Bug#982400: Request for Package also should mention software that hasn't been born yet

2021-02-09 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Package: reportbug Version: 7.10.0 Severity: wishlist wnpp choice asks: 1 ITP This is an `Intent To Package'. Please submit a package description along with copyright and URL in such a report. 2 OThe package has been `Orphaned'. It needs a new maintainer as soon as possible. 3 RFA This

Bug#982396: Don't encode pure ASCII X-getmail-retrieved-from-mailbox

2021-02-09 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Package: getmail6 Version: 6.14-1 Severity: minor There was some change made in the last few months, $ grep getmail * 37237:X-getmail-retrieved-from-mailbox: INBOX 37238:X-getmail-retrieved-from-mailbox: INBOX 37436:X-getmail-retrieved-from-mailbox: INBOX 38080:X-getmail-retrieved-from-mailbox:

Bug#982272: Grammar of "xx packages upgraded..."

2021-02-07 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Package: aptitude Version: 0.8.13-2+b1 Severity: minor If you think about it, the grammar of # aptitude install some_package ... 0 packages upgraded, 22 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. AA BBC is weird.

Bug#382284: closed by Andres Salomon (RE: Bug#382284: lsof: user "proxy" cannot list its open files sometimes)

2021-02-07 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
> "B" == Debian Bug Tracking System writes: B> Regarding #1, this was the story of a daemon that started as root and B> then dropped privileges. Since it started as root, its /proc/ B> files are owned as root and thus aren't readable by lsof when run as B> that user. This is not a bug, this

Bug#981700: Don't show a different image if we can't show this image

2021-02-02 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Package: imagemagick-6.q16 Version: 8:6.9.11.60+dfsg-1 Severity: minor File: /usr/bin/display-im6.q16 $ display /usr/share/pixmaps/pcmanx.svg We see an image of a magician. OK, that's what must be in that file. (If there is an error, then it should be mentioned in that image itself, too,

Bug#981470: Old kernels piling up

2021-01-31 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
All I know is every day I do "aptitude full-upgrade". Please make the "magic" work for me too.

Bug#981470: Old kernels piling up

2021-01-31 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
# apt-mark showmanual | grep linux-image linux-image-amd64 JAK> If the output of 1) includes the mentioned kernels, please close the bug JAK> as you have them marked as manually installed. I never marked anything anything! # aptitude search linux-image-amd64 i linux-image-amd64 OK, so I

Bug#981470: Old kernels piling up

2021-01-31 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Package: apt Version: 2.1.18 Severity: minor I'm not sure if these are getting removed automatically correctly ever: linux-image-5.10.0-1-amd64:amd64 5.10.5-1 installed: No available version in archive linux-image-5.9.0-2-amd64:amd64 5.9.6-1 installed: No available version in archive

Bug#347279: hydrogen: Comments while listening to the included demos

2021-01-29 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
I am kind of in retirement village so cannot help further.

Bug#981351: X rendered wrong

2021-01-29 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Package: lynx Version: 2.9.0dev.6-1 (Please tell upstream:) Lynx has a big bug. It can't render the first two correctly. Only the last two. No other browser has this problem! AAA BBB XXX YYY lynx says: [DEL: :DEL] AAA BBB [DEL: XXX :DEL] [DEL: YYY :DEL] w3m

Bug#980489: cal originally had highlighting on

2021-01-19 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Package: ncal Version: 12.1.7 File: /usr/share/man/man1/ncal.1.gz $ cal originally had highlighting on. Now after installing this package, it is off. However the man page makes it seem like maybe we aren't on a terminal. But tty(1) says we are. Therefore there should be a

Bug#980044: warning: while removing fonts-lyx, directory '/usr/share/fonts/truetype/lyx' not empty so not removed

2021-01-13 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
OK thanks. I'm making these bug reports offline. So often have to rely on memory.

