Bug#1071227: busybox-udeb: provides binaries that are also provided by kmod-udeb (e.g. modprobe)

2024-05-16 Thread Philip Hands
Package: busybox-udeb Severity: normal User: debian-rele...@lists.debian.org Hi, I notice that busybox-udeb provides the following binaries in /sbin: depmod insmod lsmod modinfo modprobe rmmod while kmod-udeb provides the same, except located in /usr/sbin. It would be better if this were

Bug#1070795: xfsprogs-udeb: the udeb is empty (size 904 bytes) so does not contain mkfs.xfs

2024-05-09 Thread Philip Hands
Package: xfsprogs-udeb Version: 6.7.0-2 Severity: grave User: debian...@lists.debian.org Usertags: openqa Hi, Recent openQA tests show that it is not currently possible to create an XFS filesystem using the latest debian-installer: https://openqa.debian.net/tests/259699#step/install_base/13

Bug#1065951: patch applied as MR!6

2024-04-09 Thread Philip Hands
Hi, Just in case it helps, I've applied Michael's patch, and opened an MR on salsa: https://salsa.debian.org/virtualsquare-team/vde2/-/merge_requests/6 Cheers, Phil. -- Philip Hands -- https://hands.com/~phil

Bug#1067516: util-linux: sulogin should not render system inaccessable in single-user/emergency mode

2024-03-22 Thread Philip Hands
Package: util-linux Severity: normal The D-I team are just about to reword the root password prompt in a way that will likely lead to more people taking the chance to lock root and rely upon sudo from the initial user. This is something that's already possible, so this wording change is at most

Bug#1064617: update password selection advice

2024-03-19 Thread Philip Hands
's not a reason to delay this MR though. Cheers, Phil. [1] https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/user-setup/-/merge_requests/6 > > > Holger > > > -- > Sent from /e/ OS on Fairphone3 > -- Philip Hands -- https://hands.com/~phil signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#1064617: Passwords should not be changed frequently

2024-03-08 Thread Philip Hands
Justin B Rye writes: > Philip Hands wrote: >>> Maybe instead of saying "use the system's initial user account to >>> become root" it should say "allow the system's initial user account >>> to gain administrative privileges"? I'm not sure.

Bug#1064617: Passwords should not be changed frequently

2024-03-06 Thread Philip Hands
gt; even want to mention the word "superuser", or then again we might not. I think Diederik's suggestion of using 'root' for the account and 'super-user' for the privileges might be the way to go. Cheers, Phil. [1] https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/user-setup/-/merge_requests/7/d

Bug#1064617: Passwords should not be changed frequently

2024-03-06 Thread Philip Hands
Justin B Rye writes: > Philip Hands wrote: >> Justin B Rye writes: >>> Philip Hands wrote: >>>> Justin B Rye writes:> ... >>>> The reason behind that structure was supposed to be that one definitely >>>> needs _a_ password, but not

Bug#1064617: Passwords should not be changed frequently

2024-03-05 Thread Philip Hands
Justin B Rye writes: > Philip Hands wrote: >> Justin B Rye writes: ... >> >> The reason behind that structure was supposed to be that one definitely >> needs _a_ password, but not necessarily a root password, so the password >> advice applies to whichever pas

Bug#1064617: Passwords should not be changed frequently

2024-03-05 Thread Philip Hands
sword/passphrase for the new user: > Make sure to select a strong password/passphrase, that cannot be guessed. > > No comma needed there. Well done -- I kept noticing that, and somehow didn't get round to fixing it. I've now deleted it, so thanks for pointing it out again. :-) Cheers, Phil. -- Philip Hands -- https://hands.com/~phil signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#1064617: Passwords should not be changed frequently

2024-03-05 Thread Philip Hands
Cyril Brulebois writes: > Philip Hands (2024-03-05): >> Cool, in that case I'll fix those two things and then use the result >> for the MR[1], and if the openQA test runs look OK, will merge that. > > Only skimmed over it, but that looks sensible, thanks all. > > Is i

Bug#1064617: Passwords should not be changed frequently

2024-03-05 Thread Philip Hands
Holger Wansing writes: > Hi, > > Am 5. März 2024 15:01:21 MEZ schrieb Philip Hands : >>Here are my latest attempts: > > "Be aware that that a ..." > doubled "that" > > "... (unless you select to show it)" > missing fullstop.

