Bug#469936: xserver-xorg-input-mouse: mouse sluggish after upgrade (same as 461152? different?)

2008-03-07 Thread gambarimasu+reportbug
Package: xserver-xorg-input-mouse Version: 1:1.2.3-2 Severity: normal not sure if this is same or different from 461152. shortly after i upgraded xserver-xorg-input-mouse to unstable, the mouse started occasionally being very sluggish to the point of near-unusability. a few days before that, i

Bug#467139: totem: resets fonts and mouse settings, requiring a restart of xorg

2008-02-23 Thread gambarimasu+reportbug
Package: totem Version: 2.20.3-1 Severity: important running totem from the command line on a file causes various fonts to be set to a smaller size, and changes mouse settings. for people who cannot adapt to the new settings, it requires restarting xorg. this is an accessibility issue for some

Bug#464595: linux-source-2.6.24: booting takes far longer than 2.6.22

2008-02-07 Thread gambarimasu+reportbug
Package: linux-source-2.6.24 Version: 2.6.24-1 Severity: normal File: linux-source-2.6.24 this bug report will be dismissed as both useless and unimportant, but slow boots greatly increase the time it takes for users to fix issues trying to get their kernels to work, so it is important to some

Bug#464591: linux-source-2.6.24: kill -9 is a nop

2008-02-07 Thread gambarimasu+reportbug
Package: linux-source-2.6.24 Version: 2.6.24-1 Severity: normal File: linux-source-2.6.24 this bug report will be dismissed as useless, but it's important to document the existence of the bug. a process, index++, which uiam is part of swish++, consumed 100% of cpu. kill -1 failed. all values

Bug#463957: /usr/bin/totem-xine: changes dpi, requiring killing the x server

2008-02-04 Thread gambarimasu+reportbug
Package: totem-xine Version: 2.20.3-1 Severity: important File: /usr/bin/totem-xine i run xorg with -dpi 125, and cannot use the computer unless it is so. totem resets dpi to around 100. this requires killing the x server to get it back to 125. i tried getting it back from the command line

Bug#464093: glob2: accessibility: unusable for people who need larger fonts

2008-02-04 Thread gambarimasu+reportbug
Package: glob2 Version: 0.8.23-1 Severity: important hi, with all the quality and settings of this program, nowhere is it obviously possible to set font size. this makes the program 100% unusable for people who need larger fonts. screen magnifiers are not a workaround because of screen real

Bug#464097: sun-java5-plugin: accessibility: impossible to set font size for applets

2008-02-04 Thread gambarimasu+reportbug
Package: sun-java5-plugin Version: 1.5.0-13-1 Severity: important File: sun-java5-plugin note: i am not a java programmer. according to a FAQ, 15. In a Java Applet can the user alter format attributes such as font and background color, text font, and font size? Unless the format

Bug#462731: /usr/games/quarry: accessibility issue: no way to adjust font sizes

2008-01-26 Thread gambarimasu+reportbug
Package: quarry Version: 0.2.0.dfsg.1-1 Severity: important File: /usr/games/quarry hi, quarry is the best replayer on debian, because it has large buttons. however, it lacks the ability to set font size. thinking that it might be settable, i tried: quarry menus

Bug#457885: console: accessibility issue with console cursor

2007-12-26 Thread gambarimasu+reportbug
Package: console-common Version: 0.7.72 Severity: important File: console hi, after i upgraded from etch to lenny, i discovered that a workaround that i used to use no longer works. i used to do echo -ne \033[?17;0;64c to stop the cursor from blinking. this is hardly a self-evident

Bug#457887: /usr/games/lightyears: accessibility: no way to change font size

2007-12-26 Thread gambarimasu+reportbug
Package: lightyears Version: 1.3a-1 Severity: normal File: /usr/games/lightyears subject says it all. i checked man page, the app itself, and doc. it is just a game, to be sure, but attention to accessibility for all applications is important to avoid excluding people from linux. thanks. --

Bug#457889: /usr/games/wesnoth: accessibility: font size

2007-12-26 Thread gambarimasu+reportbug
Package: wesnoth Version: 1:1.2.8-1 Severity: normal File: /usr/games/wesnoth subject says it all. i checked man page, the app itself, and doc. it is merely a game, to be sure, but attention to accessibility for all applications is important to avoid excluding people from linux. not least of

Bug#445918: /usr/bin/conky: the possessive of it is its

2007-10-09 Thread gambarimasu+reportbug
Package: conky Version: 1.4.2-1 Severity: minor File: /usr/bin/conky by my calculation, it is the eighth most common word in english; it's certainly close to that in most texts. perhaps its spelling can be corrected in the man page, to polish debian's image. thanks. -- System Information:

Bug#435469: linux-source-2.6.22: udev: common user action causes undecipherable hang

2007-07-31 Thread gambarimasu+reportbug
Package: linux-source-2.6.22 Version: 2.6.22-1 Severity: normal File: linux-source-2.6.22 summary: you can't boot from a naive mirror anymore. i have a solution below. a user who copies to a root partition with rsync (at least with --one-file-system) will most likely expect it to boot.

