Bug#1069795: Please keep random

2024-04-24 Thread David Starner
Package: bsdgames Version: 2.17-33 Severity: wishlist I've found random a useful tool for sampling data files and would find it helpful if it were kept. Thank you. -- The standard is written in English . If you have trouble understanding a particular section, read it again and again and again .

Bug#1059448: python3-influxdb emits errors on installation

2023-12-25 Thread David Starner
Package: python3-influxdb Version: 5.3.1-5 Severity: normal X-Debbugs-Cc: prosfil...@gmail.com Upon installation, dkg says Setting up python3-influxdb (5.3.1-5) ... /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/influxdb/tests/client_test.py:527: SyntaxWarning: invalid escape sequence '\(' "\(use 'n', 'u',

Bug#1051354: squashfs-tools: man page claims mksquashfs DIRECTORY IMAGE.SQFS creates IMAGE.SQSH

2023-09-06 Thread David Starner
Package: squashfs-tools Version: 1:4.6.1-1 Severity: minor X-Debbugs-Cc: prosfil...@gmail.com mksquashfs.1 says mksquashfs DIRECTORY IMAGE.SQFS Create a Squashfs filesystem from the contents of DIRECTORY, writing the output to IMAGE.SQSH. Mksquashfs will use the default

Bug#1042020: mmv aborts with realloc(): invalid pointer

2023-07-25 Thread David Starner
Package: mmv Version: 2.5-1 Severity: important prosfilaes@asimov:~/temp/temp2/temp/temp2$ rm * prosfilaes@asimov:~/temp/temp2/temp/temp2$ for i in `seq 1 100`; do touch $i; done prosfilaes@asimov:~/temp/temp2/temp/temp2$ mmv "*0" "#1" realloc(): invalid pointer Aborted

Bug#888914: backintime adds current directory to path?

2018-01-30 Thread David Starner
Package:backintime-qt4 Version:1.1.12-2 ~/RPG/Mine/Traveller/Traveller_USB $ backintime-qt4 & [1] 326 ~/RPG/Mine/Traveller/Traveller_USB $ sh: 0: getcwd() failed: No such file or directory sh: 0: getcwd() failed: No such file or directory Traceback (most recent call last): File

Bug#873341: SBT is uninstallable; depends on nonexistent packages

2017-08-26 Thread David Starner
Package: sbt Version: 0.13.13-2 Severity: serious sbt is not installable; it depends on various packages like sbt-test-interface that only exist in experimental.

Bug#847419: apt-listchanges: crashes with AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'decode'

2016-12-07 Thread David Starner
Package: apt-listchanges Version: 3.6 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, Apt upgrade leads to Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/apt-listchanges", line 243, in main(config) File "/usr/bin/apt-listchanges", line 141, in main (news, changelog, binnmu) =

Bug#787538: New compose sequences for Esperanto

2015-06-02 Thread David Starner
Package: libx11-data Version: 2:1.6.3-1 Severity: wishlist Is there way we could get Multi_key C x : Ĉ U0108 # LATIN CAPITAL LETTER C WITH CIRCUMFLEX Multi_key C X : Ĉ U0108 # LATIN CAPITAL LETTER C WITH CIRCUMFLEX Multi_key c x : ĉ U0109 # LATIN SMALL LETTER C WITH CIRCUMFLEX

Bug#744801: Backintime-gnome doesn't work on a read-only file system

2014-04-14 Thread David Starner
Package: backintime-gnome Version: 1.0.34-0.1 My drive just had problems and the kernel decided to remount it read-only. As it is clearly not long for this world, I figured that I would run backintime-gnome one last time. Except backintime-gnome doesn't work on read-only filesystems, failing with

Bug#743662: wmweather has no option to turn off metric

2014-04-04 Thread David Starner
Package: wmweather Version: 2.4.5-2 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch The system-wide wmweather.conf file lists metric, and since there's no option to set imperial units, there's no way to bring up wmweather in imperial units. Here's a patch to add such an option. -- Kie ekzistas vivo, ekzistas

Bug#655924: udev: {dvd,cdrom,?} symlinks are not created

2013-10-26 Thread David Starner
Michael Biebl bi...@debian.org writes: Am 10.10.2013 21:40, schrieb Colomban Wendling: Really? I'm not finding each and every application that uses /dev/dvd as the default DVD device and convince their developers to use a new library. This is not realistic, and IMO not a sensible

