Bug#844184: RFS: muse-el/3.20+dfsg-1 [ITA]

2016-11-12 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
; before reading this bug report. (Closes: #720126) * Patch README to explain how installed files relate to src:muse-el. -- Nicholas D Steeves Tue, 18 Oct 2016 20:58:45 -0400 Regards, Nicholas D Steeves

Bug#840302: [patch] btrfs-progs: install bash-completion

2016-11-17 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
I just tested Hideki's patch and it looks good to me :-) In addition to this bug, it closes #800790. Cheers, Nicholas

Bug#800790: btrfs-tools: Add bash-completion file

2016-11-17 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
control: tags -1 confirmed control: tags -1 fixed-upstream Oh my, I made a mistake back in April... Sorry Dimitri! While the fix is available upstream, no Debian package yet installs it. Bug #840302 has a nice patch. Cheers, Nicholas

Bug#861125: ITP: elpa-writegood-mode -- Minor mode for Emacs to improve English writing

2017-05-11 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 04:04:17PM -0700, Sean Whitton wrote: > On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 05:23:45PM -0400, Nicholas D Steeves wrote: > > Thank you for mentoring me to err on the side of caution :-) As a > > rule, for Debian, is it most correct that the embedded version in the > &g

Bug#861125: P.S. Re: Bug#861125: ITP: elpa-writegood-mode -- Minor mode for Emacs to improve English writing

2017-05-11 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
P.S. I had already filed RFS Bug #861699. For future reference, which is correct? 1) I. someone files an RFP, II. one takes ownership and retitles it to an ITP, III. if one then needs a sponsor one drops ownership and retitles to an RFS ... [ITP] 2) I and II remain the same, but instead of III,

Bug#861124: ITP: elpa-writeroom-mode -- distraction-free writing for Emacs

2017-05-11 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Hi Antoine, Elpa-writeroom-mode is ready to upload whenever you have the time. It's available here: https://mentors.debian.net/package/writeroom-mode Alternatively, one can download the package with dget using this command: dget -x https://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/w/writeroo

Bug#830535: partclone.xfs is missing from package

2017-05-12 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 07:33:13PM +0200, Georges Khaznadar wrote: > Hello Nicholas, > > I re-enabled XFS, for Sid and for Experimental, and posted an unblock > request to release.debian.org > > Best regards, Georges. > Thank you Georges! --N signature.asc Description: Digita

Bug#862604: dh-make-elpa: extending create_docs{}

2017-05-14 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Package: dh-make-elpa Version: 0.7.1 Severity: wishlist Hi Sean, I thought I'd take a quick look at dh-make-elpa's create_docs, because I've been using dh-make-elpa a lot recently. What do you think of iteratively printing (filename\n) from a list generated from *.md and *.org instead of checkin

Bug#861699: RFS: writegood-mode/2.0.2-1 [ITP]

2017-05-14 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
control: tag -1 -moreinfo On Sun, May 14, 2017 at 05:02:23PM -0700, Sean Whitton wrote: > control: owner -1 ! > control: tag -1 +moreinfo > > On Tue, May 02, 2017 at 04:58:31PM -0400, Nicholas D Steeves wrote: > > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "writegood-mode&q

Bug#813901: ITP: btrfsmaintenance -- Btrfs maintenance toolbox

2017-05-15 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Hello, On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 07:29:40AM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > On Sat, Feb 06, 2016 at 05:41:06PM +0200, Ioan Eugen Stan wrote: > > I've uploaded the package and took the reccomendations into consideration. > > > > http://mentors.debian.net/package/btrfsmaintenance > > what is the state of

Bug#813901: ITP: btrfsmaintenance -- Btrfs maintenance toolbox

2017-05-15 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
P.S. And the issues this package can exacerbate still exist: "Subject: balancing every night broke balancing so now I can't balance anymore?" https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-btrfs/msg65387.html This sort of thing is why I don't want to support btrfsmaintenance for Stretch, but Stretch+1 is pr

Bug#862698: ITP: minecraft -- blocks to build anything you can imagine

2017-05-15 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 06:40:34PM -0300, Carlos Donizete Froes wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Carlos Donizete Froes > > * Package name: minecraft > Version : 0.1 > Upstream Author : Carlos Donizete Froes > * URL : https://minecraft.net > * Licen

Bug#862698: ITP: minecraft -- blocks to build anything you can imagine

2017-05-15 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 10:58:11PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Mon, 2017-05-15 at 18:40 -0300, Carlos Donizete Froes wrote: > > Package: wnpp > > Severity: wishlist > > > Owner: Carlos Donizete Froes > > > > * Package name: minecraft > >   Version : 0.1 > >   Upstream Author : Ca

