Bug#611941: dictionary-el: Does not understand that --exit-- is not a dictionary

2011-02-03 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: dictionary-el Version: 1.8.7-12 Severity: normal When set to run against dict.org, M-x dictionary does not understand that “--exit--” is not a dictionary, but a marker for the end of the default search list. -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers

Bug#611942: dictionary-el: Customizations not available until a function has been used

2011-02-03 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: dictionary-el Version: 1.8.7-12 Severity: normal It seems as if there’s some missing autoload machinery, since I can’t customize-group dictionary until I’ve run a function from dictionary.el. -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers maverick-updates APT policy:

Bug#611943: dictionary-el: Customizing dictionary-server does not cause list of dictionaries to be updated

2011-02-03 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: dictionary-el Version: 1.8.7-12 Severity: normal If you change dictionary-server, then surely the list of dictionaries should be updated? But it’s not. Combined with the fact that you can’t customize until you’ve used dictionary (see separately-filed bug), and this means that you have

Bug#611814: dict-freedict-fra-eng: Missing spaces in definition

2011-02-02 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: dict-freedict-fra-eng Version: 1.3-4ubuntu1 Severity: minor In both the fra-eng and nld-eng dictionaries the definition of “couvert” contains the word “knivesandspoons” which should of course be “knives and spoons”. -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers

Bug#611260: libgraphicsmagick3: Crash in psiconv suggests graphicsmagick bug (access of freed memory)

2011-01-31 Thread Reuben Thomas
Absolutely awesome, Bob, that fixes it. -- http://rrt.sc3d.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#609535: psiconv: Patch for GraphicsMagick API change causing crash on startup

2011-01-31 Thread Reuben Thomas
On 25 January 2011 20:43, Adam D. Barratt a...@adam-barratt.org.uk wrote: user release.debian@packages.debian.org usertag 609535 + squeeze-will-remove thanks Please see bug #611260: the major part of this is in fact a bug in graphicsmagick, not in psiconv. With my patch, and a fixed

Bug#609535: psiconv: Patch for GraphicsMagick API change causing crash on startup

2011-01-31 Thread Reuben Thomas
On 31 January 2011 11:47, Julien Cristau jcris...@debian.org wrote: On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 11:34:57 +, Reuben Thomas wrote: 1. Remove psiconv just for squeeze. We've done 1 for now, the rest is not up to the release team. In that case, would you be kind enough to build a backport

Bug#611531: latex2rtf: Please update to 2.x

2011-01-30 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: latex2rtf Severity: wishlist latex2rtf 2.1.0 was released in May 2010...worth an update? -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers maverick-updates APT policy: (500, 'maverick-updates'), (500, 'maverick-security'), (500, 'maverick-backports'), (500, 'maverick')

Bug#611260: libgraphicsmagick3: Crash in psiconv suggests graphicsmagick bug (access of freed memory)

2011-01-27 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: libgraphicsmagick3 Version: 1.3.12-1 Severity: important See bug #609535 for the background (and it would be a shame to lose psiconv to this bug). psiconv recently fell foul of needing to call InitializeMagick, so I supplied a patch for that. It cures simple use cases, but on trying to

Bug#149052: manpage bugs in at

2011-01-27 Thread Reuben Thomas
2011/1/27 Ansgar Burchardt ans...@debian.org: I just took a look at the original bug report and fixed some of the issues. Great, thanks! I agree that points 1-4 and 7 can be considered fixed. That leaves 5, 6, 8, 9 and 10. 5,6) Still needs to be changed. Maybe move to it's own section about

Bug#79372: /proc/cpuinfo should be checked in /etc/init.d/atd

2011-01-27 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: at Version: 3.1.12-1ubuntu2 Severity: normal Can this be done? It’s pretty easy, after all: grep processor /proc/cpuinfo | wc -l gives the number of CPUs. I can’t find an init script in at’s git repo so no patch, sorry. -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers

Bug#149052: manpage bugs in at

2011-01-27 Thread Reuben Thomas
On 27 January 2011 15:03, Reuben Thomas r...@sc3d.org wrote: 2011/1/27 Ansgar Burchardt ans...@debian.org: 5,6) Still needs to be changed. Maybe move to it's own section about   access control. I think this section should be moved to at.allow(5). I will submit a patch against git separately

Bug#611260: libgraphicsmagick3: Crash in psiconv suggests graphicsmagick bug (access of freed memory)