Bug#1064617: Passwords should not be changed frequently

2024-03-03 Thread Philip Hands
Holger Wansing writes: > Hi, > > Am 2. März 2024 21:07:34 MEZ schrieb Philip Hands : >> >>This sentence is the thing that prompted me to change things in the >>first place, because it is not true. One does not _need_ to set a root >>password. > > It

Bug#1064617: Passwords should not be changed frequently

2024-03-02 Thread Philip Hands
Diederik de Haas writes: > Hi, > > On Friday, 1 March 2024 20:46:49 CET Holger Wansing wrote: >> Philip Hands wrote (Fri, 01 Mar 2024 06:46:27 +0100): >> > If you want to make a constructive contribution, how about suggesting a >> > wording that reflects the ad

Bug#1064617: Passwords should not be changed frequently

2024-02-29 Thread Philip Hands
advice seems like an OK place to end up too, which is why I went to the effort of splitting the commits. Cheers, Phil. -- Philip Hands -- https://hands.com/~phil

Bug#1064617: Passwords should not be changed frequently

2024-02-29 Thread Philip Hands
owing password based logins to root, perhaps the potential presence of a poor password on a sudo enabled account should be of greater concern, since that will still be open to remote logins, so I can see that one could argue this either way. -- Philip Hands -- https://hands.com/~phil signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#1064624: Hard to short-stroke an encrypted drive

2024-02-26 Thread Philip Hands
bles to set the percentage and maximum amount that would be left fallow for this purpose, and (eventually) set non-zero defaults when installing to SSD. Is that something like what you're after? Cheers, Phil. -- Philip Hands -- https://hands.com/~phil signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#1063518: console-setup: setupcon: 1386: Syntax error: Missing '))'

2024-02-09 Thread Philip Hands
tter. On the other hand, if I'd been paying attention at the time, the fact that this change dropped the number of shellcheck reports for setupcon from 189 to 1 should have rung some alarm bells, but it seems that I've learnt to ignore the little '!' in my emacs status bar -- I'll have to keep an eye on that in future. Cheers, Phil. -- Philip Hands -- https://hands.com/~phil

Bug#1054644: xfsprogs-udeb: causes D-I to fail, reporting errors about missing partition devices

2023-10-30 Thread Philip Hands
Anthony Iliopoulos writes: > On Sun, Oct 29, 2023 at 09:02:01PM +0100, Philip Hands wrote: ... >> error: invalid XFS directory entry. ... > This issue exists independently of the large extent counter, and it is > related to grub commit ef7850c75 ("fs/xfs: Fix issues f

Bug#1054644: xfsprogs-udeb: causes D-I to fail, reporting errors about missing partition devices

2023-10-29 Thread Philip Hands
Philip Hands writes: > Anthony Iliopoulos writes: > ... >> Yeap it is due to nrext64, I've submitted a patch to grub (should have >> cc'ed linux-xfs..) >> >> https://lore.kernel.org/grub-devel/20231026095339.31802-1-ail...@suse.com/ > > That certainly s

Bug#1054644: xfsprogs-udeb: causes D-I to fail, reporting errors about missing partition devices

2023-10-27 Thread Philip Hands
atch to grub, and then getting that version of grub installed into the target just after the initial attempt to run grub had failed, which then allows a retry of the grub install step to succeed. Also, with the patched version: `grub-probe -d /dev/vda1` produces 'xfs' Cheers, Phil. -- Philip Hands -- https

Bug#1054644: xfsprogs-udeb: causes D-I to fail, reporting errors about missing partition devices

2023-10-27 Thread Philip Hands
logfile?filename=complete_install-DI-installed-pkgs.txt which lists the installed components (udebs) of the installer that's running: xfsprogs-udeb 6.5.0-1 Cheers, Phil. -- Philip Hands -- https://hands.com/~phil

Bug#1054644: xfsprogs-udeb: causes D-I to fail, reporting errors about missing partition devices

2023-10-27 Thread Philip Hands
Philip Hands writes: ... > Could this be related to #1051543? > > I'll try testing D-I while using the patch from that bug, to see if that > helps. It seems (to me at least) that the patch there does not apply usefully to the version we're talking about, so I'll leave it to peop

Bug#1054644: xfsprogs-udeb: causes D-I to fail, reporting errors about missing partition devices

2023-10-27 Thread Philip Hands
Package: xfsprogs-udeb Version: 6.5.0-1 Severity: serious User: debian...@lists.debian.org Usertags: openqa While doing openQA testing of Debian-Installer, I notice that XFS installs started failing a few days ago, and comparing the versions of udebs that changed between success and failure, the

Bug#1050868: bookworm-pu: package debootstrap/1.0.128+nmu2+deb12u1

2023-09-24 Thread Philip Hands
in bookworm-pu for >> whatever reason, I'm happy to upload a +deb12u2 that is identical to >> 1.0.128+nmu2 except for the changelog.) > > Thank you, pushed both branches. > > Release Team, we are aware that you requested an explicit review from > D-I for this and #10257

Bug#1052448: kmail: Account Assistant window can be covered by main Kmail window

2023-09-22 Thread Philip Hands
Package: kmail Version: 4:22.12.3-1 Severity: minor Hi, While performing automated tests of KDE with openQA (on openqa.debian.net) it has been observed that Kmail, on first run, can end up looking like this: https://openqa.debian.net/tests/190198#step/kmail/5 in case that link rots at some

Bug#1052377: gdm3: less than beautiful word-wrap decision seen in failed authentication message.

