On Fri, 14 Jun 2013 01:18:05 +
ow...@bugs.debian.org (Debian Bug Tracking System) wrote:
> For instance there are too many tricky situations that make it
> difficult to return "correct" exit code if user changed her/his mind
> and decided not to save the document or to save it to another file
Package: eject
Version: 2.1.5+deb1+cvs20081104-13
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
'eject' didn't eject one of my drives recently, and presented
an unusual error message:
% eject -s sr1
eject: unable to eject, last error: Success
What's that supposed to mean?
HTH...
PS: I'm more c
Package: jnettop
Version: 0.13.0-1
Severity: minor
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Dear Maintainer,
Found a typo in '/usr/share/man/man8/jnettop.8.gz', see attached '.diff'.
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Package: xrestop
Version: 0.4-8
Severity: minor
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Dear Maintainer,
Found a typo in '/usr/share/man/man1/xrestop.1.gz', see attached '.diff'.
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Package: k3b
Version: 2.0.2-6
Severity: normal
Tags: upstream
Dear Maintainer,
With a used CDRW disk (apparently undamaged) in the drive, to be blanked,
K3B correctly reported:
Found medium: Empty CD-RW medium
In that same window K3B made an impossible request:
Please insert a rewritab
Package: wicd-daemon
Version: 1.7.2.4-4
Severity: minor
Tags: patch
Dear Maintainer,
Found a typo in '/usr/share/man/man8/wicd.8.gz', see attached '.diff'.
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Package: daptup
Version: 0.12.5.1
Severity: minor
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Dear Maintainer,
Found a typo in '/usr/share/man/man8/daptup.8.gz', see attached '.diff'.
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On Tue, 15 Jan 2013 22:32:21 +0100
Jeffrey Ratcliffe wrote:
> Wouldn't it be better to report bugs against unpaper with specific
> cases where deskew didn't work?
It sure would, but...
Users like me don't know where this bug lives; some of us use 'unpaper'
only when 'gscan2pdf' calls it. 'man
As a rule one should always check the BTS before reporting a bug, but I
sleepily failed to do that here.
This bug seems like it might cover the same ground as #698036:
Bug #697346 [PATCH]: Manpage Spelling
A scan of #697346 shows there's minimal overlap,
its patch boils down to:
Package: aircrack-ng
Version: 1:1.1-5
Severity: minor
Tags: patch
Dear Maintainer,
Found some typos in '/usr/share/man/man1/aircrack-ng.1.gz',
'/usr/share/man/man1/kstats.1.gz',
'/usr/share/man/man1/packetforge-ng.1.gz',
'/usr/share/man
Package: pcaputils
Version: 0.8-1
Severity: minor
Tags: patch
Dear Maintainer,
Found a typo in '/usr/share/man/man1/pcapdump.1.gz', see attached '.diff'.
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On Sat, 12 Jan 2013 03:00:43 -0500
"A. Costa" wrote:
> 1) The missing 22 programs should be added to the package.
Those missing 22 are:
% { { man leptonica | grep -A 10 ALSO | tail -n +2 | sed 's/^ *//;s/-$//'
| tr --delete ',()1\n' | tr --squeeze-r
Package: minit
Version: 0.10-5
Severity: minor
Tags: patch
Dear Maintainer,
Found some typos in '/usr/share/man/man1/serdo.1.gz',
'/usr/share/man/man8/hard-reboot.8.gz',
& '/usr/share/man/man8/serdo.8.gz',
see attached '.diff' files.
