Package: aptitude
Version: 0.8.13-3
# aptitude reinstall dictionaries-common
The following packages will be REINSTALLED:
dictionaries-common
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 0 not
upgraded.
Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 0 B will be used.
Do
Well OK. But e.g., if a user e.g., reports to all
perltidy debian
perltidy upstream
bash-completion debian
bash-completion upstream
then that would require a total of 4 x 4 = 16 cross references,
(as users have no hint of where to report.)
Package: fonts-noto-cjk
Purging configuration files for fonts-noto-cjk (1:20201206-cjk+repack1-1) ...
dpkg: warning: while removing fonts-noto-cjk, directory
'/usr/share/fonts/opentype/noto' not empty so not removed
/usr/share/fonts/opentype/noto/.uuid
> "YW(" == Yao Wei (魏銘廷) writes:
YW(> You can try preferring Latin fonts to CJK fonts.
How? 怎麼設定？
Package: fonts-noto-cjk-extra
Version: 1:20201206-cjk+repack1-1
File: /usr/share/fonts/opentype/noto/NotoSansCJK-Medium.ttc
Why is this happening in Firefox and Chrome?
$ LC_CTYPE=zh_TW.UTF-8 $BROWSER http://ud.taichung.gov.tw/
OK I meant serious: "makes the package unsuitable for release."
Because it is now spitting out error messages on every use.
Package: bugs.debian.org
Here we observe missing MIME charset for
'Debian Bug help: instructions for cont...@bugs.debian.org'
several 994179 critical
thanks
# alsactl restore
alsa-lib parser.c:2372:(load_toplevel_config) Unable to find the top-level
configuration file '/usr/share/alsa/ucm2/ucm.conf'.
alsa-lib main.c:1405:(snd_use_case_mgr_open) error: failed to import hw:0 use
case configuration -2
alsa-lib
Package: bash-completion
Version: 1:2.11-3
Severity: minor
File: /usr/share/bash-completion/completions/perltidy
Only
$ perltidy -
works,
$ perltidy --
doesn't!
One needs to check the man page to see what the former mean.
Package: bash-completion
Version: 1:2.11-3
Severity: wishlist
File: /usr/share/bash-completion/completions/perltidy
Such files should mention where to report bugs to.
Package: devscripts
Version: 2.21.4
File: /usr/bin/checkbashisms
Regarding
possible bashism in (stdin) line 1 ('((' should be '$(('):
for (( k=1 ; k<8 ; k++ )) ; do echo $k ; done
OK, but
$ for (( k=1 ; k<8 ; k++ )) ; do echo $k ; done
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
$ for $(( k=1 ; k<8 ; k++ )) ; do echo $k ;
Package: alsa-utils
Version: 1.2.5.1-1
Severity: wishlist
File: /usr/share/man/man1/alsactl.1.gz
Mention something like
An exit status of zero indicates success, and a nonzero value
indicates failure.
Else one cannot tell if e.g.,
# alsactl --debug restore; echo $?
alsa-lib
Well on a vanilla system I still get:
# aptitude -s purge debian-el
The following packages will be REMOVED:
debian-el{p} elpa-debian-el{u}
aptitude show says:
Package: elpa-debian-el
Version: 37.10
State: installed
Automatically installed: yes
Package: debian-el
Version: 37.10
State:
Also some of them will show up as
v ...
in aptitude search
But some won't show up at all.
Confusing.
Also the user is curious where these determinations are drawn from.
It would be nice if aptitude said "Based on /var/lib/dpkg/status, this
package is a ephemeral / virtual / refereed etc. package."
So one needs to unmarkauto each of the recommends packages.
Description: metapackage to pull in all Noto fonts
^^^
Use this package if you want all Noto fonts.
^^^ ^^^
# apt install fonts-noto
fonts-noto is already the newest version (20201225-1).
The following packages were
And in #994509 you can see that one cannot make such installations stick.
In this particular case, all I found was this package was mentioned in
other installed packages' headers.
I don't know if that makes it a virtual package or not.
