Bug#941366: If I run vim, but only vim.tiny is present, please don't say "command not found"

2019-10-03 Thread Jason Spiro
On Sun, Sep 29, 2019 at 10:42 PM James McCoy wrote: > While I understand the frustration you experienced, I don't think adding > such a script is an appropriate solution. I don't think there's much to > do from the perspective of this package. Possibly, there's an > opportunity for enhancing

Bug#941366: If I run vim, but only vim.tiny is present, please don't say "command not found"

2019-09-29 Thread Jason Spiro
Package: vim-tiny Version: 2:8.1.0875-5 ## The problem It was the first week of the semester, and I was using a machine which wasn't yet able to connect to my school's wireless network. (It's tricky to connect a new Linux machine to my school's wireless network, and I hadn't yet

Bug#533866: closed by Axel Beckert <a...@debian.org> (screen 4.5.1-1 from Debian Experimental uses libutempter instead of setgid utmp, hence all /var/run/screen permission problems should be gone)

2017-03-07 Thread Jason Spiro
OK. Thank you very much! I've switched from screen to tmux and like it better. But the new package might help people who prefer screen. You might want to add the following sentences to screen's package description: "Screen has keybindings which are similar to those of tmux. But screen is

Bug#787549: Please add this new long-description to the debian/control file

2015-06-02 Thread Jason Spiro
Package: emacs Some emacs non-users have no clue how powerful Emacs really is. I wrote a new description for emacs. It tells more about Emacs so that more apt-cache searches will find it. The rest of this email is released to the public domain. What do you think of this description? Is it

Bug#413970: closed by Andreas Beckmann a...@debian.org (closing bugs reported against ancient emacs versions)

2015-06-02 Thread Jason Spiro
I have edited my proposed description further and then refiled this issue as bug 787549. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#787549: Please add this new long-description to the debian/control file

2015-06-02 Thread Jason Spiro
This report is a revised version of Bug#413970, which I filed about a decade ago and which nobody ever replied to. It would be handy if someone would reply to this report, even just to let me know what they think of my proposed new description. :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#393526: lynx-cur #393526 - On some webmail sites, Left then Compose causes data loss

2015-03-16 Thread Jason Spiro
Thank you for the email! If you would indeed forward it on (and CC me), that would be splendid. Firefox deals with many such situations nicely nowadays. When you click the Back button, it displays a dialog box: % This page is asking you to confirm that you want to leave - data you have entered

Bug#772985: In Vi mode, show whether insert or command state is active

2014-12-12 Thread Jason Spiro
, -- Jason Spiro: computer consultant. Improve your kids' or your workers' productivity. If you'd like an Internet filter installed in your home or workplace, contact me today. +1 (416) 992-3445 / http://www.jspiro.com/. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org

Bug#770910: When edit makes a temporary copy of a file, keep its extension intact

2014-12-03 Thread Jason Spiro
for making me aware of its existence. :) I have filed a separate issue ( https://github.com/lavv17/lftp/issues/106 ) asking the upstream maintainer to add a prominent link to the issue tracker on the lftp homepage. Kind regards, -- Jason Spiro: computer consultant. Improve your kids' or your

Bug#770910: When edit makes a temporary copy of a file, keep its extension intact

2014-11-24 Thread Jason Spiro
.php.new. Kind regards, -- Jason Spiro: computer consultant. Improve your kids' or your workers' productivity. If you'd like an Internet filter installed in your home or workplace, contact me today. +1 (416) 992-3445 / http://www.jspiro.com/. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ

Bug#728830: This package forces its users to use an obsolete revision of ERC

2013-11-05 Thread Jason Spiro
be the one described in the final paragraph of http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=632142#36. Or maybe not. I'm not sure. Kind regards, -- Jason Spiro: software/web developer/packager/trainer. Cellphone/IT consultant. I support Linux, UNIX, Windows, and more. Contact me to discuss your

Bug#378185: closed by Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer perezme...@gmail.com (Closing this bug because the submitter didn't answer)

2009-07-29 Thread Jason Spiro
reopen 378185 found 378185 4:4.2.2-1 tag 378185 -moreinfo retitle 378185 Tiny protocol icons use too much vertical space in Detailed view thanks perezme...@gmail.com wrote: Please, feel free to re open this bug if you can find it in kopete 4.2.2-1 or higher. Yes, I found it in 4:4.2.2-1. I

