Bug#925162: NMU uploaded to delayed/10

2020-03-10 Thread Matthew Vernon
:00 2001 From: Matthew Vernon Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2019 15:37:46 + Subject: [PATCH 1/2] add -L option to output day and month name in list view --- bdengine.c | 16 birthday.c | 5 - birthday.h | 1 + birthday.man | 4 debian/changelog | 7 +++

Bug#917646: thunderbird: "Edit As New Message" should remove References: and similar

2018-12-29 Thread Matthew Vernon
Package: thunderbird Version: 1:60.3.0-1~deb9u1 Severity: normal Tags: upstream Hi, The UI option "Edit As New Message" includes some headers from the original message (e.g. References: ) that it shouldn't, and does so in a way that is invisible to the user. For example: I posted to debian-priv

Bug#799358: Angband 4.2.x is out and is Free

2019-11-28 Thread Matthew Vernon
Hi, Any chance of a 4.2 package, please? It's quite a major rewrite of the game, and it's DFSG-free, so could move this into main, which would be really good :) Thanks, Matthew

Bug#945972: FTBFS on armel: test-suite failure

2019-12-02 Thread Matthew Vernon
forwarded 945972 https://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2478 quit On 01/12/2019 23:15, Michael Biebl wrote: > pcre2 FTBFS on armel: > https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=pcre2&arch=armel&ver=10.34-1&stamp=1574962559&raw=0 Thanks for the bug report; I've forwarded it upstream. I'm afrai

Bug#891624: Please drop libpcre2-dbg package and rely on -dbgsyms ones

2019-12-02 Thread Matthew Vernon
On 01/12/2019 16:05, Michael Biebl wrote: > Control: tags -1 + patch > > Attached is a trivial patch to make the switch to dbgsym > It assumes that the next uploaded version will be 10.34-2 Thanks for the poke (and patch); I'll get this in the next upload. Regards, Matthew

Bug#945973: Please add symbols files for improved shlibs dependencies

2019-12-02 Thread Matthew Vernon
Hi, On 01/12/2019 23:38, Michael Biebl wrote: > please consider applying the attached patch which adds symbols files for > the libraries shipped in src:pcre2 I'm afraid I'm very reluctant to do this. Maintaining the symbols files for pcre3 is a complete nightmare - every gcc change results in FT

Bug#945972: FTBFS on armel: test-suite failure

2019-12-02 Thread Matthew Vernon
Hi, I've pushed a -2 with a patch from upstream that fixes an ARM issue; I'm not sure it'll be what we need, but we'll see. Regards, Matthew

Bug#945994: dgit-maint-merge(7) should talk about pushing to salsa

2019-12-02 Thread Matthew Vernon
Package: dgit Version: 4.3 Severity: wishlist Hi, It would be nice if dgit-maint-merge(7) provided more advice on pushing to salsa, specifically: The various setup sections do describe e.g. % git push --follow-tags -u origin master ...and while this is nice, it should (I think) be po

Bug#945994: dgit-maint-merge(7) should talk about pushing to salsa [EXT]

2019-12-02 Thread Matthew Vernon
On 02/12/2019 15:52, Sean Whitton wrote: >> The various setup sections do describe e.g. >>% git push --follow-tags -u origin master > Actually, the '-u' in that command alters your .git/config such that a > subsequent plain `git push` will push master to salsa. Yes, but unless I am t

Bug#920290: Fixed in 10.34?

2019-12-03 Thread Matthew Vernon
Hi, I think this has been fixed upstream, and that fix is now in Debian via 10.34. Do you concur? Regards, Matthew

Bug#945973: Please add symbols files for improved shlibs dependencies

2019-12-03 Thread Matthew Vernon
Hi, Thanks for your work on this; I am persuaded, and an upload has just been made with symbols files in. Hopefully I will not regret this... Regards, Matthew

Bug#946275: pcre2: Please make another source-only upload to allow testing migration

2019-12-06 Thread Matthew Vernon
Hi, On 06/12/2019 15:45, Boyuan Yang wrote: > Your latest upload pcre2/10.34-5 was not a source-only upload; as a result, > this package will not migrate to Testing. Since July 2019, only source-only > uploads are allowed to migrate to Testing. I know - I had to make a binary-upload because the

Bug#946279: pcre2: Failure when upgrading: file overwrite (libpcre2-posix.so.2.0.3)

2019-12-06 Thread Matthew Vernon
On 06/12/2019 15:53, Boyuan Yang wrote: > When installing the new package libpcre2-posix2, it provides the same file as > libpcre2-posix0 without declaring Breaks: relationship. This would make the > upgrade fail. Bother, yes, this is because the previous libpcre2-posix0 was misnamed (the soname

Bug#946290: libpcre2-posix2:amd64 is uninstallable

2019-12-06 Thread Matthew Vernon
forcemerge 946279 946290 quit Hi, Please check the BTS for duplicates before filing bugs. Thanks, Matthew

