Bug#1076952: [RFD] partman-auto: Update guided partitioning size limits for current and future needs

2024-08-19 Thread Philip Hands
Pascal Hambourg writes: > On 18/08/2024 à 16:00, Philip Hands wrote: >> >> If the disk they're installing onto is huge, then having the upper limit >> for /boot be 0.5GB larger will go unnoticed, whereas running out of >> space on /boot is generally pretty annoyin

Bug#1076952: [RFD] partman-auto: Update guided partitioning size limits for current and future needs

2024-08-18 Thread Philip Hands
[Sorry about the slow reply -- school holidays are making me afk a lot.] Holger Wansing writes: > Hi, > > Am 9. August 2024 22:08:09 MESZ schrieb Pascal Hambourg > : >>On 09/08/2024 at 17:05, Philip Hands wrote: >> >>> I tend to install servers with someth

Bug#1064795: iproute2: removing /sbin/ip link breaks other packages and possibly user scripts

2024-08-16 Thread Philip Hands
to break someone's system, and if you want to do that you really ought to at least check, and preferably try to work out a way of warning them about it, or fixing the breakage first. I note that neither the Changelog nor the NEWS file mentioned this as a breaking change or issued anything like a warning about it. https://salsa.debian.org/kernel-team/iproute2/-/commit/c4bb148dd4ed0601ca32ee8a458007d0c348d6c3 Cheers, Phil. -- Philip Hands -- https://hands.com/~phil signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#1076952: [RFD] partman-auto: Update guided partitioning size limits for current and future needs

2024-08-09 Thread Philip Hands
27;s enough room for a grml image for use in conjunction with the grml-rescueboot package. Would it be worth making the upper limit for /boot be 1.5G, and using a scaling factor (if possible) that will only use that much for disks larger than 1TB, say, as then its a small enough proportion to be no loss even if people don't use it for grml. Cheers, Phil. -- Philip Hands -- https://hands.com/~phil signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#1075713: linux: D-I's X fails to start under kvm -vga qxl

2024-07-04 Thread Philip Hands
12u5 to 1:7.2+dfsg-7+deb12u at 2024-06-29 11:12:50, which is just after the last succesful run, so that does point towards qemu being the problem. This afternoon I may have time to check if I can demonstrate that this is actually a regression in qemu, and will reasign the bug if so (I don't m

Bug#1075713: linux: D-I's X fails to start under kvm -vga qxl

2024-07-03 Thread Philip Hands
Package: linux Version: 6.9.7-1 Severity: normal User: debian...@lists.debian.org Usertags: openqa Hi, It seems that qxl is no longer supported under kvm when running a recent (6.9.7-1) kernel in debian-installer. This was discovered during automated testing on openqa.debian.net. Having since r

Bug#1073785: rough fix

2024-06-18 Thread Philip Hands
agine that there's more to be done if we want this to work nicely for downstreams however. Cheers, Phil. -- Philip Hands -- https://hands.com/~phil

Bug#1073785: debootstrap-udeb: removal of trixie --> sid link causes fatal error in D-I

2024-06-18 Thread Philip Hands
Package: debootstrap-udeb Version: 1.0.135 Severity: serious User: debian...@lists.debian.org Usertags: openqa While testing daily netinst debian-installer images with openQA, we see that debootstrap fails: https://openqa.debian.net/tests/272866#step/install_base/1 "The debootstrap program e

Bug#1072995: gnome-software: a method for disabling autostart should be documented, and perhaps made easier

2024-06-11 Thread Philip Hands
Package: gnome-software Severity: wishlist Some users do not actually benefit from gnome-software/packagekit, and occasionally suffer as a result of it's presence. A case in point is an elderly relative, who despite encouragement has never found a reason to install a new package for themselves, s

Bug#1070755: akregator: also being seen during openQA tests

2024-05-28 Thread Philip Hands
Package: akregator Version: 4:22.12.3-1+b2 Followup-For: Bug #1070755 User: debian...@lists.debian.org Usertags: openqa Hi, It seems we're also getting the reported behaviour when testing under openqa. Sadly one doesn't get to see anything when it happens: https://openqa.debian.net/tests/2659

Bug#1071227: busybox-udeb: provides binaries that are also provided by kmod-udeb (e.g. modprobe)

2024-05-16 Thread Philip Hands
Package: busybox-udeb Severity: normal User: debian-rele...@lists.debian.org Hi, I notice that busybox-udeb provides the following binaries in /sbin: depmod insmod lsmod modinfo modprobe rmmod while kmod-udeb provides the same, except located in /usr/sbin. It would be better if this were not

Bug#1070795: xfsprogs-udeb: the udeb is empty (size 904 bytes) so does not contain mkfs.xfs

