Re: Lots of buggy packages propagated to trixie today (?)

2023-10-22 Thread Don Armstrong
] I'll take a look at the cron output for it shortly to see if I have any better ideas. [And clean up the few cases I see where we're not propogating failures or have non-atomic file creation.] -- Don Armstrong https://www.donarmstrong.com One day I put instant coffee in my mi

Re: udeb uninstallability trend: worse (+20/-0)

2018-01-01 Thread Don Armstrong
On Mon, 01 Jan 2018, Don Armstrong wrote: > On Mon, 01 Jan 2018, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > > udeb uninstallability watcher <debian-b...@lists.debian.org> (2018-01-01): > > > Newly-broken packages in testing > > > multipath-udeb amd64 a

Re: udeb uninstallability trend: worse (+20/-0)

2018-01-01 Thread Don Armstrong
to know that the right versions are in unstable, but they're not showing up on the graph. I'll try to track this down today and see what is going on there. -- Don Armstrong https://www.donarmstrong.com The terrorist's job is to terrorize the people, to interfere with freedom in s

Bug#863211: unblock: perltidy/20140328-2

2017-05-23 Thread Don Armstrong
@@ +perltidy (20140328-2) unstable; urgency=high + + * Backport fix for CVE-2016-10374 which fixes insecure file deletion of +perltidy.ERR and perltidy.LOG files (closes: #862667) + + -- Don Armstrong <d...@debian.org> Sun, 21 May 2017 12:41:30 -0700 + perltidy (20140328-1) unstable; u

Bug#827061: Processed (with 1 error): block 827061 with 828253 828367 828586 828309 828307 828513 812166 828412 828298 828277

2016-11-15 Thread Don Armstrong
ed all blocking bugs on > #827061 after cloning just one of them, and it turns out it did so on > two occasions, my clone[2] and Adrian's one[3]. Hrm; that's not supposed to happen. Let me check that out and see if I can fix it. -- Don Armstrong https://www.donarmstrong.com Information wants to be free to kill again. -- Red Robot http://www.dieselsweeties.com/archive.php?s=1372

bugscan doesn't obey Extra-Source-Only: yes (and debbugs probably doesn't either)

2016-08-01 Thread Don Armstrong
Package: bugs.debian.org Severity: important On Sat, 30 Jul 2016, Francesco Poli wrote: > On Mon, 25 Jul 2016 22:03:36 +0200 Francesco Poli wrote: > > > On Mon, 25 Jul 2016 10:41:08 -0500 Don Armstrong wrote: > [...] > > > OK, this is going to take a bit of work; I thi

Re: Bug#830267: dpkg: Segmentation fault when purging package in APT test case

2016-07-25 Thread Don Armstrong
On Mon, 25 Jul 2016, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > [dropped #830267 from CC; it's not directly relevant to this branch of the > discussion] > > On 2016-07-24 17:43, Don Armstrong wrote: > >On Sun, 24 Jul 2016, Francesco Poli wrote: > [...] > >>could you please inves

Re: Bug#830267: dpkg: Segmentation fault when purging package in APT test case

2016-07-24 Thread Don Armstrong
rtunately, I don't know when the BTS thought that 1.18.9 was actually in testing and not in unstable. I'll try to check out snapshots later this week to see if I can figure out when the transition actually happened, or if there was something else going on in the archive to explain it. -- Don Armstrong

Re: Bug#746005: guile-2.0 migration

2016-04-29 Thread Don Armstrong
elopment release of lilypond through the lifetime of a stable release.] Are auto-removals from testing currently off? [Basically, I'd like to avoid having lilypond removed from testing until we're closer to the release if that's at all possible.] -- Don Armstrong https://ww

Bug#765639: Bug#802159: New OpenSSL upstream version

2015-11-04 Thread Don Armstrong
On Sat, 31 Oct 2015, Kurt Roeckx wrote: > On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 02:38:13PM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: > > On Tue, 20 Oct 2015, Don Armstrong wrote: > > > If there's something specific that you'd like the CTTE to try to do > > > beyond what I've just reported now, l

Bug#765639: Bug#802159: New OpenSSL upstream version

2015-10-30 Thread Don Armstrong
On Tue, 20 Oct 2015, Don Armstrong wrote: > If there's something specific that you'd like the CTTE to try to do > beyond what I've just reported now, let me know. Let me know if you'd like the CTTE to do something beyond what I've already done. -- Don Armstrong

Bug#765639: Bug#802159: New OpenSSL upstream version

2015-10-21 Thread Don Armstrong
list of the specific bug fixes and additional features be enough for an initial yes/no, given the review process upstream? -- Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com There is no more concentrated form of evil than apathy.

