Bug#1101137: mutt: Mutt causes X terminals to go dark after screensaver activation

2025-04-04 Thread Axel Stammler
Package: mutt Version: 2.2.12-0.1~deb12u1 Severity: normal X-Debbugs-Cc: a...@users.sourceforge.net Dear Maintainer, If Mutt is left running in a terminal window in Gnome and the screen is first locked due to user inactivity and then unlocked, the terminal window with all its tabs often looks b

Bug#1089217: xrdp: Suggests package that does not exist

2024-12-07 Thread Axel Stammler
Package: xrdp Version: 0.9.21.1-1 Severity: minor X-Debbugs-Cc: a...@users.sourceforge.net Dear Maintainer, apt install xrdp results in: The following additional packages will be installed: xorgxrdp Suggested packages: guacamole but the suggested package cannot be found. -- Sy

Bug#1076556: opensc: egk-tool shows no data

2024-07-18 Thread Axel Stammler
Package: opensc Version: 0.23.0-0.3+deb12u1 Severity: normal X-Debbugs-Cc: a...@users.sourceforge.net Dear Maintainer, *** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropriate *** The output never shows any data even though the card is valid and functional: $ egk-tool -v Using

Bug#1067600: unhtml: Seems not to use UTF-8

2024-03-24 Thread Axel Stammler
Package: unhtml Version: 2.3.9-5 Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-Cc: a...@users.sourceforge.net Dear Maintainer, UTF-8 characters show up as '' instead of '°'. Maybe there could be an option to set locale or character set. -- System Information: Debian Release: 12.5 APT prefers stable-security

Bug#1062776: mpv: Please include option to exit with non-zero code on eof on streams

2024-02-03 Thread Axel Stammler
Package: mpv Version: 0.35.1-4 Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-Cc: a...@users.sourceforge.net Dear Maintainer, on radio streams or other streams that have no proper end-of-file, MPV sometimes reports end-of-file and closes down on errors. I would like to distinguish these instances from user-reque

Bug#1050116: openuniverse: Please do not refer to unavailable packages in descriptions

2023-08-19 Thread Axel Stammler
Package: openuniverse Severity: minor X-Debbugs-Cc: a...@users.sourceforge.net Dear Maintainer, the description available through apt show openuniverse ends by saying: “users are recommended to use Celestia instead” but there is no Debian package of that or a similar name. -- System Informati

Bug#1043447: grub-efi-amd64: Should provide grub-efi

2023-08-11 Thread Axel Stammler
Package: grub-efi-amd64 Version: 2.06-13 Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-Cc: a...@users.sourceforge.net Dear Maintainer, I have created a small package for myself that changes the Grub boot menu to contain the hostname (so that booting from removable media is made abundantly clear). So far I have

Bug#1043338: gnome: Third-level keyboard characters are mostly very strange and wrong

2023-08-09 Thread Axel Stammler
Package: gnome Version: 1:43+1 Severity: important X-Debbugs-Cc: a...@users.sourceforge.net Dear Maintainer, Here are some mistaken third-level ( or ) settings and their expected values as shown on my German keyboard and as they correctly appear on the console: regular Shift Alt-Gr expected

Bug#1042563: installation-reports: installation OK, screen remains blank during boot and GDM Greeter

2023-08-01 Thread Dr. Axel Stammler
Hi, Steve and Len, Thank you for pointing this out. On Mon 2023-07-31 09.22.35, Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Sun, Jul 30, 2023 at 01:08:13PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: I'm a little confused here... You say the machine is a Thinkpad X230, but the attached cpuinfo says you have an Atom CPU an

Bug#1042563: installation-reports: installation OK, screen remains blank during boot and GDM Greeter

2023-07-30 Thread Axel Stammler
Package: installation-reports Severity: important X-Debbugs-Cc: a...@users.sourceforge.net (Please provide enough information to help the Debian maintainers evaluate the report efficiently - e.g., by filling in the sections below.) Everything work well _after_ I remove the computer from the docki

Bug#1042059: installation-reports: success

2023-07-25 Thread Axel Stammler
Package: installation-reports Severity: normal X-Debbugs-Cc: a...@users.sourceforge.net (Please provide enough information to help the Debian maintainers evaluate the report efficiently - e.g., by filling in the sections below.) Boot method: network Image version: https://www.debian.org/releases

Bug#1036050: poppler-utils: pdfseparate does not accept width in page number format

2023-05-14 Thread Axel Stammler
Package: poppler-utils Version: 20.09.0-3.1+deb11u1 Severity: normal X-Debbugs-Cc: a...@users.sourceforge.net Dear Maintainer, calling separate -f 9 -l 10 sek2_biologie.pdf sek2_biologie_%2d.pdf results in Syntax Error: 'sek2_biologie %2d.pdf' must contain '%d' (or any variant respecting prin

