Re: new upstream version fails older tests of rdepends packages

2024-05-08 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi, On 08-05-2024 6:06 p.m., Bill Allombert wrote: Agreed, but gap does not actually breaks anything, it is just the tests in testing that are broken. So I can do that but that seems a bit artificial. Aha, that wasn't at all clear to me. If you don't want to do the artificial thing (which is

Re: Make /tmp/ a tmpfs and cleanup /var/tmp/ on a timer by default [was: Re: systemd: tmpfiles.d not cleaning /var/tmp by default]

2024-05-05 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi Luca, On 05-05-2024 10:04 p.m., Luca Boccassi wrote: > Hence, I intend to apply these changes in the next src:systemd upload > to unstable, probably next week. In case anybody is aware of packages/programs needing an update to cope with these changes, or any other issue, please let me know

Re: new upstream version fails older tests of rdepends packages

2024-05-04 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi, On 04-05-2024 11:39 a.m., Jerome BENOIT wrote: What would be the best way to unblock the migration of gap and gap-io ? If gap isn't going to change (which might be the easiest solution), then file bugs and fix those reverse dependencies. Those bugs are RC and in due time will cause

Re: Status of the t64 transition

2024-04-28 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi, On 27-04-2024 7:52 p.m., Andrey Rakhmatullin wrote: Can you please look at libproxy<->glib-networking? libproxy excuses show glib-networking tests failing, but they are working in sid. And that's not missing a versioned Depends and/or Breaks? I.e. this is a test only failure? Paul

Re: Status of the t64 transition

2024-04-24 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi, On 24-04-2024 7:42 p.m., Jérémy Lal wrote: Inform the Release Team and we can either schedule the combination manually, add a hint or both. Isn't it processed automatically ? What needs manual intervention and what doesn't ? Well, the migration software *tries* to figure out

Re: Status of the t64 transition

2024-04-24 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi, On 24-04-2024 7:38 p.m., Paul Gevers wrote: On 24-04-2024 7:35 p.m., Andrey Rakhmatullin wrote: What to do with autopkgtests that fail in testing because of problems with packages in testing that are fixed in unstable, e.g. the autopkgtest for speech-dispatcher/0.11.5-2 on Inform

Re: Status of the t64 transition

2024-04-24 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi, On 24-04-2024 7:35 p.m., Andrey Rakhmatullin wrote: What to do with autopkgtests that fail in testing because of problems with packages in testing that are fixed in unstable, e.g. the autopkgtest for speech-dispatcher/0.11.5-2 on Inform the Release Team and we can either schedule the

Re: Debian testing/unstable users: beware of Firefox critical CVEs

2024-03-25 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi Samuel, On 24-03-2024 11:45 p.m., Samuel Henrique wrote: In a recent case, the issue was addressed by performing a testing-proposed-update of the package. This would allow firefox-esr to be fixed on testing before the transition is over, but it would not work for those installing the firefox

Re: Package marked for autoremoval due to closed bug? [and 1 more messages]

2024-03-19 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi, On 19-03-2024 11:32 a.m., Ian Jackson wrote: Paul Gevers writes ("Re: Package marked for autoremoval due to closed bug?"): For bookkeeping purposes, please usertag downgraded bugs with user release.debian@packages.debian.org and usertag time_t-downgrade. I was informed t

Re: Package marked for autoremoval due to closed bug?

2024-03-16 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi zigo, On 16-03-2024 12:31 a.m., Thomas Goirand wrote: But when the AUTORM period was announced as reduced, I thought like it was probably a bad call, and that the previous AUTORM was aggressive enough. I'm not aware that we reduced autoremoval times in recent history. Are you maybe

Re: Package marked for autoremoval due to closed bug?

2024-03-15 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi, Disclaimer: exception only valid while the time_t transition is ongoing. On 15-03-2024 6:15 a.m., Steve Langasek wrote: Migration to testing is largely out of control of the maintainers at this point, it's very much dependent on folks rebootstrapping armel and armhf against the new library

Re: Any way to install packages+run autopkgtests on porterbox machines?

2024-03-03 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi, On 01-03-2024 1:58 p.m., Nilesh Patra wrote: Have you found any way around these? https://salsa.debian.org/mbanck/dd-autopkgtest/ Alternative, probably not the best solution, but until better ones are found (and as long it's not too much used): Antonio and I offer DD's access to

Re: Bug#1065022: libglib2.0-0t64: t64 transition breaks the systems

2024-02-28 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi, On 29-02-2024 4:47 a.m., Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: @d-d: - How can it happen that purge *t64 packages and at the same time install the previous package, and then the so file is missing? I mean it's clear that they use the same name, but shouldn't DPKG handle the cleanly?

