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On Thu, 9 May 2024 09:20:01 + Hang Lei wrote:
Package: debhelper
Version: 13.11.10
Dear Maintainer,
I'm writing to discuss a change introduced in debhelper 13.10.10:
Jeremy Bícha:
Source: debhelper
Version: 13.15.3
Control: affects -1 src:gnome-remote-desktop
X-Debbugs: syst...@packages.debian.org
gnome-remote-desktop 46 upstream has decided to implement both
tmpfiles.d and sysusers.d to create a system user and its home
directory. systemd-tmpfiles needs to
Package: ftp.debian.org
Severity: normal
X-Debbugs-Cc: ni...@thykier.net
User: ftp.debian@packages.debian.org
Usertags: remove
The RC bug #947039 was filed against libapache2-mod-auth-pgsql 4½ years
ago and remains both unfixed and unanswered.
Best regards,
Niels
Control: reassign -1 debputy
Control: affects -1 libcleri
On Sat, 20 Apr 2024 14:06:18 +0200 Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
Source: libcleri
Version: 1.0.2-1
Severity: serious
Justification: FTBFS
Tags: trixie sid ftbfs
User: lu...@debian.org
Usertags: ftbfs-20240420 ftbfs-trixie ftbfs-t64-arm64
Hi,
Package: python3-colored
Version: 2.2.3-1
Severity: normal
Tags: upstream
X-Debbugs-Cc: ni...@thykier.net
Hi
When depending on `python3-colored` and using `mypy`, `mypy` will
complain about `python3-colored` is not typed. Upstream does seem to
have some typing, but has not marked the their
Package: python3-levenshtein
Version: 0.12.2-2+b5
Severity: normal
X-Debbugs-Cc: ni...@thykier.net
Hi
Based on the discussions in
https://github.com/ztane/python-Levenshtein/issues/86, it seems that the
current upstream has been superseded by
https://github.com/rapidfuzz/Levenshtein/
This
Fab Stz:
[...]
If dh_installman doesn't support nodoc as written in its manpage, then maybe
the manpage should be changed.
For instance this may have to be removed since I was mistaken by it.
"In compat 11 and later, it also supports the default searchdir plus --
sourcedir like dh_install(1)
Control: tags -1 moreinfo
On Mon, 22 Apr 2024 09:37:55 +0200 Fab Stz wrote:
Package: debhelper
Version: 13.15.3
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
According to dh_installman, it should honor the nodoc build profile.
However, it doesn't. As well as execute_before_dh_install.
[...]
Hi,
gregor herrmann:
Package: dh-debputy
Version: 0.1.27
Severity: normal
I was very excited when I read about `debputy lint` as I like to
automatically fix packaging errors. Alas, my first experience leaves
me a bit underexcited because (seen with several packages):
% debputy lint
warning: File:
Hi Alexandre
Looks like you typoed the bug number in lincity-ng (#1042506 was filed
against ares).
Best regards,
Niels
On Mon, 01 Apr 2024 17:19:51 + Debian FTP Masters
wrote:
Source: lincity-ng
Source-Version: 2.10.1-1
Done: Alexandre Detiste
We believe that the bug you reported
Salvatore Bonaccorso:
Source: debhelper
Version: 13.15
Severity: serious
Tags: ftbfs
Justification: Regression for other package builds, FTBFS
X-Debbugs-Cc: car...@debian.org,debian-ker...@lists.debian.org
Control: affects -1 + src:linux,src:linux-signed-amd64,src:linux-signed-arm64
Hi Niels,
Hi Michael and Luca
Is this a bug you have an opinion on?
Best regards,
Niels
Daniel Carpenter:
Package: debhelper
Version: 13.11.4
If I include this static (i.e. no [Install] section) systemd service:
# debian/debhelper-example.service
[Service]
Type=oneshot
ExecStart=true
then
Andrey Rakhmatullin:
Package: dh-debputy
Version: 0.1.23
Severity: normal
I've tried to convert the cpuid package to dh-sequence-zz-debputy, when
building it I got:
[...]
