Bug#555132: uzbl: please package newer snapshot

2009-11-08 Thread Yann Dirson
Package: uzbl Version: 0.0.0~git.20090912-1 Severity: wishlist Newer snapshots include a uzbl-browser suitable for immediate use, that is a must-have ! Unfortunately, the install target somewhat clutters /usr/bin, so some adjustments may be needed. -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/

Bug#551661: kwin: eats all keystrokes after switch desktop and requesting alt-tab

2009-10-19 Thread Yann Dirson
Package: kde-window-manager Version: 4:4.3.1-1 Severity: important Context: this is a machine with several users (in several simultaneously-running sessions on the same seat) and "only" 1.5GB of RAM, so things get swapped out before one user comes back to the seat while others use it. In my sessi

Bug#548080: libcap2-bin: setcap.8 refers to cap_from_text.3

2009-10-18 Thread Yann Dirson
On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 07:34:47PM +0200, Torsten Werner wrote: > > But if we don't want to deviate from the upstream manpages, IMHO > > cap_from_text.3 has to be moved into the -bin package for the time > > being. > > I am waiting for a bug report from a developer who has installed the > -dev pac

Bug#548080: libcap2-bin: setcap.8 refers to cap_from_text.3

2009-10-18 Thread Yann Dirson
On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 10:50:19AM +0200, Torsten Werner wrote: > On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 6:28 PM, Yann Dirson wrote: > > To get the full doc for setcap, one must install libcap2-dev, since that > > is where the cap_from_text(3) manpage is located. > > but section (3) sugges

Bug#551297: python-xdg: bugs with handling of filename arguments in ctors

2009-10-16 Thread Yann Dirson
Package: python-xdg Version: 0.17-0.1 Severity: normal Whereas the use of __init__() and parse(filename) are OK for both DesktopEntry and IniFile, both have problems with __init__(filename): * DesktopEntry does not properly detect non-existent file: i=DesktopEntry("plugins/Games/Chess.py") => U

Bug#550715: gmchess: package split lacks Conflict/Replace decl

2009-10-12 Thread Yann Dirson
Package: eleeye, libeval0 Version: 0.20.3-1 Severity: serious (Lecture de la base de données... 319095 fichiers et répertoires déjà installés.) Dépaquetage de libeval0 (à partir de .../libeval0_0.20.3-1_i386.deb) ... dpkg : erreur de traitement de /var/cache/apt/archives/libeval0_0.20.3-1_i386.deb

Bug#549256: zope3: contains general-purpose RestrictedPython module which has its own upstream

2009-10-01 Thread Yann Dirson
Package: zope3 Version: 3.4.0-1 Severity: normal Packages zope2.11 (2.11.4-1), zope2.10 (2.10.9-1), zope3 (3.4.0-1) and koffice-data (1:2.0.82-1) all contain a copy or RestrictedPython. RestrictedPython seems to have its own life at http://pypi.python.org/pypi/RestrictedPython/ and it would be b

Bug#549257: koffice-data: contains general-purpose RestrictedPython module which has its own upstream

2009-10-01 Thread Yann Dirson
Package: koffice-data Version: 1:2.0.82-1 Severity: normal Packages zope2.11 (2.11.4-1), zope2.10 (2.10.9-1), zope3 (3.4.0-1) and koffice-data (1:2.0.82-1) all contain a copy or RestrictedPython. RestrictedPython seems to have its own life at http://pypi.python.org/pypi/RestrictedPython/ and it w

Bug#549254: zope2.11: contains general-purpose RestrictedPython module which has its own upstream

2009-10-01 Thread Yann Dirson
Package: zope2.11 Version: 2.11.4-1 Severity: normal Packages zope2.11 (2.11.4-1), zope2.10 (2.10.9-1), zope3 (3.4.0-1) and koffice-data (1:2.0.82-1) all contain a copy or RestrictedPython. RestrictedPython seems to have its own life at http://pypi.python.org/pypi/RestrictedPython/ and it would

Bug#549255: zope2.11: contains general-purpose RestrictedPython module which has its own upstream

2009-10-01 Thread Yann Dirson
Package: zope2.10 Version: 2.10.9-1 Severity: normal Packages zope2.11 (2.11.4-1), zope2.10 (2.10.9-1), zope3 (3.4.0-1) and koffice-data (1:2.0.82-1) all contain a copy or RestrictedPython. RestrictedPython seems to have its own life at http://pypi.python.org/pypi/RestrictedPython/ and it would

Bug#549206: pg_createcluster: silently creates corrupted config when out of disk space