Re: Policy: versioning between releases

2024-01-21 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi, On 21-01-2024 16:08, Matthias Urlichs wrote: However according to our release notes we only support upgrading from release x to x+1, skipping releases is not allowed. I'm not talking about skipping releases but about partial upgrades. Thus … > foo/testing requires bar >=1.1 to work but

Re: Bug#1036884: 64-bit time_t: updated archive analysis, proposed transition plan with timeline

2024-01-20 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi, On 20-01-2024 23:22, Steve Langasek wrote: So I think an algorithm for deciding the uploads to experimental looks like this: - download source from unstable. - apply the packagename conversion to the source. - grab the debdiff. - submit the NMU diff to the BTS. - download the source again

Re: Wolfram Research Debian Package Submission

2024-01-12 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi, On 12-01-2024 16:42, Blake Gilbert wrote: I am reaching out to you regarding a recent package submission by our Engine Connectivity Engineering team. We submitted the package CDImage M-LINUX-WolframEngine.DEB a few months ago to include Wolfram Engine in Debian packages, and I wanted to

Re: Drawbacks of lack of mandated packaging workflow (Was: Re: Bug#1036884: 64-bit time_t: updated archive analysis, proposed transition plan with timeline)

2024-01-06 Thread Paul Gevers
Oops, should have waited sending... On 06-01-2024 14:30, Paul Gevers wrote: On 06-01-2024 14:15, Gioele Barabucci wrote: Aren't all these problems just inherent in Debian's lack of a mandated packaging tooling and workflow [1,2]? Might be, but that doesn't mean that problem goes away. I

Re: Drawbacks of lack of mandated packaging workflow (Was: Re: Bug#1036884: 64-bit time_t: updated archive analysis, proposed transition plan with timeline)

2024-01-06 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi Gioele, On 06-01-2024 14:15, Gioele Barabucci wrote: Aren't all these problems just inherent in Debian's lack of a mandated packaging tooling and workflow [1,2]? Might be, but that doesn't mean that problem goes away. Paul OpenPGP_signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Bug#1036884: 64-bit time_t: updated archive analysis, proposed transition plan with timeline

2024-01-05 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi Steve, On 05-01-2024 17:36, Rene Engelhard wrote: Also a problem is that experimental also might already contain totally unrelated updates like new upstream versions... I share this worry. Have you thought about how to handle the cases where you don't have experimental to upload to? How

Re: Bits from the Release Team: Cambridge sprint update

2023-12-18 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi On 18-12-2023 11:29, Santiago Vila wrote: El 17/12/23 a las 22:40, Steven Robbins escribió: Does that mean ceasing the "ITP" messages in debian-devel? I'd certainly welcome that! I think he really meant debian-release, as this was "Bits from the Release Team" and he was talking about

Re: Bits from the Release Team: Cambridge sprint update

2023-12-18 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi, On 18-12-2023 13:18, Antonio Terceiro wrote: Will reproducibility regressions block migration to testing? Not for the near future for 2 reasons: 1) contrary to autopkgtest where removal of the test "fixes" regression, it feels that currently blocking on regression would give maintainers

Re: Migration blocked

2023-12-06 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi, On 05-12-2023 03:52, Yadd wrote: I uploaded src:node-proxy-agents into unstable, which is the new source of node-proxy and node-https-proxy-agent. This package didn't migrate but I don't understand the reason of this block. The tracker[1] reports regressions on node-proxy and

Re: Misc Developer News (#59)

2023-11-22 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi, On 22-11-2023 12:21, Donald Norwood wrote: The new attempt is a fresh email to d-d-a via cut and paste from the original email with the 1 correction that was needed. The email for some reason seems to be in d-d-a and d-d limbo, so I think we await the next cron run. More likely you need

Re: Illegal Instruction Using sudo in Bookworm on i686

2023-10-23 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi, On 22-10-2023 23:32, r...@neoquasar.org wrote: If the distinction between "supported" and "not supported" is going to come down to specific assembler-level instructions, it would seem that that wont tell most people anything. Well, if we know which instructions we don't support, it's not

Re: Illegal Instruction Using sudo in Bookworm on i686

2023-10-17 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi, On 17-10-2023 22:16, Andrey Rakhmatullin wrote: Yes, assuming the pre-bookworm Debian i386 architecture fully supports it, as I don't know what *exactly* was allowed in the "almost i686" stretch-bullseye i386. According to the release notes (which *should* be authoritative, but may have

Re: debvm for autopkgtests with multiple host?

