Package: procps
Version: 1:3.2.1-2
Followup-For: Bug #335153
If the initial submitter doesn't get back to you on this, I can
provide /proc/slabinfo files, such as the one below, that appear to
choke slabtop. This kernel has no fancy kernel patches or wacky
experimental options; it's just compiled
Package: somaplayer
Version: 0.5.2-2
Severity: minor
somaplayer's stderr feedback implies, and strace confirms, that it
is looking for its configuration file first in ~/.somaplayer (which
is fair enough) and then in /usr/etc/somaplayer.
Please arrange for it to look somewhere in /etc instead, as
Package: somaplayer
Version: 0.5.2-2
Severity: normal
Running somaplayer_configure doesn't appear to be necessary, but
when I try it I get the following message:
Search your audio interface...
Try OSS:
I can't open the test file.
strace tells me it's looking for /usr/sha
This bug was fixed so long ago that my patches are themselves
suffering link-rot. Shouldn't it be closed by now?
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Package: xcdroast
Followup-For: Bug #307499
Attached is a suggested updated version of the xcdroast-manual
docbase file. Or of course you could put the full HTML version back
in, or stop registering either with docbase.
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Document: xcdroast-manual
Titl
Package: wayv
Version: 0.3-1
Severity: minor
"http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_contents.pl?word=bin%2Fwayv&version=testing";
Given that wayv makes far too much use of X11 libraries to run with
the /usr partition unmounted, the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard
would put it in /usr/bin.
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Package: libtk-img
Version: 1:1.3-13
Severity: minor
Tags: patch
Here's a trivial patch putting libtk-img in the same doc-base
Section as libpng12 and imlib-base:
##
--- /usr/share/doc-base/libtk-img.old 2005-03-14 17:26:46.000
Package: bind9-doc
Version: 1:9.2.4-1
Followup-For: Bug #139115
Okay, if not for Woody or Sarge, how about in Etch?
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Architecture: i386 (i586)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.11.hurakan
Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=e
Package: ldap-utils
Version: 2.2.23-1
Severity: minor
Running "chkdupexe" (which I have in a cronjob) gives an error:
Dangling symlink: /usr/sbin/slappasswd
The missing symlink target is "../lib/ldapd". This file is not
provided by any package in the dependencies of ldap-utils. I'd hav
Package: snort
Version: 2.3.2-2
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
/var/lib/dpkg/info/snort.templates:
| Template: snort/interface
...
| Description: On which interface(s) should Snort listen?
| Please enter the interface(s) name(s) which snort should listen on. The name
| of the available interface
Package: linkchecker
Version: 2.8-1
Severity: minor
/etc/bash_completion.d/linkchecker-completion says only:
complete -F _optcomplete linkchecker
Which means whenever I type "linkchecker " I get:
bash: completion: function `_optcomplete' not found
Perhaps your own shell environ
Package: asmounter
Version: 0.3-3
Severity: minor
To function, asmounter needs to be able to find a configuration file
listing the mount points it should display. One is provided as
asmounter.example; it just needs to be edited as appropriate and put
in place.
The first possible location it can
Package: xine-ui
Version: 0.99.3-1
Severity: minor
Installing xine-ui creates an orthodox /usr/share/doc/xine-ui
directory complete with a good few READMEs; but there's also a
"small summary of xitk hidden features :-)", installed where it's
safe from discovery:
'http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin
Package: xmcd
Version: 2.6-17
Severity: minor
"http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_contents.pl?word=/usr/bin/.xmcd_start&version=unstable";
Nothing in the package seems to make use of the script, which is
lucky since it doesn't work. All it does is shuffle some variables,
including adding
Package: pdbv
Version: 2.0.9.3
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
According to the changelog, the upgrade from 2.0.9.2 to .3 contained
only updated translations. However, it results in the cronjobs
outputting an error message:
> Unable to run /etc/pdbv/pdbvrc Most commonly, it's a privilege issue.
