Bug#1036586: pipewire-pulse: Music garbled, faint, and generally unusable when switching from pulseaudio to pipewire-pulse

2023-05-22 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Package: pipewire-pulse Severity: important X-Debbugs-Cc: ncn_flos...@fastmail.fm Dear Maintainer, * What led up to the situation? Switching from pulseaudio daemon to pipewire-pulse * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or ineffective)? Switching from pulseaudio

Bug#986318: inform6-compiler: Actually, upon retesting, the benefits come from using -O2

2021-04-03 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Package: inform6-compiler Version: 6.33-2+b1 Followup-For: Bug #986318 X-Debbugs-Cc: ncn_flos...@fastmail.fm Dear Maintainer, I retested and realized that most of the benefits come not from -flto, but simply from -O2 (or the nearly-equivalent -Og if you want better debugging information). No

Bug#986317: inform6-compiler: New upstream available

2021-04-02 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Package: inform6-compiler Version: 6.33-2+b1 Severity: normal X-Debbugs-Cc: ncn_flos...@fastmail.fm Dear Maintainer, Inform 6.34 was released in mid-2020. https://github.com/DavidKinder/Inform6/releases/tag/v6.34 There are several reasons to update to this. It fixes several bugs and is

Bug#986318: inform6-compiler: inform6 would run twice as fast if compiled with -flto

2021-04-02 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Package: inform6-compiler Version: 6.33-2+b1 Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-Cc: ncn_flos...@fastmail.fm Dear Maintainer, I have tested and Inform 6 runs twice as fast if compiled with the -flto option (which is over 10 years old and highly stable) and any level of optimization (-O2, -O1, -Og.)

Bug#592719: This is grave.

2011-06-26 Thread Nathanael Nerode
This bug is grave (I've adjusted its severity accordingly). It breaks unrelated packages entirely. I have this problem too. The failure mode is quite cryptic. Killing udisks-daemon is the only way to fix it, though I have not tried the patch attached to #592719. Since this is grave, I suggest

Bug#585448: This is grave

2011-03-28 Thread Nathanael Nerode
files when it should. -- Nathanael Nerode ncn_mail10 at fastmail.fm -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#601432: RM: fkiss -- ROM; Package dead upstream, functional alternatives available

2010-10-25 Thread Nathanael Nerode
is not clean. Upon looking at it again, and with the development of a working alternative, I do not think it is wise to attempt to maintain it further. Apologies for not doing this earlier. Cc:ed to Amaya as sponsor. --Nathanael Nerode -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ

Bug#578930: aptitude: Aptitude looks awful if LANG=en_US.UTF-8

2010-04-23 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Package: aptitude Version: 0.6.1.5-3 Severity: normal Aptitude appears to have some hardcoded dependencies on the locale. Given this, it really needs to force the locale before starting. I have to start it up with LANG=C aptitude in order to keep the screen readable; otherwise I get lots of

Bug#578931: dselect: Dselect seems not to parse version numbers correctly

2010-04-23 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Package: dselect Version: 1.15.5.6 Severity: important git-all Depends: git ( 1:1.7.0.5), git ( 1:1.7.0.5-.) As far as dselect is concerned, this condition is satsified by *no* version of git, and git-all and git can't be installed simultaneously. Unfortunately, dpkg --compare-versions thinks

Bug#532883: I'm sorry KDE maintainers are not responsible people.

2009-08-03 Thread Nathanael Nerode
I am sorry that the KDE maintainers are incapable of forwarding bugs upstream. One would assume that they, unlike me, have accounts on KDE's Bugzilla. GNOME has its problems, but its maintainers are actually making some effort to maintain it, so I guess I'll switch to it. Bye-bye now.