2011-01-27 Thread Reuben Thomas
On 27 January 2011 16:22, Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us wrote: This bug does look ugly.  It seems that you are using a version of Ubuntu which offers a newer GraphicsMagick than the one 10.04 is offering (10.04 only offers 1.3.5-6).  On the Ubuntu I have here, I see a package

Bug#611007: man-db: Please document the default section order (as in MANSECT)

2011-01-24 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: man-db Version: 2.5.7-4 Severity: minor man(1) says: The default action is to search in all of the available sections, following a pre-defined order and to show only the first page found, Unfortunately it doesn’t say what the pre-defined order is, AFAICT. Also, there’s a

Bug#611012: man-db: man d gives zipgrep(1)

2011-01-24 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: man-db Version: 2.5.7-4 Severity: normal I’m not sure if this is a problem with man or with zipgrep(1), so I’m starting here. I attach the output of man --debug d. There’s certainly no reason that I can see why this behavior should be intended. -- System Information: Debian Release:

Bug#611013: man-db: Move section 3posix before section 3?

2011-01-24 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: man-db Version: 2.5.7-4 Severity: wishlist I install the POSIX man pages so I can program portably. I want to see foo(3posix) before foo(2). I am just trying to work out whether this makes me unusual (and I should just use MANSECT), or whether I’m justified in filing a bug report. I

Bug#581707: gdb: Still a problem, and on x86 as well as amd64

2011-01-23 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: gdb Version: 7.2-1ubuntu3 Severity: normal This bug is still present. The patches from Jan Kratochvil that were referred to are at: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=185337 The most important patch seems to have been applied, but there’s a useful diagnostic patch that seems

Bug#608239: mpd: Ping! 0.16.1 (and it's STABLE!)

2011-01-23 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: mpd Version: 0.15.10-1ubuntu3 Severity: normal Just to point out that the 0.16 series has been updated, and it’s now the stable series. I notice that sid is now up to 0.15.15, but no sign of 0.16. -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers maverick-updates APT

Bug#482530: python-profiler: Fix to English

2011-01-20 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: python-profiler Version: 2.6.6-0ubuntu1 Severity: normal The text that starts “They were move...” should read: “They were moved to a non-free package because of their license.” -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers maverick-updates APT policy: (500,

Bug#609535: psiconv: Patch for GraphicsMagick API change causing crash on startup

2011-01-19 Thread Reuben Thomas
On 18 January 2011 12:15, Jakub Wilk jw...@debian.org wrote: * Julien Cristau jcris...@debian.org, 2011-01-18, 12:50: This doesn't look good. GetMagickFileList is called in a loop and InitializeMagick is supposed to be run only once. That sounds like broken API for a library.  How is a

Bug#610569: pdfmod: Typo in package description

2011-01-19 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: pdfmod Severity: minor “reoder” should be “reorder” -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers maverick-updates APT policy: (500, 'maverick-updates'), (500, 'maverick-security'), (500, 'maverick-backports'), (500, 'maverick') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel:

Bug#609920: python-ctypeslib: Improvement to xml2py(1)

2011-01-13 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: python-ctypeslib Version: 0.0.0+svn20100125-2 Severity: wishlist The man page correctly labels -l a “key” option, but it could go farther: without -l, function exports are not generated. Hence, I suggest the following change: replace the following paragraph: Key options are -c

Bug#609841: python-ctypeslib: Options for xml2py are documented twice

2011-01-12 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: python-ctypeslib Version: 0.0.0+svn20100125-2 Severity: minor xml2py(1) documents the options for xml2py twice (identically). You can just remove one copy! -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers maverick-updates APT policy: (500, 'maverick-updates'), (500,

Bug#609535: psiconv: Patch for GraphicsMagick API change causing crash on startup

2011-01-11 Thread Reuben Thomas
On 11 January 2011 13:55, Jakub Wilk jw...@debian.org wrote: retitle 609535 psiconv: magick/semaphore.c:526: LockSemaphoreInfo: Assertion `semaphore_info-signature == 0xabacadabUL' failed. tags 609535 - patch thanks Thanks for your bugreport! (I'm not maintainer of this package, but I'll

Bug#609535: psiconv: Patch for GraphicsMagick API change causing crash on startup

