Bug#904523: tcl8.6-doc: list syntax documentation inaccurate and hard to find

2018-07-24 Thread Ian Jackson
Package: tcl8.6-doc Version: 8.6.6+dfsg-1 Severity: minor lindex(3tcl) says: In extracting the element, lindex observes the same rules concerning braces and quotes and backslashes as the Tcl command interpreter; however, variable substitution and command

Bug#902981: Font-Awesome 5 no build system DFSG compatibility

2018-07-23 Thread Ian Jackson
hen there is no other build system, then upstream are doing the same manual thing that we are expecting ourselves, our users, and our downstreams to do. 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#813471: Seeking seconds for patch to permit some network access to localhost

2018-07-23 Thread Ian Jackson
rvices that >were started by the build process. Services started by the build > process must be shut down after use. LGTM. 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#904306: clone-reprepro test: "apt updated wrong number of Release files (), erk"

2018-07-23 Thread Ian Jackson
Sean Whitton writes ("Bug#904306: clone-reprepro test: "apt updated wrong number of Release files (), erk""): > On Mon 23 Jul 2018 at 10:47AM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > > Is your filesystem mounted `noatime' ? This might be #851873. > > It is indeed.

Bug#857316: dgit: please make --build-products-dir configurable

2018-07-23 Thread Ian Jackson
case just for this. I think it would be better to add the configuration option for a cross-section of existing tests. Probably, that would be, * introduce a new t-buildproductsdir-config subroutine * add it to the top of a selection of existing tests Do you want me to do that ? Thanks, Ian. -- Ian

Bug#904306: clone-reprepro test: "apt updated wrong number of Release files (), erk"

2018-07-23 Thread Ian Jackson
dgit: error: failed to obtain unstable: failed with error exit status 255 Is your filesystem mounted `noatime' ? This might be #851873. 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#904308: [PATCH] test suite: unset VISUAL, which interferes.

2018-07-23 Thread Ian Jackson
Ian Jackson writes ("[PATCH] test suite: unset EDITOR, which interferes."): > Closes:#904308. The Subject line of this patch was wrong but I think the code is right. Sean, can you test it please ? Ian.

Bug#904308: [PATCH] test suite: unset EDITOR, which interferes.

2018-07-23 Thread Ian Jackson
Closes:#904308. Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson --- debian/changelog | 2 +- tests/lib| 1 + 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog index 1d496bbc..c1ab7e75 100644 --- a/debian/changelog +++ b/debian/changelog @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ dgit

Bug#904308: test suite: git invokes $EDITOR/$VISUAL/sensible-editor

2018-07-23 Thread Ian Jackson
Ian Jackson writes ("Re: Bug#904308: test suite: git invokes $EDITOR/$VISUAL/sensible-editor"): > Can you please send me the output of >printenv | sort > ? Never mind. The problem is that a couple of the tests set EDITOR but do not set VISUAL. So it will run your VIS

Bug#904308: test suite: git invokes $EDITOR/$VISUAL/sensible-editor

2018-07-23 Thread Ian Jackson
Sean Whitton writes ("Bug#904308: test suite: git invokes $EDITOR/$VISUAL/sensible-editor"): > Source: dgit > Version: 5.10 > > When the test suite runs the user's configured editor can be invoked. > This can pop up new X windows and sometimes tests will fail. Sometimes > it is git that is

Bug#628515: Seeking seconds for patch to recommend verbose logs and define DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=terse

2018-07-22 Thread Ian Jackson
Sean Whitton writes ("Bug#628515: Seeking seconds for patch to recommend verbose logs and define DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=terse"): > I think that the use of 'maximally' is fine given that the previous > sentence is now qualified with 'reasonably'. Yes. > Here is the revised patch; David and Andrey,

Bug#628515: Seeking seconds for patch to recommend verbose logs and define DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=terse

2018-07-22 Thread Ian Jackson
Sean Whitton writes ("Bug#628515: Seeking seconds for patch to recommend verbose logs and define DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=terse"): > > +The package build should be as verbose as possible, except where the Are you sure "as verbose as {+reasonably+} possible" would not be better ? Imagine a build that,

Bug#841414: closed by Ian Jackson (Bug#841414: fixed in dgit 5.10)

2018-07-14 Thread Ian Jackson
Debian Bug Tracking System writes ("Bug#841414 closed by Ian Jackson (Bug#841414: fixed in dgit 5.10)"): > #841414: Should occasionally run git-gc in dgit-repos FAOD this is not only fixed in dgit in Debian sid, but also deployed on the Debian dgit server infrastructure. Ian.

