Re: MBF: valgrind-if-available

2022-02-27 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
On Sun, 2022-02-27 at 03:40 +0100, Adam Borowski wrote: > Among others, "command -v" [...] > * built-ins get reported as available.  And busybox has even "dpkg" > built-in, with a pretty bad implementation. Like this? +--- | % which which | which: shell built-in command +--- I suggest to

Bug#976402: Proposed official virtual packages - todo and todo.txt

2020-12-09 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
David Steele writes: > On Wed, Dec 9, 2020 at 3:21 AM Ansgar wrote: >> Given topydo just provides/conflicts with devtodo to provide the "todo" >> binary, this seems to violate Policy 10.1 "Binaries" unless they provide >> the same functionality. [...] > From where I stand, I would expect the

Bug#976402: Proposed official virtual packages - todo and todo.txt

2020-12-09 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
David Steele writes: > On Wed, Dec 9, 2020 at 3:21 AM Ansgar wrote: >> Given topydo just provides/conflicts with devtodo to provide the "todo" >> binary, this seems to violate Policy 10.1 "Binaries" unless they provide >> the same functionality. [...] > From where I stand, I would expect the

[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] firewalld_0.7.2-2_amd64.changes REJECTED

2019-12-04 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
As requested on IRC. === Please feel free to respond to this email if you don't understand why your files were rejected, or if you upload new files which address our concerns. ___ Pkg-utopia-maintainers mailing list

Bug#945275: debian-policy: [9.1.2] deprecated `staff` group special case

2019-11-22 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Package: debian-policy 9.1.2 recommends the following to create a directory under /usr/local: ``` if [ ! -e /usr/local/share/emacs ]; then if mkdir /usr/local/share/emacs 2>/dev/null; then if test -e /etc/staff-group-for-usr-local ; then if chown root:staff

Bug#945275: debian-policy: [9.1.2] deprecated `staff` group special case

2019-11-22 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Package: debian-policy 9.1.2 recommends the following to create a directory under /usr/local: ``` if [ ! -e /usr/local/share/emacs ]; then if mkdir /usr/local/share/emacs 2>/dev/null; then if test -e /etc/staff-group-for-usr-local ; then if chown root:staff

Bug#942881: Audio on Lenovo X1 Carbon 5th generation stopped working after upgrade to linux-image-5.3.0-1-amd64 ("No response from codec")

2019-10-25 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Ben Hutchings writes: > The code signing service logs every file it signs, along with a hash of > the detached signature, but I don't know where the logs are so I can't > comapre with that. I checked the audit log, but I don't think it will help much. It currently records that: - 2019-10-21

Bug#942881: Audio on Lenovo X1 Carbon 5th generation stopped working after upgrade to linux-image-5.3.0-1-amd64 ("No response from codec")

2019-10-25 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Ben Hutchings writes: > The code signing service logs every file it signs, along with a hash of > the detached signature, but I don't know where the logs are so I can't > comapre with that. I checked the audit log, but I don't think it will help much. It currently records that: - 2019-10-21

Accepted dune-pdelab 2.6~20180302-2 (source) into unstable

2019-10-23 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Format: 1.8 Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2019 19:13:24 +0200 Source: dune-pdelab Architecture: source Version: 2.6~20180302-2 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Debian Science Maintainers Changed-By: Ansgar Burchardt Changes: dune-pdelab

Accepted dune-common 2.6.0-4 (source) into unstable

2019-10-14 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Format: 1.8 Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2019 23:27:35 +0200 Source: dune-common Architecture: source Version: 2.6.0-4 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Debian Science Maintainers Changed-By: Ansgar Burchardt Closes: 936456 Changes: dune

Accepted dune-grid 2.6.0-5 (source) into unstable

2019-10-13 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Format: 1.8 Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2019 15:17:06 +0200 Source: dune-grid Architecture: source Version: 2.6.0-5 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Debian Science Maintainers Changed-By: Ansgar Burchardt Changes: dune-grid (2.6.0-5

Accepted alberta 3.0.1-2 (source) into unstable

2019-10-13 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Format: 1.8 Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2019 11:58:26 +0200 Source: alberta Architecture: source Version: 3.0.1-2 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Debian Science Maintainers Changed-By: Ansgar Burchardt Closes: 878199 Changes: alberta

Accepted dune-grid 2.6.0-4 (source) into unstable

2019-10-09 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Format: 1.8 Date: Wed, 09 Oct 2019 17:57:13 +0200 Source: dune-grid Architecture: source Version: 2.6.0-4 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Debian Science Maintainers Changed-By: Ansgar Burchardt Closes: 942000 Changes: dune

