Bug#865443: dgit: Want different deletion handling in split brain mode

2019-07-01 Thread Ian Jackson
V, > this new, readable message fixes the issue. Thanks. I think, based on this, that it is probably best to close this bug now. 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#930930: dgit: suggestion to use -wga/-wgfa could also suggest using -wn --include-dirty

2019-07-01 Thread Ian Jackson
git: You can use --clean=git[-ff],always (-wga/-wgfa) to delete them. dgit: To include them, you should probably git add and commit them. ? -- 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#930956: [PATCH] dgit-maint-debrebase(7): Minor wording change apropos of #930956

2019-07-01 Thread Ian Jackson
Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson --- dgit-maint-debrebase.7.pod | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/dgit-maint-debrebase.7.pod b/dgit-maint-debrebase.7.pod index 6ffa2301..d75a6586 100644 --- a/dgit-maint-debrebase.7.pod +++ b/dgit-maint-debrebase.7.pod @@ -375,7 +375,7

Bug#857490: [PATCH] dgit-maint-bpo(7): new manpage

2019-07-01 Thread Ian Jackson
the source format - git-ffqrebase (does not exist yet, #869993) - git-debrebase convert-from-dgit-view may help in some cases; I have used it for security updates with moderate success, but I think repeated conversions may be troublesome Ian. -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own

Bug#903392: Bug#931253: Bug#903392: want support for packaging-only maintainer views

2019-06-30 Thread Ian Jackson
quilt_mode and appear in messages. So if you say --baredebian+git you will get messages which say you specified "-quilt=baredebian". I hope that will be OK. 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#930922: [PATCH] dgit(1): In --include-dirty caveat, say "especially --clean=git"

2019-06-30 Thread Ian Jackson
Closes: #930922 Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson --- dgit.1 | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/dgit.1 b/dgit.1 index cf7b8c52..cb1cbe21 100644 --- a/dgit.1 +++ b/dgit.1 @@ -647,7 +647,7 @@ Note that this does .BR not prevent dgit from cleaning your tree, so

Bug#931253: Bug#903392: want support for packaging-only maintainer views

2019-06-30 Thread Ian Jackson
Sean Whitton writes ("Bug#931253: Bug#903392: want support for packaging-only maintainer views"): > On Sat 29 Jun 2019 at 02:55pm +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > > I could make baredebian+git an alias for it. Or, rename it. It's not > > released yet... > > I think i

Bug#903392: want support for packaging-only maintainer views

2019-06-29 Thread Ian Jackson
Sean Whitton writes ("Re: Bug#903392: want support for packaging-only maintainer views"): > On Sat 29 Jun 2019 at 02:55pm +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > > Sean Whitton writes ("Re: Bug#903392: want support for packaging-only > > maintainer views"): > >&

Bug#930922: dgit: combination of -wgf and --include-dirty nukes untracked files

2019-06-29 Thread Ian Jackson
Sean Whitton writes ("Re: Bug#930922: dgit: combination of -wgf and --include-dirty nukes untracked files"): > On Mon 24 Jun 2019 at 12:02pm +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > >> A possible alternative would be to actually add --include-all-dirty, but > >> the problem

Bug#903392: want support for packaging-only maintainer views

2019-06-29 Thread Ian Jackson
Control: clone -1 -2 Control: retitle -2 want bare-debian tarball-orig quilt mode Control: tags -2 - pending Sean Whitton writes ("Re: Bug#903392: want support for packaging-only maintainer views"): > On Thu 27 Jun 2019 at 05:23pm +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > > Secondly: >

Bug#931224: In default style, lettered lists come out as numbered

2019-06-28 Thread Ian Jackson
pe=A] {list-style-type:upper-alpha;}" in one of the > stylesheets that is applied later. Is there a good reason for the main CSS setting ? 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#931225: Please make Classic style the default

2019-06-28 Thread Ian Jackson
been using it as my personal style for some time and I have not noticed any misrendering. In the interests of correctness and readability of tables, at least, could the default style be changed (at least until the newer style is fixed) ? Thanks, Ian. -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own

