Bug#736681: RFP: fonts-source-code-pro -- set of fonts designed to work well in GUI

On Thu, 5 Jan 2023 23:38:14 +0100 Bastian Germann wrote: > On Wed, 11 Sep 2019 10:46:09 -0600 Boris Verkhovskiy > wrote: > > I put it here https://salsa.debian.org/boris-guest/fonts-source-code-pro > > Please base the package on the source files available in the master branch: > https://github.c

Bug#872944: www.debian.org: Debian Policy Manual not fully published

Russ Allbery writes: > That said, introducing Javascript for the first time does feel like a > large-ish step, and the reluctance also makes sense. I'm not sure the > search functionality really adds much. (I haven't checked to confirm that > is the only thing in the Sphinx output that uses Jav

Bug#1000291: manpages.debian.org: CSS for .TQ renders ... badly

Package: manpages.debian.org Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, Something is going wrong with the .TQ macro on manpages.debian.org. Specifically, the tags from adjacent .TP and .TQ macros all appear on top of eachother. (I have dim recollections of a similar effect involving just .TP with an empt

Bug#779600: linux-image-3.16.0-4-686-pae: Linux console does not render the bold attribute correctly

On Mon, 09 Mar 2015 18:47:05 -0400 Samuel Bronson wrote: > Of course, it could easily still be a problem with my TV or its default > configuration... Well, um, this turned out to be the case [and this draft has probably been sitting here for 1.5+ years]. Only maybe it wasn't "default" per-se.

Bug#795427: icedtea-7-plugin: Startup warning/error dialogs are easily lost

Package: icedtea-7-plugin Version: 1.5-2+deb8u1 Severity: normal After telling firefox to go ahead and allow the applet on to run, I got the following dialog box: Which would have been fine, except that it somehow ended up behind my other windows. Which shoul

Bug#787017: virt-manager: Asks QEMU to put guest-agent socket in nonexistant directory

Package: virt-manager Version: 1:1.0.1-5 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, Running virt-manager against qemu:///session, I tried to add a "org.qemu.guest_agent.0" channel to a VM without specifying where to put the host-side socket. Something, probably virt-manager, decided to put the socket in

Bug#784376: parse-edid: told me to report this weird EDID

Package: read-edid Version: 3.0.1-2 Severity: normal File: /usr/bin/parse-edid Dear Maintainer, parse-edid just said this: , | % parse-edid < /sys/class/drm/card0-HDMI-A-1/edid | Checksum Correct | | Section "Monitor" | Identifier "SAMSUNG" | ModelName "SAMSUNG" | VendorN

Bug#783859: grub-pc: wheezy->jessie: should make sure new core.img fits before removing old module files

Package: grub-pc Version: 2.02~beta2-22 Severity: important When I upgraded this system to from wheezy to jessie, I got a dialog box something like this: ┌───┤ Configuring grub-pc ├┐ │

Bug#776801: fontconfig-config: symlink 70-no-bitmaps.conf is to a non-existing file

Control: retitle -1 fontconfig: wheezy->jessie: broke 70-no-bitmaps.conf symlink Control: severity -1 important Sébastien Villemot writes: > On Sun, 01 Feb 2015 21:48:42 +0100 Paul Pogonyshev > wrote: > Same issue here on a wheezy->jessie upgrade. Same here. This is the directory listing bef

Bug#783532: grub-rescue-pc: The grub.cfg is oversimplified

Package: grub-rescue-pc Version: 2.02~beta2-22 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, This is the grub.cfg from /usr/lib/grub-rescue/grub-rescue-cdrom.iso: ,[ grub.cfg ] | # | # Sample GRUB configuration file | # | | # Boot automatically after 30 secs. | set timeout=30 | | # By default, boot

Bug#781882: frequent flash-kernel triggers on Wheezy->Jessie upgrade

Control: reasssign -1 flash-kernel flash-kernel/3.34 On Sat, 04 Apr 2015 10:49:14 +0100 Ian Campbell wrote: > Control: clone -1 -2 > Control: retitle -2 frequent flash-kernel triggers on Wheezy->Jessie upgrade > Control: severity -2 normal > Control: found -2 3.34 > > On Thu, 2015-04-02 at 13:04

Bug#775503: debian-security-support: Multiple prompting on dist-upgrades is annoying

