Bug#868247: libc6-dev: Please include the GDB pretty-printer python macros for GNU libc in the libc6-dev package

2017-07-13 Thread Paul Smith
Package: libc6-dev Version: 2.24-9ubuntu2.2 Severity: wishlist Dear Maintainer, The GNU libc source package has a set of GDB pretty-printer macros written in Python, which are of immense use when debugging code with GDB. In particular there are a suite of pretty-printer macros for the pthread li

Bug#714967: eclipse: watch file only works detects up to version 3.8.2

2015-12-31 Thread Paul Smith
On Wed, 2015-12-30 at 22:47 +0100, Markus Koschany wrote: > We are well aware that there has been new releases of Eclipse during > the past years. OK. I'll download the distribution file from eclipse.org and install it by hand. Thanks for replying!

Bug#714967: eclipse: watch file only works detects up to version 3.8.2

2015-12-30 Thread Paul Smith
Is this bug going to be addressed? We haven't had an updated version of Eclipse available in almost 3 years now, as far as I can see because this "minor" severity bug is keeping newer versions from being detected... there have been 3 major versions of Eclipse released since the last update in Debi

Bug#741064: ArchLinux has a fix, since Jan 2014!

2014-11-01 Thread Paul Smith
This seems to me like this bug should be very important to fix before the release: it will cause environments that were working perfectly before the upgrade to simply stop working with inscrutable error messages after upgrade. It should certainly be higher priority than "Normal", in my opinion, si

Bug#721764: postrm etc. scripts don't set PATH making them brittle

2013-09-03 Thread Paul Smith
Package: odbc-postgresql Version: 1:09.02.0100-2 I have a version of unixODBC installed on my system in an alternative location (e.g. /opt/localtools), that I built myself from source. I'm using it for other things, not related to the system packages. In my user account ~/.bashrc (not root) I h

Bug#716789: dash: Dash sometimes misbehaves when backticks are included after an || operator

2013-07-12 Thread Paul Smith
Package: dash Version: 0.5.7-3ubuntu1 Severity: normal I realize this was found on an Ubuntu system but it also appears in normal Debian dash. If I have this shell script: $ cat /tmp/t1.sh #--- cat <

Bug#624491: It would be great if fakeroot was relocatable

2011-05-06 Thread Paul Smith
On Sat, 2011-05-07 at 02:07 +, Clint Adams wrote: > On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 05:18:22PM -0400, Paul Smith wrote: > > It would of great benefit if fakeroot was relocatable, so that > > these paths could be set by the user: this allows us to put fakeroot > > into our build en

Bug#624501: The fakeroot.in script uses an incorrect substitution for libfakeroot

2011-04-28 Thread Paul Smith
Package: fakeroot Version: 1.15.1 Severity: normal Tags: patch In the fakeroot.in script, you have: LIB=lib@fakeroot_transformed@@DLSUFFIX@ This is not correct, because if you configure fakeroot with a configure option like --program-prefix='x', then this will be converted into LIB=li

Bug#624491: It would be great if fakeroot was relocatable

2011-04-28 Thread Paul Smith
Package: fakeroot Version: 1.15.1 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch The fakeroot system uses a shell script to invoke the user's command inside the fakeroot environment, but that script hardcodes the installation location of fakeroot and there's no easy way to override it. It would of great benefit

Bug#559761: ITP: release -- provides information about the current releases

2009-12-09 Thread Paul Smith
On Mon, 2009-12-07 at 00:14 +0100, Benjamin Drung wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Benjamin Drung > > * Package name: release > Version : 0.1 (native) > Upstream Author : Benjamin Drung > * License : GPL v3+ > Programming Lang: Python > Description

Bug#468281: make: typos in french translations

2008-03-04 Thread Paul Smith
On Tue, 2008-03-04 at 11:37 -0500, Paul Smith wrote: > Translations for all GNU software are handled through the GNU > Translation Project. Sorry, I wasn't paying enough attention; I didn't realize you already CC'd the French translation team ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). Feel free

