Package: cron-deja-vu
Severity: minor
This package has both a short and long description that don't conform to
policy.
Remeber that both the short and the long description are descriptions on their
own, and neither is a continuation of the other or the name of the program.
-- System Information:
Package: kdm
Version: 4:4.6.2-2
Severity: important
Hi.
The default configuration file for KDM contains the following:
[Shutdown]
# The command (subject to word splitting) to run to halt the system.
# Default is "/sbin/shutdown -p now"
#HaltCmd=
# The command (subject to word splitting) to run t
Package: openarena
Version: 0.8.5-7
Severity: important
Hi.
I've upgraded from 0.8.5-5, and I've seen some small glitches here or there,
but I've found one important issue. When you are playing on a (remote) server,
when a match is won, and a new map is loaded, the game hangs. I started it from
a
Package: openshot
Version: 1.3.0-1
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable
When started from a console, OpenShot writes the following, and fails to start:
OpenShot (version 1.3.0)
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Package: qt4-x11
Version: Some Recommends or Suggests missing for declarative stuff
Severity: wishlist
Hi.
The packages qt4-qmlviewer, libqt4-declarative-{folderlistmodel, gestures,
particles} have no reverse dependencies, so if you start playing with Qt
Creator and trying to run the declarative
Package: v4l-utils
Severity: minor
Description of v4l-utils is not shown properly in package managers that display
description, not verbatim, but formatting it according to Debian Policy (see
5.6.13). Two spaces should be used when blocks of text should not be formatted
like paragraphs, like the l
Package: openshot
Version: 1.1.0~alpha1-1
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable
Openshot failed to start completely in my system. This is the output i had:
OpenShot (version 1.1.0~alpha1)
/usr/lib/pymodules/pyt
Package: freemind
Version: 0.9.0~rc6+dfsg-1
Severity: normal
Freemind fails to start with the new libjibx-java (1.2.1-1). It complains about
a problem reading ~/.freemind/patterns.xml, and it tries to update it to a new
version, but it fails and then fails to start completely.
I don't know if the
Package: psi-plus
Severity: minor
Hi.
The extended description is not properly formatted. It may look ok with
apt-cache (that displays it literally), but it does not with tools that
properly format the description (like aptitude). See Policy 5.6.13:
file:///usr/share/doc/debian-policy/policy.htm
Package: subdownloader
Version: 2.0.9.2-1
Severity: minor
Quoting from Debian Policy, section 3.4.2:
"Do not try to continue the single line synopsis into the extended description.
This will not work correctly when the full description is displayed, and makes
no sense where only the summary (the
Package: clive
Version: 1.0.2-1
Severity: wishlist
Hi.
There is a new upstream release of clive, and clive-utils. It seems that it was
rewritten in Perl, so probably the actual maintainers are not interested, but
hopefully you can let the project be maintained by someone else.
Thanks
-- System
Package: aptitude
Version: 0.4.11.8-1
Severity: wishlist
Hi.
I want to suggest the following feature to aptitude:
Allow one user to add a small string of text (one line should suffice)
as a note to each package. Optionally, it would be great to be able to
use the search system to look for packag
Package: ftp.debian.org
Severity: normal
Hi.
I want to request the removal of kxmleditor. It's developers didn't
release any stable version in a very long time, and they stated that
were working in a 2.0 version that uses Xerces, but now it seems that
the project is "sleeping" till they have more
Package: ftp.debian.org
Severity: normal
Hi.
I want to request the removal of konserve from the archive. The package
is not maintained upstream, and the latest fixes commited in the
upstream VCS, are the ones that I did, and that are included in the
Debian package.
If somebody is interested in r
Package: ttf-dejavu
Version: 2.17-1
Severity: normal
Hi.
Since versions newer than 2.8-1, I can't select DejaVu Condensed.
I had configured this font in KDE's control center to show in some
places, and it still works where it's configured, but if I change it,
it's impossible to select it back (i
Package: pdnsd
Version: 1.2.4par-0.1
Severity: important
Hi.
I did a fresh installation of pdnsd, and after each reboot, pdnsd fails
to resolve new domains. That is, if in the previous session example.com
was not in the cache (because nobody used this domain previously) it
doesn't resolves it. If
vim.
Thanks in advance.
PS: Oh, and, in my very humble opinion, the editor question at start,
may be a good workaround for a vi clone having a high priority, but it
should be a temporal solution while the maintainers of that package fix
this.
-- Package-specific info:
** Environment settings:
EDI
Package: firefox
Version: 1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.6-2
Severity: normal
Hi.
I installed firefox and flashplugin-nonfree (and just this packages) in
a 32-bit chroot of a amd64 system. I ran firefox inside the chroot, and
I've got this:
$ dchroot -c ia32 -d firefox
I: [ia32 chroot] Running command: "firefox
Package: bash-completion
Severity: minor
Hi.
Mplayer also plays Macromedia Flash Videos, which usually are terminated in
".flv". The attached patch adds this termination to bash completion.
Thanks.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500
Package: ufsparse
Severity: minor
The descriptions of the packages in ufsparse, are bad formatted
according to the policy. If you need to show some text literally, the
line should begin with two spaces, instead of one. This results in very
poor readability in package managers that format the descr
Package: kst
Version: 1.1.1-3
Severity: wishlist
Hi.
A new version of Kst (1.2.1) is available for download:
http://kst.kde.org/download.html
If I can be of any help in packaging it, please tell me. I will have
some free time in the next days, and _maybe_ I will package it for my
own use.
Than
Package: ktouch
Version: 4:3.5.2-1
Severity: normal
Hi.
I'm unable to enter any accented vowel in KTouch. It seems that is
ignoring the acute key (because, if paused, if you press any key, the
session is resumed, but not if you press the acute key).
It seems that other user is having the same tr
Package: kimdaba
Severity: wishlist
Hi.
Kimdaba recommends kdegraphics, and kdegraphics depends on lots of
applications that have no relation with kimdaba. Policy says that
recommendations "declare a strong, but not absolute, dependency", so I
don't see why an image manager will have any relation
Package: devscripts
Version: 2.9.5
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
Hi.
The check for 'function' in checkbashisms, is not completely accurate.
The regexp for this bashism is 'function \w+\(\s*\)', but according to
the bash reference manual (page 14 in the Debian version), "If the
function reserverd w
Package: kde-icons-nuovext
Severity: minor
There are some files under /usr/share/icons/nuoveXT-kde/ which shouldn't
be there (license, changelog...). Please, put them under
/usr/share/doc/kde-icons-nuovext.
Thanks.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
Package: cdebootstrap
Severity: minor
Actually, pbuilder depends on debootstrap, or cdebootstrap. After
running pbuilder create, and seeing that it uses cdebootstrap by
default, I came to cdebootstrap's description. But the extended
description is just the first line of debootstrap's one.
Please,
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