2023-09-21 Thread Philip Hands
Package: gdm3 Version: 45~beta-1 Severity: wishlist Hi, While testing Gnome installs using openQA I noticed that if providing the wrong password, one is shown a message that is word-wrapped in an awkward manner: Sorry, password authentication didn't work. Please try

Bug#1051468: cannot install BIOS machine with mini.iso, error creating /target/sys/firmware/efi/efivars

2023-09-09 Thread Philip Hands
ust in case you're on other lists you don't want to be on. Cheers, Phil. -- Philip Hands -- https://hands.com/~phil signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#1051468: cannot install BIOS machine with mini.iso, error creating /target/sys/firmware/efi/efivars

2023-09-08 Thread Philip Hands
g/philh/grub-installer/-/jobs/4675763/artifacts/file/debian/output/debian-202306XX+salsaci+20230908+294-amd64-gtkmini.iso which was built in this pipeline: https://salsa.debian.org/philh/grub-installer/-/pipelines/577147 where you will find links to the commit & branch that's from. Cheers, Phil. -- Philip Hands -- https://hands.com/~phil signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#998408: "good password" advice in installer is still bad two years after this was reported

2023-09-06 Thread Philip Hands
at least a decade late. ;-) Cheers, Phil. -- Philip Hands -- https://hands.com/~phil signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#1050924: dgit: allowed a push-source for a version that already exists in the archive

2023-08-31 Thread Philip Hands
Package: dgit Version: 10.7 Severity: important Hi, Following on from an IRC chat with Ian, I'm submitting a bug as requested. In a moment of inattention[1], I seem to have found myself in a git "master" branch that was sitting on release 1.109 of the `preseed` package (whereas the latest

Bug#1050887: endlessh.service includes unhelpful instructions for listening on low ports

2023-08-30 Thread Philip Hands
Package: endlessh Version: 1.1-5 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, In `/lib/systemd/system/endlessh.service` there is this comment: ## If you want Endlessh to bind on ports < 1024 ## 1) run: ## setcap 'cap_net_bind_service=+ep' /usr/local/bin/endlessh ## 2) uncomment following line

Bug#1050001: Unwinding directory aliasing [and 3 more messages]

2023-08-28 Thread Philip Hands
t present. Cheers, Phil. -- Philip Hands -- https://hands.com/~phil signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#1031183: grub-installer: postinst fails if efivarfs cannot be mounted

2023-08-20 Thread Philip Hands
Philip Hands writes: ... > However, I am now wondering whether we might not be better off using > `archdetect` to see if we're on an efi system, and then make the attempt > to call mountvirtfs for the efivarfs conditional on that. After a diversion[1], I had a look at the archdete

Bug#1039710: debian-installer: Grub installation fails and /var/log/syslog is empty

2023-08-07 Thread Philip Hands
t/328fdfbe43cd8d9e4425c3ee1c68aadfa44ee434 but if that did work, it does no longer. Either I was mistaken about it having worked earlier (I'm at least 80% sure that's not the case) or something non-deterministic is going on ... which makes me wonder if the underlying cause might be something to do with

Bug#1031183: grub-installer: postinst fails if efivarfs cannot be mounted

2023-07-30 Thread Philip Hands
one gets to see this error: https://openqa.debian.net/tests/176310#step/grub/5 =-=- However, I am now wondering whether we might not be better off using `archdetect` to see if we're on an efi system, and then make the attempt to call mountvirtfs for the efivarfs conditional on that. Cheers, Phil. -

Bug#1036952: rootskel: text installs on aarch64 lack glyphs for many languages

2023-05-30 Thread Philip Hands
Package: rootskel Version: 1.135 Severity: normal Tags: patch Hi, One can see the symptoms by looking here: https://openqa.debian.net/tests/151286 the orange "Soft Failed" boxes highlight some of the failing screens, where the failure can be seen in the screenshot immediately preceeding the

Bug#1014943: waybar: fork-awesome alternatives

2023-05-26 Thread Philip Hands
Package: waybar Version: 0.9.17-2 Followup-For: Bug #1014943 Dear Maintainer, I also hit this bug. As mentioned Fork Awesome is available in Debian, so instead of these: 0xf76b  temperature-low 0xf769  temperature-high one can use these:

Bug#913431: Debian Installer Bullseye RC 2 release

2023-03-26 Thread Philip Hands
), that should allow this code to be tested in D-I: https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/debian-installer/-/jobs/4087808/artifacts/file/public/gtk-mini.iso HTH Cheers, Phil. -- |)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)20 8530 9560] HANDS.COM Ltd. |-| http://www.hands.com/http://ftp.uk.debian.org

Bug#1031195: os-autoinst: FTBFS on several release architectures

2023-02-18 Thread Philip Hands
Control: reopen -1 It seems that the initial attempt to fix this bug was a failure, so I'm reopening the bug and will attempt to do a proper job shortly. Cheers, Phil.

