ITA: LSB package maintenance in Debian

2012-02-16 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
retitle 616131 ITA: lsb -- Linux Standard Base 4.0 support package owner 616131 ! Hi all, (tl;dr Git repository with actual state is available, please help :->) I just noticed the worrying state of the LSB package in Debian: * Still in version 3.2 (released in January 2008) while 4.1 is out

Re: Bug#604360: Preparations for the removal of the KDE3 and Qt3 libraries

2012-02-23 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
tags 604360 +patch thanks Hi Eckhart, and thanks for your bugreport, Le 21.11.2010 20:42, Eckhart Wörner a écrit : > In order to make this move, all packages directly or indirectly depending on > the KDE3/Qt3 libraries have to either get ported to KDE4/Qt4 or eventually > get > removed from th

Re: Bug#624769: lsb-release: wrong output on debian-ports architectures breaks other packages

2012-02-29 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Le 27.02.2012 21:14, Thorsten Glaser a écrit : > This still results in: > > No LSB modules are available. > Distributor ID: Debian > Description:Debian GNU/Linux 1.0 (n/a) > Release:1.0 > Codename: n/a > > The most important thing is probably the Codename (always sid, as > debia

Bug#637039: Re: lsb-release: parse_apt_policy in lsb_release.py fails

2012-03-02 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
tags 637039 +unreproducible +moreinfo thanks Hi Luke, and thanks for your bugreport, Le 08.08.2011 04:45, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton a écrit : > On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 1:33 AM, lkcl wrote: >> Package: lsb-release >> Version: 3.2-27 >> Severity: normal >> Tags: patch >> >> ok it's not exactly a

Bug#604360: Re: Bug#604360: Preparations for the removal of the KDE3 and Qt3 libraries

2012-03-02 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
tags 604360 -patch +wontfix thanks Le 23.02.2012 18:54, Jeff Licquia a écrit : > On 02/23/2012 09:31 AM, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: >> Given that LSB has deprecated the use of Qt3 libraries since its 3.2 >> version, I propose to demote the relationship on libqt3-mt from

Bug#642076: Re: Bug#642076: lsb-core: no need to remove /lib/ld-lsb-x86-64.so.[23]

2012-03-02 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
tags 642076 +patch thanks Le 23.01.2012 21:44, Sven Joachim a écrit : > On 2011-09-19 11:15 +0200, Colin Watson wrote: >> >> Nothing ever created /lib/ld-lsb-x86-64.so.[23] symlinks in the first >> place, so as far as I can see there's no need to clean them up; the >> problem was that the symlink

Bug#403120: marking lsb-base essential?

2012-03-02 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
tags 403120 +wontfix thanks Hi Steffen, and thanks for your bugreport, Le 14.12.2006 21:31, Steffen Joeris a écrit : > Yesterday I saw a package which uses the shell functions provided by > lsb-base but did not have a dependency against it and I came across this > topic. That's a bug. > Current

Bug#642076: lsb-core: no need to remove /lib/ld-lsb-x86-64.so.[23]

2012-03-02 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Hi again, Le 02.03.2012 13:18, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud a écrit : > Hi Colin and Sven, and thanks for your input on this bug; > > I propose the attached patch to get this fixed by removing the symlinks > farm handling and replacing all symlinks by `solid` symlinks in the >

Bug#661109: lsb: Please include helper function for init scripts on upstart-based systems

2012-03-02 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Hi Steve, and thanks for your bugreport, Le 24.02.2012 10:05, Steve Langasek a écrit : > Please find attached a patch for lsb that adds a new helper function to > /lib/lsb/init-functions to support maintainer scripts that should behave as > no-ops because the package is upstart-aware and upstart i

Bug#565631: lsb-base: status_of_proc

2012-03-07 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
tags 565631 +patch thanks Le 17.01.2010 15:58, Thomas Koch a écrit : > Package: lsb-base > Version: 3.2-23 > Severity: normal > > status_of_proc is not documented. You may want to provide documentation > in /usr/share/doc/lsb-base/README.Debian Hi Thomas, and thanks for your bugreport, I propos

Bug#653598: status_of_proc should handle not-world-readable pid files better

2012-03-07 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
tags 653598 +pending +patch thanks Hi Peter, and thanks for your bugreport, and patch Le 29.12.2011 19:15, Peter Eisentraut a écrit : > When a pid file is specified to status_of_proc with the -p option, but > it's not readable, then status_of_proc returns 3 (not running) instead > of 4 (unknown).

