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poor advice,
please convince them to improve the advice. A bug report to Debian's
bug tracker can't fix that :-)
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a closer look how to reshuffle things after fixing 2 other
> bugs I'm currently on, sorry to keep you waiting).
Thank you for working on this!
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> On 11-Aug-2017, Guido Günther wrote:
> > […] what you can do right now is call the clean command as
> > prebuild hook since it gets the build_dir passed in as
> > GBP_BUILD_DIR and is run right before the build.
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kage into Unstable?
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ady-released “3.4.0b3-1”.
What are your thoughts on addressing these?
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mangling by UScan
should be part of the Debian packaging; that will address future
version strings from upstream.
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the branch description for wip/maintenance/wording-clarifications local
branch)
Clarify and re-word some passages.
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Link terms to their definitions
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Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2017 04:26:21 +1000
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e a horse, and someone gets on you, and falls off, and |
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’ library, described
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needs to convert the
‘port’ argument when it is read from the command line.
I will (unless you want to?) write unit tests for the command-line
argument processing, to ensure this is covered for all methods.
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On Fri, 2017-09-22 08:00 +0200, Marc Haber wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 22, 2017 at 08:57:16AM +1000, Ben Finney wrote:
> > I will (unless you want to?) write unit tests for the command-line
> > argument processing, to ensure this is covered for all methods.
>
> I apologize, but my
On 14-May-2016, Ben Finney wrote:
> I will attempt fixing this.
This patch series alters the Bash command competion script for
‘debdiff(1)’, to allow matching filesystem entries and options as
needed.
Bug#814570: Correct bash completion for debdiff.
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Record the change be
's not
released, so an un-finalised trailer seems the most correct trailer.
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So, it complains when the argument to ‘.’ is a quoted command
substitution, but not when it's an unquoted command substitution.
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an existing packaged library, is a
violation of policy and makes security updates needlessly difficult.
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‘master’ (commit 59d2ad00334be027).
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From
On 03-Aug-2017, Ben Finney wrote:
> On 01-Aug-2017, Sean Whitton wrote:
> > 1) the patch needs to be rebased against current policy
>
> I'll take care of that in a few days.
I have updated my changes by rebasing onto current ‘master’ (commit
hash ‘06f7d27ac0e6aea9’). The
can download various different
formats.
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ly except |
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Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2017 00:17:16 +1000
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From 6c2b5ce7b0a0f09b1e64cb660f70e81c5b29a3bc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ben Finney
Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2017 18:34:50 +1000
Subject: [PATCH 1/6] Rewrite the UScan configuration for format version 4.
---
debian/changelog | 6 ++
debian/watch | 24
hat insistence on |
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On 08-Aug-2017, Vincent Cheng wrote:
> Hi Ben,
>
> On Mon, Aug 7, 2017 at 4:24 PM, Ben Finney wrote:
> > If there is no substantive objection before my evening today (Tue
> > 2017-08-08 UTC+10:00), I will do a Non-Maintainer Upload of the
> > release I have prepared, i
he reason we come up with new versions is not to fix bugs. |
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you show pseudocode of what you mean?
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‘libdebian-source-perl’.
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* Package name: elpa-page-break-lines
Version : 0.11
Upstream Author : Steve Purcell
* URL : https://github.com/purcell/page-break-lines
* License : GPL-3+
Programming Lang: Emacs Lisp
Description
Control: retitle -1 python-coverage: Avoid broken ‘jquery.hotkeys.js’ version
Control: tags -1 - moreinfo
On 17-Dec-2016, Loic Dachary wrote:
> On 12/17/2016 08:22 AM, Ben Finney wrote:
> > Can you speak to what resolution you expect? One of the ones I
> > listed above, or somethi
Control: block -1 by 740893
Control: affects 740893 + python-coverage
On 15-Dec-2016, Ben Finney wrote:
> On 15-Dec-2016, Loic Dachary wrote:
> > In the case of [‘jquery.hotkeys.js’], there is no reliable API, no
> > backward compatibility and no releases.
