Bug#872523: RE:RE:Bug#872523: fatal: refusing to merge unrelated histories

2017-08-19 Thread Sean Whitton
is, please close the bug. -- Sean Whitton signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#872587: debian-policy: please document "Important: yes"

2017-08-18 Thread Sean Whitton
pkg has defined behaviour for the field, as it will make documenting it much easier. It will also allow us to be more confident that there is no serious disagreement about the purpose of the field. I couldn't find a bug against dpkg, but if there is one, it should probably be set to block th

Bug#872665: lintian: tag metadata tracking releases of Debian Policy

2017-08-19 Thread Sean Whitton
-template-perl 1.46-1 -- no debconf information -- Sean Whitton signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#720177: `git debrebase` UI

2017-08-19 Thread Sean Whitton
In particular, the automatic pseudomerge handling and perhaps the > stripping of debian/patches. > > I have one person already trying to do rebase-with-pseudomerges as a > downstream. I just read the IRC log you posted in another bug; thanks for that. -- Sean Whitton signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#812826: xim problem

2017-08-19 Thread Sean Whitton
xim; and - not using urxvt or Emacs. Or: - using `ibus-server --xim` - changing my finger habits to workaround this bug :) I think that it would be best if I did some reading about xim, ibus, ibus-hangul etc. Do you know what documents you read when you wrote im-config? Thanks again. --

Bug#872900: debian-policy: Very generic info file name

2017-08-22 Thread Sean Whitton
Will fix. Whoever fixes this will need to rename all the images to have a debian-policy- prefix. This is a convention when you install images into /usr/share/info. -- Sean Whitton signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#872895: debian-policy: Split html for policy lost

2017-08-22 Thread Sean Whitton
control: retitle -1 Include multi-page HTML in package ^ see below for explanation Hello, On Tue, Aug 22 2017, Mattia Rizzolo wrote: > On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 12:10:36PM -0700, Sean Whitton wrote: >> - it would be nice to include the multi-page rendering in the package > >

Bug#872893: debian-policy: Chapters, sections, appendices and numbering

2017-08-22 Thread Sean Whitton
o files it's just worse as they do not > get their section numbers reset so they keep incrementing from the > last chapter index. For example «Binary packages (…)» used to be > appendix B, now it's 2, but on the info file it's 14. Okay, that sounds like a bug -- thanks. -- Sean Wh

Bug#630174: debian-policy: forbid installation into /lib64

2017-08-20 Thread Sean Whitton
cessible through the search path >/usr/include/ is amended, permitting files to > be accessible through the search path >/usr/include/triplet where -- Sean Whitton signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#648271: [debian-policy] 11.8.3 "Packages providing a terminal emulator" says xterm passes -e option straight to exec

2017-08-20 Thread Sean Whitton
executed > program. In other words, the behavior is as though the arguments > were passed directly to execvp, bypassing the shell. (xterm's > behavior of falling back on using the shell if -e had a single > argument and exec failed is permissible but not required.) Seconded. -

Bug#786470: debian-policy: [copyright-format] Add an optional “License-Grant” field

2017-08-20 Thread Sean Whitton
will happily do this on your behalf as I was partly responsible for the switch -- Sean Whitton signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#749826: Documenting `Multi-Arch: foreign`

2017-08-20 Thread Sean Whitton
that other text together. Thank you again for your work so far. [1] https://wiki.debian.org/DependencyHell#Multi-Arch:_foreign -- Sean Whitton signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#872895: debian-policy: Split html for policy lost

2017-08-22 Thread Sean Whitton
reclude also providing the multi-page rendering? Ah, sorry, I think there are two bugs here: - it would be nice to include the multi-page rendering in the package - since we're publishing only the single-page version on www.debian.org, we need to rewrite the links -- Sean Whitton signature.asc Desc

Bug#872893: debian-policy: Chapters, sections, appendices and numbering

2017-08-22 Thread Sean Whitton
w feature arrives from upstream. -- Sean Whitton signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#872944: www.debian.org: Debian Policy Manual not fully published

2017-08-22 Thread Sean Whitton
/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) -- Sean Whitton signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#872895: debian-policy: Split html for policy lost

2017-08-22 Thread Sean Whitton
anting to look something up. I think that maybe we should reassign this bug to www.debian.org to request rewriting of the old URIs? -- Sean Whitton signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#872896: debian-policy: An html.tar.gz has leaked into the .deb?