Bug#931224: In default style, lettered lists come out as numbered

2019-06-28 Thread Ian Jackson
this in the HTML: | ... As noted in the introduction ... (It renders correctly in w3m.) 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#931213: rpush does not work with split brain quilt modes

2019-06-28 Thread Ian Jackson
, this is IMO a candidate for a stable update to buster. So I propose to push it, and the corresponding new test case, to the "stable" branch. Ian. >From 4b81844a96c1784123cb47463ec77c0ea47ee2fb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ian Jackson Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2019 12:32:18 +0100 Subject: [PATCH

Bug#931212: dgit should use distro-info-data.deb

2019-06-28 Thread Ian Jackson
Package: dgit Version: 8.4 Simon McVittie writes ("Re: getting rid of "testing""): > On Thu, 27 Jun 2019 at 12:04:39 +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > > [What is currently stable, etc.] is available via the ftpmaster API > > service, and by reading symlinks > &

Bug#903392: want support for packaging-only maintainer views

2019-06-27 Thread Ian Jackson
Sean Whitton writes ("Re: Bug#903392: want support for packaging-only maintainer views"): > On Sun 19 May 2019 at 11:24pm +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > > Sean, there is of course the other possibility, where upstream is only > > a tarball. I propose to intend to

Bug#930922: dgit: combination of -wgf and --include-dirty nukes untracked files

2019-06-24 Thread Ian Jackson
(-w...) option along with --include-dirty. maybe. Should --include-dirty --quilt={linear,smash} be treated as --quilt=nofix ? 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#930922: dgit: combination of -wgf and --include-dirty nukes untracked files

2019-06-22 Thread Ian Jackson
e the best person to suggest a docs patch :-). It would also be possible to issue a warning, but that would be too late; or require some kind of forcing option, but that is quite obnoxious for a useful combination of options. (I'm pretty sure I have used this combination myself; I have -wgf

Bug#930881: want dgit --quilt=debcherry

2019-06-21 Thread Ian Jackson
. From: David Bremner To: Ian Jackson Cc: debian-de...@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Survey: git packaging practices / repository format Date: Wed, 29 May 2019 18:36:01 -0300 Ian Jackson writes: > Hi. Thanks for your contributions which I am trying to capture, bu

Bug#865830: Copyright concerns regarding Seafile

2019-05-30 Thread Ian Jackson
a project, we do not have the resources to fully audit all the code we ingest from upstreams and redistribute to our users. We must rely on trust. That depends on the upstream being trustworthy. Ian. -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. If I emailed you from an address @f

Bug#929571: unblock: dgit/8.5

2019-05-26 Thread Ian Jackson
Control: tag -1 - moreinfo Jonathan Wiltshire writes ("Re: Bug#929571: unblock: dgit/8.5"): > On Sun, May 26, 2019 at 11:12:28AM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > > I attach the git commit which explains the details. Assuming you give > > the go-ahead, I will upload this with

Bug#929571: unblock: dgit/8.5

2019-05-26 Thread Ian Jackson
=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init) >From d28467db161d0590469b5f8e1115f84858d66e06 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ian Jackson Date: Sun, 26 May 2019 10:50:23 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Replace `confess $!' with `confess "$!"', to actually

Bug#929549: confess $! does not work

2019-05-25 Thread Ian Jackson
1. $ so the fix, while textually huge, is simple. *sigh* 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#929494: Workaround

2019-05-24 Thread Ian Jackson
this should be added to docs. Yes, please. Ideally next to the documentation for DefaultType. Not because people who did have DefaultType should use this, but because that's where you end up if you search the docs for "default". Thanks, Ian. -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are

Bug#929494: Please can we have DefaultType back

2019-05-24 Thread Ian Jackson
that DefaultType was previously needed basically everywhere, but is now not usually recommended. That's fine. I don't mind if I have to write ReallyDefaultTypeIPromiseIKnowWhatImDoing. Thanks, Ian. -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. If I emailed you from an address @fyvzl.net or @evade.org.uk

Bug#926640: want split brain mode with --quilt={linear,...} [and 1 more messages]