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

2018-07-14 Thread Ian Jackson
e dgit view. Tangentially relevant is this change in dgit 2.13: Changed behaviour: * quilt fixup: Permit creation of patches which delete files, by psssing --include-removal to dpkg-source, and tolerating it when we do our quilt fixup analysis. dpkg-source has supported this since at

Bug#903777: Very rare failure, "sem_open: File exists"

2018-07-14 Thread Ian Jackson
at all, given that that in that bug the effect of the faketime wrapper can apparently be produced simply by setting env vars.) 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#903441: dgit: autopkgtest failures in Ubuntu [and 1 more messages]

2018-07-13 Thread Ian Jackson
Ian Jackson writes ("Re: Bug#903441: dgit: autopkgtest failures in Ubuntu [and 1 more messages]"): > Sorry, this is due to #903696 in autopkgtest, which I just filed. I > should have CC'd you. > > 5.9+exp4 is supposed to fix it. This time, for sure. Wow! It actually D

Bug#903441: dgit: autopkgtest failures in Ubuntu [and 1 more messages]

2018-07-13 Thread Ian Jackson
Mattia Rizzolo writes ("Re: Bug#903441: dgit: autopkgtest failures in Ubuntu [and 1 more messages]"): > Doesn't look like it's enough, ci.d.n still fails due to: > |cp: cannot overwrite directory > '/tmp/tmp.ugPG6m6qcG/autopkgtest-incoming/unstable/amd64/d/dgit/601985/artifacts/example/.git' >

Bug#903696: shared $AUTOPKGTEST_ARTIFACTS directory

2018-07-13 Thread Ian Jackson
the test. 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#903441: dgit: autopkgtest failures in Ubuntu [and 1 more messages]

2018-07-12 Thread Ian Jackson
Ian Jackson writes ("Re: Bug#903441: dgit: autopkgtest failures in Ubuntu [and 1 more messages]"): > This is now implemented in 5.9+exp1, just uploaded to Debian > experimental. Can you give it a try in Ubuntu please ? This trips what seems to be a bug in adt-virt-lxc; see #

Bug#903680: failure when test artifacts in $AUTOPKGTEST_ARTIFACTS not world-readable

2018-07-12 Thread Ian Jackson
dgit 5.9+exp1, which copies some non-world-readable files into $AUTOPKGTEST_ARTIFACTS. I will add an appropriate chmod a+r. 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#903441: dgit: autopkgtest failures in Ubuntu [and 1 more messages]

2018-07-12 Thread Ian Jackson
Ian Jackson writes ("Re: Bug#903598: devscripts: dch -r [something]"): > Mattia Rizzolo writes ("Re: Bug#903598: devscripts: dch -r [something]"): > > Ton of things use '' (i.e. empty string). Including debchange's > > testsuite :3 > > Well, that'

Bug#903598: devscripts: dch -r [something]

2018-07-12 Thread Ian Jackson
nything with the supplied > string > > (so that unstable is affected as well…) Ah, yes. Indeed. > On Wed, Jul 11, 2018 at 06:37:27PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > > Consider > > dch -r `foo' > > > > dch ignores `foo', which is `TEXT', in the sense that `foo' does n

Bug#903441: dgit: autopkgtest failures in Ubuntu

2018-07-12 Thread Ian Jackson
Mattia Rizzolo writes ("Re: Bug#903441: dgit: autopkgtest failures in Ubuntu"): > On Wed, Jul 11, 2018 at 06:33:45PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > > > Do you think it would be (easily) possible to have the test dir saved to > > > the artifacts only in case of failures

Bug#903598: devscripts: dch -r [something]

2018-07-11 Thread Ian Jackson
Package: devscripts Version: 2.17.6+deb9u1 Severity: minor Consider dch -r `foo' dch ignores `foo', which is `TEXT', in the sense that `foo' does not appear in the resulting changelog entry. *But* if you don't supply `foo' dch runs an editor. And there's no other way to stop it doing so