Bug#1026027: graphical installer: using nano in a installer shell fails

2023-02-18 Thread Philip Hands
725/artifacts/file/public/gtk-mini.iso wherein the bug is fixed. That being the case, I've pushed it into the master branch. Cheers, Phil. -- |)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)20 8530 9560] HANDS.COM Ltd. |-| http://www.hands.com/http://ftp.uk.debian.org/ |(| Hugo-Klemm-Strasse 34, 21075 Hamb

Bug#993155: O: ssh-askpass -- under X, asks user for a passphrase for ssh-add

2023-02-18 Thread Philip Hands
diminished yet further. Cheers, Phil. -- |)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)20 8530 9560] HANDS.COM Ltd. |-| http://www.hands.com/http://ftp.uk.debian.org/ |(| Hugo-Klemm-Strasse 34, 21075 Hamburg,GERMANY

Bug#1031220: grub-installer: variable $device_map used without being defined

2023-02-13 Thread Philip Hands
Source: grub-installer Severity: minor Hi, While looking at the grub-installer script, shellcheck highlighted the fact that we appear to be using the variable $device_map in grub-installer, without it being defined. A grep of the D-I source tree for 'device_map=' found nothing, so it seems it's

Bug#1030303: install tmpfiles and sysusers config into correct path

2023-02-02 Thread Philip Hands
pecial case from the install file. Cheers, Phil. -- |)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)20 8530 9560] HANDS.COM Ltd. |-| http://www.hands.com/http://ftp.uk.debian.org/ |(| Hugo-Klemm-Strasse 34, 21075 Hamburg,GERMANY signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#1029616: perltidy: please package upstream 20221112 release

2023-01-25 Thread Philip Hands
Package: perltidy Version: 20220613-1 Severity: normal Hi Don, I notice that upstream has released 20221112 (prompted by the fact that upstream openqa has a versioned depends on that new version) I knocked up a new version of the package, which is visible here:

Bug#748901: fixed in upstream git

2023-01-13 Thread Philip Hands
an NMU with just the single commit applied, if that helps. Cheers, Phil. -- |)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)20 8530 9560] HANDS.COM Ltd. |-| http://www.hands.com/http://ftp.uk.debian.org/ |(| Hugo-Klemm-Strasse 34, 21075 Hamburg,GERMANY

Bug#1026027: graphical installer: using nano in a installer shell fails

2022-12-15 Thread Philip Hands
Holger Wansing writes: > Hi, > > Philip Hands wrote (Tue, 13 Dec 2022 20:34:17 +0100): >> On the 11.5 netinst I just tried out, in the Graphical Install's shell, >> TERM=xterm so that's obviously not the cause of the issue, but the >> difference would appear to be

Bug#1026027: graphical installer: using nano in a installer shell fails

2022-12-13 Thread Philip Hands
ither to make sure that that termcap file gets installed again, or to set TERM in the Graphical Install's shell to something like 'bterm' or 'vt102'. I suspect restoring the termcap file is the correct fix. Cheers, Phil. -- |)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)20 8530 9560] HANDS.COM Ltd. |-| http://www.

Bug#1023468: dgit: the format of --dep14tag tags should be customisable

2022-12-10 Thread Philip Hands
Philip Hands writes: > So one might have: > > dgit-distro.debian.dgit-tag-filter="sed -ne 's,^debian/1%,,p'" Except of course one wants to be able to set this in the repo somehow, in order that anyone cloning the repo also gets to generate the right sort of tags, so there'

Bug#1023468: dgit: the format of --dep14tag tags should be customisable

2022-12-10 Thread Philip Hands
uldn't be > unchanged under that transform ? Or what ? If using the filter idea above, I'd insist that the result is a valid tag already, or fail. > With answers to these questions I think this becomes a fairly > straightforward SMOP. Cool. Cheers, Phil. -- |)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)20 8

Bug#1025340: xserver-xorg: Xorg segfaults at start-up in recent Debian Live images

2022-12-02 Thread Philip Hands
Package: xserver-xorg Version: 1:7.7+23 Severity: important Usertags: openqa X-Debbugs-Cc: rclo...@rclobus.nl Hi folks, Debian Live images built in the last day seem not to be able to start X. It segfaults at start-up, thus: [20.784] (EE) Backtrace: [20.785] (EE) 0: /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg

Bug#1024361: lintian: complains about bpo version when package built with salsa-CI/pipeline (+salsaci)

