Bug#290253: devscripts: bts no longer accepts formerly valid parameters

2005-01-19 Thread Branden Robinson
nks to both of your for your quick handling of this bug; I use the bts script extensively. -- G. Branden Robinson| Faith heals the heart and the Debian GNU/Linux | spirit, but it doesn't do much for [EMAIL PROTECTED] | analytic

Bug#156949: acknowledged by developer (Bug no longer relevant, so closing)

2005-01-19 Thread Branden Robinson
n confirm that this bug does appear to be fixed. I have some quibbled with the way Konqueror lays out manpages, but it no longer seems to be confused by the roff \(oq and \(cq sequences. -- G. Branden Robinson|Somebody once asked me if I thought Debian GNU/Linux

Bug#281286: xserver-xfree86: Starting X with USB mouse unpluged hardlocks system when Option "AGPMode" "4" used.

2005-01-19 Thread Branden Robinson
fault value. I didn't think it was quite that bad. *Except* for those in the "Device" section, most options I see documented in XF86Config-4(5x) shouldn't cause hardware lockups. -- G. Branden Robinson| We either learn from history or, Debian GNU/Linux

Bug#291738: dict-vera: please add definition of RFS

2005-01-22 Thread Branden Robinson
Package: dict-vera Version: 1:1.12-1 Severity: wishlist RFS is used in Debian circles to mean "Request for Sponsor". Seen at http://people.debian.org/~mpalmer/debian-mentors_FAQ.html and on freenode #debian-women IRC. -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers unstable APT policy

Bug#292284: dict-vera: please add definition of XLFD

2005-01-25 Thread Branden Robinson
Package: dict-vera Version: 1:1.12-1 Severity: wishlist XLFD X Logical Font Description (X Window System) -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing') Architecture: powerpc (ppc) Kernel: Linux 2.4.27-powerpc-smp Locale

Bug#292295: dict-wn: grammar error in "exude" entry

2005-01-26 Thread Branden Robinson
Package: dict-wn Version: 2.0g-11 Severity: normal >From WordNet (r) 2.0 (August 2003) [wn]: exude v 1: release (a liquid) in drops or small quantities; "exude sweat through the pores" [syn: {exudate}, {transude}, {ooze out}, {ooze}] 2: make apparent by one's m

Bug#292412: net-snmp: clean rule doesn't really clean

2005-01-26 Thread Branden Robinson
|1 stamp-h.in|1 -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing') Architecture: powerpc (ppc) Kernel: Linux 2.4.27-powerpc-smp Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (char

Bug#282062: /usr/lib/mozilla/mozilla-bin: relocation error: /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflash-mozplugin.so: undefined symbol: XtWindowToWidget

2005-01-27 Thread Branden Robinson
Package: libflash-mozplugin Version: 0.4.11-3 Followup-For: Bug #282062 It appears to crash due to an unresolved symbol error. /usr/lib/mozilla/mozilla-bin: relocation error: /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflash-mozplugin.so: undefined symbol: XtWindowToWidget This is unacceptable. I'm going

Bug#292295: dict-wn: grammar error in "exude" entry

2005-01-27 Thread Branden Robinson
On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 10:02:16AM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: > On Wed, 26 Jan 2005, Branden Robinson wrote: > > >>From WordNet (r) 2.0 (August 2003) [wn]: > > > > exude > > v 1: release (a liquid) in drops or small quantities; "exude > >

Bug#341650: udev: postinst dies upon upgrade from 0.76-2 to 0.76-3

2005-12-01 Thread Branden Robinson
Package: udev Version: 0.076-3 Severity: grave The postinst is apparently unhappy upon upgrading. Preparing to replace udev 0.076-2 (using .../udev_0.076-3_powerpc.deb) ... Unpacking replacement udev ... [...] Setting up udev (0.076-3) ... Installing new version of config file /etc/modpro

Bug#160257: #160257

2005-12-01 Thread Branden Robinson
Package: xpdf-reader Version: 3.01-2 Followup-For: Bug #160257 I can confirm that this bug is still present in the current version of xpdf. The -fullscreen option seems to force the zoom level to be "page" regardless of if, or how, the "-z" option is specified. -- System Information: Debian Rele

Bug#342272: listarchives: please remove "Stock Maven" spam message

2005-12-06 Thread Branden Robinson
Package: listarchives Severity: normal The following message: http://lists.debian.org/debian-kernel/2004/11/msg00434.html is spam. Since it predates the addition of the spam-reporting feature to our list archives, though, I cannot use the newer means of reporting this message. This particular

Bug#342692: kdelibs-bin: kcmshell reports bogus battery power statistics

2005-12-09 Thread Branden Robinson
Package: kdelibs-bin Version: 4:3.4.3-2 Severity: normal File: /usr/bin/kcmshell I couldn't find out which KDE binary actually provides the battery monitor (the menu says "KLaptop", but there is no executable by that name on my system). Using ps and grep I found "/usr/bin/kcmshell laptop", which