Bug#1020693: gnome-terminal: Does not kill running processes if tabs are closed if called through /usr/bin/gnome-terminal.wrapper

2022-09-25 Thread Axel Stammler
Package: gnome-terminal Version: 3.38.3-1 Severity: normal X-Debbugs-Cc: a...@users.sourceforge.net Dear Maintainer, if I call /usr/bin/gnome-terminal -- Prog is killed if I close its tab. The wrapper does not call Prog if called in a similar way: /usr/bin/gnome-terminal.wrapper -- just

Bug#1019385: swisswatch: add command-line parameter to display arbitrary time

2022-09-08 Thread Axel Stammler
Package: swisswatch Version: 0.6-18+b1 Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-Cc: a...@users.sourceforge.net Dear Maintainer, it might be a good idea to make the frontend (i.e., the clockface and hands) available via the command line so that the usual backend (i.e., the system clock) can be replaced by a

Bug#1013739: linux-image-amd64: Boots with totally blank screens on docking stations; applies to all kernel image versions

2022-06-24 Thread Axel Stammler
Package: linux-image-amd64 Version: 5.10.120-1 Severity: important X-Debbugs-Cc: a...@users.sourceforge.net Dear Maintainer, none of the kernel images show any text output (including encryption prompts) on any screen as long as the laptop is on a working docking station. I have to remove the co

Bug#1011759: texlive-extra-utils: Script pdfjoin has vanished

2022-05-26 Thread Axel Stammler
Package: texlive-extra-utils Version: 2020.20210202-3 Severity: normal X-Debbugs-Cc: a...@users.sourceforge.net Dear Maintainer, this package used to provide: - /usr/bin/pdfjoin - /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/scripts/pdfjam/pdfjoin These two files are even still listed if a search is done on t

Bug#1006268: links2: still shows cached pages pages despite “-aggressive-cache 0 -format-cache-size 0”

2022-02-22 Thread Axel Stammler
Package: links2 Version: 2.21-1+b1 Severity: normal X-Debbugs-Cc: a...@users.sourceforge.net Dear Maintainer, Links 2 always shows previously loaded content whatever combination of command line options I use. It only shows new content when it is called immediately again a second time. -- Syst

Bug#1006266: reportbug: does not work if Socks proxy is used in environment

2022-02-22 Thread Axel Stammler
etected: Unable to connect to Debian BTS (error: "ServerNotFoundError('Unable to find the server at bugs.debian.org')"); Do you still want to file a report [y|N|q|?]? I hope this report can be sent out anyway. -- Package-specific info: ** Environment settings: EDITOR="/usr/b

Bug#992777: linux-image-5.10.0-0.bpo.8-amd64: does not raise ethernet interface Intel Corporation 82579LM Gigabit Network Connection (rev 04)

2021-09-25 Thread Dr. Axel Stammler
Hi, Salvatore, On Sun 2021-09-05 20.52.49, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote: In the excerpt of the above log I do not see a related entry for the enp0s25 interface, which seems present according your other attached information. Can you attach the full build log to get a picture on it? Unfortunatel

Bug#992777: linux-image-5.10.0-0.bpo.8-amd64: does not raise ethernet interface Intel Corporation 82579LM Gigabit Network Connection (rev 04)

2021-08-23 Thread Axel Stammler
Package: src:linux Version: 5.10.46-4~bpo10+1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, the interface is not raised and made available during boot. -- Package-specific info: ** Version: Linux version 5.10.0-0.bpo.8-amd64 (debian-ker...@lists.debian.org) (gcc-8 (Debian 8.3.0-6) 8.3.0, GNU ld (GNU Binuti

Bug#981985: lyx: Frequently takes 100% CPU and hangs, sometimes until killed, sometimes just for seconds

2021-03-02 Thread Dr. Axel Stammler
On Fri 2021-02-05 15.45.25, Pavel Sanda wrote: On Fri, 05 Feb 2021 15:35:13 +0100 Axel Stammler wrote: Package: lyx Version: 2.3.2-1 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, Lyx again and again suddenly stops reacting to pointer and keyboard and takes all CPU capacity. Sometimes it quickly

Bug#981985: lyx: Frequently takes 100% CPU and hangs, sometimes until killed, sometimes just for seconds

2021-02-05 Thread Axel Stammler
Package: lyx Version: 2.3.2-1 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, Lyx again and again suddenly stops reacting to pointer and keyboard and takes all CPU capacity. Sometimes it quickly recovers without any errors, sometimes it needs to be killed after, say, an hour. -- System Information: Debia

Bug#980920: gnome-screensaver: Has stopped working, no seems to reload Gnome session with default settings (keyboard layout), crashing some programs

2021-01-24 Thread Axel Stammler
Package: gnome-screensaver Version: 3.6.1-10 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, a couple of weeks ago (more or less), this program stopped working. It is still called at the correct time and fades the screen as it is supposded to, but then everything disappears suddenly, only to reappear in b