2009-10-01 Thread Yann Dirson
Package: postgresql-common Version: 101 Severity: important Tags: patch The set_conf_value() function, used to rewrite postgresql.conf and others, does not properly checks for write errors, so the caller thinks all went well and happily proceeds. Only afterwards the user gets told about an "Inval

Bug#548311: ivy: command-line usage does not work as advertised in doc

2009-09-25 Thread Yann Dirson
Package: ivy Version: 2.1.0~rc2-2 http://ant.apache.org/ivy/history/latest-milestone/standalone.html says the following should work with rc2, but I get an error: $ java -jar /usr/share/java/ivy.jar -? Failed to load Main-Class manifest attribute from /usr/share/java/ivy.jar It may just be me la

Bug#548310: ivy: rc2 jar is named rc1

2009-09-25 Thread Yann Dirson
Package: ivy Version: 2.1.0~rc2-2 Severity: minor All versions (in the jar name and in the maven tree) claim o be 2.1.0-rc1. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#548080: libcap2-bin: setcap.8 refers to cap_from_text.3

2009-09-23 Thread Yann Dirson
Package: libcap2-bin Version: 1:2.16-5 To get the full doc for setcap, one must install libcap2-dev, since that is where the cap_from_text(3) manpage is located. This is somewhat uncomfortable for the user (and that package name is not even suggested in the package desc or in the manpage). -

Bug#547637: bouml: new release available

2009-09-21 Thread Yann Dirson
Package: bouml Version: 4.12.1 Severity: wishlist There has been several updates to the 4.12 series, and a brand new 4.14 is now available. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#547283: nm plasmoid: completely unusable since upgrade

2009-09-18 Thread Yann Dirson
Package: plasma-widget-networkmanagement Version: 0.1~svn1013816-1 Severity: serious Since I have updated the nm plasmoid (not sure it is the last update that caused the problem), it is completely broken: - displays an icon looking like a cellular phone (but a zoomed low-res B&W icon) - no network

Bug#546866: aptitude: reverse self-conflicts listed as reverse self-depends

2009-09-16 Thread Yann Dirson
Package: aptitude Version: 0.4.11.11-1 The newly-introduced nilfs-tools package shows the following display, which at first glance seems completely false in the revdeps section - it looks like it mistakenly takes some info from the Conflicts field to forge a strange-looking revdep: --\ Conflict

Bug#546764: d-feet: should depend on hicolor-icon-theme

2009-09-15 Thread Yann Dirson
Package: d-feet Version: 0.1.8-2 Severity: serious Without this package installed, d-feet spits out tons of exceptions about missing icons when connecting to a bus, selected a given busname performs similarly, and the "object paths" list for the selected busname stays empty. Installing hicolor-ic

Bug#546701: kopete: [regression from 4.2] icons too large in contact list

2009-09-15 Thread Yann Dirson
Package: kopete Version: 4:4.3.1-1 After upgrading from 4.2.4-1 to 4.3.1-1, my contact list gets nearly unsusable: the size of the status icons seem to have doubled, and the number of contacts that are visible is accordingly about half what it used to be. I could not find any setting for this in

Bug#546526: pylint: -e should not omit fatal errors

2009-09-13 Thread Yann Dirson
Package: pylint Version: 0.18.0-1 Severity: normal Typical usage for "-e" being to catch most critical problems, having it hiding fatal messages is quite counter-productive. It should indeed mean "only the messages of severity ERROR and above are displayed". -- System Information: Debian Release

Bug#546522: pylint: false positive on E0611

2009-09-13 Thread Yann Dirson
Package: pylint Version: 0.18.0-1 Severity: normal The following relative import fails with E0611: 1: No name 'GUI' in module '' foo/__init__.py class GUI(object): pass foo/bar.py from . import GUI Python2.5 has no trouble doing the import. -- System Informatio

Bug#545020: apt-ftparchive: should issue warning/error when unknown option is passed through -o

2009-09-04 Thread Yann Dirson
Package: apt-utils Version: 0.7.23.1 Eg. when one tries to feed apt-ftparchive an option that should instead be specified in the generate config file, it is highly unfriendly to just ignore it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscrib

Bug#545019: apt-ftparchive: manpage crucially lacking details of option processing

2009-09-04 Thread Yann Dirson
Package: apt-utils Version: 0.7.23.1 Manpage should make it clear that options available through -o do not include those that would be valid in the generate-specific config file. Since it has the same syntax as standard apt option file, it is easy to be mistaken. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to d

Bug#544994: apt-ftparchive: "generate" fails with unclear error message when component is not found

2009-09-04 Thread Yann Dirson
Package: apt-utils Version: $ apt-ftparchive -c .../release.conf generate .../apt-ftparchive-extras.conf -o BinDirectory::ExtraOverride=.../override.intrepid.extra.extras pool/extras:E: Tree walking failed - ftw (2: No such file or directory) Done Packages, Starting contents. Done. 0B in 0 archiv

