Bug#359806: libgstreamer0.10-0: gst-inspect segfaults

2006-09-18 Thread Michael Shields
On Sun, 2006-09-17 at 12:27 +0200, Loïc Minier wrote: > I requested additional information in july, could you please provide > it? Sorry, I did not see that message and this host is no longer running Debian testing. -- Michael Shields Sr. Systems Programmer AOL Network Security

Bug#359806: libgstreamer0.10-0: gst-inspect segfaults

2006-03-28 Thread Michael Shields
Package: libgstreamer0.10-0 Version: 0.10.4-1 Severity: normal Running gst-inspect with no arguments causes a core dump. Backtrace: (gdb) where #0 0x in ?? () #1 0xb7e48c64 in __libc_sigaction () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libpthread.so.0 #2 0xb7e48d53 in sigaction () from /lib/tls/i686/

Bug#359782: lastfm: miscategorized in GNOME menu

2006-03-28 Thread Michael Shields
Package: lastfm Version: 1.1.90-2 Severity: minor lastfm appears in the "Other" section of the GNOME menu. A better section for it would be "Sound & Video". -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'sta

Bug#359180: linux-image-2.6.16-1-powerpc: oops while loading snd-powermac

2006-03-26 Thread Michael Shields
Package: linux-image-2.6.16-1-powerpc Version: 2.6.16-1 Severity: normal While booting into 2.6.16-1-powerpc for the first time, the kernel gives the following oops while trying to load snd-powermac, and the sound device is unavailable. 2.6.15-1-powerpc was ok. Mar 27 03:28:04 localhost kernel:

Bug#359143: evince: page-up/page-down is nonintuitive in dual-page mode

2006-03-26 Thread Michael Shields
Package: evince Version: 0.4.0-1 Severity: normal When the view options are set to dual-page (side-by-side), continuous, and best fit zoom, the spacebar, page-up, and page-down keys have no effect on every other keypress. This is confusing, especially since it is inconsistent with how evince beha

Bug#357718: ipsec.conf(5): automatic and manual keying options are not disjoint

2006-03-18 Thread Michael Shields
Package: openswan Version: 1:2.4.4-1 Severity: normal ipsec.conf(5) says: CONN PARAMETERS: MANUAL KEYING The following parameters are relevant only to manual keying, and are ignored in automatic keying. This is not entirely true; for example, "esp=aes" is a valid and usef

Bug#357709: openswan: "ipsec showhostkey" doesn't understand X.509 certs

2006-03-18 Thread Michael Shields
Package: openswan Version: 1:2.4.4-1 Severity: normal When X.509 certificates are used, as postinstall recommends, "ipsec showhostkey" and therefore "ipsec verify" produce the error: ipsec showhostkey: no default key in "/etc/ipsec.secrets" This was bug #257283 against freeswan. -- System I

Bug#357708: openswan: ipsec.secrets(5) does not document X.509 format

2006-03-18 Thread Michael Shields
Package: openswan Version: 1:2.4.4-1 Severity: normal ipsec.secrets(5) does not contain any information about how to use X.509 certificates; it only documents the format for including the key's components directly. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers testing AP

Bug#357698: broken links in file:///usr/share/doc/openswan/index.html

2006-03-18 Thread Michael Shields
Package: openswan Version: 1:2.4.4-1 Severity: normal All of the links in file:///usr/share/doc/openswan/index.html are broken, because the files are found in /usr/share/doc/openswan/doc instead. That directory also contains another copy of index.html. -- System Information: Debian Release: test

Bug#357539: lastfm: browser integration broken

2006-03-17 Thread Michael Shields
Package: lastfm Version: 1.1.90-2 Severity: normal After clicking on an artist name in the player, it reports: Please configure a Browser in the Settings-Dialog! There does not appear to be any browser setting in the settings dialog. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable

Bug#357537: python-simpleparse: new version available

2006-03-17 Thread Michael Shields
Package: python-simpleparse Version: 2.0.0-3 Severity: wishlist Newer versions of python-simpleparse have been released: http://simpleparse.sourceforge.net/ The current, 2.1.0a1, includes bugfixes for SyntaxError message and comment productions, as well as performance improvements. -- System Inf

Bug#357516: lastfm: should have ESD support

2006-03-17 Thread Michael Shields
Package: lastfm Version: 1.1.90-2 Severity: wishlist It would be very useful if lastfm had ESD support. esddsp does not work well as a substitute. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1,

