Bug#1084924: The system-log-daemon virtual package

2024-11-07 Thread Matthew Vernon
Hi, On 07/11/2024 10:03, Helmut Grohne wrote: Indeed, we can lift Bastian's mail into a proper proposal. Logging services are generally assumed to be available. It becomes the responsibility of the init system or container runtime. The system-log-daemon virtual package mainly serves as an exclu

Bug#1084924: The system-log-daemon virtual package

2024-10-27 Thread Matthew Vernon
On 11/10/2024 12:03, Helmut Grohne wrote: On Fri, Oct 11, 2024 at 10:46:47AM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: Hi. Earlier this year I was asked [#1072021] to remove Recommends: ... system-log-daemon from one of my packages. There are some explanations here: [0]: https://lists.debian.org/debian-d

Bug#1085720: press: mastodon bot keeps reposting old news

2024-10-22 Thread Matthew Vernon
Package: press Severity: normal Hi, I follow the mastodon feed https://mastodon.social/@debian_os which is run from micronews.debian.org. It keeps reposting old articles - for instance the Debian Day post appeared today, and on Oct 13. Similarly, if you scroll down the feed, you'll see the "di

Bug#1071970: pcre3 should not be part of trixie

2024-10-20 Thread Matthew Vernon
On 30/09/2024 09:07, Daniel Lewart wrote: Dear Chris, Helmut, and Matthew, 1) pcre3 is no longer a key package 2) On Aug 15, pcre3 was removed from testing Can this bug be closed and marked as done? There are still a bunch of packages (now only in unstable) that {build,}-depend on pcre3 - s

Bug#1078651: Proposed patch

2024-08-20 Thread Matthew Vernon
Hi, On 19/08/2024 10:50, Mark Hindley wrote: Thanks for your invitation in #1078651 to help with this. My proposed patch is attached. Do let me have any comments. For reference, as the orphan-sysvinit-scripts maintainer, I entirely agree that keeping the init script in the original source pa

Bug#1078851: Resignation & call for votes to elect the Chair

2024-08-17 Thread Matthew Vernon
Hi, On 17/08/2024 05:10, Sean Whitton wrote: Thank you for your work as chair, Sean! ===BEGIN BALLOT A: Christoph Berg B: Matthew Garrett C: Helmut Grohne D: Stefano Rivera E: Timo Röhling F: Craig Small G: Matthew Vernon H: Sean Whitton ===END BALLOT I vote G = E > A = B = C

Bug#1075367: pcre3: ftbfs with GCC-14

2024-08-15 Thread Matthew Vernon
Hi, On 08/08/2024 21:38, Bastian Germann wrote: I am uploading a NMU to DELAYED/10 in order to fix this. Please find the debdiff attached. Thanks (I was on VAC); do note that pcre3 is not going to be in the trixie release, though (cf. bug 1071970). Regards, Matthew

Bug#1071970: pcre3 should not be part of trixie

2024-08-07 Thread Matthew Vernon
Hi, On 07/08/2024 06:18, Paul Gevers wrote: On 06-08-2024 23:33, Bastian Germann wrote: I am including a patch to drop the libpcre3-udeb. Please consider applying so that the package can be autoremoved. Please don't do that until you have approval from d-i. I included them in the mail chain.

Bug#1077764: Call for votes: don't issue any ruling

2024-08-06 Thread Matthew Vernon
Hi, On 06/08/2024 13:33, Sean Whitton wrote: = BEGIN BALLOT The Technical Committee declines to overrule the maintainer of base-files, or issue any advice on issues concerning /etc/os-release. We do not think there is a clear proposal on the table for us to assess, and we do not think it

Bug#1077764: Ruling request on os-release specification implementation

2024-08-06 Thread Matthew Vernon
On 06/08/2024 11:22, Luca Boccassi wrote: On Tue, 6 Aug 2024 at 11:10, Matthew Vernon wrote: Hi, On 06/08/2024 10:42, Luca Boccassi wrote: This is not a hard technical problem with no known solution that we are asking for design guidance on. This is a trivial technical problem with a hard

Bug#1077764: Ruling request on os-release specification implementation

2024-08-06 Thread Matthew Vernon
On 06/08/2024 11:22, Luca Boccassi wrote: On Tue, 6 Aug 2024 at 11:10, Matthew Vernon wrote: The policy question of "should testing and unstable be differentiated by os-release" isn't straightforward, and there isn't consensus that the answer should be "yes&quo

Bug#1077764: Ruling request on os-release specification implementation

2024-08-06 Thread Matthew Vernon
Hi, On 06/08/2024 10:42, Luca Boccassi wrote: This is not a hard technical problem with no known solution that we are asking for design guidance on. This is a trivial technical problem with a hard social conflict at its core. What we are really blocked on is that the current owner of os-release

Bug#1071970: pcre3 should not be part of trixie

2024-08-06 Thread Matthew Vernon
Hi, On 06/08/2024 09:11, Bastian Germann wrote: pcre3 is still showing up with "reason: priority" as key package in https://udd.debian.org/cgi-bin/key_packages.yaml.cgi So this bug's severity will not take effect to autoremove it even when cfengine3 has migrated to testing. I cannot find the

