers, not also the units.
Currently one must do:
set $(units --terse 1mi)
echo $1
1609.344
So maybe have a units --just-the-numbers, when combined with --terse,
would print just the
Package: fonts-lyx
Version: 2.3.7-1
The .uuid file remained.
Package: gv
Version: 1:3.7.4-2+b1
# aptitude show ghostscript-x
Description: transitional package for ghostscript
This is a transitional package and can safely be removed.
# dpkg -P ghostscript-x
dpkg: dependency problems prevent removal of ghostscript-x:amd64:
gv depends on ghostscript-x.
X-Debbugs-Cc: tri...@cpan.org
Package: wmctrl
Version: 1.07-7+b1
Severity: wishlist
$ wmctrl -xl
0x0202 3 google-chrome-unstable.Google-chrome-unstable jidanni5 Advanced
Usage - Google Chrome
0x02ec 1 googleearth-bin.Google Earth Pro N/A Google Earth Pro
Add a null (\0) etc. or
X-Debbugs-Cc: Peter S. Galbraith
Package: elpa-debian-el
Version: 37.10
Severity: minor
Warning (comp): deb-view.el:303:28: Warning: reference to free variable
‘dired-mode-map’, and:
Use ‘with-current-buffer’ rather than save-excursion+set-buffer
assignment to free variable
Perhaps most are also applicable to the current lynx package.
Package: dpkg
Version: 1.21.21
Severity: minor
# dpkg --configure
dpkg: error: --configure needs at least one package name argument
Actually -a or --pending are also acceptable.
So the message should say that.
OK, I now installed fonts-droid-fallback. Alas, no change.
sh /tmp/text.sh
2 n.txt
C.UTF-8:2
name type encoding emb sub
uni object ID
- --- ---
--- -
XEVJPT+WenQuanYiZenHei CID TrueType Identity-H
Package: youtube-dl
Version: 2021.12.17-2
Severity: minor
Reading /usr/share/doc/youtube-dl/NEWS.Debian.gz we see we shouldn't
bother installing youtube-dl .
Well, please say that clearly in the package description too!
Sure, you say "transitional package", but that isn't enough.
Yes, you do
set -e
cd /tmp
t=n.txt
echo 郵編123 > $t
echo >> $t
wc -l $t
for l in C.UTF-8 zh_CN.UTF-8 zh_TW.UTF-8
do
printf $l:\\t
LC_ALL=$l abiword --to=pdf $t
LC_ALL=C.UTF-8 pdftotext -nopgbrk n.pdf -|wc -l
#pdffonts n.pdf
done
I get
2 n.txt
C.UTF-8:2
zh_CN.UTF-8:5
zh_TW.UTF-8:
Package: gnumeric
Version: 1.12.55-1
Severity: minor
File: /usr/share/man/man1/ssconvert.1.gz
The ssconvert man page has:
--list-importers
List the available importers (file formats that can be read).
BREAK MISSING:-I, --import-type=ID Specify which importer to use;
Package: gnumeric
Version: 1.12.55-1
File: /usr/bin/ssconvert
Loading any HTML fails.
No. Nobody knows why it fails.
It just says it fails.
$ ssconvert jidanni.org/index.html /tmp/i.html
Loading file:///home/jidanni/jidanni.org/index.html failed
Package: abiword
Version: 3.0.5~dfsg-3.2
File: /usr/bin/abiword
Here we see that there is a bug in the pdf creator:
{ echo 哈哈 郵編123 哈哈; echo 郵編123;} > /tmp/n.txt
abiword --to=pdf /tmp/n.txt
When viewing the resultant pdf, one line is garbled.
But if I use
LC_ALL=C abiword --to=pdf /tmp/n.txt
Package: imagemagick-6-doc
Version: 8:6.9.11.60+dfsg-1.6
Severity: important
File: /usr/share/doc/imagemagick-6-common/html/www/examples.html
Testing offline,
In firefox and chrome, all one sees is
"
Home (current)
Download
Tools
Command-line
Develop
Community
"
one sees much more in w3m.
Package: testdisk
testdisk-7.2-WIP.linux26-x86_64.tar.bz2 is available upstream.
Package: aptitude
Version: 0.8.13-5
Severity: minor
$ aptitude purge -s debian-archive-keyring
The following packages will be REMOVED:
debian-archive-keyring{p}
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 276 kB will be
Package: perl-doc
Version: 5.36.0-7
Severity: minor
File: /usr/share/man/man1/perlretut.1.gz
These lines with only a NO-BREAK SPACE on them serve no purpose, and
just look funny in e.g., emacs. Also they only occur on this man page.
$ for i in perl perlre perlretut; do man -w $i |
xargs
Package: devscripts
Version: 2.23.3
Severity: minor
File: /usr/bin/checkbashisms
Currently one cannot detect bashims if there is
a #!/bin/bash at the top of a script.
We must do
# sed 1s/bash/sh/ my_script | checkbashisms
Maybe add a flag to do that for us.
