Re: Sorce only uploads with sbuild (was: Bits from the Release Team)

2019-07-23 Thread Johannes Schauer
Hi, Quoting Sean Whitton (2019-07-23 17:47:45) > > I prefer to build only once, if possible, generating both binary and source > > .changes. Both in a clean chroot. Then I can try out my .debs and on > > success just sign and dput. Works fine for me with pbuilder. > ICBW but I am pretty sure that

Re: Debian and our frenemies of containers and userland repos

2019-07-24 Thread Johannes Schauer
Quoting Marc Haber (2019-07-24 08:17:19) > On Mon, 22 Jul 2019 12:38:36 +0200, "Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult" > wrote: > >Containerization is a valid approach for some kind of workloads > >(eg. specific inhouse applications) that can be easily isolated from > >the rest. But it comes with the

Re: Debian and our frenemies of containers and userland repos

2019-07-24 Thread Johannes Schauer
Quoting Marc Haber (2019-07-24 08:17:19) > Do we have a build technology that uses containers instead of chroots yet? Either using any container-based autopkgtest backend (like lxc or lxd): $ sbuild --chroot-mode=autopkgtest --autopkgtest-virt-server=lxc Or using the built-in "unshare"

Re: Debian and our frenemies of containers and userland repos

2019-07-25 Thread Johannes Schauer
Hi, Quoting Paul Wise (2019-07-25 05:38:49) > On Wed, Jul 24, 2019 at 2:42 PM Johannes Schauer wrote: > > Or using the built-in "unshare" backend which uses linux user namespaces: > > > > $ sbuild --chroot-mode=unshare --chroot=debian-unstable.tar > &g

Re: Debian and our frenemies of containers and userland repos

2019-07-25 Thread Johannes Schauer
Hi, Quoting Paul Wise (2019-07-26 04:31:29) > > But you'd have to ask somebody who is more knowledgable about the security > > implications of such a change. There certainly is a reason why #898446 is > > still > > open. > > > > Furthermore, since buildds currently use the schroot backend, I

Re: Debian and our frenemies of containers and userland repos

2019-07-26 Thread Johannes Schauer
Hi, Quoting Simon McVittie (2019-07-26 09:51:24) > schroot is also setuid root, and sbuild relies on this to set up the > build-dependencies anyway, so in principle schroot/sbuild ought to be > able to do something like this: > > - preparation step (as real root, in the chroot, with networking):

Re: mandatory source uploads

2019-07-08 Thread Johannes Schauer
Quoting Samuel Thibault (2019-07-08 12:01:01) > Thomas Goirand, le lun. 08 juil. 2019 11:57:45 +0200, a ecrit: > > So if I understand correctly, I can just rebuild everything and do > > source-only uploads, and the Debian infra will be smart enough to > > understand how to build? > Yes. Only the

Re: Dropping Release and Release.gpg support from APT

2019-07-10 Thread Johannes Schauer
Quoting Julian Andres Klode (2019-07-10 10:17:51) > On Wed, Jul 10, 2019 at 10:10:41AM +0200, Philipp Kern wrote: > > Given the timeline, shouldn't we also get oldstable to ship an InRelease > > file? > What's the use case for having oldstable in your sources.list on > unstable/testing machines?

Re: Debian and our frenemies of containers and userland repos

2019-10-06 Thread Johannes Schauer
Quoting Paul Wise (2019-10-07 03:38:55) > On Sun, Oct 6, 2019 at 7:23 PM Simon McVittie wrote: > > FYI, this is because autopkgtest has an abstraction for multiple > > container/virtualization mechanisms (lxc, lxd, qemu, schroot) > It seems like this abstraction should be split out of the

Re: Debian and our frenemies of containers and userland repos

2019-10-07 Thread Johannes Schauer
Hi, shameless plug for mmdebstrap incoming. Quoting Philipp Kern (2019-10-07 13:21:36) > On 10/7/2019 1:17 PM, Shengjing Zhu wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 7, 2019 at 6:29 PM Simon McVittie wrote: > >> On Mon, 07 Oct 2019 at 07:22:53 +0200, Johannes Schauer wrote: > >&g

InstallBootstrap (was: Re: Debian and our frenemies of containers and userland repos)

2019-10-08 Thread Johannes Schauer
Hi, Quoting Jonas Smedegaard (2019-10-08 10:30:45) > Quoting Paul Wise (2019-10-08 02:35:14) > > On Mon, 2019-10-07 at 11:29 +0100, Simon McVittie wrote: > > > I think "re-bootstrap, don't upgrade" is an equally good principle for > > > autopkgtest and sbuild? Both will be equally susceptible to