>
Package: clamav-freshclam
Version: 0.84-2
Severity: minor
Tags: patch
I'm not running the daemon, so I'm glad to see the pid-check in the
new /etc/logrotate.d/clamav-freshclam:
[ -f /var/run/clamav/freshclam.pid ] && kill -HUP `cat
/var/run/clamav/freshclam.pid` > /dev/null
However, testing fo
Package: countrycodes
Version: 1.0.3-5
Severity: minor
Tags: patch
Currently:
?package(countrycodes):needs=text section=Apps/Tools\
title="countrycodes" command="/usr/bin/iso3166"
But that commandline just produces an error and usage-synopsis.
Probably what you need is this:
?package(countryc
Package: ppmd
Version: 9.1-10
Severity: wishlist
I do "aptitude install ppmd"; I glance at "man ppmd":
SYNTAX
ppmd [switches]
but when I try "ppmd e testfile", of course I get a "command not
found" - it's /usr/bin/PPMd. This is confusing for users accustomed
to the unix "keep it lowe
Package: gozer
Version: 0.7.nofont.1-1
Severity: minor
The gozer 0.5-1 changelog claims
* Removed useless README and TODO files. (Closes: #130175)
But it seems they've snuck back in:
"http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_contents.pl?searchmode=filelist&word=gozer";
(The TODO is empty, th
Package: gozer
Version: 0.7.nofont.1-1
Severity: normal
If I don't specify a font, gozer falls back on a compiled-in default
which is now very unlikely to be installed on the system:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ gozer -t text file.png
gozer error: failed to load font helmetr/16
This is true even if I h
Package: wordplay
Version: 7.22-16
Severity: wishlist
The description for wordplay has:
> Wordplay generates anagrams of words or phrases. For example,
> "Debian/Gnu Linux" = "blade gun in unix", "able nun dig unix",
> "dual benign unix", or "lad begun in unix".
First point: that should be "GNU/"
Package: manedit
Version: 0.6.1-1
Severity: minor
Even though manedit.1.gz refers to:
> /usr/share/man
> Global manual pages directory (used by newer UNIX
> distributions).
manedit's compiled-in "Global" value is /usr/man, missing all the
Debian man pages. That's an obvious FHS-com
Package: xchm
Version: 0.9.7-2
Severity: minor
To quote policy, "Pre-Depends should be used sparingly".
/usr/bin/xchm is perfectly usable without mime-support even
installed (though I can see why you'd Recommend it); it shouldn't
matter whether mime-support's install-scripts are run before or
aft
Package: lush
Version: 1.0+final-1
Severity: minor
Not a bug has caused me any inconvenience - I just noticed a single
anomalous executable among the 4000 on my $PATH. Debian-policy 10.1
says "by default all installed binaries should be stripped".
However, /usr/bin/lush is apparently deliberately
Package: esh
Version: 0.8-7
Severity: minor
Any attempt to exec rather than simply run ssh gives an error:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ exec esh
esh: could not put myself in my own process group.
esh: permission denied.
$
The esh shell does successfully replace bash, so it's more
offputting than ha
Package: uw-imapd
Severity: wishlist
>From the Description:
> If you do install uw-imapd you will almost certainly want to install a
> Mail Transfer Agent such as Smail or Sendmail, as remote mail
> programs which use IMAP to access incoming and saved mail will
> usually want to send mail using SM
Package: harden-servers
Followup-For: Bug #311339
In case it helps, here are some notes on that Conflicts: list:
bsd-ftpd: not in Sarge or later
mdidentd: not in Woody or later
netkit-rpc: not in Woody or later
pidentd:Depends: libssl*
proftpd:Depends: libssl*
sendmail: Depends: lib
Michael Bunk wrote:
> I'm freedict upstream. Thanks for your report. Even though your introductory
> question looks like a rhetoric question, since I don't know the languages
> Gaelic or Scottish, I have to ask you to please answer your question :)
>
> Since it has only 300 headwords, I will put
Package: libtse3-dev
Severity: minor
apt-file tells me:
usr/share/man/man3/man3/tse3.3.gz libdevel/libtse3-dev
^
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Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Package: ledit
Version: 1.11-4
Severity: minor
The filelist for ledit:
/.
