Bug#1026335: Squashing the last carl9170fw issues: ready for sponsorship

2023-08-20 Thread John Scott
On Wed, 2023-08-16 at 12:28 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > On Sun, 2023-08-13 at 11:51 +0000, John Scott wrote: > > > Because carl9170 is largely under the GPL and we're obligated to distribute complete sources for our binaries, I've set Static-Built- Using on both gcc (because of libgcc

Bug#948842: nm.debian.org should get OpenPGP keys for applicants not yet in the project keyring from Salsa

2023-08-14 Thread John Scott
I have a crazy idea I haven't seen here yet. Folks are already using Salsa to authenticate themselves and log in to nm.debian.org, so why not just allow importing key(s) from Salsa? You can find my current key and a long obsolete key at https://salsa.debian.org/jscott.gpg and this URL

Bug#1026335: Review of the initial packaging of the carl9170 firmware

2023-08-13 Thread John Scott
Control: tags -1 -moreinfo Dear all, I have uploaded a new version of carl9170fw to mentors.debian.net that represents my very best work. Please review it carefully. Building it requires the just-uploaded libnewlib-sh-elf-dev version 3.3.0+8. I tend to ramble and I've already written at great

Bug#1040960: gcc-sh-elf fix is on the way

2023-08-11 Thread John Scott
Control: owner -1 John Scott Control: tags -1 pending I made a boo boo. An explanation and fix will be ready shortly signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#1042935: Sage test timeouts probably fixed upstream

2023-08-11 Thread John Scott
Control: tags -1 fixed-upstream Control: block -1 by 1010735 I think this is fixed upstream. Apparently they were made aware that this particular failing test just takes a long time, but if you give it a couple minutes it does pass. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed

Bug#1022702: Debian GnuPG maintenance

2023-08-11 Thread John Scott
Dear dkg, I see you were active on Salsa not long ago, which is why I thought I'd try and reach out again. A lot of people care about GnuPG in Debian and want to help, including me. The packages are in collaborative maintenance, but they're also key packages, so in all honesty folks are

Bug#1043445: gdb-source should be Multi-Arch: foreign (I think)

2023-08-11 Thread John Scott
Source: gdb Severity: normal Control: affects -1 src:gcc-sh-elf I chatted with Helmut about this some time ago, but I think gdb-source is supposed to be Multi-Arch: foreign. Right now it stops gcc-sh-elf from being cross buildable. Please consider marking gdb-source Multi-Arch: foreigh so I

Bug#996432: Newlib salvaging

2023-08-11 Thread John Scott
On Thu, 13 Jul 2023 12:58:31 +0200 Bastian Germann wrote: > what is the state of this? Do you have a newlib 4.* draft ready? Oops, I forgot about this, thanks for the poke! I'm going to do the new Newlib package from scratch; there's not much in the existing package worth keeping. I'm about to

Bug#980900: New watch file for Graphviz package v2

2023-08-10 Thread John Scott
Thanks to Matt for clearing up the situation, I've written a new watch file. Matt said that there is no longer a distinction between stable and unstable releases, so please accept this watch file for the next upload and attribute me in the changelog as John Scott: version=4 https

Bug#1042848: bookworm-pu: package curl/7.88.1-10+deb12u2

2023-08-01 Thread John Scott
attributes works now + + -- John Scott Tue, 25 Jul 2023 08:11:34 -0400 + curl (7.88.1-10+deb12u1) bookworm-security; urgency=medium * Team upload. diff -Nru curl-7.88.1/debian/patches/series curl-7.88.1/debian/patches/series --- curl-7.88.1/debian/patches/series 2023-07-23 17:43:52.0

Bug#976991: I am stepping up to help with the GnuTLS → OpenSSL switch in OpenLDAP

2023-07-27 Thread John Scott
On Thu, 2023-07-27 at 12:25 -0400, Sergio Durigan Junior wrote: > > > I'll write some TLS autopkgtests, we'll rebuild reverse dependencies > > > and see how they fare, it'll be great. > > > > That's an excellent first step, thanks for looking into it! > > +1, thanks for helping with this, John.

Bug#976991: I am stepping up to help with the GnuTLS → OpenSSL switch in OpenLDAP

2023-07-26 Thread John Scott
A lot of arguments have been made for switching to OpenSSL, and I can think of some arguments that haven't even been made yet. I just wrote two OpenLDAP autopkgtests that interact with other packages to prove my merit as a knowledgeable contributor, even if I did just learn today the majority

Bug#1022702: I volunteer to maintain GnuPG and friends in the long-term

2023-07-25 Thread John Scott
On Tue, 2023-07-25 at 09:42 +0100, Jonathan McDowell wrote: > The longer term question is whether any of us are stepping up to help > out with full package maintenance, which I believe should be a > prerequisite of an upload to unstable if we don't hear from Eric or dkg. I'm neither a DD nor a DM,