Bug#435472: linux-source-2.6.22: make booting more pleasant to debug

2007-07-31 Thread gambarimasu+reportbug
Package: linux-source-2.6.22 Version: 2.6.22-1 Severity: wishlist File: linux-source-2.6.22 for example, when you supply root= with the wrong device, the kernel can panic. this requires physically traveling to the box and rebooting it, since ctrl-alt-del does not work. is it possible for the

Bug#432150: /sbin/cryptsetup: repair tools needed

2007-07-07 Thread gambarimasu+reportbug
Package: cryptsetup Version: 2:1.0.4+svn26-1 Severity: wishlist File: /sbin/cryptsetup dm-crypt has data corruption issues, and this includes the luks header. a tool to repair the luks header so that you can run fsck on the fs would be useful. it might be that most of the data are ok. this

Bug#430762: kde: config breaks panel unhide

2007-06-27 Thread gambarimasu+reportbug
Package: kicker Version: 4:3.5.4-2+b1 Severity: normal File: kde note: i have an old version of kde and cannot test a new one. i only report because it might lead to a fix for other panel bugs. raise when the pointer touches the screen's, when checked, stops the panel from unhiding when you

Bug#429739: e2fsprogs: please make badblocks -v print percent complete and estimated completion times

2007-06-19 Thread gambarimasu+reportbug
Package: e2fsprogs Version: 1.39+1.40-WIP-2006.11.14+dfsg-2 Severity: wishlist large hd cause long badblocks runs. but i have trouble figuring out how long they will take from the current block-based -v display. the numbers are long and do not contain commas. why not print percent done,

Bug#429746: please make reportbug guess package name from binaries in PATH

2007-06-19 Thread gambarimasu+reportbug
Package: reportbug Version: 3.31 Severity: wishlist if you do reportbug badblocks reportbug will tell you that it could not find the package. but people often file reports on programs, and debian has tools to find package names from filenames. perhaps reportbug can search PATH to

Bug#410270: coreutils: join outputs wrong field order for -v option

2007-02-08 Thread gambarimasu+reportbug
Package: coreutils Version: 5.97-5 Severity: normal the join field is incorrect for the -v version. #08-Thu-20-03-40 /tmp$ cat|a #a1,a2,c3,a4,a5 #a21,a22,a33,a44,a55 #08-Thu-20-05-07 /tmp$ cat|b #b1,b2,b3,c3,b5 #b21,b22,b33,b44,b55 #08-Thu-20-06-07 /tmp$ join -t, -i -1 3 -2 4 a

Bug#387842: azureus: interested by the peer is not english

2006-09-16 Thread gambarimasu+reportbug
Package: azureus Version: 2.4.0.2-2 Severity: minor in the peers tab of torrent details, interested by the peer is incorrect. perhaps change it to peer is interesting or interested in the peer. or change both columns to use orthogonal nomenclature with other columns: remote is interesting and

Bug#387075: zgv: works, then fails to work from that point on

2006-09-11 Thread gambarimasu+reportbug
Package: zgv Version: 5.9-2 Severity: normal i do not know how to find out if this is svgalib related. zgv mypic.jpg works zgv mypic.jpg 2.jpg works zgv -k -z mypic.jpg no input signal zgv mypic.jpg zgv mypic.jpg linux console, matrox g550. what

Bug#385786: ktorrent: crashes even without dot files

2006-09-02 Thread gambarimasu+reportbug
Package: ktorrent Version: 1.2-1 Severity: important i saw another bug where the op was asked if it crashes with the ktorrent dot files moved; this one crashes even with those 2 files (.kde/share/apps/ktorrent .kde/share/config/ktorrent) moved. here is the history from installation to the

Bug#385112: gkrellm: inet seconds between updates keeps resetting to 1 second

2006-08-29 Thread gambarimasu+reportbug
Package: gkrellm Version: 2.2.9-1 Severity: normal for no apparent reason the internet tool seconds between updates keeps resetting to 1 second. this is a big problem because on my machine the setting of 1 second causes serious problems. i suspect it is an smp bug of some sort. i will file

Bug#377763: bash: here document fails with read-only root fs?

