Re: Compile to ARM64 with qemu-static

2024-09-21 Thread Paul Gevers
kages. There's also the debomatic service [1]. Paul [1] debomatic-arm64.debian.net/ OpenPGP_signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

New loong64 porterbox available

2024-08-25 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
et me know. Thanks, Adrian > [1] https://db.debian.org/machines.cgi?host=shenzhou -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer `. `' Physicist `-GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913

Re: Removing more packages from unstable

2024-08-22 Thread Paul Gevers
ake changes to it, I couldn't even do it because I wasn't member of the right team, which feels weird. The same is true for the key package set calculation (which is strongly related). Paul OpenPGP_signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Strange armel build error

2024-08-16 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi, On 16-08-2024 17:46, Alec Leamas wrote: All other builds are OK. Has anyone a hint about what might be going on here? https://release.debian.org/testing/arch_qualify.html armel column. Paul OpenPGP_signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Request for feedback on draft: DEP-18: Enable true open collaboration on all Debian packages

2024-08-04 Thread Paul Gevers
fig-common, liferea and viking). Feel free to enable all ci pipelines that work for those packages (I couldn't get cacti to build on salsa last time I tried, would love to see that fixed, I now use debomatic to try run builds). I'm not sure if I receive MR message if somebody w

Re: OpenPGP digital signature

2024-07-30 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi, On 30-07-2024 10:21, Simon McVittie wrote: Please note that imtoas...@mail.com is (presumably) not Paul, Correct. the subject line is not what the release team would use, Correct. and Paul seems unlikely to send official Debian announcements through a gmx.com mail relay with a

Re: autopkgtest + podman user experience (Was: Re: Reviving schroot as used by sbuild)

2024-06-25 Thread Paul Gevers
be they don't belong there. Paul [1] Recently I started to work on a different way that autopkgtest would talk to the testbed (via ssh). That may or may not be appropriate for its use by sbuild. See bug 1068588. OpenPGP_signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Reviving schroot as used by sbuild

2024-06-25 Thread Paul Gevers
x27;t get it to work locally yet (facing non-obvious error messages). Maybe bug #1059725? Paul OpenPGP_signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: About i386 support

2024-06-14 Thread Paul Gevers
not saying we'll hold you from trying. What support means here is that if you come and say: here's a bug, we'll say: you're on your own to fix it. Paul OpenPGP_signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Illegal Instruction Using sudo in Bookworm on i686

2024-06-11 Thread Paul Gevers
as Debian. If you want an Debian architecture to keep Debian running on i386 CPU's, you can create a port. But unless you find enough volunteers, I'm a bit skeptical you'll succeed. There are enough problems to cover, of which upstream kernel support and the 32 bit memory b

Re: Salsa - best thing in Debian in recent years? (Re: finally end single-person maintainership)

2024-05-22 Thread Paul Gevers
wo (if I recall and describe what I recall correctly). I always thought that dgit clone generated that on my computer if there was no git content on the dgit server. I'll try to remember this next time I run my no-changes-source-only upload script. Paul OpenPGP_signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: About i386 support

2024-05-20 Thread Paul Gevers
the features that 64-bit CPUs provide, but if it's also for group (b) then this mustn't happen. The Release Team expects the Debian i386 official port to go to (a). Paul, wearing his Release Team hat. OpenPGP_signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Salsa - best thing in Debian in recent years? (Re: finally end single-person maintainership)

2024-05-19 Thread Paul Gevers
Two mistakes spotted On 19-05-2024 10:05 a.m., Paul Gevers wrote: I think there's a large majority (maybe even consensus) that believe you *should* have the packaging in VCS I meant "at least should", as in "should or must". I think what

Re: Salsa - best thing in Debian in recent years? (Re: finally end single-person maintainership)

2024-05-19 Thread Paul Gevers
n salsa (86%) [2], so I propose we stop the discussion. I think what pere did [3] changed more than this whole discussion: already 45 *orphaned* packages converted to git by 25 April, which means my numbers above are on the low side. The remaining 438 QA maintained (!!??) packages constitut

Re: About i386 support

2024-05-18 Thread Paul Gevers
f the trixie lifecycle. Please elaborate. We aren't planning to drop i386. If you have more information than I have, we'd like to learn. Paul OpenPGP_signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: About i386 support