Bug#903441: dgit: autopkgtest failures in Ubuntu

2018-07-11 Thread Ian Jackson
Mattia Rizzolo writes ("Re: Bug#903441: dgit: autopkgtest failures in Ubuntu"): > On Tue, Jul 10, 2018 at 10:57:03PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > > Can you run the test on bionic with this attached patch ? > > Alas, apparently the infra doesn't like it. It seems the t

Bug#903441: dgit: autopkgtest failures in Ubuntu

2018-07-11 Thread Ian Jackson
Mattia Rizzolo writes ("Re: Bug#903441: dgit: autopkgtest failures in Ubuntu"): > It just so happens that I never really read dch's manpage in full, so I > don't remember all the options, but looking at it now, -r doesn't really > take any option. If you need to force a distribution you need to

Bug#903441: dgit: autopkgtest failures in Ubuntu

2018-07-10 Thread Ian Jackson
/lib @@ -40,6 +40,10 @@ testname="${DGIT_TEST_TESTNAME-${0##*/}}" export DGIT_TEST_TROOT=$troot tmp=$ADTTMP +if [ x"$AUTOPKGTEST_ARTIFACTS" != x ]; then + tmp=$AUTOPKGTEST_ARTIFACTS/tmp + mkdir -p -- "$tmp" +fi if [ x"$tmp" = x ]; then export DG

Bug#841414: Should occasionally run git-gc in dgit-repos

2018-07-10 Thread Ian Jackson
Johannes Schauer writes ("Bug#841414: Should occasionally run git-gc in dgit-repos"): > for a couple of days I have tried to do the following: > > $ dgit clone botch > canonical suite name for unstable is sid > fetching existing git history > remote: warning: suboptimal pack - out of memory >

Bug#903441: dgit: autopkgtest failures in Ubuntu

2018-07-10 Thread Ian Jackson
Mattia Rizzolo writes ("Re: Bug#903441: dgit: autopkgtest failures in Ubuntu"): > On Tue, Jul 10, 2018 at 11:55:57AM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > > I don't think it's possible to add something to the artifacts, from > > within a test. I didn't provide any way to do tha

Bug#903441: dgit: autopkgtest failures in Ubuntu

2018-07-10 Thread Ian Jackson
Mattia Rizzolo writes ("Re: Bug#903441: dgit: autopkgtest failures in Ubuntu"): > On Tue, Jul 10, 2018 at 11:12:01AM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > > Thanks. I don't have an install of cosmic and the test logs are not > > quite sufficient. Can I get a copy of the temporar

Bug#903441: dgit: autopkgtest failures in Ubuntu

2018-07-10 Thread Ian Jackson
rectory after one of these test runs ? I suspect that what is going on is that cosmic's dch is putting `cosmic' into the changelog. If so, depending on dch putting `unstable' in would be a bug in the test suite. Ian. -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. If I emailed you from an addr

Bug#902809: want dgit smash-working-tree-timestamps [and 1 more messages]

2018-07-09 Thread Ian Jackson
es which were git rm'd, but not committed, and then recreated. 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: want support for packaging-only maintainer views

2018-07-09 Thread Ian Jackson
ehow avoid stuffing all that into the maintainer's .git but I can't see how. (Also, all the data ends up being uploaded twice, at least on first upload.) I think this is a problem for the future, and so that is not what this bug is about.) Ian. -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. If I e

Bug#903132: convert-from-gbp: `diverged', --overwrite if no previous dgit push

2018-07-09 Thread Ian Jackson
tag corresponds to dgit/dgit/sid (except for debian/patches). But this is complicated and fiddly. I suggest that we document this problem, instead. 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#902809: want git-debrebase(?) smash-working-tree-timestamps

2018-07-08 Thread Ian Jackson
too. On the gripping hand, this function might be necessary even with a pure-git workflow when dgit is not needed. 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#903132: -fdiverged when `git debrebase convert-from-gbp` after `dgit push --gbp`

2018-07-08 Thread Ian Jackson
Ian Jackson writes ("Re: Bug#903132: -fdiverged when `git debrebase convert-from-gbp` after `dgit push --gbp`"): > Ian Jackson writes ("Re: Bug#903132: -fdiverged when `git debrebase > convert-from-gbp` after `dgit push --gbp`"): > > Also what should it do if the

Bug#903132: -fdiverged when `git debrebase convert-from-gbp` after `dgit push --gbp`

