Bug#972946: ftp.debian.org: sections.822: inconsistencies

2020-10-26 Thread era eriksson
Package: ftp.debian.org Severity: minor Patch: yes Thanks for providing this. I noticed the long description wasn't entirely consistent. This adds a full stop where missing. /* era */ --- sections.822~ 2020-10-26 11:16:59.0 +0200 +++ sections.8222020-10-26

Bug#886024: split off anything-el related part

2018-01-03 Thread era eriksson
On Wed, Jan 3, 2018, at 03:45, H.-Dirk Schmitt wrote: > On Mi, 2018-01-03 at 02:06 +0200, era eriksson wrote: > > Code outline for an emacs batch wrapper > > I do not insist on bash – you are free to fix it in any programming > language ;-) A fair amon

Bug#886024: split off anything-el related part

2018-01-02 Thread era eriksson
Your emacs-batch script seems to have some issues. I have not reviewed it properly, but e.g. your prevalent use of the declare keyword is definitely a bashism. More generally, making Emacs package compilation more robust is absolutely not a bad idea; but introducing new requirements should also

Bug#865401: base-passwd: erratic punctuation spacing in English debconf questions

2017-06-21 Thread era eriksson
Package: base-passwd Version: 3.5.39 Severity: minor X-Debbugs-Cc: era+deb...@iki.fi I was playing around with debconf-get-selections, and noticed this: root# debconf-get-selections | grep -A 1 ' ?' | > sed -n $'/^[^-#]/s/\t.*//p' | uniq -c 12 base-passwd In English (unlike e.g. in French)

Bug#841038: Odd formatting in PHP license position statement

2016-10-17 Thread era eriksson
Package: ftp.debian.org Version: 20161017 Severity: minor X-Debbugs-Cc: era+deb...@iki.fi There is a Debian position statement regarding the PHP license at https://ftp-master.debian.org/php-license.html This was recently highligthed on DDA [1] and thus brought to my attention. The blockquote

Bug#803767: debian-changelog-mode: don't rely on external date (LP#1197870)

2015-11-02 Thread era eriksson
Package: dpkg-dev-el Version: 35.12 Tags: patch X-Debbugs-Cc: era+deb...@iki.fi The current debian-changelog-mode shells out to coreutils' date. To increase portability (some developers work on packages from other architectures), it would be nice to see this clean up get integrated:

Bug#798320: aptitude: returns 0 (success) exit code when no packages found

2015-09-07 Thread era eriksson
Package: aptitude Version: 0.6.11-1+b1 X-Debbugs-Cc: era+deb...@iki.fi I bumped into another case where a zero (success) exit code was produced when the requested action could not be taken. I'm submitting this as a separate bug report even though it has similarities with e.g. #590686 and #592818

Bug#588961: Close as unreproducible

2015-07-28 Thread era eriksson
tag 588961 +unreproducible +wontfix close 588961 thanks Submitter: This bug report does not contain sufficient information to diagnose the problem. It looks like a communications error with gksu. If you are able to diagnose the problem, please feel free to reopen and perhaps reassign to gksu,

Bug#663424: sources.debian.net to the rescue

2015-05-05 Thread era eriksson
As a partial remedy, sources.debian.net now exposes the sources for browsing, though it's not quite the same as having them on Github. https://sources.debian.net/src/equivs/ /* era */ -- If this were a real .signature, it would suck less. Well, maybe not. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#774768: See also #775974

2015-01-23 Thread era eriksson
Tangentially, see also #775974 -- If this were a real .signature, it would suck less. Well, maybe not. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#775974: lists.debian.org: Disable AHBL in SpamAssassin

2015-01-21 Thread era eriksson
Package: lists.debian.org X-Debbugs-Cc: era+deb...@iki.fi Apparently, all messages now get the AHBL hit, which increases the likelyhood of spam false positives. Spot checks reveal this problem at least on debian-user-spanish, debian-russian, and debian-l10n-french, but apparently, all lists are

Bug#566943: Repro attempt

2015-01-21 Thread era eriksson
I tried to send email to 566943-h...@bugs.debian.org as suggested in the feedback from the (then?) list maintainer, and got nothing back. I sent another bug report in the meantime and that registered properly, and I got the expected reply, so my mail does seem to be going through, both ways. --

