Bug#522776: debian-policy: mandate existence of a standardised UTF-8 locale

2009-04-08 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
Roger Leigh wrote: On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 09:24:38PM +0200, Adeodato Simó wrote: + Thorsten Glaser (Tue, 07 Apr 2009 18:54:59 +): Except the ton which sets LC_ALL=C to get sane (parsable, dependable, historically compatible) output. These would then unset all other LC_* and LANG and LANGU

Bug#522776: debian-policy: mandate existence of a standardised UTF-8 locale

2009-04-08 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
Andrew McMillan wrote: On Tue, 2009-04-07 at 22:32 +0200, Adeodato Simó wrote: It is my impression that more packages than mksh could use an UTF-8 locale at build time (I’m afraid I don’t have pointers, but I’m sure I’ve come across at least a couple). Wouldn’t it be just better to change Debia

Bug#522776: debian-policy: mandate existence of a standardised UTF-8 locale

2009-04-08 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
Roger Leigh wrote: > I wasn't aware that this level of checking was performed, though it does make sense. But, does it not reject non 7-bit input in the C locale for completeness? Should tools doing "raw" I/O not be using lower level interfaces such as fread() and fwrite() rather than the "for

Bug#522776: debian-policy: mandate existence of a standardised UTF-8 locale

2009-04-07 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
Roger Leigh wrote: On Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 11:09:17AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: On Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 05:33:35PM +, Thorsten Glaser wrote: If you need a specific locale (as seems from "mksh", not sure if it is a bug in that program), you need to set it. You can only set a locale on a

Bug#522776: debian-policy: mandate existence of a standardised UTF-8 locale

2009-04-06 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
Thorsten Glaser wrote: For the mksh regression tests, I need a UTF-8 locale working; most systems either provide “en_US.UTF-8” or “en_US.utf8” with the former being recommended. Build-depending on locales-all has worked for me so far, except it won’t do in Kubuntu where said package does not exi

Bug#521810: debian-policy: Document user defined fields starting with X-

2009-03-31 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
Raphael Hertzog wrote: After having accepted the patch, I wondered where it should be documented and Nils pointed me to the policy section. So I asked him to submit a bug here. I fail to see any problem with telling people outside of Debian that they can freely use "X-" fields for their private

Bug#521810: debian-policy: Document user defined fields starting with X-

2009-03-30 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
Nils Rennebarth wrote: Package: debian-policy Version: 3.8.0.1 Severity: wishlist Please add something along the following lines to the section 5.7 "User defined fields" to the debian policy manual: Usually, unknown fields are iggnored by the debian packaging system. To avoid conflicts of user

Bug#521164: fglrx-source: fails to compile agains kernel 2.6.29

2009-03-25 Thread Giacomo Mulas
reflected in the module sources. I tagged this important because in sid usually the newest kernel becomes the default, the packages for older ones disappearing in a short time thereafter, and this may quickly make fglrx-source unusable on up-to-date sid boxes. Thanks in advance Giacomo

Bug#519910: [PKG-IRC-Maintainers] Bug#519910: inspircd: weird and undocumented syntax required for links, accessign clsoed fd's

2009-03-17 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
Marc Lehmann wrote: > when having two servers with the following link lines (without passwords etc.): I assume you intend to use 10.0.0.x. The address space 1.x.x.x is yet unallocated, but not for local use. then despite trying to connect,t he other server will instantly close the conen

Bug#519835: debian-policy: Please add new sections to policy

2009-03-16 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
As Joerg has just said on d-d-a, some new sections have been added to the archive. I've attached a patch for policy to bring it up-to-date. The list become complex, considering also the priorities of sections. Could we ask ftp-master to give us a fixed-URL to the list of sections, the meaning a

Bug#518150: [Python-modules-team] Bug#518150: python-matplotlib-doc: matplotlib 'user_interfaces' wx examples don't work

2009-03-15 Thread Giacomo Boffi
i understand that "from wx import *" should work, but it seems that it's not going to work anytime soon with wx2.8 it works as expected. good Anyhow, I don't plan an upload to just fix these examples, so this bug will be fixed when upstream will release a new version. that's ok for me tha

Bug#518150: [Python-modules-team] Bug#518150: python-matplotlib-doc: matplotlib 'user_interfaces' wx examples don't work

2009-03-06 Thread Giacomo Boffi
Giacomo Boffi writes: > user_interfaces/embedding_in_wx2.py > user_interfaces/embedding_in_wx2.py > user_interfaces/embedding_in_wx2.py > animation/dynamic_image_wxagg2.py the filenames are, of course, ...wx2.py, ...wx3.py and ...wx4.py -- This message has been scanned for