Package: aptitude
Version: 0.8.13-3
Severity: wishlist
Manpage mentions:
-r, --with-recommends
Treat recommendations as dependencies when installing new packages
(this overrides settings in /etc/apt/apt.conf and
~/.aptitude/config).
This
Package: aptitude
Version: 0.8.13-3
It's just crazy to jumble these like this:
The following packages will be REMOVED:
bubblewrap{pu} (D: libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37) gstreamer1.0-plugins-base{pu} (D:
gstreamer1.0-plugins-good, D: libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37)
gstreamer1.0-plugins-good{pu} (D:
Package: aptitude
Version: 0.8.13-3
Severity: wishlist
$ aptitude show ttf-unifont
Package: ttf-unifont
State: not a real package
$ apt show ttf-unifont
Package: ttf-unifont
State: not a real package (virtual)
That's a little better.
Package: gconf2-common
Version: 3.2.6-7
Seen on purge:
The following packages will be REMOVED:
gconf2-common{p}
Removing gconf2-common (3.2.6-7) ...
Processing triggers for sgml-base (1.30) ...
Purging configuration files for gconf2-common (3.2.6-7) ...
/usr/bin/which: this version of `which'
Package: fonts-noto
Version: 20201225-1
For this package to work as intended, you need to make
Depends: fonts-noto-core
Recommends: fonts-noto-cjk, fonts-noto-cjk-extra, fonts-noto-color-emoji,
fonts-noto-extra, fonts-noto-mono, fonts-noto-ui-core, fonts-noto-ui-extra,
fonts-noto-unhinted
all
Package: debian-el
Version: 37.10
When I try to remove this dummy package, aptitude says
The following packages will be REMOVED:
debian-el{p} elpa-debian-el{pu} (D: debian-el)
But other dummy packages don't trigger this in aptitude.
Can you please update so we can see if
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libx11/-/issues/137
really fixes the problem?
My disks are reaching the breaking point.
Package: lynx
Version: 2.9.0dev.9-2
File: /usr/bin/lynx
I tried to make sense to them in
https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=50539
I tested all the browsers at hand.
Lynx failed the test.
Lynx treats comments within textareas as comments and not text.
That's wrong. Probably
Package: alsa-utils
Version: 1.2.5.1-1
File: /usr/sbin/alsactl
# alsactl restore
alsa-lib parser.c:2372:(load_toplevel_config) Unable to find the top-level
configuration file '/usr/share/alsa/ucm2/ucm.conf'.
alsa-lib main.c:1405:(snd_use_case_mgr_open) error: failed to import hw:0 use
case
gh> This "From" is indeed a bit unfortunate but there's nothing
gh> indiviudal salsa users can do about it …
OK, filed https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=993654#30 .
gregor herrmann: nobody can reply to
"gregor herrmann "
Package: ucf
Version: 3.0043
> "gh" == gregor herrmann writes:
gh> Control: tag -1 pending
gh> Hello,
gh> Bug #993654 in libxml-sax-perl reported by you has been fixed in the
gh> Git repository and is awaiting an upload. You can see the commit
gh> message below and you can check the diff
Package: libxml-sax-perl
Version: 1.02+dfsg-2
Setting up libxml-sax-perl (1.02+dfsg-2) ...
update-perl-sax-parsers: Registering Perl SAX parser XML::SAX::PurePerl with
priority 10...
update-perl-sax-parsers: Updating overall Perl SAX parser modules info file...
/usr/bin/which: this version of
Package: exim4-config
Version: 4.95~RC2-1
Setting up exim4-config (4.95~RC2-1) ...
Installing new version of config file
/etc/exim4/conf.d/acl/30_exim4-config_check_rcpt ...
Installing new version of config file
/etc/exim4/conf.d/transport/30_exim4-config_remote_smtp ...
Installing new version
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/proto/xorgproto/-/issues/35#note_1045802
Package: binutils-common
Version: 2.37-4
Severity: wishlist
File: /usr/share/man/man1/strings.1.gz
$ zcat /usr/share/man/man1/strings.1.gz | wc
0 0 0
$ dlocate -L binutils-common
Package binutils-common is not installed or
/var/lib/dpkg/info/binutils-common.list is empty.
