Bug#567773: The desktop file for kicad and its KDE menu location

2010-03-12 Thread Peter Clifton
ion. Since the XDG spec is so inadequate, that could very well be expected to match a very large number of specialist applications. > > I'll happily take a look (next weds) to see how best to do this. Again, I've not got time until next week to drive this further. > Talk to itais

Bug#567773: The desktop file for kicad and its KDE menu location

2010-03-12 Thread Peter Clifton
On Fri, 2010-03-12 at 13:51 +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > [Peter Clifton] > > not a variant which introduces a vast number of its own menus. > > What are you talking about here? I don't use Debian Edu, so I could well be mistaken.. but I downloaded the meta-packag

Bug#567773: The desktop file for kicad and its KDE menu location

2010-03-12 Thread Peter Clifton
ematic design which fits nicely with the PCB package you have.) Since you are already fiddling with menus in Debian Edu, it isn't much of a problem at all to fix the problem there. We SHOULD NOT add bogus categories to .desktop files. -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engi

Bug#567773: Appologies

2010-03-11 Thread Peter Clifton
e an uphill battle to keep these menus consistent.. every new upload in pkg-electronics from a different developer gets another "fix", patching in new bogus menu categories, often in contravention with a well thought out upstream policy on its .desktop file - just because Lintian is compla

Bug#350481: Please use Launchpad for translations

2010-03-11 Thread Peter Clifton
msgmerge, or with your favourite .po file editor. If you get stuck, email me or the geda-user list and we will help get the existing work merged against the current translation templates. -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9, JJ

Bug#567773: Also see this bug

2010-03-11 Thread Peter Clifton
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=536307 #53607 I'll admit that a "Depends" on extra-xdg-menus is wrong. -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FA Tel: +44 (0)77

Bug#567773: [Pkg-electronics-devel] Breaking application categories

2010-03-11 Thread Peter Clifton
On Fri, 2010-03-12 at 00:31 +, Peter Clifton wrote: pkg-electronics maintainers, can someone kill this NMU, and upload a package changing the extra-xdg-menus depends into a "Recommends" please? Also, I'm strongly of the opinion that "Development" needs to be removed

Bug#567773: Breaking application categories

2010-03-11 Thread Peter Clifton
tall desktop. This is not our bug to fix, it is theirs. It should be possible to add category based catch-alls which dump "Electronics" programs into the "Education" category should you want to do something horrid like that. Regards, -- Peter Clifton (the guy who wrote extra

Bug#560286: Debian Bug report logs - #560286 gattrib seg faults are back

2010-02-15 Thread Peter Clifton
Hi Bdale, I was wondering if you could confirm whether this bug can now be closed. Neither Ahmed or I can reproduce it, and I think I have a plausible explanation for why the problem was occurring previously. Best regards, Peter C. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.

Bug#567585: [Pkg-electronics-devel] Bug#567585

2010-02-04 Thread Peter Clifton
On Thu, 2010-02-04 at 17:30 +, ahornbri...@yahoo.co.in wrote: > Peter Clifton sandte am 04.02.10 14:38 Uhr: > > It isn't present in Ubuntu. > > > > I don't think this is something we'll be able to fix easily. I can't > > find any setlocale() cal

Bug#567585: [Pkg-electronics-devel] Bug#567585: closed by أحمد المحمودي (Re: Bug#567585: Bug#567585: Bug#567585: geda-gschem: Symbols garbled)

2010-02-04 Thread Peter Clifton
On Thu, 2010-02-04 at 17:30 +, ahornbri...@yahoo.co.in wrote: > Peter Clifton sandte am 04.02.10 14:38 Uhr: > > It isn't present in Ubuntu. > > > > I don't think this is something we'll be able to fix easily. I can't > > find any setlocale() cal

Bug#567585: [Pkg-electronics-devel] Bug#567585: closed by أحمد المحمودي (Re: Bug#567585: Bug#567585: Bug#567585: geda-gschem: Symbols garbled)