Bug#518150: [Python-modules-team] Bug#518150: python-matplotlib-doc: matplotlib 'user_interfaces' wx examples don't work

2009-03-05 Thread Giacomo Boffi
Sandro Tosi writes: about --- from wx import * --- > Mh, there is no reasons why "from import *" should not work, > and indeed there is a bug already reported about it: #488532 i have googled around, it seems that this problem was repeatedly reported to distributions and u

Bug#518199: debian-policy: virtual package names for doom-related packages

2009-03-05 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
Wouter Verhelst wrote: On Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 11:03:57AM +0100, Giacomo A. Catenazzi wrote: Jon Dowland wrote: A brief explanation as to their meaning. Doom games are divided into engine and world-resource components. The former is captured by 'doom-engine'. I don't understan

Bug#518199: debian-policy: virtual package names for doom-related packages

2009-03-05 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
Jon Dowland wrote: A brief explanation as to their meaning. Doom games are divided into engine and world-resource components. The former is captured by 'doom-engine'. I don't understand why we need a 'doom-engine' virtual package. [i.e.: avoid circular dependencies]. IMHO, a user will select a

Bug#518150: [Python-modules-team] Bug#518150: python-matplotlib-doc: matplotlib 'user_interfaces' wx examples don't work

2009-03-04 Thread Giacomo Boffi
Sandro Tosi writes: > Hello Giacomo, > > On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 13:00, giacomo boffi wrote: > > all the examples about integration between matplotlib and wx > > applications are broken > > Is it possible for you to test the package in experimental > (0.98

Bug#434489: http://debian.physik.hu-berlin.de/

2009-03-04 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
startet? I'm sorry I am not DD myself, but you're right. My sponsor is in the CC: of this E-Mail. Giacomo: I know the packages are new, but would you mind having a look at it? It's scientific software, and our Physics people also need the software. Any package available from De

Bug#518150: python-matplotlib-doc: matplotlib 'user_interfaces' wx examples don't work

2009-03-04 Thread giacomo boffi
Package: python-matplotlib-doc Version: 0.98.3-5 Severity: normal all the examples about integration between matplotlib and wx applications are broken --- the broken files are /usr/share/doc/python-matplotlib-doc/examples/user_interfaces/embedding_in_wx?.py in particular, items ...wx{2,3,4}.py

Bug#508644: mass bugfiling (against 8 packages) and/or new package default-mta

2009-03-02 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
Steve Langasek wrote: On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 06:32:45PM +0100, Giacomo Catenazzi wrote: Hmmm. I partially agree, but then we have an unnecessary exception: such virtual packages must have only one "provider", or else there will be problems (IIRC) on dpkg, apt or ddbuild, if such dep

Bug#508644: mass bugfiling (against 8 packages) and/or new package default-mta

2009-02-28 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
Steve Langasek wrote: > On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 09:46:15AM +0100, Giacomo A. Catenazzi wrote: >>> Given that m-t-a is mentioned explicitly in policy, and that "default-mta" >>> will be a virtual package, I think this should be recorded in policy as well >>>

Bug#508644: mass bugfiling (against 8 packages) and/or new package default-mta

2009-02-27 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
Giacomo A. Catenazzi wrote: Steve Langasek wrote: On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 03:42:39PM +0100, Holger Levsen wrote: But as this would hardcode exim4 as the default MTA for Debian in a number of packages, some better solutions have been proposed in http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2008/05

Bug#508644: mass bugfiling (against 8 packages) and/or new package default-mta

2009-02-27 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
Steve Langasek wrote: On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 03:42:39PM +0100, Holger Levsen wrote: But as this would hardcode exim4 as the default MTA for Debian in a number of packages, some better solutions have been proposed in http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2008/05/msg00381.html with the best choi

Bug#517005: unresolved symbol

2009-02-25 Thread Giacomo Mulas
logic to avoid calling that function in recent kernels, which do not export it anymore. I am not familiar enough with kernel programming to understand exactly what is wrong, but apparently it does not work as intended, at least not on a 2.6.28 kernel. I hope this helps, bye Giacomo Mulas

Bug#449497: Post-Lenny discussion on packages with external (potentially non-free) dependencies

2009-02-17 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
Michael S. Gilbert wrote: Dear All, First of all, congratulations on getting the Lenny release out the door! I understand that it was a lot of work, and you're probably looking forward to at least somewhat of a break. So I don't want to treat this problem with too much urgency (yet), but I wou