Bug#942051: debian-policy: [4.9] requirement to write only to /tmp, /var/tmp, ${TMPDIR} is too strict

2019-10-09 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Package: debian-policy Version: 4.4.1.1 Severity: minor While checking the upgrade checklist I noticed this new requirement: +--- | 4.9 |Required targets must not write outside of the unpacked source |package tree, except for TMPDIR, /tmp and /var/tmp. +--- The wording is a bit too

Bug#942051: debian-policy: [4.9] requirement to write only to /tmp, /var/tmp, ${TMPDIR} is too strict

2019-10-09 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Package: debian-policy Version: 4.4.1.1 Severity: minor While checking the upgrade checklist I noticed this new requirement: +--- | 4.9 |Required targets must not write outside of the unpacked source |package tree, except for TMPDIR, /tmp and /var/tmp. +--- The wording is a bit too

Bug#941837: texlive-fonts-extra: file conflice with (older) texlive-fonts-extra-links

2019-10-06 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Package: texlive-fonts-extra Version: 2019.20190930-2 Severity: serious Hi, when upgrading in Debian testing I saw the following error message: +--- | Unpacking texlive-fonts-extra (2019.20190930-2) over (2019.20190830-1) ... | dpkg: error processing archive

Bug#941837: texlive-fonts-extra: file conflice with (older) texlive-fonts-extra-links

2019-10-06 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Package: texlive-fonts-extra Version: 2019.20190930-2 Severity: serious Hi, when upgrading in Debian testing I saw the following error message: +--- | Unpacking texlive-fonts-extra (2019.20190930-2) over (2019.20190830-1) ... | dpkg: error processing archive

Bug#941276: clamav-daemon: strange use of systemd service files

2019-09-27 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Package: clamav-daemon Version: 0.101.4+dfsg-1 Severity: normal After a user asked something about clamav on IRC, I noticed that clamav-daemon's postinst creates a file /etc/systemd/system/clamav-daemon.service.d/extend.conf with static content: +--- | echo "#Automatically Generated by

[Pkg-clamav-devel] Bug#941276: clamav-daemon: strange use of systemd service files

2019-09-27 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Package: clamav-daemon Version: 0.101.4+dfsg-1 Severity: normal After a user asked something about clamav on IRC, I noticed that clamav-daemon's postinst creates a file /etc/systemd/system/clamav-daemon.service.d/extend.conf with static content: +--- | echo "#Automatically Generated by

Bug#941273: runit: FTBFS (looks like endless loop)

2019-09-27 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Package: src:runit Version: 2.1.2-34 Severity: serious I noticed that the last runit build is already taking over 13h on buildds. The hppa build log[1] looks like the build failed due to an endless loop. I asked the other builds to be killed. Ansgar [1]

Bug#941273: runit: FTBFS (looks like endless loop)

2019-09-27 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Package: src:runit Version: 2.1.2-34 Severity: serious I noticed that the last runit build is already taking over 13h on buildds. The hppa build log[1] looks like the build failed due to an endless loop. I asked the other builds to be killed. Ansgar [1]

Bug#941194: initscripts: remove some implementation details

2019-09-26 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Control: reassign -1 debian-policy The section on initscripts has too much implementation details about /etc/rcn.d; these are better explained by external documentation. Also the rationale for why `DISABLED=yes` (or similar) fits better into a footnote than the main text (IMHO). (Policy also

Bug#941195: bugs.debian.org: do not append to `References` if wanted msgid is already there

2019-09-26 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Package: bugs.debian.org Severity: minor Tags: upstream It looks like debbugs always appends the bug report's msgid to the `References` field when sending a follow-up message to the bug. This should not be done when the msgid is already listed there. (I noticed because this broke DKIM

Bug#941194: initscripts: remove some implementation details

2019-09-26 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Control: reassign -1 debian-policy The section on initscripts has too much implementation details about /etc/rcn.d; these are better explained by external documentation. Also the rationale for why `DISABLED=yes` (or similar) fits better into a footnote than the main text (IMHO). (Policy also

Bug#941194: initscripts: remove some implementation details

2019-09-26 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Package: bugs.debian.org Severity: normal Tags: patch The section on initscripts has too much implementation details about /etc/rcn.d; these are better explained by external documentation. Also the rationale for why `DISABLED=yes` (or similar) fits better into a footnote than the main text

Bug#940572: gnome-terminal: changing font size on one tab has effect on other tabs

