Bug#838635: fp-utils-3.0.0: Installation of an outdated version of listings.sty

2016-09-23 Thread Roberto Di Cosmo
Package: fp-utils-3.0.0 Severity: critical Justification: breaks unrelated software Dear Maintainer, I just found out that after installing free pascal, some of my LaTeX slides stopped compiling properly. After some work, it turns out that the reason is the presence of this file, installed

Bug#820709: konqueror: No file view, only file size view is available!

2016-04-11 Thread Roberto Di Cosmo
Package: konqueror Version: 4:15.08.3-1 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable Dear Maintainer, the current version of Konqueror only offers the File Size view, Cervisia View and File Search view. The usual file view/icon view/compact view modes have disappeared. This

Bug#819594: totem: Actually, unable to play *any* file!

2016-04-10 Thread Roberto Di Cosmo
Package: totem Version: 3.18.1-2+b1 Followup-For: Bug #819594 Dear Maintainer, I confirm this bug is present, and renders totem useless: we cannot play any video file any more. To reproduce, just run totem whatevervideoyouhave and you will immediately see it. Looking around, it seems this bug

Bug#794110: plasma-workspace: plasmashell segmentation fault (11) every few minutes (and restarted)

2016-03-15 Thread Roberto Di Cosmo
Package: plasma-workspace Version: 4:5.4.3-2 Followup-For: Bug #794110 Dear Maintainer, I confirm the bug is still present. Plasmashell crashes randomly, and, particularly annoyingly, it kills all konsole instances that were open at the moment of the crash, so after it is relaunched one

Bug#726231: digikam: Confirm crash as soon as one clicks on a pictures collection

2014-11-10 Thread Roberto Di Cosmo
Package: digikam Version: 4:4.4.0-1 Followup-For: Bug #726231 Dear Maintainer, did a fresh install of Digikam, imported some pictures in an album. After that, as soon as I click on the album to see the pictures I get this error in the console and digikam crashes digikam: Fatal IO error:

Bug#694155: nvidia-vdpau-driver:amd64: Only native resolution on DFP available with recent NVidia driver version

2013-10-22 Thread Roberto Di Cosmo
On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 03:16:04PM +0200, Andreas Beckmann wrote: On 2012-11-25 12:00, Roberto Di Cosmo wrote: After careful investigation, this issue comes from an upstream design decision in the 3xx driver series. In this new series of the NVidia driver, for reasons that completely escape

Bug#699495: ocamldsort breaks with recent versions of ocamldep

2013-01-31 Thread Roberto Di Cosmo
Package: ocamldsort Version: 0.15.0-2 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable the 4.00 release of OCaml comes with a version of ocamldep that outputs dependency lines of the form foo : bar baz instead of the old foo: bar baz Since the parser in ocamldsort is not

Bug#694155: nvidia-vdpau-driver:amd64: Only native resolution on DFP available with recent NVidia driver version

2012-11-25 Thread Roberto Di Cosmo
at 12:01:03PM +0100, Andreas Beckmann wrote: Control: tag -1 moreinfo On 2012-11-24 11:54, Roberto Di Cosmo wrote: Package: nvidia-vdpau-driver:amd64 Version: 304.60-1 After upgrading to the 3xx version of the NVidia driver, Please try the most recent driver releases: 304.64

Bug#694155: nvidia-vdpau-driver:amd64: Only native resolution on DFP available with recent NVidia driver version

2012-11-24 Thread Roberto Di Cosmo
Package: nvidia-vdpau-driver:amd64 Version: 304.60-1 Severity: important After upgrading to the 3xx version of the NVidia driver, I only get native resolution for the internal display on my laptop, which was not the case before. This is particularly annoying, as it is no longer possible to use

Bug#689323: apt: Broken EDSP generation: some dependencies and provides are silently dropped

2012-10-01 Thread Roberto Di Cosmo
Package: apt Version: 0.9.7.5 Severity: important Recent changes in edsp.cc lead to dropping relevant metadata in the EDSP passed to apt-cudf: this may render the solution provided by the external solvers unusable, as dependencies and conflicts are missing. As an example, see the difference

