Bug#1100538: scipy-doc: broken mathjax

2025-03-15 Thread Balbir Thomas
Package: python-scipy-doc Version: 1.10.1-2 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, Scipy documentation tries to load MathJax from url http://localhost/usr/share/javascript/mathjax.js However what works is http://localhost/javascript/mathjax.js -- System Information: Debian Release: 12.9 APT prefers

Bug#1074540: anacron: Anacron hangs on removal

2024-06-30 Thread Balbir Thomas
Package: anacron Version: 2.3-36 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, I was experiencing long delays on shutdown of my laptop because anacron was running a long running task with no time limit. I found anacron was only installed because it was a dependency of task-laptop. I removed task-laptop then

Bug#1040689: Workaround without init and site file

2023-07-10 Thread Balbir Thomas
Hi David, I can confirm that deleting /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/elpa/org-9.4 fixes the issue and org-export-dispatch works again. Thank you. On Mon, Jul 10, 2023 at 11:44 AM David Bremner wrote: > Balbir Thomas writes: > > > Thanks to bremner on IRC it was found that > &g

Bug#1040689: List of emacs related packages installed

2023-07-10 Thread Balbir Thomas
-el. The I also did "apt autoremove". Hope this helps. On Mon, Jul 10, 2023 at 10:39 AM David Bremner wrote: > Balbir Thomas writes: > > > As requested I am listing below all Emacs related > > packages installed. These list was generated using > > "dp

Bug#1040740: sagemath: three.js plots not shown

2023-07-09 Thread Balbir Thomas
Package: sagemath Version: 9.5-6 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, In trying to plot any 3D surface using sagemath and the default 3D viewer (three.js) the HTML plot page is generated and a new browser tab is opened however no plot is shown. The three.js tab does have a menu icon that works, also

Bug#1040689: List of emacs related packages installed

2023-07-09 Thread Balbir Thomas
As requested I am listing below all Emacs related packages installed. These list was generated using "dpkg --get-selections" and grepping for "emacs" and "elpa". emacs emacs-bin-common emacs-common emacs-common-non-dfsg emacs-el emacs-goodies-el emacs-gtk emacsen-common maxima-ema

Bug#1040689: Workaround without init and site file

2023-07-09 Thread Balbir Thomas
Thanks to bremner on IRC it was found that launching emacs disabling the init and site lisp file ("emacs -Q") seems to fix the issue i.e. org-export-dispatch does work and and exported file is generated. regards

Bug#1040690: emacs-el: Warnings resulting from org-mode source files not found

2023-07-09 Thread Balbir Thomas
Package: emacs-el Version: 1:28.2+1-15 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, On starting emacs 28 in bookworm various warnings are displayed because elisp source files (mostly for) org-mode are not found. There are broken symlinks to source files in the directory /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/elpa/or

Bug#1040689: elpa-org: Org export fails

2023-07-09 Thread Balbir Thomas
Package: elpa-org Version: 9.5.2+dfsh-5 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, Trying export any org-mode file leads to the error : "wrong type argument: commandp, org-export-dispatch" This happens with or without any local emacs configuration (.emacs file). -- System Information: Debian Release:

Bug#1009332: maxima-emacs: Imaxima fails to render latex

2022-04-11 Thread Balbir Thomas
Package: maxima-emacs Version: 5.44.0-3 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, Running imaxima in Emacs does not result in pretty latex output. Instead an error message is show. Steps to reproduce 1) Launch Emacs and run M-x imaxima 2) At the maxima prompt type say diff(x**2, x) ; and press ente

Bug#1008298: emacs: Octave mode plot window is non interactive

2022-03-26 Thread Balbir Thomas
Package: emacs Version: 1:27.1+1-3.1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, A plot using octave-mode and the default graphics toolkit (qt) is non interactive. Clicking on the rotate plot icon and then trying to rotate the plot has no effect. This problem does not occur if the same plot is made using o

Bug#1006902: expeyes not fully ported to Python 3

2022-03-07 Thread Balbir Thomas
Package: expeyes Version: 4.8.8+repack-2 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, On running expeyes from the command line I see the following error message $ expeyes Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/expeyes/eyes/explore.py", line 12, in from Tkinter import * ModuleNotFoundErr