Stuart Prescott writes: > (while installing a package from wheezy-backports might not be considered > to be a supported configuration, this same problem will eventually hit > jessie→stretch upgrades) If it wasn't supported, I don't think src:debian-security-support would have information regardi

Bug#755677: aptitude: Recognizes "Debian Backports" packages as official for downloading changelogs on the CLI, but not in the TUI

On Tue, 22 Jul 2014 12:21:26 +0200 Axel Beckert wrote: > Package: aptitude > Version: 0.6.11-1 > Control: found -1 0.6.8.2-1 > > Hi, > > I actually ran into the following on Debian Wheezy, but then also was > able to reproduce this in Sid: > > If I try to download and view the changelog of a packa

Bug#761023: [bb] Visual stops when audio starts

On Tue, 24 Feb 2015 17:53:50 +0100 Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote: > I can confirm these report; once the audio kicks in, the ASCII art > freezes. Yeah, after the audio starts, timestuff() seems never to return again. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subj

Bug#781186: wheezy -> jessie: Left w/ dropped console-tools/kbd-compat instead of kbd

Package: upgrade-reports Severity: normal Control: affects -1 + kbd console-data Dear Maintainer, After upgrading from wheezy to jessie, I was surprised to to find that I hadn't been migrated from the dropped console-tools and kdb-compat packages to their designated successor, kdb. (Naturally, i

Bug#679243: wiki.debian.org: HTML validation fails

On Wed, 27 Jun 2012 12:48:50 +0100 Martin Smith wrote: > Package: wiki.debian.org > Severity: minor > > Clicking "Valid HTML 4.01" link in footer of all pages on wiki.debian.org > goes to W3C Validator which then fails to validate It's gotten worse: not only doesn't it validate, but now the vali

Bug#781001: python-dulwich: CVE-2014-9706: arbitrary command execution vulnerability in conjunction with git

Package: python-dulwich Version: 0.8.5-2 Severity: normal Control: tag -1 + security fixed-upstream This is like CVE-2014-9390, except without the part where it makes any attempt to avoid paths involving ".git/". So if someone uses dulwich to checkout a tree and then does something there with git

Bug#700151: gnat-gps: causes gdb to be uninstalled

Control: block 700151 by 659166 > Gnat-gps-5.0 and gdb-7.3 do not coexist happily, see #659166. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#780284: nss-pam-ldapd: Descriptions do not explain why to use this over lib{pam, nss}-ldap

Source: nss-pam-ldapd Version: 0.8.10-4 Severity: normal Dear Arthur, The descriptions of your binary packages do not describe the key advantage that your modules provide over the "reference" implementation, which is summarized by one of your users thus: libnss-ldapd is a fresh implementation

Bug#780235: "man init" brings up systemd(8) despite /sbin/init coming from sysvinit-core

Package: systemd Version: 215-12 Severity: important File: /usr/share/man/man1/systemd.1.gz Dear Maintainer, When I run "man init", I expect to see the manpage corresponding to /sbin/init; since /sbin/init comes from sysvinit-core on my system, that would be init(8), but I get systemd(1) instead.

Bug#779600: linux-image-3.16.0-4-686-pae: Linux console does not render the bold attribute correctly

Source: linux Version: 3.16.7-ckt7-1 Control: retitle -1 linux-image-3.16.0-4-686-pae: i915: does not render console bold correctly on HDMI In particular, (170,170,170) is indistinguishable from (255,255,255) on my HDMI-connected TV, but a VGA-connected monitor does fine. I'm attaching the entir

Bug#780141: libdbus-glib-1-2: Mark as deprecated

Package: src:dbus-glib Version: 0.100.2-1 Severity: normal According to , and this library is deprecated in favor of the dbus suppo

Bug#780075: xmms2-plugin-gme: Should list supported formats in description

Package: xmms2-plugin-gme Severity: normal Version: 0.8+dfsg-4 It would be a good idea to list the formats supported by this plugin in the description, so that the package comes up when searching for the names of the formats, e.g. '~d\' in aptitude. -- System Information: Debian Release: 7.8 AP

Bug#775540: Infinite loop while applying patch

Control: tag -1 security Control: tag -2 security One of these is CVE-2014-9637 ; I'm not exactly sure which because seems to have supplied the same URL for both bugs in the upstream tracker,