Bug#861634: RFS: multimc/0.5.1-1 [ITP] -- A free, open source launcher for Minecraft

2017-05-15 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
control: tag -1 +moreinfo Dear Zebulon, Have you already taken care to follow Mojang's trademark rules? https://account.mojang.com/documents/brand_guidelines Specifically I think one of their terms is that even non-commercial software must very clearly state that it's unofficial and not affiliat

Bug#826008: xserver-xorg-input-multitouch -- new version available

2017-05-16 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Hi Nobuhiro, On Mon, May 08, 2017 at 08:10:59AM +0900, Nobuhiro Iwamatsu wrote: > Hi, > > 2017-05-03 7:11 GMT+09:00 Nicholas D Steeves : > > Control: retitle -1 xserver-xorg-input-multitouch -- new version available > > > > Current installed vetsion is 1.0~rc2+git2011

Bug#861772: RFS: writeroom-mode/3.6.1-1 [ITP]

2017-05-17 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Control: tag -1 +moreinfo Tagging as moreinfo while investigating a potential trademark infringement issue. I will untag when this has been resolved. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#861124: ITP: elpa-writeroom-mode -- distraction-free writing for Emacs

2017-05-17 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Control: block -1 by 861772 Please do not upload this package yet. I'm blocking this RFP with an RFS I filed, and have tagged it moreinfo while I investigate the severity of a possible trademark infringement issue. I expect that to be solved quickly, hopefully before you get back. --N signatu

Bug#862933: ITP: gmailfeed -- A plasmoid for notification and listing unread emails from your Gmail inbox

2017-05-18 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nicholas D Steeves * Package name: gmailfeed Version : 1.1 Upstream Author : Anthony Vital * URL : https://github.com/anthon38/gmailfeed * License : GPL-3 Programming Lang: C++ Description : A plasmoid for the

Bug#858749: Default of "Apply colors to non-Qt applications" causes invisible text

2017-03-25 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Package: libkf5style5 Version: 5.28.0-1 Control: affects -1 kde-style-breeze emacs inkscape x11-apps Dear KDE Team, Thank you for your hard work. I hope that I'm filing this against the right package... It might actually be Qt problem. Steps to reproduce invisible text, from a fresh Stretch in

Bug#857552: i965-va-driver: failing to play videos (stops half-way through)

2017-03-15 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 10:50:54AM +0100, Sebastian Ramacher wrote: > Hi > > On 2017-03-13 07:13:09, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 12, 2017 at 7:01 PM, Sebastian Ramacher > > wrote: > > > Control: tags -1 + moreinfo > > > > > > On 2017-03-12 13:31:24, lkcl wrote: > > >> Pack

Bug#813525: lintian: Please make --no-tag-display-limit configurable

2017-03-25 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Hi, I can confirm that as of 2.5.50 this is not yet fixed. I'd also like to be able to set no-tag-display-limit in my lintianrc. Cheers, Nicholas signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#861124: RFP: elpa-writeroom-mode -- distraction-free writing for Emacs

2017-04-24 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
control: owner -1 control: retitle -1 ITP: elpa-writeroom-mode -- distraction-free writing for Emacs Hi Antoine, I've been using a moderately customised local copy of writeroom-mode forked from upstream many years ago, so of course I'd love to maintain an official elpafied Debian package of it.

Bug#861125: RFP: elpa-writegood-mode -- Minor mode for Emacs to improve English writing

2017-04-24 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
control: -1 owner control: -1 retitle ITP: elpa-writegood-mode -- Minor mode for Emacs to improve English writing Hi Antoine, I'll do this one too, because it's something I'm interested in and wish I had had as an undergrad. Y-a-t'il une version française? C'est quelque dont j'apprécierais énor

Bug#861124: ITP: elpa-writeroom-mode -- distraction-free writing for Emacs

2017-04-25 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
control: pending -1 Hi Antoine, On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 08:04:56AM -0400, Antoine Beaupré wrote: > On 2017-04-24 20:37:20, Nicholas D Steeves wrote: > > control: owner -1 > > control: retitle -1 ITP: elpa-writeroom-mode -- distraction-free writing > > for Emacs > > &

Bug#861125: ITP: elpa-writegood-mode -- Minor mode for Emacs to improve English writing

2017-04-25 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
control: tags -1 pending Hi Antoine, On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 08:06:50AM -0400, Antoine Beaupré wrote: > On 2017-04-24 20:46:13, Nicholas D Steeves wrote: > > > Y-a-t'il une version française? > > C'est quelque dont j'apprécierais énormément! > > This is

Bug#861125: ITP: elpa-writegood-mode -- Minor mode for Emacs to improve English writing