Bug#772952: 7z: Error messages go to stdout

2014-12-12 Thread era eriksson
Package: p7zip-full Version: 9.04~dfsg.1-1 Severity: minor X-Debbugs-Cc: era+deb...@iki.fi 7z prints error messages to standard output. This makes it impossible to keep apart regular output and error messages, and violates user expectations, if not applicable standards. When you are running 7z

Bug#346463: Bug#772952: 7z: Error messages go to stdout

2014-12-12 Thread era eriksson
package p7zip p7zip-full forcemerge 346463 772952 thanks Sorry, I foolishly only consulted the p7zip-full bug listing, and thus missed the duplicate. On Fri, Dec 12, 2014, at 14:46, era eriksson wrote: Package: p7zip-full Version: 9.04~dfsg.1-1 Severity: minor X-Debbugs-Cc: era+deb...@iki.fi

Bug#761621: bash: cannot echo $'\x00'

2014-09-15 Thread era eriksson
Package: bash Version: 4.1-3 Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-Cc: era+debb...@iki.fi I was somewhat surprised and miffed to find that this does not work. I found old correspondence about this issue on the bash-bugs mailing list [1] but it was hardly an exhaustive discussion. [1]:

Bug#758192: unzip: prints to terminal, even with -qq

2014-08-15 Thread era eriksson
Package: unzip Version: 6.0-4 Severity: minor X-Debbugs-Cc: era+debb...@iki.fi The unzip utility has odd, non-Unixy output handling. There are messages which are almost impossible to (guess how to) redirect or squelch. This includes (but may not be limited to) error output from the unzip -t

Bug#734712: jack3rc configuration file format undocumented

2014-01-09 Thread era eriksson
Package: jack Version: 3.1.1+cvs20050801-26 X-Debbugs-Cc: era+deb...@iki.fi Forwarding my own Ubuntu bug report to the Debian upstream maintainer. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/jack/+bug/960970 The manual page says that the --save option will write out your selected options to the

Bug#734718: jack -x option not understandable

2014-01-09 Thread era eriksson
Package: jack Version: X-Debbugs-Cc: era+deb...@iki.fi Forwarding my Ubuntu bug report to the Debian upstream maintainer. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/jack/+bug/961019 The manual states that the -x option causes jack to run a predefined command when it finishes, but it is not

Bug#686113: Coordinate with similar Ubuntu bugs

2013-07-10 Thread era eriksson
The following two Ubuntu bugs have similar symptoms: * https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/maildir-utils/+bug/1150593 * https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/maildir-utils/+bug/1199553 The former reports that replacing an elpa install of org-mode with the Ubuntu-packaged org mode fixed

Bug#686113: Workaround: Temporarily uninstall mu4e

2013-07-10 Thread era eriksson
We now have a report that uninstalling mu4e allows the emacs24 install to finish, whereby mu4e can be installed successfully as well. To follow up on my earlier note, I'm beginning to think that the elpa diagnostic was wrong, and that the real issue is the sequence in which you install emacs24

Bug#714131: bugs.debian.org: inline attachment view; full text isn't

2013-06-25 Thread era eriksson
Package: bugs.debian.org Severity: minor X-Debbugs-Cc: era+debb...@iki.fi When looking at a bug via the web interface, it would be useful to be able to browse patches without downloading them. Frequently, this is not possible, because the patches are served with a content-disposition: attachment

Bug#409058: Fixed?

2013-02-20 Thread era eriksson
package readpst notfound 409058 0.6.54-0ubuntu1 thanks This is not reproducible on Ubuntu Precise. Because the Ubuntu diffs show no indication that there is any Ubuntu-specific fix for this, I speculate that it is fixed (or for all I know wfm), /* era */ -- If this were a real .signature, it

Bug#520947: Repro instructions

2012-11-12 Thread era eriksson
I have had SpamAssassin eating a lot of memory. In order to limit the damage, I set it up with fairly aggressive ulimits. Unfortunately, that means I am now also getting this error message. I don't see crashes, though. Here is a pared-down version of the script I use to start up spamd:

Bug#685933: No, don't close

2012-10-24 Thread era eriksson
I don't think these bugs should be closed until there is a useful diagnostic instead of an error message most users won't know how to interpret. /* era */ -- If this were a real .signature, it would suck less. Well, maybe not. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#691345: emacs24: org-export fails without emacs24-el

2012-10-24 Thread era eriksson
Package: emacs24 Version: 24.1+1-2 X-Debbugs-Cc: era+deb...@iki.fi Forwarding an emacs24 bug report from an Ubuntu user; https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/emacs24/+bug/1064024 submitted by Fredrik Nyqvist on 2012-10-08: When I am trying to export my .org document to another format by

Bug#594514: Belatedly tagging

2012-09-19 Thread era eriksson
tags 594514 + wontfix thanks As per Rob's latest comment (only from 2010 ...) I am tagging this as wontfix. /* era */ -- If this were a real .signature, it would suck less. Well, maybe not. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe.

