Bug#320558: 'man xloadimage' typos: "copywritten" x 2, "preceeded" x 2, "preceed" x 2, "noticable", and "noticably"

2005-07-29 Thread A Costa
Package: xloadimage Version: 4.1-14.2 Severity: minor Tags: patch Found some typos in '/usr/share/man/man1/xloadimage.1x.gz', see attached '.diff'. Hope this helps... -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experiment

Bug#320556: 'man uufilter' typo: "editting"

2005-07-29 Thread A Costa
Package: xloadimage Version: 4.1-14.2 Severity: minor Tags: patch Found a typo in '/usr/share/man/man1/uufilter.1x.gz', see attached '.diff'. Hope this helps... -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Ar

Bug#320562: 'man kernel-img' typos: "absense", "initail", "issueing" x 2, "laoder", and "varable"

2005-07-29 Thread A Costa
Package: kernel-package Version: 9.001 Severity: minor Tags: patch Found some typos in '/usr/share/man/man5/kernel-img.conf.5.gz', see attached '.diff'. Hope this helps... -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'exper

Bug#320561: 'man make-kpkg' typos: "coumentation", "similiar", "tp", etc.

2005-07-29 Thread A Costa
Package: kernel-package Version: 9.001 Severity: minor Tags: patch Found a few typos in '/usr/share/man/man1/make-kpkg.1.gz', see attached '.diff'. Hope this helps... -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimenta

Bug#320560: 'man packagesearch' typo: "neccessary"

2005-07-29 Thread A Costa
Package: packagesearch Version: 1.3 Severity: minor Tags: patch Found a typo in '/usr/share/man/man1/packagesearch.1.gz', see attached '.diff'. Hope this helps... -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')

Bug#320563: 'man kernel-pkg' typos: "Mutualy", "confguration", "differes", "instablity", "numberd", "similarily", and "usefule"

2005-07-30 Thread A Costa
Package: kernel-package Version: 9.001 Severity: minor Tags: patch Found some typos in '/usr/share/man/man5/kernel-pkg.conf.5.gz', see attached '.diff'. Hope this helps... -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'exper

Bug#321414: Speed tweak for '/etc/hotplug/isapnp.rc' : replace "cat FOO* | while read BAR" with "for" version

2005-08-05 Thread A Costa
Package: hotplug Version: 0.0.20040329-25 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch Attached is a patch for '/etc/hotplug/isapnp.rc'. To make the code line up better I put in about a dozen indentations, that may make it seem very busy, but it's simpler than it looks. Here's a diff without any cosmetic whi

Bug#404288: 'man play' typo: "preceed"

2006-12-22 Thread A. Costa
Package: sox Version: 12.18.2-1 Severity: minor Tags: patch Found a typo in '/usr/share/man/man1/play.1.gz', see attached '.diff'. Hope this helps... -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686)

Bug#404290: 'man sox' typos: "Unfortunetly", "determeind", "limtergain", "quadtuple", "specifed", "specifing", "Nuttal", "sinodial" x 2, etc.

2006-12-22 Thread A. Costa
Package: sox Version: 12.18.2-1 Severity: minor Tags: patch Found some typos in '/usr/share/man/man1/sox.1.gz', see attached '.diff'. Hope this helps... -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i68

Bug#404289: 'man genisoimage' typos: "suplied" and "outout"

2006-12-22 Thread A. Costa
Package: genisoimage Version: 9:1.1.0-1 Severity: minor Tags: patch Found a few typos in '/usr/share/man/man8/genisoimage.8.gz', see attached '.diff'. Hope this helps... -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Archi

Bug#401110: gramps: Help 3.6.2 / Family Editor -- selecting spouse doesn't work

2006-12-28 Thread A. Costa
Hi AR, here's a late reply... To refresh my bad memory, I just reread the whole thread here: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=401110 ...and need to retract something: Summing up: Marriage selection is broken or hasn't been coded yet. In hindsight that's too bro

Bug#407399: 'man geod' typos: "contrl" and "occurance"

2007-01-17 Thread A. Costa
Package: proj Version: 4.4.9d-2 Severity: minor Tags: patch Found a few typos in '/usr/share/man/man1/geod.1.gz', see attached '.diff'. Hope this helps... -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i

Bug#407400: 'man pj_init' typo: "degress"

2007-01-17 Thread A. Costa
Package: proj Version: 4.4.9d-2 Severity: minor Tags: patch Found a typo in '/usr/share/man/man3/pj_init.3.gz', see attached '.diff'. Hope this helps... -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i68

Bug#407401: 'man nad2nad' typo: "reconized"

2007-01-17 Thread A. Costa
Package: proj Version: 4.4.9d-2 Severity: minor Tags: patch Found a typo in '/usr/share/man/man1/nad2nad.1.gz', see attached '.diff'. Hope this helps... -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i68

Bug#407402: 'man cs2cs' and 'man proj' typo: "auxilliary"

2007-01-17 Thread A. Costa
Package: proj Version: 4.4.9d-2 Severity: minor Tags: patch Found a pair of typos in '/usr/share/man/man1/cs2cs.1.gz' and '/usr/share/man/man1/proj.1.gz', see attached '.diff' files. Hope this helps... -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unsta

Bug#407412: dlocate: '-s' option ignores virtual packages.