Note that cpuid.1 is not mentioned in the packaging. It's installed to
debian/cpuid/usr/share/man/man1/cpuid.1.gz at the
David Kalnischkies:
Package: dpkg-dev
Version: 1.22.6
Severity: normal
X-Debbugs-Cc: debhel...@packages.debian.org
Hi,
since recently my arch:any package `ycmd` fails to built from source in
a fresh unstable sbuild environment with at least dpkg 1.22.6 and
debhelper 13.15.2 (compat 13) while
Control: reassign 1067711 debhelper
Control: reassign 1067728 debhelper
Control: forcemerge 1067711 1067728
Control: retitle 1067711 dh_gencontrol: substvars and -dbgsym packages
Control: affects 1067711 mrpt genomethreader
Hi,
I think this kind of bugs are likely to be a bug in debhelper.
Sergey Ponomarev:
Hi Niels,
I upgraded to Ubuntu 24.04 and now have debhelper 13.14.1ubuntu1.
Hi,
In case you are using Ubuntu, you should be filing the bug against
Ubuntu for future reference. Notably, Ubuntu has patched debhelper and
even monkey-patch(ed?) debhelper in their official
Package: lintian
Severity: normal
X-Debbugs-Cc: ni...@thykier.net
Hi
With debhelper compat 14+ or any use of debputy (dh-sequence-debputy,
dh-sequence-zz-debputy, or dh-sequence-zz-debputy-rrr), relationship
substvars are now applied automatically.
This means that packages no longer need
Package: elpa-dpkg-dev-el
Version: 37.11
Severity: wishlist
X-Debbugs-Cc: ni...@thykier.net
Currently, there is no editor support for `debian/tests/control` in
emacs via elpa-dpkg-dev-el. It would be nice to have basic syntax
highlighting of the file similar to how the `debian/control` feature
Package: elpa-dpkg-dev-el
Version: 37.11
Severity: minor
X-Debbugs-Cc: ni...@thykier.net
The `debian-copyright-mode` currently feels a bit lacking when it comes
to syntax highlighting:
1) There is a URL highlighting, but it does not cover http**s**. Only
ftp/http URLs change color. Given
Jeremy Bícha:
On Sun, Mar 17, 2024 at 3:33 AM Niels Thykier wrote:
meson.pm: Pass --auto-features=auto in compat 14+
The meson default is already --auto-features=auto. We are requesting
that it be changed in debhelper compat 14 to --auto-features=enabled.
https://mesonbuild.com/Build
Control: tags -1 moreinfo
Niels Thykier:
Sergey Ponomarev:
debhelper package version: 13.11.6ubuntu1
Ubuntu 23.10 Mantic
Is there any plan for support of user services?
The user service is complicated by itself because it differs by commands
from system services.
That's why I also asked
Control: tags -1 wontfix
Andreas Metzler:
On 2024-03-10 Niels Thykier wrote:
Andreas Metzler:
[...]
supporting build-profiles like nodoc with dh_install seems to cumbersome.
Any reason for not using dh_installdocs, which does `nodoc` out of the box?
Hello Niels
Because
Sergey Ponomarev:
debhelper package version: 13.11.6ubuntu1
Ubuntu 23.10 Mantic
Is there any plan for support of user services?
The user service is complicated by itself because it differs by commands
from system services.
That's why I also asked to make a review of mine scripts to have at
Sergey Ponomarev:
Package: dh-systemd
I created a systemd service to establish SSH connections.
At beginning I installed the service file
into /usr/lib/systemd/system/sshtunnel
So the dh_systemd generated post install and post remove scripts to call
sysctl daemon-reload.
I copied them, made a
Andreas Metzler:
Package: debhelper
Version: 13.14.1
Severity: normal
Hello,
supporting build-profiles like nodoc with dh_install seems to cumbersome.
Any reason for not using dh_installdocs, which does `nodoc` out of the box?
Best regards,
Niels
Thorsten Glaser:
Package: debhelper
Version: 13.14.1
Severity: normal
X-Debbugs-Cc: t...@mirbsd.de
dh_update_autotools_config -a -O--builddirectory=debian/build
cp: warning: behavior of -n is non-portable and may change in future; use
--update=none instead
cp: warning: behavior of -n is
Package: elpa-dpkg-dev-el
Version: 37.11
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
X-Debbugs-Cc: ni...@thykier.net
Hi,
I found a number of fields that `elpa-dpkg-dev-el` does not recognize
for debian/control. I have added them in the following MR:
Package: pbuilder
Version: 0.231
Severity: wishlist
X-Debbugs-Cc: ni...@thykier.net
Hi
When using cowbuilder --login with a bindmount, I occasionally hit a
problem where umounting fails on exiting from the chroot.
