Bug#932612: git-debpush: detect unstitched gdr branch

2019-07-22 Thread Sean Whitton
nks. > Apart from that LGTM. Do you think we should have a test case ? > > We could add a failing git-debpush invocation to some random gdr-test. > (adding the dependency and regenerating d/t/control) It would be good to have a test case, but perhaps you could take a look, since manipulating the test suite is much easier for you. Given that it's gathering commits, I've pushed my new series to branch 'series/git-debpush-check-unstitched-v2' of repo <https://git.spwhitton.name/dgit>. -- Sean Whitton signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#932753: tag2upload should record git tag signer info in .dsc [and 1 more messages]

2019-07-22 Thread Sean Whitton
keysize ought to be included alongside the fingerprint, if the above is right. -- Sean Whitton signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#931548: Migration to Sphinx

2019-07-23 Thread Sean Whitton
wasn't involved other than reporting problems with the published version of Policy, and I don't think we made changes to our package in response to any requests from the www-team. -- Sean Whitton

Bug#932704: debian-policy: Don't force sysvinit compatibility if e.g. alternate init required

2019-07-23 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello, On Mon 22 Jul 2019 at 01:39pm +02, Ansgar wrote: > On Mon, 2019-07-22 at 12:01 +0100, Sean Whitton wrote: > > What sort of dependencies are we talking about? Package-level > dependencies (e.g. Depends: systemd-sysv directly or indirectly)? > >> People who don

Bug#932704: Fwd: Bug#932704: debian-policy: Don't force sysvinit compatibility if e.g. alternate init required

2019-07-23 Thread Sean Whitton
support. Agreed, that's definitely not the preferred result. -- Sean Whitton

Bug#932704: debian-policy: Don't force sysvinit compatibility if e.g. alternate init required

2019-07-23 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello David, On Tue 23 Jul 2019 at 12:49PM -04, David Steele wrote: > On Tue, Jul 23, 2019 at 11:15 AM Sean Whitton > wrote: >> >> I think that the wording for this change should reflect the above >> (unless I've misunderstood David), such that the new wording c

Bug#932954: dgit-maint-{debrebase,merge}(7): fix several issues with the tarball workflows

2019-07-24 Thread Sean Whitton
Package: dgit Version: 9.5 Tags: patch Hello, When Debianising a new package yesterday I discovered several issues with the tarball workflows recommended in these two manpages. Detailed in the commit messages of the attached three patches. -- Sean Whitton From

Bug#932959: git-playtree-setup has `set -x`, causing spurious output

2019-07-25 Thread Sean Whitton
Package: dgit Version: 9.5 Hello, dgit is spewing piles of unwanted output thanks to a stray `set -x` remaining at the top of git-playtree-setup. -- Sean Whitton signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#932964: ITP: cutest -- C unit testing framework

2019-07-25 Thread Sean Whitton
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Sean Whitton * Package name: cutest Version : 1.5 Upstream Author : Asim Jalis * URL : http://cutest.sourceforce.net/ * License : zlib-like Programming Lang: C Description : C unit testing framework Let'

Bug#932993: mailscripts: add email-extract-openpgp-certs

2019-07-25 Thread Sean Whitton
add the appropriate Signed-off-by line, please? I just realised this should be in some sort of CONTRIBUTING file; sorry for the lack of that. -- Sean Whitton signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#932753: tag2upload should record git tag signer info in .dsc [and 1 more messages]

2019-07-26 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello, On Tue 23 Jul 2019 at 10:14PM +01, Ian Jackson wrote: > Sean Whitton writes ("Bug#932753: tag2upload should record git tag signer > info in .dsc [and 1 more messages]"): >> AIUI a fingerprint fails to uniquely identify a PGP key unless you also >> include the

Bug#931548: Migration to Sphinx

2019-07-26 Thread Sean Whitton
tion 2. Would this also be useful to get the translations of debian-policy published on the mirrors too? -- Sean Whitton signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#932753: tag2upload should record git tag signer info in .dsc [and 1 more messages]