Bug#682887: eog crashes with *** glibc detected *** eog: malloc(): memory corruption: 0x0000000001d64c00 ***

2012-07-27 Thread Roberto Di Cosmo
-get install libxi6 On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 11:40:40PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: tags = moreinfo thanks On 26.07.2012 18:43, Roberto Di Cosmo wrote: Package: eog Version: 3.4.2-1 Severity: important Tags: patch eog requires to upgrade libxi-dev:amd64 to a version 2:1.3-6

Bug#682887: eog crashes with *** glibc detected *** eog: malloc(): memory corruption: 0x0000000001d64c00 ***

2012-07-26 Thread Roberto Di Cosmo
Package: eog Version: 3.4.2-1 Severity: important Tags: patch eog requires to upgrade libxi-dev:amd64 to a version 2:1.3-6, and 2:1.6.1-1 worked for me. Otherwise eog crashes with the error *** glibc detected *** eog: malloc(): memory corruption: 0x01d64c00 *** Since linxi-dev is not a

Bug#668027: ocaml-batteries-included: Lots of mismatches between what the documentation says and what the package does.

2012-04-08 Thread Roberto Di Cosmo
Package: ocaml-batteries-included Version: 1.4.1-1 Severity: important The documentation included in libbatteries-ocaml-doc does not correspond to what the libraries actually do, and what the packages contain: it really needs a thorough check. Please do not underestimate the importance of

Bug#639627: sympa: comes from upstream

2011-09-05 Thread Roberto Di Cosmo
patch in the Sympa stable sources. Here is the revision log: https://sourcesup.cru.fr/scm/viewvc.php?view=revisionroot=symparevision=7208 This fix will be available as soon as I tag the 6.1.8 version of Sympa. Regards, David Le 30/08/11 12:57, Roberto Di Cosmo a écrit : Package

Bug#639627: sympa: comes from upstream

2011-08-30 Thread Roberto Di Cosmo
Package: sympa Severity: normal Tags: patch After looking more into the issue, it seems that list_data disappears because i) the Debian package configure the code without the --expldir option _and_ with the fhs option ii) in the upstream source, in configure.ac, when choosing fhs, the

Bug#633084: sympa: dh_fixperms -X called with the link to the program, instead of the path to the program

2011-08-30 Thread Roberto Di Cosmo
Package: sympa Severity: normal In the package building process for sympa, it is necessary to maintain the setuid bits for a certain number of files, more precisely chmod 4755 /tmp/buildd/sympa-6.1.4~dfsg/debian/sympa//usr/lib/sympa/lib/sympa/queue chmod 4755

Bug#639627: Wrong value for EXPLDIR in Constants.pm

2011-08-29 Thread Roberto Di Cosmo
Package: sympa Severity: normal Some more information on the bug reported above: apparently EXPLDIR is not set in the configuration option, and I found in sympa-6.1.4~dfsg/debian/rules the following line # We cannot configure --with-expldir: upstream use uppercase X in subdir So maybe this is

Bug#633084: sympa: Also missing suid on aliaswrapper and virtualwrapper

2011-08-29 Thread Roberto Di Cosmo
Package: sympa Severity: normal aliaswrapper and virtualwrapper need to have setuid to run newaliases... -- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0.1 APT prefers testing APT policy: (750, 'testing'), (700, 'stable'), (600, 'unstable'), (550, 'experimental'), (500, 'stable-updates')

Bug#639627: sympa: Wrong value for EXPLDIR in Constants.pm

2011-08-28 Thread Roberto Di Cosmo
Package: sympa Severity: important The sympa package in Debian uses the wrong value for EXPLDIR in Constants.pm; per sympa documentation about virtual hosts, this directory must be the list_data subdirectory of the sympa data directory, see http://www.sympa.org/manual/virtual-hosts For the

Bug#627548: mccs: Typo in the manual page.

