Bug#926477: dgit accepts short keyid even though debsign does not

2019-04-08 Thread Ian Jackson
27;t available, too. One test case that should be added is that this new check properly fails early when a short keyid is provided. 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 bypa

Bug#926477: dgit accepts short keyid even though debsign does not

2019-04-05 Thread Ian Jackson
pass it to other tools. It doesn't validate the format at all, just treating it as an opaque string. I don't think it's dgit's job to do that ? Is there a practical problem that results from dgit not investigating the keyid syntax and length ? Ian. -- Ian JacksonThese

Bug#926181: want automatic forwarding of patches to the upstream branch

2019-04-01 Thread Ian Jackson
Osamu Aoki writes ("Bug#926181: want automatic forwarding of patches to the upstream branch"): > Package: dgit > Version: 8.4 > Severity: wishlist Hi. Thanks for your message. I'm always interested in hearing what people want so please don't be discouraged by what I say next: > In case of the

Bug#923732: dgit-infrastructure: --deliberately-include-questionable-history required for every single push

2019-03-22 Thread Ian Jackson
Ian Jackson writes ("Re: Bug#923732: dgit-infrastructure: --deliberately-include-questionable-history required for every single push"): > Not really in a position to look at this properly but I think I > understand now and I think you have indeed identified a bug. I have spent a

Bug#876763: closed by Debian FTP Masters (Bug#916759: Removed package(s) from unstable)

2019-03-18 Thread Ian Jackson
Control: reopen -1 Control: reassign -1 emacs-gtk 1:25.2+1-11 I just repro'd this bug with my buster chroot. The effect then is to end the schroot command. Also bizarrely an escape sequence (echoed by bash as `'41;327;0c) ends up pasted into the surrounding shell. Ian.

Bug#924269: chiark-really: providing bin:sudo

2019-03-11 Thread Ian Jackson
Dmitry Bogatov writes ("Bug#924269: chiark-really: providing bin:sudo"): > Package: chiark-really > Version: 6.0.3 > Severity: wishlist ... > please consider making chiark-really drop-in replacement for sudo. For > my own purposes, > alias sudo='PATH=/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin /usr/sbin/re

Bug#923037: Acknowledgement (Please package new upstream version 2.5.x, or from git)

2019-03-09 Thread Ian Jackson
-upstream'. 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#924037: Please add anacron back to task-desktop and task-laptop

2019-03-08 Thread Ian Jackson
Init Diversity team debian-init-divers...@chiark.greenend.org.uk should be consulted so that the appropriate fixes can be developed. Finally, this change is rather late wrt the freeze. Ian. -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. If I emailed you from an address @fyvzl.net or @evade.o

Bug#924028: gv segfault on missing page number in dsc comment

2019-03-08 Thread Ian Jackson
>pages[0].label > > $1 = 0x0 Overall this is not a significant useability issue, nor does it seem to be exploitable, but it is clearly undesirable. Regards, Ian. gv-segfault.ps Description: broken file -- 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#923732: dgit-infrastructure: --deliberately-include-questionable-history required for every single push

2019-03-04 Thread Ian Jackson
Sean Whitton writes ("Bug#923732: dgit-infrastructure: --deliberately-include-questionable-history required for every single push"): > Package: dgit-infrastructure > Version: 8.4 ... > swayidle was not actually ever rejected from NEW but was instead dcut > from DEFERRED and uploaded again a few ti

Bug#922462: git debrebase convert-from-gbp fails on cups-filters with unhelpful error message

2019-03-01 Thread Ian Jackson
Ian Jackson writes ("Re: Bug#922462: git debrebase convert-from-gbp fails on cups-filters with unhelpful error message"): > Doing that git-diff rune shows that you have made changes to the > toplevel .gitignore which are not in any patch. > > I'm not sure whether git

Bug#922462: git debrebase convert-from-gbp fails on cups-filters with unhelpful error message

2019-03-01 Thread Ian Jackson
bove, or run git-debrebase: git diff 0030fffefd69db302f302c3494a08f192609b2a2 HEAD -- :!/debian :/ Doing that git-diff rune shows that you have made changes to the toplevel .gitignore which are not in any patch. I'm not sure whether git-debrebase convert-from-gbp should automatically turn you