Bug#1070106: [Rsbackup-maint] Bug#1070106: rsbackup: please add support for loong64

2024-08-06 Thread Matthew Vernon
Hi, Sorry, it is on the todo list, but I'm a bit short of time right now; have you sent it to upstream? Regards, Matthew

Bug#1077764: Ruling request on os-release specification implementation

2024-08-02 Thread Matthew Vernon
Hi, With my jaunty TC member hat on, I would prefer if issue came to us with a description of both sides' perspective on the discussion that they would view as fair. In any case, I hope that Santiago will feel able to chime in with their perspective. My initial thought is that this is really

Bug#1063571: libpcre3: move libraries to /usr (DEP17)

2024-05-26 Thread Matthew Vernon
Hi, On 25/05/2024 21:43, Chris Hofstaedtler wrote: On Fri, Feb 09, 2024 at 04:23:27PM +0100, Helmut Grohne wrote: Package: libpcre3 [..] we want to finalize the /usr-merge transition by moving all aliased files from / to /usr via DEP17 to avoid any negative effects arising from aliasing. libp

Bug#1070195: glib2.0: test failure with pcre2/10.43: asserts that a variable-length lookbehind is an error

2024-05-01 Thread Matthew Vernon
Hi, On 01/05/2024 17:29, Simon McVittie wrote: Matthew, if pcre2 (>= 10.43) isn't urgent, please don't upload it to unstable until after this glib2.0 bug has been fixed (and ideally also migrated to testing). Thanks for looking into this! I'm happy to hold off on a pcre2 upload to unstable u

Bug#1069890: Resignation & call for votes to elect the Chair

2024-04-30 Thread Matthew Vernon
Hi, ===BEGIN A: Christoph Berg B: Matthew Garrett C: Helmut Grohne D: Stefano Rivera E: Timo Röhling F: Craig Small G: Matthew Vernon H: Sean Whitton ===END I vote H > A = B = C = D = E = G > F If no-one else wants to be chair when Sean leaves, I'd be willing to do s

Bug#1060700: Requesting advice regarding the impact of problems caused by aliasing on declared Conflicts

2024-02-19 Thread Matthew Vernon
Hi, On 12/01/2024 12:31, Helmut Grohne wrote: For the gzip case, we have the additional question whether we tolerate the temporary policy violation for the trixie upgrade or halt the /usr-move and retry with a modified dpkg (that could land in trixie, so we could complete in forky). What's th

Bug#1060700: Requesting advice regarding the impact of problems caused by aliasing on declared Conflicts

2024-02-19 Thread Matthew Vernon
On 17/01/2024 14:07, Helmut Grohne wrote: I somehow missed how Ben's libnfsidmap bug #1058937 works slightly simpler. Given that $second has a conflict with the installed version of $first, one can skip that second step and instead install $second directly with dpkg -i. So no, this weird selecti

Bug#1063778: prayer: Sometimes bombs out "No HTTP or HTTPS ports active"

2024-02-12 Thread Matthew Vernon
Package: prayer Version: 1.3.5-dfsg1-8 Severity: normal Hi, Occasionally (December 14 2023, and February 12 2024) I have found that prayer has stopped working (fixed by a restart), and I find in the paniclog entries like: Dec 14 03:03:18 [20888] No HTTP or HTTPS ports active Feb 12 03:03:17 [5

Bug#1056793: False positive bug?

2024-02-10 Thread Matthew Vernon
Hi, I looked at the build log, and the problems look to be disk related? /usr/bin/ld: final link failed: No space left on device collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status (there follow further ENOSPC and also some No such file or directory errors, which presumably relate to things not written

Bug#1059712: orphan-sysvinit-scripts: dnscrypt-proxy init script not working out of the box

2024-01-03 Thread Matthew Vernon
Hi, On 30/12/2023 18:09, Matthias Geiger wrote: On Sat, 30 Dec 2023 18:52:52 +0100 Matthias Geiger wrote: > Package: orphan-sysvinit-scripts > Version: 0.15 > Severity: important > > Dear Maintainer, > > I installed dnscrypt-proxy alongside orphan-sysvinit-scripts. The > service does n

Bug#1058937: /usr-move: Do we support upgrades without apt?

2023-12-21 Thread Matthew Vernon
Hi, On 21/12/2023 09:41, Helmut Grohne wrote: Is it ok to call upgrade scenarios failures that cannot be reproduced using apt unsupported until we no longer deal with aliasing? I incline towards "no"; if an upgrade has failed part-way (as does happen), people may then reasonably use dpkg dir

Bug#1057279: xtrlock option to verify password via a subprocess

2023-12-07 Thread Matthew Vernon
Hi, On 02/12/2023 15:23, Simon Tatham wrote: I run xtrlock on a machine which doesn't store all its passwd/shadow entries locally. So xtrlock is unable to verify my password by the usual method. To get around this, I added a feature which replaces the passwd/shadow based check with a user-prov

