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do not |
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Control: severity -1 minor
Control: tags -1 - moreinfo
Control: merge 706607 -1
On 28-Aug-2016, Ben Finney wrote:
> Is this behaviour the same problem reported in [bug#706607], or is that a
> separate problem?
On the assumption that bug#706607 reports the same problem, I am merging
th
On 14-Feb-2024, Ben Finney wrote:
> The ‘dput.source_check’ function currently uses a custom regex pattern for
> parsing a package version string. This pattern differs in some ways from
> the official Debian Policy definition of a version string.
Thanks to Christoph Be
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erring to a different package?
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Control: tags -1 + upstream patch
On 12-Nov-2023, Ben Finney wrote:
> Either:
>
> * The upstream version constraint needs to be relaxed by the upstream
> project, to allow ‘python3-rich’ version “3.0.0-2” to satisfy the
> dependency.
This is the resolution indicated by th
’ tool can get the
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Package: python3-rich
Version: 13.3.1-2
Severity: normal
Howdy,
The Debian binary package ‘python3-rich’ declares:
Depends: python3-markdown-it
with no version constraint. On this machine, the dependency is satisfied by
the only available version ‘python3-markdown-it’ version “3.0.0-2”.
packages
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ant a depressed tongue?” —_Pinky and The |
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rts.
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Package: wnpp
Owner: Ben Finney
Severity: wishlist
* Package name: python-package-smoke-test
Version : 1.0
Upstream Author : Ben Finney
* URL or Web page : https://pypi.org/project/package-smoke-test/
* License : GPL-3+
Description : simple import test for Python
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Control: fixed -1 elpa-notmuch/0.37-1
Control: fixed -1 emacsen-common/3.0.5
On 03-Jun-2023, Nicholas D Steeves wrote:
> Ben Finney writes:
>
> > This still occurs for me with ‘notmuch-emacs’ 0.17-3, and
> > ‘emacsen-common’ 2.0.7.
>
> It seems to me that this was fixed
eby request removal of
package ‘pysha3’ from Debian.
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Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
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suggest a |
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wish you luck! It would be good to get the Mullvad VPN client in shape
for Debian.
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ing files?) that needs to
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Chomsky, 1971 |
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as to imitate one's enemies, and to use |
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Package: lists.debian.org
Severity: wishlist
X-Debbugs-Cc: de...@laxalde.org
Howdy list masters,
This request is for the addition of a mailing list for the Debian SourceHut
Packaging Team.
Name: pkg-sourcehut
(The naming convention might dictate a different name, such as
Lowell |
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argument type.
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Package: devscripts
Version: 2.22.1
Severity: normal
The Bash completion for the ‘debsign’ command is incorrectly defined.
It incrrectly recognises a ‘-version’ option that does not exist; and
fails to recognise the real ‘--version’ option.
$ debsign -ve → debsign -version
debsign:
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Control: submitter 1010782 !
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On 10-May-2022, Ben Finney wrote:
> I am creating new WNPP bug reports for the dependencies that are not
> yet in Debian.
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Control: outlook 1010783
Control: summary 1010784 Upstream source for this package is published at
https://pypi.org/project/rst.linker/
Control: outlook 1010784
On 10-May-2022, Ben Finney wrote:
> I am creating new WNPP bug reports for the dependencies that are not
> yet in Debian.
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Control: tags -1 + patch
On 06-May-2022, Ben Finney wrote:
> Please set a “Suggests: debmake-doc” dependency to the binary
> package ‘debmake’.
The branch ‘wip/issue/1010651/dependency-for-documentation’
https://salsa.debian.org/bignose/debmake/-/commits/wip/issue/1010651/depe
choosing which
packages to install.
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Control: affects -1 - python-coverage
On 25-May-2017, Ben Finney wrote:
> Until the ‘libjs-jquery-hotkeys’ package resolves bug#740893, the
> ‘python-coverage’ packages should not use that library.
>
> I will patch the ‘python-coverage’ source so it omits any use of
&g
-2017, Ben Finney wrote:
> On 06-Apr-2017, Philipp Hahn wrote:
>
> > So "coverage_html.js" uses the 'jeresig' API to pass the hotkey
> > via "data", while the 'tzuryby' API "jquery.hotkeys.js" expects is
> > via 'namespace'.
>
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h gets its price for what Earth gives us.” —James Russell |
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Thank you for the report and analysis of the issue.
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xkcdpass: FTBFS: test case raises �TypeError: � missing 1
required positional argument: 'self'�
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Control: tags -1 + upstream
Control: forwarded -1
https://github.com/redacted/XKCD-password-generator/issues/147
Control: severity -1 minor
On 20-Apr-2019, Ben Finney wrote:
> I suspect this is because the program silently skips a specified
> wordfile if it does not exist.
