Bug#1007717: Ballot and call for votes

2022-06-21 Thread Matthew Vernon
Hi, On 21/06/2022 01:31, Sean Whitton wrote: Hello, I hereby call for votes on the following resolution: BEGIN BALLOT Using its powers under constitution 6.1.5, the Technical Committee issues the following advice: 1. It is not a bug of any severity for a package with a non-native

Bug#1007717: Draft resolution for "Native source package format with non-native version"

2022-06-07 Thread Matthew Vernon
On 07/06/2022 07:08, Sean Whitton wrote: I agree, it's not about the benefits of the source format, we do indeed understand all the trade-offs by now. It's that certain ideas and workflows *which are not really about source packages* are made inconvenient or impossible if we remove this

Bug#1011954: CVE-2022-1586 CVE-2022-1587

2022-05-27 Thread Matthew Vernon
Hi, Would you like me to prepare an upload for these, or are you working on this? [sorry, it's not clear from the bug report] Thanks, Matthew

Bug#1007717: attempt to summarize current state of this bug

2022-05-10 Thread Matthew Vernon
Hi, I thought it might be useful to try and summarize where we are with this bug, which hasn't see much recent activity (not least as there's a TC meeting later...). * Questions asked of the TC The Committee was invited to issue advice on a number of points: I - continued use of 1.0 native

Bug#1003653: Revision of removal of rename.ul from package util-linux

2022-04-29 Thread Matthew Vernon
On 20/04/2022 15:31, Matthew Vernon wrote: I hereby call for a vote on the following ballot. Unless a TC member objects to calling for a vote, voting lasts for a week, or until the result is no longer in doubt. The voting period is over. ===Rationale There are two "rename"

Bug#1003653: Revision of removal of rename.ul from package util-linux

2022-04-20 Thread Matthew Vernon
Hi, I hereby call for a vote on the following ballot. Unless a TC member objects to calling for a vote, voting lasts for a week, or until the result is no longer in doubt. ===Rationale There are two "rename" programs - the perl rename, and the util-linux rename. Debian and its derivatives

Bug#1003653: Revision of removal of rename.ul from package util-linux

2022-04-16 Thread Matthew Vernon
Hi, Thanks for this. 1. While the former "should" is guarded by "requires", I think the latter can be read as a recommendation. I therefore propose replacing it with "must" to make the override more obvious. 2. While option B reads fine to me, option A is a little confusing to me

Bug#1003653: Revision of removal of rename.ul from package util-linux

2022-04-15 Thread Matthew Vernon
Hi, Thanks for the feedback on my previous draft; here's a revised ballot. I propose a ballot as follows - if no-one suggests further options in the mean time, I will call for a vote on this ballot on Tuesday, after the weekend of public holidays. From a procedural point of view, I am

Bug#1003653: Revision of removal of rename.ul from package util-linux

2022-04-15 Thread Matthew Vernon
On 15/04/2022 07:36, Gunnar Wolf wrote: Matthew Vernon dijo [Thu, Apr 14, 2022 at 04:47:17PM +0100]: Backwards-compatibility (and the lack of a compelling argument that util-linux's rename is significantly superior to the perl rename) means that /usr/bin/rename in Debian should remain the perl

Bug#1003653: Revision of removal of rename.ul from package util-linux

2022-04-14 Thread Matthew Vernon
Hi, Thanks to everyone for your contributions to this discussion. I think we're at the point where voting is appropriate. I propose a ballot as follows - if no-one suggests further options in the mean time, I will call for a vote on this ballot on Tuesday, after the weekend of public

Bug#1009066: pcre2: FTBFS on hurd-i386: error: ‘PATH_MAX’ undeclared

2022-04-11 Thread Matthew Vernon
Hi, Upstream already have a Hurd build fix ( https://github.com/PhilipHazel/pcre2/commit/adf76faace83d2b926b9136821daa02a78266b95 ), which I've applied to my tree, and uploaded as 10.39-4. Regards, Matthew

Bug#1009066: pcre2: FTBFS on hurd-i386: error: ‘PATH_MAX’ undeclared

2022-04-09 Thread Matthew Vernon
Tags 1009066 +upstream quit On 06/04/2022 20:33, Yavor Doganov wrote: This packages fails to build on hurd-i386 as of version 10.39-1; from the last build log for 10.39-3 [1]: Thanks; the patch looks reasonable to me (and my local tree works OK with it applied); I've sent it upstream for

Bug#1003653: Revision of removal of rename.ul from package util-linux

2022-04-09 Thread Matthew Vernon
Hi, On 09/04/2022 14:59, Chris Hofstaedtler wrote: I was not planning on doing that: stable already does not have /usr/bin/rename.ul. People were asking for it to be restored before the stable release, though, I think? #966468 was opened against version 2.36-1 back in July 2020. Given

Bug#1003653: Revision of removal of rename.ul from package util-linux

2022-03-29 Thread Matthew Vernon
Hi, On 29/03/2022 00:55, Sean Whitton wrote: On Mon 28 Mar 2022 at 10:35PM +02, Christoph Berg wrote: The problem here is that if ul-extra contains things besides rename, and it conflicts with the perl rename, people will rightfully complain that they can't install