Bug#677191: Add watch: LP#789706

2012-06-29 Thread era eriksson
Just a quick note that Ubuntu Launchpad has a largish number of recent duplicates for this bug. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xemacs21/+bug/789706 xemacs21 has been stable (as in basically unmaintained in Ubuntu) for a long time, across several Ubuntu releases. This points to

Bug#663424: (no subject)

2012-06-26 Thread era eriksson
Severity normal? Really? Anyway, I'm not really interested. Color me dismayed. This would be for the benefit of your users, not primarily for you. In fact, I'm certain that you already have access to your VCS. For the record, I too would like to see this happen. /* era */ -- If this were

Bug#679101: equivs: equivs-build: no quoting of $builddir

2012-06-26 Thread era eriksson
Package: equivs Version: 2.0.9 X-Debbugs-Cc: era+deb...@iki.fi I am hereby forwarding Ubuntu bug #1016402 to the upstream maintainer of equivs from the Ubuntu bug tracking system. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/equivs/+bug/1016402 --- cut --- 8 --- Steps to reproduce: 1. mkdir -p

Bug#543564: lintian check against info/dir(.gz)?

2012-04-23 Thread era eriksson
On Tue, 14 Feb 2012 10:42:47 +, Richard Kettlewell r...@greenend.org.uk wrote: Perhaps there should be some systematic approach to preventing packages shipping such toxic files? There is; bug #535566. (Omitting cc: 659...@bugs.debian.org as it's already fixed in cvs.) /* era */ -- If

Bug#667451: haskell-mode: fails to support emacs-snapshot et al.

2012-04-04 Thread era eriksson
Package: haskell-mode Version: 2.7.0-2.1 Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-Cc: era+deb...@iki.fi Tags: patch The patch for #568579 would appear to also drop support for e.g. emacs-snapshot. I use neither emacs-snapshot nor haskell-mode, so I'm not going to push this any further, but if you publish

Bug#655971: tags 655971 +patch

2012-03-26 Thread era eriksson
tags 655971 +patch thanks The linked CVE report has a forward link to a git repo with patches for Debian et al. /* era */ -- If this were a real .signature, it would suck less. Well, maybe not. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Bug#653279: (no subject)

2011-12-27 Thread era eriksson
As you can tell by the diagnostic output, you cannot use a regex anchor to signal beginning of file in this context. Did you get the impression from the documentation that this ought to be possible? An easy patch would be to convert any initial '^' anchor in the search expression to the

Bug#312829: reassign to anthy-el?

2011-06-10 Thread era eriksson
Shouldn't you instead reassign this to anthy-el? anthy-el Requires: emacsen but should probably also Conflicts: xemacs21-nomule if the analysis earlier in this bug report is correct. /* era */ -- If this were a real .signature, it would suck less. Well, maybe not. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Bug#628790: auctex: TeX-next-error broken for error messages without line number

2011-06-01 Thread era eriksson
Package: auctex Version: 11.85-1 X-Debbugs-Cc: era+deb...@iki.fi I am forwarding the following bug report from Ubuntu: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/auctex/+bug/790212 The actual package version in Ubuntu is 11.85.1ubuntu1. Test case (see original description below for repro steps);

Bug#624399: libtextcat: CVS directories in source

2011-04-28 Thread era eriksson
Package: libtextcat Version: 2.2-2 Severity: minor X-Debbugs-Cc: era+deb...@iki.fi lucid$ apt-get source libtextcat ... output as expected, getting version 2.2 ... lucid$ cd libtextcat-2.2 lucud$ find . -name CVS -ls 29246614 drwxr-xr-x 2 era era 4096 May 19 2003

Bug#611396: emacs: Can't handle utf8 encoded filenames in locale 'de_DE.utf8'

2011-04-15 Thread era eriksson
So Sven, do you think this should be considered an upstream bug, a configuration problem, or something else? I'm not Sven, but I could imagine all of these to be feasible steps forward: 1. Perhaps German should be updated to behave according to modern expectations, as vaguely suggested by