Bug#980044: warning: while removing fonts-lyx, directory '/usr/share/fonts/truetype/lyx' not empty so not removed

2021-01-13 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Package: fonts-lyx Version: 2.3.6-1 Removing fonts-lyx (2.3.6-1) ... dpkg: warning: while removing fonts-lyx, directory '/usr/share/fonts/truetype/lyx' not empty so not removed # find /usr/share/fonts/truetype/lyx /usr/share/fonts/truetype/lyx /usr/share/fonts/truetype/lyx/.uuid

Bug#979631: APT::Get::AutomaticRemove::Kernels: also allow keeping N newest

2021-01-09 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
n page. Without knowing all that, users will worry or continue to rely on programs like: # cat bin/remove-oldest-kernel #!/bin/bash -eux # remove my oldest kernel to free disk space # Copyright : http://www.fsf.org/copyleft/gpl.html # Author : Dan Jacobson -- http://jidanni.org/ # Create

Bug#979631: APT::Get::AutomaticRemove::Kernels: also allow keeping N newest

2021-01-09 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
I also hope at least one "No available version in archive" version is left on the disk, # apt-show-versions -r -p '^linux-image-[0-9]+\.' linux-image-5.10.0-1-amd64:amd64/unstable 5.10.4-1 uptodate linux-image-5.9.0-5-amd64:amd64 5.9.15-1 installed: No available version in archive Else if there

Bug#979631: APT::Get::AutomaticRemove::Kernels: also allow keeping N newest

2021-01-09 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Package: apt Version: 2.1.16 Regarding (/usr/share/doc/apt/examples/configure-index) AutomaticRemove "" { "Kernels" ""; // Allow removing kernels even if not removing other packages (true for dist-upgrade) }; I would also have another variable, with a digit argument,

Bug#979611: Add comment in /etc/resolv.conf saying that pppd added these lines

2021-01-08 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Package: ppp Version: 2.4.9-1+1 Severity: wishlist File: /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/usepeerdns Regarding this part of /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/usepeerdns, # merge the new nameservers with the other options from the old configuration { cat /etc/ppp/resolv.conf grep --invert-match

Bug#979578: Add --syntax-check-only

2021-01-08 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Package: cron Version: 3.0pl1-136 Severity: wishlist File: /usr/bin/crontab $ crontab file runs a syntax check before installing the crontab. That is great, but even greater would be an option, to just do a dry run: perform a syntax check without installing the file.

Bug#979512: Empty /etc/resolv.conf, created by pppd, will last forever

2021-01-07 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Package: ppp Version: 2.4.9-1+1 There is still another bug in /etc/ppp/ip-*.d/usepeerdns . Let's say the user starts with a clean system, no /etc/resolv.conf file. Well, due to the logic in /etc/ppp/ip-*.d/usepeerdns, he will be left with a zero byte /etc/resolv.conf for the rest of his

Bug#979416: remove test to see if systemd-resolved is running

2021-01-06 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
We note in #979417 they also say MB> Please use resolvectl instead of systemd-resolve. The latter is a MB> compat symlink which is scheduled to go away. anyway. P.S., if systemd-resolved is running, and usepeerdns writes in /etc/resolv.conf, we now get $ resolvectl dns Global: 168.95.192.1

Bug#979417: systemd-resolved --status not prepared for missing files

2021-01-06 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Package: systemd Version: 247.2-4 Severity: minor File: /usr/bin/systemd-resolve /usr/bin/systemd-resolve --status expects to always find files that in fact may not be there and are not errors and should not cause the program to bomb out early. # systemctl enable --now systemd-resolved Created

Bug#979416: Wrong test to determine "if systemd-resolved is running"

2021-01-06 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Package: ppp Version: 2.4.8-1+2 File: /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/usepeerdns In /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/usepeerdns we see: # exit if systemd-resolved is running [ -x /usr/bin/systemd-resolve ] && \ /usr/bin/systemd-resolve --status >/dev/null && exit 0 However this is the wrong test to see "if

Bug#979205: Remove non-existent email address from the man pages please

2021-01-03 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
d to reach does not exist. Please try double-checking the recipient's MDS> email address for typos or unnecessary spaces. (in reply to RCPT TO MDS> command) MDS> From: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson MDS> Subject: UTF-8 filenames MDS> To: mpack-b...@andrew.cmu.edu MDS> munpack versi

