Bug#896023: Bug#901897 closed by Jonathan Nieder (Bug#901897: fixed in git 1:2.18.0~rc2-2)

2018-06-22 Thread Ian Jackson
Paul Gevers writes ("Re: Bug#901897 closed by Jonathan Nieder (Bug#901897: fixed in git 1:2.18.0~rc2-2)"): > On 22-06-18 18:05, Ian Jackson wrote: > It currently happens quite often, but often the test suite from testing > runs happily with the package from unstable. If th

Bug#901900: dgit in stretch-backports

2018-06-22 Thread Ian Jackson
g about here ? If you are willing to wait a couple of weeks, I think sid/testing's dgit will have settled down. Ian. [1] git://git.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~ianmdlvl/dgit.git#wip (rebasing) -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. If I emailed you from an address @fyvzl.net or @evade.org.u

Bug#896023: Bug#901897 closed by Jonathan Nieder (Bug#901897: fixed in git 1:2.18.0~rc2-2)

2018-06-22 Thread Ian Jackson
a lot of workaround. It would be better to treat britney as free software that we can modify to DTRT. But I'm not offering to do anh of the work so I will let you get on with your workaroud and wish you luck! Regards, Ian. -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. If I emailed you from an addre

Bug#896023: Bug#901897 closed by Jonathan Nieder (Bug#901897: fixed in git 1:2.18.0~rc2-2)

2018-06-22 Thread Ian Jackson
Ian Jackson writes ("Re: Bug#901897 closed by Jonathan Nieder (Bug#901897: fixed in git 1:2.18.0~rc2-2)"): > I think it _is_ optional. At least, it was in adt-run. I think > autopkgtest has much of the same logic. It's a question of putting > together the right rune to sp

Bug#896023: Bug#901897 closed by Jonathan Nieder (Bug#901897: fixed in git 1:2.18.0~rc2-2)

2018-06-22 Thread Ian Jackson
Paul Gevers writes ("Re: Bug#901897 closed by Jonathan Nieder (Bug#901897: fixed in git 1:2.18.0~rc2-2)"): > On 22-06-18 15:02, Ian Jackson wrote: > > I don't know exactly what autopkgtest command line rune you are using > > but certainly it was designed to be able to

Bug#896023: Bug#901897 closed by Jonathan Nieder (Bug#901897: fixed in git 1:2.18.0~rc2-2)

2018-06-22 Thread Ian Jackson
Paul Gevers writes ("Re: Bug#901897 closed by Jonathan Nieder (Bug#901897: fixed in git 1:2.18.0~rc2-2)"): > On 22-06-18 12:45, Ian Jackson wrote: > > to the bad run which prompted your intervention, and the good run > > which resulted ? > > [2] for the bad one.

Bug#886966: Bug#886969: Problems with export-dsc and push-source on arbitrary refs

2018-06-22 Thread Ian Jackson
shed out of the cache) during the subsequent push. I am somewhat tempted to say that export-dsc should be forbidden with split brain quilt modes. Ian. -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. If I emailed you from an address @fyvzl.net or @evade.org.uk, that is a private address which bypasses my fierce spamfilter.

Bug#901897: closed by Jonathan Nieder (Bug#901897: fixed in git 1:2.18.0~rc2-2)

2018-06-22 Thread Ian Jackson
ation information from britney from yesterday and today, all is fine except for git's an artificially inflated urgency. Ian. [1] https://ci.debian.net/data/autopkgtest/testing/amd64/d/dgit/491815/log.gz -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. If I emailed you from an address @fyvz

Bug#886969: Bug#886625: push-source should be usable no matter the state of the working tree

2018-06-21 Thread Ian Jackson
r (or, even, representable by) dpkg-source. There's a bug about that too. Ian. -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. If I emailed you from an address @fyvzl.net or @evade.org.uk, that is a private address which bypasses my fierce spamfilter.

Bug#902006: Want dgit setup-vcs-git [and 1 more messages]

2018-06-21 Thread Ian Jackson
Sean Whitton writes ("Re: Want dgit setup-vcs-git [and 1 more messages]"): > On Thu, Jun 21 2018, Ian Jackson wrote: > > Sean, would you care to comment on the name of the command and the > > manpage ? The way it isn't like other setup-* things (in that >

Bug#902006: Want dgit setup-vcs-git [and 1 more messages]

2018-06-21 Thread Ian Jackson
Control: tags -1 + patch Ian Jackson writes ("Want dgit setup-vcs-git"): > Lots of people are changing their Vcs-Git fields. It would be nice > for dgit at least to have a way to update the vcs-git url. Since I wanted this I implemented it right away. Sean, would you

Bug#902006: Want dgit setup-vcs-git

2018-06-21 Thread Ian Jackson
Package: dgit Version: 5.1 Usertags: rsn Lots of people are changing their Vcs-Git fields. It would be nice for dgit at least to have a way to update the vcs-git url. Ian. -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. If I emailed you from an address @fyvzl.net or @evade.org.uk

Bug#877036: dgit: Updating d/patches/debian-changes fails when that file is to be deleted

2018-06-20 Thread Ian Jackson
Control: forcemerge 893263 877036 These are actually simply the same bug. -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. If I emailed you from an address @fyvzl.net or @evade.org.uk, that is a private address which bypasses my fierce spamfilter.