Bug#1055632: bind9: needs restarting daily to resolve www.dumbingofage.com

2023-11-09 Thread Matthew Vernon
Package: bind9 Version: 1:9.18.19-1~deb12u1 Severity: normal Hi, This is a weird one, but it's been happening daily for a few days now, so I figured it was worth reporting. For the last few days, if I try and visit https://www.dumbingofage.com/ Firefox can't resolve the hostname, similarly on

Bug#1055507: apt: needs a say to specify 'use this suite only for versioned dependencies'

2023-11-07 Thread Matthew Vernon
Package: apt Version: 2.6.1 Severity: important Hi, When installing the dependencies of a package, it should be possible to have apt use an otherwise lower-priority suite only if necessary to satisfy a versioned dependency. In the abstract: consider two suites A and B, where every package in su

Bug#1055463: sysvinit-core: Please entirely remove SysVinit

2023-11-07 Thread Matthew Vernon
Hi, On 07/11/2023 01:14, Patrik Schindler wrote: Am 07.11.2023 um 01:59 schrieb Thorsten Glaser : I have sysvinit-core installed and orphan-sysvinit-scripts was not pulled in automatically. Yeah, it’s not. As I'm learning from a discussion in bug #1055466, this is due to orphan-sysvinit-sc

Bug#1052460: tech-ctte: In re ticket 1051368: including Selenium Manager in python3-selenium package

2023-09-22 Thread Matthew Vernon
Hi, On 22/09/2023 14:50, Jonathan Kamens wrote: The current version of the Selenium bindings for all supported programming languages relies on a Rust executable called Selenium Manager for managing the webdriver executables required for the various browsers that the bindings interact with. Se

Bug#1051471: btrfsd: cron job for calling btrfsd

2023-09-10 Thread Matthew Vernon
Hi, Just a note on the libsystemd dependency. On 10/09/2023 10:21, Martin Steigerwald wrote: Sure, that should actually be extremely low-maintenance, there isn't any hard dependency the daemon has on systemd - with one exception: It uses libsystemd to write to the journal if that's available,

Bug#1050819: pcre2: Please enable JIT on riscv64

2023-08-29 Thread Matthew Vernon
Hi, On 29/08/2023 18:01, Aurelien Jarno wrote: PCRE2 gained support for JIT on riscv64 in version 10.41 and it is recommended to enable it [1]. Could you please do that for the next upload? I have tested the following patch without issue: Sure; I'm building an updated package now. I didn't qu

Bug#1050001: Unwinding directory aliasing [and 3 more messages]

2023-08-27 Thread Matthew Vernon
Dear Luca, On 27/08/2023 03:16, Luca Boccassi wrote: [things] You've already been asked by a couple of people to moderate your tone in this thread. I appreciate there is a lot of frustration around /usr-merge, but your contributions are not helping with that at all. Nor do they help us have

Bug#1043420: orphan-sysvinit-scripts: triggers will be broken by /usr-merge

2023-08-24 Thread Matthew Vernon
control: tags -patch quit Hi, On 10/08/2023 17:49, Helmut Grohne wrote: at https://subdivi.de/~helmut/dep17.html). Even though we are still in the process of selecting mitigations, the mitigation for this already is pretty clear: Duplicating triggers (M12). I'm attaching a patch for your conve

Bug#1050179: dgit: unable to clone -security suites (?since bullseye)

2023-08-22 Thread Matthew Vernon
n Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Matthew Vernon Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2023 16:10:11 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Use the old /updates security map for buster (Closes: #1050179) The suite-map and suite-rmap for debian-security are necessary for the pre-bullseye layout of the security.debian.org archive.

Bug#1050179: dgit: unable to clone -security suites (?since bullseye)

2023-08-21 Thread Matthew Vernon
control: tags 1050179 +patch quit On 21/08/2023 15:21, Ian Jackson wrote: Thanks for the report and the investigation! Matthew Vernon writes ("Bug#1050179: dgit: unable to clone -security suites (?since bullseye)"): The difficulty is that there is AFAICT no version-knowledge in

Bug#1050179: dgit: unable to clone -security suites (?since bullseye)

2023-08-21 Thread Matthew Vernon
Package: dgit Version: 10.7 Severity: important Hi, It's suggested (in e.g. dgit-user(7)) to clone a combined ,-security suite. But this does not work (transcript 0 below), with an error about missing Release file: E: The repository 'http://security.debian.org/debian-security bookworm/updates

Bug#1050001: Unwinding the directory aliasing mistake

2023-08-18 Thread Matthew Vernon
On 18/08/2023 09:05, Christoph Berg wrote: Re: Ian Jackson Protecting my mental health I will try to avoid regularly reading this thread. I hope that now that I have made the suggestion, others will be able to carry the conversation. I will be configuring my mail client to disregard my person

Bug#1043335: dgit-user(7) should note where dgit build is inappropriate (e.g. CI)

2023-08-09 Thread Matthew Vernon
Package: dgit Version: 10.1 Severity: normal X-Debbugs-Cc: mver...@wikimedia.org, matt...@debian.org Hi, I want to build packages from a dgit tree in CI; I spent some time arranging for e.g. git deborig to work so that I could do: git-deborig mk-build-deps dgit -wg build And you pointed out th