2006-07-11 Thread gambarimasu+reportbug
Package: bash Version: 3.1-4 Severity: normal is /tmp hardcoded? it seems unlikely that it would be, but: for me, at least with my mount set, fails when the root fs is ro: -su: cannot create temp file for here document: Read-only file system the man page says that it uses TMPDIR for

Bug#376225: coreutils: date: su mo tu we th fr sa

2006-06-30 Thread gambarimasu+reportbug
Package: coreutils Version: 5.94-1 Severity: wishlist any possibility taht date will support this d-o-w format? -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.16myver Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C

Bug#375607: rdiff-backup: can overwrite database

2006-06-27 Thread gambarimasu+reportbug
Package: rdiff-backup Version: 1.1.5-1 Severity: normal it shouldn't be possible to overwrite the db; there should be a query even with --force. thanks. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux

Bug#205702: less: provide text preprocessors as an option for users

2006-06-22 Thread gambarimasu+reportbug
Package: less Version: 394-2 Followup-For: Bug #205702 it would be nice if you could provide the text preprocessors, such as for man pages, as an option, perhaps as a separate script. it is not trivial for users to figure out how to process man pages to work with less. recently, my setup which

Bug#374861: rsync: an option to pretend that the sources have trailing slashes

2006-06-21 Thread gambarimasu+reportbug
Package: rsync Version: 2.6.8-2 Severity: wishlist rsync's trailing slash behavior is nonstandard for unix, and it conflicts with existing unix behavior regarding symlinks to directories. (try running commands on a symlink to a directory with and without a slash.) yet the semantics are

Bug#374872: didn't zshall used to combine the man pages? please have a man page do that again

2006-06-21 Thread gambarimasu+reportbug
Package: zsh Version: 4.3.2-12 Severity: wishlist i used to grep man zshall. now i have to look at a list of several man pages to figure out which one to search in. consider parameters: zshexpn zshparam zshmisc. it would be great if they were all combined into a man page. just a wishlist.

Bug#374531: man-db: man -W and man --debug do not print to stdout or stderr

2006-06-19 Thread gambarimasu+reportbug
Package: man-db Version: 2.4.3-3 Severity: normal i'd include --debug, but i do not have the scrollback buffer to do so. man -W cannot be piped or redirected or substituted in the shell. this prevents the ability for wrappers to man to use the cache that man uses. likewise --debug. my

Bug#374552: rsync: local transfer statistics inconveniently loggable

2006-06-19 Thread gambarimasu+reportbug
Package: rsync Version: 2.6.8-2 Severity: wishlist just a wishlist for local transfers: a --log-each option, which would log the per-file details while --stats etc. still go to stdout. otherwise we have to redirect to a file and parse. thanks. -- System Information: Debian Release:

Bug#372079: xserver-xorg-video-mga: can i help?

2006-06-18 Thread gambarimasu+reportbug
Package: xserver-xorg-video-mga Followup-For: Bug #372079 i have been using the linux console for a while now. i tried downgrading to xfree86, but that broke the package manager (signal 11, baby). i'm hoping i won't have to install sarge or even ubuntu (to see if they have a solution for g550

Bug#247134: debconf: affects backups

2006-06-14 Thread gambarimasu+reportbug
Package: debconf Version: 1.5.1 Followup-For: Bug #247134 i see that the bug is 2 years old, that there was a previous bug, and that the changelog implies that it used to be in /usr/lib/. not sure why, since it seems to violate the fhs to me. perhaps debian is not supposed to agree with the

Bug#372067: xserver-xorg-video-mga: Please explicitly say in the package description and man page what the driver is capable of

2006-06-08 Thread gambarimasu+reportbug
Package: xserver-xorg-video-mga Version: 1:1.2.1.3.dfsg.1-2 Severity: normal I have not been able to determine whether this package is *supposed* to work with DVI output on a Matrox G550 card. Does regular single-head DVI operation require special Matrox modules? It would be splendid if the

