issues/40 but will continue to
monitor and reply via email to 1071...@bugs.debian.org.
Whenever possible, I want to upstream improvements so that all distro
packages for many distributions can benefit from them, and that is my
plan here as well.
Gruß,
Hans Ulrich Niedermann
(maintainer of beep
Hi,
JFTR, I am not a Debian developer or Debian package maintainer. I am
the upstream maintainer of the beep software.
On 2024-05-04 00:53 +, Bjarni Ingi Gislason
wrote:
> Package: beep
> Version: 1.4.9-1.1
> Severity: normal
>
> Dear Maintainer,
>
>* What led up to the situation?
>
On Sun, 07 Mar 2021 17:26:23 -0800
Chime Hart wrote:
> Package: beep
> Version: 1.4.9-1+b1
> Severity: wishlist
>
> Dear Maintainer,
I am the upstream maintainer of "beep", and I neither maintain any
Debian packages nor am I a Debian user unless you count my Rasberry
Pi's Raspbian.
> Whether
Package: linda
Version: 0.3.21
Severity: normal
linda checks that foo-doc and foo-docs packages contain Section: doc,
which is correct. However, the warning message talks about Section:
docs, which is incorrect and plainly misleading.
Detailed checks:
a) Package python-pyinotify-doc with
Package: vim-runtime
Version: 1:6.4-007+1
Severity: wishlist
http://www.debian.org/ports/ lists a number of (unreleased) ports for
which debcontrol.vim does not highlight the Architecture: field yet:
ppc64
m32r
netbsd-alpha
...bsd...
You will want to check the actual architectures
Package: postgresql-8.1
Version: 8.1.3-4
Severity: normal
Upgrading from postgresql-8.1 8.1.3-3 to 8.1.3-4 stops the server daemon:
,[ desired case ]
| Stopping PostgreSQL 8.1 database server: main.
| Unpacking replacement postgresql-8.1 ...
`
If the server is not running, stopping
Package: hibernate
Version: 1.12-1
Severity: normal
Using the following software sometimes results in failed resumes:
- Linux kernel from Debian unstable
- Linux kernel software suspend code (not suspend2):
UseSysfsPowerState disk
- hibernate script
How this happens:
1.
Package: libgphoto2-port0
Version: 2.1.99-9
Severity: minor
libgphoto2-port0_2.1.99-9 suggests hotplug.
Hotplug is being phased out, so the package should probably better
suggest hotplug | udev.
On a not entirely unrelated note, it might make sense to factor out
the permission setup into two
To make a long story short:
The Debian Policy (arch-os) and reality (os-arch for non-Linux
kernel, arch for Linux kernel) contradict each other and (at least)
one of them must be fixed.
The facts:
1. The dpkg-architecture -L list of all architectures explicitly
mentions all non-Linux
Package: libradiusclient-ng2
Version: 0.5.3-1
Severity: minor
En*ah*nced RADIUS client library
vs.
En*ha*nced RADIUS client library
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Package: mysql-admin
Version: 1.1.6-1+b1
Severity: important
mysql-admin = 1.1.6-1+b1 depends on mysql-admin-common = 1.1.6-1+b1
which is not in unstable.
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Package: debian-policy
Version: 3.6.2.2
Severity: normal
Architectures are defined once as i386 and once as i386-linux.
However, i386-linux does not work:
dpkg-gencontrol: error: current build architecture i386 does not appear
in package's list (alpha-linux amd64-linux arm-linux hppa-linux
Package: goobox
Version: 0.9.93-1
Severity: important
Preparing to replace goobox 0.9.91-1.1 (using .../goobox_0.9.93-1_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement goobox ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/goobox_0.9.93-1_i386.deb
(--unpack):
trying to overwrite
Anton Zinoviev [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 07:31:17AM +0100, Hans Ulrich Niedermann wrote:
Running setupcon only affects the keyboard, not the console font.
The console is using the radeonfb framebuffer.