Bug#779895: jarwrapper: Doesn't register package name with binfmt-misc

Package: jarwrapper Version: 0.43 Severity: normal When jarwrapper registers it's format with binfmt-support, it neglects to specify it's package name, which misleads binfmt-support into believing that the format is a local format registered by the sysadmin. You could fix this by just adding "--p

Bug#779881: jardetector: chokes on space in filename

Package: jarwrapper Version: 0.43 Severity: normal Tags: patch File: /usr/bin/jardetector I just tried to run jardetector on a file with spaces in its name, and it failed miserably, saying that it couldn't open . It works much better if you put the $1 in double quotes, like so: #!/bin/sh -- jar

Bug#779600: linux-image-3.16.0-4-686-pae: Linux console does not render the bold attribute correctly

Package: src:linux Version: 3.16.7-ckt7-1 Followup-For: Bug #779600 Dear Maintainer, Well, it turns out that the framebuffer contains the proper colors: ,[ fbcat | ppmhist ] |r g b lum count | - - -- --- | 0 0 00 194553

Bug#779600: linux-image-3.16.0-4-686-pae: Linux console does not render the bold attribute correctly

On Mon, Mar 2, 2015 at 5:52 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote: > Control: tag -1 moreinfo > > On Mon, 2015-03-02 at 17:20 -0500, Samuel Bronson wrote: >> Package: src:linux >> Version: 3.16.7-ckt4-3 >> Severity: normal >> >> Dear Maintainer, >> >> I'v

Bug#779600: linux-image-3.16.0-4-686-pae: Linux console does not render the bold attribute correctly

Package: src:linux Version: 3.16.7-ckt4-3 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, I've noticed that with this kernel, "bold" does not work on my console. For example, running "man man" to show the man(1) manpage does not show headings in bold as it normally does. (It also makes installed packages look

Bug#772923: "Update Now" link on about:addons -> Plugins points to bad URL

Package: iceweasel Version: 31.4.0esr-1~deb7u1 Followup-For: Bug #772923 This happens on stable too, except I get , not reporter's , when we should both be getting the content

Bug#718765: apel: (emacs-snapshot)Eager macro-expansion failure: (wrong-type-argument sequencep 769).

Package: apel Version: 10.8-2 Followup-For: Bug #718765 This problem also occurs with wheezy's apel and Emacs 24.4 from backports, and seems to interfere with e.g. debian-bug.el from debian-el for some reason. -- System Information: Debian Release: 7.8 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (

Bug#775564: emacs24: emacs fails to byte-compile apel and org-mode

Package: emacs24 Version: 24.4+1-4.1~bpo70+1 Followup-For: Bug #775564 Control: block -1 by 718765 Dear Maintainer, I've figured out where these errors shown in the log for apel are coming from: > Eager macro-expansion failure: (wrong-type-argument sequencep 769) > atype.el:28:1:Error: Wrong typ

Bug#778452: emacs24: emacs fails to byte-compile apel and org-mode

Package: emacs24 Version: 24.4+1-4.1~bpo70+1 Followup-For: Bug #775564 Control: block -1 by 718765 Dear Maintainer, I've figured out where these errors shown in the log for apel are coming from: > Eager macro-expansion failure: (wrong-type-argument sequencep 769) > atype.el:28:1:Error: Wrong typ

Bug#725803: wireless-regdb: FTBFS: No private key found

Ben Hutchings writes: > It is true that this package cannot be auto-built, but it does not > need to be. This is explained in debian/README.source. That explains *how* to build it by hand, certainly. But of what use is the signature if the package can just install whatever public key anyway?

Bug#628546: Fwd: uswsusp: uses deprecated ioctl, please update

Package: uswsusp Version: 1.0+20110509-3 Followup-For: Bug #628546 Dear Maintainer, This bug seems to lack a "found" version; this should fix that. I get this message from the kernel whenever I resume my system from disk, too: , | [435073.232971] PM: restore of devices complete after 1488.6

Bug#776898: latrace: Should include ReleaseNotes as "NEWS"

Package: latrace Version: 0.5.11-1 Severity: wishlist Dear Maintainer, It looks like the ReleaseNotes file in the upstream source provides user-oriented summaries of changes on a release-by-release basis, organized by topic, which is AIUI exactly what a NEWS file is supposed to do. So, it would

