Bug#1094218: fish: mv doesn't suspend with &, which is a major downgrade from other shells

2025-01-28 Thread David Starner
On Tue, Jan 28, 2025 at 8:19 AM David Adam wrote: > Do you have an `mv` function defined? The output of `type mv` will tell > you. If you do, you are running into > https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/issues/238 which is a > longstanding problem with fish shell, and you may be able to work ar

Bug#1094218: fish: mv doesn't suspend with &, which is a major downgrade from other shells

2025-01-25 Thread David Starner
Package: fish Version: 3.7.1-1 Severity: normal X-Debbugs-Cc: prosfil...@gmail.com Moving 10+ GB files from one hard drive to another takes time, so I run mv with &. This doesn't work with fish; it freezes until the move is done. -- System Information: Debian Release: trixie/sid APT prefers u

Bug#1088021: pdfsam: PDFSam crashes on start up

2024-11-21 Thread David Starner
Package: pdfsam Version: 4.3.4-1 Severity: important X-Debbugs-Cc: prosfil...@gmail.com prosfilaes@asimov:/home/oldhome/Books$ pdfsam WARNING: A restricted method in java.lang.System has been called WARNING: java.lang.System::load has been called by com.sun.glass.utils.NativeLibLoader in an unna

Bug#1069795: Please keep random

2024-04-24 Thread David Starner
Package: bsdgames Version: 2.17-33 Severity: wishlist I've found random a useful tool for sampling data files and would find it helpful if it were kept. Thank you. -- The standard is written in English . If you have trouble understanding a particular section, read it again and again and again . .

Bug#1059448: python3-influxdb emits errors on installation

2023-12-25 Thread David Starner
Package: python3-influxdb Version: 5.3.1-5 Severity: normal X-Debbugs-Cc: prosfil...@gmail.com Upon installation, dkg says Setting up python3-influxdb (5.3.1-5) ... /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/influxdb/tests/client_test.py:527: SyntaxWarning: invalid escape sequence '\(' "\(use 'n', 'u', 'ms

Bug#1051354: squashfs-tools: man page claims mksquashfs DIRECTORY IMAGE.SQFS creates IMAGE.SQSH

2023-09-06 Thread David Starner
Package: squashfs-tools Version: 1:4.6.1-1 Severity: minor X-Debbugs-Cc: prosfil...@gmail.com mksquashfs.1 says mksquashfs DIRECTORY IMAGE.SQFS Create a Squashfs filesystem from the contents of DIRECTORY, writing the output to IMAGE.SQSH. Mksquashfs will use the default com

Bug#1042020: mmv aborts with realloc(): invalid pointer

2023-07-25 Thread David Starner
Package: mmv Version: 2.5-1 Severity: important prosfilaes@asimov:~/temp/temp2/temp/temp2$ rm * prosfilaes@asimov:~/temp/temp2/temp/temp2$ for i in `seq 1 100`; do touch $i; done prosfilaes@asimov:~/temp/temp2/temp/temp2$ mmv "*0" "#1" realloc(): invalid pointer Aborted prosfilaes@asimov:~/temp/te

Bug#888914: backintime adds current directory to path?

2018-01-30 Thread David Starner
Package:backintime-qt4 Version:1.1.12-2 ~/RPG/Mine/Traveller/Traveller_USB $ backintime-qt4 & [1] 326 ~/RPG/Mine/Traveller/Traveller_USB $ sh: 0: getcwd() failed: No such file or directory sh: 0: getcwd() failed: No such file or directory Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/backint

Bug#873341: SBT is uninstallable; depends on nonexistent packages

2017-08-26 Thread David Starner
Package: sbt Version: 0.13.13-2 Severity: serious sbt is not installable; it depends on various packages like sbt-test-interface that only exist in experimental.