Bug#513955: debian-policy: do not require /etc/init.d/*.sh scripts to be sourced

2009-02-16 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
Russ Allbery wrote: Kel Modderman writes: It is the opinion of myself and Petter Reinholdtsen, maintainers of the sysvinit package, that the last sentence of §9.3.1 of policy is no longer relevant and should be removed: """Also, if the script name ends in .sh, the script will be sourced in ru

Bug#515130: AW: Bug#515130: ITP: unrealircd -- Unreal IRC Server

2009-02-15 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
Rondal wrote: > Hi, > >> UnrealIRCd has many licensing and code-quality issues which would >> block it's inclusion in a Debian release. > > I admit that the sourcecode is not of the highest quality, but I do not > see where it will block inclusion into Debian. About the licensing issues > I alre

Bug#514919: Removing support for uploads to multiple distributions

2009-02-12 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
Russ Allbery wrote: "Adam D. Barratt" writes: The Policy section detailing the "Distribution" field in .changes files specifies that the field may contain a space-separated list of distributions. Whilst this is technically accurate, the feature has been deprecated since the "testing" distribut

Bug#514597: wicd does not work properly with resolvconf

2009-02-09 Thread Giacomo Mulas
DNS servers to be added when the given connection goes up). Currently, I had to give up using wicd for networks which do not use dhcp, as it kills my resolv.conf. Bye Giacomo -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architect

Bug#513955: debian-policy: do not require /etc/init.d/*.sh scripts to be sourced

2009-02-02 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
Russ Allbery wrote: > Kel Modderman writes: > >> It is the opinion of myself and Petter Reinholdtsen, maintainers of the >> sysvinit package, that the last sentence of §9.3.1 of policy is no >> longer relevant and should be removed: >> >> """Also, if the script name ends in .sh, the script will b

Bug#473439: pick consistent terminology for category/component/area

2009-02-02 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
calls them areas: (...) The above was written in July of last year. The only reaction that I got to this proposal is a comment from Giacomo that didn't object but suggested standardizing more of the terminology while we're at it. But I don't think there's been much pr

Bug#509935: decide whether Uploaders is parsed per RFC 5322

2009-01-14 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
Russ Allbery wrote: > Alternatively, we could document the permitted character set for the name portion of the Maintainer field and exclude commas. It's annoying to do this since commas have been supported in the past (in Maintainer, they're unambiguous) and have only become a problem in Upload

Bug#509933: versioning SONAMEs of shared libraries is not clearly recommended

2009-01-14 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
Russ Allbery wrote: Package: debian-policy Version: 3.8.0.1 Severity: minor I read through the shared library sections of Policy a few times last night and can't find anywhere where Policy unambiguously recommends always including a version in SONAME for public libraries. If you don't have a ve

Bug#508462: tex4ht: oolatex doesn't like GNU's java [with a patch]

2008-12-11 Thread giacomo boffi
Package: tex4ht Version: 20080701-2 Severity: normal Tags: patch -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) Shell: /

Bug#507529: ITP: bauble -- Bauble is a biodiversity collection manager software application

2008-12-01 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Giacomo Catenazzi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: bauble Version : 0.8.5 Upstream Author : Brett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://bauble.belizebotanic.org * License : GPL v2 Programming Lang: Python

Bug#449497: foo2zjs dispute

2008-10-28 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
Note: I'm not a CTTE member. Steffen Joeris wrote: Maintainer: -- The problem is as follows. The submitter sees the inclusion of the getweb script as a violation of the DFSG. The script is provided by upstream to download non-free firmware from his upstream webpage. The package inc

Bug#501661: patch for zxpdf to look for compressed files

2008-10-09 Thread giacomo boffi
Package: xpdf-reader Version: 3.02-1.4 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch using texdoctk, sometimes vieving a pdf document fails because the document is indexed in texdoctk database with the name /long/path/document.pdf, while on the file system there is a compressed version of the document, say /lon

Bug#496655: State of pci.ids

2008-10-01 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
Martin Mares wrote: I think that changing the format of the file (with other suffix) would also be helpful, i.e. instead of using tab-indent I would explicitly writing vendor id (ev. other implicit ids) in every line. In this manner it is easier to grep for hardware, and also to merge files fr

Bug#496655: State of pci.ids

2008-10-01 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
Martin Mares wrote: Dropping this information in the udeb is if course a good way of saving space, but the full package should contain everything. In the future (after Lenny), I would like to solve one more problem: with the current rate of development of new hardware, the pci.ids file is getti