2023-09-24 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi, On 24-09-2023 10:27, Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues wrote: Is the apt configuration on those systems set to something that is not the default and should be considered as well? How the unstable to testing migration runs work is that they have a testing testbed (with apt pinning making

Re: armhf NEON exception for chromium

2023-09-15 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi Steve, On 15-09-2023 21:54, Steve Langasek wrote: armel != armhf Of course and nobody should be running armel on a NEON-capable CPU... Not sure why you say it like that, I guess you don't meen CI purposes here. But anyways, it seems that also the arm64 host that runs our armel and

Re: armhf NEON exception for chromium

2023-09-15 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi, On 15-09-2023 17:52, Andres Salomon wrote: Any thoughts on this? Please be aware of bug #1036818 [1]. Currently /proc/cpuinfo is empty on armel ci.debian.net workers. (I'm failing to spot neon in the list of features of that machine.) Paul [1]

Re: /usr-merge status update + next steps

2023-08-20 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi Helmut, On 19-08-2023 23:14, Helmut Grohne wrote: I recognize that this is quite a non-standard way to ask for a MBF. Does anyone object to me doing it in this way? I recall I said this before, but just in case. In my opinion (with my Release Team member hat on, but not on behalf of the

Re: debci / salsa ci: support for qemu runner

2023-07-25 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi, On 25-07-2023 16:16, Michael Biebl wrote: apparently, we in Debian struggle to find good opportunities where to spend our money. For ci.d.n, the issue is not money, but the required work to integrate it into the infrastructure. We need volunteers (or pay people to do the work), but

Re: The future of mipsel port

2023-07-23 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi, On 23-07-2023 17:51, Mark Hymers wrote: On Tue, 18, Jul, 2023 at 12:45:51PM +0800, YunQiang Su spoke thus.. So I consider to suggest drop mipsel support from the list of official ports. (And let's keep mips64el port). Is there consensus on this point? If so, should we start making

Re: How do you cause a re-run of autopkgtests?

2023-07-21 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi, On 21-07-2023 14:20, David Kalnischkies wrote: How is this to be done? Should some automated mechanism for achieving this be added, and if so, where? You already found the retry button from previous replies, but you don't have to click it to get what you want… The migration software of

Re: security autopkgtests ci

2023-06-30 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi, On 30-06-2023 22:40, Jérémy Lal wrote: Nice, but how can we see it when we prepare a package for security team ? You can't. Only the security team has access to the results. After the packages have been released the results will be published and can be seen in the history on ci.d.n,

Re: security autopkgtests ci

2023-06-30 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi, On 30-06-2023 20:14, Jérémy Lal wrote: is there something like a CI for security uploads ? Yes. Paul OpenPGP_signature Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Help with a libzstd sparc64 FTBFS on the buildd

2023-04-06 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi Peter, On 06-04-2023 15:37, Peter Pentchev wrote: I feel like I cannot ask for an unblock from the release managers since the sparc64 buildd started failing on this package at some point in February: sparc64 is not a release architecture. sparc64 will not be better or worse if something

Re: Updating python3-xlrd for pandas 1.5 compatibility

2023-02-24 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi Diane, On 23-02-2023 08:12, Diane Trout wrote: the version of python3-xlrd 1.2.0-3 in unstable/testing is too old to be used with pandas 1.5.3. (See Bug #1031701). Do I understand correctly that this isn't an issue from the point of python3-xlrd and that only pandas is effected? While

Re: how to skip some archs for autopkgtests

2023-02-03 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi, On 03-02-2023 16:51, Nilesh Patra wrote: There is a "skip-not-installable" that you could decleare in d/t/control for these packages (for the corresponding tests that suffer from uninst test deps), more details here[1] Please don't use this. I regret I added it to autopkgtest because more

key packages RC bugs of the month February

2023-01-31 Thread Paul Gevers
Dear all, While I skipped one month, we're now in the mid of the first freeze, so here's another plea [1,2,3,4, 5] to fix RC bugs in key packages [6]. Currently we have 168 RC bugs in key packages affecting bookworm [7] of which 109 are unresolved in unstable or experimental, aren't pending

Re: Should singularity-container make it to next release?

