Why bother with ITP bugs?

2022-01-17 Thread Ross Vandegrift
Hello, I guess ITP bugs are common practice for new packages... but are they *required* by anything? It seems like fairly high-friction, low-value work - especially if you're talking about more than a single package. So I'd like to avoid it, but I'm not sure what the costs would be. Thanks,

Bug#996004: RFS: connman/1.36-2.2 [NMU] [RC] -- Intel Connection Manager daemon

2021-10-09 Thread Ross Vandegrift
Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: important X-Debbugs-Cc: rvandegr...@debian.org Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the package "connman": * Package name: connman Version : 1.36-2.2 Upstream Author : Marcel Holtmann * URL : * License :

Handling binaries with cme update dpkg-copyright?

2021-01-20 Thread Ross Vandegrift
Hello, Does anyone have any advice or examples of using cme to manage d/copyright on packages that contain binary artifacts? They usually end up with garbage in the Copyright field. I can ignore by paths/suffix in copyright-scan-patterns.yml, but then cme thinks that they aren't in the archive

Concerns/problems shipping multiple shared libs in one package

2020-02-19 Thread Ross Vandegrift
Hello, Many shared library packages ship a single shared library. The policy manual explains and encourages this pattern. But when many libraries are built from the same source, it can get tedious and error-prone. Are there things I should look out for if I try to combine many shared library

Re: dbgsym metapackages?

2019-08-13 Thread Ross Vandegrift
On Mon, Aug 12, 2019 at 06:17:02AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > On Mon, Aug 12, 2019 at 3:18 AM Ross Vandegrift wrote: > > Make it easier for users/devs to get backtraces for EFL apps. Automatic > > dbgsym > > results in 49 dbgsym packages from src:efl. Getting all of t

Re: dbgsym metapackages?

2019-08-11 Thread Ross Vandegrift
On Sun, Aug 11, 2019 at 07:46:06PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2019-08-11 09:31 -0700, Ross Vandegrift wrote: > > I'd like a metapackage that'd pull in all automatic dbgsyms from one source > > package. But I don't see any way to accomplish this. Is this possible? > &

dbgsym metapackages?

2019-08-11 Thread Ross Vandegrift
Hello, I'd like a metapackage that'd pull in all automatic dbgsyms from one source package. But I don't see any way to accomplish this. Is this possible? Thanks, Ross

Re: BTS and unreleased changelog entries

2017-10-18 Thread Ross Vandegrift
Hi Ben - thanks fo the thorough explanation, much appreciated! On Tue, Oct 17, 2017 at 09:23:57AM +1100, Ben Finney wrote: > So now that we agree it's not too clear, and may be difficult to find, I > would welcome a bug report against Policy for clarifying this issue. > > As someone who went

Re: BTS and unreleased changelog entries

2017-10-16 Thread Ross Vandegrift
On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 11:54:20AM +1100, Ben Finney wrote: > Ross Vandegrift <r...@kallisti.us> writes: > > Good question. I guess I think of a changelog as history - so changes > > I made on 1.15 go with 1.15 whether it was released or not. > > Thanks for

Re: BTS and unreleased changelog entries

2017-10-14 Thread Ross Vandegrift
On Sun, Oct 15, 2017 at 12:14:59AM +0200, Mattia Rizzolo wrote: > > Thanks for the hint. dpkg-genchanges(1) says -c requires a version. Is > ^ > I'll assume this is a typo and you meant -v whoops yes! > > there a

Re: BTS and unreleased changelog entries

2017-10-14 Thread Ross Vandegrift
On Sat, Oct 14, 2017 at 11:53:25PM +0500, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: > It's not BTS, it's dpkg-genchanges. Pass a proper -v to the command you > use to build the package. Thanks for the hint. dpkg-genchanges(1) says -c requires a version. Is there a downside to always starting from the first

BTS and unreleased changelog entries

2017-10-14 Thread Ross Vandegrift
Hi all, My changelog [1] documents versions that weren't released. I like including that info (it's been useful for me). But the BTS doesn't pick up on Closes from those - even though later versions have been uploaded. Is there a way to make the BTS notice these entries - or do I need to

debian/rules and /usr/share/dpkg/buildflags.mk:38: *** missing separator

2017-05-06 Thread Ross Vandegrift
Hello, #858563 reports that debian/rules cannot be invoked directly on efl. The suggested fix is to add "include /usr/share/dpkg/default.mk". That doesn't work, I'm struggling to understand why: $ gbp buildpackage --git-builder=sbuild --git-arch=amd64 --git-dist=experimental --git-ignore-new

Re: Restoring old package version

2017-01-11 Thread Ross Vandegrift
On Wed, Jan 11, 2017 at 05:09:10PM +0100, Mattia Rizzolo wrote: > terminology doesn't seem to be affected by any RC bug. What are you > talking about? Oh you're right, I messed up - I thought 848370 was severity serious, but it's only important. Thanks, Ross signature.asc Description: PGP

Restoring old package version

2017-01-11 Thread Ross Vandegrift
terminology was affected by the RC bugs flooding issue mentioned in the recent email on the Strech freeze status. In [1], it says to upload the old version. I'm not clear on what I need to do - should I open an RFS with the old version from snapshot.d.o? Thanks, Ross [1]:

Re: Writing outside of build dir

2016-11-26 Thread Ross Vandegrift
On Sat, Nov 26, 2016 at 02:30:59AM +0100, Christian Seiler wrote: > > 2) Is there a common pattern for handling upstream tests that break this > > rule? Maybe there's an alternative to disabling them? > > If upstream tests do that, I would suggest sending a patch > upstream that fixes them,

Writing outside of build dir (was: Re: Scala 2.10)

2016-11-25 Thread Ross Vandegrift
On 11/11/2016 0826:45 AM, Christian Seiler wrote: > pbuilder sets the home directory of the pbuilder user to /nonexistent > to make sure that builds don't modify files in the home directory, > which is forbidden by Debian Policy (for good reason builds are not > supposed to change things outside

Bug#844242: RFS: terminology/0.9.1-0.1 [RC] [NMU]

2016-11-21 Thread Ross Vandegrift
On Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 05:46:24PM -0500, Ross Vandegrift wrote: > So I'll prepare another version that consists only of the security fix > backported to jessie. The new version will wait for experimental. Here it is, this time just adopting and fixing the security issue:

Bug#844242: RFS: terminology/0.9.1-0.1 [RC] [NMU]

2016-11-21 Thread Ross Vandegrift
On Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 04:53:58PM +0100, Adam Borowski wrote: > Cool, please move "New maintainer" to the front so it's better visible. > > Alas, I'm afraid it doesn't quite work for me. In the first run, after > maximizing it stopped redrawing its window and had to be killed (doesn't > seem to

Bug#844242: RFS: terminology/0.9.1-0.1 [RC] [NMU]

2016-11-21 Thread Ross Vandegrift
ngelog: [ Ross Vandegrift ] * New upstream release - Fix for "CVE-2015-8971: Escape Sequence Command Execution vulnerability" (Closes: #843434) * fix-minus-signs-manpage.patch: drop patch, fixed upstream * use-system-lz4.patch: defuzz * fix-del-backspace-key.patch: defuzz * Pr

Bug#844242: RFS: terminology/0.9.1-0.1 [RC] [NMU]

2016-11-18 Thread Ross Vandegrift
On Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 05:04:02PM +, Gianfranco Costamagna wrote: > > [ Ross Vandegrift ] > > > * Non-maintainer upload. > > Hi Ross, can you please fix and answer if you want to maintain or not > the package? Sorry for the slow response - I'm planning to fix

Bug#844242: RFS: terminology/0.9.1-0.1 [RC] [NMU]

2016-11-13 Thread Ross Vandegrift
: https://mentors.debian.net/package/terminology Alternatively, one can download the package with dget using this command: dget -x https://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/t/terminology/terminology_0.9.1-0.1.dsc Changes since the last upload: [ Ross Vandegrift ] * Non-maintai

Re: EFL/1.18, Enlightenment/0.21 updates

2016-09-13 Thread Ross Vandegrift
On 09/12/2016 10:21 PM, Paul Wise wrote: On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 1:35 AM, Ross Vandegrift wrote: https://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/e/e17/e17_0.21.2-1.dsc I'd suggest renaming the source and binary packages to 'enlightenment', e17 was never the right choice of name. I agree

Re: EFL/1.18, Enlightenment/0.21 updates

2016-09-13 Thread Ross Vandegrift
On 09/12/2016 05:49 AM, Gianfranco Costamagna wrote: I won't test/review, unless you want it to be uploaded in Debian (with an RFS bug), sorry! That's cool - thanks for taking a look at my questions. 2) The previous maintainer hasn't been active, so my work is not in the alioth pkg-e-devel

EFL/1.18, Enlightenment/0.21 updates

2016-09-11 Thread Ross Vandegrift
Hello, If anyone has time and interest, I'm looking for more feedback on Enlightenment 0.21 and EFL 1.18 packages that are uploaded to mentors: https://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/e/efl/efl_1.18.0-1.dsc https://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/e/e17/e17_0.21.2-1.dsc Some particular

Bug#833859: RFS: e17/0.17.6-1.1 [RC] [NMU]

2016-08-09 Thread Ross Vandegrift
dget using this command: dget -x https://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/e/e17/e17_0.17.6-1.1.dsc Changes since the last upload: * debian/rules: override dh_fixperms only for arch-dependent packages. Thanks to Santiago Vila. (Closes: #806019) Regards, Ross Vandegrift

Re: git-buildpackage pattern question

2016-03-26 Thread Ross Vandegrift
On 03/21/2016 09:43 PM, Sean Whitton wrote: > When there's a new release, I fetch upstraem's tags and then run > something like `git merge 1.1.1 && dch -v1.1.1`. In the case you > describe where 1.1.1 cannot be cleanly merged with 1.0.2, I would just > run `git merge --strategy recursive

git-buildpackage pattern question

2016-03-20 Thread Ross Vandegrift
Hello all, I've been working on packages using git-buildpackage, and have been wondering if there's a better pattern out there. Upstream makes periodic releases, which often receive a few maintenance updates. For upstream, often looks like this: o---ooooo