Bug#1067078: gawk: Please upgrade to 5.3.0 which has CSV support

Package: gawk Version: 1:5.2.1-2 Severity: normal X-Debbugs-Cc: bugs.debian@wongs.net Dear Maintainer, Please upgrade this package to version 5.3. As of 2023, GNU's gawk has support for the Comma Separated Values format by use of the `-k` switch. This is a major improvement for people who

Bug#1055483: util-linux: Please include /usr/sbin/fdformat

Package: util-linux Version: 2.39.2-5 Severity: normal X-Debbugs-Cc: bugs.debian@wongs.net Dear Maintainer, Ever since Bookworm, fdformat, the floppy disk low-level format program has been missing. This is because upstream no longer configures it by default in order to save disk space.

Bug#1053983: dos2unix: Man page should mention that UTF-16 is converted to UTF-8 by default

ly works in the --keep-utf16 section. It is good to see that unix2dos actually does what I wanted rather than what it claims it does. Thank you. Ben Wong

Bug#1053983: dos2unix: Man page should mention that UTF-16 is converted to UTF-8 by default

Package: dos2unix Version: 7.5.1-1 Severity: normal X-Debbugs-Cc: bugs.debian@wongs.net Dear Maintainer, The dos2unix man page claims that the default mode is "ASCII" and that in ASCII mode only line endings will be changed. This is no longer true. In the default mode, UTF-16 is converted to

Bug#1050611: /usr/bin/iconv: iconv use_from_charmap mixes up char_table and byte_table

Package: libc-bin Version: 2.37-7 Severity: normal File: /usr/bin/iconv Tags: patch X-Debbugs-Cc: bugs.debian@wongs.net Dear Maintainer, The iconv program, following POSIX, allows charmap files to be used directly for conversion without having to be compiled into a gconv module. For example,

Bug#1036302: free(): double free detected in tcache 2 during history search

"echo $'foo\nbar\n\cp\cu\cp\cu\cn\cj' | ./rlgets" prompt> foo prompt> bar prompt> free(): double free detected in tcache 2 bash: line 1: 556449 Doneecho 'foo bar ' 556450 Aborted (core dumped) | ./rlgets make: *** [Makefile:5: test] Error 134

Bug#1040820: bash-completion: ~ (tilde) should not be quoted if a file contains a $ (dollar)

Package: bash-completion Version: 1:2.11-6 Severity: normal X-Debbugs-Cc: bugs.debian@wongs.net Dear Maintainer, Currently, if a file with '$' (dollar sign) in it exists, Bash completion will quote a leading '~' (tilde) and not quote the tilde. To reproduce (where '^I' represents hitting

Bug#521406: bash-completion: leading tilde always expanded

Package: bash-completion Followup-For: Bug #521406 X-Debbugs-Cc: bugs.debian@wongs.net Dear Maintainer, Shouldn't this bug be closed since it was fixed? Or, if it is closed, why is reportbug suggesting it to me in the bugs list? Thanks. --Ben -- System Information: Debian Release: 12.0

Bug#653837: bash-completion: Fixed. Please close.

Package: bash-completion Followup-For: Bug #653837 X-Debbugs-Cc: bugs.debian@wongs.net Dear Maintainer, This bug can be closed as it no longer occurs, at least as of version 1:2.11-6 which I just tested. In the following, "^I" represents where I hit the Tab key and the line after "->" shows

Bug#1036302: free(): double free detected in tcache 2 during history search

Package: bash Version: 5.2.15-2+b2 Severity: normal X-Debbugs-Cc: bugs.debian@wongs.net Dear Maintainer, Using history-search-backward and -forward can cause bash to die with an error: free(): double free detected in tcache 2 Aborted (core dumped) This is easily replicated

Bug#1030097: groff: gropdf does not use /etc/papersize in DESC

Package: groff Version: 1.22.4-9 Severity: normal Tags: patch X-Debbugs-Cc: bugs.debian@wongs.net Dear Maintainer, The gropdf Perl script has a few bugs. 1. It does not include /etc/papersize as the first place to check for the default paper size. The problem is that the "papersize"

