Bug#571054: Divert /sbin/initctl to fix start(8) in lucid postinsts.

2010-02-22 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: pbuilder Version: 0.196 Severity: normal pbuilder currently creates a policy-rc.d that prevents daemons from starting when they are installed to satisfy build dependencies. This works well for sysvinit packages. However, when working with Ubuntu Lucid[0] chroots, many daemons use

Bug#571056: chroot_upstart: divert initctl (like policy-rc.d) to fix start(8) in Ubuntu Lucid postinsts.

2010-02-22 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: live-helper Version: 2.0~a7-1 Severity: normal See also http://bugs.debian.org/571054 (same issue, in pbuilder). In chroot_sysv-rc, live-helper currently creates a policy-rc.d that prevents daemons from starting when they are installed. This works well for sysvinit packages. However,

Bug#570469: uscan: should fail on 404 with --download-current-version.

2010-02-18 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: devscripts Version: 2.10.61 Severity: normal File: /usr/bin/uscan I think uscan should to return an error when it can't --download-current-version (due to a 404, in turn due to a typo in my debian/watch file). $ uscan --download-current-version; echo $? uscan warning: In

Bug#570330: binary_syslinux and binary_grub assume LH_BINARY_IMAGES is singular.

2010-02-17 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: live-helper Version: 2.0~a7-1 Severity: normal With --binary-images 'iso usb-hdd', the case dispatch of ${LH_BINARY_IMAGES} at /usr/share/live-helper/helpers/binary_syslinux:365 fails to match, resulting in line 407 of the same file mkdir -p ${KERNEL_PATH} attempting to mkdir

Bug#570066: xm new: undeclared dependency on absent Python library xmlproc.

2010-02-16 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: xen-utils-common Version: 3.4.2-2 Severity: important On a fresh Debian Sid system, I get this: # xm new Unexpected error: type 'exceptions.ImportError' Please report to xen-de...@lists.xensource.com Traceback (most recent call last): File /usr/lib/xen-3.4/bin/xm,

Bug#570054: Wrong URL in manpage.

2010-02-15 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: edbrowse Version: 3.4.1-1+b1 Severity: minor The manpage says EXAMPLES To read the HTML documentation on a Debian system you can do edbrowse file:///usr/share/doc/edbrowse/edbdoc.html However this file isn't present on Debian. That URL is also mentioned in

Bug#569917: Support base.tar.xz/bz2 as well as tgz

2010-02-14 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: pbuilder Version: 0.196 Severity: wishlist pbuilder uses tar -z. Maybe I can get a big space win for a small cpu/memory loss by using tar --xz instead? I hoped to simply s/tar -zcf/tar --xz -cf/ s/tar -zxf/tar -xf/ # let tar auto-detect compression type Unfortunately,

Bug#569922: rlfe cat does the Wrong Thing.

2010-02-14 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: rlfe Version: 6.1-1 Severity: minor When writing programs with rlfe cat x.c instead of cat x.c, rlfe appears to do the wrong thing. I see no output on stdout (not even echoes of the characters I'm typing). If I then cat x.c, I can see the bold interaction as well the lines that should

Bug#568074: Xfbdev: LinuxInit: Server must be suid root

2010-02-02 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: xserver-xfbdev Version: 2:1.7.4-2 Severity: important File: /usr/bin/Xfbdev This program appears to get the wrong mode by default: $ xinit -- /usr/bin/Xfbdev Fatal server error: LinuxInit: Server must be suid root ^C giving up. xinit: No such file or directory

Bug#568074: Acknowledgement (Xfbdev: LinuxInit: Server must be suid root)

2010-02-02 Thread Trent W. Buck
PS: I just noticed that /usr/bin/X isn't an update-alternatives link to /usr/bin/Xorg, as I had previously assumed. It turns out that $ xinit -- /usr/bin/X works, but $ xinit -- /usr/bin/Xorg Fatal server error: Cannot move old log file (/var/log/Xorg.0.log to

Bug#568074: Xfbdev: LinuxInit: Server must be suid root

2010-02-02 Thread Trent W. Buck
Julien Cristau wrote: $ xinit -- /usr/bin/Xfbdev Fatal server error: LinuxInit: Server must be suid root It doesn't get the wrong mode. It needs to be started as root. Is it reasonable to patch the source so that the error message reflects this? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#568055: EBNF for GNU date's -d parser.

2010-02-01 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: coreutils Version: 8.4-1 Severity: wishlist File: /usr/share/info/coreutils.info.gz GNU date's -d switch accepts a large variety of time formats. So far, the best documentation I've found for this option is info coreutils 'Date input formats' The examples given in this section are

Bug#565964: Provides: readline-editor, like ledit and rlwrap?

