Bug#343989: tcl8.* and tk8.* NMUs for configure errors

2006-01-06 Thread Chris Waters
.4 that I'm currently working on. As for 8.3, I'll have new packages uploaded today (they'd be up already, but I had some problems with one of my HDs). But thanks for the offer. -- Chris Waters | Pneumonoultra-osis is too long [EMAIL PROTECTED] | micro

Bug#347581: debian-policy: Explicitly permit *-headers binary package created from library source package

2006-01-12 Thread Chris Waters
odified slightly to allow a little more flexibility. Perhaps changing "placed in" to "placed in or installed by". Or something along those lines. If you can come up with something like that which allows you to do what you want, without going into excessive and unnecessary detail,

Bug#312444: tcl8.4: tcl compiled with --enable-threads incompatible with forking

2005-06-08 Thread Chris Waters
I hope to have a better solution by the time etch is released, but for sarge, I'm afraid you'll just have to stick with 8.3. -- Chris Waters | Pneumonoultra-osis is too long [EMAIL PROTECTED] | microscopicsilico-to fit into a single or [EMAIL PROTE

Bug#312444: RE : Bug#312444: tcl8.4: tcl compiled with --enable-threads incompatible with forking

2005-06-09 Thread Chris Waters
I've been trying to get a debian-tcltk list set up to help discuss and coordinate issues of this sort, but it hasn't happened yet. -- Chris Waters | Pneumonoultra-osis is too long [EMAIL PROTECTED] | microscopicsilico-to fit into a single or

Bug#304805: blt: mention lack of bltwish in readme

2005-04-15 Thread Chris Waters
uggestion, thanks. In the meantime, what to do is, replace that line with: #!/usr/bin/env wish package require BLT -- Chris Waters | Pneumonoultra-osis is too long [EMAIL PROTECTED] | microscopicsilico-to fit into a single or [EMAIL PROTECTED] | volcaniconi-

Bug#314808: Incorrect directory for web applications.

2005-06-20 Thread Chris Waters
s" or "locale" or "pixmaps" or "zoneinfo"? While /usr/share/* is not the world's most overloaded namespace, its overloaded enough to cause me some concern, and if there are any reasonable alternatives (and I think there are), I would recommend using one

Bug#334898: tcl8.4: tclcurl FTBFS because tclsh SEGVs on hppa

2005-10-20 Thread Chris Waters
ckage, so it's not clear at this point if the problem is in tcl or in the initialization code of tclcurl. I think we may need to call in an hppa expert here. -- Chris Waters | Pneumonoultra-osis is too long [EMAIL PROTECTED] | microscopicsilico-to fit into a si

Bug#226565: Intent to NMU

2005-10-12 Thread Chris Waters
or tclreadline to fix bug#226565 would be greatly appreciated. thanks -- Chris Waters | Pneumonoultra-osis is too long [EMAIL PROTECTED] | microscopicsilico-to fit into a single or [EMAIL PROTECTED] | volcaniconi- standalone haiku signature.asc Descri

Bug#404872: tcl exec and open cannot pass certain arguments

2006-12-28 Thread Chris Waters
can find an example that can't be worked around, I doubt if it will be much of a priority. cheers -- Chris Waters | Pneumonoultra-osis is too long [EMAIL PROTECTED] | microscopicsilico-to fit into a single or [EMAIL PROTECTED] | volcaniconi- standalone

Bug#289083: SPARCstn 5 [2004/12/19 daily]: suceeded w/ difficulty

2005-02-09 Thread Chris Waters
(as in this case) moreinfo, you need to make sure to explicitly send the originator a copy. In this case, you're lucky. I was about to put the machine into service on our home LAN, but since I saw your request in time, I'll go ahead and do the more testing you asked for first. cheers

Bug#294351: Please extend 9.4's ellipsis style requirement tocover maintainer scripts and dpkg

2005-02-14 Thread Chris Waters
e behind the bureaucracy to avoid making decisions they are capable, competent and qualified to make. Few, if any, of us want to or enjoy playing bureaucrat, and thus, you shouldn't be surprised when there is a refusal to decide what color of t-shirt you or the dpkg maintainer should wear, or wh

Bug#294351: Please extend 9.4's ellipsis style requirement tocover maintainer scripts and dpkg

2005-02-14 Thread Chris Waters
On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 06:15:34PM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote: > Quoting Chris Waters ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > I could say I want guidance from policy on what color of shirt I wear > > to my next LUG meeting. That doesn't mean it's a matter for policy. > Well, I&

Bug#295649: tk8.4: spinbox widget gets stuck in infinite repeat

2005-02-18 Thread Chris Waters
should involve a button-down event followed by a button-release event. But I know it's not always that simple. Anyway, I'll pass this along to upstream and see what they say. Thanks for the report. -- Chris Waters | Pneumonoultra-osis is too long [EMAIL PR

Bug#290672: tcl8.4: man page lsearch(3tcl) is unviewable, emacs comment confuses man

2005-01-15 Thread Chris Waters
ks on my system but not yours... Anyway, thanks for the report, I'll patch it up as soon. cheers -- Chris Waters | Pneumonoultra-osis is too long [EMAIL PROTECTED] | microscopicsilico-to fit into a single or [EMAIL PROTECTED] | volcaniconi- standalon

Bug#390739: blank screen (no output) with mga g400

2006-10-02 Thread Chris Waters
Package: xserver-xorg Version: 1:7.1.0-1 Severity: important I'm using an MGA G400, and with the new update to xorg 7.1, my screen suddenly stopped working. I can switch to the console at vt1, and the screen comes back. And X appears to be running fine (all the processes look ok, and I can hear

Bug#390739: blank screen (no output) with mga g400

2006-10-02 Thread Chris Waters
it definitely looks like a nasty bug somewhere in X7.1. Probably in xserver-xorg-video-mga, possibly in xserver-xorg-core. If you need anything more from me to help track this down, please don't hestitate to ask. I'm more than willing to re-break my system to help debug. -- Ch

Bug#384720: tk8.4: error messages with "wish -h"

2006-08-26 Thread Chris Waters
ng it. thanks -- Chris Waters | Pneumonoultra-osis is too long [EMAIL PROTECTED] | microscopicsilico-to fit into a single or [EMAIL PROTECTED] | volcaniconi- standalone haiku -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe

Bug#392362: [PROPOSAL] Add should not embed code from other packages

2006-10-15 Thread Chris Waters
very least, I think we should get some feedback from the people who are engaging in this practice before passing any absolute bans. -- Chris Waters | Pneumonoultra-osis is too long [EMAIL PROTECTED] | microscopicsilico-to fit into a single or [EMAIL PROTECTED] | vo

Bug#392362: [PROPOSAL] Add should not embed code from other packages

2006-10-16 Thread Chris Waters
On Sun, Oct 15, 2006 at 09:13:11PM +0100, Neil McGovern wrote: > On Sun, Oct 15, 2006 at 11:57:47AM -0700, Chris Waters wrote: > > I don't know if it can always be avoided. > [snip lots of good examples where this is unavoidable] > > I would go for strongly discouraging th

Bug#190133: Bug #190133: extract wxcopy and wxpaste from wmaker?

2013-06-05 Thread Chris Waters
Hi, this bug appears to be a duplicate of bug #78119, except that 78119 suggests including wmsetbg as well, and calling the package wmutils, or something like that. As someone who installs wmaker mainly to get wmsetbg (though I occasionally use it for various tests), I prefer the suggestion in 781

Bug#712861: patch doesn't work

2013-06-30 Thread Chris Waters
For those who are running jessie/testing, and may not have the fixed package for an unknown amount of time, here's a patch that worked for me. --- js/ui/status/bluetooth.js.orig 2013-06-30 12:26:05.0 -0700 +++ js/ui/status/bluetooth.js 2013-06-30 12:30:16.0 -0700 @@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ co

Bug#676463: problematic scripts

2012-06-11 Thread Chris Waters
This seems to be the source of the problem: ~ $ dpkg-query -W -f='${Conffiles} ${Version}\n' fuse|grep obsolete /etc/init.d/fuse 453b0e3f3f8facb9efc6cc73df8a7f05 obsolete 2.9.0-1 ~ $ dpkg-query -W -f='${Conffiles} ${Version}\n' initscripts|grep obsolete /etc/init.d/stop-bootlogd 4544c7e1a2d0c713d

Bug#826281: Term "language" in package description is ambiguous

2016-06-03 Thread Chris Waters
Source: libexttextcat Version: 3.4.4-1 Severity: minor Package descriptions for the various libexttextcat packages say: "It was primarily developed for language guessing". It's unclear whether this refers to computer languages (C vs. Python) or natural languages (English vs. Estonian). Given that

Bug#1033140: emacs-gtk: M-x woman fails on grep man page with cryptic message

2023-03-17 Thread Chris Waters
Package: emacs-gtk Version: 1:28.2+1-10 I'm not sure whether this is a bug in Emacs or a bug in the grep man page, but since man(1) and 'M-x man' both handle the page fine, I thought I'd start here. Reproducible with 'emacs -Q' or 'emacs -q'. Installed version of grep is 3.8-5. Entering 'M-x wom

Bug#397939: Lintian: outdated-autotools-helper-file

2008-02-18 Thread Chris Waters
ave to, or b) as a proxy for upstream? I tend to lean towards the former position; it sounds like you lean towards the latter. Bottom line: it sounds like you think the java example is fundamentally wrong; I merely see it as flawed, awkward and hard to maintain: a bad idea in general, but n

Bug#456031: XBomb interacts badly with ratpoison

2007-12-15 Thread Chris Waters
note: I was not able to get this to work, but I'm not a ratpoison expert.) But my opinion is that the bug here is in ratpoison. -- Chris Waters | Pneumonoultra-osis is too long [EMAIL PROTECTED] | microscopicsilico-to fit into a single or [EMAIL PROTECTED] | volcani

Bug#456302: ted never opens anything

2007-12-15 Thread Chris Waters
one indicates that Ted should be relinked sometime soon), but Ted opens up a new document window or an existing file just fine for me. Can you provide some more information about your environment? What window manager or desktop environment are you using? -- Chris Waters | Pneumonoultra-

Bug#456302: ted never opens anything

2007-12-16 Thread Chris Waters
bug for which I have a partial-but- incomplete fix. Otherwise, I may have to try to get you a debug version. -- Chris Waters | Pneumonoultra-osis is too long [EMAIL PROTECTED] | microscopicsilico-to fit into a single or [EMAIL PROTECTED] | volcaniconi- st

Bug#456302: ted never opens anything

2007-12-17 Thread Chris Waters
, but Ted seems to need the transcoded fonts, which are more compatible with the 1990s era Motif-based systems that Ted was designed to work with. Please install the "xfonts-100dpi-transcoded and xfonts-75dpi-transcoded packages and see if that fixes your problem. thanks,

Bug#456031: XBomb interacts badly with ratpoison

2007-12-17 Thread Chris Waters
t has to remain constant. I'm not aware of any WM hints to support either of those (but I'd be happy to learn otherwise). > Feel free to reassign this bug to ratpoison if you wish. I'll probably keep this around as a wishlist item while I investigate further options, but I might ma

Bug#456302: ted never opens anything

2007-12-17 Thread Chris Waters
eers, Chris -- Chris Waters | Pneumonoultra-osis is too long [EMAIL PROTECTED] | microscopicsilico-to fit into a single or [EMAIL PROTECTED] | volcaniconi- standalone haiku -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe&qu

Bug#456031: Found workaround

2007-12-18 Thread Chris Waters
ognizes most standard X command-line arguments, like -geometry to set the size. See the OPTIONS section of the X(7) man page for a list of standard arguments. You can also override the defaults more permanently by setting X resources. See the xrdb and xbomb man pages for more. -- Chris Waters

Bug#432128: battleball menu entry: please move it to Games/Action

2007-08-08 Thread Chris Waters
in response to bug #245697. The archived report simply refers to "Gnome", and I'm not sure if it's still a problem there, but I'm reluctant to revert without a more clear indication that reverting will be safe. The current code, though admittedly bar

Bug#503967: xarclock: Please add a .desktop file

2008-11-03 Thread Chris Waters
gt; +Type=Application > +Name=Counter-clockwise clock > +GenericName=Counter-clockwise clock > +Comment=If clocks had been invented in the southern hemisphere, they would > run counter-clockwise. > +Icon=xarclock > +Exec=xarclock > +Categories=Clock;Amusement;Utility; --

Bug#365126: HELP!! Re: Bug#365126: wmrack - FTBFS: error: WMRack needs X Windows!!!

2006-04-29 Thread Chris Waters
o put Aaron's patch in the project patches section for future inclusion.) So, anyway, I'm pretty sure that Andreas has the right solution. It matches everything I know about the problem. We'll know for sure after my next upload hits the autobuilders. :) -- Chris Waters |

Bug#365542: file-roller needs to Replace: old gnome-icon-theme package

2006-04-30 Thread Chris Waters
Package: file-roller Version: 2.14.2-1 Severity: normal The file /usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/file-roller.png is also found in version 2.12.1-2 of the gnome-icon-theme package (and possibly in other older versions as well). This can cause errors when upgrading or installing. Adding "Repla

Bug#366512: ted: Fails to display file

2006-05-09 Thread Chris Waters
me the output of the command above. That should at least give me a starting point. -- Chris Waters | Pneumonoultra-osis is too long [EMAIL PROTECTED] | microscopicsilico-to fit into a single or [EMAIL PROTECTED] | volcaniconi- standalone haiku -- To UN

Bug#366512: ted: Fails to display file

2006-05-09 Thread Chris Waters
rther. I wouldn't think that would affect it, but Ted does do some funny things with fonts. -- Chris Waters | Pneumonoultra-osis is too long [EMAIL PROTECTED] | microscopicsilico-to fit into a single or [EMAIL PROTECTED] | volcaniconi- standalone

Bug#366930: 'man tclreadline' typos: "compatiblity" and "succes"

2006-05-12 Thread Chris Waters
On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 03:37:11AM -0400, A Costa wrote: > Found a few typos in '/usr/share/man/man3/tclreadline.3tclrl.gz', Cool, thanks, will be patched in the next upload. -- Chris Waters | Pneumonoultra-osis is too long [EMAIL PROTECTED] | microscopic

Bug#367821: No .desktop file

2006-05-18 Thread Chris Waters
ncluding .desktop files). I'll include a fix with the next release. Thanks for calling this to my attention. -- Chris Waters | Pneumonoultra-osis is too long [EMAIL PROTECTED] | microscopicsilico-to fit into a single or [EMAIL PROTECTED] | volcaniconi-

Bug#477630: 'man xarclock' typo: "recyled"

2008-04-26 Thread Chris Waters
clude it in the next upload. cheers, -- Chris Waters | Pneumonoultra-osis is too long [EMAIL PROTECTED] | microscopicsilico-to fit into a single or [EMAIL PROTECTED] | volcaniconi- standalone haiku -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subjec

Bug#450651: libmtp: signed/unsigned int problems in examples/utils

2007-11-08 Thread Chris Waters
obvious ones I spotted. If you'd prefer, I can send you a trimmed-down patch which only fixes the signed/unsigned problems. cheers -- Chris Waters | Pneumonoultra-osis is too long [EMAIL PROTECTED] | microscopicsilico-to fit into a single or [EMAIL PROTE

Bug#450651: libmtp: signed/unsigned int problems in examples/utils

2007-11-08 Thread Chris Waters
provide two separate patches, one for > each problem. I've made a patch just for the signed/unsigned issue (attached). I don't have a complete solution for the memory leaks yet, and it's a much more minor issue, so it will have to wait till I have more time. cheers -- Chris Waters

Bug#346898: intent to upload sponsored NMU to fix xlibs-dev bug

2006-01-18 Thread Chris Waters
package in the meantime would be greatly appreciated, thanks. -- Chris Waters | Pneumonoultra-osis is too long [EMAIL PROTECTED] | microscopicsilico-to fit into a single or [EMAIL PROTECTED] | volcaniconi- standalone haiku -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [

Bug#346983: intent to upload sponsored NMU to fix xlibs-dev bug

2006-01-18 Thread Chris Waters
On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 10:55:54PM -0500, Justin Pryzby wrote: > I intend to NMU a fix for this bug sponsored by some member of the QA > group; patch attached. Already handled by maintainer upload, thanks. -- Chris Waters | Pneumonoultra-osis is too long [EMAIL PRO

Bug#346909: intent to upload sponsored NMU to fix xlibs-dev bug

2006-01-18 Thread Chris Waters
t thanks anyway. -- Chris Waters | Pneumonoultra-osis is too long [EMAIL PROTECTED] | microscopicsilico-to fit into a single or [EMAIL PROTECTED] | volcaniconi- standalone haiku -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe"

Bug#347052: intent to upload sponsored NMU to fix xlibs-dev bug

2006-01-18 Thread Chris Waters
On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 10:57:10PM -0500, Justin Pryzby wrote: > package wmmail > tag 347052 patch > thanks > I intend to NMU a fix for this bug sponsored by some member of the QA > group; patch attached. Already handled by maintainer upload, thanks. -- Chris Waters |

Bug#354470: misleading message about permissions when real state is non-existent device file

2006-02-28 Thread Chris Waters
On Sun, Feb 26, 2006 at 10:43:13AM -0500, Daniel B. wrote: > PilotManager reports a misleading error message when the PDA device file > does not exist. Hi, thanks, that sounds sensible. I'll look into it. cheers -- Chris Waters | Pneumonoultra-osis is too

Bug#354492: ted: Add standard Ctrl-Q acceleration key to exit program

2006-02-28 Thread Chris Waters
Ctrl q Ted.appFileMenuQuitKeyText: ^Q -- Chris Waters | Pneumonoultra-osis is too long [EMAIL PROTECTED] | microscopicsilico-to fit into a single or [EMAIL PROTECTED] | volcaniconi- standalone haiku -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTEC

Bug#361724: wmrack: FTBFS on GNU/kFreeBSD and GNU/Hurd

2006-04-19 Thread Chris Waters
to fix that. It would be nice if you could include it in the next > upload. Hi, thanks, this will be fixed in the next upstream release, which is only waiting on one more bug-fix at the moment. -- Chris Waters | Pneumonoultra-osis is too long [EMAIL PROTECTED] | mi

Bug#365126: wmrack - FTBFS: error: WMRack needs X Windows!!!

2006-04-28 Thread Chris Waters
am seriously confused. Maybe it's related to the newest X packages. I'll ask around. -- Chris Waters | Pneumonoultra-osis is too long [EMAIL PROTECTED] | microscopicsilico-to fit into a single or [EMAIL PROTECTED] | volcaniconi- standalone haiku

Bug#349276: tk8.0: obsolete package, should be removed?

2006-01-23 Thread Chris Waters
ree. I'll go ahead and reassign this and upload an updated blt. cheers -- Chris Waters | Pneumonoultra-osis is too long [EMAIL PROTECTED] | microscopicsilico-to fit into a single or [EMAIL PROTECTED] | volcaniconi- standalone haiku -- To UNSU

Bug#310367: More 'spliting'

2006-01-28 Thread Chris Waters
n't forget next time? Or, if you prefer, I can just go ahead and do it myself, but please let me know. Thanks! -- Chris Waters | Pneumonoultra-osis is too long [EMAIL PROTECTED] | microscopicsilico-to fit into a single or [EMAIL PROTECTED] | volcaniconi-

Bug#473006: planned NMU for blt

2009-03-01 Thread Chris Waters
move 8.3, > and > I would like to build python-tk using 8.5 when introducing new python > versions. > > Matthias > > > -- Chris Waters | Pneumonoultra-osis is too long xt...@debian.org | microscopicsilico-to fit into a single or xt

Bug#925371: for Emacs 26.2, I guess

2019-07-08 Thread Chris Waters
Apparently this request (Enable dynamic modules) doesn't really make sense for Debian before 26.2 is packaged; with 26.1 and earlier, it can't be used outside the Emacs source tree. But with 26.2 (which I assume we'll see soon now that Buster is released), "[t]he emacs-module.h file is now installe

Bug#891063:

2018-08-14 Thread Chris Waters
Vincent Lefevre writes: > But in any case, the bug needs to be fixed. Yeah, I don't believe this can reasonably be called a bug. Emacs, like a lot of big complex apps, can and does write to various parts of the filesystem when used. There's a good chance that if you check your home directory, yo

Bug#891063:

2018-08-24 Thread Chris Waters
On Fri, Aug 24, 2018 at 6:24 AM Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > On 2018-08-14 10:51:41 -0700, Chris Waters wrote: > > Vincent Lefevre writes: > > > But in any case, the bug needs to be fixed. > > > > Yeah, I don't believe this can reasonably be called a bug. Ema

Bug#891063:

2018-08-28 Thread Chris Waters
On Sun, Aug 26, 2018 at 2:57 PM Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > On 2018-08-24 18:04:29 -0700, Chris Waters wrote: > > Ok, sorry that I can't remember *all* the ways that "su" without a > > login option is broken. Even with that, it's still plenty broken, as > &

Bug#894757: libmypaint-common: file conflict with mypaint-data

2018-07-08 Thread Chris Waters
One possible solution here is to change the translation domain used either by libmypaint or by mypaint. I think it would be better to change the domain used by mypaint (to, e.g., "mypaint12"), since that change would only have to be a temporary one, until the next version comes out, which will (if

Bug#1013958: xfce4-terminal: open URL ignores exo-open settings (and debian settings)

2022-06-27 Thread Chris Waters
Package: xfce4-terminal Version: 1.0.4-1 Severity: normal If I right-click on a URL in the terminal, and then choose "Open Link" on the pop-up menu, the link is opened in Chromium, even though I have Firefox selected as the default for both exo-open and Debian's x-www-browser alternative. If I typ

Bug#1013958: more info

2022-07-07 Thread Chris Waters
I have learned more about this. It turns out that it only happens if the user has not set the xfce default browser app! Without a user-set default, exo-open defaults to using x-www-browser, but xfce4-terminal's context menu prefers chromium! Once a user setting _exists_, the context menu happily u

Bug#925371: Enable dynamic module support

2019-03-23 Thread Chris Waters
Source: emacs Version: 1:26.1+1-3.2 Severity: wishlist Hi! This is a request to add the "--with-modules" option to the configuration options of emacs-{gtk,ludid,nox}. This is definitely not an important feature, so no rush, but it's something I'd like to play around with in the not-too-distant-f

Bug#910231: Problem was in libfontconfig

2019-03-23 Thread Chris Waters
The message "Unable to revert mtime: /usr/local/share/fonts" comes from libfontconfig1, and has nothing to do with emacs per se. See https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=909728 Submitter: if you're still seeing this, you might want to talk to the fontconfig folks. Maintainer: dependi