Bug#973530: installation-report: successful installation on SD card on EEE PC, runs on X230

2020-11-01 Thread Axel Stammler
Package: installation-reports Version: 2.75 Severity: minor Dear Maintainer, Everything went extremely well, just sending you this because the installer asked me to. -- Package-specific info: Boot method: netinst/linux on hd Image version: https://d-i.debian.org/daily-images/amd64/daily/netbo

Bug#970351: installation-reports: System installed on encrypted temporary partitions destroys partitions on hosts

2020-09-14 Thread Axel Stammler
Package: installation-reports Severity: important Dear Maintainer, the installer created these lines in /etc/crypttab: sdb2_crypt /dev/sdb2 /dev/urandom cipher=aes-xts-plain64,size=256,swap,discard sdb5_crypt /dev/sdb5 /dev/urandom cipher=aes-xts-plain64,size=256,tmp,discard sdb8_crypt UUID=7bc3

Bug#969283: elinks: hangs connecting to https://cbc.ca (even though Links 2, Lynx, Falkon and others have no problem)

2020-08-30 Thread Axel Stammler
Package: elinks Version: 0.13~20190125-3 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, elinks 'https://cbc.ca' hangs showing an empty screen with this status bar (in which only the time keeps changing): Received 0 B, average speed 0 B/s, current speed 0 B/s, elapsed time 0:38 -- System Information: Debian

Bug#824533: mlterm: Bug still exists in current version in Debian Stable (Buster)

2020-08-29 Thread Axel Stammler
Package: mlterm Version: 3.8.6-2 Followup-For: Bug #824533 Dear Maintainer, even though Hebrew and Arabic seem to be working fine, lots of other UTF characters show up as boxes. man mlterm: “mlfc command generates ~/.mlterm/aafont automatically.” — The command is not part of this package. cat

Bug#962515: utfout: Cannot convert strings starting with a hyphen

2020-06-08 Thread Axel Stammler
Package: utfout Version: 0.0.1-1+b1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, First: This is an excellent little tool, just what I need: $ utfout 'one\u0020two\nthree' one two three Small problem: If the first character of the string to be converted is a '-', the whole string is treated as an option s

Bug#961793: elinks: switch to make dump start at HTML id given as URL ending in …#id

2020-05-29 Thread Axel Stammler
Package: elinks Version: 0.13~20190125-3 Severity: wishlist Dear Maintainer, if a URL ends in, for instance, …#now, E Links correctly jumps to this point and starts its display with the first line at this HTML id. A dump OTOH always starts at the document start, i.e. it ignores the final part o

Bug#961217: cups: “Cannot assign requested address” on VPS after hibernation

2020-05-21 Thread Axel Stammler
Package: cups Version: 2.2.10-6+deb10u3 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, remote printing fails silently on shared printer. Local printing works. “systemctl restart cups” makes the problem go away (until the next hibernation cycle). -- System Information: Debian Release: 10.4 APT prefers s

Bug#958877: gnome-shell-extensions: It should be possible to add some extensions to the top bar several times

2020-04-26 Thread Axel Stammler
Package: gnome-shell-extensions Version: 3.30.1-1 Severity: minor Dear Maintainer, some extensions should be allowed to run and appear in several instances, e.g.: - Command output - Iconping for gnome - Ping indicator -- System Information: Debian Release: 10.3 APT prefers stable-updates AP

Bug#958876: gnome-shell-extensions: extensions requiring more space only display centre part

2020-04-26 Thread Axel Stammler
Package: gnome-shell-extensions Version: 3.30.1-1 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, many extensions cannot be used because their output is severly curtailed as their width is reduced to a minimum, cutting off the left and right-hand parts, e.g.: - Command output - Ping Indicator - System-mon

Bug#940859: [debian-mysql] Bug#940859: mariadb-server-10.3: keeps crashing a few seconds after start

2019-09-23 Thread Dr. Axel Stammler
Thank you for your quick reply. The first crash happened surprisingly at a restart. The messages gave no details whatsoever, only “segfault”. Changing configuration setting made no difference. After a while, the crashes started to happen a few minutes or even hours after a restart so that I was

Bug#940269: [Pkg-giraffe-maintainers] Bug#940269: kopano-webapp-files: Does not appear in plugins list

2019-09-18 Thread Dr. Axel Stammler
Thank you. Is there a way for me to use local storage space on the server to store user files? Best regards, Axel signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#931508: gnome-shell: cannot lock the session nor hibernate

2019-07-06 Thread Axel Stammler
Package: gnome-shell Version: 3.30.2-9 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, The menu does not show the button to lock the screen, all shortcuts for that are ignored, too. Hibernation is likewise impossible. -- System Information: Debian Release: 10.0 APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'tes