Bug#946221: rspamd: segfault with pcre2 10.34, works with 10.32

2019-12-07 Thread Matthew Vernon
Hi, Hello, looks like upstream has a working simple patch that might be cherry-picked I've seen that go past on the mailing list; I was going to give it a day or two and see if upstream actually commit that patch (I've not seen Phil comment on it yet). Regards, Matthew

Bug#923743: pcre3: FTBFS (dh_makeshlibs fails)

2019-03-06 Thread Matthew Vernon
On 06/03/2019 15:04, Andrej Shadura wrote: > On Mon, 04 Mar 2019 22:54:04 + Santiago Vila wrote: >> dh_makeshlibs -plibpcre3 --add-udeb="libpcre3-udeb" -V 'libpcre3 (>= >> 1:8.35)' -- -c4 >> dh_makeshlibs -plibpcrecpp0v5 -V 'libpcrecpp0v5 (>= 7.7)' -- -c4 >> dpkg-gensymbols: error: some symbo

Bug#939573: userv: provide systemd service file

2019-09-06 Thread Matthew Vernon
ce is 215 Euston Road, London, NW1 2BE. >From c04025708adaf98ad4a4e7ac12bf97c9d7d0a240 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Matthew Vernon Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2019 13:50:06 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Add a systemd service file for userv This endeavours to do what the sysvinit file does - create /var/run/userv iff ne

Bug#939573: Acknowledgement (userv: provide systemd service file)

2019-09-10 Thread Matthew Vernon
Hi, If userv is to spawn long-running processes, and it is desired that they survive the restarting of userv, then we'll also need KillMode set to process (rather than the default "control-group"), e.g.: [Unit] Description=User services (security boundary) daemon After=syslog.target remote-fs.tar

Bug#683408: Please package pcretest again

2019-09-12 Thread Matthew Vernon
Hi, On 09/09/2019 12:56, Gedalya wrote: On 9/9/19 3:14 AM, Sam Kuper wrote: Please could you comment on whether `pcre2test` meets your needs, such that Debian Developers[1] need not expend effort packaging `pcretest`? It's worth noting that pcre2test doesn't use the same library and is not

Bug#920273: pcre2: Please disable pcre2grep-callout feature

2019-01-24 Thread Matthew Vernon
Hi, On 23/01/2019 14:04, Jeremy Bicha wrote: Please use --disable-pcre2grep-callout in your Debian package. It is surprising to users that a grep tool will execute commands. Err, yes, that is quite surprising! Regards, Matthew

Bug#920290: libpcre2-dev: libpcre2-posix is not usable

2019-01-24 Thread Matthew Vernon
Hi, Thanks for the bug report. The change you complain of was inherited from Marc Haber's packaging of pcre3, as referred to in a related upstream issue: https://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1830 Is your objection that Marc's change is incorrect, that it's misapplied in pcre2, or something e

Bug#920290: libpcre2-dev: libpcre2-posix is not usable

2019-01-27 Thread Matthew Vernon
e names in libc. - -- Matthew Vernon , Sun, 22 Nov 2015 16:07:27 + + -- Matthew Vernon , Sun, 27 Jan 2019 13:55:17 + diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog index 634d436..5894999 100644 --- a/debian/changelog +++ b/debian/changelog @@ -1,3 +1,10 @@ +pcre2 (10.32-5) unstable; urge

Bug#920290: libpcre2-dev: libpcre2-posix is not usable

2019-01-28 Thread Matthew Vernon
Hi, One further thing, I note that the next upstream version of pcre2 will do PCRE2POSIX_EXP_DECL int pcre2_regcomp(regex_t *, const char *, int); PCRE2POSIX_EXP_DECL int regcomp(regex_t *, const char *, int); and in the .c file: PCRE2POSIX_EXP_DEFN int PCRE2_CALL_CONVENTION regcomp(regex_t *p

Bug#920290: libpcre2-dev: libpcre2-posix is not usable

2019-02-03 Thread Matthew Vernon
Hi, Further to my previous email (did you get that?), I note that upstream will have these definitions in their next release - see https://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1830#c30 Regards, Matthew

Bug#830726: xtrlock: CVE-2016-10894: xtrlock does not block multitouch events

2019-08-22 Thread Matthew Vernon
On 22/08/2019 18:50, Antoine Amarilli wrote: Hi Chris, On Wed, Aug 21, 2019 at 03:52:44PM -0700, Chris Lamb wrote: Cool! I'm not sure whether this other edge case is important -- are there situations where an attacker in front of a locked computer could manage to pull this off? I think we m

Bug#1005803: python3: documentation of sys.excepthook is inconsistent about SystemExit

2022-02-15 Thread Matthew Vernon
Package: python3 Version: 3.9.2-3 Severity: normal Tags: upstream Hi, sys.excepthook is called to handle any uncaught exception, other than SystemExit. This behaviour is described correctly in help(sys). help(sys.excepthook) and the web documentation[0] both lack the IMO important fact that py

Bug#1005868: bullseye-pu: package bible-kjv/4.34

2022-02-16 Thread Matthew Vernon
000 @@ -1,3 +1,9 @@ +bible-kjv (4.34+deb11u1) bullseye; urgency=medium + + * Fix off-by-one-error in search (Closes: #1005856) + + -- Matthew Vernon Wed, 16 Feb 2022 11:15:11 + + bible-kjv (4.34) unstable; urgency=medium * Check for error return value diff -Nru bible-kjv-4.34/make

