On Thu, 22 Jun 2023, Mason Loring Bliss wrote:
On Fri, Jun 23, 2023 at 01:30:30AM +0200, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
On Thu, 22 Jun 2023, David Griffith wrote:
This was prompted when I found that rsyslog stopped working on Bullseye when
upgraded to Bookworm. What sort of depenency would you
On Fri, 23 Jun 2023, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
On Thu, 22 Jun 2023, David Griffith wrote:
This was prompted when I found that rsyslog stopped working on Bullseye when
upgraded to Bookworm. What sort of depenency would you suggest to implement
the following?
“Read the release notes.”
Or use
On Fri, 23 Jun 2023, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
On Thu, 22 Jun 2023, David Griffith wrote:
of no use unless sysvinit is being used and its absence leads to random
packages (some important) not working at all; orphan-sysvinit-scripts
should be a prerequisite.
Huh? No. Currently, orphan-sysvinit
Package: initscripts
Version: 3.06-4
Severity: important
When doing an upgrade of a Bullseye machine to Bookworm, I noticed that
rsyslog stopped writing log entries. There was no immediate clue as to
what was going on. After poking around online, I found Bug#1037039
which said that
I've since put these Perl scripts into a package called "Blorbtools". See
https://gitlab.com/DavidGriffith/blorbtools
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A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
A: Top-postin
My apologies. This is a workaround, not a solution.
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A solution was proposed at
https://ubuntu-mate.community/t/workspace-switcher-scaling-issue-on-ubuntu-mate-21-10-diagnosis-and-temporary-fix/24686/4
for the same bug occuring in Ubuntu 21.10 dated 16 October 2021. That
solution seems to work well for Debian Bookworm:
I substituted
Package: libsdl2-gfx-dev
Version: 1.0.4+dfsg-3
Severity: important
I tried to compile a program that requires SDL2_gfxPrimitives_font.h
from libsdl2-gfx-dev. Specifically I tried to compile
https://github.com/lkundrak/koules from the SDL2 branch.
Doing "make -f Makefile.sdl" resulted in this:
My reply is at the bottom. Please put your reply there too.
On Thu, 10 Oct 2019, Sven Joachim wrote:
Control: tags -1 + moreinfo
On 2012-08-19 19:22 +0700, Ivan Shmakov wrote:
Thomas Dickey writes:
On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 11:53:05PM -0700, David Griffith wrote:
>> Package:
Package: wodim
Version: 9:1.1.11-3+b2
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable
Attempting to burn a DVD-R using the same drive, media, and computer.
This attempt aborts prior to even starting the burn:
wodim: No write mode specified.
wodim: Assuming -tao mode.
wodim: Future
Package: inform6-compiler
Version: 6.33-2
Severity: normal
The manpage for the Inform6 compiler indicates that it's for version
6.31. The latest tagged version of the compiler is 6.33. The manpage
hasn't changed that much, but it does now contain caveats, pointers to
documentation, and
Package: mate-desktop-environment
Version: 1.20.0+5
Severity: normal
The clock applet in MATE changes its width depending on the width of the
characters displayed. This is most noticable when seconds are
displayed. If seconds are displayed and the clock is far from any other
applet, the
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On Thu, 24 Jan 2019, Ben Finney wrote:
On 08-Jul-2018, David Griffith wrote:
On Tue, 12 Jun 2018, Ben Finney wrote:
I also saw you announce that the releases will now be somewhere
other than GitHub? What URL should recipients watch
Package: abcde
Version: 2.9.2-1
Severity: important
Dear Maintainer,
Abcde depends upon glyrc and recode. Glyrc is currently recommended,
but not required. Abcde refuses to start without this package
installed. Recode is not mentioned at all in abcde's APT entry. If
abcde is used without
Is there any progress on this? Sid still has version 6.12.0 (aka 6/12).
On Tue, 12 Jun 2018, Ben Finney wrote:
On 12-Jun-2018, David Griffith wrote:
I updated the Inform6 Standard Library to version 6.12.2.
Thank you. I also saw you announce that the releases will now be
somewhere other than GitHub? What URL should recipients watch for
future source releases
Package: frotz
Version: 2.44-0.1+b1
Severity: normal
I have changed the upstream location for Frotz.