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Package: gscan2pdf
Version: 1.0.4-5
Severity: wishlist
Dear Maintainer,
Some duplex sheet feed scanners produce skewed output, so the resulting
PDF file could use deskewing. 'Tools>Clean up>Deskew' implies 'unpaper'
can automatically deskew, but it's never worked for me;
other users report sim
Package: leptonica-progs
Version: 1.69-3.1
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
# count 'man leptonica' SEE ALSO offerings:
% { man leptonica | grep -A 10 ALSO | tail -n +2 | \
sed 's/^ *//;s/-$//' | tr --delete ',()1\n' | \
tr --squeeze-repeats ' ' '\n'; echo ; } | \
Package: leptonica-progs
Version: 1.69-3.1
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
% man leptonica | grep -A 2 OPTIONS
OPTIONS
The example programs included with leptonica will report their usage
if you
try to run them on the command line with no arguements. Usage varies
from
Package: leptonica-progs
Version: 1.69-3.1
Severity: minor
Tags: patch
Dear Maintainer,
Found a typo in '/usr/share/man/man3/leptonica.3.gz', see attached '.diff'.
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Package: sntop
Version: 1.4.3-4
Severity: minor
Tags: patch
Dear Maintainer,
Found some typos in '/usr/share/man/man1/sntop.1.gz', see attached '.diff'.
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Package: moreutils
Version: 0.47
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
This should print 3 "foo"s, but doesn't:
% echo foo | pee cat echo cat cat | nl -b a
1
2 foo
Discovered the above, while trying to print "hi\nho\n":
% echo hi | pee cat "echo ho"
On Sat, 15 Dec 2012 11:47:31 +0200
"Eugene V. Lyubimkin" wrote:
> I removed numbers from 'package lists' on purpose since numbers
> naturally belongs to summary, and sometimes those lists are so big
> that don't event fit to the one page.
That's true. Still, users can do a 'shift pageup' to see
Package: cupt
Version: 2.5.9
Severity: wishlist
Dear Maintainer,
Seen during an install:
The following packages will be installed:
libdataquay0 libfishsound1 liboggz2 librubberband2 sonic-visualiser
Action summary:
1 manually installed and 4 automatically installed p
Package: undbx
Version: 0.20-1
Severity: minor
Tags: patch
Dear Maintainer,
Found a typo in '/usr/share/man/man1/undbx.1.gz', see attached '.diff'.
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Package: potrace
Version: 1.10-1
Severity: minor
Tags: patch
Dear Maintainer,
Found a typo in '/usr/share/man/man1/potrace.1.gz', see attached '.diff'.
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Package: util-linux
Version: 2.20.1-5.2
Severity: wishlist
Dear Maintainer,
At present the sole available syntax to unbind a device is:
raw /dev/raw/raw 0 0
That syntax is inconvenient because:
1) A command line switch uses fewer characters.
2) There are too many Linux man pag
reopen 691453 !
thanks
On Thu, 25 Oct 2012 22:38:45 +0200
David Kalnischkies wrote:
> True. And that is intentional as combining two separate searches
> is a logical OR and not an AND as the combined list includes packages
> which match "foo" but not "bar".
> E.g. libart-2.0-2 is not included a
Package: apt
Version: 0.9.7.6
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
In lines #146 & #147 below, the docs explain that 'search' supports 'AND':
% man apt-cache | grep -B 1 -A 10 -n "search performs"
136- search regex...
137: search performs a full text search on all available package
Package: scrounge-ntfs
Version: 0.9-6+b1
Severity: minor
Tags: patch
Dear Maintainer,
Found a typo in '/usr/share/man/man8/scrounge-ntfs.8.gz', see attached '.diff'.
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Package: myrescue
Version: 0.9.4-5+b1
Severity: minor
Tags: patch
Dear Maintainer,
Found some typos in '/usr/share/man/man8/myrescue.8.gz', see attached '.diff'.