Bug#1005856: bible-kjv: Search is broken, possible follow-up to #991133

2022-02-16 Thread Matthew Vernon
On 16/02/2022 10:18, Jon Daley wrote: On Wed, 16 Feb 2022, Matthew Vernon wrote: [Debian policy is usually that bugs need to be "Important" priority or higher for fixes to be considered for a stable point release. I'm assuming you don't think that applies here] Ok, tha

Bug#999941: tin: depends on obsolete pcre3 library

2021-11-18 Thread Matthew Vernon
On 18/11/2021 12:06, Marco d'Itri wrote: On Nov 18, Matthew Vernon wrote: Many large projects that use PCRE have made the switch now (e.g. git, php); it does involve some work, but we are now at the stage where PCRE3 should not be used, particularly if it might ever be exposed to untr

Bug#1000001: pgpcre: depends on obsolete pcre3 library

2021-11-18 Thread Matthew Vernon
Hi, On 18/11/2021 12:44, Christoph Berg wrote: Re: Matthew Vernon Many large projects that use PCRE have made the switch now (e.g. git, php); it does involve some work, is there some migration guide? The upstream homepage doesn't seem to have anything. Regrettably not; the PHP fol

Bug#999944: terminus: depends on obsolete pcre3 library

2021-11-18 Thread Matthew Vernon
On 18/11/2021 12:28, Barak A. Pearlmutter wrote: It looks to me like the pcre3 dependency in the terminus package is entirely due to its use of valac and other build support. There doesn't appear to be any direct use, except in a build dependency. If I remove that build dependency, libpcre3-dev

Bug#999963: sigil: depends on obsolete pcre3 library

2021-11-18 Thread Matthew Vernon
On 18/11/2021 15:11, Mattia Rizzolo wrote: On Thu, Nov 18, 2021 at 11:49:07AM +, Matthew Vernon wrote: The newer PCRE2 library was first released in 2015, and has been in Debian since stretch. Upstream's documentation for PCRE2 is available here: https://pcre.org/current/doc/html/ Si

Bug#1000082: glib2.0: depends on obsolete pcre3 library

2021-11-18 Thread Matthew Vernon
Hi, On 18/11/2021 14:10, Simon McVittie wrote: On Thu, 18 Nov 2021 at 11:49:04 +, Matthew Vernon wrote: Your package still depends on the old, obsolete PCRE3[0] libraries (i.e. libpcre3-dev). As I'm sure you're already aware, in the case of GLib this is something that n

Bug#998893: closed by Debian FTP Masters (reply to Matthew Vernon ) (Bug#998893: fixed in orphan-sysvinit-scripts 0.09)

2021-11-30 Thread Matthew Vernon
Hi, On 21/11/2021 01:09, Axel Beckert wrote: Seems to have worked for me, but now I get the same error for /etc/init.d/nftables: Setting up orphan-sysvinit-scripts (0.10) ... /usr/bin/which: this version of `which' is deprecated; use `command -v' in scripts instead. /usr/bin/which: this ve

Bug#998893: and collateral

2021-11-30 Thread Matthew Vernon
On 21/11/2021 22:48, Thorsten Glaser wrote: On Sun, 21 Nov 2021, tito wrote: couldn't renaming the scripts in the orphan-sysvinit-scripts package be a solution to solve this? I think that breaks user expectations and should only be a very last resort. I agree. I think both the “cp”, which

Bug#1000879: orphan-sysvinit-scripts: Remove iwd init script

2021-11-30 Thread Matthew Vernon
Hi, On 30/11/2021 15:50, Job Bautista wrote: Package: orphan-sysvinit-scripts Version: 0.10 Severity: normal X-Debbugs-Cc: jobbautis...@protonmail.com Please remove iwd's init script, as it's added now in iwd 1.20-2. This will need some co-ordination, I think; orphan-sysvinit-scripts uses

Bug#999693: php8.1: Regular expression functions warn "Compilation failed" and return null

2021-12-04 Thread Matthew Vernon
Hi, On 22/11/2021 09:16, Ondřej Surý wrote: I analysed the problem in: https://github.com/PhilipHazel/pcre2/issues/56 Thanks! I've had a read of that, and AIUI it's a behaviour change (matching that of perl) rather than an ABI change? I guess bumping the version in the symbols file like

Bug#1000004: pcre-ocaml: depends on obsolete pcre3 library

2021-12-04 Thread Matthew Vernon
Hi, On 24/11/2021 15:42, Stéphane Glondu wrote: Le 18/11/2021 à 12:49, Matthew Vernon a écrit : Your package still depends on the old, obsolete PCRE3[0] libraries (i.e. libpcre3-dev). This has been end of life for a while now, and upstream do not intend to fix any further bugs in it

