Bug#941214: Completion for mutt's -a command line switch

2023-09-20 Thread Oliver Kiddle
On 20 Jun, martin f krafft wrote: > mutt allows attaching files from the command-line: > > mutt -a /file/one /file/two /file/three -- … > > Basically, the rules are: -a takes a list of files, terminated by --. > > Zsh's completion of mutt treats the argument to -a as optional: > > '*-a[attach

Bug#891140: Please make "apt install " completion work on "local" .deb files

2018-04-05 Thread Oliver Kiddle
Chris Lamb wrote: > > Thanks for applying this. I was wonder if you could also include: > > *.changes > *.dsc > > ie. as well as *.deb. All behaviours of path-based .debs can be > inherited. Thanks in advance :) Do you mean like the following patch - considering all .changes and .dsc files

Bug#777930: ksh: ftbfs with GCC-5

2015-08-13 Thread Oliver Kiddle
I queried the ast-users mailing iist and both Arch and opensuse apparently have patches for the issue. See here http://lists.research.att.com/pipermail/ast-users/2015q3/004773.html Oliver

Bug#679824: Buggy completion with perl -e, python -c, and ruby -e

2014-10-27 Thread Oliver Kiddle
This issue was addressed upstream. The fix was included in 5.0.6 and, by extension, 5.0.7. Let me know if you think there is still something to address. Oliver -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Bug#269769: zsh: sabcmd completion doesn't work

2014-10-22 Thread Oliver Kiddle
Just for your information, this has now been fixed in upstream git. Oliver -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#285266: zsh: ecasound completion doesn't complete file names

2014-10-22 Thread Oliver Kiddle
Just for your information, this has now been fixed in upstream git. Oliver -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#720441: Got a fix, how to submit patch.

2013-10-09 Thread Oliver Kiddle
Phi Debian wrote: It appears after some back and forth mail with attresearch (code owner) that the source code used by debian (and ubuntu) are both out of date, they both have this code dump or corruptin bug that was fixed at ksh93u (dixit David Korn). Debian does have ksh93u. Latest version

Bug#720441: Got a fix, how to submit patch.

2013-10-09 Thread Oliver Kiddle
Phi Debian wrote: On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 4:11 PM, Oliver Kiddle okid...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Debian does have ksh93u. Ambiguous Clearly we've got ambiguity in Debian versions of ksh too: wheezy does have 2012-02-29, testing/unstable have 2012-08-01. 2012-08-01 will never go into wheezy

Bug#720441: Got a fix, how to submit patch.

2013-10-09 Thread Oliver Kiddle
ольга крыжановская wrote: What is the way to replace the patched up 2012-02-29? Find sponsor, declare him how bad it is? I think so. One thought is that you could try to pester Jonathan Wiltshire j...@debian.org: he did 93u+-1.2. It is probably wise to prepare the replacement first. Oliver

Bug#720441: Got a fix, how to submit patch.

2013-10-06 Thread Oliver Kiddle
On 4 Oct, you wrote: How should I proceed for a patch submit, I did provide it to att owner, so I guess future release will have the fix, but for debian should I do something, does debian has its own set of 'fixes' (I am ignorant here) You an include a small patch in an e-mail to this bug

Bug#679966: ksh: cd ../name does not work

2013-01-01 Thread Oliver Kiddle
John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: Works for me with version 93u+-1.1: Therefore marked as fixed in 93u+-1.1. Note that bug 691200 was merged in as a duplicate of this one and the example in the initial description for that bug is most definitely not fixed in 93u+-1.1. Issues with cd .. are

Bug#679966: ksh: cd ../name does not work

2013-01-01 Thread Oliver Kiddle
John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: Then you should address the problem as the maintainer of ksh. Since it's grave bug, it's blocking the release of Debian Wheezy and should therefore addressed as soon as possible! The package has been up for adoption for some time because I don't have the time

Bug#687779: Bug#679966: ksh: diff for NMU version 93u+-1.1

2012-10-23 Thread Oliver Kiddle
Jonathan Wiltshire wrote: In my opinion, it would be better if the debian release goes out with either the old squeeze release (93s+20080202-1) or 93u+20120628-1 (which was only bug fixes). Well, I think the release team have already expressed that they are less than happy with having