Bug#497696: xserver-xorg-core: optioning /usr/bin/Xorg to read /etc/X11/rgb.txt

2008-09-03 Thread giacomo boffi
Package: xserver-xorg-core Version: 2:1.4.2-5 Severity: wishlist the name->color mapping mechanism built into the Xorg server is configured at compile time to look either 1) an internal table, or 2) the file /etc/X11/rgb.txt at some point following , | commit 8987b2c1efc9a4667e278e6ba411772b

Bug#311772: Fwd: Password leaks are security holes

2008-08-28 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
Mark Brown wrote: On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 01:05:19PM +0200, Johan Walles wrote: 2008/8/28 Giacomo A. Catenazzi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: auth.log was invented for this reason, and separated to standard log: it should be readable only by root, because users do errors. It's readable

Bug#311772: Fwd: Password leaks are security holes

2008-08-28 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
Johan Walles wrote: Hi Nico! Let's keep debian-security in the discussion to see what others have to say about this. Technically I agree with you when you say that people shouldn't enter anything but their usernames at the login prompt, but the fact is that people (like me and the bug submitter

Bug#496561: libclutter-gst-0.8-dev: should require libgstreamer0.10-ruby

2008-08-25 Thread Giacomo Graziosi
Package: libclutter-gst-0.8-dev Version: 0.8.0-1 Severity: normal This package installs clutter-gst without libclutter-gst-0.8-dev so if you try to use clutter-gst you get an error and you have to manually install the dependency. -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers un

Bug#495233: debian-policy: README.source content should be more detailed

2008-08-15 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > First, section 4.14 should list things that one does not need to > describe in debian/README.source. For example, the use of one of the > "standard" patch systems (quilt, dpatch, simple-patchsys) doesn't need > to be documented, since every NMUer should be able to work with

Bug#494861: installkernel has a wrong assumption in powerpc: 4 or less parameters (powerpc uses 5 args)

2008-08-12 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
Package: debianutils Version: 2.30 Severity: normal The /sbin/installkernel expects 3 or 4 arguments, but on powerpc, kernel uses 5 arguments: >From arch/powerpc/boot/install.sh # "make install" script for ppc64 architecture # # Arguments: # $1 - kernel version # $2 - kernel image file # $3

Bug#494838: RM: knapster2 -- ROM; useless package (MIA upstream, MIA opennap networks)

2008-08-12 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
Package: ftp.debian.org Severity: normal I request removal of this package. I adopted it, hoping on finding new upstream authors, which I did not find. the package was already in a nearly unusable status (it connect only on single network, no automatic network selection, no meta-network handling).

Bug#471287: [PKG-IRC-Maintainers] Bug#471287: Thanks for the help but

2008-07-16 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
Matt Arnold wrote: > #471287 is _NOT_ an upstream issue! Furthermore if you had been paying > attention to the bug report logs you would have noticed I think the user wrongly interpreted "upstream". We are "upstream" from Ubuntu, but we are not the real/initial upstream. >> No, the patch is wrong

Bug#490605: debian-policy: please discourage the usage of echo -n, and echo in general

2008-07-14 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
Russ Allbery wrote: Raphael Hertzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: On Sat, 12 Jul 2008, Raphael Geissert wrote: As demonstrated by the following trivia[1], and also mentioned by SUSv3, the echo built-in varies from implementation to implementation and thus should be discouraged. Well, you jus

Bug#490075: udev: where has /dev/.static gone?

2008-07-10 Thread Giacomo Mulas
On Thu, 10 Jul 2008, Marco d'Itri wrote: On Jul 10, Giacomo Mulas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: pipes (xconsole used to be a problem, some time ago). What about standardising on a directory to contain some static stuff (devices, named pipes, whatever) to be copied or softlinked to

Bug#490075: udev: where has /dev/.static gone?

2008-07-09 Thread Giacomo Mulas
provided by udev be reverted please? Thanks in advance, ciao Giacomo -- Package-specific info: -- /etc/udev/rules.d/: /etc/udev/rules.d/: totale 208 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root20 6 lug 09:28 025_libchipcard.rules -> ../libchipcard.rules lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root19 6 dic 2007 025_libgphoto2.ru

Bug#489978: g15daemon: fails to reacquire keyboard when disconnected and reconnected

2008-07-09 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
My G11 keyboard seems to be flaking somewhat. This results in unpredictable USB disconnects, followed by near-immediate reconnects on the same port. I've also noticed it: I connected Logitech headphone to keyboard usb, which caused power problem and thus disconnecting usb. but I've not yet a r

