Bug#316403: circular dependency between libgconf2-4 and gconf2

2005-06-30 Thread Bill Allombert
Package: libgconf2-4 Version: 2.10.0-2 Severity: important Hello Takuo, libgconf2-4 has a circular dependency with gconf2. This cause problems during upgrade between stable releases. We are discussing circular dependencies on debian-devel and Josselin Mouette asked me to report this bug as a

Bug#316437: circular dependency between libgnomevfs2-common and libgnomevfs2-0

2005-06-30 Thread Bill Allombert
Package: libgnomevfs2-0 Version: 2.10.1-5 Severity: important Hello GNOME maintainers, There is a circular dependency between libgnomevfs2-common and libgnomevfs2-0. Circular dependencies are known to cause issues during upgrade between stable release. See

Bug#316487: debian-installer-manual: Missing copyright credit: Karsten M. Self for section C.4

2005-07-01 Thread Bill Allombert
On Fri, Jul 01, 2005 at 12:36:14PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: The Debian Project has been distributing this work in violation of my copyrights. I've previously requested this be remedied in 2003, the situation remains uncorrected:

Bug#267983: flwm: (patch enclosed) This is an accessibility bug

2005-07-02 Thread Bill Allombert
On Sat, Jul 02, 2005 at 08:51:19AM +0100, Silas S. Brown wrote: Package: flwm Version: 1.00-7 Followup-For: Bug #267983 This is an accessibility bug because it can make flwm unreadable for people like me (my visual disability means I need bright text on a dark background, not the other

Bug#312065: woody to sarge upgrade report

2005-06-05 Thread Bill Allombert
On Sun, Jun 05, 2005 at 02:12:25AM -0700, Andrew Sharp wrote: 5. Oh yeah, I also get a nut-cgi failed to preconfigure, with exit status 10 when running the aptitude dist-upgrade command. No problem, I just removed the package because I wasn't using it anyway. This bug is now recorded as

Bug#310982: smbmount does not honor uid and gid options with 2.4 kernel

2005-06-06 Thread Bill Allombert
On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 04:19:28AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: reopen 310982 tags 310982 security thanks samba 3.0.14a-4 didn't make the cut for sarge, so this bug is still present in the release. That being the case, it would be far better to fix this bug in the kernel instead of in

Bug#312351: woody - sarge: package on hold upgraded anyway

2005-06-07 Thread Bill Allombert
On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 09:02:22AM -0700, Paul Telford wrote: Upgrade sequence: - updated sources.list - dpkg --get-selections | grep hold # Noted that one package, 'mantis', was intentionally on hold - apt-get install aptitude - aptitude -f --with-recommends dist-upgrade # Watch

Bug#312351: woody - sarge: package on hold upgraded anyway

2005-06-07 Thread Bill Allombert
On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 10:05:15AM -0700, Paul Telford wrote: On Tue, 7 Jun 2005, Bill Allombert wrote: The release notes state: If you changed and recompiled a package locally, and didn't rename it or put an epoch in the version, you must put it on hold to prevent it from

Bug#312392: pari-doc: documentation should be gzipped

2005-06-07 Thread Bill Allombert
On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 10:59:48PM +0100, Julian Gilbey wrote: Package: pari-doc Version: 2.1.6-3 Severity: minor The documentation in /usr/share/doc/pari-doc/doc should be gzipped (see policy 12.3); after all, xdvi can read gzipped files. Hello Julian, The doc is actually in

Bug#312392: pari-doc: documentation should be gzipped

2005-06-08 Thread Bill Allombert
On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 01:35:15AM +0100, Julian Gilbey wrote: On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 12:29:14AM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 10:59:48PM +0100, Julian Gilbey wrote: Package: pari-doc Version: 2.1.6-3 Severity: minor The documentation in /usr/share/doc

Bug#312394: arm-woody update-menus segfault during upgrade

2005-06-08 Thread Bill Allombert
On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 11:53:09PM +0100, Jonathan David Amery wrote: OK, so now a new update-menus has installed and my machine isn't suffering segfaults every time it runs it... I've got a copy of the old update-menus and it still segfaults; here is an strace of it:

Bug#312613: symlinks missing in repositories

2005-06-09 Thread Bill Allombert
On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 10:19:36AM +0200, jan gregor wrote: Package: upgrade-reports It's because there is no directory named testing in both http://ftp.sk.debian.org/debian-non-US/dists/ and http://security.debian.org/dists/ . Is this going to be fixed over time or I have to edit my

Bug#250202: Alternate proposal

2005-06-12 Thread Bill Allombert
On Sun, Jun 12, 2005 at 11:24:04AM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: + p + If, even after this warning, a maintainer still chooses to + do so by either creating the layout of the source package + such that running prgndpkg-source -x/prgn does not + render editable

Bug#313183: RFA: eterm-themes -- Themes for Eterm, the Enlightened Terminal Emulator

2005-06-12 Thread Bill Allombert
Package: wnpp Severity: normal Dear developers, I don't use Eterm anymore, so I don't have much use of eterm-themes. It is a very low maintainance package, though. The package description is: This package contains themes for Eterm, the Enlightened Terminal Emulator, from www.eterm.org.

