Bug#964076: RFS network-manager-strongswan

2020-07-01 Thread Ian Jackson
r than them getting your copy on which a reply-to-all goes to submit@ again with no bug number. -- 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#964017: grep-excuses

2020-06-30 Thread Ian Jackson
t has its own idea of the public keys to use for signature verifications. But this test case should not involve any of that.) FYI this is currently preventing the migration of the new dpkg. >From the above it seems to me that that migration block is correct because src:dpkg has a regression here

Bug#902316: [pkg-gnupg-maint] Bug#902316: gnupg failing completely in dgit autopkgtests [and 1 more messages]

2020-06-26 Thread Ian Jackson
ably --debug-quick-random, which I don't think there was a way to easily control other than by wrapping gpg-agent. AFAICT the bodges are in tests/tstunt/gpg tests/tstunt/gpg-withagent tests/tstunt/gpg-agent and tests/tstunt/gpg-locked is a previous attempt which is no longer used. HTH.

Bug#963489: dgit mirror ssh wrapper breaks due to rsync update

2020-06-24 Thread Ian Jackson
org/pkg/rsync and it says under "versions" NEW/unstable: 3.1.3-9 which is rather odd. I thought you should be told. 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#963508: /lib/ld-linux.so.2: LD_PRELOAD breaks with plain filename [and 1 more messages]

2020-06-23 Thread Ian Jackson
jects are preloaded only from the > standard search directories and only if they have set-user-ID mode bit > enabled (which is not typical). Obviously it wouldn't be right for eatmydata to be loaded by actually setuid programs. Ian Jackson writes ("Re: Bug#963508: /lib/ld

Bug#963508: /lib/ld-linux.so.2: LD_PRELOAD breaks with plain filename

2020-06-23 Thread Ian Jackson
Aurelien Jarno writes ("Re: Bug#963508: /lib/ld-linux.so.2: LD_PRELOAD breaks with plain filename"): > On 2020-06-23 11:46, Ian Jackson wrote: > > Should apparmor make a difference between absolute paths and leafnames > > in LD_PRELOAD ? Because I can repr

Bug#963508: /lib/ld-linux.so.2: LD_PRELOAD breaks with plain filename

2020-06-23 Thread Ian Jackson
libfaketime.so.1' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded > > (cannot open shared object file): ignored. > > $ > > > This message on debian-user seems related: > > https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2017/03/msg00335.html > > Yes, there seems to be an issue

Bug#963508: /lib/ld-linux.so.2: LD_PRELOAD breaks with plain filename

2020-06-22 Thread Ian Jackson
Package: libc6 Version: 2.28-10 Severity: normal File: /lib/ld-linux.so.2 Hi. I found this behaviour: $ eatmydata man ls >/dev/null ERROR: ld.so: object 'libeatmydata.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (cannot open shared object file): ignored. ERROR: ld.so: object 'libeatmydata.so' from

Bug#963489: dgit mirror ssh wrapper breaks due to rsync update

2020-06-22 Thread Ian Jackson
to fix and we (the dgit maintainers) will fix it promptly. But it seems the proper conduct to me. 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#953554: Please permit Debian revisions with 1.0 native packages [and 1 more messages]

2020-06-16 Thread Ian Jackson
lusive, compared to the value to be gained. > So I think we can close the clone of this bug against Policy for now. The bugs seem very confusing to me. A sprawling mass of partially-duplicated stuff. See my comment above for a suggested wording clarification. Ian. -- Ian Jackson

Bug#953554: Please permit Debian revisions with 1.0 native packages [and 1 more messages]

2020-06-16 Thread Ian Jackson
the right place. So I think it would be best if lintian would warn about 1.0 format native source packages with non-native versions, with a suitable explantion which will encourage the maintainer to override the warning if they did this on purpose. Ian. -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own

Bug#953554: Please permit Debian revisions with 1.0 native packages

2020-06-12 Thread Ian Jackson
that it is easy to do this by mistake. The maintainer can override it if it's deliberate. For non-1.0 packages I think the warning should be removed but from lintian's pov I can see that that would be blocked by the policy debate. Thanks, Ian. -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. P

Bug#953629: debian-policy: Please permit Debian revisions with 1.0 native packages

2020-06-12 Thread Ian Jackson
why it was designed the way it was. -- 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#953629: debian-policy: Please permit Debian revisions with 1.0 native packages

