Bug#181728: gnome-control-center: Changing current gnome theme with themes caplet causes all applications to die

2005-01-27 Thread Miles Bader
Loïc Minier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This is a followup for Debian bug <http://bugs.debian.org/181728>. > > Miles Bader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Thu, Feb 20, 2003: > >> When I change themes using the gnome-control-center, all my applications >> go away

Bug#341332: libiiimp1: fails to install

2005-11-29 Thread Miles Bader
Package: libiiimp1 Version: 12.3.91-0.1 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable When installing: (Reading database ... 155154 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking libiiimp1 (from .../libiiimp1_12.3.91-0.1_i386.deb) ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/

Bug#341347: aptitude: fails to start: symbol lookup error "_Z14ReadConfigFileR13ConfigurationSsbj"

2005-11-29 Thread Miles Bader
Package: aptitude Version: 0.4.0-3experimental2 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable When trying to run aptitude: $ sudo aptitude aptitude: symbol lookup error: aptitude: undefined symbol: _Z14ReadConfigFileR13ConfigurationSsbj There are reports (#321651, #321673) of a

Bug#341332: libiiimp1: fails to install

2005-11-29 Thread Miles Bader
Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>(Reading database ... 155154 files and directories currently installed.) >>Unpacking libiiimp1 (from .../libiiimp1_12.3.91-0.1_i386.deb) ... >>dpkg: error processing >> /var/cache/apt/archives/libiiimp1_12.3.91-0.1_i386.deb (--unpack): >>

Bug#341347: aptitude: fails to start: symbol lookup error "_Z14ReadConfigFileR13ConfigurationSsbj"

2005-11-30 Thread Miles Bader
Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This is likely because the soname of apt in unstable is identical to the > soname of apt in experimental, but they present different ABIs. I don't > think I can do anything to fix this for you. That sounds like a (serious) bug with apt... Maybe the

Bug#341347: aptitude: fails to start: symbol lookup error "_Z14ReadConfigFileR13ConfigurationSsbj"

2005-11-30 Thread Miles Bader
Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This is likely because the soname of apt in unstable is identical to the > soname of apt in experimental, but they present different ABIs. I don't > think I can do anything to fix this for you. FWIW, I installed "apt" from experimental (version 0.6.4

Bug#341347: aptitude: fails to start: symbol lookup error "_Z14ReadConfigFileR13ConfigurationSsbj"

2005-11-30 Thread Miles Bader
Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> That sounds like a (serious) bug with apt... > >> Maybe the right thing is to re-assign the bug to apt. > > Not really. If experimental breaks, you keep both pieces. Um, sure, but it _is_ a bug, right? That is, if apt moves to unstable in the current

Bug#341347: aptitude: fails to start: symbol lookup error "_Z14ReadConfigFileR13ConfigurationSsbj"

2005-11-30 Thread Miles Bader
Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Um, sure, but it _is_ a bug, right? That is, if apt moves to unstable >> in the current state (ABI change, no version change), then it will be >> officially broken. > > It will be broken *only* with respect to packages in experimental. I don't underst

Bug#341347: aptitude: fails to start: symbol lookup error "_Z14ReadConfigFileR13ConfigurationSsbj"

2005-12-01 Thread Miles Bader
Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Subsequently, a version was uploaded to unstable which used the same version > as had previously been in experimental, but with a different ABI. Ok, I understand now; so a new experimental aptitude (linked against the new ABI) will fix everything. Than

Bug#330633: acknowledged by developer (Bug#330633: fixed in r-cran-xml 0.99-3-1)

2005-12-16 Thread Miles Bader
You seem to have closed the wrong bug: 2005/12/16, Debian Bug Tracking System <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > This is an automatic notification regarding your Bug report > #330633: aspell-en: missing spellings: vertices, indices, > which was filed against the aspell-en package. > > It has been closed by o

Bug#308449: mozilla-firefox: firefox cannot print more than one page

2006-01-09 Thread Miles Bader
Eric Dorland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > reassign 308449 firefox > thanks > > Still having this problem in 1.5? No, it seems to work properly now (though I only tested a few pages). Thanks, -Miles > * Miles Bader ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >> Package: mozilla-

Bug#347321: sambda: Fails to install: /etc/samba/smb.conf: No such file or directory

2006-01-09 Thread Miles Bader
Package: sambda Version: 3.9.0+SVN12739-1 Severity: important $ sudo aptitude install sambda Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done Building tag database... Done Couldn't find any

Bug#339289: eclipse-sdk: Eclipse hangs on startup

2005-11-15 Thread Miles Bader
Package: eclipse-sdk Version: 3.1.1-5 Severity: important I installed eclipse-sdk, and selected "Eclipse" from the Gnome menu. It popped up a little box to announce it was starting, and then displayed another window with a little progress bar. For a while it ate all CPU, and then after about 3