2010-01-19 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: rlfe Version: 6.1-1 Severity: wishlist AFAICT, rlfe provide the same functionality as ledit and rlwrap. Should it provide the readline-editor virtual package? Incidentally, the package description mentions See the cle package for another program of that kind. but I can't find any such

Bug#565359: Complains: cleaner definitions are new or have changed.

2010-01-14 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: bleachbit Version: 0.7.2-1 Severity: normal When I first ran this program, it reported These cleaner definitions are new or have changed. Malicious definitions can damage your system. If you do not trust these changes, delete the files or quit. It then listed all the files

Bug#565244: Requires /proc/self/stat.

2010-01-13 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: w3m Version: 0.5.2-2.1 Severity: minor It seems that w3m won't work at all unless /proc is mounted. This is a minor inconvenience when using it inside a chroot. It would be nice if instead of aborting, w3m simply disabled the relevant features and continued to act as a pager. #

Bug#564616: paredit-el: New Upstream available

2010-01-10 Thread Trent W. Buck
Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan wrote: A new upstream version (version 21) is available from: It has been waiting on a sponsor for some time: http://mentors.debian.net/cgi-bin/sponsor-pkglist?action=details;package=paredit-el I intend to solve this via #526598, but I haven't gotten around to

Bug#564539: paredit-el: Add to frequent values list

2010-01-09 Thread Trent W. Buck
) (add-hook hook (lambda () (paredit-mode +1 '(lisp-mode-hook scheme-mode-hook))) The latter will not cause an error when paredit isn't installed, and doesn't involve copy-and-pasting. -- Trent Buck trentb...@gmail.com, Wed, 4 Apr 2007 18:12:58 +1000 Having been

Bug#563901: [debcommit] darcs: Patch names cannot contain newlines.

2010-01-06 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: devscripts Version: 2.10.59 Severity: normal File: /usr/bin/debcommit Debcommit appears to do the wrong thing in the case of a long commit message: $ dpkg-parsechangelog Source: mg Version: 20090107-4 Distribution: UNRELEASED Urgency: low Maintainer: Trent W

Bug#563901: [debcommit] darcs: Patch names cannot contain newlines.

2010-01-06 Thread Trent W. Buck
1i This is the new commit message. And this is the long description. . wq 272 Finished recording patch 'This is the new commit message.' $ darcs cha --last=1 -v Thu Jan 7 00:39:32 EST 2010 Trent W. Buck trentb...@gmail.com * This is the new commit

Bug#559437: Improve resource usage with darcs --max-count 1.

2010-01-03 Thread Trent W. Buck
Joey Hess wrote: Trent W. Buck wrote: When Darcs 2.3 or higher is available (as in Debian), darcs.pm should include --max-count 1 in its filtered darcs changes calls (that is, in darcs_info and rcs_getctime). For non-trivial repositories, this will significantly reduce the resource

Bug#562038: FTBFS with debuild -j.

2009-12-22 Thread Trent W. Buck
Trent W. Buck wrote: This package doesn't build if I use debuild -j or debuild -j4. These options are supposed to affect make's parallelization, but from the typescript, it seems that the upstream build system is doing something silly like referring to $(MAKEFLAGS) directly instead

Bug#562038: FTBFS with debuild -j.

2009-12-21 Thread Trent W. Buck
Trent W. Buck wrote: Package: qemu Version: 0.11.0-6 Severity: minor This package doesn't build if I use debuild -j or debuild -j4. These options are supposed to affect make's parallelization, but from the typescript, it seems that the upstream build system is doing something silly like

Bug#561195: Recursive type detection (e.g. .pdf.gz).

2009-12-14 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: less Version: 436-1 Severity: wishlist File: /usr/bin/lesspipe Currently lesspipe defines handlers for compression (e.g. .gz) and for binary files (e.g. .pdf). However it does not correctly handle both together (e.g. .pdf.gz). It would be nice if lesspipe handled this by either

Bug#560132: Should be SEE ALSO sqlite3-doc, not sqlite-doc.

2009-12-08 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: sqlite3 Version: 3.6.20-1 Severity: minor File: /usr/share/man/man1/sqlite3.1.gz The sqlite3 manpage refers to the sqlite-doc (sqlite 2) package. It should refer to the sqlite3-doc package. -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990,

Bug#536245: RFH: graphviz -- rich set of graph drawing tools

2009-12-07 Thread Trent W. Buck
Sebastian, Sebastian Harl wrote: I'm interested in helping out with this package and possibly taken over maintenance if you eventually decide to give it up entirely. I'm not ITAing this myself, because 1) my availability is unpredictable; 2) I'm not familiar with C library packaging; and 3)

Bug#536245: RFH: graphviz -- rich set of graph drawing tools

2009-12-07 Thread Trent W. Buck
Sebastian Harl wrote: Thanks for your interest and offering your help! To be honest, I'm not sure about what needs to be done at the moment. Normally when adopting a package I would start by: - triaging any open bugs; - adopting dpkg source format 3.0 (quilt); - adopting dh(1) for

Bug#557594: Highlight DEP-3 and DEP-5 keywords.