2018-07-07 Thread Ian Jackson
Ian Jackson writes ("Re: Bug#903132: -fdiverged when `git debrebase convert-from-gbp` after `dgit push --gbp`"): > I'm not entirely sure about this system of interlocking snags, where > the behaviour varies depending on which set of them you chose to > force. On

Bug#903132: -fdiverged when `git debrebase convert-from-gbp` after `dgit push --gbp`

2018-07-07 Thread Ian Jackson
Sean Whitton writes ("Bug#903132: -fdiverged when `git debrebase convert-from-gbp` after `dgit push --gbp`"): > Either they should not require passing it, or dgit-maint-debrebase(7) > should explain that it will be needed. I'm not yet sure which is right. I have thought about this and: In most

Bug#812721: gbp could filter out Files-Excluded: entries when committing to the pristine-tar branch

2018-07-07 Thread Ian Jackson
Sean Whitton writes ("Re: Bug#812721: gbp could filter out Files-Excluded: entries when committing to the pristine-tar branch"): > It is useful to provide the full upstream git history to users because > they can use tools like `git bisect` to figure out how to fix bugs. The > packaging history

Bug#902920: diffoscope: be triggered by all the reverse-recommends

2018-07-06 Thread Ian Jackson
Mattia Rizzolo writes ("Re: Bug#902920: diffoscope: be triggered by all the reverse-recommends"): > Mh, in our case we have this entry: > Tests: pytest > Depends: diffoscope, python3-pytest > Restrictions: needs-recommends > If I go down the route of autogenerating d/tests/control I

Bug#903127: git-debrebase new-upstream does not include a Debian revision in version

2018-07-06 Thread Ian Jackson
Sean Whitton writes ("Bug#903127: git-debrebase new-upstream does not include a Debian revision in version"): > Package: git-debrebase > Version: 5.2 > Severity: normal > > The changelog entry generated by `git debrebase new-upstream` does not > contain a Debian revision. It should append -1 to

Bug#801435: closed by Ian Jackson (Bug#801435: fixed in dgit 5.7)

2018-07-05 Thread Ian Jackson
Control: clone -1 -2 Control: retitle -2 Want to spot source-only binaries-NEW upload to Debian Control: reopen -2 Control: found -2 dgit/5.7 Johannes Schauer writes ("Bug#801435: closed by Ian Jackson (Bug#801435: fixed in dgit 5.7)"): > Quoting Ian Jackson (2018-07-05 17:04:44

Bug#801435: closed by Ian Jackson (Bug#801435: fixed in dgit 5.7)

2018-07-05 Thread Ian Jackson
Johannes Schauer writes ("Bug#801435: closed by Ian Jackson (Bug#801435: fixed in dgit 5.7)"): > Quoting Debian Bug Tracking System (2018-07-05 16:30:04) > >* dgit: Check that entirely-new uploads to Debian are not > > source-only-uploads, as those are REJECTed

Bug#812721: gbp could filter out Files-Excluded: entries when committing to the pristine-tar branch

2018-07-05 Thread Ian Jackson
use dgit. > > Yes, it's only compatible with gbp user. dgit and gbp work very well together. IMO all gbp users should be using dgit. 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#812721: gbp could filter out Files-Excluded: entries when committing to the pristine-tar branch

2018-07-05 Thread Ian Jackson
Shengjing Zhu writes ("Re: Bug#812721: gbp could filter out Files-Excluded: entries when committing to the pristine-tar branch"): > Here's my thoughts about the workflow with Files-Excluded. > > 1. Upstream git history is imported *as is* in upstream branch. If we > want to maintain a upstream

Bug#903006: Indeterminacy issues with import-nonnative and import-tarbomb tests

2018-07-05 Thread Ian Jackson
.UTF-8" > LC_MEASUREMENT="en_GB.UTF-8" > LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_GB.UTF-8" > LC_ALL= > > ... which is surely the same as yours? No, my usual locale is C.UTF-8. I can't stand non-C LC_COLLATE. Anyway, I think I have fixed it. However, there is somethi

Bug#903007: Failing test: trustingpolicy-replay

2018-07-04 Thread Ian Jackson
-dgit build t-dgit push --deliberately-fresh-repo -- 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#903007: Failing test: trustingpolicy-replay

2018-07-04 Thread Ian Jackson
ST FAILED > > I can provide the full log by private mail. Yes, please. Also, next time, please don't snip the end of the test log. That random-looking junk at the end has the line numbers in it :-). Ian. -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. If I emailed you from an a