Bug#921965: dgit.1: Write the leading dash of an option as '\-'

2019-03-01 Thread Ian Jackson
Bjarni Ingi Gislason writes ("Bug#921965: dgit.1: Write the leading dash of an option as '\-'"): > Package: dgit > Version: 8.3 > Severity: minor > Tags: patch > > Dear Maintainer, > > write the leading dash(es) of an option as '\-', not just '-', Hi. Thanks for your contribution. I will ta

Bug#921306: dgit.1: Use a single-font-style macro for a single argument

2019-03-01 Thread Ian Jackson
Bjarni Ingi Gislason writes ("Bug#921306: dgit.1: Use a single-font-style macro for a single argument"): > Package: dgit > Version: 8.3 > Severity: minor > Tags: patch ... > Use a single-font-style macro (".B", ".I") for a single argument. > Remove unneeded quotation marks ("). > The output

Bug#923401: [Pkg-xen-devel] Bug#923401: /etc/default/xen conffile vs. ucf

2019-02-28 Thread Ian Jackson
scenarios. I'm pretty sure it's fine now. > So, what about other files? Should also e.g. add /etc/default/xendomains > to ucf? /etc/xen/oxenstored.conf? Let's not change more than we need to. Ian. -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. If I emailed you from an

Bug#923401: /etc/default/xen conffile vs. ucf

2019-02-27 Thread Ian Jackson
d37bdada4e59 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ian Jackson Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2019 16:37:32 + Subject: [PATCH] /etc/default/xen: Handle with ucf We reintroduced this file in "d/xen-utils-common.install: ship /etc/default/xen" eg 2f34db35dd27abb4280d38ebc4464c21f64df8c9 But I

Bug#923037: Please package new upstream version 2.5.x, or from git

2019-02-23 Thread Ian Jackson
ered nlopt, and this package. 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#922982: git-debrebase new-upstream should be able to make upstream tag

2019-02-22 Thread Ian Jackson
d ran git-tag myself. 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#914897: tech-ctte: Should debootstrap disable merged /usr by default?

2019-02-21 Thread Ian Jackson
nvolves doing serious violence to the upstream build system, or perhaps horrific rules file bodges. Thanks, Ian. [1] Implicitly, without using a chroot. [2] IIRC some people suggested this explicitly in the thread in d-devel. -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. If I emailed y

Bug#922693: dgit: autopkgtests regressed since the upload of dpkg 1.19.3

2019-02-19 Thread Ian Jackson
Control: reassign -1 dpkg Control: forcemerge 921031 -1 Adam Conrad writes ("Bug#922693: dgit: autopkgtests regressed since the upload of dpkg 1.19.3"): > Subject says it all, I think. Since dpkg 1.19.3, autopkgtests for dgit > have gone consistently red: > > https://ci.debian.net/packages/d/

Bug#922462: git debrebase convert-from-gbp fails on cups-filters with unhelpful error message

2019-02-16 Thread Ian Jackson
Didier 'OdyX' Raboud writes ("Bug#922462: git debrebase convert-from-gbp fails on cups-filters with unhelpful error message"): > Package: git-debrebase > Version: 8.3 > Severity: important > > Hi there, > > Just after importing cups-filters' latest upstream releas, I considered moving > to git d

Bug#877900: How to get 24-hour time on en_US.UTF-8 locale now?

2019-02-07 Thread Ian Jackson
t. Realistically our sensible choices for the default are C.UTF-8 One of en_{AU,GB,NZ}.UTF-8 All of these would be better than en_US.UTF-8 for the reasons given by Adam (although, Adam, really, could you try to be a little less rude?). The middle-endian dates and 12-hour clock are particularly p

Bug#921448: Rust documentation contains inline link to online logo

2019-02-05 Thread Ian Jackson
n package is to be able to view the documentation without internet access - but these logos can cause the browser to stall. 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#919272: Is multiple-layers of alternatives a good thing to users?

