[Bug 1884583] Re: vim is dependent on libcanberra0 in Ubuntu 20.04, had no such dependency in Ubuntu 18.04

2020-08-24 Thread Scott Mcdermott
Upstream says they will not remove the sound library and its indirect freedesktop theme (35 sound files) dependencies because it's not a big deal, and it's not X so technically it's still 'nox'. I don't think this is sane for a package installed on many servers to start bringing in desktop

[Bug 1884583] Re: vim is dependent on libcanberra0 in Ubuntu 20.04, had no such dependency in Ubuntu 18.04

2020-08-17 Thread Scott Mcdermott
I have also submitted https://bugs.debian.org/cgi- bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=968584 upstream ** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #968584 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=968584 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed

[Bug 1884583] Re: vim is dependent on libcanberra0 in Ubuntu 20.04, had no such dependency in Ubuntu 18.04

2020-08-17 Thread Scott Mcdermott
This is really crazy, the package named "vim-nox" now requires an abstract sound library that uses XDG specification for sound, is packaged by GNOME maintainers, and pulls in several audio libraries and freedesktop sound theme? What on earth does that have to do with editing files, and how is that

[Bug 1815734] Re: yml yaml file extension

2019-12-01 Thread Scott Mcdermott
just got burned by this. could not figure out why it wouldn't work, spent some time banging head. there's no error emitted, just fails to produce anything. lack of error is arguably worse than not globbing for the standard extension of yaml files... -- You received this bug notification

[Bug 1715753] [NEW] ln --relative broken on u14, works on u16

2017-09-07 Thread Scott Mcdermott
Public bug reported: in ubuntu14, the behavior of "ln --relative" seems to be quite broken. on ubuntu 16 it works as expected. can we please backport whatever fix from u16 or update coreutils? 8.15 is where they started including the 'realpath' binary, maybe they fixed "ln --relative" too. u14