Bug#339289: eclipse-sdk: Eclipse hangs on startup

2005-11-15 Thread Miles Bader
Michael Koch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > As you have java-gcj-compat installed I think eclipse uses this as its > runtime. Unfortunately this currently breaks due to a binutils bug. > A workaround is either to use another runtime to execute eclipse or to > run the following command in a separate

Bug#304559: postfix: Yes, please don't print these warnings

2005-04-17 Thread Miles Bader
Package: postfix Version: 2.2.2-1 Followup-For: Bug #304559 I definitely think postfix shouldn't be spitting out warnings for such a harmless situation -- not only is it confusing (and annoying) for users to see them, but they confuse other software as well. For instance, Emacs uses the /usr/li

Bug#305207: gnome-art: grave?

2005-04-18 Thread Miles Bader
Package: gnome-art Version: 0.1-1 Followup-For: Bug #305207 Maybe this bug should be severity "grave" -- it seems to render the package essentially unusable; _every_ theme type I tried caused gnome-art to crash with the same error at one point or another (usually downloading the initial list; in

Bug#305207: gnome-art: grave?

2005-04-18 Thread Miles Bader
Dan Korostelev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I already prepared a patched package and now I'm > waiting for my sponsor to upload it. I also contacted upstream author. > He said, he will release a new version as soon as possible. It will > contain, among this bugfix, the much-requested caching featu

Bug#305634: quintuple-agent: agpg crashes

2005-04-21 Thread Miles Bader
Package: quintuple-agent Version: 1.0.4-5 Severity: important Here's a log: $ echo 'foo' | agpg --batch --quiet --clearsign - *** glibc detected *** malloc(): memory corruption: 0x0804c2c0 *** $ echo $? 1 This happens after it has prompted for the password using q-client; that par

Bug#294090: udev: is this bug really minor?

2005-02-07 Thread Miles Bader
Package: udev Version: 0.051-1 Followup-For: Bug #294090 I had my own "udev.rules" file, and the result of this upgrade was to make udev permission-setting stop working entirely -- so /dev/null ended up with mode 0660. As I found out, not much works without /dev/null ... :-) Granted, I'm not su

Bug#308265: Conflict during upgrade with python2.4-minimal

2005-05-08 Thread Miles Bader
Package: python2.4 Version: 2.4.1-2 Severity: important Log: Preparing to replace python2.4 2.4.1-0 (using .../python2.4_2.4.1-2_i386.deb) ... Unpacking replacement python2.4 ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/python2.4_2.4.1-2_i386.deb (--unpack): trying to overw

Bug#308449: mozilla-firefox: firefox cannot print more than one page

2005-05-10 Thread Miles Bader
Package: mozilla-firefox Version: 1.0.3-2 Severity: normal When I select "print" from the File menu, and choose to print to a file, firefox only prints the first page (though it does a nice job of printing that one page :-). The "select pages to print" part of the print dialog box only shows pa

Bug#300159: tetex-extra: Fails to install (debconf-loadtemplates: command not found)

2005-03-17 Thread Miles Bader
Package: tetex-extra Version: 3.0-2 Severity: important I tried to install tetex from experimental. I normally use unstable, but in this case I used `aptitude -t experimental' to see experimental updates. Other new tetex package seemed to install correctly, tetex-extra failed with these messag

Bug#300159: tetex-extra: Fails to install (debconf-loadtemplates: command not found)

2005-03-21 Thread Miles Bader
BTW, I tried to updgrade to tetex-extra_3.0_3 this morning, and it failed like this: Preparing to replace tetex-extra 3.0-2 (using .../tetex-extra_3.0-3_all.deb) ...Unpacking replacement tetex-extra ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/tetex-extra_3.0-3_all.deb (--unpack):

Bug#300159: tetex-extra: Fails to install (debconf-loadtemplates: command not found)

2005-03-21 Thread Miles Bader
Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Therefore it seems that debconf doesn't check properly whether > debconf-utils is installed - by the way, Miles, which versions of > debconf* do you have installed? Please give us the output of > > dpkg -l "debconf*" ii debconf1.4.46 Deb

Bug#300855: tetex-base: contains directory that is a symlink in tetex-extra

2005-03-22 Thread Miles Bader
Package: tetex-base Version: 3.0-3 Severity: important BTW, I tried to updgrade to tetex-extra_3.0_3 this morning, and it failed like this: Preparing to replace tetex-extra 3.0-2 (using .../tetex-extra_3.0-3_all.deb) ...Unpacking replacement tetex-extra ... dpkg: error processing /var/cach

Bug#315903: ITP: evilfinder -- proves that any given subject is evil

2005-06-27 Thread Miles Bader
David Pashley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Do we really need this in the archive? Can we not add this to another > package under games? Er, why? This sounds like a great utility, it seems silly and artificial to force it to be merged unless there's already a very similar package to which it woul