2020-06-12 Thread Ian Jackson
as it goes but doesn't address the key problems, namely that the single patch ends up inside the tree. This could be solved by a new `3.0 (diff)' format perhaps. If and when that is provided then this one scenario would perhaps be better handled that way. But we are not there yet. The other two scen

Bug#961683: dgit-maint-debrebase(7): Drop bad advice about upstream/ tag case

2020-05-27 Thread Ian Jackson
Sean Whitton writes ("Bug#961683: dgit-maint-debrebase(7): Drop bad advice about upstream/ tag case"): > Package: dgit > Version: 9.10 > Tags: patch Acked-by: Ian Jackson

Bug#961682: Dgit::upstream_commitish_search(): should fail if more than one tag found

2020-05-27 Thread Ian Jackson
Sean Whitton writes ("Bug#961682: Dgit::upstream_commitish_search(): should fail if more than one tag found"): > Package: dgit > Version: 9.10 > Severity: important > X-debbugs-cc: brem...@debian.org > Attached is a minimal fix. Reviewed-by: Ian Jackson

Bug#961673: [PATCH] Do not load XSM policy in non XSM boot options

2020-05-27 Thread Ian Jackson
, see this posting of mine to the xen-devel list and various Xen folks: https://lists.xenproject.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2020-05/msg01710.html Thanks, Ian. >From 143c0b32f7db83ca63bb80b9bd9486dd62dffc71 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ian Jackson Date: Wed, 27 May 2020 17:00:45 +0100 Subj

Bug#932759: [PATCH 2/2] debian/rules: --no-start for xen dh_installinit

2020-05-26 Thread Ian Jackson
Hans van Kranenburg writes ("Re: [PATCH 2/2] debian/rules: --no-start for xen dh_installinit"): > On 5/26/20 12:44 PM, Ian Jackson wrote: > > I think it would be wise to look at the generated .debs and see that > > they contain (only) the expected pieces in their main

Bug#932759: [PATCH 1/2] xen init/maint scripts: Do nothing if running for wrong Xen package

2020-05-26 Thread Ian Jackson
van Kranenburg > Closes: #932759 (1/2) > Fixes: cc85504103 "xen init script: Do nothing if running for wrong Xen > package" Reviewed-by: Ian Jackson

Bug#932759: [PATCH 2/2] debian/rules: --no-start for xen dh_installinit

2020-05-26 Thread Ian Jackson
using --no-start > > Closes: #932759 (2/2) > Signed-off-by: Hans van Kranenburg Reviewed-by: Ian Jackson I think it would be wise to look at the generated .debs and see that they contain (only) the expected pieces in their maintscripts. Ian.

Bug#959759: dgit-maint-merge(7): Mention --allow-unrelated-histories

2020-05-05 Thread Ian Jackson
roach leaves you with 0.14.0's autotools output (because it looks to git like you added it!) but 0.14.1's autotools input. So this only works well if the 0.14.0 Debian branch you start with was made from something which looks like upstream git. Ian. -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. If

Bug#959490: elinks cookie lost when path= equal to request path

2020-05-02 Thread Ian Jackson
it. The patch applies cleanly as far back as buster, at least. Regards, Ian. [1] https://www.greenend.org.uk/rjk/disorder/ >From a36579b07058b6bfcb5f7472e404c354bfa2813d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ian Jackson Date: Sat, 2 May 2020 19:40:06 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] cookies: Properly han

Bug#958989: dgit-user(7): building instructions don't work

2020-04-30 Thread Ian Jackson
Nikolaus Rath writes ("Bug#958989: dgit-user(7): building instructions don't work"): > Here's another datapoint: > > $ dgit clone valgrind > $ cd vagrind; sbuild -c buster-amd64 > > works fine (i.e., if I don't apply any changes). Can you please send me those changes ? Best would be if you

Bug#958989: dgit-user(7): building instructions don't work

2020-04-29 Thread Ian Jackson
Nikolaus Rath writes ("Bug#958989: dgit-user(7): building instructions don't work"): > On Apr 28 2020, Ian Jackson wrote: > >mkdir ../aside > >mv ../valgrind_* ../aside > >sbuild --chroot-mode=autopkgtest --autopkgtest-virt-server=null -A \ > >