2011-01-11 Thread Reuben Thomas
On 11 January 2011 16:16, Jakub Wilk jw...@debian.org wrote: * Reuben Thomas r...@sc3d.org, 2011-01-11, 15:15: GetMagickFileList is only called in the loop initializer, and the loop is only run once. You are right, thanks for correction. Still, it's quite a surprising place to put

Bug#609535: psiconv: Patch for GraphicsMagick API change causing crash on startup

2011-01-10 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: psiconv Version: 0.9.8-4.1 Severity: grave Tags: patch Justification: renders package unusable Recent versions of GraphicsMagick require the InitializeMagick API to be called: 1.3.8 (January 21, 2010) […] Behavior Changes: * InitializeMagick() MUST be invoked

Bug#590089: wajig: Now please put autoremove command back!

2011-01-09 Thread Reuben Thomas
On 9 January 2011 02:33, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe tshep...@gmail.com wrote: Sorry for that. Not sure when the next release will be in, but try the VCS version for now (where your requested change lives) if this matters that much to you: https://wajig.googlecode.com/hg. README file instructions on

Bug#609481: auto-complete-el: Package seems to be uninstallable

2011-01-09 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: auto-complete-el Version: 1.3-1 Severity: normal When I try to install this package on my system, I get errors such as: Setting up auto-complete-el (1.3-1) ... install/auto-complete: Handling install for emacsen flavor emacs-snapshot Error occurred processing auto-complete-config.el:

Bug#590089: wajig: Now please put autoremove command back!

2011-01-08 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: wajig Version: 2.0.50.1 Severity: normal Having removed the autoremove command, please can you put it back? Although it is not normally necessary to use it, there are ways, with or without wajig, to get the system into a state where there are packages that would be removed by apt-get

Bug#609169: emacs-goodies-el: Typo in ff-paths.el

2011-01-06 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: emacs-goodies-el Version: 33.6ubuntu1 Severity: minor “directoty” - “directory” -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers maverick-updates APT policy: (500, 'maverick-updates'), (500, 'maverick-security'), (500, 'maverick-backports'), (500, 'maverick')

Bug#609028: cvsps: Typo in man page line 14

2011-01-05 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: cvsps Version: 2.1-5build1 Severity: minor Line 14 starts with a single quote, so the entire line is not displayed. I think using single quotes in man is dodgy, but the simple fix is to move the text 'atomic' to the previous line. I’ve also reported this to Yann Dirson. -- System

Bug#283760: file: Fixed in CVS

2011-01-04 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: file Version: 5.03-5ubuntu1 Severity: normal This bug is fixed in file CVS, and will hence be in file 5.05. -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers maverick-updates APT policy: (500, 'maverick-updates'), (500, 'maverick-security'), (500,

Bug#466032: file: Fixed in CVS (hence, in 5.05)

2011-01-04 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: file Version: 5.03-5ubuntu1 Severity: normal This bug is fixed in CVS, and hence in file 5.05. -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers maverick-updates APT policy: (500, 'maverick-updates'), (500, 'maverick-security'), (500, 'maverick-backports'), (500,

Bug#469315: Help required?

2010-12-27 Thread Reuben Thomas
Is help needed with this bug? It's nearly three years old, there's a patch, it's simple, and it's useful...if I can be of assistance, don't hesitate to ask. -- http://rrt.sc3d.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Bug#469315: Help required?

2010-12-27 Thread Reuben Thomas
On 27 December 2010 13:01, Josselin Mouette j...@debian.org wrote: Le lundi 27 décembre 2010 à 12:31 +, Reuben Thomas a écrit : Is help needed with this bug? It's nearly three years old, there's a patch, it's simple, and it's useful...if I can be of assistance, don't hesitate to ask

Bug#149052: manpage bugs in at

2010-12-24 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: at Version: 3.1.12-1ubuntu2 Severity: normal Another minor typo: In “valid queue designations range from a to z. and A to Z.”, the first period (after “a to z”) should be a comma. Is there some problem fixing this bug, or at least fixing some of the points made? It’s just a bit of man

Bug#498511: ddclient: Still a problem in 3.8.0

2010-12-23 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: ddclient Version: 3.8.0-9ubuntu2 Severity: normal In fact, the problem in 3.8.0 is slightly different; login= works fine, but password= doesn't: the password transmitted to the server is always dummy. There is code that treats the password= setting specially, and changes it to dummy. It