Bug#342692: kdelibs-bin: kcmshell reports bogus battery power statistics

2005-12-09 Thread Branden Robinson
Minor correction: Of course, I meant to say that the battery power level was reported as -(2^31)%, since evidently a signed 32-bit value is being used. -- G. Branden Robinson|Beware of and eschew pompous Debian GNU/Linux |prolixity. [EMAIL

Bug#342272: acknowledged by developer (listarchives: please remove "Stock Maven" spam message)

2005-12-13 Thread Branden Robinson
w=20 > list (archive) masters for review. > The permanency of the removal may depend on their reaction (although I=20 > doubt this particular removal will be reverted). Thank you very much for taking care of this, Frans! -- G. Branden Robinson| Human beings rarely i

Bug#343365: libc6: strfry() SEGVs

2005-12-14 Thread Branden Robinson
Package: libc6 Version: 2.3.5-8 Severity: important When I attempt to use strfry() as documented, it segfaults. Please see the following attachments: * my C source code * my compiled ELF executable * a transcript of my GDB session -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT pr

Bug#344066: bash: [COMPLETION] scp completion spews sed error instead

2005-12-19 Thread Branden Robinson
Package: bash Version: 3.1-1 Severity: normal File: /etc/bash_completion I type "scp". I get: scp sed: -e expression #1, char 20: unterminated `s' command This is not what I expected. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable')

Bug#344181: apt: [libapt-pkg] compiler warning with G++ 3.4.3 on Solaris 2.11

2005-12-20 Thread Branden Robinson
Package: apt Version: 0.5.28.6 Severity: normal Tags: patch (Bug given normal severity with some trepidation -- perhaps minor would be more appropriate?) G++ 3.4.3 on Solaris 2.11 throws a compiler warning when compiling acquire-item.cc. /include/apt-pkg/acquire-item.h: In constructor `pkgAcqMe

Bug#337791: librplay3-dev: should depend on libc6-dev

2005-11-06 Thread Branden Robinson
Package: librplay3-dev Version: 3.3.2-9 Severity: serious File: /usr/include/rplay.h Per Policy §3.5, librplay3-dev should depend on libc6-dev | libc6-dev. Its header file references C library headers, and if those are not installed, the compilation of source code which #includes rplay.h will fai

Bug#333802: pyblosxom: README.gz refers user to files not shipped in package

2005-11-08 Thread Branden Robinson
On Sun, Nov 06, 2005 at 09:44:29AM -0500, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > * Branden Robinson > > | /usr/share/doc/pyblosxom/README.gz says this: > | > | 5. Adjusted the default templates for HTML and RSS. Removed all other > |default templates. Look at the flavour_exam

Bug#337791: librplay3-dev: should depend on libc6-dev

2005-11-08 Thread Branden Robinson
On Sun, Nov 06, 2005 at 04:18:11PM +0100, Frank Lichtenheld wrote: > On Sun, Nov 06, 2005 at 09:55:07AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > > Package: librplay3-dev > > Version: 3.3.2-9 > > Severity: serious > > File: /usr/include/rplay.h > > > > Per Policy §3.

Bug#338349: debhelper: debhelper(7) identifies itself in its .TH directive as "", not "debhelper"

2005-11-09 Thread Branden Robinson
Package: debhelper Version: 5.0.3 Severity: minor .TH "" 7 "2005-11-07" "5.0.3" "Debhelper" Well, that don't look right. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: powerpc (ppc) Shell: /bin/sh lin

Bug#338669: gnumeric: FTBFS on powerpc

2005-11-11 Thread Branden Robinson
Package: gnumeric Version: 1.6.0-2 Severity: serious Justification: no longer builds from source Even after the libgsf-1{,-common} problem is cleared up by using more recent versions of the package, gnumeric still has a problem building from source. Log attached. -- System Information: Debian Re

Bug#336775: marked as done (read-edid does not provide any binary)

2005-11-14 Thread Branden Robinson
for catching it, Stefan! -- G. Branden Robinson|I've made up my mind. Don't try to Debian GNU/Linux |confuse me with the facts. [EMAIL PROTECTED] |-- Indiana Senator Earl Landgrebe http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#347423: evince: renders ECMA-6 PDF as featureless black pages

2006-01-10 Thread Branden Robinson
Package: evince Version: 0.4.0-1 Severity: normal File: /usr/bin/evince When I try to view: http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/files/ecma-st/ECMA-006.pdf with evince, all I get are 28 featureless black pages. xpdf and gpdf render the same file just fine. -- System Information: De

Bug#347425: reportbug: would like --resume option for picking up from an interrupted report