2024-05-09 Thread Philip Hands
Package: xfsprogs-udeb Version: 6.7.0-2 Severity: grave User: debian...@lists.debian.org Usertags: openqa Hi, Recent openQA tests show that it is not currently possible to create an XFS filesystem using the latest debian-installer: https://openqa.debian.net/tests/259699#step/install_base/13 L

Bug#1065951: patch applied as MR!6

2024-04-09 Thread Philip Hands
Hi, Just in case it helps, I've applied Michael's patch, and opened an MR on salsa: https://salsa.debian.org/virtualsquare-team/vde2/-/merge_requests/6 Cheers, Phil. -- Philip Hands -- https://hands.com/~phil

Bug#1067516: util-linux: sulogin should not render system inaccessable in single-user/emergency mode

2024-03-22 Thread Philip Hands
Package: util-linux Severity: normal The D-I team are just about to reword the root password prompt in a way that will likely lead to more people taking the chance to lock root and rely upon sudo from the initial user. This is something that's already possible, so this wording change is at most go

Bug#1064617: update password selection advice

2024-03-19 Thread Philip Hands
ose bugs. That's not a reason to delay this MR though. Cheers, Phil. [1] https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/user-setup/-/merge_requests/6 > > > Holger > > > -- > Sent from /e/ OS on Fairphone3 > -- Philip Hands -- https://hands.com/~phil signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#1064617: Passwords should not be changed frequently

2024-03-08 Thread Philip Hands
Justin B Rye writes: > Philip Hands wrote: >>> Maybe instead of saying "use the system's initial user account to >>> become root" it should say "allow the system's initial user account >>> to gain administrative privileges"? I

Bug#1064617: Passwords should not be changed frequently

2024-03-06 Thread Philip Hands
uot;? I'm not sure. Oh, and we might > even want to mention the word "superuser", or then again we might not. I think Diederik's suggestion of using 'root' for the account and 'super-user' for the privileges might be the way to go. Cheers, Phil. [1] h

Bug#1064617: Passwords should not be changed frequently

2024-03-06 Thread Philip Hands
Justin B Rye writes: > Philip Hands wrote: >> Justin B Rye writes: >>> Philip Hands wrote: >>>> Justin B Rye writes:> ... >>>> The reason behind that structure was supposed to be that one definitely >>>> needs _a_ password, but not

Bug#1064617: Passwords should not be changed frequently

2024-03-05 Thread Philip Hands
Justin B Rye writes: > Philip Hands wrote: >> Justin B Rye writes: ... >> >> The reason behind that structure was supposed to be that one definitely >> needs _a_ password, but not necessarily a root password, so the password >> advice applies to whichever pas

Bug#1064617: Passwords should not be changed frequently

2024-03-05 Thread Philip Hands
password > # :sl1: > _Description: Choose a password/passphrase for the new user: > Make sure to select a strong password/passphrase, that cannot be guessed. > > No comma needed there. Well done -- I kept noticing that, and somehow didn't get round to fixing it. I've now deleted it, so thanks for pointing it out again. :-) Cheers, Phil. -- Philip Hands -- https://hands.com/~phil signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#1064617: Passwords should not be changed frequently

2024-03-05 Thread Philip Hands
Cyril Brulebois writes: > Philip Hands (2024-03-05): >> Cool, in that case I'll fix those two things and then use the result >> for the MR[1], and if the openQA test runs look OK, will merge that. > > Only skimmed over it, but that looks sensible, thanks all. > >

Bug#1064617: Passwords should not be changed frequently

2024-03-05 Thread Philip Hands
Holger Wansing writes: > Hi, > > Am 5. März 2024 15:01:21 MEZ schrieb Philip Hands : >>Here are my latest attempts: > > "Be aware that that a ..." > doubled "that" > > "... (unless you select to show it)" > missing fullstop. Well

Bug#1064617: Passwords should not be changed frequently

2024-03-03 Thread Philip Hands
Holger Wansing writes: > Hi, > > Am 2. März 2024 21:07:34 MEZ schrieb Philip Hands : >> >>This sentence is the thing that prompted me to change things in the >>first place, because it is not true. One does not _need_ to set a root >>password. > > It sho

Bug#1064617: Passwords should not be changed frequently

2024-03-02 Thread Philip Hands
Diederik de Haas writes: > Hi, > > On Friday, 1 March 2024 20:46:49 CET Holger Wansing wrote: >> Philip Hands wrote (Fri, 01 Mar 2024 06:46:27 +0100): >> > If you want to make a constructive contribution, how about suggesting a >> > wording that reflects the ad

Bug#1064617: Passwords should not be changed frequently

2024-02-29 Thread Philip Hands
ailable, then just removing the old advice seems like an OK place to end up too, which is why I went to the effort of splitting the commits. Cheers, Phil. -- Philip Hands -- https://hands.com/~phil

