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21:50.02themilldondelelcaro: ping
21:57.28dondelelcaropong
22:01.13themillHi dondelelcaro. A couple of dpkgbot questions/bugs (perhaps for you). The suggestion was made to me to talk to you here about them....
22:01.37dondelelcarosure
22:01.56themilldpkg: synaptic
22:01.56dpkgthemill: no idea
22:01.59themilldpkg: literal synaptic
22:01.59dpkg"synaptic" is "A graphical user interface to add, remove and reinstall packages. It has dependency handling just like apt-get and integrates well with apt-get (and if you are using lenny then it behaves well with aptitude too). It can be found in the package `synaptic` and is not to be confused with the synaptics touchpad driver (ask me about <synaptics>)."
22:02.01themillWhy do "synaptic" and "literal synaptic" give completely different responses? I've noticed this on a few factoids recently... _perhaps_ especially ones with quotes in them. But it seems that prepending <reply> to the factoid fixes the problem and removing it brings the problem back. Any thoughts?
22:04.48themill(See also "configure keyboard" and, up until we fixed it a week or so ago, "debian-devel-announce" was also broken in this way. At the time I thought d-d-a was a one off, but it seems more widespread than that)
22:07.10dondelelcarohrm...
22:07.41themillThat's what abrotman and I said too :)
22:08.08dondelelcarosynaptic
22:08.12dondelelcarodpkg: synaptic
22:08.13dpkgdondelelcaro: I wish you would RTFM.
22:08.15dondelelcarodpkg: synaptic
22:08.15dpkgdondelelcaro: KCI error, or a problem with the Keyboard-Chair Interface.
22:08.35themillheh.... the rude bugger asked me if I was using windows earlier. The cheek!
22:08.46dondelelcarodpkg: literal synaptic
22:08.46dpkg"synaptic" is "A graphical user interface to add, remove and reinstall packages. It has dependency handling just like apt-get and integrates well with apt-get (and if you are using lenny then it behaves well with aptitude too). It can be found in the package `synaptic` and is not to be confused with the synaptics touchpad driver (ask me about <synaptics>)."
22:08.52dondelelcarodpkg: synaptic
22:08.52dpkgno idea, dondelelcaro
22:08.53dondelelcarodpkg: synaptic
22:08.53dpkgdondelelcaro: parse error: dunno what the heck you're talking about
22:08.55dondelelcarohrm...
22:09.12dondelelcarook; I'm going to have to look a bit at what is going on there
22:09.35themillIf you synaptic =~ s/A gra/<reply>A gra/ then i think it will be solved. (at least that worked for the d-d-a factoid)
22:09.36dondelelcaroI think it's the stupid multi-channel factoid bit causing problems
22:09.55dondelelcarodpkg: synaptic =~ s/A graph/A graph/
22:09.55dpkgdondelelcaro: OK
22:10.00dondelelcarodpkg: synaptic
22:10.00dpkgdondelelcaro: I don't know, could you explain it?
22:10.04dondelelcarodpkg: synaptic =~ s/A graph/<reply>A graph/
22:10.04dpkgdondelelcaro: OK
22:10.05dondelelcarodpkg: synaptic
22:10.05dpkgA graphical user interface to add, remove and reinstall packages. It has dependency handling just like apt-get and integrates well with apt-get (and if you are using lenny then it behaves well with aptitude too). It can be found in the package `synaptic` and is not to be confused with the synaptics touchpad driver (ask me about <synaptics>).
22:10.12dondelelcarodpkg: synaptic =~ s/<reply>A graph/A graph/
22:10.12dpkgOK, dondelelcaro
22:10.13dondelelcarodpkg: synaptic
22:10.13dpkgdondelelcaro: are you using Windows?
22:10.15dondelelcarohrm.
22:10.16themilldpkg: win themill
22:10.16dpkgCongratulations, themill! You have won second prize in a beauty contest!
22:10.26dondelelcarook; I'll have to look at that a bit
22:10.31dondelelcarodpkg: synaptic =~ s/A graph/<reply>A graph/
22:10.31dpkgOK, dondelelcaro
22:10.47dondelelcarothemill: thanks for the report
22:11.55themilldondelelcaro: the factoid "configure keyboard" comes up as being empty too, it's also got single-quotes in it and it hasn't been modified in a long time. (It still has content on stew's web interface)
22:12.34themilldpkg: configure keyboard
22:12.34dpkg""
22:12.47themilldpkg: literal configure keyboard
22:12.47dpkg""
22:13.07themillhttp://dpkg.vireo.org/factoid.php?key=configure%20keyboard
22:13.45themilldondelelcaro: synaptic, configure keyboard and d-d-a all have quotes in the factoid... makes me suspicious of some quote sanitising getting in the way.
22:14.10dondelelcaroit's possible
22:15.01themillBut that's indulging in wild guessing without even resorting to looking at source code :)
22:25.02dondelelcaroyeah; I'd have to look at it. Still plugging away at my stupid thesis right now
22:26.18themilldondelelcaro: heh... it's all a matter of priorities, and it's obvious where they *should* be... :)
22:29.26themilldondelelcaro: here's a non-quote-filled factoid that's having trouble:
22:29.27themilldvd playback toubleshooting
22:29.33themilldpkg literal dvd playback toubleshooting
22:29.33dpkgi don't know, themill
22:29.39themilldpkg dvd playback toubleshooting
22:29.39dpkgthemill: i haven't a clue
22:29.53themilldpkg: stupid fucking bot!
22:29.53dpkgthemill: have you tried http://www.tldp.org/ ?
22:30.12themilldpkg: literal dvd playback troubleshooting
22:30.12dpkg"dvd playback troubleshooting" is "dvd playback works better with a direct rendering layer (shm or xv) running within X and dma turned on for your drive. You will probably need dvd decoding software, so ask me about <debian-multimedia>. You probably need to set a region on the drive too, even if you are going to use deCSS for non-region discs (package regionset). Also see http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20071016&mode=classic"
22:31.12themilldpkg: dvd playback troubleshooting
22:31.12dpkgthemill: i haven't a clue
22:31.49themillhas taken to swearing at dpkg quite a lot recently. Kind of concerning.
22:42.01dondelelcarohrm... yeah, ok.
22:42.17dondelelcarois kind of getting the idea that the whole factoid code needs to be reworked
22:43.32cirdandpkg: beersmite dpkg
22:43.33dpkgforces dpkg to drink bud ice on the rocks
22:43.40cirdanooo, nasty
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22:45.17themilldondelelcaro: sounds painful... :(

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