Bug#918438: orig tarball components with uppercase letters

2019-01-15 Thread Ian Jackson
ith some wording about versions and orig component names, or the filenames implied thereby, being globally unique. Ian. -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. If I emailed you from an address @fyvzl.net or @evade.org.uk, that is a private address which bypasses my fierce spamfilter.

Bug#918384: [PATCH 1/6] documentation style: "appropriate configuration" as a mass noun

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Bug#918384: dgit: typo suggestions in man pages

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

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

2019-01-07 Thread Ian Jackson
ule or a weaker normative status, than to invoke the TC for this issue, IMO. IOW I don't think this is important enough to escalate. HTH. Ian. -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. If I emailed you from an address @fyvzl.net or @evade.org.uk, that is a private address which bypasses my fierce spamfilter.

Bug#917995: debian-policy: drop section 1.6 Translations

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

Bug#918438: orig tarball components with uppercase letters

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

Bug#918438: orig tarball components with uppercase letters

2019-01-07 Thread Ian Jackson
ion (ii) would have to be clearly stated and then implemented in dak and reprepro and launchpad (at least). Does that make sense ? Ian. -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. If I emailed you from an address @fyvzl.net or @evade.org.uk, that is a private address which bypasses my fierce spamfilter.

Bug#918548: About possibility to translate AppArmor tunables

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

Bug#918384: dgit: typo suggestions in man pages

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

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

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

Bug#918384: dgit: typo suggestions in man pages

2019-01-06 Thread Ian Jackson
eing changed. As for the rest, I agree with Sean's comments. Paul, would you care to respin the patch ? I'm planning an upload soon today but I can wait a few hours if that would get thwse changes included. Regards, Ian. -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. If I emailed you from an address @fyvzl.net or @evade.org.uk, that is a private address which bypasses my fierce spamfilter.

Bug#918438: orig tarball components with uppercase letters

2019-01-06 Thread Ian Jackson
eed dgit itself has both Debian/ and debian/ subdirectories. -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. If I emailed you from an address @fyvzl.net or @evade.org.uk, that is a private address which bypasses my fierce spamfilter.

Bug#918253: #918253: dgit: [INTL:nl] Dutch po file for the dgit-user_7 manpage

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

2019-01-06 Thread Ian Jackson
the files, and then succeed. Regards, Ian. -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. If I emailed you from an address @fyvzl.net or @evade.org.uk, that is a private address which bypasses my fierce spamfilter.

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

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

Bug#918438: orig tarball components with uppercase letters

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

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

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

Bug#918438: orig tarball components with uppercase letters

2019-01-05 Thread Ian Jackson
and I am confident that dpkg-source would actually reject those. -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. If I emailed you from an address @fyvzl.net or @evade.org.uk, that is a private address which bypasses my fierce spamfilter.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

2019-01-05 Thread Ian Jackson
sen-common 3.0.4 Versions of packages elpa-rust-mode recommends: ii emacs 1:25.2+1-11 ii emacs-gtk [emacs] 1:25.2+1-11 elpa-rust-mode suggests no packages. -- no debconf information >From e265960c856f7c3c4ecadeb3350aa2fb5655f252 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ian Jackson Dat

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

2018-12-08 Thread Ian Jackson
e but they dono't seem like crises... Regards, Ian. -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. If I emailed you from an address @fyvzl.net or @evade.org.uk, that is a private address which bypasses my fierce spamfilter.

Bug#850157: Please deprecate all ad-hoc patch systems

2018-12-07 Thread Ian Jackson
he cost of educating everyone, let alone fighting over it, would be disproportionate. Thanks, Ian. -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. If I emailed you from an address @fyvzl.net or @evade.org.uk, that is a private address which bypasses my fierce spamfilter.