Bug#543149: console-setup: perl errors during installation

2009-08-31 Thread Yann Dirson
> On Monday 31 August 2009, Yann Dirson wrote: >> This seems to be similar to #480533, which was apparently fixed by >> moving more stuff to perl-base. > > I very much doubt it is related as the version of perl that fixed #480533 > is ancient (included in stable). So if

Bug#543149:

2009-08-31 Thread Yann Dirson
This seems to be similar to #480533, which was apparently fixed by moving more stuff to perl-base. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#542803: python-gobject-dev: please split API docs in its own package

2009-08-21 Thread Yann Dirson
Package: python-gobject-dev Version: 2.16.1-1 X-Debbugs-CC: python-g...@packages.debian.org It is quite annoying having to install the -dev package to just install the API docs. Moving them in a python-gobject-doc package, like what's done for python-gtk2, would be much more consistent. It would

Bug#542587: lintian: could warn about not closing wnpp bug on adoption

2009-08-20 Thread Yann Dirson
Package: lintian Version: 2.2.13 Severity: wishlist Although it is not easy to be 100% correct without querying the BTS, which we probably do not want, lintian could detect strings line "New maintainer" or "Adopt" in the 1st item of the 1st changelog entry, and complain if that item does not close

Bug#538961: dbus: inadequate error message when service is not running

2009-07-28 Thread Yann Dirson
Package: dbus Version: 1.2.16-2 When eg. NetworkManager is not running, we get an error telling about no .service files providing the service. So the natural investigation way would be to find why we do not have such a file - whereas the real problem is only that the service is not currently runn

Bug#538397: console-setup: complains about unsupported ctrl:nocaps on upgrade

2009-07-26 Thread Yann Dirson
On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 09:30:10PM +0300, Anton Zinoviev wrote: > On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 03:50:31PM +0200, Yann Dirson wrote: > > > > I use ctrl:nocaps since ages, and only now (upgrading from 1.36) does > > console-setup start to complain about it. > > What do you m

Bug#538397: console-setup: complains about unsupported ctrl:nocaps on upgrade

2009-07-25 Thread Yann Dirson
Package: console-setup Version: 1.44 Severity: normal I use ctrl:nocaps since ages, and only now (upgrading from 1.36) does console-setup start to complain about it. I could not find a reason for this from a quick search in the changelog. I just hope it will continue to work in X despite console

Bug#531969: iptraf: refuses to sniff bridge interface

2009-06-05 Thread Yann Dirson
Package: iptraf Version: 3.0.0-6 iptraf does not propose my "br0" interface to be sniffed, and complains "Specified interface not supported" if I request it from command-line. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Conta

Bug#531623: kopete: for ssl, popup says to install qca-tls, but package depends on qca-ossl

2009-06-02 Thread Yann Dirson
Package: kopete Version: 4:4.2.2-1 Severity: normal Having kopete suggest to install the QCA TLS plugin seems wrong, especially when qca-tls is already installed. Furthermore, the kopete package already recommends libqca2-plugin-ossl, and when I install that package the connexion correctly gets e

Bug#529403: aptitude: default target version not reset after undo

2009-05-19 Thread Yann Dirson
Package: aptitude Version: 0.4.11.11 I have a number of releases in my sources.list, with default being "testing". Thus when an uninstalled package is available both in testing and unstable, aptitude correctly shows the testing version in the "uninstalled" listing, and that is the selected versio

Bug#529401: aptitude: "unexpected null solution" when manually solving conflicts

2009-05-19 Thread Yann Dirson
Package: aptitude Version: 0.4.11.11-1 On a squeeze-based box with all of oldstable through experimental in sources.list, after selecting xorg packages for upgrade to sid, I selected xserver-xorg-input-joystick for install. The policy made aptitude select the version currently in squeeze, which c

Bug#526879: aptitude: exhausting number of descriptions when using l10n

2009-05-05 Thread Yann Dirson
reassign 526879 apt thanks > Does the same thing happen with apt-get? This sounds like the "cool, > you have exceeded the number of translations that apt is capable of" > bug. Yes you're right, I have filed this bug against the wrong package. I was already puzzled to find nothing about that i

Bug#526881: locale: should issue better warning about unsupported values

2009-05-04 Thread Yann Dirson
Package: libc6 Version: 2.9-4 Severity: wishlist When eg. LC_CTYPE gets set by error with double-quotes inside (eg. by wrongly writing LC_CTYPE="foo" in /etc/environment), then nothing distinguishes the set-but-wrong variable from a defaulted one in the locale(1) output, and the messages themselve

Bug#526879: aptitude: exhausting number of descriptions when using l10n

2009-05-04 Thread Yann Dirson
Package: aptitude Version: 0.4.11.11-1 Using my crowded sources.list, aptitude refuses to do anything when using french l10n: # aptitude install Lecture des listes de paquets... Erreur ! E: Vous avez dépassé le nombre de descriptions que cette version d'APT est capable de traiter. E: Problem with

Bug#526837: Acknowledgement (libsynopsis0.12: conflict with 0.10)

2009-05-03 Thread Yann Dirson
After checking, it looks like the .so.0 symlinks is useless. It can simply be dropped from the 0.12 package, so no declaration of conflict will be required. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.