It now lives at https://gitlab.com/DavidGriffith/frotz
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APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Package: inform6-library
Version: 6.12~dfsg.1
Severity: normal
I updated the Inform6 Standard Library to version 6.12.2. This release
focuses almost entirely on bug fixes. A minor backport from Inform7's
PArser.i6t has been added.
Bugs fixed
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* Removed last vestiges of modules.
*
This kernel commit might be relevant vis-a-vis switching in and out of
64-bit contexts:
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/6c25da5ad55d48c41b8909bc1f4e3cd5d85bb499
Package: dosemu
Version: 1.4.0.7+2013
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable
Identical symptoms were reported in https://bugs.debian.org/797378, but
they're back again. That report stated that the problem was in the
Linux kernel and was fixed in Linux 4.2-rc7. I'm running
I filed a bug report at
https://github.com/mate-desktop/mate-settings-daemon/issues/177 about
this. While that gets worked on, feh
(https://packages.debian.org/stretch/feh) can be used to manually set the
background.
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A: Because it fouls the order in which
Source: xorg
Version: 1:7.7+19
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
I just now updated xorg to version 1:7.7+19 and upon logging out and
restarting X11, I found that my wallpaper was set to the default blue
swirl. None of the usual methods for setting the wallpaper appear to
work anymore.
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=true
xterm*faceSize: 12
XTerm*renderFont: true
XTerm*utf8: 1
xterm*vt100.initialFont: 3
xterm*loginShell: true
xterm*vt100*geometry: 80x24
xterm*saveLines: 2000
xterm*charClass: 33:48,35:48,37:48,43:48,45-47:48,64:48,95:48,126:48
xterm*foreground: rgb:ee/ee/ee
xterm*background: rgb:00/00/00
I forgot the j2c extension. Here's a replacement diff:
From df00590fdefdcb1a92132bd22b692d4f7358afd8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: David Griffith <d...@661.org>
Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2017 05:10:49 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] dircolors: Colorize jp2 j2k j2c jpf jpx jpm mj2 mp2 filename
exte
_install_xspec '!*.pdf' epdfview
_install_xspec '!*.@(cb[rz7t]|djv?(u)|?(e)ps|pdf)' zathura
_install_xspec '!*.@(?(e)ps|pdf)' ps2pdf ps2pdf12 ps2pdf13 ps2pdf14 ps2pdfwr
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A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad
/coreutils.git. I'm
not sure if this is an acceptable way to get a patch into a GNU project,
so please be gentle.
>From 7f1ea1e883edc35b8e88a98d03979d1691491ff2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: David Griffith <d...@661.org>
Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2017 04:50:03 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] dircolors: Coloriz
2 ps2pdf13 ps2pdf14 ps2pdfwr
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A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
A: Top-posting.
Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?
Package: bash-completion
Version: 1:2.0-1
Severity: wishlist
Please add support for JPEG2000 filename extensions.
These are .jp2, .j2k, .jpf, .jpx, .jpm, and .mj2
Package: www.debian.org
Severity: normal
Chapter 3.4 of the Installation Guide for Stretch is out of date with
regard to RAM requirements. Through trial and error, I determined the
following:
Install Type| RAM (minimum) | RAM (recommended) | Hard Drive
No desktop | 256 megabytes | 1
Please close this bug. The root cause turned out to be not enough memory.
Package: mate-desktop
Version: 1.16.1
Severity: normal
At least in version 1.8.x of MATE, windows were placed first where there
was room. Then if there wasn't any clear space to put a new window, it
would go in the middle of the screen. The current strategy is deficient
such that when
Package: mate-desktop
Version: 1.16.1
Severity: normal
When I press a window up against the border of the desktop and the top
panel, it is assumed that I want to maximize that window. Not
necessarily. This didn't happen in MATE 1.8.x. At the very least there
should be an option to turn
Package: mate-desktop
Version: 1.16.1
Severity: normal
Most (all) application windows are expected to display an icon in a
corner, often the upper left. With MATE 1.16.1, the icon for Xterm is
somehow rendered as though it was painted over with a thin wash of grey
paint.
I'm not sure with
Package: installation-reports
Version: Stretch RC 2
Severity: normal
Boot method: Writable USB thumb drive
Image version:
http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/weekly-builds/amd64/iso-cd/debian-testing-amd64-netinst.iso
Date: Sun Feb 12 23:12:53 PST 2017
Machine: QEMU
Processor:
Memory:
I mistakenly stated that this bug involved Squeeze, when it's actually
Stretch that has the problem. Please close this bug. I'll resubmit it
with the right name.