Bug#994388: dpkg currently warning about merged-usr systems

2022-03-25 Thread Matthew Vernon
On 25/03/2022 16:25, Russ Allbery wrote: Luca Boccassi writes: But anyway, it turns out it's all moot because - drum roll - there is a patch: https://0x0.st/oNFG.diff This was shared just now on #debian-devel IRC by user 'uau', linked here with explicit permission. This is fantastic,

Bug#1007717: Native source package format with non-native version

2022-03-20 Thread Matthew Vernon
On 17/03/2022 17:52, Russ Allbery wrote: Helmut Grohne writes: Do you think it would be impossible to move forward on this matter in a consensus-based way? I don't know. I have some reasons to be dubious, but it's possible that I'm being excessively pessimistic. I'm inclined to agree

Bug#1005868: Acknowledgement (bullseye-pu: package bible-kjv/4.34)

2022-03-15 Thread Matthew Vernon
Hi, I have uploaded bible-kjv 4.34+deb11u1 for bullseye in the light of the announced forthcoming stable point release. I hope this is in order :) Regards, Matthew

Bug#1005856: bible-kjv: Search is broken, possible follow-up to #991133

2022-02-16 Thread Matthew Vernon
On 16/02/2022 10:18, Jon Daley wrote: On Wed, 16 Feb 2022, Matthew Vernon wrote: [Debian policy is usually that bugs need to be "Important" priority or higher for fixes to be considered for a stable point release. I'm assuming you don't think that applies here] Ok, thanks.  J

Bug#1005868: bullseye-pu: package bible-kjv/4.34

2022-02-16 Thread Matthew Vernon
+bible-kjv (4.34+deb11u1) bullseye; urgency=medium + + * Fix off-by-one-error in search (Closes: #1005856) + + -- Matthew Vernon Wed, 16 Feb 2022 11:15:11 + + bible-kjv (4.34) unstable; urgency=medium * Check for error return value diff -Nru bible-kjv-4.34/makeconc.pl bible-kjv-4.

Bug#1005803: python3: documentation of sys.excepthook is inconsistent about SystemExit

2022-02-15 Thread Matthew Vernon
Package: python3 Version: 3.9.2-3 Severity: normal Tags: upstream Hi, sys.excepthook is called to handle any uncaught exception, other than SystemExit. This behaviour is described correctly in help(sys). help(sys.excepthook) and the web documentation[0] both lack the IMO important fact that

Bug#1003653: Revision of removal of rename.ul from package util-linux

2022-01-31 Thread Matthew Vernon
Hi, Having joined the committee, I thought it best to try and get up to speed on this issue. Is my summary correct? --begin There are two "rename" programs, one part of upstream util-linux "rename.ul" and one provided by the rename package "rename.pl"[0] For a long time, Debian's

Bug#1004611: Resignation & call for votes to elect the Chair

2022-01-31 Thread Matthew Vernon
===BEGIN A: Christoph Berg B: Helmut Grohne C: Elana Hashman D: Simon McVittie E: Niko Tyni F: Matthew Vernon G: Sean Whitton H: Gunnar Wolf ===END G > A = C = D = E = H > B = F [rationale: being new I don't really have much of an opinion, other than the new chair pr

Bug#1000879: orphan-sysvinit-scripts: Remove iwd init script

2021-12-06 Thread Matthew Vernon
On 05/12/2021 12:58, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: Sounds sensible to me - I'll make sure to add the Conflicts: to iwd. Cool; I've just uploaded orphan-sysvinit-scripts 0.11 to unstable. Thanks, Matthew

Bug#1000879: orphan-sysvinit-scripts: Remove iwd init script

2021-12-05 Thread Matthew Vernon
On 01/12/2021 08:51, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: Quoting Job Bautista (2021-12-01 04:11:38) Matthew Vernon wrote: On 30/11/2021 15:50, Job Bautista wrote: Package: orphan-sysvinit-scripts Version: 0.10 Severity: normal X-Debbugs-Cc: jobbautis...@protonmail.com Please remove iwd's init script

Bug#1000004: pcre-ocaml: depends on obsolete pcre3 library

2021-12-04 Thread Matthew Vernon
Hi, On 24/11/2021 15:42, Stéphane Glondu wrote: Le 18/11/2021 à 12:49, Matthew Vernon a écrit : Your package still depends on the old, obsolete PCRE3[0] libraries (i.e. libpcre3-dev). This has been end of life for a while now, and upstream do not intend to fix any further bugs

Bug#999693: php8.1: Regular expression functions warn "Compilation failed" and return null

2021-12-04 Thread Matthew Vernon
Hi, On 22/11/2021 09:16, Ondřej Surý wrote: I analysed the problem in: https://github.com/PhilipHazel/pcre2/issues/56 Thanks! I've had a read of that, and AIUI it's a behaviour change (matching that of perl) rather than an ABI change? I guess bumping the version in the symbols file