Bug#1029703: bsdextrautils: column -l (--table-columns-limit) mangles data with two spaces

Package: bsdextrautils Version: 2.38.1-4 Severity: normal X-Debbugs-Cc: bugs.debian@wongs.net Dear Maintainer, The -l (--table-column-limit) option to the "column" utility does not work correctly for data that has more than one space in a row. It is supposed to specify a maximum number of

Bug#60377: "reset" broken for dumb terminals

On Sat, Jan 21, 2023 at 08:55:26AM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: > It does not happen very often that somebody replies to an over 20 years > old bug, and this seems to have escaped both my and upstream's > attention. Thank you, Sven. I realize this is unusual and I hope you do not mind. As a user, I

Bug#1027414: luit: Luit does not handle Unicode beyond BMP

Package: luit Version: 2.0.20221028-1 Severity: normal Tags: patch X-Debbugs-Cc: bugs.debian@wongs.net Dear Maintainer, It appears that luit does not handle UTF-8 beyond U+. For example: printf "Nabla (U+2207): \U2207\nBold Nabla (U+1D6C1): \U1D6C1\n" \ | luit -encoding

Bug#60377: "reset" broken for dumb terminals

Package: ncurses-bin Version: 6.3+20220423-2 Followup-For: Bug #60377 Control: tags -1 patch Control: tags -1 patch Dear Maintainer, This is still a problem. It causes my VT340 serial terminal to hang, but not immediately. It happens the next time a program tries to open /dev/ttyUSB0, for

Bug#996671: wavemon: Width of printed text overwrites borders, next line

Package: wavemon Version: 0.9.1-1+b1 Severity: normal Tags: patch Dear Maintainer, Despite what the NEWS file says, Wavemon does not actually use the curtail() function it defines to prevent long lines from spilling into the next line. While this is noticeable mostly on the rx/tx rate line --

Bug#990756: rsyslog: Please send user errors only to user.log and rotate that file based on size.

Package: rsyslog Version: 8.2102.0-2 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, My Debian box's hard disk filled up due to a single buggy user application spewing messages at syslog. While I blame the application, Debian's rsyslog should be more robust by default. This is something I've seen

Bug#952796: go-mtpfs: Patch now available

Package: go-mtpfs Version: 0.0~git20180209.d6f8f3c-1 Followup-For: Bug #952796 Dear Maintainer, Upstream has patched the bug. https://github.com/hanwen/go-mtpfs/issues/103 https://github.com/hanwen/go-mtpfs/commit/1e01fd2b9a423ad0ad8fd06a1f3e2d8cf8f23e5a I suggest updating go-mtpfs to

Bug#954316: /usr/bin/ncal: ncal -y does not fit in 80x25

Package: bsdmainutils Version: 11.1.2+b1 Severity: normal File: /usr/bin/ncal Dear Maintainer, According to the man page for ncal, its strangely compact output was designed specifically so it will fit an entire year on an 80 column by 25 row screen. At some point somebody made an "improvement"

Bug#712176: could not read directory /proc/acpi/processor

Package: acpitool Version: 0.5.1-4+b4 Followup-For: Bug #712176 Dear Maintainer, 'acpitool -c' seems to work fine without /proc/acpi/processor, but it still complains about it being missing. Could we simply remove the spurious warning in Show_CPU_Info()? Thanks! -- System Information: Debian

Bug#921705: gnome: Please do not override debian-xterm.desktop file

Thank you for your consideration, Ben On Tue, Feb 12, 2019 at 5:48 PM Laurent Bigonville wrote: > On Fri, 08 Feb 2019 00:24:58 -0800 Ben Wong > wrote: > > > Dear Maintainer, > > Hello, > > [...] > > > > It turns out that some part of Gnome is creating a *second

Bug#940312: /etc/issue: /etc/issue is being updated by Debian when it doesn't need to

Oh! I'm sorry. I had expected Debian's official "PRETTY NAME" in /etc/os-release to be the preferred name for showing to users. To show it without the code name, but to have it automatically update whenever /etc/os-release is changed, this works: \S{NAME} \S{VERSION_ID} \n \l Thanks, —Ben