2019-02-03 Thread Ian Jackson
; actually invoked. I agree that multiple layers of alternatives indirection is undesirable. But I think these libraries can be made coinstallable without that. HTH. 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#914897: tech-ctte: Should debootstrap disable merged /usr by default?

2019-02-02 Thread Ian Jackson
body with sufficient breadth. 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#914897: tech-ctte: Should debootstrap disable merged /usr by default?

2019-02-02 Thread Ian Jackson
Ping ? Is the TC engaged in this issue or should I seek another approach ? 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#921031: Dpkg::Source::Package missing use of ::Format

2019-01-31 Thread Ian Jackson
kage.pm line 214. $ Whereas with stretch: $ dpkg-query -f'${Version}\n' -W libdpkg-perl 1.18.25 $ ./t.pl ../bpd/dgit_8.3.dsc ok $ -- 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#921013: firefox segfaults on startup in my sid chroot

2019-01-31 Thread Ian Jackson
emount-ro,data=ordered) /dev/mapper/vg--mariner2-lv--volt on /run/schroot/mount/firefox/volatile type ext4 (rw,relatime,data=ordered) 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 bypa

Bug#920970: dgit: should ensure .orig is not in the .changes when the .orig is already in DEFERRED

2019-01-31 Thread Ian Jackson
aemon. > ask my sponsee for a -3 changelog entry. Did you not feel able to add one yourself for something like this ? I would have done. 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#3251: closed by Marcos Fouces (Bug#3251: Any reason to keep a wontfix bug opened for years?)

2019-01-29 Thread Ian Jackson
resulting in entirely wrong output. * "nothing will ever be done about it" If someone tells me my patch will be considered on its merits, I will write a patch. Sorry to be awkward. Thanks, Ian. -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. If I emailed you from an address @fyvzl

Bug#920692: Packages must not install files or directories into /var/cache

2019-01-29 Thread Ian Jackson
Ian Jackson writes ("Re: Bug#920692: Packages must not install files or directories into /var/cache"): > Josh Triplett writes ("Bug#920692: Packages must not install files or > directories into /var/cache"): > > It's well-established in Debian (but not do

Bug#920692: Packages must not install files or directories into /var/cache

2019-01-29 Thread Ian Jackson
Josh Triplett writes ("Bug#920692: Packages must not install files or directories into /var/cache"): > It's well-established in Debian (but not documented in Policy) that > packages must not install files or directories under /var/cache. I think `install' is a bit less clear than it should be. I

Bug#919951: Request about the /usr/bin/dune filename

2019-01-22 Thread Ian Jackson
ce. Certainly it is not right that the other project, whose name is being appropriated, should suffer any inconvenience. 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#916468: Conflict over /usr/bin/dune

2019-01-20 Thread Ian Jackson
is thread and also opposite to Debian policy. Under the circumstances I felt I wouldn't be listened to if I simply petitioned the maintainers of what is now src:dune again, so I have escalated this to the TC. See #919951. Ian. -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. If I emailed you f

Bug#919953: /usrr/bin/dune and `dune' binary package should refer to dune-common

2019-01-20 Thread Ian Jackson
spite a fairly clear consensus in debian-devel that you shouldn't. I don't think you should have done that. I am escalating this to the Technical Commitee in another bug. In the meantime this bug needs to be open to keep this out of testing. Sorry, Ian. -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are

Bug#919951: ocaml builder must not be called `dune' or provide /usr/bin/dune

2019-01-20 Thread Ian Jackson
Declare that no-one is allowed the binary package name /usr/bin/dune other than the C++ library dune-common or its friends. * Declare that the ocaml build system should choose a new source package name and use it henceforth. I am about to file an RC bug against the `dune' package, blocke

Bug#919597: Acknowledgement (want gdr import-from-bare-debian)

2019-01-17 Thread Ian Jackson
th -f delete them in favour of whatever the upstream tree has). 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#919597: want gdr import-from-bare-debian

2019-01-17 Thread Ian Jackson
Package: git-debrebase Version: 8.3 -- 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#694088: c-graph-2.0.1-1 Debian Release