Re: Debian and our frenemies of containers and userland repos

2019-10-05 Thread Johannes Schauer
Hi, Quoting Nicholas D Steeves (2019-10-05 18:41:55) > Bernd Zeimetz writes: > > On 10/5/19 3:31 AM, Paul Wise wrote: > >> On Fri, Oct 4, 2019 at 10:49 PM Enrico Weigelt wrote: > >>> On 24.07.19 08:17, Marc Haber wrote: > Do we have a build technology that uses containers instead of chroots

Re: bootstrap.min.js in pydoctor

2020-02-26 Thread Johannes Schauer
Quoting Daniel Leidert (2020-02-26 10:27:03) > Am Dienstag, den 25.02.2020, 17:40 + schrieb Ian Jackson: > > For -devel, context is that Anthony Fok just uploaded a new upstream > > version of pydoctor (a tool for extracting API docs for python > > modules) in order to fix a couple of upstream

re: git-buildpackage to be autoremoved due to python2 transition

2020-02-27 Thread Johannes Schauer
Quoting peter green (2020-02-27 22:54:19) > > Relevant packages and bugs: > > 943107 git-buildpackage: Python2 removal in sid/bullseye > This bug is not marked as rc. > > Nevertheless I believe that this bug report is in-fact a false positive. From > what I can tell git-buildpackage, even in

Re: How to undo a merged-user installation?

2020-02-19 Thread Johannes Schauer
Hi, Quoting Guillem Jover (2020-02-18 19:43:53) > * If you are using raw debootstrap then just pass that option. Or >just switch to use mmdebstrap which does not have a broken default, >and is way way faster anyway. since you mention mmdebstrap, let me add another reason against getting

Re: Is running dpkg-buildpackage manually from the command line forbidden?

2020-01-17 Thread Johannes Schauer
Hi, Quoting Simon McVittie (2020-01-16 19:47:02) > I think I dimly remember someone setting up "the buildd from hell" which > deliberately did this as a QA mechanism, but it doesn't seem to have > continued in any systematic way. is there more information about it somewhere? My inbox has only

Re: Is running dpkg-buildpackage manually from the command line forbidden?

2020-01-17 Thread Johannes Schauer
Hi Daniel, Sam and all, Quoting Sam Hartman (2020-01-17 01:27:52) > > "Daniel" == Daniel Schepler writes: > > Daniel> (Incidentally, another offshoot was creating local patches to > sbuild > Daniel> which add an operation mode using systemd-nspawn --ephemeral to > start >

Re: https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/dballe

2020-01-17 Thread Johannes Schauer
Quoting Sam Hartman (2020-01-17 09:45:43) > > "Paul" == Paul Wise writes: > > Paul> On Mon, Jan 13, 2020 at 4:11 PM Wouter Verhelst wrote: > >> You'll make it unnecessarily harder to bootstrap environments that need > >> themselves to build if you do that. > > Paul> The idea

Re: Is running dpkg-buildpackage manually from the command line forbidden?

2020-01-17 Thread Johannes Schauer
Hi, Quoting Daniel Schepler (2020-01-17 17:58:09) > > I'm also very excited about having yet another chroot backend being > > integrated into sbuild! Though my first comment would be the same as I gave > > those asking for a docker backend in #867176: maybe try adding that backend > > to

Re: documenting on how not starting a daemon upon installation

2020-03-11 Thread Johannes Schauer
Quoting Marvin Renich (2020-03-11 13:43:50) > - policy-rc.d requires manually writing a shell script (a trivial > one-liner for the "block all" case). Not quite. From the first answer to OP's original question by Jonas: Quoting Jonas Smedegaard (2020-03-07 22:36:44) > Are you familiar with

Re: What to do when DD considers policy to be optional? [kubernetes]

2020-03-26 Thread Johannes Schauer
Hi, Quoting Russ Allbery (2020-03-25 03:25:49) > Michael Lustfield writes: > > One last thing to consider... NEW reviews are already an intense process. > > If this package hit NEW /and/ we allowed vendored libs, you could safely > > expect me to never complete that particular review. I doubt

Re: What to do when DD considers policy to be optional? [kubernetes]

2020-03-26 Thread Johannes Schauer
Quoting Andrej Shadura (2020-03-26 22:24:41) > On Thu, 26 Mar 2020 at 21:01, Russ Allbery wrote: > > > An example: commercial users. They need to know *exactly* what they > > > are running and under which licenses. They often want to be holier not > > > only than the Pope, but holier than the

Re: Overinterpretation of DFSG? QR code for receiving donation is non-free???

2020-03-30 Thread Johannes Schauer
Hi, Quoting Paul Wise (2020-03-30 10:20:08) > On Mon, Mar 30, 2020 at 7:53 AM Shengjing Zhu wrote: > > 1. There's no info loss if you convert from one to another. > You definitely lose the (presumably non-free) television/game characters when > converting from the original QR codes to plain text.