Bug#316939: aptitude: cursor displayed in wrong place for wide-char prompt

2005-07-04 Thread Miles Bader
Package: aptitude Version: 0.3.3-1 Severity: minor Wide-character support seems to have improved a lot in aptitude 3.3, but I noticed the following case still has a funny glitch. I use the aptitude "emacs-style minibuffer" option for prompts and questions. With LANG=ja_JP.UTF-8, the prompt for

Bug#330633: aspell-en: missing spellings: vertices, indices

2005-09-28 Thread Miles Bader
Package: aspell-en Version: 6.0-0-5 Severity: normal Aspell incorrectly reports the words "vertices" and "indices" as being mispellings (which they obviously are not). [FWIW, ispell accepts them] -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.8.1 Locale:

Bug#331326: xpdf-reader: Dies trying to load libXft.so.1

2005-10-02 Thread Miles Bader
Package: xpdf-reader Version: 3.01-1 Severity: important When I try to run xpdf, it dies with this error: $ xpdf global-illumination-egwr96.pdf xpdf: error while loading shared libraries: libXft.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Then I see: $ ldd /usr/

Bug#331338: dhcp3-common: upgrade fails; conflict with "manpages-ja"??

2005-10-02 Thread Miles Bader
Package: dhcp3-common Version: 3.0.3-3 Severity: important >From apt: Preconfiguring packages ... (Reading database ... 167871 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace dhcp3-common 3.0.3-3 (using .../dhcp3-common_3.0.3-4_i386.deb) ... Unpacking replacement

Bug#331338: Acknowledgement (dhcp3-common: upgrade fails; conflict with "manpages-ja"??)

2005-10-02 Thread Miles Bader
Installing a new "manpages-ja" made dhcp3-common installable; I'm not sure where the bug actually lies, but maybe a "conflicts:" of some sort is in order? The old and new versions of manpages-ja are: Preparing to replace manpages-ja 0.5.0.0.20050715-1 (using .../manpages-ja_0.5.0.0.20050915-1

Bug#331326: xpdf-reader: Dies trying to load libXft.so.1

2005-10-04 Thread Miles Bader
Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>$ xpdf global-illumination-egwr96.pdf >>xpdf: error while loading shared libraries: libXft.so.1: cannot open >> shared object file: No such file or directory >> >> Is there a missing dependency somewhere...? > > That's weird. On my native amd6

Bug#403675: eclipse: annoying dialog box "builtin browser not supported"

2006-12-18 Thread Miles Bader
Package: eclipse Version: 3.2.1-2 Severity: minor Every time I start eclipse, it first pops up a dialog box saying "this eclipse does not support the builtin browser" .. and then will not continue startup until I confirm it. I don't know why I should care about a "builtin browser", but normal op

Bug#401387: eclipse fails to start

2006-12-02 Thread Miles Bader
Package: eclipse Version: 3.1.2-2 Severity: important Hi, I installed the "eclipse" and "eclipse-jdt" packages (oddly the latter doesn't depend on the former; should it?). Running "eclipse" in a shell window gives a dialog asking where to put the workspace dir; I answer "/usr/local/eclipse", t

Bug#402251: tla: linked against wrong libneon?

2006-12-08 Thread Miles Bader
Package: tla Version: 1.3.5+dfsg-6 Severity: important tla has a dependency on libneon26-gnutls, but it seems to actually be _linked_ against the old libneon: $ tla help tla: error while loading shared libraries: libneon.so.26: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Bug#405783: New "production release" of openexr 1.4.0

2007-01-06 Thread Miles Bader
Package: openexr Version: 1.2.2-4.3 Severity: wishlist According to the openexr website: August 2, 2006 - OpenEXR 1.4.0 is now available. This is the next major production-ready release of OpenEXR and offers full compatibility with our last production release, which was 1.2.2. This ver

Bug#400713: texmacs: menu titles and many entries display as blank

2006-11-28 Thread Miles Bader
Package: texmacs Version: 1:1.0.6.6-1 Severity: important When I run texmacs, I get an error message about one font: TeXmacs] Font ipagui 11pt at 300 dpi could not be loaded Then when the window opens, the menu-bar is blank, though the various toolbar icons seem fine. The menus actually _d

Bug#396047: flashplugin-nonfree: experimental flash9 package fails to install

2006-10-29 Thread Miles Bader
Package: flashplugin-nonfree Version: 9.0.21.55.1 Severity: normal Not sure what to make of this: $ LANG=C sudo apt-get install Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 27 not upgraded. 1 not fully installed or