Bug#1000879: orphan-sysvinit-scripts: Remove iwd init script

2021-11-30 Thread Matthew Vernon
Hi, On 30/11/2021 15:50, Job Bautista wrote: Package: orphan-sysvinit-scripts Version: 0.10 Severity: normal X-Debbugs-Cc: jobbautis...@protonmail.com Please remove iwd's init script, as it's added now in iwd 1.20-2. This will need some co-ordination, I think; orphan-sysvinit-scripts uses

Bug#998893: and collateral

2021-11-30 Thread Matthew Vernon
On 21/11/2021 22:48, Thorsten Glaser wrote: On Sun, 21 Nov 2021, tito wrote: couldn't renaming the scripts in the orphan-sysvinit-scripts package be a solution to solve this? I think that breaks user expectations and should only be a very last resort. I agree. I think both the “cp”,

Bug#998893: closed by Debian FTP Masters (reply to Matthew Vernon ) (Bug#998893: fixed in orphan-sysvinit-scripts 0.09)

2021-11-30 Thread Matthew Vernon
Hi, On 21/11/2021 01:09, Axel Beckert wrote: Seems to have worked for me, but now I get the same error for /etc/init.d/nftables: Setting up orphan-sysvinit-scripts (0.10) ... /usr/bin/which: this version of `which' is deprecated; use `command -v' in scripts instead. /usr/bin/which: this

Bug#1000082: glib2.0: depends on obsolete pcre3 library

2021-11-18 Thread Matthew Vernon
Hi, On 18/11/2021 14:10, Simon McVittie wrote: On Thu, 18 Nov 2021 at 11:49:04 +, Matthew Vernon wrote: Your package still depends on the old, obsolete PCRE3[0] libraries (i.e. libpcre3-dev). As I'm sure you're already aware, in the case of GLib this is something that needs

Bug#999963: sigil: depends on obsolete pcre3 library

2021-11-18 Thread Matthew Vernon
On 18/11/2021 15:11, Mattia Rizzolo wrote: On Thu, Nov 18, 2021 at 11:49:07AM +, Matthew Vernon wrote: The newer PCRE2 library was first released in 2015, and has been in Debian since stretch. Upstream's documentation for PCRE2 is available here: https://pcre.org/current/doc/html/ Sigil's

Bug#999944: terminus: depends on obsolete pcre3 library

2021-11-18 Thread Matthew Vernon
On 18/11/2021 12:28, Barak A. Pearlmutter wrote: It looks to me like the pcre3 dependency in the terminus package is entirely due to its use of valac and other build support. There doesn't appear to be any direct use, except in a build dependency. If I remove that build dependency, libpcre3-dev

Bug#1000001: pgpcre: depends on obsolete pcre3 library

2021-11-18 Thread Matthew Vernon
Hi, On 18/11/2021 12:44, Christoph Berg wrote: Re: Matthew Vernon Many large projects that use PCRE have made the switch now (e.g. git, php); it does involve some work, is there some migration guide? The upstream homepage doesn't seem to have anything. Regrettably not; the PHP folk did

Bug#999941: tin: depends on obsolete pcre3 library

2021-11-18 Thread Matthew Vernon
On 18/11/2021 12:06, Marco d'Itri wrote: On Nov 18, Matthew Vernon wrote: Many large projects that use PCRE have made the switch now (e.g. git, php); it does involve some work, but we are now at the stage where PCRE3 should not be used, particularly if it might ever be exposed to untrusted

Bug#999693: php8.1: Regular expression functions warn "Compilation failed" and return null

2021-11-15 Thread Matthew Vernon
Hi, On 15/11/2021 14:34, Ondřej Surý wrote: This appears when built with 10.39, but the runtime version is less than that. My guess is that this needs manual debian/libpcre2-8.shlibs override. (Or just mangle the symbols file, so it always generates correct versioned dependency.) I've had

Bug#999693: php8.1: Regular expression functions warn "Compilation failed" and return null

2021-11-15 Thread Matthew Vernon
Hi, On 15/11/2021 14:03, Ondřej Surý wrote: It’s still a bug, but I think it might be a bug in pcre2. The other Matthew (in CC) might need to bump the shlibs on the shared lib to >= 10.39 I'm slightly confused - this appears to be an issue in a php function that went away after an upgrade?