2019-01-17 Thread Ian Jackson
fix it. This will also help a bit because we have a package in preparation which mentions the (new, duplicate) ITP bug in its changelog and we would prefer to avoid another round of changelog-fiddling. Regards, Ian. -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. If I emailed you from an a

Bug#907199: weboob, Gratuitous sexual references

2019-01-16 Thread Ian Jackson
n from the AH team, with advice on process from the DPL. I think if you disagree, you may escalate to the TC or to a GR. > Sometimes it really feels bad to be in Debian… I'm sorry you feel that way. I don't think it was possible to resolve this disagreement without making someone

Bug#918438: orig tarball components with uppercase letters

2019-01-15 Thread Ian Jackson
with some wording about versions and orig component names, or the filenames implied thereby, being globally unique. 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#918384: [PATCH 1/6] documentation style: "appropriate configuration" as a mass noun

2019-01-11 Thread Ian Jackson
This is correct IMO. dput has, of course, multiple configuration files, and one might use a wrapper or something, or perhaps (unisely) dgit command line options. Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson --- dgit-downstream-dsc.7.pod | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/dgit

Bug#918384: [PATCH 2/6] documentation style: there is no "the restricted command"

2019-01-11 Thread Ian Jackson
t; or something, but that seems wordy. Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson --- dgit-downstream-dsc.7.pod | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/dgit-downstream-dsc.7.pod b/dgit-downstream-dsc.7.pod index 73c10cfc..91d9023c 100644 --- a/dgit-downstream-dsc.7.pod +++ b/dgit-

Bug#918384: [PATCH 5/6] documentation style: Do not put "" around C<..>

2019-01-11 Thread Ian Jackson
In the default text manpage rendering, C produces a pair of quotes and the result is "".."" which is not desirable. Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson --- git-debrebase.1.pod | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/git-debrebase.1.pod b/git-debrebase.

Bug#918384: [PATCH 6/6] documentation style: Two hunks of my personal preference

2019-01-11 Thread Ian Jackson
Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson --- git-debrebase.1.pod | 2 +- git-debrebase.5.pod | 2 +- 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/git-debrebase.1.pod b/git-debrebase.1.pod index aa7f459b..cbdf292b 100644 --- a/git-debrebase.1.pod +++ b/git-debrebase.1.pod @@ -370,7 +370,7

Bug#918384: [PATCH 4/6] documentation style: "branch" may be another kind ref

2019-01-11 Thread Ian Jackson
The thing being referred to here is `branch', not `the branch', since it may not be a branch. Put it in italics to make it clear that what is referred to is the metasyntactic variable. Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson --- dgit.1 | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) di

Bug#918384: [PATCH 3/6] documentation style: No "if ... ; consequence".

2019-01-11 Thread Ian Jackson
I think the parts of an if and its consequence may not be separated by a semicolon. Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson --- dgit.1 | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/dgit.1 b/dgit.1 index b1bf0acc..cd0419ee 100644 --- a/dgit.1 +++ b/dgit.1 @@ -354,7 +354,7 @@ If there is

Bug#918384: dgit: typo suggestions in man pages

2019-01-11 Thread Ian Jackson
Paul Hardy writes ("Bug#918384: dgit: typo suggestions in man pages"): > Thank you for such a quick review. Here is another git format-patch > submission that incorporates the feedback from you both, for dgit > version 8.3 this time. I saw no new typos in version 8.3 document > changes. Thanks.

Bug#824495: debian-policy: Source packages "can" declare relationships

2019-01-07 Thread Ian Jackson
s on a weaker rule or a weaker normative status, than to invoke the TC for this issue, IMO. IOW I don't think this is important enough to escalate. HTH. 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#917995: debian-policy: drop section 1.6 Translations

2019-01-07 Thread Ian Jackson
declare that the untranslated policy is not necessarily all in English. It might be a mixture of languages. So we could have a policy subsection in Japanese perhaps, if expertise in a particular area is mostly held by speakers of Japanese. There would presumably have to be (non-normative) Engl