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Package: cupt
Version: 2.5.9
Severity: wishlist
Dear Maintainer,
During an upgrade via a dialup connection:
Get:3 debdelta:http://debdeltas.debian.net/debian-deltas xulrunner-10.0
10.0.9esr-1 [9688KiB]
40% [3 xulrunner-10.0 2431KiB/9688KiB 25%] | 3258B/s | ETA: 21m4s
But 9688K is the
Package: dlocate
Version: 1.02
Followup-For: Bug #653279
On Tue, 27 Dec 2011 14:59:47 +0200 "era eriksson" wrote:
> As you can tell by the diagnostic output, you cannot use a regex anchor
> to signal beginning of file in this context. Did you get the impression
> from the documentation that this
Package: clamav-freshclam
Version: 0.97.6+dfsg-1
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
For the last few days my system can't seem to download the whole 30M
'main.cvd', it fails, tries again, fails, and tries again...:
Setting up clamav-freshclam (0.97.6+dfsg-1) ...
Starting database update:
Package: clamav-freshclam
Version: 0.97.6+dfsg-1
Severity: wishlist
Dear Maintainer,
A reinstallation of 'clamav' requires downloading 'main.cvd':
ClamAV update process started at Wed Oct 10 20:17:15 2012
Downloading main.cvd [ 1%]
"How much longer?", the user wonders.
Please print mo
Package: dlocate
Version: 1.02
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
A trailing '-' triggers inaccurate error messages:
% for f in F G P w ; do dlocate -$f - | head -n 1 ; done
dlocate: unknown option '-F'
dlocate: unknown option '-G'
dlocate: unknown option '-P'
dloc
Thanks for the civil closing, and sorry about not replying for months.
Lack of time mainly. Plus a hardware & kernel change since then. The
hardware for #658728 is still here however. Still the same old hard
disk images, upgraded and copied to ever larger disks since 1998.
I've also reported o
Package: clamtk
Version: 4.41-1
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
The 'clamtk' "Scanning Results" window, full of the grayed out files
quarantined, right-click option "Save As:".
Select a quarantined file, pick a save location in '/tmp', and:
"Could not save that file."
The '/tmp' director
Package: clamtk
Version: 4.41-1
Severity: wishlist
Dear Maintainer,
The manual should provide the pathname of the Quarantine folder:
% zgrep -i quarantine `dlocate -lsman clamtk` | wc -l
0
Nothing in the README, nor the menus.
Note for curious users: the Quarantine folder is hidden i
Package: cupt
Version: 2.5.9
Severity: minor
Dear Maintainer,
Compound words may start with a prefix, not a suffix:
% man cupt | grep -n -B 1 -A 2 "start.*suffix"
213- pkgnames
214: prints package names that start with a supplied suffix
215-
216- If
Package: uswsusp
Version: 1.0+20110509-2
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
On an imperfect system running 'dpkg-reconfigure uswsusp' shows:
The swap file or partition that was found in uswsusp's
configuration file is not active. {...}
Instead of that, I'd Suggest having the reconfigure scrip
Package: acpitool
Version: 0.5.1-3
Severity: minor
Tags: patch
Dear Maintainer,
Found some typos in '/usr/share/man/man1/acpitool.1.gz', see attached '.diff'.
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Package: cpufreqd
Version: 2.4.2-1
Severity: minor
Tags: patch
Dear Maintainer,
Found some typos in '/usr/share/man/man5/cpufreqd.conf.5.gz', see attached
'.diff'.
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Package: cam
Version: 1.05-8
Severity: minor
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Dear Maintainer,
Found a typo in '/usr/share/man/man1/cam.1.gz', see attached '.diff'.
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On Sun, 05 Aug 2012 10:31:52 +0200
intrigeri wrote:
> > but the typo was the second "is" on that line:
>
> > 's/in is setuid/in its setuid/'.
>
> I was talking of that one, and am therefore still in need
> of clarification.
After some study of 'setuid()', I now can see the 's/is/its/' wa
On Sat, 04 Aug 2012 13:23:40 +0200
intrigeri wrote:
> > -is designed for use in machines which are firewalled from then
> > -internet. It avoids the need to recompile applications like lynx or...