2017-04-25 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 01:37:12PM -0400, Antoine Beaupré wrote: > On 2017-04-25 11:17:28, Nicholas D Steeves wrote: > > > > It will take some time to learn how this one works, but another reason > > I'm interested in maintaining writegood-mode is I'm cer

Bug#861214: ITP: elpa-smart-mode-line -- A powerful and beautiful mode-line for Emacs

2017-04-25 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Package name: elpa-writegood-mode Version : 2.0.2 Upstream Author : Artur Malabarba URL : http://github.com/Malabarba/smart-mode-line License : GPL-2+ Programming Lang: Elisp Description : A powerful and beautiful mode-line for E

Bug#861214: ITP: elpa-smart-mode-line -- A powerful and beautiful mode-line for Emacs

2017-04-26 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Package name: smart-mode-line Version : 2.10.1 Upstream Author : Artur Malabarba URL : http://github.com/Malabarba/smart-mode-line License : GPL-2+ Programming Lang: Elisp Description : A powerful and beautiful mode-line for Emacs [corrected Package name and Ver

Bug#861242: ITP: elpa-find-file-in-project -- Quick access to project files in Emacs

2017-04-26 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Control: owner -1 ! Control: block 861174 by -1 Package name: elpa-find-file-in-project Version : 5.2.7 Upstream Author : Will Farrington et al, Chen Bin is the current maintainer URL : https://github.com/technomancy/find-file-in-project Lic

Bug#861340: ITP: elpa-poetry -- Poetry writing aids for Emacs

2017-04-27 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nicholas D Steeves * Package name: elpa-poetry Version : 0.14 Upstream Author : Bob Newell * URL : http://www.bobnewell.net/filez/poetry.el * License : GPL3+ Programming Lang: Elisp Description : Poetry writing

Bug#861125: ITP: elpa-writegood-mode -- Minor mode for Emacs to improve English writing

2017-04-27 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Hi Sean, On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 01:36:10PM -0700, Sean Whitton wrote: > Hello Nicholas, > > On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 09:22:23PM -0400, Nicholas Steeves wrote: > > The questions we need help with are at 2. and especially 4. > > Okay -- I'll answer those. > > > > 2. that version patch - really n

Bug#861368: RFS: helm/2.5.0-2 [Team Upload]

2017-04-27 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
ith Debian Emacs Policy. - Depend on emacsen-common (>= 2.0.8) instead of emacs. -- Nicholas D Steeves Thu, 27 Apr 2017 16:53:19 -0400 helm (2.5.0-1) unstable; urgency=medium Thank you, Nicholas signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#861340: ITP: elpa-poetry -- Poetry writing aids for Emacs

2017-04-28 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 11:51:41AM -0500, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > Nicholas D Steeves dijo [Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 01:37:03PM -0400]: > > Package: wnpp > > Severity: wishlist > > Owner: Nicholas D Steeves > > > > * Package name: elpa-poetry > > (...) > &

Bug#861687: ITP: visual-fill-column -- An Emacs mode that wraps visual-line-mode buffers at fill-column

2017-05-02 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nicholas D Steeves Control: block 861124 by -1 * Package name: visual-fill-column Version : 1.9 Upstream Author : Joost Kremers * URL : https://github.com/joostkremers/visual-fill-column * License : GPL-3

Bug#861699: RFS: writegood-mode/2.0.2-1 [ITP]

2017-05-02 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
PA package that needs a newer version of writegood-mode than this, Emacs should download that updated version from MELPA, and hopefully that user will file a bug requesting that we package that new upstream version. -- Nicholas D Steeves Tue, 25 Apr 2017 18:04:18 -0400 Cheers, Nicholas

Bug#861705: RFS: visual-fill-column/1.10-1 [ITP]

2017-05-02 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
t there is zero ambiguity about what is covered by the license. Upstream has applied it to their HEAD. - This patch will be redundant when upstream tags 1.11. -- Nicholas D Steeves Fri, 28 Apr 2017 23:10:12 -0400 Cheers, Nicholas signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#826008: xserver-xorg-input-multitouch -- new version available

2017-05-02 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Control: retitle -1 xserver-xorg-input-multitouch -- new version available git log --pretty=oneline v1.0-rc2..v1.0-rc3 55ab6c4ecb43e6f2ec34b36533ef308d00a709e4 xf86-input-multitouch v1.0-rc3 4d87c041f6a232aa30528d70d4b9946d1824b4ed Four finger swipes in multitouch afbbc4b9470869933223e3970c7a63f1c

Bug#861705: RFS: visual-fill-column/1.11-1 [ITP]

2017-05-02 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Control: retitle -1 RFS: visual-fill-column/1.11-1 [ITP] On second thought, please do not upload this release! I will wait until 1.11 is tagged and the patch can be dropped. Please do not close this bug, as I expect it to be tagged very soon; however, I would appreciate if someone would claim ow