Re: Python3 modules not built for all supported Python versions

2020-03-30 Thread Johannes Schauer
Hi, Quoting Emilio Pozuelo Monfort (2020-03-30 13:24:01) > We've just finished the transition to python3.8 as the default python3 > interpreter, which was a bit difficult due to some autopkgtest regressions in > a few rdeps, and to the fact that many modules only build their extensions > for the

Re: Salsa update: no more "-guest" and more

2020-04-26 Thread Johannes Schauer
Quoting Bernd Zeimetz (2020-04-26 20:34:12) > On 4/26/20 12:41 AM, Thomas Goirand wrote: > > On 4/25/20 11:14 PM, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: > >> Actually I think 2FA should be enforced for everybody. > >> Even debian.org related passwords might get lost. > > I use strong password, stored with

Re: Mass bug filing: dependencies on GTK 2

2020-04-29 Thread Johannes Schauer
Quoting Andreas Henriksson (2020-04-29 12:11:32) > On Wed, Apr 29, 2020 at 11:58:53AM +0200, Jeff wrote: > > Hi Simon, > > > > I don't understand why gscan2pdf is in the list, as the versions in > > stable, testing and unstable are Perl packages which use libgtk3-perl. > > > > Can you explain? >

Re: trimming changelogs

2020-03-20 Thread Johannes Schauer
Hi, Quoting Mo Zhou (2020-03-20 16:07:04) > That said, I agree that we move a step further considering a slim base system > in a more constructive way. Spontaneously, I'd raise such a question: Is the > changelogs the only files to blame for the waste of precious space? Some > packages contains

Re: installing minimal systems with weeed out /u/s/d (was: trimming changelogs)

2020-03-22 Thread Johannes Schauer
Hi, Quoting Marc Haber (2020-03-22 12:20:37) > On Fri, 20 Mar 2020 10:16:00 +0100, David Kalnischkies > wrote: > >On Fri, Mar 20, 2020 at 12:50:29AM +0100, Adam Borowski wrote: > >> In the rush for cutting away small bits of minbase, it looks like we forgot > >> a big pile of junk:

Re: MBF? ftbs

2020-03-23 Thread Johannes Schauer
Quoting Lucas Nussbaum (2020-03-23 07:44:50) > However, in several cases, it seems that the problem is that sbuild does not > install packages in Build-Depends-Indep when doing a source-only build, and > then fails when doing 'debian/rules clean'. I wonder if that should be fixed > in sbuild.

Re: Lenovo and forced labor [was: Re: Lenovo discount portal update (and a few other things)]

2020-09-03 Thread Johannes Schauer
Hi, Quoting Tomas Pospisek (2020-09-03 10:47:06) > I think before jumping on this offer, one should consider this: > https://www.aspi.org.au/report/uyghurs-sale I think this is an important aspect to consider. Thanks a lot for bringing it up! Just as when we buy clothing or food, we often do

Re: UDD/dmd: fails to load when debci data is missing

2020-05-25 Thread Johannes Schauer
Hi Rebecca, Quoting Rebecca N. Palmer (2020-05-25 10:57:02) > The problem isn't the number of packages, but some specific packages > that can't be displayed even when they are the only package requested: > https://udd.debian.org/dmd/?email1node-file-entry-cache==html#todo > > These packages

Re: UDD/dmd: fails to load when debci data is missing

2020-05-25 Thread Johannes Schauer
Hi all, Quoting Johannes Schauer (2020-05-25 14:00:45) > Quoting Rebecca N. Palmer (2020-05-25 10:57:02) > > The problem isn't the number of packages, but some specific packages > > that can't be displayed even when they are the only package requested: > > https://udd.d

Re: autopkgtest question: pass on local but fail on salsa-ci

2020-05-26 Thread Johannes Schauer
Quoting Hideki Yamane (2020-05-26 15:48:47) > Hi, > > autopkgtest on salsa-ci question, I've built mecab package and test > it with autopkgtest on local machine. Then pushed to salsa, however, > it failed on salsa-ci pipeline at autopkgtest. > https://salsa.debian.org/nlp-ja-team/mecab/-/jobs

Re: https://trends.debian.net/ - is this 20000 source packages since 2006?

2020-07-06 Thread Johannes Schauer
Hi, Quoting Steffen Möller (2020-07-04 13:24:36) > I just skimmed through https://trends.debian.net/ and am impressed. Many > thanks for these figures. same from me! :) > Do you accept wishes for additional graphs?  Mine would be on the number of > build dependencies as a scale for software

Re: Bug#962140: ITP: bdebstrap -- YAML config based multi-mirror Debian chroot creation tool

2020-06-11 Thread Johannes Schauer
Hi, Quoting Benjamin Drung (2020-06-11 10:52:43) > > > bdebstrap is an alternative to debootstrap and a wrapper around > > > mmdebstrap to support YAML based configuration files. It inherits > > > all > > > benefits from mmdebstrap. The support for configuration allows > > > storing > > > all

Re: Preferred form of modification for binary data used in unit testing?