Bug#958989: dgit-user(7): building instructions don't work

2020-04-28 Thread Ian Jackson
Nikolaus Rath writes ("Re: Bug#958989: dgit-user(7): building instructions don't work"): > On Apr 28 2020, Ian Jackson wrote: > > Could I get you to do this: > > > > sbuild -c buster-amd64 -b -n 958989 > > Uhm. I feel pretty dumb, but what is the "

Bug#958989: dgit-user(7): building instructions don't work

2020-04-28 Thread Ian Jackson
Nikolaus Rath writes ("Re: Bug#958989: dgit-user(7): building instructions don't work"): > I updated the chroot about an hour before I filed the bug. This is getting quite odd. > The error occurrs before compilation started. In that case it is working for me. > Will send you a full log

Bug#958989: dgit-user(7): building instructions don't work

2020-04-28 Thread Ian Jackson
Ian Jackson writes ("Re: Bug#958989: dgit-user(7): building instructions don't work"): > I will try with those patches... They don't seem to have fixed the FTBFS for me. I ran this: sbuild --chroot-mode=autopkgtest --autopkgtest-virt-server=null -A \ --no-clean-source --dpk

Bug#946329: valgrind-mpi FTBFS

2020-04-28 Thread Ian Jackson
l-security but it didn't seem to contain that patch. 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#958989: dgit-user(7): building instructions don't work

2020-04-28 Thread Ian Jackson
Nikolaus Rath writes ("Re: Bug#958989: dgit-user(7): building instructions don't work"): > FWIW, I have tried this on an AMD64 buster system with an AMD64 chroot. When > compiling without schroot it works fine (I was trying to add support for the > copy file range syscall, not fix a compile

Bug#958989: dgit-user(7): building instructions don't work

2020-04-28 Thread Ian Jackson
Nikolaus Rath writes ("Bug#958989: dgit-user(7): building instructions don't work"): > FWIW, I have tried this on an AMD64 buster system with an AMD64 chroot. When > compiling without schroot it works fine (I was trying to add support for the > copy file range syscall, not fix a compile error)

Bug#958989: dgit-user(7): building instructions don't work

2020-04-28 Thread Ian Jackson
Nikolaus Rath writes ("Re: Bug#958989: dgit-user(7): building instructions don't work"): > On Apr 27 2020, Ian Jackson wrote: > > Nikolaus Rath writes ("Bug#958989: dgit-user(7): building instructions > > don't work"): > >> But this eventua

Bug#958989: dgit-user(7): building instructions don't work

2020-04-27 Thread Ian Jackson
Nikolaus Rath writes ("Bug#958989: dgit-user(7): building instructions don't work"): > I'm trying to follow dgit-user(7) to build a modified version of a package. > I did: Hi. This is a thing you should be able to do. > $ dgit clone valgrind > $ cd valgrind > $ git apply

Bug#955152: git-rebase ignores or squashes GIT_REFLOG_ACTION

2020-03-27 Thread Ian Jackson
his issue, I filed this bug report against > both packages. Can you please investigate the situation and reassign the > bug to the right package? I hope what I have done with the bug (i) has the right syntax and did what I hoped and (ii) meets with everyone's approval. Regards, Ian. --

Bug#953554: Please permit Debian revisions with 1.0 native packages

2020-03-11 Thread Ian Jackson
me number or something?'. There is absolutely no requirement for this to correspond to the source format. 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#953554: Re: Bug#953554: Please permit Debian revisions with 1.0 native packages [and 1 more messages]

2020-03-11 Thread Ian Jackson
Chris Lamb writes ("Re: Bug#953554: Please permit Debian revisions with 1.0 native packages [and 1 more messages]"): > Ian Jackson wrote: > > I have no problem with this being a lintian warning. In this bug I am > > requesting this "error" to be returned to i

Bug#953554: Please permit Debian revisions with 1.0 native packages [and 1 more messages]

2020-03-11 Thread Ian Jackson
Control: clone -1 -2 Control: reassign -2 debian-policy Felix Lechner writes ("Re: Bug#953554: Please permit Debian revisions with 1.0 native packages [and 1 more messages]"): > On Wed, Mar 11, 2020 at 4:58 AM Ian Jackson > wrote: > > > > It works today. The only pr

Bug#953554: Please permit Debian revisions with 1.0 native packages [and 1 more messages]