Bug#1000879: orphan-sysvinit-scripts: Remove iwd init script

2021-12-05 Thread Matthew Vernon
On 01/12/2021 08:51, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: Quoting Job Bautista (2021-12-01 04:11:38) Matthew Vernon wrote: On 30/11/2021 15:50, Job Bautista wrote: Package: orphan-sysvinit-scripts Version: 0.10 Severity: normal X-Debbugs-Cc: jobbautis...@protonmail.com Please remove iwd's init s

Bug#1000879: orphan-sysvinit-scripts: Remove iwd init script

2021-12-06 Thread Matthew Vernon
On 05/12/2021 12:58, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: Sounds sensible to me - I'll make sure to add the Conflicts: to iwd. Cool; I've just uploaded orphan-sysvinit-scripts 0.11 to unstable. Thanks, Matthew

Bug#1004611: Resignation & call for votes to elect the Chair

2022-01-31 Thread Matthew Vernon
===BEGIN A: Christoph Berg B: Helmut Grohne C: Elana Hashman D: Simon McVittie E: Niko Tyni F: Matthew Vernon G: Sean Whitton H: Gunnar Wolf ===END G > A = C = D = E = H > B = F [rationale: being new I don't really have much of an opinion, other than the new cha

Bug#1003653: Revision of removal of rename.ul from package util-linux

2022-01-31 Thread Matthew Vernon
Hi, Having joined the committee, I thought it best to try and get up to speed on this issue. Is my summary correct? --begin There are two "rename" programs, one part of upstream util-linux "rename.ul" and one provided by the rename package "rename.pl"[0] For a long time, Debian's "/usr/bin

Bug#998340: Please take over rsyslog init script

2021-11-04 Thread Matthew Vernon
Hi, On 02/11/2021 16:41, Michael Biebl wrote: I intend to remove the SysV init script from the rsyslog package with the next upload. Maybe you are interested in taking maintainership for the file. Thanks for letting me know; I've taken the version from debian/master on salsa, and it'll be i

Bug#998340: Please take over rsyslog init script

2021-11-05 Thread Matthew Vernon
Hi, On 04/11/2021 17:18, Michael Biebl wrote: I haven't made up my mind on this one yet. There are pros and cons. If we continue to install rsyslog alongside journald by default, then using imjournal is imho the more logical choice. That said, I actually think we should no longer do that to av

Bug#978013: libpcre2-8-0: Doesn't describe why I want/need a 8-bit runtime on my 64-bit machine

2021-11-07 Thread Matthew Vernon
Hi, On 24/12/2020 11:56, Diederik de Haas wrote: On my system I have the 8/16/32 bit versions of the pcre2 library installed. The discription only tells me that this is the 8-bit runtime version. But I have no idea why I/anyone would want a 8-bit runtime on my 64-bit machine, where I'd normally

Bug#978013: libpcre2-8-0: Doesn't describe why I want/need a 8-bit runtime on my 64-bit machine

2021-11-07 Thread Matthew Vernon
Hi, On 07/11/2021 15:52, Diederik de Haas wrote: On Sunday, 7 November 2021 13:08:38 CET Matthew Vernon wrote: On 24/12/2020 11:56, Diederik de Haas wrote: The short answer is because you installed something that depends on the 8-bit runtime version. I actually knew that, but I should&#x

Bug#998893: orphan-sysvinit-scripts: fails to configure: "not replacing deleted config file /etc/init.d/rsyslog"

2021-11-09 Thread Matthew Vernon
On 09/11/2021 15:45, gregor herrmann wrote: On Tue, 09 Nov 2021 16:17:31 +0100, Adam Borowski wrote: On two different setups, I get: Not replacing deleted config file /etc/init.d/rsyslog update-rc.d: error: initscript does not exist: /etc/init.d/rsyslog dpkg: error processing package orphan-sy

Bug#998893: orphan-sysvinit-scripts: fails to configure: "not replacing deleted config file /etc/init.d/rsyslog"

2021-11-10 Thread Matthew Vernon
Hi, On 09/11/2021 15:17, Adam Borowski wrote: Not replacing deleted config file /etc/init.d/rsyslog This is the problem - ucf thinks that it knew about /etc/init.d/rsyslog before it got deleted (and so it thinks you deliberately removed it). AFAICT: This should happen if and only iff /etc

Bug#998893: orphan-sysvinit-scripts: fails to configure: "not replacing deleted config file /etc/init.d/rsyslog"

2021-11-10 Thread Matthew Vernon
Hi, On 10/11/2021 07:35, Dirk Griesbach wrote: While rsyslog doesn't ship its init script anymore, ucf is still having a reference to that script after the rsyslog upgrade. , | # ls -l /var/lib/ucf/cache/*rsyslog* | -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2864  5. Nov 01:24 /var/lib/ucf/cache/:etc:init.d

Bug#998893: orphan-sysvinit-scripts: fails to configure: "not replacing deleted config file /etc/init.d/rsyslog"

2021-11-10 Thread Matthew Vernon
Hi, On 10/11/2021 09:37, Matthew Vernon wrote: On 09/11/2021 15:17, Adam Borowski wrote: Not replacing deleted config file /etc/init.d/rsyslog This is the problem - ucf thinks that it knew about /etc/init.d/rsyslog before it got deleted (and so it thinks you deliberately removed it