2009-12-06 Thread Trent W. Buck
Peter S Galbraith wrote: Should this be implemented now? I see that it is only a draft? I don't know. It IS only a draft, but I have the impression that the field names are unlikely to change. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Bug#559437: Improve resource usage with darcs --max-count 1.

2009-12-04 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: ikiwiki Version: 3.20091202 Severity: wishlist File: /usr/share/perl5/IkiWiki/Plugin/darcs.pm When Darcs 2.3 or higher is available (as in Debian), darcs.pm should include --max-count 1 in its filtered darcs changes calls (that is, in darcs_info and rcs_getctime). For non-trivial

Bug#558724: emacs breaks altscreen

2009-11-29 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: screen Version: 4.0.3-14em1 Severity: minor I use GNU Screen's :altscreen feature. When you close a full-screen app like less or w3m, the old contents of the screen (i.e. your shell interaction) is displayed. Recently I noticed that this was not the case for Emacs. Below is a

Bug#558229: Policy violation §12.3: postinst requires files in /usr/share/doc.

2009-11-27 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: console-setup Version: 1.49 Severity: normal When installing the emdebian gripped version of 1.49: Setting up console-setup (1.49em1) ... cat: /usr/share/doc/console-setup/examples/console-setup: No such file or directory Relying on the existence of files in /usr/share/doc being

Bug#495583: RFP: hts -- HMM-based Speech Synthesis System

2009-11-27 Thread Trent W. Buck
Juhapekka Tolvanen wrote: Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: hts * URL : http://hts.sp.nitech.ac.jp/ * License : BSD Description : HMM-based Speech Synthesis System I made a Google search in order to find some DFSG-free speech synthesis package

Bug#558217: lh config; lh config -- this config tree is too new

2009-11-26 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: live-helper Version: 2.0~a1-1 Severity: minor It appears that this experimental version doesn't trust itself: $ with-temp-dir with-temp-dir: entering directory `/tmp/with-temp-dir.zWTka6' This directory will be deleted when you exit. $ lh config P: Creating config

Bug#558218: Can't search for http://foo.

2009-11-26 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: epdfview Version: 0.1.7-2 Severity: minor I wanted to search for an http link in a PDF. So I typed /http://foo;, where the first slash opens up the find toolbar at the bottom of the screen. Unfortunately, because the / is bound within that toolbar, I can see no way to search for a

Bug#557594: Highlight DEP-3 and DEP-5 keywords.

2009-11-22 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: dpkg-dev-el Version: 30.8-1 Severity: wishlist DEP-3 and DEP-5 respectively describe provisional markups for patch headers and debian/copyright. It would be great if Emacs leveraged these to provide syntax highlighting of these files. DEP-5 applies to debian-copyright.el. I think it

Bug#557594: Acknowledgement (Highlight DEP-3 and DEP-5 keywords.)

2009-11-22 Thread Trent W. Buck
After posting, it occurred to me to leverage conf-colon-mode. This doesn't distinguish catch misspelt field names (such as Descirption), but otherwise seems adequate for my simple needs. I'm currently trying this: (add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '(/quilt_header\\...\\' . conf-colon-mode)) ;

Bug#557211: Avoid mercurial.el where vc-hg.el is available?

2009-11-20 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: mercurial-common Version: 1.3.1-1 Severity: minor File: /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/mercurial.el The mercurial.el file in this package says: ;; This code has been developed under XEmacs 21.5, and may not work as ;; well under GNU Emacs (albeit tested under 21.4). Patches to ;; enhance

Bug#555889: Null password also disallows key-based logins.

2009-11-12 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: dropbear Version: 0.52-4 Severity: minor Root has the null password so that people with physical access to a securetty can log in easily, and remote logins are forced to be key-based. This works with openssh-server, but with dropbear I get: [2350] Nov 12 21:48:03 user 'root' has

Bug#555698: bugs.opera.com/wizard: raise AttributeError, 'invalid report type'

2009-11-11 Thread Trent W. Buck
to reportbug. Use ? for help at prompts. *** Detected character set: UTF-8 Please change your locale if this is incorrect. Using 'Trent W. Buck trentb...@gmail.com' as your from address. Getting status for opera... Checking for newer versions at packages.debian.org

Bug#553322: [Pkg-haskell-maintainers] Bug#553322: Should cabal-install Recommend: ghc6?