Bug#653598: status_of_proc should handle not-world-readable pid files better

2012-03-07 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Le 07.03.2012 11:37, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud a écrit : > Agreed. I committed the attached patch, attributed to you (as it's not > 100% the same patch, but equal in functionality and essence). Meh, failed at attaching. From 1a02293da50c624a01c61c6fd4e956215726994a Mon Sep 17 00:0

Bug#660790: lsb-base: log_warning_msg does not respect leading spaces

2012-03-07 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
tags 660790 +wontfix thanks Hi Luca, and thanks for your bugreport, Le 21.02.2012 22:42, Luca Capello a écrit : > > As you can see, the leading space is not respected. I think this is > because log_warning_msg calls log_begin_msg, which actually uses > `/bin/echo -n "$@"` instead of adding a lea

Bug#650584: lsb-base: killproc does not wait for process to end

2012-03-07 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
tags 650584 +patch thanks Le 30.11.2011 23:37, Daniel Nelson a écrit : > The killproc function called without a signal does not wait for the > process to end as required by the lsb specification, and never sends > SIGKILL if the process does not end. > > I believe this was introduced with the fix

Bug#644285: lsb-base: Disabled escape sequences

2012-03-07 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
tags 644285 +moreinfo thanks Hi Mats, and thanks for your bugreport, Le 04.10.2011 21:36, Mats Erik Andersson a écrit : > At a previous time the functions in 'init-functions' > were allowed to use > >/bin/echo -e > > whereas presently they are all forced into using > > /bin/echo -n > >

Bug#479295: Bugs #450652 & #479295 Extending /lib/lsb/init-functions to be able to set start-stop-daemon arguments

2012-03-07 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
tags 479295 +wontfix +help tags 450652 +wontfix +help thanks Le 08.11.2007 21:22, Marc Haber, in #450652, a écrit : > to start a daemon that does not write its pidfile itself, it might be > needed to pass the --background and/or --make-pidfile to > start-stop-daemon. Ths lsb-base function should o

Bug#338556: lsb-base: ugly output

2012-03-07 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
tags 338556 +unreproducible +moreinfo thanks Le 11.11.2005 01:46, Ian Zimmerman a écrit : > Now that they use the functions in /lib/lsb/init-functions, the output from > many > initscripts now looks like this: > > Thu Nov 10 18:48:02 2005: . > Thu Nov 10 18:48:02 2005: findfs: Unable to resolve

lsb-base "Fancy output"; please test lsb-base/experimental (4.1+Debian0+fancy0)

2012-04-04 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Hi -devel (and -lsb), I have recently uploaded lsb-base 4.1+Debian0+fancy0 to experimental. As this version introduces a small change that has a big visual impact on the Debian boot, I would like to get some feedback on it before uploading it to unstable. In short, this version implements a new "

Re: lsb-base "Fancy output"; please test lsb-base/experimental (4.1+Debian0+fancy0)

2012-04-12 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Hi Martin, Le 11.04.2012 22:09, Martin Zobel-Helas a écrit : > root@kvasir:/home/zobel# /etc/init.d/apache2 foobar > [ ok ] Usage: /etc/init.d/apache2 > {start|stop|graceful-stop|restart|reload|force-reload|start-htcacheclean|stop-htcacheclean|status}. > root@kvasir:/home/zobel# > > it that [ o

Bug#668416: killproc incorrect exit status

2012-04-12 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
severity 668416 serious tags 668416 +patch thanks Le 11.04.2012 19:59, Peter Eisentraut a écrit : > Somewhere between versions 3.2+Debian31 and 4.1+Debian0, the exit > status of the killproc function (/lib/lsb/init-functions) was changed > to return 3 when the program is not running. This is only

Bug#668958: lsb-base: pidofproc doesn't return correct status for daemons without pidfile

2012-04-16 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
tags 668958 +patch thanks Le 16.04.2012 03:48, Adrian Fita a écrit : > Hi. > > I noticed that "/etc/init.d/hddtemp status" wasn't returning the correct > status when the daemon was running. hddtemp daemon doesn't create a pidfile > when started, so I tracked the problem back to the pidofproc func

Bug#668958: lsb-base: pidofproc doesn't return correct status for daemons without pidfile

2012-04-16 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
tags 668958 +pending thanks Le 16.04.2012 11:07, Adrian Fita a écrit : >> This patch (besides being reversed) makes all "pidofproc with >> unspecified pidfile name" calls call /bin/pidof, which is undesired IMHO. >> >> I propose the attached patch, that only resorts to calling /bin/pidof >> when t

Bug#670144: fancy output sometimes broken

2012-04-23 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
tags 670144 +help retitle 670144 fancy output sometimes broken by misbehaving initscripts thanks Le 23.04.2012 13:56, Michael Biebl a écrit : > the new "fancy" output is nice. I've noticed a few services though, > where it is broken, e.g. the udev or fsck init script. The output looks > like this:

Bug#661109: lsb: Please include helper function for init scripts on upstart-based systems

2012-05-01 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
tags 661109 -moreinfo +pending thanks Le 01.05.2012 07:42, Steve Langasek a écrit : > My opinion is that this is best done in the single /lib/lsb/init-functions > file. The filename is an interface defined in the LSB, but there's nothing > in the LSB that says this interface can't provide additio

lsb: Willingness to help for the Ubuntu merge

2012-05-01 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Hi Colin, hi Matthias, now that the Ubuntu Pangolin was released (congrats!), from what I understand from the Ubuntu release process, it will very soon be the "big merge" time. And the src:lsb package has diverged quite a lot between the Debian and Ubuntu counterparts. Now, while I tried my best

Bug#661109: lsb: Please include helper function for init scripts on upstart-based systems

2012-05-02 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Le 02.05.2012 08:55, Steve Langasek a écrit : > BTW, I'm sorry to say I've just noticed the patch I sent has a bug; the > output of 'which initctl' should be suppressed, otherwise each init script > using this function will output "/sbin/initctl" which we don't want. > > So the line should be: >

Re: lsb: Willingness to help for the Ubuntu merge

2012-05-04 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Le 01.05.2012 15:12, Matthias Klose a écrit : > On 01.05.2012 10:39, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: >> So I am willing to put work where needed towards the goal of sharing a >> single Debian source package. Where do you want to start from? >> >> (By the way, one

Bug#673207: /etc/default/rcS is perhaps a better place for FANCYTTY variable

2012-05-21 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Hi Roger, and thanks for your (quick) feedback, Le 18.05.2012 22:16, Roger Leigh a écrit : > On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 10:00:12PM +0200, Didier Raboud wrote: >> Le jeudi, 17 mai 2012 00.19:38, Stanislav Maslovski wrote : >>> Evidently, if you decide to use /etc/default/rcS for this setting, >>> this

Bug#644285: Re: Bug#644285: lsb-base: Disabled escape sequences

2012-05-21 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Hi Mats, Le 07.03.2012 14:25, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud a écrit : > Le 04.10.2011 21:36, Mats Erik Andersson a écrit : >> At a previous time the functions in 'init-functions' >> were allowed to use >> >>/bin/echo -e >> >> whereas pr

Bug#673207: /etc/default/rcS is perhaps a better place for FANCYTTY variable

2012-05-21 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Le 21.05.2012 12:18, Roger Leigh a écrit : >> FANCYTTY=$([ -e /etc/default/rcS ] && . /etc/default/rcS && echo $FANCYTTY) > > I'm not sure why you need to do this BTW, none of the existing users > do. If you want to avoid polluting your environment with settings > you don't need, then it's fine,

Bug#673207: /etc/default/rcS is perhaps a better place for FANCYTTY variable

2012-05-21 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Le 21.05.2012 13:47, Roger Leigh a écrit : > I'm not sure what you mean here. Do you plan to keep the definition > in two places (for backward compatibility?)? Which would be the > "preferred" location, i.e. which would take priority over the other? Given that /etc/lsb-base-logging.sh is a docum

Bug#673207: /etc/default/rcS is perhaps a better place for FANCYTTY variable

2012-05-21 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
tags 673207 +pending thanks Le 21.05.2012 14:07, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud a écrit : > Hmm; now that I think of it, it would be possible to simply have > /etc/default/rcS ship an empty (or even commented) FANCYTTY= definition > and let /etc/lsb-base-logging.sh untouched: if an adm

Bug#673207: /etc/default/rcS is perhaps a better place for FANCYTTY variable

2012-05-21 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Le 21.05.2012 15:07, Roger Leigh a écrit : > On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 02:07:40PM +0200, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: >> Hmm; now that I think of it, it would be possible to simply have >> /etc/default/rcS ship an empty (or even commented) FANCYTTY= definition >> a

Bug#675162: lsb-base: mysql doesn't start

2012-05-30 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
severity 675162 serious tags 675162 +patch +pending thanks Le 30.05.2012 11:50, Kamen Naydenov a écrit : > Package: lsb-base > Version: 4.1+Debian5 > Severity: normal > > Dear Maintainer, > > after lsb-base upgrade (Wed May 30 12:41:22 EEST 2012: [UPGRADE] > lsb-base:amd64 > 4.1+Debian4 -> 4.1+

Re: RM: lsb-build-cc3 -- RoQA; obsolete, unmaintained

2012-05-30 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Le 30.05.2012 17:08, Stuart Anderson a écrit : > On Wed, 30 May 2012, Jonathan Nieder wrote: >> >> There is not much time, but would anyone like to help revive it, >> perhaps in an LSB 4 version? > > If anyone is interested in adoping this package, and the ones related to > it, please get in touch