2019-07-26 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello PGP experts, For the purposes of tag2upload work, would you mind confirming this: On Tue 23 Jul 2019 at 06:38AM +01, Sean Whitton wrote: > AIUI a fingerprint fails to uniquely identify a PGP key unless you also > include the cryptographic algorithm that was used and the key siz

Bug#931548: Migration to Sphinx

2019-07-28 Thread Sean Whitton
formats for all languages. > > Just give me some time with developers-reference get this sorted out. Okay -- Policy's build is already quite complex so please try to keep the patch as small as possible. -- Sean Whitton

Bug#932993: mailscripts: add email-extract-openpgp-certs

2019-07-28 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello Daniel, On Thu 25 Jul 2019 at 03:53PM -04, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > Hi Sean-- > > On Thu 2019-07-25 18:22:14 +0100, Sean Whitton wrote: >> On Thu 25 Jul 2019 at 12:44PM -04, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: >> >>> The attached patch supplies a python3

Bug#931548: Migration to Sphinx

2019-07-30 Thread Sean Whitton
too. I don't think current Japanese HTML > build location is the best place. Cool. Please feel free to accompany your patch with another which finishes the presently incomplete Japanese translation ;) -- Sean Whitton signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#930956: dgit-maint-{merge,debrebase}(7): Suggest --name-status --diff-filter

2019-06-23 Thread Sean Whitton
Package: dgit Version: 8.5 Severity: minor Tags: patch Hello, I recently (re)learned about --diff-filter and realised that there is a place in the -maint manpages where it would be useful. Please see the attached patch. -- Sean Whitton From 93625a9e109f5a6873e14fd0c15ad3a4f1e4c74f Mon Sep 17

Bug#930964: dgit-maint-{merge,debrebase}(7): Using untagged upstream commits

2019-06-23 Thread Sean Whitton
tutorial manpages, so here's a quick patch. -- Sean Whitton From f0527d72b790a8ad74e4e2ea43cb718b2dbf4640 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sean Whitton Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2019 17:07:57 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] dgit-maint-{merge,debrebase}(7): Using untagged upstream commits Signed-off-by: Sean Wh

Bug#928199: List of licenses that don't require gathering all copyright notices

2019-06-24 Thread Sean Whitton
control: tag -1 -patch +pending Hello, On Mon 29 Apr 2019 at 11:16am -0700, Sean Whitton wrote: > I've written a patch to add a footnote with a list of licenses that are > thought not to require the copying of all copyright notices into > Debian's copyright file. >

Bug#931180: git-debrebase: add --just-print-tag-names

2019-06-27 Thread Sean Whitton
this plan allows git-deborig to expose its current special > knowledge - the list of tag formats - while allowing its caller to > remain completely in control of the UI. -- Sean Whitton signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#901926: git-debrebase: add --just-print-tag-names

2019-06-27 Thread Sean Whitton
control: tag 931180 +patch Hello, On Thu 27 Jun 2019 at 04:41pm +0100, Sean Whitton wrote: > Package: devscripts > Version: 2.19.5 > Severity: minor > Control: block 901926 by -1 > > Hello, > > This is a feature request to enable code reuse in git-debrebase: > [...

Bug#903392: want support for packaging-only maintainer views

2019-06-27 Thread Sean Whitton
ike git-deborig's. In case that doesn't work there will > have to be an option to specify it explicitly. I think this is right. The user's first step is to independently select a --quilt option (to keep typing, or to put in .git/config), which they should always be able to do

Bug#903392: want support for packaging-only maintainer views

2019-06-29 Thread Sean Whitton
t; possibility. > > I think quilt modes could contain + signs so perhaps >baredebian+git >baredebian+tarball This, or debiandir+git and debiandir+tarball, LGTM. -- Sean Whitton signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#930922: dgit: combination of -wgf and --include-dirty nukes untracked files

2019-06-29 Thread Sean Whitton
rty. > > maybe. I think this is unnecessarily demanding of the reader as compared with my proposed patch. I'd suggest just updating my patch to say "you can use --clean=none or --clean=dpkg-source[-d] in addition to --include-dirty". > Should --include-dirty --quilt={linear,smash} be treated as > --quilt=nofix ? Is what you have in mind, here, helping the user avoid hitting the #914317 problem? -- Sean Whitton signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#903392: want support for packaging-only maintainer views