Bug#998893: closed by Debian FTP Masters (reply to Matthew Vernon ) (Bug#998893: fixed in orphan-sysvinit-scripts 0.09)

2021-11-10 Thread Matthew Vernon
On 10/11/2021 16:51, Adam Borowski wrote: On Wed, Nov 10, 2021 at 12:21:09PM +, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: #998893: orphan-sysvinit-scripts: fails to configure: "not replacing deleted config file /etc/init.d/rsyslog" It has been closed by Debian FTP Masters (reply t

Bug#998893: orphan-sysvinit-scripts: fails to configure: "not replacing deleted config file /etc/init.d/rsyslog"

2021-11-10 Thread Matthew Vernon
Hi, On 10/11/2021 09:37, Matthew Vernon wrote: On 09/11/2021 15:17, Adam Borowski wrote: Not replacing deleted config file /etc/init.d/rsyslog This is the problem - ucf thinks that it knew about /etc/init.d/rsyslog before it got deleted (and so it thinks you deliberately removed

Bug#998893: orphan-sysvinit-scripts: fails to configure: "not replacing deleted config file /etc/init.d/rsyslog"

2021-11-10 Thread Matthew Vernon
Hi, On 10/11/2021 07:35, Dirk Griesbach wrote: While rsyslog doesn't ship its init script anymore, ucf is still having a reference to that script after the rsyslog upgrade. , | # ls -l /var/lib/ucf/cache/*rsyslog* | -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2864  5. Nov 01:24

Bug#998893: orphan-sysvinit-scripts: fails to configure: "not replacing deleted config file /etc/init.d/rsyslog"

2021-11-10 Thread Matthew Vernon
Hi, On 09/11/2021 15:17, Adam Borowski wrote: Not replacing deleted config file /etc/init.d/rsyslog This is the problem - ucf thinks that it knew about /etc/init.d/rsyslog before it got deleted (and so it thinks you deliberately removed it). AFAICT: This should happen if and only iff

Bug#998893: orphan-sysvinit-scripts: fails to configure: "not replacing deleted config file /etc/init.d/rsyslog"

2021-11-09 Thread Matthew Vernon
On 09/11/2021 15:45, gregor herrmann wrote: On Tue, 09 Nov 2021 16:17:31 +0100, Adam Borowski wrote: On two different setups, I get: Not replacing deleted config file /etc/init.d/rsyslog update-rc.d: error: initscript does not exist: /etc/init.d/rsyslog dpkg: error processing package

Bug#978013: libpcre2-8-0: Doesn't describe why I want/need a 8-bit runtime on my 64-bit machine

2021-11-07 Thread Matthew Vernon
Hi, On 07/11/2021 15:52, Diederik de Haas wrote: On Sunday, 7 November 2021 13:08:38 CET Matthew Vernon wrote: On 24/12/2020 11:56, Diederik de Haas wrote: The short answer is because you installed something that depends on the 8-bit runtime version. I actually knew that, but I should've

Bug#978013: libpcre2-8-0: Doesn't describe why I want/need a 8-bit runtime on my 64-bit machine

2021-11-07 Thread Matthew Vernon
Hi, On 24/12/2020 11:56, Diederik de Haas wrote: On my system I have the 8/16/32 bit versions of the pcre2 library installed. The discription only tells me that this is the 8-bit runtime version. But I have no idea why I/anyone would want a 8-bit runtime on my 64-bit machine, where I'd

Bug#998340: Please take over rsyslog init script

2021-11-05 Thread Matthew Vernon
Hi, On 04/11/2021 17:18, Michael Biebl wrote: I haven't made up my mind on this one yet. There are pros and cons. If we continue to install rsyslog alongside journald by default, then using imjournal is imho the more logical choice. That said, I actually think we should no longer do that to

Bug#998340: Please take over rsyslog init script

2021-11-04 Thread Matthew Vernon
Hi, On 02/11/2021 16:41, Michael Biebl wrote: I intend to remove the SysV init script from the rsyslog package with the next upload. Maybe you are interested in taking maintainership for the file. Thanks for letting me know; I've taken the version from debian/master on salsa, and it'll be

Bug#997835: you could add powerdns init script

2021-10-26 Thread Matthew Vernon
Hi, On 25/10/2021 17:21, Mathieu ROY wrote: powerdns packaged removed then working init script. You might consider including them in your package. I was about to send you a working version but the debian developer in charge of powerdns, apparently tied to powerdns development, made me

Bug#926896: sysvinit-utils: pidof is unreliable

2021-10-21 Thread Matthew Vernon
Hi, On 20/10/2021 15:29, Jesse Smith wrote: Is there a reason for wanting to revert this behaviour instead of using the "-z" flag on the command line? If you use pidof a lot and expect to see processes that are in the uninterruptable sleep state then making an alias of pidof='pidof -z' seems

Bug#992034: installation-guide: Include a note on how to change init system during install

2021-08-27 Thread Matthew Vernon
On 26/08/2021 21:45, Holger Wansing wrote: Hi, Am 26. August 2021 09:24:58 MESZ schrieb Matthew Vernon : Hi, Could someone merge https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/installation-guide/-/merge_requests/15 please? It's the smaller change that folk asked for :) I wonder if "the ea

Bug#992034: installation-guide: Include a note on how to change init system during install

2021-08-26 Thread Matthew Vernon
Hi, Could someone merge https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/installation-guide/-/merge_requests/15 please? It's the smaller change that folk asked for :) Thanks, Matthew

Bug#992034: Acknowledgement (installation-guide: Include a note on how to change init system during install)