2019-09-17 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Package: gnome-terminal Version: 3.34.0-1 Severity: minor Tags: upstream Changing the font size in one tab has an effect of other tabs: when switching from tab A (with larger font size) to tab B (regular font size), I can see that tab B gets restored with the larger font size and is only then

Bug#940556: gnome-terminal: uses DPI from wrong screen resulting in hard to read font rendering

2019-09-17 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Package: gnome-terminal Version: 3.34.0-1 Severity: normal Tags: upstream I have a laptop with an external screen; internal and external screen have different resolutions and DPI. Since a recent update gnome-terminal and other GNOME applications use the DPI from the wrong screen when the window

Re: [systemd-devel] host0 virtual link suddenly default down in systemd-nspawn container

2019-09-09 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Johannes Ernst writes: > I've been running the same systemd-nspawn container for some time, always > with the same options: > > systemd-nspawn -b -n -D dir -M name --bind /home -x > > It would always bring up the virtual ethernet link immediately during > boot of the container. But since a

Bug#939469: dkimpy-milter: indicate when domain is in "testing mode" in Auth-Results

2019-09-05 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Package: dkimpy-milter Version: 1.0.1-1 Severity: wishlist Tags: upstream Hi, a recent mail to -devel@ resulted in the following header from dkimpy-milter: Authentication-Results: [...]; dkim=fail (Bad 1024 bit rsa-sha256 signature.) header.d=[...] header.a=rsa-sha256 However the domain

Bug#932849: ftp.debian.org: NEW process looses .buildinfo files

2019-07-24 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Control: tag -1 moreinfo Control: retitle -1 ftp.debian.org: `dak process-policy new` loses .buildinfo files The title says "loses .buildinfo files", but the IRC log says: > tar tf /srv/ftp-master.debian.org/queue/done/2019/02.tar.xz | grep > liblogger-simple-perl >

Re: git & Debian packaging sprint report

2019-07-23 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Russ Allbery writes: > Scott Kitterman writes: >> Except that we have different requirements than git. Git isn't looking >> for security properties from SHA-1, so it's highly likely it'll meet >> their accident avoidance requirements long after it's no longer >> appropriate for security related

Bug#932789: tor: Line unexpectedly reached at channel_tls_handle_cell at ../src/core/or/channeltls.c:1111

2019-07-23 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Package: tor Version: 0.3.5.8-1 Severity: normal Tags: upstream Hi, I found the following warning in my log files: +--- | Tor[2185]: Bug: Line unexpectedly reached at channel_tls_handle_cell at ../src/core/or/channeltls.c:. Stack trace: (on Tor 0.3.5.8 ) | Tor[2185]: Bug:

Re: git & Debian packaging sprint report

2019-07-16 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
the same way as tag2upload does, AFAICT. That is true and I don't like it. I should probably add a sha2 hash somewhere. (Note that we *can* just change it...) > On Mon 15 Jul 2019 at 10:43PM +02, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: > > It also has one downside: `git tag` alone won't be enough to gene

Re: git & Debian packaging sprint report

2019-07-15 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Russ Allbery writes: > Ansgar Burchardt writes: >> The client tool could possibly also just create the .dsc and .changes, >> except for hashes of the compressed files, and the web service just >> recreate the tarball and compress them. > > I think experience

Re: git & Debian packaging sprint report

2019-07-15 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Russ Allbery writes: > Ansgar Burchardt writes: >> Russ Allbery writes: >>> If so, I think that security model is roughly equivalent to the >>> automatic signing of binary packages by buildds, so probably doesn't >>> introduce a new vulnerability, > >

Re: git & Debian packaging sprint report

2019-07-15 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Russ Allbery writes: > If so, I think that security model is roughly equivalent to the automatic > signing of binary packages by buildds, so probably doesn't introduce a new > vulnerability, It doesn't rely on strong cryptographic hashes to guarantee integrity. To quote Wikipedia: +--- |

Re: Is it the job of Lintian to push an agenda?