Bug#418725: tmw dies with dynamic link error

2007-04-11 Thread Miles Bader
Package: tmw Version: 0.0.22.2-1 Severity: important Running tmw dies with the following output: $ tmw tmw: Symbol `_ZTVN3gcn12FocusHandlerE' has different size in shared object, consider re-linking The Mana World v0.0.22.2 tmw: symbol lookup error: tmw: undefined symbol: _ZN3gcn6W

Bug#418725: tmw dies with dynamic link error

2007-04-11 Thread Miles Bader
Patrick Matthäi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I wonder how do you have installed the tmw package. You're using the > following: > >>> ii libguich 0.4.0-4.1 small, efficient C++ GUI >>> library > > You need the libguichan0 0.6.1-1 version from experimental for tmw. So > pleas

Bug#419817: tla incorrectly omits final character of id from arch-tag: if no newline

2007-04-17 Thread Miles Bader
Package: tla Version: 1.3.5+dfsg-9+b1 Severity: normal When using "tagline" id-tagging-method, if a file has an id specified by an arch-tag: line and that line has no terminating newline (obviously this only happens if it's the last line in the file), then tla chops off the last character of the

Bug#731393: gcc-snapshot: "undefined reference" link error when compiling with LTO

2013-12-04 Thread Miles Bader
Package: gcc-snapshot Version: 20131201-1 Severity: normal With the most recent Debian gcc snapshot[1] and using the gold linker[2], I'm getting linker "undefined reference" errors when compiling with LTO. This only happens when the object file containing the undefined symbol is stored in an .a

Bug#731393: Acknowledgement (gcc-snapshot: "undefined reference" link error when compiling with LTO)

2014-05-03 Thread Miles Bader
I notice that gcc 4.9 has the same issue, but that the gcc 4.9 release notes say you should use "gcc-ar" instead of ar to make it work correctly in conjunction with LTO (and similarly "gcc-ranlib" instead of ranlib). In my testing, it seems to work correctly... so... maybe this bug should be close

Bug#678338: ITP: konoha -- interpreter of statically-typed scripting language Konoha

2012-06-21 Thread Miles Bader
Tadaki SAKAI writes: > It guaranteed a smooth coding environment > and ease of use. That sentence seems pretty content-free... why not just leave it out of the description? -miles -- Cannon, n. An instrument employed in the rectification of national boundaries. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#658442: g++-4.7: standard include path is messed up

2012-02-02 Thread Miles Bader
Package: g++-4.7 Version: 4.7-20120129-1 Severity: important This one's easy to illustrate: :] $ echo '#include ' > v.cc $ g++-4.7 -c v.cc v.cc:1:18: fatal error: vector: No such file or directory compilation terminated. $ g++-4.7 -v -c v.cc Using built-in specs. COLLECT_G

Bug#542095: duplicates in the archive

2012-07-10 Thread Miles Bader
Félix Arreola Rodríguez writes: > But, ignoring the "a desktop works fine without n-m" thing, n-m makes > more, much more easy connecting to wifi networks, espeacially for > laptops. I suggest make Laptop task depend on n-m, in this way, n-m > don't get installed on desktop systems, just on laptop

Bug#620225: reportbug: doesn't seem to be fixed yet... (?)

2013-04-01 Thread Miles Bader
elf.assistant.show () /usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/reportbug/ui/gtk2_ui.py:518: Warning: g_object_unref: assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed self.assistant.show () /usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/reportbug/ui/gtk2_ui.py:518: GtkWarning: IA__gdk_screen_get_width: assertion `GDK_IS_SCREEN (screen)' failed

Bug#704501: lua-lpeg: fails to install with errors from "ldconfig"

2013-04-01 Thread Miles Bader
Package: lua-lpeg Version: 0.10.2-5 Severity: normal As the subject, it fails to install for me. I've included the error output below. ldconfig doesn't give the location of the "cache file" that it's barfing on, so I'm not sure what it's trying to do... Thanks, -Miles $ LANG=C dinst lua-lpeg

Bug#704501: lua-lpeg: fails to install with errors from "ldconfig"

2013-04-04 Thread Miles Bader
Hi, you can close this bug, as you suspected, it's not a problem of lua-lpeg. The real cause was a full root partition. ldconfig error reporting is not so good [not only does it fail to specify which file was the problem, but it apparently uses errno when reporting problems, even when the ca

Bug#700474: gimp: BABL version too old

2013-02-12 Thread Miles Bader
Package: gimp Version: 2.8.2-2 Severity: normal Starting gimp (from the command-line), a dialog box pops up with this message: BABL version too old! GIMP requires BABL version 0.1.10 or later. Installed BABL version is 0.1.1. Somehow you or your software packager managed to insta

Bug#668380: closed by "Matteo F. Vescovi" (Re: /usr/bin/iv: "iv" image viewer shows only black in window...)