Bug#538144: Option Open folders in new windows is BROKEN, rendering konqueror unsuitable for purpose

2009-07-23 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Package: konqueror Version: 4:4.2.4-1 Severity: important Under Settings/Configure Konqueror..., under File Management, there is an option called Open folders in separate windows. I have had this option on since day one. It is absolutely essential -- I cannot comfortably browse files without

Bug#532883: dolphin does NOT have an open folders in new windows option

2009-07-23 Thread Nathanael Nerode
(OK, bug unarchived, now the message should get through...) Just installed KDE 4.2.4. NO, dolphin does NOT have an option to open every folder in a new window automatically when you double-click. (Macintosh c. 1984 style.) The equivalent of Konqueror's Open folders in separate windows

Bug#535922: firmware-nonfree: Need to include 'advansys' firmware

2009-07-05 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Package: firmware-nonfree Version: 0.17 Severity: important Starting with Linux 2.6.30, the advansys firmware is not built into the kernel, but loaded. This firmware is BSD-licensed so it's safe to put it in non-free (it has no source so it's not free). These are the four files needed:

Bug#535923: udev: Doesn't quite clean up old conffiles right

2009-07-05 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Package: udev Version: 0.141-1 Severity: minor After some poking around, I realized that the files /etc/modprobe.d/pnp-hotplug.conf and /etc/modprobe.d/display_class.conf were useless leftovers from an obsolete version of udev. They were probably supposed to be cleaned up in udev.preinst, in

Bug#532883: dolphin: seriously needs 'open folders in new windows' option

2009-06-12 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Package: dolphin Version: 4:4.2.2-1 Severity: wishlist This is a wishlist. I found dolphin completely unusable because of only one missing option. I prefer to do my file browsing old MacOS-style, one window per folder, where opening a folder opens a new window. Konqueror has an

Bug#532391: /usr/sbin/rngd: rngd using 80% of CPU ??

2009-06-08 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Package: rng-tools Version: 2-unofficial-mt.12-1 Severity: minor File: /usr/sbin/rngd According to 'top' anyway. What's going on here? Does it deliberately eat all spare CPU time? If so, it seems unlikely that my chip will ever go into sleep state -- System Information: Debian

Bug#524382: firmware-linux: Package description written in broken English

2009-04-16 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Package: firmware-linux Version: 0.16 Severity: minor The package description for firmware-linux currently reads: This package contains the binary firmware for all firmwares which was formally shipped in the Linux image. Note subject-verb agreement problem (firmwares was) and sound-alike word

Bug#406849: This one is a policy violation -- and trivial to fix

2008-11-03 Thread Nathanael Nerode
years from now, with my message to the BTS being the only remaining reference! -- Nathanael Nerode [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bush admitted to violating FISA and said he was proud of it. So why isn't he in prison yet?... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Bug#389430: Commenting on the add-on debs issues...

2008-10-22 Thread Nathanael Nerode
check for a new floppy every time. If nobody is willing to actually take a look at my patches, perhaps you'd at least consider the analysis I put into it. My approach works better than dann's because it was designed properly. Design first, then code, as Joey Hess wrote? -- Nathanael Nerode

Bug#498948: fontconfig: Proposal for single run of fc-cache per apt-get run

2008-09-14 Thread Nathanael Nerode
and substitutions, it would be quite straightforward to rewrite fontconfig.defoma to skip all the tedious cache rebuilds when it's dealing with a font in /usr/share/fonts. (All such fonts should be handled by dpkg, and therefore we can rely on the trigger to rebuild the cache.) -- Nathanael Nerode (neroden

Bug#473052: Missing dependency: hal needs to depend on dbus-x11?

2008-03-27 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Package: hal Severity: important On an attempt to upgrade from etch to lenny, the upgrade hanged configure hal. But *before* that it announced that it was unable to connect to dbus, complaining specifically about dbus-launch. Now, the crucial point is that dbus-x11 was not installed on the

Bug#448982: boinc-client: BOINC still ignoring user activity

2008-02-05 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Package: boinc-client Version: 5.10.30-5 Followup-For: Bug #448982 Sorry but this bug is not fixed in this version of boinc. The child client process (hadcm3 or some such in my case) continues to run and eat up CPU cycles (as shown by 'top') no matter how much activity is going on with

Bug#448982: This is hitting me too; it's important.

