Package: fcgiwrap
Version: 1.1.0-12
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
* What led up to the situation?
I installed fcgiwrap to run Python scripts on nginx.
* What was the outcome of this action?
CGI scripts can be run, but sequentially, one-by-one, very slow
* What outcome did you
Package: guix
Version: 1.3.0-4
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
Actions:
Install guix and reboot.
Expected behavior:
The system is functional.
Actual behavior:
Systemd job `guix-publish.service` fails with
```
systemd[1]: guix publish: error: open-file: No such file or directory:
Package: anki
Version: upgrade to newer version of Anki
Severity: normal
Dear Anki Maintainers,
The Debian package is getting outdated (version 2.1.5 from August 2019).
What about upgrading to a more recent version, such as 2.1.26, 2.1.27 or
2.1.28?
Thanks for your work on this cool package!
Package: tomboy
Version: 1.14.1-4+b1
Severity: normal
Dear Tomboy Maintainers,
I discover that tomboy-ng is where activity happens now:
https://github.com/tomboy-notes/tomboy-ng/
Are there any plan to have tomboy-ng as Debian package?
That would be great!
Best,
--Martin
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Package: mpack
Version: 1.6-8.2
Severity: normal
Dear mpack maintainer,
I'm trying to reach out to the upstream maintainer but the homepage URL from
the deb package is broken: ftp://ftp.andrew.cmu.edu/pub/mpack/
actually ftp.andrew.cmu.edu is not resolved anymore
What's the new homepage URL of
Package: rustc
Version: 1.40.0+dfsg1-5
Severity: normal
Dear Awesome Rust Debian Maintainers,
I notice that rustup is not packaged for Debian. One option is to go through
snap (https://snapcraft.io/install/rustup/debian) but native packages are
preferable.
Since rustup is used by many projects,
Thanks for the explanation, I would have never imagined that Debian has two
list servers.
Hi Axel,
Thanks for your fast answer.
> That would have been my first idea where to ask questions
Me too :) I looked on https://lists.debian.org/completeindex.html, where the
list is not listed for
some reason.
> apt-cache show aptitude | fgrep Maintainer
Thanks for the trick!
> Taking this
Package: aptitude
Version: 0.8.12-1
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainers of aptitude,
This is a question, not a bug report. I know that this channel may not be
optimal, but I've exhausted the other alternatives.
How to disable message "The following packages are RECOMMENDED but will NOT be
Package: network-manager-config-connectivity-debian
Severity: wishlist
Hello Michael,
Here it is!
Suggestion: add the words "captive" and "portal" in the one line description
such that people who "aptitude search captive" or "aptitude search portal" find
it. For instance "NetworkManager
Excellent, thanks!
Package: liquidprompt
Version: 1.11-3
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
The package author upstream, Olivier Mengué, asks:
> Does Ubuntu/Debian bundles the master branch?
See https://github.com/nojhan/liquidprompt/pull/588
Any idea?
Thanks for the great package!
--Martin
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Package: apt
Version: 1.8.3
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
When dirmngr is not installed, one gets the following error with apt-key.
$ apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 7EA0A9C3F273FCD8
Executing: /tmp/apt-key-gpghome.RXG41FeS1W/gpg.1.sh --keyserver
Awesome, looking forward to it!
Package: gradle
Version: 4.4.1-7
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainers,
Thanks a lot for this useful package.
The current SID version of gradle is 4.4.1, which dates from Dec 20, 2017 (see
https://gradle.org/releases/)
What about creating a new version of the package, for example with Gradle 5.5.1
Package: anbox
Version: 0.0~git20190124-1
Followup-For: Bug #930202
I confirm that anbox works well on Sid but is hard to understand due to the
lack of documentation.
This documentation patch looks great, what about merging it?
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APT prefers
Thanks for your answer.
Then, one solution might be to give the name of the missing package in the
error message, ie replacing
"The requested apache plugin does not appear to be installed."
by
"Plugin python-certbot-apache is missing, it must be installed"
Package: certbot
Severity: normal
When using certbot without python-certbot-apache ,one get the following error:
Attempting to renew cert (www.monperrus.net) from
/etc/letsencrypt/renewal/www.monperrus.net.conf produced an unexpected error:
The requested apache plugin does not appear to be
Thanks Paride for the advice.
Hi Paride,
Thanks for your answer. Would you recommend to report it on
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/?
--Martin
Package: iw
Version: 5.0.1-1
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
* What are you trying to do?
I'm trying to scan networks in a place where two cells on 2.4Ghz and 5Gz have
the same SSID.
* What was the outcome of this action?
The scan returns only one cell (not the one with double
Package: latex-cjk-all
Version: 4.8.4+git20170127-2
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
latex-cjk-all should require fonts-arphic-uming otherwise pdflatex crashes with
"uming.ttc: cannot open TrueType font file"
Best regards, --Martin
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Package: rclone
Version: 1.45-2+b10
Severity: normal
rclone has a remote called "Cryp" to crypt backends: https://rclone.org/crypt/
However, it is not present in the Debian version (list below).