Bug#998893: closed by Debian FTP Masters (reply to Matthew Vernon ) (Bug#998893: fixed in orphan-sysvinit-scripts 0.09)

2021-11-10 Thread Matthew Vernon
On 10/11/2021 16:51, Adam Borowski wrote: On Wed, Nov 10, 2021 at 12:21:09PM +, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: #998893: orphan-sysvinit-scripts: fails to configure: "not replacing deleted config file /etc/init.d/rsyslog" It has been closed by Debian FTP Masters (reply t

Bug#999693: php8.1: Regular expression functions warn "Compilation failed" and return null

2021-11-15 Thread Matthew Vernon
Hi, On 15/11/2021 14:03, Ondřej Surý wrote: It’s still a bug, but I think it might be a bug in pcre2. The other Matthew (in CC) might need to bump the shlibs on the shared lib to >= 10.39 I'm slightly confused - this appears to be an issue in a php function that went away after an upgrade? Or

Bug#999693: php8.1: Regular expression functions warn "Compilation failed" and return null

2021-11-15 Thread Matthew Vernon
Hi, On 15/11/2021 14:34, Ondřej Surý wrote: This appears when built with 10.39, but the runtime version is less than that. My guess is that this needs manual debian/libpcre2-8.shlibs override. (Or just mangle the symbols file, so it always generates correct versioned dependency.) I've had a

Bug#926896: sysvinit-utils: pidof is unreliable

2021-10-21 Thread Matthew Vernon
Hi, On 20/10/2021 15:29, Jesse Smith wrote: Is there a reason for wanting to revert this behaviour instead of using the "-z" flag on the command line? If you use pidof a lot and expect to see processes that are in the uninterruptable sleep state then making an alias of pidof='pidof -z' seems lik

Bug#997835: you could add powerdns init script

2021-10-26 Thread Matthew Vernon
Hi, On 25/10/2021 17:21, Mathieu ROY wrote: powerdns packaged removed then working init script. You might consider including them in your package. I was about to send you a working version but the debian developer in charge of powerdns, apparently tied to powerdns development, made me recon

Bug#904506: pcre3: FTBFS on most architectures: more STL symbols disappear

2018-08-14 Thread Matthew Vernon
severity 904506 important quit So this has now built successfully (I think version skew between gcc :-/ ), so I think the severity is now important. Probably still worth making more symbols optional. Regards, Matthew

Bug#913049: util-linux: getopt(1) should point to where examples are on a Debian system

2018-11-06 Thread Matthew Vernon
Package: util-linux Version: 2.29.2-1+deb9u1 Severity: normal Tags: patch Control: found -1 2.32.1-0.1 Hi, The getopt(1) manual page is a bit unhelpful about where the example scripts are to be found: Example scripts for (ba)sh and (t)csh are provided with the getopt(1) distribution, and ar

Bug#908644: [Rsbackup-maint] Bug#908644: rsbackup: diff for NMU version 5.0-2.1

2018-10-08 Thread Matthew Vernon
Hi, On 27/09/18 19:09, Adrian Bunk wrote: I've prepared an NMU for rsbackup (versioned as 5.0-2.1) and uploaded it to DELAYED/14. Please feel free to tell me if I should cancel it. Thanks, but the right answer is to upload 5.1-1, which I will be doing shortly. Regards, Matthew

Bug#908644: [Rsbackup-maint] Bug#908644: rsbackup: diff for NMU version 5.0-2.1

2018-10-08 Thread Matthew Vernon
On 08/10/18 21:38, Adrian Bunk wrote: On Mon, Oct 08, 2018 at 08:53:57PM +0100, Matthew Vernon wrote: Hi, Hi Matthew, On 27/09/18 19:09, Adrian Bunk wrote: I've prepared an NMU for rsbackup (versioned as 5.0-2.1) and uploaded it to DELAYED/14. Please feel free to tell me if I s

Bug#904008: pcre3 symbols issues with GCC 8

2018-07-20 Thread Matthew Vernon
Hi, On 18/07/18 08:34, Matthias Klose wrote: Package: src:pcre3 Version: 2:8.39-10 Severity: important Tags: patch This version doesn't fix all symbols issues for me. two more symbols need to be marked as optional (the second one for -O3 builds). Patches at Huh. (obviously) my version worked

Bug#897852: [Rsbackup-maint] Bug#897852: rsbackup: ftbfs with GCC-8

2018-07-21 Thread Matthew Vernon
reassign 897852 src:rsbackup quit Sorry again. I completely forgot I'd already been round this loop, and am already blocked by 897895 I need more coffee :( Matthew

Bug#897852: [Rsbackup-maint] Bug#897852: rsbackup: ftbfs with GCC-8

2018-07-21 Thread Matthew Vernon
reassign 897852 src:pangomm quit Hi, I think this is a pangomm bug - see the errors below about incompatible function type casts. I was misled by the final error message, but actually, that's because the autoconfery for rsbackup does: # 1. Glibmm uses C++14 features # 2. Which Clang moans