Bug#354770: gimp: should be called "GIMP", not "The GIMP" in applications list

2006-02-28 Thread Michael Shields
Package: gimp Version: 2.3.7-1 Severity: minor After right-clicking on a Photoshop .psd file in Nautilus and selecting "Open with Other Application", a long list of applications is displayed. The GIMP is included, but under "T" instead of "G", since it is called "The GIMP". Users would be more li

Bug#354675: nautilus: uses ambiguous traditional prefixes instead of IEEE/CIPM standard binary prefixes

2006-02-27 Thread Michael Shields
Package: nautilus Version: 2.12.2-2 Severity: minor After mounting a USB flash disk with a 1024655360-byte filesystem, nautilus describes it as "977.5 MB Removable Volume". It would be more accurately described as a "977.5 MiB Removable Volume". -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/uns

Bug#353930: nvidia-glx: 8178 slower than nvidia-legacy (7174) on Geforce 6600

2006-02-21 Thread Michael Shields
Package: nvidia-glx Version: 1.0.8178-2 Severity: normal On a Geforce 6600, both the current 8178 drivers and the nvidia-legacy 7174 drivers work correctly and give hardware acceleration (according to glxinfo). However, with x.org 6.9.0, the new drivers run at about 790 fps in glxgears, and the o

Bug#352733: openoffice.org-impress: crashes while opening http://www.iab.org/documents/open-mtgs/2005-10-23-huston.ppt

2006-02-13 Thread Michael Shields
Package: openoffice.org-impress Version: 2.0.1-2 Severity: normal OOo crashes while opening the file: http://www.iab.org/documents/open-mtgs/2005-10-23-huston.ppt It crashes again after restarting and doing recovery. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers testing

Bug#352565: xserver-xorg: XAA causes incorrect redraw of background on Radeon Mobility M9

2006-02-12 Thread Michael Shields
Package: xserver-xorg Version: 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 Severity: important On a Powerbook IV (Radeon Mobility 9000 M9), after upgrading to 6.9.0, the area under a window is not redrawn correctly after it is moved or closed. Dragging a window down the screen causes white areas to be drawn where the titleb

Bug#351798: gnome-control-center: "Error activating XKB configuration"

2006-02-07 Thread Michael Shields
Package: gnome-control-center Version: 1:2.12.2-2 Severity: important While starting up Gnome, or while using the Keyboard Preferences dialog, I get the error message: Error activating XKB configuration. It can happen under various circumstances: - a bug in libxklavier library - a

Bug#351450: apache2-utils: logresolve should be in /usr/bin, not /usr/sbin

2006-02-04 Thread Michael Shields
Package: apache2-utils Version: 2.0.55-4 Severity: minor According to the FHS, /usr/sbin is for programs "used exclusively by the system administrator". However, logresolve is a generally useful package for anyone who needs to resolve IP addresses to names, and requires no particular privileges.

Bug#351070: evince: displays black rectangles instead of some content

2006-02-02 Thread Michael Shields
Package: evince Version: 0.4.0-1 Severity: important Here are two documents that Evince displays incorrectly: http://www.fas.org/sgp/othergov/dod/nsa-redact.pdf http://www.lemis.com/grog/Documentation/vj/lca06vj.pdf Although the subject of the first document is redaction, the black recta

Bug#349609: python2.3-beautifulsoup: pydoc fails

2006-01-23 Thread Michael Shields
Package: python2.3-beautifulsoup Version: 2.1.1-5 Severity: normal pydoc cannot access BeautifulSoup's documentation: ~$ pydoc BeautifulSoup Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/pydoc", line 4, in ? pydoc.cli() File "/usr/lib/python2.3/pydoc.py", line 2131

Bug#349249: gajim: typo in description

2006-01-21 Thread Michael Shields
Package: gajim Version: 0.9.1-2 Severity: minor gajim's description ends with: "file transfert, transports, DBus." This should say "transfers", and it should probably also say "transports, and DBus" instead of "transports, DBus". -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefe

Bug#347149: gnome-control-center: U.S. English keyboard options are confusing

2006-01-08 Thread Michael Shields
Package: gnome-control-center Version: 1:2.10.2-1 Severity: normal gnome-keyboard-properties includes the following five options for keyboard layout (among others): - U.S. English - International (with dead keys) - U.S. English w/ dead keys - U.S. English w/ ISO9995-3 - El