# setupcon
Cannot (yet) load a non-seekable RAW file
Anton Zinoviev [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 03:56:59PM +0100, Hans Ulrich Niedermann wrote:
An user of the console-terminus reported to me about the same problem
and he also used radeonfb. It seams that radeonfb supports only fonts
with 8-pixels width font matrix
Anton Zinoviev [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 08:56:21PM +0100, Hans Ulrich Niedermann wrote:
I ran this command line
consolechars -v --tty=/dev/tty4 -f $FONTFILE
Ah, I forgot about consolechars... It can work only with 8-pixel wide
fonts (so I have to do another
Package: console-setup
Version: 1.3
Severity: important
Running setupcon only affects the keyboard, not the console font.
The console is using the radeonfb framebuffer.
# setupcon
Cannot (yet) load a non-seekable RAW file
read_simple_font(): Invalid argument
Cannot (yet) load a non-seekable RAW
Package: dpkg-dev
Version: 1.13.11
Severity: wishlist
dpkg-source -i by default ignores a certain set of files when
creating the diff.gz, including the files and directories of a
number of common revision control systems like CVS, RCS, Darcs, SVN,
GNU Arch/tla/bazaar 1.x.
As git and
Eric Dorland [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Notice any improvement in Firefox 1.5?
Yes. Firefox 1.5 doesn't segfault any more, which is great.
Firefox 1.5 just silently ignores preference changes, which is not
all that great, but still better than a segfault :)
And here is the detailed report:
from
http://debian.n-dimensional.de/public/unstable/
b) See http://debian.n-dimensional.de/ for /etc/apt/sources.list
lines, and risk contaminating your system with my unrelated
packages :-)
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Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Hans Ulrich Niedermann [EMAIL PROTECTED]
* Package name: pyinotify
Version : 0.3.3
Upstream Author : Sebastien Martini [EMAIL PROTECTED]
* URL : http://pyinotify.sourceforge.net/
* License : GPL
Description
Kenneth Pronovici [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Wed, Feb 01, 2006 at 12:30:22PM +0100, Hans Ulrich Niedermann wrote:
Package: cedar-backup2-doc
Version: 2.7.2-2
Severity: important
cedar-backup2-doc 2.7.2-2 conflicts with cedar-backup2 2.7.2-1
(both packages install /usr/share/doc-base
Package: cedar-backup2-doc
Version: 2.7.2-2
Severity: important
cedar-backup2-doc 2.7.2-2 conflicts with cedar-backup2 2.7.2-1
(both packages install /usr/share/doc-base/cedar-backup2-interface).
The proper requirements/conflics need to be added to the packages.
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Package: netspeed
Version: 0.13-1
Followup-For: Bug #312093
Why is this bug still open?
As far as I can tell,
a) netspeed has fixed #312093 by using libgtop2
b) libc6 has fixed #312554 in libc6 2.3.5
so this bug has been resolved and should thus be closed.
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Package: librsvg2-bin
Version: 2.12.7-3
Severity: normal
Firefox 1.5 comes with builtin SVG support. Installing the librsvg2-bin
disables the SVG support in FF 1.5 by overriding it with the rsvg
plugin -- even if one just wanted the rsvg and rsvg-view programs.
I'd suggest librsvg2-bin either
Package: librsvg2-bin
Version: 2.12.7-3
Followup-For: Bug #349936
The original bug report was wrong: Installing the rsvg mozilla
plugin (contained in the librsvg2-bin package) does not disable
the SVG support built into firefox 1.5.
My apologies (I still had svg.enabled set to false in
Package: eclipse-platform
Version: 3.1.1-7
Severity: important
Updating from 3.1.1-6 to 3.1.1-7 fails like this:
Preparing to replace eclipse-platform 3.1.1-6 (using
.../eclipse-platform_3.1.1-7_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement eclipse-platform ...
dpkg: error processing
Package: libtool
Version: 1.5.20-2
Severity: normal
/usr/bin/libtoolize is shipped by the libtool package.
The libtool package recommends the libltdl3-dev package.
But running libtoolize --ltdl *requires* the libltdl3-dev package.
$ libtoolize --ltdl# without libltdl3-dev installed
You
Package: ion3
Version: 20050820-5
Severity: minor
When starting ion3 for the first time, it displays the welcome message
from /usr/share/ion3/welcome.txt which says:
[...]