2019-05-20 Thread Ian Jackson
Ian Jackson writes ("want split brain mode with --quilt={linear,...}"): > I think all of --quilt={linear,auto,smash,nofix,nocheck} are > potentially coherent in split brain mode. FTR I am looking at this. Looking at the code structure I think some reorganisation will be neede

Bug#903392: want support for packaging-only maintainer views

2019-05-20 Thread Ian Jackson
Sean Whitton writes ("Bug#903392: want support for packaging-only maintainer views"): > On Sun 19 May 2019 at 11:24PM +01, Ian Jackson wrote: > > dgit will look for the corresponding upstream source tag with an > > algorithm like git-deborig's. In case that doesn't

Bug#901926: git-debrebase cannot invoke git-deborig (was: Re: some manpage feedback) [and 1 more messages]

2019-05-20 Thread Ian Jackson
In a private email conversation, I wrote: > Sean Whitton writes ("Re: git-debrebase cannot invoke git-deborig (was: Re: > some manpage feedback)"): > > On Sun, Jun 17 2018, Ian Jackson wrote: > > > The problem is control of what happens when none of the tags exi

Bug#903392: want support for packaging-only maintainer views

2019-05-20 Thread Ian Jackson
Sean Whitton writes ("Re: Bug#903392: want support for packaging-only maintainer views"): > On Sun 19 May 2019 at 11:24PM +01, Ian Jackson wrote: > > Sean, there is of course the other possibility, where upstream is only > > a tarball. I propose to intend to

Bug#903392: want support for packaging-only maintainer views

2019-05-19 Thread Ian Jackson
t doesn't work there will have to be an option to specify it explicitly. Anyone have any comments on these UI decisions ? 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#903392: See also #919597 / #903392

2019-05-19 Thread Ian Jackson
the other. 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#923732: dgit-infrastructure: --deliberately-include-questionable-history required for every single push

2019-05-19 Thread Ian Jackson
Control: clone -1 -2 Control: reopen -2 Control: retitle -2 fix test for taint removal Control: severity -2 normal Ian Jackson writes ("Re: Bug#923732: dgit-infrastructure: --deliberately-include-questionable-history required for every single push"): > Ian Jackson writes ("Re

Bug#928666: Want dgit FAQ

2019-05-19 Thread Ian Jackson
derstand what a "git workflow" even is. Also this FAQ is aimed at Debian maintainers. Do we need a separate section for users ? For NMUers ? Eg I am a downstream of Debian; how should I use dgit ? (which comes up a fair amount). But we have less of a need for a PR offensive t

Bug#928503: Want "dgit reportbug" to submit a patch, or something

2019-05-13 Thread Ian Jackson
if the NMUer used vcs-git and some salsa branch ? What if the NMUer uses some gbp pq NMU workflow (I have no idea if such a thing is even possible, but I bet there are people who do something like this) ? What if the NMUer manually created a file in debian/patches ? etc. Ian. -- Ian Jackson

Bug#923091: That merged-usr is mandatory is RC

2019-05-13 Thread Ian Jackson
(sending this because I got the release team address wrong) Ian Jackson writes ("That merged-usr is mandatory is RC"): > Control: severity -1 serious > > In #923091, Guillem (with dpkg maintainer hat on) asks for a > base-installer option to allow installing bus

Bug#923091: That merged-usr is mandatory is RC

2019-05-13 Thread Ian Jackson
cohesion. CCing the TC FYI (they have already been involved in merged-usr debates via #914897) and the release team, in case they have an opinion. FAOD I am not a maintainer of base-files but AFAICT the base-files maintainer has not expressed an opinion about severity. Ian. -- Ian Jackson

Bug#928666: Want dgit FAQ

2019-05-12 Thread Ian Jackson
Sean Whitton writes ("Re: Bug#928666: Want dgit FAQ"): > I would like to just get this published on the Debian wiki as soon as > possible; let me know if you really want to avoid that, Ian. Great! Please go ahead. That's great. (I haven't reviewed these, but it's a wiki...) Ian.