Bug#869675: extracting upstream source.

2018-06-20 Thread Ian Jackson
Control: tags -1 + moreinfo Ian Jackson writes ("Re: extracting upstream source."): > dgit often has "something like" the upstream source tree as a git > tree object. dgit should provide a way for you to get at it. Nowadays there is dgit import-dsc whi

Bug#901897: closed by Jonathan Nieder (Bug#901897: fixed in git 1:2.18.0~rc2-2)

2018-06-20 Thread Ian Jackson
Debian Bug Tracking System writes ("Bug#901897 closed by Jonathan Nieder (Bug#901897: fixed in git 1:2.18.0~rc2-2)"): > git (1:2.18.0~rc2-2) unstable; urgency=low > . >* debian/control: Breaks: dgit (<< 5.1~) that lacks support > for working-tree-encodin

Bug#831699: release.debian.org: urgency is sticky across dists - low urgency on sid upload ignored

2018-06-20 Thread Ian Jackson
Julien Cristau writes ("Bug#831699: release.debian.org: urgency is sticky across dists - low urgency on sid upload ignored"): > On Wed, Jun 20, 2018 at 15:55:31 +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > > I experimented and dpkg-genchanges -vX provides a Changes file with > > t

Bug#831699: release.debian.org: urgency is sticky across dists - low urgency on sid upload ignored

2018-06-20 Thread Ian Jackson
ho are doing their development on stable. > Hopefully that clarifies the situation. Thanks, yes, I feel less confused. Ian. -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. If I emailed you from an address @fyvzl.net or @evade.org.uk, that is a private address which bypasses my fierce spamfilter.

Bug#883340: it build accesses the internet and fails when offline.

2018-06-20 Thread Ian Jackson
I have added (in my git tree) this to the error message: dgit: archive query failed (queried because --since-version not specified) and this to the part of the manpage that discusses `dgit build': dgit's build operations access the the network, to get the -v option right. See -v,

Bug#901900: git introduces new hazardous working-tree-encoding attribute

2018-06-20 Thread Ian Jackson
Jonathan Nieder writes ("Re: git introduces new hazardous working-tree-encoding attribute"): > Ian Jackson wrote: > > 5.1 is ready and has passed all its tests. It works fine with the git > > in sid. I am not able to upload it right now, but this will happen >

Bug#901897: git introduces new hazardous working-tree-encoding attribute

2018-06-20 Thread Ian Jackson
Ian Jackson writes ("Re: git introduces new hazardous working-tree-encoding attribute"): > Jonathan Nieder writes ("Re: git introduces new hazardous > working-tree-encoding attribute"): > > Happy to add a Breaks. Do you know what version of dgit will have t

Bug#831699: release.debian.org: urgency is sticky across dists - low urgency on sid upload ignored

2018-06-20 Thread Ian Jackson
Adam D. Barratt writes ("Bug#831699: release.debian.org: urgency is sticky across dists - low urgency on sid upload ignored"): > On 2018-06-20 15:55, Ian Jackson wrote: > > What I don't understand is why it is not correct for britney to use > > the urgency of the actual

Bug#831699: release.debian.org: urgency is sticky across dists - low urgency on sid upload ignored

2018-06-20 Thread Ian Jackson
rgency of the particular package, only. (It may already do this.) An in-archive copy should not be done to move a package into testing, since doing so does not afford anyone the opportunity to specify the proper urgency. (I don't think we do this.) What do others think ? Ian. -- Ian Jack

Bug#901935: dgit and git-debrebase should honour GIT_REFLOG_ACTION

2018-06-20 Thread Ian Jackson
Package: dgit Versioni 5.0 Usertags: ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk Usertags: rsn This will affect nearly every call to git-update-ref and perhaps some calls to git-commit etc. https://public-inbox.org/git/23338.12262.631847.860...@chiark.greenend.org.uk/T/#t Ian. -- Ian Jackson

Bug#901900: grep-excuses

2018-06-20 Thread Ian Jackson
Control: found -1 + 4.4 This problem was not introduced in dgit 5.0; dgit has not changed in this respect since the gitattributes tests were added. The regression is triggered by a change in git, as discussed in #901900 and its parent #901897. Ian Jackson writes ("grep-excuses"): &