Bug#250202: Alternate proposal

2005-06-12 Thread Bill Allombert
On Sun, Jun 12, 2005 at 08:56:25PM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote: Hi, I would like to make one comment: There are essentially two ways to use patch systems like dpatch: In debian/rules have 'clean' depend on 'unpatch' or on 'patch'. While the standard way is to depend on 'unpatch', if

Bug#313183: RFA: eterm-themes -- Themes for Eterm, the Enlightened Terminal Emulator

2005-06-12 Thread Bill Allombert
On Sun, Jun 12, 2005 at 03:15:05PM +0200, Luca Bruno wrote: Bill Allombert [EMAIL PROTECTED] scrisse: Package: wnpp Severity: normal Dear developers, I don't use Eterm anymore, so I don't have much use of eterm-themes. It is a very low maintainance package, though

Bug#312852: menu: [INTL:de] Minor German translation improvements

2005-06-12 Thread Bill Allombert
On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 06:09:34PM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote: Quoting Jens Seidel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): the attached patch fixes minor issues with the German translation and contains also a fixed English msgid string. (The German translation doesn't change, please unfuzzy it yourself.

Bug#313194: popularity-contest: should collect stats for aptitude auto flag

2005-06-12 Thread Bill Allombert
On Sun, Jun 12, 2005 at 06:57:28AM -0500, Peter Samuelson wrote: Package: popularity-contest Version: 0.29 Severity: wishlist I think it would be interesting to be able to weight the popcon stats based on whether a package is auto-installed or manually selected. This is only tracked

Bug#313293: debdiff of different tarball broken by latest dpkg-dev

2005-06-13 Thread Bill Allombert
On Mon, Jun 13, 2005 at 12:20:36AM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: Probably a more robust way to find the name of the directory is in order. Given you unpack in an empty tempdirr, you could just use readdir to find the name of the directory created. Here a patch that implement this suggestion

Bug#312897: ITP: texlive -- The TeXlive system packaged for debian

2005-06-13 Thread Bill Allombert
On Mon, Jun 13, 2005 at 09:41:47AM +0200, frank wrote: If we had texlive in Debian, there wouldn't be such pressure. teTeX would be updated to the current version shortly after a release, and then would stick to that upstream version no matter what happened until the next release. And the

Bug#319273: popularity-contest: should be able to send copies to From address

2005-08-02 Thread Bill Allombert
On Wed, Jul 20, 2005 at 10:40:30PM +0200, Ulf Harnhammar wrote: Subject: popularity-contest: should be able to send copies to From address Package: popularity-contest Version: 1.30 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch Hello, I want to see what popularity-contest does and what information is

Bug#321155: quilt manpage refer to /usr/share/doc/quilt-0.40

2005-08-03 Thread Bill Allombert
Package: quilt Version: 0.40-6 Severity: minor Hello Martin, quilt(1) refer to /usr/share/doc/quilt-0.40/README.MAIL which does not exist on Debian. This file is named /usr/share/doc/quilt/README.MAIL instead. Cheers, -- Bill. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Imagine a large red swirl here. -- To

Bug#321156: quilt: would like a 'commit' command

2005-08-03 Thread Bill Allombert
Package: quilt Version: 0.40-6 Severity: wishlist Hello Martin, I use quilt on top of cvs (for disconnected operation, etc.). I need a way to remove patches that have been commited to the cvs repository. I propose a 'quilt commit' command that would 1) Apply the bottom patch. 2) Remove it from

Bug#321056: popularity-contest: Description talks about e-mail only, while http is the default.

2005-08-03 Thread Bill Allombert
On Wed, Aug 03, 2005 at 09:13:19AM +0200, Bas Spitters wrote: Package: popularity-contest Version: 1.30 Severity: minor Description talks about e-mail only, while http is the default. Which might be confusing. The description is correct. The default should be e-mail. Cheers, -- Bill.

Bug#321056: [Popcon-developers] Bug#321056: popularity-contest: Description talks about e-mail only, while http is the default.

2005-08-05 Thread Bill Allombert
On Thu, Aug 04, 2005 at 10:43:39AM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: The default is http only for new installations. This need to be fixed. smtp should be the default, http is not reliable enough. Cheers, -- Bill. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Imagine a large red swirl here. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Bug#321056: [Popcon-developers] Bug#321056: popularity-contest: Description talks about e-mail only, while http is the default.

2005-08-06 Thread Bill Allombert
On Fri, Aug 05, 2005 at 02:45:55PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: [Bill Allombert] This need to be fixed. smtp should be the default, http is not reliable enough. I suspect you didn't check the code. There is no need to fix anything, as http is tried by default on new installations

Bug#321056: [Popcon-developers] Bug#321056: popularity-contest: Description talks about e-mail only, while http is the default.