Bug#574947: Licence changed

2011-03-09 Thread era eriksson
tags 574947 +patch thanks Also note that debian/copyright should be updated. Global is now licensed under GPLv3. /* era */ -- If this were a real .signature, it would suck less. Well, maybe not. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Bug#600712: Debugging hints

2010-12-23 Thread era eriksson
On Thu, 23 Dec 2010 09:19 +0100, Sven Joachim svenj...@gmx.de wrote: It is not very likely that the submitter will reply, since he will most probably not have seen your message. You need to CC him. That seems backwards, but I have forwarded my message to him under separate cover. Thanks for

Bug#600712: Debugging hints

2010-12-22 Thread era eriksson
1. Do you get a backtrace in Emacs if you seet (setq debug-on-error t)? (unlikely) 2. If you turn up gnus-verbose and gnus-verbose-backends, do you get useful information? 3. Can you build Emacs with debugging symbols and obtain a stack trace? /* era */ -- If this were a real .signature, it

Bug#601358: wontfix

2010-10-25 Thread era eriksson
Calling /etc/init.d/thttpd displays nothing insteading [of] displaying how to use it. That's not how other init.d scripts work either; the purpose of scripts in /etc/init.d is first and foremost to run automatically. I leave it up to a DD to actually decide on this, but I think I would expect

Bug#599922: dictionaries-common: merge upstream changes to .el files

2010-10-12 Thread era eriksson
Package: dictionaries-common Version: 1.5.11 Severity: normal X-Debbugs-Cc: era+deb...@iki.fi Running a diff against ispell.el from emacs23 reveals some upstream changes which should probably be incorporated into the version in dictionaries-common. There are also differences in flyspell.el but

Bug#597530: emacs23: My outgoing mail is lost

2010-10-05 Thread era eriksson
merge 597530 397757 thanks On Mon, 20 Sep 2010 23:49 +0200, Stefan Monnier monn...@iro.umontreal.ca wrote: See #397757 why this would be correct. Agreed. I guess this can be merged with #397757. Hence. /* era */ -- If this were a real .signature, it would suck less. Well, maybe not.

Bug#597530: Processed: Re: Processed: One more time fer paw

2010-10-05 Thread era eriksson
On Tue, 05 Oct 2010 10:51 +, Debian Bug Tracking System ow...@bugs.debian.org wrote: reassign 597530 emacs23 Thanks. I was wondering how I should cope with this. /* era */ -- If this were a real .signature, it would suck less. Well, maybe not. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#598716: psvn.el: Cannot commit changes over Tramp; temp file is local

2010-10-01 Thread era eriksson
Package: subversion Version: 1.5.1dfsg1-4 Severity: normal Forwarding an Ubuntu bug to the upstream Debian subversion maintainers: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/subversion/+bug/651850 When editing files in a remote SVN work directory, you cannot perform a commit from within Emacs,

Bug#598716: Forward upstream?

2010-10-01 Thread era eriksson
Subversion's contrib/emacs directory also contains an older version. Perhaps this should be forwarded to them. http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/subversion/trunk/contrib/client-side/emacs/psvn.el?view=markuppathrev=915036 /* era */ -- If this were a real .signature, it would suck less. Well,

Bug#530961: patch

2010-09-29 Thread era eriksson
tags 530961 +patch thanks Attached please find a patch against 1.4.19. I also took the liberty to fix a spelling error in the docstring. The error message is misleading; I wonder why that is. The changed line is 121, not 131. I'm inlining as well as attaching, for your convenience. The patch

Bug#595783: debian-installer: en_DK locale missing

2010-09-06 Thread era eriksson
Package: debian-installer Severity: normal I have customarily been using en_DK as my default locale because I want my system to speak English to me but units, dates etc to be sane for mainland Europe. Now when I tried to install Debian Testing, I noticed that en_DK is not available as an option

Bug#588527: Also found in emacs23

2010-09-02 Thread era eriksson
reassign 588527 emacs23 23.1+1-4 thanks Reassigning to emacs23 as emacs-snapshot is not in Debian (any more). /* era */ -- If this were a real .signature, it would suck less. Well, maybe not. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Bug#594514: signature separation anxiety --

2010-08-27 Thread era eriksson
On Thu, 26 Aug 2010 20:26 +0100, Barak A. Pearlmutter ba...@cs.nuim.ie wrote: It is also a long-outstanding Usenet convention and documented in RFC 3676, thus not just a matter of taste. It is an abomination. Apparently this 30-year-old convention is news to you, but a Debian Emacs bug