2024-05-17 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi On 17-05-2024 9:58 p.m., Victor Gamper wrote: Is it correct that debian 13 is planned to be released without an i386 iso and i386 is planned to be deprecated? Our current position is described here: https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2023/12/msg3.html Paul

Re: How to create a custom Debian ISO

2024-05-17 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, 2024-05-11 at 08:21 +, Aditya Garg wrote: > 1. I want to add a custom kernel that supports my Hardware. > 2. I want to add my own Apt repo which hosts various software > packages to support my hardware. Please consider adding that hardware support to the mainline Linux kernel and to t

Re: pandoc-filter-diagram_0.2.1-1_amd64.changes REJECTED

2024-05-16 Thread Paul Gevers
we HAVE TO have the exact version in the archive. If the version mentioned in the Built-Using field is no longer in the archive, the package can't be accepted. Paul PS: I'm no ftp-master OpenPGP_signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Running pybuild tests with search path for entry_points()

2024-05-11 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
entry_points() works while running the testsuite? Thanks, Adrian > [1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1069389 > [2] https://wiki.debian.org/Python/Pybuild > [3] https://github.com/OSInside/kiwi/pull/2550 > [4] https://github.com/OSInside/kiwi/issues/2548#issuecomme

Re: De-vendoring gnulib in Debian packages

2024-05-11 Thread Paul Eggert
On 2024-05-11 07:09, Simon Josefsson via Gnulib discussion list wrote: I would assume that (some stripped down version of) git is a requirement to do any useful work on any platform these days, so maybe it isn't a problem Yes, my impression also is that Git has migrated into the realm of cc/gc

Re: new upstream version fails older tests of rdepends packages

2024-05-08 Thread Paul Gevers
(which is fine, except now you depend on members of the release team), I'll manually schedule the tests. Maybe tomorrow. Paul OpenPGP_signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Make /tmp/ a tmpfs and cleanup /var/tmp/ on a timer by default [was: Re: systemd: tmpfiles.d not cleaning /var/tmp by default]

2024-05-05 Thread Paul Gevers
ope with the process). Having said that, maybe we will be ready next week. Paul OpenPGP_signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: new upstream version fails older tests of rdepends packages

2024-05-04 Thread Paul Gevers
cause autoremoval. Paul OpenPGP_signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: archive.debian.org mirrors

2024-04-28 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, 2024-04-28 at 07:04 +0200, Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues wrote: > speaking of mirroring problematic debian.org services [1] by adding more > copies > of terabytes of data [2]: is there an update of the situation regarding > snapshot.d.o? I do not see any activity in bugs like #1050815

Re: Status of the t64 transition

2024-04-28 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi, On 27-04-2024 7:52 p.m., Andrey Rakhmatullin wrote: Can you please look at libproxy<->glib-networking? libproxy excuses show glib-networking tests failing, but they are working in sid. And that's not missing a versioned Depends and/or Breaks? I.e. this is a test only fail

Re: Status of the t64 transition

2024-04-24 Thread Paul Gevers
day). Reference runs for regressions are rescheduled once they are a week old. Paul OpenPGP_signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Status of the t64 transition

2024-04-24 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi, On 24-04-2024 7:38 p.m., Paul Gevers wrote: On 24-04-2024 7:35 p.m., Andrey Rakhmatullin wrote: What to do with autopkgtests that fail in testing because of problems with packages in testing that are fixed in unstable, e.g. the autopkgtest for speech-dispatcher/0.11.5-2 on Inform the

Re: Status of the t64 transition

2024-04-24 Thread Paul Gevers
combination manually, add a hint or both. Paul OpenPGP_signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Status of the t64 transition

2024-04-19 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
g to fix two other bugs, one being missing SDL-2 support and the other the FTBFS after rebuild from the same source unpack. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer `. `' Physicist `-GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913

Re: [sylpheed:37255] Re: Debian 12 released with two RC bugs in Sylpheed

2024-04-07 Thread Paul
ter. with regards Paul

Re: [sylpheed:37253] Debian 12 released with two RC bugs in Sylpheed

2024-04-07 Thread Paul
Debian will overlook your behaviour and accept you as a developer, I don't know. with regards Paul

Re: Permission to distribute

2024-04-06 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, 2024-04-04 at 01:01 -0700, John Lee wrote: > I just wondered if I can sell computers that I build with Debian > Linux pre-installed. The computers may also include programs I > create. I tried to find the answer to this question but still > unsure.  In addition to the other response you g

