Package: xbacklight
Severity: normal
xbacklight -set sometimes has no effect. For example, when I suspend and
resume my laptop, the backlight is reset to 100%, but is still reported
as whatever I set it to before. xbacklight seems to do nothing if I try
to set it to the same value; instead, I
Package: dejagnu
Version: 1.4.4.git20080407-1
Followup-For: Bug #495607
it's one test state output - its one test state output
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Package: man-db
Version: 2.5.2-3
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When displaying dash(1) in an en_GB.UTF-8 locale in an rxvt-unicode
terminal, the following line is incorrectly wrapped:
the exception of newline. A backslash preceding a newline is treated
as
I have used and to indicate the
On Mon, 8 Dec 2008, Colin Watson wrote:
On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 05:03:27PM +0100, Reuben Thomas wrote:
manpath seems always to add paths configured in /etc/manpath.conf, or at
least the mandatory ones, to the manpath first. This means that the
manpath generated is not necessarily in the same
Package: bash
Version: 3.2-4
Severity: minor
It is nice if users can put a ~/.dircolors file in their home directory
and have it just work.
The attached patch to /etc/skel/.bashrc does exactly that, and is based
on code recently added to the coreutils manual:
Package: aspell-fr
Version: 0.50-3-6
Severity: wishlist
I tried to spell-check a document with the word choeur, with the oe as
a ligature, in Emacs, and it was made obvious that the oe ligature was
not considered to be a word character.
In fact, there are no oe ligatures in the word lists, but
On Wed, 12 Nov 2008, Bdale Garbee wrote:
Good point. If you hard link the executable to 'tar' or 'cpio', it will
supposedly emulate those user interfaces.
If it does actually do that, it would merit a mention in README.Debian.
Could be useful to someone sometime!
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Package: pax
Version: 1:1.5-16
Severity: minor
The package description (which could usefully be reformatted slightly,
so that supported: comes on the previous line), says that pax supports
the cpio and tar user interfaces, but nothing in the package that I can
find tells you how to use those
Package: mime-support
Version: 3.44-1
Followup-For: Bug #77985
I attach an updated patch against Lenny's run-mailcap. Is there some
problem getting this into Debian?
By the way, this update changes one thing: it uses the file extension
first, the file, rather than the other way around.
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Severity: normal
Dilbert seems to have changed the way it is shown. Here's a new definition:
strip dilbert
name Dilbert
homepage http://www.dilbert.com/
type search
searchpage http://www.dilbert.com/
searchpattern a
Package: file
Version: 4.26-1
Followup-For: Bug #501460
This bug has been fixed in file CVS.
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Package: x11-xserver-utils
Version: 7.3+5
Severity: minor
There are lots of occurrences of single close quotes being used where
single open quotes are required in the xset man page. I looked at other
man pages in the same package, and they didn't seem to have the problem.
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in shell - in shell
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check-module reads a module description file and derive the set of files
included directly by any .c or .h file listed in the Files: section.
Takes the union of all such sets for any dependent modules. Then, compares
that set with the set derived from the
Package: atool
Version: 0.35.0-4
Severity: wishlist
Please support unrar-free for unpacking RAR files. Then you can Suggest:
it (I presume you don't suggest rar or unrar because they're non-free).
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The man page (and help) are a bit confusing because they imply that you
can convert any .bin/.cue pair to WAV files. Also, it implies that CDR
format audio is a selectable output.
Finally, it implies that the default mode is to generate ISO images.
None of this
On Tue, 21 Oct 2008, Michael Kerrisk wrote:
Can you provide some more supporting information please. E.g., a
simple test program that demonstrates the point, or some source code
references/analysis?
Oh bother, it's a Perl bug, not a man page bug. I wrongly assumed that Perl
was just calling
On Tue, 21 Oct 2008, Michael Kerrisk wrote:
On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 5:04 PM, Reuben Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, 21 Oct 2008, Michael Kerrisk wrote:
Can you provide some more supporting information please. E.g., a
simple test program that demonstrates the point, or some source
Package: man-db
Version: 2.5.2-3
Severity: normal
manpath seems always to add paths configured in /etc/manpath.conf, or at
least the mandatory ones, to the manpath first. This means that the
manpath generated is not necessarily in the same order as the user's
PATH.
However, according to bug
Package: manpages-dev
Version: 3.05-1
Severity: normal
This function is automatically called by the other time conversion
functions that depend on the time zone.
