Re: Problems changing default chmod of /dev/pts/*

2015-11-21 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Decstasy , 2015-11-21, 13:15: I want to change the default chmod of /dev/pts/* from 620 to 660. In the past it can be changed by /etc/defaults/devpts This hasn't worked, even with sysvinit, for years; see bug #705056. Anyway, 660 sounds wrong. Why do you want such permissions? --

Re: Mass bug filing: dpkg-buildpackage -A

2015-11-23 Thread Jakub Wilk
RC in some not too distant future (to be on par with ordinary "dpkg-buildpackage"), but for now I think "severity: important" would be appropriate here. I'd use "severity: serious", just like for a normal FTBFS. -- Jakub Wilk

Re: Bug#806429: ITP: python-requestsexceptions -- import exceptions from bundled packages in requests

2015-11-27 Thread Jakub Wilk
-requestsexceptions.html -- Jakub Wilk

Re: Upcoming version of apt-file - using apt-acquire and incompatibilities

2015-12-06 Thread Jakub Wilk
e (APT? dak?), but I don't have time to debug it further. I very rarely need Contents-source anyway, so I just disabled it in /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/50apt-file.conf. -- Jakub Wilk

Re: Upcoming version of apt-file - using apt-acquire and incompatibilities

2015-12-06 Thread Jakub Wilk
ile (>= 3) installed? Because this is the package that ships the configuration file for APT that causes apt(-get) to download Contents-*. -- Jakub Wilk

Re: Bug#807019: tracking bin-num - broken unison due to binnmu upload

2015-12-09 Thread Jakub Wilk
d should be reverted. It didn't fix binNMU co-installability, and made binMNU changelog entries less helpful. [0] https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=unison2.32.52&arch=mips&ver=2.32.52-7%2Bb1&stamp=1449193180 -- Jakub Wilk

Re: tracker.debian.org replaces packages.qa.debian.org for email subscriptions

2015-12-09 Thread Jakub Wilk
List-Id: I can add this if it's actually useful. Anyone seconding Simon's request? Seconded. -- Jakub Wilk

Re: Bug#807868: ITP: zjump -- Jump to frequent directories matching regex

2015-12-14 Thread Jakub Wilk
gestion is to ask upstream about their preference in alternative names for "z". -- Jakub Wilk

Re: Bug#807956: ITP: doit -- unofficial DigitalOcean Interactive Tool

2015-12-14 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Daniel Stender , 2015-12-14, 18:42: * Package name: doit Version : 0.6.0 Upstream Author : Bryan Liles * URL : https://github.com/bryanl/doit Unfortunately /usr/bin/doit already exists, provided by python-doit. -- Jakub Wilk

Re: Bug#807868: ITP: zjump -- Jump to frequent directories matching regex

2015-12-14 Thread Jakub Wilk
not conflict on the machine in its manpage and README. I'm confused. There is no file conflict here, so I see no reason to rename the program or its manpage. We do have to rename the package, but only because the use upstream uses is too short. -- Jakub Wilk

Re: Can I suppress automatic creation of -dbgsym packages?

2015-12-22 Thread Jakub Wilk
-a last year (arch any) and this year (arch all): https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2014/08/msg2.html https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2015/08/msg7.html Reminder: Every person who was caught not reading d-d-a carefully is obliged to fix 42 RC bugs. -- Jakub

Re: Bug#808767: ITP: apt-transport-gs -- APT transport for repositories privately held on GCS

2015-12-23 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Marcin Kulisz (kuLa) , 2015-12-22, 16:07: * Package name: apt-transport-gs s/gs/gcs/ ? -- Jakub Wilk

Re: Bug#809014: ITP: chewing-editor -- libchewing user phrase editor

2015-12-27 Thread Jakub Wilk
* ChangZhuo Chen (陳昌倬) , 2015-12-27, 13:38: chewing-editor is a cross platform user dictionary edtiro for chewing Typo: edtiro -> editor -- Jakub Wilk