2010-02-02 Thread Peter Clifton
On Wed, 2010-02-03 at 00:47 +, ahornbri...@yahoo.co.in wrote: > Sorry, I had this line.gtkrc-2.0.mine: > > include /usr/share/themes/Qt4/gtk-2.0/gtkrc > > which loads qt4engine. I commented out this line and screen and > PostScript output is alright. I'd still like to get to the bottom of t

Bug#567585: [Pkg-electronics-devel] Bug#567585: closed by أحمد المحمودي (Re: Bug#567585: Bug#567585: Bug#567585: geda-gschem: Symbols garbled)

2010-02-02 Thread Peter Clifton
On Tue, 2010-02-02 at 23:13 +, ahornbri...@yahoo.co.in wrote: > I am using gtk2-engines-qtcurve. Just using this engine doesn't give me the ability to reproduce. (I also set up my language and locale environment to match yours) Btw.. I doubt the strace debug stuff will catch the issue. I was

Bug#567585: geda-gschem: Symbols garbled

2010-02-02 Thread Peter Clifton
On Tue, 2010-02-02 at 06:24 +0200, أحمد المحمودي wrote: > Peter, is 1.6.1 going to be released soon ? Or shall we just apply this > patch now for 1.6.0 Debian package ? I'd not like to promise, but I would have thought 1.6.1 will be released with the next couple of weeks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Bug#567585: [Pkg-electronics-devel] Bug#567585: closed by أحمد المحمودي (Re: Bug#567585: Bug#567585: Bug#567585: geda-gschem: Symbols garbled)

2010-02-02 Thread Peter Clifton
On Tue, 2010-02-02 at 02:23 +, ahornbri...@yahoo.co.in wrote: > Peter Clifton wrote: > > either of the following patches make any difference? > > http://git.gpleda.org/?p=gaf.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=5d130060e694cfd3b3be177f1fae4a576728ff25 > > or > > http://

Bug#567585: [Pkg-electronics-devel] Bug#567585: closed by أحمد المحمودي (Re: Bug#567585: Bug#567585: Bug#567585: geda-gschem: Symbols garbled)

2010-02-01 Thread Peter Clifton
On Tue, 2010-02-02 at 00:03 +, ahornbri...@yahoo.co.in wrote: > Luckily I managed to reproduce the bug, when I changed my gtk-theme settings. Do you have any specific details, so I might try to reproduce it on my machine? > gschem says at startup: > (gschem:9078): Pango-CRITICAL **: pango_fon

Bug#563933: Revised package...

2010-01-06 Thread Peter Clifton
This should hopefully fix the issue, but I've not build-tested it (sincen I don't have access to ia64). geda-gaf_1.6.0-4.debian.tar.gz Description: application/compressed-tar geda-gaf_1.6.0-4.dsc Description: PGP signature geda-gaf_1.6.0-4_source.changes Description: PGP signature

Bug#563933: FTBFS on ia64 (Incorrect guile dependency)

2010-01-06 Thread Peter Clifton
Package: geda-gaf Version: 1.6.0-1 gEDA 1.6.0-* fails to build from source in ia64, due to a left over (incorrect) dependency on guile 1.6, rather than guile 1.8 on that platform. See the build log here: http://launchpadlibrarian.net/37472401/buildlog_ubuntu-lucid-ia64.geda-gaf_1:1.6.0-3_FAILEDT

Bug#561906: [Pkg-electronics-devel] Bug#561906: FTBFS: make[5]: *** [tests] Error 1

2009-12-21 Thread Peter Clifton
On Tue, 2009-12-22 at 08:14 +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > Thanks! I see now that it's trying to write logs into ~/.gEDA which won't > work with an unwritable/non-existent $HOME. Perhaps we will be able to fix this upstream (for 1.6.1?). Hamish.. is there any way we can work around the issue fo

Bug#549735: geda-gattrib: FTBFS: gtkitementry_2_2.c

2009-12-10 Thread Peter Clifton
In Ubuntu, we have a patch which fixes this. (A back-port of a change from the gEDA 1.6.0 version). You can find the Ubuntu package here: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/geda-gattrib/1:1.4.3-2ubuntu1 In any case, this Debian bug is likely to be closed by the impending upload of the gEDA 1.