This is true but not complete: as far as I can tell, tzset is called
once only, hence if you change the TZ environment variable after
Package: libreadline5
Version: 5.2-3
Severity: minor
/etc/inputrc contains the comment:
# To allow the use of 8bit-characters like the german umlauts, comment out
# the line below. However this makes the meta key not work as a meta key,
# which is annoying to those which don't need to type in
On Sat, 20 Sep 2008, Daniel Baumann wrote:
tags 463541 +moreinfo
thanks
Hi Reuben,
could you please retry with acpitool 0.5-1?
It now says ok instead of activ, which is fine, but still no degree sign
in UTF-8 locales.
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Package: x2x
Severity: minor
The package description refers to propsel, which is no longer packaged
in Debian. I can't find much trace of it on the internet, so maybe the
mention should be removed; if not, a web page should be given, if one
can be found.
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If libio-socket-ssl-perl is not installed, LWP::UserAgent incorrectly
reports that it needs Crypt::SSLeay to use https URLs, whereas it
actually needs IO::Socket::SSL.
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On Sat, 20 Sep 2008, Rob Browning wrote:
Reuben Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
emacs22-nox is nice because it starts up faster than the -x version, and
even more so than the -gtk build.
Does it start up faster than emacs -nw for you?
Yes. Although even faster is if I make a build from
Package: emacs22
Severity: wishlist
emacs22-nox is nice because it starts up faster than the -x version, and
even more so than the -gtk build. Hence, it's useful to be able to have
both, e.g. using -nox for remote logins to the machine on which it's
installed. (I would like to be able to have
and is okay for you.
Reuben Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
There seem to be conflicting information on the page
http://people.debian.org/~preining/TeX/TeX-on-Debian/ch2.html#s-sec-core-config-files
First, it says:
The TeX binaries are built to look for texmf.cnf (the master config
file for TeX
Package: alpine
Version: 2.00+dfsg-1
Severity: normal
The package description misleadingly states: Alpine is currently in
alpha. which is not true any more, and hasn't been for some time. The
clue is in the version number :)
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Package: passwd
Version: 1:4.1.1-3
Severity: minor
passwd(1) says:
passwd also changes account information, such as the full name of the
user, the users login shell, or his/her password expiry date and
interval.
But as far as I can see it can't change the shell (that would be chsh)
or the full
Package: ddclient
Version: 3.7.3-4.1
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I recently upgraded from etch to lenny, and found that lines in my
/etc/ddclient.conf starting with:
login=foo,password=bar
no longer work. I don't get any error, ddclient just stops at the first
such line. If I change the format of the
On Mon, 25 Aug 2008, Jonathan Wiltshire wrote:
Uploaded to mentors.debian.net and awaiting sponsorship. If you want it
sooner, the source package is at
http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/c/copher
Thanks very much for this.
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Version: 5.43.0-17
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Some of the example scripts in /usr/share/doc/expect-dev/examples are
compressed. This is unfortunate, as it means they can't be directly executed.
It would be nice to have some of the more widely-used and advertised
ones, like autoexpect,
Package: dejagnu
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is has made - it has made
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Package: mt-daapd
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Followup-For: Bug #483337
I use mt-daapd, and I'm rather aghast to see it disappear from lenny.
I'd be happy to test any fix if that would help it get into lenny.
Please let me know.
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Package: fcron
Version: 3.0.1-1.2
Severity: important
A line such as:
* * * * * fetchmail
is reported as malformed owing to having no command. If I change
fetchmail to /usr/bin/fetchmail, it works. If I fiddle with the
timespec, e.g. adding the optional at the start of the line, or
making the
Package: gnulib
Severity: wishlist
I suggest that this package be made volatile. At the moment it is
updated precisely once a month, demonstrating its volatility. As a
source library whose code is imported into projects at a time of the
developer's choosing, it is suitable for arbitrary updates
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
* Package name: copher
Version : 0.1.2
Upstream Author : Peter Lunicks [EMAIL PROTECTED]
* URL : http://copher.sourceforge.net/
* License : GPLv2
Programming Lang: Perl
Description : automatically make a SourceForge
Package: wnpp
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* Package name: pacpl
Version : 4.0.2
Upstream Author : Philip Lyons [EMAIL PROTECTED]
* URL : http://pacpl.sourceforge.net/
* License : GPL
Programming Lang: Perl
Description : Converts audio files between popular
Package: perl-doc
Version: 5.8.8-7etch3
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The system copy routine may also be called directly under VMS and OS/2
In the above, VMS should be Windows; VMS is dealt with later in the
sentence.
