Bug#1030606: bad job control on suspended shell function

2023-02-13 Thread Zefram
y the same condition. -zefram

Bug#903988: xinit does not run as normal user but as root only

2023-01-12 Thread Zefram
console's ownership set to the invoking user, for the duration of its use by the X server. -zefram

Bug#1032173: identity recoding is too identical

2023-02-28 Thread Zefram
es its input while checking the encoding. Apparently it's being optimised incorrectly, to a pure identity transformation without the checking. -zefram

Bug#1032173: identity recoding is too identical

2023-03-02 Thread Zefram
tion, maybe the checking step and non-checking conversion recombine into an ordinary checking conversion of the kind you already have. -zefram

Bug#1041286: markdown mishandles funny filenames

2023-07-16 Thread Zefram
Package: markdown Version: 1.0.1-10.1 Severity: important markdown(1) does various funny things if a filename contains characters that are not usually used in filenames: $ echo a > '>t0' $ ls -l total 4 -rw-rw-r-- 1 zefram zefram 2 Jul 16 23:20 '>t0' $ markdown '

Bug#1041287: markdown doesn't accept multiple input files

2023-07-16 Thread Zefram
x27;t even an attempt to open the additional files: $ echo a >t0 $ echo b >t1 $ markdown t0 t1 a $ markdown t1 t0 b $ markdown t2doesnotexist Can't open t2doesnotexist: No such file or directory at /usr/bin/markdown line 221. $ markdown t0 t2doesnotexist a $ -zefram

Bug#1041289: extractres mishandles funny filenames

2023-07-16 Thread Zefram
Package: psutils Version: 1.17.dfsg-4 Severity: important extractres(1) does various funny things if a filename contains characters that are not usually used in filenames: $ touch '>t0.ps' $ ls -l total 0 -rw-rw-r-- 1 zefram zefram 0 Jul 17 00:25 '>t0.ps' $ extractre

Bug#1041291: ts with extra args behaves badly

2023-07-16 Thread Zefram
certain characters that are not usually used in filenames: $ ls -l total 4 -rw-rw-r-- 1 zefram zefram 2 Jul 17 00:45 t0 $ ts %F '>t1' $ ls -l total 4 -rw-rw-r-- 1 zefram zefram 2 Jul 17 00:45 t0 -rw-rw-r-- 1 zefram zefram 0 Jul 17 00:49 t1 $ echo c > 't2 ' $ ts %F '

Bug#1041292: extractres usage message has bad program name

2023-07-16 Thread Zefram
Package: psutils Version: 1.17.dfsg-4 Severity: minor If the extractres(1) program attempts to display a usage message, it gets its own name wrong: $ extractres -q Usage: 1 [-merge] [file] $ -zefram

Bug#1041294: xindy mishandles funny filenames

2023-07-16 Thread Zefram
Package: xindy Version: 2.5.1.20160104-10 Severity: important xindy(1) does various funny things if a filename contains characters that are not usually used in filenames: $ touch '>t0' $ ls -l total 0 -rw-rw-r-- 1 zefram zefram 0 Jul 17 01:21 '>t0' $ xindy '>t

Bug#1041329: debconf-set-selections mishandles funny filenames

2023-07-17 Thread Zefram
s line 114. # echo > '|echo wibble' # debconf-set-selections '|echo wibble' wibble # These arise from its use of the <> Perl operator, which is not suitable for the implementation of a read-from-list-of-files kind of command. Because the range of misbehaviour includes writing to arbitrary files and running arbitrary commands, this is a more severe bug than normal. -zefram

Bug#1061103: locale charset not respected

2024-01-18 Thread Zefram
parts of the output. I'm specifically seeing that result with a Latin-1 terminal emulator and the C locale. -zefram

Bug#1061180: help output stumbles over charset

2024-01-20 Thread Zefram
in any of these locales, and the help text ought to always conform to the environmentally-selected locale. For ASCII and Latin-1 locales this implies that it can't use that en dash, and must substitute an ASCII "-". I have no strong opinion about whether it should use the en dash in a UTF-8 locale. -zefram