Bug#897852: [Rsbackup-maint] Bug#897852: rsbackup: ftbfs with GCC-8

2018-07-21 Thread Matthew Vernon
On 21/07/18 13:22, Richard Kettlewell wrote: In https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=897852: I think this is a pangomm bug - see the errors below about incompatible function type casts. To me it looks like a sigc++ bug, and one that is being addressed upstream: https://github.com

Bug#897895: Looks like this has been addressed upstream

2018-07-21 Thread Matthew Vernon
Hi, FYI. https://github.com/libsigcplusplus/libsigcplusplus/issues/1 HTH, Matthew

Bug#883224: pcre2: Update to new version

2018-02-23 Thread Matthew Vernon
On 23/02/18 11:46, Laurent Bigonville wrote: > On Thu, 30 Nov 2017 17:50:53 -0500 Jeremy Bicha wrote: >> Source: pcre2 >> Version: 10.22-4 >> Severity: wishlist > > Hi, > >> pcre2 10.30 has been available since August. Please upgrade. >> >> https://vcs.pcre.org/pcre2/code/trunk/NEWS?view=markup

Bug#883223: pcre2: Please switch to 3.0 (quilt)

2018-02-24 Thread Matthew Vernon
Hi, I've uploaded an updated pcre2 package (2 actually), which now points vcs-* to salsa. I think this fixes this bug, so would like to close it, if that's OK? On 01/12/17 18:49, Jeremy Bicha wrote: The problem is that there is important metadata stored as git commits (information about why

Bug#883223: pcre2: Please switch to 3.0 (quilt)

2018-02-24 Thread Matthew Vernon
On 24/02/18 15:41, Jeremy Bicha wrote: On Sat, Feb 24, 2018 at 10:12 AM, Matthew Vernon wrote: I've uploaded an updated pcre2 package (2 actually), which now points vcs-* to salsa. I think this fixes this bug, so would like to close it, if that's OK? I appreciate that it uses Vcs h

Bug#892160: fai-setup-storage fails with "Invalid dev children setting"

2018-03-06 Thread Matthew Vernon
package: fait-setup-storage version: 5.5.3 X-Debbugs-CC: l...@sanger.ac.uk Hi, I'm trying to install Ubuntu Xenial using FAI. The storage setup is failing, and emits the error message: INTERNAL ERROR in setup-storage: Invalid dev children entry Please report this error to the Debian Bug Tracking

Bug#892163: fai-setup-storage fails with "Invalid dev children setting"

2018-03-06 Thread Matthew Vernon
package: fai-setup-storage version: 5.5.3 X-Debbugs-CC: l...@sanger.ac.uk Hi, I'm trying to install Ubuntu Xenial using FAI. The storage setup is failing, and emits the error message: INTERNAL ERROR in setup-storage: Invalid dev children entry Please report this error to the Debian Bug Tracking

Bug#892163: Acknowledgement (fai-setup-storage fails with "Invalid dev children setting")

2018-03-06 Thread Matthew Vernon
Hi, For reference, the underlying issue was that there was some stray md metadata left on one of the devices (which I think was meaning md was incorrectly trying to build the wrong array); deleting it with --zero-superblock let FAI continue successfully. While spotting that might be a bit more th

Bug#1003653: Revision of removal of rename.ul from package util-linux

2022-04-29 Thread Matthew Vernon
On 20/04/2022 15:31, Matthew Vernon wrote: I hereby call for a vote on the following ballot. Unless a TC member objects to calling for a vote, voting lasts for a week, or until the result is no longer in doubt. The voting period is over. ===Rationale There are two "rename" prog

Bug#1007717: attempt to summarize current state of this bug

2022-05-10 Thread Matthew Vernon
Hi, I thought it might be useful to try and summarize where we are with this bug, which hasn't see much recent activity (not least as there's a TC meeting later...). * Questions asked of the TC The Committee was invited to issue advice on a number of points: I - continued use of 1.0 native

Bug#1003653: Revision of removal of rename.ul from package util-linux

2022-04-09 Thread Matthew Vernon
Hi, On 09/04/2022 14:59, Chris Hofstaedtler wrote: I was not planning on doing that: stable already does not have /usr/bin/rename.ul. People were asking for it to be restored before the stable release, though, I think? #966468 was opened against version 2.36-1 back in July 2020. Given re

Bug#1009066: pcre2: FTBFS on hurd-i386: error: ‘PATH_MAX’ undeclared

2022-04-09 Thread Matthew Vernon
Tags 1009066 +upstream quit On 06/04/2022 20:33, Yavor Doganov wrote: This packages fails to build on hurd-i386 as of version 10.39-1; from the last build log for 10.39-3 [1]: Thanks; the patch looks reasonable to me (and my local tree works OK with it applied); I've sent it upstream for the

Bug#1009066: pcre2: FTBFS on hurd-i386: error: ‘PATH_MAX’ undeclared

2022-04-11 Thread Matthew Vernon
Hi, Upstream already have a Hurd build fix ( https://github.com/PhilipHazel/pcre2/commit/adf76faace83d2b926b9136821daa02a78266b95 ), which I've applied to my tree, and uploaded as 10.39-4. Regards, Matthew