Bug#526837: libsynopsis0.12: conflict with 0.10

2009-05-03 Thread Yann Dirson
Package: libsynopsys0.12 Version: 0.12-1 Severity: serious Unpacking libsynopsis0.12 (from .../libsynopsis0.12_0.12-1_i386.deb) ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libsynopsis0.12_0.12-1_i386.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite `/usr/lib/libSynopsis.so.0', which is also in package

Bug#526538: update-alternatives --remove: deletes file without checking it is a symlink

2009-05-01 Thread Yann Dirson
Package: dpkg Version: 1.14.26 Severity: critical When aptitude-gtk appeared in experimental I installed it just to test, but kept aptitude itself from sid or testing. When the new version added a versionned dep on aptitude, I decided to remove it rather than upgrading aptitude itself to experime

Bug#521521: This is critical for remote-upgrade of machines

2009-04-25 Thread Yann Dirson
severity 525516 critical thanks Same here. After first reboot the existing network setup was ignored for the same reason, which, on a remotely-upgraded machine, would require on-site intervention to make things work again - hence the severity (and apt-listbugs will help people avoid this). This

Bug#525420: pbuilder: should output a warning if HOOKDIR is set but not a directory

2009-04-24 Thread Yann Dirson
Package: builder Version: 0.187 Tags: patch Currently, a non-directory HOOKDIR is silently ignored. This is especially bad, as ubuntu's README https://code.launchpad.net/~kubuntu-members/pbuilder/pbuilder-hooks/ advertises HOOKDIR="/home/$USERNAME/.pbuilder-hooks", which gets surprisingly expande

Bug#525406: git-core: needs conflict with build-cola

2009-04-24 Thread Yann Dirson
Package: git-core Version: 1:1.6.3~rc1-1 Severity: serious Preparing to replace git-core 1:1.6.2.4-1 (using .../git-core_1%3a1.6.3~rc1-1_i386.deb) ... Unpacking replacement git-core ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/git-core_1%3a1.6.3~rc1-1_i386.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrit

Bug#524780: lintian: false positive usr-share-doc-symlink-without-dependency for multiple-step depends

2009-04-19 Thread Yann Dirson
Package: lintian Version: 2.2.9 Severity: normal gcompris-dbg gets reported a usr-share-doc-symlink-without-dependency against gcompris-data (which contains the docdir), although -dbg does depend on gcompris, which in turn does depend on -data. And it is pointless to add an additional dep just

Bug#523064: svnmucc: cannot propset on paths added in same run

2009-04-08 Thread Yann Dirson
Package: subversion Version: 1.5.6dfsg-1 $ svnmucc -U $root mkdir all mkdir all/trunk propset svn:externals "..." all/trunk svnmucc: propset: 'all/trunk' not found Whereas separately the following do work: $ svnmucc -U $root mkdir all mkdir all/trunk $ svnmucc -U $root propset svn:externals "...

Bug#522411: python-gnome2-extras: please move egg.trayicon examples to correct package

2009-04-03 Thread Yann Dirson
Package: python-gnome2-extras Version: 2.25.3-1 The egg.trayicon examples would be much more useful inside the python-eggtrayicon package. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#520678: flashplugin-nonfree: (un)install script has problems with non-existant alternative

2009-03-21 Thread Yann Dirson
Package: flashplugin-nonfree Version: 1:2.5 Severity: normal Trying to investigate why this plugin was non-functionning on my box since months, I purged iceweasel and all plugins, and reinstalled just iceweasel, the fr l10n, and this package. Install goes like: update-flashplugin-nonfree --insta

Bug#520676: iceweasel: package does not ship a plugins/ directory

2009-03-21 Thread Yann Dirson
Package: iceweasel Version: 3.0.7-1 Severity: minor It would make it more visible which plugins directories to worry about, if the package was installing empty dirs for them. -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable')

Bug#476008: Tulip unbuildable

2009-02-28 Thread Yann Dirson
On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 04:26:19PM +0200, Riku Voipio wrote: > Yann Dirson wrote: > > Hm, looks like it would be a better idea to upgrade to the final > > release, which was released last week. I'll have more time for this > > next week. > > Hi, any time to upda