Bug#346268: python-pyparsing: pyparsingClassDiagram.PNG corrupted

2006-01-06 Thread Michael Shields
Package: python-pyparsing Version: 1.3.3-1 Severity: normal The pyparsingClassDiagram.PNG file cannot be displayed by Firefox or ImageMagick, and file(1) reports the error: $ file /usr/share/doc/python-pyparsing/pyparsingClassDiagram.PNG /usr/share/doc/python-pyparsing/pyparsingClassDiagr

Bug#345250: cvsnt: error message while installing

2005-12-29 Thread Michael Shields
Package: cvsnt Version: 2.5.03.2151-1 While installing cvsnt for the first time, using aptitude: Setting up cvsnt (2.5.03.2151-1) ... cannot create dhelp file '/usr/share/doc/cvsnt/html/.dhelp': No such file or directory dpkg: error processing cvsnt (--configure): subprocess pos

Bug#344702: gpsbabel: conflicts with kernel module garmin_usb

2005-12-24 Thread Michael Shields
Package: gpsbabel Version: 1.2.7-1 Severity: important gpsbabel fails to work with a USB Garmin GPS, because the autoloaded kernel module garmin_usb makes the GPS inaccessible to libusb. gpsbabel produces the error: usb_set_configuration failed and the kernel logs the messages: usb 1-1:

Bug#344694: libauthen-captcha-perl: misspelled description

2005-12-24 Thread Michael Shields
Package: libauthen-captcha-perl Version: 1.023-1 Severity: minor The description of libauthen-captcha-perl says: Captcha stands for Completely Automated Public Turning test to tell Computers and Humans Apart. This should say "Turing", not "Turning" (after mathemetician Alan Turing). --

Bug#343735: multisync: needs to build-depend on libbluetooth1, libopenobex

2005-12-17 Thread Michael Shields
Package: multisync Version: 0.82-5.1 Severity: serious Justification: no longer builds from source Without libbluetooth1 or libopenobex installed, multisync fails to build: checking for baswap in -lbluetooth... no checking for sdp_list_free in -lbluetooth... no checking for correct SD

Bug#343563: beagle-backend-evolution: crashes without libebook, but does not depend on it

2005-12-15 Thread Michael Shields
Package: beagle-backend-evolution Version: 0.1.2-3 Severity: important On my system, beagled crashes on startup with the log message: 051216 0547214007 22493 Beagle ERROR EX: System.TypeInitializationException: An exception was thrown by the type initializer for Evolution.SourceList ---> Sy

Bug#343561: drawmap: please update link to map data

2005-12-15 Thread Michael Shields
Package: drawmap Version: 2.5-1.1 Severity: normal Tags: patch The drawmap(1) manpage says: At the time this manual page was updated (August, 2001), various DEM, DLG, and GNIS files were available for free download by following appropriate links from http://mapping.usg

Bug#343045: zope-externaleditor: removal fails

2005-12-11 Thread Michael Shields
Package: zope-externaleditor Version: 0.8-2 Severity: important Tags: patch While removing all of zope, including zope-externaleditor, dpkg gives the error: Removing zope-externaleditor ... /var/lib/dpkg/info/zope-externaleditor.postrm: line 21: /etc/init.d/zope: Permission denied

Bug#342891: gnutls-bin: should look up non-numeric port numbers

2005-12-11 Thread Michael Shields
Package: gnutls-bin Version: 1.2.9-2 Severity: wishlist $ gnutls-cli -p imaps localhost Option p: 'imaps' isn't an integer It would be helpful if gnutls-cli looked in /etc/services (via getservbyname(3)), as almost all other network clients do. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/uns

Bug#335804: beagle: best needs to not display an icon in notification area

2005-10-25 Thread Michael Shields
Package: beagle Version: 0.1.1-1 Severity: normal best displays an icon permanently in the notification area even though this conveys no information other than that best is running. This violates the GNOME HIG: http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/2.0/desktop-notification-area.html -- Sys

Bug#335736: beagle: "Send IM" button silently fails without gaim-xmms-remote

2005-10-25 Thread Michael Shields
Package: beagle Version: 0.1.1-1 Severity: normal The "Send IM" button in the Best search results page does nothing if the gaim-xmms-remote package is not installed. It should either give a useful error message, or the button should be greyed out or removed entirely when its functionality is not