Bug#378184: Generic avatars

2009-04-26 Thread Jason Spiro
to use? If you still think that this wishlist bug still holds, please respond this mail and I'll forward it. ... I guess that like I suggested in my original wishlist report, Kopete could show the blue head for metacontacts, but use my fix the rest of the time. :) -- Jason Spiro: software

Bug#508127: The player's skills train ten times too fast; this makes the game easier than it was meant to be

2008-12-10 Thread Jason Spiro
2008/12/8 Guus Sliepen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for reporting this bug. However, this is not a release critical bug, and Debian is in a freeze, so unfortunately new versions of crawl have to wait until after lenny is released. Thanks for the quick response. I suspected you would say

Bug#508127: The player's skills train ten times too fast; this makes the game easier than it was meant to be

2008-12-07 Thread Jason Spiro
the game easier than it was meant to be. It was fixed in CVS[1], then in the next released version of crawl[2]. Please package the latest version of crawl (0.4.3) so that this problem will be gone. Regards, Jason Spiro ^ [1]. http://crawl-ref.svn.sf.net/viewvc/crawl-ref/branches/stone_soup-0.4

Bug#505647: The P and W keys should both don anything; the T and R keys should both doff anything

2008-11-13 Thread Jason Spiro
, whichever is appropriate. It should choose the appropriate one choice for you, instead of requiring that you make the right choice yourself. 2. 'T' and 'R' should also be made equivalent to each other: they should either remove or take off, whatever is appropriate for the item. -- Jason Spiro

Bug#505647: Acknowledgement (The P and W keys should both don anything; the T and R keys should both doff anything)

2008-11-13 Thread Jason Spiro
I filed an identical feature request with Slash'EM at https://sf.net/tracker/?func=detailaid=2281610group_id=9746atid=359746 . -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#504767: Thanks; why the 10-day wait for medit fix to get into testing?

2008-11-11 Thread Jason Spiro
Christian, thank you for so quickly uploading a fixed medit into Debian. I notice from http://bjorn.haxx.se/debian/testing.pl?package=medit that your patched package is 0 days old, and must be 10 days old to go in. So the minimum wait for critical bugfixes is 10 days? Why is the wait so long?

Bug#495098: nvidia-kernel-legacy-71xx-source: kernel module fails to build with current kernel

2008-11-07 Thread Jason Spiro
severity 495098 grave tags 495098 fixed-upstream thanks I'm marking this as grave because this bug shows that nvidia-kernel-legacy-71xx-source doesn't work anymore. I'm tagging it fixed-upstream because Vincent's message above says that it is fixed upstream. By the way: I, too, am experiencing

Bug#504767: Character set conversion bug that can cause files to be truncated; patch available

2008-11-06 Thread Jason Spiro
X-Debbugs-Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Package: medit Version: 0.9.2-1+b2 Tags: patch Severity: critical Justification: data loss bug in a text editor Hello, and thanks for maintaining medit. [1] says a new version of medit has been released (0.9.4) which fixes some critical data-loss bugs found by

Bug#484257: medit: new upstream version released, please package

2008-11-06 Thread Jason Spiro
Thanks for mentioning that Jan. I reported the critical data loss problem to http://bugs.debian.org/504767 -- I marked it as critical, so hopefully it will be fixed soon. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#504767: Character set conversion bug that can cause files to be truncated; patch available

2008-11-06 Thread Jason Spiro
By the way: I asked Yevgen if this bug affects medit 0.8.2. Yevgen replied I think yes. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#502369: Thank you (was: Re: Bug#502369 closed by Aïssi Dylan [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Fixed in 0.8.4-1))

2008-10-26 Thread Jason Spiro
Aïssi Dylan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Fixed in 0.8.4-1 Thank you all for maintaining the Gnash package, and for packaging this new version. I am installing it now. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#502369: Please package new upstream gnash-0.8.4

2008-10-15 Thread Jason Spiro
-- --my blog is athttp://blog.russnelson.com | Software that needs Crynwr sells support for free software | PGPok | documentation is software 521 Pleasant Valley Rd. | +1 315-323-1241 | that needs repair. Potsdam, NY 13676-3213 | Sheepdog | -- Jason Spiro: software/web

Bug#501590: PrintScreen key causes many apps to suddenly die if you are running in Linux text mode

2008-10-08 Thread Jason Spiro
abort and dump core. == What should have happened == * When you press PrtSc, the kernel should not send ^\ -- it should either send a different key combination, or send nothing at all. ~~~ Greg Grossmeier wrote: I can confirm this behavior in 8.10. ~~~ Jason Spiro wrote: Does this affect