Bug#1042082: Please take over udev SysV init script

2023-07-26 Thread Matthew Vernon
Hi, On 26/07/2023 19:43, lorenzo wrote: may I suggest to add this script to initscripts package(sysvinit:src) instead of o-s-s? A system without udev is not very common after all and the vast majority of scripts strictly needed to boot and shutdown the system are shipped there. Wearing my o-s

Bug#1042082: Please take over udev SysV init script

2023-07-26 Thread Matthew Vernon
On 26/07/2023 15:16, Luca Boccassi wrote: On Wed, 26 Jul 2023 14:24:09 +0200 Michael Biebl wrote: Package: orphan-sysvinit-scripts Severity: normal X-Debbugs-Cc: pkg-systemd-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org Hi, in one of the upcoming releases of udev, the legacy SysV init script will be dr

Bug#1041073: exim4: Add CLI option to retry delivery for a particular recipient of a mail

2023-07-14 Thread Matthew Vernon
Source: exim4 Version: 4.96-15 Severity: normal Tags: upstream Hi, The exim CLI tool has a number of options for selecting particular messages for {,re-}delivery attempts; but in all cases it will retry all undelivered recipients of those messages. It would be nice to be able to specify a subset

Bug#1041072: trixie: Explicitly flag that /usr-merge changes will break skip-upgrades

2023-07-14 Thread Matthew Vernon
Package: release-notes Severity: normal X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-c...@debian.org Hi, We don't support skip-upgrades, but in practice they can often be made to work by an experienced administrator. For trixie, though, packages are going to be allowed to assume merged-/usr, and the ongoing work to res

Bug#1034779: pcre2: Please drop sparc from the JIT architectures in debian/rules

2023-07-11 Thread Matthew Vernon
Hi, On 11/07/2023 10:21, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: On Mon, 2023-04-24 at 23:28 +0100, Matthew Vernon wrote: Hi, On 24/04/2023 10:28, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: While we're currently not building Debian for 32-bit SPARC (sparc), it's still being bootstrapped in

Bug#1000113: kodi: depends on obsolete pcre3 library

2023-07-06 Thread Matthew Vernon
Hi, On 06/07/2023 06:33, Vasyl Gello wrote: Yes I definitely see the bug. However, Kodi extensively uses pcrecpp and the only replacement I see for pcre2 is jpcre2 [1] There is an ITP bug about it since 2017 but no package. Matthew, from your experience, is jpcre2 the only C++ wrapper for pcr

Bug#1040364: orphan-sysvinit-scripts: add triggers to restart daemons

2023-07-05 Thread Matthew Vernon
Hi, On 04/07/2023 22:38, g1 wrote: please consider adding triggers for restarting daemons when the executables change (usually at package upgrade). Is this always desireable? I'd normally expect a package postinst to invoke-rc.d or similar. Regards, Matthew

Bug#1040306: emacs: MML fails to list any keys thus signing fails

2023-07-04 Thread Matthew Vernon
he key I'd expect: u 12F4D21C8F6A63C8 Matthew Vernon [cf gpg --list-secret-keys: sec rsa4096 2009-12-14 [SC] BA4EF9C84DF96D37D8A1E2D412F4D21C8F6A63C8 uid [ultimate] Matthew Vernon uid [ultimate] Matthew Vernon ssb rsa4096 2009-12-14 [E] ] But if I try and

Bug#1040228: Resignation & call for votes to elect the Chair

2023-07-04 Thread Matthew Vernon
Hi, On 03/07/2023 17:55, Sean Whitton wrote: ===BEGIN A: Christoph Berg B: Matthew Garrett C: Helmut Grohne D: Simon McVittie E: Stefano Rivera F: Timo Röhling G: Matthew Vernon H: Sean Whitton ===END I vote: H > A = B = C = D = G > E = F Regards, Matthew OpenPGP_sig

Bug#1038903: initscripts: orphan-sysvinit-scripts needs to be a prerequisite, not optional.

2023-06-23 Thread Matthew Vernon
Hi, On 23/06/2023 02:11, Thorsten Glaser wrote: Nothing for orphan-sysvinit-scripts, which *really* surprises me, as I’m certain we discussed this earlier. You may be remembering bullseye? After quite a lot of wrangling, we got a short note added to the release notes[0] and installation guid

Bug#1038903: initscripts: orphan-sysvinit-scripts needs to be a prerequisite, not optional.

2023-06-23 Thread Matthew Vernon
Hi, sysvinit-core in bookworm Recommends: orphan-sysvinit-scripts ; have you told apt to ignore recommends? I think I agree with others who have said that it wouldn't be appropriate for all sysvinit systems to install orphan-sysvinit-scripts (which would warrant a Depends: ); obviously that

Bug#1038903: initscripts: orphan-sysvinit-scripts needs to be a prerequisite, not optional.