Bug#847419: apt-listchanges: crashes with AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'decode'

2016-12-07 Thread David Starner
Package: apt-listchanges Version: 3.6 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, Apt upgrade leads to Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/apt-listchanges", line 243, in main(config) File "/usr/bin/apt-listchanges", line 141, in main (news, changelog, binnmu) = pkg.extract_ch

Bug#787538: New compose sequences for Esperanto

2015-06-02 Thread David Starner
Package: libx11-data Version: 2:1.6.3-1 Severity: wishlist Is there way we could get : "Ĉ" U0108 # LATIN CAPITAL LETTER C WITH CIRCUMFLEX : "Ĉ" U0108 # LATIN CAPITAL LETTER C WITH CIRCUMFLEX : "ĉ" U0109 # LATIN SMALL LETTER C WITH CIRCUMFLEX : "Ĝ" U011C # LATIN

Bug#744801: Backintime-gnome doesn't work on a read-only file system

2014-04-14 Thread David Starner
Package: backintime-gnome Version: 1.0.34-0.1 My drive just had problems and the kernel decided to remount it read-only. As it is clearly not long for this world, I figured that I would run backintime-gnome one last time. Except backintime-gnome doesn't work on read-only filesystems, failing with

Bug#743662: wmweather has no option to turn off metric

2014-04-04 Thread David Starner
Package: wmweather Version: 2.4.5-2 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch The system-wide wmweather.conf file lists metric, and since there's no option to set imperial units, there's no way to bring up wmweather in imperial units. Here's a patch to add such an option. -- Kie ekzistas vivo, ekzistas esp

Bug#655924: udev: {dvd,cdrom,?} symlinks are not created

2013-10-26 Thread David Starner
Michael Biebl writes: > Am 10.10.2013 21:40, schrieb Colomban Wendling: > > Really? I'm not finding each and every application that uses /dev/dvd > > as the default DVD device and convince their developers to use a new > > library. This is not realistic, and IMO not a sensible solution: it > > w

Bug#717695: xmonad recommends some seriously huge packages

2013-07-23 Thread David Starner
Package: xmonad Version: 0.11-5 Severity: wishlist sudo apt-get install xmonad ... Need to get 78.4 MB of archives. After this operation, 514 MB of additional disk space will be used. sudo apt-get --no-install-recommends install xmonad ... Need to get 612 kB of archives. After this operation, 2,7

Bug#714710: No start-stop-script at all

2013-07-18 Thread David Starner
I've just built my own Live-CD with live-config and live-build, and unlike this bug report, /sbin/start-stop-script doesn't exist at all. -- Kie ekzistas vivo, ekzistas espero. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contac

Bug#714321: fontconfig spams the console on every program start

2013-06-27 Thread David Starner
Package: fontconfig Version: 2.10.2-2 Every time a fontconfig-using program starts up, it spams the following to the console Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/25-wqy-zenhei.conf", line 11: Having multiple values in isn't supported and may not work as expected Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts

Bug#714230: GDB changelog lists latest release as UNRELEASED

2013-06-26 Thread David Starner
Package: gdb Version: 7.6-4 Severity: minor The GDB changelog for the version in unstable lists the latest release as UNRELEASED. -- Kie ekzistas vivo, ekzistas espero. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listm

Bug#713037: xtermset overruns array bounds

2013-06-21 Thread David Starner
Package: xtermset Version: 0.5.2-5 Tags: patch https://buildd.debian.org/~brlink/packages/x/xtermset.html warns that it overrunns array bounds. Looking at the code, it defines a couple arrays as c[2] and then writes to c[2], so there's a clear problem here. It's confusing what they get indexed on,

Bug#699736: GNAT offers bug box on small Ada 2012 program

2013-02-04 Thread David Starner
Package: gnat-4.6 Version: 4.6.3-8 When compiled with gnatmake -gnat12 algo_2sat.adb package body Algo_2SAT is type Orientation is (Unused, Unnegated, Negated, Both); procedure Monodirectional (P: in out Problem_2SAT) is Count : array (1 .. Variable (100)) of Orientation := (others =>