Bug#372079: xserver-xorg-video-mga: strange frequency behavior with dvi

2006-06-08 Thread gambarimasu+reportbug
Package: xserver-xorg-video-mga Version: 1:1.2.1.3.dfsg.1-2 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable i just upgraded from xfree86 4.2 to xorg 7.0. this driver seems to output frequencies that are out of range for the monitor when the monitor's documented ranges are entered in the

Bug#372229: errors or warnings installing package

2006-06-08 Thread gambarimasu+reportbug
Package: ttf-thryomanes Version: 1:1.2-1 Severity: normal == Setting up ttf-thryomanes (1.2-1) ... Use of uninitialized value in print at /var/lib/defoma/scripts/gs.defoma line 108. Use of uninitialized value in print at /var/lib/defoma/scripts/gs.defoma line 108. Use of uninitialized

Bug#372066: emacs21: C-/ has inconsistent bindings

2006-06-07 Thread gambarimasu+reportbug
Package: emacs21 Version: 21.4a-6 Severity: normal C-/ does undo in emacs -q, emacs -nw -q, xemacs -q, and xemacs -nw -q under x. it doesn't do so on my linux console. i propose making it consistent by default in both emacs and xemacs. thanks. -- System Information: Debian Release:

Bug#370057: findutils: find -nowarn useless when you need it

2006-06-02 Thread gambarimasu+reportbug
Package: findutils Version: 4.2.27-3 Severity: normal afaik, you mostly need -nowarn when you can't change where options go. this occurs when you have something like this: afind () { #archive find with -depth and maybe other cpio/afio features #sort -ru? #nowarn is just for command

Bug#369635: kicker: maximize all fails to fully maximize

2006-05-30 Thread gambarimasu+reportbug
Package: kicker Version: 4:3.5.3-1 Severity: normal first, congratulations on a nice kicker version. i have kicker (kde panel with taskbar in it) set as follows. i deleted ~/.kde before making changes. group tasks autohide immediately on top left custom size of

Bug#369320: coreutils: provide hint in man page for what to substitute for uniq --check-fields

2006-05-28 Thread gambarimasu+reportbug
Package: coreutils Version: 5.94-1 Severity: normal like probably many, i upgraded from sarge to etch and discovered that my many invocations of uniq -W were nonstandard. could you provide a hint in the man page for how to get the same behavior? i had used that option for a very long time and

Bug#369177: dpkg: error message about version string is insufficient

2006-05-27 Thread gambarimasu+reportbug
Package: dpkg Version: 1.10.28 Severity: normal i do not know whether the following is a bug in dpkg. however, the identical string appears in google searches suggesting that it at least potentially originates from dpkg source code. please feel free to reassign. i am upgrading from sarge to

Bug#368973: colordiff: colorization makes some output lines disappear

2006-05-26 Thread gambarimasu+reportbug
Package: colordiff Version: 1.0.4-4 Severity: important no idea if this is a konsole or bash bug. perhaps it is merely a default color setting that equals the background. # diff -r -uw a b diff -r -uw a/aa b/aa --- a/aa2006-05-26 05:07:12.0 -0700 +++ b/aa2006-05-26

Bug#369051: apt-listchanges: provide searchable string between packages and possibly preload search string

2006-05-26 Thread gambarimasu+reportbug
Package: apt-listchanges Version: 2.59-0.2 Severity: wishlist when changes for many packages are listed, it is useful to skip over some packages. yet there is no searchable regular expression for the next package. for example, if i am upgrading fuse and gconf2 and zsh, i might not be

Bug#368924: grep: grep -r recursing symlinks is unexpected and unfixable

2006-05-25 Thread gambarimasu+reportbug
Package: grep Version: 2.5.1.ds2-5 Severity: normal with many commands, including find, the default is to not recurse symlinks. but: 0 25-Thu-15-15-43 /tmp/grep# ls -lR ..: total 4 drwx-- 2 kpc kpc 4096 05-25 15:09 a lrwxrwxrwx 1 kpc kpc1 05-25 15:13 b - a lrwxrwxrwx 1 kpc kpc7

Bug#368926: please allow a list of files to grep, as a file that can be - for stdin (fixes other bugs)

2006-05-25 Thread gambarimasu+reportbug
Package: grep Version: 2.5.1.ds2-5 Severity: wishlist this partly fixes other bugs, including part of the bug that i just filed on symlink recursion and these: Outstanding bugs -- Minor bugs; Unclassified (7 bugs): 1 report 1) #297154: grep: Please warn requesting recursion of stdin

Bug#368934: shell xargs too hard to write (please make a truly raw read -r)