Bug#581648: (no subject)

2010-08-23 Thread era eriksson
after uninstalling all cedet package a long time ago thoses files are still present in the emacs23 site-package They prevent the cedet included in emacs23 to work properly. Looks like cedet-common was still installed. Can you uninstall that if it's still on your system? /* era */ -- If

Bug#591925: emacs23: Enabling Flyspell mode gave an error

2010-08-12 Thread era eriksson
On 2010-08-12 01:25, alexander.savche...@gmail.com wrote: Same problem I am also able to reproduce this on a fresh install. The definition of (define-minor-mode flyspell-mode ...) emits this message in the minibuffer when (flyspell-mode-on) returns a nil result; this is inside a

Bug#591925: Info received (emacs23: Enabling Flyspell mode gave an error)

2010-08-12 Thread era eriksson
On 2010-08-12 12:02, Ryo Furue wrote: Hi, era eriksson said: Reporter and me-toos: what does ispell -vv return on your systems, and which version of ispell is that? (Hint: dpkg -S /usr/bin/ispell.) I don't have ispell installed: $ dpkg -S /usr/bin/ispell dpkg: /usr/bin/ispell

Bug#498898: mk-build-deps is in devscripts, not in equivs

2010-06-13 Thread era eriksson
reassign 498898 devscripts thanks mk-build-deps is a devscripts script, not part of equivs. /* era */ -- If this were a real .signature, it would suck less. Well, maybe not. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Bug#583106: tags 583106 +patch

2010-05-26 Thread era eriksson
tags 583106 +patch thanks The Fedora ticket has a nice set of patches. /* era */ -- If this were a real .signature, it would suck less. Well, maybe not. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Bug#580198: Segfault on opening an Org file

2010-05-04 Thread era eriksson
On Tue, 04 May 2010 10:18 +0200, Julien Danjou a...@debian.org wrote: My emacs segfault badly when opening an Org file. Note that it works fine with -Q option, so there's something it does not like in my configuration, I guess. Could you attach your .emacs file, and/or isolate what in your

Bug#561181: Raise severity

2010-04-12 Thread era eriksson
severity 561181 important thanks It seems that this bug is preventing a dist-upgrade of emacs. I'm taking the liberty to raise the severity to important. Please see further Ubuntu bug https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sepia/+bug/560428 and also the proposed patch in

Bug#571638: Patch against 2.0.8

2010-03-17 Thread era eriksson
tags 571638 patch thanks Here's a patch against 2.0.8. I noticed that Conflicts is missing from template.ctl so I added that too. /* era */ -- If this were a real .signature, it would suck less. Well, maybe not. diff -urNad equivs-2.0.8.orig/usr/bin/equivs-build

Bug#119888: Sources....

2010-03-15 Thread era eriksson
On Thu, 11 Mar 2010 21:42:31 +0100, Xan wrote: In official changelog http://www.acme.com/software/thttpd/#releasenotes there is no notice about it. Where is the source of this change? The patch you yourself supplied is included in the Debian source package as

Bug#557804: vm: does not conform to RFC 822 skipping

2009-11-25 Thread era eriksson
Bug reassigned from package 'vm' to 'emacs23'. The request in the bug report to supply a sample with which this can be reproduced is still topical. Apparently a file error.txt was communicated in private (?) but it is not attached to the bug report. Manoj or Brian, could you please attach it

Bug#126608: state of #126608

2009-10-23 Thread era eriksson
On Thu, 22 Oct 2009 18:20 +0300, Eugene V. Lyubimkin jackyf.de...@gmail.com wrote: Hello era, I agree with explanation given by Kalle that the current situation is not a bug, so I'm about to close it. Do you have objections? I like Kalle's suggestion that local $1 should happen automatically,

Bug#541348: cweb.el: deliberately breaks Emacs

2009-09-05 Thread era eriksson
tag 541348 +patch thanks On Fri, 04 Sep 2009 09:25 -0400, Peter S Galbraith p...@debian.org wrote: era eriksson e...@iki.fi wrote: On Wed, 02 Sep 2009 17:01 -0400, Peter S Galbraith p...@debian.org wrote: The autogenerated file emacs-goodies-loaddefs.el has not contained autoloads