>
> ...I'm not too fond of carying a Debian -specific patch
> merely to capitalize "Internet"...
Pl
Package: linux-wlan-ng
Version: 0.2.9+dfsg-5
Severity: minor
Tags: patch
Dear Maintainer,
Found a few typos in '/usr/share/man/man8/wlanctl-ng.8.gz',
& '/usr/share/man/man8/wlancfg.8.gz',
see attached '.diff' files.
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Package: python-scapy
Version: 2.2.0-1
Severity: minor
Tags: patch
Dear Maintainer,
Found some typos in '/usr/share/man/man1/scapy.1.gz', see attached '.diff'.
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Package: bridge-utils
Version: 1.5-4
Severity: minor
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Dear Maintainer,
Found a typo in '/usr/share/man/man8/brctl.8.gz', see attached '.diff'.
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Package: kismet
Version: 2008-05-R1-4.3+b1
Severity: minor
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Dear Maintainer,
Found some typos in '/usr/share/man/man1/kismet.1.gz', see attached '.diff'.
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Package: pyrit
Version: 0.4.0-2
Severity: minor
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Dear Maintainer,
Found a typo in '/usr/share/man/man1/pyrit.1.gz', see attached '.diff'.
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Package: wireless-tools
Version: 30~pre9-8
Severity: minor
Tags: patch
Dear Maintainer,
Found a typo in '/usr/share/man/man8/iwlist.8.gz', see attached '.diff'.
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Package: wpasupplicant
Version: 1.0-2
Severity: minor
Tags: patch
Dear Maintainer,
Found a typo in '/usr/share/man/man8/wpa_action.8.gz', see attached '.diff'.
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Package: tor
Version: 0.2.3.19-rc-1
Severity: minor
Tags: patch
Dear Maintainer,
Found a few typos in '/usr/share/man/man8/tor.8.gz',
& '/usr/share/man/man1/torify.1.gz',
see attached '.diff' files.
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Package: torsocks
Version: 1.2-3
Severity: minor
Tags: patch
Dear Maintainer,
Found some typos in '/usr/share/man/man8/torsocks.8.gz', see attached '.diff'.
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Package: uniutils
Version: 2.27-1
Severity: minor
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Dear Maintainer,
Found a typo in '/usr/share/man/man1/uniname.1.gz', see attached '.diff'.
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Package: secure-delete
Version: 3.1-5
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
An extraordinary claim:
% dlocate -s secure-delete | grep overwrite
Even if you overwrite a file 10+ times, it can still be recovered. This
Perhaps in support of which, the docs include:
/usr/share/doc/secure-
Package: secure-delete
Version: 3.1-5
Severity: minor
Tags: patch
Dear Maintainer,
Patched some typos in '/usr/share/man/man1/sfill.1.gz',
'/usr/share/man/man1/srm.1.gz', &
'/usr/share/man/man1/sswap.1.gz',
see attached '.diff' files.
Hope this helps.
Package: secure-delete
Version: 3.1-5
Severity: minor
Tags: patch
Dear Maintainer,
Regarding Debian Bug #653260 "secure-delete: Minor typo in sdmen's manpage
(NOTE section)".
Corrected some typos in '/usr/share/man/man1/sdmem.1.gz', ("algorythm",
"thiefs" and 's/called sdmem/called smem/'), see
Package: cupt
Version: 2.5.7
Severity: wishlist
Dear Maintainer,
It would be useful for low bandwidth users to have a 'cache-only-upgrade'
option.
Apt can already do that using:
apt-get --no-download --ignore-missing upgrade
...I'm not sure how to make that work for 'cupt', without runni
Package: cupt
Version: 2.5.7
Severity: wishlist
Dear Maintainer,
On my Debian 'unstable', with a 5K/sec modem for internet,
sometimes an upgrade/update cycle lists many big files with
no currently available debdeltas, which means 400M or so to
download, a 23 hour upgrade (ideal case).