2006-01-10 Thread Branden Robinson
ot;), giving the user a menu and permitting them to select which report they want to resume. Either would satisfy my needs. -- Package-specific info: ** Environment settings: EDITOR="/usr/bin/vim" DEBEMAIL="[EMAIL PROTECTED]" DEBFULLNAME="Branden Robinson" ** /home/

Bug#337383: abcde: new version refuses to clean up its temporary directories

2005-11-04 Thread Branden Robinson
Package: abcde Version: 2.3.99-1 Severity: normal File: /usr/bin/abcde Since I upgraded to 2.3.99-1, I consistently have the following problem with every rip I do. (No, I did not have any uncompleted rips from the previous version, as warned about in the package changelog.) [WAR] Not all encoded

Bug#312953: render: new upstream version (0.9) released 2005-06-10

2005-06-10 Thread Branden Robinson
Package: render Severity: wishlist As of a few minutes ago, Keith Packard released Render 0.9. URL: http://xlibs.freedesktop.org/release/renderext-0.9.tar.gz Since this is needed to build xorg-x11 from Subversion without a nasty kludge, I plan to handle this within the next few days (maybe even

Bug#312954: xrender: new upstream version (0.9.0) released 2005-06-10

2005-06-10 Thread Branden Robinson
(maybe even tonight). -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: powerpc (ppc) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.9-powerpc-smp Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) --

Bug#314347: openssh-client: "Bad owner or permissions on $HOME/.ssh/config" check too aggressive

2005-06-15 Thread Branden Robinson
Package: openssh-client Version: 1:4.1p1-3 Severity: important Setting severity to important because this unexpectedly busted Subversion, though I don't honestly believe it's a *critical* bug. I just upgraded from sid as of about the time sarge released, and got a blitz of new packages, including

Bug#314363: bash: tab completion fails with awk error when first arg is gdb and second arg is subshell expansion

2005-06-15 Thread Branden Robinson
Package: bash Version: 3.0-15 Severity: normal $ gdb $(which svn) svn_exawk: {if ($1 ~ /^$(which awk:^ unterminated regexp awk: fatal: Unmatched ( or \(: /^$(which/ Nasty. ( I typed: gdb $(which svn) svn_e ) * Replacing "gdb" with "ls" makes the problem go away. * Replacing "$(wh

Bug#314381: libsvn0: SEGV when exporting local checkout with libsvn0 1.2.0

2005-06-15 Thread Branden Robinson
Package: libsvn0 Version: 1.2.0-1 Severity: important This is a functional regression from 1.1.4-2. The following command line failed: $ svn export ../svn/trunk/debian ../svn/trunk is a locally-modified checkout of: http://necrotic.deadbeast.net/svn/xorg-x11/trunk/ There was no error message,

Bug#314425: ncurses-base: new xterm terminfo data appears to be wack with sarge's xterm [regression from 5.4-4]

2005-06-16 Thread Branden Robinson
Package: ncurses-base Version: 5.4-6 Severity: important My apologies if this isn't actually important, but it makes xterm too unpleasant to use for me, and I'm far too old and set in my ways to use a different terminal emulator or stop using color. After upgrading my machine today and coming hom

Bug#314714: dictionaries-common: debconf asks me question with absurd choice

2005-06-17 Thread Branden Robinson
7;m being asked. What *is* "1."? -- G. Branden Robinson|Lowery's Law: Debian GNU/Linux |If it jams -- force it. If it [EMAIL PROTECTED] |breaks, it needed replacing anyway. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#314715: reportbug: UnboundLocalError: local variable 'recommends' referenced before assignment

2005-06-17 Thread Branden Robinson
Package: reportbug Version: 3.12 Severity: important I can't report a bug with reportbug. Session transcript: 773 {0} [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/webpage/exuberance$ reportbug -V0.30.1 dictionaries-common *** Welcome to reportbug. Use ? for help at prompts. *** Using 'Branden Robins

Bug#310025: mozilla-browser: cannot save any files due to "XML Parsing Error: syntax error Location: chrome://global/content/filepicker.xul Line number 1, column 1: lUT"

2005-05-23 Thread Branden Robinson
On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 11:51:33AM +0900, Takuo KITAME wrote: > 2005-05-21 (土) の 00:05 -0500 に Branden Robinson > さんは書きました: > > Package: mozilla-browser > > Version: 2:1.7.8-1 > > Severity: important > > > > I can't save images, files, or any other kind o

Bug#146234: bins: would like option for ISO date format, or a customizable date format better yet

2005-05-27 Thread Branden Robinson
On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 10:00:35PM +0100, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > * Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-05-08 03:07]: > > Package: bins > > Version: 1.1.4-2 > > > > Bins seems to use some sort of continental European date format. I much > > pre

Bug#311262: alsa-utils: aplay does not use standard output and standard error streams correctly

2005-05-30 Thread Branden Robinson
Package: alsa-utils Version: 1.0.8-4 Severity: normal File: /usr/bin/aplay Tags: upstream aplay -l sends its output to standard error -- it should go to standard output. aplay -h sends its output to standard error -- it should go to standard output. There are probably other similar problems like

