Re: Unittests writing to HOME (backintime)

2023-03-29 Thread Simon McVittie
On Wed, 29 Mar 2023 at 07:52:35 +, c.bu...@posteo.jp wrote: > My question now is why newer version of this package are uploaded then? I > couldn't find that the tests where deactivated. Maybe this "disabled on > Debian auto-builders" is outdated and today it is possible to write to HOME >

BTS: What are Unclassified bugs?

2023-03-29 Thread c . buhtz
Hello, I couldn't find a mailing list specific to the Bug Tracking System. In the bugs summary list for a specific package I can find "Unclassified" bugs. But what is "Unclassified"? Looking into other (not "Unclassified") bugs all have a "severity", some are "confirmed" some not. So a

Re: BTS: Merging bugs not working because of "forwarded" to upstream bug

2023-03-29 Thread Preuße , Hilmar
On 29.03.2023 10:05, c.bu...@posteo.jp wrote: Hi, Bug #985631 [backintime-qt] backintime-qt: for volumes mounted on demand, exiting backupintime-qt during the backup fails Unable to merge bugs because: forwarded of #985256 is '' not 'https://github.com/bit-team/backintime/issues/724' Failed to

Re: BTS: Merging bugs not working because of "forwarded" to upstream bug

2023-03-29 Thread c . buhtz
Dear Hilmar, thanks for the reply. Am 29.03.2023 10:33 schrieb preusse: Do, what it says: the forwarded value must be equal for both bugs. The system should do what I say: merge. :D Looking into the BTS's own bug tracker it seems it has no effect when opening a bug report about that.

BTS: Merging bugs not working because of "forwarded" to upstream bug

2023-03-29 Thread c . buhtz
Hello, I try to understand a problem with the Bug Tracking System. I tried to merge two bugs because one is a duplicate. I send to control@ merge 985631 985256 I also tried the other way around switching the numbers. But I got back that message that I don't understand. The link to the

Re: BTS: What are Unclassified bugs?

2023-03-29 Thread c . buhtz
Thanks for your reply. Am 29.03.2023 11:35 schrieb Andrey Rakhmatullin: One example is the backintime package https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?repeatmerged=no=backintime (I don't see the word "Unclassified" on that page) Yes it is gone. Bug is closed or modified. Can't figure

Re: Unittests writing to HOME (backintime)

2023-03-29 Thread c . buhtz
Dear Andrey, thank you for the reply. Am 29.03.2023 11:40 schrieb Andrey Rakhmatullin: The usual solution is AFAIK to set a temporary $HOME inside d/rules though. I was looking into https://salsa.debian.org/jmw/pkg-backintime/-/blob/debian/debian/rules I don't see creation of a HOME

Re: Unittests writing to HOME (backintime)

2023-03-29 Thread buhtz
Dear Andrey, thank you for the reply. Am 29.03.2023 11:40 schrieb Andrey Rakhmatullin: The usual solution is AFAIK to set a temporary $HOME inside d/rules though. I was looking into https://salsa.debian.org/jmw/pkg-backintime/-/blob/debian/debian/rules I don't see creation of a HOME

Re: Unittests writing to HOME (backintime)

2023-03-29 Thread Andrey Rakhmatullin
On Wed, Mar 29, 2023 at 10:03:31AM +, c.bu...@posteo.jp wrote: > > The usual solution is AFAIK to set a temporary $HOME inside d/rules > > though. > > I was looking into > https://salsa.debian.org/jmw/pkg-backintime/-/blob/debian/debian/rules > > I don't see creation of a HOME or

Unittests writing to HOME (backintime)

2023-03-29 Thread c . buhtz
Hello, I assume this topic is not specific to one package but to the whole python packaging universe. There is "backintime" which unittests do write to $HOME. I'm one of the new upstream maintainers and know that this isn't a good idea. It will take time to fix this. About that problem

Re: BTS: What are Unclassified bugs?

2023-03-29 Thread Andrey Rakhmatullin
On Wed, Mar 29, 2023 at 08:02:56AM +, c.bu...@posteo.jp wrote: > Hello, > > I couldn't find a mailing list specific to the Bug Tracking System. Then please use debian-mentors@ or debian-devel@, not debian-python@. > In the bugs summary list for a specific package I can find "Unclassified" >

Re: Unittests writing to HOME (backintime)

2023-03-29 Thread Andrey Rakhmatullin
On Wed, Mar 29, 2023 at 07:52:35AM +, c.bu...@posteo.jp wrote: > I assume this topic is not specific to one package but to the whole python > packaging universe. > > There is "backintime" which unittests do write to $HOME. I'm one of the new > upstream maintainers and know that this isn't a

Re: BTS: Merging bugs not working because of "forwarded" to upstream bug

2023-03-29 Thread Andrey Rakhmatullin
On Wed, Mar 29, 2023 at 08:42:02AM +, c.bu...@posteo.jp wrote: > > Do, what it says: the forwarded value must be equal for both bugs. > > The system should do what I say: merge. :D That's not what the docs for the command say, please read them before using the command. And the command for "do