Bug#1011020: Linux fail to traverse struct boot_params on real mode.

2022-05-15 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi, Corcodel Marian wrote: > On struct boot_params not have only type 16 or 8 bits and become unusable on > real mode. Forgive my ignorance: I'm not understanding what you mean to say here. Do you mean that Linux fails to build, or that it's failing to boot, or that some operation you run after

Bug#986320: Stronger advice on when to use native packages

2022-05-09 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi, Russ Allbery wrote: > Currently, Debian Policy is silent on when it's appropriate to use a > native package, but there may be a project consensus aganist using > native packages when the software has an existence outside of Debian. I agree about this (modulo the bits discussed elsewhere in

Bug#1009167: xz-utils: diff for NMU version 5.2.5-2.1

2022-04-12 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi Salvatore, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote: > On Sun, Apr 10, 2022 at 03:08:12PM +0200, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote: >> I've prepared an NMU for xz-utils (versioned as 5.2.5-2.1) and >> uploaded it to DELAYED/2. Please feel free to tell me if I >> should delay it longer. > > I noted that the last

Bug#989632: dash: remove unnecessary diversion of /bin/sh

2021-06-09 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi Helmut, Helmut Grohne wrote: > At present, /bin/sh is always diverted. The diversion takes one of three > forms: > > A. diverted by package dash, pointing to dash > B. diverted by package bash (but performed by dash.postinst), pointing > to bash > C. local diversion > > The local

Bug#538822: dash fails to upgrade if /bin/sh is locally diverted

2021-06-09 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi Helmut, Helmut Grohne wrote: > I am re-closing the bug as the original submitter. > > On Fri, Jun 06, 2014 at 03:57:48PM -0700, Jonathan Nieder wrote: >> Thanks for looking into it. Reopening, lowering severity. (I'm aware >> of at least one user that was relying

Bug#425405: Not a bug

2021-06-03 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > I agree that this is unlikely a bug in Ghostscript. > > The test PDF provided by Jonathan Nieder _is_ searchable with Evince > 3.38.2-1. > > If same file was not searchable with Evince available in January 2011, > then the issue might be the en

Bug#985634: git (1:2.31.0-1): no longer runs addons from /usr/lib/git-core breaking lots of 3rdpty stuff

2021-04-25 Thread Jonathan Nieder
forcemerge 985416 985634 quit Hi, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > I imagine *many* other third-party addons do the same. Do you have examples? How do they approach being portable between installations that set different gitexecdir directories at build time? The directories being installed to are

Bug#985416: Bug#986565: unusable with current git

2021-04-25 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi, >> On Wed, 21 Apr 2021 10:12:03 + Damyan Ivanov wrote: >>> Sigh. Now git reverted to using /usr/lib again, and git-flow is broken. Why sigh? Directories such as /usr/lib/git-core and /usr/libexec/git-core are internal to git. Other packages should not install to either directory.

Bug#985351: git: Moved git-sh-prompt shell library breaks user code

2021-03-17 Thread Jonathan Nieder
clone 985351 -1 retitle -1 changing gitexecdir breaks packages that install commands there severity -1 serious quit Hi, Sven Joachim wrote: > It also breaks various add-on packages installing files into > /usr/lib/git-core, as seen in the gitbrute autopkgtest[1]: > > , > | git: 'brute' is

Bug#985351: git: Moved git-sh-prompt shell library breaks user code

2021-03-17 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi! Guillem Jover wrote: > The latest version in sid, breaks user code sourcing the git-sh-prompt > shell library as it moved from /usr/lib/ to /usr/libexec, even though > I see the comment there says to copy it, but that means no automatic > upgrades. :/ > > Could you perhaps add a backwards

Bug#985120: CVE-2021-21300 (was: Re: Accepted git 1:2.30.2-1 (source) into unstable)

2021-03-12 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Package: git Version: 1:2.20.1-2+deb10u3 Severity: important Justification: security issue Tags: upstream security Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote: > On Wed, Mar 10, 2021 at 02:21:05AM +, Debian FTP Masters wrote: >>* new upstream point release (see RelNotes/2.30.2.txt). > > This adresses

Bug#868871: Build diff-highlight

2020-11-17 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Antoine Beaupré wrote: > On 2017-09-28 12:37:38, Jack Bates wrote: >> I think the following will resolve this, by running the diff-highlight >> Makefile when the package is built (following the pattern in >> debian/rules for other contrib things): >> >>> diff --git a/debian/rules b/debian/rules

Bug#954794: New packages must not declare themselves Essential

2020-11-16 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi, Sean Whitton wrote: > On Mon 16 Nov 2020 at 04:12AM +01, Guillem Jover wrote: > > On Sat, 2020-11-07 at 13:30:13 -0700, Sean Whitton wrote: >>> Could I ask you to explain your wanting to reduce the Essential set for >>> the sake of small installation size in more detail, including some >>>