Bug#514866: git-core: please send RelNotes for previous versions in git-core

2009-02-11 Thread Yann Dirson
Package: git-core Version: 1:1.6.1.2-1 Severity: wishlist Having just the relnotes for the current dot-release is not very useful, and it is annoying to have to install the txt/html docs just to get those. At the very least git-core should contain the RelNotes files for the major releases, and for

Bug#509354: libkdegames4: contains library with .5 soname

2008-12-21 Thread Yann Dirson
Package: libkdegames4 Version: 4:4.1.3-1 Severity: normal For some reason the soname change got unnoticed. Early versions of this package indeed had a .4 lib, but this probably changed around the 4.1 release. -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0 APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 't

Bug#476817: closed by "Eugene V. Lyubimkin" (closing #476817)

2008-12-13 Thread Yann Dirson
Hi Eugene, On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 01:09:06PM +, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: > Daniel, thanks for investigating this report. > I'm closing it now, because this behavior is intended, and I agree > with that changelog line. Given the details in which Daniel went with his reply, it would s

Bug#507430: svnmucc: commit message should not have useless default value

2008-12-01 Thread Yann Dirson
Package: subversion Version: 1.5.4dfsg1-1 Severity: important When one forgets to specify a commit message using -m, svnmucc happily proceeds with a commit message of "committed using svnmucc". This is very bad in itself (since by default a commit message cannot be ammended by the user), and is n

Bug#506450: svnmucc: segfault on syntax error

2008-11-21 Thread Yann Dirson
Package: subversion Version: 1.5.1dfsg1-1 $ LC_ALL=C svnmucc mv -U svn://foo.com/bar svn://foo.com/foo -m "foo" Erreur de segmentation -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#506293: fincore: accuracy issues

2008-11-20 Thread Yann Dirson
Package: fincore Version: 1.0-1 When replacing the perror("mmap") call by: fprintf(stderr, "mmap %s: %s\n", filename, strerror(errno)); I now get: # find /usr/bin | LC_ALL=C ./fincore -stdin -summary | grep -v 'no incore pages' mmap /usr/bin: No such device page size: 4096 bytes mmap /usr/bin/X

Bug#506289: fcoretools: missing dependencies

2008-11-20 Thread Yann Dirson
Package: fcoretools Version: 1.0-1 # fincore sh: make: not found Also, when installing without recommends, a C compiler is not installed either, but it seems one is needed as well I thought the minimal requirements (still heavy for an embedded target!) were going to be "make tcc libc6-dev", bu

Bug#491017: synopsis maintained?

2008-11-14 Thread Yann Dirson
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 10:04:38PM -0600, Paul Gevers wrote: > Hello Yann, > > I ran into bug 491017 [1] (Synopsis orphaned). I was thinking about > looking into this, but it looks like you actively maintain this package > in experimental. Maybe worth noting in the bug report? Well, "actively" ma

Bug#420217: closed by Xavier Luthi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (not a bug)

2008-10-30 Thread Yann Dirson
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 09:33:04AM +, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: Hi, > I'm not sure at all of this works, but there is an Index file in these > dirs, with only one week worth of them referenced. Probably only > those files still referenced in the Index should be kept. The package main

Bug#464090: git repo does not appear to be accessible

2008-10-23 Thread Yann Dirson
Hi, That's an obsolete repo anyway (and all this should notbe necessary on a well-behaved one). This one was moved to repo.or.cz, and you'll find in the git ml archive the URL of the repository of the original author, with even more fixes. HTH, Yann On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 10:29:25PM -0400, Je

Bug#478862: closed by Ari Pollak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Bug#314786: fixed in libsdl-sound1.2 1.0.3-2)

2008-09-29 Thread Yann Dirson
On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 12:30:10AM +, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: > libsdl-sound1.2 (1.0.3-2) unstable; urgency=low > . >* Use /etc/timidity instead of /etc when looking for timidity.cfg > (Closes: #314786) Hm, I did not test since it did not hit the mirrors yet, but from the

Bug#490579: cgoban: should register as sgf editor

2008-07-12 Thread Yann Dirson
Package: cgoban Version: 1.9.14-14 Severity: wishlist cgoban is able to edit sgf files, and should thus register a mailcap entry for the sgf mime type (like qgo does), so it can be easily used to view sfg files from a web browser. -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers tes

Bug#490153: apt-ftparchive: --help example from pre-pool era

2008-07-10 Thread Yann Dirson
Package: apt-utils Version: 0.7.14+b1 Severity: minor --help output contains the following text, which is mostly of archeological interest nowadays :) An example of how it is used nowadays with a pool structure would be much more useful. Example usage from the Debian archive: apt-ftparchive pa