Bug#541348: cweb.el: deliberately breaks Emacs

2009-09-04 Thread era eriksson
reopen 541348 retitle 541348 cwebm still included in package description thanks On Wed, 02 Sep 2009 17:01 -0400, Peter S Galbraith p...@debian.org wrote: The autogenerated file emacs-goodies-loaddefs.el has not contained autoloads for cwebm for many versions of emacs-goodies-el now. My bad,

Bug#476109: Not really an Emacs issue

2009-09-02 Thread era eriksson
This is not really appropriate for Emacs. Installing Emacs should not force users of other editors to receive a system-wide policy to use Emacs for editing these types of files (however sympathetic I am to evangelizing those poor heathens. :-) The idea as such has some merit. Debian already

Bug#476109: Not really an Emacs issue

2009-09-02 Thread era eriksson
On Wed, 02 Sep 2009 09:35 +0200, Sven Joachim svenj...@gmx.de wrote: On 2009-09-02 08:36 +0200, era eriksson wrote: The idea as such has some merit. Debian already provides a facility for generic redirection to the user's preferred editor, so this suggestion could be implemented with /usr

Bug#541344: Attribution for #476624

2009-08-13 Thread era eriksson
Package: cryptsetup Version: 2:1.0.7-1 Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-Cc: era+deb...@iki.fi I'm wondering if it would be out of the question to credit me in the changelog for the typo fixes in #476624 -- my bug report https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/164181 enumerated the typos and proposed fixes.

Bug#541348: cweb.el: deliberately breaks Emacs

2009-08-13 Thread era eriksson
Package: emacs-goodies-el Version: 29.4-1 X-Debbugs-Cc: era+deb...@iki.fi This report is essentially a forward of Ubuntu bug #381188 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/391188 cwebm-mode is not functional in emacs-goodies-el, and should be disabled or excluded. Attempts to edit files with a .w

Bug#448524: reopen, fix too broad

2009-08-12 Thread era eriksson
reopen 448524 tags 448524 +patch thanks The fix in 2.25b-5 is unfortunately too broad. As pointed out in the follow-up from Patricio Silva, the fix fails to anchor the regular expression properly (and besides, the Useless Use of grep | grep is convoluted). PID=`cat $PIDFILE` if ps ax |

Bug#448524: Sorry, bad patch

2009-08-12 Thread era eriksson
Ouch, I was too quick -- apologies. The patch I attached to the previous message did not properly implement the fix I described. Here's another attempt. patch Description: Binary data

Bug#540621: Fwd: thttpd override disparity

2009-08-09 Thread era eriksson
Package: thttpd Version: 2.25b-7 Severity: minor X-Debbugs-Cc: era+debb...@iki.fi See forwarded message from archive administrator. thttpd_2.25b-7_i386.deb: package says section is web, override says httpd. ---BeginMessage--- There are disparities between your recently accepted upload and the

Bug#494673: clarification of proposed dlocate README?

2009-05-26 Thread era eriksson
On Sun, 24 May 2009 16:14 +0200, Tomas Pospisek tpo_...@sourcepole.ch wrote: Could this later point be made clear in the README? i really don't know how it could be said any clearer. I suggest actually putting that information somewhere into the package as for example into the

Bug#494673: clarification of proposed dlocate README?

2009-05-26 Thread era eriksson
On Tue, 26 May 2009 22:10 +0300, era eriksson e...@iki.fi wrote: In my opinion this is slightly problematic -- dlocate's install script cannot know whether locate was installed explicitly by the user (well, I suppose this information is available if you use aptitude, but not on a plain apt-get

Bug#521859: python-kerberos: please include kerberos.py

2009-03-30 Thread era eriksson
Package: python-kerberos Version: 1.1-3 Severity: minor Tags: patch X-Debbugs-Cc: era+deb...@iki.fi The README says: === Python APIs === See kerberos.py. However, kerberos.py is not included in the package. If you don't want to include it in the package, perhaps the README

Bug#520276: Fwd: python-kerberos: typo in package description

2009-03-30 Thread era eriksson
On Wed, 18 Mar 2009 16:47 +0200, era eriksson e...@iki.fi wrote: Package: python-kerberos Version: 1.1-3 Severity: minor Tags: patch X-Debbugs-Cc: era+...@iki.fi s/Appache/Apache Also what's with the dot between Kerberos and framework? The same typos are also in the README file

Bug#520276: Fwd: python-kerberos: typo in package description

2009-03-23 Thread era eriksson
On Mon, 23 Mar 2009 08:25:42 +0100, Guido Günther a...@sigxcpu.org said: Also what's with the dot between Kerberos and framework? The whole kerberos framework refers to the complete API (see e.g. man krb5). Just to make sure we communicate properly: I understand what the phrase Kerberos