Bug#914897: debating the wrong thing

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

Bug#914897: debating the wrong thing

2018-12-03 Thread Ian Jackson
lly nasty. The problem comes when a niche optional feature, with wide-ranging implications, is suddenly promoted to the default, without proper consultation and without a proper transition plan. Ian. -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. If I emailed you from an address @fyvzl.net or @ev

Bug#914695: dgit autopkgtest breaks with git 2.20

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

Bug#914945: separate vm does not work with xemacs21

2018-11-28 Thread Ian Jackson
ng emacsen-common install and remove. See the files debian/vm.emacsen-install debian/vm.emacsen-remove in the source package. Ian. -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. If I emailed you from an address @fyvzl.net or @evade.org.uk, that is a private address which bypasses my fierce spamfilter.

Bug#914695: dgit autopkgtest breaks with git 2.20

2018-11-28 Thread Ian Jackson
nt I can provide a minimal test case but this should suffice to see the bug I hope... Thanks, Ian. -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. If I emailed you from an address @fyvzl.net or @evade.org.uk, that is a private address which bypasses my fierce spamfilter.

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

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

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

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

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

2018-11-28 Thread Ian Jackson
e can have a proper conversation about what the plan ought to be for buster and bullseye. Ian. -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. If I emailed you from an address @fyvzl.net or @evade.org.uk, that is a private address which bypasses my fierce spamfilter.

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

2018-11-28 Thread Ian Jackson
it will be most convenient to file a separate bug for that. Ian. -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. If I emailed you from an address @fyvzl.net or @evade.org.uk, that is a private address which bypasses my fierce spamfilter.

Bug#914898: debootstrap, stretch-backports: Please disabled merged /usr by default

2018-11-28 Thread Ian Jackson
f I am wrong.) -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. If I emailed you from an address @fyvzl.net or @evade.org.uk, that is a private address which bypasses my fierce spamfilter.

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

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

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

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

Bug#914695: dgit autopkgtest breaks with git 2.20

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

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

2018-11-22 Thread Ian Jackson
and make the appropriate change, soon ? If not then one of us could probably prepare a patch, if that would be helpful. Thanks, Ian. -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. If I emailed you from an address @fyvzl.net or @evade.org.uk, that is a private address which bypasses my fierce spamfilter.

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

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

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

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

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

2018-11-22 Thread Ian Jackson
I don't know what `systemd redirection' is. Why does it not work ? Can it be fixed ? Ian. -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. If I emailed you from an address @fyvzl.net or @evade.org.uk, that is a private address which bypasses my fierce spamfilter.

Bug#822753: /lib/init/init-d-script: exit 0 at end of script prevents all other exit codes

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

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

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

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

2018-11-20 Thread Ian Jackson
x is easy, again: add a Build-Conflicts. Ian. -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. If I emailed you from an address @fyvzl.net or @evade.org.uk, that is a private address which bypasses my fierce spamfilter.

Bug#822753: /lib/init/init-d-script: exit 0 at end of script prevents all other exit codes

2018-11-16 Thread Ian Jackson
do /not/ volonteer >to fix them. I agree with this. > All in all, let us remove last line in `init-d-script'. I haven't looked at this. Are you happy for me to take your word for how to implement what you suggest, or do you want me to do a code review ? Regards, Ian. -- Ian JacksonThese op

Bug#718416: closed by Dmitry Bogatov ()

2018-11-16 Thread Ian Jackson
for the *first* getty to spawn on tty1 not to clear the screen. We probably can't manage that. But failing that my current opinion is that we should change the default inittab to pass --noclear for tty1. Dmitry, what do you think ? (I have reopened this bug for now while we reconsider it. I

Bug#746442: Please make /etc/rc.local non-executable by default

2018-11-16 Thread Ian Jackson
he good technical work being done 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 spamfilter.