Bug#628546: uswsusp-bug-628546-found.eml

naesten by Sam-laptop with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1YHeCm-vR-Ud; Sat, 31 Jan 2015 14:59:45 -0500 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Samuel Bronson To: Debian Bug Tracking S

Bug#776442: backportpackage: doesn't follow conventions on Debian

ch because I had to unpack the package anyway in order to build it with debuild -- I don't really feel the need to use a chroot for a private build targetting the release I'm on ... -- Thanks, Samuel Bronson -- System Information: Debian Release: 7.8 APT prefers stable-updates AP

Bug#775797: bugs.debian.org: BTS doesn't know about BPO versions; breaks apt-listbugs

Package: bugs.debian.org Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, As you know, bugs.debian.org doesn't eat the backport changelogs, so it has no idea about what bugs might be present in any given BPO version of a package. Even when those bugs are merely inherited from the backported version of the pack

Bug#730441: release-notes: Debian requires an i586 since at least squeeze

On Tue, 16 Dec 2014 18:24:23 +0100 Baptiste Jammet wrote: > Hi, > > As already said, this was fixed with commits r69410-69412. > > >I can close this > >bug in few days, unless someone do it before or tell me to not do it. > > No news, so I'm closing it now. Any idea when the release notes get reb

Bug#763518: gdb --batch mode broken

Control: forwarded -1 https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=17446 Control: severity -1 serious [Hopefully I've not misremembered the syntax for this. ;-] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@

Bug#762988: xserver-xorg-core: clicks to root window are flakey

Package: xserver-xorg-core Version: 2:1.16.0.901-1 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, I'm having a strange problem with clicks on the root window. Often, clicking on the root window fails to generate the appropriate events. This causes severe problems with those traditional WMs where most of

Bug#761330: XFCE doesn't source my ~/.profile at login

Package: xfce4-utils Version: 4.8.3-2 Severity: important File: /usr/bin/startxfce4 Dear Maintainer, I'm not really sure if this is a bug in startxfce4 or in lightdm, but when I start XFCE on a freshly-installed system, /etc/profile and ~/.profile are not sourced and, well, neither is anything el

Bug#759746: mime-support: Missing rule for ddeb files

Package: mime-support Version: 3.56 Severity: normal File: /etc/mime.types Dear Maintainer, The mime.types entry for application/vnd.debian.binary-package should list "ddeb" along with "deb" and "udeb"; this extension is used on Ubuntu and hopefully will be used in Debian for automatically-genera

Bug#759649: avahi-daemon: Fills /var/log/daemon with wishy-washy nonsense

Package: avahi-daemon Version: 0.6.31-2 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, My /var/log/daemon.log file has almost nothing in it but stuff like this: --8<---cut here---start->8--- Aug 25 17:48:50 Sam-laptop avahi-daemon[2851]: Registering new address record

Bug#759307: installation-report: Had to backport non-free broadcom-sta driver

Package: installation-reports Version: 2.49 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, -- Package-specific info: Boot method: win32-loader Image version: version "0.7.4.7+deb7u2 +net +pxe " Date: Aug 21 21:07:08 -- Aug 22 03:05

Bug#759298: broadcom-sta-dkms: Doesn't support Broadcom BCM43142 yet

elog: --8<---cut here---start->8--- broadcom-sta (6.30.223.141-1~bpo70+1) wheezy-backports; urgency=low * Rebuild for wheezy-backports. -- Samuel Bronson Fri, 22 Aug 2014 15:47:47 -0400 --8<---cut here---end--->8

Bug#731228: valgrind: please provide valgrind client-request headers on all platforms

Simon McVittie writes: > In the Debian package, the instrumentation is only present in the "debug > build" (install dbus-1-dbg and add > /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dbus-1.0/debug-build/lib to the > LD_LIBRARY_PATH), not in the build that is normally used by the OS. Huh, why isn't the valgrind stu

Bug#757743: systemtap-common: systemtap-mode.el doesn't support #-comments

Package: systemtap-common Version: 2.3-2 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, The emacs mode for systemtap scripts/tapsets defined in systemtap-mode.el does not appear to syntax-highlight comments starting with "#" properly. -- System Information: Debian Release: jessie/sid APT prefers testing

Bug#757311: xscreensaver-data: bad name for package full of arch-specific binaries