Bug#765639: Bug#802159: New OpenSSL upstream version

2015-10-20 Thread Don Armstrong
On Tue, 20 Oct 2015, Don Armstrong wrote: > On Sat, 17 Oct 2015, Kurt Roeckx wrote: > > I've been waiting for the release team for a while to make a decision > > on #765639 for a year now. Could you help in getting a decision? > > > > I've actually been waiting fo

Bug#765639: Bug#802159: New OpenSSL upstream version

2015-10-20 Thread Don Armstrong
n this? Specifically, this being (FWICT), bringing a new(er) version of openssl into jessie and/or wheezy. I personally don't have enough information to form an opinion yet, but I recognize that some decision should be made. -- Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com Rule 30: "

Bug#777570: unblock: debbugs/2.4.1.1

2015-02-09 Thread Don Armstrong
2015-02-05 07:17:08.0 -0800 @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ Section: misc Priority: optional Maintainer: Debbugs developers debian-debb...@lists.debian.org -Uploaders: Josip Rodin jro...@jagor.srce.hr, Colin Watson cjwat...@debian.org +Uploaders: Don Armstrong d...@debian.org Standards-Version: 3.2.1

Bug#774737: unblock: libjpeg9/1:9a-2

2015-02-04 Thread Don Armstrong
overrule delegates? Only if the decision of the delegate falls under 6.1.1, 6.1.2, or 6.1.4 (and of course, that it was a decision delegated to the delegate by the DPL). If it's not a technical matter, than only a GR can override a delegate. -- Don Armstrong http

Bug#771848: unblock libapache-gallery-perl/1.0.2-4

2014-12-02 Thread Don Armstrong
() : Apache::Constants::DECLINED(); } # Lookup the file in the cache and scale the image if the cached # image does not exist -- Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com I will not make any deals with you. I've resigned. I will not be pushed, filed, stamped

Bug#770370: unblock fontconfig/2.11.0-6.2

2014-11-20 Thread Don Armstrong
self-triggering; will still need +Breaks from dpkg to resolve this (closes: #768599) + * Add Pre-Depends on dpkg to allow for noawait just in case this gets +backported to squeeze. + + -- Don Armstrong d...@debian.org Mon, 10 Nov 2014 11:26:37 -0800 + fontconfig (2.11.0-6.1) unstable

Bug#770370: unblock fontconfig/2.11.0-6.2

2014-11-20 Thread Don Armstrong
On Thu, 20 Nov 2014, Jonathan Wiltshire wrote: Control: tag -1 d-i On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 11:56:23AM -0800, Don Armstrong wrote: This is a simple partial fix for the RC bug #768598, with a typoed bug in the changelog for good measure: diff -Nru fontconfig-2.11.0/debian/changelog

Bug#770003: unblock lilypond/2.18.2-4

2014-11-17 Thread Don Armstrong
/share/doc/lilypond/Documentation. (Closes: #768272) + * Add missing Pre-Depends: ${misc:Depends} for dpkg-maintscript-helper. + + -- Don Armstrong d...@debian.org Sun, 16 Nov 2014 17:38:32 -0800 + lilypond (2.18.2-3) unstable; urgency=medium * Revert previous patch (no parallel); the issue

Re: Test package for testing dgit upload infrastructure

2014-10-29 Thread Don Armstrong
work. -- Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-release-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: Bug#760986: RM: guile-1.8 -- ROM; replaced by guile-2.0

2014-10-14 Thread Don Armstrong
reverse dependency of guile 1.8 in jessie was lilypond. -- Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com You have many years to live--do things you will be proud to remember when you are old. -- Shinka proverb. (John Brunner _Stand On Zanzibar_ p413) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: BTS and UDD disagrees on the number of RC bugs in stable

2014-03-20 Thread Don Armstrong
On Tue, 18 Feb 2014, Don Armstrong wrote: Yeah, it's not working. I've got it on my TODO list, but haven't had a chance to work on it yet. I will probably have a chance next weekend to spend some time on it. So I think I've fixed this now; had to finally set up a testing framework for bugscan

Re: BTS and UDD disagrees on the number of RC bugs in stable

2014-02-18 Thread Don Armstrong
, Holger Levsen wrote: On Freitag, 7. Februar 2014, Don Armstrong wrote: I've now rolled this out, but bugscan's crontab hasn't run yet. I'll keep an eye on it to make sure it works. https://bugs.debian.org/release-critical/ doens't look like it's working :/ Could you please have a look again