Bug#972871: git-el: .el files not installed / byte-compiled

2020-10-26 Thread Jonathan Nieder
tags 972871 + patch pending quit Jonathan Nieder wrote: > Thanks for reporting. > > Strangely, debian-emacs-policy doesn't appear to be in the > emacsen-common package any more. Fortunately, it's in > https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/debian-emacs-policy. > >

Bug#972871: git-el: .el files not installed / byte-compiled

2020-10-26 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi, Zack Weinberg wrote: > While updating my emacs configuration for 27.1 (now in unstable) > I noticed that /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50git-core.el prints > > git removed but not purged, skipping setup > > and does not autoload either git.el or git-blame.el. This appears to > be because

Bug#954794: New packages must not declare themselves Essential

2020-10-15 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Javier Serrano Polo wrote: > On Wed, 30 Sep 2020 18:34:06 -0700 Jonathan Nieder > wrote: >> Even so, some *rough* consensus on the plan is very useful for >> helping people evaluate that first step. > > Here is a rough plan: > >1. Policy: Packages should declar

Bug#954794: New packages must not declare themselves Essential

2020-09-30 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Josh Triplett wrote: > Jonathan Nieder wrote: >> Josh Triplett wrote: >>> This change does not propose eliminating the concept of Essential, nor >>> does it propose that any specific package become non-Essential. >> >> I think I'd be more support

Bug#969443: arm64: please backport stolen time support to buster kernel (Re: src:linux: none)

2020-09-02 Thread Jonathan Nieder
tags 969443 + upstream fixed-upstream severity 969443 wishlist retitle 969443 arm64: please backport stolen time support to buster kernel quit Hi, Noah Meyerhans wrote: > Subject: src:linux: none It looks like you forgot to include a subject line? > When used in virtual machine environments,

Bug#965350: kgb-bot: autopkgtest makes assumption about exact merge commit message

2020-07-19 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Source: kgb-bot Version: 1.56-1 Tags: upstream Severity: serious Justification: tests fail with up-to-date Git Affects: src:git >From >https://ci.debian.net/data/autopkgtest/testing/amd64/k/kgb-bot/6323993/log.gz: | not ok 71 | | # Failed test at t/52-client-git.t line 393. | # got:

Bug#953629: debian-policy: Please permit Debian revisions with 1.0 native packages

2020-06-11 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi, Sam Hartman wrote: > I think there are at least two cases where this issue comes up and is > important, and where using a debian revision without separate upstream > tarballs is the right approach: > > 1) small packages currently maintained by the upstream maintainer where > debian revision

Bug#961702: git breaks fdroidserver autopkgtest: Failed to parse line: ' git config pull.rebase false

2020-05-29 Thread Jonathan Nieder
reassign 961702 python3-git 3.1.1-1 affects 961702 git quit Hi, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: > I can't find any possible reference in fdroidserver, or in python3-git > for that matter. My guess is that the issue is caused by python3-git > failing to parse something that was added in the most

Bug#436466: dash: Please optimise single command given to -c to exec it

2020-05-27 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Herbert Xu wrote: >> Tim Connors wrote: >>> Because of bug #642922 (archived, but has some interesting discussion), >>> this patch for this bug ended up being backed out. [...] > I gather that the ocamlbuild bug has been fixed so can this be > reinstated please? Curious: the ocamlbuild bug

Bug#958929: git: Regression due to CVE-2020-11008 fix

2020-04-28 Thread Jonathan Nieder
severity 958929 important tags 958929 + upstream forwarded 958929 https://lore.kernel.org/git/20200428052510.ga201...@google.com/ quit Stefan Tauner wrote: > the vulnerability in CVE-2020-11008 is related to the handling > of credential helpers in git. In Buster this has been fixed in >

Bug#860015: /usr/bin/gitk: 3: exec: wish: not found

2020-04-21 Thread Jonathan Nieder
reassign 860015 tk 8.6.0+9 found 860015 tk/8.6.9+1 retitle 860015 tk: missing /usr/bin/wish symlink after upgrade quit Frederic wrote: > After an upgrade from jessie -> stretch, I got this error message > > /usr/bin/gitk: 3: exec: wish: not found Anders Boström wrote: > I got this problem

Bug#956745: xonsh autopkgtest fails: out of pty devices

2020-04-14 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Source: xonsh Version: 0.9.15+dfsg-1 Severity: important Justification: blocking git security fix from migrating to testing The xonsh autopkgtest is failing on arm64: https://ci.debian.net/data/autopkgtest/testing/arm64/x/xonsh/4989133/log.gz xonsh test: test_indir