It would
Package: baobab
Version: 3.4.1-1
Severity: wishlist
Dear Maintainer,
Rings chart or Treemap, right click on a dir, it says:
Move to parent folder
Zoom in
Zoom out
Save Screenshot
For directories it would be useful to have an "open with file manager"
option in there, and perhaps
Package: man-db
Version: 2.6.2-1
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
Testing 'apropos --and' today returns two false hits and 49 misses:
% apropos --and file list
sync (1) - flush filesystem buffers
tzfile (5) - time zone information
# Those misses:
% apr
On Tue, 19 Jun 2012 23:25:06 +0200
Ralf Treinen wrote:
> Thanks for your interest in xdemineur. I agree that this may be useful
> (also the save-game feature that you asked for in #659678), but it
> would require more work than I pesonally am willing to invest. The
> original developer of xdemine
Package: help2man
Version: 1.40.10
Severity: wishlist
Dear Maintainer,
(This was discovered while coding a front-end menu for Debian's several
documentation types and corresponding viewers. My front-end hung,
when it did what follows...)
Since 'xfce4-clipman' has no CLI help, 'help2man xfce4-c
On Thu, 7 Jun 2012 12:47:48 +0200
Ricardo Mones wrote:
> > While writing an email that'd been open in the background
> > for a while, (hours), I clicked the 'Attach' button, and
> > sylpheed vanished -- as in ceased running. ...
>
> If you did an upgrade of gvfs while sylpheed was open that co
Package: help2man
Version: 1.40.9
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
% help2man cdck | man -l - | head | cat -n
1 USAGE:(1)User Commands
USAGE:(1)
2
3
4
5 NAME
6 Usage: - manual page for Usage: cdck
Package: help2man
Version: 1.40.9
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
Consider 'cdck' a util and package name. Its command
line help isn't very unusual:
% cdck -h
Usage: cdck [-d /dev/devname] [-i] [-v] [-p] [-o plot-file.dat]
-d CD/DVD device name, default is /dev/cdrom
Package: grok
Version: 1.20110708.1-1
Severity: wishlist
Dear Maintainer,
Please consider adding a README to '/usr/share/doc/grok/examples' that
explains what the nine '.grok' files in that directory do, how to run
them, and what sort of output might result.
HTH...
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On Wed, 23 May 2012 13:47:22 +1000 (EST)
Tim Connors wrote:
> Have you tried it?
Yes, and wrongly, on Tuesday -- fortunately your reply showed my
mistake. (My 'wdiff -a' input was two versions of a 'man' page that
had some control characters in it, which 'less' didn't like, and at the
time se
Only after the bug was closed did I read T. Connors' post,
from 3/14/2008:
> Also give wdiff a shot
>
> 'wdiff -a' can be used perhaps to highlight those words.
Not on my system:
% dlocate -s wdiff | grep Ver
Version: 1.1.0-2
% man wdiff | grep -A 1 '\-a,'
Package: tint2
Version: 0.11+svn20111022-3
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
'tint2conf>properties' displays a varied config GUI. In the current
version, if the user tweaks a few items, then clicks 'Apply' or 'OK',
the GUI returns a "Saving not yet supported" box.
Possible temporary remedies,
Package: man-db
Version: 2.6.1-2
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
The man page says 'apropos' provides useful exit codes:
# show exit codes, no blank lines.
% man apropos | grep -n -A 7 EXIT | sed '/^.*-$/d'
105:EXIT STATUS
106- 0 Successful program executi
Package: ledit
Version: 2.03-1
Severity: minor
Tags: patch
Dear Maintainer,
Found some typos in '/usr/share/man/man1/ledit.1.gz', see attached '.diff'.
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Package: sed
Version: 4.2.1-9
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
Output the script in 'info sed "Centering lines"' to a file:.