Bug#691199: RFA: ksh -- Real, ATT version of the Korn shell

2012-10-22 Thread Oliver Kiddle
for packaging the full ast-open set of software. Thanks Oliver Kiddle -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#691200: ksh: cd .. doesn't work in many cases

2012-10-22 Thread Oliver Kiddle
Package: ksh Version: 93u+-1.1 Justification: renders package unusable Severity: grave In many situations, cd .. is broken with this version of ksh. For example, cd /etc; cd .. remains in /etc. Thank you Oliver Kiddle -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org

Bug#687779: Bug#679966: ksh: diff for NMU version 93u+-1.1

2012-10-22 Thread Oliver Kiddle
that I have put the ksh package up for adoption. Oliver Kiddle -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#687779: unblock: ksh/93u+20120628-1

2012-10-07 Thread Oliver Kiddle
Mehdi Dogguy wrote: So intead of reverting a patch [1] and re-open a severity normal bug, you uploaded a new upstream release [2] ? I would have classified the original bug as grave too. The upstream release is a bug fix release: they didn't even change the version number hence the appended

Bug#687779: unblock: ksh/93u+20120628-1

2012-09-15 Thread Oliver Kiddle
Package: release.debian.org Severity: normal User: release.debian@packages.debian.org Usertags: freeze-exception Hi, Please unblock package ksh/93u+20120628-1 which fixes #679966 (severity grave). Frankly it would be better to exclude ksh from the next Debian release than include it with

Bug#679966: Possible security issues and a temporary fix

2012-07-11 Thread Oliver Kiddle
Zoltan Hidvegi wrote: More info: this is not an upstream issue, it's caused by the handle-removed-working-dir.patch which is an attempt to fix #667038. Besides chopping off the last path component of any cd ../name command, it also does sfprintf(shp-strbuf,oldpwd) which is a problem if oldpwd

Bug#677540: send fails with post errors

2012-06-15 Thread Oliver Kiddle
James wrote: After this morning's upgrade to nmh 1.5-release-0.2, send fails with post: message has no From: header post: See default components files for examples post: re-format message and try again send: message not delivered to anyone This is the result of a change in the

Bug#667038: ksh93 fails to detect renamed current or parent directory

2012-04-15 Thread Oliver Kiddle
Below is a report made via the Debian bug tracking system. I'm guessing that when handling `..', ksh is trying to use what it previously knew to be the path to the current directory whereas the other shells aren't specifying a path. Oliver --- Forwarded Message Date:Tue, 03 Apr 2012

Bug#649968: ksh: traps and 'set -e' set inside a function are ignored

2012-02-15 Thread Oliver Kiddle
On 25 Nov, Blazej Krzeminski wrote: Traps set inside KSH functions and 'set -e' (exit on error) command are ignored when the function is used in a command substitution and the command substitution $( ) is contained in a || or command, or is following an 'if'. This problem does not occur in

Bug#452785: Can not input UTF-8 chars in prompt

2012-02-14 Thread Oliver Kiddle
I'm still unable to reproduce this. It'd be good to have a clearer ide of your environment. What edit mode is being used - vi or emacs? Oliver -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#633524: ksh fc command calls /bin/ed (doesn't exist)

2012-02-10 Thread Oliver Kiddle
On 11 Jul, auto58326...@hushmail.com wrote: Problem: When issuing the fc command, the program searches for /bin/ed which doesn't exist in recent default debian installs. I'm concerned that changing the default is unwise because some user's may be used to it being the default. I always

Bug#433026: ksh: setting unsetting emacs mode causes segfault

2012-02-10 Thread Oliver Kiddle
Can you still reproduce this? I'm still be unable to. Any chance of a core file? Without one, I don't really have a hope of fixing it. Oliver -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#636580: Fwd: ${-#pattern} fails in set -u mode

2011-08-09 Thread Oliver Kiddle
Following is a bug reported to the Debian bug tracking system. --- Forwarded Message Date:Thu, 04 Aug 2011 18:42:18 +0900 From:SATOH Fumiyasu fumi...@osstech.co.jp To: sub...@bugs.debian.org Subject: Bug#636580: ksh: ${-#pattern} fails in set -u mode Package: ksh Version: 93u-1

