Bug#504767: Thanks; why the 10-day wait for medit fix to get into testing?

2008-11-11 Thread Jason Spiro
Christian, thank you for so quickly uploading a fixed medit into Debian. I notice from http://bjorn.haxx.se/debian/testing.pl?package=medit that your patched package is 0 days old, and must be 10 days old to go in. So the minimum wait for critical bugfixes is 10 days? Why is the wait so long? C

Bug#504767: Character set conversion bug that can cause files to be truncated; patch available

2008-11-06 Thread Jason Spiro
By the way: I asked Yevgen if this bug affects medit 0.8.2. Yevgen replied "I think yes". -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#504767: Character set conversion bug that can cause files to be truncated; patch available

2008-11-06 Thread Jason Spiro
X-Debbugs-Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Package: medit Version: 0.9.2-1+b2 Tags: patch Severity: critical Justification: data loss bug in a text editor Hello, and thanks for maintaining medit. [1] says a new version of medit has been released (0.9.4) which fixes some critical data-loss bugs found by lone

Bug#501590: PrintScreen key causes many apps to suddenly die if you are running in Linux text mode

2008-10-08 Thread Jason Spiro
2008/10/8 Christian Perrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I think this is RC because it's a bug that can cause data loss. See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=501590#15 . If you think this should not be release critical, then please lower the severity. I will accept your decision a

Bug#501590: PrintScreen key causes many apps to suddenly die if you are running in Linux text mode

2008-10-08 Thread Jason Spiro
2008/10/8 Julien Cristau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > No, I'm saying this is not data loss. This is a 'it hurts when I shoot > myself in the foot' kind of bug. I maintain that it *is* data loss. PrtSc is a single unmodified key press. It's not so hard to press by accident. I pressed it and it

Bug#501590: PrintScreen key causes many apps to suddenly die if you are running in Linux text mode

2008-10-08 Thread Jason Spiro
or a long time until a more recent version of the keymaps came out (shipped with kbd), I completely understand; go ahead and lower the severity. -- Jason Spiro: software/web developer, trainer, IT consultant. I support Linux, UNIX, Windows, and more. Contact me to discuss your needs. 613-668-

Bug#501590: PrintScreen key causes many apps to suddenly die if you are running in Linux text mode

2008-10-08 Thread Jason Spiro
sing the application to immediately abort and dump core. == What should have happened == * When you press PrtSc, the kernel should not send ^\ -- it should either send a different key combination, or send nothing at all. ~~~ Greg Grossmeier wrote: I can confirm this behavior in 8.10. ~~~ Jason

Bug#321434: xedit: requires to press 'save' twice

2008-09-22 Thread Jason Spiro
forwarded 321434 http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17726 thanks I reported this bug upstream, but in a different form: I titled the bug "Please stop distributing xedit binaries until this data loss bug in xedit is fixed", and I described both the dataloss-on-quit problem and the double-

Bug#491590: smc segfaults on startup

2008-09-22 Thread Jason Spiro
2008/9/22 Muammar El Khatib <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... >> I am just curious: why does it no longer segfault? Is this a >> mysteriously-disappearing problem, or was some known bug fixed which >> made smc work? > > No, it is not a mysteriously-disappearing problem. The problem is that > current

Bug#321434:

2008-09-22 Thread Jason Spiro
2008/9/22 Julien Cristau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrotw: > On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 16:24:48 -0400, Jason Spiro wrote: > >> severity 321434 grave >> thanks >> >> Raising severity to grave as Herman and Gernot requested. I verified >> today that the bug still ex

Bug#424133: IMO apsfilter should be moved to non-free until postcardware issue is resolved; what do you think?

2007-05-15 Thread Jason Spiro
think? Please use the Reply to All command to reply to this email. Kind regards, Jason Spiro [1] http://osdir.com/ml/linux.debian.devel.legal/2002-08/msg00356.html [2] http://osdir.com/ml/linux.debian.devel.legal/2002-10/msg00113.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subj

Bug#353552:

2006-07-11 Thread Jason Spiro
y. Thanks go to Bas Wijnen for suggesting symlinking; I am a newbie to Debian packaging and would not have thought of that timesaving idea. Regards, Jason Spiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> diff -ruN5 falconseye-1.9.3/debian/falconseye-data.dirs falconseye-1.9.3-new/debian/falconseye-data.dirs ---