Bug#607676: pyblosxom: Package home page URL is out of date

2010-12-20 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: pyblosxom Version: 1.4.3-1 Severity: normal Tags: patch Should be: http://pyblosxom.bluesock.org/ -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers maverick-updates APT policy: (500, 'maverick-updates'), (500, 'maverick-security'), (500, 'maverick-backports'), (500,

Bug#607677: jsmath-fonts-sprite: Typo in package description: elivates should be alleviates

2010-12-20 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: jsmath-fonts-sprite Version: 1.0-2 Severity: minor See subject. -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers maverick-updates APT policy: (500, 'maverick-updates'), (500, 'maverick-security'), (500, 'maverick-backports'), (500, 'maverick') Architecture: i386

Bug#607367: netbase: Please include list of IANA URI schemes

2010-12-17 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: netbase Version: 4.35ubuntu3 Severity: minor Any URI parser (ad-hoc or systematic) would benefit from a list of IANA URI schemes, as given at: http://www.iana.org/assignments/uri-schemes.html Possibly I have picked the wrong package; I am trying this one because it contains

Bug#607367: netbase: Please include list of IANA URI schemes

2010-12-17 Thread Reuben Thomas
On 17 December 2010 14:10, Marco d'Itri m...@linux.it wrote: On Dec 17, Reuben Thomas r...@sc3d.org wrote: Possibly I have picked the wrong package; I am trying this one because Probably. it contains /etc/services. I suggest that a simple list of URI schemes be added to /etc/uri-schemes

Bug#607397: python-fuse: Improvement to README.Debian

2010-12-17 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: python-fuse Version: 2:0.2.1-2 Severity: minor The information in README.Debian is somewhat out of date: the FUSE kernel module is now loaded by default in Debian systems, so the entire paragraph: This python module is only available with redcent 2.6.x kernels, so you simply have to

Bug#607147: abcde: Should Recommend mailx

2010-12-14 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: abcde Version: 2.4.2-1 Severity: normal ...or at least Suggest it, as without it you can’t submit CDDB records. Also, it might be nice to document UNINTENTIONALLY_ANNOY_THE_CDDB_PEOPLE, as otherwise users have to dig through the source code to discover how to enable CDDB submission. --

Bug#606960: Unclear documentation in /etc/jackrc

2010-12-13 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: jack Version: 3.1.1+cvs20050801-26 Severity: minor Tags: patch One typo: “avaiable” - “available” One clause ends prematurely: “...’gogo’, ‘mp3enc’ or (only oggenc and flac...)”. There should be something between the “or” and the “(“. When it says that things are/are not available in

Bug#606960: Unclear documentation in /etc/jackrc

2010-12-13 Thread Reuben Thomas
On 13 December 2010 21:36, Michael Banck mba...@debian.org wrote: On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 11:35:46AM +, Reuben Thomas wrote: Further, twolame is supposed to be a drop-in replacement for lame, so why is there no mention of that? I was under the impression that twolame encodes to mp2

Bug#579696: man-db: Search does not find hyphenated words

2010-12-03 Thread Reuben Thomas
On 2 December 2010 23:59, Colin Watson cjwat...@debian.org wrote: Just so that I know where to look, what sort of search are you referring to?  apropos?  man -K?  A search in a pager? Sorry, I meant a search in a pager (in my case, less, though I doubt it matters which pager). However, you

Bug#579696: man-db: Search does not find hyphenated words

2010-12-03 Thread Reuben Thomas
On 3 December 2010 17:56, Colin Watson cjwat...@debian.org wrote: On Fri, Dec 03, 2010 at 12:24:34PM +, Reuben Thomas wrote: On 2 December 2010 23:59, Colin Watson cjwat...@debian.org wrote: Just so that I know where to look, what sort of search are you referring to?  apropos?  man -K

Bug#605382: dos2unix: Better home page URL

2010-11-29 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: dos2unix Version: 5.0-2 Severity: minor http://www.xs4all.nl/~waterlan/dos2unix.html (This is given as the home page on Freshmeat.) -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers maverick-updates APT policy: (500, 'maverick-updates'), (500, 'maverick-security'),

Bug#605383: dos2unix: Improved package description

2010-11-29 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: dos2unix Version: 5.0-2 Severity: normal Suggested improved package description, which improves the English, clarifies the explanation, and omits unnecessary information: This package contains utilities to convert the line endings of text files between UNIX (LF), DOS (CRLF) and Mac