2022-11-18 Thread Philip Hands
Package: lintian Severity: normal As one can see here: https://installer-team.pages.debian.net/-/debootstrap/-/jobs/3528761/artifacts/debian/output/lintian.html it complains when this bpo version is built:

Bug#835672: xfce4-power-manager: If installed without xfce4-session, fails to lock screen due to missing xflock4 script

2022-11-10 Thread Philip Hands
this, I'm afraid. There's therefore no need to keep the bug open for my benefit, but perhaps you want to leave it open to give others the hint if they stumble across the same behaviour. Cheers, Phil. -- |)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)20 8530 9560] HANDS.COM Ltd. |-| http://www.hands.com

Bug#1023472: lxqt: lxde pulls in both kwin & xfwm4, when selecting 'lxde' during D-I install

2022-11-04 Thread Philip Hands
Package: lxqt Severity: normal Hi, Last month install tests started including this prompt: https://openqa.debian.net/tests/91155#step/_graphical_wait_login/9 which is asking the user to decide between Kwin and Xfwm4 as their window manager. I would expect that only one of those should be

Bug#1023468: dgit: the format of --dep14tag tags should be customisable

2022-11-04 Thread Philip Hands
Package: dgit Version: 10.0 Severity: minor dgit generates tags of the form suggested by DEP-14 (`debian/1.2.3`) when --dep14tag is set, which is of course just as it should be for most cases, but there are times when one wants to vary from that. When one is considering native packages for which

Bug#1019660: console-setup: grep: warning: stray \ before #

2022-10-24 Thread Philip Hands
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Bug#916681: certainly is reproducible

2022-09-30 Thread Philip Hands
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Bug#1020417: plasma-vault: encfs security warning during Debian-Installer when KDE desktop selected

2022-09-21 Thread Philip Hands
Package: plasma-vault Version: 5.25.4-1 Severity: normal Attached is a screenshot from installing Debian with KDE selected as the Desktop Environment. As you can see, it's giving a scarry looking security warning, which is probably not the first impression we want to present. My asumption is

Bug#1015887: debian-installer: Adding https repo doesn't work without manually installing ca-certificates

2022-09-20 Thread Philip Hands
can be found here: https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/sid_d-i/arch-latest/amd64/iso-cd/debian-testing-amd64-netinst.iso Cheers, Phil. -- |)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)20 8530 9560] HANDS.COM Ltd. |-| http://www.hands.com/http://ftp.uk.debian.org/ |(| Hugo-Klemm-Strasse 34

Bug#787279: installation-reports: still present in rootskel-gtk 11.0.2

2022-09-20 Thread Philip Hands
Followup-For: Bug #787279 Control: reassign -1 rootskel-gtk Having just tested this again, I see that setting `dpms=true` on the kernel command line has no effect, as reported in this bug. In the mean time, I note that we no longer have screen-blanking going on in the text-mode (console)

Bug#1019742: reprotest: add a variation that sets DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck

2022-09-15 Thread Philip Hands
Vagrant Cascadian writes: > On 2022-09-14, Philip Hands wrote: >> Vagrant Cascadian writes: >> >>>> but also >>>> (given that the tests will have passed during the normal build) the tests >>>> failing during the varied build seems unlikely

Bug#1019742: reprotest: add a variation that sets DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck

2022-09-14 Thread Philip Hands
counting of it. Of course, if the package is not reproducible, the tests may well fail because the package ends up containing new bugs that are only present in the variant-built package, but then its also going to show up as non-reproducible, so does that really make a difference? Cheers, Phil. -

Bug#1019742: reprotest: add a variation that sets DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck

2022-09-14 Thread Philip Hands
Package: reprotest Version: 0.7.22 Severity: wishlist I suggest adding a 'nocheck' variation, that sets DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck during the build, and enabling it by default. The reason for doing so is that one could imagine that a package produces differing results depending upon whether the

Bug#1018894: rescue-mode: mounts wrong btrfs subvolume

2022-09-03 Thread Philip Hands
Pascal Hambourg writes: > On 03/09/2022 at 06:32, Philip Hands wrote: >> Ansgar writes: >> >>> Source: rescue >>> Version: 1.85 >>> Severity: important >>> >>> I've installed a system using btrfs for the root filesystem with d-i

Bug#1018894: rescue-mode: mounts wrong btrfs subvolume

2022-09-02 Thread Philip Hands
use this salsa-built test mini-ISO image: https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/debian-installer/-/jobs/3179168/artifacts/file/public/gtk-mini.iso Cheers, Phil. -- |)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)20 8530 9560] HANDS.COM Ltd. |-| http://www.hands.com/http://ftp.uk.debian.org/ |(| Hugo-Klemm-Str

Bug#1018802: localechooser: reproducible builds: locale and parallelism trigger reproducibility issues

