Bug#1004345: RFS: ricochet-refresh/3.0.11-1

2022-02-01 Thread Ian Jackson
, so this > message was in limbo for a few days :( Oops. No problem. Let me get onto the technical details. > [Ian Jackson:] > > 1. Embedded copy of Tor > > I observe that this source package contains a copy of tor. Debian > > really doesn't like embedded copies like th

Bug#1004345: RFS: ricochet-refresh/3.0.11-1

2022-01-27 Thread Ian Jackson
Hi. I put on my "Debian" hat had a look at this package. I started with the git branch g...@github.com:m-simonelli/ricochet-refresh 885f03138fe6e88006bdb672ce478751d119eff3 and then also ended up downloading the dsc and comparing it. Here are my comments. I hope they're not too discouraging...

Bug#1004345: RFS: ricochet-refresh/3.0.11-1

2022-01-27 Thread Ian Jackson
I am looking at this, and liasing with Marco on irc. -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. Pronouns: they/he. If I emailed you from @fyvzl.net or @evade.org.uk, that is a private address which bypasses my fierce spamfilter.

Bug#1004355: man-db modifies cache file contents but resets mtime timestamp

2022-01-25 Thread Ian Jackson
, possibly using a deterministic algorithm would work? (I think https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=760895 may be relevant.) Thanks, Ian. -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. Pronouns: they/he. If I emailed you from @fyvzl.net or @evade.org.uk, that is a private address

Bug#1000138: /usr/bin/screen: command arguments beyond 62 silently discarded

2022-01-16 Thread Ian Jackson
lways better than silently forgetting half the job. This is why I felt this bug is RC: it can cause data loss, and came quite close for my friend. With my patch it is simply a bug, and one which the user can then work around. Thanks, Ian. -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. Pro

Bug#1003308: /usr/bin/cvsconvert: cvsconvert handling of absolute paths

2022-01-07 Thread Ian Jackson
Package: cvs-fast-export Version: 1.59-1 Severity: normal File: /usr/bin/cvsconvert Tags: newcomer Steps to reproduce: $ cd $ rm -rf d $ mkdir d $ cd d $ mkdir repo $ cvs -d $PWD/repo init $ mkdir repo/module $ export CVSROOT=$PWD/repo $ mkdir working $ cd working $ cvs co

Bug#1002927: dgit test casds use abolished compat versions

2022-01-01 Thread Ian Jackson
expect to be able to do it in the next few days. Apologies for the inconvenience. Ian. -- application/pgp-signature: signature.asc, OpenPGP digit [save] -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. Pronouns: they/he

Bug#1002919: dblatex missing dependency on fonts-dejavu

2021-12-31 Thread Ian Jackson
fonts-dejavu" to my Build-Depends. Thanks, Ian. -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. Pronouns: they/he. If I emailed you from @fyvzl.net or @evade.org.uk, that is a private address which bypasses my fierce spamfilter.

Bug#1002914: userv: FBTFS

2021-12-31 Thread Ian Jackson
Aurelien Jarno writes ("Bug#1002914: userv: FBTFS"): > Source: userv > Version: 1.2.1~beta2 > Severity: serious > Tags: ftbfs > Justification: fails to build from source (but built successfully in the past) > userv fails to build from source: ... > | flex -t lexer.l > lexer.c > | /bin/sh: 1:

Bug#1002851: xdelta 1.1.3-10.2 merged, nmudiff

2021-12-30 Thread Ian Jackson
th #965890 and #1002851. Diffs involving 1.1.3-10.1 are unreasonably cluttered by autogenerated file changes. I hope this meets with everyone's approval. Happy new year! Ian. xdelta_1.1.3-10.2_nmudiff.patch Description: Binary data -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. Pronouns: they

Bug#1002851: xdelta: /usr/bin/xdelta-config moved from libxdelta2-dev to xdeltaTo:

2021-12-30 Thread Ian Jackson
salsa history you may miss NMUs. I think I will write another blog post about this :-). If you want to do an NMU and like to use git, dgit may suit you. If you use dgit you cannot make this mistake. Thanks, Ian. -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. Pronouns: they/he. If I emailed y

Bug#1002851: xdelta: /usr/bin/xdelta-config moved from libxdelta2-dev to xdeltaTo:

2021-12-30 Thread Ian Jackson
FTR, I am looking at this. -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. Pronouns: they/he. If I emailed you from @fyvzl.net or @evade.org.uk, that is a private address which bypasses my fierce spamfilter.

Bug#427623: vtwm dies on C-z

2021-12-25 Thread Ian Jackson
Control: found -1 + 5.4.7-6 Control: tags -1 + confirmed -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. Pronouns: they/he. If I emailed you from @fyvzl.net or @evade.org.uk, that is a private address which bypasses my fierce spamfilter.