2019-06-29 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello, On Sat 29 Jun 2019 at 02:55pm +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > Control: clone -1 -2 > Control: retitle -2 want bare-debian tarball-orig quilt mode > Control: tags -2 - pending > > Sean Whitton writes ("Re: Bug#903392: want support for packaging-only > maintainer views&q

Bug#930922: dgit: combination of -wgf and --include-dirty nukes untracked files

2019-06-30 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello, On Sat 29 Jun 2019 at 03:36PM +01, Ian Jackson wrote: > Sean Whitton writes ("Re: Bug#930922: dgit: combination of -wgf and > --include-dirty nukes untracked files"): >> On Mon 24 Jun 2019 at 12:02pm +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: >> >> A possible al

Bug#903392: want support for packaging-only maintainer views

2019-06-30 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello, On Sat 29 Jun 2019 at 03:43PM +01, Ian Jackson wrote: > Sean Whitton writes ("Re: Bug#903392: want support for packaging-only > maintainer views"): >> On Sat 29 Jun 2019 at 02:55pm +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: >> > Sean Whitton writes ("Re: Bug#903

Bug#903392: Bug#931253: Bug#903392: want support for packaging-only maintainer views

2019-06-30 Thread Sean Whitton
ter in the docs, i.e. --quilt=baredebian (or its alias --quilt=baredebian+git) specifies that ... I think that this makes it easier to understand the difference between the two options, but also it enhances the strength of the encouragement to use baredebian+git over baredebian+tarbal

Bug#903392: Bug#931253: Bug#903392: want support for packaging-only maintainer views

2019-06-30 Thread Sean Whitton
> > I can do that. One of the two values must be primary in that it will > be the value of $quilt_mode and appear in messages. So if you say > --baredebian+git > you will get messages which say you specified "-quilt=baredebian". > I hope that will be OK. That seems fine to me. -- Sean Whitton signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#930666: Please document consensus on use of dh sequencer

2019-07-07 Thread Sean Whitton
t required. > + > +For more information about how to use ``dh``, see the documentation in the > +debhelper package, most notably the dh(1) manual page. > > The following targets are required and must be implemented by > ``debian/rules``: ``clean``, ``binary``, ``binary-arch``, Seconded, and applied to 'next'. Thank you! -- Sean Whitton signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#931715: please update to 0.6.4

2019-07-09 Thread Sean Whitton
to backport it to what's currently in sid? -- Sean Whitton signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#910783: Remove doc-base recommendation

2019-07-14 Thread Sean Whitton
by installing a doc-base control file in +``/usr/share/doc-base/``. Please refer to the documentation that comes with the doc-base package for information and details. -- Sean Whitton signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#931975: dpkg-checkbuilddeps don't allow multiple Vcs-Git statements

2019-07-14 Thread Sean Whitton
red to fix this bug. It seems like a good idea on a first look, but we should see if we're going to make any packages buggy by introducing a 'should' requirement here. -- Sean Whitton signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#932096: tag2upload. upstream handling

2019-07-15 Thread Sean Whitton
hat tag. This change would make git-debpush/tag2upload not usable by them. And I do not see why we would want to do that. -- Sean Whitton signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#932096: tag2upload. upstream handling

2019-07-15 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello, On Mon 15 Jul 2019 at 09:19AM +01, Sean Whitton wrote: > I am not yet convinced that this is something which should be checked. > > What is the benefit of avoiding uploads where the upstream git tag is > not, for whatever reason, an ancestor of the commit to be uploaded

Bug#931975: dpkg-checkbuilddeps don't allow multiple Vcs-Git statements

2019-07-15 Thread Sean Whitton
er than ``http`` or ``git``) Seconded. Thanks, Guillem, for the research! -- Sean Whitton signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#931975: dpkg-checkbuilddeps don't allow multiple Vcs-Git statements

2019-07-15 Thread Sean Whitton
e, given that > Policy already says "A paragraph must not contain more than one instance > of a particular field name" in Policy 5.1. I concur and so I've gone ahead and committed it to master. We can continue to discuss the more substantial change proposal in this bug. I didn&#