2007-01-18 Thread A. Costa
Package: dlocate Version: 0.5-0.3 Severity: wishlist Consider the virtual package "mail-transport-agent", provided on my system by 'exim4-daemon-light': % dlocate -s exim4-daemon-light | grep 'Status\|Provides' Status: install ok installed Provides: mail-transport-agent % dlocat

Bug#408326: 'man tree' typo: "cooresponding"

2007-01-24 Thread A. Costa
Package: tree Version: 1.5.1-1 Severity: minor Tags: patch Found a typo in '/usr/share/man/man1/tree.1.gz', see attached '.diff'. Hope this helps... -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) S

Bug#343672: More about #343672: sylpheed: Queue to Trash has same trouble

2007-01-24 Thread A. Costa
Package: sylpheed Version: 2.3.0~beta5-1 Followup-For: Bug #343672 This bug also happens after deleting an item from the 'Queue' folder. The deleted message goes to the 'Trash' folder, but the headers are blank (moved to the message body) when the message changes folders. Resulting difficulty:

Bug#392256: Suggestion: include a 'nocomment' util.

2007-01-24 Thread A. Costa
What follows is some fussing with prototype functions, to show how a 'nocomment' can harvest some stats. The question: what's the longest config file in '/etc' that's nothing but comments, as well as the longest file with no comments? On 10/10/06 I'd written: > nocomment() { grep -v -

Bug#397384: module-init-tools: Misleading error: "modprobe: Can't locate module /lib/modules/2.4.27/misc/lirc_dev.o"

2006-12-11 Thread A. Costa
tion of several fundamental Debian policies, but if so should not be penalized, out of respect for his numerous and continuing good works. However, his requests for actively suppressive powers to police unwritten laws deserve open censure. It might be worthwhile to consider new policies to further

Bug#302764: #302764 [FIXED xawtv 3.95-1]: 'man fbtv' typo: "availabile"

2006-12-14 Thread A. Costa
Package: fbtv Version: 3.95.dfsg.1-1 Followup-For: Bug #302764 This typo's still there: % dlocate -s fbtv | grep Ver ; man fbtv | grep -n "availabile" Version: 3.95.dfsg.1-1 101: modes availabile. The file containing the videomodes is normally named HTH... -- System Inform

Bug#395054: Puzzle: my reopening a closed bug results in closing BTS reply, reportedly from me.

2006-11-03 Thread A. Costa
On Thu, 2 Nov 2006 19:10:13 -0800 Don Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It seems like a useful message that belongs in the bug log. If > > that's the only problem, then perhaps this bug should be changed to > > to a 'wishlist' bug and retitled "Improvement: add reopen email > > control mess

Bug#395368: iprint: 'i' dumps any chars after decimal digits.

2006-11-03 Thread A. Costa
reopen 395368 ! thanks > > It's a classic design disagreement, ...automobile safety belts... > > ...Jack Williamson's 'Humanoid' stories... > I find these comparisons to be totally out of the scope of the issue > we're discussing. Culture clash. Who's culture or what region's customs determi

Bug#397378: 'man kernel-pkg' typos: "Mutualy" and "theversion"

2006-11-06 Thread A. Costa
Package: kernel-package Version: 10.064 Severity: minor Tags: patch Found a few typos in '/usr/share/man/man5/kernel-pkg.conf.5.gz', see attached '.diff'. Note: the text around "theversion" may need revision: % man kernel-pkg.conf | grep -n -C 1 theversion 43- debian The version

Bug#397379: 'man kernel-img' typo: "messgaes"

2006-11-06 Thread A. Costa
Package: kernel-package Version: 10.064 Severity: minor Tags: patch Found a typo in '/usr/share/man/man5/kernel-img.conf.5.gz', see attached '.diff'. Hope this helps... -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Archit

Bug#397384: module-init-tools: Misleading error: "modprobe: Can't locate module /lib/modules/2.4.27/misc/lirc_dev.o"

