Bug#337548: (minor) rm -> /bin/rm in cdargs-bash.sh

2005-11-04 Thread D. Goel
Package: cdargs Version: 1.31-1 Severity: minor I suspect a lot of users have rm aliased to things like rm -i. Mine is aliased to something like 'echo Sorry this command is disabled'. The example script uses rm for an intertal cdargs file, but breaks for such users. It should rather use /bin

Bug#330192: ' in /etc/skel filenames causes "Unmatched '"

2005-10-16 Thread D Goel
/usr/sbin/adduser line 695, line 873. symlink: No such file or directory But when the touched file does not exist, I do not see this problem. This is sarge. > tags #330192 unreproducible > thanks > > On Mon, Sep 26, 2005 at 01:19:07PM -0400, D. Goel wrote: >

Bug#330192: ' in /etc/skel filenames causes "Unmatched '"

2005-09-26 Thread D. Goel
Package: adduser Version: 3.63 Severity: normal I copied my gnome conf to /etc/skel. (is this stupid of me?) /etc/skel/.gnome had filenames with ' in their names. adduser (sarge) then failed to work, complaining: Unmatched '. (When I removed those files, this problem went away.) (The adduser i

Bug#313237: Acknowledgement (tar misses datestamp on symlinks)

2005-06-13 Thread D Goel
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Debian Bug Tracking System) writes: > Thank you for the problem report you have sent regarding Debian. > This is an automatically generated reply, to let you know your message has > been received. It is being forwarded to the package maintainers and other > interested parties f

Bug#313237: tar misses datestamp on symlinks

2005-06-12 Thread D Goel
Package: tar Version: 1.14-2 Severity: normal Let's try the tar-trick to copy the contents of dir1 to dir2: (cd dir1 && tar -clpsf- *) | (cd dir2 & tar -xpsf -) This copies the contents, including correct timestamps and ownership, except that if there is a symlink (named, say s) in dir1. Then

Bug#312589: apt: Does not respect preferences file

2005-06-08 Thread D Goel
Package: apt Version: 0.5.28.6 Severity: normal I am trying to downgrade libmailutils0 and mailutils back to woody. In my preferences, woody is pinned to , and all the rest to negative values as you can see below. Here's apt-cache policy: marie:~# apt-cache policy libmailutils0 libmailut

Bug#311435: Strange characters destroy the xdiskusage output

2005-05-31 Thread D. Goel
Package: xdiskusage Version: 1.48-4 Severity: normal I also tried this with version 1.48-5. xdiskusage -a ~/ causes this error "output does not look like du output" I have no funny mounts in ~/ Digging, the problem seems to happen because some lines in the du output changes the terminal's char

Bug#290375: festival-text2wav crashes" Missing init file /usr/lib/festival/init.scm

2005-01-15 Thread D Goel
"Matthias Urlichs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > tag 290375 +moreinfo > thanks > > Hi, > >> If I type festival-text2wav file.txt, I get: >> SIOD ERROR: could not open file /usr/lib/festival/init.scm >> > What's "festival-text2wav"? It's not shipped with the festival package. > > "text2wave" is,

Bug#290375: festival-text2wav crashes" Missing init file /usr/lib/festival/init.scm

2005-01-13 Thread D. Goel
Package: festival Version: 1.4.3-16 Severity: normal If I type festival-text2wav file.txt, I get: SIOD ERROR: could not open file /usr/lib/festival/init.scm since there's no such file on the system. (With the earlier version 1.4.2-2.1, this file used to be shipped). This file apparently has