Bug#571796: console-tools: Virtual terminals no longer visible

2011-05-19 Thread Oliver Kiddle
I'm also experiencing exactly this problem on a fully updated Debian testing system. It broke at about the point the kernel was upgraded from 2.6.32 to 2.6.38. I've not got any non-default grub options that I'm aware of. I've got a fairly old PCI Matrox G450 graphics card so no support for kernel

Bug#605630: Unreasonable and big use of resources by: while(true)

2011-03-25 Thread Oliver Kiddle
The following has been sent to the Debian bug tracker for ksh. --- Forwarded Message Date:Wed, 01 Dec 2010 23:56:39 +0100 From:=?UTF-8?Q?Pawe=C5=82?= Kalinowski anilatx+deb...@gmail.com To: Debian Bug Tracking System sub...@bugs.debian.org Subject: Bug#605630: ksh: Unreasonable

Bug#616027: postinst script fails for halevt

2011-03-01 Thread Oliver Kiddle
Package: halevt Version: 0.1.6.2-1.4 Severity: normal The post installation script appears to be failing when I install halevt. The problem is with the following line: invoke-rc.d --quiet hal restart This is returning status 100 because there is no /etc/init.d/hal Is there a missing package

Bug#599202: ksh: env. var. set prefix for a command is not working

2010-10-06 Thread Oliver Kiddle
Jeff Green wrote: % XXX=hello /bin/echo $XXX When the shell see's this line, it expands $XXX itself first. It is not /bin/echo doing the expansion. Note that if you do the following, it will print hello. XXX=hello printenv XXX Oliver -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#599202: ksh: env. var. set prefix for a command is not working

2010-10-06 Thread Oliver Kiddle
Jeffrey B. Green wrote: The question is then: what do users do with the explanation on the manpage? I.e. they are not equivalent since the results are not the same. But they are equivalent as far as the above execution of cmd is concerned. When you run XXX=hello /bin/echo $XXX, the echo

Bug#599202: ksh: env. var. set prefix for a command is not working

2010-10-06 Thread Oliver Kiddle
Jeffrey B. Green wrote: My assumption is that two forms said to be equivalent imply the results of the forms are identical, they can be substituted for each other. Otherwise, they not not equivalent, just similar. What is your definition of equivalent? But the man page doesn't just say

Bug#597776: issues with colour prompt

2010-09-29 Thread Oliver Kiddle
The following issue has been reported for the Debian package. After completion, ksh appears to repeat just the last line of the PS1 prompt. In the case of this coloured prompt, it is outputting: cresc[0;33m[escesc[0m156esc[0;33m]escesc[0m$ clcr So why the duplicated escape characters? Thanks

Bug#569040: build of webkitimageqt on amd64

2010-05-20 Thread Oliver Kiddle
I tried rebuilding from source because I have an amd64 system. You're missing a build dependency on libqt4-dev which it needs for moc-qt4. With that installed, it build and installed on amd64. Still can't get the WMS plugin to work though - just red boxes containing Exception occurred. What do

Bug#577716: uzbl: bookmark scripts fail with dash as /bin/sh

2010-04-13 Thread Oliver Kiddle
not be used. My bookmarks file ends up having lines such as: -e http://www.independent.co.uk/ news Thank you Oliver Kiddle -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (700, 'testing'), (600, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32

Bug#551901: ksh: setting EDITOR env var causes input prob for an alias w/ here file

2010-03-29 Thread Oliver Kiddle
It seems to be fixed in the 2010 version, e.g. It looks like you can close this bug. Thanks for checking. Oliver -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#551901: ksh: setting EDITOR env var causes input prob for an alias w/ here file

2010-03-24 Thread Oliver Kiddle
On 20 Oct, Jeff Green wrote: $ cati So are you saying that on that line, no key other than newline does anything? The blank input line for the 2nd cati invocation basically is ignoring all input except a newline. Once the newline is entered, the shell recognizes input again. I've not been

Bug#528861: ksh_93t+-1(mips/unstable): FTBFS on mips. libast not built ?

2010-03-23 Thread Oliver Kiddle
these errors are occurring? Thank you Oliver Kiddle -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#528861: ksh_93t+-1(mips/unstable): FTBFS on mips. libast not built ?