Bug#605382: closed by Jari Aalto jari.aa...@cante.net (Re: Bug#605382: dos2unix: Better home page URL)

2010-11-29 Thread Reuben Thomas
On 29 November 2010 22:51, Debian Bug Tracking System ow...@bugs.debian.org wrote: Thank you for the suggestion. Only that the Freshmeat is preferred over personal web pages:    - It does not move. Personal pages are volatile.    - Presents project information in a standard and uniform

Bug#604476: libimage-exiftool-perl: New production release 8.40 makes Debian two production releases out of date

2010-11-22 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: libimage-exiftool-perl Version: 8.15-1 Severity: wishlist Please update; there are a lot of fixes and improvements since 8.15. -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers maverick-updates APT policy: (500, 'maverick-updates'), (500, 'maverick-security'), (500,

Bug#604074: roundup: Confusing Debian documentation

2010-11-19 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: roundup Severity: normal I am attempting to install roundup for the first time on an Ubuntu Lucid system (N.B. I am reporting direct to the Debian BTS because as far as I can see nothing has been changed about how roundup installs on Ubuntu, so this bug is entirely relevant to Debian

Bug#603090: autofs5: Need guest option in /etc/auto.smb

2010-11-10 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: autofs5 Version: 5.0.5-0ubuntu2 Severity: normal Tags: patch To successfully mount mounts without a password, the guest option is needed, so change opts=-fstype=cifs to opts=-fstype=cifs,guest otherwise, given a line such as /smb program:/etc/auto.smb in my /etc/auto.master, I

Bug#603091: autofs5: Possibly erroneous comment in /etc/auto.net

2010-11-10 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: autofs5 Version: 5.0.5-0ubuntu2 Severity: minor This mentions a nonstrict option, which is not documented in auto.master(5), which has a -strict option. If nonstrict exists, it should be mentioned in auto.master(5); otherwise, the mention thereof should be removed from /etc/auto.net.

Bug#603092: autofs5: Typos in autofs(8)

2010-11-10 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: autofs5 Version: 5.0.5-0ubuntu2 Severity: minor ) ,running or not. - ), running or not. auto.master(5). autofs_ldap_auth.conf(5) - auto.master(5), autofs_ldap.conf(5) -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers maverick-updates APT policy: (500,

Bug#603093: cifs-utils: mount.cifs(8) appears to contain an error (or mount.cifs does!)

2010-11-10 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: cifs-utils Version: 2:4.5-2 Severity: minor The documentation for uid/gid taken together with that for forceuid/forcegid is misleading: it says that if no uid= option is given (resp. gid=) then the value defaults to 0 (resp. 0), and that forceuid= (resp. forcegid=) always forces the

Bug#603094: /usr/share/doc/smbfs/changelog.gz refers to non-existent README

2010-11-10 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: smbfs Severity: minor So, please ship the README! -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers maverick-updates APT policy: (500, 'maverick-updates'), (500, 'maverick-security'), (500, 'maverick-proposed'), (500, 'maverick-backports'), (500, 'maverick')

Bug#603095: Escaping for space in fstab(5) applies to both mount and mount point (not just mount point)

2010-11-10 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: mount Version: 2.17.2-0ubuntu1 Severity: minor I suggest removing the sentence If the name of the mount point contains spaces these can be escaped as `\040'. and instead changing tabs or spaces. to tabs or spaces (literal spaces and tabs, e.g. in mount points, may be written as octal

Bug#603096: Fix for English in mount(8)

2010-11-10 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: mount Version: 2.17.2-0ubuntu1 Severity: minor so use the symlinks in /etc/fstab is not advantage over LABEL=/UUID=. - so the use of symlinks in /etc/fstab has no advantage over LABEL=/UUID=. -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers maverick-updates APT policy:

Bug#326200: xterm: please set eightBitInput: false by default so Alt is usable as such

2010-11-07 Thread Reuben Thomas
On 6 November 2010 17:14, Thomas Dickey dic...@his.com wrote: On Sat, 6 Nov 2010, Reuben Thomas wrote: users be able to understand which setting they are likely to want, but also stop complaining about the default (as I am doing!). I'm also interested to know why this is the default in xterm

Bug#326200: xterm: please set eightBitInput: false by default so Alt is usable as such