Re: BTS and UDD disagrees on the number of RC bugs in stable

2014-02-07 Thread Don Armstrong
On Wed, 05 Feb 2014, Don Armstrong wrote: Yeah. I think this is a bug I introduced when I switched to using bugcfg instead of the hardcoded values which were being used before. I just fixed this in @81492, but I haven't rolled it out to the BTS yet. I've now rolled this out, but bugscan's

Re: BTS and UDD disagrees on the number of RC bugs in stable

2014-02-05 Thread Don Armstrong
-ignore. Yeah. I think this is a bug I introduced when I switched to using bugcfg instead of the hardcoded values which were being used before. I just fixed this in @81492, but I haven't rolled it out to the BTS yet. -- Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com I cannot find rest

Re: Potential issues for most ports (Was: Re: Bits from the Release Team (Jessie freeze info))

2013-11-05 Thread Don Armstrong
prefer. -- Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com For those who understand, no explanation is necessary. For those who do not, none is possible. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-release-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: Potential issues for most ports (Was: Re: Bits from the Release Team (Jessie freeze info))

2013-11-05 Thread Don Armstrong
On Tue, 05 Nov 2013, Don Armstrong wrote: On Tue, 05 Nov 2013, Niels Thykier wrote: In this regard; I am guilty of filing some those bugs without tagging them. Honestly, adding the tags get a bit in the way right now. If a package FTBFS on 4 architectures, I have to dig up 3-4 different

Re: Bug#699808: tech-ctte: syslinux vs the wheezy release

2013-02-06 Thread Don Armstrong
of syslinux that isn't being distributed in wheezy, but I think that might need to be discussed and a technical solution fleshed out elsewhere, and probably isn't ripe for a CTTE decision.] Don Armstrong 0: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=699742#30 1: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin

Re: Bug#699808: tech-ctte: syslinux vs the wheezy release

2013-02-06 Thread Don Armstrong
On Wed, 06 Feb 2013, Russ Allbery wrote: Don Armstrong d...@debian.org writes: Assuming that the patch for #699742[0] fixes this issue with DI RC releases being installed, is there still an outstanding issue for the CTTE? Earlier in this thread, there had been a couple of reports

Bug#696608: unlock: lilypond/2.14.2-4 (preapproval)

2013-02-05 Thread Don Armstrong
On Sat, 19 Jan 2013, Don Armstrong wrote: On Sat, 19 Jan 2013, Julien Cristau wrote: On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 19:43:58 +, Adam D. Barratt wrote: Control: tags -1 + confirmed On 23.12.2012 21:31, Don Armstrong wrote: In making a fix to the RC bug #684817, I also fixed a problem

Re: Bug#699808: tech-ctte: syslinux vs the wheezy release

2013-02-05 Thread Don Armstrong
issue, as seen by Michael and myself. Is it the intention of the Release Managers not to accept a newer version of syslinux into wheezy? [That is, if the CTTE were to decide to require some fix to d-i, we'd also have to override the RMs?] Don Armstrong -- I now know how retro SCOs OSes are. Riotous

Bug#696608: unlock: lilypond/2.14.2-4 (preapproval)

2013-01-19 Thread Don Armstrong
On Sat, 19 Jan 2013, Julien Cristau wrote: On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 19:43:58 +, Adam D. Barratt wrote: Control: tags -1 + confirmed On 23.12.2012 21:31, Don Armstrong wrote: In making a fix to the RC bug #684817, I also fixed a problem in disabling optimization when noopt is present

Re: RC bugs missing after experimental upload

2012-12-24 Thread Don Armstrong
; could RC bugs for Wheezy have gone missing for similar reasons? No, because they still show up in http://bugs.debian.org/bugscan/britney/testing-nr and http://bugs.debian.org/bugscan/other/testing.html for example. Don Armstrong -- Sometimes I wish I could take back all my mistakes

Bug#696608: unlock: lilypond/2.14.2-4 (preapproval)

2012-12-23 Thread Don Armstrong
attached for proposed upload to unstable. Don Armstrong -- My spelling ability, or rather the lack thereof, is one of the wonders of the modern world. http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu diff -u lilypond-2.14.2/debian/control lilypond-2.14.2/debian/control --- lilypond

Bug#693475: unblock: evince/3.4.0-3.1

2012-11-16 Thread Don Armstrong
: #658139. This also fixes #619564, #627027, and #551734 which were related to evince.mime and evince-gtk.mime. #581441 was fixed in shared-mime-info/1.0. unblock evince/3.4.0-3.1 Thanks. Don Armstrong -- There is no such thing as social gambling. Either you are there to cut the other

