Bug#727708: systemd code documentation

2013-12-02 Thread Russ Allbery
code should tell a story to someone who is reading it and invite understanding. (I've probably read too much Knuth, although I don't think Knuth's method of doing this worked.) -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Bug#727708: systemd code documentation

2013-12-03 Thread Russ Allbery
documentation for systemd seems quite good. This is more the code-level, helping the programmer sort of documentation, which is a bit lower-level. Both upstart and systemd seem to have excellent manuals and high-level design and interface documentation. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org)

Bug#727708: systemd code documentation

2013-12-03 Thread Russ Allbery
le of a nicely-written and readable code base, although that's partly because much of it is written the way I would have written that code. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.deb

Bug#751054: krb5-multidev: use #ifdef rather than #if in gssapi.h

2014-06-15 Thread Russ Allbery
ist **list); ^ In file included from /usr/include/mit-krb5/kadm5/admin.h:49:0, from ./portable/kadmin.h:27, from tests/tap/kadmin.c:36: /usr/include/mit-krb5/kadm5/kadm_err.h:71:13: note: previous declaration of ‘initialize_ovk_error_table_r’ was here extern voi

Bug#752354: perl: trivial test C program fails to compile

2014-06-23 Thread Russ Allbery
; Not yet reassigning to allow a sanity check on my conclusions :) Your patch looks correct to me. It looks like this Autoconf probe was relying on those functions being implemented as macros? I'm not sure how the probe program could otherwise be successfully linked without including the lin

Bug#752354: perl: trivial test C program fails to compile

2014-06-23 Thread Russ Allbery
nk with the Perl flags, not just compile, or to define that macro in probes. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#636783: supermajority bug

2014-06-25 Thread Russ Allbery
, but the general discussion and intent looks right to me. Thank you for drafting this! -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#741573: Two menu systems

2014-06-26 Thread Russ Allbery
menus for other applications that don't inherently support the XDG menu system. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#717076: libjpeg draft resolution

2014-06-26 Thread Russ Allbery
Ian Jackson writes: > As agreed on IRC, I hereby call for votes on the rsolution below. > There options are: > A libjpeg-turbo to become default libjpeg implementaton (1:1) > B libjpeg8/9 to remain default libjpeg implementaton (1:1) > FD I vote A, B, FD. --

Bug#746715: Init system fallout draft resolution

2014-06-26 Thread Russ Allbery
Ian Jackson writes: > As discussed at the meeting, I hereby call for votes on this > resolution (text below). > There are two options >Y Issue statement about (multiple) init system support >FD I vote Y, FD. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <ht

Bug#741573: Two menu systems

2014-04-10 Thread Russ Allbery
27;t think this is important for your package, or if you're just not interested in working on it, you can ignore it, but you do need to merge patches if someone else wants to work on it." That would probably be useful. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http:

Bug#741573: Two menu systems

2014-04-10 Thread Russ Allbery
on of Policy that way. I do think that is intended to say that the package maintainer should write one, and that's the most common interpretation that I've seen in debian-mentors as well. They're not *required*, no, but that's true of any should. -- Russ Allbery (r...

Bug#741573: Two menu systems

2014-04-10 Thread Russ Allbery
art of the reason why this bug was raised in Policy in the first place is that none of them have actually happened, and that didn't seem that likely to change. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-

Bug#741573: Two menu systems

2014-04-10 Thread Russ Allbery
case, BTW. In that case, Policy says that it is "recommended practice," which policy defines as equivalent to "should." If anything, doc-base is probably less used by end users than the traditional menu. (Personally, I think man pages are more important than either, but man page

Bug#741573: Two menu systems

2014-04-10 Thread Russ Allbery
Ian Jackson writes: > Russ Allbery writes ("Bug#741573: Two menu systems"): >> I do think that "should" in Policy is stronger than that, and I don't >> think just weakening "should" for all of Policy is the right solution >> to this bug.