2010-11-07 Thread Reuben Thomas
On 6 November 2010 17:00, Thomas Dickey dic...@his.com wrote: On Sat, 6 Nov 2010, Reuben Thomas wrote: Why do some users want it the other way? I'm still looking for a reason (other than the one than Jonathan quoted about bash, which It's a way of getting the ISO-8859-1 (or equivalents

Bug#326200: xterm: please set eightBitInput: false by default so Alt is usable as such

2010-11-07 Thread Reuben Thomas
On 7 November 2010 16:52, Thomas Dickey dic...@his.com wrote: On Sun, 7 Nov 2010, Reuben Thomas wrote: On 6 November 2010 17:00, Thomas Dickey dic...@his.com wrote: It's a way of getting the ISO-8859-1 (or equivalents in UTF-8) entered without dead-keys, etc. Under what conditions? If I

Bug#602580: Ctrl-k no longer fills the copypaste buffer

2010-11-06 Thread Reuben Thomas
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Bug#326200: xterm: please set eightBitInput: false by default so Alt is usable as such

2010-11-06 Thread Reuben Thomas
On 5 November 2010 21:40, Thomas Dickey dic...@his.com wrote: On Fri, 5 Nov 2010, Jonathan Nieder wrote: Reuben Thomas wrote: What is wrong with patching xterm so that it defaults to eightBitInput being false rather than true, as other terminals do? Nothing I can see except that we

Bug#326200: xterm: please set eightBitInput: false by default so Alt is usable as such

2010-11-05 Thread Reuben Thomas
On 3 November 2010 04:52:29 UTC, Jonathan Nieder jrnie...@gmail.com wrote: Could you give a pointer or elaborate on the ramifications (perhaps an example)?  Mostly I am curious. xterm(1) has the details. Probably in response to your request, at some point between xterm 204 and 208 it

Bug#326200: xterm: please set eightBitInput: false by default so Alt is usable as such

2010-11-05 Thread Reuben Thomas
On 5 November 2010 18:30, Jonathan Nieder jrnie...@gmail.com wrote: [Sorry for not understanding what you were after.] Sven Joachim wrote: | Now after reading #574396 I see that with the xterm resources | | xterm*metaSendsEscape: false | xterm*eightBitInput: false | | and bash as shell

Bug#598992: sl: Please support ^C]

2010-10-03 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: sl Version: 3.03-16 Severity: wishlist Delightful as sl is, sometimes one wants to interrupt it. -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers maverick-updates APT policy: (500, 'maverick-updates'), (500, 'maverick-security'), (500, 'maverick-backports'), (500,

Bug#593904: ack-grep: Also, no ack(1)

2010-10-03 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: ack-grep Version: 1.92-1 Severity: normal Also, there’s no ack(1). (Should be linked to ack-grep(1).) -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers maverick-updates APT policy: (500, 'maverick-updates'), (500, 'maverick-security'), (500, 'maverick-proposed'), (500,

Bug#597078: texlive-luatex: Typo in package description

2010-09-16 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: texlive-luatex Version: 2009-7 Severity: minor In the text “Packages for LuaTeX, a Unicode-aware extension of pdfTeX, using Lua as an”, the double space should be removed: “Lua as an” -- “Lua as an” -- Package-specific info: If you report an error when running one of the TeX-related

Bug#597081: lua5.1: Identical package descriptions could usefully be differentiated

2010-09-16 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: lua5.1 Version: 5.1.4-5 Severity: minor The short descriptions of lua5.1, lua5.1-doc, liblua5.1-0 and liblua5.1-0-dev are identical. Perhaps the last three could be differentiated with (documentation), (library for embedding) and (development files for embedding)? -- System Information:

Bug#361736: Quitting a Lua process blocked on I/O requires two ^C's

2010-09-16 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: lua5.1 Version: 5.1.4-5 Severity: normal Is there some problem with applying my patch? -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers lucid-updates APT policy: (500, 'lucid-updates'), (500, 'lucid-security'), (500, 'lucid'), (99, 'lucid-backports') Architecture:

Bug#594902: vinagre: Please provide vncviewer alternative

2010-09-05 Thread Reuben Thomas
On 5 September 2010 15:31, Josselin Mouette j...@debian.org wrote: Le lundi 30 août 2010 à 15:35 +0100, Reuben Thomas a écrit : Package: vinagre Severity: wishlist Vinagre is a VNC viewer, so please make it be an alternative for /usr/bin/vncviewer. Is there a common interface

Bug#595149: mono-common: Inadvertently(?) provides undocumented(1)