2006-11-06 Thread A. Costa
Package: module-init-tools Version: 3.2-pre1-2 Severity: normal I compiled a module, maybe in the wrong spot. This is where it is: tvbox:~# ls -l /lib/modules/2.4.27/misc/lirc_dev.o -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 13180 2006-11-04 14:19 /lib/modules/2.4.27/misc/lirc_dev.o Attempting to install

Bug#389469: 'man lzop': invalid example under 'archive mode'

2006-11-06 Thread A. Costa
reopen 389469 ! thanks Please excuse this message's being late, I ought to have replied to this before it was closed. There's a good reason not to close it yet... On Fri, 27 Oct 2006 11:18:40 +0200 Peter Eisentraut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Am Montag, 25. September 2

Bug#397384: module-init-tools: Misleading error: "modprobe: Can't locate module /lib/modules/2.4.27/misc/lirc_dev.o"

2006-11-07 Thread A. Costa
reopen 397384 ! thanks On Tue, 7 Nov 2006 00:37:36 +0100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco d'Itri) wrote: > On Nov 07, "A. Costa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > tvbox:~# modprobe -v /lib/modules/2.4.27/misc/lirc_dev.o > > modprobe: Can't locate &g

Bug#395054: Puzzle: my reopening a closed bug results in closing BTS reply, reportedly from me.

2006-11-08 Thread A. Costa
On Fri, 3 Nov 2006 22:05:22 -0800 Don Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ...It's a question of how much logging and recording > > is enough, too much, or too little. I don't know if there's a > > general answer, but I know how to scratch where it itches... > > Again, the bug log keeps the o

Bug#389469: 'man lzop': invalid example under 'archive mode'

2006-11-08 Thread A. Costa
On Tue, 7 Nov 2006 08:58:20 +0100 Peter Eisentraut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [ ...60 lines of quoting deleted... ] > > Of course the archive is the object of the action, because lzop is > the subject... Thanks, very glad we agree. > ...What is your point? I added the bit about verb subjec

Bug#386898: closed by Eduard Bloch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Bug#386898: fixed in cdrkit 5:1.0~pre5-1)

2006-11-08 Thread A. Costa
On Tue, 07 Nov 2006 16:48:42 -0800 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Debian Bug Tracking System) wrote: > + typos in wodim.1 fixes, thanks to J. Alto (closes: #386898) It's the mysterious "J. Alto"! A Google search for '"J. Alto" debian' shows four hits, two at this bug, and two in some LISP code. Where

Bug#397384: module-init-tools: Misleading error: "modprobe: Can't locate module /lib/modules/2.4.27/misc/lirc_dev.o"

2006-11-08 Thread A. Costa
reopen 397384 ! tag 397384 +wontfix thanks On Wed, 8 Nov 2006 11:46:05 +0100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco d'Itri) wrote: > I consider the message clear enough and I have no plan to change it. > If you disagree, feel free to discuss this with the upstream > maintainer. Sending Debian bugs upstream i

Bug#396810: moreutils: 'URLgrep' command wanted

2006-11-09 Thread A. Costa
On Wed, 8 Nov 2006 15:23:44 -0500 Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > # usage: URLgrep pattern URL > > # (ad hoc grep switches return first instance of 'pattern' > > # in URL and next line, with numbered lines.) > > URLgrep() { wget -o /dev/null --output-document=- "$2" | > >

Bug#396810: moreutils: 'URLgrep' command wanted

2006-11-09 Thread A. Costa
A. Costa clumsily typed: > I think you're at half right... s/at half/at least half/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#397384: module-init-tools: Misleading error: "modprobe: Can't locate module /lib/modules/2.4.27/misc/lirc_dev.o"

2006-11-09 Thread A. Costa
On Thu, 9 Nov 2006 00:34:55 +0100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco d'Itri) wrote: > On Nov 08, "A. Costa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Sending Debian bugs upstream is the maintainers job. Obviously we > Not if I disagree with them. That's wild, I w

Bug#239914: #239914: fbtv doesn't work with kernel 2.6

2006-11-10 Thread A. Costa
Package: fbtv Followup-For: Bug #239914 Ran into this bug on a system I'm setting up to be tv box that hasn't got email or 'reportbug'. Stats are... Debian 'stable'. Vid card: lspci | grep VGA :01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV5M64 [RIVA TNT2 Model 64/Model

Bug#397983: 'reportbug' typo "No, it does't..."

2006-11-10 Thread A. Costa
Package: reportbug Version: 3.31 Severity: minor Tags: patch Noticed this in the course of a bug report: Does this bug still exist in version 3.95-6 of this package? [y|N|q|?]? ? y - Yes, it does. N - (default) No, it does't (or I don't know). See attached '.diff'. Hope this helps.