Bug#205255: repair dyslexic damage

2005-05-30 Thread Branden Robinson
package libx11-6 tag 205255 - pending thanks Hi Bdale, I think you mistyped a bug number; #205255 is an Xlib bug. -- G. Branden Robinson|I just wanted to see what it looked Debian GNU/Linux |like in a spotlight. [EMAIL PROTECTED

Bug#310025: mozilla-browser: cannot save any files due to "XML Parsing Error: syntax error Location: chrome://global/content/filepicker.xul Line number 1, column 1: lUT"

2005-05-30 Thread Branden Robinson
On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 11:51:33AM +0900, Takuo KITAME wrote: > 2005-05-21 (土) の 00:05 -0500 に Branden Robinson > さんは書きました: > > Package: mozilla-browser > > Version: 2:1.7.8-1 > > Severity: important > > > > I can't save images, files, or any other kind o

Bug#308783: xfree86 SVN trunk ready for branch merge and release

2005-05-31 Thread Branden Robinson
:) -- G. Branden Robinson| When dogma enters the brain, all Debian GNU/Linux | intellectual activity ceases. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- Robert Anton Wilson http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#304992: www.debian.org: www.debian.org/News has same date (1 Jan 2005) for woody r4 and r5 point releases

2005-04-16 Thread Branden Robinson
Package: www.debian.org Severity: normal Something looks wrong here: [01 Jan 2005] Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 updated (r5) [18 Feb 2005] Debian project at several conferences and expos [01 Jan 2005] Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 updated (r4) According to my debian-announce folder[1], the r5 point release was d

Bug#301166: kaffe: left dangling symlink for native2ascii manpage on my system

2005-04-16 Thread Branden Robinson
On Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 12:17:51PM +0200, Arnaud Vandyck wrote: > Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Please don't let sarge release with this bug. > > Dear Mister DPL, > > First, congratulation for your election. Thank you. I wasn't DPL yet

Bug#305089: www.debian.org: please update http://www.debian.org/intro/organization re: Debian Project Leader

2005-04-17 Thread Branden Robinson
Package: www.debian.org Severity: normal Hi guys, http://www.debian.org/intro/organization has recently become inaccurate with respect to the post of Debian Project Leader. Please update this page to reflect the current identity of the DPL. -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT pref

Bug#268697: dist-upgrade not explained in manpage

2005-04-18 Thread Branden Robinson
Package: aptitude Version: 0.2.15.9-2 Followup-For: Bug #268697 Can I beg and plead for this bug to be fixed, pleease? :) I'd be happy to help write a patch, except for the fact that I don't actually understand precisely what dist-upgrade does. I know only these things: * It doesn't work e

Bug#305089: acknowledged by developer (Re: Bug#305089: www.debian.org: please update http://www.debian.org/intro/organization re: Debian Project Leader)

2005-04-18 Thread Branden Robinson
On Sun, Apr 17, 2005 at 03:18:09PM -0700, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: > On Sun, Apr 17, 2005 at 04:36:02PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > > Package: www.debian.org > > Severity: normal > > > > Hi guys, > > > > http://www.debian.org/intro/or

Bug#268697: dist-upgrade not explained in manpage

2005-04-20 Thread Branden Robinson
bian/changelog 2005-04-20 00:15:52.206638461 -0500 @@ -1,3 +1,13 @@ +aptitude (0.2.15.9-2.1) local; urgency=low + + * Local version to implement manpage patch. + + * doc/en/manpage.xml: Document "dist-upgrade" command, note its +not-well-understood status, and advise apt-get refugees to u

Bug#268697: dist-upgrade not explained in manpage

2005-04-20 Thread Branden Robinson
ine to my, except that "dist-upgrade" was already in the command synopsis (in alphabetical order). Thank you! -- G. Branden Robinson| Do not attempt to disprove the Debian GNU/Linux | four-colour theorem on your flag! [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#298939: xfree86 4.1.0-16woody6 available to fix CAN-2005-0605

2005-04-20 Thread Branden Robinson
On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 03:35:32AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > The following URL contains source and binary packages for powerpc resolving > CAN-2005-0605[1], which is described as: > > The XPM library's scan.c file may allow attackers to execute arbitrary code > by

Bug#308783: RFC: Bug#308783: libxpm4: problems with s_popen (CAN-2004-0914)

2005-05-18 Thread Branden Robinson
t;http://ftp.x.org/pub/X11R6.8.1/patches/> are still vulnerable). Thanks, Matej -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] - End forwarded message - -- G. Branden Robinson| Communi

Bug#309811: xfree86-common: FAQ should say X.Org, not freedesktop.org, is the vendor of the X.Org modular tree

2005-05-19 Thread Branden Robinson
] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2005/05/msg00011.html -- G. Branden Robinson|I must despise the world which does Debian GNU/Linux |not know that music is a higher [EMAIL PROTECTED] |revelation than all wisdom and

Bug#310025: mozilla-browser: cannot save any files due to "XML Parsing Error: syntax error Location: chrome://global/content/filepicker.xul Line number 1, column 1: lUT"

2005-05-20 Thread Branden Robinson
tion: * mozilla/dsp: auto mozilla/locale_auto: true * mozilla/prefs_note: -- G. Branden Robinson| The greatest productive force is Debian GNU/Linux | human selfishness. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- Robert Heinlein http://people.debian.org/~b

Bug#284081: New parted api, and possibility for parted 1.6.x (x>12) in debian/sarge ...

2005-01-31 Thread Branden Robinson
ithin Progeny for quite some time -- I think this is mainly due to our Debian "port" of Anaconda using Red Hat's version of Python-parted instead. Nevertheless, I'm having a look at your patch right now. Thanks again! -- Branden Robinson | GPG signed/encrypted mai

Bug#284081: New parted api, and possibility for parted 1.6.x (x>12) in debian/sarge ...

2005-01-31 Thread Branden Robinson
On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 09:26:02AM -0800, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 12:14:35PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > > > Thanks for the update, the patch, and the ping. > > > > Python-parted has not been actively worked on within Progeny for quite >

Bug#284081: New parted api, and possibility for parted 1.6.x (x>12) in debian/sarge ...

2005-01-31 Thread Branden Robinson
lternatively, I can upload them if they're something you need, but > don't feel inclined to maintain long-term. Do you mean me or Matt when you say "you"? I don't personally use python-parted for anything now that PGI is dead, and Eric was really the one who understoo

Bug#293277: debbugs: misc. fixes to scripts/service.in and debian/control

2005-02-01 Thread Branden Robinson
Package: debbugs Version: 2.4.1 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch I'm sorry this is a bit of an omnibus request, but it's for fairly minor issues. Don Armstrong and Adam Heath have both reviewed this patch, and had no objections[1]. The patch includes a Debian changelog entry that documents my chan

Bug#293277: here's the attachment

2005-02-01 Thread Branden Robinson
I was a dumbass and forgot the attachment. -- G. Branden Robinson| Debian GNU/Linux | // // // / / [EMAIL PROTECTED] | EI 'AANIIGOO 'AHOOT'E http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | diff -urN debbu

Bug#287189: svn: rev 4785 - in discover/discover/trunk: debian scripts

2005-02-07 Thread Branden Robinson
On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 05:21:34PM -0500, Jeff Licquia wrote: > On Mon, 2005-02-07 at 17:07 -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > > Is this really necessary? > > > > * discover can be successfully run by mere mortal users (it's no more > > administrative than l

Bug#307425: html2text: doesn't work with named vhosts

2005-05-02 Thread Branden Robinson
Package: html2text Version: 1.3.2a-1 Severity: normal This fails with a "not found" error: html2text http://people.debian.org/~branden/dpl/reports/2005-04-24.html These don't: lynx http://people.debian.org/~branden/dpl/reports/2005-04-24.html w3m http://people.debian.org/~branden/dpl/reports/20

Bug#298939: Regarding xfree86 and CAN-2005-0609

2005-05-06 Thread Branden Robinson
cally: http://necrotic.deadbeast.net/svn/xfree86/trunk/debian/changelog Please go ahead and do the advisory for woody's xfree86 once you're ready. I've been working with vorlon regarding 4.3.0.dfsg.1-13, and there's no reason to expect that release to not fix CAN-2005-0609.

Bug#298939: Regarding xfree86 and CAN-2005-0609

2005-05-06 Thread Branden Robinson
Joey, You can write in the xfree86 DSA for CAN-2005-0609 that the sarge/sid vulnerability will be fixed by xfree86 4.3.0.dfsg.1-13, which is currently in preparation. -- G. Branden Robinson| Never underestimate the power of Debian GNU/Linux | human

Bug#308090: alsa-utils: alsamixer crashes when I press with "alsamixer: function snd_mixer_find_selem() failed: Invalid argument"

2005-05-07 Thread Branden Robinson
Package: alsa-utils Version: 1.0.8-4 Severity: important File: /usr/bin/alsamixer I'm told ALSA is not as mature for non-i386 arches, so that may have something to do with it. Here's my lsmod output: Module Size Used by snd_powermac 50472 2 snd_pcm_oss70

Bug#279927: Tagging "won't fix" (cosmetic improvements to XML)

2005-03-14 Thread Branden Robinson
On Sat, Mar 12, 2005 at 01:27:11AM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > On Saturday 12 March 2005 01:15, Branden Robinson wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 01:39:16PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > > > If I am the only person who cares to see the problems I fixed > > > addresse

Bug#294324: turning xprt into xprint

2005-03-17 Thread Branden Robinson
Sorry I didn't reply to this sooner. On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 02:02:09AM +1100, Drew Parsons wrote: > On Wed, 2005-02-09 at 03:11 -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > > > > The xprt package will be gone from XFree86 as of the next package release. > > > > Please cre

Bug#300906: discover-modprobe will not load moduleswith a name that is a substring of a previously loaded module

2005-03-24 Thread Branden Robinson
would make the patch: > -echo ${module_details_uniq} | grep ${module_info} > /dev/null 2>&1 > +echo ${module_details_uniq} | grep -Fw "$module_info" > /dev/null 2>&1 The braces around the variable name are not necessary. The quotes around the shell variabl

Bug#311262: [Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#311262: alsa-utils: aplay does not use standard output and standard error streams correctly

2005-06-20 Thread Branden Robinson
p://www.debian.org/doc/developers-reference/ch-pkgs.en.html#s-bug-handling -- G. Branden Robinson| It just seems to me that you are Debian GNU/Linux | willfully entering an arse-kicking [EMAIL PROTECTED] | contest with a monstrous entity

Bug#314425: ncurses-base: new xterm terminfo data appears to be wack with sarge's xterm [regression from 5.4-4]

2005-06-20 Thread Branden Robinson
On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 05:20:36AM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote: > On Thu, 16 Jun 2005, Branden Robinson wrote: > > >Package: ncurses-base > >Version: 5.4-6 > >Severity: important > > This still sounds like #313352. Does "tic -V" show 20050611? If it

Bug#314714: dictionaries-common: debconf asks me question with absurd choice

2005-06-20 Thread Branden Robinson
se more than one ispell dictionary will be available in your system, please select the one you'd like applications to use by default. You can change the default ispell dictionary at any time by running "select-default-ispell". 1. 2. Manual symlinks setting Wh

Bug#314425: ncurses-base: new xterm terminfo data appears to be wack with sarge's xterm [regression from 5.4-4]

2005-06-20 Thread Branden Robinson
, #291787) Resync patches #059, #803, and #907. [...] -- Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fri, 11 Feb 2005 02:14:27 -0500 > The terminfo we're shipping is the same as the one in > /usr/share/doc/xterm/xterm.terminfo.gz in 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14. And that's in > sarge.

Bug#314425: ncurses-base: new xterm terminfo data appears to be wack with sarge's xterm [regression from 5.4-4]

2005-06-29 Thread Branden Robinson
, but does expect to have to deal with the terminal type changing out from under it at runtime. That's kinda part of its raisôn d'etre... :) -- G. Branden Robinson|I had thought very carefully about Debian GNU/Linux |committing hara-kiri over th

Bug#279927: now is the time..

2005-06-29 Thread Branden Robinson
not sure when I would have time to return to it. I'm glad to see other people caring about having a clean manual. :) -- G. Branden Robinson| Debian GNU/Linux | If ignorance is bliss, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | is omniscience hell?

Bug#193645: Mutex destroy failure: Device or resource busy

2005-07-24 Thread Branden Robinson
package lyx tag 193645 + fixed-upstream thanks Here's a URL to the release announcement, which mentions a fix for this bug: http://lwn.net/Articles/144021/ -- G. Branden Robinson|You can have my PGP passphrase when Debian GNU/Linux |you pry it fr

Bug#198097: pinfo: search prompt thinks ^H is backspace instead of ^?

2005-07-25 Thread Branden Robinson
I can no longer reproduce this bug inside screen running in an xterm, neither on a PowerPC nor an x86 machine. Please close at your discretion. -- G. Branden Robinson| Debian GNU/Linux | Extra territorium jus dicenti [EMAIL PROTECTED

Bug#320059: xvfb: SEGV in XCopyPlane() triggered by VSW4 test suite (part of LSB 3.0 certification suite)

2005-07-26 Thread Branden Robinson
Package: xvfb Version: 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14 Severity: important Tags: upstream fixed-upstream Xvfb has a bug in it that is tickled by the VSW4 test suite. One of the tests in that suite (/tset/CH06/cpypln/cpypln 3), now enabled as part of the LSB 3.0 conformance checks, causes xvfb to SEGV in XCopyPla

Bug#257062: xserver-xfree86: please backport new Intel i910 driver

2005-03-25 Thread Branden Robinson
On Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 04:45:57PM +1300, Nick Phillips wrote: > On 18/03/2005, at 8:04 AM, Branden Robinson wrote: > >If an i915 patch is prepared, works, and has been signed off on by > >i810/i830/i845/i855/i865 as well as i915 users, then the patch submitter > >and these t

Bug#281050: xserver-common: [i810] Memory leak

2005-03-25 Thread Branden Robinson
//mif.vu.lt/~mova3971/xf/memleak.c > [4]. http://mif.vu.lt/~mova3971/xf/gpdf -- G. Branden Robinson|Of two competing theories or Debian GNU/Linux |explanations, all other things [EMAIL PROTECTED] |being equal, the simpler one is to http:/

Bug#284583: xserver-xfree86: crashes when going to PM mode and accel is enabled on i865

2005-03-25 Thread Branden Robinson
The last known > | cause of this problem (and there have been several) was fixed after > | 4.3.0 was released. A similar change appears to have been made to X.Org X11: http://cvs.freedesktop.org/xorg/xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/drivers/i810/i830_driver.c?r1=1.1&r2=1.1.4.1 -- G.