Bug#932324: dh-make-elpa: please switch dh-make-perl dependency to libdebian-source-perl

2019-07-17 Thread Sean Whitton
ut quite some time ago, and IIRC we determined that dh-make-elpa has to depend on dh-make-perl as it reuses more than what's in libdebian-source-perl. -- Sean Whitton signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#935443: Bug#928473: [PATCH] dgit(1): Improve description of --new, and be more encouraging

2019-09-28 Thread Sean Whitton
[updating CC to point to the correct bug, not #928473] Acked-by: / Reviewed-by: Sean Whitton This is a nice change. On Thu 05 Sep 2019 at 02:57PM +01, Ian Jackson wrote: > Closes: #935443 > Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson > --- > dgit.1 | 13 + > 1 file changed, 9 i

Bug#928473: [PATCH 1/2] dgit(1): Cover more cases of --overwrite and --deliberately

2019-09-28 Thread Sean Whitton
ul when there was an upload made without dgit since the most recent upload made with dgit. -- Sean Whitton signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#928473: [PATCH 2/2] Terminology: Change "rewind" to "rewrite" where appropriate

2019-09-28 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello, Reviewed-by: Sean Whitton (or Acked-by if you prefer) On Thu 05 Sep 2019 at 11:30AM +01, Ian Jackson wrote: > Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson > --- > dgit| 2 +- > dgit.1 | 4 ++-- > git-debrebase.1.pod | 3 ++- > infra/dgi

Bug#941323: dgit(1): Improve description of --new, and be more encouraging

2019-09-28 Thread Sean Whitton
Package: dgit Version: 9.9 Hello, On Sat 28 Sep 2019 at 09:25AM -07, Sean Whitton wrote: > [updating CC to point to the correct bug, not #928473] Hmm, that bug is closed. This patch hasn't made it to master and I think that it should. So, filing a new bug. > Acked-by: / Review

Bug#932704: debian-policy: Don't force sysvinit compatibility if e.g. alternate init required

2019-09-28 Thread Sean Whitton
is provided by some other init system. I think this would work. What do you think, David? Dmitry, perhaps you could work up a patch against policy.git. -- Sean Whitton signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#941475: debian-policy: please document the /run/reboot-required thingy in the upgrade changelog

2019-10-01 Thread Sean Whitton
ntation doesn't require anyone to make changes to their packages. Could you explain why you want it in the upgrading checklist? -- Sean Whitton signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#941475: debian-policy: please document the /run/reboot-required thingy in the upgrade changelog

2019-10-02 Thread Sean Whitton
control: tag -1 +moreinfo Hello, On Tue 01 Oct 2019 at 04:21PM +02, Mattia Rizzolo wrote: > On Tue, Oct 01, 2019 at 07:14:08AM -0700, Sean Whitton wrote: >> Hmm, this was deliberate because the additional documentation doesn't >> require anyone to make changes to their packa

Bug#941475: debian-policy: please document the /run/reboot-required thingy in the upgrade changelog

2019-10-03 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello, On Thu 03 Oct 2019 at 10:40AM +02, Mattia Rizzolo wrote: > On Wed, Oct 02, 2019 at 08:03:15AM -0700, Sean Whitton wrote: >> > Like you document in the checklist addition to the virtual packages: >> > also those don't require any change to existing packages

Bug#932704: debian-policy: Don't force sysvinit compatibility if e.g. alternate init required

2019-10-05 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello David, On Sun 29 Sep 2019 at 10:35AM -04, David Steele wrote: > On Sat, Sep 28, 2019 at 1:05 PM Sean Whitton wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> On Sat 28 Sep 2019 at 04:18PM +00, Dmitry Bogatov wrote: >> >> > Reasonable. Then let's drop part about D

Bug#941330: undocumented limitation/dependency in dh_elpa_test

2019-10-05 Thread Sean Whitton
requirement that the ert_helper code kill Emacs with a correct exit code in order for dh_elpa_test to work properly, so I'm adding documentation for that. -- Sean Whitton signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#941194: initscripts: remove some implementation details