Package: x11-xkb-utils
Version: 7.7+5
Severity: grave
Did anybody take a look at syslog recently?
It is flooded with
Internal error: Could not resolve keysym ...
So much so that the disk will fill up.
OK,
instead of saying
/usr/bin/which: this version of 'which' is deprecated and should not be
used.*
please say
/usr/bin/which: The 'which' utility will be removed in the future.
Please use
'command -v' instead. For more info, see ...
*Else you mean "tell the maintainer he
# ls -l /var/log/syslog*
-rw-r- 1 root adm 23119076 08-21 03:15 /var/log/syslog
-rw-r- 1 root adm 542530 08-16 01:01 /var/log/syslog.1
-rw-r- 1 root adm 136476 08-08 19:03 /var/log/syslog.2.gz
-rw-r- 1 root adm 309712 08-01 11:46 /var/log/syslog.3.gz
-rw-r- 1 root adm
reopen 992411
found 992411 5.3-1
thanks
All I know is the bug was to make
/usr/bin/which keep working.
All I see that was 'fixed' was making a news item.
There are hundreds of cgi etc. scripts that are now emitting errors.
Package: aptitude
Severity: wishlist
Version: 0.8.13-3
Let's say there is to be done:
54 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 1 to remove and 1 not upgraded etc.
Idea: well in fact, these can be smartly grouped:
First split the list into groups of packages that don't depend on each
other.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Which_(command)
Please make sure /usr/bin/* stuff keeps working.
severity 992411 grave
thanks
You don't know how many scripts you are breaking.
Error messages coming out of everywhere.
Major embarrassment.
Package: alsa-utils
Version: 1.2.4-1
Severity: wishlist
File: /usr/bin/speaker-test
$ speaker-test
speaker-test 1.2.4
Playback device is default ...
OK that's great, but a --verbose option could mention which device it is
actually using.
Package: alsa-utils
Version: 1.2.4-1
Severity: wishlist
File: /usr/bin/speaker-test
Add an option or mention how to test all the speakers on the system.
Currently, working back from what the man page says, one needs
for i in $(aplay -L|perl -nwle '/(.*):CARD=([^,]+)/ && print "$1:$2";'|sort -u)
Package: alsa-utils
Version: 1.2.4-1
Severity: minor
File: /usr/share/man/man1/speaker-test.1.gz
-l | --nloops COUNT
Specifies the number of loops. Zero means to run infinitely.
When -s option below with a valid channel is given, speaker-test
Package: alsa-utils
Version: 1.2.4-1
Severity: minor
File: /usr/sbin/alsa-info
Modules listed twice:
!!Loaded ALSA modules
!!---
snd_hda_intel
snd_hda_intel
Package: sqlformat
Version: 0.4.1-1
Severity: wishlist
File: /usr/share/man/man1/sqlformat.1.gz
-h reveals many more options not mentioned on man page.
Package: libsqlite3-mod-csvtable
Version: 0.9998-2
Severity: wishlist
Add usage examples, so we know how to use this package.
And mention if this package has anything to do with
/usr/share/doc/sqlite3/cli.html#csv
or
/usr/share/doc/sqlite3/csv.html .
Package: aptitude-common
Version: 0.8.13-3
File: /usr/share/man/man8/aptitude-curses.8.gz
https://salsa.debian.org/apt-team/aptitude/-/merge_requests/11
Example 12. Usage of --show-summary --show-summary used with -v to
^
All I know is I am using chrome canary,
and I still cannot see what others already see in
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1214832
I am using Debian sid.
I don't use gnome, but notice I have:
$ aptitude search ~i~ngnome
i gnome-icon-theme
i gnome-keyring
i A
Package: libunicode-map-perl
Version: 0.112-12+b3
Severity: minor
$ apropos Unicode::Map
I18N::Charset (3pm) - IANA Character Set Registry names and Unicode::MapUTF8
(et al.) conversion scheme names
Unicode::Map (3pm) - (unknown subject)
^
Unicode::Map8
Package: libhtml-parser-perl
Version: 3.76-1
File: /usr/share/doc/libhtml-parser-perl/examples/htext
You need to say
use Encode qw(encode);
else the program will die.