2020-03-11 Thread Ian Jackson
Felix Lechner writes ("Re: Bug#953554: Please permit Debian revisions with 1.0 native packages"): > On Tue, Mar 10, 2020 at 7:51 AM Ian Jackson > wrote: > > I am packaging a small program for which I am the upstream. It does > > not make sense to use a complicat

Bug#953554: Please permit Debian revisions with 1.0 native packages

2020-03-10 Thread Ian Jackson
with calling this an error. Previously it was a warning. (Full disclosure: I know the dpkg maintainer disagrees with my position here.) 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

Bug#953183: Acknowledgement (Default for --wipe or --zero does not seem as documented)

2020-03-05 Thread Ian Jackson
Ian Jackson writes ("Re: Bug#953183: Acknowledgement (Default for --wipe or --zero does not seem as documented)"): > This just happened to me: > > 2020-03-05 16:16:43 Z executing ssh ... root@172.16.144.30 lvcreate -Z y -W y > -L 1M -n debian.buster.guest.osstest-disk

Bug#953183: Acknowledgement (Default for --wipe or --zero does not seem as documented)

2020-03-05 Thread Ian Jackson
This just happened to me: 2020-03-05 16:16:43 Z executing ssh ... root@172.16.144.30 lvcreate -Z y -W y -L 1M -n debian.buster.guest.osstest-disk elbling0-vg WARNING: dos signature detected on /dev/elbling0-vg/debian.buster.guest.osstest-disk at offset 510. Wipe it? [y/n]: So -Z y -W y is

Bug#953185: ^C should cancel whole operation, not be treated as "no"

2020-03-05 Thread Ian Jackson
Package: lvm2 Version: 2.02.168-2 Severity: important This happened to me: root@elbling0:~# lvcreate -L 1M -n debian.buster.guest.osstest-disk elbling0-vg WARNING: dos signature detected on /dev/elbling0-vg/debian.buster.guest.osstest-disk at offset 510. Wipe it? [y/n]: ^C Interrupted...

Bug#953183: Default for --wipe or --zero does not seem as documented

2020-03-05 Thread Ian Jackson
Package: lvm2 Version: 2.02.168-2 This happened to me: root@elbling0:~# lvcreate -L 1M -n debian.buster.guest.osstest-disk elbling0-vg WARNING: dos signature detected on /dev/elbling0-vg/debian.buster.guest.osstest-disk at offset 510. Wipe it? [y/n]: ^C Interrupted... Aborted wiping of

Bug#953184: nondeterministic allocation or unwanted signature-wiping

2020-03-05 Thread Ian Jackson
Package: lvm2 Version: 2.02.168-2 This happened to me: root@elbling0:~# lvcreate -L 1M -n debian.buster.guest.osstest-disk elbling0-vg WARNING: dos signature detected on /dev/elbling0-vg/debian.buster.guest.osstest-disk at offset 510. Wipe it? [y/n]: ^C Interrupted... Aborted wiping of

Bug#945567: new network-manager-strongswan package [and 1 more messages]

2020-03-05 Thread Ian Jackson
Ian Jackson writes ("Re: new network-manager-strongswan package [and 1 more messages]"): > Rather than going another round with you I propose to fix this as > follows: > 1. upload your version as-is > 2. immediately "nmu" an upload to only fix the previ

Bug#945567: new network-manager-strongswan package [and 1 more messages]

2020-03-05 Thread Ian Jackson
nalised in git (that is, the release changed to "unstable", and/or the trailer line put in). I hope this meets with your approval. If in future you would like me to deal with such an issue differently, please let me know. Ian. -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. If I e

Bug#943107: git-buildpackage to be autoremoved due to python2 transition

2020-02-26 Thread Ian Jackson
hink are brought in by pydoctor... 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#943107: git-buildpackage to be autoremoved due to python2 transition

2020-02-26 Thread Ian Jackson
here. Thanks to Anthony Fok for fixing pydoctor but the py2 rot seems wider including in gbp itself. 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#952546: bootstrap.min.js in pydoctor

2020-02-25 Thread Ian Jackson
For -devel, context is that Anthony Fok just uploaded a new upstream version of pydoctor (a tool for extracting API docs for python modules) in order to fix a couple of upstream bugs. Anthony, thank you very much for your work to help fix one of our (mutual) indirect dependencies. Unfortunately

