Bug#1020336: Probably false warning for "read-foobar" as bashism

2022-09-20 Thread Tim Landscheidt
Package: devscripts Version: 2.21.3+deb11u1 Tags: patch I have a user-installed program called "read-foobar". When I use checkbashisms on a script that calls that, it consid- ers this a bashism: | root@26dda7136b02:/# checkbashisms < #!/bin/sh | > read-foobar | > EOF | possible bashism in

Bug#737673: incorrect comment highlighting in package descriptions

2018-10-20 Thread Tim Landscheidt
David Bremner wrote: > […] > I tried the obvious-to-me fix of anchoring the regex comment-start-skip, > but it didn't work (like so many obvious things ;)). If anybody has a > better understanding of comments and font-lock, suggestions welcome. AFAIU

Bug#831435: www.debian.org: Link to the patch tracker broken - will fix it

2018-01-15 Thread Tim Landscheidt
The source code is in a Git repository at https://anonscm.debian.org/git/webwml/packages.git (https://packages.debian.org/stretch/python-pip, "Learn more about this site." => https://packages.debian.org/about/). The patch is already committed (5a638ca4744b3bb68db35a92b70c568223809afd), but it has

Bug#805451: Bugs/Reporting: please document for each pseudo-header in which addr...@bugs.debian.org it can be used

2017-09-18 Thread Tim Landscheidt
Kind of related: I find the "Mail servers' reference card" at https://www.debian.org/Bugs/server-refcard not helpful at all. I expect a reference card to briefly describe each command that is used in day-to-day operations; instead, the Debian Bugs one just lists (all?) commands and their synop-

Bug#751808: forcemerge should not care about the order of blocking bugs

2017-09-18 Thread Tim Landscheidt
tag 751808 + patch thanks I wrote: > […] > I tried to come up with a test case (cf. attachment), but > that does not trigger the bug. > […] … consistently. The order of "Blocked-By:" in *.summary is non-deterministic, so often the test would succeed and only occasionally fail. I therefore

Bug#751808: forcemerge should not care about the order of blocking bugs

2017-09-17 Thread Tim Landscheidt
I ran into this today with: | > forcemerge 861174 825980 | Bug #861174 [wnpp] ITP: elpa-elpy -- Emacs Python Development Environment | Bug #825980 [wnpp] RFP: elpy -- Emacs Lisp Python environment | 825980 was blocked by: 875906 870705 | 825980 was not blocking any bugs. | Added blocking bug(s)

Bug#831435: www.debian.org: Link to the patch tracker broken

2017-09-09 Thread Tim Landscheidt
AFAICT: | diff --git a/templates/config.tmpl b/templates/config.tmpl | index 3f64edf..f1f7c84 100644 | --- a/templates/config.tmpl | +++ b/templates/config.tmpl | @@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ | changelogs_url = 'http://ftp-master.metadata.debian.org/changelogs/' | policy_url =

Bug#814784: ITP: diamond -- smart data producer for graphite graphing package

2016-02-26 Thread Tim Landscheidt
Ooops, sorry, I only saw the ITP and did not check how far you had already gotten.

Bug#814784: ITP: diamond -- smart data producer for graphite graphing package

2016-02-26 Thread Tim Landscheidt
Hi Sandro, at the Wikimedia Foundation, Filippo packaged diamond for Debian Jessie and Ubuntu Precise and Trusty, so that might be a useful inspiration/source. I can't find the Git repos- itory for the package, but you should be able to pull the source from http://apt.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/'s

Bug#801328: crontab(5) has incorrect information about bash's $PATH handling

2015-10-08 Thread Tim Landscheidt
Package: cron Version: 3.0pl1-127+deb8u1 Severity: normal Change 876cc36d1e26f73391a79196dd6d591187049c9e in pkg-cron added the paragraph: | [...] |An alternative for setting up the commands path is using the |fact that many shells will treat the tilde(~) as substitution |

Bug#786796: RFP: python-oursql -- MySQL bindings for Python

2015-05-25 Thread Tim Landscheidt
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: python-oursql Version : 0.9.3 Upstream Author : Aaron Gallagher habna...@gmail.com * URL : https://launchpad.net/oursql * License : BSD Programming Lang: Python Description : MySQL bindings for Python

Bug#786800: RFP: libmediawiki-bot-perl -- Perl high-level bot framework for interacting with MediaWiki wikis

2015-05-25 Thread Tim Landscheidt
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: libmediawiki-bot-perl Version : 5.006002 Upstream Author : Mike.lifeguard lifegu...@cpan.org * URL : https://metacpan.org/module/MediaWiki::Bot * License : GPL Programming Lang: Perl Description : Perl

Bug#782501: apt-get clean deletes temporary files written by a running apt-get update

2015-04-15 Thread Tim Landscheidt
I wrote: [...] IMHO apt-get should not delete temporary files owned by another process. [...] That may unnecessarily narrow down potential fixes for this bug. Of course it would be possible as well (and maybe preferable) for apt-get update (and other commands?) to create their temporary

Bug#782501: apt-get clean deletes temporary files written by a running apt-get update

2015-04-13 Thread Tim Landscheidt
Package: apt Version: 1.0.9.7 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, unattended-upgrades regularly complained about (cf. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unattended-upgrades/+bug/1366708): | E:Problem renaming the file /var/cache/apt/pkgcache.bin.WfLyE7 to /var/cache/apt/pkgcache.bin -

Bug#677666: pbuilder: using BUILDUSERNAME does not change USER

2014-01-08 Thread Tim Landscheidt
Hi, I encountered a similar problem with pbuilder 0.208ubuntu1, and the attached patch fixed it for me. Tim --- /usr/lib/pbuilder/pbuilder-buildpackage~ 2012-03-14 15:03:46.0 + +++ /usr/lib/pbuilder/pbuilder-buildpackage 2014-01-08 14:53:25.991992079 + @@ -36,9 +36,9 @@ #