% info sed "Centering lines" 2> /dev/null | \
sed -n '/#/,35p' | sed 's/^ //' > /tmp/sedcenter
% chmod +x /tmp/sedcenter
The script fails:
% echo he
Package: dbview
Version: 1.0.4-1
Severity: minor
Tags: patch
Dear Maintainer,
Found a few typos in '/usr/share/man/man1/dbview.1.gz', see attached '.diff'.
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Package: pinfo
Version: 0.6.9-5.1
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
I've been testing a local Bourne shell script that uses 'iselect' in a
'while' loop that calls 'pinfo'. When the script opens a file as a
command line argument, 'pinfo' works correctly. When the script inputs
from STDIN, 'pinfo
Package: util-linux
Version: 2.20.1-4
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
The 'moreutils' package has a 'parallel' command, and so does the
'parallel' package. If the 'parallel' package is installed over a
pre-existing installation of 'moreutils', two diversions are created
(one for the 'parallel'
Package: parallel
Version: 20120422-1
Severity: minor
Dear Maintainer,
Found some typos in '/usr/share/man/man1/parallel.1.gz'.
Ordinarily I'd attach a '.diff' for it, but that man page source is
'Pod::Man' and my typo finder script doesn't (yet...) understand that
format.
Settle for 'sed'? Fi
Package: dlocate
Version: 1.02
Severity: wishlist
Dear Maintainer,
The 'parallel' package diverts a command in the 'moreutils' package.
'-lsman' & '-lsbin' don't reflect that change:
% { dlocate -lsman moreutils ; dlocate -lsbin moreutils ; } | grep parallel
/usr/share/man/man1/parallel
Package: dfc
Version: 2.5.0-1
Severity: minor
Tags: patch
Dear Maintainer,
Found a few typos in '/usr/share/man/man1/dfc.1.gz', see attached '.diff'.
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Package: promoe
Version: 0.1.1-3+b1
Severity: wishlist
Dear Maintainer,
Usually the music player interfaces that 'promoe' seems to be modeled
on permit users to right click for various config menus, e.g. for
skins, plug-ins, etc.
Please consider adding some kind of config menu/interface.
HTH...
Package: esperanza
Version: 0.4.0+git20091017-2+b1
Severity: minor
Tags: patch
Dear Maintainer,
Found a typo in '/usr/share/man/man1/esperanza.1.gz', see attached '.diff'.
Hope this helps...
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Attached is a revised 'diff' file with the previous typos, plus several
others. Most of the typos are grammatical, e.g. 's/have equal/be the same/'.
HTH...
--- - 2012-04-22 15:54:36.820306692 -0400
+++ /tmp/bbe.1_v2 2012-04-22 15:52:39.215724702 -0400
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@
Add the COMMAND to the com
Package: cuetools
Version: 1.3.1-12
Severity: minor
Tags: patch
Dear Maintainer,
Found some typos in '/usr/share/man/man1/cuebreakpoints.1.gz',
'/usr/share/man/man1/cueconvert.1.gz',
& '/usr/share/man/man1/cueprint.1.gz'
see attached '.diff' files.
Hope thi
Package: dhelp
Version: 0.6.20
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
Plain old 'httpd' dependent 'dhelp' isn't working on my system.
When run, 'dhelp' launches a browser, which says:
404 Not Found
doc/HTML/index.html:
This item has not been found
'dhelp -f' works correctly.
My c
Package: hdparm
Version: 9.39-1
Severity: wishlist
Dear Maintainer,
There seems to be no "off" switch for '--prefer-ata12'.
Disconnecting or rebooting should reset the affected device, but
neither method is as convenient as a software toggle.
HTH...
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Package: mimetex
Version: 1.73-2
Severity: minor
Tags: patch
Dear Maintainer,
Found a typo in '/usr/share/man/man1/mimetex.1.gz', see attached '.diff'.
Hope this helps...
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Tweak-ers only, all others: skip this message, please.
