Bug#1085149: libimage-magick-perl: carries obsolete workaround for security bug

2024-10-15 Thread G. Branden Robinson
breaks a feature in the forthcoming groff 1.24. Background: https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?66333 Regards, Branden signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#1078721: iproute2: removing /sbin/ip link breaks other packages and possibly user scripts

2024-08-15 Thread G. Branden Robinson
ar in two different paths is a higher priority than > keeping systems working. "Move fast and break as much stuff as possible, or Debian will be doomed to irrelevance. I'll be SABDFL someday!" The creed of the _impactful_ developer. Regards, Branden signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#953215: [libreadline-dev] libreadline-dev in stable lacks a .pc file for pkg-config

2024-02-04 Thread G. Branden Robinson
he PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable >> No package 'history' found Fortunately it was easy to hand-roll a replacement. Regards, Branden [1] https://github.com/agvxov/csope signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#1037353: lynx.1: a few formatting fixes for the manual

2024-01-17 Thread G. Branden Robinson
ctly gives an accurate date). If I did put a date, > it would be the modification date for _that_ file. That appears to be a best practice, if not quite a common one, and it is what groff_man_style(7) recommends. .TH topic section [footer‐middle [footer‐inside [header‐middle]]]

Bug#1041731: Hyphens in man pages

2023-10-15 Thread G. Branden Robinson
Hi Russ, At 2023-10-15T12:06:14-0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Minor point, but since you posted it No worries! > "G. Branden Robinson" writes: > > > ... > > > \- Minus sign or basic Latin hyphen‐minus. \- produces the > > Uni

Bug#1041731: Hyphens in man pages

2023-10-15 Thread G. Branden Robinson
and I'd prefer not to see additional cargo cult techniques piled on top of it. https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/groff.git/tree/PROBLEMS?h=1.23.0#n82 Regards, Branden [1] Just like the omission of bounds checks on array types. What a brilliant efficiency that was. Jean Ichbiah saw

Bug#1041731: Hyphens in man pages

2023-10-15 Thread G. Branden Robinson
2C6 (modifier letter circumflex accent) or similar. \(rs Reverse solidus (backslash). The backslash is the default escape character in the roff language, so it does not represent itself in output. Also see \e above. \(ti Basic Latin tilde. Some output devices format “~” as U+02DC (small tilde) or similar. > Hope that's helpful. I hope this message goes some way toward relieving your frustration. Regards, Branden signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#1041731: Hyphens in man pages

2023-10-14 Thread G. Branden Robinson
79), this is a bigger challenge to achieve with HTML than you might suppose. If you want only a rough approximation thereof, my guess is that there are many straightforward and valid approaches one could take. The challenge would then be in persuading others to adopt your one obviously optimal soluti

Bug#885698: What licenses should be included in /usr/share/common-licenses?

2023-09-10 Thread G. Branden Robinson
risk as long as people continue to follow packaging practices that Debian has applied with little objection from our upstreams for 25+ years.[2] > So while auto-generating this would probably create compliant binary > packages, it would leave the source package without the licens

Bug#1051357: lintian: RfC: resurrect hyphen-used-as-minus-sign

2023-09-06 Thread G. Branden Robinson
phens to U+002D, to try and attract package maintainer attention and shake these issues out, but it is also carrying a serious-severity ticket to prevent itself from shipping that way in the next stable release. See https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1041731#57 . Regards, Br

Bug#1043256: man.local: missing font transformation for 'C'

2023-08-07 Thread G. Branden Robinson
he Debian package. It looks like most of the corrections relevant to this bug report can be straightforwardly automated with sed(1). I'm also happy to contribute some further correctness and portability issues to the page per groff_man_style(7). Let me know. Regards, Branden signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#1041731: groff-base: "-" mapped as HYPHEN

2023-07-23 Thread G. Branden Robinson
At 2023-07-23T09:46:51+0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Sat, Jul 22, 2023 at 11:54:24PM -0500, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > > I know it's not very generous to observe that Sven either made this > > claim without verifying it first, or had no concern for the facts > > when m

Bug#1041731: groff-base: "-" mapped as HYPHEN

2023-07-22 Thread G. Branden Robinson
problem. For them there is no bug, and bliss is enjoyed. It is only through the efforts of people in groups 2 and 4 that any headway will be made on the problem. That is where the Sisyphean effort lies. The good news is that this effort distributes...but only if distributors decide not t

Bug#769626: groff-base: want mailcap entries for .ms and .me files

2023-07-21 Thread G. Branden Robinson
groff" package. Regards, Branden signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#1041317: dgit: table too wide in man page, trashes autopkgtests