2013-02-14 Thread Miles Bader
Any suggestions what to do about this? On my home system, iv displays a translucent window, and then causes the X server to hang (however I can switch to a console and kill the iv process, which restores operation). I don't know exactly where the bug is, but there's clearly a bug... >< Thanks,

Bug#572316: reportbug: timeout for querying the BTS should be configurable by user

2010-03-03 Thread Miles Bader
were a user option or configuration setting that could be used to increase the timeout for situations like the above. Thanks, -Miles -- Package-specific info: ** Environment settings: EDITOR="/usr/local/bin/emacsclient -t" VISUAL="/usr/local/bin/emacsclient -t" NAME="Mil

Bug#575997: libstdc++6-4.5-dev: c++config.h doesn't seem to match reality

2010-03-31 Thread Miles Bader
Package: libstdc++6-4.5-dev Version: 4.5-20100103-1 Severity: normal The file "/usr/include/c++/4.5/x86_64-linux-gnu/bits/c++config.h" doesn't seem to actually reflect the available facilities of the system. In particular (from that file): /* Defined if nanosleep is available. */ /* #und

Bug#576485: libstdc++: std::thread completely broken

2010-04-04 Thread Miles Bader
Package: libstdc++6 Version: 4.5-20100227-1 Severity: normal File: libstdc++ The following program: #include #include int g = 0; void f () { g++; } int main () { std::thread t (f); t.join (); std::cout << "after joing, g = " << g << std::endl; return 0;

Bug#576485: Acknowledgement (libstdc++: std::thread completely broken)

2010-04-04 Thread Miles Bader
BTW, one thing I noticed is that the "error code" field in the std::system_error exception which is raised, seems to be set to EPERM ("Operation not permitted"), but this code is not apparently caused by a system call (determined by stracing the process). For instance, changing the test case to th

Bug#575997: libstdc++6-4.5-dev: c++config.h doesn't seem to match reality

2010-04-05 Thread Miles Bader
Matthias Klose writes: > Same in 4.4. > > libstdc++-v3/acinclude.m4: > dnl Check for clock_gettime, nanosleep and sched_yield, used in the > dnl implementation of 20.8.5 [time.clock], and 30.2.2 [thread.thread.this] > dnl in the current C++0x working draft. > dnl > dnl --enable-libstdcxx-time > dn

Bug#630339: gnome-terminal transparency doesn't work in mutter

2011-06-12 Thread Miles Bader
Package: mutter Version: 3.0.2.1-1 Severity: normal As the subject says, gnome-terminal windows that are (semi-)transparent in metacity, have a pure-black background in mutter. A google turns up this patch against mutter 2.91.92: http://mail.gnome.org/archives/release-team/2011-March/msg00180.h

Bug#645731: clang uses gcc header files, but cannot handle some of them

2011-10-18 Thread Miles Bader
Package: clang Version: 2.9-16 Severity: normal Clang seems to use header files which are distributed with gcc (from the system's default installation of gcc?). However, it cannot handle some of the constructs in them. Here's a sample source file, "cb.cc": #include If I compile it with "c

Bug#639962: linking fails with clang

2011-08-31 Thread Miles Bader
Package: clang Version: 2.9-9 Severity: normal Even a trivial program fails to link when compiled with clang: $ clang -o hw ~/src/hw.c /usr/bin/ld: error: cannot open crtbegin.o: No such file or directory /usr/bin/ld: error: cannot open crtend.o: No such file or directory /usr/bin/ld

Bug#630441: g++-4.6 miscompilation

2011-09-22 Thread Miles Bader
Philip Ashmore writes: > It appears that gcc-4.6 (and clang for that matter) make some dodgy > decisions about what appear to be references to temporaries created > during optimization. You don't seem to have addressed the issue raised by Matthias Klose in the bug thread though: specifically, wh

Bug#642973: units: currency exchange rates should be updated

2011-09-25 Thread Miles Bader
Package: units Version: 1.87-2 Severity: normal I know it's impractical to keep really up-to-date on currency exchange rates, but the last time they were updated was 2007, and some have changed a _lot_ since then... E.g., 1 dollar == 115 japanyen according to units [in 2007] but now, 1 dollar ==

Bug#643828: gnome-tweak-tool: fails to start

2011-09-29 Thread Miles Bader
Package: gnome-tweak-tool Version: 3.0.0-1 Severity: normal Trying to run gnome-tweak-tool, I get the following fatal error: + LANG=C gnome-tweak-tool GLib-GIO-ERROR **: Settings schema 'org.gnome.shell.clock' is not installed aborting... 中止 Maybe a missing dependency? But I d

Bug#643959: clang cannot find standard include files

2011-10-01 Thread Miles Bader
Package: clang Version: 2.9-13 Severity: normal $ cat x.c #include $ clang -c x.c x.c:1:10: fatal error: 'stddef.h' file not found #include ^ 1 error generated. $ type clang clang is hashed (/usr/bin/clang) $ clang --version Debian clang version 2.9-13