Bug#918438: orig tarball components with uppercase letters

2019-01-07 Thread Ian Jackson
ck Ridge and Joliet is, I suspect, already > > unsupported. > > Could you define what you mean by unsupported ? I think, "already does not work". Bare ISO9660 only supports 8.3 filenames so couldn't possibly work. Ian. -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. If I ema

Bug#918438: orig tarball components with uppercase letters

2019-01-07 Thread Ian Jackson
The condition (ii) would have to be clearly stated and then implemented in dak and reprepro and launchpad (at least). Does that make 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#918548: About possibility to translate AppArmor tunables

2019-01-07 Thread Ian Jackson
e AppArmor maintainers: I have filed this as `serious' not to try to force you to fix this, but because this bug seems like it will cause AppArmor to work badly for many people and I felt you would want me to be sure you noticed. So please adjust the severity as you like. I hope everyone fi

Bug#918384: dgit: typo suggestions in man pages

2019-01-07 Thread Ian Jackson
poor > timing. No problem. > Did any of the man pages change in your version 8.3 upload from > version 8.1? If not, that will simplify my creating the modified > patch. Some have changed, but I think your rebase / cherry-pick should go forward without difficulty. You are using git f

Bug#914317: dgit: sometimes ignores configured clean-mode

2019-01-06 Thread Ian Jackson
Sean Whitton writes ("Re: Bug#914317: dgit: sometimes ignores configured clean-mode"): > On Sun 06 Jan 2019 at 01:13pm GMT, Ian Jackson wrote: > > I tried quite hard to investigate this allegation that the clean mode > > was honoured differently according to whethe

Bug#918384: dgit: typo suggestions in man pages

2019-01-06 Thread Ian Jackson
at it should be `set up'. I am fine with it being changed. As for the rest, I agree with Sean's comments. Paul, would you care to respin the patch ? I'm planning an upload soon today but I can wait a few hours if that would get thwse changes included. 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#918438: orig tarball components with uppercase letters

2019-01-06 Thread Ian Jackson
? Thanks, Ian. [1] Indeed dgit itself has both Debian/ and debian/ subdirectories. -- 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#918253: #918253: dgit: [INTL:nl] Dutch po file for the dgit-user_7 manpage

2019-01-06 Thread Ian Jackson
it an emotional experience. You have made me happy. I hope you found that I had made your work convenient. On a technical note: reading your translation caused me to spot a formatting error in the English text. I am fixing that and will unfuzz the Dutch translation myself. Regards, Ian. -- Ian

Bug#917194: dgit: typo in dgit(7)

2019-01-06 Thread Ian Jackson
Control: tags -1 pending David Bremner writes ("Bug#917194: dgit: typo in dgit(7)"): > Line 370 of the formatted man page has a .TP in it that looks like it > doesn't belong. Thanks. As it happens this bug is fixed in my master, after I noticed it myself. Ian. --

Bug#914317: dgit: sometimes ignores configured clean-mode [and 1 more messages]

2019-01-06 Thread Ian Jackson
Sean Whitton writes ("Bug#914317: dgit: sometimes ignores configured clean-mode"): > How about the "opt to disregard"? I considered that and my conclusions are set out in the commit message for the patch I have just emailed to the bug (and which I meant to email the bug

Bug#914317: [[DRAFT PATCH]] dgit: clean mode: Refactor -wg parsing to prep for suffixes

2019-01-06 Thread Ian Jackson
Ian Jackson writes ("[[DRAFT PATCH]] dgit: clean mode: Refactor -wg parsing to prep for suffixes"): > This will make it convenient to add new suffix letter(s) to -wg. This waa not the commit I intended to send to the bug. -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. If I emaile

Bug#914317: [[DRAFT PATCH]] dgit: clean: Do check the tree even when building in playtree

2019-01-06 Thread Ian Jackson
If that is not wanted, one can say -wn instead. This is particularly true given that ignoring the problem can produce confusing failure, as seen in #914317. So there will be a new --clean=git[-ff],always shortly. Closes: #914317 Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson --- dgit | 6 ++

Bug#914317: [[DRAFT PATCH]] dgit: clean mode: Refactor -wg parsing to prep for suffixes