Here, pbuilder/cowbuilder as a precaution aborts the exit and forces you
to
Christoph Anton Mitterer:
On Thu, 2024-02-22 at 08:59 +0100, Niels Thykier wrote:
One challenge we have here is that a package can have multiple
versions
in a given suite at the same time; notably in unstable.
And multiple arches...
Indeed. Though, `apt-file` has the information needed
Control: clone -1 -2
Control: retitle -2 gem2deb: Case sensitive handling of d/control
Control: reassign -2 gem2deb
On Sun, 13 Dec 2020 15:27:20 -0800 Russ Allbery wrote:
Package: lintian
Version: 2.104.0
Severity: normal
Lintian now emits the following pedantic tag for packages using
Simon Josefsson:
Would it make sense to change this to use an inclusive list of permitted
characters instead? How about checking the field names that is in use
today, and construct a regexp of permitted symbols out of that?
Starting point: [A-Za-z][A-Za-z0-9-_]*
/Simon
That is an option and
Package: debian-policy
Severity: wishlist
X-Debbugs-Cc: ni...@thykier.net
X-Debbugs-Cc: lintian-ma...@debian.org
X-Debbugs-Cc: de...@lists.debian.org
X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-d...@lists.debian.org
Hi
I am hoping we can agree to some tighter bounds on the field names
followed by relevant tools
Christoph Anton Mitterer:
Hey.
I took the liberty to forcemerge these two bugs (578727 and 525813) as
they seem to be about the same thing.
My suggestion would be that per default, the apt-file should print the
package name with =version.
Perhaps with the exception if only one version is
On Mon, 18 Jun 2018 12:16:55 +0100 Simon McVittie wrote:
On Sat, 16 Jun 2018 at 18:45:56 +0100, Chris Lamb wrote:
> I'm also seeing a bunch of false-positives in the addon checker -
> using the dh Python addon shouldn't mean that python can't be in
> Build-Depends-Indep. Or dpatch!
Sure - I
Niels Thykier:
Package: debhelper
Version: 13.13
Severity: normal
X-Debbugs-Cc: vor...@debian.org, ni...@thykier.net
Control: reporter -1 vor...@debian.org
Raised on IRC that `dh_makeshlibs` includes a lot of "irrelevant" files
in the shlibs. Particularly, Python libraries (usr/
Package: debhelper
Version: 13.13
Severity: normal
X-Debbugs-Cc: vor...@debian.org, ni...@thykier.net
Control: reporter -1 vor...@debian.org
Raised on IRC that `dh_makeshlibs` includes a lot of "irrelevant" files
in the shlibs. Particularly, Python libraries (usr/lib/python*) and Java
Jelmer Vernooij:
Hi Niels,
[... past correspondence removed ]
> Part of the challenge here is that I'm still trying to figure out
exactly what we can do here as well.
Hi Jelmer
I have news on what is possible. It is not directly what you asked for,
but I think you will find it
On Sat, 06 Jan 2024 00:27:02 +0100 Martin Quinson
wrote:
> I believe the libdpkg-perl package has a dpkg parser that handles the
> basic parsing.
>
Indeed, I think that the parser in /usr/share/perl5/Dpkg/Control/HashCore.pm
would cover my needs. I'm still unsure of whether I should use this
Martin Quinson:
Hello,
I am sorry I didn't answer to this bug in all these years...
The support for Deb822 files seems very limited right now. Beside of the bug
you reported, it fails to handle folded entries, as your Info: fields where the
first line is not specific and should be added to the
On Mon, 30 Oct 2017 09:43:55 + Simon McVittie wrote:
On Tue, 26 Mar 2013 at 00:27:07 +0100, Michael Biebl wrote:
> Using -p as option to specify the path is a poor choice since it clashes
> with the generic -p option which is used to specify the package.
>
> Looking at e.g. gnome-shell's
On Thu, 28 Dec 2023 14:26:56 + Steve McIntyre wrote:
Ummm, no. dget is a very useful tool with very different use cases
from apt-get - particularly when grabbing source packages.
Leave it alone.
[...]
Hi
Adding some context to Steve's mail.
One use-case that `dget` offers that
Package: pkg-js-tools
Severity: serious
X-Debbugs-Cc: ni...@thykier.net
Control: affects -1 src:devscripts
Justification: Autopkgtests failures are RC per RT decision
Hi
A new version of `devscripts` removed its dependency on `fakeroot`.