2005-08-08 Thread Bill Allombert
On Sun, Aug 07, 2005 at 12:13:10AM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: [Bill Allombert] Any machine that might not be connected to the net when the popcon cron job run. The email will be queued and sent as soon as a connection is established (dial-up, pppoe, dhcp, etc.). That is only

Bug#483468: gerstensaft: please update to the new menu structure

2008-05-28 Thread Bill Allombert
Package: gerstensaft Version: 0.3-2 Severity: normal Hello Joey, The file /usr/lib/menu/gerstensaft reads ?package(gerstensaft):needs=x11 section=Apps/Net \ title=Gerstensaft icon=beer-mini.xpm \ command=/usr/bin/beer Please move this file to /usr/share/menu. Please also

Bug#473467: the patch

2008-05-10 Thread Bill Allombert
On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 04:11:01PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: diff --new-file -ur old/menu-2.1.38/update-menus/update-menus.cc menu-2.1.39/update-menus/update-menus.cc --- old/menu-2.1.38/update-menus/update-menus.cc 2008-03-03 15:13:45.0 -0500 +++

Bug#473467: support for triggers (stage 1)

2008-05-10 Thread Bill Allombert
Hello Joey, On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 04:06:15PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: - Adding a debian/triggers file (which is installed by debhelper), and which registers interest in /usr/share/menu and /usr/lib/menu. This causes dpkg to trigger menu whenever files in those directories are changed.

Bug#458946: not fixed in flwm 1.02+cvs20080422-1

2008-05-13 Thread Bill Allombert
reopen 458946 quit On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 06:29:48AM +, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: . * New maintainer. Closes: #369933 * New CVS snapshot from the 22th April 2008. Closes: #458946, #272672, #316885, #316209 Hello Patrick, Your changelog is unclear about why this

Bug#481026: flwm: vertical fonts are bold and ugly

2008-05-13 Thread Bill Allombert
Package: flwm Version: 1.02+cvs20080422-1 Severity: normal Hello Patrick, The vertical fonts used in the title bar are bold and ugly with Lenny. Under Etch they were much nicer looking. This is independant of the exact version of flwm, so maybe it depends on the fltk version. Cheers, -- Bill.

Bug#480726: upgrade-reports: Installation of linux kernel update fails

2008-05-13 Thread Bill Allombert
On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 08:48:49PM +0200, Robert Brusa wrote: Package: upgrade-reports Severity: normal When trying to install the most recent kernel-image I get the error. E:/var/cache/apt/archives/linux-image-2.6.18-6-686_2.6.18.dfsg.1-18etch3_i386.deb: fehlgeschlagen in

Bug#481026: flwm: vertical fonts are bold and ugly

2008-05-13 Thread Bill Allombert
On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 11:29:44AM +0200, Patrick Matthäi wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bill Allombert schrieb: Package: flwm Version: 1.02+cvs20080422-1 Severity: normal Hello Patrick, The vertical fonts used in the title bar are bold and ugly

Bug#481026: flwm: vertical fonts are bold and ugly

2008-05-13 Thread Bill Allombert
On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 06:02:38PM +0200, Patrick Matthäi wrote: Hash: SHA1 Bill Allombert schrieb: Well, actually I am running sid now, but I found the bug some time ago, and I did not report it because I was the maintainer:) It still apply to sid. Cheers, Bill. Heh

Bug#484837: menu-xdg: Does not add menus to main freedesktop menu in XFCE

2008-06-07 Thread Bill Allombert
On Fri, Jun 06, 2008 at 02:39:45PM -0400, Daniel Dickinson wrote: Package: menu-xdg Version: 0.3 Severity: normal I have installed menu-xdg and xfrisk. After making sure update-menus was run I checked the Games menu in xfce. xfrisk is not there. It is in the Debian submenu but not

Bug#484561: Undocumented command line option --trigger in update-menus

2008-06-07 Thread Bill Allombert
On Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 09:31:15PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: Package: menu Version: 2.1.39 Severity: normal Hi, when bug #484167 was filed against cdd-common package I wondered how to prevent the problem reasonably. We should report #484167 the problem to the dpkg developpers. So

Bug#473467: the patch

2008-06-08 Thread Bill Allombert
Hello Joey, Can you have a look at bug #484167 about triggers and menu ? It seems dpkg is running the menu trigger before the the triggering package is configured. Cheers, -- Bill. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Imagine a large red swirl here. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Bug#473467: the patch

2008-06-08 Thread Bill Allombert
On Sun, Jun 08, 2008 at 01:26:57PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: Bill Allombert wrote: Hello Joey, Can you have a look at bug #484167 about triggers and menu ? It seems dpkg is running the menu trigger before the the triggering package is configured. Right, dpkg can run the trigger

