Bug#758762: Please drop acpi-support from task-laptop

2014-09-03 Thread Bob Bib
What about dropping the "acpi" package from "task-laptop"'s "Recommends" too? It's just a commandline utility that "Shows information from the /proc or the /sys filesystem, such as battery status or thermal information." Best wishes, Bob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lis

Bug#762311: task-laptop: drop acpi package recommendation?

2014-09-20 Thread Bob Bib
Package: task-laptop Version: 3.21 Severity: wishlist Dear Maintainer, since "acpid" and "acpi-support" packages were dropped from task-laptop's dependencies in v3.21 (Bug#758762), it looks like the "acpi" package should be dropped too. It's just a commandline utility that "Shows information fro

Bug#831634: busybox: please upgrade to the latest upstream release (1.25.0)

2016-07-17 Thread Bob Bib
Package: busybox Version: 1:1.22.0-19 Severity: wishlist Dear Maintainer, please upgrade BusyBox to the latest upstream release; currently, it's 1.25.0 (Jun 2016); 1.22.0 in Debian archives is quite old (Dec 2013). https://busybox.net/downloads/ -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/s

Bug#762311: task-laptop: drop acpi package recommendation?

2016-09-13 Thread Bob Bib
Any opinion from the maintainers?.. -- Best wishes, Bob

Bug#693485: keyboard-configuration: XKBLAYOUT, XKBOPTIONS values manually set in /etc/default/keyboard lost on upgrade

2013-05-15 Thread Bob Bib
control: fixed -1 1.92 Hi, I've upgraded keyboard-configuration from 1.88 to 1.92, and the new version seemed to honor the configs on upgrade (and on manual 'dpkg-reconfigure' too). --- /etc/default/keyboard.bak +++ /etc/default/keyboard @@ -5,6 +5,6 @@ XKBMODEL="acer_laptop" XKBLAYOUT="us,ua,r

task-desktop: default desktop environment for Jessie

2013-05-29 Thread Bob Bib
Hi Debian Install System Team members, I just wonder what desktop environment will be chosen as a default for Debian Jessie. As for now, it's still GNOME 3. Did you finally reject that "Xfce-by-default" commit: http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=tasksel/tasksel.git;a=commit;h=2a962cc65cdba0101

Bug#714803: network-manager-gnome: please move gnome-bluetooth from Recommends to Suggests

2013-07-18 Thread Bob Bib
control: retitle -1 network-manager-gnome: please move gnome-bluetooth from Recommends to Suggests control: reassign -1 network-manager-gnome 0.9.8.2-1 control: affects -1 lxde task-xfce-desktop Hi people, well, if "gnome-control-center" is so important for "gnome-bluetooth" package, so we can't

Bug#693397: task-desktop: default desktop in Wheezy

2012-11-15 Thread Bob Bib
Package: task-desktop Version: 3.14 Severity: normal Dear Maintainers, please clarify what desktop environment will be the default in Debian Wheezy. The toggling of a "switch default desktop task to xfce" commit in the Git repo is somewhat confusing: http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=tasksel/ta

Bug#693397: task-desktop: default desktop in Wheezy

2012-11-16 Thread Bob Bib
control: reopen -1 --- Christian PERRIER: > The toggling makes it easy to understand: as soon as we had a fix > meant for wheezy, the switch to Xfce has been reverted and the fix > released with a default desktop being GNOME. It has rather made an impression of releasing the xfce-default-desktop-t

Bug#693485: keyboard-configuration: XKBLAYOUT, XKBOPTIONS values manually set in /etc/default/keyboard lost on upgrade

2012-11-16 Thread Bob Bib
Package: keyboard-configuration Version: 1.87 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, after upgrading the whole 'console-setup' package from 1.82 to 1.87 version, I've lost my XKBLAYOUT and XKBOPTIONS variable values manually set in '/etc/default/keyboard'; IMHO, it's a bad upgrade behavior and such

Bug#693485: Re[2]: Bug#693485: keyboard-configuration: XKBLAYOUT, XKBOPTIONS values manually set in /etc/default/keyboard lost on upgrade

2012-11-20 Thread Bob Bib
Anton Zinoviev: > 3. Whether this bug is reproducible or console-setup no longer > overwrites your manual settings. I've noticed this behavior on 2 Debian installations; it occured on package upgrade (1.82 -> 1.87) only and doesn't happen on every reboot. I'm not sure whether it's caused by unco

Bug#693485: keyboard-configuration: XKBLAYOUT, XKBOPTIONS values manually set in /etc/default/keyboard lost on upgrade

2012-11-21 Thread Bob Bib
Anton Zinoviev: > > > > 1) Machine #1: > > I have no explanation of this change and I am unable to reproduce it. > Is there something particular about this machine and its configuration? > Please tell more specifically what config files etc. should I look at. > > > > 2) Machine #2: > > For bet

Bug#693485: keyboard-configuration: XKBLAYOUT, XKBOPTIONS values manually set in /etc/default/keyboard lost on upgrade

2012-12-26 Thread Bob Bib
Here it comes again, on 1.87 -> 1.88 upgrade... Looks like it ignores settings in '/etc/default/keyboard' and rewrites them with values stored somewhere else (???) --- /etc/default/keyboard.bak +++ /etc/default/keyboard @@ -5,6 +5,6 @@ XKBMODEL="genius" XKBLAYOUT="us,ua,ru" XKBVARIANT="" -XK

Bug#693485: keyboard-configuration: XKBLAYOUT, XKBOPTIONS values manually set in /etc/default/keyboard lost on upgrade

2013-01-12 Thread Bob Bib
control: notfound -1 1.92 Roman Galeev: > X completely ignores /etc/default/keyboard file after upgrade, > running > > # dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration > > changes the file /etc/default/keyboard, but X keeps the > old settings on restart. Your problem is not related to the current bug

