Bug#988979: libwww-perl: Peculiar 308 Permanent redirect causes LWP::UserAgent to return an error

2021-05-22 Thread Dominic Sweetman
Package: libwww-perl Version: 6.36-2 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, I'm using LWP::UserAgent to fetch json information: the page https://www.radiotimes.com/film/g6j5ty/well-meet-again is showing the failure today. This results in a "308 Permanent redirect". Using wget suggests that the r

Bug#912570: emacs24-common: sending mail with agent (sendmail-send-it) misbehaves. A fix is upstream.

2018-11-01 Thread Dominic Sweetman
David Bremner (brem...@debian.org) writes: > For any problems with emacs24, please at least try duplicating them with > emacs25, which is also in stable. Hadn't noticed that: thanks, it fixed the sending problem. -- Dominic Sweetman, 27 Somerfield Road, London N4 2JN. phone: 0

Bug#912570: emacs24-common: sending mail with agent (sendmail-send-it) misbehaves. A fix is upstream.

2018-11-01 Thread Dominic Sweetman
Package: emacs24-common Version: 24.5+1-11+deb9u1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, Newly upgraded system now running emacs 24.5.1. After sending mail through the exim (aliased to sendmail) route, an error occurred and the used sent-mail buffer remained on screen (though the

Bug#912568: emacs24-common: VM send mail needs movemail binary

2018-11-01 Thread Dominic Sweetman
Package: emacs24-common Version: 24.5+1-11+deb9u1 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, * What led up to the situation? emacs VM was unable to read mail from local spool due to standard permissions; when that was fixed mail was corrupted by spurious lines. It turned out this was becaus

Bug#641760: audacious: Audio drop-outs (overruns?) on Alsa playback to USB audio

2011-09-15 Thread Dominic Sweetman
Package: audacious Version: 2.3-2 Severity: important Unpleasant audio problem which produces a nasty click every couple of seconds. Shows up while using ALSA output plug-in. Goes away when using OSS, even though it's OSS emulated by ALSA. I really should have checked it out with some other AL

Bug#641758: audacious: Track time display keeps flicking between correct time and zero

2011-09-15 Thread Dominic Sweetman
Package: audacious Version: 2.3-2 Severity: normal After I changed to use the OSS output plugin (in fact OSS-over-alsa) I found the track time display malfunctions, flicking between zero and the right time once a second or so (but it's not regular). The slider jumps about too... -- System Infor

Bug#635242: chiark-utils-bin: xacpi and xacpi-simple in squeeze stable are trying to use /proc/acpi,

2011-07-24 Thread Dominic Sweetman
Package: chiark-utils-bin Version: 4.1.28+nmu2 Severity: normal xacpi and axcpi-simple exit immediately, unable to find /proc/acpi. Battery and thermal status information has been moved... somewhere else, in /sys allegedly (though I can't find it), The 'acpi' command knows how, so I suppose it ca

Bug#464936: gthumb: Full-screen generates normal window with twm

2008-02-12 Thread Dominic Sweetman
e same wrong treatment of full screen happens in all cases. -- Dominic Sweetman, 27 Somerfield Road, London N4 2JN. phone: 020 7226 0032 mobile: 07960 337130 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#464936: gthumb: Full-screen generates normal window with twm

2008-02-11 Thread Dominic Sweetman
David Paleino ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) writes: I very much appreciate your taking the time: > Here it is a step-by-step quick&dirty guide: > > 1) open your /etc/apt/sources.list > 2) add a line like: > > deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian unstable main > > 3) # apt-get update > 4) # apt-get install

Bug#464936: gthumb: Full-screen generates normal window with twm

2008-02-11 Thread Dominic Sweetman
h" system using any mechanism I understand (apt-get and dpkg, basically), and I've never built a Debian package from source. If a web reference on "upgrading just one or a few packages" exists, I'd appreciate it. Otherwise I guess this should just go on file so someone

Bug#464936: gthumb: Full-screen generates normal window with twm

2008-02-09 Thread Dominic Sweetman
Package: gthumb Version: 3:2.8.0-1 Severity: normal gthumb full-screen mode with my twm v1.0.1-4 window manager produces additional screen-size (1024x800 in this case) window, which needs a click to place and then gets gets usual window manager decoration, spilling off the screen. Used to work u

Bug#300194: can't find libtiff3g package in sarge

2005-03-18 Thread Dominic Sweetman
allable I know xv is worse than non-free and unsupported, but I thought many other packages used the same library. After half an hour of searching via google and bugs.debian.org I can't find either a 'sarge' version of the package, or any note to say it has been obsoleted. Did it