2022-08-31 Thread Philip Hands
-- just thought I'd mention what I've done so far to save others duplicating effort. Cheers, Phil. -- |)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)20 8530 9560] HANDS.COM Ltd. |-| http://www.hands.com/http://ftp.uk.debian.org/ |(| Hugo-Klemm-Strasse 34, 21075 Hamburg,GERMANY signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#1017725: dgit-maint-native(7) examples should use push-source (rather than push)

2022-08-27 Thread Philip Hands
Sean Whitton writes: > Hello, > > On Wed 24 Aug 2022 at 10:57PM +01, Ian Jackson wrote: > >> >> Sean Whitton writes ("Bug#1017725: dgit-maint-native(7) examples should use >> push-source (rather than push)"): >>> On Fri 19 Aug 2022 at 05:

Bug#1017725: dgit-maint-native(7) examples should use push-source (rather than push)

2022-08-19 Thread Philip Hands
Package: dgit Version: 9.16 Severity: minor It strikes me that examples that currently show the `push` sub-command: dgit -wgf --overwrite push and dgit -wgf push should show the use of the `push-source` sub-command instead, since doing binary uploads to Debian now prevents migration to

Bug#1017435: debian-installer: georgian text mode fails to render all characters

2022-08-16 Thread Philip Hands
Package: debian-installer Severity: normal openQA just noticed that the rendering of certain characters just changed, highlighting the fact that the rendering was already broken. For example the prompt for the hostname: msgid "Please enter the hostname for this system." msgstr "გთხოვთ შეიყვანოთ

Bug#1016809: [UEFI] Installed (minimal) bookworm system hangs at boot

2022-08-09 Thread Philip Hands
Philip Hands writes: > Holger Wansing writes: > >> Holger Wansing wrote (Sun, 7 Aug 2022 21:36:43 +0200): >>> Installing Debian on an UEFI-driven QEMU machine (minimal installation, only >>> standard system task) leads to a successful installation, but the newl

Bug#1016809: [UEFI] Installed (minimal) bookworm system hangs at boot

2022-08-08 Thread Philip Hands
g out that we were missing such tests, which I'd left room for, but never got round to finishing off properly. I just need to tidy up my patch and then I'll enable some new DESKTOP=textmode tests. Cheers, Phil. -- |)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)20 8530 9560] HANDS.COM Ltd. |-| http://www.hands.com/htt

Bug#991859: Is a different opinion about a license a case for the ctte?

2022-08-02 Thread Philip Hands
seems likely to respond in a timely manner). Cheers, Phil. -- |)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)20 8530 9560] HANDS.COM Ltd. |-| http://www.hands.com/http://ftp.uk.debian.org/ |(| Hugo-Klemm-Strasse 34, 21075 Hamburg,GERMANY signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#1013079: installation-reports: GUI install option isn't visible on boot

2022-07-31 Thread Philip Hands
Holger Wansing writes: > Hi, > >> > - On Jun 17, 2022, at 7:43 AM, Philip Hands p...@hands.com wrote: >> > > >> > > https://openqa.debian.net/tests/60553#step/_boot_to_debianinstaller/2 >> > > >> > > if you look closely i

Bug#1015174: lvm2-udeb: uninstallable, depends on non-udeb libsystemd0

2022-07-17 Thread Philip Hands
the volume group, seen in the initial screenshot above. Cheers, Phil. -- |)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)20 8530 9560] HANDS.COM Ltd. |-| http://www.hands.com/http://ftp.uk.debian.org/ |(| Hugo-Klemm-Strasse 34, 21075 Hamburg,GERMANY

Bug#1014273: ITP: pastaignore -- makes gitignores easier

2022-07-04 Thread Philip Hands
se fdfind does use .gitignores (optionally) so will only list files that are not already ignored, which seems like a useful feature in such a program. Cheers, Phil. -- |)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)20 8530 9560] HANDS.COM Ltd. |-| http://www.hands.com/http://ftp.uk.debian.org/ |(| Hugo-Kle

Bug#1011254: The UDEB package "localechooser" contains probably some buggy source code in "05localechooser" file

2022-06-20 Thread Philip Hands
Jmkr writes: > Sorry for the delay, I had to do some work and then forgot that I > planned to reply to this bug. No problem, these things happen -- anyway, your timing was great as I was just about to do something about this anyway. > > Philip Hands writes: > > ...