After this, the pkg-js-tools's autopkgtests started
Sven Joachim:
Package: dh-debputy
Version: 0.1.9
Severity: normal
I was playing around with dh-debputy and tried to convert xterm to it.
That seems to mostly work, however two HTML files are now compressed:
,
| [...]
`
It seems that the list of extensions not to compress was converted
Package: debian-policy,dpkg
Severity: wishlist
X-Debbugs-Cc: ni...@thykier.net,debian-d...@lists.debian.org
Hi
The flow charts at
https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ap-flowcharts.html
unfortunately does not cover the `prerm deconfigure [...]`
This makes it hard to figure whether a
Control: tags -1 wontfix
Helge Kreutzmann:
Package: debhelper
Version: 13.11.4
Severity: minor
User: debian...@lists.debian.org
Usertags: qa-doublebuild
[...]
I first checked (my) upstream build system. Except for one stamp file
(which is *much* less than done by debhelper) the build is
Control: retitle -1 debhelper: dh_install, globs vs. executable files
Control: tags -1 -moreinfo
Gioele Barabucci:
On 12/10/23 14:54, Niels Thykier wrote:
Gioele Barabucci:
On 12/10/23 14:11, Niels Thykier wrote:
```
debian/tmp/usr/share/man/*/man1/foo.1
```
is correctly expanded
Gioele Barabucci:
On 12/10/23 14:11, Niels Thykier wrote:
```
debian/tmp/usr/share/man/*/man1/foo.1
```
is correctly expanded by dh_install (`d/pkg.install`) but it causes
dh_installman (`d/pkg.manpages`) to fail.
Whatever problem you are experiencing, it is *not* that
`dh_installman`does
Control: tags -1 moreinfo
Gioele Barabucci:
Package: debhelper
Version: 13.11.6
Severity: minor
Dear debhelper maintainer,
the line
```
debian/tmp/usr/share/man/*/man1/foo.1
```
is correctly expanded by dh_install (`d/pkg.install`) but it causes
dh_installman (`d/pkg.manpages`) to fail.
Chris Lamb:
Niels Thykier wrote:
Digging a bit deeper, it turns out that `file -i` correctly classifies
the changelog as `text/plain; charset=utf-8`. That is, `file` knows it
is text and I suspect `diffoscope` should try `file -i` as well when it
gets an unknown result from `file
Package: diffoscope
Version: 250
Severity: wishlist
X-Debbugs-Cc: ni...@thykier.net
Hi,
I noticed that `diffoscope` used `hexdump -C` based diffs for the
debian/changelog in the `mscgen` package.
My first bet was that `file` would produce incorrect output and indeed,
`file` classifies that
Package: file
Version: 1:5.45-2
Severity: minor
X-Debbugs-Cc: ni...@thykier.net
Hi,
I get `Message Sequence Chart (chart)` when applying `file` to the
changelog of the `mscgen` package.
$ file mscgen/debian/changelog
mscgen/debian/changelog: Message Sequence Chart (chart)
$ head
Package: file
Version: 1:5.45-2
Severity: minor
X-Debbugs-Cc: ni...@thykier.net
Hi,
Another MSC related bug report for file.
It seems that `file` uses `msc {` to detect a Message Sequence Chart per
the following mini test:
```
$ echo 'msc {' | file -
/dev/stdin: Message Sequence Chart
Russ Allbery:
Niels Thykier writes:
Russ Allbery:
Ooo, this is a great framing of the problem. I have a lot of thoughts
about this. Unfortunately, I'm not sure if they're actionable thoughts
since my grand vision requires someone to sit down and do some serious
Policy restructuring
Russ Allbery:
Niels Thykier writes:
I had a look at the introduction section of Policy to check who the
target audience is. I cannot find an explicit mention of the target
audience. I suspect there is a conflict here on the content because we
have different audiences in mind for the Policy
Russ Allbery:
Bill Allombert writes:
[...] Quite a lot of Policy is of the general format "here's a bunch of
complex things you need to do, wait, never mind, just use debhelper, go
see its documentation for the configuration files you should use instead"
and some of the rest of Policy is
Control: reassign -1 devscripts
Hi,
The RTS parser can already cope with non-deb822 input. However, the
caller has to opt-in to it and wrap-and-sort never that that.
I am doing a patch for this to have wrap-and-sort cope with invalid
syntactical input. It will come with degradation of
Sean Whitton:
Hello Niels,
[...]
dgit will never let you accidentally perform an upload containing
something that's in the tree but not in git, and you can use
.git/info/exclude as a local way to ensure it's never in git. So a
simple policy of always doing uploads with dgit might achieve what
Control: owner -1 !
