Package: parted
Version: 2.3-12
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
While using a script to partition a new disk, I found that parted
sometimes starts a new partition 1 sector past the expected position.
Here are the lines from the script that exercise parted, and some
comments and additional info
Package: desktop-file-utils
Version: 0.15-2
Severity: normal
update-desktop-database is installed; but there's no man page for it.
If it were a shell script, I could look inside and figure out what it
does; but it's a compiled program, which makes this difficult.
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Package: pngcrush
Version: 1.7.9-1
Severity: normal
You can insert two text chunks OK; but if you try the command
pngcrush -text b Author 'Andrew T. Young' -text b Title \
P0046.png -text b Description fails P0046.png pngout.png
then pngcrush immediately
Package: mount
Version: 2.17.2-9
Severity: normal
I thought it would be nice to upgrade from ext3 to ext4 when I copied my
old system to a new disk, but the cloned system failed to boot, claiming
"No such device" when it tried to mount the root partition.
In fact, inspection of the filesystem wi
This is essentially the same problem described in bug #452127 -- which
also cites bugs 419052, 437674, and 440142. The last two are the most
informative.
Although 440142 claims the problem was fixed with a corrected file
"ttf-dejavu-extra.defoma-hints" in the ttf-dejavu-extra package, it
appears
Package: gnome-desktop-environment
Severity: normal
After the recent upgrade, I found the machine infested with "bluez" and
various bluetooth libraries. I believe this is a side-effect of the
decision to drag in everything under "Recommends:". In my case, I
had a few pieces of an old gnome desk
Package: xmaxima
Version: 5.13.0-3.1+b1
Severity: normal
It seems to me that xmaxima should depend on gnuplot, or gnuplot-x11.
I had just gnuplot-nox installed, and xmaxima generated opaque error
messages from gnuplot when I tried to use the plot2d facility of maxima.
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Package: fftw-docs
Version: 2.1.3-22
Severity: normal
I ran "make" in the "tests" directory to generate the testing programs.
(Note that the executables are names "test_fftw" and not "fftw_test" as
the documentation says; this should be changed to make things agree.)
test_fftw -v -p 0 passed the
Package: mutt
Version: 1.5.18-6
Severity: minor
Tags: patch
The "manual.txt.gz" doc file contains many typos and minor errors.
Here's a patch to fix them:
# This is a patch for manual.txt to update it to manual.txt.new
#
# To apply this patch:
# STEP 1: Chdir to the source directory.
# STEP 2:
Package: texlive-publishers
Version: 2007.dfsg.17-1~lenny01
Severity: normal
The Optical Society of America has newer versions of its LaTeX package
available as a *.tar file at
http://www.opticsinfobase.org/oe/submit/templates/default.cfm
The new files are called osajnl2.sty, etc. Plea
Package: grub
Version: 0.97-47lenny2
Severity: normal
Grub (legacy) installs with no errors, either using "grub-install"
or from the grub-shell prompt (using the root and setup commands).
However, the resulting system fails to boot normally from the hard disk:
instead of showing the menu, it drop
Package: gimp
Version: 2.4.7-1
Severity: normal
When Gimp starts, it prints an error message complaining that it "Failed
to execute dbus-launch ...". As dbus-launch is in the package "dbus-x11",
and installing that package makes the error message disappear, I think
Gimp should have "dbus-x11" in
Package: libtiff-tools
Version: 3.8.2-7
Severity: normal
Nikon cameras produce a special TIFF format for raw images that Nikon
calls "*.NEF" files. The "file" utility identifies them as tiffs,
and I would expect the tiff tools to handle them reasonably well.
I have some NEF files sent to me by
Package: findutils
Version: 4.2.28-1
Severity: normal
The lines
LOCALUSER="nobody"
export LOCALUSER
in /etc/cron.daily/find have no effect, because ubdatedb gets the
value set in /etc/updatedb.conf instead.
You could either test in updatedb.conf to see whether this enviro
Package: acct
Version: 6.4~pre1-3
Severity: normal
The man page for accton says you can use it with no arguments;
but it complains if you do this. Please make the program and the
man page agree.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Archit
Package: libc6-i686
Version: 2.3.6.ds1-13
Severity: normal
When running a program under the valgrind memory-allocation debugger,
I got the following error messages:
--3777-- Reading syms from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libm-2.3.6.so (0x4028000)
--3777-- Reading debug info from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libm-2.
