Bug#409612: xlibs-data: Modifier mappings broken

2007-09-24 Thread Tuomo Valkonen
In gmane.comp.window-managers.ion.general, you wrote: > Since Tuomo has symbols/pc/pc, I feel he is using old xkbdata instead of > xkeyboard-config. So first thing he should do is upgrading to some > recent version of xkeyboard-config. Otherwise our fixes would not make > sense. I'm using whatever

Bug#409612: xlibs-data: Modifier mappings broken

2007-09-24 Thread Tuomo Valkonen
On 2007-09-23 19:46 +0200, Mohammed Adnène Trojette wrote: > I forwarded your bug upstream. And upstream is asking to try commenting > the lines > > key {[ NoSymbol, Super_L ] }; > modifier_map Mod4 { }; > > in symbols/pc > > (please see http://bugs.freedesktop.org/

Bug#409612: xlibs-data: Modifier mappings broken

2007-09-23 Thread Tuomo Valkonen
(Quoting full post, because Cc:ing to the Ion list.) On 2007-09-23 03:01 +0200, Mohammed Adnène Trojette wrote: > tag 409612 moreinfo > thanks > > On Sun, Feb 04, 2007, tuomov wrote: > > The modifier mappings in stock keyboard layouts are broken. > > For details, I'll just attach the Ion FAQ entr

Bug#413469: Please don't, there are people using it

2007-03-11 Thread Tuomo Valkonen
On 2007-03-11 01:19 -0800, Frank Bauer wrote: > I do understand that Ion3 is not finished yet and you as the author of this > gem should know the best when the software is "stable", but as I mentioned > earlier, some features from Ion3 are huge usability improvement over Ion2 > and current snapshot

Bug#413469: Please don't, there are people using it

2007-03-10 Thread Tuomo Valkonen
> This is quite unfortunate for me. I, for one, am using officially packaged > Ion3 on current stable and intended to use Ion3 also in upcomming Etch. > I can't be bothered to install all those development packages just to > compile the curent versions Why do you want a random broken and unsuppo

Bug#413469: ion3: The package is outdated

2007-03-09 Thread Tuomo Valkonen
On 2007-03-09 09:51 -0500, Jeremy Hankins wrote: > Assuming the answer is yes (or roughly yes), there are probably solutions > short of not permitting ion3 in stable. For example, how about a big flashy > banner (e.g., xmessage) on startup saying that the release of ion3 running is > old and compl

Bug#413469: ion3: The package is outdated

2007-03-09 Thread Tuomo Valkonen
On 2007-03-09 14:14 +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Besides, you can only do that if you are the sole author of the current > code. Otherwise, you'll need approval from all past patch contributors. > As you probably won't get it, it would make the entire software > impossible to distribute. Ion i

Bug#413469: ion3: The package is outdated

2007-03-09 Thread Tuomo Valkonen
On 2007-03-09 14:08 +0100, Norbert Tretkowski wrote: > You can't force us to completely remove the current release from > Debian. But I can stop you from distributing new releases, and possibly get a few users complaining to you too over the ancient releases in unstable as well. And I can hope th

Bug#413469: ion3: The package is outdated

2007-03-09 Thread Tuomo Valkonen
It is starting to seem, that it will be easier to just change the license, than beat some sense into your heads. Obviously, since you so desperately want to have ancient development releases in Debian, you do not need newer releases at all. -- Tuomo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTE

Bug#413469: Bug#413686: Bug#413469: ion3: The package is outdated

2007-03-07 Thread Tuomo Valkonen
On 2007-03-07 19:54 -0500, Clint Adams wrote: > This would mean that any sarge users upgrading to etch would be stuck > at ion3 20050502 instead of 20061223. Is that preferable to > allowing fresh installs to have ion3? Yes: at least there won't be new users with ancient releases. -- Tuomo -

Bug#413469: ion3: The package is outdated

2007-03-06 Thread Tuomo Valkonen
On 2007-03-06 14:50 +0200, Tuomo Valkonen wrote: > They have their bug report, and chose to ignore it. And besides, it's the job of the package maintainer to not include unstable/development software in a "stable" distribution. The upstream can not be expected to track the relea

Bug#413469: ion3: The package is outdated

2007-03-06 Thread Tuomo Valkonen
On 2007-03-06 14:44 +0200, Riku Voipio wrote: > Please don't overreact with such horrible licencing change. > It is possible to have development version removed from stable/testing, > while it is still available in unstable for powerusers and > bleeding edge fanciers. They have their bug report, a

Bug#413469: ion3: The package is outdated

2007-03-05 Thread Tuomo Valkonen
On 2007-03-05 17:28 +0100, Bernhard R. Link wrote: > Having things not mega-freezed means > either having to watch for important changes (like, say, > no longer starting in default configuration) throughout > the whole year, or just throwing unusual stuff out of the > supported pre-installed pool

Bug#413469: backports.org for updates in stable

2007-03-05 Thread Tuomo Valkonen
On 2007-03-05 15:53 +0100, Norbert Tretkowski wrote: > * Tuomo Valkonen wrote: > > And once you do that for every development/unstable package, you're > > halfway to having switched away from the megafreeze model to a > > stable base + extra packages model. >

Bug#413469: backports.org for updates in stable

2007-03-05 Thread Tuomo Valkonen
On 2007-03-05 15:01 +0100, Holger Levsen wrote: > there is http://backports.org for updates in stable... (As Nobse knows :) If it only was easier and better documented to start using backports.org, automatically by apt*. But it still doesn't solve the problem of users complaining about old versio

Bug#345048: libgtk2.0-0: Text just point clouds.