Bug#396810: moreutils: 'URLgrep' command wanted

2006-11-10 Thread A. Costa
On Fri, 10 Nov 2006 03:11:42 -0500 Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A. Costa wrote: > > URLcat() { wget -o /dev/null --output-document=- "$1" | html2text > > -ascii -nobs ; } > > Already available as lynx -dump url (formatting html), or w3m url >

Bug#401212: gramps: Children shouldn't be older than their parents.

2006-12-02 Thread A. Costa
On Fri, 01 Dec 2006 13:20:11 -0800 Alex Roitman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A minor point: if you would like to send/attach a testcase, > please export into XML format. The file you attached is not > protable: it does not open outside the environment and that > only exists on your user account on

Bug#400858: #400858 iceweasel is not lightweight unlike the description suggest

2006-12-03 Thread A. Costa
Package: iceweasel Version: 2.0+dfsg-1 Followup-For: Bug #400858 An ambivalent "me too" note, with details and comments: % dlocate -s iceweasel | grep -n -A 2 lightweight | head -n 4 24:Description: lightweight web browser based on Mozilla 25- Iceweasel is a redesign of the Mozilla b

Bug#405645: 'libgda2-bin' package description typo: 'Binnary'

2007-01-05 Thread A. Costa
Package: libgda2-bin Severity: minor % apt-cache search binnary libgda2-bin - Binnary files for GNOME Data Access library for GNOME2 s/Binnary/Binary/ Hope this helps... -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimenta

Bug#405646: 'libhocr-perl' package description typo: 'bingings'

2007-01-05 Thread A. Costa
Package: libhocr-perl Severity: minor % apt-cache search bingings libhocr-perl - Hebrew OCR library Perl bingings s/bingings/bindings/ Hope this helps... -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architectur

Bug#405652: 'man lzma' typos: "groupped", "orignal" and "overwriteen"

2007-01-05 Thread A. Costa
Package: lzma Version: 4.43-3 Severity: minor Tags: patch Found some typos in '/usr/share/man/man1/lzma.1.gz', see attached '.diff'. Hope this helps... -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686

Bug#384953: 'man debram': needless neologisms "subramifications", "misramifications", "metaramification", etc.

2007-01-05 Thread A. Costa
On Sun, 24 Dec 2006 18:02:36 + T. Black said: > Ninety days have now passed with no activity in this bug log... Sorry, I've been thinking of other wild and crazy stuff. BTW, you didn't 'cc:' me -- I was just reviewing the bug log, and saw your message. Well I need a change, so back to 'debr

Bug#374824: #374824: nethogs: 'ppp0' doesn't work.

2007-01-06 Thread A. Costa
Package: nethogs Version: 0.6.0-1 Followup-For: Bug #374824 (Hey Arnout, you didn't 'cc:' me, so I never got your message. Luckily I read it just now on the BTS, after Bart emailed.) The bug still seems to be on my system. As requested, here's some data: /sbin/ifconfig eth0 Link encap:Ethe

Bug#374824: #374824: nethogs: 'ppp0' doesn't work.

2007-01-06 Thread A. Costa
Package: nethogs Version: 0.6.0-1 Beg pardon, I just noticed I'm running the same version of 'nethogs' as last June, when opening this bug -- I'd assumed it was a newer version. Given that, my previous message isn't the requested test! The new version is in CVS, would somebody please send a URL?

Bug#374824: #374824: nethogs: 'ppp0' doesn't work.

2007-01-06 Thread A. Costa
Package: nethogs Version: 0.6.0-1 Beg pardon, I just noticed I'm running the same version of 'nethogs' as last June, when opening this bug -- I'd assumed it was a newer version. Given that, my previous message isn't the requested test! The new version is in CVS, would somebody please send a URL?

Bug#406582: style: style.c:676: style: Assertion `length>=2' failed.

2007-01-11 Thread A. Costa
Package: diction Version: 1.10~rc4-1 Severity: normal I had this big text file that confused 'style'. Whittling down the big file produced: % echo "Um..." | style ; echo $? style: style.c:676: style: Assertion `length>=2' failed. Aborted 134 Yet if the string 'Um' is changed to

Bug#400245: 'man cdrdao' typo: "temporay"

2006-11-24 Thread A. Costa
Package: cdrdao Version: 1:1.2.2-4 Severity: minor Tags: patch Found a typo in '/usr/share/man/man1/cdrdao.1.gz', see attached '.diff'. Hope this helps... -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i

Bug#339141: #339141: bugs.debian.org: Archived bugs are still displayed

2006-11-24 Thread A. Costa
Package: bugs.debian.org Followup-For: Bug #339141 This is a "me too", with examples.. I downloaded what should be two separate listings of my bugs: % wget "http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?dist=unstable;[EMAIL PROTECTED];archived=yes" -o /dev/null % wget "http://bugs.debia

Bug#401101: 'man gramps' typos: "geneology", "invokation", "succesfully", etc.