Bug#1064617: Passwords should not be changed frequently

2024-02-29 Thread Philip Hands
n the other hand, now that ssh defaults to not allowing password based logins to root, perhaps the potential presence of a poor password on a sudo enabled account should be of greater concern, since that will still be open to remote logins, so I can see that one could argue this either way. -- Philip Hands -- https://hands.com/~phil signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#1064624: Hard to short-stroke an encrypted drive

2024-02-26 Thread Philip Hands
iables to set the percentage and maximum amount that would be left fallow for this purpose, and (eventually) set non-zero defaults when installing to SSD. Is that something like what you're after? Cheers, Phil. -- Philip Hands -- https://hands.com/~phil signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#1063518: console-setup: setupcon: 1386: Syntax error: Missing '))'

2024-02-09 Thread Philip Hands
makes things better. On the other hand, if I'd been paying attention at the time, the fact that this change dropped the number of shellcheck reports for setupcon from 189 to 1 should have rung some alarm bells, but it seems that I've learnt to ignore the little '!' in my emacs status bar -- I'll have to keep an eye on that in future. Cheers, Phil. -- Philip Hands -- https://hands.com/~phil

Bug#1054644: xfsprogs-udeb: causes D-I to fail, reporting errors about missing partition devices

2023-10-30 Thread Philip Hands
Anthony Iliopoulos writes: > On Sun, Oct 29, 2023 at 09:02:01PM +0100, Philip Hands wrote: ... >> error: invalid XFS directory entry. ... > This issue exists independently of the large extent counter, and it is > related to grub commit ef7850c75 ("fs/xfs: Fix issues found

Bug#1054644: xfsprogs-udeb: causes D-I to fail, reporting errors about missing partition devices

2023-10-29 Thread Philip Hands
Philip Hands writes: > Anthony Iliopoulos writes: > ... >> Yeap it is due to nrext64, I've submitted a patch to grub (should have >> cc'ed linux-xfs..) >> >> https://lore.kernel.org/grub-devel/20231026095339.31802-1-ail...@suse.com/ > > That certai

Bug#1054644: xfsprogs-udeb: causes D-I to fail, reporting errors about missing partition devices

2023-10-27 Thread Philip Hands
atch to grub, and then getting that version of grub installed into the target just after the initial attempt to run grub had failed, which then allows a retry of the grub install step to succeed. Also, with the patched version: `grub-probe -d /dev/vda1` produces 'xfs' Cheers, Phil. -- P

Bug#1054644: xfsprogs-udeb: causes D-I to fail, reporting errors about missing partition devices

2023-10-27 Thread Philip Hands
8911/logfile?filename=complete_install-DI-installed-pkgs.txt which lists the installed components (udebs) of the installer that's running: xfsprogs-udeb 6.5.0-1 Cheers, Phil. -- Philip Hands -- https://hands.com/~phil

Bug#1054644: xfsprogs-udeb: causes D-I to fail, reporting errors about missing partition devices

2023-10-27 Thread Philip Hands
Philip Hands writes: ... > Could this be related to #1051543? > > I'll try testing D-I while using the patch from that bug, to see if that > helps. It seems (to me at least) that the patch there does not apply usefully to the version we're talking about, so I'll l

Bug#1054644: xfsprogs-udeb: causes D-I to fail, reporting errors about missing partition devices

2023-10-27 Thread Philip Hands
Package: xfsprogs-udeb Version: 6.5.0-1 Severity: serious User: debian...@lists.debian.org Usertags: openqa While doing openQA testing of Debian-Installer, I notice that XFS installs started failing a few days ago, and comparing the versions of udebs that changed between success and failure, the o

Bug#1050868: bookworm-pu: package debootstrap/1.0.128+nmu2+deb12u1

2023-09-24 Thread Philip Hands
ng this version in bookworm-pu for >> whatever reason, I'm happy to upload a +deb12u2 that is identical to >> 1.0.128+nmu2 except for the changelog.) > > Thank you, pushed both branches. > > Release Team, we are aware that you requested an explicit review from > D-I

Bug#1052448: kmail: Account Assistant window can be covered by main Kmail window

2023-09-22 Thread Philip Hands
Package: kmail Version: 4:22.12.3-1 Severity: minor Hi, While performing automated tests of KDE with openQA (on openqa.debian.net) it has been observed that Kmail, on first run, can end up looking like this: https://openqa.debian.net/tests/190198#step/kmail/5 in case that link rots at some po

Bug#1052377: gdm3: less than beautiful word-wrap decision seen in failed authentication message.