Bug#940312: /etc/issue: /etc/issue is being updated by Debian when it doesn't need to

Hi, I know this is low-priority and everyone is busy on important matters, but I was wondering if anybody had looked at this yet. The fix I included is simple and easily verified. I'm hoping that it can be included in Debian 11 (Bullseye). Thanks, —Ben

Bug#940312: /etc/issue: /etc/issue is being updated by Debian when it doesn't need to

Package: base-files Version: 10.3+deb10u1 Severity: normal File: /etc/issue Tags: patch Dear Maintainer, When upgrading to Debian Buster, I noticed that Debian had updated /etc/issue to include the version number ("Debian GNU/Linux 10"). There is no reason for this since that data is already

Bug#928415: firefox-esr: Bugzilla 1548973 All extensions disabled due to expiration of intermediate signing cert

Package: firefox-esr Version: 60.6.1esr-1~deb9u1 Followup-For: Bug #928415 Dear Maintainer, What is Debian's recommendation for users and administrators dealing with this major snafu? I've got a bunch of Debian Stable boxes with Firefox-esr and installing the STUDIES "hotfix" from Mozilla by

Bug#926119: vice: Add /usr/local to search path for ROM images

Package: vice Version: 3.0.0.dfsg-2 Severity: normal Tags: patch Dear Maintainer, When a local administrator wishes to install the VICE ROMs for all users on the local machine, the usual and recommended practice would be to put them under /usr/local/. VICE does not look there by default,

Bug#926114: vice-getroms installs ROMs in ~/lib/vice, but should use ~/.vice

Package: vice Version: 3.0.0.dfsg-2 Severity: normal Tags: patch Dear Maintainer, The vice-getroms script installs ROMs in a location that VICE-3.0 does not look, $HOME/lib/vice/. The patch for this is trivial as the new location is simply $HOME/.vice/. --- debian/vice-getroms.orig

Bug#926109: vice: Version 1.5 of ROMs is too old, fails for x128, others

Package: vice Version: 3.0.0.dfsg-2 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, Although Debian does not distribute the ROMs, it does have some pointers to help people find them. Currently the README.ROMs file and vice-getroms shell script both refer to getting the VICE-1.5 ROMs here:

Bug#926106: vice: Please update to VICE-3.3

Package: vice Version: 3.0.0.dfsg-2 Severity: wishlist Dear Maintainer, I notice that VICE-3.3 was released last year but Debian still has VICE-3.0. When you get the time, it'd be nice if Debian's package was updated to the newest version. Thank you. -- System Information: Debian Release: 9.8

Bug#922009: gnome: xterm missing due to well-intentioned but misguided debian-xterm.desktop

Package: gnome Version: 1:3.22+3 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, When using the Gnome desktop, I cannot find the xterm icon by clicking on Activities or by hitting the Super key and typing "xterm". I know that I can run xterm by using Alt-F2, but that is not what I am looking for. Whenever I

Bug#922007: gnome: xterm missing due to well-intentioned but misguided debian-xterm.desktop

Package: gnome Version: 1:3.22+3 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, When using the Gnome desktop, I cannot find the xterm icon by clicking on Activities or by hitting the Super key and typing "xterm". I know that I can run xterm by using Alt-F2, but that is not what I am looking for. Whenever I

Bug#921706: gnome: Please do not override debian-xterm.desktop

Package: gnome Version: 1:3.22+3 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, When using the Gnome desktop, I cannot find the xterm icon by clicking on Activities or by hitting the Super key and typing "xterm". I know that I can run xterm by using Alt-F2, but that is not what I am looking for. Whenever I

Bug#921705: gnome: Please do not override debian-xterm.desktop file

Package: gnome Version: 1:3.22+3 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, When using the Gnome desktop, I cannot find the xterm icon by clicking on Activities or by hitting the Super key and typing "xterm". I know that I can run xterm by using Alt-F2, but that is not what I am looking for. Whenever I

Bug#911929: Regression: -o mark_all_pages=1 should treat URL-like strings as links