/usr
/usr/bin
/usr/bin/ledit
/usr/share
/usr/share/man
/usr/share/man/man1
/usr/share/man/man1/ledit.1.gz
/usr/share/man/manl
/usr/share/man/manl/ledit.1.gz <- what's this then?
/usr/share/lintian
[...]
The two ma
Package: tclvfs
Version: 1.3-1
Severity: minor
I'd have expected this package's man pages to be sitting next to
/usr/share/man/man3/uri.3tcl.gz, but no, here they are:
/usr/share/man/mann/vfs.n.gz
/usr/share/man/mann/vfslib.n.gz
The upstream Makefile does this as an apparently deliberate piece
Package: kmail
Severity: minor
These four man pages:
/usr/share/man/sh/man1/kmail_antivir.1.gz
/usr/share/man/sh/man1/kmail_clamav.1.gz
/usr/share/man/sh/man1/kmail_fprot.1.gz
/usr/share/man/sh/man1/kmail_sav.1.gz
...are apparently filed under /sh/ because they're documenting shell
scripts.
Package: pyca
Severity: minor
These man pages:
/usr/share/man/py/man1/ca2ldif.1.gz
/usr/share/man/py/man1/certs2ldap.1.gz
/usr/share/man/py/man1/copy-cacerts.1.gz
/usr/share/man/py/man1/ns-jsconfig.1.gz
/usr/share/man/py/man1/print-cacerts.1.gz
.
Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote:
> Justin B Rye wrote:
>> If I wanted to use a surfraw shellscript to save me the
>> effort of typing out the commandline "w3m xe.com/ucc", then I'd use
>> "sr g -l ucc"!
>
> I'm inclined to tag this wontfix, /etc/s
Package: desktop-file-utils
Version: 0.10-1
Severity: normal
> Description: Utilities for .desktop files
> Some utilities to make dealing with .desktop files easier:
> * update-desktop-database -- update the desktop-MIME mapping
> * desktop-file-validate -- validate a desktop file
> * deskt
Package: gman
Version: 0.9.3-2
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
This seems to me like an obvious bug with an obvious patch:
--- /usr/lib/cgi-bin/gman.old 2003-08-15 19:33:12.0 +0100
+++ /usr/lib/cgi-bin/gman.pl2005-07-09 17:52:05.0 +0100
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
my $section = $ARGV[
Package: gconf2
Followup-For: Bug #311252
Just to confirm that the original reporter isn't some freakish
one-off. Here on my domestic network, where most X logins on the
public server are my flatmates logging into fvwm2, running firefox
and then logging out, I routinely found ghostly gconfd-2 pro
Package: dict-freedict-afr-deu
Severity: minor
Tags: patch
This is a dict package for translating between the languages with
ISO 639-2 Alpha-3 codes "afr" and "deu", right?
+---+---+---+
| 639-2 | 639-2 | Name |
+---+---+---
Package: dict-freedict-sco-deu
Severity: normal
This is a dict package for translating between German and the
variety of Gaelic spoken in Scotland, right? Well, the word
"Scottish" is rarely used to refer to a language, but when it is, it
isn't that one.
* Gaelic (or Scots Gaelic, or Gaidhlig)
Josselin Mouette wrote:
> Le lundi 11 juillet 2005 à 16:53 +0100, Justin B Rye a écrit :
[...]