Ileana Dumitrescu:
Package: sponsorship-requests
Severity: normal
Dear mentors,
I am looking for a sponsor for my package "debianutils":
[..]
Niels Thykier and I will be co-maintaining this package.
I got this. :)
Best regards,
Niels
Ileana Dumitrescu:
Hi Niels,
@Ileana: Would you be fine with co-maintaining it with me? We can use
the existing git repo (https://salsa.debian.org/debian/debianutils) as
packaging repo and coordinate our changes via that.
That sounds good!
I have submitted a new version of debianutils to
Control: owner -1
Control: retitle -1 ITA: debianutils -- Essential utilities
On Tue, 29 Aug 2023 13:35:05 +0200 Bastian Germann wrote:
Package: wnpp
After I have made a dog's breakfast of debianutils' postinst and fixed it,
I do not feel inclined to maintain that essential package any
On Mon, 28 Aug 2023 13:53:22 +0100 Ian Jackson
wrote:
Package: dgit
Version: 11.3
debhelper (at least in sid) has a debian/source/options with;
tar-ignore
tar-ignore=debhelper/.idea
And it has a .gitignore. This has the following effects:
1. It defeats dgit's passing of a -I and -i
Nilesh Patra:
On 25 August 2023 1:47:26 pm IST, Nilesh Patra wrote:
On Wed, 26 Jul 2023 21:52:17 +0200 Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
Source: eegdev
Version: 0.2-6
Severity: serious
In file included from conffile.lex.c:242:
../../lib/stdio.h:64:3: error: #error "Please include config.h first."
Niels Thykier:
[...]
Hi,
[...]
I believe that this is stdio.h is generated by the embedded gnulib copy
and that is as far as I am willing to debug that rabbit hole. Based on
the error, I assume gnulib's generated stdio.h requires the project
specific "config.h" to be lo
Package: ftp.debian.org
Severity: normal
User: ftp.debian@packages.debian.org
Usertags: remove
X-Debbugs-Cc: ni...@thykier.net
Additionally, it installs a file in /lib, so we either need to fix it to
finish the /usr-merge transition or remove it.
Given the reasons in $SUBJECT, I am voting
Package: debian-policy
Severity: minor
X-Debbugs-Cc: ni...@thykier.net
Hi,
I re-read a bit on the policy definition of native vs. non-native
packages and it occurred to me that the written word of the policy seems
to be confusing to read at best.
The concept of a native package is
Package: pygame
Severity: normal
X-Debbugs-Cc: ni...@thykier.net
Hi
It seems like the pygame community got split after an internal
controversy:
https://old.reddit.com/r/pygame/comments/1112q10/pygame_community_edition_announcement/
The question now is whether Debian to track the fork or the
Package: debhelper
Version: 13.11.4
Severity: minor
X-Debbugs-Cc: ni...@thykier.net, guil...@debian.org
Refile of https://github.com/Debian/debhelper/issues/8 to the Debian
BTS, where I am more likely to remember it exists. CC'ing Guillem
because he did the `dpkg-shlibdeps -l` transition and
Jussi Pakkanen:
On Thu, 27 Jul 2023 at 17:45, Simon McVittie wrote:
As far as I'm aware, we never want to include .pyc in Debian packages,
so I think debhelper's meson build system plugin should be turning this off
as a standard setting for all Debian packages (similar to the way it
sets
Control: tags -1 wontfix
Daniel Leidert:
Package: debhelper
Version: 13.11.4
Severity: normal
I have a native package source from which I build multiple binary packages. The
files are organized as they would be on the target system with their full
destination path. As an example, the souirce
Romain Francoise:
Package: debhelper
Version: 13.11.4
Severity: normal
I'm working on packaging a new upstream project which installs a number
of systemd units directly to /usr/lib/systemd/system and I noticed that
dh_installsystemd doesn't add the required maintscript stanzas to enable
these
Package: devscripts
Version: 2.23.5
Severity: wishlist
X-Debbugs-Cc: ni...@thykier.net
Hi
I believe that the `Depends` on `fakeroot` is too strong given recent
development in Debian and I would like to see it demoted to either a
Recommends or Suggests.
There are three cases, where
Control: tags -1 wontfix
Control: retitle -1 debhelper: Parallel d/rules not fully supported
Sven Joachim:
[...]