2020-07-16 Thread Johannes Schauer
Hi, Quoting Christian Kastner (2020-07-16 14:08:34) > On 2020-07-16 12:53, Pirate Praveen wrote: > >> Generally speaking, I think it's a mistake to apply the question of > >> "preferred form for modification" to unit test payloads. Unit tests are > >> purely about functionality. The original

Re: Source only upload

2020-07-21 Thread Johannes Schauer
Quoting mat...@debian.org (2020-07-21 11:35:30) > On Tue, Jul 21, 2020 at 11:11:13AM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > The reason we don't do this is because of bootstrapping: some tools > > require themselves to build, so you need to cross-build them on a > > different architecture, upload the

Re: Bug#976073: sbuild: support "podman" as chroot mode and provide a sbuild-create-oci command (built on top of buildah)

2020-11-29 Thread Johannes Schauer
Hi, Quoting Raphael Hertzog (2020-11-29 15:24:01) > On Sun, 29 Nov 2020, Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues wrote: > > The resulting tarball can then be used with the sbuild unshare backend. The > > only time you need be root is to execute > > >

Re: Split Packages files based on new section "buildlibs"

2020-11-10 Thread Johannes Schauer
Hi, Quoting Andrej Shadura (2020-11-10 10:27:44) > On Tue, 10 Nov 2020, at 08:28, Paul Wise wrote: > > > The current proposal is to reduce the main Packages.xz files size by > > > splitting[4] out all of the packages that are not intended for users, > > > writing those into an own file. Those

Re: Proposed changes to sbuild and debootstrap

2020-11-30 Thread Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues
Hi, Quoting RhineDevil (2020-11-29 20:33:22) > A little proof of concept of what I'm aiming to is in the latest commits of > https://salsa.debian.org/TanyaEleventhGoddess/sbuild, sbuild-createschroot is > able to work with the commands as-is, but also features automatic detection > of a possible

Re: Bug#976073: sbuild: support "podman" as chroot mode and provide a sbuild-create-oci command (built on top of buildah)

2020-11-29 Thread Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues
Hi, Quoting Raphaël Hertzog (2020-11-29 11:42:16) > I know that multiple developers started using podman and buildah to manage > containers where they build their Debian packages. With user namespace > supports, this allows rootless building (like the "unshare" chroot > mode)... you don't even

Re: Release status of i386 for Bullseye and long term support for 3 years?

2020-12-14 Thread Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues
Hi, Quoting Russ Allbery (2020-12-14 23:54:37) > > The point I'm making is that i386 processors are still incredibly common, > > and we shouldn't abandon their users. > > Not abandoning users is a powerful motivating force, but it still has to > succeed in motivating people. Debian can't make a

Re: Help required to determine why some packages are being installed

2021-01-27 Thread Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues
Hi, Quoting Jonas Smedegaard (2021-01-27 16:15:17) > I suspect that's not really the case - that instead apt tools might pick at > random. no, apt does not pick at random. The apt solver prefers the first alternative. > It is my understanding that build daemons _ignore_ secondary entries >

Re: Need help with Multi-Arch in systemd

2021-07-09 Thread Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues
Quoting Helmut Grohne (2021-07-09 14:24:01) > Another possibility (kudos to David Kalnischkies) would be exploiting > something I might call a loophole in the Multi-Arch spec. While we don't > currently use arch-qualified dependencies in the archive, the spec considers > them and dpkg and apt

Re: Huh?? sbuild fails and pbuilder succeeds in building a Fortran-containing Python package

2021-02-10 Thread Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues
Hi, Quoting Julian Gilbey (2021-02-10 22:51:39) > I wonder if anyone has an idea about this thorny problem. I'm trying > to create a package and thought I'd got something wrong, but have > found the same behaviour happens with the "amp" package (version > 0.6.1-1) and the "spherepack" package

Re: Huh?? sbuild fails and pbuilder succeeds in building a Fortran-containing Python package

2021-02-11 Thread Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues
Quoting Sebastian Ramacher (2021-02-11 10:00:42) > > > A workaround for this problem is indeed to add > > > > > > --chroot-setup-commands="chmod 777 /dev/shm" > > > > > > to your sbuild invocation. A cursory glance into the pbuilder codebase > > > reveals > > > that pbuilder will mount a tmpfs

Re: Tips for debugging/testing debian/control Depends/Breaks etc changes?