Bug#979148: Origin of mysterious ../run/systemd/resolve/stub-resolv.conf symlink

2021-01-03 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Regarding the link on my system in /etc lrwxrwxrwx 1 root 39 08-09 02:29 resolv.conf -> ../run/systemd/resolve/stub-resolv.conf ( with body mostly from /lib/systemd/resolv.conf ) that I had to remove manually, In /var/log/apt/history.log.5.gz I see: Start-Date: 2020-08-09 02:28:50 Purge:

Bug#979190: Weird "illegal" item spotted here in the 's' section

2021-01-03 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Package: w3-recs Version: 20110107-1 Severity: wishlist File: /usr/share/doc/w3-recs/html/www.w3.org/TR/2009/CR-CSS2-20090423/indexlist.html Weird "illegal" item spotted here in the 's' section: file:///usr/share/doc/w3-recs/html/www.w3.org/TR/2009/CR-CSS2-20090423/indexlist.html#index-s , 1,

Bug#979148: disabling systemd-resolved.service should remove symlink

2021-01-03 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Package: systemd I think doing systemctl disable --now systemd-resolved.service should remove lrwxrwxrwx 1 root 39 08-09 02:29 resolv.conf -> ../run/systemd/resolve/stub-resolv.conf

Bug#731769: Still works?

2021-01-03 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
> "VL" == Vincent Lefevre writes: VL> Perhaps you had an already "clean" pristine directory. OK, I guess I can feel better. "I thought I (my directory) was fat. But it turns out some people are much fatter."

Bug#731769: Still works?

2021-01-02 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Useful? $ du -hs .svn/pristine/ 22M .svn/pristine/ $ svn cleanup --vacuum-pristines $ du -hs .svn/pristine/ 22M .svn/pristine/

Bug#968589: PPP name resolver service not restarted upon upgrade

2021-01-02 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
# cat /etc/resolv.conf # MADE BY ME in /root/bin/openpppd nameserver 168.95.192.1 nameserver 168.95.1.1 # ls -l /etc/resolv.conf lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 39 08-09 02:29 /etc/resolv.conf -> ../run/systemd/resolve/stub-resolv.conf Too bad it will always be a link, even though I did systemctl disable

Bug#968589: PPP name resolver service not restarted upon upgrade

2021-01-02 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
OK, I figured it out! cat > /etc/resolv.conf <

Bug#968589: PPP name resolver service not restarted upon upgrade

2021-01-02 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Perhaps you could tell me, how to hardwire primary DNS address 168.95.192.1 secondary DNS address 168.95.1.1 for ever and ever, into pppd. Looking at the man page doesn't say. Looking at /usr/share/doc/ppp neither. This is all getting rather crazy. Hardwiring it in is the right thing for losers

Bug#968589: PPP name resolver service not restarted upon upgrade

2021-01-01 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
> "CB" == Chris Boot writes: CB> Right, but the implication is that it's unusable for practically everyone Hard to tell except via waiting for bug reports to roll in. OK, trying systemctl disable --now systemd-resolved.service ...

Bug#979018: Some demo scripts are compressed, so README doesn't work

2021-01-01 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Package: libimage-magick-perl Version: 8:6.9.11.24+dfsg-1 Severity: wishlist File: /usr/share/doc/imagemagick-6-common/examples/demo $ pwd /usr/share/doc/imagemagick-6-common/examples/demo $ cat README This directory contains a number of PerlMagick demonstration scripts. Just type make to

Bug#978981: line 11: all `Format' sections are invalid

2021-01-01 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Package: diffutils-doc Version: 1:3.7-4 Processing triggers for doc-base (0.11) ... Processing 2 changed doc-base files... Error in `/usr/share/doc-base/diffutils-doc', line 11: all `Format' sections are invalid.

Bug#968589: PPP name resolver service not restarted upon upgrade

2021-01-01 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
>>>>> "CB" == Chris Boot writes: CB> Control: severity -1 normal CB> On 10/09/2020 15:39, 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson wrote: >> Bug still affecting several of my machines. Forwarding to >> https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/17004 . CB> I don't kno

Bug#955183: closed by Chris Hofstaedtler (Re: Bug#955183: column's minimal output separation is hardwired at 2)

2021-01-01 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Glad that this is now implemented.