(Also if the file is already utf8, it will be double encoded...)
I can't tell if these are normal, or bugs.
# /usr/share/debconf/fix_db.pl
debconf: question "passwd/username" has no template field; removing it.
debconf: question "debian-installer/country" has no template field; removing it.
debconf: question "debian-installer/language" has no template field;
Package: aptitude
Version: 0.8.13-3
I tried but...
# COLUMNS=11 aptitude -w 11 --disable-columns -s install
The following packages will be upgraded:
apt apt-doc apt-utils console-setup console-setup-linux debconf
debconf-i18n debconf-utils e2fsprogs ffmpeg git git-man (git D:
Package: fonts-noto-color-emoji
Version: 0~20200916-1
Please see
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1214832#c4
Package: xfonts-wqy
Version: 1.0.0~rc1-7
Why do I see the same character for both
U+629B, U+62CB ?
$ unicode -v U+629B U+62CB |grep -i strokes
kTotalStrokes: 7
kTotalStrokes: 8
For both I only see the latter (8).
Package: mplayer
Severity: wishlist
https://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/news.html announces debian packages.
Maybe useful.
Package: xdg-utils
Version: 1.1.3-4.1
File: /usr/bin/xdg-settings
Why not make an error message?
$ xdg-settings get default-web-browser
firefox.desktop
$ xdg-settings set default-web-browser google-chrome.desktop
$ xdg-settings get default-web-browser
firefox.desktop
Yes, $? was 2.
Package: ibus-chewing
Version: 1.6.1-1
有
斷崖 169 duan4 yai2
但無法打所有 yai 字。
只好打 ya.
Package: bsdextrautils
Version: 2.36.1-7
X-Debbugs-Cc: util-li...@vger.kernel.org
File: /usr/bin/colrm
Document on the colrm man page that it cannot deal with "binary" files.
$
f=.config/google-chrome-unstable/BrowserMetrics/BrowserMetrics-609464BE-1391.pma
# A similar file is surely available
found 902652 0.8.13-3
severity 902652 important
thanks
Proof that aptitude is not ready for
/usr/share/doc/apt/NEWS.Debian.gz
apt (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=medium
Automatically remove unused kernels on apt {dist,full}-upgrade. To revert
to previous behavior, set
Package: ttf-xfree86-nonfree
dpkg: warning: unable to delete old directory
'/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-xfree86-nonfree': Directory not empty
Due to .uuid file.
Package: ttf-xfree86-nonfree-syriac
dpkg: warning: unable to delete old directory
'/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-xfree86-nonfree-syriac': Directory not empty
stuck there: /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-xfree86-nonfree-syriac/.uuid
Package: aptitude-common
Version: 0.8.13-3
Severity: minor
File: /usr/share/man/man8/aptitude-curses.8.gz
I found that for a package marked as on hold,
doing forbid-version
then unhold
also wipes out forbid-version.
Sure, usually this is what one wants, but this side effect is not
mentioned on
Package: libxml-libxml-perl
Version: 2.0134+dfsg-2+b1
Severity: wishlist
File: /usr/share/doc/libxml-libxml-perl/copyright
Perhaps mention
https://github.com/shlomif/perl-XML-LibXML/issues
on /usr/share/doc/libxml-libxml-perl/copyright .
Package: libunicode-map-perl
Version: 0.112-12+b3
Severity: minor
File: /usr/share/man/man3/Unicode::Map.3pm.gz
apropos(1) says "unknown subject":
$ apropos Unicode::Map
I18N::Charset (3pm) - IANA Character Set Registry names and Unicode::MapUTF8
(et al.) conversion scheme names
Unicode::Map
Package: perltidy
Version: 20200110-1
Severity: wishlist
File: /usr/share/doc/perltidy/copyright
Please mention https://github.com/perltidy/perltidy in
/usr/share/doc/perltidy/copyright .