2021-03-30 Thread Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues
Hi Otto, Quoting Otto Kekäläinen (2021-03-24 17:37:46) > I've noticed I've spent quite a lot of time debugging various situations > where the debian/control definitions for > depends/breaks/replaces/conflicts/provides are not optimal. > > The waste of time is two-fold: > > 1) apt is not verbose

Re: Packages in contrib solely because they allow using non-free software

2021-04-04 Thread Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues
Quoting Simon McVittie (2021-04-04 13:55:21) > On Sun, 04 Apr 2021 at 13:23:14 +0200, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > > On 16093 March 1977, Dominik George wrote: > > > That surprised me. If a package is free software, in ful laccordance > > > with the DFSG, why is it put into contrib? > > > > There is,

Re: sbuild and bind mounts

2021-03-17 Thread Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues
Hi Norbert, Quoting Norbert Preining (2021-03-17 03:55:53) > in the Qt/KDE Team we use a script for test-building our groups of packages. > Those groups need to be build in tiers (levels) so that later packages have > access to the build of earlier levels. The script we currently use is based >

Unsolicited internet access in default installs (was: New service: https://debuginfod.debian.net)

2021-02-27 Thread Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues
Quoting Steinar H. Gunderson (2021-02-27 13:46:27) > On Sat, Feb 27, 2021 at 12:29:34PM +, Thaddeus H. Black wrote: > > I would prefer Kurt's option. Network silence is important. Network > > noise would probably be a bug. A sysadmin should not be made to take > > special precautions to

Re: New service: https://debuginfod.debian.net

2021-02-27 Thread Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues
Quoting Ian Campbell (2021-02-24 18:50:39) > What are the security implications for users/clients of using this or more > importantly enabling it by default? > > Presumably clients have to trust that the server is not going to feed > them malicious debug info. Are the tools which consume this

Re: Split Packages files based on new section "buildlibs"

2021-02-17 Thread Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues
Quoting Andrej Shadura (2020-11-10 10:27:44) > On Tue, 10 Nov 2020, at 08:28, Paul Wise wrote: > > > The current proposal is to reduce the main Packages.xz files size by > > > splitting[4] out all of the packages that are not intended for users, > > > writing those into an own file. Those packages

Re: base-passwd marked as Essential: yes but other packages depend on it being configured.

2021-02-21 Thread Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues
Quoting Tim Woodall (2021-02-21 20:07:17) > What I'm trying to do is build in a fakechroot. My idea was to unpack the > core packages, fakeroot fakechroot chroot image apt-get install apt and have > a base system to install build-deps etc. > > However, apt does not configure packages in the

Re: base-passwd marked as Essential: yes but other packages depend on it being configured.

2021-02-21 Thread Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues
Hi, Quoting Tim Woodall (2021-02-21 18:22:19) > base-passwd is marked as Essential: yes > > However, it actually creates the initial passwd and group files in the preinst > script. this reminds me of: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=963788 Would this problem not also be

Re: Debian Policy 4.6.0.0 released

2021-08-18 Thread Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues
Quoting Sean Whitton (2021-08-18 22:21:15) > On Wed 18 Aug 2021 at 11:10AM +02, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > > >> 9.1.1 > >> No package is allowed to install files in ``/usr/lib64/``. Previously, > >> this prohibition only applied to packages for 64-bit architectures. > > > > This path is used

Re: Q: Use https for {deb,security}.debian.org by default

2021-08-20 Thread Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues
Quoting Jeremy Stanley (2021-08-20 18:34:22) > > If so, I think the next step would be to open a bug with a summary of this > > discussion. I'm happy to do that, but I'm not sure what package owns this > > configuration. > It's not owned directly by a particular package, I think D-I and various >

Re: Require packages to build without any configured DNS

2021-09-14 Thread Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues
Hi, Quoting Mattia Rizzolo (2021-09-06 16:39:39) > As the pbuilder maintainer, I've been asked to make it serve a non-working > /etc/resolv.conf just to make that bug above moot, so I'm quite biased on the > matter myself :) sbuild already disables network access for all chroot backends that

Re: Require packages to build without any configured DNS

2021-09-14 Thread Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues
Quoting Mattia Rizzolo (2021-09-14 15:34:36) > On Tue, Sep 14, 2021 at 10:05:01AM +0200, Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues > wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Quoting Mattia Rizzolo (2021-09-06 16:39:39) > > > As the pbuilder maintainer, I've been asked to make it serve a n

Re: dirsearch: A CLI tool designed to brute force directories and files in webservers

2021-09-23 Thread Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues
Hi, On Thu, 23 Sep 2021 16:29:27 +0800 clay stan wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: clay stan > X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org > > * Package name: dirsearch > Version : 0.4.2 > Upstream Author : maurosoria > * URL :

Bug#1002590: ITP: wayvnc -- VNC server for wlroots-based Wayland compositors

2021-12-24 Thread Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, jo...@debian.org * Package name: wayvnc Version : 0.4.1 Upstream Author : Andri Yngvason * URL : https://github.com/any1/wayvnc * License

Re: dash and hidden bashisms in configure scripts

2021-11-10 Thread Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues
Quoting Richard Laager (2021-11-10 20:16:31) > Can we just enable LINENO in dash then, let the other packages FTBFS, and > people who care about the packages that FTBFS can either: in the best case, a package will FTBFS but it can also happen that the configure script will just do something

Re: merged-/usr transition: debconf or not?