Bug#725075: linux-tools-3.10: perf record -g option doesn't support "dwarf" method

2013-10-01 Thread Miles Bader
Package: linux-tools-3.10 Version: 3.10-4 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, The "perf record" command "-g " option doesn't support a "dwarf" method in Debian. As the "dwarf" allows operating on programs which were compiled without a frame pointer (the default on amd64), "dwarf" is very handy. H

Bug#131137: [ft-devel] manual pages for freetype2-demos

2013-09-22 Thread Miles Bader
Werner LEMBERG writes: > I'm not too happy that distributions like Debian publish all of the > FreeType demo programs (for example, `ftgamma' has essentially no real > use); maybe this can be improved somehow. Why? As a Debian user, I'm often glad that the FT demo progs are there, because they c

Bug#724509: luarocks library "detection" works poorly with Debian

2013-09-24 Thread Miles Bader
Package: luarocks Version: 2.0.9-1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, When using luarocks to install a luarock that (1) requires compilation, and (2) requires a specific library, luarocks seems to try and search for the library first. Unfortunately it also seems to use the crufty old "look in fix

Bug#724509: luarocks library "detection" works poorly with Debian

2013-09-25 Thread Miles Bader
Enrico Tassi writes: >> [Of course a much better solution would be to use some sort of less hacky >> method of finding libraries, e.g. by using autoconf's "probe using the >> compiler" but I suppose that's unlikely to happen.] > > May I ask why you are using luarocks instead of `apt-get install lu

Bug#724509: luarocks library "detection" works poorly with Debian

2013-09-25 Thread Miles Bader
Enrico Tassi writes: >> [Of course a much better solution would be to use some sort of less hacky >> method of finding libraries, e.g. by using autoconf's "probe using the >> compiler" but I suppose that's unlikely to happen.] > > May I ask why you are using luarocks instead of `apt-get install lu

Bug#724748: gist: does not work with github two-factor authentication

2013-09-27 Thread Miles Bader
Package: gist Version: 4.0.3-2 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, My github account uses the (relatively new) github two-factor authentication feature. Typing "gist --login" fails with a message that suggests that two-factor authentication is confusing it: $ gist --login Obtaining OAuth2 a

Bug#543799: screws up desktop wallpaper

2011-07-26 Thread Miles Bader
Package: mutter Followup-For: Bug #543799 Hi, I'm not totally sure, but I think this bug may be fixed now. At least, when I run mutter with "mutter --replace", my wallpaper stays in place as it should. No "all white" background. [The environment is slightly different from my bug report though

Bug#533493: closed by Moritz Mühlenhoff (Closing)

2013-06-23 Thread Miles Bader
The symptoms are gone, so probably this bug really should be closed. Thanks, -miles

Bug#662742: clang: files compiled with "-flto" fail to link

2012-03-05 Thread Miles Bader
Package: clang Version: 3.0-6 Severity: normal I do not know if "-flto" is ever expected to work with clang, but it doesn't work correctly in the Debian installation: $ echo 'int main () { return 0; }' > foo.cc $ clang++ -c -flto -O2 foo.cc -o foo.o $ clang++ -flto -O2 foo.o -o foo /u

Bug#650866: luarocks doesn't work with Lua 5.2 installed

2011-12-03 Thread Miles Bader
Package: luarocks Version: 2.0.2-1 Severity: normal Installing luarocks fails with the following (appended after message) output. Trying to run the (half-installed) luarocks fails similarly. The reason appears to be that luarocks only works with Lua 5.1, and is running the system default Lua int

Bug#653024: clang: -march=native (sometimes?) fails

2011-12-22 Thread Miles Bader
Package: clang Version: 3.0-5 Severity: normal At least on this system, "-march=native" fails oddly: $ echo 'int main () { }' > m.cc; clang++ -o m -march=native m.cc error: unknown target CPU 'amdfam10' The -march=native option _used_ to work with [the debian version of] clang [on this sam

Bug#662742: clang: files compiled with "-flto" fail to link

2012-03-23 Thread Miles Bader
2012年3月16日7:05 Sylvestre Ledru : > I added the -use-gold-plugin arg. You will need llvm-dev version 3.0-9 > and binutils-gold. Hi, it works for me too. I assume that if you add this feature "for real", then the user won't have to know about installing llvm-dev, right? Thanks, -miles -- Cat is

Bug#649402: [PATCH] time overestimates max RSS by a factor of 4

2012-03-25 Thread Miles Bader
Package: time Version: 1.7-23.1 Followup-For: Bug #649402 Hi, I'm curious if there's a reason this patch hasn't been applied yet; it's a very obvious (and kind of silly) bug... If you're just waiting for an updated patch, and the original author doesn't have time to make one, I'd be willing to do

Bug#671913: clang: cannot find standard header files

2012-05-07 Thread Miles Bader
Package: clang Version: 3.1~+rc1-1 Severity: important $ cat hw.c #include int main () { printf ("hello world\n"); return 0; } $ env - PATH=/usr/bin:/bin gcc -o hw hw.c $ ./hw hello world $ env - PATH=/usr/bin:/bin clang -o hw hw.c In file included from h

Bug#668380: /usr/bin/iv: "iv" image viewer shows only black in window...