Package: xscreensaver-data Version: 5.26-1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, This package is confusingly-named; based on the name, I was not expecting it to contain actual hacks, except perhaps those written in scripting languages. (That is, I was expecting it to be Arch:all.) -- System Informa

Bug#755979: sparse: Doesn't search multi-arch include dirs

Package: sparse Version: 0.4.5~rc1-1 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, When trying to run "make sparse" in a checkout of git that normally builds just fine, I get output like , | % make sparse | SP abspath.c | /usr/include/openssl/e_os2.h:56:11: error: unable to open 'openssl/openss

Bug#755455: util-linux: Please upload a newer/less-old upstream version

Package: util-linux Version: 2.20.1-5.5 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, Your package is over 2 years and nearly 5 feature releases behind upstream. Please, please, *please* upload a newer release in time for jessie! -- System Information: Debian Release: jessie/sid APT prefers testing A

Bug#754636: emacs24-lucid-dbg: should install .gdbinit file as auto-loaded script

Package: emacs24-lucid-dbg Version: 24.3+1-4+b1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, The emacs24-lucid binary has been hanging on me a fair amount lately, and it would be helpful in debugging this to have the .gdbinit file installed at one of the following paths: "/usr/lib/debug//usr/bin/emacs24-lu

Bug#754329: psgml: Hard-to-type binding for `tempo-complete-tag' in `psgml-html's `html-mode'

Package: psgml Version: 1.4.0-5 Severity: normal File: /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/psgml/psgml-html.el The `html-mode' defined in the library `psgml-html' binds `tempo-complete-tag' to , which I can't figure out how to type, even in X. It seems like it would make more sense to just bind it to M-TA

Bug#751201: emacs-goodies-el: site-start files don't work

Peter S Galbraith writes: > Hi, > > I can't reproduce this... > > The errors means that directories like > /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/emacs-goodies-el don't exist on your > system... Actually, it looks like those three files in site-start.d were expecting to see .elc files in those same directo

Bug#752390: /usr/include/sys/_callout.h:56:2: error: unknown type name 'sbintime_t'

Hector Oron writes: > https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=gdb&arch=kfreebsd-amd64&ver=7.7.1-2&stamp=1403257387 Here's the relevant portion of the buildlog: x86_64-kfreebsd-gnu-gcc -g -O2 -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -Wformat -Werror=format-security-I. -I/«PKGBUILD

Bug#727003: Bug#748711: gdb uses python3, which breaks everything

On 6/25/14, Matthias Klose wrote: > Am 25.06.2014 02:51, schrieb Samuel Bronson: >> * Guarantee that GDB will pull in the "six" package appropriate for >> the Python it's built against (python-six or python3-six) > > this has nothing to do with 2/3. It

Bug#727003: Bug#748711: gdb uses python3, which breaks everything

Hmm, it seems to me we should discussing this on #727003, where you asked for the switch to be done in the first place. Matthias Klose writes: > Control: reopen -1 > > so this is a very generic claim ("breaks everything") without giving any > concrete package. Well, considering that the technic

Bug#731228: valgrind: please provide valgrind client-request headers on all platforms

Alessandro Ghedini writes: > On mar, giu 24, 2014 at 09:33:51 -0400, Samuel Bronson wrote: >> Well, I think I've figured it out; there are really *two* packages >> wanting to be split off, an Arch:all package and an Arch:any package. > > This doesn't really so

Bug#731228: valgrind: please provide valgrind client-request headers on all platforms

save the files and use "git am" to apply them, then if you like you can use "git rebase -i" to squash them (but if you do that, please set "Author: Samuel Bronson " on the resulting commit.) >From 8bba01f515cb8ea52009d4547f9716e813e4e826 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From

Bug#752135: git-merge-changelog: Overstates the need for .gitattributes

Package: git-merge-changelog Version: 20140202+stable-2 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, Your git-merge-changelog(1) manpage and the source file git-merge-changelog.c both say that you need a '.gitattributes' file in *every* directory. In fact, if you want all files named ChangeLog in a given g

Bug#752132: bash: 8 digits for strange characters is excessive

Package: bash Version: 4.2+dfsg-1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, If I paste, say, "🇬🇧" onto the command line, it comes out looking like reverse video "<0001f1ec><0001f1e7>". That is, bash is using 8 hex digits to represent Unicode codepoints. Given that Unicode only goes up to U+10 (thou