2021-08-15 Thread Matthew Vernon
rom 6e6b681d094294b2bd0eaf5c1f55da591935b91e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Matthew Vernon Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2021 16:49:36 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Short note on installing alternative inits (Closes: #992034) Discussion on the BTS apropos this bug / !14 suggests that a shorter note with a link to more detailed discussion on the wiki wo

Bug#992025: release-notes: Add section on switching init system

2021-08-15 Thread Matthew Vernon
Hi, On 14/08/2021 08:42, Paul Gevers wrote: On 09-08-2021 22:53, Matthew Vernon wrote: Not currently (I imagine something like it will end up there eventually); I think it warrants being in the release notes because it's quite a significant change from Buster (where non-systemd inits were

Bug#992034: installation-guide: Include a note on how to change init system during install

2021-08-09 Thread Matthew Vernon
On 09/08/2021 20:01, Holger Wansing wrote: I tend to see it this way: The installation-guide documents the functionality of debian-installer. That change-init-system-during-install thing is not a function of d-i (means: there is no question asking the user what init system shall be used, or

Bug#992025: release-notes: Add section on switching init system

2021-08-09 Thread Matthew Vernon
On 09/08/2021 21:34, Paul Gevers wrote: Short question (I'm low on time for this tonight): don't we have this documented on the Wiki somewhere? It feels a bit long for the release notes. Not currently (I imagine something like it will end up there eventually); I think it warrants being in

Bug#992025: release-notes: Add section on switching init system

2021-08-09 Thread Matthew Vernon
Hi, Sorry, correct patch this time :-/ Regards, Matthew >From a44e86218574309a747279d2cef3255772c0c632 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Matthew Vernon Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2021 11:37:12 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Add a subsection on changing init system It's slightly fiddly to switch init system a

Bug#992025: release-notes: Add section on switching init system

2021-08-09 Thread Matthew Vernon
rom: Matthew Vernon Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2021 11:37:12 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Add a subsection on changing init system It's slightly fiddly to switch init system away from systemd, so include a short note on doing so; and a pointer to the init-diversity list for help. --- en/issues.dbk |

Bug#992034: installation-guide: Include a note on how to change init system during install

2021-08-09 Thread Matthew Vernon
On 09/08/2021 16:35, Samuel Thibault wrote: Matthew Vernon, le lun. 09 août 2021 16:19:03 +0100, a ecrit: I don't think adding a subsection at the bottom of "Using Individual Components" is really burdening the casual systemd user! We wouldn't say that a subsection on serial braill

Bug#992034: installation-guide: Include a note on how to change init system during install

2021-08-09 Thread Matthew Vernon
On 09/08/2021 16:12, Cyril Brulebois wrote: Holger Wansing (2021-08-09): Am 9. August 2021 16:36:33 MESZ schrieb Matthew Vernon : Source: installation-guide Severity: normal Tags: patch Hi, I've drafted a note on how to switch init system during the installation process; it's easiest to do

Bug#992034: installation-guide: Include a note on how to change init system during install

2021-08-09 Thread Matthew Vernon
On 09/08/2021 15:57, Holger Wansing wrote: Am 9. August 2021 16:36:33 MESZ schrieb Matthew Vernon : Source: installation-guide Severity: normal Tags: patch Hi, I've drafted a note on how to switch init system during the installation process; it's easiest to do it at this point rather than

Bug#992034: installation-guide: Include a note on how to change init system during install

2021-08-09 Thread Matthew Vernon
=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_GB:en (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init) >From 8a1342942cedd48a4a5655e9efc07e6bbd23bff5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Matthew Vernon Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2021 15:32:27 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Notes on install

Bug#992025: release-notes: Add section on switching init system

2021-08-09 Thread Matthew Vernon
Hi, Thanks for your comments; I'll try and make a revised patch. On 09/08/2021 12:56, Justin B Rye wrote: Matthew Vernon wrote: + init systems, you install the new init system and reboot. The + exception is switching away from systemd - systemd's packages (We don't seem

Bug#992025: release-notes: Add section on switching init system

2021-08-09 Thread Matthew Vernon
: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init) >From 8b723915627d2546d4266d360cc41fbf3f7c6ebf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Matthew Vernon Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2021 11:37:12 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Add a subsection on changing init system It's slightly fiddly to switch init system a

Bug#991430: installation-reports: Successful install; failed to detect need for firmware for sound card

2021-07-23 Thread Matthew Vernon
Package: installation-reports Severity: normal Tags: d-i Boot method: USB Image version: https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/cd-including-firmware/bullseye_di_rc2+nonfree/amd64/iso-cd/firmware-bullseye-DI-rc2-amd64-netinst.iso Date: 2021-07-20 Machine: Lenovo Thinkpad X1

Bug#991272: unblock: bible-kjv/4.34

2021-07-19 Thread Matthew Vernon
00 @@ -1,3 +1,16 @@ +bible-kjv (4.34) unstable; urgency=medium + + * Check for error return value + + -- Matthew Vernon Mon, 19 Jul 2021 12:36:43 +0100 + +bible-kjv (4.33) unstable; urgency=medium + + * Make the build not run in parallel + * Use bible.rawtext to build concordance (Closes: #991133) +

