Bug#217243:

2017-03-02 Thread Gwern Branwen
Has there been any word from upstream on the patch for this? (The bug is now at least 14 years old, and breaks the blacklist option entirely.) -- gwern https://www.gwern.net

Bug#814601:

2016-07-27 Thread Gwern Branwen
html_list lister.feed(topicstree) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/sgmllib.py", line 103, in feed self.rawdata = self.rawdata + data TypeError: cannot concatenate 'str' and 'NoneType' objects -- gwern http://www.gwern.net

Bug#786434: desmume: Man page reverses key bindings

2015-05-21 Thread gwern
Package: desmume Version: 0.9.10-2 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, 1. The keybinding information seems to be outdated and reverses 3 bindings: Keyboard can be configured and by default works as follows: F1-F10 load savegame from slot 1-10 Shift+F1-F10 save ga

Bug#775440: ledger-el: Debian package does not include upstream commenting-out keybinding (M-; )

2015-01-15 Thread gwern
Package: ledger-el Version: 3.1+dfsg1-2 Severity: minor Dear Maintainer, With the current ledger-el, loading ledger-mode and attempting to comment out a region with the standard keybinding 'M-;' results in a prompt for the comment syntax of ledger files. M-; calls 'comment-dwim', which in this

Bug#499328: Heuristics

2014-03-07 Thread Gwern Branwen
doc, & hledger. (GHC is probably way too big and gnarly to start on.) The CSV libraries are generally small, if that's helpful. -- gwern http://www.gwern.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#217243: Real problem, not wishlist

2013-12-30 Thread Gwern Branwen
forums went down. (Not all of it, but that's another story which is not wget's but the forum software's fault - I think.) Summary: `--reject` is a problem. It can't be *that* hard to fix, there are short patches floating around. Please fix it. -- gwern -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#650376: Replicated

2013-08-04 Thread Gwern Branwen
read: true true hintfull rgb -- gwern http://www.gwern.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

Bug#698253: vorbisgain: '-a' option incorrectly described in man page

2013-01-18 Thread Gwern Branwen
rwaves': Tags present; no files processed ... -- gwern http://www.gwern.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#698253: vorbisgain: '-a' option incorrectly described in man page

2013-01-15 Thread gwern
Package: vorbisgain Version: 0.37-2 Severity: minor Dear Maintainer, The vorbisgain man page states: Calculate the album gain and peak, in addition to the track gain and peak, for all .ogg files in the directory "music" (and all subdirecto‐ ries). All files in one directo

Bug#691547: s3cmd: Man page: --default-mime-type documentation incomplete

2012-10-26 Thread gwern
Package: s3cmd Version: 1.1.0~beta3-1 Severity: minor Dear Maintainer, The s3cmd man page is incomplete where it reads: --default-mime-type Default MIME-type for stored objects. Application default is binary/octet-stream. As written, this is completely mea

Bug#677524: Problem continuing

2012-09-14 Thread Gwern Branwen
The issue is continuing to grow (literally); my .bitcoin is now 3.7GB. A far cry indeed... -- gwern http://www.gwern.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#686452: /usr/bin/normalize-mp3: normalize-ogg by default re-encodes with lower bitrate

2012-09-01 Thread gwern
! You preserve user data at all costs, or make an explicit opt-in mandatory so the user knows what you're doing to his files. This design decision was a bad idea back in 2001, and it's an even worse idea now in 2012. -- gwern http://www.gwern.net -- System Information: Debian Release:

Bug#677524: bitcoind description out of date

2012-06-14 Thread gwern
Package: bitcoind Version: 0.6.2.2-1 Severity: minor Dear Maintainer, >From the bitcoind description (`apt-cache show bitcoind`): > Full transaction history is stored locally at each client. This requires 150+ > MB of space, slowly growing. The description should be edited - this is something

Bug#641166: coreutils: 'man sort': '--random-sort' misleading

2011-09-12 Thread Gwern Branwen
GNU waste of time akin to Guile or other GNU quirks. If length is the problem, how about adding '; not perfect shuffle'? 3 words in the places most people will look for documentation. -- gwern http://www.gwern.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debia

Bug#641166: coreutils: 'man sort': '--random-sort' misleading

2011-09-10 Thread gwern
Package: coreutils Version: 8.5-1 Severity: minor The existing documentation for the option: -R, --random-sort sort by random hash of keys This is not wrong, strictly-speaking, but it is misleading: sorting by random hash *sounds* like a perfect shuffle, which is what 99% o

Bug#630758: polipo: Polipo exits with misleading message when it cannot read config file

2011-06-16 Thread gwern
Package: polipo Version: 1.0.4.1-1.1 Severity: normal Part of the Tor configuration documentation (https://www.torproject.org/docs/tor-doc-unix.html.en#polipo) says to use their particular Polipo config file (https://gitweb.torproject.org/torbrowser.git/blob_plain/HEAD:/build-scripts/config/pol

Bug#630713: libghc-pandoc-dev: Library does not provide profiling version

2011-06-16 Thread gwern
Package: libghc-pandoc-dev Version: 1.8.1.1-1 Severity: normal While most of the Haskell packages have a -prof version, pandoc does not seem to: $ apt-cache search pandoc|grep "\-prof" libghc-citeproc-hs-prof - Haskell support for Citation Style Language - GHC profiling libraries libghc-pandoc-

Bug#499328: Heuristics

2010-04-26 Thread Gwern Branwen
{}-free. But these are very much edge-cases and I think can be disregarded. ** roughly 970 *** hlint, ddc, jhc, open-witnesses, nobench, buddha, cabal, langage-c, bnfc, protocol-buffers, lhc, hera -- gwern -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#237319: unclutter: Causes periodic displacement of mouse pointer

2007-05-07 Thread Gwern Branwen
I'd just like to note that this is still very much a bug. Three years and two systems later (both a Debian testing i386 and a Gentoo ~amd64) later, I still get this deeply annoying bug, so it hasn't gone away and is certainly not Debian-specific. -- Gwern Inquiring minds wa

Bug#413455: Dealing with spaces: improve man page and handling in general

2007-03-04 Thread Gwern Branwen
e_name" command."), but it is by no means clear - a simple addition to note that to open articles with spaces in the title requires one to manually substitute _ for " "s. -- Gwern Inquiring minds want to know. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#411955: haskell-mode needs to be updated

2007-02-21 Thread Gwern Branwen
offering versions 2.2 and 2.3, according to <http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~monnier/elisp/#haskell-mode>. I think unstable at least should be updated to use 2.3; I particularly want an update because of the added features, such as one which will allow automatic insertion of type signatures. --