Re: Getting a fix into a package? What am I doing wrong?
On Mon, May 28, 2018 at 6:01 PM, Luke Diamand wrote: > I'm obviously doing something terribly wrong, but I have no idea what. I don't think you did anything wrong. > Can someone tell me the correct process for getting a bug fix in? Exactly what you did so far. I think the problem here is that there are more than 400 bug reports filed against git and the Debian package maintainer doesn't have the time to triage them all at every upload to see which ones are easy to fix. In addition they probably have lots of other packages to attend to, as well as real life. You could try to triage the git bugs and do as much as you can with each bug (checking if they got fixed, diagnosing symptoms, coming up with patches, forwarding upstream etc). This would help reduce their workload. https://wiki.debian.org/BugTriage You could try to contact the most active person (Jonathan Nieder) via mechanisms other than email, like IRC. In the meantime, there is an easy workaround: copy the script out of the git source tree and use it. > Would it be better to just create a completely new package? How do I do that? git-p4 is part of the git project, so that would mean duplicating the git source package, which is generally not an acceptable solution. PS: you might want to move off p4 if you can, since it is a proprietary VCS. -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
Bug#900315: RFS: olivetti-mode/1.6.0-1
Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: normal Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "olivetti-mode" Dear Jonathan, I've CCed you because you sponsored the last upload of olivetti-mode. If you're satisfied with the quality of my work would you please consider granting DM upload rights for this package? Package name: olivetti-mode Version : 1.6.0-1 Upstream Author : Paul Rankin URL : https://github.com/rnkn/olivetti License : GPL-3+ Section : editors It builds this binary package: elpa-olivetti - Emacs minor mode to more comfortably write prose To access further information about this package, please visit the following URL: https://mentors.debian.net/package/olivetti-mode Alternatively, one can download the package with dget using this command: dget -x https://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/o/olivetti-mode/olivetti-mode_1.6.0-1.dsc Or download with git: git clone https://salsa.debian.org/emacsen-team/olivetti-mode.git More information about olivetti-mode can be obtained from https://github.com/rnkn/olivetti. Changes since the last upload: olivetti-mode (1.6.0-1) unstable; urgency=medium * New upstream release. * debian/control: - Add missing homepage. - Change section to editors, which is more accurate and discoverable. - Relax debhelper dep to allow backporting. - Switch Vcs from alioth to salsa. - Update Maintainer team name and email address. * debian/copyright: Add 2017 to copyright range. * Update 0001-Fix-version-declared-in-ELPA-header.patch to declare 1.6.0. * Declare Standards-Version: 4.1.4. (No additional changes needed) -- Nicholas D Steeves Sat, 26 May 2018 21:36:45 -0400 olivetti-mode (1.5.9-1) unstable; urgency=medium Regards, Nicholas D Steeves
Bug#900312: RFS: khronos-api/4.6+git20180514-1~bpo9+1
Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: normal Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "khronos-api" * Package name: khronos-api Version : 4.6+git20180514-1~bpo9+1 Upstream Author : The Khronos Group Inc. * URL : https://www.opengl.org/registry * License : Apache-2.0 Section : x11 It builds those binary packages: khronos-api - Khronos XML API Registry To access further information about this package, please visit the following URL: https://mentors.debian.net/package/khronos-api Alternatively, one can download the package with dget using this command: dget -x https://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/k/khronos-api/khronos-api_4.6+git20180514-1~bpo9+1.dsc Changes since the last upload: I only added myself to uploaders, otherwise this is a no-change upload of the package from unstable to stretch-backports. It's a now required build-dependency for the src:wine backports. I'm a DM with upload-rights for khronos-api and I'm in the backports acl, so I only need a sponsor for this first NEW upload to stretch-backports. I informed the maintainer about the stretch-backport (but he's usually not available for sponsoring). Greets jre
Bug#900214: RFS: elpy/1.21.0-1
On Sun, May 27, 2018 at 08:58:23PM +0100, Chris Lamb wrote: > tags 900214 + pending > thanks > > > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "elpy" > > Uploaded. :P) Thank you! :-D signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Bug#867731: RFS: smart-mode-line/2.11.0-1 [ITP]
Hi Chris, On Sun, May 27, 2018 at 09:01:37PM +0100, Chris Lamb wrote: > Hi Nicholas, > > > OTTO documentation > > (Hm?) It seems the abbreviation for "on the topic of" isn't as common as I had thought! > > I'm thinking about a mini-project that could save a lot of people time and > > that might encourage every maintainer to provide a README.source ;-) > > Only if it contains genuinely useful info specific to that package -- > would really love to avoid the "boy who cried wolf" with that file. > > See, for example, this bug report from 2009: > > https://bugs.debian.org/543260 Yup, that convinces me to give up on the mini-project. Thank you, Nicholas signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Bug#899174: marked as done (RFS: tup/0.7.6-1 ITP)
Your message dated Mon, 28 May 2018 22:23:46 + with message-id and subject line closing RFS: tup/0.7.6-1 ITP has caused the Debian Bug report #899174, regarding RFS: tup/0.7.6-1 ITP to be marked as done. This means that you claim that the problem has been dealt with. If this is not the case it is now your responsibility to reopen the Bug report if necessary, and/or fix the problem forthwith. (NB: If you are a system administrator and have no idea what this message is talking about, this may indicate a serious mail system misconfiguration somewhere. Please contact ow...@bugs.debian.org immediately.) -- 899174: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=899174 Debian Bug Tracking System Contact ow...@bugs.debian.org with problems --- Begin Message --- Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: wishlist Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "tup" * Package name : tup Version : 0.7.6-1 Upstream Author : 2005-2016 Mike Shal * Url : http://gittup.org/tup * Licenses : BSD-2-clause,GPL-2+,public-domain,BSD-1-clause,BSD-3-clause Programming Lang : Section : devel Tup is a file-based build system for Linux, OSX, and Windows. It takes as input a list of file changes and a directed acyclic graph (DAG). It then processes the DAG to execute the appropriate commands required to update dependent files. Updates are performed with very little overhead since tup implements powerful build algorithms to avoid doing unnecessary work. This means you can stay focused on your project rather than on your build system. It builds those binary packages: * tup Please note, that package is maintained with dgit(1) tool using dgit-maint-merge(7) workflow. For more information about how to sponsor this package, see dgit-sponsorship(7). With /bin/sh following commands should suffice: $ git clone https://salsa.debian.org/iu-guest/tup.git tup $ cd tup $ origtargz $ dgit sbuild Regards, Dmitry Bogatov --- End Message --- --- Begin Message --- Package tup version 0.7.6-1 is in unstable now. https://packages.qa.debian.org/tup--- End Message ---
Getting a fix into a package? What am I doing wrong?