2023-07-17 Thread G. Branden Robinson
native(7) for maintainers of Debian-native packages I would like in the future to improve GNU tbl to the point where tables can spread their wings to the full 80 column span of the widely accepted minimum terminal width, but a deeply ingrained feature of GNU tbl makes that tough. https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?62471 Maybe it will happen for groff 1.24. Regards, Branden signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#1040440: groff: new upstream version 1.23.0 available

2023-07-05 Thread G. Branden Robinson
itaram 1 Edmond Orignac 1 Eric Allman 4778 G. Branden Robinson 1 George HELFFRICH 33 Ingo Schwarze 1 John Gardner 4 Keith Bostic 25 Keith Marshall 2 Michael J. Karels 1 Nate Bargmann 3 Nikita Ivanov 1 Paul Eggert 71 Peter Schaf

Bug#1011666: need help with groff 1.23.0 (1.23.0~rc3-1 package prepared)

2023-02-27 Thread G. Branden Robinson
s or drop text from man pages that begin to embrace groff 1.23's new features. Alex Colomar, the Linux man-pages maintainer, is eager to adopt the new man(7) MR macro ASAP, so that's 2,500 man pages, many commonly used, that will be undergoing a transition in the next few months,

Bug#1011666: need help with groff 1.23.0 (1.23.0~rc3-1 package prepared)

2023-02-25 Thread G. Branden Robinson
I'm attaching a git diff -p of my changes after that, meaning the actual packaging work. For the benefit of people reading this message, here are the commit messages themselves (git log -r HEAD~21..HEAD). commit 3cff7c6967e89d187efb160ce7d2a09af5ea82aa (HEAD -> master) Author: G. Branden

Bug#415292: libgl1-mesa-glx: assertion failure in libGL.so.1

2023-01-02 Thread G. Branden Robinson
. I think we may have a brogrammer at play. Regards, Branden signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#1021961: groff(7) mangled .ft documentation

2022-10-18 Thread G. Branden Robinson
package groff tag 1021961 + upstream thanks It seems I can never learn how to get the magic "-1" bug number to work for me. I suspect it is a curse Anthony Towns laid on me lo these many years ago... signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#906091: groff: .tm writes troff special character syntax to stderr

2022-09-27 Thread G. Branden Robinson
analysis of this and related feature gaps. Regards, Branden signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#312935: groff-base: grotty -c should be - no it MUST be - made the default

2022-09-26 Thread G. Branden Robinson
At 2022-09-26T15:40:39-0500, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > > less interprets b^Hbo^Hol^Hld^Hd by outputting the correct escape > > sequences for the terminal in use. > > No, it doesn't, and cannot, because that representation form is > ambiguous when the character to be o

Bug#1016412: dh-make: manpage.1.ex: Incorrect formatting for dash

2022-07-31 Thread G. Branden Robinson
ng System Programmer's Manual_, Eighth Edition, Volume 1, February 1985) If you don't believe me, ask Doug. He was there. Or you can consult the man page sources yourself...I got them from to Warren Toomey's invaluable TUHS archive. https://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl I

Bug#1011666: groff 1.23.0 build dependencies will change

2022-05-28 Thread G. Branden Robinson
I need to amend my recommendations slightly. pkg-config _will_ need to remain in Build-Depends due to a very recent change in groff upstream. > 2022-05-26 G. Branden Robinson > > * bootstrap.conf: Add "pkg-config" to `buildreq`. Not having it > causes

Bug#1011666: groff 1.23.0 build dependencies will change

2022-05-27 Thread G. Branden Robinson
At 2022-05-26T13:13:44+0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Wed, May 25, 2022 at 07:55:10PM -0500, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > > I apologize for filing this bug report a bit prematurely, but I've > > been working on building groff in a bullseye chroot lately to > > prepare f

Bug#1011666: groff 1.23.0 build dependencies will change

2022-05-25 Thread G. Branden Robinson
hostscript netpbm psutils x11proto-core-dev libx11-dev libxmu-dev libxt-dev libxaw7-dev pkg-config libuchardet-dev gsfonts And of course the already-profiled "poppler-utils". The aforementioned "cups-client | cups-bsd | lpr" is also not necessary for bootstrapping. "m4"

Bug#192144: groff-base: eqn formats complex matrices badly on nroff devices

2022-04-11 Thread G. Branden Robinson
put useful in this case (that remains to be seen). Thanks for Colin for the simple reproducer. Regards, Branden signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#541688: groff: Patch for unicode box drawing characters in groff_char

2022-04-11 Thread G. Branden Robinson
If it is addressing deficiencies in the erstwhile page-local `C2` macro used by the groff_char(7) page, it is invalid, and has been since since 2012. I don't think it would benefit Debian any to deviate from upstream practice as regards points 1 and 2. Further details are availabl

