Bug#279000: Python curses bindings and UTF-8

2005-01-19 Thread "Martin v. Löwis"
Martin Michlmayr wrote: I received a bug report against cplay (a front-end for audio players written in Python and using ncurses) that it doesn't support UTF-8. While trying to solve this problem, the bigger question came up whether the Python bindings actually support UTF-8. In Debian, we have a l

Bug#338572: FHS: Python distutils should be configured to install under /usr/local by default

2005-11-11 Thread Martin v. Löwis
Seo Sanghyeon wrote: Instead of referring confused users to the distutils manual all the time, Debian's Python should be configured to install under /usr/local when using distutils to do local install by default. This will break the build process of many Python-based packages, right? They don't

Bug#324051: Bogus free space display on Alpha

2005-11-13 Thread Martin v. Löwis
With python 2.4_2.4.2-1 and libc6.1-dev 2.3.5-7 I get exactly the same code, except that statvfs is now declared Somebody will need to debug through the code. I cannot see anything wrong with the code, and on the systems I have access to, it always produces the correct results. As another test,

Bug#347302: 347302: Can you give more reproduction detail?

2006-01-12 Thread Martin v. Löwis
Max Bowsher wrote: > Can you give more detail about how to reproduce the error? Unfortunately, no - it is hardly reproducable. I was hoping that somebody was immediately apparent from the error message. > It certainly isn't a common error, so it must be being triggered by > something unique to yo

Bug#183150: ITP: python-fam -- Python bindings of FAM routines

2005-03-27 Thread "Martin v. Löwis"
I have a python-fam package ready; I just need to find a sponsor to upload it. Martin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#324161: debhelper: dh_installdocs does not install symbolic links

2005-08-20 Thread Martin v. Löwis
Package: debhelper Version: 4.9.5 Severity: normal dh_installdocs skips symbolic links. This makes it unusable for python-xlib, where index.html is a symlink to python-xlib_toc.html. The cause of the problem is in dh_installdocs line 136, which finds using '-type f'. Using '\\( -type f or -type l

Bug#324051: Bogus free space display on Alpha

2005-08-25 Thread Martin v. Löwis
> Looks like it. doko, can you please look at this? This is in both > 2.3 and 2.4. I'm surprised that Python would have such a bug that's > still not fixed but maybe it's just not compiled with the right > options or something? It looks like a 64-bit issue indeed: 4912214227121058 in hex is 0x1

Bug#405996: Fails to configure

2007-01-08 Thread Martin v. Löwis
> Indeed, py_compilefiles uses os.path without importing it. I fail to see the problem. It imports os, and that should automatically give you os.path, unless 'posix' is not in builtin_module_names (which is hard to imagine). Notice that the original report said "'import site' failed", which means

Bug#405996: Fails to configure

2007-01-08 Thread Martin v. Löwis
Wouter Verhelst schrieb: >> Wouter, can you please run "python -v" and report its output? > > Attached Thanks. Unfortunately, I can't make sense out of it: when run this way, Python doesn't fail at all. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Con

Bug#201584: xserver-xfree86: __divsi3 is unresolved

2007-01-14 Thread Martin v. Löwis
> About 3 years ago, you reported a bug to the Debian BTS regarding > __divsi3 being unresolved in the X server on ia64. It was supposed to be > fixed in experimental. Did you reproduce this problem recently? No, I stopped using X on that platform a long time ago. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [

Bug#400130: iceweasel-l10n-de: German localization still calls itself "Firefox"

2006-11-23 Thread Martin v . Löwis
Package: iceweasel-l10n-de Version: 2.0-1 Severity: normal In the German translation, iceweasel still uses the name "Firefox", at least in these places: - Window title (is "Mozilla Firefox") - Hilfe/Über Mozilla Firefox (translation of "Help/About Iceweasel") - Help system (Mozilla Firefox Help, "

Bug#293932: [Python-Dev] license issues with profiler.py and md5.h/md5c.c

2005-02-11 Thread "Martin v. Löwis"
Phillip J. Eby wrote: I personally can't see how taking the reasonable interpretation of a public domain declaration can lead to any difficulties, but then, IANAL. The ultimate question is whether we could legally relicense such code under the Python license, ie. remove the PD declaration, and at