Bug#955152: git-rebase ignores or squashes GIT_REFLOG_ACTION

2020-03-27 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi, Ian Jackson wrote[1]: > [ some git-debrebase invocation etc. ] > + git reflog > + egrep 'debrebase new-upstream.*checkout' > + rc=1 > > I have looked at the log and repro'd the bug. > > git-debrebase (which lives in src:dgit but does not depend on dgit) > must invoke git-rebase. It sets

Bug#949454: libctf-nobfd0: missing Breaks+Replaces against libbinutils versions with the same files

2020-01-20 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Package: libctf-nobfd0 Version: 2.33.50.20200115-2 Severity: serious Rationale: breaks upgrades libctf-nobfd0 takes over the file libctf-nobfd.so.0.0.0 from libbinutils but is missing a Breaks + Replaces declaring so: Unpacking libctf-nobfd0:amd64 (2.33.50.20200115-2) ... dpkg: error

Bug#949006: debian-policy: Stop recommending stamp files in debian/rules

2020-01-15 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Niels Thykier wrote: > debhelper cannot see "inside" the upstream build system. If you modify > a .c file, debhelper won't notice and will currently just skip the > entire build. Alternatively, debhelper will have to invoke the build > system and rely on it to not be flawed. Yes, I think that

Bug#949007: debian-policy: Typo in example

2020-01-15 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Niels Thykier wrote: > In > https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-source.html#s-debianrules-gainrootapi > we find the following example: > > """ > Examples of valid use of the gain root command: > > # sh-syntax (assumes set -e semantics for error handling) > $DEB_GAIN_ROOT_CMD some-cmd

Bug#949006: debian-policy: Stop recommending stamp files in debian/rules

2020-01-15 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi! Niels Thykier wrote: > I would like to propose that we drop or replace the following > recommendation in Policy: > > """ > When a package has a configuration and build routine which takes a > long time, or when the makefiles are poorly designed, or when build > needs to run clean first, it

Bug#948041: impossible to update libbpf without updating the kernel

2020-01-14 Thread Jonathan Nieder
retitle 948041 libbpf-dev: please build from https://github.com/libbpf/libbpf reassign 948041 libbpf-dev merge 942903 948041 quit Hi, Julia Kartseva wrote: > On Sun, 12 Jan 2020 09:51:55 +0100 Bastian Blank wrote: >> Why should we? If the upstream developers decide to maintain it >>

Bug#947740: git: Please backport Git 2.24 to Buster

2020-01-08 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi Paul, Paul Anzel wrote: > Would you please add the testing version of Git (2.24.1) as a > backport to Debian Buster? > > I'd like to have the new Git command functionality from 2.23 (git > switch/restore) Happy to. Will do, some time this week or next week. > and I've seen

Bug#948151: git: Please consider demoting git-man to Recommends

2020-01-06 Thread Jonathan Nieder
John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On 1/7/20 1:03 AM, Jonathan Nieder wrote: >> Using Recommends to mean "Depends, except on >> buildds" would produce bad results for end users that use >> --no-recommends. > > I disagree. Anyone who uses "--no-rec

Bug#948151: git: Please consider demoting git-man to Recommends

2020-01-06 Thread Jonathan Nieder
reassign 948151 git 1:2.25.0~rc1-1 forcemerge 613892 948151 tags 613892 + upstream quit Hi, Anatoly Pugachev wrote: > clone of #613892 ? Indeed it is! Thanks for digging that up. See that bug for details on what is needed to get this done (an upstream patch teaching "git help" to cope with

Bug#606825: mingw-w64 triplets/ostable

2019-12-30 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi Stephen, Stephen Kitt wrote: > We still need to figure out how to handle the triplet. There are multiple > goals, from end users’ perspectives, some conflicting: > > * provide a Windows cross-compiler with a good selection of libraries, within > Debian, so that it’s easy to build Windows

Bug#878599: git: [PATCH] Ship git-credential-libsecret

2019-12-16 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Josh Triplett wrote: > I would love to see git-credential-libsecret packaged. > > This patch would ship git-credential-libsecret in the git package, which > would add libsecret and its dependencies to the dependencies of git. > Since many people use the git package on servers, that might not be >

Bug#946879: git: please build package with libsecret credential helper

2019-12-16 Thread Jonathan Nieder
forcemerge 878599 946879 quit Hi, brian m. carlson wrote: > It would be great if the libsecret credential helper could be built in > its own package so that folks could easily use it. Thanks! I agree.