Bug#931474: network-manager: does not automatically connect to hidden network

2019-07-05 Thread Axel Stammler
Package: network-manager Version: 1.14.6-2 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, the manager automatically connects to ethernet and visible wireless connections but nut to a hidden wireless network even though a manually established connection works perfectly and the option to automatically connect

Bug#931270: amule-utils-gui: works perfectly — should not be labelled ‘experimental’

2019-06-29 Thread Axel Stammler
Package: amule-utils-gui Version: 1:2.3.2-5 Severity: wishlist Dear Maintainer, I have been using this Amule daemon GUI client for many years (i.e. in different Debian versions) without any problems. I suggest removing the ‘experimental’ label in the package description (cf. apt show). -- Syst

Bug#915950: dconf-service: /var/run/user//dconf/user switches ownership to root:root

2018-12-08 Thread Axel Stammler
Package: dconf-service Version: 0.26.0-2+b1 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, I noticed some programs not working, hanging, or going into infinite loops eating up all memory and swap space (e.g. Mate Panel or Mate Settings, cf. Bug#913996). Looking for the cause, I found that my D Conf file

Bug#915302: foiltex: printed output has gaps where narrow lines should be, e.g. instead of ‘l’, ‘i’, ‘_’

2018-12-02 Thread Axel Stammler
Package: foiltex Version: 2.1.4b-4 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, I use Lyx and am unable to print via DVI or PDF files. These files seem fine at first but printed output then shows the problem. Other Lyx files print without a problem. -- System Information: Debian Release: 9.6 APT prefers

Bug#913996: mate-desktop-environment: subprocess goes into infinite loop if user does not own D Conf user file

2018-11-18 Thread Axel Stammler
Package: mate-desktop-environment Version: 1.20.0+5~bpo9+1 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, This problem occurs out of the blue at random times, on average once a day, and usually involves ‘mate-panel’ or ‘mate-settings-demon’. The process eventually eats up all available memory so that a h

Bug#911438: libjaudiotagger-java: Source listed in /usr/share/doc/libjaudiotagger-java/copyright does not exist

2018-10-20 Thread Axel Stammler
Package: libjaudiotagger-java Version: 2.0.3-2 Severity: minor Dear Maintainer, the copyright file points to https://java.net/projects/jaudiotagger/ but there seems to be a more general problem with this whole site: We're sorry the java.net site has closed. Most Open Source projects previous

Bug#909410: apt: ‘man apt’ should mention ‘install :

2018-09-23 Thread Axel Stammler
Package: apt Version: 1.4.8 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, This simple switch should be mentioned alongside ‘/’ and ‘=’; cf. https://wiki.debian.org/DebianAMD64Faq -- Package-specific info: -- apt-config dump -- APT ""; APT::Architecture "amd64"; APT::Build-Essential ""; APT::Build-Essenti

Bug#900180: gnokii: No documentation for initial configuration

2018-05-27 Thread Axel Stammler
Package: gnokii Version: 0.6.30+dfsg-1.2 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, all documentation starts with the order to define which serial port to use but no more specific hints are given. The wiki referred to cannot be accessed. -- System Information: Debian Release: 9.4 APT prefers stable-up

Bug#898279: mpv: Refuses to play Ö1 radio stream

2018-05-10 Thread Dr. Axel Stammler
Hi, Thanks. Yes, this option works, even for version 0.23.0-2+deb9u2 in Stable (Stretch). Usually MPV notices You Tube Donwload problems by itself, though. Axel On Wed 2018-05-09 19.37.23, James Cowgill wrote: > Does passing "--no-ytdl" work as suggested in that bug report? signature.asc Des

Bug#898279: mpv: Refuses to play Ö1 radio stream

2018-05-09 Thread Axel Stammler
Package: mpv Version: 0.27.2-1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, I can use MPV to play a vast amount of existing radio streams, but this one is just rejected (playback does not start or is aborted): http://mp3stream3.apasf.apa.at:8000/ -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT pr

Bug#819610: mate-panel: Same here without layout change, usually on restart

2018-03-18 Thread Axel Stammler
Package: mate-panel Version: 1.16.2-1 Followup-For: Bug #819610 Dear Maintainer, I usually have to service lightdm restart after boot because of mate-panel eating CPU and memory. Killing mate-panel sometimes resolves the issue but may also lead to the same behaviour. BTW, I see that I am not

Bug#819959: links2: Does not jump to fragments of the current documents

2017-11-12 Thread Dr. Axel Stammler
Hi, Your file produces the same results here. Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML_element) gives an example using ‘id’: To illustrate: the header of a table of contents section on example.com could be turned into a target by writing Table of contents Continuing with

Bug#819959: links2: Does not jump to fragments of the current documents

2017-11-11 Thread Dr. Axel Stammler
Hi, Axel ;) Thanks for your tips! You are right, of course, I do mean "", and I have changed "" to "" — unfortunately to no avail, the problem persists. Regards, Axel signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#881404: unison: deleted archive file on other machine & manually resolved previously non-existant conflicts → works again