Bug#1006591: emacs calc fails to produce any plot

2022-02-27 Thread Balbir Thomas
Package: emacs Version: 1:27.1+1-3.1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, The Emacs calculator in version 27.1 is unable to produce any plot because it uses commands that are obsolete and deprecated in gnuplot version 5.4. One command in particular prevents any plot from showing up. This is the "set

Bug#1003025: gr-iio prevents import of python3-libiio

2022-01-02 Thread Balbir Thomas
Package: gr-iio Version: 0.3-9+b4 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, The gr-iio package installs /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/iio/__init__.py. As a result when any application evaluates import iio The above listed file is evaluated. However this is usually not what is intended. Instead mo

Bug#1002698: libvolk2-dev: isinf not declared in scope

2021-12-28 Thread Balbir Thomas
> Also, is this a Debian bug? > I am not able to reproduce this on my Debian machines. I ran into this problem when trying to compile https://github.com/analogdevicesinc/scopy/. Specifically the first compile failure occurs when trying to compile https://github.com/analogdevicesinc/scopy/blob/mast

Bug#1002698: libvolk2-dev: isinf not declared in scope

2021-12-27 Thread Balbir Thomas
Package: libvolk2-dev Version: 2.4.1-2 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, Attempting to compile C++ software using libvolk2 may lead to the following error --- In file included from /usr/include/volk/volk.h:31, /usr/include/volk/volk_common.h: In function ‘float log2f_non_ieee(float)’: /usr/

Bug#992979: sagemath: Blank black page for 3D plots using three.js viewer

2021-08-25 Thread Balbir Thomas
Package: sagemath Version: 9.2-2 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, Creating any 3D graphics using the default three.js viewer opens a blank black page in the web browser. The same plot with an argument "viewer=tachyon" or "viewer=jmol" results in a correct plot. It was suggested in IRC that this

Bug#869555: saods9: Unable to obtain Energy Spectra using Chandra tools

2017-07-24 Thread Balbir Thomas
Package: saods9 Version: 7.5+repack1-2 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, Steps to reproduce bug -- 1) start ds9 2) Launch "Virtual Obervatory" using "Analysis" menu 3) Connect to Rutgers MOOC server using internal browser. Choose any mode of connection - web proxy (preferr

Bug#570591: fpc: Build failure on Lenny

2010-02-19 Thread Balbir Thomas
Package: fpc Version: 2.2.2-8 Severity: normal fpc 2.4 fails to build on debian lenny with the following error : (no rule to make makefile.cpu in fpcsrc/rtl/linux) /usr/bin/make -C fpcsrc compiler_cycle make[1]: Entering direct

Bug#517996: mldonkey-server: Undocumented changes make this package hard to use

2009-03-03 Thread Balbir Thomas
Package: mldonkey-server Version: 2.9.5-2 Severity: normal 1) In etch mldonkey was started with mldonkey_server ... In lenny mldonkey_server is gone. README.Debian should have had a brief and simple write up on what the user must use in place If you are going to do this (change interface

Bug#481910: asymptote: broken info documentation

2008-05-19 Thread Balbir Thomas
Package: asymptote Version: 1.14-1 Severity: normal Asymptote info documentation is into accessible in any info reader. Probably the "Top" node is missing. -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.24 Locale: LANG=e

Bug#467417: iceweasel: needs better browser identification string

2008-02-25 Thread Balbir Thomas
Package: iceweasel Version: 2.0.0.3-1 Severity: normal Many web sites are designed for IE and Firefox as they cover 90% of the market (as far as I am aware). For example http://www.bungeelabs.com Iceweasel satisfies the minimal firefox version requirement for the afore mentioned web site. However

Bug#346836: intent to upload sponsored NMU to fix xlibs-dev bug

2006-01-18 Thread Balbir Thomas
Hi, Kindly go ahead with the NMU I will do uploads for future releases but am limited at present by the availability of a sid box. Though I could use pbuilder, I hope to have a sid box in the near future. thank you balbir thomas On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 08:56:16PM -0500, Justin Pryzby wrote

Bug#348287: netpbm: pstopnm does not work

2006-01-15 Thread Balbir Thomas
Package: netpbm Version: 2:10.0-8 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable pstopnm is not able to extract pnm images of a level 2 or level 3 postscript file. The man page mentions that this problem may occur for a level 1 file, however the problem seems to be more general. This pro