2006-05-25 Thread gambarimasu+reportbug
Package: bash Version: 3.1-4 Severity: normal it is fiendishly difficult to write a portable shell version of xargs that can take a shell function as an argument and that follows good programming practices involving reentrance, namespaces, signals, exit codes, etc. what i would propose, if i

Bug#368936: zsh: portable shell xargs too hard to write (please make a truly raw read -r)

2006-05-25 Thread gambarimasu+reportbug
Package: zsh Version: 4.3.0-dev-5-1 Severity: normal it is fiendishly difficult to write a portable shell version of xargs that can take a shell function as an argument and that follows good programming practices involving reentrance, namespaces, signals, exit codes, etc. what i would propose,

Bug#368673: w3m: ergonomics for searching

2006-05-23 Thread gambarimasu+reportbug
Package: w3m Version: 0.5.1-4 Severity: wishlist w3m can highlight the search terms in the document, and let the user set where the search home is -- the line that has the current place you are searching. -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh

Bug#368672: w3m: ergonomics for scrolling

2006-05-23 Thread gambarimasu+reportbug
Package: w3m Version: 0.5.1-4 Severity: normal scrolling by page (e.g. by page up) can be improved by making it reversible. reversible means that you get to the end of the page, hit page up, and the screen will look exactly like it did before you hit page up. this can be done by inserting

Bug#368683: linux-source-2.6.16: menuconfig should say what the raw default is

2006-05-23 Thread gambarimasu+reportbug
Package: linux-source-2.6.16 Version: 2.6.16-13 Severity: normal menuconfig provides defaults, and it also sometimes gives hints like if you're all like 'WTF?' then you can safely say Y here. that's nice, but was that default there because of my old .config? or is it a real default?

Bug#368087: bash3: please make it easy for the user to get expected SIGINT behavior

2006-05-19 Thread gambarimasu+reportbug
Package: bash3 Version: 3.0-12 Severity: normal before i begin, let me say that the following provides an excellent detailed background: http://www.cons.org/cracauer/sigint.html in my opinion, the philosophy of bash for ^C is often different from the user's usual expectation. it's

Bug#366763: httrack: traps signals and attempts to be fancy, causing wrong behavior

2006-05-10 Thread gambarimasu+reportbug
Package: httrack Version: 3.40.4-1 Severity: normal when you use the command line, you expect to be able to ^C and ^Z with normal results, which in unix are normally to kill the program and suspend it, respectively. here are the results with httrack: $ httrack ... ^Z Moving into background to

Bug#331245: aptitude: segfault on changelog

2006-05-04 Thread gambarimasu+reportbug
Package: aptitude Version: 0.4.1-1 Followup-For: Bug #331245 fwiw: 0 03-Wed-23-52-26 ~# aptitude changelog firefox Get:1 ChangeLog of firefox [118kB] Fetched 118kB in 4s (27.9kB/s) 0 03-Wed-23-55-12 ~# aptitude -t unstable changelog firefox Ign ChangeLog of firefox E: Couldn't fetch URL

Bug#364848: general: please have package short descriptions say what the package REALLY does

2006-04-25 Thread gambarimasu+reportbug
Package: general Severity: normal i think it will help to require short descriptions to make sense to anybody who knows only about the most widely used terms. often new packages are added like the following. i do not mean to pick on ndiswrapper at all; it was just the most recent example.

Bug#334830: xemacs21-nomule: minibuffer does not resize for questions even when resize minibuffer mode is active

2005-10-19 Thread gambarimasu+reportbug
Package: xemacs21-nomule Version: 21.4.17-1 Severity: normal to reproduce from a fresh xemacs, do: m-x resize-minibuffer-mode mark some text esc-| go to shell command output window ^X^S enter a very long filename ret go back to the text window esc-| again go to the new shell command output

Bug#328197: mdadm: please add option to regenerate arrays in the foreground

2005-09-13 Thread gambarimasu+reportbug
Package: mdadm Version: 1.9.0-4 Severity: wishlist can you pass this to upstream? thanks. mdadm returns to the shell immediately, and parsing /proc/mdstat in an infinite loop is the only way to make it block. please add an option to return control to the shell only when the arrays are

Bug#326683: skippy: please have error message say that a key grabber is the problem and give hints on how to fix.

2005-09-04 Thread gambarimasu+reportbug
Package: skippy Version: 0.5.1rc1-1 Severity: normal the docs say for this error: X Error of failed request: BadAccess (attempt to access private resource denied) Major opcode of failed request: 33 (X_GrabKey) Serial number of failed request: 90 Current serial number in output stream:

Bug#325646: libtse3-0.2.7c2: Please DEFINE those terms of art. Documentation bug.