Bug#901925: git-debrebase new-upstream leaves unhelpful reflog entries

2018-06-20 Thread Ian Jackson
to git-debrebase, and the version number. But git-rebase doesn't provide a way to specify this. We need the move to the new anchor to be done with git-debrebase --onto, so that a later git-rebase --abort undoes it. Ian. -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. If I emailed you from an address

Bug#851679: Want way to disable all checkout-affecting gitattributes

2018-06-20 Thread Ian Jackson
attributes too - but that is not strictly necessary to avoid the kind of lossage we have right now with dgit and the new git.) Jonathan Nieder writes in #901897: > [Ian Jackson] > > So, on to the actual problem: > > > > Looking at the manpage for gitattributes(7) it mentions a n

Bug#901897: git introduces new hazardous working-tree-encoding attribute

2018-06-20 Thread Ian Jackson
Hi. Thanks for your prompt attention. Again, sorry for my contribution to an annoying situation. Jonathan Nieder writes ("Re: git introduces new hazardous working-tree-encoding attribute"): > Ian Jackson wrote: > > Subject: git introduces new hazardous working-tree

Bug#901897: git introduces new hazardous working-tree-encoding attribute

2018-06-19 Thread Ian Jackson
://ci.debian.net/data/autopkgtest/testing/amd64/d/dgit/473624/log.gz Explanation of why dgit needs to disable things https://manpages.debian.org/stretch/dgit/dgit.7.en.html#GITATTRIBUTES Thanks for your attention and forbearance, Ian. -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. If I emailed you

Bug#901303: git-buildpackage: gbp import-orig --uscan skips unrelated files importing repacked tarball

2018-06-19 Thread Ian Jackson
Jonas Smedegaard writes ("Re: Bug#901303: git-buildpackage: gbp import-orig --uscan skips unrelated files importing repacked tarball"): > Quoting Ian Jackson (2018-06-19 16:41:31) > > What does uscan use to do the repacking ? I doubt the bug can be in > > gbp. >

Bug#827885: xpra does not work with a closed stdout (and stderr)

2018-06-19 Thread Ian Jackson
e written in a scripting language, nor use the dynamic linker. I don't know where you (the submitter of this bug) got the idea that this was a sensible thing to do, but please go back there and tell them it isn't :-). If you really don't want the stdout/stderr, redirecting them to /dev/null is

Bug#901872: xpra --daemon=no always prints in colour

2018-06-19 Thread Ian Jackson
. There doesn't seem to be an option to get xpra not to do this, but I discovered I could work around it with this xpra --daemon=no start :89 2>&1 | cat Ian. -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. If I emailed you from an address @fyvzl.net or @evade.org.uk, that is a private address which b

Bug#901804: DEP-8 pseudo-restriction "hint-dpkg-testsuite-triggers"

2018-06-19 Thread Ian Jackson
k that the test author who chooses SKIP is indicating that this ought not to be considered a regression. > On 18-06-18 18:19, Ian Jackson wrote: > > And it would be possible to mark individual tests as flaky rather than > > whole packages. (I don't know how often that would

Bug#901303: git-buildpackage: gbp import-orig --uscan skips unrelated files importing repacked tarball

2018-06-19 Thread Ian Jackson
Jonas Smedegaard writes ("Re: Bug#901303: git-buildpackage: gbp import-orig --uscan skips unrelated files importing repacked tarball"): > Quoting Ian Jackson (2018-06-19 12:29:06) > > For now I have refrained from merging this bug with #831870 but maybe > > the gbp mainta

Bug#863578: : Re: Bug#863578: Initial upload to experimental should probably still merge history

2018-06-19 Thread Ian Jackson
, and IMO it's certainly not worth specific implementation effort, but I'm always open to suggestions for how to improve the docs. There's a separate bug report about --new --overwrite not working, which I will fix. The --overwrite ought to be a no-op in that case. Ian. -- Ian JacksonThese

Bug#901303: git-buildpackage: gbp import-orig --uscan skips unrelated files importing repacked tarball

2018-06-19 Thread Ian Jackson
with #831870 but maybe the gbp maintainers would like to do so. Thanks, Ian. -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. If I emailed you from an address @fyvzl.net or @evade.org.uk, that is a private address which bypasses my fierce spamfilter.