Re: xz backdoor

2024-04-05 Thread Paul R. Tagliamonte
There's also a very through exploration at https://github.com/amlweems/xzbot Including, very interestingly, a discussion of format(s) of the payload(s), and a mechanism to replace the backdoor key to play with executing commands against a popped sshd, as well as some code to go along with it. p

Re: xz backdoor

2024-04-02 Thread Paul R. Tagliamonte
On Tue, Apr 2, 2024 at 5:12 PM Pierre-Elliott Bécue wrote: > If you have a master key on your laptop, when a yubikey is in, while > running gpg --edit-key your_main_key, you can use the "addcardkey" to > create a subkey on the Yubikey directly. > Yeah, seconded for sure. This is the configuratio

Re: Debian testing/unstable users: beware of Firefox critical CVEs

2024-03-25 Thread Paul Gevers
package from unstable on a testing machine (since there's no firefox package on testing, just firefox-esr). So, is the plan to deliver firefox-esr via tpu (after alignment with the Release Team)? Paul OpenPGP_signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Debian testing/unstable users: beware of Firefox critical CVEs

2024-03-24 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, 2024-03-24 at 22:45 +, Samuel Henrique wrote: > I'm sending this to d-devel because there should be a lot of testing and > unstable users on this list. If you're not running firefox 124.0.1 or > firefox-esr 115.9.1esr-1, you should find a way of upgrading to those > versions. firefox

Re: Package marked for autoremoval due to closed bug? [and 1 more messages]

2024-03-19 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi, On 19-03-2024 11:32 a.m., Ian Jackson wrote: Paul Gevers writes ("Re: Package marked for autoremoval due to closed bug?"): For bookkeeping purposes, please usertag downgraded bugs with user release.debian@packages.debian.org and usertag time_t-downgrade. I was informed t

Re: Package marked for autoremoval due to closed bug?

2024-03-16 Thread Paul Gevers
maybe confusing it with the time needed for packages to be out-of-sync [1]? That still requires someone (me) to file RC bugs and I have stopped doing that during this transition exactly to avoid autoremoval while the transition is in progress. Paul [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce

Re: Package marked for autoremoval due to closed bug?

2024-03-15 Thread Paul Gevers
e usertag downgraded bugs with user release.debian@packages.debian.org and usertag time_t-downgrade. Please be careful with downgrading RC bugs. Paul OpenPGP_signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Requesting help with the t64 transition

2024-03-08 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hi, On Tue, 2024-03-05 at 09:56 +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > I would like to ask for help with the t64 transition for m68k, powerpc and > sh4 because it's getting too much for me alone and I'm really exhausted. > > I have build many packages for powerpc already

Re: Re: Perl problem - loadable library and perl binaries are mismatched

2024-03-06 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
le me to debug future occurrences as I now understand the underlying problem. Thanks, Adrian > [1] https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=libhtml-parser-perl -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer `. `' Physicist `-GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913

Re: Any way to install packages+run autopkgtests on porterbox machines?

2024-03-05 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, 2024-03-03 at 10:20 -0800, Ross Vandegrift wrote: > Not exactly an answer, but an alternative - it's easy to get an ARM VM from > many cloud providers.  For a buck or two, I've avoided hours of futzing with > the porterboxes.  I've heard of providers with PPC, but haven't ever actually > u

Re: Perl problem - loadable library and perl binaries are mismatched

2024-03-05 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hi, On Tue, 2024-03-05 at 23:10 +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > > > oks like it's built with dpkg-dev_1.22.4 but the time64 build flags are > > only activated with 1.22.5. > > Ah, that would explain it, thank you so much! > > > I think there

Re: Perl problem - loadable library and perl binaries are mismatched

2024-03-05 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On Wed, 2024-03-06 at 00:08 +0200, Niko Tyni wrote: > (Oops, forgot the Cc you asked for. So resending. Apologies for the > duplicate on the list.) No worries. > On Tue, Mar 05, 2024 at 09:17:17PM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > > I am getting strange Perl erro

Perl problem - loadable library and perl binaries are mismatched

2024-03-05 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
subscribed to debian-devel. -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer `. `' Physicist `-GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913

Re: Requesting help with the t64 transition

2024-03-05 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On Tue, 2024-03-05 at 09:56 +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > For m68k, there is mitchy.debian.net and for powerpc, there is > perotto.debian.net. > > For sh4, qemu-user can be used. > > Chroots here: https://people.debian.org/~glaubitz/chroots/ I'm collecting

Requesting help with the t64 transition

2024-03-05 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
l, so please CC. For m68k, there is mitchy.debian.net and for powerpc, there is perotto.debian.net. For sh4, qemu-user can be used. Chroots here: https://people.debian.org/~glaubitz/chroots/ Thank you, Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer `. `' Ph

Re: Any way to install packages+run autopkgtests on porterbox machines?