Re: Processed (with 6 errors): your mail

2012-04-04 Thread Don Armstrong
', '1333548859.3223.24.ca...@mordor.loewenhoehle.ip', 'request_subject', ...) called at /usr/lib/debbugs/service line 912 eval {...} called at /usr/lib/debbugs/service line 910 Ugh. This is fixed now. Don Armstrong -- I leave the show floor, but not before a pack of caffeinated Jolt gum is thrust

Re: Release Update: timings, status and awesomeness

2011-01-18 Thread Don Armstrong
On Tue, 18 Jan 2011, Neil McGovern wrote: Awesomeness of Squeeze Obviously, because it's a Debian release, it's awesome! Or at the very least, awe-inspiring. What more is needed? Good job everyone, and keep it up! Don Armstrong -- Herodotus says, Very few things happen at the right time

Bug#608993: unblock: unscd/0.47-2

2011-01-05 Thread Don Armstrong
in squeeze? It's simple enough; the only change in -2 is to remove the Provides: nscd, and add some verbiage as to what to do if you actually need it. I don't have a strong opinion either way, but given that two people have now mentioned it, it's probably worth it. Don Armstrong -- A Democracy lead

Re: RC bug #527862: libmilter1.0.1: segfault in libmilter - using milter-greylist and mimedefang - both dies

2010-12-11 Thread Don Armstrong
-mail anyone else but the package maintainer, the bug, and possibly debian-release if the package maintainer doesn't respond. Don Armstrong -- Our days are precious, but we gladly see them going If in their place we find a thing more precious growing A rare, exotic plant, our gardener's heart

Bug#603982: unblock unscd

2010-12-09 Thread Don Armstrong
machines with LDAP to have run into the same problems with nscd, which is why I packaged it.] But anyway, thanks to Mehdi Dogguy it's been unblocked, so it'll transition soon. I'll whip up a backport once that happens. Don Armstrong -- LEADERSHIP -- A form of self-preservation exhibited by people

Bug#603982: unblock: unscd/0.47-1 (New Package)

2010-12-08 Thread Don Armstrong
On Thu, 25 Nov 2010, Don Armstrong wrote: On Thu, 25 Nov 2010, Mehdi Dogguy wrote: Moreover, it doesn't seem to fix any RC bug. unscd was made to resolve the problems seen in nscd where nscd is near useless in a system with any amount of load (see #574990 et al.) So, I'd rather keep

Re: lilypond in squeeze

2010-11-27 Thread Don Armstrong
On Sat, 27 Nov 2010, Julien Cristau wrote: On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 15:52:21 -0800, Don Armstrong wrote: The fix is to unblock lilypond. The only reason it didn't make it in for the freeze were the failures of fontforge brought about by a new version. Unblocking lilypond is not going

Re: lilypond in squeeze

2010-11-27 Thread Don Armstrong
many people are going to be typesetting their music on a mainframe? Would removing the old lilypond/s390 binaries be a feasible solution? If that's what we have to do at the end, that's fine. But I'd much rather fix the fontforge issue. We don't really need to rush to decide this yet. Don

Re: lilypond in squeeze

2010-11-26 Thread Don Armstrong
fontforge dying). Do you have any plans for how to fix these RC bugs for squeeze? Are the fixes feasible to backport, for instance? The fix is to unblock lilypond. The only reason it didn't make it in for the freeze were the failures of fontforge brought about by a new version. Don Armstrong

Bug#603982: unblock: unscd/0.47-1 (New Package)

2010-11-25 Thread Don Armstrong
On Thu, 25 Nov 2010, Mehdi Dogguy wrote: On 19/11/2010 03:26, Don Armstrong wrote: I've been using it in production for months, and it's been in unstable for a while already; if worst comes to worst and there is a serious problem with it in testing, it can easily be removed. [But unless

Bug#603982: unblock: unscd/0.47-1 (New Package)

2010-11-18 Thread Don Armstrong
, and works significantly better than nscd does. unscd (0.47-1) unstable; urgency=low * Initial packaging for Debian (Closes: #513305) -- Don Armstrong d...@debian.org Tue, 19 Oct 2010 22:21:13 -0700 Description: Micro Name Service Caching Daemon A daemon which handles passwd, group and host

Re: Bug#598929: bugs.debian.org: Bugs of severity = important on proposed-updates going to -release

2010-10-04 Thread Don Armstrong
would only see mails from bugs which happened to fit that criteria at the instant that the message to the bug was sent; you'd still need to examine the bug listings for the packages anyway. Don Armstrong -- Mozart tells us what it's like to be human, Beethoven tells us what it's like

