Question about license

2024-09-17 Thread Preuße , Hilmar
Hi, before pushing a broken package to the NEW queue: I started again working on #698886 and have a here a package, which is quite lintian clean. What causes headache is the license "Modified MIT license". The following paragraph has been added by the author: If you copy or distribute a

Re: Custom decompressor for mk-origtargz

2024-09-11 Thread Preuße , Hilmar
Am 09.09.2024 um 08:17 schrieb Niels Thykier: Hello, ```perl push @cmd, ("-o${tempdir}", $upstream_tar); ``` Should do. > Works fine! Thank you. hille@rasppi2:~/devel/wp2latex/wp2latex.git $ uscan Newest version of wp2latex on remote site is 4.10b, local version is 4.10 (mangled loca

Re: Custom decompressor for mk-origtargz

2024-09-08 Thread Preuße , Hilmar
Am 07.09.2024 um 23:49 schrieb Preuße, Hilmar: Hi, Can I tell mk-origtargz to use 7z instead of unzip to uncompress the zip file? The unzip binary is hard coded in MkOrigtargz.pm, I tried to replace, by 7z, but failed until now: @cmd = ('7z','x');

Custom decompressor for mk-origtargz

2024-09-07 Thread Preuße , Hilmar
Hi all, before opening a bogus bug. My upstream provides zip files, which needs to be repacked, but can't be uncompressed using UNIX unzip: hille@rasppi2:~/devel/wp2latex $ unzip wp2latex-4.10.zip Archive: wp2latex-4.10.zip skipping: wp2latex-4.10/bin/win/wp2latex.exe need PK compat. v6.3

Running Debian CI/CD on github

2024-09-06 Thread Preuße , Hilmar
Hi all, for some historic reasons some of our (Debian TeX task force) repositories are sitting on github. I'd like to use the Debian provided CI/CD even on these repos. Here [1] is description how this could be done, but I'm failing to implement it, b/c some steps can't be executed as describ

Re: Package does not migrate to testing

2024-07-25 Thread Preuße , Hilmar
On 23.07.2024 23:33, Soren Stoutner wrote: Hi, Alternately, you could mark it as fixed in the current version of fq. Actually I solved the issue by marking as notfound in fq. This ist not 100% correct, as it was package fq, which introduced the file conflict. Anyway; nq has now migrated to t

Re: Package does not migrate to testing

2024-07-23 Thread Preuße , Hilmar
On 23.07.2024 23:07, Soren Stoutner wrote: Hello, Somehow the system didn’t pick up on the closure in the 1.0-0.1 changelog. I would suggest you manually mark it as fixed in 1.0-0.1 using: The bug page itself [1] looks good and states: Found in versions fq/0.9.0-2, nq/0.3.1-4, fq/0.0.4-2 F

Package does not migrate to testing

2024-07-23 Thread Preuße , Hilmar
Hi, for nq the excuse [1] currently reads Migration status for nq (- to 1.0-0.2): BLOCKED: Rejected/violates migration policy/introduces a regression Issues preventing migration: Updating nq would introduce bugs in testing: #1005961 The bug has been closed in latest upload. What needs to

Re: Hinting a package into testing?

2024-07-05 Thread Preuße , Hilmar
On 05.07.2024 11:04, Håvard F. Aasen wrote: On 05.07.2024 00:25, Preuße, Hilmar wrote: Hi, I'm trying to bring TeX Live 2024 into Debian testing. The excuse pages for texlive-base/texlive-extra/texlive-lang say "Migration status for texlive-... (2023.20240207-x to 2024.2024040

Hinting a package into testing?

2024-07-04 Thread Preuße , Hilmar
Hi, I'm trying to bring TeX Live 2024 into Debian testing. The excuse pages for texlive-base/texlive-extra/texlive-lang say "Migration status for texlive-... (2023.20240207-x to 2024.20240401-x): Will attempt migration (Any information below is purely informational)" Unfortunately these pac

Re: Remove package from unstable?