2005-08-29 Thread gambarimasu+reportbug
Package: libtse3-0.2.7c2 Version: libtse3-0.2.7c2 Severity: normal Sometimes packagers use terms of art without realizing that the same terms are used in other contexts. This makes people wonder WTF the package is meant for. For example, Sequencer can refer to a DNA sequencer, a MIDI

Bug#323708: please hint in description and man page the degree to which irqbalance is necessary

2005-08-17 Thread gambarimasu+reportbug
Package: irqbalance Version: 0.12-2 Severity: wishlist Users who see irq balancing in the kernel might be confused about whether a user daemon is necessary. Please comment on this in packages and man for thoroughness. Thanks. -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 Architecture: i386

Bug#319286: libgtk2.0-common: please say AUTO-WRITTEN by whom

2005-07-20 Thread gambarimasu+reportbug
Package: libgtk2.0-common Version: 2.6.4-3 Severity: normal my .gtkrc-2.0 keeps getting overwritten. i do not use gnome. i only care about firefox emacs keybindings, which supposedly depend on this file. please reassign this bug to whichever package writes the following to the file. please

Bug#319295: mozilla-firefox: keyboard frequently focuses previous tab

2005-07-20 Thread gambarimasu+reportbug
Package: mozilla-firefox Version: 1.0.6-1 Severity: normal i can reproduce by opening several tabs, then c-pgdn to get to the next tab, then pgdn to scroll. often the previous tab scrolls and the current tab does not. imagine 3 tabs. switching to tab 2 focuses tab 1. strangely, another

Bug#316811: e2fsprogs: no documentation of mkfs.ext3 -T

2005-07-03 Thread gambarimasu+reportbug
Package: e2fsprogs Version: 1.37-2sarge1 Severity: normal the man page for mkfs.ext3 is confusing re -T, and there are no other docs in the distro. a user wants to know what the default is, what parameters actually get changed, and how much of a difference it makes to speed, space, and

Bug#315321: multi-gnome-terminal: please say how help is done -- still not figured out

2005-06-21 Thread gambarimasu+reportbug
Package: multi-gnome-terminal Version: 1.6.2-10 Severity: normal note: i only use mgt, not the rest of gnome. this is to let you know how hard it can be in certain circumstances, at least for somebody not familiar with gnome, to get help on mgt. i think comments in the mgt man page would be

Bug#315332: zip: does not notice when input file is output file

2005-06-21 Thread gambarimasu+reportbug
Package: zip Version: 2.31-1 Severity: normal thanks. -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.11--from-2.6.9-proc-config-and-menuconfig Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) Versions of packages zip depends on: ii libc6

Bug#315331: zip warning: No such device or address does not specify pathname

2005-06-21 Thread gambarimasu+reportbug
Package: zip Version: 2.31-1 Severity: normal zip is an excellent program and i want it to work as well as cpio. i pipe pathnames to it. the error message should be more informative. thanks. -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux

Bug#315334: zip: seems to complain about wrong option, and complains for unknown reason

2005-06-21 Thread gambarimasu+reportbug
Package: zip Version: 2.31-1 Severity: normal if output is to a pipe, will complain about -0 option, but seems to be trying to complain about -y option. unknown reason. i want to do 'zip -0qy - -@'. until then have to write to disk then read from it. thanks. -- System Information: Debian

Bug#315335: zip: please understand stdio just like cpio does

2005-06-21 Thread gambarimasu+reportbug
Package: zip Version: 2.31-1 Severity: normal it would be wonderful to have zip not distinguish between file and pipe and allow piping pathnames in with all option combinations. thanks. -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux

Bug#315350: privoxy: doesn't go there anyway

2005-06-21 Thread gambarimasu+reportbug
Package: privoxy Version: 3.0.3-4 Severity: normal to reproduce (maybe) with privoxy running and using firefox, load a page with google ads, with links like http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/adclick?sa=Ladurl=http://www.google.comai= then when you get a page saying BLOCKED

Bug#315191: mozilla-firefox: fails to increase unreadably small text

2005-06-20 Thread gambarimasu+reportbug
Package: mozilla-firefox Version: 1.0.4-3 Severity: normal control-+ is supposed to increase text size. here is the faq for this bug report: why do that? because you can't read the text. which text can't you read? usually the smallest. which text gets increased the most? usually the