2011-05-21 Thread Roberto Di Cosmo
Package: mccs Version: 1.0-1 Severity: minor In the man page for mccs, replace /usr/share/doc/mccs/README/optimzation-criteria with /usr/share/doc/mccs/README.optimization-criteria -- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0.1 APT prefers testing APT policy: (750, 'testing'), (700,

Bug#492163: fails to respect /etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf

2011-04-18 Thread Roberto Di Cosmo
Package: network-manager Version: 0.8.3.999-1 Severity: normal Along the same line, network-manager has a hard-wired DHCP timeout in src/dhcp-manager/nm-dhcp-manager.c (currently 45 seconds) which overrides whatever entry set in /etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf -- System Information: Debian Release:

Bug#620236: ocamldsort only handles dependency lines with trailing blanks; breaks with recent versions of ocamldep

2011-03-31 Thread Roberto Di Cosmo
Package: ocamldsort Version: 0.14.4-2+b2 Severity: important Tags: patch upstream The old code in dep_parse.ml only works properly on lines which are terminated by a space; this error has gone unnoticed for years, since ocamldep did produce a trailing space on each dependency line. Recent

Bug#616604: xserver-xorg: Precise information on nvidia 3100M / Dell latitude E6510 X problem after fresh squeeze install.

2011-03-29 Thread Roberto Di Cosmo
Package: xserver-xorg Version: 1:7.5+8 Severity: normal I confirm that a fresh squeeze install on a Dell Latitude E6510 with Nvidia NVS 3100 leaves the user with a machine booting into a blank screen, which makes the system pretty unusable. This is due to the fact that - the default module

Bug#619459: xserver-xorg-video-radeon: With NVidia NVS3100M, KMS enabled as in radeon-mks.conf prevents resume from suspend to RAM

2011-03-24 Thread Roberto Di Cosmo
Package: xserver-xorg-video-radeon Version: 1:6.13.1-2+squeeze1 Severity: important Tags: patch Suspend to RAM does not resume, and after some testing and googling, it seems that it comes from the KMS enabled by default via the config file /etc/modprobe.d/radeon-kms.conf in this package.

Bug#619459: xserver-xorg-video-radeon: With NVidia NVS3100M, KMS enabled as in radeon-mks.conf prevents resume from suspend to RAM

2011-03-24 Thread Roberto Di Cosmo
Dear Michel, you are right, in the struggle to get suspend working, I got confused with the driver. You can dismiss this report, and I do apologize for the noise. --Roberto On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 08:14:02AM +0100, Michel Dänzer wrote: On Don, 2011-03-24 at 07:58 +0100, Roberto Di Cosmo

Bug#614765: liboss-salsa-asound2: dependencies problems with libasound2

2011-03-19 Thread Roberto Di Cosmo
quality issues in component-based complex systems, ISEC 2010, February 25-27, 2010, Mysore, India. By Roberto Di Cosmo and Jaap Boender. (http://www.mancoosi.org/papers/isec10.pdf) [2] Strong Dependencies between Software Components, ESEM 2009, October 15-16, 2009, Lake Buena Vista, Florida, USA

Bug#618270: advi: Missing dependency on ghostscript-x

2011-03-13 Thread Roberto Di Cosmo
Package: advi Version: 1.9.0-1+b1 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable On a freshly installe Debian squeeze, installing advi does not bring in ghostscript-x. As a consequence, just typing advi starts with the following warnings: Warning: Unknown device: x11 Warning:

Bug#600447: Non UTF8/En locales bug reappeared (renders hplip useless for non US/UTF8 users)

2010-10-17 Thread Roberto Di Cosmo
Package: hplip Version: 3.10.6-1 Severity: important Tags: patch In 3.10.6-1 there is still a serious issue with CUPS *requiring* either an US-ASCII locale, or a UTF8 locale. As a consequence, all programs communicating with CUPS to discuver printers/install printers, and the like, fail

Bug#494506: aptitude: Additional example usage justifying this feature request

2010-05-19 Thread Roberto Di Cosmo
Package: aptitude Version: 0.6.2.1-2 Severity: normal When functionality from a package P is merged into a new package Q, and the user erroneusly requests to install Q, aptitude should warn the user that downgrading Q to install the old P is possibly not necessary. As an example, baobab from