Bug#427623: vtwm dies on C-z

2021-12-25 Thread Ian Jackson
Control: found + 5.4.7-6 Control: tags + confirmed FTR, I have repro'd this with the latest version. I don't intend to investigate myself any time soon, but (as with any vtwm bug) patches are welcome. Thanks, Ian. -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. Pronouns: they/he. If I

Bug#1002514: psutils: Please switch to new upstream

2021-12-23 Thread Ian Jackson
round to it, so if someone were to prepare a suitable git branch I would be happy to review and/or upload. Thanks, Ian. -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. Pronouns: they/he. If I emailed you from @fyvzl.net or @evade.org.uk, that is a private address which bypasses my fierce spamfilter.

Bug#1000146: cppcheck: incorrect dependencies: libc6 should be >= 2.32

2021-12-04 Thread Ian Jackson
I want to fix this without having to manually restart the autoremoval clock and/or ask for help from the release team, I should have NMU'd dpkg at least a week ago. Ian. -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. Pronouns: they/he. If I emailed you from @fyvzl.net or @evade.org.uk, that

Bug#1000421: Bug#1000146: cppcheck: incorrect dependencies: libc6 should be >= 2.32

2021-11-28 Thread Ian Jackson
something. Do we have a plausible way of doing that ? Possibly we could look for the combination of new binutils and old dpkg-dev, in buildinfo files. Thanks, Ian. -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. Pronouns: they/he. If I emailed you from @fyvzl.net or @eva

Bug#1000138: command arguments beyond 62 silently discarded

2021-11-18 Thread Ian Jackson
verity. Ian. >From c73ab91cc30ac9dbc38df54f5eee47e8676fa453 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ian Jackson Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2021 13:55:19 + Subject: [PATCH] crash rather than silently dropping arguments --- attacher.c | 10 +++--- extern.h | 1 + screen.c | 6 ++ socket.c | 14

Bug#1000138: Acknowledgement (/usr/bin/screen: command arguments beyond 62 silently discarded)

2021-11-18 Thread Ian Jackson
a "$(yes | head -1)" b [ displays "1 1", pauses 5 seconds, exits ] $ Here it loses all the arguments after the first long one ! -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. Pronouns: they/he. If I emailed you from @fyvzl.net or @evade.org.uk, that is a private address which bypasses my fierce spamfilter.

Bug#1000138: /usr/bin/screen: command arguments beyond 62 silently discarded

2021-11-18 Thread Ian Jackson
Package: screen Version: 4.8.0-7 Severity: serious File: /usr/bin/screen Tags: upstream Justification: data loss X-Debbugs-Cc: t...@womack.net Steps to reproduce and observed behaviour: $ cat t.sh #!/bin/sh echo $# sleep 5 $ ./t.sh {0..999} 1000 $ screen ./t.sh {0..999} [

Bug#998394: dgit push fails for native with .gitignore

2021-11-03 Thread Ian Jackson
Osamu Aoki writes ("Bug#998394: dgit push fails for native with .gitignore"): > RTFM ... I know ... excuse me. This is not a bug. > > I think best place is here in BTS as wontfix so no more people harassing you. Haha. OK :-). Thanks, Ian. -- Ian JacksonThese

Bug#908747: dpkg-source: Default -I and -i option should not exclude .ignore

2021-11-03 Thread Ian Jackson
ping? Once again I have a user who tripped over this bug: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=998394 -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. Pronouns: they/he. If I emailed you from @fyvzl.net or @evade.org.uk, that is a private address which bypasses my fierce spamfilter.

Bug#998394: dgit push fails for native with .gitignore

2021-11-03 Thread Ian Jackson
Hi. Osamu Aoki writes ("Bug#998394: dgit push fails for native with .gitignore"): > Package: dgit > Version: 9.14 > Severity: normal > > native source package drops .gitignore when making tar. > > If I try to make "dgit push" on such package after building binary > packages with sbuild, dgit

Bug#997904: chroma build makes strange file access attempts

2021-10-26 Thread Ian Jackson
I don't know what "init server" is referred to. Do we know that it wouldn't connect to some actual server of some kind (perhaps an unrelated daemon) ? Thanks, Ian. -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. Pronouns: they/he. If I emailed you from @fyvzl.net or @evade.org.uk,

Bug#996949: python-envparse3 repairable in principle with higher-version .deb

2021-10-21 Thread Ian Jackson
://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=996959 (I don't think this is an immediately-useful workaround because no such .deb exists in the archive right now.) Regards, Ian. -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. Pronouns: they/he. If I emailed you from @fyvzl.net or @evade.org.uk