2019-07-14 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Russ Allbery writes: > Matthias Klumpp writes: >> With two Debian stable releases defaulting to systemd now, I think a >> solid case could be made to at least relax the "must" requirement to a >> "should" in policy (but that should better go to the respective bug >> report). > > The Policy process

Re: Buster install

2019-07-13 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Curt Howland writes: > I know some kinks will work out, but seriously, /sbin is not in root's > path by default? /sbin is in root's path by default. However Debian now uses a different implementation of `su` which no longer changes PATH by default: +--- | - new 'su' (with no args, i.e. when

Re: git & Debian packaging sprint report

2019-07-12 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
On Thu, 2019-07-11 at 17:58 -0300, Antonio Terceiro wrote: > > We designed and implemented a system to make it possible for DDs to > > upload new versions of packages by simply pushing a specially > > formatted git tag to salsa. [...] > If the uploads will be done by a service, this means that all

Bug#931923: gnupg: should support sha2 fingerprints

2019-07-12 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Package: gnupg Version: 2.2.12-1 Severity: normal Tags: upstream >From man:gpg(1): +--- | This format is deduced from the length of the string and its content | or the 0x prefix. Note, that only the 20 byte version fingerprint | is available with gpgsm (i.e. the SHA-1 hash of the certificate).

Bug#931847: Boggus package-supports-alternative-init-but-no-init.d-script test?

2019-07-11 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
On Thu, 11 Jul 2019 13:26:34 +0200 Laurent Bigonville wrote: > My understanding of the policy is that, if a package supports an > alternative init (other than systemd) it must also support sysvinit. > > Also note that if the check is actually correct, this will create false > positive for all the

Bug#931847: Boggus package-supports-alternative-init-but-no-init.d-script test?

2019-07-11 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
On Thu, 11 Jul 2019 13:26:34 +0200 Laurent Bigonville wrote: > My understanding of the policy is that, if a package supports an > alternative init (other than systemd) it must also support sysvinit. > > Also note that if the check is actually correct, this will create false > positive for all the

Bug#931785: release-notes: bullseye: security suite renamed to bullseye-security (from buster/updates)

2019-07-10 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Package: release-notes Severity: normal For bullseye, the security suite is now named bullseye-security instead of buster/updates and users should adapt their sources.list accordingly when upgrading. People should probably use something like deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security

Bug#931785: release-notes: bullseye: security suite renamed to bullseye-security (from buster/updates)

2019-07-10 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Package: release-notes Severity: normal For bullseye, the security suite is now named bullseye-security instead of buster/updates and users should adapt their sources.list accordingly when upgrading. People should probably use something like deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security

Bug#931785: release-notes: bullseye: security suite renamed to bullseye-security (from buster/updates)

2019-07-10 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Package: release-notes Severity: normal For bullseye, the security suite is now named bullseye-security instead of buster/updates and users should adapt their sources.list accordingly when upgrading. People should probably use something like deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security

Bug#931764: popularity-contest: please report foreign architectures

2019-07-10 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Package: popularity-contest Version: 1.67 Severity: wishlist Hi, it would be nice if popularity-contest would report which foreign architecture are enabled, i.e. the list `dpkg --print-foreign-architectures` should report. In particular I'm interested in seeing how many people have enabled i386

Bug#931525: dak: NVIU removal should only happen after some time

2019-07-07 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Package: ftp.debian.org Removing packages from experimental when a newer version is available in unstable should only happen after the package has been in unstable for a few days. This works around https://bugs.debian.org/865304 (too early removal of overrides). It also keep binaries available

Re: Unreliable systemd user service

2019-06-21 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Aidan Gauland writes: > I have a user service for running xautolock that does not start on login > reliably, and I have no idea why, because there is no error message, > just an exit code of 1.  (Unit file and output of systemctl status > attached.)  Any suggestions on what to do next to

Bug#930428: debootstrap should ensure matching _apt uid

2019-06-20 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Philipp Kern writes: > 20/06/2019 20:22, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: >> You look up which uid the _apt user inside the chroot has and use that. > > Yeah, but that scales poorly if you have a centralized firewall > policy. It means that you need to maintain dynamic rules. I know it's

Bug#930428: debootstrap should ensure matching _apt uid

2019-06-20 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Philipp Kern writes: > 20/06/2019 20:22, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: >> You look up which uid the _apt user inside the chroot has and use that. > > Yeah, but that scales poorly if you have a centralized firewall > policy. It means that you need to maintain dynamic rules. I know it's

Re: libpam-ck-connector missing

2019-06-20 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Hans writes: > I am running denbian/testing and dicovered, that /var/log/auth.log is got > spammed with the message, that /lib/security/pam_ck_connector.so is missing. > > And yes, it is really missing. However, libpam-ck-connector can not be > installed (due to dependencies of systemd).