Bug#1041964: flaky LDAP behavior due to not taking proper OpenLDAP code paths

2023-07-25 Thread John Scott
Source: curl Version: 7.85.0-1 Severity: important Tags: patch upstream fixed-upstream bookworm Forwarded: https://github.com/curl/curl/commit/0ac6108856b9d500bc376d1d7e0b648d15499837 Dear curl Debianites, I have discovered that curl is not taking OpenLDAP-specific code paths, and is instead

Bug#1037904: Xournal++ GCC 13 FTBFS fixed upstream

2023-07-15 Thread John Scott
Control: forwarded -1 https://github.com/xournalpp/xournalpp/commit/9172ee831f4dfbb88dfeb13b66862e80e64a0d3f Control: tags -1 fixed-upstream It looks like this has been fixed upstream, so I'm setting the bug metadata as such. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#1040788: RFS: gcc-sh-elf/7 -- GNU C compiler for embedded SuperH devices

2023-07-10 Thread John Scott
Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: normal X-Debbugs-CC: pkg-electronics-de...@alioth-lists.debian.net Control: block 1026335 by -1 Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "gcc-sh-elf":  * Package name : gcc-sh-elf    Version  : 7  * License  : various  *

Bug#1026335: carl9170 needs to wait on a new gcc-sh-elf upload

2023-07-10 Thread John Scott
Control: tags -1 moreinfo I've discovered an issue with how the Built-Using fields are generated. Specifically, because gcc-sh-elf does not set a Built-Using field for Newlib, and because of the way the libnewlib-sh-elf-dev binary package is currently versioned, there is no way to precisely

Bug#999785: Bogus Lintian warning built-using-field-on-arch-all-package affects prospective package firmware-carl9170

2023-07-10 Thread John Scott
Lintian asserts that having Built-Using on an Arch: all package is always incorrect. Debian Policy permits and often requires having Built-Using on an Arch: all package. This is the situation with carl9170fw, a GPL-2.0-only-licensed binary that bakes in several static libraries that need to

Bug#1026335: RFS: carl9170fw/1.9.9-450-gad1c721-1 [ITP] -- firmware for AR9170 USB wireless adapters

2023-07-09 Thread John Scott
Control: retitle -1 RFS: carl9170fw [ITP] -- firmware for AR9170 USB wireless adapters Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "carl9170fw":  * Package name : carl9170fw    Version  : 1.9.9-450-gad1c721-1    Upstream contact : linux-wirel...@vger.kernel.org  * URL   

Bug#1038959: RFS: gcc-sh-elf/6 -- GNU C compiler for embedded SuperH devices plus Newlib

2023-06-23 Thread John Scott
Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: normal Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "gcc-sh-elf":  * Package name : gcc-sh-elf    Version  : 6  * License  : many, but primarily GPL 3+ for GCC and permissive licenses for Newlib  * Vcs  :

Bug#1022702: gnupg: Migrating packaging from 2.2.x to "stable" 2.3.x

2023-05-02 Thread John Scott
> I do not indend to hijack/adopt gnupg2, so I am very reluctant to upload > without some kind of go from Daniel or Eric. (Even to experimental.) > > However I have updated the GIT branches to 2.4.1 today. Thanks for your hard work Andreas! Those packages do indeed solve issues for me and bring

Bug#1035321: parsing of 'git log' seems to break when commits are signed

2023-04-30 Thread John Scott
Package: dh-make-golang Version: 0.6.0-2+b5 Severity: normal Control: block 1035318 by -1 It looks like dh-make-golang fails when the commits are signed, and this makes me unable to package the rtltcp library: $ dh-make-golang make -type "library" github.com/bemasher/rtltcp 2023/04/30 15:46:18

Bug#1035318: ITP: golang-github-bemasher-rtltcp -- Go library interface to an rtltcp daemon

2023-04-30 Thread John Scott
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: John Scott X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-de...@lists.debian.org Control: block 1025210 by -1 * Package name: golang-github-bemasher-rtltcp * URL : https://github.com/bemasher/rtltcp * License : AGPLv3 Programming Lang: Go Description

Bug#1034574: uscan: support OpenPGP signature verification without requiring a saved upstream signing key

2023-04-18 Thread John Scott
the signature. I hope that makes sense. Unfortunately I only know C, so I don't think I'll be able to contribute this. Thanks -- Package-specific info: --- /etc/devscripts.conf --- Empty. --- ~/.devscripts --- DEBSIGN_KEYID=A23F3CA5BD39D9EB18AC7F35B3F4DD2861F4CDBA! DEBSIGN_MAINT="John

Bug#1034385: please package new upstream release in experimental

2023-04-13 Thread John Scott
Source: rust-sequoia-sq Severity: wishlist Hi, It would be nice to have a new upstream version with support for fetching keys via DANE. -- System Information: Debian Release: 12.0   APT prefers testing-debug   APT policy: (500, 'testing-debug'), (500, 'testing'), (2, 'unstable-debug'), (2,

Bug#1034201: support DANE for HTTPS authentication

2023-04-10 Thread John Scott
Package: apt Version: 2.6.0 Severity: wishlist apt-transport-https only supports the traditional certificate authority model. However, APT uses GnuTLS, which has a convenient interface for validating certificates with DANE. GnuTLS should be used to provide an alternative to the certificate

Bug#1031439: gcc-sh-elf FTBFS: mystery solved?