Bug#861705: RFS: visual-fill-column/1.11-1 [ITP]

2017-05-03 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
medium * Initial release. (Closes: #861687) * Add 0001-Update-claimed-version-important-for-integration-wit.patch - Provides the correct version to GNU ELPA and MELPA to prevent potential dependency resolution issues. -- Nicholas D Steeves Wed, 03 May 2017 14:43:38 -0400 Thank you! Nicholas signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#861772: RFS: writeroom-mode/3.6.1-1 [ITP]

2017-05-03 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
-levels-of-customisation-options-in-R.patch - These are needed to fix a variety of issues with the info file, including the lintian error "info-document-missing-dir-entry". -- Nicholas D Steeves Wed, 03 May 2017 15:52:36 -0400 Do the headers for the patches I cherry-picked (on

Bug#861263: debian-installer: zfs support

2017-05-05 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
On 5 May 2017 at 15:27, Sam Kuper wrote: > On 05/05/2017, Ben Hutchings wrote: >>On Fri, 2017-05-05 at 19:50 +0100, Sam Kuper wrote: > >>> 2. Add ZFS to a Debian Installer that is not the *default* Debian >>> Installer. Does Debian distribute such an installer, to which the >>> facility to compil

Bug#824812: out-of-date backport

2016-05-19 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Package: diskscan Version:0.18-1~bpo8+1 Hi Joao, Diskscan-0.19-1 is in testing. I'm presently testing it on a SAT-supported USB drive. Please backport, or let me know if you'd like me to maintain one. I can either upload packages, or if you'd prefer push my local jessie-backports branch of dis

Bug#824894: [PATCH] provide upstream changelog

2016-05-20 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Package: btrfs-progs Version: 4.5.2-1 Tags: patch Upstream btrfs-progs now provides a changelog. Debian Policy says we should install it to /usr/share/doc/package-version. Signed-off-by: Nicholas D Steeves diff -ur btrfs-progs-4.5.2/debian/rules btrfs-progs-4.5.2.changed/debian/rules --- btrfs

Bug#824895: [PATCH] warn against likely data loss

2016-05-20 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
which is installed to /usr/share/doc/btrfs-progs; it must be manually copied into place; I've included it because this is the first place a sophisticated user would look. Signed-off-by: Nicholas D Steeves diff -ur --new-file btrfs-progs-4.5.2/debian/local/btrfs-convert.hook btrfs-progs-

Bug#824896: [PATCH] fix serious errors in debian/copyright

2016-05-20 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Package: btrfs-progs Version: 4.5.2-1 Tags: patch Control: severity -1 severe Btrfs-progs is not GPL-2+. It is predominantly and explicitly GPL-2, with some GPL-2+, some LGPL-2, and some GPL-3. GPL-2 and GPL-3 are not compatible, so this is serious. Signed-off-by: Nicholas D Steeves diff -ur

Bug#824895: [PATCH v2] warn against likely data loss when using btrfs-convert

2016-05-23 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
V2 of this patch uses dh_installdocs, rather than install -D, to put the contributed hook in /usr/share/doc. Signed-off-by: Nicholas D Steeves diff -Nur btrfs-progs-4.5.2.orig/debian/local/btrfs-convert.hook btrfs-progs-4.5.2/debian/local/btrfs-convert.hook --- btrfs-progs-4.5.2.orig/debian

Bug#824894: [PATCH v2] provide upstream changelog

2016-05-28 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Hello! v2 of this patch does not require the use of a dh_override; it uses debian/btrfs-progs.changelogs instead. Please consult https://github.com/sten0/btrfs-progs.git for an overview of my work. Cheers, Nicholas diff -urN '--exclude=.git' btrfs-progs-xnox/debian/btrfs-progs.changelogs btrfs-p

Bug#824895: [PATCH v3] warn at run-time against likely data loss when using btrfs-convert

2016-05-28 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Hello! v3 of this patch does not require the use of a dh_override; it uses debian/btrfs-progs.examples instead. Please consult https://github.com/sten0/btrfs-progs.git for an overview of my work. Cheers, Nicholas diff -urN btrfs-progs-xnox/debian/btrfs-progs.examples btrfs-progs-sten/debian/btrf

Bug#824895: [PATCH v4] warn at run-time against likely data loss when using btrfs-convert

2016-05-28 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Strange, the wrapper script didn't make it in to v3 of the patch. Here is v4. diff -urN btrfs-progs-xnox/debian/btrfs-progs.examples btrfs-progs-sten/debian/btrfs-progs.examples --- btrfs-progs-xnox/debian/btrfs-progs.examples 1969-12-31 19:00:00.0 -0500 +++ btrfs-progs-sten/debian/btrfs-p

