That's an odd reasoning. So you want to keep the bug, because removing it would
solve the problem not only for one, but for many applications and thousands of
users? For me, such a huge impact would encourage me even more (and was
actually the reason why I filed a bug at all and spent 3 days to
Would you mind making a packaging patch? This would solve the problem at least
for Debian (and Ubuntu) users, giving upstream as much time as they want or
need.
Bugfix provided in the upstream bug.
Now comes the hardest part: encouraging upstream maintainers to accept the
bugfix. They usually feel alienated if some unknown idiot (me) comes along and
solves a long standing issue quickly. Last time (bugfix for Gitk) I solved this
by writing poems :-)
Ma
Fabian,
thanks for taking care of this and for looking up the upstream bug. I'm just
not sure how using the TTF version of a font could fix the OTF version.
Looking at the discussion of the upstream bug it looks like these folks have
not more knowledge about fonts than me, so I researched how t
Package: fonts-urw-base35
Version: 20200910-4
Severity: important
X-Debbugs-Cc: m...@merchantsedition.com
Dear Maintainer,
* What led up to the situation?
Installing and using font Nimbus Mono in a programming oriented text
editor.
* What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
Package: gnome-shell-extension-desktop-icons-ng
Version: 44-1
Severity: normal
X-Debbugs-Cc: m...@merchantsedition.com
Dear Maintainer,
* What led up to the situation?
Installing the package.
* What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
ineffective)?
$ sudo apt-get install --
for searching the entire documentation for
'linux-mag.com'.
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http://www.jump-ing.de/
Package: visolate
For quite a while, there's now Visolate 3, an improved version of
Visolate 2 (and with an active maintainer, me). Most recent version is 3.1:
https://github.com/Traumflug/Visolate
https://github.com/Traumflug/Visolate/downloads
The main difference between Visolate 2 and Viso
I've tried Gerris from the debian repository, but the reults are
underwhelming. On amd64, simple configuration files get syntax
errors, the software is very old and pretty useless.
The developer of Gerris obviously prefers to maintain his own
repository at http://gts.sourceforge.net/debia
u accidently grabbed the wrong ones.
Markus
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