Bug#347708: RFP: g95 -- A fortran 95 compiler

2006-01-12 Thread Balbir Thomas
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: g95 Version : Upstream Author : Andy Vaught <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.g95.org * License : GPL Description : A fortran 95 compiler G95 is a fortran 95 compiler. Current version of gcc includes

Bug#249455: djvulibre-bin: gsdjvu available under the CPL

2005-12-27 Thread Balbir Thomas
Hi, I already wrote to AT&T only to get a negative response. It may be usefull if you send them a polite note for the same. In view of this impasse you may close the bug if you like. I was under the impression that it is a seperate driver and didn't realise it was in the form of a patch. regards

Bug#249455: djvulibre-bin: gsdjvu available under the CPL

2005-12-16 Thread Balbir Thomas
Package: djvulibre-bin Version: 3.5.14-2 Followup-For: Bug #249455 Hi, gsdjvu is now under the CPL. Couldn't it be possible to make it a seperate package (being GPL incompatible but "free" according to FSF) ? Are there any such plans. regards b thomas -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1

Bug#312945: acknowledged by developer (Re: gnupg-doc: installs mini-howto in multiple languages)

2005-12-05 Thread Balbir Thomas
on=2.60-bugs.debian.org_2005_01_02 > > James Troup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > Package: gnupg-doc > > > Version: 2003.04.06-4 > > > Severity: normal > > > > > gnupg-mini howto should not be installed > > > in multiple lang

Bug#341676: liboctaviz.so not found

2005-12-01 Thread Balbir Thomas
Package: octaviz Version: 0.4.0-10 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable Hi, It is not possible to run any of the octaviz demos as they all produce the error : octave:1> pwd /usr/share/doc/octaviz/examples octave:2> vtk_demo error: liboctaviz.so: cannot open shared object file:

Bug#336267: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Re: [Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#336267: octave-forge: Extra packages not installed ?]

2005-10-29 Thread Balbir Thomas
Hi, patch for compile failure is included here and also forwarded to you. --- tk_interp.old 2005-10-29 20:36:59.0 -0400 +++ tk_interp.cc2005-10-29 20:34:16.0 -0400 @@ -699,10 +699,10 @@ //

Bug#336267: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Re: [Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#336267: octave-forge: Extra packages not installed ?]

2005-10-29 Thread Balbir Thomas
call). regards balbir thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#336267: octave-forge: Extra packages not installed ?

2005-10-28 Thread Balbir Thomas
Package: octave-forge Version: 2004.11.16-7 Severity: normal Hi, The extra packages of octave-forge are not installed . I was in particular looking for tk_octave. I couldn't find a note in /usr/share/doc/octave-forge explaining why the package maintainer decided to drop the extra packages. Ki

Bug#323886: cdcd submit does not work

2005-08-18 Thread Balbir Thomas
Package: cdcd Version: 0.6.5-4 Severity: normal The "submit" command does not work even though the changelog shows that this was added in. The manpage state that this command exists but the "help" command does not show it. -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 Architecture: i386 (i686) Ker

Bug#314507: yahoo2mbox: bug not reproducible please close

2005-07-02 Thread Balbir Thomas
Package: yahoo2mbox Version: 0.17-1 Followup-For: Bug #314507 Hi, I upgraded to the new unstable version 0.17 and things seem to work fine. So you may close this bug if you think it is appropriate. b thomas -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.

Bug#314500: SVGATextMode: text mode cursor missing on tty2 to tty6 on startup

2005-06-23 Thread Balbir Thomas
Hi, On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 01:04:23PM +0930, Ron wrote: > Hi, I'm afraid you are going to have to clarify a few things, > and/or do some debugging of your own here. I've just been > forwarded a separate report where you claim(ed) this is the > solution? I gather you no longer believe that?? A

Bug#314507: yahoo2mbox: Yahoo page structure has changed

2005-06-16 Thread Balbir Thomas
Package: yahoo2mbox Version: 0.15-3 Severity: normal Hi, This script does not work anymore as the yahoo page structure has chaged. This results in an error message : Unexpected title page format (Yahoo! Groups : Even the more current version 0.17 does not support the new page structure. T

Bug#314500: SVGATextMode: text mode cursor missing on tty2 to tty6 on startup

2005-06-16 Thread Balbir Thomas
Package: SVGATextMode Version: 1.9-12 Severity: normal Hi, After upgrade to sarge I find that the SVGATextMode cursor is absent on tty2 to tty6 on startup. It is present and working correctly on tty1. My /etc/TextConfig has uncommented lines for the Cursor as Cursor 28-31 # underline cursor