2021-11-22 Thread Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues
Quoting Russ Allbery (2021-11-20 18:22:27) > * Create a new essential package that contains these symlinks and that > needs to be unpacked before any binaries are executed in the target file > system. This has many of the advantages and drawbacks of the approach > of putting the symlinks in

Re: Mapping Reproducibility Bug Reports to Commits

2021-11-15 Thread Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues
Hi Muhammad, others already explained how packaging VCS are (sadly) basically a free-for-all in Debian and that you will probably not get anything better than some heuristics. I wanted to add some more ideas to the ones that were already presented. So in addition to what was already said you can

Bug#999868: ITP: openstreetmap-carto -- standard OpenStreetMap Mapnik stylesheet

2021-11-17 Thread Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, jo...@debian.org * Package name: openstreetmap-carto Version : 5.4.0 Upstream Author : Andy Allan * URL : https://github.com/gravitystorm

Re: Remove packages from NEW queue?

2021-11-18 Thread Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues
Quoting Tobias Frost (2021-11-18 10:38:40) > (speculatinng on the why you want it rejected: if you want to replace it with > e.g. a newer version, you can just upload the new version) slightly related question: if I upload a new version to NEW, will the Age of the package be reset? I'm asking

Re: sbuild/schroot: need to get .deb files internally downloaded as package dependencies

2021-10-28 Thread Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues
Hi, Quoting Uladzimir Bely (2021-10-28 10:58:26) > When building a package with sbuild, some packages (dependencies of package > being built) are internally downloaded and installed by apt. After the build > finished, schroot is cleaned again (while everything is done in overlay) > > I need to

Re: Lintian and Dpkg's :any multiarch qualifier

2021-11-04 Thread Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues
Hi Felix, Quoting Felix Lechner (2021-11-04 20:25:28) > On Thu, Nov 4, 2021 at 2:35 AM Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues > wrote: > > it seems the only tool that calls :any an "acceptor" is lintian > > I think the multiarch spec is confusing because of its termi

Re: d/watch for Gitea's new dynamic pages

2021-11-04 Thread Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues
Quoting Felix Lechner (2021-11-04 20:17:49) > For anyone having issues with Gitea's new dynamic download links [1] here is > a debian/watch file that works. > > * * * > > version=4 > opts=\ > downloadurlmangle=s/\/releases\/tag\/(\d\S+)$/\/archive\/$1\.tar\.gz/,\ >

Re: Lintian and Dpkg's :any multiarch qualifier

2021-11-04 Thread Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues
Hi, Quoting Felix Lechner (2021-11-03 23:34:17) > For a brief time between October 1 and October 15, Lintian gave potentially > confusing advice on some build prerequisites. [1] > > The :any multiarch acceptor—a rarely used feature some other tools call the > "muliarch qualifier"— it seems the

Re: merged /usr considered harmful (was Re: Bits from the Technical Committee)

2021-07-19 Thread Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues
Quoting Michael Biebl (2021-07-19 15:10:42) > Am 19.07.21 um 03:36 schrieb Guillem Jover: > > What I've also said multiple times, is that > > merged-usr-via-moves-and-symlink-farms could have been implemented in > > a fully automated way, by debhelper, w/o requiring any maintainer scripts, > > all

Re: proposed MBF: packages still using source format 1.0

2022-03-08 Thread Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues
Hi Adrian, Quoting Adrian Bunk (2022-03-07 22:42:42) > On Sun, Mar 06, 2022 at 09:25:45PM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > >... > > I think that we should reduce the number of packages using the 1.0 format, > > as > > (1) format 3.0 has many advantages, as documented in > >

Re: Is removing smell from packages OK? (Was: Why? "Marked for autoremoval on 24 March due to xdelta3: #965883")

2022-02-25 Thread Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues
Quoting Andreas Tille (2022-02-25 09:22:38) > I had to decide between a "proper NMU" and an "upload that fits the packaging > standards I apply to what I upload" (which includes maintained on Salsa, > usage of dh, DEP5 copyright ... basically removing the smell from the > package). I decided for

Bug#1004120: ITP: debianutils-tempfile -- tempfile from debianutils

2022-01-20 Thread Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, jo...@debian.org * Package name: debianutils-tempfile Version : 4.11 Upstream Author : Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues * URL : https

Re: Bug#885698: What licenses should be included in /usr/share/common-licenses?