Re: runinit-run, releaseability thereof

2010-07-27 Thread Don Armstrong
of course be refered back to the ctte.] Don Armstrong -- Information wants to be free to kill again. -- Red Robot http://www.dieselsweeties.com/archive.php?s=1372 http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-release-requ...@lists.debian.org

perl and perl-modules; reflexive dependencies vs. archive bloat

2009-10-23 Thread Don Armstrong
and the resultant archive bloat?x Don Armstrong 0: http://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2009/10/msg00226.html (cc'ed to -release, but further discussion should not happen there because release isn't a discussion list.) 1: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/perl-maintainers/2009-October/000799

Re: unblock request: mdadm 2.6.9-3

2009-07-14 Thread Don Armstrong
is based on. If you're uploading an unstable version, the experimental uploads should not show up in the changelog unless the unstable version is based upon a version which is in experimental. Don Armstrong -- Information wants to be free to kill again. -- Red Robot http

Re: Installing Debian GNU/Linux 5.0.1

2009-04-15 Thread Don Armstrong
. If there's something more that needs to be changed, let me (or someone else know.) James: the links will be fixed by the next time the pages are generated; thanks for reporting the problem. Don Armstrong -- Our days are precious, but we gladly see them going If in their place we find a thing more

Re: Dealing better with CD releases

2009-04-15 Thread Don Armstrong
a good idea, but there would still need to be logic to detect which mirrors had actually managed to get up to date... and that bit is probably a bit complicated. Don Armstrong -- It's not Hollywood. War is real, war is primarily not about defeat or victory, it is about death. I've seen thousands

Unblock request for spamass-milter [Re: Preapproval of minor fix for #510665]

2009-01-24 Thread Don Armstrong
On Thu, 08 Jan 2009, Neil McGovern wrote: On Wed, Jan 07, 2009 at 06:23:07PM -0800, Don Armstrong wrote: See the attached patch which fixes #510665 (a normal bug) and along the way #496003 (documentation); I'd like to get these into lenny, but before uploading to unstable, pre-approval

Preapproval of minor fix for #510665 (receive header mockup for spamass-milter)

2009-01-07 Thread Don Armstrong
) double checking that they fix his problem.] The interdiff is attached. Don Armstrong -- Your village called. They want their idiot back. -- xkcd http://xkcd.com/c23.html http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu diff -u spamass-milter-0.3.1/spamass-milter.cpp spamass-milter

Re: this week's Xorg freeze exceptions...

2008-09-27 Thread Don Armstrong
On Fri, 26 Sep 2008, Don Armstrong wrote: On Fri, 26 Sep 2008, Philipp Kern wrote: am Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 11:24:02AM +0200 hast du folgendes geschrieben: Looks like debbugs (or britney?) is broken, bug#211765 doesn't get properly ignored. Can I get a force in addition to the unblock

Re: this week's Xorg freeze exceptions...

2008-09-26 Thread Don Armstrong
britney... Could it be a problem that this very bug is not properly versionned? That shouldn't be a problem. Don Armstrong -- CNN/Reuters: News reports have filtered out early this morning that US forces have swooped on an Iraqi Primary School and detained 6th Grade teacher Mohammed Al-Hazar

Re: suite tags (Re: Doing some stable QA work)

2008-08-15 Thread Don Armstrong
. *** end proposal *** Does that meet the needs of the RMs et al? Are there any objections? Don Armstrong 1: It's quite likely that we talked about the way it should work, and I totally forgot about what we decided that it should do after promising that I'd change it. My brain is at its base

Re: suite tags (Re: Doing some stable QA work)

2008-08-15 Thread Don Armstrong
On Fri, 15 Aug 2008, Luk Claes wrote: Don Armstrong wrote: *** proposal *** For the purposes of determining buginess, setting a distribution tag limits the bugginess of a package in distribtions to the intersection of the distributions and the version-based bugginness of a package

Re: suite tags (Re: Doing some stable QA work)

2008-08-15 Thread Don Armstrong
not like doing this manually in a single shot is hard. Don Armstrong -- Only one creature could have duplicated the expressions on their faces, and that would be a pigeon who has heard not only that Lord Nelson has got down off his column but has also been seen buying a 12-bore repeater and a box

Original bug in gdc fixed; binary rebuilds probably need to be requested for broken powerpc packages

2008-08-10 Thread Don Armstrong
The original bug which caused all of these blocking bugs has been fixed; rebuilds probably need to be requested for all of these packages. Don Armstrong -- This can't be happening to me. I've got tenure. -- James Hynes _Publish and Perish_ http://www.donarmstrong.com http