Bug#501590: PrintScreen key causes many apps to suddenly die if you are running in Linux text mode

2008-10-08 Thread Jason Spiro
of the keymaps came out (shipped with kbd), I completely understand; go ahead and lower the severity. -- Jason Spiro: software/web developer, trainer, IT consultant. I support Linux, UNIX, Windows, and more. Contact me to discuss your needs. 613-668-6096 / [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Bug#357697: aptitude: crashes if the Print Screen key is pressed

2008-10-08 Thread Jason Spiro
]. ^ [1]. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/console-data/+bug/279973 ^ [2]. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=501590 -- Jason Spiro: software/web developer, trainer, IT consultant. I support Linux, UNIX, Windows, and more. Contact me to discuss your needs. 613-668-6096

Bug#501590: PrintScreen key causes many apps to suddenly die if you are running in Linux text mode

2008-10-08 Thread Jason Spiro
2008/10/8 Julien Cristau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No, I'm saying this is not data loss. This is a 'it hurts when I shoot myself in the foot' kind of bug. I maintain that it *is* data loss. PrtSc is a single unmodified key press. It's not so hard to press by accident. I pressed it and it

Bug#501590: PrintScreen key causes many apps to suddenly die if you are running in Linux text mode

2008-10-08 Thread Jason Spiro
2008/10/8 Christian Perrier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think this is RC because it's a bug that can cause data loss. See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=501590#15 . If you think this should not be release critical, then please lower the severity. I will accept your decision

Bug#393312: fsck should run at shutdown, not startup, when possible

2008-10-04 Thread Jason Spiro
Someone has written a utility, made for Ubuntu, called AutoFsck. After you install AutoFsck, fsck will run at shutdown, not startup, when possible. (I am currently running Windows, so I haven't tried installing AutoFsck on Debian to see if it works. If you do try AutoFsck, please let us know in

Bug#483702: #483702: Please get the VirtualBox manual and wiki docs to be free-licensed then ship them

2008-10-02 Thread Jason Spiro
retitle 483702 Please make the VirtualBox manual and wiki docs be free-licensed then ship them forwarded 483702 http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/2364 kthxbye Today I filed two upstream bugs: * http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/2364 (Please release your documentation under the GPL) *

Bug#483702: #483702: Please get the VirtualBox manual and wiki docs to be free-licensed then ship them

2008-10-02 Thread Jason Spiro
retitle 483702 Please ship VirtualBox manual along with package kthxbye (I am retitling again since I seem to have trouble setting titles longer than 60 characters or so long.) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#321434:

2008-09-22 Thread Jason Spiro
2008/9/22 Julien Cristau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrotw: On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 16:24:48 -0400, Jason Spiro wrote: severity 321434 grave thanks Raising severity to grave as Herman and Gernot requested. I verified today that the bug still exists in x11-apps 7.3+3 (the latest version in Debian

Bug#491590: smc segfaults on startup

2008-09-22 Thread Jason Spiro
severity 491590 grave thanks Increasing severity because I assume the package segfaults for all users. If I was wrong to do this, I apologize; please just reduce the severity back to important. Hi Muammar, Muammar El Khatib [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in

Bug#491590: smc segfaults on startup

2008-09-22 Thread Jason Spiro
2008/9/22 Muammar El Khatib [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... I am just curious: why does it no longer segfault? Is this a mysteriously-disappearing problem, or was some known bug fixed which made smc work? No, it is not a mysteriously-disappearing problem. The problem is that current cegui's

Bug#321434: xedit: requires to press 'save' twice

2008-09-22 Thread Jason Spiro
forwarded 321434 http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17726 thanks I reported this bug upstream, but in a different form: I titled the bug Please stop distributing xedit binaries until this data loss bug in xedit is fixed, and I described both the dataloss-on-quit problem and the

Bug#499085: Please package new upstream xedit-1.1.1

2008-09-16 Thread Jason Spiro
2008/9/16 Brice Goglin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... I'll try to package it tonight. Wow. That'd be faster than I expected. Does it fix #321434 ? It does not fix it. -- Jason Spiro: software/web developer, trainer, IT consultant. I support Linux, UNIX, Windows, and more. Contact me

Bug#391118: closed by Holger Levsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] (closing)

2008-09-11 Thread Jason Spiro
2008/9/11 Holger Levsen wrote: ... it's actually not useful (to have this feature implemented). If pressing a key accellerates the repeat, how would you know how long to press the key? Also, if you want to delete multiple lines/words of text, there are smarter ways to do it. (Be it in your