2010-09-01 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: mono-common Version: 1.9.1+dfsg-6 Severity: minor Rather oddly, installing this package means that $ man 1 undocumented gives the man page for cli-wrapper. This might make sense in the context of mono, but it is rather surprising in the context of man pages as a whole. I suggest that

Bug#595151: man-db: Use help2man for missing man pages

2010-09-01 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: man-db Version: 2.5.2-4 Severity: wishlist undocumented(7) could be improved by having the output help2man prog, if any, inserted into it, as in many cases this will be enough. If the output were inserted just under a preamble reading there's no proper documentation (feel free to submit

Bug#594902: vinagre: Please provide vncviewer alternative

2010-08-30 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: vinagre Severity: wishlist Vinagre is a VNC viewer, so please make it be an alternative for /usr/bin/vncviewer. -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0.5 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)

Bug#467231: Problem with dynamic completion

2010-08-02 Thread Reuben Thomas
For some reason, dynamic completion seems to stop completion of filenames containing spaces from working. As far as I can see, everything is correct: this completion is performed by _filedir(), _filedir's definition has been loaded into my session (according to the output of set) etc. But,

Bug#591428: Please mention in markdown(1) what happens to the output

2010-08-02 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: markdown Severity: minor The man page doesn’t say what happens to the output. As far as I can tell, it is always written to stdout. It would be nice to add a sentence: “Markdown reads its input from the given files and writes its output to standard output.” And perhaps also to add:

Bug#582952: Is there some reason you can't just fix autoconf?

2010-08-01 Thread Reuben Thomas
On 1 August 2010 19:40, Julien Cristau jcris...@debian.org wrote: On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 20:43:12 +0100, Reuben Thomas wrote: I was just wondering why you can't do the following in the short term: 1. Fix autoconf (all five versions in Debian) to default to using bash and only fall back

Bug#591090: RFP: git2cl -- generate GNU format ChangeLogs from git logs

2010-07-31 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: git2cl Version : 20080827 (no version number, so using date) Upstream Author : Simon Josefsson si...@josefsson.org * URL : http://josefsson.org/git2cl/ * License : GPL v2 or later Programming Lang: Perl

Bug#582952: Is there some reason you can't just fix autoconf?

2010-07-31 Thread Reuben Thomas
I was just wondering why you can't do the following in the short term: 1. Fix autoconf (all five versions in Debian) to default to using bash and only fall back to sh if there is no bash and sh seems to be OK. 2. Regenerate the affected packages and rebuild, adding bash as a build-dep ? --

Bug#582952: Is there some reason you can't just fix autoconf?

2010-07-31 Thread Reuben Thomas
On 31 July 2010 20:50, Raphael Geissert geiss...@debian.org wrote: On Saturday 31 July 2010 15:43:12 Reuben Thomas wrote: I was just wondering why you can't do the following in the short term: 1. Fix autoconf (all five versions in Debian) to default to using bash and only fall back to sh

Bug#590851: xdg-html-validator: Typo in man page validate(1)

2010-07-30 Thread Reuben Thomas
thanks * Reuben Thomas r...@sc3d.org [2010-07-29 17:49]: Package: xdg-html-validator Do you mean wdg-html-validator?  I cannot find xdg-html-validator in Debian. -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/ -- http://rrt.sc3d.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ

Bug#590938: csstidy: Small fix for package description: css validator - CSS validator

2010-07-30 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: csstidy Severity: minor See subject. -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0.5 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh

Bug#590973: libpcre-ocaml-dev: Typo in package description

2010-07-30 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: libpcre-ocaml-dev Severity: minor “confort” - “comfort” -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0.5 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Bug#590851: xdg-html-validator: Typo in man page validate(1)

2010-07-29 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: xdg-html-validator Severity: minor The short option given as “--w” should presumably only have a single hyphen: “-w”, as for the other short options, as as per the command-line help “validate --help”. -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0.5 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500,

Bug#589108: apt-cache: please search other fields

2010-07-23 Thread Reuben Thomas
On 23 July 2010 14:13, David Kalnischkies kalnischkies+deb...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Reuben Thomas, 2010/7/15 Reuben Thomas r...@sc3d.org: There’s no other way with apt-cache to search those fields (although it’d be nice to search Depends: too, which is already possible). If you mean depends

Bug#590089: Please make wajig search run apt-search {r,}depends too

2010-07-23 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: wajig Version: 2.0.38 Severity: wishlist See bug #589108. It would be nice if wajig would do what it says on the tin: wajig list-commands says: search Search for packages containing listed words which is not quite what apt-cache search does. If it also ran apt-search depends

Bug#467231: bash-completion: Is there some problem using this patch?