Bug#945567: new network-manager-strongswan package [and 1 more messages]

2020-02-24 Thread Ian Jackson
ri-guest") a maintainer of it. I think you can do all the rest of the setup yourself. Let me know if you want anything else doing. > On 2/24/20 3:02 PM, Ian Jackson wrote: > > > > I looked at the diff etc. and I have some observations: > > > > * It woul

Bug#952442: dgit | dgit.1: drop remark about sbuild not building arch-independent (!4)

2020-02-24 Thread Ian Jackson
ven on very old versions of Debian.) (I am experimentally using X-Debbugs-CC to try to file this MR as a bug and also reply to Salsa...) 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#945567: new network-manager-strongswan package [and 1 more messages]

2020-02-24 Thread Ian Jackson
ve user `iwj' access to the repo. * If it's OK with you I like doing reviews in public. I think a "new upstream version" bug against the package is a good place because it means that if either of us drops it, our work is easily available as a starting point for others. Regards, Ian. --

Bug#948831: ImportError: No module named cachecontrol

2020-02-23 Thread Ian Jackson
documentation generation ? Thanks, Ian. (CCing various people who helped last time pydoctor broke...) -- 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#930869: Info received (Bug#930869: marked as done (Don't release with buster))

2020-02-18 Thread Ian Jackson
Control: close -1 Michael, I am the maintainer of this package. As the maintainer I have declared this a non-bug. Reopening it is pure bug tag. Ie, it is abuse. Please stop. Ian. -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. If I emailed you from an address @fyvzl.net or @evade.org.uk

Bug#951502: openscad: uses plenty of cpu when idle

2020-02-17 Thread Ian Jackson
Package: openscad Version: 2019.05-3 Severity: normal An idle copy of openscad uses about 7% of the CPU on my very fast laptop. stracing it shows it polling, with a short timeout. Some of this work is to spot changes to input files, but it calls call poll() many times for each time it actually

Bug#930869: marked as done (Don't release with buster)

2020-02-15 Thread Ian Jackson
Debian Bug Tracking System writes ("Bug#930869: marked as done (Don't release with buster)"): > The new maintainer, Ian Jackson, seems to be quite busy, and did not > decide yet whether to drop the i386 parts. But, even if untestable > for most of us, they're unlikely to

Bug#951395: missing source pstoedit.pro

2020-02-15 Thread Ian Jackson
for the conversion script(s) ? 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#951394: pstoedit fails with findfont error with gs 9.26

2020-02-15 Thread Ian Jackson
eturn status 256 executed command : /usr/bin/gs -q -dDELAYBIND -dWRITESYSTEMDICT -dNODISPLAY -dNOEPS "/tmp/psinZUL0CV" The interpreter seems to have failed, cannot proceed ! $ -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. If I emailed you from an address @fyvzl.net or @evade.org

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

2020-02-13 Thread Ian Jackson
I would accept patches. Preferably as a git branch - you can find the git history with `dgit clone' - but any other format would be welcome. Since I wouldn't use this feature myself I don't currently intend to implement it myself. Regards, Ian. -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own.

Bug#950612: debrebase new-upstream -i syntax confusion

2020-02-04 Thread Ian Jackson
# uses tag, eg "v1.2.3" but this is in general broken No -i etc. mentioned in full description of new-upstream What actually works is this git debrebase -fupstream-not-ff new-upstream 4.13.0+10-g721f2c323c-1 \ upstream/4.13.0+10-g721f2c323c -i -- Ian JacksonThese opinion

Bug#950326: dgit: can't import binutils 2.33.90.20200122-2

2020-02-02 Thread Ian Jackson
635b2a6e7d55503a75ace034d96326d5b2197798 You can just dpkg-buildpackage -uc -b and dpkg -i the .deb. Upload will probably be tomorrow. 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

Bug#950326: dgit: can't import binutils 2.33.90.20200122-2

2020-02-01 Thread Ian Jackson
not the case then please feel free to downgrade or even close this report against gbp. 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#950326: dgit: can't import binutils 2.33.90.20200122-2

2020-02-01 Thread Ian Jackson
> The system is running buster, git is at version 1:2.20.1-2+deb10u1 > git-buildpackage is at 0.9.14 and dgit is at 9.9~bpo10+1 Thanks. I have reproduced the problem. -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. If I emailed you from an address @fyvzl.net or @evade.org.uk, that is a p