Bug#982302: groff: bad ghostscript version in the font path

2022-04-11 Thread G. Branden Robinson
package groff forcemerge 982302 952922 thanks Hi Marc, Your bug report #952922 appears to have been resolved by the closure of bug #982302. Regards, Branden signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#488213: groff-base: Escaped version of apostroph (\') does not display in ISO-8859-15 locale

2022-04-11 Thread G. Branden Robinson
obtain any form of quotation mark. All known *roffs going back to Osanna's 1973 troff define this escape sequence as representing an acute accent. Any man page that uses \' to attempt to obtain a quotation mark is in error. I suggesting tagging this bug "wontfix" and

Bug#409046: groff: Empty files in /usr/share/doc/groff/html/img

2022-04-09 Thread G. Branden Robinson
of an Autoconf check for the PNM tools. That seems like an upstream defect. If you'd like, we can reimagine this one as an upstream bug. > With any luck this mail will serve as notes to myself in case I manage > to figure it out later. Any thoughts after having had some time to cogitate? :) Regards, Branden signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#551111: groff: wrong escape sequence for acute accent

2022-04-09 Thread G. Branden Robinson
tag 55 + upstream fixed-upstream thanks This bug was found and corrected independently. The fix is expected in the groff 1.23 release. commit 2bd31bb3f2de8e8ff21540ca7c247025903d8acc Author: G. Branden Robinson Date: Thu Feb 13 20:25:08 2020 +1100 groff(7): Fix style and correctness

Bug#892423: man -Tutf8 /usr/share/man/ja/man5/apt_preferences.5.gz (and several others) enter infinite loop

2022-03-31 Thread G. Branden Robinson
d4. I'm attaching it for extra reassurance. Regards, Branden commit bcdf2f4c7c28328c711c6a7ac2ea17f2ecd5cdd4 Author: G. Branden Robinson Date: Wed Oct 21 00:29:24 2020 +1100 src/roff/troff/env.cpp: Avoid infinite loop. * src/roff/troff/env.cpp (environment::possibly_break_line

Bug#991633: mdoc: At: 32V is "[AT&T] UNIX/32V", not "Version 32V AT&T UNIX"

2022-03-31 Thread G. Branden Robinson
tag 991633 + upstream fixed-upstream thanks As наб noted, this was fixed in upstream commit 21d307286. https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/groff.git/commit/?id=21d307286a3f82ba9ddf91fa3fc0a2932a4d7c4c The fix is expected in the groff 1.23.0 release. Regards, Branden signature.asc Description

Bug#692765: Issue in man page ascii.7.po

2022-03-14 Thread G. Branden Robinson
e has only one space after it, not two. For a potential end-of-sentence character (".", "?", and "!" by default) to be recognized as ending a sentence, it must be followed by a newline or _at least_ two spaces. I have tried to make the formatter's behavior very clear in th

Bug#243238: fixed upstream

2022-03-13 Thread G. Branden Robinson
package groff tag 243238 + upstream fixed-upstream thanks Fix expected in groff 1.23.0. commit 964ea49e4ac5908811f1c434c7d752d1eb2f4179 Author: G. Branden Robinson Date: Tue Mar 8 01:44:51 2022 +1100 [fonts]: Fix \[oq] and \[cq] in X11 text fonts. * /font/devX100-12/CB

Bug#785356: Available funds

2021-11-16 Thread Mr, Branden
Hi Friend, I have a client who has funds available meant for Big loans. Contact me if you are interested. Best regards, Mr,Branden

Bug#716109: [Mayhem] Bug report on groff: lookbib crashes with exit status 139

2021-09-11 Thread G. Branden Robinson
Fixed upstream and expected in the groff 1.23.0 release. commit 1b97881fc0e2246cf29b4758139a665c7816ba23 Author: G. Branden Robinson Date: Sun Sep 12 05:53:43 2021 +1000 [libbib]: Validate input to avoid heap overread. Since June 1991 if not earlier, groff (technically, the refer

Bug#990406: groff: ".ta T -5" causes troff assertion failure

2021-09-11 Thread G. Branden Robinson
tag -1 + upstream fixed-upstream thanks A fix for this problem has been committed upstream and it is expected in the groff 1.23.0 release. commit 6692653f7cae4116d4e70318f71b3d0808f2261f Author: G. Branden Robinson Date: Sat Sep 11 07:02:07 2021 +1000 [troff]: Clamp negative tab stop