2017-08-22 Thread Sean Whitton
og. It looks at least a bit redundant. Hmm, I thought that it was needed as it is offered for download on www.debian.org. Russ, can you remember how that download link worked previously? -- Sean Whitton signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#864622: RFS: rich-minority/1.0.1-1 [ITP]

2017-08-22 Thread Sean Whitton
team sponsor if necessary. I won't be sponsoring this, I'm afaid. -- Sean Whitton signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#683222: debian-policy: Policy section 4.4 is imprecise with respect to section 12.7

2017-08-22 Thread Sean Whitton
t existing). Not sure what you're asking. Let me know if what I just pushed could be better. -- Sean Whitton signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#833193: chapel/1.15 [ITP]

2017-08-17 Thread Sean Whitton
control: noowner -1 Dear Ben, On Wed, May 24 2017, Sean Whitton wrote: > I will continue as the reviewer and eventual sponsor of the chapel > source package itself (i.e. this RFS). Unfortunately, I'm going to have to renege on this. I recently got a new job within Debian, and the new se

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

2017-05-03 Thread Sean Whitton
t main. -- Sean Whitton signature.asc Description: PGP signature

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

2017-05-14 Thread Sean Whitton
f you're able to address the issues I've raised in this message, please remove the moreinfo tag in this bug, and don't forget to re-run `dch -r` to refresh the changelog timestamp. -- Sean Whitton signature.asc Description: PGP signature

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

2017-05-11 Thread Sean Whitton
> 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, file a new RFS. (2). The RFP/ITP and RFS are completely separate. The RFS should block the ITP. -- Sean Whitton signature.asc Description: PGP signature

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

2017-05-15 Thread Sean Whitton
; and not > "first" would go into elpa-second.doc, and anything that doesn't match > either can go into something like needs-review.doc. That last one > ought to produce a lintian error and force manual review. I think this would be overly complex and rarely correct. I'd prefer ju

Bug#864622: RFS: rich-minority/1.0.1-1 [ITP]

2017-06-12 Thread Sean Whitton
ight be a good idea to mention diminish.el in the description -- Sean Whitton signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#842614: Bug#842608: dgit pull should bail out in splitbrain mode

2017-06-21 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello Felipe, On Tue, Jun 20, 2017 at 09:30:44PM -0400, Felipe Sateler wrote: > Currently dgit is not really usable with gbp -managed repositories, as > many will have a .gitignore file ignoring the .pc dir. Note that dgit does not commit the .pc dir to git, so this should work fine. --

Bug#848931: source-only builds and .buildinfo

2017-06-20 Thread Sean Whitton
building source packages, do you still think that we should be using dpkg-source to build it, or just continue invoking `dpkg-buildpackage -S -us`? This is relevant for both build-source and push-source. -- Sean Whitton signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#865444: Bug#842614: dgit quilt messages ("o+d/p" is misleading)

2017-06-24 Thread Sean Whitton
ration between the 'o' and the 'd': putting the 'd' inside the expanded 'o'. (Ignoring the subtlety of 3.0 (quilt) permitting you to overwrite a debian/ found in upstream's source, but that is rare.) -- Sean Whitton signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#864912: RFS: emacs-ivy/0.9.1+dfsg-1 [ITP]

2017-06-24 Thread Sean Whitton
for every mode, sure. > Emacs-ivy-doc is also pretty much ready to upload to non-free/docs; I > just need to find out what I should build from the .texi--man page, > and info page? Man page, info page and html doc? Something else? Without looking at the source, Info and HTML sounds s

Bug#865446: dgit: want improved quilt failure messages

2017-06-24 Thread Sean Whitton
; How about > > | dgit: experts' info: src: ## orig ## gitignores: == orig == > | dgit: experts' info: HEAD ## o+d/p HEAD == o+d/p I find "experts' info" a bit off-putting. If the git diff commands are added in plain sight at the bottom of the ou

Bug#864912: RFS: emacs-ivy/0.9.1+dfsg-1 [ITP]