Bug#483465: [Popcon-developers] Bug#483465: popularity-contest: cronjob should use ionice

2008-06-08 Thread Bill Allombert
On Sun, Jun 08, 2008 at 07:08:45PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: [Franklin Piat] popularity-contest's cronjob (/etc/cron.daily/popularity-contest) should use ionice in order to be [even] less intrusive. Make sense to me. I've attached a simple patch. I suspect adding something

Bug#484167: [Help] Re: Bug#484167: cdd-common: missing directory when installing

2008-06-08 Thread Bill Allombert
On Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 08:42:36AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: On Tue, 3 Jun 2008, Jeffrey Austen wrote: Could it be because /usr/share/menu/cdd-menu is before /etc/cdd/cdd.conf in the file list? This should not be IMHO. Here is something else I tried which shows the error occurs

Bug#485559: Re: consistent tftpboot directory location [RFC]

2008-06-13 Thread Bill Allombert
On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 11:07:32PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: Franklin PIAT [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Steve Langasek pointed out[1] that the location /srv/tftp could be used, but no package should provide any file in it. I consider this would defeat the purpose of having a standard

Bug#487201: MPL-license

2008-07-08 Thread Bill Allombert
On Tue, Jul 08, 2008 at 10:42:12AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: Dmitry E. Oboukhov [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: (Incidentally, right now the iceweasel package doesn't include the MPL in debian/copyright, but instead in a separate file next to debian/copyright, which surprised me. That's actually

Bug#489771: New Build-Options field and build-arch option, please review

2008-07-11 Thread Bill Allombert
On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 07:19:16PM -0400, Felipe Sateler wrote: El 10/07/08 18:02 Raphael Hertzog escribió: Hello, in order to fix #229357 I decided to add a new Build-Options field. I modified Dpkg::BuildOptions to parse this field and DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS. And I added support for a

Bug#341037: Not optimal but shouldn't be problematic for time being

2008-04-30 Thread Bill Allombert
On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 03:49:37PM +0100, Olivier Berger wrote: Hi. This problem is still found in epoch 1 packaging of phpgroupware 0.9.16, where packages phpgroupware-0.9.16-core-base and the others -phpgwapi, -admin, -setup and -preferences still have circular dependencies. That's

Bug#250202: debian/README.source file for packages with non-trivial source

2008-05-01 Thread Bill Allombert
On Thu, May 01, 2008 at 05:21:05AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: Frank Küster [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Russ Allbery [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I believe the devref instructions are wrong. The proper location for this information is debian/copyright, which is already required to contain

Bug#482323: [patch] viewvc: tarball from svn reps have incorrect file permissions

2008-05-21 Thread Bill Allombert
Package: viewvc Version: 1.0.5-0.1 Severity: normal Tags: patch Hello ViewVC maintainer, Tarball generated from a subversion repository have all files permissions set to 644. This can break compilation because some script cannot be run. See upstream tracker:

Bug#482918: bulmacont menu: PNG icon masqueraded as XPM file.

2008-05-25 Thread Bill Allombert
Package: bulmacont Version: 0.9.1-2+b1 Severity: normal Hello René, The file /usr/share/menu/bulmacont reads ?package(bulmacont):needs=X11 section=Apps/Tools longtitle=BulmaCont: accounting aplication title=BulmaCont command=/usr/bin/bulmacont icon=/usr/share/bulmages/icons/iconbulmacont.xpm

Bug#482928: docker: menu section Applications/Tools does not exist

2008-05-25 Thread Bill Allombert
Package: docker Version: 1.4-4 Severity: normal Hello Ari, The file /usr/share/menu/docker reads ?package(docker):needs=x11 section=Applications/Tools\ title=docker command=/usr/bin/docker Thanks for moving to the new menu structure. However the section Applications/Tools does not exist,

Bug#482929: gtktrain: menu section Applications/Tools does not exist

2008-05-25 Thread Bill Allombert
Package: gtktrain Version: 0.9b-12 Severity: normal Hello Masayuki, The file /usr/share/menu/gtktrain reads ?package(gtktrain):needs=X11 section=Applications/Tools\ title=gtktrain command=/usr/bin/gtktrain The section Applications/Tools is not valid, please migrate to the new menu structure

Bug#482930: xlassie: menu structure: Applications/Net does not exist

2008-05-25 Thread Bill Allombert
Package: xlassie Version: 1.8-16 Severity: normal Hello Barak, The file /usr/share/menu/xlassie reads ?package(xlassie):needs=X11 section=Applications/Net\ title=xlassie command=/usr/bin/xlassie The section Applications/Net does not exist. Please migrate to the new menu structure [1]. [1]

Bug#482934: xdrawchem: please update to the new menu structure

2008-05-25 Thread Bill Allombert
Package: xdrawchem Version: 1.9.9-4+b1 Severity: normal Hello Warren, The file /usr/share/menu/xdrawchem reads ?package(xdrawchem):needs=X11 section=Apps/Science\ title=xdrawchem command=/usr/bin/xdrawchem The section Apps/Science no more exist. Please migrate to the new menu structure [1].