Bug#584672: Processed: unarchiving 584672, found 584672 in unifont/1:6.3.20140214-1

Dear Paul Hardy, I want to start by saying that it was never my intention to insult you. Also, in an effort to avoid a never-ending fight, I'm refraining from reopening the bug. I don't even particularly need the TTF on Debian, and if I want a newer version my way, I guess I can just do the same

Bug#436892: gdb-doc: Java support is completely undocumented (was: Re: Bug#436892: gdb: Java is completely broken)

Control: retitle -1 Java support is completely undocumented Control: reassign -1 gdb-doc Control: found -1 gdb-doc/6.4.90-1 gdb-doc/7.1-1 Control: affects -1 gdb Daniel Jacobowitz writes: > On Fri, Aug 10, 2007 at 07:23:14PM +1000, Lashi wrote: >> But where do I set the breakpoint? I mean this s

Bug#700760: Bug#751285: systemtap-sdt-dev: should be "Arch: all" so gcc and libc can B-D on it

Matthias Klose writes: [...] > If you really are too lazy to have architecture specific build > dependencies, then consider shipping an empty package for the > unsupported architectures. Um, that was actually meant as a convenience for *you* (and anyone else who works on a package that wants to p

Bug#751201: emacs-goodies-el: site-start files don't work

Package: emacs-goodies-el Version: 35.11 Severity: serious Dear Maintainer, After upgrading emacs-goodies-el, devscripts-el, and dpkg-dev-el to this version, the files they place in site-start.d no longer pick them up as properly-configured: [...] Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50debbugs-el.el

Bug#750620: develock-el: Advice makes optional arguments mandatory

Package: develock-el Version: 0.39-1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, Some of the advice in this package -- for example, the advice on `indent-region' -- turns arguments from optional to mandatory. This is problematic with code that doesn't pass those arguments. -- System Information: Debian R

Bug#738702: glibc vs gdb story

Control: block -1 on 711913 Control: forwarded -1 https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14466 ygrek writes: > Hello, > > AFAIU, glibc made a change that gdb doesn't find reasonable, but nobody is > fixing this for a long time already. > Enjoy finger-pointing in : > https://sourcew

Bug#738702: same problem only different library

"Brent S. Elmer Ph.D." writes: > Is this the same problem: [...] > raise ValueError, "Unsupported implementation for %s" % > str(node.type) > ^ > SyntaxError: invalid syntax Well, yes and no. This bug did happen, but it's totally harmless;

Bug#750127: `bbdb-pop-up-bbdb-buffer' should use a dedicated window

Package: bbdb Version: 2.36-4 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, Emacs keeps trying to use my BBDB window for stuff like completion and help. It is, however, much too tiny to be useful for these things. It seems like it would be a good idea for `bbdb-pop-up-bbdb-buffer' to mark this window "dedi

Bug#742920: bbdb: mention bbdb3 somewhere in package headers

Dan Jacobson writes: > Perhaps somewhere in apt-cache show bbdb output, the user should see > some mention that there is also a bbdb3 package available... ... and a warning to never attempt to use it under any circumstances ... [Gah, bap wasn't kidding about the lack of documentation.] -- Hi

Bug#749094: ITP: pkg-create-dbgsym -- automatically build debug symbol ddeb packages

Package: wnpp Owner: Samuel Bronson Severity: wishlist As part of the https://wiki.debian.org/AutomaticDebugPackages project, I propose to package this for Debian: * Package name: pkg-create-dbgsym Version : 0.64 Upstream Author : Martin Pitt * URL or Web page : https

Bug#748317: closed by Matthias Klose (Re: Bug#748317: libstdc++6: Pretty-printers don't support Python 3)

Control: notfixed -1 4.9.0-3 Control: reopen -1 Sorry, I forgot to include a demo in my report. I really do have the latest sid version of libstdc++6 installed, and this *still* happens: naesten@hydrogen:~/hacking% sudo apt-get install libstdc++6/sid Reading package lists... Done Building depend

Bug#748317: libstdc++6: Pretty-printers don't support Python 3

Package: libstdc++6 Version: 4.9.0-3 Severity: important Control: affects -1 gdb Dear doko, On May 6, you NMU'd gdb to make it build against Python 3. Which would be all well and good, except for one thing: the pretty-printers for libstdc++ are *still* using Python 2 syntax. (Any particular reas

Bug#748315: libgcc1: GDB could use SystemTap SDT probes

Package: libgcc1 Version: 1:4.7.2-5 Severity: normal Control: affects -1 gdb Dear Maintainer, GDB (since version 7.5) could take advantage of SystemTap probes in libgcc/libstc++ to allow "next" and the like to work properly when exceptions are thrown, even without the debugging symbols installed.