Bug#498273: please put a rendered HTML version of the Lenny release notes on the web

2008-09-08 Thread Jason Spiro
Package: www.debian.org Severity: wishlist Thanks for all your hard work on the site. One request: please put a rendered HTML version of the Lenny release notes on the web. Even though Lenny is not released yet, many people upgrade to it, and it would be useful if they could see a rendered copy

Bug#497840: Please package new major upstream release 2.0.0

2008-09-04 Thread Jason Spiro
module fails * Linux additions: the guest screen resolution is properly restored * Network: added support for jumbo frames ( 1536 bytes) * Shared Folders: fixed guest crash with Windows Media Player 11 ... -- Jason Spiro: software/web developer, trainer, IT consultant. I support Linux, UNIX

Bug#483702: Please get the VirtualBox manual and wiki docs to be free-licensed then ship them

2008-05-30 Thread Jason Spiro
they will care more. If you have time, could you please file an upstream bug or something asking them to free the manual and the other documentation on their webpage, and then if they free it, could you please ship it with the package? Thanks, Jason Spiro ^ [1]. http://thread.gmane.org

Bug#389322: closed by Matthias Klose [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Re: Undo command)

2008-04-22 Thread Jason Spiro
an undo command, and I bet KDE does too; but is it not worth even requesting to command-line tool maintainers to add undo functionality? Regards, -- Jason Spiro: software/web developer, trainer, IT consultant. I support Linux, UNIX, Windows, and more. Contact me to discuss your needs and get a free

Bug#459854: BTS seems not to CC done messages to X-Debbugs-CC'ed people

2008-01-08 Thread Jason Spiro
as of this writing -- Jason Spiro: corporate trainer, web developer, IT consultant. I support Linux, UNIX, Windows, and more. Contact me to discuss your needs and get a free estimate. +1 (613) 668-6096 / Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] / MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Bug#458939: Fwd: Bug#458939: allow search engines to index http://bugs.debian.org

2008-01-04 Thread Jason Spiro
2008/1/3, Don Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 03 Jan 2008, Jason Spiro wrote: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robots.txt#Crawl-delay_directive will help. Yahoo and MSNBot both support it. I bet other major bots support it too. So we can allow Yahoo and MSNBot (plus Googlebot

Bug#424161: Thanks (was: Re: Bug#424161 closed by...)

2008-01-03 Thread Jason Spiro
mhatta: you've just made a2ps quite a bit more useful. :-) -- Jason Spiro: corporate trainer, web developer, IT consultant. I support Linux, UNIX, Windows, and more. Contact me to discuss your needs and get a free estimate. +1 (613) 668-6096 / Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] / MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Bug#458938: Please add lynx to a2ps's dependencies

2008-01-03 Thread Jason Spiro
Package: a2ps Version: 1:4.13c~rc5-1 Severity: wishlist Hi, Thanks for your work on a2ps. One more thing: could you make a2ps Recommend lynx as a dependency since it is one of the delegations? Thanks, -- Jason Spiro: corporate trainer, web developer, IT consultant. I support Linux, UNIX

Bug#458939: allow search engines to index http://bugs.debian.org

2008-01-03 Thread Jason Spiro
Package: www.debian.org Severity: wishlist Please allow search engines to index http://bugs.debian.org. This can be done by deleting the file http://bugs.debian.org/robots.txt. Cheers, -- Jason Spiro: corporate trainer, web developer, IT consultant. I support Linux, UNIX, Windows, and more

Bug#458943: add email masking to debbugs web interface

2008-01-03 Thread Jason Spiro
there and spam them. Also, if you fulfill this request, http://bugs.debian.org/458939 (allow search engines to index bugs.debian.org) is more likely to be fulfilled. Cheers, -- Jason Spiro: corporate trainer, web developer, IT consultant. I support Linux, UNIX, Windows, and more. Contact me to discuss your

Bug#458939:

2008-01-03 Thread Jason Spiro
OTOH, it is probably best to wait until http://bugs.debian.org/459843 (add email masking to debbugs web interface) is done before you do anything. Cheers, -- Jason Spiro: corporate trainer, web developer, IT consultant. I support Linux, UNIX, Windows, and more. Contact me to discuss your needs

Bug#458939: allow search engines to index http://bugs.debian.org

2008-01-03 Thread Jason Spiro
2008/1/3, Don Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 03 Jan 2008, Jason Spiro wrote: Please allow search engines to index http://bugs.debian.org. This can be done by deleting the file http://bugs.debian.org/robots.txt. Just for the record, the reasons why we disallow indexing

Bug#387221: closed by Sven Arvidsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Close 387221)

2007-12-09 Thread Jason Spiro
. :-) -- Jason Spiro: corporate trainer, web developer, IT consultant. I support Linux, UNIX, Windows, and more. Contact me to discuss your needs and get a free estimate. +1 (613) 668-6096 / Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] / MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Bug#383316: Please vet this modified CC license for uploading FoF music to non-free (was: Re: Could you please forward this proposed license to Teosto?)