Bug#677987: lsb-base: how do I enable fancy logging

2012-06-18 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Le lundi, 18 juin 2012 16.35:36, vous avez écrit : > > Thank you very much. Removing the file did solve the problem. > > But tracing its roots, I get: > > rrs@champaran:~$ sudo dpkg -S /etc/lsb-base-logging.sh > lsb-base: /etc/lsb-base-logging.sh > > Would you want to remove it or at least prom

Bug#677424: lsb-base: status_of_proc returns 4 (unknown) when pid file is specified and does not exist

2012-06-18 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Hi Phil, First, many thanks for your detailed bugreport, that even proposes a patch; that's highly appreciated! Le mercredi, 13 juin 2012 23.13:45, vous avez écrit : > Package: lsb-base > Version: 3.2-23.2squeeze1 > > The specific problem I'm experiencing is with /etc/init.d/portmap, which > re

Bug#678260: lsb-base: lsb fancy boot messages get mixed up

2012-06-20 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
tags 678260 +moreinfo thanks Hi Thilo, and thanks for your bugreport, Le mercredi, 20 juin 2012 13.15:46, vous avez écrit : > the lsb fancy boot messages currently provided via > '/lib/lsb/init-functions' and > '/lib/lsb/init-functions.d/20-left-info-blocks' get mixed up. > Attached is a 1:1 exer

Bug#678260: lsb-base: lsb fancy boot messages get mixed up

2012-06-21 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Le jeudi, 21 juin 2012 16.13:47, vous avez écrit : > > Has this appeared only with 4.1+Debian7 or was it there before ? > > Now that you ask i can not exactly tell when this started. I only noticed > it lately when i had to install/remove some services for testing. > Just for completeness after su

Bug#678260: lsb-base: lsb fancy boot messages get mixed up

2012-06-21 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
X-PTS-Approved: yes reassign 678260 sysvinit-utils 2.88dfs-22.1 retitle 678260 startpar has a timeout value that lets boot messages get mixed thanks Hi Thilo, hi sysvinit maintainers, Le jeudi, 21 juin 2012 17.17:35, Thilo Six a écrit : > > > Hmm. Weird; really. Does it still shuffle the boot m

Bug#682963: lsb-printing: should depend on cups or relax to only recommend ghostscript-cups

2012-07-29 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
tags 682963 +moreinfo thanks Le vendredi, 27 juillet 2012 14.13:33, Jonas Smedegaard a écrit : > Package: lsb-printing > Version: 4.1+Debian7 > Severity: normal > > ghostscript-cups is only generally usable together with cups. > > If intent of lsb-printing is to _ensure_ that related packages ar

Bug#682032: init_is_upstart warnings if upstart installed but not running

2012-07-29 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Le jeudi, 19 juillet 2012 03.19:56, vous avez écrit : > If upstart is installed but not running, init_is_upstart produces this > error message: > > initctl: Unable to connect to Upstart: Failed to connect to socket > /com/ubuntu/upstart: Connection refused > > I guess initctl version should redir

Bug#683654: lsb-base: some messages should be conditioned by $VERBOSE

2012-08-07 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
tags 683654 +moreinfo thanks Le jeudi, 2 août 2012 16.38:41, Teodor a écrit : > In Debian the recommendation for all init scripts is to check the variable > VERBOSE from /etc/default/rcS and only print a message on console only if > this variable is not 0. From the content of the debian-policy pa

Bug#691422: init-functions: order of arguments is not context-free

2012-11-04 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Control: tags -1 +wontfix Le dimanche, 4 novembre 2012 01.36:53, Jeff Licquia a écrit : > The LSB spec for pidofproc is here: > > https://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/LSB_4.1.0/LSB-Core-generic/LSB-Core-ge > neric/iniscrptfunc.html > > It defines the command line arguments for pidofproc as your

Bug#691422: init-functions: order of arguments is not context-free

2012-11-10 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Control: tags -1 -wontfix +pending Le samedi, 10 novembre 2012 16.36:35, Jeff Licquia a écrit : > I've attached a patch which will add some sanity checking to pidofproc's > command-line argument parsing. With this patch, pidofproc will fail if > it finds more than one non-dashed argument under an

Bug#691422: init-functions: order of arguments is not context-free

2012-11-13 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Hi Arno, Le dimanche, 11 novembre 2012 13.01:41, Arno Töll a écrit : > "Relying" on that broken behavior essentially means to trigger a bug, > e.g. see #691365. If there are more such false uses of pidofproc, they > should really be fixed - even in Wheezy. That said, the Release Team > recently ma

