Package: bird6
Version: 1.3.7-1
Severity: normal
Tags: ipv6
Dear Maintainer,
I'm browsing net/main in aptitude looking at the routing daemons.
I see in the description for bird:
This package supports IPv4 versions of OSPFv2, RIPv2 and BGP.
But in the description for bird6:
This package
Package: netcat-openbsd
Version: 1.89-4
Severity: normal
I was using this shell script to stress-test a TCP server I'm working on:
#!/bin/bash
action() {
local delay=$1; shift
local n=$1; shift
while [ $((n--)) -gt 0 ] ; do
echo foobar
sleep $delay
Package: tcpdump
Version: 4.3.0-1
Severity: minor
Two things I noticed while writing a script which parses tcpdump's TCP output:
1. The section starts with this disclaimer:
(N.B.:The following description assumes familiarity with the TCP
protocol described in RFC-793. If you are not familiar
Package: stl-manual
Version: 3.30-11
Severity: normal
The package description is
C++-STL documentation in HTML
This is the documentation for the C++ Standard Template Library as
found on SGIs Website.
Homepage: http://www.sgi.com/tech/stl/
This isn't strictly incorrect, but it should be
Package: ipcalc
Version: 0.41-2
Severity: normal
Reading the man page, I see that:
- the SYNOPSIS section is called SYNTAX
- the -help option mentioned in the synopsis doesn't exist
(but plain -h does)
- the -c option described further down is not listed in the
synopsis
#588143 mentions
Package: gzip
Version: 1.3.12-9
Severity: normal
I remember the time when gzip got --rsyncable support, but it
wasn't documented in the man page. That was fixed after a while.
But now when I looked at the info page, I see that it's still
missing there!
Perhaps other things have drifted out of
Package: console-setup
Version: 1.68
Severity: normal
I've just upgraded to Squeeze, trying to find a way to bring back my
old heavily customized X11 keymap. I think I can state my problem in
the cleanest way by describing how I did my search:
- First I notice there is no xorg.conf. That's OK
Package: ctwm
Version: 3.7-3+0.grahn1
Severity: normal
ClickToFocus (which enables click-to-focus, as opposed to
focus-follows-mouse) is undocumented in the man page.
The story seems to be:
- Claude implemented it way back, but kept it undocumented because
he didn't use it himself:
Package: ctwm
Version: 3.7-3
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
This has annoyed me for years. With ReallyMoveInWorkspaceManager set, you
can drag windows (within workspaces and between them) by manipulating the
tiny thumbnail versions in the workspace manager.
However, on most of my machines (like
Package: xutils-dev
Version: 1:7.4+3
Severity: important
If you let makedepend generate dependencies for multiple .c files in
different directories, and two of them do
#include foo.h
and expect that to mean the foo.h which is in the same directory as
the source file, makedepend will pick one
Package: xcftools
Version: 1.0.4-1
Severity: important
I really like the xcftools package, because it lets me author things
in Gimp and then automate operations on them (e.g. let a Makefile
generate jpeg images from a sandwhich of layers). However, this bug is
a problem for me currently:
I try
Package: manpages
Version: 3.05-1
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
% man -Tps ascii /tmp/q ; gv /tmp/q
The subsection which starts For convenience, let us give more
compact tables in hex and decimal only renders well to terminals.
Postscript (and I guess HTML, PDF etc) versions have unreadable
Package: nvi
Version: 1.81.6-4
Severity: normal
Tags: l10n
I dislike UTF-8 for various reasons, and always use iso8859-1 encoding.
I just noticed that when I use nvi to edit a file containing non-ASCII
characters and search for them (I tried å, ä and ö) nvi reports that
there are no matches.
Package: fortune-mod
Version: 1:1.99.1-3
Severity: minor
Quoting fortune(6):
...
FILES
Note: these are the defaults as defined at compile time.
/build/buildd/fortune-mod-1.99.1/debian/tmp/usr/share/games/fortunes
Directory for innoffensive fortunes.
Package: sysstat
Version: 8.1.2-2
Severity: minor
After installing sysstat, my box now displays this while running the init
scripts at boot:
sadc not enabled in /etc/default/sysstat, not starting. (warning).
It looks a bit alarming, because warnings during boot tend to
mean something is
Package: locales
Version: 2.7-16
Severity: normal
Tags: l10n
I reported this problem in #502356 six weeks ago, on glibc/2.3.6.ds1-13etch7.
The bug was closed as (already) fixed in 2.7-1, then it was archived.
And then I upgraded to testing and saw that the bug is still there, so I
guess I have
Package: gnuplot-x11
Version: 4.2.2-1.2
Severity: minor
The man page says ... provides the x11 terminal type for use with X
servers.
This terminal type is set automatically at startup if the DISPLAY environment
variable ...
and so on. help set terminal x11 says the same thing.
But in
Package: djview4
Version: 4.3-4
Severity: important
With the djview in Etch, I was annoyed that the File/Open dialogue defaulted
to *.{djvu,djv}, and had no memory for me choosing another one. I even patched
it away at one point. With 4.3-4, there *is* no way to specify other file names
except
Package: djvulibre-plugin
Version: 3.5.20-8+lenny0
Severity: important
I just upgraded to Lenny today, and Iceweasel+djvulibre-plugin stopped working.
Opera didn't
like it either (opera: Plug-in 11604 is not responding. It will be closed.)
so I suspect the
plugin. Tried changing
Package: locales
Version: 2.3.6.ds1-13etch7
Severity: normal
Tags: l10n
I was doing a bit of C++ programming, and replacing my own swedish collation
algorithm with
the standard locales (through the standard C++ std::locale interface), when my
unit tests
started to fail. It turned out I could
Package: screen
Version: 4.0.3-0.3
Severity: normal
At work, we automate things with screen, invoked from shell scripts. Among
other things, the scripts create new, named windows and turn on logging for
them. This broke when we upgraded from 4.0.2 to screen 4.0.3.
(Actually, we run RedHat
Package: screen
Version: 4.0.3-0.3
Severity: normal
This is likely to bite people who do semi-advanced scripting involving
screen. Consider this example script:
#!/bin/sh
[ $STY ] || exit 1
sleep 5
screen -t one sh -c sleep 5; ping -c20 localhost | tee /tmp/1
echo $?
sleep 1
screen -t two sh
Package: libjpeg-progs
Version: 6b-13
Severity: normal
The command man -Tps jpegexiforient jpegexiforient.1.ps
renders a fairly unreadable version of the man page, because it
contains tables and ASCII graphics which assumes a fixed-width font.
I would have provided a patch, but the first line
Package: libjpeg-progs
Version: 6b-13
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
The long option list in the jpegtran(1) man page is heavily divided
into paragraphs -- some belonging with a certain option, some serving
as into to a whole subsection of the options.
Indenting the paragraphs to match the option
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