Bug#1003653: Revision of removal of rename.ul from package util-linux

2022-04-14 Thread Matthew Vernon
Hi, Thanks to everyone for your contributions to this discussion. I think we're at the point where voting is appropriate. I propose a ballot as follows - if no-one suggests further options in the mean time, I will call for a vote on this ballot on Tuesday, after the weekend of public holiday

Bug#1003653: Revision of removal of rename.ul from package util-linux

2022-04-15 Thread Matthew Vernon
On 15/04/2022 07:36, Gunnar Wolf wrote: Matthew Vernon dijo [Thu, Apr 14, 2022 at 04:47:17PM +0100]: Backwards-compatibility (and the lack of a compelling argument that util-linux's rename is significantly superior to the perl rename) means that /usr/bin/rename in Debian should remain the

Bug#1003653: Revision of removal of rename.ul from package util-linux

2022-04-15 Thread Matthew Vernon
Hi, Thanks for the feedback on my previous draft; here's a revised ballot. I propose a ballot as follows - if no-one suggests further options in the mean time, I will call for a vote on this ballot on Tuesday, after the weekend of public holidays. From a procedural point of view, I am formal

Bug#1003653: Revision of removal of rename.ul from package util-linux

2022-04-16 Thread Matthew Vernon
Hi, Thanks for this. 1. While the former "should" is guarded by "requires", I think the latter can be read as a recommendation. I therefore propose replacing it with "must" to make the override more obvious. 2. While option B reads fine to me, option A is a little confusing to me d

Bug#1003653: Revision of removal of rename.ul from package util-linux

2022-04-20 Thread Matthew Vernon
Hi, I hereby call for a vote on the following ballot. Unless a TC member objects to calling for a vote, voting lasts for a week, or until the result is no longer in doubt. ===Rationale There are two "rename" programs - the perl rename, and the util-linux rename. Debian and its derivatives h

Bug#755075: Still a problem in bullseye

2022-08-16 Thread Matthew Vernon
Control: found -1 3.20200202.3-1 Hi, I've been bitten by this again, I'm afraid - I had cause to run setup again, and chiark's backups broke once more. Today, I ran: ikiwiki --setup ~/.ikiwiki/ikiwiki.setup --rebuild --no-gettime And, in, ~/wikiwc/.ikiwiki/transient/recentchanges/, there are

Bug#1017841: bullseye-pu: package pcre2/10.36-2

2022-08-21 Thread Matthew Vernon
kport upstream fixes for CVE-2022-1586 CVE-2022-1587 +(Closes: #1011954) + + -- Matthew Vernon Sun, 21 Aug 2022 12:15:50 +0100 + pcre2 (10.36-2) unstable; urgency=medium * Upload to unstable only in patch2: unchanged: --- pcre2-10.36.orig/ChangeLog +++ pcre2-10.36/ChangeLog @@ -1,8 +1,

Bug#1017841: Acknowledgement (bullseye-pu: package pcre2/10.36-2)

2022-08-21 Thread Matthew Vernon
gency=medium + + * Backport upstream fixes for CVE-2022-1586 CVE-2022-1587 +(Closes: #1011954) + + -- Matthew Vernon Sun, 21 Aug 2022 12:15:50 +0100 + pcre2 (10.36-2) unstable; urgency=medium * Upload to unstable only in patch2: unchanged: --- pcre2-10.36.orig/ChangeLog +++ pcre2-

Bug#1013448: pcre2 relies on write+execute mappings unnecessarily

2022-08-21 Thread Matthew Vernon
tags + moreinfo quit Hi, Instead, it is possible to enable a different allocator that uses separate mappings for the same allocation, one with read/write and one with read/executable mappings, the placement of which is randomized in the process's virtual address space, making abuse much harder.

Bug#1007717: Ballot and call for votes

2022-06-21 Thread Matthew Vernon
Hi, On 21/06/2022 01:31, Sean Whitton wrote: Hello, I hereby call for votes on the following resolution: BEGIN BALLOT Using its powers under constitution 6.1.5, the Technical Committee issues the following advice: 1. It is not a bug of any severity for a package with a non-native ve

Bug#1005868: Acknowledgement (bullseye-pu: package bible-kjv/4.34)

2022-03-15 Thread Matthew Vernon
Hi, I have uploaded bible-kjv 4.34+deb11u1 for bullseye in the light of the announced forthcoming stable point release. I hope this is in order :) Regards, Matthew

Bug#1011954: CVE-2022-1586 CVE-2022-1587

2022-05-27 Thread Matthew Vernon
Hi, Would you like me to prepare an upload for these, or are you working on this? [sorry, it's not clear from the bug report] Thanks, Matthew

Bug#1007717: Draft resolution for "Native source package format with non-native version"

2022-06-07 Thread Matthew Vernon
On 07/06/2022 07:08, Sean Whitton wrote: I agree, it's not about the benefits of the source format, we do indeed understand all the trade-offs by now. It's that certain ideas and workflows *which are not really about source packages* are made inconvenient or impossible if we remove this option.

