Re: RFC: use readable $(cmd) syntax instead of unreadable `cmd`

2007-02-09 Thread John Goerzen
On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 07:26:21PM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: > > I'm askinf if it is ok to to reopen such bugs based of better QA > > aspects. Possibly by providing patches if the maintainer is busy > > elsewhere to handle such a "minor issue" from his perspective. > No, it's not. Even if a patch

Bug#113398: kmail: Poor deletion of messages

2001-09-24 Thread John Goerzen
Package: kmail Version: 4:2.2.1-1 Severity: normal I have a situation in which I've tagged approximately 600 messages in an IMAP folder for deletion. (I select the 600, then hit the delete button). KMail apparently deletes them one by one; that is, issues a separate IMAP command for each one. Ra

Bug#123431: ark: Problems opening .war files

2001-12-11 Thread John Goerzen
Package: ark Version: 4:2.2.2-5 Severity: normal KDE (konqueror) creates tar.gz files named .war. ark's File -> Open box sees them. It can even preview them, showing the web page they contain. Yet when I try to open them, it says gzip files must have a .gz extension. This is silly -- it knows

Re: Netmaze: Bug #123741

2002-02-01 Thread John Goerzen
"Tille, Andreas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > the open bugs of netmaze seem to be easy to fix. At least the RC bug > should be considered to be target to fix soon. Would you care about > it? Should someone step in? Just s/ComplexProgramTarget/ComplexProgramTargetNoMan/ does not do the trick.

Re: Netmaze: Bug #123741

2002-02-20 Thread John Goerzen
FYI: I uploaded a version of netmaze that fixed this. I had to redefine some cpp targets that imake used, but it seems to work now. -- John On Monday, February 4, 2002, at 05:15 AM, Tille, Andreas wrote: On 1 Feb 2002, John Goerzen wrote: Just s/ComplexProgramTarget

Possible security hole in X: Re: Xserver stack smashed -- wrapper

1998-01-27 Thread John Goerzen
I sent this 3 days ago to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and have heard nothing back. Do I need to file a bug report? John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Pavel, > > Thanks for the information. I am forwarding your message to Debian's > security team. > > Pavel Kankovs

Debian's PCMCIA support is weak and buggy

1998-01-28 Thread John Goerzen
so /etc/init.d/network of course fails miserably. In all, it took several hours of work by a competant hacker (me ) but a novice would probably not be able to get it working. John -- John Goerzen Southwind Internet Access, Inc, Business e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Personal e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: HAMM FREEZE (removed packages)

1998-03-15 Thread John Goerzen
d here's a good question for you. If all those packages are missing from frozen, how are they supposed to be fully tested if their maintainers fix whatever bugs lurk just near release time? John -- John Goerzen | Developing for Debian GNU/Linux (www.debian.org) Cus

Re: HAMM FREEZE (removed packages)

1998-03-15 Thread John Goerzen
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e2fsprogs,e2fsprogsg,e2fslibsg upgrade problem!

1998-05-21 Thread John Goerzen
e2fslibsg What is the solution to this??? -- John GoerzenLinux, Unix programming [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Developer, Debian GNU/Linux (Free powerful OS upgrade) www.debian.org | + Visit the Air Capitol Linux

Re: e2fsprogs,e2fsprogsg,e2fslibsg upgrade problem!

1998-05-23 Thread John Goerzen
--force-remove-essential e2fsprogsg Well, this could help me, but it doesn't help the average user who is simply trying to upgrade :-) > > -- > Scott K. Ellis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.gate.net/~storm/ > -- John GoerzenLinux, Unix prog

Bug#55260: metamail: can't build from source

2000-01-15 Thread John Goerzen
1 Wed Jan 12 09:00:15 CST 2000 alpha unknown -- John Goerzen Linux, Unix consulting & programming [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Developer, Debian GNU/Linux (Free powerful OS upgrade) www.debian.org | + The 94,512,81

Re: Maintainers needed for freeciv, dcd and lletters

2000-04-06 Thread John Goerzen
> they are welcomed... > > Cheers, > -- > Rapha?l Hertzog >> 0C4CABF1 >> http://tux.u-strasbg.fr/~raphael/ > CD Debian : http://tux.u-strasbg.fr/~raphael/debian/#cd > Formations Linux et logiciels libres : http://www.logidee.com > > > -- > To