Bug#741573: Two menu systems

2014-04-10 Thread Russ Allbery
f those things too, and over time I try to implement All The Things in my packages. But I also really *enjoy* that sort of exacting attention to detail, and while that's a nice quality for us to encourage, it's not clear to me that we want to make that the bar to entry. And that&#

Bug#741573: Two menu systems

2014-04-11 Thread Russ Allbery
once we have that guidance, but I don't think this is the place to decide how to do that or what the implications are for all the other "should" statements in Policy. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#744718: pu: samba4/4.0.0~beta2+dfsg1-3.2+deb7u1

2014-04-13 Thread Russ Allbery
ave happened in the past, they've released an "end of life" security advisory to notify Debian stable users that a given package will not receive security support and should be considered insecure. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.or

Bug#741573: Two menu systems

2014-04-14 Thread Russ Allbery
Jonathan Nieder writes: > Russ Allbery wrote: >> So, I think the questions before the TC are: >> >> 1. Should programs that make sense in the context of a typical DE (I >>realize there's some fuzziness around this) all have desktop files? > Ah, I compl

Bug#744915: automatic autoconf config file updating

2014-04-16 Thread Russ Allbery
ll then have to add the dh-autoreconf build dependency when they update the debhelper compat level, and then the rest of the machinery will be taken care of by the helpers if they're used. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBS

Bug#730837: Patch to add -L and -I flags

2014-04-21 Thread Russ Allbery
onfig script to the *-multidev package. It's been very nice for Heimdal to do that, since it means I can test builds against both MIT and Heimdal very easily on the same system without switching packages around. (Most things currently use krb5-config since the *.pc files have only recently become us

Bug#745322: Please ship krb5-config in krb5-multidev

2014-04-21 Thread Russ Allbery
com_err in Libs given that krb5_get_error_message is a thing that's existed for years. The Heimdal ones currently put everything in Libs, which makes them much less useful. Jelmer, let me know if you'd like me to file a bug about that. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.o

Bug#745543: Heimdal pkgconfig files should separate Libs.private from Libs

2014-04-22 Thread Russ Allbery
Package: heimdal-multidev Version: 1.6~rc2+dfsg-2 Severity: normal The convention for pkgconfig files is to list the libraries required for dynamic linking to get the public ABI in Libs and the other libraries requied for static linking in Libs.private. This prevents over-linking binaries on syst

Bug#745543: Heimdal pkgconfig files should separate Libs.private from Libs

2014-04-22 Thread Russ Allbery
move their Requires to Requires.private. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#726998: Add a footnote about example.org

2014-04-23 Thread Russ Allbery
sting with that information, but we have no guarantee of that.) -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#500192: openssh-server: support generation of ssh keys if none are present

2014-04-24 Thread Russ Allbery
change is enabled, since in that case the lack of keys may be an intentional configuration choice by the server administrator to force the use of Kerberos keys instead of system-generated public keys. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUB

Bug#740226: does not work with python-lxml 3.3.1-1

2014-02-26 Thread Russ Allbery
Package: xml2rfc Version: 2.4.3-1 Severity: serious Since python-lxml was upgraded to 3.3.1-1, xml2rfc no longer works. It fails with the following backtrace: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/xml2rfc", line 225, in main() File "/usr/bin/xml2rfc", line 139, in main xm

Bug#636783: TC constitutional issues

2014-02-27 Thread Russ Allbery
and tactical cases in the voting system, but maybe it doesn't if we fix the FD dropping issue that we specifically ran into. An alternative would be to have an explicit cloture vote in the case of a dispute over adding more options to a ballot, or some other similar level of indirection such

Bug#727708: Call for Votes on init system coupling

2014-03-02 Thread Russ Allbery
to motivate anyone to volunteer to do it, and therefore we'll have to live without the benefits of having them. If that feels like an unacceptable outcome, well, I think the right reaction is to go do the work so that this outcome doesn't arise. Not to try to write project rules to for

Bug#727708: Call for Votes on init system coupling

2014-03-02 Thread Russ Allbery
eason that I'm missing, but it may be best to respond there instead to make it easier for those following the proposed GR discussion to see. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.d

Bug#727708: Call for Votes on init system coupling

2014-03-02 Thread Russ Allbery
Thorsten Glaser writes: > Russ Allbery dixit: >> But when providing project-wide guidance, we have an obligation to >> worry about the error conditions as well. If multiple logind >> implementations do *not* materialize, or if they do materialize but >> then people