2023-01-26 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi Nilesh, On 26-01-2023 10:06, Nilesh Patra wrote: I guess something that changed since then is that upstream is aware about it and can help a bit with backporting. However the onus to maintain it in stable is still on the maintainer and security@ (to some extent) It is bit of a high-effort

Re: Should singularity-container make it to next release?

2023-01-26 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi, On 25-01-2023 20:14, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote: On Sat, Jan 21, 2023 at 08:34:40PM +0100, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote: So in my understanding of the above the situation around singularity-container, which lead for buster to https://bugs.debian.org/917867 and keeping it out of the stable

Re: security paperwork machine

2023-01-23 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi, On 23-01-2023 21:33, Alexandre Detiste wrote: A whole pre-existing private security tracker solution would be perfect; or a website where one could register all the package they care about. You mean something like [1] but then for a user instead of a team... I couldn't quickly find it,

Re: Remote service accounts protection in autopkgtest?

2023-01-23 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi Vasyl, On 22-01-2023 22:33, Vasyl Gello wrote: Assuming I would like to test the package interacting with some proprietary third-party service on the web (like Kodi PVR addon), is there any mechanism protecting of account details so that autopkgtest machines can read them while outside world

Re: Multi-host networking software, autopkgtests

2023-01-06 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi Ian On 06-01-2023 14:09, Ian Jackson wrote: I have two packages which do vpn-like things (hippotat, secnet) which I want to add autopkgtests for. The two packages have similar kinds of requirements for their tests. Ideally, I would: * Somehow have two test nodes ("hosts") * With their

Re: SONAME bumps (transitions) always via experimental

2023-01-05 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi, On 05-01-2023 14:13, Simon McVittie wrote: since passing NEW currently requires a source+binary upload but migrating to testing requires a follow-up source-only upload (same total number of uploads). To be fair, normal SONAME bump NEW uploads only need a arch:!all binary

SONAME bumps (transitions) always via experimental

2023-01-05 Thread Paul Gevers
Dear all, The Release Team just asked ftp-master to hold of accepting SONAME bumps targeting unstable to ease the last days before the Transition and Toolchain Freeze. The Release Team would like to ask the ftp-masters to also by default reject SONAME bump NEW uploads to unstable during the

Re: Help setting dbconfig-common for MariaDB, not MySQL

2023-01-02 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi Marc, On 02-01-2023 16:58, Marc Haber wrote: On Mon, 2 Jan 2023 16:31:17 +0100, Paul Gevers wrote: On 02-01-2023 14:21, Alessandro Vesely wrote: A user complained that MySQL doesn't work, because it misses the INET6 type that the example settings use. And is this an absolute must? (It's

Re: Help setting dbconfig-common for MariaDB, not MySQL

2023-01-02 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi Alessandro, On 02-01-2023 14:21, Alessandro Vesely wrote: please pardon my ignorance about Debian install.  I'm distributing a software which could use various DBMS'es by setting a number of parameters.  Example parameters are only given for MariaDB.  I distribute a debian/ directory that

key packages RC bugs of the month December

2022-12-11 Thread Paul Gevers
Dear all, With only 1 month to go until the first freeze, another plea [1,2,3,4] to fix RC bugs in key packages [5]. Currently we have 234 RC bugs in key packages affecting bookworm [6] of which 160 are unresolved in unstable or experimental, aren't pending and don't have a patch. Here are

key packages RC bugs of the month November

2022-11-10 Thread Paul Gevers
Dear all, With about 2 months to go until the first freeze, a fresh plea [1,2,3] to fix RC bugs in key packages [4]. Currently we have 255 RC bugs in key packages affecting bookworm [5] of which 184 are unresolved in unstable or experimental, aren't pending and don't have a patch. Here are

artwork for bookworm?

2022-10-22 Thread Paul Gevers
Dear all, Today I started the Release Team Checklist [1] and noticed: [ ] Theme (artwork) design should be finalised and decided I just found two small threads on debian-desktop [2, 3], but I'm not aware of any further activity on the artwork front. Do we have volunteers to push for the

Re: bits from the release team: are you ready to skate yet?

2022-10-13 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi, On 13-10-2022 17:32, Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues wrote: hrm... maybe I misunderstand but I thought your initial mail talked about build profiles (aka DEB_BUILD_PROFILES) and not build options (aka DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS). The policy section you cite is about DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS and not about

Re: bits from the release team: are you ready to skate yet?