2009-05-27 Thread Oliver Kiddle
On 16 May, you wrote: Package: ksh Version: 93t+-1 Severity: serious There was an error while trying to autobuild your package: I can't reproduce this on armel or amd64. Is there anything unusual about your build machine. In particular, what shell in /bin/sh? Not working with pdksh derived

Bug#478019: zsh: Should handle non-breaking space as word separator

2008-04-26 Thread Oliver Kiddle
Samuel Thibault wrote: Clint Adams, le Sat 26 Apr 2008 16:05:48 +0100, a écrit : Having locale-based (and multibyte) word separators sounds like a nightmare to me, but maybe someone has some ideas. iswspace() The characters used for word splitting are contained in the IFS variable. So you

Bug#469235: ksh: printf %s in UTF-8 is not POSIX-compliant

2008-03-04 Thread Oliver Kiddle
Vincent Lefevre wrote: As you can see, the ksh93 printf builtin doesn't behave like the coreutils printf, and this is ksh93 which is wrong. Indeed, the field width and the precision are number of bytes, not number of characters. Thanks for the report but in this case, I really think the

Bug#451382: i18n is NOT so easy!

2007-12-07 Thread Oliver Kiddle
Clint Adams wrote: On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 05:56:12PM +0100, Dr. Markus Waldeck wrote: Please correct _cut as mentioned in my mail from Fri, 16 Nov 2007 10:16:44 +0100. Okay, but it is certainly ugly. You can use $'\u00e4' which wouldn't be quite so ugly. Oliver -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Bug#452701: Time to upgrade

2007-11-24 Thread Oliver Kiddle
You wrote: Package: ksh Version: 93s+20070628-1 Severity: wishlist http://www.research.att.com/~gsf/download/release.2007-11-05.2007-03-28.html No, you may not have it yet but 20071105 has already been uploaded to sid. Would be nice if you could upgrade to it and verify that bug 304365 is

Bug#433026: ksh: setting unsetting emacs mode causes segfault

2007-07-19 Thread Oliver Kiddle
On 13 Jul, Diab Jerius wrote: Setting and unsetting emacs mode in a particular manner causes a segmentation fault. My .profile file contains the single line set -o emacs I can't reproduce this but I don't have access to an amd64 system. So I'll need your help to resolve it. Do you have any

Bug#431206: ksh s+ 2007-06-28 released, please update

2007-07-13 Thread Oliver Kiddle
On 30 Jun, Josh Hurst wrote: 06-10-15 The remaining math functions from C99 were added for any system that supports them. Please compile the package with -std=gnu99 to get this math support Are you sure that -std=gnu99 is necessary? There are definitely new math functions available

Bug#430472: Fwd: Bug#430472: zsh litters /usr with files which it does not claim ownership of

2007-06-26 Thread Oliver Kiddle
Adam Megacz wrote: You should include a dummy file in the archive for each of these. The dummy file can be empty (ie zero bytes long) if necessary. Then make sure that the process which creates them during postinst doesn't complain about the fact that they're already there. Is that really

Bug#304365: Fixing this bug

2007-06-15 Thread Oliver Kiddle
--- Josh Hurst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This bug can be fixed by updating to ksh s+, add -DSHOPT_SYSRC to the build flags and add a file called /etc/ksh.kshrc with the content cut cut cut set -o gmacs Is this really the problem in this case? The up arrows and tab key work

Bug#182445: ITP: xmlroff -- XSL Formatter

2007-05-02 Thread Oliver Kiddle
--- W. Borgert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 07:51:31PM +0200, Daniel Leidert wrote: What is the current state of the ITP of xmlroff, Oliver? What is As far as I was concerned, I had handed it to Wolfgang. There was a long time of no visible activity upstream, but there

Bug#394577: zsh-beta: Completion of date does not work

2007-04-17 Thread Oliver Kiddle
On 14 Apr, Clint wrote: On Sun, Oct 22, 2006 at 12:22:37AM +0200, Jörg Sommer wrote: % date --verTAB --version-- Versionsinformation anzeigen und beenden % date --ver but the text is not completed. This improves things slightly. This is what _guard is for. Use something like:

Bug#379132: ksh93 should be installed as /bin/ksh

2007-01-03 Thread Oliver Kiddle
On 21 Jul, Josh Hurst wrote: RFE: ksh93 should be installed as /bin/ksh by default to match SuSE, Can I close this bug? As far as I'm concerned, this is default because ksh93 is the highest priority package providing /bin/ksh via the alternates system (see my earlier reply). Oliver -- To

Bug#384797: ksh stops issuing error messages for bad commands

2006-08-28 Thread Oliver Kiddle
--- Norman Ramsey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David Korn reports that this bug is fixed upstream in the 'ksh 93r+' version on the web. A Debian update would be lovely. That's an alpha release though isn't it? There's a few other fixes in that but probably at least as many new bugs. I was

Bug#182445: Will you package xmlroff?