Bug#996959: Revert (or document) 9d3ec0f5 (prerm fallback version test)

2021-10-21 Thread Ian Jackson
Guillem Jover writes ("Re: Bug#996959: Revert (or document) 9d3ec0f5 (prerm fallback version test)"): > No, I've just reverted this locally and will be included in the next > upload. Thanks for the digging and analysis. Cool, thanks, you're welcome. -- Ian JacksonThese opi

Bug#996959: Revert (or document) 9d3ec0f5 (prerm fallback version test)

2021-10-21 Thread Ian Jackson
be kept, then policy ought to be changed. And probably, a message about skipping the fallback would be helpful - both for un-confusing someone debugging dpkg, and for the user/developer who is afflicted by a broken pre-rm: it would tell them what they need to do (a bodge like I just did). Thanks, Ian. -

Bug#928704: dgit: add bash completion for command-line options

2021-10-06 Thread Ian Jackson
doesn't include me precisely because IME things often turn out not to complete properly. So maybe I am being too precious. -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. Pronouns: they/he. If I emailed you from @fyvzl.net or @evade.org.uk, that is a private address which bypasses my fierce spamfilter.

Bug#989284: insserv: toggles rc0.d/{K02avahi-daemon => K01avahi-daemon} with every upgrade

2021-10-06 Thread Ian Jackson
re all missing something. Thorsten, can you provide a formal Steps To Reproduce that start with something like "in a chroot", and which you have verified ? Ie, something that you think would allow me (say) to reproduce it in a way that has minimal dependencies on our respective normal envi

Bug#973881: Result of 'git debrebase make-patches' with 'diff.noprefix' git config confuses dgit

2021-09-07 Thread Ian Jackson
't. We have to manually add those with git config diff.noprefix 0 (in this case). Thanks for the report! Ian. -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. Pronouns: they/he. If I emailed you from @fyvzl.net or @evade.org.uk, that is a private address which bypasses my fierce spamfilter.

Bug#977426: git-debrebase: complains about undocumented snag: -fanchor-treated

2021-09-07 Thread Ian Jackson
lose this bug then. Feel free to suggest better wording (in a new bug, if applicable). Thanks, Ian. -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. Pronouns: they/he. If I emailed you from @fyvzl.net or @evade.org.uk, that is a private address which bypasses my fierce spamfilter.

Bug#993633: [Pkg-rust-maintainers] Bug#993633: debcargo does not honour global summary/description

2021-09-04 Thread Ian Jackson
/salsa.debian.org/rust-team/debcargo/-/merge_requests/33 Great, thanks. Ian. -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. Pronouns: they/he. If I emailed you from @fyvzl.net or @evade.org.uk, that is a private address which bypasses my fierce spamfilter.

Bug#993633: debcargo does not honour global summary/description

2021-09-03 Thread Ian Jackson
: Binary data -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. Pronouns: they/he. If I emailed you from @fyvzl.net or @evade.org.uk, that is a private address which bypasses my fierce spamfilter.

Bug#993633: debcargo does not honour global summary/description

2021-09-03 Thread Ian Jackson
Description: Native encoder and decoder of TOML-formatted data Description: Native encoder and decoder of TOML-formatted data - feature "indexmap" and 1 more as found in the Debian archive, 0.5.5-1. No FIXME is generated. Actual results: The override is ignored. A FIXME is gen

Bug#991958: /usr/bin/linux.uml: consoles do not work if they are read for reading at startup

2021-08-06 Thread Ian Jackson
Control: found -1 5.10um3 I repro'd this on sid, but I ran reportbug in my buster environment. I forgot to change the version in the report. -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. Pronouns: they/he. If I emailed you from @fyvzl.net or @evade.org.uk, that is a private address which

Bug#991958: /usr/bin/linux.uml: consoles do not work if they are read for reading at startup

2021-08-06 Thread Ian Jackson
Control: title -1 /usr/bin/linux.uml: consoles do not work if they are ready for reading at startup -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. Pronouns: they/he. If I emailed you from @fyvzl.net or @evade.org.uk, that is a private address which bypasses my fierce spamfilter.