Package: latex
Severity: minor
Aptitude reports:
"latex" exists in the package database, but it is not a
real package and no package provides it.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /b
Package: g77-3.4
Version: 3.4.6-5
Severity: minor
o what is the latest g77 documentation package? All I can find is
g77-2.95-doc, which seems a bit antiquated.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh
Isn't the problem here that all the xprint stuff was removed from iceape?
(See the discussion in bug report 301649 about this. If that's the
reason, I suppose this bug should be re-filed against the mozilla
transition package, for failing to add the printers to the proper
configuration files for i
Package: xpdf-utils
Version: 3.00-13.6
Severity: normal
The file at http://ieg.or.kr:8080/abstractII/G0102513003.PDF is
displayed correctly by xpdf on the monitor, but prints with Courier
glyphs instead of the correct embedded fonts. The trouble appears to be
in pdftops, as the PostScript file
Package: mozilla-browser
Version: 2:1.7.8-1sarge8
Severity: minor
The file /usr/lib/mozilla/res/samples/test0.html lacks a couple of
trailing semicolons in the "È" and "è" words that are at the
right-hand ends of two lines. These words are (correctly) followed by
periods; a semicolon should be
Package: netpbm
Version: 2:10.0-8sarge3
Severity: minor
The "SEE ALSO" section of the man page for pnmtops lists pbmtolps,
which is not included in the netpbm package. (I think I understand
*why* it's not included; but this misdirection should be removed.)
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Debian Release:
Package: tth
Version: 2.92-1
Severity: normal
There are some things that should be fixed in the ps2png script
distributed with tth:
1. The "gif" strings in the "Usage:" line should be replaced with
"png".
2. The comment in line 10 that says "no cropping" is not correct.
3. The redirection o
Package: netpbm
Version: 2:10.0-8sarge2
Severity: normal
The man page says that you can feed a file to
pnmgamma -cieramp -ungamma
to convert it back to linear intensities. But when I try this, I get
the message:
Invalid gamma value. Must be a positive floating point number
### BEGIN DEBCONF SECTION
# XF86Config-4 (XFree86 server configuration file) generated by dexconf, the
# Debian X Configuration tool, using values from the debconf database.
#
# Edit this file with caution, and see the XF86Config-4 manual page.
# (Type "man XF86Config-4" at the shell prompt.)
#
#
(These 2 files are identical, so I'm sending just one.)
336
VeraMoBd.ttf -Bitstream-Bitstream Vera Sans
Mono-bold-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-adobe-standard
VeraMoBd.ttf -Bitstream-Bitstream Vera Sans
Mono-bold-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-ascii-0
VeraMoBd.ttf -Bitstream-Bitstream Vera Sans
Mono-bold-r-norm
Package: ttf-bitstream-vera
Version: 1.10-3
Severity: important
After installing the ttf-bitstream-vera font package,
I find that X gives a "could not init fontpath element"
error message for the TrueType fonts. This appears to be
caused by faulty fonts.dir and fonts.scale files created in
/var/
Package: xutils
Version: 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge1
Severity: important
After installing the ttf-bitstream-vera font package,
I find that X gives a "could not init fontpath element"
error message for the TrueType fonts. This appears to be
caused by faulty fonts.dir and fonts.scale files created in
/v
Package: xbase-clients
Version: 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge1
Severity: important
After installing the ttf-bitstream-vera font package,
I find that X gives a "could not init fontpath element"
error message for the TrueType fonts. This appears to be
caused by faulty fonts.dir and fonts.scale files create
Package: type1inst
Version: 0.6.1-4
Severity: minor
Though it doesn't affect normal use, I'm a little nervous about the
creation of root-owned files with execute permissions. It seems to me
these files should have 644 rather than 755 permissions.
If somehow a malicious user could overwrite thes
Package: gs-common
Version: 0.3.7
Severity: minor
There are several typos and unclear sections in the README.Debian file.