2019-10-05 Thread Sean Whitton
eview the other docs and confirm that we're not deleting anything useful before proceeding on this. Sorry to be so queasy about clean up activities. -- Sean Whitton signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#940461: [PATCH v2] Add imap-dl, a simple imap downloader

2019-10-05 Thread Sean Whitton
native to adding the integration tests, how about you use imap-dl on a daily basis for ~3 months with (I assume) a standard IMAP server, and if you don't have to make any nontrivial changes to the script during that time, we can ship it in mailscripts? -- Sean Whitton signature.asc De

Bug#940461: [PATCH v2] Add imap-dl, a simple imap downloader

2019-10-06 Thread Sean Whitton
control: tag -1 +moreinfo Hello, On Sat 05 Oct 2019 at 04:04PM -03, David Bremner wrote: > FWIW I'm already using imap-dl daily, so I guess ask me in a few months > if I noticed any problems. Cool -- tagging moreinfo to reflect this. -- Sean Whitton signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#932704: debian-policy: Don't force sysvinit compatibility if e.g. alternate init required

2019-10-06 Thread Sean Whitton
reflects project consensus? -- Sean Whitton signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#941330: undocumented limitation/dependency in dh_elpa_test

2019-10-06 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello, On Sat 05 Oct 2019 at 02:01PM -04, Nicholas D Steeves wrote: > Sean Whitton writes: > >> control: tag -1 +pending >> >> Hello, >> >> On Sat 28 Sep 2019 at 04:50PM -04, Nicholas D Steeves wrote: >> >>> dh-elpa-test appears to have an undo

Bug#940461: [PATCH v2] Add imap-dl, a simple imap downloader

2019-10-06 Thread Sean Whitton
ant to > start the clock from my last changes :) > > I'd really love to have the integration stuff working, but i don't know > when i'll get to that. Cool -- please drop the moreinfo tag if no nontrivial changes in that period. -- Sean Whitton signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#941984: backintime: files under the GFDL

2019-10-08 Thread Sean Whitton
Source: backintime Version: 1.1.24-0.1 Severity: serious Dear maintainer, Files in the source package matching qt4/docbook/en/* look to be under the GFDL, not the GPL, as implied by d/copyright. -- Sean Whitton signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#936146: archivemail: Python2 removal in sid/bullseye

2019-10-12 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello, On Fri 30 Aug 2019 at 01:43PM -07, Sean Whitton wrote: > I intend to take a shot at converting the package. I'm no longer intending to do this, having rewritten the subset of archivemail's functionality that I need using perl's Mail::Box module. -- Sean Whitt

Bug#942481: unclutter-startup: fails to configure on installation

2019-10-18 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello Norbert, On Thu 17 Oct 2019 at 09:21AM +09, Norbert Preining wrote: > unclutter-startup cannot --configure properly and always terminates with > post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 10 Thank you for testing the new package in experimental! -- Sean W

Bug#942608: RM: haskell-monadplus -- ROM; unmaintained & no longer needed by former reverse dep

2019-10-18 Thread Sean Whitton
See #911024 for more info. -- Sean Whitton signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#940588: git-debpush: pipefail in get_file_from_ref

2019-10-19 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello, On Tue 17 Sep 2019 at 12:24PM +02, Andrej Shadura wrote: > In line 61, grep -Eq may cause a pipefail if grep exits before git > ls-tree concludes. With a debug print for $? I can see this: Here's a patch implementing the fix. Thank you for the report! -- Sean W

Bug#940589: git-debpush: undeclared perl dependency

2019-10-19 Thread Sean Whitton
all of the packages recommended by devscripts, so we can hard depend on anything else that we know we need. -- Sean Whitton signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#935443: [PATCH] dgit-maint-bpo(7): Mention occasional need for --new

2019-09-08 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello, On Sun 08 Sep 2019 at 06:48PM +01, Ian Jackson wrote: > Sean Whitton writes ("Re: Bug#935443: [PATCH] dgit-maint-bpo(7): Mention > occasional need for --new"): >> On Thu 05 Sep 2019 at 04:50PM +01, Ian Jackson wrote: >> > +=head1 GENERAL TIPS >>

