Bug#440236: adduser: deluser.conf manpage calls a hash sign a pound sign

2007-08-30 Thread Malcolm Parsons
Package: adduser Version: 3.104 Severity: minor Tags: patch deluser.conf.5 says: Comment lines must have a pound sign (#) at the beginning of the line. adduser.conf.5 says: Comment lines must have a hash sign (#) in the first column. adduser.conf.5 correctly calls the # a hash sign. This was re

Bug#388281: installation-guide: grammatical mistake in "the disks and filesystems is properly configured"

2006-09-19 Thread Malcolm Parsons
Package: installation-guide Version: 20060726 Severity: minor Tags: patch In */partitioning/partition/ia64.xml: The partman disk partitioner is the default partitioning tool for the installer. It manages the set of partitions -and their mount points to ensure that the disks and filesystems is +

Bug#388138: installation-guide: "a ssh connection" should be "an ssh connection"

2006-09-18 Thread Malcolm Parsons
Package: installation-guide Version: 20060726 Severity: minor "ssh" is pronounced as "ess ess haych". "ess" begins with a vowel, so "an" should be used, not "a". These strings need s/a ssh/an ssh/ : ./da/preparing/install-overview.xml:Open a ssh connection to the new system. ./da/preparing/insta

Bug#385882: zope-common: "login into"

2006-09-03 Thread Malcolm Parsons
Package: zope-common Version: 0.5.24 Severity: minor Tags: patch "login" is short for "log in" "into" is short for "in to" so "login into" is short for "log in in to" "log in in to" makes no sense - Use these values to login into the Zope${zver} instance ${instance}: + Use these values to login

Bug#379366: prelink segfault

2006-07-31 Thread Malcolm Parsons
prelink (0.0.20060712-1) segfaults daily for me too. prelink works fine if the -q option is not given. prelink -p is able to display the cache without crashing. -- Malcolm Parsons -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Cont

Bug#362796: ddd: using mouse scrollwheel causes windows to scroll in the opposite direction to my intention

2006-04-15 Thread Malcolm Parsons
Package: ddd Version: 1:3.3.11-1 Severity: normal When my mouse is over the source window and i scroll down with the mouse wheel, the window scrolls up. The machine code and gdb console windows also scroll the wrong way. The data window scrolls the correct way. -- System Information: Debian Rel

Bug#362795: gdb: manpage does not mention gdbtui or -tui

2006-04-15 Thread Malcolm Parsons
Package: gdb Version: 6.4-1 Severity: normal gdb has a textmode user interface that can be enabled by using the -tui option to gdb or by running gdbtui, but the manpage doesn't mention either, so I never knew it existed. Please rectify this. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstabl

Bug#338144: linux-wlan-ng-firmware: firmware script fails when curl is installed

2005-11-08 Thread Malcolm Parsons
Package: linux-wlan-ng-firmware Version: 0.2.2+dfsg-4 Severity: important When curl is installed, linux-wlan-ng-build-firmware-deb tries to use it to download the firmware files. curl outputs the download to stdout, not to file. This makes a big mess in the terminal, and the script fails. Using

Bug#327815: ssh: Incomplete documentation for -D switch

2005-09-12 Thread Malcolm Parsons
Package: ssh Version: 1:4.1p1-6 Severity: normal The ssh manual page says: [-D port] I think it should be this: [-D [bind_address:]port] As specifying "-D localhost:1080" does stop ssh from binding port 1080 on all interfaces. A warning that not doing this will result in an open proxy might b

Bug#323631: bins: javaScriptPreloadImage preloads the wrong sized image

2005-08-17 Thread Malcolm Parsons
Package: bins Version: 1.1.28-1 Severity: normal Tags: patch The doc says that javaScriptPreloadImage preloads the next image of the same size: javaScriptPreloadImage If set to 1, add some javascript code in image pages to preload the next image of the same size when current one is