Bug#335735: beagle: should suggest gaim-xmms-remote

2005-10-25 Thread Michael Shields
Package: beagle Version: 0.1.1-1 Severity: normal Beagle needs the gaim-xmms-remote package for its "Send IM" button in search results to be effective. The package should suggest it. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (50

Bug#334769: "wvWare -X" is undocumented

2005-10-19 Thread Michael Shields
Package: wv Version: 1.0.2-0.1 Severity: normal Tags: patch The -X argument to wvWare is undocumented. Here is a stub for the manpage so that people know this argument exists. diff -U3 -r wv-1.0.2.orig/help/man/wvWare.1 wv-1.0.2/help/man/wvWare.1 --- wv-1.0.2.orig/help/man/wvWare.12002-01-

Bug#320813: graphviz: new version available (2.4)

2005-08-01 Thread Michael Shields
Package: graphviz Version: 2.2.1-1 Severity: wishlist graphviz 2.4 has been released and is available at: http://www.graphviz.org/Download_source.php -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (

Bug#320337: /usr/bin/rss-glx_install.pl should not have .pl extension

2005-07-28 Thread Michael Shields
Package: rss-glx Version: 0.7.5-4 Severity: minor The .pl extension on /usr/bin/rss-glx_install.pl is considered harmful (see bug 190753). It should be installed as /usr/bin/rss-glx_install instead. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers testing APT policy: (990

Bug#318686: libgnomevfs2-common: privoxy's use of "Transfer-Encoding: identity" breaks libneon, vfs2, gweather-applet

2005-07-16 Thread Michael Shields
Package: libgnomevfs2-common Version: 2.10.1-5 Severity: normal Tags: patch When privoxy receives a page using Transfer-Encoding: chunked, and then de-chunks it for filtering, it changes the header to "identity". This value of the header was included in RFC 2616 by mistake; the working group mean

Bug#318683: privoxy: use of "identity" transfer coding breaks libneon

2005-07-16 Thread Michael Shields
Package: privoxy Version: 3.0.3-3 Severity: normal Tags: patch When privoxy receives a page using Transfer-Encoding: chunked, and then de-chunks it for filtering, it changes the header to "identity". This value of the header was included in RFC 2616 by mistake; the working group meant to pull it

Bug#318676: tcpdump: spelling fix ("advertisment")

2005-07-16 Thread Michael Shields
Package: tcpdump Version: 3.9.0.cvs.20050622-1 Severity: minor Tags: patch In a few places, tcpdump refers to an IPv6 router and neighbor "advertisment". This word is correctly spelled "advertisement". A patch is attached. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers tes

Bug#317691: xscreensaver: should throttle when starting new login

2005-07-10 Thread Michael Shields
Package: xscreensaver Version: 4.21-5 Severity: minor When used with gdmflexiserver, xscreensaver now has a useful button on the lock screen to start a new session. However, this leaves a screensaver running on the old display, now hidden but likely consuming a significant amount of CPU. It woul

Bug#295178: pbbuttonsd: pmcs-config still not found

2005-06-30 Thread Michael Shields
Package: pbbuttonsd Version: 0.6.10-2 Followup-For: Bug #295178 Unfortunately this is not fixed in 0.6.10-2: omelette:/etc/power# /etc/power/pmcs-pbbuttonsd resume ac Laptop mode was already disabled, not disabling. Laptop mode was already disabled, not disabling. .: 15: pmcs-conf

Bug#292783: totem: Volume slider starts at minimum; volume doesn't

2005-01-29 Thread Michael Shields
Package: totem Version: 0.100-1 Severity: minor When watching a DVD, I adjust totem's volume slider to maximum and use the system volume controls to adjust the output level. After exiting and restarting totem, the volume slider is at the far left end, although totem still plays at maximum volume.

Bug#290823: Could hpfsck be fsck.hfsplus?

2005-01-16 Thread Michael Shields
Package: hfsplus Version: 1.0.4-7 Severity: wishlist Currently, when attempting to mount a dirty HFS+ filesystem as r/w, the kernel gives the error: HFS+-fs warning: Filesystem was not cleanly unmounted, running fsck.hfsplus is recommended. leaving read-only. There is no fsck.hfsplus. But