2023-06-23 Thread Matthew Vernon
Hi, On 23/06/2023 01:24, Mason Loring Bliss wrote: On Fri, Jun 23, 2023 at 02:14:40AM +0200, Thorsten Glaser wrote: The choice to use a nōn-default setup (using rsyslogd at all in bookworm) is up to the local admin. It's not obvious from the release notes that rsyslog is deprecated. Maybe it

Bug#1037563: tech-ctte: Call for votes on TC membership of Timo Röhling

2023-06-14 Thread Matthew Vernon
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi, On Wed, 14 Jun 2023 10:04:54 +0100, Sean Whitton wrote: > > ===BEGIN > The Technical Committee recommends that Timo Röhling be > appointed by the Debian Project Leader to the Technical Committee. > > R: Recommend to appoint Timo Röhling > F:

Bug#1037562: tech-ctte: Call for votes on TC membership of Stefano Rivera

2023-06-14 Thread Matthew Vernon
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi, On Wed, 14 Jun 2023 10:03:19 +0100, Sean Whitton wrote: > ===BEGIN > The Technical Committee recommends that Stefano Rivera be > appointed by the Debian Project Leader to the Technical Committee. > > R: Recommend to appoint Stefano Rivera > F

Bug#1035904: dpkg currently warning about merged-usr systems (revisited)

2023-05-25 Thread Matthew Vernon
Hi, This thread has rather veered off the initial bug report. On 11/05/2023 13:16, Simon Richter wrote: Hi, On 5/11/23 10:59, Sean Whitton wrote: Dear ctte, please consider overruling the dpkg maintainer to include the patch from #994388[1]. Currently dpkg contains code to emit the merged

Bug#1035831: tech-ctte: Reinstate merged-/usr file movement moratorium

2023-05-16 Thread Matthew Vernon
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On Tue, 09 May 2023 21:26:10 +0100, Hi, Sean Whitton wrote: > === BEGIN > > OPTION A: > > Under Constitution 6.1.5, the Technical Committee recommends that the > maintainers of individual packages should not proactively move files > from the root

Bug#1035904: dpkg currently warning about merged-usr systems (revisited)

2023-05-15 Thread Matthew Vernon
On 15/05/2023 16:54, Bdale Garbee wrote: I could. Can you provide an example of actual value delivered to Debian from merged-/usr? With respect, I don't think this line of argument is going to get us very far - this bug isn't about whether we should undo usr-merge, so I don't think a debate

Bug#1034779: pcre2: Please drop sparc from the JIT architectures in debian/rules

2023-04-24 Thread Matthew Vernon
Hi, On 24/04/2023 10:28, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: While we're currently not building Debian for 32-bit SPARC (sparc), it's still being bootstrapped in the Debian rebootstrap project [1]. The CI job for sparc is currently failing because pcre2 is still being configured with "--enable-ji

Bug#1013448: pcre2 relies on write+execute mappings unnecessarily

2023-04-12 Thread Matthew Vernon
On 12/04/2023 06:13, Trent W. Buck wrote: FYI, systemd's MemoryDenyWriteExecute=yes breaks "git grep" because of pcre2jit. An easy test command is something like this: $ journalctl --user -fn0 & # so you see the error $ systemd-run --property=MemoryDenyWriteExecute=yes --user git -

Bug#1033311: sysvinit-utils: pidof not always returning a pid, when using the full path to a program

2023-03-29 Thread Matthew Vernon
On 29/03/2023 12:37, Jesse Smith wrote: Given subsequent discussion, could we instead use canonicalize_file_name or realpath here instead? That would give us the "correct" path without pidof having to think hard about symlinks et al. I'm open to the possibility. I'm curious as to what you see

Bug#1033311: sysvinit-utils: pidof not always returning a pid when using the full path to a program

2023-03-29 Thread Matthew Vernon
On 24/03/2023 14:17, Jesse Smith wrote: On 2023-03-24 6:44 a.m., Markus Fischer wrote: I think I've figured it out. With the following patch I don't see the unexpected behaviour anymore: --- a/src/killall5.c +++ b/src/killall5.c @@ -662,6 +662,7 @@ int readproc()     /* Try to sta

Bug#972950: Another vote for reverting this change

2023-03-16 Thread Matthew Vernon
Control: severity -1 important Hi, I'd like to agree - can we have the traditional-in-Debian behaviour of "cal" back (i.e. highlighting the current data), please? As others have pointed out if you want to parse cal's output, then it automatically didn't highlight when piped elsewhere, and th

Bug#1018023: Update on this bug?

2023-03-11 Thread Matthew Vernon
Hi, On 10/03/2023 23:12, Jose Antonio Jimenez Madrid wrote: I have just uploaded to mentors a new version of the package fixing this bug. I will made other improvements after Bookworm is released as we are very close to the full freeze. The new package can be found here: https://mentors.debian

Bug#1032469: smartmontools: startup takes too long for systemd

2023-03-07 Thread Matthew Vernon
Package: smartmontools Version: 7.2-1 Severity: normal Hi, On some of our production servers with a lot of JBOD disks, smartd takes so long to start up that systemd's default 90s timeout kicks in and smartd gets killed. Example log extract: Mar 07 14:15:10 ms-be2070 systemd[1]: Starting Self Mo

Bug#1018023: Update on this bug?