Re: Orhpaned packages: imms, lwatch, rrdcollect

2015-12-28 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Artur R. Czechowski , 2015-12-28, 16:17: - rrdcollect http://bugs.debian.org/809234 ITYM #809235 -- Jakub Wilk

Re: MBF Announcement: Transition libpng12 -> libpng16

2016-01-04 Thread Jakub Wilk
ne-wrapped. :) The Titanpad at https://titanpad.com/libpng16-transistion might gives y ou clues about what went wrong as well as contains some s/gives/give/ s/y\nou/you/ -- Jakub Wilk

Re: support for merged /usr in Debian

2016-01-05 Thread Jakub Wilk
other approaches are available. The bin-or-sbin-binary-requires-usr-lib-library tag in adequate tests this. piuparts runs adequate for every single package in Debian. https://piuparts.debian.org/sid/bin_or_sbin_binary_requires_usr_lib_library_inadequate_issue.html -- Jakub Wilk

Re: Packages with /outdated/ packaging style

2016-01-19 Thread Jakub Wilk
packages had some issues that rectify a new upload. IMHO also debian/compat < 9 is another good reason since automatic build time testing is not done if existing. I don't know what you mean by dh5, but I'm pretty sure there was no change regarding "automatic build time testing" in compat 9. -- Jakub Wilk

Re: Better Lintian checks

2016-01-26 Thread Jakub Wilk
k.git/tree/daklib/checks.py?id=c51e71bbd9c2#n392 refers to #768353 which was fixed in November 2014, but the fix is most likely not available in stable yet, The version graph says it's fixed in "dose3/3.3~beta1-3 (stable)". -- Jakub Wilk

Re: Better Lintian checks

2016-01-26 Thread Jakub Wilk
quot;no" is the default. The gdal package didn't have any Multi-Arch control fields. This will be fixed in the next Lintian release: https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/lintian/lintian.git/commit/?id=20ad1f7fbe12 In the mean time, please add an override for the tag. -- Jakub Wilk

Re: mkdocs locale error building djangorestframework

2016-01-28 Thread Jakub Wilk
l. You'll get back a str. Or a UnicodeDecodeError. Avoid French and Norwegian locales and you're be good. :-P Or upgrade to glibc 0.22, which guarantees that "locale -a" output is ASCII-only: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=18412 -- Jakub Wilk

Re: bugs in bootstrap.debian.net (was: Re: The state of cross building)

2016-01-31 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Johannes Schauer , 2016-01-31, 15:27: libmagickcore-dev is multiarch:foreign This is surely a bug. libmagickcore-dev is a transitional package for libmagickcore-6.q16-dev, which is MA:same, so its interfaces are very much architecture dependent. -- Jakub Wilk

Re: bugs in bootstrap.debian.net (was: Re: The state of cross building)

2016-02-03 Thread Jakub Wilk
and MA:foreign packages (and arch:all packages, but that's a separate tag), but because of a bug MA-less packages are checked too. This will be fixed in the next Lintian release. -- Jakub Wilk

Re: How to change config script for multiarch?

2016-02-10 Thread Jakub Wilk
er without seeing the package you're working with; or at least without explanation how exactly it differs from the package in the archive. -- Jakub Wilk

Re: How to change config script for multiarch?

2016-02-11 Thread Jakub Wilk
to me. -- Jakub Wilk

Re: How to change config script for multiarch?

2016-02-11 Thread Jakub Wilk
* NOKUBI Takatsugu , 2016-02-12, 08:27: Jakub Wilk wrote: Are you trying to move the script to libchasen-dev? Why? There are Debian maintainer scripts that use chasen-config. Are they going to depend on the -dev package? Yes, now I will move the script into libchasen-dev because it seems

Re: upstream_version not starting with a digit (was: Re: How to change config script for multiarch?)