Bug#740603: /etc/shibboleth not created when not using libapache2-mod-shib2

2014-03-03 Thread Russ Allbery
how to properly split the packages up. I know that shibd can be run on a separate host from the Apache module, but this isn't currently supported by the package breakdown. Maybe this is a similar sort of case? -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle

Bug#740603: /etc/shibboleth not created when not using libapache2-mod-shib2

2014-03-03 Thread Russ Allbery
"Cantor, Scott" writes: > On 3/3/14, 4:27 PM, "Russ Allbery" wrote: >> Could you explain a bit more about what the use case is? I think I >> understand, but I'm not sure. You're using libshibsp5, and you want >> the standard configuration

Bug#741051: krb5-config's krb5.conf template is crufty

2014-03-07 Thread Russ Allbery
ables in comments, which is perhaps dangerous. Thanks, Ben! Sam should weigh in if he feels differently, but as far as I'm concerned, you should feel free to start fixing issues in the Git repository. I'm happy to review and sponsor uploads of the package for you. I haven't had a

Bug#741051: krb5-config's krb5.conf template is crufty

2014-03-10 Thread Russ Allbery
install that way. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#741304: add FHS exception for arch-indep in /usr/lib

2014-03-10 Thread Russ Allbery
f time on, and generally not worth patching upstream source to support. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#542747: [cjwat...@debian.org: Accepted grub2 2.02~beta2-7 (source i386)]

2014-03-11 Thread Russ Allbery
, so per Lintian's normal design philosophy, we should only take those into account if they don't stand in the way of detecting bugs in Debian. This clearly would detect bugs in Debian. Also, now that reprepro is more widespread and doesn't require this sort of workaround for not havin

Bug#741573: On menu systems.

2014-03-25 Thread Russ Allbery
install or provide desktop files, find that their program appears in the menus, assume they're done, and move on, and the menu quality in other integrations like fvwm will keep declining. I believe this has been happening for the past couple of years, although that's based on a gut feeling a

Bug#742756: multi-arch and system-dependent header files

2014-03-26 Thread Russ Allbery
ers and the toolchain is > updated. >> > As far as I understand, the current practice for handling them is to > move them to /usr/include// and the C preprocessor will look at > this directory. That's correct. > Probably policy should say something about

Bug#707851: Proposed changes on menu systems

2014-03-27 Thread Russ Allbery
the desktop file specification, but that's a very vague impression. I'd be curious to hear the opinion of the desktop environment maintainers on what we should tell maintainers of packages like fvwm who want to integrate with desktop entries. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org)

Bug#739505: libcgi-application-perl: CVE-2013-7329: information disclosure flaw

2014-03-30 Thread Russ Allbery
ly arbitrary code reformatting). -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#737735: /usr/sbin/nologin shell change breaks SSH authentication in amanda

2014-03-31 Thread Russ Allbery
tems and have upgrades of base-passwd not revert that change, so I at least now have a mechanism to avoid audit problems that isn't as annoying as it was previously. So I can cope with that. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

Bug#740603: /etc/shibboleth not created when not using libapache2-mod-shib2

2014-03-31 Thread Russ Allbery
y can be fully usable at a time in practice, since everything will force upgrading the plugins, and then the old version won't work because it won't have plugins. However, for the time being, the Apache module and shibd are probably the only real users, so in practice this will generally

Bug#740603: /etc/shibboleth not created when not using libapache2-mod-shib2

2014-04-01 Thread Russ Allbery
Sam Hartman writes: >>>>>> "Russ" == Russ Allbery writes: > Russ> This is what I did for now. I created a libshibsp-plugins > Russ> package and a shibboleth-sp2-utils package and made the > Russ> dependencies from libapache2-mod-shib2

Bug#702280: Add alternative (build-)dependency: libmariadbclient-dev

2014-04-01 Thread Russ Allbery
st certainly don't want to do. Coinstallability is a harder problem for Perl modules. (I'm actually working on writing a brand new Perl module for Kerberos bindings in part to be able to address this issue upstream.) -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.o