2007-05-22 Thread Jason Spiro
On 5/15/07, Matthew Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... How about: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd-nc/1.0/legalcode with 4. d. added saying: You may not publicly display, publicly perform, or publicly digitally perform the Work except as part of the game and you may not

Bug#424133: IMO apsfilter should be moved to non-free until postcardware issue is resolved; what do you think?

2007-05-15 Thread Jason Spiro
? Please use the Reply to All command to reply to this email. Kind regards, Jason Spiro [1] http://osdir.com/ml/linux.debian.devel.legal/2002-08/msg00356.html [2] http://osdir.com/ml/linux.debian.devel.legal/2002-10/msg00113.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Bug#424159: Please try to use firefox for parsing HTML

2007-05-15 Thread Jason Spiro
Package: a2ps Severity: wishlist Version: 1:4.13c~rc5-1 X-Debbugs-CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] At [1] it says a2ps can filter HTML through lynx or Netscape. It would be great if a2ps would try to use firefox before it tried those other apps (since Firefox is installed on more PCs than Netscape, and

Bug#424161: Please try to use html2ps for parsing HTML

2007-05-15 Thread Jason Spiro
Package: a2ps Severity: wishlist Version: 1:4.13c~rc5-1 X-Debbugs-CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] At [1] it says a2ps can filter HTML through lynx or Netscape. It would be great if a2ps would try to use the html2ps utility (available on the Web) before it tried those other apps (since it is installed on

Bug#383316: Final Packages?

2007-05-14 Thread Jason Spiro
it fretsonfire-music-sectoid? I think that'd be a more self-explanatory name for non-expert Debian and Ubuntu users. Would you like me to send a patch to rename the package? -- Jason Spiro: computer consulting with a smile. I provide software development and training services to clients worldwide

Bug#383316: Could you please forward this proposed license to Teosto? (was: Re: Choosing a license for Frets on Fire songs)

2007-04-27 Thread Jason Spiro
2007/4/27, Matthew Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu Apr 26 21:16, Jason Spiro wrote: I don't know much about how to write licenses, and this is the first one I have ever written. I figured that everything after the subject to the following conditions: would automatically override

Bug#383316: Could you please forward this proposed license to Teosto? (was: Re: Choosing a license for Frets on Fire songs)

2007-04-26 Thread Jason Spiro
2007/3/28, Matthew Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue Mar 27 20:54, Jason Spiro wrote: 2007/3/27, Don Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 27 Mar 2007, Jason Spiro wrote: Maybe if debian-legal or I wrote the license (I have never written a license before, but maybe I could

Bug#383316: Could you please forward this proposed license to Teosto? (was: Re: Choosing a license for Frets on Fire songs)

2007-04-26 Thread Jason Spiro
Hi Matthew, 2007/4/26, Matthew Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu Apr 26 16:25, Jason Spiro wrote: Copyright (C) year copyright holders Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this work (the Work) to use, modify, copy, publish, distribute

Bug#419647: w3m-el should not silently reject cookies by default

2007-04-17 Thread Jason Spiro
Package: w3m-el Version: 1.4.4-3 Severity: wishlist Usertags: usability X-Debbugs-CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank you for w3m-el, it is the best web browser I have ever used. But, for the first month I used w3m-el, I didn't realize it supported cookies. I wish I had known sooner. To fix this, I

Bug#419653: wish: matchit plugin should jump to matching quotation mark when I press %

2007-04-17 Thread Jason Spiro
Package: vim Version: 1:7.0-219+1 Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] It would be great if the matchit plugin (a plugin that ships with vim but is not enabled by default) could jump to matching single or double quotation marks. So, for example, if I write the following: She

Bug#419647: w3m-el should not silently reject cookies by default

2007-04-17 Thread Jason Spiro
On 4/17/07, Katsumi Yamaoka [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... Have you tried setting the `w3m-use-cookies' variable to t? This makes emacs-w3m behave like `1'. Yes; I found out about the option about a week ago when I used M-x customize on w3m. The problem: w3m-use-cookies is off by default. It