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On Wed, 16 Jul 2008, John Ferlito wrote:
I know this is a very old bug but can you confirm if this is still
a problem?
This bug appears fixed now.
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Package: dhcdbd
Version: 3.0-1ubuntu1
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There's a missing period at the end of the package description.
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You need modify should be You need to modify in the Configuring
viewcvs dialog.
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The man page says:
The function setvbuf() returns 0 on success. It can return any value on
failure, but returns nonzero when mode is invalid or the request cannot
be honored.
Reading carefully, this suggests that it can return 0 on
On Tue, 24 Jun 2008, Filippo Giunchedi wrote:
Would that work for you?
It looks good to me.
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On Mon, 23 Jun 2008, Filippo Giunchedi wrote:
This indeed does not fix the bug, however autossh exits 1 if the initial
setup fails so testing it as autossh foo || echo failed would be
sufficient.
Since the problem I want to solve is with interactive use, this is fine, but
I would have to
On Mon, 23 Jun 2008, Filippo Giunchedi wrote:
I was more inclined to change autossh itself
Obviously even better!
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thier - their
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Package: blosxom
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I don't know what's actually going wrong, but when the package is purged
I get the warning:
ls: cannot access *: No such file or directory
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Package: dmidecode
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Below, I reproduce the output from dmidecode. It claims that the maximum
memory module size is 32MB and the total maximum system memory is 64MB,
but as you can see below, it correctly reports two 512MB cards installed.
Is this a dmidecode bug,
On Tue, 17 Jun 2008, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
I would recommend a firmware upgrade on the machine to see if
it solve the issue.
Hmm, I think that's a bad idea: firmware upgrades are sufficiently risky
that I don't try them unless I have a real bug of some sort to fix, rather
than merely
Package: vbrfix
Severity: minor
content(other should be content (other
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On Sun, 15 Jun 2008, Goswin Brederlow wrote:
Package: zile
Version: 2.2.59-1
Severity: normal
Hi,
if you press CTRL-space ESC-w then zile fails with:
zile: zmalloc.c:41: zmalloc: Assertion `size 0' failed.
Thanks for this report; the bug is fixed in CVS and 2.2.60 which will be out
Package: libfile-mimeinfo-perl
Version: 0.13-1
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transparant - transparent
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Package: libhttp-dav-perl
Version: 0.31-5
Severity: minor
In the synopsis of HTTP::DAV(3), the line
$d-open( -url=$url )
has a superfluous quote; it should be:
$d-open( -url=$url )
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Missing close paren:
(default: XHTML or TIFF should be (default: XHTML or TIFF)
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On Sun, 1 Jun 2008, Graham Williams wrote:
Thanks for the suggestions Reuben. Comments are below...
Received Sat 26 Apr 2008 6:20am +1000 from Reuben Thomas:
Package: wajig
Version: 2.0.38
Severity: wishlist
I often go through my packages and purge configuration files of removed
packages
On Mon, 2 Jun 2008, Graham Williams wrote:
1. Have wajig purge prompt. I often want to know whether a purge is
likely to cause problems, so I run wajig remove to see if any problems
will be caused, then wajig purge to remove the packages. This is to
avoid the situation where packages are purged
Package: imapcopy
Severity: minor
Last paragraph of package description:
a look on - a look at; an other - another
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likelyhood - likelihood in Term::ReadKey man page.
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Package: git
Severity: minor
ascii should be ASCII. (Like ANSI.)
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Package: zile
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Zile is not a general command. I believe that it gets installed in the
wrong place because of Debian's install-info, which needs to be told
where to put info files with a --section argument.
Zile's info manual up to 2.2.57 says @dircategory Text
Package: info
Version: 4.8.dfsg.1-4
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Please make a (presumably non-free) package for standalone.info (the
info manual for the standalone info reader).
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The info documentation for install-info is under info install-info,
not, as per the man page install ginstall-info.
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Package: pgp4pine
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The packages currently suggested no longer exist in Debian; they are
replaced by alpine.
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libmodplug0c2 should be in section libs (it is a library!) so that it
is correctly detected as an orphan (by e.g. deborphan) when nothing is
using it.