If you have never used Ion before, it is highly recommended that you
study the Ion manual page before proceeding
Package: xresprobe
Version: 0.4.18-1
Severity: normal
The xresprobe package ships no manpage for either of
* xresprobe
* ddcprobe
This is quite unfortunate as there is no
* other text documentation in the package
* --help option with a description
either, so both programs are
Package: eclipse-jdt-common
Version: 3.1.1-3
Severity: important
Unpacking eclipse-jdt-common (from .../eclipse-jdt-common_3.1.1-3_all.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing
/var/cache/apt/archives/eclipse-jdt-common_3.1.1-3_all.deb (--unpack):
trying to overwrite
the issue again, and installing
4.5.1-2pre3 again makes it disappear again.
So this looks like a strong argument that 4.5.1-2pre3 fixes the issue.
Thank you.
Gruß,
Uli
Hans Ulrich Niedermann wrote:
Package: logjam
Version: 4.5.1-2
Severity: important
I'm using logjam with a custom
Package: translate-toolkit
Version: 0.8.2005.0217-2
Severity: normal
snip
Errors were encountered while processing:
translate-toolkit
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
Ack! Something bad happened while installing packages. Trying to recover:
Setting up translate-toolkit
Package: gnat-4.0
Version: 4.0.1-4
Severity: normal
This small test program cannot be linked:
$ cat testcase.adb
with GNAT.Traceback.Symbolic;
procedure TestCase is
begin
null;
end TestCase;
$
$ gnatmake testcase
gcc-4.0 -c testcase.adb
gnatbind -x testcase.ali
gnatlink testcase.ali
Package: pilrcui
Version: 3.2-2
Severity: important
The new pilrcui 3.2-2 package conflicts with the old pilrc 3.2-1
package. However, the pilrcui package contains neither of
- dependency on pilrc = 3.2-2
- conflict with pilrc 3.2-2
The reason for the conflict is that both the old pilrc
Package: hdparm
Version: 6.1-2
Severity: normal
The hdparm package ships /etc/hdparm.conf, but no corresponding
hdparm.conf(5) man page.
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Package: evolution
Version: 2.2.3-1
Severity: normal
It appears that the Gnome open file dialog with the heading
Select a cert to import... is opened in a foreground layer of the
window manager, which it should not.
Steps to reproduce:
1. Menu Edit - Preferences.
2. Choose Certificates
3.
Package: ifupdown
Version: 0.6.7
Severity: wishlist
I recently had a case of a /etc/netword/if-up.d/ script looping
endlessly (bug #318350). This prevented my system from booting,
because the ifup -a in /etc/init.d/networking never finished.
So I considered that those hooked scripts may do just
Anand Kumria [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 01:56:14AM +0200, Hans Ulrich Niedermann wrote:
Package: zeroconf
Version: 0.6-1
Severity: wishlist
It would be very nice if one could add a DISABLE_ZEROCONF=yes switch
or something similar to /etc/default/zeroconf.
Why
Anand Kumria [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Sat, Jul 16, 2005 at 10:19:42AM +0200, Hans Ulrich Niedermann wrote:
Anand Kumria [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 01:56:14AM +0200, Hans Ulrich Niedermann wrote:
Package: zeroconf
Version: 0.6-1
Severity: wishlist
Package: zeroconf
Version: 0.6-1
Severity: wishlist
It would be very nice if one could add a DISABLE_ZEROCONF=yes switch
or something similar to /etc/default/zeroconf.
This could come in quite handy in cases where something goes wrong
with zeroconf.
The example leading me to this idea is a
Package: gnus
Version: 5.10.6-0.CVS.20050610-1
Severity: minor
Shipping the directory /usr/share/doc/gnus/contrib/.arch-ids is
pointless:
a) there is no {arch} dir for it
b) this is a binary package
I suggest you just do not ship it.
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Package: lilypond
Version: 2.4.5-2
Severity: normal
Standalone lilypond (i.e. without using lilypond-book and LaTeX)
produces completely broken text output. The text is written in
Courier with seemingly random character spacing, resulting in large
gaps between characters and characters
Package: gksu
Version: 1.2.5-3
Severity: normal
File: /usr/bin/gksuexec
There are a number of interface issues with the user list in gksuexec:
1. The users in the list are ordered randomly.
(They probably are ordered in /etc/passwd or UID sequence, but
they look completely unordered to
Frank Küster [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hans Ulrich Niedermann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Package: tex-common
Version: 0.1
Severity: normal
tex-common conflicts with tetex-bin:
ii tetex-bin 2.0.2-30 The teTeX binary files
Unpacking tex-common (from .../tex-common_0.1_all.deb
Package: tex-common
Version: 0.1
Severity: normal
tex-common conflicts with tetex-bin:
ii tetex-bin 2.0.2-30 The teTeX binary files
Unpacking tex-common (from .../tex-common_0.1_all.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/tex-common_0.1_all.deb
(--unpack):
trying
GOMBAS Gabor [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 08:30:42PM +0200, Hans Ulrich Niedermann wrote:
The returned list
- does not contain all network interface names like the man page says.