Package: w3m Version: 0.5.3-36build2 Severity: normal Tags: patch Dear Maintainer, w3m ought to obey the MarkAllPages option from the command line (or the config file) and automatically mark all URL-like strings as links. Instead, it currently does nothing. This is a problem because w3m is

Bug#904619: youtube-dl: Please update youtube-dl to 2018.07.21 release

Package: youtube-dl Version: 2017.05.18.1-1 Followup-For: Bug #904619 Dear Maintainer, This particular package becomes obsolete very quickly and the version in Stretch hasn't been updated in over a year. Is there some way to alert users to not bother with it on a stable system and what they can

Bug#901123: xfonts-jmk: Add Unicode 7.0 runic characters to neep

Package: xfonts-jmk Version: 3.0-21 Severity: normal Tags: patch Dear Maintainer, The neep font has surprisingly good Unicode coverage, but it is missing some characters. In particular, I noticed it is missing the eight RUNIC LETTERS, U+16F1 to U+16F8, that were added in Unicode 7.0 a few years

Bug#895840: sox: nroff typo in man page, switches from Times Roman to Courier

Package: sox Version: 14.4.1-5+b2 Severity: minor Dear Maintainer, There is a bug in the man page of sox that causes the font to switch midway to Courier instead of Times Roman. You can see this problem by viewing the man page as a PDF: cd /usr/share/man/man1 zcat sox.1.gz | tbl -Tpdf |

Bug#858080: s-nail does not Provide: mail-reader, mailx

On Sat, Feb 17, 2018 at 9:52 AM, Paride Legovini <p...@ninthfloor.org> wrote: > On 2018-02-17 18:30, Ben Wong wrote: > > On Sat, 18 Mar 2017 23:43:45 +0100 Steffen Nurpmeso <stef...@sdaoden.eu > > <mailto:stef...@sdaoden.eu>> wrote: > >> > >&

Bug#858080: s-nail does not Provide: mail-reader, mailx

On Sat, 18 Mar 2017 23:43:45 +0100 Steffen Nurpmeso wrote: > > So here i as the maintainer of the subject jump in and remark that > the problem of the bug report you pointed to was a non-standard > option of the Debian bsd-mail, our command line is a superset of > POSIX mailx.

Bug#854878: /bin/zgrep: Confirmed + patch

Package: gzip Version: 1.6-5+b1 Followup-For: Bug #854878 Dear Maintainer, I can confirm what the previous bug reporter said. It is definitely a bug. You can test it like so: $ touch binary-star $ zgrep signal binary-star /bin/zgrep: 75: /bin/zgrep: 1: binary-star option requires

Bug#769366: zssh won't start: "out of pty's"

It's been a decade since I fixed it, so my memory is hazy, but Google shows up a patch as Debian Bug #388036 . Ben On December 23, 2017, at 3:41 AM, Boyuan Yang <073p...@gmail.com> wrote: On 2017年12月22日星期五 CST 下午5:03:59 Ben Wong wrote: > Wait, that bug again? I fixed that a long time

Bug#769366: zssh won't start: "out of pty's"

Wait, that bug again? I fixed that a long time ago. Why did I not get messages about it? Ben On December 21, 2017, at 11:39 PM, Boyuan Yang <073p...@gmail.com> wrote: Control: tag -1 confirmed stretch buster sid Control: severity -1 grave This bug essentially made zssh unusable; raising the

Bug#877395: unattended-upgrades: Codename based matching should use ${distro_codename}, not "jessie"

Package: unattended-upgrades Version: 0.98 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, In /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/50unattended-upgrades, in the the section labeled "Unattended-Upgrades::Origins-Pattern, there are two problems. 1) The release name is hardcoded to "jessie" in the commented out example of how

Bug#877127: glances: nagging suggestion to upgrade using pip

Package: glances Version: 2.7.1.1-2 Severity: wishlist Dear Maintainer, When glances is not the latest version, it prints a message upon quitting suggesting one should upgrade using 'pip'. While I trust the Debian project enough to install upgrades, I do not trust pip. (In fact, I think it

Bug#874680: /usr/games/trek: trek: Man page says to read the full documentation but doesn't say how

Package: bsdgames Version: 2.17-22 Severity: normal File: /usr/games/trek Tags: patch Dear Maintainer, The manpage for trek(6) is extremely brief. This is by design as there is full documentation in a troff file. Unfortunately, the manpage neglects to explain how to read that documentation.