That way we can know if it is safe to
Package: unicode
Version: 2.9-1
Sometimes, even for the same command(!), limiting the output causes a
traceback.
Certainly using head(1), sed(1), etc. should be a legitimate use, and
not cause errors.
Here, the first try works fine.
Trying it again just for fun, causes an error.
But other
Fine it is not a bug.
It is a warning.
Leaving everybody unsure what to do.
Package: mailutils
Version: 1:3.15-4
File: /usr/bin/mimeview
mimeview: cannot stat '/usr/share/cups/mime': No such file or directory
(info "(mailutils) mimeview") mentions what might need to be required
for mimeview to work.
Package: ca-certificates
Version: 20230311
We get this warning:
Setting up ca-certificates (20230311) ...
Updating certificates in /etc/ssl/certs...
rehash: warning: skipping ca-certificates.crt, it does not contain exactly one
certificate or CRL
Maybe there is an answer in
Package: openssl
Version: 3.0.8-1
Severity: minor
File: /usr/bin/c_rehash
There should be a space after this comma:
Setting up ca-certificates (20230311) ...
Updating certificates in /etc/ssl/certs...
rehash: warning: skipping ca-certificates.crt,it does not contain exactly one
certificate or
Package: reportbug
Version: 11.6.0
Severity: minor
Allow user to influence Content-Transfer-Encoding.
Don't just leave it up to the whims of the program.
$ < /dev/null HOME=/dev/null reportbug ca-certificates --template|grep Encoding
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
$ < /dev/null HOME=/dev/null
Package: reportbug
Version: 11.6.0
Severity: minor
Man page says:
-o FILE, --output=FILE
Instead of sending an email, redirect it to the specified file‐
name.
The output file is a full dump of the email message, so it con‐
tains
Well I was hoping that there would be a way for everything one needed to
learn and use the package offline would be available.
But as I couldn't find a way to make vertical graphs instead of
horizontal. I gave up on the package.
Package: groff-base
Version: 1.22.4-9
Severity: minor
File: /usr/share/man/man1/pic.1.gz
We read
> A complete documentation is available in the file
> /usr/share/doc/groff-base/pic.ms.gz
Say /usr/share/doc/groff/pic.txt.gz
Else nobody can figure out how to read it, as they need to read it to
Package: libgraph-easy-perl
Version: 0.76-3
Severity: minor
We see
> Please see Graph::Easy::Manual for a full description of the syntax rules.
But that file is missing.
And no wonder even on a King Size monitor I couldn't find it:
Our brain scans the screen, noting A B C and D.
We note C and B are about the same, so we click B because it is closer
to A.
OK, now we see:
Voila, the left side panel's precious link to the Repository is gone.
Stolen out from under
I bet you must be logged into metacpan to see it. I can't see it even if
I "choose desktop site."
There is exactly one link to the word 'repository' on that page, and it
is not clickable!
See the attached screenshot. Thanks.
Package: libgeo-inverse-perl
Version: 0.07-1
File: /usr/share/doc/libgeo-inverse-perl/copyright
$ dlocate -L libgeo-inverse-perl|xargs zgrep -i github
/usr/share/doc/libgeo-inverse-perl/CONTRIBUTING.md:Fork repository on GitHub
and submit a pull request.
Package: libgis-distance-perl
Version: 0.19-2
Man page has
my $point1 = Geo::Point->latlong( $lat1, $lon1 );
but
Can't locate object method "latlong" via package "Geo::Point" (perhaps
you forgot to load "Geo::Point"?)
Therefore where to get Geo::Point should at least be in the Package
Package: libgeo-calc-perl
Version: 0.12-1
Severity: grave
File: /usr/share/doc/libgeo-calc-perl
Forwarded: https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=146578
Regarding Geo::Calc version 0.12, there is something very wrong.
The distance from London to Tokyo,
11314595.851556
is different that
MR> Does this still occur?
I'm not sure, as I purged all that software.
Package: ibus-chewing
Version: 1.6.1-2
Severity: minor
I found that ○● ○● are actually the same unicodes repeated at 1, 2
and 5, 6:
One pair is all that is needed.
This is the second page of 8:特殊圖形.
reopen 1030394
retitle 1030394 1.20 not cleaned up
thanks
Wait, on my other computer there is the exact same problem:
$ ls -log /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/elpa/
drwxr-xr-x 2 4096 2018-08-07 circe-2.6
drwxr-xr-x 2 4096 2022-05-26 csv-mode-1.20
drwxr-xr-x 2 4096 01-25 12:31 csv-mode-1.21
Package: elpa-csv-mode
Version: 1.21-1
Severity: minor
We note the ugly double slashes. Yes, cosmetic problem only.
ls -og ...
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/elpa/csv-mode-1.21:
-rw-r--r-- 132 01-18 18:15 Install.log.gz
lrwxrwxrwx 172 01-18 18:15 csv-mode-autoloads.el ->
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