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nuke-trailing-whitespace.el is superceded by whitespace.el which ships
with Emacs 21 22, so I suggest you remove it.
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Version: 1.7.23
Followup-For: Bug #391317
I second this bug: I had a not-fully-installed initramfs-tools, which
caused klibc-utils to be an orphan, which meant that wajig purge-orphans
tried to remove my kernel.
It's not a serious problem for a user who's paying attention,
Package: googleearth-package
Version: 0.5.3
Followup-For: Bug #476627
The other problem with the failure is that without --verbose you don't
even get an error message, which seems wrong for such a basic error.
With verbose it says that Google Earth is too new (I understand that is
fixed!) which
On Wed, 23 Apr 2008, Michael Kerrisk wrote:
We perhaps disagree a little on the balance between that and other
factors, but I think we fundamentally agree on what's good to aim for.
I think so. I had written rather more on the subject but deleted it as I
thought I would be unlikely to
On Fri, 25 Apr 2008, Michael Kerrisk wrote:
The odd thing about msgop(2) is that there is no msgop(2). I suggest fixing
that by removing the text msgop from the page, and renaming it to msgsnd.2
or msgrcv.2, and having msgop.2 link to it.
I agree that it's odd, but the name msgop (message
On Fri, 25 Apr 2008, Michael Kerrisk wrote:
Not sure if that was all you wanted, but I removed msgop and shmop
from the NAME section of the respective pages, to reduce the kind of
ambiguity you are talking about.
That's exactly what I meant.
I went away now and checked. It seems that the
Package: wajig
Version: 2.0.38
Severity: wishlist
I often go through my packages and purge configuration files of removed
packages. It'd be nice to do at least one of two things:
1. Have wajig purge prompt. I often want to know whether a purge is
likely to cause problems, so I run wajig remove
Package: iftop
Version: 0.17-3
Severity: minor
cumm should be cum (short for cumulative) in the summary of
uploaded/downloaded data.
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See Subject.
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On Wed, 23 Apr 2008, Michael Kerrisk wrote:
Hi Reuben,
On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 1:04 AM, Reuben Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Package: manpages-dev
Version: 2.79-2
Severity: minor
In the DESCRIPTION section, utimes() has an outdented heading, but
utime() does not. By comparison with other
On Wed, 23 Apr 2008, Michael Kerrisk wrote:
I agree that there is probably some inconsistency between pages. It's
a consequence of having many different authors.
This is quite natural; equally, especially under central maintainership,
it's nice to fix up. The more consistent that core man
Package: libipc-run-perl
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The package allows you to run rather than allows you run.
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In the DESCRIPTION section, utimes() has an outdented heading, but
utime() does not. By comparison with other similar man pages it seems
the most consistent thing would be to remove the heading for utimes().
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Package: libfribidi0
Version: 0.10.7-4
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The list of character sets at the bottom of the page starts out OK, but
the last few are all jumbled together in a single paragraph.
Looking at the man page source, I'm not really clear what was intended,
but whatever it is, it doesn't seem
Package: libyaml-perl
Version: 0.62-1
Severity: minor
As far as I can see this bug still applies to the latest upstream, 0.66.
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On Wed, 16 Apr 2008, Sven Arvidsson wrote:
On Mon, 2007-10-01 at 10:54 +0100, Reuben Thomas wrote:
If I look at the list of missing tracks from my library, they all
have the same time, and for some at least it is wrong (this morning
the time was 11:41pm yesterday, and one of the tracks
On Wed, 16 Apr 2008, Sven Arvidsson wrote:
On Tue, 2007-10-09 at 00:44 +0200, Sven Arvidsson wrote:
On Mon, 2007-10-08 at 23:36 +0100, Reuben Thomas wrote:
On Tue, 9 Oct 2007, Sven Arvidsson wrote:
Are you using the crossfading backend?
Ah, clever you! Yes, I am.
Thanks for confirming
Package: coreutils
Version: 6.10-3
Severity: minor
$ nohup --foo
nohup: invalid option -- -
Try `nohup --help' for more information.
Compare
$ grep --foo
grep: unrecognised option `--foo'
Usage: grep [OPTION]... PATTERN [FILE]...
Try `grep --help' for more information.