Bug#991960: /usr/bin/psusan: psusan example ends up with . on PATH due to #991959

2021-08-06 Thread Ian Jackson
Package: putty-tools Version: 0.75-3 Severity: normal File: /usr/bin/psusan psusan(1) suggests this: And the setup script uml-psusan.sh might look like this: #!/bin/bash # Set up vital pseudo-filesystems mount -t proc none /proc mount -t devpts none /dev/pts

Bug#991959: /bin/bash: Built-in default path contains cwd

2021-08-06 Thread Ian Jackson
Package: bash Version: 5.1-3 Severity: important File: /bin/bash Tags: security Observed behaviour: $ env - bash -c 'echo $PATH' /usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/sbin:. $ Expected behaviour: $ env - bash -c 'echo $PATH'

Bug#991958: /usr/bin/linux.uml: consoles do not work if they are read for reading at startup

2021-08-06 Thread Ian Jackson
Package: user-mode-linux Version: 4.19-1um-1+deb10u1+b1 Severity: normal File: /usr/bin/linux.uml Tags: upstream CCing putty@p.d.o because this makes the user-mode-linux example in the psusan manpage not work. Steps to reproduce: Put the attached scripts "psusan-uml" and "psusan-uml-inside"

Bug#991957: /usr/bin/linux.uml: Checking PROT_EXEC mmap in /dev/shm...Operation not permitted

2021-08-06 Thread Ian Jackson
Package: user-mode-linux Version: 5.10um3 Severity: normal File: /usr/bin/linux.uml Observed behaviour: $ linux.uml Core dump limits : soft - 0 hard - NONE Checking that ptrace can change system call numbers...OK Checking syscall emulation patch for ptrace...OK Checking advanced

Bug#991956: /usr/bin/linux.uml: Interactive use leaves invoking host terminal messed up

2021-08-06 Thread Ian Jackson
Package: user-mode-linux Version: 5.10um3 Severity: minor File: /usr/bin/linux.uml Observed behaviour: (build)root@zealot:/home/ian# stty -a; bwrap --dev-bind / / --tmpfs /dev/shm linux.uml init=/bin/date; stty -a speed 38400 baud; rows 90; columns 127; line = 0; intr = ^C; quit = ^\; erase =

Bug#783990: efivarfs is a separate fs and needs moutning

2021-07-16 Thread Ian Jackson
metime this afternoon. > > > My current biggest concern about this is: > > -- No objections then ? :-) (I think you may have missed a bit...) Ian. -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. Pronouns: they/he. If I emailed you from @fyvzl.net or @evade.org.uk, that is a private address which bypasses my fierce spamfilter.

Bug#783990: efivarfs is a separate fs and needs moutning

2021-07-16 Thread Ian Jackson
bug still unfixed. Ian. >From 5ac165a021fd361bad658ff50b59ae3e0c4c478d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ian Jackson Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2021 17:41:25 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] initsripts: mount-functions: Do not check efivarfs in /proc/filsystems It is typically loaded on demand so this is not

Bug#783990: efivarfs is a separate fs and needs moutning

2021-07-16 Thread Ian Jackson
01-mountkernfs-Mount-sys-firmware-efi-efivars-if-necess.patch Description: Binary data mountkernfs.sh Description: Binary data -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. Pronouns: they/he. If I emailed you from @fyvzl.net or @evade.org.uk, that is a private address which bypasses my fierce spamfilter.

Bug#783990: efivarfs is a separate fs and needs moutning

2021-07-16 Thread Ian Jackson
o not treat this as an error. If you think this is a good plan I will send a patch. Would each of you be willing to do a test reboot with it ? Ian. -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. Pronouns: they/he. If I emailed you from @fyvzl.net or @evade.org.uk, that is a private address which bypasses my fierce spamfilter.

Bug#783990: efivarfs is a separate fs and needs moutning

2021-07-16 Thread Ian Jackson
ars exists, then. Can you confirm that that directory doesn't exist for you ? Ian. -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. Pronouns: they/he. If I emailed you from @fyvzl.net or @evade.org.uk, that is a private address which bypasses my fierce spamfilter.

Bug#783990: efivarfs is a separate fs and needs moutning

2021-07-16 Thread Ian Jackson
s still lacks this. I think it would be worth considering this fix for a stable update, after bullseye is released. Thanks, Ian. -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. Pronouns: they/he. If I emailed you from @fyvzl.net or @evade.org.uk, that is a private address which bypasses my fierce spamfilter.

Bug#114849: Invoke sendmail with -odb -oee

2021-07-14 Thread Ian Jackson
ation. I think this is due to the change to the default value of mail-interactive, which, misleadingly, also controls[1] whether emacs cares about failure of the sendmail program. Ian. [1] At least, it did in 2014. -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. Pronouns: they/he. If I emailed

Bug#114849: Invoke sendmail with -odb -oee

2021-07-14 Thread Ian Jackson
reassign 114849 emacs found 114849 1:27.1+1-3.1 thanks Oops, wrong package, thanks to Lars for spotting that. -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. Pronouns: they/he. If I emailed you from @fyvzl.net or @evade.org.uk, that is a private address which bypasses my fierce spamfilter.