Bug#315193: multi-gnome-terminal: too hard to see the pointer

2005-06-20 Thread gambarimasu+reportbug
Package: multi-gnome-terminal Version: 1.6.2-10 Severity: normal but installing big-cursor makes other pointers too large. thanks. -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.11--from-2.6.9-proc-config-and-menuconfig Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C

Bug#314865: mozilla-firefox: default debian user agent string should not include that much information (security/privacy risk)

2005-06-18 Thread gambarimasu+reportbug
Package: mozilla-firefox Version: 1.0.4-2 Severity: normal what should be in user-agent? imho it is beyond its scope to reveal linux distribution and package version. they are not necessary for servers to support the operation of the browser. if there has been discussion before, i still think

Bug#314701: wishlist: set end of day time

2005-06-17 Thread gambarimasu+reportbug
Package: gkrellm-reminder Version: 2.0.0-1 Severity: wishlist it seems that 0/1 in gkrellm means 0 overdue and 1 to go for the day (or week, or whatever). but i have a 2am appt that i want to be thought of as being today, not tomorrow. can we have a setting for when the day ends instead of

Bug#314702: gkrellm-reminder: wishlist: yyyy-mm-dd

2005-06-17 Thread gambarimasu+reportbug
Package: gkrellm-reminder Version: 2.0.0-1 Severity: wishlist thanks. -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.11--from-2.6.9-proc-config-and-menuconfig Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) Versions of packages gkrellm-reminder

Bug#312171: hostname part of message-id not configurable -- incorrectly assumes mpack host is correct host

2005-06-05 Thread gambarimasu+reportbug
Package: mpack Version: 1.6-1 Severity: normal thanks. -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.11--from-2.6.9-proc-config-and-menuconfig Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) Versions of packages mpack depends on: ii libc6

Bug#311868: base: Packages do not indicate whether installing them changes system operation

2005-06-03 Thread gambarimasu+reportbug
Package: base Severity: normal Some packages install binaries and docs. Others start daemons, modify startup scripts, or change config files (e.g. bigcursor) when you install them. If you install them accidentally, you might regret it. There is no way for a user using dselect to tell the

Bug#311875: Did ipkungfu drop-kick my system?

2005-06-03 Thread gambarimasu+reportbug
Package: ipkungfu Severity: grave Tags: security Justification: user security hole i rarely file grave severity but i think this is warranted because even unstable users must know what a firewall is doing. feel free to wishlist it or whatever you want if contrary to appearances it's not

Bug#311064: socat: manpage example

2005-05-28 Thread gambarimasu+reportbug
Package: socat Version: 1.4.2.0-1 Severity: minor echo -e functions as primitive binary editor: it writes the 4 bytes 000 014 000 000 to the executable /usr/bin/squid at offset 0x00074420 (this is a real world patch to make the

Bug#310805: gnupg: fully exportable armored homedir is completely impossible now!

2005-05-26 Thread gambarimasu+reportbug
Package: gnupg Version: 1.4.1-1 Severity: important i hope this will make sense to you. please ask if it does not. this is REALLY important to some people. over the years gpg has gotten harder and harder to script properly(1), and what used to work no longer works(2). the big issue is that

Bug#310916: reportbug: should allow specification of email aliases for those who mangle their addresses

2005-05-26 Thread gambarimasu+reportbug
Package: reportbug Version: 3.8 Severity: wishlist gmail considers [EMAIL PROTECTED] to be simply [EMAIL PROTECTED] i use this for filtering. it is not in rfc2822, but it is useful. yet if i submit a bug as [EMAIL PROTECTED], i can then not send control messages to bts later, because gmail

Bug#310799: xemacs21: M-x revert fails to remember window data. information is lost.

2005-05-25 Thread gambarimasu+reportbug
Package: xemacs21 Version: 21.4.17-1 Severity: normal to recreate, open the same file in several windows or several frames, perhaps by doing C-x 2, make a change in one of the windows, then do M-x revert. That window will correctly restore its position and point, but the others will not. this

Bug#310513: gnupg: please put bug reporting address in man page

2005-05-23 Thread gambarimasu+reportbug
Package: gnupg Version: 1.4.1-1 Severity: normal i have always been confused about whether bts is only for debian-specific bugs or for passing along to upstream, but other package maintainers sometimes act as if it is the former. unless they are all wrong, could you put the reporting address in