Bug#698319: tspsol not found in package

2013-01-16 Thread David Starner
Package: glpk-utils Version:4.45-1 The package description claims to have tspsol in the package, and there is a manpage for tspsol, but no tspsol in the package. -- Kie ekzistas vivo, ekzistas espero. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Bug#387745: This is unacceptable

2012-12-20 Thread David Starner
On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 3:24 PM, Micah Cowan wrote: > My > response (which you can see by following the "upstream" annotation link) > was that --restrict-file-names=nocontrol was the way to get the desired > behavior, There's a 32 letter switch to tell wget not to convert filenames to names that

Bug#387745: This is unacceptable

2012-12-19 Thread David Starner
It's been six years, and wget still can't read the locale to know that UTF-8 filenames shouldn't be mangled? An 8-year old document, http://hektor.umcs.lublin.pl/~mikosmul/computing/articles/linux-unicode.html , notes that "some GNOME applications tend to create UTF-8 filenames regardless of the lo

Bug#689747: autofs won't install with old autofs5 installation

2012-10-06 Thread David Starner
On Sat, Oct 6, 2012 at 1:42 AM, Michael Tokarev wrote: > Can it be that you had lenny version of autofs5 maybe, or even > something older? Maybe. It's been an old system that's been upgraded a number of times. > Please show me the output of > > grep autofs /var/lib/ucf/registry Sorry; I alread

Bug#689747: autofs won't install with old autofs5 installation

2012-10-05 Thread David Starner
Package: autofs Version: 5.0.7-1 Severity: serious $ sudo apt-get install autofs udev Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done udev is already the newest version. The following NEW packages will be installed: autofs 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0

Bug#688277: gcc-4.7-base:amd64 does not coexist with gcc-4.7-base:i386

2012-09-20 Thread David Starner
Package:gcc-4.7-base Version: 4.7.1-9 Severity: serious Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages have been kept back: python-wicd wicd wicd-curses wicd-daemon wicd-gtk The following packages will be upgraded: cpp-4.7 g++-4.

Bug#670946: en.WP got deleted again

2012-05-20 Thread David Starner
After fixing the JSON file to return en.WP and making no other changes to my search engine, I upgraded to 10.0.4esr-3, and Wikipedia (en) disappeared again. -- Kie ekzistas vivo, ekzistas espero. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscr

Bug#672491: texpower has an unreasonable expansion on its demand for space

2012-05-13 Thread David Starner
On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 2:05 AM, Hilmar Preuße wrote: > You probably didn't set 'Install-Recommends "false"'; in your > apt.conf. Hence apt tries to install also the recommended packages > and we have set the doc packages to recommended. Yes, these doc > packages are quite large, a minimal TL inst

Bug#672491: texpower has an unreasonable expansion on its demand for space

2012-05-12 Thread David Starner
On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 4:00 AM, Norbert Preining wrote: > BTW, why do you complain? To use texpower you *anyway* need TeX? > So it will be installed *anyway*. And if you don't want, don't > install the documentation, and it will be much leaner. Why do I complain? Because one day I was upgrading

Bug#672491: texpower has an unreasonable expansion on its demand for space

2012-05-12 Thread David Starner
On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 9:55 AM, Rene Engelhard wrote: > Because texpower is now built from texlive and this is the > only solution you get a in-place upgrade. (texpower is empty, just depending > on texlive-latex-extra which contains texpower) That isn't the only solution. There's not one monoli

Bug#672491: texpower has an unreasonable expansion on its demand for space

2012-05-11 Thread David Starner
Package: texpower Version: 2011.20120509-1 texpower, in testing, has an installed size of 387 KB. If you look at command lines below, to upgrade to the new texpower is going to take over 450 MB. I was considering making this wishlist, but this 1000x fold increase in effective size takes a program

Bug#671167: youtube-dl downloading from blip doesn't seem to work any more

2012-05-02 Thread David Starner
Package: youtube-dl Version: 2012.02.27-1 Running youtube-dl -t http://blip.tv/nostalgia-chick/nostalgia-chick-top-ten-songs-about-sex-from-musicals-5466604 gives a 38k mkv file that says "This video is only available in the Blip Player." -- Kie ekzistas vivo, ekzistas espero. -- To UNSUBSCR