Bug#903006: Indeterminacy issues with import-nonnative and import-tarbomb tests

2018-07-04 Thread Ian Jackson
Control: tags -1 confirmed Control: usertags -1 rsn Sean Whitton writes ("Bug#903006: Indeterminacy issues with import-nonnative and import-tarbomb tests"): > On my machine, outside of autopkgtest only, these tests are failing > because of something to do with file ordering: I have reproduced

Bug#855320: developers-reference: Please do not recommend debrsign

2018-07-04 Thread Ian Jackson
dgit rpush ought to work fairly well for the stuations where debrsign might be used, and does not have this ssh trust reversal problem. (It still operates rather as a signing oracle but the signing oracle is much more restricted.) Ian. -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. If I emailed

Bug#902930: Acknowledgement (ITP: libanyevent-socket-perl -- AnyEvent::Socket implements various utility functions for handling internet protocol addresses and sockets, in an as transparent and simple

2018-07-03 Thread Ian Jackson
Control: close -1 This wnpp bug is nonsense, because this module is already there in the package libanyevent-perl. -- 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#902930: ITP: libanyevent-socket-perl -- AnyEvent::Socket implements various utility functions for handling internet protocol addresses and sockets, in an as transparent and simple way as possible.

2018-07-03 Thread Ian Jackson
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Ian Jackson * Package name: libanyevent-socket-perl Version : 7.14 Upstream Author : Marc A. Lehmann * URL : https://metacpan.org/pod/AnyEvent::Socket * License : Artistic / GPL1+ Programming Lang: Perl Description

Bug#902931: ITP: libanyevent-websocket-client-perl -- AnyEvent::WebSocket::Perl is a WebSockets client for Perl AnyEvent

2018-07-03 Thread Ian Jackson
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Ian Jackson * Package name: libanyevent-websocket-client-perl Version : 0.48 Upstream Author : Marc A. Lehmann * URL : https://metacpan.org/pod/AnyEvent::WebSocket::Client * License : Artistic / GPL1+ Programming Lang

Bug#902920: diffoscope: be triggered by all the reverse-recommends

2018-07-03 Thread Ian Jackson
utting something like that in your debian/tests/control is that autopkgtest will always skip the test, but the Depends get copied to Testsuite-Triggers and used by ci.d.n. HTH. 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#902612: Packages should not touch users' home directories

2018-07-02 Thread Ian Jackson
ipts" to explicitly > permit wrapper scripts §9.9 written by the maintainer? I think shell scripts are programs. 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#902809: want dgit smash-working-tree-timestamps

2018-07-01 Thread Ian Jackson
Package: dgit Version: 5.6 Usertags: rsn dgit clone does this: set -o pipefail git ls-tree -r --name-only -z HEAD | \ xargs -0r touch -h -r . -- The explanation is this: commit 4c09c958f20263601483e0150caf4787a064aa5e Author: Ian Jackson Date: Sun Oct 30 16:34:11

Bug#851194: dgit-downstream-dsc(7) WIP

2018-06-30 Thread Ian Jackson
to follow the instructions, is better than (nearly) none. 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#902780: want way to publish more than one logfile

2018-06-30 Thread Ian Jackson
tderr. The test is entitled to write non-UTF-8 to these logfiles. autopkgtest should not check, launder or convert the character set. Neither should whatever means are used to publish the files. * A new restriction needs-log-dir can be declared by tests which unconditionally use AUTOP

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

2018-06-29 Thread Ian Jackson
Ian Jackson writes ("Re: Bug#902316: gnupg failing completely in dgit autopkgtests [and 1 more messages]"): > I attempted to work around this problem by explicitly starting and > stopping the gpg-agent. This has dramatically reduced the failure > probability. ... > I am

Bug#902612: Packages should not touch users' home directories

2018-06-29 Thread Ian Jackson
Sean Whitton writes ("Bug#902612: Packages should not touch users' home directories"): > Do you think we could resolve this by adding "... except when that user > was created by the package or a closely related package." ? Maybe the concept of an "unrelated&q

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

2018-06-29 Thread Ian Jackson
-i agent | less -j20 +/'^ *11904' FYI, attached is the diff, ie the output of git-diff dgit/dgit/sid..dgit/dgit/experimental tests in dgit. I am going to try even more ridiculous workarounds. workaround.diff Description: workaround patch -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. If I