Bug#991133: One other necessary fix

2021-07-19 Thread Matthew Vernon
Hi, The other bug was that makeconc.pl tries to run "bible -f gen1:1-rev99:99" to generate the text it builds the raw concordance from; obviously this doesn't work on chroots / buildds. It's also unnecessary, since we have the rawtext file in the source tree, so use that instead. This now

Bug#991133: parallel building is the problem

2021-07-19 Thread Matthew Vernon
tags 991133 +pending -help quit Hi, Right, the issue is that the Makefile isn't parallel-build safe (see e.g. the re-entrant calls of Make for building the concordance); Helmut's cross-building patch replaced $(MAKE) all (not parallel) with some dh_auto_build calls (parallel), and that's

Bug#991133: dh_strip seems to be to blame

2021-07-19 Thread Matthew Vernon
On 19/07/2021 09:56, Matthew Vernon wrote: Hi, More on this; a nostrip build works. If I take the unstripped executible and strip it as I did in 4.31 (install -s), then the resulting stripped executible also works. So dh_strip (version in bullseye) is stripping too much out

Bug#991133: bible-kjv: Search no longer works after upgrading to Bullseye

2021-07-19 Thread Matthew Vernon
severity 991133 important tags 991133 +help quit bible(KJV) [Gen1:1]> ??hath Searching for 'hath'... not found. Huh. Thanks for reporting this. If I build 4.32 on my (old-)stable system, this works. Similarly, if I build 4.30 on my bullseye system, this works. 4.31 building on bullseye

Bug#991133: dh_strip seems to be to blame

2021-07-19 Thread Matthew Vernon
Hi, More on this; a nostrip build works. If I take the unstripped executible and strip it as I did in 4.31 (install -s), then the resulting stripped executible also works. So dh_strip (version in bullseye) is stripping too much out of the executible and that's breaking the search. dh_strip

Bug#932290:

2021-03-21 Thread Matthew Vernon
On 04/03/2021 14:20, Matthew Vernon wrote: On 04/03/2021 14:01, Matteo Croce wrote: On Thu, Mar 4, 2021 at 2:53 PM Matthew Vernon wrote: On 04/03/2021 13:36, Matteo Croce wrote: I'm seeing it multiple times now during an upgrade: Which version of insserv have you got? 1.21.0-1.1 (which we

Bug#984570: orphan-sysvinit-scripts: nftables interaction with local iptables script

2021-03-05 Thread Matthew Vernon
Hi, I just got orphan-sysvinit-scripts pulled in on a few boxes where I happen to have nftables installed but rules are still defined and loaded by iptables, called by a locally-defined init script. I'm slightly confused by your report, sorry. Historically nftables did have a sysvinit script

Bug#932290:

2021-03-04 Thread Matthew Vernon
On 04/03/2021 14:01, Matteo Croce wrote: On Thu, Mar 4, 2021 at 2:53 PM Matthew Vernon wrote: On 04/03/2021 13:36, Matteo Croce wrote: I'm seeing it multiple times now during an upgrade: Which version of insserv have you got? 1.21.0-1.1 (which we expect to fix this) isn't yet in testing

Bug#932290:

2021-03-04 Thread Matthew Vernon
Hi, On 04/03/2021 13:36, Matteo Croce wrote: I'm seeing it multiple times now during an upgrade: Which version of insserv have you got? 1.21.0-1.1 (which we expect to fix this) isn't yet in testing. Regards, Matthew

Bug#971713: sysstat: init or systemd file has overlapping runlevels

2021-02-21 Thread Matthew Vernon
On 21/02/2021 22:30, Vincent Lefevre wrote: On 2021-02-21 14:06:20 -0400, Jesse Smith wrote: A new version of SysV init and innserv have been published today. The new version of insserv (1.23.0) fixes the above issue. It can be downloaded from here:

Bug#971713: NMU in delayed/5

2021-02-21 Thread Matthew Vernon
Default-{Start,Stop} more clearly +(Closes: #971713) + + -- Matthew Vernon Sun, 21 Feb 2021 17:13:07 + + insserv (1.21.0-1) unstable; urgency=medium * New upstream release diff --git a/debian/patches/patches-from-trek-closes-971713.patch b/debian/patches/patches-from-trek-closes-971713

Bug#971713: sysstat: init or systemd file has overlapping runlevels

2021-02-19 Thread Matthew Vernon
On 15/12/2020 21:34, Jesse Smith wrote: On 2020-12-15 5:04 p.m., Trek wrote: On Tue, 15 Dec 2020 12:45:40 -0400 Jesse Smith wrote: I gave the patch a test run and, while I like what it does in theory, in practise I'm running into trouble with it. When I use the attached patch and then run

Bug#981747: init script available from orphan-sysvinit-scripts

2021-02-03 Thread Matthew Vernon
Hi, If you install the "orphan-sysvinit-scripts" package, that contains an init script for (among other things) network-manager. HTH, Matthew