2024-03-05 Thread Preuße , Hilmar
On 04.03.2024 02:09, Loren M. Lang wrote: Hi, Have you just tried passing through -S from gbp? As in "gbp buildpackage -S"? It might not work if you have set a different builder like schroot, but you can just pass --git-builder=debuild or similar in that case. Yes, I tried that option "-S",

Remove package from unstable?

2024-02-28 Thread Preuße , Hilmar
Hello, dumb question: in an error I uploaded luametatex 2.11.01+ds-2 to Debian unstable. This was a mistake, it should have been uploaded to experimental, as it is part of the upcoming TL 2024. Is it possible to downgrade the Debian archive (unstable) to 2.10.08+ds-1 and upload the 2.11.01+ds

Drop i386 architecture in texworks

2023-12-19 Thread Preuße , Hilmar
Hi all, sorry to bother again. I was requested to stop building package on i386 (#1057407) so libqt6 can drop the i386 support too. So, how do do I do that? Do I have to specify (and maintain) the list of all supported arches in the debian/control file or can I specify something like "any [!i

Package scripts and environment vars

2023-11-28 Thread Preuße , Hilmar
Moin, dumb question, I did not find anything in the policy. We got #1056587: in the postinst stage of a package a broken TeX format file is generated. The root cause is that the user placed a customized TeX input file anywhere and changed the TEXINPUTS variable in the environment of user root

Re: Debian versioning question

2023-11-10 Thread Preuße , Hilmar
On 10.11.2023 00:37, Mattia Rizzolo wrote: On Thu, Nov 09, 2023 at 11:06:32PM +0100, Hilmar Preuße wrote: Hello Mattia, Can we override that anyhow? Even if it was possible, how would that be of any help? You do realize that versioning order matters for much more than whatever is shown on

Re: Debian versioning question

2023-11-10 Thread Preuße , Hilmar
On 10.11.2023 03:10, Wookey wrote: Hi Wookey, I think your options are 1) add an epoch (which exists to deal with this sort of problem) Well, would like to avoid it, if possible. 2) wait till the next (numerical) release 1.3.9 and upload that. Do releases happen often? This approach on

Re: Upload for Debian QA

2023-11-06 Thread Preuße , Hilmar
On 07.11.2023 01:07, Santiago Vila wrote: Hi, Hi. I see that the previous change was also requested by you (and uploaded by someone else) due to its interaction with Texinfo. If you feel attachment to an orphaned package, you can also adopt it. I'm aware of that, but currently I'm not inter

Re: Upload for Debian QA

2023-11-06 Thread Preuße , Hilmar
On 07.11.2023 00:25, Santiago Vila wrote: El 6/11/23 a las 23:42, Hilmar Preuße escribió: Hi, TeXinfo 7.1 does not migrate to testing b/c the test suite of autoproject returns with exit code > 0. I've filed a bug report and created a patch for the issue. The package is maintained by the Debi

Re: Access to porter boxes?

2023-10-25 Thread Preuße , Hilmar
On 21.10.2023 00:32, Judit Foglszinger wrote: Hi, That should be opening an rt ticket with DSA, as access on those guest accounts expires after a while. One only needs to go through the NM page the first time. Yes, that worked. I had to open a ticket at rt.debian.org to reactivate the accoun

Debian versioning question

2023-10-12 Thread Preuße , Hilmar
Hello, dumb question. Currently the vcswatch for proftpd-dfsg [1] reports: "OLD: VCS is behind the version in the archive: 1.3.8a+dfsg-1 < 1.3.8+dfsg-8." According to deb-version(7) this is absolutely correct: First the initial part of each string consisting entirely of non-digit character

Re: Package remains in status "Uploaded"

2023-09-27 Thread Preuße , Hilmar
On 27.09.2023 19:07, Niels Thykier wrote: Hi, In your  case, I would start with a give back and then if this attempt fails, contact the buildd admins. AFAICT that option is limited to Debian Developers. So if anybody would be so kind Hilmar -- sigfault OpenPGP_signature Description:

Package remains in status "Uploaded"