Bug#693688: The last patch to fix #691422 breaks other init scripts

2012-11-19 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Control: severity -1 serious Control: tags -1 +moreinfo Hi Klaus, and thanks for your bugreport, Le lundi, 19 novembre 2012 10.51:21, Klaus Ethgen a écrit : > The last patch to fix #691422 will break init scripts of unrelated > software like for example exim. Please roll it back. I set the severi

Bug#693688: The last patch to fix #691422 breaks other init scripts

2012-11-19 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
/init-functions wrongly: Le lundi, 19 novembre 2012 11.50:02, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud a écrit : > $ grep pidofproc /etc/init.d/exim4 > if pidofproc -p "$QRPIDFILE" >/dev/null; then > if pidofproc -p "$PIDFILE" >/dev/null; then pidofproc is documente

Bug#693688: The last patch to fix #691422 breaks other init scripts

2012-11-19 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Control: retitle -1 pidofproc enforces the presence of pathname, thereby breaking wrong uses of it Control: severity -1 important Control: tag -1 +wontfix Hi Klaus, as you might have seen, I have cloned this bug against exim4-base as the use of pidofproc there is incorrect. That's where it shoul

Bug#691794: Pretty LSB logging overriden by plymouth

2012-11-19 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Control: notfound -1 lsb-base Control: found -1 plymouth/0.8.5.1-6 Le vendredi, 16 novembre 2012 23.27:46, Adrian Fita a écrit : > I tried replacing the *pre hooks with *post hooks in the > /lib/lsb/init-functions.d/99-plymouth file and it seems to be working. I > haven't experienced any obvious s

Bug#699589: lsb ftbfs in wheezy, testsuite problems.

2013-02-03 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Control: severity -1 normal Control: reassign -1 src:lsb Control: merge 673586 -1 Control: retitle 673586 FTBFS if Python 3.2 is installed in chroot Le samedi, 2 février 2013 08.12:49, peter green a écrit : > Attempting to build lsb in a wheezy amd64 chroot I get > > PYTHONPATH=. python3.2 test/t

Bug#703677: lsb-release is not derivative friendly

2013-03-22 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Control: tags -1 +confirmed Hi Raphaël, and thanks for your bugreport, Le vendredi, 22 mars 2013 09.11:20, Raphaël Hertzog a écrit : > A Debian derivative is advised to fork base-files and to update the > information there so that it can be properly distinguished from Debian. > That's what we did

Re: Bug#704285: release-notes: Debian doesn't support LSB 3.2

2013-04-05 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Hi all, Le vendredi, 5 avril 2013 15.02:39, Julien Cristau a écrit : > cc:ing the lsb maintainer Thanks for the explicit CC. > On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 01:22:59 -0700, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > > If I understand the lsb packaging correctly, Debian aims at support > > for LSB 4.1 these days instead

Re: Bug#673586: FTBFS if Python 3.2 is installed in chroot

2013-05-15 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Hi Steve, thanks for your two bugreports. Le mercredi, 15 mai 2013 10.03:38, Steve Langasek a écrit : > As Ubuntu uses python3, not python2, in its base system, we are building > lsb against python3. So this patch will be included in Ubuntu shortly. Does this imply Ubuntu will use Debian's lsb

Re: Bug#673586: FTBFS if Python 3.2 is installed in chroot

2013-05-15 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Hi Steve, Le mercredi, 15 mai 2013 21.46:39, Steve Langasek a écrit : > Well, this was the first time the lsb package has been merged into Ubuntu > from Debian in about four years; so there's still a delta, which we can try > to clean up (that's always the goal) - but at this point it's too early

Bug#696332: lsb-release: release/codename depend on a successful apt-get

2013-05-21 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Control: tags -1 +moreinfo Hi varacanero, and thanks for your bugreport, Le mercredi, 19 décembre 2012 18.20:27, varacanero a écrit : > Subject: lsb-release: release/codename depend on a successful apt-get > update Package: lsb-release > Version: 4.1+Debian8 > Severity: normal > > If an apt-get

LSB Ubuntu merge (was Re: Bug#673586: FTBFS if Python 3.2 is installed in chroot)

2013-05-21 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Hi again Steve, Le dimanche, 19 mai 2013 03.44:04, Steve Langasek a écrit : > On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 11:31:03PM +0200, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: > > I feel compelled to point out here that this is not how I understand > > collab- maint is supposed to work. That sa