>> It was also often possible to get this sort of effect by invoking
>> various other minor apps such as gthumb or ggv; sometimes gconfd-2
>> would just exit automatically, sometim
Package: diction
Version: 1.02-1
Severity: minor
Tags: patch
This package has flaws I feel honour-bound as a linguistics graduate
to mention in passing: lists of common-but-forbidden usages often
seem to base their criteria for what makes something "wrong" on
sheer superstition, rather than on any
Package: scowl
Version: 5-4
Severity: minor
I happened to run "grep lll" on my system wordlist, and noticed some
bogus words. Running "pcregrep -rn '(.)\1\1' /usr/share/dict/scowl"
shows many similar cases. Of course some are legit (placenames such
as Kaaawa or Kinrossshire, acronyms or Roman nu
Package: wwwstat
Version: 2.0-2
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
Running "/usr/sbin/wwwstat /var/log/apache/access.log" produces a
torrent of warnings, accompanied by advice on the standard way of
avoiding the warning; attached is a patch following its advice. Or
I suppose you could just take the "-w
Package: giflib-bin
Version: 3.0-11
Severity: normal
I doubt anybody's depending on /usr/bin/gif2x11 as their best
available method for viewing a GIF... but if they are, they're going
to have trouble. It visibly maps a window for a moment, but then:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ gif2x11 test.gif
X Error
Scott Johnston wrote:
> Very interesting. It seems Tim Heller's dclock and the InterViews
> dclock have co-existed since the 1980's. It would take a little more
> research to determine which program was actually published first, but
> they were both available by 1988. If it was a program I had c
Package: sysutils
Version: 1.3.8.5.1
Severity: minor
Tags: patch
The only thing out of sysutils that I can remember ever using is
/usr/bin/lsdev, so I was surprised to notice that the package
description fails to mention it. And now that I'm nitpicking...
> This is a package incorporating variou
Justin B Rye wrote:
> I suggest the following patch, which (among other things) sorts them
> into alphabetical order:
> [...]
> + * bogomips [...]
> + *lsdev [...]
> + * memtest [...]
> + * procinfo [...]
> + * fromdos [...]
Well, it _tries_ to sort them into al
Package: polygen
Version: 1.0.6-7
Severity: critical
Tags: security
Justification: root security hole
/var/lib/dpkg/info/polygen-data.postinst invokes /usr/bin/polygen on
all its /usr/share/polygen/*/*.grm data files to create corresponding
.grm.o files. Unfortunately polygen ignores the umask an
Package: xara-gtk
Version: 1.0.9
Severity: wishlist
At present xara-gtk and xara-gtk-byte have precisely identical
package Descriptions, right down to both ending with "This is the
GTK2 GUI version." I see no recognition of the difference within
the packages, either.
Presumably there's some tec
Package: checksecurity
Version: 2.0.7-6
Severity: minor
Tags: patch
The only difference between /etc/cron.daily/checksecurity and
/etc/cron.weekly/checksecurity is that they run their payload with
arguments "daily" and "weekly" respectively. This means that
A) They both use the same lockfile: /v
Package: ivtools-bin
Version: 1.1.3-4
Severity: normal
The scripts /usr/X11R6/bin/ivgetjpg and ivtiftopnm fail to run, due
to the absence of "tmpnam"; they're fixable, but it's not worth the
effort.
> #!/bin/bash
> # ** requires w3c from w3c.org and djpeg from jpeg.org as well **
> #
> # ivget
Package: ivtools-bin
Version: 1.1.3-4
Severity: wishlist
The package ivtools-bin contains a couple of executables that have
been given the prefix iv-, presumably to help avoid name clashes.
One of the binaries that hasn't is /usr/X11R6/bin/dclock.
Unfortunately, there's another package in Debian t
(Sorry about the delay, modem trouble)
Eric Dorland wrote:
> * Justin B Rye ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>> [...] Specifying an
>> appropriate fontpath on the commandline doesn't help - the packaged
>> rcfile takes priority.
>
> Are you sure the package rcfile tak
Now that dpkg (1.13.2) contains no md5sum binary, and
/usr/bin/md5sum.textutils has a diversion to plain /usr/bin/md5sum,
this bug might as well be closed, right?
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Bastian Kleineidam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> changelogged:
> - fixes bash-completion script
>(Closes: #309076)
It's not quite a wateright fix; if I don't notice the "Suggests:
python2.4-optcomplete", or don't realise why it's needed, I'll still
get the same errors. I would therefore like t
Package: graphicsmagick
Version: 1.1.7-10
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
(Still applies in 1.1.7-11)
/usr/share/menu/graphicsmagick has:
command="/usr/bin/gm display"
That works from an X-terminal-emulator CLI (showing the fallback
logo image), but not from the Debian menu system. Similar TTY-l
Package: debtags
Version: 1.6.6
Severity: normal
Well, my desktop's running Etch, #400994 has gone away, I can get on
with some tagging... but what's going on with these subcommands?