Bug#950326: dgit: can't import binutils 2.33.90.20200122-2

2020-02-01 Thread Ian Jackson
be able to reproduce this on stretch. What versions of git-buildpackage and git do you have installed ? 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#950326: dgit: can't import binutils 2.33.90.20200122-2

2020-01-31 Thread Ian Jackson
gt; gbp:error: Failed to apply > '/build/git/b/binutils/.git/dgit/unpack/binutils-2.33.90.20200122/debian/patches/001_ld_makefile_patch.patch': > Failed to commit tree: fatal: invalid date format: ?? > gbp:error: Couldn't apply patches > gbp pq import failed: subprocess failed with er

Bug#949949: should mention LD_PRELOAD in Description

2020-01-27 Thread Ian Jackson
Package: authbind Version: 2.1.2 -- 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#948419: Please drop bash-completion Recommends

2020-01-08 Thread Ian Jackson
Package: dput-ng Version: 1.13+deb9u1 I don't think this Recommends makes sense. I think in general it is wrong to Recommend bash-completion. If the user doesn't have it installed that's probably because they don't like it... Ian. -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. If I emailed

Bug#940028: debian-installer multi-console race with preseeding

2019-12-23 Thread Ian Jackson
Thanks for the patch. Unfortunately (due mostly to me flailing) my tests of this are so far inconclusive. I will get back to this in January. Regards, Ian.

Bug#940028: debian-installer multi-console race with preseeding

2019-12-20 Thread Ian Jackson
Ian Jackson writes ("debian-installer multi-console race with preseeding"): > A workaround is to specify *exactly one* appropriate console= > on the kernel command line. This causes the kernel to report only > that console in /proc/consoles and the bug is avoided. This

Bug#946956: mime-base64to8bit mime base64 text -> raw text tool

2019-12-18 Thread Ian Jackson
ied a manpage, help message, etc. This program is useful with formail to work around a bug in git-am, where if it gets a base64-encoded patch it fails because the base64 correctly contains cr-lf line endings. Ian. #!/usr/bin/perl -w # Copyright (C)2019 Citrix plc # Author: Ian Jackson # GPLv3+

Bug#940028: debian-installer multi-console race with preseeding

2019-12-17 Thread Ian Jackson
I just experienced this bug. Thanks for some very useful hints and pointers from Colin Watson. This is particularly awkward to debug because one of the parallel invocations of d-i is usually invisible. And the precise results are the results of races and can be different from one run to

Bug#934491: libelogind0: failing to switch from systemd to sysvinit-core/elogind results in libsystemd.so.0 disappearing

2019-10-30 Thread Ian Jackson
. Mark wrote: | Are you satisfied that this bug can be closed? So, I think this bug should be closed now, unless there is something that remains to be done to improve things here. Thanks, Ian. -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. If I emailed you from an address @fyvzl.net

Bug#940034: libelogind0: replacing a core system library and conflicting against the default init considered harmful

2019-10-30 Thread Ian Jackson
bug ought to be closed. Everything in it has been dealt with, one way or another. If there are any remaining particular, specific, issues or problems, it would probably be most convenient if they were filed as individual bugs. That would let us get to grips with them properly. Thanks, Ian. -- I

Bug#943729: lvcreate -Z y does not imply -W y contrary to manual ?

2019-10-28 Thread Ian Jackson
Package: lvm2 Version: 2.02.168-2 I have encountered a situation where: 2019-10-28 16:45:09 Z executing ssh ... root@172.16.144.40 lvcreate -Z y -L 1M -n debianhvm.guest.osstest-disk italia0-vg WARNING: dos signature detected on /dev/italia0-vg/debianhvm.guest.osstest-disk at offset 510.

Bug#943374: dgit push-source fails and loses a package version number without retries

2019-10-24 Thread Ian Jackson
Russ Allbery writes ("Bug#943374: dgit push-source fails and loses a package version number without retries"): > Package: dgit > Version: 9.9 > Severity: normal > > This was unpleasant: How annoying. > The network from which I was trying to do dgit push-source had 20% packet > loss. If the

Bug#942866: /usr/bin/getconf: getconf(1) should mention sysconf

2019-10-22 Thread Ian Jackson
. libc-bin suggests no packages. -- no debconf information >From 90d97e44554a3f1a8b3d5739598337da480c7e37 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ian Jackson Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2019 15:15:30 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] getconf(1): Mention `sysconf', mostly for the benefit of search This makes this handy utility cons

Bug#778564: Should be possible to preseed ntp server

2019-09-30 Thread Ian Jackson
Just to confirm that this is still an issue in current buster. Ian.