Bug#473439: debian-policy: Debian Policy inconsistent with Developer's Reference

2008-07-08 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
Giacomo A. Catenazzi wrote: At the end of the process, I would like to have a glossary (maybe included into the policy) To simplify the discussion, I created: http://wiki.debian.org/PolicyGlossary It contain important term and links to policy. ciao cate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Bug#473439: debian-policy: Debian Policy inconsistent with Developer's Reference

2008-07-08 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
Russ Allbery wrote: "Giacomo A. Catenazzi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: OTOH, the 'Release' file uses the dak terminology, and the name is encoded on some tools. The most visible is apt: apt_preferences(5) for pining use the term "Component". Because is not

Bug#473439: debian-policy: Debian Policy inconsistent with Developer's Reference

2008-07-07 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
Russ Allbery wrote: Ian Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Russ Allbery writes: So as a purist, I would prefer `category'. `Area' works too since it refers to an `area' in the FTP site. I did a bit more research based on Osamu Aoki's excellent work. Currently, these things are referred to

Bug#487948: openoffice.org-writer: writer exporting to .doc: greek characters in eq.s are (almost) lost

2008-07-04 Thread Giacomo Boffi
Rene Engelhard writes: > tag 487948 + moreinfo > thanks > > giacomo boffi wrote: > > when i save a document containing a formula with greek letters to .doc > > format, the greek letters (or more, see later) disappear when opening > > th

Bug#488952: screenletsd shell script uses printf "abcd" instead of printf "abcd\n"

2008-07-02 Thread giacomo boffi
Package: screenlets Version: 0.1.2-1 Severity: normal Screenletsd shell script uses printf "abcd" instead of printf "abcd\n" allover the places, so that, e.g., we have % screenletsd --help Options: --gui Open up the Graphical Interface --cliUse the Command L

Bug#488953: screenletsd looks for a non existing file in /etc/screenlets

2008-07-02 Thread giacomo boffi
Package: screenlets Version: 0.1.2-1 Severity: normal /usr/bin/screenletsd shell script starts with the command PREFIX=$(cat /etc/screenlets/prefix) and of course i have an error message cat: /etc/screenlets/prefix: No such file or directory best regards gb

Bug#487948: openoffice.org-writer: writer exporting to .doc: greek characters in eq.s are (almost) lost

2008-06-25 Thread giacomo boffi
Package: openoffice.org-writer Version: 1:2.4.1-3 Severity: normal when i save a document containing a formula with greek letters to .doc format, the greek letters (or more, see later) disappear when opening the .doc using some sort of word here i have a very minimal example, i open a ne

Bug#486482: tex4ht: a java program invoked from oolatex goes in error

2008-06-16 Thread Giacomo Boffi
Kapil Hari Paranjape writes: > Hello, hello Kapil, please note that i put Eitan Gurari in Cc > On Mon, 16 Jun 2008, Giacomo Boffi wrote: > > as i said in a previous bugreport, i have to prepend a mkdir to have a > > correct processing > > I will need to exami

Bug#486482: tex4ht: a java program invoked from oolatex goes in error

2008-06-16 Thread Giacomo Boffi
Eitan Gurari writes: > > Hi Giacomo, > > Can you cut the file esercizio.tex to a miniature minimal size while > still demonstrating the problem. The problem seems to be in a broken > XML code produced in early phases and then fed into xtpipes. > > -eitan i forg

Bug#486482: tex4ht: a java program invoked from oolatex goes in error

2008-06-16 Thread giacomo boffi
Package: tex4ht Version: 20080614-1 Severity: normal let say that i have a latex source named esercizio.tex, when i execute % mkdir sxw-esercizio.dir ; /usr/share/tex4ht/oolatex esercizio.tex (please see my previous bug report for the mkdir) the subsequent invocation from different scripts of a

Bug#486476: oolatex fails to create directory sxw-%%.dir as specified in tex4ht.cfg

2008-06-16 Thread giacomo boffi
Package: tex4ht Version: 20080614-1 Severity: normal when i try to generate a OO file from a latex source, % /usr/share/tex4ht/oolatex myfile.tex the scripts invoked from oolatex somehow fail to create a directory named, following my example, sxw-myfile.dir the relevant code is contained in /et

Bug#485553: ITP: charybdis -- fast, scalable irc server

2008-06-10 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
William Pitcock wrote: - epic4 (impossible to get an exception, dead contributors) You are wrong to the "impossible to get an exception, dead contributors", in this sentence and in other sentences: The copyright go to the heirs, so you could contact the heirs. Anyway, we should follow the c