OK, made: https://github.com/chewing/libchewing/issues/322
Package: libchewing3
Version: 0.5.1-4
Severity: wishlist
地籍圖常見之
-
U+7551 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7551
畑
kHanyuPinyin: 32195.110:tián
kMandarin: tián
仍無法打。
Package: apt
Version: 2.2.2
Severity: minor
Let's start fresh.
I notice old kernels piling up:
# aptitude search ~i~nlinux-image|sed s/64.*/64/
i A linux-image-5.10.0-1-amd64
i A linux-image-5.10.0-2-amd64
i A linux-image-5.10.0-3-amd64
i A linux-image-5.10.0-4-amd64
i A
Package: dict
Version: 1.13.0+dfsg-1
Severity: wishlist
$ dict sheriff|sed /AS/q
4 definitions found
>From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Sheriff \Sher"iff\, n. [OE. shereve, AS. sc[imac]r-ger?fa;
OK that's great, but there should be a flag,
$ dict
In fact the 25 year old PS manuals have long ago been replaced by a new
PDF. See https://proj.org/download.html .
Package: proj-ps-doc
Version: 4.3.3-5.1
Severity: wishlist
As we see in
https://github.com/OSGeo/PROJ/issues/2607#issuecomment-808666812
part of the proj documentation is missing from Debian.
And there is probably more where that came from.
So, offline, we think we have it all, but we don't.
All I know is many bugs are fixed in the newer versions.
Fine.
OK, working with
$ apt-cache policy emacs
emacs:
Installed: 1:27.1+1-3
Candidate: 1:27.1+1-3
Version table:
*** 1:27.1+1-3 990
990 http://opensource.nchc.org.tw/debian unstable/main amd64 Packages
tramp-version is a variable defined in ‘tramp-cmds.el’.
Its value is "2.4.3.27.1"
Package: dh-elpa-helper
Please make
https://elpa.gnu.org/packages/tramp.html
into a elpa-tramp package.
Package: tidy
Version: 2:5.6.0-11
Severity: wishlist
https://github.com/htacg/tidy-html5/issues/924#issuecomment-797046261
mentions ways to get a fresher version of tidy. So maybe Debian can get
a fresher version of tidy.
Help. The kernels just don't go away:
$ apt-show-versions -r -p '^linux-image-[0-9]+\.'
linux-image-5.10.0-1-amd64:amd64 5.10.5-1 installed: No available version in
archive
linux-image-5.10.0-2-amd64:amd64 5.10.9-1 installed: No available version in
archive
linux-image-5.10.0-3-amd64:amd64
OK but I haven't used this package for years.
Package: ibus-chewing
Version: 1.6.1-1
Severity: minor
特殊符號第二頁有重複字， 1,2 與 5,6 重複， 如圖：
Package: black
Version: 20.8b1-4
File: /usr/share/man/man1/black.1.gz
Man page several versions out of step with the program. E.g.,
$ black --py36
...
Error: no such option: --py36
Package: python3-lib2to3
Version: 3.9.2-1
The Description should mention it is a "Python2 to Python3 converter".
Package: emacs-common-non-dfsg
Version: 1:27.1+1-2
We see:
Setting up emacs-common-non-dfsg (1:27.1+1-2) ...
update-alternatives: warning: forcing reinstallation of alternative
/usr/share/info/emacs/emacs.info.gz because link group emacs.info.gz is broken
Package: gpredict
Version: 2.3-72-gc596101-1
Severity: wishlist
gpredict is a great program. Alas with 100% of the documentation online,
and 0% offline, "When Johnny unwraps it for Christmas, he still can't
use it, because his parents have to go back to the store to get the
owners' manual. But
Package: pluto-lunar
Version: 0.0~git20180825.e34c1d1-1+b1
Severity: wishlist
Maybe include one line descriptions of what each program does.
Currently all the user can do is "run it to find out."
And usually that still doesn't tell him.
OK it is great that this is part of a greater package.