Bug#375930: python2.3-nevow: Package is uninstallable

2006-06-28 Thread Martin v . Löwis
Package: python2.3-nevow Version: 0.7.0-1 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable The package depends on python2.3-twisted-web, yet that package does not exist (anymore). -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable')

Bug#373533: diff for 1.1.1-2.1 NMU

2006-07-02 Thread Martin v. Löwis
Pierre HABOUZIT wrote: > Attached is the diff for my python-fam 1.1.1-2.1 NMU. Why did you ignore python-fam 1.1.1-2? It already fixed the bugs. Regards, Martin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#522478: libio-socket-inet6-perl: AF_UNSPEC fails for IPv6 hosts

2009-04-16 Thread Martin v. Löwis
I tracked this down to the resolution of an unspecified local address. On some systems, getaddrinfo('',0,0,2,17,1) returns 127.0.0.1, then ::1; on other systems, it's vice versa. The order apparently depends on /etc/gai.conf; apparently, there was also a recent change in the library defaults (to re

Bug#468998: bug verified, patch attached, will NMU during the BSP

2008-03-05 Thread Martin v. Löwis
It will be uploaded during the BSP next weekend or earlier with your OK. The patch looks right to me, so please go ahead. Regards, Martin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#458839: aiccu: Fails to configure: Unknown configuration statement "proto"

2008-01-03 Thread Martin v . Löwis
Package: aiccu Version: 20070115-7 Severity: normal After installing aiccu, every attempt to configure it fails with the message: Setting up aiccu (20070115-7) ... Unknown configuration statement on line 2 of /tmp/aiccu1agHXXconf: "protoco" Unknown configuration statement on line 3 of /tmp/aiccu1

Bug#279000: Python curses bindings and UTF-8

2006-01-19 Thread Martin v. Löwis
I just tried to reproduce the problem, with python 2.3.5-9 and libncurses5 5.5-1, and it just worked. I couldn't try the original problem (since I don't know what to use cplay for), but in Martin Michlmayrs test case, the bullets display fine (the Japanese characters show as a dotted box, due to a

Bug#279000: Python curses bindings and UTF-8

2006-01-20 Thread Martin v. Löwis
Martin Michlmayr wrote: > Woo, thanks for the note. I can confirm that this works now - I see > the Chinese character too. However, while I can see the umlaut a and > the Chinese ren, the bullet is not displayed properly. Do you get > this too? Instead of • I see [EMAIL PROTECTED] I can see th

Bug#279000: Python curses bindings and UTF-8

2006-01-20 Thread Martin v. Löwis
Martin Michlmayr wrote: > Strange. What x-terminal-emulator are you using? I normally use > pterm. I just tried xterm and it in I don't see the bullet at all > with the Python and I see a ' @ ' in curses. uxterm, from xterm 208-3.1. Locale is set to de_DE.UTF-8. Regards, Martin -- To UNSUBS

Bug#279000: Python curses bindings and UTF-8

2006-01-21 Thread Martin v. Löwis
Martin Michlmayr wrote: > Strange. What x-terminal-emulator are you using? I normally use > pterm. I just tried xterm and it in I don't see the bullet at all > with the Python and I see a ' @ ' in curses. I was confused. I didn't wait the three seconds to see the ncurses actually start. I also

Bug#279000: Python curses bindings and UTF-8

2006-02-10 Thread Martin v. Löwis
Martin Michlmayr wrote: > Martin, can you please look into this? Thomas is right: Python sets the locale first to "", then back to "POSIX". This is intentional: it tries to obtain the CHARSET during startup, but wants to leave locale control to the script. So the test script has a bug: it should

Bug#279000: Python curses bindings and UTF-8

2006-02-11 Thread Martin v. Löwis
This bug has now been fixed with the SF patch http://www.python.org/sf/1428494 which has been committed as revisions r42320 and r42321; Debian could probably just copy that code. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#341022: Access to root directory

2006-01-31 Thread Martin v. Löwis
Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: > Agreed. But instead why not think the other way. > The default configuration shouldn't allow symlink access. If people need it, > it should get explicitly mentioned in their config. If the default configuration should disallow symlinks, then this what the patch should s

Bug#415968: Not a bug

2010-02-13 Thread Martin v. Löwis
This is not a bug in Python, but in the individual scripts. Scripts should not rely on being able to write Unicode strings to stdout. Instead, they need to encode strings explicitly, according to whatever protocol is defined for whatever file they send the data to. In absence of a more specific gui