Bug#962773: libpcre2-dev: Linuxinfo fails to link: ./linuxinfo_common.c:224: undefined reference to `pcre2_compile_8'

2020-06-16 Thread Matthew Vernon
Hi, On 13/06/2020 20:44, Helge Kreutzmann wrote: gcc -g -O2 -fdebug-prefix-map=/tmp/testfoo2/linuxinfo-3.1.2=. -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -lpcre2-8 -Wl,-z,relro -o linuxinfo linuxinfo.o linuxinfo_common.o linuxinfo_arm.o linuxinfo_alpha.o linuxinfo_ia64.o linu

Bug#962773: libpcre2-dev: Linuxinfo fails to link: ./linuxinfo_common.c:224: undefined reference to `pcre2_compile_8'

2020-06-19 Thread Matthew Vernon
On 16/06/2020 20:21, Helge Kreutzmann wrote: Hello Matthew, thanks for your reply. On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 07:24:29PM +0100, Matthew Vernon wrote: On 13/06/2020 20:44, Helge Kreutzmann wrote: gcc -g -O2 -fdebug-prefix-map=/tmp/testfoo2/linuxinfo-3.1.2=. -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat

Bug#1007717: Native source package format with non-native version

2022-03-20 Thread Matthew Vernon
On 17/03/2022 17:52, Russ Allbery wrote: Helmut Grohne writes: Do you think it would be impossible to move forward on this matter in a consensus-based way? I don't know. I have some reasons to be dubious, but it's possible that I'm being excessively pessimistic. I'm inclined to agree with

Bug#994388: dpkg currently warning about merged-usr systems

2022-03-25 Thread Matthew Vernon
On 25/03/2022 16:25, Russ Allbery wrote: Luca Boccassi writes: But anyway, it turns out it's all moot because - drum roll - there is a patch: https://0x0.st/oNFG.diff This was shared just now on #debian-devel IRC by user 'uau', linked here with explicit permission. This is fantastic, t

Bug#1003653: Revision of removal of rename.ul from package util-linux

2022-03-29 Thread Matthew Vernon
Hi, On 29/03/2022 00:55, Sean Whitton wrote: On Mon 28 Mar 2022 at 10:35PM +02, Christoph Berg wrote: The problem here is that if ul-extra contains things besides rename, and it conflicts with the perl rename, people will rightfully complain that they can't install /usr/bin/fincore-from-ul-ex

Bug#960780: Network-manager: please Depend on libpam-systemd | logind

2020-05-16 Thread Matthew Vernon
Package: network-manager Version: 1.24.0-1 Severity: normal Hi, Could you adjust the dependencies of network-manager to depend on libpam-systemd | logind instead of just libpam-systemd, please? It works with libpam-elogind just fine; and this means that folk using other inits can then instal

Bug#596193: A possible solution (and a workaround for anyone else finding this bug)

2020-08-13 Thread Matthew Vernon
Hi, We encountered this issue, too - many of our systems are setup in the smarthost config, with /etc/mailname set to sanger.ac.uk. This mostly works - central LDAP means that user fred will reliably by fred at sanger.ac.uk, and so on. The downside is that we can't then e.g. alias 'root' so

Bug#925162: Revised to handle off-by-one error

2019-04-17 Thread Matthew Vernon
with number 1021457 and a company registered in England with number 2742969, whose registered office is 215 Euston Road, London, NW1 2BE. >From 249403c52334e8e2ae8de106ab1e805e10784fdd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Matthew Vernon Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2019 15:37:46 + Subject: [PATCH] add

Bug#925162: birthday: add option to append (XX MON) to output

2019-03-20 Thread Matthew Vernon
om dc5d60ff156c9eaf2a07f9db344e5ec724306215 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Matthew Vernon Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2019 15:37:46 + Subject: [PATCH] add -L option to output day and month name in list view --- bdengine.c | 14 ++ birthday.c | 5 - birthday.h | 1 + birth

Bug#925162: Acknowledgement (birthday: add option to append (XX MON) to output) [EXT]

2019-03-20 Thread Matthew Vernon
umber 2742969, whose registered office is 215 Euston Road, London, NW1 2BE. >From 046086701f291cfb269812c84e9b83d1feed5aeb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Matthew Vernon Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2019 15:37:46 + Subject: [PATCH] add -L option to output day and month name in list view --- bd

Bug#925360: pcre2: Uses SSE2 unconditionally on i386

2019-03-25 Thread Matthew Vernon
forwarded 925360 https://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2385 quit Hi, On 23/03/2019 18:54, Guillem Jover wrote: > I just upgraded a server of mine to Debian buster, and roundcube's > postinst started to crash with "Illegal instruction" messages from a > php process, due to usage of a SSE2 instruc

Bug#1057279: xtrlock option to verify password via a subprocess

2023-12-07 Thread Matthew Vernon
Hi, On 02/12/2023 15:23, Simon Tatham wrote: I run xtrlock on a machine which doesn't store all its passwd/shadow entries locally. So xtrlock is unable to verify my password by the usual method. To get around this, I added a feature which replaces the passwd/shadow based check with a user-prov

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