2022-10-13 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi josch, On 13-10-2022 14:20, Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues wrote: Quoting Paul Gevers (2022-10-13 10:00:42) Please also consider supporting the nodoc build profile. We are aware that nodoc is regularly used in a non-reproducible way (as intended, but with this consequence), so checking

key packages RC bugs of the month October

2022-10-01 Thread Paul Gevers
Dear all, A new month, a fresh plea [1,2] to fix RC bugs in key packages. So, here are again 5 RC bugs in key packages in the hope to draw some attention to this class of bugs. Remember, fixing these bugs is a collective effort. #913916 grub-efi-amd64 UEFI boot option removed after update to

Re: Fixing CI bugs for a package on the REJECT list

2022-09-26 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi Jeff, On 26-09-2022 12:53, Jeff wrote: Short of closing #1012250, how do I get CI pipeline to pick up gscan2pdf again to debug the flaky tests? I'd appreciate any pointers. The bug has a user specified for the usertag and explicitly mentions: """ Don't hesitate to reach out if you need

Re: packages expected to fail on some archs

2022-09-11 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi Samuel, On 11-09-2022 17:08, Samuel Thibault wrote: We could for instance: - Add an Architecture-FTBFS field to debian/control - Add an environment variable to debian/rules so that on these archs dh fails with a different exit code that buildds would notice. - Add a Architecture-FTBFS

Re: Half the world being removed

2022-09-03 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi On 03-09-2022 19:48, Patrice Duroux wrote: Am I observing a side effect (kind of back-in-time) regarding a repair process on this issue? No. Because, for instance, the following page: https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/fwanalog has now its 'news' section showing: [2017-09-05] fwanalog

Re: Half the world being removed

2022-09-02 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi, On 02-09-2022 13:00, Ian Jackson wrote: I wonder if it would be possible to detect a sudden large increase in the number of autoremovals, and stop the autoremoval system instead of causing blaring klaxons for everyone in the project ? I disabled the cron job that sends out mail yesterday,

Re: Half the world being removed

2022-09-01 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi On 02-09-2022 07:27, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: On Thu, Sep 01, 2022 at 11:04:38PM -0500, Steven Robbins wrote: Suddenly half the packages are marked AUTOREMOVE; many due to gcc-12 and zlib. The related two bugs are months-old. Why are things suddenly being removed?? Both are key packages

Re: key packages RC bugs of the month September

2022-09-01 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi all, On 01-09-2022 21:10, Rene Engelhard wrote: This either should be ignored (like for bullseye) or downgrade, imho, but I didn't do it myself. I don't think there's anything actionable here... On 01-09-2022 16:52, Simon McVittie wrote: >> #919914gnome-settings-daemon >>

key packages RC bugs of the month September

2022-09-01 Thread Paul Gevers
Dear all, In the same theme as my earlier message [0], I like to ask you to please spend some time triaging (and ideally solving) old RC bugs. Some packages you may care about were removed from testing because the maintainer didn't triage or fix the bug. And then there's key packages... As

Re: Need a buildd build after trip through NEW -- best practice?

2022-08-25 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi all On 25-08-2022 02:43, Paul Wise wrote: I don't think Build-Architecture header is done yet? Neither do I. Although since we build all arch:all packages on amd64 machines now I don't think this is needed for throwing away NEW binaries? In testing and on release architectures, I'm

Re: Need a buildd build after trip through NEW -- best practice?

2022-08-24 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi, On 24-08-2022 02:05, Paul Wise wrote: The release team automatically do binNMUs for packages that need a rebuild to transition to testing and are able to be binNMUed Maybe my fellow Release Team members have automated this locally, but I'm not aware of shared tools (or even cron jobs)

Re: Bug#1017716: ITP: muon-meson -- Meson-compatible build system

2022-08-19 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi, On 19-08-2022 18:10, Luca Boccassi wrote: On Fri, 19 Aug 2022 at 16:54, Paul Gevers wrote: On 19-08-2022 17:41, Luca Boccassi wrote: And if KDE Muon is indeed dead, simply having a "Conflicts: muon" and using the same path should be ok as well? No. Care to elaborat

Re: Bug#1017716: ITP: muon-meson -- Meson-compatible build system

2022-08-19 Thread Paul Gevers
On 19-08-2022 17:41, Luca Boccassi wrote: And if KDE Muon is indeed dead, simply having a "Conflicts: muon" and using the same path should be ok as well? No. Paul OpenPGP_signature Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Idea: autopkgtest on big-endian for 'Architecture: all' packages to catch endian bugs

2022-08-02 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi Edward, On 02-08-2022 18:00, Edward Betts wrote: I wonder if it would be possible to routinely run the autopkgtests on s390x, or another big-endian architecture, for 'Architecture: all' packages and make the results available. We run all autopkgtests on all architectures we have available.

