Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote:
Mehdi Dogguy me...@dogguy.org wrote:
* Package name : usb-creator
usb-creator is a bit misleading (or at least… not clear). Could
you rename it into something like live-usb-creator?
This package has been shipped in Ubuntu for a few releases now.
Honestly, I don't
Package: poppler-utils
Severity: wishlist
Version: 0.12.4-1
Tags: patch
A fix for the surplus t in the package's short description.
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diff -ru poppler-0.12.4.pristine/debian/control poppler-0.12.4/debian/control
---
Package: pcregrep
Version: 7.8-3
Followup-For: Bug #552002
Tags: patch
Assuming pcregrep has indeed succeeded in outliving its original
reason for existing (so that the subject-line bug here is in fact
Severity: not-a-bug), it seems to me that this automatically
implies that the original package
Package: bind9-host
Version: 1:9.7.0.dfsg.P1-1
Severity: minor
Tags: patch
The current package description for bind9-host says:
Package: bind9-host
Description: Version of 'host' bundled with BIND 9.X
This package provides the 'host' program in the form that is bundled with
the
Oops. Patch attached this time.
(I didn't just forget to attach it, I deleted the directory it was
in, and then the rootfs on that computer died. And edlug.org.uk
mailserver's flakey again. I hope you're having a better day!)
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Stephan Sürken quoted:
+ There will need to be a dedicated LVM volume group for the chroots
+ to be maintained on (with schroot).
---
There will need to be sound strange for my (non-native) ears ;), maybe
just a typo?
Don't worry, not a typo; all the following are grammatical.
There is
Debian Bug Tracking System wrote:
* Fixed to work with composite extension, so we avoid corruptions
when composite is enabled, and at a depth other than 24
(Closes: #488715, #547251).
I can verify that wdm_1.28-3.5_i386.deb no longer crashes on my
Squeeze-testbed machine. Thanks!
Package: aspell
Version: 0.60.6-4
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
Paragraph two of the DESCRIPTION has:
# The Aspell library contains an interface allowing other programs
# direct access to it's functions and therefore reducing the complex
^
That's the contraction meaning it
Ben Hutchings wrote:
[Cc'ing the bug, not the lists.]
If the two labels (boot sector and root directory) are inconsistent then
different tools might reasonably disagree.
(I'm going to guess the blkid labels are boot and the problem ones
are root.)
My odd results were coming from file
Nicolas François wrote:
Justin B Rye wrote:
[...]
Or preferably something more like this:
--
#!/bin/sh
cd /var/backups || exit 0
for FILE in passwd group shadow gshadow; do
test -f /etc/$FILE || continue
Package: gfsd
Version: 2.3.0-1
Severity: minor
Tags: patch l10n
Description: Gfarm filesystem daemon
A filesystem daemon for the Gfarm filesystem,
which has been running on every filesystem node.
Something has been lost in translation there. Did you mean has to
be running, perhaps?
Out of
Package: aptitude
Version: 0.4.11.11-1+b2
Followup-For: Bug #509974
Trent W. Buck wrote:
As package names are always lowercase, perhaps aptitude should
lowercase requested package names?
AOL. Aptitude's behaviour with strings that it doesn't immediately
recognise as package names is
Package: sensord
Version: 1:3.1.2-2
Severity: minor
root:~$ apt-get install sensord; uname -s
[...]
Setting up librrd4 (1.3.8-1) ...
Setting up fancontrol (1:3.1.2-2) ...
Setting up lm-sensors (1:3.1.2-2) ...
Setting up sensord (1:3.1.2-2) ...
Starting sensor daemon: sensordError loading default
On Sat, Apr 25, 2009, Justin B Rye wrote:
Me too. I get both sorts of WARNINGs
Somewhere between versions 0.3.0-4 and 0.4.1-3 this stopped
happening; I've taken the workaround out of
/usr/share/dbus-1/system-services/org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit.service
now, and I see console-kit-daemon in my
Package: consolekit
Version: 0.4.1-3
Severity: normal
Every time I boot into kFreeBSD, the logs include:
Feb 15 16:02:28 xan kernel: pid 1591 (ck-collect-session-), uid 0: exited on
signal 11 (core dumped)
...and there's a fresh 3.8MB corefile in the root directory.