Bug#878599: git: [PATCH] Ship git-credential-libsecret

2019-12-16 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi, Josh Triplett wrote: > I would love to see git-credential-libsecret packaged. > > This patch would ship git-credential-libsecret in the git package, which > would add libsecret and its dependencies to the dependencies of git. > Since many people use the git package on servers, that might not

Bug#945961: xz-utils: FTBFS: cannot stat 'debian/tmp/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/liblzma.so.*'

2019-12-03 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote: > I don't know what changed but I think it is debhelper. We have now: > > |(sid)bigeasy@debbuildd:~/xz/1/xz-utils-5.2.4$ dh binary --no-act > | debian/rules install > | dh_installdeb > | dh_gencontrol > | dh_md5sums > | dh_builddeb > > and that

Bug#942353: python-evtx: ImportError: No module named hexdump

2019-10-14 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Package: python-evtx Version: 0.6.1-1 Severity: serious Justification: missing dependency $ evtx_dump.py Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/evtx_dump.py", line 20, in import Evtx.Evtx as evtx File "/usr/local/buildtools/current/sitecustomize/sitecustomize.py", line 152,

Bug#932696: Please document Haskell team style Vcs-Git sytax

2019-07-22 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Russ Allbery wrote: > If you want to do what vcswatch is doing (analyze the current code > repository for Debian packaging for commits that haven't been uploaded), > and the team is, like Haskell, using a single repository for all the > packages, you need to be able to find that specific package

Bug#932696: Please document Haskell team style Vcs-Git sytax

2019-07-22 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi, Ian Jackson wrote: > Russ Allbery writes: >> So, maybe something like: >> >> -b [; = ...] >> >> to build off of what we already have? (With, obviously, a bunch of that >> syntax marked as optional.) If we ban "=" in , we can allow for >> to be optional but some other key/value pair

Bug#926738: git-send-email: transferencoding config ignored

2019-04-09 Thread Jonathan Nieder
tags 926738 + upstream patch forwarded 926738 https://public-inbox.org/git/20190409192733.10173-1-xypron.g...@gmx.de/ quit Hi, Heinrich Schuchardt wrote: > The value of the sendmail.transferencoding configuration item is ignored. > > A patch has been submitted as >

Bug#436186: less: scrollwheel doesn't work in xterm

2019-02-07 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2010-11-03 02:49:47 -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote: >> Thomas Dickey wrote: >>> (e)links(2) is using a different mechanism: it's turned on xterm's >>> any-event mouse reporting mode (which gnome-terminal happens to >>> implemen

Bug#915426: git breaks git-remote-hg autopkgtest

2019-01-30 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi again, On 25 January 2019, Jonathan McCrohan wrote: > I am happy to work on fixing up the FTBFS, but > because I am not a DD, I would need a sponsor to upload for me. I'm happy to sponsor an upload, especially if this is a first step toward team maintenance with Jonas (who I can speak from

Bug#920776: sparse: new upstream release

2019-01-30 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Uwe Kleine-König wrote: > sparse (0.6.0-1) unstable; urgency=medium > . >* New upstream version (Closes: #920776) Wonderful. Thanks for your quick work. Jonathan

Bug#920963: dh-runit: copy-edits to dh_runit(1) manpage

2019-01-30 Thread Jonathan Nieder
bian/changelog b/debian/changelog index 5facc36..431b3e7 100644 --- a/debian/changelog +++ b/debian/changelog @@ -1,3 +1,9 @@ +dh-runit (2.8.4) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium + + * Copy-edit dh_runit(1) documentation. + + -- Jonathan Nieder Wed, 30 Jan 2019 15:44:58 -0800 + dh-runit (2.8.3) unstable;

Bug#920776: sparse: new upstream release

2019-01-29 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi Uwe, Uwe Kleine-König wrote: > On 1/29/19 2:38 AM, Jonathan Nieder wrote: >> Thoughts of all kinds welcome, as always. If you'd prefer this in the >> form of a "git pull"-able repository, a push to salsa, or an NMU, just >> ask. > > I didn't follow

Bug#920776: sparse: new upstream release

2019-01-28 Thread Jonathan Nieder
of a "git pull"-able repository, a push to salsa, or an NMU, just ask. Thanks, Jonathan >From daad6363969dc9260f87c26b419c88f00db661de Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jonathan Nieder Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2019 17:37:19 -0800 Subject: [PATCH 1/3] [debian] document new upstream version in d

Bug#920776: sparse: new upstream release

2019-01-28 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Package: sparse Version: 0.5.2-2 Severity: wishlist https://public-inbox.org/git/a6b689da-b002-0aa2-e9d6-755d004bc...@ramsayjones.plus.com/ reminded me that sparse has had a few updates that are not included yet in Debian. Please consider updating. I'll send the patches in reply to this bug,

Bug#919950: Please drop compatibility hack for liblzma.so.2 (last present in squeeze)