Bug#990406: groff SIGABRTs after negative .ta request

2021-09-10 Thread G. Branden Robinson
_to_next_tab(): assertion failed: 'lastpos > 0' .../groff/build/groff: error: troff: Aborted (core dumped) I'll have a look at this. Regards, Branden signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#710178: groff-base: some warnings now split on several lines, makes lintian reports useless

2020-12-03 Thread G. Branden Robinson
package groff-base tag 710178 + fixed-upstream thanks This has been fixed in groff's Git repository and is expected in the 1.23.0 release. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#284002: [PATCH] mdoc: Update operating system release numbers

2020-11-22 Thread G. Branden Robinson
currently-installed version D : show the differences between the versions Z : start a shell to examine the situation The default action is to keep your current version. *** bash.bashrc (Y/I/N/O/D/Z) [default=N]? I suspect most people don't touch mdoc.local, so it will be automatically updated for them. Colin, what do you think? Regards, Branden signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#284002: [PATCH] mdoc: Update operating system release numbers

2020-11-22 Thread G. Branden Robinson
, this is already designed for with the string "doc-default-operating-system". So my proposal is twofold: 1. Update groff_mdoc(7) as described above, to encourage mdoc(7) page authors to use this to record a package/project name and release. 2. Encourage Colin to add the followi

Bug#421437: groff: grops and grodvi crash on invalid input

2020-11-22 Thread G. Branden Robinson
t.cpp:547 547 ../../src/libs/libgroff/font.cpp: No such file or directory. ##(gdb) cd groff-1.22.4/debian/build Working directory /tmp/branden/groff-1.22.4/debian/build. ##(gdb) list 542 abort(); 543 } 544 545 int font::get_code(glyph *g) 546 { 547 int idx = glyph_to_index(g); 5

Bug#488213: groff-base: Escaped version of apostroph (\') does not display in ISO-8859-15 locale

2020-11-18 Thread G. Branden Robinson
If this bug report is asking for a latin9 output driver for groff, it's should be retitle and moved to wishlist severity. If it's asking for the semantics of \' to change from acute accent, it's wontfix. Regards, Branden signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#710178: groff-base: some warnings now split on several lines, makes lintian reports useless

2020-11-18 Thread G. Branden Robinson
package gross-base tag 710178 + fixed-upstream thanks This has been fixed in groff's Git repository and is expected in the 1.23.0 release. https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/groff.git/commit/?id=f75e156b621d3743368c58425f357e6cd52372a0 signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#312935: groff-base: grotty -c should be - no it MUST be - made the default

2020-11-17 Thread G. Branden Robinson
quot; trick is worth explicitly calling out there. I use it for groff regression tests, but I don't know how many other people would have any use for it. Regards, Branden [1] https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/grotty.1.html signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#284002: default for mdoc's volume-operating-system

2020-11-17 Thread G. Branden Robinson
nstead of man(7) pages, and having a standard way to identify the origin of a page might offer some slight incentive to people to take it up. Thoughts? Regards, Branden [1] groff_mdoc currently gets this wrong; when rendering with double-sided layout (groff -rD1), the page numbers are incorrectl

Bug#683671: dash: 'set -e'+'trap' malfunction is fixed in upstream git

2020-02-10 Thread Robinson, Branden (Data61, Kensington NSW)
stily, concluded that it was the same issue. Re-reviewing the list of open bugs against dash, it looks like I should have stumbled across #779416 instead. I apologize for my error. Thanks for the clarification. Cheers! [1] https://www.cons.org/cracauer/sigint.html -- G. Branden Robinson Trustw

Bug#683671: dash: 'set -e'+'trap' malfunction is fixed in upstream git

2020-02-10 Thread Robinson, Branden (Data61, Kensington NSW)
e worthy of consideration in a near-term package release as well. Cheers! [1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/dash/dash.git/commit/?id=06204f0c9f539fcb8cb532166656e80b81bd689a [2] https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-maintainerscripts.html -- G. Branden Robinson Trustworthy System

Bug#945056: jekyll: terrible failure mode when run by novice

2019-11-18 Thread G. Branden Robinson
Package: jekyll Version: 3.8.3+dfsg-4 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, *** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropriate *** * What led up to the situation? I'm trying to debug why some Markdown didn't convert to HTML properly on a jekyll-generated website. So that

Bug#923298: chromium: file overlap with chromium-sandbox without Conficts and/or Replaces

2019-02-25 Thread G. Branden Robinson
Package: chromium Version: 72.0.3626.96-1~deb9u1 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable I have been tracking testing for several months. This looks to me like a missing or insufficiently versioned Replaces declaration, but I did not dig deeply into this except to check the BTS to