Bug#717695: xmonad recommends some seriously huge packages

2013-07-23 Thread David Starner
Package: xmonad Version: 0.11-5 Severity: wishlist sudo apt-get install xmonad ... Need to get 78.4 MB of archives. After this operation, 514 MB of additional disk space will be used. sudo apt-get --no-install-recommends install xmonad ... Need to get 612 kB of archives. After this operation,

Bug#714710: No start-stop-script at all

2013-07-18 Thread David Starner
I've just built my own Live-CD with live-config and live-build, and unlike this bug report, /sbin/start-stop-script doesn't exist at all. -- Kie ekzistas vivo, ekzistas espero. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Bug#714321: fontconfig spams the console on every program start

2013-06-27 Thread David Starner
Package: fontconfig Version: 2.10.2-2 Every time a fontconfig-using program starts up, it spams the following to the console Fontconfig warning: /etc/fonts/conf.d/25-wqy-zenhei.conf, line 11: Having multiple values in test isn't supported and may not work as expected Fontconfig warning:

Bug#714230: GDB changelog lists latest release as UNRELEASED

2013-06-26 Thread David Starner
Package: gdb Version: 7.6-4 Severity: minor The GDB changelog for the version in unstable lists the latest release as UNRELEASED. -- Kie ekzistas vivo, ekzistas espero. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Bug#713037: xtermset overruns array bounds

2013-06-21 Thread David Starner
Package: xtermset Version: 0.5.2-5 Tags: patch https://buildd.debian.org/~brlink/packages/x/xtermset.html warns that it overrunns array bounds. Looking at the code, it defines a couple arrays as c[2] and then writes to c[2], so there's a clear problem here. It's confusing what they get indexed

Bug#699736: GNAT offers bug box on small Ada 2012 program

2013-02-04 Thread David Starner
Package: gnat-4.6 Version: 4.6.3-8 When compiled with gnatmake -gnat12 algo_2sat.adb package body Algo_2SAT is type Orientation is (Unused, Unnegated, Negated, Both); procedure Monodirectional (P: in out Problem_2SAT) is Count : array (1 .. Variable (100)) of Orientation := (others =

Bug#698319: tspsol not found in package

2013-01-16 Thread David Starner
Package: glpk-utils Version:4.45-1 The package description claims to have tspsol in the package, and there is a manpage for tspsol, but no tspsol in the package. -- Kie ekzistas vivo, ekzistas espero. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Bug#387745: This is unacceptable

2012-12-20 Thread David Starner
On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 3:24 PM, Micah Cowan mi...@cowan.name wrote: My response (which you can see by following the upstream annotation link) was that --restrict-file-names=nocontrol was the way to get the desired behavior, There's a 32 letter switch to tell wget not to convert filenames to

Bug#387745: This is unacceptable

2012-12-19 Thread David Starner
It's been six years, and wget still can't read the locale to know that UTF-8 filenames shouldn't be mangled? An 8-year old document, http://hektor.umcs.lublin.pl/~mikosmul/computing/articles/linux-unicode.html , notes that some GNOME applications tend to create UTF-8 filenames regardless of the

Bug#689747: autofs won't install with old autofs5 installation

2012-10-06 Thread David Starner
On Sat, Oct 6, 2012 at 1:42 AM, Michael Tokarev m...@tls.msk.ru wrote: Can it be that you had lenny version of autofs5 maybe, or even something older? Maybe. It's been an old system that's been upgraded a number of times. Please show me the output of grep autofs /var/lib/ucf/registry

Bug#689747: autofs won't install with old autofs5 installation

2012-10-05 Thread David Starner
Package: autofs Version: 5.0.7-1 Severity: serious $ sudo apt-get install autofs udev Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done udev is already the newest version. The following NEW packages will be installed: autofs 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed,

Bug#688277: gcc-4.7-base:amd64 does not coexist with gcc-4.7-base:i386

2012-09-20 Thread David Starner
Package:gcc-4.7-base Version: 4.7.1-9 Severity: serious Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages have been kept back: python-wicd wicd wicd-curses wicd-daemon wicd-gtk The following packages will be upgraded: cpp-4.7

Bug#670946: en.WP got deleted again

2012-05-20 Thread David Starner
After fixing the JSON file to return en.WP and making no other changes to my search engine, I upgraded to 10.0.4esr-3, and Wikipedia (en) disappeared again. -- Kie ekzistas vivo, ekzistas espero. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Bug#672491: texpower has an unreasonable expansion on its demand for space