2023-04-10 Thread John Scott
Hi, I'm doing the build right now and it got past the part where it's been failing, so I'm pretty sure we're good! Adrian, would you be willing to sponsor my upload? I'll send a second mail when it's ready. The change is extremely small, and to be frank I'll probably skip running the test

Bug#1008573: GnuPG ssh-agent emulation smartcard issues when connecting to server running newer OpenSSH

2023-04-05 Thread John Scott
Hi José and Vagrant, It seems bugs #998728, 1008573, and #1032907 are all the same. Perhaps the maintainers would like to merge them. Thanks for your workaround, Vagrant; I found that adding KexAlgorithms -sntrup761x25519-sha...@openssh.com to my ~/.ssh/config allows me to connect to a

Bug#1033911: please enable the experimental Xtensa backend in LLVM and Clang 16+

2023-04-05 Thread John Scott
I believe the backend name is Xtensa. I wasn't able to try doing an LLVM build myself and do not have a patch because I ran out of disk space. I think setting -DLLVM_EXPERIMENTAL_TARGETS_TO_BUILD=Xtensa will do the right thing, but again I was not able to test this. signature.asc Description:

Bug#1033911: please enable the experimental Xtensa backend in LLVM and Clang 16+

2023-04-03 Thread John Scott
Source: llvm-toolchain-16 Version: 1:16.0.0-1~exp5 Severity: normal X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-ker...@lists.debian.org Control: affects -1 src:open-ath9k-htc-firmware Please enable the experimental Xtensa backend in LLVM 16 and newer and make a new upload to experimental. A lot of prominent firmware,

Bug#1033888: ITP: usbscale -- read weight data from a USB scale

2023-04-03 Thread John Scott
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: John Scott Tags: newcomer X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-de...@lists.debian.org * Package name    : usbscale   Upstream Contact: Eric Jiang * URL : https://github.com/erjiang/usbscale * License : GPL 3.0 or any later version   Programming Lang: C

Bug#951465: new source package for Meson documentation?

2023-03-31 Thread John Scott
It doesn't make sense to use a patch to add the Meson documentation to this source package. I wonder if a new source package providing Meson documentation (because it is maintained separately) would be welcome? I would be willing to prepare this, but as I am not a Debian Developer, I will need a

Bug#1033742: [PATCH] backport fix to keylisting operations to Debian Stable

2023-03-31 Thread John Scott
/run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled From 611fab84c0b6b0156d4e5d0a72da2c420c5bdddc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: John Scott Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2023 12:19:03 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Backport a fix to the keylisting operations and prepare for release to Bullseye --- debian/changelog

Bug#1016470: I want to help add autopkgtests to Muon

2023-01-01 Thread John Scott
Hi Andrea, When the Muon package starts coming along, can you give me a poke? I have a few autopkgtest ideas I'd like to lend a hand in implementing. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#1026362: Upload of binutils-sh-elf

2022-12-21 Thread John Scott
Hi, So, my package got auto-rejected. I talked to the FTP Masters, and they'd much rather that a workaround be incorporated into my package than them having to manually make it pass through. I've uploaded the one-line change to mentors.debian.net; if you could upload it once more, there shouldn't

Bug#983539: Lintian bug causes non-overridable rejection of packages

2022-12-21 Thread John Scott
Control: affects -1 ftp.debian.org This caused my package to get rejected, and Lintian overrides cannot be used to mitigate it. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#1026362: RFS: binutils-sh-elf/2 -- GNU binary utilities for embedded SuperH devices

2022-12-18 Thread John Scott
Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: normal X-Debbugs-CC: pkg-electronics-de...@alioth-lists.debian.net debian-sup...@lists.debian.org Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "binutils-sh-elf":  * Package name : binutils-sh-elf    Version  : 2 (this is a native

Bug#1026335: RFS: carl9170fw/1.9.9-427-gecb68a7-1 [ITP] -- firmware for AR9170 USB wireless adapters

2022-12-18 Thread John Scott
Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: wishlist Control: block 994625 by -1 X-Debbugs-CC: debian-ker...@lists.debian.org b...@debian.org Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "carl9170fw":  * Package name : carl9170fw    Version  : 1.9.9-427-gecb68a7-1    Upstream