2017-11-11 Thread Axel Stammler
Package: unison Version: 2.48.3-1 Followup-For: Bug #881404 Dear Maintainer, The situation seems to be similar to the one in which Unison asks the user to remove the archives. Unfortunately lots of files are now reported as conflicts whereas only a few really are. Regards, Axel -- System Inf

Bug#768536: youtube-dl: problems with BBC data

2017-11-11 Thread Dr. Axel Stammler
Hi, Sorry, I can only run versions from Stable. The current Stable (Stretch) version is 2017.05.18.1-1, and, unfortunately, the problem persists without any change. I just tried this: youtube-dl --write-annotations --all-subs http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b09bzxdz Here are some message

Bug#881404: unison: has stopped working altogether: ‘Fatal error: End_of_file exception raised in loading archive (this indicates a bug!)’

2017-11-11 Thread Axel Stammler
Package: unison Version: 2.48.3-1 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, That is what happens now whenever I try to use Unison with any profile. It started suddenly — everything worked perfectly until a few hours ago. -- System Information: Debian Release: 9.2 APT prefers stable-updates APT p

Bug#444874: network-manager-openvpn-gnome: Celebrating ten years of this bug

2017-07-28 Thread Axel Stammler
Package: network-manager-openvpn-gnome Version: 1.2.8-2 Followup-For: Bug #444874 Dear Maintainer, the VPN gets incorrectly marked as the default. Configuring clients manually works. -- System Information: Debian Release: 9.1 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd6

Bug#868437: gnupg: does not work after installation

2017-07-15 Thread Axel Stammler
Package: gnupg Version: 2.1.18-6 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, after installation, any call to GPG, e.g. gpg --search Stammler invariably produces the following messages: gpg: failed to start the dirmngr '/usr/bin/dirmngr': No such file or directory gpg: connecting dirmngr at '/run/u

Bug#857467: libreoffice-base: Postgresql — Cannot enter or edit data or edit table columns

2017-03-18 Thread Dr. Axel Stammler
Hi, Thanks for your tips. Both JDBC and SDBC only support parts of Libre Office's functionality. In this particular case, they behave identically. I actually believe the authors think this bug is a feature as table data can be entered and edited only if the table has a primary key. Although this

Bug#854641: mate-power-manager: charge and discharge predictions are vastly inaccurate & there is no help text

2017-02-08 Thread Axel Stammler
Package: mate-power-manager Version: 1.8.1+dfsg1-5 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, None of the predicted times are even broadly accurate (so that the computer often just switches off with a few seconds or no warning). The statistics reflect that. Pressing the Help button just creates a messag

Bug#842235: handbrake: Crashes with unusable output file on some DVD titles

2016-10-27 Thread Axel Stammler
Package: handbrake Version: 0.9.9+svn6422+dfsg1-2 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, both Handbrake's GUI and CLI crash nearly at the end of the conversion of some DVD titles, even if the title is first converted to a single VOB file using M Player#s ‘dumpstream’ option or if the whole DVD struc

Bug#824534: mate-terminal: does not display bidirectional text correctly

2016-05-17 Thread Axel Stammler
Package: mate-terminal Version: 1.8.1+dfsg1-4 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, right-to-left (e.g. Hebrew) text parts embedded in a left-to-right (e.g. English) text are displayed left to right. -- System Information: Debian Release: 8.4 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable

Bug#824533: mlterm: Only displays a small subset of characters

2016-05-17 Thread Axel Stammler
Package: mlterm Version: 3.3.8-2 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, Looking for a terminal that correctly displays bidirectional texts I tried this so-called Multi-lingual Terminal. Unfortunately, the set of characters that can actually be displayed is much less multi-lingual than that displa

Bug#819959: links2: Does not jump to fragments of the current documents

2016-04-04 Thread Axel Stammler
Package: links2 Version: 2.8-2+b3 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, If the user clicks on a link created by something like element but reloads the document. -- System Information: Debian Release: 8.4 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architectur

Bug#819951: links2: Should jump to entries (‘options’) in HTML select lists according to letters typed

2016-04-04 Thread Axel Stammler
Package: links2 Version: 2.8-2+b3 Severity: wishlist Dear Maintainer, This feature makes work much faster in browsers like Iceweasel and would be more than appropriate in a performance-oriented browser like Links 2. -- System Information: Debian Release: 8.4 APT prefers stable-updates APT p

Bug#440122: links2: Config file warning seems to be obsolete

2016-04-04 Thread Axel Stammler
Package: links2 Version: 2.8-2+b3 Followup-For: Bug #440122 Dear Maintainer, The configuration file seems to have been opened to editing − the man page says: Most options can be set in the user interface or config file, so usu‐ ally you do not need to care about them. -- System