2023-03-03 Thread Matthew Vernon
Hi, On 14/02/2023 18:36, Jose Antonio Jimenez Madrid wrote: I will test this patch and let you to know whether the bug is fixed. Any joy? We're approaching the time that eterm is going to be autoremoved from bookworm... Thanks, Matthew

Bug#1023255: NMU to fix

2023-02-28 Thread Matthew Vernon
orm without release team intervention * no code changes are made * bug fix is uncontroversial (it's simply reflecting changed paths in the package) Regards, MatthewFrom 298f793c6d5b456302d93ce84c404fac5b856c7b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Matthew Vernon Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2023 20:13:22

Bug#1023255: NMU to fix

2023-02-27 Thread Matthew Vernon
s, MatthewFrom 716d196b0c5dc9f3fe13a87d8010ae07048d4e7c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Matthew Vernon Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2023 20:13:22 + Subject: [PATCH 1/2] Correct path to git index format doc (Closes: #1023255) --- debian/git-doc.doc-base.git-index-format | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --g

Bug#1031854: orphan-sysvinit-scripts: should cope with defective rsyslog-rotate

2023-02-24 Thread Matthew Vernon
On 24/02/2023 11:20, Lorenzo wrote: On Fri, 24 Feb 2023 09:20:29 + Matthew Vernon wrote: rsyslog-rotate should HUP rsyslog as appropriate for the installed init system. It doesn't, so orphan-sysvinit-scripts should work around this on sysvinit systems, without causing problems on sy

Bug#1031854: orphan-sysvinit-scripts: should cope with defective rsyslog-rotate

2023-02-24 Thread Matthew Vernon
Package: orphan-sysvinit-scripts Version: 0.13 Severity: important rsyslog-rotate should HUP rsyslog as appropriate for the installed init system. It doesn't, so orphan-sysvinit-scripts should work around this on sysvinit systems, without causing problems on systemd systems. The problem as a whol

Bug#1031399: rsyslog: Log rotation broken on non-systemd systems

2023-02-16 Thread Matthew Vernon
64e7a75 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Matthew Vernon Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2023 06:39:43 + Subject: [PATCH] attempt to rotate on non-systemd systems (Closes: #1031399) On non-systemd systems, /etc/init.d/rsyslog is sometimes available; in those cases, use it (via invoke-rc.d) to do log rotati

Bug#1031360: rsyslog: SEGV on startup with truncated files in spool

2023-02-16 Thread Matthew Vernon
Hi, On 16/02/2023 20:48, Michael Biebl wrote: The important bits were in 30-remote-syslog.conf indeed. With that the issue was reproducible and I therefor forwarded this to upstream. See https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/5085 Great, thank you. I didn't explicitly ask you, if I could

Bug#1031399: rsyslog: Log rotation broken on non-systemd systems

2023-02-16 Thread Matthew Vernon
On 16/02/2023 20:43, Michael Biebl wrote: I don't plan to re-add this (btw, this would break if orphan-sysvinit-scripts is not installed). A check for the presence of the init script would not be hard (and I'd happily write it and volunteer to fix any issues with it). I'll add a note to REA

Bug#1031360: rsyslog: SEGV on startup with truncated files in spool

2023-02-16 Thread Matthew Vernon
Hi, Oops, rsyslog.conf would be useful as well, sorry! Here it is. Regards, Matthew# /etc/rsyslog.conf configuration file for rsyslog # # For more information install rsyslog-doc and see # /usr/share/doc/rsyslog-doc/html/configuration/index.html # MODULES ##

Bug#1031360: rsyslog: SEGV on startup with truncated files in spool

2023-02-16 Thread Matthew Vernon
Hi, On 15/02/2023 18:27, Michael Biebl wrote: Am 15.02.23 um 18:16 schrieb Michael Biebl: Control: tags -1 + moreinfo Am 15.02.23 um 17:16 schrieb Matthew Vernon: I attach a tarball of the offending files in case they help. Can you share your rsyslog configuration and the output of running

Bug#1031399: rsyslog: Log rotation broken on non-systemd systems

2023-02-16 Thread Matthew Vernon
Package: rsyslog Version: 8.2212.0-1 Severity: serious Hi, When removing the systemv init scripts from rsyslog (which can be managed by orphan-sysvinit-scripts), the following was also removed from /usr/lib/rsyslog/rsyslog-rotate: else invoke-rc.d rsyslog rotate > /dev/null This means on

Bug#1018023: Update on this bug?

2023-02-11 Thread Matthew Vernon
Hi, Do you have plans to fix this before the bookworm freeze, please? I think netbsd at least have patched eterm to work with the newer imlib; at least per the comment here https://github.com/mej/Eterm/issues/4 That linked to http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/pkgsrc/x11/eterm/patches/ Whic

Bug#994081: I understand the problem

2023-02-07 Thread Matthew Vernon
Hi, I went looking to try and see where the check was being carried out, and it's in: /usr/lib/libdvd-pkg/b-i_libdvdcss.sh apt-get check >/dev/null 2>&1 if [ "$?" -ne 0 ]; then echo "${PKGI}: \`apt-get check\` failed, you may have broken packages. Aborting..." exit 0 fi Which is wh

Bug#994081: Get this after every apt upgrade

2023-02-07 Thread Matthew Vernon
severity 994081 important quit Hi, After basically any apt upgrade, I get: Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.36-8): libdvd-pkg: Checking orig.tar integrity... /usr/src/libdvd-pkg/libdvdcss_1.4.3.orig.tar.bz2: OK libdvd-pkg: `apt-get check` failed, you may have broken packages. Aborting...