Bug#699390: tasksel bug#699390: Please drop menu from desktop task

2013-02-26 Thread Bob Bib
Michael Biebl: > Package: tasksel > Version: 3.14+deb7u1 ... > ii tasksel-data3.14+deb7u1 Where have you found tasksel/3.14+deb7u1, while testing & sid both have 3.14+nmu1? :)

Bug#697890: Please add iw to the desktop and laptop tasks

2013-02-27 Thread Bob Bib
Christian PERRIER: > I pushed 3d1e7081810f5dde9915238e7a8b6e2d991128f8 in tasksel git. Looks like the description: > Add iw package to laptop and dektop task so that iwconfig is available. > Closes: #697890 of that commit: > http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=tasksel/tasksel.git;a=commit;h=3d1e

Bug#685241: task-lxde-desktop: please add a PDF reader to recommends

2013-04-23 Thread Bob Bib
control: retitle -1 task-lxde-desktop: please add a PDF reader to recommends control: affects -1 lxde Well, 'epdfview' seems to be quite poor application; maybe 'evince-gtk' is a better candidate... Best wishes, Bob

Bug#679668: task-lxde-desktop: should recommend libreoffice-gtk

2012-06-30 Thread Bob Bib
Package: task-lxde-desktop Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, 'task-lxde-desktop' package depends on 'task-desktop'; 'task-desktop' recommends 'libreoffice'; therefore, to make LibreOffice look decently, 'task-lxde-desktop' should recommend 'libreoffice-gtk' (just as 'task-xfce-desktop' does).

Bug#680678: task-ssh-server: depend on 'ssh' instead of 'openssh-server'

2012-07-07 Thread Bob Bib
Package: task-ssh-server Version: 3.09 Severity: wishlist Dear Maintainer, 'task-ssh-server' currently depends on 'openssh-server'; IMHO, it wouldn't be wrong to depend on 'ssh' instead. 'ssh' depends on 'openssh-server' and 'openssh-client' (while 'openssh-client' is a dependency of 'openssh-se

Bug#680519: lxde: please depend on gdm3

2012-07-09 Thread Bob Bib
Package: task-lxde-desktop Followup-For: Bug #680519 Daniel Baumann, > tasksel 3.11 does not depend on gdm3 nor xdm now, thus reopening. Heh, it's a strange thing... But it's not as bad as it seems: 'task-lxde-desktop' depends on 'lxde'; 'lxde' already depends on 'gdm3' OR (virtual) 'x-display-ma

Bug#680678: task-ssh-server: depend on 'ssh' instead of 'openssh-server'

2012-07-09 Thread Bob Bib
reopen 680678 thanks Hello again, the changes in 3.11 are somewhat pointless; as for now, 'task-ssh-server': - depends on: openssh-server, tasksel - recommends: openssh-client [and it's pointless, because 'openssh-server' already _depends_ (not recommends!) on it]. Instead of making such redund

Bug#680519: lxde: please depend on gdm3

2012-07-13 Thread Bob Bib
Christian Perrier, > #tasksel (3.12) UNRELEASED; urgency=low > # > # * Really depending on gdm3 in task-lxde-desktop (Closes: #680519). to reduce the probability of user complaints, wouldn't it be better to make it like this: Depends: gdm3 | lightdm (BTW, because of previous versions' dependen

Bug#683345: task-lxde-desktop: please don't force the gdm3 dependency

2012-07-30 Thread Bob Bib
Package: task-lxde-desktop Version: 3.12 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, please don't force the gdm3 dependency; I use LightDM, so I have tried to check what's pulled by installing 'gdm3', and it's 30 packages (see the long text below); instead of that, I suggest you to make it like this: Dep

Bug#683349: task-lxde-desktop: very experimental outdated 'task-lxde-desktop' package version?

2012-07-30 Thread Bob Bib
Package: task-lxde-desktop Version: 3.01 Severity: minor Dear Maintainer, I've found this page: http://packages.debian.org/experimental/task-lxde-desktop It mentions a 3.01 package version and seems to be useless.

Bug#683349: task-lxde-desktop: very experimental outdated 'task-lxde-desktop' package version?

2012-07-31 Thread Bob Bib
reassign 683349 www.debian.org thanks According to this: http://www.debian.org/Bugs/pseudo-packages the most likely pseudo-package is 'www.debian.org'.

Bug#685241: task-lxde-desktop: please add epdfview into recommends

2012-08-18 Thread Bob Bib
Package: task-lxde-desktop Version: 3.11 Severity: wishlist Dear Maintainer, please add 'epdfview' into recommends section of 'task-lxde-desktop', as it's already done in 'task-xfce-desktop'. -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing')

Bug#683345: git commit: wrong bug number / bug #683345: task-lxde-desktop: please don't force the gdm3 dependency

2012-08-20 Thread Bob Bib
There's a little typo in that git commit: http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=tasksel/tasksel.git;a=commit;h=0c8496f3f1808b8dff728b6af72825e4f02c3c60 > Replace gdm3 by lightdm in lxde-desktop task. Closes: #683349 should be not #683349, but #683345.

Bug#680519: lxde: please depend on gdm3

2012-09-04 Thread Bob Bib
Chris, > i think this would be the best solution because now the dependency to gdm3 > pulls in metacity > as an dependency which most users don't want to install because lxde depend > on openbox... It's fixed in tasksel 3.13 -- look at the bug #683345.

Bug#686614: task-lxde-desktop: Added a dependency to gdm3

2012-09-04 Thread Bob Bib
Until tasksel 3.13 reaches Debian testing, affected users should consider doing "safe" upgrades: # apt-get update && apt-get upgrade