Bug#1094967: sway-backgrounds overrides user background settings

Hello, might be related to this Debian specific issue: I was surprised to see the default sway background recently appear on my desktop. My personal ~/.config/sway/config does NOT declare a background image, only a solid color: output * bg #103000 solid_color However, that setting is now overr

Bug#1032972: handbrake: debian version of handbrake does NOT handle subtitles correctly

Package: handbrake-cli Version: 1.6.1+ds1-1 Ouch, yes, to confirm, upgraded to bookworm and now subtitles are broken when using HandBrake to convert DVD to .mkv (worked in bullseye handbrake-cli 1.3.1+ds1-2 and previous versions) The problem occurs with all DVD subs I tried, both types: VOBSUB an

Bug#1015749: installation-reports: installation w/o locale results in non-working GNOME Terminal

Confirmed while testing Debian 12 bookworm installers alpha 1 & 2. Picking locale "C" when installing desktop causes broken system with GNOME. A serious issue, as mentioned above, is that gnome-terminal cannot run. And, no error messages appear to inform user of problem. journalctl shows: gnome-te

Bug#981089: tracker-miner-fs: Tracker miners are started for (some?) system users

Confirmed this is a bug, I just installed bullseye and noticed Tracker syslog noise. Specifically the system user is: "Debian-gdm" (login screen) Because services are "WantedBy=default.target" ...so symlinked from: /etc/systemd/user/default.target.wants/ The fix is to modify one line in both: /us

Bug#952111: micro crashes consistently with panic: interface conversion: interface {} is float64, not bool

This error means that your settings.json config file has been corrupted or is not correctly formatted for the micro version you are using. Most likely scenario: you ran micro v2.x.x, which changes the setttings.json format, then tried to go back to using v1.x.x. Solution: rm ~/.config/micro/sett

Bug#943504: firefox-esr: Firefox Wayland crashes at startup

Confirmed: Firefox 68.2.0esr-1~deb10u1 Wayland mode DBUS bug Firefox does not start with MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1 (or old GDK_BACKEND=wayland) Works with --no-remote, but once open can't open URLs from other applications. MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1 firefox-esr --no-remote # temp. partial workaround Related

Bug#924516: geoclue-2.0: geoclue gets location despite geolocation features turned off (GNOME Privacy)

Package: geoclue-2.0 Version: 2.5.2-1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, (Testing Debian 10 Buster) Using GNOME Settings > Privacy, turned off the geolocation features on the desktop; however geoclue still contacts location.services.mozilla.com in the background whenever an application requests lo

Bug#916920: firejail: unprivileged powers

Hello Reiner, Thanks for your response. To be clear: I don’t have a problem with Firejail being a setuid executable (perhaps a little trepidation ;-), I have an issue with the default broad powers granted to unprivileged users with the install of the Firejail package. > I think the most common

Bug#916920: firejail: please add empty file /etc/firejail/firejail.users

Please add/install Firejail with the empty file /etc/firejail/firejail.users. At least for versions 0.9.54 and up this will allow root to use Firejail and provide users with an informational message as to how they can, if indeed they are superusers, add themselves to this file in order to use Fir

Bug#916920: firejail: Firejail allows regular users to bypass root system settings

Package: firejail Version: 0.9.56-2 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, Firejail being a setuid executable provides regular users root powers to bypass system settings. I think it's a problem for an official Debian package to automatically grant regular users that much power without root having act