Bug#858039: lintian: Graph (SVG) files on https://lintian.debian.org/ lack tag name

2023-02-06 Thread Brian Thompson
I've submitted a PR to get this change in as proposed by Axel: https://salsa.debian.org/lintian/lintian/-/merge_requests/455 -- Sincerely, Brian signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part publickey - brianrobt@proton.me - 688c834d.asc Description:

Bug#1007922: false positive spelling: substract and subtract is both correct

2023-02-05 Thread Brian Thompson
I like the idea of keeping the spelling correction in place.  I've never seen "substract" being used.  Keeping the correction reduces ambiguity and keeps language consistent. Motion to close. Sincerely, Brian publickey - brianrobt@pm.me - 0xC8F2EC48.asc Description: application/pgp-keys

Bug#695188: 2017 patch review

2023-02-04 Thread Brian Thompson
Does anyone have time to review the patch that was submitted back in 2017? 2017 patch: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?att=1;bug=695188;filename=0001-Fix-695188-intelligent-add-of-Bug-XX.patch;msg=60 -- Brian Thompson signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed

Bug#951374: RFP: gh -- the GitHub CLI

2021-08-16 Thread Brian Thompson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On Mon, 2021-08-16 at 21:27 -0600, Anthony Fok wrote: > NEW queueOn Sun, Aug 15, 2021 at 10:45 PM Brian Thompson > wrote: > > > > Since there is already a package that uses that binary name, who should > > change it? D

Bug#754831: [apt-listchanges] Program Crashes On Konsole Sessions

2021-08-15 Thread Brian Thompson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Which pager are you using, or does this occur for all pagers in KDE Konsole? - -- Best regards, Brian T. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- iQJHBAEBCgAxFiEE9fpVo96/flopdKOfgw2Ncu3Nhn0FAmEZ7d8THGJyaWFuQGhh

Bug#951374: RFP: gh -- the GitHub CLI

2021-08-15 Thread Brian Thompson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On Sat, 14 Aug 2021 14:18:34 -0400 =?utf-8?Q?Antoine_Beaupr=C3=A9?= < anar...@orangeseeds.org> wrote: > > It's not on the package name, but there's already a clash on the binary > name, which we should be mindful of: > gitsome provides direct

Bug#514865: apt-listchanges: GTK+ window should not steal focus, and only appear if there is anything to show

2021-08-14 Thread Brian Thompson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On Wed, 11 Feb 2009 11:11:57 -0200 Gustavo Noronha Silva wrote: > Package: apt-listchanges > Version: 2.83 > Severity: important > > The GTK+ frontend has a very bad behavior: it will display a window > and quickly close it if there is nothing to

Bug#951374: RFP: gh -- the GitHub CLI

2021-08-14 Thread Brian Thompson
On 0814, Paul Wise wrote: > >Could also add a Provides: gh so it is installable with the short name. > >I would definitely like to have this in Debian, but can't help with it. > This would be ideal. Is there any benefit of renaming the package to something other than "gh"? I can help with this

Bug#111013: apt-listchanges fixes

2021-08-09 Thread Brian Thompson
On Mon, 12 Nov 2001 22:34:27 -0500 Matt Zimmerman wrote: > I must have completely overlooked the documentation fixes in your bug > report; I thought you were just adding documentation for the option you > added in your patch. I've applied them in CVS now, thanks. > > -- > - mdz > >

Bug#111013: apt-listchanges fixes

2021-08-09 Thread Brian Thompson
On Mon, 12 Nov 2001 22:34:27 -0500 Matt Zimmerman wrote: > I must have completely overlooked the documentation fixes in your bug > report; I thought you were just adding documentation for the option you > added in your patch. I've applied them in CVS now, thanks. > > -- > - mdz > >

Bug#111013: Cannot reproduce

2021-08-08 Thread Brian Thompson
I am unable to reproduce the fix that was mentioned in this bug. I tried with less and running `export LESS="-r $LESS" and `export LESS="-R $LESS"`. Marking as unreproducible for now. -- Best regards, Brian T signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#76500: Tagging as wontfix

2021-08-08 Thread Brian Thompson
There's two separate wishlist items in this bug, split them up into two separate bugs if you still want this (or anyone for that matter) so that each one is easier to track. I'm keeping this bug open for the original request. I'm going to tag this as wontfix for now. -- Best regards, Brian T

Bug#434986: Tagging wontfix

2021-08-08 Thread Brian Thompson
Since this OP has found another apt cron package to serve his needs, I've tagged this bug as wontfix. -- Best regards, Brian T signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#951374: RFP: gh -- the GitHub CLI