Bug#1026308: RFS: gcc-sh-elf/5 -- GNU C compiler for embedded SuperH devices

2022-12-18 Thread John Scott
On Sun, 2022-12-18 at 08:49 +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > I assume you're missing libreadline-dev from BuildDepends. You are, of course, absolutely right. I forgot to build in a clean environment. This has been fixed in a new upload to mentors.debian.net and a build in a clean

Bug#1026308: RFS: gcc-sh-elf/5 -- GNU C compiler for embedded SuperH devices

2022-12-17 Thread John Scott
Control: owner -1 glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de On Sun, 2022-12-18 at 08:09 +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > I can sponsor this upload. Thanks so much! Please go ahead whenever you're ready. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#1026308: RFS: gcc-sh-elf/5 -- GNU C compiler for embedded SuperH devices

2022-12-17 Thread John Scott
Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: normal X-Debbugs-CC: pkg-electronics-de...@alioth-lists.debian.net debian-sup...@lists.debian.org Dear mentors and fellow Electronics Team members, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "gcc-sh-elf":  * Package name : gcc-sh-elf    Version

Bug#994625: ITP: carl9170fw -- libre firmware for AR9170 USB wireless adapters

2022-12-12 Thread John Scott
On Mon, 29 Aug 2022 18:36:23 +0200 Bastian Germann wrote: > Do you still want to get carl9170fw into Debian? Hi Bastain! Sorry I didn't notice your email until now. Yes, I'm still very interested in getting this package into Debian. I'm almost finished with the copyright review and will have a

Bug#1024626: Blender removal for 32-bit architectures

2022-12-03 Thread John Scott
Hi, I see from previous mails that Blender upstream has decided not to support 32-bit architectures anymore. This is a friendly ping that the maintainer will request its removal so it may migrate into Bookworm. Thanks, John signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#1025210: ITP: rtlamr -- RTL-SDR receiver for smart utility meters

2022-11-30 Thread John Scott
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: John Scott X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-de...@lists.debian.org, debian-h...@lists.debian.org, debian...@lists.debian.org * Package name    : rtlamr   Version : 0.9.1   Upstream Author : Douglas Hall * URL : https://github.com/bemasher/rtlamr

Bug#1024979: please consider enabling gpsd support

2022-11-28 Thread John Scott
On Tue, 2022-11-29 at 06:44 +0900, Mike Hommey wrote: > Support compiled in would make libgpsd a hard requirement, which some > other people would probably complain about. But anyways, the main > problem is that, as far as I know, it doesn't actually work. Your reasoning is sound. Thanks for your

Bug#1024979: please consider enabling gpsd support

2022-11-27 Thread John Scott
Package: firefox-esr Version: 102.4.0esr-1 Severity: normal Hi, Firefox has opt-in support for gpsd to determine user location. However, the Debian package doesn't compile in support for it. It should be as easy as configuring with --enable-gpsd and adding the Build-Depends. Even when support

Bug#1023931: NULL pointer dereference when device UUID list is empty

2022-11-12 Thread John Scott
Package: bluez-tools Version: 2.0~20170911.0.7cb788c-4 Severity: normal Tags: patch upstream Hi, There is a NULL pointer dereference in bt-device.c. Since upstream is not very active, please apply this patch downstream. It should be apparent that the only case in which behavior will differ is in

Bug#1017367: glibc's inappropriate mbstowcs() attribute causes Binutils builds to fail

2022-08-14 Thread John Scott
Package: binutils-source,libc6-dev Severity: important Tags: upstream Control: block 1016253 by -1 Control: block 1016224 by -1 Control: affects -1 src:binutils-sh-elf src:binutils-z80 Hi, See https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=29447 and

Bug#1015901: ocrfeeder-cli is completely broken: AttributeError: type object 'IconSize' has no attribute 'SMALL_TOOLBAR'

2022-07-23 Thread John Scott
Package: ocrfeeder Version: 0.8.3-3 Severity: normal ocrfeeder-cli doesn't work at all: $ ocrfeeder-cli -h /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/ocrfeeder/util/lib.py:25: PyGIWarning: Gtk was imported without specifying a version first. Use gi.require_version('Gtk', '4.0') before import to ensure that

Bug#967313: distccmon ported to GTK 3

2022-07-19 Thread John Scott
Control: tags -1 fixed-upstream Control: forwarded -1 https://github.com/distcc/distcc/pull/407 It would be nice to see a release of distcc 3.4 so we can migrate away from GTK 2. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#1014708: please package DejaGnu 1.6.3

2022-07-10 Thread John Scott
Source: dejagnu Version: 1.6.2-1 Severity: wishlist Hi, DejaGnu 1.6.3 includes baseboards/riscv-sim.exp, the configuration for the RISC V simulator. This version of DejaGnu will be necessary to run the GCC test suite for gcc-riscv32-elf. -- System Information: Debian Release: bookworm/sid  