Bug#560286: [Pkg-electronics-devel] Bug#560286: Bug#560286: gattrib seg faults are back

2009-12-10 Thread Peter Clifton
On Thu, 2009-12-10 at 11:20 +0200, أحمد المحمودي wrote: On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 09:52:38AM +0100, Bdale Garbee wrote: > > The gattrib command seg faults on every one of my designs in this version. > ---end quoted text--- > > We are almost done with packaging the new version 1.6 of gattrib, could

Bug#499711: guile versions

2009-11-24 Thread Peter Clifton
gEDA now requires guile 1.8.x, and as far as I know, all gnetlist backends have been fixed to work with it. The FAQ entry referring to bugs against Guile 1.8.X is probably out of date, and a red-herring. This bug "probably" relates to a back-end which has poor recursion practice, and ends up using

Bug#123914: [Pkg-electronics-devel] Bug#123914: Bug#123914: Missing info

2009-11-22 Thread Peter Clifton
On Sun, 2009-11-22 at 23:03 +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 10:16:11AM +0200, أحمد المحمودي wrote: > > Hello, > > > > 1) The reporter did not tell which *particular* symbol, that when > > deleted, causes the crash. > > 2) The reporter has not replied Hamish regarding

Bug#471133: [Pkg-electronics-devel] Bug#471133: Depend on geda-symbols (<< 1.MAJOR+1)

2009-11-21 Thread Peter Clifton
On Sat, 2009-11-21 at 09:54 +0200, أحمد المحمودي wrote: > Hello, > > Should that be solved by adding something like the following in > Depends ? > > geda-symbols (<< 1.{major_release+1}~) I'm not sure, but I suspect that my "dist upgrade" issues might be related to geda-symbols. gEDA

Bug#510998: libgeda: Incorrect licensing terms in copyright file

2009-01-06 Thread Peter Clifton
Package: libgeda Severity: serious Justification: Policy 12.5 The copyright file claims that the libgeda portion of the gEDA suite is distributed under an LGPL licence. This is incorrect - All of gEDA is licensed GPLV2 or later, except where explicitly noted in the sources. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Bug#510995: geda-gnetlist: Incorrect licensing terms in copyright file

2009-01-06 Thread Peter Clifton
Package: geda-gnetlist Severity: serious Justification: Policy 12.5 The copyright file claims that the libgeda portion of the gEDA suite is distributed under an LGPL licence. This is incorrect - All of gEDA is licensed GPLV2 or later, except where explicitly noted in the sources. -- To UNSUB

Bug#510992: geda: Incorrect licensing terms in copyright file

2009-01-06 Thread Peter Clifton
Package: geda Severity: serious Justification: Policy 12.5 The copyright file claims that the libgeda portion of the gEDA suite is distributed under an LGPL licence. This is incorrect - All of gEDA is licensed GPLV2 or later, except where explicitly noted in the sources. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, e

Bug#510999: geda-symbols: Incorrect licensing terms in copyright file

2009-01-06 Thread Peter Clifton
Package: geda-symbols Severity: serious Justification: Policy 12.5 The copyright file claims that the libgeda portion of the gEDA suite is distributed under an LGPL licence. This is incorrect - All of gEDA is licensed GPLV2 or later, except where explicitly noted in the sources. -- To UNSUBS

Bug#511000: geda-utils: Incorrect licensing terms in copyright file

2009-01-06 Thread Peter Clifton
Package: geda-utils Severity: serious Justification: Policy 12.5 The copyright file claims that the libgeda portion of the gEDA suite is distributed under an LGPL licence. This is incorrect - All of gEDA is licensed GPLV2 or later, except where explicitly noted in the sources. -- To UNSUBSCR