2024-03-03 Thread Paul Gevers
access to testbeds with failed tests when contacted (preferably by signed e-mail). This is no wildcard access, we'll need to align on the time you want access. The advantage is that you run inside the setup that's used by ci.d.n on the arch you need. Paul OpenPGP_signature.asc Descript

Re: Bug#1065022: libglib2.0-0t64: t64 transition breaks the systems

2024-02-28 Thread Paul Gevers
upgrades. We don't protect against downgrades. Obviously there might be issues, but you are running unstable *during* a transition. You have to expect some troubles. Thanks for the information, let's see if this is a real issue or not. Paul [1] https://subdivi.de/~helmut/dep1

Resuming snapshot.debian.org for Debian Ports

2024-02-12 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
uildd queue once it has become stuck due to Mini-DAK as used by Debian Ports not supporting cruft [1]. Thanks, Adrian > [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-sparc/2017/12/msg00060.html -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer `. `' Physicist `-G

Re: Editor extensions to help editing debian/* files?

2024-01-26 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, 2024-01-25 at 22:22 -0800, Otto Kekäläinen wrote: > Yeah, I remember looking into cats some years back as a place to learn > what commands exist. Similarly I also occasionally browse > https://pre-commit.com/hooks.html. Yeah, there are lots of other tools similar to cats, many of them are

Re: Proposal for how to deal with Go/Rust/etc security bugs

2024-01-25 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, 2024-01-25 at 00:24 +, Wookey wrote: > People keep telling us (@ARM) how marvellous Rust is, and we keep > telling them that it's useless in the real world until it sorts out > the stable ABI/dynamic linking problem. IIRC that has been worked on for some years now, and IIRC the static

Re: Editor extensions to help editing debian/* files?

2024-01-23 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, 2024-01-20 at 23:43 -0800, Otto Kekäläinen wrote: > PS. Related, these are commands I frequently run manually but don't > have any editor integration for: Thats beginning to look like the history of check-all-the-things. Initially I maintained such a list of commands on the wiki: htt

Re: Policy: versioning between releases

2024-01-21 Thread Paul Gevers
way"? I claim that nowadays we (as a project) don't expect our maintainers to reply like that. Yes, as far as I know partial upgrades are still not officially supposed to always work, but I think in practice it works quite well, so I think we support it as far as "i

Re: Bug#1036884: 64-bit time_t: updated archive analysis, proposed transition plan with timeline

2024-01-20 Thread Paul Gevers
unstable that were skipped for experimental because of different sonames there, deal with binary NEW then in unstable. Paul OpenPGP_signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Debtags: understanding the heuristics of "Checks and hints" in the online editor

2024-01-20 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, 2024-01-20 at 09:40 +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > I am (very) willing to act as service maintainer. Please get in touch with the debtags team about this. https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/DebTags https://salsa.debian.org/groups/debtags-team/-/group_members > I have interest myself in con

Re: Debtags: understanding the heuristics of "Checks and hints" in the online editor

2024-01-19 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, 2024-01-19 at 18:24 +0100, André Maroneze wrote: > I want to use debtags metadata for a research project The debtags service is planned to be shutdown and the data no longer published, as there is no-one in Debian who wants to maintain it. https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/2023112616

Re: Limited security support for Go/Rust? Re ssh3

2024-01-15 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, 2024-01-15 at 10:17 +0100, Bastian Blank wrote: > I asked for practical solutions, not theoretical ones.  We don't have a > suitable way to rebuild all packages just because right now. There are some ideas on the static linking wiki page: https://wiki.debian.org/StaticLinking Probably t

Re: Wolfram Research Debian Package Submission

2024-01-12 Thread Paul Gevers
ing a sponsor via that process. Paul [1] https://bugs.debian.org/1032150 OpenPGP_signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Drawbacks of lack of mandated packaging workflow (Was: Re: Bug#1036884: 64-bit time_t: updated archive analysis, proposed transition plan with timeline)