2019-01-27 Thread Jonathan Nieder
(5.2.2-1.4) unstable; urgency=low + + * liblzma: +* Remove compatibility tricks that permit sharing a process with + liblzma.so.2. This means liblzma.a no longer depends on libdl + at run time. + Closes: #919950. Thanks to Josh Triplett. +* Breaks: liblzma2 versions without sym

Bug#915426: git breaks git-remote-hg autopkgtest

2019-01-23 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi Jonas, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > I can do yet another NMU to fix this, but am hesitating as I worry if > that will masquerade a lack of responsive maintenance. > > Please tell if it is sensible that I take over maintenance of this > package, or join as co-maintainer, or however is

Bug#919296: git-daemon-run: fails with 'warning: git-daemon: unable to open supervise/ok: file does not exist'

2019-01-23 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Dmitry Bogatov wrote: >> Jonathan Nieder wrote: >>> + * git-daemon-run: pre-create supervise directory so that postinst >>> +can start the service (thx Celejar and Dmitry Bogatov; closes: >>> +#919296). [...] > Wierd. It should work. /etc/sv/

Bug#879165: please drop transitional package libtime-modules-perl

2019-01-21 Thread Jonathan Nieder
errmann; closes: + #879165). * debian/control: use https in Vcs-Browser URL. -- Jonathan Nieder Mon, 21 Jan 2019 19:36:25 -0800 diff --git i/debian/control w/debian/control index 12450b1af3..965b8c6b36 100644 --- i/debian/control +++ w/debian/control @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ Build-Depends: libz-dev

Bug#860015: gitk 3: exec: wish: not found

2019-01-21 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi Frederic, In April, 2017, Frederic wrote: > Package: gitk > Version: 1:2.11.0-2 > Severity: important > > Dear Maintainer, > > After an upgrade from jessie -> stretch, I got this error message > > /usr/bin/gitk: 3: exec: wish: not found Sorry for the long silence. That's certainly

Bug#771170: curl and certificate verification in jessie

2019-01-21 Thread Jonathan Nieder
reassign 771170 libcurl3-gnutls 7.38.0-3 affects 771170 + git quit Hi, In November, 2014, Peter Palfrader wrote: > I recently started to move parts of debian.org's infrastructure to jessie. I > noticed a regression with software using curl to do https with certificate > verification. > > On

Bug#919296: git-daemon-run: fails with 'warning: git-daemon: unable to open supervise/ok: file does not exist'

2019-01-21 Thread Jonathan Nieder
tags 919296 - patch pending quit Jonathan Nieder wrote: > For "buster", I prefer a minimal fix within the framework of the > current packages, along the lines you suggested upthread: > > diff --git i/debian/changelog w/debian/changelog > index ef513b2e1d..fb996c9

Bug#919296: git-daemon-run: fails with 'warning: git-daemon: unable to open supervise/ok: file does not exist'

2019-01-21 Thread Jonathan Nieder
on (thx Jens Reyer; closes: #707790). + * git-daemon-run: pre-create supervise directory so that postinst +can start the service (thx Celejar and Dmitry Bogatov; closes: +#919296). -- Jonathan Nieder Mon, 21 Jan 2019 19:36:25 -0800 diff --git i/debian/git-daemon-run.dirs w/deb

Bug#919296: git-daemon-run: fails with 'warning: git-daemon: unable to open supervise/ok: file does not exist'

2019-01-14 Thread Jonathan Nieder
# missing Depends severity 919296 serious quit Celejar wrote: >> Celejar wrote: >>> Any attempt to manage the daemon (e.g., 'sv stat git-daemon', as per >>> README.debian) fails with: >>> >>> warning: git-daemon: unable to open supervise/ok: file does not exist [...] > ii runit

Bug#919296: git-daemon-run: fails with 'warning: git-daemon: unable to open supervise/ok: file does not exist'

2019-01-14 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi again, Celejar wrote: > Severity: grave > > Any attempt to manage the daemon (e.g., 'sv stat git-daemon', as per > README.debian) fails with: > > warning: git-daemon: unable to open supervise/ok: file does not exist [...] > Versions of packages git-daemon-run depends on: > ii adduser 3.118 >

Bug#919296: git-daemon-run: fails with 'warning: git-daemon: unable to open supervise/ok: file does not exist'

2019-01-14 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi, Celejar wrote: > Severity: grave > > Any attempt to manage the daemon (e.g., 'sv stat git-daemon', as per > README.debian) fails with: > > warning: git-daemon: unable to open supervise/ok: file does not exist > > I see that there's an old, archived bug about this: > >

Bug#918030: please provide DEB_HOST_UNAME_MACHINE

2019-01-02 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi, Helmut Grohne wrote: > I find myself repeating a mapping from Debian architectures to the > typical output of uname -m (and occasionally -s) in various packages. > Copying such code is going to be a maintenance nightmare, so it should > live somewhere central. I propose