Bug#710571: Patch for /lib/lsb/init-functions

2013-06-02 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Control: severity -1 minor Control: merge 683654 -1 Control: tag 683654 +wontfix -moreinfo Hi Josh, hi Teodor, Le samedi, 1 juin 2013 09.41:00, Teodor MICU a écrit : > This topic was discussed with LSB maintainers on #683654. Maybe these > two bugs should be merged, but I don't know if the discus

Bug#714634: lsb-core: Remove lsb-invalid-mta as a dependency of lsb-core; require an actual MTA instead

2013-07-07 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Hi both, Le samedi, 6 juillet 2013 20.58:15, Jeff Licquia a écrit : > > > The LSB is, first and foremost, about compatibility for apps. If > apps expect something to be there, and for it to act in a certain > way, then that's our top priority. Everything else is secondary. > > (…) To the exte

Bug#714634: lsb-core: Remove lsb-invalid-mta as a dependency of lsb-core; require an actual MTA instead

2013-07-08 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Hi, Le lundi, 8 juillet 2013 09.38:21, Aaron Sowry a écrit : > > BTW, if you feel strongly about this, I'd encourage you to file the > > appropriate bugs and have this discussion over there. No one here > > needs convincing, I think, that lsb-invalid-mta is a bad idea. > > I do feel strongly abo

Bug#714634: [lsb-discuss] Clarification of general LSB requirements

2013-07-10 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Le jeudi, 11 juillet 2013 02.27:52, Russ Allbery a écrit : > Steve Langasek writes: > > If lsb-core is going to pull in default-mta as the preferred > > option, then arguably lsb-invalid-mta shouldn't exist at all (or > > at least, there's no reason to label it an 'lsb' package). I > > think the

Bug#714634: [lsb-discuss] Clarification of general LSB requirements

2013-07-10 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Le mercredi, 10 juillet 2013 20.20:21, Steve Langasek a écrit : > On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 02:10:22AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > > (It's probably also worth noting that Debian does not claim LSB > > compliance and the description of that Debian package states, > > rather prominently: "The intent o

Bug#743903:

2014-05-27 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Le mardi, 27 mai 2014, 11.07:15 Aaron Sowry a écrit : > Bad commit here: > > http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=collab-maint/lsb.git;a=commitdiff; > h=f4ed7f08600d633c3daba9f494997f1c3aed > > StringIO.StringIO and io.StringIO do not have identical API. Nice catch, thanks. Can you suggest an

Bug#748426: Please use multi-arch versions of libz and libc6

2014-06-08 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Control: tags -1 +confirmed +pending Hi Michael, and thanks for the bug+patch, Le samedi, 17 mai 2014, 05.32:03 Michael Biebl a écrit : > lsb-core currently depends on lib32z1 and libc6-i386. > I'm not sure if those dependencies are still required. If so, please > consider changing those to use t

Debian LSB compliance (was: Re: Standard-producing bodies and Debian)

2015-07-03 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Hi Gunnar, just jumping on one specific point, sorry to hijack the thread… (Reply-To set to debian-lsb, please followup there…) tl;dr: proposal to shrink src:lsb to only produce lsb-base and lsb- release Le jeudi, 2 juillet 2015, 09.15:12 Gunnar Wolf a écrit : > But then I realized I was lying.

Re: Debian LSB compliance

2015-07-08 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Le vendredi, 3 juillet 2015, 13.20:08 Mats Wichmann a écrit : > On 07/03/15 07:28, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: > > The crux of the issue is, I think, whether this whole game is worth > > the work: I am yet to hear about software distribution happening > > through L

Bug#719063: lsb-release: should support python3

2015-07-14 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Control: tag -1 +moreinfo Le lundi, 1 juin 2015, 12.00:21 Alexandre Detiste a écrit : > Here is a patch that has got some review from "Python3 porting devel" team. Great, thanks. I'll make sure to include it in the next upload. That said, I just tested it, and I get the following error when laun

Bug#719063: lsb-release: should support python3

2015-08-12 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Le jeudi, 16 juillet 2015, 17.45:49 Alexandre Detiste a écrit : > I think the current behaviour where random strings > got compared against index number doesn't make sense anyway. I _think_ this code is used for the Ubuntu codenames comparison (they happen to come alphabetically). I'll add an exp

Bug#719063: lsb-release: should support python3

2015-08-12 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Le mercredi, 12 août 2015, 08.33:56 Dan Kegel a écrit : > This begs the question - why does lsb_release require python? I had > to strip it out of an embedded system because of that dependency. It just happens to be written in this language, and it is a modestly complex piece of software, that h

Bug#798303: src:lsb needs decruft

2015-09-07 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Package: ftp.debian.org Severity: important Hi, On the 26 August, I uploaded src:lsb dropping all arch-any binary packages from it, doing a source-only upload. >From what I understand from britney and grep-excuses, the old src:lsb arch-any packages need to be decrufted for src:lsb to find its wa