Bug#700760: libc6: GDB 7.5 would benefit from a SystemTap SDT probe

Er, the previous message was supposed to say sometihng about how GDB could benefit from SystemTap SDT probes in glibc. The GDB wiki talks a bit about it on . Now that systemtap-sdt-dev is Architecture: all, it should be as simple as this: 1. Add syste

Bug#708550: auctex: fails when first visited file is plain tex (rather than latex or context)

from: git://anonscm.debian.org/users/naesten-guest/auctex.git master if it's too hard to apply it directly. >From dcb5c5c5b6cfb64591b1591222c613d92362615f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Samuel Bronson Date: Mon, 12 May 2014 01:46:33 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Import upstream patch "Fix t

Bug#747825: texinfo: texi2dvi.1 is misbuilt

Package: texinfo Version: 5.2.0.dfsg.1-2 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, I just tried to do "man texi2dvi", and was quite puzzled by the results, until I realized that it was probably what happens when you try to generate a manpage for texi2dvi using help2man without having a working "tex" binar

Bug#710073: [buildd-tools-devel] Bug#710073: Bug#710073: sbuild: add copy-on-write support

Roger Leigh writes: > On Fri, Jul 05, 2013 at 10:15:07AM -0700, Geoffrey Thomas wrote: >> Hasn't overlayfs support been in schroot since 1.5.2-1 (May 2012)? I >> don't think any more support is needed on the sbuild side. Ubuntu >> seems to be making active use of overlayfs chroots -- mk-sbuild f

Bug#694308: Relicensing tracked on bug #665334

Control: block -1 by 665334 The request that Adobe relicense this code is being tracked on ; according to , the relicensing should be done by August. Of course, it still won't be safe to actually modify this code (implementations

Bug#744333: fonts-cmu: cm-unicode sources are not included in your package

Package: fonts-cmu Version: 0.7.0-2 Severity: serious User: debian...@lists.debian.org Usertags: source-is-missing Hi, Your package seems to include some files that lack source in the prefered form for modification. [all of the font files, which according to the README were built using some scri

Bug#744096: texlive-metapost-doc: PDF Outline doesn't list References or Index

Package: texlive-metapost-doc Version: 2013.20140314-1 Severity: normal File: /usr/share/doc/texlive-doc/metapost/base/mpman.pdf Dear Maintainer, I'm reporting this despite the below warning, because you seem to have neglected to provide any information on how to look up where to send such report

Bug#740784: librsvg2-bin: Wrong "flag" parsing in path descriptions

Package: librsvg2-bin Version: 2.40.0-1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, Consider the two SVGs encosed, and the diff between them. http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"; viewBox="0 0 100 100" stroke="#3c790a"> http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"; viewBox="0 0 100 100" stroke="#3c790a">

Bug#740785: inkscape: Wrong "flag" parsing in path descriptions

Package: inkscape Version: 0.48.4-3+b1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, Consider the two SVGs encosed, and the diff between them. http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"; viewBox="0 0 100 100" stroke="#3c790a"> http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"; viewBox="0 0 100 100" stroke="#3c790a">

Bug#739737: ddclient: 'freedns' protocol not working

Package: ddclient Version: 3.8.1-1.1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, In , you say that the 'freedns' protocol is supposed to be available, but it looks like it really isn't: , | sudo ddclient -noexec -debug -verbose | [sudo] passwor

Bug#728705: gdb fails on s390x with "Couldn't write registers: Invalid argument"

Control: reassign -1 linux 3.2.51-1 Control: affects -1 gdb Control: notforwarded -1 So, it turns out that the 0x5001 is PTRACE_POKEUSR_AREA, which is essentially equivalent to PTRACE_POKEUSER in a loop, except for being less clear when it fails, because you can't tell which word couldn't be writt