Bug#482936: ssystem: please update to the new menu structure

2008-05-25 Thread Bill Allombert
Package: ssystem Version: 1.6-17 Severity: normal Hello Debian QA Group, The file /usr/share/menu/ssystem reads ?package(ssystem):needs=X11 \ command=/usr/bin/ssystem \ section=Apps/Science\ title=SSystem The section Apps/Science no more exist. Please migrate to the new menu

Bug#482933: megahal: please update to the new menu structure

2008-05-25 Thread Bill Allombert
Package: megahal Version: 9.1.1a-5+b1 Severity: normal Hello Debian QA Group, The file /usr/share/menu/megahal reads ?package(megahal):needs=text section=Apps/Science \ title=MegaHal longtitle=Talk with MegaHal \ command=/usr/bin/megahal The section Apps/Science no longer exist.

Bug#482935: gpiv: please update to the new menu structure

2008-05-25 Thread Bill Allombert
Package: gpiv Version: 0.3.1-2+b2 Severity: normal Hello Gerber, The file /usr/share/menu/gpiv reads ?package(gpiv): \ needs=X11 \ section=Apps/Science \ title=Gpiv \ longtitle=Image analyzing tool for Particle Image Velocimetry \ command=/usr/bin/gpiv \

Bug#483192: ratmenu menu-method: install-menu moved to /usr/bin

2008-05-27 Thread Bill Allombert
Package: ratmenu Version: 2.3.14 Severity: normal Hello Mark, /etc/menu-methods/ratmenu start with #!/usr/sbin/install-menu Please change it to #!/usr/bin/install-menu Cheers, -- Bill. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Imagine a large red swirl here. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Bug#483194: deskmenu menu-method: install-menu moved to /usr/bin

2008-05-27 Thread Bill Allombert
Package: deskmenu Version: 1.4.2 Severity: normal Hello Stefan, /etc/menu-methods/deskmenu start with #!/usr/sbin/install-menu Please change that to #!/usr/bin/install-menu Cheers, -- Bill. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Imagine a large red swirl here. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#483196: vtwm menu-method: install-menu is now in /usr/bin

2008-05-27 Thread Bill Allombert
Package: vtwm Version: 5.4.7-2.1 Severity: normal Hello Branden, /etc/menu-methods/waimea start with #!/usr/sbin/install-menu Please change it to #!/usr/bin/install-menu Cheers, -- Bill. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Imagine a large red swirl here. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Bug#431118: menu: transition to XDG *.desktop menu system

2008-06-23 Thread Bill Allombert
On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 04:12:59PM +0300, Martin-Éric Racine wrote: Hello Bill, I notice that you never replied to this wishlist item. How about it? Sorry, it is outside the scope of menu. Certainly you deserve a better answer, but I get wary of saying the same thing again and again.

Bug#478841: menu: please include ktsuss in su-to-root

2008-05-06 Thread Bill Allombert
On Thu, May 01, 2008 at 02:07:47PM +0200, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: Package: menu Severity: wishlist Hi, ktsuss is a GTK application to gain root, a bit like gksu but without gnome dependencies. It'd be nice to have it included in su-to-root. No objection, of course. Attached patch

Bug#479745: ktsuss manpage: option -u is not documented.

2008-05-06 Thread Bill Allombert
Package: ktsuss Version: 1.3-1 Hello Debian Xfce Maintainers, ktsuss manpage does not document option -u which exist according to ktsuss -h: $ ktsuss -h Usage: ktsuss [OPTION] command [COMMAND ARGUMENTS] Run a command as another user OPTIONS: -v, --version Gives ktsuss version

Bug#479863: [Popcon-developers] Bug#479863: popularity-contest: warning with perl 5.10

2008-05-07 Thread Bill Allombert
On Wed, May 07, 2008 at 10:58:13AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: Package: popularity-contest Version: 1.44 Severity: minor After upgrading to perl 5.10 I get this warning: /etc/cron.weekly/popularity-contest: v-string in use/require non-portable at /usr/sbin/popularity-contest line 26. This

Bug#479863: [Popcon-developers] useless v-string warning back

2008-05-08 Thread Bill Allombert
reassign 479863 perl quit After upgrading to perl 5.10 I get this warning: /etc/cron.weekly/popularity-contest: v-string in use/require non-portable at /usr/sbin/popularity-contest line 26. This the perl 5.10 instance of Bug#218759 (and #218760). I suggest that as perl 5.8, perl