Bug#968589: PPP name resolver service not restarted upon upgrade

2021-01-01 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Bad news, I will have to figure out how to rewrite pppd default-asyncmap defaultroute lcp-echo-failure 7 lcp-echo-interval \ 50 mtu 1492 noaccomp noauth noipdefault noproxyarp persist plugin \ rp-pppoe.so usepeerdns user ...@hinet.net pty pppoe -I enp1s0 -T 80 \ -m 1452 enp1s0 debug so it works

Bug#978977: mention hd in NAME and SYNOPSIS

2021-01-01 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Package: bsdextrautils Version: 2.36.1-4 Severity: wishlist File: /usr/share/man/man1/hexdump.1.gz Just like man atrm mentions atrm in NAME and SYNOPSIS here on Debian, though a link, man hd should mention hd too in NAME and SYNOPSIS, not just below. Also when doing so, the paragraph mentioned

Bug#978976: mention GET, etc. in NAME and SYNOPSIS

2021-01-01 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Package: libwww-perl Version: 6.50-1 Severity: wishlist File: /usr/share/man/man1/lwp-request.1p.gz Just like man atrm mentions atrm in NAME and SYNOPSIS here on Debian, though a link, man GET, HEAD, etc. should be mentioned too in NAME and SYNOPSIS, or a note added to the man page saying they

Bug#978493: examples.pl not linked right

2020-12-27 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Package: imagemagick-6-doc Version: 8:6.9.11.24+dfsg-1 Browse file:///usr/share/doc/imagemagick-6-common/html/www/examples.html The main link file:///usr/share/doc/imagemagick-6-common/html/source/examples.pl needs to be file:///usr/share/doc/imagemagick-6-common/html/www/source/examples.pl !

Bug#978138: Many doubled "www/www" broken links on index.html

2020-12-26 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Package: imagemagick-6-doc Version: 8:6.9.11.24+dfsg-1 Severity: important cd /usr/share/doc/imagemagick-6-doc/html for i in $(mech-dump --links index.html | perl -nwle 'next if /^http/; s/#.*//; print;' | sort -u); do if test -f $i; then k=GOOD; else k=BAD\ ; fi; echo "$k:" $i; done GOOD:

Bug#978137: Some CSS and JPG missing

2020-12-26 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Package: imagemagick-6-doc Version: 8:6.9.11.24+dfsg-1 Severity: minor Loading file:///usr/share/doc/imagemagick-6-common/html/index.html in Developer Tools, the console says: index.html:32 GET file:///usr/share/doc/imagemagick-6-common/html/www/assets/magick-css.html net::ERR_FILE_NOT_FOUND

Bug#966621: Many people have entire music collections on /var/tmp

2020-12-24 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Anyways, in any NEWS.Debian.gz file, one would need to say "Coming changes next month: We will start cleaning " otherwise if you just say "This version now cleans " most users will not have enough time to move various projects temp files off of there before they get wiped out. E.g., some

Bug#977778: Quit early when given Unknown pattern types

2020-12-20 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Package: aptitude Version: 0.8.13-2+b1 Severity: wishlist This should bomb out right away, with "E: Unknown pattern type: h", instead of doing all that work first: # aptitude search ~h [ 0%] Reading package lists [100%] Reading package lists [ 0%] Building dependency tree [100%] Building

Bug#977239: man pages: word breaks in tables start the following line in the wrong column

2020-12-12 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Package: imagemagick-6.q16 Version: 8:6.9.11.24+dfsg-1+b2 Severity: minor File: /usr/share/man/man1/convert-im6.q16.1.gz The man page here on Debian renders as metric -moments report image moments -monitor monitor progress -orient type

Bug#854580: enable giving killall an old fashioned process ID too!