I gather it's
Package: wdm
Version: 1.28-3.3
Now that a new version is available I'll send a followup - thanks
for maintaining wdm!
On Fri, Sep 18, Justin B Rye wrote:
Package: wdm
Version: 1.28-3.1
Severity: important
To be specific, /usr/bin/wdmLogin segfaults.
That was on a machine which has since
Francesco Poli wrote:
Unfortunately, I seem to be unable to reproduce the bug.
I'm getting what looks like the same bug on kfreebsd-i386, but _not_
on the same (multibooting) machine's plain i386 partition, even when
running installs of identical lists of packages.
In today's batch, all the
Francesco Poli wrote:
Did you try with apt-listbugs/0.1.3 from unstable (with
libdpkg-ruby1.8/0.3.6 which should be automatically pulled in by
dependencies)?
That fixes it.
Purging apt-listbugs, libdpkg-ruby1.8.0, and iceweasel and then
reinstalling the Testing versions brings it back; it
Christophe Lohr wrote:
Severity: wishlist
Pardon me butting in on your wishlist; I'm just a random bystander,
but you reminded me of an unsubmitted wishlist item of my own that
might in fact be a better match for what you're after.
Hi,
aptitude can mark a package as manual installed or
Package: locales
Version: 2.10.2-5
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
All the packages that provide internationalisation data are moving
out of Section: libs and into their own private part of the
archive; but locales and locales-all haven't followed them.
There's no obvious reason for libc's l10n
Package: ftp.debian.org
Severity: wishlist
Please move locales and locales-all to Section: localization.
On Sun, Feb 07, 2010 at 04:19:17PM +0100, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
On Sun, Feb 07, 2010 at 02:44:59PM +, Justin B Rye wrote:
Package: locales
Version: 2.10.2-5
Severity: wishlist
Tags
Package: psad
Version: 2.1.5
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
PSAD's package description could do with some attention.
First, it thinks the latest version of Linux is 2.4.x, and claims to
support 2.2.x - in fact 2.4 is officially unsupported on oldstable.
Second, it has a rather hard to follow
Package: notmuch
Version: 0.0+201001211401
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
Prospective users of notmuch get to read the package description,
think it sounds useful, visit the homepage and find out the reasons
for the name, install it, peruse the README files and the man page's
Description section,
Jari Aalto wrote:
Subject: RFP: dos2unix -- convert text file line endings between CRLF and LF
See: http://packages.debian.org/tofrodos
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Paul Crowley wrote:
To: 558...@bugs.debian.org
This went to the BTS, but you'd need to CC me (directly or as
558387-submit...@bugs.debian.org) to be sure it reaches my inbox -
fortunately I also scan the BTS via other means.
mercurial-server doesn't provide a server binary, as you say.
Package: uzbl
Version: 0.0.0~git.20091107-1
Justification: Policy 12.3
Severity: serious
When starting up for the first time, uzbl attempts to copy files
from /usr/share/doc/uzbl to $XDG_CONFIG_HOME, and fails if it can't:
$ sudo mv /usr/share/doc/uzbl /usr/share/doc/unuzbl
$ uzbl || echo $?
Package: mercurial-server
Version: 0.9-1
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
Hi! You may or may not be aware that I've been haunting the
debian-l10n-english mailinglist, trying among other things to
encourage developers to follow the DevRef6.2 guidelines on package
descriptions. One of those
Package: bsdmainutils
Version: 8.0.1
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
In the changelog:
bsdmainutils (8.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
[...]
* Renamed banner to printerbanner. (Closes: #315664)
But the package description still says:
Included are: banner, ncal, cal, calendar, col, colcrt, colrm,
Michael Meskes wrote:
On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 02:40:45PM +, Justin B Rye wrote:
But the package description still says:
Included are: banner, ncal, cal, calendar, col, colcrt, colrm, column, from,
hexdump, look, lorder, ul, write.