Bug#419647: w3m-el should not silently reject cookies by default

2007-04-17 Thread Jason Spiro
2007/4/17, Katsumi Yamaoka [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why don't you enable the option by default? It might be because no one has never requested it. ;-) Otherwise, no developer might have wanted to enable it since it is still experimental. Anyway, we will need much time and effort to complete

Bug#383316: FoF package for Debian

2007-04-12 Thread Jason Spiro
2007/3/27, Sami Kyöstilä [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We finally got in touch with the Teosto lawyer, and he informed us that unfortunately the game's music can't be distributed with a CC license. The problem is while the songs can freely be distributed with the game, they can't be distributed or

Bug#383316: FoF package for Debian

2007-04-12 Thread Jason Spiro
if they have separate guitar tracks available 3. if so, ask if they would relicense under a Debian-free license 4. get frets files created. What do you all think? [1] http://web.archive.org/www.ipodarmy.com/2005/06/how-to-find-podsafe-music/ -- Jason Spiro: computer consulting with a smile. I provide

Bug#418110: documentation at top of pcomplete.el should not tell users to (load pcmpl-auto)

2007-04-06 Thread Jason Spiro
Package: emacs-snapshot Version: 1:20070302-1 X-Debbugs-CC: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org,[EMAIL PROTECTED] Severity: minor Hi all, I noticed a minor issue which affects Emacs in Debian, and which I think also affects upstream Emacs 22. The documentation at the top of pcomplete.el[1] says near the

Bug#376431: I tar'ed up my work from last year on packaging Open Watcom today

2007-03-27 Thread Jason Spiro
I made a tarball of my work from last year on packaging Open Watcom. I doubt I will ever work on it further. It contains a control file, a rules file (I don't know how well it works), and a TODO file. The rules and TODO files contain useful tips for anyone who ever wants to package OW. The

Bug#376431: FYI: There are unofficial Debian packages of OW available

2007-03-27 Thread Jason Spiro
All: FYI, I just found out today that someone named blairdude has kindly made unofficial .debs (and .rpms made with Alien) for Open Watcom available. I haven't tried them. They appear to be .debs of a few-month-old release candidate of OW. They are available at:

Bug#383316: FoF package for Debian

2007-03-27 Thread Jason Spiro
to get it into Debian even before this issue is resolved. :-) Cheers, Jason [1] http://sourceforge.net/project/stats/detail.php?group_id=182199ugn=fretsonfiretype=prdownloadmode=alltimepackage_id=211274release_id=466327file_id=1074215 -- Jason Spiro: computer consulting with a smile. I provide

Bug#383316: FoF package for Debian

2007-03-27 Thread Jason Spiro
that nobody would consider the tutorial to be a song. -- Jason Spiro: computer consulting with a smile. I provide software development and training services to clients worldwide. Contact me for a FREE consultation. Satisfaction guaranteed. +1 (416) 781-5938 / Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] / MSN: [EMAIL

Bug#383316: Choosing a license for Frets on Fire songs

2007-03-27 Thread Jason Spiro
, Jason P.S. I am CC'ing [EMAIL PROTECTED] now even though I didn't CC it before. -- Jason Spiro: computer consulting with a smile. I provide software development and training services to clients worldwide. Contact me for a FREE consultation. Satisfaction guaranteed. +1 (416) 781-5938 / Email

Bug#383316: Choosing a license for Frets on Fire songs

2007-03-27 Thread Jason Spiro
2007/3/27, Don Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Tue, 27 Mar 2007, Jason Spiro wrote: Maybe if debian-legal or I wrote the license (I have never written a license before, but maybe I could modify the MIT license) we could get Teosto to agree on more liberal terms than we would get if Teosto

Bug#391309: RFP: gnome-app-install - the easiest-to-use software installation tool available

2007-03-11 Thread Jason Spiro
didn't get your reply: the BTS did not send me a CC of it. I don't know why. Do you know: is the BTS automatically supposed to send bug reporters copies of all replies to a bug report? If not, why not? -- Jason Spiro: computer consulting with a smile. I also provide training and spyware removal

Bug#414498: Please turn on Use contact photos when available by default

2007-03-11 Thread Jason Spiro
was checkmarked (enabled) by default. Maybe upstream would be willing to implement this themselves? Also, would you like me to send you a patch to enable this? Cheers, Jason -- Jason Spiro: computer consulting with a smile. I also provide training and spyware removal services for homes and businesses