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ debtags
cat implications related stats tagshow
check instal
Package: crossfire-client
Version: 1.9.1-1
Severity: minor
Tags: patch
The last line of the package description claims:
This package contains no binaries.
But this is a lie - in fact it contains more or less nothing *but*
an ELF 32-bit LSB executable binary file, /usr/games/cfsndserv
(plus some
Package: bsh
Version: 2.0b4-4
Severity: normal
openoffice.org-writer Recommends: openoffice.org-java-common
openoffice.org-java-common Depends:bsh
So anybody installing the writer on its own will end up with a
desktop menu-entry invoking /usr/bin/xbsh. But the GTK libraries it
requires
Package: qiv
Version: 2.0-6
Followup-For: Bug #351816
Yes, this is a bug that needed fixing; but your workaround
introduces a significant regression, so would you mind mentioning
it in a NEWS.Debian file? That way, users with apt-listchanges
installed will get a chance to see a warning on upgrad
Package: mp32ogg
Version: 0.11-7
Severity: minor
Tags: patch
This package depends on mpg321, "the free version of mpg123". But
post-Sarge mpg123 is also in main under the GPL/LGPL.
As mpg321 provides /usr/bin/mpg123 (and Provides: mpg123), you can
just depend on mpg123 and allow users a free cho
Package: zim
Version: 0.17-1
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
Launching Zim gave me this STDERR message:
WARNING: You don't seem to have any mimeinfo.cache files.
Try running the update-desktop-database command. If you
don't have this command you should install the
desktop-file-utils package.
Package: surfraw
Version: 2.0.2-1
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
Attached are four simple optionless elvi that I've found useful.
Use/modify/discard as convenient.
cia
This could perhaps also have options like -worldfactbook,
but the basic version does all I ever need.
deblogs
Package: checksecurity
Version: 2.0.7-1
Severity: minor
I've found what looks like a minor thinko with a two-character fix
here in /var/lib/dpkg/info/checksecurity.postinst:
mkdir /var/log/setuid
chown root:adm /var/log/setuid || true
chmod 640 /var/log/setuid || true
Gi
Package: libdate-manip-perl
Version: 5.42a-2
Severity: minor
Tags: patch l10n
Executive summary:
==
47c47
< $Cnf{"GlobalCnf"}="";
---
> $Cnf{"GlobalCnf"}='/etc/DateManip.cnf';
Supporting plea:
The default setup for Date::Manip assumes US-style middle-endian
dates,
Package: itools
Version: 0.6.1-1
Severity: minor
Tags: patch
The script ireminder.pl seems to be unaware that ipraytime has been
installed right next to it. Its default of invoking "ipraytime"
without a full path would work if it got the chance, but the check
for "-x ipraytime" naturally causes
See attached.
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diff -ruN oleo-1.99.16.orig/debian/rules oleo-1.99.16/debian/rules
--- oleo-1.99.16.orig/debian/rules 2007-03-21 15:29:30.0 +
+++ oleo-1.99.16/debian/rules 2007-03-21 15:40:47.0 +
@@ -66,7 +66,8 @@
install -d deb
Package: memtest86+
Version: 1.65-1
Followup-For: Bug #412255
Patch and fixed copy of the make-memtest86+-boot-floppy script
(well, It Works For Me) for the convenience of stable Etch users.
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APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architectu
Package: libsys-syslog-perl
Version: 0.18-1
Severity: normal
This package uses the same module name as the Sys::Syslog included
as /usr/lib/perl/5.8.8/Sys/Syslog.pm in the package perl itself, but
puts it in /usr/lib/perl5.