2023-09-21 Thread Philip Hands
Package: gdm3 Version: 45~beta-1 Severity: wishlist Hi, While testing Gnome installs using openQA I noticed that if providing the wrong password, one is shown a message that is word-wrapped in an awkward manner: Sorry, password authentication didn't work. Please try ag

Bug#1051468: cannot install BIOS machine with mini.iso, error creating /target/sys/firmware/efi/efivars

2023-09-09 Thread Philip Hands
tion instructions, just in case you're on other lists you don't want to be on. Cheers, Phil. -- Philip Hands -- https://hands.com/~phil signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#1051468: cannot install BIOS machine with mini.iso, error creating /target/sys/firmware/efi/efivars

2023-09-08 Thread Philip Hands
org/philh/grub-installer/-/jobs/4675763/artifacts/file/debian/output/debian-202306XX+salsaci+20230908+294-amd64-gtkmini.iso which was built in this pipeline: https://salsa.debian.org/philh/grub-installer/-/pipelines/577147 where you will find links to the commit & branch that's from. Cheers, Phil. -- Philip Hands -- https://hands.com/~phil signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#998408: "good password" advice in installer is still bad two years after this was reported

2023-09-06 Thread Philip Hands
rd changes by now, and they tend to make such changes at least a decade late. ;-) Cheers, Phil. -- Philip Hands -- https://hands.com/~phil signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#1050924: dgit: allowed a push-source for a version that already exists in the archive

2023-08-31 Thread Philip Hands
Package: dgit Version: 10.7 Severity: important Hi, Following on from an IRC chat with Ian, I'm submitting a bug as requested. In a moment of inattention[1], I seem to have found myself in a git "master" branch that was sitting on release 1.109 of the `preseed` package (whereas the latest releas

Bug#1050887: endlessh.service includes unhelpful instructions for listening on low ports

2023-08-30 Thread Philip Hands
Package: endlessh Version: 1.1-5 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, In `/lib/systemd/system/endlessh.service` there is this comment: ## If you want Endlessh to bind on ports < 1024 ## 1) run: ## setcap 'cap_net_bind_service=+ep' /usr/local/bin/endlessh ## 2) uncomment following line

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

2023-08-28 Thread Philip Hands
wns at present. Cheers, Phil. -- Philip Hands -- https://hands.com/~phil signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#1031183: grub-installer: postinst fails if efivarfs cannot be mounted

2023-08-20 Thread Philip Hands
Philip Hands writes: ... > However, I am now wondering whether we might not be better off using > `archdetect` to see if we're on an efi system, and then make the attempt > to call mountvirtfs for the efivarfs conditional on that. After a diversion[1], I had a look at the archdete

Bug#1039710: debian-installer: Grub installation fails and /var/log/syslog is empty

2023-08-07 Thread Philip Hands
https://salsa.debian.org/philh/busybox/-/commit/328fdfbe43cd8d9e4425c3ee1c68aadfa44ee434 but if that did work, it does no longer. Either I was mistaken about it having worked earlier (I'm at least 80% sure that's not the case) or something non-deterministic is going on ... which makes me

Bug#1031183: grub-installer: postinst fails if efivarfs cannot be mounted

2023-07-30 Thread Philip Hands
/commit/fcb794f6 then one gets to see this error: https://openqa.debian.net/tests/176310#step/grub/5 =-=- However, I am now wondering whether we might not be better off using `archdetect` to see if we're on an efi system, and then make the attempt to call mountvirtfs for the efivarfs conditi

Bug#1036952: rootskel: text installs on aarch64 lack glyphs for many languages

2023-05-30 Thread Philip Hands
Package: rootskel Version: 1.135 Severity: normal Tags: patch Hi, One can see the symptoms by looking here: https://openqa.debian.net/tests/151286 the orange "Soft Failed" boxes highlight some of the failing screens, where the failure can be seen in the screenshot immediately preceeding the "

Bug#1014943: waybar: fork-awesome alternatives

2023-05-26 Thread Philip Hands
Package: waybar Version: 0.9.17-2 Followup-For: Bug #1014943 Dear Maintainer, I also hit this bug. As mentioned Fork Awesome is available in Debian, so instead of these: 0xf76b  temperature-low 0xf769  temperature-high one can use these: https://forkaweso.me/Fork-Awesome

Bug#913431: Debian Installer Bullseye RC 2 release

2023-03-26 Thread Philip Hands
o action), that should allow this code to be tested in D-I: https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/debian-installer/-/jobs/4087808/artifacts/file/public/gtk-mini.iso HTH Cheers, Phil. -- |)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)20 8530 9560] HANDS.COM Ltd. |-| http://www.hands.com/http://ft

Bug#1031195: os-autoinst: FTBFS on several release architectures

2023-02-18 Thread Philip Hands
Control: reopen -1 It seems that the initial attempt to fix this bug was a failure, so I'm reopening the bug and will attempt to do a proper job shortly. Cheers, Phil.