Bug#736994: valgrind: stair-step indented list items in valgrind(1) manpage

Package: valgrind Version: 1:3.9.0-4 Severity: normal File: /usr/share/man/man1/valgrind.1.gz Dear Maintainer, I know this probably isn't your fault, but I don't feel up to triaging it further at the moment, and this looks really wrong: , |--show-leak-kinds= [default: definite,possib

Bug#736545: bugs.debian.org: subtlety WRT reports against unknown packages

Package: bugs.debian.org Severity: normal Control: close 736540 Control: block -1 by 736540 736542 Dear Maintainer, I think the BTS is being a bit too subtle in its treatment of bugs reported against packages that are not in the current archive. I just reported the following two bugs: * Bug#73

Bug#736542: emacs19: This version of emacs is simply too old

Package: emacs19 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, You are probably long gone, but in case you somehow see this bug, it's not actually anything to do with emacs; I'm just filing it so I can complain about how the bts handles it when I do. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@li

Bug#736540: not-a-package: This package suffers from non-existance

Package: not-a-package Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, You won't see this bug, because you don't exist. I am only reporting this so I can complain about what happens when I do. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Co

Bug#736362: dnsmasq: "Maximum number of concurrent DNS queries reached" not well-throttled

Package: dnsmasq Version: 2.68-1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, When dnsmasq is being overwhelmed with queries, it tends to flood syslog with messages like this: , | Jan 21 03:15:31 hydrogen dnsmasq[4637]: Maximum number of concurrent DNS queries reached (max: 500) | Jan 21 03:17:04 hydr

Bug#726248: Bug#734328: kfreebsd-kernel-headers: Don't ship here

Robert Millan writes: > What's wrong with Replaces: ? I proposed this in my last mail, but it > went unanswered: > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=726248#105 > > I really don't see why you want us to remove legacy functionality from > k-k-h. As far as I can see its presence doe

Bug#728705: gdb fails on s390x with "Couldn't write registers: Invalid argument"

Okay, I've reported the strace problem as . Now if only there was one document that covered all of the PTRACE_ requests ... -- Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature to help me spread! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lis

Bug#674467: patched packages

Package: opus Version: 1.1-1 It looks like Ron forgot to mention fixing this bug in the changelog, since the package sure looks fixed to me. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#734555: gparted: Not built with online partition resize support

Package: gparted Version: 0.17.0-3 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, Recently, support was added to gparted to resize partitions online: . Unfortunately, you don't enable this feature in the package. -- System Information: Debian Release: jess

Bug#734554: strace: unknown PTRACE_ request values on s390x

Package: strace Version: 4.5.20-2.3 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, This strace does not work quite right: , | (sid_s390x-dchroot)sbronson@zelenka:~$ strace -e ptrace gdb -batch -ex run -ex bt --args echo foo | --- SIGCHLD (Child exited) @ 0 (0) --- | --- SIGCHLD (Child exited) @ 0 (0) --

Bug#728705: gdb fails on s390x with "Couldn't write registers: Invalid argument"

Here's some relevant strace output: , | (sid_s390x-dchroot)sbronson@zelenka:~$ strace -e ptrace gdb -batch -ex run -ex bt --args echo foo | --- SIGCHLD (Child exited) @ 0 (0) --- | --- SIGCHLD (Child exited) @ 0 (0) --- | ptrace(PTRACE_CONT, 20354, 0x1, SIG_0) = 0 | --- SIGCHLD (Child exite

Bug#734328: kfreebsd-kernel-headers: Don't ship here

Package: kfreebsd-kernel-headers Version: 9.2~5 Severity: normal Control: block 726248 by -1 Dear Maintainer, Given the facts: - nobody has ported the dtrace userspace to [e]glibc yet - there *are* packages that could benefit from systemtap's version of ; in particular, GDB can use su

Bug#730441: release-notes: Debian requires an i586 since at least squeeze

Package: release-notes Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, Looking at , it seems that gcc has been defaulting to -march=i586 at least since squeeze, or r4557 in the GCC packaging SVN [1]. This would seem to indicate that you now need at least a 586 to run Debian. Ho

Bug#674467: (fwd) Accepted opus 1.1~beta-4 (source amd64 all)

Petter Reinholdtsen writes: > I do not know how the NMU was bogus, but this bug was reopened with > the upload of version 1.1~beta-4: The IRC conversation below might shed some light on this. (It has some extraneous and/or embarrassing messages filtered out.) TL;DR: Ron would be happy to entert

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