Bug#917995: debian-policy: drop section 1.6 Translations

2019-01-02 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi, Marc Haber wrote: > On Wed, Jan 02, 2019 at 12:29:50PM +0900, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: >> I hereby propose to drop section 1.6 Translations and the following >> sentence: "When translations of this document into languages other >> than English disagree with the English text, the English text

Bug#917431: debian-policy: virtual packages: logind, default-logind

2018-12-27 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Adam Borowski wrote: > logind: an org.freedesktop.login1 D-Bus API implementation > default-logind: distribution's default logind provider Seconded. I like this description because it doesn't make assumptions about how many logind implementions there are or which is the current default, which

Bug#741883: /usr/share/gitweb/static/gitweb.js: gitweb blame does not work correctly when $feature{'javascript-actions'} is enabled

2018-12-16 Thread Jonathan Nieder
forwarded 741883 https://public-inbox.org/git/20181216232429.gj75...@google.com/ quit Hi, In March, 2014, Robert Luberda wrote: > The following setting in gitweb.conf > $feature{'javascript-actions'}{'default'} = [1]; > breaks the gitweb's blame page: clicking on line numbers displayed in >

Bug#740154: permission warning on repo access: unable to access '/root/.config/git/attributes'

2018-12-16 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi, In February, 2014, martin f krafft wrote: > $HOME seems unset when git-daemon starts, which causes > > remote: warning: unable to access '/root/.config/git/attributes': > Permission denied > > to be printed on cloning. > > exporting $HOME e.g. to gitdaemon's home directory, or >

Bug#704005: git cvsimport: reads /tmp/.gitattributes

2018-12-16 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi Helmut, In April, 2013, Helmut Grohne wrote: > I verified that the attached patch solves this particular issue. > > Helmut > Description: Avoid reading /tmp/.gitattributes > Author: Helmut Grohne > Last-Update: 2013-04-03 > Bug-Debian: http://bugs.debian.org/704005 > > git-cvsimport invokes

Bug#915644: git: Add ca-certificates as recommended package

2018-12-05 Thread Jonathan Nieder
severity 915644 wishlist tags 915644 + patch quit HJ wrote: > On Wed, 5 Dec 2018 at 19:11, Jonathan Nieder wrote: >> Hm. Git already depends on libcurl3-gnutls, which recommends >> ca-certificates. Can you say more about your setup where this >> happened? > > I

Bug#915632: gitweb: local configuration not found

2018-12-05 Thread Jonathan Nieder
reassign 915632 gitweb 1:2.19.2-1 found 915632 git/1:2.11.0-3+deb9u4 tags 915632 + upstream quit Hi, Martin Mares wrote: > After upgrade to Stretch, gitweb no longer finds the configuration file > "gitweb_config.perl" in the current directory. However, "man gitweb" still > mentions this as one

Bug#915644: git: Add ca-certificates as recommended package

2018-12-05 Thread Jonathan Nieder
severity 915644 normal quit Hi, HJ wrote: > please add ca-certificates as a recommeded or suggested package, > otherwise checkouts will fail with: > > " > ssf@TinyBOX:~$ git clone https://gitlab.com/foo.git > Cloning into 'foo'... > fatal: unable to access 'https://gitlab.com/foo.git/': server

Bug#915426: git breaks git-remote-hg autopkgtest

2018-12-04 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Paul Gevers wrote: > https://ci.debian.net/data/autopkgtest/testing/amd64/g/git-remote-hg/1428119/log.gz > > not ok 32 - pull tags The package ought to run "make TEST_OPTS=-v" to produce a more useful log[*]. Bisects to the following Git change: e198b3a740409fabe5ba774c5f1255b55fdd21c1 is the

Bug#911997: git: Apply diff from Ubuntu

2018-12-02 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi Jeremy, Jeremy Bicha wrote: > Did you see https://bugs.debian.org/911997 ? No, I didn't. I wonder if there was a mail delivery outage from the BTS or something. > I believe you were interested before in getting the Debian and Ubuntu > packaging for git in sync so that Ubuntu would

Bug#909853: git-remote-hg: diff for NMU version 0.4-0.1

2018-12-02 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi Jonas, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > I've prepared an NMU for git-remote-hg (versioned as 0.4-0.1) and > uploaded it to DELAYED/10. Please feel free to tell me if I > should delay it longer. > > I also pushed my changes to g...@salsa.debian.org:debian/git-remote-hg.git Not sure why I didn't get

Bug#914695: dgit autopkgtest breaks with git 2.20

2018-11-26 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi Ian, Ian Jackson wrote: > https://ci.debian.net/data/autopkgtest/testing/amd64/d/dgit/1382882/log.gz [...] > Looking at the test log did not immediately suggest a cause to me. > But it is probably much easier for me to (at least initially) > investigate this, since I will hopefully

Bug#914488: git breaks xandikos autopkgtest

2018-11-23 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Jelmer Vernooij wrote: > Add patch 01_sigterm_handler: don't install broken sigterm handler. > Closes: #903854, #914488 Thanks! That was fast.