Bug#902559: some tests can fail if gnupg happens not to be installed

2018-06-28 Thread Ian Jackson
Sean Whitton writes ("Bug#902559: some tests can fail if gnupg happens not to be installed"): > On Wed, Jun 27 2018, Ian Jackson wrote: > > Here is a better patch. This has passed more tests. If all is well I > > will upload it shortly. > > Ftr cherry-picking the

Bug#891216: seconded 891216: Requre d-devel consultation for epoch bump

2018-06-28 Thread Ian Jackson
t most people won't ignore a "should" unless they feel they understand why it's there. 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#891216: seconded 891216: Requre d-devel consultation for epoch bump

2018-06-28 Thread Ian Jackson
e there are not going to be big arguments about this. 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#902559: some tests can fail if gnupg happens not to be installed

2018-06-27 Thread Ian Jackson
Ian Jackson writes ("Re: Bug#902559: some tests can fail if gnupg happens not to be installed"): > Here is a better patch. This has passed more tests. If all is well I > will upload it shortly. >From 03d9c0e7c24a96cd792c051026afd46a7fd02bfc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ian

Bug#902559: some tests can fail if gnupg happens not to be installed

2018-06-27 Thread Ian Jackson
Control: tags -1 + patch Here is a better patch. This has passed more tests. If all is well I will upload it shortly. Sean, you can probably get autopkgtest to run the new test suite against the old source code, if you want to test your backport. It may be easier to wait for 5.4 though. Ian.

Bug#902559: some tests can fail if gnupg happens not to be installed

2018-06-27 Thread Ian Jackson
Control: tags -1 - patch This patch does not work properly.

Bug#902559: some tests can fail if gnupg happens not to be installed

2018-06-27 Thread Ian Jackson
rom cb8e3355cf9816b86a16108fd22405624aa5a8f4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ian Jackson Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2018 21:41:38 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] test suite: gdr-viagit, gdr-newupstream: do not auto-import t-setup-gnupg. This fixes them in chroots without gnupg. --- debian/changelog |

Bug#902559: dgit in stretch-backports

2018-06-27 Thread Ian Jackson
nupg even though (i) it doesn't need to (ii) there is no gnupg in, or implied, by the test dependencies. I will upload a fix RSN. 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#901900: dgit in stretch-backports

2018-06-27 Thread Ian Jackson
So I think the most likely explanation is a bug in the test suite. Of course that means that these tests were not run. I will see if I can repro it in adt with a stretch chroot. Ian. -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. If I emailed you from an address @fyvzl.net or @evade.org.uk, tha

Bug#902534: dgit: needs a better integration story with patches-unapplied maintainer trees

2018-06-27 Thread Ian Jackson
Ian Jackson writes ("Re: Bug#902534: dgit: needs a better integration story with patches-unapplied maintainer trees"): > I think maybe the fact that I am writing this all here suggests we > need better wording in the --overwrite section of dgit(1). How about this ? --ove

Bug#869146: dgit: should never add .orig to the .changes more than once

2018-06-27 Thread Ian Jackson
Sean Whitton writes ("Bug#869146: dgit: should never add .orig to the .changes more than once"): > On Tue, Jun 26 2018, Ian Jackson wrote: > > Of course if you had followed dgit's advice you would not have > > experienced this but :-) > > I must have been sure

Bug#902534: dgit: needs a better integration story with patches-unapplied maintainer trees

2018-06-27 Thread Ian Jackson
onto the end of your queue, without rebasing. Also, I'm not sure what you mean by "rebase pain". Maybe you expect more pain than git-debrebase would inflict ? > Perl is definitely not my strong suit, but I hope at least this > discussion will end up providing a clearer view

Bug#902534: dgit: needs a better integration story with patches-unapplied maintainer trees

2018-06-27 Thread Ian Jackson
Ian Jackson writes ("Re: Bug#902534: dgit: needs a better integration story with patches-unapplied maintainer trees"): > Control: forcemerge -1 842614 ... I just had a thought, though: It might be worth seeing what git-debrebase convert-to-gbp does on some of the the dgit dsc i

Bug#902534: dgit: needs a better integration story with patches-unapplied maintainer trees