2006-08-15 Thread Oliver Kiddle
--- W. Borgert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: are you working on the Debian packaging of xmlroff? If not, I would like to package xmlroff with the XML/SGML group as maintainer, if the team does not object. Of course, you could join the team, btw. I was working on it. I had a package before the

Bug#382240: ksh: FTBFS: bashisms ?

2006-08-10 Thread Oliver Kiddle
--- Julien Danjou [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ksh fails to build, however I guess this is caused by /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash. If you really need bash and don't use only POSIX compliant syntax, please call /bin/bash instead of sh. Actually, more likely this is dash failing to be POSIX

Bug#379132: ksh93 should be installed as /bin/ksh

2006-07-25 Thread Oliver Kiddle
Josh Hurst wrote: RFE: ksh93 should be installed as /bin/ksh by default to match SuSE, Fedora, Darwin, SCO Unix, and AIX5L which all install ksh93 as /bin/ksh. Under unstable/testing, /bin/ksh is a symbolic link that is handled by the alternates system. ksh93 is the highest priority package

Bug#368903: zsh: completion for svn diff

2006-06-01 Thread Oliver Kiddle
On 25 May, Joerg Sommer wrote: can you add completion support for svn diff? If I understand it right, it should be the same rule like commit -- all files they are known by svn are able to be used with diff. The patch below should fix this and bug 342348. The diff subcommand can also take

Bug#358948: FTBFS on AMD64: md5 file doesn't exist

2006-03-26 Thread Oliver Kiddle
--- Martin Michlmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This package fails to build on AMD64. I cannot quite figure out why, but it seems the md5 file is never generated. I notice that, looking at the build logs, there is a successful build later on. See:

Bug#353685: spamprobe 1.4b released

2006-02-20 Thread Oliver Kiddle
Package: spamprobe Version: 1.2a-1 Severity: wishlist http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/spamprobe/spamprobe-1.4b.tar.gz There's been a number of new releases since the debian package was last updated. Would be nice to have an update to the package. Oliver Kiddle This e-mail and any

Bug#353685: spamprobe 1.4b released

2006-02-20 Thread Oliver Kiddle
Nicolas Duboc wrote: I have actually packaged this 1.4b version this week-end. I'm currently testing it on my own configuration. I planned to upload tomorrow if I find no problem. Excellent. That's good to hear. Thanks Oliver This e-mail and any attachment is for authorised use by the

Bug#352822: ITP: pangoxsl -- additional XSL atttributes for Pango

2006-02-14 Thread Oliver Kiddle
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: pangoxsl Version : 1.6.0.1 Upstream Author : Tony Graham [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://sourceforge.net/projects/pangopdf/ * License : LGPL Description : additional XSL atttributes for Pango PangoXSL

Bug#279812: O: sfio -- Enhanced library for managing I/O streams.

2005-12-05 Thread Oliver Kiddle
utilities (such as nmake etc) could be built from one source package. Oliver Kiddle This e-mail and any attachment is for authorised use by the intended recipient(s) only. It may contain proprietary material, confidential information and/or be subject to legal privilege. It should not be copied

Bug#340610: kimberlite: depends on pdksh but /bin/ksh may not be pdksh

2005-11-24 Thread Oliver Kiddle
Package: kimberlite Version: 1.1.0-3.3 Severity: normal kimberlite depends on pdksh and includes ksh scripts in /usr/lib/kimberlite that rely on #!/bin/ksh to run the scripts. However, since version 5.2.14-18 of pdksh, pdksh is installed as /bin/pdksh and the alternates system used to handle