Bug#803384: command-applet: Command Applet cuts off output string in the middle of multibyte characters

2015-11-02 Thread Dr. Axel Stammler
Hi, Mike, Thanks for your quick reply − and thanks for the Command Applet as it is the only applet that makes Mate usable for me because so many other applets do not work at all. Now, more to the point, the following command (using u2026) works well (except for the fact that the string is cut s

Bug#797371: apt-listchanges: Fills up /tmp without noticing or offering configuration setting to avoid this

2015-08-29 Thread Axel Stammler
Package: apt-listchanges Version: 2.85.13+nmu1 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, on a regular run of ‘aptitude safe-upgrade’, APT List Changes filled the temporary filesystem to capacity and kept reporting over and over and over again (* literally thousands of times) the problem it itself ha

Bug#775853: evolution: bug appears on Eee PCs

2015-08-18 Thread Axel Stammler
Package: evolution Version: 3.12.9~git20141130.241663-1+b1 Followup-For: Bug #775853 Dear Maintainer, I have installed Jessie on several machines now and the problem always occurs on Eee PCs (no matter which particukar model they are) and never on the other coputers. Kind regards, Axel -- Sys

Bug#792647: vlc: Totally garbles up HLS streams without error message

2015-07-16 Thread Axel Stammler
Package: vlc Version: 2.2.0~rc2-2 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, VLC plays most media streams very reliably but streams like the following invariably break up and repeat bits, quckly falling way behind: - http://www.abc.net.au/res/streaming/audio/hls/local_perth.m3u8 - http://www.abc.net.au/

Bug#787755: get-iplayer: has suddenly stopped listing any TV programmes

2015-06-04 Thread Axel Stammler
Package: get-iplayer Version: 2.92-1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, A few days ago, all TV programmes disappeared from the list of available programmes so that it now only includes radio programmes and podcasts. -- System Information: Debian Release: 7.8 APT prefers oldstable-updates APT

Bug#775853: evolution: here, they disappear after a few seconds even if I do nothing

2015-05-30 Thread Axel Stammler
Package: evolution Version: 3.12.9~git20141130.241663-1+b1 Followup-For: Bug #775853 Dear Maintainer, This behaviour is constant, i.e. after starting Evolution or just changing the day, all events appear for a few seconds, then this part of the screen is painted grey as well as the small task l

Bug#782166: command-runner-applet: Time between command runs should be configurable (currently 5 s)

2015-04-08 Thread Axel Stammler
Package: command-runner-applet Version: 0.3-1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, this should be included in the Preferences dialogue as a command that takes a long time to complete may pose a problem otherwise. -- System Information: Debian Release: 7.8 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy:

Bug#781899: inadyn: Please provide script for /etc/init.d

2015-04-04 Thread Axel Stammler
Package: inadyn Version: 1.96.2-1+b1 Severity: wishlist Dear Maintainer, As INADYN is designed to run as a daemon, it should have a proper script. -- System Information: Debian Release: 7.8 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i6

Bug#781898: inadyn: Sometimes just silently dies

2015-04-04 Thread Axel Stammler
Package: inadyn Version: 1.96.2-1+b1 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, I use INADYN with Afraid.Org and it works perfectly − until it just stops without any error message in the log: […] Apr 2 13:08:18 flora INADYN[3352]: . Apr 2 13:10:18 flora INADYN[3352]: . Apr 2 13:12:19 flora INADYN[

Bug#781285: cdrdao: Should be able to handle mono WAV files

2015-03-26 Thread Axel Stammler
Package: cdrdao Version: 1:1.2.3-0.3 Severity: wishlist Dear Maintainer, I had to use Audacity to duplicate a mono track into pseudo stereo. -- System Information: Debian Release: 7.8 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) K

Bug#779665: get-iplayer: Bug and fix apply to live radio streams, too

2015-03-25 Thread Axel Stammler
Package: get-iplayer Version: 2.87-2 Followup-For: Bug #779665 Dear Maintainer, Radio live streams like that carrying BBC World Service were affected by the bug, too, and likewise work again with the new version. -- System Information: Debian Release: 7.8 APT prefers stable-updates APT poli

Bug#779665: get-iplayer: v2.92 works well, too

2015-03-23 Thread Axel Stammler
Package: get-iplayer Version: 2.87-2 Followup-For: Bug #779665 Dear Maintainer, version 2.92 works out of the box, even from $USER/bin. -- System Information: Debian Release: 7.8 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel

Bug#773789: get-iplayer: Upgrading to the latest upstream version would fix bug #779665

2015-03-22 Thread Axel Stammler
Package: get-iplayer Version: 2.87-2 Followup-For: Bug #773789 Dear Maintainer, the changes implemented by the BBC render important parts of this version unusable. Many issues have been fixed upstream. -- System Information: Debian Release: 7.8 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, '

Bug#780881: mutt: tls_socket_read (A TLS packet with unexpected length was received.)