Bug#312950: devhelp: Broken links bugs is caused by #62454 bug in dhelp

2005-06-14 Thread Balbir Thomas
Package: devhelp Version: 0.9.3-1 Followup-For: Bug #312950 Hi, I gather this broken links bugs is caused by a bug (#62454) in install-docs which can not handle symlinks to directories. #62454 is 5 years old now so it looks like it may be a better idea to work around it than wait for a resolutio

Bug#313077: no blinking cursor on tty2 and higher -- solved

2005-06-11 Thread Balbir Thomas
Hi, This bug was because the cursor line "Cursor 28-31" in /etc/textconfig was commented out. For some reason this did not seem to make a difference with 2.4 kernels but does with 2.6 kernels. You may hence close this bug or re-assign it to SVGATextMode as one of the two Cursor lines must be un

Bug#313077: util-linux: no blinking cursor on tty2 and higher

2005-06-11 Thread Balbir Thomas
Package: util-linux Version: 2.12p-4 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable Hi, After upgrading to sarge from woody I find that the blinking text mode cursor is absent in all but tty1. tty1 works fine though. I am filing this as a grave bug as it makes it very difficult to e

Bug#312952: dhelp: upgrade to sarge breaks many links

2005-06-10 Thread Balbir Thomas
Package: dhelp Version: 0.5.20 Severity: normal Hi, after upgrading to sarge many of the documentation links in dhelp were gone even though all the control files were still there in /usr/share/doc-base. reconfiguring or reinstalling did not change the situation. I had to manually install the do

Bug#312951: link to cervisia documentation broken in dhelp

2005-06-10 Thread Balbir Thomas
Package: cervisia Version: 4:3.3.2-3 Severity: normal There is no document pointed to by this link /usr/share/doc/kde/HTML/en/cervisia/index.html in dhelp. b thomas -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.4.19 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=AN

Bug#312950: broken links to devhelp books

2005-06-10 Thread Balbir Thomas
Package: devhelp Version: 0.9.3-1 Severity: normal Hi, links to all devhelp books are broken after upgrade from woody to sarge . For instance the link to the make manual is : /usr/share/doc/elp/books/make/make_toc.html even though it is correct in the control file as shown below : Document:

Bug#312945: gnupg-doc: installs mini-howto in multiple languages

2005-06-10 Thread Balbir Thomas
Package: gnupg-doc Version: 2003.04.06-4 Severity: normal gnupg-mini howto should not be installed in multiple languages b thomas -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.4.19 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) -- no debconf infor

Bug#312943: debian-history: should be split into one package for each language

2005-06-10 Thread Balbir Thomas
Package: debian-history Version: 2.5 Severity: normal Hi, shouldn't this be split in to seperate packages for each language rather than install all language translations. b thomas -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.4.19 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C

Bug#312922: genesis: Genesis installs man page for netcdf.3 which conflicts with netcdfg-dev package

2005-06-10 Thread Balbir Thomas
Package: genesis Version: 2.2-2 Severity: normal Hi, Here is the error message when trying to upgrade from woody to sarge : Preparing to replace netcdfg-dev 3.5.0-7 (using .../netcdfg-dev_3.5.0-7.1_i386.deb) ... Unpacking replacement netcdfg-dev ... dpkg: error processing /cdrom//pool/main/n/net

Bug#301010: qt3-tools: QAssistant does not show documentation

2005-03-23 Thread Balbir Thomas
Package: qt3-tools Version: 2:3.0.3-20020329-1woody2 Severity: normal Hi, The help menu item (QAssistant) in Qt Designer does not show the documentation even though qt3-doc package is installed. The may seem to be because the path specified in Edit->settings for documentation is QTDIR/doc (/usr/

Bug#289632: ITP: BrlCAD -- A Combinatorial/Constructive Solid Geometry, solid modeling system

2005-01-10 Thread Balbir Thomas
Package: wnpp Version: N/A; reported 2005-01-10 Severity: wishlist * Package name: BrlCAD Version : 7.0.2 Upstream Author : Michael John Muuss and others <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://brlcad.sourceforge.net * License : GPL Description : A Combinatoria