Bug#917258: reportbug: -N, --bugnumber options seems to not work

2018-12-24 Thread G. Branden Robinson
change your locale if this is incorrect. > > Using '"G. Branden Robinson" ' as your from > address. > Retrieving report #541147 from Debian bug tracking system... > No report available: #541147 > No such bug report. Huh. And yet... > $ bts status 541

Bug#913815: xterm: does not correctly document saveLines default

2018-11-15 Thread G. Branden Robinson
Package: xterm Version: 337-1 Severity: normal Tags: upstream The man page says *saveLines defaults to 64. But it really defaults to 1024. Patch attached. It also synchronizes xterm.dat, whatever that is, with the application defaults file. -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid A

Bug#913413: [PATCH] Map Shift+Win to Menu

2018-11-13 Thread G. Branden Robinson
ts as Win, while Shift+Win acts as Menu. ? -- Regards, Branden signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#913572: Shouldn't shipping broken symlinks be against policy?

2018-11-13 Thread G. Branden Robinson
At 2018-11-13T17:02:49+, Ian Jackson wrote: > G. Branden Robinson writes ("Shouldn't shipping broken symlinks be against > policy?"): > > Not reopening, but I have some questions for the Policy team. > ... > > I could have sworn you were incorrect, but sur

Bug#913572: Shouldn't shipping broken symlinks be against policy?

2018-11-13 Thread G. Branden Robinson
an \ -type l); do if ! test -f "$F"; then file "$F"; dpkg -S "$F"; fi; done 4938 /usr/share/man/man1/rust-gdb.1.gz: broken symbolic link to gdb.1.gz rust-gdb: /usr/share/man/man1/rust-gdb.1.gz > X > > G. Branden Robinson: > > Package: rust-gdb &

Bug#913572: /usr/share/man/man1/rust-gdb.1.gz: rust-gdb: ships broken symlink /usr/share/man/man1/rust-gdb.1.gz

2018-11-12 Thread G. Branden Robinson
Package: rust-gdb Version: 1.28.0+dfsg1-2 Severity: normal File: /usr/share/man/man1/rust-gdb.1.gz $ dpkg -S /usr/share/man/man1/rust-gdb.1.gz rust-gdb: /usr/share/man/man1/rust-gdb.1.gz $ file /usr/share/man/man1/rust-gdb.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/rust-gdb.1.gz: broken symbolic link to gdb.1.gz

Bug#742466: bash-completion: [PATCH] bash-completion: unexpected EOF while looking for matching `) while completing in subshell

2018-11-10 Thread G. Branden Robinson
At 2018-11-10T15:07:23-0200, Gabriel F. T. Gomes wrote: > Hi, > > On 10 Nov 2018, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > > >Package: bash-completion > >Version: 1:2.8-2 > >Followup-For: Bug #742466 > > > >I'm attaching a debdiff of a proposed NMU for this.

Bug#913398: lintian: Use of uninitialized value $magic in numeric eq (==) at /usr/share/lintian/collection/java-info line 115.

2018-11-10 Thread G. Branden Robinson
Package: lintian Version: 2.5.111 Severity: normal File: /usr/share/lintian/collection/java-info Now running lintian bash-completion_2.8-2.1_amd64.changes ... Use of uninitialized value $magic in numeric eq (==) at /usr/share/lintian/collection/java-info line 115. Use of uninitialized value $magi

Bug#742466: bash-completion: [PATCH] bash-completion: unexpected EOF while looking for matching `) while completing in subshell

2018-11-10 Thread G. Branden Robinson
load. + * Fix extremely annoying and long-standing breakage of completion +within POSIX command substitution $(). (Closes: #742466) + + -- G. Branden Robinson Sat, 10 Nov 2018 08:27:09 -0500 + bash-completion (1:2.8-2) unstable; urgency=low * Fix for held packages completion in dpkg (C

Bug#913351: man-db: lexgrog handles escaped hyphens after the first wrongly

2018-11-09 Thread G. Branden Robinson
At 2018-11-09T21:38:46+, Colin Watson wrote: > Control: tag -1 fixed-upstream > > On Fri, Nov 09, 2018 at 02:30:42PM -0500, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > > $ for F in $(man -w tfmtodit hpftodit afmtodit); do lexgrog "$F"; zcat "$F" > > | sed -n &#x

Bug#913351: man-db: lexgrog handles escaped hyphens after the first wrongly

2018-11-09 Thread G. Branden Robinson
Package: man-db Version: 2.8.4-2+b1 Severity: normal Tags: upstream $ for F in $(man -w tfmtodit hpftodit afmtodit); do lexgrog "$F"; zcat "$F" | sed -n '3,4 {/\\-/p}'; done /usr/share/man/man1/tfmtodit.1.gz: "tfmtodit - create font files for use with groff - Tdvi" tfmtodit \- create font files

