Re: Problems with shim and shim-signed in unstable, and proposed solutions to unblock us

2019-03-06 Thread Wade A
I've certainly bbqed lettuce before. I don't know anything about cooking tho. And sorry to allow for more off topic banter on this thread. Thank you. On Wed, Mar 6, 2019, 2:47 PM Steve McIntyre wrote: > On Mon, Mar 04, 2019 at 04:30:46PM +, Steve McIntyre wrote: > >> > >>3. Upload new

Re: Problems with shim and shim-signed in unstable, and proposed solutions to unblock us

2019-03-06 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Mon, Mar 04, 2019 at 04:30:46PM +, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> >>3. Upload new version of the shim-signed source package and a >> (lightly) bodged binary package >>3a. Use versions: >> - source: 1.28+nmu2 >> - binary: 1.28+nmu2+0.9+1474479173.6c180c6-1 >>

Re: Problems with shim and shim-signed in unstable, and proposed solutions to unblock us

2019-03-06 Thread Julien Cristau
On Sun, Mar 3, 2019 at 23:35:45 +, Steve McIntyre wrote: > So, we're looking at three hacky options options here to work our way > out of this hole. In (probably?) descending order of hackitude: > > 1. Ask the nice ftpmaster people to bodge the archive by hand: [...] > > OR

Re: Problems with shim and shim-signed in unstable, and proposed solutions to unblock us

2019-03-04 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Steve McIntyre (2019-03-04): > And Mark says: > > "we don't want to go rewinding version numbers in unstable; that could > lead to all sorts of unforeseeable breakage. > > much as we'd expected. Any more feedback please? Cyril prefers > approach #2 below, I prefer #3. To clarify: #2 was my

Re: Problems with shim and shim-signed in unstable, and proposed solutions to unblock us

2019-03-04 Thread Steve McIntyre
I've had a reply from Mark (ftpteam) in IRC: On Sun, Mar 03, 2019 at 11:35:45PM +, Steve McIntyre wrote: ... >So, we're looking at three hacky options options here to work our way >out of this hole. In (probably?) descending order of hackitude: > >1. Ask the nice ftpmaster people to

Re: Problems with shim and shim-signed in unstable, and proposed solutions to unblock us

2019-03-03 Thread Georg Faerber
Hi all, On 19-03-03 23:35:45, Steve McIntyre wrote: > [ Note CCs to multiple lists - we know multiple groups of people have > an interest in this... ] Wouldn't this be also of interest to -devel? Besides, more people looking at this "interesting", maybe not every day, problem, might yield

Problems with shim and shim-signed in unstable, and proposed solutions to unblock us

2019-03-03 Thread Steve McIntyre
[ Note CCs to multiple lists - we know multiple groups of people have an interest in this... ] Hi folks, We have issues with the setup of the shim and shim-signed packages in unstable at the moment, which is quite awkward to fix. See #922179 for the original bug report. shim and shim-signed