Bug#169600: Rejected: Bug#169600: Policy should mandate a place for init.d script to log errors to

2008-06-09 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
Russ Allbery wrote: This proposal asks that Policy mandate a location to which init scripts must log verbose errors. The original proposal was made in 2002 and there was little subsequent discussion in 2003. This Policy proposal is also not currently widely implemented in the archive and hence

Bug#479080: debian-policy: Policy '3.8 Essential packages' does not explain when/why essential is neccessary

2008-06-05 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
Steve Langasek wrote: > On Thu, Jun 05, 2008 at 06:25:14PM +0200, Giacomo A. Catenazzi wrote: >> Manoj Srivastava wrote: >>> Hi, >>> On Fri, 02 May 2008 17:45:30 +0200, Carl Fürstenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> said: > >>>> Policy sectio

Bug#479080: debian-policy: Policy '3.8 Essential packages' does not explain when/why essential is neccessary

2008-06-05 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
Manoj Srivastava wrote: Hi, On Fri, 02 May 2008 17:45:30 +0200, Carl Fürstenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: Policy section 3.8, about essential packages, doesn't explain when/why essential is neccessary, only that it should not be essential if it's not necessary. My understanding is th

Bug#172436: Updated BROWSER proposal

2008-06-04 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
Russ Allbery wrote: "Giacomo A. Catenazzi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: "web browser to display an URL." I don't like the sentence, but anyway I don't worry much, because the program should be sensible, and open browser only with correct protocols. I'v

Bug#479438: [confirm] aptitude hangs after installs

2008-06-03 Thread giacomo boffi
Package: aptitude Version: 0.4.11.3-1 Followup-For: Bug #479438 when aptitude is used interactively, it hangs after having downloaded and installed whatever packages are to be installed before locking, i see some info messages, the last one being "Building view" tia

Bug#172436: Updated BROWSER proposal

2008-06-03 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
Russ Allbery wrote: --- a/policy.sgml +++ b/policy.sgml @@ -8675,6 +8675,68 @@ name ["syshostname"]: for games (X and non-X games) should be installed in /usr/share/man/man6. + + + Web browsers + + + Some programs have the ability to launch a

Bug#446098:

2008-05-15 Thread Giacomo Graziosi
Any updates on this? Fedora just released it in the stable version, it would be great to have it on experimental or sid. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#480256: libversion-perl: uninstallable, depends on perl (<< 5.9.0) and perlapi-5.8.8

2008-05-08 Thread Giacomo Mulas
Package: libversion-perl Version: 1:0.7400-2 Severity: normal The transition to perl 5.10 made libversion-perl uninstallable, due to dependencies which cannot be satisfied on sid. Please rebuild/port to the new perl release. -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable

Bug#471287: [PKG-IRC-Maintainers] Bug#471287: FIX: atheme-services: bashism in /bin/sh script

2008-04-29 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
Here is one patch to solve the bashism in this package. No, the patch is wrong! BTW "-n" is not a bashism, but a long time convention starting from the *BSD, IIRC, and cited also on POSIX. From POSIX: : A string to be written to standard output. If the first : operand is -n, or if any of the o

Bug#477313: ControlScreenlet: "Applications" menu has all entries doubled

2008-04-22 Thread Giacomo Boffi
i can add a bit more perspective having stopped and restarted my window manager, having restarted ControlScreenlet i have seen that all "Applications" submenus were correct... wtf! i added _another_ ControlScreenlet to the desktop and, after a long thinkering, oopla a second Control appeared on m

Bug#477313: ControlScreenlet: "Applications" menu has all entries doubled

2008-04-22 Thread giacomo boffi
Package: screenlets Version: 0.1-1 Severity: normal The ControlScreenlet shows, in a popup menu, some applications to start, but the apps offered by default are not the apps that i normally use, so i looked for a way to modify the menu entries i found that the ControlScreenlet reads its menu con

Bug#476769: latencytop: Many features seem to lack any documentation

2008-04-22 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
Sami Liedes wrote: > At least some useful features of latencytop seem to be entirely > undocumented (even in the website referenced in the manpage...). At > least some of them: > > * The -d switch for cursesless interface (dump once to stdout) > * The --unknown switch is only mentioned in the SYNO

Bug#476989: rhythmbox: needs gstreamer0.10-lame to encode for ipods

2008-04-20 Thread Giacomo Graziosi
Package: rhythmbox Version: 0.11.5-2 Severity: normal If you try to drag some files (encoded with formats not supported on ipods, formats like flac or ogg) rhythmbox will do nothing. Correct behaviour is to encode these files on the fly but if you don't install gstreamer0.10-lame it will not en