Bug#746442: Please make /etc/rc.local non-executable by default

2018-11-15 Thread Ian Jackson
n. Although please don't use the word "veto". I don't think any of us here have a veto. I see that Benda has closed the bug, jolly good. 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#913800: libpam-elogind-compat will always be RC-buggy

2018-11-15 Thread Ian Jackson
release. We do not intend to upload libpam-elogind-compat to sid, so it ought not to propagate to testing. But I am filing this bug in case it is uploaded to sid accidentally, and to help document the situation. Ian. -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. If I emailed you from an address

Bug#913676: Mangled warning message

2018-11-13 Thread Ian Jackson
Package: dgit-infrastructure Version: 6.0 Severity: minor I just saw this message: remote: Forcing due to --deliberately---deliberately-include-questionable-history -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. If I emailed you from an address @fyvzl.net or @evade.org.uk, that is a private

Bug#913659: Document that not all bugs are policy violations

2018-11-13 Thread Ian Jackson
evaluated on their merits. 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#913572: Shouldn't shipping broken symlinks be against policy?

2018-11-13 Thread Ian Jackson
G. Branden Robinson writes ("Re: Shouldn't shipping broken symlinks be against policy?"): > At 2018-11-13T17:02:49+, Ian Jackson wrote: > > I guess the maintainer will also think this is a bug. > > No; he closed it, and cited Policy's lack of a prohibition of s

Bug#913572: Shouldn't shipping broken symlinks be against policy?

2018-11-13 Thread Ian Jackson
G. Branden Robinson writes ("Shouldn't shipping broken symlinks be against policy?"): > Not reopening, but I have some questions for the Policy team. ... > I could have sworn you were incorrect, but sure enough, I read ยง10.5 > carefully and grepped the rest of the policy manual and could find no

Bug#726953: #726953: dgit fails with submodules

2018-11-13 Thread Ian Jackson
things listed which are not submodules are ignored (so the processing is idempotent) I may implement stripping before I implement filling in. 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#913648: dgit should fail early if bpd does not exist

2018-11-13 Thread Ian Jackson
Package: dgit Version: 8.1 I keep finding that I `dgit clone' or `dgit fetch' and it downloads some stuff and then falls over because bpd doesn't exist. This is mildly irritating. Ian. -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. If I emailed you from an address @fyvzl.net or @evade.org.uk

Bug#845715: Required targets must not write outside of the source package tree

2018-11-13 Thread Ian Jackson
a user's config files and/or to prevent > unwanted config files being created. Having said all that, I don't know if it would be worth explicitly mentioning this very general and useful technique for the benefit of readers who haven't osmosed or reinvented it. Thanks, Ian. -- Ian J

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

2018-11-12 Thread Ian Jackson
Sean Whitton writes ("Bug#824495: debian-policy: Source packages "can" declare relationships"): > On Thu 08 Nov 2018 at 02:51PM GMT, Ian Jackson wrote: > > Or to put it another way: > > > > Package builds MAY be influenced by the presence in the buil

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

2018-11-12 Thread Ian Jackson
r permitted by my (ii) is probably common. So we cannot forbid it with a MUST. 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#408954: checkroot.sh: should not skip running fsck with JFS root

2018-11-12 Thread Ian Jackson
Adam Borowski writes ("Bug#408954: checkroot.sh: should not skip running fsck with JFS root"): > Running fsck at boot is useless and harmful for any modern filesystem. > Sure, for ext2 it was needed to at least somewhat reduce data loss you just > suffered, but anything newer is crash safe. I

Bug#904862: dgit: should pass --no-source-only-changes to pbuilder

2018-11-11 Thread Ian Jackson
gram!:OPTION,... which deletes OPTION ... from @program ? So you could say dgit --pbuilder!:--no-source-only-changes IDK if that, plus maybe documenting this in the changelog, would be enough to avoid thinking we need Breaks: pbuilder (<<...). Ian. -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my

Bug#913189: [Pkg-tcltk-devel] Bug#913189: /usr/bin/tclsh8.6: `file delete' can produce EFAULT

2018-11-09 Thread Ian Jackson
Stefan Sobernig writes ("Re: [Pkg-tcltk-devel] Bug#913189: /usr/bin/tclsh8.6: `file delete' can produce EFAULT"): > Just to be clear: The manpage of [file delete] states that > > Trying to delete a non-existent file is not considered an error. > > see