Bug#873402: Radio: frequency can get reset to preset #1 on startup

Package: radio Version: 3.103-3+b1 Severity: normal Tags: patch Dear Maintainer, The radio program incorrectly changes the frequency on startup under certain circumstances because it does not correctly calculate the band. To recreate: 1. Create a file called "~/.radio" with contents like this:

Bug#873397: radio: input frequency uses floating point, causing rounding errors

Package: radio Version: 3.103-3+b1 Severity: normal Tags: patch Dear Maintainer, To replicate: Run 'radio -f 107.7' Expected result: Frequency should be 107.7. Actual result: Frequency is 107.69. The 'radio' program uses floating point when reading in the frequency from the user. (E.g.

Bug#864644: dictionary-el: No font face support for default font

Package: dictionary-el Version: 1.10-3 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch Dear Maintainer, Since emacs can handle nice variable width fonts, it makes sense to have dictionary.el use them by default. While there is support for changing some of the font faces, such as the buttons at the top, the

Bug#829267: Confirmation

I can confirm that this bug exists as it affects me as well. Note that, because there are some sites that now require adblock to be disabled, this bug makes parts of the web inaccessible until the package is removed. It does seem like an update to the latest adblock would be in order. What is

Bug#769366: zssh won't start: out of pty's

Weird. I thought I had patched that bug seven years ago. Yeah, it was bug #388036. I'll look into it again. Ben On Sun, Apr 26, 2015 at 3:55 PM, Benda Xu hero...@gentoo.org wrote: Hi, I could also confirm that the latest NMU of 1.5c.debian.1-3.2 caused the bug. @YunQiang, any ideas?

Bug#780649: fbi: fbgs text is rendered with jaggies

Package: fbi Version: 2.09-1+b1 Followup-For: Bug #780649 Dear Maintainer, Since the upstream already has color fixed, here is the antialiasing patch without that part. Ben -- System Information: Debian Release: 8.0 APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386

Bug#780643: fbi: fbgs shows PDF files in black and white

Package: fbi Version: 2.09-1+b1 Severity: minor Tags: patch Dear Maintainer, The fbgs wrapper for fbi is great for viewing PDF files from the Linux console, however it shows them in black and white by default. There is a command line option to enable color, but it would make more sense to

Bug#780649: fbi: fbgs text is rendered with jaggies

Package: fbi Version: 2.09-1+b1 Severity: normal Tags: patch Dear Maintainer, PDF documents can be hard to read using fbgs because text is not being antialiased. Some documents are so unpleasant to read that the program is essentially unusable. Fortunately, it is a simple matter to enable

Bug#780643: fbi: fbgs shows PDF files in black and white

Package: fbi Version: 2.09-1+b1 Followup-For: Bug #780643 Oops, last patch I sent used the -m flag, which I had not noticed was already being passed to fbi to set the mode. I've changed it to -M now and updated the documentation. -- System Information: Debian Release: 8.0 APT prefers

Bug#600767: #600767 - gnome-system-monitor: Insanely high cpu/dbus usage

Gosh, that was a lifetime ago. Please close. Thank you. --Ben On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 6:42 AM, Pedro Beja altha...@gmail.com wrote: Hey Ben, this is an old bug. Could you please still reproduce this issue with newer gnome-system-monitor version like 3.4.1-2+b1 or 3.14.0-1 ? thanks

Bug#443798: itop: strange display on a multi cpu AMD64

Package: itop Version: 0.1-4 Followup-For: Bug #443798 Dear Maintainer, Just confirming that itop is still broken for amd64 with multiple cores. For example, on an Intel i5 processor with four cores, I get output that looks like this: INTNAME RATE MAX 19 [