Bug#438567: xlock vanished

2007-08-17 Thread Zefram
lockmore has no installation candidate # Where did it go? -zefram -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#440242: closed by "Eugene V. Lyubimkin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (closing #440242)

2008-11-11 Thread Zefram
tly says under no circumstances are currently installed packages removed, or packages not already installed retrieved and installed. -zefram -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#440242: closed by "Eugene V. Lyubimkin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (closing #440242)

2008-11-11 Thread Zefram
reopen 440242 thanks Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote: >Zefram wrote: >> There's no indication here that it might remove requested packages. >Requested? 'dist-upgrade' command takes no additional arguments, see synopsis. I meant "requested" in the sense that I ha

Bug#440242: apt-get dist-upgrade removed xlock

2007-08-30 Thread Zefram
tpd, which presumably used to involve the ntp-server package, but now appears to be supplied by the ntp package. -zefram -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#617361: Iceweasel refuses to multitask

2011-03-08 Thread Zefram
Package: iceweasel Version: 3.5.16-4 Severity: normal If I have an iceweasel session open, and then close it by means of an X "delete window" request, sometimes (not always) a process is left running: USER PID %CPU %MEMVSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND zefram

Bug#617362: iceweasel can't run two sessions simultaneously

2011-03-08 Thread Zefram
ceweasel process, or restart your system. and an "OK" button. Clicking on that button terminates the new process without ever bringing up a real browser window. See also Bug#187138, concerning nearly-identical behaviour of Galeon. -zefram -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, ema

Bug#617361: Iceweasel refuses to multitask

2011-03-08 Thread Zefram
Mike Hommey wrote: >Are you using KDE styles for GNOME/Gtk applications ? Not knowingly. I use X resources for a handful of programs, not including Iceweasel or anything related to it. My window manager is twm. I have no packages installed with "kde" in the name. -zefram -- T

Bug#617361: Iceweasel refuses to multitask

2011-03-08 Thread Zefram
er way. Curiously, dpkg denies knowledge of /usr/lib/iceweasel/plugins/libflashplayer.so. -zefram -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#617361: Iceweasel refuses to multitask

2011-03-08 Thread Zefram
sometimes, and the system has to cope with it. I can get similarly-wrong, but not identical, behaviour by SIGSTOPing a perfectly-working preexisting Iceweasel process. (In this case the new process hangs, and does not produce the error window, until the preexisting process is continued, th

Bug#617361: Iceweasel refuses to multitask

2011-03-08 Thread Zefram
Mike Hommey wrote: >You filed another bug for that The other bug was for a different problematic behaviour pattern, though obviously related in underlying mechanism. I don't want to just close this bug report, because I can well imagine one of the bugs being fixed without the other.

Bug#617361: closed by Mike Hommey (Re: Bug#617361: Iceweasel refuses to multitask)

2011-03-08 Thread Zefram
Please don't close either as a duplicate, but merge them if you think they're best handled as a single ticket. -zefram -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#548330: #[#+-] not quite equivalent to D

2009-12-10 Thread Zefram
The submitter suggests that the new effect of "##" et al is the same as that of "D". It is not: the deleted text doesn't go into the deletion buffer (which remains unchanged). -zefram -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with

Bug#560324: nvi no longer 8-bit clean

2009-12-10 Thread Zefram
Package: nvi Version: 1.81.6-4 Severity: important Tags: l10n nvi used to (in version 1.79) handle all possible octet values in files being edited. In the present version it has lost this capability: any octet with the top bit set results in a "conversion error" message, an unaddressable line whi

Bug#560334: not even slightly figlet-compatible

2009-12-10 Thread Zefram
Package: toilet Version: 0.1-2 Severity: important The package description for toilet says TOIlet can open FIGlet fonts and is mostly commandline-compatible with it. This turns out not to be the case. figlet defaults to supplying plain printable ASCII output. toilet's default output consis