2024-01-06 Thread Paul Gevers
Oops, should have waited sending... On 06-01-2024 14:30, Paul Gevers wrote: On 06-01-2024 14:15, Gioele Barabucci wrote: Aren't all these problems just inherent in Debian's lack of a mandated packaging tooling and workflow [1,2]? Might be, but that doesn't mean that problem

Re: Drawbacks of lack of mandated packaging workflow (Was: Re: Bug#1036884: 64-bit time_t: updated archive analysis, proposed transition plan with timeline)

2024-01-06 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi Gioele, On 06-01-2024 14:15, Gioele Barabucci wrote: Aren't all these problems just inherent in Debian's lack of a mandated packaging tooling and workflow [1,2]? Might be, but that doesn't mean that problem goes away. Paul OpenPGP_signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Bug#1036884: 64-bit time_t: updated archive analysis, proposed transition plan with timeline

2024-01-05 Thread Paul Gevers
rs so keen on this transition that that won't happen? But what about newer versions with the old name already in experimental, conform the former worry?). I've seen NMU's being ignored by subsequent uploads by the maintainer, even when they fixed RC issues which were then

Re: Running Lintian against a debian/ directory?

2024-01-03 Thread Paul Wise
#x27;s spellintian tool with minor      modifications.         * debian/{lintian.links,manpages}:        + [NT] Install spellintian in PATH and install its manpage.      Thanks to Paul Wise for the suggestion.  (Closes: #767867)        -- Niels Thykier   Sun, 28 Jun 2015 14:08:29 +0200 -- bye, pabs

Re: Running Lintian against a debian/ directory?

2023-12-24 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, 2023-12-22 at 16:43 +0800, Otto Kekäläinen wrote: > Currently Lintian requires a (source or binary) package to check[1]. (and some checks require *both* source and binary packages available) > Is anyone aware of a way to run lintian directly on a debian/ > directory contents as-is withou

Re: Bits from the Release Team: Cambridge sprint update

2023-12-18 Thread Paul Gevers
and he was talking about "Release Team bugs", Yes, I was talking about d-release. Somehow this mistake slipped in and wasn't caught during the review. Paul OpenPGP_signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Bits from the Release Team: Cambridge sprint update

2023-12-18 Thread Paul Gevers
aintainers the wrong incentive to *not* make their packages reproducible, as there would be no way back. 2) there are still infrastructure hiccups that would hit maintainers of reproducible packages unequally hard, while we'd want the opposite if we'd have a choice. Paul O

Re: Migration blocked

2023-12-06 Thread Paul Gevers
vinced. Those sources should eventually go away automatically [4] (from your point of view). Paul [1]: https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/node-proxy-agents [2] https://salsa.debian.org/release-team/britney2/ [3] https://salsa.debian.org/ci-team/autopkgtest/ [4] https://ftp-master.debian.org/cruft-

Re: Clarification for broken packages in IPv6-only environments

2023-11-30 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
t I don't regard this as a particularly high bar, it tends to take some pretty heavy and gnarly usage of legacy api surface to render programs show stoppingly broken. paultag -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ Paul Tagliamonte ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ https://people.debian.org/~paultag | https://pault.ag/ ⢿⡄⠘⠷

Re: Misc Developer News (#59)

2023-11-22 Thread Paul Gevers
l) on *.debian.org. Paul OpenPGP_signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

New sparc64 porterbox available

2023-11-11 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
any issues, so I am confident it should work for everyone else. For questions and problems reports, please drop me an email or join #debian-ports on OFTC IRC network. Thanks, Adrian > [1] https://db.debian.org/machines.cgi?host=stadler -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz :

Re: What would help the most?