2015-03-20 Thread Axel Stammler
Package: mutt Version: 1.5.21-6.2+deb7u3 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, - Mutt can access other IMAPS servers without problems. - This server (imaps://***@versanet...@mail-ssl.versatel.de/) can be accessed without problems using Evolution. - Mutt reports the error quoted on the Subject line

Bug#780281: eog: Please allow scaling >100% for printing

2015-03-11 Thread Axel Stammler
Package: eog Version: 3.4.2-1+build1 Severity: wishlist Dear Maintainer, In the ‘Print’ window, there are two scaling options, one under ‘Image Settings’ and one under ‘Page Setup’. The first one works well with the other options, e.g. ‘Center’, but does not allow enlarging the picture to fill

Bug#778911: vlc: Please make N Curses interface configurable

2015-02-21 Thread Axel Stammler
Package: vlc Version: 2.0.3-5+deb7u2+b1 Severity: wishlist Dear Maintainer, VLC works well with this interface (sometimes I think it works better than using a graphical interface), so I would suggest making this interface more versatile and configurable: - colours - which information is shown

Bug#776750: kbibtex: Include international reference libraries as search engines

2015-02-01 Thread Axel Stammler
Package: kbibtex Version: 0.4-4 Severity: wishlist Dear Maintainer, It would be great if the focus of available search engines were widened to include such libraries as the British Library, the Library of Congress and the main reference libraries in other languages such as French, Spanish, Russ

Bug#776610: get-iplayer: always sets series and episode to #1

2015-01-29 Thread Axel Stammler
Package: get-iplayer Version: 2.87-2 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, ‘episodenum’ and ‘seriesnum’ are always set to ‘1’ or ‘-’ in both the XML file and the information output, ‘senum’ to ‘s01e01’, for TV programmes, even for some films or if the file name contains correct values. In the case

Bug#774350: get-iplayer: should include option to reconnect when streaming (--stream)

2015-01-01 Thread Axel Stammler
Package: get-iplayer Version: 2.87-2 Severity: wishlist Dear Maintainer, when listening to a radio stream like 'BBC World Service', after a few minutes M Player detects ‘end of file’ and stops. Get I Player should include an operating mode in which it constantly reestablishes the connection so

Bug#772785: Please do not “deemphasise panel applets”

2014-12-30 Thread Dr. Axel Stammler
time & local temperature - Link Monitor: are there any network problems? where? …and a lot of fun in others: - Eyes (and they help you locate the pointer) - Wanda the Fish Axel -- Auf meinem Rechner geschrieben; durch Doktor-Axel-Stammler-Schutz™ frei von Viren, Pinseln, Farben, anderer

Bug#774167: owncloud: HTTP access works, HTTPS just returns empty document

2014-12-29 Thread Axel Stammler
Package: owncloud Version: 7.0.2+dfsg-1~bpo70+2 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, After installing the package and completing the installation wizard steps, I can now create users &c. − but only using HTTP (http://localhost/owncloud). Although HTTPS works fine in general (https://localhost),

Bug#774126: get-iplayer: does not list for radio programmes

2014-12-28 Thread Axel Stammler
ce of free software and for the quick update to the new BBC API. Great − keep up the good work! Axel Stammler -- System Information: Debian Release: 7.7 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel:

Bug#770398: libjaudiotagger-java: Should not be limited to audio files

2014-11-20 Thread Axel Stammler
Package: libjaudiotagger-java Version: 2.0.3-1 Severity: wishlist Dear Maintainer, it is difficult to understand why such a well-structured library should be restricted in this way. Videos at least should be included, but why not even other tagged file formats like JPEG? (The package should in

Bug#768793: youtube-dl: option ‘--recode-video mp4’ only creates empty file

2014-11-09 Thread Axel Stammler
Package: youtube-dl Version: 2014.08.05-1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, after saying ‘[ffmpeg] Converting video’ the program prints this: ERROR: Add '-strict experimental' if you want to use it. There is no further explanation; the MP4 file is created but left empty. -- System Information:

Bug#768536: youtube-dl: problems with BBC data

2014-11-08 Thread Axel Stammler
Package: youtube-dl Version: 2014.08.05-1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, BBC programmes are downloaded without problems but many subtitles are missing and the XML annotations file is empty. -- System Information: Debian Release: 7.7 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-up

Bug#767331: get-iplayer: Severity should be bumped up because no programmes (except podcasts) can be accessed anymore

2014-10-30 Thread Axel Stammler
Package: get-iplayer Followup-For: Bug #767331 Dear Maintainer, When I reported the bug, I failed to realise that it precludes the programme from accessing any content, so please prioritise it. Thank you. Axel Stammler -- System Information: Debian Release: 7.7 APT prefers stable-updates

Bug#767331: get-iplayer: shows pseudo-programme “BBC iPlayer Feeds” at index 1 because of wrong usage of BBC API

2014-10-30 Thread Axel Stammler
r's homepage, http://www.infradead.org/get_iplayer/html/get_iplayer.html. Get I Player is an excellent programme, and I would like to thank you for making it available in Debian and for maintaining it. Cheers, Axel Stammler -- System Information: Debian Release: 7.7 APT prefers stable-upd

Bug#764577: update-manager-gnome: always complains ‘Downloading list of changes failed.’