Bug#903392: Preferred git branch structure when upstream moves from tarballs to git

2019-05-09 Thread Ian Jackson
workflows are wrong; it is a very religious kind of topic. Let us save that for a bar conversation some time ... 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#928704: dgit: add bash completion for command-line options

2019-05-09 Thread Ian Jackson
ded completion file (perhaps a partial one) and someone to ask questions. 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#928704: dgit: add bash completion for command-line options

2019-05-09 Thread Ian Jackson
questing > completion over options. This is a fine idea. However I don't use bash-completion because I personally find it annoying, and I have no idea how to do this. I would welcome contributions, even in the form of a skeleton or initial version which I could keep up to date. Thanks, Ian. --

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

2019-05-08 Thread Ian Jackson
theoretical. And someone with this workflow has other options. I hope this makes sense. 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#928666: Want dgit FAQ

2019-05-08 Thread Ian Jackson
Package: dgit Version: 8.4 -- 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#928554: dgit-nmu-simple should give an example of generating a patches-unapplied nmudiff

2019-05-07 Thread Ian Jackson
nerate a good > patches-unapplied nmudiff, so I looked for guidance in the man page and > didn't find any. Mmm. My 3rd rune above will do this, I think. (Untested.) 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#850560: Want `dgit nmudiff`

2019-05-07 Thread Ian Jackson
See also #928554, "dgit-nmu-simple should give an example of generating a patches-unapplied nmudiff" -- 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#928473: dgit: not clear what to do when earlier uploads used dgit but intermediate ones didn't

2019-05-06 Thread Ian Jackson
Colin Watson writes ("Bug#928473: dgit: not clear what to do when earlier uploads used dgit but intermediate ones didn't"): > On Sun, May 05, 2019 at 08:31:14PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > > --overwrite is intended for this situation. The documentation talking > > about

Bug#928503: Want "dgit reportbug" to submit a patch, or something

2019-05-06 Thread Ian Jackson
ink this is actionable, if we allow "do the actual design" to be an action. I have a lot of wishlist bugs that are like this. 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#928473: dgit: not clear what to do when earlier uploads used dgit but intermediate ones didn't

2019-05-05 Thread Ian Jackson
ers of a package to use > dgit and some not, and this is exactly the kind of situation that arises > from that. I think the documentation should encourage you to use --overwrite. Indeed I would encourage you to do that. You are free to use --deliberately-not-fast-forward if you wan

Bug#914398: git-branchmove: does not respect insteadOf, pushInsteadOf git configuration keys

2019-05-03 Thread Ian Jackson
Sean Whitton writes ("Re: Bug#914398: git-branchmove: does not respect insteadOf, pushInsteadOf git configuration keys"): > On Fri 03 May 2019 at 11:10AM +01, Ian Jackson wrote: > > While you're at it, I don't suppose you fancy implementing an option > > to automatically

Bug#914398: git-branchmove: does not respect insteadOf, pushInsteadOf git configuration keys

2019-05-03 Thread Ian Jackson
can be done to a non-shell remote since there's no way to modify a symref ...) 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#928365: dgit: more helpful error when --quilt=gbp but you meant --quilt=dpm?

2019-05-03 Thread Ian Jackson
--quilt= or use --quilt=dpm instead, > or something along those lines. This is a useful suggestion. But also I want to see why the existing quilt mode guessing code didn't make a useful suggestion in your case. 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#914398: git-branchmove: does not respect insteadOf, pushInsteadOf git configuration keys

2019-05-02 Thread Ian Jackson
Sean Whitton writes ("Bug#914398: git-branchmove: does not respect insteadOf, pushInsteadOf git configuration keys"): > On Thu 22 Nov 2018 at 09:39PM -07, Sean Whitton wrote: > > git-branchmove ignores the git configuration keys insteadOf and > > pushInsteadOf. > > Beginnings of a fix

Bug#711853: insserv: Design bug: rcN.d unstable and not, maintainable

2019-04-18 Thread Ian Jackson
ould not take a patch which fails to parallelise things just because the existing links aren't parallel. 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#926938: reboot hangs, hung task, ohci_urb_dequeue [and 1 more messages]