When the admin installs mailscanner (Depends: libsys-syslog-perl),
users'
Package: avscan
Version: 1.1.2-openssl-1
Severity: serious
Testing contains only libclamav2, which makes it impossible to
satisfy avscan's "Depends: libclamav1" on an Etch machine. It looks
like the dependency's fixed in Sid, but that version's held out by
the freeze.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# apt-ge
Package: cryptonit
Version: 0.9.7-2
Severity: normal
The /usr/share/pixmaps/folder_locked.png in this package (and, it
seems, all the other PNGs in the source tarball) are bad:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ display /usr/share/pixmaps/folder_locked.png
display: Improper image header `/usr/share/pixmaps/fol
Package: avscan
Version: 1.1.2-openssl-1
Severity: normal
The package description and dependencies say nothing, but:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ avscan
EDVContextLoadConfigurationFile(): Warning: Unable to find the
Endeavour program in the following locations:
/usr/bin/endeavour2
/usr/l
Package: xvmount
Version: 3.7-14
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# xvmountconfig
You may now select the user mountable devices from /etc/fstab
which are to be made available for mounting by xvmount.
uniq: invalid option -- W
Try `uniq --help' for more information.
[EMAIL PROTECTE
Package: atris
Version: 1.0.7.dfsg.1-3
Severity: serious
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls -l .atrisrc
-rw-rw-rw- 1 jbr games 518 2007-03-18 12:48 .atrisrc
This is a security issue, although not of the system-hijacking
variety: a world-writable file lets any local process perform a
Denial of Service by fi
Steve Langasek wrote:
> severity 415535 important
> thanks
Oh well, I suppose I can live without atris until the fix reaches
Lenny. If I had a patch I would argue the point; instead I'll stop
wasting your time.
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Package: dtc-xen
Version: 0.2.8-1
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
dtc-xen_userconsole calls "sudo /usr/sbin/xm console $USER", but
there's nothing in dtc-xen's dependencies to pull in /usr/sbin/xm.
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APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Archit
Thomas Goirand wrote:
> Justin B Rye wrote:
>> dtc-xen_userconsole calls "sudo /usr/sbin/xm console $USER", but
>> there's nothing in dtc-xen's dependencies to pull in /usr/sbin/xm.
>
> If I do add such dependency, then that means I force people to use the
Package: w3c-linkchecker
Version: 4.2.1-1
Severity: minor
Tags: patch
Along with its /usr/share/lintian/overrides/w3c-linkchecker file
("copyright-should-refer-to-common-license-file-for-gpl"), this
package contains an empty directory named .../foo/.
-- System Information:
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Arc
Package: lintian
Version: 2.5.10.4
Followup-For: Bug #732799
I noticed your fix still contains a typo:
gregor herrmann wrote:
> Proposed patch against git:
[...]
> - - the upstream tar using crytpographic signature.
> + upstream tarball using crytpographic signature.
Package: gkermit
Version: 1.0-9
Followup-For: Bug #732938
Grant H. wrote:
> The description for the gkermit package states "The non-free package ckermit
> adds connection establishment, character-set translation and scripting
> features." However as of version 301-1 ckermit is now DFSG free and i
Christian PERRIER wrote:
> Template: kinect-audio-setup/accept_eula
> Type: boolean
> Default: false
> +#flag:translate!:3
> _Description: Do you accept the Microsoft KinectForWindows EULA?
> + In order to fetch the binary firmware needed by the kinect-audio-setup
> package, you need
> + to ag
Oops -
Justin B Rye wrote:
> When the Kinect is first plugged in, it shows up as a generic USB device
> with a bulk endpoint; after the appropriate firmware is installed, a
> re-enumeration takes place and a USB Audio Class device becomes available.
But my patch has "
Paul Gevers wrote:
> Description: player for Daisy talking books (DTB)
If you need to give the expansion, there's not much point including
the abbreviation in the synopsis; but anyway, surely it's:
Description: player for DAISY Digital Talking Books
(Plain "talking books" usually means tape or
Package: tmperamental
Version: 1.0
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
The package description for tmperamental says:
> Description: LD_PRELOADable library to detect rogue writes to /tmp/
> This friendly library will explode in a huge ball of fire when an application
> tries to write to /tmp, which i
Package: ste-plugins
Version: 0.0.2-1
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
The long description for ste-plugins is obviously meant to be a
bulleted list; but it lacks the required indent, so it gets re-wrapped
on displays such as "https://packages.debian.org/sid/ste-plugins":
> A set of stereo plugins.