An updated and realphabeticised version of that would
Package: os-prober
Version: 1.35
Severity: normal
My Squeeze testbed system dual-boots Debian GNU/Linux and Debian
GNU/kFreeBSD (installed from an October debian-installer netinst
daily image). On both OSes, os-prober is pulled in by grub2, but
fails to live up to its documentation (by which of
Package: passwd
Version: 1:4.1.4.2-1
Severity: wishlist
At present /etc/cron.daily/standard maintains backups of /etc/passwd
(and so on) in /var/backups. If this is something that it's
generally agreed is worth doing, it would seem to make more sense
for the cronjob handling it to belong to the
Excuse me butting in; I'm just another longtime GQView user. In
fact on Lenny I'm using Geeqie, but on Squeeze I had to switch back
to avoid the extra dependencies.
Michal Čihař wrote:
GSR gsr.b...@infernal-iceberg.com napsal(a):
With the migration from gqview to geeqie, lots of dependencies
On Jul 14, 2009, Justin B Rye wrote:
Further comments on the standard cronjobs:
--
The dpkg in Squeeze now handles dpkg status file backups itself:
http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/d/dpkg/dpkg_1.15.4.1/changelog#versionversion1.15.4
Package: mgm
Version: 1.1.svn.20080520-1
Severity: important
Unlike other graphical system-monitoring apps such as GKrellM, MGM
is available for kfreebsd-i386; but when I try to run it I just get:
Unable to open plugin directory /usr/share/mgm/modules/gnukfreebsd: No such
file or directory
Package: doc-base
Version: 0.9.4
Severity: minor
Tags: patch
The control file for doc-base has:
# Suggests: dhelp | dwww | doc-central | yelp | khelpcenter, scrollkeeper
But scrollkeeper is a transition package to rarian-compat, and
khelpcenter has vanished entirely in favour of khelpcenter4.
Package: acpid
Version: 1.0.10-2
Severity: minor
Tags: patch
Lenny's acpid no longer requires /proc/acpi/event; but the package
description is lagging behind.
# Package: acpid
# Description: Utilities for using ACPI power management
Also, that's a strangely inaccurate synopsis: /usr/sbin/acpid
Justin B Rye wrote:
Lenny's acpid no longer requires /proc/acpi/event; but the package
s/Lenny/Testing/
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Package: gsfonts
Version: 1:8.11+urwcyr1.0.7~pre44-4
Severity: minor
Tags: patch
I've been going through the archives looking for package
descriptions in need of routine maintenance.
Package: gsfonts
Description: Fonts for the Ghostscript interpreter(s)
These are free look-alike fonts of the
Package: ace-of-penguins
Version: 1.2-9
Severity: minor
Tags: patch
The package description fails to mention canfield and thornq:
Package: ace-of-penguins
Description: Solitaire-games with penguin-look
The Ace of Penguins is a set of Unix/X solitaire games based on the
ones available for
Package: moreutils
Version: 0.37+b1
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
I'm aware that the package description is getting regular attention
to update its list of goodies, but just in case you haven't noticed:
This is a growing collection of the unix tools that nobody thought
to write thirty years
Package: x11-apps
Version: 7.4+2
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
The current package description has two problems.
Its first paragraph is a relic of the days when these apps were in
xbase-clients:
An X client is a program that interfaces with an X server (almost always via
the X libraries),
Package: insserv
Version: 1.12.0-11
Severity: minor
Tags: patch
(Also found in -12, -13, -14)
Thanks for keeping the insserv package description up-to-date!
Unfortunately, the new version needs some reanglification.
Description: Tool to organize boot sequence using LSB init.d script
Nacho Barrientos Arias wrote:
The package is maintained but I don't intend to prepare a new upload
fixing _only_ this minor spelling mistake.