The most harmful is probably the typo in line 52, which has --Suape
instead of --Shape. (This will be obvious to people who have some
familiarity with defoma; but there will
Package: ucbmpeg-play
Version: 2.3p-12
Severity: normal
When I make a movie with ffmpeg, it plays fine in both xine and ffplay.
But if I try to play it with mpeg_play, there is an infinite loop of
error messages like this:
Improper or missing sequence end code.
Real Time Spent
I figured out what happened: when I asked Gimp to do a "Save As",
it popped up a small window, proposing to save the file in the /cdrom
directory the original TIF had been read from. When I asked to select
a different directory, that window expanded to show a file-tree listing.
When I asked to sa
Package: gimp
Version: 2.2.6-1
Severity: normal
Ordinarily, I can read a file in one format and ask Gimp to write it
out as a PNG, and it works. But today, I had a couple of TIF files
that Gimp read and displayed correctly; but when it wrote PNG versions,
I found they were somehow corrupted.
Tr
Package: xpdf-reader
Version: 3.00-13
Severity: normal
Since the upgrade to sarge, I find that xpdf always fails on the first
try with a message like:
X Error of failed request: BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)
Major opcode of failed request: 45 (X_OpenFont)
Serial number of
Package: mozilla-browser
Version: 2:1.7.8-1sarge1
Severity: normal
According to the W3C, and tags are supposed to delimit short
in-line quotations, using the appropriate left- and right- quote
punctuation marks (see
http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/text.html#edef-Q
for the official
Package: defoma
Version: 0.11.8-0.1
Severity: normal
It appears that defoma installs identical scripts in 2 different places:
/scratch/var/lib/defoma/scripts:
total 76
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3370 Jun 9 17:40 fontconfig.defoma
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 19085 Aug 26 2002 gs.defoma
-rw-r--r-- 1
Package: psfontmgr
Version: 0.11.8-0.1
Severity: normal
The script defoma-psfont-installer looks for the recommended PPD file
*only* in the current working directory. It should look first in
/usr/share/postscript/ppd/ -- the standard place for PPD files.
Looking only in $PWD encourages people t
Package: gsfonts
Version: 8.14+v8.11+urw-0.2
Severity: normal
The file /etc/defoma/hints/gsfonts.hints distributed with "sarge"
appears to have been generated by the defoma-hints script. But the
resulting hint-file requires a lot of correction to be useful.
There are several problems:
1. T
Package: defoma
Version: 0.11.8-0.1
Severity: normal
The configuration file /etc/defoma/loc-cset.data contains the names of
languages, used by defoma for the "Location" property in "hints" files.
Some of the language names are spelled incorrectly, and will cause
problems:
Romania
Package: xprint
Version: 1:0.1.0.alpha1-10
Followup-For: Bug #258843
After wasting a couple of sheets of paper, exactly one per try, I
caught the generated PS in a file:
%!PS-Adobe-3.0
%%Creator: The X Print Server's PostScript DDX (xprint.mozdev.org, release
10, FreeType version 0.0.0)
%%
Package: defoma
Version: 0.11.8-0.1
Severity: important
In the ch3.html file in /usr/share/doc/defoma-doc/defoma-script.html,
it says:
On register command, the hints must be parsed to pick out Location
and FontName hints. parse_hints_start() is used for this purpose.
This function converts hin
Package: fontconfig
Version: 2.3.1-2
Severity: wishlist
/usr/share/doc/fontconfig has a nice html manual, but it doesn't come up
when you ask "dhelp". Adding an entry in the appropriate directory
would be useful.
Likewise, "man fontconfig" produces nothing. You have to know enough
about the sy
Removing the msttcorefonts package with
aptitude purge msttcorefonts
did just about *nothing*. The only change was that I now see a different
font used to print Arabic script. (This suggests that the MS font
package may not be very useful, after all.)
Just to be on the safe side, I tri
I recently upgraded two woody boxes to sarge, and got the printing
problem on one but not the other. The box with the printing problem
has the msttcorefonts installed; the one without them seems to be OK.
(This appears to confirm the brief mention of this connection in earlier
reports.)
There are
Package: imagemagick
Version: 4:5.4.4.5-1woody6
Severity: normal
The ImageMagick program "convert" refuses to stop using antialiasing in
converting *.eps files. I assume it creates the wrong set of options to
gs.