2009-11-02 Thread Trent W. Buck
On Mon, Nov 02, 2009 at 09:47:35PM +, Iain Lane wrote: tags 553322 + confirmed pending thanks Hi, On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 09:26:53PM +1100, Trent W. Buck wrote: Package: cabal-install Version: 0.6.2-1 Severity: minor If you're gonna use cabal install (as opposed to just fetch

Bug#553608: dh sequence still broken?

2009-11-01 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: bash-completion Version: 1:1.1-1 Severity: normal File: /usr/share/perl5/Debian/Debhelper/Sequence/bash_completion.pm As far as I can tell, dh_bash-completion should run straight after dh_installman. It doesn't: $ dpkg -L bash-completion | grep \\.pm

Bug#541848: darcs: FTBFS: ld: cannot find -lHSrts_thr

2009-10-31 Thread Trent W. Buck
On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 08:48:43AM +, Joachim Breitner wrote: Linking dist/build/darcs/darcs ... /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lHSrts_thr [...] DEB_SETUP_GHC6_CONFIGURE_ARGS := $(shell test -e /usr/lib/ghc-$(GHC6_VERSION)/libHSrts_thr.a || echo --flags=-threaded) Future Haskell packagers,

Bug#553322: Should cabal-install Recommend: ghc6?

2009-10-30 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: cabal-install Version: 0.6.2-1 Severity: minor If you're gonna use cabal install (as opposed to just fetch and update), ghc6 would probably be pretty necessary... -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'),

Bug#553325: Uses different PATH order to /etc/profile.

2009-10-30 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: initscripts Version: 2.87dsf-6 Severity: minor File: /etc/init.d/bootmisc.sh I wanted to avoid installing unnecessary packages on a tiny system, so I created symlinks for busybox's utilities in /bin: # for i in $(busybox | sed '1,/:$/d;y/,/ /') do ln -s busybox /bin/$i

Bug#553329: Allow busybox wget instead of wget?

2009-10-30 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: grip-config Version: 0.1.2em1 Severity: wishlist While playing around, I noticed that grip-config wanted to reinstall wget, which I had replaced with a busybox symlink. Busybox is twice the size of wget, and the gripped initramfs-tools removes the Recommends that kept it installed, so

Bug#553332: Too dependy on perl?

2009-10-30 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: ghc6 Version: 6.8.2dfsg1-1 Severity: normal Presumably ghc6 Depends: perl in order to support the Evil Mangler. At least in 6.10, via-C (and thus the Evil Mangler) is no longer preferred, so maybe this can be downgraded to a Suggests. Furthermore, the Evil Mangler apparently never

Bug#553325: Acknowledgement (Uses different PATH order to /etc/profile.)

2009-10-30 Thread Trent W. Buck
FYI, I think I have resolved my immediate problem by simply putting the symlinks in a new directory, /usr/lib/busybox, and then adding this to the PATHs in /etc/profile. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Bug#553329: Allow busybox wget instead of wget?

2009-10-30 Thread Trent W. Buck
On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 01:08:06PM +0100, Stefan Ritter wrote: Package: grip-config Version: 0.1.2em1 Severity: wishlist I cannot find a package 'grip-config' in the Debian Repositories. You know where it comes from? Ah, sorry. This is an emdebian grip thing.

Bug#553329: Allow busybox wget instead of wget?

2009-10-30 Thread Trent W. Buck
On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 01:59:40PM +, Neil Williams wrote: On Fri, 30 Oct 2009 13:24:13 + While playing around, I noticed that grip-config wanted to reinstall wget, which I had replaced with a busybox symlink. That is not advisable. busybox in Grip has nothing to do with busybox

Bug#553304: 1933 is NOT in the future.

2009-10-29 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: e2fsprogs Version: 1.41.9-1 Severity: minor File: /sbin/e2fsck Following a Debian install using this: http://www.cyrius.com/debian/kirkwood/sheevaplug/install.html Due to a bug, the filesystem got created while the system time was in 1933. When I tried to e2fsck this filesystem on

Bug#552542: hg log -fp ignores -p when -fing.

2009-10-27 Thread Trent W. Buck
log --style default -fp h changeset: 5:900bfcc10696 tag: tip user:Trent W. Buck trentb...@gmail.com date:Tue Oct 27 14:41:45 2009 +1100 summary: h2 diff --git a/h b/h --- a/h +++ b/h @@ -1,1 +1,1 @@ -Tue Oct 27 14:41:12 EST 2009

Bug#552423: Reserved revnos aren't.