Bug#750952: netselect-apt: Ignore corrupted data from netselect

Package: netselect-apt Version: 0.3.ds1-25 Followup-For: Bug #750952 Dear Maintainer, Please find attached a patch that should close this bug. While I was at it, I fixed #713838 as well. The problem is actually a bug in the netselect package (I'll file another bug report for that). However, a

Bug#755238: netselect: Returns negative scores for roundrobin DNS hosts

Package: netselect Version: 0.3.ds1-25 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, I know the issue of corruption due to parsing ping responses from DNS roundrobin has come up in the past, and been fixed, but it appears to have reappeared. When running netselect through the netselect-apt script,

Bug#747341: Info received (Confirmation)

Okay, I've compiled my own version of bash for debugging and managed to get it to crash with a usable backtrace. It seems to be a problem with the readline library built into bash-4.3. Just out of curiousity, why is it we compile bash using its own readline instead of using the shared library

Bug#747341: Info received (Bug#747341: Info received (Confirmation))

Using the source I was finally able to figure out a method to repeatably trigger this heisenbug. HOW TO REPEAT: 1. echo set revert-all-at-newline on bug.inputrc 2. INPUTRC=bug.inputrc bash 3. ^P^U^N^M [Hold down control and type punm.] Bash should die immediately with SIGABRT. DISCUSSION:

Bug#747341: Info received (Confirmation)

Okay, I ran bash under gdb and got a backtrace which perhaps points to readline. While it's hard to lay blame with a malloc error, this fits with my experience as bash would often crash immediately after exiting a command and returning to the prompt. Josh: Do you have a specialized ~/.inputrc? I

Bug#747341: Confirmation

I can confirm that this bug is affecting bash-4.3-7. At least once a day I'll see bash crash due to this. It's been going on for a while, but It was rather mysterious since I never saw the error message until I set up gnome-terminal to not close when bash exits. By the way, it may or may not be

Bug#719358: bash: Bash incorrectly handles trap when already within a signal handler

Package: bash Version: 4.2+dfsg-1 Severity: normal Dear Bash Maintainer, Bash seems to have a bug in which it cannot reset the signal handler (using 'trap') when already within a signal handler. Here is a sample script that demonstrates the problem:

Bug#698663: anki: Anki 1.2 obsoleted upstream

Package: anki Version: 1.2.11-1 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, Anki 2 has been released and the upstream maintainer will be shutting off the AnkiWeb 1.2 server on February 4, 2013. That means that users that have not upgraded to Anki 2 will no longer be able to sync their decks. This could

Bug#681305: This mailcap entry also breaks w3m

...@vinc17.net wrote: On 2013-01-02 11:04:35 -0800, Ben Wong wrote: Fortunately, a quick fix (at least for w3m) is easy. One can comment out the broken lines in /etc/mailcap: # It is better to not pretend to know how to deal with archives. #application/x-tar; /bin/tar tvf -; print=/bin/tar

Bug#681305: This mailcap entry also breaks w3m

This wishlist item may be more important than it seems as the bug also breaks the w3m text browser. More than once, I've left a huge download running and came back to find nothing but a list of files splatted to my screen. It just doesn't make sense that Debian's default method of handling

Bug#568889: manpages: hostname(1) manpage is poorly written

For your information, you can use reportbug with path to a file as argument, it will check the owner packgage. $ dpkg -S hostname.1 hostname: /usr/share/man/man1/hostname.1.gz Did I misfile this bug? My apologies. More likely, the author meant that using 'hostname' is not the *correct*

Bug#334437: ddclient: Bug#334437 patch

Package: ddclient Version: 3.8.0-11.5 Followup-For: Bug #334437 This bug still exists in version 3.8.0. The solution proposed over six years ago by Dave Dykstra, commenting out the buggy lines, works fine. Here is a patch that does simply that. -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid

Bug#579185: x11-xserver-utils: weird xkeystone executable

Package: x11-xserver-utils Version: 7.6+3 Followup-For: Bug #579185 Dear Maintainer, I managed to get xkeystone to work by commenting out a couple lines. --- xkeystone~  2011-07-02 11:25:46.0 -0700 +++ xkeystone   2012-04-03 07:52:18.0 -0700 @@ -496,8 +496,8 @@            text =