Bug#670946: Iceweasel deleted en.Wikipedia from the drop-down search engines

2012-04-30 Thread David Starner
Package: iceweasel Version: 10.0.4esr-2 The latest update to iceweasel removed en.Wikipedia from my drop-down search engines. Given that it saw fit to completely rearrange them a few versions ago, is there any likelyhood that it could return the en.Wikipedia search engine and then stop messing wit

Bug#618532: postgresql-9.0 won't install, complaining of permissions on server.key

2011-08-31 Thread David Starner
On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 3:02 AM, Christoph Berg wrote: > What user/group own this file? Can you still reproduce the problem? root/ssl-cert. Honestly, postgresql was something I was playing with; I don't really have the interest in trying to reproduce it now. Feel free to close it if you want. Sor

Bug#618532: postgresql-9.0 won't install, complaining of permissions on server.key

2011-08-31 Thread David Starner
On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 12:33 AM, Christoph Berg wrote: > Re: David Starner 2011-03-16 > >> >> FATAL: private key file "server.key" has group or world access >> >> 2011-03-15 18:21:36 PDT DETAIL: File must be owned by the database >> >> us

Bug#618532: postgresql-9.0 won't install, complaining of permissions on server.key

2011-08-31 Thread David Starner
On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 10:40 AM, Martin Pitt wrote: > David Starner [2011-03-16 10:38 -0700]: >> No, -rw-r- is what the permissions are on my system. I've got it >> running by turning off ssl. > > What's the owner/group of the file? > > Martin > -- >

Bug#618532: postgresql-9.0 won't install, complaining of permissions on server.key

2011-03-16 Thread David Starner
On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 11:33 PM, Martin Pitt wrote: > Hello David, > > David Starner [2011-03-15 18:37 -0700]: >> FATAL: private key file "server.key" has group or world access >> 2011-03-15 18:21:36 PDT DETAIL: File must be owned by the database >> user o

Bug#618532: postgresql-9.0 won't install, complaining of permissions on server.key

2011-03-15 Thread David Starner
Subject: postgresql-9.0 won't install, complaining of permissions on server.key Package: postgresql-9.0 Version: 9.0.3-1 Severity: important I'm installing postgresql-9.0, and the install is failing. It's saying Setting up postgresql-9.0 (9.0.3-1) ... Starting PostgreSQL 9.0 database server: mainT

Bug#612705: Netpbm should include Jpeg2ktopam

2011-02-09 Thread David Starner
Package: netpbm Version: 2:10.0-12.2+b1 Severity: wishlist I hacked up a jp2 to pnm converter and offered it upstream, whereupon he pointed me to jpeg2ktopam. That doesn't seem to be in Debian's netpbm; can it be included in future packages? -- Kie ekzistas vivo, ekzistas espero. -- To UNSUB

Bug#612542: libhunspell-1.2-0: Iceweasel is crashing inside libhunspell when producing a suggestion list

2011-02-08 Thread David Starner
Package: libhunspell-1.2-0 Version: 1.2.14-2 Severity: important I've been have crashes in Iceweasel when right-clicking on a word. I ran it under valgrind, and produced the message below, showing that mkallcap was trying to read invalid memory. Rolling it back to the version in testing, 1.2.11-1,

Bug#597653: mplayer: Mplayer issues "invalid frame duration" message and hangs

2010-09-21 Thread David Starner
Package: mplayer Version: 2:1.0~rc3++final.dfsg1-1 Severity: normal I was running Sherlock_Holmes_Baffled.ogv from http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sherlock_Holmes_Baffled.ogv (the version uploaded on 10 August 2010), and at the end of the file it hung and refused to quit using the q key. I