Bug#908964: evince: reports "! SyncTeX Error : No file?" at startup

2018-11-04 Thread G. Branden Robinson
Package: evince Version: 3.30.1-1 Followup-For: Bug #908964 This problem is reproducible on the version of evince in testing, and with the following trivial document: $ cat > hello.txt Hello, world! Make me with "groff -Tpdf hello.txt > hello.pdf". -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/

Bug#470995: ITP: devotee

2018-08-17 Thread Branden Robinson
He'll be well-situated to laugh at my frustrations with Perl. -- Regards, Branden signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#902555: radeon.4: Some fixes in the manual

2018-06-28 Thread G. Branden Robinson
's a detail-oriented style maven after my own heart and I can vouch that his proposed corrections are usually sound ones. [1] ;-) [2] >:( http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/16/ch06/ch06_toc.html redirects me to a login screen. -- Regards, Branden signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#872529: /usr/bin/caff: caff: puts TTY into weird state when prompting to send mail

2018-06-02 Thread G. Branden Robinson
At 2018-06-02T17:33:38+0200, Guilhem Moulin wrote: > Control: tag -1 pending > > Hi, > > On Sun, 20 Aug 2017 at 21:40:44 -0400, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > > I'm at a loss for what put my terminal into that state in the first > > place > > Just got an

Bug#880551: xterm: corrections to man page

2017-11-07 Thread G. Branden Robinson
At 2017-11-07T08:10:40-0500, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > Here's an updated version of the patch, reverting the de-boldfacing of > action names (and some token names) in resource translations. Of course, by sending that I guaranteed I'd find a problem with it. Here's my n

Bug#880551: xterm: corrections to man page

2017-11-07 Thread G. Branden Robinson
the hyphen-minus fix) and (b) I cheated out the whitespace changes resulting from the fixed conditionals in the page local macros bP and NS. -- Regards, Branden 01. The local macro definitions for bP and NS were testing the values of registers which were likely to be undefined; e.g. &q

Bug#880551: xterm: corrections to man page

2017-11-07 Thread G. Branden Robinson
pt yesterday which compares the copies of the > macros with a reference version (thinking of ncurses). Of course! Once you've done it right once, automate it! :D -- Regards, Branden signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#880551: xterm: corrections to man page

2017-11-06 Thread G. Branden Robinson
At 2017-11-05T15:11:13-0500, Thomas Dickey wrote: > On Thu, Nov 02, 2017 at 02:20:54AM -0400, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > > 10. Remove boldfacing from portions of code examples; these escapes > > changed the font family back to Times from Courier. If this change > >

Bug#880551: xterm: corrections to man page

2017-11-04 Thread G. Branden Robinson
ndeed a problem but my fix was wrong thanks to: https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?51568 Once I have it ready, would you prefer a whole new diff against xterm-330, or something else? -- Regards, Branden signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#880551: xterm: corrections to man page

2017-11-02 Thread G. Branden Robinson
but notes that not all legacy systems' man macros had them. However, the GNU folks seemed to believe they did not originate these macros themselves. Let me know if I can be of any help. -- Regards, Branden signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#880551: xterm: corrections to man page

2017-11-01 Thread G. Branden Robinson
libutempter01.1.6-3 ii libx11-62:1.6.4-3 ii libxaw7 2:1.0.13-1+b2 ii libxft2 2.3.2-1+b2 ii libxinerama12:1.1.3-1+b3 ii libxmu6 2:1.1.2-2 ii libxpm4 1:3.5.12-1 ii libxt6 1:1.1.5-1 ii xbitmaps1.1.1-2 Versions of packages xte

Bug#872529: /usr/bin/caff: caff: puts TTY into weird state when prompting to send mail

2017-08-20 Thread G. Branden Robinson
ss for what put my terminal into that state in the first place, and I'm a little surprised that -icrnl and -icanon did not have much more annoying and noticeable effects. -- Regards, Branden signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#872529: /usr/bin/caff: caff: puts TTY into weird state when prompting to send mail

2017-08-18 Thread G. Branden Robinson
Hi Guilhem! Thanks for the prompt follow-up. I've edited a thinko in my original report below, marked with [] brackets. At 2017-08-18T15:39:31+0200, Guilhem Moulin wrote: > On Fri, 18 Aug 2017 at 03:27:14 -0400, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > > The only way to get past the promp

Bug#872529: /usr/bin/caff: caff: puts TTY into weird state when prompting to send mail