Slightly optimized version (same results) of the previous '/etc/magic'
for PNG:
0 string \x89PNG\x0d\x0a\x1a\x0a PNG image data,
!:mime image/png
>25 byte0 grayscal
Package: pngtools
Version: 0.4-1
Severity: minor
Tags: patch
Dear Maintainer,
Found a typo in '/usr/share/man/man1/pnginfo.1.gz', see attached '.diff'.
Hope this helps...
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Package: systemd
Version: 37-1.1
Severity: minor
Tags: patch
Dear Maintainer,
Found a few typos in '/usr/share/man/man5/systemd.path.5.gz'
& '/usr/share/man/man5/systemd.unit.5.gz',
see attached '.diff' files.
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Package: sylpheed
Version: 3.2.0~beta6-1
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
While writing an email that'd been open in the background
for a while, (hours), I clicked the 'Attach' button, and
sylpheed vanished -- as in ceased running. Worse, for
some reason sylpheed's 'auto-save' function wasn'
On Thu, 05 Apr 2012 20:19:16 -0400
Samuel Bronson wrote:
> It would be possible to check "Color type" field first, but there does
> not appear to be any way to do arithmetic on a value read from the
> file before printing it, so I don't see any practical way to get the
> behavior that you want.
Package: libmagic1:i386
Version: 5.11-1
Severity: minor
Tags: patch
Dear Maintainer,
Found a typo in '/usr/share/man/man5/magic.5.gz', see attached '.diff'.
Hope this helps...
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Package: vbuf
Version: 0.5.1-5.1
Severity: wishlist
Dear Maintainer,
There are no examples in 'man vbuf', '/usr/share/doc/vbuf', nor
online here:
http://vrb.slashusr.org/
The man page would be better with a command line example, ideally:
STDIN to STDOUT, using common commands, along the li
Package: vbuf
Version: 0.5.1-5.1
Severity: minor
Tags: patch
Dear Maintainer,
Found a few typos in '/usr/share/man/man1/vbuf.1.gz', see attached '.diff'.
Hope this helps...
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Package: qpdf
Version: 2.3.1-1
Severity: minor
Tags: patch
Dear Maintainer,
Found a typo in '/usr/share/man/man1/zlib-flate.1.gz', see attached '.diff'.
Hope this helps...
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Package: manpages
Version: 3.35-0.1
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
% man proc | grep -A 2 -n '/proc/partition'
988: /proc/partitions
989- Contains major and minor numbers of each partition as
well as number of
990- blocks and partition name.
Th
Package: yagf
Version: 0.9+svn247-2
Severity: wishlist
Dear Maintainer,
It would be useful if the user could (from 'yagf') tweak, clean,
enlarge or do other things to a selected image via a program like the
'gimp'. The external editor might be selected via a button in the
middle pane, or a right
Package: yagf
Version: 0.9+svn247-2
Severity: minor
Dear Maintainer,
'yagf' defaults to the Russian language, and on a typical English
oriented system can't do OCR until the user changes the language. The
error message (in English) is somewhat confusing:
Required spelling dictionary (ru) is
Package: yagf
Version: 0.9+svn247-2
Severity: minor
Dear Maintainer,
I ran 'yagf' for OCR on an error message screenshot, (371 x 125,
8-bit), but the middle graphics pane's display of the image was too
small to read. Clicking "+" didn't enlarge the image, and "-" made the
image even smaller, (af
Package: gscan2pdf
Version: 1.0.1-1
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
I used to have 'tesseract' set as my default OCR for 'gscan2pdf'.
Today in 'Tools>OCR>OCR Engine' the only option is 'GOCR'.
Checking my system:
# packages still installed?
% dglob tesser
tesseract-ocr-osd
t
Package: freevo
Version: 1.9.2b2-3
Followup-For: Bug #665741
Confirm. Among other messages, my upgrade shows:
update-rc.d: error: insserv rejected the script header
HTH...
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