Bug#825792: issues caused by lack of a bpo in jessie

2016-05-29 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Package: debhelper Version: 9.20160403 Dear maintainer, Please backport debhelper to Jessie. Here are the issues I've encountered resulting from its absence: 1) lintian bpo version depends on a newer debhelper - lintians errors must presently be ignored 2) without a newer debhelper, one of

Bug#825792: issues caused by lack of a bpo in jessie

2016-05-29 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Correction, for item 3) dh_elpa is not provided by debhelper, but the dh-elpa package depends on a newer version of debhelper. Sorry for the oversight! Nicholas

Bug#825872: [PATCH] explain how to enable the TPM's TRNG in README

2016-05-30 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Package: rng-tools Version: 2-unofficial-mt.14-1 Tags: patch With a fresh install on a Xeon 1226 v3, reading 52KiB from /dev/random occurs at ~20bits/s Adding haveged gets it up to the ~60bits/s range But wow, adding the TPM's TRNG gets it as high as ~2.58MiB/s ! Removing haveged at this point dro

Bug#821308: Bug doesn't appear in 4.3.5-1

2016-05-30 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Hi Markus, Just to confirm, a downgrade to linux-image-4.3.5-1 fixed this? Is it also fixed in one of linux-image-4.5.3-1, 4.5.4-1, or 4.5.5-1 (if you're running unstable)? Thanks, Nicholas

Bug#824211: marked as pending

2016-06-01 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Oh, I now see what happened with swh-plugins now with '+ * Fix multi-arch path."' (I received email to deb-multimedia mailing list and replied without checking bug context). Sorry about that! I'll move my OT discussion to the mailing list. Best regards, Nicholas

Bug#826008: new version available

2016-06-01 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Package: xserver-xorg-input-multitouch Version: 1.0~rc2+git20110312-2 xf86-input-multitouch v1.0-rc3 is the most recent upstream version, from 2012-03-24 http://bitmath.org/code/multitouch/ I also found this: https://github.com/rydberg/Multitouch-X-Driver/tree/master/debian Cheers, Nicholas

Bug#826268: RFS: diskscan/0.19-1~bpo8+1

2016-06-03 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
y, one can download the package with dget using this command: dget -x https://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/d/diskscan/diskscan_0.19-1~bpo8+1.dsc Changes since the last upload: * Rebuild for jessie-backports. (Closes: #824812) Regards, Nicholas D Steeves

Bug#826293: RFS: bit-babbler/0.5~bpo8+1

2016-06-03 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
l/main/b/bit-babbler/bit-babbler_0.5~bpo8+1.dsc Regards, Nicholas D Steeves

Bug#826341: gbp import-dsc, and gpb import-dsc --debsnap should detect when the .dsc is a bpo

2016-06-04 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Package: git-buildpackage Version: 0.6.22 Hi, I've been practising packaging in git, and practising transitioning package which are not maintained in git to git repos. One issue I've encountered is that with both gbp import-dsc, and more worrisomely gpb import-dsc --debsnap, the import merges bpo

Bug#826344: please backport v0.7.5

2016-06-04 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Package: git-buildpackage Version: 0.7.5 Following up on Bug#826341: I suspect a backported v0.7.6 package would save time/work :-) If #826341 is closed as wont-fix, please consider backporting git-buildpackage nonetheless. Best regards, Nicholas

Bug#825872: [PATCH] explain how to enable the TPM's TRNG in README

2016-06-04 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Also, it would be good to document somewhere that, --hrng=driver needs to be omitted eg: RNGDOPTIONS="--fill-watermark=90% --feed-interval=1" cat /proc/sys/kernel/random/entropy_avail hovers close to 4000 after this is enabled on my Thinkpad. Without it, it hovers around between the mid-to-high-2

Bug#825872: [PATCH] explain how to enable the TPM's TRNG in README

2016-06-04 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
mark=90% --feed-interval=1" #RNGDOPTIONS="--hrng=viapadlock --fill-watermark=90% --feed-interval=1" +#RNGDOPTIONS="--fill-watermark=90% --feed-interval=1" # <- for tpm_rng use On 4 June 2016 at 21:06, Nicholas D Steeves wrote: > Also, it would be good to document somewher

Bug#821308: Bug doesn't appear in 4.5.4-1

2016-06-05 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
control: notfound -1 linux/4.3.5-1 control: fixed -1 linux/4.5.0-2 Hi Markus, Thank you for the confirmation! :-) Cheers, Nicholas

Bug#818687: RFS: btrfs-progs/4.4.1-1.1 [NMU]