Bug#1014696: [PATCH] add a DEP-8 autopkgtest

2022-07-10 Thread John Scott
2021-11-02 09:09:37.0 -0400 +++ b/debian/changelog 2022-07-10 10:17:53.840907340 -0400 @@ -1,3 +1,10 @@ +libiberty (20211102-2) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium + + [ John Scott ] + * Add a DEP-8 test leveraging some functionality of libiberty. + + -- Debian GCC Maintainers Sun, 10 Jul 2022

Bug#1011670: RFS: open-ath9k-htc-firmware/1.4.0-108-gd856466+dfsg1 -- firmware for AR7010 and AR9271 USB wireless adapters

2022-05-30 Thread John Scott
Thanks for taking a look, Bastian. I believe the changes are satisfactory now, except that after close inspection I found that those files specified as being covered by the BSD-3-Clause license are still covered by it. Please me know if I'm misunderstanding something. signature.asc Description:

Bug#1011670: RFS: open-ath9k-htc-firmware/1.4.0-108-gd856466+dfsg1 -- firmware for AR7010 and AR9271 USB wireless adapters

2022-05-26 Thread John Scott
Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: normal X-Debbugs-CC: debian-ker...@lists.debian.org Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "open-ath9k-htc-firmware":  * Package name    : open-ath9k-htc-firmware    Version : 1.4.0-106-gc583009+dfsg1-2    Upstream Author :

Bug#1011383: RFS: gcc-sh-elf/4 -- GNU C compiler for embedded SuperH devices

2022-05-21 Thread John Scott
Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: normal X-Debbugs-CC: pkg-electronics-de...@alioth-lists.debian.net Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "gcc-sh-elf":  * Package name    : gcc-sh-elf    Version : 4  * License : various  * Vcs :

Bug#1008891: RFS: gcc-sh-elf/3 -- GNU C compiler for embedded SuperH devices

2022-04-03 Thread John Scott
Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: normal X-Debbugs-CC: debian-sup...@lists.debian.org X-Debbugs-CC: pkg-electronics-de...@alioth-lists.debian.net Dear mentors and other interested parties, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "gcc-sh-elf":  * Package name    : gcc-sh-elf    Version   

Bug#1008033: please make a new upload leveraging recent Poppler

2022-03-20 Thread John Scott
Source: okular Version: 4:21.12.3-1 Severity: wishlist Okular and the version of Poppler now in unstable both support digital signing of PDFs, which is awesome. However, Okular checks at build time whether Poppler provides the functions necessary for PDF signing. It is sufficient to make a new

Bug#1002617: RFS: carl9170fw/1.9.9-399-gcd480b9-1 [ITP] -- firmware for AR9170 USB wireless adapters

2022-01-13 Thread John Scott
Control: tags -1 moreinfo Hi Paul, Thanks for your very detailed review of carl9170fw. I'm still making my changes to the package and will give you a poke and remove the moreinfo tag once I have an upload ready for re-review. > I don't think udebs are needed for firmware packages, none of the

Bug#1002617: RFS: carl9170fw/1.9.9-399-gcd480b9-1 [ITP] -- firmware for AR9170 USB wireless adapters

2021-12-25 Thread John Scott
Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-ker...@lists.debian.org Dear mentors and Kernel Team, I'm looking for a sponsor for my package "carl9170fw":  * Package name    : carl9170fw    Version : 1.9.9-399-gcd480b9-1    Upstream Author :

Bug#1002582: RFS: gcc-sh-elf/2 [RC] -- GNU C compiler for embedded SuperH devices

2021-12-24 Thread John Scott
Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: normal X-Debbugs-CC: pkg-electronics-de...@alioth-lists.debian.net Dear mentors and Electronics Team, I'm looking for a sponsor for my package "gcc-sh-elf":  * Package name    : gcc-sh-elf    Version : 2 (this is a native package)  * License   

Bug#1002455: bison should recommend or suggest libbison-dev

2021-12-22 Thread John Scott
Package: bison Version: 2:3.8.2+dfsg-1 Severity: wishlist I think that when beginners install Bison to use as yacc, they expect to find the Bison/yacc library installed as well. Even if it's not suited for Recommends, it would be nice to have libbison-dev in the Suggests, so that libbison-dev may

Bug#995157: libfido2: OpenSSL 3.0 support added upstream?