Bug#405644: mp3burn: Change dependency on cdrecord to wodim

2009-09-21 Thread David Starner
Take the time to search for Joerg Schilling and Debian. Or look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cdrkit. I question his statement that cdrecord is going to get added to Debian, and discount completely his statement that wodim is going anywhere. -- Kie ekzistas vivo, ekzistas espero. -- To UNSU

Bug#541738: -Z doesn't work correctly

2009-08-15 Thread David Starner
Package: music123 Version: 15-0.2 Tags: patch music123 -Z will always start out by playing the first song, then one of the first two songs, etc. I've written a patch so that it works as designed. -- Kie ekzistas vivo, ekzistas espero. diff -ru music123-15/support_routines.adb music123-15clean/su

Bug#449482: closed by Michael Leupold (Re: when konqueror is run as root (from apt-listchanges), it breaks priorities on files)

2009-04-19 Thread David Starner
On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 7:06 AM, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: > > This is an automatic notification regarding your Bug report > which was filed against the konqueror package: > > #449482: when konqueror is run as root (from apt-listchanges), it breaks > priorities on files > > It has been cl

Bug#516006: html2text: README.Debian has a few grammatical infelicities

2009-02-18 Thread David Starner
Package: html2text Version: 1.3.2a-11 Severity: minor I read through README.Debian, and thought it had a few questionable grammatical choices to my native-English-speaking ear. I've fixed up a few things; I attached the updated version and a wdiff below. -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.

Bug#497620: closed by Ludovic Brenta (Bug box on legal code, raised TYPES.UNRECOVERABLE_ERROR : comperr.adb:398)

2009-01-05 Thread David Starner
On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 10:12 AM, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: > Closing as per info from Jorgen. But he didn't even test the bug. It works fine with no options, but with the options given in the bug report, -O2 -gnatN, it fails. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.

Bug#497620: Bug box on legal code, raised TYPES.UNRECOVERABLE_ERROR : comperr.adb:398

2008-09-02 Thread David Starner
Package: gnat-4.3 Version: 4.3.1-2 Severity: normal I found a GNAT bug box when recompiling my code. It worked in previous versions; I'm not sure exactly what, but whatever was current in Debian a year ago compiled the program this bug was simplified from fine. *** ~/Code/Dragon_Chess

Bug#460470: ktorrent: Refuses to add downloads to existing group

2008-01-12 Thread David Starner
Package: ktorrent Version: 2.2.4.dfsg.1-1 Severity: normal When I have an existing download, that's in no group at all, I can right-click on it and select "add to group -> Camera Obscura". However, when I do so, it does nothing at all; the list of downloads in Camera Obscura does not change. It al

Bug#457252: gtk2 version of xzgv crashes when asked to create thumbnails

2007-12-20 Thread David Starner
On Dec 20, 2007 9:57 PM, Theodore Tso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yeah, I know about this bug; it exists in the gtk+/imlib version as > well. So it's not a regression, but a pre-existing problem. Not from my perspective. I think I may have hit this bug once or twice in the old version, but not e

Bug#457253: gtk2 version of xzgv displays non-image files in filelist

2007-12-20 Thread David Starner
Package: xzgv Version: 0.9+svn34-1 Severity: normal Earlier versions of xzgv didn't display non-image files in the filelist. This version does, and I consider that a serious regression. When browsing in a mixed directory, it adds pure noise to the file list. Furthermore, it exacerbates a previous

Bug#457252: gtk2 version of xzgv crashes when asked to create thumbnails

2007-12-20 Thread David Starner
Package: xzgv Version: 0.9+svn34-1 Severity: important Trying to create thumbnails with any directory with an image in it causes the program to crash with the following message. The program 'xzgv' received an X Window System error. This probably reflects a bug in the program. The error was 'BadMa

Bug#455607: djvulibre-bin: package doesn't contain basic information like a changelog

2007-12-10 Thread David Starner
Package: djvulibre-bin Version: 3.5.20-2 Severity: normal This package, and the other DJVU packages, don't contain a changelog or readme. It's essential, when the Debian changelog just says that it's a new version, that there be something in that package that says what's new about the version. The