Bug#310512: gnupg: man page clarity

2005-05-23 Thread gambarimasu+reportbug
Package: gnupg Version: 1.4.1-1 Severity: normal gnupg is getting complicated, and that imho risks security. even though the man page clearly says it's only a summary, a clear man page will help mitigate the risk. for example, the web says: * Two new commands --hidden-recipient (-R)

Bug#310514: reportbug: bts vs. upstream issues

2005-05-23 Thread gambarimasu+reportbug
Package: reportbug Version: 3.8 Severity: normal 1. novice mode should clarify novices are confused about whether bts reports are meant to be only for debian issues or to partly replace (i.e. lightly filter irrelevance) the upstream reporting systems. maintainers seem to behave inconsistently

Bug#308594: /sbin/badblocks: badblocks runs faulty check for mounted fs

2005-05-11 Thread gambarimasu+reportbug
Package: e2fsprogs Version: 1.37-2 Severity: normal File: /sbin/badblocks Try raiding /dev/hdx into /dev/mdx, and mount mdx but not hdx. Then do badblocks -n /dev/hdx. Badblocks will not complain that hdx is mounted, even though it is indirectly mounted through mdx. Also, please explain in the

Bug#307419: mozilla-firefox: firefox allows paragraphs wider than the screen, requiring horizontal scrolling for each line

2005-05-02 Thread gambarimasu+reportbug
Package: mozilla-firefox Version: 1.0.3-2 Severity: normal Reading http://larve.net/people/hugo/2003/scratchpad/emacs-wiki-source/ReadingMailAndNews is nearly impossible with my fonts and screen size. Can firefox at least allow the user to format that paragraph sanely? Or outright force

Bug#307416: mozilla-firefox: the document contains no data dialog box is basically useless

2005-05-02 Thread gambarimasu+reportbug
Package: mozilla-firefox Version: 1.0.3-2 Severity: normal It did not say which tab, which window, which document, why something was trying to be retrieved (in the background), or why the user should care. ff does a lot in the background for all sorts of protocols to refresh themselves or fool

Bug#307108: workrave: break window obscures

2005-04-30 Thread gambarimasu+reportbug
Package: workrave Version: 1.6.2-1 Severity: wishlist Maybe make it move every minute or so? -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.9 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) (ignored: LC_ALL set to C) Versions of packages workrave

Bug#307107: workrave: forces breaks shortly after inactivity

2005-04-30 Thread gambarimasu+reportbug
Package: workrave Version: 1.6.2-1 Severity: normal tried various options, but could not get it to stop doing this: when you get up and leave for a few minutes, workrave forces a break shortly after you return. as if workrave is saying, your own breaks don't count. user error? -- System

Bug#307109: workrave: ideal timing for breaks

2005-04-30 Thread gambarimasu+reportbug
Package: workrave Version: 1.6.2-1 Severity: wishlist if it is time for a break, choose a time when there is no activity in the last 5 seconds or so. when possible. to stop interrupting. -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.9 Locale: LANG=C,

Bug#306904: msmtp: new configuration can't script password

2005-04-29 Thread gambarimasu+reportbug
Package: msmtp Version: 1.4.0-1 Severity: normal Please allow the first line of input to be a password. There seems to be no way to script msmtp. We used to be able to do msmtp -F (echo host ...) ... to kludge a config file. Now msmtp complains about that not being a real file. So we use -F

Bug#306693: cpio: allows extracting insecure pathnames (leading slash = / and dotdot = ..)

2005-04-27 Thread gambarimasu+reportbug
archiver. gmail ! gambarimasu+reportbug P.S. There is another can of worms, which I won't open (much) for symlinks (e.g. the -L option) and ancillary issues like overwriting of existing files, trailing slash, and the known issue of what to do for directories that come after the files in the directories

Bug#306697: coreutils: inconsistent behavior from ls and ls -l

2005-04-27 Thread gambarimasu+reportbug
Package: coreutils Version: 5.2.1-2 Severity: normal #mkdir ad #touch ad/af #ln -s ad as #ls as af #ls -l as lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 2 Apr 27 19:38 as - ad Please document this if it is supposed to behave that way. -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel:

Bug#291013: gnus: beeps when it is ready, making user think there is an error

2005-01-18 Thread gambarimasu+reportbug
Package: gnus Version: 5.10.6-0.CVS.20050104-1 Severity: normal Hard to track this one down. Have no idea where in the code it is beeping. Actually, for me, it flashes, but that is because I disabled beeping. -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux