Bug#733944: zathura: please implement a window-resize-open option

2014-01-02 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: zathura Version: 0.2.6-1 Severity: wishlist Hello, I am testing zathura as a possible replacement for my current PDF viewer of choice (xpdf, which is now in trouble [1][2]). [1] http://packages.qa.debian.org/x/xpdf/news/20131208T163914Z.html [2] http://bugs.debian.org/727070 It seems to

Bug#733945: zathura: please implement a pages-prefetch option

2014-01-02 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: zathura Version: 0.2.6-1 Severity: wishlist Hello again, I thought of another feature that it would be really great to have in zathura: there should be an option to set a number of pages to prefetch into the page cache. Proposed name and description (for the man page) follow: pages-pre

Bug#733946: zathura: is there a way to disable continuous view?

2014-01-02 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: zathura Version: 0.2.6-1 Severity: wishlist Hi there (again)! A little question I haven't been able to find an answer to in the man pages: is there a way to disable the continuous view mode in zathura? I mean: zathura by default displays the document as a continuous sequence of pages sep

Bug#733949: zathura: please implement a zoom to selection command

2014-01-02 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: zathura Version: 0.2.6-1 Severity: wishlist Hello once again! Another feature that would nice to have in zathura is a "zoom to selection" command (similar to the one found in xpdf). This command could for instance be associated with mouse Button3: clicking with the right mouse button (But

Bug#733950: zathura: text copied to clipboard always includes a final newline character

2014-01-02 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: zathura Version: 0.2.6-1 Severity: normal Hello, I think I found a bug in zathura. It seems to me that the text copied to the clipboard (by selecting an area with the left mouse button) always includes a final spurious newline character. This has surprising effects. For instance, if the

Bug#739550: qpdfview: please implement an option to copy selected text to the X buffer

2014-02-19 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: qpdfview Version: 0.4.8-1 Severity: wishlist Hello and thanks for maintaining this nice document viewer in Debian! I noticed that it is possible to select a rectangular area in a document page and copy the selected text to the clipboard. This is useful when you want to paste the copied t

Bug#739554: qpdfview: please implement a zoom to selection option

2014-02-19 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: qpdfview Version: 0.4.8-1 Severity: wishlist Hello again, another feature that would be nice to have in qpdfview is a "zoom to selection" option (similar to the command found in xpdf). This option could for instance be associated with the middle mouse button: clicking with the middle mous

Bug#735939: security-tracker: DSA-2846-1 vs. tracker

2014-01-18 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: security-tracker Severity: normal Hello everybody, DSA-2846-1 [1] says that two vulnerabilities have been fixed in sid by libvirt/1.2.1-1 . The tracker seems to agree for CVE-2014-1447, but not for CVE-2013-6458, which is claimed to be still present in sid [2]. I think the tracker data

Bug#737782: ruby-switch: fails to work with ruby/1:1.9.3.1

2014-02-05 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: ruby-switch Version: 0.1.0 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable Hello, after installing ruby/1:1.9.3.1, the alternatives for /usr/bin/ruby and similar links seem to have been replaced by direct links. $ ls -altrF /usr/bin/ruby lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Feb 3 01:08

Bug#738202: security-tracker: DSA-2856-1 vs. tracker

2014-02-08 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: security-tracker Severity: normal Hello, DSA-2856-1 [1] states that CVE-2014-0050 is fixed in oldstable and stable security updates for libcommons-fileupload-java. [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2014/msg00026.html The tracker seems to agree on its DSA page [2], bu

Bug#738485: libgpgme11: [regression] sylpheed no longer asks for passphrase in dialog window, but in terminal

2014-02-09 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: libgpgme11 Version: 1.4.3-0.1 Severity: normal Hello, thanks for maintaining libgpgme in Debian. I think I noticed a regression. After the following upgrade [UPGRADE] libgpgme11:amd64 1.2.0-1.4 -> 1.4.3-0.1 sylpheed stopped asking for the passphrase in a dedicated dialog window. It i

Bug#738584: security-tracker: DSA-2858-1 vs. tracker

2014-02-10 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: security-tracker Severity: normal Hello all, DSA-2858-1 [1] states that several vulnerabilities have been fixed in sid by iceweasel/24.3.0esr-1, but the tracker disagrees for two of them [2][3] (the tracker claims that sid is still vulnerable). [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-securit

Bug#731779: security-tracker: DSA-2812-1 vs. tracker

2013-12-09 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: security-tracker Severity: normal Hello, there seems to be a missing epoch in the squeeze and wheezy fixed versions of samba for DSA-2812-1 [1][2]. [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2013/msg00226.html [2] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/DSA-2812-1 Could y

Bug#732575: security-tracker: DSA-2822-1 vs. tracker

2013-12-18 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: security-tracker Severity: normal Hi all! It seems to me that the squeeze and wheezy fixed versions of xorg-server are missing an epoch in DSA-2822-1 [1][2]. [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2013/msg00236.html [2] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/DSA-2822-

Bug#726797: ruby-gettext: rxgettext fails with uninitialized constant GetText::Tools::XGetText::PO (NameError)

2013-10-19 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: ruby-gettext Version: 3.0.2-1 Severity: normal Hello, since bug #716916 [1] was fixed a while ago, I thought I could test rxgettext again. I took the test case described in bug #684182 [2]. Mh, there seems to be something wrong! $ rxgettext --copyright-holder="Francesco Poli" \

Bug#726805: freecad: debian/copyright file is outdated

2013-10-19 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: freecad Version: 0.13.2580-dfsg-2 Severity: important Hello, as said in the latest messages of bug #617613 log [1], the debian/copyright file of freecad is outdated. At the very least, it still describes some files as GPL-licensed, while in the actual package there no longer are any [2].

Bug#726941: rxgettext: please implement a command-line option to set the copyright YEAR

2013-10-20 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: ruby-gettext Version: 3.0.2-2 Severity: wishlist Hello again, it would be great if rxgettext had a command-line option to specify what should be put in the output .pot file in stead of the "YEAR" in the copyright notice. In other words, let's consider (again) the test case described in b

Bug#726946: ruby-gettext: rxgettext writes location paths relative to output file directory

2013-10-20 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: ruby-gettext Version: 3.0.2-2 Severity: normal Hi again! I noticed something really weird in rxgettext. It seems that its output .pot file includes location paths relative to the destination directory, rather than to the current working directory! I am not sure this causes problems with

Bug#726949: ruby-gettext: rxgettext should split messages at newline characters

2013-10-20 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: ruby-gettext Version: 3.0.2-2 Severity: wishlist Hello once again! ;-) I prepared a small revision of my test case, in order to show another thing that I noticed about rxgettext: $ cat myapplication.rb #!/usr/bin/ruby # Copyright (C) 2012-2013 Francesco Poli # # This progra

Bug#728444: libfontconfig1: xpdf is broken by fontconfig version 2.11.0-1

2013-11-01 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: libfontconfig1 Version: 2.11.0-1 Severity: grave Justification: renders xpdf package unusable Control: block -1 by 727070 Hello, there's a bug in xpdf [#727070] which is triggered by the upgrade of fontconfig to version 2.11.0-1 (from, say, version 2.10.2-2). [#727070] http://bugs.debian

Bug#728479: ipe: buffer overflow! I cannot complete snapping examples 2, 3, and 6

2013-11-01 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: ipe Version: 7.1.3-1 Severity: important Hello and thanks for maintaining this fantastic vector drawing editor! While studying its manual, I encountered an issue that seems to be related to angular snapping. I cannot complete the following snapping examples: 2, 3, and 6. These three exam

Bug#728480: ipe: calls gedit (hard-coded choice of text editor?)

2013-11-01 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: ipe Version: 7.1.3-1 Severity: normal Hello again! I noticed that, if I open the stylesheet dialog (selecting Style sheets from the Edit menu) and try to edit one stylesheet, nothing happens, except for the following error showing up in the terminal: sh: gedit: command not found As you

Bug#728920: stockfish: polyglot.ini should refer to /usr/games/stockfish and autodetect the number of cores

2013-11-06 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: stockfish Version: 3.0.0+git20130508-2 Severity: normal Tags: patch Hello. First of all, thanks for maintaining stockfish in Debian! I noticed that the provided Polyglot initialization file /usr/share/doc/stockfish/polyglot.ini needs a couple of fixes, before it is usable out of the box.

Bug#729164: gnuchess-book: could the Depends on gnuchess be turned into a Suggests ?

2013-11-09 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: gnuchess-book Version: 1.02-1 Severity: normal Hello! Thanks for maintaining this public domain chess opening book. I installed it in order to use it with eboard, polyglot, and stockfish. This setups seems to indeed work correctly, as long as the PolyGlot initialization file includes the

Bug#729747: pu: package apt-listbugs/0.1.8

2013-11-16 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: release.debian.org Severity: normal User: release.debian@packages.debian.org Usertags: pu Hello, I am the current maintainer of the apt-listbugs package. While preparing version 0.1.10, I fixed an insecure temporary file creation. The apt-listbugs program creates a temporary file in

Bug#730075: security-tracker: DSA-2797-1 (chromium-browser) vs. tracker

2013-11-20 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: security-tracker Severity: normal Hi everybody, now that the security tracker repository on alioth is back online, several recent DSAs are visible on the tracker. Thanks. I noticed that, unfortunately, there seem to be *two* DSA-2797-1 with conflicting name. One for chromium-browser [1]

Bug#730835: bugs.debian.org: the BTS seems to no longer know who are the maintainers of the packages!

2013-11-29 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: bugs.debian.org Severity: grave Justification: causes non-serious data loss Hello! The BTS seems to have forgotten the names and e-mail addresses of the maintainers of all packages! Or, at least, of a part of the packages... For instance: http://bugs.debian.org/730490 states "Maintaine

Bug#752110: security-tracker: DSA-2962-1 vs. tracker

2014-06-19 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: security-tracker Severity: normal Hello everybody! DSA-2962-1 [1] states that CVE-2014-1545 is fixed in sid by nspr/2:4.10.6-1, but the tracker [2] seems to disagree (it currenctly claims that sid is still vulnerable). [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2014/msg00143.h

Bug#745237: freecad: unclear situation w.r.t. example files (source package vs. binary packages vs. debian/copyright)

2014-04-19 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: freecad Version: 0.13.2935-dfsg-1.1 Severity: important Hello, I see that bug #726805 is unfortunately still unfixed... While reviewing it, I noticed another part of the debian/copyright file which is unclear and seems to be outdated. I was going to add a comment to #726805 bug log, but,

Bug#740463: libelmersolver-6.1.so links with both GPL-licensed and GPL-incompatible libraries

2014-03-01 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: libelmersolver-6.1 Version: 6.1.0.svn.5396.dfsg2-2 Severity: serious Justification: Policy 2.3 User: debian-science-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org Usertags: scotch-license-issues Hello, it was previously [1] noticed that Elmer links with SCOTCH, which is GPL-incompatible. [1] https:

Bug#740564: apt-listbugs: auxiliary script send-hook-info.rb fails to work with Ruby 2.0

2014-03-02 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: apt-listbugs Version: 0.1.12 Severity: normal Tags: help I am filing this bug report against my own package, since I noticed something awkward that I am unable to understand. Hence this is intended as both a reminder of the issue and a call for help. The issue is that the send-hook-info.

Bug#740894: gmsh: please make tetgen an optional feature for gmsh

2014-03-05 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: gmsh Version: 2.8.4+dfsg-1 Severity: wishlist Hello, thanks a lot for maintaining gmsh in Debian. I see that tetgen support was enabled in gmsh/2.8.4+dfsg-1, thus creating the new dependency on libtet1.5 ... I would like to point out that the current license of tetgen is the GNU AfferoG

Bug#741112: libfreefoam1: libscotchDecomp.so.0.1.0 is GPL-licensed but links with GPL-incompatible library

2014-03-08 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: libfreefoam1 Version: 0.1.0+dfsg-1 Severity: serious Justification: Policy 2.3 User: debian-science-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org Usertags: scotch-license-issues Hello, the library /usr/lib/freefoam/libscotchDecomp.so.0.1.0 is apparently licensed under the terms of the GNU GPL v3 o

Bug#741165: libdolfin1.3: libdolfin.so.1.3.0 links with both GPL-licensed and GPL-incompatible libraries

2014-03-09 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: libdolfin1.3 Version: 1.3.0+dfsg-2 Severity: serious Justification: Policy 2.3 User: debian-science-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org Usertags: scotch-license-issues Hello, the library /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdolfin.so.1.3.0 links with: => libumfpack.so.5.6.2, which is under the

Bug#741172: libslepc3.4.2: libslepc.so.3.4.2 links with both GPL-licensed and GPL-incompatible libraries

2014-03-09 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: libslepc3.4.2 Version: 3.4.2.dfsg-1 Severity: serious Justification: Policy 2.3 User: debian-science-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org Usertags: scotch-license-issues Hello, the library /usr/lib/libslepc.so.3.4.2 links with: => libumfpack.so.5.6.2, which is under the GNU GPL v2 or la

Bug#741196: libpetsc3.4.2: libpetsc.so.3.4.2 links with both GPL-licensed and GPL-incompatible libraries

2014-03-09 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: libpetsc3.4.2 Version: 3.4.2.dfsg1-6 Severity: serious Justification: Policy 2.3 User: debian-science-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org Usertags: scotch-license-issues Hello, the library /usr/lib/libpetsc.so.3.4.2 links with: => libumfpack.so.5.6.2, which is under the GNU GPL v2 or l

Bug#741204: getdp is GPL-licensed, but links with both GPL-licensed and GPL-incompatible libraries

2014-03-09 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: getdp Version: 2.4.2-1 Severity: serious Justification: Policy 2.3 User: debian-science-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org Usertags: scotch-license-issues Hello, the program /usr/bin/getdp is under the GNU GPL v2 (only? or later? the debian/copyright is not too clear on this aspect) and

Bug#741303: libfeel++1: libfeelpp.so.1.0.0 links with both GPL-licensed and GPL-incompatible libraries

2014-03-10 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: libfeel++1 Version: 1:0.95.0-final-2 Severity: serious Justification: Policy 2.3 User: debian-science-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org Usertags: scotch-license-issues Hello, the library /usr/lib/libfeelpp.so.1.0.0 links with: => libumfpack.so.5.6.2, which is under the GNU GPL v2 or

Bug#743046: security-tracker: DSA-2891-1 vs. tracker

2014-03-30 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: security-tracker Severity: normal Hello! The tracker data [1] for DSA-2891-1 [2] seems to miss an epoch for the wheezy fixed version of package mediawiki. [1] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/DSA-2891-1 [2] https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2014/msg00064.html

Bug#743246: security-tracker: DSA-2893-1 vs. tracker

2014-03-31 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: security-tracker Severity: normal Hello again! The tracker data [1] for DSA-2893-1 [2] seems to miss an epoch for both fixed versions of package openswan. [1] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/DSA-2893-1 [2] https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2014/msg00067.html

Bug#746165: libpcre3: please automatically restart init in postinst

2014-04-27 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: libpcre3 Version: 1:8.31-4 Severity: wishlist Hello and thanks for maintaining libpcre3. I noticed that /sbin/init (from package sysvinit-core) links with this library: $ ldd /sbin/init [...] libc.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0x7fcaab659000) libp

Bug#749082: security-tracker: DSA-2935-1 vs. tracker

2014-05-23 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: security-tracker Severity: normal Hello all! It seems to me that the tracker data [1] for DSA-2935-1 [2] misses an epoch in the wheezy fixed version of package libgadu. [1] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/DSA-2935-1 [2] https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2014/m

Bug#751344: netgen: please re-enable the linking with libav libraries

2014-06-11 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: netgen Version: 4.9.13.dfsg-8 Severity: wishlist Hello Debian Science Maintainers, could you please re-enable the linking of netgen with libav libraries? As noted on bug #618968 [1], an up-to-date netgen package depending on oce packages version 0.15-x (currently in unstable and testing)

Bug#698527: elmer: executable ElmerGUI.real links with both GPL-licensed and GPL-incompatible libraries

2013-01-19 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: elmer Version: 6.1.0.svn.5396.dfsg2-1 Severity: serious Justification: Policy 2.3 Hello, this may sound like a revival of bug #618696 [1], but in fact it's distinct (although the evergreen OpenCASCADE GPL-incompatibility is still involved...). [1] http://bugs.debian.org/618696 Let's sta

Bug#649011: security-tracker: DSA-2346-1 vs. tracker

2011-11-16 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: security-tracker Severity: normal Hello, it seems to me that the tracker page [1] for DSA-2346-1 [2] lacks the reference to CVE-2011-4130. Please update the tracker data. Thanks for your time! [1] http://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/DSA-2346-1 [2] http://lists.debian.org/debian-s

Bug#649299: security-tracker: DSA-2349-1 vs. tracker

2011-11-19 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: security-tracker Severity: normal Hello, it seems to me that the tracker page [1] for DSA-2349-1 [2] is messed up: do I see correctly that the version number has been used in place of the package name? Please fix the tracker data. Thanks for your time! [1] http://security-tracker.debian

Bug#697125: iceweasel: default value for extensions.blocklist.enabled causes Iceweasel to phone home

2013-01-01 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: iceweasel Version: 10.0.11esr-1 Severity: normal Hello, some time ago I read about a creepy feature [1][2] of Mozilla Firefox that seems to be enabled by default and can only be disabled in the advanced configuration page (about:config). [1] http://www.zdnet.com/blog/hardware/firefox-an

Bug#697554: kdeartwork: debian/copyright file seems to be outdated and/or incomplete

2013-01-06 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Source: kdeartwork Version: 4:4.8.4-2 Severity: serious Justification: Policy 2.3 Hello and thanks for maintaining this package! It seems to me that the debian/copyright file is outdated and/or incomplete. For instance: (A) the debian/copyright file talks about "Files under kworldclock/", but

Bug#697806: openjpeg: obnoxious advertising clause can probably be dropped

2013-01-09 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Source: openjpeg Version: 1.5.1-1 Severity: normal Hello and thanks for maintaining this package in Debian! The debian/copyright file states, in part: | Files: applications/common/opj_getopt.c | Copyright: © 1987, 1993-1994, The Regents of the University of California. | License: BSD-4 and then

Bug#698019: libav: the effective GPL-licensed status of the binary packages should be clearly documented

2013-01-12 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Source: libav Version: 6:9.1-1 Severity: important Hello again, while trying to improve [1] a comment at the beginning of the debian/copyright file, it became apparent [2] that all the binary packages built from libav are effectively under GPL-2+ or even under GPL-3+ (as for libavcodec-extra-*, bu

Bug#691983: debian-handbook: eleventh chapter should suggest a more general tool for generating SSL certs

2012-10-31 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: debian-handbook Version: 6.0+20120509 Severity: minor Hello Raphaël, in a reply to my bug report #681690, you wrote: > On Sun, 15 Jul 2012, Francesco Poli (wintermute) wrote: > > Section 11.1.1. Installing Postfix > > -- > > >

Bug#692071: storymaps: includes non-free files (src/org/json/*)

2012-11-01 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: storymaps Version: 1.0-1 Severity: serious Justification: Policy 2.2.1 Hello Javier, it seems to me [1] that storymaps includes non-free files (src/org/json/*) released under the JSON license [2]. [1] http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/s/storymaps/current/copyright [2] http

Bug#692152: gem2deb: should not add the obsolescent DM-Upload-Allowed field

2012-11-02 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: gem2deb Version: 0.3.0 Severity: normal Hello! I noticed that gem2deb creates the initial version of the debian/control file with the DM-Upload-Allowed field in it. Since this field will soon become obsolete and will stop working [1], I think that gem2deb should no longer add it to the

Bug#692928: unblock: apt-listbugs/0.1.9

2012-11-10 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: release.debian.org Severity: normal User: release.debian@packages.debian.org Usertags: unblock Please unblock package apt-listbugs As can be seen with the following command on the public git repository: $ git diff apt-listbugs/0.1.8..apt-listbugs/0.1.9 | filterdiff \ --exc

Bug#696533: debian-goodies: checkrestart ignores any package whose name includes an ignorelist item as a substring

2012-12-22 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: debian-goodies Version: 0.61 Severity: normal Tags: patch Hello again Javier, I've just found out that checkrestart fails to show the xscreensaver process, when it needs to be restarted. # checkrestart Found 1 processes using old versions of upgraded files (1 distinct program) (

Bug#696682: lazygal: fails to correctly process templates in user-defined themes

2012-12-25 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: lazygal Version: 0.7.4-1 Severity: normal Hello, thanks for maintaining this nice static web photo gallery generator in Debian! I am learning how to use lazygal. While experimenting, I wanted to customize the default theme and I found out something awkward that really looks like a bug.

Bug#689532: grace: please consider packaging new upstream version 5.1.23

2012-10-03 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: grace Version: 1:5.1.22-13 Severity: wishlist Hello, it seems that a new upstream version has recently been released: ftp://plasma-gate.weizmann.ac.il/pub/grace/src/grace5/grace-5.1.23.tar.gz Please consider packaging it, at least for experimental (if you do not want to upload to unstabl

Bug#689788: jh_repack: exits with rmdir errors (in certain conditions) and fails to repack

2012-10-06 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: javahelper Version: 0.43 Severity: normal Tags: patch Hello, I am trying to use jh_repack, but it fails to work on the case I have at hand. Steps to reproduce the bug: 0) download irclib-1.10.tar.gz from http://moepii.sourceforge.net/ 1) rename it: $ mv -i irclib-1.10.tar.

Bug#689810: jh_repack: should also remove Subversion working copy administrative directories

2012-10-06 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: javahelper Version: 0.43 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch Hello again, this bug report is a sort of sequel for #689788, so, if you liked the first one, please enjoy the second! ;-) The upstream tarball mentioned in #689788 (irclib-1.10.tar.gz) includes several Subversion working copy adm

Bug#689862: gnome-mplayer: often segfaults inside iceweasel with MPEG, WMV, and AVI videos

2012-10-07 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: gnome-mplayer Version: 1.0.6-1 Severity: normal Hello Debian Multimedia Maintainers, since long ago, I have experienced frequent segmentation faults by gnome-mplayer, when using it inside iceweasel (with gecko-mediaplayer and xul-ext-noscript installed). Steps to reproduce the bug: 0)

Bug#689919: subversion: includes a non-free file

2012-10-07 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: subversion Version: 1.7.5-1 Severity: serious Justification: Policy 2.2.1 Hello, while reviewing subversion/1.7.5-1 debian/copyright file, I noticed that debian/contrib/svn_load_dirs is licensed under the AFL v3.0 . This license includes non-free restrictions and is also problematic with

Bug#689977: security-tracker: DSA-2557-1 vs. tracker

2012-10-08 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: security-tracker Severity: normal Hi everyone! it seems to me that the tracker page [1] for DSA-2557-1 [2] has a fixed version for stable that lacks the epoch (it should be 1:0.6.10-2+squeeze1, rather than 0.6.10-2+squeeze1). Please fix the tracker data. Thanks for your time! [1] http:/

Bug#690807: security-tracker: DSA-2559-1 vs. tracker

2012-10-17 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: security-tracker Severity: normal Hi all, DSA-2559-1 [1] was issued, but the tracker seems to know nothing about it [2] yet. Please update the tracker data. Thanks for your time! [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2012/msg00203.html [2] http://security-tracker.debian

Bug#691132: gem2deb: garbled sentence in gem2deb(1) man page

2012-10-21 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: gem2deb Version: 0.3.0 Severity: minor Hello! While reading the gem2deb(1) man page, I noticed a sentence that does not look correct to me: | Metadata | It contains the gem metadata ends up in a file named | ``metadata.yml`` inside the mygem-0.1.0 directory. I am under th

Bug#691133: gem2deb: typos in dh_ruby(1) man page

2012-10-21 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: gem2deb Version: 0.3.0 Severity: minor Hello again! While reading the dh_ruby(1) man page, I noticed the following typos: | You can use this variable to override that if want to provide | custom metadata for the Debian package. I would say: s/if want/if you want/ | This file

Bug#688450: rdtool: misplaces a .TP in output man page (with ruby1.8)

2012-09-22 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: rdtool Version: 0.6.34-4 Severity: normal Tags: patch Hello and thanks for maintaining rdtool in Debian! I found a case where rd2 seems to produce a badly formed man page (when run with ruby1.8). I prepared a minimal test case to reproduce the bug. $ tar xvf frob_man_page.tar.gz fro

Bug#688808: debian-goodies: checkrestart incorrectly ignores util-linux (getty)

2012-09-25 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: debian-goodies Version: 0.61 Severity: normal Tags: patch Hello Javier, I've just noticed that checkrestart fails to show getty processes, when they need to be restarted. # checkrestart Found 5 processes using old versions of upgraded files (1 distinct program) (1 distinct packa

Bug#689204: unblock: apt-listbugs/0.1.8

2012-09-30 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: release.debian.org Severity: normal User: release.debian@packages.debian.org Usertags: unblock Please unblock package apt-listbugs As can be seen with the following command on the git repository: $ git diff apt-listbugs/0.1.7..apt-listbugs/0.1.8 | filterdiff \ --exclude='*

Bug#689254: podebconf-report-po: option "gzip" in configuration file is ignored!

2012-09-30 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: po-debconf Version: 1.0.16+nmu2 Severity: normal Tags: patch Hello, I think I spotted a bug in podebconf-report-po. When called without any gzip-related command-line option (that is to say: without --gzip or --nogzip), but with "gzip" in the configuration file, podebconf-report-po fails

Bug#689342: qa.debian.org: incorrectly shows a new upstream version for a native package

2012-10-01 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: qa.debian.org Severity: normal Hi QA team, I am the maintainer of apt-listbugs. The PTS page for my package [1] currently tells me: | A new upstream version is available: 0.1.8, | you should consider packaging it. [1] http://packages.qa.debian.org/a/apt-listbugs.html This does not loo

Bug#694270: figlet: includes non-free files copyrighted by Unicode Inc.

2012-11-24 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: figlet Version: 2.2.5-1 Severity: serious Justification: Policy 2.2.1 Hello, while reviewing the debian/copyright file of the (finally back in main!) figlet package, I noticed two issues. The first is an inaccurate copying of a license text: | Files: tests/emboss.tlf | Copyright: 2006

Bug#684892: security-tracker: DSA-2527-1 vs. tracker

2012-08-14 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: security-tracker Severity: normal Hello! DSA-2527-1 [1] states that two vulnerabilities are fixed in sid by php5/5.4.4-4, but the tracker seems to disagree on one of them, namely CVE-2012-3450 [2]. Please update the tracker data. Thanks for your time! [1] https://lists.debian.org/debi

Bug#684928: volti: volume level numerical values differ from the ones shown by alsamixer

2012-08-14 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: volti Version: 0.2.3-4 Severity: normal Hello and thanks for maintaining Volti in Debian! I've just installed this package and I'm giving it a try. I noticed that the internal mixer shows volume level numerical values that differ from the ones shown by alsamixer. I think that this is ve

Bug#684983: debian-handbook: improvements for the fifteenth and sixteenth chapter

2012-08-15 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: debian-handbook Version: 6.0+20120509 Severity: minor Hello Raphaël, I've just finished reading chapters 15 and 16: I am here sending my usual list of corrections and improvements. Section 15.2.1. Meta-Packages or Fake Packages -- Typo?s/

Bug#685280: security-tracker: DSA-2531-1 vs. tracker

2012-08-19 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: security-tracker Severity: normal Hello, DSA-2531-1 has been recently issued [1], but the corresponding tracker page [2] is basically empty. Please update the tracker data. Thanks for your time! [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2012/msg00172.html [2] http://security

Bug#685285: debian-handbook: improvements for appendix A and appendix B

2012-08-19 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: debian-handbook Version: 6.0+20120509 Severity: minor Hi Raphaël, I've just finished reading the appendices of the book. That to say, I've just reached the end of the book! :-) Thanks again to you and Roland for writing this book, for translating it into English and for releasing it in

Bug#655960: security-tracker: DSA-2388-1 vs. tracker

2012-01-15 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: security-tracker Severity: normal Hi! The tracker page [1] for DSA-2388-1 [2] looks OK, but some of the referenced CVE tracker pages [3][4] claim that t1lib/5.1.2-3.3 is still vulnerable in wheezy and sid, while the DSA [2] claims that all the CVEs are fixed in wheezy and sid by t1lib/5.

Bug#656124: security-tracker: DSA-2389-1 vs. tracker

2012-01-16 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: security-tracker Severity: normal Hello everybody! The tracker page [1] for DSA-2389-1 [2] seems to be almost empty. Please fix the tracker data. Thanks for your time! [1] http://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/DSA-2389-1 [2] http://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2012/ms

Bug#656154: opencity: unsafely overwrites opencity.save

2012-01-16 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: opencity Version: 0.0.6.4stable-1 Severity: important Hi there! First of all, thanks a lot for maintaining OpenCity in Debian! I think it's a really nice game, with a great potential. I especially like its truly 3D approach to city simulation, and the fact that it's not a clone of any p

Bug#678582: debian-handbook: improvements for the eighth chapter

2012-06-22 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: debian-handbook Version: 6.0+20120509 Severity: minor Hi Raphaël, I've just finished reading chapter 8: here's the usual list of proposed modifications, grouped by relevant section. Section 8.1.1. Seing the Default Language - | representationfor

Bug#678746: desktop-base: Joy theme is a mix of incompatibly-licensed works

2012-06-24 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: desktop-base Version: 7.0.0~exp2 Severity: serious Justification: Policy 2.3 Hello, I read about the new Joy theme [1][2]. [1] http://blog.pault.ag/post/25614704596/my-quest-to-get-desktop-base-set-before-wheezy [2] http://blog.pault.ag/post/25747178764/debian-desktop-7-0-0-exp2-in-exp

Bug#679437: brewtarget: includes non-free images

2012-06-28 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: brewtarget Version: 1.2.4-1 Severity: serious Justification: Policy 2.2.1 Hello, according to its debian/copyright file [1], this package includes some images licensed under the terms of CC-by-nc-nd-v3.0: | Files: images/flag*.png | Copyright: 2009-2010, A68 Freelance Graphics Designs |

Bug#660517: xul-ext-requestpolicy: debian/copyright file seems to be inaccurate

2012-02-19 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: xul-ext-requestpolicy Version: 0.5.24-1 Severity: normal Hello maintainers of xul-ext-requestpolicy package, thanks for maintaining this extension in Debian! The current debian/copyright file of this package claims that all shipped files are under a license labelled as "MPL-1.1 or GPL-3

Bug#679563: security-tracker: DSA-2503-1 vs. tracker

2012-06-29 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: security-tracker Severity: normal Hello everybody! DSA-2503-1 [1] states that CVE-2012-3366 is fixed in sid by bcfg2/1.2.2-2, but the tracker [2] seems to disagree. I think that the DSA is probably right, since the BTS seems to tell the same story [3]. Please update the tracker data. T

Bug#679768: debian-handbook: improvements for the ninth chapter

2012-07-01 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: debian-handbook Version: 6.0+20120509 Severity: minor Hello Raphaël, I've just completed chapter 9: what follows is my list of suggestions, grouped by relevant section, as usual. Section 9.2.2. Secure Remote Login: SSH --- | The SSH (Secured Shel) pr

Bug#680651: debian-handbook: improvements for the tenth chapter

2012-07-07 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: debian-handbook Version: 6.0+20120509 Severity: minor Hello Raphaël, I've just finished reading chapter 10 and I am sending my usual list of suggestions (shorter than for other chapter of comparable length, actually: well done!). Section 10.2.2. Virtual Private Network with SSH

Bug#680738: salome-gui: links with both GPL-licensed and GPL-incompatible libraries

2012-07-08 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: salome-gui Version: 6.5.0-1 Severity: serious Justification: Policy 2.2.1 Hello Debian Science Maintainers, thanks for your effort to reintroduce SALOME into Debian. However, it seems to me that one of the licensing issues that affected the previous package [1] is still present in the cu

Bug#658545: security-tracker: DSA-2401-1 vs. tracker

2012-02-03 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: security-tracker Severity: normal Hello! DSA-2401-1 [1] claims that a number of referenced vulnerabilities are fixed in sid by tomcat6/6.0.35-1 However, two vulnerabilities (CVE-2011-3190 [2] and CVE-2011-4858 [3]) out of the 10 referenced ones are shown as not fixed in sid and wheezy on

Bug#658756: opencity: unauthorized construction is observed!

2012-02-05 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: opencity Version: 0.0.6.4stable-1 Severity: normal Hello, I often experience what I think is a bug in the implementation of opencity. During the growth of my city, I often find cases of unauthorized construction: I mean that some building has been constructed without complying with regul

Bug#658767: opencity: the tax burden should be adjustable

2012-02-05 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: opencity Version: 0.0.6.4stable-1 Severity: wishlist Hello maintainers of the opencity Debian package, as I have already said, I like this game. I would like to suggest an important improvement: the tax burden should be a numeric parameter (for instance a percentage) that may be adjusted

Bug#658769: opencity: the sound volume should be adjustable

2012-02-05 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: opencity Version: 0.0.6.4stable-1 Severity: wishlist Hi! During the game, the sounds may be turned off/on by pressing the [S] key. This is good, since the sounds are not always welcome. However, I think that there should also be a way to increase/decrease the volume of the sounds. I ho

Bug#681133: libreoffice-impress: segfaults at exit, leaving pending recoveries

2012-07-10 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: libreoffice-impress Version: 1:3.5.4-5 Severity: important Hello, thanks for maintaining LibreOffice in Debian. I am encountering serious difficulties in using loimpress. It seems to segfaults often. Minimal test case to reproduce this bug: $ loimpress With a few clicks and keyst

Bug#681690: debian-handbook: improvements for the eleventh chapter

2012-07-15 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: debian-handbook Version: 6.0+20120509 Severity: minor Hello Raphaël, I've just finished reading chapter 11. Here's my usual list of proposed modifications and fixes. Section 11.1.1. Installing Postfix -- Typo? s/nomally/normally/ Snake oil certificat

Bug#681692: debian-handbook: chapter 11: please document the configuration of Exim

2012-07-15 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: debian-handbook Version: 6.0+20120509 Severity: wishlist Hi Raphaël, all subsections of section 11.1. (Mail Server) describe the configuration of Postfix with great detail. On the other hand, Exim is only mentioned as a possible alternative. Since I would prefer learning Exim rather tha

Bug#685843: security-tracker: DSA-2533-1 vs. tracker

2012-08-25 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: security-tracker Severity: normal Hello, DSA-2533-1 [1] states that four vulnerabilities are fixed in sid by pcp/3.6.5 The tracker [2][3][4][5] seems to disagree. Please update the tracker data. Thanks for your time! [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2012/msg00174.h

Bug#685904: packaging-tutorial: copyright and license of the Debian swirl is not documented in debian/copyright

2012-08-26 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: packaging-tutorial Version: 0.7 Severity: normal Hello Lucas, thanks a lot for writing this tutorial, for publishing it in a DFSG-free manner and for packaging it! I noticed that the tutorial incorporates the Debian swirl (Debian Open Use Logo without "Debian" [1]), but the debian/copyr

Bug#686594: packaging-tutorial: improvements for slides 1÷40

2012-09-03 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: packaging-tutorial Version: 0.7 Severity: minor Hi Lucas, I am more or less half-way in my reading of the packaging tutorial. What follows is a list of suggestions, corrections, enhancements, and so forth, grouped by relevant slide. I hope this may be useful to you, in order to further i

Bug#682580: xgettext: fails to properly replace some placeholders in output .pot (PACKAGE, YEAR, C. HOLDER)

2012-07-23 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: gettext Version: 0.18.1.1-9 Severity: normal Hello! Thanks for maintaining gettext in Debian! I noticed that xgettext does not properly replace all the relevant placeholders in the output .pot file, when told to do so through command-line options. I'll try to explain the issues with a

Bug#682786: debian-handbook: improvements for the twelfth chapter

2012-07-25 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: debian-handbook Version: 6.0+20120509 Severity: minor Hi Raphaël, I've just completed the reading of chapter 12. What follows is my usual list of suggestions/corrections. Section 12.1.1.1. Different RAID Levels --- Typo? s/differenciated/differenti

Bug#683156: debian-handbook: improvements for the thirteenth chapter

2012-07-29 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Package: debian-handbook Version: 6.0+20120509 Severity: minor Hello Raphaël, I've just finished reading chapter 13. I am hereby sending my list of proposed modifications and corrections, as usual. Section 13.2.2. Choosing a Window Manager - | "Light" (or

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