Bug#1018604: Still present in bookworm

2023-02-06 Thread Matthew Vernon
found 1018604 102.7.0esr-1~deb11u1 quit Hi, I can reproduce this in bookworm, too; whenever I start firefox I see ATTENTION: default value of option mesa_glthread overridden by environment. ATTENTION: default value of option mesa_glthread overridden by environment. ATTENTION: default value of op

Bug#1028388: marked as done (rsyslog not starting despite o-s-s installed)

2023-02-06 Thread Matthew Vernon
Hi, On 06/02/2023 02:51, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: >* Also mention "vsyscall=emulate" in package description and > README.Debian. (Closes: #1028388) Did you mean to close this bug? Regards, Matthew

Bug#1030532: thunderbird: allow historic ~/.mozilla-thunderbird in apparmor

2023-02-05 Thread Matthew Vernon
Hi, On 05/02/2023 16:40, Carsten Schoenert wrote: Thanks for the quick reply; apologies, but this isn't going to be a very helpful response from me :-/ Am 04.02.23 um 17:50 schrieb Matthew Vernon: owner @{HOME}/.mozilla-thunderbird/{,**} rwlk, Looking at the existing profile

Bug#1028388: Needs confirmation

2023-02-05 Thread Matthew Vernon
Hi, My bookworm system has: rsyslog 8.2212.0-1 orphan-sysvinit-scripts 0.12 and I have /etc/init.d/rsyslog (and indeed a running rsyslogd). So AFAICT this should all be working OK... [hence the set of tags I've just applied] Regards, Matthew

Bug#1030532: thunderbird: allow historic ~/.mozilla-thunderbird in apparmor

2023-02-04 Thread Matthew Vernon
Package: thunderbird Version: 1:102.7.1-1 Severity: important Hi, I've just upgraded my very-long-running system to bookworm, and I was stuck for some time because thunderbird wouldn't start, complaining it couldn't read my profile. Syslog revealed the issue to be apparmor: Feb 4 11:20:14 ara

Bug#1029609: unblock: pcre2/10.42-1

2023-01-25 Thread Matthew Vernon
Package: release.debian.org Severity: normal User: release.debian@packages.debian.org Usertags: unblock Please unblock package pcre2 This was uploaded a while ago, but was stuck because of #1027952 which it turns out was in fact a bug in link-grammar. I'd quite like to see version 10.42 in bo

Bug#1028357: Resignation & call for votes to elect the Chair

2023-01-15 Thread Matthew Vernon
Hi, On 09/01/2023 22:30, Sean Whitton wrote: ===BEGIN A: Christoph Berg B: Matthew Garrett C: Helmut Grohne D: Simon McVittie E: Matthew Vernon F: Sean Whitton ===END I vote thus: F > A = C = D = E > B Regards, Matthew OpenPGP_signature Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Bug#1027952: pcre2 causes crashes in link-grammar

2023-01-07 Thread Matthew Vernon
Hi, I'm struggling a bit here; I wanted to try and bisect pcre2 upstream commits to see where this bug might have been introduced (or get to the bottom of what link-grammar's test is doing wrong, I see they've been troublesome in the past cf #975696). I took unstable's link-grammar source, a

Bug#1026104: longstanding problem with dependencies of python3-numpy in testing

2023-01-07 Thread Matthew Vernon
Hi, On 14/12/2022 18:55, Joachim Wuttke wrote: At times, python3-numpy in testing depends on two python3 minor versions in parallel. This is unusual, annoying for many users, and breaking dependent software for some. Complaints have been filed at Sandro, would you be opposed to relaxing the D

Bug#1027952: pcre2 causes crashes in link-grammar

2023-01-05 Thread Matthew Vernon
Hi, On 05/01/2023 01:07, Adrian Bunk wrote: https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/pcre2 Issues preventing migration: ∙ ∙ autopkgtest for link-grammar/5.11.0~dfsg-1: amd64: Pass, arm64: Regression ♻ (reference ♻), armel: Regression ♻ (reference ♻), armhf: Regression ♻ (reference ♻), i386: Pass, ppc64

Bug#1025694: Reproducible in 10.1

2022-12-07 Thread Matthew Vernon
found 1025694 10.1 quit Hi, As requested, I tried with 10.1, still fails: matthew@tsk:~/rclone-build-deps/golang-github-colinmarc-hdfs$ dgit -D --gbp sbuild | git rev-parse --show-toplevel => `/home/matthew/rclone-build-deps/golang-github-colinmarc-hdfs' | git config -z --get-regexp --local '

Bug#1025694: Acknowledgement (dgit: Fails to re-build a GBP package with a perms-only patch)