Bug#981801: sysvinit-core: Should Recommends: orphan-sysvinit-scripts

2021-02-03 Thread Matthew Vernon
package: sysvinit-core version: 2.96-5 severity: important Hi, Prompted by the filing of #981747 (another person falling foul of network-manager no longer shipping an init script), I think sysvinit-core should Recommends: orphan-sysvinit-scripts ? That will make it a bit easier for folk to

Bug#981432: libpcre2-8-0: libpcre 10.35 is not patched, causing problems for php-7.4 preg_ functions

2021-01-31 Thread Matthew Vernon
Hi, [Please keep the BTS copied in on mails about this] On 31/01/2021 14:16, Hamid Alaei V. wrote: I think php is built with pcre 10.35 not 10.36. Right, but that's nothing to do with Debian - if you got a PHP package from Debian (or built on a Debian bullseye system), then it would be

Bug#981432: libpcre2-8-0: libpcre 10.35 is not patched, causing problems for php-7.4 preg_ functions

2021-01-31 Thread Matthew Vernon
tags +moreinfo quit On 31/01/2021 08:28, hamid wrote: Version: 10.35-5+ubuntu18.04.1+deb.sury.org+1 This isn't a Debian version number, rather an Ubuntu one. I had a conversation in php bugs (https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=79363=2). According to the maintainer, Ubuntu (I guess in that

Bug#934463: (no subject)

2021-01-17 Thread Matthew Vernon
Hi, This bug got mentioned in a TC thread; it occurs to me that orphan-sysvinit-scripts might provide a home for these scripts (and has much of the ucf machinery available to DTRT with the conf-files). Unless anyone feels very strongly, though, I'd suggest looking at this after the bullseye

Bug#975075: tech-ctte: non-systemd dependencies in non-NM packages

2021-01-17 Thread Matthew Vernon
On 17/01/2021 10:29, Andreas Henriksson wrote: Possibly getting off topic here, but I happened to read a bit of this discussion and while seeing your comment I thought it might be a good time to remind you about #934463. I agree it's off-topic here, so I've sent a message to that bug

Bug#975075: tech-ctte: non-systemd dependencies in non-NM packages

2021-01-16 Thread Matthew Vernon
On 16/01/2021 01:39, Gunnar Wolf wrote: Matthew Vernon dijo [Mon, Jan 11, 2021 at 09:07:03PM +]: Please overrule the maintainer in #923387 so that it is can be used on systems with elogind; it has been tested and shown to work thus as well as being supported by upstream[1

Bug#975075: tech-ctte: non-systemd dependencies in non-NM packages

2021-01-11 Thread Matthew Vernon
Hi, On 10/01/2021 20:03, Simon McVittie wrote: If you intend the scope of this bug to involve overruling maintainers' decisions in packages other than NM, what other packages/bugs did you have in mind? Is it just udisks2/#923387, or are there more? I understand (but I don't think it has been

Bug#975075: tech-ctte: Should maintainers be able to block init compatibility changes?

2021-01-02 Thread Matthew Vernon
Hi, I see that network-manager 1.28.0-2 has been uploaded, with (inter alia) the following changelog entry: * Demote libpam-systemd to Recommends. This allows users to use and experiment with other init systems. Such a setup is neither tested nor fully supported and users need to be aware

Bug#977639: bible-kjv: Possible GPL compliance problems

2020-12-24 Thread Matthew Vernon
On 19/12/2020 21:00, Bastian Germann wrote: Am 19.12.20 um 20:28 schrieb Matthew Vernon: On 19/12/2020 13:28, Bastian Germann wrote: On Fri, 18 Dec 2020 00:01:10 +0100 Bastian Germann wrote:> bible-kjv package claims to be GPLv2 licensed. One file has an "or later" clause but so

Bug#975075: tech-ctte: Should maintainers be able to block init compatibility changes?

2020-12-23 Thread Matthew Vernon
Hi, On 21/12/2020 23:36, Elana Hashman wrote: The maintainer, Michael Biebl, reached out to the tech-ctte privately. I have summarized his reasoning for why he dropped support for elogind and the init script that prompted this bug: Thanks. There's little point trying to have this discussion

Bug#977639: bible-kjv: Possible GPL compliance problems

2020-12-19 Thread Matthew Vernon
On 19/12/2020 13:28, Bastian Germann wrote: On Fri, 18 Dec 2020 00:01:10 +0100 Bastian Germann wrote:> bible-kjv package claims to be GPLv2 licensed. One file has an "or later" clause but some files seem to GPLv2-only. However, with the switch to readline6 (#553733), it uses a GPLv3 library.

Bug#975075: tech-ctte: Should maintainers be able to block init compatibility changes?

2020-12-16 Thread Matthew Vernon
On 14/12/2020 21:56, Philip Hands wrote: Could I just check if there's a point of common acceptability which both sides of this discussion could live with? [...] My suggestion for a mutually bearable solution would be that the network-manager package could have its dependency on

Bug#975075: tech-ctte: Should maintainers be able to block init compatibility changes?