2007-12-26 Thread Nathanael Nerode
severity 448982 important thanks Subject: boinc-client: This is hitting me too Followup-For: Bug #448982 Package: boinc-client Version: 5.10.30-2 *** Please type your report below this line *** I've had to disable BOINC permanently because this has been going on so many months; I use my

Bug#457858: lirc-modules-source does not build, ever

2007-12-26 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Package: lirc-modules-source Version: 0.8.0-13 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable This has now been true for months. Please stop producing the lirc-modules-source package if you cannot make it compile properly. This bug IS grave. I'm sorry. -- System Information: Debian

Bug#450053: fkiss: Upstream basically dead

2007-11-06 Thread Nathanael Nerode
For the information of anyone looking at this bug, the watch file was only there in case upstream came back to life. I'll delete it (or at least that webpage, I think it checks several) next time I make an upload. Probably not worth an upload just for this, though. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Bug#429249: lirc-modules-source: Badly documented, doesn't work

2007-06-16 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Package: lirc-modules-source Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable This package is pretty much completely worthless on etch. If I follow the instructions from dpkg-reconfigure-source, or the instructions in the README, it builds some modules (with the wrong extension -- .o

Bug#2297: Tested, verified in xterm, konsole

2007-04-19 Thread Nathanael Nerode
You can run trickle on a single machine by ssh'ing to localhost. :-) I can reproduce this behavior with xterm, getting the paste to come through after the return key even though the return key was hit first. konsole shows different, but very similar behavior: the fast konsole drops the paste

Bug#2297: Able to reproduce, behavior of other terminal emulators, thoughts?

2007-04-17 Thread Nathanael Nerode
. This may well be a wontfix. Thoughts? -- Nathanael Nerode [EMAIL PROTECTED] Make sure your vote will count. http://www.verifiedvoting.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#282283: Splitting dselect from dpkg -- acceptable plan?

2007-04-16 Thread Nathanael Nerode
OK. So I managed to construct a dselect source package which builds independently of dpkg. It required duplicating substantial portions of lib/ . I intend that to be temporary. Until those portions are gone, I will keep an eye on any changes made to lib/ in dpkg. My plan for dselect is to

Bug#418692: RM: lukemftp -- RoQA; obsolete (replaced by tnftp), maintainer not responsive

2007-04-11 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Package: ftp.debian.org Severity: normal As documented in http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=405478 , lukemftp is obsolete (replaced by tnftp, which is already packaged). There is no point in opening a bug for the maintainer to comment on, as the maintainer did not respond to a

Bug#418781: RM: deliver -- RoQA; orphaned, unmaintained, out of date, buggy

2007-04-11 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Package: ftp.debian.org Severity: normal http://lists.debian.org/debian-qa/2007/04/msg4.html covers it: Nathanael Nerode wrote: Orphaned March 2006, no nibbles. 62 popcon installs, 19 votes. But the reason for removal is that there is a very old bug which nobody has managed to do

Bug#6772: These bugs should be closed.

2007-04-11 Thread Nathanael Nerode
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Bug#90032: Closing unverified bug

2007-04-11 Thread Nathanael Nerode
close 90032 thanks Verification for this bug was requested in 2002, and not received. Closing now. -- Nathanael Nerode [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bush admitted to violating FISA and said he was proud of it. So why isn't he in prison yet?... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Bug#418789: netdiag: netload doesn't work

2007-04-11 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Package: netdiag Version: 0.7-7.1 Severity: important This is what happens: # netload eth0 # Not really very useful. -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (499, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Bug#418791: RFA: netdiag -- Net-Diagnostics (trafshow, strobe, netwatch, statnet, tcpspray, tcpblast)

2007-04-11 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Package: wnpp Severity: normal I am doing this on behalf of the maintainer, who wrote in bug 412777: Sorry, I haven't had much time to work on it. I'd happily give it to anyone who wants to take it over. I think most of the utilities in the package have been obsoleted, and I rarely use them.

