Bug#729213: evolution: does not issue notifications on one machine

2013-11-10 Thread Axel Stammler
Package: evolution Version: 3.4.4-3 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, I use Cal DAV calendars on several machines. A reminder set in an appointment will not be honoured even if the appointment was created on this machine, whereas all reminders work fine on another machine. This behaviour is ind

Bug#730852: evolution: use free Open Street Map instead of Google Maps

2013-11-30 Thread Axel Stammler
Package: evolution Version: 3.4.4-3 Severity: wishlist Dear Maintainer, The “show map” feature is a great idea, but its associated action cannot be changed and invariably points to Google. Please support Open Street Map. -- System Information: Debian Release: 7.2 APT prefers stable-updates

Bug#745217: ddclient: Should not offer Dyn DNS as default; 'testing' version not installable

2014-04-18 Thread Axel Stammler
Package: ddclient Version: 3.8.0-11.5 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, as Dyn DNS are ending their free service, using them should no longer be the default setting. Moreover, I seem to be unable to switch to any free service like Afraid Org or Dt DNS as their protocols are not supported. Sw

Bug#745218: inadyn: Should include /etc/init.d/ script

2014-04-18 Thread Axel Stammler
Package: inadyn Version: 1.96.2-1+b1 Severity: wishlist Dear Maintainer, as this package will most likely be used as a daemon, it should include a start & stop script. It seems to work extremely well and will gain importance after the shutdown of Dyn DNS's free service. -- System Information:

Bug#740407: mplayer: should convert tags to current locale

2014-02-28 Thread Axel Stammler
Package: mplayer Version: 2:1.0~rc4.dfsg1+svn34540-1+b2 Severity: minor Dear Maintainer, many MP 3 and similar files contain tags. If these tags are in a locale different from the one currently used on the system, they display incorrectly. An example are BBC podcasts (e.g. http://downloads.bbc

Bug#746757: empathy: Doesn't start − hangs

2014-05-03 Thread Axel Stammler
Package: empathy Version: 3.4.2.3-2+deb7u1 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, I only use Empathy for “people nearby”, especially on my VPN, and it has been working perfectly for years (i.e., under Squeeze and Wheezy). A few days ago, though, it stopped working, permanently staying in offline

Bug#748856: gnome: panel clock date display does not reflect locale

2014-05-21 Thread Axel Stammler
Package: gnome Version: 1:3.4+7+deb7u1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, Even though my locale (Ireland) specifies ‘21 May’ as the date format, the display shows ‘Wed May 21, 15:46:09’. This cannot be changed through the preferences settings. -- System Information: Debian Release: 7.5 APT pre

Bug#698935: gnome-terminal: right-to-left text is displayed incorrectly (as left-to-right)

2013-01-25 Thread Axel Stammler
Package: gnome-terminal Version: 2.30.2-1 Severity: normal Arabic and Hebrew texts are show letter by letter left to right instead of right to left. Gnome Terminal should support bidirectional text display, e.g. for quotes like this one: About Elly (Persian: درباره الی‎, translit. Darbareye El

Bug#697187: brasero: cannot burn BD

2013-01-02 Thread Axel Stammler
Package: brasero Version: 2.30.3-2 Severity: important Blue Ray Disks (BD-R, 25 GB) are not recognized as acceptable recordable disks, neither for data disk creation nor for burning an ISO file. -- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0.6 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stabl

Bug#697976: get-iplayer: subtitle (.srt) files are not in UTF-8

2013-01-12 Thread Axel Stammler
Package: get-iplayer Version: 2.78-2 Severity: minor The conversion from .ttxt creates representations of characters like “₤” that M Player, for instance, displays incorrectly. A call to utf8::encode($sub); in the Perl code after line 7041 remedies this situation. -- System Information: Debia

Bug#696683: nautilus: Nautilus should be able to create simple Lightscribe labels on discs it creates

2012-12-25 Thread Axel Stammler
Package: nautilus Version: 2.30.1-2squeeze1 Severity: wishlist Nautilus offers by far the simplest way to write files to CD / DVD / Blue Ray discs. But it should also support the Lightscribe capability offered by many writers. -- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0.6 APT prefers stable-up

Bug#696955: cups: Should list Lightscribe disc burner as printer

2012-12-29 Thread Axel Stammler
Package: cups Version: 1.4.4-7+squeeze1 Severity: wishlist − then programs like G Labels could be used. -- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0.6 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/2

Bug#691325: evince: Printing should only offer multiple doc pages per printed page if doc contains at least this many pages