It only includes those which have an IPv4 address configured on them.
- does
Joergen Scheibengruber [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Wed, 2005-06-08 at 00:55 +0200, Hans Ulrich Niedermann wrote:
It seems (without reading the code, just from observing netspeed's
behaviour) that netspeed currently does something like this to find
the list of interface to possibly monitor
Package: libc6
Version: 2.3.2.ds1-22
Severity: normal
if_nameindex(3) returns only a subset of all network interfaces, and
lists some of them multiple times. This contradicts the man page
if_nameindex(3posix) and the libc6.info docs which state
NAME
if_nameindex - return all network
Joergen Scheibengruber [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Am Mittwoch, den 08.06.2005, 15:24 +0200 schrieb Hans Ulrich Niedermann:
Well, I don't know if it's really a bug, but if you think so, you should
clearly file it :)
To conclude this matter:
- The problem is fixed in netspeed (by moving from
Loc Minier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hi,
On Sun, Jun 05, 2005, Hans Ulrich Niedermann wrote:
However, the same reasoning applies to the dummy+ interfaces, so
dummy0 should never be chosen automatically, and the dummy+
interfaces should probably added to the same exception list where
Package: python-docutils
Version: 0.3.7-2
Severity: minor
The /usr/share/doc/python-docutils/index.html file contains links to:
../tools/stylesheets/pep.css
../README.html
but there is no python-docutils file /usr/share/doc
user/tools.html
but there is only user/tools.txt.gz
and many
Loc Minier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On mar, jun 07, 2005, Hans Ulrich Niedermann wrote:
It may be desirable to be able to set non-lo and non-dummy while
only lo and dummy0 are up, though.
I don't understand what you mean.
I've talked about the new patch with the maintainer, and another
So do I understand this correctly: The solution to this would simply be
to remove duplicates from the list of devices?
That's easy to fix :)
That should fix the symptoms, but not the problem :-)
It seems (without reading the code, just from observing netspeed's
behaviour) that netspeed
Package: netspeed
Version: 0.11-1
Severity: normal
The Netspeed Preferences dialog allows chosing the Network device
from a list of devices in a dropdown box. On this system, the same
interface shows up multiple times, and selecting different versions for
the same device makes no noticeable
Package: netspeed
Version: 0.11-1
Severity: normal
This system uses multiple types of network devices:
dummy0
eth0
wlan0
tap0
The Always monitor a connected device, if possible option in the
Netspeed Preferences dialog makes netspeed choos another interface
if one goes down. But
Package: hurd-doc
Version: 20050513-2
Severity: minor
,
|Source: hurd
|Version: 20050513-2
|Description: The GNU Hurd manual
| This package includes the manual in info and PostScript format.
`
However, the package contains HTML and info, but no PostScript:
Package: gnome-utils
Version: 2.8.1-1
Tags: patch
Followup-For: Bug #270880
In order to possibly speed up a fix a little, here is a patch which
makes scrollkeeper-rebuilddb -v run smoothly here.
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Hi,
I have a similar phenomenon on a system S of mine:
For user A, The logout panel button or menu item results appears to
do nothing, but after a wait of 90..120 seconds the Are you sure you
want to log out dialog finally appears. This may possibly be
connected to the splash image not
Package: prc-tools-m68k
Version: 2.2.90.cvs20030306-5
Severity: minor
File: /usr/m68k-palmos/include/math.h
--snip
/*
* floatingpoint-test.c - test floatingpoint definitions
*
* Compile with
*
* m68k-palmos-gcc -o
Package: gettext
Version: 0.14.4-1
Severity: minor
File: /usr/bin/msgmerge
When running msgmerge on a ja.po file with
,-
|# Copyright \251 2000-2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
`-
(note the iso-8859-1 (C) copyright character octal 251 in the comment)
and with
,-
|Content-Type:
Package: pilrc
Version: 3.2-1
Severity: normal
File: /usr/bin/pilrc
In case of invalid command lines or command line errors, pilrc returns
to the caller with exit code 0.