2020-12-06 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
B> Hi, B> Your bug report said you were looking for a kill program that kills the process group. Using a negative pid for things like kill will do this. killall is all about the name or commands, not the B> process id. (OK, but if killall could also just take PIDs, then one could enjoy e.g.,

Bug#975752: view from aptitude

2020-12-02 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
The following packages have unmet dependencies: android-libadb : Depends: android-libbase (= 1:8.1.0+r23-8) but 1:10.0.0+r36-1~stage1.1 is to be installed The following actions will resolve these dependencies: Keep the following packages at their current version: 1) android-libbase

Bug#976142: s/paragraph/package record/g for the whole man page

2020-11-30 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Package: dctrl-tools Version: 2.24-3+b1 Severity: wishlist File: /usr/share/man/man1/grep-dctrl.1.gz Don't you mean "packages" instead of "paragraphs" here: -s field,field, ... | --show-field=field,field, ... Show only the body of these fields from the matching paragraphs.

Bug#976141: Add --assume-no

2020-11-30 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Package: aptitude Version: 0.8.13-2 Severity: wishlist There is -y, --assume-yes but no --assume-no. In particular, let's say we like $ aptitude -y -s purge beep The following packages will be REMOVED: beep{p} 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 3 not upgraded. Need

Bug#975413: Morse code "T"

2020-11-21 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Package: dict-gcide Version: 0.48.5 $ dict 'Morse code'|grep 'T ' F ..-. M -- T F .-. M -- T -- & . ... The first T is missing its "-". The second T has an extra "-", (making it the same as M!) (By analyzing /usr/share/doc/dict-gcide/changelog.Debian.gz I determined I was

Bug#975026: Use 公元 not 西元

2020-11-18 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
retitle 975026 Don't add "西元" to worldwide (2020) dates! thanks In fact I got a much better idea: Chuck the whole 西元 totally! Does $ LC_ALL=C date Thu Nov 19 13:11:20 CST 2020 add "A.D." etc.? No! Anyway, it is up to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Korean_calendar

Bug#975026: Use 公元 not 西元

2020-11-18 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
We just like one does not want to mention "Christ" when talking about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_time etc. See also https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/公元 >>>>> "FW" == Florian Weimer writes: FW> * 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson: >> I think this, >> $ LC

Bug#975026: Use 公元 not 西元

2020-11-17 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Package: locales Version: 2.31-4 Severity: minor I think this, $ LC_TIME=zh_TW.UTF-8 date 西元2020年11月18日 (週三) 12時39分44秒 CST should say 公元 not 西元. Alas, I do not know where to submit this bug to.

Bug#974700: Add comment to resolv.conf when overwriting, mention what did it

2020-11-13 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Package: isc-dhcp-client https://gitlab.isc.org/isc-projects/dhcp/-/issues/137 says this problem lies with Debian.

Bug#974658: Dot at the end of man page title

2020-11-13 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Package: adduser Version: 3.118 Severity: wishlist File: /usr/share/man/man5/adduser.conf.5.gz There is a dot at the end of man page title: $ apropos d|head fuse (4) - Filesystem in Userspace (FUSE) device adduser.conf (5) - configuration file for adduser(8) and addgroup(8) .

Bug#974657: Man pages need proper titles

2020-11-13 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Package: ossim-core Version: 2.9.1-3 Severity: wishlist None of these man pages have proper titles, $ apropos ossim|head ossim-adrg-dump (1) - ossim-adrg-dump ossim-applanix2ogeom (1) - ossim-applanix2ogeom ossim-autreg (1) - ossim-autreg ossim-band-merge (1) - ossim-band-merge

Bug#974654: Support unlimited +, -: at now + 2 years + 6 months

2020-11-13 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Package: at Version: 3.1.23-1.1 Severity: wishlist $ at now + 2 years + 6 months syntax error. Last token seen: + Garbled time How inflexible. I'm not even asking for all of + - * /, just + -. Alas, forced to use * on my own: Workaround: $ at now + $((2*12+6)) months

Bug#974653: Support decimal times: at now + 2.5 years

2020-11-13 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Package: at Version: 3.1.23-1.1 Severity: wishlist $ at now + 2.5 years syntax error. Last token seen: . Garbled time Why not support this?

Bug#522318: closed by Chris Hofstaedtler (util-linux upstream bugs with no activity)

2020-11-08 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
OK, filed https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/issues/1184 .