Status of the src:lsb package (was: Debian LSB compliance)

2015-09-17 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Hi all, It is time for an update about the lsb source package status, especially as a quite important change landed in testing. After the discussion [0] about these changes back in July (on both debian-lsb@ and debian-devel@), I have uploaded src:lsb 9.20150826 to unstable, building no LSB com

Re: Status of the src:lsb package

2015-09-17 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Le jeudi, 17 septembre 2015, 08.46:24 Nikolaus Rath a écrit : > I don't know about formal LSB compatibility, but there are several > proprietary applications that require nothing but the > /{lib,lib64}/ld-lsb.so* symlinks to work properly under Debian. So it > would be great if they could be preser

Re: Status of the src:lsb package

2015-09-23 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Hi Nikolaus, Le jeudi, 17 septembre 2015, 09.27:56 Nikolaus Rath a écrit : > On Sep 17 2015, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: > > Le jeudi, 17 septembre 2015, 08.46:24 Nikolaus Rath a écrit : > >> I don't know about formal LSB compatibility, but there are several &

Re: Status of the src:lsb package

2015-09-23 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Le jeudi, 17 septembre 2015, 23.00:51 Michael Biebl a écrit : > Am 17.09.2015 um 14:56 schrieb Didier 'OdyX' Raboud: > > After the discussion [0] about these changes back in July (on both > > debian-lsb@ and debian-devel@), I have uploaded src:lsb 9.20150826 > > t

Re: lsb-printing missing in testing

2015-09-26 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Le samedi, 26 septembre 2015, 07.38:06 Alessandro a écrit : > I'm using a debian testing amd64, but package lsb-printing in testing > there is not. This package and it's dependency are important for > installing Epson printer's driver and utility es: to see inklevel > with escputil (my printer it's

Re: support for lsb 4.1 and lower

2015-10-16 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Hi Keld, Le jeudi, 15 octobre 2015, 22.23:14 Keld Simonsen a écrit : > Would it be possible just to preserve the current LSB support, > just like many other distros do, and what is done in Debian 7.8? What is your precise use-case? So far, I've concluded that the half-baked LSB support that we c

Re: support for lsb 4.1 and lower

2015-10-26 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Hi again Keld, and sorry for the delay, Le samedi, 17 octobre 2015, 19.26:05 Keld Simonsen a écrit : > On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 03:43:15PM +0200, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: > > Le jeudi, 15 octobre 2015, 22.23:14 Keld Simonsen a écrit : > > > Would it be possible just

Re: Why must LSB go? Is it no longer a priority for Debian to be open?

2016-01-12 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Le vendredi, 18 décembre 2015, 21.41:21 Travis Hurst a écrit : > Debian is meant to be an open system. That means dropping LSB makes it > harder for software developers to write programs for multiple > distros! The LSB standard is not enforced by distributions, you get subtle differences despite

Re: Why must LSB go? Is it no longer a priority for Debian to be open?

2016-01-12 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Le mardi, 12 janvier 2016, 08.12:31 Dan Kegel a écrit : > Here's one use case: > When I was building a binary linux app intended to run on all popular > linux distros, So a _proprietary_ binary linux application, then? > I wanted very much to use lsb dependencies to make the binary more > portabl

Re: Why must LSB go? Is it no longer a priority for Debian to be open?

2016-01-12 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Le mardi, 12 janvier 2016, 11.46:56 Dan Kegel a écrit : > Partly. But I can imagine people wanting open source binaries to run > portably, too. Let's stay with real use cases. We're not building Debian for imaginary people or imaginary open source binaries. > > And there's no way Debian would h

Bug#825946: Please move upstart hook to upstart package

2016-05-31 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Control: clone -1 -2 Control: reassign -2 upstart Control: retitle -2 upstart: please adopt the LSB hook from /lib/lsb/init-functions.d/01-upstart-lsb Control: block -1 by -2 Hi Michael, Le mardi, 31 mai 2016, 18.47:42 Michael Biebl a écrit : > Package: lsb-base > Version: 9.20160110 > Severity:

Re: Bug#826928: lsb-release: Error while kernel installation

2016-06-10 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Control: reassign -1 dkms Le vendredi, 10 juin 2016, 07.48:57 Roman Horn�k a écrit : > Package: lsb-release > Version: 9.20160601 > Severity: normal > > > /etc/kernel/header_postinst.d/dkms: > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "/usr/bin/lsb_release", line 25, in > import l