Bug#510997: geda-gsymcheck: Incorrect licensing terms in copyright file

2009-01-06 Thread Peter Clifton
Package: geda-gsymcheck Severity: serious Justification: Policy 12.5 The copyright file claims that the libgeda portion of the gEDA suite is distributed under an LGPL licence. This is incorrect - All of gEDA is licensed GPLV2 or later, except where explicitly noted in the sources. -- To UNSU

Bug#510994: geda-examples: Incorrect licensing terms in copyright file

2009-01-06 Thread Peter Clifton
Package: geda-examples Severity: serious Justification: Policy 12.5 The copyright file claims that the libgeda portion of the gEDA suite is distributed under an LGPL licence. This is incorrect - All of gEDA is licensed GPLV2 or later, except where explicitly noted in the sources. -- To UNSUB

Bug#510996: geda-gschem: Incorrect licensing terms in copyright file

2009-01-06 Thread Peter Clifton
Package: geda-gschem Severity: serious Justification: Policy 12.5 The copyright file claims that the libgeda portion of the gEDA suite is distributed under an LGPL licence. This is incorrect - All of gEDA is licensed GPLV2 or later, except where explicitly noted in the sources. -- To UNSUBSC

Bug#510993: geda-doc: Incorrect licensing terms in copyright file

2009-01-06 Thread Peter Clifton
Package: geda-doc Severity: serious Justification: Policy 12.5 The copyright file claims that the libgeda portion of the gEDA suite is distributed under an LGPL licence. This is incorrect - All of gEDA is licensed GPLV2 or later, except where explicitly noted in the sources. -- To UNSUBSCRIB

Bug#502959: general: raff.debian.org uses non-free software

2008-10-21 Thread Peter Clifton
nt to having a completely open-source driver which does un-told magic by poking un-documented registers in a complex chip. Think Intel graphics before they released documentation for (some of) their chips. -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambr

Bug#480596: extra-xdg-menus: diff for NMU version 1.0-3.1

2008-07-13 Thread Peter Clifton
x27;t get any email you sent prior to the NMU. I'm not a Debian developer, and had been working via Hamish Moffatt, uploaded my previous versions. I suspect Hamish has been busy (or didn't receive my last email with these fixes), but hadn't chased up on it. Best wishes, -- Peter

Bug#465275: Gerbv 2.0.1 installs its OWN icon and .desktop file, fixes for packaging attached

2008-02-11 Thread Peter Clifton
.desktop and icon file (install now does this) + * Added call to dh_icons, and bumped debhelper build-depends to 5.0.51 + + -- Peter Clifton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mon, 11 Feb 2008 15:35:47 + + gerbv (2.0.1-1) unstable; urgency=low * New upstream release diff -u gerbv-2.0.1/debian/c

Bug#464275: Patch (debdiff)

2008-02-09 Thread Peter Clifton
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/11848710/geda-xgsch2pcb.debdiff -- Peter Clifton -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#336796: I've just pushed a fix for this upstream

2008-02-01 Thread Peter Clifton
This didn't make it for the new 1.4.0 release, but it will be fixed in all future releases. -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FA Tel: +44 (0)7729 980173 - (No signal in the lab!) -

Bug#459185: Patch to fix this bug

2008-01-04 Thread Peter Clifton
Attached is a debdiff which fixes the bug. There is a bashism (== in a test) in debian/rules. -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FA Tel: +44 (0)7729 980173 - (No signal in the lab!) diff -u

Bug#427811: Fix released upstream

2007-10-15 Thread Peter Clifton
Just FYI, there is a fix upstream for this, and the latest Ubuntu has a similar patch to upstream. I've also fixed / worked around a crash with overlay video after switching VTs. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-intel/+bug/127101 -- Peter Clifton Elect

Bug#421815: [Bug 111491] Re: Segfault in Xvnc when modifier key is used with Xdmx as a client

2007-05-01 Thread Peter Clifton
Attached is a patch fixing the problem. ** Attachment added: "Patch fixes the problem. (Line numbers may be off, as it is against SuSE source)" http://librarian.launchpad.net/7497623/fix_xvnc_xdmx.patch ** Bug watch added: Novell/SUSE Bugzilla #268074 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.c