Bug#930428: debootstrap should ensure matching _apt uid

2019-06-20 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Trek writes: > Ansgar Burchardt wrote: >> For limiting network access, I would recommend instead using network >> namespaces (to only provide limited network access for all processes) >> and/or user namespaces (if filtering for single UIDs is really >> needed). Th

Bug#930428: debootstrap should ensure matching _apt uid

2019-06-20 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Trek writes: > Ansgar Burchardt wrote: >> For limiting network access, I would recommend instead using network >> namespaces (to only provide limited network access for all processes) >> and/or user namespaces (if filtering for single UIDs is really >> needed). Th

Bug#930788: creating /var/lib/dpkg/cmethopt

2019-06-20 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Package: apt,dselect Severity: normal Hi, [ X-Debbugs-Cc'ed -boot@ for debootstrap ] today I learned that debootstrap as special code to create the file /var/lib/dpkg/cmethopt (contents: "apt apt"); this is the function setup_dselect_method in functions. It seems wrong that debootstrap has

Bug#930788: creating /var/lib/dpkg/cmethopt

2019-06-20 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Package: apt,dselect Severity: normal Hi, [ X-Debbugs-Cc'ed -boot@ for debootstrap ] today I learned that debootstrap as special code to create the file /var/lib/dpkg/cmethopt (contents: "apt apt"); this is the function setup_dselect_method in functions. It seems wrong that debootstrap has

Bug#930788: creating /var/lib/dpkg/cmethopt

2019-06-20 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Package: apt,dselect Severity: normal Hi, [ X-Debbugs-Cc'ed -boot@ for debootstrap ] today I learned that debootstrap as special code to create the file /var/lib/dpkg/cmethopt (contents: "apt apt"); this is the function setup_dselect_method in functions. It seems wrong that debootstrap has

Re: The Difference between debcheckout and dgit and what they try to accomplish

2019-06-20 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
On Thu, 2019-06-20 at 10:52 +0200, Enrico Zini wrote: > This reminds me of something that popped up in a dinner discussion a few > days ago: mandate documenting workflow in debian/README.source no matter > what, and allow to symlink that file to a repository in > /usr/share/doc/somewhere/ as we do

Bug#927667: gnome: please confirm or revert choice of Wayland for default desktop

2019-06-20 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Michael Biebl writes: > On Wed, 19 Jun 2019 22:16:58 +0200 Ansgar Burchardt wrote: >> I'm just a GNOME user, but from gdm3's changelog the default was >> switched to Wayland in July 2017 (or August 2017 for unstable). I >> myself only noticed the switch after reading

Bug#927667: gnome: please confirm or revert choice of Wayland for default desktop

2019-06-20 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Michael Biebl writes: > On Wed, 19 Jun 2019 22:16:58 +0200 Ansgar Burchardt wrote: >> I'm just a GNOME user, but from gdm3's changelog the default was >> switched to Wayland in July 2017 (or August 2017 for unstable). I >> myself only noticed the switch after reading

Bug#930428: debootstrap should ensure matching _apt uid

2019-06-20 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Ansgar Burchardt writes: > (I don't maintain debootstrap.) > > I don't think it is a good idea to require debootstrap to know about > such details. > > For limiting network access, I would recommend instead using network > namespaces (to only provide limited network acc

Bug#930428: debootstrap should ensure matching _apt uid

2019-06-20 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Ansgar Burchardt writes: > (I don't maintain debootstrap.) > > I don't think it is a good idea to require debootstrap to know about > such details. > > For limiting network access, I would recommend instead using network > namespaces (to only provide limited network acc

Bug#930428: debootstrap should ensure matching _apt uid

2019-06-20 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Michael Schaller writes: > At the end of the 'apt' package installation the '_apt' user will be > created without specifying a fixed uid. This typically results in a > differing '_apt' uid between the host system and the bootstrapped > system. The differing '_apt' uid is problematic in case the

Bug#930428: debootstrap should ensure matching _apt uid

2019-06-20 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Michael Schaller writes: > At the end of the 'apt' package installation the '_apt' user will be > created without specifying a fixed uid. This typically results in a > differing '_apt' uid between the host system and the bootstrapped > system. The differing '_apt' uid is problematic in case the

Re: The Difference between debcheckout and dgit and what they try to accomplish

2019-06-19 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Russ Allbery writes: > Colin Watson writes: >> Is it at all likely that the ftpmaster api service might migrate away >> from Let's Encrypt at this point? I would assume probably not. In that >> case, you could at least make the situation substantially better with no >> further DSA work required

Bug#927667: gnome: please confirm or revert choice of Wayland for default desktop