Bug#901809: git-debrebase make-patches: silence gbp pq export

2018-06-18 Thread Ian Jackson
Package: git-debrebase Version: 5.0 User: ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk Usertags: rsn make-patches produces a bunch of output from gbp pq, including a git status report, which is very confusing. This should all be suppressed. Ian. -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. If I emailed

Bug#901804: autopkgtest: consider using exit status 8 ("no tests found") if every test was ignored

2018-06-18 Thread Ian Jackson
udo-restriction thread, I agree with your analysis. The *point* of SKIP is that it isn't a regression or a failure. If a feature is removed, and its absence causes SKIP, and this ought to be treated as a regression, then the feature ought to have its own test (perhaps, somewhere entirely

Bug#901804: autopkgtest: consider using exit status 8 ("no tests found") if every test was ignored

2018-06-18 Thread Ian Jackson
Simon McVittie writes ("Bug#901804: autopkgtest: consider using exit status 8 ("no tests found") if every test was ignored"): > perhaps in JSON or TAP or something or by offering guarantees about > the parseability of the $output/summary file, and let debci or britney > interpret those facts in

Bug#901805: want option to git-rebase

2018-06-18 Thread Ian Jackson
start: I think: rebase: checkout c15f4d5391ff07a718431aca68a73e672fe8870e would be rather cumbersome. Ian. -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. If I emailed you from an address @fyvzl.net or @evade.org.uk, that is a private address which bypasses my fierce spamfilter.

Bug#871908: dgit fails to work when .git is a reference not a directory

2018-06-18 Thread Ian Jackson
Control: fixed -1 4.1 Control: tag -1 - fixed 4.1 Control: close -1 Hopefully this will actually close this bug... -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. If I emailed you from an address @fyvzl.net or @evade.org.uk, that is a private address which bypasses my fierce spamfilter.

Bug#852174: git-debrebase is now in unstable, with doc xref

2018-06-18 Thread Ian Jackson
Control: fixed -1 + 5.0 Control: close -1 Now git-debrebase is released, and dgit-maint-merge(7) does indeed have this cross-reference. Ian. -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. If I emailed you from an address @fyvzl.net or @evade.org.uk, that is a private address which bypasses my

Bug#865923: autorebaser related bugs

2018-06-18 Thread Ian Jackson
FTR: Implementing #869993 git-debrebase downstream autorebaser wishlist/spec will involve implementing this #865923 dgit: Add feature to change version number of package as a sub-task. -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. If I emailed you from an address @fyvzl.net or @evade.org.uk

Bug#863578: : Re: Bug#863578: Initial upload to experimental should probably still merge history

2018-06-18 Thread Ian Jackson
think in this case you will have to say --new. There is no need to pass --overwrite or anything, because there is nothing being overwritten. I don't understand why the results of dgit -wgf push-source --new experimental (or whatever) aren't what you want. Thanks, Ian. -- Ian Jackson

Bug#720177: git-debrebase is now in unstable

2018-06-18 Thread Ian Jackson
Control: fixed -1 + 5.0 Control: close -1 Control: thanks (resending with Control:) This is in the new `git-debrebase' package. Ian.

Bug#848677: dgit: add upstream remote

2018-06-18 Thread Ian Jackson
e to fail, or be unreasonably slow, just because the upstream is down (or has rotted). It's weird that DEP-12 has Repository but not a way to specify the VCS. Maybe devscripts should have a utility to create this remote ? Ian. -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. If I emailed you from a

Bug#720177: git-debrebase is now in unstable

2018-06-18 Thread Ian Jackson
fixed -1 + 5.0 close -1 thanks This is in the new `git-debrebase' package. Ian. -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. If I emailed you from an address @fyvzl.net or @evade.org.uk, that is a private address which bypasses my fierce spamfilter.

Bug#784329: Visibility of usertags UDD link

2018-06-18 Thread Ian Jackson
an.org/bugs.debian.org/usertags https://udd.debian.org/cgi-bin/bts-usertags.cgi ? Thanks, Ian. -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. If I emailed you from an address @fyvzl.net or @evade.org.uk, that is a private address which bypasses my fierce spamfilter.

Bug#863585: bugs.debian.org: View of usertags on bug summary page

2018-06-18 Thread Ian Jackson
ertags Thanks, Ian. -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. If I emailed you from an address @fyvzl.net or @evade.org.uk, that is a private address which bypasses my fierce spamfilter.

Bug#643868: `user' and `usertag' commands seem documented now

2018-06-18 Thread Ian Jackson
hould reopen it. Regards, Ian. (not a BTS admin) -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. If I emailed you from an address @fyvzl.net or @evade.org.uk, that is a private address which bypasses my fierce spamfilter.

Bug#416348: `user' and `usertag' commands seem documented now

2018-06-18 Thread Ian Jackson
ne should reopen it. Regards, Ian. (not a BTS admin) -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. If I emailed you from an address @fyvzl.net or @evade.org.uk, that is a private address which bypasses my fierce spamfilter.