2023-09-10 Thread Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues
Hi, Quoting Bill Allombert (2023-09-10 18:29:36) > On Sun, Sep 10, 2023 at 09:00:22AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > > Jonas Smedegaard writes: > > > Quoting Hideki Yamane (2023-09-10 11:00:07) > > >> Hmm, how about providing license-common package and that depends on > > >>

Re: [idea]: Switch default compression from "xz" to "zstd" for .deb packages

2023-09-19 Thread Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues
Hi, Quoting Thomas Goirand (2023-09-19 09:50:45) > I'm not sure if we should switch to zstd, or if xz will do the work, though > I'd be delighted if the dpkg performances could be improved. I'm spending all > of my days installing server, sometimes with 1.5 TB of RAM and 128 core (AMD > Epyc...),

Re: debvm for autopkgtests with multiple host?

2023-09-24 Thread Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues
Hi, Quoting Helmut Grohne (2023-09-23 20:18:21) > Quoting Ian Jackson (2023-09-23 12:19:27) > > To summarise that discussion: at that time the best available solution that > > worked in ci.d.n seemed to be to write an ad-hoc script to run the tests in > > qemu; three packes had done that, each

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

2023-09-20 Thread Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues
Hi Gard, Quoting Gard Spreemann (2023-09-20 09:26:58) > Paul Wise writes: > > […] since the Rust packages are basically only used as build-deps and > > therefore have no human users. > I just wanted to raise awareness that some of us humans do use librust-*-dev > packages directly, having put

Re: Bug#1053165: ITS: nunit

2023-09-28 Thread Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues
Hi, Quoting David Bremner (2023-09-28 16:40:13) > Bastian Germann writes: > > Source: nunit > > > > I intend to salvage nunit with the plan to orphan it in three weeks. > > Please notify me if you object. > > In my opinion, your repeated "salvaging" of packages in order to orphan > them is an

Re: sbuild can't find piuparts even when it's listed in build dependencies

2023-09-26 Thread Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues
Hi, Quoting Jonathan Kamens (2023-09-26 15:20:49) > I'm trying to use sbuild to build my package, and it's failing to find > piuparts: > > | Post Build   > | >

Bug#1054404: ITP: reform-firedecor -- MNT Reform specific window decoration for Wayfire

2023-10-23 Thread Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: reform-firedecor Version : Upstream Contact: Lukas F. Hartmann * URL : https://github.com/mntmn/Firedecor * License : Expat

Re: Hyphens in man pages

2023-10-15 Thread Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues
Hi, Quoting Gioele Barabucci (2023-10-15 17:59:32) > On 15/10/23 17:33, Iustin Pop wrote: > > At least you're not lazy. I am, so what I did many times is add a > > build-depends on pandoc, and write the man page in rst or md. I think > > that's a worse solution (pandoc is really heavy), but at

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

2023-08-14 Thread Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues
Hi, Quoting John Goerzen (2023-08-13 23:32:03) > On Sat, Aug 05 2023, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > I wonder what we should do, because 5000+ failing packages is a lot... > Let's think about the level of trouble we cause trying to tackle something > that has clearly not bothered anyone for years.

Re: Compiler runs out of memory when building a package

2023-08-14 Thread Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues
Hi, Quoting Dima Kogan (2023-08-13 22:54:48) > I'm looking for a suggestion to fix a problem. > > I uploaded a package, and it cleared NEW a few days ago. I now see that > it fails to build on most 32-bit arches becaues the compiler runs out of > memory. I ran into the same problem with my

Re: Using a build profile on a buildd build

2022-06-15 Thread Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues
Quoting Scott Talbert (2022-06-15 22:30:13) > Is it possible to instruct the buildds to use a build profile when performing > an official build (e.g., using nocheck to break a dependency loop)? If so, > how? No, it is not. Main reason is probably that nobody has found the time to implement it

Re: Bug#1014908: ITP: gender-guesser -- Guess the gender from first name

2022-07-14 Thread Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues
Quoting Steve McIntyre (2022-07-14 13:54:52) > And I see you uploaded ~immediately - why even bother with an ITP? I did that quite a few times in the past as well. Is there a rule of how long I have to wait with my upload to NEW after filing the ITP? signature.asc Description: signature

Re: How to get rid of unused packages (Was: proposed MBF: packages still using source format 1.0)

2022-05-04 Thread Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues
Hi, Quoting Andreas Tille (2022-03-21 11:55:09) > Am Sat, Mar 19, 2022 at 08:37:28PM +0100 schrieb Erik Schanze: > > Am 16.03.22 um 14:11 schrieb Andreas Tille: > > > was not uploaded by its maintainer for >10 years. > > > > Yes, because upstream development was finished and packaging was

Re: Firmware: Scope of non-free-firmware

2022-05-11 Thread Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues
Quoting Thomas Goirand (2022-05-11 17:14:57) > > For backwards compatibility, I think that the firmware component is > > going to need to be a subset of non-free; i.e. packages are going to > > need to be *copied* not moved from non-free to the firmware component, > > which means they would be