I think I am beginning to understand where the race condition is. In
full builds of ncurses it is possible for 'make' to process the
install-arch and binary-indep targets in
Guillem Jover:
Hi!
Hi,
[...]
Ugh, so from code staring and git log, it seems this has not worked since
the code got added. Which should also mean the debhelper namespace which
is documented in the spec does not work either. :/
I pulled out the debhelper keyword, so currently the
Dima Kogan:
This really should work. It's maybe sorta ok for "apt-file list", but it
also affects "apt-file find". Look:
[...]
I.e. I asked it to tell me what package provides a file, and I had to
tell it which architecture to look at.
The whole point of apt-file is to look up the package
Package: dpkg
Version: 1.21.22
Severity: minor
X-Debbugs-Cc: ni...@thykier.net
I was playing around with doing a custom name space for
Rules-Requires-Root, and then dpkg said it owned the namespace:
```
$ grep Rules-Requires-Root debian/control
Rules-Requires-Root: debputy/deb-assembly
$
Control: reassign -1 dh-autoreconf
The dh-autoreconf tool is maintained in a separate package; re-assigning.
Best regards,
Niels
Martin-Éric Racine:
Package: debhelper
Version: 13.11.4
Severity: wishlist
Possibly related to dh_autoreconf:
Since autoconf 2.71 has entered the archive, it
Control: tags -1 moreinfo
Gioele Barabucci:
Package: debhelper
Version: 13.11.4
Currently `dh_install` for makefile-based project sets the `DESTDIR`
variable only.
[...]
A code search shows that setting `prefix=` and `sysconfdir=` is quite
common in `d/rules` files:
Michael Biebl:
Hello Niels, hello Sebastian
Hi Michael,
Am 24.03.23 um 16:28 schrieb Niels Thykier:
Sebastian Ramacher:
[...]
Any progress here? If this issue should be fixed for bookworm, time is
running short.
Cheers
I find that anytime I look at this bug my motivation to work
Scott Edlund:
@nthykier do you think it's worth extending dh_installtmpfiles to
include support for /usr/share/user-tmpfiles.d ?
[...]
Yes. Though it would have to be after the freeze (debhelper is covered
by the toolchain freeze).
Feel free to file a wishlist bug for it.
Best regards,
Sebastian Ramacher:
[...]
Any progress here? If this issue should be fixed for bookworm, time is
running short.
Cheers
I find that anytime I look at this bug my motivation to work on Debian
instantly vanishes. In fact, I cannot even motivate myself to read the
bug log to figure out what
Package: release.debian.org
Severity: normal
User: release.debian@packages.debian.org
Usertags: binnmu
X-Debbugs-Cc: debhel...@packages.debian.org, hel...@subdivi.de
Hi,
I propose the following series of NMUs to close #1024261. The list is
based on the set of packages that Helmut found
Control: forcemerge 1031695 995569
Michael Biebl:
Package: debhelper
Version: 13.11.4
Severity: important
X-Debbugs-Cc: pkg-systemd-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org
It appears we currently ship 35 packages in unstable installing 78
service files to /usr/lib/systemd/system which
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Niels Thykier
X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-de...@lists.debian.org, ni...@thykier.net
* Package name: debputy
Version : 0.1.1
Upstream Contact: Niels Thykier
* URL : https://salsa.debian.org/debian/debputy/
* License : GPL-2
Control: tags -1 wontfix
Control: retitle -1 Dh_Lib: qx_cmd does not support shell features
Gunnar Hjalmarsson:
Package: debhelper
Version: 13.11.1
Hello!
The fix of https://bugs.debian.org/1016354 resulted in a regression so
Ubuntu's debhelper extension dh-translations stopped working.
Package: tzdata
Version: 2022g-1
Severity: normal
X-Debbugs-Cc: ni...@thykier.net
In the postinst, there is the following snippet:
> #! /bin/sh
> set -e
> [...]
# Update the time zone
echo $AREA/$ZONE > "$DPKG_ROOT/etc/timezone"
ln -nsf /usr/share/zoneinfo/$AREA/$ZONE
Colin Watson:
[...]
What do you think about this patch? [...]