2014-10-09 Thread Axel Stammler
Package: update-manager-gnome Version: 0.200.5-2.1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, I think it would be a good idea if people could see a summary of each package update before they decide to install the update. Unfortunately this is never possible even though there is an actual part of the scr

Bug#763872: libreoffice-base: please allow saving a relationship model as a separate file

2014-10-03 Thread Axel Stammler
Package: libreoffice-base Version: 1:3.5.4+dfsg2-0+deb7u2 Severity: wishlist Dear Maintainer, the relationship window is a great tool, thank you! There must be some internal format for reverse-engineered or newly created relationship models. Please consider offering a way of serialising these m

Bug#762871: tora: offers only MySQL connections

2014-09-25 Thread Axel Stammler
Package: tora Version: 2.1.3-2 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, I would like to connect to a Postgres server but the ‘connection provider’ list only contains ‘MySQL’. -- System Information: Debian Release: 7.6 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')

Bug#762328: owncloud: Only shows blank page (empty HTML file)

2014-09-21 Thread Axel Stammler
Package: owncloud Version: 7.0.2+dfsg-1~bpo70+1 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, I have just installed Own Cloud and adapted it to use Postgres. If the file /etc/owncloud/config.php has insufficient permissions or the Postgres password is unset, the proper page shows up, but if I correct thi

Bug#761148: installation-reports: me, too ;-) on Eee PC netbook

2014-09-20 Thread Axel Stammler
Package: installation-reports Followup-For: Bug #761148 Dear Maintainer, the installation went smoothly. I installed from a USB CD drive onto a USB RAM key. Thanks! -- Package-specific info: Boot method: USB CD Image version: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/arch-latest/i

Bug#761967: apt-watch: does not appear in applets list, hence cannot be added to panel

2014-09-17 Thread Axel Stammler
Package: apt-watch Version: 0.4.0-2.1 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, after installing and even restarting, the applet is not listed. -- System Information: Debian Release: jessie/sid APT prefers testing-updates APT policy: (500, 'testing-updates'), (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (

Bug#761969: link-monitor-applet: does not appear in applets list, hence cannot be added to panel

2014-09-17 Thread Axel Stammler
Source: link-monitor-applet Version: does not appear in applets list, hence cannot be added to panel Severity: important Dear Maintainer, after installing and even restarting, the applet is not listed. -- System Information: Debian Release: jessie/sid APT prefers testing-updates APT policy:

Bug#760442: installation-reports: Jessie installer hangs at 45% ‘starting partitioner’ on both desktop and Eee PC netbook

2014-09-03 Thread Axel Stammler
Package: installation-reports Severity: important Dear Maintainer, The installation went smoothly (including harddisk recognition) up to this point, when the PS command showed Parted running. There was no progress for hours and no harddisk or CD access. The portable computer uses one internal h

Bug#758744: evolution: Becomes unresponsive after a few minutes

2014-08-20 Thread Axel Stammler
illed using signal 9. Before that, any new instance of Evolution complains about not being able to get a new calendar, ‘timeout reached’. BTW, I do not use Evolution for e-mails but mostly use Cal DAV calendars and task lists. Best wishes, Axel Stammler -- System Information: Debian Release

Bug#753991: mplayer: Ignores subtitle colour specifications in SRT file

2014-07-06 Thread Axel Stammler
Package: mplayer Version: 2:1.0~rc4.dfsg1+svn34540-1+b2 Severity: minor Dear Maintainer, lines in the SRT subtitle file like the following: Not really. are displayed as if there were only the text without any colour specification, i.e.: Not really. − displayed in white; the subtitles are n

Bug#753990: mplayer2: statements in SRT subtitle are displayed on screen, colour is not changed

2014-07-06 Thread Axel Stammler
Package: mplayer2 Version: 2.0-554-gf63dbad-1+b1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, SRT subtitle lines like the following Not really. are displayed as Not really. The subtitle colour is always white. (The same SRT subtitle file works perfectly with VLC, which displays the correct colours.)

Bug#748856: gnome: panel clock date display does not reflect locale

2014-05-21 Thread Axel Stammler
Package: gnome Version: 1:3.4+7+deb7u1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, Even though my locale (Ireland) specifies ‘21 May’ as the date format, the display shows ‘Wed May 21, 15:46:09’. This cannot be changed through the preferences settings. -- System Information: Debian Release: 7.5 APT pre

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