Package: pluto-lunar
Version: 0.0~git20180825.e34c1d1-1+b1
File: /usr/lib/pluto/lunar/calendar
$ /usr/lib/pluto/lunar/calendar
Segmentation fault
I didn't test the rest.
Package: python3-ephem
Version: 3.7.7.1-1+b3
File: /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/ephem/doc/index.rst
We read in this file warnings that the user should use Two Alternatives.
OK perhaps mention that in the Package Description, lest the user become
highly invested in this package, great as it may
Package: python3-ephem
Version: 3.7.7.1-1+b3
Severity: wishlist
File: /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/ephem/doc/index.rst
We notice these files are apparently templates to make HTML docs.
OK, perhaps include the HTML docs too in the package.
Package: python3-ephem
Version: 3.7.7.1-1+b3
Severity: minor
File: /usr/share/doc/python3-ephem/copyright
Copyright: 2008, 2009 Brandon Craig Rhodes
1990-2009 Dr. Craig A. Counterman
1986-1990 Robert Berger (N3EMO)
Elwood Charled Downey
^s
Package: python3-ephem
Version: 3.7.7.1-1+b3
Severity: minor
File: /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/ephem/doc/quick.rst
OK, I ran the example, but got a warning.
$ cat /tmp/p
from ephem import *
m = Mars('1970')
print(constellation(m))
$ python3 /tmp/p
/tmp/p:3: DeprecationWarning:
Package: www.debian.org
https://blends.debian.org/astro/tasks/education ,
https://blends.debian.org/science/tasks/astronomy.fi.html
capitalizes package names.
However that makes it impossible to paste them into apt, etc.
Package: imagemagick-6-common
Version: 8:6.9.11.60+dfsg-1
Severity: grave
In
$ rgrep 'iframe.*/>' /usr/share/doc/imagemagick-6-common|wc -l
127
pages like
file:///usr/share/doc/imagemagick-6-common/html/www/command-line-processing.html
please replace
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=631875
Still a bug:
echo 120° 52′ 39.51″ E 24° 8′ 59″ N|uni2ascii -f -B #|cs2cs EPSG:4326 EPSG:4326
1200x00B0 520x2032 39.51" E 240x00B0 80x2032 59" N
Package: isenkram-cli
Version: 0.45
/etc/apt/sources.list.d/isenkram-autoinstall-firmware.list
is left behind, after purge.
X-debbugs-Cc: yama...@jpl.org
Package: w3m
Version: 0.5.3+git20210102-2
Severity: minor
File: /usr/bin/w3m
$ w3m /home/jidanni/Downloads/節目表查詢結果網頁4.html
=
Information about current page
Title 節目表查詢結果網頁
Current URL
[INSTALL, DEPENDENCIES] appstream:amd64 0.14.0-2
[INSTALL, DEPENDENCIES] gir1.2-appstream-1.0:amd64 0.14.0-2
[INSTALL, DEPENDENCIES] libappstream4:amd64 0.14.0-2
[INSTALL, DEPENDENCIES] liblmdb0:amd64 0.9.24-1
[INSTALL, DEPENDENCIES] libstemmer0d:amd64 2.1.0-1
[INSTALL, DEPENDENCIES]
Package: apt-xapian-index
Version: 0.52
Severity: wishlist
We can do e.g.,
https://debtags.debian.org/search/...
for quick queries, not even needing a Debian system nearby.
Wouldn't it be great if we could do the same for axi-cache searches?
Package: apt-xapian-index
Version: 0.52
Severity: minor
Package description says Homepage:
http://www.enricozini.org/sw/apt-xapian-index/
but that is 404.
Package: isenkram-cli
# aptitude install isenkram-cli
# isenkram-lookup
# aptitude purge isenkram-cli
rmdir: failed to remove '/var/cache/app-info/': Directory not empty
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 36864 02-10 16:44 /var/cache/app-info/cache/en_US.cache
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Sure, one can install
all the firmware-*
packages in Debian, and thus be sure one has all the firmware one needs.
However that is a big waste. Many megabytes of wasted updates for who
knows what, some IBM printer from 1967, who knows?
Therefore there should be a
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