2019-01-06 Thread Ian Jackson
This will make it convenient to add new suffix letter(s) to -wg. No functional change. Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson --- dgit | 6 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/dgit b/dgit index 9b107c26..55c80701 100755 --- a/dgit +++ b/dgit @@ -7298,12 +7298,10 @@ sub

Bug#914317: dgit: sometimes ignores configured clean-mode

2019-01-06 Thread Ian Jackson
it delete the files, and then succeed. 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#857490: dgit: shouldn't fail when previous backport not mentioned in changelog

2019-01-06 Thread Ian Jackson
to look at that > manpage in the kind of case that prompted me to file this bug. It can > just look for ~bpoNN in the version number that is missing from > d/changelog, and output a hint. Are you volunteering to write the (7) manpage ? :-) Thanks, Ian. -- Ian JacksonThese

Bug#918438: orig tarball components with uppercase letters

2019-01-06 Thread Ian Jackson
Andrey Rahmatullin writes ("Re: Bug#918438: orig tarball components with uppercase letters"): > On Sun, Jan 06, 2019 at 12:34:30AM +, Ian Jackson wrote: > > This allows the possibility of uppercase letters [1]. But of course > > distinguishing case of letter

Bug#916926: dgit: quit fixup fails with secondary orig tarballs and mode 755 files.

2019-01-05 Thread Ian Jackson
I have fixed it. Patch is attached and should be in buster. Regards, Ian. >From 1bb63a1b915cdd2620e16aa88e73ca2ef901a11b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ian Jackson Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2019 00:39:29 + Subject: [PATCH] Dgit.pm: Allow uppercase (ascii) letters in multi-orig components

Bug#918438: orig tarball components with uppercase letters

2019-01-05 Thread Ian Jackson
anyone would read that that was intended and I am confident that dpkg-source would actually reject those. -- 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#857490: dgit: shouldn't fail when previous backport not mentioned in changelog

2019-01-05 Thread Ian Jackson
Ian Jackson writes ("Re: Bug#857490: dgit: shouldn't fail when previous backport not mentioned in changelog"): > Does that make some kind of sense ? How can we better guide the user > who finds themselves in this situation ? #913451 "dgit manpages: discuss --overwrite

Bug#908747: Default -I and -i option should not exclude .ignore [and 1 more messages]

2019-01-05 Thread Ian Jackson
Ian Jackson writes ("Default -I and -i option should not exclude .ignore"): > Changing this has compatibility implications. Many tools assume the > existing behaviour. I suggest the following transition plan: Ping? In particular, (i) do you agree that this should be changed and

Bug#908742: Want way to reset tar-ignore list

2019-01-05 Thread Ian Jackson
Ian Jackson writes ("Re: Bug#908742: Want way to reset tar-ignore list"): > So I think I want --clear-all-tar-ignore. Ping? (Just going through my dgit buglist and found this one as a blocker for #908417...) Thanks, Ian. -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. If I emaile

Bug#857490: dgit: shouldn't fail when previous backport not mentioned in changelog

2019-01-05 Thread Ian Jackson
Control: tags -1 moreinfo Sean Whitton writes ("Bug#857490: dgit: shouldn't fail when previous backport not mentioned in changelog"): > There are merge and rebase workflows in use for the Debian changelogs of > backports. Some backport maintainers merge the new version in testing > into their ba

Bug#918373: elpa-rust-mode: goto-error goes to wrong line, scrolling message off screen

2019-01-05 Thread Ian Jackson
elpa-rust-mode depends on: ii emacsen-common 3.0.4 Versions of packages elpa-rust-mode recommends: ii emacs 1:25.2+1-11 ii emacs-gtk [emacs] 1:25.2+1-11 elpa-rust-mode suggests no packages. -- no debconf information >From e265960c856f7c3c4ecadeb3350aa2fb5655f252 Mon Sep 17 0

Bug#914317: dgit: sometimes ignores configured clean-mode

2019-01-03 Thread Ian Jackson
unning dgit with a gazillion -D options will cause it to dump out stuff about its config parsing, including a report of what it got from git. That migth be useful. I quickly UTSL and I think -D is probably sufficient but say -DD just to be sure :-). Ian. -- Ian JacksonThese opinion