2018-06-27 Thread Ian Jackson
Control: forcemerge -1 842614 Felipe Sateler writes ("Bug#902534: dgit: needs a better integration story with patches-unapplied maintainer trees"): > Currently, dgit-maint-gbp(7) says: > > dgit pull can't yet incorporate NMUs into patches-unapplied gbp branches. > > You can just apply the NMU

Bug#841414: Should occasionally run git-gc in dgit-repos

2018-06-27 Thread Ian Jackson
Control: severity -1 wishlist Since the VM for git.dgit.d.o was enalrged, there have been no operational problems. This bug report is a request for a performance optimisation which does not, currently, seem to be at all urgent. Ian. -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. If I emailed

Bug#901927: Manpage suggestions

2018-06-27 Thread Ian Jackson
bit more prominent. Looking at the top of git-debrebase(5), the 2nd half of INTRODUCTION is rather discursive. Maybe add a section heading just before, DISCUSSION or something, and put the gitk thing there ? Ian. -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. If I emailed you from an address @fyvzl.n

Bug#901927: Manpage suggestions

2018-06-27 Thread Ian Jackson
[ message from private email ruthlessly trimmed for #901927 ] Sean Whitton writes ("Re: Manpage suggestions"): > On Wed, Jun 20 2018, Ian Jackson wrote: > > #901927 [w| | ] [dgit, git-debrebase] Add gitk tricks to documentation > > I'm not sure where it should go

Bug#842614: dgit pull should do "the right thing" in split brain mode

2018-06-27 Thread Ian Jackson
. 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#842614: [PATCH] dgit(7): Add discussion of quilt fixup error messages

2018-06-27 Thread Ian Jackson
And add cross-references to dgit(1) and the actual error. Somewhat apropos of #842614. Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson --- debian/changelog | 3 ++ dgit | 3 +- dgit.1 | 5 dgit.7 | 84 4 files changed

Bug#865444: Bug#842614: dgit quilt messages ("o+d/p" is misleading)

2018-06-27 Thread Ian Jackson
lanation of this error message to the quilt-fixup section of dgit(1), and a cross-reference to the error message. 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#891031: dgit: Please make the unavoidable error message on first push more user-friendly

2018-06-26 Thread Ian Jackson
- maint-*(7). 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#869146: dgit: should never add .orig to the .changes more than once

2018-06-26 Thread Ian Jackson
Ian Jackson writes ("dgit: should never add .orig to the .changes more than once"): > Anyway, I will fix the bug. Having investigated, I have discovered that this might also happen if you didn't use dgit build, and whatever build process you used included some .origs. dgit would

Bug#869146: dgit: should never add .orig to the .changes more than once

2018-06-26 Thread Ian Jackson
xperienced this but :-). Anyway, 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 private address which bypasses my fierce spamfilter.

Bug#851677: dgit: future transforming git attributes should be disabled too

2018-06-26 Thread Ian Jackson
Control: block -1 by 851679 -- 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#869675: extracting upstream source.

2018-06-25 Thread Ian Jackson
Control: fixed -1 3.3 Control: close -1 Ian Jackson writes ("Bug#869675: extracting upstream source."): > I hope this is of some use. I appreciate that it's a bit late to be > replying to this now. Anyway, the above is not 100% convenient but > ISTM that it is good enough gi

Bug#886969: Problems with export-dsc and push-source on arbitrary refs

2018-06-25 Thread Ian Jackson
Sean Whitton writes ("Bug#886969: Problems with export-dsc and push-source on arbitrary refs"): > On Mon, Jun 25 2018, Ian Jackson wrote: > > export-dsc has no push and that makes the whole split brain mode seem > > rather odd. > > Hmm, why would it be odd s

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

2018-06-25 Thread Ian Jackson
(dropping the gnupg bug again) Paul Gevers writes ("Re: Bug#902316: gnupg failing completely in dgit autopkgtests"): > Adding Martin and Antonio into the loop, as I don't know the details of > autopkgtest so well. Question is near the bottom. Thanks for your attention, everyone. > PS: for you

Bug#886966: Bug#886969: Problems with export-dsc and push-source on arbitrary refs

2018-06-24 Thread Ian Jackson
Sean Whitton writes ("Re: Bug#886969: Problems with export-dsc and push-source on arbitrary refs"): > On Fri, Jun 22 2018, Ian Jackson wrote: > > So I think for push-source: > > > > 886966 push-source should be usable on arbitrary refs 886625 > > push-source