2009-10-26 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: mercurial Version: 1.3.1-1 Severity: normal Apparently tip, null and . are reserved revision strings. But hg branch doesn't stop you using them as normal branch names: $ hg init $ hg help revisions | grep reserved The reserved name tip is a special tag that always

Bug#551050: aptitude tries to remove nis on sid/lenny hybrid as a result of the #546753 fix

2009-10-15 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: hostname Version: 3.00 Severity: important This is such an edge case that I normally wouldn't report it. Because it involves accidental removal of auth infrastructure, I raise it and will let you decide whether it's worth pursuing. On a hybrid testing/unstable system: $ aptitude

Bug#548999: busybox httpd -e fails.

2009-09-30 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: busybox Version: 1:1.14.2-2 Severity: minor File: /bin/busybox On OpenWRT (busybox v1.11.2), busybox httpd -e foo works, but on Debian it does not, though it claims to: $ busybox httpd -d foo; echo foo $ busybox httpd -e foo; echo httpd: invalid option -- 'e' BusyBox v1.14.2 (Debian

Bug#547991: battery: /proc/acpi/battery is not /sys/class/power_supply.

2009-09-22 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: byobu Version: 2.24-1 Severity: normal File: /usr/lib/byobu/battery I get ls: cannot access /proc/acpi/battery: No such file or directory because on my system, this information is computed thusly: backtick 2 120 0 sh -c 'cd /sys/class/power_supply/BAT0 echo \ $((100 * `cat

Bug#546404: Spelling: apPlication.

2009-09-12 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: lintian Version: 2.2.14 Severity: wishlist File: /usr/share/lintian/lib/Spelling.pm Seen in a debian/control on mentors.d.n: Description: multi-platform wiki aplication for the desktop Spelling.pm should catch this typo. -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT

Bug#545770: RFP: elim (and garak) -- Emacs libpurple integration (C daemon and elisp client)

2009-09-08 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: elim (and garak) Version : 20090702-032501 Upstream Author : Vivek Dasmohapatra vi...@etla.org * URL : http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/elim * License : GPL3+ Programming Lang: C, elisp Description :

Bug#545438: startpar(8): confusing manpage (re weighting).

2009-09-07 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: sysvinit-utils Version: 2.87dsf-4 Severity: minor File: /usr/share/man/man8/startpar.8.gz From startpar(8): Processes block by pending I/O will weighting by the factor 800. To change this factor the option -i can be used to specify an other value. These sentences are totally

Bug#445802: [Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#445802: alsamixer: ugly ASCII faux-box drawing characters in screen.

2009-09-04 Thread Trent W. Buck
On Fri, Sep 04, 2009 at 09:23:29PM +0200, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: * Trent W. Buck [090404 12:28 +1100] To get nice box drawing characters in GNU Screen instead of the ASCII fallback, I have added the following filthy kludge to my .bashrc: case $TERM in screen*) alias

Bug#544971: Assumes HOME is /home/$USER.

2009-09-03 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: user-setup Version: 1.28 Severity: minor user-setup-apply is used by live-initramfs to create a guest account at boot time. I needed the account to have HOME outside of /home, because /home is an NFS mount used by non-guest accounts. Since user-setup-apply seems to end up just calling

Bug#541848: darcs: FTBFS: ld: cannot find -lHSrts_thr

2009-08-23 Thread Trent W. Buck
On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 07:01:42PM +0200, Kurt Roeckx wrote: Source: darcs Version: 2.3.0-1 Severity: serious [136 of 136] Compiling Main ( src/darcs.hs, dist/build/darcs/darcs-tmp/Main.o ) Linking dist/build/darcs/darcs ... /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lHSrts_thr collect2: ld

Bug#541848: FTBFS on Alpha, ld: cannot find -lHSrts_thr

2009-08-23 Thread Trent W. Buck
From http://bugs.debian.org/541848 and http://buildd.debian.org/build.php?arch=alphapkg=darcsver=2.3.0-1, it appears that Darcs 2.3.0 fails to build on Alpha systems, due to ld: cannot find -lHSrts_thr The good folk of #haskell think RTS probably isn't available on Alpha, and that we

Bug#542585: Explodes on upgrade.

2009-08-20 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: roundup Version: 1.4.9-1 Severity: normal I happened to upgrade a box where the roundup package was installed, but not doing anything (I had been using roundup-demo on it as a non-privileged user). I got the following. Because roundup isn't actually running as root on this box, I can't

Bug#541843: darcs: use editor/pager, not sensible-*

2009-08-16 Thread Trent W. Buck
On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 04:29:11PM +, Clint Adams wrote: Package: darcs Version: 2.3.0-1 Since get_editor and get_viewer are already checking the contents of the EDITOR/PAGER environment variables, you should probably be falling back to editor and pager rather than their sensible-

Bug#541455: /var/run/motd is now made by bootlogs, not bootmisc.