Bug#232345: Control sequences document now not located anywhere

2007-04-11 Thread Nathanael Nerode
by Debian's 'xterm' package. -- Nathanael Nerode [EMAIL PROTECTED] Make sure your vote will count. http://www.verifiedvoting.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#303146: Closing bug with no response

2007-04-11 Thread Nathanael Nerode
close 303146 thanks This bug was pinged in 2005 and the submitter didn't respond. It appears to be a bug which only happens with misconfiguration. This shouldn't remain open. -- Nathanael Nerode [EMAIL PROTECTED] Make sure your vote will count. http://www.verifiedvoting.org

Bug#302964: This bug is serious

2007-04-11 Thread Nathanael Nerode
severity 302964 serious thanks Failure to list copyright holder in debian/copyright is serious, since it's a major policy violation. Especially when it's been waiting for TWO YEARS. -- Nathanael Nerode [EMAIL PROTECTED] A thousand reasons. http://www.thousandreasons.org/ Lies, theft, war

Bug#302964: ...and it's also fixed....

2007-04-11 Thread Nathanael Nerode
close 392964 0.99.33-1.3 thanks Luckily this bug was fixed in an NMU. This package could use a maintainer upload to wrap up all those fixed bugs though -- Nathanael Nerode [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Insert famous quote here] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Bug#418508: libooc-vo: Please remove this package from unstable

2007-04-10 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Package: libooc-vo Severity: serious Justification: All of it This package has been unbuildable for over a year and uninstallable for some time as well. It also hasn't been updated since 2003. Users would be better served at this point to go directly upstream for sources. If and when you

Bug#12261: Followup, possible patch for second oldest bug in xterm

2007-04-10 Thread Nathanael Nerode
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Bug#416769: lynx: New upstream release: 2.8.6

2007-03-30 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Package: lynx Version: 2.8.5-2sarge2.2 Severity: wishlist This package is substantially out of date; a new upstream came out in October 2006. This might not seem that long ago, but it replaced the upstream released in February 2004, and has a really large number of bug fixes. -- To

Bug#282283: Adopting dselect, or not

2007-03-26 Thread Nathanael Nerode
. -- Nathanael Nerode [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Insert famous quote here] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#416341: tilp, libticables3: Please stop mentioning tidev-modules in description and Suggests:

2007-03-26 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Package: tilp, libticables3 Severity: minor The modules are now in the mainline kernel. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#362162: TI calculator link cable packages

2007-03-26 Thread Nathanael Nerode
, but it doesn't look like it. (I have no way of actually testing the packages without the hardware.) -- Nathanael Nerode [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Instead, we front-load the flamewars and grudges in the interest of efficiency.) --Steve Lanagasek, http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2005/09/msg01056

Bug#370186: hal: HAL keeps CD drive spinning constantly

2007-03-16 Thread Nathanael Nerode
is satisfactory? Yes, this is most satisfactory. With this documentation in place, I would have been able to implement the workaround in no time flat. :-) Thank you! -- Nathanael Nerode [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Insert famous quote here] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Bug#370186: kernel?

2007-03-16 Thread Nathanael Nerode
or something) to deal with the remaining issue? -- Nathanael Nerode [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's just a goddamned piece of paper. -- President Bush, referring to the US Constitution http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_7779.shtml -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Bug#411938: twisted-words: Please consider upgrading to GTK 2.x

2007-02-21 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Package: twisted-words Version: 0.4.0-2.1 Severity: normal The python bindings for libgtk1.2 (source package python-gnome) are proposed to go away as soon as is practical. This is one of the short list of packages which still uses them. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Bug#407799: On second thought, this bug is serious

2007-01-21 Thread Nathanael Nerode
severity 407799 grave thanks It's not acceptable to release etch with a package which breaks everyone's kdm themeing without warning. I fixed the bug by purging desktop-base. -- Nathanael Nerode [EMAIL PROTECTED] Read it and weep. http://rawstory.com/news/2005/Text_of_Gore_speech_0116.html

Bug#406438: This is TOTALLY BROKEN behavior

2007-01-21 Thread Nathanael Nerode
desktop-base does fix the problem. I'm not sure whether this is a serious bug on kdm or a serious bug on desktop-base. You can decide, but this is definitely *not* acceptable to release etch with. -- Nathanael Nerode [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's just a goddamned piece of paper. -- President Bush