Christian PERRIER wrote:
> This is the last call for comments for the review of debconf
> templates for apt-cacher-ng.
Sorry, I somehow missed the RFR for this! But I remember reading the
package description and seeing nothing I would change there, so for
once I can't blame Gmail.
> Template: ap
Package: tercpp
Version: 0.6.2+dfsg-1
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch l10n
The short and long descriptions for tercpp are unhelpful and contain
several trivial errors, which are unlikely to fill people with
confidence about the package's usefulness.
> Package: libtercpp-dev
[...]
> Description: C+
Christian PERRIER wrote:
> Template: chef/chef_server_url
All looks good.
In the control file:
> -Description: clients for the chef systems integration framework
> +Description: Chef systems integration framework - clients
>
> Debatable as there is only one binary package but I guess that "Che
I don't know if this ITP is still alive, but if so I think we should
be Cc-ing the bug rather than posting on debian-devel.
> Cleto Martín wrote:
>> Package: wnpp
>> * Package name: telegram-cli
[...]
>> Description : Command-line interface for Telegram messenger
That's more or less jus
Michael Gilbert wrote:
> I'd like to suggest the following wording for init-select. Thanks for
> reviewing.
In the control file:
> Package: init-select
[...]
> Description: init system selection tool
> This package makes it easy to select an init system, which is the first
> process initiated b
Christian Perrier wrote:
> Last release of Nova includes:
>
> * Configures Neutron credentials through Debconf.
>
> but the wording of the new templates doesn't fit the style of
> other templates.
>
> The "funny" part is that these templates do have the following warning:
>
> # These temp
Thomas Goirand wrote:
>>This value will be the static address for this compute node, and
>>must use IPv4 unless use_ipv6 is manually set to "True".
>
> No, it will always be an IPv4, because that's what is used to contact
> the node. IPv6 has to do with the VM ran inside the node. I don't
Thomas Goirand wrote:
> Justin B Rye wrote:
>> So "Value for my-ip" *must* be inside a private IPv4 range? And we're
>> also taking it for granted that it needs to be a unique value on the
>> same LAN as its neighbours! So how about something like this:
>
Package: aptitude
Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo wrote:
> In recent versions (0.6.8.4-1), the behaviour doesn't match what is
> explained in the messages of this bug report, so it looks to me that
> it's already doing what you requested (lowercase and searching for
> package name), even if the bug
Thomas Goirand wrote:
From the attached log (scroll to the bottom...):
Earlier, the log shows an error from dpkg-preconfigure:
debconf: delaying package configuration, since apt-utils is not installed
but it doesn't then try to install apt-utils; it unpacks nova-common,
tries to configure
Christian PERRIER wrote:
> Template: pinto/adminpassword
> Type: password
> _Description: Pinto web administration password:
> + Please choose the password for the "pintoadmin" user.
> .
> + This login/password combination is needed, after installation, to log
> + in Pinto through its web inte
Okay, I can try to review it, but I need some input from the
maintainer, because I'm really not sure I understand it.
Christian PERRIER wrote:
> Template: fheroes2-pkg/build
> Type: boolean
> Default: true
> -_Description: Continue?
> - This application is about to download, compile from source
Christian PERRIER wrote:
> @@ -1,12 +1,15 @@
> Template: localepurge/nopurge
> Type: multiselect
> Choices: ${locales}
> +_Description: Locale files to keep on this system:
> + The localepurge package will remove all locale files from the system
> + except those that you select here.
> + .
> + I
Christian PERRIER wrote:
> Template: mini-buildd/home
> Type: string
> Default: /var/lib/mini-buildd
> _Description: Home path:
> + Please choose the directory where mini-buildd data will be stored.
> + The directory will also be the home directory for the mini-buildd user.
> + .
> + It should
I'd love to be able to provide a version that's in grammatical
English, but I don't understand what it's trying to say well enough to
make it say it.
Chris Bannister wrote:
> Marius Gavrilescu wrote:
>> Description : simple object container
>>
>> This module is a object container interface
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