2012-10-24 Thread Axel Stammler
Package: evince Version: 2.30.3-2+squeeze1 Severity: wishlist Evince seems to remember my last multiple-page printing setting, e.g. 2 pages on one printed page. But this seems not to be the best behaviour in all cases, especially if the document contains less pages than the setting involves, es

Bug#655959: /usr/bin/get_iplayer: Should mark downloaded programmes in list

2012-01-15 Thread Axel Stammler
Package: get-iplayer Version: 2.78-2 Severity: wishlist File: /usr/bin/get_iplayer There should be a switch to mark programmes in the list if they have already been downloaded, e.g.: 20104: podcast, 6 Minute English - 6 Minute English: Robots: 16 Dec 11, Fri, 16 Dec 2011 12:00:00 +, BBC W

Bug#680126: get-iplayer: should support access to ITV, RTÉ, ABC [Australia], CBC, ABC [US], NBC, CBS, DD India,…

2012-07-03 Thread Axel Stammler
Package: get-iplayer Version: 2.78-2 Severity: wishlist …with the most important stations listed first ;-) -- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0.5 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w

Bug#639934: streamripper: Include keyboard interface to start / pause / resume / stop recording

2011-08-31 Thread Axel Stammler
Package: streamripper Version: 1.64.6-1 Severity: wishlist This (possibly in conjunction with M Player / …) would create an esay-to-use command-line tool similar to a good old tape recorder − but for the 21st century. ;-) -- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0.2 APT prefers stable-updates

Bug#715508: gdm3: System settings → displays offers unusable screen resolutions

2013-07-09 Thread Axel Stammler
Package: gdm3 Version: 3.4.1-8 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, if I connect a second display and try possible settings, I get very few resolutions to choose from and they are all 4:3 resolutions even though the display is 16:9. I have tried different displays and projectors. All of them worke

Bug#716778: gnome-session: session is unusable (looks like memory problem)

2013-07-12 Thread Axel Stammler
Package: gnome-session Version: 3.4.2.1-4 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, in a new installation (not an upgrade) upon first login (greeter and login worked perfectly), the user name and other texts are displayed with missing letters (e.g. the user name, "Emil" is displayed as "Em l"). The

Bug#706249: gnome: see Bug#716778 (gdm3)

2013-07-15 Thread Axel Stammler
Package: gnome Version: 1:3.4+7 Followup-For: Bug #706249 Dear Maintainer, This seems to be the same or a similar problem as Bug#716778 (gdm3). -- System Information: Debian Release: 7.1 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686)

Bug#669400: gnome: resolved

2013-07-15 Thread Axel Stammler
Package: gnome Followup-For: Bug #669400 Dear Maintainer, This issue seems to have been resolved. -- System Information: Debian Release: 7.1 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-686-pae (SMP w/4 CPU c

Bug#716993: gnome: only low screen resolution offered → option windows do not fit on screen → no changes possible

2013-07-15 Thread Axel Stammler
Package: gnome Version: 1:3.4+7 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, System Settings → Displays offers only two resolutions, one of them invalid for my 16:9 display: 1024×600 800×600 No higher resolutions are offered even though this used to work under Squeeze. This situation causes the foll

Bug#717054: gdm3: greeter garbles up screen, no input possible, cannot even switch to tty

2013-07-16 Thread Axel Stammler
Package: gdm3 Version: 3.4.1-8 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, I just booted the computer after installing Wheezy (no upgrade). When GDM started, the screen become unreadable (wrong X module?). As no input is accepted, I cannot shut down the system properly except via SSH, which I am also

Bug#718243: aptitude: complains about supposedly untrusted packages at _every_ install attempt

2013-07-28 Thread Axel Stammler
Package: aptitude Version: 0.6.8.2-1 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, _Every_ time I call Aptitude with the "install" option, I get a message like WARNING: untrusted versions of the following packages will be installed! Untrusted packages could compromise your system's security. You should

Bug#718243: aptitude: sources + policy

2013-08-01 Thread Axel Stammler
Package: aptitude Version: 0.6.8.2-1 Followup-For: Bug #718243 Dear Maintainer, See attachments. The final sources line (localhost) refers to my own collection of scripts, which I have used for a long time. It worked without problems under Squeeze. -- Package-specific info: Terminal: xterm $DI

Bug#725296: alpine: Please reconsider: should work with GPG

2013-10-03 Thread Axel Stammler
Package: alpine Version: 2.02+dfsg-2 Severity: wishlist Dear Maintainer, Alpine only supports S/MIME (and even then it cannot both encrypt and sign a message in a way it can be decrypted) and explicitly says it cannot work with PGP-type encryption. A workout is available but has severe limitati