2017-06-26 Thread Sean Whitton
portunity to review it yet. -- Sean Whitton signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#866053: ITP: emacs-ivy-doc -- documentation for emacs' Incremental Vertical completYon

2017-06-26 Thread Sean Whitton
he Debian package would also build from the .org files. -- Sean Whitton signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#865104: updated patch

2017-06-21 Thread Sean Whitton
On Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 12:03:09PM +0100, Sean Whitton wrote: > Please find attached a patch to update the ctte appointments and Policy > delegation information on <https://www.debian.org/intro/organization>. Updated patch attached, including today's ctte appointment. -- Sean W

Bug#860206: RFS: sysbench

2017-05-19 Thread Sean Whitton
s the issues I've raised in this message, please remove the moreinfo tag in this bug, and don't forget to re-run `dch -r` to refresh the changelog timestamp. -- Sean Whitton sbuild (Debian sbuild) 0.73.0 (23 Dec 2016) on zephyr.silentflame.com +

Bug#863216: ITP: emacs-ivy -- a generic completion frontend for Emacs

2017-05-23 Thread Sean Whitton
IRL but has 90% of the packaging in hand. [1] https://github.com/abo-abo/swiper/releases -- Sean Whitton signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#863264: [Pkg-mozext-maintainers] Bug#863264: enigmail: after icedove->thunderbird migration enigmail still depends on icedove package

2017-05-24 Thread Sean Whitton
ages. So it has to be a null sourceful upload. -- Sean Whitton signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#833193: chapel/1.15 [ITP]

2017-05-26 Thread Sean Whitton
in shape. -- Sean Whitton signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#863585: bugs.debian.org: View of usertags on bug summary page

2017-05-28 Thread Sean Whitton
.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) -- Sean Whitton signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#862425: pcre2: Please switch to 3.0 (quilt)

2017-05-24 Thread Sean Whitton
e text for debian/source/patch-header which would have given Jeremy a way in, and perhaps avoided the filing of this bug. -- Sean Whitton signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#863578: Initial upload to experimental should probably still merge history

2017-05-28 Thread Sean Whitton
f HEAD would be a pseudomerge with dgit's representation of policy 3.9.8.0. Maybe you prefer this, of course. (This is a pretty confusing aspect of dgit that only became apparent after some conversations Ian had at FOSSDEM. Sorry that documentation has not caught up.) -- Sean Whitton signatu

Bug#863216: ITP: emacs-ivy -- a generic completion frontend for Emacs

2017-05-28 Thread Sean Whitton
g further progress on this ITP? > Not installing ivy-test.el seems sloppy... I think it's just a missing (require 'colir) at the top of ivy-test.el. You could patch it in, or since upstream might not be willing to merge such a patch, use in d/elpa-test: ert_eval = (load-file "colir.el") -- Sean Whitton signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#863591: Mention --build-products-dir in dgit-maint-gbp(7)

2017-05-28 Thread Sean Whitton
build products output somewhere other than .. -- Sean Whitton signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#863578: Initial upload to experimental should probably still merge history

2017-05-28 Thread Sean Whitton
isting > repository. (I know enough Git that I could probably fumble my way > through, but dgit should probably do it for me somehow.) I think what I suggested would supply that, but it might not be wise to ignore the user's --overwrite. -- Sean Whitton signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#863582: Allow configurable build directory

2017-05-28 Thread Sean Whitton
eally should be possible to set a permanent --build-products-dir in ~/.gitconfig. That's #857316. Does this fulfill your feature request? If so, this bug should be merged with #857316. -- Sean Whitton signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#863578: Initial upload to experimental should probably still merge history

2017-05-28 Thread Sean Whitton
the way > in which it's used in Debian; it's more of a temporary branch from > unstable, and I guess I was expecting dgit to treat it that way. In light of what I wrote above, the suggestion would be to have --deliberately-not-fast-forward be implicit for --new uploads to experimental where H

Bug#863578: Initial upload to experimental should probably still merge history

2017-05-29 Thread Sean Whitton
iberately-not-fast-forward trick works at all, as it should always be possible for such a user to update cleanly. -- Sean Whitton signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#863216: ITP: emacs-ivy -- a generic completion frontend for Emacs