Bug#476352: openoffice.org-core: depends on experimental libcairo2

2008-04-16 Thread Giacomo Mulas
lable. Please recompile it (for amd64) against the version of libcairo2 which is currently available in sid (which is 1.4.14-1 at the moment), unless a new version of cairo fixing this is already scheduled for imminent upload. Thanks, bye Giacomo Mulas -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dang

Bug#476243: python-uno: install fails because doesn't recognize python 2.4

2008-04-15 Thread Giacomo Graziosi
Package: python-uno Version: 1:2.4.0-3 Severity: normal -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=U

Bug#473774: idle: the lines in the path browser windows are overlapping

2008-04-01 Thread giacomo boffi
Package: idle Version: 2.4.4-6 Severity: normal if you select a line in the path browser window, that is longer than the line below, you can clearly see that the lower part of the selected line is covered by the line below in other words, all the descenders of the letters in a line are hidden be

Bug#378996: Intense, unbelievable climaxes

2008-03-26 Thread giacomo Martel
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Bug#295591: FDA Approved Growth Supplement

2008-03-25 Thread giacomo Ie
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Bug#391241: Watch her climax over and over again

2008-03-22 Thread giacomo Harriman
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Bug#462184: RFP: latencytop -- tool to visualize system latencies

2008-02-12 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
What is the status of this bug? I see that you changes few time the bug title, so now is it really RFP? Do you have a preliminary version? If I don't see a reply in next few days, I'll pack a new version. ciao cate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsu

Bug#463078: g15daemon: LCD keys do not appear to be reported to X

2008-01-29 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
I think it is the expected behaviour: the L keys are used to control the display: change client, and client specific behaviours (clock display mode on default client). So the key is used in g15deamon and thus it is not exported. BTW you don't need Xmodmap file. See the README file, to see how to c

Bug#438385: NMU awardeco #438385: fails on 64-bit platforms

2008-01-16 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
, to be safe on various +architectures (Closes: #438385). + * Fix also headers inclusion (memcpy: , exit: ). + + -- Giacomo Catenazzi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Thu, 17 Jan 2008 08:17:08 +0100 + awardeco (0.2-2) unstable; urgency=low * Fix FTBFS on GNU/kFreeBSD (Closes: #414235). only in

Bug#438385: NMU awardeco #438385: fails on 64-bit platforms

2008-01-16 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
diff -u awardeco-0.2/debian/changelog awardeco-0.2/debian/changelog --- awardeco-0.2/debian/changelog +++ awardeco-0.2/debian/changelog @@ -1,3 +1,11 @@ +awardeco (0.2-2.1) unstable; urgency=low + + * Non-Maintainer Upload at BSP in Zurich: fix rc bug + * Use the C99 bit length integer, to be sa

Bug#438385: NMU awardeco #438385: fails on 64-bit platforms

2008-01-16 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
ian/changelog --- awardeco-0.2/debian/changelog +++ awardeco-0.2/debian/changelog @@ -1,3 +1,11 @@ +awardeco (0.2-2.1) unstable; urgency=low + + * Non-Maintainer Upload at BSP in Zurich: fix rc bug + * Use the C99 bit length integer, to be safe on various archs + * fix also headers inclusion (m

Bug#447007: wavsplit: Doesn't support files larger than 2 GB.

2008-01-14 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
The followind patch should correct the behaviour. Not tested (later I'll create a big wav test-file). --- wavsplit.c 2008-01-15 08:22:04.0 +0100 +++ ../orig/wavsplit-1.1.0/wavsplit.c 2004-04-12 11:35:52.0 +0200 @@ -248,8 +248,7 @@ unsigned int fps, int splits, timepo

Bug#460302: NMU #460302 in tdb: usr/include/tdb.h uses sig_atomic_t without including signal.h

2008-01-14 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
Jelmer Vernooij wrote: Am Montag, den 14.01.2008, 08:43 +0100 schrieb Giacomo Catenazzi: and the diff PS: This bug will close also a rc-bug in an other package. Please don't upload this. I'm not sure what upstream package you're looking at but tdb_setalarm_sigptr() still exi

Bug#460302: NMU #460302 in tdb: usr/include/tdb.h uses sig_atomic_t without including signal.h