Pardon me for sticking my oar in here; I'd like to point out that
the spelling mistake in question is arguable anyway, and is
sitting right next to
Package: abby
Version: 0.4.3-1
Severity: minor
When launched, abby presents the user with an interactive dialog
asking for the locations of the cclive/clive binaries. This is
unnecessary; the package depends on cclive | clive, so it should
simply try cclive (wherever that is on my $PATH), and
Package: piuparts
Version: 0.36
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
piuparts (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
* piuparts 0.36 introduces many changes to master-slave mode, please read
debian/changelog carefully.
* Backwards compatibility of the configuration files for master-slave-mode
has
notforwarded 523372
tags 523372 tag - upstream wontfix
stop
On Sat, Sep 05, Justin B Rye wrote:
This message still occurs every time ConsoleKit starts. Why has the
bug report been tagged upstream wontfix?
Ah! I'd missed the fact that it claimed to have been forwarded to
https
Package: xserver-xorg
Version: 1:7.4+4
Severity: wishlist
I'm calling this wishlist because I've eventually managed to get X
working again; it's essentially a documentation issue.
As NEWS.Debian says, devices configured in xorg.conf to use the
mouse or kbd driver are ignored by the X server by
Stefan Ritter wrote:
To: 546...@bugs.debian.org
By the way, at present mail to the bug doesn't automatically go to
the submitter. Fortunately this is likely to be changed soon:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2009/09/msg00422.html
you're right. You could put yourself in group 'games'
Julien Cristau wrote:
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 09:48:53 +0100, Justin B Rye wrote:
[...]
Note that just disabling HAL and AutoAddDevices wasn't enough - I've
had to put lots more lines back in my xorg.conf that I'd previously
been leaving to the defaults. Many thanks for providing
/usr
Package: wdm
Version: 1.28-3.1
Severity: important
To be specific, /usr/bin/wdmLogin segfaults.
See symptoms described in this bugreport against xserver-xorg:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=547143#15
...and especially this bit:
It's only when I use wdm that everything
On Sun, September 5,402 1993, Justin B Rye wrote:
The references to LanManager in the short descriptions of so many
samba packages are unhelpful.
The Samba (3) suite has had a facelift, but Samba4 has now entered
Sid with its old package descriptions intact, full of early-nineties
topical
Package: glhack
Version: 1.2-1
Severity: normal
$ sudo apt-get install glhack
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed
glhack
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need
Package: dash
Version: 0.5.5.1-2.3
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
Dash has the following description:
Description: POSIX-compliant shell
The Debian Almquist Shell (dash) is a lightweight POSIX-compliant shell
derived from ash.
.
It can be usefully
quibble is weak here).
username or user name?
One word. Christian Perrier and Justin B Rye are user names,
but not their usernames.
+Template: grub-installer/grub2-password
[...]
Another option is somethign similar to the root password prompt:
_Description: GRUB password:
You need to set
Package: go2
Version: 0.090827
Severity: minor
This can't be right:
$ apt-get install go2
$ pager /usr/share/doc/go2/README.Debian
$ source /usr/lib/go2/go2.sh
$ go2 -h | pager
$ go2 --gui
Traceback (most recent call last):
File /usr/lib/go2/go2.py, line 1204, in module
import gtk,
Package: go2
Version: 0.090827
Severity: minor
(This might deserve l10n and/or patch tags)
go2 has a super-short package description, and its man page says:
# This manual page was written for the Debian distribution because the
# original program does not have a manual page.
[...]
# This
On Thu, Apr 09, giggz wrote:
At boot I have this warning message in my log :
console-kit-daemon[2287]: WARNING: Couldn't read /proc/2285/environ:
Failed to open file '/proc/2285/environ': No such file or directory
This message still occurs every time ConsoleKit starts. Why has the
bug report
Elimar Riesebieter wrote:
As mentioned by others in this thread you should check your sound
card for the ability to simulate a terminal beep, what most drivers
do. Mailnotification and system sounds can also be handled by your
soundcard, though. [...]
A working soundcard isn't enough to
Bastien ROUCARIES wrote:
About debian bug #533704: Identify crashes on non-image XML files
Could you please post a misindentified xml file please.
Upstream need it.
It's true, some .xml files just give a sensible no decode delegate
for this image format warning. But try this one, which
Package: pod2pdf
Version: 0.42-1
Severity: minor
Tags: patch
The short description line claims that pod2pdf provides a
converts Perl Old Documentation to PDF format
This synopsis has a couple of problems.
* There's no such thing as Perl Old Documentation. Obviously you
mean
Jari Aalto wrote:
Description: Simple and easy to use addressbook
...
SUGGESTION
Add a --pedantic check for capitalized first word in Description field.
Pedantic and very uncertain, since it's only sentential punctuation
that's deprecated, not lexically capitalised or
Osamu Aoki wrote:
Here is facts:
Curremtly
Description: Basic utilities from 4.4BSD-Lite
This package contains the bare minimum number of BSD utilities needed to
boot a Debian system. You should probably also install
bsdmainutils to get the remaining standard BSD utilities.
Christian Perrier wrote:
Description: Standard system
This task installs a reasonably small character-mode system.
What about something like:
Description: Standard (non-graphical) system
This task installs a reasonably small character-mode system,
that provides the most commonly used
A Mennucc wrote:
Justin B Rye ha scritto:
A Mennucc wrote:
Description: home theater framework - binaries
Freevo is a complete home theater framework. It comprises a
Personal Video Recorder system for saving television
input to disk and playing it back. It can browse and play
[...]
I
# for the control server:
retitle 536889 [developers-reference]: explicitly deprecate verb phrase synopses
thanks
The next step is to get your comments together as something I can
conveniently point at in a post to debian-l10n-english. This may
take me some time, but I promise it'll be less than
Justin B Rye wrote:
It was already obvious that technical terms alone wouldn't work
(because they're meaningless to non-linguists); but it seems the
substitution formula doesn't work very well either. Or does it just
need to give more examples? Maybe examples of what _isn't_ right?
I'd
Justin B Rye wrote:
* standard.daily - a minimal modification of the cronjob;
Come to think of it:
#!/bin/sh
# /etc/cron.daily/standard: standard daily maintenance script
# Written by Ian A. Murdock imurd...@gnu.ai.mit.edu
# Modified by Ian Jackson ijack...@nyx.cs.du.edu
# Modified
Jens Seidel wrote:
as described in #400970 the formulation of the short description starting
with a verb is not clear. Chapter 6.2.2 suggests:
A good heuristic is that it should be possible to substitute the package
name and synopsis into this formula:
The package name provides
Package: cron
Version: 3.0pl1-106
Severity: minor
Tags: patch
As has been mentioned in other bugreports (#485452, #535227), the
use of lockfile-progs by /etc/cron.daily/standard introduces an
unnecessary dependency on a low-Priority package, pulling it in by
default on every Debian install, even
Guillem Jover wrote:
Dan Jacobson wrote:
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
|Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems
(Status,Err:uppercase=bad)
||/ Name VersionDescription
A Mennucc wrote:
Description: home theater framework - binaries
Freevo is a complete home theater framework. It comprises a
Personal Video Recorder system for saving television
input to disk and playing it back. It can browse and play
pictures, music, games, and movies, both
from the
Package: procps
Version: 1:3.2.8-1
Severity: minor
Tags: patch
Every summer I run through the descriptions for high-priority and/or
high-popcon packages, looking for the ones that need any work. Last
year I had this one down as not worth the effort of a bug report,
but this time round it's made
Package: lzma
Version: 4.43-14
Severity: minor
Tags: patch
As lzma's Priority goes up, its package description becomes more of
an embarrassment. Here's some suggested changes; and once I'm
editing the control file I might as well review all the others in
the same source package, for
Package: initscripts
Version: 2.86.ds1-63
Severity: minor
Tags: patch
In the package description,
-Description: Scripts for initializing and shutting down the system
+Description: scripts for initializing and shutting down the system
DevRev6.2.2-compliance, in passing. The other synopses in
Package: coreutils
Version: 7.4-2
Severity: minor
Tags: patch
The package description's list of included binaries is out of date.
It fails to mention arch, base64, chcon/runcon, flock, sha224sum
(etc), shuf, and truncate (but it does include mktemp).
My patch also fixes a couple of other trivial
Package: e2fslibs
Version: 1.41.7-1
Severity: minor
Tags: patch
Lat year I nagged you into updating the package description for
e2fsprogs to acknowledge the existence of ext3+ (#483023); but this
left the other descriptions in the same control file lagging behind.
Suggested patch attached;
Package: cron
Version: 3.0pl1-106
Severity: minor
Tags: patch
Last June I submitted bug #485452, which pointed out an error and
some stylistic problems in cron's package description. The fix did
not apply my suggested patch directly; it dealt with the factual
error, but turned some portions of
severity 488237 minor
# Policy 3.5 should not, so more than wishlist
thanks
Followup-For: Bug #488237
As I reported one year ago:
# Depends: sed, ncurses-bin
I left it at wishlist then since Lenny was just beginning to go into
freeze, but depending on Essential packages is prohibited by
fixed 530754 4.2.0-1
thanks
Package: rsyslog
Followup-For: Bug #530754
It looks like this issue goes away with the version in Sid:
Jun 26 20:03:42 zipacna kernel: Kernel logging (proc) stopped.
rsyslogd: [origin software=rsyslogd swVersion=3.22.0 x-pid=1394
fixed 522128 1.96+20090611-1
thanks
Package: grub-common
Followup-For: Bug #522128
On April 1, Justin B Rye wrote:
grub2's boot-time invocation of background_image /path/to/image
(as defined in /etc/grub.d/05_debian_theme) no longer succeeds;
Fixed in Sid - both the machines that originally
Package: developers-reference
Version: 3.4.1
Severity: minor
Tags: patch
(Found in all post-Woody versions of d-r)
The package description has a Table of Contents section, generated
by a trivial piece of Perl, that says:
# .
#1. Scope of This Document
#2. Applying to Become a Maintainer
Package: pdbv
Version: 2.0.11-0.4
Severity: minor
Tags: patch l10n
The names of the months (as used in pdbv's sort-by-date view) are
hard-coded in pdbv.pot, and the fifth one is misspelled there:
#: ../pdbv:1178
msgid Mai
msgstr
Looking in .po files I see that quite a few translations fail
Package: imagemagick
Version: 7:6.3.7.9.dfsg2-1
Severity: minor
(Also found in Lenny's 7:6.3.7.9.dfsg2-1~lenny1.)
Running identify * on a directory that contains non-imagefiles
can't be expected to work well, but I was expecting no decode
delegate for this image format, not this:
severity 139115 minor
# Debian Policy 9.10; recommended optional
thanks
On Sun, Jun 05, 2005, Justin B Rye wrote:
Okay, if not for Woody or Sarge, how about in Etch?
If not Woody or Sarge or Etch or Lenny, how about Squeeze?
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Package: rsyslog
Version: 3.22.0-1
Severity: minor
The version of rsyslogd that hit Testing yesterday has started
sending messages on restarts that lack a datestamp/hostname prefix.
Instead of the usual messages like this:
May 26 12:50:08 oempc kernel: imklog 3.20.5, log source = /proc/kmsg
Michael Biebl wrote:
tags 530754 unreproducible
[...]
I quickly tested it with 3.22.0-1 and can't reproduce your problem. The
message,
that shows up in /var/log/syslog looks like
May 27 16:50:47 pluto rsyslogd: [origin software=rsyslogd swVersion=3.22.0
x-pid=32634
Michael Biebl wrote:
tags 530754 unreproducible
And using yet a third junk PC I've just done a bare-bones 5.0r1
i386 netinst followed by an immediate upgrade to Squeeze, without
once changing a default. Reproducible again:
May 27 21:56:34 debian kernel: imklog 3.18.6, log source = /proc/kmsg
Package: fvwm
Version: 1:2.5.27.ds-3
Severity: minor
Tags: patch
Conflicts: fvwm-beta, fvwm-common, fvwmtabs, fvwm-gnome
Replaces: fvwm-beta, fvwm-common, fvwmtabss, fvwm-gnome
^
This bug has probably already bitten anybody it was
Package: apt-xapian-index
Version: 0.18
Severity: minor
Tags: patch
When there's work to do, the cron.weekly (ana)cron job sends me an
error message, as follows.
/etc/cron.weekly/apt-xapian-index:
/usr/share/apt-xapian-index/plugins/debtags.py:92: DeprecationWarning: Use
tags_of_package instead
From: Justin B Rye j...@xibalba.demon.co.uk
To: Kęstutis Biliūnas ke...@kaunas.init.lt
Cc: Timo Juhani Lindfors timo.lindf...@iki.fi
Bcc:
Subject: Re: Bug#525275: dict-freedict-deu-eng: description of notruf
contains non-printable chars
Reply-To:
In-Reply-To: 49f234dd.2030
Me too. I get both sorts of WARNINGs and the sixty-odd TIDs, which
isn't exactly a bug:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/consolekit/+bug/148454
Michael Biebl wrote:
Does it help if you change in
/usr/share/dbus-1/system-services/org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit.service
the following line
Package: apt
Version: 0.7.21
Severity: minor
Tags: patch
/var/log/apt is a new feature of APT in Lenny; I'm glad to see it,
and I'm sure lots of other people would be grateful too if there was
any mention of it in the documentation or changelog!
Unlike /var/log/dpkg.log (which is readable for
Package: dlocate
Version: 0.96.1
Severity: minor
Tags: patch
If I say:
dlocate -S $(locate /bogusfilename)
the fruitless invocation of locate returns the zero-length argument
; dlocate balks and returns a usage summary. Fair enough.
However, if I say:
dlocate -S $(locate
Package: nodm
Version: 0.2
Severity: important
Tags: patch
When I install nodm on a machine where sh == dash:
Unpacking nodm (from .../apt/archives/nodm_0.2_i386.deb) ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Setting up nodm (0.2) ...
[: 74: false: unexpected operator
[: 74: false:
If you wish to submit further information on this problem, please
send it to 523...@bugs.debian.org, as before.
Oops, like that trivial patch I said I was going to attach:
--- ../nodm-0.2/debian/nodm.init2009-02-23 18:02:07.0 +
+++ debian/nodm.init2009-04-07
Just after midnight (localtime), 2009/03/31, Justin B Rye wrote:
grub2's boot-time invocation of background_image /path/to/image
(as defined in /etc/grub.d/05_debian_theme) no longer succeeds;
[...]
In case people think this was an April Fools' Day prank, let me
confirm that it's a real
Package: grub-common
Version: 1.96+20090317-1
Severity: normal
grub2's boot-time invocation of background_image /path/to/image
(as defined in /etc/grub.d/05_debian_theme) no longer succeeds;
trying it on the grub commandline returns grub: No video mode
activated. This is presumably related to
Package: qalculate-kde
Followup-For: Bug #452492
Tags: patch
Since no units are capitalized in this line, I don't think that is a
bug.
I will close this bug if you have no objections.
Excuse me jumping in here, but I don't see any indication that the
original 2007 bugreporter (Davide Mancusi
Package: developers-reference
Version: 3.4.1
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
This report has been brewing on debian-l10n-english for years - see
http://lists.debian.org/debian-l10n-english/2008/08/msg4.html;
The advice in DevRef 6.2.2 about package short descriptions is good,
but it's
Andreas Metzler wrote:
I think the doc-base entry is still fine, since the documentation
still covers GNU locate. Closing.
Except that the doc-base entry doesn't say anything about GNU; it
just claims to be documenting locate. On a given Debian system,
GNU locate may or may not even be
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