2006-11-30 Thread A. Costa
Package: gramps Version: 2.2.2-1 Severity: minor Tags: patch Found some typos in '/usr/share/man/man1/gramps.1.gz', see attached '.diff'. Hope this helps... -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386

Bug#401110: gramps: Help 3.6.2 / Family Editor -- selecting spouse doesn't work

2006-11-30 Thread A. Costa
Package: gramps Version: 2.2.2-1 Severity: normal Help 3.6.2 says: Now a question: Does the person who will form the relationship with the Active person already exist in the database? If yes, click the Select button to the other person. You'll then be able to brow

Bug#401212: gramps: Children shouldn't be older than their parents.

2006-12-01 Thread A. Costa
Package: gramps Version: 2.2.2-1 Severity: normal Attached is an impossible family I invented with 'gramps'. The bug should be self-explanatory -- the child was born over 200 years before their 6 year old parent. The suggested fix would be for 'gramps' to check for obvious contradictions in

Bug#401110: gramps: Help 3.6.2 / Family Editor -- selecting spouse doesn't work

2006-12-01 Thread A. Costa
On Thu, 30 Nov 2006 16:48:25 -0800 Alex Roitman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If both Father and Mother are present in the family, then there's > a - button for each of them. Only missing parents have +/select > button. > > You seem to be using the select button on the bottom, that applies > to th

Bug#387083: Reopen (Bug#387083: fixed in iproute 20061002-1)

2006-10-29 Thread A. Costa
...for some reason this bug dies hard, that's the third instance. The first: #350673: 'man tc-cbq-details' typo: "occured" Package: iproute (iproute 20051007-3; fixed: iproute 20051007-4); Severity: minor; Reported by: A Costa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Tags

Bug#396124: 'man libnetlink' typo: "writen"

2006-10-29 Thread A. Costa
20051007-4); Severity: minor; Reported by: A Costa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Tags: patch Done: Alexander Wirt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=350671 Hope this helps... -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers unstabl

Bug#374393: #374393: comix: can't start

2006-10-29 Thread A. Costa
Package: comix Version: 3.1.3-1 Followup-For: Bug #374393 Odd: % comix ; echo $? PyGTK version 2.6.0 or higher is required to run Comix. 1 My system has PyGTK v2.8.2-3. Hope this helps... -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unsta

Bug#374393: #391426: comix: new version(3.6)

2006-10-29 Thread A. Costa
Package: comix Followup-For: Bug #374393 Interesting, I've just installed 'soundconverter' and while install it changed PyGTK to v2.8.6-6. Now 'comix works. Therefore PyGTK v2.8.2-3 probably conflicts with it. Hope this helps... -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers unsta

Bug#395368: iprint: 'i' dumps any chars after decimal digits.

2006-10-30 Thread A. Costa
On Mon, 30 Oct 2006 18:02:16 +0100 Thijs Kinkhorst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > % i 1abc234 > > 1 0x1 01 0b1 > > While I was looking in to this, I discovered that the manpage > documents this behaviour: > > "Otherwise, if an argument begins with a digit, it is assumed to be a > decimal

Bug#396317: 'man tc-htb' typo: "mininum"

2006-10-30 Thread A. Costa
Package: iproute Version: 20061002-2 Severity: minor Tags: patch Found a typo in '/usr/share/man/man8/tc-htb.8.gz', see attached '.diff'. Hope this helps... -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386

Bug#396316: 'man reprepro' typos: "Interupting", "destinguish", "interupt", "normaly", "reusal", "seperated", "somethine", etc.

2006-10-30 Thread A. Costa
Package: reprepro Version: 1.3.0-1 Severity: minor Tags: patch Found some typos in '/usr/share/man/man1/reprepro.1.gz', see attached '.diff'. Hope this helps... -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i

Bug#396315: 'man update-grub' typo: "simliar"

2006-10-30 Thread A. Costa
Package: grub Version: 0.97-18 Severity: minor Tags: patch Found a typo in '/usr/share/man/man8/update-grub.8.gz', see attached '.diff'. Hope this helps... -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (

Bug#396319: 'man cdebootstrap' typo: "buildd"

2006-10-30 Thread A. Costa
Package: cdebootstrap Version: 0.3.15 Severity: minor Tags: patch Found a typo in '/usr/share/man/man1/cdebootstrap.1.gz', see attached '.diff'. Hope this helps... -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture

Bug#395368: iprint: 'i' dumps any chars after decimal digits.