Bug#846970: Patch to document Build-Indep-Architecture field

2018-06-15 Thread Ian Jackson
stly 64-bit", "not freebsd") are not expressable. I think the result is surely going to be that people write "amd64" because that "makes their thing work", and anyone who complains about that will be asked by the maintainer to please suggest a better option. Ian. -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. If I emailed you from an address @fyvzl.net or @evade.org.uk, that is a private address which bypasses my fierce spamfilter.

Bug#901030: some context

2018-06-14 Thread Ian Jackson
ing Also, virt servers should gain a runtime option for the administrator to have them advertise capabilities. That way it is not necessary to update the software when a new bug is discovered: the admin can update the config. What do people think ? Ian. -- Ian JacksonThese opinions

Bug#901030: some context

2018-06-12 Thread Ian Jackson
u can fix this issue in the kernel, fine by me. ISTM that the bug is that the binfmt thing is not properly virtualised by containers. We don't have to fix that in the kernel; we could bodge it by installing binfmt-misc in the host. Ian. -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. If I emailed you from an ad

Bug#901160: Updating the description of the Standards-Version field

2018-06-11 Thread Ian Jackson
seconded by Holger). SGTM. (Count this as a second if you like...) Ian. -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. If I emailed you from an address @fyvzl.net or @evade.org.uk, that is a private address which bypasses my fierce spamfilter.

Bug#901160: Updating the description of the Standards-Version field

2018-06-10 Thread Ian Jackson
Sean Whitton writes ("Re: Bug#901160: Updating the description of the Standards-Version field"): > ISTM that the status of the upgrading checklist is easier for package > maintainers to understand if it continues to have no normative status at > all. It's a pure convenience. Fine; I don't

Bug#901160: Updating the description of the Standards-Version field

2018-06-09 Thread Ian Jackson
> package be/ > > "Should" carries the weight of a bug of 'important' severity, but I > don't think that was your intent (and I don't think it should have > been). Fine by me. Thanks, Ian. -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. If I emailed you from an address @fyvzl.net or @evade.org.uk, that is a private address which bypasses my fierce spamfilter.

Bug#901030: some context

2018-06-08 Thread Ian Jackson
misc to the package containing adt-virt-lxc. Does that make some kind of sense ? Ian. -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. If I emailed you from an address @fyvzl.net or @evade.org.uk, that is a private address which bypasses my fierce spamfilter.

Bug#900849: allowing alternative country lists on a Debian host/installer

2018-06-06 Thread Ian Jackson
Daniel Pocock writes ("Bug#900849: allowing alternative country lists on a Debian host/installer"): > I've been thinking about technical solutions to help the country list > bug[1] and the following possibility came to mind: > > - define a virtual package with a name like "country-codes" I have

Bug#899299: libu2f-udev: Post-inst script should make udev reload rules

2018-06-05 Thread Ian Jackson
Nicolas Braud-Santoni writes ("Re: Bug#899299: libu2f-udev: Post-inst script should make udev reload rules"): > On Sun, Jun 03, 2018 at 06:20:03PM +0100, James Cowgill wrote: > > Running a command from another package in postinst only requires a > > normal Depends - not a Pre-Depends. > > OK. I

Bug#899661: #899661 pydoctor: Invalid maintainer address calendarserver-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org

2018-06-02 Thread Ian Jackson
oval clock.) Regards, Ian. -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. If I emailed you from an address @fyvzl.net or @evade.org.uk, that is a private address which bypasses my fierce spamfilter.

Bug#891216: Requre d-devel consultation for epoch bump [and 2 more messages]

2018-05-25 Thread Ian Jackson
Sean Whitton writes ("Re: Bug#891216: Requre d-devel consultation for epoch bump [and 2 more messages]"): > On Fri, May 25 2018, Ian Jackson wrote: > > When we get to tidying this up, the epoch-ignoring new file name > > uniqueness section could probably do with a cro

Bug#900060: apt-get build-dep debian-policy installs too much

2018-05-25 Thread Ian Jackson
te from all the GUI machinery, but > I'm sure life is short for upstream and they haven't had an obvious reason > to bother with this. So, err, anyway, thanks for the all the explanations and sorry for what turns out to be a pretty useless bug report. Regards, Ian. -- Ian Jackson <ija

Bug#900060: apt-get build-dep debian-policy installs too much

2018-05-25 Thread Ian Jackson
invocations we are using ? Or, indeed for most of its invocations ? ... looks at the manpage ... oh it's primarily a gui program. *sigh* > I kind of want to rewrite them in dot, which I personally much prefer, but > eh. Glerk. I'm not asking for that ... Thanks, Ian. -- Ian Jackson &

Bug#891216: Requre d-devel consultation for epoch bump [and 2 more messages]

2018-05-25 Thread Ian Jackson
Ian Jackson writes ("Re: Bug#891216: Requre d-devel consultation for epoch bump [and 2 more messages]"): > Control: tags -1 + patch > > Thanks for the feedback. Please find attached a diff against current > master. The attachment seems to have got lost. Sorry, here it