2017-05-30 Thread Sean Whitton
On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 07:53:51AM +0100, Sean Whitton wrote: > On Mon, May 29, 2017 at 02:53:57PM -0400, Nicholas D Steeves wrote: > > IIRC, DFSG-free packages cannot recommend non-free ones, but can they > > suggest non-free ones? > > This sounds sensible b

Bug#863216: ITP: emacs-ivy -- a generic completion frontend for Emacs

2017-05-30 Thread Sean Whitton
ependencies do recurse but debhelper might need to add different entries to ${misc:Depends} for different binary packages -- it is not able to look down the dependency graph and insert those entries into the ${misc:Depends} of a different binary package. So you need to add it to all of them. -- Sean Whitton signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#863799: ITP: redtick -- tiny pomodoro timer for Emacs

2017-05-31 Thread Sean Whitton
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Sean Whitton <spwhit...@spwhitton.name> * Package name: redtick Version : 00.01.02+git20170220.e6d2e9b Upstream Author : F. Febles * URL : https://github.com/ferfebles/redtick * License : public domain Programmin

Bug#860496: RFS: drgeo/1.1.0-10.3 [NMU, RC]

2017-06-02 Thread Sean Whitton
n version 1.1 .. would anyone want to install this? -- Sean Whitton signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#863799: ITP: redtick -- tiny pomodoro timer for Emacs

2017-05-31 Thread Sean Whitton
y four intervals. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomodoro_Technique -- Sean Whitton signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#863216: ITP: emacs-ivy -- a generic completion frontend for Emacs

2017-06-09 Thread Sean Whitton
emacs-ivy-doc -- just 'master' branch emacs-ivy -- 'upstream' branch with cleaned sources, 'master' branch including debian/ dir -- Sean Whitton signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#859778: [supp...@mentors.debian.net: xtrs uploaded to mentors.debian.net]

2017-06-15 Thread Sean Whitton
to refresh the changelog timestamp. -- Sean Whitton signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#864766: [Pkg-emacsen-addons] Bug#864766: Bug#864766: elpa-circe: extract tracking from the rest of circe

2017-06-15 Thread Sean Whitton
wishlist. -- Sean Whitton signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#863216: ITP: emacs-ivy -- a generic completion frontend for Emacs

2017-06-10 Thread Sean Whitton
s. Feel free to take the initiative, if it interests you. > Do we also provide the .org and .md markdown files or convert > everything using pandoc and install that? I would say that the HTML alone would be enough. -- Sean Whitton signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#864626: RFS: visual-fill-column/1.11-1 [ITP]

2017-06-14 Thread Sean Whitton
e package. -- Sean Whitton signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#864622: RFS: rich-minority/1.0.1-1 [ITP]

2017-06-14 Thread Sean Whitton
> For now, do you think I should create a README.Debian with these > examples or wait for upstream to merge them? I don't think you need to do either. Just mention that it's meant to be a more flexible/improved version of diminish.el. -- Sean Whitton signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#864766: [Pkg-emacsen-addons] Bug#864766: elpa-circe: extract tracking from the rest of circe

2017-06-14 Thread Sean Whitton
they are separate). [1] https://github.com/jorgenschaefer/circe/pull/59 -- Sean Whitton signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#864873: dgit-maint-merge man page should expand on debianization of upstreams releasing tarballs

2017-06-16 Thread Sean Whitton
y it. > > So the instructions are missing a step that creates the new branch. Thanks for reporting this. Here's a patch, though I think we need to wait for #864881. -- Sean Whitton From 630992736677ecbe5343403659d0a184c3da8a62 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sean Whitton <spwhit...@spwhitto

Bug#864881: git-buildpackage: gbp-import-orig should pass --allow-unrelated-histories

2017-06-16 Thread Sean Whitton
ii unzip 6.0-21 -- no debconf information -- Sean Whitton signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#864873: dgit-maint-merge man page should expand on debianization of upstreams releasing tarballs

2017-06-16 Thread Sean Whitton
e sign-tags > seem to belong into the [buildpackage] section instead of the > [default] section. They are indeed for `gbp buildpackage`, but it is permissible to put them under DEFAULT -- see gbp.conf(5). -- Sean Whitton signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#865056: bitlbee: should restart when plugins are updated