2012-05-13 Thread David Starner
On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 2:05 AM, Hilmar Preuße hill...@web.de wrote: You probably didn't set 'Install-Recommends false'; in your apt.conf. Hence apt tries to install also the recommended packages and we have set the doc packages to recommended. Yes, these doc packages are quite large, a

Bug#672491: texpower has an unreasonable expansion on its demand for space

2012-05-12 Thread David Starner
On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 9:55 AM, Rene Engelhard r...@debian.org wrote: Because texpower is now built from texlive and this is the only solution you get a in-place upgrade. (texpower is empty, just depending on texlive-latex-extra which contains texpower) That isn't the only solution. There's

Bug#672491: texpower has an unreasonable expansion on its demand for space

2012-05-12 Thread David Starner
On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 4:00 AM, Norbert Preining prein...@logic.at wrote: BTW, why do you complain? To use texpower you *anyway* need TeX? So it will be installed *anyway*. And if you don't want, don't install the documentation, and it will be much leaner. Why do I complain? Because one day I

Bug#672491: texpower has an unreasonable expansion on its demand for space

2012-05-11 Thread David Starner
Package: texpower Version: 2011.20120509-1 texpower, in testing, has an installed size of 387 KB. If you look at command lines below, to upgrade to the new texpower is going to take over 450 MB. I was considering making this wishlist, but this 1000x fold increase in effective size takes a program

Bug#671167: youtube-dl downloading from blip doesn't seem to work any more

2012-05-02 Thread David Starner
Package: youtube-dl Version: 2012.02.27-1 Running youtube-dl -t http://blip.tv/nostalgia-chick/nostalgia-chick-top-ten-songs-about-sex-from-musicals-5466604 gives a 38k mkv file that says This video is only available in the Blip Player. -- Kie ekzistas vivo, ekzistas espero. -- To

Bug#670946: Iceweasel deleted en.Wikipedia from the drop-down search engines

2012-04-30 Thread David Starner
Package: iceweasel Version: 10.0.4esr-2 The latest update to iceweasel removed en.Wikipedia from my drop-down search engines. Given that it saw fit to completely rearrange them a few versions ago, is there any likelyhood that it could return the en.Wikipedia search engine and then stop messing

Bug#618532: postgresql-9.0 won't install, complaining of permissions on server.key

2011-08-31 Thread David Starner
On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 10:40 AM, Martin Pitt mp...@debian.org wrote: David Starner [2011-03-16 10:38 -0700]: No, -rw-r- is what the permissions are on my system. I've got it running by turning off ssl. What's the owner/group of the file? Martin -- Martin Pitt

Bug#618532: postgresql-9.0 won't install, complaining of permissions on server.key

2011-08-31 Thread David Starner
On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 12:33 AM, Christoph Berg m...@debian.org wrote: Re: David Starner 2011-03-16 aanlktimdd7jmfk3+9cbtkzy48e72nndempsvgkqp_...@mail.gmail.com FATAL: private key file server.key has group or world access 2011-03-15 18:21:36 PDT DETAIL: File must be owned by the database

Bug#618532: postgresql-9.0 won't install, complaining of permissions on server.key

2011-08-31 Thread David Starner
On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 3:02 AM, Christoph Berg m...@debian.org wrote: What user/group own this file? Can you still reproduce the problem? root/ssl-cert. Honestly, postgresql was something I was playing with; I don't really have the interest in trying to reproduce it now. Feel free to close it

Bug#618532: postgresql-9.0 won't install, complaining of permissions on server.key

2011-03-16 Thread David Starner
On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 11:33 PM, Martin Pitt mp...@debian.org wrote: Hello David, David Starner [2011-03-15 18:37 -0700]: FATAL: private key file server.key has group or world access 2011-03-15 18:21:36 PDT DETAIL: File must be owned by the database user or root, must have no write

Bug#618532: postgresql-9.0 won't install, complaining of permissions on server.key

2011-03-15 Thread David Starner
Subject: postgresql-9.0 won't install, complaining of permissions on server.key Package: postgresql-9.0 Version: 9.0.3-1 Severity: important I'm installing postgresql-9.0, and the install is failing. It's saying Setting up postgresql-9.0 (9.0.3-1) ... Starting PostgreSQL 9.0 database server:

Bug#612705: Netpbm should include Jpeg2ktopam

2011-02-09 Thread David Starner
Package: netpbm Version: 2:10.0-12.2+b1 Severity: wishlist I hacked up a jp2 to pnm converter and offered it upstream, whereupon he pointed me to jpeg2ktopam. That doesn't seem to be in Debian's netpbm; can it be included in future packages? -- Kie ekzistas vivo, ekzistas espero. -- To