Bug#891216: Requre d-devel consultation for epoch bump [and 2 more messages]

2018-05-25 Thread Ian Jackson
Control: tags -1 + patch Thanks for the feedback. Please find attached a diff against current master. Mattia Rizzolo writes ("Bug#891216: Requre d-devel consultation for epoch bump"): > On Fri, Feb 23, 2018 at 01:26:01PM +, Ian Jackson wrote: > > + Epochs should not u

Bug#900060: apt-get build-dep debian-policy installs too much

2018-05-25 Thread Ian Jackson
that is used.) Ian. -- Ian Jackson <ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk> These opinions are my own. If I emailed you from an address @fyvzl.net or @evade.org.uk, that is a private address which bypasses my fierce spamfilter.

Bug#899806: sysvinit: Invalid maintainer address pkg-sysvinit-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org

2018-05-24 Thread Ian Jackson
Christoph Biedl writes ("Bug#899806: sysvinit: Invalid maintainer address pkg-sysvinit-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org"): > pkg-sysvinit-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org used in the Maintainer: It turns out that I was subscribed to sysvinit via the package tracker, not via the alioth list which was

Bug#898947: Please backport "Use grub-file to figure out whether multiboot2 should be used for Xen.gz"

2018-05-17 Thread Ian Jackson
Package: grub2 Version: 2.02+dfsg1-4 I'm told that "multiboot" does not work with UEFI and "multiboot2" is needed. (Not sure if this is true only for Xen, or more generally.) I'm also told that buster's grub has enough to support booting Xen, although I have not verified this myself. Therefore,

Bug#898898: xen: FTBFS on armhf and arm64 (for DSA-4201-1)

2018-05-17 Thread Ian Jackson
Salvatore Bonaccorso writes ("Bug#898898: xen: FTBFS on armhf and arm64 (for DSA-4201-1)"): > Source: xen > Version: 4.8.3+xsa262+shim4.10.0+comet3-1+deb9u6 > Severity: serious > Justification: FTBFS > Control: affects -1 + security.debian.org > Control: affects -1 + release.debian.org ... > xen

Bug#898708: vcs-deprecated-in-debian-infrastructure browse.dgit.debian.org

2018-05-15 Thread Ian Jackson
Chris Lamb writes ("Re: vcs-deprecated-in-debian-infrastructure browse.dgit.debian.org"): > tags 898708 + pending > thanks > > Hi Ian, > > browse.dgit.debian.org is fully supported and is not going away. > > Was merely an oversight, don't worry. ;) Right. I thought I should avoid any doubt

Bug#867180: sbuild: autopkgtest/lxc: cannot create /autopkgtest-virt-dummy-location/etc/group: Directory nonexistent

2018-05-15 Thread Ian Jackson
ild group) * In the longer term, the virt servers should have a way to edit the master image. Then you could say sbuild --setup-the-thing --autopkgtest-etc. Thanks, Ian. -- Ian Jackson <ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk> These opinions are my own. If I emailed you from an address @fyvzl.net o

Bug#898727: Please provide adt-virt-* names, at least for buster

2018-05-15 Thread Ian Jackson
ings) in buster. The cost of doing so is very low. Ian. -- Ian Jackson <ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk> These opinions are my own. If I emailed you from an address @fyvzl.net or @evade.org.uk, that is a private address which bypasses my fierce spamfilter.

Bug#898727: Please provide adt-virt-* names, at least for buster

2018-05-15 Thread Ian Jackson
. -- Ian Jackson <ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk> These opinions are my own. If I emailed you from an address @fyvzl.net or @evade.org.uk, that is a private address which bypasses my fierce spamfilter.

Bug#898708: vcs-deprecated-in-debian-infrastructure browse.dgit.debian.org

2018-05-15 Thread Ian Jackson
/lintian/lintian/commit/999a659122e2b328fb6823978640e3a7d5f91f7e but this is still wrong because the exception regexp does not match browse.dgit.d.o. I suggest unless $1 =~ m{^(?:salsa|.*\.dgit)$}; since there are no obsolete dgit.d.o urls. Thanks, Ian. -- Ian Jackson <ij

Bug#898627: man-db: dependency loop

2018-05-14 Thread Ian Jackson
Colin Watson writes ("Re: Bug#898627: man-db: dependency loop"): > On Mon, May 14, 2018 at 04:03:51PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > > Does the man-db or libc-bin postinst explicitly trigger > > /usr/share/man ? > > Not as far as I can see. That would have to be

Bug#898627: man-db: dependency loop

2018-05-14 Thread Ian Jackson
postinst to run, and vice versa, this might lead to a loop. Does the man-db or libc-bin postinst explicitly trigger /usr/share/man ? Ian. -- Ian Jackson <ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk> These opinions are my own. If I emailed you from an address @fyvzl.net or @evade.org.uk, that is a private address which bypasses my fierce spamfilter.