That description seems
On 15-Dec-2016, Ben Finney wrote:
> If I understand you correctly, you are asking in this bug report
> that Debian's ‘python-coverage’ packages would bundle a third-party
> library that is a slightly different version of the already-packaged
> ‘libjs-jquery-hotkeys’.
>
> T
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On 12-Apr-2017, Ben Finney wrote:
> This will need to change in, at least:
>
> * dhpython.pydist.validate
> * dhpython.pydist.load
Here is my proposed patch to fix this:
modified dhpython/pydist.py
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ def validate(fpath):
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ey bring you back the previous |
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for writing test cases! Yes, that behaviour sounds right to
me.
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udev 232-22
-- no debconf information
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Control: found -1 cups-daemon/2.2.1-5
Control: found -1 cups-daemon/2.2.1-8
On 19-Apr-2017, Ben Finney wrote:
> When attempting to print via CUPS, the job will successfully enter the
> queue (the status “Processing” is shown). Then, the job is shown as
> “Stopped”; the queue does not
Control: found -1 cups-daemon/2.2.1-5
Control: found -1 cups-daemon/2.2.1-8
On 19-Apr-2017, Ben Finney wrote:
> When attempting to print via CUPS, the job will successfully enter the
> queue (the status “Processing” is shown). Then, the job is shown as
> “Stopped”; the queue does not
—John |
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On 19-Apr-2017, Brian Potkin wrote:
> On Wed 19 Apr 2017 at 21:09:52 +1000, Ben Finney wrote:
>
> > =
> > $ lpstat -t
> > scheduler is running
> > system default destination: SCX-4623-Series
> > device for HP-LaserJet-MFP-M227-M231:
> > dnssd://HP%
On 19-Apr-2017, Brian Potkin wrote:
> On Thu 20 Apr 2017 at 06:32:08 +1000, Ben Finney wrote:
> > How can you tell that a job doesn't get that far?
>
> It would have printed. You record that it didn't.
Oh, I thought you were seeing something in the output that
independ
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I [20/Apr/2017:09:13:47 +1000] Listening to [v1.::1]:631 (IPv6)
I [20/Apr/2017:09:13:
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No. The resulting error log (compressed) is attached.
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On 20-Apr-2017, Brian Potkin wrote:
> On Fri 21 Apr 2017 at 06:05:02 +1000, Ben Finney wrote:
> > On 20-Apr-2017, Brian Potkin wrote:
> > > cat > /dev/usb/lp0
> >
> > There is no such device node:
> >
> > $ find /dev -name 'lp0'
&
and upload
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On 07-Dec-2016, Markus Koschany wrote:
> On 07.12.2016 11:24, Ben Finney wrote:
> > The source was presumably available to upstream when making this
> > package, see http://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=2380#p21768> for
> > example.
I have now responded to ask about
On 07-Dec-2016, Ben Finney wrote:
> The license conditions from the copyright holders restrict
> distributing the work for a fee:
>
> 2) You may charge a reasonable copying fee for this archive […]
>
> It is unclear what the copyright holders would consider a “reasonable
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present the suggestion to administrators choosing which
packages to install.
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* Package name: css-html-js-minify
Version : 2.2.2
Upstream Author : Juan Carlos
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Control: block 847661 by -1
* Package name: anglerfish
Version : 2.0.0
Upstream Author : Juan Carlos
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On 04-Sep-2016, Ben Finney wrote:
> I have a complete package for this, and am interested to know whether
> it meets the need of dependent packages
This is now uploaded to ‘experimental’ at version “0.3.1+dfsg.1-1”. As
of this writing it is waiting in the NEW
now whether they are sufficient to allow Pagure packaging
to continue.
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maintains an API of some kind.
Agreed, the API should be reliable :-)
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put.
I am not yet convinced :-) Please explain how the ‘setup.py’ is
incorrect now?
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On 15-Dec-2016, Loic Dachary wrote:
> On 12/15/2016 11:09 AM, Ben Finney wrote:
> > So we'll need to seek another solution. I think correct solutions
> > would include:
> >
> > * Remove the dependency. If the state of that code is as bad as
> > you sa
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likely to be looking in the system
administration section. Would you agree?
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