Please fix or triage RC bugs

2022-07-16 Thread Paul Gevers
Dear all, Please help keeping the upcoming bookworm freeze short by fixing or triaging RC bugs in key packages [1] before the freeze starts on 12 January 2023 [2]. As you are very likely aware, Debian releases when it's ready. One of the most important criteria is the number of RC bugs. To draw

Re: questionable massive auto-removal: buggy deps nvidia-graphics-drivers-tesla-470

2022-06-28 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi On 28-06-2022 22:17, Scott Talbert wrote: All uploads need to be source-only (since bullseye?). To be more correct, all package that are intended to migrate to testing need to be source-only. However, in the review process of NEW binaries, the upload still needs to contain all (and one

Re: Bug#1013132: ITP: BabaSSL -- BabaSSL is a base library for modern cryptography and communication security protocols.

2022-06-22 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi, On 22-06-2022 20:04, Moritz Mühlenhoff wrote: Or if the goal is rather to experiment and expose BabaSSL to the many archs we have in Debian, then keep it in unstable only by filing a bug to block it from testing. Or better: experimental, to avoid packages starting to (build-)depend on it.

Re: needs suggestion on LuaJit's IBM architecture dilemma

2022-06-09 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi Frédéric, On 09-06-2022 16:19, Frédéric Bonnard wrote: did you see any improvement with luajit2 ? Improvements, yes. All fixed, no. I was looking at luakit, which still fails "silently" on ppc64el, a lua script generating a .h with no symbols with luajit2, where it does work with lua.

Re: When uploading a package we get two mails. Could it be one ?

2022-05-27 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi Jérémy, On 27-05-2022 23:08, Jérémy Lal wrote: Is it some misconfiguration on my side ? I think so. When a package is uploaded, we get two emails: node-d3-color_1.2.8-3_source.changes ACCEPTED into unstable As the (team) uploader, I only got ^ that one. I believe it is sent to the

Re: questionable massive auto-removal: buggy deps nvidia-graphics-drivers-tesla-470

2022-05-27 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi all, On 27-05-2022 09:42, Julien Puydt wrote: ... or generate a blacklist of packages that should not trigger those removals. That exists: key packages. Or the removal watcher could have a cap on the number of warnings it sends per sensible period of time. If it exceeds this

Re: questionable massive auto-removal: buggy deps nvidia-graphics-drivers-tesla-470

2022-05-24 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi, On 24-05-2022 20:07, M. Zhou wrote: I wonder why an irrelevant package suddenly triggered autoremoval of a very large portion of packages from testing. https://udd.debian.org/cgi-bin/autoremovals.cgi Searched for keyword nvidia-graphics-drivers-tesla-470, and I got 68866 entries. There

Re: Change package source name

2022-05-09 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi Yadd, On 09-05-2022 14:54, Yadd wrote: Then, after all needed tests and no-regression tests and wait for 2 weeks and the sacrifice of a goat on a full moon night, what is the way to adopt : * wait for ROM-RM of old src packages and then upload new node-regenerator * upload new

Re: autopkgtest/sbuild environment variables: LC_ALL, HOME, XDG_RUNTIME_DIR etc

2022-04-28 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi Julian, On 28-04-2022 09:33, Julian Gilbey wrote: It would be really useful to be able to set up my local sbuild environment in the same way as the Debian machines (buildd and ci.debian.net) for testing purposes. As I've never used sbuild myself, I can't tell you how to set it up. But on

Bug#1009757: ITP: libtie-cache-lru-perl -- Perl module that implements Least-Recently Used cache

2022-04-16 Thread Paul Gevers
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Paul Gevers X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: libtie-cache-lru-perl Version : 20150301 Upstream Author : Michael G Schwern * URL : https://metacpan.org/release/Tie-Cache-LRU * License : GPL-1