2009-08-14 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: manpages Version: 3.22-1 Severity: minor File: /usr/share/man/man5/motd.5.gz AFAICT, bootlog is now responsible for creating /var/run/motd. The motd(5) manpage should be updated to reflect this. -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990,

Bug#487555: Shouldn't complain about permissions unless .msmtprc contains passwords

2009-08-12 Thread Trent W. Buck
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 09:31:28AM +0200, Emmanuel Bouthenot wrote: Hi, However, I feel that msmtp should only complain about the file being group/world readable if it contains confidential information -- that is, a cleartext password. In my opinion, some accounts parameters (host,

Bug#541293: update-exlinux for kernel-img.conf

2009-08-12 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: syslinux Version: 2:3.82+dfsg-1 Severity: wishlist When a user installs grub, it's menu.lst or grub.conf is automatically populated with entries for each kernel. When a kernel is installed or removed, /etc/kernel-img.conf knows to run update-grub to update that list. There is no

Bug#541034: start-hildon: assumes sapwood-server and matchbox-window-manager are installed

2009-08-11 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: hildon-desktop Version: 1:2.0.19.debian.1-1 Severity: important File: /usr/bin/start-hildon When I tried xinit /usr/bin/start-hildon I got nothing but a white rectangle in the bottom-left corner of the screen. If I run start-hildon on the tty, I get $ /usr/bin/start-hildon

Bug#540626: HEAD is ridiculously slow.

2009-08-09 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: roundup Version: 1.4.4-4+lenny1 Severity: normal Experimental evidence suggests that HEAD requests will result in Roundup generating the entire page, discard it, then send the headers to the client. This is very wasteful, particularly on large pages. Making requests to bugs.darcs.net

Bug#540629: /statusN and /priorityN are too slow

2009-08-09 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: roundup Version: 1.4.4-4+lenny1 Severity: normal The pages /statusN and /priorityN take an unreasonable amount of time to download -- presumably because the History table grows very large over time. Please improve the turnaround time of requests to /statusN and /priorityN, perhaps by

Bug#540142: Use the same cookie file format as curl and wget.

2009-08-06 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: w3m Version: 0.5.2-2.1 Severity: wishlist Summary: please make w3m use the same cookie file format as wget, curl and (apparently) netscape/mozilla/firefox. Both curl and wget can read and write cookie files in the Netscape/Mozilla cookie file format. This means that I can automate

Bug#540308: Honour $no_proxy

2009-08-06 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: midori Version: 0.1.7-1.1 Severity: wishlist Midori honours $http_proxy. This is great -- it means that it behaves just like wget, curl, w3m, lynx, etc. Unfortunately, Midori doesn't honour $no_proxy. So for example with localhost in the $no_proxy lisy, w3m localhost will take me to

Bug#540133: Ignores user-supplied CXX=g++-4.4.

2009-08-05 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: libwebkit-1.0-2 Version: 1.1.12-1 Severity: minor In debian/rules, the build-stamp target has a line cd build \ CFLAGS=$(CFLAGS) \ CXXFLAGS=$(CFLAGS) \ CC=gcc -Wl,--as-needed \ CXX=g++ -Wl,--as-needed \ [...] This line ignores

Bug#539853: emacs-goodies-el's ido takes precedence over emacs23's

2009-08-03 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: emacs-goodies-el Version: 30.2-1 Severity: important I'm not sure if this is a problem with emacs23 or emacs-gooodies-el. I recently switched from emacs-snapshot to emacs23. Symptoms: With ido loaded, - C-x C-f opens a file, but doesn't switch to that buffer. - C-x C-f C-f

Bug#539809: emacs23-gtk: emacsclient cannot connect to daemon run from tty1

2009-08-03 Thread Trent W. Buck
On Mon, Aug 03, 2009 at 09:58:14PM +0400, Andrey wrote: 0) Start X session. 1) Switch to tty1 or any other console terminal and run emacs --daemon 2) Make sure you can connect to it by running emacsclient -t 3) Switch to X session and run emacsclient -c This fails with Waiting for

Bug#539752: emacs uninstallable due to bad dependency

2009-08-03 Thread Trent W. Buck
On Mon, Aug 03, 2009 at 01:36:32PM +0300, Leonard Norrgård wrote: The emacs package ultimately depends on emacs23-common =23.1+1-1, which is outdated and gone. I can't reproduce this problem. The packages in my repo which depend on emacs23-common are: emacs23-bin-common=23.1+1-2 Depends:

Bug#538098: [Pkg-haskell-maintainers] Bug#538098: Please upgrade to ≥0.5.1.0.