Bug#520276: Fwd: python-kerberos: typo in package description

2009-03-18 Thread era eriksson
Package: python-kerberos Version: 1.1-3 Severity: minor Tags: patch X-Debbugs-Cc: era+...@iki.fi s/Appache/Apache Also what's with the dot between Kerberos and framework? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Bug#513470: dlocate: fix lintian warnings [patch]

2009-01-29 Thread era eriksson
not ignore +errors from make clean (fix lintian warnings) + * debian/changelog: fix typo in 0.96.1 s/dancy/dency/ (fix lintian warning) + * debian/postinst: don't use explicit path for /usr/sbin (fix lintian warning) + * debian/postrm: add -e flag (fix lintian warning) + + -- era eriksson era+deb

Bug#466662: Revised patch

2009-01-23 Thread era eriksson
Actually the wording which leads in to the example would need to be changed too. Please find inline an ad-hoc updated patch. Internally this uses egrep on a file containing the reformatted -output of #8216;dpkg -l#8217; (four fields separated by one space-character: -status, package-name,

Bug#153824: Should this bug be closed?

2009-01-16 Thread era eriksson
If I interpret the final comments correctly, this should be closed as invalid, but I hesitate to do so without checking. Any comments? Submitter, are you still around? /* era */ -- If this were a real .signature, it would suck less. Well, maybe not. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#443930: auctex: Help links to elisp source don't work

2009-01-04 Thread era eriksson
LaTeX-mode-hook is a variable defined in `/usr/share/emacs22/site- lisp/auctex/latex.elc'. and if I try to follow the link it doesn't work. Not a surprise, since you need to drop the 22 to get it to work. What I don't understand is why the link is wrong in the first place. Notice the .elc.

Bug#381737: update-grub: Does not like my custom built kernel

2008-12-27 Thread era eriksson
retitle 381737 update-grub: incorrect regex discards some kernels thanks for kern in $(/bin/ls -1vr /boot | grep -v dpkg-* | grep -v xen | grep ^vmlinuz-) ; do The quoted shell script snippet is actually incorrect for the dpkg- case, too. I assume what is meant is simply dpkg- but the

Bug#505997: dlocate: dependencies are too rigid; mlocate should satisfy them

2008-11-17 Thread era eriksson
On Mon, 17 Nov 2008 11:37:32 -0500, Norman Ramsey [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: It should be possible for dlocate to depend on mlocate, not just slocate or locate. Or otherwise a bug report should be filed against mlocate. Feel free to submit a bug against mlocate then. As far as dlocate is

Bug#494651: dlocate: add README about mlocate/slocate compatibility options

2008-08-11 Thread era eriksson
Package: dlocate Version: 0.96.1 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch X-Debbugs-Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Following the apparent deluge of bugs against dlocate asking for interoperability with slocate and/or dlocate (#101426, #453952, #454471, #456249, #489262), I would like to second the suggestion in

Bug#247974: fix bug description

2008-08-11 Thread era eriksson
retitle 247974 unintuitive error message for free-form text input thanks As shown below, the error message is even marginally less useful now, because the input file and line number are no longer indicated. Error handling aside, maybe the instructions in template.ctl could be even more explicit

Bug#251673: fix bug description

2008-08-11 Thread era eriksson
retitle 251673 parsechangelog fails if Maintainer: formatted wrong thanks The problem is IMHO real, but it's not necessarily equivs which should be fixed. Perhaps a better solution would be for dpkg-parsechangelog to issue a more candid error message about the nature of the error.

Bug#219188: fix bug description

2008-08-11 Thread era eriksson
retitle 219188 unintuitive handling of syntax error in Provides thanks The error message from the back end is now fairly explicit about the nature of the parsing problem, and the build fails; furthermore, the comments in template.ctl now mention that the dependency fields need to be

Bug#323648: Attaching equivs-build-multi script

2008-08-11 Thread era eriksson
different files. Both will contain the global values, and then one each of the package sections. Source: example-local-equivs Section: misc Priority: optional Standards-Version: 3.5.10 Changelog: changelog Version: 0.01 Architecture: all Maintainer: era eriksson [EMAIL PROTECTED