Bug#408387: the Debian menu is (not consistently) localized

2008-05-08 Thread Bill Allombert
On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 01:01:31AM +0200, Eddy Petrișor wrote: Bill Allombert wrote: On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 08:08:13PM +0300, Eddy Petrișor wrote: Bill Allombert wrote: On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 10:14:39AM +0300, Eddy Petrișor wrote: bounty:/home/eddy# cat /var/lib/menu-xdg/desktop

Bug#473461: should use --suppress-triggers

2008-05-09 Thread Bill Allombert
On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 12:33:47AM -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote: Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Package: apt Version: 0.7.11 Severity: wishlist From dpkg's triggers.txt: A package management tool which will run dpkg --configure --pending at the end may use

Bug#473467: support for triggers (stage 1)

2008-05-10 Thread Bill Allombert
On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 04:06:15PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: The attached patch makes menu support triggers, as implemented in dpkg in (currently) experimental. Hello Joey, Thanks a lot for your patch and analysis. My comments: - Adding a --real option to update-menus. This can be used to

Bug#417636: please document YYLLOC_DEFAULT on empty rules without prior symbol

2007-04-03 Thread Bill Allombert
Package: bison-doc Version: 1:2.3.dfsg-4 Severity: wishlist Hello Chuan-kai, The documentation of YYLLOC_DEFAULT states that: When defining `YYLLOC_DEFAULT', you should consider that: * For consistency with semantic actions, valid indexes within the right hand side range from 1 to N.

Bug#362313: xserver-xorg dependency hell

2006-04-13 Thread Bill Allombert
Package: xserver-xorg-core Version: 1:7.0.10 Severity: important Hello X Strike Force, The new modular xserver-xorg create a circular dependency hell: Here the dependency graph: http://debian.semistable.com/dot/xserver-xorg-video-vmware_unstable.png Here the list of packages involved:

Bug#363368: debuild: DEBUILD_DPKG_BUILDPACKAGE_OPTS support is broken

2006-04-18 Thread Bill Allombert
Package: devscripts Version: 2.9.17 Severity: normal Hello Julian and Joey, I have the following in ~/.devscripts: DEBUILD_DPKG_BUILDPACKAGE_OPTS=-ICVS -I'.#*' -I.cvsignore This cause this release of debuild to fail by calling dpkg-source with incorrect options and fails. %debuild -us -uc

Bug#359943: libchart-perl: integer_ticks_only doesn't honor max_y_ticks

2006-04-18 Thread Bill Allombert
On Mon, Apr 17, 2006 at 11:54:56PM +0300, Niko Tyni wrote: 1) The lower bound should be probably rounded down to the next multiple of the interval. This is the behaviour when integer_ticks_only is off. Right. One more round of iteration attached. Hello Niko, There are some ticks above

Bug#360895: Bug: #360895 ImportError: libstdc++.so.6: cannot handle TLS data

2006-04-20 Thread Bill Allombert
On Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 12:32:28PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: Package: apt-listchanges Version: 2.59-0.2 Severity: grave apt-listchanges just fails with error message Traceback (most recent call last): File /usr/bin/apt-listchanges, line 30, in ? import apt_pkg

Bug#334941: menu-xdg: Not fixed

2006-04-20 Thread Bill Allombert
On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 10:31:12AM -0300, Javier Kohen wrote: Hi, I'm afraid that this bug was not fixed in 0.2.3. Moreover, none of the workarounds detailed previously in this report helped me. So could you tell me a bit more about your setup ? I certainly cannot reproduce the problem. What

Bug#362313: xserver-xorg dependency hell

2006-04-20 Thread Bill Allombert
On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 07:50:21PM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: On Thu, 2006-04-20 at 18:57 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: xserver-xorg-core - xserver-xorg-video-all - xserver-xorg-video-apm - xserver-xorg-core and xserver-xorg-core - xserver-xorg-input-all -

Bug#359943: libchart-perl: integer_ticks_only doesn't honor max_y_ticks

2006-04-20 Thread Bill Allombert
On Wed, Apr 19, 2006 at 02:30:07PM +0300, Niko Tyni wrote: I think this is more robust than the previous solutions. I have tried to test it more carefully this time, as my track record on buggy patches on this issue is getting embarrassing. Sorry about that, and thanks for your patience. I

Bug#361418: [Proposal] new Debian menu structure

2006-04-20 Thread Bill Allombert
On Fri, Apr 14, 2006 at 10:25:14AM -0300, Ben Armstrong wrote: The pkg-games project has discussed in the past that Arcade is a poor category, and yet it is preserved in this new menu proposal. The thread starts here:

Bug#361418: [Proposal] new Debian menu structure

2006-04-20 Thread Bill Allombert
On Fri, Apr 14, 2006 at 10:25:14AM -0300, Ben Armstrong wrote: The pkg-games project has discussed in the past that Arcade is a poor category, and yet it is preserved in this new menu proposal. The thread starts here:

Bug#334941: help with fixing GNOME menu disapperance bug

2006-04-21 Thread Bill Allombert
On Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 03:36:45PM +0200, Loïc Minier wrote: Hi there, On Thu, Apr 20, 2006, Bill Allombert wrote: There are quite a few report of a bug that cause GNOME menus to disappear and that is linked to menu-xdg (bug #334941). Unfortunately I had never been able

Bug#364130: po4a: po4a-normalise -f man do not preserve unprocessed formatting

2006-04-21 Thread Bill Allombert
[EMAIL PROTECTED]. Now maintained by Bill Allombert [EMAIL PROTECTED]. .SH THANKS To Joey Hess, for a lot of good ideas and pre-release testing, and to Tom Lees for a update-menus in pure C (of which I only used one function, but that's life). .PP Man page by Joey Hess, [EMAIL PROTECTED] .SH SEE

Bug#320375: conquest-gl: fail to start (Assertion `window-Window.VisualInfo != ((void *)0)' failed.)

2006-04-21 Thread Bill Allombert
On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 11:52:16PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: Package: conquest-gl Version: 8.1-2 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable When I try to start conquestgl on my sarge installation, I only get an assertion error. This render the package completely

Bug#364130: po4a: po4a-normalise -f man do not preserve unprocessed formatting

2006-04-21 Thread Bill Allombert
On Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 09:49:15PM +0200, Nicolas François wrote: Hi, 3) po4a-normalize sometimes reformat paragraph in a less than optimal ways. 1. and 2. are problematic when reviewing what changes po4a-normalize did, though 2. can be mitigated by using diff -ub. 3. cause generated

Bug#350407: lessdisks-terminal: modifies /etc/kernel-img.conf in postinst

2006-04-21 Thread Bill Allombert
On Sun, Jan 29, 2006 at 03:34:58PM +, Stephen Gran wrote: Package: lessdisks-terminal Severity: serious Justification: Policy 10.7.4 debian/lessdisks-terminal.postinst: if ! egrep postinst_hook|postrm_hook /etc/kernel-img.conf; then echo postinst_hook =

Bug#353684: flwm: Doesn't build

2006-02-21 Thread Bill Allombert
On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 12:11:18PM +0200, Elmo Mäntynen wrote: Package: flwm Version: 1.00-8 Severity: important Justification: fails to build from source There seems to be a problem with libXft, but I'm not so familiar with this kind of stuff, so I leave it to you... Hello Elmo, flwm

Bug#238687: Submit Debian release and subarchs

2006-02-21 Thread Bill Allombert
On Sun, Feb 19, 2006 at 01:38:35PM +0100, Falk Hueffner wrote: Hi, I'd like to lobby again for the inclusion of my patch at http://bugs.debian.org/238687 again, which reports Alpha subarchitectures and the Debian version. The motivation is to decide whether to drop ev4 or ev56 support. The

Bug#353684: flwm: Doesn't build

2006-02-21 Thread Bill Allombert
On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 10:33:36PM +0200, Elmo Mäntynen wrote: Bill Allombert wrote: g++ -o flwm main.o Frame.o Rotated.o Menu.o FrameWindow.o Desktop.o Hotkeys.o -lfltk -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lX11 -lXext -lm /usr/lib/libXft.so.2: undefined reference to `FT_GlyphSlot_Embolden' collect2: ld

Bug#352629: libnet-perl: unnecessary conffile prompt during testing dist-upgrade

2006-02-22 Thread Bill Allombert
On Tue, Feb 14, 2006 at 02:10:19AM +0100, Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt wrote: Justin Pryzby [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: found 352629 1:1.19-3 WTF? Could you please at least give some sort of *reasoning* for this fucking stupid reopening? Besides Bah, I don't like it? Hello Marc, this bug is 100%

Bug#354051: qemu-arm: libc dns resolver no more work in emulation

2006-02-22 Thread Bill Allombert
Package: qemu Version: 0.8.0-2 Severity: normal Hello Debian qemu mainatiners, I use qemu-arm. The libc DNS resolver no more work, while it was working fine with version 0.6.1-1. To reproduce, follow the instructions at http://people.debian.org/~ballombe/qemu The symptom is that the following

Bug#354403: [doc] various editorial errors (typos, grammar and punctuation problems)

2006-02-26 Thread Bill Allombert
On Sat, Feb 25, 2006 at 07:34:53PM -0500, Daniel B. wrote: Package: menu Version: 2.1.24 Severity: normal There are a number of editorial errors (typos, grammar errors, and punctuation errors) in the documentation. Thanks a lot for your thorough review. If you feel in the mood to review

Bug#291469: libedataserver3: Typo in synopsis: s/Utily/Utility

2005-01-20 Thread Bill Allombert
Package: libedataserver3 Version: 1.0.3-2 Severity: minor Hello Takuo, libedataserver3 synopsis read: Description: Utily library for evolution data servers I suppoose you meant Utility ? Cheers -- Bill. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Imagine a large red swirl here. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Bug#291536: kernel-source-2.4.27[-8]: Contains dummy file ':'