Bug#1026027: graphical installer: using nano in a installer shell fails

2023-02-18 Thread Philip Hands
/3960725/artifacts/file/public/gtk-mini.iso wherein the bug is fixed. That being the case, I've pushed it into the master branch. Cheers, Phil. -- |)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)20 8530 9560] HANDS.COM Ltd. |-| http://www.hands.com/http://ftp.uk.debian.org/ |(| Hugo-Klemm-Strasse 34,

Bug#993155: O: ssh-askpass -- under X, asks user for a passphrase for ssh-add

2023-02-18 Thread Philip Hands
e has diminished yet further. Cheers, Phil. -- |)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)20 8530 9560] HANDS.COM Ltd. |-| http://www.hands.com/http://ftp.uk.debian.org/ |(| Hugo-Klemm-Strasse 34, 21075 Hamburg,GERMANY

Bug#1031220: grub-installer: variable $device_map used without being defined

2023-02-13 Thread Philip Hands
Source: grub-installer Severity: minor Hi, While looking at the grub-installer script, shellcheck highlighted the fact that we appear to be using the variable $device_map in grub-installer, without it being defined. A grep of the D-I source tree for 'device_map=' found nothing, so it seems it's

Bug#1030303: install tmpfiles and sysusers config into correct path

2023-02-02 Thread Philip Hands
o discard the special case from the install file. Cheers, Phil. -- |)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)20 8530 9560] HANDS.COM Ltd. |-| http://www.hands.com/http://ftp.uk.debian.org/ |(| Hugo-Klemm-Strasse 34, 21075 Hamburg,GERMANY signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#1029616: perltidy: please package upstream 20221112 release

2023-01-25 Thread Philip Hands
Package: perltidy Version: 20220613-1 Severity: normal Hi Don, I notice that upstream has released 20221112 (prompted by the fact that upstream openqa has a versioned depends on that new version) I knocked up a new version of the package, which is visible here: https://salsa.debian.org/philh/

Bug#748901: fixed in upstream git

2023-01-13 Thread Philip Hands
x27;ll happily do an NMU with just the single commit applied, if that helps. Cheers, Phil. -- |)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)20 8530 9560] HANDS.COM Ltd. |-| http://www.hands.com/http://ftp.uk.debian.org/ |(| Hugo-Klemm-Strasse 34, 21075 Hamburg,GERMANY

Bug#1026027: graphical installer: using nano in a installer shell fails

2022-12-15 Thread Philip Hands
Holger Wansing writes: > Hi, > > Philip Hands wrote (Tue, 13 Dec 2022 20:34:17 +0100): >> On the 11.5 netinst I just tried out, in the Graphical Install's shell, >> TERM=xterm so that's obviously not the cause of the issue, but the >> difference would ap

Bug#1026027: graphical installer: using nano in a installer shell fails

2022-12-13 Thread Philip Hands
be that it has: /usr/share/vte/termcap-0.0/xterm So I guess the fix for this is either to make sure that that termcap file gets installed again, or to set TERM in the Graphical Install's shell to something like 'bterm' or 'vt102'. I suspect restoring the termcap fi

Bug#1023468: dgit: the format of --dep14tag tags should be customisable

2022-12-10 Thread Philip Hands
Philip Hands writes: > So one might have: > > dgit-distro.debian.dgit-tag-filter="sed -ne 's,^debian/1%,,p'" Except of course one wants to be able to set this in the repo somehow, in order that anyone cloning the repo also gets to generate the right sort of tags,

Bug#1023468: dgit: the format of --dep14tag tags should be customisable

2022-12-10 Thread Philip Hands
; DEP-14) ? Or should it reject version numbers that wouldn't be > unchanged under that transform ? Or what ? If using the filter idea above, I'd insist that the result is a valid tag already, or fail. > With answers to these questions I think this becomes a fairly > stra

Bug#1025340: xserver-xorg: Xorg segfaults at start-up in recent Debian Live images

2022-12-02 Thread Philip Hands
Package: xserver-xorg Version: 1:7.7+23 Severity: important Usertags: openqa X-Debbugs-Cc: rclo...@rclobus.nl Hi folks, Debian Live images built in the last day seem not to be able to start X. It segfaults at start-up, thus: [20.784] (EE) Backtrace: [20.785] (EE) 0: /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg (

Bug#1024361: lintian: complains about bpo version when package built with salsa-CI/pipeline (+salsaci)

2022-11-18 Thread Philip Hands
Package: lintian Severity: normal As one can see here: https://installer-team.pages.debian.net/-/debootstrap/-/jobs/3528761/artifacts/debian/output/lintian.html it complains when this bpo version is built: https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/debootstrap/-/commit/e2adc51823c1a1179edce2

Bug#835672: xfce4-power-manager: If installed without xfce4-session, fails to lock screen due to missing xflock4 script