Bug#624849: sidplay: Sidplay manual does not mention the SongLengths.txt database

Package: sidplay Version: 2.0.9-6 Severity: minor Tags: patch The documentation does not mention that sidplay uses the HVSC's SongLength.txt file to end songs at the proper time nor does it describe how to configure it. (As shipped by Debian, sidplay currently plays sid tunes forever, but that's

Bug#575013: Gstreamer cannot read from some ALSA microphones

I can confirm that Debian's current gstreamer-0.10 has a problem recording from some microphones. I have an Ensoniq 5880B PCI audio card which records fine with ALSA but does not work with gstreamer when specified as hw:1,0. Oddly, it *does* work with gstreamer when specified as

Bug#611151: texinfo: Segmentation fault when screen is resized to 5 or less rows

Package: texinfo Version: 4.13a.dfsg.1-6 Severity: normal This bug is easy to reproduce. Simply run info in a terminal, then resize the terminal to have a height smaller than 6. The info program immediately exits with a segmentation fault. The problem is that window.c:window_line_of_point()

Bug#604661: The man page for cpuburn is woefully inadequate.

This is a multi-part MIME message sent by reportbug. Package: cpuburn Version: 1.4-37 Severity: minor The man page for the cpuburn collection of programs is missing essential information necessary for using them. For example, it does not mention that the programs print no error messages, or

Bug#601190: x11-xserver-utils: Xgamma man page should cross reference xrandr

Package: x11-xserver-utils Version: 7.5+2 Severity: minor Tags: patch The xgamma man page should have a link in the SEE ALSO section to the xrandr man page which also supports changing the display gamma. -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers testing APT policy:

Bug#600767: gnome-system-monitor: Insanely high cpu/dbus usage

no matter what gvfs does. --Ben On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 3:52 PM, Josselin Mouette j...@debian.org wrote: severity 600767 important tag 600767 unreproducible thanks Le mardi 19 octobre 2010 à 15:11 -0700, Ben Wong a écrit : Gnome-system-monitor has always been a CPU pig, especially when drawing

Bug#309278: libid3 has been upgraded but id3v2 is still broken

Package: id3v2 Version: 0.1.12-1 Severity: normal Unfortunately, this five year old bug still exists in id3v2. As much as we had hoped the world would have completed its transition to patent free media formats by now (go WEBM!), sadly I was confronted with an mp3 file today and id3v2

Bug#568886: Regression: Hsync/Vrefresh incorrectly detected

On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 4:24 AM, Brice Goglin brice.gog...@ens-lyon.org wrote: Can you try upgrading xserver-xorg-video-radeon to 6.12.5 in unstable or even 6.12.191 in experimental with a recent kernel and KMS ? Retested. The bug still exists in xserver-xorg-video-radeon 6.12.6 (latest in

Bug#550562: Blob firmware loader corrupts filesystem

On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 8:10 AM, Ben Wong bugs.debian@wongs.net wrote: Is that all with the same radeon dri driver (from libgl1-mesa-dri)? WORKS  Ubuntu/karmic: DRI works perfectly  Linux-2.6.31.14.27  libgl1-mesa-dri-7.6.0-1ubuntu4 I just want to mention that, despite my results

Bug#568889: manpages: hostname(1) manpage is poorly written

Package: manpages Version: 3.05-1 Severity: minor Tags: patch The hostname(1) manual page is needlessly obtuse when it comes to Fully Qualified Domain Names. For example, the introductory sentence to the FQDN section states, You can't change the FQDN (as returned by hostname --fqdn) or the

Bug#550562: Blob firmware loader corrupts filesystem

Mesa 7.6 is not the problem.  I tested with a LiveCD (Mint Helena) that uses Mesa 7.6 and had no problems.  I also installed it to hard disk to make sure that that wasn't a factor.  Again, no problems. As a test, I've installed libgl1-mesa-dri and libgl1-mesa-glx from experimental -- To