2021-10-30 Thread John Scott
libfido2 1.9.0 was released a few days ago, and it seems like it might have all of the necessary changes to support OpenSSL 3.0, for example https://github.com/Yubico/libfido2/pull/357 I haven't tried building it though. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#997767: open-ath9k-htc-firmware: FTBFS: patching fails

2021-10-24 Thread John Scott
The fix is currently waiting in the NEW queue. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#980889: RFP: binutils-sh-elf -- cross binary utilities for SuperH bare-metal systems

2021-10-22 Thread John Scott
On Fri, 2021-10-22 at 11:18 +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > I had a look at the package and it throws a number of lintian errors. Are you > planning to address these or are they common for all binutils-$ARCH-elf > packages > we currently have in Debian? I believe you're referring to

Bug#996639: Epiphany crashes when opening PDF in new tab (NULL pointer dereference)

2021-10-16 Thread John Scott
Package: epiphany-browser Version: 41.0-2 Severity: normal Here is a proof-of-concept file you can open, assuming you have bash- doc installed: Proof of concept Link Clicking the link will try to open a new tab to view the

Bug#996552: RFS: newlib/3.3.0-1.2 [NMU] -- C library and math library for embedded systems

2021-10-15 Thread John Scott
On Fri, 2021-10-15 at 12:24 +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > So, do you want me to upload newlib or do you want Tobias to do it? I think it would be more appropriate if you would. Just be sure to do it to a delayed queue for a minimum of two weeks, and send a mail to

Bug#996552: RFS: newlib/3.3.0-1.2 [NMU] -- C library and math library for embedded systems

2021-10-15 Thread John Scott
On Fri, 2021-10-15 at 12:07 +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > What about the Salsa repository? Is it going to be updated? I've sent a merge request, and in fact did so a long time ago before my first NMU, but since the maintainers have been unresponsive it hasn't gotten merged. The Git

Bug#996552: RFS: newlib/3.3.0-1.2 [NMU] -- C library and math library for embedded systems

2021-10-15 Thread John Scott
On Fri, 2021-10-15 at 11:56 +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > Are you planning to adopt the package? Yes, I'm intending to salvage it and become the maintainer (the ITS is #996432). I think I'll keep it under the umbrella of the Electronics Team. signature.asc Description: This is a

Bug#996552: RFS: newlib/3.3.0-1.2 [NMU] -- C library and math library for embedded systems

2021-10-15 Thread John Scott
Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: normal X-Debbugs-CC: pkg-electronics-de...@alioth-lists.debian.net, glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de Control: affects -1 src:newlib Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "newlib":  * Package name    : newlib    Version : 3.3.0-1.2   

Bug#996432: ITS: newlib

2021-10-13 Thread John Scott
Source: newlib Version: 3.3.0-1.1 Severity: important X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-toolch...@lists.debian.org, pkg-electronics-de...@alioth-lists.debian.net, m...@qa.debian.org The Newlib package is, in my opinion, currently in a poor state of affairs. * The upstream release 4.1.0 has yet to be

Bug#996092: superficial autopkgtests not marked as superficial

2021-10-10 Thread John Scott
Source: gpgme1.0 Version: 1.16.0-1.1 Severity: important In my opinion, this smells like a Policy violation, but I'm setting the severity at non-RC since it's not my judgment that matters, but that of the CI team. Because DEP-8 tests (autopkgtests) speed up migration and have other consequences

Bug#995362: zint breaks zbar autopkgtest: unable to open file `/tmp/magick-VxkNk3KeW43pSnBYixIpsF9xU8qRmIzE': No such file or directory @ error/constitute.c/ReadImage/614

2021-09-30 Thread John Scott
On Thu, 2021-09-30 at 09:18 -0400, John Scott wrote: > Outside a minimal chroot, on my desktop system, zbarimg seems to > process SVGs just fine. So this may be a case of a Recommends > (somewhere) not being installed wreaking havok, but in my opinion > zbarimg should still not beh

Bug#995362: zint breaks zbar autopkgtest: unable to open file `/tmp/magick-VxkNk3KeW43pSnBYixIpsF9xU8qRmIzE': No such file or directory @ error/constitute.c/ReadImage/614

2021-09-30 Thread John Scott
Control: reassign -1 zbar-tools Control: notfound -1 zint/2.10.0-1 Control: owner -1 ! I think I've partially identified what is happening. It turns out that the version of zint in testing, despite being passed the --filetype=SVG flag, actually produces a PNG, which in the past has been happily

Bug#986778: ITP: gcc-sh-elf -- GNU C compiler for embedded SuperH devices

2021-09-26 Thread John Scott
On Sun, 2021-09-26 at 18:55 +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > I'm willing to sponsor this as I am Debian's primary maintainer of the sh4 > port. Thanks for your consideration! FYI, I just pushed a small fix for the Binutils autopkgtest to both Git and mentors.debian.net. I would

Bug#977835: Please package the lastest version >= 3.5.2

2021-09-25 Thread John Scott
On Tue, 22 Dec 2020 00:42:36 + (UTC) Thorsten Glaser wrote: > >thanks for considering > > Not before bullseye. There are many regressions and problems > with the new releases. I plan on doing (at least) one more > upload with more individual fixes backported, though ☺ > > My current plan is

Bug#994933: please revert the changes in 2.69-3 and re-add the add-runstatedir backport

2021-09-23 Thread John Scott
Package: autoconf2.69 Version: 2.69-3 Severity: important Justification: breaking change, not in NEWS, makes draft packages FTBFS Control: block 994770 by -1 Control: block 985563 by -1 Hi, I'm working on packaging binutils-sh-elf, and I know of someone else working on updating binutils-m68hc1x.