Bug#990136: libgit2-27: EACCES can produce error -3 "could not find repository"

2021-06-21 Thread Ian Jackson
Package: libgit2-27 Version: 0.27.7+dfsg.1-0.2 Severity: important Tags: upstream Steps to reproduce: * Build the libgit2 rev-parse example: * Install libgit2-dev * Copy the contents of /usr/share/doc/libgit2-dev/examples to a fresh directory and change into it * gunzip

Bug#987095: transitive_closure corrupted results, after vertex deleted

2021-04-17 Thread Ian Jackson
ut\n"; foreach my $x (qw(A B C N)) { $output->delete_edge($x,$x); } print "output: $output\n"; -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. Pronouns: they/he. If I emailed you from @fyvzl.net or @evade.org.uk, that is a private address which bypasses my fierce spamfilter.

Bug#983920: dgit-test-dummy: intentionally uninstallable package

2021-03-03 Thread Ian Jackson
Andreas Beckmann writes ("Bug#983920: dgit-test-dummy: intentionally uninstallable package"): > This bug is just for letting piuparts know that we know that the package is > uninstallable ;-) Haha :-). Thanks for your QA work. Ian. -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my

Bug#666175: closed by Debian FTP Masters (Bug#949400: Removed package(s) from unstable)

2021-02-13 Thread Ian Jackson
reopen 666175 reassign 666175 guile-3.0 found 666175 3.0.5-2 thanks Hi, Rob. I have repro'd this with the guile-3.0 in sid. In 2016 you wrote (sorry for not replying sooner). > I'm inclined toward following the upstream defaults (though I think > it'd be nice for them to change), but I'll think

Bug#914314: Re: Re: git-buildpackage: import-orig --uscan passes --symlink unconditionally

2021-02-01 Thread Ian Jackson
intainer (in one of the bugs, like this one) is a good way. When you do upload you should consider the use of one of the DELAYED queues. Regards, Ian. -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. Pronouns: they/he. If I emailed you from @fyvzl.net or @evade.org.uk, that is a private address which bypasses my fierce spamfilter.

Bug#914314: Re: git-buildpackage: import-orig --uscan passes --symlink unconditionally

2021-02-01 Thread Ian Jackson
ou think you know how to fix the problem, you could propose to fix it yourself eg with an NMU, using the usual process. Thanks, Ian. -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. Pronouns: they/he. If I emailed you from @fyvzl.net or @evade.org.uk, that is a private address which bypasses my fierce spamfilter.

Bug#914314: git-buildpackage: import-orig --uscan passes --symlink unconditionally

2021-02-01 Thread Ian Jackson
the severity back to normal. Perhaps this is wrong; if so, please do go ahead and put it back - with an explaination. Thanks, Ian. -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. Pronouns: they/he. If I emailed you from @fyvzl.net or @evade.org.uk, that is a private address which bypasses my fierce

Bug#977919: vm: Mail quoting no longer works in emacs27

2021-01-18 Thread Ian Jackson
been set to 'serious'. I can reproduce this and will see about fixing it. -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. Pronouns: they/he. If I emailed you from @fyvzl.net or @evade.org.uk, that is a private address which bypasses my fierce spamfilter.

Bug#977918: vm: Package vm prevents clean emacs27 start

2021-01-18 Thread Ian Jackson
-emacs Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/00debian.el (source)... Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50autoconf.el (source)... Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50vm.el (source)... Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50vm-init.el (source)... $ Regards, Ian. -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own.

Bug#776413: Please include ed in base

2021-01-09 Thread Ian Jackson
Axel Scheepers writes ("Bug#776413: Please include ed in base"): > Can we please have ed back in base? > > If a request for removal from one person is honored then maybe more > people complaining about it missing will work too. We only just put ed back a few years a

Bug#977845: dgit: unhelpful behavior in case previous upload contained new upstream release

2020-12-29 Thread Ian Jackson
data model, this synchronisation is provided by the dgit-repos git server. In the trad Debian data model this is provided by unstructured and manual human coordination. -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. Pronouns: they/he. If I emailed you from @fyvzl.net or @evade.org.uk, that is a private address which bypasses my fierce spamfilter.