Bug#407799: desktop-base: I have this too

2007-01-21 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Package: desktop-base Followup-For: Bug #407799 This is causing serious and widely reported breakage in KDM, namely bug 403797 and several bugs merged with it. -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (499, 'unstable') Architecture: i386

Bug#407772: hal: Hal doesn't log failure to read/parse its configuration files

2007-01-20 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Package: hal Version: 0.5.8.1-6 Severity: minor This led to a real nightmare debugging hal problems, because first I had to figure out that hal wasn't paying any attention to my configuration file /etc/hal/fdi/policy/preferences.fdi (thanks to a typo). Hald really, really needs to report stuff

Bug#370186: FINALLY got the workaround to work, after about 2 hours.

2007-01-20 Thread Nathanael Nerode
device match key=info.product string=HL-DT-STDVD-ROM GDR8162B merge key=info.addons type=strlist/merge /match /device /deviceinfo Then, as root, restart hal as follows: /etc/dbus-1/event.d/20hal force-reload Your drive should spin down in a few seconds. - -- Nathanael

Bug#406966: utf8-migration-tool: Completely nonfunctional

2007-01-15 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Package: utf8-migration-tool Version: 0.5.1 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable command-line launch: --- File /usr/bin/utf8migrationtool, line 85 w['Login'].newLocale .= match.group(3) ^ SyntaxError: invalid syntax - Launch from KDE

Bug#370186: Bug still grave

2007-01-14 Thread Nathanael Nerode
alternative if you can't fix the actual bug would be to provide an *easy* mechanism to *permanently* disable hald-addon-storage. If there was such a mechanism documented, then you could downgrade the bug. -- Nathanael Nerode [EMAIL PROTECTED] Theocracy, fascism, or absolute monarchy -- I

Bug#370186: gzipped systrace

2007-01-14 Thread Nathanael Nerode
OK, in the interests of space saving, I gzipped the logfile; it's at http://home.twcny.rr.com/nerode/hal.logfile.gz -- Nathanael Nerode [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Instead, we front-load the flamewars and grudges in the interest of efficiency.) --Steve Lanagasek, http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel

Bug#406846: iceweasel: Copyright and license info for Debian packaging, including artwork, is missing

2007-01-14 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Package: iceweasel Version: 2.0.0.1+dfsg-1 Severity: minor This is a policy violation; *all* the copyrights and licenses have to be in debian/copyright, including that for the Debian-added stuff! It was also rather irritating in that I had to do a fair bit of web research to work out the icon

Bug#406849: icedove: Copyright and license info for Debian packaging, including artwork, is missing

2007-01-14 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Package: icedove Version: 1.5.0.9.dfsg1-1 Severity: minor Same bug as in iceweasel. This is a policy violation; *all* the copyrights and licenses have to be in debian/copyright, including that for the Debian-added stuff! It was also rather irritating in that I had to do a fair bit of web

Bug#352710: Maintainer seems to have intended an orphaning

2007-01-07 Thread Nathanael Nerode
this to be an orphaning rather than an RFA: bug. Fixing now. If I'm wrong, I'm sure the maintainer will correct this. Also properly closing bugs fixed in NMU. -- Nathanael Nerode [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Instead, we front-load the flamewars and grudges in the interest of efficiency.) --Steve Lanagasek, http

Bug#384003: I did the right thing the first time

2007-01-07 Thread Nathanael Nerode
reassign 384003 ftp.debian.org thanks As I suspected, the maintainer doesn't exist. The package is completely obsolete and should be removed even if the maintainer does exist. Get to it. -- Nathanael Nerode [EMAIL PROTECTED] A thousand reasons. http://www.thousandreasons.org/ Lies, theft

Bug#405895: pydict: Please remove, orphan, or upload

2007-01-07 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Package: pydict Severity: important This package appears to be completely unmaintained. If the maintainer still exists, he should either upload the package, orphan it, or file a removal request. The package now has few users, with only 43 popcon installs (9 votes), probably thanks to its

Bug#405894: sql-editor: Consider removing this package?