Bug#743434: openssh-client: wildcard host precedence

2014-04-02 Thread Russ Allbery
. See the first few paragraphs of the ssh_config man page. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#743434: openssh-client: wildcard host precedence and CanonicalizeHostname

2014-04-02 Thread Russ Allbery
UID) That host block doesn't match that ssh command. Try changing it to: Host foo foo.mydomain.com and see if you get different behavior. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@li

Bug#743434: openssh-client: wildcard host precedence

2014-04-02 Thread Russ Allbery
h" to get past the two parsing > runs, then "print options.gss_deleg_creds" - it comes out correctly > depending on "Host" stanzas in ~/.ssh/config). I use GSS-API daily and can confirm that it works as intended. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <h

Bug#742004: perltidy.LOG file left behind

2014-04-08 Thread Russ Allbery
Don Armstrong writes: > On Tue, 18 Mar 2014, Russ Allbery wrote: >> I looked into this further. The problem is that Perl::Tidy now always >> attempts to create a log file in the current directory unless told to >> create it elsewhere with the logfile parameter to its c

Bug#743991: FTBFS: Failed 3/1877 tests, 99.84% okay, 42 tests skipped.

2014-04-08 Thread Russ Allbery
#x27;ll change that to build against 2.0 and 2.1 and upload without any changes to the tests and see if the buildds are still happy. If so, I think the FTBFS is spurious. I've been monitoring the progress on the Ruby migration and thought I had a bit of grace period before that became urgent, a

Bug#743991: FTBFS: Failed 3/1877 tests, 99.84% okay, 42 tests skipped.

2014-04-08 Thread Russ Allbery
Christian Hofstaedtler writes: > * Russ Allbery [140409 02:46]: >> Hm. Those are timing-sensitive tests that can fail on extremely slow >> systems, but I did have them tweaked so that they pass on all of Debian's >> buildds. > Actually this should be quite

Bug#743991: FTBFS: Failed 3/1877 tests, 99.84% okay, 42 tests skipped.

2014-04-08 Thread Russ Allbery
_ruby --install in the override_dh_install rule. But then everything worked great. I also added the XB-Ruby-Versions header, since that seems to be best practice these days (although I didn't manage to find it in the Ruby packaging policy). Now uploaded, with ruby-remctl built against 2.0 and 2

Bug#746395: FTBFS for binary-indep builds (missing python build dependency)

2014-04-29 Thread Russ Allbery
Source: krb5 Version: 1.12.1+dfsg-1 Severity: serious When the documentation is built, 1.12.1+dfsg-1 fails to build with the following error: cd build/doc && make substhtml substpdf make[1]: Entering directory '/«BUILDDIR»/krb5-1.12.1+dfsg/build/doc' sed -e 's|@SRC@|../../src|g' \ -e 's|@DOC@

Bug#746395: FTBFS for binary-indep builds (missing python build dependency)

2014-04-29 Thread Russ Allbery
meant that dpkg-buildpackage fell back on debian/rules build but didn't install B-D-I. That said, adding python to B-D-I is still correct since the build uses Python directly, not only via something provided by python-lxml. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyr

Bug#746715: the foreseeable outcome of the TC vote on init systems

2014-05-02 Thread Russ Allbery
hy the maintainer felt that way about the upstart changes? -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#734818: enable pam_keyinit by default

2014-05-06 Thread Russ Allbery
it. > I guess it should be the same in all the initial login pam services. I think so, yes. Thanks for looking at this! -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#746715: the foreseeable outcome of the TC vote on init systems

2014-05-06 Thread Russ Allbery
tick with it. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#746715: the foreseeable outcome of the TC vote on init systems

2014-05-06 Thread Russ Allbery
y formal statement. There are many, many, many things in Debian about which the TC has not made any formal statement (deliberately, and for the best). -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.