The documen
Control: tags -1 - moreinfo upstream
Control: severity -1 wishlist
On 20-Apr-2019, Ben Finney wrote:
> I suspect this is because the program silently skips a specified
> wordfile if it does not exist. It then has a set of wordfiles that
> includes the defaults, but does not include th
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described this error in the test case in the upstream issue
https://github.com/redacted/XKCD-password-generator/issues/138>.
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On 24-Feb-2022, Ben Finney wrote:
> Currently the tag's condition matches all bug numbers 100 or
> higher:
>
> =
> W: xkcdpass: improbable-bug-number-in-closes 1006311
> =
>
> The maximum bug number should be increased to allow likely bug numbers
&g
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t know whether Lintian tag descriptions can be dynamically
populated that way.
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pen until this is
fixed.
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his is a separate
bug in the Debian package.
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mpleting it.
I'll correct this in the next release.
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Control: retitle -1 libjs-jquery-atwho: consider providing node-at.js
Control: tags -1 - confirmed
Control: tags -1 + moreinfo
On 17-Aug-2019, Ben Finney wrote:
> I'm confused; this bug report (bug#863255) is closed as resolved.
Bug#863293, on the other hand, is still being discussed, so
going to find chaps our size?” —_Pinky and The |
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On 14-Jan-2022, Ben Finney wrote:
> Nothing in the Debian packaging (nor in the upstream) makes any
> reference to ‘pypy-coverage’. […]
My mistake, I failed to open the correct repository. The bug is in the
Autopkgtest control file.
ce to ‘pypy-coverage’. What is causing ‘autopkgtest-satdep’ to
declare that dependency?
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On 06-Nov-2021, Ben Finney wrote:
> When I invoke GDB on the core dump, this is the session:
>
> =
> $ coredumpctl gdb
> […]
>PID: 45094 (bash)
>UID: 1000 (bignose)
>GID: 1000 (bignose)
> Signal: 11 (SEGV)
> Time
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important to be the right person today, and not put it |
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Package: bash
Version: 5.1-3+b2
Severity: important
When starting ‘gnome-session’ as some users, a child ‘bash’ process
exits with a segmentation fault:
=
Nov 6 17:25:29 malva wireplumber[16259]: SPA handle 'api.bluez5.enum.dbus'
could not be loaded; is it installed?
Nov 6 17:25:29 malva
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Control: tags -1 pending
Control: block -1 by 986317
On 11-Sep-2016, Ben Finney wrote:
> This indicates an existing problem (functions should be explicitly
> declared) that was not being reported by some earlier compiler
> versions.
Now that this upstream issue is corrected, with th
Control: owner -1 Sérgio Cipriano
On 08-Mar-2021, Ben Finney wrote:
> The Debian package should include an install-time test suite to be
> run by ‘autopkgtest’.
There might be a set of useful examples for the ‘towncrier’ command,
which could be converted to an autopkgtest suite for this
On 08-Mar-2021, Ben Finney wrote:
> We need to obtain (or write) a manual page to install as ‘towncrier(1)’.
The absence of a proper Unix manual page for ‘towncrier(1)’ is a bug
upstream. We will likely need to write the manual page ourselves.
The content will contain much of the s
Control: owner -1 Sérgio Cipriano
Thanks to Sergio for accepting ownership of this bug report.
On 08-Mar-2021, Ben Finney wrote:
> We need to obtain (or write) a manual page to install as ‘towncrier(1)’.
For writing a manual page, I recommend reading about the archaic
markup language “r
est.
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s 55 miles an hour?’ I said ‘Yeah I know, |
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as it runs. Is this
something the uploading program can detect, without connection to the
server? How, exactly?
On 04-Feb-2020, Ben Finney wrote:
> Control: tags -1 + moreinfo
>
> On 04-Feb-2020, Mark Brown wrote:
> > I would expect that dcut would detect any errors that will not be
>
Control: found -1 webpack/4.43.0-6
On 16-Jun-2020, Ben Finney wrote:
> On 18-May-2020, Pirate Praveen wrote:
> > https://salsa.debian.org/js-team/node-clone/-/blob/master/clone.js#L109
> > I think we may need to embed older version of buffer module in
> > node-libs-browse
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wer |
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again.” —Steven Wright |
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Control: block 967200 by -1
On 17-Aug-2020, Ben Finney wrote:
> The updated package is ready, and waiting for reverse-dependencies (as
> described in bug reports blocking this one) to drop Python 2 support.
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macs] 1:26.3+1-2
elpa-magithub suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
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believe the recent Debian release ‘python3-sphinxcontrol.spelling’
version “4.3.0-1” corrects this bug.
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e soon.
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On 16-Jun-2020, Ben Finney wrote:
> On 18-May-2020, Pirate Praveen wrote:
> > For this particular case you can try embedding buffer module
> > version 4.x as browsers need an equivalent module to features
> > present only in node.
>
> This looks like advice for me to wo
mbed buffer module
version 4.x”?
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ack recommends no packages.
webpack suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
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n you try again with version “1.5-1”, now in
Debian?
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