Bug#977845: dgit: unhelpful behavior in case previous upload contained new upstream release

2020-12-28 Thread Ian Jackson
ng), the archive doesn't have it any more. I don't think ftpmaster keep uploaded things that don't end up in the archive. (Please correct me if I'm wrong.) I think the solution has to involve dgit push messing about with pristine-tar to send a pristine-tar branch to dgit-repos :-/. Ian. --

Bug#839278: oathtool: has no secure way to provide a key

2020-12-27 Thread Ian Jackson
l terminal session, stdin, stdin and stderr (fds 0-2) all refer to the same open-file. Ie, the tty was opened O_RDWR and then the result was dup'd. The O_* flags are properties of the open-file, not of the descriptor. Ian. -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. Pronouns: they/he

Bug#839278: oathtool: has no secure way to provide a key

2020-12-26 Thread Ian Jackson
ms @/dev/fd/N would work nicely. Thanks, Ian. -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. Pronouns: they/he. If I emailed you from @fyvzl.net or @evade.org.uk, that is a private address which bypasses my fierce spamfilter.

Bug#975075: tech-ctte: Should maintainers be able to block init compatibility changes?

2020-12-23 Thread Ian Jackson
loping and integrating alternatives to both systemd and sysvinit. Ian. -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. Pronouns: they/he. If I emailed you from @fyvzl.net or @evade.org.uk, that is a private address which bypasses my fierce spamfilter.

Bug#975591: update-rc.d disable

2020-12-20 Thread Ian Jackson
is kind of behaviour towards xsomeone who is trying to collaburate with us to make things work properly. Ian. -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. Pronouns: they/he. If I emailed you from @fyvzl.net or @evade.org.uk, that is a private address which bypasses my fierce spamfilter.

Bug#975624: Uses GZIP environment variable which is deprecated

2020-11-24 Thread Ian Jackson
ted the env var. The alternative arrangements are much more complex and fragile. Ian. -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. Pronouns: they/he. If I emailed you from @fyvzl.net or @evade.org.uk, that is a private address which bypasses my fierce spamfilter.

Bug#971515: Status as of last tech-ctte meeting

2020-11-19 Thread Ian Jackson
uot; and "just download that shit from the internet" approach is hideously bad engineering practice.) -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. Pronouns: they/he. If I emailed you from @fyvzl.net or @evade.org.uk, that is a private address which bypasses my fierce spamfilter.

Bug#975075: tech-ctte: Should maintainers be able to block init compatibility changes?

2020-11-19 Thread Ian Jackson
errule a maintainer decision. Furthermore, the TC can clearly make its opinion known. My view is that the behaviour seen in #921012 and #964139 is an outrage which ought to result in DAM action. It would be open to the TC to make a statement strongly criticising the maintainer's behaviour and suggest

Bug#975062: Python 3 (pygrub) in 4.14 packages

2020-11-18 Thread Ian Jackson
It seems I was distracted when I wrote this mail. Ian Jackson writes ("Re: Bug#975062: Python 3 (pygrub) in 4.14 packages"): > The problem with pygrub with 32-bit userland is as follows: > > * Xen has to be 64-bit since there is no 64-bit Xen.

Bug#975062: Python 3 (pygrub) in 4.14 packages

2020-11-18 Thread Ian Jackson
he thing that always causes problems. What would > be your (asking anyone who wants to think along) ideas about which > well-defined situations/test-cases we should have to execute instead of > having the users report problems after big package changes? IDK about any other problems than t

Bug#931225: Please make Classic style the default

2020-11-16 Thread Ian Jackson
ose people to maintain that theme. That includes fixing serious defects in a reasonable time. So I think the right decision would be to change the default theme to Classic, until the bugs in the custom theme are fixed. As I say, the formatting bugs in the current theme are very severe. Sorry, Ian.

Bug#974903: dgit: add a generic way to update a package to a new upstream version

2020-11-16 Thread Ian Jackson
ards, Ian. [1] Thsi would have been much easier to do automatically if my tag2upload scheme had not been blocked by ftpmaster. -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. Pronouns: they/he. If I emailed you from @fyvzl.net or @evade.org.uk, that is a private address which bypasses my fierce spamfilter.

Bug#971441: Package not built from source: gengetopt

2020-11-13 Thread Ian Jackson
Simon Josefsson writes ("Re: Bug#971441: Package not built from source: gengetopt"): > Hi Ian and thanks for the report. I rewrote the packaging using dh > instead of cdbs, and rebuilding gengetopt generated files is fixed here: Oh excellent! Thank you. Ian. -- Ian Jackson

Bug#839278: oathtool: has no secure way to provide a key

2020-11-13 Thread Ian Jackson
Simon Josefsson writes ("Re: Bug#839278: oathtool: has no secure way to provide a key"): > Ian Jackson writes: > > This causes KEY and OTP to be read from files. You can specify the > > same filename twice in which case it takes a line from each. "-&qu

Bug#972098: dgit assumes 'master' as main branch

2020-11-11 Thread Ian Jackson
ect dgit's private little ref namespace too and cause it to go wrong. Ian. -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. Pronouns: they/he. If I emailed you from @fyvzl.net or @evade.org.uk, that is a private address which bypasses my fierce spamfilter.