Bug#914317: dgit: sometimes ignores configured clean-mode

2019-01-03 Thread Ian Jackson
Sean Whitton writes ("Bug#914317: dgit: sometimes ignores configured clean-mode"): > My config contains > > [dgit "default"] > # just clean in the most aggressive way dgit knows how > clean-mode = git-ff (Just replying now to ask for more info to minise RTTs...) This

Bug#916468: Conflict over /usr/bin/dune

2018-12-18 Thread Ian Jackson
Ian Jackson writes ("Re: Conflict over /usr/bin/dune"): > https://www.google.com/search?q=dune+software > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dune_(software) > https://www.google.com/search?q=%2Fusr%2Fbin%2Fdune > > Under the circumstances it seems obvious that, at the very

Bug#916468: Conflict over /usr/bin/dune

2018-12-18 Thread Ian Jackson
dia.org/wiki/Dune_(software) https://www.google.com/search?q=%2Fusr%2Fbin%2Fdune Under the circumstances it seems obvious that, at the very least, the ocaml build tool should not be allowed the name /usr/bin/dune. Ian. -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. If I emailed you from an address

Bug#916468: Conflict over /usr/bin/dune

2018-12-18 Thread Ian Jackson
they couldn't be bothered to do a Debian file search, https://www.google.com/search?q=dune+software https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dune_(software) https://www.google.com/search?q=%2Fusr%2Fbin%2Fdune Under the circumstances it seems obvious that no-one should be allowed the name /usr/bin/dune.

Bug#915955: vm: may embed undesired paths when built in local environment

2018-12-10 Thread Ian Jackson
emacsen-common hook machinery, which is what initiates byte compilation). > On Sat, Dec 08, 2018 at 09:00:53PM +, Ian Jackson wrote: > [...] > > I'm sorry to say that while I think that this would be nice to fix in > > principle, I really don't like your patch. I

Bug#915955: vm: may embed undesired paths when built in local environment

2018-12-08 Thread Ian Jackson
st some of those but they dono't seem like crises... 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#850157: Please deprecate all ad-hoc patch systems

2018-12-07 Thread Ian Jackson
The harm done by these kind of strategies is real but the cost of educating everyone, let alone fighting over it, would be disproportionate. 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#914897: debating the wrong thing

2018-12-04 Thread Ian Jackson
Ansgar Burchardt writes ("Bug#914897: debating the wrong thing"): > Switching to (1) or (3a-with-no-support-in-buster) will mean merged-/usr > systems would no longer be supported. In this case someone would have > to write a unusrmerge program to convert systems with merged-/usr to > systems with

Bug#914897: debating the wrong thing

2018-12-03 Thread Ian Jackson
. That would be really nasty. The problem comes when a niche optional feature, with wide-ranging implications, is suddenly promoted to the default, without proper consultation and without a proper transition plan. Ian. -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. If I emailed you from an addre

Bug#914695: dgit autopkgtest breaks with git 2.20

2018-11-28 Thread Ian Jackson
Control: fixed -1 1:2.11.0-3+deb9u3 Control: fixed -1 1:2.19.2-1 Ian Jackson writes ("Re: Bug#914695: dgit autopkgtest breaks with git 2.20"): > I have investigated and the bug seems to be that git-rebase --onto now > fails to honour GIT_REFLOG_ACTION for the initial che

Bug#914945: separate vm does not work with xemacs21

2018-11-28 Thread Ian Jackson
un it during emacsen-common install and remove. See the files debian/vm.emacsen-install debian/vm.emacsen-remove in the source 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#914695: dgit autopkgtest breaks with git 2.20

2018-11-28 Thread Ian Jackson
f you want I can provide a minimal test case but this should suffice to see the bug I hope... 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#914317: dgit: less than helpful error if debian/patches/ exists as untracked files

2018-11-28 Thread Ian Jackson
Ian Jackson writes ("Re: Bug#914317: dgit: less than helpful error if debian/patches/ exists as untracked files"): > Why does this not complain about the uncommitted files in > debian/patches ? Clearly you're not using --clean=git. Are you using > --clean=dpkg-source,no-