2016-02-12 Thread Jakub Wilk
no source package with an upstream_version part that does not start with a digit: sed -ne 's/^Version: \([0-9]\+:\)\?[^0-9]//p' So maybe policy should be adjusted to reflect reality? Yes. #620566 used to be a policy bug about it, but then someone unhelpfully reassigned it to dpkg... -- Jakub Wilk

Re: Bug#815675: ITP: ftpbackup -- Script to backups your data from a Debian system to a ftp space

2016-02-24 Thread Jakub Wilk
g cool, instead of uploading it to ftp-master, write a blog post about it. If it's really as awesome as you think it is, somebody else will package it for Debian. -- Jakub Wilk

Re: Bug#815675: ITP: ftpbackup -- Script to backups your data from a Debian system to a ftp space

2016-02-24 Thread Jakub Wilk
tar.bz2. [Gratitude for the review would be best expressed by requesting removal of this package from the archive.] -- Jakub Wilk

HTTPS in DEP-5

2016-03-06 Thread Jakub Wilk
PS URL; fix HTTPS-advertising and HTTPS-producing tools, and >400 copyright files. B) Fix the spec to allow the HTTPS URL; fix the HTTP-only consumers. C) Admit that file formats are too hard and go shopping. -- Jakub Wilk

Re: Possible MBF: Packages depending on iceweasel but not firefox/firefox-esr

2016-03-20 Thread Jakub Wilk
these addon packages prevent installing only the firefox package and removing firefox-esr and the transitional iceweasel package. So let's fix Depends of the transitional package. No MBF is needed. -- Jakub Wilk

Re: Possible MBF: Packages depending on iceweasel but not firefox/firefox-esr

2016-03-22 Thread Jakub Wilk
ebian/lists/debian-bugs-dist -- Jakub Wilk

Re: -flto to become more of a routine - any change in opinion since 2011?

2016-03-29 Thread Jakub Wilk
gging information. Combining -flto with -g is currently experimental and expected to produce unexpected results." Um... Automatic debug packages or LTO, choose one? -- Jakub Wilk

Re: Priorities overrides? Extra?

2016-04-10 Thread Jakub Wilk
ges are in the override file. That doesn't mean that that every single package had their priority or section actually changed. -- Jakub Wilk

Re: Packaging of static libraries

2016-04-10 Thread Jakub Wilk
suffice. Lintian check for what? -- Jakub Wilk

Re: Opt out style recommends

2016-04-12 Thread Jakub Wilk
e building an executable). The downside is that the unresolved symbols will be unversioned, and that you have to hardcode soname in the code... which means it'll all explode sooner or later. -- Jakub Wilk

Re: Debian policy recommended snippet prevents building packages from external Makefile

2016-04-14 Thread Jakub Wilk
ldn't, because it's not always suitable as arguments for make. -- Jakub Wilk

Re: Packaging of static libraries

2016-04-14 Thread Jakub Wilk
tted only when the binary is not linked to any shared libraries (not even libc). It would be helpful if we could check if an dynamic binary is linked to a static library from another package; but I'm not aware of any reliable method to implement such check. -- Jakub Wilk

Re: Bug#822221: ITP: flipcoin -- flip an adjustable coin for random exit status

2016-04-22 Thread Jakub Wilk
ility * ((double) maxInt)+1.0) < valInt); This is off-by-one, making the return value slightly biased towards 0. Both COPYING and LICENSE exist and they are identical. Surely one would be enough? :-) There is no test suite... All in all, I don't think this is mature enough to be uploaded to Debian at this time. -- Jakub Wilk

Re: Bug#822221: ITP: flipcoin -- flip an adjustable coin for random exit status

2016-04-22 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Anthony DeRobertis , 2016-04-22, 09:09: memset(&maxInt, 0xff, sizeof(maxInt)); "maxInt = -1" is would be a more obvious way to write it, IMHO. Both pale in comparison to UINT32_MAX, also found in . Meh. The advantage of the existing code is that it doesn't repeat the size of valInt/maxInt

Re: Packaging of static libraries

2016-05-04 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Jakub Wilk , 2016-04-14, 18:06: It would be helpful if we could check if a dynamic binary is linked to a static library from another package; but I'm not aware of any reliable method to implement such check. Maybe we could exploit the fact that static libraries are normally str

Re: How to change config script for multiarch?