Bug#340611: flowscan depends on pdksh but /bin/ksh may not be pdksh

2005-11-24 Thread Oliver Kiddle
Package: flowscan Version: 1.006-8 Severity: normal This package depends on pdksh and as far as I can tell, uses /bin/ksh. However, since version 5.2.14-18 of pdksh, pdksh is installed as /bin/pdksh and the alternates system used to handle /bin/ksh. Upstream suggests that either real ksh or pdksh

Bug#228903: nis: yppush fails on master which isn't also a client

2005-11-01 Thread Oliver Kiddle
Mark Brown wrote: The solution was to temporarily run ypbind. It seems that yppush trys to find out the list of slaves from ypbind. As this is a master and is not a NIS client itself, this fails. It should be able to just look in /var/yp/ypservers. Is there some reason why you

Bug#321117: Default umask seems dangerous

2005-10-05 Thread Oliver Kiddle
On 30 Sep, Clint Adams wrote: I'll put umask 022 in /etc/skel/.zshrc, I suppose. It would be better to put that in one of zprofile or zlogin. It is exported to child processes and it could be a nuisance (or even a security risk) if child shells override the setting. Oliver This e-mail and

Bug#330883: zsh: For svn revert, _subversion completes deleted files incorrectly

2005-09-30 Thread Oliver Kiddle
You wrote: For svn revert, when I complete a deleted file, the space isn't added after the filename. There's no such problem with modified files (marked with 'M') for instance. This isn't actually an _subversion issue but a more fundamental file completion issue. Filename completion adds a

Bug#330883: zsh: For svn revert, _subversion completes deleted files incorrectly

2005-09-30 Thread Oliver Kiddle
You wrote: The subversion case is a bit special. Even if the removed item was a directory, the suffix should be a space, not a slash, because AFAIK, doing svn revert on an item inside a removed directory has not much sense. We could try passing -S ' ' to _files. Perhaps try adding that in

Bug#327224: nis.config fails if hostname not configured

2005-09-08 Thread Oliver Kiddle
. hostname alone returns debian and no error. Thanks Oliver Kiddle This message has been scanned for viruses by MailControl - www.mailcontrol.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#322731: ksh93 echo builtin does not respect (suppress trailing newline)

2005-08-12 Thread Oliver Kiddle
You wrote: It appears that ksh93 is not respecting the \c (suppress trailing newline) in an echo statement - for example: #!/bin/ksh echo enter a number = \c output is: enter a number = \c This is by design. See the man page. In particular: echo [ arg ... ] When the first arg

Bug#322573: zsh: subversion completion breaks on svn ci

2005-08-11 Thread Oliver Kiddle
You wrote: This version of zsh breaks subversion completion for svn ci: % svn ci _svn:42: unknown file attribute Oops. That's my fault. Sorry about that. Fix is below: Index: _subversion === RCS file:

Bug#314578: ksh: FTBFS (amd64/gcc-4.0): static declaration of '_sfds

2005-07-18 Thread Oliver Kiddle
On 17 Jun, you wrote: Package: ksh Version: 93q-3 Severity: normal Tags: patch When building 'ksh' on amd64/unstable with gcc-4.0, I get the following error: This has apparently been fixed upstream. Without access to the correct fix, I'll wait for the release of 93r. Oliver This e-mail

Bug#314578: ksh: FTBFS (amd64/gcc-4.0): static declaration of '_sfds

2005-06-27 Thread Oliver Kiddle
On 17 Jun, you wrote: With the attached patch 'ksh' can be compiled on amd64 using gcc-4.0. I'm a little reluctant to simply apply this patch without understanding what's going on better. Is this a gcc-4.0 or amd64 issue, or something that really is specific to both. What affect does the

Bug#310872: zsh can't be a ksh replacement (can't trap ERR).

2005-06-01 Thread Oliver Kiddle
Bart wrote: (Google indicates that ksh does run on UNICOS; I wonder what it does with ERR in that case.) I tried asking on ast-users and received the following answer from Glenn Fowler: | ksh does not currently handle this | but I talked with David Korn and the next release will do the

Bug#310872: zsh can't be a ksh replacement (can't trap ERR).