Bug#1013079: installation-reports: GUI install option isn't visible on boot

2022-06-17 Thread Philip Hands
-13 17:22, although it could be that the breaking change happened earlier but was masked by the kernel mismatch/upgrade that meant that no new ISOs were produced for a few days just before that. Cheers, Phil. -- |)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)20 8530 9560] HANDS.COM Ltd. |-| http://www.hands.com/http:

Bug#1011254: The UDEB package "localechooser" contains probably some buggy source code in "05localechooser" file

2022-05-22 Thread Philip Hands
pproach:). :-) I just pushed that change here: https://salsa.debian.org/philh/localechooser/-/commit/f4845f6c8bad1ca11886ea2cff94653aa25045bc which (once the pipeline runs) should generate a new mini-iso for testing. Cheers, Phil. -- |)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)20 8530 9560] HANDS.COM Ltd. |-| http://www.hands.com/http://ftp.uk.debian.org/ |(| Hugo-Klemm-Strasse 34, 21075 Hamburg,GERMANY signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#1011254: The UDEB package "localechooser" contains probably some buggy source code in "05localechooser" file

2022-05-19 Thread Philip Hands
Philip Hands writes: > > https://salsa.debian.org/philh/localechooser/-/commit/24206bbaccb9619302bab5ca603fb214841ebf58#63952ea2967253e426478ffea08ddc67c3bff9d8_98_92 I just noticed: that commit's line order was mangled while rebasing. This is what it should have been:

Bug#1011254: The UDEB package "localechooser" contains probably some buggy source code in "05localechooser" file

2022-05-19 Thread Philip Hands
Michael Tokarev writes: > 19.05.2022 15:59, Philip Hands wrote: > ... >> Actually, I'm unable to resist the urge to remove the redundant use of >> cat (that was already there), so how about doing it in a single sed: >> >>LEVEL=$(sed "/^${LOCALE%%_*}/&q

Bug#1011254: The UDEB package "localechooser" contains probably some buggy source code in "05localechooser" file

2022-05-19 Thread Philip Hands
's built by infrastructure that's not under our direct control, so such images should be viewed with a degree of suspicion] If you'd like to test that, please do, otherwise perhaps you can suggest a test that would determine that the code is behaving as you'd hope. Cheers, Phil. -- |)| Philip

Bug#678694: Bug#1010878: installation-reports: preseeding passwords doesn't work on mips64el under qemu

2022-05-13 Thread Philip Hands
ing relative and absolute paths in particular orders. I would assume that even if that is the case, it should be OK to write the file if it does not already exist, which ought to be enough to fix this issue. Cheers, Phil. -- |)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)20 8530 9560] HANDS.COM Ltd. |-| http://

Bug#1009711: openqa: block migration to testing (awaiting availability of packaged shepherd.js)

2022-04-14 Thread Philip Hands
Package: openqa Severity: serious Recently upstream, openQA switched to using shepherd.js for its guided tour, which is not yet packaged. I'd prefer to avoid the current version getting into testing, to avoid it somehow sneaking into stable if getting shepherd.js through NEW takes longer than

Bug#1003653: Revision of removal of rename.ul from package util-linux

2022-03-29 Thread Philip Hands
that you could define 'rename' as an alias in your profile, or even that you might use update-alternetives to install one of them as 'rename' system-wide. Cheers, Phil. -- |)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)20 8530 9560] HANDS.COM Ltd. |-| http://www.hands.com/http://ftp.uk.debian.org/ |(| Hugo-Klemm-Strasse 34, 21075 Hamburg,GERMANY signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#1008258: libjs-bootstrap4: new version available upstream (v4.6.1)

2022-03-25 Thread Philip Hands
Package: libjs-bootstrap4 Version: 4.5.2+dfsg1-7 Severity: wishlist I note that the latest version (of 4.*) available upstream is 4.6.1: https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/releases/tag/v4.6.1 released 28 Oct 2021. The only reason I realised this is that openQA just switched to using 4.6.1.

Bug#957514: mailavenger: fixed in salsa 'gcc_10' branch

2022-02-22 Thread Philip Hands
Source: mailavenger Followup-For: Bug #957514 Control: tags -1 patch Hi Dererk, The reason for this FTBFS is that gcc 10 now defaults to -fno-common, which then throws errors because there are some tentative definitions in .h files, and some definitions of an int `garbage` in several .c files.

Bug#1005783: xorg-server: "no screens found" when run under: kvm -vga virtio

2022-02-16 Thread Philip Hands
Philip Hands writes: > However, a UEFI boot still fails (with `-vga std`): > > https://openqa.debian.net/tests/42416#step/_boot_to_debianinstaller/4 Having tested a Feb 9 with UEFI boot, it seems that the reason that I had set `-vga virtio` in the first place was that UEFI boots wer

Bug#1005783: xorg-server: "no screens found" when run under: kvm -vga virtio

2022-02-14 Thread Philip Hands
Source: xorg-server Version: 2:21.1.3-2 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, [I'm reporting this against the source because I'm not sure which binary is at fault, but this presuambly related to the bits of xorg that gets put into a udeb and it has been seen while testing on amd64.] Daily

Bug#1003653: Revision of removal of rename.ul from package util-linux

2022-02-09 Thread Philip Hands
rename.ul being present, regardless of distro. -- |)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)20 8530 9560] HANDS.COM Ltd. |-| http://www.hands.com/http://ftp.uk.debian.org/ |(| Hugo-Klemm-Strasse 34, 21075 Hamburg,GERMANY signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#1004021: salsa-CI tests pass

2022-02-04 Thread Philip Hands
-go/-/pipelines/344811 which shows that the package builds, and that all (other than crossbuild) test pass -- most importantly lintian, piuparts & autopkgtest give passes. Hopefully this will save someone on the FTP team some effort. Cheers, Phil. -- |)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)20 8530

Bug#1003281: ITP: bakunbak -- Easily .bak a file or folder, then restore it.