2017-08-18 Thread G. Branden Robinson
Package: signing-party Version: 2.5-1 Severity: normal File: /usr/bin/caff The only way to get past the prompt into type Ctrl+J (yes, hold down Control and press J). ##gpg> save [INFO] Key 0x283681BA6FE7F41D UID 1 Sam Hartman done [INFO] Key 0x283681BA6FE7F41D UID 2 Sam Hartman done Mail signat

Bug#859778: [supp...@mentors.debian.net: xtrs uploaded to mentors.debian.net]

2017-08-04 Thread G. Branden Robinson
At 2017-07-27T13:50:53-0700, Sean Whitton wrote: > Hello Branden, > > On Thu, Jun 15, 2017 at 04:35:23PM +0100, Sean Whitton wrote: > > Please accept my apologies for letting this RFS sit for so long. Thank > > you for all your work. Looking forward to uploading it soon. &

Bug#869773: xdm logs failed logins that may be sensitive

2017-07-28 Thread G. Branden Robinson
ompile to bomb long before it gets to greet.c. "Somebody should do something about that," he said, peering around a corner into a mirror. Regards, Branden --- xdm-1.1.11/greeter/greet.c.orig 2017-07-28 14:20:44.649055209 -0400 +++ xdm-1.1.11/greeter/greet.c 2017-07-28 14:21:09.812798680

Bug#859778: [supp...@mentors.debian.net: xtrs uploaded to mentors.debian.net]

2017-06-01 Thread G. Branden Robinson
package sponsorship-requests tag 859778 - moreinfo thanks $ dput mentors xtrs_4.9d-1_amd64.changes Checking signature on .changes gpg: /home/branden/src/GIT/debian/xtrs_4.9d-1_amd64.changes: Valid signature from D19E9C7D71266DCE Checking signature on .dsc gpg: /home/branden/src/GIT/debian

Bug#861618: shunit2: upstream homepage moved, man page not marked up nicely, etc.

2017-05-01 Thread G. Branden Robinson
e to not end in "etc." and also add information. + * debian/control: Bump Standards-Version to 3.9.8. + + -- G. Branden Robinson Mon, 01 May 2017 11:08:00 -0400 + shunit2 (2.1.6-1.1) unstable; urgency=medium * Non-maintainer upload. diff -Nru shunit2-2.1.6/debian/contro

Bug#861319: gcc: /usr/share/man/man1/gcc.1.gz does not exist

2017-04-27 Thread G. Branden Robinson
Package: gcc Version: 4:6.3.0-4 Severity: important $ man gcc No manual entry for gcc See 'man 7 undocumented' for help when manual pages are not available. $ dpkg -S gcc|grep -F man1/gcc. || echo nope nope -- System Information: Debian Release: 9.0 APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'test

Bug#859778: RFS: xtrs/4.9d-3

2017-04-24 Thread G. Branden Robinson
sing a new version number for each > round of review is due to the difficulties created by exchanging raw > source packages. But we are using git. > Okay. This makes sense. I'll coalesce the changelog and release history. Regards, Branden signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#859929: x11-common: unowned files after upgrade from jessie to stretch and purge: /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config

2017-04-24 Thread G. Branden Robinson
for migrating conffiles? That was painful enough back in the XFree86 days that I remember it still. Regards, Branden

Bug#859778: RFS: xtrs/4.9d-3

2017-04-22 Thread G. Branden Robinson
At 2017-04-22T15:41:48-0400, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > > Given this problem I haven't done a full review, but I'd like to make > > two preliminary suggestions: > > > > 1) How about merging the -1, -2 and -3~~unreleased changelog entries > > into a

Bug#859778: RFS: xtrs/4.9d-3

2017-04-22 Thread G. Branden Robinson
At 2017-04-22T07:13:38-0700, Sean Whitton wrote: > control: tag -1 +moreinfo > > Hello Branden, > > I can't get 79e8ccf40499ace8cf36210a7ad9fb157209bbe4 to build. Log > attached. Urp. This is due to the unavailabilty of gropdf on the build host, it looks like. I'l

Bug#858579: /usr/share/man/man5/deb-changelog.5.gz: please support a comment syntax for Debian changelog files

2017-04-20 Thread G. Branden Robinson
At 2017-04-20T09:39:42+0200, Guillem Jover wrote: > On Wed, 2017-04-12 at 11:00:20 -0400, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > > The former. You'll never see a C library interface manpage with > > double-colons in the name, and C++ programmers never write manpages > > because

Bug#859778: RFS: xtrs/4.9d-2

2017-04-20 Thread G. Branden Robinson
At 2017-04-20T15:58:04-0700, Sean Whitton wrote: > Please remove the moreinfo tag from the bug when it's ready to be > uploaded. Will do! Regards, Branden signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#859778: RFS: xtrs/4.9d-2