2023-10-28 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, 2023-10-27 at 14:00 -0500, Lukasz Szybalski wrote: > What is the minimum most value thing that would > help YOU accomplish your goals for Debian ? Check out this page if no-one gives anything more specific: https://www.debian.org/intro/help -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWis

Re: Hyphens in man pages

2023-10-24 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, 2023-10-24 at 05:40 +, Tobias Frost wrote: > Am 24. Oktober 2023 03:43:29 UTC schrieb Paul Wise: > > > BTW: as a Debian member, you have access to a gratis subscription: > > > > https://wiki.debian.org/MemberBenefits#LWN > > AFAIK this is no longer av

Re: Hyphens in man pages

2023-10-23 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, 2023-10-23 at 11:17 -0500, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > https://lwn.net/Articles/947941/ > > Would someone be willing to send me a subscriber-sponsored link to it? BTW: as a Debian member, you have access to a gratis subscription: https://wiki.debian.org/MemberBenefits#LWN -- bye, pab

Re: Illegal Instruction Using sudo in Bookworm on i686

2023-10-23 Thread Paul Gevers
else echo "NOT OK: Missing one or more of the required CPU extensions" fi Paul OpenPGP_signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Illegal Instruction Using sudo in Bookworm on i686

2023-10-17 Thread Paul Gevers
eleases/stretch/i386/release-notes.en.txt paragraph 5.1.7 Paul OpenPGP_signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: QDMR on Raspberry Pi OS?

2023-10-09 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, 2023-10-10 at 01:28 +, Dan Tallant wrote: > curious about bringing the QDMR cps software for Linux to the > Raspberry Pi os (specifically 64 bit running on the Pi4 w/8gb RAM) As mentioned by Carsten on the list, qdmr is already available in Debian for arm64 since the bookworm release,

Re: Is there a generic canonical way for a package script to check network connectivity?

2023-10-08 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, 2023-10-08 at 22:49 -0400, Jonathan Kamens wrote: > I need to be able to tell from one of my package scripts whether the > host has networking connectivity. Which package and why do the maintainer scripts need network? -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise signature.asc Descr

Re: allow missing description fields and empty long descriptions for Rust/etc packages?

2023-09-30 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, 2023-09-22 at 14:40 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > Personally I think this boilerplate has little to no value, cutting the > long sentence down to something like just "Rust crate foo" would help This change has now been merged and will reach Debian eventually: https://salsa

Re: lpr/lpd

2023-09-24 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, 2023-09-25 at 12:08 +0900, Simon Richter wrote: > What I'd like to see is something like ... > No installed packages are looking for a new maintainer. That is what how-can-i-help does, except it doesn't print anything when there have been no changes to the status of packages on the s

Re: lpr/lpd

2023-09-24 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, 2023-09-25 at 12:08 +0900, Simon Richter wrote: > What I'd like to see is something like > > No installed packages are looking for a new maintainer. That is what how-can-i-help does, except it doesn't print anything when there have been no changes to the status of packages on the sy

Re: debvm for autopkgtests with multiple host?

2023-09-24 Thread Paul Gevers
inning set-upped as described above, effectively allowing all packages from unstable to be installed. However, for the current use-case that probably happens *before* debvm/mmdebstrap runs, so that detail should not matter. Paul OpenPGP_signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: lpr/lpd

2023-09-22 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, 2023-09-22 at 23:07 +0900, Simon Richter wrote: > One thing I'd think might help would be a tag in the package database > that is derived from WNPP status, which would allow the summary output > at the end of installs also list packages that are installed that are > currently in RFA or O

Re: lintian.debian.org off ?

2023-09-22 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, 2023-09-22 at 09:27 +0200, Jérémy Lal wrote: > Host lintian.debian.org not found: 3(NXDOMAIN) > > is this expected ? Yes, it is replaced by the UDD interface: https://wiki.debian.org/Services/lintian.debian.org https://udd.debian.org/lintian/ There is no web based location for the desc

Re: allow missing description fields and empty long descriptions for Rust/etc packages?

2023-09-21 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, 2023-09-21 at 19:05 +0200, Fabian Grünbichler wrote: > the structured metadata of crates only has a short description[0] Would the Debian Rust team be willing to talk to the upstream Rust community on adding the concept of crate long descriptions? > which is often also not very meaningfu

allow missing description fields and empty long descriptions for Rust/etc packages?