2022-01-14 Thread Philip Hands
of how many users there are of your package at present? (e.g. download stats, messages regarding it, issues opened etc.) Cheers, Phil. -- |)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)20 8530 9560] HANDS.COM Ltd. |-| http://www.hands.com/http://ftp.uk.debian.org/ |(| Hugo-Klemm-Strasse 34, 21075 Hamburg,GERMANY

Bug#601203: #601203: tested patch for adding support for recursively including recommends (NORECOMMENDS=0)

2021-12-16 Thread Philip Hands
kes me as a backwards step, given that read_env is doing exactly what's needed here: =-=-=- sub read_env { my $env_var = shift; my $default = shift; if (exists($ENV{$env_var})) { return $ENV{$env_var}; } # else return $default; } =-=-=- Cheers, Phil. -- |)| Philip

Bug#1000239: Rescue system won't find root partition, but insists on /usr

2021-12-08 Thread Philip Hands
Pascal Hambourg writes: > Le 08/12/2021 à 10:49, Philip Hands a écrit : >> >> Is it a problem if /home or /usr/share are left unmounted during rescue? > > /usr/share contains architecture-independent files for many programs > such as bash, grub, os-prober, debcon

Bug#1000239: Rescue system won't find root partition, but insists on /usr

2021-12-08 Thread Philip Hands
so just ignore my input if it > makes no sense. If you find it irritating, it's my ignorance at work, > nothing intentional. No worries, but I think you need to fact-check your assumptions in future. Cheers, Phil. -- |)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)20 8530 9560] HANDS.COM Ltd. |-| http://www.ha

Bug#1000239: Rescue system won't find root partition, but insists on /usr

2021-12-04 Thread Philip Hands
rget/usr e.g.: # mount /var/vfa4 /target/mnt Having done that one can exit that shell, and then select the first option (Execute shell in /dev/...) and you're away. Cheers, Phil. -- |)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)20 8530 9560] HANDS.COM Ltd. |-| http://www.hands.com/http://ftp.uk.debian.org/ |(|

Bug#1000961: btrfs-progs: initramfs can't boot with a raid1 btrfs non-root fs

2021-12-01 Thread Philip Hands
/initramfs-tools/hooks/btrfs (from btrfs-progs package) >From 030328a4a897a990b8233a0bc30c47c54431fa34 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Philip Hands Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2021 14:02:30 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] install udev rules in initramfs hook --- debian/local/btrfs.hook | 10 ++ 1 fil

Bug#996955: task-desktop silently pulls in task-desktop-gnome via Recommends

2021-10-21 Thread Philip Hands
ng instead, without it having a checkbox next to it, that would have been done, but AFAIK that is not currently possible with the way that the menu is assembled. Sadly, that's rather misleading. Cheers, Phil. -- |)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)20 8530 9560] HANDS.COM Ltd. |-| http://www.hands.com/http://ftp.uk.debian.org/ |(| Hugo-Klemm-Strasse 34, 21075 Hamburg,GERMANY

Bug#994268: os-autoinst: new upstream available (as ever ;-) )

2021-09-14 Thread Philip Hands
Package: os-autoinst Severity: normal Hi Hideki, As mentioned in this MR on salsa: https://salsa.debian.org/debian/os-autoinst/-/merge_requests/4 there's a UI bug that would be nice to have fixed, as it is since this commit:

Bug#994160: libmojolicious-plugin-assetpack-perl: newer upstream version (2.13) available

2021-09-14 Thread Philip Hands
gregor herrmann writes: > On Mon, 13 Sep 2021 01:38:26 +0200, Philip Hands wrote: > >> and here: >> https://github.com/mojolicious/mojo-assetpack/commits/main >> mantenance has now resumed under the aegis of the mojolicious team. > > 2.13-1 is already in Git

Bug#994160: libmojolicious-plugin-assetpack-perl: newer upstream version (2.13) available

2021-09-12 Thread Philip Hands
Package: libmojolicious-plugin-assetpack-perl Version: 2.11-1 Severity: wishlist Hi, I notice that this package has new upstream maintenance, which is good since it was previously in limbo having been deprecated by the author in favour of webpack. As can be seen here:

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