Bug#914897: debootstrap, buster: Please disabled merged /usr by default

2018-11-28 Thread Ian Jackson
Julien Cristau writes ("Re: Bug#914897: debootstrap, buster: Please disabled merged /usr by default"): > On 11/28/18 2:49 PM, Ian Jackson wrote: > > This is a special case of a general problem: buster systems with > > merged-/usr sometimes build packages which are broken

Bug#914897: debootstrap, buster: Please disabled merged /usr by default

2018-11-28 Thread Ian Jackson
g new lossage we can have a proper conversation about what the plan ought to be for buster and bullseye. 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#914897: debootstrap, buster: Please disabled merged /usr by default

2018-11-28 Thread Ian Jackson
it will be most convenient to file a separate bug for that. 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#914898: debootstrap, stretch-backports: Please disabled merged /usr by default

2018-11-28 Thread Ian Jackson
e redirect me if I am wrong.) -- 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#914818: vm: removes shipped file /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/vm.in/version.txt

2018-11-27 Thread Ian Jackson
ng. Sorry, I did not mean to put you to extra work. There is some ... strangeness with this package, which I should not trouble you with I think :-). I will fix the bug. Thanks, Ian. -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. If I emailed you from an address @fyvzl.net or @evade.org.uk, that

Bug#914818: vm: removes shipped file /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/vm.in/version.txt

2018-11-27 Thread Ian Jackson
order. I suggest avoiding `this requires to manifest [some condition]' and instead writing `this manifests only if [the condition]'. I hope you do not mind me giving you this suggestion.) Ian. -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. If I emailed you from an address @fyvzl.net

Bug#914695: dgit autopkgtest breaks with git 2.20

2018-11-26 Thread Ian Jackson
bug, including reassigning it if appropriate. To the git maintainers: please let me know if this update was urgent so that I can prioritise appropriately. This mail is not a CI team mail, but https://wiki.debian.org/ContinuousIntegration/RegressionEmailInformation may be of some interest. Ian. -- Ia

Bug#826214: Bug#913247: Please provide a C implementation of /lib/init/init-d-script

2018-11-22 Thread Ian Jackson
d maintainers: will you have time to look at this, and make the appropriate change, soon ? If not then one of us could probably prepare a patch, if that would be helpful. 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#826214: Bug#913247: Please provide a C implementation of /lib/init/init-d-script

2018-11-22 Thread Ian Jackson
Mert Dirik writes ("Re: Bug#913247: Please provide a C implementation of /lib/init/init-d-script"): > On 11/22/18, Ian Jackson wrote: > > So I think this would be fixed if /lib/init/init-d-script detected > > this situation and set $0 to the original script name (which

Bug#826214: Bug#913247: Please provide a C implementation of /lib/init/init-d-script

2018-11-22 Thread Ian Jackson
Mert Dirik writes ("Re: Bug#913247: Please provide a C implementation of /lib/init/init-d-script"): > On 11/22/18, Ian Jackson wrote: > > I don't know what `systemd redirection' is. Why does it not work ? > > Can it be fixed ? > > To sum it up, when

Bug#913247: Please provide a C implementation of /lib/init/init-d-script

2018-11-22 Thread Ian Jackson
tion. I don't know what `systemd redirection' is. Why does it not work ? Can it be fixed ? 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#822753: /lib/init/init-d-script: exit 0 at end of script prevents all other exit codes

2018-11-22 Thread Ian Jackson
ng these kind of problems and IME generally it works well. I don't foresee any difficult-to-resolve problems with the env technique, but maybe I don't have the right knowledge. Ian. -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. If I emailed you from an address @fyvzl.net or @evade.or

Bug#914317: dgit: less than helpful error if debian/patches/ exists as untracked files

2018-11-22 Thread Ian Jackson
Sean Whitton writes ("Bug#914317: dgit: less than helpful error if debian/patches/ exists as untracked files"): ... > 4) Now you have uncommitted debian/patches, but ignore that, and instead >commit your upstream changes > > 5) dgit sbuild (or whatever), and you get: (Without looking at the

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