2019-06-19 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Jonathan Dowland writes: > So far as I am aware there is still radio silence from active GNOME > packaging team members regarding this issue. No comment yet on the > patch I adapted, positive or negative; this bug (#927667) remains > at an RC severity. > > I've not yet read all the thread that

Bug#927667: gnome: please confirm or revert choice of Wayland for default desktop

2019-06-19 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Jonathan Dowland writes: > So far as I am aware there is still radio silence from active GNOME > packaging team members regarding this issue. No comment yet on the > patch I adapted, positive or negative; this bug (#927667) remains > at an RC severity. > > I've not yet read all the thread that

Re: Bug#927667: gnome: please confirm or revert choice of Wayland for default desktop

2019-06-19 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Jonathan Dowland writes: > So far as I am aware there is still radio silence from active GNOME > packaging team members regarding this issue. No comment yet on the > patch I adapted, positive or negative; this bug (#927667) remains > at an RC severity. > > I've not yet read all the thread that

Bug#869184: dpkg: source uploads including _amd64.buildinfo cause problems

2019-06-18 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Mattia Rizzolo writes: > On Tue, Jun 18, 2019 at 06:29:12PM +0200, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: >> The .buildinfo files are referred to in the .changes files; renaming >> them would require updating the .changes file. The .changes files are >> used to upload the security

Bug#869184: dpkg: source uploads including _amd64.buildinfo cause problems

2019-06-18 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Mattia Rizzolo writes: > On Tue, Jun 18, 2019 at 06:29:12PM +0200, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: >> The .buildinfo files are referred to in the .changes files; renaming >> them would require updating the .changes file. The .changes files are >> used to upload the security

Bug#869184: dpkg: source uploads including _amd64.buildinfo cause problems

2019-06-18 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
On Mon, 2019-06-17 at 13:12 -0700, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > > This behaviour is really causing issues for the security-archive so in > > one way or the other there needs to be a solution. Regularly we need > > to fetch the buildd changes and build binary packages, resign them and > > reupload

Bug#869184: dpkg: source uploads including _amd64.buildinfo cause problems

2019-06-18 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
On Mon, 2019-06-17 at 13:12 -0700, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > > This behaviour is really causing issues for the security-archive so in > > one way or the other there needs to be a solution. Regularly we need > > to fetch the buildd changes and build binary packages, resign them and > > reupload

Re: Bug#869184: dpkg: source uploads including _amd64.buildinfo cause problems

2019-06-18 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
On Mon, 2019-06-17 at 13:12 -0700, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > > This behaviour is really causing issues for the security-archive so in > > one way or the other there needs to be a solution. Regularly we need > > to fetch the buildd changes and build binary packages, resign them and > > reupload

Bug#930482: openblas: uses AVX-512 even when AVX-512 is not available in a VM

2019-06-13 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Package: libopenblas-base Version: 0.3.5+ds-3 Severity: important File: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libopenblas.so.0 Tags: upstream OpenBLAS tries to use AVX-2 / AVX-512 even when it is not actually available, causing programs to crash with SIGILL: +--- | Thread 1 "cholmodtest" received signal

Bug#930482: openblas: uses AVX-512 even when AVX-512 is not available in a VM

2019-06-13 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Package: libopenblas-base Version: 0.3.5+ds-3 Severity: important File: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libopenblas.so.0 Tags: upstream OpenBLAS tries to use AVX-2 / AVX-512 even when it is not actually available, causing programs to crash with SIGILL: +--- | Thread 1 "cholmodtest" received signal

Bug#929265: coinor-ipopt: new upstream release available

2019-05-20 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Package: src:coinor-ipopt Version: 3.11.9-2.1 Severity: wishlist The Debian version of IPopt lags quite a bit behind upstream: Debian still ships 3.11.9 (released 2014-08-16); the current upstream release is 3.12.13 (released 2019-04-08), but there were several releases in between that were not

Bug#929122: coinor-ipopt: use parallel version of MUMPS (though only with one process)

2019-05-17 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Package: src:coinor-ipopt Version: 3.11.9-2.1 Severity: normal I had some problems with IPopt using the sequential version of MUMPS recently: as MUMPS provides dummy `MPI_*` functions, my program ended up using some of them or MUMPS used some of the real MPI functions. As mentioned in IPopt's

Bug#929108: unblock / tpu approval: gmsh/4.1.3+ds1-2

2019-05-17 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
:41:56.0 +0200 @@ -1,3 +1,10 @@ +gmsh (4.1.3+ds1-2) buster; urgency=medium + + * Team upload. + * debian/rules: Do not pass `-DOCC_INC=...` to cmake (Closes: #927808) + + -- Ansgar Burchardt Fri, 17 May 2019 10:41:56 +0200 + gmsh (4.1.3+ds1-1) unstable; urgency=medium * [dbbbe82] New upstr