The HTML docs are not clearly worded, but it seems that either -antialias
or +anti
Package: netpbm
Version: 2:9.25-9.backports.org.1
Severity: normal
When trying to rotate a 5388x2352 image through a small angle, I found
that pnmrotate was consuming vast amounts of memory: all of the 256 MB
of core, plus about another 400 MB of swap space. Because of all the
swapping, many minu
I've now encountered this bug again on another page, and have a little
understanding of what's happening.
Apparently, mozilla is trying to format the text and determine where the
fragment reference occurs *before* it has loaded images. If the HTML
on the loaded page does *not* specify the width a
Package: netpbm
Version: 2:9.25-9.backports.org.1
Severity: normal
The man page for pnmtops says that the -nocenter option puts the image
in the upper left corner of the page. Actually, it puts it in the *lower*
left corner.
I assume this error arose from the difference in where the origin of
Package: gs
Version: 6.53-3
Severity: normal
The HTML doc page /usr/share/doc/gs/Htmstyle.htm *prominently* refers to
a nonexistent "index.html" file, which "is intended to make life easier
for both webmasters and users." Alas, its absence makes life harder
for us. How are we supposed to discov
Package: tetex-bin
Version: 1.0.7+20011202-7.3
Severity: normal
The URL
http://www.emrg.com/texpdf.html
listed in the info for dvips seems to be a broken link. It just brings up
the main page for emrg.com.
-- System Information
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Kernel Version: Linux aty786 2.4.18-1-
Package: doc-linux-text
Version: 2002.04-2
Severity: wishlist
The Font-HOWTO still described woody as "testing". It says nothing about
defoma -- is there some helpful documentation available for using it?
Somebody needs to update the Debian part of the Font HOWTO file. The
upstream author seems
Package: tetex-doc
Version: 1.0.2+20011202-2
Severity: normal
I notice a number of spelling errors in the documentation for the babel
macro package. For example, at the end of the second paragraph of
section 6.1 there is
... untill the end of then document.
which should be
...
Package: tetex-base
Version: 1.0.2+20011202-2
Severity: normal
On p. 5 of TETEXDOC (which comes in dvi, ps, and pdf versions), in the
paragraph headed "texdoc", the text has wrong names where it should say
"texdoc". This is in section 1.6, "UNIX scripts and tools".
-- System Information
Debian Re
Package: tetex-bin
Version: 1.0.7+20011202-7.3
Severity: important
The function "dvips_test_print" that begins on line 464 of the texconfig
script fails to print the test page. In my case, the printer went into an
infinite loop and never produced any output; debugging revealed that the
string "A4
Package: tetex-bin
Version: 1.0.7+20011202-7.3
Severity: normal
On line 631 of the texconfig script, we have:
use GhostScript to do the conversation (if you printer is supported).
which should be:
use GhostScript to do the conversion (if your printer is supported).
Package: mozilla-browser
Version: 2:1.0.0-0.woody.1
Severity: normal
When I have mozilla displaying the page
http://mintaka.sdsu.edu/GF/mirages/Wollaston.html
and click on the "inferior mirage" link (in the second line of the
second paragraph) whose target is
http://mintaka.sdsu
Package: xbase-clients
Version: 4.1.0-16woody5
Severity: normal
xgamma's man page says it will show the current gamma value if no option
is given with the -gamma flag. I was unable to get it to do this.
Typing just "xgamma" with no arguments gave:
Xserver is running an old XFree86-VidModeExtens
Package: kernel-image-2.4.18-1-k7
Version: 2.4.18-13.1
Severity: normal
My AMD 1.4GHz Athlon clone box has a no-name CD-ROM drive with two
buttons on it. When the power is on but Linux is not yet running,
the right button seems to open the tray, and the left button closes it.
When the system is
Package: xpdf-utils
Version: 1.00-3.4
Severity: normal
pdftotext reports an error for the file
/usr/share/doc/texmf/pdftex/base/pic.pdf.gz
(after unzipping it), claiming that
Error (0): PDF file is damaged - attempting to reconstruct xref table...
Error: Couldn't find trailer dictio
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