2007-02-22 Thread Tuomo Valkonen
On 2007-02-22 18:54 +0100, Loïc Minier wrote: > I'm afraid it took a long time before this was considered. Can you > confirm you still get this bug? No, I haven't seen it in ages. -- Tuomo

Bug#364524: Info received (moc: Is this bug going to be fixed ever?)

2006-09-19 Thread Tuomo Valkonen
Hmm... I didn't get CC'd the reply. In any case, as you can see from my report, I'm _not_ using amd64, but plain old i386. And, no, I can't be bothered to manually compile anything. I'll just stick to mplayer then... Bah. -- Tuomo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject o

Bug#376608: Forget the example

2006-07-03 Thread Tuomo Valkonen
Forget the example. 'gcc prog.o bar.a lib.a' does actually work, but achieveing such a _meticulous_ ordering isn't always a simple task in a real program with a big list of files to link, constructed by rules in Makefiles and scripts. Thus the bug stands: the linker is too stupid, the order of f

Bug#376608: binutils: Dependency handling is too stupid

2006-07-03 Thread Tuomo Valkonen
Package: binutils Version: 2.16.1cvs20060413-1 Severity: important The linker's (or GCC's) dependency handling is too stupid. Suppose we have the files prog.o, mod.a and lib.a, and only the following dependencies: prog.o: mod.a lib.a mod.a: lib.a with the mod.a depending on sym

Bug#370764: xorg: The paths are all fucked up

2006-06-06 Thread Tuomo Valkonen
Package: xorg Version: 1:7.0.20 Severity: critical Justification: breaks the whole system Thank you very much for moving everything from under /usr/X11R6 to the mess known as the /usr hierarchy. Now nothing works. After spending a lot of time to even manage to get X install after upgrade _removed

Bug#360628: Should move ssh completion stuff (etc.) to bash-completion.d/

2006-04-03 Thread Tuomo Valkonen
Package: bash Version: 3.1-2 Severity: wishlist The ssh completion stuff should be moved from /etc/bash_completion to /etc/bash_completion.d/ssh or something like that. That way I can load those few useful "advanced" completion features from my .bashrc that I want, but skip loading the other ann

Bug#353075: exim: Can't send mail: sendmail process failed with error code 1

2006-02-15 Thread Tuomo Valkonen
Package: exim Version: 3.36-18 Severity: important After recent upgrade exim stopped working at all. 'mail' and 'mutt' simply report "Can't send mail: sendmail process failed with error code 1" -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'te

Bug#343393: #343393 - firefox uses gnome file chooser

2006-01-10 Thread Tuomo Valkonen
I want to chime in and add that if this issue is not fixed by the time the new firefox hits testing, I will be forced to switch to non-free software: Opera. It's the only semi-usable graphical browser left then. It is in many ways better than Firefox. The only reason I've been using Firefox is the

Bug#345048: Acknowledgement (libgtk2.0-0: Text just point clouds.)

2005-12-28 Thread Tuomo Valkonen
On a closer look, the font in that screenshot for which part the text is actually readable is infact _not_ Helvetica, but probably some TTF font then. In programs that do actually use Helvetica (e.g. Firefox), there are no problems. I think I forced Firefox to use Helvetica with its own configurat

Bug#345048: libgtk2.0-0: Text just point clouds.

2005-12-28 Thread Tuomo Valkonen
Package: libgtk2.0-0 Version: 2.8.9-2 Severity: important I'm not actually sure of the package, but various gtk applications have started to print out just point clouds instead of text recently. Not all the time, but possibly alternating between point clouds and proper text between updates. An im

Bug#342026: acknowledged by developer (Bug#342026: fixed in alsa-lib 1.0.10-2)

2005-12-13 Thread Tuomo Valkonen
On 2005-12-13 14:19 -0800, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: >[ Thomas Hood ] >* Remove obsolete .asoundrc example for enabling dmix. dmix is now > enabled by default for all sound cards that support it > (Closes: #340763, #342026) How's this supposed to fix the problem? IIRC th

Bug#342079: cryptsetup: Should check swap partition type

2005-12-04 Thread Tuomo Valkonen
Package: cryptsetup Version: 20050111-4 Severity: normal The /etc/init.d/cryptdisks script should check that a (x86) hard disk partition device is marked as a swap partition in the partition table before running mkswap on it. This is to avoid overwriting useful data in case the hard disks get swa

Bug#342026: alsa-utils: Dmix stopped working.

2005-12-04 Thread Tuomo Valkonen
Package: alsa-utils Version: 1.0.9a-4 Severity: important After an upgrade today, the dmix plugin stopped working. $ mocp # or any other program trying to use alsa ALSA lib pcm_direct.c:812:(snd_pcm_direct_initialize_slave) requested or auto-format is not available ALSA lib pcm

Bug#328616: aptitude dist-upgrade reinstalls stuff removed with dpkg -r.

2005-09-16 Thread Tuomo Valkonen
Package: aptitude Version: 0.2.15.9-6 Severity: important Aptitude dist-upgrade reinstalls packages removed with dpkg -r or other package tools. Although perhaps intended, this behaviour seriously hinders the usability of the package. If I remove a package -- with any tool -- I most certainly do

Bug#295213: general: Upgrade removed /usr/local (symlink)

2005-02-14 Thread Tuomo Valkonen
Package: general Severity: grave Justification: causes non-serious data loss Apt-get upgrade just moments ago removed my /usr/local/ symlink and replaced it with a hierarchy of empty directories. The contents of the proper /usr/local/ on another disk seem to be intact. The contents of the new /u