Bug#994625: ITP: carl9170fw -- libre firmware for AR9170 USB wireless adapters

2021-09-18 Thread John Scott
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: John Scott X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-de...@lists.debian.org, debian-ker...@lists.debian.org Control: block -1 by 986778 Control: block 890601 by -1 Control: affects -1 linux-firmware-free * Package name    : carl9170fw   Version : 1.9.9-399-gcd480b9

Bug#993671: RFS: gcc-sh-elf/1 [ITP] -- GNU C compiler for embedded SuperH devices

2021-09-04 Thread John Scott
Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: pkg-electronics-de...@alioth-lists.debian.net, nico...@debian.org Control: block -1 by 985563 Control: block 986778 by -1 Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "gcc-sh-elf":  * Package name    : gcc-sh-elf   

Bug#992689: dino crashing with new gnome 40

2021-08-31 Thread John Scott
On Sun, 2021-08-22 at 13:43 -0400, Taowa wrote: > I'm planning on doing an upload this week to fix it- ideally today. Do you still got this, Taowa? signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#990618: Patch for GNOME Maps failing to start in Bullseye

2021-08-30 Thread John Scott
, commit:84fc4b2ae319ea155de52adceaa83a4da9f82c92 Reviewed-By: John Scott Last-Update: 2021-08-30 --- gnome-maps-3.38.2.orig/src/mapView.js +++ gnome-maps-3.38.2/src/mapView.js @@ -401,15 +401,17 @@ var MapView = GObject.registerClass({ this._mapType = mapType; if (mapType

Bug#984901: open-ath9k-htc-firmware upload is now release-critical

2021-08-27 Thread John Scott
Control: retitle -1 RFS: open-ath9k-htc-firmware/1.4.0-106-gc583009+dfsg1-2 [RC] -- firmware for AR7010 and AR9271 USB wireless adapters Thanks to the Reproducible Builds folks for notifying me, the current package is FTBFS due to the Binutils 2.37 upload to unstable. Fortunately my package

Bug#967797: Viking 1.9 supports GTK 3

2021-08-25 Thread John Scott
Control: forwarded -1 https://github.com/viking-gps/viking/issues/111 Control: tags -1 upstream fixed-upstream I haven't tried it, but Viking 1.9 appears to support building with GTK 3 and deprecates GTK 2. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#984404: zxing-cpp: ftbfs with GCC-11

2021-08-17 Thread John Scott
This seems to be fixed in the version in experimental. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#912271: newlib: diff for NMU version 3.3.0-1.1

2021-08-17 Thread John Scott
for new targets. +(Closes: #912271) + + -- John Scott Tue, 08 Jun 2021 17:17:43 -0400 + newlib (3.3.0-1) unstable; urgency=medium [ Agustin Henze ] diff -Nru newlib-3.3.0/debian/control newlib-3.3.0/debian/control --- newlib-3.3.0/debian/control 2020-02-29 08:35:41.0 -0500 +++ newlib

Bug#992049: please build an API documentation package

2021-08-09 Thread John Scott
Source: zbar Version: 0.23.90-1 Severity: wishlist The zbar headers appear to have Doxygen annotations, and the doc folder of the source tree has a doxygen.conf.in file. Please figure out how to build the zbar documentation and put it in a libzbar-doc package, since pre-built API documentation

Bug#934916: libss7: FTBFS on x32 (time_t sprintf format mismatch)

2021-08-07 Thread John Scott
Another (untested) way to fix this issue is to craft the format string using _Generic: strcpy(p, mtp3_timer2str(x)); p += strlen(p); -sprintf(p, "(%lis)%c", ss7->ss7_sched[ss7->links[i]->mtp3_timer[x]].when.tv_sec - time(NULL), +#define FORMAT _Generic((time_t){0}, long int: "(%lis)%c", long

Bug#981702: RFS: privacybadger/2021.2.2-1 -- browser extension automatically learns to block invisible trackers

2021-07-04 Thread John Scott
On Wed, 2021-06-09 at 17:07 +0200, Tobias Frost wrote: > >     * Friendly takeover back into the WebExt team. > > I can't find any documentation about that have been ACKed by the > current maintainer. (CCing Jonas so that he can response/confirm, to > put it on record that this is not an hijack…)

Bug#990679: unblock: [pre-approval] privacybadger/2021.6.8-1

2021-07-04 Thread John Scott
Package: release.debian.org Severity: normal User: release.debian@packages.debian.org Usertags: unblock X-Debbugs-Cc: 981...@bugs.debian.org Control: block 981702 by -1 Please unblock package privacybadger [ Reason ] Privacy Badger is unique and different from other anti-tracking extensions