Bug#725614: radiotray: Please include command-line utility

2013-10-06 Thread Axel Stammler
Package: radiotray Version: 0.7.2-1 Severity: wishlist Dear Maintainer, Radio Tray is just what I need − as long as there is a tray. But as I sometimes work on the command line, I would really like a program that works without any graphical components. Maybe there is even a module already that t

Bug#726144: get-iplayer: subtitle files incomplete

2013-10-12 Thread Axel Stammler
Package: get-iplayer Version: 2.82-2+deb7u1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, in many cases (most but not all programmes) the files only contain a few subtitles (possibly only the first lines in cases where there are two lines). -- System Information: Debian Release: 7.1 APT prefers stable-up

Bug#726182: evince: prints (nearly) blank pages on PS printer while rendering documents correctly

2013-10-12 Thread Axel Stammler
Package: evince Version: 3.4.0-3.1 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, I have a Kyocera Mita FS-1010, which has a native Postscript mode but does not understand PDF. I can print easily from other programs like Lyx and G Numeric whereas Evince never works. BTW, Libre Office requires me to chang

Bug#718243: aptitude: always happens when some time has passed since the last update run

2013-08-10 Thread Axel Stammler
Package: aptitude Followup-For: Bug #718243 Dear Maintainer, I have been testing this for a while. I'm sorry, it does not happen intermittently. It always happens (with any package from any repository) after a certain time has passed since the last update run. On Fri, 2 Aug 2013, Daniel Hartwi

Bug#719327: gimp: won't work with xscanimage anymore

2013-08-10 Thread Axel Stammler
Package: gimp Version: 2.8.2-2 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, after installing X Scan Image, Gimp includes a menu item under File → Create → xscanimage, but it cannot be used as it only contains one greyed-out option, “Device dialog”. (This used to work fine under Squeeze.) -- System Inform

Bug#724318: gnome-session: session does not start for LDAP user with SMB home

2013-09-23 Thread Axel Stammler
Package: gnome-session Version: 2.30.2-3 Severity: important Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Axel Stammler To: Debian Bug Tracking System Subject: gnome-session: fails to start for LDAP user with SMB-mounted home

Bug#724318: gnome-session: LDAP users can only start FVWM2 and LWM sessions

2013-09-26 Thread Axel Stammler
Package: gnome-session Version: 3.4.2.1-4 Followup-For: Bug #724318 Dear Maintainer, I have tried most window managers available in Wheezy and only FVWM2 and LWM work. Most other tested window managers display a (usually white) background without any toolbars or background pictures. or mouse

Bug#713895: gnome: panels and background cannot be configured

2013-06-23 Thread Axel Stammler
Package: gnome Version: 1:3.4+7 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, No context menu appears when the right mouse button is pressed even though the right mouse button calls up the context menu in applications. Neither the desktop background nor the single panel at the top in default mode or any of

Bug#714312: command-runner-applet: Neither the Preferences nor the About dialogues open.

2013-06-27 Thread Axel Stammler
Package: command-runner-applet Version: 0.2-2 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, After installing the package and adding the applet to the panel, ‘Hello.’ appeared in the panel, as it probably should. Pressing the right mouse button on the word caused the context menu to open as t should and

Bug#259648: hardware-monitor: should also include VPN interfaces

2011-11-03 Thread Axel Stammler
Package: hardware-monitor Version: 1.4.2-1.1 Severity: normal Maybe the list of devices could include all devices either by description (like 'Ethernet') where available or as they are ('tun', 'wlan') otherwise. -- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0.3 APT prefers stable-updates APT poli

Bug#582504: hardware-monitor: system needed hard reset

2011-11-03 Thread Axel Stammler
Package: hardware-monitor Version: 1.4.2-1.1 Severity: normal When I noticed that Hardware Monitor itself was the cause of constantly growing memory usage, it was too late. Not even a Reboot or Halt task could be started anymore, so I had to use the Reset button. The severity of this bug should

Bug#647555: hardware-monitor: only gets added to the 'Add to panel' list after logging out and back in

2011-11-03 Thread Axel Stammler
Package: hardware-monitor Version: 1.4.2-1.1 Severity: normal After 'aptitude install hardware-monitor' I needed to log out of my Gnome session and start a new one before the list was updated. Hardware Monitor is a great tool and much more configurable than the much less useful 'System Monitor.

Bug#647643: hardware-monitor: changes order of disk folder between logins

2011-11-04 Thread Axel Stammler
Package: hardware-monitor Version: 1.4.2-1.1 Severity: normal This is the list as I set it up yesterday: / /tmp /usr /Backup /home Today it looks like this: /usr /Backup / /tmp /home -- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0.3 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'

Bug#648368: giplet: display "No IP detected." after hibernation

2011-11-10 Thread Axel Stammler
Package: giplet Version: 0.2.3-3 Severity: normal There are no other problems using the Net, and Refresh works immediately. -- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0.3 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.