Bug#550562: Blob firmware loader corrupts filesystem

On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 12:05 PM, Ben Wong bugs.debian@wongs.net wrote: Mesa 7.6 is not the problem.  I tested with a LiveCD (Mint Helena) that uses Mesa 7.6 and had no problems.  I also installed it to hard disk to make sure that that wasn't a factor.  Again, no problems. As a test, I've

Bug#550562: Blob firmware loader corrupts filesystem

is because I have only tested this a few times. Occasionally the filesystem would become so corrupted it had to be completely wiped and reinstalled, which makes for slow debugging. On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 8:29 AM, Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk wrote: On Tue, 2010-01-12 at 04:30 -0800, Ben Wong

Bug#550562: Blob firmware loader corrupts filesystem

On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 12:02 AM, Ben Wong bugs.debian@wongs.net wrote: Next I tried copying the entire driver/gpu/drm/radeon directory from Ubuntu and compiled that kernel module under Debian.  I was surprised to find that the bug still manifested using that kernel module as well. Just

Bug#550562: Blob firmware loader corrupts filesystem

On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 5:47 AM, Ben Wong bugs.debian@wongs.net wrote: On 1/13/10, Julien Cristau jcris...@debian.org wrote: The reports seem to have started shortly after the upload of mesa 7.6 to unstable, so it's possible this is a long-standing kernel bug being triggered by a new bug

Bug#550562: Blob firmware loader corrupts filesystem

On 1/13/10, Julien Cristau jcris...@debian.org wrote: On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 02:30:18 -0800, Ben Wong wrote: FWIW, http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=550977 was reported on r100, not r200. Good to know. Thanks. The reports seem to have started shortly after the upload

Bug#550562: Blob firmware loader corrupts filesystem

firmware when it is separated from the kernel.  (Could it be that the binary blob didn't get copied correctly when it was split?) I've compared them again - they're identical to the blobs previously embedded in the driver (except for byteswapping). That makes some sense, since DRI actually

Bug#550562: Blob firmware loader corrupts filesystem

I have organized this bug report so that the most important information is at the top so that you can stop reading as soon as you get bored. This bug, #550562, should be reclassified as a critical bug and possibly merged with #560126. This bug causes severe filesystem corruption and catastrophic

Bug#531519: debian-policy: Virtual package git installs gnuit

Package: debian-policy Version: 3.8.1.0 Severity: wishlist When a user installs the package git she will likely be surprised to be told Selecting gnuit instead of virtual package git. I request that the git virtual package be changed to install git-core. If that is not possible, there should

Bug#519224: fdutils: Typo in setfdprm man page, /etc/fdprm - /etc/media/prm

Package: fdutils Version: 5.5-20060227-3 Severity: minor The manual page for setfdprm, auto generated from the texinfo, refers the user to a non-existent file for the list of media geometry descriptions. The man page says /etc/fdprm, but the correct file is /etc/mediaprm. A quick search and

Bug#434479: Duplicate of 408456

Hi, I believe this bug is a duplicate of Bug#408456 and should be closed. Note that the stable distribution (Etch) still manifests this bug, as it uses cdrkit-1.1.2. --Ben -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Bug#314832: unzip: Patch to add proper Unix umask support

Additional information: I have attempted to submit my patch to the upstream maintainer at the only public contact address available, http://www.info-zip.org/zip-bug.html. Sadly, their bug reporting CGI script appears to have a bug. Every attempt I made was responded to with the message Error:

Bug#390284: mirrors: Some files missing from us.powerpc.mirror.debian.net [206.246.124.8]

Package: mirrors Severity: important When using aptitude to download packages for the powerpc, one of the mirrors in the pool consistently gives me 404 Not Found errors for certain packages. The malfunctioning mirror is: 206.246.124.8 The problem is that some files and directories are missing

Bug#325993: fuse-utils: Removing fuse-utils causes dpkg to break

should not be so brittle. Why should dpkg be completely hosed if a package misuses dpkg-statoverride? Ben Wong -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 Architecture: i386 (i586) Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-2-386 Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Versions of packages fuse-utils