Bug#789798: Bug#792547: grub-installer: add option to _not_ install to UEFI boot order

2019-09-24 Thread Ian Jackson
Ian Jackson writes ("Bug#792547: grub-installer: add option to _not_ install to UEFI boot order"): > I see that Ian C updated this patch (in July 2015) and reported > testing it successfully. Is it now OK ? every Debian release I update our workaround to apply to the current rel

Bug#940649: git-debrebase checkout rune

2019-09-18 Thread Ian Jackson
tests at least as reliable (I think I may have seen some anomalies with strange corner cases with the original runes above, but I haven't tried a systematic repro). (It is also rather mad.) Ian. -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. If I emailed you from an address @fyvzl.net or @evade.

Bug#940589: git-debpush: undeclared perl dependency

2019-09-17 Thread Ian Jackson
64-linux-gnu/perl-base) at > /usr/bin/git-deborig line 93. This is odd. I wonder why the tests don't catch it. Anyway thanks for the report. 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#940588: git-debpush: pipefail in get_file_from_ref

2019-09-17 Thread Ian Jackson
yes | head -1 ; then id; fi' + set -o pipefail + yes + head -1 y mariner:~> 11:39 that’s more readable to me at least 11:40 I guess the performance is not really a consideration since it's O(n) either way 11:40 (both because the worst case is O(n) and because the rest

Bug#940590: git-debpush: error message unclear

2019-09-17 Thread Ian Jackson
wo messages as going together, even in the presence of other noise 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#935443: [PATCH] dgit-maint-bpo(7): Mention occasional need for --new

2019-09-14 Thread Ian Jackson
Sean Whitton writes ("Bug#935443: [PATCH] dgit-maint-bpo(7): Mention occasional need for --new"): > On Mon 09 Sep 2019 at 01:38PM +01, Ian Jackson wrote: > > But if you prefer it towards the end then OK. > > I don't think it's that odd to put it before TERMINOLOGY b

Bug#935443: [PATCH] dgit-maint-bpo(7): Mention occasional need for --new

2019-09-09 Thread Ian Jackson
Ian Jackson writes ("Re: Bug#935443: [PATCH] dgit-maint-bpo(7): Mention occasional need for --new"): > The text describing the workflows is very long. Many people who read > this manual will already know roughly how to do backports with git and > will already have cho

Bug#935443: [PATCH] dgit-maint-bpo(7): Mention occasional need for --new

2019-09-09 Thread Ian Jackson
ow to do it with dgit. I thought this bit about --new was important enough to go above all that. But it felt very odd to put it above TERMINOLOGY which probably ought to come first. But if you prefer it towards the end then OK. Thanks, Ian. -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. If I em

Bug#848816: dgit: detect gbp export-dir configuration, and prefill build-products-dir

2019-09-08 Thread Ian Jackson
ntain the registry since devscripts maintainers don't want it". Open questios then are filename and syntax but maybe -devel can tell us what to use. Ian. -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. If I emailed you from an address @fyvzl.net or @evade.org.uk, that is a private add

Bug#935443: [PATCH] dgit-maint-bpo(7): Mention occasional need for --new

2019-09-08 Thread Ian Jackson
Sean Whitton writes ("Re: Bug#935443: [PATCH] dgit-maint-bpo(7): Mention occasional need for --new"): > On Thu 05 Sep 2019 at 04:50PM +01, Ian Jackson wrote: > > +=head1 GENERAL TIPS > > + > > +The first time a package is backported > > +for any particul

Bug#935874: fetch can fail due to mirror lag

2019-09-06 Thread Ian Jackson
Control: severity -1 important Ian Jackson writes ("Re: fetch can fail due to mirror lag"): > The http changes in 9.6 broke this. I just experienced it myself and > was able to repro and write a fix. Also, given that this is a bug in 9.6 and later, I think the experienced frequ