Bug#973667: Directory List /.../.../.../... titles puts "meat" too far to the right

2020-11-07 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
> "KY" == Katsumi Yamaoka writes: KY> That's a good idea, but the title is what w3m says AFAIU; KY> emacs-w3m only copies it. Though it would probably be possible to KY> make emacs-w3m modify it, I think doing it by w3m is much better. You're right. Perhaps reassign this bug to w3m for me.

Bug#973941: Pasted text looks same as cursor

2020-11-07 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Package: xterm Version: 361-1 Severity: minor Lately when we paste with SHIFT+INSERT, the pasted text is in reverse video. That's great, but that is the same color as our cursor, which "gets lost" due to it. So perhaps make the text a different color. (I'm using

Bug#973744: Not all switches can be completed

2020-11-04 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Package: dlocate Version: 1.07+nmu1 File: /etc/bash_completion.d/dlocate-completion I can't complete e.g., --filename-only. Please all the remaining switches.

Bug#973667: Directory List /.../.../.../... titles puts "meat" too far to the right

2020-11-02 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
X-Debbugs-Cc: yama...@jpl.org Package: w3m-el-snapshot Version: 1.4.632+0.20201021.0552.a4edf91-1 Let's say in emacs-w3m we are browsing the directory file:///home/jidanni/jidanni.org/geo/antipodes/programs/ Well, perhaps the buffer name/title should be programs Directory list, or

Bug#973666: Cursor left at top when browsing directories

2020-11-02 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
X-Debbugs-Cc: yama...@jpl.org Package: w3m-el-snapshot Version: 1.4.632+0.20201021.0552.a4edf91-1 $ w3m file:///home/jidanni/jidanni.org/geo/antipodes/programs/ puts the cursor in the right spot. But in emacs-w3m, the cursor is left way at the top! Location:

Bug#972408: Don't call packages New Debian packages if not yet on Debian

2020-10-20 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
> "SW" == Sean Whitton writes: SW> We could, however, add a note to those HTML pages saying that the SW> package is not yet available. Yes, as we (public) have landed on the page via google searches, and have no knowledge of the deeper meanings.

Bug#566943: closed by Geert Stappers (Five or ten years later)

2020-10-18 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
OK hope it is fixed.

Bug#972408: Don't call packages New Debian packages if not yet on Debian

2020-10-17 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
X-Debbugs-Cc: Sudip Mukherjee Package: ftp.debian.org When reading e.g., https://ftp-master.debian.org/new/getmail6_6.7-1.html the user sees Debian NEW package overview for getmail6 Therefore the user assumes it is a new debian package. However it is not yet a new debian package. Yes it may be

Bug#971906: chromium-shell: quote $@

2020-10-09 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Package: chromium-shell Version: 83.0.4103.116-3.1 Severity: minor File: /usr/bin/chromium-shell Shouldn't $@ be double quoted, to preserve the exact arguments?

Bug#743835: xlbiff: `nmh is not installed'

2020-09-24 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
# aptitude install xlbiff The following NEW packages will be installed: liblockfile1{a} (D: nmh) (xlbiff D: nmh D: liblockfile1) nmh{a} (D: xlbiff, S: exim4-base, R: nmh) (xlbiff D: nmh) xlbiff And then $ xlbiff

Bug#970596: Fill in rest of Recommends

2020-09-19 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Package: vlc Version: 3.0.11.1-1+b1 Severity: minor Some of these are in the Package Description, VLC has support for on-the-fly transcoding of audio and video formats, either for broadcasting purposes or for movie format transformations. Support for most output methods is provided by this

Bug#970210: forcemerge vs. pkgreport.cgi

2020-09-12 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Package: bugs.debian.org One would expect forcemerge A B to cause pkgreport.cgi?package=X to list A, not B. I mean B gets A's version, etc. OK maybe pkgreport.cgi always lists the lower numbered bug no matter what. Well https://www.debian.org/Bugs/server-control#forcemerge should mention that.

Bug#970075: Also add note in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/0000usepeerdns

2020-09-11 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
In fact in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/usepeerdns itself, a note could be added too that this file comes from Debian, not upstream.