2005-01-21 Thread Bill Allombert
Package: kernel-source-2.4.27 Version: 2.4.27-8 Severity: minor Hello Debian kernel maintainers, After unpacking the tarball we end up with a file named ':' in kernel-source-2.4.27: % tar jvtf /usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.27.tar.bz2 kernel-source-2.4.27/: -rw-r--r-- root/root 61905 2005-01-13

Bug#289144: acknowledged by developer (Bug#289144: fixed in afterstep 2.00.02-1)

2005-01-22 Thread Bill Allombert
. * New upstream version: + correct behaviour of ClickToRaise option (closes: #288392). + problem with openning some applications shold be fixed too (closes: #286963). * menu-method: set outputencoding and outputlanguage (closes: #289144). Hello Roberto, Why did you

Bug#257583: kernel-patch-skas:please add 2.4.27 to supported kernel version list

2005-01-23 Thread Bill Allombert
Package: kernel-patch-skas Version: 3-9.1 Followup-For: Bug #257583 Hello Matt, Given that sarge is likely to release with 2.4.27, it would be nice to update the 'apply' script to support it since the patch apply fine to this release. Cheers, Bill -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Bug#280081: menu: This bug also affects fluxbox.

2005-01-23 Thread Bill Allombert
On Sun, Jan 23, 2005 at 04:53:13PM +0100, Eddy Flas wrote: Menus created locally in ~/.menu appear correctly in wmaker or kde but not in gnome or fluxbox. Yes, it is a known problem. However for fluxbox, /usr/share/doc/fluxbox/README.Debian read: Currently, fluxbox supports the debian

Bug#291631: cmp/diff/etc. lack PT_GNU_STACK header

2005-01-24 Thread Bill Allombert
On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 02:13:07PM +0100, Santiago Vila wrote: On Mon, 24 Jan 2005, Bill Allombert wrote: On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 01:25:44PM +0100, Santiago Vila wrote: On Mon, 24 Jan 2005, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: Yes, I understand that, and I mostly agree. Now please write

Bug#291747: popularity-contest: Please give stats on source packages as well

2005-01-26 Thread Bill Allombert
On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 08:52:21PM +0100, Martin Quinson wrote: Yes, what is important to me is that we rank all the source packages. I would remove from the ranking the not in sid package (or move them to the end of the ranking). It's at least the easiest to do. 2) How do you define the

Bug#292401: kdm_config override /etc/kde3/kdm/kdmrc which is a conffile

2005-01-26 Thread Bill Allombert
Package: kdm Version: 4:3.3.1-4 Severity: serious Justification: Policy 10.7.3 Hello KDE maintainers, kcontrol overwrite the conffile /etc/kde3/kdm/kdmrc without respecting comment and formating. For example if you start with the file provided in the current kdm package, launch kcontrol, choose

Bug#292504: menu: fails to create entry if hint is the same as a package

2005-01-27 Thread Bill Allombert
On Fri, Jan 28, 2005 at 03:13:46AM +1100, Andrew Lau wrote: Hi again, I forgot to clarify that this bug is only present if hint_optimize=true is set in /etc/menu-methods/menu.h. No problem, it was obvious from your bug description! Could you provide us with the output of update-menus

Bug#292155: pari-gp: Spelling mistake in Description

2005-01-29 Thread Bill Allombert
On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 12:03:13PM +0100, Jörg Sommer wrote: Package: pari-gp Severity: minor Hi, there should be no comma before etc in the description of the package. functions to compute with mathematical entities such as matrices, polynomials, power series, algebraic numbers,

Bug#320375: conquest-gl: fail to start (Assertion `window-Window.VisualInfo != ((void *)0)' failed.)

2006-05-03 Thread Bill Allombert
severity 320375 normal retitle 320375 conquest-gl: require visual with at least 1bit of alpha channel quit On Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 11:37:39PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 07:34:32PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: Once upgrading (only) freeglut3 to 2.4.0-5, I get

Bug#364319: base-files: PS1 setting for *ksh (PROPOSAL: /etc/profile.d/)

2006-05-03 Thread Bill Allombert
On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 12:53:01PM +0200, cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis) wrote: On Sunday 23 April 2006 20:26, Russ Allbery wrote: Jari Aalto [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What we need and what should have been done a long time ago, is to modularize profile to /etc/profile.d/ where each program

Bug#359158: libgnustep-base1.11 has circular Depends on gnustep-base-common

2006-05-03 Thread Bill Allombert
On Sat, Apr 22, 2006 at 07:49:25PM -0600, Hubert Chan wrote: reassign 359158 gnustep-base-common thanks (Reassigning to gnustep-base-common, so that when libgnustep-base1.12 goes in, this bug will still be current.) Hi Bill, On Sun, 26 Mar 2006 23:36:44 +0200, Bill Allombert said

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