This makes it difficult to use it in Makefiles and the like.
A few example calls:
pilrc
pilrc -Iaksjdgkjasdglk
pilrc
Package: libtool-doc
Version: 1.5.6-4
Severity: minor
File: /usr/share/info/libtool.info.gz
Contrary to the info page, the names of the structure members
are all in lower case in reality.
Excerpt from the wrong info page:
File: libtool.info, Node: User defined module data
- Type: struct
Package: tar
Version: 1.13.93-4
Severity: normal
Abstract:
=
If the path to a file is longer than 99 characters, then
* tar 1.13.93-4 (Sarge):
a) silently cuts all the path components and adds the file to the
top of the tarball
b) prints *no* error message
c) exits
Package: tar
Version: 1.14-2
Severity: minor
Two different places describe `-o' to mean something different.
Probably the Short Options Cross Reference is wrong.
Let me cite from tar.info.gz:
3.4.2 `tar' Options
---
`-o'
When extracting files, this option is a synonym for
Package: ifupdown
Version: 0.6.4-4.12
Severity: normal
Abstract:
ifup -a does not handle all interfaces defined with their
own auto stanza.
Workaround:
Add all interfaces into a single auto stanza.
Detailed report:
interfaces(5) says:
Stanzas beginning with the
Package: pocketpc-gcc
Version: 3.4.2-1
Severity: normal
File: /usr/bin/arm-wince-pe-gcc
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ arm-wince-pe-gcc -o remove-test remove-test.c
/usr/lib/gcc/arm-wince-pe/3.4.2/../../../../arm-wince-pe/lib/libc.a(unistd.o)(.text+0xf0):
In function `remove':
-- no debconf information
# bash completion for quintuple-agent
# Copyright 2005 Hans Ulrich Niedermann [EMAIL PROTECTED]
# License: GNU GPL v2 or later
# * only handle completion for q-client
# * handles all the common cases
# * does not complete IDs for put, TTLs, and query parameters
The tla 1.3-1 package in testing doesn't silently fail executing is
own stuff, but it just ignores the hook if
a) ~/.arch-params/hook is not executable (x-bit missing)
b) ~/.arch-params/hook is a dangling symlink
c) ~/.arch-params/hook is a dangling symlink
d) ~/.arch-params/hook is
Package: inkscape
Version: 0.40-2
Severity: normal
To avoid panic reactions, please read all of the steps before starting
to follow them.
1. Draw some object, e.g. a rectangle.
2. Press and hold CTRL, and use the left mouse button to drag around the
object. Keep the mouse button depressed.
Package: mysql-admin
Version: 1.0.19-1
Severity: normal
The mysql-admin Table Editor incorrectly parses columns with a SET or
ENUM type. The bug appears the same way with SET and ENUM, so I'll just
describe the ENUM case below.
In the mysql-admin Table Editor, create a table with an ENUM
Package: mysql-query-browser
Version: 1.1.5-1
Severity: normal
Steps to reproduce:
1. Execute SELECT * FROM sometable for an empty table.
2. Right-click on the empty result list.
3. *booom*
To help with debugging, I ran mysql-query-browser in gdb and
provide the backtrace after the segfault:
Package: libapache2-mod-python
Version: 3.1.3-2.2
Severity: normal
If the Apache2 server is reached via IPv6, then the request.connection
object displays the wrong address in local_addr and remote_addr:
* req.connection.local_addr: ('0.0.0.0', 80)
* req.connection.remote_addr:
Package: quilt
Version: 0.37-4
Followup-For: Bug #288839
--- quilt.orig 2005-01-12 20:48:51.0 +0100
+++ quilt 2005-01-12 20:49:15.0 +0100
@@ -247,7 +247,7 @@
}
[ ${BASH_VERSINFO[0]} -gt 2 -o \
- ${BASH_VERSINFO[0]} = 2 -a ${BASH_VERSINFO[1]} -gt 04 ] \
+
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