Bug#403619: Morph-it now LGPLed; Morphy license

2007-03-11 Thread Jason Spiro
and that a link would be nice (but isn't required). OK. They are academics so I will contact them using the form at http://www.wolfganglezius.de/kontaktformular/ and ask them if they will LGPL the work. -- Jason Spiro: computer consulting with a smile. I also provide training and spyware removal

Bug#413970: new fancy description for Emacs packages

2007-03-08 Thread Jason Spiro
them to the debian/control file? Also, do you think it's worth it for me to forward them to the Fedora people and/or freshmeat.net as an additional way of evangelizing emacs? Cheers, Jason Spiro Description: Integrated development environment chock full of features . This is a snapshot

Bug#413907: please enhance fslint's description so it will be easier to find in synaptic

2007-03-07 Thread Jason Spiro
/fslint/ Other packages for saving disk space include localepurge, xdiskusage, and kleansweep. Cheers, Jason Spiro -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#403619: could you please dual-license Morph-it under both CC and GNU LGPL

2007-03-07 Thread Jason Spiro
LanguageTool is packaged for Debian Linux (see http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=403619 for progress) it can include Italian support. (Due to complicated legal points, Debian cannot currently accept CC-SA 2.0 software.) Regards, Jason Spiro Toronto, Canada -- Jason Spiro: computer

Bug#403619: RFP: languagetool -- rule-based language checker

2007-03-07 Thread Jason Spiro
, and Italian. -- Jason Spiro: computer consulting with a smile. I also provide training and spyware removal services for homes and businesses. Call or email for a FREE 5-minute consultation. Satisfaction guaranteed. +1 (416) 781-5938 / Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] / MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Bug#413943: please allow web search for word after right-click without selecting word first

2007-03-07 Thread Jason Spiro
Package: iceweasel Severity: wishlist It'd be great if you could right-click any word and see a Search Google for word option without having to highlight the word first. Cheers, Jason -- Jason Spiro: computer consulting with a smile. I also provide training and spyware removal services

Bug#413942: please add easy way to use alternate search plugins for right-click search

2007-03-07 Thread Jason Spiro
Google as your primary search engine. Cheers, Jason -- Jason Spiro: computer consulting with a smile. I also provide training and spyware removal services for homes and businesses. Call or email for a FREE 5-minute consultation. Satisfaction guaranteed. 416-781-5938 / Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] / MSN

Bug#403619: Morph-it now LGPLed; Morphy license

2007-03-07 Thread Jason Spiro
read German. Cheers, Jason Spiro -- Forwarded message -- From: Eros Zanchetta [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 7 mars 2007 18:51 Subject: Re: could you please dual-license Morph-it under both CC and GNU LGPL To: Jason Spiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jason

Bug#383316: FoF package for Debian

2007-03-07 Thread Jason Spiro
On Feb. 18, 2007, Sami Kyostila [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... We'll contact Teosto and see which license would be okay with them. Hi Sami, Any luck? Kind regards, Jason P.S. If you want, I will contact Teosto myself: just let me know what email address or phone number to contact. -- To

Bug#411737: firefox should Recommend mozilla-diggler

2007-03-04 Thread Jason Spiro
on Unix* would be too much of a UI difference between platforms, and would say no. Do you agree they probably would think this? Cheers, Jason -- Jason Spiro: computer consulting with a smile. I also provide training and spyware removal services for homes and businesses. Call or email for a FREE 5

Bug#411737: firefox should Recommend mozilla-diggler

2007-02-20 Thread Jason Spiro
Package: firefox Severity: wishlist It is extremely frustrating that you can't middle-click to paste a URL into the address bar in firefox. Luckily, the mozilla-diggler package in Debian fixes this. It would be great if firefox Recommended mozilla-diggler. -- Jason Spiro: computer consulting

Bug#411737: firefox should Recommend mozilla-diggler

2007-02-20 Thread Jason Spiro
. This problem could be resolved by Recommending mozilla-diggler with firefox. Diggler is a Mozilla/Firefox extension which adds a new button to the Firefox toolbar. The button simply clears the toolbar. What do you think of my proposed solution? Cheers, Jason -- Jason Spiro: computer consulting

Bug#411808: please ship MIT illustrated tutorial in etc directory

2007-02-20 Thread Jason Spiro
. They are DFSG-free. What do you think of my idea? Regards, Jason -- Jason Spiro: computer consulting with a smile. I also provide training and spyware removal services for homes and businesses. Call or email for a FREE 5-minute consultation. Satisfaction guaranteed. +1 (416) 781-5938 / Email