Bug#649890: linux-image-2.6-686: Kernel Oops during upgrade, X module FBCON not available after restart

2011-11-24 Thread Axel Stammler
Package: linux-image-2.6-686 Version: 2.6.32+29 Severity: important I ran 'aptitude safe-upgrade' (!) this morning a few minutes after waking up the computer from hibernation. During the installation process, a kernel oops was reported on all consoles and the installation process did not finish

Bug#653485: get-iplayer: man page should explain video & audio modes

2011-12-28 Thread Axel Stammler
Package: get-iplayer Version: 2.78-2 Severity: wishlist I don't mind waiting for a download to finish − video & audio quality are more important. How do I make the program choose the highest resolution and best audio quality available automatically? (This should ideally be a simple switch.) --

Bug#670692: giplet: Always shows "No IP detected." for www.whatismyip.org

2012-04-28 Thread Axel Stammler
Package: giplet Version: 0.2.3-3 Severity: important It works for local interfaces but not for this address, which is provided by the package. "No IP detected." shows up even if "ddclient" finds the correct IP address immediately. -- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0.4 APT prefers stab

Bug#775853: evolution: bug appears on Eee PCs

2015-08-18 Thread Axel Stammler
Package: evolution Version: 3.12.9~git20141130.241663-1+b1 Followup-For: Bug #775853 Dear Maintainer, I have installed Jessie on several machines now and the problem always occurs on Eee PCs (no matter which particukar model they are) and never on the other coputers. Kind regards, Axel -- Sys

Bug#854641: mate-power-manager: charge and discharge predictions are vastly inaccurate & there is no help text

2017-02-08 Thread Axel Stammler
Package: mate-power-manager Version: 1.8.1+dfsg1-5 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, None of the predicted times are even broadly accurate (so that the computer often just switches off with a few seconds or no warning). The statistics reflect that. Pressing the Help button just creates a messag

Bug#824533: mlterm: Only displays a small subset of characters

2016-05-17 Thread Axel Stammler
Package: mlterm Version: 3.3.8-2 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, Looking for a terminal that correctly displays bidirectional texts I tried this so-called Multi-lingual Terminal. Unfortunately, the set of characters that can actually be displayed is much less multi-lingual than that displa

Bug#824534: mate-terminal: does not display bidirectional text correctly

2016-05-17 Thread Axel Stammler
Package: mate-terminal Version: 1.8.1+dfsg1-4 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, right-to-left (e.g. Hebrew) text parts embedded in a left-to-right (e.g. English) text are displayed left to right. -- System Information: Debian Release: 8.4 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable

Bug#758744: evolution: Becomes unresponsive after a few minutes

2014-08-20 Thread Axel Stammler
illed using signal 9. Before that, any new instance of Evolution complains about not being able to get a new calendar, ‘timeout reached’. BTW, I do not use Evolution for e-mails but mostly use Cal DAV calendars and task lists. Best wishes, Axel Stammler -- System Information: Debian Release

Bug#440122: links2: Config file warning seems to be obsolete

2016-04-04 Thread Axel Stammler
Package: links2 Version: 2.8-2+b3 Followup-For: Bug #440122 Dear Maintainer, The configuration file seems to have been opened to editing − the man page says: Most options can be set in the user interface or config file, so usu‐ ally you do not need to care about them. -- System

Bug#819951: links2: Should jump to entries (‘options’) in HTML select lists according to letters typed

2016-04-04 Thread Axel Stammler
Package: links2 Version: 2.8-2+b3 Severity: wishlist Dear Maintainer, This feature makes work much faster in browsers like Iceweasel and would be more than appropriate in a performance-oriented browser like Links 2. -- System Information: Debian Release: 8.4 APT prefers stable-updates APT p

Bug#819959: links2: Does not jump to fragments of the current documents

2016-04-04 Thread Axel Stammler
Package: links2 Version: 2.8-2+b3 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, If the user clicks on a link created by something like element but reloads the document. -- System Information: Debian Release: 8.4 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architectur

Bug#770398: libjaudiotagger-java: Should not be limited to audio files

2014-11-20 Thread Axel Stammler
Package: libjaudiotagger-java Version: 2.0.3-1 Severity: wishlist Dear Maintainer, it is difficult to understand why such a well-structured library should be restricted in this way. Videos at least should be included, but why not even other tagged file formats like JPEG? (The package should in

Bug#753990: mplayer2: statements in SRT subtitle are displayed on screen, colour is not changed

2014-07-06 Thread Axel Stammler
Package: mplayer2 Version: 2.0-554-gf63dbad-1+b1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, SRT subtitle lines like the following Not really. are displayed as Not really. The subtitle colour is always white. (The same SRT subtitle file works perfectly with VLC, which displays the correct colours.)