Bug#490003: e2fsck-static: please add bash-static to shell list

2008-07-09 Thread Yann Dirson
Package: e2fsck-static Version: 1.40.11-1 Severity: wishlist This package recommends a bunch of statically-linked shells, but this list does not include bash-static. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#489510: tailor: syntax error in bzr.py with python 2.4

2008-07-06 Thread Yann Dirson
Package: tailor Version: 0.9.35-1 Severity: serious Processing triggers for python-support ... Compiling /var/lib/python-support/python2.4/vcpx/repository/bzr.py ... File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.4/vcpx/repository/bzr.py", line 276 yield self._changesetFromRevision(parent_branch, rev

Bug#489258: ssh completion only looks for executables

2008-07-04 Thread Yann Dirson
Package: bash Version: 3.2-4 Tags: bash-completion Asking for completion on "ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] tar -zxf " looks for executables in the path: looks like the ssh rule is not flexible enough to be useful here. Not sure it is feasible (or even that it would generally make sense) to attempt gettin

Bug#489259: bash: completing from local files after redirection ops

2008-07-04 Thread Yann Dirson
Package: bash Version: 3.2-4 Severity: wishlist Tags: bash-completion Completing things like "ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] tar -zxf - < " should detect the use of redirection operator early, and use file completion instead of requesting a command-specific completion. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EM

Bug#488081: aptitude: prefers to take from experimental than unstable

2008-06-26 Thread Yann Dirson
Package: aptitude Version: 0.4.11.4-1, 0.4.11.6-1 With today's updates, sid's wengophone requires "libgnutls26 (>= 2.4.0-0)", not satisfied by lenny, but by unstable (2.4.0-2) and experimental (2.4.0-1), which poses a problem to aptitude after selecting everything for upgrade. In that case, for s

Bug#486452: dogtail: maybe update code from svn

2008-06-16 Thread Yann Dirson
Package: dogtail Version: 0.6.1-3 Severity: wishlist After seeing upstream flag many bugzilla items as "fixed in svn": good to know there are lots of fixes in svn! is the svn code stable enough for daily use ? yeah, i've been terrible at publicly talking about it, but if you read the ChangeLog

Bug#486112: k3b: file conflict in libk3b3-extracodecs

2008-06-13 Thread Yann Dirson
Package: libk3b3-extracodecs Version: 1.0.5-2 Severity: serious Dépaquetage de libk3b3-extracodecs (à partir de .../libk3b3-extracodecs_1.0.5-2_i386.deb) ... dpkg : erreur de traitement de /var/cache/apt/archives/libk3b3-extracodecs_1.0.5-2_i386.deb (--unpack) : tentative de remplacement de « /u

Bug#485758: patch available

2008-06-11 Thread Yann Dirson
tags 485758 + fixed-upstream thanks This bug appears to be a fixed in upstream svn already. It could be worth to apply it to the package. See http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=508352 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMA

Bug#485783: dogtail: does not emit a specific exception if at-spi-registryd is not running

2008-06-11 Thread Yann Dirson
Package: python-dogtail Version: 0.6.1-3 If the at-spi deamon is not running, dogtail gets a SpiException from atspi.Registry.getDesktop(), and this exception makes even sniff abort. That exception should surely be caught, and propagated as a more specific one so that applications can safely hand

Bug#485758: dogtail: uncaught exception inside root.findChildren()

2008-06-11 Thread Yann Dirson (Debian)
Package: python-dogtail Version: 0.6.1-3 Severity: important When some applications are present (eg. iceweasel or gnome-help), one can see the following behaviour, which seems to show a problem in the way findChildren() walks down the Node tree: >>> from dogtail.tree import root, predicate Creati

Bug#485753: dogtail: dogtail-detect-session of limited usefulness

2008-06-11 Thread Yann Dirson (Debian)
Package: python-dogtail Version: 0.6.1-3 Severity: normal When run without any at-spi client launched (eg. under kde, just after starting registryd manyally): $ dogtail-detect-session Creating logfile at /tmp/dogtail/logs/dogtail-detect-session_20080611-101909_debug ... Detecting distribution: De

Bug#485752: dogtail: [DoS] use of /tmp/dogtail prevents use by multiple users

2008-06-11 Thread Yann Dirson (Debian)
Package: python-dogtail Version: 0.6.1-3 Severity: serious Dogtail systematically create logfiles in /tmp/dogtail/. The 1st user to run a script using dogtail (including the sniff gui) wins, and no other user can use dogtail any more until that dir is manually removed. >>> from dogtail import *

Bug#485141: hangs testing after 4G on proliant dl360 g5.