2020-12-16 Thread Matthew Vernon
On 15/12/2020 22:07, Sam Hartman wrote: However, Debian remains an environment where developers and users can explore and develop alternate init systems and alternatives to systemd features. Those interested in exploring such alternatives need to provide the necessary development and packaging

Bug#975075: tech-ctte: Should maintainers be able to block init compatibility changes?

2020-11-30 Thread Matthew Vernon
at 17:33:26 +, Matthew Vernon wrote: I invite the technical committee to rule that: * The network-manager init script should be restored * Network-manager should Depend: on default-logind | logind rather than libpam-systemd This looks like a request to use the technical committee's power

Bug#975075: tech-ctte: Should maintainers be able to block init compatibility changes?

2020-11-19 Thread Matthew Vernon
[I don't need a CC, thanks] Hi, I know it was mentioned back in the day, but trying to re-ask it now: Wouldn't it be possible to ship init scripts for compatibility purposes from a sysvinit (or maybe a sysvinit-support) package? This would be the inverse of what happened back when systemd was

Bug#975075: tech-ctte: Should maintainers be able to block init compatibility changes?

2020-11-18 Thread Matthew Vernon
Package: tech-ctte Control: block 921012 by -1 Control: block 964139 by -1 X-Debbugs-CC: debian-init-divers...@chiark.greenend.org.uk Dear Technical Committee, This bug report relates specifically to bugs in the network-manager package (#921012, #964139) but has broader implications,

Bug#964139: [Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#964139: NMU (delayed/14) to fix two init compatibility issues

2020-09-16 Thread Matthew Vernon
On 16/09/2020 18:33, Ansgar wrote: Matthew Vernon wrote: On 15/09/2020 19:26, Michael Biebl wrote: I don't agree with this NMU. Please cancel it. I did so. Huh; I thought that was the uploader's (i.e. my) responsibility. Doing so was on my TODO. Could you please explain what

Bug#921012: [Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#964139: NMU (delayed/14) to fix two init compatibility issues

2020-09-15 Thread Matthew Vernon
Dear Michael, On 15/09/2020 20:37, Michael Biebl wrote: The removal of the SysV init script was not a mistake that needs to be corrected. You appreciate that both the restoration of the init script and use of the logind virtual package are both essential for network-manager to be

Bug#921012: [Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#964139: Bug#964139: NMU (delayed/14) to fix two init compatibility issues

2020-09-15 Thread Matthew Vernon
Dear Michael, On 15/09/2020 19:53, Michael Biebl wrote: Am 15.09.20 um 20:45 schrieb Matthew Vernon: Hi, On 15/09/2020 19:26, Michael Biebl wrote: Am 15.09.20 um 19:44 schrieb Matthew Vernon: Hi, These two related init compatibility issues haven't seen any activity recently, so I've

Bug#921012: [Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#964139: NMU (delayed/14) to fix two init compatibility issues

2020-09-15 Thread Matthew Vernon
Hi, On 15/09/2020 19:26, Michael Biebl wrote: Am 15.09.20 um 19:44 schrieb Matthew Vernon: Hi, These two related init compatibility issues haven't seen any activity recently, so I've uploaded an NMU (delayed/14) to fix them in line with the patches already posted; in the case of the init

Bug#921012: NMU (delayed/14) to fix two init compatibility issues

2020-09-15 Thread Matthew Vernon
be sending you an MR on salsa. HTH, Matthew >From f6cb26bcc9b54d75f6e343019714cd905afe1cc1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Matthew Vernon Date: Sun, 13 Sep 2020 12:42:23 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 1/3] Revert "Remove SysV init script" (closes: #964139) This r

Bug#970386: dovecot-imapd: assertion failure in message_part_finish when searching large folder

2020-09-15 Thread Matthew Vernon
Package: dovecot-imapd Version: 1:2.2.27-3+deb9u6 Severity: important Hi, One of my IMAP users reports failures when trying to do full-text searches of a large (3G) mailbox; subject-only searches are OK. The backtrace in syslog is: Sep 15 11:51:37 aragorn dovecot: imap(atreic): Panic: file

Bug#596193: A possible solution (and a workaround for anyone else finding this bug)

2020-08-13 Thread Matthew Vernon
Hi, We encountered this issue, too - many of our systems are setup in the smarthost config, with /etc/mailname set to sanger.ac.uk. This mostly works - central LDAP means that user fred will reliably by fred at sanger.ac.uk, and so on. The downside is that we can't then e.g. alias 'root' so

Bug#962773: libpcre2-dev: Linuxinfo fails to link: ./linuxinfo_common.c:224: undefined reference to `pcre2_compile_8'

2020-06-19 Thread Matthew Vernon
On 16/06/2020 20:21, Helge Kreutzmann wrote: Hello Matthew, thanks for your reply. On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 07:24:29PM +0100, Matthew Vernon wrote: On 13/06/2020 20:44, Helge Kreutzmann wrote: gcc -g -O2 -fdebug-prefix-map=/tmp/testfoo2/linuxinfo-3.1.2=. -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat

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