Bug#970076: Update to work with systemd-resolved

2020-09-11 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Package: ppp Version: 2.4.7-2+4.1+deb10u1+b1 Severity: grave In https://github.com/paulusmack/ppp/issues/167 > "PM" == Paul Mackerras writes: PM> It seems like the debian packaging of pppd has not been updated to use PM> whatever the "correct" way to supply new DNS servers to PM>

Bug#970075: Add a comment about who is writing when writing files

2020-09-11 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Package: ppp Version: 2.4.7-2+4.1+deb10u1+b1 Severity: minor Please see https://github.com/paulusmack/ppp/issues/168 .

Bug#968589: PPP name resolver service not restarted upon upgrade

2020-09-10 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Bug still affecting several of my machines. Forwarding to https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/17004 .

Bug#968194: Prerelease getmail6 .deb

2020-09-09 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
I can test a Prerelease getmail6 .deb for you when you make one.

Bug#969937: Removing packages doesn't "Fix" them

2020-09-08 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Package: bugs.debian.org https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=743835 "Fixed in version 4.1-7+rm" It really shouldn't say Fixed, but resolved, closed, etc.

Bug#969744: No such anchor

2020-09-08 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
> "KY" == Katsumi Yamaoka writes: KY> The actual emacs-w3m bug was not to hold some of fetched plural KY> name anchors that point to the same place. I've changed again KY> the git master. This would probably be the right fix. OK Good. >> Note that there are *two* name anchors. It seems

Bug#969744: No such anchor

2020-09-08 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
I'm saying that emacs-w3m might be following this rule: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/URI_fragment#cite_ref-6 "Notably they cannot begin with a digit or hyphen." But nowadays it seems there are newer rules, so emacs-w3m should expect ones that do begin with a digit or hyphen. > "KY" ==

Bug#969744: No such anchor

2020-09-07 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
X-Debbugs-Cc: yama...@jpl.org Package: w3m-el-snapshot Version: 1.4.632+0.20200702.0409.dca01f9-1 $ w3m https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=968589#36 Works fine. But $ emacs -q -f w3m for it, gives No such anchor: 36 Despite $ mech-dump --links

Bug#968589: PPP name resolver service not restarted upon upgrade

2020-09-06 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
This bug still affects PPP connections' name resolver service. DHCP connections name service restarts fine. Full dump attached at https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=968589#36

Bug#968093: See also

2020-09-06 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
See also https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-1117556-start-0.html .

Bug#969386: Resolve file: not just file:///

2020-09-01 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
X-Debbugs-cc: yama...@jpl.org Package: w3m-el-snapshot Version: 1.4.632+0.20200702.0409.dca01f9-1 Real w3m can deal fine with file:bla.txt and does not always need file:///full/path/to/bla.txt . But emacs-w3m says w3m--goto-url--valid-url: Wrong type argument: stringp, nil

Bug#968589: Need to restart internet connections upon upgrade, else no names can be resolved

2020-08-30 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Nameserver running fine. # aptitude reinstall systemd Reinstalling systemd (246.3-1) over (246.3-1) ... Nameserver now not running fine. Can only reach IP addresses. Can't resolve names. poff; ifconfig ... down; sleep ...; ifconfig ... up; pon fixed it this time. Didn't need full reboot.

Bug#968589: closed by Debian FTP Masters (reply to Michael Biebl ) (Bug#968589: fixed in systemd 246.2-2)

2020-08-30 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
reopen 968589 thanks I still need to reboot. Even # aptitude reinstall systemd systemd (246.3-1) over (246.3-1) ... Doesn't restart it.

Bug#969021: RFP: getmail6 -- Mail retriever with support for POP3, IMAP4 and SDPS

2020-08-29 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
> "OA" == Osamu Aoki writes: OA> Hi, OA> I am about to request for package removal of current getmail package. OA> So whoever decide to package this new python3 getmail, please go ahead OA> without worrying file conflict. Maybe don't remove it, but just hand it over to Sudip for upgrade.

Bug#969021: RFP: getmail6 -- Mail retriever with support for POP3, IMAP4 and SDPS

2020-08-27 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Actually I am guessing the current maintainer isn't reading these emails, and you Sudip, should consider non-maintainer uploads or steps on how to take over the project altogether from non-active maintainers.