>
diff --git a/dpkg-preconfigure b/dpkg-preconfigure
index e0db5b19..c1f24441 100755
--- a/dpkg-preconfigure
+++ b/dpkg-preconfigure
@@ -141,7 +141,7 @@ if (! $have_tty && $frontend->need_tty) {
}
my
Package: debconf
Version: 1.5.81
Severity: wishlist
X-Debbugs-Cc: ni...@thykier.net
Hi,
Thanks for change to make dpkg-preconfigure no longer assume /tmp is
mounted with `exec` (or without `noexec`).
When trying it out, I decided to make `/var/cache/debconf/tmp.ci` a
tmpfs (with `exec`
Garrett Kajmowicz:
[...]
The C1) case is something that could be useful for Debian itself. There are
some tools that want to choose the location of the produced artefacts. It has
been a low priority wish for me to have this solved "eventually".
I'm using multiple work-arounds for the
Package: ftp.debian.org
Severity: normal
User: ftp.debian@packages.debian.org
Usertags: remove
X-Debbugs-Cc: ni...@thykier.net
Hi,
Please remove this package. It has been orphaned for a year, has RC
bugs preventing from being part of testing and did not make it into the
current stable.
Package: ftp.debian.org
Severity: normal
User: ftp.debian@packages.debian.org
Usertags: remove
X-Debbugs-Cc: ni...@thykier.net
Hi,
Please remove this package. It has been orphaned for years, has RC bugs
preventing from being part of testing and did not make it into the
current stable.
Package: ftp.debian.org
Severity: normal
User: ftp.debian@packages.debian.org
Usertags: remove
X-Debbugs-Cc: ni...@thykier.net
Hi,
Please remove this package. It has been orphaned for years, has RC bugs
preventing from being part of testing and did not make it into the
current stable.
Package: ftp.debian.org
Severity: normal
User: ftp.debian@packages.debian.org
Usertags: remove
X-Debbugs-Cc: ni...@thykier.net
Hi,
Please remove this package. It has been orphaned for years, has RC bugs
preventing from being part of testing and did not make it into the
current stable.
Package: ftp.debian.org
Severity: normal
User: ftp.debian@packages.debian.org
Usertags: remove
X-Debbugs-Cc: ni...@thykier.net
Hi,
Please remove this package. It has been orphaned for years, has RC bugs
preventing from being part of testing and did not make it into the
current stable.
Package: ftp.debian.org
Severity: normal
User: ftp.debian@packages.debian.org
Usertags: remove
X-Debbugs-Cc: ni...@thykier.net
Hi,
This package is orphaned and has not been updated for 4 years. As it is
only in experimental, it should probably just be removed.
Thanks,
~Niels
Package: ftp.debian.org
Severity: normal
User: ftp.debian@packages.debian.org
Usertags: remove
X-Debbugs-Cc: ni...@thykier.net
Hi,
Please remove this package. It has been orphaned for 5 years, has RC
bugs preventing from being part of testing and did not make it into the
current stable.
Package: ftp.debian.org
Severity: normal
User: ftp.debian@packages.debian.org
Usertags: remove
X-Debbugs-Cc: ni...@thykier.net
Hi,
Please remove coinor-flopc++. It has been orphaned for 5 years, has RC
bugs preventing from being part of testing and did not make it into the
current
Helge Kreutzmann:
Package: debhelper
Version: 13.11.1
Severity: wishlist
Tags: l10n
X-Debbugs-Cc: Marc Haber
> [...]
Depending on the translator's work, man pages might appear or vanish
(if they are not translated enough, see po4a(1) for details).
Therefore, creating and maintaining static
Control: severity -1 serious
On Sun, 18 Dec 2022 10:16:52 +0100 Christian Marillat
wrote:
Package: vdr-dev
Version: 2.6.0-1+b1
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
I don't know if this is a bug in debhelepr or in vdr-dev
Feel free to reassign if needed.
,
| dh_vdrplugin_depends:
Package: lintian-brush
Severity: normal
X-Debbugs-Cc: ni...@thykier.net
I noted that the janitor failed to do lintian-fixes for debhelper.
Looking into the logs I found:
Lintian tags fixed: {'uses-debhelper-compat-file',
'no-versioned-debhelper-prerequisite'}
plus:
On Fri, 16 Dec 2022 13:13:34 -0500 Garrett Kajmowicz
wrote:
Package: debhelper
Version: 13.6ubuntu1
Severity: wishlist
Dear Maintainer,
Hi Garret
I have CC'ed Guillem Jover because *if* this is a change to be
supported, then it would need dpkg and debhelper to support it.
I'm working on
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