2022-11-10 Thread Philip Hands
firm this, I'm afraid. There's therefore no need to keep the bug open for my benefit, but perhaps you want to leave it open to give others the hint if they stumble across the same behaviour. Cheers, Phil. -- |)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)20 8530 9560] HANDS.COM Ltd. |-| http:

Bug#1023472: lxqt: lxde pulls in both kwin & xfwm4, when selecting 'lxde' during D-I install

2022-11-04 Thread Philip Hands
Package: lxqt Severity: normal Hi, Last month install tests started including this prompt: https://openqa.debian.net/tests/91155#step/_graphical_wait_login/9 which is asking the user to decide between Kwin and Xfwm4 as their window manager. I would expect that only one of those should be ge

Bug#1023468: dgit: the format of --dep14tag tags should be customisable

2022-11-04 Thread Philip Hands
Package: dgit Version: 10.0 Severity: minor dgit generates tags of the form suggested by DEP-14 (`debian/1.2.3`) when --dep14tag is set, which is of course just as it should be for most cases, but there are times when one wants to vary from that. When one is considering native packages for which

Bug#1019660: console-setup: grep: warning: stray \ before #

2022-10-24 Thread Philip Hands
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Bug#916681: certainly is reproducible

2022-09-30 Thread Philip Hands
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Bug#1020417: plasma-vault: encfs security warning during Debian-Installer when KDE desktop selected

2022-09-21 Thread Philip Hands
Package: plasma-vault Version: 5.25.4-1 Severity: normal Attached is a screenshot from installing Debian with KDE selected as the Desktop Environment. As you can see, it's giving a scarry looking security warning, which is probably not the first impression we want to present. My asumption is tha

Bug#1015887: debian-installer: Adding https repo doesn't work without manually installing ca-certificates

2022-09-20 Thread Philip Hands
ily images can be found here: https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/sid_d-i/arch-latest/amd64/iso-cd/debian-testing-amd64-netinst.iso Cheers, Phil. -- |)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)20 8530 9560] HANDS.COM Ltd. |-| http://www.hands.com/http://ftp.uk.debian.org/ |(| Hugo-Klemm-

Bug#787279: installation-reports: still present in rootskel-gtk 11.0.2

2022-09-20 Thread Philip Hands
Followup-For: Bug #787279 Control: reassign -1 rootskel-gtk Having just tested this again, I see that setting `dpms=true` on the kernel command line has no effect, as reported in this bug. In the mean time, I note that we no longer have screen-blanking going on in the text-mode (console) install.

Bug#1019742: reprotest: add a variation that sets DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck

2022-09-15 Thread Philip Hands
Vagrant Cascadian writes: > On 2022-09-14, Philip Hands wrote: >> Vagrant Cascadian writes: >> >>>> but also >>>> (given that the tests will have passed during the normal build) the tests >>>> failing during the varied build seems unlikely

Bug#1019742: reprotest: add a variation that sets DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck

2022-09-14 Thread Philip Hands
senting the data than in du's counting of it. Of course, if the package is not reproducible, the tests may well fail because the package ends up containing new bugs that are only present in the variant-built package, but then its also going to show up as non-reproducible, so does that really

Bug#1019742: reprotest: add a variation that sets DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck

2022-09-14 Thread Philip Hands
Package: reprotest Version: 0.7.22 Severity: wishlist I suggest adding a 'nocheck' variation, that sets DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck during the build, and enabling it by default. The reason for doing so is that one could imagine that a package produces differing results depending upon whether the te

Bug#1018894: rescue-mode: mounts wrong btrfs subvolume

2022-09-03 Thread Philip Hands
Pascal Hambourg writes: > On 03/09/2022 at 06:32, Philip Hands wrote: >> Ansgar writes: >> >>> Source: rescue >>> Version: 1.85 >>> Severity: important >>> >>> I've installed a system using btrfs for the root filesystem wit

Bug#1018894: rescue-mode: mounts wrong btrfs subvolume

2022-09-02 Thread Philip Hands
urry, you could also use this salsa-built test mini-ISO image: https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/debian-installer/-/jobs/3179168/artifacts/file/public/gtk-mini.iso Cheers, Phil. -- |)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)20 8530 9560] HANDS.COM Ltd. |-| http://www.hands.com/http://ftp.uk.debian.org/

Bug#1018802: localechooser: reproducible builds: locale and parallelism trigger reproducibility issues

2022-08-31 Thread Philip Hands
s nothing to test :-/ I'll sort out an upload soon -- just thought I'd mention what I've done so far to save others duplicating effort. Cheers, Phil. -- |)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)20 8530 9560] HANDS.COM Ltd. |-| http://www.hands.com/http://ftp.uk.debian.org/ |(|

Bug#1017725: dgit-maint-native(7) examples should use push-source (rather than push)