Bug#753991: mplayer: Ignores subtitle colour specifications in SRT file

2014-07-06 Thread Axel Stammler
Package: mplayer Version: 2:1.0~rc4.dfsg1+svn34540-1+b2 Severity: minor Dear Maintainer, lines in the SRT subtitle file like the following: Not really. are displayed as if there were only the text without any colour specification, i.e.: Not really. − displayed in white; the subtitles are n

Bug#775853: evolution: here, they disappear after a few seconds even if I do nothing

2015-05-30 Thread Axel Stammler
Package: evolution Version: 3.12.9~git20141130.241663-1+b1 Followup-For: Bug #775853 Dear Maintainer, This behaviour is constant, i.e. after starting Evolution or just changing the day, all events appear for a few seconds, then this part of the screen is painted grey as well as the small task l

Bug#792647: vlc: Totally garbles up HLS streams without error message

2015-07-16 Thread Axel Stammler
Package: vlc Version: 2.2.0~rc2-2 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, VLC plays most media streams very reliably but streams like the following invariably break up and repeat bits, quckly falling way behind: - http://www.abc.net.au/res/streaming/audio/hls/local_perth.m3u8 - http://www.abc.net.au/

Bug#787755: get-iplayer: has suddenly stopped listing any TV programmes

2015-06-04 Thread Axel Stammler
Package: get-iplayer Version: 2.92-1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, A few days ago, all TV programmes disappeared from the list of available programmes so that it now only includes radio programmes and podcasts. -- System Information: Debian Release: 7.8 APT prefers oldstable-updates APT

Bug#776610: get-iplayer: always sets series and episode to #1

2015-01-29 Thread Axel Stammler
Package: get-iplayer Version: 2.87-2 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, ‘episodenum’ and ‘seriesnum’ are always set to ‘1’ or ‘-’ in both the XML file and the information output, ‘senum’ to ‘s01e01’, for TV programmes, even for some films or if the file name contains correct values. In the case

Bug#776750: kbibtex: Include international reference libraries as search engines

2015-02-01 Thread Axel Stammler
Package: kbibtex Version: 0.4-4 Severity: wishlist Dear Maintainer, It would be great if the focus of available search engines were widened to include such libraries as the British Library, the Library of Congress and the main reference libraries in other languages such as French, Spanish, Russ

Bug#774126: get-iplayer: does not list for radio programmes

2014-12-28 Thread Axel Stammler
ce of free software and for the quick update to the new BBC API. Great − keep up the good work! Axel Stammler -- System Information: Debian Release: 7.7 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel:

Bug#774167: owncloud: HTTP access works, HTTPS just returns empty document

2014-12-29 Thread Axel Stammler
Package: owncloud Version: 7.0.2+dfsg-1~bpo70+2 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, After installing the package and completing the installation wizard steps, I can now create users &c. − but only using HTTP (http://localhost/owncloud). Although HTTPS works fine in general (https://localhost),

Bug#774350: get-iplayer: should include option to reconnect when streaming (--stream)

2015-01-01 Thread Axel Stammler
Package: get-iplayer Version: 2.87-2 Severity: wishlist Dear Maintainer, when listening to a radio stream like 'BBC World Service', after a few minutes M Player detects ‘end of file’ and stops. Get I Player should include an operating mode in which it constantly reestablishes the connection so

Bug#780281: eog: Please allow scaling >100% for printing

2015-03-11 Thread Axel Stammler
Package: eog Version: 3.4.2-1+build1 Severity: wishlist Dear Maintainer, In the ‘Print’ window, there are two scaling options, one under ‘Image Settings’ and one under ‘Page Setup’. The first one works well with the other options, e.g. ‘Center’, but does not allow enlarging the picture to fill

Bug#780881: mutt: tls_socket_read (A TLS packet with unexpected length was received.)

2015-03-20 Thread Axel Stammler
Package: mutt Version: 1.5.21-6.2+deb7u3 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, - Mutt can access other IMAPS servers without problems. - This server (imaps://***@versanet...@mail-ssl.versatel.de/) can be accessed without problems using Evolution. - Mutt reports the error quoted on the Subject line

Bug#773789: get-iplayer: Upgrading to the latest upstream version would fix bug #779665

2015-03-22 Thread Axel Stammler
Package: get-iplayer Version: 2.87-2 Followup-For: Bug #773789 Dear Maintainer, the changes implemented by the BBC render important parts of this version unusable. Many issues have been fixed upstream. -- System Information: Debian Release: 7.8 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, '

Bug#764577: update-manager-gnome: always complains ‘Downloading list of changes failed.’