Bug#612542: libhunspell-1.2-0: Iceweasel is crashing inside libhunspell when producing a suggestion list

2011-02-08 Thread David Starner
Package: libhunspell-1.2-0 Version: 1.2.14-2 Severity: important I've been have crashes in Iceweasel when right-clicking on a word. I ran it under valgrind, and produced the message below, showing that mkallcap was trying to read invalid memory. Rolling it back to the version in testing,

Bug#597653: mplayer: Mplayer issues invalid frame duration message and hangs

2010-09-21 Thread David Starner
Package: mplayer Version: 2:1.0~rc3++final.dfsg1-1 Severity: normal I was running Sherlock_Holmes_Baffled.ogv from http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sherlock_Holmes_Baffled.ogv (the version uploaded on 10 August 2010), and at the end of the file it hung and refused to quit using the q key. I

Bug#405644: mp3burn: Change dependency on cdrecord to wodim

2009-09-21 Thread David Starner
Take the time to search for Joerg Schilling and Debian. Or look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cdrkit. I question his statement that cdrecord is going to get added to Debian, and discount completely his statement that wodim is going anywhere. -- Kie ekzistas vivo, ekzistas espero. -- To

Bug#541738: -Z doesn't work correctly

2009-08-15 Thread David Starner
Package: music123 Version: 15-0.2 Tags: patch music123 -Z will always start out by playing the first song, then one of the first two songs, etc. I've written a patch so that it works as designed. -- Kie ekzistas vivo, ekzistas espero. diff -ru music123-15/support_routines.adb

Bug#449482: closed by Michael Leupold le...@confuego.org (Re: when konqueror is run as root (from apt-listchanges), it breaks priorities on files)

2009-04-19 Thread David Starner
On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 7:06 AM, Debian Bug Tracking System ow...@bugs.debian.org wrote: This is an automatic notification regarding your Bug report which was filed against the konqueror package: #449482: when konqueror is run as root (from apt-listchanges), it breaks priorities on files

Bug#516006: html2text: README.Debian has a few grammatical infelicities

2009-02-18 Thread David Starner
Package: html2text Version: 1.3.2a-11 Severity: minor I read through README.Debian, and thought it had a few questionable grammatical choices to my native-English-speaking ear. I've fixed up a few things; I attached the updated version and a wdiff below. -- System Information: Debian Release:

Bug#497620: closed by Ludovic Brenta ludo...@ludovic-brenta.org (Bug box on legal code, raised TYPES.UNRECOVERABLE_ERROR : comperr.adb:398)

2009-01-05 Thread David Starner
On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 10:12 AM, Debian Bug Tracking System ow...@bugs.debian.org wrote: Closing as per info from Jorgen. But he didn't even test the bug. It works fine with no options, but with the options given in the bug report, -O2 -gnatN, it fails. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#497620: Bug box on legal code, raised TYPES.UNRECOVERABLE_ERROR : comperr.adb:398

2008-09-02 Thread David Starner
Package: gnat-4.3 Version: 4.3.1-2 Severity: normal I found a GNAT bug box when recompiling my code. It worked in previous versions; I'm not sure exactly what, but whatever was current in Debian a year ago compiled the program this bug was simplified from fine. ***

Bug#460470: ktorrent: Refuses to add downloads to existing group

2008-01-12 Thread David Starner
Package: ktorrent Version: 2.2.4.dfsg.1-1 Severity: normal When I have an existing download, that's in no group at all, I can right-click on it and select add to group - Camera Obscura. However, when I do so, it does nothing at all; the list of downloads in Camera Obscura does not change. It also

Bug#457252: gtk2 version of xzgv crashes when asked to create thumbnails

2007-12-20 Thread David Starner
Package: xzgv Version: 0.9+svn34-1 Severity: important Trying to create thumbnails with any directory with an image in it causes the program to crash with the following message. The program 'xzgv' received an X Window System error. This probably reflects a bug in the program. The error was

Bug#457253: gtk2 version of xzgv displays non-image files in filelist

2007-12-20 Thread David Starner
Package: xzgv Version: 0.9+svn34-1 Severity: normal Earlier versions of xzgv didn't display non-image files in the filelist. This version does, and I consider that a serious regression. When browsing in a mixed directory, it adds pure noise to the file list. Furthermore, it exacerbates a previous

Bug#457252: gtk2 version of xzgv crashes when asked to create thumbnails

2007-12-20 Thread David Starner
On Dec 20, 2007 9:57 PM, Theodore Tso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yeah, I know about this bug; it exists in the gtk+/imlib version as well. So it's not a regression, but a pre-existing problem. Not from my perspective. I think I may have hit this bug once or twice in the old version, but not

Bug#455607: djvulibre-bin: package doesn't contain basic information like a changelog

2007-12-10 Thread David Starner
Package: djvulibre-bin Version: 3.5.20-2 Severity: normal This package, and the other DJVU packages, don't contain a changelog or readme. It's essential, when the Debian changelog just says that it's a new version, that there be something in that package that says what's new about the version.