Bug#451865: tesseract-ocr recommends a bunch of files few need

2007-11-19 Thread David Starner
On Nov 19, 2007 1:10 AM, Jeffrey Ratcliffe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > OK. I can either just remove the Recommends: field entirely, or > replace it with Suggests: > > Do you have a preference? Not really. I might make them Suggests, but that will make for an awfully large Suggests field when peop

Bug#451865: tesseract-ocr recommends a bunch of files few need

2007-11-18 Thread David Starner
Package: tesseract-ocr Version: 2.01-2 tesseract-ocr recommends on tesseract-ocr-deu, tesseract-ocr-deu-f, tesseract-ocr-eng, tesseract-ocr-fra, tesseract-ocr-ita, tesseract-ocr-nld, tesseract-ocr-por, and tesseract-ocr-spa. That's eight packages, at a couple MB a piece that most people won't need

Bug#449317: ITP: zekr-quran-translations-ur -- Zekr Quran Urdu translations

2007-11-12 Thread David Starner
Josselin Mouette wrote: >Le lundi 05 novembre 2007 à 05:18 +, brian m. carlson a écrit : > > According to Wikipedia, the translator died in 1921, which means that > > his translation occurred prior to 1923. In this case, the translation > > is in the public domain in the United States, so the

Bug#449482: when konqueror is run as root (from apt-listchanges), it breaks priorities on files

2007-11-05 Thread David Starner
Package: konqueror Version: 4:3.5.7.dfsg.1-1 Severity: important I run konqueror from apt-listchanges, which means it's running as root on when I'm running an X session as prosfilaes. When I do so, it spits out a bunch of errors: Error: "/var/tmp/kdecache-prosfilaes" is owned by uid 1000 instead

Bug#388139: findimagedupes will execute code stored in the names of files

2006-09-19 Thread David Starner
On 9/19/06, Andreas Tille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: n Mon, 18 Sep 2006, David Starner wrote: > Package: findimagedupes > Version: 0.1.3-7 Just to let you know the status quo: There is a completely rewritten verison of findimagedupes in preparation which does not show the problem

Bug#388139: findimagedupes will execute code stored in the names of files

2006-09-18 Thread David Starner
Package: findimagedupes Version: 0.1.3-7 Severity: grave findimagedupes will execute code stored in the names of the files. This allows arbitrary code to be executed as the user by anyone who can add files to a directory findimagedupes is run on; hence this is a security hole and is grave. An ex

Bug#388124: Fwd: findimagedupes will execute code stored in the names of files

2006-09-18 Thread David Starner
Package: findimagedupes Version: 0.1.3-7 Severity: grave findimagedupes will execute code stored in the names of the files. This allows arbitrary code to be executed as the user by anyone who can add files to a directory findimagedupes is run on; hence this is a security hole and is grave. An ex

Bug#285157: Polish translation of display dhammapada

2006-01-19 Thread David Starner
On 1/4/06, Jakub Nadolny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Polish translation of display dhammapada has been discussed at > debian-legal mailing list against DFSG. Translator agreed that text can > be distributed under: > http://creativecommons.org/licenses/publicdomain > > Are there any other obstacles

Bug#345064: music123(GNU/kFreeBSD): FTBFS: kfreebsd-i386 not in the architecture list

2005-12-28 Thread David Starner
On 12/28/05, Aurelien Jarno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Package: music123 > Version: N/A > Severity: wishlist > > Hello, > > The current version of music123 fails to build on GNU/kFreeBSD, > because kfreebsd-i386 is not listed in the Architecture: field. > > Could you please add kfreebsd-i386 to t

Bug#333014: Please enable support for mips/mipsel

2005-10-09 Thread David Starner
On 10/9/05, Thiemo Seufer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Package: music123 > Version: 14 > Tags: patch > > Please enable support for mips/mipsel, I see no reason why they were > excluded (build tested successfully for both architectures). They were excluded because GNAT did not build on mips when I