2014-10-09 Thread Axel Stammler
Package: update-manager-gnome Version: 0.200.5-2.1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, I think it would be a good idea if people could see a summary of each package update before they decide to install the update. Unfortunately this is never possible even though there is an actual part of the scr

Bug#779665: get-iplayer: v2.92 works well, too

2015-03-23 Thread Axel Stammler
Package: get-iplayer Version: 2.87-2 Followup-For: Bug #779665 Dear Maintainer, version 2.92 works out of the box, even from $USER/bin. -- System Information: Debian Release: 7.8 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel

Bug#779665: get-iplayer: Bug and fix apply to live radio streams, too

2015-03-25 Thread Axel Stammler
Package: get-iplayer Version: 2.87-2 Followup-For: Bug #779665 Dear Maintainer, Radio live streams like that carrying BBC World Service were affected by the bug, too, and likewise work again with the new version. -- System Information: Debian Release: 7.8 APT prefers stable-updates APT poli

Bug#781285: cdrdao: Should be able to handle mono WAV files

2015-03-26 Thread Axel Stammler
Package: cdrdao Version: 1:1.2.3-0.3 Severity: wishlist Dear Maintainer, I had to use Audacity to duplicate a mono track into pseudo stereo. -- System Information: Debian Release: 7.8 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) K

Bug#781898: inadyn: Sometimes just silently dies

2015-04-04 Thread Axel Stammler
Package: inadyn Version: 1.96.2-1+b1 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, I use INADYN with Afraid.Org and it works perfectly − until it just stops without any error message in the log: […] Apr 2 13:08:18 flora INADYN[3352]: . Apr 2 13:10:18 flora INADYN[3352]: . Apr 2 13:12:19 flora INADYN[

Bug#781899: inadyn: Please provide script for /etc/init.d

2015-04-04 Thread Axel Stammler
Package: inadyn Version: 1.96.2-1+b1 Severity: wishlist Dear Maintainer, As INADYN is designed to run as a daemon, it should have a proper script. -- System Information: Debian Release: 7.8 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i6

Bug#778911: vlc: Please make N Curses interface configurable

2015-02-21 Thread Axel Stammler
Package: vlc Version: 2.0.3-5+deb7u2+b1 Severity: wishlist Dear Maintainer, VLC works well with this interface (sometimes I think it works better than using a graphical interface), so I would suggest making this interface more versatile and configurable: - colours - which information is shown

Bug#782166: command-runner-applet: Time between command runs should be configurable (currently 5 s)

2015-04-08 Thread Axel Stammler
Package: command-runner-applet Version: 0.3-1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, this should be included in the Preferences dialogue as a command that takes a long time to complete may pose a problem otherwise. -- System Information: Debian Release: 7.8 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy:

Bug#797371: apt-listchanges: Fills up /tmp without noticing or offering configuration setting to avoid this

2015-08-29 Thread Axel Stammler
Package: apt-listchanges Version: 2.85.13+nmu1 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, on a regular run of ‘aptitude safe-upgrade’, APT List Changes filled the temporary filesystem to capacity and kept reporting over and over and over again (* literally thousands of times) the problem it itself ha

Bug#768536: youtube-dl: problems with BBC data

2014-11-08 Thread Axel Stammler
Package: youtube-dl Version: 2014.08.05-1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, BBC programmes are downloaded without problems but many subtitles are missing and the XML annotations file is empty. -- System Information: Debian Release: 7.7 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-up

Bug#768793: youtube-dl: option ‘--recode-video mp4’ only creates empty file

2014-11-09 Thread Axel Stammler
Package: youtube-dl Version: 2014.08.05-1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, after saying ‘[ffmpeg] Converting video’ the program prints this: ERROR: Add '-strict experimental' if you want to use it. There is no further explanation; the MP4 file is created but left empty. -- System Information:

Bug#767331: get-iplayer: shows pseudo-programme “BBC iPlayer Feeds” at index 1 because of wrong usage of BBC API

2014-10-30 Thread Axel Stammler
r's homepage, http://www.infradead.org/get_iplayer/html/get_iplayer.html. Get I Player is an excellent programme, and I would like to thank you for making it available in Debian and for maintaining it. Cheers, Axel Stammler -- System Information: Debian Release: 7.7 APT prefers stable-upd