2007-01-07 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Package: sql-editor Severity: normal It appears to be both experimental (as stated in the description) and obsolete (it depends on python-gtk-1.2, the GTK-1.2 bindings for python, which are going away). It seems like a good candidate for removal. Alternatively, you might want to convert it to

Bug#405897: sgcontrol: Please consider switching to GNOME 2

2007-01-07 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Package: sgcontrol Severity: wishlist This is one of the last few GNOME 1-based packages in Debian. The GNOME 1 libraries are a perennial problem, being obsolete and unmaintained upstream. If it is at all possible to switch to GNOME 2, this would be a great help for QA. This is the last

Bug#405899: RM: gnobog -- RoQA; orphaned since May, multiple RC bugs, GNOME 1 package

2007-01-07 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Package: ftp.debian.org Severity: normal Maintained by NMUs since the end of 2002. We're trying to clean up the obsolete GNOME 1 packages. This is a start. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#405901: pkg-config: Please don't Suggests: libgnome-dev

2007-01-07 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Package: pkg-config Version: 0.21-1 Severity: wishlist libgnome-dev is the GNOME 1 development package. I don't think we should be suggesting that people use it. :-/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#405902: multi-gnome-terminal: Try to upgrade to GNOME 2

2007-01-07 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Package: multi-gnome-terminal Severity: wishlist Since Debian would like to get rid of the obsolete GNOME 1 packages, this would be great. From what I can see, upstream is asking for help on this -- although it also looks like upstream has been dormant since 2004. Unfortunately I know nothing

Bug#405904: gnome-chess: New upstream available: 0.4.0

2007-01-07 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Package: gnome-chess Severity: wishlist http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/gnome-chess/0.4/ (Incidentally, you should update the downloaded from address in debian/copyright) The new version uses GNOME 2. As a QA person, I'm trying to get rid of old GNOME 1 packages, and packaging the new

Bug#405925: doc-debian: Please ship BYHAND versions (for ftp.debian.org/debian/doc) of many documents

2007-01-07 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Package: doc-debian Version: 3.1.3 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch The versions of various files in http://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/ are grossly out of date, as documented at bug 262425. The ftpmasters would like these files to be generated from a package as BYHAND files. This is the logical

Bug#146172: ancient unzip for DOS

2007-01-07 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Oh, *that's* what unzip for DOS is used for: unzipping the zip files in the tools directory. Duh. -- Nathanael Nerode [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's just a goddamned piece of paper. -- President Bush, referring to the US Constitution http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_7779.shtml

Bug#323469: Update on fv packaging

2007-01-07 Thread Nathanael Nerode
the remaining parts of the program I started on this, and I still hope to do it eventually but it's a very large, and ugly, task. Hence the lack of progress. If someone else actually *accomplishes* this, then they should certainly take this ITA away from me. -- Nathanael Nerode [EMAIL PROTECTED

Bug#405886: PATCH: add invocation mode for custom add-on udebs

2007-01-06 Thread Nathanael Nerode
dedicated to my sister, Anna. + +Portions copyright 2006 Nathanael Nerode. These portions are licensed +under the GNU General Public License, version 2 or later, as published +by the Free Software Foundation. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Bug#342029: Giving you some motivation to deal with this

2007-01-06 Thread Nathanael Nerode
with it urgently would be wrong. -- Nathanael Nerode [EMAIL PROTECTED] Theocracy, fascism, or absolute monarchy -- I don't care which it is, I don't like it. pgpSOH1AbFxhz.pgp Description: PGP signature

Bug#405891: RM: swingwt -- RoQA; orphaned, no revdeps, few popcon installs, alternatives

2007-01-06 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Package: ftp.debian.org Severity: normal Orphaned since February, no reverse dependencies, 11 popcon installs. There's Swing support in Classpath, and Sun's Java is being released under the GPL, so this is not the most necessary thing in the world now. No objections when this was suggested on