2006-11-02 Thread A. Costa
reopen 395368 ! thanks On Wed, 01 Nov 2006 18:36:48 +0100 Thijs Kinkhorst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I see no need to change anything here. The program does what it says > it does... It's a classic design disagreement, an example favorable to my side would be the introduction of automobile s

Bug#396810: moreutils: 'URLgrep' command wanted

2006-11-02 Thread A. Costa
Package: moreutils Version: 0.18 Severity: wishlist Is there a text 'grep' for web pages? If not, that'd be good. I'm thinking something that acts like this ad hoc function, only better: # usage: URLgrep pattern URL # (ad hoc grep switches return first instance of 'pattern' # in U

Bug#396809: 'man hdparm' typo: "removeable"

2006-11-02 Thread A. Costa
Package: hdparm Version: 6.9-1 Severity: minor Tags: patch Found a typo in '/usr/share/man/man8/hdparm.8.gz', see attached '.diff'. Hope this helps... -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686)

Bug#395054: Puzzle: my reopening a closed bug results in closing BTS reply, reportedly from me.

2006-11-02 Thread A. Costa
l_text_ and rfc822 format available. Ah well. Eureka, two lines before that URL it says: % wget -o /dev/null --output-document=- "http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=394813"; | html2text -ascii -nobs | grep -in -A 1 -m 1 "reopened" 118:Bug reopene

Bug#396824: 'ttv --help' typos and incorrect grammar.

2006-11-02 Thread A. Costa
Package: ttv Version: 3.95-6 Severity: minor Plenty of typos: ttv --help | tail -n 6 The default parameters are set to fit my monitor (15" goldstar) With contrast set to maximum and bright set to make black black This values depends at quality of your monitor (and setting o

Bug#398471: 'man dog' typos: "atleast", "conjuction" x 2, and "eachother"

2006-11-13 Thread A. Costa
Package: dog Version: 1.7-7 Severity: minor Tags: patch Found some typos in '/usr/share/man/man1/dog.1.gz', see attached '.diff'. Hope this helps... -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) S

Bug#397384: module-init-tools: Misleading error: "modprobe: Can't locate module /lib/modules/2.4.27/misc/lirc_dev.o"

2006-11-13 Thread A. Costa
On Fri, 10 Nov 2006 14:52:31 +0100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco d'Itri) wrote: > On Nov 10, "A. Costa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I have doubts about that interpretation of Debian policy, and would > > like to remind you of the 'wontfix' tag.

Bug#398498: mount says loop device is writable, bit it isn't.

2006-11-13 Thread A. Costa
Package: mount Version: 2.12r-15 Severity: normal This looks like one of those bugs that are so old and people are so accustomed to that they've ceased to think of it as bug, it just seems normal to them. I didn't find a report on it in the BTS, and it seems there should be one... 1) As root, I

Bug#398498: mount says loop device is writable, bit it isn't.

2006-11-15 Thread A. Costa
On Tue, 14 Nov 2006 13:36:59 -0700 LaMont Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Suggested easy kludges, nothing low-level: > > Parse for '-w' and an ISO9660 mount, and return an error. > > Don't show ISO9660 as 'rw'. > > That's a kludge - not a fix. having the filesystem return an error >

Bug#371869: closed by [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Theodore Y. Ts'o) (Bug#371869: fixed in e2fsprogs 1.39+1.40-WIP-2006.11.14+dfsg-1)

2006-11-15 Thread A. Costa
Giving the new fix a test: % badblocks -nw /dev/hda4 ; echo $? The -n and -w options are mutually exclusive. Usage: badblocks [-b block_size] [-i input_file] [-o output_file] [-svwnf] [-c blocks_at_once] [-p num_passes] [-t test_pattern [-t test_pattern [...]]]

Bug#399085: 'popcheck' typo: "responce"

2006-11-17 Thread A. Costa
Package: popcheck Version: 1.3-4 Severity: minor A 'popcheck' error message typo: Bad PASS command responce: -ERR you are already connected This text is the main program: % strings /usr/bin/popcheck | grep respon Bad %s command responce: %s Where 'responce' should be 'response'.

Bug#294297: zum: wrongly runs on 'vfat' drive, and fills it up

2005-02-08 Thread A Costa
Package: perforate Version: 1.1-2 Severity: important I ran this from the root directory: find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 zum ...and when it got to a 'vfat' drive I had mounted it filled it with duplicate files, for example: foo.exe ...would have a new file of the same size

Bug#294521: sg3-utils: 'man sg_read' typos: 'thid', 'a raw devices', poor punctuation...