Bug#746715: the foreseeable outcome of the TC vote on init systems

2014-05-06 Thread Russ Allbery
rd, and am sorry that I've not been able to drive that work. I had intended to be well into it by now. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#748895: libduo-dev: typo in package description

2014-05-21 Thread Russ Allbery
Source: libduo-dev Version: 1.9.6-1 Severity: minor Description-en: Duo Security development libraries and header files This package provides the develpment libraries and header files needed to link against the Due Security library functions. Also includes the manpages for library functions. T

Bug#747805: duo-unix: FTBFS: error: OpenSSL not found

2014-05-21 Thread Russ Allbery
. Let me know if I can assist with an NMU. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#636783: TC casting vote

2014-05-23 Thread Russ Allbery
eric ties. It's used to select a winning option from the Schwartz set. Given how Condorcet works, I don't believe there is a way to ensure the Schwartz set always has only one member by manipulating the number of voters. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://ww

Bug#749081: does not know that use 5.012 implies use strict

2014-05-23 Thread Russ Allbery
Package: libtest-strict-perl Version: 0.23-1 Severity: normal Test::Strict returns false positives for code that uses: use 5.012; or a later version. Per the Perl documentation: "use VERSION" also enables all features available in the requested version as defined by the "fe

Bug#749200: kstart: tests: Inconsistent use of config.h causing conflicting types

2014-05-24 Thread Russ Allbery
y it's hard for your annotated compiler to figure this out, but in this case this appears to be a false positive. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#748936: apt doesnt understand architecture wildcards

2014-05-25 Thread Russ Allbery
t said, Policy could probably stand to provide more guidance on how to interpret the results of dpkg-architecture -L and how they map to wildcard strings. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ.

Bug#749619: upgrading libreoffice creates a new "firebird" system user

2014-05-28 Thread Russ Allbery
Package: firebird2.5-server-common Version: 2.5.2.26540.ds4-12 Severity: normal There's a fairly complicated set of package relationships here, so bear with me. The root bug that I'm reporting is that I just upgraded libreoffice on a Debian jessie system and ended up with a new "firebird" system

Bug#749619: [pkg-firebird-general] Bug#749619: upgrading libreoffice creates a new "firebird" system user

2014-05-29 Thread Russ Allbery
es stuff like this happens on a transient basis. If someone notices, they can just delete the user, and no harm done. It's hardly the only system user that gets created on a typical desktop system. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

Bug#750017: perl-policy: All packages using Perl vendorarch directory need a perlapi-* dependency

2014-05-31 Thread Russ Allbery
ependent) must depend on the expansion of > perlapi-$Config{debian_abi} using > the Config module. If $Config{debian_abi} > is empty or not set, $Config{version} must be used. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle

Bug#750017: perl-policy: All packages using Perl vendorarch directory need a perlapi-* dependency

2014-06-01 Thread Russ Allbery
+ expansion of perlapi-$Config{debian_abi} using > the Config module. If $Config{debian_abi} > is empty or not set, $Config{version} must be used. > -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#213316: Alternatives enabled for Heimdal's kinit/klist

2014-06-01 Thread Russ Allbery
e alternatives make sense for that. It would be really nice to be able to co-install the basic clients, though, which makes me think that the more administrator-oriented tools (kadmin and ktutil) might make sense to split off into a separate package that continues to conflict. --

Bug#213316: Alternatives enabled for Heimdal's kinit/klist

2014-06-01 Thread Russ Allbery
Benjamin Kaduk writes: > On Sun, 1 Jun 2014, Russ Allbery wrote: >> The ktutil is quite different, yes. (It would be nice if the MIT >> version would support the Heimdal command-line interface, since it's >> far more useful than the MIT version is.) > If you wa

Bug#213316: Alternatives enabled for Heimdal's kinit/klist

2014-06-04 Thread Russ Allbery
for all keytab management. I'm not sure how common that sort of scenario is, though. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscr

Bug#213316: Alternatives enabled for Heimdal's kinit/klist

2014-06-04 Thread Russ Allbery
ng to have alternatives available for this so that I can coinstall both MIT and Heimdal clients, or otherwise have some way of installing Heimdal kadmin (and preferrably ktutil, which is much more useful than the MIT utility) while installing the other MIT command-line utilities. -- Russ Allb