2017-04-20 Thread G. Branden Robinson
At 2017-04-20T09:45:13-0700, Sean Whitton wrote: > Hello Branden, Hi Sean! > On Wed, Apr 12, 2017 at 11:09:45PM -0400, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > > Yeah, I didn't understand that at the time. Subsequently I changed all > > the 4.9d changelog entries to target experi

Bug#860750: /usr/bin/apt: should permit user to control colorized output

2017-04-19 Thread G. Branden Robinson
Package: apt Version: 1.4 Severity: wishlist File: /usr/bin/apt Use case: $ apt search shell | less -r Apt apparently turns off colorized output if standard output is not a tty. That's great for redirection to files, but not so much for redirection to "less -r". Please give apt a switch so tha

Bug#859778: RFS: xtrs/4.9d-2

2017-04-12 Thread G. Branden Robinson
At 2017-04-12T22:49:51+0200, Adam Borowski wrote: > On Wed, Apr 12, 2017 at 12:28:11PM -0400, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > > I think I got it fixed. > > > > The URL of my package is: > > https://mentors.debian.net/package/xtrs > > > > The respect

Bug#859778: RFS: xtrs/4.9d-2

2017-04-12 Thread G. Branden Robinson
On Wed, Apr 12, 2017 at 10:20:55AM -0400, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > > Hrm #1: GMail helpfully categorized your mail as spam. > > Not nice, let's try again; if you don't respond in a day I'll send > from some other place. It's fixed. I told GMail you&#x

Bug#858579: /usr/share/man/man5/deb-changelog.5.gz: please support a comment syntax for Debian changelog files

2017-04-12 Thread G. Branden Robinson
At 2017-04-09T03:57:01+0200, Guillem Jover wrote: > Hi! > > On Sat, 2017-03-25 at 19:27:55 -0400, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > > On Sat, Mar 25, 2017 at 03:07:32PM +0100, Guillem Jover wrote: > > > The implementation in dpkg-dev already supports all of this > > >

Bug#858573: maint-guide: should be updated for stretch, and note that it has been

2017-04-12 Thread G. Branden Robinson
At 2017-04-07T00:44:18+0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 04:45:35PM -0400, Branden Robinson wrote: > > Package: maint-guide > > Version: 1.2.38 > > Severity: normal > > > > Chapter 1 notes that "This document has been updated fo

Bug#859778: RFS: xtrs/4.9d-2

2017-04-12 Thread G. Branden Robinson
At 2017-04-07T15:23:19+0200, Adam Borowski wrote: > On Fri, Apr 07, 2017 at 07:41:51AM -0400, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > > * Package name: xtrs > > Version : 4.9d-2 > > > https://mentors.debian.net/package/xtrs > > dget -x > > ht

Bug#859929: x11-common: unowned files after upgrade from jessie to stretch and purge: /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config

2017-04-11 Thread G. Branden Robinson
rve as an exercise of branden-guest's permissions on alioth. Any objection? Regards, Branden signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#859751: xtrs: please pass buildflags

2017-04-08 Thread G. Branden Robinson
At 2017-04-07T20:08:05+0200, Graham Inggs wrote: > On 7 April 2017 at 19:06, G. Branden Robinson > wrote: > > All of this hardening stuff, as I understand it, involves mitigation > > strategies for unsafe memory usage in the C language family in the ELF > > object file fo

Bug#859751: xtrs: please pass buildflags

2017-04-07 Thread G. Branden Robinson
At 2017-04-07T14:10:06+0200, Graham Inggs wrote: > On 07/04/2017 13:12, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > > compile_rom is an utility internal to the build. It's not shipped and > > thus not subject to attacks. I'm considering adding an --ignore-line > > for it, but I

Bug#858304: vim-runtime: markdown syntax highlighting (and possibly others) goes crazy and drives the terminal crazy

2017-04-07 Thread G. Branden Robinson
At 2017-04-07T12:08:58-0400, James McCoy wrote: > On Fri, Apr 07, 2017 at 07:23:39AM -0400, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > > However, my xterms are somewhat customized. I'm attaching my > > .Xresources file. > > Perfect! That seems to be the difference. I, and presumably

Bug#859778: RFS: xtrs/4.9d-2

2017-04-07 Thread G. Branden Robinson
debconf template translations; thanks, Mert Dirik! (Closes: #757864) * Add Dutch debconf template translations; thanks, Frans Spiesschaert! (Closes: #767488) * Add Indonesian debconf template translations; thanks, Izharul Haq! (Closes: #835622) Regards, Branden -- System Information

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