Bug#878055: heading in list produces rendering glitch

2017-10-09 Thread Zefram
yellow text is now rendered in white, until you get up to the first post-list text "foo", at which point all the text rendered on the screen, plus the help text, turns yellow. -zefram

Bug#1041291: ts with extra args behaves badly

2023-07-30 Thread Zefram
ause @ARGV would then always be empty by the time that loop is reached. But it would still be good style to change <> to , to better indicate the program's intended behaviour. >If it is, I would like to include your reasoning into a patch for >upstream, ok? Sure. You may use that text freely. -zefram

Bug#1064437: filename on command line gets mangled

2024-02-22 Thread Zefram
1) must at least detect that it can't handle the specified filename. It must signal an error on any filename it can't handle, and not use any mangled form of the filename for any purpose. Furthermore, this limitation must be documented. -zefram

Bug#1064440: filename on command line gets rejected

2024-02-22 Thread Zefram
0bar.scm' $ LC_ALL=de_DE.iso88591 guile-3.0 --no-auto-compile $'foo\xf4\x90\x80\x80bar.scm' 2>&1 | cat -v perplexity $ LC_ALL=de_DE.utf8 guile-3.0 --no-auto-compile $'foo\xf4\x90\x80\x80bar.scm' 2>&1 | cat -v ;;; Stat of /home/zefram/tmp/g0/fooM-

Bug#1064443: confused by changing absolute pathname

2024-02-22 Thread Zefram
;chdir ".."; while(1) { rename("a", "b"); rename("b", "a"); }' & [1] 389562 $ guile-3.0 --no-auto-compile ok.scm ok $ guile-3.0 --no-auto-compile ok.scm Backtrace: 0 (primitive-load "/home/zefram/tmp/g0/b/ok.scm")

Bug#1064444: filename on command line gets mangled

2024-02-22 Thread Zefram
1) must at least detect that it can't handle the specified filename. It must signal an error on any filename it can't handle, and not use any mangled form of the filename for any purpose. Furthermore, this limitation must be documented. -zefram

Bug#1064445: filename on command line gets rejected

2024-02-22 Thread Zefram
0bar.scm' $ LC_ALL=de_DE.iso88591 guile-2.2 --no-auto-compile $'foo\xf4\x90\x80\x80bar.scm' 2>&1 | cat -v perplexity $ LC_ALL=de_DE.utf8 guile-2.2 --no-auto-compile $'foo\xf4\x90\x80\x80bar.scm' 2>&1 | cat -v ;;; Stat of /home/zefram/tmp/g0/fooM-

Bug#1064446: confused by changing absolute pathname

2024-02-22 Thread Zefram
x27;chdir ".."; while(1) { rename("a", "b"); rename("b", "a"); }' & [1] 390457 $ guile-2.2 --no-auto-compile ok.scm ok $ guile-2.2 --no-auto-compile ok.scm Backtrace: 0 (primitive-load "/home/zefram/tmp/g0/b/ok.scm") ERR

Bug#1064470: barfs on superfluous environment variable

2024-02-22 Thread Zefram
ModuleLoader.moarvm:) from src/vm/moar/ModuleLoader.nqp:130 (/usr/share/nqp/lib/ModuleLoader.moarvm:load_setting) from :1 (/usr/lib/perl6/runtime/perl6.moarvm:) $ raku(1) should not be failing because of an environment variable that isn't controlling anything and isn't being referenced. -zefram

Bug#1064437: filename on command line gets mangled

2024-02-23 Thread Zefram
me design issue, it's likely that a single upstream fix would resolve both bugs. A near-identical customisation can also be applied to the guile-2.2 package, to ameliorate the same problems there, which I reported as Bug#106 and Bug#1064445. -zefram

Bug#1084088: pdfxup fails entirely

2024-10-04 Thread Zefram
nts, such as "9.53", but the gs that I have installed actually reports version number "9.53.3". Fixing that code in pdfxup doesn't resolve the rest of the errors. -zefram

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