Package: installation-reports
Version: Stretch RC 2
Severity: normal
Boot method: Writable USB thumb drive
Image version:
http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/weekly-builds/amd64/iso-cd/debian-testing-amd64-netinst.iso
Date: Sun Feb 12 23:12:53 PST 2017
Machine: QEMU
Processor:
Memory:
Partitions:
Package: syslinux-utils
Version: 5.00+dfsg-1
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable
Dear Maintainer,
I've followed the instructions at
https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/ch04s03.html.en section
4.3.3 (essentially
this problem with 3.2.1-2 as well.
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A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
A: Top-posting.
Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?
Package: glabels
Version: 3.4.0
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
When printing to various Avery templates the result is undersized such
that the edges in the cards are misaligned vertically by about 2.5mm.
This is enough to make the resulting look very sloppy. This can be
remedied,
Package: gophernicus
Version: 1.8.1
Severity: wishlist
Dear Maintainer,
As of the time of this report, the only Gopher server available in an
official Debian package is pygopherd. That one has an annoying problem
with zombies. Therefore I would very much appreciate having Gophernicus
made
Package: pygopherd
Version: 2.0.18.3+nmu2
Severity: important
Dear Maintainer,
When pygopherd is running, there are always at least two zombie
processes associated with it. I vaguely recall reporting this
somewhere, but not here. This has been going on at least as far back as
2012.
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On Sat, 11 Jun 2016, Ben Finney wrote:
On 11-Jun-2016, David Griffith wrote:
On Sat, 11 Jun 2016, Ben Finney wrote:
The Inform 6 compiler code base is maintained (I believe; or at
least published) by David Kinder. So that's where to submit the
request to make those files part of the Inform 6
On Sat, 11 Jun 2016, Ben Finney wrote:
On 11-Jun-2016, David Griffith wrote:
On Sat, 11 Jun 2016, Ben Finney wrote:
Do you think the belong as part of the source release of the
Inform 6 compiler, then? I leave it to your judgement; if you
think so, please file a bug report with the developer
. I'm the developer of those two scripts.
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A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
A: Top-posting.
Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?
Package: inform6-compiler
Version: 6.33-1
Severity: wishlist
Dear Maintainer,
The tarball edition of the Inform6 for Unix package contains two Perl
scripts in the contrib/ directory: pblorb.pl and scanblorb.pl These are
for creating and extracting Blorb files. They are required when
Package: inform6-library
Version: 6.12~dfsg.1-1
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
I released version 6.12.1 of the Inform 6 Standard Library a couple days
ago. It includes several fixes for annoying, embarrassing, and
potentially showstopping bugs.
Here are the changes:
* TAKE ROCKS, TAKE
all cleared of potential license snags.
Correct md5 sum:
85a34329badfecd8b586782890aa17bd inform-6.33-6.12.1.tar.gz
[1] http://ifarchive.org/
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A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
A: Top-posting
Package: frotz
Version: 2.43-4
Severity: important
Dear Maintainer,
I, the upstream of Frotz, have released version 2.44. This update is
marked important because the primary change in 2.44 is the correction
of a longstanding bug in the game save code that led to corruption and
crashes when
Subject: pm-utils: Hibernate fails to engauge on Thinkpad T42
Package: pm-utils
Version: 1.4.1-9
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
For some reason, maybe a kernel regression, pm-hibernate stopped being
able to put my Thinkpad T42 into hibernation. It starts to do the job,
but bails out
On Sun, 10 Mar 2013, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote:
Hi David,
Le samedi, 9 mars 2013 23.00:49, David Griffith a écrit :
I'm using Brother's driver packs available at
http://welcome.solutions.brother.com/bsc/public_s/id/linux/en/download_prn.
html#MFC-7360N These work fine with Squeeze. I did
. This fixes the print alignment problem
I don't know how this can be universalized or exactly why cpdftocps was
removed. Does this give you enough to go on to come up with a solution?