I suggest that nohup's
Package: emacs
Version: 22.1+1-3
Severity: wishlist
I have rules in my ~/.mailcap like this:
text/x-perl; emacsclient '%s'; edit=emacsclient '%s'
text/x-awk; emacsclient '%s'; edit=emacsclient '%s'
text/x-shellscript; emacsclient '%s'; edit=emacsclient '%s'
# Catch-all
text/*; emacsclient '%s';
On Sun, 13 Apr 2008, Frank Küster wrote:
Reuben Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Please create /usr/local/share/texmf when texlive is installed, so that
getnonfreefonts-sys -a can be run without needing to create it. It might
be nice also not to have a note about this in README.Debian
Package: nxml-mode
Severity: minor
Where it says, in Commands for locating a schema, use the command
`C-c C-a', it should be `C-c C-s C-a'.
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On Wed, 9 Apr 2008, Bdale Garbee wrote:
I would be happy to. Do you want to suggest some appropriate text?
Bonus points (and faster implementation) if you send me a diff against
the man page source in the current Debian gzip source package... ;-)
Attached.
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On Wed, 9 Apr 2008, Bdale Garbee wrote:
On Tue, 2008-04-08 at 23:37 +0100, Reuben Thomas wrote:
I suggest that you stop shipping zless.
I'm not inclined to elide it from the Debian package as long as it
remains part of the upstream gzip distribution. If you haven't already
done so, I would
On Wed, 9 Apr 2008, Bdale Garbee wrote:
Good point. The balance for me here is that *not* including something
that people using gzip on other distros and even other operating systems
would expect us to include isn't good... but I'm more than happy to
point to better tech.
That's a reasonable
On Wed, 9 Apr 2008, Reuben Thomas wrote:
On Wed, 9 Apr 2008, Bdale Garbee wrote:
Good point. The balance for me here is that *not* including something
that people using gzip on other distros and even other operating systems
would expect us to include isn't good... but I'm more than happy
Package: texlive-base-bin
Version: 2005.dfsg.2-12
Severity: wishlist
Please create /usr/local/share/texmf when texlive is installed, so that
getnonfreefonts-sys -a can be run without needing to create it. It might
be nice also not to have a note about this in README.Debian. Otherwise,
it seems
Package: gzip
Version: 1.3.5-15
Followup-For: Bug #51162
I suggest that you stop shipping zless. lessfile and lesspipe work
better; their only disadvantage is that they don't try to decompress
files not ending in .gz, but I don't think this is important.
Further, by using lesspipe/lessfile one
Package: bzip2
Version: 1.0.3-6
Followup-For: Bug #121851
I suggest that you stop shipping bzless. lessfile and lesspipe work
better; their only disadvantage is that they don't try to decompress
files not ending in .bz2, but I don't think this is important.
Further, by using lesspipe/lessfile
Package: libsaxon-java
Severity: wishlist
Please provide /usr/bin/saxon or /usr/bin/saxon-xslt, as libsaxonb-java
does.
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Kernel: Linux
Package: mime-support
Version: 3.39-1
Followup-For: Bug #77985
Attached, a patch to run-mailcap to use current file (4.23) to find the
MIME type of a file as a first guess.
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On Sun, 30 Mar 2008, Eric Dorland wrote:
I can't seem to reproduce this any more, are you still seeing this?
No. Please feel free to close it. The crucial thing is that having selected
automake1.9 with alternatives, when I purge it I get:
Removing automake1.9 ...
Removing manually selected
Closing this bug just perpetuates the confusion which led to my opening it
in the first place. I have a better suggestion: other commands often give
multiple synopses when the command line can take different forms; I suggest
you do the same to show when the size is mandatory and when it is
Package: manpages-posix
Severity: minor
In places like make(1posix) you can see markup like this:
the desired behavior ( \fIgrep\fP, \fIod\fP, and \fIpax\fP).
Note the extraneous space before \fIgrep\fP,. This seems to be a
common problem. In some cases it is justified: the extra space
Package: perl
Version: 5.8.8-7etch1
Followup-For: Bug #469402
It seems that in my problem 1 (see previous email), my last guess is
correct: last example in the man page should be third and fourth
examples. In fact, the second form does work on Windows. It's not -
that's the problem, it's either
Package: offlineimap
Version: 5.99.4
Severity: minor
Debian users may find -- Debian users will find: it should be a bug
if the mentioned file is not there or if the path in the man page is
wrong (may can be understood as an invitation, which is fine, but it
can be understood as an indication
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