2019-04-17 Thread Ian Jackson
Ian Jackson writes ("reboot hangs, hung task, ohci_urb_dequeue"): > They both hang, printing a message like the one belwo to their serial > console. The appearance of a new usb device during kernel reboot is > rather odd. ... > Apr 12 01:23:40.260056 Will now restart. &g

Bug#926938: reboot hangs, hung task, ohci_urb_dequeue

2019-04-12 Thread Ian Jackson
Package: src:linux Version: 4.9.144-3.1 I have two machines in the Xen Project CI lab which fail to reboot using the stock stretch kernel. They both hang, printing a message like the one belwo to their serial console. The appearance of a new usb device during kernel reboot is rather odd. Full

Bug#926876: unblock: chiark-utils/6.0.4

2019-04-12 Thread Ian Jackson
Control: tags -1 - moreinfo Niels Thykier writes ("Re: Bug#926876: unblock: chiark-utils/6.0.4"): > Please go ahead with the upload and remove the moreinfo tag when it is > ready to be unblocked. Done, and the buildds have finished. Thanks. Ian. -- Ian JacksonThese opi

Bug#926876: unblock: chiark-utils/6.0.4

2019-04-11 Thread Ian Jackson
) unstable; urgency=medium + + * sync-accounts: Fix perl syntax error. Closes:#865985. + * changelog: Document bug number for bugfix in 6.0.4~citrix1. + + -- + +chiark-utils (6.0.4~citrix1) unstable; urgency=medium + + * fishdescriptor: cast __errno_location correctly. Closes:#926858. + + -- Ian Jac

Bug#926858: fishdescriptor UB on LP64 platforms

2019-04-11 Thread Ian Jackson
later. This might in principle cause any kind of arbitrary lossage. >From 7adf096856bc7ae9735f570b25c2d20d9edde588 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ian Jackson Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2019 16:46:04 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] fishdescriptor: cast __errno_location correctly The return value from __errno_locat

Bug#926656: git-debrebase docs are intimidating

2019-04-08 Thread Ian Jackson
Package: git-debrebase Version: 8.4 Sam Hartman wrote the following me in private email. It is a apposite (and sadly hilarious) critique of the documentation. I am filing it here as a bug, with permission. Ian. -8<- From: Sam Hartman To: Ian Jackson Subject: Re: git debrebase is cool D

Bug#926640: want split brain mode with --quilt={linear,...}

2019-04-08 Thread Ian Jackson
m a config option. Ian. -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. If I emailed you from an address @fyvzl.net or @evade.org.uk, that is a private address which bypasses my fierce spamfilter.

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

2019-04-08 Thread Ian Jackson
Control: tag -1 + moreinfo > I have spent a while trying to reproduce this. I found that there is > indeed code which is supposed to remove taints when they are > overridden. > > It wasn't tested at all. But I wrote a sketch of a test, which I > thought would resemble what happened to this

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

2019-04-08 Thread Ian Jackson
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 bypasses

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

2019-04-05 Thread Ian Jackson
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 opinions are my own. If I emai

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 spen

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

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

2019-03-09 Thread Ian Jackson
. -- 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
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.org.uk

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

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-debr

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

2019-03-01 Thread Ian Jackson
t-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 your .gitignore changes into

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

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
arios. 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 address @fyvzl.net o

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

2019-02-27 Thread Ian Jackson
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 had forgotten t

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

2019-02-23 Thread Ian Jackson
, 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
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
stream 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 you from an address @fyvzl.net or @evade.

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: > >

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

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

2019-02-07 Thread Ian Jackson
ically 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 poor default

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

2019-02-05 Thread Ian Jackson
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
tually 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
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
g-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
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 bypasses my fi

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

2019-01-31 Thread Ian Jackson
. > 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
put. * "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.net or @evade.org.uk, that is a pr

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 documen

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.

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

2019-01-22 Thread Ian Jackson
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
lso 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 from an address @fyvz

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

2019-01-20 Thread Ian Jackson
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 my own. If I emailed you from

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

2019-01-20 Thread Ian Jackson
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, blocked by this one. Ian. -- Ian Jacks

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

2019-01-17 Thread Ian Jackson
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
lp 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
m 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 feel like that

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