2022-08-27 Thread Philip Hands
Sean Whitton writes: > Hello, > > On Wed 24 Aug 2022 at 10:57PM +01, Ian Jackson wrote: > >> >> Sean Whitton writes ("Bug#1017725: dgit-maint-native(7) examples should use >> push-source (rather than push)"): >>> On Fri 19 Aug 2022 at 05:12PM

Bug#1017725: dgit-maint-native(7) examples should use push-source (rather than push)

2022-08-19 Thread Philip Hands
Package: dgit Version: 9.16 Severity: minor It strikes me that examples that currently show the `push` sub-command: dgit -wgf --overwrite push and dgit -wgf push should show the use of the `push-source` sub-command instead, since doing binary uploads to Debian now prevents migration to testi

Bug#1017435: debian-installer: georgian text mode fails to render all characters

2022-08-16 Thread Philip Hands
Package: debian-installer Severity: normal openQA just noticed that the rendering of certain characters just changed, highlighting the fact that the rendering was already broken. For example the prompt for the hostname: msgid "Please enter the hostname for this system." msgstr "გთხოვთ შეიყვანოთ

Bug#1016809: [UEFI] Installed (minimal) bookworm system hangs at boot

2022-08-09 Thread Philip Hands
Philip Hands writes: > Holger Wansing writes: > >> Holger Wansing wrote (Sun, 7 Aug 2022 21:36:43 +0200): >>> Installing Debian on an UEFI-driven QEMU machine (minimal installation, only >>> standard system task) leads to a successful installation, but the newl

Bug#1016809: [UEFI] Installed (minimal) bookworm system hangs at boot

2022-08-08 Thread Philip Hands
ointing out that we were missing such tests, which I'd left room for, but never got round to finishing off properly. I just need to tidy up my patch and then I'll enable some new DESKTOP=textmode tests. Cheers, Phil. -- |)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)20 8530 9560] HANDS.COM Ltd. |-| htt

Bug#991859: Is a different opinion about a license a case for the ctte?

2022-08-02 Thread Philip Hands
pretty active on GitHub, so seems likely to respond in a timely manner). Cheers, Phil. -- |)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)20 8530 9560] HANDS.COM Ltd. |-| http://www.hands.com/http://ftp.uk.debian.org/ |(| Hugo-Klemm-Strasse 34, 21075 Hamburg,GERMANY signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#1013079: installation-reports: GUI install option isn't visible on boot

2022-07-31 Thread Philip Hands
Holger Wansing writes: > Hi, > >> > - On Jun 17, 2022, at 7:43 AM, Philip Hands p...@hands.com wrote: >> > > >> > > https://openqa.debian.net/tests/60553#step/_boot_to_debianinstaller/2 >> > > >> > > if you look closely i

Bug#1015174: lvm2-udeb: uninstallable, depends on non-udeb libsystemd0

2022-07-17 Thread Philip Hands
to create the volume group, seen in the initial screenshot above. Cheers, Phil. -- |)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)20 8530 9560] HANDS.COM Ltd. |-| http://www.hands.com/http://ftp.uk.debian.org/ |(| Hugo-Klemm-Strasse 34, 21075 Hamburg,GERMANY

Bug#1014273: ITP: pastaignore -- makes gitignores easier

2022-07-04 Thread Philip Hands
s? I only ask becuase fdfind does use .gitignores (optionally) so will only list files that are not already ignored, which seems like a useful feature in such a program. Cheers, Phil. -- |)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)20 8530 9560] HANDS.COM Ltd. |-| http://www.hands.com/http://ftp.uk.debia

Bug#1011254: The UDEB package "localechooser" contains probably some buggy source code in "05localechooser" file

2022-06-20 Thread Philip Hands
Jmkr writes: > Sorry for the delay, I had to do some work and then forgot that I > planned to reply to this bug. No problem, these things happen -- anyway, your timing was great as I was just about to do something about this anyway. > > Philip Hands writes: > > ...

Bug#1013079: installation-reports: GUI install option isn't visible on boot

2022-06-17 Thread Philip Hands
from 2022-06-13 17:22, although it could be that the breaking change happened earlier but was masked by the kernel mismatch/upgrade that meant that no new ISOs were produced for a few days just before that. Cheers, Phil. -- |)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)20 8530 9560] HANDS.COM Ltd. |-| http://www.hand

Bug#1011254: The UDEB package "localechooser" contains probably some buggy source code in "05localechooser" file

2022-05-22 Thread Philip Hands
ading my version of > the script to the "sed" approach:). :-) I just pushed that change here: https://salsa.debian.org/philh/localechooser/-/commit/f4845f6c8bad1ca11886ea2cff94653aa25045bc which (once the pipeline runs) should generate a new mini-iso for testing. Cheers, Phil. -- |)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)20 8530 9560] HANDS.COM Ltd. |-| http://www.hands.com/http://ftp.uk.debian.org/ |(| Hugo-Klemm-Strasse 34, 21075 Hamburg,GERMANY signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#1011254: The UDEB package "localechooser" contains probably some buggy source code in "05localechooser" file