2016-04-05 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
On 4 April 2016 at 09:20, Gianfranco Costamagna wrote: > I did a preliminary review on pkg-multimedia mail list [1] (where Nicholas > applied for the team join) > > > please address the issues I raised, and remove the moreinfo tag once done, > and I'll do another spin. > > > [1] > https://lists

Bug#818687: RFS: btrfs-progs/4.4.1-1.1 [NMU]

2016-04-05 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Fixed @ same URL. Lots of beginner mistakes, plus carelessness wrt to Standards Version :-$ Whoops! Thank you for your patience. On 5 April 2016 at 13:07, Gianfranco Costamagna > BTW I'm not sure about the udeb package rename, there is no upgrade path > there, maybe you can get in touch with >

Bug#818687: RFS: btrfs-progs/4.4.1-1.1 [NMU]

2016-04-06 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
On 5 April 2016 at 13:52, Gianfranco Costamagna wrote: > so, please remove the moreinfo tag once you have a feedback from -boot team. Will do. 'hope they rsvp soon! > also a reverse-dependency needs fixing here > https://codesearch.debian.net/results/btrfs-tools-udeb/page_0 > partman-btrfs Fix

Bug#827778: debian/watch: correctly handle -rcN versions and add crypto sig verification for tarball

2016-06-20 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
D Steeves Date: Mon Jun 20 15:38:01 2016 -0400 * debian/watch: add cryptographic signature verification of tarball. Signed-off-by: Nicholas D Steeves diff --git a/debian/upstream/signing-key.asc b/debian/upstream/signing-key.asc new file mode 100644 index 000..bbc871a

Bug#827778: [PATCH v2] debian/watch: correctly handle -rcN versions and add crypto sig verification for tarball

2016-06-20 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Hi, Here is v2 of the patch, rebased on the btrfs-tools-3.17 package instead of my git tree. Cheers, Nicholas diff -urN btrfs-tools-3.17.orig/debian/upstream/signing-key.asc btrfs-tools-3.17/debian/upstream/signing-key.asc --- btrfs-tools-3.17.orig/debian/upstream/signing-key.asc 1969-12-31 19

Bug#823277: RFS: btrfs-progs/4.4.1-1.1~bpo8+1

2016-05-02 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
visit the following URL: https://mentors.debian.net/package/btrfs-progs Alternatively, one can download the package with dget using this command: dget -x https://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/b/btrfs-progs/btrfs-progs_4.4.1-1.1~bpo8+1.dsc Regards, Nicholas D Steeves

Bug#823277: RFS: btrfs-progs/4.4.1-1.1~bpo8+1

2016-05-03 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Thank you Gianfranco! Nicholas On 3 May 2016 at 06:20, Gianfranco Costamagna wrote: > Hi, signed and uploaded! > > cheers, > > G. > > > > > > Il Lunedì 2 Maggio 2016 23:42, Nicholas D Steeves ha > scritto: > Package: sponsorship-requests > Severity:

Bug#820479: patch

2016-05-04 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Hi Steve, I just wanted to follow-up, and mention that the btrfs-progs rename and patched partman-btrfs are in the archive and have migrated to testing. Best regards, Nicholas

Bug#817806: please upload fresh bugfix (4.4.4)

2016-05-04 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Hi Yaroslav, Is this bug for linux-image or btrfs-tools? Kernels based on linux-4.4.6 and linux-4.5.1 are available, and I've updated btrfs-progs to v4.4.1. I'm planning to upload v4.5.2 soon, for completeness, but it will be to experimental, because I've read a couple of reports of problems tha

Bug#823474: RFS: btrfs-progs/4.5.2-0.1~exp1

2016-05-04 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: normal Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "btrfs-progs". I've read upstream reports of regressions in the 4.5.x series that were solved by downgrading to 4.4.x, so I believe that it is most appropriate to upload to experimental at this

Bug#823474: RFS: btrfs-progs/4.5.2-0.1~exp1

2016-05-08 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Hi Gianfranco On 6 May 2016 at 04:32, Gianfranco Costamagna wrote: > > Hi, it would be nice to avoid having a possible and problematic version even > in experimental. > Specially because it might be source of data-losses to the end users. > I agree, however, upstream's official recommendation is

Bug#823848: remove btrfs-tools-udev from archive

2016-05-09 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Package: btrfs-progs Version: 4.4.1-1.1 Severity: serious To conclude the btrfs-tools to btrfs-progs rename, ftpmasters need to be contacted to remove btrfs-tools-udev from the archive for unstable and testing. When I discussed the rename with the D-I team, they said a btrfs-tools-udev dummy pack