Re: rebuild of rpcbind (and other packages?) due to old debhelper bug 993316

2022-04-09 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi, On 09-04-2022 00:23, Michael Biebl wrote: # apt-file search -x ^/usr/lib/systemd/system/ | wc -l 122 I get the attached list of 65 source packages which install files into /usr/lib/systemd/system. I picked a random package from your list: caddy. It was uploaded on 2022-04-02, well

Re: rebuild of rpcbind (and other packages?) due to old debhelper bug 993316

2022-04-08 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi, On 08-04-2022 19:40, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: On Fri, Apr 08, 2022 at 05:25:11PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: Bug 993316 was fixed on 23 September 2021. Any reason why rpcbind hasn't been rebuilt yet? Was anything done for that to happen? Because otherwise the answer is "nobody did

Re: Bug#1005858: gh,gitsome: File conflict, both ship /usr/bin/gh

2022-03-23 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi, On 23-03-2022 12:32, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: Quoting Anthony Fok (2022-03-23 11:08:36) Rather than keeping this "Serious" bug open and keeping both gitsome and gh out of Debian testing, I think the simple solution of having gh "Conflicts: gitsome", which is one of the option specified in

Bits from the Release Team: bookworm freeze dates (preliminary)

2022-03-14 Thread Paul Gevers
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 [Message resent because the year was wrong] Dear all, We are currently considering the following dates as our freeze dates. If you are aware of major clashes of these dates with anything we depend on please let us know. We also like to stress

Bug#1007177: ITP: libmediascan -- scanner to find media files and extract metadata from them

2022-03-12 Thread Paul Gevers
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Paul Gevers X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: libmediascan Version : 0.1 Upstream Author : Andy Grundman * URL : https://github.com/andygrundman/libmediascan * License : GPL3.0 Programming

Re: Is removing smell from packages OK? (Was: Why? "Marked for autoremoval on 24 March due to xdelta3: #965883")

2022-02-25 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi all, Thanks Andreas, for taking care. On 25-02-2022 15:02, Andreas Tille wrote: My point was rather that the suggested salvage procedure might not raise any signal and I'm pretty sure that I would have lost track on this. Everybody is now free to help and fix the autopkgtest regression

Re: Legal advice regarding the NEW queue

2022-02-08 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi, Release Team member hat on, but not speaking on behalf of the team. I haven't consulted anybody on the idea I mention below. On 08-02-2022 14:59, Scott Kitterman wrote: If people want licensing and copyright issues to be treated like other RC bugs, I think the first step is to treat them

Re: sid: texinfo : Depends: perlapi-5.32.1 but it is not installable

2022-02-06 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi, On 06-02-2022 22:05, Liang Yan wrote: Just wondering if anyone happen to know the problem. or just my mis-configration? https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2022/02/msg0.html Paul OpenPGP_signature Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Rakudo has a transition tracker and then what ?

2022-02-03 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi Dod, On 03-02-2022 18:53, Dominique Dumont wrote: Hoping to automate this process, I've setup a transition tracker for Rakudo [1]. See https://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2022/02/msg00029.html and follow-up messages. Paul OpenPGP_signature Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Lottery NEW queue (Re: Are libraries with bumped SONAME subject of inspection of ftpmaster or not

2022-01-24 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi Ted, On 24-01-2022 19:44, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote: No, dpkg-shlibsdeps doesn't save you. Again, consider the hypothetical package libshaky, which over the period of 9 months, has soname changes which generate (over time) packages libshaky3, libshaky4, libshaky6, libshaky7, and libshaky8.

Re: Lottery NEW queue (Re: Are libraries with bumped SONAME subject of inspection of ftpmaster or not

2022-01-21 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi, I'm not involved in ftp-master, but... On 21-01-2022 18:19, Andreas Tille wrote: Am Fri, Jan 21, 2022 at 09:51:12AM -0500 schrieb M. Zhou: I'd rather propose choice C. Because I to some extent understand both sides who support either A or B. I maintain bulky C++ packages, and I also had a

Bug#1003024: ITP: libimage-scale-perl -- fast, high-quality fixed-point image resizing

2022-01-02 Thread Paul Gevers
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Paul Gevers X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: libimage-scale-perl Version : 0.14 Upstream Author : Andy Grundman * URL : https://metacpan.org/release/Image-Scale * License : GPL2+ Programming