Bug#913259: import-dsc relative path error

2018-11-08 Thread Ian Jackson
bpam-elogind-compat_1.0.tar.gz -> Compat/libpam-elogind-compat_1.0.tar.gz zealot:libpam-elogind-compat> I think this is a missing $bpd or some such. -- 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

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

2018-11-08 Thread Ian Jackson
Michael Biebl writes ("Bug#913247: Please provide a C implementation of /lib/init/init-d-script"): > Package: sysvinit-utils > Version: 2.88dsf-59.11 > Severity: normal > File: /lib/init/init-d-script ... > This is such an ugly construct that so far I did not want to use > init-d-script for any

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

2018-11-08 Thread Ian Jackson
MUST NOT have any significant effect. Any additional package which could reasonably form part of a default install for a development workstation SHOULD NOT have any significant effect. Ian. -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. If I emailed you from an address @fyvzl.net or @evade.o

Bug#912426: git-debrebase: mangled conversion from base64

2018-11-07 Thread Ian Jackson
David Bremner writes ("Bug#912426: git-debrebase: mangled conversion from base64"): > A workaround seems to be round trip the patches via gbp-pq; this > switched the encoding to 8bit from base64. I tried this and it does just the same thing as git-debrebase does, as I would have predicted. That

Bug#586709: closed by Thomas Goirand

2018-11-07 Thread Ian Jackson
echanism, running /sbin/halt sometimes does not have the desired and documented effect. So, anyway, reopening this bug. 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#912426: git-debrebase: mangled conversion from base64

2018-11-07 Thread Ian Jackson
Control: reassign -1 git-buildpackage 0.8.12.2 Hi Guido. This is another weirdness with gbp pq conversion. To reproduce: git clone https://salsa.debian.org/bremner/nullmailer cd nullmailer git checkout -b bug912426 debian/1%2.1-7 less

Bug#913189: /usr/bin/tclsh8.6: `file delete' can produce EFAULT

2018-11-07 Thread Ian Jackson
Package: tcl8.6 Version: 8.6.6+dfsg-1+b1 Severity: normal File: /usr/bin/tclsh8.6 To reproduce: $ rm -rf d $ mkdir d $ cd d $ rm -rf ../d $ env - pwd pwd: couldn't find directory entry in '..' with matching i-node $ tclsh8.6 % file delete spong error deleting "spong": bad address in system call

Bug#912381: xen-utils-4.11: /usr/lib/xen-4.11/bin/pygrub is missing after upgrade from xen-utils-4.8

2018-10-31 Thread Ian Jackson
> >> >> I see that there's no /usr/lib/xen-4.11/bin/pygrub indeed, and that's > >> >> something that sounds wrong. Apparently, noone involved in helping > >> >> getting Xen 4.11 into Debian so far has been a pygrub user. I swear I tested pygrub aftr making my renaming changes, but maybe only with

Bug#912426: git-debrebase: mangled conversion from base64

2018-10-31 Thread Ian Jackson
David Bremner writes ("Bug#912426: git-debrebase: mangled conversion from base64"): > debcheckout nullmailer > cd nullmailer && git reset --hard debian/1%2.1-7 > git debrebase --force convert-from-gdb upstream/2.1 > git log -1 master~3 > > A workaround seems to be round trip the patches via

Bug#903377: convert-from-gbp: `diverged', --overwrite if no previous dgit push

2018-10-29 Thread Ian Jackson
Sean Whitton writes ("Bug#903377: convert-from-gbp: `diverged', --overwrite if no previous dgit push"): > On Mon 09 Jul 2018 at 10:48AM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > > has arguably made things worse for a different use case: if the user > > goes straight from (i) gbp

Bug#905433: git-debrebase: debrebase new-upstream fails with "uninitialized value"

2018-10-29 Thread Ian Jackson
Control: retitle -1 provide convert-from-unapplied as alias for -from-gbp Sean Whitton writes ("Re: Bug#905433: git-debrebase: debrebase new-upstream fails with "uninitialized value""): > On Fri 05 Oct 2018 at 01:34PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > > To me "un