2021-08-08 Thread Brian Thompson
> I personally find that "gh" is quite short name for a package that > will go into a general purpose software catalog like Debian repository. Would > you mind choosing something like "github-cli" as source and binary > package name and mentioning the sortcut "gh" in a package description? > So

Bug#802370: ITA: docbook-xsl

2021-08-07 Thread Brian Thompson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 retitle -1 ITA: docbook-xsl -- stylesheets for processing DocBook XML - -- Best regards, Brian T. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- iQJHBAEBCgAxFiEE9fpVo96/flopdKOfgw2Ncu3Nhn0FAmEPClETHGJyaWFuQGhh

Bug#802368: ITA: docbook-xml

2021-08-07 Thread Brian Thompson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 retitle -1 ITA: docbook-xml -- standard XML documentation system - -- Best regards, Brian T. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- iQJHBAEBCgAxFiEE9fpVo96/flopdKOfgw2Ncu3Nhn0FAmEPCekTHGJyaWFuQGhh

Bug#990508: New RFS: 3.25 (includes NMU update and maintainer update)

2021-07-11 Thread Brian Thompson
New version proposed for sponsorship at: https://mentors.debian.net/package/apt-listchanges/ This is a new release of apt-listchanges where I incorporated an NMU commit into the new version. I didn't think I would need to release this as an NMU version since I also updated the maintainer. I

Bug#989496: Tagging wontfix

2021-07-08 Thread Brian Thompson
Since this is expected behavior, I am tagging as "wontfix". I don't think it's a good idea to suppress the error message. apt-listchanges gives an "Aborting" message prior to throwing the error. -- Best regards, Brian T B.S. Computer Science 2014 (Truman State University) signature.asc

Bug#869748: Cloned and assigned to aptitude

2021-07-06 Thread Brian Thompson
I cloned this bug and assigned it to the aptitude maintainers. The bug number is #990747. -- Best regards, Brian T B.S. Computer Science 2014 (Truman State University) Minor Stasitics Minor Chemistry Minor Mathematics signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#990508: RFS: apt-listchanges/3.24.1 [ITA] -- Proposed changes

2021-07-06 Thread Brian Thompson
David, I'm thinking about the first line in debian/apt.conf to: ``` DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs { "/usr/bin/apt-listchanges --apt || test $? -lt 10 >/dev/null 2&>1"; };$ ``` adding the ">/dev/null 2&>1" in order to suppress dpkg errors in apt-listchanges during the Pre-Install-Pkgs hook. By doing

Bug#990508: RFS: apt-listchanges/3.24.1 [ITA] -- Show new changelog entries from Debian package archives

2021-07-05 Thread Brian Thompson
+Tia, the bug reporter for #989496. -- Best regards, Brian T B.S. Computer Science 2014 (Truman State University) Minor Stasitics Minor Chemistry Minor Mathematics signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#989496: Looking to change the subject

2021-07-05 Thread Brian Thompson
It was brought to my attention by David K. (thank you, David), that the what you are seeing is intended functionality. I proposed in the email thread with David that we could improve the error message, since right now it may be confusing to users that it is actually expected behavior. A cleaner,

Bug#990508: RFS: apt-listchanges/3.24.1 [ITA] -- Show new changelog entries from Debian package archives

2021-07-03 Thread Brian Thompson
On Sat, Jul 03, 2021 at 12:50:17PM +0200, David Kalnischkies wrote: >Hi, > >On Wed, Jun 30, 2021 at 06:13:14PM -0500, Brian Thompson wrote: >> * Fix error message being thrown when choosing not to proceed on >> confirmation (closes: #989496). > >If I understand y

Bug#939287: Add urgency level separators

2021-07-01 Thread Brian Thompson
On Tue, 03 Sep 2019 03:37:58 +0800 =?utf-8?B?56mN5Li55bC8?= Dan Jacobson wrote: > Man page says 'The groups are sorted by the urgency of the most urgent > change, and than by the package name.' > > Alas, that looks like > > A > B > C > A > B > A > B > > to the user. So perhaps add > >

Bug#986840: apt-listchanges fails to parse status files with ^M characters; should use apt_pkg.TagFile, not write its own parser

2021-07-01 Thread Brian Thompson
Julian, I didn't see that you cloned this bug and assigned it to dpkg and that the bug is no longer in apt-listchanges. I still think that your original proposal for apt-listchanges is relevant and is a change worth making. -- Best regards, Brian T signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#986840: apt-listchanges fails to parse status files with ^M characters; should use apt_pkg.TagFile, not write its own parser