How to install the "Cryp" remote?
1 / A stackable unification remote, which can appear to merge
Package: maven
Version: 3.6.0-1
Severity: normal
* What exactly did you do?
Running maven with Java 7
$ mvn -version
Apache Maven 3.6.0
Maven home: /usr/share/maven
Java version: 1.7.0_10, vendor: Oracle Corporation, runtime:
/home/martin/martin-no-backup/opt/jdk1.7.0_10/jre
* What was
Thanks.
For the record, the existing bug report
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=750522
is about maintaining a list of valid HTTPS mirrors.
--Martin
Package: mirrors
Followup-For: Bug #750522
Dear mirror team,
It's hard to find HTTPS-enabled mirrors with valid certificates (see
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=893980)
It would be great to have a list of HTTPS-enabled mirrors with valid
certificates.
This list can be
Hi Paul,
I can open an account, but I'm not allowed to create an issue on
https://salsa.debian.org/mirror-team/
What's the most effective way to contact the mirror team?
Thanks, --Martin
> Martin was talking about tracking https availability for the secondary
> mirrors, which don't have an associated ftp.*.debian.org DNS record.
>
If some primary mirrors support HTTPS with a proper certificate, that would be
useful as well (eg
https://ftp.am.debian.org/debian/ doesn't).
What
Hi Pabs,
Thanks for your answer.
> The Debian mirror team don't keep track of https support for the
> secondary mirrors
Would it make sense to keep track of valid https support for the
secondary mirrors?
Best,--Martin
Package: www.debian.org
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
Switching my APT config to HTTPS, I notice that many mirrors either do not
support HTTPS or have untrusted HTTPS certificates (eg https://mirror-
csail.debian.org/)
It would be great to update the reference page
Thanks for your answer.
>> On my system, this fails to start an XFCE session with the error message
>> "/usr/bin/startxfce4: X server already running on" (common error on the web)
> The message is just a warning, it doesn't fail because of that.
OK
>> What about changing "Exec=startxfce4" by
Package: xfce4-session
Version: 4.12.1-5
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
/usr/share/xsessions/xfce.session contains "Exec=startxfce4"
On my system, this fails to start an XFCE session with the error message
"/usr/bin/startxfce4: X server already running on" (common error on the web)
Indeed,
Package: latexml
Version: 0.8.1-1
Followup-For: Bug #839639
I confirm that this severe bug still exists on Debian Testing, latexml version
0.8.1-1.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.0
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64
(x86_64)
Foreign
> How exactly do they compete for the "lid closed" event?
Both try to perform an action. If they are the same, say suspend, you just have
a warning. If they
are different, you don't really understand what and why one or the other
happens.
> I was under the impression, that XFCE nowadays uses
Package: systemd
Version: 232-19
Severity: minor
Dear Maintainer,
What's the problem?
systemd and xfce4-power-manager compete to handle event "lid closed", this
yields confusing behavior and error messages.
What's the solution?
ignore inhibited messages, as done for other events, the default
do we some visibility on when this severe bug can be fixed?
Thanks!
Package: recoll
Version: 1.22.4-1
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
recoll does not index the new Libreoffice file formats: FODPT, FODP, etc. (flat
plain xml files, usable with Git)
Some changes in mimemap, mimeconf and mimeview are required to handle those
files.
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You're right, it's not the right one, sorry. The confusion comes from
that my bug is also about openconnect, network-manager and kill/term
signals.
(my bug is openconnect's script being killed at startup by
network-manager for some unknown reason, resulting in unusable VPN).
It seems I also hit this blocking bug:
Failed to spawn script '/usr/share/vpnc-scripts/vpnc-script' for
connect: Interrupted system call
Send BYE packet: Aborted by caller
USer canceled (SIGINT); exiting;
I confirm this critical bug.
upstream: https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=112442
Package: xdg-utils
Version: 1.1.1-1
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
* What led up to the situation?
I run xdg-mime query filetype foobar.png
* What was the outcome of this action?
Empty answer
* What outcome did you expect instead?
The mimetype
* What is the reason?
For
Dear Jean-François,
> I'd be curious to know how you hit this problem with these file types which
> usually have proper extensions ?
I wanted to only index some file types in order to reduce the index size
(which was 16GB!). The only relevant option I found was
"indexedmimetypes". I added the
Package: recoll
Version: 1.22.3-1
Severity: normal
I've just spent a long time to understand why my indexing configuration fails.
I've finally realized that the cause is that the mimetypes defined in mimemap
are different from the ones returned by 'file -i'.
Example:
text/x-text (file) vs
Package: duplicity
Version: 0.7.06-1
Severity: critical
Justification: causes serious data loss
* What led up to the situation?
I backup my homedir with duplicity
* What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or ineffective)?
I try to restore a file
* What was the outcome
Affected by this bug as well.
Should I provide useful information, I'd be happy to do so.
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upstream?
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Package: libaudio2
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
* What led up to the situation?