2008-01-14 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
Hello In the Debian BSP in Zurich I fixed one rc-bug in tdb package: I remove the funcion, because it is also removed upstream in the released version. I've not corrected the second rc-bug. I think that the release correct the bug, but: 1- not so sure 2- it change GPL-2 to GPL-3 so to much for a

Bug#460302: NMU #460302 in tdb: usr/include/tdb.h uses sig_atomic_t without including signal.h

2008-01-13 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
+ + * Non-Maintainer Upload at BSP in Zurich: fix rc-bug + * remove tdb_setalarm_sigptr() as in the released version (Closes: #460302) + + -- Giacomo Catenazzi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sun, 13 Jan 2008 13:50:34 +0100 + tdb (1.1.1~svn26294-1) unstable; urgency=low * New upstream snapshot. o

Bug#453200: NMU #453200: genext2fs: FTBFS: ./test-gen.lib: line 29: 31347 Segmentation fault

2008-01-13 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
ad, at BSP in Zurich + * in sscanf the "a" could mean "malloc" or the new C99 floating, + so don't use it, not to have surprises. + + -- Giacomo Catenazzi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sat, 12 Jan 2008 23:03:59 +0100 + genext2fs (1.4.1-2) unstable; urgency=low * configu

Bug#446901: compiz ignores gconf modifications and number_of_desktops value

2007-12-06 Thread Giacomo Montagner
On Dec 5, 2007 9:24 PM, Evgeni Golov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 05 Dec 2007 11:33:37 +0100 Giacomo Montagner wrote: > > Why not just > kill -HUP `pidof compiz.real` > mmmh... ok, simpler is better. ^_^ Cheers, Giacomo -- mantager-at-gmail-dot-com -- To

Bug#446901: compiz ignores gconf modifications and number_of_desktops value

2007-12-05 Thread Giacomo Montagner
d switches correctly) b) to reload configuration without lugout/login, do a kill -HUP of the process compiz.real: - open a terminal - run command: ps -ef | grep compiz.real | grep -v grep \ | awk '{print "kill -HUP "$2}' | bash Bye Giacomo -- mantag

Bug#453041: Country Liechtenstein not in country list when selecting German as language in installer

2007-11-27 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
Christian Perrier wrote: > Quoting Giacomo A. Catenazzi ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): >> CC: to madduck. >> IIRC he is rewriting the locales for Switzerland, so >> probably he could do quickly also for Liechtenstein too. >> >> BTW madduck: there is some news about the pr

Bug#453041: Country Liechtenstein not in country list when selecting German as language in installer

2007-11-27 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
CC: to madduck. IIRC he is rewriting the locales for Switzerland, so probably he could do quickly also for Liechtenstein too. BTW madduck: there is some news about the project? ciao cate Christian Perrier wrote: reassign 453041 locales retitle 453041 Please provide a locale for German

Bug#451657: g15daemon-audacious: FTBFS: Could not find audacious/beepctrl.h

2007-11-19 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
Daniel Schepler wrote: Package: g15daemon-audacious Version: 2.5.2.0.20070914-1 Severity: serious With the new version of audacious, I get this in my pbuilder build log: Thank you for the report. The new version of audacious has a new plugin API. Now I nearly finished the conversion, so you sh

Bug#446906: gnome-screensaver does not grab keyboard input

2007-10-18 Thread Giacomo Montagner
> Are you using compiz? If yes, please try out the patch in: > <https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-screensaver/+bug/145123> > Yes! That fixed the problem. Thanks! Giacomo. -- mantager-at-gmail-dot-com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wi

Bug#446906: gnome-screensaver does not grab keyboard input

2007-10-16 Thread Giacomo Montagner
Package: gnome-screensaver Version: 2.18.2-1 Severity: important When I lock screen the password input box is immediately displayed, but there is no cursor in the text input field. Writing anything on keyboard produces no change. I tried this: - opened konsole - locked screen (using shortcut ctr

Bug#446901: compiz ignores gconf modifications and number_of_desktops value

2007-10-16 Thread Giacomo Montagner
ace of the prism was represented on W.S. Clicking on one of the workspaces on W.S. made the prism rotate until the active face was the one selected by clicking on W.S. I've never had issues with workspaces before upgrade, so I cannot say which the value of number_of_desktops was. Regards, Giac

Bug#445236: gdm: the font in text-input field is way too big

2007-10-09 Thread Giacomo Montagner
org.conf, and now it works (see attached xdpyinfo output). For instance, also xine seems to work right using this workaround. Please let me know if there are other test I may perform. Cheers, Giacomo name of display::0.0 version number:11.0 vendor string:The X.Org Foundation

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