2010-07-22 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: bash-completion Version: 20080705 Followup-For: Bug #467231 As far as I can see, the only additional programming needed to make this patch usable is to have a bash-completion hook that can run the dynamic update script whenever a package that supplies completions is installed or removed.

Bug#589108: apt-cache: please search other fields

2010-07-14 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: apt Version: 0.7.20.2+lenny2 Severity: wishlist There are a couple of related bugs, although none of them mentions the fields I’m interested in, Recommends: and Suggests:. For me, a common use of apt-cache is to try to find related packages. There’s no other way with apt-cache to

Bug#588518: typo3: Typo in README.Debian

2010-07-09 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: typo3 Version: 4.3.2-1 Severity: minor “ablities” - “abilities” -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0.5 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8

Bug#443597: sudo: Link to upstream bug

2010-07-09 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: sudo Version: 1.6.9p17-3 Followup-For: Bug #443597 I have opened an upstream bug for this issue at: http://www.gratisoft.us/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=417 I’d be equally happy to work with Debian maintainers to provide a patch: one obvious advantage to Debian is that at least on glibc

Bug#587318: gforth: Please make Emacs mode auto-add to auto-mode-alist

2010-06-30 Thread Reuben Thomas
On 29 June 2010 14:54:36 UTC+1, Peter Pentchev r...@ringlet.net wrote: I've added the attached patch to my Subversion repo; I admit that I'm not very well versed in e-lisp, so any suggestions / reproaches would be welcome :) I think the lines you've added are fine, but need to be added to

Bug#587318: gforth: Please make Emacs mode auto-add to auto-mode-alist

2010-06-27 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: gforth Version: 0.6.2-7.3 Severity: wishlist Most Emacs programming language modes in Debian auto-add their file suffixes to the auto-mode-alist; could you please do the same for the handy Forth mode? I’d be happy to help if the maintainer is unfamiliar with Emacs. -- System

Bug#477928: iftop: Please fix this!

2010-06-24 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: iftop Version: 0.17-8 Followup-For: Bug #477928 Any chance of fixing this tiny cosmetic bug? It's been so long that I just started reporting it again, having forgotten I had already done so! -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0.4 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable')

Bug#438672: coreutils: Please can we have this now that it's possible?

2010-06-24 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: coreutils Version: 6.10-6 Followup-For: Bug #438672 From the futimes(3) man page: lutimes() is available since glibc 2.6, and is implemented using the utimensat(2) system call, which is supported since kernel 2.6.22. So, can we have this useful feature now, please? -- System

Bug#438672: coreutils: This bug can be closed

2010-06-24 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: coreutils Version: 6.10-6 Followup-For: Bug #438672 In fact, this feature was added (the -h switch) in coreutils 8.1, so this bug can now be closed. -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0.4 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux

Bug#587061: copher: Current released version does not work; please update to CVS version

2010-06-24 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: copher Severity: important The current release of copher doesn’t work (see https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detailaid=2874738group_id=137217atid=738087 ). The current CVS version of copher.pl does work (I’ve tested it just now), but lacks some functionality (in

Bug#584570: Me too!

2010-06-21 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: wnpp Followup-For: Bug #584570 This is a very handy app which I've been using for years; now that it's been updated to work better on modern systems it would be lovely to have it in Debian. (I would have posted an RFP myself had Jeremy not already done so!) -- System Information: Debian

Bug#585529: dailystrips: New strip: Abstruse Goose

2010-06-11 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: dailystrips Severity: wishlist Tags: patch Brilliant strip! strip goose name Abstruse Goose artist Eugene So homepage http://abstrusegoose.com/ type search searchpattern img.+?src=http://abstrusegoose.com/strips/(.+?\.PNG) baseurl

Bug#585140: Typos in example offlineimap.conf

2010-06-09 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: offlineimap Version: 6.0.0 Severity: minor definately - definitely messgaes - messages Also, I just noticed this in the FAQ: So, OfflineIMAP must store both a UID folder ID. This doesn't make sense to me, because both should be followed by two things, i.e. I expect the sentence to

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