2016-05-09 Thread Jakub Wilk
fig, especially when it's not going to be adopted upstream, is most likely counter-productive. And some general tips: * Do not introduce Debian-specific interfaces. * Do not remove upstream-supported interfaces, specially when no upstream-supported alternatives exist. -- Jakub Wilk

Re: Bug#823672: ITP: sse-support -- prevent installation on processors without required support

2016-05-09 Thread Jakub Wilk
tead of manually playing with CPUID. Documentation: https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-4.8.5/gcc/X86-Built-in-Functions.html -- Jakub Wilk

Re: schroot broken in testing?

2016-05-10 Thread Jakub Wilk
-a09e-47ee-be8d-8a407056d84c/etc/resolv.conf': Operation not permitted E: sid-amd64-sbuild-b87ff7e8-a09e-47ee-be8d-8a407056d84c: Chroot setup failed: stage=setup-start Anybody else seen similar problems? #821442 -- Jakub Wilk

Re: Bug#824057: ITP: bitkeeper -- source code management system

2016-05-11 Thread Jakub Wilk
do no harm to have it as a Debian package. This sounds as if you're not a Bitkeeper user yourself. I strongly recommend against packaging software you don't personally use. This never goes well. (I say this as someone who did this mistake in the past, multiple times.) -- Jakub Wilk

Re: Computing resources for DHG work

2016-05-29 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Sean Whitton , 2016-05-29, 21:43: The disc space required would be the total of: - all the source packages & orig tarballs that have the haskell group specified as the Maintainer: - plus all the binary packages built from those - plus a base sid debootstrap chroot (around 1.6GB) A chroot w

Re: Verifying dep-5

2016-05-30 Thread Jakub Wilk
cho 6) | shuf | head -n1 | tee log 6 Which process created the log line? The technically correct answer is "tee"; but this answer is completely impractical. -- Jakub Wilk

Re: Package removal from testing for bug in stable

2016-06-17 Thread Jakub Wilk
va, but relying on binfmt seems awfully brittle to me. -- Jakub Wilk

Re: Keysigning via Video Conferencing

2016-06-23 Thread Jakub Wilk
that establishing "social bonds" was a prerequisite, I would have almost certainly never become a DD. [0] And by "everybody" I mean that one developer that happened to live in the same big city as me. -- Jakub Wilk

Re: Neomutt packages available

2016-06-24 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Clint Adams , 2016-06-24, 08:44: I am suggesting that I remember what happened with mutt-kz. What happened with mutt-kz? -- Jakub Wilk

Re: mutt concentration camp (was Re: Neomutt packages available)

2016-06-24 Thread Jakub Wilk
I don't think this is a german thing (well…) It's not a thing in Poland, at least. [0] for very small values of "million" [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ministry_of_Public_Security_%28Poland%29 [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milicja_Obywatelska -- Jakub Wilk

Re: mutt concentration camp (was Re: Neomutt packages available)

2016-06-24 Thread Jakub Wilk
And I agree. What about stalin ("extremely aggressive Scheme compiler")? I find "kgb-*" a good joke and "stalin" distasteful, but I can't rationally explain the difference in these gut feelings. But in either case, I wouldn't go as far as to demand package rename or removal. -- Jakub Wilk

Re: So I received a gpg-signed email, can I trust it?

2016-07-08 Thread Jakub Wilk
: $ mkdir -m 0700 foobar And you really shouldn't use /tmp as a personal scratch space. /tmp is word-writable and therefore not suitable for this purpose. (Yes, I realize that these are just examples. But let's not teach people bad habits.) -- Jakub Wilk

Re: So I received a gpg-signed email, can I trust it?

2016-07-08 Thread Jakub Wilk
he default, and some even don't have --do-not-shoot-me-in-the-foot as an option (see #800134), it's only a matter of time before someone slips up. Or maybe it's already happened? Check out debian-hiding-problems@, er, I mean debian-private@ archives. -- Jakub Wilk

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