Bug#285874: xbase-clients: "xmodmap -pk" prints only two mappings per key

2005-03-25 Thread Branden Robinson
itch, are not printed. This causes problems when I use xmodmap > -pke to save the current keymap, and later try to restore it. Thanks for your report. I have filed an upstream report with freedesktop.org for it. https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2822 -- G. Branden Robinson

Bug#284448: xserver-xfree86: xserver (ATI or Radeon something 7500) crashes on variouslaunches of programcs from within X.

2005-03-25 Thread Branden Robinson
viewcvs.cgi/xlibs/Xfont/fc/fserve.c?r1=3.23&r2=3.24 > http://cvsweb.xfree86.org/cvsweb/xc/lib/font/fc/fserve.c.diff?r1=3.26&r2=3.27 No. Fortunately all of the above predate the XFree86 1.1 relicensing. I'm attaching a patch that should be bolted onto debian/patches/000_st

Bug#295471: (no subject)

2005-03-25 Thread Branden Robinson
Subject: registering the wrong executable for text/plain and text/* breaks other applications Followup-For: Bug #295471 Package: kvim Version: 1:6.3-067+2 This breaks attachment viewing in mutt, and anything else that relies on /etc/mailcap. Please don't let this bug into a released sarge. -- S

Bug#282035: xserver-xfree86: [kbd] Logitech "Internet Navigator Special Edition" / "Elite" USB Keyboard missing 4 buttons

2005-03-25 Thread Branden Robinson
> > I hope that helps. Thanks for the information. I am reassigning this report to Debian's Linux kernel "bucket" package in our Bug Tracking System. -- G. Branden Robinson|Somewhere, there is a .sig so funny Debian GNU/Linux |that

Bug#287900: xlibs: Want us_intl without deadkeys

2005-03-26 Thread Branden Robinson
ntention was > to not make changes anymore. Branden and Fabio, what do you think? > May I add this file and potentially introduce new bugs? I think you're learned your lesson. :) Go ahead, if you like. -- G. Branden Robinson| Never attribute to malice that De

Bug#287876: File $HOME/.xsession-errors grows very large

2005-03-26 Thread Branden Robinson
ies on X client software to stop blasting crap to standard error like a fire hose. One can't expect too much of GUI programmers, I suppose. -- G. Branden Robinson|I must despise the world which does Debian GNU/Linux |not know that music is a hig

Bug#273993: Does not affect the NVIDIA proprietary drivers

2005-03-26 Thread Branden Robinson
ger, e.g.: $ LC_MESSAGES=C gdb Please visit the following URL for a tutorial on debugging the X server: http://necrotic.deadbeast.net/svn/xfree86/trunk/debian/local/FAQ.xhtml#debugxserver -- G. Branden Robinson|Half of being smart is knowing what Debian G

Bug#289328: retitling and changing severity of 289328

2005-03-29 Thread Branden Robinson
t value (on) and we won't know what the user said in the config file at the point this code would execute. -- G. Branden Robinson| You could wire up a dead rat to a Debian GNU/Linux | DIMM socket and the PC BIOS memory [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#302116: jadetex: spurious conffile prompt on upgrade to 3.13-4

2005-03-29 Thread Branden Robinson
Package: jadetex Version: 3.13-4 Severity: normal I experienced the following while upgrading to jadetex 3.13-4: Preparing to replace jadetex 3.13-3 (using .../jadetex_3.13-4_all.deb) ... Unpacking replacement jadetex ... [...] Setting up jadetex (3.13-4) ... Configuration file `/etc/tex

Bug#302611: fontconfig: prerm can spew errors when trying to run fc-cache due to libfontconfig1 already being purged

2005-04-01 Thread Branden Robinson
Package: fontconfig Version: 2.3.1-2 Severity: normal fontconfig's postinst script should be a little more robust than this: sisyphus:~# apt-get --purge remove libfontconfig1 Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: fontconfig* libfo

Bug#257062: xserver-xfree86: please backport new Intel i910 driver

2005-04-07 Thread Branden Robinson
On Fri, Apr 01, 2005 at 10:10:38AM +1200, Nick Phillips wrote: > On 26/03/2005, at 8:30 AM, Branden Robinson wrote: > > >On Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 04:45:57PM +1300, Nick Phillips wrote: > >>On 18/03/2005, at 8:04 AM, Branden Robinson wrote: > >>>If an i915 patch