Bug#188731: debian-policy: "strip --strip-unneeded" is insufficient

2018-10-29 Thread Ian Jackson
. So either the policy shading (or whatever) needs to lag very substantially, or we need at least two kinds of shading. 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#590895: Bug#717531: marked as done (/sbin/shutdown: shutdown -P sets INIT_HALT to POWERDOWN instead of POWEROFF) [and 1 more messages]

2018-10-28 Thread Ian Jackson
I'm afriad closing the bug in the Debian BTS this way is premature. The fix is not in Debian yet. These bugs will be marked closed by the corresponding upload to Debian, assuming that the debian/changelog mentions them. The `fixed-upstream' tag is used for this state. Regards, Ian. -- Ian Jackson

Bug#811377: closed by Dmitry Bogatov (Bug#811377: fixed in sysvinit 2.88dsf-60)

2018-10-27 Thread Ian Jackson
id an upload to experimental intending to adopt the package, unaware of our efforts (in part because we failed to write to this RFA bug about them), but that we are welcoming him, or some such. Ian. -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. If I emailed you from an address @fyvzl.net or @eva

Bug#586709: closed by Thomas Goirand

2018-10-27 Thread Ian Jackson
Jesse Smith writes ("Bug#586709: closed by Thomas Goirand"): > That's just the thing, it is not a bug in this package. The bug exists > in the init scripts, not in the sysvinit package. On my stretch system here /etc/init.d/halt is in the `initscripts' package which comes from the `sysvinit'

Bug#907199: Should the weboob package stay in Debian?

2018-10-26 Thread Ian Jackson
new ones. So, should the next thing be an RM bug requesting the package be removed from unstable ? 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#586709: Think I found the problem

2018-10-26 Thread Ian Jackson
Jesse Smith writes ("Bug#586709: Think I found the problem"): > [implementation details] Thanks for looking at this bug. I'm afraid I don't think I agree that it should be closed, though. AFAICT the user's complaint is that, when halt or poweroff actually invoke shutdown, the actual

Bug#865086: [Pkg-xen-devel] Bug#865086: xen-hypervisor-4.8-amd64: Default grub entry broken with locales (how to reproduce)

2018-10-26 Thread Ian Jackson
Hans van Kranenburg writes ("[Pkg-xen-devel] Bug#865086: xen-hypervisor-4.8-amd64: Default grub entry broken with locales (how to reproduce)"): > What am I doing wrong, so that the first test already doesn't give me: > "Debian GNU/Linux, met Xen-hypervisor" You are missing the -d option to

Bug#906119: Should the weboob package stay in Debian?

2018-10-25 Thread Ian Jackson
Ian Jackson writes ("Re: Should the weboob package stay in Debian?"): > I look forward to hearing from the Debian maintainer, who I think is > the first point of contact for the management of the package in > Debian. I am concerned about the lack of progress. I would be

Bug#904302: Whether vendor-specific patch series should be permitted in the archive

2018-10-24 Thread Ian Jackson
Tollef Fog Heen writes ("Bug#904302: Whether vendor-specific patch series should be permitted in the archive"): > Second draft: ... > The Committee recognises that there is a need for packages to behave > differently when built on different distributions, but this should be > done by using

Bug#880554: #880554: max grant frames problem

2018-10-23 Thread Ian Jackson
, of course. For this reason in general bugs should be reported against src:xen rather than against binary packages with Xen versions in their package name. 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

Bug#911045: xenstore-utils: removal of xenstore-utils makes files disappear from xen-utils-common

2018-10-23 Thread Ian Jackson
Control: severity -1 normal Control: retitle -1 xenstore-utils should declare Breaks old xen-utils-common Ian Jackson writes ("Re: xenstore-utils: removal of xenstore-utils makes files disappear from xen-utils-common"): > Indeed I looked at the log and it does show a downgrade, no

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