Bug#984901: RFS: open-ath9k-htc-firmware/1.4.0-106-gc583009+dfsg1-2 -- firmware for AR7010 and AR9271 USB wireless adapters

2021-07-02 Thread John Scott
On Tue, 2021-06-01 at 07:07 +0200, Tobias Frost wrote: > The Files-Excluded section is used by tools like uscan to strip files from the > orig.tar.  The formatted text just says that the field can extend over > multiple > lines, it does not mean its free text without meaning. > TL;DR: I'm pretty

Bug#987169: RFS: newlib/3.3.0-1.1 [NMU] -- C library and math library for embedded systems

2021-06-20 Thread John Scott
Control: tags -1 -moreinfo On Tue, 08 Jun 2021 21:38:56 + John Scott wrote: > On Tue, 2021-06-01 at 07:52 +0200, Tobias Frost wrote: > > > I haven't encountered the maintainer previously, but believe in > > > good faith that these changes would be welcome and that the

Bug#986735: add some superficial DEP-8 tests to libstrophe

2021-06-20 Thread John Scott
On Sun, 20 Jun 2021 19:22:52 + John Scott wrote: > I've spruced up the patch a little bit and and made it work on > systems not running systemd. The new patch which may be applied with  > 'git am' to debian/experimental is attached Forgot to close the bug in the changelog entr

Bug#986735: add some superficial DEP-8 tests to libstrophe

2021-06-20 Thread John Scott
I've spruced up the patch a little bit and and made it work on systems not running systemd. The new patch which may be applied with 'git am' to debian/experimental is attached From a0ec674ae155d4e4596078f286e4f2c29e3aca27 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: John Scott Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2021 12:38:10

Bug#986527: sagemath: FTBFS: addressing for Bullseye & newcomer suggestions

2021-06-20 Thread John Scott
On Wed, 09 Jun 2021 00:32:02 + John Scott wrote: > I believe it's in the best interest of Debian users that this bug be > downgraded for Bullseye so Sage can be used in the mostly-wholesome > shape it's in, but since I lack expertise in maintaining it I too  > will leave this to

Bug#986527: sagemath: FTBFS: how to address for Bullseye

2021-06-08 Thread John Scott
On Tue, 08 Jun 2021 17:15:44 +0200 Julien Puydt wrote: > I've been convinced that getting a fragile sagemath in next stable > wouldn't be a good thing. You've put much more effort than I have into maintaining scientific software in Debian, so I respect your opinion, but is it really accurate to

Bug#987169: RFS: newlib/3.3.0-1.1 [NMU] -- C library and math library for embedded systems

2021-06-08 Thread John Scott
On Tue, 2021-06-01 at 07:52 +0200, Tobias Frost wrote: > > I haven't encountered the maintainer previously, but believe in > > good faith that these changes would be welcome and that the > > LowThresholdNmu criterion are met by addressing a bug with > > important severity. My interest in this bug,

Bug#989392: wmcpu+wmmatrix FTCBFS -- uses the build architecture compiler

2021-06-04 Thread John Scott
On Wed, 2021-06-02 at 20:33 +0530, Nilesh Patra wrote: > wmcpu Fails to cross build because it hardcodes gcc as build > compiler in CC=gcc. > Simply removing this line would do the trick for us, however I've > replaced this with CC ?= gcc > Although this is a no-op for us, but this will help

Bug#984901: RFS: open-ath9k-htc-firmware/1.4.0-106-gc583009+dfsg1-2 -- firmware for AR7010 and AR9271 USB wireless adapters

2021-05-31 Thread John Scott
Control: tags -1 -moreinfo On Mon, 2021-05-31 at 20:25 +0200, Tobias Frost wrote: > I've took a look at your package: Awesome, thanks. > - d/copyright:  >  - The word "Comment:" went missing after the Files-Exlucded section. I don't believe this is an error. The Files-Excluded field is currently

Bug#988964: please demote diffoscope to Recommends

2021-05-21 Thread John Scott
Package: reprotest Version: 0.7.16 Severity: minor On my system, reprotest has the following Depends/Recommends: Depends: diffoscope (>= 112~), python3-distro, python3-rstr, python3:any, python3-debian, apt-utils, libdpkg-perl, procps, python3-pkg-resources Recommends: disorderfs, faketime,

Bug#809443: autopkgtest: support systemd-nspawn as an isolation-container level virtualization tool

2021-05-04 Thread John Scott
I'd like to report that another reason to support systemd-nspawn, which really is an upgraded version of chroot, is that it Just Does The Right Thing. For example, using autopkgtest-virt-chroot without further preparation besides calling debootstrap causes my test to fail due to not having /dev/

Bug#986527: sagemath: FTBFS: /<>/sage/src/bin/sage: line 549: exec: cython: not found

2021-05-02 Thread John Scott
Has anyone been able to reproduce this? Attempting to build Sage in a fresh unstable environment succeeds for me; perhaps the build failure was spurious. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

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