Re: autopkgtest/sbuild environment variables: LC_ALL, HOME, XDG_RUNTIME_DIR etc

2022-04-29 Thread Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues
Quoting Simon McVittie (2022-04-29 10:58:34) > On Fri, 29 Apr 2022 at 08:34:48 +0100, Julian Gilbey wrote: > > So can I suggest that > > sbuild-setup(7) explains this a bit more and discusses setting up a > > meaningful HOME directory? > > I'm sure patches are accepted, but the problem with this

Re: …/doc …/log: .gz → .zst

2022-08-19 Thread Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues
Quoting Hakan Bayındır (2022-08-19 17:47:42) > I’d object that, because after we rotate the logs, we use a lot of z > commands, namely zcat, zgrep, zless. Which allows us process many gigabytes > of gzip files without extracting them first. > > We have a big cluster at office and a central

fontconfig RC bugs (was: Re: key packages RC bugs of the month September)

2022-09-01 Thread Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues
Hi Paul, Quoting Paul Gevers (2022-09-01 13:53:41) > I am asking for help with investigating RC bug reports, judging > severity, reproducing the issue, clarifying the problem, i.e. bug > triaging of all RC bugs that haven't seen activity for a while and that > are still affecting bookworm. Of

Re: Transition: pkg-config to pkgconf: next steps

2022-10-20 Thread Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues
Quoting Andrej Shadura (2022-10-20 12:25:13) > I’ve been rebuilding packages with pkgconf for the past couple of weeks, and > it looks very good so far: > > http://pkgconf-migration.debian.net/ Thank you! Attached is a dd-list of those packages listed in the "Failures only" page in case somebody

Re: epoch for tss2 package

2022-10-20 Thread Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues
Quoting Andreas Henriksson (2022-10-20 12:13:24) > Hello Debora Babb, > > On Wed, Oct 19, 2022 at 11:04:35PM -0700, Debora Velarde Babb wrote: > > Greetings, > > > > The upstream package for tss2 has been renamed ibmtss. When the name > > was changed upstream, the version number convention also

Re: epoch for tss2 package

2022-10-21 Thread Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues
Quoting Philipp Kern (2022-10-20 14:29:13) > On 20.10.22 13:40, Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues wrote: > > Quoting Andreas Henriksson (2022-10-20 12:13:24) > >> Cannot be used for packages that are used in build dependencies, as several > >> build tools (like sbu

Re: epoch for tss2 package

2022-10-20 Thread Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues
Hi Debora, Quoting Debora Velarde Babb (2022-10-20 08:04:35) > The upstream package for tss2 has been renamed ibmtss. When the name was > changed upstream, the version number convention also changed. Upstream > tss2-1470 was updated to ibmtss-1.3.0. The current version of ibmtss is now >

Re: ppc64el porterbox replacement: plummer.d.o -> platti.d.o

2022-10-23 Thread Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues
Hi, Quoting David Bremner (2022-10-22 18:16:12) > Aurelien Jarno writes: > > We lost access to the Power9 machine hosted at Unicamp, which was > > hosting the ppc64el porterbox called plummer.d.o. A new porterbox called > > platti.d.o has been setup as a replacement. > > It would be nifty if

Re: Presenting DPKG_ROOT

2022-09-19 Thread Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues
Hi Russ, Quoting Russ Allbery (2022-09-20 00:05:23) > Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues writes: > > in 2016 we filed our first DPKG_ROOT patch #824594 against > > base-files. The dpkg version at the time just had included support for > > the DPKG_ROOT variable being set f

Re: 'The' timestamp of a snapshot of deb.debian.org

2022-09-18 Thread Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues
Hi Roland, Quoting Roland Clobus (2022-09-18 10:58:37) > I'm looking for 'the' timestamp of the Debian Archive, which will allow me to > virtually travel through time to re-generate a specific state of Debian. Holger just suggested on IRC that I reply to your mail -- probably with my

Presenting DPKG_ROOT

2022-09-11 Thread Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues
Hi, in 2016 we filed our first DPKG_ROOT patch #824594 against base-files. The dpkg version at the time just had included support for the DPKG_ROOT variable being set for maintainer scripts and we were excited to try out this new feature for creating foreign architecture chroots. At the time we

Re: Presenting DPKG_ROOT

2022-09-11 Thread Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues
Hi, Quoting Josh Triplett (2022-09-11 15:26:52) > Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues wrote: > > What do you think? Is this the right solution to the problem? A few more > > bits > > about DPKG_ROOT as well as alternative solution proposals (including > > reje

Re: Presenting DPKG_ROOT

2022-09-16 Thread Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues
Hi, Quoting Josh Triplett (2022-09-11 15:26:52) > Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues wrote: > > What do you think? Is this the right solution to the problem? A few more > > bits > > about DPKG_ROOT as well as alternative solution proposals (including > > reje

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