Bug#751054: krb5-multidev: use #ifdef rather than #if in gssapi.h

2014-06-09 Thread Russ Allbery
ler flags or otherwise make -Wundef warnings not a fatal error. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#751054: krb5-multidev: use #ifdef rather than #if in gssapi.h

2014-06-09 Thread Russ Allbery
by the standard, you'll probably get pushback against making it a rule. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#613143: there is /usr/lib64 symlink but no /usr/local/lib64

2014-05-08 Thread Russ Allbery
ects consensus (or can solicit > more input if they think it needs it). I second this as well, although I think it's unnecessary at this point. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#613143: there is /usr/lib64 symlink but no /usr/local/lib64

2014-05-08 Thread Russ Allbery
t if they think it needs it). > I didn't realise you can second your own proposal, but I'm happy to > second my proposal in that case, so seconded too. Yeah, we require three seconds, but the proposer can second. I usually count the proposal as an implicit second if it'

Bug#741573: Two menu systems

2014-05-11 Thread Russ Allbery
ubious of your desire for all of this to be Lintian warnings, since I don't think that matches Lintian's current criteria for warnings, but I do think that the severity of the missing man page Lintian warning may be a little overstated at the moment. I have no idea how one would g

Bug#741573: Two menu systems

2014-05-11 Thread Russ Allbery
uble, though. > FWIW, I think policy should be distinguishing whether its > recommendations are requirements for distribution (legal issues, > dependency errors), proper practice (ie, it's a bug if you don't do > this), or just a good idea to consider (a suggestion from experienced > developers/packagers), but beyond that should just be documenting how > to make optimal packages assuming infinite time and motivation. That seems to roughly correspond to my categories above. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#747837: nvidia-settings: upload to main

2014-05-11 Thread Russ Allbery
just making that up? If not, then the source package and library could go into main and just the nvidia-settings binary package into contrib. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debi

Bug#748182: lintian: detect minified CSS

2014-05-14 Thread Russ Allbery
much harder to use the code in any meaningful way, but CSS doesn't have that sort of abstraction. At most you're losing comments that may or may not have ever existed in the first place (most likely not; most CSS I see in the wild has no comments anyway). -- Russ Allbery (r...

Bug#748182: lintian: detect minified CSS

2014-05-14 Thread Russ Allbery
Paul Wise writes: > On Wed, 2014-05-14 at 21:44 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: >> Why? > In addition, CSS minifiers can do a lot more than just removing > whitespace and comments: > https://yui.github.io/yuicompressor/css.html None of those transforms other than remo

Bug#291017: ${$ret->{foo}} breaks indentation in perl mode

2014-05-15 Thread Russ Allbery
an opening brace, leading to the "}}" after foo closing the brace of the function from Emacs's perspective. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Bug#307307: emacs21: symlinks for /usr/share/doc/emacs21{,-nox,-bin-common}

2014-05-15 Thread Russ Allbery
Control: reassign -1 emacs24 Still applies to emacs24, except that the canonical documentation is in emacs24-common now and the README.Debian is in (at least) the emacs24 package. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, em

Bug#748425: needs update for new iptables-persistent

2014-05-16 Thread Russ Allbery
Package: puppet-module-puppetlabs-firewall Version: 1.0.2-1 Severity: grave With version 1.0.1 of iptables-persistent, this module fails with the error: Error: /Stage[main]/Firewall::Linux::Debian/Service[iptables-persistent]: Could not evaluate: Could not find init script for 'iptables-persiste

Bug#748480: perl-policy: @INC has /usr/lib/perl/5.18, not /usr/lib/perl/5.18.2

2014-05-17 Thread Russ Allbery
e full one (5.18.2), even though policy has said otherwise. > Proposed patch attached to make policy describe current practice. Seconded. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org wit

Bug#748479: perl-policy: Explain %Config earlier

2014-05-17 Thread Russ Allbery
n't moved accordingly. > Proposed patch attached. Seconded. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#748380: perl-policy: @INC changes for multiarch

2014-05-17 Thread Russ Allbery
effect on other packages: the > site directories in /usr/local are in the realm of the local > administrator, and I can't think of anything outside the perl source > package that should need to use the core path. Looks good to me. Seconded. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.o