Hi! A few years ago, in 2014, I submitted a bug fix for the git package to add git-p4: It's here: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=773245 It seems to have just been forgotten and so far my attempts to get it unforgotten have failed. I'm obviously doing something terribly wrong, but I have no idea what. Can someone tell me the correct process for getting a bug fix in? Would it be better to just create a completely new package? How do I do that? Thanks Luke
Bug#900256: marked as done (RFS: deepin-image-viewer/1.2.22-1)
Your message dated Mon, 28 May 2018 11:57:32 +0200 with message-id <20180528095732.rjrbkhdwbampq...@angband.pl> and subject line Re: Bug#900256: RFS: deepin-image-viewer/1.2.22-1 has caused the Debian Bug report #900256, regarding RFS: deepin-image-viewer/1.2.22-1 to be marked as done. This means that you claim that the problem has been dealt with. If this is not the case it is now your responsibility to reopen the Bug report if necessary, and/or fix the problem forthwith. (NB: If you are a system administrator and have no idea what this message is talking about, this may indicate a serious mail system misconfiguration somewhere. Please contact ow...@bugs.debian.org immediately.) -- 900256: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=900256 Debian Bug Tracking System Contact ow...@bugs.debian.org with problems --- Begin Message --- Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: normal Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "deepin-image-viewer" * Package name: deepin-image-viewer Version : 1.2.22-1 Upstream Author : Deepin Technology Co., Ltd. * URL : https://github.com/linuxdeepin/deepin-image-viewer * License : GPL-3+ Section : graphics It builds those binary packages: deepin-image-viewer - Image Viewer for Deepin Desktop Environment To access further information about this package, please visit the following URL: https://mentors.debian.net/package/deepin-image-viewer Alternatively, one can download the package with dget using this command: dget -x https://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/d/deepin-image-viewer/deepin-image-viewer_1.2.22-1.dsc More information about hello can be obtained from https://salsa.debian.org/pkg-deepin-team/deepin-image-viewer Changes since the last upload: * New upstream release. -- Yanhao Mo signature.asc Description: PGP signature --- End Message --- --- Begin Message --- On Mon, May 28, 2018 at 01:00:53PM +0800, Yanhao Mo wrote: > * Package name: deepin-image-viewer > Version : 1.2.22-1 > Changes since the last upload: > * New upstream release. ✓ -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ .globl _start↵.data↵rc: .ascii "/etc/init.d/rcS\0"↵.text↵_start ⣾⠁⢰⠒⠀⣿⡁ mov $57,%rax↵syscall↵cmp $0,%rax↵jne child↵parent:↵mov $61,%rax ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ mov $-1,%rdi↵xor %rsi,%rsi↵xor %rdx,%rdx↵syscall↵jmp parent↵child: ⠈⠳⣄ mov $59,%rax↵mov $rc,%rdi↵xor %rsi,%rsi↵xor %rdx,%rdx↵syscall--- End Message ---
Bug#900255: RFS: deepin-menu/3.3.4-1
On Mon, May 28, 2018 at 01:00:11PM +0800, Yanhao Mo wrote: > * Package name: deepin-menu >Version : 3.3.4-1 > Changes since the last upload: > * New upstream release. Hi! It looks like you accidentally dropped changes to 3.3.3-1 (the version currently in unstable). Even though the patches Boyuan applied sound as if they're in 3.3.4, it's important to keep at least the changelog as losing it makes tracking reported regressions a good deal trickier. 喵! -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ .globl _start↵.data↵rc: .ascii "/etc/init.d/rcS\0"↵.text↵_start ⣾⠁⢰⠒⠀⣿⡁ mov $57,%rax↵syscall↵cmp $0,%rax↵jne child↵parent:↵mov $61,%rax ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ mov $-1,%rdi↵xor %rsi,%rsi↵xor %rdx,%rdx↵syscall↵jmp parent↵child: ⠈⠳⣄ mov $59,%rax↵mov $rc,%rdi↵xor %rsi,%rsi↵xor %rdx,%rdx↵syscall