2012-04-11 Thread Miles Bader
Package: openimageio-tools Version: 1.0.0+dfsg0-1 Severity: normal File: /usr/bin/iv As the subject says, when I invoke "iv" on an image (or open one using the menu), it shows a window, which seems to be the right size, but the window contains only black (plus the menubar). This seems to happen r

Bug#668380: /usr/bin/iv: "iv" image viewer shows only black in window...

2012-04-11 Thread Miles Bader
Package: openimageio-tools Version: 1.0.0+dfsg0-1 Followup-For: Bug #668380 I tried this on a different computer, with mostly the same versions of everything installed ("up-to-date debian sid"), and using the same environment (gnome-shell), but different hardware. This computer has integrated in

Bug#668476: openimageio-tools: handling of gamma for JPEG files in "iv" is weird

2012-04-11 Thread Miles Bader
Package: openimageio-tools Version: 1.0.0+dfsg0-1 Severity: normal [Sorry if this is a bit long; issues involving image gamma are always kind of confusing, so I'm trying to be as explicit and verbose as possible...] Given: 1. A typical PNG image file, "foo.png", which was encoded using a st

Bug#668556: ITP: dparser -- a scannerless GLR parser generator

2012-04-14 Thread Miles Bader
Adam Borowski writes: > On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 11:22:06AM +0200, Jakub Wilk wrote: >> >GLR means "Generalized Left-to-right Rightmost deviation parser" >> >or maybe "Generalized LR parser". EBNF is the Extended Backus–Naur >> >Form. Acronyms like these - i.e. LL, LL(k), SLR, LALR - are pretty >

Bug#669324: gnome-shell: the "restart gnome shell" command "r" crashes if used multiple times

2012-04-18 Thread Miles Bader
Package: gnome-shell Version: 3.2.2.1-3 Severity: normal Sometimes it's necessary to restart gnome-shell, e.g. currently changing the window-theme seems to have no effect except on startup. This can be done by hitting Alt-F2 and then giving the special "r" command. However, doing this twice see

Bug#669325: gnome-shell: changing the window theme has no effect until gnome-shell is restarted

2012-04-18 Thread Miles Bader
Package: gnome-shell Version: 3.2.2.1-3 Severity: normal If one uses the "extended settings" dialog to change the GTK or gnome-shell themes, the change takes effect immediately. However, changing the window theme in the same dialog doesn't have any immediate effect. If one restarts gnome-shell,

Bug#676157: libpng12-dev: C++11 incompatibility

2012-06-04 Thread Miles Bader
Package: libpng12-dev Version: 1.2.49-1 Severity: normal I use libpng in my C++ program. This works fine. However when compiling in C++11 mode, with a very recent version of gcc, I get the following warning when compiling: CXXimage-png.o In file included from image-png.h:18:0,

Bug#793886: uswsusp: installation gives error messages about missing "mountpoint" program

2015-07-28 Thread Miles Bader
Package: uswsusp Version: 1.0+20120915-6.1 Severity: normal I get the following error messages from dpkg: Setting up uswsusp (1.0+20120915-6.1) ... /var/lib/dpkg/info/uswsusp.config: line 18: mountpoint: command not found /sys not mounted. Can't create uswsusp.conf /var/lib/dpkg/inf

Bug#760542: libc++-helpers: g++-libc++ script doesn't work with -pthread

2014-09-04 Thread Miles Bader
Package: libc++-helpers Version: 3.5-1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, The g++-libc++ script generally seems to work, but using the -pthread option results in link errors like: $ g++-libc++ -o conftest -std=c++11 -Wall -Wextra -Winit-self -Wdouble-promotion -pedantic-errors -Wno-long-lon

Bug#464477: epiphany-webkit: fails to render japanese

2008-02-06 Thread Miles Bader
Package: epiphany-webkit Version: 2.20.3-1 Severity: normal If I go to a webpage using japanese characters, e.g.: http://packages.debian.org/ja/sid/arm/epiphany-webkit all the Japanese characters on that page show up as little boxes. There appears to be a one-to-one correspondence between

Bug#464481: epiphany-webkit ignores proxy settings

2008-02-06 Thread Miles Bader
Package: epiphany-webkit Version: 2.20.3-1 Severity: normal Epiphany-webkit doesn't seem to have proxy settings in its preferences, so I assume it must use the global gnome settings. In the gnome global settings, I've set my proxy to "manual => machinename:8080", so all traffic should go through