I install both libaudio2:i386 and libaudio2:amd64 (the former for being able to
install skype)
* What was the outcome of this action?
Installation error:
dpkg: error processing archive
Package: jscommunicator-web-phone
Version: 1.1.1-1
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
I've just installed jscommunicator-web-phone and get the error on the page:
WebSocket link: Disconnected
using (Chromium Version 35.0.1916.153 Debian jessie/sid (274914))
How to troubleshoot this?
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Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
* Package name: msitools
Version : d96dd732ff5b20f5b1fbb02bdebacd5c0a7c739a
Upstream Author : Gnome
* URL : https://wiki.gnome.org/msitools
* License : LGPL-2+
Programming Lang: C
Description : msitools is a set of
Package: okular
Version: 4:4.13.1-2
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
Problem:
okular doesn't show fi ligatures in PDFs with no embedded fonts.
Causes:
1) poppler/fontconfig replaces generic non-embedded fonts (e.g. Times) with
tex-gyre fonts (e.g.
Package: cups-browsed
Version: 1.0.34-3+b1
Severity: important
Tags: upstream
Dear Maintainer,
* What led up to the situation?
Having two BrowsePoll directives pointing to the same server.
BrowsePoll cups.foo.com # DNS - 10.0.0.1
BrowsePoll cups.bar.com # DNS - 10.0.0.1
* What was the
Package: bash-completion
Version: 1:2.0-1
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
* What led up to the situation?
The directories:
/path/to/toto
/path/to/foo - /bar/foo
/bar/foo
When in /path/to/foo:
cd ../ Tab
Then nothing autocompletes
* What outcome did you expect instead?
cd ../ Tab
Regarding recent bugs I've had, I think it is a good idea.
A new Lintian rule could state /etc/ld.so.conf.d/* must be prioritized
(in addition to
http://lintian.debian.org/tags/package-modifies-ld.so-search-path.html
and
Package: similarity-tester
Version: 2.26-2
Severity: minor
Dear Maintainer,
It took me some time to find the home page of similarity-tester:
http://dickgrune.com/Programs/similarity_tester/
It could be included in the package description, this increases the confidence
we can have in the
Package: xserver-xorg-video-intel
Followup-For: Bug #608489
Version: 2:2.16.0-1
Dear Maintainer,
This bugs still affects me on Debian Testing. It seems related to:
- [uxa] glyph corruption after resuming from hibernation http://bugs.debian.org
/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=529798
- font corruption
Package: xserver-xorg-video-intel
Version:2:2.16.0-1
I connect a Dell U2711 to the docking station using the display port
interface (DP2 in xrandr, see below) and a diplayport cable. Then, the
maximum resolution of 2560x1440 at 60.0 Hz does not work, the screen
is black. The lower resolutions
Package: texlive-binaries
Version: 2009-11
If you compile the latex below to DVI, and then to PDF using dvipdfmx,
dvipdfmx produces the following error and the resulting PDF contains
no diacritics.
** WARNING ** Obsolete four arguments of endchar will be used for
Type 1 seac operator.
Package: dvipdfmx
Version: 1:20090115-1.2
If you compile the latex below to DVI, and then to PDF using dvipdfmx,
dvipdfmx produces the following error and the resulting PDF contains
no diacritics.
** WARNING ** Obsolete four arguments of endchar will be used for
Type 1 seac operator.
Please implement search by sentences, when we enter a sentence with
quotation marks (eg, Debian Linux would search for documents where the
word Linux appears immediately after the word Debian).
This is possible by prepending a letter to the query, i.e. by typing in
tracker-gui
x Debian Linux
Package: upower
Version: 0.9.8-2
Severity: normal
upower internally uses pmutils' utilities (e.g. pm-suspend and pm-is-
supported). They are hardcoded in ./src/linux/up-backend.c (see below).
Consequently, if pm-utils is not installed, upower works incorrectly and gnome-
power-manager as well. It
On my machine, the best solution was finally to remove options i915
modeset=1 in /etc/modprobe.d/i915-kms.conf.
--Martin
PS: see
http://www.monperrus.net/martin/Inquiry+into+a+complex+bug+involving+Xorg-Intel-Linux
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GTK+ and Pango heavily rely on RENDER indeed.
This seems problematic to me for two reasons:
* there is a technical alternative since QT works fine without RENDER,
google-chrome works fine without RENDER, libpangocairo works fine
without RENDER (according to pango-view --backend=cairo).
* this
Dear Debian developers,
On my machine, a solution to this problem was to disable the RENDER
extension
of X:
Section Extensions
Option RENDER false
EndSection
Note that this bug appeared with the testing version of Xorg . Xorg +
xserver-xorg-video-intel on stable was fine with RENDER.
Package: libgtk2.0-0
Version: 2.20.1-1
Severity: important
Dear Debian developers,
Because of a bug in a video driver, I had to disable Xorg's RENDER extension.
As a result, the performance of GTK decreased significantly, and the
applications on top of GTK, including Firefox and Eclipse, are
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