2017-06-18 Thread Sean Whitton
-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) -- Sean Whitton signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#863582: Allow configurable build directory

2017-06-18 Thread Sean Whitton
oducts from a new dir, but it should probably also write the source package it generates to that dir 2. even if Ian wants to have dgit continue to put generated source packages in .. no matter what, it needs to be able to read them from .., even when --builds-products-dir points somewhere

Bug#865104: www.debian.org: update ctte appointments & Policy delegation

2017-06-19 Thread Sean Whitton
policy: (900, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-3-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) -- Sean Whitton

Bug#864622: RFS: rich-minority/1.0.1-1 [ITP]

2017-06-13 Thread Sean Whitton
out this. Failing that, I can open an > upstream issue/request for clarified description. diminish.el works like this: (diminish 'auto-fill-function) That's it. Clearly simpler. -- Sean Whitton signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#864626: RFS: visual-fill-column/1.11-1 [ITP]

2017-06-13 Thread Sean Whitton
On Mon, Jun 12, 2017 at 05:35:21PM -0400, Nicholas D Steeves wrote: > I do not yet have DM privileges for this package, but if I had > uploaded the new build (with the same version) using dput, would it > have been rejected? Yes. -- Sean Whitton signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#861574: ocrmypdf: OCRmyPDF broken with Ghostscript 9.20

2017-04-30 Thread Sean Whitton
: pn img2pdf ii ocrmypdf-doc 4.3.5-2 pn python-watchdog -- no debconf information -- Sean Whitton signature.asc Description: PGP signature

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

2017-04-29 Thread Sean Whitton
On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 05:47:13AM +, Gianfranco Costamagna wrote: > in deferred/2, so Sean can review changes if needed :) LGTM. Rescheduled to 0-day. Thanks again. -- Sean Whitton signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#861920: ITP: debug-me -- secure remote debugging

2017-05-05 Thread Sean Whitton
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Sean Whitton <spwhit...@spwhitton.name> * Package name: debug-me Version : 1.20170505 Upstream Author : Joey Hess <i...@joeyh.name> * URL : http://debug-me.branchable.com/ * License : AGPL-3 Programming L

Bug#861922: ITP: haskell-posix-pty -- pseudoterminal interaction with subprocesses

2017-05-05 Thread Sean Whitton
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Sean Whitton <spwhit...@spwhitton.name> * Package name: haskell-posix-pty Version : 0.2.1.1 Upstream Author : Merijn Verstraaten <mer...@inconsistent.nl> * URL : https://bitbucket.org/merijnv/posix-pty * License

Bug#861921: ITP: haskell-protobuf -- Google Protocol Buffers for Haskell

2017-05-05 Thread Sean Whitton
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Sean Whitton <spwhit...@spwhitton.name> Control: block 861920 by -1 * Package name: haskell-protobuf Version : 0.2.1.1 Upstream Author : Steve Severance, Nathan Howell * URL : https://github.com/alphaHeavy/protobuf * L

Bug#833193: RFS: chapel/1.15-1 [ITP]

2017-05-04 Thread Sean Whitton
end > you upload to experimental > first. Besides, experimental is more fault-tolerant. This is not needed for completely NEW packages. We should upload this to unstable. -- Sean Whitton signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#601455: Steps towards a patch to document disabling a daemon upon installation

2017-09-13 Thread Sean Whitton
control: block 601455 by 857452 On Mon, Sep 11 2017, Ian Jackson wrote: > This should also be fixed with a new update-rc.d rune. Thank you, Ian and Felipe, for your feedback. I think the right thing is to wait on #857452. -- Sean Whitton signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#876241: debian-policy: Produce HTML output that doesn't try to load any JavaScript

2017-09-19 Thread Sean Whitton
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages debian-policy depends on: ii libjs-sphinxdoc 1.5.6-2 debian-policy recommends no packages. Versions of packages debian-policy suggests: pn doc-base -- no debconf information -- Sean Whitton signature.asc Description: PGP