Bug#929108: unblock / tpu approval: gmsh/4.1.3+ds1-2

2019-05-17 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
:41:56.0 +0200 @@ -1,3 +1,10 @@ +gmsh (4.1.3+ds1-2) buster; urgency=medium + + * Team upload. + * debian/rules: Do not pass `-DOCC_INC=...` to cmake (Closes: #927808) + + -- Ansgar Burchardt Fri, 17 May 2019 10:41:56 +0200 + gmsh (4.1.3+ds1-1) unstable; urgency=medium * [dbbbe82] New upstr

Bug#910783: Remove doc-base recommendation

2019-05-15 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Paul Wise writes: > On Thu, 11 Oct 2018 17:32:52 -0700 Sean Whitton wrote: >> Instead, if there is indeed consensus, we should change it so that it >> no longer says that doc-base registration is recommended. > > We need a cross-distro cross-desktop standard for an index of > docs before we can

Bug#910783: Remove doc-base recommendation

2019-05-15 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Paul Wise writes: > On Thu, 11 Oct 2018 17:32:52 -0700 Sean Whitton wrote: >> Instead, if there is indeed consensus, we should change it so that it >> no longer says that doc-base registration is recommended. > > We need a cross-distro cross-desktop standard for an index of > docs before we can

Re: https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/pkg-systemd/Packaging

2019-05-13 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Hi, On Mon, 2019-05-13 at 12:38 +0200, Maximilian Batz wrote: > I believe to have found a typo in the following line: > > Users can also install a complete unit file > to /etc/systemd/system/foo.service. Systemd then uses it instead > of /lib/systemd/systemd/foo.service. > > I believe it should

Re: .deb format: let's use 0.939, zstd, drop bzip2

2019-05-10 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Ian Jackson writes: > Ansgar writes ("Re: .deb format: let's use 0.939, zstd, drop bzip2"): >> `ar` needs to be replaced for the file size limitation mentioned in the >> initial mail: ar represents file size as a 10 digit decimal number[1] >> which limits the members (control.tar.*, data.tar.*) to

Re: Configure your PC to contribute to Debian community

2019-05-09 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Vipul writes: > I've been using Debian from couples of years but haven't contributed > yet back to community. I want to contribute to Debian by maintaining > packages and fixing bugs. Since I'm using Debian for work purpose also > so, I don't want to mess-up with my system by installing unstable >

Re: Preferred git branch structure when upstream moves from tarballs to git

2019-05-06 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Sam Hartman writes: >> "Ansgar" == Ansgar writes: > > Ansgar> Sam Hartman writes: > >> I'm having a bit of trouble here and am hoping you can help us > >> out. Ian asked what git workflow it is that you're talking about > >> where people can deal with commit push and pull

Bug#926215: dune-pdelab: FTBFS with gcc 8.3

2019-05-06 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
On Sun, 2019-05-05 at 16:05 +0200, Santiago Vila wrote: > [ Ansgar: If you still can reproduce the assertion failure, please > file > a new bug. It's better not to mix different issues in the same report ]. The other assertion failure I had also disappeared this week. Not sure if there is a

Bug#926215: dune-pdelab: FTBFS with gcc 8.3

2019-05-06 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
On Sun, 2019-05-05 at 16:05 +0200, Santiago Vila wrote: > [ Ansgar: If you still can reproduce the assertion failure, please > file > a new bug. It's better not to mix different issues in the same report ]. The other assertion failure I had also disappeared this week. Not sure if there is a

Bug#926215: dune-pdelab: FTBFS with gcc 8.3

2019-05-06 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
On Sun, 2019-05-05 at 16:05 +0200, Santiago Vila wrote: > [ Ansgar: If you still can reproduce the assertion failure, please > file > a new bug. It's better not to mix different issues in the same report ]. The other assertion failure I had also disappeared this week. Not sure if there is a

Re: "missing pubkey" for buster-security

2019-05-06 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Harald Dunkel writes: > I am running a local mirror of the security.debian.org > repository for in-house use. It seems to be available for > Buster as well, except that there is an error message > > ERROR: Condition '7638D0442B90D010' not fulfilled for >