Bug#767331: get-iplayer: Severity should be bumped up because no programmes (except podcasts) can be accessed anymore

2014-10-30 Thread Axel Stammler
Package: get-iplayer Followup-For: Bug #767331 Dear Maintainer, When I reported the bug, I failed to realise that it precludes the programme from accessing any content, so please prioritise it. Thank you. Axel Stammler -- System Information: Debian Release: 7.7 APT prefers stable-updates

Bug#761969: link-monitor-applet: does not appear in applets list, hence cannot be added to panel

2014-09-17 Thread Axel Stammler
Source: link-monitor-applet Version: does not appear in applets list, hence cannot be added to panel Severity: important Dear Maintainer, after installing and even restarting, the applet is not listed. -- System Information: Debian Release: jessie/sid APT prefers testing-updates APT policy:

Bug#761967: apt-watch: does not appear in applets list, hence cannot be added to panel

2014-09-17 Thread Axel Stammler
Package: apt-watch Version: 0.4.0-2.1 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, after installing and even restarting, the applet is not listed. -- System Information: Debian Release: jessie/sid APT prefers testing-updates APT policy: (500, 'testing-updates'), (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (

Bug#761148: installation-reports: me, too ;-) on Eee PC netbook

2014-09-20 Thread Axel Stammler
Package: installation-reports Followup-For: Bug #761148 Dear Maintainer, the installation went smoothly. I installed from a USB CD drive onto a USB RAM key. Thanks! -- Package-specific info: Boot method: USB CD Image version: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/arch-latest/i

Bug#762328: owncloud: Only shows blank page (empty HTML file)

2014-09-21 Thread Axel Stammler
Package: owncloud Version: 7.0.2+dfsg-1~bpo70+1 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, I have just installed Own Cloud and adapted it to use Postgres. If the file /etc/owncloud/config.php has insufficient permissions or the Postgres password is unset, the proper page shows up, but if I correct thi

Bug#760442: installation-reports: Jessie installer hangs at 45% ‘starting partitioner’ on both desktop and Eee PC netbook

2014-09-03 Thread Axel Stammler
Package: installation-reports Severity: important Dear Maintainer, The installation went smoothly (including harddisk recognition) up to this point, when the PS command showed Parted running. There was no progress for hours and no harddisk or CD access. The portable computer uses one internal h

Bug#762871: tora: offers only MySQL connections

2014-09-25 Thread Axel Stammler
Package: tora Version: 2.1.3-2 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, I would like to connect to a Postgres server but the ‘connection provider’ list only contains ‘MySQL’. -- System Information: Debian Release: 7.6 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')

Bug#763872: libreoffice-base: please allow saving a relationship model as a separate file

2014-10-03 Thread Axel Stammler
Package: libreoffice-base Version: 1:3.5.4+dfsg2-0+deb7u2 Severity: wishlist Dear Maintainer, the relationship window is a great tool, thank you! There must be some internal format for reverse-engineered or newly created relationship models. Please consider offering a way of serialising these m

Bug#868437: gnupg: does not work after installation

2017-07-15 Thread Axel Stammler
Package: gnupg Version: 2.1.18-6 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, after installation, any call to GPG, e.g. gpg --search Stammler invariably produces the following messages: gpg: failed to start the dirmngr '/usr/bin/dirmngr': No such file or directory gpg: connecting dirmngr at '/run/u

Bug#444874: network-manager-openvpn-gnome: Celebrating ten years of this bug

2017-07-28 Thread Axel Stammler
Package: network-manager-openvpn-gnome Version: 1.2.8-2 Followup-For: Bug #444874 Dear Maintainer, the VPN gets incorrectly marked as the default. Configuring clients manually works. -- System Information: Debian Release: 9.1 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd6

Bug#842235: handbrake: Crashes with unusable output file on some DVD titles

2016-10-27 Thread Axel Stammler
Package: handbrake Version: 0.9.9+svn6422+dfsg1-2 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, both Handbrake's GUI and CLI crash nearly at the end of the conversion of some DVD titles, even if the title is first converted to a single VOB file using M Player#s ‘dumpstream’ option or if the whole DVD struc

Bug#1062776: mpv: Please include option to exit with non-zero code on eof on streams

2024-02-03 Thread Axel Stammler
Package: mpv Version: 0.35.1-4 Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-Cc: a...@users.sourceforge.net Dear Maintainer, on radio streams or other streams that have no proper end-of-file, MPV sometimes reports end-of-file and closes down on errors. I would like to distinguish these instances from user-reque