2009-08-02 Thread Trent W. Buck
On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 10:01:05AM +0200, Joachim Breitner wrote: I believe the reason Darcs' zlib dependency was bumped to 0.5.1 is because 0.5.0 has known problems with CRC (checksums) -- either generating bad ones, or failing to detect/repair bad ones. I can dig up the exact details if you

Bug#539584: confused by global .gitconfig format.pretty=oneline

2009-08-02 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: git-buildpackage Version: 0.4.54 Severity: normal In my .gitconfig I had [format] pretty = oneline I was trying to do debuild -uc -us -tc in a clean clone of scim-anthy and getting errors of the form ../libtool: line 835: X--tag=CXX: command not found [...] It

Bug#311156: [issue54]

2009-08-02 Thread Trent W. Buck
On Sat, Dec 10, 2005 at 02:56:45PM +, Mark Stosberg wrote: request to have darcs record file executable permissions I'm documenting the workarounds I know about here. 1. The most common case is where you want scripts to be executable. For this, the --set-scripts-executable heuristic can

Bug#510772: debhelper: dh binary-arch should call dh_strip with --dbg-package when a -dbg package is present in control

2009-08-01 Thread Trent W. Buck
On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 11:21:11AM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: Note that the thing someone is working on to automatically generate $PACKAGE-dbg for every package and not have them in the main archive neatly sidesteps all this complexity of special cases. Is there a BTS ticket for that? If so, can

Bug#539575: netsurf-linuxfb: black screen

2009-08-01 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: netsurf-linuxfb Version: 2.1-1 Severity: important When I ran netsurf google.com as root on vt2, the screen went completely black. I managed to (blindly) switch to vt3, log in as root, and run halt to reboot my system. I didn't think to try killall netsurf until it was too late. I am

Bug#539360: ln /usr/share/polipo/www/doc /usr/share/doc/polipo/html (symlink)

2009-07-30 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: polipo Version: 1.0.4+58-1 Severity: wishlist Please create a symlink such that the HTML documentation that ships with polipo can be found by users looking in /usr/share/doc/polipo/. This can be achieved with a debian/polipo.links file in your diff.gz, see dh_link(1) for details. --

Bug#539101: s/macthes/matches/ in iptables(8) manpage.

2009-07-29 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: iptables Version: 1.4.4-1 Severity: minor File: /usr/share/man/man8/iptables.8.gz In the set section of the manpage, matches is misspelt macthes. -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'),

Bug#533494: [imagemagick] Please forward to upstream

2009-07-29 Thread Trent W. Buck
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 05:48:48PM +0200, Bastien ROUCARIES wrote: Could you please forward to upstream ie post to http://tinyurl.com/kjkwsu And post the thread url in this bug report. That appears to be a web forum. I cannot post without logging in. I am not prepared to create an account on

Bug#348971: looks kind of broken ...

2009-07-25 Thread Trent W. Buck
On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 06:48:31PM -0400, Samuel Bronson wrote: Hmm. Doesn't look very good here -- things are overflowing their boxes :-(. I want the old one back! (At least as an option.) My browser is Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.11) Gecko/2009061212 Iceweasel/3.0.11

Bug#538110: Unusable -- DirectFBError [DirectFBSetOption (quiet, )]: Not supported!

2009-07-23 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: directvnc Version: 0.7.5-9+b1 Severity: important On a server plum I created a VNC session using qemu: plum$ qemu-system-x86_64 -snapshot -vnc :0 -hda foo.qcow2 Then I tried to connect to it with directvnc. I got this failure. I have no idea what it means or how to fix it: $

Bug#538098: [Pkg-haskell-maintainers] Bug#538098: Please upgrade to ≥0.5.1.0.

2009-07-23 Thread Trent W. Buck
On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 10:32:09AM +0200, Joachim Breitner wrote: Package: libghc6-zlib-dev Version: 0.5.0.0-2+b1 Severity: wishlist Please upgrade haskell-zlib in Debian. The upcoming release of Darcs 2.3 requires haskell-zlib 0.5.1.0. Without it, Darcs will use its deprecated internal

Bug#538098: Please upgrade to ≥0.5.1.0.

2009-07-22 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: libghc6-zlib-dev Version: 0.5.0.0-2+b1 Severity: wishlist Please upgrade haskell-zlib in Debian. The upcoming release of Darcs 2.3 requires haskell-zlib 0.5.1.0. Without it, Darcs will use its deprecated internal zlib bindings, which will reduce the amount of real-world testing that

Bug#537696: Tell mailcap not to use fbi in GNU Screen.