Re: releasing major library change to unstable without coordination

2021-12-23 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi, On 23-12-2021 15:03, Alexis Murzeau wrote: Isn't ci.debian.net doing automated builds with experimental version of dependencies ? ci.debian.net doesn't do builds except for autopkgtest that have the "needs-build" restriction, which we discourage unless really needed. Paul

Re: releasing major library change to unstable without coordination

2021-12-23 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi, [I've read the rest of the thread so far, answering the transition question]. On 23-12-2021 00:45, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: Is it normal and ok to upload a new major release of a library to unstable, without either a) testing that reverse dependencies do not break, or b) coordinating with

Re: Pb with version comparison

2021-12-18 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi Yadd, On 16-12-2021 19:07, Yadd wrote:  * When launching another build (schroot) with this new package, build    failed because dpkg considers 4.0.2+~cs54.26.36-1 < 4.0.2-9 and    refuse to install gulp-4.0.2+~cs54.26.36-1 with node-is-plain-object paul@mulciber ~ $ dpkg

Re: Addressing the spam from the AUTORM script

2021-12-17 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi Thomas, On 17-12-2021 13:38, Thomas Goirand wrote: It's been a long time I wanted to write this kind of message, but I'm unsure against which package I should report the bug. release.debian.org Would it be possible that instead, I get a single message on each AUTORM run, telling me about

Re: Bug#995212: chromium: Update to version 94.0.4606.61 (security-fixes)

2021-12-06 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi, On 06-12-2021 20:43, Noah Meyerhans wrote: One lesson we may take from Mint, though, is that it's not worth trying to patch Chromium as much as we'd like. Anything that we can do to simplify the Chromium packaging will help us keep the package up-to-date, which in turn will help us keep

Re: chromium: Update to version 94.0.4606.61 (security-fixes)

2021-12-05 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi Andres, On 05-12-2021 03:36, Andres Salomon wrote: So what's happening with chromium in both sid and stable? I saw on d-release that it was removed from testing (#998676 and #998732), with a discussion about ending security support for it in stable. I'm willing to help out with chromium

Re: merged-/usr transition: debconf or not?

2021-11-19 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi On 18-11-2021 22:44, Marco d'Itri wrote: On Nov 18, Zack Weinberg wrote: Are you seriously claiming that that phenomenon is not a severity:critical bug? I am seriously claming that whatever you are referring to, if true, is such a contrived example that does not actually happen in real

Re: deb822 sources by default for bookworm

2021-11-03 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi Julian, On 03-11-2021 16:45, Julian Andres Klode wrote: > There is some software "parsing" sources.list on its own, most of that > is better served by `apt-get indextargets` (and for downloading stuff > based on the urls, `apt-helper download-file`, such that it respects > proxies and supports

Re: cannot reproduce autopkgtest regression on armhf arch

2021-11-01 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi Jerome, On 01-11-2021 16:34, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > the osmnx package is current blocked because of an autopkgtest > regression on armhf arch . > It is a serious bug: > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=995021 > > It appears that I cannot reproduce the issue on the porter box

Re: Q: Use https for {deb,security}.debian.org by default

2021-08-20 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi, On 20-08-2021 17:48, Russ Allbery wrote: > It sounds like we have a general consensus in this thread that, while > changing our default to HTTPS probably won't make anything more secure in > practice, we should still do it? I was told and I relayed early in this thread [1] that https gives

Re: Q: Use https for {deb,security}.debian.org by default

2021-08-19 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi, On 19-08-2021 21:46, Simon Richter wrote: > For the most part, users would configure https if they are behind a > corporate firewall that disallows http, or modifies data in-flight so > signature verification fails, everyone else is better off using plain http. Except for the security

Re: missing unblock requests (was Re: bullseye release planned on 2021-08-14 and the last weeks up to the release)

2021-07-24 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi Thorsten, On 24-07-2021 00:21, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > Might be useful to script-check everything that’s newer in sid > than in testing against the open unblock requests. > I have seen > changes that are definitely targetting bullseye (RC bug python > 2 removal, in fritzing-parts, for

Re: Usage of language specific profiles in build dependencies

2021-02-11 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi, On 11-02-2021 10:16, Matthias Klose wrote: > These dependencies should look like: > > default-jdk [!hppa !hurd-i386 !kfreebsd-any] > > or > > default-jdk [alpha amd64 arm64 armel armhf i386 ia64 m68k mips64el mipsel > powerpc ppc64 ppc64el riscv64 s390x sh4 sparc64 x32] > > It's also

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