Bug#902316: gnupg failing completely in dgit autopkgtests

2018-06-24 Thread Ian Jackson
emd239-1 +systemd-sysv 239-1 Has something else changed ? Ian. [1] My complete adt-run has not yet finished but it's obviously not behaving like the one on ci.debian.net. -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. If I emailed you from an address @fyvzl.net or @evade.org.uk, that is a

Bug#896023: Bug#901897 closed by Jonathan Nieder (Bug#901897: fixed in git 1:2.18.0~rc2-2)

2018-06-22 Thread Ian Jackson
Paul Gevers writes ("Re: Bug#901897 closed by Jonathan Nieder (Bug#901897: fixed in git 1:2.18.0~rc2-2)"): > On 22-06-18 18:05, Ian Jackson wrote: > It currently happens quite often, but often the test suite from testing > runs happily with the package from unstable. If th

Bug#901900: dgit in stretch-backports

2018-06-22 Thread Ian Jackson
g about here ? If you are willing to wait a couple of weeks, I think sid/testing's dgit will have settled down. Ian. [1] git://git.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~ianmdlvl/dgit.git#wip (rebasing) -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. If I emailed you from an address @fyvzl.net or @evade.org.u

Bug#896023: Bug#901897 closed by Jonathan Nieder (Bug#901897: fixed in git 1:2.18.0~rc2-2)

2018-06-22 Thread Ian Jackson
a lot of workaround. It would be better to treat britney as free software that we can modify to DTRT. But I'm not offering to do anh of the work so I will let you get on with your workaroud and wish you luck! Regards, Ian. -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. If I emailed you from an addre

Bug#896023: Bug#901897 closed by Jonathan Nieder (Bug#901897: fixed in git 1:2.18.0~rc2-2)

2018-06-22 Thread Ian Jackson
Ian Jackson writes ("Re: Bug#901897 closed by Jonathan Nieder (Bug#901897: fixed in git 1:2.18.0~rc2-2)"): > I think it _is_ optional. At least, it was in adt-run. I think > autopkgtest has much of the same logic. It's a question of putting > together the right rune to sp

Bug#896023: Bug#901897 closed by Jonathan Nieder (Bug#901897: fixed in git 1:2.18.0~rc2-2)

2018-06-22 Thread Ian Jackson
Paul Gevers writes ("Re: Bug#901897 closed by Jonathan Nieder (Bug#901897: fixed in git 1:2.18.0~rc2-2)"): > On 22-06-18 15:02, Ian Jackson wrote: > > I don't know exactly what autopkgtest command line rune you are using > > but certainly it was designed to be able to

Bug#896023: Bug#901897 closed by Jonathan Nieder (Bug#901897: fixed in git 1:2.18.0~rc2-2)

2018-06-22 Thread Ian Jackson
Paul Gevers writes ("Re: Bug#901897 closed by Jonathan Nieder (Bug#901897: fixed in git 1:2.18.0~rc2-2)"): > On 22-06-18 12:45, Ian Jackson wrote: > > to the bad run which prompted your intervention, and the good run > > which resulted ? > > [2] for the bad one.

Bug#886966: Bug#886969: Problems with export-dsc and push-source on arbitrary refs

2018-06-22 Thread Ian Jackson
shed out of the cache) during the subsequent push. I am somewhat tempted to say that export-dsc should be forbidden with split brain quilt modes. 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#901897: closed by Jonathan Nieder (Bug#901897: fixed in git 1:2.18.0~rc2-2)

2018-06-22 Thread Ian Jackson
ation information from britney from yesterday and today, all is fine except for git's an artificially inflated urgency. Ian. [1] https://ci.debian.net/data/autopkgtest/testing/amd64/d/dgit/491815/log.gz -- Ian JacksonThese opinions are my own. If I emailed you from an address @fyvz

Bug#886969: Bug#886625: push-source should be usable no matter the state of the working tree

2018-06-21 Thread Ian Jackson
r (or, even, representable by) dpkg-source. There's a bug about that too. 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#902006: Want dgit setup-vcs-git [and 1 more messages]

2018-06-21 Thread Ian Jackson
Sean Whitton writes ("Re: Want dgit setup-vcs-git [and 1 more messages]"): > On Thu, Jun 21 2018, Ian Jackson wrote: > > Sean, would you care to comment on the name of the command and the > > manpage ? The way it isn't like other setup-* things (in that >

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