Bug#582952: dash / LINENO-support lets many package FTBFS

2010-05-27 Thread Andreas Barth
* Raphael Geissert (geiss...@debian.org) [100527 06:47]: On Tuesday 25 May 2010 11:36:22 Andreas Barth wrote: * Lucas Nussbaum (lu...@lucas-nussbaum.net) [100525 18:16]: I have downgraded to important the bugs I filed about those packages. Great. That's the severity I wanted to ask you.

Bug#582952: dash / LINENO-support lets many package FTBFS

2010-05-27 Thread Raphael Geissert
On Thursday 27 May 2010 03:08:58 Andreas Barth wrote: * Raphael Geissert (geiss...@debian.org) [100527 06:47]: Those bugs are policy violations and make those packages FTBFS when using dash from testing or experimental, or posh. Tag them squeeze-ignore if you want, but their severity is

Bug#582952: dash / LINENO-support lets many package FTBFS

2010-05-27 Thread Andreas Barth
* Raphael Geissert (geiss...@debian.org) [100527 16:52]: On Thursday 27 May 2010 03:08:58 Andreas Barth wrote: * Raphael Geissert (geiss...@debian.org) [100527 06:47]: Those bugs are policy violations and make those packages FTBFS when using dash from testing or experimental, or posh.

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2010-05-26 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
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Bug#582952: dash / LINENO-support lets many package FTBFS

2010-05-26 Thread Raphael Geissert
On Tuesday 25 May 2010 11:36:22 Andreas Barth wrote: * Lucas Nussbaum (lu...@lucas-nussbaum.net) [100525 18:16]: I have downgraded to important the bugs I filed about those packages. Great. That's the severity I wanted to ask you. I disagree. Those bugs are policy violations and make those

Bug#582952: dash / LINENO-support lets many package FTBFS

2010-05-25 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 24/05/10 at 22:27 +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: Re the long term perspectives, Jakub Wilk has contacted Lucas Nussbaum about testing all our packages in unstable and see which are affected by this bug, and then filling bugs as appropriate. Once we know how many packages are affected, we then

Bug#582952: dash / LINENO-support lets many package FTBFS

2010-05-25 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 25/05/10 at 08:28 +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: I've attached the full list of new failures. Now with the attachment :-) -- | Lucas Nussbaum | lu...@lucas-nussbaum.net http://www.lucas-nussbaum.net/ | | jabber: lu...@nussbaum.fr GPG: 1024D/023B3F4F | a7xpg 0.11.dfsg1-5 Failed

Bug#582952: dash / LINENO-support lets many package FTBFS

2010-05-25 Thread Gerrit Pape
On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 08:28:58AM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: On 24/05/10 at 22:27 +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: Re the long term perspectives, Jakub Wilk has contacted Lucas Nussbaum about testing all our packages in unstable and see which are affected by this bug, and then filling bugs as

Bug#582952: dash / LINENO-support lets many package FTBFS

2010-05-25 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Lucas Nussbaum lu...@lucas-nussbaum.net, 2010-05-25, 08:28: I've just done an archive rebuild. 459 packages failed. 340 are new failures (they didn't fail two weeks ago). I've attached the full list of new failures. Filtering out failures that don't seem caused by this change (with grep -v

Bug#582952: dash / LINENO-support lets many package FTBFS

2010-05-25 Thread Raphael Geissert
On 25 May 2010 01:28, Lucas Nussbaum lu...@lucas-nussbaum.net wrote: I've just done an archive rebuild.  459 packages failed. 340 are new failures (they didn't fail two weeks ago). I've attached the full list of new failures. I've started an archive-wide checkbashisms check on the source

Bug#582952: dash / LINENO-support lets many package FTBFS

2010-05-25 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 25/05/10 at 14:53 +0200, Jakub Wilk wrote: * Lucas Nussbaum lu...@lucas-nussbaum.net, 2010-05-25, 08:28: I've just done an archive rebuild. 459 packages failed. 340 are new failures (they didn't fail two weeks ago). I've attached the full list of new failures. Filtering out failures

Bug#582952: dash / LINENO-support lets many package FTBFS

2010-05-25 Thread Andreas Barth
* Lucas Nussbaum (lu...@lucas-nussbaum.net) [100525 18:16]: Indeed. Attached is the list of the 124 packages that FTBFS with dash 0.5.5.1-5 but do not fail with dash 0.5.5.1-3. I have downgraded to important the bugs I filed about those packages. Great. That's the severity I wanted to ask

Bug#582952: dash / LINENO-support lets many package FTBFS

2010-05-24 Thread Andreas Barth
Package: dash Version: 0.5.5.1-5 Severity: serious Hi, recently dash gained support for LINENO (see #540685). This made many other package FTBFS, see e.g. #582037, #582876, #581884 and #582565. A change that makes so many packages FTBFS makes release management hard (or rather impossible), so

Bug#582952: dash / LINENO-support lets many package FTBFS

2010-05-24 Thread Raphael Geissert
On 24 May 2010 15:27, Andreas Barth a...@not.so.argh.org wrote: However, as sort of work around, I would like to ask you to remove this feature from dash in unstable again. I can't speak for the maintainer, but I'd prefer if this change is not reverted. LINENO is required by POSIX and was the

Bug#582952: dash / LINENO-support lets many package FTBFS

2010-05-24 Thread Andreas Barth
* Raphael Geissert (geiss...@debian.org) [100524 23:13]: I probably won't have time to process the results myself in the next two-three weeks. Sorry, but we need something working within one week. I have lots of cool ideas how the world should be, but this is not about how should it look like,