Bug#823474: RFS: btrfs-progs/4.5.2-0.1~exp1

2016-05-09 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
On 9 May 2016 at 04:31, Gianfranco Costamagna wrote: >>Waiting for his reply. > > > this seems the most important bit, I would appreciate you opening a bug > report against > the package (severity:important), explaining why you want a version in > experimental, > leaving xnox the time to answer

Bug#823474: RFS: btrfs-progs/4.5.2-0.1~exp1

2016-05-09 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
On 9 May 2016 at 13:18, Gianfranco Costamagna wrote: >>Per https://wiki.debian.org/ftpmaster_Removals , I filed Bug #823848 >>"as an RC bug on the package". > > I have reassigned it to ftpmasters, I don't think there is need to wait for > the maintainer opinion, this is a binary without source. T

Bug#783250: /sbin/btrfs: btrfs check consumes too much memory

2016-05-10 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Hi Chris, I'm not sure when it will be ready, but it looks like Qu Wenruo is working on this upstream: [PATCH RFC 00/16] Introduce low memory usage btrfsck mode https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-btrfs/msg54480.html Cheers, Nicholas

Bug#787279: d-i screen blanking (more info)

2016-05-11 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
On 11 May 2016 at 09:09, Philip Hands wrote: > Philipp Kern writes: > > Do modern screens still actaully suffer from burn-in? > To my knowledge only screens with a phosphorus layer do, and the only modern (and recently no longer manufactured) ones are plasma TVs...and those eventually suffer los

Bug#787279: d-i screen blanking (more info)

2016-05-11 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
On 11 May 2016 at 20:51, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Wed, 2016-05-11 at 23:16 +0200, Philipp Kern wrote: >> I also like the dimming idea. It sounds to me like there could be some >> filter be applied to the output of X... > > xrandr --brightness > > But it is implemented in individual drivers by set

Bug#828078: please backport git-import-orig --merge-mode=[merge|replace] feature

2016-06-24 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Package: git-buildpackage Version: 0.6.22 Severity: wishlist Dear maintainer, I've investigated a possible jessie-backport of git-buildpackage-0.7.5, but I'm not sure if backporting stretch's bash-completion is allowed or desired. I looked into this because I'd really appreciate having the --mer

Bug#734237: btrfs-tools: btrfs lockup with 3.12 RT kernel

2016-06-26 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
The reason I ask is at the time of linux-3.12, there were a number of bugs caused by the interaction of btrfs and the RT patches. Some of them were btrfs, some of them the RT patches fault, and from what I've read it's better now, but there are still probably issues. Cheers, Nicholas

Bug#827983: libva1: upgrade to va 1.7.1 breaks intel graphics

2016-06-28 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Hi, For another data point, I've attached the output to the following: lsb_release -a > graphics-stack.txt && echo >> graphics-stack.txt && dpkg -l linux-image-4.4.14.20160627 *drm* xserver-xorg-video-intel *mesa* libva* i965-va-driver | sed '//d' >> graphics-stack.txt As Sebastian notes, I also

Bug#734237: btrfs-tools: btrfs lockup with RT kernel

2016-06-28 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Hi Osamu, Is this bug still present in linux-image-4.6.0-1-rt-amd64=4.6.2-2? Cheers, Nicholas

Bug#630920: RFH: rng-tools -- Daemon to use a Hardware TRNG

2016-06-30 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Hi Henrique, I am interested in comaintaining the rng-tools; however, I do not believe I have sufficient proficiency in C to be the sole maintainer. If I had any hard to answer cryptography questions I would ask Ron, the maintainer of bit-babbler, who I've been collaborating with and learning from

Bug#829205: RFS: btrfs-progs/4.5.3-0.1

2016-07-01 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: normal Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for this update of "btrfs-progs". I have chosen to update to v4.5.3, because this version does not trigger a bug when combined with linux-4.6.x as discussed in the following email: https://www.spinics.net/lis

Bug#829374: nm-openvpn error consumes all free space in /var/log

2016-07-02 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Package: network-manager-openvpn Version: 0.9.10.0-1 Severity: grave Hi, I've been putting of reporting that nm-openvpn in Jessie fails to tear down the tap0 interface when disconnecting from a VPN...well, it's just as well that I put it off, because it turns out that it is a more severe issue th

Bug#829378: intel-microcode initramfs hook needs to be updated

2016-07-02 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Package: intel-microcode Version: 3.20151106.1~deb8u1 When booting, the error: modprobe: "module microcode not found in modules.dep" is printed to the screen. If plymouth splash is being used, the splash screen is dropped to display this error. I believe that this behaviour began in linux

Bug#829378: intel-microcode initramfs hook needs to be updated

2016-07-02 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Control: found -1 intel-microcode/3.20151106.1 Control: fixed -1 intel-microcode/3.20160607.1 On 2 July 2016 at 19:09, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > This is bug #814301, already fixed in unstable. Sorry for missing that! > A package with this fix won't be uploaded to stable-backports unt