Bug#813471: network access to the loopback device should be allowed

2018-05-11 Thread Ian Jackson
Simon McVittie writes ("Re: Bug#813471: network access to the loopback device should be allowed"): > On Thu, 10 May 2018 at 17:51:19 +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > > Yes, assuming that it uses gethostbyname() from the libc. > > When you say gethostbyname() I hope you'r

Bug#813471: network access to the loopback device should be allowed

2018-05-10 Thread Ian Jackson
surprised that netbase isn't build-essential. Certainly IMO an /etc/hosts with the entries you describe above should be implied by build-essential, one way or another. Ian. -- Ian Jackson <ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk> These opinions are my own. If I emailed you from an address @fyvzl.net or @evade.org.uk, that is a private address which bypasses my fierce spamfilter.

Bug#898307: Please provide the --enable-ssl-crtd feature

2018-05-09 Thread Ian Jackson
, recently closed - thanks for that work!) Thanks for your attention. Regards, Ian. -- Ian Jackson <ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk> These opinions are my own. If I emailed you from an address @fyvzl.net or @evade.org.uk, that is a private address which bypasses my fierce spamfilter.

Bug#898259: RFP: vscode -- Microsoft Visual Studio Code

2018-05-09 Thread Ian Jackson
Daniel Pocock writes ("Bug#898259: RFP: vscode -- Microsoft Visual Studio Code"): > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > X-Debbugs-CC: debian-de...@lists.debian.org,debian-outre...@lists.debian.org ... > Visual Studio Code regularly comes up in discussions.  Several GSoC > students have asked

Bug#898176: sysvinit-core: Sound doesn't work with sysvinit but works with systemd.

2018-05-08 Thread Ian Jackson
R S Chakravarti writes ("Bug#898176: sysvinit-core: Sound doesn't work with sysvinit but works with systemd."): > Package: sysvinit-core > Version: 2.88dsf-59.10 > Severity: normal ... >* What led up to the situation? Starting gnome-alsamixer gave a blank > screen. >* What exactly did

Bug#897936: libvirt-daemon-system should not depend on policykit-1

2018-05-04 Thread Ian Jackson
Package: libvirt-daemon-system Version: 3.0.0-4+deb9u2 Depends: ..., policykit-1 It works just fine without policykit-1. Ian. -- Ian Jackson <ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk> These opinions are my own. If I emailed you from an address @fyvzl.net or @evade.org.uk, that is a private a

Bug#897933: libguestfs0 excessive dependencies

2018-05-04 Thread Ian Jackson
t imagine that libguestfs is completely broken without all of that lot. In fact, it can be loaded into programs which do not use libguestfs facilities without any of them. I suggest that everything which is not a library be removed. Ian. -- Ian Jackson <ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk>

Bug#897932: libguestfs0 dependency on systemd | sysvinit is wrong

2018-05-04 Thread Ian Jackson
or openrc or whatever ? I suspect this dependency should simply be dropped. Ian. -- Ian Jackson <ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk> These opinions are my own. If I emailed you from an address @fyvzl.net or @evade.org.uk, that is a private address which bypasses my fierce spamfilter.

Bug#897422: Please disable !-history by default

2018-05-02 Thread Ian Jackson
say set +H And then await the hordes of people replying to this bug to say "please why don't you disable it by default?" :-). Regards, Ian. -- Ian Jackson <ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk> These opinions are my own. If I emailed you from an address @fyvzl.net or @evade.org.uk, that is a priv

Bug#897046: RFS: link-grammar/5.4.4-1 [QA upload]

2018-04-30 Thread Ian Jackson
Ian Jackson writes ("Re: Bug#897046: RFS: link-grammar/5.4.4-1 [QA upload]"): > But also I would like to suggest that people editing debian/ should > explicitly add a CC0 dedication (or similar) somewhere. This was ambiguous. I mean that the person editing debian/ should ded

Bug#897046: RFS: link-grammar/5.4.4-1 [QA upload]

2018-04-30 Thread Ian Jackson
ptatible with the licence of the rest of the package, and it is often useful to copy fragments from one debian/ to another. Ian. -- Ian Jackson <ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk> These opinions are my own. If I emailed you from an address @fyvzl.net or @evade.org.uk, that is a private a

Bug#681326: pristine-tar: Directly accessing .git directory

2018-04-27 Thread Ian Jackson
Ian Jackson writes ("Re: Bug#681326: pristine-tar: Directly accessing .git directory"): > *With* or *in* a worktree ? Anyway, I will try it and report back. I just tried it in a worktree. It worked. I think this means that either (i) this bug was fixed since pristine-tar

Bug#897050: git-deborig does not work in a worktree

2018-04-27 Thread Ian Jackson
Ian. -- Ian Jackson <ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk> These opinions are my own. If I emailed you from an address @fyvzl.net or @evade.org.uk, that is a private address which bypasses my fierce spamfilter.