2005-05-30 Thread Oliver Kiddle
IMHO, this can only lead to confusion. if one installs zsh as ksh, he might use commands that are not supported by historical ksh, and historical scripts may not run. Quite frankly there is no shell in Debian which perfectly emulates historical ksh. The newer versions of ATT ksh could break

Bug#307781: udev: why is hotplug dependency necessary

2005-05-06 Thread Oliver Kiddle
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Again, why can't you stop wasting everybody's time instead of RTFM like I suggested in my first reply? I have RTFM and I don't see how it helps. The readme file you pointed to doesn't even mention udev. I'll quote the udev web page: It is recommended that you also

Bug#307781: udev: why is hotplug dependency necessary

2005-05-06 Thread Oliver Kiddle
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: HOTPLUG_RC_$SUBSYSTEM If set to no, disables coldplugging for the $SUBSYSTEM. Thanks but this isn't really the point of why I raised a wishlist item in the bug tracker. I had already done update-rc.d -f hotplug remove which presumably has the same effect.

Bug#307781: udev: why is hotplug dependency necessary

2005-05-05 Thread Oliver Kiddle
Package: udev Version: 0.056-2 Severity: wishlist Reading various FAQs etc on the web, it seems clear that udev can work fine without hotplug. It also seems that other distributions allow udev to be used without hotplug. I really don't want to use hotplug: it takes ages at bootup, loads modules

Bug#307781: udev: why is hotplug dependency necessary

2005-05-05 Thread Oliver Kiddle
Greg KH wrote: Reading various FAQs etc on the web, it seems clear that udev can work fine without hotplug. Huh? That is not true. Please point me at those faqs. The kernel _MUST_ support hotplug for udev to work properly. I'm talking about the hotplug scripts not CONFIG_HOTPLUG in

Bug#307781: udev: why is hotplug dependency necessary

2005-05-05 Thread Oliver Kiddle
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It is also annoying because hotplug depends on usbutils and my machine doesn't even have USB. It does not: Depends: module-init-tools | modutils (= 2.4.2), debconf (= 0.2.26), procps, grep (= 2.5.1.ds1-2), sed (= 4), bash (= 2.05b-1) Sorry, I was looking at

Bug#307781: udev: why is hotplug dependency necessary

2005-05-05 Thread Oliver Kiddle
Greg KH wrote: See http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/udev-guide.xml hotplug-base is NOT the hotplug/coldplug startup stuff. You want that file. Why would you not? That's what I was assuming. The trouble is that in Debian there is no hotplug-base. udev depends on the hotplug package and that

Bug#304365: History and Tab completion do not work at all

2005-04-13 Thread Oliver Kiddle
You wrote: Does your terminal simply generate a Ctrl-I for tab? It moves my cursor about 8 characters. Ctrl-L generates ^L . Ctrl-D exits from that shell. UpArrow generates ^[[A . If you run cat -T, then press tabenterctrl-d, does it print ^I. If ^[[A for up arrow doesn't work then it

Bug#304357: wishlist: use update-alternatives for ksh-symlink

2005-04-12 Thread Oliver Kiddle
Juhapekka Tolvanen wrote: Package: zsh Version: 4.2.5-1 Severity: wishlist Packager of pdksh realised that and made Or to be more precise, Clint raised a bug on pdksh. Hence, I propose also zsh will use update-alternatives for managing that ksh-symlink. I also propose that a package

Bug#304365: History and Tab completion do not work at all

2005-04-12 Thread Oliver Kiddle
You wrote: Package: ksh Version: 93q-1 Severity: normal If I hit ArrowUp -key in ksh93, it do not bring the last command from history. If I hit TAB or ESCESC , it do not work as Tab completion at all. They work for me. Does your terminal simply generate a Ctrl-I for tab? You're only

Bug#202667: nmh: rcvstore segfault when a certain file is in ~/Mail/inbox

2005-02-23 Thread Oliver Kiddle
This patch should fix it. Oliver Index: sbr/folder_read.c === RCS file: /cvsroot/nmh/nmh/sbr/folder_read.c,v retrieving revision 1.2 diff -u -r1.2 folder_read.c --- sbr/folder_read.c 2 Jul 2002 22:09:14 - 1.2 +++

Bug#294563: ITP: ksh -- The real ATT Korn shell

2005-02-10 Thread Oliver Kiddle
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: ksh Version : 93q * URL : http://www.kornshell.com/ * License : Common Public License (CPL) Version 1.0 Description : The real ATT Korn shell The latest version of ATT Software Technology's (David Korn's)