Bug#464477: epiphany-webkit: fails to render japanese

2008-02-06 Thread Miles Bader
Mike Hommey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> If I go to a webpage using japanese characters, e.g.: >> >>http://packages.debian.org/ja/sid/arm/epiphany-webkit >> >> all the Japanese characters on that page show up as little boxes. > > This is a known problem and should be fixed when upstream bug

Bug#465419: liblua5.1-gtk-0: Creating a cairo image surface crashes

2008-02-12 Thread Miles Bader
Package: liblua5.1-gtk-0 Version: 0.7-2 Severity: normal Put the following in a file "gtk-bug.lua": local gtk = require 'gtk' gtk.init () gtk.cairo_image_surface_create (gtk.CAIRO_FORMAT_RGB24, 100, 100) and excute it with "lua gtk-bug.lua". It will crash with a segmentation violation

Bug#423383: gcj-4.2: compilation fails; libgcj.spec not found

2007-05-11 Thread Miles Bader
Package: gcj-4.2 Version: 4.2-20070405-1 Severity: normal Trying to compile a very simple test program fails: $ LANG=C gcj-4.2 -c Test.java gcj-4.2: libgcj.spec: No such file or directory Here's the simple test prog ftw: public class Test { public static void main(String[]

Bug#468414: swig lua backend doesn't return module table

2008-02-28 Thread Miles Bader
Package: swig Version: 1.3.33-3 Severity: normal It's standard practice in modern Lua for packages to arrange for the module's table to be returned from require (as well as being added to the global environment). People tend to rely on this behavior, and it's idiomatic to load / use a module wi

Bug#405783: closed by Adeodato Simó <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Bug#405783: fixed in openexr 1.6.1-1)

2007-11-11 Thread Miles Bader
Hi Adeodato, thanks for working on this! I noticed the new package in experimental but it fails to install because it has a broken dependency on the package "libilmbase6"; that package doesn't seem to exist anywhere (I've been waiting for it to show up since last week...). Thanks, -Miles -- Do

Bug#455730: ITP: lua-peg -- Parsing Expression Grammars For Lua

2007-12-12 Thread Miles Bader
Stefano Zacchiroli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I think it's going to cause a lot of confusion if you call this package >> "lua-peg" -- _everybody_ knows it as "lpeg"... > > Hence, I guess, the proposed name would be "lua-lpeg", right? That seems best... The crucial thing, I think, is that some

Bug#436057: less, exit but left content on screen

2007-08-05 Thread Miles Bader
Tong Sun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > So having a keyboard command 'x' or something can allows me, ... > I don't know if this is possible. Less normally allows you to change command-line options from within a less session (just type "-" followed by the option...). However, they seem to have int

Bug#493667: nfs-common: nfs quite broken

2008-08-27 Thread Miles Bader
Aníbal Monsalve Salazar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>The basic symptom was that it acted as if I was a different user: I >>could not access my files unless they were world-readable. > > Please try the workaround found by Paul Collins (add sec=sys to the > client's mount options) and tell us if it

Bug#496881: /usr/bin/csound5gui: segfaults clicking "..." button

2008-08-28 Thread Miles Bader
Package: csound-gui Version: 1:5.08.2~dfsg-1 Severity: normal File: /usr/bin/csound5gui I started csound5gui, and clicked the "..." button under "Orchestra/CSD". It promptly crashed, with the error message "Csound tidy up: Segmentation fault" on the terminal I started csound5gui from. Thanks,

Bug#496881: /usr/bin/csound5gui: segfaults clicking "..." button

2008-08-28 Thread Miles Bader
Felipe Sateler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I started csound5gui, and clicked the "..." button under >> "Orchestra/CSD". It promptly crashed, with the error message >> "Csound tidy up: Segmentation fault" on the terminal I started >> csound5gui from. > > I can't reproduce it. Does it happen afte

Bug#506191: The atop daemon should be optional / bloat in /var/log

2008-11-19 Thread Miles Bader
Package: atop Version: 1.23-1 Severity: minor A majority of the space in /var/log usually seems to be from atop-generated log files, which I never care about. It would be nice if there was a customization option or package split that made this log-file generation optional, allowing people that

Bug#376226: lib3ds-dev: lib3ds doesn't handle "object-flag" chunks (patch included)

2006-06-30 Thread Miles Bader
Package: lib3ds-dev Version: 1.2.0-4 Severity: normal lib3ds ignores various "object flag" chunks like LIB3DS_OBJ_HIDDEN (basically all chunks with prefix "LIB3DS_OBJ_"). This is particularly annoying in the case of LIB3DS_OBJ_HIDDEN, because many 3ds models contain hidden elements which are no

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