Bug#896878: Failed to execute /init (error -2) Kernel panic

2018-04-25 Thread Ian Jackson
Control: tag -1 moreinfo Adam Borowski writes ("Bug#896878: Failed to execute /init (error -2) Kernel panic"): > On Wed, Apr 25, 2018 at 11:56:09AM +0300, Андрей Василишин wrote: > > [ 2.4575631 Failed to execute /init (error -2) I think error -2 means ENOENT. > Are you sure there isn't

Bug#681326: pristine-tar: Directly accessing .git directory

2018-04-24 Thread Ian Jackson
k work work work work -- Ian Jackson <ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk> These opinions are my own. If I emailed you from an address @fyvzl.net or @evade.org.uk, that is a private address which bypasses my fierce spamfilter.

Bug#896676: pristine-tar: more convenient automatic mode please

2018-04-24 Thread Ian Jackson
Sean Whitton writes ("Re: Bug#896676: pristine-tar: more convenient automatic mode please"): > On Mon, Apr 23 2018, Ian Jackson wrote: > > I don't think origtargz is good for my usecase because it's too > > automatic. In particular, if I know I want to use a local > &

Bug#896676: pristine-tar: more convenient automatic mode please

2018-04-23 Thread Ian Jackson
Sean Whitton writes ("Re: Bug#896676: pristine-tar: more convenient automatic mode please"): > On Mon, Apr 23 2018, Ian Jackson wrote: > > I tried `git-deborig' (which Sean had mentioned to me before) and it > > didn't invoke pristine-tar at all. > > Yes. I thin

Bug#896676: pristine-tar: more convenient automatic mode please

2018-04-23 Thread Ian Jackson
Sean Whitton writes ("Re: Bug#896676: pristine-tar: more convenient automatic mode please"): > control: severity -1 wishlist > control: tag -1 +moreinfo ... > If you type `origtargz` it will invoke pristine-tar correctly. Oh! I tried `git-deborig' (which Sean had mentioned to me before) and it

Bug#896676: pristine-tar: more convenient automatic mode please

2018-04-23 Thread Ian Jackson
, there may be multiple PIECEs, but for each PIECE there is only one COMPRESSION. Thanks, Ian. -- Ian Jackson <ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk> These opinions are my own. If I emailed you from an address @fyvzl.net or @evade.org.uk, that is a private address which bypasses my fierce spamfilter.

Bug#681326: pristine-tar: Directly accessing .git directory

2018-04-23 Thread Ian Jackson
:-) whereas `git worktree' is a very nice feature. Regards, Ian. -- Ian Jackson <ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk> These opinions are my own. If I emailed you from an address @fyvzl.net or @evade.org.uk, that is a private address which bypasses my fierce spamfilter.

Bug#896653: dgit: autopkgtest fails with new version of devscripts

2018-04-23 Thread Ian Jackson
Chris Lamb writes ("Bug#896653: dgit: autopkgtest fails with new version of devscripts"): > Hi Ian, > > Thanks for fixing my bug for me! > > Especially ironic given that I think it was you on -private who > suggested we should drop short key IDs. ;-) Oh, yes, indeed :-). Ian.

Bug#896653: dgit: autopkgtest fails with new version of devscripts

2018-04-23 Thread Ian Jackson
Chris Lamb writes ("Bug#896653: dgit: autopkgtest fails with new version of devscripts"): > tags 896653 + patch > thanks > > > This may be an issue in the test suite, but actually I expect it broke > > an important feature of dgit. > > Not sure why you think it's the latter; can you elaborate?

Bug#850156: Please firmly deprecate vendor-specific series files [and 1 more messages]

2018-04-18 Thread Ian Jackson
Simon McVittie writes ("Bug#850156: Please firmly deprecate vendor-specific series files"): > On Wed, 18 Apr 2018 at 14:36:14 +0200, Mike Gabriel wrote: > > On Wed, 4 Jan 2017 13:41:53 + Ian Jackson > > <ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote: > > > But

Bug#809383: mention explicitly double listing: Depends, Recommends, Suggests

2018-04-18 Thread Ian Jackson
積丹尼 Dan Jacobson writes ("Re: Bug#809383: mention explicitly double listing: Depends, Recommends, Suggests"): > Ian Jackson: > > That doesn't seem to be an answer to Sean's question. Why do you want > > the question of redundant dependencies dealt with in poli

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