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- To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>
- Subject: gnome-pilot: Device name filter too restrictive
- From: Hans Ulrich Niedermann <debian@n-dimensional.de>
- Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2004 19:19:34 +0100
- Message-id: <20041210181934.C6F81710FD@mobile-mx.n-dimensional.de>
Package: gnome-pilot
Version: 2.0.10-6.1
Severity: normal
When setting up gnome-pilot, the dialog box only accepts something
like /dev/[a-zA-Z]+[0-9]* as device name.
This makes it impossible to
a) Use user specific names for USB devices like /dev/foo-pilot and
/dev/bar-pilot for the users foo and bar, respectively.
In the age of udev, I suggest accepting much different device
names.
b) As described on
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-pilot-list/2004-June/msg00027.html
it seems that for netsync to work, the same problem applies,
because for net sync the device name isn't "/dev/something" at
all but "net:".
Suggested fixes:
a) No restriction for devices the user types in. However, keep a
number of common options to choose from (like /dev/pilot, net:,
/dev/ttyS0, /dev/ttyUSB1, etc.)
b) Restrict device name depending on connection type (Serial, USB,
IRDA, Network). Probably difficult to handle all conceivable
eventualities.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (800, 'unstable'), (100, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.10-rc2-vs1.9.3-ndim-1
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Versions of packages gnome-pilot depends on:
ii libart-2.0-2 2.3.16-6 Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii libatk1.0-0 1.8.0-3 The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii libaudiofile0 0.2.6-4 Open-source version of SGI's audio
ii libbonobo2-0 2.8.0-3 Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii libbonoboui2-0 2.8.0-2 The Bonobo UI library
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-18 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libesd0 0.2.35-2 Enlightened Sound Daemon - Shared
ii libgconf2-4 2.8.1-4 GNOME configuration database syste
ii libgcrypt11 1.2.0-4 LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr
ii libglade2-0 1:2.4.0-1 Library to load .glade files at ru
ii libglib2.0-0 2.4.7-1 The GLib library of C routines
ii libgnome-keyring0 0.4.0-2 GNOME keyring services library
ii libgnome-pilot2 2.0.10-6.1 Support libraries for gnome-pilot
ii libgnome2-0 2.8.0-5 The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii libgnomecanvas2-0 2.8.0-1 A powerful object-oriented display
ii libgnomeui-0 2.8.0-3 The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii libgnomevfs2-0 2.8.3-6 The GNOME virtual file-system libr
ii libgnutls11 1.0.16-9 GNU TLS library - runtime library
ii libgpg-error0 1.0-1 library for common error values an
ii libgtk2.0-0 2.4.13-1 The GTK+ graphical user interface
ii libice6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii libjpeg62 6b-9 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG
ii libncurses5 5.4-4 Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii liborbit2 1:2.10.2-1.1 libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii libpanel-applet2-0 2.6.2-3 Library for GNOME 2 Panel applets
ii libpango1.0-0 1.6.0-3 Layout and rendering of internatio
ii libpisock8 0.11.8-10 Library for communicating with a P
ii libpisync0 0.11.8-10 Synchronization library for PalmOS
ii libpopt0 1.7-5 lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii libreadline4 4.3-11 GNU readline and history libraries
ii libsm6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 X Window System Session Management
ii libtasn1-2 0.2.10-3 Manage ASN.1 structures (runtime)
ii libx11-6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 X Window System protocol client li
ii libxml2 2.6.11-5 GNOME XML library
ii xlibs 4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 X Window System client libraries m
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.2-3 compression library - runtime
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