2008-06-08 Thread Yann Dirson
Hi, On Sun, Jun 08, 2008 at 04:31:09PM +0200, Kurt Roeckx wrote: > I wanted to test a machine with 18GB of RAM, but it seems to be hanging > in test #0 at 50%. The wall clock doesn't tick anymore, the press a key > like escape doesn't give any reaction. Did you try with memtest86 ? -- To UNS

Bug#480948: boost 1.35: missing dependencies

2008-05-12 Thread Yann Dirson
Package: libboost1.35-dev Version: 1.35.0-1 Severity: serious There seem to be numerous dependency problems in the current 1.35 packaging - compiling synopsis --with-boost I hit the following ones: * -filesystem requires -system: In file included from conftest.cpp:10: /usr/include/boost/filesyst

Bug#479327: tulip misses dependencies and crashes

2008-05-04 Thread Yann Dirson
On Sun, May 04, 2008 at 12:44:00PM +0200, Sam Hocevar wrote: >Hi! I have been unable to get the Debian tulip packages to work: > dependencies are missing, and the program crashes. Hm, that looks like an annoying consequence of the split of qt4 into more binary packages. A rebuild is likely en

Bug#478869: bugs.d.o: pkgindex.cgi?indexon=submitter ignores archive=

2008-05-01 Thread Yann Dirson
Package: bugs.debian.org Severity: normal The http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgindex.cgi?indexon=submitter&archive=yes page, linked from the main search page, has a content strictly identical of that without the "archive=" part. The links to "submitter=" pages do not even include the "archive="

Bug#478862: playsound: confusing error message when /dev/dsp is busy

2008-05-01 Thread Yann Dirson
Package: libsdl-sound1.2 Version: 1.0.1-12+b1 Severity: normal $ playsound data/thrust.wav Couldn't open audio device! reason: [Couldn't open /usr/local/lib/timidity/timidity.cfg]. Strace seems to show that the failure to open /dev/dsp is not caught, since extra useless things like looking fo

Bug#476158: found 476158 in 0.8.0-5

2008-04-23 Thread Yann Dirson
# Automatically generated email from bts, devscripts version 2.10.25 # let's help debbugs graph thins right found 476158 0.8.0-5 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#476158: fixed 476158 in 0.10-0.1

2008-04-23 Thread Yann Dirson
# Automatically generated email from bts, devscripts version 2.10.25 # fixed upstream in 0.10 fixed 476158 0.10-0.1 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#448771: memtest86+: does not run update-grub automatically even if grub (not grub2)

2008-04-23 Thread Yann Dirson
Hi GRUB maints, Looking at this report against memtest86+, I'd like to have some advice about the criteria to use to run the legacy update-grub. The suggested patch perpetuates considering the existence of grub.conf as a necessary condition to run update-grub, but it is already a condition for ru

Bug#477382: aptitude: "Pause after downloading files" impacts Changelog viewing

2008-04-22 Thread Yann Dirson
Package: aptitude Version: 0.4.11.2-1 Severity: minor >From a UI point of view, viewing a changelog is not really the same as downloading a file (to the local filesystem), so it is a bit awkward that I have to validate the visualisation of the changelog, whereas I have "Pause after downloading fil

Bug#476596: aptitude: reason not displayed for package removed because of recommends->suggests dep. downgrade

2008-04-19 Thread Yann Dirson
On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 09:36:47PM -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote: > BTW, I wanted to thank you for all the reports you're filing on > aptitude. For various reasons I'm not working on it as much this month, > but having this stuff stored in the BTS is good so that I have a list of > things to work

Bug#470686: fixed 471379 in 0.10-0.2, fixed 470686 in 0.10-0.2

2008-04-19 Thread Yann Dirson
# Automatically generated email from bts, devscripts version 2.10.25 # some bugs have been fixed in 0.10-0.1 fixed 471379 0.10-0.2 fixed 470686 0.10-0.2 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#476817: aptitude: misses some automatic packages when deciding what to remove

2008-04-19 Thread Yann Dirson
Package: aptitude Version: 0.4.11.2-1 Severity: normal My unstable chroot still has an obsolete libdb2 installed, although it is marked automatic and has no revdeps. It even does not break anything when I select it explicitely for purge. Bundle available as [EMAIL PROTECTED]:aptitude-noauto.bund

Bug#476815: dchroot: manpage documents -d as alias to --directory

2008-04-19 Thread Yann Dirson
Package: dchroot Version: 1.1.6-1 Severity: normal File: /usr/bin/dchroot In addition to being correctly mentionned as alias to --preserve-environment, -d is also mentionned as alias to --directory. This contradicts the --help output, and my tests seem to show the latter is correct. -- System Inf