Bug#969021: RFP: getmail6 -- Mail retriever with support for POP3, IMAP4 and SDPS

2020-08-27 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Indeed in https://github.com/getmail6/getmail6/issues/33#issuecomment-681888347 we see the trend across distributions is for a single getmail package upgraded to 6 and not two packages.

Bug#969021: RFP: getmail6 -- Mail retriever with support for POP3, IMAP4 and SDPS

2020-08-27 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
> "SM" == Sudip Mukherjee writes: SM> X-Debbugs-Cc: Osamu Aoki I'm not sure that line will work there. I'll CC him anyway. SM> This getmail6 will install files like: SM> /usr/bin/getmail SM> /usr/bin/getmail_fetch SM> /usr/bin/getmail_mbox SM> /usr/bin/getmail_maildir SM>

Bug#969062: Sometimes X-Debbugs-Cc's to other bugs do nothing

2020-08-26 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
reassign 969062 reportbug retitle 969062 Maybe catch Cc's to bugs.debian.org addresses thanks Maybe reportbug should warn, after a user enters a @bugs.debian.org address at the CC prompt. Also maybe the BTS should send an email: One error was found on your bug submission. ADB> This seems like

Bug#969062: Sometimes X-Debbugs-Cc's to other bugs do nothing

2020-08-26 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Package: bugs.debian.org On https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=969021#3 the user did (actually via reportbug) X-Debbugs-Cc: 968...@bugs.debian.org However, on https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=968194 one can see that never got attached.

Bug#968194: WNPP

2020-08-26 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
OK I made a WNPP, https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=969021

Bug#969021: getmail6 as parallel package

2020-08-26 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
After reviewing https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=968194 one feels yes, an independent getmail6 package would be the best solution for now rather than upgrading a single getmail package.

Bug#969021: RFP: getmail6 -- Mail retriever with support for POP3, IMAP4 and SDPS

2020-08-26 Thread Dan Jacobson
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-Cc: 968...@bugs.debian.org * Package name: getmail6 Version : 6.4 Upstream Author : roland.punta...@gmail.com * URL : https://github.com/getmail6 * License : GNU GPL version 2 Programming Lang: Python Description

Bug#956499: _dri not being added to paths when searching

2020-08-23 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
So one sees MESA-LOADER: failed to retrieve device information MESA-LOADER: failed to open i915 (search paths /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri:\$${ORIGIN}/dri:/usr/lib/dri) failed to load driver: i915 MESA-LOADER: failed to open kms_swrast (search paths

Bug#968919: Warn that -L needs architecture

2020-08-23 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Package: dlocate Version: 1.07+nmu1 Severity: wishlist File: /usr/share/man/man1/dlocate.1.gz Man page says -L List all files in package. The man page should say that one needs to add ":architecture" # dpkg -L libgl1-mesa-dri | sum 52550 2 # dlocate -L libgl1-mesa-dri:amd64 | sum

Bug#956499: Missing TLS symlink

2020-08-21 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
reassign 956499 libgl1-mesa-dr1 found 956499 20.1.5-1 retitle 956499 Missing TLS symlink severity 956499 critical thanks Reading https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=250422 we try $ strace glxinfo 2>&1|grep ENOENT openat(AT_FDCWD, "/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/tls/i965_dri.so",

Bug#968589: Need to restart internet connections upon upgrade, else no names can be resolved

2020-08-18 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Resolver working fine. Now do # aptitude reinstall systemd The following packages will be REINSTALLED: systemd 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0 B/4,318 kB of archives. After unpacking 0 B will be used. which causes $ HEAD

Bug#963545: [Aptitude-devel] Bug#963545: Bug#963545: aptitude-create-state-bundle can't deal with no $HOME/.aptitude present

2020-08-18 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Glad it will be fixed soon. Thanks.

Bug#968589: Need to restart internet connections upon upgrade, else no names can be resolved

2020-08-18 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
But I purged resolvconf many reboots ago! Now whenever I upgrade systemd, I have to restart ppp (not reboot) to get the systemd resolver working again. Not sure if it had to do with me removing resolvconf though, or some recent change in systemd

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