Bug#451865: tesseract-ocr recommends a bunch of files few need

2007-11-19 Thread David Starner
On Nov 19, 2007 1:10 AM, Jeffrey Ratcliffe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK. I can either just remove the Recommends: field entirely, or replace it with Suggests: Do you have a preference? Not really. I might make them Suggests, but that will make for an awfully large Suggests field when people

Bug#451865: tesseract-ocr recommends a bunch of files few need

2007-11-18 Thread David Starner
Package: tesseract-ocr Version: 2.01-2 tesseract-ocr recommends on tesseract-ocr-deu, tesseract-ocr-deu-f, tesseract-ocr-eng, tesseract-ocr-fra, tesseract-ocr-ita, tesseract-ocr-nld, tesseract-ocr-por, and tesseract-ocr-spa. That's eight packages, at a couple MB a piece that most people won't

Bug#449317: ITP: zekr-quran-translations-ur -- Zekr Quran Urdu translations

2007-11-12 Thread David Starner
Josselin Mouette wrote: Le lundi 05 novembre 2007 à 05:18 +, brian m. carlson a écrit : According to Wikipedia, the translator died in 1921, which means that his translation occurred prior to 1923. In this case, the translation is in the public domain in the United States, so the

Bug#449482: when konqueror is run as root (from apt-listchanges), it breaks priorities on files

2007-11-05 Thread David Starner
Package: konqueror Version: 4:3.5.7.dfsg.1-1 Severity: important I run konqueror from apt-listchanges, which means it's running as root on when I'm running an X session as prosfilaes. When I do so, it spits out a bunch of errors: Error: /var/tmp/kdecache-prosfilaes is owned by uid 1000 instead

Bug#388139: findimagedupes will execute code stored in the names of files

2006-09-19 Thread David Starner
On 9/19/06, Andreas Tille [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: n Mon, 18 Sep 2006, David Starner wrote: Package: findimagedupes Version: 0.1.3-7 Just to let you know the status quo: There is a completely rewritten verison of findimagedupes in preparation which does not show the problem (and closes

Bug#388124: Fwd: findimagedupes will execute code stored in the names of files

2006-09-18 Thread David Starner
Package: findimagedupes Version: 0.1.3-7 Severity: grave findimagedupes will execute code stored in the names of the files. This allows arbitrary code to be executed as the user by anyone who can add files to a directory findimagedupes is run on; hence this is a security hole and is grave. An

Bug#388139: findimagedupes will execute code stored in the names of files

2006-09-18 Thread David Starner
Package: findimagedupes Version: 0.1.3-7 Severity: grave findimagedupes will execute code stored in the names of the files. This allows arbitrary code to be executed as the user by anyone who can add files to a directory findimagedupes is run on; hence this is a security hole and is grave. An

Bug#285157: Polish translation of display dhammapada

2006-01-19 Thread David Starner
On 1/4/06, Jakub Nadolny [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Polish translation of display dhammapada has been discussed at debian-legal mailing list against DFSG. Translator agreed that text can be distributed under: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/publicdomain Are there any other obstacles

Bug#345064: music123(GNU/kFreeBSD): FTBFS: kfreebsd-i386 not in the architecture list

2005-12-28 Thread David Starner
On 12/28/05, Aurelien Jarno [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Package: music123 Version: N/A Severity: wishlist Hello, The current version of music123 fails to build on GNU/kFreeBSD, because kfreebsd-i386 is not listed in the Architecture: field. Could you please add kfreebsd-i386 to the list of

Bug#333014: Please enable support for mips/mipsel

2005-10-09 Thread David Starner
On 10/9/05, Thiemo Seufer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Package: music123 Version: 14 Tags: patch Please enable support for mips/mipsel, I see no reason why they were excluded (build tested successfully for both architectures). They were excluded because GNAT did not build on mips when I started