2021-07-01 Thread Brian Thompson
> As reported in > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt-listchanges/+bug/1854772, > apt-listchanges > fails to parse status files that contain carriage return characters, as > Python normalizes the line endings. I'm tracking the downstream bug in Ubuntu as well as this one. > Instead of

Bug#990508: RFS: apt-listchanges/3.24.1 [ITA] -- Show new changelog entries from Debian package archives

2021-06-30 Thread Brian Thompson
Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: normal Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for a package I made a fix for, "apt-listchanges": * Package name: apt-listchanges Version : 3.24.1 Upstream Author : Brian Thompson * URL : https://salsa.debian.org/

Bug#989496: apt-listchanges: Error output if choosing to not continue after reading list of changes

2021-06-30 Thread Brian Thompson
Tia, Thank you for reporting this bug. I can confirm that this is an issue: apt-listchanges: Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n apt-listchanges: Aborting E: Sub-process /usr/bin/apt-listchanges --apt || test $? -lt 10 returned an error code (1) E: Failure running script /usr/bin/apt-listchanges

Bug#990427: apt-listchanges: Invalid format text for mutt

2021-06-28 Thread Brian Thompson
Package: apt-listchanges Version: 3.24 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, After performing an installation of a previously uninstalled package, apt-listchanges reported an error: "Invalid format text for mutt" The package still installed, but no changelog or NEWS was shown or emailed out. The

Bug#926175: tag moreinfo 926175

2021-06-27 Thread Brian Thompson
tags 926175 moreinfo thanks -- Best regards, Brian T signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#926175: apt-listchanges: only a single changelog is shown when multiple packages are updated

2021-06-27 Thread Brian Thompson
Every unexpected behavior is a potential bug. We shouldn't close this bug yet. Nicholas, are you still seeing this behavior? -- Best regards, Brian T signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#990024: libxrandr2: xrandr shows HDMI-connected display as DP

2021-06-17 Thread Brian Thompson
Package: libxrandr2 Version: 2:1.5.1-1 Severity: normal Tags: d-i Dear Maintainer, *** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropriate *** * What led up to the situation? * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or ineffective)? * What was

Bug#951374: gh cli -- Getting it ready

2021-06-16 Thread Brian Thompson
Is anyone getting the gh CLI tool ready for packaging? If not, I can adopt it. I use it quite heavily and am fairly familiar with its development team if I have any questions. -- Best regards, Brian

Bug#907576: . dream -- A Software Digital Radio Mondiale Receiver

2021-06-16 Thread Brian Thompson
Garie, TL;DR Use an IDE or text editor on your machine. Local IDEs/text editors are used to develop the vast, vast majority of software.  Most developers develop on their own machines instead of in the browser.  It doesn't make sense to develop in a browser-based IDE (at least not yet) since

Bug#985669: Happy to help

2021-04-28 Thread Brian Thompson
> While I would love to package this myself, I do not work with > JavaScript regularally (in part due to ecosystem problems like > NPM's love of duplication). I have some experience packaging JavaScript projects and could help you out here. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#365427: [O: apt-build] Is this package worth adopting or has it been replaced?

2021-04-27 Thread Brian Thompson
On Sat, 17 Apr 2021 05:48:48 +0200 Axel Beckert wrote: > Hi, > > No Body wrote: > > Is this package worth adopting or has it been replaced by something > > else? > > There's nothing like it so far AFAIK. apt-src is close, but has a > different focus (modification instead of compile-time

Bug#987467: autopkgtest library fails with: FAIL stderr: pkill: killing pid 1764 failed: Operation not permitted

2021-04-24 Thread Brian Thompson
On Sat, Apr 24, 2021 at 01:06:04PM +0200, Chris Hofstaedtler wrote: > Source: mosquitto > Version: 2.0.10-4 > Severity: serious > > Dear Maintainer, > > your autopkgtest appears to fail: > > autopkgtest [21:45:54]: test library: [--- > pkill: killing pid 1764 failed:

Bug#984736:

2021-04-23 Thread Brian Thompson
>Ideally a maintainer willing to help cron move forward would support the next>major task to be done: moving the Debian-specific patches into cronie and >providing an updated package for cronie replacement that can eventually>replace cron. I’d like to help out here if no one else has responded.  I

Bug#365427: Autotests for apt-build utility

2021-04-16 Thread Brian Thompson
gh time for this work.>  @Axel Beckert This is the message I was referring to from “2016”. I would like to adopt this package if no one else has. Best regards, Brian Thompson