2023-09-26 Thread Preuße , Hilmar
Hi all, the package texinfo has been built successfully for architecture loong64 and is in status "Uploaded" for about a month now. I'm pretty sure there are a lot of packages in status "BD-Uninstallable" b/c it does not get installed. What can be done here? Hilmar -- sigfault OpenPGP_si

Re: Upload to NEW rejected

2023-09-15 Thread Preuße , Hilmar
On 13.09.2023 00:00, gregor herrmann wrote: On Tue, 12 Sep 2023 23:51:26 +0200, Preuße, Hilmar wrote: Hi, My guess is different lintian versions, aka ftp-master running an older lintian version which had a different formatting of the output. Compare the strings: texlive-binaries: lintian

Upload to NEW rejected

2023-09-12 Thread Preuße , Hilmar
Hello, again a dumb question. I tried to upload texlive-bin into the NEW queue. The upload was rejected: texlive-binaries: lintian output: 'embedded-library usr/bin/pdftex: poppler', automatically rejected package. texlive-binaries: If you have a good reason, you may override this lintian ta

Re: Question about upload

2023-09-04 Thread Preuße , Hilmar
On 04.09.2023 13:30, Preuße, Hilmar wrote: Hi, I signed the package now correctly, the processing E-Mail said: dvisvgm_3.1.1+ds-1.debian.tar.xz has incorrect size; deleting it Do I have to re-upload or remove the "associated files" in any way? The ACCEPTED mail just rolled in. M

Re: Question about upload

2023-09-04 Thread Preuße , Hilmar
On 04.09.2023 12:42, Andrey Rakhmatullin wrote: On Mon, Sep 04, 2023 at 12:28:01PM +0200, Preuße, Hilmar wrote: Hi all, I'm trying to upload a new package for dvisvgm[1]. Unfortunately this does not work: the dput command runs fine, but I did not even got the E-Mail that the uploa

Question about upload

2023-09-04 Thread Preuße , Hilmar
Hi all, I'm trying to upload a new package for dvisvgm[1]. Unfortunately this does not work: the dput command runs fine, but I did not even got the E-Mail that the upload was successful and the package is processed. In the meantime I could upload a new revision of texlive-bin, so there is no g

Re: Lost sponsor & autoremoval

2023-07-17 Thread Preuße , Hilmar
On 17.07.2023 09:31, Gábor Németh wrote: Hi, So basically I think I'm now looking for a new sponsor. I don't think I can file a new RFS so that my package is in the repos already. You can file an RFS file, in case you need help with uploading to Debian. This does not depend on if the package

Re: New package: ITP or RFP ?

2023-06-20 Thread Preuße , Hilmar
On 20.06.2023 13:34, Ramūnas Keliuotis wrote: Hi, We just opensourced our NordVPN Linux application and want to make it available from the public Debian repository. As we are planning to do packaging and support by ourselves, it is still not clear how to properly go through the Debian packaging

Re: Not install files in Debian package

2023-05-06 Thread Preuße , Hilmar
On 06.05.2023 00:25, Dominik George wrote: Hi, Now I need to move some files to another package. Is there an easy method the exclude some files from this package or do I have to compile a positive list (which might vary between versions)? In debian/rules: Well, errrm. I should have looked i

Not install files in Debian package

2023-05-05 Thread Preuße , Hilmar
Hi all, sorry, dumb question: currently a Debian package contains all files it find below usr/bin and usr/share. hille@sid-amd64:~/t2/texlive-bin/debian$ cat texlive-binaries.install usr/bin usr/share Now I need to move some files to another package. Is there an easy method the exclude some fil

Re: Uploading patch to unstable

2023-03-20 Thread Preuße , Hilmar
On 20.03.2023 16:38, Aaron Boxer wrote: Hi Aaron, are you subscribed to debian-devel-annou...@lists.debian.org ? Thanks, Santiago. How do I contact the release team to ask about unblock ? "According to schedule, we have frozen bookworm a bit more (2023-03-12). This means that we are one step