2022-05-19 Thread Philip Hands
Philip Hands writes: > > https://salsa.debian.org/philh/localechooser/-/commit/24206bbaccb9619302bab5ca603fb214841ebf58#63952ea2967253e426478ffea08ddc67c3bff9d8_98_92 I just noticed: that commit's line order was mangled while rebasing. This is what it should have been

Bug#1011254: The UDEB package "localechooser" contains probably some buggy source code in "05localechooser" file

2022-05-19 Thread Philip Hands
Michael Tokarev writes: > 19.05.2022 15:59, Philip Hands wrote: > ... >> Actually, I'm unable to resist the urge to remove the redundant use of >> cat (that was already there), so how about doing it in a single sed: >> >>LEVEL=$(sed "/^${LOCALE%%_

Bug#1011254: The UDEB package "localechooser" contains probably some buggy source code in "05localechooser" file

2022-05-19 Thread Philip Hands
i.iso [note that it's built by infrastructure that's not under our direct control, so such images should be viewed with a degree of suspicion] If you'd like to test that, please do, otherwise perhaps you can suggest a test that would determine that the code is behaving as you

Bug#678694: Bug#1010878: installation-reports: preseeding passwords doesn't work on mips64el under qemu

2022-05-13 Thread Philip Hands
comes apparent when combining relative and absolute paths in particular orders. I would assume that even if that is the case, it should be OK to write the file if it does not already exist, which ought to be enough to fix this issue. Cheers, Phil. -- |)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)20 8530 9560

Bug#1009711: openqa: block migration to testing (awaiting availability of packaged shepherd.js)

2022-04-14 Thread Philip Hands
Package: openqa Severity: serious Recently upstream, openQA switched to using shepherd.js for its guided tour, which is not yet packaged. I'd prefer to avoid the current version getting into testing, to avoid it somehow sneaking into stable if getting shepherd.js through NEW takes longer than exp

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

2022-03-29 Thread Philip Hands
, or that you could define 'rename' as an alias in your profile, or even that you might use update-alternetives to install one of them as 'rename' system-wide. Cheers, Phil. -- |)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)20 8530 9560] HANDS.COM Ltd. |-| http://www.hands.com/http://ftp.uk.debian.org/ |(| Hugo-Klemm-Strasse 34, 21075 Hamburg,GERMANY signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#1008258: libjs-bootstrap4: new version available upstream (v4.6.1)

2022-03-25 Thread Philip Hands
Package: libjs-bootstrap4 Version: 4.5.2+dfsg1-7 Severity: wishlist I note that the latest version (of 4.*) available upstream is 4.6.1: https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/releases/tag/v4.6.1 released 28 Oct 2021. The only reason I realised this is that openQA just switched to using 4.6.1.

Bug#957514: mailavenger: fixed in salsa 'gcc_10' branch

2022-02-22 Thread Philip Hands
Source: mailavenger Followup-For: Bug #957514 Control: tags -1 patch Hi Dererk, The reason for this FTBFS is that gcc 10 now defaults to -fno-common, which then throws errors because there are some tentative definitions in .h files, and some definitions of an int `garbage` in several .c files. H

Bug#1005783: xorg-server: "no screens found" when run under: kvm -vga virtio

2022-02-16 Thread Philip Hands
Philip Hands writes: > However, a UEFI boot still fails (with `-vga std`): > > https://openqa.debian.net/tests/42416#step/_boot_to_debianinstaller/4 Having tested a Feb 9 with UEFI boot, it seems that the reason that I had set `-vga virtio` in the first place was that UEFI boots wer

Bug#1005783: xorg-server: "no screens found" when run under: kvm -vga virtio

2022-02-14 Thread Philip Hands
Source: xorg-server Version: 2:21.1.3-2 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, [I'm reporting this against the source because I'm not sure which binary is at fault, but this presuambly related to the bits of xorg that gets put into a udeb and it has been seen while testing on amd64.] Daily Debian-Ins

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

2022-02-09 Thread Philip Hands
ong as people can rely on rename.ul being present, regardless of distro. -- |)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)20 8530 9560] HANDS.COM Ltd. |-| http://www.hands.com/http://ftp.uk.debian.org/ |(| Hugo-Klemm-Strasse 34, 21075 Hamburg,GERMANY signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#1004021: salsa-CI tests pass

2022-02-04 Thread Philip Hands
guard-go/-/pipelines/344811 which shows that the package builds, and that all (other than crossbuild) test pass -- most importantly lintian, piuparts & autopkgtest give passes. Hopefully this will save someone on the FTP team some effort. Cheers, Phil. -- |)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)20

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