2022-12-07 Thread Matthew Vernon
That short id ad62525 is ad62525ee587c1f9e6ad328de8a966bf6b23cecc

Bug#1025694: dgit: Fails to re-build a GBP package with a perms-only patch

2022-12-07 Thread Matthew Vernon
Package: dgit Version: 9.13 Severity: normal X-Debbugs-Cc: mver...@wikimedia.org Hi, I have a gbp package where the only patch is a mode change (i.e. no textual change to the contents of files). The first time you do dgit --gbp sbuild it works fine, the second time (having made not changes) it e

Bug#1025474: ITP: golang-github-jcmturner-rpc.v2 -- Remote Procedure Call libraries for golang

2022-12-05 Thread Matthew Vernon
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Matthew Vernon Control: block 1001261 by -1 Control: block 1024445 by -1 X-Debbugs-CC: debian-de...@lists.debian.org, debian...@lists.debian.org * Package name: golang-github-jcmturner-rpc.v2 Version : 2.0.3-1 Upstream Author : Jonathan

Bug#1025473: ITP: golang-github-jcmturner-goidentity.v6 -- Golang library for managing identities

2022-12-05 Thread Matthew Vernon
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Matthew Vernon Control: block 1001261 by -1 Control: block 1024445 by -1 X-Debbugs-CC: debian-de...@lists.debian.org, debian...@lists.debian.org * Package name: golang-github-jcmturner-goidentity.v6 Version : 6.0.1-1 Upstream Author

Bug#1025471: ITP: golang-github-jcmturner-dnsutils.v2 -- Golang library of DNS utilities

2022-12-05 Thread Matthew Vernon
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Matthew Vernon Control: block 1001261 by -1 Control: block 1024445 by -1 X-Debbugs-CC: debian-de...@lists.debian.org, debian...@lists.debian.org * Package name: golang-github-jcmturner-dnsutils.v2 Version : 2.0.0-1 Upstream Author

Bug#1025470: ITP: golang-github-jcmturner-aescts.v2

2022-12-05 Thread Matthew Vernon
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Matthew Vernon Control: block 1001261 by -1 Control: block 1024445 by -1 X-Debbugs-CC: debian-de...@lists.debian.org, debian...@lists.debian.org * Package name: golang-github-jcmturner-aescts.v2 Version : 2.0.0-1 Upstream Author : Jonathan

Bug#1025331: tar: needs an unambiguous listing format

2022-12-02 Thread Matthew Vernon
Package: tar Version: 1.30 Severity: important Control: found -1 1.34 Tags: upstream Hi, I discovered while working on #1010024 that tar (since version 1.30) lacks an unambiguous listing format, by which I mean an output of tar -t that one can then pass to tar -x and will correctly represent a

Bug#1025240: golang-github-rclone-ftp: new upstream version needed to build rclone 1.160

2022-12-01 Thread Matthew Vernon
Source: golang-github-rclone-ftp Version: 1.0.0-210902h-2 Control: block 1001261 by -1 Hi, Upstream have tagged v1.0.0-220913-160 and it's needed for building rclone 1.160. [I'm working on a suitable update] Thanks, Matthew

Bug#1024823: tech-ctte: Call for votes on TC membership of Matthew Garrett

2022-11-25 Thread Matthew Vernon
Hi, On 25/11/2022 22:39, Sean Whitton wrote: ===BEGIN The Technical Committee recommends that Matthew Garrett be appointed by the Debian Project Leader to the Technical Committee. H: Recommend to Appoint Matthew Garrett F: Further Discussion ===END I vote H > F. Regards, Matthew OpenPG

Bug#1010024: Patch to fix this issue in Salsa

2022-11-04 Thread Matthew Vernon
tags 1010024 +patch quit Hi, I've made an MR ( https://salsa.debian.org/debian/pristine-tar/-/merge_requests/9 ) that fixes this issue, and I think puts us in a stable place for manifest handling, specifically: * manifests (go back to) contain quoted paths, newline-separated. This is backw

Bug#1019752: libpcre3-udeb: Can this be dropped?

2022-11-03 Thread Matthew Vernon
Hi, On 03/11/2022 13:58, Bastian Germann wrote: X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-b...@lists.debian.org On Wed, 14 Sep 2022 20:05:53 +0200 Bastian Germann wrote: grep 3.8-1 has switched to pcre2. If I am not mistaken, grep is the last reverse dependency of libpcre3-udeb. When the new grep version has migr

Bug#1010024: How this went wrong

2022-11-03 Thread Matthew Vernon
Hi, Turns out that change in tar is probably where this all started to go wrong. [in pre-stretch, I think manifests were quoted and there were no files starting -] In stretch (pristine-tar 1.38; tar 1.29), manifests were quoted, and extraction was done with tar --verbatim-files-from (that ch

Bug#1010024: pristine-tar path handling is confused (and thus wrong)

2022-11-02 Thread Matthew Vernon
retitle 1010024 pristine-tar: fails to handle paths with non-ASCII in quit Hi, I spent some more time looking at this. The problem that's causing this particular issue is that unquote_filename(); doesn't handle the escaped high-bit characters properly. That eventually ends up with the \[0-7]{3

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