2009-07-20 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: fbi Version: 2.07-1 Severity: minor File: /usr/lib/mime/packages/fbi AFAIK, fbi will work iff it is run by root, or run from a securetty(5). In particular, this does not include GNU Screen sessions. Please extend lines such as this: image/jpeg; fbi '%s'; test=test -z $DISPLAY;

Bug#537699: Allow -title to be set in ~/.w3m/config.

2009-07-20 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: w3m Version: 0.5.2-2.1 Severity: wishlist w3m will set the terminal's title to the current page name if you start w3m with the -title option. This is really useful, so I want it to be on all the time. But I can't see any way to specify that in ~/.w3m/config. Even if I put this in

Bug#537706: .w3m/config parser confused by blank lines.

2009-07-20 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: w3m Version: 0.5.2-2.1 Severity: normal Config after a blank line in ~/.w3m/config is ignored. To reproduce: $ hd ~/.w3m/config 63 6f 6c 6f 72 20 66 61 6c 73 65 0a |color false.| 000c $ w3m -v# as expected, does not use

Bug#537706: Acknowledgement (.w3m/config parser confused by blank lines.)

2009-07-20 Thread Trent W. Buck
The patch below appears to fix this issue. $ cat debian/patches/07-rc-blank-line-fix Distinguish between the end of the file () and empty lines (\n). Closes #537706. Index: w3m-0.5.2/rc.c === --- w3m-0.5.2.orig/rc.c 2009-07-20

Bug#316272: w3m-img displays no images

2009-07-20 Thread Trent W. Buck
On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 01:40:46PM -0700, Paul Telford wrote: Works fine for me. What terminal are you using it in? Does it work for you in an xterm? Fails for me in konsole (my default choice), xterm, rxvt eterm. w3m-img *SHOULD* work in xterm, at least. Things to check: In the

Bug#316272: w3m-img: does not display images on console

2009-07-20 Thread Trent W. Buck
On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 12:01:54PM +0200, Michael Prokop wrote: While as w3m-img works in xterm as intended, it does not display images inline on plain console using framebuffer (vesafb-tng). Tested with: % w3m -config /dev/null grml.org No problems with w3m/w3m-img 0.5.1-3, problem

Bug#537654: Typo in Description: s/elist/elisp/

2009-07-19 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: doxymacs Version: 1.8.0-4 Severity: minor elist package for making doxygen usage easier under Emacs should read elisp package for making doxygen usage easier under Emacs -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500,

Bug#537664: git-help -i should not silently fail when info is not installed.

2009-07-19 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: git-core Version: 1:1.6.3.3-1 Severity: minor File: /usr/lib/git-core/git-help I don't have info(1) installed, because I use Emacs' internal info client. I was curious to see what would happen when I tried to run git help -i. It turns out that it silently fails. It SHOULD print an error

Bug#522617: New libghc6-network-dev is in sid

2009-07-16 Thread Trent W. Buck
On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 11:02:13AM -0300, Marco Túlio Gontijo e Silva wrote: There's a bug in darcs that's only present in amd64 if it was built with GHC older than 6.10. If you're talking about darcs help using 100% CPU instead of exiting, AFAIK it affects ALL 64-bit architectures when

Bug#537327: w3m-el can't render http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/documentation.html

2009-07-16 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: w3m-el-snapshot Version: 1.4.344+0.20090405-1 Severity: normal This URL works in w3m but not in w3m-el: http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/documentation.html To reproduce this: emacs -Q -l /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50w3m-el-snapshot.el --eval '(w3m-browse-url

Bug#522617: New libghc6-network-dev is in sid

2009-07-15 Thread Trent W. Buck
On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 09:58:48AM -0300, Marco Túlio Gontijo e Silva wrote: Can you ask for a rebuild of darcs? Sure thing. How do I do so? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#536185: RFA: python-wordaxe

2009-07-07 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: wnpp Severity: normal Restructured text[0] (a.k.a. reST or rst) is a lightweight markup language. The rst2pdf[1] utility converts reST directly to PDF (rather than via LaTeX). rst2pdf can perform hyphenation[2] if python-wordaxe is installed. Without python-hyphen and the appropriate

Bug#535569: Further update-gconf-defaults improvements.

2009-07-03 Thread Trent W. Buck
: # No existing file pass cleanup() if options.signal: os.system('kill -s HUP `pidof gconfd-2` /dev/null 21') Wed Jan 21 15:16:59 EST 2009 Trent W. Buck trentb...@gmail.com * Fix coding so Emacs can write the file. diff -rN -purd -u /usr/bin/update-gconf-defaults /usr/bin/update-gconf-defaults

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