Bug#298328: Processed: retitling and changing severity of 289328

2005-04-12 Thread Branden Robinson
int mechanism. Please see http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=208130 > for more information. -- G. Branden Robinson| When I die I want to go peacefully Debian GNU/Linux | in my sleep like my ol' Grand [EMAIL PROTECTED] |

Bug#301166: kaffe: left dangling symlink for native2ascii manpage on my system

2005-04-13 Thread Branden Robinson
Package: kaffe Version: 2:1.1.4.RC1-1 Followup-For: Bug #301166 I've been experiencing this problem too, since 25 March. This causes the sysadmin to be spammed every night with mail from cron. /etc/cron.daily/man-db: mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man1/native2ascii.1.gz is a dangling symlink

Bug#334659: tetex-doc: uninstallable due to file overlap with tetex-base

2005-10-18 Thread Branden Robinson
Package: tetex-doc Version: 3.0-9 Severity: grave Preparing to replace tetex-doc 2.0.2c-9 (using .../tetex-doc_3.0-9_all.deb) ... Unpacking replacement tetex-doc ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/tetex-doc_3.0-9_all.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite `/usr/share/doc/texmf/Makef

Bug#330474: mutt: opens of same mbox by multiple mutt processes erase message bodies

2005-09-28 Thread Branden Robinson
Package: mutt Version: 1.5.11-1 Severity: critical This is awful. For years I have performed multiple opens of mbox files, using multiple mutt processes. For years it worked. Now it doesn't. Now, if you do this, message bodies will be nuked out of the folder and the Content-Length: header rewr

Bug#330474: mutt: opens of same mbox by multiple mutt processes erase message bodies

2005-09-29 Thread Branden Robinson
ew the new folder again. 14) WHERE THE HELL ARE THE MESSAGE BODIES? Retitled bug accordingly. I stand by the severity of this report. I don't know if it's specific to mbox folders; that's just the only format I ever use. -- G. Branden Robinson| You are not a

Bug#314425: ncurses-base: new xterm terminfo data appears to be wack with sarge's xterm [regression from 5.4-4]

2005-09-07 Thread Branden Robinson
ting for me. :) Thanks for following up! -- G. Branden Robinson| "I came, I saw, she conquered." Debian GNU/Linux | The original Latin seems to have [EMAIL PROTECTED] | been garbled. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |

Bug#327190: #327190: seen here as well

2005-09-10 Thread Branden Robinson
Package: libdjvulibre15 Version: 3.5.15-1 Followup-For: Bug #327190 (Reading database ... 146148 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking libdjvulibre15 (from .../libdjvulibre15_3.5.15-1_powerpc.deb) ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libdjvulibre15_3.5.15-1_powerpc.d

Bug#327081: ITP: rpmstrap -- bootstrap a basic RPM-based system

2005-09-12 Thread Branden Robinson
ow, it is only 314 > > lines of code, 153 of which are lists of FC2 packages, so it doesn't > > seem likely to share any common ancestry with debootstrap. > > I have just been given permission to post the original internal tool > used at Progeny which rpmstrap is based upon,

Bug#328401: pngcrush: pngcrush(1) mis-documents iTXt and tTXt chunks

2005-09-14 Thread Branden Robinson
Package: pngcrush Version: 1.5.10-2 Severity: normal File: /usr/share/man/man1/pngcrush.1.gz I chose normal instead of minor severity because this doesn't look like a spelling error or cosmetic issue to the user. It didn't to me -- I had to go look up documentation on the web to find out which wa

Bug#328402: pngcrush: pngcrush(1) says there's an -itxt option, but executable claims there isn't

2005-09-14 Thread Branden Robinson
Package: pngcrush Version: 1.5.10-2 Severity: normal Gr. $ man pngcrush | grep itxt Reformatting pngcrush(1), please wait... /tmp/branden/zmanQ0ieTA:115: warning: can't find special character `b|a' -itxt [b|a] keyword text -zitxt [b|a] keyword text $ pngcrush -itxt a Comment fo

Bug#323140: earth3d: Failure to start

2005-08-17 Thread Branden Robinson
e regular shlib package is the wrong thing to do because anyone using dlopen() has a certain expectation about the soversion of the object they're opening -- after all, they expect certain symbols to be present. Just my speculative guess, having seen a similar problem before. -- G. Branden R

Bug#324965: cvs: shouldn't ship cvsbug manpage when we don't ship the corresponding executable

2005-08-25 Thread Branden Robinson
Package: cvs Version: 1:1.12.9-14 Severity: minor I note that Fedora Core recently did an advisory against CVS regarding the cvsbug program. We don't ship the cvsbug program in our cvs package, so we're immune, but we do ship the manpage, which in my haste I nearly mistook for the command, causin

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