Bug#476794: aptitude: interactive search in package info view useless to dig into package description

2008-04-19 Thread Yann Dirson
Package: aptitude Version: 0.4.11.2-1 Severity: wishlist Eg. trying to find the "sasl" string in the "devscripts" info page: interactive search immediately jumps to the Recommends field I was precisely trying to understand, instead of finding the occurence in the package description. One possibil

Bug#476596: aptitude: reason not displayed for package removed because of recommends->suggests dep. downgrade

2008-04-17 Thread Yann Dirson
Package: aptitude Version: 0.4.11.2-1 Severity: normal asciidoc lowered its Recommends: fop to a Suggests when upgrading from 8.2.5-1 to -1.1. Since asciidoc appears to be the only package holding fop on my system, it correctly gets selected for removal. But aptitude does display any reason at a

Bug#476008: tulip: FTBFS: ../../../../software/tulip/src/viewGl.cpp:190: error: 'icon' is not a member of 'Ui_TulipData'

2008-04-16 Thread Yann Dirson
On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 11:55:18PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > Unfortunately the resulting executable crashes. Seems like there's > another incompatibility with Qt 4.4. Hm, looks like it would be a better idea to upgrade to the final release, which was released last week. I'll have more time f

Bug#475589: libcgi-perl: suggestion for a better wording

2008-04-11 Thread Yann Dirson
In addition to the reference to obsolete libcgi-pm-perl, now provided by perl-modules since at least perl 5.8.x, the 1st paragraph looks as if it was inherited from the README, and seems to be of no interest, as the package dependencies should be doing their job properly. Here is a replacement for

Bug#475587: reopening 475587, severity of 475587 is normal

2008-04-11 Thread Yann Dirson
# Automatically generated email from bts, devscripts version 2.10.20 reopen 475587 # OK the sentence may not be false, but the URL is obsolete nonetheless. This is still a bug. severity 475587 normal -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Con

Bug#475587: libcgi-perl: copyright file refers to obsolete upstream url

2008-04-11 Thread Yann Dirson
On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 04:01:17PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Hi, > On Fri, 11 Apr 2008 22:16:48 +0200, Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > http://www.genome.wi.mit.edu/ftp/pub/software/WWW/CGIperl/ now > > redirects to http://stein.cshl.org/WWW/C

Bug#475589: libcgi-perl: latest version is 3.05

2008-04-11 Thread Yann Dirson
On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 04:02:30PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > I think you are thinking about libcgi-pm-perl. That may well be, except there is no such package in etch/lenny/experimental :) Best regards, -- Yann. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "u

Bug#475595: aptitude: resolver A/R bindings cannot be applied to a group of packages

2008-04-11 Thread Yann Dirson
Package: aptitude Version: 0.4.11.1-1 Severity: wishlist Many times aptitude starts with a solution that does not satisfies me, like "You want to upgrade git-core ? OK, I suggest you remove all git-* packages that depend on the old version.". In such a case, I have to explicitely refuse all sugg

Bug#475589: libcgi-perl: latest version is 3.05

2008-04-11 Thread Yann Dirson
Package: libcgi-perl Version: 2.76-25 Severity: normal 2.76 is very old, and stein.cshl.org mentions 3.05 as being current. But it is finally outdated as well: CPAN reports 3.05 to released in 2004, and 3.35 to be current. It is quite unusual to have such an old version in Debian, so maybe there'

Bug#475587: libcgi-perl: copyright file refers to obsolete upstream url

2008-04-11 Thread Yann Dirson
Package: libcgi-perl Version: 2.76-25 Severity: serious http://www.genome.wi.mit.edu/ftp/pub/software/WWW/CGIperl/ now redirects to http://stein.cshl.org/WWW/CGIperl/ which returns a 404. However, http://stein.cshl.org/WWW/CGI/ seems to be the new location. -- System Information: Debian Release:

Bug#474876: aptitude: selections lost by package reconfiguration

2008-04-07 Thread Yann Dirson
Package: aptitude Version: 0.4.11.1-1 Severity: normal After selecting packages for upgrade or hold, and asking to reconfigure some package, the said changes to the selection are lost when coming back from reconfiguration: the state is the same as when I launched aptitude. -- Package-specific inf

Bug#474256: aptitude: %r misses revdeps for packages being upgraded

2008-04-04 Thread Yann Dirson
Package: aptitude Version: 0.4.11.1-1 Severity: normal The preview today shows the following stats (my format has "%p %r %t"): --\ Packages which are recommended by other packages (5) pbzrtools 0 unstable,testing 1.3.0-2 pgnokii-cli0 unstable,testing 0.6.

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