Bug#1043447: grub-efi-amd64: Should provide grub-efi

2023-08-11 Thread Axel Stammler
Package: grub-efi-amd64 Version: 2.06-13 Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-Cc: a...@users.sourceforge.net Dear Maintainer, I have created a small package for myself that changes the Grub boot menu to contain the hostname (so that booting from removable media is made abundantly clear). So far I have

Bug#1076556: opensc: egk-tool shows no data

2024-07-18 Thread Axel Stammler
Package: opensc Version: 0.23.0-0.3+deb12u1 Severity: normal X-Debbugs-Cc: a...@users.sourceforge.net Dear Maintainer, *** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropriate *** The output never shows any data even though the card is valid and functional: $ egk-tool -v Using

Bug#1067600: unhtml: Seems not to use UTF-8

2024-03-24 Thread Axel Stammler
Package: unhtml Version: 2.3.9-5 Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-Cc: a...@users.sourceforge.net Dear Maintainer, UTF-8 characters show up as '' instead of '°'. Maybe there could be an option to set locale or character set. -- System Information: Debian Release: 12.5 APT prefers stable-security

Bug#1020693: gnome-terminal: Does not kill running processes if tabs are closed if called through /usr/bin/gnome-terminal.wrapper

2022-09-25 Thread Axel Stammler
Package: gnome-terminal Version: 3.38.3-1 Severity: normal X-Debbugs-Cc: a...@users.sourceforge.net Dear Maintainer, if I call /usr/bin/gnome-terminal -- Prog is killed if I close its tab. The wrapper does not call Prog if called in a similar way: /usr/bin/gnome-terminal.wrapper -- just

Bug#1050116: openuniverse: Please do not refer to unavailable packages in descriptions

2023-08-19 Thread Axel Stammler
Package: openuniverse Severity: minor X-Debbugs-Cc: a...@users.sourceforge.net Dear Maintainer, the description available through apt show openuniverse ends by saying: “users are recommended to use Celestia instead” but there is no Debian package of that or a similar name. -- System Informati

Bug#1019385: swisswatch: add command-line parameter to display arbitrary time

2022-09-08 Thread Axel Stammler
Package: swisswatch Version: 0.6-18+b1 Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-Cc: a...@users.sourceforge.net Dear Maintainer, it might be a good idea to make the frontend (i.e., the clockface and hands) available via the command line so that the usual backend (i.e., the system clock) can be replaced by a

Bug#1042059: installation-reports: success

2023-07-25 Thread Axel Stammler
Package: installation-reports Severity: normal X-Debbugs-Cc: a...@users.sourceforge.net (Please provide enough information to help the Debian maintainers evaluate the report efficiently - e.g., by filling in the sections below.) Boot method: network Image version: https://www.debian.org/releases

Bug#1036050: poppler-utils: pdfseparate does not accept width in page number format

2023-05-14 Thread Axel Stammler
Package: poppler-utils Version: 20.09.0-3.1+deb11u1 Severity: normal X-Debbugs-Cc: a...@users.sourceforge.net Dear Maintainer, calling separate -f 9 -l 10 sek2_biologie.pdf sek2_biologie_%2d.pdf results in Syntax Error: 'sek2_biologie %2d.pdf' must contain '%d' (or any variant respecting prin

Bug#471302: closed by Marco Rodrigues (tkping has been removed from Debian, closing #471302)

2008-12-08 Thread axel . stammler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Is there a replacement package, i.e. one with similar functionality? On Fri, 5 Dec 2008, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: This is an automatic notification regarding your Bug report which was filed against the tkping package: #471302: tkping: ge

Bug#527465: /usr/sbin/alsaconf: Fails to configure Intel 82801G (ICH7)

2009-05-07 Thread Axel Stammler
Package: alsa-utils Version: 1.0.16-2 Severity: important File: /usr/sbin/alsaconf Alsaconf runs and reports no errors but other applications cannot use Alsa afterwards: amixer: Mixer attach default error: No such file or directory -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0.1 APT prefers sta

Bug#520086: gimp: Does not offer any printers

2009-03-17 Thread Axel Stammler
Package: gimp Version: 2.4.7-1 Severity: important The upgrade to Lenny has introduced a new printing window which seems to aim at being easy to use. Unfortunately it offers much less options than the old window; I especially miss the slide that adjusted the picture size on the page. But the r

Bug#520085: iceweasel: Does not offer any printers

2009-03-17 Thread Axel Stammler
Package: iceweasel Version: 3.0.6-1 Severity: important Even though I have a printer installed and working, Iceweasel (after the upgrade to Lenny) only offers "print to file". Here is my /etc/printcap file: # Entry edited Mon Jan 28 00:18:44 2008 by foomatic-configure. # Additional configurati

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