Bug#848816: dgit: detect gbp export-dir configuration, and prefill build-products-dir

2019-09-08 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello, On Sun 08 Sep 2019 at 06:52PM +01, Ian Jackson wrote: > Sean Whitton writes ("Re: Bug#848816: dgit: detect gbp export-dir > configuration, and prefill build-products-dir"): >> I think you're right, but I think we've discussed this before. I was in

Bug#913639: Bug#825809: unclutter: diff for NMU version 8-21.1

2019-09-13 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello, On Sun 01 Sep 2019 at 07:21PM -07, Sean Whitton wrote: >> I'd appreciate if you could look over these changes and tell me if you >> agree (as we both should agree on at least the list of slave >> alternatives), have alternative suggestions or otherwise comments.

Bug#935443: [PATCH] dgit-maint-bpo(7): Mention occasional need for --new

2019-09-13 Thread Sean Whitton
n't think it's that odd to put it before TERMINOLOGY but I do think it is bad to put it between TERMINOLOGY and the proceeding section. On Mon 09 Sep 2019 at 01:50PM +01, Ian Jackson wrote: > Maybe what we need instead is > dgit-push-adoption(7) > ? What else would go the

Bug#940234: debian-policy: add a section about source reproducibility

2019-09-14 Thread Sean Whitton
it quite a hard problem, so it would be good to have some data before we spend any time discussing this further. -- Sean Whitton signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#939994: mailscripts: use https instead of http

2019-09-14 Thread Sean Whitton
control: tag -1 confirmed Hello Daniel, On Tue 10 Sep 2019 at 04:26PM -04, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > It's 2019, please use https! Can I get a Signed-off-by please? Please see CONTRIBUTING.md. -- Sean Whitton signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#939993: mailscripts: adopt printmimestructure from notmuch

2019-09-14 Thread Sean Whitton
ng "please consider merging branch foo in repo https://..."; as you have done here. (Or, patches in the BTS or in my personal inbox with git-send-email, but of course pushing a branch is more appropriate in this case, as you say.) (there's an authoritative repo for the contents of

Bug#935084: git-debpush manpage suggestions

2019-09-14 Thread Sean Whitton
er should be warned that use of these options > might cause the upload to fail later in the process. Patches attached. -- Sean Whitton From 8e36414bf03a5675799347b1d371a2fca86c61bf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sean Whitton Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2019 09:54:10 -0700 Subject: [PATCH 1/2] git-debpus

Bug#939993: mailscripts: adopt printmimestructure from notmuch

2019-09-14 Thread Sean Whitton
f `git bisect`: you added the installation of the manpage before the commit which provided the manpage to be installed. -- Sean Whitton signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#935443: [PATCH] dgit-maint-bpo(7): Mention occasional need for --new

2019-09-15 Thread Sean Whitton
dvertising that it would be > nice for them to be. I'm too sleepy right now to make much sense on > this point. Fair enough, let's keep the idea in mind. -- Sean Whitton signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#940534: python-django-waffle: incorrect upstream copyright years

2019-09-16 Thread Sean Whitton
Source: python-django-waffle Version: 0.16.0-1 Hello, Per docs/conf.py, upstream copyright years should be 2012-2019. -- Sean Whitton signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#940535: python-pybadges: d/copyright issues

2019-09-16 Thread Sean Whitton
that stanza includes the line "Copyright 2019 The pybadge Authors", which is probably not correct. -- Sean Whitton signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#940904: ITP: libiterator-simple-perl -- Simple iterator and utilities

2019-09-21 Thread Sean Whitton
Package: wnpp Owner: Sean Whitton Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-de...@lists.debian.org, debian-p...@lists.debian.org * Package name: libiterator-simple-perl Version : 0.07 Upstream Author : Rintaro Ishizaki * URL : https://metacpan.org/release/Iterator

Bug#941198: initscripts: packages should ship systemd units

2019-09-26 Thread Sean Whitton
these to refer to different things? Surely we can combine the language somehow. -- Sean Whitton signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#932704: debian-policy: Don't force sysvinit compatibility if e.g. alternate init required