Bug#468281: make: typos in french translations

2008-03-04 Thread Paul Smith
On Tue, 2008-03-04 at 15:34 +0100, francois wrote: > There is various minor problems in french translations of the make UI > (v3.81). I join a patch correcting some obvious errors but I think > there are errors left. Hi François; Translations for all GNU software are handled through the GNU Tran

Bug#418774: dash gives "Syntax error: Bad substitution" on valid syntax

2007-10-05 Thread Paul Smith
> Since the expansion of '/' is not defined by POSIX, dash is > certainly within its rights to abort rather than fail silently. As Micah points out, IF dash needed to expand the reference containing the "/" then you would certainly be correct. However, the reference is contained in a part of an i

Bug#356921: evolution-exchange: Upgrading to 2.4 breaks Exchange Calendar

2007-05-05 Thread Paul Smith
On Sun, 2007-05-06 at 01:42 +0200, Øystein Gisnås wrote: > Can you please give an updated status on whether the bug reported at > http://bugs.debian.org/356921 is still present in Evolution 2.10.1? I don't see this problem any longer. There are other odd issues with Evo calendaring and Exchange (

Bug#361873: w3-url-e21: Throws an error trying to retrieve CSS info from SSL server

2006-04-10 Thread Paul Smith
Subject: w3-url-e21: Throws an error trying to retrieve CSS info from SSL server Package: w3-url-e21 Version: 2005.10.23-5 Severity: normal *** Please type your report below this line *** When I try to view certain emails with VM, I get these error messages from w3 and the mail is not shown prope

Bug#356921: evolution-exchange: Upgrading to 2.4 breaks Exchange Calendar

2006-03-14 Thread Paul Smith
Package: evolution-exchange Version: 2.4.2-1 Severity: important This morning I upgraded from Evo 2.2 to Evo 2.4, to try to fix some instability problems with Exchange. Now, I can't even access my calendar or my task list at all! The only reason I'm marking this "important" instead of "grave" i

Bug#344032: Fix for makefile

2006-01-18 Thread Paul Smith
Ouch! Yes, the makefile needs to be fixed as described here. Note that a simpler fix, conceptually, might be just to do with this target what is already being done for others like VM, etc., and why those eval strings don't fail as well; something like: LOADVM = -eval '(and (not (string= "$(VMD

Bug#336089: procmail gives "glibc detected *** corrupted double-linked list" error

2005-10-27 Thread Paul Smith
Package: procmail Version: 3.22-11 Severity: normal If I give a specific email message to procmail (using "procmail -Y -d psmith") it fails with: *** glibc detected *** corrupted double-linked list: 0x08097d20 *** I have a message that this fails for, but unfortunately it contains stuff that I

Bug#333600: libphp-adodb: Isn't aware of php5

2005-10-12 Thread Paul Smith
Package: libphp-adodb Severity: wishlist I have apache2 and php5 installed. libphp-adodb isn't aware of php5 or apache2 and tries to install php4 and apache. libphp-adodb is a required package for cacti. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers testing APT polic

Bug#316955: Found why LILO failed for me ...

2005-09-12 Thread Paul Smith
Last week I went through a woody -> sarge upgrade myself and got the original problem reported here: the system booted to "LI" then stopped. I went in with tomsrtbt (this system is headless AND has no CDROM, so I can only boot off of a floppy and I have to tote around a monitor and keyboard to plu

Bug#327883: xscreensaver-demo hangs / chews CPU

2005-09-12 Thread Paul Smith
Package: xscreensaver Version: 4.21-3 Severity: normal My daughter likes to look at screensavers (yeah, OK, so she's a little odd--she's only 6 though :-)) so I created a link my desktop to run the xscreensaver-demo command. It works fine and she's happy to click around trying new screensavers in

Bug#313308: Can't reproduce

2005-08-29 Thread Paul Smith
I can't reproduce this either. Must have been a glitch. Please close this bug; thanks! -- --- Paul D. Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> HASMAT: HA Software Mthds & Tools "Please remain calm...I may be mad, but I am

Bug#32877: Still tops on my wish-list...

2005-06-22 Thread Paul Smith
Is there any forward progress on this feature? I really, really would love to have this. Munging and merging conffiles is by far the most painful part of any upgrade for me... and most of my changes are simple enough that a 3-way merge would handle them trivially. -- ---