Bug#405226: libcurl3: Please fix your pkg-config .pc file to use Libs.private

2007-01-01 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Package: libcurl3 Version: 7.15.5-1 Severity: normal Tags: patch Currently libcurl3 (and libcurl3-gnutls) exports unnecessary dependencies to every package using them via pkg-config. The Libs.private field means this can be fixed: see

Bug#392294: curl: Patch for unnecessary dependency

2007-01-01 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Package: curl Followup-For: Bug #392294 I fingered the wrong line in configure.ac last time. That's the line for curl builds against krb4. The following is the line for curl builds against krb5. This dependency is due to using krb5-config, which is a non-pkg-config config script of the sort

Bug#405233: libfltk1.1: Apparent unnecessary dependencies

2007-01-01 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Package: libfltk1.1 Severity: normal This is QA work designed to eliminate unneeded library dependencies, for the benefit of future transitions. See http://rerun.lefant.net/checklib for more information. It seems that libfltk1.1 has three unnecessary dependencies: libXext, zlib, and libGLU.

Bug#405234: fontconfig: Please eliminate unneeded zlib dependency

2007-01-01 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Package: fontconfig Version: 2.4.1-2 Severity: wishlist Fontconfig has a spurious dependency on libz emanating from freetype-config. This (untested) patch should fix it. I have also suggested that it be fixed in freetype-config. For background on this issue, see

Bug#342029: libfreetype6-dev: Please deal with this

2007-01-01 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Package: libfreetype6-dev Version: 2.2.1-5 Followup-For: Bug #342029 Please deal with this. This stuff really needs to be done. David's relibtoolization is obsolete. Relibtoolize using the current version of Debian's libtool. I don't think this has been done yet, but it's a little hard to

Bug#405238: libgcrypt11-dev: Please consider switching to pkg-config or similar

2007-01-01 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Package: libgcrypt11-dev Severity: wishlist Currently libgcrypt11-dev ships with a libgcrypt-config which causes trouble for Debian. It spreads unnecessary dependencies on libgpg-error0 all the way up the dependency chain to every package which uses it. While this is basically a bug in each of

Bug#405239: libgnutls13: gnutls13 has an unnecessary dependency on libgpg-error

2007-01-01 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Package: libgnutls13 Version: 1.4.4-3 Severity: normal Tags: patch gnutls appears to have an unnecessary dependency on libgpg-error; gnutls does not appear to use anything from libgpg-error directly. With this dependency eliminated, it should no longer be necessary to rebuild gnutls if

Bug#405241: libdc0c2: Please switch to libssl0.9.8

2007-01-01 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Package: libdc0c2 Severity: normal libssl0.9.7 is deprecated and will eventually be removed. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#405242: libraptor1-dev: Please use Libs.private in raptor.pc

2007-01-01 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Package: libraptor1-dev Severity: normal Tags: patch Currently, you're exporting unnecessary dependencies to all of the users of raptor who use pkg-config. Such as liblrdf0, which is where I found this bug. By fixing the raptor.pc file, you will stop doing this, and the packages depending on

Bug#353361: Dependency on libssl is unnecessary

2007-01-01 Thread Nathanael Nerode
retitle 353361 Drop unnecessary dependencies thanks It turns out that the dependency on libssl and several other libraries is a *mistake*, and is due to recursive dependency disease. See http://rerun.lefant.net/checklib/log.liblrdf0_0.4.0-1.html for the list of unneeded dependencies, and

Bug#390978: Yes, I can reproduce

2006-12-31 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Yes, I can reproduce this bug with 2.6.18-3-686. I've worked around it permanently by adding the line blacklist ehci_hcd to the file modprobe.d/ncn so if you need any testing you'll have to ask. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Bug#391867: linux-image-2.6.18-3-686: I've got this too

2006-12-31 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Package: linux-image-2.6.18-3-686 Version: 2.6.18-7 Followup-For: Bug #391867 Very irritating bug since it does it first on ata1, then on ata2, for a delay of a full minute during every boot. I'll look forward to seeing this fixed. -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers

Bug#224469: Can ftpmasters do ONE SIMPLE THING?