2005-02-09 Thread A Costa
Package: sg3-utils Version: 1.08-2 Severity: normal Tags: patch '/usr/share/man/man8/sg_read.8.gz' has typos. Patch attached. Some examples with comments about why some things are in the patch. Using 'man sg_read | less -N': 12Read data from a Linux SCSI generic (sg) device, a

Bug#295758: gjig: closing "JIG viewer" deletes mouse selected text

2005-02-17 Thread A Costa
Package: wajig Version: 2.0.22 Severity: normal Start 'gjig'. In "Package(s):" type 'foo'. Press 'List Names'. A "Gnome JIG viewer" window appears with a list of names. Highlight a package name, say 'foobillard'. Close the "Gnome JIG viewer" window. Now press the middle mouse button to past

Bug#295762: perforate: man zum: lacks warning about "find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 zum" in /

2005-02-17 Thread A Costa
Package: perforate Version: 1.1-2 Severity: important This could be rated a 'critical' bug -- I'm not sure. % man zum | cat -n | grep 18 18 find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 zum That line run in the '/' (root) directory made my Debian partition unbootable. Maybe some system fi

Bug#295800: dillo: 'mailto:' URLs return "ERROR: unsupported protocol"

2005-02-17 Thread A Costa
Package: dillo Version: 0.8.3-1 Severity: wishlist 'dillo' can't handle 'mailto' URLs, so running: dillo mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ...doesn't work. At the bottom of the screen it says: ERROR: unsupported protocol It'd be better if 'dillo' did email. Shouldn't be much speed pe

Bug#273787: more on iselect v1.3.0

2005-02-18 Thread A Costa
Package: iselect Version: 1.2.0-11 Followup-For: Bug #273787 Here it is: ftp://ftp.ossp.org/pkg/tool/iselect/iselect-1.3.0.tar.gz ...its Changelog says: Changes between 1.2.0 and 1.3.0 --- 040911 o upgraded GNU shtool from 1.6.2 to 2.0.1 o upgrade

Bug#289631: galeon: Browser/Earth graphic in 'Help>About' in flagrante delicto?

2005-01-10 Thread A Costa
Package: galeon Version: 1.3.18-1.1 Severity: minor Call me foul minded, but doesn't the graphic Browser/Earth thing kinda look like the browser window is a cartoony body, and the cables are cartoon rubber legs, which in that pose makes it look like it's embracing the world rather intimately? W

Bug#290127: lg-subscription: v.110 presently not installable

2005-01-12 Thread A Costa
Package: lg-subscription Version: 107 Severity: important For the last week or so it's been: % apt-get install lg-subscription Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have

Bug#290451: mozilla-browser: A launcher speedup tweak: replacing a needless 'perl' call with 'readlink'

2005-01-14 Thread A Costa
Package: mozilla-browser Version: 2:1.7.5-1 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch Boy, with 750+ plus bugs I hate to add to the workload, but this minor improvement should be painless. The script that launches moz contains a single 'perl' call: % grep -n perl `which mozilla` 129:JV

Bug#290573: gnome-utils: typo in package description: "a log viewing applications."

2005-01-14 Thread A Costa
Package: gnome-utils Version: 2.8.1-1 Severity: minor Current: "files by name or content; and gnome-system-log, a log viewing applications." Correction: "files by name or content; and gnome-system-log, a log viewing application." Hope this helps... -- System Information: Debi

Bug#290568: gnome-commander: typos in package description: "people that wants an efficent"

2005-01-14 Thread A Costa
Package: gnome-commander Version: 1.0.1-1 Severity: minor Current: "GNOME Commander is a file manager aimed at people that wants an efficent and" Corrected: "GNOME Commander is a file manager aimed at people that want an efficient and" Hope this helps... -- System Information: Debian Release

Bug#297668: 'apt-cache search': returns 'true' exit code when target not found

2005-03-01 Thread A Costa
Package: apt Version: 0.5.28.5 Severity: normal Good: % apt-cache search debian > /dev/null ; echo $? 0 Bad: % apt-cache search NoSuchStringAnywhere > /dev/null ; echo $? 0 It'd be better if 'apt-cache search' returned a '1' when a search turns up nothing. I've

Bug#298355: 'man gawk': at line #198 paragraphs are crammed together for several pages

2005-03-06 Thread A Costa
Package: gawk Version: 1:3.1.4-2 Severity: normal Tags: patch >From lines #198 to #570 the paragraphs in 'man gawk' aren't separated, making it harder to read. Here's an excerpt, with line numbers: % man gawk | grep -A 20 -B 6 -n "options are flagged as invalid" 192- dards, these

Bug#298519: cfv: Package description typos: "It currently support testning and creating..."