Bug#742756: multi-arch and system-dependent header files

2014-05-19 Thread Russ Allbery
Bill Allombert writes: > OK, this is a first attempt (with 25 line of context). Seconded. We should eventually have a whole multiarch section that describes *when* one should do this, but this change is clearly correct in isolation. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) &l

Bug#555980: debian-policy: No policy on statically linked binaries

2014-05-19 Thread Russ Allbery
Bill Allombert writes: > On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 06:00:13PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: >> This is the case that we're talking about here. In other words, >> *entirely* static binaries. What you get with gcc -static. > Thus I propose the attached patch. > (I used

Bug#741573: On menu systems.

2014-03-13 Thread Russ Allbery
flict between Bill and myself, so I don't think it's appropriate for me to vote. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#740603: /etc/shibboleth not created when not using libapache2-mod-shib2

2014-03-16 Thread Russ Allbery
"Cantor, Scott" writes: > On 3/3/14, 4:56 PM, "Russ Allbery" wrote: >> I am a little worried about downgrading the shibd dependency in >> libapache2-mod-shib2 to recommends; maybe it should stay as depends for >> now even though it's possible to run

Bug#740603: /etc/shibboleth not created when not using libapache2-mod-shib2

2014-03-16 Thread Russ Allbery
Russ Allbery writes: > shibboleth-sp2-common (new package) > /etc/shibboleth Oh, and also, I could move the contents of shibboleth-sp2-schemas into this package as well, but it would require a transitional package to handle the upgrades. I'm not sure it's worth it, but if

Bug#740603: /etc/shibboleth not created when not using libapache2-mod-shib2

2014-03-16 Thread Russ Allbery
"Cantor, Scott" writes: > On 3/16/14, 5:48 PM, "Russ Allbery" wrote: >> libshibsp6 would depend on shibboleth-sp2-common. libapache2-mod-shib2 >> would depend on shibboleth-sp2-utils. Every other package would retain >> its current contents and depe

Bug#740603: /etc/shibboleth not created when not using libapache2-mod-shib2

2014-03-16 Thread Russ Allbery
"Cantor, Scott" writes: > On 3/16/14, 10:31 PM, "Russ Allbery" wrote: >> Hm, okay, in that case I'm inclined to change the -common package to >> -runtime (which is a more typical convention for arch-dependent >> supporting files for libraries), pu

Bug#740603: /etc/shibboleth not created when not using libapache2-mod-shib2

2014-03-16 Thread Russ Allbery
hat the library knew where to load them from, of course. It's not immediately obvious to me how, although I'm guessing it's related to SHIBSP_LIBDIR. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-

Bug#740941: shibboleth-sp2: FTBFS with libmemcached-1.0.18-1 from experimental

2014-03-16 Thread Russ Allbery
ator r = m_regex.begin(); r != m_regex.end(); ++r) { ^ handler/impl/TransformSessionInitiator.cpp:257:106: error: expected ';' before ')' token for (vector< tuple >::const_iterator r = m_regex.begin(); r != m_regex.end(); ++r) {

Bug#740941: shibboleth-sp2: FTBFS with libmemcached-1.0.18-1 from experimental

2014-03-17 Thread Russ Allbery
Michael Fladischer writes: > On 2014-03-17 05:35, Russ Allbery wrote: >> It seems a little weird that a shared library would force all programs >> that want to use it to have to build in a particular standardization >> mode. Are you sure that's the right path f

Bug#741942: git-buildpackage: Provide a configuration file for git-pbuilder

2014-03-17 Thread Russ Allbery
That's what I do personally. (If you're using a csh shell variant, you'll need to put "env" in front of the setting.) -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#741993: apache2: -h option for a2{en,dis}* commands

2014-03-17 Thread Russ Allbery
Package: apache2 Version: 2.4.7-1 Severity: wishlist In a discussion of the (very nice) Debian Apache configuration handling, someone I was talking about this with mentioned that she had trouble figuring out what the commands did because she was trying a2ensite -h. Problem resolved with a pointer

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