2019-09-28 Thread Sean Whitton
ge which uses a feature of systemd, where something equivalent cannot be achieved by using a sysvinit script? Such as something to access the systemd dbus interface. I'm not sure how to express that right now, but I think it can be done. -- Sean Whitton signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#941198: initscripts: packages should ship systemd units

2019-09-28 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello, On Fri 27 Sep 2019 at 09:26AM +02, Ansgar wrote: > Sean Whitton writes: >>> +Packages that include system services should include ``systemd`` units >>> +to start or stop services. >>> + >>> Packages that include daemons for system services should p

Bug#932704: debian-policy: Don't force sysvinit compatibility if e.g. alternate init required

2019-09-28 Thread Sean Whitton
TORM-level bug report. > Right now the Policy is pretty much telling me to add an init script > with calls to systemctl. I'd like a different answer. I think we can achieve this. -- Sean Whitton signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#941194: initscripts: remove some implementation details

2019-09-28 Thread Sean Whitton
ot;, but that will be a different patch.) That would be great. Thank you for taking the time to work on the readability of Policy. -- Sean Whitton signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#688481: [copyright-format] Clarify that trailing slashes in directory names are invalid.

2019-09-28 Thread Sean Whitton
be > +escaped with a backslash. A path like "foo bar" may be > +selected with a pattern like "foo?bar". > + > > > Seconded. -- Sean Whitton signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#940461: [PATCH v2] Add imap-dl, a simple imap downloader

2019-09-28 Thread Sean Whitton
or the docs to introduce imap-dl without reference to getmail, and then explain later how it can be a getmail replacement. -- Sean Whitton signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#940590: git-debpush: error message unclear

2019-09-28 Thread Sean Whitton
4 and then when it says "some check(s) failed" you'd be cued to >recognise the two messages as going together, even in the >presence of other noise Agreed. -- Sean Whitton signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#929224: apt-cacher-ng, debootstrap and deb.debian.org combination fails

2019-06-05 Thread Sean Whitton
strap, i.e., debootstrap should start passing --no-hsts to wget? -- Sean Whitton signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#930377: unblock: haskell-argon2/1.3.0.1-5

2019-06-11 Thread Sean Whitton
E=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled -- Sean Whitton diff -Nru haskell-argon2-1.3.0.1/debian/changelog haskell-argon2-1.3.0.1/debian/changelog --- haskell-argon2-1.3.0.1/debian/changelog 201

Bug#930597: unblock: pikepdf/1.0.5+dfsg-3 -- redux

2019-06-16 Thread Sean Whitton
ked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) -- Sean Whitton diff -Nru pikepdf-1.0.5+dfsg/debian/changelog pikepdf-1.0.5+dfsg/debian/changelog --- pikepdf-1.0.5+dfsg/debian/changelog 2019-02-27 22:33:07.0 + +++ pikepdf-1.0.5+dfsg/debian/changelog 2019-04-29 02:23:41.00

Bug#930597: unblock: pikepdf/1.0.5+dfsg-3 -- redux

2019-06-16 Thread Sean Whitton
distribution in the changelog to 'buster' (not 'testing' or > 'testing-proposed-updates'). Thanks for the info & the reminder! -- Sean Whitton signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#930761: RFP: PyMuPDF -- python bindings for MuPDF

2019-06-19 Thread Sean Whitton
, document restructuring, annotation / link handling and document or page creation. -- Sean Whitton signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#930761: Bug#894068: ocrmypdf: New dependency on PyMuPDF for v6.0.0

2019-06-19 Thread Sean Whitton
ations of statically linking a project that's under the AGPL. I think that we can do it, but I'm not sure quite what license the binary package will end up with, and quite how to document that in d/copyright. -- Sean Whitton

Bug#930666: Please document consensus on use of dh sequencer

2019-06-19 Thread Sean Whitton
are things that executable programs have, not source code. Can I suggest we talk instead about the "starting point for the content of d/rules" and say something like "this starting point is often sufficient to build a package satisfying most of the requirements below (and many others), and where it is not, package-specific instructions are usually expressed using override targets" ? -- Sean Whitton signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#761219: debian-policy: document versioned Provides