DebConf16 LSB BoF

2016-10-15 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Hi there, this is _very_ long overdue, but here come the notes taken collectively during DebConf16's LSB BoF. I'll put the takeaways first. # tl;dr Given that the word about lsb not being granted anymore might not have spread enough, will try to work towards producing an 'lsb-compat' package

Bug#845651: lsb-release: --codename returns n/a on stretch without apt sources configured

2017-01-08 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Control: tags -1 +wontfix Hi there Luca, Le dimanche, 8 janvier 2017, 14.54:16 h CET Luca Boccassi a écrit : > Any chance this could be looked at before Stretch final freeze? Thank you! tl;dr: unfortunately not. I have thought about this issue for some time, and I think that the result is act

Bug#866778: lsb-release: lsb_release --all displays inconsistent information

2017-07-05 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Control: tags -1 +wontfix Le samedi, 1 juillet 2017, 18.38:28 h CEST GT a écrit : >* What led up to the situation? > use of the command lsb_release --all > > :~$ lsb_release --all > > No LSB modules are available. > Distributor ID: Debian > Description:Debian GNU/Linux oldstable-updates

Bug#873090: RM: lsb-compat -- NBS; Deprecation for Buster

2017-08-24 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Package: ftp.debian.org Severity: normal Hi there, since it's 9.20170807 upload, src:lsb doesn't build the lsb-compat package anymore. The fact that lsb-compat is still around in unstable seems to confuse dak, and lsb-compat doesn't seem to be catched by the autodecruft. Please remove the lsb-co

Re: Linux kernel security release for Debian7 for Meltdown/Spectre mitigation

2018-01-07 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Le vendredi, 5 janvier 2018, 17.44:31 h CET Rohit Yadav a écrit : > Hi, > > I'm not sure if this is the best ML to start a conversation - I would like > to request a Linux kernel security patch/package for Debian 7 (x86_64) for > the Spectre/Meltdown security issues [1][2][3]. This is not the cor

Bug#888743: pidofproc returns PIDs in foreign chroots and containers

2018-02-02 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Hi there Harald, Le lundi, 29 janvier 2018, 14.19:53 h CET Harald Dunkel a écrit : > Apparently pidofproc returns the PIDs of programs running > in a chroot or in a container, if there is no local PID file. > This is a *huge* problem for me, because either the init > scripts on the host fail to re

Bug#921558: lsb-base: killproc does not pass name parameter to start-stop-daemon

2019-03-13 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Hi there Andreas, Le mercredi, 6 février 2019, 20.20:54 h CET Andreas Metzler a écrit : > there is a logic error in /lib/lsb/init-functions's killproc: > > base=${1##*/} > if [ ! $pidfile ]; then > name_param="--name $base --pidfile /var/run/$base.pid" > else > name_param=

Bug#921558: lsb-base: killproc does not pass name parameter to start-stop-daemon

2019-03-13 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Le mercredi, 13 mars 2019, 18.17:34 h CET Dmitry Bogatov a écrit : > [2019-03-11 21:51] Axel Beckert > > > I believe it would be reasonable to add '--name $base' into `else' > > > clause. Opinions? > > > > Sounds sane, I just checked that with #924311 (miredo, uses > > start-stop-daemon directly,

Bug#924519: RFA: lsb -- Linux Standard Base init script functionality

2019-03-13 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Package: wnpp Severity: normal I request an adopter for the lsb package. The package description is: The Linux Standard Base (http://www.linuxbase.org/) is a standard core system that third-party applications written for Linux can depend upon. . This package only includes the init-functions

Bug#858837: Bug#888743: Debian vs Linux namespaces, NMU lsb-base

2019-03-24 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Le dimanche, 24 mars 2019, 09.42:12 h CET Geert Stappers a écrit : > What would be the harm to the Buster release > if lsb-base got NMU > with > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?att=1;bug=888743;filename=ini > t-functions.diff;msg=37 ? I have now uploaded src:lsb to experimental with

Bug#928965: unblock: lsb/10.2019051400

2019-05-14 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Package: release.debian.org Severity: normal User: release.debian@packages.debian.org Usertags: unblock I hereby request an upload authorization towards an unblock for package lsb 10.2019051400, which was not uploaded yet. lsb (10.2019051400) unstable; urgency=medium [ Harald Dunkel ] *

Bug#928920: patch: Introduce logging functions that check ${VERBOSE}

2019-08-12 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Le mercredi, 17 juillet 2019, 16.58:15 h CEST Dmitry Bogatov a écrit : > [2019-05-13 04:05] Dmitry Bogatov > > > Package: lsb-base > > Severity: wishlist > > Tags: patch > > > > From 58dd6e6add24a4e5531a84ff2404f2f5ed71e114 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 > > From: Dmitry Bogatov > > Date: Sat, 11 May