Bug#911165: debian-policy: drop requirement to ship sysvinit init script with same name

2018-10-16 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Andreas Henriksson wrote: > It seems obvious to me that the above policy snippet was written in a > time when the universe revolved around sysvinit. In current day and age > sysvinit itself would be an "Alternate init system". We could update the > snippet to say that any package providing

Bug#893448: please add a chromium-source binary package

2018-10-15 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote: Michael Gilbert wrote: > Major updates to chromium in stable have so far been contingent on it > being a leaf package, where there is no chance for it to break > anything else. Adding CEF as a reverse dependency would change that. ^^ > On

Bug#910770: dash: systemd-detect-virt fails to detect virtualized environment when run under dash

2018-10-10 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi, spuggy...@gmail.com wrote: > When run under dash, systemd-detect-virt returns "none" in a systemd-nspawn > chroot'd environment when it should not; same command under bash works > as expected. Do you have more details? What test does systemd-detect-virt use, and why is it failing on dash?

Bug#909754: dpkg -l now always pipes to less and ignores $COLUMNS

2018-10-02 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi, Guillem Jover wrote: > So, first, thanks for the constructive proposals! But I'd rather not > revert this change. I'm happy to implement anything sane people might > find useful to cope with such change. This includes the following > changes which I've started coding: > > * DPKG_PAGER

Bug#910101: git-review: new upstream release

2018-10-02 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Package: git-review Version: 1.26.0-1 Severity: wishlist git-review 1.27 has been released[1]. Most notably, it uses the recommended refs/for/ syntax[2] instead of refs/publish/ to push changes for review[3]. I tried importing the new version using gbp-import-orig and building and it seems to

Bug#888549: chrome-gnome-shell: Please don't use /etc/opt, it's not FHS-compliant

2018-09-13 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Jeremy Bicha wrote: > On Thu, Sep 13, 2018 at 5:57 PM Jonathan Nieder wrote: >>> There is no reason this functionality cannot be offered in Debian. We >>> got complaints when we supported other browsers but not Google Chrome. >> >> Since Google Chrome

Bug#888243: Bug#888549: chrome-gnome-shell: Please don't use /etc/opt, it's not FHS-compliant

2018-09-13 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi, Jeremy Bicha wrote: > On Thu, Sep 13, 2018 at 4:40 PM Santiago Vila wrote: >> What I said is that no sane package in Debian/main should need to put >> files directly in /etc/opt. That's an oddity, a very unorthodox thing, >> it would be like a Debian package in main putting stuff directly

Bug#907587: CONTENT_LENGTH can no longer be empty

2018-09-06 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi, Jelmer Vernooij wrote[1]: > Git's http-backend has become slightly stricter about the content > of the CONTENT_LENGTH variable. Previously, Dulwich would leave this > variable empty but git now expects it to be set to 0 for GET requests > without a body. > > I'm uploading a fixed version of

Bug#907449: liblzma: undefinited reference when link with lzma static library

2018-08-28 Thread Jonathan Nieder
severity 907449 important quit Hi, Antonio wrote: > in a program I tested the lzma library for compress with multithread > function lzma_stream_encoder_mt, with the following results: > > - if I link with dynamic library everything is fine > - if I link with static library, are returned these

Bug#906901: debian-policy: Perl script shebang requirement is disturbing and inconsistent with rest of policy

2018-08-24 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi Russ, Russ Allbery wrote: > I'm looking for seconds for this patch to relax the current requirement > back to a should. [...] > --- a/perl-policy.xml > +++ b/perl-policy.xml > @@ -533,7 +533,7 @@ $(MAKE) OPTIMIZE="-O2 -g -Wall" >Script Magic > > > -All packaged perl

Bug#907051: Say much more about vendoring of libraries

2018-08-23 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi, Arnaud Rebillout wrote: > During all this time when I was questioning myself on the reason to > un-bundle, the only official documentation I found was the short > paragraph in the Debian Policy [1], which is quite thin. Only now, > through the thread in debian-devel, I discover that there is

Bug#907051: Say much more about vendoring of libraries

2018-08-23 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi, Sean Whitton wrote: > On Thu 23 Aug 2018 at 12:27PM +0200, Alec Leamas wrote: >> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Bundling_and_Duplication_of_system_libraries > > Thank you for sharing this link -- it seems like Fedora have thought > harder about this than we have, at