2019-06-20 Thread Sean Whitton
gt; - This feature is not yet present, however, and is expected to be used > - only infrequently. > + This functionality was introduced in dpkg 1.17.11 and newer and > + full support has been provided in the Debian archive since 2018. > > .. [#] > To see why ``Breaks`` is normally needed in addition to ``Replaces``, Seconded. Thank you again. I've made some editorial changes (and fixed the introduction of a duplicate footnote reference) on branch bug761219-spwhitton of policy.git, but these do not need seconding. -- Sean Whitton signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#802501: Concluding "What should happen when maintscripts fail to restart a service?"

2019-06-20 Thread Sean Whitton
rt fails in a maintscript is left up to package >maintainer discretion, and close the bugs > [...] I no longer think this would be useful enough to have in Policy, but I'd like to hear from anyone who disagrees. -- Sean Whitton signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#761219: debian-policy: document versioned Provides

2019-06-20 Thread Sean Whitton
control: tag -1 -patch +pending Hello, On Thu 20 Jun 2019 at 04:43pm +0200, gregor herrmann wrote: > Seconded as well. Thanks. Applied. -- Sean Whitton

Bug#930761: Bug#894068: ocrmypdf: New dependency on PyMuPDF for v6.0.0

2019-06-21 Thread Sean Whitton
o have any use at all for pymupdf. -- Sean Whitton signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#930761: Bug#894068: ocrmypdf: New dependency on PyMuPDF for v6.0.0

2019-06-21 Thread Sean Whitton
text file in the source package. -- Sean Whitton signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#930666: Please document consensus on use of dh sequencer

2019-06-21 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello Russ, Sam, On Thu 20 Jun 2019 at 09:01AM -07, Russ Allbery wrote: > Sean Whitton writes: > >> A tiny thing is that you seem to have switched "" for "", >> which seems wrong. > > I'll put this back to args... since it just muddles the di

Bug#930666: Please document consensus on use of dh sequencer

2019-06-21 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello, On Fri 21 Jun 2019 at 01:09PM +01, Sean Whitton wrote: > packaging helper might want to use their new tool. The > recommendation to use ``dh`` does not always apply, and use of > ``dh`` is therefore not required. > > - saying that use of ``dh`` is "not r

Bug#930666: Please document consensus on use of dh sequencer

2019-06-21 Thread Sean Whitton
t; (which is the goal above), and then look at what we can do elsewhere to > spread the clarity once we've agreed on what we want to say here. I agree that this is the way to proceed here. -- Sean Whitton signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#802501: Concluding "What should happen when maintscripts fail to restart a service?"

2019-06-21 Thread Sean Whitton
a sprawling, unmanageable morass of difficult problems. That isn't how things are, because while there are indeed a lot of hard problems, they are largely independent of each other, and tackling individual debian-policy bugs really does improve Debian. However, it is much harder to see that when half of the open bugs are more than five years old yet not tagged wontfix. -- Sean Whitton signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#930922: dgit: combination of -wgf and --include-dirty nukes untracked files

2019-06-22 Thread Sean Whitton
k starting quiltify (single-debian-patch) [...] This is the git-annex dgit repo at tag debian/7.20190129-3 if it is indeed a bug and steps to reproduce are needed. -- Sean Whitton signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#930922: dgit: combination of -wgf and --include-dirty nukes untracked files

2019-06-22 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello, On Sat 22 Jun 2019 at 04:08pm +0100, Sean Whitton wrote: > The description of --include-dirty says that it tells dgit to "include > the changes from your working tree". However, with -wgf, what it > actually does is include changes to files that have already been &

Bug#930922: dgit: combination of -wgf and --include-dirty nukes untracked files

2019-06-22 Thread Sean Whitton
control: tag -1 + patch Hello, On Sat 22 Jun 2019 at 04:32pm +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > Sean Whitton writes ("Bug#930922: dgit: combination of -wgf and > --include-dirty nukes untracked files"): >> The description of --include-dirty says that it tells dgit to "inclu

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