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On Sat, 9 Mar 2013, Brian Potkin wrote:
On Fri 01 Mar 2013 at 02:01:02 -0800, David Griffith wrote:
On Fri, 1 Mar 2013, Holger Levsen wrote:
David,
which printer model? are you using cups? You will need to give more infos,
like what application you are using for printing as well
On Fri, 1 Mar 2013, Holger Levsen wrote:
On Freitag, 1. März 2013, David Griffith wrote:
Subject: base: All prints are offset about 1cm right and 1cm up
Package: base
Severity: important
Anything printed comes out offset about 1cm right and 1cm up. This is
mildly annoying for most purposes
Subject: base: All prints are offset about 1cm right and 1cm up
Package: base
Severity: important
Anything printed comes out offset about 1cm right and 1cm up. This is
mildly annoying for most purposes. Applications that depend on exact
positioning, Glabels in particular, are rendered
Package: glabels
Version: 2.2.8-1
Severity: wishlist
Tags: upstream
Several times I've wanted to make a label with glabels that includes a
circle with a slash through it. The restriction of lines to 4 points
makes for a very inadequate-looking slashout graphic.
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Package: deluge
Version: 1.2.3+git20110209.8c36830-0squeeze1
Severity: normal
Suppose deluge is not running in any way. Alice starts deluge-console
and waits. Bob starts the daemon (deluged). Alice uses the connect
command to connect to the daemon. This fails with the following
message:
Package: xterm
Version: 278-1
Severity: normal
Compared to Xterm in Squeeze, Xterm in Wheezy is very slow to scroll and
update. This leads to distracting flashes and empty blocks when
scrolling or refreshing the screen. What changed between Squeeze and
Wheezy that would have caused this?
Package: xterm
Version: 278-1
Severity: normal
After a normal bootup, the terminal bell with Xterm works as expected.
After some time it stops. This happens with RXVT, Gnome Terminal, and
XFCE Terminal. The problem does not appear to be related to starting or
stopping any sort of
Package: coreutils
Version: 8.13-3.2
Severity: normal
File: /bin/df
The output of df(1) is very ugly when drives are mounted by their uuid.
Is there some way of doing some sort of shorthand when referring to such
volumes?
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APT prefers
Package: pygopherd
Version: 2.0.18.3+nmu2
Severity: minor
Tags: upstream
/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/pygopherd/handlers/url.py
contains an awkward typo on line 67. It reads:
sent there, plesae click
This typo can be seen when following an HTML link from a gopherspace.
The fix is
: Depends: libpixman-1-0 (= 0.16.4-1) but
0.24.0-1~bpo60+1 is to be installed
E: Broken packages
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) libcairo2-dev [Not Installed]
5) libgtk2.0-dev [Not Installed]
6) libpango1.0-dev [Not Installed]
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On Sat, 25 Feb 2012, Carlos Laviola wrote:
On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 21:10, David Griffith d...@661.org wrote:
On Fri, 24 Feb 2012, Abou Al Montacir wrote:
Can you please clarify more the situation? You are using Squeeze or a mix
of
Squeeze and other repositories? What are the dependencies
Package: fpc
Version: 2.4.0-2
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable
Attempting to install fpc through aptitude or apt-get fails because of
the following packages that will not be installed:
fp-units-gnome1
fp-units-gtk
libcairo2-dev
libgtk2.0-dev
libpango1.0-dev
Aptitude
Package: dosemu
Version: 1.4.0+svn.1999-2
Severity: normal
Using DOS Frotz as found at
http://www.ifarchive.org/if-archive/infocom/interpreters/old/frotz/DosFrotz232Std10.zip
and newly compiled from
http://www.ifarchive.org/if-archive/infocom/interpreters/old/frotz/Frotz232Src.zip,
both
Package: frotz
Version: 2.43-3
Severity: normal
I am the main developer of Frotz. Please change the homepage listed for
Frotz to http://frotz.sourceforge.net/. The page currently listed is
fed by a DSL line and I would like to minimize the traffic going there.
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I'll go ahead and open a ticket in the upstream. I've been recently
working on adding new magic entries.
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Z-machine binaries may be found at
http://www.ifarchive.org/indexes/if-archiveXgamesXzcode.html The files
we're interested in match *.z?.
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Package: file
Version: 5.04-5
Severity: normal
Just now I noticed that the file(1) command in Debian Squeeze works
inconsistently on Z-machine binaries. It seems to identify V4 and V8
files correctly, but chokes on other versions. Most V5 files are
reported as Hitachi SH big-endian COFF
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