Bug#383316: FoF package for Debian

2007-02-18 Thread Jason Spiro
that) and performance, but I don't think there's really a need to. -- Jason Spiro: computer consulting with a smile. I also provide training and spyware removal services for homes and businesses. Call or email for a FREE 5-minute consultation. Satisfaction guaranteed. +1 (416) 781-5938 / Email: [EMAIL

Bug#383316: FoF package for Debian

2007-02-15 Thread Jason Spiro
? Cheers, Jason P.S. I am not a lawyer. Also, laws vary by country. Your country's laws may differ. -- Jason Spiro: computer consulting with a smile. I also provide training and spyware removal services for homes and businesses. Call or email for a FREE 5-minute consultation. Satisfaction guaranteed

Bug#392187: When you page down, an arrow should point to the place you should resume reading

2007-02-14 Thread Jason Spiro
-- Jason Spiro: computer consulting with a smile. I also provide training and spyware removal services for homes and businesses. Call or email for a FREE 5-minute consultation. Satisfaction guaranteed. +1 (416) 781-5938 / Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] / MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Bug#383316: FoF package for Debian

2007-02-13 Thread Jason Spiro
2007/2/13, Miriam Ruiz [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I'm not very much into the legal things, so I'm a bit lost on how to solve it. Jason Spiro (I'm CC'ing him) has offered to help me with this. Hi Sami, First of all, thanks very much for releasing Frets on Fire under the GPL. It's a great game, and we

Bug#383316: FretsOnFire

2007-02-12 Thread Jason Spiro
to licence them the agency which was linked to should have nothing to do with it. OTOH, if they are using songs which aren't original by them, there could be a problem. What explanation? What agency? Cheers, Jason -- Jason Spiro: computer consulting with a smile. I also provide training and spyware

Bug#383316: FretsOnFire

2007-02-12 Thread Jason Spiro
if you could forward me your previous emails re. SVG vs. PNG. IMO, I think it's best if we also CC [EMAIL PROTECTED] on all emails to upstream so that people will be able to see what has happened. :-) Cheers, Jason -- Jason Spiro: computer consulting with a smile. I also provide training and spyware

Bug#383316: FretsOnFire

2007-02-09 Thread Jason Spiro
. registered copyright trademark [3] http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/legalcode [4] http://evan.prodromou.name/Debian_Creative_Commons_Workgroup_report -- Jason Spiro: computer consulting with a smile. I also provide software development services for businesses worldwide

Bug#403543: right-clicking on column headers should display show-hide-columns menu

2006-12-17 Thread Jason Spiro
Package: thunderbird Severity: wishlist It would be great if right-clicking on the column headers in Thunderbird (Subject, Sender, etc.) brought up the show-hide-various-columns menu. Cheers, Jason Spiro -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Bug#403098: mount: please tell the user how to run lsof

2006-12-14 Thread Jason Spiro
. Such a message would immensely help newbies who do not know how to run lsof(1). P.S. Thank you for packaging mount(1). I use it every day, and it always works reliably. Regards, Jason Spiro -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Bug#403103: mount: please run lsof for the user

2006-12-14 Thread Jason Spiro
Package: mount Version: 2.12r-15 Severity: wishlist When a user tries to unmount a device but it is busy and cannot be unmounted, please run lsof | grep mountpointname for the user and show them the output. Regards, Jason -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Bug#403006: please allow Gaim users to view messages queued for them on the MSN server

2006-12-13 Thread Jason Spiro
Package: gaim Version: 2.0.0+beta5-7 Severity: wishlist Windows Live Messenger (Microsoft's Windows MSN client) allows users to send messages to MSN users who are offline. Then, when they log on using Windows Live Messenger, they get a message: You received instant messages while you were

Bug#403007: please allow Gaim users to send messages to offline users

2006-12-13 Thread Jason Spiro
Package: gaim Version: 2.0.0+beta5-7 Severity: wishlist Windows Live Messenger (Microsoft's Windows MSN client) allows users to send messages to MSN users who are offline. Then, when they log on using Windows Live Messenger, they get a message: You received instant messages while you were

Bug#400834: screen: please add an RSI break reminder feature that locks your screen periodically

2006-11-28 Thread Jason Spiro
and stop you from typing for 5 minutes. Thanks to Miernik [EMAIL PROTECTED] for the idea. Regards, Jason -- Jason Spiro: computer consulting with a smile. I also provide training and spyware removal services for homes and businesses. Call or email for a FREE 5-minute consultation. Satisfaction

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