Bug#818687: RFS: btrfs-progs/4.4.1-1.1 [NMU]

2016-04-20 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
s -u fi diff -ur ./debian/changelog ../btrfs-progs-4.4.1-static_path/debian/changelog --- ./debian/changelog 2016-04-20 19:18:09.337997103 -0400 +++ ../btrfs-progs-4.4.1-static_path/debian/changelog 2016-04-20 19:22:16.621669102 -0400 @@ -6,7 +6,6 @@ * Update standards versi

Bug#818687: RFS: btrfs-progs/4.4.1-1.1 [NMU]

2016-04-22 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
On 21 April 2016 at 08:33, Christian Seiler wrote: > Hi Gianfranco, > > On 04/21/2016 09:48 AM, Gianfranco Costamagna wrote: >>> activate update-initramfs >> do you think it is worth adding to the current NMU or it is better to leave >> it for >> a future upload? > > I'm not sure if you meant to

Bug#818687: RFS: btrfs-progs/4.4.1-1.1 [NMU]

2016-04-22 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
On 21 April 2016 at 03:53, Jakub Wilk wrote: > Policy §10.4 says that /bin/sh script need to follow SUSv3 + some > extensions. Both "hash" and "command -v" are optional in SUSv3 (but they are > mandatory in SUSv4), so in theory you shouldn't use them. In practice, > however, "command -v" is probab

Bug#818687: RFS: btrfs-progs/4.4.1-1.1 [NMU]

2016-04-22 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Hi Dimitri, On 22 April 2016 at 19:20, Dimitri John Ledkov wrote: > I haven't looked closely, but i have a lot dubious emails about btrfs package. > (a) i do not maintain backports, anybody is free to do those > (b) all of my packages are lowNMU, meaning I trust any/all DDs to do > sensible thing

Bug#818687: RFS: btrfs-progs/4.4.1-1.1 [NMU]

2016-04-22 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Hi Gianfranco, Here is a link to the latest version, which uses triggers instead of postinst and postrm. I think it's ready to upload, but please double check :-) http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/b/btrfs-progs/btrfs-progs_4.4.1-1.1.dsc Cheers, Nicholas

Bug#820483: accommodate rename of btrfs-tools to btrfs-progs

2016-04-23 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
On 9 April 2016 at 03:04, Christian PERRIER wrote: > Quoting Nicholas D Steeves (nstee...@gmail.com): >> Package: partman-btrfs >> Version: 20 >> >> I am working on problems associated with bug #780081, where it was >> planned to have a fix staged in experime

Bug#809314: btrfs-tools in jessie-backports does not provide warning

2016-04-25 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Hi Julian, On 12 April 2016 at 11:30, Julian Taylor wrote: > > btrfs-tools does not need to have the same version as the kernel, you > can use any newer version of it with older kernels. > See this faq and the one following: > > https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/FAQ#What_version_of_btrfs-pr

Bug#801192: btrfs-tools: add btrfs-convert to initramfs

2016-04-25 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Hi Ritesh, On 16 April 2016 at 04:46, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: > On Fri, 2016-04-15 at 21:14 -0400, Nicholas D Steeves wrote: >> >> As of btrfs-progs-4.4, they're "doing preparatory work for >> btrfs-convert rewrite" ( >> https://btrfs.wiki.kerne

Bug#820483: accommodate rename of btrfs-tools to btrfs-progs

2016-04-25 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Hi Christian, On 23 April 2016 at 23:05, Nicholas D Steeves wrote: > On 9 April 2016 at 03:04, Christian PERRIER wrote: >> Changes seem to be OK, but I guess that we can't upload before the >> btrfs-tools package hasn't been renamed, isn't it? >> >> Fro

Bug#739246: btrfs-tools: command line arguments get eaten

2016-04-25 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Hi Julius, Have you had a chance to see if this was fixed in btrfs-tools-3.17-1.1~bpo70+1? The new command is: btrfs check /dev/vdb1 Regards, Nicholas

Bug#801192: btrfs-tools: add btrfs-convert to initramfs

2016-04-25 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
ems filled with data you value. Proceed (Yes/No)? -- This way the binary is still shipped, but it's unquestionably clear that this is a dangerous thing to do. Also can/should the wrapper script go into the initramfs? Sincerely, Nicholas On 25 April 2016 at 07:51, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: >

Bug#739246: btrfs-tools: command line arguments get eaten

2016-04-25 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Julius, Thank you for sharing your observations when closing this bug. Your attention to detail for the record is appreciated. Please don't hesitate to report any issues you encounter in the future, because case-by-case tests like these go a long way towards helping to find and fix corner-cases.

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