Bug#679751: Patch to close out this bug

2017-09-21 Thread Sean Whitton
which there are plenty in Policy) into the body text. I don't see what is wrong with this one. Perhaps you could expand. -- Sean Whitton signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#876558: ITP: emacs-uuid -- UUID/GUID library for Emacs Lisp

2017-09-23 Thread Sean Whitton
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Sean Whitton <spwhit...@spwhitton.name> * Package name: emacs-uuid Version : 0.0.3~git20120910.1519bfe Upstream Author : Nic Ferrier <nferr...@ferrier.me.uk> * URL : https://github.com/nicferrier/emacs-uui

Bug#876559: ITP: esxml -- XML, ESXML and SXML library for Emacs Lisp

2017-09-23 Thread Sean Whitton
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Sean Whitton <spwhit...@spwhitton.name> * Package name: esxml Version : 0.3.3 Upstream Author : Evan Izaksonas-Smith * URL : https://github.com/tali713/esxml/ * License : GPL-3+ Programming Lang: Emac

Bug#876324: ITP: emacs-kv -- key/value data structure functions for Emacs Lisp

2017-09-20 Thread Sean Whitton
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Sean Whitton <spwhit...@spwhitton.name> * Package name: emacs-kv Version : 0.0.19+git20140108.7211484 Upstream Author : Nic Ferrier <nferr...@ferrier.me.uk> * URL : https://github.com/nicferrier/emacs-kv * License

Bug#876326: ITP: emacs-db -- database interface and sample implementation for Emacs Lisp

2017-09-20 Thread Sean Whitton
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Sean Whitton <spwhit...@spwhitton.name> * Package name: emacs-db Version : 0.0.6+git20140421.b3a423f Upstream Author : Nic Ferrier <nferr...@ferrier.me.uk> * URL : https://github.com/nicferrier/emacs-db * License

Bug#876322: ITP: nov-el -- Emacs mode for viewing EPUB files

2017-09-20 Thread Sean Whitton
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Sean Whitton <spwhit...@spwhitton.name> * Package name: nov-el Version : 0.2.0 Upstream Author : Vasilij Schneidermann <m...@vasilij.de> * URL : https://github.com/wasamasa/nov.el * License : GPL-3+ Prog

Bug#851456: Please document this changelog convention

2017-09-17 Thread Sean Whitton
n myself on what our best practice should be. However, your diff quoted above seems sensible for a beginner's guide, as we would expect people reading it to be going through the RFS process. -- Sean Whitton signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#875992: haskell-lens: unsatisfiable B-D: libghc-vector-dev (< 0.12) but 0.12.0.1-1 is to be installed

2017-09-17 Thread Sean Whitton
ust a matter of someone having enough CPU time to build all its deps, in order to build lens. -- Sean Whitton signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#877697: ebian-policy: discourage using all 4 digits numbers in Standards-Version

2017-10-04 Thread Sean Whitton
seems like a reasonable use of all four digits. I would like to reassign this to Lintian, which could say "did you really mean to use all four?" -- Sean Whitton signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#878072: [Pkg-mozext-maintainers] Bug#878072: Please upgrade to more recent version to be compatible with Firefox 57

2017-10-09 Thread Sean Whitton
Please see discussion in #877040. -- Sean Whitton signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#864615: please update version of posix standard for scripts (section 10.4)

2017-10-14 Thread Sean Whitton
ages into compliance if they're being asked to bring them into compliance with the latest version of the standard. [1] http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/toc.htm -- Sean Whitton signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#749826: Documenting `Multi-Arch: foreign`

2017-10-14 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello Helmut, On Mon, Sep 04 2017, Helmut Grohne wrote: > On Sat, Sep 02, 2017 at 08:44:14AM -0700, Sean Whitton wrote: >> Rather than introduce the new terminology 'intended interface', which >> we would definitely have to define, how about something like this: >> >

Bug#846970: Patch to document Build-Indep-Architecture field

2017-10-14 Thread Sean Whitton
uld entail that the +architecture-independent packages are buildable on at least two +architectures. This provides flexibility to the administrators of +autobuilder infrastructure. + .. _s5.7: User-defined fields -- Sean Whitton signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#683495: Mandating use of /usr/bin/perl in Policy