Bug#973896: dgit: Document practical effects of --damp-run writing tags

2020-11-06 Thread Ian Jackson
hat the tags were unsigned and decide to be happy to replace them with signed tags provided they referred to the same commits. And maybe fix the other issues with --damp-run. But the latter might be hard; I would have to UTSL to check for them. Ian. -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my

Bug#973417: Kernel Crashing on boot on Xen

2020-10-30 Thread Ian Jackson
Control: tags -1 + patch Here is the upstream fix on lkml, CCing stable@ https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200930091614.13660-1-jgr...@suse.com/

Bug#972904: git-debrebase: provide bash-completions

2020-10-26 Thread Ian Jackson
e suggesting... See also #928704 which is this suggestion for the whole of src:dgit. I'm afraid I haven't had a chance to incorporate that suggestion. Ian. -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. Pronouns: they/he. If I emailed you from @fyvzl.net or @evade.org.uk, that is a private address

Bug#972502: Provide warning if git history is unexpectedly large

2020-10-19 Thread Ian Jackson
? The server can compare the push receiving repo with the destination repo and complain if the size increase is "too much" ? Ian. -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. Pronouns: they/he. If I emailed you from @fyvzl.net or @evade.org.uk, that is a private address which bypasses

Bug#972098: dgit assumes 'master' as main branch

2020-10-14 Thread Ian Jackson
Didier 'OdyX' Raboud writes ("Bug#972098: dgit assumes 'master' as main branch"): > Le mardi, 13 octobre 2020, 00.23:12 h CEST Ian Jackson a écrit : > > Didier 'OdyX' Raboud writes: > > > on various packaging repositories I routinely use dgit on, it has

Bug#972098: dgit assumes 'master' as main branch

2020-10-12 Thread Ian Jackson
this dgit * command from a debian/master branch (I > will move to debian/main or debian/sid soon), with only the other branches > being upstream/latest and pristine-tar. I don't have a master branch in these > repositories at all. Can you please run the command again with (let's say) -DD ?

Bug#839278: oathtool: has no secure way to provide a key

2020-10-01 Thread Ian Jackson
the key into oathtool. Before my patch this is not safe because one has to pass the key exposed on oathtool's command line. Thanks, Ian. -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. Pronouns: they/he. If I emailed you from @fyvzl.net or @evade.org.uk, that is a private address which bypasses my fierce spamfilter.

Bug#971441: Acknowledgement (Package not built from source: gengetopt)

2020-09-30 Thread Ian Jackson
Control: tags Here is a better patch which actually works. It's not so easy to see when this is not working because if you are (un)lucky the timestamps mean the rule doesn't run... -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. Pronouns: they/he. If I emailed you from @fyvzl.net

Bug#839278: oathtool: has no secure way to provide a key

2020-09-30 Thread Ian Jackson
Control: tags -1 patch 0001-Provide-args-from-files-option.patch Description: Binary data -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. Pronouns: they/he. If I emailed you from @fyvzl.net or @evade.org.uk, that is a private address which bypasses my fierce spamfilter.

Bug#971441: Package not built from source: gengetopt

2020-09-30 Thread Ian Jackson
-gengetopt.patch Description: Binary data -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. Pronouns: they/he. If I emailed you from @fyvzl.net or @evade.org.uk, that is a private address which bypasses my fierce spamfilter.

Bug#971443: Please detect use of gengetopt without a b-d

2020-09-30 Thread Ian Jackson
but that seems like it isn't something lintian could do. Regards, Ian. -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. Pronouns: they/he. If I emailed you from @fyvzl.net or @evade.org.uk, that is a private address which bypasses my fierce spamfilter.

Bug#971440: Fixes for upstream build problems

2020-09-30 Thread Ian Jackson
Source: oath-toolkit Version: 2.6.1-1.4 Severity: minor Tags: patch, upstream I found two small bugs in oathtool. 0001-Build-check-error-from-gengetopt-command.patch Description: Binary data 0002-Fix-a-warning-in-oathtool.patch Description: Binary data -- Ian JacksonThese opinions

Bug#971441: Package not built from source: gengetopt

2020-09-30 Thread Ian Jackson
want to rebuild these from source + rm -f oathtool_cmd.h oathtool_cmd.c: -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. Pronouns: they/he. If I emailed you from @fyvzl.net or @evade.org.uk, that is a private address which bypasses my fierce spamfilter.