2005-03-07 Thread A Costa
Package: cfv Version: 1.18-1 Severity: minor Two typos: %apt-cache show cfv | grep -n testn 16: verification files. It currently support testning and creating s/support/supports/ s/testning/testing/ So: verification files. It currently supports testing and creating H

Bug#298669: wavsplit: package description typo: "...won't process life albums."

2005-03-08 Thread A Costa
Package: wavsplit Version: 1.1.0-1 Severity: minor % apt-cache show wavsplit | grep -n life 18: your a capella songs in pieces and won't process life albums. s/life/live/ HTH... -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'),

Bug#298672: gramofile: Undiscriminating "6. Play a sound file" is blind to file formats

2005-03-09 Thread A Costa
Package: gramofile Version: 1.6-6 Severity: normal Main menu says: 6. Play a sound file Play a sound file (Parts of) sound files can be played with this option. ...which leads to a submenu which lets the user pick a sound file. However this feature will "play" ANYTHIN

Bug#298682: gwc: displays two channels for one channel .WAV

2005-03-09 Thread A Costa
Package: gwc Version: 0.20.07-1 Severity: normal When 'gwc' loads a .WAV file it shows two horizontal waveform bars, one above the other. Presumably these represent the left & right channels of a stereo sound file. The current help file and man page don't explain it. Anyway... The main scree

Bug#296099: bash: 'help if': confusing text

2005-02-20 Thread A Costa
Package: bash Version: 3.0-14 Severity: normal % help if | cat -n 1 if: if COMMANDS; then COMMANDS; [ elif COMMANDS; then COMMANDS; ]... [ else COMMANDS; ] fi 2 The if COMMANDS are executed. If the exit status is zero, then the then 3 COMMANDS are executed. Other

Bug#296396: 'man ash' line #753: 'the shell treats... and use...'

2005-02-22 Thread A Costa
Package: ash Version: 0.5.2-1 Severity: minor Tags: patch % man ash | grep -A 1 -n "each character of the IFS " 753: The shell treats each character of the IFS as a delimiter and use the 754- delimiters to split the results of parameter expansion and command sub-

Bug#296545: 'man ash' typo: "...than can be made local..."

2005-02-22 Thread A Costa
Package: ash Version: 0.5.2-1 Severity: minor Tags: patch % man ash | grep -n "special parameter than" 517: The only special parameter than can be made local is ``-''. Making ``-'' s/than/that/ -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers unstable APT policy

Bug#410250: 'man iptables' typos: "extremly", "mached", "miliseconds" x 2, "tranferred", etc.

2007-02-08 Thread A. Costa
Package: iptables Version: 1.3.6.0debian1-5 Severity: minor Tags: patch Found some typos in '/usr/share/man/man8/iptables.8.gz', see attached '.diff'. Also fixed a few grammar errors. Hope this helps... -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unst

Bug#410252: 'man ip6tables' typos: "Ehternet", "aswell", "fragement", etc.

2007-02-08 Thread A. Costa
Package: iptables Version: 1.3.6.0debian1-5 Severity: minor Tags: patch Found some typos in '/usr/share/man/man8/ip6tables.8.gz', see attached '.diff'. Also fixed a few grammar typos not listed in the subject line. Hope this helps... -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers un

Bug#410602: 'man gr_gather' typo: "infomation"

2007-02-11 Thread A. Costa
Package: grmonitor Version: 0.81-4.1 Severity: minor Tags: patch Found a typo in '/usr/share/man/man1/gr_gather.1.gz', see attached '.diff'. Hope this helps... -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bi

Bug#410603: 'man adduser-ng' typos: "crated" & "differed"

2007-02-11 Thread A. Costa
Package: adduser-ng Version: 0.1.2-2 Severity: minor Tags: patch Found a few typos in '/usr/share/man/man8/adduser-ng.8.gz', see attached '.diff'. Hope this helps... -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shel

Bug#410601: 'man pavumeter' typo: "ommited"

2007-02-11 Thread A. Costa
Package: pavumeter Version: 0.9.2-1 Severity: minor Tags: patch Found a typo in '/usr/share/man/man1/pavumeter.1.gz', see attached '.diff'. Hope this helps... -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin

Bug#410604: 'man gr_monitor' typos: "stardard" and "writen"

2007-02-11 Thread A. Costa
Package: grmonitor Version: 0.81-4.1 Severity: minor Tags: patch Found a few typos in '/usr/share/man/man1/gr_monitor.1.gz', see attached '.diff'. Hope this helps... -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shel

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