Bug#493861: Please remove the mguesser binary from the othar packages instead

2008-08-08 Thread era eriksson
The mnogosearch-* packages provide this binary: http://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=contentskeywords=mguessermode=exactfilenamesuite=unstablearch=any Craig, what about putting the binary into one binary debian package instead of three? I would much prefer if that one package were

Bug#219188: Downgrade bogus bug

2008-07-30 Thread era eriksson
retitle 219188 equivs: confusing message for syntax error in control file severity 219188 wishlist merge 219188 247974 thanks Because 247974 is IMHO essentially about the same issue, I'm taking the liberty of merging these two. I think it's a fair point that the error message is confusing, if

Bug#364620: Stopped being a FTBFS

2008-07-23 Thread era eriksson
tags 364620 +patch thanks I used to get FTBFS for this bug too, but it appears that it is indeed fixed in recent versions of Perl. Specifically, according to http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/software/podlators/changes.html, the --release= option is permitted to be empty starting with a version which

Bug#474730: www.debian.org: cannot link to DSA without knowing year

2008-04-07 Thread era eriksson
Package: www.debian.org Version: 20080407 Severity: minor There appears to be no way to link to a DSA page without knowing in which year the DSA was published. Could you please set up a rewrite rule such that http://security.debian.org/dsa/1234-1 links to the right place? This is valuable for

Bug#474730: www.debian.org: cannot link to DSA without knowing year

2008-04-07 Thread era eriksson
On Mon, 7 Apr 2008 15:45:01 +0200, Nico Golde [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Hi era, * era eriksson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-04-07 15:24]: There appears to be no way to link to a DSA page without knowing in which year the DSA was published. Could you please set up a rewrite rule such that http

Bug#471373: mguesser: new upstream version 0.4

2008-03-18 Thread era eriksson
Package: mguesser Version: 0.2-5.1 X-Debbugs-Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] A new version of mguesser is available at http://www.mnogosearch.org/guesser/ Also perhaps you want to update the upstream maintainer's email address; I have been corresponding with him at bar at (the domain above sans www.);

Bug#400462: New version fixes 400462

2008-03-18 Thread era eriksson
On Mon, 17 Mar 2008 21:50:55 +0200, I submitted bug #471373: A new version of mguesser is available Incidentally, the new version contains the patch for #400462 in a slightly improved and overhauled form, so closes that bug as well. /* era */ -- If this were a real .signature, it would suck

Bug#221790: perl: please kick out that annoying locale warning

2008-03-09 Thread era eriksson
On Sun, 9 Mar 2008 18:05:42 +1100, Brendan O'Dea [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 10:54:55PM +0200, era eriksson wrote: How about adding something like this to /etc/skel/.bash_profile instead of fixing a warning in Perl which is, per se, correct and warranted? case `perl

Bug#469941: #469941 Swedish localisation has a typo

2008-03-08 Thread era eriksson
In http://bugs.debian.org/469941, Holger Levsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Puh, because I should have let the bugreporter, who speaks swedish, decide. What I've heard is, that alfabet == alphabet, alfabetet == *the* alphabet and I've decided to go for alfabet, as it's shorter and unspecific.

Bug#343099: #343099 Example code in Heap::Elem documentation is not valid perl5

2008-03-08 Thread era eriksson
In http://bugs.debian.org/343099, Anthony DeRobertis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: File: /usr/share/perl5/Heap/Elem.pm The documentation reads, in part: sub new { my $self = shift; my $class = ref($self) #9474;#9474; $self; my $self =

Bug#466452: (no subject)

2008-03-06 Thread era eriksson
I'd just like to chime in here. vnix$ darcs pull --dry Enter passphrase for key '/h/c/ling/reriksso/.ssh/id_dsa': ^C Error in subprocess: Interrupt Error in subprocess: Interrupt withSignalsHandled: Interrupted! Exception thrown by an atexit registered action: exception ::

Bug#221790: perl: please kick out that annoying locale warning

2008-03-06 Thread era eriksson
perl: warning: Setting locale failed. perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: LANGUAGE = (unset), LC_ALL = (unset), LANG = [EMAIL PROTECTED] are supported and installed on your system. How about adding something like this to /etc/skel/.bash_profile

Bug#218000: Retitle 218000: Missing dependency between perl and libperl

2008-03-06 Thread era eriksson
retitle 218000 Missing dependency between perl and libperl thanks Is this still topical? It looks to me like the dependencies would be correct now, but I don't know since when, and/or what things looked like when this bug was submitted. /* era */ -- If this were a real .signature, it would

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