Bug#906901: debian-policy: Perl script shebang requirement is disturbing and inconsistent with rest of policy

2018-08-22 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi, Dominic Hargreaves wrote: > On Tue, Aug 21, 2018 at 08:42:11PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: >> I do feel like allowing either based on the whim of the packager is just >> kind of bad. It produces inconsistent behavior to no real benefit for >> anyone. If you install a Perl earlier in your

Bug#883950: Next steps on "[GPL-3+]" proposal

2018-08-14 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi, Ian Jackson wrote: > Russ Allbery writes ("Bug#883950: Next steps on "[GPL-3+]" proposal"): >> Currently, copyright-format >> 1.0 requires either that every License stanza in a Files paragraph contain >> some "license text" in the copyright-format

Bug#905938: git-rebase(1) has wrong filename for revert-a-faulty-merge.html

2018-08-13 Thread Jonathan Nieder
> presumably the right file to refer to. $ ls -ld /usr/share/doc/git/html lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 May 30 2017 /usr/share/doc/git/html -> ../git-doc Is it configured differently on your machine? This setup is from commit 894cf6b9c9cd7d9e783637a1033169a546c78276 Author: Jonathan Nieder

Bug#905251: debian-policy: 4.9 paragraph is unclear (incompatibles statements)

2018-08-07 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi, Clément Hermann wrote: > On 03/08/2018 04:23, Sean Whitton wrote: > > On Thu 02 Aug 2018 at 12:16PM +0800, Clément Hermann wrote: >>> "as verbose as reasonably possible" seems incompatible with "maximally >>> verbose >>> output", at least in some cases (golang packages come to mind). >>>

Bug#905551: mutt: add OAUTHBEARER auth support

2018-08-07 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: > Version: 1.10.1-2 > Closes: 905551 \o/ Thanks for the quick turnaround.

Bug#905251: debian-policy: 4.9 paragraph is unclear (incompatibles statements)

2018-08-06 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi, Sean Whitton wrote: > On Thu 02 Aug 2018 at 07:29PM -0700, Jonathan Nieder wrote: >> Thanks. Unfortunately, that wouldn't address Clément's concern about >> maximal verbosity (1) not being consistent with reasonableness and (2) >> not being concrete enough to easily

Bug#905551: mutt: add OAUTHBEARER auth support

2018-08-05 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Jonathan Nieder wrote: > I'll send a debdiff in a separate message. Patch attached. Thoughts of all kinds welcome. >From 31e72e18b9a9c97d67b685bbbe5b1278f5381835 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jonathan Nieder Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2018 17:32:40 -0700 Subject: Apply Brandon Long's oauth

Bug#905551: mutt: add OAUTHBEARER auth support

2018-08-05 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Package: mutt Version: 1.10.1-1 Severity: wishlist Tags: upstream patch fixed-upstream Hi, As described in http://lists.mutt.org/pipermail/mutt-dev/Week-of-Mon-20180611/000121.html, Gmail supports RFC 7628 for oauth as a way of avoiding password based auth. Applying three upstream patches gets

Bug#905453: debian-policy: Policy does not include a section on NEWS.Debian files

2018-08-05 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi Elana, Elana Hashman wrote: > NEWS.Debian files are listed in the "unofficial policy"[1] but not in > the official policy. > > It seems this was proposed in 2002[2], but in 2003, folks were > hesitant to "[get] this into policy until enough stuff uses it that we > can tell it works well". > >

Bug#905401: permit access to apt repositories during builds

2018-08-04 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Josh Triplett wrote: > Why don't we make a specific exception for d-i in the short term, in the > hopes that in the long term we'll have a way to handle dependencies on > sources Thanks, that makes a lot of sense to me. I retract my second in message #13, but I'd be happy to review a patch that

Bug#905401: permit access to apt repositories during builds

2018-08-04 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Ian Jackson wrote: > Jonathan Nieder writes ("Re: permit access to apt repositories during > builds"): >> My feeling is that this should be an outside-policy carveout, since it >> makes many applications (e.g., analyzing the build graph, especially >> when n

Bug#905401: permit access to apt repositories during builds

2018-08-04 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi, Ian Jackson wrote: > Apropos of discussion in #813471: > > Paul writes: >> In addition, d-i relies on access to the apt repo for the system. >> I can imagine other uses of that, so I added a carve-out for that. > > In general I think this should be done by saying that packages may > access

Bug#904729: Policy 12.5: Must the license grant be included in debian/copyright?

2018-08-02 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi, Simon McVittie wrote: > On Wed, 01 Aug 2018 at 19:23:09 -0700, Jonathan Nieder wrote: >> Simon McVittie wrote: >>> ( ) the full text of the license, *and* the license grant >>> (unless the license *is* the license grant, like BSD-style licenses) >>

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