2017-10-14 Thread Sean Whitton
lling to do the work to handle these complexities, they should file a new bug against Policy. Otherwise, let's put that broader issue aside and just fix this confusing inconsistency about shebangs. -- Sean Whitton signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#636383: debian-policy: 10.2 and others: private libraries may also be multi-arch-ified

2017-10-14 Thread Sean Whitton
fixes that problem. I'll include both :) -- Sean Whitton signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#864615: please update version of posix standard for scripts (section 10.4)

2017-10-14 Thread Sean Whitton
ntain only variable settings and comments in SUSv4 (2016 > +edition) ``sh`` format. It may either be a ``conffile`` or a > +configuration file maintained by the package maintainer scripts. See > +:ref:`s-config-files` for more details. > > To ensure that vital configurable values are always available, the > ``init.d`` script should set default values for each of the shell -- Sean Whitton signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#636383: debian-policy: 10.2 and others: private libraries may also be multi-arch-ified

2017-10-14 Thread Sean Whitton
govern ordinary shared libraries, except that they must not be installed executable and should be stripped. Jonathan, I take it from your reply that you also second this? -- Sean Whitton signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#846970: Patch to document Build-Indep-Architecture field

2017-10-14 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello, On Sat, Oct 14 2017, Mattia Rizzolo wrote: > On Sat, Oct 14, 2017 at 11:15:10AM -0700, Sean Whitton wrote: >> I am seeking seconds for the following patch. > > Thank you for working on this! Thank you for the review, though I don't believe I need to update my patch i

Bug#837922: RFP: cask -- project management tool for Emacs

2017-10-05 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello, On Thu, Oct 05 2017, Sean Whitton wrote: > Avoiding Cask was the one reason why I wrote dh_make_elpa. was one reason* Tagging this bug 'moreinfo' to indicate that clarity is needed regarding whether the RFS is for Cask as a build-dependency or as an enduser tool. -- Sean Whit

Bug#878433: dgit-maint-merge(7) workflow for converting an existing package does not work

2017-10-13 Thread Sean Whitton
[...] I think it makes more sense to improve this error message in dpkg-source, rather than working around it in dgit. -- Sean Whitton From b850304d55df5d4948cef43dcd3d5439adf9a7e4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sean Whitton <spwhit...@spwhitton.name> Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2017 14:08:51

Bug#812826: xim problem

2017-08-29 Thread Sean Whitton
ses such library > to pass input instead of using xim. If ibus related libraries aren't > available, ibus use xim to pass keyboard input. Okay. I finally found a workaround: pkill -u $USER ibus-daemon; IBUS_ENABLE_SYNC_MODE=0 ibus-daemon --xim --daemonize -- Sean Whitton

Bug#601455: Steps towards a patch to document disabling a daemon upon installation

2017-09-09 Thread Sean Whitton
hem to generate a postinst that does what I want. It seems you're expected to use all three of these: dh_systemd_enable --no-enable dh_systemd_start --no-start dh_installinit --no-start but then after a reboot, a sysvinit system will start the daemon, AFAICT. -- Sean Whitton signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#833012: Need better example URL

2017-09-09 Thread Sean Whitton
ages obtained from addons.mozilla.org, so I don't have another test case for you. -- Sean Whitton signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#877212: [Pkg-javascript-devel] Bug#877212: node-d3-color: B-D npm not available in testing

2017-09-30 Thread Sean Whitton
gt; > Hence this is in contrib and not main (hence complying with policy), > and this is a temporary step until we get rollup in main. To my mind, this complies with the letter of Policy but not its spirit. Could you explain why it is so urgent to have node-d3-color in Debian that it can't wait o

Bug#872944: Updating this bug's status

2017-09-30 Thread Sean Whitton
accordingly. As Russ mentioned above, Policy release 4.1.1.0 introduces some new issues, but those are www-team work and should be very easily resolved, so I will file a separate bug. -- Sean Whitton signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#877337: www.debian.org: Switch back to single page version of Policy Manual

2017-09-30 Thread Sean Whitton
parts/7doc -- Sean Whitton From dcb0c69aa246e8076f79d6838cd7eec34d57b815 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sean Whitton <spwhit...@spwhitton.name> Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2017 09:33:08 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Publish single page version of Debian Policy Manual --- parts/7doc | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2

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