2023-09-19 Thread Paul Wise
Hi all, I have noticed that almost all Rust packages in Debian have boilerplate long descriptions that aren't very useful to Debian users. The only useful info is the crate name, but that is also in the package name. As far as I know they inherit this property from the upstream Rust crates, which

Re: armhf NEON exception for chromium

2023-09-15 Thread Paul Gevers
and armhf VM's doesn't have NEON in the feature list. Paul OpenPGP_signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: armhf NEON exception for chromium

2023-09-15 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi, On 15-09-2023 17:52, Andres Salomon wrote: Any thoughts on this? Please be aware of bug #1036818 [1]. Currently /proc/cpuinfo is empty on armel ci.debian.net workers. (I'm failing to spot neon in the list of features of that machine.) Paul [1] https://bugs.debian.org/cg

Re: armhf NEON exception for chromium

2023-09-15 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
On Fri, Sep 15, 2023 at 12:18 PM Andres Salomon wrote: > So my proposal for chromium is this: > a) Enable NEON for chromium's armhf build. > b) Add a check in debian/rules for 'neon' in /proc/cpuinfo's Features: line, > and fail to build if NEON is not present. This should ensure that any buildds

Re: Default font: Transition from DejaVu to Noto

2023-09-14 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, 2023-09-13 at 21:09 +0200, Gunnar Hjalmarsson wrote: > So we have a conflict of goals here. The good news is that a user who > speaks some latin language, and who thinks it's important to be able to > easily select font directly in various applications, can do: > > apt purge fonts-noto-c

Re: Default font: Transition from DejaVu to Noto

2023-09-10 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, 2023-09-10 at 11:34 -0400, The Wanderer wrote: > Rather than discussing only Noto vs. DejaVu, is there any possibility of > reintroducing Bitstream Vera as a default-font option (even if with a > low priority), for systems which have that installed? IIRC DejaVu is a fork of and similar to

Re: Default font: Transition from DejaVu to Noto

2023-09-09 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, 2023-09-09 at 23:08 +0200, Gunnar Hjalmarsson wrote: > My personal view is that it is a change in the right direction, and I > have taken a couple of follow-up steps in Debian. There are still loose > ends and more work to be done to achieve a consistent configuration in > this respect.

Re: debian/copyright format and SPDX

2023-09-09 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, 2023-09-08 at 12:09 +0530, Hideki Yamane wrote: > Making appropriate debian/copyright file is hard and boring task, IMHO Using scancode-toolkit/etc can probably automate most of that work. https://wiki.debian.org/CopyrightReviewTools -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise sig

Bug#1051352: ITP: shedskin -- Python-to-C++ compiler designed to speed up Python programs

2023-09-06 Thread Paul Boddie
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Paul Boddie * Package name: shedskin Version : 0.9.7 Upstream Author : Mark Dufour * URL : https://shedskin.github.io/ * License : GPL-3+ Programming Lang: Python Description : Python-to-C++ compiler designed to

Bug#1050994: xutils-dev: Please add support for loong64

2023-09-01 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
ttps://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1026002 -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer `. `' Physicist `-GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913

Bug#1050893: gcc-13: Please disable Ada, D, Go and M2 as well as GDB support on loong64

2023-08-30 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
. - Please disable Ada, D, Go and M2 for loong64 in debian/rules.def. - Please add "!loong64" for gdb in debian/control.m4 The attached patch implements these changes. Thanks, Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer `. `' Physicist `-

Re: /usr-merge status update + next steps

2023-08-20 Thread Paul Gevers
team) this is fine. What I appreciate about using RC bugs is that in the weird case where the maintainer has good reasons why the package should migrate nevertheless (e.g. severe security implications), he has full power to achieve that. The history is also fully tracked in the BTS. Paul

Re: Questionable Package Present in Debian: fortune-mod

2023-08-19 Thread Paul R. Tagliamonte
ntent in violation of project norms as seriously as we treat nonfree? Paul -- :wq

Re: __pycache__ directories (Re: Potential MBF: packages failing to build twice in a row)

2023-08-15 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, 2023-08-14 at 22:09 +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: > I received a couple of bug reports against packages I (co) maintain > regarding this issue and having a quick look, quite a few fail due to > python scripts being run during the build and creating a __pycache__ > directory. I recommend a

Re: Potential MBF: packages failing to build twice in a row

2023-08-15 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, 2023-08-13 at 22:28 +0200, Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues wrote: > > dpkg-source: info: local changes detected, the modified files are: > >   plakativ-0.5.1/plakativ.egg-info/SOURCES.txt > > since this issue seems to be affecting a few more packages than plakativ, I > wanted to ask here

Re: Potential MBF: packages failing to build twice in a row

2023-08-15 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, 2023-08-13 at 21:18 +, Jeremy Stanley wrote: > Similarly, I got one for __pycache__/*.cpython-311.pyc file > overwrites... is that something dh_python should clean? Probably just send upstream a change removing them? -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise signature.asc Des

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