Bug#975364: perlbrew: Fails when building older perls and patch is not installed

2020-11-20 Thread Aaron Hall
Package: perlbrew Version: 0.86-1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, When trying to build older versions of Perl, perlbrew fails immediately after downloading if a patch program isn't installed. It tries to pre-patch Configure but cannot. The resulting log (build.perl-5.8.8.log in this case) conta

Bug#904839: bsdmainutils: cal still highlights though -h option is gone

2018-07-28 Thread Aaron Hall
Package: bsdmainutils Version: 9.0.12+nmu1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, The -h option to cal(1) was removed with the rationale (given in response to bug #867995: > Yes, but this is by design as the docs say cal is supposed to be > drop-in compatible to the original cal command. That's well

Bug#774174: sqlite should note in description that it's v2, not v3

2014-12-29 Thread Aaron Hall
Oops, I attached the wrong file. Here's the patch. - Aaron -- Aaron HallLITTLE GIRL: Which one of these cookies nilsimplex.orgare you going to eat first? COOKIE MONSTER: Me think you have misconception of c

Bug#774174: sqlite should note in description that it's v2, not v3

2014-12-29 Thread Aaron Hall
Package: sqlite Severity: minor Tags: patch The "sqlite" packages should explicitly note in their descriptions that they're for SQLite 2, not SQLite 3. It's a small thing, but it may save users from confusion and frustration, especially if they've never installed the sqlite3 package on Debian befo

Bug#773115: fortunes: Stephen J. Gould "Verdict on Creationism" quote appears twice

2014-12-14 Thread Aaron Hall
Package: fortunes Version: 1:1.99.1-7 Severity: normal The Stephen J. Gould quote from "The Verdict on Creationism" which begins "we must counterpose the overwhelming judgment" ... appears twice: once in "cookie" and once in "science". There are very minor formatting differences between them. Tha

Bug#688078: bsdmainutils: cal doesn't output plain text when stdout is a pipe

2014-02-09 Thread Aaron Hall
e handy) all don't. Highlighting is great. I argue merely that it should only highlight when the output's going to a terminal. - Aaron -- Aaron Hall :Where's the ka-boom? There was supposed to be an ah...@vitaphone.net :Earth-shattering ka-boom! -- To UNSUBSCR

Bug#688078: bsdmainutils: cal doesn't output plain text when stdout is a pipe

2014-02-07 Thread Aaron Hall
it should? Yes, cal(1). :) "The output of the cal command is supposed to be bit for bit compatible to the original Unix cal command, because its output is processed by other programs like CGI scripts, that should not be broken." Thanks for your work on Debian! - Aaro

Bug#527198: fortunes: misattribution of Match Game quote in "humorists"

2009-05-05 Thread Aaron Hall
Package: fortunes Version: 1:1.99.1-3 Severity: minor Tags: patch The Match Game quote at the end of /usr/share/games/fortunes/humorists, has a couple of small errors. First, the "The young people are very different..." ditty is misattributed. His name is Nipsey Russell, not Lipsy Russell. (This

Bug#248500: adduser: do not re-use uids used once

2006-01-10 Thread Aaron Hall
a new version of adduser, what do you do about "holes" in the passwd file that existed prior to installation of that new version? Maybe do something similar to the naive approach once, to pre-fill the state file? Cheers, Aaron -- Aaron Hall : Badly configured DNS will, not may