Re: Preferred git branch structure when upstream moves from tarballs to git

2019-05-02 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
On Tue, 2019-04-30 at 16:00 -0700, Sean Whitton wrote: > > On Tue 30 Apr 2019 at 08:05AM +02, Ansgar wrote: > > > As an example: to update to a new upstream release, I ideally just have > > to drop the new upstream tarball, update d/changelog and am done. > > Compare with [1] which is much more

Bug#926215: dune-pdelab: FTBFS with gcc 8.3

2019-04-17 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Control: reassign -1 src:dune-pdelab 2.6~20180302-1 Control: retitle -1 dune-pdelab: testpk fails with assertion failure On Mon, 2019-04-08 at 08:42 +0200, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: > This is a bug in dune-istl, though I'm not quite sure I understand > what > is exactly wrong.

Bug#926215: dune-pdelab: FTBFS with gcc 8.3

2019-04-17 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Control: reassign -1 src:dune-pdelab 2.6~20180302-1 Control: retitle -1 dune-pdelab: testpk fails with assertion failure On Mon, 2019-04-08 at 08:42 +0200, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: > This is a bug in dune-istl, though I'm not quite sure I understand > what > is exactly wrong.

Re: A call to drop gnome as the default desktop

2019-04-17 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Keith Bainbridge writes: > I see the point that people who like gnome should be allowed to use it > - > so withdraw the drop gnome from debian. I believe the change to the > subject line will keep the discussion together. I'll re-send if it > opens a new topic. Why should GNOME not stay the

Re: A call to drop gnome

2019-04-17 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Gene Heskett writes: > On Tuesday 16 April 2019 13:32:38 Ansgar Burchardt wrote: >> Gene Heskett writes: >> > Where the heck in its confusing menu's can I find a tab supporting >> > terminal so I can get something done? Go ahead, find it, my coffee >> > ne

Re: A call to drop gnome

2019-04-16 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Gene Heskett writes: > Where the heck in its confusing menu's can I find a tab supporting > terminal so I can get something done? Go ahead, find it, my coffee needs > to cool anyway.. You press the magic Super key, then type "Terminal" on the keyboard (or at least the beginning), then press

Bug#917535: debian-archive-keyring: ftp-master key for buster

2019-04-14 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Niels Thykier writes: > We need new archive signing keys for buster, so we can include them in > a debian-archive-keyring upload before the buster release. The two keys are prepared; I'm waiting for a few more signatures from other ftp masters. FWIW they will be: pub rsa4096 2019-04-14 [SC]

Bug#917535: debian-archive-keyring: ftp-master key for buster

2019-04-14 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Niels Thykier writes: > We need new archive signing keys for buster, so we can include them in > a debian-archive-keyring upload before the buster release. The two keys are prepared; I'm waiting for a few more signatures from other ftp masters. FWIW they will be: pub rsa4096 2019-04-14 [SC]

Bug#926849: Generate treeinfo files to ease automatic installations

2019-04-11 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
On Thu, 2019-04-11 at 11:49 +0200, Guido Günther wrote: > E.g. for amd64 and stretch we'd have a file > >http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/stretch/main/installer-amd64/.treeinfo > > looking like > > [checksums] > current/images/netboot/mini.iso = sha256:... >

Bug#926215: dune-pdelab: FTBFS with gcc 8.3

2019-04-08 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Control: reassign -1 src:dune-istl 2.6.0-2 Control: affects -1 src:dune-pdelab Santiago Vila writes: > /usr/include/dune/istl/paamg/transfer.hh:97:5: error: no declaration matches > 'void Dune::Amg::Transfer Dune::Amg::SequentialInformation>::prolongateVector(const > Dune::Amg::AggregatesMap&,

Bug#926215: dune-pdelab: FTBFS with gcc 8.3

2019-04-08 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Control: reassign -1 src:dune-istl 2.6.0-2 Control: affects -1 src:dune-pdelab Santiago Vila writes: > /usr/include/dune/istl/paamg/transfer.hh:97:5: error: no declaration matches > 'void Dune::Amg::Transfer Dune::Amg::SequentialInformation>::prolongateVector(const > Dune::Amg::AggregatesMap&,

Bug#926215: dune-pdelab: FTBFS with gcc 8.3

2019-04-08 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Control: reassign -1 src:dune-istl 2.6.0-2 Control: affects -1 src:dune-pdelab Santiago Vila writes: > /usr/include/dune/istl/paamg/transfer.hh:97:5: error: no declaration matches > 'void Dune::Amg::Transfer Dune::Amg::SequentialInformation>::prolongateVector(const > Dune::Amg::AggregatesMap&,

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