2006-12-31 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Namely, fix bug #224469. It's really trivial and it's been waiting for over three years now. This is just STUPID. Next DPL election, I want to see someone running on the platform of adding an extra ftpmaster *whether or not the current ftpmasters like it*. Someone who will get simple stuff

Bug#403169: tcl8.4: Missing entry in copyright file

2006-12-14 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Package: tcl8.4 Version: 8.4.12-1.1 Severity: minor The copyright file needs to include the oddly licensed files as well as the rest. license.terms says: The following terms apply to all files associated with the software unless explicitly disclaimed in individual files. There are at least

Bug#370186: FYI on the strace

2006-12-03 Thread Nathanael Nerode
32212 was hald-addon-storage, I think. -- Nathanael Nerode [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Insert famous quote here] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#384226: Please remove gnome-gv

2006-11-30 Thread Nathanael Nerode
retitle 384226 RM: gnome-gv -- RoQA; orphaned, dead upstream, better alternatives reassign 384226 ftp.debian.org thanks As documented in the bug report, this package is dead upstream and has been superseded by 'evince' (as well as there being many alternative PostScript viewers). This package

Bug#374109: Finding a maintainer for libintl-gettext-ruby

2006-11-30 Thread Nathanael Nerode
This orphaned package has 1655 popcon installs, probably because it's used by apt-listbugs. Anyone on the Ruby team, or Junichi, interested in adopting it? The orphaning bug is at #374109. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Bug#401134: O: klineakconfig

2006-11-30 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Package: wnpp Severity: normal Previously orphaned, needs wnpp bug -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#401135: O: ksimus-floatingpoint

2006-11-30 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Package: wnpp Severity: normal Previously orphaned, needs WNPP bug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#392901: RM: honyaku-el

2006-11-30 Thread Nathanael Nerode
retitle 392901 RM: honyaku-el -- RoQA; essentially useless, orphaned, very few users reassign 392901 ftp.debian.org thanks 4 popcon installs. Former maintainer describes it as essentially useless; it's designed to work with a discontinued proprietary product. It has only 4 popcon installs.

Bug#401136: O: python-uncertainities

2006-11-30 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Package: wnpp Severity: normal Orphaned already, needs wnpp bug -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#401137: gs-gpl: Please provide dummy gs-afpl package for upgrades

2006-11-30 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Package: gs-gpl Severity: wishlist The plan is to remove the gs-afpl package. As noted in bug 393923, it would be best if gs-gpl produced a empty dummy gs-afpl package which depended on gs-gpl, for upgrade purposes. Then the real gs-afpl could be removed from Debian without inconveniencing the

Bug#302261: Remove gnome-think

2006-11-30 Thread Nathanael Nerode
reassign 302261 ftp.debian.org retitle 302261 RM: gnome-think -- RoQA; orphaned long time, dead upstream, GNOME 1 thanks Orphaned over a year with no nibbles, dead upstream. As suggested, this package should be removed. It is surprsingly popular; 407 installs. But only 70 of those are votes;

Bug#379257: Remove ida

2006-11-30 Thread Nathanael Nerode
reassign 379257 ftp.debian.org retitle 379257 RM: ida -- RoQA; orphaned, contrib, few users, many many many alternatives, etc. thanks This is just another image viewer and editor, and there are a gazillion alternatives to it. It's been orphaned since July (over 3 months), and nobody has

Bug#401140: RM: xnap -- RoQA; RC-buggy, already removed from stable and testing, maintainer MIA since 2003

2006-11-30 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Package: ftp.debian.org Severity: normal This package is a waste of space at this point. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#401139: RM: xnap-snapshot -- RoQA; RC-buggy, already removed from stable and testing, maintainer MIA since 2003

2006-11-30 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Package: ftp.debian.org Severity: normal This package is a waste of space at this point. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#401141: RM: mozilla-locale-es -- RoQA; mozilla is going away, unchanged since stable

2006-11-30 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Package: ftp.debian.org Severity: normal This package is already not in 'testing', and it's unchanged since 'stable', so removing it from unstable loses no information. It's one of the mozilla locale packages which need to go away along with mozilla. Filing this bug to keep track of it, but

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