Bug#935874: fetch can fail due to mirror lag

2019-09-06 Thread Ian Jackson
Control: tags -1 pending Control: fixed -1 9.5 The http changes in 9.6 broke this. I just experienced it myself and was able to repro and write a fix. I need to add a test case for it too. Ian. -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. If I emailed you from an address @fyvzl.net

Bug#939564: needs to follow http redirect

2019-09-06 Thread Ian Jackson
/dgit/dgit_9.7.dsc gave HTTP code 302 -- 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#848816: dgit: detect gbp export-dir configuration, and prefill build-products-dir

2019-09-06 Thread Ian Jackson
sers each of these commands.) This ought to work without depending on any of these utilities, and without depending on git, etc. I think this means we need a Debian-wide env var or a config file. Ian. -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. If I emailed you from an address @

Bug#939504: dgit-maint-{merge,debrebase}(7): Use git fetch --all --tags

2019-09-05 Thread Ian Jackson
If you like this idea please send another patch. 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#935443: [PATCH] dgit-maint-bpo(7): Mention occasional need for --new

2019-09-05 Thread Ian Jackson
Ian Jackson writes ("[PATCH] dgit-maint-bpo(7): Mention occasional need for --new"): > Closes: #935443 > Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson Rereading the bug description I thought a 2nd patch was needed. Thanks, Ian. -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. If I emailed you

Bug#935443: [PATCH] dgit-maint-bpo(7): Mention occasional need for --new

2019-09-05 Thread Ian Jackson
Closes: #935443 Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson --- dgit-maint-bpo.7.pod | 8 ++-- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/dgit-maint-bpo.7.pod b/dgit-maint-bpo.7.pod index e977d258..e776a478 100644 --- a/dgit-maint-bpo.7.pod +++ b/dgit-maint-bpo.7.pod @@ -47,6 +47,12

Bug#935890: Rename "dgit push-source" to "dgit push"

2019-09-05 Thread Ian Jackson
that users probably want push-source rather than push-built. > On Thu 05 Sep 2019 at 09:46AM +01, Ian Jackson wrote: > > Is this worth the disruption ? > > If what I just wrote is the only reason for doing this, then I'm not > convinced that it is. Fair enough. Maybe

Bug#928473: [PATCH] dgit(1): Improve description of --new, and be more encouraging

2019-09-05 Thread Ian Jackson
Control: tags -1 patch Comments on this proposed text would be very welcome - particularly, does it address the problem with discoverability/encouragement of --new ? Thanks, Ian. -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. If I emailed you from an address @fyvzl.net or @evade.org.uk

Bug#928473: [PATCH 1/2] dgit(1): Cover more cases of --overwrite and --deliberately

2019-09-05 Thread Ian Jackson
Control: tags -1 patch Comments on this proposed text would be very welcome - particularly, does it address the problem with discoverability/encouragement/choice of --overwrite vs --deliberately. Thanks, Ian. -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. If I emailed you from an address

Bug#928473: [PATCH] dgit(1): Improve description of --new, and be more encouraging

2019-09-05 Thread Ian Jackson
Closes: #935443 Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson --- dgit.1 | 13 + 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/dgit.1 b/dgit.1 index 8969e2f2..c270b303 100644 --- a/dgit.1 +++ b/dgit.1 @@ -630,11 +630,16 @@ fails even on ignored untracked files. This could perhaps

Bug#928473: [PATCH 2/2] Terminology: Change "rewind" to "rewrite" where appropriate

2019-09-05 Thread Ian Jackson
t(1) means "any push that isn't a fast-forward". I don't > know if I'm the only one for whom it has that connotation. This makes sense. So, I am changing uses of "rewind" which do not mean precisely going back to an ancestor. I think we can often use the word "re

Bug#928473: [PATCH 1/2] dgit(1): Cover more cases of --overwrite and --deliberately

2019-09-05 Thread Ian Jackson
Closes: #928473 Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson --- dgit.1 | 10 -- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/dgit.1 b/dgit.1 index 29825c2c..2c224294 100644 --- a/dgit.1 +++ b/dgit.1 @@ -679,6 +679,7 @@ unless you know what you are doing. This option is useful if you

Bug#904969: dgit: should pass --no-source-only-changes to sbuild

2019-09-05 Thread Ian Jackson
where the user has already made an earlier intervention. 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.

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