Bug#961511: [PATCH] d/xen-utils-common.xen.init: disable oom killer for xenstored

2020-09-07 Thread Ian Jackson
mpty, which is very inconvenient. Xenstored > should already score quite low and have a fairly low memory footprint, > but according to the user report, it happened. > > Closes: #961511 > Suggested-by: Samuel Thibault > Signed-off-by: Hans van Kranenburg Acked-by: Ian Jackson

Bug#969093: Newer upstream version of its-playback-time

2020-08-27 Thread Ian Jackson
pbt/ipbt-20190601.d1519e0.tar.gz > > Please can we have them in Debian? Thanks. > > This is pretty terse for a bug report but I don't really have anything > else to say. Thanks, this is precisely the bug report I wanted :-) -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. P

Bug#968734: chiark-tcl: FTBFS with optimization level -O3 and gcc-10 on s390x

2020-08-27 Thread Ian Jackson
Gianfranco Costamagna writes ("Bug#968734: chiark-tcl: FTBFS with optimization level -O3 and gcc-10 on s390x"): > Hello, this worked too! Thanks for checking. I hope to upload this at some point soon. Ian.

Bug#968734: chiark-tcl: FTBFS with optimization level -O3 and gcc-10 on s390x

2020-08-20 Thread Ian Jackson
nonzero, and it thinks that those error paths in blockcipher_prep might end up using the values in the caller. Instead of your suggestion, if you can easily do so, can you try this ? Regards, Ian. >From 020f536563e566c6a17eeb790d2a5e56141e2b74 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ian Jackson Date: Thu, 2

Bug#968635: dgit-mirror-ssh-wrapper broke (again) due to rsync update

2020-08-19 Thread Ian Jackson
Sergio Durigan Junior writes ("Bug#968635: dgit-mirror-ssh-wrapper broke (again) due to rsync update"): > On Wednesday, August 19 2020, Ian Jackson wrote: > > OK, so, thanks, I would like to apply the patch you have helpfully > > provided. Can you confirm you

Bug#968635: dgit-mirror-ssh-wrapper broke (again) due to rsync update

2020-08-19 Thread Ian Jackson
Sergio Durigan Junior writes ("Bug#968635: dgit-mirror-ssh-wrapper broke (again) due to rsync update"): > Control: tags -1 + patch > > On Tuesday, August 18 2020, I wrote: > > This is a revival of #963489. rsync has been recently been updated and > > broke dgit-mirror-ssh-wrapper again. The

Bug#968635: dgit-mirror-ssh-wrapper broke (again) due to rsync update

2020-08-19 Thread Ian Jackson
nc client contrives to pass these options as part of --server, that they aren't dangerous. I'm in favour of (2), which would imply immediately applying Sergio's patch. Sean, what do you think ? Regareds, Ian. -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. Pronouns: they/he. If I emailed you from @fyvzl.net or @evade.org.uk, that is a private address which bypasses my fierce spamfilter.

Bug#956982: adns package is undermaintained and needs comaintainers

2020-08-17 Thread Ian Jackson
that I > had to get around to it now since the version in sid/testing FTBFS > and needs to be fixed. I'm still willing to take over > maintainership in Debian. That would be great. > Tuesday 27 August 2019 at 15:14:27 CEST, Ian Jackson wrote: > > Gianfranco, is your work in

Bug#968315: dgit fails at serializing quilt patches in pam source

2020-08-12 Thread Ian Jackson
Steve Langasek writes ("Bug#968315: dgit fails at serializing quilt patches in pam source"): ... > dgit: error: quilt fixup cannot be linear. Stopped at: > dgit: 6f4c661d..e8d14c81: changed >

Bug#850248: New upstream version available

2020-07-07 Thread Ian Jackson
Chris Hofstaedtler writes ("Bug#850248: New upstream version available"): > * Ian Jackson [200707 18:46]: > > Package: vtwm > > Version: 5.4.7-3 > > > > Upstream git appears to have what git-describe calls > > `5.5.0-rc8-15-g0b170

Bug#964017: grep-excuses

2020-07-03 Thread Ian Jackson
Guillem Jover writes ("Re: Bug#964017: grep-excuses"): > On Tue, 2020-06-30 at 14:15:13 +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > > The string "failed to verify signature" is not generated by code in > > dgit. Looking at the code in dgit, I think the error happens here: >

Bug#964017: Acknowledgement (grep-excuses)

2020-07-01 Thread Ian Jackson
control: retitle -1 Dpkg::Source::Package:new require_valid_signature => 0 -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. Pronouns: they/he. If I emailed you from @fyvzl.net or @evade.org.uk, that is a private address which bypasses my fierce spamfilter.

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